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The Speckled Band

Item number (ISN):

107487

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1930

Item number (ISN):

107487

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

SONNEBORN, Jon

Accession:

1977-0278

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Speckled Band

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1930

Release date:

1931

Production company:

London Films

Production credit:

director, Jack Raymond

Cast credit:

Raymond Massey, Lyn Harding, Athole Stewart, Angela Baddeley

Country of production:

uk

Description:

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"It was not only in physical appearance that my Sherlock Holmes deviated from Conan Doyle's original. The film-makers would have nothing to do with the calabash pipe, the tobacco in the Persian slipper, Mrs. Hudson and the enchanting disorder of Baker Street, the violin and the hypodermic needle. Instead Holmes was given a magnificent suite with glass flowers and modern art furniture, typists, secretaries, dictaphones, card indexes and mechanical devices which predated IBM by a quarter of a century. I could not avoid a sense of guilt at my participation in this travesty of a classic.~It did not console me that all the other characters were cast and played in a style that would have satisified the most critical Holmesian purist. Lyn Harding as the villainous Dr. Grimesby Rylott and Athole Stewart's Dr. Watson were straight from Conan Doyle's pages. Lyn had created his role on the stage years before. The young lady in jeopardy in Dr. Rylott's house was played by Angela Baddeley, many years later to be lovingly known to the world as Mrs. Bridges of UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS." (Source: "A Hundred Different Lives" by Raymond Massey). <50mn>

Language:

English

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print.

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Vault ISN:

94786

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8811-0025

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

341681

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7706-0841

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1039814

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2002-03-0017

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7706-0841

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1039894

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2002-03-0035

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7706-0841

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8811-0025
V1 2002-03-0017

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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