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.
John Neville
as Sherlock Holmes
Donald Houston
as Doctor Watson
John Fraser
as Lord Carfax
Anthony Quayle
as Doctor Murray
Barbara Windsor
as Annie Chapman
Adrienne Corri
as Angela
Frank Finlay
as Inspector Lestrade
Judi Dench
as Sally
Barry Jones
as Duke of Shires
Robert Morley
as Mycroft Holmes
Edina Ronay
as Mary Keller
Charles Regnier
as Joseph Beck
