Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist..
If you love dusty, black-and-white mysteries where people talk like they have a mouth full of marbles, this is a goldmine. But if you need explosions or camera movement that doesn't feel like a heavy crane groaning in a warehouse, you will probably hate it.I managed to catch a scratchy print of this 1932 Arthur Wontner...
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"If you love dusty, black-and-white mysteries where people talk like they have a mouth full of marbles, this is a goldmine. But if you need explosions or camera movement that doesn't feel like a heavy crane groaning in a warehouse, you will probably hate it.I managed to catch a scratchy print of this 1932 Arthur Wontner flick. Wontner is actually my favorite Holmes, even if almost nobody remembers him today.He looks exactly like the drawings from the old Strand magazines. He has this incredibly l..."
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