"Actor: Basil Rathbone"

• The Court Jester | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £13.94   |  Saving you £-3.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This spectacular production features the tremendous pageantry and color of 12th-century England and the considerable talents of Danny Kaye. Kaye plays a court jester who becomes involved with outlaws trying to overthrow the king. In between singing dancing and clowning he still finds time for some jousting with knights dangerous duels with swordsmen and rescuing damsels in distress. A delightful comedy for the whole family.

• Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (Digitally Remastered) | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.00

  A collection of classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries starring the incomparable Basil Rathbone in the definitive portrayal of the Victorian super-sleuth... Films Comprise: 1. Sherlock Holmes And The Hound Of The Baskervilles 2. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 3. Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror 4. Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon 5. Sherlock Holmes In Washington 6. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 7. Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman 8. Sherlock Holmes And The Pearl

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (100.14%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing technicolour adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold--music that became a template for countless later movies, notably John Williams' Star Wars and Indiana Jones scores. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor". Stocky Alan Hale Sr plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks' silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. --Sean Axmaker

• The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection - Volume 12 | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £7.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (111.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release. The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance - featuring new transfers from the best available elements in their correct aspect ratio this multi-volume collection showcases a range of scarce films from both Basil Dean's and Michael Balcon's tenure as studio head making them available once more to the general public. Three Men In A Boat (1933)An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends - and a dog - as they take a boating holiday on the Thames. Loyalties (1933)The sole Jewish guest at a Society gathering is robbed; when he exposes a fellow guest as the thief he finds the veneer of racial tolerance to be disturbingly thin... The Bailiffs (1932)In one of their earliest films Crazy Gang stars Flanagan and Allen star as a couple of incompetent broker's men who take possession of the wrong house... Laburnum Grove (1936)A respectable suburban householder shocks unwelcome visiting relatives by telling them that he is now a forger working for a criminal gang.

• The Hound of the Baskervilles | Blu Ray | (30/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sir Basil Rathbone stars as the inimitable Detective Sherlock Holmes in The thrilling mystery of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in mysterious circumstances, with the locals ascribing his demise to the ancient family curse a paranormal hellhound, said to roam the moors searching for its prey. With the trusty aid of Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce), Holmes sets out to uncover the truth and solve the mystery of the terrifying hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the family curse. Extras: Interview with Sir Christopher Frayling, writer and presenter of Nightmare, The Birth of Horror Interview with Basil Rathbone biographer Michael Druxman

• The Mark Of Zorro | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £16.40   |  Saving you £-6.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The jagged mark of his sword struck terror to every heart but one! This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who single-handedly saves Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California where he finds his father the Alcade deposed and the people living in tyranny. Disguised as Zorro a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black he works to restore his father to power and return tax money stolen by the villains (J. Edward Bromberg Basil Rathbone). He even finds time to romance the ruling tyrant's beautiful niece (Linda Darnell). This celebrated screen adventure is filled with action adventure excitement and romance as well as featuring 'one of cinema's best ever duels' (Empire).

• Son Of Frankenstein | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Son Of Frankenstein (1939)

• Sherlock Holmes And The House Of Fear | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £8.85   |  Saving you £-2.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sherlock Holmes ever abetted by the trusty Watson investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims...

• Bing Crosby Collection - Rhythm On The River / Rhythm On The Range | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rhythm On The River (Dir. Victor Schertzinger 1940): Bing Crosby and Mary Martin play a pair of star-crossed ghostwriters he of melody and she of lyrics who discover that the man they write for is a fake but their love for each other is real. Rhythm On The Range (Dir. Norman Taurog 1936): Bing plays a singing cowboy out where the b-b-b-buffalo roam in this lighthearted musical western.

