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Tag Archives: 1940s
Terror by Night (1946) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs’ mother, Lady Margaret. Read More »
The Woman in Green (1945) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. Read More »
The Pearl of Death (1944) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum Read More »
The Scarlet Claw (1944) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
While attending a conference in Quebec City, Sherlock Holmes and his good friend Read More »
The Spider Woman (1943) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Sherlock Holmes takes on a case that the press has dubbed the pajama suicides. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord
Sherlock Holmes is engaged by the Home Office to locate a British subject traveling for his law firm to Washington, D.C. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Working for the British government, Sherlock Holmes manages to spirit Dr. Franz Tobel out of Switzerland Read More »
Youth Runs Wild (1944) Mark Robson, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks
During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home. Read More »
Pardon My Sarong (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest Read More »
Buffalo Bill (1944) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara, Linda Darnell
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. A hunter and Army Scout in the early part of his life Read More »
Lost in a Harem (1944) Charles Reisner, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell
Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha Read More »
Rio Rita (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson
After being fired from their jobs as clerks in a pet store, Doc and Wishey, a couple of bumpkins Read More »
Raiders of Sunset Pass (1943) John English, Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Read More »