Beat The Devil (1954)

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00:00:00Ragazzi! Uno, due...

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00:01:40These are four brilliant criminals, at the climax of their most magnificent effort.

00:01:49This effort began six months ago in Puerto Vallarta, where we were all to board the ship for Africa.

00:01:54They were my associates in a quest for uranium.

00:01:58An element not one of them knew the first thing about except that they'd heard you could get dough for it.

00:02:03Big dough.

00:02:05Who are... I mean, what do you suppose they are?

00:02:07Businessmen, does it matter?

00:02:09Well, if we're going to be on a small boat looking for weeks and weeks.

00:02:12I only said they might be from the passengers.

00:02:15Harry, we must beware of those men. They're desperate characters.

00:02:19What makes you say that?

00:02:20Not one of them looked at my legs.

00:02:24Good morning, Mrs. Danrother. Good morning, Billy Boy.

00:02:26Care to join us in the stroll?

00:02:28Turn up the divan, sweat out the toxins, help nature to help you.

00:02:32Wouldn't dream of it.

00:02:35Really, Billy, you mustn't be so offhand with Mr. Peterson.

00:02:39If I were to treat him with more than common politeness, he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.

00:02:44Mr. Peterson is a bully.

00:02:46Billy, did you see this?

00:02:50Billy, did you see this?

00:02:54That man in London has been killed.

00:02:56What man?

00:02:58Paul Van Meer, high-ranking official in the colonial office,

00:03:01was stabbed to death early this morning by an unknown assailant outside a club in Soho.

00:03:07This is the third crime of violence to occur in that vicinity within the past month.

00:03:14What is it, Billy?

00:03:20In heaven's name, Billy, say something.

00:03:35You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.

00:03:38It seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.

00:03:41Don't pretend to be a fool.

00:03:43But look, Billy, this happened early Tuesday morning.

00:03:47We'd all left London well before that.

00:03:49What about Jack Ross? What about the galloping major?

00:03:52But he only... I thought he only stayed behind to get that phone call from Ambassador.

00:03:56If it came through, he'd be here this morning.

00:03:59Well?

00:04:01Don't get so excited. Don't jump to unpleasant conclusions.

00:04:05Jump? They might as well have drawn a map.

00:04:07Why was Peterson worried about Van Meer?

00:04:09What made him think he was dangerous?

00:04:11He was afraid Van Meer wouldn't stay put.

00:04:14He was afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone.

00:04:17The visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,

00:04:20announcing, I have certain information,

00:04:22certain persons have paid certain sums of money...

00:04:24Don't talk so loud, Billy.

00:04:26...to obtain illegal rights to certain mineral supplies.

00:04:28That Indian, that Roger, or whatever he was,

00:04:31that you worked for in the old days,

00:04:33he killed a lot of people, didn't he?

00:04:35Nah, but he had a better style.

00:04:37Besides, he was out for a kingdom, half the size of France.

00:04:40What's the difference?

00:04:42Half the size of France.

00:04:44What's the difference between that and millions of dollars?

00:04:46We must think of the future, Billy.

00:04:48This is our big chance.

00:04:50It may be our last.

00:04:52Except for Mr. Peterson,

00:04:54we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.

00:04:56Where are you going?

00:04:58Another cafe, drink a lot of Pano, and listen to the band.

00:05:00You won't make a fuss, will you?

00:05:02It doesn't do to make a fuss.

00:05:04You have to think of the main objective.

00:05:08Actually, it doesn't do to be fussy.

00:05:12It doesn't do to be fussy.

00:05:18Two more women.

00:05:20Pass it.

00:05:22Let's go.

00:05:40The luggage is in there.

00:05:46Bring it up.

00:05:52Hey, look, the Desperados.

00:05:54Shh.

00:05:56Not quite in our contract, Billy.

00:05:58Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:00I'm celebrating.

00:06:02Celebrating what?

00:06:04The safe arrival of the Major.

00:06:06He came galloping in a minute ago,

00:06:08looking tired but satisfied.

00:06:10I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:06:12Yes, well, it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen.

00:06:14I'll see you later, Billy.

00:06:22Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:26Gwendolyn, it's your move.

00:06:28Oh. Check.

00:06:30Blast.

00:06:32Are you sailing on the Niagara?

00:06:34Africa bound.

00:06:36So are we.

00:06:38Oh, my name is Chell, and this is my wife.

00:06:40How do you do? My name's Tanner.

00:06:42How do you do?

00:06:44Are your friends sailing, too?

00:06:46The whole kit and caboodle.

00:06:48You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:06:50Well, for one thing,

00:06:52you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:06:54Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:56Check.

00:06:58I have a theory

00:07:00about you and your friends.

00:07:02Correction. My associates.

00:07:04As a matter of fact,

00:07:06I think you're doctors.

00:07:08Evil ones, I mean.

00:07:10You're going to the heart of the jungle

00:07:12where human life is cheap

00:07:14to perform ghastly experiments

00:07:16which require the sacrifice of thousands

00:07:18You must excuse my wife.

00:07:20She has a very lively imagination.

00:07:24Checkmate.

00:07:26I don't know how you expect me to play

00:07:28a decent game when you keep talking all the time.

00:07:30Harry's been all out of sorts today.

00:07:32Usually he's a wonderful loser.

00:07:34Good morning, Mr. Danrada.

00:07:36I bring you the captain's compliments

00:07:38along with the sad news

00:07:40that the sailing of the SS Niaga

00:07:42has been postponed.

00:07:44Now, look here. This boat is definitely,

00:07:46definitely scheduled to sail at 2400 hours.

00:07:48Scheduled, Mr. Chelm,

00:07:50but not, I fear, destined to do so.

00:07:52The power gone, or is the captain drunk?

00:07:54Oh, of course the captain is drunk.

00:07:56But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

00:07:58Well, it's not good enough.

00:08:00Simply not good enough.

00:08:02Quite right, sir, but you're putting it too mildly.

00:08:04The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:08:06Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:08:08To locate, bargain for, purchase,

00:08:10and install a new one will require, I should say,

00:08:12more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:08:16Utter, hopeless inefficiency.

00:08:18Probably it isn't the oil pump at all.

00:08:20Just making it an excuse to hang about

00:08:22and pick up extra cargo.

00:08:24Gardens are open. I wouldn't be surprised

00:08:26if she turned out to be a smuggler.

00:08:28What a miserable place to be stuck in.

00:08:30Squalid, fifth-rate port.

00:08:32Ever been in Fort Averno before?

00:08:34No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:08:36Oh, I thought not.

00:08:38Otherwise you wouldn't be so upset

00:08:40about staying. Magnificent country.

00:08:42Ruins divided by moonlight,

00:08:44fine stretch of beach.

00:08:46Back there in the hills, one of the few spots

00:08:48left in the world

00:08:50where you can get decent food and drink.

00:08:52It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:08:54I insist you give me the pleasure

00:08:56of having dinner with us tonight.

00:08:58Oh, that's awfully kind of you, but...

00:09:00Us? You and your associates?

00:09:02My wife and me.

00:09:04The committee?

00:09:06Oh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet

00:09:08a friend of mine. This is the galloping major.

00:09:10The committee wants you to toddle around.

00:09:12Okay. Right away.

00:09:14I'll be along. There's a toddle.

00:09:16I said I'd be along. They don't like to be kept waiting.

00:09:20I'll lay on a car. We'll meet in front

00:09:22of the hotel at six.

00:09:24At a Bodeci.

00:09:28Gunrather. An American, I suppose.

00:09:30Anyway, I...

00:09:32I quite like him.

00:09:34Time, 24 hours in the day,

00:09:361,440 minutes

00:09:38for somebody else to get busy on the same idea

00:09:40as ours.

00:09:42We ought to have got a plane and flown out,

00:09:44as I said from the start.

00:09:46You remember I said it, O'Hara?

00:09:48My name is not O'Hara. It is O'Hara.

00:09:50You hear? Mr. O'Hara.

00:09:52Yes, Mr. O'Hara. But you remember I said it?

00:09:54I said we ought to take a plane.

00:09:56Time, time. What is time?

00:09:58Swiss-manufactured, French-ordered,

00:10:00Italian-squandered.

00:10:02Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:04You know what I say?

00:10:06I say time is a crook.

00:10:08He stayed inside 15 hours.

00:10:10He stayed on the...

00:10:12I don't want any more talk about flying. The sky is for the birds.

00:10:14My feet are on the ground. Both of them.

00:10:18Come in, Billy boy.

00:10:22What's all the fuss about?

00:10:24No fuss, Billy. We're merely wondering

00:10:26what course to pursue in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:10:28Join the peasants and their rebels.

00:10:30Go to church. Write your memoirs.

00:10:34Very funny.

00:10:36It's good for an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:10:38Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles

00:10:40than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:10:44And now that we've had our moment of fun

00:10:46and all the better for it, let's get back to the question.

00:10:48Doesn't this delay

00:10:50call for a cable to your friend in British East?

00:10:52Mustn't send cables.

00:10:54Can't you get it through your head that the population

00:10:56down there has trained noses?

00:10:58They can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish.

00:11:00But aren't you afraid, Billy,

00:11:02that when our little party

00:11:04doesn't show up on the date you said,

00:11:06aren't you a teeny bit afraid

00:11:08that your friend might use that as an excuse

00:11:10to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:12If my friend

00:11:14were looking for an excuse,

00:11:16he'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:11:18What do you mean?

00:11:20I'm talking about the untimely demise of Paul Van Meer.

00:11:26Well, I'm appalled, Billy.

00:11:28What an unwholesome opinion

00:11:30you must have of your colleagues

00:11:32to imagine that we...

00:11:34Look here, Peterson, you don't have to convince me of anything.

