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- DirectorArthur MarvinStarsAnonymousSherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears. Holmes initially attempts to ignore the event by lighting a cigar, but upon the thief's reappearance, Holmes tries to reclaim the sack of stolen goods, drawing a pistol from his dressing gown pocket and firing it at the intruder, who disappears. After Holmes recovers his property, the bag vanishes from his hand into that of the thief, who promptly disappears through a window. At this point the movie ends abruptly with Holmes looking "baffled".
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonH. Kyrle BellewPaul PanzerThe millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsPaul OttoViggo Larsen
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsLois WeberHelen AndersonLittle Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself. Providence at once favors him by giving him a mystery to solve. His father has noticed that in some weird, unaccountable fashion the whiskey in the decanter is ever vanishing, and father swears he drink it as fast as all that. So Sherlock Holmes, Jr. assigns himself the task of discovering who tampers with his father's soothing beverage. Concealed behind a table, he sees Bridget, the cook, come in and at once proceed to get on the outside of a man's size pull on the flask. At once the embryo detective makes his report to his father, with the astounding solution of the mystery. The father decides to use Dr. Brown's Sure Cure for the Liquor Habit on the cook, and obtains a bottle of the fluid. This he puts in the room near the whiskey, intending to pour some in the bottle a little later. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., discovers the bottle and follows the 'Do it Now' maxim. There are friends visiting the house at the time, who are sitting on the lawn with his parents, awaiting tea, which the maid is going to bring them. Sherlock Holmes, Jr. pours a goodly amount of the fluid into the tea. One of the results of taking the liquid is falling into a deep slumber, and in a few moments the host, the hostess, and the guests are fast asleep. Then happen's along Bridget's beau, the policeman, for whose particular benefit Bridget essays to go inside and procure a glass of 'buttermilk.' After imbibing, the policeman forgets all about everything except that he is awful drowsy, and the next thing, he, too, is asleep. It must have been contagious - or could Bridget not have forgotten herself? - but at any rate, she, too, wanders off into the Land of Nod. Then Sherlock dons the policeman's clothes and club, and marches through the house, monarch of all he surveys. At this opportune moment, two burglars arrive at the scene, and seeking the sleepers, think they have been transferred to Burglar's Paradise. They sneak upstairs, fill their bags with silverware and then fall for the whiskey on the table, little Sherlock watching eagerly. At last they get themselves off, followed by the creator of all the mischief, but they have not gone far when they are overcome by the liquor cure and fall in their tracks to sleep. Little Sherlock now takes the manacles from the policeman's coat pocket, and ties both legs of the burglars together. In due time the household awakes, they seek the boy, and eventually find him covering the two burglars, prisoners of Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsMack SennettFred MaceA burglar enters the home of a wealthy man and steals a valuable necklace. A reward of $500 is offered for the thief's apprehension. A couple of rube detectives start out to find the robber and succeed in taking into custody the victim of the robbery and the real detective who is on the case. An ordinary copper gets the thief and wins the reward. .
- DirectorLloyd LonerganStarsHarry BenhamCharles GunnMignon AndersonMajor Sholto, a retired British army officer, who has amassed wealth in India in a mysterious manner, dies suddenly. His two sons were unable to find any trace of the wealth. Search the house patiently, and at last in an attic, concealed by a secret panel, discovered a brass bound box. It contains jewels of almost fabulous value and a letter, telling them that Mary Morstan, the orphan daughter of one of Sholto's brother officers in India was entitled to an equal share in the treasure. Thaddeus, the younger brother, is willing to carry out his dead father's wishes, but Bartholomew, the elder, insists that they alone should possess the jewels. Finally Thaddeus, unable to persuade his brother to relent, writes Miss Morstan an anonymous letter, telling her that she has been wronged, and naming the place where they can meet. Miss Morstan, perplexed by the strange communication, consults Sherlock Holmes. Holmes and Dr. Watson, his associate, keep the appointment with Miss Morstan and are led by Thaddeus Sholto to his home. Thaddeus tells Miss Morstan of her inheritance, and that he intends to force his brother Bartholomew to surrender her share of the treasure. They reach the Sholto mansion, and Thaddeus goes to his brother's room to summon him. But he comes dashing downstairs, terror stricken. Holmes and Watson dash up the stairs, leading to the room. There, huddled in his chair, is Bartholomew and on his breast a torn sheet of paper, with five words scrawled upon it, "The Sign of the Four." The treasure is gone. A quick examination shows that the man has been killed by a poisoned thorn which is lodged in his head. In the garret Holmes comes upon fresh evidence of intruders. In the heavy dust are impressions of a boot and of a wooden leg, and the imprint of two little bare feet. The detective hurries to the roof, where, dangling to the ground below, is a heavy rope. Securing a bloodhound he tracks the fugitives down, the chase finally leading him and his coworker, Dr. Watson, to a little ship-yard, where he learned that a man with a wooden leg, accompanied by a little East Indian, had hired a motorboat and sailed up the river. Holmes, in another boat pursues. The fugitives are captured, but not before they throw the treasure overboard. Then Jonathan Small the man with the wooden leg, and his faithful follower, little Tonga, whose deadly blow pipe had killed Sholto, are brought to Holmes' rooms and the casket opened. The jewels are not there. The treasure had disappeared forever.
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsJames BragingtonFred PaulAgnes GlynneSherlock Holmes solves a murder rooted in the Mormon trek of 1850.
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsAlwin NeußFriedrich KühneHanni WeisseIn this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
- DirectorArthur BertheletStarsWilliam GilletteMarjorie KayErnest MaupainWhen a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsH.A. SaintsburyDaisy BurrellBooth ConwayAn ex-convict tries to kill the detective who once posed as a member of an American hooded clan.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert Willis
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodCatina CampbellRex McDougallSherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisEdna FlugrathA woman named Mary Sutherland asks the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the sudden disappearance of her fiancé Hosmer Angel on what was to have been their wedding day.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisJoan BeverleyHolmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisHenry VibartA wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisMadge WhiteThere is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisHarvey BrabanA family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisCecil HumphreysThe great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisAustin FairmanA popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisRobert VallisHolmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisArthur BellA superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of her past? How will the solution affect the haughty "lord?"
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisLeslie EnglishA desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisTeddy ArundellA strange sort of man, with fiery red hair, comes to Holmes with a very pretty little problem. Why has his lucrative assignment of copying the encyclopedia been ended?
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisArthur BellA brilliant, promising young London physician comes to Holmes at the request of his benefactor, who is frightened for his life. What is the mystery involved; and can Holmes solve it in time?
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisR.D. SylvesterHolmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.