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Information
- Year
- 1946
- Runtime
- 60 min.
- Director
- Roy William Neill
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 3,723
- Checks
- 352
- Favs
- 10
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:35)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Terror by Night is a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes locked room/locked environment mystery set aboard a train bound for Scotland, featuring a villainous plot worthy of Moriarty (in fact, perpetrated by another of Holmes' recurring enemies), but not based on any single Arthur Conan Doyle story. Not just a cerebral puzzler, Holmes and Watson both get into a bit of action as well, keeping the pace up in the third act. I'm not entirely sure everything that needed to be explained or revealed was, nor that Holmes is all that clever in his deductions (on a plot level, I pretty much figured out what was a red herring and who the real culprit was, early on), but this train ride is nonetheless a fair, 60-minute entertainment, with several iconic characters along for the ride. A slightly longer film could have tied up a few more loose ends. 5 years 4 months ago -
Lang Welles
Good, solid sherlock film. Train. Diamond. Murder. Suspects. Watson's comic relief. Atmospheic surrounds. Everything you need. 7 years 12 months ago -
