Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a 1922 movie starring John Barrymore as Holmes and Roland Young as Watson. Believed lost for decades, much of the film finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and was restored by the George Eastman House to the extent that it could be managed. The movie, which features William Powell's first screen appearance, was directed by Albert Parker and written by Earle Browne and Marion Fairfax from a play by William Gillette based upon Art... more

Sherlock Holmes is a 1922 movie starring John Barrymore as Holmes and Roland Young as Watson. Believed lost for decades, much of the film finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and was restored by the George Eastman House to the extent that it could be managed. The movie, which features William Powell's first screen appearance, was directed by Albert Parker and written by Earle Browne and Marion Fairfax from a play by William Gillette based upon Arthur Conan Doyle's characters. It was produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Material held by Eastman House was the basis for a reconstruction produced by Kevin Brownlow and William K. Everson (aided in the early stages by director Albert Parker), with additional reconstruction work undertaken by Eastman House itself in 2001. Describing an early state of the reconstruction in 1975, Everson made it clear that reassembling the available material into a viewable form was a far from trivial task: "A few years ago all that existed of this film... less