As in Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips, the arrival of a series of envelopes containing orange pips portends the grisly death of each recipient but where there are three deaths in the Openshaw family in the short story, there is a body count of seven in this film - a lot for a movie with a runtime of 69 minutes - and although it's good fun and Basil Rathbone is Sidney Paget's illustration of Sherlock Holmes come-to-life, and although the movie is deliciously spooky and the murders unspeakably gruesome - details that murder mystery fans will relish - the rush of deliveries of 'orange pip letters' one after the other after the other to a diminishing group of members of the Good Comrades Club seated night after night at their dining table in the gothic Drearcliff House gets a touch repetitive and ridiculous after, say, the first three.
★★★★☆
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