🕵️🔎 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954) TV Series – Ep 32 | The Case of the Impromptu Performance - video Dailymotion

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🔎 📺 This is the thirty-second 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 attend what should have been an ordinary evening of entertainment—until the performance takes a deadly turn. A shocking crime is committed in front of a stunned audience, and Holmes must separate theatrical illusion from reality. With danger hiding behind the curtain, he races to unmask the true culprit before the final act.  💡 Why Watch This Episode? ✔️ A clever blend of theatre, performance, and mystery ✔️ Holmes untangles a crime staged in plain sight ✔️ A suspenseful and stylish entry in the 1954 TV series ───────────────────────────── 👉 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 #ImpromptuPerformance #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes #1954TVSeries #ClassicTV #RonaldHoward #DrWatson #InspectorLestrade #vintagemystery #detectivedrama #GoldenAgeTelevision ________________________________________

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00:00The End

00:30The End

01:00The End

01:30You sent for me, Edward?

01:39Yes, Father. I've been thinking a great deal and I've decided on my last request.

01:43Yes, what is it, my son?

01:45I want to see Mr. Holmes.

01:47Who?

01:48Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the detective.

01:51If there's any chance to prove my innocence, he's the one who can do it.

01:54You've got to bring him to me, Father.

01:57Very well, Edward.

01:58If the man can be found, I'll have him brought here.

02:02Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

02:03I want you to assist me in a rather unusual experiment.

02:21Experiment? What kind of an experiment?

02:24I want you to stand by while I drink this.

02:26Oh, and you'll need your stethoscope.

02:36I say, Holmes, is it lethal?

02:39Of course not. You don't think I take a chance like that, do you?

02:43Are you ready?

02:44Oh, thank goodness, whoever you are.

02:53Oh, dear.

02:58Come in, Lestrade. Come in. Delighted to see you.

03:01Well, this is a warm welcome.

03:03Well, now, sit yourself down. Make yourself at home.

03:05No, I won't, thank you very much.

03:07Tell me.

03:07Social call?

03:08No, not exactly.

03:09Oh, what's the trouble, Lestrade?

03:11Do you remember the Phyllis Brighton murder?

03:14Oh, yes, of course. Brighton.

03:16She was stabbed, wasn't she?

03:18That's right. By her husband, Edward Brighton.

03:20But an hour ago, he made known his last request.

03:23Rather an unusual one.

03:24Oh, what was it?

03:25You.

03:26Me?

03:28Why?

03:29Well, no explanation.

03:30He simply wanted to see Sherlock Holmes.

03:33And you know, Holmes, wherever is humanly possible,

03:35we try to fulfill these last requests of condemned men.

03:38Naturally.

03:38And I take it that his execution is imminent, then, Lestrade.

03:41Yes, at dawn.

03:42He has about, um, seven hours to live.

03:46Come on, then, Watson.

03:47We have little time to lose.

03:48If a man calls for me in his final hours,

03:50it may mean that we, too, shall be called upon

03:52to fulfill a final request.

03:54And seven hours is little enough time

03:56when a gallows is at the end.

03:57Suddenly it came to me, Mr. Holmes.

04:16I was lying here on my cot

04:18and suddenly I remembered

04:19something that happened the night of the murder.

04:22It had entirely escaped my memory until now.

04:24What was that recollection, Mr. Brighton?

04:27I'm afraid it won't make sense to you

04:29until you understand some of the other facts in the case.

04:33Oh, yes, yes, of course.

04:34Well, please go on.

04:35It was a Sunday afternoon,

04:37last April, when I first met Phyllis.

04:40We hit it off together immediately

04:42and three weeks later we were married.

04:44She was very beautiful, Mr. Holmes.

04:47Blonde hair, perfect nose,

04:50delicate little mouth.

04:51And her background, her family?

04:54We never spoke about that.

04:56Phyllis made me agree not to inquire into her past,

04:58nor she into mine.

04:59I knew it was an unusual request,

05:01but I consented readily.

05:04Mr. Holmes, I'd been just a bank clerk

05:06and very lonely.

05:07I didn't want to lose my one chance at happiness.

05:10Of course.

05:11Tell me, what was Mrs. Brighton's maiden name?

05:14LeVay, Phyllis LeVay.

05:16But she told me her friends called her Bobo.

05:19Bobo.

05:20I thought that awfully charming.

05:24Mr. Holmes.

