The film is the first in a series of 14 movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in their respective roles.

1931's Frankenstein is an undisputed classic, bested only by its own sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, in 1935. The two films get a lot of love, well-deserved at that, and cast a long shadow over their ...

With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first stars of ...

Film: North side of the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard Basil Rathbone's roles ranged from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes. His career spanned 56 years, two continents and all theatrical mediums, but ...

Our Old News about Ouida Bergere Rathbone (18??-1974) began with a Little Rock girl named Eula May Branch whose acting ambitions led to a significant enough career writing silent movies. But she was ...

When it comes to setting the scene for a Sherlock Holmes film, it's hard to imagine anyone one-upping the masterful, Oscar-nominated art direction in Guy Ritchie's 2009 take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rathbone - celebrated by many as the 'real' Holmes - has told how Sherlock was a curse that ruined his credibility as an actor British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of ...