 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, George Zucco, Terry Kilburn, Henry Stephenson, E.E. Clive, Arthur Hohl, Mary Gordon, Holmes Herbert, Mary Forbes, May Beatty, Frank Dawson, Peter Willes
Clever detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful cohort, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are trying to foil an attempt by Professor Moriarty (George Zucco) to steal England's Crown Jewels. When Moriarty sends a death threat to socialite Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino), Holmes and Watson are sidetracked while Moriarty goes on with his plot to steal the jewels. Now, Holmes and Watson must split up to prevent murder as well as the theft.
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Becky Sharp 1935  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, G.P. Huntley, William Stack, George Hassell, William Faversham, Charles Richman, Doris Lloyd, Colin Tapley, Leonard Mudie
Often cited as the first full-length color movie, this film is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." Miriam Hopkins takes on the title role of self-centered social-climber Becky Sharp who does not care how she gets there on her rise to the top of British society.
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The Blue Bird 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, Sybil Jason, Jessie Ralph, Helen Ericson, Johnny Russell, Laura Hope Crews, Russell Hicks, Cecilia Loftus, Gene Reynolds, Leona Roberts, Al Shean
In a change of character for Shirley Temple, she plays a little brat, Mytyl, who leaves home with her brother Tyltyl (Johnny Russell) and follow the Fairy Berylune (Jesse Ralph) on a trip through the past, present, and future in search of the Blue Bird of Happiness. But, Mytyl finds that happiness can only be found through unselfishness.
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Bwana Devil 1952  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Arch Oboler
Cast: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill, Paul McVey, Hope Miller, John Dodsworth, Patrick O'Moore, Patrick Aherne, Edward C. Short, Bhogwan Singh, Paul Thompson, Bhupesh Guha, Bal Seirgakar, Kalu K. Sonkur
Thrown spears and leaping lions appear to leave the screen and head for the audience in this first full-length, Natural Vision 3-D film. The story involves two lions that are attacking British railway workers in Kenya. Finally, engineer Bob Hayward (Robert Stack) comes to the rescue and kills the beasts.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Henry Stephenson, David Niven, Spring Byington, J. Carrol Naish, E.E. Clive, C. Henry Gordon, G.P. Huntley, Robert Barrat, Walter Holbrook, Scotty Beckett
In this film version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, set during the 1854 Crimean War, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) vows revenge on the Indian potentate Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon) after witnessing a slaughter of British citizens at a British fort commanded by Col. Campbell (Donald Crisp). Meanwhile, Geoffrey and his brother Perry (Patric Knowles), who is also a soldier, are both in love with Campbell's daughter Elsa (Olivia de Havilland), but it is Perry who wins her heart. Now, Geoffrey leads his Light Brigade into a fight to the death against the Russian soldiers who are providing supplies to Surat Khan.
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The Corn Is Green 1945  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Joan Lorring, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock, Gwyneth Hughes, Thomas Louden, Arthur Shields
Bette Davis gave a classy performance as a devoted teacher in a Welsh mining town. When she discovers a gifted young student, they work together to help him win a scholarship to Oxford. 1 User Review
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| | wonderful | MississippiKat 03/02/2011 | | Such a sweet story and I now have All Through The Night running through my head. |
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A Dispatch from Reuters 1940 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, James Stephenson, Walter Kingsford
This is the biography of Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) who began with a fleet of carrier pigeons and ended up with the first news wire service.
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 Dressed to Kill 1946 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock, Carl Harbord, Tom Dillon, Mary Gordon, Ian Wolfe, Harry Cording, Patricia Cameron, Holmes Herbert, Leyland Hodgson, Wallace Scott, Olaf Hytten
In this last Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, they track down stolen engraving plates from the Bank of England. A convicted thief has hidden the location of the stolen plates inside music boxes Innocent people buy the boxes and are then murdered. Now, Holmes tries to locate the last box to discover its hidden secrets and stop the murders.
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Eagle Squadron 1942 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce, Leif Erickson, Jon Hall, Gladys Cooper, Alan Hale Jr., Rhys Williams
Great aerial shots highlight this film about Americans who volunteered to join the RAF and fight Nazis before America entered the war.
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Frenchman's Creek 1944 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Billy Daniel, Cecil Kellaway, Ralph Forbes, Mary Field, George Kirby, David Clyde, Harald Maresch, Moyna MacGill, Patricia Barker, David James, Bunny Beatty
Escaping from an unhappy relationship, English lady Dona St. Columb (Joan Fontaine) falls into the arms of French pirate Jean Benoit Aubrey(Arturo de Cordova).
