You can't beat the old mystery and suspense of these classic films,...no gore or special effects,....just good solid honest acting,...and stories full of sinister plots and intrigue,....an art sadly diminishing from modern filmmaking.....more's the pity.
Agreed...acting & plot are relied upon to carry the story. I pretty much watch British productions as they much more than Hollywood remain true to these principles.
I love these old black and white movies it's raining and nasty so I'm going to read and watch movies all day I like Basil Rathbone has Sherlock Holmes but I also like Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes also ❤
Watson was sadly enough, Hebatudinous as Moriarty had properly concluded, at least the way he was written as portrayed by Nigel Bruce, I would have preferred him 20 years younger and equal in witts to Sherlock Holmes himself. An unkind person would have off-handedly referred to Watson as a doddering, scatty old fool.
"The Scarlet Claw" is a classic film. Next to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" this is the best of the Rathbone-Bruce series. The direction of Roy William Neill has never been better. The supporting cast consisting of Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Miles Mander, & especially Gerald Hammer are outstanding.
@ joseph lemko. Granted it is a matter of opinion, but of the two 20th Century Fox Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films, I think that "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is better than "The Hound of the Baskervilles", because it has George Zucco who was in my opinion, for what it's worth, the best Professor Moriarity. And Ida Lupino was excellent as Anne in that film. I have always been amazed that Rathbone considered Henry Daniell as the best Moriarity. Henry Daniell to my mind was pretty boring as Moriarity. It is hard to find a better Holmes-Moriarity confrontation scene in a Sherlock Holmes film than the one in the hansom cab between and Zucco's Moriarity and Rathbone's Holmes at the beginning of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" when after Moriarity has been acquited in court, he offers Holmes a ride to Hommes' Baker Street lodgings because it is raining. "The Scarlet Claw" is without question the best of the 12 Universal Studios' Holmes films.
I mistakenly typed the word "and" between the words "between" and "Zucco's Moriarity" in my above -posted response comment about the Sherlock Holmes films of Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox. I also misspelled Holmes' name as "Hommes" in my response comment.
Paul Cavanagh plays a judge in a bunch of the old Perry Masons, they had great character actors back then, a lot of them were in the Charlie Chan movies, all classics!!!
@ joseph lemko. If I had to rank the top 6 of the 14 Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, it would be: (1) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" , (2) "The Scarlet Claw", (3) "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death", (4) "House of Fear", (5)"Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" and (6) "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The only reason that I don't place "The Hound of the Baskervilles" higher on the list is because Holmes is not seen in a substantial portion of the film , just like he is not in a substantial portion of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel.
I have always loved these Rathbone / Bruce Sherlock Holmes films .....I feel that this is one of the three best instalments in the 14 - movie series .....along with The Hound Of The Baskervilles , and The Adventures Of Sherlobk Holmes ....so atmospheric .. I remember an episode of The Saint , starring Roger Moore , , seemed to be based on this story ....Give me these old movies , whilst savouring a cup of tea , and a block of chocolate on a cold night....Ah ....HEAVEN ..!
They are the worst. Watch Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson and you will see the dramatic difference as these two actors are far superior.
I love how Dr. Watson looks up and there's that old sea pirate looking dude there's a couple of them in this movie it always shocks him that's hilarious
@ Steve Setek. Yes Paul Sawtell did an excellent job as musical director for the Sherlock Holmes film, "The Scarlet Claw". Although a number of the pieces of music in that film were originally composed by Hans J. Salter and Frank B. Skinner for "The Wolfman"(1941) and other Universal Studios' horror films of the 1940's (e.g., the eerie music that is heard as Holmes walks down the hallway on the 2nd floor of the De La Porte Hotel to confront Alistair Ramson after Ramson killed Judge Brisson in the previous scene in the film). Paul Sawtell wrote the great, iconic theme music for the 1966 TV series, "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea". It is interesting that actor Miles Mander's voice as Judge Brisson sounds very much like actor Frederic Worlock's voice as Colonel Cavanaugh in the 12th and last Universal Studios' Rathbone/Bruce Holmes film, "Dressed To Kill"(1946).
Best Sherlock Holmes movie by far. Always felt that it could have been directed by Alfred Hitchcock as its such a twister and also as AH also loved old Quebec
@Sandra Williams. It is interesting that supposedly Alfred Hitchcock's favorite movie was "Smokey & The Bandit"(1977)! That film is a great comedy film, but it is somewhat surprising that Hitchcock chose that film as his all-time personal favorite!
When the actor comes in and announces that his wife has been found dead with her throat torn out with as much emotion as if he were announcing that it's raining outside, you can't say much for the director's skill. Please. However the sets and art direction and cinematography are well done here. Rathbone is a delight as always.
Amen to that, particularly regarding Rathbone - and let’s not forget dear old Watson. What grand actors, both - a bygone breed of men and their profession.
