Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear

Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is a 1945American drama film, based on the character Sherlock Holmes. The film was directed and produced by Roy William Neill. It is the tenth of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.

The story is based on the short story The Five Orange Pips . ==Plot[ Edit] == Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers, an insurance agent. He tells Holmes about a society of seven older unmarried men called "The Good Comrades". The Group meets Lestrade Scottish Castle. Recently, one of the "Good Comrades" received a strange message, consisting of an envelope containing seven orange seeds. The night after he had gotten this envelope, he was assassinated and his body mutilated beyond recognition. A few days later got another Member an envelope containing six pips, after which he also was mutilated and died under mysterious circumstances. Chalmer has for each of the seven men a life insurance of £ 100,000, and suspects that someone killed them systematically so as to iron out the money.

Holmes and Watson go to the Castle, where just a third murder turns out to have taken place. This victim had previously received an envelope with five Orange pips. Despite attempts by Holmes to find the perpetrators as soon as possible, there are still three murders took place. Every time the corpses beyond recognition are damaged. Thus there is only a "Good Comrade" in life: Mr. Bruce Alistair.

Lestrade immediately draws the conclusion that Alistair the offender needs to be. Holmes, however, is a different view. He leads Watson and Lestrade to a secret room in the Castle, where they all seven "Good Comrades" alive and well. Holmes explains that Alistair has become a victim of a plot by the other six "Good Comrades", who wanted to accuse him of murders and the money of their own life insurance on wanted requirements.The corpses that were found so far were mutilated beyond recognition so that no one would have instant by that it is not the "Good Comrades" went. The six also appear to a local tobacco merchant, Alex MacGregor, to have killed because he threatened to betray their plan. ==Cast[ Edit] ==