Holmes investigates why three criminals are killing the owners of three music boxes. It is soon discovered that they are after crucial the Bank of England printing plates that are hidden in the boxes.
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00:00:59Dartmoor Prison, isolated from the outside world by walls of granite.
00:01:17They say you could get out of here by merely telling what you know.
00:01:21You may or may not be another Scotland Yard bloke,
00:01:24but I'll give you the same answer I gave the others.
00:01:31I still have two years, eight months and six days left in which to make musical boxes.
00:01:38That'll be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.
00:01:44And I intend to serve them.
00:01:51Move along.
00:01:54And now we come to the next object on our list, or I should say objects, because there are three of them.
00:02:00Now, ladies and gentlemen, these can be bought together or separately.
00:02:05Now, these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning,
00:02:08and I didn't intend to put them on the auction block until later, but I'm going to sell them now.
00:02:12So, good friends, as our old pal Mark Anthony used to say, lend me your ears.
00:02:19And what do you hear?
00:02:20What do you hear?
00:02:21What?
00:02:21Right.
00:02:23The beautiful tinkle tinkle of a musical box.
00:02:27What a lovely trinket.
00:02:28What a beautiful gift.
00:02:30Created unmade by loving hands.
00:02:31A thing of beauty and utility.
00:02:35I was going to start with five pounds.
00:02:37It's a bargain.
00:02:38Five pounds.
00:02:40Do I see any hands?
00:02:41Ten shillings.
00:02:43If it's a connoisseur in the house, it'll go three pounds for it.
00:02:47Two pounds.
00:02:49One pound.
00:02:52Ten shillings.
00:02:56Thank you sir.
00:02:57Ladies and gentlemen, ten shillings is offered for a musical box you couldn't buy anywhere in London for less than five pounds.
00:03:04It'll be stealing to let it go for ten shillings.
00:03:06Like taking milk from a baby.
00:03:08All right, we're selling for ten shillings.
00:03:09Ten shillings, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered.
00:03:12Can anybody give him one pound?
00:03:13Anybody give him one pound?
00:03:15Well, once I'm going to give me a pound.
00:03:17One pound is offered, one pound is offered ladies and gentlemen, one pound is against you sir.
00:03:21Will you go to two pounds?
00:03:22Will you go to two pounds sir?
00:03:25Two pounds.
00:03:25Two pounds is offered.
00:03:26Two pounds is offered.
00:03:27Going once, twice, third and the last call.
00:03:30Sold to the gentleman for two pounds.
00:03:34Sorry, my dear.
00:03:36Now, ladies and gentlemen, comes the opportunity to purchase
00:03:40an exact duplicate of the beautiful little musical box just bought by this gentleman for the
00:03:44ridiculous low price of two pounds.
00:03:46That's exactly the same, exactly the same, made with the same hands.
00:03:50You hear that? Isn't that lovely?
00:03:52That tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
00:03:54Sounds like bow bells to me, you know, little angels pulling on the ropes, eh?
00:03:57We'll give me two pounds for you.
00:03:59We'll start me with two pounds.
00:04:00Will anybody start me with two pounds?
00:04:02I'll come, come, ladies and gentlemen.
00:04:05You know, from your enthusiasm, we might all be in Scotland instead of London.
00:04:08Please buy it for me, Daddy.
00:04:09Two pounds, certainly not.
00:04:11We all might be in Scotland.
00:04:13Besides, I don't like his manner.
00:04:15One pound, ten shillings.
00:04:17One pound.
00:04:18One pound is asked.
00:04:19One pound, one pound is offered.
00:04:20One pound is offered.
00:04:20Going one pound.
00:04:21Any advance?
00:04:22Going once, going twice, the third and the last call.
00:04:27Sold to the lady for one pound.
00:04:29Smart bidding, my dear.
00:04:32We come to the third and last of these beautiful little mystical boxes.
00:04:36Exactly the same.
00:04:37Tinkle, tinkle, isn't that lovely?
00:04:39Ladies and gentlemen, I don't bring you here to Gullion and Swindle here.
00:04:42This is the exact replica of the two I just sold before.
00:04:45We're closed.
00:04:54But this is extremely important.
00:04:59Come in, sir.
00:04:59Come in.
00:05:00I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain
00:05:05articles which I was rather anxious to obtain.
00:05:07Oh, perhaps they weren't sold, sir.
00:05:09We are carrying several things over.
00:05:12What might the articles be, sir?
00:05:13At three identical musical boxes about so large.
00:05:17Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.
00:05:20But you weren't here to bid on them.
00:05:22They didn't bring anything like the real value.
00:05:24I'm most anxious to obtain them.
00:05:26I wonder if your records would show who the purchasers were.
00:05:30Oh, we don't usually give out that information, sir.
00:05:33For certain, shall we say, sentimental reasons, I'm most anxious to get in touch with the purchasers.
00:05:39I'd be willing to pay, shall we say, five pounds.
00:05:44Well, for certain sentimental reasons, sir, we'd be very happy to oblige.
00:05:48Alfred, today's sale.
00:05:50The three musical boxes.
00:05:51Musical boxes, yes.
00:05:53Ah, here we are.
00:05:54The first purchase for two pounds from Mr. Julian Emery, 52, Portman Square.
00:05:58Write this address down, Alfred.
00:05:59Yes, sir.
00:06:00Second didn't leave any name.
00:06:01Oh, how unfortunate.
00:06:03I think she's a dealer.
00:06:04You see, they don't like us to know where the things are going.
00:06:06On account of the profits.
00:06:08You say the second purchaser was a woman.
00:06:11Can you give me a description of her?
00:06:14Oh, she was a young woman.
00:06:16Fairly tall, slender, had a light complexion and dark hair, and she was wearing a...
00:06:22A great suit, don't you remember?
00:06:23Sure.
00:06:24She probably runs a gift shop.
00:06:26She paid one pound.
00:06:29You say she, uh, comes here fairly frequently?
00:06:32No, I didn't say so.
00:06:34But she does, sir.
00:06:36Like as not, she'll come in on Thursday.
00:06:38We have sales on Mondays and Thursdays.
00:06:40Oh.
00:06:41And the, uh, third box?
00:06:42The third, oh, uh, Mr. William Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Way.
00:06:47For 10 shillings.
00:06:48Hmm.
00:06:49Quite a drop from two pounds.
00:06:51Mr. Kilgore was a Scotchman.
00:06:53Oh.
00:06:53Well, thank you.
00:06:55You've, uh, been most helpful.
00:06:57Oh, thank you, sir.
00:06:59And any time you're passing, dropping, we always have lovely things for sale.
00:07:03I'll call you.
00:07:04Uh, thank you.
00:07:05I'll, uh, get back Thursday.
00:07:15The message reached us too late.
00:07:18Musical boxes are being sold.
00:07:20Well, let's get out of here.
00:07:31Someday you'll go too far.
00:07:36Reaching for a star, you fool.
00:07:39Yet a fool may touch a star, Colonel Cavanaugh, if you reach high enough.
00:07:44But not possess it as you would.
00:07:45The musical boxes, they're being sold.
00:07:51What a pity for you, my dear Colonel.
00:07:53Is it my fault that the message reached us only an hour ago?
00:07:56Is it my fault that they were sold?
00:07:59She can't hold me responsible for that.
00:08:02I hope for your sake, you're right.
00:08:15I will call upon you tonight, at a quarter to eight, a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment.
00:08:41Remember that letter, Holmes?
00:08:43It was written over two years ago.
00:08:45An interesting case.
00:08:47Devilously interesting.
00:08:50Irene Adler, what a striking looking woman from the brief glance I had of her.
00:08:54She was only yesterday.
00:08:56What charm.
00:08:58What poise and what a mind.
00:09:01Sharp enough and brilliant enough to outwit the, the great Sherlock Holmes himself.
00:09:05I take it the new issue of the Strand Magazine is out, containing another of your slightly lurid tales.
00:09:12Indeed.
00:09:13And what do you call this one?
00:09:14I call it a scandal in Bohemia.
00:09:17Not a bad title, eh?
00:09:18Hmm.
00:09:20If you must record my exploits, I do wish you'd put less emphasis on the melodramatic, and more on the intellectual issues involved.
00:09:28More on the intellect?
00:09:29What do you mean by that?
00:09:30Well, I do hope you've given, uh, the woman a soul.
00:09:35She had one, you know.
00:09:36By the woman, I suppose you mean Irene Adler.
00:09:40Yes.
00:09:42I shall always remember her, as the woman.
00:09:46I think it's better, old boy.
00:10:02How are you?
00:10:03How are you, old boy?
00:10:04I haven't seen you for years.
00:10:05I want you to meet my old friend Sherlock Holmes.
00:10:07Holmes, this is Stinky.
00:10:08What?
00:10:09In other words, uh, uh, Julian Emery.
00:10:11How do you do, Mr. Emery?
00:10:12Watson has often spoken of you.
00:10:14Oh, has he?
00:10:14Yes, we were at school together.
00:10:16Yes, more years ago than I care to remember, but you didn't come in here just to remind me of that.
00:10:20No, I just happened to be in the neighborhood and saw your lights burning,
00:10:23so I took the liberty of looking you up.
00:10:25Still writing your mystery stuff?
00:10:27Yes, there's a new one out this week.
00:10:30Good, I never miss them.
00:10:31Oh, good, thanks.
00:10:32I say that bandage makes you look pretty interesting.
00:10:35Still poking your nose into other people's business as usual?
00:10:38Who hit you?
00:10:38I am the foggiest nation.
00:10:40Somebody knocked me on the head in my own living room,
00:10:42and then proceeded to commit the most idiotic burglary you ever heard of.
00:10:46The fellow must have been barmy as a coot.
00:10:47Barmy?
00:10:48Why?
00:10:49Come sit down, old boy.
00:10:51You like a cup of tea?
00:10:52Huh?
00:10:54Oh, all right.
00:10:55I'll go and tell Mrs. Hudson.
00:10:56Why do you say the robbery was idiotic, Mr. Emery?
00:11:03Oh, simply from the fact that with about 5,000 pounds worth of musical boxes in my living room,
00:11:07the thief, who I caught in the act, made off with one that isn't even worth five pounds.
00:11:12I gather you're a collector of musical boxes.
00:11:14Yes, I am indeed.
00:11:16Some of them are very beautiful, but not the one that was stolen.
00:11:18The thief evidently grabbed the first thing that came to his hand when he heard me coming into the room.
00:11:23Still, it's rather odd, isn't it, that having disposed of you, he didn't pick up something more valuable.
00:11:29Was there anything unusual about the stolen box?
00:11:32No, nothing at all.
00:11:34I picked it up in the south of France, oh, several years ago.
00:11:38You say you have many valuable music boxes.
00:11:40Yet the thief made off with one that isn't worth five pounds.
00:11:44Sounds like rather an intriguing little problem.
00:11:45That's where I take it that you're just an ordinary petty thief and didn't know the value.
00:11:50That is a possible explanation, and yet I venture to say that the average petty thief has a more
00:11:54extensive knowledge of the value of Objet Dar than the average collector.
00:11:58Well, anyway, that's gotten the odds theory.
00:12:00They didn't get very excited about it.
00:12:02That's consistent, anyway.
00:12:04I wonder if I might see your collection, Mr. Emery.
00:12:07Oh, of course you could, yes.
00:12:08Nothing a collector likes more than showing off his trophies.
00:12:12When will it suit you?
00:12:13No time like the present.
00:12:14Good!
00:12:15My place is just round in Portman Square.
00:12:17Shall we?
00:12:18Yes, right.
00:12:23Hello?
00:12:23Where are you going?
00:12:24Sticky hasn't had his tea yet.
00:12:26Oh, I'm sorry.
00:12:27We're going round to my place, where I'm going to give you something better than tea.
00:12:33Now, this one was made for the Row the 15th, and is one of the very few still in existence
00:12:37from that period, and a particularly fine specimen set.
00:12:40It's charming, isn't it?
00:12:45Quite.
00:12:48They all sound to me like a lot of mice running about on a tin roof.
00:12:52I'm afraid you have no ear for music, Watson.
00:12:54Give me a good old band playing a rousing march.
00:12:57You have all your silly little tweed-tweeds.
00:13:06No room.
00:13:10This is me.
00:13:20Stupid thing.
00:13:21Singing rabbit.
00:13:24What would you say offhand is the value of a box like that, Mr. Emery?
00:13:27Well, it's hard to say offhand.
00:13:29A nice thing will bring about five or six hundred pounds today.
00:13:32It's the gem of my collection.
00:13:34Yet a thief who steals an oddity like a musical box
00:13:36passes up one worth five hundred pounds for one of almost no value at all.
00:13:41Odd.
00:13:42Very odd.
00:13:43What was a stolen box like, Mr. Emery?
00:13:45Oh, just a plain wooden box about, um, so big.
00:13:49As a matter of fact, I have one over here.
00:13:51I almost exactly like it.
00:13:53I picked this up yesterday at an auction room in Knightsbridge.
00:13:57Made only two pounds for it.
00:13:59Of course, I wouldn't in the ordinary way add one like this to my collection,
00:14:01but the, um, the tune intrigued me.
00:14:05I'd never heard it before.
00:14:05You have a remarkable ear for music, huh?
00:14:26Rather an unusual melody.
00:14:27Sit down, dear.
00:14:28Thanks.
00:14:31You, um, you say you bought that box at an auction sale yesterday?
00:14:34Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms in, uh, Knightsbridge.
00:14:37Run by old, uh, what's his name?
00:14:39Crabtree.
00:14:40That's the man.
00:14:41At what time is the robbery committed?
00:14:43Oh, about, uh, three o'clock this morning.
00:14:46You know, Mr. Emery, that box and the robbery might well be cause and effect,
00:14:50especially since you say that the stolen box
00:14:53outwardly resembles this one a great deal.
00:14:55And, uh, Scotland Yard were not particularly interested, eh?
00:14:59Oh, yes, but I, I wouldn't blame him for that.
00:15:01Especially as I told him I was quite unable to describe the thief.
00:15:04Except, of course, for the fact that, uh, it was definitely a man.
00:15:07All you remember is that you came in here and someone struck you on the head.
00:15:09Yes, the next thing I knew my man was trying to revive me.
00:15:13It might be wise for you to put that box away somewhere and lock it up.
00:15:15Oh, I don't think that's necessary.
00:15:17Besides, everything's insured.
00:15:19Well, it leads to many further attempts at robbery are made.
00:15:22I'd suggest that you call the police rather than running into any personal danger.
00:15:26Oh, come Holmes, aren't you being a bit of an alarmist?
00:15:28Possibly.
00:15:29Oh, I must agree with old Stinky.
00:15:31Seems to me you are making a rather mountain out of a mole skier.
00:15:34Mole hill is the word, old boy, and it's time you were in bed.
00:15:37Thanks so much for letting us see your place.
00:15:39Well, there's been great meeting you.
00:15:43Holmes, I can't understand why you were so mysterious.
00:15:46Seems to me the petty thief explanation was the only sensible one.
00:15:49Really?
00:15:49I can't see how you can believe it was anything else.
00:15:51I didn't say I believed it to be anything else.
00:15:53The petty thief theory is the obvious one, I grant you.
00:15:56However, it's often a mistake to accept something as true merely because it's obvious.
00:16:01The truth is only arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.
00:16:07We are not able to do that in this case without further data.
00:16:11Rubbish.
00:16:11You're pulling my leg.
00:16:13You're trying to turn a tupply hapenly robbery into an international plot.
00:16:17No, I'm not.
00:16:18I just hope that your friend Stinky is a little more cautious in the future, just in case.
00:16:26You're trying to turn a tupply hapenly robbery into an international plot.
00:16:47Hello?
00:16:47Yeah.
00:16:48Julian Emery here.
00:16:50Who?
00:16:51Why, of course I remember you, Mrs. Courtney.
00:16:58Yes, you're the one bright spot at their affordingly dull affair of Lady Sampson's.
00:17:04Huh?
00:17:04Of course it isn't too late to come round.
00:17:07Yes, I shall be delighted to give you a drink.
00:17:11I tell you what, come straight up and I'll leave the door unlocked.
00:17:13Yes.
00:17:15Right, let's follow it.
00:17:16Fifteen minutes?
00:17:17Good.
00:17:19I shall be counting each moment.
00:17:22No, I mean that, really.
00:17:25Right, goodbye.
00:17:43Oh, you startled me.
00:17:48Did I?
00:17:48Yes.
00:17:49Must be the pixie in me.
00:17:52I know I shouldn't have called you so late, but I was at a party just around the corner,
00:17:56and I remembered your invitation to see your collection of musical boxes.
00:17:59My dear Mrs. Courtney, the pleasure is all the greater for being so unexpected.
00:18:04My friends call me Hilda.
00:18:05Thanks.
00:18:07Mine call me Stinky.
00:18:08Thank you, how quaint.
00:18:10Oh, what a perfectly wonderful collection of musical boxes.
00:18:13You know, when you told me you had a collection, I had no idea it was so attractive.
00:18:17Yes, they appeal to the ear as well as to the eye.
00:18:22Oh, what a plain little one.
00:18:25Why, it looks just like a country cousin amid all this grandeur.
00:18:27No, no, no, no, he mustn't underestimate the country cousin.
00:18:31I only last night a burger broke in here, and with all these to choose from,
00:18:34went off with one very much like it.
00:18:35Really?
00:18:36Yes, I don't mind the loss of the box so much, but I do resent this crack on the skull.
00:18:40But it makes you look so interesting.
00:18:41Oh, do you think so?
00:18:42Uh-huh.
00:18:43It's funny, that's what old Fatso said.
00:18:45Fatso?
00:18:46I mean, uh, Dr. Watson.
00:18:48He was here this evening with a friend, a Mr. Holmes.
00:18:51He's interested in my collection too.
00:18:53Sherlock Holmes?
00:18:53Yes, do you know him?
00:18:55I've heard of him.
00:18:56Yes, he seems to think I'm in some sort of, uh, danger.
00:19:01What a haunting tune.
00:19:02It takes me right back to my childhood.
00:19:04Really?
00:19:05Do you know, it's odd that you should be interested in that particular musical box.
00:19:08Odd?
00:19:09Why?
00:19:09Because Mr. Holmes is also interested in it.
00:19:12He may have been more interested in the tune than in the box.
00:19:15I get you, that's right.
00:19:16I remember now, he whistled it note for note, having heard it only once.
00:19:20Really?
00:19:21He must be a remarkable man.
00:19:22A bit of an alarmist if you ask me.
00:19:25Don't you believe in warnings?
00:19:27Of course not.
00:19:28I could want a box like that.
00:19:30I would.
00:19:31You're not serious.
00:19:33Oh, but I am.
00:19:34Well, you, you put me in a very awkward position.
00:19:37I'm a collector, you know, and the collector buys but never sells.
00:19:41But if the price were high enough?
00:19:44The price has nothing to do with it.
00:19:46It's the principle of the thing.
00:19:49Yes, well, we haven't had our drink.
00:19:52No, thanks.
00:19:54I must be getting along.
00:19:57Must you really?
00:19:58I'm afraid so.
00:20:01You're not walking out on me, are you?
00:20:04My reputation, stinky.
00:20:08I say, you know, you are an attractive woman.
00:20:11Thanks.
00:20:11You fool, I told you to wait outside.
00:20:22What did you have to kill him for?
00:20:24All I had to do was walk out with this.
00:20:26He held you in his arms.
00:20:27Don't touch him.
00:20:28Don't touch anything.
00:20:30Now, get out.
00:20:32I'm sorry.
00:20:32You're sorry?
00:20:34What about me?
00:20:36This is murder.
00:20:37What about Scotland Yard?
00:20:39What about Sherlock Holmes?
00:20:40I'm sorry, Holmes.
00:20:41Now, get out.
00:21:10Did you get it?
00:21:14Good.
00:21:15Did you have any trouble with him?
00:21:19Just a matter of murder.
00:21:24Ah, Mr. Holmes.
00:21:25Hopkins.
00:21:27Thanks for coming so promptly.
00:21:28Inspector Mustard suggested that I call through to you.
00:21:31Mr. Emery was a client of Mr. Holmes, Inspector.
00:21:34Indeed.
00:21:35You didn't mention that when I telephoned you, Mr. Holmes.
00:21:37Well, not exactly a client, Inspector.
00:21:39Dodgen Thompson?
00:21:40He was killed between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock this morning, Mr. Holmes.
00:21:46Must have been someone he knew.
00:21:47Someone of whom he had no suspicion.
00:21:50Poor old stinky.
00:21:52It's all my fault.
00:21:53I should have prevented this.
00:21:54Well, there's no time to start talking about that now, Doctor.
00:21:58Apparently it's gone.
00:22:00That's the second attempt on the musical box that Emery bought at the auction sale.
00:22:03And this time it was successful.
00:22:05But that box was not worth two pounds.
00:22:07It was worth a man's life, Watson.
00:22:09I think we'd better pay a visit to Gaylord's auction room and that fellow Crabtree.
00:22:13Inspector, may I suggest that you make a complete search of this flat for a small,
00:22:17plain, musical box about that size.
00:22:20Come on, Watson.
00:22:23You say the first box went to Mr. Julian Emery,
00:22:26the second to Mr. Kilgore, 143 B Hampton Way,
00:22:29and the third to the unidentified young lady who presumably has a shop and lives near Golders Green.
00:22:34That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:35Isn't it rather strange, Mr. Crabtree,
00:22:37that you should have had three identical musical boxes all playing the same tune.
00:22:40Where'd they come from?
00:22:41Dartmoor Prison.
00:22:42Dartmoor?
00:22:43Well, we get a regular shipment from there every month.
00:22:45The inmates manufacture them.
00:22:47Well, they make all kinds of things, you know,
00:22:48pipe racks,
00:22:49waste paper baskets,
00:22:50musical boxes.
00:22:51Did you happen to notice if anyone showed any particular interest during the auction
00:22:55in the purchasers of these three boxes?
00:22:59Oh, come on, Mr. Crabtree.
00:23:01This is very literally a matter of life and death.
00:23:03Well, since you put it that way, Mr. Holmes,
00:23:06there was a gentleman came in here about an hour after closing time,
00:23:08and he was in an awful state, he was.
00:23:12He gave me five pounds to tell him where the boxes had gone to.
00:23:14He said they had a sentimental value for him, sir.
00:23:16Oh, expensive sentiment.
00:23:18Can you describe him?
00:23:19Well, he was tall, distinguished looking,
00:23:21and he had gray hair and a mustache.
00:23:23Oh, he's quite a gentleman, sir.
00:23:24Now, what was his reaction when you were unable to supply him with the address of the young
00:23:28lady who owned the shop?
00:23:29I told him the young lady usually come back on Thursday.
00:23:32He said he'd come back on Thursday.
00:23:33Now, that's tomorrow.
00:23:35Thank you, Mr. Crabtree.
00:23:35You've been very helpful.
00:23:37Come along, Watson.
00:23:39Where are we going now, Holmes?
00:23:40We're home with Mr. Kilgore.
00:23:41And then I bought the third box.
00:23:49But hang it all, Holmes.
00:23:50How do you know those other two musical boxes are of any importance?
00:23:53I don't, but I certainly have no intention of waiting until the owners are murdered to find out.
00:23:59No one at home.
00:24:01I hope that's the explanation.
00:24:03Well, have a look through this window.
00:24:04It doesn't seem to be anyone there.
00:24:13The place seems deserted, as far as I can see.
00:24:18Yes?
00:24:18Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore at home?
00:24:20No.
00:24:20When do you expect them?
00:24:22Oh, in an hour or so.
00:24:24There's no use your hanging about.
00:24:25They don't buy nothing from peddlers.
00:24:27Peddlers?
00:24:28My good woman, this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:24:30Sherlock Holmes?
00:24:31Oh, go on.
00:24:32Do you mind if we come in and wait?
00:24:34My business is rather urgent.
00:24:35Well, I've got to go out and do my shopping.
00:24:39And I don't know if Mrs. Kilgore would like any stranger's nosing about.
00:24:42Quite all right, I assure you.
00:24:44Well, I've got to be off.
00:24:45It's too late in the parlour.
00:24:47And no smoking, either.
00:24:49Mrs. Kilgore says it smells up the house.
00:24:54Funny old girl at home.
00:25:03Mrs. Kilgore says it's too late in the park.
00:25:14Park Lane.
00:25:15Park Lane?
00:25:16And what would the likes of you be doing in Park Lane?
00:25:18Now, don't worry about the fairs, Ducky.
00:25:20If you know how to get to Park Lane, I'll be.
00:25:22It's too late.
00:25:28Holmes, I've been thinking.
00:25:30There must have been something hidden in that box of those stinkies.
00:25:34Stolen jewellery, possibly.
00:25:37What's up, Holmes?
00:25:38Listen.
00:25:41What, just the steam in the water pipes?
00:25:50Watson!
00:25:54Great Scott!
00:25:57Get on the chair here.
00:26:01It's all right, my dear.
00:26:03Yeah, there, there.
00:26:05Now, don't worry.
00:26:05It's all over.
00:26:09There you are, dear.
00:26:10Don't cry any more.
00:26:11She tied me up and shut me in the cupboard.
00:26:14I know, I know.
00:26:16She won't come back.
00:26:18Did you show her your new musical box?
00:26:20Yes, she said she wanted to hear it play.
00:26:23And as soon as I showed it to her, she grabbed all the way.
00:26:26I know, I know.
00:26:26Now, don't worry nobody.
00:26:27We'll buy you a new musical box.
00:26:29Yes, my dear.
00:26:29The best one in London.
00:26:31Watson.
00:26:33Oh, what a fool.
00:26:34What a fool I've been.
00:26:35What do you mean, Holmes?
00:26:36She took the musical box out of this house in that market basket.
00:26:39Right under our very noses.
00:26:41Why could the Kilgore child woman want to take the music box?
00:26:44She isn't the Kilgore child woman.
00:26:46She's a consummate actress.
00:26:47An extremely clever, unscrupulous woman that will stop at nothing.
00:26:50Take care of the child, will you, Wolfe?
00:26:51Until her parents get back.
00:26:53Explain everything to them.
00:26:54Of course I will.
00:26:55But, Holmes, where are you going?
00:26:57Somewhere, somehow.
00:26:59I must get to the young lady who bought that third musical box before our opponents find her.
00:27:03I'll find out.
00:27:03I only hope that I won't be too late.
00:27:09Oh, no.
00:27:09No, no.
00:27:10No, no, no, darling.
00:27:12You mustn't cry anymore.
00:27:13Now, Sheriff, would you like to hear old uncle make a noise like a duck?
00:27:19What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what
00:27:49and now ladies and gentlemen how much am i offered for this beautiful lace dresden china figurine
00:28:02a lady of the french court now this is the genuine article what a beautiful ornament for
00:28:09your mantelpiece or you could use it as a centerpiece on the dining room table now
00:28:13somebody start me for 10 pounds did somebody start me for ten pounds eight pounds seven pounds all right
00:28:20five five pounds is offered five pounds is offered five pounds is offered five pounds ten five pounds
00:28:25fifteen five pounds fifty six pounds six pounds six pounds going once going twice the third and the
00:28:32last call have you all done so to the lady from twickenham for six pounds next we have a real
00:28:38museum piece ladies and gentlemen a fine 19th century doll the costume and exact replica of
00:28:45the holiday clothes worn by the hungarian peasant women now ladies and gentlemen an article like
00:28:51this will cost you from 15 to 20 pounds in a western shop i'm not going to ask for anything
00:28:55like that we'll give me two pounds for it two pounds anybody offer me two pounds two pounds
00:29:01one pound what anybody give me one pound anybody offer me one pound for the dollar one one pound
00:29:05is offered ladies and gentlemen one pound is offered now i'm not going to waste your valuable
00:29:09time or mine in trying to get one half of what this beautiful doll is worth if the young lady can steal
00:29:14it for one pound that's her good fortune so it's going once it's going twice the third and last call
00:29:20anymore sold to the young lady for one pound and now ladies and gentlemen may i draw your attention
00:29:26to something which may be a great surprise to you worthy of any collection the only other one like
00:29:31it is in the british museum it's a ming balls of the seventh dynasty this balls lay in a large
00:29:38collection somewhere outside rome for over two centuries i understand it was discovered there
00:29:43by the noted antiquarian sir andrew copleston now some of you may remember sir andrew copleston
00:29:48besides being a noted traveling antiquarian he's also a gentleman rider
00:29:52a girl with a parcel in her hands that's her are you sure that's the girl well she fits perfectly
00:30:03the auctioneer's description follow her hamid
00:30:22it's lovely dear and only one pound we can get at least three for it easily
00:30:48i'll go make some tea i could deal with a cup right
00:30:56good afternoon good afternoon i'm looking for a birthday gift for a seven-year-old girl what would
00:31:01you suggest we have some lovely dolls now this hungarian i think she has enough dolls already
00:31:06books are always welcome well i'm looking for something a little different well that's rather
00:31:11cute what is it well that's a musical box children always love them and this is an exceptionally nice one
00:31:19it plays many tunes
00:31:27have you any others yes if you'll just step this way i have only two left
00:31:32are you sure this is all you have i'm sorry they're rather hard to find you know that's our entire
00:31:49allotment i did have one other but i sold it earlier this afternoon but it was only a plain wooden one it
00:31:55wouldn't have been a very nice gift for a child really do you happen to know who the purchaser was why yes
00:32:03he left his card just in case anyone should inquire for him
00:32:14how interesting
00:32:14i'm sorry but i'm afraid i'll have to look a bit further thank you anyway
00:32:21uh good afternoon thank you
00:32:36i'm sorry
00:32:50heavy
00:32:54all of that can here now what gotland yard hop in
00:33:02sherlock holmes
00:33:07i might have known we thought we were the hunters
00:33:12instead of which we're the hunted we've been fools we played right into his hands
00:33:16of course he's had us followed don't look the man in front of the toy shop
00:33:27homie turn sharp right at the next corner and again at the next
00:33:31the next corner and again at the next corner and again at the next corner
00:33:36and again at the next corner
00:33:39no photograph of her commissioner as i expected
00:33:42she's not a known criminal
00:33:43but i respect to know if you do find her
00:33:46after all she was disguised as a charwoman
00:33:48don't worry old fellow
00:33:50if i ever see her again i'll recognize her
00:33:52well it won't be long till we know who they are and from where they operate
00:33:56who's covering them
00:33:58uh sergeant thompson's following them sir
00:33:59they won't get away from him he's a good man
00:34:02we could have arrested them at clifford's toy shop if we had any proof
00:34:05but we know that they killed everywhere
00:34:07proof my dear fellow we must have proof
00:34:11we have x-rayed as sir there's nothing whatever concealed in the box
00:34:14we'll have a look at the plates
00:34:24there must be some clue and it's probably so obvious that we've all overlooked it
00:34:29seems to me we're up against a bunch of lunatics
00:34:33not lunatics my dear fellow extremely astute cold-blooded murderers
00:34:38what can these little musical boxes have in them so important
00:34:41don't forget they were made in dartmoor prison
00:34:44you can smuggle stuff into prison but not out
00:34:47you want us to break the box apart sir to see if there's anything the x-ray hasn't caught
00:34:51no not yet do you mind if i take it certainly thanks
00:35:04the governor of dartmoor prison informed us sir in answer to mr holmes's question
00:35:09that all three musical boxes were made by the same convict
00:35:12john davidson serving a seven-year term sir davidson the bank of england flakes that'll be all yes
00:35:17sir
00:35:19now we're getting somewhere wait a minute how did you know about the plates mr holmes
00:35:25i'm a student of crime inspector i make my business to know about such things and when the name of
00:35:29davidson was mentioned well who is this fellow davidson as long as mr holmes seems to know all
00:35:34about it already i suppose there's no harm in telling you two years ago in london there occurred a robbery of
00:35:42such tremendous importance although the stolen articles themselves have no intrinsic value
00:35:47whatsoever that the home secretary was instrumental in seeing that not a word of
00:35:51it appeared in any newspaper but you never told me anything about this house
00:35:55you were away at the time articles of no intrinsic value and yet of such importance
00:36:00but i don't understand davidson was apprehended within 15 minutes committing the theft but by
00:36:07that time he'd hidden the articles in question and they've yet to be found before going further dr
00:36:12watson i must inform you that this matter is not to be mentioned outside of this room of course not
00:36:17do i look like a man who'd gossip let's not go into that now old fellow shall we davidson have been
00:36:23employed for years in a position of extreme trust by the engravings department of the bank of england
00:36:29the articles he stole were nothing less than the complete duplicate set of plates for printing
00:36:34five-pound notes what the bank of england's own plates precisely and with those plates a gang of
00:36:41crooks could flood england with five-pound notes not forged in the usual sense of the word but notes
00:36:46undetectable from genuine bank of england notes in any way whatsoever good heavens any whisper at all
00:36:52might have resulted in enormous damage in shaking public confidence in the treasury we tried everything
00:36:57after we arrested davidson offered him a shorter sentence if he'd tell us where he'd hidden the plates
00:37:02why we even put in scotland jarred men with him as cellmates but no results obviously davidson is
00:37:08a man of strong character and infinite patience yet suddenly he feels impelled to smuggle out the secret
00:37:15of the hiding place of the plates to his confederates why i don't understand mr holmes well for
00:37:22example has the bank of england made any plans to radically change the design of the five-pound notes
00:37:28over in say uh seven years from now notes made from the stolen plates would be worthless confidentially
00:37:34mr holmes such a move was discussed but replacing all the five-pound notes in circulation would be such
00:37:39a herculean task that nothing's been done about it as yet i see of course there is another possible
00:37:46explanation davidson didn't have much time to find a hiding place before he was captured he may be afraid
00:37:52that the plates will be accidentally discovered before he's released hence his anxiety to communicate
00:37:59their whereabouts to his confederates as soon as possible i believe you've hit it mr holmes i'm sure
00:38:05that the message is contained in this musical box or rather in all three musical boxes since
00:38:12possession of all three seems to be essential our opponents have two-thirds of the puzzle we have one
00:38:17one-third well what are you going to do holmes try to deduce the message from the one-third that we have
00:38:35it's the same tune as the one played by
00:39:05Emery's musical box and yet it's different. Sounds the same to me. The tune. Somehow the tune
00:39:17is the key to the mystery. It must be the tune. Otherwise why use three musical boxes to convey
00:39:25the message? Why not collar boxes or shoe boxes? Yes. Oh it's for you inspector. Oh thank you sir.
00:39:35Inspector Hopkins speaking. What? Where? Golders Green Station reports they've just found Sergeant
00:39:47Thompson's body. From the tire marks on his clothes he was apparently run over that taxi.
00:39:53What an unfortunate accident. Not an accident my dear fellow. I'm afraid it's murder.
00:40:05When you're walking down a busy London street. Mrs. Orchid, Mrs. Brown, any subject of the crowd. Oh you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:40:19So you better hold your topper in your hand. Just in case you meet a lady on the strand.
