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Sherlock Holmes Faces D3@th (1943) is an engaging and classic mystery film that follows the brilliant detective and his trusted companion as they unravel clever and intriguing challenges. With sharp observation, memorable characters, and intelligent problem-solving, the movie highlights teamwork, critical thinking, and the excitement of solving complex situations. Its captivating performances, timeless storytelling, and well-crafted plot provide an entertaining and accessible experience for audiences who enjoy character-driven mysteries and classic detective adventures.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30The End
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00:01:29Five minutes to closing time
00:01:31Come on now
00:01:33Five minutes to closing time
00:01:35Five minutes
00:01:37Closing time
00:01:39That's for the tune, eh?
00:01:41Here
00:01:55You're on luck, that's what you are
00:01:57Hey, you heard that, matey? Let's have a look at it
00:02:07Align me!
00:02:09What can I get you, lad?
00:02:11Mother's ruin
00:02:13It'll court you two bar for the broken glass, matey
00:02:15What's the idea anyway
00:02:17Letting a beast like that fly around loose in the public house?
00:02:19It didn't ought to let him smell the blood
00:02:21He's very fond of blood
00:02:23Charlie is
00:02:25Comes by his taste natural, if you ask me
00:02:27Nobody's asking you, miss
00:02:29Oh
00:02:31Musgrave Manor
00:02:33What is this Musgrave Manor? A blink in prison?
00:02:35That ain't the worst it's been called
00:02:37Not that I'm one to go about spreading stories
00:02:41But we knows what we knows
00:02:43Don't we, Charlie?
00:02:45Blimey!
00:02:49Where is this Musgrave Manor?
00:02:53Turn the road a piece
00:02:55You'll see it when you're past the old iron gates
00:02:57Only don't loiter
00:02:59You won't be welcome
00:03:01Not by the Musgraves
00:03:03Been sitting there
00:03:05Lords of the manor ever since time was
00:03:07If those old walls could speak
00:03:11They'd tell you things that'd raise the air on your head
00:03:13There's folks hereabouts
00:03:15Swear they've seen corpse lights
00:03:19Round the old greenhouse
00:03:21An air a-waning
00:03:23Like lost souls in the limewalk
00:03:27Hey, I want no part of it
00:03:29Nor of the Musgraves neither
00:03:31Hard men
00:03:33Like them as was before them
00:03:35Cruel men
00:03:37God pity them
00:03:39For the day is coming
00:03:41Coming
00:03:43When they'll need pity
00:04:11I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey
00:04:13I assure you I have no wish to be fair
00:04:17Hmm
00:04:19An excellent specimen of the copris Carolina
00:04:21You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?
00:04:23I have no wish to be a sweet old soul
00:04:25No wish to be a sweet old soul
00:04:27No wish to be anything but what I am
00:04:29A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off with the first cocksure Yankee who makes her pulses jump
00:04:33And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it
00:04:37Philip has no choice in the matter
00:04:39As my opinion is
00:04:41And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it
00:04:43I've no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:46No wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:49A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off
00:04:53with the first cocksure Yankee who makes her pulses jump.
00:04:57And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.
00:05:00Philip has no choice in the matter.
00:05:03As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.
00:05:08Eve is dropping again, Brunton?
00:05:10Oh, no, Mr. Philip, I assure you.
00:05:12But I didn't wish to disturb them.
00:05:15What did you hear, Brunton?
00:05:19Your brother and Miss Sally were going at it amaranthons.
00:05:23About Captain Vickery, I mean.
00:05:25Really?
00:05:26Mr. Geoffrey and Captain Vickery had an horrible row this afternoon
00:05:30over Miss Sally.
00:05:32I thought they were coming to blows. Indeed, I did.
00:05:35Quiet. That'll do now, Brunton.
00:05:37If I catch you snooping again, I shall ask my brother to give you notice.
00:05:40Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
00:05:43You're not above a bit of snooping yourself, are you, Philip?
00:05:46Not in the least, old boy.
00:05:55Brunton! Oh, there you are. I've been rigging for you.
00:05:59Sorry, Dr. Watson. I was in the upper region.
00:06:03The library's in a filthy mess.
00:06:05The wind came swishing down the chimney
00:06:07and scattered the ashes everywhere.
00:06:09Very well. I'll tidy it up at once, Doctor.
00:06:16Room full of smoke, papers all over the floor.
00:06:19Foul night, Brunton.
00:06:21It's customary in Elston, sir.
00:06:23Just the sort of night, I fancy, for the ghost of Lady Clorinda.
00:06:26Oh, no, Dr. Watson.
00:06:28Lady Clorinda only walks in the west wing.
00:06:31No one ever met a ghost in this part of the house.
00:06:34Oh, well, isn't there some story of the...
00:06:36Oh, there was an housemate claimed
00:06:38that she saw Sir Jervis Musgrave
00:06:41with his head on backwards in this very room.
00:06:45Look at this man.
00:06:47Well, she was just a flighty girl, sir.
00:06:49Sounds like it. Very flighty.
00:06:51The most.
00:06:53Head on backwards.
00:06:55Head on backwards.
00:06:57Head on backwards.
00:06:59Head on backwards.
00:07:03Head on backwards.
00:07:19Head on backwards.
00:07:20Head on backwards.
00:07:25Mr. Brunton.
00:07:26Does the wind always carry on like this, Hill?
00:07:28Frequently, sir.
00:07:30It's a great pity.
00:07:32It makes the gentleman restless.
00:07:34More than usual I mean.
00:07:38Well, our patients are all tucked up for the night now, eh, Brunton?
00:07:42Are they?
00:07:44Of course. Of course.
00:07:45Well, aren't they?
00:07:47Captain Vickery is in his room, sir.
00:07:50And it looked like Major Langford I saw going toward the pool.
00:07:55And I can't account for Lieutenant Clavering.
00:07:58Well, that's very odd.
00:08:00Very odd, sir.
00:08:03Anything else, sir?
00:08:04No, thank you. Oh, yes, yes.
00:08:05You might tell Dr. Sexton that I'd like to see him for a minute, will you?
00:08:08Very good, sir.
00:08:16Good night, sir.
00:08:17Uh, good night, Brunton.
00:08:28Bart!
00:08:32Brunton, get him up.
00:08:34Let's get him in his chair over here.
00:08:36Sorry.
00:08:37Awfully sorry.
00:08:40Let's get my bag with you, Brunton.
00:08:42Yes, sir. Let's have a look.
00:08:44It's a near thing. Just missed the carotid artery.
00:08:48Looks like a knife wound.
00:08:49Here you are, sir.
00:08:50Oh, it's... it's like a nightmare.
00:08:52Give me some of that cotton wool in that little bottle, please.
00:08:55Awful nuisance.
00:08:56Oh, no, old fellow. We'll have you patched up in no time.
00:08:58You'll be as good as new.
00:09:00What happened?
00:09:01I...
00:09:02I hardly know.
00:09:03It...
00:09:04It was in Lime Walk just now.
00:09:06I was coming up from the village.
00:09:08I remember distinctly...
00:09:10I was approaching the greenhouse.
00:09:12The wind was terrific.
00:09:14I had to fight my way.
00:09:16I hadn't the slightest warning.
00:09:19All I know is that...
00:09:22He struck and I went down.
00:09:25He must have thought I was done for.
00:09:28Any idea who it was?
00:09:30No.
00:09:31Well...
00:09:32That is, I...
00:09:33Yes, yes?
00:09:34No, really, I...
00:09:36I haven't any right.
00:09:38You have every right, Dr. Sexton.
00:09:42As head of this house,
00:09:44I shall arrange for an immediate investigation.
00:09:47I'd rather not, if you don't mind, sir.
00:09:49Dr. Sexton,
00:09:50the fact that my brother and sister and I
00:09:52have opened our home to convalescent patients
00:09:54doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.
00:09:58I mean, under the peculiar circumstances.
00:10:01Come along, Bob.
00:10:02There's no need to shield anyone.
00:10:08What?
00:10:11Thirteen.
00:10:13Thirteen?
00:10:14That's curious.
00:10:15What's got into the old clock?
00:10:17Nothing.
00:10:18Nothing at all.
00:10:20Oh, sir.
00:10:21Don't you remember the last time it did that?
00:10:24Your father was killed the next day.
00:10:38DAVID CHAMBECK
00:10:55Mr. Holmes!
00:10:57Mr. Holmes!
00:10:58Mr. Holmes!
00:10:59Mr. Holmes!
00:11:04Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:11:06Oh, I...
00:11:08A purely scientific experiment, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:10Oh, frightening the wits out of honest people.
00:11:13Permit me, ma'am.
00:11:16Oh, dear.
00:11:17So now it's bullet holes in me plaster.
00:11:20Oh, Mr. Holmes, this is the last straw.
00:11:23The last straw, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:25The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:28It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that,
00:11:30even bound as he claims he was,
00:11:32he could still have fired the shot in his own defense
00:11:34that killed his wife's lover.
00:11:35But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:46Come in, Watson.
00:11:48My dear fellow, I'm glad to find you in.
00:11:51I didn't even knock.
00:11:53How did you know it was me?
00:11:54I.
00:11:55Me is acceptable, Watson,
00:11:57unless, of course, you're a purist, which I doubt.
00:11:59And may I add that your step is like no other in London.
00:12:02You're just in time for breakfast.
00:12:03Good, I rather counted on that.
00:12:04Mrs. Hudson, dear, how are you?
00:12:07Oh, it's good to see you again, sir.
00:12:08I think there'll be enough there for two.
00:12:10Splendid.
00:12:13You're a sight for sore eyes, Watson.
00:12:14Thanks, old boy, and so are you.
00:12:16Sit down.
00:12:17Good, thank you.
00:12:18All right, let's have it.
00:12:19What brings you from Northumberland at this early hour?
00:12:24A bad business, Holmes.
00:12:25A very bad business.
00:12:27How do you know that I came from Northumberland?
00:12:29Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:12:31Your overnight bag carried a fresh Euston label.
00:12:33The only train arriving at Euston Station at this hour
00:12:35is the Newcastle Express from Northumberland.
00:12:38Ogo, sunlight, thou comest from Northumberland.
00:12:41Of course.
00:12:42Obvious, isn't it?
00:12:43Quite.
00:12:43Now tell me, what dark deed was done at Hurston Towers last night?
00:12:46Well, that's what I came to see about, Holmes.
00:12:49About ten o'clock last night, I was sitting in the lab.
00:12:52How do you know that I came from Hurston?
00:12:54You wrote me that you'd volunteered for medical service within the room.
00:12:57With your experience, what post could have been offered you
00:12:59other than to put you in charge of a home for convalescent officers?
00:13:03Only one such home has been opened in Northumberland at the last month,
00:13:06and that's Musgrave Manor at Hurston.
00:13:09Simple reasoning.
00:13:10A child could do it.
00:13:12Not your child, Watson.
00:13:14No, of course.
00:13:15Well, I never had a child.
00:13:17I very nearly did, though.
00:13:18Did I ever tell you about that widow at Twickenham?
00:13:21Very narrow escape.
00:13:22I just found out in times you had a most horrible little squirt,
00:13:25about three and a half.
00:13:26Yes, Watson, I think we'd better stick to Hurston.
00:13:28Oh, sorry, old boy.
00:13:29Oh, Hurston.
00:13:31It's a grim old pile.
00:13:32Very spooky.
00:13:33Don't tell me that you met a ghost.
00:13:35No, not as spooky as that.
00:13:37Ghosts don't stab people in the neck, do they?
00:13:40Or do they?
00:13:43Not well-bred ghosts, Watson.
00:13:46Who was stabbed in the neck?
00:13:47My young assistant, Dr. Sexton.
00:13:50When?
00:13:51Last night.
00:13:51Any idea who did it?
00:13:53I have no idea.
00:13:55You reported it?
00:13:55No, well, no.
00:13:56No, I didn't.
00:13:57Why not?
00:13:58Well, the same as, uh...
00:13:59My dear fellow, what you're trying to say is,
00:14:01the officers in your care are all fine fellows.
00:14:04Wonderful war records and so on.
00:14:05Is that it?
00:14:06Precisely.
00:14:07So you thought, perhaps, a private investigation?
00:14:10Exactly.
00:14:10Very right and proper thinking, Watson.
00:14:12We've just time to catch the 9.30 train from Hurston.
00:14:15Well, my dear fellows, there's no immediate hurl.
00:14:17Isn't there?
00:14:17Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.
00:14:21Any one of them might go over the edge at any moment.
00:14:23And from what you've told me, there's a killer loose at Hurston.
00:14:27Great Scott, you may be right.
00:14:29Come on, Watson.
00:14:30We haven't a moment to lose.
00:14:32I only hope we shan't be too late.
00:14:33You were right, Watson, about Musgrave Manor.
00:14:47Houses like people have definite personalities.
00:14:49And this place is positively ghoulish.
00:14:52It certainly is.
00:14:54Hello.
00:14:56What's that?
00:14:57Just the old greenhouse?
00:14:58No, no, no.
00:14:59A pile of leaves.
00:15:00Just an ordinary pile of leaves.
00:15:02Why?
00:15:02Doesn't it strike you as odd, Watson,
00:15:05that a pile of leaves should be wrecked up in front of a greenhouse door?
00:15:09No gardener in the world would do that.
00:15:23Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:15:23That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.
00:15:46But what, may I ask, does it prove?
00:15:52What I'm trying to prove is this.
00:15:55That Dr. Sextonier went down.
00:15:57Twice now, Inspector.
00:15:58You were stunned.
00:15:59Naturally.
00:15:59You went out longer than you thought.
00:16:01That's the point.
00:16:01What point?
00:16:02Just this.
00:16:03The man who attacked him had time to get back into the house before Dr. Sextonier came too.
00:16:07Yes.
00:16:08Yes.
00:16:09And this here glove.
00:16:11Oh.
00:16:13And this here glove, what I picked up at the scene of the crime, belongs to a certain party right here in this house.
00:16:19I say.
00:16:21Why, that glove belongs to my brother.
00:16:22Huh?
00:16:23Do you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sexton?
00:16:26Who knows?
00:16:27The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.
00:16:31Very well.
00:16:32My brother's down at the stables.
00:16:33I'll take you to him myself.
00:16:35It's the quickest way to put a stop to this blithering nonsense.
00:16:38Come on.
00:16:39Oh, Mr. Philip.
00:16:40Yeah?
00:16:40Better not go out in the night air without a coat.
00:16:43Here, take mine.
00:16:44Thanks.
00:16:48And I won't need this.
00:16:50No.
00:16:50Oh, uh, nor this.
00:16:53Well, shall we go?
00:16:56Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes.
00:16:58Good evening, Lestrade.
00:16:59Come to give us an hand, have you?
00:17:01Always happy to help, Inspector.
00:17:02Thanks, but I don't think I should be needing any.
00:17:04Huh.
00:17:04Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:17:09Gentlemen, this is my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:17:12Mr. Philip Musgrave and Dr. Sexton.
00:17:14How do you do?
00:17:15How do you do?
00:17:15I've just brought him up to spend a few days with us.
00:17:18Well, that's very good of you.
00:17:19But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.
00:17:22Oh, really?
00:17:22It's most unfortunate.
00:17:23If you don't mind, Dr. Watson,
00:17:25I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.
00:17:28I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:29Oh, now?
00:17:31I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.
00:17:32We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.
00:17:36He's dead.
00:17:37You can't mean it.
00:17:41No.
00:17:44Look here, Holmes.
00:17:45If this is one of your little jokes...
00:17:47Murder's no joke, Inspector.
00:17:50That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:51No good saying it ain't.
00:17:53Murder?
00:17:53Well, let's get going.
00:17:54I'll take charge now.
00:17:55What?
00:17:56It's quite within my rights as a local justice of the peace.
00:17:58I'll come with you.
00:17:59Wait a minute, you fool.
00:18:22Don't go barging in like that.
00:18:24Don't mourn me.
00:18:29Surgical instruments.
00:18:31You know, Watson,
00:18:33the instruments that save life
00:18:34are hardly more pleasant to look at
00:18:35than those that take it.
00:18:37Grizzly thought, Holmes.
00:18:42You rang, Dr. Watson?
00:18:44Yes, Brunton.
00:18:44I want you to take some men
00:18:45and go down to the Lime Walk.
00:18:47Me, sir?
00:18:48Oh, I can't, sir.
00:18:48I'm sorry, but I simply can't.
00:18:50My stomach, you know.
00:18:52I really couldn't look at a corpse.
00:18:56A corpse?
00:18:58Well, I, uh...
00:18:59How did you know that there was a corpse?
00:19:01Obviously, he was listening at the door.
00:19:03I'll take care of the matter, Doctor.
00:19:05I was listening, too.
00:19:07Come along, Brunton.
00:19:15Remarkable woman.
00:19:16Housekeeper, I suppose.
00:19:18She's very efficient.
00:19:19Same type as Mary Ann Carpenter
00:19:21of the trunk motorists.
00:19:25Extraordinary house.
00:19:26Yes, it is indeed.
00:19:29Now, Watson, if you don't mind,
00:19:30I'd like to have a word
00:19:31with your extraordinary patients.
00:19:33Let me remind you, Holmes,
00:19:34that my patients are just, uh...
00:19:36just, uh, patients.
00:19:37Quite, sir.
00:19:38All normal men,
00:19:40sound in mind and body,
00:19:42no sign of psychoneurosis.
00:19:43I quite understand.
00:19:44Then, Holmes, even...
00:19:45even normal people are sometimes a little...
00:19:47precisely.
00:20:00Hello, Mac.
00:20:01Eh?
00:20:03Oh, oh, oh, oh, I, I must have taken a wee nap.
00:20:07Mac, I want you to meet a very old friend of mine,
00:20:08Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Captain McIntosh.
00:20:10How do you do?
00:20:11I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.
00:20:13Sorry to have wakened you.
00:20:14Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:15See you later.
00:20:16Yes.
00:20:16Sit down, Mac, and go on where you sleep.
00:20:24Poor chap, he lay wounded in a trench on Joshua Hill.
00:20:28The German tanks went over him.
00:20:29Oh, that's right.
00:20:32Watson.
00:20:32Huh?
00:20:33Have you any idea how Geoffrey Musgrave met his death?
00:20:35He has depressed skull fracture.
00:20:38I want to hang it all home as it isn't.
00:20:40Isn't it? Why not?
00:20:40No edema, no bleeding, no contraction of tissue.
00:20:44Precisely.
00:20:45The blow on the head was delivered after death.
00:20:47Musgrave was killed by a sharp instrument
00:20:48thrust up between the base of the skull and the top vertebra.
00:20:51Great Scott.
00:20:53Shall we go up now?
00:20:59Hello, Langford.
00:21:02Hello there.
00:21:03Been away, haven't you?
00:21:04Haven't you?
00:21:05Yes, I've just been out of London.
00:21:07I brought my friend back.
00:21:08This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Major Langford.
00:21:10See you at dinner.
00:21:11What?
00:21:12What?
00:21:12I hope so.
00:21:14I hope so.
00:21:14I hope so.
00:21:16Excuse me.
00:21:17Excuse me.
00:21:19Poor chap was at Singapore.
00:21:21Escaped from a Japanese prison camp.
00:21:23Ghastly experience.
00:21:25He's suffering from escape complex, obviously.
00:21:27Yes, he's a very nice chap, though.
00:21:29The next fellow I want you to meet is young Claybury.
00:21:33Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.
00:21:34Saw a lot of men blown to bits by Nazi booby traps.
00:21:37He's a bit on edge.
00:21:38Not unnaturally.
00:21:45Coming.
00:21:50Well, Dr. Watson, come in, won't you?
00:21:52Sorry to keep you so long.
00:21:54You see, I, uh, I was lying down.
00:21:58Resting.
00:21:59This is my friend, Mr. Holmes, who's here for a few days.
00:22:01Mr. Clavering.
00:22:02Glad to meet you.
00:22:03How do you do?
00:22:04Sorry to disturb you.
00:22:05Not at all.
00:22:06I say, you don't have to have some cigarettes about you, do you?
00:22:09That's one of the reasons I came.
00:22:10I brought you some of those American cigarettes that you're so fond of.
00:22:13Well, that's all right.
00:22:15Open it up.
00:22:16No, Harry.
00:22:18No, Harry at all.
00:22:19No, no, no.
00:22:20Of course there isn't.
00:22:22Shall we go?
00:22:22Yes.
00:22:23Well, we must be off.
00:22:24We've got a lot to do.
00:22:25See you later.
00:22:25Yes, I'll be back.
00:22:27Good night.
00:22:31He seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package.
00:22:33Well, he's found him in less likely places than that, poor chap.
00:22:37The man in this room is an American flying officer, Captain Vickery, and I think very much
00:22:40What's the matter with him?
00:22:41What's he here for, then?
00:22:42A spot of rest.
00:22:43Had to put it on guard.
00:22:44It's worn out.
00:22:45Needs all the rest he can get.
00:22:47Vickery?
00:22:49Vickery?
00:22:51This one seemed to be in.
00:22:56No one at home.
00:23:00Turn to knock.
00:23:03Not since teatime, at any rate.
00:23:06Well, what's this?
00:23:06Captain Vickery, here's your tea.
00:23:11If it's cold, don't blame me.
00:23:12That sounds like Brunton's work.
00:23:15The butler?
00:23:16He fends himself a poet, but only when he's drinking.
00:23:19I see.
00:23:20Wasn't there an American killer given to verse?
00:23:23Holmes, you don't think that Brunton...
00:23:24Excuse me.
00:23:26I merely stated there was an American killer given to verse.
00:23:31Dr. Watson, oh, where are you?
00:23:34Oh, there you are.
00:23:35Steady, my dear, steady.
00:23:37Please make me wake up, won't you?
00:23:39It's just a bad dream, I know.
00:23:41Jeff and Pat...
00:23:42Now, now, now, my dear, you've got to get a grip on yourself.
00:23:44Come on, come on.
00:23:45Come, sit down.
00:23:47My brother Jeff, murdered.
00:23:51Poor old Jeff.
00:23:53And I haven't spoken to him since we had the fight yesterday on Pat...
00:23:56I mean Captain Vickery's account.
00:23:59And now he's dead.
00:24:00Now, now, my dear, you must...
00:24:01You must pull yourself together.
00:24:03But you don't understand.
00:24:04They're trying to say that Pat...
00:24:06They're trying to prove that Pat killed Jeff.
00:24:09No, no, no.
00:24:10Yes.
00:24:12Funny, isn't it?
00:24:14Awfully funny.
00:24:16Awfully funny.
00:24:17Awfully funny.
00:24:17Stop it!
00:24:19Who are you?
00:24:20My name is Holmes.
00:24:22Sherlock Holmes?
00:24:22Yes.
00:24:24Then you'll help us, won't you, Mr. Holmes?
00:24:26Pat and me.
00:24:26I'll try to.
00:24:28Now, tell me.
00:24:29Wasn't there bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery?
00:24:31That's got nothing to do with it.
00:24:32It may have everything to do with it.
00:24:33If you think Captain Vickery ever murdered anyone, you're no more of a detective than...
00:24:37than... than Dr. Watson.
00:24:39Oh, dear.
00:24:40Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:44You're very much in love, aren't you?
00:24:46I'm out of my mind, Mr. Holmes.
00:24:48I'm out of my mind.
00:24:51Oh, please forgive me and please, please help me.
