OVERALL: Draw

R0 MPI, and R2 Optimum -releases are restored by Robert Gitt (head of UCLA's Film and Television Archive), and those are the ones to get.

If you want all the extras, you can buy all the 14 films (12 from "Universal Pictures" & 2 from "Twentieth Century Fox") on the box set (R1/R2), or buy R0 MPI Volumes 1-3 + individual releases of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" & "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". All R0 MPI-releases are also available separately, but there are no extras at all. R0 MPI-releases have English subtitles, which might come in handy with the older films like these.

If you´re a real fan, you might want to have the R1-release from "20th Century Fox", which also includes the colorized version of the film.

So: Choice is yours.

Note, that there are several budget releases also, e.g. by "Blackhorse Entertainment" (UK - Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection), "Orbit Media Ltd" (UK), "Bfs Entertainment & Multimedia" (US), "Focusfilm" (US), "Force Video" (Australia) etc etc, but basically avoid them all.

CUTS:

• R0 America- MPI Home Video - No cuts
• R0 The Sherlock Holmes Collection, Volume 3 America- MPI Home Video - No cuts
• R0 Greece- FM Records - No cuts (67:57 PAL)
• R0 United Kingdom- Classic Entertainment - No Cuts
• R0 United Kingdom- Odeon Entertainment - No Cuts
• R2 The Definitive Collection United Kingdom- Optimum Releasing - No cuts

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Comparison added by Jari_Kovalainen on 26/07/05
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 22/09/21

UPDATE LOG:

18/11/10: Added R0 UK from Classic Entertainment.
16/03/17: Corrected the title.
22/09/21: Added Greece.