00:40:31Girls will think you're kind of sweet and your day will be complete. Oh you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:40:39Now a gentleman is judged by his appearance. Yes a gentleman is judged by how he talks.
00:40:49Now he's much better off when he's acting like a talk. Especially if he's taking him a walk.
00:40:57What on earth is this outlandish place? A rendezvous for actors. Actors? Buskers old boy. You've seen them a thousand times. Actors who entertain the queues. Waiting outside theaters.
00:41:13So you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:41:15So you never know just who you're going to meet. When you're walking down a busy London street. So you better wear your best.
00:41:25Go with pies to look to best. Cause you never know just who you're going to meet. So you better keep your manners right in view. Just in case you lie, you give the how to do.
00:41:42Keep your trousers in a fleet. Shine your shoes and keep them neat. Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.
00:41:52Blimey. Mr. Holmes.
00:41:55How are you, Joe?
00:41:57Never pecking. And yourself?
00:41:59Fine, thank you. I want you to meet a friend of mine, Dr. Watson, Joe's sister.
00:42:03Oh, well, any friend of Mr. Holmes is a friend of mine.
00:42:05Hi, Joe.
00:42:06He did me a good turn once that I'll never forget.
00:42:08Yes, I cleared Joe of a most unpleasant charge.
00:42:11Murdered, no less.
00:42:12Oh, really?
00:42:13By proving to the satisfaction of the police that he was busy at the time blowing open someone's safe.
00:42:17That's right, Governor.
00:42:18Good gracious man.
00:42:19Now, Joe, now you can help me.
00:42:23Come on, puzzle, puzzle.
00:42:25Come on up here, stop it!
00:42:27Can't a gentleman have some peace and quiet around here?
00:42:33You too.
00:42:35There you are, Mr. Holmes.
00:42:37Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.
00:42:39Thank you, Joe.
00:42:41There's five pounds in this for you.
00:42:43Well, I wouldn't want to take it on myself, sir, but I can get somebody to do it for you for half of that.
00:42:48You don't know what the job is yet.
00:42:49For five pounds? Murder, ain't it?
00:42:52What?
00:42:53No, Joe, not murder, just music.
00:42:55I want you to identify a song for me.
00:42:57Oh, there ain't a song that's been written that I don't know.
00:43:00That's why I came to you.
00:43:01Of course, the violin is more my instrument, but, um...
00:43:05Oh, well.
00:43:06Here we go.
00:43:07Now listen to this, Joe.
00:43:08Wait a minute.
00:43:14You're playing that wrong.
00:43:16That should be E natural, not E flat.
00:43:18You know the song?
00:43:19Oh, yes.
00:43:20It's an old Australian song called, uh...
00:43:22The Swag Man.
00:43:23But you're playing it all wrong.
00:43:25That's what I hoped you'd say.
00:43:26Now listen again, Joe.
00:43:34That's the same tune, all right.
00:43:35But you're making different mistakes than you did the first time.
00:43:38No, not mistakes, Joe.
00:43:39Call them variations.
00:43:40Here, play the song for me.
00:43:41We're the other way it's written.
00:43:42There you are.
00:43:43Thank you, Joe.
00:43:44What's it mean, Holmes?
00:43:45Are you on to something?
00:43:46Perhaps.
00:43:47No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:43:49There you are.
00:43:50Thank you, Joe.
00:43:51What's it mean, Holmes?
00:43:52Are you on to something?
00:43:53Perhaps.
00:43:54I don't know yet.
00:43:56It's probably a code of some sort.
00:43:58Joe.
00:43:59there you are thank you joe what's it mean holmes are you onto something perhaps i don't know yet
00:44:14it's probably a code of some sort joe could you write the song down for me
00:44:22the way it was originally written oh sure i'm is down but it'll take a few minutes
00:44:26here mabel hey mabel come on i'll do it what's wrong with it
00:44:35well obviously it isn't the lyrics no combination of those words made any sense at all the variations
00:44:50in the way emery's musical box played the tune are different from the variations the one we have
00:44:55you sure quite you see i took the trouble to memorize the tune as played by emery's box
00:45:00that night we were with him in his sweat oh you amaze me now i mention my dear fellow one of the
00:45:05first principles in solving crime is never to disregard anything no matter how trivial
00:45:09but why the three boxes why not one because the message was obviously too long to be conveyed
00:45:15by any one variation then there's the third box the one that woman took from the kilgores
00:45:21that contains yet another set of variations yes well it's all beyond me well all we have to do now
00:45:29now is to find the secret of the variations not a very easy problem to solve my dear fellow
00:45:33hello hello what's up we've had company
00:45:45i say this is outrageous
00:45:52ask mrs hudson to come in here will you right
00:45:58mrs hudson yes oh there you are will you come up here at once please oh come in sir
00:46:11mrs hudson
00:46:19mrs hudson
00:46:21mrs hudson
00:46:23mrs hudson
00:46:27mercy me mr holmes what has happened who called while we were out mrs hudson just a young lady
00:46:34the one who said you wanted her to wait for you and a nice looking old gentleman our friends again
00:46:38watson friends what did the young lady look like oh i i couldn't see her face she had a
00:46:44a heavy black veil on but she had such a nice way with her oh i'm sorry mr holmes if i've done anything
00:46:52at all but you didn't see her eyes your dog was like clients come in and wait for you
00:46:57don't worry mrs hudson don't worry you had no way of knowing it's quite all right quite all right
00:47:02now don't worry mrs hudson
00:47:04don't worry well where there's the musical box
00:47:10they didn't get it didn't get it where is it it's in your hand
00:47:17huh in a biscuit jar
00:47:20take the biscuits off the top
00:47:23now put your hand inside and you'll find the music box
00:47:30well done holmes well done amazing
00:47:35nice fresh smell like a pub after closing time
00:47:59i said holmes what it's morning allow me to congratulate you on a brilliant bit of deduction
00:48:21it's not a transposition not a polygraph transposition not a trigraph
00:48:26nor any known form of decoding how about the morse code have you tried that
00:48:30yes at about three o'clock this morning i'm sorry old man i was only trying to help
00:48:44do
00:48:51oh do me a favor not again must have heard that thing a thousand times
00:48:56kept me awake all night
00:49:04not a very distinguished conversation i grant you
00:49:06you know perfectly well i don't know one tune from the other
00:49:10when i was a kid my people tried to have me taught the piano
00:49:13i've always felt sorry for that old teacher of mine
00:49:16the poor old girl finally reached the point of numbering of the keys for me one two three four
00:49:21even then i i never progressed beyond numbering the keys watson
00:49:25the 19th key of the keyboard is the 19th letter of the alphabet s
00:49:31the 19th letter of the alphabet s
00:49:36the first altered note write s first
00:49:39now the eighth key
00:49:42is
00:49:43h
00:49:43the fifth key e
00:49:48the 12th key l
00:49:51the sixth key f
00:49:53s
00:49:54h e l f
00:49:56shelf
00:49:57you've solved it thank you
00:50:03oh thanks old man
00:50:05hold it
00:50:07we now have two thirds of the message behind books
00:50:11third shelf secretary dr s
00:50:17presumably
00:50:19these are the first and second portions of the message
00:50:22and this gang has the first and third parts of it
