71 years old, and I love this movie so much. Just discovered it about a week ago. Not stupid and silly, like so many of today's movies. What a gem this movie is ! The older I get, the more I treasure movies like this.
Amazing that this was filmed some 40 years after the stories were published and are closer to that time than our own and yet here we are still watching these tales 91 years later.
Excellent work, some nice touches like the pub landlord laughing off attempts to extort him, and a seriously unpleasant Moriarty. Very watchable, thanks!
I love Sherlock Holmes!! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the character based on a brilliant med. school professor. My favorite Homes is Jeremy Brett. Also like Basil Rathbone and Benedict Cumberbatch. Jeremy Brett is the perfect Holmes!
Like it says in the credits, this is the Sherlock Holmes that William Gillette adapted for his stage play, and even made him with a woman and getting married. Doyle wanted Holmes to be single, but liked Gillette's stageplay so much he said he could even marry Holmes if he wanted, and so he did. This movie is the close we will ever get to see a William Gillette play, for the screenplay is based on his stageplay. Not as Bohemian as Doyle's Holmes, but fun to watch and worth viewing to any Sherlock fan. The camera work directing and surprisingly the audio is very good. Billy is fleshed out more, and other fun surprises. The auto and phone are not 1890s, but one can easily overlook this and imagine it in the 1900s, and Holmes is timeless. I highly recommend this movie.
The 1916 Gillette film is actually available from Flicker Alley on dvd and blu ray, and I believe it’s on TH-cam as well. But yes, it’s only been available for a few years. The Barrymore version has been available for ten years. Both are closer to the play than this and the 1939 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Rathbone, although for years they weren’t available. The Gillette film is the closest and one of my favorites.
I don't know all that history of film, but I've read and watched all I can find. This is the only marriage I've seen. He's loved before, but not married. I like this.
This film is awesome! Really neat that it's like an unofficial sequel to the Gillette play. Reginald Owen is one of the few actors to have played both Holmes AND Watson! Ernest Torrance is probably best known for playing Buster Keaton's dad in "Steamboat Bill Jr.", a really great film. He sadly died a year later so this is one of the very few talkies he did.
Agreed, Mr Strange! Hey, Alan Mowbray in this cast acted later as Lestrade in 'A Study in Scarlet' (1935) and in 1946 'Terror By Night' (as villain Sebastian Moran) with Rathbone & Bruce.
THANK YOU!!! I am doing a SHERLOCK MARATHON....I have watched the British cartoon versions too, and love it....the huge fireplaces get smaller as the years in production become newer, the antiques are great! The on site locations become more and more groomed, including the clearings of the woodlands. I wonder whose homes they are on location in the 30's through the 50's ) Sincerely, JoAnn
I do so like this film. Clive Brooks essayed the role in an earlier adaption The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) that I once saw on TV but seemingly has disappeared from the public. Would so much like to see it again. Brooks played Holmes yet another time in a Comic sketch in the 1930 Paramount on Parade called Murder Will Out. At the time Paramount was promoting its series of detective movies such as Philo Vance played by William Powell, Sargent Heath played by Eugene Pallette also appear in the sketch with Warner Oland playing the villain Fu Manchu.
I want to imagine the public getting the book on silver screen. The timely find the exquisite advertisement the gleam in the starlit eyes the dressing up for the evening & the slip
One of my favorite 1930’s Holmes films. Not the best or worst overall, but I do think it has probably THE best Moriarty ever. Sadly, he died not long after.
Clive Brook. Born in 1887. He served in the Artists' Rifles in the First World War, rising to the rank of Major. Brook was 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) tall and had brown hair with grey eyes.
Ernest Torrence played Buster Keaton’s father in “ Steamboat Bill Jr.” Other notables in the film as well, one of whom was Colonel Sebastian Moran in one of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films.
Huge fan of Sherlock Holmes stories, never seen this one before. Maybe a bit to much American influences like Billy's cute outfit but good all the same 😃
Dear Doyle Encyclopedia, PLEASE boost the audio and re-post the video. I am listening on high quality headphones at maximum volume and I can hardly hear the dialogue.I quit trying at 4:37.
