A Study in Scarlet (1933) – Holmes vs Scarlet Ring Murders - video Dailymotion

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A Study in Scarlet (1933) is a pre‑Code American mystery thriller loosely inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel but with an entirely original screenplay. Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong in a rare noir‑styled role. The film is notable for its secret‑society plot and its divergence from Doyle’s original story.  🎬 Film Overview Title: A Study in Scarlet Year: 1933 Genre: Mystery / Thriller / Horror (pre‑Code) Director: Edwin L. Marin Screenplay: Robert Florey (original story, not Doyle’s plot) Produced by: Samuel Bischoff Starring: Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes Anna May Wong as Mrs. Pyke June Clyde as Eileen Forrester Alan Dinehart as Thaddeus Merrydew John Warburton as John Stanford Runtime: 71 minutes Studio: KBS Productions Distributor: Sono Art‑World Wide Pictures / Fox Film Corporation Cinematography: Arthur Edeson Edited by: Rose Loewinger  #StudyInScarlet #SherlockHolmes #ReginaldOwen #AnnaMayWong #ScarletRing #1930sMystery #PreCode #EarlyHolmes #BlackAndWhiteFilm

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00:01:28Hey Jenny

00:01:29You have the end

00:01:30I can't open it

00:01:32Right now

00:01:34Oh

00:01:35Darny

00:01:36Call his nibs

00:01:38Mr. Partridge

00:01:39Hey Mr. Partridge

00:01:42Now what's the trouble

00:01:44Can't open the blinking door

00:01:52Come out

00:01:53Come out

00:01:57You hear me?

00:02:00This is Victoria Station

00:02:08Honey

00:02:11Some drunk

00:02:12Some drunk sleeping at all

00:02:13Some just

00:02:14Travelling footclaws

00:02:15Come on

00:02:24Jim, put up your ladder

00:02:28Yes, sir

00:02:30Open that window

00:02:31Right

00:02:39I can't

00:02:40I can't budge it, Mr. Partridge

00:02:42Budge is a word

00:02:43You'll have to smash it then

00:02:45Right

00:02:52Mr. Partridge

00:02:53Oh, dear

00:02:54Oh, dear

00:02:54There's one

00:02:59Here's one

00:03:00Don't help

00:03:01Flex the police

00:03:02Don't stand there, Yatlin

00:03:23This must be the place

00:03:25Yes

00:03:26You'll have to wait here

00:03:28I'm not going to let you go in a place like this alone

00:03:30You must really

00:03:32I'll be all right

00:04:19This meeting is now called to order

00:04:21The unfortunate death

00:04:23In a train of one of our members

00:04:25Mr. James Murphy

00:04:26Who

00:04:27Departed this life by his own act

00:04:29While of unsound mind

00:04:30Has necessitated this meeting

00:04:32That's what you say, Mr. Meridue

00:04:34And how do you know?

00:04:37A verdict of death by suicide

00:04:39Was returned tonight

00:04:42This is the second occasion

00:04:44That we have been brought together

00:04:45By the

00:04:46Mishaps

00:04:47To our members

00:04:49The first being

00:04:50The passing away by natural causes

00:04:51Of the late Colonel Forrester

00:04:54Whose charming daughter

00:04:55So gracefully honors us

00:04:56With her presence here tonight

00:05:01It is agreed in the pact

00:05:03Drawn up and formally attested to

00:05:05By its founders

00:05:06That should the Green Reaper

00:05:07Overtake

00:05:08One or more

00:05:11The interests of the deceased

00:05:12In the society

00:05:14Will be divided equally

00:05:16Among the

00:05:17Surviving members

00:05:19It is also provided for

00:05:21In the pact

00:05:21That Miss Forrester

00:05:22Becomes a participating member

00:05:24Consequently

00:05:25Consequently

00:05:25The interests of the late

00:05:26James Murphy

00:05:27Will be divided equally

00:05:28Among the seven of us

00:05:31I move that my fee

00:05:33For the necessary legal representation

00:05:35Funeral expenses

00:05:37And a modest earn

00:05:38For the ashes

00:05:38Be defrayed by our organization

00:05:41I understand from the widow

00:05:43That he expressed a preference

00:05:45For cremation

00:05:46I second that

00:05:47All those in favor

00:05:49Will please signify

00:05:50By raising their hands

00:05:53Mr. Wilson

00:05:56Mr. Baker

00:05:59Mr. Dearing

00:06:05Mr. Pike

00:06:08Ah, yet

00:06:16Good

00:06:16Has any provision been made

00:06:18For the widow?

00:06:19None

00:06:19I presume that we could

00:06:21Stretch a point in her favor

00:06:23Emphatically, no

00:06:24Things are complicated

00:06:25Enough as they are

00:06:27Why did he want to kill himself?

00:06:30Have you ever met his wife?

00:06:32No

00:06:32No?

00:06:33Well, I have

00:06:34A pest if there ever was one

00:06:37He can attribute his death

00:06:38Solely to the general deficiencies

00:06:40Of one

00:06:42Annabelle Mary Murphy

00:06:59What would you deduce

00:07:00From this?

00:07:08Obviously

00:07:09An attempt to convey

00:07:10Secret information

00:07:12Could you decipher it?

00:07:14I could not

00:07:15Nor could you

00:07:18Would you like to bet?

00:07:20Certainly

00:07:20How much?

