Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Infobox Film
name = Sherlock Holmes Faces Death


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director = Roy William Neill
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writer = Arthur Conan Doyle (characters)
Bertram Millhauser (adaptation & screenplay)
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starring = Basil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
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distributor = Universal Studios
released = 17 September, 1943
runtime = 68 mins.
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = "Sherlock Holmes in Washington"
followed_by = "The Spider Woman"
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amg_id = 1:44293
imdb_id = 0036348

"Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it incorporates elements of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual".

Plot summary

Dr. Watson is serving as resident doctor at Musgrave Hall in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of officers suffering from shell shock. Watson enlists the help of Holmes after his assistant is attacked. Inspector Lestrade also arrives after the first in a series of murders which seem to be tied up with an ancient and apparently meaningless family ritual. Holmes investigates, and discovers that the ritual points to the location of a land grant, which would make the owner fabulously wealthy. Holmes finally confronts the killer in the crypt in the Manor, and although held at gunpoint, manages to elicit a confession and turn him over to the police. [Davies, David Stuart, "Holmes of the Movies" (New English Library, 1976) ISBN 450 03358 9]

Cast

* Basil Rathbone – Sherlock Holmes
* Nigel Bruce – Dr. Watson
* Dennis Hoey – Inspector Lestrade
* Arthur Margetson – Dr. Bob Sexton
* Hillary Brooke – Sally Musgrave
* Halliwell Hobbes – Alfred Brunton
* Minna Phillips – Mrs. Howells
* Milburn Stone – Captain Vickery
* Gavin Muir – Phillip Musgrave

References