I have been a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes as long as I have been able to read and watch TV and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are also my favorites. There will be young people reading and watching Sherlock Holmes a hundred years from now.
I tell you dr. Watson portrays a very wasted person after drinking a bottle of wine it's either really great great acting or he might actually be drunk I mean that's some incredible acting if hes sober and I love the way after he falls into the hole Holmes helps him get out you can clearly see he's walking up a step ladder
Been watching this again and again for over 44 years! Why do folks moan about adverts....... no adverts on Premium.... worth it to proper appreciate old classics.... stop moaning..... something intoxicating about this genre.
@Thoth Al Khem I have no problem with you feeling that way; in my line of work it is a tax deductible expense and I never have a problem paying for a service I am pleased with; it a minor and negligible to me. However, I fully understand folks saving money too..... all the best.
I'm a massive fan of the source material and anything to do with Sherlock. This is not my favorite interpretation of Watson by any means,but man he cracks me up sometimes. The stuff he says about his father under his breath in the inn makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it. He goes from saying he hasn't seen his father in years,to saying matter of fact,he's dead lol. There's actually quite a few instances in these films like that. I always kinda wish they didn't make a doctor and soldier so stupid and silly,but his loyalty and other qualities is enough to counteract it most times. I don't think I've seen all the movies in this "series". You can usually only find the same five or six online. I always meant to look for some kind of box set or something,but time and money are always factors in this world,ha.
Michael Barlow: I enjoyed your comments about the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films. I agree with you that George Zucco was the best Moriarity. I also enjoyed Ida Lupino's performance in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(my 3rd favorite of the series). In fact, I believe Ida Lupino would look good in a Ed Wood film. Stay healthy!
Michael Barlow: I agree with you that the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes series went out in style. But to me the Bond films reached their apex with Woody Allen's portrayal of Jimmy Bond in Casino Royale.😅🤣😂 This really is not considered as part of the Bond series. I am really kidding. The only Bond films that I find as less than mediocre are"Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day." The Basil/Nigel Holmes films I can watch anytime.
@ joseph lemko. What are your two favorite Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films? Yeah Zucco was perfect as Moriarty in " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939)! The scene between Holmes and Moriarty in the hansom cab outside the courthouse at the beginning of the film is one of the greatest Holmes/Moriarty scenes in all of the various Holmes films! I love when Holmes says to Moriarty that he admires Moriarty's brain so much that he would love to have it pickled in alcohol and donated to the British Museum! And Ida Lupino was excellent as Anne Branding in that film! I have not seen any of the post-Dalton Bond films and I have no interest in seeing any of them because since Brosnan and Craig don't look like what James Bond is supposed to look like, the Bond films in which they appear in hold no interest for me.
Like Laurel and Hardy, I prefer these in black and white. 29:49 I, personally find that hilarious when Watson sees and realizes who is now sitting next to him. Little touches like that make all the difference sometimes.
"The Scarlet Claw" is a superb Sherlock Holmes movie but it does have one major flaw--in the scene in which Alistair Ramson tells Holmes why Ramson killed Lady Penrose and Judge Brisson, he tells Holmes that one other person who Ramson held a grudge against remained (which is Emile Journet) but you would think that there would have been a fourth person that Ramson despised and held a grudge against and that would have been Lord Penrose because in the scene in which Holmes discovers the torn upper half of the photograph of Lady Penrose which Ramson sent to Lady Penrose as a warning, Lord Penrose tells Holmes that Ramson murdered an actor in Lady Penrose's acting company five years earlier in Quebec. It is obvious that Ramson killed that actor because that actor was in an intimate relationship with Lillian Gentry (before she retired from acting and became Lady Penrose when she married Lord Penrose). Ramson told Holmes that he killed Lady Penrose because he "couldn't bear any other man possessing her" and yet he apparently never made any attempt on the life of Lord Penrose after Lord Penrose married Lillian Gentry. So why didn't Ramson hold a grudge against Lord Penrose? And why did Holmes say to Watson regarding Alistair Ramson in Alistair Ramson's secret dressing room at the De La Porte Hotel that "Obviously Journet is to be his next victim", when it could conceivably have been either Lord Penrose or Emile Journet that was Alistair Ramson's next intended victim? In "The Scarlet Claw", Holmes never seems to consider the possibility that Ramson would hold a grudge against or make an attempt on the life of Lord Penrose for his marrying Lillian Gentry!
