
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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