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 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes, Morton Lowry, E.E. Clive, Mary Gordon, Barlowe Borland, Beryl Mercer, Eily Malyon, Lionel Pape, Nigel De Brulier
For the first time on film, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce take on their roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A huge hound has been killing the Baskervilles, and, following the killing of Sir Charles Baskerville, Holmes and Watson are given the job of solving the murder when the deceased's nephew, Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), calls on them to for help. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to the Baskerville estate to investigate. Meanwhile, Holmes, under disguise, monitors events at the estate and encounters more than a few mysteries before solving the crime.
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The House of Fear 1945 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, Sally Shepherd, Gavin Muir, David Clyde, Florette Hillier, Cyril Delevanti, Leslie Denison, David Thursby, Doris Lloyd
"The Good Comrades" are a group of wealthy men living in a remote Scottish mansion. They have taken out insurance policies on each other, and now members are receiving envelopes containing orange pits and then dropping dead. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are called in to solve the mysteries, and they learn that the members are faking their deaths to collect on the insurance policies.
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Julia Misbehaves 1948 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar Romero, Nigel Bruce, Mary Boland, Lucile Watson, Reginald Owen, Ian Wolfe
When Susan (Elizabeth Taylor) is preparing for her marriage, her mother, Julia (Greer Garson), returns after a 20-year absence and upsets the bride AND the father of the bride (Walter Pidgeon). 1 User Review
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| | Classics Fan 03/14/2010 | | Greer Garson at her best in a comedy. Funny and shows Greer's comedic timing. If only MGM gave her other comedies besides her dramatic roles. A must-see for Greer Garson fans. |
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Kidnapped 1938 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Alfred L. Werker, Otto Preminger
Cast: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E.E. Clive, Halliwell Hobbes, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner, Arthur Hohl, Montagu Love, Donald Haines
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, this is the story of David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) who inherits a fortune, and his evil uncle, Ebenezer (Miles Mander), arranges for him to be kidnapped by sea captain Hoseason (Reginald Owen) and held on a slave ship. David is rescued, meets Alan Breck (Warner Baxter), and the two travel across Scotland to regain what is rightfully his.
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Lassie Come Home 1943 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, J. Pat O'Malley, Alec Craig, Arthur Shields, Ben Webster, John Rogers, Alan Napier, Nelson Leigh, George Broughton
The Carracloughs–parents (Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester) and their son Joe (Roddy McDowall)–are a poor Yorkshire family. Needing money, they sell their collie, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce) who takes her home to Scotland where his granddaughter Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor) adores Lassie. But, Lassie misses the Carracloughs, escapes from her new home, and makes the long trip back to Yorkshire.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 1937 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph, Nigel Bruce, Benita Hume, Melville Cooper, Ralph Forbes, Sara Haden
This remake of the 1929 film casts Joan Crawford in the title role of an American jewel thief who travels in upper-crust London society where her victims are easy prey. This film, too, was remade in 1951 as "The Law and the Lady."
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Lillian Russell 1940 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Nigel Bruce, Helen Westley, Dorothy Peterson, Ernest Truex
Alice Faye portrays 1890s' Broadway star Lillian Russell and sings such classics as "After the Ball" and "The Band Played On" in this musical presentation.
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 The Pearl of Death 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Holmes Herbert, Mary Gordon, Richard Nugent, Ian Wolfe, Miles Mander, Billy Bevan, Charles Francis, Rondo Hatton, Lillian Bronson, Leslie Denison, Al Ferguson
This film was adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Six Napoleons." Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) are assigned to guard a $250,000 pearl when master thief Giles Conover (Miles Mander) discredits Holmes and steals the pearl. Holmes searches for the pearl, and, in the process, he uncovers a connection between the pearl and murders committed by The Creeper (Rondo Hatton) who has put Holmes on his hit list. Now, Holmes must deal with saving his own life while retrieving the pearl.
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Pursuit to Algiers 1945 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Mystery
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan, Rosalind Ivan, Martin Kosleck, John Abbott, Morton Lowry, Frederick Worlock, Gerald Hamer, Rex Evans, Leslie Vincent, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Wilson Benge, Tom Dillon, Sven Hugo Borg
While sailing from London to Algiers, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) protect a prince, Far Eastern regent Nikolas (Leslie Vincent), on his trip home following his father's assassination. Nikolas is disguised as Watson's son in an effort to confuse possible assassins who are on Nikolas' trail. As luck would have it, the assassins are among the passengers, and Holmes must weed out the good passengers from the bad.
