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01 The Hound Of The Baskervilles 1939.
Sherlock Holmes is approached by Dr. Mortimer to assist in protecting the
life of his best friend's nephew who is that very day returning to England
from Canada. Mortimer's friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, recently died and
although the coroner ruled it to be a natural death, the Doctor knows he
was being chased by a legendary dog, the Hound of the Baskervilles, that
has plagued the Baskerville family for years. Sir Henry Baskerville is Sir
Charles' heir and Mortimer is convinced that he will not last long living
on moors at Baskerville Hall. Already Sir Henry is facing odd happenings
when a single boot is stolen at his hotel. Holmes dispatches his good
friend Dr. Watson to accompany the young man to the family estate while he
attends to other matters in London. Once there, Sir Henry meets the lovely
Beryl Stapleton and her brother John. The servants are acting strangely
and when Watson catches one of them signaling to someone on the moor, he
thinks he knows who might be involved. Holmes, who has been masquerading
as a tramp, has his own ideas however and the solution to the mystery
lies in the Baskerville family history.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Richard Greene : Sir Henry Baskerville.
Director.
=>-Sidney Lanfield.
02 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1939.
After Professor Moriarty is acquitted for murder, Holmes and Watson are
visited by Ann Brandon, who tells the detectives that her brother Lloyd has
received a strange note—a drawing of a man with an albatross hanging around
his neck—identical to one received by her father just before his murder ten
years previously: her brother is killed later that day. Holmes believes an
attempt will be made on Ann's life and he disguises himself as a music hall
entertainer for a garden party, where he captures her assailant. The assassin
is Gabriel Mateo, out for revenge on the Brandons for the murder of his
father by Ann's father in a dispute over ownership of their South American
mine Mateo reveals that it was Moriarty who urged him to seek revenge. Holmes
realises Moriarty was using Ann's attempted murder as a distraction from his
real crime: an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels. Holmes goes to the Tower of
London where Moriarty is masquerading as a policeman. The pair struggle, and
Moriarty falls, presumably to his death.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Ida Lupino : Ann Brandon.
Director.
=>-Alfred L Werker.
03 The Voice Of Terror 1942.
During the Second World War, Holmes is consulted by the British Inner Council
to capture a Nazi agent who broadcasts under the name the "Voice of Terror",
and who appears to be running a sabotage ring in England. After Gavin, one of
his underworld contacts, is killed on his doorstep, Holmes convinces
Kitty—Gavin's wife—to find out the meaning of a clue Gavin had uncovered.
She does so, and manages to inveigle her way into the house of Meade, the
main Nazi agent in the ring. After being given a tip off from Kitty, Holmes
takes the Inner Council to an abandoned church on the cost of southern
England, where they thwart a German invasion. Holmes then uncovers the mole
in the council, Sir Evan Barham, head of the council and the German spy
Heinrich von Bork, who had been posing as Barham for the previous twenty
years.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Evelyn Ankers : Kitty.
Director.
=>-John Rawlins.
04 The Secret Weapon 1942.
Working for the British government, Sherlock Holmes manages to spirit Dr.
Franz Tobel out of Switzerland and into England before the GESTAPO are able to
get to him. Tobel has devised an immensely accurate bomb site and while he is
willing to make it available to the Allies, he insists on manufacturing it
himself. Soon however, he vanishes and it is left to Homes, assisted with the
bumbling Dr. Watson, to decipher a coded message he left behind. Holmes soon
realizes that he is up against his old nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Lionel Atwill : Moriarty.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
05 Sherlock Holmes In Washington 1943.
Sherlock Holmes is engaged by the Home Office to locate a British subject
travelling for his law firm to Washington, D.C. The man had flown to New York
City and then took the train to Washington. On the outskirts of the city, the
man was kidnapped and has not been seen for several days now. Holmes learns
from the Home Office that the man was in fact a government agent who was
delivering a highly secret, two page document to the US government. In
verifying the contents of his flat, Holmes concludes the document had been
reduced to microfilm. The question becomes whether he may have had the
opportunity to pass the microfilm to someone else on the train before he
was taken.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Marjorie Lord : Nancy Partridge.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
06 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 1943.
The three Musgrave siblings - Geoffrey, Philip and Sally - have opened the
doors of their family estate, Musgrave Hall, to convalescing military
officers during World War II. As his contribution to the war effort, Dr.
Watson has been donating his services and treating several of the men there,
some of whom are suffering from shell shock and as a result behave oddly.
When one of Watson's colleagues, Dr. Sexton, receives a knock on the head
Watson asks his good friend Sherlock Holmes to investigate. Just as they
arrive, they find Geoffrey Musgrave dead. Soon after, Philip is also killed
and Holmes is convinced that it's somehow related to a poem the next heir
to the family estate must recite when someone dies. Known as the Musgrave
Ritual, it is a long poem that is gibberish to most but the great detective
is convinced it holds the clue to solving the murders.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Dennis Hoey : Inspector Lestrade.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
07 The Spider Woman 1944.
Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly
dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death
and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with
a paralysed arm. After losing a large sum in a casino and writing a bad
check to cover his losses, he appears to try to take his own life. He is
prevented by the mysterious and sophisticated Andrea Spedding with an offer
of a loan with his life insurance policy as collateral. Shortly thereafter,
there is an attempt on his life with a rare but deadly spider with the only
other clue a child's footprint. A resurfaced Holmes consults arachniolgists
in an effort to solve the mystery.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Gale Sondergaard : Adrea Spedding.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
08 The Scarlet Claw 1944.
A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed
three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back,
because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep
were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be
confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the
Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate
with Lord Penrose about his village's legend. Not long after Lord Penrose
receives word of his wife's death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead
woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection.
