The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988 TV Movie)

Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Dr. John Watson : Finished.

  [stretching] 

  Dr. John Watson : Aah!

  [picks up and studies walking stick] 

  Sherlock Holmes : [with his back to Watson]  What do you make of it, Watson?

  Dr. John Watson : What? Huh,I believe you've got eyes in the back of your head, Holmes.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, I have a well-polished coffee pot in front of me.

• Dr. Mortimer : You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?

  Sherlock Holmes : *Please*, Dr. Mortimer.

  Dr. Mortimer : A cast of your skull Sir, until the original becomes available?

  [Holmes bursts into laughter] 

  Dr. Mortimer : It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess, I covet your skull.

  Sherlock Holmes : Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.

  [Gesturing to the chair] 

  Dr. Mortimer : [dog sits beside Mr. Mortimer]  Spot. Yes, good boy.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, I presume it was not your phrenological passion which drew you to Baker Street.

  Dr. Mortimer : Unfortunately it was not, Sir.

• Sherlock Holmes : You impress me, Doctor Mortimer. Was there anything else?

  Dr. Mortimer : Yes.

  Sherlock Holmes : Footprints? A man or a woman's?

  Dr. Mortimer : Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

• Sherlock Holmes : It may be that you are not yourself luminous but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power for stimulating it. I... I confess that, my dear fellow, I'm very much in your debt.

• Sherlock Holmes : It's an ugly, dangerous business, Watson. Believe me, I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound at Baker Street once more.

• Sherlock Holmes : It is a worthy setting if the devil did decide to dabble in the affairs of men.

• Dr. John Watson : [looking at the stew Holmes has made]  It's quite disgusting, Holmes.

  Sherlock Holmes : Yes. Yes, it is. Well, it's better when it's hot.

• Sherlock Holmes : This case possesses features which are entirely its own.

• [last lines] 

  Sherlock Holmes : I have tickets for 'Les Huguenots' at Covent Garden. A little dinner at Marcini's on the way.

  Dr. John Watson : Wonderful, Holmes.

• Sherlock Holmes : When I see a cigarette stub marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know my friend Watson is in the neighborhood. Be careful of that gun.

  Dr. John Watson : I thought you were in Baker Street working on that case of blackmail.

  Sherlock Holmes : That is what I wished you to think.