@@testingtesting4534 In the later adventures Holmes has and uses a telephone and some are set as late as the 1920s. They were not all written in the 19th Century.
One dark and blurry print. Sadly, this is the best it will ever get. Fox Films was second in the "talking picture" revolution, and had a superior product with it's optical track. By 1936 they managed to be bankrupt. It merged with 20th Century Productions, Darryl F. Zanuck took over production, and the rest is history. In 1938, 20th Century-Fox produced "The Hound of the Baskervilles" with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
It has low ratings on IMDB, likely due to clearly still-developing film and sound techniques. To me there's a special kind of simple purity - analogous to riding in a '20s Ford Model T.
I am currently reading a book written in 2016. Holmes and Watsons descendants are working together on a case in California. Legacies the name. 2016. Good fun. Escapism. Nice.
Early on I notice the character of Moriarty gives someone he meets a Masonic handshake. Perhaps all the actors were Freemasons. And the movie itself is a tell-all of how diabolical the Freemasons are in the character of Prof. Moriarty.
SH transposed to a 1932 gangster movie in England no less. Dark b&w cjnephotography almost makes this a noire, Clive Brook is a credible Holmes; although, the supposed marriage is a curious.ending.
It was playwright William Gillette's, who made his own movie version of his famous 1899 play in 1916. Gillette was the first of the many Holmes and gave the character many embellishments that you will not find in Doyle's stories. Doyle did not like the idea of Holmes getting married but he loved the play so he did not object to Gillette's adaptation. Gillette got very wealthy through his plays and his playing Holmes on the stage and was able to build a real castle along the banks of the Connecticut River which is now a public museum and visitor's center.
I can't stand the wife and kid, I'm only here for the interesting performances of the other actors. Can't understand the thought behind pushing a wife and kid on the Sherlock loving audience, it's completely unnecessary and and out character.
@@chrisanderson5317 yes, why would they think that will be what ppl want to see? They try to do that with any and every character nowadays. One of the many reasons I don't have a TV and I haven't bothered to watch a movie Hollywood put out in at least 15 years.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER! Why wasn't Dr. Watson, Holmes' best man? It seems absolutely ridiculous and appalling that anyone else would even be Holmes' best man. For this reason alone, this is the worse Sherlock Holmes movie of all time.
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91 years old and still being watched and enjoyed. They could never have guessed. April, 2023.
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@@dianemarshack9215 Thanks Diane. Regards from sunny England. June, 2023.
71 years old, and I love this movie so much. Just discovered it about a week ago. Not stupid and silly, like so many of today's movies. What a gem this movie is ! The older I get, the more I treasure movies like this.
@pete6816 I'm 88 yrs old it's not good, it's great
92 years old but absoloutelyy brillliant
Horse Feathers!
Basil Rathbone will always be my favorite Holmes.
Amazing that this was filmed some 40 years after the stories were published and are closer to that time than our own and yet here we are still watching these tales 91 years later.
Excellent work, some nice touches like the pub landlord laughing off attempts to extort him, and a seriously unpleasant Moriarty. Very watchable, thanks!
By far the best beginning of any Holmes movie! Looks very good
I love Sherlock Holmes!! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the character based on a brilliant med. school professor. My favorite Homes is Jeremy Brett. Also like Basil Rathbone and Benedict Cumberbatch. Jeremy Brett is the perfect Holmes!
Like it says in the credits, this is the Sherlock Holmes that William Gillette adapted for his stage play, and even made him with a woman and getting married. Doyle wanted Holmes to be single, but liked Gillette's stageplay so much he said he could even marry Holmes if he wanted, and so he did. This movie is the close we will ever get to see a William Gillette play, for the screenplay is based on his stageplay. Not as Bohemian as Doyle's Holmes, but fun to watch and worth viewing to any Sherlock fan. The camera work directing and surprisingly the audio is very good. Billy is fleshed out more, and other fun surprises. The auto and phone are not 1890s, but one can easily overlook this and imagine it in the 1900s, and Holmes is timeless. I highly recommend this movie.
