The young John Bedford fights with his wealthy old aunt Lady Elizabeth Ferguson. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Lost Moment (1947) Martin Gabel, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1946) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson’s friend, Julian ‘Stinky’ Emery Read More »
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)
Sherlock Holmes is engaged by the Home Office to locate a British subject traveling for his law firm to Washington, D.C. Read More »