The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
- Date of release
- 1931-02-15
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime
- Director
- Leslie S. Hiscott
- Collection
- Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) Collection
Casting
- Arthur Wontner — Sherlock Holmes
- Ian Fleming — Dr. John Watson
- Minnie Rayner — Mrs. Hudson
- Leslie Perrins — Ronald Adair
- Jane Welsh — Kathleen Adair
- Norman McKinnel — Prof. Robert Moriarty / Col. Henslowe
- William Fazan — Thomas Fisher
- Sydney King — Tony Rutherford
- Philip Hewland — Inspector Lestrade
- Gordon Begg — Marston, the butler
- Louis Goodrich — Colonel Sebastian Moran
- Harry Terry — No. 16
Interesting facts
The Sleeping Cardinal is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming. The film is an adaptation, by Hiscott, H. Fowler Mear and Cyril Twyford, of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Although it is not based on any one particular story, it draws inspiration from "The Empty House" and "The Final Problem". The film is the first in the 1931–1937 series starring Wontner as Holmes.
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