00:07:23Shilling

00:07:24My time is too valuable

00:07:29The answer will be found

00:07:30In a large book

00:07:31Because the numbers are large

00:07:33I'd suggest

00:07:35The Bible

00:07:45A client, Watson

00:07:46Where?

00:07:47The widow

00:07:47Standing under the street lamp

00:07:52A widow?

00:07:53Would you like to bet on that?

00:07:55Of course

00:07:56Well, I'm not going down the street

00:07:57To ask her

00:07:57Ah

00:07:59Won't be necessary

00:08:00She's made up her mind

00:08:03So you deduce at a distancy

00:08:04Not in this case

00:08:06I recognised her features

00:08:08She's a Mrs. Murphy

00:08:10Her husband was murdered

00:08:11Three days ago

00:08:12You mean the man

00:08:13That was found dead in a train?

00:08:15Exactly

00:08:17Come in

00:08:19A Mrs. Murphy to see you, sir

00:08:21Mr. Holmes

00:08:22I'm in such a mess

00:08:23Such a mess

00:08:24My husband up and died

00:08:25Without leaving me

00:08:26As much as I certainly did

00:08:28It's a crime shame, Mr. Holmes

00:08:29That's what it is

00:08:30Sit down and try to compose yourself

00:08:34Cut off without a pardon

00:08:35By an ungrateful good for nothing

00:08:37Me

00:08:38At my time of life

00:08:40No dirty dog

00:08:41I had a better wife

00:08:42I've waited on him

00:08:43And to mark

00:08:44Stood by his side

00:08:45Morning, noon and night

00:08:47And what does the stinker do?

00:08:48He ups and kills himself

00:08:50And leaves his money

00:08:52To a trust

00:08:53And Mr. Mary do

00:08:54Yes

00:08:55And there's another stinker

00:08:56If I never saw another

00:08:57Won't even let me have a sixpence

00:08:59He won't even let me have a eightpence

00:09:01Mr. Holmes

00:09:02Taddeus married you, the lawyer

00:09:04Yes, the thieving hounds

00:09:06The dirty rat

00:09:07One moment

00:09:09You were married how long?

00:09:11Five blessed long years

00:09:12Previous to your marriage

00:09:14Your husband served in the army

00:09:16You knew him

00:09:17Of him

00:09:18He got a discharge in China

00:09:20Yes, that's right

00:09:21Then you married

00:09:22Yes, and I gave up everything, Mr. Holmes

00:09:24You asked the proprietor of the Black Sour

00:09:26You tell you

00:09:26It was me that made that pub what it was

00:09:28And your husband had money

00:09:30Farrells of it

00:09:31And when he wanted more

00:09:32He used to come up to London and get it

00:09:34It was that that took him to London

00:09:36When he killed himself

00:09:37How do you know?

00:09:39Well, Jim comes into my room

00:09:41I was in bed with a piece of cucumber

00:09:43Rhymed round the head

00:09:43Trying to cure an headache

00:09:45He had a letter in his hand

00:09:47See a pig, he says

00:09:49That was his pet name for me

00:09:51When he was drunk

00:09:52I'm going up to London

00:09:54Did you read the contents of the letter?

00:09:57Oh, it wasn't no letter

00:09:58It was just a piece of doggerel

00:10:13Watson

00:10:14Make a note of Mrs. Murphy's dress

00:10:17232 Kings Cross Road

00:10:19Then you'll undertake me, Mr. Holmes

00:10:21I'll take up your case

00:10:23Mind you, it'll have to be for love

00:10:25Love?

00:10:27Well, Nick

00:10:28I've noticed how you like working for nothing

00:10:30My interest is to bring the criminal to justice

00:10:32Oh, never mind about justice

00:10:34Never mind about the crime

00:10:35All I want is my husband's lawful money

00:10:37And I want you to slap that thief in lawyer's face

00:10:40Right across

00:10:41Between his greasy pet shop

00:10:43Good night, Mr. Holmes

00:10:45I'll be seeing you

00:10:46And thank you kindly

00:10:47Good night, Mrs. Murphy

00:10:55Deep water, Watson

00:10:59She needs some shady lawyer

00:11:01Not you

00:11:02Think so?

00:11:03I'm amazed that you're wasting your energies

00:11:05On such a morbid trifle

00:11:07Who is this merry dude?

00:11:09London's most dangerous crook

00:11:11The king of blackmailers

00:11:13A gliding, slithy, venomous snake

00:11:17Once in his power

00:11:18He'll squeeze and squeeze

00:11:19Until he's drained

00:11:20His victims dry

00:11:22More than once

00:11:23I've had my net around him

00:11:24But so far

00:11:25He's managed to wriggle his way out

00:11:26But the time has come, Watson

00:11:29The time has come

00:11:30For Mr. Thaddeus Meridue

00:11:34And now, Miss Forrester

00:11:36Ladies and gentlemen

00:11:36This concludes the meeting

00:11:37I would like to have a word

00:11:39With you alone

00:11:40I sincerely trust

00:11:41No further accidents

00:11:42Will happen to

00:11:43Occasion another meeting

00:11:45You never can tell

00:12:09Are you going my way?

00:12:10Which way do you go?

00:12:12I go to the other

00:12:13That leads to a dead end

00:12:14That's the way I go

00:12:16Good night then

00:12:17Good night

00:12:34You must never mention

00:12:35Anything that transpired

00:12:36At this meeting tonight

00:12:37Or even that this meeting was held

00:12:40I saw a young man

00:12:41Standing on the corner

00:12:42As I came in

00:12:43Yes, my fiancé

00:12:44He brought me here

00:12:46And he's waiting for me

00:12:47Oh

00:12:50Then you're thinking

00:12:50Of being married

00:12:52Yes

00:12:52I wouldn't if I were you

00:12:54That is, at least

00:12:55Until you've consulted me

00:12:57But why?

00:12:58I can't explain

00:13:00In a short time

00:13:01In a short time

00:13:01This society will no longer exist

00:13:03Until its affairs are winded up

00:13:04It would be most unwise

00:13:05For you to marry

00:13:06Your father would not have wished it

00:13:08What had my father

00:13:09To do with these people?

00:13:10Didn't he ever tell you?

00:13:11No

00:13:12Then I must respect his silence

00:13:14Remember

00:13:16Not a word to a living soul

00:13:20He's hot to me

00:13:21He's hot to me

00:13:22Captain Pike

00:13:24Captain Pike

00:13:24Oh

00:13:27Oh

00:13:28Oh

00:13:29Oh

00:13:37David

00:13:38Shot through the heart

00:13:47You wait here

00:14:08What is it, what's happening, are you hurt?

00:14:11Someone.

00:14:15Look.

00:14:17It didn't be.

00:14:18What does it mean?

00:14:20The murderer must have had an accomplice and removed the body.

00:14:23We must call the police.

00:14:24No, no, the police will be here soon enough and mustn't become involved.

00:14:26But it's murder.

00:14:27As you respect your father's memory, you must preserve a strict silence, not a word.

00:14:36Come.

00:14:36Come on.

00:14:42The body was pulled out of the Thames at 5 a.m. in the Limehouse District.

00:14:46The autopsy shows a death was caused by a bullet through the heart.

00:14:50The features, as you see, are unrecognizable,

00:14:52caused possibly by the battering of the head against the wharf where the body was found.

00:14:56We would have identified the body by means of that ring.

00:14:59Ah.

00:15:01A very rare and very beautiful ringless trade.

00:15:04There isn't the slightest doubt that the deceased is Captain Pike.

00:15:07The clothes were identified, initials on the collar and on the shirt.

00:15:11Further identifications are contained in these letters of the farm and the clothing.

00:15:23Where is the widow?

00:15:24We ask her to wait until the adjoining room.

00:15:37This is Pike?

00:15:39Yes.

00:15:40You are?

00:15:41My name is Sherlock Holmes.

00:15:43When did you last see your husband alive?

00:15:46We dined together last night at the Savoy Grill.

00:15:49He left me shortly after nine o'clock.

00:15:51I never saw him again.

00:15:53You're staying?

00:15:54At the Savoy.

00:15:55You've been in London how long?

00:15:57About a week.

00:15:58And you live where?

00:15:59At the Grain Shuberness.

00:16:02When your husband left you, did he inform you where he was going?

00:16:05No.

00:16:06But I fancied it was on a matter of business.

00:16:08He was a man very precise in his habits.

00:16:12When midnight came, and there was no sign of him, I became rather alarmed.

00:16:17Midnight should be a late hour for him.

00:16:18Very.

00:16:19As the time went on, I became more and more worried.

00:16:21At last I informed the police.

00:16:24An hour ago I received a message to come here, where I identified the body of my poor husband.

00:16:31By the ring?

00:16:32Yes.

00:16:34Did he always wear a ring?

00:16:36That one, yes.

00:16:37I gave it to him when we were married.

00:16:39That would be?

00:16:40About six years ago in China.

00:16:41It is an heirloom belonging to my family, and has been handed down through generations.

00:16:47I see.

00:16:48Permit me to express my sympathy for your great loss.

00:16:53Is that all?

00:16:55By the way, should it become necessary, shall I communicate with you at the Grange or the Savoy?

00:17:00Through my lawyer.

00:17:01His name?

00:17:01Mr. Thaddeus married you.

00:17:04Good morning, Mr. Holmes.

00:17:20Well, what do you make of it?

00:17:21Murder.

00:17:22Unquestionably.

00:17:23Is that all?

00:17:23That's all I have to say.

00:17:25What do you think?

00:17:26I think, I think, that the lady is a liar.

00:18:10What do you think?

00:18:11You said that the lady is a liar.

00:18:12The lady is lying.

00:18:12It's a lie.

00:18:12Now he is lying.

00:18:13He was lying.

00:18:16I was lying.

00:18:16He's lying.

00:18:21He's lying.

00:18:24He's lying.

00:18:25Is that all he is lying?

00:18:31You! It's not possible! What do you want to mean?

00:18:41The papers are full of the fight murder mystery.

00:18:44It seemed to me particularly senseless and futile.

00:18:47There was no motive.

00:18:49No motive?

00:18:50Peer deep down in the black heart of Thaddeus Meridieu

00:18:53and you'll find a motive.

00:18:55You don't mean to suggest that he had anything to do with it, do you?

00:18:57I suggest nothing.

00:19:00Come in.

00:19:03Inspector, it's strange to see you, sir.

00:19:05Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson.

00:19:07What's the matter? You look worried.

00:19:08Worried? I'm up to my neck.

00:19:10Again?

00:19:10Before I can begin to finish one case, I'm plunged into another.

00:19:13That's the penalty of being smart.

00:19:15You came to see me professionally.

00:19:18Well, unofficially.

00:19:19I see. Had you win, tears I lose.

00:19:22There's been a bad business during the night.

00:19:23An old gentleman.

00:19:25You'll find it a bit of a puzzler.

00:19:26You mean you found it a bit of a puzzler.

00:19:29We've left everything in status quo, hoping you'll favor us with an opinion.

00:19:33Dead?

00:19:33Hmm?

00:19:35Murder?

00:19:36Suicide.

00:19:37Suicide.

00:19:37Come, Watson.

00:19:38Game is afoot.

00:19:53He was well known as a stamp collector.

00:19:56Hmm.

00:19:58Very interesting.

00:20:14What is it, Holmes?

00:20:32That leads out to the guard and send from you as to judge by the rusty hinges.

00:20:37.

00:20:38.

00:20:39.

00:20:41.

00:20:42.

00:21:11Good morning, Chris.

00:21:12Good morning.

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00:21:52Good morning.

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00:25:40Good morning.

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00:26:05Good morning.

00:26:11Good morning.

00:26:14Good morning.

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00:26:58Good morning.

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00:29:13Good morning.

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00:29:28Good morning.

00:29:29Good morning.

00:29:30Good morning.

00:29:31Good morning.

00:29:33Oh, John, I'm so miserable.

00:29:37It's something that concerns Father.

00:29:40Just before he died, he sent for me.

00:29:43I remember his words.

00:29:46On my death, you'll find yourself well provided for.

00:29:49You'll be rich.

00:29:51Remember this name.

00:29:53He repeated it twice.

00:29:56Married you.

00:29:58Should he communicate with you?

00:30:00Follow his instructions.

00:30:02For through him will come this inheritance.

00:30:04Then the meeting three days ago?

00:30:07Began the fulfillment of Father's words.

00:30:16I think I'm beginning to understand.

00:30:26I thought I saw...

00:30:33John!

00:30:34John!

00:30:35John!

00:30:39John!

00:30:47He was a black-bearded man.

00:30:49Ill-dressed.

00:30:50Looked like a tramp.

00:30:51How tall?

00:30:52Oh, quite tall.

00:30:54Could you keep Miss Forrester under observation without her knowing it?

00:30:58I don't understand.

00:31:00Is Eileen in danger?

00:31:01In great danger.

00:31:03You are wise in coming to see me.

00:31:06Should anything unforeseen occur, get in touch with me.

00:31:09Go to her.

00:31:10Remember, get in touch with me.

00:31:36I'm glad to see you in a more cheerful mood.

00:31:40We've done remarkably well, I'm pleased.

00:31:44I admit I could do with a little explanation.

00:31:46I, too, feel it for kilts.

00:31:48I consider the claims of Whittaker's almanac, as I suspected.

00:31:53The large number represented the page.

00:31:55The second, the small number, the column.

00:31:57And the other figures, the message.

00:31:59You'll find it decoded on the table.

00:32:07The meeting of Scarlet Ring, Tuesday, Limehouse.

00:32:13In.

00:32:18Very due.

00:32:20Possibly.

00:32:21Tomorrow will appear in the personal column of the Daily Telegraph a second message.

00:32:25A request for information.

00:32:27Your message?

00:32:28My message.

00:32:29And the next step?

00:32:31The need of fresh air will take me in the country tomorrow.

00:32:35In the meantime, relaxation.

00:32:37Music.

00:32:38I hope I won't bore you.

00:32:40Not if you make it soft.

00:33:02Ah, things are getting worse and worse, sir.

00:33:06I hear tell as though they'll get more wasser before they gets less wasser.

00:33:10Same as I say.

00:33:12That were a worry bad business about Captain Pike.

00:33:16A worry bad business.

00:33:19Same as I say.

00:33:22I hear tell us how the old range is going under the hammer.

00:33:25Lock, stock and barrel.

00:33:27Same as I say.

00:33:29I know I almost broke this old back of mine of weed in their old garden.

00:33:33And to look at it now, you think I'd spent all me time in here?

00:33:42Morning, sir.

00:33:43Morning.

00:33:44Morning, morning.

00:33:46How far is the range from here?

00:33:49Some will tell you four miles and some will tell you five.

00:33:52But I say it's more than four and less than five.

00:33:56Is there any means of getting there beside walking?

00:33:59Bless your heart.

00:34:00Yes, sir.

00:34:01I've an old trap.

00:34:02I'll harness up old Caesar and old Will.

00:34:04He'll drive you over.

00:34:07Did it take anything to drink?

00:34:10Wouldn't come amiss.

00:34:12Scotch.

00:34:13Scotch and splash.

00:34:14Put a bottle on the table, some glasses and a cipher of soda.

00:34:18Come in, sir.

00:34:18Come in.

00:34:19Lord, love us.

00:34:19It feels good to be busy again.

00:34:21You're a godsend to him, sir.

00:34:23He hasn't had a paying customer for a long time.

00:34:28Check on the check, sir.

00:34:30Before you can see Jack Robinson.

00:34:33Help yourself.

00:34:34Thank you, sir.

00:34:36Just a little drop, sir.

00:34:41Say when.

00:34:44When?

00:34:45Well, here's your very good help, sir.

00:34:53Oh, I feel like a new man, sir.

00:34:56Well, I now give the new man a drink.

00:34:58Righto, sir.

00:35:04When?

00:35:05Here's your very good help, the guy.

00:35:07Good help.

00:35:09Were you born in these parts?

00:35:13I've never seen none of that.

00:35:15Worked for the part family of all my life.

00:35:17Till I got tired of working.

