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Sherlock Holmes
Silent Film Collection

(1921)

 

Contents: The Dying Detective (1921), The Devil’s Foot (1921) and 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.

In The Dying Detective (1921), Holmes is near death, afflicted by a rare Asiatic disease, and still manages to solve a murder case.

A family is found sitting upright and dead at their dinner table in The Devil’s Foot (1921) and Holmes must deduce both the mysterious method and motive.

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

coverAlpha Video
2019 DVD edition

Sherlock Holmes Silent Film Collection (1921), black & white, 80 minutes total, not rated,
including The Dying Detective (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Devil’s Foot (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and 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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