Description

Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes film, the Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series) Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and was directed by Roy William Neill. The story revolves around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train.
The film’s plot is a mostly original story not directly based on any of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes tales, but it uses minor plot elements of “The Adventure of the Empty House,” “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” and The Sign of the Four.

Cast

• Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
• Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
• Alan Mowbray as Major Duncan-Bleek/Colonel Sebastian Moran
• Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade
• Renee Godfrey as Vivian Vedder
• Frederick Worlock as Professor Kilbane
• Mary Forbes as Lady Margaret Carstairs
• Skelton Knaggs as Sands
• Billy Bevan as Ticket Collector
• Geoffrey Steele as The Honourable Roland Carstairs
• Harry Cording as Mock the coffin maker