Descripción de Terror by Night: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce (1946 Sherlock Holmes Movie):

DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000EMYKH/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399377&creativeASIN=B0000EMYKH http://thefilmarchive.org/ Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. It was directed by Roy William Neill, and stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. The story revolves around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train. In London, a young woman named Vivian Vedder (Renee Godfrey) verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body, which she is transporting to Scotland by train. She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes), who owns and is transporting the famous Star of Rhodesia diamond; Lady Margaret's son Roland (Geoffrey Steele); Holmes, whom Roland has hired to protect the diamond; Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey), who is also worried about the diamond's safety; and Watson and his friend Major Duncan-Bleek (Alan Mowbray). Holmes briefly examines the diamond. Shortly afterward, Roland is murdered and the diamond is stolen. Lestrade, Holmes, and Watson learn nothing conclusive in questioning the other passengers, and Holmes is pushed out of the train, nearly to his death, but he climbs back inside and discovers a secret compartment in the coffin carrying Miss Vedder's mother. He suspects that one of the people on the train is the notorious jewel thief Colonel Sebastian Moran. Upon further questioning, Miss Vedder admits that a man paid her to transport the coffin. As Watson and Duncan-Bleek join the group, Holmes reveals that he swapped the diamond with an imitation while examining it. Lestrade takes possession of the real diamond. In the luggage compartment, Holmes and Watson find a train guard murdered with a poisoned dart. Meanwhile, a street criminal named Sands (Skelton Knaggs) incapacitates the conductor. Sands was hidden inside the coffin, and is in cahoots with Duncan-Bleek, who is in fact Colonel Moran. Sands and Moran go to Lestrade's room, where Sands knocks him unconscious and steals the diamond from him, but Moran double-crosses Sands, shooting him dead with the same dart gun he used to kill Roland and the guard. The train makes an unexpected stop to pick up several Scottish policemen led by Inspector McDonald (Boyd Davis). Holmes informs McDonald that Duncan-Bleek is really Moran, and McDonald arrests Moran and finds the diamond in his vest, but Moran seizes a policeman's gun and pulls the emergency cord to stop the train. During a scuffle in which the lights are turned off, Holmes subdues and handcuffs Moran, then secretly hides him under a table. When the lights are turned on again, the officers leave the train with Lestrade, his coat covering his face, believing he is Moran. As the train departs, Lestrade captures the thieves in the train station, and Holmes reveals to Watson and Moran that he recognized McDonald as an impostor and recovered the diamond from him during the fight. Cast Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson Alan Mowbray as Major Duncan Bleek (Colonel Sebastian Moran) Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade Renee Godfrey as Vivian Vedder Frederick Worlock as Professor Kilbane Mary Forbes as Lady Margaret Carstairs Skelton Knaggs as Sands Billy Bevan as Ticket Collector Geoffrey Steele as The Honourable Roland Carstairs Harry Cording as Mock the coffin maker The character of Sebastian Moran is a Sherlock Holmes character, appearing in The Adventure of the Empty House. Elements from The Sign of Four are also part of the story. The film differs from several of the other Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes films set in modern-day England by not including any flag-waving speeches, Nazi criminals, or other propagandistic efforts on behalf of the Second World War. This is because the film was released in 1946, and the studios no longer found it necessary to mention World War II, which had ended the year before. In September 1904, Doyle's friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson had a story entitled Mr. Taubery's Diamond published in The Lady's Home Magazine. This story also features an imitation diamond and a principal character called The Honourable Carstairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_by_night