When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a
determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Paul Cavanagh : Lord Penrose.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
09 The Pearl Of Death 1944.
After recovering the famous Borgia pearl from shipboard thieves, Sherlock
Holmes is held responsible for its theft. While visiting the museum where
it goes on display, Holmes shows the curator how easily it could be stolen
by simply cutting the electrical wires. During that demonstration, Giles
Conover, a well-known thief, snatches the pearl and runs off. He's soon
caught but the pearl is nowhere to be found. Soon after, homes are being
broken into with the occupants having their backs broken. There also seems
to be a large amount of china broken in the process. After several such
break-ins, Holmes realizes that several similar pieces of porcelain, all
of a bust of Napoleon, are found at each house. Realizing its significance,
he sets a trap for the thief.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Dennis Hoey : Inspector Lestrade.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
10 The House Of Fear 1945.
Sherlock Holmes is approached by an insurance company representative when
two members of a very exclusive club die in mysterious circumstances. In a
manor house in a remote part of Scotland, the only 7 members of the Good
Comrades club meet for dinner but during the meal, Ralph King receives an
envelope addressed to him and he died the following night. Soon after, a
second message is received for Stanley Rayburn, a once distinguished actor
and he too soon died in mysterious circumstances. The envelopes they
receive contain only orange pips, one for each remaining member of the club.
They all suspect one another and as the murders continue, the number of
suspects is reduced. For Sherlock Holmes however, the case is not so simple
and he looks to another solution to the crime.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Dennis Hoey : Inspector Lestrade.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
11 The Woman In Green 1945.
A serial killer appears to be on the loose in London and Sherlock Holmes
assists Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard in the investigation. Holmes is
brought into the case when Maude Fenwick asks him to investigate her father,
Sir George Fenwick, who has been acting very oddly of late. Holmes had seen
him in a hotel bar a few nights before with a very attractive and mysterious
woman. He traces her to a club for hypnotists and eventually to his
arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Hillary Brooke : Lydia.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
12 Pursuit To Algiers 1945.
Sherlock Holmes is hired by the Prime Minister of a foreign country to
safely return the new king who has been living in England incognito and
must now take the throne upon his father's death. The old King was
assassinated and they fear for the young King's life. The original plan
was to fly the young man home but through trickery, Holmes arranges for
passage on a ship to Algiers. Once aboard, it is clear that assassins are
present and Holmes passes off the young man as Dr. Watson's nephew. The
assassins bungle their repeated attempts to assassinate the King and Holmes
has his own deception to get him safely to his final destination.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Marjorie Riordan : Sheila Woodbury.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
13 Terror By Night 1946.
Travelling on the overnight train from London to Edinburgh, Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson are accompanying Roland Carstairs and his mother. They are
there to protect the famed Star of Rhodesia, a 400-plus carat diamond that
Mrs Carstairs had received on her 25th wedding anniversary many years before.
There had been an attempt to steal the diamond while in London but when
young Carstairs is killed and the diamond stolen, Holmes realizes that it
must be the work of the noted thief and criminal, Colonel Sebastian
Moran.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Dennis Hoey : Inspector Lestrade.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
14 The Secret Code AkA Dressed To Kill 1946.
Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery,
visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night.
Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive
pieces in his vast collection. The previous night, someone broke into his flat
and knocked him unconscious when he tried to intervene. All they took however
was a simple wooden music box he had bought at auction that day for a mere £2.
The box was one of three available for sale and as Holmes and Watson begin to
trace the other purchasers, it becomes apparent that someone will stop at
nothing, including murder, to retrieve all three. When Holmes learns the
identity of the music box maker, he is convinced it contains directions to the
retrieval of something very valuable that the government has kept from the
public.
Stars.
=>-Basil Rathbone : Sherlock Holmes.
=>-Nigel Bruce : Dr. Watson.
=>-Ian Wolfe : Commissioner Of Scotland Yard.
Director.
=>-Roy William Neill.
Info.
=>-Genre : Thriller : Mystery : Suspense : Classic.
=>-Release Date : 1939 To 1946
=>-Language : English.
=>-Average File Size : 900 MB.
=>-Overall bit rate : 1 673 Kbps.
=>-Average Runtime : 1h 10mn.
Video.
=>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
=>-Aspect Ratio : 4:3.
=>-Resolution : 960 x 720.
=>-Bit rate : 1 555 Kbps.
Audio 1 English.
=>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC.
=>-Channels : 2 channel.
=>-Bit Rate : 112 Kbps.
=>-Maximum bit rate : 181 Kbps.
Subtitles Softsubbed SubRip MicroDVD.
=>-English.
