Ginger Rogers plays an escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man played by Basil Rathbone. She falls in love with a man she meets at a party and it remains to be seen whether she can [...]
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Aug 09Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. It was directed by Roy William Neill.
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Holmes and Watson meet Inspector Lestrade on a train to Scotland, in which Lady Margaret Carstairs, the [...] -
Based on the Sir Authur Conan Doyle story “The Dancing Men”, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are placed in WWII europe to help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis.
Basil Rathbone …. Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce …. Dr. John H. Watson
Lionel Atwill …. Professor Moriarty
Kaaren Verne …. Charlotte Eberli
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Aug 09The Woman in Green (1945) is a Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty, and Hillary Brooke in support. It is partly based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Empty House. It the 11th film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.
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A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. A fem fatale pits her its against Sherlock Holmes to find the secret code and retrieve the forged plates for bank of England notes before the police and Sherlock Holmes.
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Aug 09The Magic Sword (also known as St. George and the Dragon, St. George and the Seven Curses, and The Seven Curses of Lodac) is a 1962 live action fantasy film, mainly aimed at children, based loosely on the medieval legend of St. George and the Dragon.
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Aug 09A poor woman (Ann Harding) wins the lottery and soon she’s swept off her feet by a nice man (Basil Rathbone) but after they’re married she begins to think he has a few secrets including murder.
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Two astronauts, accompanied by their robot, set out to explore the surface of Venus. Things seem to be going well until violent changes begin to rework the surface. Will they be able to escape the planet with their lives? This film is also known as “Prehistoric Planet” and “Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet”.
This film began [...]