00:24:54Of course, of course, I understand.
00:24:55But you don't understand that appalling man from Scotland Yard is questioning Pat at this very moment.
00:25:01Now, this here rake.
00:25:02It's the identical one you got from the gardener this afternoon, now, ain't it?
00:25:08Smells like it.
00:25:10Hey, what is this?
00:25:10Are you trying to prove that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake?
00:25:13Now, I'm trying to...
00:25:15Never mind what I'm trying to prove.
00:25:17Just incriminate yourself, Captain Vickery.
00:25:19That's all the Stroud wants.
00:25:20I'll thank you to keep out of this, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:22This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:25:23How do you do?
00:25:23He's promised to help you, dear.
00:25:25There's nothing to worry about now.
00:25:26Only his neck, miss.
00:25:28Now, this here rake.
00:25:29What did you say you were using it for?
00:25:30I told you, I got it to fish my cap out of the pond.
00:25:33It blew in.
00:25:34Oh, so you were using it down at the pond, were you?
00:25:37For the tenth time, yes.
00:25:38And how did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body, eh?
00:25:40I don't know.
00:25:41Uh-huh.
00:25:42Well, that's that.
00:25:43Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:45Any fingerprints on the rake, Inspector?
00:25:47No, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:47That's the point.
00:25:48If Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out.
00:25:51Well, now, he wouldn't bother to wipe his fingerprints off, now would he?
00:25:53It's beyond imagination, I suppose, that somebody else could have used the rake and wiped off both sets of fingerprints.
00:25:58Highly interested, but very unlikely.
00:26:00Now, you admit that you had a regular set, too, with Geoffrey Musgrave yesterday, didn't you?
00:26:04You threatened to bash his head in.
00:26:05I merely made the offer.
00:26:07He didn't accept it.
00:26:08Who told you so?
00:26:08He did.
00:26:09Oh, no, he did.
00:26:10I only stated what I heard.
00:26:12Captain Vickery did threaten my brother.
00:26:14That's right, Mr. Holmes, and it's no good saying it ain't.
00:26:17This Yankee lad had motive and opportunity, and the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse.
00:26:23All right.
00:26:24Come along.
00:26:24Do you really think he killed old Musgrave?
00:26:31Do you know very well he didn't?
00:26:32He doesn't.
00:26:33Stop clicking those needles.
00:26:35Oh, Pat.
00:26:35Take it easy, Sally.
00:26:37Now, look, don't worry a bit.
00:26:38I'll tell you everything's going to be all right.
00:26:41Let's go, Inspector.
00:26:42Mr. Holmes.
00:26:50Steady, steady.
00:26:51Aren't you on our side?
00:26:53Yes, Sally.
00:26:53Then why don't you do something?
00:26:55Because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight than he would be in this house.
00:26:59Oh, Mr. Holmes, what am I going to do?
00:27:01Watson, get a set of it.
00:27:03I'll get it at once.
00:27:04Come along, Sally.
00:27:12She's a bit upset, but she'll get over it.
00:27:19You think so?
00:27:21She'll have to.
00:27:22She's got an ordeal ahead of her.
00:27:23She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.
00:27:27Ritual?
00:27:29This is an old family ceremony, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:32Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household.
00:27:36Blast this thing.
00:27:39This help?
00:27:41Oh, yes, thanks.
00:27:43Knitting needle, isn't it?
00:27:45Yes.
00:27:46Handy little things.
00:27:49It says, my heir, Sally, has to recite a sort of formula over Jeff's body.
00:27:53In front of the fireplace and the library in the presence of the entire household.
00:27:57Well, that's better.
00:27:59Just what sort of formula?
00:28:02Oh, it's not meaningless words.
00:28:03Musgrave ritual, they call it.
00:28:05This old family custom has been handed down for generations.
00:28:08Do you remember the words?
00:28:10No.
00:28:10No, not at all.
00:28:12But you had to speak them when your brother Jeffrey took over.
00:28:13Well, yes, if that's right, I did.
00:28:19Let me see now.
00:28:20Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:23Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:26The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:32Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:37Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:40The last shall find it perils his head.
00:28:41The last to find it defies dark powers and brings good fortune to Hurston Towers.
00:28:47Where was the light on the face of the messenger?
00:28:51Where did he speed?
00:28:52Where did he speed?
00:28:53Where did he speed?
00:28:53To guard the queen's page.
00:28:55To guard the queen's page.
00:28:57What foeman advanced?
00:29:01What foeman advanced?
00:29:03The bishop's page rashly.
00:29:06And who to repel?
00:29:08The king's cautious page.
00:29:11What then the...
00:29:13Disaster.
00:29:21Queen...
00:29:22Slaughter's...
00:29:24Page.
00:29:26No, no.
00:29:27Sorry, Miss Sally.
00:29:28Page.
00:29:29Slaughter's page.
00:29:30Thank you, Branton.
00:29:32Who came then to slay him, the bloodthirsty bishop?
00:29:45Where shall he go?
00:29:47Deep down below.
00:29:53Away from the thunder.
00:29:56Let him dig under.
00:30:02Once more unto the breach, dear friends.
00:30:16Once more...
00:30:21Happy day.
00:30:26You drunken sot.
00:30:27The master's been ringing you for the past ten minutes.
00:30:29Why don't you answer it?
00:30:31Fly away, little gremlin.
00:30:34You're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches you in this state.
00:30:37Oh, Miss Sally, that's him.
00:30:39Hurry, hurry.
00:30:40Come in, sir.
00:30:41Come in.
00:30:42One moment, sir.
00:30:46One moment, sir.
00:30:57Mr. Holmes.
00:30:59Come in, sir.
00:31:00Come in.
00:31:05This is indeed an honor.
00:31:07I don't often have visitors.
00:31:08What can I do for you, sir?
00:31:09Might stop that squeaking to begin with.
00:31:10Yes, sir.
00:31:11Then perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.
00:31:13Me, sir?
00:31:14Yes, you.
00:31:15When Miss Sally forgot the lines today, you were the one who prompted her.
00:31:16Well, sir, I memorized it.
00:31:17Obviously.
00:31:18But why?
00:31:19Because it has no meaning.
00:31:20I love things that have no meaning.
00:31:21Thank you, Brunton.
00:31:22But supposing it did have a meaning.
00:31:23And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:31:26Oh, what a lovely idea.
00:31:27Well, sir.
00:31:28Well, sir.
00:31:29Well, sir.
00:31:30Well, sir.
00:31:31Well, sir.
00:31:32Well, sir.
00:31:33Well, sir.
00:31:34Well, sir.
00:31:35Well, sir.
00:31:36Well, sir.
00:31:37Well, sir.
00:31:38Well, sir.
00:31:39Well, sir.
00:31:40Well, sir, I memorized it.
00:31:41Well, sir.
00:31:42Thank you, Brunton.
00:31:43But supposing it did have a meaning.
00:31:45And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:31:48Oh, what a lovely idea.
00:31:50If I may see, sir.
00:31:52You may, Brunton.
00:31:53You may also sit down.
00:31:55Thank you, sir.
00:32:02Oh, stop it.
00:32:04And look at me.
00:32:06No, here.
00:32:08You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:32:11Do I?
00:32:12Well, don't you?
00:32:13You'd be surprised at all the things I know.
00:32:17What things?
00:32:18No, you don't.
00:32:19About the Musgraves?
00:32:21That'd be telling.
00:32:22But here's to them anyway.
00:32:24All the Musgraves, past and present.
00:32:28Some of them were murderers, and some of them worse.
00:32:32But they all knew how to keep a secret.
00:32:35And so do I.
00:32:37Brunton.
00:32:43I've been ringing for you for the past ten minutes.
00:32:46Sorry, sir.
00:32:47But the buzzer doesn't buzz.
00:32:51That'll do, Brunton.
00:32:53You have your notice. Do you understand?
00:32:55Yes, sir.
00:32:56Is that advisable, Mr. Musgrave?