@ Andrew Frankovic. Yeah it is amazing in "The Scarlet Claw" that Holmes could completely miss a large, glowing-in-the-dark target (albeit a moving target) in that movie! Another absurdity is that Alistair Ramson's phosphorescent-coated shirt was able to maintain it's bright glow not only at nighttime on the marshes in La Mour Rouge, but also in a room at the De La Porte Hotel illuminated by candlelight! Even if Ramson had the electric light in his room turned on just prior to Holmes, Watson and Sgt.Thompson's arrival at the De La Porte Hotel to question Ramson (disguised as Tanner), that single light would be insufficiently bright to keep the shirt glowing brightly after Holmes blows out the candle on the table! It would need at least 10-20 minutes exposure to full sunlight in order to glow that brightly on the marshes or in Ramson's room!
wow good sleuthing! I noticed the fact that Sherlock failed to shoot Ramson, and that Watson shows the Sgt. to their room in the end even if he already tried to wake Sherlock whom used the "pillow under the covers" trick. What I didn't acknowledge was that Ramson should also have gone after Lord Penrose if he truly couldn't bare another man possessing Lady Penrose. I again congratulate you.
@@SBaker83 . Thanks for the compliment about my observations about some flaws in the great Rathbone/Bruce Universal Studios' Sherlock Holmes film, "The Scarlet Claw". I must point out that it was actually the character Emile Journet who attempted to wake-up Sherlock Holmes and discovered that Holmes had placed a suitcase under the blanket to make someone checking on him erroneously think that Holmes was asleep in bed. At 27 minutes,34 seconds into the film, you can see that it is Emile Journet not Sgt. Thompson that tries to wake-up Sherlock Holmes.
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Fink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 Rolf Becker - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Ben Syder - 2010 Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on RUclips) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-RUclips) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.
@Deborah B Yes, Thanks. Ian Woolfe sends Spock and McCoy to an ice planet through a portal where they meet Mariette Hartley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Our_Yesterdays_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Maria' is a fine-looking girl A true beauty 😍 I like how Watson went off on the father for strikeing her Good job dr Watson s Holems then says its none of our Business bulshit good old smug sherlock holes
Does anyone know what is the title of the song that the character Alistair Ramson sings as he is talking to the innkeeper in the Sherlock Holmes film "The Scarlet Claw"?
Does anyone know the title of the song that the patrons of Emile Journet's Cafe are singing in the scene in "The Scarlet Claw" in which Holmes and Watson return to Journet's Cafe after Alistair Ramson escaped from the De LaPorte Hotel after Holmes confronted Alistair Ramson after Alistair Ramson killed Judge Brisson?
A two minute commercial every 4 minutes if just too much. Like Rathbone and Bruce in these roles but not so much that so many commercials are worth it. Tah, tah ARF.
@32:20: Ah yes, the literally brilliant camouflage of glowing at night, which is apparently also punishable by death. So, Holmes travelled abroad with a pistol and figured he'd shoot a person in a foreign country. Smart, Holmes, very smart. Is this not just attempted murder by Holmes?
An interesting continuity error in the screenplay of "The Scarlet Claw" is that which occurs between the scene in the film in which Holmes shows the torn lower half of the photograph of Lady Penrose that Holmes found in Alistair Ramson's room at the De Laporte Hotel to Watson and Sgt.Thompson in Holmes and Watson's room at Emile Journet's Cafe & Hotel and the scene at the end of the movie, in which Watson , after announcing to the patrons of Journet's Cafe that he and Holmes are leaving immediately for London, tells Sgt. Thompson that Holmes wants to speak with him for a minute in Holmes' room, and then points out to Sgt. Thompson Holmes' room on the 2nd floor of the cafe by stating that it is the second room on the right at the top of the stairs. Sgt. Thompson already knew where Holmes and Watson's room was from when he was there earlier in the scene in which Holmes showed him and Watson the lower half of the photograph of Lady Penrose. So why does Watson tell Sgt. Thompson where Watson and Holmes' room is at the end of the movie when Thompson already knew where it is?
@@randb4865 . The point that I was making is that Watson did not need to point to Holmes and Watson's room on the second floor of Journet's Cafe and tell Sgt.Thompson that the room is the second one on the right side, since Thompson already knew where it was from the earlier scene in "The Scarlet Claw". In other words, Watson's pointing out the room to Sgt.Thompson does not in any way enhance Holmes and Watson's deceiving Alistair Ramson into believing that Holmes and Watson are leaving immediately for London or that Holmes is on the second floor and doesn't help Holmes to switch places with Journet once Journet is outside the cafe. It is totally unnecessary for Watson to point out to Sgt.Thompson where on the second floor Holmes and Watson's room is. All Watson has to do is tell Sgt.Thompson that Holmes would like to see him in Holmes' room. That would have been sufficient to deceive Alistair Ramson into thinking that Holmes is on the second floor awaiting to talk to Sgt.Thompson when in reality Holmes is outside the cafe switching places with Emile Journet.
@@FHouseOM . I do not "worry about it" at all. I merely point out that error in the screenplay. Even if Holmes asked Watson to point out to Sgt. Thompson their room so as to not let the killer know that Sgt. Thompson had already met with Holmes and Watson in their room earlier in the movie, that knowledge would not tip off Alistair Ramson that Holmes was planning to switch places with cafe/hotel owner Emile Journet after Journet leaves the cafe to supposedly go to the church to offer a prayer for his murdered daughter Marie who Alistair Ramson had killed.
