The Sleeping Cardinal
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Director Leslie S. Hiscott Film series Sherlock Holmes Duration Country United Kingdom | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Mystery Music director John D. H. Greenwood Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Arthur Conan Doyle , Leslie S. Hiscott , H. Fowler Mear Release date February 1931 Initial release February 1931 (United Kingdom) Cast Arthur Wontner (Sherlock Holmes), Ian Fleming (Dr Watson), Norman McKinnel (Professor Moriarty), Minnie Rayner (Mrs Hudson), Leslie Perrins (Ronald Adair)Similar movies Sherlock Holmes movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sleeping Cardinal is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming. The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, though it is not based on any one particular story it draws inspiration from "The Empty House" and "The Final Problem". It is unrelated to the Basil Rathbone series of Holmes films which also began in the 1930s.
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- Plot summary
- Cast
- Critical reception
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The film is also known as Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour in the United States.
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Plot summary
Opening with a silent sequence in silhouette within the Bank of England, we’re whisked to a London home where Foreign Office bureaucrat Ronnie Adair (Leslie Perrins) is once again winning handsomely whilst gambling at bridge. Adair is called to a meeting with The Sleeping Cardinal, a picture disguising the identity of Professor Moriarty (Norman McKinnel), and blackmailed into taking counterfeit money to Paris in his diplomatic pouch. Adair’s concerned sister calls for the assistance of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) and Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming) to investigate the reasons for her brother's gambling excesses and depressed moods. After Adair succumbs to an apparent suicide; Holmes derives from a trail of clues Moriarty's involvement.
Cast
Critical reception
Allmovie wrote, "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour got the Wontner Holmes series off to a rousing start."
References
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