The 1916 Gillette film is actually available from Flicker Alley on dvd and blu ray, and I believe it’s on TH-cam as well. But yes, it’s only been available for a few years. The Barrymore version has been available for ten years. Both are closer to the play than this and the 1939 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Rathbone, although for years they weren’t available. The Gillette film is the closest and one of my favorites.
I don't know all that history of film, but I've read and watched all I can find. This is the only marriage I've seen. He's loved before, but not married. I like this.
Ridiculous to ignore the personality of Jolmes, no one but Irene Adler could move him.
Thank you for uploading this 1932 film. Amazing and very enjoyable.
This film is awesome!
Really neat that it's like an unofficial sequel to the Gillette play.
Reginald Owen is one of the few actors to have played both Holmes AND Watson!
Ernest Torrance is probably best known for playing Buster Keaton's dad in "Steamboat Bill Jr.", a really great film. He sadly died a year later so this is one of the very few talkies he did.
Agreed, Mr Strange! Hey, Alan Mowbray in this cast acted later as Lestrade in 'A Study in Scarlet' (1935) and in 1946 'Terror By Night' (as villain Sebastian Moran) with Rathbone & Bruce.
"There's only one way to deal with these chaps. Shoot first, investigate later," says Holmes.
Watson, "But I say old chap, is that sporting?"
LOL
This isn't the Olympics, Watson. These guys play for keeps.
Holmes: "Oh, get out Watson!"
Loved watching this movie in the early 70s as a kid.. Clive Brook was a very handsome gentleman. A WW1 veteran..
THANK YOU!!! I am doing a SHERLOCK MARATHON....I have watched the British cartoon versions too, and love it....the huge fireplaces get smaller as the years in production become newer, the antiques are great! The on site locations become more and more groomed, including the clearings of the woodlands. I wonder whose homes they are on location in the 30's through the 50's )
Sincerely,
JoAnn
January 2025, I love Sherlock Holmes ever since I was a kid, long time ago.
I do so like this film. Clive Brooks essayed the role in an earlier adaption The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) that I once saw on TV but seemingly has disappeared from the public. Would so much like to see it again. Brooks played Holmes yet another time in a Comic sketch in the 1930 Paramount on Parade called Murder Will Out. At the time Paramount was promoting its series of detective movies such as Philo Vance played by William Powell, Sargent Heath played by Eugene Pallette also appear in the sketch with Warner Oland playing the villain Fu Manchu.
I’ve been looking for the 1929 film forever. I did see paramount on parade a few months ago though.
I don't think I've seen Clive Brooks very much but he's good always liked Reginal Owens
Good cast
They had a lot of good actors in the 30's and 40's
I want to imagine the public getting the book on silver screen. The timely find the exquisite advertisement the gleam in the starlit eyes the dressing up for the evening & the slip
My grandmother remembered a time when it seemed as if Clive Brook was in every single “talkie” out there. Not a bad little movie.
Thank you for posting this. I haven't been able to find it anywhere else. It's quite good!
You are posting and you are thinking whom ?
i agree ..good day... so long, bye bye, take care, see ya,
Holmes getting married. How utterly preposterous!
Thank you. I cast it to my Roku so it would play on the tv. Loved it. Thanks.
I have never seen this before. It's a very unique adaptation. It seems like it is ahead of it's time. Enjoyed it very much!
One of my favorite 1930’s Holmes films. Not the best or worst overall, but I do think it has probably THE best Moriarty ever. Sadly, he died not long after.
He's not bad, but I'd still go with George Zucco.
I thought he was suitably nasty.
21:15 Homer Jones (what a name!) from Chicago and the best shot of the all!
Greetings from New Zealand ❤
SOOOOOOOO VERY GOOD!🎇
Clive Brook. Born in 1887.
He served in the Artists' Rifles in the First World War, rising to the rank of Major. Brook was 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) tall and had brown hair with grey eyes.
Remember this was shown on Channel Four (British Television Network) back in the 80’s one Saturday afternoon.
Nice to this is available on TH-cam!
Simply marvellous!!!
This was a very good show
Ernest Torrence played Buster Keaton’s father in “ Steamboat Bill Jr.” Other notables in the film as well, one of whom was Colonel Sebastian Moran in one of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films.
Thank you 🤩🤩💖
Huge fan of Sherlock Holmes stories, never seen this one before. Maybe a bit to much American influences like Billy's cute outfit but good all the same 😃
Excellent! 😃
good movie ..thanks
Excellent.....in all ways.
Mint film. Simply enjoyable 🎉
All Sherlock Holmes' movies are interesting!
Dreiaugen is a name with a hidden meaning. In German, Drei Augen translates to Third Eye. Interesting appellation for a villian! 😮
Clive Brook. A pioneer. Pio a pun UN P intended
Never saw this one.thank you
THANKS UPLOADER!!!!!
Still watching in 2024.
Is this is first instance of playing the "retired detective takes just one more case" gambit.
Totally Awesome
Holmes walking in the dark room and tunnel wearing the welder's shield! Everything would have been virtually black.
Watched as a one off version but for it's age it was good. But too American I thought for a genuinely British character that people love.
Dear Doyle Encyclopedia, PLEASE boost the audio and re-post the video. I am listening on high quality headphones at maximum volume and I can hardly hear the dialogue.I quit trying at 4:37.
I am listening on a Motorola Android phone and I am having the same problem on some of these movies.
Not Conan Doyle, but very entertaining.
Sherlock Holmes with a steady girlfriend? It is as if they had never read a Sherlock Homes story.
Ah., but she was “that woman”. .
An automatic gun? Telephone? Late 20s era cars? Not true to the era of Sherlock Holmes. Being rude to Watson.
@@testingtesting4534 In the later adventures Holmes has and uses a telephone and some are set as late as the 1920s. They were not all written in the 19th Century.
Eggs and kidneys with port wine for breakfast? How very early 20th century English.
My exact thoughts!
One dark and blurry print. Sadly, this is the best it will ever get. Fox Films was second in the "talking picture" revolution, and had a superior product with it's optical track. By 1936 they managed to be bankrupt. It merged with 20th Century Productions, Darryl F. Zanuck took over production, and the rest is history. In 1938, 20th Century-Fox produced "The Hound of the Baskervilles" with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
My "copy" doesn't include the name of this movies. Maybe it will be at the end.
I suppose an IMDB of Clive Brooks may give it?
I'll try
Billy is played by Howard Leeds.
Very enjoyable. Thank you for the upload.
Really liked that fairground organ melody around the 20th minute. Anyone knows its name?
Yes.
@@scarygary-qq1pj Will you be kind enough to name it?
Everybody makes the same mistake his name is sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A very good Holmes. Not tolerating nonsense. Considering how old this is a very very good movie so far. And a nice evil Moriarty.
It has low ratings on IMDB, likely due to clearly still-developing film and sound techniques. To me there's a special kind of simple purity - analogous to riding in a '20s Ford Model T.
I think attachment to a woman was not part of Holmes, other than "that woman". So any affection was distant. Read Doyle.
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Film (1932). Sherlock Holmes.
Stars: Miriam Jordan.
Thursday, November 23 - 2023.
Lucien Prival (Hans Dreiaugen) reminds me of Erich von Stroheim
No he doesn't.
No wonder they joined up.
A nice adaption but I have to say that Moriarty reminded me of Frankenstein a little!
Though the acting and filming and directing is good, I just can't warm up to this actors take on Holmes . Great supporting cast.
Yes, and why eschew the iconic deer-stalker cap & cape? Rita Kaufman was in charge of costumes. I reckon I'll ask her.🎻💉
IMDb doesn't list the actor who plays Homer Jones here.
It's the great character actor Stanley Fields. ImDb lists his character name incorrectly.
Wish this one was colorized
That kid couldn't act if his life depended on it.
Sherlock Homes and (wife)?
I am currently reading a book written in 2016. Holmes and Watsons descendants are working together on a case in California. Legacies the name. 2016. Good fun. Escapism. Nice.
So what does that tell you - the older the movie the better it is. Not like todays movies.
