'Sherlock Holmes' movie found at Cinémathèque Française (image: William Gillette in 'Sherlock Holmes') Sherlock Holmes, a long-thought-lost 1916 feature starring stage performer and playwright William Gillette in the title role, has been discovered in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française. Directed by the all-but-forgotten Arthur Berthelet for the Chicago-based Essanay production company, the approximately 90-minute movie is supposed to be not only the sole record of William Gillette's celebrated performance as Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, but also the only surviving Gillette film.* In the late 19th century, William Gillette himself wrote the play Sherlock Holmes, which turned out to be a mash-up of various stories and novels featuring the detective, chiefly the short stories "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Final Problem." ("May I marry Holmes?" Gillette, while vying for the role, telegraphed Conan Doyle. The latter replied, "You may marry or murder or do What you like with him.
- 10/3/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
FilmOn Horror Network is available for free. FilmOn Horror Network gives its users the best in bizarre and horrifying films, documentaries and specials. One of the films you can see on the FilmOn Horror Network is the 1915 film, “The Raven.” The film is directed by Charles Brabin, with the screenplay written by Brabin, based on the George C. Hazelton novel “The Raven–The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe” and “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. The film stars Henry B. Walthall, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson and W.C. Robinson. Here’s the synopsis of “The Raven”: “Walthall stars as Edgar Allan Poe in this rare 1915 film produced by The Essanay [ Read More ]
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- 1/31/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
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