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The 39 Steps-SD
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00:02:16 Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention and permission, I have the honour of presenting to you one of the most remarkable men in the world.
00:02:27 How remarkable? He's sweaty.
00:02:30 [Laughter]
00:02:31 And can you be surprised at that, gentlemen? Every day he commits to memory 50 new facts and remembers every one of them.
00:02:40 Facts from history, from geography, from newspapers, from scientific books, millions and millions of them.
00:02:48 Think of the strain involved by his prodigious feet.
00:02:52 His feet ain't half as big as yours, Cully.
00:02:54 [Laughter]
00:02:56 I'm referring to his feats of memory.
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00:03:00 Test him, please. Ladies and gentlemen, ask him your questions and he will answer you fully and freely. Mr. Memory.
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00:03:12 I also add, ladies and gentlemen, before retiring, that Mr. Memory has left his brain to the British Museum.
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00:03:27 A question, please. Ladies first.
00:03:29 Where's my old man been since last Saturday?
00:03:31 On the moon, in Quam.
00:03:34 [Laughter]
00:03:37 A serious question, please.
00:03:40 What won the Derby in 1921?
00:03:42 Mr. Jack Gold's humorous with Steve Donegaw won a length at the odds of 6 to 1. Second and third, Craig and Aaron and Lemonora.
00:03:49 Am I right, sir?
00:03:50 Right.
00:03:51 What won in 1936?
00:03:53 You come back in 1937 and I'll tell you, sir.
00:03:56 [Laughter]
00:03:57 How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?
00:03:59 What won the Cup in 1926?
00:04:02 Cup? Waterloo, football, or Tita.
00:04:04 Football, silly.
00:04:06 [Laughter]
00:04:07 What did Chelsea win in?
00:04:08 63 B.C. in the presence of the Emperor Nero.
00:04:10 [Laughter]
00:04:12 That causes flipping paltry.
00:04:14 Shh. Don't make yourself so common.
00:04:16 Well, our pals have won it, haven't they?
00:04:18 [Laughter]
00:04:20 How many races did Nick the Miller win?
00:04:23 How old is my wife?
00:04:25 When was Crepe in hand?
00:04:27 Who was the last British heavyweight champion of the world?
00:04:30 Henry VIII.
00:04:31 My old woman.
00:04:32 [Laughter]
00:04:35 Bob Fitzsimons. He defeated Jim Corbett, heavyweight champion of America, at Castle City, Nevada in October 1897.
00:04:42 He was then 34 years of age, sir. Am I right, sir?
00:04:45 [Applause]
00:04:46 How old is my wife?
00:04:47 I know, sir, but I never tell a lady's age.
00:04:49 [Cheering]
00:04:51 Next, please.
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00:04:55 That causes flipping paltry.
00:04:57 [Laughter]
00:04:59 How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?
00:05:01 Miss Winnie, you, sir?
00:05:02 How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?
00:05:04 Ah, a gentleman from Canada. You're welcome, sir.
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00:05:09 Winnipeg, the third city of Canada, and the capital of the province of Manitoba.
00:05:13 The distance from Montreal, 1,424 miles. Am I right, sir?
00:05:18 Quite right.
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00:05:20 Next, please.
00:05:21 How old is my wife?
00:05:22 Of course, that was a very historical fact.
00:05:24 How old is my wife?
00:05:25 [Cross-talk]
00:05:30 How old is my wife?
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00:05:39 Hey, you!
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00:05:45 Gentlemen, gentlemen, please, do not atone.
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00:05:53 Hey, you!
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00:06:07 [Gunshot]
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00:06:17 Hey, come on!
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00:06:20 For God's sake, play something now! Stop this shunning!
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00:06:43 Well, here we are.
00:06:46 May I come home with you?
00:06:48 What's the idea?
00:06:50 Well, I'd like to.
00:06:53 It's your funeral.
00:06:55 Come on, there's a bus.
00:06:57 [Bus sounds]
00:07:22 You don't stay here always?
00:07:23 No, I've taken a furnished flat. I'm only over here from Canada for a few months.
00:07:27 By the way, am I allowed to know your name?
00:07:32 Smith.
00:07:34 All right.
00:07:42 Do you want to know more about me?
00:07:44 What do you think I do for a living?
00:07:46 Actress?
00:07:47 Not in the way you mean.
00:07:49 Chorus?
00:07:50 No.
00:07:51 I'm sorry.
00:07:52 I'm a freelance.
00:07:53 Out for adventure, eh?
00:07:54 That's right.
00:07:55 This way.
00:07:56 I'm afraid you'll find my sitting room all upset. I've had the decorators in. Wait till I find the suite.
00:07:59 Not yet.
00:08:14 Now.
00:08:24 Mr. Hannay, would you be so very kind and turn that mirror with its face to the wall?
00:08:41 You'd be happier if there were curtains over those windows.
00:08:43 Yes.
00:08:44 I'm sorry.
00:08:47 Hello, there's the telephone.
00:08:49 Just a minute.
00:08:52 Mr. Hannay, don't answer the telephone.
00:08:54 Why not?
00:08:56 Because I think it's for me.
00:08:57 Oh.
00:08:58 Please don't answer.
00:09:01 Just as you say.
00:09:05 Won't you sit down?
00:09:07 Thanks. If you'll please kick that footstool over to me.
00:09:30 You needed that.
00:09:32 I did.
00:09:33 Thank you.
00:09:39 I owe you an explanation.
00:09:41 Well, don't bother about me. I'm nobody.
00:09:45 We cannot talk here.
00:09:49 All right.
00:10:02 Just a minute.
00:10:10 Okay?
00:10:11 Mm-hmm.
00:10:14 Cigarette?
00:10:15 No, thank you.
00:10:20 Your friend again.
00:10:22 Take no notice.
00:10:42 Would you think me very troublesome if I asked for something to eat?
00:10:45 I've had nothing all day.
00:10:47 Sure.
00:10:53 You like hareck?
00:10:54 Yes, please.
00:10:56 I suppose your name isn't really Smith.
00:10:58 Depends on where I am.
00:11:00 You may call me Annabella.
00:11:02 Annabella Smith.
00:11:03 Churchman's daughter, I suppose.
00:11:07 Hello, Nervy.
00:11:09 Upset with those shots tonight?
00:11:12 I fired those shots.
00:11:14 To do what?
00:11:15 Yes, to create a diversion.
00:11:18 You see, I had to get away from the theater quickly.
00:11:21 There were two men there who wanted to kill me.
00:11:25 Really, you should be more careful in choosing your gentleman friends.
00:11:27 No, no, no, you don't understand.
00:11:29 You don't make it very easy for me, do you?
00:11:31 Beautiful, mysterious woman pursued by gunmen.
00:11:34 Sounds like a spy story.
00:11:36 That's exactly what it is.
00:11:38 Only I prefer the word "agent" better.
00:11:41 Agent?
00:11:42 For what country?
00:11:43 Any country that pays me.
00:11:44 Now, what is your country?
00:11:46 I have no country.
00:11:48 Born in the balloon, eh?
00:11:49 I'll let that go.
00:11:52 Now, I suppose you've come over here to dig up some great big state secret.
00:11:56 No, I'm here to save a secret from being dug up.
00:12:00 A very important secret for this country.
00:12:02 Not because I love England, but because it will pay me better that way.
00:12:06 Thank you.
00:12:07 You see, the very brilliant agent of a certain foreign power
00:12:11 is on the point of obtaining a secret vital to your air defense.
00:12:16 I tracked two of his men to that music hall.
00:12:19 Unfortunately, they recognized me.
00:12:21 That's why they're after me now.
00:12:22 That was too bad.
00:12:24 You ever heard of a thing called persecution mania?
00:12:27 You don't believe me?
00:12:28 Frankly, I don't.
00:12:30 Go and look down into the street, then.
00:12:33 [Silence]
00:13:02 You win.
00:13:04 Arthur, there.
00:13:05 Yes.
00:13:06 I hoped I'd shaken them off.
00:13:09 Listen, I'm going to tell you something which is not very healthy to know.
00:13:14 But now that they have followed me here, you are in it as much as I am.
00:13:19 How do you mean?
00:13:21 Have you ever heard of the 39 steps?
00:13:24 No, what's that, a pub?
00:13:26 Never mind.
00:13:28 But what you were laughing at just now is true.
00:13:32 These men will stick at nothing.
00:13:34 I'm the only person who can stop them.
00:13:36 If they are not stopped, it's only a matter of days, perhaps hours,
00:13:40 before the secret is out of the country.
00:13:42 Well, why don't you phone the police or something?
00:13:44 Because they wouldn't believe me any more than you did.
00:13:47 And if they did, how long do you think it would take to get them going?
00:13:51 These men act quickly.
00:13:53 You don't know how clever their chief is.
00:13:56 Clever and thoughtless.
00:13:59 Who is he? What's his name?
00:14:01 He has a dozen names.
00:14:03 He can look like a hundred people.
00:14:05 But one thing he cannot disguise.
00:14:08 This part of his little finger is missing.
00:14:12 So if ever you should meet a man with no top joint there, be very careful, my friend.
00:14:17 Thanks, I'll make a note of it.
00:14:19 Meanwhile, what are you going to do?
00:14:22 First I'll eat my haddock.
00:14:24 And then, if you're not going to turn me out into the street, have a good night's rest.
00:14:30 You're welcome to my bed.
00:14:32 I'll get a shake down on the couch.
00:14:35 Anything else I can get you?
00:14:37 A map of Scotland.
00:14:39 Why Scotland?
00:14:41 There are some men in Scotland whom I must visit next if anything is to be done.
00:14:48 Are there 39 steps in Scotland by any chance?
00:14:52 Perhaps I'll tell you tomorrow.
00:14:55 Clear out, Henry.
00:15:13 They'll get you next.
00:15:16 (coughing)
00:15:18 (coughing)
00:15:20 (gasping)
00:15:23 (creaking)
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00:16:01 What you were laughing at just now is true.
00:16:07 These men will stop at nothing.
00:16:13 (creaking)
00:16:16 (creaking)
00:16:19 (creaking)
00:16:22 (creaking)
00:16:25 (creaking)
00:16:28 (creaking)
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00:16:42 There is a man in Scotland whom I must visit next if anything is to be done.
00:16:57 It is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.
00:17:06 The police would not believe me any more than you did.
00:17:12 I tell you, these men act quickly.
00:17:18 Quickly.
00:17:20 Quickly.
00:17:22 (creaking)
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00:18:05 Sir?
00:18:06 Good morning, sir. You're up bright and early this morning.
00:18:14 Could you use a palm note, brother?
00:18:18 What's the catch?
00:18:19 I want to borrow your cap and coat.
00:18:21 Yeah, wait a minute. What's all this? What's the big idea?
00:18:23 I want to make a getaway.
00:18:24 Do a bunk?
00:18:25 Yes.
00:18:26 What have you been up to?
00:18:27 I'll have to trust you. There's been a murder committed up on the first floor.
00:18:31 By you?
00:18:33 By those two men out there.
00:18:35 I see. Now I suppose they're waiting there as good as gold for a copper to come and arrest them.
00:18:41 It's quite true. Listen, they're spies, foreigners.
00:18:44 They've murdered a woman in my flat and now they're waiting for me.
00:18:47 Oh, come off it. Funny jokes at five o'clock in the morning.
00:18:50 All right, all right. I'll tell you the truth.
00:18:53 You married?
00:18:55 Yes, but don't rub it in. What's the idea now?
00:18:58 Well, I'm not, you see. I'm a bachelor.
00:19:00 Oh, are you?
00:19:01 A dead woman lives on the first floor.
00:19:03 Does she?
00:19:04 Yes, and I've just been paying her a call.
00:19:07 And now I want to go home.
00:19:11 Well, what's preventing you?
00:19:12 One of those men's her brother, the other's her husband.
00:19:14 How do you see?
00:19:16 Why didn't you tell me before, old fellow? I only wanted to be told.
00:19:19 Trying to keep me with a lot of tales about murders and foreigners.
00:19:22 Here, put these on.
00:19:23 Put on my little hat.
00:19:24 There you are.
00:19:25 I beg your pardon.
00:19:26 No, no, no, sir. You're welcome to it. You'll do the same for me one day.
00:19:30 Leave the pony around the corner.
00:19:32 So long, old sport.
00:19:35 Goodbye, thank you.
00:19:36 Oi! The empties!
00:19:55 Pills, magazines, chocolates, cigarettes.
00:19:59 What, like this?
00:20:02 There he is.
00:20:17 (thunder)
00:20:19 Well, for one thing, they're much prettier than they were 20 years ago.
00:20:38 More free. Free and easy.
00:20:40 You're right there.
00:20:41 I can never understand how people used to put up with the old-fashioned sort.
00:20:44 All bones and no pen.
00:20:46 Well, I will say for the old-fashioned, they didn't last longer.
00:20:48 Why, I don't know.
00:20:49 Mine last about a year.
00:20:50 Here, I'll show you.
00:20:51 Big demand for these now.
00:20:54 The old-fashioned sort.
00:20:58 Brrrr! My wife.
00:21:00 Now take a look at these.
00:21:01 Our new Streamline model number one.
00:21:04 What I've been talking to you about.
00:21:05 Anything go with it?
00:21:06 I should say so.
00:21:07 This.
00:21:09 Put a pretty girl inside those, she needn't be ashamed of herself anyway.
00:21:13 All right. Bring it back to me when it's filled.
00:21:15 I will.
00:21:16 Now, what's this?
00:21:18 Edinburgh.
00:21:19 Waverley.
00:21:20 We're getting on.
00:21:21 I hope you'll pardon us for talking business, sir.
00:21:23 Oh, certainly. Certainly.
00:21:25 Good day.
00:21:27 Good day, sir.
00:21:28 Good day.
00:21:29 Good day.
00:21:35 Brought money, don't he, sir?
00:21:36 I bet he's very good at charades.
00:21:38 I wonder what won the two o'clock at Windsor.
00:21:41 I don't know. Just a bit of paper.
00:21:42 (Song) Red, red, red, red.
00:21:47 Dispatch.
00:21:48 Hey, Clarence.
00:21:49 Speak it in English.
00:21:50 Dispatch.
00:21:51 Red, red, red, red.
00:21:57 Hello.
00:21:58 Well, what won it?
00:21:59 There's been another woman murdered in the West End flat.
00:22:01 What?
00:22:02 Woman murdered in West End flat.
00:22:04 Ah, these sex dramas don't appeal to me. What won?
00:22:06 A bachelor button.
00:22:07 Good.
00:22:08 Seven to four.
00:22:09 Oh, not so good.
00:22:10 Portman Mansion, Portman Place.
00:22:12 By the BBC.
00:22:13 That's a nice quiet place to put someone to sleep.
00:22:15 Good night, everybody.
00:22:16 Good night.
00:22:17 Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:22:18 Now, that's a good one.
00:22:19 What was she like?
00:22:20 One of the usual?
00:22:21 A well-dressed woman of about thirty-five, with a knife in her back.
00:22:25 The tenant, Richard Haney, is missing.
00:22:27 You surprise me.
00:22:28 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:22:30 At seven o'clock this morning, the charwoman, Elizabeth Briggs...
00:22:33 Well, if that isn't the blasted...
00:22:36 What's the matter now?
00:22:37 Is there no honesty in this world at all?
00:22:39 I ask you.
00:22:40 The new Bodyline rubber panty corset.
00:22:43 On sale today.
00:22:44 McCutcheon Brothers, Princess Street.
00:22:46 Price seventeen and nine.
00:22:48 Brassiere to match, four and eleven.
00:22:50 Do you get that?
00:22:52 The Bodyline.
00:22:53 One and three cheaper than our Streamline.
00:22:55 No use going to Aberdeen now.
00:22:57 Might I have a look at your paper?
00:22:59 Certainly.
00:23:00 [Chanting]
00:23:16 Thank you.
00:23:17 All right.
00:23:18 [Chanting]
00:23:36 Worse than his bike.
00:23:37 There's enough evidence there to hang any man.
00:23:43 What can I do for you, sir?
00:23:46 Oh, can you tell me what train station that train stops at next?
00:23:50 Do you think I am a railway porter?
00:23:52 Go in and find out for yourself.
00:23:54 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:24:00 I didn't know there was a better one than that, Prescott.
00:24:02 Well, you couldn't have a better one.
00:24:03 Well, you're right, indeed, there is.
00:24:05 Have you heard the one about the young lady of Hong Kong?
00:24:07 Why, I don't know. I can't remember it well.
00:24:08 Oh, you must hear that.
00:24:09 There was a young lady of Hong Kong.
00:24:11 Yes, we, er...
00:24:12 [Train whistle]
00:24:33 Take him, please, sir.
00:24:34 Thank you.
00:24:38 [Train whistle]
00:25:03 Darling, how lovely to see you.
00:25:05 [Train whistle]
00:25:13 Don't mind having a free meal in there.
00:25:15 I was desperate. I'm terribly sorry. I had to do it.
00:25:19 Look here, my name's Handy. They're after me.
00:25:21 I, I swear I'm innocent. You've got to help me.
00:25:23 I've got to keep free for the next few days.
00:25:25 Well, you should have met Patsy in the last few minutes.
00:25:28 This is the man you want, I think.
00:25:34 When we first just know...
00:25:35 He came this way in here and told me his name was Handy.
00:25:37 Is your name Handy?
00:25:39 No.
00:25:40 Are you coming in for tea, sir?
00:25:41 Have a right along.
00:25:42 Pull that cord.
00:25:53 [Train whistle]
00:26:19 [Dogs barking]
00:26:28 Get on with it.
00:26:29 Come on, Manny, don't do this.
00:26:31 Get on with it, will you, will you?
00:26:33 [Dogs barking]
00:26:38 Ah!
00:26:39 Here, here, here!
00:26:40 What for did you pull the communication cord?
00:26:42 To stop the train, you old fool.
00:26:43 It's against all the regulations to stop the train on the bridge.
00:26:46 And the man's up top.
00:26:47 He's a murderer. We've got to take him.
00:26:48 Which way did he go?
00:26:49 He must have jumped off here.
00:26:50 I can't see him.
00:26:51 Are you sure he jumped?
00:26:52 Anyway, I can't wait here any longer.
00:26:54 [Train whistle]
00:26:55 There he is, getting on the train.
00:26:56 No, that's a passenger.
00:26:57 It's he, I tell you.
00:26:58 Come on, will you, then.
00:26:59 [Alarm beeping]
00:27:16 Manny, Skype, Fiver.
00:27:18 Manny, Skype, Fiver.
00:27:20 Fiver, Fresco, Fresco, Fiver, 10-9 to Skype on 4, please.
00:27:24 Fiver.
00:27:25 [Indistinct chatter]
00:27:34 Height, about 5 foot 10, small moustache.
00:27:38 Last seen wearing a dark suit, but he may have obtained a change of clothing.
00:27:45 [Beeping]
00:27:46 [Beeping]
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00:27:51 [Beeping]
00:27:56 [Beeping]
00:28:01 [Beeping]
00:28:06 [Beeping]
00:28:11 [Beeping]
00:28:17 [Beeping]
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00:28:27 [Beeping]
00:28:32 [Beeping]
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00:29:02 [Beeping]
00:29:07 [Beeping]
00:29:12 [Beeping]
00:29:17 [Beeping]
00:29:22 [Beeping]
00:29:27 [Beeping]
00:29:32 Go in with the gentleman. He'll stay with us till tomorrow morning.
00:29:37 Your daughter?
00:29:39 [Beeping]
00:29:40 My wife.
00:29:42 [Beeping]
00:29:47 Will you now come in?
00:29:49 Thank you.
00:29:50 Here's your bed.
00:30:00 I left these things.
00:30:03 Could you sleep there, do you think?
00:30:06 You try and stop me.
00:30:08 You'll be tired.
00:30:10 I'll say I am.
00:30:12 I'm on the tramp looking for a job.
00:30:15 Won't you sit down, please, while I go on with our supper?
00:30:18 Oh, thank you.
00:30:20 [Footsteps]
00:30:23 You been in these parts long?
00:30:42 No. I'm from Glasgow.
00:30:45 Did you ever see it?
00:30:47 No.
00:30:48 Oh, you should see Sochi Hall Street with all its fine shops.
00:30:52 And Argyle Street on a Saturday night with the trams and the lights.
00:30:57 And the cinema palaces and the crowd.
00:31:00 It's Saturday night tonight.
00:31:02 You certainly don't get those things out here.
00:31:05 No.
00:31:06 You miss them?
00:31:12 Sometimes.
00:31:15 I've never been to Glasgow, but I've been to Edinburgh and Montreal and London.
00:31:19 I'll tell you all about London at supper.
00:31:22 John wouldn't approve of that, I doubt.
00:31:24 Why not?
00:31:25 He says it's best not to think of such places and all the wickedness that goes on there.
00:31:30 Well, why not listen now before he comes back?
00:31:33 What do you want to know?
00:31:36 Well, is it true that all the ladies paint their toenails?
00:31:39 Some of them.
00:31:41 Do London ladies look beautiful?
00:31:43 They do, but they wouldn't if you were beside them.
00:31:46 You ought not to say that.
00:31:48 What ought he not to say?
00:31:50 I was just saying to your wife that I prefer living in town than the country.
00:31:55 God made the country.
00:31:58 Is the supper ready, woman?
00:32:04 You mind if I have a look at your paper?
00:32:07 No, I don't mind.
00:32:08 Thank you.
00:32:09 (papers rustling)
00:32:12 You didn't tell me your name.
00:32:29 Oh, Holland.
00:32:31 Well, Mr. Holland, if you'll put down that paper, I'll see how blessed.
00:32:35 Yes, Lord.
00:32:38 (doorbell rings)
00:32:40 Sanctify these bounteous mercies to us miserable sinners.
00:32:46 O Lord, make us truly thankful for them and for all thy manifold blessings.
00:32:53 And continually turn our hearts from wickedness...
00:32:58 and from worldly things...
00:33:02 unto thee.
00:33:05 Amen.
00:33:07 I mind I forgot to lock the barn.
00:33:15 (door opens)
00:33:17 (door closes)
00:33:19 (door opens)
00:33:21 (door closes)
00:33:26 (silence)
00:33:28 (silence)
00:33:30 (silence)
00:33:59 (phone vibrates)
00:34:02 (phone vibrates)
00:34:21 (phone vibrates)
00:34:23 There are cars coming. That'll be the police. You'd best be going.
00:34:40 Thank you. I was having a good sleep.
00:34:42 Hurry up. Don't let them catch you.
00:34:43 I'm ready. I'll never forget you for doing this for me.
00:34:45 Which way do I go?
00:34:46 I'll show you.
00:34:48 Aye. How might I know?
00:34:51 Make and love behind my back.
00:34:54 Get out.
00:34:58 Just a minute.
00:34:59 Aye, and you too.
00:35:00 Get out of my house before I...
00:35:01 Aye, go. Go.
00:35:02 I'll leave you like this, no fear.
00:35:03 It's your chance of liberty.
00:35:04 Look here, you don't understand.
00:35:05 (phone vibrates)
00:35:08 Look here, you're all wrong about this. She's only trying to help me.
00:35:11 Aye, to bring shame and disgrace upon my host.
00:35:13 She's helping me to escape from the police.
00:35:15 The police?
00:35:16 It's the police. They're after me for murder.
00:35:18 What?
00:35:19 They're here. She was only trying to warn me.
00:35:21 I had to tell her about it last night.
00:35:23 Don't let them in. Say I'm not here.
00:35:25 I'll make it worth your while.
00:35:26 How much?
00:35:27 Five pounds.
00:35:28 Have you got that much?
00:35:29 Give it to me.
00:35:30 After they've gone.
00:35:31 (knocking)
00:35:32 Get Boston to the bed. Shut him in. Hide him.
00:35:35 Not there. I didn't trust him.
00:35:39 But he took the money.
00:35:40 He couldn't have resisted. Here.
00:35:43 (indistinct chatter)
00:35:46 Have you seen the stranger over here?
00:35:48 I was right.
00:35:52 He's asking if there's a reward if you get catched.
00:35:55 He'll argue badly for a moment longer before he lets them in.
00:35:59 Now's your time.
00:36:00 Oh, your jacket's terrible light-colored.
00:36:02 And I fear they'll see you.
