- 6/6/2025
In this atmospheric 1932 adaptation of The Sign of Four, master detective Sherlock Holmes takes on one of his most perilous cases yet. When Mary Morstan receives a series of mysterious pearls and a cryptic message tied to her father's mysterious disappearance, she turns to Holmes and Dr. Watson for help. The trail leads through hidden alliances, a stolen treasure, betrayal, and even a vengeful one-legged man and his savage companion.
As Holmes delves deeper into the dark alleys of London’s underworld and the fog-shrouded Thames, he uncovers a tale of colonial greed, broken promises, and hidden fortunes. The climax is a thrilling chase on the river and a final confrontation with a desperate man haunted by the past.
This early British production stands out not only for its faithfulness to Arthur Conan Doyle’s original 1890 novel but also for the brooding performance of Arthur Wontner, widely considered one of the best early Holmes portrayals.
As Holmes delves deeper into the dark alleys of London’s underworld and the fog-shrouded Thames, he uncovers a tale of colonial greed, broken promises, and hidden fortunes. The climax is a thrilling chase on the river and a final confrontation with a desperate man haunted by the past.
This early British production stands out not only for its faithfulness to Arthur Conan Doyle’s original 1890 novel but also for the brooding performance of Arthur Wontner, widely considered one of the best early Holmes portrayals.
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00:00:00Thank you for your attention.
00:01:30Thank you for your attention.
00:02:00Thank you for your attention.
00:02:30Thank you for your attention.
00:03:01Come in.
00:03:11Come in, come in.
00:03:20How small?
00:03:22You say the precious stones are all in this one place?
00:03:26And are worth a quarter of a million?
00:03:28Raj Bhatanna's pearls alone are worth more.
00:03:31If we agree to go to this place of yours, wherever it is, to find out the truth of your story...
00:03:35Before you come back, give me and my pals a chance to escape.
00:03:39Yes.
00:03:40See?
00:03:42A sign of four.
00:03:44There are four of us in this.
00:03:46You swear the swag will be divided, so we all get our share?
00:03:49Yes, yes, yes.
00:03:50But listen to me, Major Sholto.
00:03:53And you too, Captain Morstan.
00:03:55If you come across me, I'll bite the hell out of you anyway, somehow.
00:03:59And if I do...
00:04:00If you don't trust us, you'd better go back to your solitary confinement.
00:04:05Where is this place?
00:04:08The Fortress of Agra.
00:04:11That isn't a ground plan.
00:04:13The 337 you see there means that from this cornerstone, you count three bicks up...
00:04:18And 37 along to that point.
00:04:20The sparklers are there.
00:04:35And mind you, don't forget.
00:04:37A sign of four.
00:04:44Three bricks up.
00:04:4737 along.
00:04:5931, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37.
00:05:1737, 38, 39, 40.
00:05:4741, 42, 43.
00:06:1744, 45, 46.
00:06:4747, 48, 49, 50.
00:06:5251, 52, 53, 54.
00:06:5755, 56, 57, 58.
00:07:0259, 60.
00:07:0761, 62.
00:07:1263, 64.
00:07:1765, 66.
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00:07:2769, 70.
00:07:3271, 72.
00:07:3772 sums to me at once.
00:08:08What are you doing out of your chair?
00:08:10What's happened?
00:08:11Help to get him back.
00:08:12Father.
00:08:13Get him.
00:08:14Come on.
00:08:17We'll get him back to the fire.
00:08:20For God's sake, keep him away.
00:08:23Don't let him kill me.
00:08:24Don't let him kill me.
00:08:26No, sir.
00:08:27No one's going to harm you.
00:08:28We'll protect you.
00:08:30Not from Jonathan Smalls.
00:08:32He'll kill me.
00:08:33He said he would.
00:08:34He escaped a month ago from Andaman.
00:08:36Jonathan Smalls?
00:08:37Who is he?
00:08:38He's only one leg.
00:08:40The others would.
00:08:42I robbed him of his treasure.
00:08:44And killed Morstan in a fight over it.
00:08:47Treasure?
00:08:48Yes.
00:08:49That's where our money comes from.
00:08:51Morstan had a daughter.
00:08:53Mary, I think her name is.
00:08:55Runs a florist shop in the West End.
00:08:58Look.
00:09:00Open the top drawer of that desk.
00:09:07Press the back near the corner on the right side.
00:09:23Is that it?
00:09:25Yes.
00:09:27Here.
00:09:28I'll keep that.
00:09:29But be careful.
00:09:30Be careful.
00:09:31Oh, my sons, don't quarrel over them.
00:09:33What suffering they've caused already.
00:09:36Those are the Rasputin pearls.
00:09:38I want them to go to Morstan's daughter.
00:09:40You must also give her one third of the rest.
00:09:44Yes, Father, I promise.
00:09:45Where is the rest?
00:09:47I've hidden it in Pondicherry Lodge.
00:09:49Where?
00:09:50Upstairs in the...
00:09:53Listen.
00:09:54Listen.
00:09:55Do you hear?
00:09:58Do you hear?
00:10:00That stomp.
00:10:02Stomp.
00:10:03That wooden leg.
00:10:06No, of course you don't.
00:10:08It's only in my head pounding there.
00:10:15I do hear it.
00:10:17I too.
00:10:21Stomp.
00:10:22Stomp.
00:10:23Stomp.
00:10:24Stomp.
00:10:25Stomp.
00:10:26Stomp.
00:10:31Father.
00:10:51Stop.
00:10:52Stop.
00:10:53Father.
00:10:54Akbar.
00:10:55Akbar, go outside.
00:10:56There's a man.
00:10:57Stop him.
00:10:58Stop him.
00:10:59He's dead.
00:11:04No one here, sir.
00:11:06Someone just gone in taxi.
00:11:09He never told us where the treasure is.
00:11:26Couple of more jabs of the big mighty.
00:11:28And a beautiful spectacle of love.
00:11:30Wearing the rose-matron.
00:11:32Couple of more jabs of the big mighty.
00:11:34And a beautiful spectacle of love.
00:11:36Wearing the rose-matron of pearls.
00:11:38We'll be finished.
00:11:41One more day of this and I'd run out on you.
00:11:45Well, it had to be done, didn't it?
00:11:47No one will recognize you now as convict number 44730.
00:11:51I'd rather be hung, shot, grounded and electrocuted than go through this again.
00:11:58We can arrange that too.
00:12:01That's done it.
00:12:09Keep your hand away and leave it alone.
00:12:11Let it get dry.
00:12:12You have a look at yourself.
00:12:14You're a masterpiece.
00:12:16That's what you are.
00:12:17And I'm the professor what's done it.
00:12:19Think of the money people pay to look at you.
00:12:22Well, she looks a bit on the fat side to me.
00:12:25A bit of fat over your kidneys will keep you warm.
00:12:27I'll make you fat and I'll get my hands on those sparklers again.
00:12:30Sitting in a sofa full of food with that nice little bit of lectrin I did there.
00:12:34Will spread out in a spell.
00:12:36God bless our home.
00:12:38I've been listening to you talk about them sparklers for ten years.
00:12:45And I believed you.
00:12:47Broke out of Andaman with you.
00:12:49Me with only three more months of my sentence to do.
00:12:51Let you stick a million holes in me eyes and make me look like a blooming zoo.
00:12:55You've been lying.
00:12:56And if you ain't, let's see the color of them sparklers quick or I'll...
00:12:59What?
00:13:11Now, now, now.
00:13:13Be a good boy and do what Papa wants you to.
00:13:16And don't make Papa have to cave your blooming ribs in.
00:13:26Go on, matey.
00:13:28You don't think I spent it in that stinking prison for twenty years without getting educated, do you?
00:13:33They said they sent me to court to learn me a lesson and I learned it.
00:13:37I've been through Oxford.
00:13:39In the first place, most of the treasure is safe.
00:13:43How do I know?
00:13:45Because old Sholto hadn't got the nerve to use much of it.
00:13:48And how do I know he hadn't got the nerve?
00:13:50Because I looked at him once...
00:13:52Because I looked at him once and he kicked the bucket.
00:13:58Why aren't those pretty Sholto boys set the cocks on me?
00:14:00They don't want me to make no noise about the sparklers.
00:14:03For fear the real owners will turn up and claim them.
00:14:06And for fear of losing them, they'll only turn them into cash one at a time.
00:14:11But there are so many of their beauties.
00:14:14So very many.
00:14:16There'll be plenty for us when we get round to collecting.
00:14:23No, matey.
00:14:25There's one thing you'll never know.
00:14:28And that is...
00:14:30what a beautiful thing it is to be educated.
00:14:33Well, I know enough.
00:14:35Enough to keep your mouth shut, I hope.
00:14:38I never did fancy myself in me government haircut.
00:14:41But I can't wear these silken tresses for long.
00:14:45They make me itch.
00:14:47I'll just put on me best Sunday go-to-meeting prop
00:14:51and give the ladies an eyeful.
00:15:06Now you stay right here at the fun fair and keep your own fires burning.
00:15:10And mind you keep an eye on Tonga, too.
00:15:13You don't go on exhibition until next week.
00:15:22If I was to say to you,
00:15:24now for the treasure of Monte Cristo and the world is mine,
00:15:28you wouldn't know what I meant, would you?
00:15:31No.
00:15:33Of course, you're not educated.
00:15:39Ten years in the pen and never learnt nothing.
00:15:51Merry Christmas.
00:16:06Merry Christmas, Morton.
00:16:21Merry Christmas.
00:16:51Merry Christmas.
00:17:21Edward!
00:17:23Edward!
00:17:29There's somebody here.
00:17:31I'll put on the light.
00:17:52One squeak out of you, Shoto,
00:17:55you'll be having breakfast with your father in the morning.
00:18:03I'm simply charmed to meet you, Mr. Shoto.
00:18:07My name's Small.
00:18:10Jonathan Small.
00:18:14Heard my name before, huh?
00:18:17Perhaps from your dear father.
00:18:20Nice man, your father, wasn't he?
00:18:24Yes.
00:18:26You liar!
00:18:28He was a dirty, rotten sneak thief.
00:18:30A worse cook than him never lived.
00:18:32Did he tell you he was a murderer, too?
00:18:35Did he? What?
00:18:37He confessed all those things just before he died.
00:18:42Did he tell you all about the treasure?
00:18:45Did he?
00:18:47Yes.
00:18:50Matey, we've been wasting our energy upsetting the gentleman's house.
00:18:56All we got to do was to ask him where my pretty sparklers were,
00:19:00and he'd tell us.
00:19:03Where are they?
00:19:05I don't know.
00:19:07Huh?
00:19:09Father died before he could tell us.
00:19:12I'm disappointed in you, Shoto.
00:19:15I thought you too much sense to play with me.
00:19:18The treasure's hidden somewhere.
00:19:20We've not been able to find out where.
00:19:22All of it?
00:19:24Yes.
00:19:26Yes, yes, yes, all of it.
00:19:28Hesitating a little.
00:19:30That means you're lying.
00:19:36Listen to me, you little rat.
00:19:38I'm going to get this stuff anyway, whether you tell us or not,
00:19:41or whether you die or not.
00:19:43So spit it out.
00:19:48Stop! Stop!
00:19:50I'll tell. I'll tell.
00:19:57Well?
00:19:59I told you the truth.
00:20:01The bark of the treasure, we can't find it.
00:20:04Only the pearls.
00:20:06The Rajputana pearls.
00:20:08Where are they?
00:20:10Promise that my brother and myself won't be harmed?
00:20:13Unless you get funny and tell the cops.
00:20:15I promise, I promise we won't.
00:20:17Captain Morstan's daughter has them.
00:20:20Where is she?
00:20:22She keeps a flourished shop.
00:20:27There you are, sir.
00:20:46Your change, sir.
00:20:48Two and six, five and five makes ten.
00:20:50Here.
00:20:52Thank you, sir. Call again.
00:20:54I will.
00:23:02You certainly shot that tiger clean through the head.
00:23:06And he was a beauty, too.
00:23:11How on earth could you know?
00:23:13You're a very remarkable man, Watson.
00:23:15Me?
00:23:17The finest audience in the world.
00:23:19I never cease explaining my methods to you.
00:23:21And apparently your amazement grows deeper every day.
00:23:25But how could you possibly know what I've been thinking?
00:23:29You were looking at those tiger pictures in the paper
00:23:32until your eyes were nearly popping out of your head.
00:23:35Your expression then was unmistakable.
00:23:37Yes, I suppose it was.
00:23:39Yes, you came down to earth and realized
00:23:41that tiger shooting is no longer for you.
00:23:44Very simple, really.
00:23:46Yes, like all great things, Watson.
00:23:52You know, I owe you an apology.
00:23:54You come here for adventure and I've none to offer you.
00:23:57Very soon, out of London's teeming millions,
00:23:59some distressed person will step up to the door and knock.
00:24:02Ring, Watson, and the knocker doesn't function.
00:24:04You should have noticed that.
00:24:06Oh, very well. Ring, then.
00:24:09Ah, she's made up her mind.
00:24:11What?
00:24:13Who?
00:24:14Look.
00:24:19Evidently, you find the young lady's case interesting already.
00:24:27Miss Morstan to see you, sir.
00:24:29Miss Morstan? Did she tell you her business?
00:24:31No, sir, but she seems terribly upset.
00:24:35Oh, show her up.
00:24:38She's one of your teeming millions, Watson.
00:24:41Miss Morstan.
00:24:46Mr. Holmes. Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:24:48If that is my name.
00:24:49I'm terribly sorry.
00:24:51I think...
00:24:53I'm afraid I'm going to faint.
00:25:03Right, I'll get some brandy.
00:25:05I had a frightful shock of some kind.
00:25:07Thank heaven you were here, Watson.
00:25:09In such embarrassing matters as fainting women,
00:25:11I must defer to you.
00:25:14Thanks.
00:25:25That's better. Now you'll feel all right again in a minute.
00:25:30I feel terribly ashamed.
00:25:33I apologize.
00:25:40Perhaps I'd better go.
00:25:42And deprived of the pleasure of offering the assistance you came to seek?
00:25:52Miss Morstan, tell me.
