When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
Cast
John Neville
Sherlock Holmes
Donald Houston
Doctor Watson
John Fraser
Lord Carfax
Anthony Quayle
Doctor Murray
Barbara Windsor
Annie Chapman
Adrienne Corri
Angela
Frank Finlay
Inspector Lestrade
Judi Dench
Sally
Barry Jones
Duke of Shires
Robert Morley
Mycroft Holmes
Edina Ronay
Mary Keller
Charles Regnier
Joseph Beck
Cecil Parker
Prime Minister
Georgia Brown
Singer
Dudley Foster
Home Secretary
Peter Carsten
Max Steiner
Christiane Maybach
Polly Nichols
Kay Walsh
Cathy Eddowes
John Cairney
Michael Osborne
Avis Bunnage
Landlady
Barbara Leake
Mrs. Hudson
Patrick Newell
PC Benson
Norma Foster
Liz Stride
Terry Downes
Chunky
Jeremy Lloyd
Rupert
Crew
James Hill
Director
Donald Ford
Screenplay, Original Story
Derek Ford
Screenplay, Original Story
Henry Richardson
Editor
Desmond Dickinson
Director of Photography
Herman Cohen
Executive Producer
Michael Klinger
Producer
Henry E. Lester
Producer
Sam Waynberg
Producer
Alex Vetchinsky
Production Design
Norman Jones
Camera Operator
Maude Spector
Casting
Sophie Devine
Costume Design
Gladys Leakey
Hair Designer
Tom Smith
Makeup Artist
Barry Langley
Second Unit Director
Wally Veevers
Special Effects
John Scott
Original Music Composer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Characters
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