Terror by Night

Terror by Night

60 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | Feb. 1, 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.

Terror by Night

60 mins | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | Feb. 1, 1946

Terror by Night
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Terror by Night
Directors Roy William Neill
Writers Frank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle

Cast

Basil Rathbone

as Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce

as Dr. John H. Watson

Alan Mowbray

as Major Duncan-Bleek

Dennis Hoey

as Inspector Lestrade

Renee Godfrey

as Vivian Vedder

Frederick Worlock

as Prof. William Kilbane

Mary Forbes

as Lady Margaret Carstairs

Skelton Knaggs

as Sands - Moran's Accomplice

Billy Bevan

as Conductor Taking Tickets

Geoffrey Steele

as Roland Carstairs

Janet Murdoch

as Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

as Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson

as Senior Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Cording

as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Charles Knight

as Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)

Boyd Davis

as "Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)

Bobby Wissler

as Mock Jr. (uncredited)

Gilbert Allen

as Dining Car Steward (uncredited)

C. Aubrey Smith

as Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)