00:25:54Why were you so afraid of being followed here?
00:25:58How did you know?
00:26:00It's hardly a mystery. I simply observed you from the window.
00:26:03Oh.
00:26:05Now, Miss Morstan.
00:26:07It's rather a long story.
00:26:09Shall I begin at the beginning?
00:26:11Yes, please do. An amateur investigator like myself
00:26:13can't have too many facts of a case to work on.
00:26:16A number of years ago, my father, Captain Morstan,
00:26:19mysteriously disappeared
00:26:21whilst on his way home on leave from the Orient.
00:26:24Morstan.
00:26:26Captain Morstan.
00:26:28Something to do with a convict settlement
00:26:30at, um...
00:26:32Enderman Island, was it?
00:26:34Yes, I remember.
00:26:36You remember?
00:26:38You learn to expect such amazing things from Mr. Holmes.
00:26:41And I'm afraid that completes my knowledge of the first chapter.
00:26:46This was found in my father's belongings.
00:26:54It appears to be the diagram of a large building.
00:26:57Perhaps. What's this? Four names.
00:26:59Look, here are four crosses.
00:27:01Yes, four crosses.
00:27:03When I first saw that paper as a child,
00:27:05I wondered what those crosses meant.
00:27:07And today, when I saw it again on another paper...
00:27:09Again?
00:27:11Yes. That's the modern side of the story.
00:27:14It's all very simple to me.
00:27:18First we does
00:27:20both the shoulder boys in
00:27:22with a nice little bit of cutting
00:27:24round the jugular vein.
00:27:28And for the matter of that,
00:27:30sticks a knife into the Morstan girl,
00:27:33if she won't tell.
00:27:35Then off we go to South America
00:27:38with the sparklers.
00:27:40It's all very simple to me.
00:27:42When you're done with the three of them,
00:27:44I suppose you'll start on that old bloomin' police force.
00:27:47Now, there'll be no murderin'
00:27:50unless absolutely necessary.
00:27:53Can't do much of it without leaving some clue.
00:27:56Eh?
00:27:57Clue.
00:27:58You know what clue is, don't you?
00:28:00Yes. Something you sticks paper together with.
00:28:04Really?
00:28:05When we gets to South America,
00:28:08I'm sending you to night school.
00:28:11What?
00:28:13Do you want the feel of my boot in your face?
00:28:16It ain't my fault.
00:28:18It's these years' safety races.
00:28:20Here.
00:28:21What about me having to go with a straight one?
00:28:24Not on my neck.
00:28:27With so many things happening in such quick succession,
00:28:30first one note, then another,
00:28:32then the safe broken open,
00:28:34I didn't know which way to turn.
00:28:36I suppose I should have had more courage
00:28:38in spite of the warning of death and gone to the police.
00:28:41I'm afraid I'm not as brave as I should be.
00:28:43But Miss Morstan,
00:28:44there's one thing you haven't told us.
00:28:46Actually, where are the pearls?
00:28:49Miss Morstan was afraid to trust even her own safe
00:28:51with such valuables.
00:28:53So she's been carrying them about on her person.
00:28:56That's true. I have them here in my dress.
00:28:58Although this handwriting is obviously disguised,
00:29:01the person who sent you the pearls
00:29:03and the one who invites you to this questionable rendezvous
00:29:06in Acacia Road this evening
00:29:08is one and the same.
00:29:10I should describe him as small,
00:29:12extremely nervous and timid.
00:29:15A perfect example of the Homo Lepusculus or rabbit man.
00:29:19But the one who threatens your life, he's quite the opposite.
00:29:22A Homo taurus, powerful as a bull and with great cunning.
00:29:26A killer.
00:29:30An opponent to be reckoned with.
00:29:33And he's only one leg.
00:29:36Mr. Holmes takes such a delight in provoking my curiosity
00:29:39that I swear I'll never ask him again
00:29:41how he makes deductions such as...
00:29:44Well, that by looking at a man's handwriting
00:29:46he can tell he has but one leg.
00:29:49Perhaps you can tell us, Mr. Holmes,
00:29:51if the colour of his eyes,
00:29:53if he likes white mice or...
00:29:55or if he suffers abominably from arthritis.
00:30:01I not only resent your making me appear ridiculous before Miss Morstan,
00:30:05but it grieves me to think, Watson,
00:30:07that you've never read my treatise
00:30:09on the physical and mental reactions of the disabled.
00:30:12For therein I described, with my feeble prose,
00:30:15that the whole physical being of a man
00:30:17who has undergone amputation
00:30:19goes through a complicated process of reorganisation
00:30:22as a result of which
00:30:24his functional characteristics are decidedly marked.
00:30:28His subjective mind,
00:30:30fully conscious of the loss of physical balance,
00:30:33tries to make good that loss
00:30:35by some such expressions as...
00:30:38well, increasing the pressure
00:30:40on the downstroke of a pen,
00:30:42making it firm and straight
00:30:44so that the letters stand up, as it were,
00:30:47on their own legs.
00:30:54Do I make that quite clear?
00:30:58Perfectly.
00:31:02Miss Morstan,
00:31:04I don't want to alarm you unduly,
00:31:06but your homotaurus friend is unreservedly dangerous.
00:31:10For that reason, may I suggest
00:31:12that you accept my meagre hospitality
00:31:14until the time of your departure for Acacia Road.
00:31:16Thank you so much.
00:31:18Oh, but I don't want to go there alone.
00:31:21It states in your invitation
00:31:23that you will be allowed two friends.
00:31:26May I have the privilege of appearing as one of them?
00:31:29Thank you very much.
00:31:35Well, will you be my other friend?
00:31:37May I?
00:31:39You're not a bit like a doctor.
00:31:41Now, Miss Morstan,
00:31:43I'm going to turn you over
00:31:45to my trusted housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson,
00:31:47who will see that you're made comfortable.
00:31:49Miss Morstan will dine with me here tonight.
00:31:53If I may be permitted...
00:31:55Oh, yes, certainly.
00:31:57Yes, we'll give Dr. Watson a chop as well.
00:32:07I don't want to interrupt the violent flattery
00:32:09of your heart, Doctor,
00:32:11but perhaps you'd be interested to know
00:32:13that never in my career have I encountered
00:32:15a more intricate case.
00:32:17Serious as that?
00:32:19Mm-hmm. She'll need all our help,
00:32:21and perhaps more before we're through.
00:32:23Mm-hmm.
00:32:25And under no circumstances must we allow her to go back to her shop.
00:32:27Shop? She said nothing about a shop?
00:32:29No. No, but I think you'll find
00:32:31that she runs a small florist shop
00:32:33in the West End of London.
00:32:35How can you possibly deduce that?
00:32:37Well, she's lovely, but not smartly dressed.
00:32:39Yet she wears an expensive orchid.
00:32:41Orchids are not a suburban trade.
00:32:43Perhaps given her by some ardent admirer.
00:32:45Oh, well, if she had one,
00:32:47she'd have appealed to him and not to us.
00:32:49Besides, fingers used for wiring up flowers
00:32:51become scored, you know, in an unusual way.
00:32:53Yes, I... I think a florist shop.
00:32:57Amazing.
