10 Mar 2005
Hostage
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
Sherlock Holmes
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)
Top Billed Cast
Ernest Maupain Professor Moriarty
Marjorie Kay Alice Faulkner
Edward Fielding Dr. Watson
Stewart Robbins Benjamin Forman
Hugh Thompson Sir Edward Leighton
Ludwig Kreiss Baron von Stalburg
Mario Majeroni James Larrabee
William Postance Sidney Prince
Chester Beery Craigin
Fred Malatesta 'Lightfoot' McTague
Grace Reals Madge Larrabee
Leona Ball Therese
Burford Hampden Billy
Marian Skinner A Suffragette
Edward Arnold Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
Frank Hamilton Tim Leary
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