The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw
1944 US Theatrical Poster
Directed byRoy William Neill
Screenplay byPaul Gangelin
Based onCharacters
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced byRoy William Neill
StarringBasil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
Paul Cavanagh
CinematographyGeorge Robinson
Edited byPaul Landres
Music byPaul Sawtell
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • May 26, 1944 (1944-05-26)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 American mystery thriller film[1] based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, it is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series. David Stuart Davies notes on the film's DVD audio commentary that it's generally considered by critics and fans of the series to be the best of the twelve Holmes films made by Universal.[2]

  1. ^ "The Scarlet Claw (1944)". AllMovie. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  2. ^ Audio Commentary, David Stuart Davies, MPI Home Video DVD

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