I can watch these movies over and over and never get tired of them.
Me too😂
Same and I don’t know why
Same here. I love everything about them.
Same here, or... me three. ❤ 🎉
Totally agree, timeless classics !
These movies are addictive- in a good way. With all the new films on Netflix etc I am repeatedly drawn to Holmes and Watson
I watched these films first when I was a child. Great production and direction along with wonderful casting. And i still hunt them down to this day..
There will never be a better Sherlock Holmes . For me Basil Rathbone was the epitome of Sherlock Holmes, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meant him to be.
Ho nooo, absolutely not the way that Conan Doyle thought his character, read the books. I like basil rathbone…but it’s not the One for me :)
For me a perfect film that still entertains after 70!! years of viewing
One of my fav Sherlock movies, never gets old.
I never get tired or bored watching the Sherlock Holmes movies with Rathbone and Bruce.
Right?! Same!
I was about to post something quite similar to what you posted. 👍
While the films were great, adapting the storyline to WWll was destructive to the original intent of the story.
Kay Harding played in one other Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce movie . Which one was it ?
I bet you do sometimes
I have been watching these old movies over a and over.
You & I have something in common, my friend.
I’ve watched this one in particular a couple of dozen times & never get tired of it.
I remember when my mom was alive we loved watching Sherlock Holmes movie She gone now and I still watch it because I love it
You can't beat the old mystery and suspense of these classic films,...no gore or special effects,....just good solid honest acting,...and stories full of sinister plots and intrigue,....an art sadly diminishing from modern filmmaking.....more's the pity.
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I don't know. This was unnecessarily violent. Several innocent people(including a child), were mauled to death. This Holmes isn't very clever.
@@ekcentrik I do like the series starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes,...he plays it with a a snobbish eccentricity and is very good in the role
Agreed...acting & plot are relied upon to carry the story. I pretty much watch British productions as they much more than Hollywood remain true to these principles.
I love these old black and white movies it's raining and nasty so I'm going to read and watch movies all day I like Basil Rathbone has Sherlock Holmes but I also like Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes also ❤
Did the same
Terrified me to death as a kid...watched it at my grans staying at the weekend...ahhhhh simpler times
Bless Watson's heart, such an adorable and lovable man 😍
Absolutely. I love him!
That's Dr. Watson,,,,, :RETIRED" HA ha
Watson was sadly enough, Hebatudinous as Moriarty had properly concluded, at least the way he was written as portrayed by Nigel Bruce, I would have preferred him 20 years younger and equal in witts to Sherlock Holmes himself.
An unkind person would have off-handedly referred to Watson as a doddering, scatty old fool.
"The Scarlet Claw" is a classic film. Next to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" this is the best of the Rathbone-Bruce series. The direction of Roy William Neill has never been better. The supporting cast consisting of Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Miles Mander, & especially Gerald Hammer are outstanding.
@ joseph lemko. Granted it is a matter of opinion, but of the two 20th Century Fox Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films, I think that "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is better than "The Hound of the Baskervilles", because it has George Zucco who was in my opinion, for what it's worth, the best Professor Moriarity. And Ida Lupino was excellent as Anne in that film. I have always been amazed that Rathbone considered Henry Daniell as the best Moriarity. Henry Daniell to my mind was pretty boring as Moriarity. It is hard to find a better Holmes-Moriarity confrontation scene in a Sherlock Holmes film than the one in the hansom cab between and Zucco's Moriarity and Rathbone's Holmes at the beginning of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" when after Moriarity has been acquited in court, he offers Holmes a ride to Hommes' Baker Street lodgings because it is raining. "The Scarlet Claw" is without question the best of the 12 Universal Studios' Holmes films.
I mistakenly typed the word "and" between the words "between" and "Zucco's Moriarity" in my above -posted response comment about the Sherlock Holmes films of Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox. I also misspelled Holmes' name as "Hommes" in my response comment.
Paul Cavanagh plays a judge in a bunch of the old Perry Masons, they had great character actors back then, a lot of them were in the Charlie Chan movies, all classics!!!
Joe Burkhart: I agree with you The House of Fear is also an excellent film. Stay healthy!
@ joseph lemko. If I had to rank the top 6 of the 14 Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, it would be: (1) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" , (2) "The Scarlet Claw", (3) "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death", (4) "House of Fear", (5)"Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" and (6) "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The only reason that I don't place "The Hound of the Baskervilles" higher on the list is because Holmes is not seen in a substantial portion of the film , just like he is not in a substantial portion of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel.
"The Scarlet Claw" is the best of the 12 Universal Studios' Rathbone and Bruce Sherlock Holmes films!
