The House of Fear
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.
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"Sherlock Holmes agrees to an insurance company request to investigate the gruesome deaths of wealthy gentlemen living in a Scottish mansion. Each death is predicted by the strange delivery of Orange Pips to the next intended victim. Lets get the main fact out of the way first, although an adaptation of Conan Doyle's Holmes story, {Adventures} The Five Orange Pips, The House Of Fear bears little resemblance to that particular source. So purist fans of the literary aspects are in for a let down. Or are they? Directed by Roy William Neill with the screenplay coming from Roy Chanslor, this t..."
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The shot of the "grim old house perched high upon a cliff on the west coast of Scotland" was also used in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942). The house in the shot could not possibly be the Alastair home because, firstly, it is a church and not a house, and, secondly, close inspection reveals that the front of the house is in ruins.
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.