SHERLOCK HOLMES - A STUDY IN SCARLET (1933) Reginald Owen
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Reginald Owen, a British actor who only a year earlier had essayed the role of Watson opposite Clive Brook in the film of William Gillette's play, takes an admirable turn as Holmes in this Fox distributed B-picture from 1933. Owen, an often underrated actor, is one of the few actors (Patrick MacNee and Jeremy Brett included) to have played both the Great Detective and his companion.
After a man dies in a locked train compartment, Eileen Forrester (June Clyde) inherets his place in a secret trust, The Scarlet Ring, organised by a dishonourable lawyer, Mr Merrydew (Allan Dinehart). A member of the group, Captain Pyke is shoot after a meeting and his wife (Anna May Wong) becomes involved in the trust's dealings. All the time Sherlock Holmes is investigating the group's cryptic messages in the Telegraph.
SHERLOCK HOLMES IN A STUDY IN SCARLET
An EWHammons Presentation
Directed by
Edwin L Marin
Written by
A Conan Doyle (Story)
Robert Florey (Screenplay)
Reginald Owen (Dialogue)
CAST
REGINALD OWEN - Sherlock Holmes
ANNA MAY WONG - Mrs. Pyke
JUNE CLYDE - Eileen Forrester
ALLAN DINEHART - Merrydew
JOHN WARBURTON - John Stanford
ALAN MOWBRAY - Lestrade
WARBURTON GAMBLE - Dr. Watson
J.M. KERRIGAN - Jabez Wilson
DORIS LLOYD - Mrs. Murphy
BILLY BEVAN - Will Swallow
LEILA BENNETT - Daffy Dolly
WYNDHAM STANDING - Capt. Pyke
HALLIWELL HOBBES - Dearing
Remastered © 2006-2010 The Video Cellar, Australia.
2021 comment: This film had me when I saw it was done in 1933. Imagine we're enjoying a film and story from 88 years ago!
The story is older than the film.... 1887 it was written.
Yep! Which is why I WILL NEVER trust anyone that doesn't like old things! Some don't even watch black and white! Madness.
Those of us who only had black and white TV and programs to watch and 3 channels/ networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS, will soon be all gone too. Also the excitement of our first color TV! 👵age 70
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In my home town (pop. 20,000) we got CBS beamed in from a larger town 80 miles away when I was 3 years old. A couple of years later we got a local station ABC which signed on the air at 3:00 PM daily. I didn't even know there was NBC until I was twevle in 1962. Back in those days they played a lot of movies from the 1930s and I'm thankful they did. I got to enjoy real cinema. Now I can again.
Thanks to whomever post this wonderful programing.
@@nancyhowell4505 I totally get what you're saying.
Good film, excellent plot. No special effects, just good acting and a story line that keeps you in suspense!
The blonde who plays Miss Forester in this picture is quite attractive, along with Anna May Wong, who is quite fetching I must say. ❤️💕😁
Huh. It's a Tiffany picture distributed by Fox Films. Tiffany was soon absorbed in the merger which created Republic.
Remember John Owen in Mary Poppins !
“why would he want to kill himself”
“have you ever met his wife?”
LMAO 🤣
I have a small collection of dvds before youtube happened. This is a top favorite I pop into the DVD player during snowy winter nights, with a hooter and a noggin of good rum!
‘“An angry woman is hard to pacify.” Ain’t that the truth!!
This is a very watchable film and Mr. Owen gives a good portrayal of Holmes, he wrote some of the dialog and is one of the very few actors to have played both Holmes and Watson.
Superb fellow, Mr Owen. 🎉
Wow! Thanks for the background!
As I get older, these early Holmes pics get fresher.
Now 90 years old and still superb!
A much better, and more believable Holmes than the vast majority of other hash -ups, Thanks.
Thanks for this. It really is great!
Anna May Wong, she was wonderful. What a shame she died so young.
A Good Holmes rendition by Reginald Owen,five years prior to " A Christmas Carol", which is my favorite version of the Charles Dickens classic! Thank you,VideoCellar for showing this movie!
