... Faces Death. (1943)

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During WWII, several murders occur at a convalescent home where Watson has volunteered his services.  Basil Rathbone - Holmes Nigel Bruce - Watson Dennis Hoey - Lestrade Arthur Margetson - Doctor Sexton Hillary Brooke - Sally Musgrave Halliwell Hobbes - Brunton Minna Phillips - Mrs. Howells Milburn Stone - Captain Vickery Gavin Muir - Phillip Musgrave Gerald Hamer - Langford Vernon Downing - Clavering Olaf Hytten - Captain MacIntosh Frederick Worlock - Geoffrey Musgrave (as Frederic Worlock) Martin Ashe - Slinking Figure Joan Blair - Nora, Maid Charles Coleman - Constable Harold De Becker - Pub Proprietor Mary Gordon - Mrs. Hudson Peter Lawford - Young Sailor at Bar Dick Rush - Constable Eric Snowden - Sailor Trying to Play Piano Norma Varden - Gracie, Barmaid Heather Wilde - Jenny, Maid

Transcript

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00:01:08Order your plats. Drink up. Five minutes to closing time.

00:01:12Well, let's have three more beers. Come on now. Five minutes to closing time. Five minutes to closing time. Five minutes to closing time.

00:01:19Hello, sweetheart. Ask for the tune, eh?

00:01:23Five minutes to closing time.

00:01:35Here, you're on luck. That's what you are.

00:01:47You hurt bad, matey? Let's have a look at it.

00:01:50Blimey.

00:01:51What can I get you, lad?

00:01:52Mother's ruin.

00:01:53Make mine the same.

00:01:55He'll court you too bar for the broken glass, matey.

00:01:57What's the idea, anyway, letting a beast like that fly around loose in the public house?

00:02:01He didn't ought to let him smell the blood.

00:02:03He's very fond of blood, Charlie is.

00:02:06Comes by his taste natural, if you ask me.

00:02:09Nobody's asking you, miss.

00:02:10Oh.

00:02:11Where's he from?

00:02:12Musgrave Manor.

00:02:13What is this Musgrave Manor? A blink in prison?

00:02:16That ain't the worst it's been called.

00:02:18Not that I'm one to go about spreading stories.

00:02:21But we knows what we knows.

00:02:24Don't we, Charlie?

00:02:30Blimey.

00:02:31Where is this Musgrave Manor?

00:02:34Turn the road a piece.

00:02:36You'll see it when you're past the old iron gates.

00:02:39Only don't loiter.

00:02:41You won't be welcome.

00:02:43Not by the Musgraves.

00:02:45Been sitting there, lords of the manor ever since time was.

00:02:50If those old walls could speak, they'd tell you things that'd raise the air on your head.

00:02:56Those folks hereabouts swear they've seen corpse lights.

00:03:00Round the old greenhouse.

00:03:03An air a waning like lost souls in the limewalk.

00:03:09Hey, I want no part of it.

00:03:12Nor of the Musgraves neither.

00:03:14Hard men like them as was before them.

00:03:17Cruel men.

00:03:19God pity them.

00:03:21For the day is coming when they'll need pity.

00:03:49I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey.

00:03:54I assure you I have no wish to be fair.

00:03:59Hmm.

00:04:00An excellent specimen of the Copperis Carolina.

00:04:03You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?

00:04:05I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.

00:04:08No wish to be anything.

00:04:11I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey.

00:04:14I assure you I have no wish to be fair.

00:04:16Hmm.

00:04:17An excellent specimen of the Copperis Carolina.

00:04:21You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?

00:04:24I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.

00:04:27No wish to be anything but what I am.

00:04:30A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off

00:04:34with the first Cockshaw Yankee who makes her pulses jump.

00:04:38And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.

00:04:41Well, Philip has no choice in the matter.

00:04:44As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.

00:04:49Eve is dropping again, Brunton?

00:04:51Oh, no, Mr. Philip, I assure you.

00:04:53But I didn't wish to disturb him.

00:04:56What did you hear, Brunton?

00:05:01Your brother and Miss Sally were going at it amaranthons.

00:05:04About Captain Vickery, I mean.

00:05:06Really?

00:05:07Mr. Geoffrey and Captain Vickery had an horrible row this afternoon

00:05:12over Miss Sally.

00:05:13I thought they were coming to blows.

00:05:15Indeed I did.

00:05:16Quiet.

00:05:17That'll do now, Brunton.

00:05:18If I catch you snooping again, I shall ask my brother to give you notice.

00:05:21Yes, sir.

00:05:22Thank you, sir.

00:05:23You're not above a bit of snooping yourself, are you, Philip?

00:05:27Not in the least, old boy.

00:05:37Brunton!

00:05:38Oh, there you are.

00:05:39I've been rigging for you.

00:05:40Sorry, Dr. Watson.

00:05:42I was in the upper region.

00:05:44The library's in a filthy mess.

00:05:46The wind came swishing down the chimney

00:05:48and scattered the ashes everywhere.

00:05:50Very well.

00:05:51I'll tidy it up at once, Doctor.

00:05:58Room full of smoke, papers all over the floor.

00:06:01Foul night, Brunton.

00:06:02It's customary in Elston, sir.

00:06:04Just the sort of night, I fancy, for the ghost of Lady Clorinda.

00:06:08Oh, no, Dr. Watson.

00:06:10Lady Clorinda only walks in the west wing.

00:06:13No one ever met a ghost in this part of the house.

00:06:16Well, isn't there some story of the thing?

00:06:18Oh, there was an housemaid claimed that she saw Sir Jervis Musgrave

00:06:23with his head on backwards in this very room.

00:06:27Who gives me?

00:06:29Well, she was just a flighty girl, sir.

00:06:31Sounds like it. Very flighty.

00:06:33Most.

00:06:35Head on backwards.

00:06:37Head on backwards.

00:06:39Head on backwards.

00:06:41Head on backwards.

00:06:45Head on backwards.

00:07:01Head on backwards.

00:07:07Mr. Brunton, does the wind always carry on like this, sir?

00:07:10Frequently, sir.

00:07:11It's a great pity.

00:07:13It makes the gentlemen restless.

00:07:15More than usual, I mean.

00:07:19Well, our patients are all tucked up for the night now.

00:07:23Eh, Brunton?

00:07:25Are they?

00:07:26Of course, of course.

00:07:27Well, aren't they?

00:07:29Captain Vickery is in his room, sir.

00:07:31And it looked like Major Langford I saw going toward the pool.

00:07:36And I can't account for Lieutenant Clavering.

00:07:39Well, that's very odd.

00:07:41Very odd, sir.

00:07:44Anything else, sir?

00:07:45No, thank you. Oh, yes, yes.

00:07:46You might tell Dr. Sexton that I'd like to see him for a minute, will you?

00:07:49Very good, sir.

00:07:54Good night, sir.

00:07:58Good night, Brunton.

00:08:09Pa!

00:08:14Get him up.

00:08:15Let's get him in this chair over here.

00:08:17Sorry.

00:08:18Awfully sorry.

00:08:21Skip, get my bag with you, Brunton.

00:08:23Yes, sir.

00:08:24Well, let's have a look.

00:08:26Yes, a near thing.

00:08:27Just missed the carotid artery.

00:08:29Looks like a knife wound.

00:08:30Here you are, sir.

00:08:31Oh, it's...

00:08:32It's like a nightmare.

00:08:34Give me some of that cotton wool in that little bottle, please.

00:08:37Awful nuisance.

00:08:38Oh, no.

00:08:39We'll have you patched up in no time.

00:08:40You'll be as good as new.

00:08:42What happened?

00:08:43I hardly know.

00:08:45It was in Lime Walk just now.

00:08:48I was coming up from the village.

00:08:50I remember distinctly I was approaching the greenhouse.

00:08:54The wind was terrific.

00:08:56I had to fight my way.

00:08:58I hadn't the slightest warning.

00:09:02All I know is that he struck and I went down.

00:09:07He must have thought I was done for.

00:09:10Any idea who it was?

00:09:11No.

00:09:13Well, that is, I...

00:09:15Yes, yes.

00:09:16No, really, I...

00:09:18I haven't any right.

00:09:20You have every right, Dr. Sexton.

00:09:24As head of this house, I shall arrange for an immediate investigation.

00:09:29I'd rather not, if you don't mind, sir.

00:09:30Dr. Sexton, the fact that my brother and sister and I have opened our home to convalescent patients

00:09:35doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.

00:09:40I mean, under the peculiar circumstances.

00:09:43Come along, Bob.

00:09:44There's no need to shield anyone.

00:09:53Thirteen.

00:09:55Thirteen?

00:09:56That's curious.

00:09:58What's got into the old clock?

00:10:00Nothing, nothing at all.

00:10:02Oh, sir.

00:10:03Don't you remember the last time it did that?

00:10:06Your father was killed the next day.

00:10:31Mr. Holmes?

00:10:32Mr. Holmes?

00:10:33Mr. Holmes?

00:10:34Mr. Holmes?

00:10:35Mr. Holmes?

00:10:36Oh, Mr. Holmes, I...

00:10:37Oh, I...

00:10:38A purely scientific experiment, Mrs. Hudson.

00:10:39Oh, frightening the wits out of honest people.

00:10:40Permit me, ma'am.

00:10:41Oh, dear.

00:10:42So now it's bullet holes in me plaster.

00:10:44Oh, Mr. Holmes, this is the last straw.

00:10:45The last straw, Mrs. Hudson.

00:10:46The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.

00:10:47It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, even bound as he claims he was, he could still

00:10:48look at the last straw.

00:10:49The last straw, Mrs. Hudson, the one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.

00:10:50It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, even bound as he claims he was, he could still have

00:11:14fired the shot in his own defense that killed his wife's lover.

00:11:16But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.

00:11:27Come in, Watson.

00:11:29My dear fellow, I'm glad to find you in.

00:11:32I didn't even knock.

00:11:34How did you know it was me?

00:11:35I.

00:11:36Me is acceptable, Watson, unless, of course, you're a purist, which I doubt.

00:11:39And may I add that your step is like no other in London.

00:11:43You're just in time for breakfast.

00:11:44Good.

00:11:45I rather carried on that.

00:11:46Mrs. Hudson, dear, how are you?

00:11:47Oh, it's good to see you again, sir.

00:11:49I think there'll be enough there for two.

00:11:51Splendid.

00:11:54You're a sight for sore eyes, Watson.

00:11:55Thanks, old boy.

00:11:56And so are you.

00:11:57Sit down.

00:11:58Good.

00:12:00All right.

00:12:01Let's have it.

00:12:02What brings you from Northumberland at this early hour?

00:12:04A bad business home.

00:12:06A very bad business.

00:12:07How do you know that I came from Northumberland?

00:12:10Elementary, my dear Watson.

00:12:11Your overnight bag carried a fresh Euston label.

00:12:14The only train arriving at Euston Station at this hour is the Newcastle Express from Northumberland.

00:12:19Ergo, so might, thou comest from Northumberland.

00:12:22Of course.

00:12:23Obvious, isn't it?

00:12:24Quite.

00:12:25Now tell me, what dark deed was done at Hurston Towers last night?

00:12:27Oh, that's what I came to see about, Holmes.

00:12:29About 10 o'clock last night, I was sitting in the lab.

00:12:32But how do you know that I came from Hurston?

00:12:35You wrote me that you'd volunteered for medical service within the realm.

00:12:38With your experience, what post could have been offered you,

00:12:41other than to put you in charge of a home for convalescent officers?

00:12:44Only one such home has been opened in Northumberland for the last month,

00:12:47and that's Musgrave Manor at Hurston.

00:12:50Simple reasoning.

00:12:51A child could do it.

00:12:53Not your child, Watson.

00:12:55Well, of course.

00:12:56Well, I never had a child.

00:12:58I very nearly did, though.

00:12:59Did I ever tell you about that widow at Twickenham?

00:13:02Very narrow escape.

00:13:04I just found out in times you had a most horrible little squirt,

00:13:06about three and a half.

00:13:07Yes, Watson.

00:13:08I think we'd better stick to Hurston.

00:13:09Oh, sorry, old boy.

00:13:10Oh, Hurston.

00:13:11It's a grim old pile.

00:13:13Very spooky.

00:13:14Don't tell me that you met a ghost.

00:13:16No, not as spooky as that.

00:13:18Ghosts don't stab people in the neck, do they?

00:13:21Or do they?

00:13:24Not well-bred ghosts, Watson.

00:13:26Who was stabbed in the neck?

00:13:28My young assistant, Dr. Sexton.

00:13:31When?

00:13:32Last night.

00:13:33Any idea who did it?

00:13:34I have no idea.

00:13:35You reported it?

00:13:36No.

00:13:37Well, no.

00:13:38No, I didn't.

00:13:39Why not?

00:13:40My dear fellow, what you're trying to say is,

00:13:42the officers in your care are all fine fellows.

00:13:44Wonderful war records and so on.

00:13:45Is that it?

00:13:46Precisely.

00:13:47So you thought perhaps a private investigation?

00:13:50Exactly.

00:13:51Very right and proper thinking, Watson.

00:13:53We've just time to catch the 9.30 train from Hurston.

00:13:55Well, my dear fellows, there's no immediate hurl.

00:13:58Isn't there?

00:13:59Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.

00:14:01Any one of them might go over the edge at any moment.

00:14:04And from what you've told me, there's a killer loose at Hurston.

00:14:07Great Scott, you may be right.

00:14:09Come on, Watson.

00:14:10We haven't a moment to lose.

00:14:12I only hope we shan't be too late.

00:14:26You were right, Watson, about Musgrave Manor.

00:14:28Houses like people have definite personalities.

00:14:30And this place is positively ghoulish.

00:14:32It certainly is.

00:14:34Hello.

00:14:35What's that?

00:14:37Just the old greenhouse?

00:14:39No, no.

00:14:40That pile of leaves.

00:14:41Just an ordinary pile of leaves.

00:14:42Why?

00:14:43Doesn't it strike you as odd, Watson,

00:14:45that a pile of leaves should be wrecked up in front of a greenhouse door?

00:14:48No gardener in the world would do that.

00:14:52Geoffrey Musgrave.

00:15:22Oh!

00:15:26That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.

00:15:30But what, may I ask, does it prove?

00:15:33What I'm trying to prove is this.

00:15:35That Dr. Sextonier went down.

00:15:37Twice now, Inspector.

00:15:38You were stunned.

00:15:39Naturally.

00:15:40You were out longer than you thought.

00:15:41That's the point.

00:15:42What point?

00:15:43Just this.

00:15:44The man who attacked him had time to get back into the house

00:15:46before Dr. Sextonier came to.

00:15:48Yes.

00:15:49Yes.

00:15:50And this here glove.

00:15:52Oh.

00:15:53And this here glove,

00:15:55what I picked up at the scene of the crime,

00:15:57belongs to a certain party right here in this house.

00:16:00I say.

00:16:01Why, that glove belongs to my brother.

00:16:03Huh?

00:16:04Would you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sexton?

00:16:06Who knows?

00:16:08The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.

00:16:12Very well.

00:16:13My brother's down at the stables.

00:16:14I'll take you to him myself.

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

00:16:18Come on.

00:16:19Oh, Mr. Philip.

00:16:20Yeah?

00:16:21Better not go out in the night air without a coat.

00:16:23Here.

00:16:24Take mine.

00:16:25Thanks.

00:16:29Well, I won't need this.

00:16:30No.

00:16:31Oh.

00:16:32Nor this.

00:16:33Well, shall we go?

00:16:37Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes.

00:16:39Good evening, Lestrade.

00:16:40Come to give us an hand, have you?

00:16:41Always happy to help, Inspector.

00:16:43Thanks, but I don't think I should be needing any.

00:16:45Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.

00:16:48Gentlemen, this is my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

00:16:52Mr. Philip Musgrave and Dr. Sexton.

00:16:54How do you do?

00:16:55How do you do?

00:16:56I've just brought him up to spend a few days with us.

00:16:58Well, that's very good of you.

00:16:59But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.

00:17:02Oh, really?

00:17:03It's most unfortunate.

00:17:04If you don't mind, Dr. Watson,

00:17:06I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.

00:17:08I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.

00:17:10Oh, no?

00:17:11I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.

00:17:14We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.

00:17:16He's dead.

00:17:18You can't mean it.

00:17:21No.

00:17:25Look here, Holmes.

00:17:26If this is one of your little jokes...

00:17:28Murder's no joke, Inspector.

00:17:30That's right, Mr. Holmes.

00:17:31No good saying it ain't.

00:17:33Murder?

00:17:34Well, let's get going.

00:17:35I'll take charge now.

00:17:36What?

00:17:37It's quite within my rights as a local justice of the peace.

00:17:39I'll come with you.

00:18:02Wait a minute, you fool.

00:18:03Don't go barging in like that.

00:18:05Don't maw me.

00:18:10Surgical instruments.

00:18:12You know, Watson,

00:18:13the instruments that save life are hardly more pleasant to look at

00:18:16than those that take it.

00:18:17Hmm.

00:18:18Grizzly thought, Holmes.

00:18:23You rang, Dr. Watson?

00:18:24Yes, Brunton.

00:18:25I want you to take some men and go down to the Lime Walk.

00:18:27Me, sir?

00:18:28Oh, I can't, sir.

00:18:29I'm sorry, but I simply can't.

00:18:31My stomach, you know.

00:18:33I really couldn't look at a corpse.

00:18:37A corpse?

00:18:38Well, I, uh...

00:18:39How did you know that there was a corpse?

00:18:41Obviously, he was listening at the door.

00:18:43I'll take care of the matter, Doctor.

00:18:45I was listening, too.

00:18:47Come along, Brunton.

00:18:48Come along, Brunton.

00:18:56Remarkable woman.

00:18:57Housekeeper, I suppose.

00:18:58She's very efficient.

00:19:00Same type as Mary Ann Carpenter, the trunk motorist.

00:19:06Extraordinary house.

00:19:07Yes, sir.

00:19:08Yes, indeed.

00:19:09Now, Watson, if you don't mind,

00:19:11I'd like to have a word with your extraordinary patients.

00:19:14Let me remind you, Holmes,

00:19:15that my patients are just, uh...

00:19:17just, uh, patients.

00:19:18Quite, sir.

00:19:19All normal men.

00:19:20Sound in mind and body.

00:19:22No sign of psychoneurosis.

00:19:24I quite understand.

00:19:25Then, Holmes, even normal people are sometimes a little...

00:19:30Precisely.

00:19:37Oh, hello, Mac.

00:19:42Eh?

00:19:43Oh, oh, oh, oh, I must have taken a wee nap.

00:19:47Mac, I want you to meet a very old friend of mine,

00:19:49Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Captain McIntosh.

00:19:51How do you do?

00:19:52I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.

00:19:54Sorry to have wakened you.

00:19:55Oh, that's quite all right.

00:19:56See you later.

00:19:57Yes.

00:19:58Sit down, Mac, and go on while you sleep.

00:20:00Come on.

00:20:06Poor chap, he lay wounded in a trench on Joshua Hill.

00:20:09The German tanks went over him.

00:20:13Watson.

00:20:14Huh?

00:20:15Have you any idea how Geoffrey Musgrave met his death?

00:20:17Yes, depressed skull fracture.

00:20:19Only hang it all, Holmes, it isn't.

00:20:21Isn't it? Why not?

00:20:22No edema, no bleeding, no contraction of tissue.

00:20:25Precisely.

00:20:26The blow on the head was delivered after death.

00:20:28Musgrave was killed by a sharp instrument

00:20:30thrust up between the base of the skull and the top vertebra.

00:20:32Great Scott.

00:20:34Shall we go up now?

00:20:42Hello, Langford.

00:20:43Hello there.

00:20:44Been away, haven't you?

00:20:45Haven't you?

00:20:46Yes, I've just been out of London.

00:20:48I brought my friend back.

00:20:49This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Major Langford.

00:20:51See you at dinner.

00:20:52What?

00:20:53What?

00:20:54I hope so.

00:20:55I hope so.

00:20:56I hope so.

00:20:57Excuse me.

00:20:58Excuse me.

00:20:59Excuse me.

00:21:00Poor chap was at Singapore.

00:21:02Escaped from a Japanese prison camp.

00:21:04Ghastly experience.

00:21:05He's suffering from, er...

00:21:06Escape complex, obviously.

00:21:08Yes, he's a...

00:21:09He's a very nice chap, though.

00:21:10The next fellow I want you to meet is young Clay Wing.

00:21:13Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.

00:21:15Saw a lot of men blown to bits by Nazi booby traps.

00:21:18He's a bit on edge.

00:21:19Not unnaturally.

00:21:26Coming.

00:21:31Well, Dr. Watson.

00:21:32Come in, won't you?

00:21:33Sorry to keep you so long.

00:21:35You see, I, er...

00:21:37I was lying down.

00:21:39Resting.

00:21:40This is my friend, Mr. Holmes, who's here for a few days.

00:21:42Mr. Clavering.

00:21:43Glad to meet you.

00:21:44How do you do?

00:21:45Sorry to disturb you.

00:21:46Not at all.

00:21:47I say, you don't have to have some cigarettes about you, do you?

00:21:50That's one of the reasons I came.

00:21:51I brought you some of those American cigarettes that you're so fond of.

00:21:54That's all right.

00:21:56Open it up.

00:21:57No, Harry.

00:21:58No, Harry at all.

00:22:00No, no, no.

00:22:01Of course there isn't.

00:22:02Shall we go?

00:22:03Yes.

00:22:04Well, we must be off.

00:22:05We've got a lot to do.

00:22:06See you later.

00:22:07Yes, I'll be back.

00:22:08Good night.

00:22:12He seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package.

00:22:14Well, he's found him in less likely places than that, poor chap.

00:22:17The man in this room is an American flying officer.

00:22:20Captain Vickery.

00:22:21Nothing very much the matter with him.

00:22:22What's he here for, then?

00:22:23A spot of rest.

00:22:24Had to put it on guard.

00:22:25It's worn out.

00:22:26Needs all the rest he can get.

00:22:27Vickery?

00:22:29Vickery?

00:22:31This one seemed to be in.

00:22:37No one at home.

00:22:39Hmm.

00:22:40Down to knock.

00:22:42Not since tea time, at a rate.

00:22:46Well, what's this?

00:22:48Captain Vickery, here's your tea.

00:22:51If it's cold, don't blame me.

00:22:53That sounds like Brompton's work.

00:22:55The butler?

00:22:57He fends himself a poet, but only when he's drinking.

00:23:00I see.

00:23:01Wasn't there an American killer given to verse?

00:23:03Holmes, you don't think that Brompton...

00:23:05Excuse me.

00:23:06I merely stated...

00:23:09there was an American killer given to verse.

00:23:12Dr. Watson!

00:23:13Oh, where are you?

00:23:14Oh, there you are.

00:23:15Steady, my dear, steady.

00:23:17Please make me wake up, won't you?

00:23:19It's just a bad dream, I know.

00:23:21Jeff and Pat...

00:23:22No, no, no, my dear.

00:23:23You've got to get a grip on yourself.

00:23:25Come on, come.

00:23:26Come sit down.

00:23:27My brother Jeff...

00:23:29murdered.

00:23:31Poor old Jeff.

00:23:33And I haven't spoken to him since we had the fight yesterday on Pat...

00:23:36I mean Captain Vickery's account.

00:23:39And now he's dead.

00:23:40Now, now, my dear.

00:23:41You must...

00:23:42You must pull yourself together.

00:23:43But you don't understand.

00:23:45They're trying to say that Pat...

00:23:47They're trying to prove that Pat killed Jeff.

00:23:50No, no, no.

00:23:51Yes!

00:23:52Funny, isn't it?

00:23:54Awfully funny.

00:23:56Awfully funny.

00:23:57Awfully funny.

