๐ ๐บ This is the thirty-first episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series).
It stars: ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes ๐จโโ๏ธ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson ๐ฎ Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade
โก Episode Summary:
Holmes and Watson are confronted with a chilling puzzle when the body of a recently buried man is exhumed under mysterious circumstances. The investigation reveals shocking secrets, hidden financial schemes, and a desperate attempt to conceal the truth from beyond the grave. With danger mounting, Holmes must piece together the motives of the living to bring justice to the dead.
๐ก Why Watch This Episode?
โ๏ธ A dark and atmospheric mystery with gothic undertones
โ๏ธ Intrigue surrounding wills, inheritances, and buried secrets
โ๏ธ A gripping showcase of Holmesโ relentless pursuit of truth
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It stars: ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes ๐จโโ๏ธ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson ๐ฎ Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade
โก Episode Summary:
Holmes and Watson are confronted with a chilling puzzle when the body of a recently buried man is exhumed under mysterious circumstances. The investigation reveals shocking secrets, hidden financial schemes, and a desperate attempt to conceal the truth from beyond the grave. With danger mounting, Holmes must piece together the motives of the living to bring justice to the dead.
๐ก Why Watch This Episode?
โ๏ธ A dark and atmospheric mystery with gothic undertones
โ๏ธ Intrigue surrounding wills, inheritances, and buried secrets
โ๏ธ A gripping showcase of Holmesโ relentless pursuit of truth
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
๐ Watch the full playlist for all episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954)! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnTKAJ16ovG0sQTB5iqXP1ra
๐ Donโt forget to Like ๐, Comment ๐ฌ & Subscribe ๐ for more vintage TV & mystery classics.
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00:00The End
00:30I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord.
01:00He that believeth in me, although he were dead, shall live, and he that liveth and believeth shall not die.
01:08Unto Almighty God we commend his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope that at the resurrection he will rise again to everlasting life. Amen.
01:25Well, that completes the formal contents of Sir Charles' will.
01:33May I be the first to congratulate you, Sir George, as a new heir to Farnsworth Castle?
01:37A mass of crumbling stone and a morbid legend.
01:41Oh, plus an estate with a handsome revenue.
01:44All our legacies were most liberal, Mr. Clarkson.
01:47My brother was a generous man.
01:49He was a bully and a braggart.
01:51George, please. Charles is dead now.
01:54He treated you more like one of his hounds than his wards, Sylvia, and you know it.
01:57Henry, you can now do what you've always dreamed of doing, buy your own medical practice.
02:03Two thousand pounds. I'm overwhelmed.
02:05I suppose that finishes the will, Clarkson?
02:08Well, not quite, Sir George.
02:10Your cousin Charles added a most unusual codicil.
02:14Having made many enemies in my life,
02:17and suspecting that any one of them may be tempted to bring my earthly days to an abrupt end,
02:22I hereby direct, no matter how I die,
02:25that Sherlock Holmes be engaged to investigate the circumstances of my death.
02:30Sherlock Holmes?
02:32The detective.
02:33But it's absurd.
02:34Charles died from a heart attack.
02:36You signed the death certificate yourself, Rhys.
02:38I won't allow Holmes to investigate.
02:40I'm afraid Mr. Holmes has already commenced his investigation.
02:44A court order was issued this morning.
02:46A court order for what?
02:47The exhumation of Sir Charles' body.
02:52The autopsy has been completed.
02:56Sir Charles died from arsenic poisoning.
03:04Sir Charles' death set her free just as it set the rest of us free.
03:18Are Holmes and Lestrade still up in the Tower Room?
03:20Yes, and Dr. Watson is there, too.
03:20Why is Holmes so interested in the Tower Room?
03:22Because Charles died there, I suppose.
03:23Or perhaps Mr. Holmes is interested in the letter, isn't he?
03:24That ridiculous, gruesome legend.
03:27Murder is what I believe, and Holmes?
03:29The detective.
03:29That is what I believe in.
03:30Holmes has set her free just as it set the rest of us free.
03:31Are Holmes and Lestrade still up in the Tower Room?
03:33Yes, and Dr. Watson is there, too.
03:36Why is Holmes so interested in the Tower Room?
03:39Because Charles died there, I suppose.
03:41Or perhaps Mr. Holmes is interested in the legend.
03:50That ridiculous, gruesome legend.
03:55Murder is what I believe in, Holmes, not legends.
03:58Well, you know, the strange legends are sometimes put to surprisingly modern uses.
04:03By the way, what is the legend, Holmes?
04:05Well, it dates back to the Wars of the Roses.
04:07A century fell asleep here one night while on watch.
04:10As a result, they chopped his head off.
