Reginald Owen, a British actor who only a year earlier had essayed the role of Watson opposite Clive Brook in the film of William Gillette's play, takes an admirable turn as Holmes in this Fox distributed B-picture from 1933. Owen, an often underrated actor, is one of the few actors (Patrick MacNee and Jeremy Brett included) to have played both the Great Detective and his companion.

After a man dies in a locked train compartment, Eileen Forrester (June Clyde) inherets his place in a secret trust, The Scarlet Ring, organised by a dishonourable lawyer, Mr Merrydew (Allan Dinehart). A member of the group, Captain Pyke is shoot after a meeting and his wife (Anna May Wong) becomes involved in the trust's dealings. All the time Sherlock Holmes is investigating the group's cryptic messages in the Telegraph.

SHERLOCK HOLMES IN A STUDY IN SCARLET

An EWHammons Presentation

Directed by
Edwin L Marin

Written by
A Conan Doyle (Story)
Robert Florey (Screenplay)
Reginald Owen (Dialogue)

CAST
REGINALD OWEN - Sherlock Holmes
ANNA MAY WONG - Mrs. Pyke
JUNE CLYDE - Eileen Forrester
ALLAN DINEHART - Merrydew
JOHN WARBURTON - John Stanford
ALAN MOWBRAY - Lestrade
WARBURTON GAMBLE - Dr. Watson
J.M. KERRIGAN - Jabez Wilson
DORIS LLOYD - Mrs. Murphy
BILLY BEVAN - Will Swallow
LEILA BENNETT - Daffy Dolly
WYNDHAM STANDING - Capt. Pyke
HALLIWELL HOBBES - Dearing

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