Beat The Devil (1953) - Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida - Feature (Drama, Action) - video Dailymotion

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Action / Drama (1953) 89 minutes ~ Black & White    A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.    Director: John Huston    Writers: James Helvick (novel), Truman Capote (screenplay), John Huston (screenplay), Anthony Veiller (screenplay collaboration) and Peter Viertel (screenplay collaboration)    Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida

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

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00:01:31Could they be the flag?

00:01:34I hear you, I think that I have seen one.

00:01:43I must say I do resent the way these people stare at us.

00:01:47They look as if they might be going to spit.

00:01:50Gwendolyn, dash it all.

00:01:53It's unlucky to have someone spit at you unless you spit first.

00:01:56What a filthy superstition.

00:01:58People may be thinking of putting a curse on us, you know, like may your grandmothers

00:02:02be defiled.

00:02:03That's why I say it first, just in case.

00:02:06Where on earth do you get all this stuff?

00:02:08My old Spanish nurse told me.

00:02:11Surely you don't believe it now.

00:02:12You were only a child then.

00:02:13She wasn't a child.

00:02:14She was old.

00:02:15I always wondered why your parents left you in charge of such a dirty, ignorant old woman.

00:02:20They cared for nothing except to have me off their hands.

00:02:23I've told you that.

00:02:24They'd have sold me on the slave market if they hadn't been afraid of scandal.

00:02:27Besides, my father was incompetent.

00:02:28I don't suppose he knew just how to contact slave people.

00:02:29Don't believe a word of it.

00:02:30Probably they were quite fond of you, really.

00:02:31Stop it, Gwendolyn.

00:02:32Don't do it.

00:02:33You'll be sorry if we run into bad luck just because we didn't take proper precautions.

00:02:34Suppose when we get to Africa, we find there's a native rising and they're slaughtering all

00:02:35the whites.

00:02:36Gwendolyn!

00:02:37If you don't let me sit, I shall feel like standing here in the streets and just screaming

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00:02:39Stop it, Gwendolyn.

00:02:40Look.

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00:04:34In heaven's name, Billy, say something.

00:04:48You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.

00:04:50It seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.

00:04:52Well don't pretend to be a fool.

00:04:54But look, Billy, this happened early Tuesday morning.

00:04:56We'd all left London well before that.

00:04:58What about Jack Ross? What about the galloping Major?

00:05:01But he only... I thought he only stayed behind

00:05:04to get that phone call from Ambassador, if it came through.

00:05:07He'll be here this morning.

00:05:08Well?

00:05:09Don't get so excited.

00:05:11Don't jump to unpleasant conclusions.

00:05:14Jump? They might as well have drawn a map.

00:05:15Why was Peterson worried about Vermeer?

00:05:18What made him think he was dangerous?

00:05:19He was afraid Vermeer wouldn't stay bought.

00:05:22Afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone.

00:05:25He had visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,

00:05:29announcing, I have certain information,

00:05:30certain persons have paid certain sums of money...

00:05:33Don't talk so loud, Billy.

00:05:34To obtain illegal rights to certain mineral supplies.

00:05:37That Indian, that Roger, or whatever he was,

00:05:39that you worked for in the old days,

00:05:41he killed a lot of people, didn't he?

00:05:43Nah, but he had a better style.

00:05:45Besides, he was out for a kingdom,

00:05:46half the size of France.

00:05:48What's the difference between that and millions of dollars?

00:05:51You must think of the future, Billy.

00:05:53This is our big chance.

00:05:55It may be our last.

00:05:56Except for Mr. Peterson,

00:05:57we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.

00:06:00Where are you going?

00:06:02I'm going to a cafe, drink a lot of Pernod,

00:06:03and listen to the band.

00:06:04You won't make a fuss, will you?

00:06:05It doesn't do to make a fuss.

00:06:07You have to think of the main objective.

00:06:12Naturally, it doesn't do to be fussy.

00:06:21It's your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:23Pass it.

00:06:24Yeah.

00:06:42The luggage is in there.

00:06:47Bring it up.

00:06:52Oh, look, the Desperados.

00:06:53Shh.

00:06:56Not quite in our contract, Billy.

00:06:58Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:59I'm celebrating.

00:07:00Celebrating what?

00:07:01The safe arrival of the Major.

00:07:03He came galloping in a minute ago,

00:07:04looking tired but satisfied.

00:07:09I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:07:11Yes, well, it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen.

00:07:13I'll see you later, Billy.

00:07:15Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:07:18Gwendolyn, it's your move.

00:07:20Oh.

00:07:21Check.

00:07:22Last.

00:07:24Are you sailing on the Niagara?

00:07:26Africa bound.

00:07:27So are we.

00:07:28Oh, my name is Chelm.

00:07:29This is my wife.

00:07:30How do you do?

00:07:31My name's Dan Rather.

00:07:32How do you do?

00:07:33Are your friends sailing, too?

00:07:34The whole kit and caboodle.

00:07:36You're a very good sailor.

00:07:38You're a very good sailor.

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00:07:41You're a very good sailor.

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00:07:43You're a very good sailor.

00:07:45You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:07:47Really, Gwendolyn?

00:07:48How so mysterious?

00:07:50Well, for one thing, you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:07:54Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:07:57Check.

00:07:59I have a theory about you and your friends.

00:08:01Correction.

00:08:02My associates.

00:08:04As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors.

00:08:07Evil ones, I mean.

00:08:09You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap

00:08:12and perform ghastly experiments

00:08:14which require the sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.

00:08:17You must excuse my wife.

00:08:18She has a very lively imagination.

00:08:23Checkmate.

00:08:25I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game

00:08:27when you keep talking all the time.

00:08:29Harry's been all out of sorts today.

00:08:31Usually, he's a wonderful loser.

00:08:33Good morning, Mr. Dan Rather.

00:08:35I bring you the captain's compliments

00:08:37along with the sad news that the sailing of the S.S. Nyanga has been postponed.

00:08:41Now, look here.

00:08:42This boat is definitely, most definitely scheduled

00:08:44to sail at 2400 hours.

00:08:46Scheduled, Mr. Chelm, but not, I fear, destined to do so.

00:08:49The propeller go on, or is the captain drunk?

00:08:51Of course the captain is drunk.

00:08:53But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

00:08:55Well, it's not good enough.

00:08:56Simply not good enough.

00:08:57Quite right, sir.

00:08:58But you're putting it too mildly.

00:09:00The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:09:02Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:09:04To locate, bargain for, purchase and install a new one

00:09:06will require, I should say, more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:09:11Utter, hopeless inefficiency.

00:09:13Probably it isn't the oil pump at all.

00:09:15Just making it an excuse to hang about and pick up extra cargo.

00:09:18Guns or opium?

00:09:20I wouldn't be surprised if she turns out to be a smuggler.

00:09:22What a miserable place to be stuck in.

00:09:24Squalid, fifth-rate port.

00:09:26Ever been in Port Averno before?

00:09:28No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:09:30I thought not.

00:09:32Otherwise you wouldn't be so upset about staying.

00:09:34Magnificent country.

00:09:36Ruins divided by moonlight, fine stretch of beach.

00:09:38Back there in the hills,

00:09:40one of the few spots left in the world

00:09:42where you can get decent food and drink.

00:09:44It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:09:46I insist you give me the pleasure

00:09:48of having dinner with us tonight.

00:09:50Oh, that's awfully kind of you, but...

00:09:52Us? You and your associates?

00:09:54My wife and me.

00:09:56The committee?

00:09:58Oh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet a friend of mine.

00:10:00This is the galloping major.

00:10:02The committee wants you to toddle around.

00:10:04Okay.

00:10:07I said I'd be along.

00:10:09I said I'd be along.

00:10:11I don't like to be kept waiting.

00:10:13I'll lay on a car.

00:10:15We'll meet in front of the hotel at 6.

00:10:17Out of a Detchy.

00:10:19Dunrather.

00:10:21An American, I suppose.

00:10:23Anyway, I quite like him.

00:10:25Time, 24 hours in the day,

00:10:271,440 minutes

00:10:29for somebody else to get busy

00:10:31on the same idea as ours.

00:10:33We ought to have got the plane and flown out,

00:10:35as I said from the start.

00:10:37You remember I said it, O'Horror?

00:10:39My name is not O'Horror. It is O'Hara.

00:10:41You hear? Mr. O'Hara.

00:10:43Yes, Mr. O'Horror.

00:10:45But you remember I said it?

00:10:47I said we ought to take a plane.

00:10:49Time, time. What is time?

00:10:51Swiss-manufactured, French-ordered,

00:10:53Italian-squandered.

00:10:55Americans say it is money.

00:10:57Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:59You know what I say?

00:11:01I say time is a crook.

00:11:03My feet on the ground, both of them.

00:11:07Come in, Billy boy.

00:11:09What's all the fuss about?

00:11:11No fuss, Billy.

00:11:13We're merely wondering what course to pursue

00:11:15in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:11:17Join the peasants in their revels.

00:11:19Go to church. Write your memoirs.

00:11:23Very funny.

00:11:25I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:11:27Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles

00:11:29than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:11:33And now that we've had our moment of fun

00:11:35and all the better for it, let's get back to the question.

00:11:37Doesn't this delay call for a cable

00:11:39to your friend in British East?

00:11:41Mustn't send cables. Can't you get it through your head

00:11:43that the population down there has trained noses?

00:11:45They can smell a uranium deal

00:11:47like a cat smells fish.

00:11:49But aren't you afraid, Billy, that when our little party

00:11:51doesn't show up on the date you said,

00:11:53aren't you a teeny bit afraid

00:11:55that your friend might use that as an excuse

00:11:57to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:59If my friend were looking for an excuse,

00:12:02he'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:12:04What do you mean?

