TB
The Monthly Film Bulletin
Deemed the plot and treatment unoriginal, noting Holmes and Watson played their roles without novelty.
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Directed byRoy William Neill
Written byFrank Gruber, Arthur Conan Doyle
Budgetmodest B-movie budget typical for the series
Critical Consensus
6.7
IMDb
6.6
TMDB
The film received mixed reception, with some criticizing its lack of originality while others commended its pacing and exciting climax.
The Cast
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Dr. John H. Watson
Alan Mowbray
Major Duncan-Bleek
Dennis Hoey
Inspector Lestrade
Renee Godfrey
Vivian Vedder
Frederick Worlock
Prof. William Kilbane
Mary Forbes
Lady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton Knaggs
Sands - Moran's Accomplice
Billy Bevan
Conductor Taking Tickets
GS
Geoffrey Steele
Roland Carstairs
Trivia
It is the shortest of the 14 Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
This was Dennis Hoey's final appearance as Inspector Lestrade in the series.
Alan Mowbray, who plays Duncan-Bleek, previously played Lestrade in the 1933 film 'A Study in Scarlet.'
The film is one of four in the series that is currently in the public domain.
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KW
Kine Weekly
Found the plot wordy but praised the train setting for creating pace and scope; noted the climax was exciting.
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