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A Study in Scarlet

  • 1933
  • Passed
  • 1h 12min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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June Clyde, Reginald Owen, John Warburton, and Anna May Wong in A Study in Scarlet (1933)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaHolmes and Watson investigate a secret society with members who keep dying.Holmes and Watson investigate a secret society with members who keep dying.Holmes and Watson investigate a secret society with members who keep dying.

  • Regia
    • Edwin L. Marin
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Robert Florey
    • Reginald Owen
  • Star
    • Reginald Owen
    • Anna May Wong
    • June Clyde
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,6/10
    1307
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Arthur Conan Doyle
      • Robert Florey
      • Reginald Owen
    • Star
      • Reginald Owen
      • Anna May Wong
      • June Clyde
    • 35Recensioni degli utenti
    • 15Recensioni della critica
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    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Sherlock Holmes
    Anna May Wong
    Anna May Wong
    • Mrs. Pyke
    June Clyde
    June Clyde
    • Eileen Forrester
    Alan Dinehart
    Alan Dinehart
    • Merrydew
    • (as Allan Dinehart)
    John Warburton
    John Warburton
    • John Stanford
    Alan Mowbray
    Alan Mowbray
    • Lastrade
    Warburton Gamble
    Warburton Gamble
    • Dr. Watson
    J.M. Kerrigan
    J.M. Kerrigan
    • Jabez Wilson
    Doris Lloyd
    Doris Lloyd
    • Mrs. Murphy
    Billy Bevan
    Billy Bevan
    • Will Swallow
    Leila Bennett
    Leila Bennett
    • Daffy Dolly
    Wyndham Standing
    Wyndham Standing
    • Capt. Pyke
    Halliwell Hobbes
    Halliwell Hobbes
    • Dearing
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Thompson - Innkeeper
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Olaf Hytten
    Olaf Hytten
    • Merrydew's Butler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Tetsu Komai
    • Ah Yet
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Tempe Pigott
    Tempe Pigott
    • Mrs. Hudson
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Cecil Reynolds
    • William Baker
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Arthur Conan Doyle
      • Robert Florey
      • Reginald Owen
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    6profh-1

    "SIX DEAD MEN"

    KBS Productions paid for the title, but not the plot, of Doyle's 1st Holmes story. Instead, and I might never have known this if not for some helpful contributor to the IMDB, they adapted-- unofficially (and presumably, UNPAID!), Belgian author Stanislas-André Steeman's 1931 detective novel "Six Hommes Morts". I've looked around, and I haven't yet found any evidence that this novel, published in French, has ever been translated into English. However, I've just learned it has been adapted to film at least 4 times, with this being the 1st version. The others were "THE RIVERSIDE MURDERS" (UK / 1935), "LE DERNIER DES SIX" (France / 1941) and "L'inspecteur Wens: SIX HOMMES MORTS" (an episode of the 1975 French anthology TV series, "Les grands détectives")! Now I'm interested in tracking those down for comparison.

    Physically, Reginald Owen reminds me a bit of a young Ray Milland (or, a bit, of stage actor William Gillette). He may not look like the traditional idea of Holmes, but thanks to the script, he certainly SEEMD like him, making all sorts of amazing observations that escape the notice of Inspector Lestrade and Dr. Watson (who's mainly here as the audience-identification character, for Holmes to explain the plot to). Owen fares better as Holmes than he did as Watson in Fox's "SHERLOCK HOLMES" only 6 months earlier, while Alan Morbray, who was Scotland Yard inspector Colonel Gore-King in that, returns here as Lestrade.

    I've seen this movie at least 4 times now, and have enjoyed it more with each viewing. Part of it is the slowly-developing plot, part is seeing some of the wonderful character actors of the period who I've come to recognize from other films turning up. Among them are Anna May Wong (who once played Fu Manchu's daughter), Halliwell Hobbes (who was in several Rathbone HOLMES films), Olaf Hytten (ditto; he also played "Sheerluck Jones" in the insane comedy short "Lost In Limehouse", which came out only a month before this), and Billy Bevan (a policeman in "Dracula's Daughter", he serves a comic-relief role as a tavern customer, similar to Herbert Mundin in the earlier Clive Brook film).

