The Spider Woman (1944)

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

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 first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.

1946 | Dressed to Kill

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1946 | Terror by Night

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1945 | Pursuit to Algiers

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1945 | The Woman in Green

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1945 | The House of Fear

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1944 | The Pearl of Death

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1944 | The Scarlet Claw

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1944 | The Spider Woman

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1943 | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

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1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington

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1943 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

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1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

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1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles

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