The Devil's Foot (film)

While on vacation, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson walk by the sea. Hoping to ask for directions back to their inn, they call upon a house but discover three dead people seated at a table and with no signs of violence. Initially, the victims' brother Tregennis is suspected, but when he is killed in a similar way, then the explorer Dr. Sterndale becomes a suspect.

Sterndale shows Holmes and Watson a note where Tregennis confesses to the murder of his siblings to acquire their property. The last third of the film is Sterndale's story told to the pair through a series of Flashbacks. Sterndale tells them that Tregennis had shown a great interest in Sterndale's exotic poisons and that Sterndale was in love with the sister and killed Tregennis in an act of revenge. The flashback shows Sterndale forcing Tregennis to write a confession at gunpoint. Holmes questions Sterndale for taking justice into his own hands, but when the police arrive, he tells them that Tregennis had committed suicide.

• Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes
• Hubert Willis as Dr. John Watson
• Harvey Braban as Mortimer Tregennis
• Hugh Buckler as Dr. Sterndale

In a contemporary review in 2011, Christopher Campbell called it "quite verbal for a silent picture" (33 text cards in 27 minutes), a relatively faithful adaptation but also appreciated the liberty taken with the source material for the beginning of the film.[3]

• The Devil's Foot on IMDb
• The Devil's Foot at the British Film Institute