Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'The Scarlet Claw' right now, here are some important things to know about the Universal Pictures horror flick. The Scarlet Claw starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 14 min. The release date of the movie is May 26th, 1944. The movie received a user score of 69/100 on TMDb, which comes from reviews from 98 active users.
Need a fast recap before watching? Here's the plot: "When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer."
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Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.
