The audio was so difficult to understand sometimes
This is such an old movie! But I read the book, so I enjoyed it
May it be you journey on...
to light the day...
It is difficult to make out some to the dialogue, for sure. An any rate since I don't care much for horse racing it didn't matter to me. The intrigue worked but the story had gaps, like, what was the point? What did Moriarty do except try to earn ten thousand dollars via murder and horse killing?
Fun to see Holmes work his special thinking skills, however.
"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
My main problem is with the implausibility of the plot. Killing the stable lad by an overdose of a detectable drug like opium, compared to using enough simply to render him unconscious long enough for Straker to do his business, is hardly the mark of a master criminal mind such as Moriarty. It would inevitably draw suspicion that the horse may have been tampered with and attention to Straker because it was his family who had prepared the man's last meal. I also don't see why Straker had to bring the horse out on the moors to effect his knife-work; surely an enclosed stable in the middle of the night would have been sufficient. There's also the improbability that a horse trainer, of all people, would put himself in the position where he could receive a fatal kick to the head/neck (or that the possibility wouldn't occur to a medical examiner conducting a post-mortem). Finally, I cannot believe that bookies, under whatever circumstances, would pay out on a race if the jockey of the race leader had been assassinated.
shareWhat did Moriarty do except try to earn ten thousand dollars via murder and horse killing?
It's 10,000 pounds, which is equivalent to about 1.7 million today.