NEW TO THE OLD MOVIE MAVEN SITE!

     Maven has come across an old - 1931 - Sherlock Holmes movie called The Sleeping Cardinal* with Arthur Wonter as the world's best-known detective.      

     There is more to The Sleeping Cardinal's history, including four more movies that it inspired, and only a click away!

The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) - Sherlock Holmes in a story culled from "The Final Four" and "The Empty House":

http://www.archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes-SleepingCardinal

The Missing Rembrandt (1932, aka Sherlock and the Missing Rembrandt, considered lost).

The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) - A woman is menaced and need Holmes help but . . . she is kidnapped:

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Sign_OF_Four or

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1504970009/ (this one has "limited" commercial breaks.)

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) - A mysterious murder brings Holmes and Watson out of retirement that pits them against Professor Moriarty over the lives of coalminers:  http://www.archive.org/details/The_Triumph_of_Sherlock_Holmes

Murder at the Baskervilles (1937, aka Silver Blaze) - Holmes visits Sir Henry Baskerville and - SURPRISE! - finds the game afoot for murder:  http://www.archive.org/details/Murder_At_The_Baskervilles

*NOTE:  The Sleeping Cardinal was released about the same time that Raymond Massey's The Speckled Band (http://www.archive.org/details/SpeckledBand or http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/the-speckled-band-1931/.