00:12:06I'm talking about the untimely demise of Paul Vermeer.

00:12:12I'm appalled, Billy.

00:12:14What an unwholesome opinion

00:12:16you must have of your colleagues

00:12:18to imagine that we...

00:12:20Look here, Peterson, you don't have to convince me of anything.

00:12:22You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:12:24And I won't, unless you ever decide

00:12:26to sic that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:12:28Watch yourself, Larry.

00:12:30Now, Jack, behave yourself.

00:12:32Sit down.

00:12:35For shame, Billy.

00:12:37I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:12:39And if you're half the gentleman I know you are,

00:12:41I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:43As I was saying, Peterson, you have nothing to worry about.

00:12:45My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:47And for purely venal reasons,

00:12:49that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:53Jack, give Billy a light.

00:13:00What a wonderful car.

00:13:02It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance

00:13:04many years ago.

00:13:06Oh, it did.

00:13:08It was built for Oroposo, you know, the bullfighter.

00:13:10He had it made this way so he could stand up and take bows.

00:13:12He only got one ride in,

00:13:14never queefed it to me on his deathbed.

00:13:16Well, here's to Oroposo.

00:13:18I hope you like champagne.

00:13:20You mean it's yours?

00:13:22Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur,

00:13:24the fat bandit in the front seat.

00:13:26Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:13:28Well, that was Bertie Crampton's.

00:13:30Oh, you mean Lord Crampton, in Gloucestershire.

00:13:32His family acres marched hand-in-hand with ours.

00:13:36Gloucestershire.

00:13:38The cathedral towns, trout fishing,

00:13:40garden parties.

00:13:42What a beautiful life.

00:13:44You know England well?

00:13:46Emotionally, I am English.

00:13:48I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets,

00:13:50and I've always kept up my subscription

00:13:52to Country Life and the Tattler.

00:13:55Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance.

00:13:57You're very wise to get out of it.

00:13:59Escape while you can.

00:14:01Well, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.

00:14:03Simply so happened that a relative of mine,

00:14:05first cousin actually, who died recently,

00:14:07happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:14:09Africa's the place now.

00:14:11You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys.

00:14:13They just skimmed a little off the top.

00:14:15Potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.

00:14:17Now, there is a villa.

00:14:19Big.

00:14:21Well, that's the Villa Capriccio,

00:14:23a three-star attraction in Baydecker.

00:14:25Whose is it?

00:14:27Well, the bank's on it now. It used to be mine.

00:14:29Yours?

00:14:31Yes, I brought old Charles over from Phuket,

00:14:33you know, the old Phuket, to run it for me.

00:14:35Then when I decided to pull up stakes,

00:14:37I bought him this restaurant we're going to.

00:14:39Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:14:41Well, here we are.

00:14:43Charles! Charles!

00:14:45Wait here a minute while I route old Charles out.

00:14:47He doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:49Charles! Charles!

00:14:51He's really naive.

00:14:53Knew all those people. Owned that vast villa.

00:14:55Bought this place because he liked the fella's cookie.

00:14:57What utter balderdash.

00:14:59Ah, perhaps he did.

00:15:01I beg leave to doubt it.

00:15:03Did you notice his wife?

00:15:05She seemed to be rather a sensitive little woman.

00:15:07Really embarrassed by all that rot.

00:15:09I am sorry, signore.

00:15:11As you see, we are closed.

00:15:13We do not open for another two months.

00:15:15Charles, what the devil's going on here?

00:15:17This place is falling to rack and ruin.

00:15:20Monsieur Don!

00:15:22Monsieur Don!

00:15:24Madame,

00:15:26why did you not let me know

00:15:28you were coming?

00:15:30You did not say you were with Monsieur Don.

00:15:32Nothing is closed to Monsieur Don.

00:15:34Good to see you again, Charles.

00:15:36It's been too long, Monsieur Don.

00:15:38Not since the night you left the villa.

00:15:40Remember your fervent party.

00:15:42I tried ever since to forget it.

00:15:44Remember how in the morning

00:15:46we escorted you to the train

00:15:48with violins playing

00:15:50and everybody cried

00:15:52like when a king you love very much

00:15:54leaves his country.

00:15:56Aren't you dressed yet?

00:15:58Do I appear to be dressed?

00:16:00Do dress. Do hurry.

00:16:02It's a most wonderful day

00:16:04and Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:16:06His former villa.

00:16:08Obviously I can't go.

00:16:10I've got to chill on my liver.

00:16:12What a miserable place to be ill.

00:16:14And you forgot to pack

00:16:16my hot water bottle.

00:16:18You packed it.

00:16:20Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember.

00:16:22Hello.

00:16:24Oh, hello.

00:16:26No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:16:28Harry has this wretched chill.

00:16:30Give me the telephone.

00:16:32Chilm here.

00:16:34Yes.

00:16:36Quite.

00:16:38Absolutely.

00:16:40A hot water bottle.

00:16:42That's very, very good of you, old boy.

00:16:45Look here, Danrother.

00:16:47Would you mind very much if my wife went alone?

00:16:49She enjoys this sightseeing

00:16:51sort of stuff, you know.

00:16:53Spend it.

00:16:55Spend it. I'll send her along.

00:16:59You know, Gwendolyn,

00:17:01nowadays one simply cannot afford

00:17:03to dismiss people just because they're not one sort.

00:17:05One has to try

00:17:07and bridge the gulf.

00:17:09After all, it's a new world we're going into.

00:17:11One's got to take it as one finds it.

00:17:13Face it. Use it.

00:17:15Master it.

00:17:43You know, I've seen

00:17:45Americans on the street and in the cinema,

00:17:47of course, but I've never talked

00:17:49to one before.

00:17:51Are you a typical American?

00:17:53I think it's important that I should know.

00:17:55Why important?

00:17:57There are two good reasons for falling in love.

00:17:59One is that the

00:18:01object of your affections is unlike

00:18:03anyone else. A rare spirit

00:18:05such as Lord Byron.

00:18:07The other is that he's

00:18:09like everybody else, only superior.

00:18:11Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.

00:18:13Well, if you must know, I'm a typical

00:18:15rare spirit.

00:18:17How long did you live here?

00:18:19Well, the longest I've ever lived anywhere is two years.

00:18:21But when you were a child,

00:18:23didn't you ever have a mother and a father

00:18:25and a house and a street and a town?

00:18:27No, I was an orphan until I was 20

00:18:29and then a rich and beautiful lady

00:18:31adopted me.

00:18:33You know, I've changed my mind about your being an evil

00:18:35doctor. You're off

00:18:37to keep a rendezvous someplace in Africa

00:18:40sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:42You're going to found a new empire

00:18:44and make yourself master of the riches

00:18:46of the world.

00:18:48But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress

00:18:50the natives as

00:18:52the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.

00:18:54That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:56Am I?

00:18:58Of course.

00:19:00I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.

00:19:02You don't believe that, do you?

00:19:04Well, I believe anything you say.

00:19:06Do you?

00:19:08Well, you shouldn't, you know.

00:19:10You really shouldn't.

00:19:12You can make that pass now.

00:19:38Mr. Charlton?

00:19:40Yes?

00:19:42It's I, Mrs. D'Arnaud.

00:19:44Maria.

00:19:46Oh, come in.

00:19:48Tea for two and two for tea?

00:19:50Now, that's most awfully kind of you.

00:19:52You shouldn't have troubled, really.

00:19:54Billy told me you had a chill.

00:19:56Bit of one on the liver, two tarsal.

00:19:58Milk, of course.

00:20:00Of course.

00:20:04Tea and crumpets.

00:20:08That's very good of you.

00:20:12Poor Harry.

00:20:14Chill won't kill him.

00:20:16I feel just now

00:20:18I should like somehow to do him a good turn

00:20:20of some kind.

00:20:22You do?

00:20:24Well, naturally.

00:20:26I think it would be nice

00:20:28if you were able to do something for him.

00:20:30Help him along.

00:20:32Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:20:34Delighted, of course, for instance.

00:20:36Oh, something with business.

00:20:38He was very pleased with that tip

00:20:40you gave him on the way home last night

00:20:42about the gold shares.

00:20:44I've forgotten what I told him.

00:20:46What was it?

00:20:48I don't remember either.

00:20:50I was listening to your voice.

00:20:52I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:20:54You see,

00:20:56if you were helping him,

00:20:58it would be so much easier

00:21:00for us to be together a lot

00:21:02out there in Africa.

00:21:05I wouldn't have thought it.

00:21:07But of course he is.

00:21:09You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny, do you?

00:21:11If you imagine that Harry's

00:21:13simply going to Africa to plant coffee,

00:21:15you're very much mistaken.

00:21:17In point of fact,

00:21:19in point of fact,

00:21:21coffee is the least of Harry's interests.

00:21:23In point of fact,

00:21:25the land he's acquiring

00:21:27is extremely rich in certain minerals.

00:21:29Minerals which are indispensable

00:21:31to the production of atomic energy.

00:21:33Harry's land simply deems with uranium.

00:21:35It wouldn't surprise me

00:21:37to see him become a uranium king.

00:21:39So you see,

00:21:41my husband isn't such a ninny

00:21:43as you may have imagined.

00:21:45It might very well be worth your while

00:21:47to go in with him.

00:21:49The potential mineral wealth of Africa

00:21:51has hardly been scratched.

00:21:53So I was telling you last night.

00:21:55Well, of course.

00:21:57It's a well-known fact.

00:22:03Billy boy.

00:22:07Had a happy day?

00:22:09Very.

00:22:11I'm so glad.

00:22:13What an attractive woman Mrs. Chelm is.

00:22:15Is that what you called me over to tell me?

00:22:17Who are the Chelms?

00:22:19They're English going out to British East.

00:22:21They have a coffee plantation.

00:22:23Any money in coffee?

00:22:25No, because the type of Englishman

00:22:27goes off to coffee plantations

00:22:29without carrying where there's any money.

00:22:31Relatives leave them coffee plantations

00:22:33and they go out to them.

00:22:35But why this sudden interest in the Chelms?

00:22:37I'd just like to know

00:22:39who's making friends with my friends.

00:22:41Now you know.

00:22:55You know,

00:22:57if I ever leave you,

00:23:00I'll bully for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:23:02I'll bully for you.

00:23:04I suppose that type of Englishman

00:23:06is like a story I once heard.

00:23:08An English gardener in England

00:23:10was showing some Americans

00:23:12one of those wonderful English lawns.

00:23:14And of course,

00:23:16they wanted to know how to make a lawn like that.

00:23:18And this English gardener said...

00:23:20He said, all you have to do is get some good grass

00:23:22and roll it every day for 600 years.

00:23:24I heard that story before you were born.

00:23:26Englishmen tell it

00:23:28with their mouths.

00:23:30You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:23:32You're not even listening.

00:23:34You never do.

00:23:36Someday I'll say goodbye

00:23:38and you won't hear that either.

00:23:40One day I shall really meet my type

00:23:42and run off with him.

00:23:44And you'll be simply amazed.

00:23:46That's possible.

00:23:48George Moore said...

00:23:50I learned it by heart years ago.

00:23:52He said that each great passion

00:23:54is the fruit of many fruitless years.

00:23:56George Moore was a very distinguished English writer,

00:23:58you know.

00:24:00Except that he was Irish.

00:24:02Cheer up, sugar.

00:24:04If I make a million on this deal,

00:24:06I'll buy you an old English lawn

00:24:08when we can roll up and take with us.

00:24:14Really?

00:24:16Good morning.

00:24:18What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun

00:24:20doing outside my door?

00:24:22Why do you always make jokes about my name, huh?

00:24:24In Chile, the name of O'Hara

00:24:26is a tip-top name.

00:24:28Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:24:30Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:24:32Madame, my respects.

00:24:34Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

00:24:36Yes, uh...

00:24:38Maybe perhaps, uh...

00:24:40A little whiskey, huh?

00:24:42Very weak, please.

00:24:44What's this visit in honor of?

00:24:46Oh...

00:24:48Just wanted to have a little talk with you.

00:24:50Okay, but make it fast.

00:24:53I give you my word, Billy.

00:24:55I give you my word.

00:24:57I feel to you like, uh...

00:24:59Like an older brother.

00:25:01Oh, it's not so much a difference of age.

00:25:03It's, uh...

00:25:05It's probably... Yes, the reason is because...

00:25:07Because I come from a culture

00:25:09which is so much older than yours

00:25:11in my country.

00:25:13A child six years old

00:25:15is older in his heart than you'll be

00:25:17at 60.

00:25:19It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.

00:25:21At this rate, I'll be 60 before you get to the point.

00:25:23The point...

00:25:25The point is that

00:25:27Peterson, Ravel, myself...

00:25:29We are the principals in this case.

00:25:31We are in with the money.

00:25:33We cannot switch around and turn and...

00:25:35But an agent...

00:25:37It's easy to imagine that

00:25:39he could conceivably

00:25:41doesn't feel himself quite as irrevocably

00:25:43committed as, uh...

00:25:45Peterson or...

00:25:47We're fellow passengers, I believe.

00:25:49Not quite yet, would you say?

00:25:51Too sadly true.

00:25:53By any chance, you...

00:25:55You don't happen to have seen your Mr. Danruther about?

00:25:57I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:25:59He's rather a late riser.

00:26:01But he said...

00:26:03Anyway...

00:26:05I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:26:07particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:26:09It's not that he means to break his word.

00:26:11He just forgets that he's given it.

00:26:13Charm and dependability so seldom go in one package.

00:26:16Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behavior, is one.

00:26:18Oh, yes, very.

00:26:20Quite, I mean.

00:26:22I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband and having a chat about Africa.

00:26:24By all means.

00:26:26I understand he's in coffee?

00:26:28You make it sound like a total immersion.

00:26:32Part of Africa we're going through is due for some pretty important changes.

00:26:34In my opinion,

00:26:36things will be booming out there before you can say Jack Robinson.

00:26:38I do hope there won't be too many changes.

00:26:40It's completely unspoilt, I hear,

00:26:42with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:26:44I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery

00:26:46than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds

00:26:48cropping up on a piece of land I bought for a song.

00:26:50Heaven forbid.

00:26:52Next thing, there'd be big, ugly holes everywhere

00:26:54and great, horrid machines

00:26:56instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:58Anyway, I don't think my husband

00:27:00worries much about money and business,

00:27:02that sort of thing.

00:27:04Really?

00:27:06I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view,

00:27:08one has to understand his background.

00:27:10Those lawns.

00:27:12Those houses they're making.

00:27:14Those immemorial elms.

00:27:16Those walls hung with family portraits.

00:27:18Generations of them.

00:27:20Those great, echoing galleries

00:27:22where so much of English history's been made.

00:27:24Taxes must be terrific on a place like that.

00:27:26What would people like the Chelms

00:27:28care about taxes with their kind of money?

00:27:30I mean, when a family's been a power

00:27:32in the city of London for so long.

00:27:34One of the great financial families.

00:27:36Power in the city?

00:27:38You mean...

00:27:41Those Chelms.

00:27:43I'm surprised you know about them at all.

00:27:45Very few people do.

00:27:47They prefer to work behind the scenes.

00:27:49I find it rather hard to believe

00:27:51that a man in your husband's position

00:27:53would go to Africa just for the coffee block.

00:27:55You're very quick, aren't you?

00:27:57In point of fact, he isn't.

00:27:59In point of fact, he has a very special reason.

00:28:01So I suspect it.

00:28:03It has to do with...

00:28:05Sin.

00:28:07Sin?

00:28:09Since the beginning of the war,

00:28:11my husband has been almost exclusively

00:28:13concerned with spiritual values.

00:28:15He feels that if he can get away there

00:28:17in the heart of Africa,

00:28:19he will come face to face with essentials.

00:28:21He wants to work out the problem of sin.

00:28:23Sin?

00:28:25Why, yes, of course.

00:28:27Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?

00:28:29Sin?

00:28:31Gwendolyn, what are you doing here?

00:28:33I thought we were supposed to meet on the beach.

00:28:35Harry, I want you to meet Mr...

00:28:37My name is Peterson.

00:28:39I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.

00:28:41She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.

00:28:43I myself am vastly concerned.

00:28:45Harry, we'd really better be going.

00:28:47Will you excuse us, Mr. Peterson?

00:28:49What have you been telling that man?

00:28:51Nothing, Harry.

00:28:53He got on to the subject of religion

00:28:55and I just happened to mention

00:28:57that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:59Billy, I think it is high time

00:29:01you take stock of yourself.

00:29:03Can you truthfully say about yourself,

00:29:06that I, Dan Reuter, have acted fairly

00:29:08and squarely to my associates, huh?

00:29:10But of course you can, Mr. O'Hara.

00:29:12Everybody knows Billy's the soul of honor.

00:29:14Shut up, Shivia.

00:29:16Perhaps he is the soul of honor

00:29:18and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

00:29:20Do you mind telling me what it is I'm supposed to have done?

00:29:22Nothing.

00:29:24It's your conduct.

00:29:26Your conduct does not inspire confidence.

00:29:28And confidence, Billy,

00:29:30is the most important necessity

00:29:32in an undertaking of our kind.

00:29:34I may be innocent, but if one's actions

00:29:36invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.

00:29:38To be trustworthy is not more important

00:29:40than to seem to be trustworthy.

00:29:46Billy, have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:50Tell me, Billy.

00:29:52Tell me the truth.

00:29:54My conduct.

00:29:56Do they think I am their hired man?

00:29:58But you are, you know.

00:30:00You are their hired man.

00:30:02How good and kind of you to remind me.

00:30:04How good.

00:30:06How true.

00:30:08How kind.

00:30:24Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you.

00:30:26How about a drink?

00:30:28Well, I...

00:30:31Oh, Gwendolyn, don't forget to send one

00:30:33to Aunt Beatrice.

00:30:37I can't understand it.

00:30:39Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beach.

00:30:41Then I come back and find her sitting there in that cafe.

00:30:43Extraordinary creatures, women.

00:30:45Well, let's drink to them.

00:30:47Pernod. Scotch.

00:30:49Come on, you tiny little wrack, have a drink.

00:30:51We're drinking to women.

00:30:54Take the drink, but we won't join you in the toast.

00:30:56Glass of Irish.

00:30:58Women.

00:31:00If you had the right idea, keep them in their place.

00:31:02Kind akin to Kirk and babies in the kitchen.

00:31:04Say what you want to about Hitler,

00:31:06he had his points.

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

00:31:10Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men.

00:31:12Now is the age of the barbarians.

00:31:14The world's going up in smoke.

00:31:16I say, let it come, get it over with.

00:31:18Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:31:20Worry? Just one minute, laddies.

00:31:22I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies,

00:31:24and that's don't worry, don't ever worry.

00:31:26I'm in a position to know secret information.

00:31:28The Rosicrucians, the Great White Brotherhood,

00:31:30the High Secret Orders, which have no faith.

00:31:32You must have faith.

00:31:34Faith and power, secret power.

00:31:36Men who guard the trust from the deepest inside

00:31:38of the watchman, call it.

00:31:40Mystic rulers, all one club, chained together by one purpose,

00:31:42one idea, mankind's champions.

00:31:44Follow me, Billy?

00:31:46Oh, why, of course.

00:31:48This generation's had its chance.

00:31:50Hitler, Mussolini.

00:31:52I can't stand here and permit you...

00:31:54Are you interrupting me?

00:31:57Things don't happen to me what certain people imagine.

00:31:59An officer may find himself strapped for money,

00:32:01and he may undertake certain things

00:32:03which in other circumstances, no, absolutely no.

00:32:05Absolutely.

00:32:07I mean, absolutely no.

00:32:09In the old days, I should have simply told people

00:32:11of your ilk to buy their own drinks.

00:32:13Poor old Jack.

00:32:15I'll teach you.

00:32:17I'll teach you to insult

00:32:19an ex-officer of the Indian Army.

00:32:21Well?

00:32:23Are you yellow?

00:32:25The bar.

00:32:27You're Major Ross?

00:32:29Right.

00:32:33Ross here.

00:32:35Right.

00:32:37Right again.

00:32:39Come along to the committee.

00:32:41Save for the bell.

00:32:45I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:32:47Sin, oh, sin.

00:32:49All I could do was to keep a straight face.

00:32:51No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:53These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:55Sit here and help me close this.

00:32:57But how could they possibly know what we're up to?

00:32:59Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:33:01Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us

00:33:03even before we get started.

00:33:05We must get ahead of them.

00:33:07Time has entered the picture in a new way.

00:33:09Never forget the time factor, gentlemen.

00:33:11It always enters the picture in the end.

00:33:13I'm sending a cable to London.

00:33:15I want full information on those Chelm interests.

00:33:17British Africa, too.

00:33:19Check up on his interests there every time the plane lands.

00:33:22Damn Reuter, that lying, swineish, rum-swilling double-crosser.

00:33:24What pleasure.

00:33:26No, you can't at the moment.

00:33:28We need him right now.

00:33:30We need that swineish, lying, double-crosser.

00:33:32Did I hear my name?

00:33:34Rub-a-dub-dub. Three men and a tub.

00:33:36Tub?

00:33:38Oh.

00:33:40Been a change of plan, Billy-boy.

00:33:42You and I are leaving for Africa.

00:33:44How's that?

00:33:46You and I are flying to Africa by the next plane.

00:33:48Oh, what's happened, Peterson?

00:33:50Perfectly simple, Billy-boy.

00:33:52The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty

00:33:54about when, then, the anger will sail

00:33:56forces me to sacrifice my personal comfort.

00:33:58I prefer to fly rather than run the risk of arriving too late.

00:34:00There's also such a thing as arriving too early.

00:34:02What do you mean by that?

00:34:04The land doesn't come up for auction for a couple of weeks.

00:34:06My friend can't make his move until then.

00:34:08If we sit around British East all that time,

00:34:10somebody's going to start wondering who we are

00:34:12and ask questions.

00:34:14Is that your real opinion, Billy,

00:34:16or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage

00:34:18if Mrs. Chelm is your companion?

00:34:20Or perhaps you have even other reasons.

00:34:22Such as?

00:34:24That's for you to know and for us to find out.

00:34:26You'd better get your packing done.

00:34:30Billy?

00:34:32Where are you going?

00:34:34Off to Africa, flying.

00:34:36Just like that?

00:34:38Aren't you even going to kiss me goodbye?

00:34:44I wish.

00:34:47Don't say it.

00:34:49What?

00:34:51That you wish we'd never met.

00:34:53You'll be coming on the boat and in Africa we'll get together and...

00:34:55I think I hate you.

00:34:57Letting those revolting men order you about.

00:34:59Don't deny it. I've watched them.

00:35:01They treat you like a servant.

00:35:03They say hop it and off you hop.

00:35:05I know what it is.

00:35:07They have a hold on you.

00:35:09Some black secret that could ruin you.

00:35:11What makes you think that?

00:35:13It happens all the time.

00:35:15Most of the people in the world would be ruined at once if everyone told what they knew.

00:35:17But...

00:35:19couldn't we have them done away with?

00:35:21You must know plenty of people who could...

00:35:23bump them off.

00:35:25It'd probably cost a good deal but...

00:35:27it'd be worth it certainly.

00:35:29It's not impossible except that afterwards I wouldn't have any money.

00:35:31This way I stand to make a lot.

00:35:33Millions?

00:35:35Maybe.

00:35:37Then perhaps your connection with those men isn't...

00:35:39quite so undignified as I thought.

00:35:41Those millions...

00:35:43would they be pounds or dollars?

00:35:45Either way suits me.

00:35:47That's very careless of you.

00:35:49The state of the pound is so uncertain.

00:35:51You must think in terms of hard currency.

00:35:53Maybe I should hire you...

00:35:55to handle my affairs.

00:35:57You could do worse.

00:35:59I'm awfully intelligent really.

00:36:01Come along Billy boy. The car's waiting.

00:36:13You can't get faster than this.

00:36:15We'll miss the plane.

00:36:17Press on! Press on!

00:36:27The high posting.

00:36:29The high posting.

00:36:59We have to push.

00:37:06Come on.

00:37:08One, two, three.

00:37:29Driver!

00:37:31Driver!

00:38:29My car!

00:38:31My car!

00:38:33My beautiful car!

00:38:35You did that on purpose.

00:38:37What?

00:38:39You planned it that way. I know what you're up to.

00:38:41I know everything.

00:38:43I know about the uranium on the Chelm's land.

00:38:45The Chelm interest in the city of London.

00:38:47The what?

00:38:49You heard me. The Chelm interest.

00:38:51I take it your information comes from a reliable source.

00:38:53It does. From Mrs. Chelm herself in fact.

00:38:55Magnificent. Simply magnificent.

00:38:58If you weren't a benighted jackass

00:39:00if you could see as far as you could spit

00:39:02you'd know there's no such thing as the Chelm interest.

00:39:04You'll have to do better than that Mr. Danrother.

00:39:06Very much better than that.

00:39:08Don't believe me. Check with London.

00:39:10If you find out he's anything more than a down-at-heel Gloucestershire squire

00:39:12you can have my services for nothing.

00:39:14You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?

00:39:18Well let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.

00:39:20You will make restitution.

00:39:22We know Mr. Dan.

00:39:24Either the money or a new car.

00:39:26How did you understand that I gave you the car in the first place?

00:39:28How I came by it is beside the point.

00:39:30The fact you gave it to me

00:39:32doesn't make it any the less mine.

00:39:34Shut up.

00:39:36That's right.

00:39:38Threaten me.

00:39:40It is not enough that you destroy my beautiful car.

00:39:42Now you...

00:39:46Stop!

00:39:48Stop!

00:39:54More than anything

00:39:56I want Billy

00:39:58to make a grand success out there.

00:40:00As you care so much

00:40:02about money

00:40:04I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.

00:40:06I shouldn't think Billy would mind really.

00:40:08I mean neither of you

00:40:10are in love or anything.

00:40:12You are a strange girl.

00:40:14Of course I love Billy.

00:40:17Actually I adore him.

00:40:19And Billy loves me

00:40:21very very but

00:40:23very much.

00:40:25That's why I trust him with his little

00:40:27unimportant amours.

00:40:29And what does he say about yours?

00:40:31But darling all husbands like

00:40:33their wives to seem attractive

00:40:35to other men.

00:40:39Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:41I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:47Mrs. Danrother

00:40:49Maria

00:40:51I have I'm afraid

00:40:53I have some shocking news for you.

00:40:55The boat is not going at all?

00:40:57There's been a terrible accident.

00:40:59Your husband's car drove over a cliff.

00:41:01People on the bus saw it fall into the sea.

00:41:03It seems almost certain but...

00:41:05What is it? What are you trying to say?

00:41:09He's saying that Billy is dead.

00:41:11It's become necessary

00:41:13to redistribute the stock in our company.

00:41:15Stock? Stock? What good is the stock now?

00:41:17We can't deal with

00:41:19Danrother's friends.

00:41:21Not without Danrother.

00:41:23All the effort, the money,

00:41:25everything went over the cliff with that car.

00:41:27Ravelo, you forget

00:41:29the English are very sentimental people.

00:41:31I tell you there is nothing that Billy's

00:41:33friend will not do for his widow.

00:41:35And in black

00:41:37she's a very touching figure.

00:41:39Poor Maria

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

00:41:43You are very understanding.

00:41:45If only there was

00:41:47something I could do.

00:41:49Just now if you could bring me an

00:41:51aspirin. I have a headache.

00:41:53Don't move. Just you wait there.

00:41:55I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:57Mussolini, Hitler

00:41:59and now Peterson.

00:42:01A great man.

00:42:03A great loss.

00:42:05I'm going upstairs

00:42:07and reading my Bible.

00:42:10Why all the gloom?

00:42:12Maria has a headache.

00:42:18What's the matter with you?

00:42:20Go away.

00:42:22My dear girl, I'm as sorry about Danrother as you are.

00:42:24But after all, it isn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:26I was in love with him.

00:42:28He was a very pleasant acquaintance.

00:42:30What did you say?

00:42:32I was in love with him.

00:42:34Really darling, have you no control over your romantic fantasies?

00:42:36I loved it.

00:42:38I loved it.

00:42:40Can't you hear me?

00:42:42I love you.

00:42:44Oh, Rost, you're just dramatizing again.

00:42:46By George, you were right after all.

00:42:48I did pet it.

00:42:50Oh, what shall I do?

00:42:54I feel as though I were drowning.

00:42:56He's dead.

