Main Cast: Peter Cushing, John Mills, Ray Milland, Anne Baxter, Anton Diffring
Release Year: 1984
Country: UK
Run Time: 80 minutes
Plot
Twenty-seven years after Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Peter Cushing makes a belated return to the role of Sherlock Holmes in the made-for-television Masks of Death. Befitting his age, Cushing plays Holmes in retirement, content to play his violin and look after his bees. He is dragged back into action by a series of baffling East End murders. Each one of the victims has been discovered with an expression of stark, raw fear frozen on his or her face. With faithful Dr. Watson (John Mills) at his right hand, Holmes puts the pieces together. Ray Milland and Anne Baxter co-star in this stylish bouquet to the Baker Street Irregulars of the world. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Sherlock Holmes though retired says yes when Inspector MacDonald asks him to take on another case. Investigating mysterious murders where there are no visible causes for the deaths, Holmes also takes the case of Graf Udo Von Felseck who wants him to find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. Are the cases related and is his client being truthful ?
Trivia
This is Cushing's final portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He previously played him in a television series and in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