00:32:59No, elementary, my dear Watson.
00:33:01Elementary.
00:33:03Good friends, Watson.
00:33:05Case of need.
00:33:09Now, you'll take Miss Mawson to her home.
00:33:13George.
00:33:15Have her change quickly into clothes
00:33:17that are both warmer and a little less conspicuous.
00:33:19Jimmy, my preparations here
00:33:21will take me about ten minutes,
00:33:23then I'll pick you up.
00:33:25Don't you think we could keep the appointment
00:33:27and leave her out of it?
00:33:29My dear Watson, if we're to catch our fishes,
00:33:31we must use the bait they bite on.
00:33:33But there's no...
00:33:35He's getting late, Watson, getting late.
00:33:37Oh, you'll probably enjoy hearing
00:33:39she does run a florist shop.
00:33:41Oh, really, I'm surprised.
00:33:43Tweezers.
00:33:45Oh.
00:33:53Here's your adventure,
00:33:55all right, Watson?
00:33:57Miss Mawson,
00:33:59go and knock at the door.
00:34:01We'll be here,
00:34:03watching.
00:34:17Miss Mawson?
00:34:19Yes?
00:34:21Alone?
00:34:25I have two friends.
00:34:27Will you give me your word
00:34:29they are not policemen?
00:34:31Certainly.
00:34:33Come with me, please.
00:34:41Miss Mawson?
00:34:45Mr. Holmes
00:34:47and Dr. Watson.
00:34:49You've kept your taxi, I see.
00:34:51Good, good. Your journey's not over yet.
00:34:53Do you have news for Miss Mawson?
00:34:55First, we must visit
00:34:57Brother Bartholomew, waiting at his house.
00:34:59Taxi!
00:35:01If we go along now,
00:35:03I can tell you the whole thing as we go.
00:35:11And last night,
00:35:13my brother found the remains of the real treasure
00:35:15under the attic flooring
00:35:17in Pondicherry Lodge.
00:35:19Such magnificent jewels I've never seen.
00:35:21I had once demanded
00:35:23that they should be divided
00:35:25according to my dying father's wish.
00:35:27I told my brother that I should
00:35:29add my share to yours.
00:35:31It was the only way I could repay you
00:35:33for my cowardice in divulging
00:35:35to Jonathan Small your name
00:35:37and that I'd sent you the pearls.
00:35:39Well, Bartholomew was wiped with fury.
00:35:41We quarreled violently
00:35:43and then I went home
00:35:45and wrote the note that you got this morning.
00:35:47You see, I thought that if you were to come
00:35:49and demand your share in person,
00:35:51he'd be damned refused
00:35:53in case we should hand the whole matter over to the police.
00:35:55You acted wisely,
00:35:57Mrs. Sheldon.
00:35:59I'm glad you think I've done one right thing.
00:36:01It took more courage than I thought I had
00:36:03to face the daughter of the man
00:36:05that my father
00:36:07murdered.
00:36:17Wait.
00:36:21MacMurdo.
00:36:23Mr. Sadduce.
00:36:25All right, Mr. Sadduce.
00:36:39That's all right, MacMurdo.
00:36:41Good night.
00:36:45You're not frightened?
00:36:47Terribly.
00:36:49But rather thrilled, too.
00:36:53Mr. Holmes.
00:37:03Mr. Sadduce.
00:37:05Something's the matter.
00:37:07I can't get any answer from the master's room.
00:37:09And he's there.
00:37:11He's there.
00:37:19Oh, there's something devilish in there, Watson.
00:37:21Look.
00:37:25Mrs. Barnstone!
00:37:27A lamp!
00:37:49I've been dead some hours, I should think.
00:37:51Watson, that's your affair.
00:37:53He's been murdered!
00:37:55Please don't move about.
00:38:01Well, Watson?
00:38:03Not a natural death.
00:38:05Tetanus of some kind.
00:38:07Extreme contraction, far exceeding the usual rigor mortis.
00:38:09Precisely.
00:38:11Some powerful alkaloid poison.
00:38:13Like strychnine.
00:38:15Mr. Holmes!
00:38:17Look! The treasure's gone!
00:38:21It was there, on the table.
00:38:23That's the hole we lowered it through.
00:38:25We've been robbed.
00:38:27And he's been murdered.
00:38:29The police.
00:38:31They'll be called in.
00:38:35They'll find out about the treasure.
00:38:37They'll find out.
00:38:39They'll be called in.
00:38:43They'll find out about the treasure.
00:38:45And say I did it to get the money.
00:38:47You...
00:38:49You don't think I had a hand in it, do you?
00:38:53Gentlemen, I...
00:38:55I didn't. I swear I didn't.
00:38:57Steady, steady, steady.
00:38:59Mr. Shelter, go straight down to the police station
00:39:01and report the matter yourself.
00:39:03Yes.
00:39:05Offer to assist them in every way.
00:39:07Wait your wisest course.
00:39:09Now then, Watson, we have a few minutes
00:39:11before the representatives of the law arrive.
00:39:17Ah, I expected this. Look here, do you see?
00:39:19Just behind the ear.
00:39:27Looks like a thorn.
00:39:29Don't touch it, Watson. It's deadly poison.
00:39:31This is a dart
00:39:33that's been shot with such force from a blowpipe
00:39:35that before the victim can recover
00:39:37from the shock of the impact,
00:39:39the poison takes effect,
00:39:41causing almost instantaneous death.
00:39:43Such weapons are used
00:39:45by the natives of the
00:39:47Ley Peninsula
00:39:49and the Andaman Islands.
00:39:51Andaman?
00:39:53Yes.
00:39:55Yes, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it?
00:39:59Look here.
00:40:01Look here, it's the same four crosses.
00:40:03Sign of four.
00:40:05Jonathan Smalls.
00:40:07No, possibly not, Watson. Remember, Smalls is only one of four.
00:40:09But more significant still,
00:40:11these crosses
00:40:13have been made with a tattooing needle.
00:40:15The tattooed man!
00:40:17Oh, ha!
00:40:19That's frightfully simple, isn't it?
00:40:21Is it?
00:40:23Well, now we know who did it. All we have to do is to catch him.
00:40:25Yes, that's all.
00:40:27Will you go out and catch him? And I'll wait here till you come back.
00:40:29Yes.
00:40:33But where do I go?
00:40:35Exactly.
00:40:37Let's leave jumping the conclusions
00:40:39to the professional detectives.
00:40:41I prefer to employ my usual method
00:40:43of carefully reconstructing the crime
00:40:45in the hope of finding
00:40:47some clue that will lead us to the whereabouts
00:40:49of the criminal.
00:40:51Just stand on one side, will you, Watson,
00:40:53so that your footmarks don't complicate matters.
00:40:57Now,
00:40:59how did he come?
00:41:01And how did he go?
00:41:07The window fastened on the inside.
00:41:09All the framework solid.
00:41:15No drainpipe, nothing.
00:41:17Then he couldn't have come in that way.
00:41:21Yes, but he did.
00:41:25Here's a print of a foot in mould on the sill.
00:41:27And a curious circular muddy mark.
00:41:35There it is again upon the floor.
00:41:41And here again by the table.
