The Spider Woman is a 1944 film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Unlike most other adaptations of the Holmes stories, which retell only one of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this film incorporates elements from the novel The Sign of the Four, as well as the short stories The Dying Detective, The Final Problem, The Speckled Band and The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot. Cast Basil Rathbone — Sherlock Holmes Nigel Bruce — Dr. Watson Gale Sondergaard — Adrea Spedding Vernon Downing — Norman Locke Dennis Hoey — Inspector Lestrade Alec Craig — Radlik Arthur Hohl — Adam Gilflower Mary Gordon — Mrs. Hudson Teddy Infuhr — Larry Lydia Bilbrook — Susan (uncredited)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Outdated but wonderful the best Holmes ever
thank you for upload!!
An excellent movie. It has a good plot; strong performances by the main and secondary actors and actresses; and has good audio and visual reproductions, especially considering it is a 70 year old movie.
Remember when this movie was produced England was fighting for its very life against the Nazis. The British public needed something that was not war related for entertainment, and this fit the need perfectly.
Whatever happened to Nigel bruce?
40:25 Scriptwriter’s goof they didn’t pick up on.
“What was it, Holmes?”
“Guess,…we’ve been entertaining Miss Adria Spedding.”
He means “…entertaining the Spider Woman.”
‘Adria Spedding’ had been announced by name repeatedly by both herself and Mrs. Hudson on her arrival. What Watson didn’t know (and Holmes had known for a long time) was that this Miss Spedding was the actual culprit.
“What can’t be cured, must be endured.” We deride cliches but they contain eternal truths.
No boobs ?
Gale was fan seen her in a tv movie cat creature 1973 on here…..
I’ll bet most of you don’t know that, in real life, Basil Rathbone (Holmes) was older than Nigel Bruce (Watson).
Of all the actors who played Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone was the best. Nigel Bruce was the best Dr. watson.
You should watch BBC Sherlock 🙂 It is amazing and to all honesty; perfect.
48:26 gotta love the fattest lady in the world… perfectly normal shape these days!
Huh, there is a Spider Woman. I thought I just made that up. Cccccool
i love this vito show more
Gale Sondergaard was a brilliant actress.
You can see the shadow of the boom microphone on Watson’s face at 30:10.
pyjama suicide!!!!!!!!!
Guns? In Britain? Preposterous!
She is such a xenophile!
I thank God i know english, coz i came here after tiping “spanish ” 😛
29:11 trololol
Why i entered here when i searching “Within Temptation” -.- ?
I don’t remember this one!!!! Thanks!!!!!!
Ah, I love the intro musical numbers for old movies. Company logos have pretty much replaced them in new ones, and thus a lot of movie intro musics are actually pretty quiet. But I love the feeling how they subtly tell you “okay, now make no mistake, whatever’s coming now will make you crap your pants with excitement”.