Nigel Bruce
Bwana Devil (1952)
Bwana Devil is a 1952 American adventure B movie written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, and Nigel Bruce. Bwana Devil is based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters and filmed with the Natural Vision 3D system. The film is notable for sparking the first 3D film craze in the motion picture indus...
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•Adolphe Menjou•Lionel Atwill
Hong Kong (1952)
Hong Kong is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Lewis R. Foster and written by Winston Miller. The film stars Ronald Reagan and Rhonda Fleming, and the lead supporting actors are Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller, Mary Somerville and Lowell Gilmore. The film was released on January 12, 1952 by Paramount Pictures. It was rereleased in 1961 under th...
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•Ronald Colman•Victor McLaglen
Dressed to Kill (1946)
Dressed to Kill, released in 1946, also known as Prelude to Murder and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code in the United Kingdom, is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Basil Rathbone
Terror by Night (1946)
Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes crime drama directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The story revolves around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train.
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945) is the twelfth entry in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film series of fourteen. Elements in the story pay homage to an otherwise unrecorded affair mentioned by Dr. Watson at the beginning of the 1903 story "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", notably the steamship Friesland. Off-camera, Watson also recou...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)
The House of Fear is a 1945 crime film directed by Roy William Neill. It is loosely based on the 1891 short story "The Five Orange Pips" by Arthur Conan Doyle, and features the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is the 10th film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rosalind Russell•Rhonda Fleming
The Woman in Green (1945)
The Woman in Green is a 1945 American film, the eleventh of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Produced and directed by Roy William Neill, it stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Hillary Brooke as the woman of the title and Henry Daniell as Professor Moria...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adventure film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1941 novel of the same name, about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. Filmed in Technicolor, it was...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Otto Kruger
The Pearl of Death (1944)
The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the ninth of fourteen such films the pair made. The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" but features some additions, such as Evelyn Ankers as an accomplice of the villain, played by ...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Ida Lupino
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 American mystery thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, it is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series. David Stuart Davies notes on the film's DVD audio commentary that it's generally considered by c...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rosalind Russell•Rhonda Fleming
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Spider Woman is a 1943 mystery film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in. As with all of the Universal Studios films in the series, the film is set in then-present day as opposed to the Victorian setting of the original stories. This film incorpora...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Leo G. Carroll
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes 1893 story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual." Its three immediate predecessors in the film series were World War II spy adventures with Holmes and Dr. Watson ...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Helen Gahagan
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as an adaptation of Conan Doyle's 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," though the only element fr...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales.
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Journey for Margaret (1942)
Journey for Margaret is a 1942 American drama film set in London in World War II. It stars Robert Young and Laraine Day as a couple who have to deal with the loss of their unborn child due to a bombing raid. It is an adaptation of the book of the same name in which William Lindsay White and his wife described their experiences adopting an orphan in...
Starring: Doris Nolan•Rhonda Fleming•Ronald Reagan•Laraine Day
Roxie Hart (1942)
Roxie Hart is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and George Montgomery. A film adaptation of a 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, a journalist who found inspiration in two real-life Chicago trials she had covered for the press. The play had been adapted once prior, in a 1...
Starring: Richard Greene•Robert Stack•Rhonda Fleming•Brenda Joyce
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as an adaptation of Conan Doyle's 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," though the only element fr...
Starring: George Montgomery•Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 American mystery thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The film combines elements of Doyle's short story "His Last Bow", to which it is credited as an adaptation, and the real-life activities of Lord Haw-Haw.
Starring: Carol Bruce•Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
The Chocolate Soldier is a 1941 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It uses original music from the Oscar Straus 1908 operetta of the same name, which was based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man. Unable to come to terms with Shaw, the studio used a story to which it already had rights: the Ferenc Molnár play The Guards...
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•William Powell•Ronald Colman
Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion is a 1941 romantic psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact (1932).
Starring: Victor McLaglen•Rhonda Fleming•Joan Crawford•Myrna Loy•Otto Kruger•Claudette Colbert
This Woman Is Mine (1941)
This Woman Is Mine is a 1941 American adventure film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Franchot Tone, John Carroll and Walter Brennan. Richard Hageman was nominated at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture.
Starring: Nancy Carroll•Rhonda Fleming•Frances Dee
The Blue Bird (1940)
The Blue Bird is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck. Intended as 20th Century Fox's answer to MGM's The Wizard of Oz, which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a disagreeable...
Starring: George Brent•Rhonda Fleming•Gene Raymond
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a 1939 American mystery adventure film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Although claiming to be an adaptation of the 1899 play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, the film bears little resemblance to the play.
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Randolph Scott•Rhonda Fleming
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 American gothic mystery film based on the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. Released by 20th Century Fox, it is the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films pro...
Starring: Hillary Brooke•Rhonda Fleming•Cary Grant
The Rains Came (1939)
The Rains Came is a 1939 20th Century Fox film based on an American novel by Louis Bromfield. The film was directed by Clarence Brown and stars Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, and Maria Ouspenskaya.
Starring: Shirley Temple•Otto Kruger•Rhonda Fleming•Heather Angel•Franchot Tone
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1937 American comedy-drama film adapted from the 1925 Frederick Lonsdale play The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. The film tells the story of a chic jewel thief in England, who falls in love with one of her marks.
Starring: Ida Lupino•Rosalind Russell•Rhonda Fleming
Follow Your Heart (1936)
Follow Your Heart is a 1936 American film directed by Aubrey Scotto.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•Cedric Hardwicke•Spring Byington
The Man I Marry (1936)
The Man I Marry is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Harry Clork and M. Coates Webster. The film stars Doris Nolan, Michael Whalen, Charles "Chic" Sale, Nigel Bruce, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Marjorie Gateson, Cliff Edwards and Gerald Oliver Smith. The film was released on November 1, 1936, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming•Leo G. Carroll
Under Two Flags (1936)
Under Two Flags is a 1936 American adventure romance film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, and Rosalind Russell. The picture was based on the 1867 novel of the same name by the writer Ouida. The film was widely popular with audiences of its time. The supporting cast features Nigel Bruce, John C...
Starring: Nelson Eddy•Helen Gahagan•Marion Talley•Rhonda Fleming•Luis Alberni
She (1935)
She is a 1935 American film produced by Merian C. Cooper. Based on the 1887 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard, the screenplay draws on all the books in the series: the first aforementioned book, She and Allan, The Return of She and Wisdom's Daughter.
Starring: Tyrone Power•Rhonda Fleming•Doris Nolan
Coming Out Party (1934)
Coming Out Party is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Blystone starring Frances Dee, Gene Raymond, Alison Skipworth and Nigel Bruce. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Dame May Whitty•Richard Greene•Rhonda Fleming
Murder in Trinidad (1934)
Murder in Trinidad is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Louis King and starring Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory, and Murray Kinnell.
Starring: Brenda Joyce•Rhonda Fleming
Springtime for Henry (1934)
Springtime for Henry is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll and Nigel Bruce. It was based on a play of the same name by the British writer Benn W. Levy which enjoyed an eight-month run on Broadway. The film was made on a budget of $250,000 and suffered a considerable loss, taking only $126,00...
Starring: Risë Stevens•Carol Bruce•Rhonda Fleming