Terror By Night

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Terror By Night

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1 Feb 1946

Description

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman’s son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Classification
GenresMystery Film(mystery-film-spg-c211) Thriller Movies(thriller-movies-spg-c211)
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Cast

  • Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes
  • Nigel Bruce Dr. Watson
  • Alan Mowbray Major Duncan-Bleek, Colonel Sebastian Moran
  • Dennis Hoey Inspector Lestrade
  • Billy Bevan Train attendant
  • Harry Cording Mock, coffin maker
  • Frederick Worlock Professor Kilbane
  • Mary Forbes Lady Margaret Carstairs
  • Skelton Knaggs Sands
  • Renee Godfrey Vivian Vedder
  • Gerald Hamer Alfred Shallcross
  • Janet Murdoch Mrs. Shallcross
  • Geoffrey Steele Honourable Roland Carstairs
  • Boyd Davis Inspector MacDonald
  • Leyland Hodgson Senior Conductor (uncredited)
  • Charles Knight Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)
  • Bobby Wissler Mock Jr. (uncredited)
  • Gilbert Allen Dining Car Steward (uncredited)
  • C. Aubrey Smith Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)

Director

  • Roy William Neill
  • Melville Shyer

Screenwriter

  • Frank Gruber
  • Arthur Conan Doyle

Director of Photography

  • Maury Gertsman

Composer

  • Hans J. Salter
  • Bernard B. Brown
  • Milton Rosen
  • Jack A. Bolger, Jr.

Producer

  • Roy William Neill
  • Howard Benedict