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Holmes investigates murders connected to cheap music boxes made in Dartmoor Prison, which play variations of "The Swagman".
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00:01:18Dartmoor Prison, isolated from the outside world by walls of granite.
00:01:36They say you could get out of here by merely telling what you know.
00:01:41You may or may not be another Scotland Yard bloke, but I'll give you the same answer I gave the
00:01:48others.
00:01:50I still have two years, eight months, and six days left in which to make musical boxes.
00:01:58That'll be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.
00:02:03And I intend to sell them.
00:02:11Move along.
00:02:14Now we come to the next object on our list, or I should say objects, because there are three of
00:02:19them.
00:02:20Now, ladies and gentlemen, these can be bought together or separately.
00:02:25Now, these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning, and I didn't intend to put them on the auction
00:02:29block until later, but I'm going to sell them now.
00:02:31Now, so, good friends, as our old pal Mark Antony used to say, lend me your ears.
00:02:38And what do you hear?
00:02:41Right.
00:02:42The beautiful tinkle-tinkle of a musical box.
00:02:46What a lovely trinket.
00:02:48What a beautiful gift.
00:02:49Created unmade by loving hands.
00:02:51A thing of beauty and utility.
00:02:54I was going to start with five pounds.
00:02:57It's a bargain, five pounds.
00:03:00Do I see any hands?
00:03:02If there's a connoisseur in the house, we'll go, three pounds for it.
00:03:07Two pounds.
00:03:09One pound.
00:03:12Ten shillings.
00:03:15Ten.
00:03:16Thank you, sir.
00:03:17Ladies and gentlemen, ten shillings is offered for a musical box you couldn't buy anywhere in London for less than
00:03:22five pounds.
00:03:24It'll be stealing to let it go for ten shillings, like taking milk from a baby.
00:03:28All right, we're selling for ten shillings.
00:03:29Ten shillings, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered.
00:03:32Can anybody give me one pound?
00:03:33Can anybody give me one pound?
00:03:35I won't give me a pound.
00:03:37A pound, one pound is offered, one pound is offered, ladies and gentlemen, one pound is offered against you, sir.
00:03:41Have you got it, two pounds?
00:03:42Have you got it, two pounds, sir?
00:03:45Two pounds.
00:03:45Two pounds is offered.
00:03:46Two pounds is offered, one once, twice, third in the last call.
00:03:51Sold to the gentleman for two pounds.
00:03:54Sorry, my dear.
00:03:56Now, ladies and gentlemen, comes the opportunity to purchase an exact duplicate of the beautiful little musical box just bought
00:04:03by this gentleman for the ridiculous low price of two pounds.
00:04:06It's exactly the same.
00:04:07Exactly the same.
00:04:08Maybe the same hands.
00:04:10You hear that?
00:04:11Isn't that lovely?
00:04:12That tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
00:04:14Sounds like Bob Elst to me, you know, with little angels pulling on the ropes, eh?
00:04:17We'll give you two pounds for it.
00:04:19Who's starting with two pounds?
00:04:20Will anybody start with two pounds?
00:04:22How come, comrades and gentlemen?
00:04:25You know, from your enthusiasm, we might all be in Scotland instead of London.
00:04:28Please buy it for me, Daddy.
00:04:29Two pounds, certainly not.
00:04:31We all might be in Scotland.
00:04:33Besides, I don't like his manner.
00:04:35One pound, ten shillings.
00:04:36One pound.
00:04:37One pound is asked.
00:04:39One pound.
00:04:39One pound is offered.
00:04:40One pound is offered.
00:04:41Going one pound.
00:04:41Any advance?
00:04:42Going once.
00:04:43Going twice.
00:04:44The third in the last call.
00:04:47Sold to the lady for one pound.
00:04:49Smart bidding, my dear.
00:04:52We come to the third and last of these beautiful little musical boxes.
00:04:56Exactly the same.
00:04:57Tinkle, tinkle.
00:04:58Isn't that lovely?
00:04:59Ladies and gentlemen, I don't bring you here to Gullion and Swindle.
00:05:02This is the exact replica of those two I just sold before.
00:05:13We're closed.
00:05:14But this is extremely important.
00:05:18Come in, sir.
00:05:19Come in.
00:05:20I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain
00:05:25articles which I was rather anxious to obtain.
00:05:28Oh, perhaps they weren't sold, sir.
00:05:29We are carrying several things over.
00:05:32What might the articles be, sir?
00:05:34Uh, three identical musical boxes about, uh, so large.
00:05:38Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.
00:05:40Fitty you weren't here to bid on them.
00:05:42They didn't bring anything like the real value.
00:05:44I'm most anxious to obtain them.
00:05:46I wonder if your records would show who the purchasers were.
00:05:50Oh, we don't usually give out that information, sir.
00:05:53For certain, shall we say, uh, sentimental reasons, I'm most anxious to get in touch with
00:05:58the purchasers.
00:05:59I'd be willing to pay, shall we say, uh, five pounds.
00:06:04Well, for certain sentimental reasons, sir, we'd be very happy to oblige.
00:06:08Alfred, today's sales.
00:06:10The three musical boxes.
00:06:11The musical boxes, oh.
00:06:12Ah, here we are.
00:06:14The first purchase for two pounds from Mr. Julian Emery, 52, Portman Square.
00:06:18Write this address down, Alfred.
00:06:19Yes, sir.
00:06:20Second didn't leave any name.
00:06:22Oh, how unfortunate.
00:06:23I think she's a dealer.
00:06:24You see, they don't like us to know where the things are going.
00:06:26On account of the profits.
00:06:28You say the, uh, second purchaser was a woman.
00:06:32Can you, uh, give me a description of her?
00:06:34Oh, she was a young woman.
00:06:35Fairly tall, slender.
00:06:37Uh, had a light complexion and dark hair and...
00:06:40And she was wearing a...
00:06:42A gray suit, don't you remember?
00:06:43That's right.
00:06:44She probably runs a gift shop.
00:06:46Uh, she paid, uh, one pound.
00:06:49You say she, uh, comes here fairly frequently?
00:06:52No, I didn't say so.
00:06:54But she does, sir.
00:06:56Like as not, she'll come in on Thursday.
00:06:57We have sales on Mondays and Thursdays.
00:07:00Ah.
00:07:01And the, uh, third box?
00:07:02The third?
00:07:03Oh, uh, Mr. William Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Way.
00:07:07For ten shillings.
00:07:09Hmm.
00:07:09Quite a drop from two pounds.
00:07:11Mr. Kilgore was a Scotchman.
00:07:13Oh.
00:07:14Well, thank you.
00:07:15You've, uh, been most helpful.
00:07:17Oh.
00:07:18Thank you, sir.
00:07:19And any time you're passing, dropping,
00:07:21we always have lovely things for sale.
00:07:23How can't you?
00:07:24Uh, thank you.
00:07:25I'll, uh, be back Thursday.
00:07:34The message reached us too late.
00:07:38Musical boxes are being sold.
00:07:42Well, let's get out of here.
00:07:46Ah.
00:07:50Someday you'll go too far.
00:07:56Reaching for a star, you fool.
00:07:59Yet a fool may touch a star, Colonel Cavanaugh.
00:08:02If he but reach high enough,
00:08:04but not possess it as you would.
00:08:08The musical boxes, they've been sold.
00:08:11What a pity for you, my dear Colonel.
00:08:13Is it my fault that the message reached us only an hour ago?
00:08:16Is it my fault that they were sold?
00:08:19She can't hold me responsible for that.
00:08:22Hope for your sake, you're right.
00:08:55I will call upon you tonight at a quarter to eight
00:08:58a gentleman who desires to consult you
00:09:00upon a matter of the very deepest moment.
00:09:03Remember that letter, Holmes?
00:09:05It was written over two years ago.
00:09:07An interesting case.
00:09:09Devilously interesting.
00:09:11Hmm.
00:09:11Irene Adler.
00:09:13What a striking-looking woman
00:09:15from the brief glance I had of her.
00:09:16Seems only yesterday.
00:09:18What charm.
00:09:19Hmm.
00:09:20What poise.
00:09:21And what a mind.
00:09:23Sharp enough and brilliant enough
00:09:24to outwit the great Sherlock Holmes himself.
00:09:28I take it the new issue of the Strand Magazine is out,
00:09:31containing another of your slightly lurid tales.
00:09:34It is indeed.
00:09:35And what do you call this one?
00:09:36I call it A Scandal in Bohemia.
00:09:39Not a bad title, eh?
00:09:40Hmm.
00:09:41If you must record my exploits,
00:09:44I do wish you'd put less emphasis on the melodramatic
00:09:47and more on the intellectual issues involved.
00:09:50More on the intellectual...
00:09:51What do you mean by that?
00:09:52Well, I do hope you've given, uh,
00:09:55the woman a soul.
00:09:57She had one, you know.
00:09:58By the woman,
00:10:00I suppose you mean Irene Adler.
00:10:02Yes.
00:10:04I shall always remember her
00:10:07as the woman.
00:10:08I shall never remember her as the woman.
00:10:17Sorry.
00:10:22Hey, Stinky!
00:10:24That's it, old boy.
00:10:25How are you?
00:10:25How are you, old boy?
00:10:26I haven't seen you for years.
00:10:27I want you to meet my old friend Sherlock Holmes.
00:10:29Holmes is the Stinky.
00:10:31In other words, uh, uh, Julian Emery.
00:10:33How do you do, Mr. Emery?
00:10:35Watson has often spoken of you.
00:10:36Oh, has he?
00:10:37Yes, we were at school together.
00:10:38Yes, more years ago than I care to remember,
00:10:40but you didn't come in here just to remind me of that.
00:10:42No, I just happened to be in the neighborhood
00:10:44and saw your lights burning,
00:10:45so I took the liberty of looking you up.
00:10:48Still writing your mystery stuff?
00:10:49Yes, there's a new one out this week.
00:10:52Good, I never miss them.
00:10:53Oh, good, thanks.
00:10:54I say that bandage makes you look very interesting.
00:10:57Still poking your nose into other people's business as usual?
00:11:00Who hit you?
00:11:01I haven't a foggy's notion.
00:11:02Somebody knocked me on the head in my own living room
00:11:04and then proceeded to commit the most idiotic burglary you ever heard of.
00:11:08The fellow must have been barmy as a coot.
00:11:10Barmy?
00:11:10Why?
00:11:11Come sit down, old boy.
00:11:13Would you...
00:11:13Do you like a cup of tea?
00:11:15Huh?
00:11:16Oh, all right.
00:11:17I'll go and tell Mrs. Hudson about it.
00:11:20Yeah.
00:11:22Why do you say the robbery was idiotic, Mr. Emery?
00:11:25Oh, simply from the fact that with about 5,000 pounds worth of musical boxes in my living room,
00:11:30the thief, who I caught in the act,
00:11:32made off with one that isn't even worth five pounds.
00:11:34I gather you're a collector of musical boxes.
00:11:37Yes, I am indeed.
00:11:38Some of them are very beautiful,
00:11:39but not the one that was stolen.
00:11:41The thief evidently grabbed the first thing that came to his hand
00:11:43when he heard me coming into the room.
00:11:46Still, it's rather odd, isn't it,
00:11:47that having disposed of you,
00:11:48he didn't pick up something more valuable.
00:11:51Was there anything unusual about the stolen box?
00:11:54No, nothing at all.
00:11:56No, I picked it up in the south of France,
00:11:58oh, several years ago.
00:12:00You say you have many valuable music boxes,
00:12:02and yet the thief made off with one that isn't worth five pounds.
00:12:06Sounds like rather an intriguing little problem.
00:12:08That's where I take it that
00:12:09he was just an ordinary petty thief and didn't know the value.
00:12:12That is a possible explanation,
00:12:13and yet I venture to say
00:12:15that the average petty thief has a more extensive knowledge
00:12:17of the value of object dar than the average collector.
00:12:20Well, anyway, that's got in the odds theory.
00:12:22They didn't get very excited about it.
00:12:24That's consistent, anyway.
00:12:26I wonder if I might see your collection, Mr. Emery.
00:12:29Oh, of course you could, yes.
00:12:31Nothing a collector likes more than showing off his trophies.
00:12:34When will it suit you?
00:12:35No time like the present.
00:12:36Good!
00:12:37My place is just round in Portman Square.
00:12:39Shall we?
00:12:40Yes, right.
00:12:45Hello?
00:12:46Where are you going?
00:12:47Stinky hasn't had his tea yet.
00:12:48Oh, I'm sorry.
00:12:49We're going round to my place,
00:12:51where I'm going to give you something better than tea.
00:12:55Now, this one was made for the Royal the 15th,
00:12:57and is one of the very few still in existence from that period,
00:13:00and a particularly fine specimen's death.
00:13:06Charming, isn't it?
00:13:07Quite.
00:13:10They all sound to me like a lot of mice running about on a tin roof.
00:13:14I'm afraid you have no ear for music, Watson.
00:13:16Give me a good old band playing a rousing march.
00:13:19You have all your silly little tweet-tweets.
00:13:28No room.
00:13:32This is me.
00:13:43Stupid thing.
00:13:44Singing rabbit.
00:13:47What would you say offhand is the value of a box like that, Mr. Emery?
00:13:50Well, it's hard to say offhand,
00:13:51but I think we'll bring about five or six hundred pounds a day.
00:13:54It's the gem of my collection.
00:13:56Yet a thief who steals an oddity like a musical box
00:13:58prices up one worth five hundred pounds
00:14:00for one of almost no value at all.
00:14:03Odd.
00:14:04Very odd.
00:14:06What worth a stolen box like, Mr. Emery?
00:14:08Oh, just a plain wooden box about so big.
00:14:11As a matter of fact, I have one over here.
00:14:13I'm almost exactly like it.
00:14:15I picked this up yesterday at an auction room in Knightsbridge.
00:14:19Paid only two pounds for it.
00:14:21Of course, I wouldn't, in the ordinary way,
00:14:22add one like this to my collection,
00:14:23but the tune intrigued me.
00:14:27I'd never heard it before.
00:14:46You have a remarkable ear for music, Holmes.
00:14:48Rather an unusual melody.
00:14:50Sit down.
00:14:50Thanks.
00:14:53You, uh, say you bought that box at an auction sale yesterday?
00:14:56Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms in Knightsbridge.
00:14:59Run by old, uh, what's his name?
00:15:02Crabtree.
00:15:03That's the man.
00:15:04At what time is the robbery committed?
00:15:06Oh, about, uh, three o'clock this morning.
00:15:08You know, Mr. Emery,
00:15:10that box and the robbery might well be cause and effect,
00:15:12especially since you say that the stolen box
00:15:15outwardly resembles this one a great deal.
00:15:17And, uh, Scotland Yard were not particularly interested, eh?
00:15:21Oh, yes, but I...
00:15:22I wouldn't blame him for that,
00:15:23especially as I told him I was quite unable to describe the thief,
00:15:26except, of course, for the fact that, uh,
00:15:28it was definitely a man.
00:15:29All you remember is that you came in here
00:15:31and someone struck you on the head.
00:15:32Yes, and the next thing I knew,
00:15:33my man was trying to revive me.
00:15:35It might be wise for you to put that box away somewhere
00:15:37and lock it up.
00:15:38Oh, I don't think that's necessary.
00:15:40Besides, everything's insured.
00:15:41Well, at least many further attempts at robbery are made.
00:15:44I'd suggest that you call the police
00:15:47rather than running into any personal danger.
00:15:48Oh, come, Holmes, aren't you being a bit of an alarmist?
00:15:51Fassibly.
00:15:51Oh, I must agree with old Stinky.
00:15:53Seems to me you are making rather a mountain out of the Moleskier.
00:15:57Moleskier is the word, old boy,
00:15:58and it's time you were in bed.
00:16:00Thanks so much for letting us see your place.
00:16:01Well, it's been bad meeting you.
00:16:05Holmes, I can't understand why you were so...
00:16:07mysterious.
00:16:08Seems to me the petty thief explanation was the only sensible one.
