Directed by Joseph Losey and produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Films. Based on a story by Victor Canning ("Chance At the Wheel") adapted by Jimmy Sangster, his first script, the film stars Donald Wolfit, Michael Medwin and Michael Ripper.
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01:02 - Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur.
01:23 - All right, all right, what is it this time?
01:26 - Is the English lady coming out now?
01:28 - Yes, she is.
01:28 - Why weren't you laughing at her like you did yesterday?
01:30 - Laughing, monsieur?
01:32 We were only smiling.
01:33 - Well, that's what I'm talking about.
01:34 Now go on, push off, both of you.
01:35 Go on, Ali, scarf up.
01:36 (speaking in foreign language)
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01:49 - English, you are fast.
02:01 (speaking in foreign language)
02:05 - Ah, your ladyship, on time as usual.
02:13 Please be seated.
02:15 As this is your last day here,
02:17 I hope you will honor me by taking a glass of champagne.
02:20 A small gift from the man of business.
02:23 In token of your esteemed patron.
02:27 You won today, I hope?
02:28 - I fear not.
02:29 - Most kind.
02:34 - My ladyship.
02:38 - Champagne so early.
02:39 - That's a special occasion.
02:41 To your speedy return to Crockfield and to our business.
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02:48 And now, I have.
02:50 - Allow me.
02:50 - I have a little surprise for you.
02:55 (groaning)
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04:45 (car engine roaring)
04:48 - There you are, your ladyship.
04:59 Try and get into something more comfortable.
05:01 It turned out all right, eh?
05:07 Huh, was getting me down,
05:08 sitting outside that place day after day.
05:11 - You were brilliant.
05:12 - Obviously.
05:13 - Mustn't forget, Maxie, it's the first job of this kind
05:15 I've ever done.
05:16 You don't regret it, do you?
05:17 - Regret it?
05:18 Oh, with all that lovely lolly I'll find.
05:21 - A third yours.
05:22 - Third or half, what to miss is it, mate?
05:24 Still a lot of lolly, innit?
05:25 How much did we get, Maxie?
05:27 - I've no idea.
05:28 Here.
05:31 Count it.
05:33 - But Maxie, we won't have time.
05:35 The plane leaves in half an hour.
05:36 - We've got plenty of time.
05:37 Go on, count it.
05:39 - All right.
05:40 (birds chirping)
05:43 - Besides, you won't be catching the plane.
06:02 - What do you mean, Maxie?
06:03 - You won't be catching the plane.
06:05 - What are you gonna do?
06:10 - Remember, we worked it out.
06:12 It was an accident.
06:14 The car just went over the cliff.
06:15 Only when they find it, there'll be a body in it.
06:19 The chauffeur, the unfortunate lady,
06:23 will never be recovered.
06:25 - But Maxie, I wouldn't tell anybody.
06:27 Honestly.
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06:45 (grunting)
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07:14 - You fool.
07:15 Didn't you realize I couldn't shoot you?
07:17 How would they ever have explained the bullet?
07:19 But a crack on the head from the windscreen.
07:21 (grunting)
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11:20 (knocking)
11:22 - Is the office on?
11:42 Anybody here?
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11:51 (gasping)
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12:21 (footsteps)
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12:49 - You want a bag?
13:17 (gulping)
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15:23 - Oh, so you're English, are you?
15:29 Well, that makes it easier.
15:30 Will you stop hovering about
15:31 and make up your mind what you're gonna do?
15:33 - How long have you known I was here?
15:35 - Since I came in, you left my door open.
15:37 - Why didn't you say something before?
15:39 - I thought if I didn't, you might creep away.
15:41 Seems I was wrong.
15:43 - Are those your footprints out there
15:44 leading to the front door?
15:46 - If there's only one lot, I suppose they must be.
15:48 - You walked right by me, you didn't try and help me.
15:50 I could've stayed there all night.
15:51 - I've discovered the best way of assuring
15:53 that I'm left alone is to mind my own business.
15:55 If you want to sleep out in the open,
15:56 that's your affair, not mine.
15:58 - Couldn't you see I was hurt?
16:00 - Were you? I'm sorry.
16:01 You might've been sleeping one off, you know.
16:03 It's happened before.
16:04 - What's the trouble?
16:06 - Doesn't matter.
16:07 You here alone?
16:08 - I've had plenty of time to search my house.
16:10 - I said, do you live here alone?
16:11 - I do.
16:13 - Got a phone?
16:14 - No, there's one about a mile along the cliff walk.
16:17 - You haven't made a call lately, have you?
16:19 - Should I have done?
16:20 - You're thinking I'm asking any questions, don't bother.
16:28 - I wasn't going to.
16:33 - That's the kitchen.
16:35 - I expect you want to know why I'm here.
16:44 - Not particularly.
16:46 - I'm going to rest up overnight.
16:51 - Any objections?
16:53 - Quite a few.
16:55 But I don't imagine you'll be interested to hear them.
16:57 - I'll be leaving in the morning.
17:00 How far away is the airport?
17:02 - About 20 minutes.
17:03 - Got a car?
17:04 - It's an easy walk.
17:06 - What are you, retired?
17:09 - I suppose I'm what you'd call a recluse.
17:13 - Just you and the bottle, eh?
17:15 - Work at anything?
17:17 - I used to.
17:18 - Help yourself.
17:23 - And what's your job, young man?
17:25 I suppose you have one.
17:26 - Certainly I've got one.
17:28 - You're sleeping out in the open and getting hurt.
17:30 Part of your job.
17:31 - You're asking questions.
17:32 I told you about that.
17:33 - We're just making polite conversation.
17:35 - Don't bother.
17:36 What's the matter with you anyway?
17:39 I come in here waving a gun,
17:40 you act like it happened every day.
17:42 - Your gun doesn't bother me.
17:43 - I wouldn't use it.
17:45 - On the contrary, I think you'd use it
17:46 without the slightest provocation if you had to.
17:49 Your type always do.
17:50 - What do you mean, my type?
17:52 - The ruthless type.
17:53 The type who knows what he wants and gets it,
17:55 no matter what lengths he has to go to.
17:57 - What's so wrong about that?
17:59 - Now you're talking.
18:00 - It's just not my way of life.
18:02 - Your way of life.
18:04 I can see what your way of life is.
18:06 You're English too, aren't you?
18:09 What happened, did they throw you out?
18:11 Mm, quite the one-time sportsman.
18:13 Look at you now, beachcombing sauce.
18:16 Mm, expensive luggage.
18:21 Best hotel.
18:24 - Yeah, it is the best.
18:26 - What happened?
18:27 Check start bouncing?
18:29 (footsteps)
18:31 Mm-hmm.
18:33 Tails, eh?
18:34 - Several are your finals.
18:36 (chuckles)
18:37 - Oh yeah.
18:39 You were well-heeled once, all right.
18:41 Or was it well-kept?
18:43 - Yeah.
18:44 - Maybe a woman threw you out.
18:46 Or did a younger man move in?
18:48 Mm-hmm.
18:52 Oh, the wind and the awe,
18:55 when the great sail swells before
18:57 which sheets a strain like a horse on the rain.
19:00 And on through the race and the roar
19:02 she feels for the farther shore.
19:05 Poet, eh?
19:09 - It is.
19:11 - You know what'll happen next?
19:24 You'll start seeing things crawl out of the wall.
19:27 Where are you going?
19:29 - You bore me.
19:30 I think I'm going to take a walk.
19:32 - You stay where you are.
19:33 No one's going for a walk, not while I'm here.
19:36 What's wrong with the lights in this place?
19:39 Don't they work?
19:40 - There's an oil lamp in my bedroom.
19:42 - Get it.
19:43 (coughs)
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19:50 If you didn't spend so much money on liquor,
19:58 maybe you could pay your light bill.
20:00 - What's the point?
20:02 If there are things crawling out of the wall,
20:04 I'd rather not have to watch them.
20:06 - Don't worry.
20:07 When they start, it'll take more than the dark
20:09 to stop you seeing them.
20:10 What about something to eat?
20:15 - There's plenty of food in the kitchen.
20:17 - How about you getting it?
20:18 Come on, come on.
20:19 Watch it, you'll fall flat on your face.
20:23 - What do you want?
20:27 - What do you got?
20:28 - Eggs?
20:29 Do me four.
20:30 This place is a mess.
20:36 - How do you like them?
20:37 - If there were a choice,
20:38 I wouldn't live here if you paid me.
20:40 - Every man is happiest doing what he does best.
20:45 I suppose you're happiest when you're perpetrating
20:47 some form of physical violence.
20:50 The knives and forks are in the sideboard.
20:52 - What gives you that idea?
20:54 - Violence is a strange emotion.
20:57 It's one of the few that needs no mate to breed.
20:59 It breeds by itself.
21:00 It's rather a remarkable accomplishment
21:02 when you come to think of it.
21:03 Now, I'm happy here mainly because I've learnt
21:05 the trick of living alone.
21:07 - You could do that fine, you know.
21:09 You obviously prefer your own company
21:10 to anyone else's.
21:11 - What does that prove?
21:13 - It doesn't prove anything.
21:15 It simply points to the fact
21:16 that you're much too self-confident,
21:17 that you're conceited,
21:18 that you have an almost indecent affection for yourself.
21:22 - What did you say your job used to be?
21:24 - I didn't.
21:26 - You don't have to.
21:28 I just found the tools of your ex-train.
21:31 What happened, doctor?
21:37 Struck off the register?
21:39 - There's the food.
21:43 - Or did somebody die on the table?
21:46 Is that why you married the bottle?
21:49 - You didn't answer my question.
21:55 - What question?
21:57 - You used to be a doctor, didn't you?
22:00 Tell me, is your devotion to the bottle
22:02 the cause of the result?
22:04 Pretty lousy doctor anyway.
22:09 Find a man lying outside your front door
22:10 and not even bother to see what was wrong with him.
22:12 - What was wrong?
