First Monday Silent Film Series: Sherlock Holmes (1916)

Come listen to renowned silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis as he thrills the audience along with William Gillette (from Hartford CT) the greatest Sherlock Holmes of all-time. Adapted from the 1899 stage play Sherlock Holmes is based on the stories A Scandal in Bohemia, the Final Problem and A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Once though lost, the film was rediscovered in 2014.

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.)

CAST: William Gillette, Ernest Maupain, Marjorie Kay, Edward Fielding, Stewart Robbins, Hugh Thompson

DIRECTOR: Arthur Berthelet

RUN TIME: 117 min