Mr Holmes and a love interest? - never.
My only complaint is that it's in Spanish - and I don't speak that language.
But that Moriarty really did fill the bill - he looked pure evil incarnate.
It's in English. You can change the subtitles
I really like Ernest Torrence as Moriarty
I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that John Hughes was the art director.🙄
Good old Peterson pipe ...
No Meerschaum?
Early on I notice the character of Moriarty gives someone he meets a Masonic handshake. Perhaps all the actors were Freemasons. And the movie itself is a tell-all of how diabolical the Freemasons are in the character of Prof. Moriarty.
Or maybe the director was a mason... knew a mason... read about masons... Ate cottage cheese...
@@The_Other_Ghost Never liked cottage cheese.
Yes, masons worship satan. Pike=👹
Yes, masons worship satan. Pike=👹
Yes, they worship satan. Pike=👹
Do you think it was that American tennis player?
hahahahahahahahahaaaaa
SH transposed to a 1932 gangster movie in England no less. Dark b&w cjnephotography almost makes this a noire, Clive Brook is a credible Holmes; although, the supposed marriage is a curious.ending.
Not a bad take on Sherlock Holmes and better than things like a woman or gay or time traveler
That's why I don't watch Jeremy Brett.🤮
Who's idea was it to give Sherlock Holmes a fiancée? It's so out of character for him!
It was playwright William Gillette's, who made his own movie version of his famous 1899 play in 1916. Gillette was the first of the many Holmes and gave the character many embellishments that you will not find in Doyle's stories. Doyle did not like the idea of Holmes getting married but he loved the play so he did not object to Gillette's adaptation. Gillette got very wealthy through his plays and his playing Holmes on the stage and was able to build a real castle along the banks of the Connecticut River which is now a public museum and visitor's center.
If you watch The Strange Case of Miss Alice Faulkner (1981), it makes sense. Also by William Gillette.
@@Diosprometheus The castle looks like the interior of the house in both the 1916 and 1922 films (with more stone)
How absurd.
The American criminal, Homer Jones, has the same name as a wide receiver who played for the NY Giants in the late 1960's.
Didn't like the story direction as well as drama . 🤔-bmd
Good story line but the woman angle is Completely out of character with the Holmes character! Marriage? Laughable!
some funny bits, but lousy,, non-sensical claptrap
not bad for an almost 100 year old movie, but there are better made films from the same Era.
I can't stand the wife and kid, I'm only here for the interesting performances of the other actors. Can't understand the thought behind pushing a wife and kid on the Sherlock loving audience, it's completely unnecessary and and out character.
I'd say having a married Holmes is better than turning him into a flamming poofter like some modern versions have attempted to do.
@@chrisanderson5317 yes, why would they think that will be what ppl want to see? They try to do that with any and every character nowadays. One of the many reasons I don't have a TV and I haven't bothered to watch a movie Hollywood put out in at least 15 years.
An American Shylock Holmes 😂
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Holmes only idea of romance was being outwitted by "the woman". This premise here is preposterous, lol
First they give Holmes a fiance, and then he dresses in drag as a disguise... What ARE they trying to say??
Maybe Sherlock was a drag queen?
@@audreyricci6383Jeremy Brett would be more suited to that.🌈
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!
Why wasn't Dr. Watson, Holmes' best man? It seems absolutely ridiculous and appalling that anyone else would even be Holmes' best man. For this reason alone, this is the worse Sherlock Holmes movie of all time.
1:08:00explains it.
@@scarygary-qq1pj Still no excuse. He still should've been best man.
What an awful interpretation of the character. Just wretchedly disrespectful and incompetent.
At 52:44 “Alien cutthroats swarming London.” Oh, if they only knew.
Fun fact: I recently discovered Clive Brooks was my 3rd cousin 3 times removed!
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Moriarty.
They wear a black kerchief when they're about to proclaim a death sentence.⬛
Man, that was hilariously bad.
Not a bad take on Sherlock Holmes and better than things like a woman or gay or time traveler
That's why I don't watch Jeremy Brett.🤮