Cast: Nigel Bruce

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Synopsis Limelight (1952) is a poignant drama directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film follows Calvero, a once-famous but now washed-up clown, who saves a young ballerina, Terry, from a suicide attempt. As he nurses her back to health, Calvero...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Laurence Olivier · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders · Judith Anderson

Synopsis In Rebecca (1940), a young, timid woman marries a wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, and moves to his grand estate, Manderley. Struggling to adapt to her new role, she feels overshadowed by the lingering presence of Maxim's first wife, Rebecca,...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Joan Fontaine · Cedric Hardwicke · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jackie Cooper · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis When young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) finds a treasure map inside a pirate�s chest, he�s headed off on a high adventure. Hawkins and family friend Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) set off to find the buried treasure, without knowing that half...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Patric Knowles · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Edna Best · Eddie Albert · Albert Basserman

Synopsis An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone

Synopsis The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · George Montgomery · Lynne Overman

Synopsis Sassy '20s Chicago dance hall girl Roxie (Rogers) decides to take the fall when hubby (Chandler) murders a man (She sees it as a publicity boost to her career). Slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Menjou) knows he can get the tootsie...

Direction Harold Young

Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Gardner · Merle Oberon · Raymond Massey

Synopsis From the famous novel by Baroness Orczy, this is the fictionalized story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the saviour of the French aristocracy during the bloody revolution of the 18th century. Known as a dandy British aristocrat to his friends by...

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Barbara Stanwyck · Alexis Smith · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis A psychopathic artist has a penchant for painting portraits of his wives as "The Angel of Death" and then poisoning them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest to pose...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Nigel Bruce · Rhys Williams · Rosalind Ivan

Synopsis Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Richard Greene · Basil Rathbone · Wendy Barrie · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound. First casting of Rathbone...

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gerald Hamer · Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Maria Montez · Rita Corday · Henry Daniell

Synopsis Charles II, the King of England, finds himself in exile in Holland, where he falls in love with a beautiful farm-girl.

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Aubrey Mather · Dennis Hoey

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Fontaine · Thomas Mitchell · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis Aristocratic Prudence Cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the WAFs. After enlisting, a fellow WAF sets her up on a blind date with handsome, but moody Clive Briggs. Prudence learns Clive is a deserter, but still loves him and...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Ida Lupino · George Zucco

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) goes head to head against his archenemy, Professor Moriarty (George Zucco), who's planning to steal the Star of Delhi gem from the Crown Jewels. To keep the intrepid detective from figuring out his main caper, Moriarty...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast William Powell · Annabella · Helen Westley · Henry Stephenson

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Marjorie Riordan · John Abbott

Synopsis Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father's assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade...