Basil Rathbone Movies

List of the best Basil Rathbone movies: The Hound of the Baskervilles(1939), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1939), The Pearl of Death(1944), Son of Frankenstein(1939), Pursuit to Algiers(1945), Dressed to Kill(1946), Terror by Night(1946), The Mad Doctor(1941), The Woman in Green(1945), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror(1942), The Black Sleep(1956), The Black Cat(1941) ... ...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.

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The Pearl of Death

When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.

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Son of Frankenstein

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.

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Pursuit to Algiers

Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination.

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Dressed to Kill

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

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Terror by Night

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

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The Mad Doctor

A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.

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The Woman in Green

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio 'Voice of Terror', the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help ... See full summary »

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The Black Sleep

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

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The Black Cat

Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.

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The Bishop Murder Case

When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.

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The Magic Sword

The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, embarks on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman

Holmes (Basil Rathbone) poses as a foreigner to bait the woman (Gale Sondergaard) behind so-called "pajama suicides."

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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings in Holmes (Basil Rathbone) on a case of ritual murder at the old Musgrave estate.

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) follow a popular matchbook full of microfilm sought by Nazi spies.

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Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) go to Scotland to check on mortality at a heavily insured club.

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The Scarlet Claw

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) solve village murders blamed on a monster in Canada.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

An Englishman (Basil Rathbone) sneaks a bombsight inventor out of Zurich, then loses him to Nazi agent Moriarty (Lionel Atwill).

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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Space travelers encounter hostile aliens, robots and dinosaurs during a perilous mission to the planet Venus.

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If I Were King

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

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Kind Lady

Mary Herries is a rich woman with a habit of contributing to those less fortunate than her. On her way home from a concert on Christmas Eve she discovers a poor, would-be artist outside her... See full summary »

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Sin Takes a Holiday

A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.

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Make a Wish

While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his ... See full summary »

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A Notorious Affair

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

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Confession

A cabaret singer (Kay Francis) stands trial in Warsaw for killing a concert pianist (Basil Rathbone) to save her daughter's honor.

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Love From a Stranger

An English lottery winner (Ann Harding) slowly realizes her suave new husband (Basil Rathbone) plans to kill her.

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The Court Jester

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

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Captain Blood

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

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The Dawn Patrol

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

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The Mark of Zorro

A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

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David Copperfield

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

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Tovarich

After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.

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Tales of Terror

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

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Rhythm on the River

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and ... See full summary »

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Casanova's Big Night

A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.

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International Lady

The film opens with a German air-raid over the skies of London, and moves to the attempts of the F.B.I. and Scotland Yard investigators trying to circumvent the attempts of a sabotage ring ... See full summary »

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The Last Days of Pompeii

In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity.

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Fingers at the Window

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

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The Garden of Allah

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

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The Adventures of Marco Polo

Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.

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Bathing Beauty

A goofy songwriter (Red Skelton) enrolls at a women's college to be near his aquatic sweetheart (Esther Williams).

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Private Number

A maid secretly marries the son of her wealthy boss.

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Above Suspicion

Honeymooners (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray) spy for the British in 1939 Germany to learn more about the Nazis' new magnetic mine.

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A Tale of Two Cities

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

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The Last Hurrah

Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.

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The Comedy of Terrors

Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.

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Hillbillys in a Haunted House

Country singers (Ferlin Husky, Joi Lansing) stranded on the way to Nashville spend the night with spies in a mansion.

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