The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) Quotes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes completed its run in 1970.

It features Darryl F. Zanuck as producer, Robert Russell Bennett in charge of musical score, and Leon Shamroy as head of cinematography.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) is 81 minutes long. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, George Zucco as Professor Moriarty, Ida Lupino as Ann Brandon, Alan Marshal as Jerrold Hunter, and Frank Dawson as Dawes.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) Quotes

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

• (Basil Rathbone) "Whatever Watson has found out, you'll knoe inevitably. I have unbounded confidence in his lack of discretion."

• (Basil Rathbone) "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society."
• (George Zucco) "Holmes, you only now barely missed sending me to the gallows. You're the only man in England clever enough to defeat me. I'm going to break you. I'm going to bring off right under your nose the most incredible crime of the century, and you'll never suspect it until it's too late. It'll be the end of you Sherlock Holmes. Then I can retire in peace. I'd like to retire; crime no longer amuses me. I'd like to devote my remaining years to abstract science."

• (Basil Rathbone) "Very effective, Watson."
• (Unnamed) "Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary."

• (Basil Rathbone) "I've decided to accept your case, Miss Brandon. I shall help you all I can."
• (Ida Lupino) "Oh, Thank you."
• (Alan Marshal) "We don't want your interference, Mr. Holmes."
• (Basil Rathbone) "I interfere whenever and wherever I like, Mr. Hunter."

• (Basil Rathbone) "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Frank Dawson as Dawes

• (Frank Dawson) "You wanted to see me, sir?"
• (George Zucco) "I'm away for a few weeks, Dors, and I come back to find my anthurium magenta, my incomparable anthurium magenta, withered, ruined --"
• (Frank Dawson) "I can't understand it, sir; I took good care of all the plants."
• (George Zucco) "Did you water them?"
• (Frank Dawson) "Every day; just as you told me, sir."
• (George Zucco) "Then how does it happen that I find a spider's web spun across the spout of the watering can?"
• (Frank Dawson) "That can happen overnight, sir."
• (George Zucco) "Overnight, huh? Then you didn't water them today?"
• (Frank Dawson) "There's been so much to do, sir, preparing for your coming back."
• (George Zucco) "Nothing is as important as the care of my flowers. Through your neglect, this flower has died. You've murdered a flower."
• (Frank Dawson) "Why, I'm sorry, sir."
• (George Zucco) "To think for merely murdering a man I was incarcerated for six whole weeks in a filthy prison cell."
• (Frank Dawson) "A pity, sir."
• (George Zucco) "A travesty on justice."
• (Frank Dawson) "Quite so, sir."
• (George Zucco) "And for this crime, Dors, you should be flogged, broken on the wheel, drawn and quartered --"
• (Frank Dawson) "Yes, sir. Will that be all, sir?"
• (George Zucco) "-- and boiled in oil."
• (Frank Dawson) "Thank you, sir."
• (George Zucco) "Go away."
• (Frank Dawson) "Yes, sir."

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