00:41:45Do you see that, Watson?
00:41:47A perfect demonstration.
00:41:49But that's not a footmark.
00:41:51No, it's something much more valuable to us.
00:41:53It's the impress of a wooden stump, my dear Watson.
00:41:55A wooden naked man.
00:41:57Yes, precisely.
00:42:01Yes, but no one could scale that wall.
00:42:03Much less a man without one, with only one leg.
00:42:05No, but suppose he had a friend here
00:42:07who lowers a good stout rope.
00:42:11How could he have got in?
00:42:13Not the window.
00:42:15Not the chimney.
00:42:17That's too small.
00:42:19Let me a hand, Watson.
00:42:21Now we'll have a look at the secret room
00:42:23where the treasure was found.
00:42:25We can surmise that Homo Taurus was here.
00:42:27But the number one man,
00:42:29the one who's skilled in the use of a blowpipe.
00:42:31Who is he?
00:42:33The tattooed man.
00:42:35No, I think not, Watson.
00:42:37No one but a native could have such deadly aim
00:42:39with such a strange weapon.
00:42:45The tattooed man is described by both
00:42:47Sholto and Miss Morstan as a giant.
00:42:49So we must look for someone small
00:42:51who could scale the side of a house
00:42:53without making a sound.
00:42:57There you are, Watson.
00:42:59A disused trapdoor leading onto the roof.
00:43:01Now if I can push it back with ease.
00:43:05Now that's how number one entered.
00:43:15There you are.
00:43:17What did I tell you?
00:43:19The feet of a child.
00:43:21Not exactly.
00:43:23There's something devilishly like it.
00:43:25Now let's see where that curious foot went to.
00:43:27Get the impression down there.
00:43:29You know that our toes are generally all cramped together.
00:43:31You see, each one of those
00:43:33is divided separately.
00:43:45Perhaps you better rejoin Miss Morstan downstairs, Watson.
00:43:47She might be frightened when the police arrive.
00:43:57You observe the angle at which the thorn struck.
00:43:59Yes, it must have been shot from the attic.
00:44:01Oh, bravo, Watson.
00:44:03Bravo.
00:44:09What's your theory about these footprints?
00:44:11Well, apply my methods, Watson,
00:44:13and you'll probably find that they lead you
00:44:15in directly the opposite direction
00:44:17to that of my old friend, Detective Inspector
00:44:19Athelney Jones, whom I can hear blowing his way upstairs.
00:44:21Yes, sounds like him.
00:44:23Yes, unmistakably.
00:44:25He'll begin by telling me that an ounce of practice
00:44:27is worth a ton of theory, and then proceed
00:44:29to arrest everybody on the spot.
00:44:33The house seems as full as a rabbit, Warren.
00:44:35You stay here.
00:44:37Sergeant, have a look at the other rooms.
00:44:39Yes, sir.
00:44:41Hello, who are you?
00:44:43Oh, if it isn't Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the amateur.
00:44:47How are you, sir?
00:44:49I'm all right, Jones, thank you. How are you?
00:44:51You know Dr. Watson.
00:44:53How are you, Doctor?
00:44:55How are you?
00:44:57Well, I'll be off.
00:44:59What brings you, gentlemen, here?
00:45:01Oh, just a little private investigation.
00:45:03I thought you'd given up our line of business long ago.
00:45:05No.
00:45:07You know, I only take cases too difficult
00:45:09for the official police.
00:45:13Ah, what do you make of this one?
00:45:15Bad business, eh?
00:45:17Yes.
00:45:19You'd hardly thank me for theorizing over it.
00:45:21But let's see, eh?
00:45:23What I always says is, Mr. Holmes,
00:45:25an ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.
00:45:27Yes, yes.
00:45:29I've heard you say it.
00:45:33Sherlock Holmes will never rest
00:45:35until this mystery is solved.
00:45:37What do you think of this theory, Mr. Holmes?
00:45:39Yes.
00:45:41The fellow Thaddeus was with his brother last.
00:45:43The brother dies of a fit,
00:45:45on which Thaddeus makes off with the money.
00:45:47Yes, and on which the dead man very considerably
00:45:49gets up and locks the door on the inside.
00:45:51Oh, well, there may be a flaw,
00:45:53but we can get over that.
00:45:55Yes, but Jones,
00:45:57before you actually hang the man,
00:45:59I should like to point out
00:46:01this splinter of wood.
00:46:03Ah, nasty-looking thorn.
00:46:05Yes.
00:46:07Be careful, Jones, it's poison.
00:46:09It was found in the dead man's head.
00:46:13Does that fit in with your theories?
00:46:15Perfectly.
00:46:17The only question is,
00:46:19how did he depart?
00:46:21Ah, of course.
00:46:23Down on the ceiling.
00:46:25And what did he do?
00:46:27I don't know.
00:46:29I don't know.
00:46:31The hole in the ceiling.
00:46:33He knows the house.
00:46:35I suppose you noticed the hole in the ceiling.
00:46:37Yes.
00:46:39Yes, I did notice it in passing.
00:46:41There's a trap door
00:46:43that leads to the roof.
00:46:45There, you've proved my case.
00:46:47Pretty quick, eh?
00:46:49I can safely say, Jones,
00:46:51that I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:46:53Oh, an ounce of practice.
00:46:55Well, well. Constable.
00:46:57Sir.
00:46:59Oh, no, my dear Jones.
00:47:01Now, Mr. Holmes, I know you like poking your nose
00:47:03in these things, but you'd better leave this to me.
00:47:07Mr. Faddeus Sholto,
00:47:09I must ask you to accompany me to the station.
00:47:11It is my duty to inform you
00:47:13anything you say may be used in evidence against you.
00:47:15Don't be alarmed.
00:47:17I think I can engage to clear you of the charge.
00:47:19Oh, you do, do you?
00:47:21Well, you'd better not promise too much.
00:47:23All right, Sergeant, take him away.
00:47:25I shall want to question the others.
00:47:27Oh, Watson.
00:47:29Is the girl all right?
00:47:31Yes.
00:47:33Good.
00:47:35You find out anything further?
00:47:37Yes, that I have to pay a visit to Mordecai Smiths.
00:47:39Is that the name of the murderer?
00:47:41No.
00:47:43No, it's the name of the man who's been engaged
00:47:45to help our little band of super criminals to escape.
00:47:47Well, how did you find that out?
00:47:49Well, quite simply, Watson.
00:47:51This rope told me all about it.
00:47:53Huh. I've heard of walls having ears,
00:47:55but this one can't talk.
00:47:57No, well, this one can.
00:47:59I found it on the roof.
00:48:01It was brought here by Small
00:48:03and used by Number One
00:48:05to get him up the outside of the house.
00:48:07You see, Jonathan Small,
00:48:09like most master criminals,
00:48:11never commits a crime
00:48:13until he's perfected the method of his escape.
00:48:15Of course, with only one leg,
00:48:17this isn't easy.
00:48:19He can't leave by one of the channel ports
00:48:21because the authorities would immediately
00:48:23because sooner or later he'd be hunted down.
00:48:25So he arranges to be taken to sea
00:48:27in a fast, small boat
00:48:29and then transferred to some tramp steamer
00:48:31bound for Africa or South America.
