Where was the actor born that played a brutal killer in "The Pearl of Death"?
Hagerstown, Maryland
Title: Thomas Silverstein
Passage: Thomas Edward Silverstein (born February 4, 1952) is an American convicted murderer.  He has been incarcerated continuously since 1977 and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned.  He has been in solitary confinement since 1983, when he killed prison guard Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois.  Prison authorities describe him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.  Silverstein maintains that the dehumanizing conditions inside the prison system contributed to the three murders he committed.  He was held "in a specially designed cell" in what is called "Range 13" at ADX Florence federal penitentiary in Colorado.  He is currently the longest held prisoner in solitary confinement within the Bureau of Prisons.
Title: Rondo Hatton
Passage: Rondo Hatton (April 22, 1894 – February 2, 1946) was an American soldier, journalist and occasional actor with a minor career playing thuggish bit and extra parts in Hollywood B-movies, culminating in his elevation to horror movie star-status with Universal Studios in the last two years of his life, and posthumously as a movie cult icon.  He was known for his unique facial features, which were the result of acromegaly, a syndrome caused by a disorder of the pituitary gland.  He was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, to Missouri-born teachers.
Title: The Pearl of Death
Passage: The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the ninth of fourteen such films the pair made.  The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" but features some additions, such as Evelyn Ankers as an accomplice of the villain, played by Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton as a brutal killer.
The Pearl of Death Rondo Hatton