Dressed to Kill. (1946 film)

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Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.   Basil Rathbone - Holmes Nigel Bruce - Watson Patricia Morison - Mrs. Hilda Courtney Edmund Breon - Julian 'Stinky' Emery (as Edmond Breon) Frederick Worlock - Col. Cavanaugh (as Frederic Worlock) Carl Harbord - Inspector Hopkins Patricia Cameron - Evelyn Clifford Holmes Herbert - Ebenezer Crabtree Harry Cording - Hamid Leyland Hodgson - Tour Guide Mary Gordon - Mrs. Hudson Ian Wolfe - Commissioner of Scotland Yard Harry Allen - Scottish Man at Auction Frank Baker - Photographer Guy Bellis - Doctor Wilson Benge - Minister on Museum Tour Marjorie Bennett - Antique Shop Assistant Ted Billings - Pub Patron Barbara Brewster - Pub Patron Gloria Brewster - Pub Patron Lillian Bronson - Minister's Wife Jack Curtis - Pub Patron Cyril Delevanti - Convict at Dartmoor Prison Tom Dillon - Detective Sgt. Thompson Bess Flowers - Pub Patron Topsy Glyn - The Kilgour Child Bobbie Hale - Pub Patron Charlie Hall - Cab Driver Olaf Hytten - Alfred, Auction House Bookkeeper Boyd Irwin - Detective with X-ray Photos Delos Jewkes - Pub Singer Tiny Jones - Pub Patron Guy Kingsford - Scotland Yard Undercover Convict in Dartmoor Prison Eric Mayne - Man at Auction Mathew McCue - Pub Patron Frank Mills - Pub Patron Hans Moebus - Man at Auction William H. O'Brien - Detective at Murder Scene Alexander Pollard - Crabtree's Assistant at Auction Wallace Scott - Joe Cisto Harry Semels - Pub patron Anita Sharp-Bolster - Teacher on Museum Tour Sally Shepherd - Tobacconist Florence Wix - Woman at Auction

Transcript

00:00:00D'Artmore Prison, isolated from the outside world by walls of granite.

00:00:18They say you could get out of here by merely telling what you know.

00:00:34You may or may not be another Scotland Yard bloke, but I'll give you the same answer I gave the others.

00:00:43I still have two years, eight months and six days left in which to make musical boxes.

00:00:50That'll be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.

00:00:56And I intend to serve them.

00:01:03Move along.

00:01:06And now we come to the next object on our list, or I should say objects, because there are three of them.

00:01:12Now, ladies and gentlemen, these can be bought together or separately.

00:01:17Now, these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning, and I didn't intend to put them on the auction block until later, but I'm going to sell them now.

00:01:24So, good friends, as our old pal Mark Anthony used to say, lend me your ears.

00:01:31And what do you hear?

00:01:33Right.

00:01:34The beautiful tinkle tinkle of a musical box.

00:01:39What a lovely trinket.

00:01:40What a beautiful gift.

00:01:41Created unmade by loving hands.

00:01:43A thing of beauty and utility.

00:01:46I was going to start with five pounds.

00:01:48It's a bargain, five pounds.

00:01:51Do I see any hands?

00:01:54Is it a connoisseur in the house of gold?

00:01:57Three pounds for it?

00:01:59Two pounds.

00:02:01One pound.

00:02:04Ten shillings.

00:02:07Thank you, sir.

00:02:09Ladies and gentlemen, ten shillings is offered for a musical box you couldn't buy anywhere in London for less than five pounds.

00:02:15It'll be stealing to let you go for ten shillings, like taking milk from a baby.

00:02:19Well, I'll be selling for ten shillings.

00:02:21Ten shillings.

00:02:22Ten shillings.

00:02:23Ten shillings is offered.

00:02:24Ten shillings is offered.

00:02:25Anybody give him one pound?

00:02:26Anybody give me one pound?

00:02:28Someone give me a pound.

00:02:29A pound?

00:02:30One pound is offered.

00:02:31One pound is offered.

00:02:32Ladies and gentlemen, one pound is against you, sir.

00:02:33Will you go to two pounds?

00:02:34Will you go to two pounds, sir?

00:02:36Two pounds.

00:02:37Two pounds is offered.

00:02:39One, once, twice.

00:02:40Third and the last call.

00:02:43Sold to the gentleman for two pounds.

00:02:46Sorry, my dear.

00:02:48Now, ladies and gentlemen, comes the opportunity to purchase...

00:02:51an exact duplicate of the beautiful little musical box...

00:02:54just bought by this gentleman for the ridiculous low price of two pounds.

00:02:58That's exactly the same.

00:03:00Exactly the same. Maybe the same hands.

00:03:02You hear that? Isn't that lovely?

00:03:04That tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.

00:03:06Sounds like bow belts to me, you know, with little angels pulling on the ropes.

00:03:09We'll give me two pounds for you.

00:03:11Who'll start me with two pounds? Will anybody start me with two pounds?

00:03:14Oh, come, come, ladies and gentlemen.

00:03:17You know, from your enthusiasm, we might all be in Scotland instead of London.

00:03:20Please buy it for me, Daddy.

00:03:22Two pounds, certainly not. We all might be in Scotland.

00:03:25Besides, I don't like his manner.

00:03:27One pound, ten shillings.

00:03:29One pound. One pound is asked. One pound.

00:03:31One pound is offered. One pound is offered. Going one pound.

00:03:34Any advance? Going once. Going twice.

00:03:36The third and the last call.

00:03:39Sold to the lady for one pound.

00:03:41Smart bidding, my dear.

00:03:44We come to the third and last of these beautiful little musical boxes.

00:03:48Exactly the same. Tinkle, tinkle. Isn't that lovely?

00:03:51Ladies and gentlemen, I don't bring you here to gullion and swindle yet.

00:03:54This is the exact replica of those two I just sold before.

00:03:57We're closed.

00:03:58But this is extremely important.

00:04:10Come in, sir. Come in.

00:04:11I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain articles which I was rather anxious to obtain.

00:04:16Oh, perhaps they weren't sold, sir.

00:04:17We are carrying several things over.

00:04:18What might the articles be, sir?

00:04:19Three identical musical boxes about so large.

00:04:20Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.

00:04:21Pity you weren't here to bid on them.

00:04:22They didn't bring anything like the real value.

00:04:23I'm most anxious to obtain them.

00:04:24I wonder if your records would show who the purchasers were.

00:04:25Oh, we don't usually give out that information, sir.

00:04:27For certain, shall we say, sentimental reasons.

00:04:28I'm most anxious to get in touch with the purchasers.

00:04:29I'd be willing to pay, shall we say, five pounds.

00:04:30Well, for certain sentimental reasons, sir, we'd be very happy to oblige.

00:04:33Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.

00:04:34Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.

00:04:35Pity you weren't here to bid on them.

00:04:36Oh.

00:04:37They didn't bring anything like the real value.

00:04:38I'm most anxious to obtain them.

00:04:39I wonder if your records would show who the purchasers were.

00:04:42Oh, we don't usually give out that information, sir.

00:04:45For certain, shall we say, sentimental reasons, I'm most anxious to get in touch with the purchasers.

00:04:52I'd be willing to pay, shall we say, five pounds.

00:04:57Well, for certain sentimental reasons, sir, we'd be very happy to oblige.

00:05:00Alfred, today's sales, the three musical boxes.

00:05:03The musical boxes, yes.

00:05:05Ah, here we are.

00:05:06The first purchased for two pounds from Mr. Julian Emery, 52, Portman Square.

00:05:10Write this address down, Alfred.

00:05:11Yes, sir.

00:05:12The second didn't leave any name.

00:05:14Oh, how unfortunate.

00:05:15I think she's a dealer.

00:05:16You see, they don't like us to know where the things are going.

00:05:18On account of the profits.

00:05:20You say the second purchaser was a woman.

00:05:23Can you give me a description of her?

00:05:26Oh, she was a young woman, fairly tall, slender,

00:05:29a light complexion and dark hair, and she was wearing a...

00:05:34A grey suit, don't you remember?

00:05:36That's right.

00:05:37She probably runs a gift shop.

00:05:38She paid one pound.

00:05:41You say she comes here fairly frequently?

00:05:44No, I didn't say so.

00:05:46But she does, sir.

00:05:47Like as not, she'll come in on Thursday.

00:05:50We have sales on Mondays and Thursdays.

00:05:52Oh.

00:05:53And the third box?

00:05:55The third?

00:05:56Oh, Mr. William Kilgore, 143B Hampton Way.

00:05:59For ten shillings.

00:06:01Hmm.

00:06:02Quite a drop from two pounds.

00:06:03Mr. Kilgore was a Scotchman.

00:06:05Oh.

00:06:06Well, thank you.

00:06:07You've been most helpful.

00:06:09Oh, thank you, sir.

00:06:11And any time you're passing, dropping.

00:06:13We always have lovely things for sale.

00:06:15Our card, sir.

00:06:16Uh, thank you.

00:06:17I'll, uh, get back Thursday.

00:06:27The message reached us too late.

00:06:30Musical boxes are being sold.

00:06:35Well, let's get out of here.

00:06:38Ah.

00:06:43Someday you'll go too far.

00:06:48Reaching for a star, you fool.

00:06:51Yet a fool may touch a star, Colonel Cavanaugh.

00:06:54If he but reach high enough.

00:06:56But not possess it as you would.

00:07:00The musical boxes, they've been sold.

00:07:03What a pity for you, my dear Colonel.

00:07:05Is it my fault that the message reached us only an hour ago?

00:07:08Is it my fault that they were sold?

00:07:11She can't hold me responsible for that.

00:07:14I hope for your sake you're right.

00:07:35Well, I will call upon you tonight at a quarter to eight...

00:07:38...a gentleman who desires to consult you...

00:07:40...upon a matter of the very deepest moment.

00:07:42Ah.

00:07:43Do you remember that letter, Holmes?

00:07:44It was written over two years ago.

00:07:45Uninteresting case.

00:07:46Devilously interesting.

00:07:47Hmm.

00:07:48Irene Adler.

00:07:49What a striking-looking woman from the brief glance I heard of her.

00:07:50Seems only yesterday.

00:07:51What charm.

00:07:52Hmm.

00:07:53What poise.

00:07:54And what a mind.

00:07:55Sharp enough and brilliant enough to outwit the...

00:07:56...the great Sherlock Holmes and...

00:07:57...the great Sherlock Holmes.

00:07:58...the great Sherlock Holmes himself.

00:07:59I take it the new issue of the Strand Magazine is out...

00:08:01...containing another of your slightly lurid tales.

00:08:02It is indeed.

00:08:03And what do you call this, Holmes?

00:08:04It is.

00:08:05It is.

00:08:06It is.

00:08:07It is.

00:08:08It is.

00:08:09It is.

00:08:10It is.

00:08:11It is.

00:08:12It is.

00:08:13It is.

00:08:14It is.

00:08:15It is.

00:08:16And what do you call this one?

00:08:17I call it a scandal in Bohemia.

00:08:18Not a bad title, eh?

00:08:19Hmm.

00:08:20If you must record my exploits...

00:08:22...I do wish which put less emphasis on the melodramatic...

00:08:25...and more on the intellectual issues involved.

00:08:26More on the...

00:08:27...infilled.

00:08:28I call it, A Scandal in Bohemia.

00:08:31Not a bad title, eh?

00:08:32Hmm.

00:08:33If you must record my exploits,

00:08:36I do wish you'd put less emphasis on the melodramatic

00:08:39and more on the intellectual issues involved.

00:08:42More on the intellect... What do you mean by that?

00:08:44Well, I do hope you've given, uh, the woman a soul.

00:08:49She had one, you know.

00:08:50By the woman, I suppose you mean Irene Adler.

00:08:54Yes.

00:08:55I shall always remember her.

00:08:57I shall always remember her...

00:08:59as the woman.

00:09:10Irene?

00:09:14Hey, Stinky!

00:09:16That's it, old boy. How are you?

00:09:18How are you, old boy? Haven't seen you for years.

00:09:20I want you to meet my old friend Sherlock Holmes.

00:09:22Holmes is the Stinky.

00:09:23What?

00:09:24In other words, Julian Emery.

00:09:26How do you do, Mr. Emery?

00:09:27Watson has often spoken of you.

00:09:28Oh, had he?

00:09:29Yes, we were at school together.

00:09:30Yes, more years ago than I care to remember,

00:09:32but you didn't come in here just to remind me of that.

00:09:34No, I just happened to be in the neighborhood

00:09:36and saw your lights burning, so I took the liberty of looking you up.

00:09:39Still writing your mystery stuff?

00:09:41Yes, there's a new one out this week.

00:09:43Good, I'll never miss them.

00:09:45Oh, good, thanks.

00:09:46I say that bandage makes you look pretty interesting.

00:09:49Still poking your nose into other people's business as usual?

00:09:52Who hit you?

00:09:53I haven't a foggy's notion.

00:09:54Somebody knocked me on the head in my own living room

00:09:56and then proceeded to commit the most idiotic burglary you ever heard of.

00:10:00The fellow must have been barmy as a coot.

00:10:02Barmy? Why?

00:10:03Come sit down, old boy.

00:10:05Would you like a cup of tea?

00:10:07Oh?

00:10:08Oh, all right.

00:10:09I'll go and tell Mrs. Hudson about it.

00:10:15Why did you say the robbery was idiotic, Mr. Emery?

00:10:17Oh, simply from the fact that with about 5,000 pounds worth of musical boxes in my living room,

00:10:22the thief who I caught in the act made off with one that isn't even worth five pounds.

00:10:26I gather you're a collector of musical boxes.

00:10:29Yes, I am indeed.

00:10:30Some of them are very beautiful, but not the one that was stolen.

00:10:32The thief evidently grabbed the first thing that came to his hand when he heard me coming into the room.

00:10:38Still, it's rather odd, isn't it, that having disposed of you,

00:10:41he didn't pick up something more valuable.

00:10:43Hmm?

00:10:44Was there anything unusual about the stolen box?

00:10:46No, nothing at all.

00:10:48No, I picked it up in the south of France, oh, several years ago.

00:10:52You say you have many valuable music boxes,

00:10:55and yet the thief made off with one that isn't worth five pounds.

00:10:58Sounds like rather an intriguing little problem.

00:11:00That's where I take it that he was just an ordinary petty thief and didn't know the value.

00:11:04That is a possible explanation, and yet I venture to say

00:11:07that the average petty thief has a more extensive knowledge of the value of object dar than the average collector.

00:11:12Well, anyway, that's got in the odds theory.

00:11:14They didn't get very excited about it.

00:11:16That's consistent anyway.

00:11:18I wonder if I might see your collection, Mr. Emery.

00:11:21Oh, of course you could, yes.

00:11:23Nothing a collector likes more than showing off his trophies.

00:11:26When will it suit you?

00:11:27No time like the present.

00:11:28Good.

00:11:29My place is just round in Portman Square.

00:11:31Shall we?

00:11:32Yes, right.

00:11:37Hello?

00:11:38Where are you going?

00:11:39Stinky hasn't had his tea yet.

00:11:40Oh, I'm sorry.

00:11:41We're going round to my place where I'm going to give you something better than tea.

00:11:47Now, this one was made for Roy the 15th and is one of the very few still in existence from that period.

00:11:52And a particularly fine specimen is that.

00:11:56Charming, isn't it?

00:11:59Quite.

00:12:00Quite.

00:12:01They all sound to me like a lot of mice running about on a tin roof.

00:12:06I'm afraid you have no ear for music, Watson.

00:12:08Give me a good old band playing a rousing march.

00:12:11You have all your silly little tweet-tweets.

00:12:20No room.

00:12:25This is me.

00:12:30No room.

00:12:35Stupid thing.

00:12:36Singing rabbit.

00:12:39What would you say offhand is the value of a box like that, Mr. Emery?

00:12:42Well, it's hard to say offhand, but I think we'll bring about five or six hundred pounds a day.

00:12:47It's the gem of my collection.

00:12:48A thief who steals an oddity like a musical box passes up one worth five hundred pounds for one of almost no value at all.

00:12:55Odd.

00:12:56Very odd.

00:12:57What was a stolen box like, Mr. Emery?

00:13:00Oh, just a plain wooden box about so big.

00:13:03As a matter of fact, I have one over here.

00:13:05I almost exactly like it.

00:13:07I picked this up yesterday at an auction room in Knightsbridge.

00:13:11I paid only two pounds for it.

00:13:13Of course, I wouldn't in the ordinary way add one like this to my collection, but the tune intrigued me.

00:13:18I'd never heard it before.

00:13:20You have a remarkable ear for music, Hermes.

00:13:22Rather an unusual melody.

00:13:23Sit down.

00:13:24Thanks.

00:13:25You, uh, you say you bought that box at an auction sale yesterday?

00:13:31Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms in Knightsbridge.

00:13:33Run by old, uh, what's his name?

00:13:34Crabtree.

00:13:35Handsome man.

00:13:36At what time is the robbery committed?

00:13:37Oh, about three o'clock this morning.

00:13:38You have a remarkable ear for music, Hermes.

00:13:39You have a remarkable ear for music, Hermes.

00:13:40Rather an unusual melody.

00:13:41Sit down.

00:13:42Thanks.

00:13:43You, uh, you say you bought that box at an auction sale yesterday?

00:13:46Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms in Knightsbridge.

00:13:47Run by old, uh, what's his name?

00:13:48Crabtree.

00:13:49Handsome man.

00:13:50At what time is the robbery committed?

00:13:51Oh, about, uh, three o'clock this morning.

00:13:52You know, Mr. Emery, that box and the robbery might well be cause and effect, especially

00:14:05since you say that the stolen box outwardly resembles this one a great deal.

00:14:09And, uh, Scotland Yard were not particularly interested, eh?

00:14:12Oh, yes, but I, I wouldn't blame him for that.

00:14:15Especially as I told him I was quite unable to describe the thief.

00:14:18Except, of course, for the fact that, uh, it was definitely a man.

00:14:21All you remember is that you came in here and someone struck you on the head.

00:14:24Yes, and the next thing I knew, my man was trying to revive me.

00:14:27Hmm, it might be wise for you to put that box away somewhere and lock it up.

00:14:30Oh, I don't think that's necessary.

00:14:31Besides, everything's insured.

00:14:33Well, at least if any further attempts at robbery are made,

00:14:36I'd suggest that you call the police rather than running into any personal danger.

00:14:40Oh, come, Hermes, aren't you being a bit of an alarmist?

00:14:43Possibly, possibly.

00:14:44Oh, I must agree with old Stinky.

00:14:46Seems to me you are making rather a mountain out of the Moleskier.

00:14:48Moleskier.

00:14:49Moleskier is the word, old boy, and it's time you were in bed.

00:14:51Thanks so much for letting us see your place.

00:14:53Well, it's been great meeting you.

00:14:57Holmes, I can't understand why you were so mysterious.

00:15:00Seems to me the petty thief explanation was the only sensible one.

00:15:03Really?

00:15:04Yes, I can't see how you can believe it was anything else.

00:15:06I didn't say I believed it to be anything else.

00:15:08The petty thief theory is the obvious one, I grant you.

00:15:11However, it's often a mistake to accept something as true merely because it's obvious.

00:15:15The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.

00:15:21We are not able to do that in this case, without further doubt I.

00:15:25Rubbish, you're pulling my leg.

00:15:27You're trying to turn a cup and a halfpenny robbery into an international plot.

00:15:32No, I'm not.

00:15:33I just hope that your friend Stinky is a little more cautious in the future.

00:15:36Just in case.

00:16:02Hello?

00:16:03Yeah?

00:16:04Julian Emerick here.

00:16:06Who?

00:16:07Why, of course I remember you, Mrs. Courtney.

00:16:12Yes.

00:16:13Yes, you're the one bright spot at their appallingly dull affair of Lady Sanford's.

00:16:18Huh?

00:16:19Of course it isn't too late to come round.

00:16:22Yes, I shall be delighted to give you a drink.

00:16:25I tell you what, come straight up and I'll leave the door unless.

00:16:29Yes.

00:16:30Right.

00:16:31What?

00:16:32Fifteen minutes?

00:16:33Good.

00:16:34I shall be counting each moment.

00:16:37No, no.

00:16:38No, I mean that really.

00:16:40Right.

00:16:41Goodbye.

00:16:59Boo!

00:17:00Oh, you startled me.

00:17:03Did I?

00:17:04Yes.

00:17:05Must be the pixie in me.

00:17:07I know I shouldn't have called you so late, but I was at a party just around the corner

00:17:11and I remembered your invitation to see your collection of musical boxes.

00:17:15My dear Mrs. Courtney, the pleasure is all the greater for being so unexpected.

00:17:19My friends call me Hilda.

00:17:21Thanks.

00:17:22Mine call me Stinky.

00:17:23Stinky?

00:17:24How quaint.

00:17:25Oh, what a perfectly wonderful collection of musical boxes.

00:17:28You know, when you told me you had a collection I had no idea it was so attractive.

00:17:32Yes.

00:17:33They appeal to the ear as well as to the eye.

00:17:37Oh, what a plain little one.

00:17:40Why, it looks just like a country cousin amid all this grandeur.

00:17:43No, no, no.

00:17:44You mustn't underestimate the country cousin.

00:17:46Only last night a burger broke in here and with all these to choose from went off with one very much like it.

00:17:51Really?

00:17:52Yes, I don't mind the loss of the box so much, but I do resent this crack on the scalp.

00:17:56But it makes you look so interesting.

00:17:57Oh, do you think so?

00:17:58Uh-huh.

00:17:59It's funny, that's what old Fatso said.

00:18:01Fatso?

00:18:02I mean, uh, Dr. Watson.

00:18:03He was here this evening with a friend, a Mr. Holmes.

00:18:06He's interested in my collection too.

00:18:08Sherlock Holmes?

00:18:09Yes.

00:18:10Do you know him?

00:18:11I've heard of him.

00:18:12Yes, he seems to think I'm in some sort of, uh, danger.

00:18:16What a haunting tune.

00:18:17It takes me right back to my childhood.

00:18:19Really?

00:18:20Do you know, it's odd that you should be interested in that particular musical box.

00:18:23Odd?

00:18:24Why?

00:18:25Because Mr. Holmes is also interested in it.

00:18:27He may have been more interested in the tune than in the box.

00:18:30I get you, that's right.

00:18:32I remember now, he whistled it note for note, having heard it only once.

00:18:35Really?

00:18:36He must be a remarkable man.

00:18:38A bit of an alarmist if you ask me.

00:18:41Don't you believe in warnings?

00:18:43Of course not.

00:18:44Who'd want a box like that?

00:18:46I would.

00:18:47You're not serious?

00:18:48Oh, but I am.

00:18:50Well, you, you put me in a very awkward position.

00:18:53I'm a collector, you know.

00:18:55And the collector buys but never sells.

00:18:57But if the price were high enough?

00:19:00The price has nothing to do with it.

00:19:02It's the principle of the thing.

00:19:05Yes, well, we haven't had our drink.

00:19:08No thanks, I must be getting along.

00:19:11Must you really?

00:19:13I'm afraid so.

00:19:15You're not walking out on me, are you?

00:19:18My reputation, stinky.

00:19:21I say, you know you are an attractive woman.

00:19:26Frank.

00:19:34You fool.

00:19:35I told you to wait outside.

00:19:37What did you have to kill him for?

00:19:39All I had to do was walk out with us.

00:19:41He held you in his arms.

00:19:42Don't touch him.

00:19:43Don't touch anything.

00:19:45Now get out.

00:19:46I'm sorry.

00:19:47You're sorry?

00:19:48What about me?

00:19:49This is murder.

00:19:51What about Scotland Yard?

00:19:53What about Sherlock Holmes?

00:19:55Now get out!

00:20:12Did you get it?

00:20:29Good.

00:20:30Did you have any trouble with him?

00:20:33Just a matter of murder.

00:20:39Power, Mr. Holmes.

00:20:41Hopkins.

00:20:42Thanks for coming so promptly.

00:20:44Inspector Mustard suggested that I call through to you.

00:20:46Mr. Emery was a client of Mr. Holmes, Inspector.

00:20:49Indeed.

00:20:50You didn't mention that when I telephoned you, Mr. Holmes.

00:20:52Well, not exactly a client, Inspector.

00:20:54Dodgen Thompson?

00:20:55He was killed between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock this morning, Mr. Holmes.

00:21:01Must have been someone he knew.

00:21:03Someone of whom he had no suspicion.

00:21:05Poor old stinky.

00:21:07It's all my fault.

00:21:08I should have prevented this.

00:21:10Well, there's no time to start talking about that now, Doctor.

00:21:13Apparently it's gone.

00:21:15That's the second attempt on the musical box

00:21:17that Emery bought at the auction sale.

00:21:19And this time it was successful.

00:21:21But that box was only worth two pounds.

00:21:23It was worth a man's life, Watson.

00:21:25I think we'd better pay a visit to Gaylord's auction room

00:21:27and that fellow Crabtree.

00:21:28Inspector, may I suggest that you make a complete search of this flat

00:21:31for a small, plain musical box about that size.

00:21:36Come on, Watson.

00:21:38You say the first box went to Mr. Julian Emery,

00:21:41the second to Mr. Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Way,

00:21:44and the third to the unidentified young lady

00:21:46who presumably has a shop and lives near Golders Green.

00:21:49That's right, Mr. Holmes.

00:21:50Isn't it rather strange, Mr. Crabtree,

00:21:52that you should have had three identical musical boxes

00:21:54all playing the same tune.

00:21:55Where'd they come from?

00:21:56Dartmoor Prison.

00:21:57Dartmoor?

00:21:58We get a regular shipment from there every month.

00:22:01The inmates manufacture them.

00:22:02They make all kinds of things.

00:22:03You know, pipe racks,

00:22:04waste paper baskets,

00:22:05musical boxes.

00:22:06Did you happen to notice

00:22:07if anyone showed any particular interest

00:22:09during the auction

00:22:11in the purchases of these three boxes?

00:22:15Oh, come on, Mr. Crabtree.

00:22:16This is very literally a matter of life and death.

00:22:19Well, since you put it that way, Mr. Holmes,

00:22:21there was a gentleman came in here

00:22:23about an hour after closing time

00:22:24and he was in an awful state, he was.

00:22:28He gave me five pounds to tell him where the boxes had gone to.

00:22:30He said they had a sentimental value for him, sir.

00:22:32Oh, expensive sentiment.

00:22:34Can you describe him?

00:22:35He was tall, distinguished looking,

00:22:37and he had grey hair and a moustache.

00:22:39Oh, he's quite a gentleman, sir.

00:22:40Now, what was his reaction

00:22:41when you were unable to supply him

00:22:43with the address of the young lady who owned the shop?

00:22:45I told him the young lady usually come back on Thursday.

00:22:48He said he'd come back on Thursday.

00:22:49Now, that's tomorrow.

00:22:50Thank you, Mr. Crabtree.

00:22:51You've been very helpful.

00:22:53Come along, Watson.

00:22:54Where are we going now, home?

00:22:55I'll go home with Mr. Kilgore.

00:22:57The men have bought the third box.

00:23:05But hang it all, Holmes.

00:23:06How do you know those other two musical boxes

00:23:08are of any importance?

00:23:09I don't, but I certainly have no intention of waiting

00:23:11until the owners are murdered to find out.

00:23:15No one at home.

00:23:16I hope that's the explanation.

00:23:18I'll have a look through this window.

00:23:26Doesn't seem to be anyone there.

00:23:29The whole place seems deserted, as far as I can see.

00:23:33Yes?

00:23:34Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore at home?

00:23:35No.

00:23:36When do you expect them?

00:23:37Oh, in an hour or so.

00:23:38There's no use your hanging about.

00:23:40They don't buy nothing from peddlers.

00:23:42Peddlers?

00:23:43My good woman.

00:23:44This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

00:23:46Sherlock Holmes?

00:23:47Oh, go on.

00:23:48Do you mind if we come in and wait?

00:23:50My business is rather urgent.

00:23:51Well, I've got to go out and do my shopping.

00:23:54And I don't know if Mrs. Kilgore like any stranger's nosing about.

00:23:58It's quite all right, I assure you.

00:23:59Well, I've got to be off.

00:24:01It's a wait in the parlour.

00:24:02And no smoking, either.

00:24:04Mrs. Kilgore says it smells up the house.

00:24:09Funny old girl, Holmes.

00:24:11Hmm.

00:24:30Park Lane.

00:24:31Park Lane?

00:24:32And what would the likes of you be doing in Park Lane?

00:24:34Now, don't worry about the fair ducky.

00:24:36If you knows how to get to Park Lane, I'll bet.

00:24:41You know, Holmes, I've been thinking.

00:24:45There must have been something hidden in that box of old stinkies.

00:24:48Stolen jewellery, possibly.

00:24:51What's up, Holmes?

00:24:54Listen.

00:24:55What, just the steam in the water pipes?

00:25:06Watson!

00:25:10Great Scott!

00:25:12Come on, Holmes.

00:25:13Get on the chair here.

00:25:14Here, here, here.

00:25:17It's all right, my dear.

00:25:20There, there, there.

00:25:21Now, don't worry.

00:25:23It's all over.

00:25:25There you are, dear.

00:25:26Don't cry any more.

00:25:27She tied me up and shut me in the cupboard.

00:25:30I know, I know.

00:25:32She won't come back.

00:25:34Did you show her your new musical box?

00:25:36Yes.

00:25:37She said she wanted to hear it play.

00:25:39And as soon as I showed it to her, she grabbed all of it.

00:25:41I know, I know.

00:25:42Now, don't worry.

00:25:43Nobody will buy you a new musical box.

00:25:45Yes, my dear.

00:25:46The best one in London.

00:25:47Watson.

00:25:49Oh, what a fool.

00:25:50What a fool I've been.

00:25:51What do you mean, Holmes?

00:25:52She took the musical box out of this house in that market basket.

00:25:55Right under our very noses.

00:25:57Why could the Kilgore child woman want to take the music box?

00:26:00She isn't the Kilgore child woman.

00:26:02She's a consummate actress.

00:26:03An extremely clever, unscrupulous woman who will stop at nothing.

00:26:06Take care of the child, will you, Wolf.

00:26:07Until her, until her parents get back.

00:26:09Explain everything to them.

00:26:10Of course I will.

00:26:11But, Holmes, where are you going?

00:26:13Somewhere, somehow, I must get to the young lady

00:26:16who bought that third musical box before our opponents find her.

00:26:19I only hope that I won't be too late.

00:26:25Oh, no.

00:26:26No, no.

00:26:27No, no, no.

00:26:28Darling, you, you mustn't cry anymore.

00:26:30Now, cheer up.

00:26:31Would you, would you like to hear old uncle make a noise like a duck?

00:26:46Oh, sorry.

00:26:56And now, ladies and gentlemen, how much am I offered for this beautiful lace Dresden China figurine?

00:27:18A lady of the French court.

00:27:21this is the genuine article what a beautiful ornament for your mantelpiece or you could use

00:27:27it as a centerpiece on the dining room table now will somebody start me for 10 pounds will somebody

00:27:31start me for 10 pounds eight pounds seven pounds all right five five pounds is offered five pounds

00:27:38offered five pounds is offered five pounds ten five pounds fifteen five pounds fifty six pounds

00:27:44offered six pounds six pounds going once going twice the third and the last call have you all done

00:27:49sold to the lady from twickenham for six pounds next we have a real museum piece ladies and

00:27:56gentlemen a fine 19th century doll the costume and exact replica of the holiday clothes worn by

00:28:03the hungarian peasant women now ladies and gentlemen an article like this would cost you from 15 to 20

00:28:08pounds in a western shop i'm not going to ask for anything like that we'll give me two pounds for

00:28:13it two pounds anybody offer me two pounds two pounds for the hungarian two pa one pound what anybody give

00:28:18me one pound anybody offer me one pound for the dollar one one pound is offered ladies and gentlemen

00:28:22one pound is offered now i'm not going to waste your valuable time or mine in trying to get one

00:28:28half of what this beautiful doll is worth if the young lady can steal it for one pound that's her good

00:28:32fortune so it's going once it's going twice the third and last call anymore sold to the young

00:28:38lady for one pound and now ladies and gentlemen may i draw your attention to something which may be a

00:28:43great surprise to you worthy of any collection the only other one like it is in the british museum

00:28:49it's a ming vase of the seventh dynasty this vase lay in a large collection somewhere outside rome for

00:28:57over two centuries i understand it was discovered there by the noted antiquarian sir andrew cobblestone

00:29:02now some of you may remember sir andrew cobblestone besides being a noted traveling antiquarian he's also a

00:29:07gentleman rider a girl with a parcel in her hands that's her are you sure that's the girl she fits

00:29:18perfectly the auctioneer's description follow her hamid

00:29:37is

00:29:59it's lovely dear and only one pound we can get at least three

00:30:04for it easily i'll go make some tea i could do with a cup right

00:30:13good afternoon good afternoon i'm looking for a birthday gift for a seven-year-old girl what

00:30:18would you suggest we have some lovely dolls now this hungarian i think she has enough dolls already

00:30:23books are always welcome well i'm looking for something a little different well that's rather

00:30:27cute uh what is it oh that's a musical box children always love them and this is an exceptionally nice one

00:30:36it plays many tunes

00:30:44have you any others yes if you'll just step this way i have only two left

00:30:49how nice

00:31:00are you sure this is all you have i'm sorry they're rather hard to find you know that's our entire

00:31:05allotment i did have one other but i sold it earlier this afternoon but it was only a plain wooden

00:31:11one it wouldn't have been a very nice gift for a child really do you happen to know who the

00:31:17purchaser was why yes he left his card just in case anyone should inquire for him

00:31:30how interesting

00:31:34i'm sorry but i'm afraid i have to look a bit further thank you anyway

00:31:38uh good afternoon thank you

00:31:52so

00:32:06heavy

00:32:11all of that cab here now what gotland yard hop in

00:32:23sherlock holmes i might have known we thought we were the hunters

00:32:29instead of which were they hunted we've been fools we played right into his hands

00:32:35of course he's had us followed don't look the man in front of the toy shop

00:32:41i mean turn sharp right at the next corner and again at the next

00:32:48so

00:32:55no photograph of her commissioner as i expected she's not a known criminal

00:33:00but i expect to know if you do find her after all she was disguised as a charwoman

00:33:05don't worry old fellow if i ever see it again i'll recognize her

00:33:09well it won't be long till we know who they are and from where they operate

00:33:13who's covering them

00:33:14uh sergeant thompson's following them sir they won't get away from him he's a good man

00:33:18we could have arrested them at clifford's toy shop if we had any proof

00:33:20but we know that they killed emmerich

00:33:21but we know that they killed emmerich

00:33:23proof my dear fellow we must have proof

00:33:28we've x-rayed it sir there's nothing whatever concealed in the box

00:33:31we'll have a look at the plates

00:33:41there must be some clue and it's probably so obvious that we've all overlooked it

00:33:46seems to me we're up against a bunch of lunatics

00:33:50not lunatics my dear fellow extremely astute cold-blooded murderers

00:33:55what can these little musical boxes have in them so important don't forget they were made in dartmoor

00:34:00prison you can smuggle stuff into prison but not out you want us to break the box apart so to see

00:34:06if there's anything the x-ray hasn't caught no not yet do you mind if i take it certainly thanks

00:34:21the governor of dartmoor prison informed us sir in answer to mr holmes question that all three

00:34:27musical boxes were made by the same convict john davidson serving a seven-year term sir davidson

00:34:32the bank of england plates that'll be all yes now we're getting somewhere if wait a minute

00:34:40how did you know about the plates mr holmes i'm a student of crime inspector i make my business to

00:34:45know about such things and when the name of davidson was mentioned well who is this fellow davidson

00:34:50as long as mr holmes seems to know all about it already i suppose there's no harm in telling you

00:34:55uh two years ago in london there occurred a robbery of such tremendous importance

00:35:02although the stolen articles themselves have no intrinsic value whatsoever

00:35:05that the home secretary was instrumental in seeing that not a word of it appeared in any newspaper

00:35:09but you never told me anything about this holmes you were away at the time

00:35:14articles of no intrinsic value and yet of such importance i don't understand davidson was

00:35:20apprehended within 15 minutes committing the theft but by that time he'd hidden the articles in

00:35:26question and they've yet to be found before going further dr watson i must inform you that this

00:35:31matters not to be mentioned outside of this room of course not do i look like a man who'd gossip

00:35:36let's not go into that now old fellow shall we davidson have been employed for years

00:35:42in a position of extreme trust by the engravings department of the bank of england the articles

00:35:46he stole were nothing less than a complete duplicate set of plates for printing five-pound notes

00:35:52what the bank of england's own plates precisely and with those plates a gang of crooks could flood

00:35:59england with five-pound notes not forged in the usual sense of the word but notes undetectable

00:36:04from genuine bank of england notes in any way whatsoever good heavens any whisper at all might

00:36:09have resulted in enormous damage in shaking public confidence in the treasury we tried everything

00:36:14after we arrested davidson offered him a shorter sentence if he'd tell us where he'd hidden the

00:36:18plates why we even put in scotland yard men with him as cell mates but no results obviously davidson

00:36:25is a man of strong character and infinite patience yet suddenly he feels impelled to smuggle out the

00:36:32secret of the hiding place of the plates to his confederates why i don't understand mr holmes

00:36:38well for example has the bank of england made any plans to radically change the design of the five

00:36:44pound note so that in say uh seven years from now notes made from the stolen plates would be worthless

00:36:51confidentially mr holmes such a move was discussed but replacing all the five pound

00:36:55notes in circulation would be such a herculean task that nothing's been done about it as yet

00:37:00i see of course there is another possible explanation davidson didn't have much time

00:37:05to find a hiding place before he was captured he may be afraid that the plates will be accidentally

00:37:11discovered before he's released hence his anxiety to communicate their whereabouts to his confederates

00:37:17as soon as possible i believe you've hit it mr holmes i'm sure that the message is contained in this

00:37:24musical box or rather in all three musical boxes since possession of all three seems to be essential

00:37:32our opponents have two-thirds of the puzzle we have one third well what are you going to do holmes

00:37:37try to deduce the message from the one third that we have

00:37:50uh

00:38:02uh

00:38:20It's the same tune as the one played by Emery's musical box.

00:38:26And yet it's different.

00:38:28Sounds the same to me.

00:38:30The tune.

00:38:33Somehow the tune is the key to the mystery.

00:38:38It must be the tune.

00:38:40Otherwise, why use three musical boxes to convey the message?

00:38:44Why not collar boxes or shoe boxes?

00:38:48Yes?

00:38:50No.

00:38:51It's for you, Inspector.

00:38:52Oh, thank you, sir.

00:38:54Inspector Hopkins speaking.

00:38:57What?

00:39:00Where?

00:39:03Golders Green Station reports they've just found Sergeant Thompson's body.

00:39:07From the tire marks on his clothes, he was apparently run over by taxi.

00:39:11What an unfortunate accident.

00:39:13Not an accident, my dear fellow.

00:39:16I'm afraid it's murder.

00:39:20Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:39:25When you're walking down a busy London street.

00:39:29Mrs. Orchid, Mrs. Brown, any subject of the crowd.

00:39:33Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:39:38So, you better hold your topper in your hand.

00:39:44Just in case you meet a lady on the strand.

00:39:48Girls will think you're kind of sweet and your day will be complete.

00:39:54Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:39:58Now a gentleman is judged by his appearance.

00:40:02Yes, a gentleman is judged by how he talks.

00:40:07Now he's much better off when he's acting like a toff.

00:40:13Especially if he's taking him a walk.

00:40:17What on earth is this outlandish place?

00:40:19A rendezvous for actors.

00:40:22Actors?

00:40:24Buskers, old boy.

00:40:26You've seen them a thousand times.

00:40:28Actors who entertain the queues.

00:40:30Waiting outside theatres.

00:40:31Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:40:36When you're walking down a busy London street.

00:40:41So, you better wear your vest.

00:40:44Hell with pies to look your best.

00:40:46Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:40:50So, you better keep your manners right in view.

00:40:56Just in case a lie gives a how you do.

00:41:01Keep your trousers in a pleat.

00:41:04Shine your shoes and keep them neat.

00:41:06Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.

00:41:11Blimey.

00:41:12Mr. Holmes.

00:41:14How are you, Joe?

00:41:16Never pet him.

00:41:17And yourself?

00:41:18Fine, thank you.

00:41:19I want you to meet a friend of mine, Dr. Watson, Joe Sisto.

00:41:21Oh, well, any friend of Mr. Holmes is a friend of mine.

00:41:24How are you, Joe?

00:41:25You did me a good turn once that I'll never forget.

00:41:27Yes, I cleared Joe of a most unpleasant charge.

00:41:30Murder, no less.

00:41:31Oh, really?

00:41:32By proving to the satisfaction of the police

00:41:33that he was busy at the time blowing open someone's safe.

00:41:36That's right, Governor.

00:41:37Good gracious me.

00:41:39Now, Joe.

00:41:40Now you can help me.

00:41:43Come on, buzz off, buzz off.

00:41:44Come on, up here, up here!

00:41:46Can't a gentleman have some peace and quiet around here?

00:41:52And you too.

00:41:55There you are, Mr. Holmes.

00:41:56Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.

00:41:58Thank you, Joe.

00:41:59There's five pounds in this for you.

00:42:02Well, I wouldn't want to take it on myself, sir,

00:42:04but I can get somebody to do it for you for half of that.

00:42:06You don't know what the job is yet.

00:42:08For five pounds?

00:42:09Murder, ain't it?

00:42:10What?

00:42:11No, Joe, not murder.

00:42:12Just music.

00:42:13I want you to identify a song for me.

00:42:16Oh, there ain't a song that's been written that I don't know.

00:42:18That's why I can't, Joe.

00:42:19Of course, the violin is more my instrument, but, um...

00:42:23Oh, well.

00:42:24Here we go.

00:42:25Now listen to this, Joe.

00:42:32Wait a minute.

00:42:33You're playing that wrong.

00:42:34That should be E natural, not E flat.

00:42:36You know the song?

00:42:37Oh, yes.

00:42:38It's an old Australian song called, uh, The Swag Man.

00:42:42But you're playing it all wrong.

00:42:43That's what I hoped you'd say.

00:42:44Now listen again, Joe.

00:42:53That's the same tune, all right,

00:42:54but you're making different mistakes than you did the first time.

00:42:57No, not mistakes, Joe.

00:42:58Call them variations.

00:42:59Here.

00:43:00Play the song for me, will you?

00:43:01The other way it's written.

00:43:07Here you are.

00:43:08Thank you, Joe.

00:43:09What's that mean, Holmes?

00:43:10Are you on to something?

00:43:11Perhaps.

00:43:12I don't know yet.

00:43:15It's probably a code of some sort.

00:43:17Joe.

00:43:18Go.

00:43:19Go.

00:43:20Go.

00:43:21Go.

00:43:22Go.

00:43:23Go.

00:43:24Go.

00:43:25Go.

00:43:26Go.

00:43:27Go.

00:43:28Go.

00:43:29Go.

00:43:30Go.

00:43:31Go.

00:43:32Go.

00:43:33Go.

00:43:34Go.

00:43:35Go.

00:43:36Joe, could you write the song down for me, the way it was originally written?

00:43:42Oh, sure, Mr. Holmes, but it'll take a few minutes.

00:43:45Here, Mabel, pale ale.

00:43:49Come on, I'll do it.

00:43:51Along with it.

00:43:52Well, obviously, it isn't the lyrics.

00:44:06No combination of those words made any sense at all.

00:44:08The variations in the way Emery's musical box played the tune are different from the

00:44:12variations in the one we have.

00:44:14You're sure?

00:44:15Quite.

00:44:16You see, I took the trouble to memorize the tune as played by Emery's box that night we

00:44:19were with him in his sweat.

00:44:20Oh, you amaze me.

00:44:22Now, I mention, my dear fellow, one of the first principles in solving crime is never

00:44:26to disregard anything, no matter how trivial.

00:44:28But why the three boxes?

00:44:29Why not one?

00:44:31Because the message was obviously too long to be conveyed by any one variation.

00:44:36Then there's the third box, the one that woman took from the Kilgores.

00:44:41That contains yet another set of variations.

00:44:43Yes, sir, it's all beyond me.

00:44:46Well, all we have to do now is to find the secret of the variations.

00:44:50It's not a very easy problem to solve, my dear fellow.

00:44:55Oh, hey.

00:44:56Hello.

00:44:57What's up?

00:44:58We've had company.

00:45:02I say, this is outrageous.

00:45:06I say, this is outrageous.

00:45:14Ask Mrs. Hudson to come in here, will you?

00:45:16Right.

00:45:22Mrs. Hudson?

00:45:25Yes?

00:45:26Oh, there you are. Will you come up here at once, please?

00:45:29I'm coming, sir.

00:45:36Come on.

00:45:45Merci me, Mr. Holmes. What has happened?

00:45:49Who called while we were out, Mrs. Hudson?

00:45:51Just a young lady.

00:45:52The one who said you wanted her to wait for you.

00:45:54And a nice-looking old gentleman with her.

00:45:56Our friends again, Watson.

00:45:57Friends?

00:45:58What did the young lady look like?

00:46:00Oh, I couldn't see her face.

00:46:02She had a heavy black veil on.

00:46:04But she had such a nice way with her.

00:46:07Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes, if I've done anything wrong.

00:46:12But you did say I should always let clients come in and wait for you.

00:46:16Don't worry, Mrs. Hudson. Don't worry.

00:46:18You had no way of knowing.

00:46:20It's quite all right, quite all right.

00:46:21Now, don't worry, Mrs. Hudson.

00:46:26Don't worry.

00:46:27Well, where on earth's the musical box?

00:46:30They didn't get it.

00:46:32Didn't get it?

00:46:32Where is it?

00:46:34It's in your hand.

00:46:35Hmm?

00:46:37In that biscuit jar.

00:46:41Take the biscuits off the top.

00:46:45Now, put your hand inside, and you'll find the music box.

00:46:50Well done, Holmes.

00:46:52Well done.

00:46:53Amazing.

00:46:53Ha, ha.

00:46:54Ha, ha.

00:46:55Ha, ha.

00:46:56Ha, ha.

00:46:57Ha, ha.

00:46:59Ha, ha.

00:47:00Ha, ha.

00:47:01Ha, ha.

00:47:02Ha, ha.

00:47:03Ha, ha.

00:47:04Ha, ha.

00:47:14Phew.

00:47:15Nice fresh smell.

00:47:17Like a pub after closing time.

00:47:18Mr. Holmes?

00:47:25Why?

00:47:27It's morning.

00:47:29Allow me to congratulate you on a brilliant bit of deduction.

00:47:39It's not a transposition, not a polygraph transposition, not a trigraph,

00:47:44nor any known form of decoding.

00:47:47How about the Morse code? Have you tried that?

00:47:49Yes, at about three o'clock this morning.

00:47:51I'm sorry, old man. I was only trying to help.

00:48:10Oh, do me a favor. Not again.

00:48:12Must have heard that thing a thousand times.

00:48:14Keep me awake all night.

00:48:17Not a very distinguished conversation, I grant you.

00:48:22You know perfectly well I don't know one tune from the other.

00:48:24When I was a kid, my people tried to have me taught the piano.

00:48:27I've always felt sorry for that old teacher of mine.

00:48:29The poor old girl finally reached the point of numbering of the keys for me.

00:48:32One, two, three, four.

00:48:34Even then, I never progressed beyond...

00:48:36Numbering of the keys, Watson.

00:48:37The 19th key of the keyboard is the 19th letter of the alphabet.

00:48:49S.

00:48:50Here.

00:48:51Now, sit down when I give it to the old fellow, will you?

00:48:54First altered note.

00:48:56Write S first.

00:48:57Now, the eighth key is H.

00:49:02The fifth key, E.

00:49:05The twelfth key, L.

00:49:09The sixth key, F.

00:49:11S-H-E-L-F.

00:49:14Shelf.

00:49:15Your piano lessons were not in vain, old fellow.

00:49:19You've solved it.

00:49:21Thanks, old man.

00:49:23Hold it.

00:49:24We now have two thirds of the message behind books.

00:49:29Third shelf, secretary, Dr. S.

00:49:34Presumably, these are the first and second portions of the message.

00:49:40And this gang has the first and third parts of it?

00:49:43Precisely.

00:49:44Then it's a stalemate?

00:49:45Yes, Commissioner, but we can't leave it like that.

00:49:47There's no doubt in my mind that they'll try to secure our third of the message that's missing.

00:49:52Well, I assume you've taken every precaution to guard the Clifford musical.

00:49:54Oh, yes.

00:49:55It's carefully hidden at Baker Street with Dr. Watson on guard.

00:49:57However, I'm reasonably certain that, difficult as it may be,

00:50:01we can find the plates even without the missing part of the message.

00:50:05Behind books, third shelf, secretary, Dr. S.

00:50:10Well, outside of the fact that Davidson hid the Bank of England plates somewhere in London, Mr. Holmes,

00:50:15I don't see that we've progressed at all.

00:50:17Allow me to point out to you, sir, the key words, Dr. S.

00:50:22It looks as if the plates were hidden in the house of a doctor.

00:50:25Whether S stands for his first or last initial remains to be determined by a process of elimination.

00:50:30Well, there must be 10,000 doctors in London with S for a first or last initial.

00:50:35Precisely. And every one of them will have to be questioned in person.

00:50:39That's why I say this is a task for Scotland Yard.

00:50:42It's a task, all right. But Scotland Yard has searched worse haystacks and found the needle.

00:50:47Well, for the time being, I'll leave the matter in your hands, gentlemen.

00:50:51We'll call you if and when we get a lead on our mysterious Dr. S.

00:50:56Thank you. In the meantime, I intend to follow up a little clue concerning a cigarette.

00:51:08You're certain of the identification of the tobacco?

00:51:10Absolutely. I have made up this special blend for only three customers.

00:51:15It is almost pure Egyptian with admixture of Latakia for added body and a pinch of Perique.

00:51:24Merely a whisper, as one might say, for elusive fragrance.

00:51:29Yes, yes. And the three customers?

00:51:31Major Wilson in Bombay, India.

00:51:34Mrs. Catherine Leamington-Smith in Ireland.

00:51:39Yes, and the third?

00:51:40Mrs. Hilda Courtney of Park Mansions, Bryanston Square.

00:51:45Thank you. Thank you very much. You've been most helpful.

00:51:47It is a pleasure to have been of service, Mr. Holmes.

00:52:00Yes?

00:52:01Mrs. Courtney?

00:52:02Yes.

00:52:03My name is Sherlock Holmes.

00:52:05Oh, do come in.

00:52:07I've heard of you, of course, Mr. Holmes.

00:52:12I believe we have a mutual friend in Sir Edward Brookdale.

00:52:15He's spoken to me of you quite often.

00:52:17Indeed.

00:52:21And to what good fortune am I indebted for this visit?

00:52:24I think you know, Mrs. Courtney.

00:52:26Well, I did get a summons for speeding last week.

00:52:30But outside of that, I don't think I'm of any interest to the police.

00:52:33Oh, come now, Mrs. Courtney.

00:52:35You seem to forget that you and I have met before.

00:52:37I'm sorry.

00:52:38I'm sure I would have remembered meeting the great Sherlock Holmes.

00:52:41Please sit down.

00:52:44You say we met before?

00:52:46Yes.

00:52:48At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Road.

00:52:53Kilgore?

00:52:55I don't think I know anyone of that name.

00:52:58Well, I didn't say you knew them.

00:53:00As a matter of fact, you called on them when they were out.

00:53:03I don't understand, Mr. Holmes.

00:53:05Really?

00:53:07And you were dressed rather differently.

00:53:09Indeed.

00:53:11Cigarette.

00:53:29You know, Mrs. Courtney, people generally forget, in assuming a disguise,

00:53:37that the shape of the ear is an almost infallible means of recognition and identification to the trained eye.

00:53:44Evidently, you've mistaken me for someone else.

00:53:46Oh, no, not at all.

00:53:47Though naturally, I expected your denial.

00:53:50But when you paid your visit to my rooms at Baker Street,

00:53:54you carelessly left behind another identification.

00:53:57They are, uh...

00:54:01Identical, aren't they?

00:54:03Yes, I must admit they are.

00:54:05You see, Mr. Holmes, to catch one as clever as you, I had to use a very special lure.

00:54:10I knew you'd be unable to resist the bait of my cigarette,

00:54:13having read with great interest your monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of tobacco.

00:54:19I should advise you not to move, Mr. Holmes.

00:54:22I must congratulate you on your ingenuity, Mrs. Courtney.

00:54:28It was indeed a brilliantly designed trap.

00:54:30Thank you, Mr. Holmes.

00:54:32Praise from a master is indeed gratifying.

00:54:35I shall always cherish the memory of your flattering words.

00:54:39Memory?

00:54:41Precisely.

00:54:43I'm afraid these gentlemen have a most regrettable task to perform.

00:54:47Unless, of course, you care to turn over the missing musical box

00:54:52with your pledge to take no action against us in the future.

00:54:55I'm afraid that will be impossible.

00:54:56I thought that would be your answer.

00:54:58Honeyed!

00:55:00Careful!

00:55:02Careful!

00:55:03There's no need to be unnecessarily rough with our distinguished guests.

00:55:07You realize, Mr. Holmes, that your demise will not take place here,

00:55:11the, uh, corpus delecti, you know?

00:55:14Well, naturally.

00:55:16Shall we go?

00:55:19It's so fearfully awkward having a dead body lying about.

00:55:23Don't you agree, Mr. Holmes?

00:55:24Another dead body shouldn't weigh too heavily on your conscience, Mrs. Courtney.

00:55:37Do you mind if I have a cigarette?

00:55:39Well, I don't see you are not.

00:55:54Be careful, Hamid.

00:55:57It's the brakes. They bind.

00:56:01Thank you, Colonel Kavanagh.

00:56:03It's very considerate of you.

00:56:24You'll be happy to know, Mr. Holmes, that your death will be a painless one.

00:56:38Hamid?

00:56:42Attach this to the motor of the taxi.

00:56:48That little attachment, my dear Mr. Holmes, contains the deadly fluid known as monosulfrid.

00:56:55The Germans use it with gratifying results in removing their undesirables.

00:57:00You'll be happy to know, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:01You'll be happy to know, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:05Start the motor.

00:57:06Annette was a great Forcht.

00:57:07You'll be happy to know, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:09Oh, Mr. Holmes, I'll try to report, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:17I just want to report it, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:19The fillers are also good for the children.

00:57:23They are people who have to care for the children.

00:57:27I'm a reader.

00:57:29If they were to take care of what they would have to do, then I'll try you on.

00:57:30Now, up with him, Hamid.

00:57:50You find yourself like Mohammed's coffin, Mr. Holmes.

00:57:56Suspended between heaven and earth.

00:58:00There's plenty of fuel in the tank.

00:58:06Good.

00:58:07It would be too bad to have anything go wrong through so simple an oversight.

00:58:30Good.

00:58:31Good.

00:58:32Good.

00:58:33Good.

00:58:34Good.

00:58:35Good.

00:58:36Good.

00:58:45Good.

00:58:47I don't know.

00:58:49I'll see you.

00:58:50I'll see you.

00:58:51Come on, get in.

00:58:52Come on, get in.

00:58:53Come on, get in.

00:58:54Come on, get in.

00:58:55I'll get you.

00:58:56Come on, get in.

00:58:57Good afternoon.

00:59:24Mr. Sherlock Holmes?

00:59:26No, I'm Dr. Watson.

00:59:28Oh, of course, Dr. Watson. How stupid of me.

00:59:31Oh, that's all stupid of me.

00:59:33Won't you come in?

00:59:35Well, I really came to see Mr. Holmes.

00:59:38Oh, I'm afraid he's out. I don't know when he'll be back.

00:59:40Perhaps there's something I can do.

00:59:42Won't you sit down?

00:59:44You know, Sherlock Holmes and I have been engaged on a great many cases.

00:59:49Oh, really?

00:59:50Yes, indeed.

00:59:51As a matter of fact, this very moment,

00:59:53we're involved in one of the most baffling...

00:59:56Oh, well, won't you tell me your trouble?

00:59:58I may be able to help you.

00:59:59That's very kind of you, Dr. Watson.

01:00:01Perhaps if I wouldn't be imposing too much...

01:00:05Imposing? Oh, there's no imposition.

01:00:07No imposition at all.

01:00:08A pleasure, I assure you.

01:00:10Now, tell me all about it, Miss...

01:00:12Miss Williams.

01:00:13Miss Williams.

01:00:14I live in Surrey, Dr. Watson,

01:00:16and I've come up to London in sheer desperation.

01:00:18My only sister has disappeared,

01:00:20and the local police seem utterly unable to find her.

01:00:22Well, Holmes and I solved a case exactly like that once.

01:00:25Very interesting, as far as I remember.

01:00:27I call it the...

01:00:29the adventure of the solitary cyclist.

01:00:32Oh, sorry.

01:00:33Now I come to think of it, it wasn't so very similar.

01:00:35It was entirely different.

01:00:37I don't think of what I'm saying.

01:00:39Uh-oh.

01:00:40Where were we?

01:00:41She's only 17, Dr. Watson,

01:00:44and until she disappeared last Thursday,

01:00:46she seemed to be in the best of spirits.

01:00:49Well, possibly a romantic entanglement?

01:00:52Oh, no, no, nothing of the sort.

01:00:54She left no note,

01:00:55didn't even pack a bag, no explanation.

01:00:58She just started to walk to the village from our house

01:01:00in broad daylight

01:01:01and simply vanished from the face of the earth.

01:01:04Oh, there, there, there, there.

01:01:06Might I have a glass of water?

01:01:08I have a glass of water.

01:01:09I have a glass of water.

01:01:10I have one minute.

01:01:11One minute.

01:01:38There you are, my dear.

01:01:40Thank you, Dr. Watson.

01:01:41No, no, no.

01:01:42You're not to cry anymore.

01:01:43You must pull yourself together.

01:01:44Oh, I feel much better already

01:01:45knowing that you're going to help me.

01:01:46Oh, Dr. Watson, look!

01:01:47Good heavens!

01:01:48Get through, get through the cyber gate, quickly!

01:01:51Haven't you a fire extinguisher?

01:01:53My joy?

01:01:54We haven't again.

01:01:55May Witchțiil?

01:01:56Yes, you have been eager!

01:01:58Please, dear buddy,

01:01:59let me on you.

01:02:00Mr. Watson, look!

01:02:01Good heavens.

01:02:02Get through, get through the cyber gate, quickly!

01:02:06Haven't you a fire extinguisher?

01:02:09Marjorie, we have in the game.

01:02:12You can see that.

01:02:14There you are.

01:02:15No, he has no overwhelm

01:02:15wouldn't you?

01:02:17Fine, first time.

01:02:18Why are you today then?

01:02:19Don't you worry, Ms. Williams, we'll have this thing out in no time.

01:02:46Ah, I've got it.

01:02:49Shh.

01:02:51Yes, it's the mayor.

01:02:54Well, you see, there was, there was no need for the fire brigade after all.

01:02:59I hope you weren't too frightened, Ms. Williams.

01:03:04Oh, gone.

01:03:06That's the troubled women.

01:03:08They always lose their heads in an emergency.

01:03:13Hello.

01:03:16A musical box.

01:03:20Great Scott.

01:03:23Miss Williams.

01:03:28Well?

01:03:31Good.

01:03:32And Holmes?

01:03:33By now, Mr. Holmes has no doubt exchanged his violin for a harp.

01:03:39Always assuming that heaven is his destination.

01:03:41Yes.

01:03:42And now that we have the missing musical box.

01:03:47Nineteenth note.

01:03:58Nineteenth letter.

01:03:59Nineteenth letter.

01:04:02Nineteenth note.

01:04:06Nineteenth letter.

01:04:10S.

01:04:14He hasn't been there, you say?

01:04:16Holmes, where on earth have you been?

01:04:18I've been trying to get you at the club, at Scotland Yard, all over London.

01:04:23You were looking for me in the wrong places.

01:04:25Holmes, terrible things happened.

01:04:27I've been duped.

01:04:29That woman, she made a complete fool of me.

01:04:31What do you mean?

01:04:32Well, she came here, let off a smoke bomb.

01:04:34I thought the whole place was on fire and my first thought was to save a musical box.

01:04:38No need to say any more.

01:04:40She has the box.

01:04:41Yes.

01:04:43Don't blame yourself too much, old fellow.

01:04:47She's an extremely clever antagonist.

01:04:52Smoke bomb, you said?

01:04:56Well, you can console yourself with the thought

01:04:59that your charming friend is at least a reader of yours.

01:05:02What do you mean?

01:05:03If I remember correctly, you wrote about my little experiment with smoke and the cry of fire

01:05:08and a story you entitled, A Scandal in Bohemia, which has just appeared in the Strand Magazine.

01:05:12All right, all right, old boy. Don't rub it in.

01:05:15Well, it may tear you up to know that you made a fool of me too.

01:05:20Ah.

01:05:22That cigarette stub.

01:05:24It was planted here for one express purpose.

01:05:27Have you got a bandaging around this place?

01:05:28Bandaging? What's the matter, Holmes?

01:05:30You hurt?

01:05:31An explanation, so I'll have to wait until later at the moment we're faced with a problem,

01:05:35which I fear is insurmountable.

01:05:36Come over here, old boy, will you?

01:05:38Right.

01:05:40Our opponents are in possession of all three parts of the code,

01:05:43and here are we while the Bank of England plates pass into their possession.

01:05:47Cheer up, old fellow, cheer up.

01:05:49As Dr. Samuel Johnson once said,

01:05:51there's no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.

01:05:56What's that, old fellow?

01:05:57I was just quoting Dr. Samuel Johnson.

01:05:59He said there is no...

01:06:00Thank you, Watson. Thank you.

01:06:02Hmm?

01:06:06Leaving the front reception room,

01:06:08we come into the main hall,

01:06:10where Dr. Johnson was in the habit of passing through

01:06:13to have his meagre meals in the dining room opposite,

01:06:16in company with his friend and biographer, James Boswell.

01:06:21We will now pass up the stairway,

01:06:23which remains in its natural wood finish,

01:06:26just as it was when the good doctor was here.

01:06:29The framed etching on the wall

01:06:31is believed to have been presented to Dr. Johnson

01:06:34by the distinguished painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds.

01:06:37I've been told here

01:06:39that that picture was given in by Mrs. Thrail,

01:06:42and it's definitely not a Reynolds.

01:06:44Is that important, my dear?

01:06:46Oh, I'm sorry.

01:06:49This way, ladies and gentlemen, please. This way.

01:06:52Move along, children. Move along.

01:06:54The secretary's not on this floor.

01:06:56Patience, Hamid.

01:06:57I have a feeling that...

01:06:59My dear Colonel, with Sherlock Holmes out of the way,

01:07:01what could go wrong?

01:07:11And here we have the Garrett Library,

01:07:13in which Dr. Johnson wrote his famous dictionary,

01:07:16and in which you will see also many of the great man's books

01:07:20and other items of interest.

01:07:22Step forward, ladies and gentlemen, please. Step forward.

01:07:25Standing in the corner is the secretary,

01:07:28which contains many of the original works by the literary genius.

01:07:32On this table, Dr. Johnson's cat, Hodge,

01:07:35used to sleep while his master worked.

01:07:37A strange thing about this cat, ladies and gentlemen,

01:07:39was its love of oysters.

01:07:43They do say that the dear doctor often went hungry

01:07:45to find the cat that delicacy.

01:07:48What a pity.

01:07:50Now we will visit the green room,

01:07:51which is immediately below us,

01:07:53in which you will see the very bed

01:07:55in which Dr. Johnson died.

01:07:57What did he die of?

01:08:00Gout.

01:08:01Just gout.

01:08:02This way, ladies and gentlemen. Mind the steps, please.

01:08:20No keys.

01:08:32Third shelf up.

01:08:46The knife.

01:08:53Gentlemen, the Bank of England plates.

01:08:57Well, Mrs. Courtney, so we meet again.

01:09:01No, I shouldn't do that if I were you, Colonel Kavanaugh.

01:09:04I must congratulate you, Mr. Holmes.

01:09:06You're far more clever than I thought.

01:09:10Thank you, Mrs. Courtney.

01:09:13Praise from you is indeed gratifying.

01:09:16I shall always cherish the memory

01:09:18of your flattering words.

01:09:20Memory?

01:09:22Oh, thank you.

01:09:24And now I have a most regrettable task to perform.

01:09:31Holmes!

01:09:34Coming, Holmes!

01:09:38Holmes!

01:09:39You all right?

01:09:40Perfectly, thank you, Othello,

01:09:41but I think this gentleman on the floor

01:09:42requires some medical attention.

01:09:44We must see that he looks his best, you know,

01:09:45when he's hanged.

01:09:46Take them in charge.

01:09:47Take them in charge.

01:10:05A brilliant antagonist.

01:10:07It's a pity her talents were so misdirected.

01:10:11Will you see that these plates are returned

01:10:12to the Bank of England, Inspector?

01:10:13I still don't understand how you solved it, Mr. Holmes.

01:10:15It's entirely due to Dr. Watson.

01:10:18He gave me the clue when he mentioned

01:10:19Dr. Samuel Johnson.

01:10:21Well, congratulations, Doctor.

01:10:23Oh, thank you, Inspector.

01:10:24I don't think I could have done it entirely

01:10:25without Mr. Holmes's help, you know.

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