00:48:33Perhaps he's already escaped.
00:48:35Not Small.
00:48:37He's waited 20 years in prison planning his revenge
00:48:39and he won't leave till he's completed it.
00:48:41He won't leave without the Rajputana pearl,
00:48:43the most valuable part of the treasure.
00:48:45And pearls are easier to dispose of
00:48:47than diamonds and other jewelry.
00:48:49Well, where did the rope come in?
00:48:51Mordecai Smith.
00:48:53Is his name on it?
00:48:55No, but it might as well be.
00:48:57In the first place,
00:48:59it's been bleached and soaked
00:49:01by long immersion in salt water.
00:49:03Would you like to taste it, Watson?
00:49:05No, thanks.
00:49:07You see, at this end there's a spliced loop
00:49:09which bears the imprint of constant chafing
00:49:11caused by a small ship's brass capstan.
00:49:13The rope is made of cotton.
00:49:15It's not strong enough to hold a large boat.
00:49:17And it's of so soft a texture
00:49:19that it has evidently been used
00:49:21to protect a highly varnished surface
00:49:23which suggests a speedboat or a launch.
00:49:25On the end of the rope
00:49:27used for tying the boat to a wharf
00:49:29I found embedded a quantity of powdered malt
00:49:31which led my thoughts to a warehouse
00:49:33where malt is unloaded.
00:49:35Near such a warehouse
00:49:37lives a man that I've known for years
00:49:39who runs a small pub as a sideline
00:49:41but whose real underworld business is smuggling.
00:49:43He smuggles contraband
00:49:45to and from boats at sea.
00:49:47Sometimes his contraband
00:49:49are criminals that the authorities are after.
00:49:51So you see,
00:49:53I really must go to Mordecai Smith's.
00:49:55Positively amazing.
00:49:57Shall I come with you?
00:49:59No, Watson, no.
00:50:01You asked for the job of looking after Miss Morstan
00:50:03so see that you do it.
00:50:05Oh.
00:50:07Request Inspector Jones
00:50:09very courteously
00:50:11to assign several of his men
00:50:13to guard Miss Morstan day and night.
00:50:15Don't forget,
00:50:17small's still at large
00:50:19and so are his diabolical helpmates.
00:50:21Yes,
00:50:23protecting Miss Morstan's no small task.
00:50:45Evening, gentlemen.
00:51:11Well, we'll get along, won't we?
00:51:13Good night, Mrs. Swift.
00:51:15Let me in the morning and the children.
00:51:17Good night, Mr. Smith.
00:51:19Tell them to come in some afternoon
00:51:21and bring us home, will you?
00:51:23Hello, Mrs. Smith. How are you?
00:51:25Well, how are you?
00:51:27What are you wearing?
00:51:29I'm in the next door.
00:51:31See if I can have you with me.
00:51:33Me dance with you, old Sandy Claus.
00:51:35And what do you think of that, Alice?
00:51:37I'm not sure.
00:51:39Neither am I, proud beauty.
00:51:41Oh, you don't half appreciate it.
00:51:45By the way, where is old Morty, sir?
00:51:47Well, he ain't here,
00:51:49as you can see for yourself.
00:51:51That is, if you can see.
00:51:53He's down the river with that fucking tub of his.
00:51:55I don't know how fat he is.
00:51:57The black one.
00:51:59Just where he is.
00:52:01But she ain't a tub.
00:52:03Let me tell you that.
00:52:05She's the heart of North Stand River.
00:52:07And she ain't black, neither.
00:52:09Oh, I know a name for him.
00:52:11Oh, I know a name for him.
00:52:13Something like that.
00:52:15Named after me.
00:52:17Aurora.
00:52:19Aurora is a lovely name.
00:52:21I like it.
00:52:23You like it?
00:52:25Go on, you old goat.
00:52:27Oh, here you are, my old girl.
00:52:29Back in your place.
00:52:31I'll bet you take the old goat down the river
00:52:33to see that new Aurora, where I want to go.
00:52:35Oh, no, he won't.
00:52:37He won't have time for you.
00:52:39I'll pay the price, eh?
00:52:41He's a solid, proper customer.
00:52:43Who is he?
00:52:45Oh, it's you, a nosy old parker, eh?
00:52:47Besides, you wouldn't know him anyhow,
00:52:49because he's a stranger.
00:52:51He's only got one leg.
00:52:53Well, if a stranger with one leg will pay the price,
00:52:55so will an old friend with two.
00:52:57Oh, no, he won't.
00:52:59Because if the old one leg,
00:53:01he just pays him to stand by to use when he wants him.
00:53:03Why, he's paid him a week's money already,
00:53:05and he'll pay me tomorrow.
00:53:07No, he wouldn't do that, neither.
00:53:09Because if he had a minute or two ago,
00:53:11he'd tell me he wouldn't want Lord E. K. O.
00:53:13not till tomorrow, and perhaps not till the day after.
00:53:15Oh, well, never mind, mind.
00:53:17I'll have another boat.
00:53:19See, I'll have another one in a better one.
00:53:21Oh, will you?
00:53:23You'll find a better one, my lad.
00:53:25There ain't a better one,
00:53:27not unless you mean the Florence Bee,
00:53:29and he can't get her.
00:53:31The Florence Bee?
00:53:33Come on.
00:53:35You old, old wrecker.
00:53:37Go away with your wasting my time.
00:53:39Now, what you going to have to drink?
00:53:41Nothing. No dance, no books,
00:53:43so no beer.
00:53:49Did you see that, Harold?
00:53:51He don't fancy himself, do he?
00:53:53One foot in the grave and still flirting.
00:54:03Tonga.
00:54:05Yes, sir?
00:54:07Nice pretty diamonds in here, Tonga.
00:54:09If Tonga's a good boy,
00:54:11you get some.
00:54:13Tonga's a good boy.
00:54:15Put that in the snake box.
00:54:17No one will look for it there.
00:54:23All gone, sir.
00:54:25Good, Tonga.
00:54:27Well, wrap a couple of your friends around yourself
00:54:29and keep you warm.
00:54:31Yes, sir.
00:54:51What do you think you're doing
00:54:53with them fireworks?
00:54:55I ain't taking no chances now.
00:54:57What's the matter with you?
00:54:59It's worse than that.
00:55:01The cops is after us.
00:55:03How do you know?
00:55:05Went round by the girls' flat
00:55:07over the florist's shop.
00:55:09Cops and plainclothes went all over the place.
00:55:11No mistaking what they're after.
00:55:13Come on, squeal.
00:55:15Come on. Let Morrison keep her pearls.
00:55:17Let's think what we've got to look at.
00:55:19Shut up. I'm going to have them all.
00:55:21Besides, pearls are harder to trace
00:55:23and therefore easier to sell than diamonds and the other stuff.
00:55:25Give me mine now.
00:55:27Well, let's get out of here anyway.
00:55:29Listen to me.
00:55:31How many times have I got to knock into your block
00:55:33that when you've done something in the north that you shouldn't,
00:55:35don't start changing to new places?
00:55:37It's then that you get spotted.
00:55:39Stick to your business as usual
00:55:41and look within and send us an angel.
