***SPOILERS*** Things got a bit suspicious to insurance salesman Chambers, Gavin Muir, when two members of the exclusive "Good Comrades Club" were killed with their bodies burned and mutilated beyond recognition. That's when they received mysterious letters containing seven in the case of Ralph King, Richard Alexander, and six in the case of Stanley Reaburn, Cyril Delevanti, orange pits. With King & Reaburn being members of the "Good Comrades Club" each of their insurance policies, being 1000,000 pound sterling, was to be split up among the surviving five club members.
Chamers getting his good friend Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, together with his constant companion Dotcor Watson, Nigel Bruce, to investigate the two mysterious deaths other members of the club began to have the same kind of deadly accidents! With their remains completely obliterated to the point where they were left totally unrecognizable! What at first seem to be obvious in the "Good Comrades Club" members deaths is that one of them is staging their "accidents" so in being the sole survivor of the group he'll collect all the insurance, amounting to 700,000 pound sterling, money!
It's the murder of local tobacco shop owner Alex MacGregor, David Clyde, that sets off alarms in Sherlock Holmes' head to who the real killer was. It's not that MagGregor was murdered and didn't die accidentally like the "Good Comrades" but that he wasn't even a member of that exclusive Club! It was that MacGregor saw something, or someone, on the beach one evening that he wasn't supposed to see and that in the end cost him his life. It was in that clue, MacGregor's murder, that Holmes realized what exactly was going on in the strange deaths of the "Good Comrades". That and also Doctor Watson suddenly or on impulse deciding to try smoking MacGregor's left over tobacco that exposed to Holmes not only the reason for the "Good Comrades" deaths but also why they died so horribly!
More like a modern horror slasher flick then a 1940's Sherlock Holmes mystery movie "The House of Fear" thankfully didn't show the results of the horrible deaths, which were more like those in the recent "SAW" films, of its victims which would have been far too much for its audience back then in 1945 to watch!
Chamers getting his good friend Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, together with his constant companion Dotcor Watson, Nigel Bruce, to investigate the two mysterious deaths other members of the club began to have the same kind of deadly accidents! With their remains completely obliterated to the point where they were left totally unrecognizable! What at first seem to be obvious in the "Good Comrades Club" members deaths is that one of them is staging their "accidents" so in being the sole survivor of the group he'll collect all the insurance, amounting to 700,000 pound sterling, money!
It's the murder of local tobacco shop owner Alex MacGregor, David Clyde, that sets off alarms in Sherlock Holmes' head to who the real killer was. It's not that MagGregor was murdered and didn't die accidentally like the "Good Comrades" but that he wasn't even a member of that exclusive Club! It was that MacGregor saw something, or someone, on the beach one evening that he wasn't supposed to see and that in the end cost him his life. It was in that clue, MacGregor's murder, that Holmes realized what exactly was going on in the strange deaths of the "Good Comrades". That and also Doctor Watson suddenly or on impulse deciding to try smoking MacGregor's left over tobacco that exposed to Holmes not only the reason for the "Good Comrades" deaths but also why they died so horribly!
More like a modern horror slasher flick then a 1940's Sherlock Holmes mystery movie "The House of Fear" thankfully didn't show the results of the horrible deaths, which were more like those in the recent "SAW" films, of its victims which would have been far too much for its audience back then in 1945 to watch!