Sherlock Holmes (1932 film)

1932 film

Sherlock Holmes

Directed by| William K. Howard
Written by| Bertram Millhauser
Based on| Sherlock Holmes
by William Gillette
Produced by| William K. Howard
Starring| Clive Brook
Reginald Owen
Miriam Jordan
Ernest Torrence
Cinematography| George Barnes
Music by| Hugo Friedhofer

Production
company

Fox Film Corporation

Distributed by| Fox Film Corporation

Release date

* November 6, 1932 (1932-11-06)

Running time

| 68 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes[1][2]) is a 1932 American pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective.[1] 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 is 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.[3]

Reginald Owen plays Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence is Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Reginald Owen played Sherlock Holmes the following year in A Study in Scarlet.[2] Owen is one of a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson. Examples of other such actors include Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States and, most famously, Holmes on British television,[4] Carleton Hobbs, who played both roles in British radio adaptations,[5] and Patrick Macnee, who played both roles in US television movies.[6]

## Cast

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* Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes
* Miriam Jordan as Alice Faulkner
* Ernest Torrence as Moriarty
* Herbert Mundin as George
* Reginald Owen as Dr. Watson
* Howard Leeds as Little Billy
* Alan Mowbray as Colonel Gore-King
* C. Montague Shaw as Judge
* Frank Atkinson as Man in Bar
* Ivan F. Simpson as Faulkner
* Stanley Fields asTony Ardetti

Uncredited:

* Ted Billings as Carnival Thug
* Roy D'Arcy as Manuel Lopez
* Edward Dillon as Al
* John George as Bird Shop Thug
* Robert Graves as Gaston Roux
* Lew Hicks as Prison Guard
* Brandon Hurst as Secretary to Erskine
* Claude King as Sir Albert Hastings
* Arnold Lucy as Chaplain
* Lucien Prival as Hans Dreiaugen

## References

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1. ^ a b Alan Barnes (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. pp. 36–39. ISBN 1-903111-04-8.
2. ^ a b Bunson, Matthew (1994). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana: an A-to-Z guide to the world of the great detective. Macmillan. p. 232\. ISBN 978-0-671-79826-0.
3. ^ Bunson, Matthew (1994). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana: an A-to-Z guide to the world of the great detective. Macmillan. p. 37\. ISBN 978-0-671-79826-0.
4. ^ Barnes, Alan (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn. p. 39\. ISBN 1-903111-04-8.
5. ^ Eyles, Allen (1986). Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. Harper & Row. p. 86. ISBN 0-06-015620-1.
6. ^ Barnes, Alan (2011). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Titan Books. p. 224\. ISBN 9780857687760.

## External links

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* Sherlock Holmes at IMDb
* Sherlock Holmes; allmovie.com synopsis

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Films directed by William K. Howard

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* Get Your Man (1921)
* What Love Will Do (1921)
* Extra! Extra! (1922)
* Deserted at the Altar (1922)
* Captain Fly-by-Night (1922)
* Lucky Dan (1922)
* Let's Go (1923)
* The Fourth Musketeer (1923)
* Danger Ahead (1923)
* The Border Legion (1924)
* East of Broadway (1924)
* The Thundering Herd (1925)
* Code of the West (1925)
* The Light of Western Stars (1925)
* Red Dice (1926)
* Volcano! (1926)
* Gigolo (1926)
* Bachelor Brides (1926)
* White Gold (1927)
* The Main Event (1927)
* A Ship Comes In (1928)
* The River Pirate (1928)
* A Ship Comes In (1928)
* The Valiant (1929)
* Love, Live and Laugh (1929)
* Sin Town (1929)
* Christina (1929)
* Good Intentions (1930)
* Scotland Yard (1930)
* Transatlantic (1931)
* Surrender (1931)
* Don't Bet on Women (1931)
* The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
* The First Year (1932)
* Sherlock Holmes (1932)
* The Power and the Glory (1933)
* This Side of Heaven (1934)
* The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
* Evelyn Prentice (1934)
* Rendezvous (1935)
* Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
* Vanessa (1935)
* The Princess Comes Across (1936)
* Fire Over England (1937)
* The Squeaker (1937)
* Over the Moon (1939)
* Back Door to Heaven (1939)
* Money and the Woman (1940)
* Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
* 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
* Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
* Klondike Fury (1942)
* Johnny Come Lately (1943)
* When the Lights Go On Again (1944)
* A Guy Could Change (1946)

