🕵️🔎 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954) TV Series – Ep 24 | The Case of the Night Train Riddle - video Dailymotion

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🔎 📺 This is the twenty-fourth episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series). It stars: 🕵️‍♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨‍⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade  ⚡ Episode Summary: Holmes and Watson are called to investigate a baffling riddle aboard a night train. What begins as a routine journey quickly turns into a race against time when a cryptic puzzle, hidden motives, and a dangerous scheme are revealed. As the train speeds through the night, Holmes must solve the riddle before tragedy strikes.  💡 Why Watch This Episode? ✔️ A thrilling mystery set against the suspenseful backdrop of a night train ✔️ Holmes demonstrates his brilliance under pressure and in confined spaces ✔️ A classic 1950s television story with cinematic flair and intrigue  ───────────────────────────── 👉 Watch the full playlist for all episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954)! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnTKAJ16ovG0sQTB5iqXP1ra  👉 Don’t forget to Like 👍, Comment 💬 & Subscribe 🔔 for more vintage TV & mystery classics. ───────────────────────────── 📌 Hashtags & Tags for SEO:  #sherlockholmes #NightTrainRiddle #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes #1954TVSeries #ClassicTV #RonaldHoward #DrWatson #InspectorLestrade #vintagemystery #detectivedrama #GoldenAgeTelevision ________________________________________

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00:00The End

00:30The End

01:00I had persuaded Sherlock Holmes to take a brief holiday with me.

01:20As we rumbled through the countryside, it was a comforting thought indeed that for a while anyway,

01:24there would be no desperate men at the door of our flat in Baker Street, no life-and-death cases to solve.

01:32Ahead were four whole days as suspended and happily uneventful as this train trip.

01:38Hello, let's look.

01:57Hear anything?

01:58Not a thing.

01:59Well, I hope we haven't heard anything. We must have been doing 30 miles an hour.

02:03Oh, we're doing more than that, I think, Watson.

02:05I thought you were asleep, Holmes.

02:08Well, not really. I was thinking about that Parkinson axe murder.

02:11You know, that unfortunate business in South Africa.

02:14Holmes!

02:14I was wondering...

02:14What?

02:15You are on holiday.

02:18Oh, yes.

02:18Yes, of course. Quite right, Watson.

02:20Quite right.

02:20Mr. Holmes.

02:25Yes, I'm Mr. Holmes.

02:27I thought I recognised your name on the reserve passenger list.

02:30I thought you might be able to help us.

02:32We seem to have had a sort of an accident.

02:34An accident or an incident?

02:35Well, I suppose you could call it an incident.

02:38But one of our passengers has disappeared.

02:41Disappeared?

02:42A boy. He was travelling with this young lady here.

02:44Paul is his name. Paul Windmaster.

02:47You must find him.

02:48I've heard you can do things like that, Mr. Holmes.

02:50Will you help me?

02:52There, there, there.

02:53I'm his governess.

02:55I should never have taken my eyes off him for a minute.

02:57But I looked in on him after he went to bed

02:59and was fool enough to imagine that everything was all right.

03:02Do you think he might have been kidnapped?

03:04No, I'm sure Paul ran away.

03:06How will I ever be able to face his father?

03:09I think you'd better sit down, Miss...

03:11Kendall. Lydia Kendall.

03:14Miss Kendall.

03:14Anne, tell us everything from the beginning.

03:17I'm sure we can be of help.

03:19Come on, sit down.

03:24Tell me, Miss Kendall, what happened that made the boy run away?

03:28Mr. Holmes, have you ever heard of Paul's father, Lance Windmaster?

03:32Oh, yes.

03:33Ripsaw Windmaster, the Canadian Timber King.

03:36The papers call him that.

03:38As rough and strong a man as the trees he cuts down.

03:41Paul not having a mother since the age of two

03:43has grown to be like him in many ways.

03:44Independent, wild.

03:47Believe me, I've had a full-time job.

03:49I can imagine.

03:51Mr. Windmaster never disciplined him.

03:53Was actually proud of Paul's spirit.

03:55Until one day, rather suddenly,

03:57struck him that he was bringing the boy up in properly.

04:00You asked me what caused the boy to run away.

04:03It was just that.

04:03And yesterday, when I went out to fetch Paul,

04:07I began to see the first signs of what was about to happen.

04:16Paul!

04:17Paul!

04:22Paul, you'll have to come home now and get dressed.

04:24We're all packed and ready to go.

04:26Yes, Miss Kendall.

