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Terror by Night

Terror by Night

One way ticket to DEATH..!

Part of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

1946•1h 0m•6.6/10
MysteryCrimeThriller

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6.6/10(148)

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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Universal Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

Dr. John H. Watson

Alan Mowbray

Alan Mowbray

Major Duncan-Bleek

Dennis Hoey

Dennis Hoey

Inspector Lestrade

Renee Godfrey

Renee Godfrey

Vivian Vedder

Frederick Worlock

Frederick Worlock

Prof. William Kilbane

Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes

Lady Margaret Carstairs

Skelton Knaggs

Skelton Knaggs

Sands - Moran's Accomplice

Billy Bevan

Billy Bevan

Conductor Taking Tickets

Geoffrey Steele

Roland Carstairs

Janet Murdoch

Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

Gerald Hamer

Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson

Leyland Hodgson

Senior Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Harry Cording

Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Charles Knight

Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)

Boyd Davis

"Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)

Bobby Wissler

Mock Jr. (uncredited)

Gilbert Allen

Dining Car Steward (uncredited)

C. Aubrey Smith

C. Aubrey Smith

Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)

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