Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (1932) is a film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie was based on the successful stage play by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and was directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Reginald Owen played Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence was Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Oddly, Reginald Owen played Sherlock Holmes the following year in A Study... more

Sherlock Holmes (1932) is a film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie was based on the successful stage play by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and was directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Reginald Owen played Dr. Watson, and Ernest Torrence was Holmes's arch-rival, Professor Moriarty. Oddly, Reginald Owen played Sherlock Holmes the following year in A Study in Scarlet; Owen was one of only three actors (Patrick Macnee and Jeremy Brett are the others) who played both Holmes and Watson in film and/or on television. Clive Brook ... Sherlock Holmes Miriam Jordan ... Alice Faulkner Ernest Torrence ... Moriarty Herbert Mundin ... George Reginald Owen ... Watson Howard Leeds ... Little Billy Alan Mowbray ... Colonel Gore-King C. Montague Shaw ... Judge Frank Atkinson ... Man in Bar Ivan F. Simpson ... Faulkner Stanley Fields ... Tony Ardetti less