The Sleeping Cardinal

Movie
Original title	The Sleeping Cardinal
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1931
length	84 minutes
Rod
Director	Leslie S. Hiscott
script	Leslie S. Hiscott H. Fowler Mear Cyril Twyford
production	Julius Hagen
music	John Greenwood
camera	Sydney Blythe William Luff
cut	Jack Harris
occupation
Arthur Wontner : Sherlock Holmes Ian Fleming : Dr. Watson Philip Hewland : Inspector Lestrade Jane Welsh : Kathleen Adair Norman McKinnel : Prof. Moriarty Minnie Rayner : Mrs. Hudson Leslie Perrins : Ronald Adair Gordon Begg : Marston, the butler William Fazan : Thomas Fisher Sydney King : Tony Rutherford Louis Goodrich : Colonel Sebastian Moran Charles Paton : JJ Godfrey

The Sleeping Cardinal is a British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott . It is independent of the Basil Rathbone series of Holmes films, which also began in the 1930s. In the US, the film was called Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour .

action

Ronnie Adair, a Foreign Office diplomat , has become addicted to gambling. Moriarty, who knew this, blackmailed him and forced him to put counterfeit money in his diplomatic bag from Paris to London. Adair's worried sister asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate the reasons for her brother's gambling excesses and depressive moods. After Adair appears to have committed suicide, Holmes investigates leads that Moriarty murdered Adair.

Web links

• The Sleeping Cardinal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Sleeping Cardinal as a complete film in theInternet Archive