Basil Rathbone
Actor
- 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…