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00:00 [Music]
00:07 Foreign Intrigue, an exciting television drama played against the tense background of present-day Europe.
00:15 Produced in Europe especially for television by Sheldon Reynolds.
00:20 [Music]
00:31 The fate of nations and the movements of armies are often dictated by the forces of hunger.
00:38 The scientists who work officially and secretly to perfect new processes for the creation of food
00:45 sometimes flare across the headlines of the world.
00:49 In this case, it was a man who had crossed to Sweden from Poland.
00:54 I had been told to interview him and that he was frightened.
00:58 [Music]
01:10 I had been told the scientist was frightened, but I hadn't realized how much.
01:15 His experiments had something to do with wood pulp, and his base of operations was a laboratory he built near a sawmill.
01:23 But for some reason now he had fled.
01:26 They told me he was in a cabin in the mountains.
01:29 It took a lot of climbing to get there.
01:32 [Music]
01:52 [Music]
02:15 Stay where you are.
02:17 Hello there. I'm looking for Professor Kravitz.
02:20 Who are you? What do you want?
02:22 I'm a newspaper man.
02:25 Tell him to go away. I have nothing to say to reporters.
02:28 You're being foolish, Ignacy.
02:30 If he knows where you are, so do others.
02:33 Let him come up.
02:35 Perhaps he can tell us about those two men you're worried about.
02:39 All right, but tell him that I'll keep him covered every second.
02:43 Yeah.
02:51 Over there, please.
02:53 Anything you say, Professor.
02:57 Perhaps you're there just to prove you're an American newspaper man?
03:00 Yes, my press card.
03:02 May I see it, please?
03:16 Oh.
03:21 I'm sorry, Mr. Cannon, if I've treated you so.
03:26 But I must be careful.
03:27 I imagine you must.
03:29 Do you want a story?
03:31 There's been quite a bit of talk about your work on wood pulp.
03:35 I'd like a first-hand account.
03:38 You understand I can't disclose my formula.
03:41 I wouldn't understand it if you did, and neither would my readers.
03:44 Just the broad general outlines would be enough.
03:47 That I can give you in a few words.
03:49 It's true that I have succeeded in transforming ordinary wood pulp cellulose into a high-protein content food.
03:56 Did you say high-protein content?
03:58 That's what I said.
04:00 Well, that's extremely valuable.
04:02 I know the Germans used wood pulp for food in the form of carbohydrates, but never protein.
04:07 It wasn't very palatable, either.
04:09 Oh, that was capital parlor.
04:12 My product, Mr. Cannon, is both nutritious and palatable.
04:16 Do you have a sample of it here?
04:18 No, I have nothing here.
04:20 Everything is locked in my laboratory down at the sawmill.
04:23 You see, we left in somewhat of a hurry.
04:26 Now, there's a story in that, too.
04:29 We are hiding from up here in the hills.
04:32 I don't know if I...
04:33 You can't tell them anything.
04:35 You know, my sister and I are refugees from Poland.
04:38 I know that you came here to work on your food formula and refused to go back.
04:42 They'll blame us.
04:44 The fresh air of freedom is heavy stuff.
04:47 It's not easy to give up once you've had a taste of it.
04:51 But we've been summoned and threatened.
04:54 If we refuse to come voluntarily, they mean to bring us back by force.
04:58 Last week, we heard of the arrival here of two countrymen of ours.
05:02 Naturally, we lost no time in getting away until we could find out who they were.
05:08 Oh, I can tell you about them.
05:10 They were both picked up by the police and cleared.
05:12 They made quite a sensational escape across the Baltic in a sailboat.
05:16 They may be agents, posting us refugees.
05:18 Maybe.
05:20 I've got their names somewhere.
05:24 Uh, Waldemar Bismont and Helmut Sapolsky.
05:28 Sapolsky, Liza!
05:30 You know him?
05:32 At the university, one of my colleagues was a man named Sapolsky.
05:36 Could you describe him?
05:38 Yes, he was about your height, your coloring, brown hair, brown eyes.
05:44 He was a teacher, philology.
05:47 It's he, Nassir.
05:49 He used to come to visit us in Warsaw.
05:52 We had such good times together.
05:54 So, Helmut escaped, too.
05:56 It would be good to see him again.
05:58 Do you know where he is now?
06:00 They're both at an inn down at the seacoast.
06:03 You can continue your work and not be afraid anymore.
06:06 It's wonderful to think of it.
06:08 Helmut Sapolsky here in Sweden!
06:17 We returned to the village near the sawmill.
06:20 The scientist and his sister were happy again.
06:23 They would see their friends.
06:25 And there was nothing to be afraid of.
06:28 [Music]
06:35 [Music]
07:04 You play very well.
07:09 I'm very fond of music, Mr. Cowan.
07:12 But I couldn't think of any music that would be sweeter to my ears
07:18 than the sound of that sawmill.
07:24 I can understand that.
07:26 Wood pulp into food.
07:28 This discovery of yours may put you on a plane
07:30 with the men who wiped out smallpox and yellow fever.
07:33 It will wipe out the far more widespread affliction, hunger,
07:38 provided my progress remains in the right hands.
07:43 Helmut!
07:44 Oh, Helmut!
07:45 Helmut, you're welcome.
07:47 Yes, it is my little life.
07:50 But you're real grown-up and more now than ever.
07:53 Helmut!
07:54 Oh, hello!
07:57 Helmut, life is going on after all these years.
08:01 So you two managed finally to escape.
08:04 Oh, yes, with Albert here.
08:06 Hello, Albert, come, come in.
08:09 These are my old friends.
08:17 You're very welcome here, Mr. Bisman.
08:22 And now let me introduce Mr. Robert Cannon,
08:26 an American newspaper man.
08:28 An American newspaper man?
08:29 Oh, so you are going to be internationally famous.
08:32 How does it feel to have a famous brother like that?
08:35 He's just wonderful.
08:37 In Asia, Helmut and his friends must have stayed in some old inn
08:40 where we had so much room here.
08:42 Of course not.
08:43 We should send down to get your things for you.
08:45 I warned him this would happen.
08:48 Mr. Cannon, too, is staying with us.
08:50 Oh, it'll be like old times.
08:52 A house party.
08:54 You're very good to us, my friend.
08:56 Oh, not at all.
08:58 You don't know how delighted we are to have you here in Sweden.
09:02 You'll get settled here, find work and happiness.
09:06 That's my hope.
09:08 To this we must drink.
09:11 Yes.
09:13 Just think, Helmut, when we heard of the arrival of two Poles,
09:16 he fled into the hills in fear.
09:19 As soon as we found out who you were,
09:21 we couldn't get back fast enough.
09:23 But what is there to be afraid of?
09:25 This is Sweden.
09:27 I'm expecting emissaries.
09:29 It seems they miss me at home.
09:31 They should like to have me there, dead or alive.
09:34 So I don't trust you then to bring back the fruits of your research.
09:38 And how is it going?
09:41 Tomorrow I shall take you to my laboratory,
09:43 and you shall see for yourself.
09:46 [The man is shown in a lab.]
09:49 To your great discovery, it may free the world from want.
10:05 If it does that, it will also take care of one of the other freedoms,
10:09 freedom from fear.
10:10 I'll drink to that, Mr. Cannon.
10:12 To freedom from fear.
10:15 This is a happy reunion, isn't it?
10:20 Well, let us have some music.
10:23 Liza.
10:24 Yes?
10:25 Do you remember this one?
10:27 [The piano is played.]
10:30 [The piano is played.]
10:33 Hello.
10:53 How come you're up so late?
10:56 I can't sleep.
10:59 Too much excitement for one day.
11:01 Is that it?
11:02 Perhaps, Mr. Cannon.
11:04 The name is Bob.
11:06 Do you believe in a woman's intuition?
11:20 Sure.
11:23 I have a presentment of danger.
11:26 That's only natural after all the things you've been through.
11:29 I know.
11:31 It is an old vague fear that I have.
11:34 I suspect this beast man.
11:36 But he's Sapolsky's friend.
11:38 That should be enough, but it isn't.
11:41 When I'm near him, I have such a feeling of uneasiness.
11:45 That's because he's so quiet compared to Sapolsky.
11:49 Yes.
11:51 Helmut is a rare person.
11:54 Are you in love with him?
11:58 A girl is a fool to be in love with a man before he tells her he's in love with her.
12:03 I guess that answers it.
12:05 But he likes me.
12:06 I think he does.
12:09 Bob.
12:10 What?
12:11 Look.
12:12 Over there.
12:13 At the water's edge.
12:17 Beast man.
12:19 I was right.
12:20 Come on.
12:23 Come on.
12:32 Well, I guess you weren't fast enough for him, Liza.
12:35 He must have gone back to the house.
12:37 I wonder who he was signaling to.
12:39 Submarine?
12:40 Possibly.
12:42 We have to go to the police.
12:43 No, not yet.
12:45 All we have is our suspicions.
12:47 We must watch him and warn the others.
12:50 Oh, why, why.
12:54 [music]
13:20 I'm sorry.
13:21 Did I frighten you?
13:22 No.
13:23 Not at all.
13:25 Are you going somewhere?
13:28 Yes, I want to bring my boat up here to the landing.
13:31 As you know, we left it moored down the coast.
13:33 If I can sell it, the money will be in handy.
13:36 I see.
13:38 There is a bus leaving just now, isn't there?
13:40 Yes.
13:44 You don't seem to like me very much, Miss Kraut.
13:46 Why?
13:48 I don't know what you mean.
13:50 You're Helmut's friend.
13:52 I hope I am old to recommend me than just that.
