Crackerjack (aka The Man with 100 Faces) (1938)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 31 October 1938 (USA)
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Director: Albert de Courville
Writers: William Blair Morton Ferguson (novel) (as W.B.N. Ferguson) , Basil Mason (adaptation)
Stars: Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 31 October 1938 (USA)
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Director: Albert de Courville
Writers: William Blair Morton Ferguson (novel) (as W.B.N. Ferguson) , Basil Mason (adaptation)
Stars: Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00♪♪♪
00:00:15♪♪♪
00:00:25♪♪♪
00:00:35♪♪♪
00:00:45♪♪♪
00:00:55♪♪♪
00:01:05♪♪♪
00:01:15♪♪♪
00:01:25♪♪♪
00:01:35Have you finished, Mr. Morella?
00:01:38How do you know my name?
00:01:39A multimillionaire can't escape recognition these days.
00:01:42The picture papers see to that.
00:01:44And the gossip writers tell us of your activities in the diamond market.
00:01:50I should have thought you could have afforded a paper of your own.
00:01:53But if you must read mine, let me call your attention to this page.
00:01:59Boss.
00:02:03All right, folks, stick them up.
00:02:05Come on.
00:02:06You got something in that case we want.
00:02:08Open it up.
00:02:09You can't do this.
00:02:10It's robbery.
00:02:11I'll call the police.
00:02:12Yeah? Well, call them.
00:02:13What are you expecting to do, float up on parachutes?
00:02:15Come on, open up.
00:02:16Stop that.
00:02:17You shut your trap.
00:02:18I'll arrest you.
00:02:19Yeah, I know you're from Scotland Yard.
00:02:20One more step and I'll plug you.
00:02:22Thanks, brother.
00:02:23What was the big idea?
00:02:24Well, I thought he might prefer a headache.
00:02:26Well, when he wakes up, I hope he's grateful.
00:02:29That's all we want this trip.
00:02:30Now, listen, folks.
00:02:31We're going to dump this crate and put you outside.
00:02:33Make no fuss and you won't get hurt.
00:02:35Keep them covered.
00:02:36Okay.
00:02:37Make a landing, buddy.
00:02:38Shh.
00:02:39Make a landing.
00:02:40Yes, sir.
00:02:56Not at all.
00:02:57Get outside, quick.
00:02:58Come on.
00:03:07Just tell me this before you leave.
00:03:09Did you think out this simple little robbery all by yourself?
00:03:11Yes, and I haven't finished thinking yet.
00:03:13Okay, boys.
00:03:14Take her away now.
00:03:15Get out.
00:03:24I don't know whether to charge you with a salt and battery or thank you for saving my life.
00:03:28Well, not the former, I hope.
00:03:29You're right.
00:03:30My name is Binti.
00:03:31Mine's Drake.
00:03:32Jack Drake.
00:03:33I shan't forget it.
00:03:34Hi, you.
00:03:35Do you understand they're doing nothing while they get away with my diamonds?
00:03:37Well, what do you expect in the middle of a field?
00:03:39I'd better get busy and quick.
00:03:41But I've been robbed.
00:03:42I've been robbed.
00:03:43You ought to be thankful that you're alive to tell the tale.
00:03:45But those diamonds are worth 7,000 pounds.
00:03:487,000?
00:03:49Are they really?
00:03:50Hi, you.
00:03:54Now then.
00:04:08Somebody's beaten us to it.
00:04:10The rats.
00:04:13The rats.
00:04:43The rats.
00:04:44The rats.
00:05:13The rats.
00:05:14The rats.
00:05:15The rats.
00:05:16The rats.
00:05:17The rats.
00:05:18The rats.
00:05:19The rats.
00:05:20The rats.
00:05:21The rats.
00:05:22The rats.
00:05:23The rats.
00:05:24The rats.
00:05:25The rats.
00:05:26The rats.
00:05:27The rats.
00:05:28The rats.
00:05:29The rats.
00:05:30The rats.
00:05:31The rats.
00:05:32The rats.
00:05:33The rats.
00:05:34The rats.
00:05:35The rats.
00:05:36The rats.
00:05:37The rats.
00:05:38The rats.
00:05:39The rats.
00:05:40The rats.
00:05:41The rats.
00:05:42The rats.
00:05:43The rats.
00:05:44The rats.
00:05:45The rats.
00:05:46The rats.
00:05:47The rats.
00:05:48The rats.
00:05:49The rats.
00:05:50The rats.
00:05:51The rats.
00:05:52The rats.
00:05:53The rats.
00:05:54The rats.
00:05:55The rats.
00:05:56The rats.
00:05:57The rats.
00:05:58The rats.
00:05:59The rats.
00:06:00The rats.
00:06:01The rats.
00:06:02The rats.
00:06:03The rats.
00:06:04The rats.
00:06:05The rats.
00:06:06The rats.
00:06:07The rats.
00:06:08The rats.
00:06:09The rats.
00:06:10The rats.
00:06:11How much longer will you be with that server?
00:06:24I won't be long now, my love.
00:06:29Hello, sir. You're reading it too?
00:06:47Well, yes.
00:06:48Tell me, Grayson, forgetting for the moment that I'm the assistant commissioner, what's
00:06:52your private opinion on that book? Think there's anything in it?
00:06:55Well, quite unofficially, I do.
00:06:56Quite unofficially, so do I. No ordinary author could have got the inside information
00:07:01that's in that book. Do you think we should check up on him?
00:07:04As a matter of fact, sir, I have.
00:07:06Oh, Scotland Yard descends so low as to call in novelist aid. Find anything out?
00:07:11No, he's completely covered his tracks. The publishers have no idea who he is. They wish
00:07:15they did. They'd like the sequel.
00:07:17What about his royalties?
00:07:18The publishers are instructed to pay all proceeds into some research fund.
00:07:22From now on, every crime in the country will be attributed to Crackerjack.
00:07:32Are you still reading that Crackerjack? I have you know you've an appointment with a
00:07:35manicurist at 11 o'clock, another with a masseur at 11.30, your due at the folly is at 12.15,
00:07:40and it's now half-past twelve.
00:07:42Oh, stop nagging at me. Have you read this?
00:07:45If you want my opinion, the fellow that wrote that must have swallowed the Blarney stone
00:07:49itself.
00:07:50Oh, so you have read it.
00:07:52Oh, well, I just took a slant at it. Now, will you be getting out of that bath?
00:07:55Oh, don't bully me, Annie. Has my costume arrived?
00:07:58The one you'll be wearing at the Humboldt party.
00:08:00There's neither sign nor smell of it.
00:08:02Oh, that's very worrying. I'll phone down to the hall porter and see if it's arrived yet.
00:08:07Wait.
00:08:11I'm speaking for the Baroness Von Holtz. Has your parcel arrived yet?
00:08:15No, not yet, madame.
00:08:17Well, when it does come, will you have it sent up at once?
00:08:21At last.
00:08:23How will you be hurrying it, then?
00:08:25Annie?
00:08:26Mm-hmm?
00:08:27Do you remember Mr. Jake Drake?
00:08:29Jake Drake in Berlin?
00:08:31Would I be likely to be forgetting that fellow? He almost broke your heart.
00:08:35He did nothing of the kind.
00:08:37Do you think I've known you from your cradle, without knowing more about your heart than you do?
00:08:41All right, have it your own way.
00:08:44What brought that corner boy into your mind again?
00:08:47That book cracker, Jake.
00:08:49There are certain passages in it which somehow keep on making me think of Jake Drake.
00:08:54Well, if you'll take my advice, you'll put him out of your mind for good and all.
00:08:59I wonder what's happened to him.
00:09:01Oh, there's one for me, and one for you.
00:09:07The trouble with grapes is you never know what to do with the pips.
00:09:11I like spitting them out best.
00:09:13Ah, I dare say but I don't think Maitre'd would care for that.
00:09:18Mr. Drake! Mr. Drake! Mr. Drake! Mr. Drake!
00:09:31What's your other name, Mr. Drake?
00:09:33My other name? Jack. You like that?
00:09:35Yes.
00:09:36What's yours?
00:09:37Cynthia.
00:09:38Well, that's funny, because this is Cynthia, too, so you evidently belong to each other.
00:09:41This is Cynthia the rabbit. Now, watch that. Look, look, look.
00:09:46Isn't that cute?
00:09:47Mr. Drake, I should like to introduce Mr. Weller, the secretary.
00:09:51Good afternoon. How do you do?
00:09:53How do you do?
00:09:54You know, I like this place more each time I come here. It's really fine.
00:09:58They all seem so happy, too.
00:09:59Oh, they are, indeed, and we've got an enormous waiting list.
00:10:02They've been trying to raise the money to build a new wing, but we haven't got very far with that yet.
00:10:07Really? Well, if I gave you 10,000, that would help, wouldn't it?
00:10:1110,000? Mr. Drake, do you really mean that?
00:10:14Certainly. I mean to say that would help with your immediate liabilities, wouldn't it?
00:10:18More than that.
00:10:19Well, then, consider it done.
00:10:20Do you mean that you could let us have it soon, at once?
00:10:24Well, I don't know exactly about at once, but within 48 hours.
00:10:29Would you mind coming down to my office? I would like to...
00:10:31Yes, all right, I will. Goodbye now.
00:10:33Goodbye, baby.
00:10:35Goodbye.
00:10:36Goodbye.
00:10:37No, no, don't do that. I'll go.
00:10:39Goodbye, Mr. Drake.
00:10:40Goodbye.
00:10:41Goodbye.
00:10:42Goodbye.
00:10:43Goodbye.
00:10:44Goodbye.
00:10:45Goodbye.
00:10:46Goodbye.
00:11:06Good morning, Mr. Drake.
00:11:07Good morning. Any mail?
00:11:08Your secretary collected it, sir.
00:11:09Oh, thank you.
00:11:10Mr. Bannerman's born hot.
00:11:12You've no right to come round here. Go round to the service entrance at the back.
00:11:15Room 225, second floor. Go on.
00:11:17All right, all right.
00:11:22Rude lot of fellows, aren't they?
00:11:23Oh, we're used to that.
00:11:24Still, I don't see why a chap like you should have to go round to the service entrance.
00:11:27Here, I'll take it for you.
00:11:28But for?
00:11:29Here, you like 10 shilling notes, don't you?
00:11:31Of course.
00:11:32Well, here's a pound for you.
00:11:34But she's got a cell phone.
00:11:35That's all right, I'll do that.
00:11:38But surely I know you're not a crook.
00:11:39Oh, I am, I am. But I don't steal dresses.
00:11:42Here you are.
00:11:49Oi, where's your box?
00:11:51Oh, give it to the man that he got.
00:12:01What do you want?
00:12:02A box for the Baroness.
00:12:04Oh, that's right. Give it to me, then.
00:12:06No, no, it must be delivered personally.
00:12:08I'll take it. I'll take it. Hear me.
00:12:11I said I would deliver it personally.
00:12:19Good afternoon.
00:12:22You?
00:12:25What on earth are you doing here?
00:12:26Delivering your dress.
00:12:28Are things as bad as that?
00:12:30They are.
00:12:31Do you know I haven't had a drink for at least an hour?
00:12:34Well, this certainly calls for a little celebration.
00:12:37Annie, put out the drinks.
00:12:39Yes, madam.
00:12:43So I found you at last.
00:12:45What an impertinent man you are.
00:12:48No, your English is not quite correct.
00:12:50Impertinent means...
00:12:51I know. You personify it.
00:12:56It's water, not soda, isn't it?
00:12:58How nice of you to remember.
00:13:00I've got a very good memory, Mr. Drake.
00:13:05Oh, no, you haven't.
00:13:06You've forgotten my other name.
00:13:08Jack.
00:13:09I beg your pardon?
00:13:11Jack.
00:13:12Oh, do say it again.
00:13:14Oh, you see, there's nothing wrong with my memory, Mr. Drake.
00:13:17Or with mine. I found you, haven't I?
00:13:20Are you asking me to believe that you've been searching the world for me
00:13:24ever since the day when you walked out on me in Berlin
00:13:27without a word
00:13:29and left me in that restaurant waiting for you for hours and hours?
00:13:32Oh, don't let's start squabbling over the past.
00:13:35I had to leave suddenly.
00:13:37But believe me, I didn't want to leave you.
00:13:40But it was vitally necessary that I should.
00:13:43Can't we pick up the old threads again?
00:13:46Beginning with dinner tonight.
00:13:49I'm sorry, but I'm going to the Humboldt's party tonight.
00:13:52The Humboldt's party?
00:13:54It's the biggest party of the season. Everyone will be there.
00:13:56Oh, but you can't possibly go there.
00:13:58Why?
00:13:59Well, because they're hopelessly vulgar and indecently rich.
00:14:01Well, perhaps. But Mrs. Humboldt's pearls are the finest in the world.
00:14:05Oh, are they really?
00:14:06And her husband is one of the cleverest businessmen of Australia.
00:14:09Well, of course, I can't compete with that.
00:14:11Then I suppose dinner is off.
00:14:13I'm afraid so.
00:14:14Well, what about lunch tomorrow?
00:14:15Well, I don't know, I...
00:14:16Good. I'll be waiting for you in the lounge.
00:14:21Jack.
00:14:23Have you read this?
00:14:25No, I haven't.
00:14:26Well, you should. He's a man after your own heart.
00:14:29My heart is set on only one thing.
00:14:31Lunching with you tomorrow.
00:14:38I've been waiting for you.
00:14:40The perfect secretary.
00:14:42Before I forget, send a check for 10,000 to the Buckingham Hospital.
00:14:46Take a look at this letter from the bank.
00:14:49Don't worry me with petty things, Bird.
00:14:51It's about your overdraft.
00:14:53Just send the check.
00:14:54We've got to get down to brass tacks.
00:14:56Do you realise you've given away over a quarter of a million of your own money in the last few years?
00:15:00All to very deserving causes.
00:15:02They may be.
00:15:03But now you're risking your liberty by giving away other people's money.
00:15:05Ah, only because they're too mean to do it themselves.
00:15:08Now, wait a bit.
00:15:09I know all about your Robin Hood ideas and your underdog and whatnot, but there's a limit.
00:15:14Why?
00:15:15Today I endow a crib, tonight I crack one.
00:15:18Tonight?
00:15:19Have you ever heard of the Humboldt Pearls?
00:15:21Of course.
00:15:22Well, won't they be enough to pay for the overdraft and the donation put together?
00:15:26I suppose so.
00:15:27Then it's all plain sailing.
00:15:29Mrs Humboldt will be wearing them at her party tonight.
00:15:33Here's her very good health, my dear fellow.
00:15:35First of all, you've got to get your hands on the pearls.
00:15:38Don't I always get my hands on the pearls?
00:15:41Yes, you've been very lucky so far.
00:15:43Thanks.
00:15:44Besides, the Baroness Von Holtz will be there.
00:15:47Her?
00:15:48To be strictly grammatical, she.
00:15:50You mustn't go.
00:15:51Listen, sir.
00:15:52When you fell for her in Berlin, it nearly got us both inside.
00:15:55I've never forgiven you for dragging me away from Berlin like you did.
00:15:59Burge, you are commissioned to do anything for me, from donning a pair of socks to bailing me out.
00:16:04But this is a different matter.
00:16:06Now, look here, sir.
00:16:07Let's chuck this Humboldt idea and clean up the hotel as we originally decided.
00:16:11The hotel can wait.
00:16:12Get me a mask and domino.
00:16:14It's the pearls I'm after, not the Baroness.
00:16:22Oh, my God.
00:16:41Hello, Tony.
00:16:42Hello.
00:16:43I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long.
00:16:44No, I just arrived, as a matter of fact.
00:16:46I'd say you look terrific.
00:16:48That dress will go down with a bang.
00:16:50Well, you look as if you'll go up with a bang.
00:16:52What are you, a cracker?
00:16:53Yes, Cracker Jack.
00:16:54You know, topical and all that.
00:16:56Look here, I bet you won't recognize me inside once I get my mask and trimming done.
00:17:00It's a bed.
00:17:01Right.
00:17:02I wish you weren't going.
00:17:03I've got a funny feeling about this business tonight.
00:17:06I'm not going to miss tonight's party after all the trouble I've taken dressing for it.
00:17:10And by the way, book me the best table in the restaurant for lunch tomorrow.
00:17:15Orchids for one.
00:17:17You're quite sure these next two rooms are unoccupied?
00:17:19Yes.
00:17:20Right.
00:17:29Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
00:17:30It's all right, my boy.
00:17:50Oh, thank you.
00:17:59Now, please, please, please.
00:18:02All right, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:18:03Now, don't you worry, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:18:05I'll see you through all right.
00:18:06Now, then.
00:18:07One...
00:18:08Two...
00:18:09Three!
00:18:10Come on, then.
00:18:11Wave!
00:18:12Wave!
00:18:13Wave!
00:18:19Well, now, if it isn't Tony Davenport.
00:18:28Oh, not again. You shouldn't recognize me. It isn't playing the game.
00:18:33Yes, and what are you disguised as, old chap?
00:18:37Don't tell anybody, but I'm disguised as myself.
00:18:40Price is the name. Do you remember me? I can see you don't.
00:18:43Sir Nick Price. Sir Murray. It's last winter.
00:18:46Oh, yes. That reminds me. I'd entirely forgotten.
00:18:49I owe you a fiver. I bet you couldn't hold on to that bob around Sunny Corner, and you did.
00:18:54And here's the fiver.
00:18:56You fellow, Price, of course I remember.
00:18:59Yes, Mr. Hart. Now, how about a drink?
00:19:01Waiter, what do you have?
00:19:02A whiskey, please.
00:19:03A whiskey, please.
00:19:04Hello, Tony.
00:19:05I get it.
00:19:06No, no, no, you're wrong. No, Tony's over there.
00:19:09I know you all right.
00:19:11Oh, Mr. Hart, this is no good. Everyone recognizes me.
00:19:14Yes, but if this goes on, I shall burst.
00:19:16Well, that'll be all right. It's in keeping with your costume.
00:19:19Oh, my costume.
00:19:22Oh, yes, by the way, I'd forgotten.
00:19:24This is my old friend, Mr. Fennick Price, the Baroness von Lutz.
00:19:28How do you do?
00:19:30Yes, how do you do?
00:19:31Oh, by the way, I'm booked for this dance.
00:19:33I'd better go and find out who it's with, in case whoever it's with is looking for me.
00:19:39What a shock he'll get when he finds whoever it is he's dancing with, whoever it is.
00:19:43Shall we dance this one, or don't you do that kind of thing?
00:19:46Of course I do. I also drink.
00:19:48Drink? Oh, well, here's a chance. Champagne?
00:19:52Thank you very much. Whiskey?
00:19:53I take water with my whiskey.
00:19:56Well, here's some water.
00:19:58Oh, right in half.
00:20:00Oh, there you are, Baroness. I've been searching for you everywhere.
00:20:03I thought you were trying to forget my dance, Admiral.
00:20:05Heaven forbid. Why, this is going to be the great moment of my evening.
00:20:09Excuse me.
00:20:13Come on.
00:20:26Davenport.
00:20:28Who's the Baroness's partner?
00:20:30Oh, that's Hambrow Golding, the fellow who owns Barton's.
00:20:33Barton's?
00:20:34Yes, you know, the Bond Street Jewelers.
00:20:36Oh, I didn't know it was a tradesman's ball.
00:20:43Lieutenant!
00:20:44Lieutenant, Wally.
00:20:45There's not a trick in the now, you know.
00:20:47Who is that?
00:20:48Wally Aston, England's rugger captain.
00:20:50That, of course, is our hostess.
00:20:52Hadn't I better be introduced?
00:20:53Good idea. She'll be glad of a rest from Wally.
00:20:59Marvellous body, Mr. Thurber.
00:21:01Yes, working out splendidly.
00:21:02If it works up any more, it'll be my funeral.
00:21:05This is Mr. Finnick Price. He's been complaining that he hasn't met you yet.
00:21:08Oh, how do you do?
00:21:09How do you do?
00:21:10How do you do?
00:21:11I knew your husband in Australia, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:21:13So did I. Dreadful country, isn't it?
00:21:15Could I persuade you to a dance?
00:21:17Oh, my dear boy.
00:21:18I gave up all that when Queen Victoria came to the throne.
00:21:22Can we probably do the same steps?
00:21:24Come on, let me coach you.
00:21:25Come on, then.
00:21:26Come on, Daddy.
00:21:32And why did you give up dancing when Queen Victoria came to the throne?
00:21:35Well, the parker went out and I'm not built for gliding.
00:21:39Oh, dear lady, you sail along like a... like a...
00:21:42Go on, say it like an airship.
00:21:44No, not at all. A salt bottle.
00:21:47What I meant to say was a tissel down.
00:21:49But I couldn't just think of the words.
00:21:56Shall we sit this one out?
00:21:57I should love to.
00:22:10If I may say so, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:22:12This is the party of parties.
00:22:15I'm glad to see you're enjoying yourself.
00:22:17Well, who wouldn't be?
00:22:19A palace of a house.
00:22:21Wine flowing like water.
00:22:23Beautiful women.
00:22:25And yourself the queen of the land.
00:22:27Flatterer.
00:22:29Well, all fall in the park.
00:22:31The exquisite taste of yourself.
00:22:33Such style, such elegance.
00:22:35And such pearls I've never seen the like.
00:22:37Of course not. They're unique.
00:22:38One seldom sees such perfect matching.
00:22:40Might I just take a look at them?
00:22:42Why, certainly.
00:22:43Ah, they're lovely. They are.
00:22:45Ah, the touch of them thrills me to the core.
00:22:48You can't possibly see them like that.
00:22:50Oh, no, don't do that, please.
00:22:51Oh, yes, do.
00:22:52That's not at all.
00:22:53They're so lovely.
00:22:54I can see them quite well without that.
00:22:55There.
00:22:56Ah, there.
00:22:57Lovely. They're beautiful.
00:22:59They're clumsy-leafted, I am.
00:23:01Oh, thank goodness they're all right.
00:23:03Have you had cracker, Jack?
00:23:05Yes, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
00:23:07By Jove, he seems to have done some extraordinary things.
00:23:19Ladies and gentlemen, our first item will be
00:23:22Interpretations in Tempo by Burton Pierce.
00:23:37INTERPRETATIONS IN TEMPO
00:24:07INTERPRETATIONS IN TEMPO
00:24:37INTERPRETATIONS IN TEMPO
00:25:07INTERPRETATIONS IN TEMPO
00:25:18I must fly. I have a little surprise for my guests.
00:25:21Allow me.
00:25:23Four boys from America, never been seen in London before.
00:25:26Cost me a small fortune to get them.
00:25:28I shall see you later, I hope.
00:25:30I hope so, indeed.
00:25:31Ladies and gentlemen, I have pleasure to announce you tonight
00:25:34the first appearance in London of a new American act
00:25:37known as The Four Gangsters.
00:25:38For this privilege, we have to thank your hostess, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:25:47The Four Gangsters.
00:25:55We ain't in Black's Peerage, and the manners ain't so hot
00:25:58When we travel we go steerage
00:26:00Still we've got something that the others ain't got
00:26:02Stick'em up! Come on now, stick'em up!
