Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)

Sherlock Holmes
1922 lobby card
Directed byAlbert Parker
Written byEarle Browne
Marion Fairfax
Based onSherlock Holmes
by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced byF.J. Godsol
StarringJohn Barrymore
Roland Young
Anders Randolph
William Powell
Hedda Hopper
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Distributed byGoldwyn Pictures
Release date
  • May 1, 1922 (1922-05-01)
[1]
Running time
85 minutes
136+1⁄2 minutes (1922 original)[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Sherlock Holmes, Length: 1h 25min 28s
Scene from the film.

Sherlock Holmes (released as Moriarty in the UK)[3] is a 1922 American silent mystery drama film starring John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes, Roland Young as Dr. John Watson and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty.[4]

The movie, which features the screen debuts of both William Powell (credited as William H. Powell) and Roland Young, was directed by Albert Parker. It was written by Earle Browne and Marion Fairfax from the 1899 play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle based upon Doyle's characters, and was produced by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.[5]

The film was considered lost for decades, but was rediscovered in the mid-1970s and restored by George Eastman House.

  1. ^ "'Sherlock Holmes,' Capitol". Variety. April 14, 1922. p. 43. Retrieved February 26, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Pohle, Robert W. Jr.; Hart, Douglas C. (1977). Sherlock Holmes on the Screen: The Motion Picture Adventures of the World's Most Popular Detective. p. 94.
  3. ^ Davies, David Stuart (1978). Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes (1st ed.). Bramhall House. p. 28. ISBN 0-517-23279-0. It has been suggested that, although there may have been legal reasons, the mediocrity of so many of the earlier Holmes films was the deciding factor in releasing the film in Britain under the title of Moriarty.
  4. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Sherlock Holmes
  5. ^ Original first Broadway performance of William Gillette's play version, Sherlock Holmes, on which the 1916 Gillette and 1922 Barrymore films are based. The play produced by Charles Frohman opened at the Garrick Theatre on November 6, 1899 and ran to June 1900. Gillette revived the play numerous times over the years, according to the IBDb.com database