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Basil Rathbone
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Basil Rathbone - what members say
review by from Keynsham
Basil - The One and Only 16 November 2004
review by from BRYNFORD
26 January 2004
review by tkgp from London
Brilliant fun 15 September 2004
Basil Rathbone - filmography
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Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet
(1965)
Starring: Faith Domergue, Basil Rathbone
Director: John Sebastian
Certificate: 
Astronauts fly to Venus and find the planet filled with dangers gleaned from the epic Russian sci-fi film PLANETA BUR (1963). Much of the film was shot on the set of executive producer Roger Corman's film PLANET OF BLOOD.
 
53%
from 3 members
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The Court Jester
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Director: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Certificate: 
Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) ..read more »
74%
from 936 members
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Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone
Director: Roy William Neill
Certificate:
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Basil Rathbone, the definitive Sherlock Holmes, stars in his last installment in the classic mystery series, with Nigel Bruce as his trusty sidekick Watson. When a prison inmate makes three cheap music boxes that are sold at auction, an old school friend of Dr. Watson's purchases one, later turning ..read more »
70%
from 117 members
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Sherlock Holmes - The Woman In Green
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
Director: Roy William Neill
Certificate:
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When four women are found murdered--each missing their right forefinger--a baffled Scotland Yard calls in master sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful cohort Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to help crack the case. Believing the murders to be the work of a criminal mastermind, Holmes ..read more »
69%
from 624 members
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Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Weapon
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rahtbone
Director: Roy William Neill
Certificate:
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The secret weapon is a new bomb-sight which could shorten World War II. Sherlock and Dr. Watson are assigned to find the kidnapped scientist who developed the famous weapon. The film is based on the Arthur Conan Doyle short story "The Dancing Men."
70%
from 205 members
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The Mark Of Zorro
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Tyrone Power, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Certificate:
Posing as a foppish coward, Diego (Tyrone Power), a Spanish nobleman, fights injustice in colonial California. Upon his return from Spain, Diego realizes that Captain Pasquale is terrorizing the district and levying unreasonable taxes. Disguised as Zorro--a masked Robin Hood-like swashbuckler--the ..read more »
64%
from 409 members
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Tower Of London
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Basil Rathbone
Director: Roger Corman, Rowland V. Lee
Certificate:
Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly referred to as a horror film. Yes, a second-billed Boris Karloff does stomp about on a club-foot as the Duke of Glouchester's chief executioner, Mord, but Karloff's presence ..read more »
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from 93 members
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Certificate:
A man runs for his life across the moors, breathless and frightened. Behind him we hear the baying of a hound, a sound so fearful it chills the soul. The man falls. From the desolate rocky nightscape another man peers: he is bearded and rough looking, perhaps a convict from the nearby prison.... ..read more »
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from 1,218 member
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Certificate:
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In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times ..read more »
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from 2,006 members
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The Garden Of Allah
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Certificate:
In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles Boyer) who has recently abandoned the monastic life but remains torn between religious devotion and worldly desire, ..read more »
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from 182 members
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Intermezzo
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Certificate:
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David O. Selznick's INTERMEZZO is Ingrid Bergman's first English-speaking film and the movie that launched her Hollywood career. Billed as the greatest love story of all time, it avoids the schmaltz factor despite being highly melodramatic, due to Gregory Ratoff's swift direction.
58%
from 245 members
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Captain Blood
(1935)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Olivia De Havilland
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Dr. Peter Blood, escapes and leads a revolt of his fellow prisoners. He seeks retribution by turning them into a pirate crew and himself into the head pirate, Captain Blood. With the bold declaration, "we the hunted will now hunt", he founds the 'Brotherhood of Buccaneers' to fight the villainous ..read more »
74%
from 528 members
Not currently released
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A Tale of Two Cities
(1935)
Starring: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver
Director: Jack Conway
Certificate: 
An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is ..read more »
78%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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David Copperfield
(1935)
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, W.C. Fields
Director: George Cukor
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Otherwise known as "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger", this 1935 version of the classic Charles Dickens tale stars some of the best actors of the time in it's retelling of the life of young Mr. Copperfield.
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from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Basil Rathbone facts
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...For me this is the only Sherlock, Basil Rathbone is the master of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's wonderful yarns. One could almost say he is the founder of modern forensics!...
