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Sherlock Holmes Baffled

Feature film · 1 min · dir. Arthur Marvin

  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • silent film

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes Baffled is an American silent trick film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike that of later screen incarnations. In the film, a thief who can appear and disappear at will steals a sack of items from Sherlock Holmes. At each point, Holmes' attempts to thwart the intruder end in failure.

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Details

Director
Arthur Marvin
Writer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Studio
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Released
1900-05-21
Running time
1 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★ · Everyone's Baffled · Poohbah70 · 2019-07-19

A woman thief who disapparates and reappears and leaves again - leaves Holmes baffled - well, wouldn't you be? Hard to understand why this was made at all, except to test equipment and special effects.

? · malscott · 2011-09-26

whats baffling to me about this film is where is the picture?

nonsense · Skigi · 2020-05-13

it really is not funny in my opinion but it isnt cute

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