05:25I wouldn't kill her.

05:28I bought her a little home in Benedict Lane.

05:31I insured my life for £2,000

05:32so that she'd be well protected in case I should die.

05:36I gave her everything she wanted.

05:39Every moment counts, Mr. Brighton.

05:41Now, you must tell me what happened

05:42the night of your wife's death.

05:44Oh, yes.

05:45That night we had our first argument.

05:49It was over a very trivial matter.

05:53Forgive me, dear, for saying so,

05:55but don't you think it's just a little too much?

05:58What's a little too much?

05:59You know, the...

06:01As a matter of fact, I think it's too little.

06:04Now, really, Phyllis,

06:06it doesn't improve your appearance.

06:08It makes you look, um...

06:10She?

06:11I didn't say that.

06:13I merely said...

06:14You're afraid I'm going to shock the Kimbles

06:16and I simply won't go?

06:17You know very well the Kimbles are expecting us.

06:19There's no need to carry on like this.

06:21I'm not carrying on, Edward.

06:23You're the one.

06:24I think I'd better take a breath of air

06:25before I say something unkind.

06:28Suit yourself.

06:29You're really a sweetie, Edward.

06:31But sometimes you're just so stuffy.

06:42That was the extent of it, Mr. Holmes.

06:44It was just a mild little row.

06:47At the trial, the neighbours testified

06:51we had a violent argument that night.

06:54To this moment,

06:55I can't understand why they should say such a thing.

06:59After you left your wife, what did you do?

07:02I merely walked.

07:04I don't know exactly where.

07:06I just walked.

07:09After a while,

07:10I began to think of some way to apologise to Phyllis.

07:14I didn't want to make her unhappy.

07:17Even over the smallest thing.

07:20I must have travelled a good long distance.

07:23When suddenly,

07:24I began to feel ill.

07:26Ill?

07:27Yes.

07:28I'd contracted malaria as a young man in South Africa.

07:32I knew I was in for another one of my seizures.

07:35Dr. Watson,

07:37you know what malaria does to a man?

07:40Oh, yes, indeed.

07:41Eye fever, sweats, chills,

07:43and sudden fainting spells.

07:44That's it.

07:46With the first chills,

07:48I instinctively turned back towards the house.

07:50I had medicine there

07:51that would lessen the effect of the attack.

07:54I wasn't aware of the street

07:55or anything around me.

07:58Each step I took

08:00became a struggle.

08:01I barely made it to my home.

08:14I stumbled onto the front steps.

08:18And there it was.

08:20On the ground.

08:21I knew it didn't belong to me.

08:26But instinctively,

08:27I reached for it.

08:29And that's all I remember.

08:31When I came to,

08:35the house was swarming with police

08:37and Phyllis was dead.

08:40This object you saw on the ground,

08:41what was it?

08:42That's the maddening part.

08:44I don't remember.

08:46I'm only positive there was something

08:48and it didn't belong to me.

08:50But, Mr. Brighton,

08:51have you any recollection

08:52of his general shape, size, or color?

08:55No, sir.

08:56Nothing beyond what I've told you.

08:58This has been most illuminating.

09:00Good night, Mr. Brighton.

09:01Come, Watson.

09:03I realize I haven't given you

09:04very much to go on, Mr. Holmes.

09:07Perhaps not even the slender thread

09:08you require.

09:10But a man will pray for a miracle

09:12when he's only a few hours

09:13remaining on this earth.

09:28Ah, Holmes, come in.

09:39What did Brighton want?

09:41Well, Estrade,

09:42may I see the items

09:44that you took from Edward Brighton's pockets

09:46when he was arrested?

09:47Hmm?

09:49No, I said, may I see.

09:52Oh, very well.

09:54Wilkins, bring over Brighton's effects,

09:56will you?

09:57Well, I don't want to seem pessimistic,

09:59Holmes,

09:59but you think this poor chap's got a chance.

10:01No, I'm afraid all the evidence

10:03proved conclusively

10:04that he had a violent quarrel

10:05with his wife,

10:06then murdered her

10:07in a fit of rage.

10:09These mild-mannered clerks

10:10are always the ones.

10:12Oh, thank you, Wilkins.

10:13There you are, Holmes.

10:15There's nothing unusual in there.

10:17Keys, handkerchief,

10:18wallet, and so forth.

10:20Yes, just as Estrade says,

10:21nothing there but

10:22coming to guard

10:23and personal effects, Holmes.

10:24Well, I, for one,

10:26wonder where we go from here.

10:28We go to 14 Hanover Place, Watson.

10:30I beg your pardon?

10:31What have you been there for?

10:32That's the address of the tobacconist

10:33who prepared this mixture.

10:35Yes, I can see that's the address,

10:36but I still don't understand.

10:38Quite obvious, Watson.

10:39Brighton in his cell

10:40was smoking the inexpensive,

10:42ordinary sea shanty brand of tobacco.

10:44Well, that's a specially prepared blend

10:46only made for the well-to-do connoisseur.

10:49You'll note the Burley base,

10:50a touch of Latakia,

10:51and a certain amount of Yenny J. Leaf.

10:54Hmm.

10:55The extraordinary old

10:56factory perception, Holmes.

10:59But what has the man's smoking habits

11:02to do with the case?

11:04Perhaps everything was strange.

11:06It's my guess that Phyllis Brighton

11:08had a visitor that evening

11:09while Edward Brighton

11:10was roaming the streets,

11:11and this is the something

11:12that he picked up on his return,

11:14the something that he couldn't recall.

11:16Come, Watson.

11:16The scent of this tobacco

11:19may very well lead us

11:20to the real murderer,

11:21and we have little time to lose.

11:23Good night, Inspector.

11:24The package of tobacco

11:37was a thin thread to follow,

11:40and it seemed a desperate chance

11:42for Holmes to take.

11:45With only a few hours

11:46standing between Brighton

11:48and death,

11:49there was no time for false leads

11:51that would have to be abandoned.

11:52A mistake now

11:55could mean disaster.

11:57A mistake now

11:59could mean disaster.

12:22Don't you see the shop is closed?

12:45Come back tomorrow.

12:47Tomorrow will be too late.

12:48We must see you now.

12:49What about?

12:50Murder!

12:51Murder!

12:51Murder?

12:52Murder!

12:53Oh, well, I can do

12:55with a good cigar.

12:56I don't believe we'll have time

12:57for that, Watson.

12:58You choose a cigar

12:59like another man chooses a wife.

13:00Oh, I say, really, Holmes!

13:01Murder?

13:02Yes.

13:03My name is Sherlock Holmes.

13:04This is Dr. Watson.

13:05May we come in, please?

13:06Oh, it's Mr. Holmes, indeed you do come in.

13:09Come in, thank you.

13:10My shop is at your disposal.

13:11Mr. Carruthers, a man's life is at stake.

13:13The information you may give us

13:14may very well save him from the gallows.

13:16I'd like to have a look at your client's ledger

13:18with the names and addresses of all those

13:20who smoke this blend of tobacco.

13:21Why, certainly, Mr. Holmes.

13:22It's my own special mixture, you know.

13:25Not many of my clients have the discernment

13:27or the cash to smoke it.

13:28I hope this will be some help to you.

13:30But I say, Holmes, there's at least 50 names on that list.

13:32It'll take days to check through one of them,

13:33and time's getting desperately short.

13:34Aha.

13:35Mr. Langsley Primes, 8 Groverly Square.

13:36Langsley Primes, he?

13:37I have a chance to take my own money.

13:38Why, Mr. Holmes?

13:39Yes, sir.

13:40I'll take the money.

13:41And I say, Holmes, it's my own special mixture, you know.

13:44Not many of my clients have the discernment

13:45or the cash to smoke it.

13:47I hope this will be somehow to you.

13:49But, I say, Holmes, there's at least 50 names

13:50on that list.

13:51It'll take days to check through one of them,

13:52and time's getting desperately short.

13:54Aha.

13:55Mr. Langsley Prime, 8 Groverly Square.

13:57Square. Langsley Prime was he? I haven't the slightest idea that we must get to him immediately

14:02Watson. But now why Langsley Prime amongst all those names? Because 8 Groverly Square is in the

14:07dock section of the city and all the other addresses in the ledger were in the more fashionable

14:12neighbourhoods. Doesn't that strike you as unusual? Yes it does now you've come to mention it. Whereas

14:16you may recall Watson that the late Mrs Brighton didn't wish to reveal her background. I think we

14:21may therefore assume that it was of a somewhat questionable nature. That's true. And 8 Groverly

14:27Square is in a questionable neighbourhood. Well these are slight leads I grant you Watson.

