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Sherlock Holmes (1916) Plot Summary Explained

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1916 · 117 mins
Directed by
Arthur Berthelet
Starring
Edward Arnold, Hugh Thompson, Edward Fielding, Fred Malatesta, Frank Hamilton, Marian Skinner

After a pair of scammers imprison young Alice Faulkner to force her to reveal the location of compromising letters that could ignite a scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes steps in to investigate. The film, long thought lost, was rediscovered in 2014 in the Cinémathèque Française vaults.

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