00:16:11Really?
00:16:12I can't see how you can believe it was anything else.
00:16:14I didn't say I believed it to be anything else.
00:16:16The petty thief theory is the obvious one, I grant you.
00:16:18However, it's often a mistake to accept something as true
00:16:20merely because it's obvious.
00:16:23The truth is only arrived at
00:16:25by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.
00:16:29We are not able to do that in this case
00:16:31without further data.
00:16:33Rubbish.
00:16:33You're pulling my leg.
00:16:35You're trying to turn a
00:16:36a tuppany hapenny robbery
00:16:38into an international plot.
00:16:40No, I'm not.
00:16:40I just hope that your friend Stinky
00:16:42is a little more cautious in the future.
00:16:44Just in case.
00:16:44No, I'm not.
00:17:09Hello? Yes?
00:17:12Julian Emmerich here.
00:17:14Who?
00:17:17Why, of course I remember you, Mrs. Courtney.
00:17:21Yes, you're the one bright spot at their appodingly dull affair of Lady Sandler's.
00:17:27Huh?
00:17:28Of course it isn't too late to come round.
00:17:30Yes, I shall be delighted to give you a drink.
00:17:34I tell you what, come straight up and I'll leave the door unlocked.
00:17:36Yes.
00:17:38Right, well, fifteen minutes?
00:17:40Good.
00:17:42I shall be counting each moan.
00:17:44No, no, no, I mean that really.
00:17:47Right, goodbye.
00:17:50Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-da-da.
00:18:08Boo!
00:18:09Oh, you startled me.
00:18:11Did I?
00:18:12Yes.
00:18:13Must be the pixie in me.
00:18:14I know I shouldn't have called you so late.
00:18:17But I was at a party just around the corner
00:18:19and I remembered your invitation to see your collection of musical boxes.
00:18:23My dear Mrs. Courtney, the pleasure is all the greater for being so unexpected.
00:18:27My friends call me Hilda.
00:18:29Thanks. Mine call me Stinky.
00:18:31Thank you, how quaint.
00:18:33Oh, what a perfectly wonderful collection of musical boxes.
00:18:36You know, when you told me you had a collection, I had no idea it was so attractive.
00:18:40Yes.
00:18:40They appeal to the ear as well as to the eye.
00:18:45Oh, what a plain little one.
00:18:48Mine looks just like a country cousin amid all this grandeur.
00:18:51No, no, no, no.
00:18:52You mustn't underestimate the country cousin.
00:18:54I only last night a burglar broke in here
00:18:56and with all these to choose from went off with one very much like it.
00:18:59Really?
00:18:59Yes, I don't mind the loss of the box so much.
00:19:01But I do resent this crack on the skull.
00:19:03But it makes you look so interesting.
00:19:05Oh, do you think so?
00:19:06Uh-huh.
00:19:07It's funny that's what old Fatso said.
00:19:09Fatso?
00:19:09I mean, uh, Dr. Watson.
00:19:11He was here this evening with a friend, a Mr. Holmes.
00:19:14He's interested in my collection too.
00:19:16Sherlock Holmes?
00:19:17Yes.
00:19:18Do you know him?
00:19:19I've heard of him.
00:19:20Yes, he seems to think I'm in some sort of, uh, danger.
00:19:24What a haunting tune.
00:19:25It takes me right back to my childhood.
00:19:27Really?
00:19:28Do you know, it's odd that you should be interested in that particular musical box.
00:19:31Odd?
00:19:32Why?
00:19:32Because Mr. Holmes is also interested in it.
00:19:34He may have been more interested in the tune than in the box.
00:19:38I get you, that's right.
00:19:39I remember now.
00:19:40He whistled it note for note, having heard it only once.
00:19:43Really?
00:19:44He must be a remarkable man.
00:19:46A bit of an alarmist if you ask me.
00:19:49Don't you believe in warnings?
00:19:50Of course not.
00:19:52Who would want a box like that?
00:19:54I would.
00:19:55You're not serious.
00:19:56Oh, but I am.
00:19:58Well, you, you put me in a very awkward position.
00:20:01I'm a collector, you know.
00:20:02And the collector buys, but never sells.
00:20:05But, if the price were high enough.
00:20:08The price has nothing to do with it.
00:20:10It's the principle of the thing.
00:20:14Yes, well, we haven't had our drink.
00:20:16No, thanks.
00:20:17I must be getting along.
00:20:20Must you, really?
00:20:21I'm afraid so.
00:20:24You're not walking out on me, are you?
00:20:27My reputation.
00:20:29Stinky.
00:20:31I say, you know, you are an attractive woman.
00:20:34Thanks.
00:20:42You fool.
00:20:43I told you to wait outside.
00:20:45What did you have to kill him for?
00:20:47All I had to do was walk out with this.
00:20:49He held you in his arms.
00:20:50Don't touch him.
00:20:52Don't touch anything.
00:20:53Now, get out.
00:20:55I'm sorry.
00:20:56You're sorry?
00:20:57What about me?
00:20:58This is murder.
00:21:00What about Scotland Yard?
00:21:02What about Sherlock Holmes?
00:21:04Now get out.
00:21:33Did you get it?
00:21:37Good.
00:21:38Did you have any trouble with him?
00:21:42Just a matter of murder.
00:21:47Ah, Mr. Holmes.
00:21:49Hopkins.
00:21:50Thanks for coming so promptly.
00:21:51Inspector Mustard suggested that I call through to you.
00:21:55Mr. Emery was the client of Mr. Holmes, Inspector.
00:21:57Indeed.
00:21:58You didn't mention that when I telephoned you, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:00Well, not exactly a client, Inspector.
00:22:02Dodgen-Thompson?
00:22:03He was killed between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock this morning, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:09Must have been someone he knew.
00:22:11Someone of whom he had no suspicion.
00:22:13Poor old Stinky.
00:22:15It's all my fault.
00:22:16I should have prevented this.
00:22:18Well, there's no time to start talking about that now, Doctor.
00:22:21Apparently it's gone.
00:22:23That's the second attempt on the musical box that Emery bought at the auction sale.
00:22:27And this time it was successful.
00:22:29But that box was only worth two pounds.
00:22:30It was worth a man's life, Watson.
00:22:32I think we'd better pay a visit to Gaylord's auction room and that fellow Crabtree.
00:22:36Inspector, may I suggest that you make a complete search of this flat for a small, plain, musical box about
00:22:42that size.
00:22:44Come on, Watson.
00:22:46You say the first box went to Mr. Julian Emery.
00:22:49The second to Mr. Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Way.
00:22:53And the third to the unidentified young lady who presumably has a shop and lives near Golders Green.
00:22:57That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:58Isn't it rather strange, Mr. Crabtree, that you should have had three identical musical boxes all playing the same tune?
00:23:04Where'd they come from?
00:23:05Dartmoor Prison.
00:23:14Dartmoor?
00:23:14Do you happen to notice if anyone showed any particular interest during the auction in the purchasers of these three
00:23:20boxes?
00:23:23Oh, come on, Mr. Crabtree.
00:23:24This is very literally a matter of life and death.
00:23:27Well, since you put it that way, Mr. Holmes, there was a gentleman who came in here about an hour
00:23:31after closing time.
00:23:32I mean, he was in an awful state, he was.
00:23:35He gave me five pounds to tell him where the boxes had gone to.
00:23:38He said they had a sentimental value for him, sir.
00:23:40An expensive sentiment.
00:23:41Can you describe him?
00:23:43He was tall, distinguished looking, and he had grey hair and a moustache.
00:23:46Oh, he was quite a gentleman, sir.
00:23:47Now, what was his reaction when you were unable to supply him with the address of the young lady who
00:23:52owned the shop?
00:23:53I told him the young lady usually come back on Thursday. He said he'd come back on Thursday. Now, that's
00:23:57tomorrow.
00:23:58Thank you, Mr. Crabtree. You've been very helpful. Thank you.
00:24:00Come along, Watson.
00:24:02Where are we going now, Holmes?
00:24:03To the home of Mr. Kilgore. The men have bought the third box.
00:24:12Good hang it all, Holmes. How do you know those other two musical boxes are of any importance?
00:24:17I don't, but I certainly have no intention of waiting until the owners are murdered to find out.
00:24:22No one at home.
00:24:24I hope that's the explanation.
00:24:26Well, have a look through this window.
00:24:33It doesn't seem to be anyone there.
00:24:37The place seems deserted, as far as I can see.
00:24:41Yes?
00:24:42Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore at home?
00:24:43No.
00:24:44When do you expect them?
00:24:45Oh, in an hour or so.
00:24:47There's no use your hanging about.
00:24:49They don't buy nothing from peddlers.
00:24:50Peddlers?
00:24:51My good woman.
00:24:52This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:24:54Sherlock Holmes?
00:24:55Oh, go on.
00:24:56Do you mind if we come in and wait?
00:24:57My business is rather urgent.
00:24:59Well, I've got to go out and do my shopping.
00:25:02And I don't know if Mrs. Kilgore like any stranger's nosing about.
00:25:06Quite all right, I assure you.
00:25:07Well, I've got to be off.
00:25:09It's a wait in the parlour.
00:25:10And no smoking, either.
00:25:12Mrs. Kilgore says it smells up the house.
00:25:17Funny old girl at home.
00:25:18Hmm.
00:25:37Park Lane.
00:25:38Park Lane?
00:25:39And what would the likes of you be doing in Park Lane?
00:25:41Now, don't worry about the fair ducky.
00:25:43If you know how to get the Park Lane open.
00:25:51You know, Holmes, I've been thinking.
00:25:53There must have been something hidden in that box of old stinkers.
00:25:57Stolen jewellery, possibly.
00:26:01What's up, Holmes?
00:26:02Listen.
00:26:05What, just the steam in the water pipes?
00:26:14Watson!
00:26:17Great Scott!
00:26:19Come on, Holmes.
00:26:21Get under the chair here.
00:26:25It's all right, my dear.
00:26:27There, there, there.
00:26:28Now, don't worry.
00:26:31It's all over.
00:26:33There you are, dear.
00:26:34Don't cry any more.
00:26:35Of course.
00:26:35She tied me up and shut me in the cupboard.
00:26:38I know.
00:26:39I know.
00:26:39She won't come back.
00:26:41Did you show her your new musical box?
00:26:44Yes.
00:26:44She said she wanted to hear it play.
00:26:46And as soon as I showed it to her, she grabbed all of it.
00:26:49I know, I know.
00:26:50Now, don't worry nobody.
00:26:51We'll buy you a new musical box.
00:26:52Yes, my dear.
00:26:53The best one in London.
00:26:55Watson.
00:26:57Oh, what a fool.
00:26:58What a fool I've been.
00:26:59What do you mean, Holmes?
00:27:00She took the musical box out of this house in that market basket.
00:27:03Right under our very noses.
00:27:05Why could the Kilgore charwoman want to take the music box?
00:27:08She isn't the Kilgore charwoman.
00:27:09She's a consummate actress.
00:27:11An extremely clever, unscrupulous woman who will stop at nothing.
00:27:14Take care of the char, will you, Wolf.
00:27:15I'll learn till her, till her parents get back.
00:27:17Explain everything to them.
00:27:18Of course I will.
00:27:19But, Holmes, where are you going?
00:27:21Somewhere, somehow.
00:27:23I must get to the young lady who bought that third musical box before our opponents find her.
00:27:27I only hope that I won't be too late.
00:27:32Oh, no.
00:27:34No, no.
00:27:35No, no, no.
00:27:35Darling, you mustn't cry anymore.
00:27:38Cheer up.
00:27:39Would you like to hear old uncle make a noise like a duck?
00:27:52Oh, sorry?
00:27:55Hmm.
00:28:20And now, ladies and gentlemen, how much am I offered for this beautiful lace Dresden China figurine?
00:28:26A lady of the French court.
00:28:28Now, this is the genuine article.
00:28:31What a beautiful ornament for your mantelpiece.
00:28:34Or you could use it as a centerpiece on the dining room table.
00:28:36Now, will somebody start me for ten pounds?
00:28:38Will somebody start me for ten pounds?
00:28:40Eight pounds.
00:28:42Seven pounds.
00:28:43All right.
00:28:44Five.
00:28:44Five pounds is offered.
00:28:45Five pounds is offered.
00:28:46Five pounds is offered.
00:28:47Five pounds, ten.
00:28:48Five pounds, fifteen.
00:28:49Five pounds, fifteen.
00:28:51Six pounds is offered.
00:28:52Six pounds, six pounds.
00:28:54Going once.
00:28:54Going twice.
00:28:55The third and the last call will be all done.
00:28:57Sold to the lady from Twickenham for six pounds.
00:29:01Next, we have a real museum piece, ladies and gentlemen.
00:29:05A fine 19th century doll.
00:29:07The costume and exact replica of the holiday clothes worn by the Hungarian peasant women.
00:29:12Now, ladies and gentlemen, an article like this would cost you from fifteen to twenty pounds in a West End
00:29:17shop.
00:29:17I'm not going to ask for anything like that.
00:29:19We'll give me two pounds for it.
00:29:21Two pounds.
00:29:21Anybody offer me two pounds?
00:29:23Two pounds for the Hungarian?
00:29:24Two pounds?
00:29:24One pound.
00:29:25What?
00:29:26Anybody give me one pound?
00:29:27Anybody offer me one pound for the doll?
00:29:28One.
00:29:29One pound is offered, ladies and gentlemen.
00:29:30One pound is offered.
00:29:31Now, I'm not going to waste your valuable time or mine in trying to get one half of what this
00:29:36beautiful doll is worth.
00:29:37If the young lady can steal it for one pound, that's her good fortune.
00:29:41That's why it's going once.
00:29:42It's going twice.
00:29:42The third and last call.
00:29:44Anymore?
00:29:45Sold to the young lady for one pound.
00:29:48And now, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to something which may be a great surprise to you,
00:29:52worthy of any collection.
00:29:54The only other one like it is in the British Museum.
00:29:56It's a Ming vase of the Seventh Dynasty.
00:29:59This vase lay in a large collection somewhere outside Rome for over two centuries, I understand.
00:30:06It was as discovered there by the noted antiquarian, Sir Andrew Copleston.
00:30:10Now, some of you may remember Sir Andrew Copleston.
00:30:12Besides being a noted traveling antiquarian, he's also a gentleman rider.
00:30:20A girl with the parcel in her hands.
00:30:22That's her.
00:30:23Are you sure that's the girl?
00:30:25She fits perfectly the auctioneer's description.
00:30:28Follow her, Hamid.
00:30:29Here at the end…
00:30:44You're right!
00:30:52Who are you?
00:30:58Jack, she is behind you, Nancy.
00:30:59MUSIC That's all, Mr. Scott.
00:31:07it's lovely dear and only one pound we can get at least three for it easily i'll go make some
00:31:14tea i could do with a cup right good afternoon good afternoon i'm looking for a birthday gift
00:31:24for a seven-year-old girl what would you suggest we have some lovely dolls now this hungarian i
00:31:29think she has enough dolls already books are always welcome well i'm looking for something a
00:31:33little different well that's rather cute what is it well that's a musical box children always love
00:31:40them and this is an exceptionally nice one it plays many tunes
00:31:51have you any others yes if you'll just step this way i have only two left
00:32:02how nice
00:32:07are you sure this is all you have i'm sorry they're rather hard to find you know that's our entire
00:32:13allotment i did have one other but i sold it earlier this afternoon but it was only a plain
00:32:18wooden one it wouldn't have been a very nice gift for a child really do you happen to know who
00:32:24the
00:32:24purchaser was why yes he left his card just in case anyone should inquire for him
00:32:38how interesting
00:32:42i'm sorry but i'm afraid i'll have to look a bit further
00:32:44thank you thank you anyway uh good afternoon thank you
00:33:18Follow that cab.
00:33:19Here, now, what?
00:33:21Gotland Yard.
00:33:22Hop in.
00:33:30Sherlock Holmes.
00:33:32I might have known.
00:33:33We thought we were the hunters.
00:33:36Instead of which, were they hunted.
00:33:39We've been fools.
00:33:39We played right into his hands.
00:33:42Of course.
00:33:44He's had us followed.
00:33:46Don't look.
00:33:47The man in front of the toy shop.
00:33:52Hummy.
00:33:53Turn sharp right at the next corner and again at the next.
00:34:03No photograph of her, Commissioner.
00:34:05As I expected.
00:34:06She's not a known criminal.
00:34:08But I expect to know if you do find her.
00:34:10After all, she was disguised as a charwoman.
00:34:13Don't worry, old fellow.
00:34:14If I ever see her again, I'll recognize her.
00:34:17Well, it won't be long till we know who they are and from where they operate.
00:34:21Who's covering them?
00:34:22Sergeant Thompson's following them, sir.
00:34:24They won't get away from him.
00:34:25He's a good man.
00:34:26We could have arrested them at Clifford's toy shop if we had any proof.
00:34:29But we know that they killed Emrah.
00:34:31Proof, my dear fellow.
00:34:32We must have proof.
00:34:36We've x-rayed it, sir.
00:34:37There's nothing whatever concealed in the box.
00:34:39We'll have a look at the plates.
00:34:47Hmm.
00:34:49There must be some clue.
00:34:51And it's probably been so obvious that we've all overlooked it.
00:34:54Seems to me we're up against a bunch of lunatics.
00:34:58Not lunatics, my dear fellow.
00:35:00Extremely astute, cold-blooded murderers.
00:35:02What can these little musical boxes have in them so important?
00:35:06Don't forget they were made in Dartmoor Prison.
00:35:08You can smuggle stuff into prison, but not out.
00:35:11Do you want us to break the box apart so to see if there's anything the x-ray hasn't caught?
00:35:15No, not yet.
00:35:17Do you mind if I take it?
00:35:18Certainly.
00:35:18Thanks.
00:35:19Thanks.
00:35:20Thanks.
00:35:22Thanks.
00:35:23Thanks.
00:35:29The governor of Dartmoor Prison informed us, sir, in answer to Mr. Holmes' question,
00:35:33that all three musical boxes were made by the same convict, John Davidson, serving a seven-year term, sir.
00:35:39Davidson?
00:35:40The Bank of England plates.
00:35:41That'll be all.
00:35:42Yes, sir.
00:35:44Now we're getting somewhere.
00:35:46Wait a minute.
00:35:47How did you know about the plates, Mr. Holmes?
00:35:49I'm a student of crime, Inspector.
00:35:51I make it my business to know about such things.
00:35:53And when the name of Davidson was mentioned...
00:35:55Well, who is this fellow Davidson?
00:35:57As long as Mr. Holmes seems to know all about it already, I suppose there's no harm in telling you.
00:36:03Uh, two years ago in London, there occurred a robbery of such tremendous importance,
00:36:09although the stolen articles themselves have no intrinsic value whatsoever,
00:36:13that the Home Secretary was instrumental in seeing that not a word of it appeared in any newspaper.
00:36:17But you never told me anything about this, Holmes?
00:36:20You were away at the time.
00:36:22Articles of no intrinsic value and yet of such importance?
00:36:26I don't understand.
00:36:27Davidson was apprehended within 15 minutes of committing the theft.
00:36:31But by that time, he'd hidden the articles in question and they've yet to be found.
00:36:36Before going further, Dr. Watson, I must inform you that this matter is not to be mentioned outside of this
00:36:41room.
00:36:41Of course not.
00:36:42Do I look like a man who'd gossip?
00:36:44Let's not go into that now, old fellow, shall we?
00:36:47Davidson had been employed for years in a position of extreme trust by the engravings department of the Bank of
00:36:53England.
00:36:53The articles he stole were nothing less than a complete duplicate set of plates for printing five-pound notes.
00:37:00What?
00:37:01The Bank of England's own plates?
00:37:03Precisely.
00:37:04And with those plates, a gang of crooks could flood England with five-pound notes.
00:37:08Not forged, in the usual sense of the word, but notes undetectable from genuine Bank of England notes in any
00:37:14way whatsoever.
00:37:15Good heavens.
00:37:16Any whisper at all might have resulted in enormous damage in shaking public confidence in the treasury.
00:37:21We tried everything after we arrested Davidson.
00:37:24Offered him a shorter sentence if he'd tell us where he'd hidden the plates.
00:37:26Why, we even put in Scotland Yard men with him as cellmates, but no results.
00:37:32Obviously, Davidson is a man of strong character and infinite patience.
00:37:36Yet suddenly he feels impelled to smuggle out the secret of the hiding place of the plates to his confederates.
00:37:42Why?
00:37:43I don't understand, Mr. Holmes.
00:37:46Well, for example, has the Bank of England made any plans to radically change the design of the five-pound
00:37:52note
00:37:53so that in, say, seven years from now, notes made from the stolen plates would be worthless?
00:37:58Confidentially, Mr. Holmes, such a move was discussed.
00:38:01But replacing all the five-pound notes in circulation would be such a Herculean task that nothing's been done about
00:38:07it as yet.
00:38:08I see.
00:38:09Of course, there is another possible explanation.
00:38:11Davidson didn't have much time to find a hiding place before he was captured.
00:38:15He may be afraid that the plates will be accidentally discovered before he's released.
00:38:21Hence his anxiety to communicate their whereabouts to his confederates as soon as possible.
00:38:26I believe you've hit it, Mr. Holmes.
00:38:29I'm sure that the message is contained in this musical box.
00:38:34Or rather, in all three musical boxes, since possession of all three seems to be essential.
00:38:39Our opponents have two-thirds of the puzzle, we have one-third.
00:38:43Well, what are you going to do, Holmes?
00:38:45Try to deduce the message from the one-third that we have.
00:39:17Let's move.
00:39:27It's the same tune as the one played by Emery's musical box.
00:39:33And yet it's different.
00:39:35Sounds the same to me.
00:39:37The tune.
00:39:40Somehow the tune is the key to the mystery.
00:39:45It must be the tune.
00:39:47Otherwise, why use three musical boxes to convey the message?
00:39:51Why not collar boxes or shoe boxes?
00:39:55Yes?
00:39:57Oh.
00:39:58It's for you, Inspector.
00:39:59Oh, thank you, sir.
00:40:01Inspector Hopkins speaking.
00:40:04What?
00:40:07Where?
00:40:10Golder's Green Station reports they've just found Sergeant Thompson's body.
00:40:13From the tire marks on his clothes, he was apparently run over by taxi.
00:40:18What an unfortunate accident.
00:40:20Not an accident, my dear fellow.
00:40:23I'm afraid it's murder.
00:40:26Oh, you know, we know just who you're going to meet.
00:40:32When you're walking down a busy London street.
00:40:37Mrs. Orchid, Mrs. Brown, any subject of the crowd.
00:40:41Oh, you know, we know just who you're going to meet.
00:40:45So, you better hold your topper in your land.
00:40:52Just in case you meet a lady on the strand.
00:40:57Girls will think you're kind of sweet.
00:40:59And your day will be complete.
00:41:02Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:41:06Now a gentleman is judged by his appearance.
00:41:10Yes, a gentleman is judged by how he talks.
00:41:15Now he's much better off when he's acting like a toff.
00:41:21Especially if he's taking him a walk.
00:41:25What on earth is this outlandish place?
00:41:28A rendezvous for actors.
00:41:30Actors?
00:41:31Buskers, old boy.
00:41:32You've seen them a thousand times.
00:41:34Actors who entertain the queues.
00:41:37Waiting outside theaters.
00:41:40You never know just who you're going to meet.
00:41:44When you're walking down a busy London street.
00:41:48So, you better wear your vest.
00:41:51Go with pies to look your vest.
00:41:53Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:41:58So, you better keep your manners right in view.
00:42:04Just in case you like it's a how to do.
00:42:09Keep your trousers in a fleet.
00:42:11Shine your shoes and keep them neat.
00:42:14Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:42:18Blimey.
00:42:19Mr. Holmes.
00:42:22How are you, Joe?
00:42:23Never pet him.
00:42:25And yourself?
00:42:25Fine, thank you.
00:42:26I want you to meet a friend of mine, Dr. Watson.
00:42:28Joe's sister.
00:42:29Oh, well, any friend of Mr. Holmes is a friend of mine.
00:42:31Hi, Joe.
00:42:32He did me a good turn once that I'll never forget.
00:42:34Yes, I cleared Joe of a most unpleasant charge.
00:42:37Murder, no less.
00:42:38Oh, really?
00:42:39By proving to the satisfaction of the police that he was busy at the time blowing open someone's safe.
00:42:43That's right, Governor.
00:42:44Good gracious me.
00:42:46Now, Joe.
00:42:48Now you can help me.
00:42:50Come on.
00:42:51Buzz off.
00:42:51Buzz off.
00:42:52Come on, up here.
00:42:53Up here.
00:42:53Can't a gentleman have some peace and quiet around here?
00:42:59And you, too.
00:43:02There you are, Mr. Holmes.
00:43:04Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.
00:43:06Thank you, Joe.
00:43:07There's five pounds of this for you.
00:43:09Well, I wouldn't want to take it on myself, sir.
00:43:12But I can get somebody to do it for you for half of that.
00:43:14You don't know what the job is yet.
00:43:16For five pounds?
00:43:17Murder, ain't it?
00:43:18What?
00:43:19No, Joe, not murder.
00:43:20Just music.
00:43:22I want you to identify a song for me.
00:43:24Oh, there ain't a song that's been written that I don't know.
00:43:26That's why I came to you.
00:43:28Well, of course, the violin is more my instrument, but, um...
00:43:31Oh, well.
00:43:32Here we go.
00:43:33Now listen to this, Joe.
00:43:40Wait a minute.
00:43:41You're playing that wrong.
00:43:42That should be E natural, not E flat.
00:43:44You know the song?
00:43:45Oh, yes.
00:43:46It's an old Australian song called, uh...
00:43:49The Swag Man.
00:43:50But you're playing it all wrong.
00:43:51That's what I hoped you'd say.
00:43:52Now listen again, Joe.
00:43:54Joe.
00:44:00That's the same tune, all right.
00:44:01But you're making different mistakes than you did the first time.
00:44:04No, not mistakes, Joe.
00:44:05Call them variations.
00:44:06Here, play the song for me.
00:44:08We're the other way it's written.
00:44:31There you are.
00:44:32Thank you, Joe.
00:44:33What's it mean, Holmes?
00:44:36Are you on to something?
00:44:37Perhaps.
00:44:38I don't know yet.
00:44:40It's probably a code of some sort.
00:44:43Joe.
00:44:46Could you write the song down for me?
00:44:48The way it was originally written?
00:44:50Oh, sure, Mr. Holmes.
00:44:51But it'll take a few minutes.
00:44:53Here, Mabel.
00:44:56Hey, Lyle.
00:44:57Come on, I'll do it.
00:44:58Along with it.
00:45:11Well, obviously, it isn't the lyrics.
00:45:13No combination of those words made any sense at all.
00:45:16The variations in the way Emery's musical box played the tune are different from the variations in the one we
00:45:21have.
00:45:21You sure?
00:45:22Quite.
00:45:22You see, I took the trouble to memorize the tune as played by Emery's box that night we were with
00:45:27him in his flat.
00:45:28Oh, you amaze me.
00:45:29Elementary, my dear fellow.
00:45:31One of the first principles in solving crime is never to disregard anything, no matter how trivial.
00:45:36But why the three boxes?
00:45:37Why not one?
00:45:38Because the message was obviously too long to be conveyed by any one variation.
00:45:44Then there's the third box.
00:45:45The one that woman took from the Kilgore's.
00:45:48That contains yet another set of variations.
00:45:51Yes, sir, it's all beyond me.
00:45:54Well, all we have to do now is to find the secret of the variations.
00:45:57Not a very easy problem to solve, my dear fellow.
00:46:04Hello.
00:46:06What's up?
00:46:10We've had company.
00:46:17I say, this is outrageous.
00:46:22Ask Mrs. Hudson to come in here, will you?
00:46:24Right.
00:46:29Mrs. Hudson?
00:46:32Yes?
00:46:34Oh, there you are.
00:46:35Will you come up here at once, please?
00:46:36Oh, come in, sir.
00:46:53Merci, me, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:55What has happened?
00:46:56Who called while we were out, Mrs. Hudson?
00:46:58Just a young lady.
00:47:00The one who said you wanted her to wait for you.
00:47:02And a nice-looking old gentleman with her.
00:47:04Our friends again, Watson?
00:47:05Friends.
00:47:06What did the young lady look like?
00:47:07Oh, I couldn't see her face.
00:47:09She had a heavy black veil on.
00:47:12But she had such a nice way with her.
00:47:15Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes, if I've done anything wrong.
00:47:20But you did say I should always let clients come in and wait for you.
00:47:23Don't worry, Mrs. Hudson, don't worry.
00:47:25You had no way of knowing.
00:47:27It's quite all right, quite all right.
00:47:29Now, don't worry, Mrs. Hudson.
00:47:34Don't worry.
00:47:35Well, where on earth's the musical box?
00:47:37They didn't get it.
00:47:39Didn't get it?
00:47:41Where is it?
00:47:42It's in your hand.
00:47:43Huh?
00:47:44In that biscuit jar.
00:47:48Lick the biscuits off the top.
00:47:52Now, put your hand inside, and you'll find the music box.
00:47:58Well done, Holmes.
00:48:00Well done.
00:48:00Amazing.
00:48:01Amazing.
00:48:22Nice, fresh smell.
00:48:24Like a pub after closing time.
00:48:27I say, Holmes.
00:48:34Why?
00:48:35It's morning.
00:48:37Allow me to congratulate you on a brilliant bit of deduction.
00:48:47It's not a transposition, not a polygraph transposition, not a trigraph,
00:48:52nor any known form of decoding.
00:48:55How about the Morse code?
00:48:56Have you tried that?
00:48:57Yes, at about three o'clock this morning.
00:48:59I'm sorry, old man.
00:49:00I was only trying to help.
00:49:18Oh, do me a favor.
00:49:19Not again.
00:49:20Must have heard that thing a thousand times.
00:49:23Can't be awake all night.
00:49:31Not a very distinguished conversation, I grant you.
00:49:34You know perfectly well I don't know one tune from the other.
00:49:36When I was a kid, my people tried to have me taught the piano.
00:49:40I've always felt sorry for that old teacher of mine.
00:49:43The poor old girl finally reached the point of numbering of the keys for me.
00:49:46One, two, three, four.
00:49:47Even then, I never progressed beyond a numbering of the keys, Watson.
00:49:52The 19th key of the keyboard is the 19th letter of the alphabet, S.
00:49:58Here.
00:49:59Now, sit down when I give it to my fellow, will you?
00:50:02The first altered note.
00:50:04Write S first.
00:50:05Now, the eighth key is H, the fifth key, E, the twelfth key, L, the sixth key, F.
00:50:20S, H, E, L, F.
00:50:23Shelf.
00:50:25Your piano lessons were not in vain, old fellow.
00:50:27You've solved it.
00:50:30Thanks, old man.
00:50:32Hold it.
00:50:34We now have two-thirds of the message behind books.
00:50:38Third shelf, secretary, Dr. S.
00:50:45Presumably, these are the first and second portions of the message.
00:50:48And this gang has the first and third parts of it?
00:50:51Precisely.
00:50:52Then it's a stalemate?
00:50:53Yes, Commissioner, but we can't leave it like that.
00:50:56There's no doubt in my mind that they'll try to secure our third of the message that's missing.
00:51:00Well, I assume you've taken every precaution to guard the Clifford Music Club.
00:51:03Oh, yes.
00:51:03It's carefully hidden at Baker Street with Dr. Watson on guard.
00:51:05However, I'm reasonably certain that, difficult as it may be, we can find the plates even without the missing part
00:51:12of the message.
00:51:13But behind books, third shelf secretary, Dr. S.
00:51:19Well, outside of the fact that Davidson hid the Bank of England plates somewhere in London, Mr. Holmes, I don't
00:51:23see that we've progressed at all.
00:51:25Allow me to point out to you, sir, the key words, Dr. S.
00:51:31It looks as if the plates were hidden in the house of a doctor.
00:51:34Whether S stands for his first or last initial remains to be determined by a process of elimination.
00:51:39Well, there must be 10,000 doctors in London with S for a first or last initial.
00:51:44Precisely.
00:51:45And every one of them will have to be questioned in person.
00:51:48That's why I say this is a task for Scotland Yard.
00:51:50It's a task, all right.
00:51:52But Scotland Yard has searched worse haystacks and found the needle.
00:51:56Well, for the time being, I'll leave the matter in your hands, gentlemen.
00:52:00We'll call you if and when we get a lead on our mysterious Dr. S.
00:52:06In the meantime, I intend to follow up a little clue concerning a cigarette.
00:52:16You're certain of the identification of the tobacco?
00:52:19Absolutely.
00:52:20I have made up this special blend for only three customers.
00:52:24It is almost pure Egyptian, with admixture of Latakia for added body, and a pinch of Perique.
00:52:33Merely a whisper, as one might say, for elusive fragrance.
00:52:37Yes, yes.
00:52:38And the three customers?
00:52:40Major Wilson, in Bombay, India.
00:52:42Mm-hmm.
00:52:44Mrs. Catherine Leamington-Smith, in Ireland.
00:52:47Yes, and the third?
00:52:48Mrs. Hilda Courtney, of Park Mansions, Bryanston Square.
00:52:54Thank you very much.
00:52:54You've been most helpful.
00:52:55It is a pleasure to have been of service, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:04Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:08Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:09Mrs. Courtney?
00:53:11Yes?
00:53:12My name is Sherlock Holmes.
00:53:13Do come in.
00:53:16I've heard of you, of course, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:20I believe we have a mutual friend in Sir Edward Brookdale.
00:53:23He's spoken to me of you quite often.
00:53:25Indeed.
00:53:29And to what good fortune am I indebted for this visit?
00:53:32I think you know, Mrs. Courtney.
00:53:35Well, I did get a summons for speeding last week.
00:53:39But outside of that, I don't think I'm of any interest to the police.
00:53:42Oh, come now, Mrs. Courtney.
00:53:43You seem to forget that you and I have met before.
00:53:46I'm sorry.
00:53:47I'm sure I would have remembered meeting the great Sherlock Holmes.
00:53:50Please sit down.
00:53:53You say we met before.
00:53:55Yes.
00:53:56At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Road.
00:54:02Kilgore?
00:54:03I don't think I know anyone of that name.
00:54:06Well, I didn't say you knew them.
00:54:09As a matter of fact, you called on them when they were out.
00:54:12I don't understand, Mr. Holmes.
00:54:15Really?
00:54:16And you were dressed rather differently.
00:54:18Indeed.
00:54:20Cigarette?
00:54:41You know, Mrs. Courtney, people generally forget, in assuming a disguise, that the shape of the ear is an almost
00:54:49infallible means of recognition and identification to the trained eye.
00:54:52Evidently, you've mistaken me for someone else.
00:54:54Oh, no, not at all.
00:54:55Though, naturally, I expected your denial.
00:54:58But when you paid your visit to my rooms at Baker Street, you carelessly left behind another identification.
00:55:09They're, uh...
00:55:10Identical art, they?
00:55:11Yes, I must admit, they are.
00:55:13You see, Mr. Holmes, to catch one as clever as you, I had to use a very special lure.
00:55:18I knew you'd be unable to resist the bait of my cigarette, having read with great interest your monograph on
00:55:24the ashes of 140 different varieties of tobacco.
00:55:27I should advise you not to move, Mr. Holmes.
00:55:33I must congratulate you on your ingenuity, Mrs. Courtney.
00:55:36It was indeed a brilliantly designed trap.
00:55:38Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:55:40Praise from a master is indeed gratifying.
00:55:42I shall always cherish the memory of your flattering words.
00:55:48Memory?
00:55:50Precisely.
00:55:51I'm afraid these gentlemen have a most regrettable task to perform.
00:55:55Unless, of course, you care to turn over the missing musical box with your pledge to take no action against
00:56:02us in the future.
00:56:03I'm afraid that will be impossible.
00:56:05I thought that would be your answer.
00:56:07Hamid!
00:56:08Careful!
00:56:10Careful?
00:56:11There's no need to be unnecessarily rough with our distinguished guests.
00:56:15You realize, Mr. Holmes, that your demise will not take place here, the corpus delecti, you know?
00:56:22Well, naturally.
00:56:24Shall we go?
00:56:27It's so fearfully awkward having a dead body lying about.
00:56:31Don't you agree, Mr. Holmes?
00:56:32Another dead body shouldn't weigh too heavily on your conscience, Mrs. Courtney.
00:56:45Do you mind if I have a cigarette?
00:56:47Well, I don't see why not.
00:57:02Be careful, Hamid.
00:57:05It's the brakes.
00:57:06They bind.
00:57:09Thank you, Colonel Kavanagh.
00:57:11It's very considerate of you.
00:57:12I don't see why not.
00:57:13I don't see why not.
00:57:17I don't see why not.
00:57:20I don't see why not.
00:57:24I don't see why not.
00:57:25I don't see why not.
00:57:27I don't see why not.
00:57:31I don't see why not.
00:57:31I don't see why not.
00:57:31I don't see why not.
00:57:32I don't see why not.
00:57:32I don't see why not.
00:57:32I don't see why not.
00:57:33I don't see why not.
00:57:34I don't see why not.
00:57:34I don't see why not.
00:57:35I don't see why not.
00:57:36I don't see why not.
00:57:36I don't see why not.
00:57:39I don't see why not.
00:57:43You'll be happy to know, Mr. Holmes,
00:57:45that your death will be a painless one.
00:57:50Hamid, attach this to the motor of the taxi.
00:57:57That little attachment, my dear Mr. Holmes,
00:57:59contains the deadly fluid known as monosulfried.
00:58:03The Germans use it with gratifying results
00:58:05in removing their undesireless.
00:58:13Stop the motor.
00:58:36Tape his mouth.
00:58:46Now, up with him, Hamid.
00:58:58You find yourself like Mahamid's coffin, Mr. Holmes,
00:59:03suspended between heaven and earth.
00:59:12Plenty of fuel in the tank?
00:59:15Good.
00:59:16It would be too bad to have anything go wrong
00:59:18through so simple an oversight.
00:59:21Good night.
00:59:34Good night.
00:59:43Come on.
00:59:46Come on.
01:00:23Come here.
01:00:31Good afternoon.
01:00:32Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
01:00:34No, I'm Dr. Watson.
01:00:35Oh, of course, Dr. Watson.
01:00:38How stupid of me.
01:00:39Oh, sure.
01:00:40It's stupid of me.
01:00:42Won't you come in?
01:00:43Well, I really came to see Mr. Holmes.
01:00:46Oh, I'm afraid he's out.
01:00:47I don't know when he'll be back.
01:00:48Perhaps there's something I can do.
01:00:50Won't you sit down?
01:00:52You know, Sherlock Holmes and I have been engaged on a great many cases.
01:00:57Oh, really?
01:00:58Yes, indeed.
01:00:59As a matter of fact, this very moment, we're involved in one of the most baffling...
01:01:03Oh, well, won't you tell me you're trouble?
01:01:06I may be able to help you.
01:01:07That's very kind of you, Dr. Watson.
01:01:10Perhaps, if I wouldn't be imposing too much...
01:01:13Imposing?
01:01:14Oh, there's no imposition.
01:01:15No imposition at all.
01:01:16A pleasure, I assure you.
01:01:18Now, tell me all about it, Miss...
01:01:20Miss Williams.
01:01:21Miss Williams.
01:01:22I live in Surrey, Dr. Watson, and I've come up to London in sheer desperation.
01:01:26My only sister has disappeared.
01:01:28The local police seem utterly unable to find her.
01:01:30Well, Holmes and I solved a case exactly like that once.
01:01:33Very interesting, as far as I remember.
01:01:36I call it the adventure of the solitary cyclist.
01:01:40Oh, sorry.
01:01:41Now I've come to think of it, it wasn't so very similar.
01:01:44Entirely different, I think, what I'm saying.
01:01:47Uh-oh.
01:01:48Where were we?
01:01:50She's only 17, Dr. Watson, and until she disappeared last Thursday, she seemed to be in the best of spirits.
01:01:58Possibly a romantic entanglement?
01:02:00Oh, no, no.
01:02:01Nothing of the sort.
01:02:02She left no note, didn't even pack a bag, no explanation.
01:02:06She just started to walk to the village from our house in broad daylight and simply vanished from the face
01:02:11of the earth.
01:02:12Oh, there, there, there, there, there.
01:02:15Might I have a glass of water?
01:02:16A glass of water, of course, a glass of water.
01:02:18Have one in one minute.
01:02:51There you are, my dear.
01:02:53Thank you, Dr. Watson.
01:02:54No, no, no. You're not to cry anymore. You must pull yourself together.
01:02:57I feel much better already knowing that you're going to help me.
01:03:00Oh, Dr. Watson, look!
01:03:01Good heavens!
01:03:07Get through! Get through the fire brigade, quickly!
01:03:14Haven't you a fire extinguisher?
01:03:16My joy, we haven't.
01:03:41Don't you worry, Miss Williams. We'll have this thing out in no time.
01:03:53Ah, I've got it.
01:03:59It's the mayor.
01:04:01You see, there was no need for the fire brigade after all.
01:04:06I hope you weren't too frightened, Miss Williams.
01:04:11Oh, gone.
01:04:14That's the trouble of women.
01:04:15They always lose their heads in an emergency.
01:04:21Hello?
01:04:26A musical box.
01:04:29Great Scott!
01:04:35Miss Williams!
01:04:37Miss Williams!
01:04:42Miss Williams!
01:04:45Good.
01:04:46And Holmes?
01:04:47By now, Mr. Holmes has no doubt exchanged his violin for a harp.
01:04:51Always assuming that heaven is his destination.
01:04:56And now that we have the missing musical box.
01:05:10Nineteenth note
01:05:10Nineteenth note
01:05:14Nineteenth letter
01:05:15Nineteenth
01:05:17S
01:05:21He hasn't been there, you say?
01:05:23Holmes, where on earth have you been?
01:05:25I've been trying to get you at the club
01:05:27at Scotland Yard all over London
01:05:30You were looking for me in the wrong places
01:05:33Holmes, terrible things happened
01:05:35I've been duped
01:05:36That woman
01:05:38She made a complete fool of me
01:05:39What do you mean?
01:05:40She came here, let off a smoke bomb
01:05:42I thought the whole place was on fire
01:05:44My first thought was to save a musical box
01:05:46No need to say anymore
01:05:48She has the box
01:05:51Don't blame yourself too much, old fellow
01:05:55She is an extremely clever antagonist
01:06:00Smoke bomb, you said
01:06:02Well, you can console yourself with the thought
01:06:08That your charming friend is at least a reader of yours
01:06:10What do you mean?
01:06:11If I remember correctly
01:06:13You wrote about my little experiment with smoke and the cry of fire
01:06:16In a story you entitled
01:06:17A Scandal in Bohemia
01:06:18Which has just appeared in the Strand magazine
01:06:21All right, all right, old boy
01:06:22Don't rub it in
01:06:25Well, it may turn you up to know that you made a fool of me too
01:06:29That cigarette stub
01:06:31Was planted here for one express purpose
01:06:34We got a bandaging around this place
01:06:37Bandaging? What's the matter, Holmes?
01:06:38You hurt?
01:06:39And explanations will have to wait until later
01:06:41At the moment we're faced with a problem
01:06:43Which I fear is insurmountable
01:06:44Come over here, old boy, will you?
01:06:46Right
01:06:49Our opponents are in possession of all three parts of the code
01:06:51And here are we while the Bank of England plates
01:06:54Pass into their possession
01:06:56Cheer up, old fellow, cheer up
01:06:57As Dr. Samuel Johnson once said
01:06:59There's no problem the mind of man can set
01:07:02That the mind of man cannot solve
01:07:05What's that, old fellow?
01:07:06I was just quoting Dr. Samuel Johnson
01:07:07He said there is no
01:07:09Thank you, Watson, thank you
01:07:10Hmm?
01:07:14Leaving the front reception room
01:07:16We come into the main hall
01:07:18Where Dr. Johnson was in the habit of passing through
01:07:21To have his meager meals in the dining room opposite
01:07:24In company with his friend and biographer
01:07:27James Boswell
01:07:29We will now pass up the stairway
01:07:31Which remains in its natural wood finish
01:07:34Just as it was when the good doctor was here
01:07:37The framed etching on the wall
01:07:39Is believed to have been presented to Dr. Johnson
01:07:41By the distinguished painter
01:07:43Sir Joshua Reynolds
01:07:46I've been told here
01:07:47That that picture was given in by Mrs. Thrail
01:07:50And it's definitely not a Reynolds
01:07:52Is that important, my dear?
01:07:55Oh, I'm sorry
01:07:58This way, ladies and gentlemen, please
01:07:59This way
01:08:00Move along, children
01:08:01Move along
01:08:03The secretary's not on this floor
01:08:04Patience, Hamid
01:08:05I have a feeling
01:08:07My dear Colonel
01:08:08With Sherlock Holmes out of the way
01:08:09What could go wrong?
01:08:19And here we have the Garrett Library
01:08:21In which Dr. Johnson wrote his famous dictionary
01:08:25And in which you will see also
01:08:26Many of the great man's books
01:08:28And other items of interest
01:08:30Step forward, ladies and gentlemen
01:08:32Please step forward
01:08:34Standing in the corner is the secretary
01:08:35Which contains many of the original works
01:08:38By the literary genius
01:08:40On this table, Dr. Johnson's cat, Hodge
01:08:43Used to sleep while his master worked
01:08:45A strange thing about this cat, ladies and gentlemen
01:08:48Was its love of oysters
01:08:51They do say that the dear doctor often went hungry
01:08:53To find the cat that delicacy
01:08:56What a pity
01:08:58Now we will visit the grave room
01:09:00Which is immediately below us
01:09:01In which you will see the very bed
01:09:04In which Dr. Johnson died
01:09:06What did he die of?
01:09:08Gout
01:09:10Just gout
01:09:12This way, ladies and gentlemen
01:09:13Mind the steps, please
01:09:27No keys
01:09:28No keys
01:09:45Third shelf up
01:09:53A knife
01:10:00Gentlemen
01:10:01The Bank of England plates
01:10:05Well, Mrs. Courtney
01:10:06So we meet again
01:10:09No, I shouldn't do that if I were you, Colonel Kavanagh
01:10:12I must congratulate you, Mr. Holmes
01:10:14You're far more clever than I thought
01:10:18Thank you, Mrs. Courtney
01:10:20The praise from you is indeed gratifying
01:10:23I shall always cherish the memory
01:10:25Of your flattering words
01:10:27Memory?
01:10:29Oh
01:10:30Thank you
01:10:31And now I have a most regrettable task to perform
01:10:40Holmes!
01:10:42Coming, Holmes
01:10:45Holmes
01:10:47You all right?
01:10:48Perfectly thank you, old fellow
01:10:49But I think this gentleman on the floor
01:10:51Requires some medical attention
01:10:52We must see that he looks his best, you know
01:10:54When he's hanged
01:10:54Take them in charge
01:11:13A brilliant antagonist
01:11:15It's a pity how talents were so misdirected
01:11:18Now, will you see that these plates are returned to the Bank of England, Inspector?
01:11:21I still don't understand how you solved it, Mr. Holmes
01:11:23It's entirely due to Dr. Watson
01:11:25He gave me the clue when he mentioned Dr. Samuel Johnson
01:11:29Well, congratulations, Doctor
01:11:30Oh, thank you, Inspector
01:11:31I don't think I'd have done it entirely without Mr. Holmes' help, you know
01:11:34Oh, oh, oh, oh
01:12:04Oh, oh, oh, oh
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