I have always loved these Rathbone / Bruce Sherlock Holmes films .....I feel that this is one of the three best instalments in the 14 - movie series .....along with The Hound Of The Baskervilles , and The Adventures Of Sherlobk Holmes ....so atmospheric .. I remember an episode of The Saint , starring Roger Moore , , seemed to be based on this story ....Give me these old movies , whilst savouring a cup of tea , and a block of chocolate on a cold night....Ah ....HEAVEN ..!
♥️🇬🇧😀 "Great Scot Holmes. These films are exceptional".
Brilliant. I watch an old film every sunday morning. Far better than the films made these days, computer graphics, steroids and fake teeth
Well you should take better care of yourself then
Basil, Nigel, music,..sigh. ❤️
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are incomparable. No other actors fit the character of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as these two.
I agree with you.
They are the worst. Watch Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson and you will see the dramatic difference as these two actors are far superior.
@@bole4556 You're right, Brett managed to bring out Holmes' humorous and witty demeanour the best.
I love how
Dr. Watson looks up and there's that old sea pirate looking dude there's a couple of them in this movie it always shocks him that's hilarious
What an incredible soundtrack the music is always always on time with what we're seeing on screen just pure genius
@ Steve Setek. Yes Paul Sawtell did an excellent job as musical director for the Sherlock Holmes film, "The Scarlet Claw". Although a number of the pieces of music in that film were originally composed by Hans J. Salter and Frank B. Skinner for "The Wolfman"(1941) and other Universal Studios' horror films of the 1940's (e.g., the eerie music that is heard as Holmes walks down the hallway on the 2nd floor of the De La Porte Hotel to confront Alistair Ramson after Ramson killed Judge Brisson in the previous scene in the film). Paul Sawtell wrote the great, iconic theme music for the 1966 TV series, "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea". It is interesting that actor Miles Mander's voice as Judge Brisson sounds very much like actor Frederic Worlock's voice as Colonel Cavanaugh in the 12th and last Universal Studios' Rathbone/Bruce Holmes film, "Dressed To Kill"(1946).
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Under siege please play
Yes, a few times they borrowed a bit from 'The Wolfman' 1941
Best Sherlock Holmes movie by far. Always felt that it could have been directed by Alfred Hitchcock as its such a twister and also as AH also loved old Quebec
@Sandra Williams. It is interesting that supposedly Alfred Hitchcock's favorite movie was "Smokey & The Bandit"(1977)! That film is a great comedy film, but it is somewhat surprising that Hitchcock chose that film as his all-time personal favorite!
To a 2 year old comment.
All scenes were shot in Universal Studios, California.
I like how they sort of had an ensemble cast of actors that rotated playing the secondary roles in these films...
Me too
Thankyou,good memories of the old black and white movies.💖👍
Gotta love those old fireplaces !!
Without Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson there is no Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson takes the sharp edge off of Sherlock.for a great series of 14 movies.
You are exactly right
Well observed.
Just love the word play between Holmes and Watson. Holmes poking fun at Watson, and Watson taking it all with a grain of salt.
I’m totally addicted to these! Thanks so much!❤
Of all the actors who played Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were the best and the memorable.
Excellent no other words come to mind ,oh and the best two Actors for the parts of Holmes and Watson ever. Thanks for upload
When the actor comes in and announces that his wife has been found dead with her throat torn out with as much emotion as if he were announcing that it's raining outside, you can't say much for the director's skill. Please. However the sets and art direction and cinematography are well done here. Rathbone is a delight as always.
Amen to that, particularly regarding Rathbone - and let’s not forget dear old Watson. What grand actors, both - a bygone breed of men and their profession.
How about if he was a tormented husband and his wife,o my bad.
Lord Penrose is British. He carries on.
Watson did check to see if the shotgun was loaded first by breaking the action open.
I actually don't watch these, I listen to them.
I'm getting addicted to this series 😏
Great old Fav . Rathbone & Bruce were a great pairing.
Movies to end the evening with 😌
Thanks for posting. Enjoy these old Sherlock Holmes films very much 👌
Aloha! Sir Basil is the dearest,coolest man ever!
Why do you call him Sir Basil? He was never knighted. He was plain Mr Rathbone to his dying day.
Just fantastic don’t know how many times I’ve watched them
Ian Wolfe who played Drake the butler was in the Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays" as Mr. Atoz the librarian.
Played Hirsch (the butler) in WKRP in Cincinnati 81 to 82
Thank you..for showing this Sherlock movie I haven't seen it before. I am enjoying it very much.
This is one of my favourites and I just love the scooby doo like round up at the end lol..Superb
Penrose had no
Emotional nothing about his wife being dead was more concerned about the monster psychic phenomenon
Well, I recognize some familiar actors of other Holmes' films.
Everywhere that man goes there's mist. I'm starting to think he carries it about with him
😂😂😂😂lol
Well it is a Sherlock Holmes MISTery :D
Nice
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Your all wrong, Holmes and Watson were both major pot heads. Gotta calm them cocaine nerves somehow...
