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When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.


“The last adventure of Sherlock Holmes.”
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...

Peter Cushing
Sherlock Holmes

John Mills
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Anne Baxter
Irene Adler / Mrs. Norton

Ray Milland
Home Secretary

Anton Diffring
Graf Udo Von Felseck

Gordon Jackson
Inspector Alec MacDonald

Marcus Gilbert
Anton Von Felseck

Susan Penhaligon
Miss Derwent

Jenny Laird
Mrs. Hudson

Russell Hunter
Alfred Coombs
The Masks of Death is a tv movie, mystery, crime, thriller film released in 1984 exploring themes of based on novel or book, sherlock holmes. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, it stars Peter Cushing, John Mills, Anne Baxter. Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...
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