Recent Posts
- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
- Death in Buenos Aires [Muerte en Buenos Aires] *** (2014, Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella) – Classic Movie Review 12,884
- The Last Stop in Yuma County **** (2023, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr, Connor Jones, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett) – Classic Movie Review 12,883
- Ripley ***** (2024, Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn) – Classic Movie Review 12,882
- The History Boys **** (2006, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey) – Classic Movie Review 12,881
- John and Julie *** (1955, Colin Gibson, Leslie Dudley, Moira Lister, Noelle Middelton, Constance Cummings, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sidney James, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 12,880
- Double Exposure * (1954, John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 12,879
- Charlotte’s Web *** (1973, voices of Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde, Martha Scott, Agnes Moorehead, Rex Allen) – Classic Movie Review 12,878
- Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877
Posts Tagged "Sherlock Holmes"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "Sherlock Holmes".
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 in Washington *** (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, John Archer, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 1,021
The World War Two-set 1943 mystery adventure film Sherlock Holmes in Washington sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson travelling to Washington DC to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy […]
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 […]
The Pearl of Death **** (1944, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe, Mary Gordon, Rondo Hatton) – Classic Movie Review 992
The 1944 mystery thriller film The Pearl of Death is the seventh in Universal Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes series of 12 films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and one of the most potent and satisfying. […]
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror *** (1942, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 989
The 1942 mystery thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is the first of Universal Pictures’ contemporary Holmes series of 12 B-movies. It strangely mixes Arthur Conan Doyle’s story His Last Bow with […]