Evelyn Ankers

Sherlock Holmes is asked by the Intelligence Inner Council to stop a German propagandist broadcasting morale-threatening messages during World War II.

Widower Squire Weldon, trying to raise his motherless daughter, Anne, presents her with a colt, Black Beauty, in the hope that by disciplining the horse she may learn to discipline herself.

When a number of notorious criminals are suddenly released, an undercover agent infiltrates a gang as a wanted convict to sniff out its parole racket.

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson appear in this ninth feature-film adventure, loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons."