Solid adaptation - by Bernard Millhauser again - of Conan Doyle story 'The Six Napoleons'. The early sequence where Holmes shows off his cleverness in disabling the museum's security - thus allowing the pearl to be stolen - is classic.
Familiar cast from series - Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon - plus Rondo Hatton as 'the Creeper', a man whose strange face was a result of a rare condition called Acromegaly - more about him was written by Fred Olen Ray, but can't find it online, though this article is informative.
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| Rondo Hatton |
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| Evelyn Ankers with 'elderly passenger' (guess who?) |
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