00:42:58He's dead

00:43:00and I'm left with a fool like you.

00:43:02I'll tell you what to do.

00:43:04Have a bit of shut eye.

00:43:06Now I'm feeling your old self again

00:43:08and there'll be no more silly stories

00:43:10about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:12Oh, please go away.

00:43:14I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:22Mr. Chelm, this is very important

00:43:24for you as well as for myself.

00:43:26Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:28There is now an opportunity for you

00:43:30to set your enormous profits with virtually no risk.

00:43:32I work a bit about the bush.

00:43:35For you, as Billy's widow,

00:43:37it will be very easy to persuade his friend

00:43:39in British East

00:43:41and for capital, for capital, we have Chelm.

00:43:43He has money?

00:43:45Money? Enormous.

00:43:47All you have to do is speak to him.

00:43:49No, he would think it bad taste

00:43:51to raise such a question at this moment.

00:43:53I know the type of Englishman better than you do.

00:43:57Ravello.

00:44:01Ravello.

00:44:03You've been misinformed as to my interests.

00:44:05As well as to my character.

00:44:07Ravello just came from London.

00:44:09No Chelm family financial interest London.

00:44:11What does it mean?

00:44:13What does it mean?

00:44:15It means what it says.

00:44:17There are no Chelm interests.

00:44:29What's the matter with all of you?

00:44:31Somebody dead?

00:44:33A car. It went over a cliff.

00:44:35We thought you'd both been killed.

00:44:37I'm delighted to see you're alive

00:44:39but your wife is in a fainting condition.

00:44:43You mean you're not dead at all?

00:44:45Obviously I'm not dead.

00:44:47Please come to your senses. What have you got here?

00:44:49I knew you weren't dead. I knew it.

00:44:51You couldn't be.

00:44:53I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:55My old Spanish nurse said if you did that

00:44:57a miracle would happen.

00:45:00Ladies and gentlemen

00:45:02I bring you the glad tidings.

00:45:04The captain is sober and the SS Nyanga

00:45:06will sail at midnight.

00:45:16I can't see it anymore.

00:45:18What can have happened to it?

00:45:20My dispatch box, where is it?

00:45:22A black tin box this size. What have you done with it?

00:45:27I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:45:29I shall not go on board until my dispatch box has been found.

00:45:31Are you having trouble?

00:45:33I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.

00:45:40He says he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

00:45:42Idiot! Why didn't he say so in the first place?

00:45:46Say, look.

00:45:48What's happened to Harry?

00:45:50He's been giving me the fish eye all evening.

00:45:52What is it?

00:45:54Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead

00:45:56I told him I was in love with you.

00:45:58I couldn't help it. It made you seem less dead.

00:46:00And?

00:46:02Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:46:04He thought my nerves were upset. Sort of delirium.

00:46:06He thought it quite a joke.

00:46:08The idea of my inventing a love affair

00:46:10with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:46:12That's what he called you.

00:46:14Well, now that I'm back in the flesh

00:46:16you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:46:18I suppose seeing you alive

00:46:20is different from thinking of you dead.

00:46:22Because Greg cooped up on that tub

00:46:24with the suspicious husband.

00:46:27Billy.

00:46:33Let's not go.

00:46:35What do you mean?

00:46:39I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:46:41Now.

00:46:43What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:45What's happened to you?

00:46:47I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:49I've changed my point of view.

00:46:51I thought we'd get to Africa

00:46:53and you'd make your fortune and everything would be wonderful.

00:46:55But now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:57Too many things can happen.

00:46:59I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:47:01You really mean that?

00:47:03With all my heart.

00:47:05No, that's impossible.

00:47:07Why?

00:47:09Well, for one thing, Mrs. Danrother might not go for the idea.

00:47:11She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:47:13Please, Billy, listen to me.

00:47:15I've thought it all out.

00:47:17We'll take the bus and catch an express or something.

00:47:19The shot's not on the table.

00:47:21They're not in love the way I am.

00:47:23It doesn't make any difference.

00:47:25I've got to have money.

00:47:27Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money

00:47:29otherwise I become dull, listless,

00:47:31and have trouble with my complexion.

00:47:33But you're not like that now and you haven't any money.

00:47:35It's my expectations that hold me together.

00:47:37You really mean that, don't you, darling?

00:47:39Sure I mean it.

00:47:41And your main reason for wanting lots of money

00:47:43is so that you'll be ever so attractive

00:47:45and I'll love you more and more.

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

00:47:49I'll help you, Billy.

00:47:52I just said I could have been professional.

00:47:54Don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.

00:48:09The air, ozone.

00:48:11What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.

00:48:13What a fortune we'd make.

00:48:15Neptune's mixture.

00:48:17Now breathe deeply.

00:48:19Remember, every breath is a guinea in the Bank of Health.

00:48:22Ah.

00:48:24Ah.

00:48:26Good morning, Cheryl.

00:48:28Why, that's good.

00:48:30Very good indeed.

00:48:32I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Danbrother.

00:48:34I'd hardly call myself that.

00:48:36I only dabble.

00:48:38The nose is not enough long.

00:48:40The ears are too small.

00:48:42Only has one eye.

00:48:44Now come along, gentlemen.

00:48:46We must stop dawdling.

00:48:48Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:48:50Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:48:52Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:48:54Good morning, Mrs. Chelm.

00:48:56Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:58Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:49:00Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:49:02Blow, blow, blow the vent out.

00:49:04Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:49:06Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:49:08Blow the vent out, Bully, blow the vent out.

00:49:10Give me some time to blow the vent out.

00:49:12Mr. Peterson.

00:49:14Mr. Peterson.

00:49:16Radiogram.

00:49:20No Chelm estate Gloucestershire stock.

00:49:22No Lend a gentry Chelms.

00:49:24What do you make of that?

00:49:26He's not a Gloucestershire swire.

00:49:28Like Billy said.

00:49:30Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face value.

00:49:32But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:34We are at sea again.

00:49:36We are at sea again.

00:49:38We are at sea again.

00:49:40We are at sea again.

00:49:42We are at sea again.

00:49:44We are at sea again.

00:49:46We are at sea again.

00:49:48What is he?

00:49:50We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:52Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:54Billy is a liar.

00:49:56Heaven only knows what Chelm is.

00:49:58CID maybe.

00:50:00You borrowed my thought.

00:50:02What to do, what to do?

00:50:04The time has come for direct action.

00:50:06You remember last night when we came on board?

00:50:08The fuss he was making about his dispatch box?

00:50:18I love colors.

00:50:20Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:50:22Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:50:24Your face, for instance.

00:50:26Ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:50:28Ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:50:30Now the light is changed and it's chalky white.

00:50:32Now the light is changed and it's chalky white.

00:50:34What?

00:50:36Tinged with green.

00:50:38Tinged with green.

00:50:40Green?

00:50:42It must be getting rough.

00:50:44Just a little.

00:50:47Break the pose.

00:50:49I don't feel very well.

00:50:51I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:57It's incredible.

00:50:59Harry Chelm is just...

00:51:01Just Harry Chelm?

00:51:03Nothing, nobody, a ruddy refugee from Earl's Court.

00:51:05In the letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Governor.

00:51:07The Secretary, mind you.

00:51:09Disgusting.

00:51:11Purser.

00:51:13My box.

00:51:15It's gone.

00:51:17Major Ross took it.

00:51:19I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.

00:51:21I like to keep my eye on what goes on aboard the ship.

00:51:23Where did he take it?

00:51:25I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.

00:51:27In fact, I'm sure.

00:51:37Now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:39He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:45Billy.

00:51:47Come in.

00:51:49Billy, have you heard what's happened?

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

00:51:53It's not funny.

00:51:55They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:57Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:59That dreadful little Major.

00:52:01He took it to Peterson.

00:52:03They went through it.

00:52:05It's all your fault. I suppose you know that.

00:52:07My fault?

00:52:09With the poppycock you've been peddling.

00:52:11All that junk about the Chelm interest in London.

00:52:13Uranium on your land.

00:52:15Well, in a way, you're the one to blame.

00:52:17I'm the...

00:52:19I mean, you acted so superior.

00:52:21I was falling in love with you.

00:52:23And I couldn't bear it for you to think I was just nobody.

00:52:25Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:27The son of a what?

00:52:29A boarding house.

00:52:31That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:33They run a boarding house for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:36But the way he talks, the way he acts, I thought...

00:52:38It's just that he sees himself in a place in the West Country

00:52:40with trout streams and horses

00:52:42leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:44It's not his fault if people take it for granted

00:52:46that he has a place like that.

00:52:48He's never once said that he had.

00:52:50Well, country gent, son of a boarding house,

00:52:52or whatever he is, I suppose I'd better get his box back.

00:52:54Oh, he got it back himself.

00:52:56Well, then there's no harm done.

00:52:58Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:53:00He's going to have them put in irons.

00:53:02He is what?

00:53:04Look here, Skipper.

00:53:06There's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.

00:53:08I happen to own a dispatch box

00:53:10which is very similar to Mr. Chelms'.

00:53:12When I didn't find it in my cabin,

00:53:14I asked Major Ross to see if it had been stowed away

00:53:16somewhere else by mistake.

00:53:18The Major found what he thought was my box

00:53:20in the saloon with some other luggage.

00:53:22The box has been in my cabin ever since we sailed.

00:53:24Under the berth.

00:53:26As soon as I saw the box, of course,

00:53:28I realized at once that it wasn't mine.

00:53:30I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged

00:53:32and you should imagine I should be interested in a box

00:53:34containing patent medicines.

00:53:36I'm not a hypochondriac.

00:53:38Purser, tell the captain exactly what you told me about the box.

00:53:40Why, sir?

