With dire wolves back in the news, we remember the story of the Grateful Dead's classic song "Dire Wolf," written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter ...

Cinema buffs who enjoy watching old black and white movies will probably have a list of their favourites. One of the films on that list might be the 1939 version of Hound of the Baskervilles, with ...

Obviously Basil Rathbone killed a dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles, but that was different. Read More. Sarah Harte: Race to re-arm means avoiding groupthink has never been more crucial.

Classic movie monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man didn’t originate in cinema; they first appeared in folk tales and literature. Yet for nearly 100 years, the ...

Heart of Paris (Tri-National). Ingenious French comedy which, starting where so many screen plays end, with a courtroom scene, shows what happens to a beautiful girl after she has been acquitted of ...

Rathbone offered to serve his country but the War Office in London turned him down on grounds of age. He was 47. Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British parents.

Arguably even finer is the autobiographical half-hour essay La Morte rouge, which uses the five-year-old Erice’s first experience of watching a film – a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie – as a ...

Luckily, Son makes up for it with three scenery-chewing performances that get a lot more screen time: Basil Rathbone as Henry Frankenstein’s adult son who decades later has returned to his ...

Bela Lugosi (inset), Boris Karloff (inset), Basil Rathbone. THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1942. Image Credit: Everett Collection Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr. I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, 1957.