Sherlock Jr. Quotes

  • The sheik: We are lost! He is sending for the world's greatest detective - Sherlock Jr.!

  • Title card: There is an old proverb which says: Don't try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both. This is the story of a boy who tried it. While employed as a moving picture operator in a small town theater he was also studying to be a detective.

  • Theatre Manager: Say Mr. Detective, before you clean up any mysteries, clean up this theater!

  • Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: I lost a dollar. Did you find it?

    Projectionist: [points to the trash pile] In there?

    Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: Yes, did you?

    Projectionist: [nods reluctantly, pulls it out] Describe it.

    Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: [gestures] This long.

    [Buster checks it]

    Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: This wide.

    [he checks again, she makes a bird with her hands, he checks and hands it over]

  • The sheik: [to Sherlock Jr. about a man locked in a tight cage] That's a detective. When he's dead I'll put you in there.

  • Projectionist: [as Sherlock Jr., riding on the handlebars of a motorcycle, unaware the driver fell off] Be careful or one of us will get hurt.

  • Title card: By the next day the mastermind has completely solved the mistery, with the exception of locating the pearls and finding the thief.