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Sherlock Holmes(Movie, 1916)

1h 57min | Genres: Mystery, Crime
Sherlock HolmesRating: 2.6/5 (with 88 votes)
Sherlock Holmes is a 1916 American silent film starring William Gillette as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Arthur Berthelet, it was produced by Essanay Studios in Chicago. The screenplay was adapted from the 1899 stage play of the same name, which in turn was based on the stories, "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," and A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. All surviving prints of the 1916 film Sherlock Holmes were once thought to be lost. However, on October 1, 2014, it was announced that a copy had been discovered in a film archive in France. ()
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Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
Duration: 1h 56min
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Duration: 1h 57min
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About Sherlock Holmes

When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Korean (KO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/30/1916
Budget: 12,000 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Sherlock Holmes (DK, 1909), Sherlock Holmes (US, 1922), Sherlock Holmes (US, 1932), Sherlock Holmes (AU/DE/GB/US, 2009), Sherlock Holmes (GB/US, 2010), Sherlock Holmes (US, 2011)

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