Sherlock Holmes (1932)
Conan Doyle's Master Detective
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
- Date of release
- 1932-11-05
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Crime
- Director
- William K. Howard
Casting
- Clive Brook — Sherlock Holmes
- Miriam Jordan — Alice Faulkner
- Ernest Torrence — Professor James Moriarty
- Herbert Mundin — George
- Reginald Owen — Dr. Watson
- Alan Mowbray — Colonel Gore-King
- C. Montague Shaw — Judge
- Ivan F. Simpson — Faulkner
- Roy D'Arcy — Manuel Lopez (uncredited)
- John George — Bird Shop Thug (uncredited)
- Brandon Hurst — Secretary to Erskine (uncredited)
- Howard Leeds — Little Billy
Interesting facts
- Based on: Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a 1932 American pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and was directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes previously in The Return of Sherlock Holmes and the "Murder Will Out" segment of Paramount on Parade.
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