Silver Blaze (1937)
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
- Date of release
- 1937-07-01
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Thomas Bentley
- Collection
- Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) Collection
Casting
- Arthur Wontner — Sherlock Holmes
- Ian Fleming — Dr. John Watson
- John Turnbull — Inspector Lestrade
- Lawrence Grossmith — Sir Henry Baskerville
- Robert Horton — Colonel Ross
- Lyn Harding — Professor Moriarty
- Arthur Macrae — Jack Trevor
- Judy Gunn — Diana Baskerville
- Minnie Rayner — Mrs. Hudson
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Adventure of Silver Blaze
- Filmed in: Twickenham Film Studios
Silver Blaze is a 1937 British black-and-white crime mystery film, based loosely on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". It was directed by Thomas Bentley, and was produced by Twickenham Film Studios Productions. It stars Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson. In the United States, the film was released in 1941 by Astor Pictures, where it was also known as Murder at the Baskervilles, retitled by distributors to capitalize on the success of the Basil Rathbone Holmes film, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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