![]() If it was played for laughs, I don't know.Ībout any distinctive camera - work. Actually it is Holmes pretending to be drunk in a scene. It's perplexing to me people in those days experienced fits of laughter anytime a drunkard stumbled in and slurred his words, for example. Emerton seems to have died rather suddenly in 1944 seeing as he was making movies that year. Curious one actor has only one leg, Graham Soutten, and the other, Roy Emerton, has only one eye! For real! How's that for realism. Funny to this day, at least to me, and someone, such as me, who has suffered thru many comic relief moments from these old films knows how uncommon it is for the humor to hold up. The 2 crooks made magic in their scenes together. My biggest quibble is they dare to sugar-coat the ending of the story. I'm assuming here they wanted the character to be comedic, and they thought if they made him more mysterious it wouldĬomplicate matters. That out of the way, in the book Sholto's son Thaddeus, is more of an exotic character, timid yes, nervous yes, but fascinated by the Far East culture and quite peculiar. The elder Sholto is made out to be the biggest cad, worse than his partner, "a murderer," yet in the fight a the temple it is the other officer, the girl's father, who initiates the fight by holding a metal hook threateningly. ![]() Hard-labor in Andaman Islands agreed with Small! Jonathan Small doesn't look a day older since he was betrayed by the guards, while Sholto looks 20 yrs older or more (as he should). First let me deal with some inconsistencies. ![]()
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