The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

1939 · Feature film · 78 min · dir. Alfred L. Werker

The struggle of super-minds in the crime of the century!

• Mystery
• Crime

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Synopsis

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a 1939 American mystery adventure film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Although claiming to be an adaptation of the 1899 play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, the film bears little resemblance to the play.

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Details

Director

Alfred L. Werker

Writer

Edwin Blum

Cinematography

Leon Shamroy

Studio

20th Century Fox

Released

1939-09-01

Series

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

Running time

78 minutes

Cast & crew

• Alfred L. Werker Director
• Leonard Mudie
• May Beatty
• Georgios Regas
• Arthur Hohl
• Alan Marshal
• Henry Stephenson
• George Zucco
• Holmes Herbert

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