Arthur Wontner

Lyn Harding

Leslie Perrins

Ian Fleming

Charles Mortimer

Minnie Rayner

Michael Shepley

Jane Carr

Ben Welden

Roy Emerton

Wilfrid Caithness

Conway Dixon

Edmund D'Alby

Ernest Lynds

Leslie S. Hiscott

Julius Hagen

William Luff

Ralph Kemplen

James A. Carter

James Davidson

W.L. Trytel

Baynham Honri

Leo Wilkins

Arthur Conan Doyle

H. Fowler Mear

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) Collection

Thriller

Mystery

Crime

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

Real Art Productions

United Kingdom

English

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Another efficient outing for Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming as "Holmes" and "Watson" sees the renowned detective teased from retirement to investigate the mysterious, and rather brutal, death of a country gent at the hands of an American gang ("The Scowlers"). To start with, no-one is quite sure why this fellow had been slaughtered in the first place, but we soon start to get an inkling of the backstory from his widow "Ettie" (Jane Carr) and are promptly, as ever, on the trail of their arch-enemy "Moriarty". As with his 1931 iteration "The Sleeping Cardinal", Wontner presents us with a more sophisticated, measured, performance as the sleuth (he spends much of the film in his chair!), and Fleming offers a much more focussed - and, frankly, useful assistant as they work with the frequently baffled "Lestrade" (Charles Mortimer) to get to the bottom of the scheming Professor's latest outrageous scheme. In the best traditions of armchair cinema - the story is tightly constructed and the dialogue requires us to keep paying attention if we want to stay with them! For 1935, though, the standard of the production is pretty poor - and though it helps a bit on the atmosphere front, both the lighting and the audio make it a bit of a struggle to follow at times. Perhaps not for purists of the Conan Doyle serialisations, as it deviates a bit from his "Valley of Fear" (1914) Strand Magazine story but the suspense builds well and there is plenty to keep it interesting.

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

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