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Mystery, Crime, Thriller 69 min NR
IMDb7.2
HORROR stalking its halls!
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.
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When an insurance man calls upon Messrs. “Holmes” (Basil Rathbone) and “Watson” (Nigel Bruce) in their recently bullet-holed Baker Street lodgings, he raises some concerns about a group called the “good comrades”. They live in a remote, coastal and creepy, mansion house where each have made the others their beneficiaries in the event of their demise. Quite recently, two of them have bitten the dust and when “Holmes” hears that a certain “Dr. Merrivale” (Paul Cavanagh) is amongst them, they decide that they ought to pay these gents a visit. The whole shooting match is hosted by the dithery “Alistair” (Aubrey Mather) and the remainder of them could all be suspects too, but what could be the motive and what’s the significance of the decreasing numbers of orange pips delivered to each victim hours before they go the way of the dodo. Suspicions are duly aroused when the seafaring captain “Simpson” (Harry Cording) has a narrow escape with a needle and tensions only heighten when the hapless “Lestrade” (Dennis Hoey) shows up. With the big house creaking, the residents dwindling and a menacing black raven circling overhead, our two sleuths have their work cut out for them. This is one of t
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