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Sherlock Holmes

The Copper Beeches (1912), starring Georges Treville as Sherlock Holmes, is a silent short. Treville apparently played Holmes in eight adventures, all but one of which are lost. The last of these adventures, The Copper Beeches, can be found on www.archive.org. These short films were apparently the first that were […]

The Copper Beeches (1912)

January 29, 2012 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Georges Treville / Sherlock Holmes / Silent / The Copper Beeches by Jonathan Rudderham

Sherlock Holmes Returns is one of those stories in which Holmes manages to bring himself into the modern age, without requiring any of the “reboot/reimaging” that tends to happen today. This wasn’t the first time this had happened. Just six years earlier, the TVM entitled The Return of Sherlock Holmes […]

Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)

January 28, 2012 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Anthony Higgins / Deborah Farentino / Kenneth Johnson / Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes Returns by Jonathan Rudderham

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes is based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle original story The Valley of Fear. Filmed in 1935, this movie comes three years before the last one I watched (they’re out of sequence on the DVD) but Dr Watson is played by Ian Fleming again and […]

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)

June 2, 2007 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Arthur Wontner / Ian Fleming / Lyn Harding / Sherlock Holmes / The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes / The Valley of Fear by Jonathan Rudderham

Tonight I watched another of the old black & white Sherlock Holmes movies from the 30s. This was the latest movie in the set – filmed in 1938, and it shows. Sherlock Holmes is again played by Arthur Wontner and he has really got a handle on the character by […]

Silver Blaze / Murder at the Baskervilles (1938)

May 30, 2007 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Arthur Wontner / Ian Fleming / Lyn Harding / Murder at the Baskervilles / Sherlock Holmes / Silver Blaze / The Hound of the Baskervilles by Jonathan Rudderham

It’s 1932 and Arthur Wontner in the third of his five Sherlock Holmes movies. His earlier outings, filmed in 1931 and earlier in 1932, are not available in this DVD set that I have available. This third movie is the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic – The Sign of Four. […]

The Sign of Four (1932)

May 23, 2007 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged Arthur Wontner / Ian Hunter / Sherlock Holmes / The Sign of Four by Jonathan Rudderham

In 1933, Reginald Owen starred as Sherlock Holmes in A Study In Scarlet. This one shares little in common with the original Conan Doyle novel. The original A Study In Scarlet tells the story of Watson and Holmes meeting for the first time. It tells a terrible story of revenge, and it […]

A Study in Scarlet (1933)

May 22, 2007 in Reviews / Sherlock Holmes tagged A Study in Scarlet / Reginald Owen / Sherlock Holmes / Warburton Gamble by Jonathan Rudderham

In my continuing quest to satisfy my enthusiasm for Sherlock Holmes stories, I recently picked up a couple of DVDs of old Sherlock Holmes adventures. I watched one of them tonight, the oldest one in the set. It’s called The Speckled Band and it follows the original Sir Arthur Conan […]

The Speckled Band (1931)

May 22, 2007 in Movies & Films / Sherlock Holmes tagged 1931 / Conan Doyle / Raymond Massey / Sherlock Holmes / The Speckled Band by Jonathan Rudderham