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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Sherlock Holmes, A Play, wherein is set forth The Strange Case of Miss Alice Faulkner was the popular dramatization of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, by William Gillette note Actually Conan Doyle wrote the first draft, but producer Charles Frohman was unhappy with it and convinced Doyle to let Gillette rewrite it — hence why the two are often given co-credit in modern published editions, despite Doyle having minimal involvement. , who also starred as Holmes in the original Broadway production and many subsequent ones. Rather than being an adaption of any of Conan Doyle's stories it takes elements from "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," and "A Study in Scarlet" to weave a completely original though very Holmesian tale.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The Miss Faulkner in question was the sister of an unnamed girl whose heart was broken by an ill-fated romance with an unnamed foreign gentleman who is heir to a considerable title; the romance being broken off at the insistence of his family. The love affair ruined that girl's brief life, and Alice has the evidence to prove it. She was taken in by a couple of confidence artists named James and Madge Larrabee (calling themselves Chetwood for the purposes of the scheme), who bought an Old, Dark House in London to keep her and her poor old mother in and a desk safe to lock the documents in. But they couldn't twist the documents out of her before Sherlock Holmes got on the case.Having his agent Forman (an Inspector on loan from Scotland Yard) in the house posing as butler, Holmes rescues Miss Faulkner and the package from the house, but yields the package to her on account of her possessive attachment to them. Larrabee's old friend, the Cockney crook Sid Prince, places him in contact with Professor Moriarty, king of all criminal enterprise in England. With Holmes slowly working on a chain of evidence that will send Moriarty straight to the gallows, the criminal genius gleefully decides to arrange Holmes's downfall for no fee at all. Holmes, knowing that Larrabee intends to trade him a counterfeit version of the package, hatches a plan of his own, risking his life to obtain the counterfeit package and swindle Alice into willingly giving him the genuine one. It's a dirty trick to play on such a nice girl, he knows.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The play was hugely successful. It debuted in 1899 and ran for over thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic with Gillette regularly performing the role on and off for decades. His final stage performance as Holmes was in 1932 at the age of 79, his final performance as Holmes in any medium was in 1935 at the age of 82 for a now lost radio dramatization. Gillette's numerous performances on stage, film, and radio note Two broadcasts: one an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" the other a dramatization of his own melodrama, both have been lost to time. made him the Holmes of his generation long before Basil Rathbone. As Orson Welles once said: "It is too little to say that William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette". Illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele used Gillette as his model for Holmes for the accompanying illustrations in the American publications of Conan Doyle's stories. A young Charlie Chaplin, then a teenager trying to escape the poverty of the London slums, played Billy regularly for 2 1/2 years, including in one production opposite Gillette.This play is responsible for several Holmes tropes that are not found in Conan Doyle. The deerstalker cap, note OK, it had been seen in Sidney Paget's illustrations but only when Holmes was in the country. Here Gillette wears it in the third act set in London just because the calabash pipe, the name "Billy" for the previously nameless pageboy, and finally the now famous phrase: "Elementary, my dear Watson" all originated in Gillette's play. | |
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Canon Foreigner: Alice Faulkner. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Almost the whole first half of the film is set in Holmes's and Watson's youth, before the play. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Nothing of the plot is taken from Conan Doyle's writing, but the scene in which Holmes is jotting down a self-assesment of his knowledge of various fields ("Literature: nil...Chemistry: profound") is lifted directly from Watson's assesment of Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. | |
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It Works Better with Bullets | |
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It Works Better with Bullets: While Moriarty's back is turned, Holmes unloads his revolver so he won't have to worry if Moriarty should suddenly try to use it on him, which he does. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Holmes risks his life to negotiate the purchase of a MacGuffin from the villains, not letting Alice know he knows it's a fake in order to manipulate her into surrendering the real MacGuffin to the Count and Sir Edward, who congratulate Holmes for pulling off this ingenious scheme. | |
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Sherlock Scan | |
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Sherlock Scan: Performed by Holmes on Watson, as usual, and before that on "Mr Chetwood." | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Alice Faulkner needs Sherlock's help. | |
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Death Trap | |
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Death Trap: The Gas Chamber at Stepney, personally inspected by Moriarty. Holmes finds it easily escapable. | |
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Animal Motif: Moriarty is associated with a spider spinning a web. In his first scene the film actually shows an image of Moriarty at the center of a literal spider web. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: After confessing to the theft that opens the film, Forman Wells, who was a protege of Moriarty, goes to work for Holmes. In the play he is already Holmes' valet at the beginning. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Rose jumps off a mountain in Switzerland after Prince Alexis rejects her. (In the play this happened in the backstory). | |
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Named by the Adaptation | |
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Named by the Adaptation: Again! In the play Alice's sister killed herself in the backstory, and is not named. Here she is named Rose, and her suicide is shown. | |
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Baker Street Regular | |
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Baker Street Regular: Billy, the page boy. | |
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Origins Episode | |
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Origins Episode: The film includes a long introductory sequence showing Holmes and Watson as university students together. It also shows Holmes meeting Alice, Prince Alexis, and Moriarty, well before all of them come back into his life. It joins the plot of the play nearly halfway through, when Alice is being held captive by the Larrabees. | |
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Gentleman Snarker | |
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Gentleman Snarker: Holmes really outdoes himself in this regard. | |
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Diabolical Mastermind | |
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Diabolical Mastermind: Professor Moriarty. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: A packet containing letters, photographs, jewelry etc. that were sent to Alice Faulkner's late sister by a foreign gentleman who seduced and ruined her, and the villains want it out of the picture now that he wants to marry. The name of the gentleman is merely whispered inaudibly, and the sister's name is not revealed either. | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: Holmes first meets Alice when he's in university. He's examining some wildlife with his magnifying glass when he slips and falls in the road, whereupon Alice nearly hits him with her cart. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Played completely straight. After getting a look at Moriarty's elaborate gas chamber trap, Louis Wolheim's Mook asks "Why all the fuss, gov'ner, why not knock 'im on the 'ead?". | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: This film is good evidence of why D.W. Griffith's efforts to make Carol Dempster a star failed. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: This film was believed for decades to be lost. When it was finally discovered in the 1970s, it existed not as a regular theatrical cut, but a jumbled mass of all the footage shot for the movie, including alternate takes and deleted scenes. Film historian Kevin Brownlow, working with the film's director, Albert Parker (then in his late 80s), stitched together what is believed to be a relatively close approximation of the film as it ran in theaters. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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Elaborate Underground Base: Moriarty's lair is a more realistic version of this trope, being based in the cellar of an old abandoned warehouse. Modern trappings include a private telephone / speaking tube and secret door. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Moriarty is flabbergasted when he finds out that Holmes gave the incriminating letters back to Alice. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: Billy, who makes his first appearance as a page in this play, was later used by Conan Doyle in some of his own Holmes plays and eventually in a few of the actual canonical stories. | |
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