00:32:58Let me be the judge of that.
00:32:59He leaves Helston in the morning.
00:33:00The morning's a long way off.
00:33:03Farewell.
00:33:05A long farewell.
00:33:08To all my greatness.
00:33:10You've done it now, Alf Brunton.
00:33:12After all we've been through.
00:33:14How am I managed to do it all alone?
00:33:17What are you going to do?
00:33:19What am I going to do?
00:33:21What am I going to do?
00:33:22What am I going to do?
00:33:26Am I going to do?
00:33:30No.
00:33:32Bye.
00:33:33I've got to say goodbye again.
00:33:34To all the water, I'd really like to hear you too.
00:33:35I cannot make a secret.
00:33:36I'm not going to do it anymore.
00:33:37And I'm going to do it all alone.
00:33:38I'm going to do it now.
00:33:39I'm not going to do it.
00:33:40No.
00:33:41No.
00:33:42I can't do it again.
00:33:43I can't do it again.
00:33:44I can't do it again.
00:33:45No.
00:33:46What am I going to do?
00:33:47Thirteen again.
00:34:06Yes.
00:34:17This whole attitude confuses me, Watson.
00:34:32She swears that she hasn't set eyes on Brunson since last night,
00:34:35and yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him.
00:34:37Quite so. She knows where he is as well as we do.
00:34:39I mean, as well as we don't.
00:34:40I wonder.
00:34:41You said that he was drinking last night.
00:34:43Wouldn't it be a good idea to try the pub?
00:34:45Exactly where we're headed for, Watson.
00:34:47I'm glad we thought of this, even if we don't find Brunson.
00:34:54I was afraid we shouldn't find him here.
00:34:56Don't worry, old boy. I can do with a drink.
00:34:58With your information, so could I.
00:35:01Gentlemen.
00:35:02Hello, Doctor. Not looking for us, are you?
00:35:04Are you?
00:35:05Well, no. As a matter of fact, we're looking for...
00:35:07Brunson. You haven't seen him, have you?
00:35:10Have we, Clavering?
00:35:11Have we?
00:35:12Why should we?
00:35:14Morning, Gracie.
00:35:15Morning, Doctor.
00:35:16What do you have?
00:35:17A bottle of bass, and what's yours?
00:35:18A pint of bitter, please.
00:35:19And a pint of bitter.
00:35:21I'm a devil. I'm a devil.
00:35:23Oh, really?
00:35:24Hello, a tame raven.
00:35:27You're a devil, are you?
00:35:29A kettle, are you?
00:35:30I'm a devil. I'm a devil.
00:35:32Birds of prey, aren't they?
00:35:34Yes, in a way, scavengers, rather.
00:35:36They can smell a carcass half a mile off.
00:35:38Yeah, that they can and all.
00:35:40You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.
00:35:43Shall we go and sit down?
00:35:45Come on.
00:36:06Gracie, have you seen Dr. Watson?
00:36:08He's over there, lass.
00:36:13May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes?
00:36:14What's wrong, Sally?
00:36:15We can't find my brother Philip.
00:36:16Did you look in his room?
00:36:17That's the trouble.
00:36:18We had to force the door.
00:36:19It was locked on the inside.
00:36:20Really?
00:36:21Yes.
00:36:22Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.
00:36:23Certainly, Sally, at once.
00:36:29Do be quick.
00:36:30Something ghastly has happened.
00:36:31I know it.
00:36:32Oh, that dreadful bird.
00:36:33Please drive it away.
00:36:34Watson.
00:36:35Take it away.
00:36:36Away?
00:36:37Where are you?
00:36:38Anywhere.
00:36:39Into the pub.
00:36:40Just take it away.
00:36:50Philip Mousgrave.
00:36:58What are they doing now?
00:36:59Doing now?
00:37:00I don't know.
00:37:01They've stopped talking.
00:37:04Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.
00:37:07Heavy footsteps.
00:37:16There's no doubt about it, Watson.
00:37:18Philip Mousgrave had a visitor here last night.
00:37:21These footprints were made either by a very heavy man
00:37:23or a man carrying a very heavy burden.
00:37:25That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:37:26It's no good saying it ain't.
00:37:27The burden was Philip Mousgrave's body
00:37:29and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brunton.
00:37:32It doesn't necessarily follow.
00:37:34Oh, don't it?
00:37:38Here.
00:37:39Try that on your footprint.
00:37:46And that's Alfred Brunton's shoe.
00:37:48It's perfectly, Inspector.
00:37:49Uh-huh.
00:37:50But the fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes
00:37:52doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.
00:37:54Why not?
00:37:55Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?
00:37:57Well, they're not in them now, are they?
00:37:58Look here, Holmes.
00:37:59Let's use our intellect.
00:38:00You what?
00:38:01What's wrong with that?
00:38:02Let's stick to motive.
00:38:03That's my strong point now.
00:38:04This here Brunton had motive.
00:38:06Philip Mousgrave gave him the sack, didn't he?
00:38:08Did Geoffrey Musgrave also give him the sack?
00:38:10What's that got to do with it?
00:38:11Everything.
00:38:12The similarity of method in both murders
00:38:13shows they were the work of one man.
00:38:15Well, that's Vickrey out.
00:38:16He was in jail at the time of this murder.
00:38:17All right, Martin, all right.
00:38:18Then Alfred Brunton's our man, just what I said.
00:38:21What possible motive could Brunton have had
00:38:23for the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave?
00:38:24Motive?
00:38:25Oh, bother motive.
00:38:26Who cares about motive?
00:38:27This case is as simple as A-B-C.
00:38:28Is it?
00:38:29Now, perhaps you could explain to us
00:38:30why these footprints lead up to a blank wall
00:38:32and never return.
00:38:34What?
00:38:35You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?
00:38:37There's just one possible explanation.
00:38:39I've got it.
00:38:41Brunton murdered Musgrave right up against the wall.
00:38:44He hoisted the body over his shoulder, like this, you see.
00:38:48Walks backwards, clean out of the room.
00:38:52That's a very undignified position, Lestrade.
00:38:55Up's a day, is it?
00:38:57In a house as old as this,
00:38:59it's not unusual to find secret passageways
00:39:01that lead down through the walls.
00:39:03Hello, here we are.
00:39:04No, you don't.
00:39:06Come out of there.
00:39:15What are you doing in there?
00:39:16None of your business.
00:39:17Answer me.
00:39:18Obviously.
00:39:19She was looking for Brunton.
00:39:20That's right.
00:39:21He hasn't left Musgrave Manor,
00:39:22I'm certain of that, sir.
00:39:23His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.
00:39:25Don't you lie to me, woman.
00:39:26You've got him in there somewhere.
00:39:27Don't go in there.
00:39:28Why not?
00:39:29You'll get lost.
00:39:30Me lost?
00:39:31I like that.
00:39:32He will get lost, sir.
00:39:34Let him.
00:39:35Now listen to me.
00:39:36Where did you enter that passageway?
00:39:38Through the old greenhouse in Limehawk, sir.
00:39:40Did Brunton know that?
00:39:41No, he didn't.
00:39:42Mrs. Brunton.
00:39:43Then why were you looking for him in there?
00:39:45We... I...
00:39:46First, we've known all along that you were married to Brunton.
00:39:49You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?
00:39:51No.
00:39:52Yes, you do.
00:39:53And you think Brunton did it?
00:39:54No.
00:39:55You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?
00:39:56No, no.
00:39:57Over to the garage?
00:39:58No, he never.
00:39:59And crammed his body in the rumble seat of that roadster?
00:40:00Don't you try and put the blame on, Alf.
00:40:01I'll put the blame on both of you.
00:40:02You're in this together.
00:40:03You were in his room last night.
00:40:04I saw you there.
00:40:05Only to talk about the ritual, sir.
00:40:07He...
00:40:08We...
00:40:09He thought that he'd got it all worked out.
00:40:12Did he leave any notes?
