(The Man Who Was
Sherlock Holmes)
Hans Albers plays the detective
Morris Flynn, and Heinz Rühmann his assistant Macky McMacpherson. They stop a
train to Brussels at night, and due to their behaviour and clothes, personnel
believe that they are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. This is indeed Flynn's
and McMacpherson's intention, but they claim not to be the famous detective and
his friend, and they urge them not to tell anybody. They interrogate people in
order to make their cover perfect, among them two attractive sisters, Mary and
Jane Berry, who travel to accept their uncle's heir.
In Brussels the would-be Holmes and
Watson stay at Hotel Palace, and immediately police asks them to solve a case.
During the 1910 World Exposition, stamps have been stolen and replaced by
fcounterfeits. Observed and later attacked by gangsters, Flynn and McMacpherson
find out that the two sisters' uncle has been the forger and boss of the gang.
Their working place is found in the cellar of the uncle's castle the sisters
inherited.
Flynn and McMacpherson are put on
trial for impersonating the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend.
Then a laughing man stands up, who had observed the duo several times, and
reveals himself as Arthur Conan Doyle. He explains that Holmes and Watson are
fictional characters created by himself. Flynn and McMacpherson get engaged
with Mary and Jane Berry.
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