00:36:04 You best take this one.
00:36:06 Is this your husband's coat?
00:36:08 Aye, his Sunday best one.
00:36:09 But never mind. They mustn't see you.
00:36:11 What'll happen to you?
00:36:12 Oh, I say, I couldn't have stopped you.
00:36:13 He'll treat you.
00:36:14 No. He'll pray at me, but no more.
00:36:16 What's your name?
00:36:17 Margaret.
00:36:18 Goodbye, Margaret. I'll never forget you for this.
00:36:20 (indistinct chatter)
00:36:23 (dramatic music)
00:36:34 There he goes!
00:36:50 (dramatic music)
00:36:53 Spread out in a line.
00:36:59 (dramatic music)
00:37:03 (dramatic music)
00:37:06 (train whistle blowing)
00:37:22 (train bell ringing)
00:37:27 (train whistle blowing)
00:37:31 (train whistle blowing)
00:37:34 (dramatic music)
00:37:39 (dramatic music)
00:37:42 (dramatic music)
00:37:45 (dramatic music)
00:37:49 (dramatic music)
00:37:52 (train whistle blowing)
00:38:01 (dramatic music)
00:38:04 (dramatic music)
00:38:15 (dramatic music)
00:38:18 Is the master in?
00:38:30 What name shall I say, sir?
00:38:31 Well, he wouldn't know my name.
00:38:32 Ask him if he knows Miss Annabella Smith.
00:38:34 Would you wait here, sir, while I come?
00:38:35 Yes, come on.
00:38:44 You'd better make me quiet in here.
00:38:46 Aye, you may have seen him through the windows.
00:38:48 There's been a couple of motorcars here.
00:38:50 Aye, motorists didn't pay calls in motorcars.
00:38:53 Good day to you.
00:38:55 The same to you.
00:38:56 Have you seen any strangers about this morning?
00:38:58 There's a few callers upstairs now, but they're no strangers.
00:39:01 You haven't seen any suspicious-looking bodies
00:39:03 outside the windows or cawing at the hoose?
00:39:06 No, sir.
00:39:07 There hasn't been anybody near here for the last half hour.
00:39:13 You're from Annabella Smith?
00:39:14 Yes.
00:39:15 We're just having a few drinks
00:39:17 to celebrate my daughter Hillary's birthday.
00:39:19 Give me five minutes to get rid of these people,
00:39:21 then we can talk.
00:39:22 Of course.
00:39:23 Come along in and meet my wife.
00:39:24 Louisa, my dear, I have another guest for you.
00:39:26 This is Mr...
00:39:27 I forgot to ask your name.
00:39:28 Hammond.
00:39:29 Mr. Hammond.
00:39:30 He's come to see me on business, all the way from London.
00:39:32 There's a police inspector at the door, sir.
00:39:34 He wants to speak to you.
00:39:35 At the door?
00:39:36 All right, all right, I'll deal with him.
00:39:42 Take him in, my dear, will you please?
00:39:43 Come and meet my daughter.
00:39:44 This is Patricia.
00:39:46 Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Huntley.
00:39:49 Oh, Hillary, my dear, this is Mr...
00:39:51 Hammond.
00:39:52 Mr. Hammond.
00:39:53 He's just arrived from London.
00:39:54 How do you do, Mr. Hammond?
00:39:55 Forgive the orgy, but we've all been to church
00:39:57 and the sermon lasts for three quarters of an hour.
00:39:59 This is Captain and Mrs. Ogilvie.
00:40:01 Have a drink, Mr. Hammond.
00:40:03 Thank you.
00:40:04 This is Derek, Derek Stewart.
00:40:05 And this is Sheriff Watson.
00:40:08 You've got to be polite to him.
00:40:09 He's our sheriff's substitute.
00:40:10 Scotch for local beef.
00:40:11 Give you six months hard as soon as he looks at you.
00:40:13 It's all right, don't worry, I've sent them away.
00:40:19 Come and look at the view from this window, Mr. Hammond.
00:40:22 We're rather proud of him.
00:40:27 By the way, Sheriff, when are you going to catch that murderer?
00:40:35 Murderer?
00:40:36 My dear, haven't you heard?
00:40:37 Why, the man with the stuffing carving knife
00:40:38 was at that woman important place last week.
00:40:40 He's here in the district.
00:40:41 Darling, how exciting.
00:40:42 Where?
00:40:43 Oh, somewhere about.
00:40:44 He's been on the moors, Bridge of Orkney or somewhere.
00:40:46 Sheriff Angel, why don't you catch him?
00:40:48 You wouldn't like me to be stuck in the back
00:40:50 with a carving knife, would you?
00:40:51 Oh, it's no business of mine to catch him.
00:40:53 You catch him, but I'll convict him.
00:40:54 Is there a reward?
00:40:55 Precious, it's nearly one o'clock.
00:40:56 Jim, we must get out of here.
00:40:58 The professor wants his lunch.
00:40:59 There's no hurry, my dear.
00:41:00 Still, if you must go.
00:41:01 Pat, a ring for Captain Ogilvie's car, will you?
00:41:05 Yes, sir.
00:41:06 [interposing voices]
00:41:08 [interposing voices]
00:41:10 [interposing voices]
00:41:13 [interposing voices]
00:41:15 Well, whenever you do catch him,
00:41:16 you'll find me at the Sheriff's Court at 10 every morning.
00:41:18 So bring him along.
00:41:19 Goodbye, Sheriff.
00:41:20 [interposing voices]
00:41:23 Louisa, my dear, if you'll excuse us,
00:41:25 Mr. Hammond and I want to have a chat before lunch.
00:41:28 [interposing voices]
00:41:30 [interposing voices]
00:41:34 [door opens]
00:41:36 Now, Mr. Hannay, I suppose it's safe to call you by your real name now?
00:41:43 What about our mutual friend, Annabella?
00:41:47 She's been murdered.
00:41:48 Murdered?
00:41:50 Oh, the Portland Mansions affair.
00:41:53 What are our friends outside looking for you for?
00:41:54 I didn't do it.
00:41:55 Of course you didn't.
00:41:57 But why come all this way to Scotland to tell me about it?
00:42:01 I believe she was coming to see you about some Air Ministry secret.
00:42:04 She was killed by a foreign agent who was interested too.
00:42:08 Did she tell you what the foreign agent looked like?
00:42:10 There wasn't time.
00:42:11 No, there was one thing.
00:42:12 Part of his little finger was missing.
00:42:14 Which one?
00:42:15 This one, I think.
00:42:16 You're sure it wasn't this one?
00:42:29 [door opens]
00:42:31 Lunch is ready, dear.
00:42:40 I'm coming right away.
00:42:42 Well, Mr. Hannay, I'm afraid I've been guilty of leading you down the garden path.
00:42:49 Or should it be up? I never can remember.
00:42:53 It seems to be the wrong garden, all right.
00:42:57 Well, what are we going to do about it?
00:43:01 That's just the point.
00:43:02 What are we going to do about it?
00:43:04 You see, I live here as a respectable citizen.
00:43:08 And you must realize that my whole existence would be jeopardized if it became known that I'm not,
00:43:13 what shall we say, not what I seem.
00:43:17 Oh, Mr. Hannay, why have you come here?
00:43:20 Why have you forced me into this difficult position?
00:43:24 I can't lock you up in a room or anything like that.
00:43:27 You see, there's my wife and daughters to think of.
00:43:30 I don't know what to think.
00:43:32 Really, I don't.
00:43:34 What makes it doubly important that I shouldn't let you go is that I'm just about to convey some very vital information out of the country.
00:43:44 Oh, yes, I've got it.
00:43:46 I'm afraid poor Annabella would have been too late in any case.
00:43:52 Well, that's fair.
00:43:54 Yes.
00:43:55 What about it?
00:43:56 What about what?
00:43:57 About yourself.
00:43:58 Seems to me there's only one way out.
00:44:00 What's that?
00:44:01 Supposing I left you alone with this revolver.
00:44:09 Tomorrow's newspapers would be able to announce that the Portland Place murderer had taken his own life.
00:44:15 I thought you were coming to lunch directly, dear.
00:44:17 We've all been waiting.
00:44:18 Is Mr. Hammond be staying?
00:44:21 I don't think so, dear.
00:44:22 Well, what do you think, Mr. Hammond?
00:44:28 Well, I'm afraid you leave me no alternative.
00:44:46 I can't find my handbook.
00:44:48 Where did you leave it?
00:44:51 In the breast pocket of my overcoat. It was hanging here.
00:44:54 Oh, John, I'm afraid I gave it to that gentleman who was staying here that night.
00:45:02 Cigarette cases, yes, but I've never seen it happen to a handbook before, except on the movies.
00:45:12 And this bullet stuck among the hymns, eh?
00:45:14 Well, I'm not surprised, Mr. Hannay.
00:45:16 Some of those hymns are terrible hard to get through.
00:45:18 I've stuck at them myself before now.
00:45:21 I'm not complaining, Sheriff.
00:45:23 Hymns that have helped me.
00:45:24 That's a good one, Mr. Hannay.
00:45:26 That's fine.
00:45:27 And to think that I was drinking a champagne only half an hour before.
00:45:31 Well, it's a lesson to us all, Mr. Hannay.
00:45:33 Not to mix with doubtful company on the Sabbath.
00:45:35 And how did you escape?
00:45:38 Well, if you look through the window, sir, you'll see.
00:45:40 They put the, well, the body in the dressing room.
00:45:43 When I came to, I borrowed this suit in case one of his men recognized me and pinched his car.
00:45:48 Sheriff, I don't want to hurry you or anything, but Orton would be taking steps.
00:45:52 This is serious, you know.
00:45:53 If it weren't, you don't suppose I'd put myself in your hands with a murder charge hanging over me.
00:45:57 Never heed the murder, Mr. Hannay.
00:45:59 I don't doubt you'll be able to convince Cotland Yard of your innocence as easily as you've convinced me.
00:46:04 All I'll need will be a short statement that I can forward to the proper authority.
00:46:08 Okay.
00:46:09 I have someone coming over from the police station next door to take it down.
00:46:11 Thank you, sir.
00:46:12 Thank you, sir.
00:46:13 Are you wishing to see me, Sheriff?
00:46:17 Indeed I am.
00:46:18 Do you think I enjoy playing for time with a murderer?
00:46:21 Rederick!
00:46:23 Saternay!
00:46:24 Hannay, you're under arrest on the charge of willful murder of a woman unknown in Portland Mansions, London, on Tuesday last.
00:46:31 Take him over to the county jail.
00:46:32 Sheriff, you've heard my story. You must believe it. It's true. I'll tell you every word of it.
00:46:35 Hannay, we are not so daft in Scotland as some smart Londoners may think.
00:46:39 Do you think I believed your coffin-bull story about the professor?
00:46:41 Why, he's my best friend in the district. Give me Professor Jordan.
00:46:44 If the professor didn't shoot me, where did that bullet come from?
00:46:46 That's easy. From one of your pursuers on the moor. Isn't that so, Inspector?
00:46:49 It is so, sir. I had a shot at him myself.
00:46:51 I demand that you allow me to telephone to the High Commissioner for Canada in London.
00:46:54 You'd better do that from London. You'll be there soon enough. It'll save you the cost of a trunk call.
00:47:07 That's the professor's car, all right. Hannay must be inside, spilling the beans.
00:47:11 Stop it!
00:47:15 Wait, Jordan!
00:47:17 Come on!
00:47:18 Get him!
00:47:21 [Music]
00:47:23 [Music]
00:47:25 [Music]
00:47:27 [Music]
00:47:29 [Music]
00:47:31 [Music]
00:47:34 [Music]
00:47:37 [Music]
00:47:40 [Music]
00:48:08 How do you do? How do you do? We're all waiting for you.
00:48:11 Pamela's got to meet you at the station. This way. This way.
00:48:14 ...from our respected leader and standard-bearer himself,
00:48:18 I welcome this opportunity of discussing with you another question vital to the import of our country at this critical and momentous hour.
00:48:30 But first of all, as a preliminary to this, I shall occupy the time...
00:48:35 You've occupied our matron, baby!
00:48:38 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm now going to call upon the speaker of the evening.
00:48:50 Speaker!
00:48:51 There's no need for me to tell you who he is, nor to speak of his brilliant record as a soldier and a statesman.
00:48:57 The son of Scotland...
00:48:58 Speak out!
00:48:59 ...who fought and conquered England, and is now one of the foremost figures in the diplomatic and political world in the great city of London.
00:49:06 I'm therefore going to ask him to tell you something.
00:49:09 That's about time, too.
00:49:10 ...how important it is to this constituency that at this crucial by-election, our candidate should be returned by an adequate majority.
00:49:19 I now ask for Captain Trayton.
00:49:22 [applause]
00:49:40 Ladies and gentlemen, I apologise for my hesitation in writing this.
00:49:44 But to tell you the simple truth, I'd entirely failed while listening to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker to realise he was talking about me.
00:49:53 [laughter]
00:49:55 As for you, may I say from the bottom of my heart and with the utmost sincerity how delighted and relieved I am to find myself in your presence at this moment?
00:50:05 [applause]
00:50:11 Delighted because of your friendly reception.
00:50:14 Relieved because so long as I stand on this platform, I'm delivered from the cares and anxieties which must always be the lot of a man in my position.
00:50:26 When I journeyed up to Scotland a few days ago, travelling on the Highland Express over that magnificent structure, the fourth bridge, that monument to Scottish engineering and Scottish muscle...
00:50:36 [applause]
00:50:38 That is to say, on that journey, I had no idea that in a few days' time I should find myself addressing an important political meeting. No idea.
00:50:45 I'd planned a very different programme for myself. A very different programme.
00:50:50 You'd be for the moors to shoot something.
00:50:52 Yes, or somebody. I'm a rotten shot.
00:50:54 [laughter]
00:50:56 Anyhow, I little thought I should be speaking tonight in support of that brilliant young statesman, that rising... the gentleman on my right.
00:51:06 Already known among you as one destined to make no uncertain mark in politics.
00:51:11 In other words, your future member of parliament, your candidate, Mr...
00:51:16 Macrocodile.
00:51:19 He doesn't even know the candidate's name.
00:51:21 I know your candidate will forgive my referring to him by the friendly nickname by which he's already known in anticipation...
00:51:29 In anticipation, mark you, at Westminster.
00:51:35 Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to discuss some topic. What shall it be?
00:51:38 The herring fisheries.
00:51:39 Unemployment.
00:51:40 What about the idle rich?
00:51:41 Idle rich? That's a bit of an old-fashioned topic these days, especially for me, because I'm not rich and I've never been idle.
00:51:47 I've been pretty busy all my life and I expect to be much busier quite soon.
00:51:51 Have you ever once been hired?
00:51:52 Indeed I have, and I've known what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me.
00:51:57 And those are things that no man or woman ought to feel.
00:51:59 And I ask your candidate and all those who love their fellow men to set themselves resolutely to make this world a happier place to live in.
00:52:06 A world where no nation plots against nation, where no neighbour plots against neighbour, where there is no persecution or hunting down,
00:52:13 where everybody gets a square deal and a sporting chance and where people try to help and not to hinder.
00:52:18 A world from which suspicion and cruelty and fear have been forever banished.
00:52:23 That is the sort of world I want.
00:52:25 Is that the sort of world you want?
00:52:26 That's all I have to say. Good night.
00:52:32 I kept them going as long as I could for you.
00:52:49 Well, you're certainly a difficult man to follow.
00:52:52 Well, I suppose you think you've been damn clever.
00:52:55 Officer, will you tell your prisoner not to insult me, please?
00:52:57 You try and stop it.
00:52:58 You come along with me.
00:52:59 Couldn't you realise I speak the truth in that way?
00:53:01 The carriage you must have seen I was travelling in.
00:53:03 Well, whether you believe me or not, will you put a telephone call through to the High Commissioner for Canada in London
00:53:08 and tell him an enormously important secret...
00:53:10 That'll do now.
00:53:11 An enormously important secret is being taken out of this country by a foreign agent.
00:53:14 I can't do anything myself because of this fool of a detective.
00:53:16 Has that penetrated?
00:53:17 Right to the funny bone. Now tell me another one.
00:53:19 Haven't you any sense at all?
00:53:21 Put that call through, I beg of you, and refer them to me.
00:53:24 Will you do this?
00:53:26 No. Good night.
00:53:28 I beg pardon, miss, but we should like you to come too.
00:53:30 Whatever for?
00:53:31 To identify the prisoner formally.
00:53:32 Will you come to the police station?
00:53:33 What?
00:53:34 It's only for a few minutes.
00:53:35 All right, if it's absolutely necessary, let's get it over.
00:53:41 It must be the outcome of wise planning.
00:53:43 Now you.
00:53:57 Must I sit next to this man?
00:53:59 It's only for a short time, miss.
00:54:00 Well, be as quick as you can.
00:54:02 All right.
00:54:07 All right.
00:54:08 Isn't that the police station? We're running past it.
00:54:20 Tell the man.
00:54:21 I'm afraid you must have misunderstood me, miss.
00:54:23 We're not exactly going to this police station.
00:54:25 Well, where are we going?
00:54:26 To Inveraray, miss.
00:54:27 Inveraray?
00:54:29 Yes, miss. This man's to be questioned by the sheriff principal.
00:54:32 We have orders to take him there directly.
00:54:34 But you have no orders to take me.
00:54:36 No, miss. But I'm afraid you must go.
00:54:38 I'll see you're sent back at the earliest possible moment.
00:54:40 Well, how far is it to Inveraray?
00:54:42 Forty miles.
00:54:43 Will you keep quiet?
00:54:44 Sorry.
00:54:45 We'll be there in less than two hours, miss.
00:54:46 Two hours? Do you think I'm going to spend half the night with you all?
00:54:49 Looks like it.
00:54:50 Looks like it.
00:54:51 (thunder)
00:54:53 (thunder)
00:54:56 (thunder)
00:54:58 (thunder)
00:55:00 (tires screeching)
00:55:17 (tires screeching)
00:55:26 (tires screeching)
00:55:28 Isn't the man going the wrong way?
00:55:31 That's the way down to the south. Surely that's the way to Inveraray.
00:55:33 There's a bridge fallen down on that road, miss.
00:55:35 We shall have to go around. The man knows the way.
00:55:38 Might I see your warrant?
00:55:42 You shut your mouth. You'll see it soon enough when we get to the station.
00:55:45 (whistling)
00:55:49 Do you mind if I have a small bed with me, Pamela?
00:55:54 All right, I'll have it with you, Sherlock.
00:55:56 I'll lay you a hundred to one that your sheriff principal is the top joint of his little finger, missy.
00:56:01 What about it?
00:56:04 I win.
00:56:07 Hello. What are we stopping for?
00:56:11 Oh, it's a whole flock of detectives.
00:56:19 (whistling)
00:56:21 People are all over the road, damn simletings. Get out both of you and clear them away.
00:56:24 What about him?
00:56:25 I'll soon fix that.
00:56:26 There, miss. Now you're a special constable.
00:56:29 What's the idea? What are you doing?
00:56:30 As long as you stay, he stays.
00:56:32 (whistling)
00:56:34 Yes, and as long as I go, you go. Come on.
00:56:37 Stop them. They've got away.
00:56:40 (whistling)
00:56:42 Come on, miss.
00:56:44 I won't.
00:56:45 Won't.
00:56:47 (whistling)
00:56:49 You're hurting me.
00:57:05 She's a young officer.
00:57:07 (whistling)
00:57:09 (goat bleating)
00:57:11 Where the devil can they have gone?
00:57:22 (goat bleating)
00:57:24 Help! Help!
00:57:43 Let me go! Let me go!
00:57:46 (sigh)
00:57:47 (rain)
00:57:50 (rain)
00:57:52 (rain)
00:57:54 (rain)
00:58:22 One dip out of you and I'll shoot you first and myself after. I mean that.
00:58:25 There's nobody down here, I tell you.
00:58:47 Then come up here, blast you, and don't waste any more time.
00:58:49 Spread out and find them.
00:58:51 (rain)
00:58:53 Must be a mile away by now.
00:59:11 Don't do that.
00:59:14 (whistling)
00:59:16 Oh, do stop whistling.
00:59:19 What are you doing all this for? You can't possibly escape.
00:59:21 What chance have you got tied to me?
00:59:23 Keep that question for your husband.
00:59:24 Meanwhile, I'll admit you're the white man's burden.
00:59:27 I know, and I can't tell you what comfort that thought gives me.
00:59:30 I say, what is the use of all this?
00:59:32 Those policemen will get you as soon as it's daylight.
00:59:34 They may get me, but they're not policemen.
00:59:35 And when did you find that out?
00:59:36 You found that out yourself.
00:59:37 I should never have known that was the wrong road to Inveraray.
00:59:40 They were taking us to their boss, and God help either you or me if they ever catch us again.
00:59:44 I see. You're still sticking to your petty novel at Spies' Talk.
00:59:47 (gasps)
00:59:48 There are 20 million women in this island, and I've got to be chained to you.
00:59:53 Now look here, listen, once more. I'm telling you the truth.
00:59:56 I told it to you once in the train last week.
00:59:58 I tried to tell you after the election meeting this evening.
01:00:00 I'm telling it to you now for the third time.
01:00:02 There's a dangerous conspiracy against this island, and we're the only people who can stop it.
01:00:06 Think what you've seen happen right under your very nose.
01:00:08 The gallant knight to the rescue.
01:00:10 All right.
01:00:12 I'm just a plain, common murderer...
01:00:15 who stabbed an innocent, defenseless woman in the back not four days ago.
01:00:20 How do you come out over that?
01:00:21 I don't know how innocent you may be, but you're a woman, and you're defenseless,
01:00:24 and you're alone on a desolate moor in the dark,
01:00:27 manacled to a murderer who'd stop at nothing to get you off his hands.
01:00:30 If that's the situation you prefer, have it, my lovely, and welcome.
01:00:33 I'm not afraid of...
01:00:35 All you know, I may murder a woman a week.
01:00:40 So listen to a bit of advice.
01:00:42 From now on, do every single thing I tell you to do, and do it quick.
01:00:46 You big bully.
01:00:49 I like your pluck. Come on.
01:00:52 - We're going in there. - What for?
01:01:02 - That's my business. - But...
01:01:03 Now, remember what I said. The civil tongue, or else...
01:01:05 We're going in there, and you're going to back me up in every single thing I say or do.
01:01:09 - Has that penetrated the ivory dome? - Only just.
01:01:12 All right, pull yourselves together.
01:01:13 Now, put your hand in my pocket and look as though you're in a hurry. Come along.
01:01:16 Oh, come away in, ma'am. Come away in, sir.
01:01:24 Oh, the young lady's terrible.
01:01:26 Oh, yes, we had an accident with our car a few miles back.
01:01:28 - Oh, you'll be staying the night? - Yes.
01:01:31 We've just the one room left with the one bed in it.
01:01:34 But you'll not be minding that?
01:01:36 Oh, no, no, no, no, quite the reverse.
01:01:38 - You're a man and wife, I suppose? - Oh, yes.
01:01:40 - Uh... - Yes.
01:01:42 - Have you any luggage? - No, we left that behind in the car.
01:01:45 Oh, maybe I could lend the young lady a nightgown.
01:01:48 Will you please to register?
01:01:50 - Uh, James, the book. - Aye, aye.
01:01:52 I'll weigh up a light of fire for you.
01:01:54 Will you be needing your suppers?
01:01:55 Oh, no, thank you. Just set up a large whisky and soda, a few sandwiches.
01:01:58 Oh, and a glass of milk.
01:02:01 Can't write with my left hand, my dear, but I can shoot with it.
01:02:04 You can guess what's in this pocket. Come on.
01:02:06 You shall sign, darling.
01:02:08 The sooner you get used to writing your new name, the better.
01:02:11 Off we go.
01:02:13 Mr and Mrs Henry Hopkinson, the Hollyhocks, Hammersmith.
01:02:24 - I'll be back in a minute, chaps. - I'll let you see me.
01:02:28 I'll be here.
01:02:31 That's ill-spirited of you, leaving your age with a student.
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01:02:38 ( indistinct chatter )
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01:02:45 ( whistling )
01:02:48 ( beeping )
01:02:51 ( footsteps )
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01:03:23 Now, dearie, off with that wet skirt of yours, and I'll have it dried in the kitchen.
