Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Basil Rathbone: Sherlock Holmes

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Quotes 

• 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.