Terror by Night 1946

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.

On location

Set in

The cast

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce Dr. John H. Watson

Alan Mowbray Major Duncan-Bleek

Dennis Hoey Inspector Lestrade

Renee Godfrey Vivian Vedder

Frederick Worlock Prof. William Kilbane

Mary Forbes Lady Margaret Carstairs

Skelton Knaggs Sands - Moran's Accomplice

Billy Bevan Conductor Taking Tickets

G

Geoffrey Steele Roland Carstairs

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Janet Murdoch Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson Senior Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Cording Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

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