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The Pearl of Death (1944) is a Sherlock Holmes mystery you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roy William Neill. Holmes himself slips up, and the priceless Borgia Pearl — a gem trailing centuries of murder — vanishes from under his nose.
A wave of grisly killings follows. Each victim is found with a broken spine, surrounded by shattered china. Basil Rathbone's Holmes hunts the cold-blooded thief Giles Conover, while a hulking brute known as the Creeper does the killing. Nigel Bruce plays Watson, half a step behind as always.
At sixty-nine tight minutes, it's pure deduction: the pearl is hidden in plain sight, and Holmes has to crack the puzzle one smashed teacup at a time. One of the sharpest entries in Universal's Rathbone series, lean and genuinely menacing thanks to Rondo Hatton's Creeper. Stream The Pearl of Death online on iFILM.
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