Sherlock Holmes - E16: The Case of the Greystone Inscription
30min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (1954–1955)
Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with ...
Stars: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
30min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (1954–1955)
Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with ...
Stars: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
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00:30Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:01Cold lobster and sliced tomatoes. Could one possibly conceive of a more ideal marriage, Watson?
01:10Romeo and Juliet were clearly mismated by comparison.
01:19Oh, Watson, aren't you going to join me?
01:21Oh, now, surely, Watson, you can't bear a grudge against me forever for something so trivial.
01:37Trivial?
01:41And what is trivial about riddling the walls with bullets?
01:45I do not agree that I riddled the wall, as you so violently put it. I decorated it in a most patriotic manner.
01:54Holmes, I have permitted and suffered many liberties in this flat.
02:01First you make those evil-smelling gases, then you shatter my nerves with those ridiculous disguises.
02:07But you, even you, have never covered your activities under the banner of patriotism.
02:12Yes, but we are of the Queen's initials. I was only celebrating Her Majesty's birthday.
02:18Celebrating Her Majesty?
02:21Still, that's no excuse.
02:23Well, perhaps I was a little overzealous, but you can't very well blame a man for that.
02:26Nevertheless...
02:27All right, Watson, I solemnly promise never to do it again.
02:31Oh.
02:34Well.
02:35Well.
02:39And lobster and tomato for breakfast. Who ever heard of that?
02:44I must say, it looks jolly good there.
02:46Do you mean to say you're going to join me?
02:48Yes, please.
02:54That's strange. I didn't expect her until noon. She must have caught the midnight train.
02:58Who?
02:59You will meet her in a minute.
03:01I wouldn't want her to feel that she was intruding.
03:06Mr. Holmes?
03:07Yes, Miss Millicent Channing?
03:09Yes.
03:13I wrote you that I'd be here at noon, but I didn't want to lose any time. I took the midnight train.
03:18I understand. Won't you come in?
03:21This is my good friend and associate, Dr. Watson.
03:24How do you do?
03:25How do you do?
03:26Please sit down, Mr. Holmes.
03:29This is my good friend and associate, Dr. Watson.
03:32How do you do?
03:33How do you do?
03:34Please sit down, Miss Channing. You must have had a very tiring journey.
03:38Particularly in view of the fact that you were forced to take a dog cart part of the way.
03:42How did you know I took a dog cart?
03:44Well, I noticed that your right sleeve is covered with mud.
03:47Only a dog cart throws out mud in such a disagreeable way.
03:51Mr. Holmes can also deduce your birthstone and the serial numbers of any notes you happen to be carrying in your birth.
04:00Dr. Watson exaggerates, though only slightly.
04:04I've heard a great deal of your powers, Mr. Holmes.
04:07They say you're one of the cleverest men in London.
04:10They're very kind.
04:11You said in your letter that your fiancé has disappeared.
04:15I'm afraid that something terrible has happened to him.
04:18Why, Miss Channing?
04:19It's all so muddled, so confused.
04:23Several days ago, I was expecting him for dinner.
04:27He didn't arrive.
04:29I was worried, and I went to his lodgings.
04:50Millicent.
04:51They say if Mohammed won't come to the mountain...
04:54Good heavens, we had a dinner date.
04:56At eight o'clock.
04:57Oh, you must forgive me. I've been so deep in this, I've completely slipped my mind.
05:01Millicent, how would you like to marry a full professor of English history at London University?
05:09I'd much rather marry you, John.
05:11I mean me.
05:12Are you serious?
05:14You still have three years before you can become a professor.
05:17It can happen in a month. Next week, perhaps.
05:20But how?
05:21Well, you know this research work I've been doing on 14th century English history?
05:26Yes.
05:27Well, I have reason to believe I've made the most amazing, the most fantastic discovery.
05:32Tell me.
05:33Not until I put my theory to the test.
05:35And if I'm right, I can assure you there will be an immediate chair for me at the university.
05:40And more than that, I'll be famous.
