A Study in Scarlet | |
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Directed by | Edwin L. Marin |
Screenplay by | Robert Florey |
Based on | A Study in Scarlet 1888 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
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Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
Edited by | Rose Loewinger |
Production company | KBS Productions |
Distributed by | Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
A Study in Scarlet is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery thriller film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong as Mrs. Pyke. The title comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel of the same name, the first in the Holmes series, but the screenplay by Robert Florey was original.[1]
Despite her billing, Anna May Wong only appears on screen for less than ten minutes. Reginald Owen had played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes the previous year;[2][3] Owen was one of a small number of actors to play both Holmes and Watson. Some of the other actors who played both roles are Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television,[4] Howard Marion-Crawford, who played Holmes on British radio and Watson on American television, Carleton Hobbs, who played both roles in British radio adaptations,[5] and Patrick Macnee, who played both roles in US television movies.[6]