00:50:25precisely
00:50:25then it's a stalemate
00:50:27yes commissioner but we can't leave it like that
00:50:29there's no doubt in my mind that they'll try to secure
00:50:31our third of the message that's missing
00:50:33well i assume you've taken every precaution to guard the clifford musical
00:50:36oh yes it's carefully hidden at baker street with dr watson on guard however
00:50:39i'm reasonably certain that uh difficult as it may be we can find the plates
00:50:44even without the missing part of the message behind books third shelf secretary dr s
00:50:52outside of the fact that davidson hid the bank of england plates somewhere in london mr
00:50:56holmes i don't see that we've progressed at all allow me to point out to you sir
00:51:01the key words dr s it looks as if the plates were hidden in the house of the doctor whether s stands
00:51:08for his first or last initial remains to be determined by a process of elimination
00:51:13well there must be 10 000 doctors in london with s for a first or last initial precisely
00:51:18and every one of them will have to be questioned in person that's why i say this is a task for scotland
00:51:23yard it's a task all right but scotland yard has searched worse haystacks and found a needle
00:51:29well for the time being i'll leave the matter in your hand gentlemen
00:51:33we'll call you if and when we get a lead on our mysterious dr s
00:51:37in the meantime i intend to follow up a little clue concerning a cigarette
00:51:49you're certain of the identification of the tobacco absolutely i have made up this special
00:51:54blend for only three customers it is almost pure egyptian with admixture of latakia for added body
00:52:04and a pinch of perique merely a whisper as one might say for elusive fragrance yes yes and the um
00:52:11the three customers major wilson in bombay india mrs catherine leamington smith in ireland yes and
00:52:21the third mrs hilda courtney of park mansions bryanston square thank you thank you very much
00:52:27you've been most helpful it's a pleasure to have been of service mr holmes
00:52:41yes mrs cockney yes my name is shellac holmes oh do come in thank you i've heard of you of course mr
00:52:51holmes i believe we have a mutual friend in say edward brookdale he's spoken to me of you quite often
00:52:58indeed
00:53:02and to what good fortune am i indebted for this visit i think you know mrs courtney well i i did get a
00:53:09summons for speeding last week but outside of that i don't think i'm of any interest to the police
00:53:15oh come now mrs courtney you seem to forget that you and i have met before i'm sorry i'm sure i
00:53:21would have remembered meeting the great sherlock holmes please sit down thank you you say we met
00:53:27before yes at the home of mr and mrs kilgore 143 b hampton road kilgore i don't think i know anyone
00:53:38of that name well i didn't say you knew them as a matter of fact you called on them when they were out
00:53:45i don't understand mr holmes really and you were dressed rather differently indeed cigarette
00:53:56thank you
00:53:59you know mrs cockney people generally forget in assuming a disguise but the shape of the ear is an
00:54:21almost infallible means of recognition and identification to the trained eye evidently you've
00:54:26mistaken me for someone else oh no not at all though naturally i expected your denial
00:54:32but when you paid your visit to my rooms at baker street you carelessly left behind another
00:54:38identification now uh i don't think they are yes i must admit they are you see mr holmes to catch one
00:54:48as clever as you i had to use a very special lure i knew you'd be unable to resist the bait of my
00:54:54cigarette having read with great interest your monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties
00:54:59of tobacco i should advise you not to move mr holmes
00:55:06i must congratulate you on your ingenuity mrs courtney it was indeed a brilliantly designed trap
00:55:11thank you mr holmes praise from a master is indeed gratifying
00:55:16i shall always cherish the memory of your flattering words memory memory
00:55:23precisely i'm afraid these gentlemen have a most regrettable task to perform
00:55:28unless of course you care to turn over the missing musical box with your pledge to take no
00:55:34action against us in the future i'm afraid that will be impossible i thought that would be your answer
00:55:40honeyed careful careful there's no need to be unnecessarily rough with our distinguished guests
00:55:48you realize mr holmes that your demise will not take place here the uh corpus delecti you know
00:55:55well naturally shall we go
00:56:01so fearfully awkward having a dead body lying about don't you agree mr holmes another dead body
00:56:06shouldn't weigh too heavily on your conscience mrs cortney
00:56:17you mind if i have a cigarette well i don't see why not
00:56:21be careful hameet it's the brakes they bind
00:56:39you mind thank you colonel kavanagh it's very considerate of you
00:56:56so
00:56:58you'll be happy to know mr holmes that your death will be a painless one
00:57:19i need attach this to the murder of the taxi
00:57:29that little attachment my dear mr holmes contains the deadly fluid known as monosuffering the germans
00:57:36use it with gratifying results in removing their undesirables
00:57:40you mind
00:57:45stop the motor
00:57:54Tape his mouth.
00:58:18Now, up with him, Hamid.
00:58:24You find yourself like Mohammed's coffin, Mr. Holmes.
00:58:36Suspended between heaven and earth.
00:58:44Plenty of fuel in the tank?
00:58:47Good.
00:58:48It would be too bad to have anything go wrong through so simple an oversight.
00:58:54He said, hello.
00:59:16Is it sad to be the hunter?
00:59:19Oh, my God.
00:59:49Good afternoon.
01:00:05Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
01:00:06No, I'm Dr. Watson.
01:00:08Oh, of course, Dr. Watson.
01:00:10How stupid of me.
01:00:11Oh, sure.
01:00:12It's stupid of me.
01:00:14Won't you come in?
01:00:15Well, I really came to see Mr. Holmes.
01:00:18Oh, I'm afraid he's out.
01:00:19I don't know when he'll be back.
01:00:20Perhaps there's something I can do.
01:00:22Won't you sit down?
01:00:25You know, Sherlock Holmes and I have been engaged on a great many cases.
01:00:30Oh, really?
01:00:30Yes, indeed.
01:00:31As a matter of fact, this very moment, we're involved in one of the most baffling...
01:00:36Oh, well, won't you tell me your trouble?
01:00:38I may be able to help you.
01:00:39That's very kind of you, Dr. Watson.
01:00:41Perhaps, if I wouldn't be imposing too much...
01:00:45Imposing?
01:00:46Oh, there's no imposition.
01:00:47No imposition at all.
01:00:49A pleasure, I assure you.
01:00:50Now, tell me all about it, Miss...
01:00:52Miss Williams.
01:00:53Miss Williams.
01:00:54I live in Surrey, Dr. Watson, and I've come up to London in sheer desperation.
01:00:59My only sister has disappeared, where local police seem utterly unable to find her.
01:01:03Well, Holmes and I solved a case exactly like that once.
01:01:05Very interesting, as far as I remember.
01:01:08I call it the adventure of the solitary cyclist.
01:01:12Oh, sorry.
01:01:13Now I've come to think of it, it wasn't so very similar.
01:01:16It was entirely different, I don't think of what I was saying.
01:01:19Uh-oh.
01:01:20Where were we?
01:01:22She's only 17, Dr. Watson, and until she disappeared last Thursday, she seemed to be in the best of spirits.
01:01:30Possibly a romantic entanglement?
01:01:32Oh, no, no.
01:01:33Nothing of the sort.
