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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1943
Running Times: 65m 1s (UK - PAL video)/68m 1s (UK -
theatrical)
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Roy William Neill
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: Roy William Neill
SCRIPT
Script: Bertram Millhauser
Story: The Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Charles Van Enger
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Fred Feitshans
MUSIC
Musical Director: H.J. Salter
Music: Frank Skinner (uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Director: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: Paul Neal
Sound Mix: Western Electric Sound System
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Gowns: Vera West
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Harold McArthur
Set Decorators: R.A.
Gausman, E.R. Robinson
CAST
Basil
Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes)
Nigel Bruce (Dr John H. Watson)
Dennis Hoey (Inspector Lestrade)
Arthur Margetson (Doctor Sexton)
Hillary Brooke (Sally Musgrave)
Halliwell Hobbes (Brunton)
Minna Phillips (Mrs Howells)
Milburn Stone (Captain Vickery)
Gavin Muir (Phillip Musgrave)
Gerald Hamer (Langford)
Vernon Downing (Clavering)
Olaf Hytten (Captain MacIntosh)
Frederick Worlock (Geoffrey Musgrave)
UNCREDITED CAST
Martin Ashe (slinking figure)
Joan Blair (Nora)
Charles Coleman (constable)
Harold De Becker (pub proprietor)
Mary Gordon (Mrs Hudson)
Holmes Herbert (man)
Peter Lawford (young sailor at bar)
Eric Snowden (sailor trying to play piano)
Norma Varden (Gracie)
Heather Wilde (Jenny)
Ian Wolfe (antique store clerk)
PLOT SUMMARY
Dr Watson has volunteered to work at a convalescent
home for returning British servicemen and is alarmed when several of
his charges turn up dead. He calls in his old friend Sherlock Holmes
who sets about solving the mystery as the body count continues to rise...
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: General Film Distributors
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7784)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: A (1943); U (1990)
TIMELINE
1943
September
16: UK - rated A by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
17: USA - theatrical release
November
29: Sweden - theatrical release
1944
March
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
1946
May
10: Finland - theatrical release
1954
September
16: USA - television broadcast (on WPIX)
1960
April
14: UK - television broadcast (on Rediffusion)
1990
June
12: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for video release)
1992
May
11: UK - video release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7784))
1995
September
19: UK - video deleted (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (7784))
2000
July
4: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Gespenster im Schloß - German title
Sherlock Holmes sieht dem Tod ins Gesicht - German
title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Hound
of the Baskervilles (1939)
The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Sherlock Holmes
and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret
Weapon (1942)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)
SEQUELS
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers
(1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill
(1946)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Kinematograph Weekly no.1924 (2 March 1944)
(UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.11 p.34 (UK)
credits, review
Motion Picture Herald 11 September 1943
(USA)
review
Today's Cinema vol.62 no.5001 (1 March
1944) (UK)
review
BOOKS
Universal Horrors by Michael Brunas, John
Brunas and Tom Weaver (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co (1990))
credits, review
KEYWORDS
detectives, sequels, Sherlock
Holmes
Last Updated:
19 August, 2009
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