Something's happening to me, I've suddenly started to adore classical music and these old films, I'm a 16 year old that's into heavy metal lol idk what it is about this old stuff but its very enjoyable
Amelia, Look out...you're getting sophisticated...good for you..!! The older films usually have good dialogue that you have to pay attention to in order to follow the plot, and they usually have good actors/actresses that bring a lot of believability to the characters. Several of the actors/actresses in this movie had very successful movie careers ahead of them. The fun part of growing up is experiencing so many life phases and then looking back and saying.." Did I really think and act like THAT..!! " Welcome to an amazing journey...enjoy the ride. I am 68 and I am still changing. Oh, not as much as when I was younger but I can tell you that I am not the same person I was 10 years ago. My priorities and interests have changed. There are now fewer days ahead of me than there are behind me and that makes me a bit more reflective and appreciative of Life.
Heavy metal and Classical is normally linked to a high IQ, you must require more stimulation than the basic repetitive dribble they dish out as entertainment these days.
you may be more sophisticated..
but also, these older films offer something fantastical
they are like fantasy films almost to people whi never experienced this time,
plus there is something comforting to be around people who know nothing of the problems of our time
i have always found these films very calming,
even when i do not like them,
i like them
Hey I am in my 40s, big heavy metal fan and found these too!!! Be safe!!!
One of the best versions of Holmes. Thank you for posting this for our enjoyment.
OH SUPER MERCI POUR CETTE P'TITE PÉPITE !.. L'IMAGE EST EXCELLENTE POUR LES DÉFICIENCES VISUELLES !.. MES COMPLIMENTS !..
Anna May Wong! Such a beautiful woman!
Greed is such a motive for murders still today.
I've always loved these classic movies.
A time when women dressed like a woman and were polite, loving, caring, intelligent and a natural beauty without a whole bunch of plastic surgery, lots of make up etc. The clothes women wore did not have hems that paralleled their pantie line. There is an over all respect.
Tks for sharing this video with us. Greatly appreciated, from North Lancaster, Ontario, canada.
And men were gentlemen I assume..? At least love was real and longer lasting
I love all the actors and actresses in this! I always get happy when I see them in other old movies, like seeing old friends! I like to look up their bios and seek out other movies they are in.
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893:
Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice - 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen - 1908
Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen - 1911
Mack Sennett - 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury - 1916
Hugo Flink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore - 1922
Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick - 1945
Tom Conway - 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley - 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes)
Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger - 1972
John Cleese - 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
John Wood - 1974-1975
Dinsdale Landen - 1974
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker - 1982
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Guy Rolfe - 1984
Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987
Anthony Higgins - 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell - 1993
Patrick McNee - 1993
Anthony Higgins - 1993
1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids
Matt Frewer - 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James D’Arcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett - 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan - 2007
Roger Llewellyn - 2009
Ben Syder - 2010
Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
Christian Rode - 2010, 2014
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen - 2015
Euan Morton - 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor - 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube)
Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell - 2018
Nicholas Boulton - 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on UA-cam)
Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv.
(Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-UA-cam)
This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and TV adaptations.
Fantastic Thank you so much for posting that great research
Excellent atmospheric Sherlock with a fine cast. I was particularly pleased to see Anna May Wong with such a hefty role. The little bit players in the pub, the cleaning ladies, the maid, etc were impeccable and really added to the film. Definitely a superio B film.
But a bald Watson?
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I don't know. Gives him a certain shine so to speak
Very little relationship to the real A Study In Scarlet written by the great Sir Doyle but worth watching for a Holmes fanatic like myself. I keep hoping someone will make a faithful cinematic version of A Study In Scarlet where we get to see how Holmes and Watson first met and became friends.
The excellent Russian series made in the late 70s, early 80s covers the first meeting of Holmes and Watson. It's called 'Acquaintance' and faithful to the story, except it doesn't include the flashbacks scenes in Utah.
Jeremy Brett's Holmes was the closest to it in my opinion.
Yes! Jeremy Brett is the only on screen Holmes that showed his drug use... I believe. I’m re-reading the entire series for the 4th time! I LOVE IT! I think some of Doyle’s finest writing is depicting the events in Utah. The prose is beautiful and finally crafted. It remains a favorite piece of literature to me... hinting at some of Willa Cather’s wonderful woks!
I came for Anna Mae Wong. BTW, is this the guy who did the best Scrooge ever?
It's written by a Mr Robert Florey and not ACD. Robert Florey just used the title of ACD's first publication in December 1887 titled 'A Study in Scarlet'.
