Terror by Night

February. 01,1946      NR
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Basil Rathbone as  Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as  Dr. John H. Watson
Alan Mowbray as  Major Duncan-Bleek
Dennis Hoey as  Inspector Lestrade
Renee Godfrey as  Vivian Vedder
Frederick Worlock as  Prof. William Kilbane
Mary Forbes as  Lady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton Knaggs as  Sands - Moran's Accomplice
Billy Bevan as  Conductor Taking Tickets
Gerald Hamer as  Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

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