Old school classic.
Yes we where all cocerned when DR Watson was waving around that shotgun,,,lol..
iT was a riveting moment.
I have been a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes as long as I have been able to read and watch TV and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are also my favorites. There will be young people reading and watching Sherlock Holmes a hundred years from now.
One of the best Holmes films ever!
I love this Holmes and Dr Watson the best. Thanx for sharing.
"You're an OPtimist, Mr. Holmes."
The Speckled Band is one of my favorites.
Pro tip: don't read this one to your young kids at bedtime!
Good old classics
Not bad cussing. Just good videos
Basil was the best and Nigel too.I love these films.Wish there were more colorized versions but b&w is equally good in its own way.
Here's to Crime bigger and better crime I love that what a character
I agree. No one but Basil Rathbone can be Sherlock Holmes.
I tell you dr. Watson portrays a very wasted person after drinking a bottle of wine it's either really great great acting or he might actually be drunk I mean that's some incredible acting if hes sober and I love the way after he falls into the hole Holmes helps him get out you can clearly see he's walking up a step ladder
Interesting that Watson mentioned the Father Brown character, who has become famous from the PBS a series.
I must be different a 42 year old widow whom finds comfort in the strangest of places. A Alabama woman for sure
That poor woman tolling the bell for help and everyone in the village is like "Hey, the bell is tolling. Let's sit here and wonder why."
spoiler alert..
"We've been retained by a corpse." Watson!
10:55 .. Holmes said this to Watson.
@@redshiftexperiment .
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Better get the retainer up front , Watson !
best line ever!
Been watching this again and again for over 44 years!
Why do folks moan about adverts....... no adverts on Premium.... worth it to proper appreciate old classics.... stop moaning..... something intoxicating about this genre.
@Thoth Al Khem I have no problem with you feeling that way; in my line of work it is a tax deductible expense and I never have a problem paying for a service I am pleased with; it a minor and negligible to me.
However, I fully understand folks saving money too..... all the best.
very good movie thanks for upload it
Wonderful. Thank you
Great Sunday with this movie. Thanks.
Classic film
Watson is pertrayed as being little more than a buffoon in these films when, infact, he was an very intelligent and able colleague
All of Basil Rathbone's pictures are good!
Made in 1944...
RIP Basil Rathbone, the greatest Sherlock ever 🍻
I'm a massive fan of the source material and anything to do with Sherlock. This is not my favorite interpretation of Watson by any means,but man he cracks me up sometimes. The stuff he says about his father under his breath in the inn makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it. He goes from saying he hasn't seen his father in years,to saying matter of fact,he's dead lol. There's actually quite a few instances in these films like that. I always kinda wish they didn't make a doctor and soldier so stupid and silly,but his loyalty and other qualities is enough to counteract it most times. I don't think I've seen all the movies in this "series". You can usually only find the same five or six online. I always meant to look for some kind of box set or something,but time and money are always factors in this world,ha.
Adverts every 5 mins kills the whole movie
Just scroll to the end then replay.
If you Google bing you will be free of commercials
Michael Barlow: I enjoyed your comments about the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films. I agree with you that George Zucco was the best Moriarity. I also enjoyed Ida Lupino's performance in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(my 3rd favorite of the series). In fact, I believe Ida Lupino would look good in a Ed Wood film. Stay healthy!
Michael Barlow: I agree with you that the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes series went out in style. But to me the Bond films reached their apex with Woody Allen's portrayal of Jimmy Bond in Casino Royale.😅🤣😂 This really is not considered as part of the Bond series. I am really kidding. The only Bond films that I find as less than mediocre are"Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day." The Basil/Nigel Holmes films I can watch anytime.
@ joseph lemko. What are your two favorite Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films? Yeah Zucco was perfect as Moriarty in " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939)! The scene between Holmes and Moriarty in the hansom cab outside the courthouse at the beginning of the film is one of the greatest Holmes/Moriarty scenes in all of the various Holmes films! I love when Holmes says to Moriarty that he admires Moriarty's brain so much that he would love to have it pickled in alcohol and donated to the British Museum! And Ida Lupino was excellent as Anne Branding in that film! I have not seen any of the post-Dalton Bond films and I have no interest in seeing any of them because since Brosnan and Craig don't look like what James Bond is supposed to look like, the Bond films in which they appear in hold no interest for me.
Sherlock Holmes: “you can’t take the law into your own hands”
Also Sherlock Holmes: shoots repeatedly at suspect in the woods
My introduction to Basil Rathbone was as the bad guy opposite Errol Flynn in Robin Hood, so I always thought he was a baddie. Lol.
My heroes basil as Sherlock Holmes and Roy as Roy rogers
Per Wikipedia, "Consulting Detective" Watson appeared in "A Study in Scarlet" and exited in "His Last Bow."