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The Rains Came 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Joseph Schildkraut, Jane Darwell, Henry Travers, Laura Hope Crews, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Nash, Marjorie Rambeau, H.B. Warner, William Royle, C. Montague Shaw
Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) falls in love with an Indian doctor, Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power), while her husband Lord Albert Esketh (Nigel Bruce) serves his tour of duty in India for the British government. Edwina pursues Rama, and, when a violent earthquake breaks a dam that releases a wall of water into the city, Edwina helps Rama care for the survivors. Rama realizes that he loves Edwina, but their love is doomed because, soon after, Edwina succumbs to a deadly virus and dies. This film was remade in 1955 as "The Rains of Ranchipur."
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 Rebecca 1940  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Leo G. Carroll, Melville Cooper, Lumsden Hare, Leonard Carey, Edward Fielding, Forrester Harvey
In this film, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Joan Fontaine plays a naive woman married to a brooding widower (Laurence Olivier). After moving into his country estate, she finds that she must live in the shadow of Rebecca, his first wife. Based on Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for nine other awards, including Best Actor (Olivier), Actress (Fontaine), Supporting Actress (Judith Anderson) and Director.
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Roxie Hart 1942 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, Spring Byington, George Chandler, Sara Allgood
Based on Nunnally Johnson's play, this story is set in the 1920s. Dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) commits murder and then hires Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) to defend her. Flynn and his protege, Homer Howard (George Montgomery), publicize her story, and mayhem reigns in this farce.
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 The Scarlet Claw 1944 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Ian Wolfe, Miles Mander, David Clyde, Olaf Hytten, Victoria Horne, Kay Harding, George Kirby, Clyde Fillmore, Eric Wilton
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) travel to Canada to investigate murders in which the victims' throats have been ripped out. Residents tell Holmes that a legendary monster haunts the area, and they believe that the monster has been killing their neighbors. But, Holmes suspects that the killer is an actor, Potts (Gerald Hamer), who is a master of disguises, and Holmes sets a trap to identify the killer. One of Rathbone's and Bruce's very best.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel 1935 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Anthony Bushell, Melville Cooper, O.B. Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher, Joan Gardner, Edmund Breon, Melville Cooper, Walter Rilla, Mabel Terry-Lewis, Ernest Milton, Edmund Breon
Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) comes to the aid of French aristocrats who Robespierre has imprisoned and sentenced to be executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution. Blakeney disguises himself and, unbeknownst to his wife Lady Marguerite (Merle Oberon), rescues innocent victims. He leaves behind him a small red pimpernel flower for which he is named. When Chauvelin (Raymond Massey) closes in on the case, he uses Marguerite as bait to capture Pimpernel.
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She 1935 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Samuel S. Hinds, Noble Johnson, Lumsden Hare, Jim Thorpe, Ray Corrigan, Julius Adler, Jerry Frank, Arnold Gray, Noble Johnson, Bill Wolfe
She (Helen Gahagan) has ruled over the lost land of Kor for 500 years, her immortality being maintained by the Flame of Life. Along comes a trio of people (Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, and Nigel Bruce) seeking this land and bringing problems as She falls for Scott. Based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard (who also wrote "King Solomon's Mines") and was remade in 1965.
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 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 1942 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Kaaren Verne, Holmes Herbert, Mary Gordon, Dennis Hoey, Harry Woods, Paul Fix, William Post Jr., Henry Victor, Michael Mark, George Burr Macannan, Harry Cording, Leslie Denison
This Sherlock Holmes film has been updated to the early 1940s and involves espionage and Gestapo intrigue. Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post, Jr.) has devised a secret weapon, and with World War II looming, the Nazis and the Allies are racing to get control of Tobel's weapon. When Tobel disappears, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate and find that Holmes' old nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill), is behind the plot.
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 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Rawlins
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Montagu Love, Henry Daniell, Thomas Gomez, Olaf Hytten, Lon Chaney Jr., Leyland Hodgson, Hillary Brooke, Herbert Evans, Mary Gordon, Charles Jordan, Gavin Muir
Set during World War II in Europe, this story involves efforts to stop a Nazi radio broadcast whose propaganda is throwing terror into the hearts of courageous Britons. Sir Evan Barham (Reginald Denny) of the British Inner Council hires Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to find the German spy who has been giving information to the Nazi broadcaster warning of acts of terror that are about to take place. Holmes uncovers a plot that could destroy England and saves the country from the saboteurs.
