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Terror by Night

Release Year
1946
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
Directed By
Roy William Neill
Terror by Night

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.

Cast & Crew

Cast

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

Janet Murdoch

Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Crew

Roy William Neill

Director

Frank Gruber

Screenplay

Maury Gertsman

Director of Photography

Saul A. Goodkind

Editor

Vera West

Costume Design

Roy William Neill

Producer

Arthur Conan Doyle

Story

Bernard B. Brown

Sound Director

Milton Rosen

Music Director

Carmen Dirigo

Hairstylist

Jack Pierce

Makeup Department Head

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

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