Sherlock Holmes-E38:The Case Of The Diamond Tooth
30min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (1954–1955)
Whole walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.
Stars: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
30min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (1954–1955)
Whole walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.
Stars: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
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01:30This is one of the most gruesome and dangerous cases of his career. For him, it began one evening a few days before the body was found.
01:50Writing another monograph, huh?
01:52Nothing so exotic, my dear fellow. I'm trying to balance my bank account.
01:55Oh.
01:56Do you know why banks will make such an elaborate and complicated affair of what is basically a simple and beautiful business, putting money in and taking it out?
02:05Well, I think it's the taking it out that complicates it for me.
02:24Curious?
02:27Hmm. I've never seen anything quite like this.
02:32Very curious.
02:35What do you make of it, Holmes?
02:37Hmm. A diamond, obviously. A yellow diamond.
02:41Mm-hmm. I thought it might be.
02:43Yes, in the curious shape of a left eye tooth.
02:46It's amazing, isn't it?
02:48Where'd you find it?
02:50Well, I was down by the East Quay. I went down to the waterfront for a stroll. I saw the thing shining, it caught my eye.
02:57But who'd use a diamond tooth?
03:00Brazilian, possibly.
03:02Why Brazilian?
03:03Well, yellow diamonds are most common in Brazil, and there's a sort of habit or a custom amongst Brazilian diamond mine owners to sport a diamond tooth. It's to show their affluence, you know.
03:15It sounds a barbarous custom.
03:17Hmm. I'd say that the cutting is worth more than the stone itself.
03:23Well, what shall I do with the thing?
03:25Oh, why not put an advertisement in the Times?
03:27That's a good idea.
03:29The chap must be quite uncomfortable without his tooth.
03:39Now, let me see.
03:41Uh...
03:44Found...
03:46One...
03:47Diamond...
03:49Tooth.
03:54Uh...
03:55Found...
03:57One...
03:59Left...
04:01Upper...
04:02Diamond...
04:04Tooth.
04:09Lost.
04:10Lost.
04:12Lost.
04:14Everything's lost in this lost and found job. You've noticed that, Holmes?
04:19Ah, here we are.
04:20Found... One... Diamond... Tooth.
04:23Will owner kindly apply 221B Baker Street?
04:27Do you think anyone will answer this?
04:29If no one does, you'll earn a diamond tooth, won't you?
04:32Could I have half the paper, Watson?
04:35Oh, well.
04:37There you are.
04:39Anyway, a diamond's a diamond, even if it is a tooth.
04:45Sir, I believe you have an advertisement in the Times.
04:47Come in, my dear sir. Yes, indeed, we have an advertisement in the Times.
04:51Indeed, this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Ar...
04:53Harry Harkins.
04:55Clarkwood Hedges and Thomas, accountants.
04:57Good morning, Mr. Harkins.
04:58Good day, sir.
05:00Now, sir, you, uh...
05:01You've lost a diamond tooth.
05:03Yes, sir. From here.
05:05Oh, yes. That's strange.
05:06Oh, well. Well, uh...
05:07Uh, tell me, where did you lose it?
05:09As near as I can recollect.
05:11Somewhere around the East Quay docks.
05:14Is that it?
05:15Yes, sir. That's it, all right.
05:17An accountant, did you say?
05:19Yes, sir.
05:20If you don't mind, sir, may I have my tooth?
05:22Then I won't disturb you gentlemen anymore.
05:24You're not disturbing us in the least, Mr. Harkins.
05:27Thank you, Watson.
05:28I gather your firm does business with shipping companies,
05:31which accounts for your presence in the docks.
05:34Yes, sir.
05:35Makes you hanker after the old days at sea, I expect.
05:39Old days at sea, sir?
05:41I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.
05:43I've never been to sea.
05:45Excuse me.
05:51How do, Inspector? Come on in.
05:53Ah, good morning, Dr. Watson. I'm glad I found you.
05:55Oh, hello, Holmes.
05:57Oh, morning, Strayed.
05:58May I introduce Mr. Harkins?
06:00This is Inspector Strayed of Scotland Yard.
06:02I'm delighted to meet you, sir. Delighted.
06:04Dr. Watson.
06:05Yes?
06:08I wanted to ask you...
06:09About the body they fished out of the Thames a little while ago.
06:13Yes, how did you know?
06:14Well, your shoes and the bottoms of your trousers are wet.
06:18I might have stepped in a puzzle.
06:21Hasn't rained for a week, Mr. Strayed.
06:23Besides, that particular reddish mud comes from the Thames embankment near New Quay.
06:29Any place in London you'll find it.
06:32A body?
06:33Well, only a body would bring you to Bakersfield without bothering to change your shoes and trousers.
06:38I was waiting for that.
06:45Go on, Strayed. After him.
