Terror by Night

Feb 1, 1946

1h 0m

★ 6.5

One way ticket to DEATH..!

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.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Terror by Night Trailers

Cast

Sherlock Holmes

Basil Rathbone

Dr. John H. Watson

Nigel Bruce

Major Duncan-Bleek

Alan Mowbray

Inspector Lestrade

Dennis Hoey

Vivian Vedder

Renee Godfrey

Prof. William Kilbane

Frederick Worlock

Lady Margaret Carstairs

Mary Forbes

Sands - Moran's Accomplice

Skelton Knaggs

Conductor Taking Tickets

Billy Bevan

Roland Carstairs

Geoffrey Steele

Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Janet Murdoch

Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

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