04:12Ever since that time, anyone who sleeps here is supposed to die.
04:16Nonsense.
04:17Quite, and yet Sir Charles slept here, and he did die.
04:20It's a coincidence.
04:21He'd already taken the poison. He had to die somewhere.
04:24You know, that window is much too narrow for anyone to get in or out.
04:28With that door locked, this place becomes a classic sealed room.
04:33It was arsenic that killed him, Holmes, not the room.
04:36Or the legend.
04:37Or the legend.
04:38Dr. Watson, you read the autopsy report. What's your opinion?
04:42Well, there is one thing that struck me as odd.
04:44This is January.
04:46Mm-hmm.
04:47Yet Sir Charles had eaten grapes the night he was poisoned.
04:49What's that got to do with it?
04:50Well, you don't very often find grapes in January.
04:53Not in England, anyway.
04:55Clever, Watson.
04:57Crapes in January, eh?
04:58Yes.
04:59Hmm.
05:00Arsenic.
05:01Out of this jar.
05:02And someone in this room gave it to him.
05:03Each of you gained from his death.
05:04We all had access to that jar, Inspector.
05:05The arsenic was used for garden spraying.
05:08Anyway, Charles didn't eat or drink a single thing that night.
05:09The rest of us didn't.
05:10Then why weren't all of you poisoned too?
05:11Miss Farnsworth, what prompted your brother to sleep in the tile room the night he died?
05:14I prompted him, Mr. Holmes.
05:33I prompted him, Mr. Holmes.
05:35I challenged him to.
05:37Oh Lord huh.
05:38Um...
05:43Oh really? Why?
05:46To put his constant bragging to the test.
05:49It started at dinner that night.
05:56Listen, your meals are getting progressively more inedible.
06:00If you can't do better, I suggest you find your own home and run it.
06:06I'll try to do better Charles.
06:09Elizabeth, I liked your dinner.
06:12What do you know about decent food?
06:14What do you know about anything?
06:16I know how to run your estate for you.
06:18And a mess you're making of it too.
06:20With half the tenants overdue in their rents.
06:23I won't sweat a man's rent out of him, Charles.
06:26You'll get the rest of the rents by tomorrow,
06:29or out you go.
06:31Bag and baggage.
06:35What have you got to say to that?
06:42I'll collect the rents by noon tomorrow.
06:45Why must you always humiliate us, Charles?
06:48Have you no decency, no human feelings?
06:50I'm not a weak knee like George here, if that's what you mean.
06:54Courage isn't always physical, Charles.
06:57Courage?
06:58Do you remember the time I locked you in the tower room?
07:01You screamed like a stuck pig.
07:03I was seven years old, not a big brave man like you.
07:07What do you mean by that?
07:09You dared lock a little boy in that room.
07:12But you never dared spend a night in it yourself.
07:14You think I believe that stupid legend?
07:17Yes.
07:18And fear it.
07:19Just as you fear anything you cannot hear or see or touch.
07:23You locked me in to frighten me.
07:25Because you yourself would have been frightened.
07:42Elizabeth, get me a candle.
07:44I'm spending the night in the tower room.
07:45But Charles, you mustn't.
07:46You're harmed.
07:47If you were frightened.
07:48Don't talk like an idiot, Reeves.
07:49Fragment of what?
07:50An old wives' tale?
07:55I will fetch him the candle.
08:05I had to break open the tower room next morning.
08:08I found him dead.
08:10Interesting.
08:12What kind of grapes were served at dinner that night?
08:16Grapes?
08:17No grapes were served.
08:19We haven't had grapes in the house for months.
08:22Then who gave Sir Charles the grapes he ate that night?
08:24Because he did eat grapes.
08:28That's how he was poisoned.
08:30No one gave my brother grapes, Inspector.
08:33You're wrong.
08:34The murderer did.
08:35It's strange.
08:36The grapes won't solve your case, you know.
08:39The solution lies in the tower room.
08:42Now look here, Holmes.
08:43You've already gone into all that and...
08:45And I'm going to find it.
08:46How can you do that, Holmes?
08:47By spending the night in the tower room myself.
09:06Mr. Holmes, I think you are wrong to take the legend of Farnsworth Castle so lightly.
09:11On the contrary, Miss Farnsworth.
09:13I'm taking it very seriously.
09:20Then be on guard, Mr. Holmes.
09:22And stay awake.
09:23Holmes, how can you possibly solve the mystery here?
09:38Quite simply, Watson.
09:40The murderer is going to try and kill me.
09:43Why?
09:44Because I'm Sherlock Holmes.
09:50Can I stay with you?
09:53No, thanks all the same, my boy.