00:55:43We stay right here in the funfair
00:55:45and show tomorrow night the same way as we've always done.
00:55:47Me, you and Tonga.
00:55:49Understand?
00:55:51And tomorrow night...
00:55:53Who is it?
00:55:55It's I, Dr. Watson.
00:55:57Oh, come in.
00:56:01Just been inspecting your guard.
00:56:03Got one officer outside the door here,
00:56:05two downstairs
00:56:07and one in the courtyard outside.
00:56:09Does that give you a feeling of protection?
00:56:11I suppose so.
00:56:13It seems an eternity since this morning.
00:56:15You must try and get some rest.
00:56:17Wipe today clean out of your memory.
00:56:19I'll be all right.
00:56:21I think I'll have a good cry.
00:56:23That'll make me relax.
00:56:25Now I should sleep.
00:56:27You absolutely insist on weeping.
00:56:29Can I offer you my shoulder?
00:56:31I fainted once today in front of you.
00:56:33I think I'd better have my cry in private.
00:56:37Please go.
00:56:39I feel terribly weepy.
00:56:53Very well, now.
00:56:55Here, you let go.
00:56:57Mr. Holmes, ain't he nice of you?
00:56:59What, ain't he?
00:57:01Well, I'll wait.
00:57:03What's your business?
00:57:05Well, it's none of your anyway.
00:57:07All right, my fine cockalore,
00:57:09and we'll see about that.
00:57:11Mr. Holmes
00:57:13told me to come here.
00:57:15What for?
00:57:17Because...
00:57:19because I know who's done the murder.
00:57:23See?
00:57:25Oh, do you?
00:57:27Yes, and I've come here for the reward.
00:57:29See?
00:57:33Good, if he ain't here, well,
00:57:35then I'll go.
00:57:37No, you won't.
00:57:39You stay here.
00:57:41Who are you?
00:57:43Detective Inspector Anthony Jones,
00:57:45Scotland Yard.
00:57:47Well, why ain't you wearing your hat in the house?
00:57:49Ha, ha, ha.
00:57:51Onions.
00:57:53Getting fresh, are you?
00:57:55If you know anything, you'll stay here
00:57:57until I get it out of you.
00:57:59It's a nice way to treat a person, I don't think.
00:58:11Try the other way, my dear Jones.
00:58:13The lock is reversed.
00:58:15Truth.
00:58:17What a turn you've given me.
00:58:19Whiskey and soda, Mrs. Hudson.
00:58:21Yes.
00:58:23Whatever have you been doing in that get-up?
00:58:25Attending a fancy-dressed ball.
00:58:27Pleasure before business, eh?
00:58:29I thought you took your detective work seriously.
00:58:31Well, this case is so simple, Jones,
00:58:33it hasn't required much thought.
00:58:35That's right. I've got the murderer in custody now.
00:58:37Ah, no doubt.
00:58:39Jones, by the way,
00:58:41I'm expecting some further developments tomorrow,
00:58:43and I may need a lot of help.
00:58:45Will Scotland Yard stand by?
00:58:47At your service, Mr. Holmes.
00:58:49Always believe in encouraging you amateurs.
00:58:51Someday you really might find something.
00:58:53Who knows?
00:58:55Flatterer.
00:58:57Will you be at the examination of the prisoners tomorrow?
00:58:59No. The case couldn't be in better hand.
00:59:01That's what I like about you, Mr. Holmes.
00:59:03You appreciate me.
00:59:05Good night.
00:59:11Oh, I do hope Mr. Holmes' search will be successful.
00:59:13It's been awful cooped up here all day.
00:59:15Under guard like a prisoner.
00:59:17Waiting for something.
00:59:19Heaven knows what to happen.
00:59:21I've been doing a little detective work on my own.
00:59:23Unbeknown to Holmes, of course.
00:59:29Would you recognize that tattooed man again if you saw him?
00:59:31Yes, I'm sure of it.
00:59:33You know, the whole idea of a tattooed man,
00:59:35tattooing needles,
00:59:37native feet, and so forth,
00:59:39sounds to me like a bit of a joke.
00:59:41Or...
00:59:43sounds to me like a circus.
00:59:45Yes. To me, too.
00:59:47Well, there's one just behind King's Cross.
00:59:49A fun fair, they call it.
00:59:51My cook was telling me about it.
00:59:53Would you risk going there with me?
00:59:55I'd go anywhere with you.
00:59:57Besides, I don't think I'm in danger anymore.
00:59:59Well, we can leave the guard here
01:00:01in case they give us a visit.
01:00:03There's just a chance we might find something.
01:00:05And oh,
01:00:07how I'd like to put it over on Holmes.
01:00:09Shall we go?
01:00:11Will you?
01:00:13I'll get my coat.
01:00:23Ah!
01:00:25Ah!
01:00:27Ah!
01:00:29Ah!
01:00:31Ah!
01:00:33Ah!
01:00:35Ah!
01:00:37Yes, sir.
01:00:39It took ten long, painful years
01:00:41to make me the world's greatest human creature gallery.
01:00:43There are seams on my body
01:00:45too terrible and shocking
01:00:47to describe.
01:00:49We'll blend into these marvellous things you see on me
01:00:51that Professor Insight can duplicate on you in a few minutes.
01:00:53Sure you wouldn't rather have a lovely view
01:00:55of Mount Vesuvius in full eruption?
01:00:57Or later go diving on a white horse?
01:00:59No fear.
01:01:01It's only a sentimental bit of work I want.
01:01:03A broken heart
01:01:05broken heart
01:01:07split in two and bladed a little.
01:01:09And with the initial B
01:01:11on one side
01:01:13for Bert
01:01:15that's my name
01:01:17and on the other side
01:01:19an S for Dolly.
01:01:21S for Dolly?
01:01:23You mean D for Dolly?
01:01:25No, S.
01:01:27Her name's Dolly
01:01:29but I always called her
01:01:31Sugar.
01:01:33That is a sweet name to be sure.
01:01:35Ladies and gentlemen
01:01:37look how the deadly python
01:01:39busts a little tumbler
01:01:41fondles and caresses him
01:01:43but it ain't love, it's fear.
01:01:45Why?
01:01:47Cause he bites off their heads
01:01:49they've seen it done hundreds of times
01:01:51and so could you.
01:01:53Look at him.
01:01:55I believe we've come to the right place.
01:01:57What do you mean?
01:01:59He looks like a murderer.
01:02:01Look, there's the tattooed man.
01:02:03Mr. Lowry, you're supposed to be a detective.
01:02:05You simply must see him.
01:02:07There's everything from
01:02:09ferocious animals, Daniel in the lion's den
01:02:11beautiful ladies,
01:02:13artist models who seem to be
01:02:15breathing and moving about with the artistic
01:02:17appreciation of the man.
01:02:19That's the man with all the flowers.
01:02:21I'm sure of it.
01:02:23Move up close men, move up close men.
01:02:25Have a look at this.
01:02:27Have a baseful of this here, men.
01:02:29Once more.
01:02:31You can see the old figure and the old
01:02:33marvelous shows.
01:02:35Well, who's coming inside, ladies?
01:02:37Who's coming inside?