00:40:13Any record?
00:40:14No.
00:40:15That is...
00:40:16Oh, come on.
00:40:17Come on out with it.
00:40:18Only this, sir.
00:40:19I found it this morning under the soap dish on his washstand.
00:40:22Hmm.
00:40:23He's still written.
00:40:24Another jingle?
00:40:25Yes.
00:40:26Obviously in some agitation.
00:40:28If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual,
00:40:32seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual.
00:40:35The old ritual.
00:40:36Watson, we'd rather find that ritual.
00:40:37It's the key to the whole business.
00:40:38Just a minute.
00:40:39You can't talk to Sally.
00:40:40Why not?
00:40:41She was in such a state I had to give her a hypo.
00:40:42All right.
00:40:43Come along.
00:40:47Draw the curtains, Watson.
00:40:52There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.
00:40:55She had to learn it, you know.
00:40:56Yes, you're right.
00:40:57Here it is.
00:40:58I doubt it.
00:41:00Empty.
00:41:01Quite.
00:41:02There's only one thing to do.
00:41:03Search the room.
00:41:04Not the room, Watson.
00:41:05Her mind.
00:41:06We must search her mind.
00:41:08Obviously she took great pains to hide that paper.
00:41:11But, but why should she hide it?
00:41:13Put yourself in her place.
00:41:14Her brother Jeffrey was murdered.
00:41:16The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.
00:41:19On top of that, she finds her brother Philip murdered.
00:41:22What would your reactions be?
00:41:23Oh, naturally.
00:41:24I should be terribly upset.
00:41:25Obviously.
00:41:26Excuse me.
00:41:27She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on Hysteria.
00:41:30She comes through that door.
00:41:31Goes to that desk.
00:41:32Throws down her clubs.
00:41:33The first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.
00:41:37In her mind, it's tied up with all the disasters that have befallen Halston.
00:41:40She herself may be the next victim.
00:41:42She must hide that paper.
00:41:44Quite right.
00:41:45But, but where?
00:41:48Excuse me, sir.
00:41:50Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?
00:41:54Certainly not.
00:41:55Nora was here.
00:41:56She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.
00:41:58Good.
00:41:59Nora.
00:42:00Yes, sir?
00:42:01When you were alone with Miss Sally, what was the first thing she did?
00:42:03Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her night dress.
00:42:07And what was she doing in the meantime?
00:42:08Let me think, sir.
00:42:10Oh, yes.
00:42:11She went over to her desk.
00:42:12Mm-hmm.
00:42:13That was when she took the ritual from this envelope.
00:42:15What then, Nora?
00:42:16Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.
00:42:18Why, someone's pulled them open.
00:42:20Yes, I know.
00:42:21When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?
00:42:22Sure.
00:42:23And it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.
00:42:25Long enough.
00:42:26When you were at the window, where was she?
00:42:28She was sitting over here.
00:42:30Sitting right here.
00:42:32Taking off her stockings.
00:42:34Oh, but she never left the chair.
00:42:36I'll kiss the book on it.
00:42:37I've got it.
00:42:38She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.
00:42:41Hmm.
00:42:42Must have changed her mind.
00:42:44Obviously.
00:42:45Well, well, she could have hidden it anyway.
00:42:47Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.
00:42:54What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?
00:42:56From the fence, sir dear.
00:42:57The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.
00:43:00I definitely heard it.
00:43:01This clock?
00:43:02The same, sir.
00:43:03Thank you, Nora.
00:43:04You may go.
00:43:05Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.
00:43:07Just as obviously, it stopped at 12.20.
00:43:09Hmm?
00:43:10When Nora turned her back, Sally reached across, opened the clock, and hid the ritual in here.
00:43:17Amazing hope!
00:43:19Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:43:20Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?
00:43:27Where did he speed?
00:43:30To guard the Queen's page.
00:43:33Gibberish, that's what it is.
00:43:35Hokey pokey, penny a lump.
00:43:37Thing like this, Watson, that's been handed down for centuries, can't be mere gibberish.
00:43:40Who had entered the lists?
00:43:44The King's Pale Knight.
00:43:46Pale poppycock.
00:43:47I say Watson.
00:43:49King, Queen, Knight, Bishop.
00:43:51Sounds like a game of chess to me.
00:43:53Precisely.
00:43:54Where fell the light.
00:43:56The light, Watson.
00:43:59Follow the light.
00:44:02On the face of the messenger.
00:44:05Look at it, Watson.
00:44:07Look at it.
00:44:08Like a giant chess board.
00:44:10This is no gibberish.
00:44:12These are chess terms, and that's the chess board.
00:44:14The secret of the Musgrave Murders is locked up in that floor.
00:44:17And by Jove, we've got the key to it.
00:44:22Who had entered the lists?
00:44:24The King's Pale Knight.
00:44:27White King's Knight to White King's Bishop Three.
00:44:31Your move, Dr. Saxton.
00:44:32I really know nothing about the game.
00:44:34Come on, Bob.
00:44:35It's great fun.
00:44:36You start from over here.
00:44:37Here.
00:44:38I'll show you.
00:44:39I'll show you.
00:44:40All right.
00:44:44One.
00:44:45Two.
00:44:46Three.
00:44:47One.
00:44:52Page into Black King Three.
00:44:54Your move, Clavering, into Black King Three, please.
00:44:56Over there.
00:44:57There's not to reason why.
00:45:07Page slaughters page.
00:45:09Your move, Watson.
00:45:10I take you, my dear.
00:45:11It's a good game, isn't it?
00:45:12Stop it.
00:45:13You mustn't giggle.
00:45:14You must be serious.
00:45:15Your move, Clavering.
00:45:16You take Dr. Watson.
00:45:17Too bad, Doctor.
00:45:18Who came then to slay him?
00:45:25The bloodthirsty bishop.
00:45:28White Queen's bishop, White King's knight's father.
00:45:29The king's father.
00:45:31The king's father.
00:45:32The king's father.
00:45:33You stop it.
00:45:34I'll do it.
00:45:35You stop it.
00:45:36You mustn't giggle.
00:45:37You must be serious.
00:45:38Your move, Clavering.
00:45:39You take Dr. Watson.
00:45:41Too bad, Doctor.
00:45:42Who came then to slay him?
00:45:43The bloodthirsty bishop.
00:45:45White Queen's Bishop, White King's Knight Five.
00:45:49That's my move.
00:45:58One, two...
00:46:01I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?
00:46:03Did I? I don't think so.
00:46:05Yes, I'm afraid you did.
00:46:06Well, where was I? King Bishop Three?
00:46:09That's right.
00:46:10Oh, yes, of course. So sorry.
00:46:13Three, four, five.
00:46:17Captain, it looks bad for you.
00:46:19Aye, but where shall I go?
00:46:23Where shall he go?
00:46:25Deep down below.
00:46:27Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?
00:46:30Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.
00:46:33The entrance goes down behind that stair,
00:46:36but it's been locked up for centuries.
00:46:39One of the old Musgraves murdered his old brother down there.
00:46:43Shh, listen.
00:46:47Hello, what's that?
00:46:49It's Brompton.
00:46:51Alf, Alf.
00:46:53He's in that passageway over the fireplace.
00:46:56Are you there, Brompton?
00:46:58Get me out.
00:46:59It's me, Lestrade.
00:47:01I'm lost.
00:47:03I'm all turned around.
00:47:05You have been for years.
00:47:07Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells,
00:47:08and give him a saucer of milk.
00:47:10Come here, Jenny.
00:47:11Stand on the square for me.
00:47:13Stamp on it. Keep stamping.
00:47:14Clavering, get your sound detector.
00:47:16Gentlemen, deep down below.
00:47:35Oh, there's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.
00:47:41Someone's been here.
00:47:43And in the last 24 hours.
00:47:45Yeah.
00:47:46As clean as a new pin.
00:47:47Precisely.
00:47:48The dust of 200 years is on the walls.
00:47:50The floor's been swept clean.