@glassresort Maybe not. Only the first two were really great and 'The Women In Green' was good. The rest were not that great, instead being a modernised (for the time) mess. But Basil Rathbone was one of the actors were was truly perfect as Holmes (along with Brett, Cushing and a few others).
O.K.,let's go. The Hound was in production when war was declared. Everything moved overseas, and since Holmes was a seminal and Iconic British character, the Rathbone films became grist for the war effort.Result? Vapid,shallow propaganda, illuminated nonetheless by the professionalism of Basil, Bruce, and company.
Some of the wittiest dialogue in any Holmes film, I dare say.
Thanks for uploading a good print. Most of the other ones are fuzzy and cropped....yet claiming to be 720p or 1080p !
A very under rated and sadly ignored Sherlock. I's put him in my top 3 with Johnny Miller and Ronald Howard.
"They" obviously changed his address in the movie so people like you would stop bothering him. What's wrong with this country that an honest master sleuth can't ply his trade! If your still reading this comment then you are even more bored than I am tonight. Wait! My wife is talking in her sleep. The plot thickens.
This kept my attention all the way through, unlike most others.
So nice to see Anna Wong in a less stereotypical role. She deserved so much more credit than what was afforded her
good movie, thank you for posting; the sound and video quality are very good for 1933
Geez, Sherlock Holmes and Merrydew look the same to me.... I keep confusing the two.
I know!
You can also see him (actor Billy Bevan) as the liveried ticket collector on the speeding Scottish express, out of King's Cross, in *Terror By Night*; his having been one of the British *repertory club* team, who were used time-and-time again, in those Universal Hollywood versions of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
Hefty role meant hefty for Anna May who, being Chinese in 1933, had far, far fewer opportunities than a woman of her talent would have had, had she been Caucasian for more substantial parts with real screen time. Moreover hefty means her role was important to the film, and 10 minutes is not bad in a film 72 minutes long. I like Anna May Wong and don't know what you mean vastly overrated, she's not exactly a screen legend.
Quite right - visited the privately-owned and in my view rather shallow, SH Museum, umpteen times, Anonymous01959, albeit on the way to London Zoo, which I always find much more interesting. LOL. I've always found it to be a great disappointment, and would rather chat with the lovely lady who runs (or she might have put-up-the-shutters by now), a Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, and clothing shop, aided by her mature son, on the other side of the road, next to the digital camera emporium.
It might be of interest that the recurring poem that precedes each murder, was used here about 5 years BEFORE Agatha Christie wrote her novel, "Ten Little Indians".
Henry Kujawa , ten little Indians was written in 1868 by an S Winner about black slaves , so miss christie robbed it first, ...." Every writer is a cannibal every poet a thief"
I have this film on two separate DVD's, and the quality of both is pretty poor. How did you come to possess such a good print in 480p?
Point-taken, keaton1895 - all understood now - the thing that got me being (as I live not a couple of miles distant from Baker Street), that I'm forever having to explain just that to legions of albeit most-welcome mainly USA-visitors to our crumbling capital, who come in search of the great gum-shoe's mythical chambers, only to find a string of grubby cafes, a couple of momento-shops, cashing-in on his name, a camera-shop, chemists (drug-store), and a subway (London Underground), station.
Alan Mowbray looks and sounds like Basil Rathbone...think he should of played Holmes in this movie..but love Basil the best
These 2 aren't bad, but I prefer Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett, and their respective Watsons.
Did you notice? They have Holmes at 221A Baker Street, not 221B. Hmm.
This is an American made film, maybe the producers didn’t care much back in the day (1933).
I noticed that too.
Sherlock Holmes lived at 221a prior to moving to 221B Baker Street!
I laughed entirely too hard at a character's name being "Will Swallow". Oh dear.
Look at the names above will swallow if you read it that way it will read mrs. Murphy will swallow Daffy dolly LOL
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Good catch Kimberly
I did too😂😂😂
Omg insert joke here!
It was, Originally, But for this movie they could not do by the book. Copyright and stuffs, Reason why they also put 221A Baker Street. Instead of 221B Baker Street. It's on Wikipedia :D.
Reginald Owen looks more like Mycroft Holmes than Sherlock, minus his girth of course.
Anna May Wong was a magnificent actress. However she was not given access to many roles she well deserved.
