Sherlock Holmes - The Scarlet Claw (DVD)

Sherlock Holmes - The Scarlet ClawGenre: Mystery & SuspenseLabel: Mpi Home VideoDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce. Holmes and Watson journey to Canada to solve a series of ghastly and ghostly murders. 1944/b&w/74 min/NR/fullscreen. AMAZON Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. The Scarlet Claw (1944) is an original screenplay with elements loosely inspired by Doyle's The Adventure of the Dancing Men. A skeptical Holmes and Watson (Nigel Bruce) attend a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society in Canada but are soon looking into a killing spree attributed to a fanciful marsh monster. Fantastic events are soon supplanted by an even stranger horror concerning a master actor bent on revenge. --Tom Keogh