Comedy, Crime
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Ladykillers
Bad Country
Earthquake in New York
Family Plot
Trancers
Acting on Impulse
Fanny Hill
Ein Polterabend
The Alphabet Murders
Mord im Pfarrhaus
The Mirror Crack'd
Secret of the Blackbirds
A Caribbean Mystery
Murder by Death
Shanghai Knights
Black Coffee
Thirteen at Dinner
Murder by the Book
Dead Man's Folly
Murder in Three Acts
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Ladykillers
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1955
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.Bad Country
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2014
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.Earthquake in New York
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 1998
A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.Family Plot
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1976
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.Trancers
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1984
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.Acting on Impulse
IMDB 3.8 | Jul , 1993
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.Fanny Hill
IMDB 3.9 | Sep , 1964
Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown, who lives in a large house teeming with female 'relatives' in negligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny alone meets various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in her.Ein Polterabend
IMDB 0 | Aug , 1955
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans to marry his lover, the actress Adele Peroni. But the plan comes to a standstill when Adele is to make a guest appearance at the reactionary Royal Prussian Playhouse. A democratic journalist marrying a court actress? Impossible! Together with his friend Pulecke, Brennglas tries to disrupt Adele's performance with a bachelor party...The Alphabet Murders
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 1965
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.Mord im Pfarrhaus
IMDB 4.7 | Nov , 1970
The Mirror Crack'd
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 1980
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.Secret of the Blackbirds
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 1983
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.A Caribbean Mystery
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1983
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.Murder by Death
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1976
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.Shanghai Knights
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 2003
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.Black Coffee
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1973
The inventor Sir Claude Amery wants to give the thief of the formula for his latest invention the chance to return it in the dark without being recognized. He gathers everyone in the house in the library and has the lights switched off for a short time. When the light comes back on, Amery is dead. A case for the Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot.Thirteen at Dinner
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1985
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.Murder by the Book
IMDB 4 | Jan , 1986
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.Dead Man's Folly
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1986
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.Murder in Three Acts
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1986
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.