00:23:58Awfully funny.

00:23:59Stop it!

00:24:00Who are you?

00:24:01My name is Holmes.

00:24:02Sherlock Holmes?

00:24:03Yes.

00:24:04Then you'll help us, won't you, Mr. Holmes?

00:24:06Pat and me.

00:24:07I'll try to.

00:24:08Now, tell me.

00:24:09Wasn't there bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery?

00:24:12That's got nothing to do with it.

00:24:13It may have everything to do with it.

00:24:14If you think Captain Vickery ever murdered anyone,

00:24:16you're no more of a detective than, than, than Dr. Watson.

00:24:20Oh, dear.

00:24:21Oh, I'm sorry.

00:24:26You're very much in love, aren't you?

00:24:27I'm out of my mind, Mr. Holmes.

00:24:29I'm out of my mind.

00:24:31Oh, please forgive me and please, please help me.

00:24:34Of course, of course, I understand.

00:24:36But you don't understand that appalling man from Scotland Yard

00:24:39is questioning Pat at this very moment.

00:24:41Now, this here rake.

00:24:43It's the identical one you got from the gardener this afternoon now, ain't it?

00:24:49Smells like it.

00:24:50Hey, what is this?

00:24:51Are you trying to prove that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake?

00:24:54Now, I'm trying to...

00:24:56Never mind what I'm trying to prove.

00:24:58Just incriminate yourself, Captain Vickery. That's all the Strahd wants.

00:25:01I'll thank you to keep out of this, Mr. Holmes.

00:25:03This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

00:25:04How do you do?

00:25:05He's promised to help you, dear, and there's nothing to worry about now.

00:25:07Only his neck, miss.

00:25:08Now this here rake.

00:25:10What did you say you were using it for?

00:25:11I told you, I got it to fish my cap out of the pond. It blew in.

00:25:14Oh, so you were using it down at the pond, were you?

00:25:17For the tenth time, yes.

00:25:18And how did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body, eh?

00:25:21I don't know.

00:25:22Uh-huh. Well, that's that.

00:25:24Oh, Mr. Holmes.

00:25:25Any fingerprints on the rake, Inspector?

00:25:27No, Mr. Holmes. That's the point.

00:25:29If Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out...

00:25:31Well, now, he wouldn't bother to wipe his fingerprints off, now would he?

00:25:34It's beyond imagination, I suppose, that somebody else could have used the rake...

00:25:37...and wiped off both sets of fingerprints.

00:25:39Highly interested, but very unlikely.

00:25:41Now, you admit that you had a regular set too with Geoffrey Musgrave yesterday, didn't you?

00:25:45You threatened to bash his head in.

00:25:46I merely made the offer. He didn't accept it.

00:25:48Who told you so?

00:25:49He did. Oh, no, he did.

00:25:50I only stated what I heard.

00:25:52Captain Vickery did threaten my brother.

00:25:55That's right, Mr. Holmes, and it's no good saying it ain't.

00:25:58This Yankee lad had motive and opportunity, and the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse.

00:26:04All right. Come along.

00:26:10Do you really think he killed old Musgrave?

00:26:12You know very well he didn't.

00:26:13He doesn't.

00:26:14Stop clicking those needles.

00:26:16Oh, Pat.

00:26:17Take it easy, Sally.

00:26:18Now, look, don't worry a bit.

00:26:19I'll tell you everything's gonna be all right.

00:26:22Let's go, Inspector.

00:26:25Mr. Holmes.

00:26:30Steady, steady.

00:26:32Aren't you on our side?

00:26:33Yes, Sally.

00:26:34Then why don't you do something?

00:26:36Because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight than he would be in this house.

00:26:40Oh, Mr. Holmes, what am I going to do?

00:26:42Watson, get a set of it.

00:26:43What am I going to do?

00:26:44I'll get it at once.

00:26:45Come along, Sally.

00:26:55She's a bit upset, but she'll get over it.

00:27:00You think so?

00:27:01She'll have to.

00:27:02She's got an ordeal ahead of her.

00:27:04She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.

00:27:06Ritual?

00:27:08This is an old family ceremony, Mr. Holmes.

00:27:12Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household.

00:27:17Blast this thing.

00:27:20This help?

00:27:21Oh, yes, thanks.

00:27:23Knitting needle, isn't it?

00:27:25Yes.

00:27:26Handy little things.

00:27:28It says,

00:27:30My heir, Sally has to recite a sort of formula over Geoff's body in front of the fireplace in the library in the presence of the entire household.

00:27:37Well, that's better.

00:27:39That's what sort of formula?

00:27:42Oh, it's not meaningless words.

00:27:44Musgrave ritual, they call it.

00:27:46This old family custom has been handed down for generations.

00:27:49Do you remember the words?

00:27:50No.

00:27:51No, not at all.

00:27:52But you had to speak them when your brother Geoffrey took over.

00:27:56Yes, if that's right, I did.

00:27:59Let me see now.

00:28:01Who first shall find it were better dead.

00:28:05Who next shall find it perils his head.

00:28:08The last to find it defies dark powers.

00:28:12Who first shall find it were better dead.

00:28:17Who next shall find it perils his head.

00:28:21The last to find it defies dark powers and brings good fortune to Hurlston Towers.

00:28:28Where was the light?

00:28:30On the face of the messenger.

00:28:32Where did he speed?

00:28:34To guard the Queen's page.

00:28:36What Thoman advanced?

00:28:37The Bishop's page.

00:28:38What Thoman advanced?

00:28:43The Bishop's page.

00:28:46Rashly.

00:28:47And who to repel?

00:28:49The King's cautious page.

00:28:51What then?

00:28:52What then?

00:28:53The...

00:29:00Disaster.

00:29:01Queen...

00:29:02Slaughter's...

00:29:06Page.

00:29:07No, no.

00:29:08Sorry, Miss Sally.

00:29:10Page.

00:29:11Slaughter's page.

00:29:12Thank you, Branton.

00:29:13Who came then to slay him?

00:29:14The bloodthirsty Bishop.

00:29:15Where shall he go?

00:29:16Deep down below.

00:29:19Away from the thunder.

00:29:20Let him dig under.

00:29:21Let him dig under.

00:29:25Waaaa....

00:29:26Whaaah!

00:29:27No!

00:29:29No!

00:29:30Oh!

00:29:31Ah!!

00:29:32Ay!

00:29:33No!

00:29:34Das終ytic

00:29:34roll,

00:29:36And that's right.

00:29:37Trew him through.

00:29:39He is behind the car,

00:29:41i diyENS

00:29:42Without burIOUS

00:29:44Then I tell you there.

00:29:46Your mother,

00:29:47The fourth of può co-cooter,

00:29:49forgive me.

00:29:50All i don't mind,

00:29:52Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more.

00:30:03Happy day.

00:30:08You drunken sot. The master's been ringing you for the past ten minutes.

00:30:12Why don't you answer it?

00:30:13Fly away, little gremlin.

00:30:16You're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches you in this state.

00:30:19Whistle, that's him. Hurry, hurry.

00:30:22Come in, sir. Come in.

00:30:28One moment, sir.

00:30:38Mr. Holmes. Come in, sir. Come in.

00:30:42This is indeed an honor.

00:30:51I don't often have visitors.

00:30:54What can I do for you, sir?

00:30:56Might stop that streaking to begin with.

00:30:58Yes, sir.

00:30:59Then perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.

00:31:02Me, sir?

00:31:03Yes, you.

00:31:04When Miss Sally forgot the lines today, you were the one who prompted her.

00:31:09Well, sir, I memorized it.

00:31:11Obviously. But why?

00:31:14Because it has no meaning.

00:31:17I love things that have no meaning.

00:31:22Thank you, Brunton.

00:31:23But supposing it did have a meaning.

00:31:25And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.

00:31:28Oh, what a lovely idea.

00:31:31If I may see, sir.

00:31:33You may, Brunton.

00:31:35You may also sit down.

00:31:36Thank you, sir.

00:31:43Oh, stop it!

00:31:46And look at me.

00:31:48No, here.

00:31:50You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.

00:31:52Do I?

00:31:53Well, don't you?

00:31:54You'd be surprised at all the things I know.

00:31:58What things?

00:31:59No, you don't.

00:32:00About the Musgraves?

00:32:02They're to be telling.

00:32:03But here's to them anyway.

00:32:05All the Musgraves, past and present.

00:32:09Some of them were murderous and some of them worse.

00:32:13But they all knew how to keep a secret.

00:32:16And so do I.

00:32:18Brunton.

00:32:24I've been ringing for you for the past ten minutes.

00:32:27Sorry, sir.

00:32:28But the buzzer doesn't buzz.

00:32:32That'll do, Brunton.

00:32:33You have your notice.

00:32:34Do you understand?

00:32:36Yes, sir.

00:32:37Is that advisable, Mr. Musgrave?

00:32:39Let me be the judge of that.

00:32:40He leaves Helston in the morning.

00:32:41The morning's a long way off.

00:32:45Farewell.

00:32:47A long farewell.

00:32:49To all my greatness.

00:32:51You've done it now, Alf Brunton.

00:32:53After all we've been through.

00:32:56How am I managed to do it all alone?

00:32:58What are you going to do?

00:33:01What am I going to do?

00:33:21Three, three, three.

00:33:22Four, four, three, four.

00:33:23Three, four, five.

00:33:24Four, three, five.

00:33:46Thirteen again.

00:33:47Yes.

00:34:10Harold's attitude confuses me, Watson.

00:34:12She swears that she hasn't seen eyes on Brunson since last night

00:34:15and yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him.

00:34:17Quite so. She knows where he is as well as we do.

00:34:19I mean as well as we don't.

00:34:21I wonder.

00:34:22You said that he was drinking last night.

00:34:24Wouldn't it be a good idea to try the pub?

00:34:26That's exactly where we're headed for, Watson.

00:34:28I'm glad we thought of this, even if we don't find Brunson.

00:34:34I was afraid we shouldn't find him here.

00:34:36Don't worry, old boy. I can do with a drink.

00:34:38With your information, so could I.

00:34:41Gentlemen.

00:34:42Hello, Doctor. Not looking for us, are you?

00:34:44Are you?

00:34:45Well, no. As a matter of fact, we're looking for...

00:34:48Brunson.

00:34:49You haven't seen him, have you?

00:34:50Have we, Clay Wink?

00:34:51Have we?

00:34:52Why should we?

00:34:55Morning, Gracie.

00:34:56Morning, Doctor.

00:34:57What do you have?

00:34:58A bottle of bass and what's yours?

00:34:59A pint of bitter, please.

00:35:00And a pint of bitter.

00:35:03I have a kettle. I have a kettle.

00:35:04Oh, really?

00:35:06Hello, a tame raven.

00:35:09You're a devil, are you?

00:35:10A kettle, are you?

00:35:11I have a devil, I have a devil.

00:35:14Birds of prey, aren't they?

00:35:15Yes, in a way. Scavengers, rather.

00:35:18They can smell a carcass half a mile off.

00:35:19Yeah, that they can and all.

00:35:21You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.

00:35:25Shall we go and sit down?

00:35:26Come on.

00:35:27Come on.

00:35:28Come on.

00:35:47Gracie, have you seen Dr. Watson?

00:35:49He's over there, lass.

00:35:51May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes?

00:35:55What's wrong, Sally?

00:35:56We can't find my brother Philip.

00:35:57Did you look in his room?

00:35:58That's the trouble.

00:35:59We had to force the door.

00:36:00It was locked on the inside.

00:36:01Really?

00:36:02Yes. Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.

00:36:03Certainly, Sally, at once.

00:36:10Do be quick. Something ghastly has happened. I know it.

00:36:12Oh, that dreadful bird.

00:36:14Please drive it away.

00:36:15Watson.

00:36:16Take her away.

00:36:17Away, where'd she?

00:36:18Anywhere.

00:36:19Into the pub.

00:36:20Just take her away.

00:36:31Philip Mousgrave.

00:36:39What are they doing now?

00:36:40Doing now?

00:36:41I don't know.

00:36:42They've stopped talking.

00:36:43Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.

00:36:48Heavy footsteps.

00:36:57There's no doubt about it, Watson.

00:36:59Philip Mousgrave had a visitor here last night.

00:37:01These footprints were made either by a very heavy man

00:37:04or a man carrying a very heavy burden.

00:37:06That's right, Mr. Holmes.

00:37:07It's no good saying it ain't.

00:37:08The burden was Philip Mousgrave's body

00:37:10and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brunton.

00:37:13It doesn't necessarily follow.

00:37:15Oh, don't it?

00:37:19Here. Try that on your footprint.

00:37:27And that's Alfred Brunton's shoe.

00:37:29It's perfectly, Inspector.

00:37:30Uh-huh.

00:37:31But the fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes

00:37:33doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.

00:37:35Why not?

00:37:36Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?

00:37:38Well, they're not in them now, are they?

00:37:39Look here, Holmes.

00:37:40Let's use our intellect.

00:37:41You what?

00:37:42What's wrong with that?

00:37:43Let's stick to motive.

00:37:44That's my strong point now.

00:37:45This here Brunton had motive.

00:37:47Philip Mousgrave gave him the sack, didn't he?

00:37:49Did Geoffrey Mousgrave also give him the sack?

00:37:51What's that got to do with it?

00:37:52Everything.

00:37:53The similarity of method in both murders

00:37:55shows they were the work of one man.

00:37:56Well, that left Vickery out.

00:37:57He was in jail at the time of this murder.

00:37:59All right, Martin, all right.

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

00:38:02What possible motive could Brunton have had

00:38:04for the murder of Geoffrey Mousgrave?

00:38:06Motive? Oh, bother motive.

00:38:07Who cares about motive?

00:38:08This case is as simple as A-B-C.

00:38:10Is it?

00:38:11Then perhaps you could explain to us

00:38:12why these footprints lead up to a blank wall

00:38:14and never return.

00:38:15What?

00:38:16You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?

00:38:18There's just one possible explanation.

00:38:20I've got it.

00:38:22Brunton murdered Mousgrave right up against the wall.

00:38:25He hoisted the body over his shoulder, like this, you see,

00:38:28walks backwards, clean out of the room.

00:38:33That's a very undignified position, Lestrade.

00:38:35Up's a day, is it?

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

00:38:40it's not unusual to find secret passageways

00:38:42that lead down through the walls.

00:38:43Hello, here we are.

00:38:45No, you don't.

00:38:46Come out of there.

00:38:47What are you doing in there?

00:38:48None of your business.

00:38:49Answer me.

00:38:50Obviously.

00:38:51She was looking for Brunton.

00:38:52That's right.

00:38:53He hasn't left Mousgrave Manner.

00:38:54I'm certain of that, sir.

00:38:55His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.

00:38:56Don't you lie to me, woman.

00:38:57You've got him in there somewhere.

00:38:58Don't come in there.

00:38:59Why not?

00:39:00You'll get lost.

00:39:01Me lost?

00:39:02Oh, I like that.

00:39:03He will get lost, sir.

00:39:04Let him.

00:39:05Now listen to me.

00:39:06Where did you enter that passageway?

00:39:07Through the old greenhouse in Limewalk, sir.

00:39:08Did Brunton know that?

00:39:09No, he didn't.

00:39:10Mrs. Brunton.

00:39:11Then why were you looking for him in there?

00:39:12We...

00:39:13I...

00:39:14Yes, we've known all along that you were married to Brunton.

00:39:16You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?

00:39:17No.

00:39:18Yes, you do.

00:39:19And you think Brunton did it?

00:39:20No.

00:39:21You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?

00:39:22No, no.

00:39:23Over to the garage?

00:39:24No, he never.

00:39:25And crammed his body in the rumple seat of the house.

00:39:26No, he never.

00:39:27And crammed his body in the rumple seat of the house.

00:39:28Why not?

00:39:29Why not?

00:39:30You'll get lost.

00:39:31Why not?

00:39:32You'll get lost.

00:39:33Me lost?

00:39:34Oh, I like that.

00:39:35He will get lost, sir.

00:39:36I'll put the blame on both of you.

00:39:37You're in this together.

00:39:38You were in his room last night.

00:39:39I saw you there.

00:39:40Only to talk about the ritual, sir.

00:39:41He...

00:39:42We...

00:39:43He thought that he'd got it all worked out.

00:39:44Did he leave any notes?

00:39:45Any record?

00:39:46No.

00:39:47That is...

00:39:48Oh, come on.

00:39:49Come on.

00:39:50Out with it.

00:39:51Only this, sir.

00:39:52I found it this morning under the soap dish on his washstand.

00:39:55Hmm.

00:39:56He's still written.

00:39:57Another jingle?

00:39:58No.

00:39:59No.

00:40:00No.

00:40:01No.

00:40:02No.

00:40:03No.

00:40:04No.

00:40:05Another jingle?

00:40:06Yes.

00:40:07Obviously in some agitation.

00:40:10If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual, seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual.

00:40:15The old ritual.

00:40:16There it is again.

00:40:17Watson, we'd rather find that ritual.

00:40:18It's the key to the whole business.

00:40:19Just a minute.

00:40:20You can't talk to Sally.

00:40:21Why not?

00:40:22She was in such a state I had to give her a hypo.

00:40:23All right.

00:40:24Come along.

00:40:28Draw the curtains, Watson.

00:40:30There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.

00:40:35She had to learn it, you know.

00:40:37Yes, you're right.

00:40:38Here it is.

00:40:39I doubt it.

00:40:40Empty.

00:40:41Quite.

00:40:42There's only one thing to do.

00:40:43Search the room.

00:40:44Not the room, Watson.

00:40:45Her mind.

00:40:46We must search her mind.

00:40:48Obviously, she took great pains to hide that paper.

00:40:51But, but why should she hide it?

00:40:53Put yourself in her place.

00:40:54Her brother, Jeffrey, was murdered.

00:40:56The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.

00:40:59On top of that, she finds her brother, Philip, murdered.

00:41:02What would your reactions be?

00:41:03Well, naturally, I should be terribly upset.

00:41:05Obviously.

00:41:06Excuse me.

00:41:07She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on Hysteria.

00:41:10She comes through that door, goes to that desk, throws down her gloves.

00:41:14But first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.

00:41:17In her mind, it's tied up with all the disasters that have been caused.

00:41:20She herself may be the next victim.

00:41:23She must hide that paper.

00:41:24Quite right.

00:41:25But, but where?

00:41:29Excuse me, sir.

00:41:32Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?

00:41:35Certainly not.

00:41:36Nora was here.

00:41:37She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.

00:41:39Good.

00:41:40Nora.

00:41:41Yes, sir?

00:41:42When you were alone with Miss Sarey, what was the first thing she did?

00:41:44Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her night dress.

00:41:47And what was she doing in the meantime?

00:41:49Let me think, sir.

00:41:51Oh, yes.

00:41:52She went over to her desk.

00:41:53That was when she took the ritual from this envelope.

00:41:55What then, Nora?

00:41:56Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.

00:41:59Why, someone's pulled them open.

00:42:01Yes, I know.

00:42:02When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?

00:42:03Sure.

00:42:04And it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.

00:42:06Long enough.

00:42:07When you were at the window, where was she?

00:42:09She was sitting over here.

00:42:10Sitting right here.

00:42:11Taking off her stockings.

00:42:12Oh, but she never left the chair.

00:42:13I'll kiss the book on it.

00:42:14I've got it.

00:42:15She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.

00:42:16Hmm.

00:42:17Must have changed her mind.

00:42:18Obviously.

00:42:19Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.

00:42:22What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?

00:42:23From the fence, right here.

00:42:24The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.

00:42:25I definitely heard it.

00:42:26This clock?

00:42:27The same, sir.

00:42:28Thank you, Nora.

00:42:29You may go.

00:42:30Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.

00:42:31Just as obviously it stopped at 12.20.

00:42:32Hmm?

00:42:33Well, I'm sorry.

00:42:34I'm sorry.

00:42:35I'm sorry.

00:42:36I'm sorry.

00:42:37I'm sorry.

00:42:38I'm sorry.

00:42:39I'm sorry.

00:42:40I'm sorry.

00:42:41I'm sorry.

00:42:42I'm sorry.

00:42:43I'm sorry.

00:42:44I'm sorry.

00:42:45I'm sorry.

00:42:46I'm sorry.

00:42:47I'm sorry.

00:42:48I'm sorry.

00:42:49I'm sorry.

00:42:504.20.

00:42:51Huh?

00:42:52When Nora turned her back, Sally reached across, opened the clock, and hid the ritual in here.

00:42:59Amazing home.

00:43:00Elementary, my dear Watson.

00:43:05Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?

00:43:11Where did he speed to guard the Queen's page?

00:43:15Gibberish, that's what it is.

00:43:17Hokey pokey, plenty of love.

00:43:19Anything like this, Watson, that's been handed down for centuries, can't be mere gibberish.

00:43:24Who had entered the lists?

00:43:26The King's Pale Knight.

00:43:28Pale poppycock?

00:43:29I say Watson.

00:43:30The King, Queen, Knight, Bishop.

00:43:32Sounds like he gave a chest to me.

00:43:34Precisely.

00:43:35Where fell the light.

00:43:38The light, Watson.

00:43:41Follow the light.

00:43:42On the face of the messenger.

00:43:46Look at it, Watson.

00:43:47Look at it.

00:43:48Like a giant chess board.

00:43:50This is no gibberish.

00:43:52These are chess terms, and that's the chess board.

00:43:55The secret of the Musgrave Murders is locked up in that floor.

00:43:57And by Jove, we've got the key to it.

00:44:03Who had entered the lists?

00:44:05The King's Pale Knight.

00:44:08White King's Knight to White King's Bishop Three.

00:44:12Your move, Dr. Saxton.

00:44:13I really know nothing about the game.

00:44:15Come on, Bob, it's great fun.

00:44:16You start from over here.

00:44:18Here.

00:44:19Here.

00:44:20I'll show you.

00:44:21I'll show you.

00:44:25One.

00:44:27Two.

00:44:28Three.

00:44:29One.

00:44:33Page into Black King Three.

00:44:36Your move, Clavering, into Black King Three, please.

00:44:37Over there.

00:44:38There's not to reason why.

00:44:48Page slaughter's page.

00:44:53Your move, Watson.

00:44:55I take you, my dear.

00:44:56It's a good game, isn't it?

00:45:03Stop it. Stop it.

00:45:04You mustn't giggle.

00:45:06You must be serious.

00:45:12Your move, Clavering.

00:45:13You take Dr. Watson.

00:45:15Too bad, Doctor.

00:45:18Who came then to slay him, the bloodthirsty Bishop.

00:45:26White Queen's Bishop, White King's Knight Five.

00:45:30That's my move.

00:45:39One.

00:45:40Two.

00:45:43I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?

00:45:44Did I?

00:45:45I don't think so.

00:45:46Yes, I'm afraid you did.

00:45:47Well, where was I?

00:45:49King Bishop Three?

00:45:50That's right.

00:45:51Oh, yes, of course.

00:45:52So sorry.

00:45:54Three, four, five.

00:45:58Captain, it looks bad for you.

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

00:46:04Where shall he go?

00:46:07Deep down below.

00:46:08Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?

00:46:11Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.

00:46:15The entrance goes down behind that stair, but it's been locked up for centuries.

00:46:21One of the old Musgraves murdered his own brother down there.

00:46:24Shh.

00:46:25Listen.

00:46:28Hello, what's that?

00:46:31It's Brunton.

00:46:33Alf.

00:46:34Alf.

00:46:35He's in that passageway over the fireplace.

00:46:37Are you there, Brunton?

00:46:39Get me out.

00:46:40It's me, Lestrade.

00:46:43I'm lost.

00:46:45I'm all turned around.

00:46:46You have been for years.

00:46:47Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells, and give him a saucer of milk.

00:46:51Come here, Jenny.

