Name: Terror by Night
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1946-02-01
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 6.6

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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.

Theatrical

Feb 1, 1946

DVD / Blu-ray

Feb 13, 2001

Director

Roy William Neill

Writer

Frank Gruber

Producers

Roy William Neill, Howard Benedict

Studio

Universal Pictures

Themes

mathematics black and white private detective jewel theft gin rummy sherlock holmes

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A Ticket That Leads to Death

Taglines One Way Ticket to DEATH..!

A Culinary Debate Among Friends

Dr. John H. Watson Try some of this curry. It's excellent.

Sherlock Holmes Steak and kidney pudding, please.

[ignoring him and speaking to the waiter]

Major Duncan-Bleek Of course, the Bengal curry doesn't compare with that of Madras. It's the quality of the mutton that makes the difference, don't you think?

Dr. John H. Watson The, uh... the meat's unimportant. It's the spices that make the difference. Don't you agree with me Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes What?

[he hasn't been paying attention to the discussion]

Dr. John H. Watson I say, we-we-we were discussing curry.

Sherlock Holmes Oh, yes, curry! Horrible stuff!

Dr. John H. Watson Oh, really? One man's meat is another man's poison.

Confrontation Between Professor and Inspector

Prof. William Kilbane You come pounding on this door again and I'll have the law on you.

Inspector Lestrade I am the law.

Prof. William Kilbane Then stop barging in and out of my room like a chambermaid.

Suspicion in Sherlock Holmes' Investigation

Sherlock Holmes Did you discover anything, Watson?

Dr. John H. Watson Yes. He's a very suspicious character. He tried to put me off the scent.

Sherlock Holmes From the little I heard, he seemed reasonably successful.

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Wa...

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