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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Patricia Morison , Edmund Breon , Frederick Worlock
Director: Roy William Neill

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Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of Death [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Dennis Hoey , Evelyn Ankers , Miles Mander
Director: Roy William Neill
Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific, seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. In the gripping Pearl of Death (1944), a then-contemporary update (set in the World War II years, as with most of the Rathbone-Holmes features) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Six Napoleons," a reluctant Holmes agrees to help a London museum recover a stolen, rare pearl. But the investigation takes a strange turn when the great detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), find their mystery linked to a series of odd murders involving the destruction of porcelain china. Typically, "Pearl of Death" has its share of inside jokes for true Sherlockians, including Holmes's declaration, "If I'm wrong, I'll move to Sussex and raise bees." Of course, that's exactly what Doyle's most famous character did upon retirement. --Tom Keogh

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Dressed to Kill & Night Train to Munich (2pc) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Patricia Morison , Edmund Breon , Frederick Worlock
Director: Carol Reed , Roy William Neill

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Sherlock Holmes - The House of Fear [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Aubrey Mather , Dennis Hoey , Paul Cavanagh
Director: Roy William Neill
Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific, seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. The House of Fear (1945), adapted from "The Five Orange Pips," is a chamber mystery concerning successive murders of the members of an elite club, the Good Comrades. On film, the tale seems a bit ludicrous, but its conclusion is among the most startling in the Rathbone films. There's also a fair amount of comedy between Watson (Nigel Bruce) and Inspector Lestrade's (Dennis Hoey) bumbling ways. --Tom Keogh

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Count of Monte Cristo [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Robert Donat , Elissa Landi , Louis Calhern , Sidney Blackmer , Raymond Walburn
From Wikipedia: The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas, père's novel, The Count of Monte Cristo. Directed by Rowland V. Lee and starred Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, and Louis Calhern. Plot: In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ship's captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. Before he dies of a sickness, the captain entrusts the task to his first officer, Edmond Dantes (Donat). However, the city magistrate, Raymond de Villefort Jr. (Louis Calhern), is tipped off by an informer, the second officer, and has both men arrested after the exchange. Dantes' "friend" Fernand (Sidney Blackmer) accompanies him to the jail. However, he, Danglers, and de Villefort all stand to gain from keeping Dantes imprisoned. The unfortunate young man is sent without trial to prison, on the false testimony of Danglers. When Napoleon returns to France, de Villefort signs a false statement that Dantes was killed trying to escape, which Mondego shows to Mercedes. Deceived, she gives in and marries Mondego. 8 years of solitary confinement follow for Dantes. Then one day, the aged Abbé Faria, a fellow pri...

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Ghost of Frankenstein [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Cedric Hardwicke , Lon Chaney Jr. , Ralph Bellamy , Lionel Atwill , Bela Lugosi
Director: Erle C. Kenton
The monster lives! Again! Picking up where Son of Frankenstein left off, Bela Lugosi's gnarled Ygor survives yet another rampage by angry, torch-carrying villagers and frees the monster (The Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney Jr., taking over from Boris Karloff) from his sulfur grave. The latest cinematic Frankenstein scion, brain surgeon Ludwig (Cedric Hardwicke), wants to dissect the creature, but the ghost of his father convinces him to save it by giving it a new, "good" brain. Ygor has his own devious plan and enlists Ludwig's shady assistant (Lionel Atwill) in a brain-switching scheme.

Ably directed by the pedestrian Erle C. Kenton, The Ghost of Frankenstein gives up the gothic mood and moral quandaries of the original films for the busy, action-packed plots that defined Universal horror films of the 1940s. The human characters are all rather dull (except for Lugosi's animated, eye-rolling performance), and Chaney has none of Karloff's pathos or subtlety under the make-up, but the film opens with a spectacular bang as the villagers dynamite the castle, and skips from one inspired scene to another. The monster rejuvenates himself during an electrical storm w...

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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family - Parts 1 & 2 [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Susan Damante , Robert Logan , Heather Rattray , Ham Larsen , George 'Buck' Flower
Director: Frank Zuniga , Stewart Raffill

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Invisible Agent [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Ilona Massey , Jon Hall , Peter Lorre , Cedric Hardwicke , J. Edward Bromberg
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Spurred by an unfriendly visit from Axis reps, Frank Raymond (Jon Hall), the grandson of the original invisible fella, realizes his duty is clear. That is, he must turn over the formula for his grandfather's invisibility serum to the U.S. government before the Nazis get hold of it, and volunteer his invisible self as a secret weapon to obtain classified Nazi secrets. So The Invisible Heir turns Invisible Paratrooper and jumps behind enemy lines to wrangle with their high command, make time with delectable counterintelligence agent Ilona Massey, make monkeys out of a gaggle of Nazis, and uncover the Axis plans to bomb New York City! Tonight! With or without Giuliani! This is the third in Universal's series of '40s takes on the invisibility theme, and a dandy one it is. While the dialogue may strike some as being afflicted with flattened affectation, and the antics invisibility is wont to entice may seem silly, this flick is done up in the atmospheric horror mode that Universal perfected in the mid-'30s to mid-'40s, sporting many finely tuned moments of dark intrigue to complement the screwy business. Cedric Hardwicke adds weight and style to the Nazi side, while Peter Lorre portrays...

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Stanley & Livingstone [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Spencer Tracy , Nancy Kelly , Richard Greene , Walter Brennan , Charles Coburn
Director: Henry King , Otto Brower

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