In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden...
This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While...
Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed . His past is like a brand on his social existence that he can never shake off. He married Lucienne and they had a lovely daughter, Lilly. Despite all the...
