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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)68 minCrime, Horror, MysteryRating 61/100

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson appear in this sixth feature based loosely on Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual." This time, the detectives investigate a strange ritual that ends up in murder. To decode, Homes eclectically uses the staff and patients of a hospital as pieces in a giant chess game.

Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Hillary Brooke, Mary Gordon, Halliwell Hobbes, Milburn Stone

Director: Roy William Neill