
Overview
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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Crew
DirectorRoy William Neill
WriterBertram Millhauser
Cast

Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce
Dr. John Watson

Hillary Brooke
Lydia Marlowe

Henry Daniell
Professor James Moriarty

Paul Cavanagh
Sir George Fenwick

Matthew Boulton
Inspector Gregson

Eve Amber
Maude Fenwick

Frederick Worlock
Dr. Onslow
Percival Vivian
Dr. Simnell

Coulter Irwin
Corporal Williams

Sally Shepherd
Crandon

Mary Gordon
Mrs. Hudson
John Burton
Waring the Mesmerist (uncredited)
Harold De Becker
Shoelace Vendor Henchman (uncredited)
Tony Ellis
Carter the Hypnotized Subject (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Bar Patron (seen in mirror) (uncredited)

Kay Harding
4th Victim (uncredited)
Alec Harford
Commissioner of the CID (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten
Fenwick's Butler Norris (uncredited)

Boyd Irwin
Short-Tempered Officer Closing Window (uncredited)
Part of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939

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

Pursuit to Algiers
1945

Terror by Night
1946

Dressed to Kill
1946
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