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Movies produced in 1944
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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnaped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled over by Tollea's evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who, besides having designs on her new prisoner Ramu, also desires to eliminate any competition from her benevolent sister. |
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An Egyptian high priest (John Carradine) travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.). Learning that Ananka^Òs spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest^Òs greedy desires cause him to loose control of the mummy... |
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