"I'm dying! Go for a doctor!"
"Doctor's half a mile away!"
"Fetch him! Fetch him!"
The old codger!
Wow, yer man playing Holmes looks like Harry Enfield at certain angles! Really enjoyed this, ✌❤ from Canada
That bottle of booze the gardener's knocking back looks like a bottle of Cointreau.
My personal best - even though made in the USA (with some stock-footage from here) - plus, the remarkable efforts of a few English supporting actors of the day , who went to Hollywood in search of fame; some finding it, others, only starvation and oblivion. You can see the inspector here, as Bill Powell's well-healed and enabling Park Avenue buddy, who helps him to part-fund an employment project, in *My Man Godfrey*, yet another lovely *talkie* the like of which could never be matched, today.
221 A ? Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes lives at 221 B Baker street.
Correct. 221B was his flat.
I like Anna May , saw her in "Piccadilly", thought she was wonderful. Very gifted actress .
This film's plot has nothing to do with the original 'A Study in Scarlet' novel. The producers had only bought the rights to the title, not the content.
Keep talking jAckson and she wouldn't need all evidence, put papers on what.
You saw *Ali Baba Goes To Town*, with Eddie (banjo-eyes), Cantor, and maybe spotted wonderful Alan Dinehart, the man who plays the evil and manipulative Merrydrew here, as one of the Calyph's aids; he being a ever-employed jobbing actor, borne of the Broadway stage, and before, weaned-on the stock companies that toured the USA's Orpheum Circuit populated with such stars-in-waiting as Walter Huston, *Dodsworth* and *Treasure Of The Sierra Madre*, son of director John, and grandpa of Angelica.
The older I get 70 the better these old show are ?
I agree with you David...I am almost 70 as well and I spend a lot of time watching ole black and white movies from back in the day....the gay old days....( Gay) then meant a good ole Time😄
This was a good series, subsequently overshadowed by the Rathbone/Bruce films.
Had to watch this several times before I could tell the difference between Holmes and Meridew! They look so much alike.
Such a great wee movie, most entertaining and enjoyable.
It's definitely elementary my dear Watson. Lol
Thanks for uploading this superb movie. 🤠👍👍👍
Is it "Lord Love a duck"..anyway...,the cleaners on the train were brilliant and so funny...and daft Dolly who kept the big house in the country going...the amount of times she bends her knees and bounces to to Sherlock...such a funny scene.......
I put the Subtitles on out of curiosity...they're Hysterical....they even put swear words in which is very unexpected..some of the subtitles are mad bizzare crazy...I recommend EVERYONE turn them on...SO SO funny. I just had to share it.
BTW this copy is brilliant quality, better than any other out there. Thank you for uploading it. Much appreciated. Such a shame that Reginald only did one Sherlock role.
'Lor love a duck'
About Leila who played Dolly Confucius really did say two of the great Joy's in life are cooperative wives and stupid serving girls..I think so was hot in submissive sort of way..I'll run I'll run..
"Lord Love a duck" - Yes. Apparently it dates from the late 1800's and would have been fairly common up to the mid-1900's but would sound a bit antiquated now. Also, it's use might often been to sound Cockney and working class, like 'Core blimey'. So something of a stereotype as is it's use in this film. As one of the other replies mentioned, in use the prunounciation would probably be less articulated. Someone found this example from "Man Of The World" (1892)...
“’Ere, six to four I’ll take?”
Still no deals.
“Love a duck! ’Ere, five to four I’ll take?”
But no business resulted.
The phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" is never uttered by Holmes in the sixty stories written by Conan Doyle. He often observes that his conclusions are "elementary", however, and occasionally calls Watson "my dear Watson". One of the nearest approximations of the phrase appears in "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", when Holmes explains a deduction: "'Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he."
