12 Feb 1932
Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Terror by Night
One way ticket to DEATH..!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce Dr. John H. Watson
Alan Mowbray Major Duncan-Bleek
Dennis Hoey Inspector Lestrade
Renee Godfrey Vivian Vedder
Frederick Worlock Prof. William Kilbane
Mary Forbes Lady Margaret Carstairs
Skelton Knaggs Sands - Moran's Accomplice
Billy Bevan Conductor Taking Tickets
Geoffrey Steele Roland Carstairs
Janet Murdoch Mrs. Shallcross (uncredited)
Gerald Hamer Alf Shallcross (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson Senior Conductor (uncredited)
Harry Cording Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
Charles Knight Baggage Car Guard (uncredited)
Boyd Davis "Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
Bobby Wissler Mock Jr. (uncredited)
Gilbert Allen Dining Car Steward (uncredited)
C. Aubrey Smith Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
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