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Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery, visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night. Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive pieces in his vast collection. The previous night, someone broke into his flat and knocked him unconscious when he tried to intervene. All they took however was a simple wooden music box he had bought at auction that day for a mere £2. The box was one of three available for sale and as Holmes and Watson begin to trace the other purchasers, it becomes apparent that someone will stop at nothing, including murder, to retrieve all three. When Holmes learns the identity of the music box maker, he is convinced it contains directions to the retrieval of something very valuable that the government has kept from the public.
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Director(s): Roy William Neill
Production: American Pop Classics
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1946
76 min
548 Views


passing drop in.

We always have

lovely things for sale.

- Our card, sir.

- Thank you.

I'll be back Thursday.

Her message

reached us too late.

The musical boxes

have been sold.

Well, let's get out of here.

Some day

you'll go too far.

Reaching for a star,

you fool.

Yet a fool may touch a star,

Colonel Cavanaugh

if he reaches high enough.

But not possess it

as you would.

The musical boxes

they've been sold?

What a pity for you,

my dear Colonel.

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.

Hope for your sake

you're right.

"They will call upon you tonight

at a quarter till eight,"

a gentleman it is

asked to consult you

"upon a matter of the

very deepest moment."

Remember that letter,

Holmes?

It was written

over two years ago.

Very interesting case.

Devilishly interesting.

Humph, 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 great

Sherlock Holmes himself.

I take it that the new issue

of the Strand Magazine is out,

containing another of

your slightly lurid tales.

It is indeed.

And what do you

call this one?

I call it "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Not a bad title, huh?

Hmm. If you must

record my exploits

I do wish you would put less

emphasis on the melodramatic

and more on the intellectual

issues involved.

More on the inte... what

do you mean by that?

Well, I do hope you've given

The Woman a soul,

she had one you know?

By The Woman,

I suppose you

mean Irene Adler?

Yes,

I shall always remember

her as The woman.

Stinky.

Fatso, 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's often spoken of you.

Oh, has he?

Yes, we were at

school together.

Yes, 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 the

old mystery stuff?

Yes. There's a new

one out this week.

- Good, I never miss them.

- Oh good. Thanks.

I say that bandage makes

you look very interesting.

Still poking your nose into

other people's business as usual?

- Who hit you?

- I haven't the foggiest notion.

Somebody knocked me on the

head in my own living room

then proceeded to commit the most

idiotic burglary you ever heard of.

Fellow must have been

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Leonard Lee

Leonard G. Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water. He received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Royal Roads Military College and a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1963 from Queen's University. He worked for the federal government for sixteen years as a topographical surveyor, member of the Canadian Foreign Service and civil servant in the Department of Industry. In 1978, he founded Lee Valley Tools Ltd., a Canadian woodworking and gardening tools mail-order business which has since grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. In 1985, he founded Veritas Tools. In 1991, he founded Algrove Publishing. In 1998, with his son Robin running Lee Valley Tools, Lee started a new business, Canica Design, a medical/surgical instrument company, headquartered in Almonte, Ontario. In 2002, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "being a successful entrepreneur." In 2007, he was granted an honorary degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. In 2011, he was granted an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. Lee died on July 7, 2016 from effects of vascular dementia. more…

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