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Concerned chiefly with the theft of the Bruce-Partington submarine plans, the play bounced all over London before shifting to the Swiss chalet of Professor Moriarty (Thomas Gomez). Here Holmes and his great adversary were locked in that death plunge from which Holmes had later (in the face of a clamoring public) to be restored to life. The plunge mattered less in the present case, since Holmes was scarcely alive before. Actor Rathbone made a very recognizable but far from inimitable figure of him; in the script Holmes was not much of a brain, and in the acting...
...Laureano Gomez...
...should be emphasized that the people of Colombia and probably 95% of the Catholic clergy had nothing to do with this, but could do nothing to stop it during the Gomez regime...
...great disappointment of Sherlock Holmes, however, is the quality of the principals' performances. While Nigel Bruce played Watson as a slow, but solid aide to Holmes, Jack Raine makes him a retarded Colonel Blimp, rather mildly interested in Holmes' adventures. Similarly, Thomas Gomez is badly miscast as Professor Moriarity. Though unctuously sinister, Gomez looks more like an indigent music teacher than a Napoleon of crime. His great girth and flowing hair hardly suit the "lean, ascetic" arch-criminal of Doyle's imagination...
Born in 1893 in Germany's turbulent Ruhr, Gomez was actually Wilhelm Zais-ser. He had got his taste for fighting in Germany's World War I army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. When the bloody "workers' rebellion" broke out in the Ruhr in 1923, Zaisser organized workers' brigades. He was already known as the "Red General of the Ruhr." Taken prisoner, he escaped to Russia, where he became a Soviet citizen and a colonel in the Red army. During the Nazi regime, he returned to Germany, a leader and organizer...