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Film / 1946
Terror by Night
Directed by
Roy William Neill
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.
The story
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.
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Cast
Basil RathboneSherlock Holmes
Nigel BruceDr. John H. Watson
Alan MowbrayMajor Duncan-Bleek
Dennis HoeyInspector Lestrade
Renee GodfreyVivian Vedder
Frederick WorlockProf. William Kilbane
Mary ForbesLady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton KnaggsSands - Moran's Accomplice
Billy BevanConductor Taking Tickets
Geoffrey SteeleRoland Carstairs
Janet MurdochMrs. Shallcross (uncredited)
Gerald HamerAlf Shallcross (uncredited)
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Leyland HodgsonSenior Conductor (uncredited)
Harry CordingMock the Undertaker (uncredited)
Charles KnightBaggage Car Guard (uncredited)
Boyd Davis"Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
Bobby WisslerMock Jr. (uncredited)
Gilbert AllenDining Car Steward (uncredited)
C. Aubrey SmithElderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
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