Product: Terror by Night (1946)
Rating: 5.0
One Way Ticket to DEATH
Another entry in the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night features our favorite detectives in this excellent production (easily one of the better Sherlock Holmes films) of a great train caper. If you're in the market for a solid family movie, this certainly fits the bill, with its solid acting, excellent script and solid direction.The colorized aspects of the film are a real boon to modern viewing audiences, to whom the grayscale worlds of black and white movies seem entirely alien. It's important to keep connected with the audience, particularly in a detective story, where the audience's engagement as they attempt to solve the crime is a critical part of the genre's allure. Watch the black and white and color versions together; you'll be shocked at how different they feel, despite being the exact same film. Just for that option alone, this is the must-own version of Terror by Night.