Films with: Bruce, Nigel

Dressed to kill

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the theft of a friend's music boxes.

DVD 809

Limelight

Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.

DVD 5735

Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon

Sherlock Holmes battles his arch rival, Professor Moriarty, who has kidnapped the inventor of a new bombsite.

DVD 811

Sherlock Holmes double feature

Sherlock Holmes in Washington: A British secret service operative carrying top-secret microfilm from England to Washington disappears while traveling to his destination. Filmed during WWII, this film pits Holmes and Watson against Nazi enemy agents. Sherlock Holmes faces death: Dr. Watson, tending recuperating soldiers housed at centuries-old Musgrave Manor, summons Sherlock Holmes to investigate strange happenings. What follows is a bizarre series of events, including murders, secret passages, a game of chess and a mysterious family ritual.

DVD 11666

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The hound of the Baskervilles

The first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. After learning the history of the Baskerville curse from the hirsute Dr. Mortimer, Sherlock Holmes takes upon himself the responsibility of protecting sole heir Henry Baskerville from suffering the same fate as his ancestors: a horrible death at the fangs of the huge hound of Grimpen Moor. Unable to head to Baskerville mansion immediately, Holmes sends his colleague Dr. Watson to act as his surrogate. What Watson doesn't know is that Holmes, donning several clever disguises, is closely monitoring the activities of everyone in and around the estate.

DVD 11461

Stand up and cheer!

FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.

DVD 6359

Suspicion

Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.

DVD 5783

Terror by night

A "cursed" diamond is the object of a determined thief and at the center of murder while being transported on a train form London to Edinburgh.

DVD 810

Woman in green

In this film, freely adapted from "The Adventure of the Empty House", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes hunts for the missing link in a series of bizarre murders. The trail leads straight to the fiendish Professor Moriarty.

DVD 812