Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
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- 1942
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Germany broadcasting,
Germany broadcasting.
People of Britain,
greetings from
the Third Reich.
This is the voice you
have learned to fear.
This is the
Voice of Terror.
Again, we bring
you disaster,
crushing humiliating
disaster.
It is folly to
stand against
the mighty wraith
of the Fuhrer.
Do you need more testimony
of his invincible might
to bring you
to your knees?
Very well.
Are you ready
Operative Number 7?
This is the
Voice of Terror.
The secret
airplane factory
somewhere in England.
Listen, screams of the
dying can still be heard.
This is the
Voice of Terror.
Are you there
people of Britain
shivering in your cellars?
Listen Operative 41.
The fuse is lighted.
Oil to fuel your Navy,
to feed your tanks,
there it goes up in smoke
by the millions
of gallons.
This is the
Voice of Terror.
Do you still believe
that there are
secrets unknown
to the Fuhrer?
Listen, tonight at 7:10
an important diplomat
boarded a train
at a little station
outside Liverpool.
Each split second
is accounted for.
The rails divide,
the train hurtles
through the air,
the diplomat will make
no report in London.
This is the
Voice of Terror.
Englishmen, do you
still await your doom
in your stupid,
stuffy little clubs?
It will come,
I promise you.
Operative 23,
the time is now.
We strike you
on the high seas
as well as on the land.
This is the
Voice of Terror.
Englishmen,
the Fuhrer strikes
you now as he pleases.
Water pours through
your greatest dams
smashing everything
before it,
even as our
invincible armies
roar toward their
objectives.
Despite the
effective work
done by the Intelligence
Inner Council,
Jailing fifth columnists
and saboteurs,
despite their efficiency
in coordinating
military strategy
based on information
of enemy movements,
they seem unable
to cope with
the Voice of Terror.
Already six military
catastrophes have occurred.
Unmitigated nerve
of the Press.
Now they're attacking us.
Blast the fellow
to kingdom come.
If only we could keep
this insidious
stuff off the air.
I'm not sure that
I agree with you.
What purpose
would that serve?
Well, the people wouldn't
have to listen to it.
I've been talking
to Crosbie,
the Radio Technician,
if we want him
jammed off the air
Crosbie can do it.
I've been working
along other lines.
I've asked Mr. Sherlock
Holmes to come here.
What, Sherlock Holmes?
This isn't a case for
a private detective.
It's a matter of state.
In this emergency we
should take advantage
of everyone's
peculiar gifts.
Mr. Holmes is the most
subtle and extraordinary
Private Investigator
of our time.
Are you intimating
that the
army and navy
intelligence
plus Scotland Yard
are not equal to the
occasion, Sir Evan?
I'm sure they're
equal to any occasion.
They've done a
marvelous job
of lining up
fifth columnists,
saboteurs, and
keeping us informed
of the enemy's movements.
But the Voice of Terror
seems to have
them stumped.
Sherlock Holmes may
have a new approach
that will solve
the problem.
What's happened
inside these walls
has always been secret.
We don't want any
outsiders here.
I'm positively and
irrevocably opposed
to calling in
Sherlock Holmes.
Perhaps you'll
change your mind.
I see nothing whatever
to make me do so.
Prentiss is right.
For ordinary criminal
investigation
Holmes is excellent
but not for this.
He's unorthodox
and theatrical.
I can tell you
all about him.
Gentlemen, perhaps I can
throw some light on
the subject myself.
Holmes, how are you?
So good of you to come.
Good afternoon, Sir Evan.
Your card opened
all doors.
Blauser,
you've put on
a little weight
since you left school.
You don't look any
younger yourself, Dimples.
How are you?
Fine.
Come in would you.
You know these gentlemen?
I think so.
How do you do?
I haven't had
the pleasure.
May I introduce my friend
and associate, Dr. Watson?
Hello.
How do you do?
I'm afraid I've arrived
at an embarrassing moment.
Not at all.
This gentleman here,
Admiral Sir John Prentiss,
Admiral Prentiss
objects most strongly
How could you
possibly infer that?
Look on the carpet.
Carpet?
A man who rises
from his chair
and digs his heels
sternly into the carpet
is violently opposed
to something,
and the Admiral being
quite distressed
by the criticisms
of the Press
would be most apt to
resent my intrusion.
Well.
You've just arrived
from Seven Oaks.
Yes, of course.
How on earth did
you know that?
Pardon my mentioning it
but adhering to
your left boot heel
is a clay known
only in Seven Oaks.
An amazing piece
of deduction.
Elementary my dear Barham.
Here's a broadcast of
the Voice of Terror.
Greetings from
the Third Reich.
Are you listening
stout fellows
across the channel?
Are you listening
you little body
of incompetent men
known as the
Inner Council?
Today a new thrill,
a new proof of the
invincibility
of the Fuhrer.
Right now a packed
express train
laden with British
troops and nurses
is speeding
across England.
In just one moment
it will leave the
rails forever,
crashing twisted metal,
the cries of
the dying...
They can't,
they wouldn't dare.
It's impossible.
They couldn't have...
...men are
laughing, joking.
That one in the third car
reads a letter from home.
It is the last letter
he will ever receive.
The train is
rounding a curve.
Its whistle is screaming.
Farewell it is
saying, farewell.
You have just heard
an exact reproduction
of the way it sounds,
the way it must
actually be.
The hearts of the
German people bleed
that innocent men and
women have to be killed
because your stupid...
Shore speaking.
Have you any news of
the Liverpool Express?
...time and time
again offered in peace.
But if you're blundering
that England is
already lost,
that it is our
sacred German duty
to prove it to them
over and over and over
until they are on their
knees begging, pleading,
groveling for the
exquisite mercy
of our Fuhrer.
Terror will announce...
Shut it off.
Stop it.
...even as you
listen and you...
I'm sorry.
Do what you can, Holmes.
This frightful thing
has got to be stopped.
His son was on that train.
How did they find out
about the troops?
It was an absolute secret.
Gentlemen,
something must be done
about this thing at once.
Yes.
First of all then,
the voice must not be
blocked off the air.
But he's a menace.
All over the empire
this horrible
news is broadcast,
blown up out of
all proportions.
The world is beginning
to believe it.
Even our allies are
counting England out.
People are
frightened, panicky.
not so easily pairing.
It's dangerous I tell you
to let this thing go on.
Dangerous, yes,
Captain Shore,
but we must
continue to listen.
What for,
so that we can keep
on guessing who it is?
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