England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
Acting
Rathbone's Holmes—aristocratic, impatient, absolutely magnetic.
Direction
Rawlins crams a feature's worth of paranoia into 65 minutes.
Director
John Rawlins
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Doctor Watson
Evelyn Ankers
Kitty
Reginald Denny
Sir Evan Barham
Thomas Gomez
R.F. Meade
Henry Daniell
Sir Anthony Lloyd
Montagu Love
General Jerome Lawford
Olaf Hytten
Admiral Sir John Fabian Prentiss
Leyland Hodgson
Captain Roland Shore
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Hudson
Hillary Brooke
Jill Grandis
Harry Cording
Camberwell
Herbert Evans
Smithson - Barham's Butler (uncredited)
Fred Graham
Meade's Henchman (uncredited)
Gavin Muir
BBC Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
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