The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Country: US
Technical: bw 74m
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a mysterious series of killings in a small Quebec village, in an attempt to disprove the rumour that they are the work of a supernatural beast.
Review:
Taking its cue from James Whale's Invisible Man and Universal's Wolf Man films, William Neill's thriller presents a Canadian location known as La Morte (sic) Rouge as little different from a Hollywood English village. The acting and script are pretty stiff, and the circumstances of the plot coincidental in the extreme, but there are one or two tense sequences in the series's best style. On the other hand, the epilogue features an atrocious bit of glad-handing towards the Canadian authorities currently abetting the Allied efforts in Europe.
Country: US
Technical: bw 74m
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a mysterious series of killings in a small Quebec village, in an attempt to disprove the rumour that they are the work of a supernatural beast.
Review:
Taking its cue from James Whale's Invisible Man and Universal's Wolf Man films, William Neill's thriller presents a Canadian location known as La Morte (sic) Rouge as little different from a Hollywood English village. The acting and script are pretty stiff, and the circumstances of the plot coincidental in the extreme, but there are one or two tense sequences in the series's best style. On the other hand, the epilogue features an atrocious bit of glad-handing towards the Canadian authorities currently abetting the Allied efforts in Europe.
Country: US
Technical: bw 74m
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a mysterious series of killings in a small Quebec village, in an attempt to disprove the rumour that they are the work of a supernatural beast.
Review:
Taking its cue from James Whale's Invisible Man and Universal's Wolf Man films, William Neill's thriller presents a Canadian location known as La Morte (sic) Rouge as little different from a Hollywood English village. The acting and script are pretty stiff, and the circumstances of the plot coincidental in the extreme, but there are one or two tense sequences in the series's best style. On the other hand, the epilogue features an atrocious bit of glad-handing towards the Canadian authorities currently abetting the Allied efforts in Europe.