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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Terror by Night (1946)
Season 2023
Episode 7
(1946) Sherlock Holmes is hired to protect a woman on a train returning to London with the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond. When the rare jewel is stolen and the son of its owner murdered, Holmes, with his trusted Watson by his side, must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
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