This particular movie, based on the iconic sleuth from the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is quite a rarity in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Made in 1916, starring William Gillette as Sherlock, it’s a silent movie, so the usual verbal byplay between Holmes and Watson has to be relayed in dialogue cards. “Notice, Dr. Watson, that the type of liquid retained in this corpse’s digestive system suggests that he drowned in a nearby canal.” “What canal? How can you be cer