Nigel Bruce — Actor (28)
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Errol Flynn / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: La carica dei Seicento / A Carga da Brigada Ligeira …
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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The Blue Bird (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Blue Bird
director: Walter Lang actor: Shirley Temple / Spring Byington …
other title: Alla ricerca della felicità / O Pássaro Azul …
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Julia Misbehaves
director: Jack Conway actor: Greer Garson / Walter Pidgeon …
other title: La bella imprudente / Die unvollkommene Dame …
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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Treasure Island (1934) IMDb TMDB
Treasure Island
director: Victor Fleming actor: Wallace Beery / Jackie Cooper …
other title: L'isola del tesoro / A Ilha do Tesouro …
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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I Was a Spy (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Was a Spy
director: Victor Saville actor: Herbert Marshall / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Ich war Spion / J'étais une espionne …
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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World for Ransom (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
World for Ransom
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Dan Duryea / Gene Lockhart …
other title: Singapore intrigo internazionale / Menschenraub in Singapur …
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
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The Exile (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
The Exile
director: Max Ophüls actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Maria Montez …
other title: Re in esilio / Der Verbannte …
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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The Corn Is Green (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Corn Is Green
director: Irving Rapper actor: Bette Davis / John Dall …
other title: Il grano è verde / O Coração não Envelhece …
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Humphrey Bogart / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La seconda signora Carroll / Die zwei Mrs. Carrolls …
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) IMDb TMDB
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
director: Alfred L. Werker actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes …
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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The House of Fear (1945) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The House of Fear
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e la casa del terrore / Sherlock Holmes: Skrækkens hus …
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
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The Pearl of Death (1944) IMDb TMDB
The Pearl of Death
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e la perla della morte / Sherlock Holmes: Dødens perle …
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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Pursuit to Algiers (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pursuit to Algiers
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes - Destinazione Algeri / Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers …
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes di fronte alla morte / Sherlock Holmes ser døden i øjnene …
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
director: John Rawlins actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes e la voce del terrore / Sherlock Holmes og terrorstemmen …
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.