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Spotlight: Anna May WongFilm 13 of 13
A Study in Scarlet
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Edwin L. Marin, World Wide, 1933. Reginald Owen is Sherlock Holmes in a London that has almost none of Conan Doyle’s first novel: a secret society, a shared-estate pact, deaths among members. Anna May Wong is Mrs. Pyke. The title is rented; the plot is an original by Robert Florey. Seventy-two minutes, Poverty Row after the Fox and Paramount Holmes pictures. Owen plays the detective as a talker, not a silhouette. Wong is again the woman the poster can use. Doyle’s Utah backstory is gone. What remains is a club that kills its own.
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Poverty Row, a rented title, a Holmes who talks. Wong is Mrs. Pyke, the woman the poster can use. It is here as the end of the American line: the parts stayed this size for the rest of her career, and she kept doing them better than they deserved.
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