A Study in Terror is a 1965 Sherlock Holmes film in which the detective goes on the trail of Jack the Ripper. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854-) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ...

Holmes is played by John Neville and Dr. Watson by Donald Houston. The film also stars Anthony Quayle, Cecil Parker, Robert Morley and Judi Dench in one of her first film roles. It was directed by James Hill. John Neville was a UK Theatre and film actor, popular in the 1950s but enjoying a resurgence in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliams The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. ... Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character, the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional 19th century detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Donald Houston (November 6, 1923—October 13, 1991) was an impassive Welsh actor whose first two films - The Blue Lagoon (1949) with Jean Simmons, and A Run for Your Money (1949) with Sir Alec Guinness - were highly successful. ... Sir John Anthony Quayle (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. ... Cecil Parker (1897–1971) was a British character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1933 and 1969. ... Robert Morley (May 26, 1908 - June 3, 1992) was a British actor who, often in supporting roles, was time and again cast as the archetypal English gentleman representing the Establishment. ... Judi Dench as M in GoldenEye Judith Olivia Dench, better known as Judi Dench, CH, DBE (born on December 9, 1934 in York) is a renowned British stage, film and television actress. ... James J. Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a noted American railroad tycoon. ...

The film is interesting in that it parallels the 1977 Murder by Decree, and also prefigures the Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell comic series From Hell (and its subsequent film incarnation). Murder by Decree Murder by Decree borrowed its Duke of Clarence plot from the movie From Hell. ... Alan Moore Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England) is a British writer most famous for his work in comics. ... Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell Eddie Campbell is a Scottish-born comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. ... From Hell is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. ...

Both A Study in Terror and Murder by Decree co-star character actor Frank Finlay as Holmes' Scotland Yard counterpoint Inspector Lestrade. Frank Finlay, CBE (born on August 6, 1926 in Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK) is a Roman Catholic British actor of English, Irish and Scottish extraction. ... New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ... Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...