SHERLOCK HOLMES A STUDY IN SCARLET (1933)

Reginald Owen, a British actor who only a year earlier had essayed the role of Watson opposite Clive Brook in the film of William Gillette s play, takes an admirable turn as Holmes in this Fox distributed Bpicture from 1933. Owen, an often underrated actor, is one of the few actors (Patrick MacNee and Jeremy Brett included) to have played both the Great Detective and his companion. After a man dies in a locked train compartment, Eileen Forrester (June Clyde) inherets his place in a secret trust, The Sca