The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Mar 25, 1949

0h 27m

★ 0.0

Overview

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Grant-Realm Productions

Jerry Fairbanks Productions

Michael Grant Productions

NBC

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Cast

The Bookshop Man

Arthur Shields

Sherlock Holmes

Alan Napier

Miss Stoner

Evelyn Ankers

Dr. John H. Watson

Melville Cooper

Dr. Grimesby Roylott

Edgar Barrier

John Armitage

Richard Fraser

Jean Stoner

Gail Roberts

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