The phrase "Elementary, my dear fellow, quite elementary" (not spoken by Holmes) appears in P. G. Wodehouse's novel, Psmith in the City (1909-1910), and his 1915 novel Psmith, Journalist. It also appears at the end of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the first Holmes sound film. William Gillette (who played Holmes on the stage and on radio) had previously said, "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow". The phrase may have become familiar because of its use in Edith Meiser's scripts for The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio series, which was broadcast from 1939 to 1947. Holmes utters the exact phrase in the 1953 short story "The Adventure of the Red Widow" by Conan Doyle's son, Adrian.
who cares
It's a bit like the Quotes "Beam me up , Scotty" & "I cannae do it Captain, she hasnae got the power!". Highly misquoted from Star Trek. Neither of them are ever said once in the show! :D
But it does make one wonder who started it! Probably a huge fan! lol
I do, it's called "HISTORY" and it's interesting to know the background of where things originated from...you will want to know one day where something originated from, even though it won't be Sherlock or Sir Doyle and we all know nothing will "originate" from mind...except....'who cares...NOPE I made a mistake, someone already said that before you!!
Thanks for that info, it was interesting to read. I didn't know he had a son who wrote. But the, I have never research Sir Doyle, but definitely a fan of his stories and these old, old movies. I've been watching about one every other day in last week or so I guess and still have not seen them all. Would be nice to see the first film. Will try to find it. I wasn't real crazy about Ronald Howard playing him, but really liked the next one..can't think of his full name...was it Rathbone or something like that. I liked the cool, calm, collected Sherlock w/dry, not real noticeable humorous expression. Thank again for adding the info!! Wish my ex was here, he would love to read what you wrote! He's in Texas, in or around Houston somewhere, but doubt knows how to get on YT, let alone even know about it. If I ever catch up with him again, I will show him this movie. :) Maybe popcorn and dimmed lights too! lol
Lastrade (Allan Malbray) guy is also the actor who portrayed Moriarty's henchman - Maj. Duncan-Bleek in the story "Terror by Night" with Rathbone & Bruce in 1946. Both, by the way were made In Hollywood - NOT England.
Absolutely right, drtety, but the deferential and timid menial with the ladder isn't, eh what; his persona having been forged on the English Music Hall ! The senior scrubber is typical of an English middle-class, classical supporting actress of the day (she playing top female banana to that of the male platform supervisor, while the younger, and less dominant lass would seem to follow the dimensions of her real-life acting track record, and experience, at the time.
The actor portraying Inspector Lastrade (Alan Mowbray) goes on to portray Colonel Sebastian Moran who is a character in the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. An enemy of Sherlock Holmes, he first appears in the short story "The Adventure of the Empty House". Holmes once described him as "the second most dangerous man in London" - the most dangerous being Professor Moriarty, Moran's employer. When Rathbone & Bruce took over the "Holmes & Watson" team in Hollywood, Moran appears quite dominate in the movie "Terror by Night" in 1946.
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Alan Mowbray was also Duncan Bleak in Terror by night, one of the Rathbone films.
Strange that the intent to break an oval frosted outer window was more desirable than an internal door window, that was probably needed to be broken to get into the train car
What you might not have noticed was that to the right of the dead man's head was a vertical slide lock. It would require less damage to insert a device (thin wedge tipped pole, for example) through the broken small oval aperture and slide the lock to the open position then to break a large frosted glass window to achieve the same result.
Que estilo elegancia presicion artística. Clase de aquel ayer único.
Also a great Sherlock Holmes movie.
Wonderful entertainment!
Not any more, Anonymous01959; the premises now functioning as an unrecognisible Italian pizza parlour and cheap-and-cheerful cafe. Indeed, as with LA's *Brown Derby* - the matching tragic fate of which I learned from a Hollywood pal, recently - time-and-tide, and the demolitioner's ball, have blasted even this relic of motion-picture history into infinity, and now, only the planner's building-line, on the blue-prints of this formerly famous, film-town landmark, remains to identify the spot.
This is simply wonderful. It's got fast pacing, characters you get familiar with and find interesting and a clear enough storyline. Though the actors who play Holmes/Watson may not be penultimate both give highly creditable performances.
I agree, kimber2011, and I also laughed until my sides nearly burst, at the American studio's misplaced perceptions of a pub, a la Anglaise, where agrarian rustics - redolent of a two centuries earlier - sing in unison, ditties that were more suited to the time of
Bill Shakespeare, than England in the 1930s ! These imported actors, of the LA Cricket Team, are ably led by Reginald Owen, who also made an excellent and memorable appearance in a definitive Hollywood version of *A Christmas Carol*
I had no idea Reginald Own attempted Holmes as well as all the other 20 or so. By now it would not surprise me to see Charlie Chaplin in the part.
no but his buddy dougfairbanks did a spoof of holmes playing coke ennyday who makes deductions after using vast amounts of coke! about 1919!
