Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill - full movie

♪ (dramatic music) ♪

Dartmoor Prison

Isolated from the outside world
by walls of granite

They say you can get out of here
by merely telling what you know

You may are may not be another
Scotland Yard bloke

But I'll give you the same
answer I gave the others

I still have two years, eight months
and six days left

in which to make musical boxes

that will be sold at auction for the
benefit of this delightful sanctuary

And I intend to sell them

♪ (music box) ♪

Move along

And now we come
to the next object on our list

or I should say objects

because there are three of them

Now ladies and gentlemen

these can be bought together or seperately

Now these beautiful little musical boxes
only arrived this morning

and I didn't intend to put them
on the auction block until later

but I'm going to sell them now

So good friends
[inaudible] I've got news to say

Lend me your ears

And what do you hear?

♪ (music box) ♪

Right

The beautiful tinkle tinkle
of a musical box

What a lovely trinket
What a beautiful gift

Created and made by loving hands

A thing of beauty and utility

Now who's going to start me with £5?

It's a bargain, £5

Do I see any hands?

If a connoisseur in the house
will go £3 point

£2

£1

Ten shillings

Thank you, sir

Ladies and gentlemen
ten shillings is offered for a musical box

you couldn't buy anywhere in London
for less than £5

Bit of a steal to let it go
for ten shillings

Like talking milk from a baby

Alright, we still have the ten shillings

Ten shillings, ten shillings is offered
ten shillings is offered

ten shillings is offered

Anybody going to give me £1?
Anybody £1?

Someone, somewhere give me a pound

A pound, £1 is offered
£1 is offered ladies and gentlemen

£1 is offered

Have we got a £2?
Have we got a £2, sir?

£2, £2 is offered
£2 is offered, going once

twice

third and the last call

sold to the gentleman for £2

Sorry, my dear

Now ladies and gentlemen
comes the opportunity to purchase

an exact duplicate
of the beautiful little musical box

just bought by this gentleman
for the ridiculous low price of £2

It's exactly the same

exactly the same, made with the same hands

You hear that? Isn't that lovely?

That tinkle tinkle tinkle tinkle

♪ (music box) ♪

Sounds like bells to me, you know,
with little angels pulling on the rope

Who'll give me £2 for it?

Who'll start me with £2 for it?
Will anyone start me with £2?

Oh, come, come ladies and gentlemen

You know, if it weren't
for your enthusiasm

we might all be in Scotland
instead of London

Please buy it for me, Daddy

£2, certainly not
we all might be in Scotland

Besides I don't like these men

£1, ten shillings

£1, £1 is ours

£1, £1 is offered
£1 is offered, going £1

In the advance, we're once
going twice

the third and the last call

Sold to the lady for £1

Smart bidding, my dear

Thank you

We come to the third and last
of these beautiful little musical boxes

Exactly the same
tinkle tinkle

Isn't that lovely

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't bring
you here to golly you and swindle you

This is an exact replica
of those two I just sold before

(knock)

We're closed

But this is extremely important

Come in, sir, come in

I'm sorry to disturb you

but I was unfortunately delayed
from arriving on time

to bid on certain articles
which I was rather anxious to obtain

Well, perhaps they weren't sold, sir

We are carrying several things over

Erm, what might the articles be, sir?

Three identical musical boxes
about, er, so large

Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold

Pity you weren't here to bid on them

They didn't bring anything
like the real value

I'm most anxious to obtain them

I wonder if your records would show
who the purchasers were

Oh, we usually don't give out
that information, sir

For certain, shall we say
sentimental reasons

I'm most anxious to get in touch
with the purchasers

I'd be willing to pay, shall we say

£5

Well for certain sentimental reasons, sir
we'd be very happy to oblige

Alfred! Today's sale

the three musical boxes

The musical boxes

Ah, here we are

The first purchase for £2
Mr. Julian Emery, 52 Fortman Square

Write these adresses down, Alfred

Yes, sir

Second didn't leave any name

How unfortunate

I think she's a dealer

You see, they don't like us to know
where they're things are going

On account of the profits

You say the second purchaser was a woman?

Can you give me a description of her?

Oh, she was a young woman

fairly tall, slender

a light complexion, and dark hair

and she was wearing a–

A grey suit, don't you remember?

That's right

She probably runs a gift shop

She paid £1

You say she comes here fairly frequently?

Oh, I didn't say so

but she does, sir

Like as not she'll come in on Thursday

We have sales on Mondays and Thursdays

Ah, and the third box?

The third, Mr. William Kingle
143 B. Hampton Way

For ten shillings

Mmm, quite a drop from £2

Mr. Kingle was a Scotchman

Oh, well, thank you
You're most helpful

Oh, thank you, sir!

And anytime you're passing, drop in

We always have lovely things for sale

Our card, sir

Thank you, I'll be back Thursday

The message reached us too late

The musical boxes are being sold

Let's get out of here

Someday you'll go too far

Reaching for a star, you fool

Yet a fool may touch a star, Col. Cavinar

if he reach high enough

But not posses it as you would

The musical boxes, they're bing sold

What a pity for you, my dear Col.

Is it my fault that the message
reached us only an hour ago?

Is it my fault that they were sold?

She can't hold me responsible for that

I hope for your sake you're right

♪ (violin) ♪

They will call upon you tonight
at a quarter to eight

a gentlemen it is ask consult you
upon a matter of the very deepest moment

Ha! You remember that letter, Holmes?

It was written over two years ago

An interesting case
devilishly interesting

Irene Adler

What a striking looking woman
from the brief glance I had of her

seems only yesterday

What charm, what poise, and what a mind!

Sharp enough and brilliant enough
to outwit the

the great Sherlock Holmes himself

I take it the new issue
of the Strand magazine is out

containing another of your
slightly lurid tales

Indeed!

What do you call this one?

I call it A Scandal In Bohemia

Not a bad title, eh?

Hmm.

If you must record my exploits

I do wish you'd put less emphasis
on the melodramatic

and more on the
intellectual issues involved

Do you remember that?

Well I do hope you'd given, uh

The Woman a soul

She had one you know

"The Woman"

I suppose you mean Irene Adler

Yes

I shall always remember her

as The Woman

(knock)

(Watson) Come in

Hey! Stinky

Exactly old boy, how are you?

How are you, old boy?

I haven't seen you for years

I want you to meet my old friend
Sherlock Holmes

Holmes, this is Stinky

In other words, Julian Emery

How do you do, Mr. Emery?

Watson has often spoken of you

Oh, has he?

Yes, we were at school together

It was more years ago
than I care to remember

but you didn't come in here
just to remind me of that

No, I just happened to be
in the neighborhood and

saw your lights burning

so I took the liberty of looking you up

Still writing your mystery stuff?

Yes, there's a new one out this week

Good, I never miss 'em

Oh, good, thanks!

I say, that bandage
makes you look very interesting

still poking your nose into
other people's business as usual?

I haven't a value's notion

Somebody bopped me on the head
in my own living room

and then proceed to commit the most
idiotic burglary you ever heard of

Fellow must have been as barmy as a coot

Barmy, why?

Come sit down, old boy

You like a cup of tea?

Huh? Oh, alright

I'll go and [inaudible]

Why do you say the robbery
was idiotic, Mr. Emery?

Oh, simply for the fact that

with about £5000 worth of
musical boxes in my living room

the thief who I caught in the act

made off with one that isn't even worth £5

I gather you're a collector
of musical boxes

Yes, I am indeed

Some of them very beautiful

but not the one that was stolen

The thief evidently grabbed
the first thing that came to his hand

when he heard me coming into the room

It's really rather odd isn't it
that having disposed of you

he didn't pick up something more valuable?

Was there anything unusual about the stolen box?

