The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

Robert Duvall: Dr. Watson

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Quotes 

• [as Holmes' boat pulls away] 

  Dr. John H. Watson : But how will you live?

  Sherlock Holmes : When my arm is better, you would do well to follow the concert career of a violinist... named Sigerson!

  Dr. John H. Watson : But your readers - my readers - what will I tell them?

  Sherlock Holmes : Anything you like! Tell them I was murdered by my mathematics tutor; they'll never believe you in any case!

• Station Master : This is the Dresden local.

  Dr. John H. Watson : [pulls pistol from his coat]  It is now the Orient Express.

• [first lines] 

  Dr. John H. Watson : [Watson rings the doorbell of 221-B Baker Street]  It was October the 24th, in the year 1891. that I heard for the first time in four months from my friend Sherlock Holmes. On this particular day, a telegram from his landlady, Mrs. Hudson, had been delivered to my surgery, imploring me to return to my former rooms without delay.

  Mrs. Hudson : [Mrs. Hudson opens the front door]  Oh, Dr. Watson, thank heavens you've come; I'm at my wit's end.

  Dr. John H. Watson : Why, what has happened?

  Mrs. Hudson : Since you left us these last few months, he's been very strange. He's barricaded himself up there, he won't take his food, he keeps the oddest of hours. I think he's taking...

  Sherlock Holmes : [from his bedroom]  Mrs. Hudson! I know there's someone down there with you! I heard the cab stop before the door!

  Mrs. Hudson : He keeps babbling on about some...

  Sherlock Holmes : [from his bedroom]  Mrs. Hudson, if that gentleman answers to the name Moriarty, you may show him up, and I will deal with him!

  Dr. John H. Watson : I better go to him.

  Mrs. Hudson : [Watson goes up the staircase]  Oh, be careful.

  Dr. John H. Watson : Moriarty was a name I'd only known him to mutter... when in the thrall of one of his cocaine injections.

  [Watson knocks at Sherlock's bedroom door] 

  Sherlock Holmes : [from within his bedroom]  Is that you, Moriarty?

  Dr. John H. Watson : It is I, Watson.

  Sherlock Holmes : [in his bedroom]  Watson?

  Dr. John H. Watson : [Sherlock slightly opens his bedroom door a crack, unlocking it]  You see it is I. Holmes, let me enter.

  Sherlock Holmes : [he closes his door again]  Not so fast! You may be Moriarty in disguse. Prove you're Watson.

  Dr. John H. Watson : How on earth am I to do that?

  Sherlock Holmes : Tell me where I keep my tobacco!

  Dr. John H. Watson : Tobacco? Well, as a rule, it's in the toe of your Persian slipper. Holmes...

  Sherlock Holmes : [Sherlock opens and unlocks the door]  Very well, I'm satisfied.

  [Watson enters Holmes's room] 

• Train Engineer : This is the Dresden local.

  Dr. John H. Watson : [pulls pistol from his coat]  It is now the Orient Express.

• Dr. John H. Watson : I have figured it all out.

  Mary Morstan Watson : Of course you have.