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Writers:
Roy Chanslor (screenplay)
Arthur Conan Doyle (story)
Release Date:
16 March 1945 (USA) more
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HORROR stalking its halls!
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims. full summary | add synopsis
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Another Spooky House For Holmes & Watson more (33 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Basil Rathbone | ... | Sherlock Holmes |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Doctor Watson |
| Aubrey Mather | ... | Alastair |
| Dennis Hoey | ... | Lestrade |
| Paul Cavanagh | ... | Simon Merrivale |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Alan Cosgrave |
| Harry Cording | ... | John Simpson |
| Sally Shepherd | ... | Mrs. Monteith |
| Gavin Muir | ... | Chalmers |
| Florette Hillier | ... | Alison MacGregor |
| David Clyde | ... | Alex MacGregor |
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Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (UK) (short title)
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69 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Finland:K-12 | USA:Approved (PCA #10243)
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Released on a double bill with The Mummy's Curse (1944). more
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Dr. John H. Watson:
I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't sleep very well.
Sherlock Holmes:
Didn't sleep very well? You snored like a pig!
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Follows The Pearl of Death (1944) more
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Gathered in THE HOUSE OF FEAR, the members of a strange tontine begin to meet violent & mysterious deaths.
Once again, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, tackles the problems pervading an Old Dark House. This time it's the Good Comrades Club and their rapidly dwindling membership, and Universal Studios supplies all the proper atmospherics to provide plenty of chills & suspense.
Basil Rathbone, as the cerebral sleuth, and Nigel Bruce, as his amiable sidekick, have already reached perfection in their roles. Rathbone, with his wonderful voice, always commands attention, and Bruce is especially good in the sequence where Watson finds himself alone in Drearcliff House, surrounded by unseen menace. Together, their film partnership has become screen legend.
Dennis Hoey returns in the role of Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard, always several steps behind Holmes in his use of deductive reasoning.
The seven Good Comrades are played by cherubic Aubrey Mather, gaunt Paul Cavanagh, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, and the unbilled Wilson Benge, Cyril Delevanti & Richard Alexander. Also appearing without credit is that most versatile of British character actresses, Doris Lloyd, playing a Scots innkeeper.
This film, which was very loosely based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips, followed THE PEARL OF DEATH (1944) and preceded THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945).