No, nothing at all

I picked it up in the south of France
several years ago

You say you have many valuable music boxes

yet the thief made of with one
that isn't worth £5

Sounds like rather an intriguing
little problem

Well, I take it that

he was just an ordinary petty thief
and didn't know the value

That is a possible explanation
yet I venture to say

that the average petty thief
has a more extensive knowledge

of the valuable object dar
than the average collector

Well, anyway, that's gotten the odysary

They didn't get very excited about it

That's consistent, anyway

I wonder if I might see your collection
Mr. Emery

Oh, of course you could, yes

Nothing a collector likes more
than showing off his trophies

When would it suit you?

No time like the present

Good!

My place is just round in Portwood Square

Shall we?

Yes, right

Hello, where are you going?

Stinky hasn't had his tea yet

Oh, I'm sorry

We're going round to my place

where I'm going to give you something
better than tea

Now this one was made for George XV

and is one of the very few
still in existence in that period

and a particularly fine specimen at that

♪ (tweet) ♪

Charming isn't it?

Quite

They all sound to me like a lot of mice

running about on a tin roof

I'm afraid you have no ear
for music, Watson

A good old band playing a rousing march

You have all your
silly little tweet-tweets

♪ (whistling) ♪

(laughing)

Is this one…

♪ (music box) ♪

Stupid thing

Singing rabbit, humph

What would you say our pan has a value
of a box like that, Mr. Emery?

Well, it's hard to say out of hand

but I was thinking of bringing

about five or six hundred pounds today

It's the gem of my collection

Yet a thief who steals an oddity
like a musical box

passes up one worth £500
for one of almost no value at all

Odd

Very odd

What was the stolen box like, Mr. Emery?

Oh, just a plain wooden box

about, em, so big

Mmmhmm

As a matter of fact I have one over here

almost exactly like it

I picked this up yesterday
at an auction room in Nightsbridge

♪ (music box) ♪

Payed only £2 for it

Course I wouldn't ordinarily
add one like this to my collection

but the, em, the tuning freed me

I had never heard it before

♪ (whistling) ♪

You have a remarkable ear
for music, Holmes

Rather an unusual melody

Sit down

Thanks

You say you bought that box
at an auction sale yesterday

Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms
in Nightsbridge

run by old, what's his name

Crabtury

That's the man

At what time was the robbery committed?

About 3 o'clock this morning

You know, Mr. Emery

that box in the robbery
might well be cause and effect

especially since you say
that the stolen box

probably resembles this one a great deal

and Scotland Yard
were not particularly interested, eh?

Oh, yes, well that

I wouldn't blame them for that

Especially as I told them
I was quite unable to describe the thief

except of course for the fact that

it was definitely a man

All you remember is that you came in here
and someone struck you on the head

Yes, and the next thing I knew

my man was trying to revive me

It might be wise for you
to put that box away somewhere

lock it up

Oh, I don't think that's necessary

Besides everything's insured

Well, at least if any further attempts
at robbery are made

I'd suggest that you call the police

rather than running into
any possible danger

Oh, come Holmes
aren't you being a bit of an alarmist?

Possibly

I must agree with old Stinky

it seems to me you are making
rather a mountain out of a moleskin

"Molehill" is the word, old boy
and it's time you were in bed

(laughter)

Thanks so much
for letting us see your place

No, it's very good meeting you

Holmes, I can't understand
why you were so mysterious

Seems to me the petty thief explanation
was the only sensible one

Really?

I can't see how you could believe
it was anything else

I didn't say I believed it
to be anything else

The petty thief theory is the

obvious one, I grant you

However, it's often a mistake
to accept something as true

merely because it's obvious

The truth is only arrived at

by the painstaking process
of eliminating the untrue

We are not able to do that in this case

without further data

Rubbish, you're pulling my leg

You're trying to turn a

a cut in the [inaudible] robbery
into an international plot

No, I'm not

And I just hope that your friend Stinky's

a little more cautious in the future

just in case

(telephone)

Hello

Yeah?

Julian Emery here

Who?

Of course I remember you, Mrs. Courtney

Yes, you are the one bright spot

at the [inaudible]

Huh?

Of course it isn't too late to come around

Yes, I shall be

delighted to give you a drink

I'll tell you what, come straight up
and I'll be at the door in an itch

Alright, fifteen minutes? Good

I shall be counting each one

No, I mean that really

Right, goodbye

♪ (humming) ♪

Boo!

Oh! You startled me

(laughing)

Let's do the trixie in the mirror

I know I shouldn't have called you so late

but I was at a party
just around the corner

and I remembered your invitation
to see your collection of musical boxes

My dear Mrs. Courtney

the pleasure is all the greater
for being so unexpected

My friends call me Hilda

Mine call me Stinky

Stinky, how quaint

What a perfectly wonderful
collection of musical boxes!

You know, when you told me
you had a collection

I had no idea it was so attractive

They appeal to the ear

as well as to the eye

Oh, what a plain little one

Why it looks just like a country cousin
amid all this grandeur

No, no, no, no, you mustn't
underestimate the country cousin

Only last night a burglar broke in here

And with all these to choose from
went after the one very much like it

Really?

Yes, I don't mind
the loss of the box so much

but I do resent this crack on the skull

But it makes you look so interesting

Do you think so?

Uh-huh

That's funny, that's what old Fatso said

Fatso?

I mean Dr. Watson

He was here this evening with a friend

A Mr. Holmes

He's interested in my collection too

Sherlock Holmes?

Yes, do you know him?

I've heard of him

He seems to think I'm in some sort of, uh

danger

What a haunting tune!
It takes me right back to my childhood

Really?

Seems like all the Jewish beitzus
and their particular musical box

Odd, why?

'Cause Mr. Holmes is also interested in it

He may have been more
interested in the tune than in the box

By Gilduce, that's right

I remember now

He whistled it note for note
having only heard it once

Really?

He must be a remarkable man

Bit of an alarmist if you ask me

Don't you believe in warnings?

Course not

Who'd want a box like that?

I would

You're not serious?

Oh, but I am

You put me at a very awkward position

I'm a collector, you know

and a collector buys but never sells

But, if the price were high enough

Price has nothing to do with it

It's the principle of the thing

Yes, well, we haven't had our drink

No thanks, I must be getting along

Must you really?

I'm afraid so

You're not walking out on me, are you?

My reputation, Stinky

I say, you know
you are an attractive woman

Thanks

♪ (intense music) ♪

You fool

I told you to wait outside

What did you have to kill him for?

All I had to do was walk out with this

He held you in his arms

Don't touch him

Don't touch anything

Now get out!

I'm sorry

You're sorry?

What about me?

This is murder

What about Scotland Yard?

What about Sherlock Holmes?

Now get out!

Did you get it?

Good

Did you have any trouble with it?

Just a matter of murder

Ah, Mr. Holmes

Hopkins

Thanks for coming so promptly

Inspector Lestrade suggested
that I call through to you

Mr. Emery was a client
of Mr. Holmes, Inspector

Indeed?

You didn't mention that
when I telephoned you, Mr Holmes

Well, not exactly a client, Inspector

Sgt. Thomson

He was killed between the hours of 11
and 2 o'clock this morning, Mr Holmes

Must of been someone he knew
or someone of whom he had no suspicion

Poor old Stinky

It's all my fault

I should have prevented this

Well, it's no time to start
talking about that now, Dr.

Apparently it's gone

That's the second attempt on the musical
box that Emery bought at the auction sale

and this time it was succesful

But that box was only worth £2

It was worth a man's life, Watson

I think we better pay a visit
to Gaylord's auction room

and that fellow Crabtury

Inspector, may I suggest that you make
a complete search of this flat

for a small plain musical box
about that size

Thank you, come on, Watson