The Riddle
2007 · 116 MIN · IMDB 4.8 · 1,937 VOTES · DIR. Brendan Foley
Overview
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,349 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:02 Everything in life is a riddle.
00:07:01 A worker falls 50 feet off a building site one day after getting death threats
00:11:43 and the importance of the monarchy in the very fabric of our lives.
00:16:18 When I returned home, I found the house unkempt
00:22:23 You telling me makes me an accessory. I could lose my job.
00:28:01 If Willis finds out Sadie phoned me the night before she died
00:31:59 - He would. Come on. - Where? Hot date?
00:39:01 Who gave them to you?
00:44:46 To mar this perfection with a surgeon's knife
00:49:06 when I announced my theater engagement
00:53:19 It was some tincture given to her nurse
00:58:02 Why did you help me?
01:02:26 the servants having retired, and on this occasion
01:06:03 One problem.
01:10:36 I felt the door close, not just on my unwelcome visitor
01:14:39 Jimmy, you here?
01:17:44 Carry your own bleeding bags.
01:22:12 Be a darling, would you?
01:28:40 "The announcement was made
01:34:04 Remember the pub where you spiked my drinks?
01:38:11 except for one particular period when he stopped.
01:41:54 That promotion to the crime desk?
01:44:59 "And so much blood."
50:00:00 - Going to put somebody else on it?
Cast & Characters
Mark Asante
Dwayne
Julie Cox
Kate Merrill
Vera Day
Sadie Miller
'Long Bob' Elvin
Harry the Hat
Elly Fairman
Veronica Miller
Michael Fenton Stevens
Alistair Forsyth M.P.
P.H. Moriarty
D.I. Willis
P.H. Moriarty
Constable Frederick
Jason Flemyng
Don Roberts
Shelly Goldstein
Maud Skenshal
Gareth Hunt
Roy McBride
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,349
Dialogue density11.6 lines / min
First line00:01:02
Final line50:00:00
Production Record
DirectorBrendan Foley
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue$37,948
IMDb votes1,937