Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Name: Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Director: John Rawlins
Released: 1942
Duration: 65 min
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez

1942

Dir. John Rawlins

1h 5m

USA

Synopsis

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.

Cast

Principal Cast

General Jerome Lawford

Olaf Hytten

Admiral Sir John Fabian Prentiss

Crew

Director

John Rawlins

Director

John Rawlins

1902 – 1997

Director John Rawlins started in films in 1918 as an actor, stunt man, gag writer and assistant director. For a while he sidelined as a comedy writer, then became an editor and later directed second features for First National in Britain from the early 1930s. Returning to the US, he joined Universal (1938-46), where he turned out "B" pictures and serials, including installments of the "Dick Tracy"…

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