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A Study in Terror

Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper! Here comes the original caped crusader!

6.2(78)19651h 35m3

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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English
  • jack the ripper
  • sherlock holmes

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Director

James Hill

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR10 Aug 1966
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Oct 1965
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1211 Jan 1967
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1614 Jan 1966

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A Study in Terror was released on 1 October 1965.

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    CinemaSerf

    9/5/2024

    6/10

    Now, in my humble opinion there will never be a better "Sherlock" than Basil Rathbone, nor can "Watson" be anyone other than Nigel Bruce. That's not to say that others ought not to try, though - and here John Neville and Donald Houston turn in OK performances as our sleuthing duo. This time, they are charged with solving the mother of all crime mysteries - the identity of "Jack the Ripper". A lot of attention to deta…

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    Wuchak

    6/18/2026

    6/10

    **_What if Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson took on the 1888 Ripper case?_** This was the first of two films that had this plot. The second one, “Murder By Decree,” came out fourteen years later and featured Christopher Plummer and James Mason in the roles of Holmes & Watson whereas this features John Neville and Donald Houston. It’s more colorful and arguably has a superior cast of women, led by raven-haired Georgia …

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