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The Missing Rembrandt (1932): A Lost Sherlock Holmes Film

  The Missing Rembrandt (1932): A Lost Sherlock Holmes Film Author's Note: In 2021, I purchased the Film Detective excellent box set- "The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection" which contains improved versions of Arthur Wontner's Fatal Hour,  The Triumph of Sherlock Homes and Silver Blaze. It also has a Study in Scarlet with Reginald Owen. The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) with Arthur Wontner had been previously restored by Ealing Studios. This post goes further into investigating the lost Arthur Wontner film, The Missing Remembrandt. Introduction In 1932, British producer Julius Hagen and director Leslie S. Hiscott released The Missing Rembrandt , a modestly budgeted mystery made at Twickenham Film Studios and headlined by Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. It was the second of five features in the 1931–1937 Wontner cycle, following Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (also known as The Sleeping Cardinal ) and preceding The Sign of Four , The Tri...

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