00:35:20Got this old backache from weeding the flaggy old garden.

00:35:23Then you would remember the late captain.

00:35:26And his father and the old gentleman of Foley's father.

00:35:32See that dent?

00:35:34That belongs to Captain Point.

00:35:36A mob caused possibly by the imprint of a stone.

00:35:40And right you are, sir.

00:35:42Many a good-licking young master Robin got for chucking stones at me, sir.

00:35:48Sounded until the young man was somewhat wild.

00:35:50Wild?

00:35:51He was a holy terror.

00:35:53Ready in waiting, sir?

00:35:56I want it to pull, Caesar, and he's ready to go.

00:35:58He was telling me some more on the way over.

00:36:01Better bring the bottle.

00:36:03Go on, then, sir.

00:36:04Scroft is sure good for the backer.

00:36:11Steady, Caesar.

00:36:12Steady.

00:36:13He's hard to handle when he's raring to go, sir.

00:36:16You were saying?

00:36:17You can't make English gentry out of the even shiny now, Al.

00:36:21Not in these parts.

00:36:23Very difficult, I imagine.

00:36:25When the captain was alive, did he stay here often?

00:36:29Until last Tuesday, we ain't seen nothing on him till close now on to two years.

00:36:37Shall we have one, sir?

00:36:40You take two.

00:36:42Right, sir.

00:36:46That's it.

00:36:52The old back feels better already, sir.

00:36:55Magic.

00:36:57There's the grange now, sir.

00:37:00Looks at his servants there now.

00:37:02Well, not in what you might call real servants, sir.

00:37:05There's daft dolly it.

00:37:07And well you might have to be to keep that place.

00:37:09I kept it for 30 years.

00:37:12Stop a moment.

00:37:14Whoa, Caesar.

00:37:15Whoa.

00:37:36I'll walk the rest of the way I'm in a hurry.

00:37:39Wait here for me.

00:37:41I won't budge an inch.

00:38:08I'll be here, Pat.

00:38:30I'll be here.

00:38:34Is your mistress in?

00:38:37No, sir.

00:38:38Where is she?

00:38:41Lennontown.

00:38:41I understand that this house is for sale.

00:38:44I may wish to buy it.

00:38:45I look it over.

00:38:46I look it over.

00:39:07That's mistress.

00:39:09Such a good looker.

00:39:10Such eye.

00:39:12She walks like a cat.

00:39:13Such a figure.

00:39:15Such a fine bit of good.

00:39:17Buzz.

00:39:18Buzz.

00:39:55Mr. Fleet's here.

00:39:57Uh-huh.

00:40:14Don't you feel good?

00:40:15My heart.

00:40:17Water.

00:40:18Quick.

00:40:18Just a minute.

00:40:19Just a minute.

00:40:43Drink this.

00:40:47I'm dying.

00:40:49Telephone for a doctor.

00:40:50Oh, Lenn.

00:40:51We haven't got any phones in the house.

00:40:53Let me go for once.

00:40:55Doctor's a good time runs away.

00:40:57Fetch him.

00:40:58Hurry.

00:40:59Hurry.

00:40:59Run.

00:41:00All right.

00:41:02I'll run.

00:41:04I'll run.

00:41:33I'll run.

00:41:35I'll run.

00:41:59I'll run.

00:44:24Well, you know, anything I can do.

00:44:27Oh, you are very nervous today.

00:44:29Well, I can't help it.

00:44:30Look at my hands.

00:44:31You know, I'm...

00:44:32I'm trembling all over.

00:44:34There.

00:44:36That'll stop the rattling, at any rate.

00:44:39My late husband always spoke of you in the warmest terms.

00:44:42And you know the highway garden which I've always heard you.

00:44:45Oh, have you?

00:44:46Can you doubt it?

00:44:48You are the only one who knows my husband's affairs.

00:44:51Everything has been left in the most terrible disorder.

00:44:54My house in the country will be sold.

00:44:57I wonder if you could spare the time.

00:45:00Yes?

00:45:02You could be my guest over the weekend.

00:45:06And we could go through his papers together.

00:45:08Well, you know, with pleasure.

00:45:10I could do with a bit of a change.

00:45:11I wish we could drive down.

00:45:14Would tonight be possible?

00:45:16Tonight?

00:45:17No.

00:45:17You see, I've got an important meeting tonight.

00:45:19Then tomorrow.

00:45:21Tomorrow.

00:45:24May...

00:45:24May I make a little confession?

00:45:26You know, Mrs. Pike,

00:45:27I've always admired you tremendously.

00:45:51Who's that?

00:45:52Baker.

00:45:53Oh, it's you, is it?

00:45:54Who do you think it was?

00:45:56Where are the others?

00:45:57I'm the first one here.

00:46:01There's a lot among us.

00:46:03Yes, and he's facing me.

00:46:05Seek it on a chair.

00:46:06Don't I?

00:46:07Someone has given away the code.

00:46:11Anyone supplying information

00:46:13concerning the Scarlet Ring

00:46:14will be rewarded.

00:46:17Apply Sherlock Holmes,

00:46:20221A, Baker Street.

00:46:23It's one of us.

00:46:25That's certain.

00:46:26He can leave the girl out of it.

00:46:28Can't be that dumb Chinaman.

00:46:32There remains you,

00:46:34myself,

00:46:35and married you.

00:46:37Well, it's not me.

00:46:38On my oath.

00:46:38On me, I swear it.

