Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - 10 Movies

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Raymond Massey
Studio: St Clair Entertainment Group, Inc
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 5 reviews
Sales Rank: 31434

Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, Mono, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 720 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: STCDSC88399D
UPC: 777966883991
EAN: 0777966883991
ASIN: B0007LFQ9C

Release Date: March 15, 2005
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - 10 Movies

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Customer Reviews



1 out of 5 stars Misleading    August 29, 2008
Frankie (Reno, NV)
I honestly thought that Basil Rathbone would play the lead character and was disappointed to find out that he is only in a couple of the 10 movies. The pre-Basil Rathbone stories were true to Arthur Conan Doyle, but the quality of the film used was inferior.


4 out of 5 stars Sherlock Holmes    May 26, 2008
Vanessa Gray (Arizona)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Thoroughly enjoyed classic Black and white editions of Sherlock Holmes.
Somehow that increased the level of suspense. Excellent acting by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Intriguing plot lines and very innocent dialog, especially refreshing from today's vulgar use of expletives.

Great bargain, great entertainment for a rainy afternoon..thank you


3 out of 5 stars Tricky marketing -- this is for rabid Holmes fans only!    February 28, 2008
Patrick W. Crabtree (Lucasville, OH USA)
36 out of 38 found this review helpful

As has been mentioned, only three of these films star Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, so beware the impression that you get from the cover! The three Rathbone films that you DO get are the ones which have fallen into public domain and anyone may copy them.

I own all these films/episodes on various discs and if you're a HUGE Holmes fan, then this is probably an okay deal; however, the local Family Dollar stores and Big Lots offer most of these films on DVD at an even better price and in far superior assemblages. For example, I got the entire Ron Howard series on multiple discs in a single package at Big Lots for $6 bucks.

Also, all the Basil Rathbone films featured here are widely available for $1 per copy, each. Save-a-Lot stores offer all three in flat cardboard packaging.

Buyers should also beware that these are not the best prints available of the Rathbone films. For top clarity, get the UCLA film lab ones which were generated from pretty pristine 35mm prints of the original films. They are VERY good quality.

Finally, when you're out in search of these films, watch out that you don't buy "colorized" Rathbone films -- the pastel coloration is garish and renders these treasures into something quite fuzzy-looking and otherwise inferior.


2 out of 5 stars read product description carefully    November 25, 2007
Ludar (San Francisco, CA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

Cover shows Basil Rathbone but only one of the three disks are Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce movies. The others are older, sometimes poor quality, and greatly altered "versions" of Conan Doyle's stories.


4 out of 5 stars An "elementary" Holmes collection    August 5, 2007
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SHERLOCK HOLMES includes nine public domain mysteries from the 1930s and '40s. There's also an extra item on each of this set's three DVDs.

MYSTERY CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK COLLECTION is a related DVD collection of budget-priced vintage who-dun-its. Besides Holmes, other cinematic series featured here are Bulldog Drummond, Mr. Moto, Dick Tracy and Mr. Wong.

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings gathered by a film resource website.

(6.9) Dressed To Kill (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce
(5.9) Murder at the Baskervilles ("Silver Blaze") (UK-1937) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming
(5.6) Sherlock Holmes And The Deadly Necklace (France/Italy/W Ger-1962) - Christopher Lee/Thorley Walters/Senta Berger
(6.8) Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon (1943) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Lionel Atwill
(6.0) The Sign Of Four (UK-1932) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Hunter
(5.6) The Speckled Band (UK-1931) - Raymond Massey/Athole Stewart/Angela Badderly
(6.3) A Study In Scarlet (1933) - Reginald Owen/Warburton Gamble/Alan Mowbray/Anna May Wong
(7.0) Terror By Night (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Alan Mowbray
(6.1) The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes (UK-1935) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming
(6.9) The Woman In Green (1945) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Hillary Brooke

BONUS FEATURES:
Disc 1: About Sherlock Holmes
Disc 2: Rare Radio Highlights Of "Sherlock Holmes"
Disc 3: A Biography Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle