Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
Acting
Wontner's Holmes: warm, witty, wonderfully human.
Production
Thirties British cinema charm in every frame.
Director
Thomas Bentley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arthur Wontner played Holmes in five films; this was his fourth, and critics called him the definitive screen Sherlock until Basil Rathbone arrived.
The 'Silver Blaze' story was one of Conan Doyle's rare attempts to combine Holmes with the sporting world—this 1937 adaptation leaned hard into the horse-racing craze sweeping Depression-era Britain.
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