The Sign of Four Book & DVD BOX SET 1932 / Read the Novel - Watch the Film - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure / Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Directed by Graham Cutts / Starring: Arthur Wontner

UPC 5060036891695

REGION 0 PAL DVD All regions (Black & White)

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0 

Playtime: 75 minutes

!!! Condition of this SET is USED LIKE NEW !!!

English Summary:

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace was ever found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major John Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, one per year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has been wronged and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar.

The Sign of Four is a 1932 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Arthur Wontner, Ian Hunter and Graham Soutten. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four (1890). The film is also known as The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case.

A young woman needs Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's tormented by an escaped killer. However, when the woman is abducted, Holmes and Watson must infiltrate the city's criminal underworld to track down the young woman.

Jonathan Small, a prisoner serving a lengthy sentence on the Andaman Islands cuts a deal with two army officers, Major Sholto and Captain Morstan, in command of the prison. He reveals the location of a stash of loot in exchange for their help in helping him to escape from jail. The proceeds are to be split equally between the three of them.

Sholto and Morstan go to investigate the treasure which is hidden in an old Indian fortress. When they unearth the valuable trinkets behind a brick wall it sparks a violent quarrel between the two men with each wanting to take all of the treasure. After a struggle Sholto kills his accomplice and returns to England without fulfilling his pledge to help Small escape.

Cast:

• Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes
• Isla Bevan as Mary Morstan
• Ian Hunter as Dr. John H. Watson
• Graham Soutten as Jonathan Small
• Miles Malleson as Thaddeus Sholto
• Herbert Lomas as Major John Sholto
• Gilbert Davis as Det. Insp. Atherly Jones
• Margaret Yarde as Mrs. Smith
• Roy Emerton as The Tattooed Man
• Charles Farrell as Funfair Patron
• Clare Greet as Mrs Hudson
• Moore Marriott as Mordecai Smith
• Edgar Norfolk as Captain Morstan
• Kynaston Reeves as Bartholomew Sholto
• Ernest Sefton as Barrett
• Mr. Burnhett as Tattoo Artist
• Togo as Tonga