SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE SCARLET CLAW 1944 starring Basil Rathbone
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- The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 American mystery thriller film[1] based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, it is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series. David Stuart Davies notes on the film's DVD audio commentary that it's generally considered by critics and fans of the series to be the best of the twelve Holmes films made by Universal.
The film is not credited as an adaptation of any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, but it bears a significant resemblance to his 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Alan Barnes, in his book Sherlock Holmes On Screen, describes The Scarlet Claw as "owing much" to Hound, listing their similarities: "a remote marshland setting; a painted-phosphorescent but thought-supernatural terror, an escaped convict on the loose, a cold killer ingratiating himself with everyone in the vicinity; a subplot involving cast-off clothing; plus, of course, Holmes' method of unmasking the murderer, making to return home but actually remaining behind to catch the villain red-handed (or, indeed, scarlet-clawed)."
Early in the film, Watson's character directly refers to The Hound of the Baskervilles.
At the very end of the film, Holmes quotes from Winston Churchill, after which Watson asks, "Churchill say that?" Holmes replies "Yes, Churchill." The music swells and Rathbone's voice drops, but he continues to speak several more words which are not heard, but lip movement indicates that he says, "God bless him." - Zábava
Today's movies won't stand the test of time like classics like this. Pure gold😊
Brenda, how right you are. I love these old B&W movies, the plots are great and you don't have all the filthy language!!
Until time tests them we’ll never know. 😀
My favorite Sherlock and Dr Watson, that era was so cool, even the criminals were well spoken and respectful
there was something special about these films just shame there were not more made
Luv Rathbone & Nigel ❤
The best duo ever for Holmes and Watson Alice 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
ABSOLUTELY Loved the way they had Nigel Bruce "speak under-his-breath" after a Holmes barb! @17:45
I watched these with my father in the sixties... He used to imitate Nigel Bruce doing that very thing!!!! Thanx!!!
Fantastic!
Still the perfect Holmes & Watson for me
(though love Jeremy Brett and also)
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I have about 6 of these films that stand as clear favorites, and this is one of those. But of the 14, the 'worst' is merely 'less interesting' after many rewatchings. I haven't watched the 40-odd Charlie Chans over and over, so I can't claim Basil & Bruce's series is The Best but it is my favorite, if only becasue of their rewatchability.
Universal.
Canada 🇨🇦 🍁❤
What a piece of luck that the good people of Quebec and the vicinity spoke English.
54:48 It's the chime for half past.
Classic line @3:30 "What you need is more faith and less imagination!" ...as if they were not EXACTLY the same thing! lol!
Disagree.
@@flyingtigerline ...of course not: you have "faith" which is by definition as a strong belief in something that cannot be proven (factually) to be true.
So, you are saying to believe something is true without proof requires no imagination...when you are LITERALLY "imagining" something as a fact without proof?
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
@@GathKingLeppbertI lol and how is that any different in MEANING than someone simply Believing in something without any evidence to support it? ...it is not.
Perhaps using different works on some fools, but no different words do not make it special, nor magical. Ex: calling a very old book of allegorical stories "the scriptures" does not make it any more relevant nor any more factual no matter how many people would like to think it may be the case.
@GrumblingGrognard
The Bible is backed up by scroll and writings...More and more archeological artifacts are backing the Bible ....