SHERLOCK HOLMES BAFFLED (1900)
Article 2093 by Dave Sindelar
Viewing Date: 12-8-2006
Posting Date: 5-6-2007
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Sherlock Holmes encounters a thief who vanishes. This baffles him.

As the earliest cinematic incarnation of the character of Sherlock Holmes, this has a certain amount of interest value. However, as a Sherlock Holmes story, it is nearly worthless, but with a running time of thirty seconds, what do you expect? Personally, I think the thing that baffles Holmes here is what he’s doing in this subpar Melies imitation. A curio, but little else.