13:56 That would be quite enough.
13:58 Would be?
14:00 I mean, what is quite enough.
14:05 You think a good deal of Helmut, don't you?
14:08 Yes.
14:10 That is, my brother and I both do.
14:13 Yeah.
14:14 That was what I thought.
14:16 All right, I will be back in time for dinner, Miss Kraut.
14:19 Unless something unforeseen should happen, unfavorable winds, such things, in any case we will see each other soon.
14:34 [Music]
14:52 What is he like that?
14:54 He has just gone to take the bus.
14:56 He means to sail his boat back in order to sell it.
15:00 At least that is what he said.
15:02 How could I have been so stupid as to trust that snake?
15:06 It wasn't your fault, Helmut.
15:09 Perhaps we had better go to the police, ask for protection.
15:12 Protection against what?
15:14 What proof do we have?
15:15 That we know.
15:16 Yes, we know, but that's no proof.
15:18 No, Nancy, let's not get the police into a race.
15:22 Just leave things to me.
15:23 I can take care of my old friend, Albert.
15:31 [Music]
16:00 [Music]
16:21 Drink, anyone?
16:22 [Music]
16:28 Everyone is so nervous tonight, as though there were a ghost in the house.
16:36 I have an idea.
16:37 Well, while you still have your boat, why couldn't we all have a last sail in it?
16:43 A moonlight sail, fresh, salt air and cool winds.
16:48 Will you, Liza?
16:49 And you?
16:51 And you, Mr. Cannon?
16:53 We haven't heard yet whether the owner of the vessel endorses the invitation.
17:00 Of course, if you like.
17:04 Well, Liza.
17:06 No, I have a headache.
17:09 A sail may be exactly the thing to make you feel better.
17:14 But if you're bored, we could play cribbage.
17:18 Cribbage?
17:19 Would you care for a game, Mr. Bisman?
17:22 Well, Helmut, what is it to be?
17:24 Do we stay here or do we go sailing?
17:27 I say we go sailing.
17:29 I should stay here with you, Liza.
17:32 I go ahead and bring the boat in from its moorings.
17:35 Well, I seem to have been forgotten.
17:37 My invitation is still open.
17:39 Of course, of course, if you want to come, Mr. Cannon.
17:43 Oh, yes.
17:44 I do want to come.
17:45 Well, I think I'd better get my flashlight from my room.
17:49 The path to the moor becomes quite dark.
17:56 Bob.
17:57 What is it, Liza?
17:58 Oh, Bob, don't let Helmut kill him, please.
18:00 Try to stop this somehow, but no killing.
18:04 That's why I'm going, Liza.
18:07 Thank you, Bob.
18:09 [music playing]
18:12 Our friend is racing sail.
18:21 Perhaps I should give him some light.
18:23 Don't use that.
18:24 Why not?
18:25 I searched Bisman's room today.
18:27 Naturally found nothing.
18:28 Nothing at all.
18:29 That's what makes it so funny.
18:31 Funny?
18:32 Strange.
18:33 Why?
18:34 Did you expect to find something?
18:35 I should have.
18:36 What?
18:37 A flashlight.
18:38 Oh.
18:39 And from that, you conclude--
18:40 That Liza's feminine intuition has been false.
18:43 She's been suspecting the wrong man.
18:45 You are the one at the waterfront signaling.
18:47 Bisman!
18:48 [explosion]
18:50 What is this?
18:53 Bisman, hurry!
18:54 E-drive, both of you.
19:05 [music playing]
19:08 Make yourselves comfortable.
19:18 Now, one or two mattresses at the end, two at the stormy end.
19:21 And then, Ignacy and Liza and I should
19:24 take retreat back in your boat.
19:28 I should have kept quiet until we got on board.
19:30 Oh, it doesn't matter now.
19:31 We've got to get out of here.
19:33 I knew something was wrong when Sapolsky came to me in Denia
19:38 and said that we used my boat across the Baltic.
19:42 I agreed.
19:44 But I was watching him all the time.
19:46 Last night, I heard him leave the house.
19:48 I followed him.
19:49 And then I knew what he was up to.
19:51 We thought it was you.
19:56 Perhaps I should have told you about my suspicions.
20:00 However, we can still got him as soon as I get this door
20:06 out of his head.
20:08 He said Liza and Kravitz.
20:11 Yes.
20:12 You go to the house.
20:13 I'll go to the stormy.
20:15 You must be one place or the other.
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23:47 Now I think you will be able to continue
24:05 your work, Mr. Kravitz.
24:07 I'll call the police.
24:09 I won't wait.
24:10 What do you mean?
24:11 I'm going to stay back tonight.
24:15 I'm going to return him to the people who sent him here.
24:19 They have their own way of dealing with failures.
24:22 Can you get back here?
24:24 I'll be back.
24:25 [music playing]
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24:36 (upbeat music)