
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.
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Crew
DirectorRoy William Neill
WriterFrank Gruber
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
Geoffrey Steele
Roland Carstairs
Janet Murdoch
Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer
Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson
Senior Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Cording
Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
Charles Knight
Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)
Boyd Davis
"Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
Bobby Wissler
Mock Jr. (uncredited)
Gilbert Allen
Dining Car Steward (uncredited)

C. Aubrey Smith
Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
Part of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942

Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1943

The Spider Woman
1943

The Scarlet Claw
1944

The Pearl of Death
1944

The House of Fear
1945

The Woman in Green
1945

Pursuit to Algiers
1945

Dressed to Kill
1946
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Keywords
mathematicsblack and whiteprivate detectivejewel theftgin rummysherlock holmes
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