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A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively.
The Spider Woman (alternatively titled Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman and Spider Woman) is a 1943 mystery film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in.
Sherlock Holmes films based on works by Arthur Conan Doyle (1 C, 36 P) Pages in category "Sherlock Holmes films" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
Sherlock Holmes en Caracas [77] 1992 Venezuelan film Joaquim de Almeida: A Samba for Sherlock: 2001 Brazilian-Portuguese film Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes: 2009 American-British films Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: 2011 Gary Piquer: Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days: 2012 Spanish film Ian McKellen: Mr. Holmes: 2015 American film Yoshimitsu ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the last film in the series to be released by Fox as well as the final film to be set in the Victorian period of Doyle’s stories (all subsequent Holmes films would be released by Universal Pictures and set in contemporaneous times (i.e. the 1940s).
The film begins with a title card describing Holmes and Watson as "ageless", as an explanation as to why the film is set in the 1940s rather than Holmes' era of 1881–1914, as the preceding 20th Century Fox films were.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been very popular as adaptations for the stage, and later film, and still later television. The four volumes of the Universal Sherlock Holmes (1995) compiled by Ronald B. De Waal lists over 25,000 Holmes-related productions and products. [1]
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.