Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear

Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is a 1945 crime film directed by Roy William Neill. It is based on The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle, and features the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is the 10th film of the Rathbone-Bruce series. Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers, an insurance agent, with a strange tale. Seven elderly single men, calling themselves "The Good Comrades" live together in the remote Scottish castle of Dre... more

Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is a 1945 crime film directed by Roy William Neill. It is based on The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle, and features the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is the 10th film of the Rathbone-Bruce series. Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers, an insurance agent, with a strange tale. Seven elderly single men, calling themselves "The Good Comrades" live together in the remote Scottish castle of Drearcliffe House. Recently one of the "Good Comrades" received a strange message, an envelope containing nothing but seven orange pips. That night he was murdered and horribly mutilated. A few days later the second envelope was delivered containing six pips, and the recipient also died mysteriously soon afterwards, his battered corpse recovered from the base of the cliffs. Chalmers holds £100,000 of life insurance policies on the seven men, and suspects that one is systematically murdering the others in order to collect the money, and begs... less