06:46Welcome.
06:58There he goes.
07:00I'll get you, Strayed. I said that way.
07:02Well, I'm sorry, Dr. Watson. I thought you said that way.
07:06It's too late now. We'll never catch him.
07:17He...
07:18He got away.
07:19I jumped from the back of the cab.
07:21Well, at least he didn't get his tooth.
07:24Would one of you two gentlemen mind telling me why I was chasing that little man?
07:29Well, yes. You see, I found a diamond tooth and advertised the owner.
07:33This chap turned up. He's obviously a faker.
07:35But how did you spot him, Holmes?
07:37As soon as he opened his mouth.
07:39You see, Watson, Harkin's missing tooth was a right eye tooth.
07:44Whereas this diamond tooth is a left eye tooth.
07:48Diamond teeth. Right eye tooth. Left eye tooth.
07:53Dr. Watson.
07:54The official post-mortem isn't until late this afternoon.
07:57But I would take it as a great favor if you would examine the body now.
08:00Oh, my dear inspector, I'd be absolutely delighted. Why, of course.
08:05Oh, if anyone asks for me, Holmes, just tell them that I'm on a little job for Scotts and Yard, will you?
08:10And just take it in mystery.
08:12At your service, my dear doctor.
08:18Now, wait a minute.
08:19What about this man I was chasing?
08:21Oh, nothing very much. He was just after this diamond tooth, that's all.
08:25Yes, but where did that come from?
08:26It came from the body you fished out of the river this morning.
08:31You coming?
08:33Oh, yes. Yes.
08:38Rigor mortis is set in fully.
08:41He's a giant of a man.
08:43Six feet four at least.
08:45About 18 stone.
08:48Must have been as strong as a horse.
08:51Probably died of driving. There's no sign of a wound, is there, doctor?
08:54No, but I don't think he was drowned this trade.
08:57Hmm. He did occasional diamond cutting.
09:00How do you know that?
09:02Oh, the condition of the left thumb. Characteristic of diamond cutters.
09:05Yet the callosity is not a deep one, showing the trade was casual.
09:09Oh, might have been a cobbler.
09:11Well, then it'd have been the right thumb.
09:13In any case, his clothes don't indicate humble profession.
09:17Well, Watson, we leave him in your practiced hands.
09:19With a word of caution.
09:21About what?
09:22The very thing that was worrying you.
09:24This man obviously didn't die under ordinary circumstances.
09:29Well, come, Lestrade.
09:37And now to identify the man, Lestrade.
09:40May take a few days, you know.
09:41We can't spare a few days.
09:43We must do it in a few hours while Watson is completing his examination.
09:46A few hours. Come now, Holmes.
09:48What with your magnifying glass?
09:50Common sense, Lestrade.
09:52Tell me, how many Brazilian and Portuguese dentists do you think there are in London?
09:58What's that got to do...
10:00Oh, I see. Trace them through his dentist, eh?
10:03An excellent suggestion, Lestrade. I'm so glad you thought of it.
10:07Yes, we'll do precisely that.
10:13Yes.
10:21Senor Gomez?
10:22Si, I am Senor Gomez.
10:25You having a toothache?
10:26No, I'm afraid I haven't, Senor. I'm so sorry.
10:29My name is Sherlock Holmes and this is Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
10:32How do you do?
10:33Scotland Yard? The police?
10:36But, Senors, I have done nothing wrong.
10:39If Senor Martinez say I pull out his tooth without his permission, he is a liar.
10:43We've come on a different matter, Mr. Gomez.
10:45A matter of a diamond tooth.
10:47A different matter, Mr. Gomez. A matter of a diamond tooth, to be exact.
10:51You wish a diamond tooth?
10:53No, no.
10:54You, Senor, you wish to have your teeth fixed, eh?
10:57No, I'm afraid not. Not today.
11:00For a Portuguese dentist in London, life, she is miserable.
11:04The English, they do not come.
11:06And the Portuguese, they come. They come, but they have teeth like pearls.
11:10Fish, I presume?
11:12Si, si, fish. Oh, fish. They eat nothing but fish.
11:14Fish, they make teeth strong.
11:16If I could, I would take out all the fish in the sea and, like that, I hate fish.
11:22Yes, a very understandable sentiment, Senor.
11:25But tell me, do you have a patient with a diamond tooth?
11:28Ah, si. Si, Francesco Vargas.
11:31An eye tooth?
11:33Ah, si, si. Left upper eye tooth. Left upper eye tooth.
11:36Put in many years ago when he had great mind in Brazil.
11:39Big chap?
11:40Oh, giant.
11:41That's him, Holmes.
11:42It would appear so, Lestrade.
11:44Tell me, this Senor Vargas, what business is he engaged in?
11:47Oh, I think he imports the diamonds.
