A Study in Terror

Oct 1, 1965

1h 35m

★ 6.3

Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper! Here comes the original caped crusader!

Overview

When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

Compton Films

A Study in Terror Trailers

Cast

Sherlock Holmes

John Neville

Doctor Watson

Donald Houston

Lord Carfax

John Fraser

Doctor Murray

Anthony Quayle

Annie Chapman

Barbara Windsor

Angela

Adrienne Corri

Inspector Lestrade

Frank Finlay

Sally

Judi Dench

Duke of Shires

Barry Jones

Mycroft Holmes

Robert Morley

Mary Keller

Edina Ronay

Joseph Beck

Charles Regnier

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