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* CanonForeigner: Holmes certainly never had a fiancée in the original stories, and it is unlikely that Lady Alice will be turning up in any future adaptations.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: The publican and his customer who do not interact with the main plot at all, and only seem to have been in included to provide ComicRelief (and pad the running time).
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* BadassBoast: Moriarty makes one the dock just before the judge pronounces his death sentence; proclaiming that Crown Prosecutor Erskine, Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and Sherlock Holmes.
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* BadassBoast: Moriarty makes one the dock just before the judge pronounces his death sentence; proclaiming that Crown Prosecutor Erskine, Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and Sherlock Holmes.Holmes will all die before he does.
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-->'''Moriarty:''' The rope that will hang me has not yet been made.
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-->'''Moriarty:''' The rope that will hang me has not yet been made.
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* DetectivesFollowFootprints: On Holmes instruction, Billy uses a powder that brings up the footprints on Erskine's carpet. The footprints lead to a blank wall and then away again. The footprints are deeper going to the wall than away from it, indicating the killer carried Erskine's body to a secret compartment behind the wall and left it there.
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* DetectivesFollowFootprints: On Holmes Holmes' instruction, Billy uses a powder that brings up the footprints on Erskine's carpet. The footprints lead to a blank wall and then away again. The footprints are deeper going to the wall than away from it, indicating the killer carried Erskine's body to a secret compartment behind the wall and left it there.
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* FeatherBoaConstrictor: A scantily-clad woman with a boa constrictor wrapped around her neck is one of the performers at the carnival where Moriarty has his hideout.
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* ProtectionRacket: New York gangster Homer Jones introduces an American-style protection racket--including bombings and drive-by shootings--to London. This provides enough chaos and keeps the police distracted so Moriarty can implement his master plan.
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* DetectivesFollowFootprints: On Holmes instruction, Billy uses a powder that brings up the footprints on Erskine's carpet. The footprints lead to a blank wall and then away again. The footprints are deeper going to the wall than away from it, indicating the killer carried Erskine's body to a secret compartment behind the wall and left it there.
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* BeastlyBloodsports: In one of many {{Out Of Character Moment}}s, Holmes and his fiancee Alice ride to the hounds on her father's estate.
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* TheHypochondriac: Alice's father is a hypochondriac and spends much of his time onscreen bemaoning his various supposed ailments.
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* TheHypochondriac: {{Hypochondria}}: Alice's father is a hypochondriac and spends much of his time onscreen bemaoning bemoaning his various supposed ailments.
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* TheHypochondriac: Alice's father is a hypochondriac and spends much of his time onscreen bemaoning his various supposed ailments.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sherlock_holmes_1932.jpg]]
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: The film's alternative title is ''Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes''.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Holmes [[MuggedForDisguise knocks out Hans and takes his overalls, gloves and welder's mask]] to infiltrate Moorairty's gang as they tunnel into the bank.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Holmes [[MuggedForDisguise knocks out Hans and takes his overalls, gloves and welder's mask]] to infiltrate Moorairty's Moriarty's gang as they tunnel into the bank.
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* IHaveYourWife: Moriarty kidnaps Alice and holds her hostage to compel Faulkner into not reporting the robbery from the bank until after he and his gang are well away.
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* IHaveYourWife: Moriarty kidnaps Alice and holds her hostage to compel Faulkner into giving him the details of the safety deposit boxes and not reporting the robbery from the bank until after he and his gang are well away.
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* BoundAndGagged: Moriarty kidnaps Alice and Billy and keeps them bound and gagged in the cellar of the pet store [[IHaveYoutWife as insurance]].
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* BoundAndGagged: Moriarty kidnaps Alice and Billy and keeps them bound and gagged in the cellar of the pet store [[IHaveYoutWife [[IHaveYourWife as insurance]].
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* BoundAndGagged: Moriarty kidnaps Alice and Billy and keeps them bound and gagged in the cellar of the pet store [[IHaveYoutWife as insurance]].
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Holmes [[MuggedForDisguise knocks out Hans and takes his overalls, gloves and welder's mask]] to infiltrate Moorairty's gang as they tunnel into the bank.
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* InescapablePrisonEasilyEscaped: After being sentenced to hang, Moriarty escapes from his cell on death row and out of the prison.
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* InescapablePrisonEasilyEscaped: After being sentenced to hang, Moriarty escapes from his cell on death row and out of the prison.prison.
* MuggedForDisguise: Holmes knocks out Hans and takes his welder's outfit--including full face mask--and uses to infiltrate Moriarty's gang.
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* TheConvenientStoreNextDoor: Moriarty buys the pet store that backs in to Faulkner's Bank and has his gang tunnel through from the basement into the vault.
* DisguisedInDrag: Holmes goes to visit Alice's father disguised as his 'Aunt Matilda'. The disguise is good enough to fool Moriarty who opens the door for 'her' as 'she' leaves the room.
* DisguisedInDrag: Holmes goes to visit Alice's father disguised as his 'Aunt Matilda'. The disguise is good enough to fool Moriarty who opens the door for 'her' as 'she' leaves the room.
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''Sherlock Holmes'' (a.k.a. ''Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes'') is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'' by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation.
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his fiancee Alice. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt-Col Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and the Crown Prosecutor shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
!!Tropes:
* BadassBoast: Moriarty makes one the dock just before the judge pronounces his death sentence; proclaiming that Crown Prosecutor Erskine, Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and Sherlock Holmes.
-->'''Moriarty:''' The rope that will hang me has not yet been made.
* CarnivalOfKillers: Moriarty imports a cadre of ruthless foreign killers from New York, Paris, Berlin and Madrid to help him eliminate Holmes and take over the London underworld.
* FakingTheDead: Holmes deduces Moriarty's scheme to frame him for Gore-King's murder, and conspires with Gore-King to fake the latter's death.
* FrameUp: Moriarty frames Holmes for the murder of Gore-King.
* InescapablePrisonEasilyEscaped: After being sentenced to hang, Moriarty escapes from his cell on death row and out of the prison.
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his fiancee Alice. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt-Col Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and the Crown Prosecutor shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
!!Tropes:
* BadassBoast: Moriarty makes one the dock just before the judge pronounces his death sentence; proclaiming that Crown Prosecutor Erskine, Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and Sherlock Holmes.
-->'''Moriarty:''' The rope that will hang me has not yet been made.
* CarnivalOfKillers: Moriarty imports a cadre of ruthless foreign killers from New York, Paris, Berlin and Madrid to help him eliminate Holmes and take over the London underworld.
* FakingTheDead: Holmes deduces Moriarty's scheme to frame him for Gore-King's murder, and conspires with Gore-King to fake the latter's death.
* FrameUp: Moriarty frames Holmes for the murder of Gore-King.
* InescapablePrisonEasilyEscaped: After being sentenced to hang, Moriarty escapes from his cell on death row and out of the prison.