00:26:05No foolin' we're the roughest, toughest guys that ever hit this town
00:26:09And when we bump a bozo off say he stays down
00:26:13We just ask a nice donation from the gunman's fund
00:26:17So come across you starting gals or else you will be stunned
00:26:21Stick'em up! Get moving, stick'em up!
00:26:24Come on now, here are six good reasons why you shouldn't be a dunce
00:26:28And if you want'em you can have'em all at once
00:26:42Cut out voices as far as we go.
00:26:44All right, cut it out.
00:26:51All right, folks, reach for the ceiling.
00:26:54Come on, come on, it's a stick-up.
00:27:00You shut your trap, sister.
00:27:05You think I'm still kidding, eh?
00:27:07All right, boy, put out some of the lights.
00:27:18Now line up. Come on, line up!
00:27:24Women on this side, men on that.
00:27:37Hey, you, play. Play anything you like while you make it hot and keep it snappy.
00:27:40Men over that side, women over there.
00:27:42I'm not standing for this. You watch me.
00:27:54Take it easy, folks, and you won't get hurt.
00:28:05Come on, come on, give me all you've got.
00:28:10All right, cut that out, will you?
00:28:12Here you are, and welcome.
00:28:15I've had the Richard things 40 years.
00:28:17Now I'll be able to get new ones from the insurance.
00:28:20Come on, step on it.
00:28:23Put some pepper into it, boys.
00:28:27I'll feed it.
00:28:28Here you are.
00:28:33Watch this.
00:28:34No, no.
00:28:35Come on, come on, shut up.
00:28:39Slap into it, Joe.
00:28:40Okay.
00:28:44All right, I'll handle this.
00:28:46Come on, lady, give me the rope.
00:28:48What rope?
00:28:49Now stop kidding, stop kidding.
00:28:54That's what I came after.
00:29:00Look at this lock, look at their work.
00:29:01That's nothing, that rope of pearls is worth a whole lot put together.
00:29:04Take a look at these.
00:29:05Didn't Stompy go after that rope of pearls? He knows what's good.
00:29:10Hello.
00:29:12Hello, Stompy.
00:29:18Shut up, the lot of you.
00:29:19Boy and lot, come here.
00:29:22What's the matter?
00:29:24You saw me kill a guy tonight, didn't you?
00:29:25Yeah.
00:29:26And for what?
00:29:28For these.
00:29:29We were told they're worth 150 grand, weren't we?
00:29:31Sure.
00:29:32Well, they're duds, not worth a nickel.
00:29:36What are you going to do?
00:29:38Plenty.
00:29:39Any letters or telephone messages?
00:29:40Your secretary called for the evening, firstly.
00:29:42Oh, thank you.
00:29:44Mr. Drake, may we have a word with you?
00:29:46Certainly, help yourself.
00:29:48Shall we go to my office?
00:29:49Well, that's as good as anywhere, the bar being closed.
00:29:52This way, please.
00:29:58Please sit down.
00:30:01I am the manager of this hotel.
00:30:02Yes.
00:30:03And this is Mr. Biles, my hotel detective.
00:30:05How do you do?
00:30:06I am sorry to keep you out of bed at this hour of the morning.
00:30:09Oh, it's all right.
00:30:10It's a single one.
00:30:13I am afraid that I have bad news for you.
00:30:15There has been a robbery in the hotel early tonight.
00:30:18And your room was one of those entered.
00:30:20Good heavens, my room?
00:30:22You mean to tell me I've been robbed?
00:30:23Now, please don't get worried, Mr. Drake.
00:30:24Let me explain, sir.
00:30:25What did they get away with?
00:30:26Well, sir, according to your secretary...
00:30:28My secretary?
00:30:29Oh, yes.
00:30:30Some diamond cufflinks, a pearl pin, some diamond and sapphire waistcoat buttons.
00:30:34Yes, yes.
00:30:35But anything important?
00:30:37Your secretary has assured me that there has been nothing else taken.
00:30:40Oh, that's a relief.
00:30:42By Jove, that is a relief.
00:30:44While deeply regretting this unfortunate incident...
00:30:47I must beg of you in future to place all valuables in our safe.
00:30:51You're quite right.
00:30:52I'll do that.
00:30:53Well, it might have been a lot worse.
00:30:54I'm glad that you take this point of view.
00:30:56Don't worry yourself.
00:30:57There's no need to take anything off the hotel, dear.
00:30:59That is a real sporting attitude.
00:31:01There's no need to put anything onto it either.
00:31:03And that is what I call a real gentleman.
00:31:07Good night.
00:31:15Everything all right?
00:31:18A charming woman, Mrs. Humboldt.
00:31:20I know, I know.
00:31:21Any trouble?
00:31:22What happened?
00:31:23She handed them to me with her own lily-white hands.
00:31:26Oh.
