Arthur Wontner
출생 : 1875-01-21, London, England, UK
사망 : 1960-07-10
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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 to 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.
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Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.
Old Gentleman
젊은 변호사 알랜 맥킴(Alan McKim: 존 그레그슨 분)은 골동품 수집가이다. 특히 그는 1904년 드라크사가 제작한 '제네비에브'를 가장 아낀다. 하지만 알랜의 아내(Wendy McKim: 다이나 셔리단 분)는 자동차를 사랑하는 남편의 집념을 이해하지 못한다. 매해 런던에서는 브라이튼에 이르는 자동차 경주가 벌어진다. 알랜은 이 자동차 경주에 참가할 준비를 하고 그의 오래된 친구 암브로소 클래버하우스(Ambrose Claverhouse: 케네스 모어 분)도 1904년형 골동품차를 몰고 온다. 클래버하우스는 알랜의 '제네비에브'에 대한 악성 루머를 퍼뜨리는가 하면 알랜과 부인 사이를 이간질한다. 전국 각지에서 수많은 선수들이 참가한 가운데 드디어 자동차 경주가 시작되고 클래버하우스는 여자 친구 로잘린드 피터스(Rosalind Peters: 케이 켄달 분)와 함께 시합에 참가한다. 그러나 알랜의 가는 길마다 재앙이 따르고 결국엔 브라이튼에 제 시간에 도착하지 못해 시합에서 떨어지고 만다. 그날 밤 암브로소와 알랜은 나이트클럽에서 우연히 만나게 되는데, 암브로소는 알랜의 부인과 춤을 추면서 야릇한 감정을 느낀다. 호텔로 돌아온 알랜은 암브로소에게 호의를 보인 부인을 의심하면서 질투심에 휩싸인다. 차고에서 만난 알랜과 알브로소는 말다툼을 하게 되고 화가 난 암브로소는 알랜에게 제네비에브에 대한 악담을 늘어놓는다. 화가 난 알랜은 암브로소에게 런던으로 되돌아가는 경주를 하자고 제안한다. 런던의 웨스트미니스터 다리에 먼저 도착하는 사람이 100파운드를 차지한다는 내기였다. 알랜과 암브로소는 내기에서 이기기 위해 온갖 수단을 다 동원한다. 아슬아슬한 경주가 계속되고 결국엔 알랜이 이끄는 제네비에브가 승리한다. 알랜은 아내에 대한 의심이 부질없는 것이었다는 것을 깨닫고 두 사람은 서로에 대한 사랑을 확인한다.
Baron de Baudrec
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Major Glockleigh
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
Lord Grenville
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Lord Rudford
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Embassy Counsellor
보어 전쟁에서 귀향한 젊은 영국인 장교 클라이브 캔디(Clive Candy: 로저 리베세이 분)는 독일에서 영국인들에 대한 헛소문이 퍼져 있다는 이야기를 전해 듣고 진실을 알리기 위해 독일로 떠난다. 베를린에서 이야기의 제공자인 영국인 가정교사 이디스(Edith Hunter/Barbara Wynne/Johnny Cannon: 데보라 커 분)를 만나 소문을 퍼뜨리고 다니는 커니츠를 찾아간 캔디, 그곳에서 커니츠의 동료들을 화나게 해 결투 신청을 받는다. 결투를 해서 부상을 입게 된 캔디, 입원한 병원에서 결투의 상대였던 독일인 장교 테오(Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: 안톤 월브룩 분)를 만나 향후 40년이 넘을 우정을 쌓게 된다. 테오와의 인연은 거기서 끝나지 않고 캔디를 병문안 하던 이디스가 테오와 사랑에 빠져 두 사람이 결혼하기까지 이른다. 두 사람의 결혼을 축복해주고 영국으로 돌아온 캔디, 자신이 이디스를 사랑했었다는 걸 깨닫지만 때는 이미 늦었다. 이후 캔디는 군 생활을 계속하며 간호사 바바라(Barbara Wynne: 데보라 커 분)와 결혼한다. 하지만 바바라는 몇 년 후에 죽고 그는 다시 2차 세계 대전에 참전한다. 이 전쟁 동안 캔디는 나치의 행각을 보게 되고 테오와의 인연은 계속 이어진다. 은퇴를 앞두고 영국에 정착하기 위해 영국으로 돌아온 테오와 다시 만나는 캔디, 은퇴를 앞두고 명예와 의리에 대해 주절거리며 나치처럼 싸우기보다는 전쟁에서 패배하겠다는 말을 한다.
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For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
Colonel Westhanger
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
Sir Peter
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Fiscal
브루노 프랭크(Bruno Frank)의 희곡을 원작으로 한 로맨틱 코미디.
Judge
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
Sherlock Holmes
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Sir Charles Wallington
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
Judge Le Fevre
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
Sherlock Holmes
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
Lady Marshalt
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
Eugene Aram
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Lord Kingsburgh
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Lord Darlington
Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.
