Basil Rathbone

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Anna Karenina (1935): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone; Leo Tolstoy's heroine is the ideal vehicle for Greta Garbo, luminous amid some of the more extravagant sets MGM ever lavished on a costume drama.
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938): Dir. Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Feat. Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland…; The remakes look stodgy next to this stirring and vibrant original which basks in breakthrough technicolour and the definitive presence of Errol…
Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier…; Chronicles the numerous exploits of the famed explorer, played by Gary Cooper. More light–hearted than the usual swashbuckler.
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The (1939-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Complete collection of all 14 SHERLOCK HOLMES films starring Basil Rathbone as the iconic detective and Nigel Bruce as his loyal sidekick Dr Watson.…
Black Cat, The (1941): Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…; A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Secret Weapon, The (1942): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill…; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Frenchman's Creek (1944): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone…; A faithful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate during the reign of…
Sherlock Holmes Collection (The Woman in Green, Terror by Night, Dressed To Kill) (1945-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone; Three of Basil Rathbone's classic renditions of the Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes.
Woman in Green, The (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Terror By Night (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray; The penultimate Rathbone–Bruce "Sherlock Holmes", with the duo on the trail of a large diamond 'The Star of Rhodesia' which has gone missing…
Dressed To Kill (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison; The final of the 14 Rathbone–Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' adaptations concerning a criminal gang's pursuit of three music–boxes for mysterious…
We're No Angels (1955): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov…; Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
Court Jester, The (1956): Dir. Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Feat. Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury; Much–loved comedy thrives off the charms of Danny Kaye as a bogus jester entangled in spoofed up royal intrigues from the Middle Ages. Basil…
Journey to the Seventh Planet / Planet of Blood (1962-1966): Dir. Sidney Pink, Curtis Harrington
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, John Saxon…; Two inventive low–budget science fiction films from the 1960s that influenced later films. JOURNEY TO THE 7TH PLANET (1962) –…
Tales of Terror (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone; Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
Comedy of Terrors, The ( The Graveside Story) (1964): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price…; Business is slow for undertaker Vincent Price so taking matters into his own hands he sets about smothering elderly people in their sleep. Enjoyable…
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet / Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1965-1968): Dir. Curtis Harrington, Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Mamie Van Doren; A pair of notable cheese–fests from the "planet of the low–budget": Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) Directed by Curtis…
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966): Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…; Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.

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