The Valley of Fear (1916)

Movie
Original title	The Valley of Fear
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1916
Rod
Director	Alexander Butler
script	Harry Engholm
production	George Berthold Samuelson
occupation
	Harry Arthur Saintsbury : Sherlock Holmes; Daisy Burrell : Ettie Shafter; Booth Conway : Professor Moriarty; Jack McCauley : McGinty; Cecil Mannering : John McMurdo; Arthur M. Cullin : Doctor Watson; Lionel d'Aragon : Captain Marvin; Bernard Vaughan : Shafter; Jack Clare : Ted Baldwin;

The Valley of Fear is a 1916 British adventure film directed by Alexander Butler .

action

background

The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle . The film is considered lost .

Leading actor HA Saintsbury (1869-1939) was considered Europe's leading Holmes actor and had portrayed him on stage more than 1,400 times; this is the only film of his career.

Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty appears for the first time.

Web links

The Valley of Fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The Valley of Fear in the database of the BFI (English)

Individual evidence

^ The Valley of Fear . silentera.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
^ Gabriel A. Sivan: George Berthold Samuelson (1889–1947). Britain's Jewish film pioneer , in: Jewish Historical Studies. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Volume 44. 2012, p. 209
^ Henry Zecher: William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes. 2011, p. 461

[1] The Valley of Fear . silentera.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.

[2] Gabriel A. Sivan: George Berthold Samuelson (1889–1947). Britain's Jewish film pioneer , in: Jewish Historical Studies. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Volume 44. 2012, p. 209

[3] Henry Zecher: William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes. 2011, p. 461