Terror by Night
One way ticket to DEATH..!
Rating: 6.6 out of 10TMDB(163 votes)
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Scotland, London and England
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Sequels
Follows Pursuit to Algiers and is followed by Dressed to Kill
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Collection
Part of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
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Music
Music by Hans J. Salter
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Maury Gertsman
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Frank GruberScreenplay
- Arthur Conan DoyleNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 1, 1946
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Collection
- Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
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In the United States
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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)
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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