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Terror by Night is a 1946 film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. It is the thirteenth film in the Rathbone - Holmes series.

Detailed Synopsis:

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are hired to protect The Star of Rhodesia on a train from London to Edinburgh. While on the train, the diamond is stolen, and the owner's son is murdered. So Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Inspector Lestrade are on a quest throughout the train to find it.

They come up with a plan to go interview every passenger. Before they do this, they tell the conductor to let nobody leave the carriage until they find the criminal.

While interviewing, Dr. Watson goes to interview a Mathematics Professor. He gets angry when Dr. Watson enters his compartment. He says if he is not a police man, he has no right to do so.

Later on their quest, they find a guy who admits he took it, and Dr. Watson can't believe it. He runs to get Holmes and Lestrade, and when the guy opens up his briefcase, it turns out to be a teapot he stole while he was at his hotel.

Holmes, after a bunch of problems interviewing, reveals that he had the Star of Rhodesia the whole time. And that it was a fake that Holmes replaced it with that the thief stole. Lestrade gets mad and wonders why Holmes did this. Holmes says they are looking for the murderer, not the thief. Lestrade forces Holmes to give him the diamond, so Holmes does.

Holmes thinks there are two men working together on this crime. He is right. And he believes one of them is Duncan-Bleek, the man that Watson brought on the train with him. But Dr. Watson does not believe this. He says he has known Duncan-Bleek for years, and he would not do something like this.

It is revealed on the screen that it is true that one of the men are Duncan-Bleek. And the other guy is committing all of the murders. Holmes said earlier, one man planned it, one man did it.

Duncan-Bleek and his henchman, Sands, decide the are going to kill Lestrade and get the diamond. They go thru with this plan, breaking in to his compartment, and beating him until he falls into the floor. Sands recovers the diamond, and then Duncan-Bleek kills him. And then steals the diamond.

It is later revealed in the dinner cab that Duncan-Bleek is Colonel Sebastian Moran. And that he has done this. Holmes gets the conductor to get Duncan-Bleek, and has a talk with him. Bleek then pulls a gun to Holmes, and Dr. Watson attacks Bleek. It then gets into a fight with the lights off. In the fight, Holmes handcuffs Lestrade and Bleek. But he gives the police Lestrade on purpose. Mainly because the Inspector that was arresting was a henchmen with Bleek. Lestrade then arrests the whole gang on the way out.

Holmes then takes the Star of Rhodesia out of his pocket, somehow getting it out of the fight.

Cast:

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes	Nigel Bruce Dr. Watson	Dennis Hoey Inspector Lestrade
Alan Mowbray Major Duncan-Bleek	Renee Godfrey Vivian Vedder	Frederick Worlock Professor Kilbane

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Essentials Directed by: Roy William Neil Written by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Frank Gruber Release Date: February 1, 1946 Run Time: 60 Minutes