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The Man with the
Twisted Lip

(1921)

 

This collection of short British Sherlock Holmes productions includes films from the first 1921 series of Holmes films produced by the Stoll company. Eille Norwood portrays a believeable and satisfying Holmes.

For The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), Holmes dons one of his disguises to investigate a curious beggar amid London’s seedier denizens, who is in turn accused of the murder of a well-to-do family man. Holmes solves the mystery with surprising results.

Carl Bennett

coverGrapevine Video
2002 DVD edition

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1912-1921), color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes total, not rated,
including The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), color-toned black & white, 26 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 224 Kbps audio bit rate, PCM 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 4 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.
This DVD-R collection has been mastered from 16mm reduction prints of varying quality. The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) is the best-looking of these three Stoll film prints but is still contrasty, with closed shadows and detailless highlights. Like the three others, frame jitters can be distracting.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.

The print quality of the Stoll films brings down the overall visual quality of this disc, but it is still the recommended home video edition of this film.

 
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coverAlpha Video
2019 DVD edition

Sherlock Holmes Silent Film Collection (1921), black & white, 80 minutes total, not rated,
including The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8220D, UPC 0-89218-82209-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 16 April 2019.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

The films are likely to be accompanied by a soundtrack of preexisting recordings.

We have not yet viewed these films in this home video edition.

 
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Other SHERLOCK HOLMES FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Other BRITISH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Other CRIME FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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