01:01:33She left no note, didn't even pack a bag, no explanation.
01:01:38She just started to walk to the village from our house in broad daylight, and simply vanished from the face of the earth.
01:01:44Oh, there, there, there, there, there.
01:01:47Might I have a glass of water?
01:01:48A glass of beer, of course, a glass of water.
01:01:50Have one more minute.
01:01:51Oh, there, there, there.
01:02:11There you are, my dear.
01:02:25Thank you, Dr. Watson.
01:02:27No, no, no, you're not to cry anymore.
01:02:28You must pull yourself together.
01:02:29I feel much better already knowing that you're going to help me.
01:02:32Oh, Dr. Watson, look!
01:02:34Good heavens!
01:02:39Get through, get through the fire brigade, quickly!
01:02:41Haven't you a fire extinguisher?
01:02:48We haven't again.
01:02:50You can see it.
01:02:50Don't you worry, Miss Williams, we'll have this thing out in no time.
01:03:03Don't you worry, Miss Williams, we'll have this thing out in no time.
01:03:15Ah, that's got it.
01:03:31It's the mayor.
01:03:32Well, you see, there was, there was no need for the fire brigade after all.
01:03:39I hope you weren't too frightened, Miss Williams.
01:03:45Gone.
01:03:46That's a trouble, William.
01:03:48They always lose their heads in an emergency.
01:03:49I hope you're going to have this thing out in no time, sir.
01:03:50Huh.
01:03:53Hello?
01:03:59A musical box.
01:04:02Great Scott!
01:04:07Miss Williams!
01:04:08Well, good.
01:04:16And Holmes?
01:04:17By now, Mr. Holmes has no doubt exchanged his violin for a harp.
01:04:22Always assuming that heaven is his destination.
01:04:24And now that we have the missing musical box.
01:04:40Nineteenth note.
01:04:44Nineteenth letter.
01:04:48Yes.
01:04:51He hasn't been there, you said?
01:04:54Holmes, where on earth have you been?
01:04:55I've been trying to get you to the club, the Scotland Yard, all over London.
01:05:01You were looking for me in the wrong places.
01:05:03Holmes, terrible things happened.
01:05:05I've been duped.
01:05:07That woman, she made a complete fool of me.
01:05:10Well, what do you mean?
01:05:10Well, she came here, let off a smoke bomb.
01:05:13I thought the whole place was on fire, and my first thought was to save a musical box.
01:05:16No need to say anymore.
01:05:18She has the box.
01:05:21Don't blame yourself too much, old fellow.
01:05:23Well, she is an extremely clever antagonist.
01:05:31Smoke bomb, you said?
01:05:35Well, you can console yourself with the thought that your charming friend is at least a reader of yours.
01:05:40What do you mean?
01:05:41Well, if I remember correctly, you wrote about my little experiment with the smoke and the crying fire, and the story you entitled, A Scandal in Bohemia, which has just appeared in the Strand magazine.
01:05:50All right, all right, old boy.
01:05:52Don't rub it in.
01:05:54Well, it may tear you up to know that you made a fool of me, too.
01:05:58Ah.
01:05:58Well, that cigarette stub was planted here for one express purpose.
01:06:04We've got a bandaging around this place.
01:06:06Bandaging?
01:06:07What's the matter, Holmes?
01:06:08You've heard?
01:06:09The explanations will have to wait until later at the moment we're faced with a problem, which I fear is insurmountable.
01:06:14Come over here, old boy, will you?
01:06:16Right.
01:06:18Our opponents are in possession of all three parts of the code, and here are we while the Bank of England plates pass into their possession.
01:06:26Cheer up, old fellow, cheer up.
01:06:27As Dr. Samuel Johnson once said, there's no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.
01:06:35What's that all for?
01:06:35I was just quoting Dr. Samuel Johnson.
01:06:37He said there is no...
01:06:38Thank you, Watson.
01:06:39Hmm?
01:06:39Hmm?
01:06:44Leaving the front reception room, we come into the main hall, where Dr. Johnson was in the habit of passing through to have his meagre meals in the dining room opposite, in company with his friend and biographer, James Boswell.
01:06:59We will now pass up the stairway, which remains in its natural wood finish, just as it was when the good doctor was here.
01:07:06The framed etching on the wall is believed to have been presented to Dr. Johnson by the distinguished painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
01:07:15I've been told here that that picture was given in by Mrs. Thrail, and it's definitely not a Reynolds.
01:07:22Is that important, my dear?
01:07:25Oh, I'm sorry.
01:07:27This way, ladies and gentlemen, please, this way.
01:07:30Move along, children, move along.
01:07:32The secretary's not on this floor.
01:07:34Patience, Hamid.
01:07:35I have a feeling that...
01:07:37My dear Colonel, with Sherlock Holmes out of the way, what could go wrong?
01:07:49And here we have the Garrett Library, in which Dr. Johnson wrote his famous dictionary, and in which you will see also many of the great man's books and other items of interest.
01:08:00Step forward, ladies and gentlemen, please step forward.
01:08:02Step forward, standing in the corner is the secretary, which contains many of the original works by the literary genius.
01:08:10On this table, Dr. Johnson's cat, Hodge, used to sleep while his master worked.
01:08:15A strange thing about this cat, ladies and gentlemen, was his love of oysters.
01:08:20They do say that the dear doctor often went hungry to find the cat that delicacy.
01:08:25What a pity.
01:08:28Now we will visit the grey room, which is immediately below us, in which you will see the very bed in which Dr. Johnson died.
01:08:36What did he die of?
01:08:38Gout.
01:08:39Just gout.
01:08:41This way, ladies and gentlemen, mind the steps, please.
01:08:44Your kids.
01:08:58Your kids.
01:08:58Your kids.
01:09:00Your kids.
01:09:13Third shelf up.
01:09:21The knife.
01:09:28Gentlemen, the Bank of England plates.
01:09:33Well, Mrs. Courtney, so we meet again.
01:09:37No, I shouldn't do that if I were you, Colonel Kavanaugh.
01:09:40I must congratulate you, Mr. Holmes.
01:09:43You're far more clever than I thought.
01:09:47Thank you, Mrs. Courtney.
01:09:49A phrase from you is indeed gratifying.
01:09:52I shall always cherish the memory of your flattering words.
01:09:57Memory? Oh, thank you.
01:10:01And now I have a most regrettable task to perform.
01:10:09Holmes!
01:10:11Coming, Holmes!
01:10:14You all right?
01:10:17Perfectly thank you, old fellow, but I think this gentleman on the floor requires some medical attention.
01:10:21We will see that he looks his best, you know, when he's hanged.
01:10:23Take them in charge.
01:10:24A brilliant antagonist.
01:10:25It's a pity her talents were so misdirected.
01:10:34Will you see that these plates are returned to the Bank of England, Inspector?
01:10:37I still don't understand how you solved it, Mr. Holmes.
01:10:38It's entirely due to Dr. Watson.
01:10:39He gave me the clue when he mentioned Dr. Samuel Johnson.
01:10:47Well, congratulations, Doctor.
01:10:48Oh, thank you, Inspector.
01:10:49I don't think I'd have done it entirely without Mr. Holmes's help, you know.
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