00:46:41Then it's...

00:46:41I thought that snake

00:46:43was double-crossing me.

00:46:44But it's getting on my nerves.

00:46:47It's like living a nightmare.

00:46:49First Murphy,

00:46:50then Pike,

00:46:50then Deering.

00:46:51Who'll be next?

00:46:57Suppose someone

00:46:58wants to supply information

00:46:59to Sherlock Holmes.

00:47:00Then it would all come out.

00:47:02No, no.

00:47:02Holmes is different

00:47:03from the police.

00:47:04He protects clients.

00:47:06Holmes works with the police.

00:47:09What's in the back of your mind?

00:47:11I want a fighting charge.

00:47:13I want to leave.

00:47:14This suspense

00:47:15is getting on my nerves.

00:47:17It's killing me.

00:47:18What suspense?

00:47:21Well, pray be seated, gentlemen.

00:47:24I overheard your conversation.

00:47:27It's most illuminating.

00:47:28We are not going on.

00:47:30No?

00:47:31Then why not, Frank?

00:47:32I don't want to die

00:47:33like Murphy.

00:47:34Nor be found dead

00:47:35like Pike.

00:47:35No, perhaps you'd like

00:47:36to spend the rest

00:47:37of your lives in prison.

00:47:38Hmm?

00:47:40No, my friends.

00:47:41Crime brought you together

00:47:43and by crime

00:47:43you will stick together.

00:47:47Gentlemen,

00:47:47in a few more days

00:47:48the Scarlet Ring

00:47:49will cease to exist.

00:47:51We'll cease to exist,

00:47:52Jermaine.

00:47:53I have just received word

00:47:55from the agent

00:47:55in Antwerp

00:47:56that the plunderer

00:47:57has finally been disposed of.

00:47:59This time next week

00:48:00the principal

00:48:01will be in my hands.

00:48:03A small unimportant matter

00:48:05of some

00:48:05one million pounds

00:48:07to be divided equally among us.

00:48:10Two hundred thousand pounds

00:48:11a piece.

00:48:14Two hundred thousand pounds.

00:48:15And meanwhile?

00:48:17You've waited for five years.

00:48:19What's the matter of a few days?

00:48:20Here, what guarantee

00:48:21is there we'll be alive

00:48:23to receive it?

00:48:24None.

00:48:25Of course,

00:48:26if it were a question

00:48:27of your life

00:48:27without the money

00:48:28it might be arranged.

00:48:30How?

00:48:31A letter

00:48:32in the form

00:48:32of a deed of gift

00:48:33relinquishing your right

00:48:34to any benefits

00:48:34accruing to the society.

00:48:36And give up

00:48:36two hundred thousand pounds?

00:48:39It might insure your life.

00:48:41I'd say

00:48:41you'll burn first.

00:48:45Shh.

00:48:46Not a word.

00:48:54Well, Miss Forrester,

00:48:55this is a pleasure.

00:48:55Come in.

00:49:00Won't you sit down?

00:49:12And now to business.

00:49:15Miss Forrester

00:49:15and gentlemen,

00:49:16again I have the pleasure

00:49:17of presiding at this meeting.

00:49:27Hello?

00:49:30One moment.

00:49:32Mr. Stanford.

00:49:35Yes?

00:49:38Where?

00:49:50Oh, thanks.

00:49:51Never will you come.

00:49:52I followed her here

00:49:53and phoned you immediately.

00:49:54She went to the side door.

00:50:18There were four others.

00:50:19A lawyer,

00:50:20two white men,

00:50:21strangers,

00:50:21and a Chinaman.

00:50:40When it comes,

00:50:41it won't come from the sky.

00:50:43Oh, sag up.

00:50:44Cold?

00:50:45I'm on fire.

00:50:46Night's worth more to me

00:50:47than money.

00:50:48Yours may be,

00:50:49mine isn't.

00:50:50Shall we walk

00:50:51to the station together?

00:50:52No, no,

00:50:53you go ahead.

00:51:12She's inside.

00:51:13They left her inside.

00:51:20They left her inside.

00:51:45They left her inside.

00:51:46They left her inside.

00:51:56you came in the nick of time get her home don't let her out of your sight

00:52:20speaking as a medical man it is extremely dangerous to run at your age and with your wit

00:52:39i must apologize for bursting in like this mr holmes i'm dr watson i don't know when mr holmes will

00:52:46be

00:52:46back please

00:52:47come in

00:53:27sit down

00:53:35cigarette

00:53:49any luck

00:53:51too bad

00:53:54i have here the securities easily negotiable for a million pounds

00:54:01the china manar yet is devoted to his mistress

00:54:06doubtless a generous present will satisfy him on account of homes i cannot impress upon you too

00:54:11sufficiently the necessity for speed everything must be finished tomorrow night in the grange

00:54:17i will make all the arrangements

00:54:24you've got to help me mr holmes if you don't i'm a doom man not ten minutes ago the tent

00:54:30was made on my

00:54:31life you see i live in ebony street i was on my way there i was about across the road

00:54:35and some instinct

00:54:37it made me leap back and as i did a car driven with terrific speed and coming on the wrong

00:54:42side of the

00:54:42road whizzed by me how i escaped was a miracle did you find a chance of the occupant of the

00:54:49car yes as

00:54:50it flashed by me i caught a glimpse of the driver a black bearded man is there anyone who would

00:54:55benefit

00:54:55by your death yes four persons you see mr holmes there's a in estate to be settled up

