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Posts Tagged "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
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The Speckled Band *** (1931, Raymond Massey, Athole Stewart, Stanley Ault, Lyn Harding, Angela Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 2626
A 1930s update – complete with typewriters and dictaphones – on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous snaky tale The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Putting his stamp on the role, Raymond Massey is splendidly aloof […]
A Study in Scarlet *** (1933, Reginald Owen, Warburton Gamble, Anna May Wong, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart, John Warburton) – Classic Movie Review 1281
Director Edwin L Marin’s 1933 detective mystery thriller film A Study in Scarlet stars Reginald Owen and Warburton Gamble as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate a case of robbery and multiple murder […]
Sherlock Holmes *** (1932, Clive Brook, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 1280
Director William K Howard’s 1932 thriller updates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories to the 1930s, in a screenplay by Bertram Milhauser based on the hit stage play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette. Clive Brook stars as […]
The Spider Woman ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 1,027
The thoroughly enjoyable 1943 mystery film The Spider Woman sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes investigating the ‘pajama suicides’ case. Gale Sondergaard’s Adrea Spedding proves a worthy adversary. ‘I’m so sorry we have nothing in the […]
The Scarlet Claw **** (1944, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Gerald Hamer, Ian Wolfe, Paul Cavanagh, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 1,026
Director Roy William Neill’s dastardly 1944 whodunit mystery thriller film The Scarlet Claw is the sixth and arguably the finest of Basil Rathbone’s 12 Sherlock Holmes updated films at Universal Pictures studios. Rathbone and Nigel […]
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Arthur Margetson, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Film Review 1020
The satisfying and atmospheric 1943 mystery thriller film Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is securely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1893 short story The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. It is a welcome return to the […]
The House of Fear *** (1945, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Aubrey Mather, Florette Hillier) – Classic Movie Review 993
Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson are happily back on home turf again in the 1945 film The House of Fear, called in by an insurance company to solve a series of […]