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The Scarlet Claw

Year:

1944

Duration:

74 min

Genres:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Roy William Neill

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1944-05-26

Filming Locations: Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Gertrude Astor

Basil Rathbone

Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce

Doctor Watson

Gerald Hamer

Potts

Paul Cavanagh

Lord Penrose

Arthur Hohl

Emile Journet

Miles Mander

Judge Brisson

Kay Harding

Marie Journet

David Clyde

Police Sergeant Thompson

Ian Wolfe

Drake

Victoria Horne

Nora

Harry Allen

Bill Taylor

Frank Austin

Villager in Pub with Dr. Watson (uncredited)

Brandon Beach

Member of Royal Canadian Occult Society (uncredited)

Ted Billings

Villager in Pub (uncredited)

Horace B. Carpenter

Villager in Pub (uncredited)

Bill Cartledge

Hotel Bellhop (uncredited)

William Desmond

Member of Royal Canadian Occult Society (uncredited)

Al Ferguson

Attendant (uncredited)

Clyde Fillmore

Inspector (uncredited)

Charles Francis

Sir John (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten

Hotel Day Desk Clerk (uncredited)

George Kirby

Father Pierre (uncredited)

Charles Knight

Assistant Police Inspector (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

Member of Royal Canadian Occult Society (uncredited)

Norbert Muller

Page-boy (uncredited)

Pietro Sosso

Andy Trent (uncredited)

Jack Tornek

Villager In Pub (uncredited)

Tony Travers

Musician (uncredited)

Eric Wilton

Hotel Evening Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The eighth of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

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Listed in Journet's inn-register is Tom McKnight of New York. McKnight was an adviser on Universal's Holmes series.

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Basil Rathbone's last words, drowned out by the music, appear to be "God bless him" (in reference to Winston Churchill).

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Goofs

When Holmes and Watson rush to Judge Brisson's house when they learn of his murder, they enter the foyer leaving the front door wide open. Holmes goes to close the door in the next slide and the door is barely cracked open.

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The name of the village, La Mort Rouge, is misspelled (La Morte rouge) on the map which is visible in one scene.

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After Holmes tells Watson that the quotation he recited was from Churchill, he utters another word or two, but all we hear is the music signaling the film's end.

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Quotes

Sherlock Holmes: Poor, innocent little child. I should have prevented this!

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Lord Penrose: [to Holmes] Several of our most responsible citizens have actually seen the strange apparition on the moors at night.

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Sherlock Holmes: Relations of friendly intimacy with the United States on the one hand and their unswerving fidelity to the British commonwealth and the motherland on the other. Canada, the link which joins together these great branches of the human family.

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Faq

Chicago Opening Happened When?

The Scarlet Claw (Universal)Opened in Chicago on Saturday, May 20, 1944 at the RKO Palace as the bottom-half of a double-bill which featured "Chip Off the Old Block", a film starring Donald OConnor. No review.[

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