In our first post-Sherlock Holmes Week article, we’re changing theme and tempo and taking a brief glimpse at one of the Baz’s pre-Holmes movies – that gem of the incongruous, beautiful and just plain strange, Confession. Made in 1937, just over a year and a half before Rathbone started work on The Hound of the Baskervilles – Confession was a vehicle for the fading star that was Kay Francis (or Kay Fwancis as she is sometimes known by unkind people who have noticed her slight problem with the letter “r”). Also in the cast were Jane Bryan, Ian Hunter and Donald Crisp. It’s a remake – literally scene for scene – of the German film Mazurka. In fact the director Joe May (born Julius Otto Mandi – an Austrian who had fled the Nazis in 1933 to work in America) was apparently so hooked on making it an exact reproduction, he used to time the scenes with a stopwatch to make sure they ran to precisely the same length as the originals. The obvious response …