One way ticket to DEATH..!
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.
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Resolved, classical in form, unpretentious and cool.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Basil RathboneSherlock Holmes
- Nigel BruceDr. John H. Watson
- Alan MowbrayMajor Duncan-Bleek
- Dennis HoeyInspector Lestrade
- Renee GodfreyVivian Vedder
- Frederick WorlockProf. William Kilbane
- Mary ForbesLady Margaret Carstairs
- Skelton KnaggsSands - Moran's Accomplice
- Billy BevanConductor Taking Tickets
- Geoffrey SteeleRoland Carstairs
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- Roy William NeillDirector
- Frank GruberScreenplay
- Arthur Conan DoyleNovel
- Maury GertsmanDirector of Photography
- Saul A. GoodkindEditor
- Roy William NeillProducer
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