00:31:27And was perfectly satisfied with the imitation ones I clasped round her not-so-lily-white neck.
00:31:32Splendid.
00:31:33Why are you so late?
00:31:34It's not your fault.
00:31:35Mine?
00:31:36The manager caught me as I came in to tell me that you had robbed my room.
00:31:39Oh, that.
00:31:40Just as a matter of interest, why mine?
00:31:42Just an added precaution.
00:31:43I visited several others, so we ought to find the hotel safe crammed by tomorrow evening.
00:31:47Yes.
00:31:48Well, I think I've earned my beauty sleep.
00:31:59Will you try and be a little bit more definite about this man?
00:32:02Do you mean to say you brought me here at this unearthly hour to talk of nothing but this fellow Fennec Price?
00:32:06I might as well tell you he was never invited to Mrs. Humboldt's party.
00:32:10And he's the only one of her guests who is missing.
00:32:14Missing?
00:32:15Why, get.
00:32:16Do you think he's got anything to do with this awful business?
00:32:18That's what I want to find out, and I was hoping you'd be able to help me.
00:32:21Yes, I can.
00:32:22Of course I can.
00:32:23Let me think now.
00:32:24He introduced himself with some cock-and-bull story about having met me at St. Moritz.
00:32:29That's wrong somehow.
00:32:31Why?
00:32:32Because I never been there.
00:32:33Well, what else did he say?
00:32:35Well, he was a bit of a nuisance generally.
00:32:38But I had to be polite to him because he insisted on paying me a bet he said he owed me.
00:32:42Well, you can't help liking a fellow who does that, can you?
00:32:48Why, of course.
00:32:50That's how he got me to introduce him to Mrs. Humboldt.
00:32:52Well, you heard from Mrs. Humboldt herself what happened afterwards.
00:32:55Yeah?
00:32:56So you'll understand why I'm questioning you about him now.
00:32:58Yes, I do. Indeed I do.
00:33:00And the more I think of it, the more convinced I think you're right.
00:33:04I get I know you are.
00:33:07Well, you'll have to excuse me now, sir. I've got a lot of important business to do.
00:33:10That's all.
00:33:12Anything else I can do for you?
00:33:14Yes. Goodbye.
00:33:16Goodbye. I'm glad to have been of some use to you.
00:33:23What's the latest?
00:33:25Well, I've sent out a full description of the gang, sir, including the man who fired the shot.
00:33:29Oh, this is interesting.
00:33:31It seems that Mrs. Humboldt's real American artists have been found bound and gagged in their room.
00:33:36Really? This looks like a carefully organized affair.
00:33:40Clever brain work behind it.
00:33:42Yes, sir. That's why I'm very keen to get hold of this man, Fennick Price.
00:33:45Didn't you say you had everything set for the Humboldts?
00:33:47Yes.
00:33:48Didn't you tell me you'd made sure she'd be wearing the pearls for the party?
00:33:49Yes, but...
00:33:50Did I let you down?
00:33:51Didn't I go through with it right to the end and have to kill a guy to do it?
00:33:53But it was mad...
00:33:54Never mind that! And for what? For this junk?
00:33:56Now think fast. What are you going to do about it?
00:33:58But I tell you, these aren't the pearls she was wearing.
00:34:01I know the real pearls when I see them.
00:34:03I took those pearls off her neck with my own hands.
00:34:07Oh, boys, I've had the devil of a time.
00:34:09All right. Where have you been?
00:34:10Well, I've been cross-examined in Scotland Yard for the best part of two hours.
00:34:13Phew! Old Mrs. Humboldt, give her the world to get those pearls back.
00:34:15Get to the point. What do the cops want?
00:34:17Well, they kept questioning me about Mr. Fennick Price.
00:34:19I introduced him to her at the ball.
00:34:21Said he'd met me in St. Moritz, Shady Lane or somewhere. I don't know. I can't remember.
00:34:25Anyhow, he's the only guest that the police can't account for.
00:34:27What can I do with it?
00:34:28Quite a lot now, because I'm trying to fix this affair onto him.
00:34:31Must we listen to all this?
00:34:32Keep quiet. Go on. Go on.
00:34:33Yes. Well, she set out to dance with him, and he asked to see her pearls.
00:34:37Did she let him touch them?
00:34:38More than that.
00:34:39She took them off and handed them to him, and he examined them.
00:34:42Then she said that he'd got them, but they weren't damaged.
00:34:45I see it all now. It's this fellow Fennick Price who has the real pearls.
00:34:48What do you mean, huh? What are these, then?
00:34:50They're fake.
00:34:51You mean this guy beat us to it?
00:34:52Of course.
00:34:53I've got it all now. The same thing happened to us in the aeroplane.
00:34:55If I could lay my hands on that rat, I'd...
