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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.