Want to behold the glory that is 'The Scarlet Claw' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Roy William Neill-directed movie via subscription can be a huge pain, so we here at Moviefone want to do the work for you.
Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'The Scarlet Claw' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Scarlet Claw' right now, here are some finer points about the Universal Pictures crime flick.
Released May 26th, 1944, 'The Scarlet Claw' stars Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 14 min, and received a user score of 69 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 92 top users.
What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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 case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer."
'The Scarlet Claw' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Plex, Fandango At Home, Apple TV, Amazon Video, and Plex Channel .
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Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.