The Speckled Band

1931
Unrated
1h 30min

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Marie Ault and Raymond Massey in The Speckled Band (1931)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAfter her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.

Regia
- Jack Raymond
Sceneggiatura
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- W.P. Lipscomb
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5,3/10

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- Jack Raymond
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- Arthur Conan Doyle
- W.P. Lipscomb
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Lyn Harding

Dr. Grimesby Rylott

Raymond Massey

Sherlock Holmes

Angela Baddeley

Helen Stonor

Nancy Price

Mrs. Staunton

Athole Stewart

Dr. John Watson

Marie Ault

Mrs. Hudson
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Franklyn Bellamy

Alaine
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Ivan Brandt

Curtis
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Stanley Lathbury

Rodgers
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Moore Marriott

Member of Jury
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Joyce Moore

Violet Stonor
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Charles Paton

Builder
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Regia
- Jack Raymond
Sceneggiatura
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- W.P. Lipscomb
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Raymond Massey was the father-in-law of Jeremy Brett, who played Sherlock Holmes in Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes (1984) and its sequels. Brett was married to his daughter Anna Massey from 1958 to 1962.

Blooper
The deadly 'swamp viper' used by Dr. Rylott to murder his stepdaughter is obviously a non-venomous python.

Citazioni
Sherlock Holmes: From your clothes I would deduce - you're going to a wedding.
Dr. John Watson: [laughs heartily] At last I've got you. For once in your life you're wromg.
Sherlock Holmes: Wrong?
Dr. John Watson: I'm not going to a wedding! I'm coming from one!
Dr. John Watson: [Watson again enjoys a hearty laugh]
Sherlock Holmes: [sardonically] Give them my congratulations or perhaps condolences.
Dr. John Watson: Rubbish! We all come to it, my dear fellow.
Dr. John Watson: [he laughs again] We all come to it. Goodbye.
Sherlock Holmes: [alone, ironically and sadly, after Watson has left] Not all, my dear Watson... not all.

Connessioni
Featured in The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)

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Watson should have figured this out

Had I seen the director's cut of The Speckled Band I might have given it a higher rating. But the version I saw was one released in Canada and only ran 50 minutes. Still the basic idea of the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery came through and Raymond Massey was a fine Holmes.

A slight change in the plot that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote has Dr. Watson played here by Athole Stewart called in on the inquest on the death of Joyce Moore. That was a mistake because Watson being a doctor and also having served in the Afghan War would have known exactly what the cause of death was and Holmes would never have to be called in.

In any event her sister Angela Baddely is fearful for her own life and fearful of a coarse and brutal stepfather Lyn Harding. Harding is also a blusterer and he dares Massey to pin anything on him.

Harding also served in India and that's the key to what happened to Moore and almost to Baddely.

I would like to have seen the full version of The Speckled Band as it is considered one of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Holmes stories. Still as an introduction to Holmes it's not a bad one and Massey's portrayal stands up well. In fact it was his first real cinema role of note.