Word: sherlockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other feature on the bill Clive Brooks gives an amusing and interesting interpretation of Conan Doyle's famous character, Sherlock Holmes...
...RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)?British mysteriousness at its best among international wire tappers...
...RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)?Best rubber-heeler appropriately played...
...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...