This movie was odd because of the construction of it where Holmes is in the beginning and end of the movie but goes missing for a 40 minute stretch in the middle as we go to a very long flashback story.
The sound really isn't great and combined with the quick-clipped way of speaking by the actors it makes for some tough understanding at times. I watched on YouTube and the only subtitles I could get were English auto-generated (meaning voice recognition) which was about 50% wrong on words.
Wontner is great as Holmes and when he's on screen doing his deducting it's fun. The problem is he solves everything so quickly that it's like they had to put this whole other flashback movie into the middle of this one just to slow him down a bit.
It's interesting to watch the acting of the times which, with the exception of the top actors like Wontner and Ian Fleming (Holmes), is very straight forward with rapid fire dialogue. Suffice to say acting has come a long way since 1935.
It's worth a watch but I wish someone would write up a full explainer and post to the internet so I could better understand the nuances of the plot.
The sound really isn't great and combined with the quick-clipped way of speaking by the actors it makes for some tough understanding at times. I watched on YouTube and the only subtitles I could get were English auto-generated (meaning voice recognition) which was about 50% wrong on words.
Wontner is great as Holmes and when he's on screen doing his deducting it's fun. The problem is he solves everything so quickly that it's like they had to put this whole other flashback movie into the middle of this one just to slow him down a bit.
It's interesting to watch the acting of the times which, with the exception of the top actors like Wontner and Ian Fleming (Holmes), is very straight forward with rapid fire dialogue. Suffice to say acting has come a long way since 1935.
It's worth a watch but I wish someone would write up a full explainer and post to the internet so I could better understand the nuances of the plot.