11:50Ah, well, thank you very much, Senor.
11:53Well, we won't trouble you anymore, Dr. Gammis.
11:55Perhaps you have a friend that needs to repair some of the teeth.
11:59Yes, yes, possibly I have.
12:00Yes, indeed I have, a doctor friend of mine.
12:03Ah, but on second thoughts, I seem to remember he's rather partial to fish.
12:07Good day, Doctor.
12:09Good day.
12:14Fish.
12:17Always fish.
12:20A Santa Madonna.
12:29Well, you were right, Holmes.
12:31Oh, was I?
12:32You drowned, eh?
12:33No. No water in the lungs.
12:35Well, the body showed no cuts or lacerations.
12:38I know. Not even a bruise.
12:40It's amazing, Holmes.
12:41Downright uncanny.
12:43Of course, there was an advanced stage of rigor mortis, which concealed the condition.
12:47What condition?
12:48Well, practically every bone in his body was broken.
12:52Great Scott, is that what he died of?
12:55I don't know how this strayed, but this man was literally crushed to death.
12:59How?
13:01Well, that man was a giant, too, yet he was literally crushed like a fly.
13:07Well, there's one thing, Holmes, it certainly wasn't your little man.
13:10Well, hardly. It took a superhuman force to kill him.
13:14Not superhuman, my dear fellow.
13:16No? Then what?
13:19Inhuman, Watson. Inhuman.
13:29The case of a diamond tooth.
13:32You know, although I don't really approve of this disguise business,
13:35I must say I've got a great knack for it.
13:38I always thought I had acting talent.
13:40Yes, yes, Watson. I'd say a bosun's mate, at least.
13:45You know, I still don't know what we're doing all dressed up like this.
13:47Well, from now on, we're a couple of unemployed mariners looking for births aboard a ship.
13:51Oh.
13:52I say, Holmes, there's nothing illegal about this, is there?
13:56Oh, not really, Watson. Your lack of faith shocks me.
13:59Well, now, dear chap, I didn't mean...
14:01Yes, yes, quite, quite, quite.
14:02Now, Watson, when you found that diamond,
14:04did you happen to notice a pub in the vicinity of the river?
14:07A pub? Now, let me see.
14:10Well, not that I'd really notice one, you understand,
14:12but there must be lots in the vicinity.
14:14Why don't we look for the closest?
14:16We'll do just that.
14:17Well, I still don't see, my dear chap, what we're doing.
14:19If we're successful, my dear fellow, we might even sail for Brazil.
14:22Brazil?
14:23Yeah.
14:24Oh, Brazil, I'd like that.
14:40I tell you, mate, the sea's gone to the dogs these days.
14:42What with all this newfangled stein.
14:44Stein, now I ask you.
14:46Progress.
14:47Sales was good enough for me, old man.
14:49Sales is good enough for me.
14:56Even lads.
14:57No import, aren't you?
14:59Aye, and it's a fair sales regard, Mr. Holmes.
15:01I'm sure it is.
15:03I'm sure it is.
15:04I'm sure it is.
15:06I'm sure it is.
15:07I'm sure it is.
15:08Aye, and it's a fair sales regard, Mr. Knight, my darling.
15:11Well, let me take it for it, Patrick.
15:12A pint of bitter?
15:13I'd like a pint of bitter.
15:15Well, a pint of mild for me, please, miss.
15:17This is such a pretty little colony,
15:18and you can make it half and half.
15:20Sir, are you trying to mix me up, Siler?
15:22Why would I be after doing that, my darling?
15:28What's that?
15:30You're sure this is the pub near where you found the diamond?
15:32I think so. It looks the same from the outside.
15:34What part, you old mates?
15:36Shanghai, me old cigarrette.
15:38Shanghai? I know it well, I do.
15:40I hear Butcher Jimmy's got himself sliced up.
15:43How is the butcher?
15:45The butcher? Well, we didn't stay there long.
15:48He'd been brought before, rather popped in and popped out.
15:54Why, had I seen you before, Siler?
15:57Like you any of the other night for a pint?
15:59Who, me? Oh, well, I...
16:02Oh, I suppose not.
16:05Regular tough that chap was.
16:06Oh, really?
16:07Drank his beer without spilling a drop.
16:09Oh, really.
16:11But blimey, if you took off that beard,
16:13you'd be the spitting image of him.
16:15If I took off my beard?
16:19What are you silent for, mates?
16:22Well, you may believe it or not,
16:24but I've an inkling for Brazil.
16:26The Vasco da Gama sells for Brazil first thing tomorrow morning.
16:29Straight for Brazil?
16:31Aye, straight.
16:32Star of the South's silent tomorrow morning, too.
16:34Put in a couple of days ago from Brazil.
16:35Wish I ain't going straight back.
