Movies produced in 1944

Scarlet Claw, The [1944, USA]

Holmes vs. Monster!

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Gerald Hamer | Paul Cavanagh | Arthur Hohl | Kay Harding | Miles Mander | David Clyde | Ian Wolfe | Victoria Horne | Harry Allen | Ted Billings | Bill Cartledge | Charles Francis | Olaf Hytten | Directors: Roy William Neill |  Download: DivX   iPod   Master detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) travel to the backwoods town of La Mort Rouge, Canada to investigate a string of gruesome slayings. All the victims have been found with their throats slit. The locals believe in supernatural powers and attribute the murders to the legendary phantom monster that roams the marshes around the village. But the skeptical sleuth deduces that the ghostly killer is in fact a disguised villager who exacts revenge on those who have wronged him. So Holmes devises an elaborate trap for the murderer...

Spider Woman, The [1944, USA]

Here is crawling death sent to Sherlock Holmes by the most fiendish killer of all... (2 more taglines...)

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Gale Sondergaard | Dennis Hoey | Vernon Downing | Alec Craig | Arthur Hohl | Mary Gordon | Teddy Infuhr | Wilson Benge | John Burton | Harry Cording | Stanley Logan | John Roche | John Rogers | Directors: Roy William Neill |  Download: DivX   iPod   Based on several stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this riveting murder mystery finds master sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) trying to solve the case of the "Pajama Suicides." London is rocked by a rash of baffling suicides of wealthy gamblers, but Holmes in inclined to believe that they are premeditated murders. He feigns his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian officer with a paralyzed arm, so that he can move undetected all around the city. He stalks the city's gaming clubs and eventually meets a mysterious, perfidious woman named Adria Spedding (Gale Sondergaard). To his dismay, Holmes soon falls into Spedding's clutches from which he may never escape...

Pearl of Death, The [1944, USA]

The master minds tackle the master crimes! (1 more taglines...)

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Dennis Hoey | Evelyn Ankers | Miles Mander | Ian Wolfe | Charles Francis | Holmes Herbert | Richard Nugent | Mary Gordon | Rondo Hatton | J.W. Austin | Wilson Benge | Billy Bevan | Harry Cording | Directors: Roy William Neill |  Download: DivX   iPod   Based on a Conan Doyle's story "The Six Napoleons," this enigmatic crime thriller follows the investigation of master detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) when the priceless "Borgia Pearl", a jewel with a sinister reputation for bringing murder to its owner, is stolen from the British Museum in London by master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander). The investigation takes a weird turn when a series of ghastly murders begins, and Holmes discovers the link between the two cases.