10:07Holmes, if anything happens, you will shout, won't you?
10:12Yes, yes.
10:13Loud and strong.
10:42Yes, it is.
10:45Then see' in a political scandal...
10:46Mr. Holmes, now they'll see you.
10:49Who is a monster!
10:51Hey!
10:52No, there They Loki, by The Horde.
10:53You've seen them all again.
10:55They'll carry me through the further.
10:56Whichไธ must be a genius of all.
10:57He's almost immediately gone.
10:59You walked away.
11:01Jonas, the world-eux's worked very closely.
11:02Everyone is full-tox.
11:03Enjoy his day.
11:05Father and Wolf are a brilliant project.
11:06Food, they've used to perform Malaysian Gong over members.
11:08Wait a little bit, I didn't help.
11:10You looked back.
11:11Let's go.
11:41Let's go.
12:11Let's go.
12:41Let's go.
12:43Watson.
12:45Watson.
12:47Watson.
12:59Watson.
13:01Watson.
13:03Watson.
13:05Watson.
13:09Watson.
13:11Watson.
13:13Watson.
13:15Watson.
13:19Watson.
13:21Watson.
13:23Watson.
13:25Watson.
13:27Watson.
13:35Watson.
13:37Watson.
13:39Watson.
13:41Watson.
13:43Watson.
13:45Watson.
13:47Watson.
13:49Watson.
13:51Watson.
13:53Watson.
13:55Watson.
13:57Watch him!
13:59Watch him!
14:03Watch him!
14:27Watch him!
14:53Holmes?
14:55Holmes!
15:05Holmes!
15:17Poison, Watson.
15:19I'll get you back to my room.
15:25I'll get you back to my room.
15:33Arsenic, Watson.
15:35Quickly, the antidote.
15:37Arsenic?
15:39I'll get you back to my room.
15:41Oh!
15:43I'll get you back to my rooms.
15:59Another day?
16:01He's very cunning, Watson.
16:09Yes, maybe, Holmes, but I don't understand.
16:11After all, you and I ate the same thing the entire evening.
16:26Watson, I think I know the killer's secret.
16:31Perhaps, perhaps I'd better go out and wake, Holmes.
16:47It is getting rather late.
16:49Not that I believe in any of this superstitious nonsense, mind you, but...
16:53But you do believe in murder, eh, Dr. Reeves?
16:58Holmes!
16:58Well, it seems that everyone is surprised at my appearance this morning.
17:03Perhaps relieved is a better word, Mr. Holmes.
17:06I dare say there's somebody who's not very relieved.
17:09What are you talking about?
17:14I was poisoned last night.
17:16I am alive this morning thanks to a bit of good luck
17:24and some ingenious foresight on the part of Dr. Watson.
17:29On the afternoon that Dr. Watson learned the true cause of Sir Charles' death,
17:33he ordered the ingredients of an arsenic antidote from the local chemist.
17:37I wonder who, sitting at this table now, is cursing that foresight.
17:44Do we have to be afraid of every bite we put into our mouths?
17:47Not every bite, Sir George.
17:49Only food with a flavor strong enough to conceal the taste of arsenic.
17:53Something like grapes, for example.
17:56If you want to know who poisoned the grapes, I can tell you that, too.
18:01The person who bought the grapes in a London fruit shop on the day Sir Charles died.
18:08I rather imagined you'd trace those grapes, Lestrade.
18:11Who did, in fact, buy them?
18:14Miss Sylvia Taylor.
18:16You're lying!
18:17Let her answer that, Sir George.
18:23Yes.
18:25I bought them.
18:27Sylvia.
18:29And gave them to Sir Charles when he was in the tower room.
18:32Yes.
18:34But I didn't poison them.
18:35I swear I didn't.
18:37For some reason, which he did not yet explain,
18:40Holmes doubted Lestrade's case against Sylvia Taylor.
18:44Furthermore, he reasoned that the killer would take refuge in her arrest
18:47letting the case end there and accepting his own safety.
18:51He revealed to me that our only hope was to force the killer
18:55into making another move in spite of himself.
18:58The first step was publicly to denounce Lestrade's case
19:01in such a way that the inspector himself would be convinced
19:04that he needed more evidence.
19:06This, Holmes hoped, would frighten the killer.
19:10More evidence?
19:11You could spend a lifetime going over this place with your magnifying glass.
19:15And I wouldn't even attempt it.
19:16But a whole battery of men could accomplish it in a very short time indeed.
19:20Now look here.
19:22A whole battery of men?
19:24Hmm.
19:25Lestrade, how soon do you think you'll get up here
19:26as sufficient men from Scotland Yard
19:28to carry out a systematic and thorough search?
