From her LIPS — poison that bred MURDER!
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.
- 6.4
- 1945
- Released
- 1h 8m
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. HudsonJohn 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)Released
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- #ledge
- #blackmailer
- #assassination attempt
- #mutilated body
- #severed finger
- #silhouette on window shade
- #bust of julius caesar
- #holmes vs moriarty
- #sherlock holmes
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This is maybe not one of the better of the fourteen outings for Messrs. Rathbone and Bruce, but it's still a thoroughly enjoyable watch as "Holmes" and "Watson" have to get to the bottom of a mystery that involves a series of apparently unrelated killings linked only by the fact that each victim has a severed finger. No "Lestrade" this time, but Matthew Boulton is "Insp. Gregson" who together with