Sherlock Holmes (released as Moriarty in the UK)[3] is a 1922 American silent mystery drama film starring John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes, Roland Young as Dr. John Watson and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty.

Friend and fellow student Watson recommends he seek the assistance of classmate Sherlock Holmes.

Meanwhile, Alexis's uncle, Count von Stalburg, arrives with important news: both his brothers have been killed in a "motor accident".

He has had her destitute sister Alice hired as a secretary by "G. Neville Chetwood", actually a henchman named James Larrabee.

Through trickery, Holmes gets Alice to reveal where she has hidden the letters, but oddly, once he has them in his hands, returns them to her, even though she intends to publish them to avenge her sister.

Material held by Eastman House was the basis for a reconstruction produced by Kevin Brownlow and William K. Everson (aided in the early stages by director Albert Parker himself, then in his late 80s), with a second reconstruction (incorporating newly found elements) undertaken by Eastman House itself in 2001.

[7][8] Describing the first reconstruction attempt in 1975, Everson made it clear that reassembling the available material into a viewable form was a far from trivial task: "A few years ago all that existed of this film were rolls and rolls of negative sections, in which every take—not every sequence, but every take—were [sic] jumbled out of order, with only a few flash titles[a] for guidance [...] and a script that in many ways differed from the play, adding to the herculean task of putting it all together.