The House of Fear

The House of Fear (1945) — watch this Sherlock Holmes mystery online on iFILM. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce return as Holmes and Watson, directed by Roy William Neill in one of the sharpest entries in Universal's long-running series. The story draws loosely from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Five Orange Pips."

A group of wealthy, reclusive gentlemen calling themselves the Good Comrades have settled into a remote Scottish manor. Then the envelopes start arriving — each one containing orange seeds, each one followed by a death. An insurance agent alarmed by the pattern brings Holmes in. The body count rises, the manor grows darker, and the logic of the killings refuses to fit any ordinary motive. Stream The House of Fear (1945) on iFILM.