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About
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
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Writer
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Universal Pictures
Quotes
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Taglines
One Way Ticket to DEATH..!
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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?
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Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
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...
Cast
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Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
N
Nigel Bruce
Dr. John H. Watson
A
Alan Mowbray
Major Duncan-Bleek
D
Dennis Hoey
Inspector Lestrade
R
Renee Godfrey
Vivian Vedder
F
Frederick Worlock
Prof. William Kilbane
M
Mary Forbes
Lady Margaret Carstairs
S
Skelton Knaggs
Sands - Moran's Accomplice
B
Billy Bevan
Conductor Taking Tickets
G
Geoffrey Steele
Roland Carstairs
J
Janet Murdoch
Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)
G
Gerald Hamer
Alf Shallcross (uncredited)
L
Leyland Hodgson
Senior Conductor (uncredited)
H
Harry Cording
Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
C
Charles Knight
Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)
B
Boyd Davis
"Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
C
C. Aubrey Smith
Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