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Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

Theatrical films|

| Silent|

* Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
* Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
* Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
* Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
* Éclair film series (1912–1913)
* Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
* Detektiv Braun (1914)
* A Study in Scarlet (1914 British film)
* A Study in Scarlet (1914 US film)
* The Valley of Fear (1916)
* Sherlock Holmes (1916)
* Sherlock Holmes (1922)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)

| Stoll series|

* The Dying Detective (1921)
* The Devil's Foot (1921)
* The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
* The Sign of Four (1923)

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Wontner series|

* The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
* The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
* The Sign of Four (1932)
* The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
* Silver Blaze (1937)

Rathbone–Bruce
series|

* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
* Voice of Terror (1942)
* Secret Weapon (1942)
* Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
* Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
* The Spider Woman (1943)
* The Scarlet Claw (1944)
* The Pearl of Death (1944)
* The House of Fear (1945)
* The Woman in Green (1945)
* Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
* Terror by Night (1946)
* Dressed to Kill (1946)

Downey series|

* Sherlock Holmes (2009)
* A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films|

* The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)
* The Limejuice Mystery (1930)
* The Speckled Band (1931)
* Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (1932)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
* Sherlock Holmes (1932)
* A Study in Scarlet (1933)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
* The Grey Lady (1937)
* The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
* Deduce, You Say! (1956)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
* The Deadly Necklace (1962)
* A Study in Terror (1965)
* The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
* They Might Be Giants (1971)
* The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
* The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
* Murder by Decree (1979)
* The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
* Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
* The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
* Without a Clue (1988)
* Zero Effect (1998)
* A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
* Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
* Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
* Mr. Holmes (2015)
* The Empire of Corpses (2015)
* Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
* Holmes & Watson (2018)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape (2019)

Television/
streaming/
direct-to-video|

| Films|

| Ian Richardson|

* The Sign of Four (1983)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

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Peter O'Toole
(animated)|

* Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983)

Vasily Livanov
series|

* Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
* The Treasures of Agra (1983)
* The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

Christopher Lee|

* The Leading Lady (1991)
* Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

Matt Frewer|

* The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
* The Sign of Four (2001)
* The Royal Scandal (2001)
* The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)

Ian Hart (as Watson)|

* The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
* The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Other films|

* The Three Garridebs (1937)
* The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
* The Longing of Sherlock Holmes (1972)
* Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
* The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
* Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
* Silver Blaze (1977)
* The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
* The Masks of Death (1984)
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
* Hands of a Murderer (1990)
* The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
* 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
* The Hound of London (1993)
* Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
* Sherlock Holmes (2010)
* Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)

Television series|

* Sherlock Holmes (1951)
* Sherlock Holmes (1954)
* Sherlock Holmes (1965–1968)
* Sherlock Holmes (1967–1968)
* Sherlock Holmes (1968)
* Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980)
* Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
* The Baker Street Boys (1983)
* Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
* Sherlock Holmes (1984–1994)
* episodes
* The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997–2000)
* Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
* Sherlock (2010–2017)
* Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2010–2016)
* Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
* Elementary (2012–2019)
* Sherlock Holmes (2013)
* Sherlock Holmes (2014–2015)
* Miss Sherlock (2018)
* Sherlock: Untold Stories (2019)
* Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–2020)
* Moriarty the Patriot (2020–2021)
* Sherlock in Russia (2020)
* The Irregulars (2021)
* Mademoiselle Holmes (2024)
* Sherlock & Daughter (2025; upcoming)
* Watson (2025; upcoming)
* Young Sherlock (2025; upcoming)

Actors by role|

* Sherlock Holmes
* Dr. Watson
* Inspector Lestrade
* Mycroft Holmes
* Mrs. Hudson
* Professor Moriarty

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