Clive Brook As The New Sherlock Holmes

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7070, 1 February 1933, Page 5

Clive Brook As The New Sherlock Holmes

“Sherlock Holmes,” the new Fox picture, based on one of Conan Doyle’s most thrilling tales, comes to the Palace on February 18. Clive Brook, who plays the great detective, finds himself, in conjunction with Scotland Yard, pitted against the arch criminal, Moriarty, and a band of gangsters recruited from both sides of the Atlantic, How Moriarty sets his traps, which are quickly sprung by Holmes, and how the detective exterminates the gang and sends Moriarty to the death cell, form the basis of what is said to be one of the most thrilling and exciting screen dramas ever produced. Miriam Jordan, English stage beauty, who made her film debut in “Six Hours to Live,” opposite Warner Baxter and John Boles, enacts the leading feminine part, sharing the romantic interest with Brook. Ernest Torrence, outstanding in menace parts, portrays the role of Moriarty. Reginald Ow r en, distinguished English actor, well known on both the stage and screen appears as Dr. Watson, devoted friend and ally ■of Holmes

Other members of the cast of the picture are Howard Leeds, Alan Mowbray, Arnold Lucy, Montague Shaw, Herbert Mundin, Brandon Hurst, Lucien Prival, Boy D’Arcy, Stanley Fields, Eddie Dillon and Eobert Graves, jun. The film was directed by William K. Howmrd, who directed “Scotland Yard,” “The Trial of "Vivienne Ware” and “ Transatlantic,’ ’