16:37Puts in first in Antwerp, she does.
16:41Antwerp.
16:42Centre of the diamond industry, Holmes.
16:44I wouldn't stand in the Star of the South, I wouldn't.
16:46Not under Captain Lancey.
16:48Hard case skipper, is he?
16:50Oh, proper demon of a man.
16:52Slap me in the irons as soon as bid your good day.
16:55What's this tooth Captain Lancey did the other night?
16:57Rides the regular fuss about it, looking everywhere.
17:00How could the blighter lose his tooth?
17:02Easy. Fell out.
17:03Lost me a lot of blight that way once.
17:06Well, did he find his tooth?
17:08No. Couldn't find it nowhere.
17:12Hey, mate.
17:13What?
17:14Not you. You.
17:18Been sailing long?
17:20Oh, since I was a nipper.
17:24Cabin boy.
17:29Say, mate.
17:31A word with you in private.
17:41I'd be careful of your pal there, mate.
17:44Ain't what he seems to be.
17:48He's in disguise.
17:49Look at them whiskers.
17:51Probably apt to do you in.
17:53Thanks, me old boy.
17:55I'll take care of him.
18:00Patrick!
18:01We'd better see Captain Lancey this afternoon.
18:04He'd better be all right.
18:07Right you are, mate.
18:18Come on, Rosie. Pull him up.
18:31What's the matter, Woodson?
18:33The beard. It's dropped in the water.
18:35Never mind about that. Come on.
18:37Yes, I know, but...
19:01I'm going below, Watson. You'd better stay on deck.
19:04I'm coming with you.
19:06There's an element of danger involved.
19:08What do you think there is up here?
19:10Perhaps you're right at that.
19:30What are we looking for, Holmes?
19:32The murder of Francisco Vargas.
19:39Who murdered him?
19:41Visitor Harry Harkins.
20:01Look, Watson.
20:03A lantern, crushed and broken, just like Vargas.
20:06Great Scott.
20:08Do you mean Vargas was killed in here?
20:10I don't know.
20:12I don't think so.
20:14I don't think so.
20:16I don't think so.
20:18I don't think so.
20:20I don't think so.
20:22I don't think so.
20:24I don't think so.
20:26I don't think so.
20:28I don't think so.
20:30I'm beginning to think so.
20:38We'd better get out of here, Watson.
20:41We're in extreme danger.
20:43That, Mr. Holmes, is an understatement.
20:46Harkins?
20:48Only this morning, Watson, when he suited his convenience.
20:51At all other times, Captain Lancey of the Star of the South.
20:54I had an idea you'd be on my trail.
20:57They tell me you're a smart man, so I've been waiting for you.
21:00You're a clever man, too, Captain. Quite ingenious.
21:03Tell me, did you plan to kill Vargas when you sailed from Brazil?
21:07Or did you do it on the spur of the moment?
21:10I'm not an impulsive man, Mr. Holmes.
21:12So you were prepared, then, when he came to collect the diamonds you'd smuggled in for him.
21:16How did you lure him down here?
21:18Would he expect me to hand over the diamonds where the crew might see us?
21:22You never kill Vargas. You're not strong enough.
21:25Aye, but ask a friend how I did it. He'll tell you.
21:33No, but Holmes, don't do this.
21:35Quickly, Watson, we've got to get out of here.
21:37No, not that door. There's a cargo door behind those crates.
21:40Let's get to it.
21:55Come on.
22:25Come on.
22:36There's a rope here, Watson. It'll help us move that crate.
22:49Watson!
22:51Holmes!
22:54Holmes!
22:56It's a bargain trick to Watson.
22:58Get out of here. Get out of here quickly.
23:00I'll run if you can.
23:24Watson!
23:43Come on, old man. Come with me.
23:46If you can. That's right. That's right.
23:49That's right. That's right.
23:53Come on.
24:12That was a nice piece of deduction, you dead Holmes.
24:15But you know, you really ought to have let the yard handle this case.
24:19In my present condition, I'm inclined to wish I had.
24:23Why did you deduce that it was a boar constrictor?
24:31Well, I could think of nothing else that would strangle a huge man like Vargas.
24:35The boar constrictor comes from South America,
24:37and both Vargas and the diamonds point him to Brazil.
24:41You know, if Lancey hadn't lost that diamond tooth that he took from Vargas
24:46before he threw the body overboard...
24:48Ah, yeah, and if he hadn't been greedy and answered that advertisement...
24:51Yes, but he did lose the tooth, Watson, and he did answer the advertisement.
24:55Oh, Watson.
24:57Yes, Holmes.
24:59I must say, that was very quick thinking on your part in the ship.
25:03Oh, well, you know, time and men of action must step in.
25:10Not only think quickly, but act quickly.
25:16You know how it is.
25:21Oh.