The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1949) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 25, 1949

Original Title:
The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Genres:
Crime | Mystery

Production Companies:
Grant-Realm Productions
Jerry Fairbanks Productions
Michael Grant Productions
NBC

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 27

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..

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Art Direction:
Eugène Lourié

Cinematography:
William Bradford

Director:
Sobey Martin

Editor:
Dann Cahn

Music:
William Lava

Producer:
Marshall Grant
Stanley Rubin

Production Supervisor:
Rudolph E. Abel

Story:
Arthur Conan Doyle

Writer:
Walter Doniger

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