Sherlock Holmes

1932
1h 8min

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Clive Brook, Miriam Jordan, and Ernest Torrence in Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe famous detective is pulled away from retirement and his fiancée when the condemned Moriarty escapes from prison and swears vengeance.The famous detective is pulled away from retirement and his fiancée when the condemned Moriarty escapes from prison and swears vengeance.The famous detective is pulled away from retirement and his fiancée when the condemned Moriarty escapes from prison and swears vengeance.

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5,7/10

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Rôles principaux21

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Clive Brook

Sherlock Holmes

Miriam Jordan

Alice Faulkner

Ernest Torrence

Professor James Moriarty

Herbert Mundin

George

Reginald Owen

Dr. Watson

Howard Leeds

Little Billy

Alan Mowbray

Colonel Gore-King

C. Montague Shaw

Judge

Frank Atkinson

Man in Pub

Ivan F. Simpson

Faulkner

Stanley Fields

Homer Jones

Ted Billings

Carnival Thug
(non crédité)

Roy D'Arcy

Manuel Lopez
(non crédité)

Edward Dillon

Al
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John George

Bird Shop Thug
(non crédité)

Robert Graves

Gaston Roux
(non crédité)

Lew Hicks

Prison Guard
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Brandon Hurst

Secretary to Erskine
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6/10

If It Didn't Claim to Be Sherlock Holmes, I'd Like It a Lot

William K. Howard directed this at the top of his powers. Most sources claim he was influenced by Murnau. I think his stuff looks like Tod Browning, but it doesn't really matter where he got that fast-cutting-between-askew-images-from. It's compelling and exciting. On the other hand, the script is the least Sherlockian thing I have ever seen. It's a sequel to the Gillette play. Ernest Torrence, playing Moriarity with a gotch eye is to be hanged, so Holmes is set to retire, marry Miriam Jordan and live a life of riding to the hounds. But Moriarity escapes and begins to wreak a terrible vengeance.

Clive Brooks makes an adequate Holmes, , since he lives in a world of morons. Watson disappears early on, which is a good thing, since the role is played by Reginald Owen.

So, how do I rate this? It's a movie that is worth watching, because it is such a visual treat, with some wonderful ur-Noir cinematography by George Barnes, including a sequence that is mostly lit by arc welding light. However, pretend it's Bulldog Drummond and not Sherlock Holmes.

boblipton
1 févr. 2018
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Anecdotes
Clive Brook bore a striking resemblance to stage actor William Gillette, who was famous for playing Sherlock Holmes on the stage. He did more than 1000 performances of the famous sleuth.

Gaffes
The lamp in Erskine's office is supposed to have been switched on since before Erskine vanished, and so the bulb should have been quite hot, but Holmes unscrews it with his bare hand, showing no pain or discomfort.

Citations
Professor James Moriarty: Gentlemen, I regret to say the rope which will hang me has not yet been made! You yourself, Mr Erskine, will hang before I hang. Colonel Gore-King, you are sure to die before I die. And as for Sherlock Holmes, I shall be alive to see his disgrace and death!