04:27Hurry now, we can't miss the train.

04:41Now, when you arrive at the school,

04:42you'll take the boy directly to the headmaster.

04:44He's received a full letter of instructions from me.

04:46And, oh, there you are, Paul.

04:49Your Uncle Cecil's just arrived to say goodbye to you.

04:54Here's wishing you success, Paul.

04:56Thank you, sir.

04:58You'll be taught to be a gentleman.

05:00Something which your mother, forgive me,

05:02I fail to do.

05:03Yes, Father.

05:05What have you got there?

05:07White mice.

05:08White?

05:10Now, look here, Paul.

05:11You certainly don't intend to take them to school with you.

05:14I can't leave them here.

05:16Nobody would look after them.

05:17Now, that's foolish.

05:19Nobody really cares about white mice here, except me.

05:22Well, you can give them back to whoever gave you them.

05:24You mean Coco?

05:25Who?

05:26Coco the Clown.

05:28I'm afraid I introduced him to Coco

05:30the day I took him to the circus.

05:32They've become rather good friends.

05:34Well, I couldn't give them back.

05:35He gave them to me as a gift.

05:37Paul, I don't care what you do with them,

05:38but you can take them with you, and that's fine.

05:41All right.

05:43Leave them here, then.

05:47Good boy.

05:49Well, you and Miss Kendall had better be off.

05:51Well, what's the matter?

05:55I don't want to go to school.

05:56What?

05:57You didn't go to school.

05:59Why should I?

06:00Times were different when I was young.

06:02You don't know what you're saying.

06:04I have my horse and my white mice,

06:06and Coco and I are supposed to meet next week.

06:08You can't run wild all your life.

06:10You grew up to be a savage.

06:12But Lydia could teach me everything I need to know right here.

06:15Miss Kendall isn't a teacher.

06:17She's a governess.

06:18She knows as much as anyone.

06:23Now listen to me, Paul.

06:25One day you'll come into possession of everything I own.

06:29This estate, my lumber mills, everything.

06:32When that day comes, I want you to be equipped to take over.

06:35Well, I don't have to go to school for that,

06:37and I don't have to wear a tie and jacket either.

06:40You'll wear a tie and jacket, and you'll like it.

06:42And you're starting the school right now.

06:46Put me down!

06:47I don't want to go to school!

06:48I'll run away!

06:49Put me down, I'll run away!

06:51Well, Miss Kendall, are you coming?

06:53Put me down!

06:54Put me down!

06:56He boarded the train without further protest.

06:59The truth is, his attitude seemed to have undergone quite a change.

07:03By the time we started out,

07:04he behaved almost as if he were looking forward to going to school.

07:07But, of course, the whole thing was a ruse to put me off my guard.

07:11You said before you saw the boy after he went to bed.

07:15Now, what time was that?

07:16About eight.

07:18And what time did you find that he was missing?

07:21About an hour later.

07:22I heard a thud coming from his compartment

07:24and went to investigate.

07:26His door was locked from the inside,

07:28and I had to get the conductor here to open it for me.

07:30How he got out, I don't know, but he was gone.

07:33And, of course, you searched the whole train out there.

07:34Oh, every inch of it with the conductor here.

07:37I decided to stop the train when we couldn't find him.

07:40Oh, conductor, I believe there's a steep gradient

07:42just a few miles beyond Darcy.

07:44Yes, there is.

07:46Now, how slowly would the train be going at that time, do you think?

07:49Oh, about five miles an hour.

07:52Very slowly, sir.

07:53Well, in that case, I suggest that we borrow a cart

07:55from a farmer in the vicinity of Darcy

07:57and go back and search that area.

07:59Yes, sir. I'll take care of it immediately, sir.

08:01What was the number of the boys' compartment?

08:04Thirty-seven.

08:06Well, Dr. Watson and I'll take a look at it.

08:09No, no, no, there's no need for you to come with us.

08:10I think you'd better stay here and rest.

08:14Now, you mustn't worry.

08:15Small boys make a habit of disappearing and reappearing.

08:18I hope so. I hope so.

08:40Well, you've certainly simplified the search

08:42and you narrowed down the area to Darcy.

08:44Here, Watson, give me a hand with this window, will you?

08:46Yes, sir.

08:46All the same, this train window.

08:53Well, that was the sound Miss Kendall heard,

08:54the sound of the window being open before the boy jumped out.

08:57By Jove, you're right.

08:58The question is, who helped the boy open the window?

09:01Well, it took two of us to do it.