05:42Oh, but John, this is unfair, keeping me in the dark like this.
05:45I promise you it won't be for long.
05:47Tomorrow, I go to see Sir Thomas Greystone at Aberdeen to get his cooperation.
05:51He won't refuse because my success will bring him fame also.
05:55John, you simply must tell me what...
05:58Not another word tonight.
06:00I'll tell you everything when I come back the day after tomorrow.
06:06Remember, good things come to those who wait.
06:11Good things come to those who wait.
06:15But he didn't come back.
06:17Not the day he told me, nor the next day.
06:21I wired him at Greystone Castle, asking him to explain the delay.
06:25I received this in answer.
06:33John Cartwright, unknown here.
06:36Signed, Greystone.
06:38I didn't know what to make of it, Mr. Holmes.
06:41Finally, I decided to go up to Aberdeen and talk to Sir Thomas Greystone himself.
06:47He must have been mistaken.
07:08This is it, Miss.
07:38Certainly, I don't envy you, Miss.
07:40Why? Is something wrong?
07:43Let's say something isn't right.
07:45Ever since the Greystones came upon Hard Times,
07:48they've become a strange, mysterious pair.
07:52Hardly anyone ever comes to see them,
07:54and those that do don't waste any time there.
07:57If I were you, Miss, I'd wait until it's lunchtime.
08:01I'd wait until it's lunchtime.
08:05If I were you, Miss, I'd wait until it's late before I went up.
08:09I don't have the time to spare.
08:11I'm sure I'll be all right.
08:13Suit yourself, Miss.
08:19Get out!
08:34Get out!
09:04Get out!
09:27I would like to see Sir Thomas Greystone, please.
09:35Sir Thomas Greystone
09:49My name is Miss Channing.
09:51Would you please tell him that...
09:52Miss Channing, is it?
09:55The lady who sent the telegram.
09:57Yes.
09:59I hope you don't think me foolish coming here in this way, Sir Thomas.
10:02Walter Greystone is my name.
10:05Sir Thomas is my father.
10:08If you've come to make further inquiries about your Mr. Cartwright,
10:13yes, I'd say you were foolish.
10:15We've absolutely no knowledge of the gentleman.
10:18But I can't understand it.
10:20He told me he was coming here to speak to Sir Thomas.
10:23About what?
10:25About a discovery he made while doing some historical research.
10:30He said it was to have brought fame to him and Sir Thomas both.
10:34I can assure you, Miss Channing,
10:37no one of that nature has been here. No one!
10:40But I know he took the 6.10 train on Tuesday. I saw him off.
10:44The 6.10 train makes a dozen stops along the way.
10:47He could have got off at any one of them.
10:49But why?
10:51I've no idea, Miss.
10:54I'm sorry. I'm upset.
10:57You see, he's my fiancé.
10:59I quite understand, but there's nothing we can do.
11:04I'm sorry to have troubled you.
11:07One moment, Miss.
11:09That telegram I sent you cost two shillings. I'll thank you till you emboss me.
11:13Father! Be quiet!
11:15I'm not a charitable institution.
11:17Are you Sir Thomas Greystone?
11:19I am.
11:21You didn't say you were.
11:23I didn't say I wasn't. Two shillings, if you please.
11:32Good night, Miss Channing.
11:44Whatever else I felt about the Greystones,
11:47I didn't believe they'd lied to me.
11:49Why should they deny they'd seen John?
11:52However, as I made my way through the garden,
11:55as I made my way through the garden,
11:57I found this timetable in the bushes.
12:04I take it that these notes in the margin are in your fiancé's handwriting, Miss Channing.
12:08Yes, Mr. Holmes.
12:10They lied. He was there.
12:12And for some reason they're trying to deny it.
12:16He had evidently asked directions to the castle
12:19and jotted them down in the margin.
12:21Well, it's perfectly evident the Greystones are lying, but why?
12:25Here's somebody offering them a chance of fame, they refuse it.
