Film Quotes by Basil Rathbone
70 quotes
Year: 1945
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
And now, Professor Moriarity, what can I do for you?
Professor Moriarty: Everything that I have to say to you has already crossed your mind.
Sherlock Holmes: And my answer has no doubt crossed yours.
Professor Moriarty: That's final?
Sherlock Holmes: What do you think?
Professor Moriarty: Everything that I have to say to you has already crossed your mind.
Sherlock Holmes: And my answer has no doubt crossed yours.
Professor Moriarty: That's final?
Sherlock Holmes: What do you think?
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Woman in Green
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
At the moment I suspect no one and everyone.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The House of Fear
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
Brooklyn? Well, I knew a most charming man who lived there once. Uh he's now a resident in Sing Sing Prison.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
Pursuit to Algiers
(1945)
Year: 1943
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
Christmas boxes! Watson, I'm beginning to see the plan. Dr. Tobell divided his bombsight into four parts. He's given one of these four parts to each of these scientists. What a fascinating plan! You see, each of these parts is useless without the other three...
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
(1943)
Year: 1944
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
Consider the tragic irony: we've accepted a commission from a victim to find her murderer. For the first time we've been retained by a corpse.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Scarlet Claw
(1944)
Year: 1939
Director:
Sidney Lanfield
Director:
Sidney Lanfield
Sherlock Holmes:
Do you remember that missing boot, Watson? Why do you suppose the brown one, the one that had never been worn, was so mysteriously replaced and the black one taken?
Dr. Watson: Why?
Sherlock Holmes: Because the brown one would never have had the scent of the owner - and the black one had!
Dr. Watson: Why?
Sherlock Holmes: Because the brown one would never have had the scent of the owner - and the black one had!
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Year: 1939
Director:
Alfred L. Werker
Director:
Alfred L. Werker
Sherlock Holmes:
Elementary, my dear Watson.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1939)
Year: 1943
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
I assure you that Dr. Watson is the very soul of discretion.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)
Year: 1944
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
I don't like the smell of you - an underground smell, the sick sweetness of decay. You haven't robbed and killed merely for the game like any ordinary halfway decent thug. No, you're in love with cruelty for it's own sake.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Pearl of Death
(1944)
Year: 1943
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
I shall write a monograph someday on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)