09:03Exactly.

09:05Good heavens, Holmes,

09:06do you mean that he must have had an accomplice?

09:08Of course he must have.

09:09Yes, but who on earth would want to help a little boy to run away?

09:12Well, when we know that, Watson,

09:14we will have the answer to the problem of the boy who didn't want to go to school.

09:17And now we return to the case of the night train riddle.

09:34Taking Holmes' suggestion,

09:37we borrowed a cart

09:38and traced the rail line back to the upgrade near Darcy.

09:43We combed the area several times without uncovering a single clue.

09:48All of us were soon discouraged and ready to abandon the search.

09:52All of us, that is,

09:53except Holmes.

09:54We've been over this stretch three times already, Holmes.

09:59Yes, I know,

10:00but this is the only place where the boy could have jumped off.

10:02But we haven't got a shred of evidence,

10:03not a sight of anything, nothing at all.

10:05Look.

10:06What is it?

10:09A boy's cap.

10:11Miss Kendall, would you mind coming over here for a moment?

10:15Is that the boy's cap?

10:16Yes, yes, that's his.

10:18Then it has to be here.

10:21Look, over here.

10:24Here we are, Watson.

10:26The footprints of a small boy.

10:32Holmes, look, another set.

10:35Must be the boy's accomplice.

10:37Ah, good work, Watson.

10:41They end here.

10:47Then it's quite clear what happened.

10:49Not to me.

10:50Well, they obviously boarded another train,

10:51a local, I imagine,

10:53travelling in the same direction as we were.

10:55We do pull alongside a local here, Mr. Holmes,

10:57the up train from Royal Minster.

11:00Well, how do they do that?

11:01Change trains in its stream, so to speak.

11:03Well, obviously, Watson,

11:04if both trains were travelling slowly enough.

11:07They do.

11:07It's possible, entirely possible, Mr. Holmes.

11:10Ah, conductor,

11:10I think you'd better telegraph ahead

11:12and have them stop that train.

11:13Yes, sir.

11:14Do you think they'll find him, Mr. Holmes?

11:16Well, we are near enough to the truth, Miss Kendall,

11:18not to have to speculate any more.

11:19We will soon know.

11:20We began a hasty return to the night express

11:27aboard which we hoped to catch the locals.

11:31Holmes insisted that time was of the utmost importance.

11:33Paul.

11:46Pardon?

11:46I'm sorry.

11:49I thought to another boy.

11:52Perhaps the next compartment.

11:53Oh, this is the last one, Miss.

11:55But you held out so much hope, Mr. Holmes.

11:57How many stops did the train make before Darcy?

12:02Three, same as usual.

12:03Did you notice a boy get out of one of them?

12:06Not that I remember.

12:08There was a boy.

12:09I talked with him.

12:10He got off with his father at Manborough.

12:12Are you sure?

12:15Yes, there was that pair.

12:17Blimey, I clean forgot.

12:19What did the father look like?

12:21Hmm, medium-sized, grey hair, ordinary face.

12:26Wait.

12:27I noticed when I inspected his ticket

12:29there was something about his fingertips.

12:31They were red.

12:33Red?

12:34Yeah.

12:35I thought it was strange at the time.

12:37Hmm.

12:38That's most observant of you, Conductor.

12:40That proves it, Watson.

12:41Holmes, do you know who he is?

12:43Of course.

12:44Coco the Clown.

12:45Coco the Clown?

12:47He was the boy's friend.

12:48But more than that, there's the red fingertips.

12:51The significance of which completely escapes me.

12:54Rouge, Watson, the same kind of clown uses.

12:56He was evidently in a great hurry to catch the train.

12:58He didn't have time to remove it all.

13:00Well, if you're only right, Mr. Holmes.

13:02And unless I miss my guess,

13:03we'll find them both in Manborough now.

13:05Watson,

13:17Miss Kennedy is sending a wire to the headmaster of the school,

13:21telling him they've been delayed.

13:23As soon as she's finished, we can be off.

13:25Hmm?

13:25What's the matter with you?

13:27You don't look like someone who wants to be taken to the circus.

13:30Holmes, do you realise it has taken me

13:32the last solid three weeks

13:34of pleading and cajoling

13:36to persuade you to take this trip?

13:38And now look where we end up in, in...

13:39Manborough.

13:40And don't you underestimate it.

13:41We can have a very exciting holiday here.

13:44Oh, holiday?

13:45We might as well have pitched a tent at Lestrade's office.

