Nigel Bruce
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1895-02-03
Locus Natus: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Et ut: William Nigel Ernle Bruce, Willie Bruce, Найджел Брюс
Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 14.076
Lassie Come Home
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...
release : 1943.12.01popularis : 10.764
The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as...
release : 1943.12.24popularis : 6.04
Terror by Night
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune...
release : 1946.02.01popularis : 9.293
Dressed to Kill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent...
release : 1946.05.24popularis : 12.636
Suspicion
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a...
release : 1941.11.14popularis : 22.217
The Scarlet Pimpernel
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an...
release : 1934.12.20popularis : 4.038
The Hound of the Baskervilles
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds...
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 16.139
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
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...
release : 1942.09.18popularis : 7.116
The House of Fear
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their...
release : 1945.03.16popularis : 9.551
The Scarlet Claw
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the...
release : 1944.05.18popularis : 5.2
The Pearl of Death
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...
release : 1944.08.01popularis : 6.749
The Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...
release : 1945.06.15popularis : 11.689
The Two 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....
release : 1947.03.04popularis : 5.308
World for Ransom
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...
release : 1954.01.31popularis : 2.469
Limelight
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
release : 1952.10.23popularis : 11.519
Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...
release : 1943.10.08popularis : 2.391
The Blue Bird
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of...
release : 1940.01.15popularis : 3.32
She
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to...
release : 1935.07.12popularis : 4.624
Son of Lassie
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 4.102
The Corn Is Green
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...
release : 1945.03.29popularis : 4.65
Journey for Margaret
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her...
release : 1942.12.17popularis : 3.996
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...
release : 1943.03.24popularis : 6.644
Treasure Island
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...
release : 1934.08.17popularis : 7.091
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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...
release : 1936.10.20popularis : 6.494
Becky Sharp
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...
release : 1935.06.28popularis : 4.657
Bwana Devil
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to...
release : 1952.08.22popularis : 4.075
Stand Up and Cheer!
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
release : 1934.05.04popularis : 4.454
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...
release : 1939.09.01popularis : 14.895
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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...
release : 1942.12.25popularis : 12.006
Pursuit to Algiers
After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean...
release : 1945.10.26popularis : 6.282
Julia Misbehaves
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...
release : 1948.08.08popularis : 4.133
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master...
release : 1943.09.17popularis : 10.083
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
release : 1937.02.19popularis : 2.489
The Baroness and the Butler
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
release : 1938.02.18popularis : 1.273
Under Two Flags
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major...
release : 1936.04.30popularis : 0.957
Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...
release : 1942.02.20popularis : 4.928
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
release : 1936.03.13popularis : 3.106
The Chocolate Soldier
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman...
release : 1941.11.01popularis : 3.297
Thunder in the City
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 1.224
The Exile
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...
release : 1947.10.17popularis : 1.443
Hudson's Bay
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the...
release : 1941.01.03popularis : 3.828
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 6.082
A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
release : 1940.10.19popularis : 3.782
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...
release : 1972.01.10popularis : 8.408
This Above All
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...
release : 1942.05.12popularis : 5.732
Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
release : 1941.01.29popularis : 1.848
Frenchman's Creek
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...
release : 1944.09.20popularis : 3.08
The Rains Came
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken...
release : 1939.09.15popularis : 7.5
Vendetta
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
release : 1950.12.25popularis : 2.549
Adventure in Diamonds
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
release : 1940.03.08popularis : 3.547
Hong Kong
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a...
release : 1952.04.18popularis : 2.54
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want...
release : 1935.11.14popularis : 3.284
Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
release : 1940.05.24popularis : 2.506
I Was A Spy
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...
release : 1933.09.04popularis : 2.594
Follow Your Heart
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
release : 1936.08.10popularis : 2.923
Gypsy Wildcat
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The...
release : 1944.08.02popularis : 7.349
Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
release : 1938.10.28popularis : 4.611
Springtime for Henry
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship....
release : 1934.08.22popularis : 1.195
Birds of Prey
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he...
release : 1930.11.18popularis : 1.481
Susan and God
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 4.049
Escape!
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy...
release : 1930.08.28popularis : 2.809
The Man I Marry
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
release : 1936.10.31popularis : 1.747
Lord Camber's Ladies
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out...
release : 1932.10.27popularis : 1.809
The White Angel
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness....
release : 1936.06.25popularis : 2.21
The Lady Is Willing
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...
release : 1934.08.10popularis : 0.494
The Midshipmaid
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...
release : 1932.12.08popularis : 0.998
Jalna
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
release : 1935.08.09popularis : 2.078
Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
release : 1942.06.16popularis : 2.188
Free and Easy
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max...
release : 1941.02.28popularis : 1.455
Channel Crossing
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value...
release : 1933.10.14popularis : 0.998
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
release : 1943.01.21popularis : 2.311
This Woman Is Mine
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
release : 1941.08.22popularis : 2.02
Murder in Trinidad
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o'...
release : 1934.05.16popularis : 3.734
Red Aces
A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.
release : 1930.11.03popularis : 0.875
The Calendar
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....
release : 1931.10.19popularis : 1.186
The Squeaker
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
release : 1930.06.01popularis : 1.421
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 3.053
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...
release : 1936.09.11popularis : 0.736
Coming Out Party
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...
release : 1934.03.09popularis : 2.581
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and...
release : 1996.07.01popularis : 2.191