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Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan
Directed By: Irving Rapper

Landmark films never lose the ozone-snap excitement of their special historic moment. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the first feature shot outdoors in three-strip Technicolor, and its exhilaration in forest and lake, mountain and cloud remains as fresh and privileged today as it must have been in 1936. Director Henry Hathaway, already a seasoned veteran, had a fine pictorial eye along ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce
Directed By: Henry Hathaway

Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation ...

Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
Starring: Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Leonard Carey, Leo G. Carroll
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens, Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Dorothy Raye
Directed By: Roy Del Ruth

Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific, seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. The Spider Woman (1944) employs details of Holmes's apparent death and resurrection between "The Final Problem" and its follow-up, "The Adventure of the Empty House." But the movie takes a ...

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Vernon Downing
Directed By: Roy William Neill

Why is The Charge of the Light Brigade so rarely even mentioned among Errol Flynn's swashbucklers? It's a terrific movie, something like the peak of spectacular Hollywood action filmmaking and the bravura style of Michael Curtiz. The setting--till the Crimean War climax--is the Indian frontier (impersonated, as so often, by rocky Lone Pine, California), where the 27th Bengal Lancers run ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Directed By: Michael Curtiz

Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific, seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. The Scarlet Claw (1944) is an original screenplay with elements loosely inspired by Doyle's "The Adventure of the Dancing Men." A skeptical Holmes and Watson (Nigel Bruce) attend a meeting ...

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Directed By: Roy William Neill

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in this 1939 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's frequently filmed novel, and the result is one of the most atmospheric and purely enjoyable versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Except for minor changes, the script is true to Doyle's enthralling mystery about a centuries-long curse against heirs to the Baskerville estate, situated within the ...

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill
Directed By: Sidney Lanfield

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Arthur Margetson, Hillary Brooke
Directed By: Roy William Neill

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce, Margaret O'Brien
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke