This slows him down hardly at all, and he is very adept at using the peg-leg as a weapon. Handicapped Badass: The Big Bad Jonathan Small has a wooden leg.Greed: It is greed that drives Major Sholto to murder Captain Morstan and keep all of the jewels for himself.Fourth-Date Marriage: Watson proposes to Mary at the end of what has been essentially one very long, eventful day.Fright Deathtrap: Small is able to frighten Major Sholto to death just by leering through the window at him.Feet-First Introduction: The first shot of the Big Bad Jonathan Small is his wooden leg-making its distinctive clopping sound-striding along the prison corridor towards Major Sholto's office.He seems fond of it and even wears a snake when he is not on stage. Feather Boa Constrictor: Tonga wears several snakes round his neck as part of his 'Snake Man' act at the funfair.Evil Cripple: Jonathan Small has a wooden leg.Disney Villain Death: Small plunges the through the trapdoor in the warehouse into the river.Detectives Follow Footprints: Holmes follows the track of Small's peg-leg across the carpet in the study, and the prints of Tonga's bare feet through the attic.He then claims that it is the fault of the safety razor and that Small should let him have a go with a straight razor. Dangerously Close Shave: The Tattooed Man is giving Small a shave when he nicks him with the razor.Bound and Gagged: Mary is bound and gagged when she is kidnapped from the funfair and bundled into a car.Blow Gun: Tonga is an expert with the blowgun and uses it to murder Bartholomew Sholto.Artificial Limbs: Jonathan Small has a wooden leg which he is adept at using as a weapon.Armed Legs: Jonathan Small is an expert at using his wooden leg as a weapon, and bludgeons several characters with it, including Holmes.The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case provides examples of: Silver Blaze (1937, released in the US as Murder at the Baskervilles).

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935, adapted from The Valley of Fear).

The Missing Rembrandt (1932, lost film).

The Sign of Four was the third in a series of five Sherlock Holmes films starring Wontner.

However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her. The film is also known as simply The Sign of Four.Ī young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of the Four. The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case is a 1932 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Arthur Wontner, Ian Hunter and Graham Soutten.

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