13:47I know, but we couldn't very well refuse to help them.

13:49No, we couldn't have refused to help them.

13:52Ah, but when we eventually find

13:53whoever it is who's at the bottom of this thing,

13:55please remember one thing.

13:57He's my pigeon.

13:58Don't upset yourself, Watson.

14:00As soon as we can find the boy,

14:02we can continue on our journey.

14:04Oh, I'm glad you've still considered that.

14:06Well, shall we be getting along?

14:08Hmm.

14:09Oh, by the way, Watson,

14:10I didn't mention it to Miss Kennedy,

14:12but I believe there's some possibility

14:13the boy may be in danger.

14:15So I don't think we ought to lose too much time.

14:21Not a very convenient place to leave luggage.

14:25Holmes!

14:26You've got to wait a minute.

14:28We've left all our bags in the train.

14:30There's no time to worry about that now, Watson.

14:32Come along.

14:33But look, Holmes,

14:34we've got everything in them for our four days.

14:37All right, I'll find Miss Kendall

14:38and get a carriage and we'll meet you in the street.

14:40Now, hurry up.

14:41Right.

14:47Could you tell me if the night express has gone yet?

14:49It had to switch back to the main line.

14:51I wondered if it was still in the yard somewhere.

14:52I'm awfully sorry, sir.

14:54You must have the wrong town.

14:56Now I know where I am.

14:57I'm in Manborough.

14:58Right you are, sir.

14:59But the night express doesn't stop in Manborough.

15:01Never has.

15:02Except once.

15:03But, confounded man,

15:04I know it stops here.

15:06Oh, no, sir.

15:07The only time the night express ever stopped in Manborough

15:09was in the summer of 88.

15:12A wheel fell off the locomotive.

15:13Right off point here, it happened.

15:15It stopped all right that night.

15:17Now, look here.

15:18This is urgent.

15:19I happen to know the night express stops here

15:21because I got off the thing at this station.

15:25Now, will you kindly go and find out if it's still here?

15:28Well, I have to go down to the yard area.

15:30In about five minutes, I'll ask the signal box.

15:33Five minutes?

15:34Oh, never mind.

15:36Watson, come along.

15:38The carriage is waiting.

15:39Look.

15:45The luggage.

15:49Cecil, open up.

16:19Did it work?

16:21We jumped off.

16:22Switched trains.

16:23Ta-da!

16:24Like a couple of acrobats.

16:26Where's the boy now?

16:37Exactly where I want him.

16:49Oh, no.

16:50Oh, no.

16:51Oh, no.

16:52Oh, no.

16:53Oh, no.

16:54Oh, no.

16:55Oh, no.

16:56Oh, no.

16:57Oh, no.

16:58Oh, no.

16:59Oh, no.

17:00Oh, no.

17:01Oh, no.

17:02Oh, no.

17:03Oh, no.

17:04Oh, no.

17:05Oh, no.

17:06Oh, no.

17:07Oh, no.

17:08Oh, no.

17:09Oh, no.

17:10Oh, no.

17:11Oh, no.

17:12Oh, no.

17:13Oh, no.

17:14Oh, no.

17:15Oh, no.

17:16Oh, no.

17:17Oh, no.

17:18Well, bear and get it over with.

17:24I was waiting for a down payment.

17:27How much?

17:31A hundred pounds should do it.

17:38That's cheap enough to show your good faith.

17:48I'll expect the rest when I finish.

18:18I'll see you later.

18:48Quick!

18:54Here, Watson, take this gun and fire it up into the air.

18:56To the air?

18:57Yes, just to pin him down.

18:58What are you going to do?

18:59Well, I'm going to find out who he is and why he's trying to keep us from the boy.

19:02Well, go on, Watson, fire it.

19:03I'm sorry, Holmes.

19:05This one's mine.

19:06What?

19:07Watson!

19:08Watson!

19:09Here!

19:10Fire it, Holmes!

19:11Fire it!

19:12Oh, very well.

19:18Come along, Miss Kendall.

19:35Watson, you're a fool to have taken such a risk.

19:37No, with you covering me, I couldn't miss.

19:40Get up!

19:41It's Mr. Windmaster's brother.

19:42Oh, Uncle Cecil.

19:43Yes, I'm the first in line to inherit the Windmaster fortune, if anything had happened to the boy.

19:56That's right, he would be the heir.

19:58You may not think so at the moment, Mr. Windmaster, but you're very fortunate.

20:02If the boy had been killed, you would most certainly have been hanged.

20:05Hanged?

