1922
Sherlock Holmes - the first American Holmes film with an all-star cast-is released. John Barrymore plays Holmes, famed German silent movie actor Gustav von Seyffertitz plays Moriarty. A young Hedda Hopper has a small role.
1942
Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur, starring Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, opens. Sabateur is best remembered for its breathless climax atop the Statue of Liberty. Many of the film's bon mots are supplied by Dorothy Parker, who contributed to the screenplay.
1945
Damed robber Willie "the Actor" Sutton tunnels his way out of a staet penitentiary in Philadelphia, but unfortunately emerges a few feet away from a pair of Philly beat cops, who immediately rearrest him. ("Why do you rob banks?" "Because that's where the money is."
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