Maurice Costello was incorrectly credited as the Sherlock Holmes actor, when it was more likely Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson. Per article The Case of The Vitagraph Holmes Or, Cowboy in a Deerstalker by Howard Ostrom.
The film is presumed lost.
First filmed version of Sherlock Holmes.
Some consider Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900) as the first Sherlock Holmes film, but due to fact that it was created as a Mutoscope, to be shown in an arcade on a Mutoscope machine to one person at a time, and then transferred to 30 seconds on film later, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes aka Held For Ransom could be correctly called the first Sherlock Holmes Film.