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In wartime England, cryptic radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany are spreading panic throughout the region. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are summoned by British intelligence to find the source of the mysterious "Voice of Terror." A slain informant's tip sends Holmes to London's grimy Limehouse district. There the stalwart sleuth gains the trust of the informant's wife, Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), and evades capture by a Nazi spy.
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00:00:00THE END
00:02:00This is the voice of terror.
00:02:01A secret airplane factory somewhere in England.
00:02:05Listen.
00:02:06Screams of the dying can still be heard.
00:02:09This is the voice of terror.
00:02:11Are you there, people of Britain, shivering in your cellars?
00:02:14Listen, Operative 41.
00:02:16The fuse is lighted.
00:02:18Oil to fuel your navy, to feed your tanks.
00:02:21There it goes up in smoke by the millions of gallons.
00:02:24This is the voice of terror.
00:02:26Do you still believe that there are secrets unknown to the fewer?
00:02:29Listen.
00:02:30Tonight at 7.10, an important diplomat boarded a train at a little station outside Liverpool.
00:02:35Each split second is accounted for.
00:02:38The rails divide.
00:02:40The train hurtles through the air.
00:02:42The diplomat will make no report in London.
00:02:46This is the voice of terror.
00:02:48Englishman, do you still await your doom in your stupid, stuffy little clubs?
00:02:52It will come, I promise you.
00:02:53Operative 23.
00:02:55The time is now.
00:02:57We strike you on the high seas, as well as on the land.
00:03:02This is the voice of terror.
00:03:05Englishman, the Fuhrer strikes you now as he pleases.
00:03:09Water falls through your greatest dam, smashing everything before it,
00:03:13even as our invincible armies roll toward their objectives.
00:03:22Despite the effective work done by the Intelligence Inner Council,
00:03:26jailing fifth columnists and saboteurs,
00:03:29despite their efficiency in coordinating military strategy
00:03:32based on information of enemy movements,
00:03:34they seem unable to cope with the voice of terror.
00:03:37Already six military catastrophes have occurred.
00:03:40The unmitigated nerve of the press.
00:03:42Now they're attacking us.
00:03:43Blast the fellow to the kingdom come.
00:03:45If only we could keep this insidious stuff off the air.
00:03:47I'm not sure that I agree with you.
00:03:49What purpose would that serve?
00:03:50Well, the people wouldn't have to listen to it.
00:03:52I've been talking to Crosby, the radio technician.
00:03:54If we want him jammed off the air, Crosby can do it.
00:03:57I've been working along other lines.
00:04:00I've asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes to come here.
00:04:02What?
00:04:03Sherlock Holmes?
00:04:04This isn't the case for a private detective.
00:04:06It's a matter of state.
00:04:07In this emergency, we should take advantage of everyone's peculiar gifts.
00:04:11Mr. Holmes is the most subtle and extraordinary private investigator of our time.
00:04:14Are you intimating that the army and navy intelligence plus Scott and the IR are not equal to the occasion,
00:04:18Sir Evan?
00:04:19I'm sure they're equal to any occasion.
00:04:21They've done a marvelous job of lining up fifth colonists, saboteurs, and keeping us informed of the enemy's movements.
00:04:26But the voice of terror seems to have them stumped.
00:04:29Sherlock Holmes may have a new approach that will solve the problem.
00:04:32What's happened inside these wars has always been secret.
00:04:35We don't want any outsiders here.
00:04:38I'm positively and irrevocably opposed to calling in Sherlock Holmes.
00:04:42Perhaps you'll change your mind.
00:04:44I see nothing whatever to make me do so.
00:04:46Prentiss is right.
00:04:48For ordinary criminal investigation, Holmes is excellent, but not for this.
00:04:51He's unorthodox and theatrical.
00:04:53I can tell you all about him.
00:04:54Gentlemen, perhaps I can throw some light on the subject myself.
00:04:59Holmes!
00:04:59How are you?
00:05:01So good of you to come.
00:05:02Good afternoon, Sir Evan.
00:05:03Your card opened all doors.
00:05:04Oh, blouser!
00:05:08You've put on a little weight since you left school.
00:05:10You don't look any younger yourself, Dimples.
00:05:12How are you?
00:05:13Fine.
00:05:14Come in, won't you?
00:05:16Do you know these gentlemen?
00:05:17I think so.
00:05:18How do you do?
00:05:18I haven't had that pleasure.
00:05:21May I introduce my friend and associate, Dr. Watson?
00:05:23How do you do, gentlemen?
00:05:27I'm afraid I've arrived at an embarrassing moment.
00:05:29Not at all.
00:05:31This gentleman here.
00:05:32Admiral Sir John Prentiss.
00:05:34Admiral Prentiss objects most strongly to my being called in.
00:05:36How could you possibly infer that?
00:05:38From the carpet.
00:05:39Carpet?
00:05:40A man who rises from his chair and digs his heel sternly into the carpet is violently opposed
00:05:45to something, and the Admiral, being quite distressed by the criticisms of the press,
00:05:48would be most apt to resent my intrusion.
00:05:50Well, you've just arrived from Sevenoaks.
00:05:53Yes, of course.
00:05:54I...
00:05:55How on earth did you know that?
00:05:56Oh, pardon my mentioning it, but adhering to your left boot heel is a variety of
00:06:00clay known only in Sevenoaks.
00:06:03An amazing piece of deduction.
00:06:05Elementary, my dear Barham.
00:06:07Here's a broadcast of the Voice of Terror.
00:06:16Greetings from the Third Reich.
00:06:17Are you listening, stout fellows across the channel?
00:06:20Are you listening, you little body of incompetent men known as the Inner Council?
00:06:23Today, a new thrill, a new proof of the invincibility of the Fuhrer.
00:06:27Right now, a crack express train laden with British troops and nurses is speeding across England.
00:06:32In just one moment, it will leave the rails forever.
00:06:35Crashing, twisted metal.
00:06:36The cries of the dying.
00:06:37They can't.
00:06:38They wouldn't dare.
00:06:39It's impossible.
00:06:39They couldn't have gone on.
00:06:40The men are laughing, joking.
00:06:41That one in the third car reads a letter from home.
00:06:43It is the last letter he will ever receive.
00:06:45The train is rounding a curve.
00:06:47Its whistle is screaming.
00:06:49Farewell, it is saying.
00:06:51Farewell.
00:06:53You have just heard an exact reproduction of the way it sounds.
00:06:56The way it must actually be.
00:06:59The hearts of the German people plead that innocent men and women have to be killed because
00:07:04your stupid war men...
00:07:05Sure, speaking.
00:07:06Have you any news of the Liverpool Express?
00:07:08...time again offered in peace.
00:07:10But if your blundering war cabinet cannot see that England is already lost, then it is
00:07:14our sacred German duty to prove it to them over and over and over until they are on their
00:07:19knees, begging, pleading, groveling for the exquisite mercy of our Fuhrer.
00:07:24Each night, the voice of terror will announce...
00:07:27Shut it all.
00:07:28Stop it.
00:07:29...the heart of England.
00:07:30Even as you listen.
00:07:31And you...
00:07:33I'm sorry.
00:07:36Do what you can, Holmes.
00:07:38This frightful thing has got to be stopped.
00:07:42His son was on that train.
00:07:47How did they find out about the truce?
00:07:49It was an absolute secret.
00:07:51Gentlemen, something must be done about this thing at once.
00:07:54Yes.
00:07:55First of all, then, the voice must not be blocked off the air.
00:07:58But he's a menace.
00:07:59All over the Empire, this horrible news is broadcast.
00:08:02Blown up out of all proportions.
00:08:04The world is beginning to believe it.
00:08:06Even our allies are counting England out.
00:08:09People are frightened, panicky.
00:08:10The British people are not so easily panicked.
00:08:12It's dangerous, I tell you, to let this thing go on.
00:08:14Dangerous, yes, Captain Shaw.
00:08:16But we must continue to listen.
00:08:17What for?
00:08:18So that we can keep on guessing who it is?
00:08:20His identity is not important.
00:08:22The important thing is...
00:08:24the purpose behind this campaign of terror.
00:08:27Purpose, indeed.
00:08:28Isn't it enough that our most secret plans are known?
00:08:30Our ships are being destroyed.
00:08:31Our trains wrecked.
00:08:34I'm convinced that these disasters are only a prelude.
00:08:37A smokescreen.
00:08:39To cover up a more diabolic plan.
00:08:41And I intend to find out what that plan is.
00:08:43This council and Scotland Yard will give you all the aid you require.
00:08:48Gentlemen, my connection with this case must remain absolutely secret.
00:08:51You understand that, of course.
00:08:52Why, certainly.
00:08:53You will let the council know, at all times, just what you're doing.
00:08:57I shall give you such information as I think wise to disclose in the interests of safety,
00:09:02both the public's and your own.
00:09:04The inner council has never shared its secrets with anyone.
00:09:07I demand that you keep us informed of your activities and progress.
00:09:12Come on, Watson.
00:09:16Mr. Holmes.
00:09:18I want to apologise for your rather lukewarm reception here.
00:09:21Thank you, Sir Evan.
00:09:22I'm used to the chilly atmosphere of high places.
00:09:24And, of course, you recognise the importance of time.
00:09:27Quite.
00:09:27And results.
00:09:28Mr. Lloyd, I'm quite sure that Mr. Holmes can be trusted not to fail.
00:09:32He never has, you know.
00:09:33Thank you, Watson.
00:09:34The word is seldom.
00:09:35Goodbye, Sir Evan.
00:09:36Goodbye, sir.
00:09:37Goodbye, Byron.
00:09:38Goodbye, Watson.
00:09:40Shall we walk for a bit or take a taxi?
00:09:42I'm afraid we have no choice.
00:09:43Huh?
00:09:44You know, Watson.
00:09:46I have a feeling that when we go out of that door, a girl will be waiting.
00:09:49A girl?
00:09:49What do you mean?
00:09:50A young lady, whom neither of us has ever seen before, will come forward to greet us.
00:09:54Holmes, now you're pulling my leg here.
00:10:00Mr. Holmes, I'm Joe Grandis.
00:10:02How do you do?
00:10:03This is my friend, Dr. Watson.
00:10:04How do you do?
00:10:04How do you do?
00:10:05I've been assigned to drive you around.
00:10:07Good gracious me.
00:10:08Where do you wish to go?
00:10:09Baker Street.
00:10:09I know.
00:10:10221 B.
00:10:11Come on, Watson.
00:10:12Hurry up, old fellow.
00:10:22Holmes, the girl waiting.
00:10:24What an extraordinary thing.
00:10:26Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:10:27No, no, no, no.
00:10:28It's an amazing deduction.
00:10:30How on earth did you arrive at it?
00:10:32Barham told me.
00:10:49Oh.
00:10:50Oh, don't you worry, Mrs. Hudson.
00:10:52Just giving her a bit of a clean, now we're on a case again.
00:10:56The joints are a bit rusty, like mine, you know.
00:11:00Is he back in a case again?
00:11:02Case?
00:11:02The greatest case of his, of our career.
00:11:05Oh, merci at all, Mrs.
00:11:23Holmes.
00:11:24Mr. Holmes.
00:11:25What?
00:11:26Mr. Holmes.
00:11:27Well, if you ask me, it's disgraceful.
00:11:29Head opens first?
00:11:31Not at all.
00:11:32It's very good.
00:11:33Sir Ronald Hedley's conducting very well tonight.
00:11:35I don't mean the concert.
00:11:37No.
00:11:37England's in danger.
00:11:39Heaven knows what frightful disaster's happening.
00:11:41And you sit there calm.
00:11:42They're listening to the wireless.
00:11:44Music hath charms.
00:11:45Very restful.
00:11:46That's got nothing to do with the whole...
00:11:47Contrary, my dear Watson.
00:11:47It may have a great deal to do with it.
00:11:50Oh, really?
00:11:50I don't see what.
00:12:00BBC Request Station.
00:12:01This is Sherlock Holmes.
00:12:02I understand you play recordings.
00:12:04Would you mind playing Beethoven's Fifth?
00:12:06Conducted by Sir Ronald Hedley.
00:12:08Thank you very much.
00:12:09But you just heard it.
00:12:10I like it.
00:12:11Oh?
00:12:18We've had a request for the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, played by the London Symphony Orchestra,
00:12:24under the direction of Sir Ronald Hedley.
00:12:26This is a transcription.
00:12:27The multitask.
00:12:28Theikat fullness.
00:12:43The multitask.
00:12:46The multitask.
00:13:03Hams, what's over there, Bart?
00:13:06I said, Hams, I don't...
00:13:08Shh!
00:13:30Mr. Holmes.
00:13:32Yes, Gavin?
00:13:33I... I...
00:13:36Christopher...
00:13:38Dead?
00:13:41Yes.
00:13:45It's been driven in with a lot of force.
00:13:49Watson, this is a warning.
00:13:53Warning? How do you know?
00:13:56I had sent for Gavin to get certain information,
00:13:59which you must have found,
00:14:00there in the dark and sinister alleys of Limehouse.
00:14:04He came with his message,
00:14:05which someone doesn't want me to hear,
00:14:07someone determined and dangerous.
00:14:09What's the good of a warning of danger?
00:14:11You know from what or from whom?
00:14:13We shall have to discover.
00:14:14There's a knife that's thrown by the tip
00:14:16from a distance of about 50 feet
00:14:17by a man about 5 foot 10.
00:14:19Sterling, Holmes.
00:14:20Elementary. No fingerprints.
00:14:22But the distance and the man's height.
00:14:24The angle of entry
00:14:25and the force with which he penetrated the victim.
00:14:28But, Holmes,
00:14:29what do you suppose he meant when he said Christopher?
00:14:31We must find out at once.
00:14:32Come on, Watson.
00:14:32What?
00:14:36Come in.
00:14:38Oh, Mr. Holmes,
00:14:39I saw a fellow lurking about your steps
00:14:41and I...
00:14:42Blimey, he won't lurk no more.
00:14:44From the yard.
00:14:44Take care of you, Dobson.
00:14:45Very good, sir.
00:14:46How did he do that?
00:14:47Having time now.
00:14:47Get your coat on, Watson.
00:14:48We're going out.
00:14:52No, no, no, no.
00:14:53Holmes, you promised.
00:14:54Oh.
00:14:56Where are we going?
00:14:57Limehouse.
00:15:23Certainly, what?
00:15:25Certainly, why as if you let Miss Grandis come?
00:15:27Well, this is no special girl or anyone else.
00:15:29If there seem to be people about.
00:15:42Even Miss Grandis.
00:15:44If I'm not mistaken,
00:15:45she's keeping an eye on us.
00:15:47You're Mr. Sherlock Holmes, ain't ya?
00:15:50Yes.
00:15:51I wouldn't come down here if I was you.
00:15:53This is Limehouse
00:15:54and we don't fancy
00:15:56your sort of bloke
00:15:57in these parts.
00:15:58The fellow's absolutely right.
00:15:59Hadn't we better be...
00:16:00But, Watson,
00:16:01this is still a free country.
00:16:03A man may walk really pleases.
00:16:04And live to regret it.
00:16:06Live, yes.
00:16:07Regret it, I think not.
00:16:09Step back.
00:16:11Come on, Watson.
00:16:14Unfairly, what?
00:16:15The speaker break.
00:16:30What was that, Holmes?
00:16:32It's all right.
00:16:33Quiet.
00:16:33I can't see a thing.
00:16:35Luckily for us,
00:16:36neither can they.
00:16:48Apparently the enemy
00:16:49has found out
00:16:49that we joined forces
00:16:50with the government.
00:16:51What makes you think that?
00:16:55This knife,
00:16:56like the knife
00:16:57which killed Gavin,
00:16:58was thrown by
00:16:58a former obituator
00:16:59of the docks of Hamburg.
00:17:00It's a German knife.
00:17:02The knife-throwers
00:17:02of Hamburg
00:17:03are extremely expert.
00:17:04Mr. Holmes,
00:17:05can't we come back
00:17:05in the daytime?
00:17:06Certainly not.
00:17:07I don't think we're safe.
00:17:08No one in the world
00:17:09is safe now, Watson.
00:17:10Least of all us.
00:17:34What is it, Mother Brady?
00:17:39Don't tell me
00:17:40that you don't
00:17:40recognise me.
00:17:42Mr. Sherlock Holmes!
00:17:45I've got a specially
00:17:46ugly lot here tonight.
00:17:47Not like my chances.
00:17:49I can't keep you up,
00:17:50Mr. Holmes,
00:17:52but...
00:18:14where's the girl Kitty?
00:18:15Where's the girl Kitty?
00:18:18It's urgent.
00:18:19It's urgent.
00:18:21Holmes,
00:18:22I don't think
00:18:23I like this place much.
00:18:44Well, just sit here,
00:18:45if you don't mind.
00:18:46I think you'll recognise me,
00:18:48Mr. Holmes,
00:18:49if you look hard enough.
00:18:50Camberwell.
00:18:52You've got a long memory.
00:18:53Like me.
00:18:55Tarleton murder,
00:18:551932.
00:18:57Of course,
00:18:57I sent you up.
00:18:58Mr. Holmes,
00:18:59don't you think
00:18:59we'd better be...
00:19:00Store your gab.
00:19:02For ten long years,
00:19:04I've been sitting down
00:19:05there in Dartmoor.
00:19:06For the old ten years,
00:19:07one thing's been
00:19:08preying on me mind.
00:19:09Only one?
00:19:10Just one.
00:19:11Someday I'll be
00:19:12getting out of here,
00:19:13I kept saying to myself.
00:19:14And when I do,
00:19:15someday I'm going to
00:19:16come face to face
00:19:17with Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:19:18Now you are.
00:19:18And now I am.
00:19:21Just who was it told you
00:19:22it was me
00:19:23who slipped the throat
00:19:23of that swine Tarleton?
00:19:25I want an answer.
00:19:28You told me.
00:19:31Me?
00:19:32On the windowsill,
00:19:33you left four
00:19:34infinitesimal pieces of ash
00:19:35from a particularly
00:19:36revolting kind of tobacco
00:19:38that you were known to use.
00:19:39The knife blade
00:19:40was sharpened
00:19:40by a left-handed man.
00:19:41You signed your name
00:19:42to the crime.
00:19:43So that's what?
00:19:45Exactly.
00:19:46Very careless.
00:19:48Careless?
00:19:49It's criminal,
00:19:50I calls it.
00:19:51I ought to be shot.
00:19:52Perhaps someday
00:19:53you will be.
00:19:54You can put your
00:19:55revolver away now,
00:19:55Watson.
00:19:56Well, Holmes,
00:19:58you never know.
00:20:09Where's Gavin?
00:20:11Sit down, Kitty.
00:20:13Where is he?
00:20:14You've got him
00:20:15into trouble.
00:20:16What have you done to him?
00:20:17Take it easy, Kitty.
00:20:20Gavin's dead.
00:20:23Dead?
00:20:25Oh, it ain't possible.
00:20:28Well, I was with him
00:20:29only two hours ago.
00:20:32You're trying to frighten me.
00:20:33No, I'm not, Kitty.
00:20:36It's you.
00:20:37You killed him.
00:20:39I warned him
00:20:40to stay away from you.
00:20:41I knew you'd do him in.
00:20:43I had nothing
00:20:43to do with it, Kitty.
00:20:44Well, who did then?
00:20:45Who did?
00:20:47He was knifed
00:20:47on my doorstep.
00:21:00I'm sorry.
00:21:02I'm deeply in his debt.
00:21:06Before he died,
00:21:07he said one word.
00:21:10Christopher.
00:21:15You know what it means?
00:21:18I've got to know.
00:21:19What's that to me?
00:21:21You want to avenge
00:21:21Gavin's death, don't you?
00:21:22I don't want nothing
00:21:23to do with it,
00:21:24nor with you.
00:21:25I never had any dealings
00:21:26with the police,
00:21:27and I won't start now.
00:21:28I'm not asking this
00:21:29for myself.
00:21:30Our country,
00:21:32England,
00:21:32is at stake.
00:21:37Gavin was killed
00:21:38not by his own enemies,
00:21:39nor even mine,
00:21:40but by the enemies
00:21:41of England.
00:21:44So that's it.
00:21:45Yes, Kitty.
00:21:46The Nazis killed him.
00:21:48Help me to find out
00:21:49what Christopher means,
00:21:50and I promise the man
00:21:51who murdered Gavin
00:21:52shall pay for it.
00:21:55Think, Kitty.
00:21:57The cutthroats of the world
00:21:58menace us all.
00:22:00You can help
00:22:00stop this savagery.
00:22:02Yes, you, Kitty.
00:22:04If it would take
00:22:04the police weeks,
00:22:05months perhaps,
00:22:06to find out
00:22:07a certain piece
00:22:08of information
00:22:08we must have.
00:22:09That's not so
00:22:10with you and your friends.
00:22:11You know every nook
00:22:12and corner of London.
00:22:14Get them to help us.
00:22:16We need their help.
00:22:18Your friends
00:22:18will become an army.
00:22:20Do you understand?
00:22:21Secret,
00:22:22invisible,
00:22:23and mighty.
00:22:24And you will be
00:22:24at their head, Kitty.
00:22:26You will be their leader.
00:22:41Grimes,
00:22:42do you know
00:22:43what Christopher means?
00:22:49Dugan.
00:22:51Do you know?
00:22:53Dugan,
00:22:53listen to me.
00:22:54I ain't got no time
00:22:55to listen to you, girlie.
00:22:56But you gotta listen.
00:22:58Someone killed Gavin.
00:22:59I don't know who,
00:22:59but you gotta help me find out.
00:23:05All right,
00:23:06don't help me then.
00:23:07Cut your own throats,
00:23:08that's what you're doing.
00:23:09Help me
00:23:10or help the Nazis.
00:23:12Sure,
00:23:13the Nazis killed Gavin.
00:23:15They might be your friends
00:23:16protecting them
00:23:16the way you are.
00:23:18Don't you know
00:23:18that all the crimes
00:23:19they commit
00:23:19are being blamed on you?
00:23:21Well, they are.
00:23:21And I hope you hang for them.
00:23:23You can have them.
00:23:24As for me,
00:23:25I'm British
00:23:25and I'm proud of it.
00:23:27Nobody's gonna call me
00:23:28a Nazi and get away with it.
00:23:29Well, help me then.
00:23:30Tell me what Christopher means.
00:23:33Don't anybody know?
00:23:35It's gotta mean something.
00:23:40Speak up
00:23:41if you know what it is.
00:23:41Let's have it.
00:23:42Don't mean a thing to me.
00:23:44You've been a creep
00:23:45in the corners
00:23:45all your life.
00:23:46Are you gonna sneak away
00:23:48at the very sight
00:23:48of a man like this
00:23:49and show him
00:23:49what coward you are?
00:23:51What are you afraid of?
00:23:53I'm not asking this
00:23:54for myself.
00:23:55England's at stake.
00:23:56You're England
00:23:57as much as anyone else is.
00:23:59Got no time
00:24:00to think about
00:24:00whose side we're on.
00:24:01There's only one side,
00:24:03England.
00:24:03No matter how high
00:24:05or how low we are.
00:24:07You, you,
00:24:08you and you.
00:24:09We're all on the same team.
00:24:10We've all got the same goal.
00:24:12Victory!
00:24:12Now we're here.
00:24:13What are you watching all?
00:24:14Right out all over London.
00:24:16But find out
00:24:17what Christopher means.
00:24:18We'll find out.
00:24:19No fear about that.
00:24:24Thank you, Petey.
00:24:25Well done, my dear.
00:24:31Shaw speaking.
00:24:33Oh, yes, Miss Grandis.
00:24:35That checks with my report.
00:24:37No, Miss Grandis.
00:24:39Sir Evan hasn't arrived yet.
00:24:41Yes, thank you.
00:24:43Miss Grandis reports
00:24:44that Holmes
00:24:44spent some time
00:24:45at the Air Ministry today.
00:24:47That checks with my information.
00:24:49Last night a murder
00:24:50and a session in Limehouse.
00:24:52I wonder what the fellow...
00:24:53He's here now.
00:24:54I don't think I need
00:24:55to report on my activities,
00:24:57gentlemen.
00:24:57You must be fairly well informed.
00:24:58We have our methods, Holmes.
00:24:59It only remains to you
00:25:00to show what's been accomplished.
00:25:01All in good time, Mr. Lloyd.
00:25:03Good evening, gentlemen.
00:25:05Good evening, Sir Evan.
00:25:06What's the matter?
00:25:07You look pale.
00:25:08Oh, it's nothing.
00:25:09I...
00:25:09Pardon, your hand.
00:25:10Let's have a look at it.
00:25:11Pardon?
00:25:12Oh, it's really nothing.
00:25:12Just an accident.
00:25:13What sort of an accident?
00:25:14Some fellow took a shot at me
00:25:16just as I was leaving the house.
00:25:17Took a shot at you?
00:25:18It's only a scratch.
00:25:20Ugly thing to happen.
00:25:21Have you any idea who it was?
00:25:23No, I haven't.
00:25:24He popped up out of the bushes
00:25:25just as I was getting into my car.
00:25:27Fired once,
00:25:27then disappeared.
00:25:29What do you make of it, Watson?
00:25:30Bullet wound.
00:25:31Congratulations.
00:25:33This is a matter for the police.
00:25:34Oh, no, please.
00:25:35I can never identify him.
00:25:37Let's forget it.
00:25:38Captain Shaw.
00:25:45People of Britain, greetings.
00:25:47Is it shock you need?
00:25:49Very well.
00:25:50We Nazis can produce them
00:25:51till Britain's proud head is in the dust
00:25:54where it belongs.
00:25:55People of London,
00:25:56look out of your windows.
00:25:58You will see your promised disaster
00:26:00written across the skies.
00:26:03Lawford, turn out the lights, please.
00:26:05Look to the East India docks.
00:26:07Are you alert, number 20?
00:26:09Look, Britain, look.
00:26:10And wonder and despair.
00:26:14We Nazis keep our promises.
00:26:16There's a terrible fire in East End.
00:26:18Concentration of men and supplies.
00:26:20American bombers, tanks, gone.
00:26:23Destroyed utterly.
00:26:25The flames are mounting,
00:26:26higher and higher and higher.
00:26:28Now the glare must be visible
00:26:30even to the short-sighted leaders
00:26:32of your bewildered government.
00:26:33Mark well the towering fires.
00:26:36They consume your new planes from America.
00:26:39Your meager store of tanks,
00:26:41your puny munitions,
00:26:43and your food.
00:26:44Planes that were your only defense
00:26:46against our all-powerful Luftwaffe.
00:26:48Tanks and munitions that you prayed would hold
00:26:51against the magnificent 50-ton German land monsters
00:26:54which will soon be crashing through your very houses.
00:26:57Food.
00:26:58Turn it off.
00:27:21Gentlemen, this is really a terrible setback.
00:27:24How do they find out our secrets?
00:27:25It's horrible.
00:27:26The way it's timed, the precision of it.
00:27:28It's not so precise.
00:27:30Almost precise.
00:27:31What do you mean?
00:27:31I should call it exact.
00:27:33No.
00:27:34The fires actually broke out
00:27:35sometime before the voice called
00:27:37to his operative in London.
00:27:38Joe, that's true.
00:27:39And last time, the train disaster.
00:27:41Captain Shaw was on the telephone immediately.
00:27:43And Scotland Yard knew all about it.
00:27:45The derailment must have occurred
00:27:47at least ten minutes earlier.
00:27:48That's certainly possible.
00:27:50Even so, what of it?
00:27:51No mystery, nothing supernatural.
00:27:53Just split-second planning, that's all.
00:27:54Days, perhaps weeks in advance.
00:27:56Very well figured out, Holmes.
00:27:58It gets us a step forward.
00:27:59Now, gentlemen, let's take a step even further.
00:28:02I have charted here the tonal differences
00:28:04between actual and transcribed broadcasts.
00:28:07Using this test, I'm convinced that the voice of terror
00:28:10is undoubtedly recorded and played from a record.
00:28:12What does that prove?
00:28:13It proves that the voice of terror, the man himself,
00:28:16is not in Germany.
00:28:17He's here, in England.
00:28:19Oh, it's impossible.
00:28:19What are you telling us, Holmes?
00:28:20It can't be.
00:28:21Our technicians insist the broadcast originate in Seisberg.
00:28:24And so they do, from recordings flown to Seisberg.
00:28:27It's impossible, Holmes.
00:28:28You can't expect anyone to believe that.
00:28:30It can't be done.
00:28:32Thanks to the Royal Air Force,
00:28:33I have some rather curious information.
00:28:35At irregular intervals, six Nazi bombing planes come over
00:28:38and drop their deadly cargoes on non-military objectives.
00:28:41A meadow or a sheepfold.
00:28:42That's nonsense.
00:28:43The Nazis aren't fools.
00:28:44They don't waste ammunition.
00:28:44Of course not.
00:28:45Then what's the purpose?
00:28:46To divert attention from the fact
00:28:47that a single plane breaks formation each time and disappears.
00:28:50But why?
00:28:52Gentlemen,
00:28:54that lone plane picks up plans, maps,
00:28:56secret military information,
00:28:57and the voice of terror's timed and recorded speech
00:29:00and flies them to Germany.
00:29:01I can hardly believe it.
00:29:03Sensational, if true.
00:29:04It's incredible.
00:29:04Fantastic.
00:29:07Mr. Holmes.
00:29:08Yes?
00:29:09There's a person outside asking...
00:29:12A lady?
00:29:12Um...
00:29:13Ask her to come in.
00:29:14Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:29:26Gentlemen, I must leave at once.
00:29:27Where are you going?
00:29:28That must remain a secret,
00:29:30even from this council.
00:29:31I object to this, Mr. Holmes.
00:29:32You're here against my wishes.
00:29:33Since you are here,
00:29:34I demand to know what's being done.
00:29:35As I've already told you, Mr. Lloyd,
00:29:37I shall report to this council at the proper time.
00:29:39And so, gentlemen,
00:29:39until we meet again,
00:29:41as I hope we will,
00:29:42take no unnecessary risks.
00:29:44We're all in grave danger.
00:29:45Come on, Watson.
00:29:45Coming.
00:29:56Stay.
00:29:57Hey.
00:29:59Listen.
00:30:00I'll have to go.
00:30:01I'll have to go.
00:30:02Hold on.
00:30:03Stay.
00:30:12Stay.
00:30:14Stay.
00:30:15Stay.
00:30:21Stay that way.
00:30:23Stay.
00:30:24Stay.
00:30:25Stay.
00:30:30Oh, I think we're being followed.
00:30:33Yes, I know. It's Lloyd.
00:30:35Lloyd? How do you know?
00:30:36He's so obvious about it.
00:30:42Good evening, Mr. Lloyd.
00:30:45We're going our way.
00:30:47I intend to find out what you're doing.
00:30:49Even to the point of following me?
00:30:50This is our business, you know, as well as yours.
00:30:52All right. Come along.
00:31:00This little place.
00:31:02Seems deserted.
00:31:04It's been deserted for years.
00:31:09Not very securely locked.
00:31:12Fortunate, isn't it?
00:31:30Water.
00:31:31It's the river.
00:31:33This is part of the old Christopher docks.
00:31:35Never heard of them.
00:31:36Christopher? I say, Holmes, isn't that the word that Gavin...
00:31:37What, Watson?
00:31:38Oh, sorry?
00:31:39They're almost forgotten.
00:31:41They were built before Victoria.
00:31:42They were in the river.
00:32:24Oh, Red.
00:32:59Good evening, gentlemen.
00:33:01I knew your curiosity would be your undoing, Mr. Holmes.
00:33:05You were expecting me then?
00:33:06Yes.
00:33:08I had hoped that the entire council might have come.
00:33:11It would have been a pleasure to deal with all of them, quietly and effectively.
00:33:16Eventually, they all will be taken care of.
00:33:19However, Mr. Lloyd is quite a catch and will have to suffice for the moment.
00:33:23What do you intend to do with this?
00:33:30Were it not that time is so pressing, we might first put you on trial.
00:33:34On trial for what?
00:33:36Crimes against the Third Reich.
00:33:39Mr. Lloyd, your super British patriotism, your blundering but sometimes effective intelligence efforts are well known.
00:33:50We have quite a score against you, which will be settled.
00:33:56Dr. Watson, a fair physician, no doubt, but of no consequence.
00:34:02To our stupid British minds, every life is of consequence.
00:34:06A quaint notion of an even quainter nation.
00:34:09We are not like that.
00:34:11We know that only the powerful are worthy of respect.
00:34:16Let our record speak for us.
00:34:18Your record speaks. It's brilliant.
00:34:22A brilliant record of rapacity, cruelty, torture, deceit and murder.
00:34:26Murder?
00:34:36Gesundheit.
00:34:42Cold?
00:34:44It is a little chilly in here.
00:34:45I'm sorry you're uncomfortable.
00:34:47My discomfort is of no consequence.
00:34:49Your false courage is not impressive, Mr. Holmes.
00:34:52Of course you realize that you and your friends are going to die.
00:34:56As all men must, sooner or later.
00:34:58Not later.
00:35:00Now.
00:35:02Now.
00:35:35Good work, boys.
00:35:36It's your pleasure, sir.
00:35:38All right, then.
00:35:38Land them up there against the wall.
00:35:39Come on.
00:35:40Thank you, Jim.
00:35:42Come on.
00:35:43Come on.
00:35:43Get back.
00:36:07He got away.
00:36:09Oh, most unfortunate.
00:36:11I blame myself severely.
00:36:13I should think you might, Holmes.
00:36:14If you hadn't been so stupidly mysterious,
00:36:16allowed Scotland Yard to give you adequate protection,
00:36:18the man would never have escaped.
00:36:19No, he never would.
00:36:20Most regrettable.
00:36:22But...
00:36:22Gesundheit.
00:36:24Yeah.
00:36:30At that door!
00:36:32At that door!
00:36:50Keep quiet!
00:36:56Take your hands off!
00:36:57You fool!
00:36:58You want to bring the whole force in here?
00:37:00I am going to...
00:37:23I am going to be here.
00:37:56So that was it, eh?
00:38:00Quite a haul.
00:38:02It's mine.
00:38:23Go ahead, you friends. The police are undoubtedly still out there.
00:38:38There isn't a better hideout in all London.
00:39:03This will quiet your nerves.
00:39:28The tea's got cold again. You've been playing anything all the afternoon?
00:39:32No. Fiddling while Rome burns.
00:39:37Well, what's this?
00:39:39General J. Lawford, KCB, dear sir, and Captain Roland Shaw MC,
00:39:43who today narrowly escaped being struck by a falling wall in a bombed area.
00:39:48Lawford and Shaw by a falling...
00:39:50Holmes, you don't think that...
00:39:54It was not an accident.
00:39:56Good heavens!
00:39:57Holmes!
00:39:58That sinister-looking fellow, what's his name?
00:40:01Meade.
00:40:01If only he hadn't got away.
00:40:03Yes, difficult as it was, I managed to let him escape.
00:40:05You let him escape? But great Scott man!
00:40:08He was about to kill us!
00:40:10He may even yet.
00:40:11I don't understand you, Holmes.
00:40:13It's my theory, if this chap Meade is the arch-criminal,
00:40:15that he's behind the whole thing.
00:40:17You're absolutely right, Watson.
00:40:19Except for one thing.
00:40:20Well, then I'm wrong.
00:40:21Have you observed that a highly secret military plan
00:40:24is thwarted by each of these disasters?
00:40:25Yes, I have. Now that you mention it.
00:40:29Watson, there's a leak.
00:40:30A leak? You mean in the council?
00:40:33But, Holmes, that's impossible!
00:40:36Anything is possible, until proved otherwise.
00:40:38You'll see who are in the council.
00:40:39Lawford and Shaw.
00:40:41They're about suspicion. Their record proves that.
00:40:43Anyhow, they were attacked.
00:40:45Unsuccessfully.
00:40:47Prentiss?
00:40:47Would he kill his own son?
00:40:49Doesn't seem likely.
00:40:51And yet the boy is dead.
00:40:53Byron, of course, brought you into the case.
00:40:55So it's quite obvious that he wants it solved.
00:40:57Most patriotic of so even Byron.
00:40:59He's a great fellow.
00:41:00Paid wing three-quarter for the school my last term,
00:41:02so I can vouch for him.
00:41:03Besides, he was attacked too. Shot at.
00:41:06So I gather.
00:41:08How about Lloyd?
00:41:10It can't be him.
00:41:12Meade was going to kill him as well as us.
00:41:14By the way, he's a brave fellow, Lloyd.
00:41:16Did you notice that he didn't turn a hair?
00:41:18Very composed.
00:41:21Come in.
00:41:23Mr. Holmes?
00:41:24Yes, Kitty?
00:41:24I think now we'll be able to get some information from Mr. Meade.
00:41:27Your plan worked like a charm.
00:41:29I knew you could do it.
00:41:30Oh, it's not so hard once your mind's made up.
00:41:32And mine is.
00:41:33You'll be careful.
00:41:33She better be.
00:41:34She's mixed up with that fellow.
00:41:35I'll be careful, all right.
00:41:37But I'm going through with this.
00:41:39Good girl.
00:41:40I heard him talking on the phone today.
00:41:42Yes?
00:41:42He said,
00:41:43I'll take care of that little Seven Oaks matter at 11 tonight.
00:41:46Seven Oaks?
00:41:47Isn't that where...
00:41:48Barham has a country place.
00:41:50Watson?
00:41:50There's not a moment to lose.
00:41:55If I find out that Meade did kill Gavin, I'll...
00:41:57If so, he'll be punished.
00:41:59I warned you, no one was safe with that fellow at large.
00:42:01Now he's after Barham.
00:42:02Yes, I only hope we're in time.
00:42:05Come along, Kitty.
00:42:06I'll get you a taxi.
00:42:07Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:42:18You think you ought to go out alone, sir?
00:42:20Worrying about that escaped German agent, huh?
00:42:23He threatens to kill the entire council, sir.
00:42:25Come, Smithson.
00:42:26Took bigger chances than this in the trenches.
00:42:28Have you forgotten?
00:42:29I know, sir, but we were younger then.
00:42:31And the veroches thing is now, sir.
00:42:34I'm ready for him.
00:42:35I understand, sir.
00:42:57You've driven to Evan down here before, of course, Miss Grandis.
00:43:00Quite often.
00:43:01He comes down whenever he can.
00:43:02He's a local air raid warden, you know.
00:43:04Likes to get away from the excitement occasionally, eh?
00:43:06Yes.
00:43:07It's so very quiet here.
00:43:09Quiet and remote.
00:43:12Away from everyone.
00:43:23Yes?
00:43:24Oh, Miss Jill.
00:43:25It's all right, Smithson.
00:43:26Where is Sir Evan?
00:43:26On his rounds, Miss.
00:43:27Which way?
00:43:28Down that lane of trees, sir.
00:43:29I'll go.
00:43:31Oh, Watson.
00:43:43Hello there, Barham!
00:43:52Holmes!
00:43:53What on earth are you doing out here?
00:43:55I, uh...
00:43:55I've been worried about you.
00:43:57Yes?
00:43:57That fellow Meade appears to be in the neighborhood.
00:44:00Do you mind if I go along with you?
00:44:01I'd feel better about it.
00:44:02Not at all.
00:44:03I'd appreciate the company.
00:44:04You know, it gets quite lonesome, especially on a night like this.
00:44:08By the way, do you feel you're getting any nearer solution of this terrible business?
00:44:13Yes.
00:44:14Yes, yes.
00:44:14The end is in sight.
00:44:15Really?
00:44:16What would you mind telling me?
00:44:18Listen.
00:44:20Air raid sirens.
00:44:22Yes.
00:44:23Coming our way.
00:44:24Yes.
00:44:26I don't simply hear any planes.
00:44:28Wait a minute.
00:44:29I can.
00:44:32Look!
00:44:33There's one.
00:44:34She's coming right over.
00:44:53There she is.
00:44:54Marshal Wells.
00:44:54Wells.
00:44:56Wells.
00:44:56Holmes.
00:44:57He's coming in for a landing.
00:45:04The swine.
00:45:05That's the pickup plane.
00:45:06The voice must be here, close by.
00:45:07Then we've got him.
00:45:09Barron!
00:45:10Be careful!
00:45:26I can't understand you, Holmes.
00:45:27Why didn't you help me?
00:45:28We almost had him.
00:45:29You're too impatient, Barron.
00:45:30My patience is exhausted.
00:45:31This has got to stop.
00:45:32I thought you'd have solved the whole thing long before this.
00:45:34What happened?
00:45:35Was that a Nazi plane?
00:45:36Yes.
00:45:36I saw the filthy swastika myself.
00:45:38Great Scott.
00:45:39Took a shot at him, but he got away.
00:45:41Mead also got away.
00:45:42Well, I'd better go and report this.
00:45:43No, go with you.
00:45:44Come along, Watson.
00:45:44You needn't bother.
00:45:45I can take care of myself.
00:45:46My dear fellow, there's no use taking chances.
00:45:48I'm afraid you're a marked man as long as Mead is at large.
00:45:50Come on.
00:46:01You're a fine one leaving me alone half the night.
00:46:04Do you think I like it?
00:46:06I want to go out and have some fun.
00:46:08Don't bother me.
00:46:10I said you were going to let me work with you.
00:46:12Someday you'll come back and I won't be here.
00:46:14Where would you go?
00:46:16What's my business?
00:46:19Maybe you'll be waiting here next time and I won't come back.
00:46:23Don't talk like that.
00:46:26I'm sorry, Kitty.
00:46:28You seem sort of different lately.
00:46:31Anything the matter?
00:46:33Maybe the next time you see me, I'll be in a position of authority, of power.
00:46:37No longer hiding in the dark.
00:46:39Giving the orders, not taking them.
00:46:42What do you say to that?
00:46:45You're drunk.
00:46:47Drunk?
00:46:50Yes.
00:46:52When I was a boy, I dreamed a dream.
00:46:55I was dressed in armor, shining blue-gray armor.
00:47:00I rode on a horse through the streets, where the people cheered, hailing me.
00:47:09I rode over the bodies of underlings, prostrated before me.
00:47:15Their blood ran out along the gutters like a river.
00:47:23What if this was no dream?
00:47:27What if it was prophecy?
00:47:30What if all this comes to pass?
00:47:35Well, something must have happened to you.
00:47:41Yes, Kitty.
00:47:43Something that you're going to share with me.
00:47:46Get your coat. Hurry.
00:48:03Why two?
00:48:03Is there plenty of petrol?
00:48:05Enough. Start driving.
00:48:12Go, Go!
00:48:13Go.
00:48:18Go.
00:48:35Where's Holmes?
00:48:36He'll be here, I'm sure.
00:48:37It's starting now.
00:48:38Here he is.
00:48:40You're almost late.
00:48:41I had to go to Downing Street.
00:48:43Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:45Your favorite broadcaster,
00:48:47the Voice of Terror.
00:48:49Coming to you from Seisborg.
00:48:50Tonight I have something special for you.
00:48:53Where are you weakest,
00:48:55you weakening people of Britain?
00:48:57Consider well.
00:48:58Is it lack of food?
00:48:59Is it your stodgy leadership?
00:49:01Faulty ammunition?
00:49:02Scarcity of shipping?
00:49:04Lack of raw materials?
00:49:05Do you know that despite all your great efforts,
00:49:08your coasts are inadequately defended?
00:49:11Especially one coast.
00:49:13And there we shall strike.
00:49:14Swiftly.
00:49:15Terribly.
00:49:16Tomorrow, at sunrise.
00:49:19In a special broadcast of that time,
00:49:21I shall describe the carnage.
00:49:24Turn it off.
00:49:27What does he mean?
00:49:28What kind of threat is this?
00:49:29Remember,
00:49:30all our reports for the last few weeks
00:49:32have indicated abnormal enemy activity
00:49:34on the coast of Norway.
00:49:35That means an attacking force
00:49:36on our northeast coast.
00:49:37Then that's where we must concentrate
00:49:39all our forces.
00:49:40Immediately.
00:49:41They'll never bring it off now that we know.
00:49:42This time the voice is boasting.
00:49:45Perhaps.
00:49:45But so far he's made good his boasts.
00:49:49What have you done to stop it?
00:49:50Shilly-shallying about
00:49:51while these crimes continue.
00:49:52This is the last straw.
00:49:53We must prevent this all-out attack
00:49:55at any cost.
00:49:56Sir Evans right.
00:49:57All our available resources
00:49:58must be rushed to meet it.
00:50:00Withdraw material from elsewhere?
00:50:02If need be, yes.
00:50:03This calls for action
00:50:04and lots of it.
00:50:06There's something curious
00:50:08about this broadcast.
00:50:09He said tomorrow.
00:50:11Always before,
00:50:12it was now.
00:50:14I wonder what it means.
00:50:15There's no time for wonder
00:50:16at this point.
00:50:17Mr. Holmes,
00:50:18your methods have got us nowhere.
00:50:19The situation demanded action
00:50:20and got none.
00:50:21Mr. Lloyd,
00:50:22I think I know
00:50:22when action should be taken.
00:50:24Nevertheless,
00:50:24we take charge now.
00:50:26This is a crisis
00:50:27you can't hope to deal with.
00:50:29A man to see you, Mr. Holmes.
00:50:31Bring him in.
00:50:31Yes, sir.
00:50:33Mr. Holmes, sir.
00:50:35Last night I trailed Kitty
00:50:36and the fellow meet.
00:50:37Yes?
00:50:37They went to a place
00:50:38near a bomb village
00:50:39on the coast, sir.
00:50:40North?
00:50:41No, sir.
00:50:41South.
00:50:42South?
00:50:42Why didn't you come sooner?
00:50:43Motor trouble, sir.
00:50:45Just got back.
00:50:46All right,
00:50:46it can't be helped.
00:50:46Stand by until we need you.
00:50:47What?
00:50:49So,
00:50:50it's on the southern coast
00:50:52the drama is to be played.
00:50:53The fox is out of his hole at last.
00:50:55Meet has led us
00:50:55to the voice of terror.
00:50:56Gentlemen,
00:50:57we must set up at once.
00:50:58Are you mad?
00:50:58What sort of a wild goose chase
00:51:00are you suggesting?
00:51:00It's ridiculous.
00:51:01It's time to put a stop to this.
00:51:07Barham speaking.
00:51:11Yes, of course.
00:51:14We've been ordered
00:51:15to accompany Mr. Holmes.
00:51:18Mr. Holmes.
00:51:24The Seven Book ofæ²¹
00:51:25the matter if my man
00:51:29sees an ambassador
00:51:29All right.
00:51:45The six lub dance
00:51:47Sedney
00:51:47one
00:51:47how
00:51:48to die Him甘is
00:51:50that demand
00:52:03Major Harrison, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:52:05Good evening, sir. All the arrangements have been made.
00:52:07Splendid. And that church up there?
00:52:13Yes, sir. All right. Let's go, gentlemen.
00:52:31Bon Borg seems to be delayed.
00:52:33He'll be here. Never fear.
00:52:36You all understand your objectives.
00:52:42Sheila. Sheila!
00:52:43Yes, sir.
00:52:46You understand what you are to do?
00:52:48Yes, sir. I'm going with the first contingent to Liverpool.
00:52:49Your men are waiting there, organized to take control?
00:52:52They have been ready and waiting for weeks.
00:52:55What was that?
00:53:03When the world is changing, it is natural to be on edge.
00:53:06Merely owls, or perhaps wood rats?
00:53:08No. It sounded like...
00:53:10Sheila!
00:53:11Yes, sir.
00:53:13Go on.
00:53:14City of Croydon Airport. All is prepared.
00:53:17Hugo.
00:53:17Birmingham.
00:53:19Where I used to slave in the factories.
00:53:21But not anymore.
00:53:22The day has come at last.
00:53:23Okay.
00:53:32Line them up over there.
00:53:47Mr. Holmes.
00:53:49I was afraid you'd be too late.
00:53:50I'm glad you're safe, Kitty.
00:53:51Come along.
00:53:52Sit down.
00:53:54Come on.
00:53:56Sit down.
00:54:05Gentlemen, when Mr. Meade and I last met, he wished he could put us on trial.
00:54:10Mr. Lloyd, Dr. Watson, and myself.
00:54:13Now, Meade, you are on trial.
00:54:17First, let me tell you why you have met here.
00:54:19The vague but canny threat against our northeastern coast was a blind.
00:54:23Your group has congregated here to receive an invasion army proceeding across the channel.
00:54:27What?
00:54:28Invasion?
00:54:28All those men rushed for defences of the north.
00:54:30I can't believe it.
00:54:31It sounds impossible.
00:54:32Sit down for a moment.
00:54:33It seems absurd.
00:54:34Meanwhile, I mean...
00:54:38Now, the head of this mighty force, the picked and chosen, the faithful will proceed to various
00:54:44centers of our country and take up positions of authority.
00:54:46And we shall.
00:54:47Do you understand that?
00:54:48Unfortunately for you, that is not to be.
00:54:49We are held, yes.
00:54:51But the invasion will proceed without us.
00:54:54Why are we helpless here?
00:54:56Please be patient.
00:54:58You called me in on this case to identify and to silence the voice of terror and to circumvent
00:55:02the unknown plan behind it.
00:55:04That undertaking is still in progress.
00:55:07But we are rapidly drawing to a conclusion.
00:55:09Gentlemen, the voice of terror is here with you in this church.
00:55:14What?
00:55:15Are you referring to Meade?
00:55:17Why, who is it?
00:55:17Meade was my one sure connection with the voice of terror.
00:55:20At the warehouse, I allowed him to escape and assign Kitty here to trail him.
00:55:25When I learned through Kitty's abduction that Meade had come down here to meet with a group
00:55:29of men, I asked myself why.
00:55:32Why a deserted fishing village on the channel when Scotland was to be the next scene of disaster?
00:55:38And why was it necessary to withdraw great stores of ordnance and material for the protection
00:55:41of Scotland?
00:55:42It was a ruse, gentlemen, to leave this coast unprotected.
00:55:45A ruse devised by the voice of terror.
00:55:47Sir, I, uh, I knew quite early, of course, that the voice was a member of your august body.
00:55:55You dare to insinuate that one of us...
00:55:57If this is meant to be humor, it's very ill time.
00:55:59German agents knew I was on the case the very night I was called in.
00:56:04How did they know this secret?
00:56:06One of your counsel informed them.
00:56:09There were attempts made on the lives of all of us, but the attempt made on the life of
00:56:13one of your members was entirely unsubstantiated, resting on his word alone.
00:56:17One member whom I went to the country ostensibly to protect, actually to surprise, this member
00:56:22fired on an atypical plane, not in rage, as he pretended, but to warn and frighten it away.
00:56:28That was very clever of you, Sir Evan.
00:56:32Sir Evan?
00:56:33Why, I can't believe it.
00:56:35Sir Evan couldn't be implicated in a thing like this.
00:56:37What's Sir Evan got to say?
00:56:40Let me congratulate you, Mr. Holmes.
00:56:42You admit this outrageous accusation?
00:56:44There's been treason before, but this is beyond belief.
00:56:47Treason is not involved.
00:56:48Sir Evan Barham is not Sir Evan Barham.
00:56:51What are you talking about?
00:56:52In March 1918, Lieutenant Evan Barham was a prisoner in a German prison camp.
00:56:56There, his amazing resemblance to a certain Heinrich von Bork, a brilliant young member
00:57:01of the German secret service, sealed young Barham's fate.
00:57:05One morning, he was taken out and shot, murdered in cold blood.
00:57:08Then this man is...
00:57:09He is Heinrich von Bork, who has been masquerading in Barham's place for the past 24 years.
00:57:14You see, gentlemen, the Germans plan well in advance.
00:57:18It's incredible.
00:57:19How could a thing like this happen?
00:57:20Barham had no immediate family.
00:57:22The details of his private life were avidly studied by von Bork, who was three years at
00:57:25Oxford and had a perfect knowledge of the English language and English habits.
00:57:29So, with possibly the help of a little plastic surgery, not forgetting the considerable resemblance
00:57:35to Barham in the first place, the deception was carried through.
00:57:38Very clever, Mr. Holmes.
00:57:40I must say, Holmes, this is positively amazing.
00:57:43What made you first suspect Barham?
00:57:46The real Sir Evan Barham carried a scar from childhood.
00:57:50This one is about 20 years old.
00:57:52A detail, but significant.
00:57:54I can't believe it.
00:57:55It was Barham who insisted on your being brought into the case.
00:57:58A colossal piece of egocentric conceit.
00:58:00One to match your own, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:58:03Of course I brought you into the case.
00:58:04To see your weak and silly handling, to watch you fumble and lose it.
00:58:08Are you too stupid to realize that this group is but a small part of our organization?
00:58:12We have men stationed all over England, ready to take command.
00:58:16They never will.
00:58:17They were all taken exactly at dawn, just as you were.
00:58:19So now we are trapped, huh?
00:58:22No, gentlemen.
00:58:22It is you who are trapped.
00:58:25Listen.
00:58:28Even now our Messerschmitts are roaring overhead.
00:58:30The vanguard of the invasion.
00:58:32Why are they not routed?
00:58:34Where are our boasted anti-aircraft guns?
00:58:36They are silent.
00:58:38Our little ruse was entirely successful.
00:58:40The coast has been stripped of its defenses.
00:58:43Preserve your vaunted British vanity as best you may.
00:58:46In this, your hour of most humiliating defeat.
00:58:49You have not captured us, my friend.
00:58:52We have annihilated you.
00:58:54Do you really think it's so blind that we would strip this coast of defenses
00:58:57because of a voice on a phonograph record?
00:58:59The Council was deliberately misinformed about moving the defense forces.
00:59:04You are trying to save your face.
00:59:05Look, if you think I'm lying.
00:59:11Those are not Messerschmitts.
00:59:13They are spitfires and hurricanes.
00:59:15Returning from blasting your invasion forces.
00:59:17Destroying men in barges with a thousand.
00:59:19Look further, Van Bork.
00:59:20Look below.
00:59:23Commandos, tanks.
00:59:25Slipping away now that your invasion force has been destroyed.
00:59:27Bring ruin and terror to your people.
00:59:36I wonder if there's anything on the wireless about this.
00:59:42The BBC.
00:59:44We are frightfully sorry to announce that a special broadcast of the Voice of Terror
00:59:48will have to be delayed indefinitely.
00:59:52A threat against our northern coasts made only as a blind
00:59:54to cover the enemy's invasion plans has not been fulfilled.
00:59:58Instead, our victorious planes have blasted invasion bases on the continent,
01:00:03destroying enormous stores of materiel and troops.
01:00:06More news of this triumphant victory tomorrow.
01:00:08At the same time, the scattered Nazi agents all over the Commonwealth
01:00:12have been unceremoniously clapped into prison.
01:00:16That is all.
01:00:17Look out!
01:00:35This girl merits our deepest gratitude.
01:00:37Our country is honoured in having had such loyalty and devotion.
01:00:41We'll remember.
01:00:43Holmes,
01:00:45I don't know how we'll ever thank you.
01:00:47Don't try.
01:00:47It isn't necessary.
01:00:52I'll be with you in a minute, Holmes.
01:00:54I'll just see if she's taken care of.
01:01:07I always did think that chap was an imposter.
01:01:09Byron was a good fellow.
01:01:10Played wing three-quarter for the school.
01:01:23What a lovely morning, Holmes.
01:01:27There's an east wind coming, Watson.
01:01:29No, I don't think so.
01:01:30Looks like another warm day.
01:01:34Good old Watson.
01:01:36But one fixed point in a changing age.
01:01:41There's an east wind coming all the same.
01:01:44Such a wind has never blew on England yet.
01:01:46It will be cold and bitter, Watson.
01:01:50And a good many of us may wither before its blast.
01:01:53But it's God's own wind, nonetheless.
01:01:56And a greener, better, stronger land
01:01:58will lie in the sunshine when the storm is cleared.
01:02:16And a greener, better, stronger land
01:02:35Good morning.
01:02:36All right.
01:02:36You
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