Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

(1942)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 115 votes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1942

Runtime: 65 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: John Rawlins

Cast: Бэзил Рэтбоун, Найджел Брюс, Эвелин Анкерс, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Henry Daniell, Montagu Love, Olaf Hytten, Leyland Hodgson, Mary Gordon

Plot

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.

When a German saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio "Voice of Terror", the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), receive a visitor on the first night of their investigation, but he dies from a knife in the back. His last word leads Holmes into the slums where he encounters Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), the sweetheart of the slain man, who promises to help the investigation in any way she can.