20:06Yes, hanged.

20:09Stop him.

20:12Stop who?

20:13Coco, he's about to kill the boy.

20:15Push him off the catwalk backstage.

20:29Up there.

20:39Go, go.

20:40Don't come any closer.

20:41I'm coming down.

20:42You'll never get out of here.

20:43One move to stop me and I'll kill this boy.

20:46Come on.

20:47Go, go.

20:48Go, go.

20:49Go, go.

20:50Go, go.

20:51Go, go.

20:52Go, go.

20:53Go, go.

20:54Go, go.

20:55Go, go.

20:56Go, go.

20:57Go, go.

20:58Go, go.

20:59Go, go.

21:00Go, go.

21:01Go, go.

21:02Go, go.

21:03Go, go.

21:04Go, go.

21:05Go, go.

21:06Go, go.

21:07Go, go.

21:08Go, go.

21:09Go, go.

21:10Go, go.

21:11Go, go.

21:12Go, go.

21:13Go, go.

21:14Go, go.

21:15Go, go.

21:16Go, go.

21:17Go, go.

21:18Go, go.

21:19Go, go.

21:20Go, go.

21:21Go, go.

21:22Go, go.

21:23Go, go.

21:24Go, go.

21:25Go, go.

21:26Go, go.

21:27Go, go.

21:28Go, go.

21:29Go, go.

21:30Go, go.

21:31Go, go.

21:32Go, go.

21:33Go, go.

21:34Go, go.

21:35Oh, my God.

22:05Perfect timing, Watson.

22:23Yes, it wasn't bad, even though I do say so myself.

22:26He wanted to kill me, and I thought he was a friend.

22:29Well, that should teach you a lesson, Paul.

22:31No one's a friend who encourages a boy to run away from school.

22:35Why, what would have become of Dr. Watson here if he hadn't gone to school?

22:38Well, it's very simple.

22:39He'd never have been able to accomplish that trick.

22:41But all he did was to...

22:43In dropping that counterweight, young man,

22:45I had to know the speed of falling objects,

22:48the theory of weight and counterweight,

22:50and of stress and resistance.

22:52Now, if I hadn't studied physics,

22:54there's no telling what might have happened to you.

22:56I never thought of that.

22:57No, of course not.

22:58Well, just you think of it from now on.

23:07Watson, did you really have all that in mind

23:09when you pulled that rope?

23:11Oh, I would believe it.

23:12Of course.

23:12Oh, did you?

23:13Uh-huh.

23:17Come on, you.

23:18If you're looking for the time of the next London train,

23:38it will be along in ten minutes.

23:41Huh?

23:42Oh, no, no.

23:42I was just wondering where our bags would be by this time.

23:46This train seems to be somewhat off-schedule.

23:49I'd estimate that our clean shirts

23:51are about 30 miles north of Edinburgh at this moment.

23:54Oh, confound it, Holmes.

23:55Why dwell on that?

23:56Oh, don't take it so hard, old chap.

23:59We'll give it another try one of these days.

24:03Well, sir, it certainly was a shock to me.

24:06Oh, it's you again.

24:08You were right, sir.

24:09The express did stop on Manborough tonight.

24:12Can't understand it.

24:13The first time since the summer of 88.

24:17Fact is, it was running wild through here tonight, they tell me.

24:20Came more and through in the local line first

24:22and back through here to switch over to the main line again.

24:25Can't for the life of me figure what they were up to.

24:28Left a couple of bags on our platform.

24:30No hint of a reason.

24:31Just found them there.

24:33A couple of bags, did you say?

24:35Oh, why, why, yes, sir.

24:37A suitcase-like.

24:39Don't know anything about them.

24:40One marked JW and the other SH.

24:44Suppose we'll have to keep them in the office for the 30 days required.

24:49My dear sir, if you'll just leave me to your office,

24:51I think I can relieve you of those suitcases within 30 seconds.

24:55My name is John Watson.

24:58Mine will be the one marked JW.

24:59Oh, you mean, uh, I say, uh, and this here gentleman is, uh, SH?

25:04Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

25:05This is my friend, uh, um, well, Samuel Higgins.

25:09Ah, well, in that case, uh, if you'll come along to the office

25:13and identify the contents, I'd be glad to get them off my hands.

25:16Samuel Higgins.

25:23Yes.

25:24You see, we have three whole days left,

25:27and I'm quite sure that nobody will want to interfere

25:29with the holiday of Samuel Higgins.

25:31Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

25:33THE END

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