Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransomware

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Movie
Original title Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransomware
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1905
Rod
Director J. Stuart Blackton
script Theodore Liebler Jr.
Arthur Conan Doyle
occupation

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom is an American silent film . Directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios .

background

It was the second film based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes , after the 1900 film Sherlock Holmes Baffled. It is usually seen as the first attempt at filming a serious Holmes adaptation.

Theodore Liebler screenplay contains elements from the novel Daszeichen der Vier .

Released October 7, 1905, Maurice Costello appeared as Sherlock Holmes, Kyrle Bellew as John Watson and J. Barney Sherry . For Costello it was the first role before becoming a so-called matinée idol .

Although it is sometimes claimed that the film is lost , fragments remain in the Library of Congress's Paper Print Collection . It was shot on 35 mm black and white film and is 725 meters long on a roll.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransomware . In: British Film Institute Film & TV Database . Retrieved August 7, 2010.
  2. ↑ Phil Hardy (Ed.): The BFI Companion to Crime. Cassell et al. a., London 1997, ISBN 0-304-33215-1 , p. 168.
  3. ^ Matthew Bunson: Encyclopedia Sherlockiana. An A-to-Z guide to the world of the great detective. Macmillan, New York NY 1994, ISBN 0-671-79826-X , p. 121.
  4. ^ A b Carl Bennett: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . In: The Progressive Silent Film List . 2000. Archived from the original on August 2, 2010. Retrieved on August 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed 9 August 2010
  6. ↑ Kalton C. Lahue: Gentlemen to the Rescue. The Heroes of the Silent Screen. AS Barnes et al. a., South Brunswick et al. a. 1972, ISBN 0-498-07802-7 , p. 67.
  7. ^ Vitagraph paper print fragments . In: Library of Congress catalog . Retrieved August 9, 2010.

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