The film is based on four stories by Conan Doyle - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "His Last Bow".
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Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska–British Columbia border
Adansonia, a tree that is known in African folklore as "God's Thumb"