Description

Dressed to Kill, also known as Prelude to Murder (working title) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code (in the UK), is the last of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series) starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Cast

• Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
• Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
• Patricia Morison as Mrs. Hilda Courtney
• Edmund Breon as ‘Stinky’ Emery (as Edmond Breon)
• Frederick Worlock as Colonel Cavanaugh (as Frederic Worlock)
• Carl Harbord as Inspector Hopkins
• Patricia Cameron as Evelyn Clifford
• Holmes Herbert as Ebenezer Crabtree
• Harry Cording as Hamid
• Mary Gordon (actor) as Mrs. Hudson
• Ian Wolfe as Commissioner of Scotland Yard
• Anita Sharp-Bolster as the Schoolteacher on a Museum Tour