David Burke credited as playing...
Dr. John Watson
- [first lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: Hm!
- Dr. John Watson: [entering] Oh. Sorry, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: No no. You couldn't have come at a better time.
- Dr. John Watson: Well, I was, I was afraid you were engaged.
- Sherlock Holmes: I am. Very much so.
- Dr. John Watson: What are you going to do?
- Sherlock Holmes: To smoke. It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: Sometimes I think my whole life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
- Dr. John Watson: No no, you are a benefactor of the race, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, maybe it is of some little use after all. "L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout," as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand. Hm?
- Sherlock Holmes: Now I begin to think my reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico.'
- Dr. John Watson: [to Mr. Wilson] Everything becomes commonplace by explanation.
- Sherlock Holmes: Watson, that is a very loose translation!