Sherlock Holmes i Livsfare
(Sherlock Holmes Risks His Life)
AKA Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes Capturing Moriarty in the USA : [Sherlock Holmes I], [Sherlock Holmes Captures Moriarty], [Sherlock Holmes in Deathly Danger], [Sherlock Holmes in Deadly Danger]
(1908) Danish
B&W : 348 metres / 1141 feet
Directed by Viggo Larsen

Cast: Forrest Holger-Madsen [Sherlock Holmes], Viggo Larsen, [?] Alwin Neuss?, Mr. Brandt, Mr. Dethleff, Elith Plio

Nordisk Films Kompagni production; distributed by Nordisk Film Kompagni. / Produced by Ole Olsen. Scenario by Viggo Larsen, from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. / Premiere 20 November 1908 at Olsen’s Biograph Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The first Nordisk Holmes film. The film was released in the USA in December 1908 by Great Northern Film Company.

Drama: Crime.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle - Characters: Sherlock Holmes - Police: Detectives

Listing updated: 5 December 2007.

References: Everson-Detective p. 5; Mottram-Danish pp. 38-39; Pohle-Holmes pp. 30-32.