Sherlock Holmes - The Scarlet Claw details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Basil Rathbone, Paul Cavanagh, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Gerald Hamer, Nigel Bruce |
| Director: | Roy William Neill |
| Genre: | Thriller - Whodunnit |
| Studio: | CORNERSTONE MEDIA |
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Sherlock Holmes - The Scarlet Claw |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 25 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 25 Sep 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
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The Scarlet Claw
By a customer from England , 21 Mar 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
This might be a black and white film, but it pulls you in within the first 10 minuates of viewing... you forget about the black and white picture and just become engrossed in the story... Why?... two words - 'Basil Rothbone'. In one part of this film, there is a scene in a local Inn which is totaly silent, but the atmosphere is thick enough to cut with a knife. This film was made in 1944, but the strong characters portrayed by the actors is the very thing that gives it its flavour... perhaps this is one area that todays film makers need to brush up on... SPECIAL EFFECTS AND COMPUTER ANIMATION ARE POOR SUBSTITUTES FOR CHARACTER AND STORY.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)Old in every way
By Steve Hatton from Cornwall, UK , 28 Jul 2011But brilliant.
Bad acting, bad editing, bad story, in fact, very little that was good.
But when you remember the age of the film, you really have to accept that it is an exceptional effort.
Great watch.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Scarlet Claw
By a customer from North of Watford , 25 May 2010Basil Rathbone was a fine Sherlock Holmes (he had the nose for it, and the voice) and even though Dr Watson is not portrayed authentically, the atmosphere of mystery is quite strong. ‘The Scarlet Claw’ is a good example of the team in action: phantom on the foggy marshes, superstitious villagers, a series of unexplained killings, you know the sort of thing. The story is set in Canada. The film looks cheaply made and has a comparatively short playing time but should please a lot of Holmes fans. The picture quality may not be good enough for very fussy viewers.- Was this review helpful to you?
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One of the better ones
By InspectorSands (209 reviews) from London , 02 Mar 2010This is Hounds of Baskervilles territory, with an ominous, luminous ghost up to no good on the foggy mooreland, terrorising the locals in a Canadian village. It's not based on a Conan Doyle story, but purists might like it as to all intents and purposes it could be set in Victorian times, save for Holmes' bit of patriotic praise for Canada, part of the Commonwealth, shoehorned in at the end.
Often you feel Holmes is in real physical danger. The script, direction and music is superior to most other films. Maybe it's lacking something iconic about it, I'm not sure what. But overall this is a lot less creaky than other Rathbone's other Holmes tales, such as The Woman In Green.- Was this review helpful to you?
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sherlock holmes definitive collection
By a customer from Lancs , 19 Sep 2007Both these films are the best of the series. These are the Optimum Classic versions and are the best in picture and sound quality, BUT where are the rest of of the films from this series I can't seem to find them in Lovefilms library? This is a MAJOR drawback!- Was this review helpful to you?
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'Watson, where are you?' 'I'm in the bog!'
By Squizz (43 reviews) from Lancaster , 28 Jun 2007To La Morte Rouge, where the wife of a member of the Royal Canadian Occult Society is found with her throat slashed, seemingly by a mythical monster said to haunt the (astonishingly foggy) marshes.
It's a rum old version of Canada we get here, all 'Frere Jacques' on the accordian and no two accents the same, but the film as a whole is certainly adequate. Watson does begin to grate a bit however.- Was this review helpful to you?
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