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The Little Picture House · Classic cinema
1943 · Mystery / Thriller · English · Black and white · Approximately 68 minutes
About the film
Dr Watson is caring for recovering military officers at an English manor when an attack draws Sherlock Holmes into the troubled Musgrave household. A murder soon turns the investigation into a search for a concealed motive.
Family tensions and a puzzling ancestral ceremony offer clues—but Inspector Lestrade’s suspicions and Holmes’s deductions lead in different directions.
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Cast and production
Director and producer: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone — Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce — Dr Watson
Featuring: Dennis Hoey, Hillary Brooke, Arthur Margetson, Milburn Stone and Halliwell Hobbes
Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser
Story source: The Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Production and original distribution: Universal Pictures
Country: United States
Behind the picture
Conan Doyle’s 1893 story provides the basis for this screen mystery, which places the Musgrave puzzle in a wartime convalescent household.
Film details: AFI Catalog.
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