Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a series of mysterious murders inside Musgrave Manor, a British convalescent home during World War II.   What begins as a family quarrel quickly turns deadly: members of the Musgrave family are found murdered one after another, each death seemingly connected to an ancient family ritual known as the Musgrave Ritual.

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00:15:44That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.

00:15:49But what may I ask does it prove?

00:15:52What I'm trying to prove is this.

00:15:54That Dr. Sextenier went down.

00:15:56Twice now, Inspector.

00:15:58You were stunned.

00:15:59Naturally.

00:15:59You were out longer than you thought.

00:16:01That's the point.

00:16:01What point?

00:16:02Just this.

00:16:03The man who attacked him had time to get back into the house before Dr. Sextenier came to.

00:16:07Yes.

00:16:08Yes.

00:16:09And this here glove.

00:16:11Oh.

00:16:12And this here glove, what I picked up at the scene of the crime, belongs to a certain party right

00:16:18here in this house.

00:16:19I say.

00:16:20Why, that glove belongs to my brother.

00:16:22Huh?

00:16:23Do you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sexten?

00:16:25Who knows?

00:16:27The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.

00:16:31Very well.

00:16:32My brother's down at the stables.

00:16:33I'll take you to him myself.

00:16:35It's the quickest way to put a stop to this blithering nonsense.

00:16:37Come on.

00:16:39Oh, Mr. Phillip.

00:16:40Yeah?

00:16:40Better not go out in the night air without a coat.

00:16:43Here, take mine.

00:16:44Thanks.

00:16:48Well, I won't need this.

00:16:49No.

00:16:50Oh, uh, nor this.

00:16:52Well, shall we go?

00:16:56Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes.

00:16:58Good evening, Lestrade.

00:16:59Come to give us an hand, have you?

00:17:00Always happy to help, Inspector.

00:17:02Thanks, but I don't think I should be needing any.

00:17:05Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.

00:17:09Gentlemen, this is my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

00:17:12Mr. Phillip Musgrave and Dr. Sexten.

00:17:14How do you do?

00:17:15I've just brought him up to spend a few days with us.

00:17:18Well, that's very good of you.

00:17:19But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.

00:17:22Oh, really?

00:17:22It's most unfortunate.

00:17:23If you don't mind, Dr. Watson,

00:17:25I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.

00:17:27I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.

00:17:29Oh, no?

00:17:31I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.

00:17:33We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.

00:17:35He's dead.

00:17:37You can't mean it.

00:17:40No.

00:17:44Look here, Holmes.

00:17:45If this is one of your little jokes...

00:17:47Murder's no joke, Inspector.

00:17:49That's right, Mr. Holmes.

00:17:51No good saying it ain't.

00:17:53Murder?

00:17:53Well, let's get going.

00:17:54I'll take charge now.

00:17:55What?

00:17:56It's quite within my rights.

00:17:57It's a local justice of the peace.

00:17:58I'll come with you.

00:18:21Wait a minute, you fool.

00:18:22Don't go barging in like that.

00:18:24Don't maw me.

00:18:28Don't go barging in like that.

00:18:29Surgical instruments.

00:18:31You know, Watson,

00:18:32the instruments that save life

00:18:34are hardly more pleasant to look at

00:18:35than those that take it.

00:18:36Hmm.

00:18:37Grizzly thought, Holmes.

00:18:42You rang, Dr. Watson?

00:18:44Yes, Brunton.

00:18:44I want you to take some men

00:18:45and go down to the Lime Walk.

00:18:47Me, sir?

00:18:47Why, can't, sir?

00:18:48I'm sorry, but I simply can't.

00:18:50my stomach you know I really couldn't look at a corpse corpse well I uh how did you know that

00:19:00there was a corpse obviously he was listening at the door I'll take care of the matter doctor

00:19:04I was listening too come along Brunton

00:19:14remarkable woman housekeeper I suppose she's very efficient same type as Mary Ann Carpenter the trunk

00:19:21motorists extraordinary house yes indeed now Watson if you don't mind I'd like to have a word

00:19:31with your extraordinary patience let me remind you Holmes that my patients are just uh just

00:19:36uh patients quite so all normal men sound in mind and body no sign of psychoneurosis I quite

00:19:43understand then Holmes even even normal people sometimes a little precisely

00:20:00hello Mac hey oh I must have taken a wee nap but Mac I want you to meet a very

00:20:08old friend of mine

00:20:08Mr. Sherlock Holmes Captain McIntosh how'd you do I have heard of you Mr. Holmes sorry to have wakened

00:20:13you oh that's quite all right see you later yes sit down Mac and go on we'll sleep

00:20:24poor chap he lay wounded in a trench on Joshua Hill the German tanks went over him

00:20:31Watson huh have you any idea how Geoffrey Musgate meant his death yes depressed skull fracture

00:20:37only hang it all homes it isn't isn't it why not no edema no bleeding no contraction of tissue

00:20:44precisely the blow on the head was delivered after death Musgrave was killed by a sharp instrument

00:20:48thrust up between the base of the skull and the top vertebra great Scott should we go up now

00:21:00hello Langford hello there uh been away haven't you haven't you yes I've just been out of London

00:21:06I brought my friend back this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes Major Langford uh see you at dinner what what

00:21:12I hope so I hope so I hope so excuse me excuse me poor chap was at Singapore escaped from