00:47:52Obviously, in an attempt to remove footprints.
00:47:54Shh.
00:47:56Listen.
00:47:58That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.
00:48:00Cleavering.
00:48:04Let me have your sound detector.
00:48:14Sir, sorry.
00:48:22You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.
00:48:30Don't move, anyone.
00:48:45Someone's moving about.
00:48:47Interfering with what I'm trying to do.
00:48:51Stand perfectly still, everybody.
00:49:00Don't be close.
00:49:17This is the spot.
00:49:18Give me a hand.
00:49:19Of course.
00:49:21Here, I'll take that.
00:49:22Thank you, sir.
00:49:23I haven't got all of it.
00:49:25All right, Sir.
00:49:26Hello, sir.
00:49:27Gorgeous, ma'am.
00:49:28Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave, knight, lord of the manors of Holston.
00:49:35This place used to be known as Holston Towers.
00:49:38Netherfield and King's Hargrave, Anno Domini, 1539.
00:49:44What we're looking for is underneath here. That's what the ritual meant by deep down below. It's a burial crypt.
00:49:49Up with it.
00:49:58I say, there's somebody down there. Who is it?
00:50:03Is it Brunton? Is it Brunton?
00:50:05I don't know. Stay where you are.
00:50:24Who is it, Holmes?
00:50:25It's Brunton, all right.
00:50:27Is he dead?
00:50:29Yes.
00:50:30He's been dead for hours.
00:50:32Murdered.
00:50:35Hello.
00:50:36What's this?
00:50:38Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.
00:50:58What have you found?
00:50:59Any clue? Any clue?
00:51:00Uh, no.
00:51:01Just an old document.
00:51:12Hello.
00:51:13What's this?
00:51:19Looks like some sort of writing.
00:51:20Watson!
00:51:21Coming!
00:51:22Hold this for me, will you?
00:51:26Steady.
00:51:27There, on the floor, by his right hand.
00:51:29See those marks in the dust?
00:51:31Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.
00:51:36Yes.
00:51:37Yes.
00:51:38See that stuff under his nail?
00:51:41He was trying to write something.
00:51:42By Jove!
00:51:44He did write something.
00:51:45What is it?
00:51:46Aye, tell us, man.
00:51:48What did he write?
00:51:50I can't make it out.
00:51:51It's too faint.
00:51:54Here, I've got good eyes.
00:51:56Let me.
00:51:57Let me.
00:51:58Stay for a while.
00:51:59All of you.
00:52:00These marks...
00:52:07must not be erased.
00:52:08What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:52:10I'm going to leave this just as it is,
00:52:12until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the words.
00:52:16Have you no notion of what he tried to write?
00:52:20Yes, I have.
00:52:21I think that Brunton, with his last strength,
00:52:25wrote the name of his murderer on that floor
00:52:27in his own blood.
00:52:30Oh, there you are, Lestrade.
00:52:31Hmm.
00:52:32Twelve o'clock.
00:52:33I was just saying, Lestrade,
00:52:34that I should get into Newcastle,
00:52:35pick up my chemicals,
00:52:36and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.
00:52:37Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.
00:52:38Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.
00:52:39Watson.
00:52:40Yes.
00:52:41Yes.
00:52:42You all have your work cut out for you.
00:52:43Watson.
00:52:44Yes.
00:52:45You'll guard this door with your life.
00:52:46Of course.
00:52:47With my what?
00:52:48I said, with your life.
00:52:49Anything you say, Holmes?
00:52:50There's no entrance to this cellar,
00:52:51except through that doorway.
00:52:52Oh, yes, sir.
00:52:53Oh, yes.
00:52:54Oh, yes, sir.
00:52:55Oh, yes.
00:52:56Oh, yes.
00:52:57Oh, yes.
00:52:58Oh, yes.
00:52:59Oh, yes.
00:53:00Oh, yes.
00:53:01Oh, yes.
00:53:02Oh, yes.
00:53:03Oh, yes.
00:53:04Oh, yes.
00:53:05Oh, yes.
00:53:06Oh, yes.
00:53:07Oh, yes.
00:53:08Oh, yes.
00:53:09I said, with your life.
00:53:10Anything you say, Holmes?
00:53:11There's no entrance to this cellar,
00:53:12except through that doorway.
00:53:16But Holmes, what I feel about...
00:53:17Oh.
00:53:18Brunton's murderer's in this house.
00:53:20He's bound to make one last effort
00:53:21to get down there to erase those marks.
00:53:22Naturally.
00:53:23The charge men are posted outside,
00:53:24and they'll see to it that nobody leaves this house.
00:53:26Concentration camp.
00:53:28My men have orders to shoot, if necessary.
00:53:30I'll be outside myself, keeping watch.
00:53:31Good.
00:53:32Sexton, your post will be at Miss Sally's door,
00:53:34and remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.
00:53:36Don't worry, I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:37Good night.
00:53:38Good night, Holmes.
00:53:39Good night, Holmes.
00:53:40Good night.
00:53:41Good luck.
00:53:42Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing out.
00:53:43I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer
00:53:45if I had a gun on me.
00:53:46Hmm.
00:53:47I always keep mine ready.
00:53:55Oh, good night, Bob.
00:53:56Keep awake, old man.
00:53:57I will.
00:53:58I need some help.
00:54:19Oh, Mr. Fellow.
00:54:20Go over again.
00:54:50Go over again.
00:55:10What's that?
00:55:20Let me out of here, do you hear?
00:55:28Let me out of here.
00:55:30Someone's locked this door.
00:55:40What on earth's all this monkey business?
00:55:42I didn't lock you in.
00:55:43Well, doors don't lock themselves.
00:55:44They do in this house.
00:55:45What are you doing down here, anywhere?
00:55:47I'm wired just about Langford.
00:55:48Langford?
00:55:49Yes, he's got it into his head
00:55:50that this is a Jap prison camp.
00:55:52He's got that filthy rope
00:55:53and he's bound and determined
00:55:54to go out the window.
00:55:55He can't do that.
00:55:56The Strahd's men will shoot him.
00:55:57He may be out already.
00:55:59I'll head him off.
00:56:00Then again, he may not be.
00:56:02Perhaps you're right.
00:56:03Let me go.
00:56:04No, no, no.
00:56:05You'll be shot.
00:56:06I'll go.
00:56:07No, you'll be shot.
00:56:08Oh, really?
00:56:09Let's both go.
00:56:13I can't leave here.
00:56:14You stay where you are.
00:56:16I'll go and call the Strahd.
00:56:17Remember, Clavering, stay where you are.
00:56:32Here.
00:56:33Look here, councilor.
00:56:34I'm Dr. Watson.
00:56:35Are you now?
00:56:36Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.
00:56:38Come along to the inspector.
00:56:39Gross of pertinence.
00:56:40I'm Mrs. Miniver.
00:56:41Come along to the inspector.
00:56:42Gross of pertinence.
00:56:43Useless.
00:56:44Quite useless.
00:57:00Useless. Quite useless, I assure you.
00:57:14There's nothing written on the floor.
00:57:16It was just a ruse of mine to bring Brunton's murderer here.
00:57:20Permit me. As the most ruthless killer in England,
00:57:24you deserve some of the light. Killer? I?
00:57:27Oh, I say, you seem to forget that my life was also attempted.
00:57:31And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.
00:57:34But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves
00:57:37with such a sure hand should have missed so badly in your case.
00:57:42Unless, of course, you yourself were the murderer.
00:57:46Oh, but that's ridiculous.
00:57:48Then, too, it seemed curious that you would doctor,
00:57:53examined both bodies and failed to report the real cause of death.
00:57:58And that was?
00:58:00A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain
00:58:02between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebra.
00:58:05I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle
00:58:08from Philip Musgrave's head.
00:58:10It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?
00:58:12I never owned one.
00:58:14Oh, yes, you did.
00:58:15I saw it in your case the night I came into this house,
00:58:22just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.
