The House of Fear

Name: The House of Fear
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1945
Duration: 1 h 9 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Paul Cavanagh, Dennis Hoey

Mystery Crime Thriller

6.9·1945·1h 09m

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Release Year1945

Runtime1h 09m

LanguageEnglish

CertificationNR

GenresMystery, Crime, Thriller

Votes118

DirectorRoy William Neill

WritersRoy Chanslor

TypeFeature Film

Rating6.9 out of 10

Cast10 credited

Also Known AsThe House of Fear

About The House of Fear

The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.

Directed by Roy William Neill, The House of Fear leans on a strong ensemble — Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.

The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about mystery titles of 1945.

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When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.

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