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 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 1943 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Mystery / Horror / Drama
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Dennis Hoey, Milburn Stone, Halliwell Hobbes, Mary Gordon, Gavin Muir, Gerald Hamer, Vernon Downing, Olaf Hytten, Frederick Worlock, Charles Coleman, Joan Blair, Harold De Becker
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Musgrave Ritual," this story takes place at the Musgrave estate where Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) is treating several officers suffering from shell shock. When Musgrave heirs Philip and Geoffrey (Gavin Muir and Frederick Worlock) are found murdered, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) comes to investigate and uses the poem "Musgrave Ritual" as a clue in solving the murders. Look for young, unbilled Peter Lawford in a bit part as a drunken sailor.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington 1943 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, Holmes Herbert, John Archer, Gavin Muir, Ian Wolfe, Thurston Hall, Edmund MacDonald, Don Terry, Bradley Page, Mary Gordon, Mary Forbes
Filmed during World War II, this movie is about Nazi spies trying to get their hands on microfilm containing secret documents hidden in a matchbox. A British clerk is killed while carrying the matchbox to Washington, D.C., and the matchbox has passed through several hands. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) travel to Washington, DC, and, in the process of their investigation, they learn that the matchbox has ended up in the hands of socialite Nancy Partridge (Marjorie Lord). They come to her rescue and sleuth out the villains.
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Son of Lassie 1945 G, 102 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Cast: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Donald Curtis, Nils Asther, Robert Lewis, Fay Helm, Terry Moore, Peter Helmers, Otto Reichow, Leon Tyler, Patricia Prest
This sequel to "Lassie Come Home" features Peter Lawford and June Lockhart as the grown-up Joe and Priscilla. Joe leaves Yorkshire, brings his collie Laddie along, and becomes a pilot of the British Air Force. Laddie sneaks aboard Joe's plane on his first mission, and, when they are shot down over Nazi-occupied Norway, Joe and Laddie parachute to safety. But, they are behind enemy lines and must begin their perilous trek out of Norway and into the arms of Joe's sweetheart Priscilla who waits for their return.
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 The Spider Woman 1944 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon, Vernon Downing, Alec Craig, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Logan, Harry Cording, John Burton, Lydia Bilbrook, Belle Mitchell, Gene Roth, Angelo Rossitto
Gale Sondergaard plays the Spider Woman whose game is to drive gamblers to the point of suicide so that she can collect on their insurance. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone), with help from Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce), puts an end to her evil deeds in this good episode.
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Stand Up and Cheer! 1934 PG, 68 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Sylvia Froos, Shirley Temple, Ralph Morgan, John Boles, Nigel Bruce, Stepin Fetchit, Dick Foran, Arthur Byron, Sylvia Froos, Tess Gardella, Frank Mitchell, Jack Durant
To help bring the country out of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt names a new Cabinet post, and a Secretary of Amusements is created. It has little impact until young Shirley Dugan (Shirley Temple) shows up. Temple sings "Baby Take a Bow."
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Suez 1938 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackmer, Sig Ruman, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, Maurice Moscovitch, George Zucco, Leon Ames, Rafaela Ottiano, Victor Varconi
Ferdinand De Lesseps was the architect for the Suez Canal; that much is true. But the rest of the material for this film is pure fiction. As an art form, however, this Darryl F. Zanuck epic deserves high marks.
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Susan and God 1940 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Nigel Bruce, Bruce Cabot, Rose Hobart, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Constance Collier, Rita Quigley, Richard Crane, Norma Mitchell, Aldrich Bowker
Susan (Joan Crawford) is a socialite whose family and friends have problems understanding her new religion–until she begins to understand what charity is really all about.
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Suspicion 1941  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Constance Worth, Auriol Lee, Billy Bevan, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Alfred Hitchcock
Timid Lina (Joan Fontaine) marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). Although deeply in love with Johnnie, Lina begins to piece together evidence that she is her husband's intended murder victim. Joan Fontaine won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in this film, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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Terror by Night 1946 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Mary Forbes, Billy Bevan, Frederick Worlock, Leyland Hodgson, Harry Cording, Skelton Knaggs, Renee Godfrey, Geoffrey Steele, Janet Murdoch, Gerald Hammer, Boyd Davis
Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) and her son Roland (Geoffrey Steele) are on a train heading for Scotland, and she has hired Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to guard the "Star of Rhodesia" diamond that she is carrying with her. Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) and Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) are helping Holmes protect the diamond. Holmes switches diamonds with Margaret, but after Roland is killed, and the fake diamond is stolen, Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade set out to solve the mystery.