01:03:26 Oh, don't bother, Italy. It'll dry in front of the fire just as well, thanks all the same.
01:03:30 No doubt the gentleman will take care of you.
01:03:34 Good night, sir. Good night, madam.
01:03:36 Good night.
01:03:39 Good night.
01:03:42 Is he married to her, do you think?
01:03:45 I dinna can and I dinna care. They're so terrible in love with each other.
01:03:49 I tell you, I can't stand it any longer. I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:03:52 They'll never hang me for a murder I never committed.
01:03:55 As long as they hang you, I don't care whether you committed it or not.
01:03:58 Do you think I'm going to spend the whole night with you in this room?
01:04:01 Of course you are. What else can you do? Come on.
01:04:04 ( knocking )
01:04:07 Come in.
01:04:10 Oh, we were just getting warm before the fire.
01:04:15 I can see that. I thought maybe you'd like this in your bed, sir.
01:04:18 I thought she'd like a hot water bottle, wouldn't you, my sweet?
01:04:21 Say yes, darling. Yes, darling.
01:04:24 Very well. I say, please don't go.
01:04:27 Why not? Is anything wrong?
01:04:30 Of course there's nothing wrong. She wants to tell you something, that's all.
01:04:34 We're a runaway couple. I can't do it all the time.
01:04:37 And they're after you? You won't give us away, will you? Please.
01:04:41 Of course we will not give you up. A good night to you both.
01:04:45 And you, no be disturbed.
01:04:48 Thank God for a bite to eat. Come along.
01:05:00 There you are.
01:05:03 Now, what's the next item on the program? Get these things off.
01:05:09 Right. How are we going to set about it?
01:05:12 Anything in that bag of yours will help. A pair of scissors or a hairpin or something?
01:05:17 There's a nail file here. Do you think that'll help?
01:05:19 Easily. It'll take about ten years, but we can try.
01:05:21 Now, let's make ourselves as comfortable as possible. What about that skirt of yours?
01:05:24 It's still pretty damp, you know.
01:05:26 Don't want to be tied to a pneumonia case on top of everything else.
01:05:29 Take it off. I don't mind. I shall keep it on, thank you.
01:05:32 And that is that.
01:05:34 My shoes and stockings are so deep, I think I'll take them off.
01:05:37 It's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.
01:05:39 Can I be of any assistance? No, thank you.
01:05:42 Sorry.
01:05:44 Here, hold this. Oh, yes.
01:05:54 Half a minute.
01:06:07 (Spoon clinks)
01:06:09 Erm, thank you.
01:06:16 Don't mention it. Do you like your milk now?
01:06:18 No, thank you. I'll wait a little.
01:06:20 All right.
01:06:22 Cheerio.
01:06:24 That's better.
01:06:27 Are your feet quite warm again? Yes, thanks.
01:06:29 Come on.
01:06:33 Now, will you kindly place yourself on the operating table?
01:06:36 All right, all right. Nobody's going to hurt you. This is Armistice Day.
01:06:39 Let's get some rest while we can. I'm not going to lie on this bed.
01:06:42 As long as you're chained to me, you'll lie wherever I lie, whether Siamese twins.
01:06:45 Oh, don't gloat.
01:06:47 Do you think I'm looking forward to waking up in the morning and seeing your face beside me,
01:06:50 unwashed and shiny?
01:06:52 What a sight you'll be.
01:06:54 Give me that nail file, let's have a go at this.
01:06:57 Thank you.
01:06:59 (Whistles)
01:07:01 There I go again. I wish I could get that tune out of my head.
01:07:04 I wonder where I heard it.
01:07:06 (Yawns)
01:07:08 You sound very sleepy. Sleepy, I'll say so.
01:07:11 Do you know when I last slept in a bed?
01:07:13 Saturday night, whenever that was.
01:07:15 Then I only got a couple of hours.
01:07:17 What made you wake so soon? Dreams?
01:07:19 What do you mean, dreams?
01:07:21 I've always been told murderers have terrible dreams.
01:07:24 Oh, but only at first.
01:07:26 Got over that a long time ago.
01:07:28 My grandma was quite squeamish about it. I was a sensitive child.
01:07:31 You surprise me.
01:07:33 I used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming, thinking the police were after me.
01:07:36 But one gets hardened.
01:07:38 How did you start?
01:07:40 Quite a small way, like most of us.
01:07:42 Pilfering pennies from other children's lockers at school.
01:07:44 Then a little pocket-picking, then a spot of car-pinching.
01:07:47 Then smash and grab and so on, but plain burglary.
01:07:50 Killed my first man when I was 19.
01:07:52 (Yawns)
01:07:54 In years to come, you'll be able to take your grandchildren to Madame Tussauds and point me out.
01:07:59 Which section?
01:08:01 It's early to say. I'm still young.
01:08:03 But I'll be there in one department or another.
01:08:06 Yes, you'll point me out and say,
01:08:08 "Chicks, if I were to tell you how matey I once was with that gentleman with biceps..."
01:08:12 What's the matter?
01:08:14 You're pinching my wrist with this handkerchief.
01:08:16 Oh, sorry.
01:08:18 Talking of Madame Tussauds, that's how it all began.
01:08:20 What began?
01:08:21 A year of crime. Old hereditary. Great Uncle Pen Ruddock.
01:08:24 Who was he?
01:08:26 My good girl, where were you brought up?
01:08:28 Never heard of my great Uncle Pen Ruddock, the Cornish Bluebeard.
01:08:31 Got it all from him.
01:08:33 I thought your family came from Canada.
01:08:35 No, that's where they went, after the Pen Ruddock incident.
01:08:38 He murdered three wives and got away with it,
01:08:40 but his third mother-in-law got the goods on him and tried to have him arrested.
01:08:44 Did she succeed? No.
01:08:46 He was too quick for her.
01:08:48 Took her for a walk to Land's End and shoved her over into the Atlantic Ocean.
01:08:52 He's in Madame Tussauds all right, and there's no doubt about his department.
01:08:57 You must go down and see him sometime.
01:08:59 Can't mistake him.
01:09:01 Third on the left as you go in. Red whiskers and a hair lip.
01:09:04 And that lady is the sad story of my life.
01:09:09 Poor orphan boy who never had a chance.
01:09:12 Are you still set on giving me up to the police?
01:09:17 (Pen scratching)
01:09:19 You're sure everything's going to be quite all right?
01:09:38 It's bound to be. He can't have much time.
01:09:41 As soon as I've picked up...
01:09:43 You know what. I'll clear out of the country.
01:09:45 Be careful.
01:09:47 Warrant me.
01:09:49 Goodbye, my dear. Goodbye.
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01:10:11 (Door opens)
01:10:24 (Footsteps)
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01:12:00 (Door opens)
01:12:02 (Door slams)
01:12:12 Is that Professor Jordan's house?
01:12:25 Can I speak to Mrs. Jordan, then?
01:12:29 Is that Mrs. Jordan?
01:12:31 Oh, he's gone to London already, has he?
01:12:35 If you could manage it, I'd like that whiskey hot.
01:12:37 Oh, I'll go away and get the hot water.
01:12:39 No, he dodged down the side street and the police went the wrong way.
01:12:42 The girl handed him over to us thinking he'd be with the detectives.
01:12:45 We had to take her as well, the procedure for everything.
01:12:48 Very good, ma'am. I see.
01:12:52 Yes, ma'am.
01:12:54 (Door opens)
01:12:56 Well?
01:12:57 The old man's got the wind up. He's cleared out already.
01:13:00 What all for?
01:13:01 Thought it too dangerous with Hanny on the loose.
01:13:04 He's warning the whole 39 steps.
01:13:06 Has he got the, uh... you know?
01:13:08 Yes. He's picking up our friend at the London Palladium on the way out.
01:13:12 Yes, yes, Tony.
01:13:14 That'll be half a cone.
01:13:16 And the phone call?
01:13:17 Oh, we'll see a shilling.
01:13:25 Is, uh... is this a hotel as well?
01:13:28 Aye.
01:13:29 I mean, do you have people staying here?
01:13:30 Aye.
01:13:31 I suppose you get a few odd people at this time of the year?