12:28Hmm. There are other considerations more imperative than fame, Watson.
12:32What other considerations, for example?
12:34That is our problem.
12:36You will help me, Mr. Holmes.
12:38I'll do my best, Miss Channing.
12:40That is our problem.
12:42You will help me, Mr. Holmes.
12:44I'll do my best, Miss Channing.
12:46Oh, Watson, the 14th century contained the reigns of what kings?
12:51Uh, wait a minute.
12:5314th century, there were some Henrys, and Richard II, of course.
12:59Richard II.
13:01He was executed, wasn't he?
13:04Yes, at Pontefract Castle, September the 21st, 1300, and, uh...
13:10Miss Channing, I would appreciate you taking me to your fiancé's flat.
13:14To his flat? But why not to Greystone Castle?
13:17Well, I would rather not go there unarmed.
13:19Why not? We've both got revolvers.
13:22I am referring, Watson, to information that may have led
13:25to the disappearance of Miss Channing's fiancé.
13:28Come along, Miss Channing.
13:35Well, I can't find anything there.
13:37Perhaps you'd have a look, Watson.
13:39Oh, oh, thank you, Miss Channing.
13:49Aha! So this is what Cartwright found so exciting.
13:54I'll have a look.
13:57Aha! So this is what Cartwright found so exciting.
14:03What is it, Hams?
14:04Well, he certainly deserves his professorship if he understood this.
14:08Listen.
14:09This pledge unto Richard, I, Richard, do make.
14:14To return unto Richard, switch from Richard, I take.
14:18Let Richard look on the northern stair.
14:21Then six and seven is not fair.
14:24Press on and through and dune for ten.
14:27Beware thou do not linger then.
14:30If thou art in and wish ye moot, get out.
14:33Smite eke the lion upon the snoat.
14:36Meter and rhyme perfect.
14:38Oh, what's it mean?
14:40Well, it's simple enough, Watson.
14:43Look here, Hams.
14:44Sometimes I think you'd say that a trip to the moon on an umbrella is simple.
14:48Well, analyze it piece by piece.
14:50The first part is nothing more than a receipt.
14:52A receipt?
14:54Certainly.
14:55This pledge unto Richard, I, Richard, do make.
14:57To return unto Richard such things as I from Richard take.
15:01Well, apparently Richard had entrusted his possessions to a loyal friend.
15:05And he had received his promise that they'd be returned.
15:08Yes, yes, I see that.
15:10The rest of the inscription merely tells him how he may get his possessions back.
15:13Hence, let Richard look upon the northern star.
15:17A sort of map, so to speak.
15:19Quite so.
15:20Quite so.
15:21Well, but what's all this got to do with Cartwright's disappearance?
15:25Well, in Wilkinson's biography of Richard II,
15:28it is mentioned that one of the king's most loyal supporters was Richard Greystone,
15:32the original owner of Greystone Castle.
15:34Cartwright must have had the idea that Richard had left his possessions with him.
15:38So he went up there to prove it.
15:40Yes.
15:41But that still doesn't answer why John hasn't come back.
15:44That answer, Miss Channing, may only be secured at Greystone Castle.
15:50That's strange.
15:51That appears to be that one here.
16:21I'll go around and let you in.
16:23Aye.
17:21Come along and keep close behind me.
17:33This pledge unto Richard I, Richard, do make.
17:41To return unto Richard, switch from Richard I take.
17:50The lower half appears to have been destroyed by fire.
17:54Then there's every chance that King Richard's possessions may not yet have been found.
17:58No, they haven't.
18:02So you brought help, Miss Channing.
18:05Where is he?
18:06What have you done with him?
18:08He's in safekeeping, in the tower.
18:12Since you're here, perhaps you can persuade Mr. Cartwright to tell us the secret of the Greystone inscription.
18:19We shall do nothing of the sort.
18:21He's got some idea of returning Richard's possessions to the queen for a birthday present.
18:27They're worth a fortune and are rightfully mine.
