Christopher Lee

Thorley Walters

Hans Söhnker

Hans Nielsen

Senta Berger

Ivan Desny

Wolfgang Lukschy

Leon Askin

Edith Schultze-Westrum

Bruno W. Pantel

Heinrich Gies

Bernard Lajarrige

Linda Sini

Roland Armontel

Max Strassberg

Danièle Argence

Franco Giacobini

Waldemar Frahm

Rena Horten

Terence Fisher

Arthur Conan Doyle

Alfred Arbeiter

Erwin Stolle

Vera Mügge

Paul Markwitz

Henry E. Lester

Martin Slavin

Curt Siodmak

Artur Brauner

Wolf Brauner

Richard Angst

Ira Oberberg

Gerhard Müller

Frank Winterstein

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes

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From the cast list, I couldn't help but wonder why it had taken me forty years to see this film - then I watched it. The diverse funding arrangements, basically as many European countries that don't speak English as a first language as possible - has conspired to create a production with stars who are over-dubbed (badly) by voices that you might expect to hear on a cat-food commercial. The photography is quite decent and evokes well some of the adventure surrounding "Holmes'" search for the missing necklace of legendary Pharaoh Cleopatra, before it falls into the hands of the pursuing "Prof. Moriarty" (Hans Söhnker). It is, however, a really poor piece of cinema that could benefit from a digital restoration with some decent vocal talent to reinvigorate it all...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace