The Masks of Death (1984)

Directors

Roy Ward Baker

Cast

Anne Baxter, Anton Diffring, Gordon Jackson, James Cossins, Jenny Laird, John Mills, Marcus Gilbert, Peter Cushing, Ray Milland, Susan Penhaligon

The story

In 1913, Sherlock Holmes, virtually in retirement, is persuaded by Inspector Alec MacDonald of Scotland Yard to take on a baffling case. Three dead bodies have been found in London's East End, all with no discernible cause of death, but the expressions on their faces suggest that they all died in a state of terror. Holmes, accompanied by Dr Watson, begins an investigation, but before he can make any real progress he is visited by the British Home Secretary and a German Diplomat, Count Udo von Felseck, who tell Holmes that a German envoy, on a secret mission to Britain, has disappeared from Felseck's house in Buckinghamshire.

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