00:55:03and if i should go out well they get my share is any one of them capable of committing a

00:55:10crime yes

00:55:12three of them how much is your share this state 200 000 pounds naturally you would wish to live to

00:55:20enjoy it when were you in china lars i was never in china come come sir in the tattooing above

00:55:29the right

00:55:31wrist well that that was done in england you must be mistaken that particular yellow is to be found

00:55:37only in china what made you come to me well you see mr ohms i well i heard of your

00:55:46reputation how did

00:55:47you know my dress aren't you here in answer to my advertisement were you not returning from limehouse

00:55:57are you not a member of the scarlet ring is it not a fact that three of your members are

00:56:01met with

00:56:02very sudden ends and you're terrified lest their fate before you why you must be the devil himself

00:56:08answer me yes mr holmes but i'm helpless i'm up against some power that no precaution can govern against

00:56:19go straight home and lock yourself in your house but it's very old and easily broken into you

00:56:24a cellar wrong proof hide there on second thought we'll see what we have restrained take a revolver

00:56:31watson mr rose do you think there's any hope obey my instructions implicitly and i can promise you

00:56:37almost a chance tomorrow leave town you see mr rose i had intended that you see i know a little

00:56:45place in

00:56:45the country that is secluded miles away from any place it belongs to the widow of an acquaintance of

00:56:50the lady is an oriental in asiatic as a matter of fact she's chinese mrs pike when you arrive at

00:56:58the

00:56:59grange near chouverness you'll probably be given the room next to the ladies

00:57:06you'll find a door connecting the two rooms keep it locked arrive there neither before nor later than nine

00:57:14the clock on your arrival pretend ahead pretend one oh mr holmes go straight to your room if you value

00:57:23your life you'll open the door baker they got him too

00:57:45you

00:57:57why dear says he for me and that's the last i seed of him a regular query with his money

00:58:04same as i say

00:58:06he must have been a pickle when he was a lad dolly ran all the way to fetch dr smallwood

00:58:13and she and

00:58:14smallwood now burst a blood vessel trying to get to him and when they found him he wasn't there

00:58:22and there are you one of them ever set eyes on him again same as i say company

00:58:29evening gentlemen evening i think it would make way for the gents

00:58:33good evening good evening good evening good evening take anything to drink wouldn't come amiss

00:58:39scotch and splash scotch and splash how did you know sir thank you sir give me your orders

00:59:13gentlemen

00:59:15gentlemen round these airports this friend of mine belongs to the medical

00:59:18profession a patient of his escape no gentleman of any dangerous character

00:59:23that's the reason for all these water and I'm gentlemen we're in a cake

00:59:28stoop submit they get in the valley you've seen him have I seen him yes sir

00:59:33the dolly at the Grange seen him and Dr. Smallwood ought to see him but he never

00:59:37set eyes on him as sure as I'm standing here sir he sat right there it was the

00:59:43night before yesterday doctor we're on the right set say when when he's your

00:59:54very good elf thank you very kindly sir pay the bill once and take care of this

01:00:07gentleman come along what do you have well I'm here hoping that we get him who

01:00:12catch my buttons if I know my mind has never been in such a fog it's time to

01:00:21leave Gregson should be there by now we'll have the grain so well surrounded a cat

01:00:25I couldn't get through without being seen come along men

01:00:36Mr. Holmes something terrible has happened Miss Forrester has disappeared disappeared but I told

01:00:41you to guard her but I couldn't understand your telegram telegram what telegram instructed me to meet

01:00:46you at Dover are you mad I don't know I'm almost insane with worry go on well I arrived at

01:00:51Dover and

01:00:52suspected it was a hoax I turned around immediately fortunately I have a racing car arriving there I

01:00:57went straight to Eileen's house is she gone I am a torment she left in the early afternoon with a

01:01:02strange woman a Chinese woman yes I called you but you left when I gave my name to your housekeeper

01:01:08she told me what I could locate you oh Mr. Holmes what could have happened or what could she be

01:01:12come this way there's not a moment to lose

01:01:16Mr. Holmes is late are you sure you're not mistaken I had written instructions to bring you here you saw

01:01:30them

01:01:33perhaps the fog I certainly be here it's not tonight then tomorrow morning who's there

01:01:42strange I seldom

01:01:53stop

01:01:56you open the door and I'll choke the light by the end Mr. Wilson have you lost your reason tell

01:02:02if he opens that door he'll never lift over another

01:02:04I'll keep you up to the end of the night

01:02:07go to the end of the night

01:02:16who is it telegraph boy

01:02:25Telegraph for Mr. Forrester.

01:02:26I'll give it to her.

01:02:52Good news?

01:03:00Excuse me.

01:03:01What is it?

01:03:04What does it mean?

01:03:08Here, I'm going to bed.

01:03:11Miss Forrester, when you go to your room, lock your door.

01:03:18And keep it locked.

01:03:24What's the matter?

01:03:26I'm rather chilly.

01:03:30Who's that?

01:03:31It's me, sir.

01:03:33Did you deliver the telegram?

01:03:35Yes, sir.

01:03:35To Miss Forrester herself?

01:03:36I give it to one lady to give to the other, sir.

01:03:38Thank you. Good night.

01:03:39Good night, sir.

01:03:41Don't let me go to her.

01:03:42Wait.

01:03:43What?

01:03:44I'll never do it again.

01:03:45What?

01:03:46Stand about all night without a flask.

