Edwin L. Marin's A Study in Scarlet (1933)

 This film version of Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, has nothing to do with the plot of the novel except the character of Sherlock Holmes, played in the film by Reginald Owen, who also wrote the script with Robert Florey, who directed Daughter of Shanghai in 1937 (which I wrote about yesterday), also with Anna May Wong. Wong is the best thing in the convoluted plot but, unfortunately, she is only on screen for about twelve minutes, briefly bringing Marin's sluggish direction to life.  There is plenty of fog in the film, effectively obscuring the cheap sets in this low-budget film from Poverty Row Tifffany Pictures.