19:31Tonight, maybe.
19:33Certainly by tomorrow morning.
19:34Just a moment here.
19:36This is my home.
19:38Lestrade, I think Sir George is going to be rather anxious
19:40that they come armed with a search warrant.
19:44I'll get in touch with the Yard to meet you, sir.
19:46Watson, you're sure no one's left the house?
20:01Bobby on the door said nobody had gone in or out all day.
20:04Well, I hope we haven't been outwitted on this.
20:06It's been a very tiring time, Holmes,
20:09watching every move that's being made and getting nowhere.
20:12Yes, we can't afford to let up now, Watson.
20:14The pressure's really on him, you know.
20:16He's got fear to contend with.
20:21Oh, Holmes, why do you keep crossing to that window?
20:24You know, I think it's your pacing up and down all day
20:26that's made me more nervous than anything else.
20:28Oh.
20:29There it is, Watson.
20:33Why?
20:33Quickly, Watson, the tower's open.
20:38Coming, Holmes.
20:45Watson, would you go downstairs immediately
20:47and tell this trade to bring our four friends up here?
20:49What are you up to?
20:50As I had hoped, the killer has left us all
20:52the necessary components of a trap.
20:55Well, you'd better hurry, Watson.
20:56We have little time to lose.
20:57Right.
21:03Won't you sit down here?
21:15Just what's the point of this seance exactly, Holmes?
21:19We're going to find a murderer, Lestrade.
21:21Yes, but why here?
21:28Perhaps the legend's going to tell us.
21:31Yes, Lestrade, the legend.
21:34The weird tale of a headless sentry.
21:37And the most convenient one for the murderer,
21:39who didn't anticipate an autopsy.
21:41Yet, why did he choose this room to murder him?
21:47What is the mysterious connection between
21:49the tower room and death?
21:54Please stop.
21:55I don't want to stay here any longer.
21:58I'm sorry, Miss Taylor, but we must stay here and wait.
22:01Perhaps all night.
22:02Who knows?
22:05But this is insane.
22:07I don't feel very well.
22:12Could we open the window?
22:14I'll open it for you, Elizabeth.
22:16Tis getting rather stuffy in here.
22:19Don't bother, Dr. Reeves.
22:20I've already tried to open it myself.
22:22It's quite impossible.
22:24My head is spinning.
22:26We've got to open the window.
22:28I feel faint.
22:30Please open the window.
22:32I've already told you, Miss Farnsworth.
22:34It's quite impossible.
22:35I don't believe you.
22:37We make him open the window.
22:39Elizabeth, calm yourself.
22:42It's just this eerie room that's getting on your nerves.
22:52That confounded wind!
22:54It's enough to send you out of your mind.
22:57Mr. Holmes,
22:58can't we settle this downstairs?
23:01Please try to be calm, all of you.
23:03As I said before,
23:04we may have quite a long wait here.
23:06Let me out of here.
23:19Elizabeth!
23:20Open the window!
23:22Do something!
23:23Stop it!
23:24Isn't it bad enough without you going off?
23:27You fools!
23:28You fools!
23:29You don't understand!
23:30We've got to have air for help and take up in the window!
23:33Let me go!
23:34Let me go!
23:35It will kill itself!
23:36No!
23:38No!
23:38It really wasn't necessary to smash the window, Miss Farnsworth.
23:52Oh, Watson!
23:53There's a package in that drawer behind you.
23:56Bring it to me, will you?
23:57Yes, of course.
23:59You see, Miss Farnsworth,
24:01I took the precaution
24:02of replacing your arsenic candles with harmless ones.
24:07Of course, you couldn't be aware of that, could you?
24:09Arsenic candles?
24:10Yes, Lestrade.
24:12Like the one that killed Sir Charles.
24:14It's Sir Charles' diet of poison grapes.
24:21Oh, no, Lestrade.
24:21It was a far more ingenious method of killing them back.
24:25A small room,
24:27a tiny window,
24:29and a candle,
24:31impregnated with arsenic,
24:33and giving off fatal fumes.
24:36Ingenious, yes.
24:39And it's practical.
24:41You can inhale arsenic as a gas.
24:44A follow-up, sir.
25:03You see, Lestrade,
25:04the person who placed those candles there
25:06wasn't going to sit through the night
25:08and wait for death.
25:11She had to give herself away.
25:12I'm sorry to upset all of you,
25:16but quite frankly,
25:18I didn't know which one of you it was.
25:22But, Holmes,
25:23why did she choose this room
25:25to destroy the candles?
25:26Because this was the only room in the castle
25:28that she could be sure
25:30would be deserted that night.
25:33The legend, you see.
25:34The legend, you see.
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