14:31But we haven't the leisure at our disposal for more thorough investigation. Our one critical

14:36factor now is time. Thank you very much Mr. Caruthers for your assistance and good night.

14:42Good night.

14:5710 o'clock. Six more hours. Inspector Lestrade do you really think Mr. Holmes will discover

15:06anything? If there's anything to be discovered he's the man to do it. I wonder where he is

15:12now. It seems impossible. All I can give him were a few hours of vague memory.

15:19This was Mr. Priam's room Mr. Holmes. He left me two weeks ago and he mowing me back

15:34rest of the scoundrel. Did he leave you in a forwarding address Mrs. Chivvy?

15:38Not him. He just left a note saying he was gone and got a job that's all. Tell me Mr. Chivvy

15:44what sort of a man was he? I mean what did he look like? Well he was tall and kind of handsome

15:51you might say. Then again you might not. What do you want him for? He's not in some kind

15:57of trouble is he? Not necessarily. You're not here to give him the 2,000 pounds.

16:022,000 pounds? He was always talking about how he was going to get his hands on 2,000 pounds.

16:08And him owe him me rent. Thank you very much Mrs. Chivvy. You've been most kind.

16:13Yeah but when you see him you tell him I sent my money. From now on all rent in advance.

16:20Well Watson that's one more link in a strange chain of events. Tell me what's the time now?

16:25Must be after 10. Ah then we just have time to get to the theatre. The theatre?

16:29Yes we ought to miss the last act. Now look here Holmes you can't do a thing like that.

16:32I'm in the theatre at a time like this.

16:50Really Holmes your desire for entertainment is most callous.

16:54What do you make of this?

17:00It's hair. And just the same I can't see how you can go on sitting there reading the paper

17:05with apparent indifference to the matter in hand.

17:07It's not ordinary hair Watson. It's crepe hair. Used to make false beards and moustaches.

17:13Oh nonsense. I mean if a man wants a moustache he can grow one like anybody else.

17:16Well Watson actors often have need of simulated beards and moustaches.

17:23Actors? Yes.

17:25Do you mean it's an actor we're often?

17:27I'd wager so. Inasmuch as I discovered that in Mr. Priam's dressing table drawer.

17:32I see.

17:34But even then Holmes how are we going to find out what theatre he's performing in?

17:37I mean there must be at least two dozen plays being presented in London this evening alone.

17:40That is precisely my reason for reading the theatrical page of the newspaper.

17:44And I notice that only one play opened at the same time our Mr. Priam

17:48suddenly departed from Mrs. Chivvy's lodging house.

17:51I hope you like Shakespeare Watson.

17:54Nobody goes backstage. Those are my orders.

18:10But my good man.

18:12If you're from the costumes company you can't touch a thing till after the show.

18:16Mr. Pettifoot says he'll be able to pay by the end of the week.

18:20I am not here for the costumes.

18:22I'm here on a very much more important matter.

18:24One in which every moment counts.

18:26Mr. Pettifoot says.

18:28See here.

18:29This gentleman here is, er, was Sherlock Holmes.

18:34Sherlock Holmes? The detective?

18:36Yes.

18:38Take me.

18:40I'm here.

18:44I am here.

18:45I'm here.

18:46I'm here.

18:47Mr. Hortons.

18:48The final death scene is just starting.

18:50I can't drink down the garden until it's all over.

18:53And how do you know that Mr. Priam is the man that you are looking for?

18:58No, no, no, no, I'm very sorry.

19:00You'll just have to wait until the end of the play.

19:02The show must go on.

19:03My dear sir, a man's life is at stake.

19:06life is at stake. With all due respect to the bard, I may be forced to tread the

19:11boards myself. Holmes! Holmes, where are you? I nearly broke my blasted neck finding you.

19:19Watson, this is Mr. Pettifood. Pettifoot. Huh? Foot. You know. Foot. Oh, I beg your pardon. Mr. Pettifood.

19:29My friend and associate, Dr. Watson. How do you do? How do you know? Mr. Pettifood.

19:36Pettifood refuses to lower the curtain, Watson. Absolutely. The tradition of the theatre does not

19:42permit it. Now, I must ask you gentlemen to leave. Leave. Oh, please leave. Oh, very well. Come on,

19:51Watson. It is the cause. It is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chase stars. It is

20:00the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whitest skin of hers than snow. And smooth

20:09as monumental hallowbuster. Yet she must die, else she betray more men.

