The acting works more enjoyably than the allegory... Its individual pieces are highly entertaining, however, and Scott is such a good Holmes I hope he'll play the part for real some day.

It is at least a friendly and humane film. Nevertheless, I hardly like to judge it in this cut about condition, save to assure Miss Woodward that my own embarrassment was kept well within bounds.

The pretense cannot mask the film's pusillanimous ideas.

The film has been rather brutally cut by Universal so that some of it doesn't even make sense. But I can't believe it would ever have been anything more than a piece of precious whimsy.