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The Sign of Four (1932) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Graham Cutts and produced by Basil Dean.

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THE SIGN OF FOUR (1932)

By Dan Day, Jr. on Mar 12, 2022 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

At the beginning of this year I wrote a series of blog posts on a Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray set from The Film Detective. The set featured three of the five films in which British actor Arthur Wontner starred as Holmes. One of the Wontner-Holmes films, THE MISSING REMBRANDT, is considered lost. The oth... Read full article


Live From the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Day 4: SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (1921), DRAGNET GIRL (1933), THE GIRL IN TAILS (1926), THE SIGN OF FOUR (1923), HARBOR DRIFT (1929), THE NAVIGATOR (1924)

By Lara on Jun 2, 2014 From Backlots

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival came to a close yesterday, and what a day it was. This was perhaps the strongest day of the festival, with some wonderful comedic fare to lighten the rather serious?tone of the festival overall this year. First up was Max Linder’s comedy?Seven Years Bad L... Read full article


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Det. Insp. Atherly Jones: What I always says is, Mr. Holmes: an ounce of practice is worth a tonne of theory.
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, yes. I've heard you say it.


Det. Insp. Atherly Jones: I want to know where the pearls are.
Dr. John H. Watson: Yes, where are they?
Mary Morstan: Small's taken them.
Dr. John H. Watson: Then they are at the bottom of the river where we can find them... so now you'll be so terribly rich, I can't even claim you as a friend, much less ask you...
Mary Morstan: What?
Sherlock Holmes: Sorry the jewels are so distasteful to you, Ms. Marston, but I have the pearls. I took them from Jonathan Small when we first came to grips. I didn't want them to get wet, so I'm afraid you'll have to have them back
Dr. John H. Watson: Amazing!
Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.


[last lines]
Mary Morstan: Please... ask me.
Dr. John H. Watson: Will you, um...
Mary Morstan: Yes!
[they embrace]
Sherlock Holmes: Amazing!
Dr. John H. Watson: Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary.


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