The Spider Woman (1943)
Basil Rathbone: Sherlock Holmes
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Sherlock Holmes : Yes, Watson, Miss Spedding deserves credit for picking the most logical spot in the world... to commit my murder.
Dr. John H. Watson : Oh, where is that?
Sherlock Holmes : In the middle of a crowd.
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Sherlock Holmes : I expect nothing... and everything.
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Sherlock Holmes : [on the pajama suicides] Indubidably, these murders are the work of a well-organized gang and directing them is one of the most fiendishly clever minds in all Europe today.
Inspector Lestrade : Any notion who?
Sherlock Holmes : I suspect a woman. Do you have tobacco around this place, Watson?
Dr. John H. Watson : Yes, I've packed it. A woman? You amaze me, Holmes. Why a woman?
Sherlock Holmes : Because the method, whatever it is, is particularly subtle and cruel. Feline, not canine.
Inspector Lestrade : Poppy-cock. Canine, feline, quinine, when a bloke does himself in, that's suicide.
Sherlock Holmes : Unless the bloke is driven to suicide and then in that case it's murder.
Dr. John H. Watson : Driven? That *sounds* like a woman, doesn't it?
Sherlock Holmes : Definitely, a female Moriarty. Clever, ruthless... and above all, cautious.
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Sherlock Holmes : I'm sorry, Watson, the pleasures of the chase are no longer for me. I'm through with crime now and forever.
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Sherlock Holmes : Remarkable woman. Audacious and deadly as one of her own spiders.
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Sherlock Holmes : He's gone.
Dr. John H. Watson : Blast his eyes!