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1. Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone
Taking place almost exclusively on a transatlantic ocean liner, this easygoing Sherlock Holmes entry finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel ... More
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2. Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Basil Rathbone
Horror, comedy, and country corn combine when country singers Woody Weathrby and Boots Malone get caught in a big storm en route to the Nashville ... More
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3. A Christmas Carol (1954)
directed by Ralph Levy
featuring Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Richard Miles
Produced as an installment of television's Shower of Stars, Maxwell Anderson's adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic stars Fredric March as ... More
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4. We're No Angels (1955)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone
Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece My Three Angels was brought to the ... More
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5. The Court Jester (1956)
directed by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
featuring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker
Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the ... More
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6. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette
This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing and swashbuckling son ... More
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7. The Dawn Patrol (1938)
directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper
This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set during World War I; the ... More
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8. Planet of Blood (1966)
directed by Curtis Harrington
featuring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper
Shot on a miniscule $50,000 budget, and including footage from a 1959 Russian film that was later purchased by Roger Corman, this science fiction ... More
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9. Above Suspicion (1943)
directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen
If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly married to Joan Crawford, ... More
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10. Casanova's Big Night (1954)
directed by Norman Z. McLeod
featuring Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe
Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed ... More
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11. The Stingiest Man in Town (1956)
Everyone knows the basic premise of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol - the saga of Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest and most miserly man on Earth, ... More
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12. Terror by Night (1946)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey
The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding train, en route from London ... More
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13. Dressed to Kill (1946)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Harry Cording, Frederic Worlock
Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a British prison has ... More
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14. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco
One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also undeniably one of the most ... More
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15. Tales of Terror (1962)
directed by Roger Corman
featuring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce
Roger Corman's Tales of Terror stars Vincent Price in a trio of short stories, liberally adapted by Richard Matheson from the works of Edgar Allan ... More
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16. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
directed by Archie Mayo
featuring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Binnie Barnes
Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper) crosses the sea in search ... More
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17. The Woman in Green (1945)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell, Paul Cavanagh
Based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House, this "Sherlock Holmes" entry finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) ... More
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18. The Scarlet Claw (1944)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of Universal's Sherlock Holmes ... More
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19. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Milburn Stone, Arthur Margetson
There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out for 1944's The Scarlet ... More
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20. The House of Fear (1945)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh
This excellent Sherlock Holmes adventure is based on Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips. Most of the action takes place in a remote Scottish mansion, ... More
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21. Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
directed by Paul Stein
featuring Constance Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Kenneth MacKenna, ZaSu Pitts
Ahead of its time for liberated thinking, this is still really just a classic romance with a love triangle thrown in on the side. While on a trip to ... More
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22. The Pearl of Death (1944)
directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander
This above-average entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series is loosely based on the Conan Doyle story The Six Napoleons. On this occasion, Holmes ... More
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23. Love From a Stranger (1937)
directed by Rowland V. Lee
featuring Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell
Love From a Stranger was adapted from a play by Frank Vosper--which, in turn, was based on a story by Agatha Christie (though you'd never know it ... More
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24. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
directed by John Rawlins
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez
From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers) mystery and thrills several ... More
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25. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
directed by Rowland V. Lee
featuring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson
The most elaborate--and longest--of Universal's Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein represents Boris Karloff's last appearance in the role of ... More
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