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Dennis Hoey

Dennis Hoey was a British actor who appeared in dozens of films and television shows in the mid-20th century, including several Sherlock Holmes movies in which he played Inspector Lestrade. He died in 1960 at the age of 68.

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The House of Fear

The House of Fear

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.2

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...

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The Pearl of Death

The Pearl of Death

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.1

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...

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The Spider Woman

The Spider Woman

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 7

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the...

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Anna and the King of Siam

Anna and the King of Siam

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 7

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 6.9

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...

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Terror by Night

Terror by Night

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the fir...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 6.5

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.

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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that th...

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Roll on Texas Moon

Roll on Texas Moon

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 5.9

To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to...

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Caribbean

Caribbean

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to...

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