Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), but this was the first of several pictures ...

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 ...

Henry Cavill played the soft and emotional version of Sherlock Holmes who cared about his sister, Enola. Brett’s portrayal is ...

was Holmes’s first words to Dr Watson (played ... A particularly intriguing story which was used for the inspiration of one of Basil Rathbone’s films, The Pearl of Death in 1944.

...Weapon. Sherlock Holmes mystery with Basil Rathbone. The arch-detective confronts the dreaded Moriarty. Nigel Bruce co-stars as Dr Watson. (1942) (65 mins) We’re ...

She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.

Mystery thriller with Sherlock Holmes embarking on a search for a killer in a house for retired military types. Basil Rathbone returns with Nigel Bruce. We’re sorry ...

A new modern day Sherlock Holmes TV series has many elements of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories — except the famed detective.

The iconic line first appeared in the 1929 film "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" starring Clive Brook and was later popularised in Basil Rathbone's iconic portrayal of the detective. The ...