28 March 2006
Seven Sherlock Holmes movies
After getting pointed to a Sherlock Holmes blog by the singularly perceptive A. C. Douglas, I dug through and found a reference to public domain torrents where you can download eight Holmes movies. Not being the most keen-eyed fan, I found seven grouped together and ordered them before noticing the eighth. Free to torrent, if you have the time, but almost as free to purchase on DVD: $1 each with a minimum of five movies. They come in AVI format and the quality is not great, but they appear watchable.
How do these fit in the canon? Well, they're set in the 1930s/1940s, so they present sort of an alternate-reality canon. Below are the movies in film order, with the story name (taken from the chronological table in the back of Volume I of Klinger's edition) and dates of their occurrence (in Holmes' life) in brackets. Four are from Conan Doyle's material, three are original screenplays also available on the cheap at Amazon.
- The Sign of Four (1932), The Sign of Four [1888]
- A Study in Scarlet (1933), A Study in Scarlet [1881]
- Silver Blaze aka "Murder at the Baskervilles" - USA (1937), "Silver Blaze" [1888]
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943), "The Dancing Men" [1898]
- The Woman in Green (1945)
- Dressed to Kill (1946)
- Terror by Night (1946)
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