Monday, January 25, 2016
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
A Study in Scarlet (1933) [D: Edwin Marin. Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, June Clyde] One of the lamest Holmes movies I’ve ever seen. Terrible production values, dumb script, poor lighting and photography, and acting that would shame a high school acting class. Available as a free download, a waste of bandwidth. I watched the whole thing with a kind of horrified fascination: how could something this awful make it into the movie houses? BOMB
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