The speckled band short story6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() This gives Athole (yep: that’s really his first name) Stewart’s Watson a meatier part in the story. ![]() One significant change from the original story is that Watson is a friend of the girl’s dead mother and is the one who brings the case to Holmes. The film incorporates several of the play’s variations, including the name changes (Roylott to Rylott Julia to Violet), the inquest, adding an Indian manservant, etc. I’ve posted about the stage play that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, based on his Holmes short story, “The Speckled Band.” In 1931, it was brought to the screen (though it had been filmed a few times before), with Canadian actor Raymond Massey in his first credited role.īand was only the third Holmes “talkie,” following Clive Brook’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) and Arthur Wontner’s The Sleeping Cardinal (also 1931). ![]()
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