Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Cast
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Dr. John Watson
Hillary Brooke
Lydia Marlowe
Henry Daniell
Professor James Moriarty
Paul Cavanagh
Sir George Fenwick
Matthew Boulton
Inspector Gregson
Eve Amber
Maude Fenwick
Frederick Worlock
Dr. Onslow
Percival Vivian
Dr. Simnell
Coulter Irwin
Corporal Williams
Sally Shepherd
Crandon
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Hudson
John Burton
Waring the Mesmerist (uncredited)
Harold De Becker
Shoelace Vendor Henchman (uncredited)
Tony Ellis
Carter the Hypnotized Subject (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Bar Patron (seen in mirror) (uncredited)
Kay Harding
4th Victim (uncredited)
Alec Harford
Commissioner of the CID (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Fenwick's Butler Norris (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin
Short-Tempered Officer Closing Window (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Member of Mesmer Club (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Pembrook House Waiter (uncredited)
Crew
Roy William Neill
Director, Producer
Bertram Millhauser
Screenplay
Arthur Conan Doyle
Novel
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Virgil Miller
Director of Photography
Melville Shyer
Assistant Director
Roswell A. Hoffmann
Camera Operator
Vera West
Costume Design
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Mark Levant
Music Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Ted von Hemert
Set Decoration
John B. Goodman
Art Direction
Martin Obzina
Art Direction
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