The film faithfully retains the play’s famous set pieces—Holmes’s encounter with Professor Moriarty, his daring escape from the Stepney Gas Chamber, and, of course, the tour-de-force deductions.

The Oscar-nominated film was followed up a couple of years later with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, in which Guy Richie returned once again to the director’s chair. Stephen Fry played ...

Sherlock Holmes: Writer battles Doyle estate over copyright The 1916 film, found earlier this month in the vaults of the French film archive Cinémathèque Française, is said to be the only ...

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a century-old silent film series chronicling the London sleuth's adventures.

A “Sherlock Holmes” book, the first film to win the Oscars’ top prize and a classic ditty by Irving Berlin are among the thousands of books, films and musical compositions entering the US ...