00:21:22Japanese

00:21:22prison camp ghastly experience he's suffering from escape complex obviously yes he's a he's a very

00:21:28nice chap though the next fellow I want you to meet is young clay wing lieutenant royal engineers saw a

00:21:34lot of men blown to bits by Nazi booby traps he's a bit on edge not unnaturally

00:21:49well Dr. Watson come in won't you sorry to keep you so long you see I uh I was lying

00:21:57down resting

00:21:58this is my friend Mr. Holmes who's here for a few days Mr. Clavering glad to meet you how'd you

00:22:03do

00:22:04sorry to disturb you not at all I say you don't have to have some cigarettes about you do you

00:22:08that's one

00:22:09of the reasons I came I brought you some of those American cigarettes that you're so fond of

00:22:14that's all right open it up no Harry no Harry at all no no no of course there isn't here

00:22:22we go

00:22:22yes well we must be off we've got a lot to do see you later yes I'll be back good

00:22:27night

00:22:31he seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package well he's found him in less likely places

00:22:35isn't that poor chap the man in this room is an American flying officer Captain Vickery nothing

00:22:40very much matter with him what's he here for then a spot of rest had to put it on guard

00:22:44it worn out

00:22:45needs all the rest he can get Vickery Vickery so seem to be in

00:22:56no one at home turn to knock not since tea time at any rate well what's this

00:23:08Captain Vickery here's your tea if it's cold don't blame me that sounds like Brunton's work

00:23:15the butler he fends himself a poet but only when he's drinking

00:23:19I see wasn't there an American killer given to verse Holmes you don't think that Brunton excuse

00:23:25me I merely stated there's an American killer given to verse dr. Watson oh where are you oh there

00:23:34you are steady my dear steady please make me wake up won't you it's just a bad dream I know

00:23:40Jeff and Pat no no no my dear you've got to get a grip on yourself come on come come

00:23:45sit down

00:23:47my brother Jeff murdered poor old Jeff and I hadn't spoken to him since we had the fight

00:23:55yesterday on Pat I mean Captain Vickery's account and now he's dead now now my dear you must you must

00:24:01pull yourself together but you don't understand they're trying to say that Pat they're trying to

00:24:08prove that Pat killed Jeff no no yes funny isn't it awfully funny awfully funny awfully funny stop it

00:24:19who are you my name is Holmes Sherlock Holmes yes then you'll help us won't you Mr. Holmes Pat and

00:24:26me I'll

00:24:26try to now tell me wasn't the bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery that's got

00:24:31nothing to do with it may have everything to do with it if you think Captain Vickery ever murdered

00:24:35anyone you're no more of a detective than than than Dr. Watson oh I'm sorry you're very much in love

00:24:45aren't you I'm out of my mind Mr. Holmes I'm out of my mind oh please forgive me and please

00:24:52please

00:24:53help me of course of course I understand but you don't understand that appalling man from Scotland Yard

00:24:58I was questioning Pat at this very moment now they see a rake it's the identical one you got from

00:25:04the gardener this afternoon now ain't it smells like it hey what is this are you trying to prove

00:25:11that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake now I'm trying to never mind what I'm trying to prove

00:25:17just incriminate yourself Captain Vickery that's all the strad wants I'll thank you to keep out of

00:25:21this Mr. Holmes this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes how do you do he's promised to help you dear there's

00:25:25nothing to worry about now only his neck miss now they see a rake what did you say you were

00:25:29using

00:25:30it for I told you I got it to fish my cap out of the pond it blew in oh

00:25:34so you were using it down

00:25:35at the pond were you for the tenth time yes now did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body

00:25:40eh I don't know uh-huh well that's that oh Mr. Holmes any fingerprints on the rake inspector no Mr.

00:25:47Holmes

00:25:47that's the point if Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out well now he wouldn't bother to

00:25:52wipe his fingerprints off now would he it's beyond imagination I suppose that somebody else could

00:25:55have used the rake and wiped off both sets of fingerprints highly interested but very unlikely

00:26:00now you admit that you had a regular set too with Jeffrey Musgrave yesterday didn't you

00:26:04you're threatened to bash his head in I merely made the offer he didn't accept it who told you so

00:26:08he did oh no he did I only stated what I heard Captain Vickery did threaten my brother

00:26:14that's right Mr. Holmes and it's no good saying it ain't this Yankee lad had motive and opportunity

00:26:19and the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse all right come along

00:26:28do you really think he killed old Musgrave you know very well he didn't he doesn't stop clicking

00:26:33those needles oh Pat take it easy Sally now look don't worry a bit I tell you everything's gonna be

00:26:39all right let's go inspecting

00:26:48Mr. Holmes steady steady oh aren't you on our side yes Sally then why don't you do something

00:26:55because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight than he would be in

00:26:58this house oh Mr. Holmes what am I going to do Watson get a set of it I'll get it

00:27:03at once

00:27:03come along Sally

00:27:16she's a bit upset but she'll get over it you think so she'll have to she's got an ordeal

00:27:22ahead of her she has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow ritual this is no family ceremony

00:27:30Mr. Holmes Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household blast this thing this help oh yes

00:27:41thanks knitting needle isn't it yes handy little things this is my air Sally has to recite a sort

00:27:51of formula over Jeff's body in front of the fireplace in the library in the presence of the entire

00:27:55household well that's better there's what sort of formula oh it's not meaningless words must grave

00:28:03ritual they call it so family customs been handed down for generations you remember the words no no

00:28:10not at all but you had to speak them when your brother Jeffrey took over yes if that's right I

00:28:17did

00:28:18let me see now who first shall find it were better dead who next shall find it perils his head

00:28:26the

00:28:28last to find it defies dark powers who first shall find it were better dead who next shall find it

00:28:38perils his head perils his head the last to find it defies dark powers and brings good fortune to

00:28:46Hurston towers where was the light on the face of the messenger where did he speed to guard the

00:28:54queen's page what foeman advanced the bishop's page rashly and who to repel the king's cautious page what

00:29:12then the disaster queen slaughters page no no sorry miss Sally page slaughters page thank you brunton

00:29:40who came then to slay him the bloodthirsty bishop where shall he go deep down below

00:29:53away from the thunder let him dig under

00:30:13once more unto the breach dear friends once more

00:30:21happy day

00:30:26you drunken sot the master's been ringing you for the past 10 minutes

00:30:30why don't you answer it fly away little gremlin you're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches

00:30:36you in this state oh my soul that's him hurry hurry come in sir come in one moment sir

00:31:05this is indeed an honor

00:31:11i don't often have visitors what can i do for you sir might stop that squeaking to begin with

00:31:18yes sir and perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the musgrave ritual by heart

00:31:21me sir yes you when miss sally forgot the lines today you were the one who prompted her

00:31:28well sir i memorized it obviously but why because it has no meaning

00:31:36i love things that have no meaning

00:31:41thank you brunton but supposing it did have a meaning and suppose that meaning were tied up with

00:31:46the murder of jeffrey musgrave oh what a lovely idea if i may see soon you may brunton

00:31:53you may also sit down thank you sir

00:32:02oh stop it

00:32:05and look at me no here

00:32:08you know the meaning of the musgrave ritual

00:32:11do i well don't you you'd be surprised at all the things i know what things no you don't

00:32:19about the musgraves that'd be telling but here's to them anyway all the musgraves past and present

00:32:28some of them were murderers and some of them worse but they all knew how to keep a secret

00:32:35and so do i brunton

00:32:42i've been ringing for you for the past 10 minutes sorry sir but the buzzer doesn't buzz

00:32:51that'll do brunton you have your notice do you understand

00:32:55yes sir is that advisable mr musgrave let me be the judge of that he leaves helston in the morning

00:33:00the morning's a long way off farewell a long farewell to all my greatness you've done it now

00:33:11alf bunton after all we've been through how am i managed to do it all alone what are you going

00:33:18to do

00:33:19what am i going to do

00:33:49what am i going to do it all right

00:34:0413 again

00:34:08yes

00:34:27is

00:34:30howell's attitude confuses me watson she swears she hasn't said i don't run since last night

00:34:34yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him that's so she knows where he is as well as

00:34:38we

00:34:39do i mean as well as we don't i wonder you said that he was drinking last night wouldn't it

00:34:43be a good

00:34:44idea to try the pub exactly where we're headed for watson i'm glad we thought of this even if we

00:34:49don't

00:34:49find brunton

00:34:53i was afraid we shouldn't find him here don't worry old boy i can do with a drink your information

00:34:59so

00:34:59could i

00:34:59know what's wrong with a drink my name gentlemen hello doctor not looking for us are you are you well

00:35:04no as a matter of fact we're looking for

00:35:08brunton you haven't seen him have you uh have we claving

00:35:11Why should we?

00:35:14Morning, Gracie. Morning, Doctor. What do you have?

00:35:16A bottle of bass and what's yours?

00:35:18A pint of bitter, please, and a pint of bitter.

00:35:21I'm a kettle. I'm a kettle.

00:35:23Oh, really?

00:35:25Hello, a tame raven.

00:35:27You're a devil, are you? A kettle, are you?

00:35:30I'm a devil. I'm a devil.

00:35:32Words of prey, aren't they?

00:35:34Yes, in a way, scavengers, rather.

00:35:36They can smell a carcass half a mile off.

00:35:38Ye, that they can and all.

00:35:40You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.

00:35:44Shall we go and sit down?

00:35:45Come on.

00:35:47Muck, muck.

00:36:06Gracie, have you seen Dr. Watson?

00:36:08He's over there, lass.

00:36:12May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes?

00:36:14What's wrong, Sally?

00:36:15We can't find my brother Philip.

00:36:16Did you look in his room?

00:36:17That's the trouble. We had to force the door. It was locked on the inside.

00:36:20Really?

00:36:20Yes. Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.

00:36:22Certainly, Sally, at once.

00:36:29Do be quick. Something ghastly has happened. I know it.

00:36:31Oh, that dreadful bird. Please drive it away.

00:36:34Watson.

00:36:35Take it away.

00:36:36Away, where are you?

00:36:37Anywhere. Into the pub. Just take it away.

00:36:49Philip Mouth's grave.

00:36:57What are they doing now?

00:36:59Doing now?

00:37:00I don't know. They've stopped talking.

00:37:04Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.

00:37:07Heavy footsteps.

00:37:16There's no doubt about it, Watson.

00:37:18Philip Musgrave had a visitor here last night.

00:37:21These footprints were made either by a very heavy man

00:37:23or a man carrying a very heavy burden.

00:37:25That's right, Mr. Holmes. It's no good saying it ain't.

00:37:27The burden was Philip Musgrave's body,

00:37:30and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brunton.

00:37:32It doesn't necessarily follow.

00:37:34Oh, don't it?

00:37:39Here. Try that on your footprint.

00:37:46And that's Alfred Brunton's shoe.

00:37:49It fits perfectly, Inspector.

00:37:50Uh-huh.

00:37:51But the fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes

00:37:53doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.

00:37:54Why not? Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?

00:37:57Well, they're not in them now, are they?

00:37:59Look here, Holmes. Let's use our intellect.

00:38:01You what?

00:38:01What's wrong with that?

00:38:02Let's stick to motive.

00:38:03That's my strong point now.

00:38:04This here Brunton had motive.

00:38:06Philip Musgrave gave him the sack, didn't he?

00:38:08Did Geoffrey Musgrave also give him the sack?

00:38:10What's that got to do with it?

00:38:11Everything.

00:38:12The similarity of method in both murders

00:38:14shows they were the work of one man.

00:38:15Well, that left Vickrey out.

00:38:17He was in jail at the time of this murder.

00:38:18All right, Brunton, all right.

00:38:19Then Alfred Brunton's our man, just what I said.

00:38:21What possible motive could Brunton have had

00:38:23for the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave?

00:38:25Motive? Oh, bother motive.

00:38:26Who cares about motive?

00:38:27This case is as simple as ABC.

00:38:29Is it?

00:38:30Now, perhaps you could explain to us

00:38:31why these footprints lead up to a blank wall

00:38:32and never return.

00:38:34What?

00:38:35You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?

00:38:37There's just one possible explanation.

00:38:39I've got it.

00:38:41Brunton murdered Musgrave right up against the wall.

00:38:44He hoisted the body over his shoulder, like this, you see.

00:38:48Walks backwards, clean out of the room.

00:38:52That's a very undignified position, Lestrade.

00:38:55Up's a day, is it?

00:38:57In a house as old as this,

00:38:59it's not unusual to find secret passageways

00:39:01that lead down through the walls.

00:39:03Hello, here we are.

00:39:05No, you don't.

00:39:06Come out of there.

00:39:15What are you doing in there?

00:39:16None of your business.

00:39:17Answer me.

00:39:18Obviously.

00:39:19She was looking for Brunton.

00:39:20That's right.

00:39:20He hasn't left Musgrave Manor.

00:39:22I'm certain of that, sir.

00:39:23His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.

00:39:25Don't you lie to me, woman.

00:39:26You've got him in there somewhere.

00:39:27Don't go in there.

00:39:28Why not?

00:39:29You'll get lost.

00:39:30Me lost?

00:39:31Oh, I like that.

00:39:33He will get lost, sir.

00:39:34Let him.

00:39:35Now, listen to me.

00:39:36Where did you get lost?

00:39:37Where did you enter that passageway?

00:39:38Through the old greenhouse in Limehawk, sir.

00:39:40Did Brunton know that?

00:39:41No, he didn't.

00:39:42Mrs. Brunton.

00:39:43Then why were you looking for him in there?

00:39:46We...

00:39:46I...

00:39:46Yes, we've known all along

00:39:48that you were married to Brunton.

00:39:49You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?

00:39:51No.

00:39:52Yes, you do.

00:39:52And you think Brunton did it?

00:39:53No.

00:39:54You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?

00:39:55No, no.

00:39:56Over to the garage?

00:39:57No, he never.

00:39:57And crammed his body in the rumble seat of that roadster.

00:39:59Don't you try and put the blame on, Al.

00:40:01I'll put the blame on both of you.

00:40:02You're in this together.

00:40:03You were in his room last night.

00:40:05I saw you there.

00:40:05Only to talk about the ritual, sir.

00:40:08He...

00:40:09We...

00:40:09He thought that he'd got it all worked out.

00:40:12Did he leave any notes?

00:40:13Any record?

00:40:13No.

00:40:14That is...

00:40:15Oh, come on.

00:40:15Come on out with it.

00:40:18Only this, sir.

00:40:19I found it this morning under the soap dish on his washstand.

00:40:23Hmm.

00:40:23He's still written.

00:40:24Another jingle?

00:40:24Yes.

00:40:25Obviously in some agitation.

00:40:29If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual,

00:40:31seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual.

00:40:34The old ritual.

00:40:35There it is again.

00:40:36Watson, we'd rather find that ritual.

00:40:37It's the key to the whole business.

00:40:38Just a minute.

00:40:38You can't talk to Sally.

00:40:39Why not?

00:40:40She was in such a state I had to give her a hypo.

00:40:41All right.

00:40:42Come along.

00:40:47Draw the curtains, Watson.

00:40:52There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.

00:40:54She had to learn it, you know.

00:40:56Yes, you're right.

00:40:57Here it is.

00:40:58I doubt it.

00:41:01Empty.

00:41:01Quite.

00:41:02There's only one thing to do.

00:41:03Search the room.

00:41:04Not the room, Watson.

00:41:05Her mind.

00:41:06We must search her mind.

00:41:08Obviously she took great pains to hide that paper.

00:41:11But, but why should she hide it?

00:41:13Put yourself in her place.

00:41:14Her brother Jeffrey was murdered.

00:41:16The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.

00:41:19On top of that, she finds her brother Philip murdered.

00:41:22What would your reactions be?

00:41:23Well, naturally I should be terribly upset.

00:41:25Obviously.

00:41:25Excuse me.

00:41:27She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on Hysteria.

00:41:30She comes through that door.

00:41:31Goes to that desk.

00:41:33Throws down her gloves.

00:41:34The first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.

00:41:37In her mind it's tied up with all the disasters that have befallen Halston.

00:41:41She herself may be the next victim.

00:41:43She must hide that paper.

00:41:44Quite right.

00:41:45But, but where?

00:41:48Excuse me, sir.

00:41:51Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?

00:41:54Certainly not.

00:41:55Nora was here.

00:41:56She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.

00:41:58Good.

00:42:00Nora.

00:42:00Yes, sir?

00:42:01When you were alone with Miss Sarri, what was the first thing she did?

00:42:03Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her nightdress.

00:42:07And what was she doing in the meantime?

00:42:08Let me think, sir.

00:42:10Oh, yes.

00:42:11She went over to her desk.

00:42:13That was when she took the ritual from this envelope.

00:42:15What then, Nora?

00:42:15Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.

00:42:19Why, someone's pulled them open.

00:42:20Yes, I know.

00:42:21When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?

00:42:22Sure.

00:42:23And it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.

00:42:25Long enough.

00:42:27When you were at the window, where was she?

00:42:28She was sitting over here.

00:42:31Sitting right here.

00:42:32Taking off her stockings.

00:42:34Oh, but she never left the chair.

00:42:36I kissed the book on it.

00:42:37I've got it.

00:42:38She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.

00:42:41Oh.

00:42:43Must have changed her mind.

00:42:44Obviously.

00:42:46Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.

00:42:54What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?

00:42:56From the fence, sir dear.

00:42:57The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.

00:43:00I definitely heard it.

00:43:01This clock?

00:43:01The same, sir.

00:43:03Thank you, Nora.

00:43:03You may go.

00:43:05Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.

00:43:07Just as obviously, it stopped at 12.20.

00:43:09Huh?

00:43:10When Nora turned her back, Sally reached across,

00:43:13opened the clock,

00:43:15and hid the ritual in here.

00:43:18Amazing home.

00:43:19Elementary, my dear Watson.

00:43:24Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?

00:43:29Where did he speed?

00:43:31To guard the Queen's page.

00:43:34Gibberish, that's what it is.

00:43:36Hokey pokey, plenty of love.

00:43:37Think like this, Watson, that's been handed down for centuries.

00:43:39Can't be mere gibberish.

00:43:42Who had entered the lists?

00:43:45The King's Pale Knight.

00:43:46Pale poppy cup.

00:43:48I say Watson.

00:43:49The King, Queen, Knight, Bishop.

00:43:51Sounds like he gave a chest to me.

00:43:52Precisely.

00:43:54Where fell the light.

00:43:56The light, Watson.

00:44:00Follow the light.

00:44:03On the face of the messenger.

00:44:05Look at it, Watson.

00:44:07Look at it.

00:44:08Like a giant chess board.

00:44:10This is no gibberish.

00:44:12These are chess terms, and that's the chess board.

00:44:14The secret of the Musgrave Murders is locked up in that floor.

00:44:17And by Jove, we've got the key to it.

00:44:22Who had entered the lists?

00:44:24The King's Pale Knight.

00:44:27White King's Knight to White King's Bishop Three.

00:44:31Your move, Dr. Saxton.

00:44:32I really know nothing about the game.

00:44:34Come on, Bob.

00:44:35It's great fun.

00:44:36You start from over here.

00:44:37Here.

00:44:38I'll show you.

00:44:39I'll show you.

00:44:40All right.

00:44:45One, two, three, one.

00:44:51Page into Black King Three.

00:44:54Your move, Clavering, into Black King Three, please.

00:44:56Over there.

00:44:57There's not to reason why.

00:45:07Page slaughters page.

00:45:12Your move, Watson.

00:45:14I take you, my dear.

00:45:15It's a good game, isn't it?

00:45:22Stop it.

00:45:23Stop it.

00:45:23You mustn't giggle.

00:45:25You must be serious.

00:45:31Your move, Clavering.

00:45:32You take Dr. Watson.

00:45:34Too bad, Doctor.

00:45:39Who came then to slay him?

00:45:41The bloodthirsty Bishop.

00:45:45White Queen's Bishop.

00:45:46White King's Knight Five.

00:45:47White King's Knight Five.

00:45:49That's my move.

00:45:58One, two.

00:46:01I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?

00:46:03Did I?

00:46:04I don't think so.

00:46:05Yes, I'm afraid you did.

00:46:06Well, where was I?

00:46:08King Bishop Three?

00:46:09That's right.

00:46:10Oh, yes, of course.

00:46:11I'm so sorry.

00:46:13Three, four, five.

00:46:17Captain, it looks bad for you.

00:46:19Aye, but where shall I go?

00:46:23Where shall he go?

00:46:25Deep down below.

00:46:28Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?

00:46:29Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.

00:46:34The entrance goes down behind that stair,

00:46:36but it's been locked up for centuries.

00:46:39One of the old Musgraves murdered his own brother down there.

00:46:43Shh!

00:46:44Listen.

00:46:47Hello, what's that?

00:46:49It's Brunton.

00:46:52Alf! Alf!

00:46:53He's in that passageway over the fireplace.

00:46:56Are you there, Brunton?

00:46:57Get me out!

00:46:59Lestrade.

00:46:59It's me, Lestrade.

00:47:02I'm lost.

00:47:03I'm all turned around.

00:47:05You have been for years.

00:47:07Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells,

00:47:08and give him a saucer of milk.

00:47:10Come here, Jenny.

00:47:10Stand on the square for me.

00:47:13And stamp on it.

00:47:14Keep stamping.

00:47:14Clavering, get your sound detector.

00:47:16Gentlemen, deep down below.

00:47:38There's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.

00:47:41Someone's been here.

00:47:43And in the last 24 hours.

00:47:45As clean as a new pin.

00:47:46Precisely.

00:47:48The dust of 200 years is on the walls.

00:47:50The floor's been swept clean.

00:47:52Obviously, in an attempt to remove footprints.

00:47:56Listen.

00:47:58That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.

00:48:04Clavering.

00:48:07Let me have your sound detector.

00:48:14Sir, sorry.

00:48:22You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.

00:48:33Don't move, anyone.

00:48:45Someone's moving about.

00:48:46Interfering with what I'm trying to do.

00:48:51Stand perfectly still, everybody.

00:49:16This is the spot.

00:49:17Lend me a hand.

00:49:18Of course.

00:49:20Here, I'll take that.

00:49:22Oh, thank you.

00:49:22It's all right.

00:49:23It's all right.

00:49:24It's all right.

00:49:24It's all right, sir.

00:49:25Hello, sir.

00:49:28Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave.

00:49:32Knight, lord of the manors of Hulston.

00:49:35This place used to be known as Hulston Towers.

00:49:39Netherfield and Kings Hargrave.

00:49:42Anno Domini, 1539.

00:49:44What we're looking for is underneath here.

00:49:46That's what the ritual meant by deep down below.

00:49:47It's a burial crypt.

00:49:49Up with it.

00:50:01I say, there's somebody down there.

00:50:02Who is it?

00:50:03Mrs. Brunton.

00:50:04Mrs. Brunton.

00:50:05I don't know.

00:50:06Stay where you are.

00:50:24Who is it, Holmes?

00:50:25It's Brunton, all right.

00:50:27Is he dead?

00:50:28Yes.

00:50:30He's been dead for hours.

00:50:32Murdered.

00:50:35Hello.

00:50:36What's this?

00:50:50Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.

00:50:57What have you found?

00:50:58Any clue?

00:51:00Any clue?

00:51:01Any clue?

00:51:02Uh, no.

00:51:08Just an old document.

00:51:12Hello.

00:51:13What's this?

00:51:18Looks like some sort of writing.

00:51:20Watson.

00:51:21Coming.

00:51:24Hold this for me, will you?

00:51:26Steady.

00:51:26There.

00:51:27On the floor, by his right hand.

00:51:29See those marks in the dust?

00:51:31Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.

00:51:36Yes.

00:51:37Yes.

00:51:38See that stuff under his nail?

00:51:40He was trying to write something.

00:51:42By Jove!

00:51:43He did write something.

00:51:45What is it?

00:51:46Aye, tell us, man.

00:51:47What did he write?

00:51:49I can't make it out.

00:51:50It's too faint.

00:51:54Here.

00:51:54I've got good eyes.

00:51:56Let me.

00:51:57Stay for a while.

00:51:58All of you.

00:52:04These marks must not be erased.

00:52:08What are you going to do, Holmes?

00:52:10I'm going to leave this just as it is until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the

00:52:14words.

00:52:16Have you no notion of what he tried to write?

00:52:19Yes, I have.

00:52:21I think that Brunton, with his last strength, wrote the name of his murderer on that floor in his own

00:52:28blood.

00:52:50Oh, there you are, Lestrade.

00:52:52Hmm.

00:52:52Twelve o'clock.

00:52:53I was just saying, Lestrade, that I should get into Newcastle, pick up my chemicals and be back here not

00:52:58later than noon tomorrow.

00:52:59Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.

00:52:59Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you. Watson.

00:53:01Yes.

00:53:05You'll guard this door with your life.

00:53:07Of course.

00:53:07With my what?

00:53:08I said, with your life.

00:53:10Anything you say, Holmes.

00:53:11There's no entrance to this cellar except through that doorway.

00:53:16But, Holmes, what I feel about...

00:53:17Oh.

00:53:18Brunton's murderer is in this house.

00:53:20He's bound to make one last effort to get down there to erase those marks.

00:53:22Naturally.

00:53:23The starsmen are posted outside.

00:53:25They'll see to it that nobody leaves this house.

00:53:27Concentration camp.

00:53:28My men have orders to shoot, if necessary. I'll be outside myself, keeping watch.

00:53:32Sexton, your post will be at Miss Sally's door.

00:53:34And remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.

00:53:36Don't worry, I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes.

00:53:38Good night.

00:53:38Good night, Holmes.

00:53:39Good night. Good luck.

00:53:40Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing out.

00:53:43I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer if I had a gun on me.

00:53:46I always keep mine ready.

00:53:54Oh, good night, Bob. Keep awake, old man.

00:53:56I will.

00:54:18That's funny.

00:54:19Striking twelve again.

00:54:35Besides, mother and mother.

00:54:35Ooh daddy.

00:54:36Oh my uncle Dave.

00:54:40Mmm hmm.

00:54:45Oh, no no.

00:54:46w-

00:54:56Just a moment.

00:54:56And one ch deserves a reason.

00:55:10What's that?

00:55:21What's that?

00:55:25Let me out of here, do you hear?

00:55:30Let me out of here! Someone block this door!

00:55:40What on earth, all this monkey business?

00:55:42I didn't lock you in.

00:55:43Well, doors don't lock themselves.

00:55:44They do in this house.

00:55:45What are you doing down here, anyway?

00:55:47I'm worried it's about Langford.

00:55:48Langford?

00:55:49Yes, he's got into his head that this is a Jap prison camp.

00:55:51He's got that filthy rope and he's broken.

00:55:53He's bound and determined to go out the window.

00:55:55He can't do that.

00:55:56The Straud's men will shoot him.

00:55:57He may be out already.

00:55:59I'll head him off.

00:56:00Then again, he may not be.

00:56:02Perhaps you're right.

00:56:03Let me go.

00:56:04No, no, no.

00:56:05You'll be shot.

00:56:06I'll go.

00:56:07No, you'll be shot.

00:56:09Oh, really?

00:56:10Let's both go.

00:56:13I can't leave here.

00:56:14You stay where you are.

00:56:16I'll go and call the Straud.

00:56:21Remember, Clavering, stay where you are.

00:56:32Here.

00:56:34Look here, Constable.

00:56:35I'm Dr. Watson.

00:56:36Are you now?

00:56:38Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.

00:56:40There.

00:56:41Come along to the inspector.

00:56:43Grocer partners.

00:56:44Come along.

00:57:07Useless.

00:57:09Quite useless.

00:57:10I'll show you.

00:57:16There's nothing written on the floor.

00:57:18It was just a ruse of mine to bring Brunton's murderer here.

00:57:21Permit me.

00:57:23As the most ruthless killer in England, you deserve some of the light.

00:57:26Killer?

00:57:27I?

00:57:28Oh, I say.

00:57:29You seem to forget that my life was also attempted.

00:57:31And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.

00:57:34But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves with such a sure hand

00:57:38should have missed so badly in your case.

00:57:42Unless, of course, you yourself were the murderer.

00:57:46Oh, that's ridiculous.

00:57:48Then, too, it seemed curious that you would doctor, examine both bodies,

00:57:55and fail to report the real cause of death.

00:57:58And that was?

00:58:00A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebrae.

00:58:05I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle from Philip Musgrave's head.

00:58:10It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?

00:58:12I never owned one.

00:58:14Oh, yes, you did.

00:58:16I saw it in your case the night I came into this house, just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.

00:58:25It wasn't broken then.

00:58:27It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave that you lost a piece of it.

00:58:30Oh, nonsense.

00:58:31Why should I go around sticking needles into people?

00:58:33A fair enough question, Doctor.

00:58:35Among nice people, murder, like matrimony, generally has a motive.

00:58:40And in this case, the motive was matrimony.

00:58:42Oh, you mean Miss Sally?

00:58:44I do.

00:58:45Oh, I see.

00:58:46So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?

00:58:48Precisely.

00:58:49My dear Holmes, that won't do.

00:58:51The Musgrave is a land poor, but everybody knows that.

00:58:53Exactly.

00:58:54But everybody didn't know what you knew.

00:58:57You've worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.

00:59:01I have?

00:59:02Oh, yes, you have.

00:59:05You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.

00:59:09When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,

00:59:11you promptly named King's Bishop Three,

00:59:14and what's more, moved back onto it.

00:59:15Oh, nonsense.

00:59:17Why should I have stepped out of my square the first day?

00:59:18Break up my moves, spoil my game,

00:59:20and prevent me from finding what you had already found.

00:59:23And that was?

00:59:24The old land grant I took from Miss Box,

00:59:27which would have made Sally Musgrave upon the death of her brothers

00:59:30the richest woman in England.

00:59:34Now, what's that?

00:59:36Don't tell me you've found another needle.

00:59:40No, no.

00:59:42Just a button.

00:59:45Wouldn't be yours, would it?

00:59:46Mine?

00:59:48Give it to me.

00:59:58No.

01:00:00Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?

01:00:03No, not at all.

01:00:04As I see it,

01:00:05you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room,

01:00:08carried his body down through the secret passageway,

01:00:10out through the greenhouse, into the garage,

01:00:12where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.

01:00:15But unfortunately for you,

01:00:17you had a witness.

01:00:20Brunton was there,

01:00:22sleeping off his drunk,

01:00:24nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.

01:00:27Brunton became your accessory.

01:00:30But you didn't want an accessory,

01:00:32so you lured him down here with the promise

01:00:35to share the Musgrave treasure with him

01:00:37and exit Brunton.

01:00:42Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.

01:00:44You seem to have everything,

01:00:45except perhaps the negligible item of proof.

01:00:48Suppose we leave that to the jury.

01:00:50Suppose we do.

01:00:52Shall we go?

01:00:53After you.

01:00:55Oh, by the way,

01:00:57don't forget your torch.