20:15Put out the light and then put out the light. If I quench thee, they flaming minister, I can again

20:28their former life restore. Should I repent me, but once put out the light. Thou cunning's pattern of

20:40excelling nature. I know not where is thy Promethean heat. But can thy life relume? When I have plucked

20:48the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again. It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

20:55Oh, bar me breath, that the storm must persuade justice to break her sword. One more. One more.

21:02Be thus, when thou art dead, and I will kill thee. What have you done? What have you done?

21:09Oh, quick. Take us to Priam's dressing room. Oh, all right. I don't care what happens anymore.

21:13I'll be ruined. I'll be the laughingstock of the theatre. Detectives in Shakespeare.

21:17Strikes where it does love. She wakes. There are.

21:32Mm-hmm. Well, the final thread is woven, Watson. Or should I say, rather, that every hair

21:37is at last in place. For two mads?

21:39Perfectly. What is going on? What are you two madmen doing?

21:44Mr. Pettiford, you can be of assistance to us in a drama even more important than the performance

21:48on your stage. In fact, you can help us to save a man's life.

21:51I can?

21:52You can indeed. Now, listen very closely. When Mr. Priam comes in here...

21:57What time is it now, Inspector?

22:01Twenty past eleven.

22:03It's odd. Each minute's like an hour. But each hour's like a minute.

22:07There's still time.

22:09No.

22:10I'm afraid it's too late.

22:17Telephone call for you, Inspector Lestrade. Very important, sir.

22:20Oh, thank you, officer.

22:29I say, Holmes, he'll be here any minute.

22:31Do you want me to hide behind the door and jump him as he comes in?

22:33No, you needn't do that, Watson. Just sit there and do nothing. Whatever happens.

22:36Right.

22:37He's coming.

22:46You! How dare you! You ruined my scene!

22:49That, I believe, will only be the least of it.

22:51Well, who are you and what do you want?

22:53In answer to your first question, my name is Sherlock Holmes.

22:56In answer to your second, I want you for the murder of Phyllis Brighton.

22:59Murder? Phyllis Brighton?

23:02Hmm. Better known in theatrical circles as Bobo LeVay.

23:06Get out of my dressing room!

23:08Your acting stands you in good stead, Mr. Pryor.

23:10You almost convinced me of your innocence.

23:13However, acting and life are two quite different things.

23:16Tonight, on the stage, you murdered the girl Desdemona.

23:20In make-believe.

23:22A month ago, you murdered a woman in a more sordid drama.

23:26You may as well continue this farce. The stage is all yours.

23:30Thank you. I shall try to be brief.

23:32You and your ex-partner planned what seemed to be a simple but clever scheme.

23:38She would marry some poor unsuspecting soul, and you would murder him.

23:44And then a pair of you would share the insurance policy.

23:46Ridiculous.

23:48And it might have worked, but for one thing.

23:51Phyllis fell in love with Edward Brighton.

23:53I don't know what you're talking about.

23:54I don't know any Phyllis or any Brighton.

23:57Then perhaps, Mr. Pryor, you are familiar with Romeo's lines.

24:01How oft, when men are at the point of death, have they been merry.

24:05Get out of here! I've heard enough!

24:07Not quite enough, Pryor.

24:09It was you who had the vicious argument with Phyllis Brighton

24:11when she refused to continue with your scheme.

24:13And it was you who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabbed her to death.

24:17And so shall you die!

24:20Holmes!

24:24Let me go! Let me go!

24:27I came here as soon as I got your telephone message, Holmes.

24:30What's going on here, and who's he?

24:33No time to explain now, Lestrade.

24:34I want you to arrest this man and order a stay of execution for Brighton.

24:37I'll be able to prove conclusively in the morning that Brighton is innocent and this man is guilty.

24:41All right, Holmes. I'll take your word for it.

24:44You'd better come along with me.

24:45Well, I must admit, Holmes, I've been far too shaken to think clearly, but just the same, I can't believe it!

25:03I mean, with my very eyes, I saw him stab you with that dagger!

25:06Holmes, what a hurt!

25:07Watson, if actors were allowed to use real weapons on the stage, the mortality rate would be something fantastic.

25:14Observe how the blade disappears into the handle.

25:30Holmes!

25:32Holmes!

25:37Holmes!

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