Sherlock Holmes' Cousin
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Sherlock Holmes' Cousin is an article published in the Weekly Dispatch on 4 february 1923.
Sherlock Holmes' Cousin
Efforts to "humanise" Sherlock Holmes are made, not with complete success, in the elaborate Goldwyn film, "Moriarty," now running at the kinemas.
The screen drama has been "adapted from William Gillette's celebrated play, founded on Sir A. Conan Doyle's famous stories"; and, as a cousin twice removed, bears only a slight relationship with the original. In the hands of that fine American actor, John Barrymore, the great detective becomes a romantic almost sentimental hero, very different from the stern super-man of Doyle. The plot, also, lacks the clean logical precision and the matter-of-fact restraint which were as effective in the stories.
