answer represent largely disinterested act from it star and an almost actionless script and a plodding pace and verbose inter title and and mostly flat and uninvolving direction . despite negative contemporary review ( include an excellent summation of everything that wrong with the movie in the new york time ) and this vanished version of holmes with it fantastic cast line up ( include the movie debut of powell and young ) have long intrigue both film and sherlock buff worldwide . so imagine the joy when about 600 roll of work print offcuts ( amount in all to about 4 and 000 foot ) be find . these be hand to kevin brownlow who and with the aid of albert parker himself and painstakingly re assemble the movie over a period of six month . george eastman house then come to the rescue when the inter title be find in their vault . the composite reconstructed movie now run about 109 minute . there be still footage miss and but that doesn not matter a great deal a and ala and the photoplay be boring enough a it be . admittedly and it have it moment represent von seyffertitz be a marvelous presence . i also enjoy roland young watson and powell chat with barrymore in the taxi . and unlike other viewer and i think miss dempster look quite charm in this non griffith outing . and even below par barrymore do provide a great moment at the climax for those hardy viewer like myself who persist right to the end . but the movie be full of talk . talk and talk and talk . that mostly all the character do in this tediously pace and almost actionless movie . after 80 minute or so and i just get so bored read the inter title and i give up . some of them be too hard to decipher anyway . which bring me to the next problem . lab take no care in print up positive which be solely to be employ for negative cutting and so 90 % of the movie be far too dark . sometimes you can hardly see what go on . true and some if it look attractive and you say to yourself and wow . film noir lighting in 1922. but this be not the way it be present to original movie audience .