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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Season 2023
Episode 1
(1942) Sherlock Holmes rescues the inventor of a bomb-sight which the Allies want to keep from the Nazis. Holmes wears various disguises as he attempts to thwart Moriarty's efforts to deliver vital information to the Gestapo.
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Kirk Douglas plans to take advantage of a new law to make money off California redwoods.
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Film adaptation of the classic Rudyard Kipling's short story about a boy raised by wolves.
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Bank clerk Alec Guinness plots to steal gold bullion in this British caper film comedy.
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Early WWII spy thriller with the British and Germans after Czech scientist and daughter.
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Young woman traveling by train stumbles on a mystery when a fellow passenger goes missing.
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Soldier (John Gielgud) is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission to find a German agent.
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Bank teller has nightmare where he kills a man in strange room, but was it only a dream?