Seven rich men retire to a Scottish castle and promptly begin to die in violent fashion, each death preceded by the delivery of orange pips to the next target. Can even Sherlock Holmes discover what evil stalks the halls of The House of Fear?
HORROR stalking its halls!
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Trivia:
The tenth of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
Towards the end of the film, as Watson notices the tobacco urn is empty, the wolf's head cane from The Wolf Man (1941) can be seen leaning against the back wall.
Despite the orange pips, the film is nothing like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes short story "The Five Orange Pips".
Released on a double bill with The Mummy's Curse (1944).
The shot of the "grim old house perched high upon a cliff on the west coast of Scotland" was also used in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. The house in the shot could not possibly be the Alastair home because close inspection reveals that the front of the house is in ruins.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjo7irWmtlQ