Summary
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 58GoodWatch 60
IMDb6.2
Audience score54%
Running time
1 h 57 min
Longer than most mysteries, +15 min on the typical 102
typical 102117Half of all mysteries run 93–115 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 25 more
Released
1916
June 30, 1916
110 years ago
Genres
MysteryCrimeLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 4 more17 people
- William GilletteSherlock Holmes
- Ernest MaupainProfessor Moriarty
- MKMarjorie KayAlice Faulkner
- Edward FieldingDr. Watson
- SRStewart RobbinsBenjamin Forman
- Hugh ThompsonSir Edward Leighton
- LKLudwig KreissBaron von Stalburg
- MMMario MajeroniJames Larrabee
- WPWilliam PostanceSidney Prince
- CBChester BeeryCraigin
- Fred Malatesta'Lightfoot' McTague
- Grace RealsMadge Larrabee
- LBLeona BallTherese
- BHBurford HampdenBilly
- MSMarian SkinnerA Suffragette
- Edward ArnoldMoriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
- FHFrank HamiltonTim Leary
Directing · 1
- Arthur Berthelet Director
Writing · 2
- Arthur Conan Doyle Characters
- William Gillette Theatre Play
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