Highest rated movie: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Lowest rated movie: Thunder in the City (1937)
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Looking for reviews of Arthur Wontner movies? Cinafilm has a total of 241 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Arthur Wontner have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - released in 1943 - is Arthur Wontner's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 188 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Arthur Wontner is Thunder in the City - released in 1937 - with a score of 47% based on 4 reviews.
Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 – 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937. These films are:
The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) (US title: Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour) based on Doyle's two stories, "The Adventure of the Empty House" and "The Final Problem"
The Missing Rembrandt (1932) (still considered lost) based on "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) based on The Valley of Fear
Silver Blaze (1937) (US title:Murder at the Baskervilles, release 1941) based on "Silver Blaze"
Reportedly, Wontner landed the role of Sherlock Holmes thanks to his performance of Holmes imitation Sexton Blake in a 1930 stage production.
Of all Wontner's films as Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Rembrandt is no longer available. It is officially a lost film. It is possible to obtain all of the others.
Silver Blaze was renamed Murder at the Baskervilles on its US release in order to make the most of the publicity which had been generated by Basil Rathbone's version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. In many respects Wontner's film can be seen as a sequel as it is set twenty years after the events of the more famous story.
Wontner's son became the well-known hotelier and Lord Mayor of London Sir Hugh Wontner.
Arthur Wontner has acted in films with Wilfrid Caithness, Kenneth More, Reginald Beckwith and Ursula Jeans.
Arthur Wontner has worked with these film directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Victor Saville and Marion Gering.
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