18:30They rightfully belong to the crown.
18:32We won't argue rights and wrongs.
18:36Wait as well.
18:38If you can't persuade Mr. Cartwright to talk, then not one of you will leave this room alive.
18:46In that case, I will not hang my fate on another man's decision.
18:50I'll lead you to King Richard's possessions myself.
18:53Holmes!
18:55Why be killed over a museum piece, Watson?
18:57Let's re-examine the pledge.
19:01This pledge unto Richard I, Richard, do make, to return unto Richard such as from Richard I take.
19:08We can understand that much without your help. Go on.
19:12The meaning is perfectly clear.
19:14Whatever treasure may be hidden here belongs to the royal family and to nobody else.
19:22Let Richard look on the northern star.
19:26Well, that gives us the direction.
19:29Does it?
19:30One can look at the north star from any point in this hemisphere.
19:33Your ancestor knew that.
19:35He said, let Richard look.
19:38And he meant this Richard.
19:40In other words, the direction may be found by facing north from this very spot.
19:45I am now facing due north.
19:47Then six and seven is not far.
19:52What does that mean?
19:53Merely to pace off thirteen steps.
19:56One.
19:58Two.
19:59Three.
20:00Four.
20:01Five.
20:03Six.
20:04Seven.
20:05Eight.
20:06Nine.
20:07Ten.
20:08Eleven.
20:10Twelve.
20:11Thirteen.
20:14Press on and through and down for ten.
20:17Press...
20:18Press...
20:26Stairs.
20:29Through and down for ten.
20:34One.
20:35Two.
20:37Three.
20:39Four.
20:40Five.
20:42Six.
20:43Seven.
20:45Eight.
20:47Nine.
20:49Ten.
20:57Here it is.
21:16Here it is.
21:38Diamonds.
21:40Rupees.
21:43Pearls.
21:44At last.
21:46I've been waiting for this moment for years.
21:59Diamonds.
22:07Rupees.
22:10And now if we may go.
22:13I'm afraid I can't let you go.
22:15But you promised.
22:17You take us for fools, you go straight to the authorities.
22:23I plan to enjoy this well.
22:26I don't see how.
22:27With or without us.
22:35It seems your ancestors arranged for intruders.
22:39You knew this?
22:40I suspected.
22:41Then you must know the way out, otherwise you wouldn't have come in.
22:48Tell me at once, man, or I'll shoot you down where you stand.
22:56While only I have the secret to the door?
23:00Half the jewels.
23:01Half the jewels for a way out.
23:10All of them.
23:11Show us how to get out, and we'll let you take them all.
23:16No.
23:18No, they're mine.
23:20But what?
23:23Not a single gold piece.
23:25Are you deaf, man?
23:27You want to rot here forever?
23:30The treasure's mine.
23:31The treasure's mine.
23:32You can't take them, Albert.
23:34Pay no attention.
23:36Give me the gun.
23:37You can have the treasure.
23:39Just the gun, please.
23:42The last two lines of the inscription read, as I recall,
23:46if you're in and can't get out,
23:49strike the lion upon the snout.
24:07Well, everything couldn't be better.
24:30The Greystones are in prison, the Cartwrights are together again,
24:33and you and I are feasting on cold lobster and tomatoes.
24:40Well, I have a sense of well-being.
24:45Haven't you the slightest twinge of conscience, Watson?
24:49Conscience? No, why?
24:51Well, I noticed the gold piece on your watch chain.
24:54You filched it from the treasure room.
24:57Filched it?
24:58Certainly not.
24:59I made an application for it from the Ministry.
25:02Oh, did you?
25:03Well, that was very enterprising of you, Watson.
25:06Why don't you do the same thing, Holmes?
25:07After all, don't you want a souvenir?
25:09I have one.
25:13Not bad.
25:20But Holmes,
25:22a personal letter of thanks from Her Majesty.
25:26Why, Holmes, congratulations.
25:29Well done.
25:30Thank you, Watson.
26:02THE END
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