The Italian Sherlock Holmes (1910) User Reviews

One cannot help but follow it with growing interest until the end

[deickemeyer · 26 September 2015]

One of those melodramatic detective stories, full of the average impossibilities of all detective stories, yet possessing a fascination from which it is impossible to escape. Here is a valuable necklace stolen and the detective really runs down the thief because he had a bit of dust on his arm. Of course many deductions are drawn from apparently insignificant sources, but the main proposition is that the detective brings the thieves to justice and recovers the stolen property. Then he walks away scorning the money offered him in payment for his services. It is all performed so well that one cannot help but follow it with growing interest until the end. Detective stories are quite as interesting on the films as they are in books. - The Moving Picture World, November 12, 1910