The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case 1932 N/R, 70 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Graham Cutts Cast: Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Gilbert Davis, Herbert Lomas, Miles Malleson, Kynaston Reeves, Clare Greet, Roy Emerton, Edgar Norfolk, Margaret Yarde, Moore Marriott, Edgar Norfolk, Charles Farrell
Mary Morrison (Isla Bevan) has been given a huge pearl by a mysterious stranger. Her father has disappeared and the stranger terrifies her, so Mary asks for help from Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Arthur Wontner and Ian Hunter). Their trail leads to the carnival underworld and the mysterious peg-legged crook and his pygmy aide.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936 N/R, 68 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George King Cast: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, Graham Soutten, Bruce Seton, Eve Lister, D.J. Williams, John Singer, Davina Craig, Jerry Verno, Billy Holland, Norman Pierce, Aubrey Mallalieu, Ben Williams, Henry B. Longhurst
Later remade into the great musical, this is the early film adaptation of the George Dibden-Pitt play about a psychopathic killer–Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter)–who kills customers who come into his barbershop. The ex-customers become the main part of Mrs. Lovatt's (Stella Rho) meat pies.
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| 1. The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
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