Sherlock Holmes: Murder at the Baskervilles - Silver Blaze: Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming (1937)

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Silver Blaze is a 1937 British, black-and-white, crime and mystery, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson and Ronald Shiner as Simpson the Stable Boy / Jockey (uncredited). It was produced by Twickenham Film Studios Productions.

The film is also known as Murder at the Baskervilles in the USA.

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) takes a holiday by visiting his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville (Lawrence Grossmith). Sherlock's vacation ends when he and Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming) suddenly find themselves in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now they have got to find Professor Robert Moriarty (Lyn Harding) and the horse, Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race and bring the criminals to justice.

Cast * Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes * Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson * Lyn Harding as Professor Moriarty * John Turnbull as Inspector Lestrade * Robert Horton as Col. Ross * Lawrence Grossmith as Sir Henry Baskerville * Judy Gunn as Diana Baskerville * Arthur Macrae as Jack Trevor * Arthur Goullet as Col. Sebastian Moran * Martin Walker as James Straker * Eve Gray as Mrs. Mary Straker * Gilbert Davis as Miles Stanford * Minnie Rayner as Mrs. Hudson * D. J. Williams as Silas Brown * Ralph Truman as Bert Prince * Ronald Shiner as Simpson the Stable Boy / Jockey (uncredited)

Directed by Thomas Bentley
Produced by Julius Hagen
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle (story "Silver Blaze")
H. Fowler Mear (adaptation)
Arthur Macrae
Starring Arthur Wontner
Ian Fleming
Cinematography Sydney Blythe
William Luff
Editing by Michael C. Chorlton
Alan Smith
Release date(s) July 1937
Running time 71 minutes
USA: 65 minutes (TCM print)
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 - 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931-1937. These films are: * The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) (US title: Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour) based on Doyle's two stories, "The Adventure of the Empty House" and "The Final Problem" * The Missing Rembrandt (1932) (still considered lost) based on "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" * The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) * The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) based on The Valley of Fear * Silver Blaze (1937) (US title: Murder at the Baskervilles, release 1941) based on "Silver Blaze"

Reportedly, Wontner landed the role of Sherlock Holmes thanks to his performance of Holmes imitation Sexton Blake in a 1930 stage production.

Of all Wontner's films as Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Rembrandt is no longer available. It is officially a lost film. It is possible to obtain all of the others.

Silver Blaze was renamed Murder at the Baskervilles on its US release in order to make the most of the publicity which had been generated by Basil Rathbone's version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. In many respects Wontner's film can be seen as a sequel as it is set twenty years after the events of the more famous story.

Wontner's son became the well-known hotelier and Lord Mayor of London Sir Hugh Wontner.

Ian Fleming (10 September 1888 — 1 January 1969) was an Australian born character actor with credits in over 100 British movies.

He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. John Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner's Holmes. He also essayed a number of supporting roles in many classic British films of the era including Q Planes (1939), Night Train to Munich (1940), We Dive at Dawn, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (both 1943) and Waterloo Road (1945).

His later career included appearances in many television series of the 50s and 60s such as Fabian of the Yard, Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Forsyte Saga and The Prisoner.

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[sofnsable]

Its weird watching a movie where pretty much everyone that was in it is now dead.

[dangale]

This Ian Fleming, playing Watson, is not the author of the James Bond novels, in case anyone was wondering.

[dwrization]

great episode

[KristiEliciasv670]

ha nie mehr schuften bin so reich

[kern39743]

thanks for the info on the wontner movies

[RappelTheMachine]

л Ф R

[Prismate98]

@MorganScorpion HaHa that's so funny that I really can't stop laughing *baka*

[MorganScorpion]

500 pounds = a monkey.

And here was me thinking that slang was a modern invention.