--- title: 'Silver Blaze (1937)' type: 'film' director: 'Thomas Bentley' released: '1937-01-01' runtime_minutes: 71 genres: - 'Crime' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/silver-blaze-1937' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029565/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Silver Blaze (1937) 1937 · 71 min · Crime, Mystery · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Silver Blaze is a 1937 British black-and-white crime mystery film, based loosely on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". It was directed by Thomas Bentley, and was produced by Twickenham Film Studios Productions. It stars Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson. In the United States, the film was released in 1941 by Astor Pictures, where it was also known as Murder at the Baskervilles, retitled by distributors to capitalize on the success of the Basil Rathbone Holmes film, The Hound of the Baskervilles. ## Credits - **Director:** [Thomas Bentley](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-bentley) - **Screenplay:** [H. Fowler Mear](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-fowler-mear) - **Producer:** [Julius Hagen](https://cinepixo.com/people/julius-hagen) - **Director of Photography:** [Sydney Blythe](https://cinepixo.com/people/sydney-blythe) - **Editor:** [Michael C. Chorlton](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-c-chorlton) ## Cast - [John Turnbull](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-turnbull) - [Ralph Truman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-truman) - [Eve Gray](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-gray) - [Ian Fleming](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-fleming-2) - [Martin Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-walker) - [Ronald Shiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-shiner) - [D. J. Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/d-j-williams) - [Arthur Wontner](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-wontner) as Sherlock Holmes - [Lyn Harding](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyn-harding) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/silver-blaze-1937 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3483983); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.