Terror by Night
1946 · 60 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 7,251 VOTES · DIR. Roy William Neill
Overview
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,187 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:04 The Star of Rhodesia
00:03:41 So naturally it wasn't very difficult
00:05:06 Yes?
00:08:03 That was one of them.
00:09:44 None that I can see.
00:11:54 Scotland Yard.
00:13:31 Go on.
00:15:43 It's a matter of taste Lestrade.
00:17:19 Well?
00:18:47 In my small way
00:20:40 So have you.
00:23:06 Lady Carstairs seemed more concerned
00:24:45 Colonel Sebastian Moran?
00:27:05 You can leave it open, will you?
00:31:29 Excuse me please.
00:33:36 It might prove interesting.
00:35:23 No no no of course not
00:36:36 I think I'll have another little chat
00:40:24 Here you'd better take this.
00:44:30 You were attacked because you had the diamond.
00:47:02 In my opinion
00:48:48 you carry strange things in your pockets.
00:51:36 The pseudo policeman to come aboard
00:53:13 switch a little thing like a diamond.
Cast & Characters
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Dr. John H. Watson
Alan Mowbray
Maj. Duncan-Bleek
Dennis Hoey
Inspector Lestrade
Renee Godfrey
Vivian Vedder
Frederick Worlock
Prof. William Kilbane
Mary Forbes
Lady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton Knaggs
Sands
Billy Bevan
Train Attendant
Geoffrey Steele
Roland Carstairs
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,187
Dialogue density19.8 lines / min
First line00:01:04
Final line00:53:13
Production Record
DirectorRoy William Neill
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes7,251