

Overview
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.
Top 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
Geoffrey Steele
Roland Carstairs
Janet Murdoch
Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)

Gerald Hamer
Alf Shallcross (uncredited)
Key Film Crew
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