The Valley of Fear (1916 film)

  • 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

The Valley of Fear is a British adventure film directed by Alexander Butler from the year 1916.

Action

Background

The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle. The film is considered lost.

Protagonist H. A. Saintsbury (1869-1939) was regarded as Europe's leading Holmes actor and had shown him more than 1,400 times on stage; this is the only film of his career.

For the first time occurs Holmes ' nemesis Professor Moriarty in appearance.

Weblink

  • The Valley of Fear at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • The Valley of Fear in the database of the BFI (English)
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