Like Laurel and Hardy, I prefer these in black and white. 29:49 I, personally find that hilarious when Watson sees and realizes who is now sitting next to him. Little touches like that make all the difference sometimes.
"The Scarlet Claw" is a superb Sherlock Holmes movie but it does have one major flaw--in the scene in which Alistair Ramson tells Holmes why Ramson killed Lady Penrose and Judge Brisson, he tells Holmes that one other person who Ramson held a grudge against remained (which is Emile Journet) but you would think that there would have been a fourth person that Ramson despised and held a grudge against and that would have been Lord Penrose because in the scene in which Holmes discovers the torn upper half of the photograph of Lady Penrose which Ramson sent to Lady Penrose as a warning, Lord Penrose tells Holmes that Ramson murdered an actor in Lady Penrose's acting company five years earlier in Quebec. It is obvious that Ramson killed that actor because that actor was in an intimate relationship with Lillian Gentry (before she retired from acting and became Lady Penrose when she married Lord Penrose). Ramson told Holmes that he killed Lady Penrose because he "couldn't bear any other man possessing her" and yet he apparently never made any attempt on the life of Lord Penrose after Lord Penrose married Lillian Gentry. So why didn't Ramson hold a grudge against Lord Penrose? And why did Holmes say to Watson regarding Alistair Ramson in Alistair Ramson's secret dressing room at the De La Porte Hotel that "Obviously Journet is to be his next victim", when it could conceivably have been either Lord Penrose or Emile Journet that was Alistair Ramson's next intended victim? In "The Scarlet Claw", Holmes never seems to consider the possibility that Ramson would hold a grudge against or make an attempt on the life of Lord Penrose for his marrying Lillian Gentry!
I was somewhat taken aback that Holmes didn't even nick ransom when he was shooting at him. He wasn't firing willy nilly.
@ Andrew Frankovic. Yeah it is amazing in "The Scarlet Claw" that Holmes could completely miss a large, glowing-in-the-dark target (albeit a moving target) in that movie! Another absurdity is that Alistair Ramson's phosphorescent-coated shirt was able to maintain it's bright glow not only at nighttime on the marshes in La Mour Rouge, but also in a room at the De La Porte Hotel illuminated by candlelight! Even if Ramson had the electric light in his room turned on just prior to Holmes, Watson and Sgt.Thompson's arrival at the De La Porte Hotel to question Ramson (disguised as Tanner), that single light would be insufficiently bright to keep the shirt glowing brightly after Holmes blows out the candle on the table! It would need at least 10-20 minutes exposure to full sunlight in order to glow that brightly on the marshes or in Ramson's room!
wow good sleuthing! I noticed the fact that Sherlock failed to shoot Ramson, and that Watson shows the Sgt. to their room in the end even if he already tried to wake Sherlock whom used the "pillow under the covers" trick. What I didn't acknowledge was that Ramson should also have gone after Lord Penrose if he truly couldn't bare another man possessing Lady Penrose. I again congratulate you.
@@SBaker83 . Thanks for the compliment about my observations about some flaws in the great Rathbone/Bruce Universal Studios' Sherlock Holmes film, "The Scarlet Claw". I must point out that it was actually the character Emile Journet who attempted to wake-up Sherlock Holmes and discovered that Holmes had placed a suitcase under the blanket to make someone checking on him erroneously think that Holmes was asleep in bed. At 27 minutes,34 seconds into the film, you can see that it is Emile Journet not Sgt. Thompson that tries to wake-up Sherlock Holmes.
some of the old ones are THE BEST
My favorite of the Basil Rathbone episodes in the S.Holmes series..
Penrose didn't seem to care at all about his wife it was more about the monsters that live there
hey a monster is a monster, a wife is just a wife!
Great Movie--TY
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893:
Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice - 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen - 1908
Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen - 1911
Mack Sennett - 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury - 1916
Hugo Fink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore - 1922
Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick - 1945
Tom Conway - 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley - 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes)
Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger - 1972
John Cleese - 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
Rolf Becker - 1974
John Wood - 1974-1975
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker - 1982
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Guy Rolfe - 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987
Anthony Higgins - 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell - 1993
Patrick McNee - 1993
Anthony Higgins - 1993
1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids
Matt Frewer - 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James D’Arcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett - 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan - 2007
Roger Llewellyn - 2009
Ben Syder - 2010
Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
Christian Rode - 2010, 2014
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen - 2015
Euan Morton - 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor - 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube)
Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell - 2018
Nicholas Boulton - 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on RUclips)
Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv.
(Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-RUclips)
This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and TV adaptations.
I see this same comment posted on all the Sherlock Holmes movies.
@@kmarch6630 : Trust me not all of them (LOL)
I had no idea there were so many ! I guessed maybe 8 !
Thanks for the list.
Brilliant!
