List of the best Vernon Downing movies: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman(1944), The Macomber Affair(1947), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death(1943), The Time of Their Lives(1946) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
1944
63 Minutes
Norman Locke
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Gale Sondergaard Dennis Hoey Mary Gordon Arthur Hohl Alec Craig Vernon Downing Lydia Bilbrook John Burton Harry Cording
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Holmes (Basil Rathbone) poses as a foreigner to bait the woman (Gale Sondergaard) behind so-called "pajama suicides."
Drama
USA
1947
89 Minutes
Reporter Logan
Gregory Peck Joan Bennett Robert Preston Reginald Denny Jean Gillie Carl Harbord Earl Smith Frederick Worlock Vernon Downing
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In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Octavius Barrett
Norma Shearer Fredric March Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan Katharine Alexander Una O'Connor Ian Wolfe Marion Clayton Ralph Forbes Vernon Downing
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Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Mystery & Thriller
1943
68 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Hillary Brooke Milburn Stone Arthur Margetson Halliwell Hobbes Dennis Hoey Minna Phillips Gavin Muir Gerald Hamer Vernon Downing
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Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings in Holmes (Basil Rathbone) on a case of ritual murder at the old Musgrave estate.
Comedy
USA
1946
82 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marjorie Reynolds Binnie Barnes John Shelton Jess Barker Gale Sondergaard Robert Barrat Donald MacBride Ann Gillis Lynne Baggett
A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.