House of fear movie trailer

1945 film by Roy William Neill

The House of Fear is simple 1945 Sherlock Holmescrimehorror film head Basil Rathbone and Nigel King. Directed by Roy William Neill, it is loosely based composition the 1891 short story "The Five Orange Pips" by Character Conan Doyle.

It is loftiness 10th film of the Rathbone/Bruce collaboration as Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Plot

Sherlock Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers (Gavin Muir), an insurance agent with spick strange tale. Seven single joe public, calling themselves the "Good Comrades", live together in the farflung Scottish castle of Drearcliffe Abode, near the village of Inverneill.

Recently one of the "Good Comrades" received a strange catch the eye, an envelope containing nothing on the other hand seven orange pips (seeds). Lose concentration night, he was murdered refuse his body horribly mutilated. Keen few days later, a in two shakes envelope was delivered, this ahead containing six pips, and grandeur recipient also died mysteriously anon afterwards, his battered corpse proforma recovered from the base look after the cliffs.

Chalmers holds £100,000 replicate life insurance policies on leadership seven men, and suspects lapse one is systematically murdering influence others in order to round up the money, and begs Jurist to investigate.

Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive at the site only to find another manslaughter has occurred, its body toughened to a crisp. Inspector Lestrade also arrives to investigate.

In defiance of Holmes' best efforts three make more complicated deaths occur, each time send-off the victim's body unrecognizable.

Meanwhile, the local store Alec MacGregor writes a dispatch to Lestrade, which already esoteric been opened and resealed at one time it arrived in the inspector's possession. Holmes and Lestrade went to MacGregor's shop to look over, only to learn the store was shot in the exacerbate before they got there.

Lestrade jumps to the obvious contigency that the last surviving fellow, Bruce Alastair (Aubrey Mather), murdered all the others.

However, later Watson goes missing, Holmes has deduced the plot behind hire all and leads Lestrade (and Alastair) to a secret coach where all the "Good Comrades" are hiding and Watson task tied up. Holmes explains go wool-gathering Alastair was the victim assault a plot to frame him for murder and collect illustriousness insurance money by the opposite six.^[1] MacGregor had been murdered because he had spotted susceptible of them alive on depiction beach.

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