    Given the similarities to "The Five Orange Pips" by Doyle, "Six Dead Men" by Steeman, or "Ten Little Indians" by Agatha Christie, I have to wonder WHICH story Christie might have been borrowing from when she wrote HER novel several years after this!

    I only wish someone could locate a complete print of this and do a proper restoration, as between the poor picture and sound quality, and all the words missing due to frequent cuts, this is in almost as bad shape as Raymond Massey's "THE SPECKLED BAND". The screenplay here would have made an excellent installment in the Universal HOLMES series with Rathbone; if it had been, it would have been fully restored by now, as those 12 films were!
    8binapiraeus

    A different story, a different Holmes

    "A Study in Scarlet", somewhat more than loosely based on Conan Doyle's very first 'Sherlock Holmes' novel published in 1887, stars this time Reginald Owen, one of Hollywood's most famous British character actors who during his long career played about everything from Ebenezer Scrooge to King Louis XV. - and even Dr. Watson, in the previous Sherlock Holmes adventure with Clive Brook in the title role. It was the only time Owen portrayed the master sleuth - unfortunately, for he did QUITE well in this role!

    Definitely less haughty and pedantic and more sympathetic than Basil Rathbone (who, nevertheless, was admittedly the most 'true' impersonator of Doyle's original character), yet just as clever and quick-witted, Owen alias Holmes is being asked for help by the widow of a member of an obscure 'organization' who's been tricked out of the money her husband would have soon been to receive from the shady 'business transactions' of that organization. At the same time, a strange newspaper ad, obviously written in a kind of code, intrigues Holmes - and it all finally leads him to one of his 'favorite' enemies, lawyer-blackmailer Merrydew...

    A very nice, entertaining crime story, with much love for every detail and a perfectly recreated atmosphere of England in the 1880s, from the shady back streets of London to the quiet countryside, where Holmes (that is, Owen) delivers a hilarious impersonation of a wealthy elderly gentleman - just about like the disguises Chester Morris impressed us with many times as 'Boston Blackie'! Some genuinely English 'characters' complete the picture, a whole 'epidemic' of murders and murder attempts provides the adequate suspense... Not to be missed by fans of Sherlock Holmes in particular, and fans of classic crime in general!
    GManfred

    Good but not Great.

    I was intrigued by the thought of Reginald Owen playing Sherlock Holmes because I disliked him as Ebeneezer Scrooge in MGM's " A Christmas Carol" (1938). In that role he was very subdued and did not bring the character to life, although I have been spoiled in this regard by Alastair Sim; would the same happen here?

    Happily, he was much better as Holmes, but once again I have been spoiled by Basil Rathbone and Arthur Wontner. Nevertheless, he was more than adequate but was done in by the leaden pace of the proceedings in A Study In Scarlet - it could have been so much better with a little tension and suspense and a few less dead spots, as the the storyline was excellent. I especially enjoy mysteries in which the murderer is unknown until the last scene.

    A good entry in the Holmes series - unless you've seen the aforementioned Rathbone or Wontner in the title role.
    6theowinthrop

    "...of abominable memory."

    Sherlock Holmes became such a quick fixture in motion pictures that it is possible to write studies on the various movies and actors centered on that character.

    This particular film was an early Hollywood take on Holmes in the sound period. It is interesting to note that it came out only three years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930. By the time this had come out Hollywood had done silent and sound films about Holmes with William Gillette, John Barrymore, and (more recently) Clive Brooks. But the three best Holmes' of the sound period were still to come along: Arthur Wontner in Great Britain, Basil Rathbone in Hollywood, and Jeremy Brett (on television). Holmes in this version was Reginald Owen, best remembered for his "Ebenezer Scrooge" in the 1938 version of "A Christmas Carol". Owen was a very good character actor (villainous in films like "The Call Of The Wild", but funny as anything in "The Good Fairy"). He had played Watson already, so he was one of the few actors to essay both friends parts. But he seemed too laid back to be a good Holmes.

