The little speech at the end about how important Canada is to the UK and the US is pure WWII propaganda.
shareYes it is, but a good number of the Rathbone Holmes movies had this at the end, though some of them are shoehorned in a bit. The reason the films were updated to the 1940s was as a propoganda thing.
shareTo me, that's part of the period charm of these vastly entertaining movies.
shareBrilliant deduction, Watson!
shareit's also true, you GD moron.
shareQuebec City hosted Churchill, Roosevelt, and our Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King at the Quebec Conference in 1943 at the Château Frontenac Hotel. Thus Quebec became a subject for the Sherlock Holmes film. However, I see nothing Quebecois about any of the locations, characters or accents.
Among the topics of discussion were D-Day and the atomic bomb. It would be quite something for Roosevelt and Churchill to travel so far, for a meeting. German submarines had penetrated the St. Lawrence, in which Quebec City is a great port on this great river.
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I love the little patriotic tributes at the end of many of these films I like best the one where, just after they have foiled a Nazi plot, Watson says, "Ths little island isn't finished yet." Holmes then recites some famous lines from Shakespeare ending in "this earth, this realm, this England." Rathbone at his finest!
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