Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.


The first time you see Eille Norwood’s silhouette glide across the frame, the camera itself seems to inhale—an intake of breath that has lasted a century. In The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), director Maurice Elvey distills Conan Doyle’s penny-dreadful parable into pure nitrate nightmare: 25 minutes of celluloid t...

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Maurice Elvey

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" The first time you see Eille Norwood’s silhouette glide across the frame, the camera itself seems to inhale—an intake of breath that has lasted a century. In The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), director Maurice Elvey distills Conan Doyle’s penny-dreadful parable into pure nitrate nightmare: 25 minutes of celluloid that feels like stumbling upon a lost daguerreotype of the soul. There is no pipe, no deerstalker, no 221B sitting room stuffed with Persian slippers. Instead, Norwood’s Holmes is ..."
Mme. d'Esterre
William J. Elliott, Arthur Conan Doyle
United Kingdom


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