• Tales of Terror | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tales of Terror is a trio of Edgar Allen Poe stories, starring three of horror's greats--Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre--and produced and directed by the immortal Roger Corman. The first story, "Morella", involves a girl (Debra Paget) who returns to her isolated, spooky family home to see her estranged father (Price) for the first time in 26 years. He's let the housekeeping slide a bit--cobwebs abound and, oh, yes, his dead wife is still upstairs. Peter Lorre joins the fun for "The Black Cat", a piece with comic flavour that allows Price to show his rarely seen silly side, and then it's Basil Rathbone's turn to be creepy in "The Case of M Valdemar", the tale of a mesmerist who decides to experiment with the unknown (bad idea). The movie is well paced, and makes good use of comedy without undercutting its chills. It's a rare treat to see this many masters of the genre working together and so clearly enjoying themselves. --Ali Davis

• The Black Cat (1941) DVD UK | DVD | (18/04/2016) from £8.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (99.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The family of wealthy, elderly Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) gathers for an advance reading of her will. Believing Henrietta is near death, her nephew, Montague (Basil Rathbone), has brought along realtor Gil Smith (Broderick Crawford). Dismayed that the family anticipates her demise, Henrietta reads her will and stuns everyone by adding that no one can inherit until the estate guardian, Abigail (Gale Sondergaard), dies. When Henrietta is murdered, Abigail fears her own life is in danger.

• The Hound Of The Baskervilles | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A man runs for his life through the moors breathless and frightened. Behind him we hear the baying of a hound a sound so fearful it chills the soul. The man falls. From the desolate rocky nightscape another man peers: He is bearded and rough looking perhaps a convict from the nearby prison.... Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in their first outing as Holmes and Watson in this celebrated adaptation of The Hound Of The Baskervilles....

• We're No Angels | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £15.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (4.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three convicts - Joseph (Bogart) Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix (Leo G. Carrol) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone) who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems the convicts return to prison convinced that the world is much too wicked!

• Tales Of Terror | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £11.26   |  Saving you £1.73 (15.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tales of Terror is a trio of Edgar Allen Poe stories, starring three of horror's greats--Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre--and produced and directed by the immortal Roger Corman. The first story, "Morella", involves a girl (Debra Paget) who returns to her isolated, spooky family home to see her estranged father (Price) for the first time in 26 years. He's let the housekeeping slide a bit--cobwebs abound and, oh, yes, his dead wife is still upstairs. Peter Lorre joins the fun for "The Black Cat", a piece with comic flavour that allows Price to show his rarely seen silly side, and then it's Basil Rathbone's turn to be creepy in "The Case of M Valdemar", the tale of a mesmerist who decides to experiment with the unknown (bad idea). The movie is well paced, and makes good use of comedy without undercutting its chills. It's a rare treat to see this many masters of the genre working together and so clearly enjoying themselves. --Ali Davis

• Sherlock Holmes - The Basil Rathbone Collection | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Four classic Sherlock Holmes movies with the legendary Basil Rathbone portraying the master of disguise. Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Professor Moriarity has a scheme for stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London. To get Holmes involved, he persuades a gaucho flute player to murder a girl. The Woman in Green: Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. Dressed to Kill: Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

• The Mark of Zorro | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Jagged Mark of His Sword Struck Terror to Every Heart - But One!This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who single-handedly saves Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California, where he finds his father, the Alcade, deposed and the people living in tyranny. Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, he works to restore his father to power and return tax money stolen by the villains (J. Edward Bromberg, Basil Rathbone). He even finds time to romance the ruling tyrant's beautiful niece (Linda Darnell).This celebrated screen adventure is filled with action, adventure, excitement and romance, as well as featuring 'one of cinema's best ever duels' (Empire).

• Classic Frankenstein Triple | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Intermezzo | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Tyrone Power - Mark Of Zorro / Razor's Edge / Yank In The RAF / Big Trail In Old Chicago / Second Fiddle | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £18.88   |  Saving you £16.11 (46.00%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Mark Of Zorro (Dir. Rouben Mamoulian 1940): This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who single-handedly saves Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California where he finds his father the Alcade deposed and the people living in tyranny. Disguised as Zorro a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black he works to restore his father to

• Sherlock Holmes: The Basil Rathbone Collection | DVD | (19/04/2021) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A writen and film tribute to Sherlock Holmes which includes four classic films from The Basil Rathbone Collection.