Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) Director: Roy William Neill

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films.Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1893 Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual".[2] Its three immediate predecessors in the film series were World War II spy adventures with Holmes and Dr. Watson helping the Allies thwart enemy agents, but this one marked a return to the pure mystery film form. Though several characters are military men and there are frequent mentions of the ongoing war, it is not the focus of the story. This was the second of three Holmes films in which Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Hillary Brooke appeared together. The first was Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror in 1942 and the third was The Woman in Green in 1945. Cast Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lestrade Arthur Margetson as Dr. Bob Sexton Hillary Brooke as Sally Musgrave Halliwell Hobbes as Alfred Brunton Minna Phillips as Mrs. Howells Milburn Stone as Captain Vickery Frederick Worlock as Geoffrey Musgrave Gavin Muir as Phillip Musgrave Gerald Hamer as Major Langford Vernon Downing as Lt. Clavering Olaf Hytten as Captain MacIntosh Charles Coleman as Constable Kray Dick Rush as Constable Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson Peter Lawford as Customer in Public House (uncredited) Norma Varden as Gracie the barmaid (uncredited)