00:58:25It wasn't broken then.
00:58:27It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave
00:58:29that you lost a piece of it.
00:58:30Oh, nonsense.
00:58:31Why should I go around sticking needles into people?
00:58:33A fair enough question, Doctor.
00:58:35Among nice people, murder, like matrimony, generally has a motive.
00:58:39And in this case, the motive was matrimony.
00:58:42Oh, you mean Miss Sally?
00:58:44I do.
00:58:45Oh, I see.
00:58:46So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?
00:58:48Precisely.
00:58:49My dear Holmes, that won't do.
00:58:51The Musgrave is a land poor, but everybody knows that.
00:58:53Exactly.
00:58:54But everybody didn't know what you knew.
00:58:57You've worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:59:00I have?
00:59:02Oh, yes, you have.
00:59:05You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.
00:59:08When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,
00:59:11you promptly named King's Bishop Three,
00:59:13and what's more, moved back onto it.
00:59:15Oh, nonsense.
00:59:16Why should I have stepped out of my square the first day?
00:59:18Break up my moves, spoil my game,
00:59:19and prevent me from finding what you had already found.
00:59:22And that was?
00:59:23The old land grant I took from Miss Box,
00:59:26which would have made Sally Musgrave upon the death of her brothers
00:59:29the richest woman in England.
00:59:34Now, what's that?
00:59:35Don't tell me you've found another needle.
00:59:41No, no.
00:59:42Just a button.
00:59:45Wouldn't be yours, would it?
00:59:47Mine?
00:59:49Give it to me.
01:00:00Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?
01:00:03No, not at all.
01:00:04As I see it,
01:00:05you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room,
01:00:08carried his body down through the secret passageway,
01:00:10out through the greenhouse,
01:00:11into the garage,
01:00:12where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.
01:00:14But unfortunately for you,
01:00:17you had a witness.
01:00:19Brunton was there,
01:00:21sleeping off his drunk,
01:00:23nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.
01:00:26Brunton became your accessory.
01:00:29But you didn't want an accessory.
01:00:31So you lured him down here with the promise
01:00:33to share the Musgrave treasure with him
01:00:36and exit Brunton.
01:00:40Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.
01:00:42You seem to have everything,
01:00:44except perhaps the negligible item of proof.
01:00:47Suppose we leave that to the jury.
01:00:49Suppose we do.
01:00:50Shall we go?
01:00:51Up to you.
01:00:55By the way,
01:00:56don't forget your torch.
01:00:58Oh, thanks.
01:01:04I don't suppose it occurred to you
01:01:06that you were taking a bit of a chance
01:01:08coming down here all alone
01:01:09with a suspected murderer?
01:01:11One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.
01:01:13You see,
01:01:14I couldn't possibly risk sharing my little plot with anybody.
01:01:17Not even with Dr. Watson.
01:01:18Particularly not with Dr. Watson.
01:01:20If he'd known what was up tonight,
01:01:22he'd have been so elaborately mysterious
01:01:23he'd have given the whole show away.
01:01:24As a matter of fact,
01:01:25I had the devil's own time
01:01:26luring him away from that door upstairs
01:01:28so that we could be alone.
01:01:30That's all I wanted to know.
01:01:32That's all I wanted to know.
01:02:02How could I do now?
01:02:16How could I do now?
01:02:17Stay where you are.
01:02:18I'm afraid I have no choice, Doctor Sexton.
01:02:20Look here, you're not really going to kill me, are you?
01:02:27They'll hear you.
01:02:28Who will?
01:02:30That was a bad slip you made letting me know you were so completely alone.
01:02:34Then you're really going to kill me?
01:02:36I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:41But as you said, I've no evidence against you.
01:02:45No proof, no proof at all.
01:02:48You forget the needle and the button.
01:02:51Bring them here, please.
01:02:57Not too close.
01:03:00Now put them in my hand.
01:03:02I'm sorry.
01:03:03I'm sorry.
01:03:04I'm sorry.
01:03:05I'm sorry.
01:03:06I'm sorry.
01:03:07I'm sorry.
01:03:08I'm sorry.
01:03:09I'm sorry.
01:03:10I'm sorry.
01:03:11I'm sorry.
01:03:12I'm sorry.
01:03:14Now put them in my pocket.
01:03:22Curious about that button.
01:03:24It is off my coat, of course.
01:03:26Can't think how I never missed it.
01:03:29Poor old Brunton.
01:03:30He didn't struggle much.
01:03:32Now, Phil Musgrave was different.
01:03:35The needle broke off and I didn't have time to probe for it.
01:03:38But you've got both of them now.
01:03:40The button and the needle.
01:03:41Why kill me?
01:03:43Now, step back.
01:03:44Just a bit.
01:03:49Against the wall.
01:03:53Now, if you stand perfectly still, I think I can manage this with one shot.
01:04:13Put him up.
01:04:27Did you hear his confession, Watson?
01:04:29Every word, Holmes.
01:04:30And I heard all the rest, sir.
01:04:32Good.
01:04:33Let me congratulate you on an extraordinary catch.
01:04:36That's right, Mr. Holmes.
01:04:37It's no good saying it ain't.
01:04:38I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes.
01:04:40Pity.
01:04:41Yes.
01:04:42Those blank cartridges were a cheap sort of trick, I grant you.
01:04:45But it wasn't easy to let you take my gun away from me without seeming to hand it to you.
01:04:49That's why I let you take the torch first.
01:04:51I knew you'd snap it off.
01:04:53Yes.
01:04:54We told you we were taking an awful risk.
01:04:55Well, we had to have a confession.
01:04:57And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty when they feel they have the upper hand.
01:05:01Shall we go?
01:05:02I can't make head nor tail of it.
01:05:07Can you pass?
01:05:08Well, it looks like an old land grant.
01:05:10It's really a crown grant.
01:05:12What I don't understand is why the Musgraves didn't claim the land ages ago.
01:05:16Obviously, Watson, one of them died before passing on the meaning of the ritual to his heir.
01:05:20The words remained, but the sense was lost.
01:05:23I wonder why he left the grant down there where he found it.
01:05:25What good would it have done him?
01:05:27So long as your brothers lived.
01:05:28Once they were out of the way and you came into the property, he expected to marry you.
01:05:31I like that.
01:05:33Whatever made him think of it?
01:05:34He thought himself irresistible.
01:05:35Precisely.
01:05:36It's not unheard of in cases of egomania.
01:05:38I suppose then he meant to rediscover the crown grant.
01:05:41At the proper time, yes.
01:05:42And then enjoy his wife's millions.
01:05:44Did you say millions?
01:05:45I did.
01:05:46Look here.
01:05:52About 80,000 acres of the richest soil in England.
01:05:55But aren't there people on it?
01:05:56Yes, farms, villages, even a factory town with hundreds of workmen's cottages.
01:06:00Is this thing legal?
01:06:01Perfectly.
01:06:02Of course, it'll drag on through the courts.
01:06:03Just a moment.
01:06:04The people on this land, they've put their money into it.
01:06:08Their life work.
01:06:09It's their homes I'll be taking.
01:06:10Yes.
01:06:11Do you think I'm going to kick these people out?
01:06:14Well, just the same, Holmes, you let poor little Sally throw away a fortune.
01:06:32My dear fellow, I had nothing to do with it.
01:06:34The girl, more power to her, acted on her own.
01:06:36A grand gesture, one she may regret.
01:06:39I don't think so, Watson.
01:06:42There's a new spirit abroad in the land.
01:06:45The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.
01:06:49We're beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow,
01:06:52not just what we're compelled to give him.
01:06:54The time's coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort
01:06:59while other folk go hungry or sleep in warm beds
01:07:03while others shiver in the cold.
01:07:06When we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessings
01:07:09before our shining altars, while men anywhere
01:07:13are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.
01:07:17You may be right, Holmes. I hope you are.
01:07:20And God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.
01:07:29Bye-bye.
01:07:59THE END
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