Sherlock Holmes in the Spider Woman

Amazon.com 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 Spider Woman (1944) employs details of Holmes’s apparent death and resurrection between “The Final Problem” and its follow-up, “The Adventure of the Empty House.” But the movie takes a different direction when a bizarre series of late-night “pajama suicides” finds Holmes probing the involvement of a femme fatale. Of the quartet of features in this set (all produced and directed by the energetic Roy William Neill) Spider Woman has the most vivacity and familiar textures from Doyle’s canon. –Tom Keogh Product Description Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. Holmes is ensnared in a murderous web of death as a rash of suicides plague London. 1944/b&w/62 min/NR/fullscreen.

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• Factory sealed DVD