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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Stuart Blackton released in USA on 7 october 1905 with Maurice Costello

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905)

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Released in USA 7 october 1905
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating49% 2.469662.469662.469662.469662.46966

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom was a 1905 American silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios. It was the second film based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, following the 1900 Mutoscope trick film Sherlock Holmes Baffled, and is usually regarded as the first attempt to film a "serious" Holmes adaptation. The scenario was by Theodore Liebler based on elements of Conan Doyle's novel The Sign of the Four.

Released on October 7, 1905, the film starred Maurice Costello as Sherlock Holmes, H. Kyrle Bellew as John Watson, with J. Barney Sherry in an unlisted role. The film was the first screen appearance of Costello, who later became regarded as one of the first "matinee idols". Robert Pohle notes that "Deprived of his voice in those early silent films, Holmes was also transformed from an intellectual, armchair detective into a more kinetic action figure—almost a sort of cowboy-in-deerstalker."

Although sometimes considered a lost film, fragments are still extant in the Library of Congress paper print collection. The film was shot on 35mm black-and-white film, running to one reel of 725 feet in length.

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Sherlock Holmes screen adaptations

Sherlock Holmes Baffled Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905) Arsène Lupin versus Sherlock Holmes (1910) Detektiv Braun (1914) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1914) A Study in Scarlet (1914) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Sherlock Holmes (1916) The Valley of Fear (1916) The Devil's Foot (1921) The Dying Detective (1921) The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921) Sherlock Holmes (1922) The Sign of Four (1923) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929) Paramount on Parade (1930) Herlock Sholmes in Be-a-Live-Crook (1931) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1931) The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) The Speckled Band (1931) Sherlock Holmes (1932) The Missing Rembrandt (1932) The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) A Study in Scarlet (1933) The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) Silver Blaze (1937) The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) The Case of the Screaming Bishop (1944) The Spider Woman (1944) The Scarlet Claw (1944) The Pearl of Death (1944) The House of Fear (1945) Pursuit to Algiers (1945) The Woman in Green (1945) Dressed to Kill (1946) Terror by Night (1946) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) A Study in Terror (1965) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) They Might Be Giants (1971) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972) The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977) Silver Blaze (1977) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) Murder by Decree (1979) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979) The Private Eyes (1980) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers (1980) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) The Sign of Four (1983) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra (1983) Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983) The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984) The Masks of Death (1984) Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) The Great Mouse Detective (1986) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches (1987) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988) Without a Clue (1988) Hands of a Murderer (1990) The Crucifer of Blood (1991) Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993) VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared? (1993) The Hound of London (1993) Zero Effect (1998) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Royal Scandal (2001) The Sign of Four (2001) The Xango from Baker Street (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) VeggieTales: Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006) Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007) Sherlock Holmes (2009) Sherlock Holmes (2010) Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010) Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (2010) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days (2012) Mr. Holmes (2015) Holmes & Watson (2018)

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