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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

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Continuing a season of films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson.
When Geoffrey Musgrave, head of Musgrave House, is murdered, Dr Watson asks the great detective Sherlock Holmes to solve the horrific crime. As the corpses and clues accumulate Holmes is convinced the key to the mystery lies in an ancient family ritual which unlocks a long-buried secret in a subterranean crypt. Believing he has identified the killer, Holmes sets an ingenious trap....
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Contributors

Author:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Screenplay:
Bertram Milhauser
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
Basil Rathbone
Dr Watson:
Nigel Bruce
Sally Musgrave:
Hillary Brooke
Capt Vickery:
Milburn Stone
Dr Sexton:
Arthur Margetson
Brunton:
Halliwell Hobbes
Lestrade:
Dennis Hoey
Philip Musgrave:
Gavin Muir
Geoffrey Musgrave:
Frederic Worlock
Capt MacIntosh:
Olaf Hytten
Maj Langford:
Gerald Ramer
Lt Clavering:
Vernon Downing
Mrs Howells:
Minna Phillips
Mrs Hudson:
Mary Gordon
Source: Radio Times

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