Basil Rathbone credited as playing...
Sherlock Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes: Murder is an insidious thing, Watson. Once a man has dipped his fingers in blood, sooner or later he'll feel the urge to kill again.
- Dr. John H. Watson: I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't sleep very well.
- Sherlock Holmes: You didn't sleep very well? You snored like a pig.
- Sherlock Holmes: This is a most unique case. Instead of too few we have too many clues and too many suspects. The main pattern of the puzzle seems to be forming, but the pieces don't fit in.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Well, it seems perfectly clear to me. One of these men is picking off the others one by one to get all their insurance money for himself. Why, it's obvious.
- Sherlock Holmes: How do you account the orange pips?
- Dr. John H. Watson: Well, this man has an accomplice who brings them.
- Sherlock Holmes: What for? To warn his victim he's going to be murdered? No, Watson, it won't do, it won't do at all.
- Dr. John H. Watson: I don't like the look of it Holmes, muddy waters, eh?
- Sherlock Holmes: Too muddy... as if someone were constantly stirring them up.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Why should they stir 'em up?
- Sherlock Holmes: To confuse me. There's intelligence behind this business, Watson. Cold, calculating... ruthless intelligence.
- Sherlock Holmes: How are you Lestrade?
- Dr. John H. Watson: Here, here, what's going on here?
- Sherlock Holmes: Someone just tried to kill Doctor Watson.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Blimey, who?
- Sherlock Holmes: When we find that out, Lestrade, we can all go home.
- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: [referring to Doctor Watson] Thereby enabling us to continue our long and happy association together.