Terror by Night
One way ticket to DEATH..!
1946 | 60m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Roy William Neill |
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| Writer: | Frank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 01, 1946 |
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| Director: | Roy William Neill |
| Writer: | Frank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Genres: | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | mathematics, black and white, private detective, jewel theft, gin rummy, sherlock holmes |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Roy William Neill | Director |
| Frank Gruber | Screenplay |
| Saul A. Goodkind | Editor |
| Milton Rosen | Music Director |
| Bernard B. Brown | Sound Director |
| Carmen Dirigo | Hairstylist |
| Abraham Grossman | Art Direction |
| Vera West | Costume Design |
| John B. Goodman | Art Direction |
| Maury Gertsman | Director of Photography |
| Russell A. Gausman | Set Decoration |
| Carl Lawrence | Set Decoration |
| Jack A. Bolger, Jr. | Sound Engineer |
| Raymond Kessler | Dialogue Coach |
| Melville Shyer | Assistant Director |
| Jack Pierce | Makeup Department Head |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Novel |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Howard Benedict | Executive Producer |
| Roy William Neill | Producer |
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A wealthy young aristocrat employs "Holmes" to escort himself and his mother on a train from London to Edinburgh alongside the legendary Star of Rhodesia - a diamond the size of a duck egg. Together with trusty sidekick "Dr. Watson" and "Insp. Lestrade" who is ostensibly off fishing for salmon (it i ... sn't quite the season) they embark on a singularly dangerous train journey. It's got plenty of dud trails for our duo, even some appropriated tea pots and a coffin - before we finally identify that the arch criminal "Col. Moran" is also on the train and he will stop at nothing to procure the ice. The pace rattles along as quickly as the train, and builds nicely to quite a quirky conclusion with a few near misses along the way. Great way to spend a hour!