A new spirit

The Sherlock Holmes series of films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce has been a favourite of mine since childhood. They were often shown on a Saturday afternoon so I decided to revisit one today. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is an adaptation of The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual set against the background of the Second World War. If you enjoy old movies, then you can’t go wrong with them (you can watch Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon for free at the Internet Archive).

At the end of Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, Rathbone delivers a short speech which seems particularly relevant to Karmafan:

There’s a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of grab and greed are on their way out. We’re beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we’re compelled to give him.

Of course it didn’t really turn out to be true in 1943, but perhaps we can make it true today by thinking of how we can all give something back.