01:03:50Look, Holmes.

01:03:51Over there.

01:03:54Drop your gun.

01:03:55Well, Inspector?

01:03:57I've checked up on all points.

01:03:58No one could have slipped through.

01:04:02Good night, my dear.

01:04:04My bedroom is just across the corridor.

01:04:06If you should walk before anything, don't hesitate to call me.

01:04:19Good night.

01:04:21Good night.

01:04:23Good night.

01:04:25Good night.

01:04:42Mr. Wilson, are you in bed?

01:04:45Yes.

01:04:46Yes.

01:04:46Sorry.

01:04:47Good night.

01:04:48Good night.

01:04:56Who's that?

01:04:57Jackson.

01:04:58He's here.

01:04:59Came by boat.

01:05:00When?

01:05:01Fifteen minutes ago.

01:05:02Why didn't you let me know sooner?

01:05:03It's this fog.

01:05:04Our men lost their bearings.

01:05:06Watch the front of the house.

01:05:07Come.

01:05:08Come.

01:05:08All right, you stay here.

01:05:09Thank you, sir.

01:05:30I thought you would never come.

01:05:33To this gossip park.

01:05:35Where's the girl?

01:05:36At the end of the corridor.

01:05:38Good.

01:05:39We'll see.

01:05:40He's locked his door.

01:05:42Came out.

01:05:43Offering any inducement.

01:05:50It's in the house.

01:05:58OOF.

01:06:08OOF.

01:06:14Mr. Wilson, quick.

01:06:16Miss Foster.

01:06:17Something terrible is happening.

01:06:52My darling, are you all right?

01:06:55Help!

01:06:56Murder!

01:06:57Help!

01:07:00Break it down.

01:07:04Help!

01:07:10Hold!

01:07:11Hold!

01:07:12Hold!

01:07:13Are you all right?

01:07:14Quite all right.

01:07:15Thank you, Watson.

01:07:17Take them downstairs.

01:07:44As I suspected.

01:07:47Captain Pike.

01:07:52You were charged with the murders of James Murphy, Malcolm Dearing, and William Baker.

01:07:58And this woman?

01:07:59As an accomplice.

01:08:01Take them away.

01:08:10I saw him killed.

01:08:12You saw him pretend to be killed.

01:08:14It was he who attacked you.

01:08:16He was shot.

01:08:18No shot broke that window.

01:08:20He broke it himself.

01:08:22But the blood.

01:08:23Animal blood.

01:08:24On a sponge.

01:08:26Mary-Due, of course, was in on it.

01:08:28Mr. Holmes!

01:08:29There's a second man outside.

01:08:30Came the car.

01:08:32I thought it might do it to detain him.

01:08:34Bring him in.

01:08:42Well, well, well, well, Mr. Holmes.

01:08:45This is indeed a surprise.

01:08:47What are you doing here?

01:08:48Well, surely a man has a right to visit his own house.

01:08:51I own the mortgage on this place.

01:08:53I've invited some friends down for the weekend to discuss some business.

01:08:57It won't do, Mary-Due.

01:08:58Arrest him.

01:09:00Well, this is rather a high-handed procedure.

01:09:02What are the charges, Holmes?

01:09:04The greatest possible.

01:09:07That of being accessory to the murders of James Murphy, Malcolm Deering, and William Baker.

01:09:12And with the attempted murder of Jabez Wilson and Miss Eileen Forrester.

01:09:17Rather a tall indictment.

01:09:18I think you'd better have that bracelet.

01:09:20May I help you?

01:09:22I've more than enough.

01:09:24Then who can tell?

01:09:26I say who can tell?

01:09:32Mr. Holmes made promotion this day.

01:09:34I'm very grateful to you, Mr. Holmes.

01:09:36But how you did it beats me.

01:09:38Simple enough.

01:09:40Simple.

01:09:41Simple?

01:09:43By the examination of the footsteps in the garden of Mr. Deering's house,

01:09:47I'm probably certain of the murderer's description.

01:09:49You'll remember the ring.

01:09:51There was no mark to indicate that it had remained on that finger for a period of six years,

01:09:55as stated by his mistress.

01:09:57His wife, you.

01:09:58Mistress Watson.

01:10:00Mistress.

01:10:01Well, you ought to know.

01:10:03And the scarlet ring?

01:10:04Perhaps you will remember the disappearance of the Mandarin's gems in China some years ago.

01:10:09Perfectly.

01:10:10To realize on gems of international repute would be a ticklish matter?

01:10:14Very.

01:10:14That'd have to be broken up piece by piece and then disposed of carefully and slowly.

01:10:17Exactly.

01:10:19The scarlet ring was formed by the instigators of the original crime to protect the receiving end.

01:10:24And what was Pike's motive?

01:10:26Green.

01:10:26The last survivor would become the recipient of the entire booting.

01:10:30I think it would be found that Pike was the original ringleader.

01:10:34But Mr. Wilson could furnish us with an answer to that.

01:10:37Not one word.

01:10:43We shall never forget you, Mr. Holmes.

01:10:45Rather not, sir.

01:10:46You must invite me to the wedding.

01:10:48Perhaps you'll give me a wedding.

01:10:49I appreciate the compliment, but I never give a lady a wedding.

01:10:52Except I'm professional.

01:10:54Come, Doctor.

01:10:56They'll send you when they need you.

01:11:18I'll send you when they need you.

A Study in Scarlet (1933) – Holmes vs Scarlet Ring Murders

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