Pursuit to Algiers

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Pursuit to Algiers
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Directed by	Roy William Neill
Written by	Arthur Conan Doyle (characters) Leonard Lee (adaptation & screenplay)
Starring	Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release date(s)	26 October 1945
Running time	65 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The Woman in Green
Followed by	Terror by Night
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Pursuit to Algiers (1945) is the twelfth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies.

[edit] Plot summary

Holmes and Watson are escorting Prince Nikolas, heir to an Eastern kingdom, on a passenger ship England to Algiers. The Prince, posing as Watson's nephew, is the target of numerous assassination attempts in order to seize control of the country.

Eventually the villains succeed in kidnapping the Prince, only for Holmes to reveal that the "Prince" was a decoy, and the real Prince had been posing as a Steward, hidden in plain sight. the whole time.^[1]

[edit] Cast

• Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
• Nigel Bruce – Dr. Watson
• Marjorie Riordan – Sheila Woodbury
• Rosalind Ivan – Agatha Dunham
• Morton Lowry – Steward
• Leslie Vincent – Nikolas Watson
• Martin Kosleck – Mirko
• Rex Evans – Gregor
• John Abbott – Jodri
• Gerald Hamer – Kingston
• William 'Wee Willie' Davis – Gubec
• Tom Dillon – Restaurant Owner
• Frederick Worlock – Prime Minister
• Sven Hugo Borg – Johansson

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