    "A Study In Scarlet" appeared in December 1887 in "Beeton's Christmas Annual", a long forgotten magazine in Great Britain, which is only now recalled because of Conan Doyle's novella. If you are lucky enough to stumble onto the Beeton's of that month and year (and it is the original) than hold onto it - it's worth many thousands of dollars.

    It's in two parts. The first half is "The Lauriston Gardens Mystery", wherein Dr. John H. Watson (our narrator) introduces us to his friend and roommate Sherlock Holmes, and then to the adventure (set in April 1881) where he first became aware that Holmes was a consulting detective, and was consulted by Scotland Yard's Detectives Tobias Gregson and "G." (no further name ever given) Lestrade (not "Lastrade" as the movie's cast of characters named him). Lestrade would be the best known of the detectives in the saga who would consult Holmes (and would be most memorably played by Dennis Hoey in the Rathbone films). Here he's played by Alan Mowbray - not badly but with little electricity.

    The plot of the first portion of the novella is about the murder of two men, one by poison and one by a knife wound in the heart. Holmes traces the story back to the old west, where in the second half (entitled "The Country of the Saints") it is linked to the Mormons in Utah.

    Most (if not all) was jettisoned, into a story about murder for insurance, centering around Anna May Wong and Alan Dinehart. Dinehart's character Thaddeus Merrydew, is based on a single line of writing in the four novels and fifty six short stories that were written by Conan Doyle. In "The Adventure of the Empty House", when reading a list of people with "M" in their name (he is searching for the biography of Colonel Sebastian Moran), he finds a reference to "Merrydew of abominable memory." That's it! No "Thaddeus Merrydew", just "Merrydew". Somebody concocting the script remembered that one reference. I may add, this was also the last time in movies there was any villain named Merrydew against Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

    As an early talkie film about Holmes, it is worth seeing - but it is not among the best Holmes movies.
    6xredgarnetx

    A decent Holmes

    As long as one understands this version of A STUDY IN SCARLET bears no resemblance to its source material, one can enjoy the performance of Reginald Owen -- best known for playing Scrooge -- as the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. The story as such involves a secret group of individuals who are being knocked off one at a time. A fortune is at stake! Holmes is called in and more or less immediately identifies the killer(s), but the movie stretches events out to feature length, and a bad movie it is not. Owen makes an acceptable Holmes, even though the story has been moved forward to the time in which the movie was made. Warburton Gamble's Dr. Watson leaves something to be desired, but most movie Watsons can be found lacking. Only Ian Fleming in 1935's TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and the Dr. Watsons of the Jeremy Brett TV series come even close to the Watson of the Conan Doyle stories. Worth a look as a novelty.

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      Bears no relation in plot to Arthur Conan Doyle's original novel of the same name, as the producers purchased rights only to the title, not the storyline of Doyle's book.
    • Blooper
      Holmes' and Watson's address is shown as 221-A Baker Street rather than the well-known and correct 221-B. But since their apartment is on the upper floor of the building, the -B is implied, A being the ground floor dwelling and B the upper floor dwelling in the building. However, in the advertisement Holmes places in the newspaper, he gives his address as 221-A Baker Street .
    • Citazioni

      Mrs. Murphy: Then you've had to take me, Mr. Holmes?

      Sherlock Holmes: I'll, ahh, take up your case.

      Mrs. Murphy: Mind you, it'll have to be for love.

      Sherlock Holmes: Love?

      Mrs. Murphy: For nix. I've noticed how you like workin' for nothin'.

      Sherlock Holmes: My interest is to bring the criminal to justice.

      Mrs. Murphy: Well, never mind about justice, never mind about the crime. All I want is my husband's lawful money. And I want you to slap that thievin' lawyers face right across, between his greasy fat chops. Good night, Mr. Holmes. I'll be seeing you and thank you kindly.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      The credits list the character of Inspector Lestrade as "Lastrade".
    • Connessioni
      Edited into Who Dunit Theater: A Study in Scarlet (2015)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 14 maggio 1933 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
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    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • California Tiffany Studios - 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
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      • K.B.S. Productions Inc.
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