00:46:52Stand on the square for me.

00:46:54Stamp on it.

00:46:55Keep stamping.

00:46:56Clevering, get your sound detector.

00:46:57Gentlemen, deep down below.

00:47:16Look, there's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.

00:47:22Someone's been here, and in the last 24 hours.

00:47:26Yeah, as clean as a new pin.

00:47:27Precisely.

00:47:29The dust of 200 years is on the walls.

00:47:31The floor's been swept clean.

00:47:33Obviously, in an attempt to remove footprints.

00:47:36Shh.

00:47:37Listen.

00:47:39That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.

00:47:41Clevering.

00:47:49Let me have your sound detector.

00:47:56Sir, sorry.

00:48:04You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.

00:48:11Don't move, anyone.

00:48:14Don't move, anyone.

00:48:26Someone's moving about.

00:48:28Interfering with what I'm trying to do.

00:48:32Stand perfectly still, everybody.

00:48:41This is the spot.

00:48:59Give me a hand.

00:49:00Of course.

00:49:02Here, I'll take it.

00:49:03Oh, thank you.

00:49:04It's all right.

00:49:05You've got all of it.

00:49:06It's all right, sir.

00:49:07Hello.

00:49:08Good, it's me.

00:49:10Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave.

00:49:14Knight.

00:49:15Lord of the manors of Hulston.

00:49:17This place used to be known as Hulston Towers.

00:49:20Netherfield and Kings Hargrave.

00:49:23Anno Domini, 1539.

00:49:26What we're looking for is underneath here.

00:49:27That's what the ritual meant by deep down below.

00:49:28It's a burial crypt.

00:49:30Up with it.

00:49:39I say, there's somebody down there.

00:49:43Who is it?

00:49:44Is it Brunton?

00:49:45Is it Brunton?

00:49:46I don't know.

00:49:47Stay where you are.

00:49:48Come on.

00:50:06Who is it, Holmes?

00:50:07It's Brunton, all right.

00:50:09Is he dead?

00:50:10Yes.

00:50:12He's been dead for hours.

00:50:14Murdered.

00:50:16Hello.

00:50:18What's this?

00:50:31Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.

00:50:38What have you found?

00:50:40Any clue?

00:50:41Any clue?

00:50:44Uh, no.

00:50:50Just an old document.

00:50:54Hello.

00:50:55What's this?

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

00:51:01Watson.

00:51:02Coming.

00:51:04Hold this for me, will you?

00:51:07Steady.

00:51:08There, on the floor, by his right hand.

00:51:10See those marks in the dust?

00:51:12Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.

00:51:17Yes.

00:51:18Yes.

00:51:19See that stuff under his nail?

00:51:22He's trying to write something.

00:51:23By Jove!

00:51:25He did write something.

00:51:26What is it?

00:51:27Aye, tell us, man.

00:51:29What did he write?

00:51:31I can't make it out.

00:51:32It's too faint.

00:51:35Here.

00:51:36I've got good eyes.

00:51:37Let me.

00:51:38Let me.

00:51:39Just take me a while.

00:51:40All of you.

00:51:45These marks...

00:51:48...must not be erased.

00:51:49What are you going to do, Holmes?

00:51:51I'm going to leave this just as it is.

00:51:53Until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the words.

00:51:57Had you no notion of what he tried to write?

00:52:00Yes, I have.

00:52:02I think that Brunton, with his last strength...

00:52:06...wrote the name of his murderer on that floor...

00:52:08...in his own blood.

00:52:26Oh, there you are, Lestrade.

00:52:32Hmm.

00:52:33Twelve o'clock.

00:52:34I was just saying, Lestrade...

00:52:35...that I should get into Newcastle...

00:52:36...pick up my chemicals...

00:52:37...and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.

00:52:39Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.

00:52:40Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.

00:52:41Watson.

00:52:42Yes.

00:52:47You'll guard this door with your life.

00:52:48Of course, sir.

00:52:49With my what?

00:52:50I said with your life.

00:52:51Anything you say, Holmes?

00:52:52There's no entrance to this cellar...

00:52:53...except through that doorway.

00:52:57Well, Holmes, what I feel about...

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

00:53:01He's planned to make one last effort to get down there...

00:53:03...to erase those marks.

00:53:04Naturally.

00:53:05The Stradge men are posted outside...

00:53:06...and they'll see to it that nobody leaves this house.

00:53:07Concentration camp.

00:53:09My men have orders to shoot, if necessary.

00:53:11I'll be outside myself, keeping watch.

00:53:12Good.

00:53:13Sexton, your post will be at Miss Sally's door.

00:53:15And remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.

00:53:17Don't worry, I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes.

00:53:18Good night.

00:53:19Good night, Holmes.

00:53:20Good night.

00:53:21Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing it out.

00:53:23I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer...

00:53:25...if I had a gun on me.

00:53:26Hmm.

00:53:27I always keep mine ready.

00:53:36Oh, good night, Bob.

00:53:37Keep awake, old man.

00:53:38I will.

00:53:48Mr. Beller.

00:53:51That's funny.

00:53:52Striking twelve again.

00:53:59That's funny.

00:54:00Striking twelve again.

00:54:02Mm-hmm.

00:54:07Let's go.

00:54:37Let's go.

00:55:07Let me out of here, do you hear?

00:55:11Let me out of here.

00:55:13Someone's locked this door.

00:55:21What on earth's all this monkey business?

00:55:23I didn't lock you in.

00:55:24Well, doors don't lock themselves.

00:55:25They do in this house.

00:55:26What are you doing down here, anywhere?

00:55:28I'm worried it's about Langford.

00:55:29Langford?

00:55:30Yes, he's got it into his head that this is a Jap prison camp.

00:55:33He's got that filthy rope and he's bound and determined to go out the window.

00:55:36He can't do that.

00:55:37The Straud's men will shoot him.

00:55:38He may be out already.

00:55:40I'll head him off.

00:55:41Then again, he may not be.

00:55:43Perhaps you're right.

00:55:44Let me go.

00:55:45No, no, no.

00:55:46You'll be shot.

00:55:47I'll go.

00:55:48No, you'll be shot.

00:55:50Oh, really?

00:55:51Let's both go.

00:55:51I can't leave here.

00:55:56You stay where you are.

00:55:57I'll go and call the Straud.

00:56:03Remember, Clavering, stay where you are.

00:56:14Here.

00:56:15Look here, Constable.

00:56:16I'm Dr. Watson.

00:56:17Are you now?

00:56:19Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.

00:56:21Come along to the inspector.

00:56:24Gross of pertinence.

00:56:49Useless.

00:56:51Quite useless.

00:56:51I'll show you.

00:56:57There's nothing written on the floor.

00:56:59It was just a ruse of mine to bring Brunton's murderer here.

00:57:03Permit me.

00:57:04As the most ruthless killer in England, you deserve some of the light.

00:57:07Killer?

00:57:08I?

00:57:09Oh, I say, you seem to forget that my life was also attempted.

00:57:12And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.

00:57:15But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves with such a sure hand should have missed so badly in your case.

00:57:23Unless, of course, you yourself were the murderer.

00:57:26Oh, but that's ridiculous.

00:57:27Then, too, it seemed curious that you were doctor, examined both bodies, and failed to report the real cause of death.

00:57:39And that was?

00:57:40A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebra.

00:57:46I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle from Philip Musgrave's head.

00:57:51It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?

00:57:53I never owned one.

00:57:55Oh, yes, you did.

00:57:57I saw it in your case.

00:58:00The night I came into this house.

00:58:02Just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.

00:58:06It wasn't broken then.

00:58:08It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave that you lost a piece of it.

00:58:11Oh, nonsense.

00:58:12Why should I go around sticking needles into people?

00:58:14Fair enough question, doctor.

00:58:16Among nice people, murder like matrimony generally has a motive.

00:58:21And in this case, the motive was matrimony.

00:58:23Oh, you mean Miss Sally?

00:58:25I do.

00:58:26Oh, I see.

00:58:27So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?

00:58:29Precisely.

00:58:30My dear Holmes, that won't do.

00:58:32The Musgrave is a land poor, but everybody knows that.

00:58:34Exactly.

00:58:35But everybody didn't know what you knew.

00:58:38You worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.

00:58:42I have?

00:58:43Oh, yes, you have.

00:58:46You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.

00:58:50When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,

00:58:52you promptly named King's Bishop Three,

00:58:55and what's more, moved back onto it.

00:58:56Oh, nonsense.

00:58:58Why should I have stepped out of my square the first day?

00:58:59Break up my moves, spoil my game,

00:59:01and prevent me from finding what you had already found.

00:59:04And that was?

00:59:05The old land grant I took from Miss Box,

00:59:08which would have made Sally Musgrave

00:59:09upon the death of her brothers.

00:59:11The richest woman in England.

00:59:15Well, what's that?

00:59:17Don't tell me you've found another needle.

00:59:21No, no.

00:59:23Just a button.

00:59:26Wouldn't be yours, would it?

00:59:27Mine?

00:59:30Give it to me.

00:59:41Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?

00:59:44No, not at all.

00:59:45As I see it,

00:59:47you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room,

00:59:49carried his body down through the secret passageway,

00:59:52out through the greenhouse,

00:59:53into the garage,

00:59:53where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.

00:59:55But unfortunately for you,

00:59:58you had a witness.

01:00:01Brunton was there,

01:00:03sleeping off his drunk,

01:00:06nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.

01:00:09Brunton became your accessory.

01:00:11But you didn't want an accessory.

01:00:13So you lured him down here with the promise

01:00:15to share the Musgrave treasure with him

01:00:18and exit Brunton.

01:00:20Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.

01:00:25You seem to have everything,

01:00:26except perhaps the negligible item of proof.

01:00:29Suppose we leave that to the jury.

01:00:31Suppose we do.

01:00:33Shall we go?

01:00:34After you.

01:00:37Oh, by the way,

01:00:38don't forget your torch.

01:00:41Oh, thanks.

01:00:45I don't suppose it occurred to you

01:00:47that you were taking a bit of a chance

01:00:49coming down here all alone

01:00:50with a suspected murderer.

01:00:53One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.

01:00:55You see,

01:00:55I couldn't possibly risk

01:00:56sharing my little plot with anybody.

01:00:59Not even with Dr. Watson.

01:01:00Particularly not with Dr. Watson.

01:01:02If he'd known what was up tonight,

01:01:03he'd have been so elaborately mysterious,

01:01:04he'd have given the whole show away.

01:01:06As a matter of fact,

01:01:06I had the devil's own time

01:01:07luring him away from that door upstairs

01:01:09so that we could be alone.

01:01:12That's all I wanted to know.

01:01:17Oh, my God.

01:01:47Stay where you are.

01:01:59I'm afraid I have no choice, Dr. Sexton.

01:02:04Look here.

01:02:07You're not really going to kill me, are you?

01:02:10They'll hear you.

01:02:12Who will?

01:02:14That was a bad slip you made.

01:02:15letting me know

01:02:16you were so completely alone.

01:02:19Then you're really going to kill me.

01:02:21I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.

01:02:27But as you said,

01:02:28I've no evidence against you.

01:02:31No proof, no proof at all.

01:02:33You forget the needle

01:02:34and the button.

01:02:37Bring them here, please.

01:02:38Not too close.

01:02:54Now, put them in my pocket.

01:03:01I'm curious about that button.

01:03:04It is off my coat, of course.

01:03:07Can't think how I never missed it.

01:03:09Poor old Brunton.

01:03:11He didn't struggle much.

01:03:13Now, Phil Musgrave was different.

01:03:16The needle broke off

01:03:16and I didn't have time to probe for it.

01:03:19But you've got both of them now.

01:03:21The button and the needle.

01:03:22Why kill me?

01:03:23Now, step back.

01:03:25Just a bit.

01:03:26Against the wall.

01:03:34Now, if you stand perfectly still,

01:03:36I think I can manage this

01:03:38with one shot.

01:03:56Put him up.

01:04:08Did you hear his confession, Watson?

01:04:10Every word, Holmes.

01:04:11And I heard all the rest, sir.

01:04:13Good.

01:04:14Let me congratulate you

01:04:15on an extraordinary catch.

01:04:17That's right, Mr. Holmes.

01:04:18It's no good saying, it ain't.

01:04:19I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes.

01:04:21Pity.

01:04:22Yes.

01:04:24Those blank countages

01:04:24were a cheap sort of trick.

01:04:25I grant you.

01:04:27But it wasn't easy

01:04:28to let you take my gun away from me

01:04:29without seeming to hand it to you.

01:04:31That's why I let you take the torch first.

01:04:33I knew you'd snap it off.

01:04:34Yes, we told you

01:04:35we were taking an awful risk.

01:04:36Well, we had to have a confession.

01:04:39And these egomaniacs

01:04:40are always so much more chatty

01:04:41when they feel they have the upper hand.

01:04:42Shall we go?

01:04:46I can't make head nor tail of it.

01:04:48Can you, Pat?

01:04:49Well, it looks like an old land grant.

01:04:52It's really a crown grant.

01:04:53What I don't understand

01:04:54is why the Musgraves

01:04:55didn't claim the land ages ago.

01:04:57Obviously, Watson,

01:04:58one of them died

01:04:59before passing on the meaning

01:05:00of the ritual to his heir.

01:05:02The words remained,

01:05:03but the sense was lost.

01:05:04I wonder why he left the grant

01:05:05down there where he found it.

01:05:06What good would it have done him?

01:05:08So long as your brothers lived.

01:05:09Once they were out of the way

01:05:10and you came into the property,

01:05:11he expected to marry you.

01:05:12I like that.

01:05:14Whatever made him think of it?

01:05:15He thought himself irresistible.

01:05:17Precisely.

01:05:17It's not unheard of

01:05:18in cases of egomania.

01:05:20I suppose then he meant

01:05:20to rediscover the crown grant.

01:05:22At the proper time, yes.

01:05:23And then enjoy his wife's millions.

01:05:25Did you say millions?

01:05:26I did.

01:05:27Look here.

01:05:33About 80,000 acres

01:05:34of the richest soil in England.

01:05:36But aren't there people on it?

01:05:37Yes, farms, villages,

01:05:39even a factory town

01:05:40with hundreds of workmen's cottages.

01:05:41Is this thing legal?

01:05:42Perfectly.

01:05:43Of course, it'll drag on

01:05:44through the courts.

01:05:44Just a moment.

01:05:46The people on this land,

01:05:47they've put their money into it.

01:05:49Their life, work.

01:05:50It's their homes I'll be taking.

01:05:52Yes.

01:05:53Do you think I'm going

01:05:54to kick these people out?

01:06:07Well, just the same, Holmes,

01:06:12you let poor little Sally

01:06:13throw away a fortune.

01:06:14My dear fellow,

01:06:14I had nothing to do with it.

01:06:16The girl, more power to her,

01:06:17acted on her own.

01:06:18A grand gesture

01:06:19of one she may regret.

01:06:22I don't think so, Watson.

01:06:25There's a new spirit

01:06:25abroad in the land.

01:06:28The old days of grab and greed

01:06:30are on their way out.

01:06:31We're beginning to think

01:06:32of what we owe the other fellow,

01:06:34not just what we're compelled

01:06:35to give him.

01:06:35The time's coming, Watson,

01:06:38when we shan't be able

01:06:40to fill our bellies in comfort

01:06:41while other folk go hungry,

01:06:42or sleep in warm beds

01:06:44while others shiver in the cold.

01:06:48When we shan't be able

01:06:48to kneel and thank God

01:06:50for blessings

01:06:51before our shining altars,

01:06:53while men anywhere

01:06:54are kneeling in either physical

01:06:56or spiritual subjection.

01:06:58You may be right, Holmes.

01:07:00I hope you are.

01:07:02And God willing,

01:07:03we'll live to see that day, Watson.

01:07:05Thank you, Watson.

01:07:07Thanks, vieux走了!

01:07:09THE END

01:07:39THE END

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