01:13:34 Oh, aye.
01:13:35 Hmm.
01:13:36 You didn't happen to have anyone in tonight, did you?
01:13:38 Aye.
01:13:39 They, uh... they weren't by any chance a young couple, were they?
01:13:43 James!
01:13:44 You nasty meat!
01:13:46 What kind of a silly creature am I married to?
01:13:49 Do you want to get us all jailed?
01:13:51 How much did you pack for these?
01:13:52 Half a cone.
01:13:53 Oh!
01:13:55 Oh.
01:13:56 Oot! The pair of you!
01:13:59 And dinner let on to anybody that you got a drink here after hours.
01:14:03 Oh!
01:14:04 You fool, you.
01:14:15 You wouldn't give away a young couple, would you?
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01:15:49 Morning.
01:16:08 Morning.
01:16:12 It's the idea.
01:16:13 How did we get out of these?
01:16:15 We didn't, at least you didn't.
01:16:16 I slipped out of mine last night and came and camped out here.
01:16:19 Why didn't you run away?
01:16:21 I did, but just as I was going I...
01:16:23 I discovered that you'd been speaking the truth.
01:16:26 So I decided to stay.
01:16:28 May I ask what earthquake caused your brain to work at last?
01:16:32 Those two men were in here last night. I overheard them telephoning.
01:16:34 What did they say?
01:16:35 Oh, a lot of stuff about the 39 steps.
01:16:39 You don't mean... No, go on, go on.
01:16:41 Someone's going to warn them.
01:16:43 How can you warn steps?
01:16:44 Never mind, go on.
01:16:45 Oh, yes, yes, and there was another thing.
01:16:47 Someone's got scared and is clearing out and...
01:16:51 Oh, yes, yes, I know.
01:16:52 And is picking up someone at the London Palladium.
01:16:54 London Palladium.
01:16:55 Oh, dear.
01:16:57 Is that the professor?
01:16:59 Our friend with the little finger missing?
01:17:01 What does he want to go there for?
01:17:04 I feel such a fool not having believed you.
01:17:07 Oh, that's all right.
01:17:09 And... well, we... we ought to get a move on.
01:17:15 What room are those two men in?
01:17:17 No room. They... they went as soon as they telephoned.
01:17:20 They what?
01:17:23 Didn't I tell you?
01:17:25 You let them go after hearing what they said.
01:17:27 You... you button-headed little idiot.
01:17:29 Don't talk to me like that.
01:17:30 Four or five precious hours wasted.
01:17:32 Why didn't you wake me up at once?
01:17:33 Even you might have realized that what they said was important.
01:17:36 Now they've called these men off, why not let well alone?
01:17:38 Let well alone? My good girl, I'm accused of murder.
01:17:40 Can't you realize the only way I can clear myself is to expose these spies?
01:17:44 You still can. The man's going to the London Palladium.
01:17:46 Really? First house or second house? I'll get there five hours late.
01:17:49 Fine. The show will just about suit you.
01:17:51 What's that?
01:17:52 Crazy month.
01:17:58 (Horn honking)
01:18:02 You're quite right, madam.
01:18:17 It's true the Air Ministry has got a new thing quite a lot of people are interested in.
01:18:22 But they are positive that no papers are missing about it that would be of any use to a spy.
01:18:28 But I tell you I'm quite certain about it.
01:18:30 There's a man leaving the country tonight with something.
01:18:32 Since you phoned to us from Scotland this morning, we've made the minutest inquiries.
01:18:37 (Sighs)
01:18:38 It's obvious I'm wasting my time here.
01:18:45 Now just a moment, miss, please.
01:18:47 There's one thing you haven't told us.
01:18:50 Where's Richard Hannay?
01:18:52 I haven't the faintest idea.
01:18:57 Now look here, miss, you can't...
01:18:59 You're in the telephone book, aren't you?
01:19:01 Yes.
01:19:02 Well, if anything crops up, we'll give you a ring.
01:19:04 That'll be all now. Thank you.
01:19:07 Tell Arthur and Seagrave to get another taxi and follow that girl.
01:19:16 She'll lead us to Hannay, all right?
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01:19:51 Cover every exit and on no account let anyone leave the building.
01:20:04 Now you two men go in the office to fit.
01:20:06 Ladies and gentlemen, we shall now sing.
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01:20:14 Come along there, please.
01:20:32 Come on, sir.
01:20:34 Sorry, sir, but no one's allowed to leave the theatre.
01:20:38 What's the great idea? Can't a man go out and have a drink?
01:20:41 I've got a seat in the store, but I'm just leaving, sir.
01:20:43 Can I go through, please?
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01:21:08 She's seen him. She's on her way down to the store.
01:21:14 Come on, sir.
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01:21:46 Excuse me, I take your place, please.
01:21:54 What are you doing here?
01:21:57 Listen, I found him. He's up in that box.
01:21:59 But you can't do anything about it. I've been to Scotland Yard.
01:22:01 Nothing whatever's been stolen from the air ministry.
01:22:03 I'm absolutely certain of it.
01:22:05 But you heard those men say he'd got in there. He is.
01:22:07 Shall we take him by yourself or wait till the end of the line?
01:22:11 (Laughter)
01:22:13 What you going to do? There's nothing missing. There's an entrance.
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01:22:24 Hear that tune? It's that damn thing. I couldn't get it out of my head.
01:22:33 Now I know what I heard it before. Of course.
01:22:35 That music hall. Annabella's...
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01:22:39 Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention and permission,
01:22:45 I have now the honour to present to you one of the most remarkable men in the world.
01:22:51 It's the same little man.
01:22:53 Every day he commits to memory 50 new facts and remembers every one of them.
01:23:00 Facts from history, from geography, from newspapers, from scientific textbooks.
01:23:06 Millions and millions of them down to the smallest detail.
01:23:11 Test him, ladies and gentlemen. Ask him any questions...
01:23:15 I've got it. I've got it. Of course there are no papers missing.
01:23:17 All the information's inside memory's head.
01:23:19 But I still don't understand. Don't you see?
01:23:24 The details of that air ministry were borrowed, memorised by this little man
01:23:28 and then replaced before anyone could find out.
01:23:30 That's why he is here tonight, to take memory out of the country after the show.
01:23:34 But surely some gentlemen here would like to speak to you.
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01:23:38 Question, please. Question, please.
01:23:41 (Indistinct chatter)
01:23:43 You Richard Hannay? Listen, there's something you ought to know.
01:23:47 Hello, keep handy. Come along quietly.
01:23:49 Yes, but look here, that man on the star...
01:23:50 Hey, look here, old man. You don't want to cause any trouble and spoil people's entertainment.
01:23:53 (Indistinct chatter)
01:23:55 What are the 39 steps?
01:23:58 Come on, answer up! What are the 39 steps?
01:24:01 The 39 steps is an organisation of spies,
01:24:05 collecting information on behalf of the Foreign Office of...
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01:24:09 (Groans)
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01:24:15 Men, keep your seats! Keep your seats, please.
01:24:36 There is no need for alarm. No cause for alarm.
01:24:39 (Indistinct chatter)
01:24:42 I don't want a chair, no. No, let me rest here.
01:24:45 Take it easy. Take it easy.
01:24:47 Take it easy.
01:24:49 I'm all right.
01:24:50 Get the girls on, straight away!
01:24:52 The girls in the doctor, right away.
01:24:56 Mr Memory, what was the secret formula you were taking out of the country?
01:25:00 Will it be all right, me telling you, sir?
01:25:05 It was a big job to learn it. The biggest job I ever tackled.
01:25:09 And I don't want to throw it all away.
01:25:11 It'll be quite all right.
01:25:12 The first feature of the new engine is its greatly increased ratio of compression,
01:25:16 represented by R minus one over R to the power of gamma,
01:25:20 where R represents the ratio of compression and gamma.
01:25:24 Seen in end elevation, the axis of the two lines of cylinder,
01:25:29 angle of 65 degrees.
01:25:32 Dimensions of cylinders as follows.
01:25:35 This device renders the engine completely silent.
01:25:41 Am I right, sir?
01:25:43 Quite right, old chap.
01:25:45 Thank you, sir. Thank you.
01:25:48 I'm glad it's off my mind.
01:25:51 At last.
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