Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases

Special Features: Live musical accompaniment by Ben Model | Intro by Peter E. Blau, The Red Circle of Washington, DC

Co-presented by The Red Circle of Washington, DC

In 2024, the BFI National Archive launched a major new project to restore Stoll Pictures’ epic Sherlock Holmes film series which ran from 1921–1923 and produced 45 shorts and two features, all starring Eille Norwood (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s favorite on-screen Sherlock and the record holder for most appearances on film as the famed sleuth). This program presents three of these short films, meticulously restored by the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre using a combination of the original negatives – acquired by the BFI from Stoll Pictures in 1938 – as well as later preservation masters.

SHERLOCK: A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
The King of Bohemia’s engagement to a Scandinavian princess is in jeopardy over a picture of himself and opera singer Irene Adler, and Sherlock Holmes is tasked with retrieving the photo. DIR Maurice Elvey; SCR William J. Elliott, from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. UK, 1921, b&w, 28 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

SHERLOCK: THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Sherlock Holmes is tasked with solving the mysterious murder of a professor’s secretary, whose last words were “The professor; it was she.” DIR George Ridgwell; SCR Geoffrey Malins, Patrick L. Mannock, from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. UK, 1922, b&w, 21 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

SHERLOCK: THE FINAL PROBLEM
Sherlock Holmes meets his archnemesis Professor Moriarty in what Sir Athur Conan Doyle intended to be the sleuth’s final adventure. DIR George Ridgwell; SCR Patrick L. Mannock, from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. UK, 1923, b&w, 24 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

Approx. runtime: 73 min.

Run Time: 73 Minutes

Opening Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025

Genre: Silent mystery

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