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This Above All 1942 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Philip Merivale, Sara Allgood, Alexander Knox, Queenie Leonard, Melville Cooper, Jill Esmond, Holmes Herbert, Denis Green, Arthur Shields
Prudence Cathaway (Joan Fontaine) upsets her wealthy family when she wants no favors and enlists in the British Women's Air Force–WAFs–in World War II. While in training, she meets embittered Clive Briggs (Tyrone Power), who is recovering from wounds. When Clive decides to go AWOL rather than return to duty, Prudence tries to convince him that England is worth fighting for.
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Thunder in the City 1937 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marion Gering
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson, Annie Esmond, Arthur Wontner, Elizabeth Inglis, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg
Dan (Edward G. Robinson) is an overly aggressive salesman, so he is sent to London to learn about refined ways of doing business. While there, he hears of an unexploited mine containing (a fictional) mineral "magnelite." Dan thinks this needs his special style of leadership, and also thinks that Lady Patricia (Luli Deste) is worth pursuing, despite the competition from Henry (Ralph Richardson).
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Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barrat, Samuel S. Hinds, Henry Brandon, Fuzzy Knight, George "Spanky" McFarland, Otto Fries, Alan Baxter, Margaret Armstong, Fern Emmett
Jack Hale (Fred MacMurray) arrives in the Appalachian Mountains to buy land from the Tolliver family so that he can run his railroad through the mountains. Jack falls in love with June Tolliver (Sylvia Sidney), and that causes a love triangle because Jane's cousin Dave (Henry Fonda) also loves June. Meanwhile, the elder Tollivers–Melissa and Judd (Beulah Bondi and Fred Stone)–continue their long-standing feud with Buck Falin (Robert Barrat) and his family. The feud escalates, and young Buddy Tolliver (George "Spanky" McFarland) is killed, which is the tragedy that finally brings everyone to their senses.
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Treasure Island 1934 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Lewis Stone, William V. Mong, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, Olin Howland, Charles Irwin, Edward Pawley
In this good rendition of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale, South Seas adventures abound. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) has obtained a treasure map from former pirate Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) following his death. Jim tells Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) about the map, and the three of them book passage on a ship to recover the treasure. But problems lie ahead because among the ship's crew are pirates, including Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who are plotting to get their hands on Jim's treasure map.
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls 1947 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Patrick O'Moore, Ann Carter, Colin(2) Campbell, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Creighton Hale
Geoffrey Carroll (Humphrey Bogart) is an insane artist who paints pictures of his wives entitled "The Angel of Death" and then poisons them.
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The Woman in Green 1945 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell, Mary Gordon, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Frederick Worlock, Olaf Hytten, Billy Bevan, Eve Amber, Coulter Irwin, Sally Shepherd, Colin Hunter, Leslie Denison
With severed fingers of women murder victims for clues, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate, and the trail leads to a mysterious hypnotist, Lydia (Hillary Brooke). They follow their logic and uncover blackmail and hypnosis that are part of a plot by Lydia and Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty (Henry Daniell).
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| 1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
2. Becky Sharp (1935)
3. The Blue Bird (1940)
4. Bwana Devil (1952)
5. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
6. The Corn Is Green (1945)
7. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
8. Dressed to Kill (1946)
aka: Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
9. Eagle Squadron (1942)
10. Frenchman's Creek (1944)
11. Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
12. Hong Kong (1952)
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
14. The House of Fear (1945)
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
15. Hudson's Bay (1940)
16. Julia Misbehaves (1948)
17. Kidnapped (1938)
18. Lassie Come Home (1943)
19. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
20. Lillian Russell (1940)
21. Limelight (1952)
22. The Pearl of Death (1944)
23. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
24. The Rains Came (1939)
25. Rebecca (1940)
26. Roxie Hart (1942)
27. The Scarlet Claw (1944)
28. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
29. She (1935)
30. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
31. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
32. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
33. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
34. Son of Lassie (1945)
35. The Spider Woman (1944)
aka: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
36. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
37. Suez (1938)
38. Susan and God (1940)
39. Suspicion (1941)
40. Terror by Night (1946)
41. This Above All (1942)
42. Thunder in the City (1937)
43. Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
44. Treasure Island (1934)
45. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
46. The Woman in Green (1945)
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