01:02:39Come on, let's telephone home.
01:02:41Just a minute, Prince.
01:02:43I'll get everything prepared for you.
01:02:49Professor.
01:02:51What's up?
01:02:53That girl from the florist shop.
01:02:55I've just seen her with a friend.
01:02:57Are you sure?
01:02:59Yes, and she looked as if she knew me.
01:03:01Get a drink with it.
01:03:05Sorry, Bert.
01:03:07Can't finish it off today.
01:03:09Call again tomorrow, I'll do a nice wreath for you.
01:03:11Thank you, Professor.
01:03:13It hurts anyway.
01:03:15I'll only be a minute.
01:03:23Ready?
01:03:25It's ready to go.
01:03:27Look out.
01:03:39Come on.
01:03:41Give me that bag, quick.
01:03:45Come along.
01:03:47Forget your snake, come along.
01:03:49Come on.
01:03:53Come on.
01:03:57But, Mrs. Hudson, we simply
01:03:59must find him at once.
01:04:01Yes, yes, we've got his man.
01:04:13Miss Mawson.
01:04:15Miss Mawson.
01:04:17Mary.
01:04:19Mary.
01:04:21Mary.
01:04:23You can't do that.
01:04:25I can't.
01:04:27You don't call no coppers round here.
01:04:29Let go before I...
01:04:31Don't worry, Watson.
01:04:33I don't want the police here yet.
01:04:35Why haven't you come? Mary, she's disappeared.
01:04:37Why don't you tell me you've been fool enough to bring her here?
01:04:39Yes.
01:04:41What?
01:04:43They're on their way to Mordecai Smith's.
01:04:45We need help.
01:04:47I'll take a quick look around.
01:04:49We've been looking closer around.
01:04:51Somebody's found out my office. Keep your hands off her.
01:04:53I was looking for the pearls.
01:04:55She's got them on her somewhere, all right.
01:04:57We'll search her for them when we get to the boat.
01:04:59If she hasn't, I shall never see them again.
01:05:01That's certain.
01:05:03Go on, Fred. Faster.
01:05:07Keep up, guys.
01:05:09We're going into the river.
01:05:11Goodbye.
01:05:13I want it gone. Let's get a taxi.
01:05:15There are thousands of places in London.
01:05:17We've chosen Mordecai Smith.
01:05:19What if we get away in a fast boat before we can catch him?
01:05:21I've engaged a pastor this morning.
01:05:23How do you know it, Spock?
01:05:25Don't ask me how I know it, Watson.
01:05:27What a colossal mistake you've made.
01:05:29I had those fellows, all of them, right in my hands.
01:05:31I only had to discover where the jewels were.
01:05:33Then I could have made my capital.
01:05:35My brain's out of order.
01:05:37I haven't been much use to you, old fellow.
01:05:39I'd keep your head, you'll need it.
01:05:41And your fists, too, before we're through with this.
01:05:43Take quarter four. We want you downriver. Come on, quick.
01:05:47Come on.
01:06:09You keep your mouth shut. Come on, baby.
01:06:11You roll us this down here. Come on.
01:06:17Come on.
01:06:25Commercial Street in two minutes more.
01:06:47Ferret! Ferret!
01:07:17We've been followed.
01:07:19Stay with us, Duke.
01:07:21Must be the fallen fleet.
01:07:25That beautiful engine, Ferret.
01:07:27Yes, sir.
01:07:29Fleet's come to head.
01:07:31Signal me as to stop.
01:07:33I can't help it, sir. Go round her.
01:07:35They'll never catch this boat.
01:07:37No, but they'll kill us for it, all of us.
01:07:39We've got to get out of here.
01:07:41We've got to get out of here.
01:07:43We've got to get out of here.
01:07:45They'll never catch this boat.
01:07:47No, but they'll kill us for it, all of us.
01:07:51I ain't going to take a chance like that.
01:07:53You do it, I tell you.
01:07:55It's Craley's warehouse.
01:07:57We'll dodge in there.
01:07:59All right.
01:08:01Get on with it.
01:08:15Oh, look.
01:08:17Look, Duke, it's a slip.
01:08:23Mordecai knows this river like a book.
01:08:25So do I, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:27We'll follow him there.
01:08:29Now, there are two trap doors underneath the warehouse floor.
01:08:45Up there, Tonka.
01:09:01Come on.
01:09:03Where are those pearls?
01:09:05Come on, where are they?
01:09:15There they are, my beauties.
01:09:17I've got Tonka a place where he can do the most good.
01:09:19We're going to fight for it if they find us.
01:09:21It's hanging if they catch us anyway.
01:09:23We've nothing to lose.
01:09:25No, but I have.
01:09:27We don't need you.
01:09:45Come on.
01:10:15Come on.
01:10:45Come on.
01:11:03Watson, do you need any help?
01:11:05No.
01:11:07I've got tattoos.
01:11:09More to lose.
01:11:11But I'll come.
01:11:15Come on.
01:11:21Don't shoot.
01:11:23I'll give up.
01:11:25Wise man, Small.
01:11:45Watson, where are you?
01:11:47Ah.
01:11:49Here.
01:11:51Where's Mary?
01:11:53We'll find her.
01:12:01Mary!
01:12:03Holmes, in here!
01:12:05Oh, Mr. Morton.
01:12:07Believe me, I'm never so thankful to see anyone in my life.
01:12:09Come on.
01:12:11Come on.
01:12:13I'm never so thankful to see anyone in my life.
01:12:17You'll be all right.
01:12:19Perhaps you think I'm not glad to see you.
01:12:21Oh, Mr. Holmes.
01:12:23Small hid a satchel underneath that sack.
01:12:29Are you hurt?
01:12:31No, I'm all right.
01:12:33The treasure of Agra.
01:12:39Who's in there?
01:12:41Oh, Holmes.
01:12:43Ah, welcome, Jones, welcome.
01:12:45Listen, there's a one-legged man mixed up in this and a tattooed man, too.
01:12:47Oh, really?
01:12:49Well, we've left some for you to have a look at.
01:12:51By the way, they left this satchel behind.
01:12:53It's probably of no value.
01:12:57No value?
01:12:59Why, it's full of sparklers.
01:13:01You amateurs always overlook the important things.
01:13:03Here's Mordecai Smith, if you want him.
01:13:05What's he got to do with it?
01:13:07I want to know where the pearls are.
01:13:09Where are they?
01:13:11Small's taken them.
01:13:13Then they're at the bottom of the river, where we can find them.
01:13:15Because now you'll be so terribly rich that I can't even claim you as a friend,
01:13:17much less ask you.
01:13:19What?
01:13:21Sorry the jewels are distasteful to you, Miss Morstan, because I have the pearls.
01:13:23I took them from Jonathan Small
01:13:25when we first came to Grips.
01:13:27I didn't want them to get wet,
01:13:29so I'm afraid you'll have to have them back.
01:13:31I'm made.
01:13:33Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.
01:13:35Please, ask me.
01:13:37Will...
01:13:39you, um...
01:13:41Yes.
01:13:49Amazing.
01:13:53Elementary, my dear Holmes.
01:13:55Elementary.
01:14:07ELEMENTARY
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