04:55 The Butler is Ian Wolfe, in Star Trek and other movies/TV roles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wolfe
@Deborah B Yes, Thanks. Ian Woolfe sends Spock and McCoy to an ice planet through a portal where they meet Mariette Hartley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Our_Yesterdays_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Star trek do you know how this movie is
He must be very very old in startreck
@@stevesetek8861 pretty good!
Maria' is a fine-looking girl
A true beauty 😍 I like how Watson went off on the father for strikeing her
Good job dr Watson s
Holems then says its none of our
Business bulshit good old smug sherlock holes
@ Steve Setek. Not to be picky, but Journet's daughter in "The Scarlet Claw" is named Marie not Maria.
Does anyone know what is the title of the song that the character Alistair Ramson sings as he is talking to the innkeeper in the Sherlock Holmes film "The Scarlet Claw"?
The British Grenadiers, ca. 18th Century
Yeah I don't understand what he was singing when he walks into the hotel with the mail
Yes I can't understand what he is singing g
Does anyone know the title of the song that the patrons of Emile Journet's Cafe are singing in the scene in "The Scarlet Claw" in which Holmes and Watson return to Journet's Cafe after Alistair Ramson escaped from the De LaPorte Hotel after Holmes confronted Alistair Ramson after Alistair Ramson killed Judge Brisson?
You really really need to get out more
great shows.
thanks for sharing
25:22 Foster Brooks, ladies and gentlemen...
LOLOL-I wonder how many people will know who you are speaking of.
Foster Brooks what is that about what do you mean
@@stevesetek8861 Drunk. Google him, Steve.
No
A two minute commercial every 4 minutes if just too much. Like Rathbone and Bruce in these roles but not so much that so many commercials are worth it. Tah, tah ARF.
Buenísimo...Soy argentino
How can you enjoy a movie with commercials every couple of mins…I’ve tried several times to watch this & just get Discouraged
If my friend was shutting me up every time I try to speak and always goofing on me he wouldn't be my friend for long
Then you wouldn't deserve that friend
I wish they didn't always make Dr.Watson out to be such a bumbling fool.
@32:20: Ah yes, the literally brilliant camouflage of glowing at night, which is apparently also punishable by death.
So, Holmes travelled abroad with a pistol and figured he'd shoot a person in a foreign country. Smart, Holmes, very smart. Is this not just attempted murder by Holmes?
Thank you 🤩🤩🤩💖💖
An interesting continuity error in the screenplay of "The Scarlet Claw" is that which occurs between the scene in the film in which Holmes shows the torn lower half of the photograph of Lady Penrose that Holmes found in Alistair Ramson's room at the De Laporte Hotel to Watson and Sgt.Thompson in Holmes and Watson's room at Emile Journet's Cafe & Hotel and the scene at the end of the movie, in which Watson , after announcing to the patrons of Journet's Cafe that he and Holmes are leaving immediately for London, tells Sgt. Thompson that Holmes wants to speak with him for a minute in Holmes' room, and then points out to Sgt. Thompson Holmes' room on the 2nd floor of the cafe by stating that it is the second room on the right at the top of the stairs. Sgt. Thompson already knew where Holmes and Watson's room was from when he was there earlier in the scene in which Holmes showed him and Watson the lower half of the photograph of Lady Penrose. So why does Watson tell Sgt. Thompson where Watson and Holmes' room is at the end of the movie when Thompson already knew where it is?
To line up the switch with him.
@@randb4865 . The point that I was making is that Watson did not need to point to Holmes and Watson's room on the second floor of Journet's Cafe and tell Sgt.Thompson that the room is the second one on the right side, since Thompson already knew where it was from the earlier scene in "The Scarlet Claw". In other words, Watson's pointing out the room to Sgt.Thompson does not in any way enhance Holmes and Watson's deceiving Alistair Ramson into believing that Holmes and Watson are leaving immediately for London or that Holmes is on the second floor and doesn't help Holmes to switch places with Journet once Journet is outside the cafe. It is totally unnecessary for Watson to point out to Sgt.Thompson where on the second floor Holmes and Watson's room is. All Watson has to do is tell Sgt.Thompson that Holmes would like to see him in Holmes' room. That would have been sufficient to deceive Alistair Ramson into thinking that Holmes is on the second floor awaiting to talk to Sgt.Thompson when in reality Holmes is outside the cafe switching places with Emile Journet.
I suggest you not worry about it and just continue to enjoy the film
@@FHouseOM . I do not "worry about it" at all. I merely point out that error in the screenplay. Even if Holmes asked Watson to point out to Sgt. Thompson their room so as to not let the killer know that Sgt. Thompson had already met with Holmes and Watson in their room earlier in the movie, that knowledge would not tip off Alistair Ramson that Holmes was planning to switch places with cafe/hotel owner Emile Journet after Journet leaves the cafe to supposedly go to the church to offer a prayer for his murdered daughter Marie who Alistair Ramson had killed.
@@michaelbarlow6610 do you lose sleep over that?