Career
These films are: (United States title: Sherlock Holmes" Fatal Hour)is based on Doyle"s two stories, "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Empty House" (still considered lost) based on "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes" Greatest Case (1932) based on The Valley of Fear (United States 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. lieutenant is officially a lost film.
lieutenant is possible to obtain all of the others
Silver Blaze was renamed Murder at the Baskervilles on its United States 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.