01:01:00Oh, thanks.

01:01:04I don't suppose it occurred to you

01:01:06that you were taking a bit of a chance

01:01:08coming down here all alone with a suspected murderer?

01:01:12One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.

01:01:14You see, I couldn't possibly risk

01:01:15sharing my little plot with anybody.

01:01:18Not even with Dr. Watson.

01:01:19Oh, particularly not with Dr. Watson.

01:01:21If he'd known what was up tonight,

01:01:22he'd have been so elaborately mysterious

01:01:23he'd have given the whole show away.

01:01:25As a matter of fact,

01:01:25I had the devil's own time

01:01:26luring him away from that door upstairs

01:01:28so that we could be alone.

01:01:31That's all I wanted to know.

01:01:32and you know what?

01:01:33Don't do it.

01:01:35Let's go.

01:01:47Come on.

01:02:17Stay where you are.

01:02:18I'm afraid I have no choice, Dr. Sexton.

01:02:23Look here.

01:02:26You're not really going to kill me, are you?

01:02:29They'll hear you.

01:02:31Who will?

01:02:33That was a bad slip you made letting me know you were so completely alone.

01:02:38Then you're really going to kill me?

01:02:40I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.

01:02:45But as you said, I've no evidence against you.

01:02:50No proof, no proof at all.

01:02:52You forget the needle and the button.

01:02:56Bring them here, please.

01:03:09Not too close.

01:03:13Now put them in my pocket.

01:03:22Curious about that button.

01:03:23It is off my coat, of course.

01:03:26Can't think how I never missed it.

01:03:28Poor old Brunton.

01:03:30He didn't struggle much.

01:03:32Now Phil Musgrave was different.

01:03:34The needle broke off and I didn't have time to probe for it.

01:03:38But you've got both of them now.

01:03:40The button and the needle.

01:03:41Why kill me?

01:03:43Now step back.

01:03:44Just a bit.

01:03:48Against the wall.

01:03:53Now if you stand perfectly still, I think I can manage this with one shot.

01:04:07Let's go.

01:04:24Put him up.

01:04:27Did you hear his confession, Watson?

01:04:29Every word, Holmes.

01:04:30And I heard all the rest, sir.

01:04:32Good.

01:04:33Let me congratulate you on an extraordinary catch.

01:04:36That's right, Mr. Holmes.

01:04:37It's no good saying it ain't.

01:04:38I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes.

01:04:40Pity.

01:04:41Yes.

01:04:42Those blank cartridges were a cheap sort of trick, I grant you.

01:04:46But it wasn't easy to let you take my gun away from me without seeming to hand it to you.

01:04:50That's why I let you take the torch first.

01:04:52I knew you'd snap it off.

01:04:53Yes, we told you we were taking an awful risk.

01:04:55Well, we had to have a confession.

01:04:58And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty when they feel they have the upper hand.

01:05:01Shall we go?

01:05:05I can't make head nor tail of it. Can you pass?

01:05:08Well, it looks like an old land grant.

01:05:11It's really a crown grant.

01:05:12What I don't understand is why the Musgraves didn't claim the land ages ago.

01:05:17Obviously, Watson, one of them died before passing on the meaning of the ritual to his heir.

01:05:21The words remained, but the sense was lost.

01:05:23I wonder why he left the grant down there where he found it.

01:05:25What good would it have done him?

01:05:27So long as your brothers lived.

01:05:28Once they were out of the way and you came into the property, he expected to marry you.

01:05:31I like that. Whatever made him think...

01:05:34He thought himself irresistible.

01:05:36Precisely. It's not unheard of in cases of egomania.

01:05:39I suppose then he meant to rediscover the crown grant.

01:05:41At the proper time, yes. And then enjoy his wife's millions.

01:05:44Did you say millions?

01:05:45I did. Look here.

01:05:52About 80,000 acres of the richest soil in England.

01:05:55But aren't there people on it?

01:05:56Yes. Farms, villages, even a factory town with hundreds of workmen's cottages.

01:06:00Is this thing legal?

01:06:01Perfectly. Of course, it'll drag on through the courts.

01:06:03Just a moment. The people on this land, they've put their money into it.

01:06:08Their life work. It's their homes I'll be taking.

01:06:11Yes.

01:06:12Do you think I'm going to kick these people out?

01:06:29Just the same, Holmes, you let poor little Sally throw away a fortune.

01:06:33My dear fellow, I had nothing to do with it.

01:06:35The girl, more power to her, acted on her own.

01:06:37A grand gesture of one she may regret.

01:06:41I don't think so, Watson.

01:06:44There's a new spirit abroad in the land.

01:06:47The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.

01:06:50We're beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow,

01:06:53not just what we're compelled to give him.

01:06:56The time's coming, Watson,

01:06:58when we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort

01:07:00while other folk go hungry,

01:07:01or sleep in warm beds

01:07:04while others shiver in the cold.

01:07:07when we shan't be able to kneel

01:07:08and thank God for blessings before our shining altars

01:07:12while men anywhere

01:07:14are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.

01:07:17You may be right, Holmes.

01:07:19I hope you are.

01:07:21And God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.

01:07:24You may be right, Holmes.

01:07:48You may be right, Watson.

01:07:50Come on, Watson.

01:07:51Then be back.

01:07:59THE END

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