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The House of Fear (1945)
Director: Roy William Neill
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From Time Out Film Guide
A cursed mansion named Drearcliff provides the setting for this passably atmospheric adaptation of Conan Doyle's Adventure of the Five Orange Pips, with Holmes and Watson joining the heavily insured old buffers of 'The Good Comrades' club for a weekend of cryptic warnings and mutilated corpses. Watson, for once, makes the elementary deduction.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Roy William Neill
Producer: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Paul Cavanagh, Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert, Gavin Muir full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 69 mins
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