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The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Mystery | 74 minutes
3,26 41 votes

Genre: Mystery / Crime

Duration: 74 minuten

Alternative title: Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw

Country: United States

Directed by: Roy William Neill

Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Gerald Hamer

IMDb score: 7,2 (6.382)

Releasedate: 18 May 1944

The Scarlet Claw plot

"Holmes vs. Monster!"

Eighth film in the Sherlock-Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone. When a woman is murdered in a small Canadian town, it is rumored that it is the work of a ghost. Sherlock Holmes refuses to believe this and sets out to investigate.

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otherfool

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The swamps do provide some atmosphere and I actually liked the monster (unfortunately the supernatural is unmasked too quickly in this), but otherwise the film couldn't really captivate me. Somehow I felt that the plot dragged on more than in many of the other episodes. The relatively high score for this episode therefore surprises me a little.

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Movsin

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In those films where world-famous detectives (Holmes, Poirot...) take matters into their own hands, you know in advance that those guys will solve the problem. The point is of course that the road to that solution is paved with an interesting and acceptable intrigue, full of surprises and suspicions - hopefully your suspect is the right one - to keep it interesting for the viewer and of course you must be able to accept that those shrews will always will be one step ahead.

This "Scarlet Claw" is definitely cast in this pattern. You can gloat in the shrewdness of a Sherlock, the naivete and clumsiness of a Watson and in the end the story and the action make sense. In addition, Rathbone and Bruce are well suited for such roles.

Thus quite successful and....1944..discrete, as far as violence is concerned.

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wendyvortex

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I'm a little afraid that those older Sherlock Holes films with Basil Rathbone don't quite suit me. Story with a lot of potential, but it all has to be told fairly simply and then also in a short running time of 74 minutes. In terms of camera work and sets, it is all sober. All a bit dramatic.

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