22:13 - I'll tell you what was wrong.
22:14 I've been bleeding like a pig ever since I got here.
22:17 I've been shot.
22:18 It was an accident.
22:19 - Oh, I see.
22:20 You called on me as a patient.
22:22 Though my fees are high,
22:24 I have to keep myself in whiskey, you know.
22:26 - Well, are you gonna look at it?
22:28 - Do you want me to?
22:31 - No.
22:33 No, I wouldn't let you look at a dog in your condition.
22:36 Is there any disinfectant in this place?
22:41 - If you're as tough as you make out,
22:43 you can pour some whiskey on it.
22:45 But it'll hurt you.
22:46 - Couldn't hurt me more than it does now.
22:49 - Is the bullet still in the wound?
22:52 - How should I know?
22:53 You're supposed to be the doctor.
22:55 - That's a fact that doesn't seem to inspire you
22:56 with much confidence.
22:58 - See what you can do with it.
23:01 - I don't think...
23:03 - I don't care what you think.
23:04 Come and have a look at it.
23:06 Do you hear me?
23:07 - Yes, I heard you.
23:09 - Go on, get on with it.
23:11 (coughing)
23:12 Are you quite sure you want me to...
23:13 - Listen, Fred.
23:14 I know you're drunk, but I still want you to look at it.
23:16 Except for Pete's sake, get a move on.
23:18 - I shall have to sterilize these instruments first.
23:22 - You'll kill me, you drunken fool.
23:29 Look at your hands!
23:30 I'll look after it myself.
23:34 - Just as you like 'em.
23:39 (coughing)
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24:00 (sighs)
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24:37 (door slams)
24:39 - Where have you been?
24:41 - You up already?
24:43 I hope you slept well.
24:44 - Where have you been?
24:45 - For a walk.
24:46 - I said where?
24:47 - Along the beach.
24:48 It's very pleasant at this hour in the morning.
24:50 How's the shoulder?
24:51 - I was coming to that.
24:52 - Incidentally, if you're worrying about the bullet,
24:54 don't.
24:55 It passed right through.
24:56 - I told you not to touch me.
24:57 - You also tell me if it'll go after your own wound.
25:00 That doesn't seem to have been a conspicuous success.
25:02 - I told you the whiskey would hurt you.
25:04 - Now what's bothering you?
25:06 - The fact that I had to help you.
25:07 - Yeah, I don't need your help,
25:08 you can't even help yourself.
25:09 You opened my bag last night, didn't you?
25:11 - I did.
25:12 - Why?
25:13 - I thought I might find your clean shirt.
25:15 - What did you find?
25:16 - Well, you know what's in that bag.
25:17 - Yes, I do.
25:18 It's unfortunate for you that you do too.
25:20 I've already killed a man to make sure he didn't talk.
25:22 - Now don't be ridiculous.
25:24 You break into my house,
25:25 you try to order me about,
25:27 you make a funny nuisance of yourself all night,
25:29 and now you're making childish threats.
25:31 I'm tired of having you around.
25:32 You'd better go.
25:33 - Who do you think you're talking to?
25:34 Do you think I'm gonna walk out of here
25:35 and let you tell the police?
25:36 - Tell the police what?
25:37 That you spent the night here?
25:39 Sometime today you're gonna hear about a robbery
25:41 committed at the Rockfield Casino by a woman.
25:44 You'd be the only person who'd know it wasn't a woman.
25:47 You'll have half the police in Europe
25:48 on my track by this evening.
25:49 - Look, I'm tired of you.
25:50 You'd better pack your bags and go.
25:52 - What's that?
25:53 Oh, say it didn't tell the police.
25:55 - What makes you think that?
25:56 - Say it didn't.
25:57 There's a police car crashing in the back garden.
25:59 - What day is this?
26:00 Friday?
26:01 Oh yes, of course.
26:03 Yes, it is the police,
26:04 but it's only a social call.
26:06 Sergeant Clemont arrives to take me fishing
26:08 on Friday mornings.
26:09 He's early.
26:10 - I can't believe that.
26:11 - Now look, do you think if I'd been to the police
26:12 I should have come back here alone?
26:14 - You're lying.
26:15 You're the only person who can connect me with the casino.
26:17 I'm gonna get you out of here.
26:19 I'm gonna kill you.
26:20 - Now you've said that before.
26:21 Now you'd better go before Sergeant Clemont arrives.
26:23 He's not likely to be so tolerant with you.
26:26 - Monsieur Carter, êtes-vous prêt?
26:35 - Ici, monsieur.
26:37 - Mon dieu, qu'est-ce qui se passe?
26:41 - A catch for you, Sergeant Clemont,
26:43 not a very bright one.
26:45 - Are you all right, Carter?
26:46 But what happened?
26:48 - He came in here waving a gun at me.
26:50 I took the bullets out last night.
26:52 - I'd go and tell you everything,
26:54 and you couldn't have identified me anyway.
26:57 - Because I'm blind.
26:59 For a man who lives by his chin,
27:00 not very observant, are you?
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