William Gillette

Comedia muda rodada por Orson Welles en 1938 para proyectar, en forma de tres prólogos, junto a una obra de teatro del mismo título. Se creía perdida en un incendio que hubo en la casa de Welles en los años 70, pero en julio de 2013 se encontró una copia completa en Italia. Esta copia se restaurará para un estreno en octubre de 2013 en el Dryden Theatre de George Eastman House en Nueva York, con un posterior estreno online en el resto del mundo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

El detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) encara su mayor desafío cuando el genio del mal, el profesor Moriarty (George Zucco), planea robar nada menos que las joyas de la corona.

In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.

During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.

Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.

Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.

Cuando un par de estafadores retienen a la joven Alice Faulkner contra su voluntad para descubrir el paradero de unas cartas cuya difusión podría causar un escándalo que afectaría a la familia real, Sherlock Holmes decid encargarse del caso.

Cuando un par de estafadores retienen a la joven Alice Faulkner contra su voluntad para descubrir el paradero de unas cartas cuya difusión podría causar un escándalo que afectaría a la familia real, Sherlock Holmes decid encargarse del caso.