Sherlock Holmes (1916)

Directed by

Arthur Berthelet

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

William Gillette plays the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes as he works to solve a series of clever crimes. The story draws from several of Arthur Conan Doyle's original tales and adapts them for the screen.

classicstagedmysteriousdeliberatemelodramaticatmosphericnostalgic

What happens

Sherlock Holmes is a 1916 American 7-reel silent film starring William Gillette as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Arthur Berthelet, it was produced by Essanay Studios in Chicago. The screenplay was adapted from the 1899 stage play of the same name, which in turn was based on the stories, "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," and A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. All surviving prints of the 1916 film Sherlock Holmes were once thought to be lost. However, on October 1, 2014, it was announced that a copy had been discovered in a film archive in France. The film can easily be found online due to its public domain status. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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