Radio review – “Sherlock Holmes – The Adventure of the Final Solution” (1954) **1/2

Orson Welles did a bit of radio for Harry Alan Towers during his English career, most notably a series about Harry Lime. This one was a guesty, but what a guesty – Moriarty up against Gielgud’s Holmes and Ralph Richardson’s Watson in a faithful adaptation of what was intended to be the last Holmes story.
It's wonderful to hear these three go at it against one another – Welles more than holds his own against the greats and makes you wish he’d gone mano-a-mano against more top level talent during his career. (Great actors and stars; I count the Mercury players as good actors, sometimes excellent actors – but they struggled to match Welles’ charisma).