00:11:36You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:11:38And I won't

00:11:40unless you ever decide to sic that knife-happy

00:11:42little junkie on me.

00:11:44Watch yourself, Larry.

00:11:46Now, Jack, behave yourself.

00:11:48Sit down.

00:11:50For shame, Billy.

00:11:52I think you owe an apology

00:11:54to everybody in this room.

00:11:56And if you're half the gentleman I know you are,

00:11:58I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:00As I was saying, Peterson, you have nothing to worry about.

00:12:02My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:04For purely venal reasons,

00:12:06that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:10Jack, give Billy a light.

00:12:22What a wonderful car.

00:12:24It looks as if it had won

00:12:26the Grand Prix d'Elegance many years ago.

00:12:28Oh, it did. It was built for Oroposo.

00:12:30You know, the bullfighter. He had it made this way

00:12:32so he could stand up and take powers.

00:12:34He only got one ride in. Never queefed it to me on his deathbed.

00:12:36Well, here's to Oroposo.

00:12:38I hope you like champagne.

00:12:40You mean it's yours?

00:12:42Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur, the fat bandit in the front seat.

00:12:44Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:12:46Well, that was Bertie Crampton's.

00:12:48Oh, you mean Lord Crampton in Gloucestershire.

00:12:50His family acres marched

00:12:52hand in hand with ours.

00:12:54Gloucestershire, the cathedral town,

00:12:56trout fishing,

00:12:58garden parties.

00:13:00What a beautiful life.

00:13:02You know England well?

00:13:04Emotionally, I am English.

00:13:06I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets.

00:13:08And I've always kept up

00:13:10my subscription to country life

00:13:12and to Tedlar.

00:13:14Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance.

00:13:16You're very wise to get out of it.

00:13:18Escape while you can.

00:13:20Oh, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.

00:13:22Simply so happened that a relative of mine,

00:13:24who died recently, happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:13:26Africa's the place now.

00:13:28You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys.

00:13:30They just skimmed a little off the top.

00:13:32Potential mineral wealth of Africa's

00:13:34hardly been scratched.

00:13:36Now, there is a villa.

00:13:38Big.

00:13:40Well, that's the Villa Capriccio, famed in song and story.

00:13:42A three-star attraction in Baydecker.

00:13:44Well, whose is it?

00:13:46Well, the bank's on it now. It used to be mine.

00:13:48Yours?

00:13:50Yes, I brought old Charles over from Fouquet's.

00:13:52When I decided to pull up stakes,

00:13:54I bought him this restaurant we're going to.

00:13:56Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:13:58Well, here we are.

00:14:00Charles! Charles!

00:14:02Wait here a minute while I route old Charles out.

00:14:04He doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:06Charles! Charles!

00:14:10He must think we're extraordinarily naive.

00:14:12Knew all those people.

00:14:14Owned that vast villa.

00:14:16Bought this place because he liked the fella's cooking.

00:14:18What utter balderdash.

00:14:20I beg leave to doubt it.

00:14:22Did you notice his wife?

00:14:24She seemed to be a rather sensitive little woman.

00:14:26Really embarrassed by all that rot.

00:14:28I am sorry, signore.

00:14:30As you see, we are closed.

00:14:32We do not open for another two months.

00:14:34Charles, what the devil's going on here?

00:14:36This place is falling to rack and ruin.

00:14:38The place is closed. We shall have to die in the hotel after all.

00:14:40Monsieur Don.

00:14:44Monsieur Don.

00:14:46Madame.

00:14:48Why did you not let me know you were coming?

00:14:50You did not say you were with Monsieur Don.

00:14:54Nothing is closed to Monsieur Don.

00:14:56Good to see you again, Charles.

00:14:58It's been too long, Monsieur Don.

00:15:00Not since the night you left the villa.

00:15:02Remember your farewell party.

00:15:04I tried ever since to forget it.

00:15:06Remember how in the morning

00:15:08we escorted you to the train

00:15:10with violins playing

00:15:12and everybody cried

00:15:14thinking you loved very much

00:15:16leave this country.

00:15:20Aren't you dressed yet?

00:15:22Do I appear to be dressed?

00:15:24Do dress. Do hurry.

00:15:26It's a most wonderful day.

00:15:28And Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:15:30His former villa.

00:15:32Obviously I can't go.

00:15:34I've got a chill on my liver.

00:15:36What a miserable place to be held.

00:15:38And you forgot to pack

00:15:40my hot water bottle.

00:15:42Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember.

00:15:46Hello.

00:15:48Oh, hello.

00:15:50No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:15:52Harry has this wretched chill.

00:15:54Give me the telephone.

00:15:56Chilm here.

00:15:58Yes.

00:16:00Quite.

00:16:02Absolutely.

00:16:04A hot water bottle.

00:16:06That's very, very good of you,

00:16:08old boy.

00:16:10Look here, Danrother.

00:16:12Would you mind very much if my wife went alone?

00:16:14She enjoys this sightseeing

00:16:16sort of stuff, you know.

00:16:18Spend it. Spend it.

00:16:20I'll send her along.

00:16:24You know, Gwendolyn,

00:16:26nowadays one simply cannot afford

00:16:28to dismiss people just because they're not one sort.

00:16:30One has to try

00:16:32and bridge the gulf.

00:16:34After all, it's a new world

00:16:36we're going into.

00:16:38As soon as one finds it,

00:16:40face it, use it,

00:16:42master it.

00:17:08You know,

00:17:10I've seen Americans on the street

00:17:12and in the cinema, of course,

00:17:14but I've never talked to one before.

00:17:16Are you a typical American?

00:17:18I think it's important that I should know.

00:17:20Why important?

00:17:22There are two good reasons

00:17:24for falling in love.

00:17:26One is that the object of your affections

00:17:28is unlike anyone else.

00:17:30A rare spirit,

00:17:32such as Lord Byron.

00:17:34The other is that he's

00:17:36like everybody else, only superior.

00:17:38Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.

00:17:40Well, if you must know,

00:17:42I'm a typical rare spirit.

00:17:44How long did you live here?

00:17:46Oh, the longest I've ever lived anywhere

00:17:48is two years.

00:17:50But when you were a child,

00:17:52didn't you ever have a mother and a father

00:17:54and a house and a street and a town?

00:17:56No, I was an orphan until I was 20

00:17:58and then a rich and beautiful lady

00:18:00adopted me.

00:18:02You know, I've changed my mind

00:18:04about your being an evil doctor.

00:18:06You're off to keep a rendezvous

00:18:08someplace in Africa

00:18:10sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:12You're going to found a new empire

00:18:14and make yourself master of the riches

00:18:16of the world.

00:18:18But you need a beautiful blonde queen

00:18:20to impress the natives as

00:18:22the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.

00:18:24That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:26Am I?

00:18:28Of course.

00:18:30I don't generally go sightseeing

00:18:32with strange men.

00:18:34You don't believe that, do you?

00:18:36Oh, I believe anything you say.

00:18:38Do you?

00:18:40Well, you shouldn't, you know.

00:18:42You really shouldn't.

00:18:44Mr. Charlton? Yes?

00:18:46It's I, Mrs. D'Arnaud.

00:18:48Maria. Oh, come in.

00:18:52Tea for two and two for tea.

00:18:54Now, that's most awfully kind of you.

00:18:56You shouldn't have troubled, really.

00:18:58Billy told me you had a chill.

00:19:00A bit of one on the liver.

00:19:02Two tarsel. Milk, of course.

00:19:04Of course.

00:19:08I feel

00:19:10I should like somehow to do him a good turn

00:19:12of some kind. You do?

00:19:14Well, naturally. Oh, I see.

00:19:16Naturally.

00:19:18I think it would be nice if

00:19:20you were able to do something for him.

00:19:22Help him along.

00:19:24Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:19:26Delighted, of course. For instance?

00:19:28Oh, something with business.

00:19:30He was very

00:19:32pleased with that tip you gave him on the way home

00:19:34last night about the gold shares.

00:19:36I've forgotten what I told him. What was it?

00:19:38I don't remember either.

00:19:40I was listening to your voice.

00:19:42I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:19:46You see,

00:19:48if you were helping him,

00:19:50it would be so much easier for us

00:19:52to be together a lot out there in Africa.

00:19:54Was he any head for business?

00:19:56The boy is simply brilliant.

00:19:58I wouldn't have thought it.

00:20:00But of course he is.

00:20:02You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny,

00:20:04do you? If you imagine

00:20:06that Harry's simply going to Africa

00:20:08to plant coffee, you're very much

00:20:10mistaken.

00:20:12In point of fact,

00:20:14coffee is the least of Harry's

00:20:16interests.

00:20:18In point of fact, the land

00:20:20he's acquiring is extremely rich

00:20:22in certain minerals.

00:20:24Minerals which are indispensable to the production

00:20:26of atomic energy.

00:20:28Harry's land simply teems with uranium.

00:20:30It wouldn't surprise me to see him

00:20:32become the uranium king.

00:20:34So you see, my husband isn't

00:20:36such a ninny as you may have imagined.

00:20:38It might very well be

00:20:40worth your while to go in with him.

00:20:42The potential mineral wealth of Africa has hardly

00:20:44been scratched. I was telling you

00:20:46last night. Well, of course.

00:20:48It's a well-known fact.

00:20:54Billy boy!

00:21:04Had a happy day?

00:21:06Very. I'm so glad.

00:21:08What an attractive woman

00:21:10Mrs. Chelmier's.

00:21:12Is that what you called me over to tell me?

00:21:14Who are the Chelmier's?

00:21:16They're English going out to British East.

00:21:18They have a coffee plant there.

00:21:20It's a lovely place.

00:21:22They're English going out to British East.

00:21:24They have a coffee plantation.

00:21:26Any money in coffee?

00:21:28No, because the type of Englishman goes off to coffee plantations

00:21:30without caring whether there's any money in it or not.

00:21:32Relatives leave them coffee plantations

00:21:34and they go out to them.

00:21:36But why this sudden interest in the Chelm?

00:21:38I'd just like to know who's making friends

00:21:40with my friends.

00:21:42Now you know.

00:21:52You know,

00:21:54if I ever leave you,

00:21:56it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:21:58Well, believe it or you.

00:22:00I suppose that type of Englishman

00:22:02is like a story I once heard.

00:22:04An English gardener in England

00:22:06was showing some Americans

00:22:08one of those wonderful

00:22:10English lawns.

00:22:12And, of course, they wanted to know

00:22:14how to make a lawn like that.

00:22:16And this English gardener said...

00:22:18He said, all you have to do is get some good grass

00:22:20and roll it every day for 600 years.

00:22:22I heard that story before you were born.

00:22:24Englishmen tell it

00:22:26when they're feeling down in the mouth.

00:22:28You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:22:32You're not even listening.

00:22:34You never do.

00:22:36Someday I'll say goodbye

00:22:38and you won't hear that either.

00:22:40One day I shall really meet my type

00:22:42and run off with him.

00:22:44And you'll be simply amazed.

00:22:46That's possible.

00:22:48George Moore said...

00:22:50I learned it by heart years ago.

00:22:52He said that each great passion

00:22:54is the fruit

00:22:56of many fruitless years.

00:22:58George Moore was a very

00:23:00distinguished English writer, you know.

00:23:02Except that he was Irish.

00:23:04Cheer up, sugar.

00:23:06If I make a million on this deal,

00:23:08I'll buy you an old English lawn

00:23:10when we can roll up and take with us.

00:23:12Billy?

00:23:14Good morning.

00:23:16What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun

00:23:18doing outside my door?

00:23:20Why do you always make jokes about my name, huh?

00:23:22In Chile, the name of O'Hara

00:23:24is a tip-top name.

00:23:26Many Germans in Chile have become

00:23:28to be called O'Hara.

00:23:30Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:23:32Madame, my respects.

00:23:34Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like

00:23:36something to drink?

00:23:38Yes, maybe perhaps

00:23:40a little whiskey, huh?

00:23:42Very weak, please.

00:23:44What's this visit in honor of?

00:23:46Oh,

00:23:48just wanted to have a little talk with you.

00:23:50Okay, but make it fast.

00:23:52Fast?

00:23:54I give you my word, Billy.

00:23:56I give you my word.

00:23:58I feel to you like...

00:24:00like an older brother.

00:24:02Oh, it's not so much a difference of age.

00:24:04It's...

00:24:06It's probably, yes,

00:24:08the reason is because

00:24:10I come from a culture

00:24:12which is so much older

00:24:14than yours in my country.

00:24:16A child six years old

00:24:18is older in his heart

00:24:20than you'll be at sixty.

00:24:22It smokes, it drinks,

00:24:24it philosophizes.

00:24:26At this rate, I'll be sixty

00:24:28before you get to the point.

00:24:30The point is that

00:24:32Peterson, Ravello, myself,

00:24:34we are the principals in this case.

00:24:36We are in with the money.

00:24:38We cannot switch around and turn

00:24:40and put an agent...

00:24:42It's easy to imagine

00:24:44that he conceivably

00:24:46doesn't feel himself quite

00:24:48as irrevocably committed

00:24:50as Peterson or...

00:24:54We're fellow passengers,

00:24:56I believe.

00:24:58Not quite yet, would you say?

00:25:00Too sadly true.

00:25:02By chance, you don't happen to have seen

00:25:04I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:25:06He's not eleven, he's rather a late riser.

00:25:08But he said it, he said it.

00:25:10Well, anyway.

00:25:12I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:25:14particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:25:16It's not that he means to break his word,

00:25:18he just forgets that he's given it.

00:25:20Charm and dependability so seldom go in one package.

00:25:22There are exceptions, of course.

00:25:24Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behavior, is one.

00:25:26Oh, yes, very.

00:25:28Well, quite, I mean.

00:25:30I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband

00:25:32By all means.

00:25:34I understand he's in coffee?

00:25:36He makes it sound like a total immersion.

00:25:38Part of Africa we're going through

00:25:40is due for some pretty important changes.

00:25:42In my opinion, things will be booming out there

00:25:44before you can say Jack Robinson.

00:25:46I do hope there won't be too many changes.

00:25:48It's completely unspoilt, I hear,

00:25:50with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:25:52I can't imagine anything more lovely

00:25:54in the way of scenery than to have a few acres of gold

00:25:56and diamonds cropping up on a piece of land

00:25:58I bought for a song.

00:26:00Heaven forbid.

00:26:02Next thing, there'd be big ugly holes everywhere

00:26:04and great horrid machines instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:08Anyway, I don't think my husband worries much

00:26:10about money and business, that sort of thing.

00:26:12Really?

00:26:14I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view,

00:26:16one has to understand his background.

00:26:18Those lawns.

00:26:20Hundreds of years in the making.

00:26:22Those immemorial elms.

00:26:24Those walls hung with family portraits.

00:26:26Generations of them.

00:26:28Those great echoing galleries

00:26:30where so much of English history is being made.

00:26:34Taxes must be terrific on a place like that.

00:26:36What would people like the Chelms

00:26:38care about taxes with their kind of money?

00:26:40I mean, when a family's been a power

00:26:42in the city of London for so long.

00:26:44One of the great financial families.

00:26:46Power in the city?

00:26:48You mean...

00:26:50Oh, yes, of course, one of those Chelms.

00:26:52I'm surprised you know about them at all.

00:26:54Very few people do.

00:26:56They prefer to work behind the scenes.

00:26:58I find it rather hard to believe

00:27:00that a man in your husband's position

00:27:02would go to Africa just for the coffee plot.

00:27:06You're very quick, aren't you?

00:27:08In point of fact, he isn't.

00:27:10In point of fact, he has a very special reason.

00:27:12So I suspect it.

00:27:14It has to do with...

00:27:16sin.

00:27:18Sin?

00:27:20Since the war, my husband has been

00:27:22almost exclusively concerned with

00:27:24spiritual values.

00:27:26He feels that if he can get away there,

00:27:28in the heart of Africa,

00:27:30he will come face to face with essentials.

00:27:32He wants to work out the problem of sin.

00:27:34Sin?

00:27:36Why, yes, of course.

00:27:38Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?

00:27:40Sin?

00:27:44Gwendolyn, what are you doing here?

00:27:46I thought we were supposed to meet on the beach.

00:27:48Harry, I want you to meet Mr...

00:27:50My name is Peterson.

00:27:52It's delightful to talk to your wife.

00:27:54She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.

00:27:56I myself am vastly concerned.

00:27:58Harry, we'd really better be going.

00:28:00Will you excuse us, Mr. Peterson?

00:28:02What have you been telling that man?

00:28:04Oh, nothing, Harry.

00:28:06He got on to the subject of religion,

00:28:08and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:12Billy, I...

00:28:14I think it is high time you take stock of yourself.

00:28:16Can you truthfully say about yourself,

00:28:18I, I, Billy Dan Reuter,

00:28:20have acted fairly and squarely

00:28:22to my associates, huh?

00:28:24But of course he can, Mr. O'Hara.

00:28:26Everybody knows Billy's the soul of honor.

00:28:28Shut up, sugar.

00:28:30Perhaps he's the soul of honor, and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

00:28:32Do you mind telling me what it is I'm supposed to have done?

00:28:34Nothing.

00:28:36It's your conduct.

00:28:38Your conduct is...

00:28:40Your conduct does not inspire confidence,

00:28:42and confidence, Billy,

00:28:44is the most important necessity

00:28:46in an undertaking of our kind.

00:28:48One may be completely innocent,

00:28:50but if one's actions invite suspicion,

00:28:52one might as well be guilty.

00:28:54To be trustworthy is not more important

00:28:56than to seem to be trustworthy.

00:29:02Billy, have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:06Tell me, Billy.

00:29:08Tell me the truth.

00:29:10My conduct.

00:29:12Do they think I am the hired man?

00:29:14But you are, you know.

00:29:16You are the hired man.

00:29:18How good and kind of you to remind me.

00:29:20How good,

00:29:22how true,

00:29:24how kind.

00:29:40Oh, I say, Dan Rather,

00:29:42good to see you. How about a drink?

00:29:44Well, I... Oh, come on, my dear fellow,

00:29:46let me buy you a drink.

00:29:48Oh, uh, Gwendolyn,

00:29:50don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.

00:29:54I can't understand it.

00:29:56Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beach.

00:29:58Then I come back and find her

00:30:00sitting there in that cafe.

00:30:02Extraordinary creatures, women.

00:30:04Well, let's drink to them.

00:30:06Pernod. Scotch.

00:30:08Come on, you tiny little wrack, have a drink.

00:30:10We're drinking to women.

00:30:12Take the drink,

00:30:14but we won't join you in the toast.

00:30:16Blas of Irish. Women.

00:30:18Hitler had the right idea.

00:30:20Keep them in their place. Kind akin to Kirk

00:30:22and babies in the kitchen.

00:30:24Say what you want to about Hitler. He had his points.

00:30:26Come, come. Look here.

00:30:28This generation's had its chance.

00:30:30Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men.

00:30:32Now is the age of the barbarians.

00:30:34The world's going up in smoke. I say, let it come.

00:30:36Get it over with. Well, if you don't mind,

00:30:38I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:30:40One minute, laddies. I've just two or three

00:30:42words to say to you, laddies, and that's

00:30:44don't worry. Don't ever worry.

00:30:46I'm in a position to know secret

00:30:48information. The Rosicrucians,

00:30:50the Great White Brotherhood, the High Secret Orders.

00:30:52But you've no faith. You must have faith.

00:30:54Faith and power. Secret power.

00:30:56Men who guard the trust from the

00:30:58deepest inside, as the watchmen call it.

00:31:00Mystic rulers, all one club,

00:31:02chained together by one purpose, one idea.

00:31:04Mankind's champions. Follow me, Billy?

00:31:06Oh, why, of course.

00:31:08This generation's had its chance.

00:31:10Hitler, Mussolini. I can't stand here

00:31:12and permit you... Are you interrupting me?

00:31:14Relax, Jack. Have another drink.

00:31:16I simply want to state that things

00:31:18don't happen to me what certain people imagine.

00:31:20An officer may find himself

00:31:22strapped for money, and he may undertake

00:31:24certain things which in other circumstances

00:31:26no, absolutely no.

00:31:28Absolutely. I mean, absolutely no.

00:31:30In the old days, I should have simply

00:31:32told people of your ilk to buy their

00:31:34own drinks. Poor old Jack.

00:31:36I'll teach you.

00:31:38I'll teach you

00:31:40to insult an ex-officer

00:31:42of the Indian Army.

00:31:44Well, are you yellow?

00:31:48Goodbye.

00:31:50Your Major Ross.

00:31:52Right.

00:31:56Ross here.

00:31:58Right.

00:32:00Right again.

00:32:02Come along to the committee.

00:32:04Save for the bell.

00:32:10I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:32:12Sin. Oh, sin.

00:32:14All I could do was to keep a straight face.

00:32:16No, I'm certain of it now. These are two very

00:32:18clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:20Sit here and help me close this. But how could they possibly

00:32:22know what we're up to?

00:32:24Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:32:26Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us

00:32:28even before we get started. We must get ahead of them.

00:32:30Time has entered the picture in a new way.

00:32:32Never forget the time factor, gentlemen.

00:32:34It always enters the picture in the end.

00:32:36I'm sending a cable to London. I want full information

00:32:38on those Chelm interests.

00:32:40British Africa, too. Check up on his interests there.

00:32:42Every time the plane lands, I'll try and reach you

00:32:44by telephone. Keep me informed of the latest development.

00:32:46Stan Reuter, that lying,

00:32:48swineish, rum-swilling double-crosser.

00:32:50What pleasure.

00:32:52No, you can't at the moment.

00:32:54We need him right now. We need that swineish,

00:32:56lying, double... Did I hear my name?

00:32:58Rub-a-dub-dub.

00:33:00Three men and a tub.

00:33:02Tub?

00:33:04Oh.

00:33:06Been a change of plan, Billy Boy.

00:33:08You and I leaving for Africa. How's that?

00:33:10You and I are flying to Africa by the next plane.

00:33:12Oh, what's happened, Peter?

00:33:14There must be something important to get you on a plane.

00:33:16Perfectly simple, Billy Boy.

00:33:18The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty

00:33:20about when the Anger will sail forces me

00:33:22to sacrifice my personal comfort.

00:33:24I prefer to fly rather than run the risk of arriving

00:33:26too late. There's also such a thing

00:33:28as arriving too early.

00:33:30What do you mean by that? Well, the land doesn't come up

00:33:32for auction for a couple of weeks.

00:33:34My friend can't make it move until then.

00:33:36If we sit around British East all that time,

00:33:38somebody's going to start wondering who we are

00:33:40and ask questions. Is that your real opinion,

00:33:42Billy, or are you just looking forward to a long

00:33:44sea voyage with the attractive Mrs. Chelm

00:33:46as your companion? Or perhaps

00:33:48you have even other reasons. Such as?

00:33:50That's for you to know and for us to find out.

00:33:52You'd better get your packing done.

00:33:59Billy!

00:34:01Where are you going?

00:34:03Off to Africa, flying.

00:34:05Just like that?

00:34:07Weren't you going to kiss me goodbye?

00:34:14I wish... Don't say it.

00:34:16What? That you wish we'd never met.

00:34:18You'll be coming on the boat

00:34:20and in Africa we'll get together and... I think I hate you.

00:34:22Letting those revolting men

00:34:24order you about. Don't deny it.

00:34:26I'll deny it. I've watched them.

00:34:28They treat you like a servant.

00:34:30They say, hop it, and off you hop.

00:34:32I know what it is.

00:34:34They have a hold on you.

00:34:36Some black secret that could ruin you.

00:34:38What makes you think that?

00:34:40No, it happens all the time.

00:34:42My old Spanish nurse told me that

00:34:44half the people in the world would be ruined

00:34:46at once if everyone told what they knew.

00:34:48But...

00:34:50couldn't we have them done away with?

00:34:52You must know plenty of people

00:34:54who could bump them off.

00:34:56It'd probably cost a good deal,

00:34:58but it'd be worth it, certainly.

00:35:00It's not impossible, except that afterwards

00:35:02I wouldn't have any money. This way I stand to make a lot.

00:35:04Millions? Maybe.

00:35:06Then perhaps

00:35:08your connection with those men isn't

00:35:10quite so undignified as I thought.

00:35:12Those millions,

00:35:14would they be pounds

00:35:16or dollars?

00:35:18Either way suits me.

00:35:20No, that's very careless of you.

00:35:22A pound is so uncertain.

00:35:24You must think in terms of hard currency.

00:35:26Maybe I should hire you to handle my affairs.

00:35:28You could do worse.

00:35:30I'm awfully intelligent, Ray.

00:35:32Come along, Billy boy.

00:35:34The car's waiting.

00:35:52We can't get past him.

00:35:54This will miss the plane.

00:35:56Press on! Press on!

00:36:04The high posting!

00:36:22Push, push!

00:36:28Come on.

00:36:30One, two, three!

00:36:52Piper! Piper!

00:37:22Piper!

00:37:52Piper!

00:38:14My car!

00:38:16My car! My beautiful car!

00:38:18You did that on purpose!

00:38:20You planned it that way. I know what you're up to.

00:38:22I know everything. I know about the uranium

00:38:24on the Chelm's land, the Chelm interest

00:38:26in the city of London.

00:38:28You heard me, the Chelm interest.

00:38:30I take it your information comes from a reliable source.

00:38:32It does, from Mrs. Chelm herself.

00:38:34Magnificent. Simply magnificent.

00:38:36You must pay me back for the loss of my beautiful car.

00:38:38If you weren't a benighted jackass,

00:38:40if you could see as far as you could spit,

00:38:42you'd know there's no such thing as the Chelm interest.

00:38:44You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Danrother.

00:38:46Very much better than that.

00:38:48If you find out it's anything more than a down-at-heel

00:38:50Gloucestershire squire,

00:38:52you can have my services for nothing.

00:38:54You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?

00:38:56Well, let's say

00:38:58she uses her imagination rather than her memory.

00:39:00You will make a restitution

00:39:02with no, Mr. Dan,

00:39:04either the money or a new car.

00:39:06Why, you fat bandit, I gave you the car in the first place.

00:39:08How I came by it

00:39:10is beside the point.

00:39:12The fact you gave it to me

00:39:14doesn't make it any the less mine.

00:39:16Shut up.

00:39:18That's right. Threaten me.

00:39:20It is not enough that you destroy my beautiful car.

00:39:22Now you...

00:39:28Stop!

00:39:36More than anything,

00:39:38I want Billy to make

00:39:40a grand success out there.

00:39:42Well, as you

00:39:44care so much about money,

00:39:46I should have thought you would have left Billy

00:39:48for some rich man.

00:39:50I shouldn't think Billy would mind, really.

00:39:52I mean, neither of you are in love or anything.

00:39:54You are

00:39:56a strange girl.

00:39:58Of course I love Billy.

00:40:00Actually, I adore him.

00:40:02And Billy loves me

00:40:04very, very much.

00:40:06That's why

00:40:08I trust him with this little

00:40:10important amour.

00:40:12And what does he say about yours?

00:40:14But darling, all husbands like

00:40:16their wives seem attractive

00:40:18to other men.

00:40:22Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:24I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:32This is Dan Robert, Maria.

00:40:34I have, I'm afraid,

00:40:36I have some shocking news for you.

00:40:38The boat is not going at all?

00:40:40There's been a terrible accident.

00:40:42Your husband's car drove over a cliff.

00:40:44The people on the bus saw it fall into the sea.

00:40:46It seems almost certain, but...

00:40:48What is it? What are you trying to say?

00:40:52He's saying

00:40:54that Billy is dead.

00:40:56It's become necessary

00:40:58to redistribute the stock in our company.

00:41:00Stock? Stock?

00:41:02What good is the stock now?

00:41:04We can't deal with Dan Robert's friends.

00:41:06Not without Dan Robert.

00:41:08All the effort, the money,

00:41:10everything went over the cliff

00:41:12with that car.

00:41:14Ravelo, you forget the English

00:41:16are very sentimental people.

00:41:18I tell you, there is nothing that Billy's friend

00:41:20will not do for his widow.

00:41:22And in black,

00:41:24she's a very touching figure.

00:41:26Poor Maria.

00:41:28You really have had a wretched time with her.

00:41:30You are very understanding.

00:41:32If only there was

00:41:34something I could do.

00:41:36Just now, if you could bring me an

00:41:38aspirin.

00:41:40I have a headache.

00:41:42Don't move. Just you wait there. I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:46Mussolini, Hitler,

00:41:48and now Peterson.

00:41:50A great man, a great loss.

00:41:52I'm...

00:41:54I'm going upstairs

00:41:56and reading my Bible.

00:41:58Why all the clothes?

00:42:02Maria has a headache.

00:42:08What's the matter with you?

00:42:10Go away.

00:42:12My dear girl, I'm as sorry about Dan Robert as you are.

00:42:14But after all, it didn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:16I was in love with him.

00:42:18He was a very pleasant acquaintance.

00:42:20What did you say?

00:42:22I was in love with him.

00:42:24Really, darling. Have you no control over your romantic fantasies?

00:42:26I loved it!

00:42:28Can't you hear me? I love you! I love you!

00:42:30Oh, rot!

00:42:32You're just dramatizing again.

00:42:34By George, you were right after all.

00:42:36I did pay it.

00:42:38Oh,

00:42:40what shall I do?

00:42:42I feel as though I were drowning.

00:42:46He's dead.

00:42:48He's dead and I'm left in a pool like you.

00:42:52I tell you what to do.

00:42:54Have a bit of shut-eye.

00:42:56You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again.

00:42:58And there'll be no more silly stories

00:43:00about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:02Oh, please go away.

00:43:04I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:12Mr. Chelm,

00:43:14this is very important.

00:43:16For you as well as for myself.

00:43:18Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:20There is now an opportunity for you

00:43:22with virtually no risk.

00:43:24I want to read about the bush.

00:43:26For you as Billy's waiter,

00:43:28it will be very easy to persuade his friend

00:43:30in British East.

00:43:32And for capital, we have Chelm.

00:43:34You've been misinformed as to my interest.

00:43:48What's the matter with all of you?

00:43:50I'm not dead.

00:43:52Carl, it went over a cliff.

00:43:54We thought you'd both been killed.

00:43:56Don't bother. I'm delighted to see you're alive.

00:43:58But your wife is in a fainting condition.

00:44:00You mean you're not dead at all?

00:44:02Obviously I'm not dead.

00:44:04I knew you weren't dead. I knew it.

00:44:06I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:08My old Spanish nurse said if you did that,

00:44:10a miracle would happen.

00:44:12And you see it has.

00:44:14Ladies and gentlemen,

00:44:16I bring you the glad tidings.

00:44:18Your passenger will sail at midnight.

00:44:32I can't see it anymore.

00:44:34What can have happened to it?

00:44:36My dispatch box, where is it?

00:44:38A black tin box this size. What have you done with it?

00:44:44I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:44:46I'm on board and my dispatch box has been found.

00:44:48You're having trouble, General?

00:44:50I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.

00:44:56He says he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

00:44:58Idiot! Why didn't he say so in the first place?

00:45:04Say, look.

00:45:06What's happened to Harry?

00:45:08He's been giving me the fish eye all evening.

00:45:10What is it?

00:45:12Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead,

00:45:14I couldn't help it.

00:45:16You what?

00:45:18I couldn't help it. It made you seem less dead.

00:45:20And?

00:45:22Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:45:24He thought my nerves were upset, sort of delirium.

00:45:26He thought it quite a joke,

00:45:28the idea of my inventing a love affair

00:45:30with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:45:32That's what he called you.

00:45:34Well, now that I'm back in the flesh,

00:45:36you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:45:38I suppose seeing you alive

00:45:40is different from thinking of you dead.

00:45:42I suppose so, with a suspicious husband.

00:45:48Billy.

00:45:54Let's not go.

00:45:56What do you mean?

00:46:00I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:46:02Now.

00:46:04What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:06What's happened to you?

00:46:08I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:10I thought we'd get to Africa

00:46:12and you'd make your fortune and everything would be wonderful,

00:46:14but now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:16Too many things can happen.

00:46:18I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:46:20You really mean that?

00:46:22With all my heart.

00:46:24Oh, no, that's impossible.

00:46:26Why?

00:46:28Well, for one thing, Mrs. Danleather might not go for the idea.

00:46:30She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:46:32Please, Billy, listen to me.

00:46:34I thought it all out.

00:46:36We'll take the bus and catch an express or something.

00:46:38You're not in love the way I am.

00:46:40If I loved you a thousand times more

00:46:42than you say you love me,

00:46:44it still wouldn't make any difference.

00:46:46I've got to have money.

00:46:48Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money,

00:46:50otherwise I'd become dull, listless,

00:46:52and have trouble with my complexion.

00:46:54But you're not like that now, and you haven't any money.

00:46:56It's my expectations that hold me together.

00:46:58You really mean that, don't you, darling?

00:47:00Sure I mean it.

00:47:02And your main reason for wanting lots of money

00:47:04is so that you'll be ever so attractive

00:47:06That's right, baby.

00:47:08I'll help you, Billy.

00:47:10I can, too.

00:47:12I'm something of a witch.

00:47:14My old Spanish nurse said I could have been professional.

00:47:16We don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.

00:47:32Sierra, ozone.

00:47:34What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.

00:47:36What a fortune we'd make.

00:47:38Neptune's mixture.

00:47:40Now breathe deeply. Remember, every breath

00:47:42is a guinea in the bank of hell.

00:47:50Good morning, Cheryl.

00:47:52Why, that's good.

00:47:54Very good indeed.

00:47:56I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Damrava.

00:47:58I'd hardly call myself that.

00:48:00I only dabble.

00:48:02The ears are too small.

00:48:04Only has one eye.

00:48:06Now come along, gentlemen. We must not dawdle.

00:48:08Blow the band down, Bully.

00:48:10Blow the band down.

00:48:12Blow, blow.

00:48:14Blow the band down.

00:48:16Blow the band down, Bully.

00:48:18Blow the band down.

00:48:20Good morning, Mrs. Chelm.

00:48:22Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:24Blow the band down, Bully.

00:48:26Blow the band down.

00:48:28Blow, blow.

00:48:30Blow the band down.

00:48:32Blow the band down, Bully.

00:48:34Blow the band down.

00:48:36Give me some time to blow the band down.

00:48:38Mr. Peterson.

00:48:40Mr. Peterson.

00:48:42Radiogram.

00:48:44No Chelm estate, Gloucestershire. Stop.

00:49:02No Linda Gentry Chelms.

00:49:04What do you make of that?

00:49:06She's not a Gloucestershire swagger.

00:49:08Like Billy said.

00:49:10Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face value.

00:49:12But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:16We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:18Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:20Billy is a liar.

00:49:22Heaven only knows what Chelm is.

00:49:24CID, maybe.

00:49:26You borrowed my thought.

00:49:28What to do? What to do?

00:49:30The time has come for direct action.

00:49:32You remember last night when we came on board?

00:49:34The fuss he was making about his dispatch box?

00:49:42I love colors.

00:49:50Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:49:54Your face, for instance.

00:49:56Ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:50:00Now the light has changed and is chalky white.

00:50:04What?

00:50:06Tinged with green.

00:50:08Green?

00:50:10It must be getting rough.

00:50:12Just a little.

00:50:14Don't break the pose.

00:50:16I don't feel very well.

00:50:18I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:24It's incredible.

00:50:26Harry Chelm is just...

00:50:28Just Harry Chelm.

00:50:30Nothing. Nobody. A ruddy refugee from Earl's Court.

00:50:32With a horde of bottles.

00:50:34In the letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Governor.

00:50:36The Secretary, mind you.

00:50:38Disgusting.

00:50:40Purser.

00:50:42My box.

00:50:44A bit up and down, isn't it, sir?

00:50:46It's gone.

00:50:48Oh, yes, indeed. Major Ross took it.

00:50:50I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.

00:50:52I like to keep my eye on what goes on aboard the ship.

00:50:54Where did he take it?

00:50:56I believe it's the Peterson's cabin.

00:50:58In fact, I'm sure.

00:51:04Ah.

00:51:08Now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:14He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:20Billy.

00:51:22Come in.

00:51:24Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:26I've seen the paper in days.

00:51:28It's not funny.

00:51:30They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:32Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:34That dreadful little Major.

00:51:36He took it to Peterson. They went through it.

00:51:38It's all your fault. I suppose you know that.

00:51:40My fault?

00:51:42With the poppycock you've been peddling.

00:51:44All that junk about the Chelm interest in London.

00:51:46Uranium on your land.

00:51:48Well, in a way, you're the one to blame.

00:51:50I'm the...

00:51:52I mean, you acted so superior.

00:51:54I was falling in love with you,

00:51:56and I couldn't bear for you to think I was just nobody.

00:51:58Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:00The son of a what?

00:52:02A boarding house.

00:52:04That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:06They run a boarding house

00:52:08for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:10But the way he talks, the way he acts, I thought...

00:52:12It's just that he sees himself in a place

00:52:14in the West Country with trout streams and horses,

00:52:16leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:18It's not his fault

00:52:20that people take it for granted that he has a place like that.

00:52:22He's never once said that he had.

00:52:24Well, country gent, son of a boarding house,

00:52:26or whatever he is,

00:52:28I suppose I'd better get his box back.

00:52:30Oh, he got it back himself.

00:52:32Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:52:34He's going to have them put in irons.

00:52:36He is what?

00:52:38He says that's what they did in the Royal Marines.

00:52:40Look here, Skipper, there's a perfectly simple

00:52:42explanation for all this.

00:52:44I happen to own a dispatch box which is very similar

00:52:46to Mr. Chelms'. When I didn't find it

00:52:48in my cabin, I asked Major Ross to see

00:52:50if it had been stowed away somewhere else by mistake.

00:52:52The Major found what he thought was my box

00:52:54in the saloon with some other luggage.

00:52:56The box has been in my cabin ever since we sailed.

00:52:58Under the berth.

00:53:00When I saw the box, of course, I realized at once

00:53:02that it wasn't mine.

00:53:04I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged

00:53:06so that I could return it to its rightful owner.

00:53:08I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine

00:53:10I should be interested in a box containing

00:53:12patent medicines.

00:53:14I'm not a hypochondriac.

00:53:16Bursar, tell the captain exactly

00:53:18what you told me about the box.

00:53:20Why, sir, you ask me whether I'd seen it?

00:53:22And I said it might be the one I'd seen

00:53:24being carried along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:26You distinctly told me that you'd seen it

00:53:28taken from my cabin.

00:53:30You must have misunderstood.

00:53:32You were rather ill at the time, if you remember, sir.

00:53:34That's all, Bursar.

00:53:36He's been bribed.

00:53:38He's in league with these criminals.

00:53:40Just a case of a misunderstanding.

00:53:42That's how I look at it.

00:53:44Now, what about a little cognac

00:53:46to wash away any ill feeling?

00:53:48I don't care for a drink.

00:53:50And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.

00:53:52While writing through my personal effects,

00:53:54I feel certain that you must have noticed

00:53:56I suspect you'll be much more interested

00:53:58in what I have to say than this gin-soaked

00:54:00so-called ship's captain.

00:54:02You mind your tongue!

00:54:04Anyone else, you're the one I'll put in irons.

00:54:08As far as I'm concerned,

00:54:10this is a close incident.

00:54:16You've got your box back.

00:54:18Why don't you forget the whole thing?

00:54:20What possible interest do you expect the Colonial Office to take?

00:54:22On the contrary, I expect them to show considerable interest

00:54:24in the case of crooks who are trying to swindle the country

00:54:26out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:36Just one moment, sir.

00:54:38What leads you to believe?

00:54:40This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit

00:54:42to inform you that during your supposed demise,

00:54:44he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.

00:54:46Unfortunately for you,

00:54:48he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts,

00:54:50facts which I intend to communicate

00:54:52to the Federal Authority at the very earliest opportunity.

00:54:56I thought you were dead.

00:54:58That's what they told me.

00:55:00Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:02And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:04Didn't we?

00:55:06You, Ravelo, my own partner,

00:55:08sneak up behind my back

00:55:10and try to cheat me.

00:55:12The milk's spilt. It's no good crying over it.

00:55:14Get after him, Billy. Calm him down.

00:55:16Talk to him. See if you can't get him to change his attitude.

00:55:18I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:20We have to worry about Chelm's attitude.

00:55:22Talk's no good. Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:24I say put an end to words.

00:55:26Shut up, Jack.

00:55:28Time factor has entered the picture again.

00:55:30This time, fortunately, it's working on our side.

00:55:32Two weeks before we reach port.

00:55:34That should be plenty of time to convince our friend Chelm.

00:55:38I beg you, please end all this trouble.

00:55:40If things go on,

00:55:42either you will be done away with

00:55:44before we ever get to Africa,

00:55:46or you will leave and denounce Peterson to the authorities.

00:55:48And that will be the ruin

00:55:50of all my plans and hopes.

00:55:52In the long run, you'll do much better to get rid of these people.

00:55:54They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:55:56The long run? I'm tired of the long run.

00:56:00I am not even thinking about them

00:56:02or about myself.

00:56:04It's only you that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:06No need to worry about me.

00:56:08Ever since I met you,

00:56:10you fail my thinking.

00:56:12You are becoming

00:56:14an obsession.

00:56:16Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:18I am deeply

00:56:20in love.

00:56:22Maria.

00:56:26My dear.

00:56:40Only you could make a woman

00:56:42feel like this.

00:56:44All I want is to be in your arms

00:56:46now and always.

00:56:50You forget I'm going to be done away with.

00:56:52Oh, no, no. It will be easy to arrange.

00:56:54What you must do is this.

00:56:56You will write me a letter.

00:56:58A love letter.

00:57:00You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson

00:57:02because then I will suffer too.

00:57:04Because you love me

00:57:06so much, you cannot bear

00:57:08to hurt me.

00:57:10Such a letter they will believe if I show it to them.

00:57:12My dear girl, you must see

00:57:14that this is quite out of the question.

00:57:16I don't propose to make compromises.

00:57:18Not compromises, Harry,

00:57:20darling, but you can see

00:57:22if you cause trouble to all of our plans,

00:57:24my plans,

00:57:26you would not

00:57:28want to make the innocent

00:57:30suffer.

00:57:32It would be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:34I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:36Then you intend to go ahead

00:57:38with this business, tell stories

00:57:40and doing everything?

00:57:42It would be much better if you cut loose from these people.

00:57:44No happiness can come from such an association.

00:57:46Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.

00:57:48Please, write a letter.

00:57:50Then there will be no trouble for you,

00:57:52no trouble for us, no risk when we get to Africa.

00:57:54I'm sorry, my dear.

00:57:56We English are a very pig-headed lot.

00:57:58You think you can get away with this?

00:58:00But Maria, my dear good Maria,

00:58:02listen. First you made love to me.

00:58:04Now you tell me you will ruin me.

00:58:06You'll forgive me, but it was you who made...

00:58:08Oh, shut your trap. Go on, do what you like.

00:58:10You think you're such a brave man.

00:58:12I'll tell you what you are.

00:58:14You are a heel.

00:58:18What the blazes now?

00:58:20What's happening? What's going on here?

00:58:22The oil pumps on the blinks, the electricity spares.

00:58:24What's up, Polly? A ship lying in darkness this way?

00:58:26We might well be rammed at any minute.

00:58:28I'll tend to this myself. Which way is the engine room?

00:58:30The passengers are not...

00:58:32I'm sure your chief engineer would welcome the advice

00:58:34of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:58:36The house is going to break everything!

00:58:38Don't touch anything!

00:58:40The house is going to break everything!

00:58:42Don't touch anything!

00:58:50Look here, you fool.

00:58:52Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:58:54I insist on something being done.

00:58:56For instance? Give us the lifebelts.

00:58:58Organize the boat grill.

00:59:00The clientele are requested to remain calm.

00:59:02To remain calm? Does the captain feel no central responsibility

00:59:04for the lives of his passengers?

00:59:06It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.

00:59:08You mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:10The fellow ought to be made to walk the plank.

00:59:12I'm afraid just now he cannot walk at all.

00:59:14This is outrageous!

00:59:16Sit down, old man. What have you got to worry about?

00:59:18We're only adrift in an open sea

00:59:20where the drunken captain of an engine is liable to explode at any moment.

00:59:22It's a perfectly ordinary situation.

00:59:24It happens every day.

00:59:26But just in case any of you are still at all anxious,

00:59:28let it be known that Mr. Chelm

00:59:30has taken charge in the engine room.

00:59:32He's taken charge?

00:59:34Harry, and he'll foozle it for sure.

00:59:36Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:38Your husband claims to have learned

00:59:40all about the engine and such things

00:59:42when he was an officer in the Royal Marines.

00:59:44If he ever was.

00:59:46In point of fact, not only was he an officer,

00:59:48but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire

00:59:50to rescue someone.

00:59:52It's only a bit of wreckage and not a man,

00:59:54but that wasn't Harry's fault.

00:59:56That's a slight error in judgment.

00:59:58Oh, the lights, they come on.

01:00:00He must have fixed it.

01:00:02Impossible.

01:00:04The engines are turning.

01:00:06We are underway.

01:00:08I still say it's impossible.

01:00:10Ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:12may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:14I'm happy to inform you that the oil pump

01:00:16is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:18Putting it right was no great accomplishment

01:00:20for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:22Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay

01:00:24and in absolute safety.

01:00:28Oh, Harry, you did, you did.

01:00:30You fooled me.

01:00:32What did you wrecked my ship?

01:00:34Where is it?

01:00:36Hold it. Captain wants to see you.

01:00:38There you are, you devil.

01:00:40You wrecked my little ship.

01:00:42Nothing of the sort.

01:00:44Some scarywag down there sabotaged my work

01:00:46out of pure merit.

01:00:48You spoiled my engine.

01:00:50Keep your head down.

01:00:52I can handle the boat.

01:00:54What's happened now?

01:00:56Do we get the lifeboat?

01:00:58Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:00There's no immediate danger.

01:01:02The passengers were pleased to return to the saloon.

01:01:04We're heading for the nearest port

01:01:06and there seems to be some chance of our making.

01:01:08Right. Let's go.

01:01:12Come along.

01:01:18Now, who was asked out?

01:01:20Lost.

01:01:22Billy, boy, be a good fellow

01:01:24and make a port at the bridge.

01:01:26The major has no head for cards.

01:01:28A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:30Oh, thank you. I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:32In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:34No ice, no water. That's it.

01:01:36How about you, dear Mrs. Dadrubber?

01:01:38A little bridge?

01:01:40Oh, so sorry. I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:42I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:48Oh, what a shame.

01:01:50I'll make it cutthroat.

01:01:52What about Harry here? Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:01:54That, under the circumstances,

01:01:56is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:01:58Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table

01:02:00or else leave the saloon.

01:02:02Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:04I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.

01:02:06Don't be absurd. Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:08He's the best friend we have on this boat.

01:02:10We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:12You need any friends you can get.

01:02:14The only thing standing between you

01:02:16and a watery grave is your wits.

01:02:18That's not my idea of adequate protection.

01:02:20Percer, how much longer before this ship reaches port?

01:02:22If we ever do get to port,

01:02:24it should be within 14 or 15 hours.

01:02:26That's a long time.

01:02:28Sit down. Make yourself comfortable.

01:02:30Have a drink. Enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:32Come on, Peterson.

01:02:34Buy us a drink.

01:02:36I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality from persons

01:02:38who I intend, in a few hours' time,

01:02:40to denounce in a place of justice.

01:02:42Two spades?

01:02:44I admire your sans-froid, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:46Well, perhaps you don't think I'm serious.

01:02:48We shall see.

01:02:50Fake love.

01:02:52Gwendolyn, are you going to do as I say?

01:02:54Not when you speak to me in that tone.

01:02:56Not when you try to order me about.

01:02:58In that case...

01:03:00Where are you going?

01:03:02On deck, where the air is less polluted.

01:03:08Percer, four tonics.

01:03:10I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:12Why should I?

01:03:14He can't be so childish and unreasonable.

01:03:16Take my advice, Gwendolyn. Stay with him.

01:03:20I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.

01:03:22The loyal wife at her husband's side.

01:03:24No, Billy.

01:03:26I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.

01:03:28Thou shall not deny it.

01:03:30Either by word or by deed.

01:03:32I love you. Let the whole world know it.

01:03:34I love you. I love you.

01:03:36Keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.

01:03:38Why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?

01:03:40He's been such a deadly bore tonight.

01:03:42Deadly, but not dead. Not yet.

01:03:44What do you mean?

01:03:46They killed one man just because they thought he might try to get in their way.

01:03:48Now, handsome Harry here is certain to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:03:52They killed a man?

01:03:54Really? Who?

01:03:56Just a man.

01:04:00Well, for all Harry's being too, too tiresome

01:04:02and my loving you to distraction,

01:04:04I still wouldn't want to see him done in.

01:04:08He has some perfectly darling traits, really.

01:04:10I mean, like always remembering one's birthday.

01:04:14No, we simply mustn't let anybody murder Harry.

01:04:16Keep him in your cabin.

01:04:18Never let him out of your sight.

01:04:20Keep him under lock and key.

01:04:22Oh, Billy, that awful music.

01:04:24It's so loud.

01:04:26It comes right into our coffee.

01:04:28Peterson, tell the maid to dissolve Petalus.

01:04:32And while he's about it, he might change the tune.

01:04:34Oh, don't you like it? It's one of my favorites.

01:04:36I'm afraid he doesn't know any others.

01:04:38Do you, Jack?

01:04:48Major!

01:05:08Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:10One down.

01:05:14Captain!

01:05:16Captain!

01:05:38What happened?

01:05:40Oh, Billy, all that screaming.

01:05:42I thought someone had been killed.

01:05:44Someone nearly was.

01:05:46Indeed they were. Look at the major.

01:05:48Better get a new act finished

01:05:50when the curtain's going down on this one.

01:05:52Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:05:54The passengers break the engine,

01:05:56they beat each other on the feet,

01:05:58they throw each other overboard.

01:06:00That man attacked me.

01:06:02Ah, you! You again!

01:06:04If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:06He threatened to run me through with his sword.

01:06:08Is that true?

01:06:10It's no use, Billy.

01:06:12Am I trying to protect Harry any further?

01:06:14I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:16Captain, it...

01:06:18it grieves me to confess this,

01:06:20but in point of fact,

01:06:22my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:06:24The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:06:26On occasion,

01:06:28he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:06:30The psychiatrists say it's because he...

01:06:32he believes people are plotting against him.

01:06:34And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:06:36Gwendolyn!

01:06:38For heaven's sake, woman!

01:06:40What's the meaning of this treachery?

01:06:42Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:06:44He knows! He saved my life!

01:06:46He'll tell the truth!

01:06:48I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:06:50You wrecked my ship! You tried to kill the passenger!

01:06:52Get out of the ship!

01:06:54Let me go! I'll kill the lot of you!

01:06:56I warn you, Captain!

01:06:58Poor Harry. He's awfully sad.

01:07:00We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:02How dare you lay hands on me!

01:07:04You hooligans!

01:07:06I'll have you put in irons!

01:07:08You'll be the ones in irons!

01:07:10Good, good. We'll have no trouble from you.

01:07:12Scum!

01:07:14Mongrels!

01:07:16I'll bring you to book!

01:07:18Every one of you!

01:07:20Every man jack of you!

01:07:22After all, it was the only solution.

01:07:24Harry's safely locked in his cabin

01:07:26where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:07:28On the other hand,

01:07:30he can't say or do anything now

01:07:32to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:07:34I mean, the authorities would hardly listen

01:07:36to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:07:38They won't even let him off the boat.

01:07:40Well, in that case,

01:07:42he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.

01:07:44It's a good heart on the old boy, don't you think?

01:07:46Yes, but

01:07:48after you've amassed all those African millions,

01:07:50we'll make it up to him.

01:07:52We'll buy him a country place

01:07:54in Gloucestershire

01:07:56with some rough shooting

01:07:58and a trout stream

01:08:00like he's always wanted.

01:08:02Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:04She seems to have a very real feeling

01:08:06for English country life.

01:08:08And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:10Especially us, Billy.

01:08:16What's going on?

01:08:18I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:20Board station, everybody!

01:08:22We're sinking!

01:08:24Harry!

01:08:26Harry, open the door!

01:08:28You must! The ship's sinking!

01:08:30It's coming!

01:08:56They're sinking!

01:08:58They're sinking!

01:09:00Pull them up!

01:09:02Pull them up!

01:09:04They're sinking!

01:09:06Pull them up!

01:09:08Pull them up!

01:09:10Pull them up!

01:09:12Show them what you can do

01:09:14when they're sinking!

01:09:16Are you kidding?

01:09:18Pull them up!

01:09:20Hurry up!

01:09:22Pull them up!

01:09:24Hurry up! Hurry up!

01:09:26Look down there!

01:09:28Fight them! Fight them!

01:09:30Fight! Fight!

01:09:32Down!

01:09:34I'll kill you!

01:09:36I'll kill you!

01:09:38I'll kill you!

01:09:40I'll kill you!

01:09:42Hurry! Hurry!

01:09:44Look down there!

01:09:46Look down there!

01:09:48Look down there!

01:09:50We can't leave without finding out what happened to her!

01:09:52We can't leave without finding out what happened to her!

01:09:54Maybe we'll run across him out there.

01:09:56He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:09:58I don't say we will, but it's possible.

01:10:00Anything's possible.

01:10:14Hurry!

01:10:16Hurry!

01:10:22Hurry!

01:10:46Hurry!

01:10:48Hurry!

01:10:50Hurry!

01:10:52Hurry!

01:10:54Hurry!

01:10:56Hurry!

01:10:58Hurry!

01:11:00Hurry!

01:11:02Hurry!

01:11:04Hurry!

01:11:08Where do you suppose we are?

01:11:10Africa.

01:11:12What part of Africa?

01:11:14What's that?

01:11:15Alio.

01:11:21Better get down, everybody.

01:11:25Get rid of your passports, boys.

01:11:27Mrs. Chow, Billy Boy, my identity must remain a secret.

01:11:44I don't believe you anymore!

01:11:46I'll tell you.

01:11:48Kill them all!

01:11:50Come forward!

01:11:53Come forward, all of you!

01:11:56There's nothing left to do.

01:11:58Come forward, all of you!

01:12:01Look in the mirror!

01:12:05Everybody back to their own positions!

01:12:08Kill them all!

01:12:10Kill them all!

01:12:12It was a company that sold arms to the Arab legions.

01:12:15Wait a minute, that rings a bell.

01:12:17Some of the equipment we sold was defective.

01:12:21Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:24The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:12:27For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:12:30I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:12:34Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:12:37Why, it's simply...

01:12:39Shocking.

01:12:41I'm sorry.

01:12:43I'm sorry.

01:12:45I'm sorry.

01:12:47I'm sorry.

01:12:49I'm sorry.

01:12:51I'm sorry.

01:12:53I'm sorry.

01:12:55I'm sorry.

01:12:57I'm sorry.

01:12:59I'm sorry.

01:13:01I'm sorry.

01:13:03So I can be bought for a low price?

01:13:06I was to be put on the street.

01:13:08Harry wouldn't allow them to do it.

01:13:10He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:13So I have a sense of survival.

01:13:16Billy, what is he going to come up with?

01:13:18Do you think they will bully us?

01:13:20Just let them try it.

01:13:22I'm a British subject.

01:13:23I wouldn't to say it too loudly.

01:13:26Palm pools.

01:13:30We shipwreck, big boat go down, bottom ocean.

01:13:46We take little boat, row all day, row all night.

01:13:54Seppy, there's only one way to deal with these swine, walk up to them and kick them in the

01:13:58belly.

01:13:59We lose boss right away.

01:14:01We sight land, your land, praise Allah.

01:14:07Come ashore, suddenly boom, boom, boom.

01:14:11No good way to treat shipwreck people.

01:14:14We're pleased to hand over your passports.

01:14:36There seem to be four missing.

01:14:38Will those who have not handed over their passports hold up their hands?

01:14:49All left on board ship, your excellency, a terrifying experience, an incompetent crew,

01:14:54a burning ship, put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

01:14:59What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:00The SS Nyanga, she's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:03I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:08Well, does it stand to reason, your excellency, we should come to the shore in a small boat

01:15:10if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:12Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:15Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:16Agents of certain foreign governments sometimes try to enter it by stealth, hoping to fan

01:15:23the flames of a revolution.

01:15:26Therefore, we check carefully on the activities of strangers.

01:15:32Surely, your excellency, in our case, one look is sufficient to convince you of our

01:15:36innocence.

01:15:37No.

01:15:38One look is not enough.

01:15:39If you think we're the enemies of your country, the logical thing is to boot us out, send

01:16:07us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:09We shan't object.

01:16:11We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:12Where is elsewhere?

01:16:15Central Africa.

01:16:16And what sort of business?

01:16:19Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines.

01:16:22Ah, yes, businessmen, all going to Central Africa to sell vacuum cleaners, hut to hut,

01:16:31I suppose.

01:16:32Can you, sir, take it at the head, sailor's man, the ringleader of this group?

01:16:38Oh, no, no group.

01:16:40We met for the first time on board ship, complete strangers to one another.

01:16:45Liar!

01:16:46The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:16:49I am a keen observer.

01:16:51You four are together.

01:16:52Oh, no, my fat-gutted friend.

01:16:55I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native you're fool enough to take me for.

01:17:00I am a great man, a serious man.

01:17:02I spit on you, too.

01:17:05I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:07Off to the wrong star, Peterson.

01:17:08Is there any one way to deal with these spines?

01:17:11Spines!

01:17:12Spines!

01:17:13Spines!

01:17:14You'd better be careful.

01:17:16My husband, my late husband, who was drowned in the Niagara disaster, happened to be one

01:17:20of the most important figures in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:24In point of fact, we had letters from the Prime Minister and the Queen telling everybody

01:17:29to be particularly courteous to us and our friends, so you see, if any harm befalls us

01:17:34at your hands, it will become a major international incident.

01:17:38Would you instruct that one that in my country, a female's lips may move, but her words are

01:17:46not heard?

01:17:47Oh, Harry.

01:17:48Harry.

01:17:49If only you were here.

01:17:54And now, Sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence and tell me who you really are and what is

01:18:01your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:03I'm a sick man.

01:18:04I've got a bad heart.

01:18:05I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:06You refuse to answer.

01:18:08That is interesting.

01:18:09It makes of it a contest, a contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:16We of this country have had 4,000 years experience in asking questions and getting answers.

01:18:24Who are you?

01:18:26Why are you here?

01:18:28Don't hit me again.

01:18:29My heart has had an attack.

01:18:32Of course, Billy's led a thoroughly decadent life, don't you know?

01:19:01I must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.

01:19:04Backbone.

01:19:05Either you have it or you haven't.

01:19:07You see the beating I took at the hands of that great ugly brute without even flinching.

01:19:12Billy was crazed with fear before they even laid a finger on him.

01:19:18Tell me more about Rita Hayworth.

01:19:20You really know her very well?

01:19:22Do I know Rita?

01:19:23Do I know her?

01:19:24I'll give you a matter of introduction.

01:19:27She'll fall an immediate victim to your charms.

01:19:30You really think so?

01:19:31Oh, but certainly a man like you, suave, intelligent, darkly handsome.

01:19:38You have everything, Ahmet, except money.

01:19:41And if you'll listen to me, a boat will be placed at our disposal, a very slow boat,

01:19:46so that Fat Guy's check will have plenty of time to clear.

01:19:49And you will trust me for your share?

01:19:52Does one man of the world ask another to trust his own brother?

01:19:56Oh, no, Ahmet.

01:19:57You'll give me a check for half.

01:19:59Your demands are very great under the circumstances.

01:20:03Why shouldn't they be?

01:20:04Fat Guy's my best friend.

01:20:06I will not betray him cheaply.

01:20:08You are certain that you are the friend of the peerless Rita?

01:20:11Come, come, Ahmet.

01:20:13Mind back to business.

01:20:16Very well.

01:20:17Fifty-fifty.

01:20:18Oh, by the way, Fat Guy's nature is noble like ours.

01:20:22He might try to bargain.

01:20:23I do not bargain with a puffball like that.

01:20:26It's beneath my dignity.

01:20:28It'll be dawn soon, the correct hour for a firing squad.

01:20:32But if we have him shot, what about the money?

01:20:36Well, I was just thinking that if he had a volley at the psychological moment,

01:20:40he might not be so inclined to haggle.

01:20:43I believe you must have Arab blood.

01:20:46Westerners are not usually so subtle.

01:20:51Come on, let's get the man.

01:20:54Come on.

01:20:55Look at me.

01:20:57Look at me.

01:21:00Where are you taking me?

01:21:03I won't go.

01:21:04I demand to see a doctor.

01:21:06Would you say that in Paris, among smart people,

01:21:11the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac is considered more chic?

01:21:19That's no problem.

01:21:20No problem at all.

01:21:21A man in your position should have both.

01:21:24Ah.

01:21:31Mr. Donald Arthur, I believe, would like a word with you.

01:21:35Billy.

01:21:36Sit down, Peterson.

01:21:40Ah.

01:21:41I've been talking to Ahmet here.

01:21:43And, uh...

01:21:44He's blackmailed.

01:21:49They called Billy.

01:21:54What was that?

01:21:57A firing squad.

01:22:00A firing squad.

01:22:03A firing squad.

01:22:06What was that?

01:22:08A firing squad.

01:22:10It's execution day.

01:22:13Will he take a check?

01:22:37Billy.

01:22:38Billy.

01:22:39You.

01:22:40Sit down.

01:22:41Stay away.

01:22:42Stay away from my ship.

01:22:43If you try to come aboard, I will shoot you.

01:22:45I will shoot you.

01:22:46Get my gun.

01:22:47Get my gun.

01:22:48Give it to him.

01:22:49Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:22:50My gun.

01:22:51My gun.

01:22:52My gun.

01:22:53My gun.

01:22:54My gun.

01:22:55My gun.

01:22:56My gun.

01:22:57My gun.

01:22:58My gun.

01:22:59My gun.

01:23:00My gun.

01:23:01My gun.

01:23:02My gun.

01:23:03My gun.

01:23:04My gun.

01:23:05My gun.

01:23:06My gun.

01:23:07My gun.

01:23:08My gun.

01:23:09My gun.

01:23:10My gun.

01:23:11My gun.

01:23:12My gun.

01:23:13My gun.

01:23:14My gun.

01:23:15My gun.

01:23:16My gun.

01:23:17My gun.

01:23:18My gun.

01:23:19My gun.

01:23:20My gun.

01:23:21My gun.

01:23:22My gun.

01:23:23My gun.

01:23:24Excuse me.

01:23:25Are you Mr. William Tan, brother?

01:23:26That's right.

01:23:27I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.

01:23:31I'm sorry.

01:23:32Not now.

01:23:33Forgive me, but it's rather important.

01:23:34Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic except Mrs. Danrother, who ate all our boots.

01:23:39Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:42Jack, go to the phone, make reservations. The first plane to Nairobi, six seats.

01:23:47Yes, and if they don't have any, talk to the right man and tell him if he kicks out of people after plane, we'll make it worth his while.

01:23:53I always said we ought to take a plane. You remember I said, Mr. Horror, I said we ought to take a plane.

01:23:58That's normal, Billy boy. Great deal to do and not much time.

01:24:01Those are the other members of your party?

01:24:02Yes, I'd like to talk to them too.

01:24:04What's it all about?

01:24:06I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Meer, now deceased.

01:24:11Peterson, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:14The gentleman here wants to speak to you, a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:18You think your wine here or upstairs, Mr. Dan?

01:24:21No, we'll have it here.

01:24:22Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:24No thanks, it's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:26I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:31Is that true, Mr. Clayton?

01:24:33Quite true.

01:24:34Mrs. Danrother?

01:24:35No, I'm Mrs. Chelm.

01:24:37This is Mrs. Danrother.

01:24:39Oh, how do you do?

01:24:40Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies, so perhaps I'll have a glass of lovely after all.

01:24:46Peterson, how do you do, sir?

01:24:48How do you do?

01:24:49Ravelon.

01:24:50And, um, Mr. O'Horror.

01:24:53O'Hara, Julius O'Hara, delighted.

01:24:55No, I'm the one to be delighted.

01:24:57It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:25:00That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:02You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:05I've spent quite a lot of money.

01:25:07And my chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends,

01:25:10particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:13Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Vanmere murder case.

01:25:16The Vanmere murder case?

01:25:18Oh yes, yes, that fellow in the colonial office, yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:22It was a shocking affair.

01:25:24According to Mr. Vanmere's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,

01:25:27you had lunch with him in the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:30That's quite correct.

01:25:31Mr. Vanmere was an expert on African matters.

01:25:34We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:37Do you recall the subject of the discussion?

01:25:39Vaguely.

01:25:40Uh, crop field.

01:25:42The native labor situation.

01:25:44Inches of rain.

01:25:45Vaccination, shorts.

01:25:47How long do you know Mr. Vanmere?

01:25:49Oh, a couple of months.

01:25:50We met half a dozen times.

01:25:52Did he ever make mention of any enemies, business or otherwise?

01:25:55Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:25:57I mean, did he name any women?

01:25:59No, I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:26:02Mr. Vanmere struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:05Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:07Well, that's all.

01:26:09Unless somebody has anything further to add?

01:26:13I have.

01:26:18I think you ought to know that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.

01:26:23I beg your pardon?

01:26:25Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:27I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Vanmere person.

01:26:30I assure you, however, he attempted to murder my husband with a long, thin dagger,

01:26:35which he always carried about in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:39Go on, Mrs. Cholm.

01:26:41You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:46One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:48My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:51Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire.

01:26:54Involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:26:58And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away with.

01:27:01Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:27:03That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:06Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:08More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:10No, thank you.

01:27:22As I said before, very smart fellows, indeed.

01:27:29Should you ever think of me in Earl's Court.

01:27:32That's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodges.

01:27:36Should you ever think of me, try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:42You kiss that too, Billy.

01:27:44You kiss that too.

01:27:46Don't let it be too harshly.

01:27:49You kiss that too, Billy.

01:27:51And tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:53Sure, sure.

01:27:55Goodbye, Billy.

01:27:57Bye.

01:28:02Poor Mrs. Chelm. Just came off the ship square.

01:28:06Oh, by the way, Mr. Danneradar.

01:28:08Do you know that your associates are all in the Who's Gow?

01:28:12Oh, not that I'm a bit surprised.

01:28:14I put them down as thoroughly bad characters, right off the bat.

01:28:18But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:21Take mine, for instance.

01:28:24Harry!

01:28:26He's alive!

01:28:44Harry!

01:29:05Oh, this is the end.

01:29:11The end.

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