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The Valley of Fear (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Valley of Fear' is a British silent adventure film of 1916 directed by Alexander Butler and starring Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell and Booth Conway.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090527170038/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/385477 BFI Database entry] The film is an adaptation of 'The Valley of Fear', a 1915 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. This is now considered a lost film.
Production
After the success of 'A Study in Scarlet' in 1914, producer G. B. Samuelson decided to make another feature-length adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. French company Eclair owned the cinematic rights to Conan Doyle's stories up to 1912 which left only one full length story available, 'The Valley of Fear'
While James Bragington was considered a virtual doppelgnger of Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlet', the role in 'The Valley of Fear' required more from an actor so H.A. Saintsbury was cast instead. Saintsbury had played the role onstage more than any other actor, over 1,000 times in both William Gillette's 'Sherlock Holmes' as well as Conan Doyle's 'The Speckled Band'. Arthur Cullin was cast as Watson, a role he would repeat seven years later in 1923's 'The Sign of the Four' opposite Eille Norwood as Holmes.
Cast
* Harry Arthur Saintsbury - Sherlock Holmes
* Daisy Burrell - Ettie Shafter
* Booth Conway - Professor Moriarty
* Jack McCauley - McGinty
* Cecil Mannering - John McMurdo
* Arthur M. Cullin - Doctor Watson
* Lionel d'Aragon - Captain Marvin
* Bernard Vaughan - Shafter
* Jack Clare - Ted Baldwin
See also
*List of lost films
References
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