00:53:42You asked me whether I'd seen it

00:53:44and I said it might be the one I'd seen

00:53:46being carried along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:48You distinctly told me that you'd seen it

00:53:50being taken from my cabin.

00:53:52Oh, you must have misunderstood.

00:53:54You were rather ill at the time, if you remember, sir.

00:53:56That's all, Purser.

00:53:58He's been bribed. He's in league with these criminals.

00:54:01Just a case of a misunderstanding.

00:54:03That's how I look at it.

00:54:05Now, what about a little cognac

00:54:07to wash away any ill feeling?

00:54:09I don't care for a drink.

00:54:11And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.

00:54:13While rifling through my personal effects,

00:54:15I feel certain that you must have noticed

00:54:17I had a letter of introduction to the secretary of the governor.

00:54:19I suspect he'll be much more interested in what I have to say

00:54:21than this gin-soaked so-called ship's captain.

00:54:23You mind your tongue!

00:54:25Anyone else, the other one, put in hands.

00:54:27As far as I'm concerned,

00:54:29this is a close incident!

00:54:35You've got your box back.

00:54:37Why don't you forget the whole thing?

00:54:39What possible interest do you expect the colonial office to take?

00:54:41On the contrary, I expect them to show considerable interest

00:54:43in a gang of crooks who are trying to swindle the country

00:54:45out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:53Just one moment, sir.

00:54:57What leads you to believe?

00:54:59This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit to inform you

00:55:01that during your supposed demise,

00:55:03he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.

00:55:05Unfortunately for you,

00:55:07he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts,

00:55:09facts which I intend to communicate to the proper authority

00:55:11at the very earliest opportunity.

00:55:13I thought you were dead.

00:55:15That's what they told me.

00:55:17Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:19And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:21Didn't we?

00:55:23You, Ravello, my own partner,

00:55:25tried to sneak up behind my back

00:55:27and tried to cheat me.

00:55:29Milk spilt. It's no good crying over it.

00:55:31Get after him, Billy.

00:55:33Calm him down. Talk to him.

00:55:35See if you can't get him to change his attitude.

00:55:37I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:39I don't know why we have to worry about Chelm's attitude.

00:55:41Talk's no good.

00:55:43Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:45I say put an end to it.

00:55:47Shut up, Jack.

00:55:49Time factor has entered the picture again.

00:55:51This time, fortunately, it's working on our side.

00:55:54I beg you.

00:55:56Please end all this trouble.

00:55:58If things go on, either you will be done away with

00:56:00before we ever get to Africa

00:56:02or you will leave and denounce Peterson to the authorities.

00:56:04And that will be the ruin

00:56:06of all my plans and hopes.

00:56:08In the long run, you'll do much better to get care of these people.

00:56:10They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:56:12The long run? I'm tired of the long run.

00:56:16I am not even thinking about them

00:56:18or about myself.

00:56:20It's only you that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:22No need to worry about me.

00:56:24Ever since I met you,

00:56:26you fail my thinking.

00:56:28You are becoming an obsession.

00:56:32Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:34I am deeply in love.

00:56:38Maria.

00:56:40My dear.

00:56:52Only you

00:56:54could make a woman feel like this.

00:56:56All I want is to be

00:56:58in your arms now

00:57:00and always.

00:57:02You forget I'm going to be done away with.

00:57:04Oh, no, no. It will be easy to arrange.

00:57:06What you must do is this.

00:57:08You will write me a letter.

00:57:10A love letter.

00:57:12You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson

00:57:14because then I will suffer, too.

00:57:16Because you love me

00:57:18so much, you cannot bear

00:57:20to hurt me.

00:57:22Such a letter they will believe if I show it to them.

00:57:24My dear girl, you must see

00:57:26that this is quite out of the question.

00:57:28I don't propose to make compromises.

00:57:30Not compromises, Harry, darling.

00:57:32But you can see, if you cause

00:57:34trouble to all of our plans,

00:57:36my plans,

00:57:38you would not want

00:57:40to make the innocent suffer.

00:57:42It would be much better

00:57:44if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:46I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:49You intend to go ahead with this business,

00:57:51tell stories and ruin everything?

00:57:53It would be much better if you cut loose from these people.

00:57:55No happiness can come from such an association.

00:57:57Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.

00:57:59Please, write a letter.

00:58:01Then there will be no trouble for you,

00:58:03no trouble for us, no risk when we get to Africa.

00:58:05I'm sorry, my dear.

00:58:07We English are a very pig-headed lot.

00:58:09You think you can get away with this?

00:58:11But, Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.

00:58:13First you made love to me.

00:58:15Now you tell me you will ruin me.

00:58:17Oh, shut your trap.

00:58:19Go on, do what you like.

00:58:21You think you're such a brave man.

00:58:23I'll tell you what you are.

00:58:25You are a heel.

00:58:31What the blazes now?

00:58:35What's happening? What's going on here?

00:58:37The oil pump's on the blink. The electricity's failed.

00:58:39What a folly. A ship lying in darkness this way?

00:58:41We might well be rammed at any minute.

00:58:43I'll tend to this myself. Which way is the engine room?

00:58:45I'm sure your chief engineer will welcome the advice

00:58:47of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:59:03Look here, you fool.

00:59:05Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:59:07I insist on something being done.

00:59:09For instance? Give out the lifebelts.

00:59:11Organize the boat drill.

00:59:14I request it to remain calm.

00:59:16To remain calm? Does the captain feel no central responsibility

00:59:18for the lives of his passengers?

00:59:20It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.

00:59:22Do you mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:24The fellow ought to be made to walk the tank.

00:59:26I'm afraid just now he cannot walk at all.

00:59:28This is outrageous.

00:59:30What have you got to worry about?

00:59:32We're only adrift in an open sea

00:59:34where the drunken captain and engine is liable to explode at any moment.

00:59:36Perfectly ordinary situation.

00:59:38Happens every day.

00:59:40But just in case any of you are still at all anxious,

00:59:42let it be known that Mr. Chelm

00:59:44has taken charge in the engine room.

00:59:46Who's taken charge?

00:59:48Harry. And he'll foozle it for sure.

00:59:50Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:52Your husband claims to have learned all about the engine

00:59:54and such things when he was an officer

00:59:56in the Royal Marines.

00:59:58If he ever was.

01:00:00In point of fact, not only was he an officer,

01:00:02but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire

01:00:04to rescue someone.

01:00:06It's only a bit of wreckage and not a man,

01:00:08but that wasn't Harry's fault.

01:00:10Oh, the lights.

01:00:12They come on.

01:00:14He must have fixed it.

01:00:16Impossible. The engines are turning.

01:00:18We are underway.

01:00:20I still say it's impossible.

01:00:22Ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:24may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:26I'm happy to inform you that the oil pump

01:00:28is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:30Putting it right was no great accomplishment

01:00:32for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:34Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay

01:00:36and in absolute safety.

01:00:39Oh, Harry, you did, you did.

01:00:41You fooled me.

01:00:43You wrecked my ship.

01:00:45Where is your captain?

01:00:47The captain wants to see you.

01:00:49There you are, you devil.

01:00:51You wrecked my beautiful ship.

01:00:53Nothing of the sort.

01:00:55Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work

01:00:57out of pure merit.

01:00:59Keep your head down.

01:01:01Stay out of this, grandmother.

01:01:03I can handle the boat.

01:01:05What happens now?

01:01:07Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:09There's no immediate danger.

01:01:11The passengers were pleased to return to the saloon.

01:01:13We're heading for the nearest port

01:01:15and there seems to be some chance of our making.

01:01:17Let's go.

01:01:21Come along.

01:01:25Now, who was asked out?

01:01:27Last.

01:01:31Billy, boy, be a good fellow

01:01:33and make a forth the bridge.

01:01:35A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:37Oh, thank you. I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:39In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:41No ice, no water. That's it.

01:01:43How about you, dear Mrs. Deadrubber?

01:01:45A little bridge?

01:01:47Oh, so sorry. I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:49I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:53Oh, what a shame.

01:01:55Well, boys, we'll have to make it cutthroat.

01:01:57What about Harry here? Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:01:59That, under the circumstances,

01:02:01is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:02:04Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table

01:02:06or else leave the saloon.

01:02:08Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:10I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.

01:02:12Don't be absurd. Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:14He's the best friend we have on this boat.

01:02:16We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:18You don't need any friends you can get.

01:02:20The only thing standing between you and a watery grave

01:02:22is your wits.

01:02:24That's not my idea of adequate protection.

01:02:26Purser, how much longer before this ship reaches port?

01:02:28If we ever do get to port,

01:02:30it should be within 14 or 15 hours.

01:02:32That's a long time.

01:02:34Sit down. Make yourself comfortable. Have a drink.

01:02:36Enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:38Come on, Peterson. Buy us a drink.

01:02:40I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality

01:02:42from persons whom I intend, in a few hours' time,

01:02:44to denounce in a place of justice.

01:02:46Two spades.

01:02:48I admire your sans-fois, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:50Or perhaps you don't think I'm serious.

01:02:52We shall see.

01:02:54C'est grave, sir.

01:02:56Double.

01:03:02Gwendolyn, are you going to do as I say?

01:03:04Not when you speak to me in that tone.

01:03:06Not when you try to order me about.

01:03:08In that case...

01:03:10Where are you going?

01:03:12On deck, where the air is less polluted.

01:03:32No, sir. Four tonics.

01:03:48I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:50Why should I,

01:03:52if he's going to be so childish and unreasonable?

01:03:54Take my advice. Go to him.

01:03:56Stay with him.

01:03:58I suppose you think we should keep up the good work.

01:04:00I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.

01:04:02The loyal wife at her husband's side.

01:04:04No, Billy.

01:04:06I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.

01:04:08And I shall not deny it.

01:04:10Either by word or by deed.

01:04:12I love you. Let the whole world know it.

01:04:14I love you. I love you.

01:04:16Keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.

01:04:18Then why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?

01:04:20He's being such a deadly bore tonight.

01:04:22Deadly, but not dead. Not yet.

01:04:24What do you mean?

01:04:26They killed one man just because they thought he might try

01:04:29to get in their way. Now, handsome Harry

01:04:31is certain to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:04:33They killed a man?

01:04:35Really? Who?

01:04:37Just a man.

01:04:39Well,

01:04:41for all Harry's being too, too tiresome

01:04:43and my loving you to distraction,

01:04:45I still wouldn't want to see him done in.

01:04:47He has some perfectly darling traits, really.

01:04:49I mean, like

01:04:51always remembering one's birthday.

01:04:53No, we simply mustn't let anybody murder Harry.

01:04:55Keep him in your cabin.

01:04:57Never let him out of your sight. Keep him under lock and key.

01:05:09Oh, Billy, that awful music.

01:05:11It's so loud.

01:05:13It comes right into our cabin.

01:05:15Peterson, tell the major to soft pedal it.

01:05:17And while he's about it,

01:05:19he might change the tune.

01:05:21Oh, don't you like it? It's one of my favorites.

01:05:23I'm afraid he doesn't know any others.

01:05:25Major!

01:05:31I love the tinnier sound

01:05:33of a player piano.

01:05:35It reminds me of the days of my youth.

01:05:37I love the tinnier sound

01:05:39of a player piano.

01:05:41It reminds me of the days of my youth.

01:05:44Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:46One down.

01:06:06You thought I wasn't afraid of you?

01:06:08I'm a little scared, too.

01:06:10The skin in your hands looks good on you.

01:06:12Captain!

01:06:13Captain!

01:06:14What happened?

01:06:15Shh.

01:06:16Oh, Billy, all that screaming.

01:06:17I thought someone had been killed.

01:06:18Well, someone nearly was.

01:06:19Indeed, they were.

01:06:20Look at the major.

01:06:21Better get a new act finished, and the curtain's

01:06:22going down on this one.

01:06:23Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:06:24The passenger's braking.

01:06:25I can't see.

01:06:26I can't see.

01:06:27I can't see.

01:06:28I can't see.

01:06:29I can't see.

01:06:30I can't see.

01:06:31I can't see.

01:06:32I can't see.

01:06:33I can't see.

01:06:34I can't see.

01:06:35I can't see.

01:06:36I can't see.

01:06:37I can't see.

01:06:38I can't see.

01:06:39I can't see.

01:06:40I can't see.

01:06:41I can't see.

01:06:42I can't see.

01:06:43I can't see.

01:06:44I can't see.

01:06:45The passengers brake the engine.

01:06:46They beat each other with their feet.

01:06:47They throw each other overboard.

01:06:48That man attacked me.

01:06:49How are you?

01:06:50You again?

01:06:51If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:52He came sneaking up behind me and tried to

01:06:53run me through with his sword.

01:06:54Is that true?

01:06:55It's no use Billy.

01:06:56Am I trying to protect Harry any further?

01:06:58I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:07:00Captain, it grieves me to confess this,

01:07:03but in point of fact, my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:07:08The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:07:11On occasion, he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:07:14The psychiatrists say it's because he believes people are plotting against him.

01:07:18And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:07:21Gwendolyn! For heaven's sake, woman! What's the meaning of this treachery?

01:07:24Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:07:27He knows! He saved my life! He'll tell the truth!

01:07:30I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:07:32You're wrecking my ship! You're trying to kill the passengers!

01:07:34But I'm here to save First Officer's ship!

01:07:36That's why you're against me! Let me go! I'll kill the lot of you!

01:07:39I warned you, Captain!

01:07:41Oh, Harry, it's awfully sad. We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:46How dare you lay hands on me! You hooligans!

01:07:49I'll have you put in irons! You'll be the ones in irons!

01:07:52Good, good! We'll have no trouble from you!

01:07:56Scum! Mongrels! I'll bring you to book!

01:08:00Every one of you! Every man, Jack of you!

01:08:05After all, it was the only solution.

01:08:07Harry's safely locked in his cabin, where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:08:11On the other hand, he can't say or do anything now to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:08:16I mean, the authorities would hardly listen to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:08:20They won't even let him off the boat.

01:08:23Well, in that case, he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.

01:08:26That's a good heart on the old boy, don't you think?

01:08:28Yes, but after you've amassed all those African millions, we'll make it up to him.

01:08:34We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire,

01:08:37with some rough shooting and a trout stream like he's always wanted.

01:08:42Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:44She seems to have a very real feeling for English country life.

01:08:48And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:51Especially us, Billy.

01:08:56What's going on?

01:08:57I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:59Board station, everybody!

01:09:02We're sinking!

01:09:05Harry! Harry, open the door!

01:09:07Your master, the ship's sinking!

01:09:31Why are you doing this?

01:09:33You're killing them all.

01:09:35Shut up, everybody!

01:09:37Evacuate, everyone!

01:09:39What are you doing there?

01:09:40You've ruined the whole boat!

01:09:44Shut up! Evacuate, everyone!

01:09:48What are you doing?

01:09:49Why are you doing this?

01:09:51You're killing them all!

01:09:53We'll pay you!

01:09:54We'll pay you!

01:09:57Get a rope! Hurry up!

01:09:59Sprigateli, calatela sul laccio mare! Presto! Presto!

01:10:04Look down there, sprigateli! Sprigateli!

01:10:08Balla! Balla!

01:10:11Look down there!

01:10:18Presto! Presto!

01:10:23Look down there, sprigateli!

01:10:26We can't. We simply can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry.

01:10:30Maybe we'll run across him out there. He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:10:33Can you run across him?

01:10:34I don't say we will, but it's possible. Anything's possible.

01:10:50Harry!

01:10:56Harry!

01:11:27Where do you suppose we are?

01:11:29Africa.

01:11:30What part of Africa?

01:11:31Yes, that's important. What part?

01:11:33Not a bad place to land. No customs, no forms to fill out.

01:11:36Tell us at once where we are. It's important, I know.

01:11:39You mean to say there are parts of the Dark Continent where you won't be received like the prodigal son?

01:11:43Alio.

01:11:44What's that?

01:11:45Alio.

01:11:50Better get down, everybody.

01:11:52Better get down, everybody.

01:11:55Get rid of your passports, boys.

01:11:57Mrs. Chow, Billy Boy, my identity must remain a secret.

01:12:22Get out!

01:12:24All of you, get out!

01:12:27All of you, get out!

01:12:29All of you, get out!

01:12:32All of you, get out!

01:12:36All of you, get out!

01:12:47Alio, what's that?

01:12:48It was a company that sold arms to the Arab legions.

01:12:50Wait a minute, that rings a bell.

01:12:52Some of the equipment we sold was defective.

01:12:56Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:58The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:13:02For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:13:04I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:13:21Peter!

01:13:27Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:13:29Why, it's simply...

01:13:31It's shocking.

01:13:32Harry wouldn't have let them do it.

01:13:34He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:36I have a sense of survival.

01:13:37Billy, what is going to happen?

01:13:40Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:42Just let them try it.

01:13:43I'm a British subject.

01:13:45I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:13:51I'm sorry.

01:14:06We shipwreck.

01:14:07Big boat, go down.

01:14:10Bottom ocean.

01:14:12We take little boat.

01:14:15Row all day.

01:14:18Row all night.

01:14:20Selfie?

01:14:21There's only one way to deal with these swine.

01:14:23Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.

01:14:25Show them who's boss right away.

01:14:27We sight land.

01:14:29Your land.

01:14:30Praise Allah.

01:14:32Come ashore.

01:14:34Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.

01:14:37No good way to treat shipwreck people.

01:14:39You will please to hand over your passports.

01:14:51There seem to be four missing.

01:14:53Will those who have not handed over their passports

01:14:56hold up their hands?

01:15:03All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:15:05A terrifying experience.

01:15:07An incompetent crew, a burning ship,

01:15:10put overboard by a shipwreck.

01:15:12It's a terrible experience.

01:15:14It's a terrible experience.

01:15:16It's a terrible experience.

01:15:18A burning ship put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

01:15:21What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:23The SS Nyanga. She's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:25I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:29Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency,

01:15:31we should come to this shore in a small boat

01:15:33if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:35Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:37Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:39Agents of certain foreign governments

01:15:41sometimes try to enter it by stealth,

01:15:44hoping to fan the flames of revolution.

01:15:47Therefore, we check carefully on the activities of strangers.

01:15:52But surely, Your Excellency, in our case,

01:15:54one look is sufficient to convince you of our innocence.

01:16:12No.

01:16:15One look is not enough.

01:16:23If you think we're the enemies of your country,

01:16:25the logical thing is to boot us out,

01:16:27send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:29We shan't object.

01:16:31We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:33Where is elsewhere?

01:16:35Central Africa.

01:16:37And what sort of a business?

01:16:39Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines.

01:16:41Ah, yes.

01:16:43Businessmen.

01:16:45All going to Central Africa to sell vacuum cleaners.

01:16:49Hut to hut, I suppose.

01:16:52And you, sir, take it at the head, salesman,

01:16:55the ringleader of this group.

01:16:57Oh, no, no group.

01:16:59We met for the first time on board ship.

01:17:01Complete strangers to one another.

01:17:03Liar!

01:17:05The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:17:08I am a keen observer.

01:17:10You fought us together.

01:17:12My fat gutted friend,

01:17:14I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native

01:17:16you're fool enough to take me for.

01:17:18I am a great man, a serious man.

01:17:21I spit on you, too.

01:17:23I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:25Off to the wrong star, Peterson.

01:17:27There's only one way to deal with these spines.

01:17:29Spines! Spines! Spines!

01:17:31You'd better be careful.

01:17:33My husband, my late husband,

01:17:35who was drowned in the Niagara disaster,

01:17:37happened to be one of the most important figures

01:17:39in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:41In point of fact, we had letters

01:17:43from the Prime Minister and the Queen

01:17:45telling everybody to be particularly courteous

01:17:47to us and our friends.

01:17:49So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands,

01:17:51it will become a major international incident.

01:17:54Would you instruct that one

01:17:56that in my country,

01:17:58a female's lips may move,

01:18:00but her words are not heard.

01:18:02Well, Harry. Harry.

01:18:06If only you were here.

01:18:08And now, sir,

01:18:10you will stop abusing my intelligence

01:18:12and tell me who you really are

01:18:14and what is your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:17I'm a sick man. I've got a bad heart.

01:18:19I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:21You refuse to answer.

01:18:23That is interesting.

01:18:25It makes of it a contest,

01:18:27a contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:29We of this country

01:18:31have had 4,000 years' experience

01:18:33in asking questions and getting answers.

01:18:36Who are you?

01:18:38Why are you here?

01:18:40Don't hit me again.

01:18:42My heart, I have an attack.

01:18:58I'm a bloody harpsichord.

01:19:07Of course, Billy's led a thoroughly decadent life.

01:19:10I must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.

01:19:13Backbone.

01:19:15Either you have it or you haven't.

01:19:17You see the beating I took

01:19:19at the hands of that great, ugly brute

01:19:21without even flinching.

01:19:23Billy was crazed with fear

01:19:25before they even laid a finger on him.

01:19:27Tell me more about Rita Hayworth.

01:19:30You really know her very well?

01:19:32Do I know Rita?

01:19:34Do I know her?

01:19:36I'll give you a letter of introduction.

01:19:38She'll fall an immediate victim to your charms.

01:19:40You really think so?

01:19:42Oh, but certainly a man like you,

01:19:44suave, intelligent,

01:19:46darkly handsome.

01:19:48You have everything, Ahmed, except money.

01:19:51And if you'll listen to me,

01:19:53a boat will be placed at our disposal,

01:19:55a very slow boat,

01:19:57so that Fat Guy's check will have plenty of time to clear.

01:19:59And you will trust me for your share?

01:20:02Does one man of the world

01:20:04ask another to trust his own brother?

01:20:06Oh, no, Ahmed.

01:20:08You'll give me a check for half.

01:20:10Your demands are very great

01:20:12under the circumstances.

01:20:14Why shouldn't they be? Fat Guy's my best friend.

01:20:16I will not betray him cheaply.

01:20:18You are certain that you are the friend

01:20:20of the peerless Rita?

01:20:22Come, come, Ahmed. Fine. Back to business.

01:20:24Very well.

01:20:26Fifty-fifty.

01:20:28Oh, by the way, Fat Guy's nature

01:20:30is noble like ours.

01:20:32He might try to bargain.

01:20:34I do not bargain with a puffball like that.

01:20:36It's beneath my dignity.

01:20:38It'll be dawn soon,

01:20:40the correct hour for a firing squad.

01:20:42But if we have him shot,

01:20:44what about the money?

01:20:46Well, I was just thinking that if he were to volley

01:20:48at the psychological moment,

01:20:50he might not be so inclined to haggle.

01:20:52I believe you must have Arab blood.

01:20:55Westerners are not usually so subtle.

01:21:00Yallah, yallah.

01:21:02Look, Halamai.

01:21:04Look, Halamai.

01:21:06Ah!

01:21:08Where are you taking me?

01:21:10I won't go. I demand to see a doctor.

01:21:13Would you say that in Paris,

01:21:15among smart people,

01:21:18the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac

01:21:22is considered more chic?

01:21:25That's no problem, no problem.

01:21:27Well, that's no problem, no problem at all.

01:21:29A man in your position should have both.

01:21:31Ah.

01:21:38Mr. Donerather, I believe,

01:21:40would like a word with you.

01:21:42Billy.

01:21:44Sit down, Peterson.

01:21:52Uh, I've been talking to Ahmet here,

01:21:55and, uh, he's made a vow.

01:22:01It's blackmail.

01:22:04I can't pay.

01:22:10What was that?

01:22:12Friday's good.

01:22:14It's execution day.

01:22:17Will he take a check?

01:22:25Billy!

01:22:46Billy!

01:22:49Billy!

01:22:51Look!

01:22:54Stay away!

01:22:56Stay away from my ship!

01:22:58If you try to come aboard, I will shoot you!

01:23:01I will shoot you!

01:23:03Get my gun! Get my gun!

01:23:06Give it to him. Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:23:08My gun! My gun!

01:23:24Excuse me.

01:23:26Are you Mr. William Donerather?

01:23:28That's right.

01:23:30I'd like to ask you a few questions, my man.

01:23:32I'm sorry, not now.

01:23:34Forgive me, but it's rather important.

01:23:36Yes, it always is. I was a newspaper man myself once.

01:23:38Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic

01:23:40except Mrs. Donerather, who ate all our boots.

01:23:42Very amusing, but, uh, I'm not a reporter.

01:23:44Oh?

01:23:46Jack, go to the phone, make reservations.

01:23:48The first plane to Nairobi, six seats.

01:23:50Yes, and if they don't have any, talk to the right man

01:23:52because if he kicks other people off the plane,

01:23:54it wouldn't make it worth his while.

01:23:56I always said we ought to take a plane.

01:23:58You remember I said that, Mr. Horrold.

01:24:00I said we ought to take a plane.

01:24:02Mustn't dawdle, Billy boy. Radio to do, not much time.

01:24:04Those are the other members of your party?

01:24:06Yes, I'd like to talk to them, too.

01:24:08Well, what's it all about?

01:24:10I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Meer, now deceased.

01:24:14Peterson, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:16The gentleman here wants to speak to you,

01:24:18a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:20Would you like your wine here or upstairs, Mr. Danno?

01:24:22We'll have it here.

01:24:24Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:26No, thanks. It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:28I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man

01:24:30never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:32Is that true, Mr. Clayton?

01:24:34Quite true. Mrs. Danrother?

01:24:36No, I'm Mrs. Chell.

01:24:38This is Mrs. Danrother.

01:24:40Oh, how do you do?

01:24:42Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies,

01:24:44so perhaps I'll have a glass of bubbly after all.

01:24:46Peterson, how do you do, sir?

01:24:48Ravelon.

01:24:50And, um, Mr. O'Hara.

01:24:52O'Hara. Julius O'Hara. Delighted.

01:24:54No, I'm the one to be delighted.

01:24:56It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:24:58That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:00You see, this is the first time

01:25:02I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:04I've spent quite a lot of money.

01:25:06My chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends,

01:25:08particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:12Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Van Meer murder case.

01:25:14The Van Meer murder case?

01:25:16Oh, yes, yes.

01:25:18That fellow in the colonial office. Yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:20It was a shocking affair.

01:25:22According to Mr. Van Meer's appointment book,

01:25:24Mr. Peterson,

01:25:26you had lunch with him at the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:28That's quite correct.

01:25:30Mr. Van Meer was an expert on African matters.

01:25:32We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:34Do you recall the subject of the discussion?

01:25:36Vaguely.

01:25:38Uh, crop yield.

01:25:40The native labor situation.

01:25:42Inches of rain.

01:25:44How long had you known Mr. Van Meer?

01:25:46Oh, a couple of months. We met half a dozen times.

01:25:48Did he ever make mention of any enemies,

01:25:50business or otherwise?

01:25:52Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:25:54I mean, did he name any women?

01:25:56No. I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:25:58Mr. Van Meer struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:00Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:02Well, uh,

01:26:04that's all.

01:26:06Unless somebody has anything further to add?

01:26:08I have.

01:26:10I think you ought to know

01:26:12that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.

01:26:16I beg your pardon?

01:26:18Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:20I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Van Meer person.

01:26:22I assure you, however,

01:26:24he attempted to murder my husband

01:26:26with a long, thin dagger,

01:26:28which he always carried about in what looked like

01:26:30an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:32Go on, Mrs. Chum.

01:26:34You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there

01:26:36to do his dirty work.

01:26:38One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:40My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:42Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire,

01:26:44involving, as they do,

01:26:46a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:26:48And that's why Mr. Peterson

01:26:50decided to have him done away with.

01:26:52Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:26:54That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:26:56Tantamount is what I call it.

01:26:58More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:00No, thank you.

01:27:08Come on.

01:27:30Should you ever think of me in Earl's Court,

01:27:32that's where I'll be,

01:27:34helping Harry's parents with the lodgers.

01:27:36Should you ever think of me,

01:27:38try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:40You kiss her, too, Billy,

01:27:42and tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:44Sure, sure.

01:27:46Goodbye, Billy.

01:27:48Bye.

01:27:54For Mrs. Chelm, just came on the ship's wire desk.

01:27:58Oh, by the way, Mr. Danrada,

01:28:00do you know that your associates

01:28:02are all in the Hoosgow?

01:28:04A bit surprised.

01:28:06I put them down as thoroughly bad characters,

01:28:08right off the bat.

01:28:10But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:12Take mine, for instance.

01:28:14Harry!

01:28:16He's alive!

01:28:28Oh!

01:28:34Oh!

01:28:54Oh, this is the end.

01:29:00The end.

01:29:04THE END

Beat The Devil (1953) - Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida - Feature (Drama, Action)

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