Good-Hearted Gold-Diggers
Good-Hearted Gold-Diggers is an article written by Lionel Collier (L. C.) published in The Bystander on 18 december 1929.
Part of the article (below) is about the movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes (1929).
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Moriarty is excellently characterised by Harry T. Morey, one of the screen's oldest artists. He speaks with an American accent, but no one will worry about his nationality. On the other hand, the American accent of Betty Lawford as Dr. Watson's daughter is rather disconcerting. She is one of the weak spots in the picture, but her part is not very important or long.
The picture ends with Holmes taking off a dummy thumb with which he had saved himself from being poisoned by an ingenious cigarette case belonging to Moriarty; when the lid opened a needle containing a deadly poison scratched the victim's thumb. His comment to Watson is, "Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary." And that is what the picture is in crime detection as compared with some of Conan Doyle's work. But it is very good fun nevertheless.
L. C.
Clive Brook, America's famous English film star, who will shortly be seen in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes." His voice is a delight and it is always refreshing to hear occasionally pure English on a very Americanised screen.
