Terror by Night

6.5

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.

Discover

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

Geoffrey Steele

Roland Carstairs

Janet Murdoch

Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer

Alf Shallcross (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson

Senior Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Cording

Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Charles Knight

Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)

Boyd Davis

"Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)

Bobby Wissler

Mock Jr. (uncredited)

Gilbert Allen

Dining Car Steward (uncredited)

C. Aubrey Smith

Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)

Art

Abraham Grossman

Art Direction

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

Russell A. Gausman

Set Decoration

Carl Lawrence

Set Decoration

Camera

Maury Gertsman

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Vera West

Costume Design

Carmen Dirigo

Hairstylist

Jack Pierce

Makeup Department Head

Crew

Raymond Kessler

Dialogue Coach

Directing

Melville Shyer

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Howard Benedict

Executive Producer

Sound

Bernard B. Brown

Sound Director

Milton Rosen

Music Director

Jack A. Bolger, Jr.

Sound Engineer

Writing

Frank Gruber

Screenplay