REginald Owen was the original "Professor Quatermass" on the BBC in 1953. He was due to play him again two years later, but died just before the series started
Gisa, then I guess you've never seen Chaplin starring in the c.1921 short, "Holmes Murders Watson." (jk)
Owen,Hobbes and Mowbray have all played butler's and very funny too.
Worth watching if just for the two beautiful leading ladies 👍👍🇺🇸
Between his greasy fat chops! LOL :)
Anna Mae Wong , so Wonderful to see. Love & Enjoy These Timeless Classics .
A good film for its day. Had 'many' references from a whole lot of Sherlock Wikipedia is wrong, with using the names, reference to the address is immaterial. Why did directors etc portray Watson as a moron, when clearly in the stories, he was a professional intelligent man. The latest movies and tv series do him justice.
One of her best roles is in Shanghai Express 1932, one of Josef Von Sternberg's moody expressiontist masterpieces with Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lily.
I am sort of amazed that people would care enough about her to so strongly dislike her. Actor/actresses like her usually, I would have thought, have some fans among old film buffs, but hardly such motivated detractors after all these years.
Who is the actress that you are talking about?
@@josephsimmons6297 The one playing the Daughter, I think!
Great character for an old film.
This has never been one of my favorite Sherlock films, but thanks to this beautiful transfer, remaster, or restoration (?) my opinion of it is much higher. It looks less poverty row than before, and even less poverty row than some 30’s 40’s films with bigger budgets than this. I find the biggest drawback after seeing this is that the performances are incredibly sluggish. Owen, despite not looking like Sherlock, would have been at least a little better if he increased his speed a bit. He looked tired throughout. Watson even had to help him get his coat on in an early scene. The best scene is probably the pub scene, as Owen is better in disguise than not, and Billy Bevan is excellent as always.
Your blah blah was very interesting, but then the added blah, exceptional!
@@shadowbear66 Poor Anna May; she deserved better than to be in this stinker.
@@shadowbear66 the devil you say.
Owen, in this film, doesn't appear tired to me, and he's a whole lot more energetic than the cadaverous Wontner was.
How many people who proclaim the best Holmes ever have never seen Vasily Livanov in the role? And Vitaly Solomin is a very compelling Watson.
i've seen most of his - doesn't compare with basil or jeremy imo
I love these old b+w sets, they reek of old-fashioned character, the woodwork, the furniture, the houses and buildings. Owen is a good actor, not my favorite at Holmes, but it was a good, suspenseful old movie.
How incredibly terrific was this. He sort of sounded like Sean Connery? Such an interesting man I wish there had been even more
This got nothing to do with the plot of the book.
George C Scott was one of those rare actors who could perfect a character, although I didn't think much of his Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre :-(
Well, I think really this is one of those obscure, early attempts at Sherlock Holmes. A good effort, but it wouldn't ever rank amoung the greats. However, I'd never thought that Scrooge and Holmes would share character traits, but you're right! Recluses and misanthropes, both of them.
personally I couldn't stand him in any role - an affected over actor
excellent
Also a very fine Ebeneezer Scrooge was Reginald!
The BEST Scrooge, period. Thing is, we get this B.S. about how Scrooge was his big break, saved his career if not his very life, etcadnauseum.
Hey, this Sherlock Holmes played Scrooge in 1938
Another interesting Sherlock Holmes movie. Thanks for the upload
Owens did a great job playing Captain Kidd's butler "Shadwell" in the Charles Laughton film "Captain Kidd".
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Owen is a strange Holmes....he keeps reminding me of Scrooge. He did that many years later.
221A!!!!!!. Blasphemy
Very good viewing. Thank you for posting.
9:38 "... I was in bed with a piece of cucumber..."
So nice ,, splendid ,,
Poor Alan Dinehart passed-away, aged just 55, in 1944 - while still in harness, philbyification; a sad and telling indictment of what the stresses of the acting profession can do to us all !
OH!!! How I love these classic Black n white movies, even if I am watching dead people!!
Anyone else notice the over full garbage bin as the men exited the building, rather amusing I think.
I saw the address of Holmes had changed in this one. Instead of 221B Baker Street here it was 221A.