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Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Rosalind Ivan, Martin Kosleck, Marjorie Riordan, and Leslie Vincent in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Basil Rathbone: Sherlock Holmes

Pursuit to Algiers

Basil Rathbone credited as playing...

Sherlock Holmes

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  • Sherlock Holmes: Possibly, poison is a woman's weapon.
  • [last lines]
  • Sherlock Holmes: Yes, Watson, let me advise you. If you ever consider taking up another profession, never even *think* of becoming an actor.
  • Sherlock Holmes: My dear Nikolas, apparently you don't realize that it's tea that has made the British Empire, and Watson, what they are today.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Well, if one isn't willing to pay the penalty, one shouldn't play the game.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Brooklyn. Well, I knew a most charming man who lived there once. Uh he's now a resident in Sing Sing Prison.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Oh, so the old girl has lost her emeralds, eh?
  • Sheila Woodbury: You're a darling.
  • [kisses Sherlock Holmes on the cheek and walks away]
  • Dr. John H. Watson: Huh. Extraordinary sight.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Elementary my dear Watson, and very pleasant.
  • Dr. John H. Watson: Holmes! But the wireless said your plane crashed! No survivors!
  • Sherlock Holmes: It was shot down, Watson.
  • Dr. John H. Watson: I don't understand, Holmes. She seems too nice a girl. She sings charmingly.
  • Sherlock Holmes: My dear fellow, musical talent is hardly evidence of innocence. As a matter of fact, the late Professor Moriarity was a virtuoso on the bassoon.

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