00:34:57I'll find this fellow Fennick Price if it's the last thing I do.
00:35:01What do you know about him?
00:35:02He's devilish little.
00:35:03He introduced himself to me as an old pal.
00:35:05You know, he actually paid me a fiver for a bet that I don't remember.
00:35:09But that... that's Cracker Jack's trick.
00:35:12What are you getting at?
00:35:13It's in his book.
00:35:14He says a fellow will always remember you if you pay him up on an imaginary bet.
00:35:18He got an introduction to a bank manager that way.
00:35:20So what?
00:35:21I know a society woman who says she knows him.
00:35:24Now, don't start...
00:35:25Oh, she's no fool.
00:35:26Used to be in the Secret Service.
00:35:28Isn't it... isn't it worth a trial?
00:35:31All right.
00:35:32But you'd better deliver the goods this time, Goldie.
00:35:34I don't like guys who make mistakes.
00:35:36You work fast.
00:35:54Come on, come on.
00:36:00No, no.
00:36:01Go back to your own bed.
00:36:03Look.
00:36:04Come on.
00:36:05What?
00:36:06Look.
00:36:07Look at this.
00:36:08It's you.
00:36:09Look at this.
00:36:10There.
00:36:11There.
00:36:12Murder.
00:36:13Well, you don't suspect me, do you?
00:36:14No, but the police may.
00:36:15Gosh.
00:36:16This is a pretty business.
00:36:17Yes.
00:36:18We're in a proper mess.
00:36:19You know, when I read that, I thought for a moment you'd lost your head last night.
00:36:22I never do that.
00:36:23Yes, sir.
00:36:24I saw him come out.
00:36:25Plains of parts, sir.
00:36:26Scar, limb and everything.
00:36:27What was the number of the room you saw him come out of?
00:36:30Two hundred and twelve.
00:36:32Who's in two hundred and twelve?
00:36:33Two hundred and twelve.
00:36:34It is unoccupied.
00:36:35Somebody else was after those pearls.
00:36:38Yes, so it seems.
00:36:40And this poor blighter was killed trying to save a string of duds.
00:36:43And that's not all.
00:36:45They've linked up Finnick Price with the gang.
00:36:49Oh, well, of course, that's not so good.
00:36:51Some of the robberies last night were committed in rooms down that corridor.
00:36:54Yes, Mrs. Stevenson's two hundred, Mr. Jack Drake's suite, two hundred and four, two hundred and six.
00:37:01Well, I think I'd better see him straight away.
00:37:03What are we to do?
00:37:05Where are the pearls?
00:37:13We must hide them.
00:37:15I always keep pearls next to skin, my boy.
00:37:18It preserves the luster.
00:37:21Prepare to receive visitors.
00:37:23Visitors?
00:37:24You shouldn't be surprised if this is our old friend, the police.
00:37:27Please.
00:37:31Go on, be the perfect secretary.
00:37:38Will you please tell Mr. Drake that there are two gentlemen to see him?
00:37:41Please come in.
00:37:48Good morning, sir.
00:37:49Good morning.
00:37:50I am sorry to disturb you so early, but this is Inspector Lunt of Scotland Yard.
00:37:53Good morning, Inspector.
00:37:54Good morning, sir.
00:37:55Good morning, sir.
00:37:56Good morning.
00:37:57I see you've read your paper.
00:37:58Yes.
00:37:59Nasty business at Ashton House last night.
00:38:00Yes, I do, sir.
00:38:01Who is this mystery fellow the papers are all clamoring about?
00:38:03A man called Finnick Price, sir.
00:38:04Never heard of him.
00:38:05I wanted to see you, sir, because I understood this room had been burgled last night.
00:38:08Yes.
00:38:09I believe his description was seen by one of the page boys walking down this corridor.
00:38:12Bit of a come down from the Humboldt Pearls to my dress studs, what?
00:38:16Well, he had certain peculiarities, sir.
00:38:18A limp, a scar on his face, gold teeth and a limp.
00:38:21Yes, sir.
00:38:22Why?
00:38:23Well, now you come to mention it, I saw a man like that on the stairs last evening as
00:38:26I was going out.
00:38:27You did, sir?
00:38:28Had he got gold teeth, do you notice?
00:38:29Well, I didn't open his mouth, but I swear to the limp.
00:38:32Anything else, sir?
00:38:33Well, let me see.
00:38:34By Jove, this is exciting.
00:38:36Now, this is really exciting, Annie.
00:38:38To think I had a drink with the most notorious men in London.
00:38:41Sure, I call that disgusting, not exciting.
00:38:43Not exciting?
00:38:44Don't you realize a man was killed at this party?
00:38:46Oh, I'd believe anything of society parties.
00:38:49I was introduced to him.
00:38:50I stood next to him, as close as I am to you now, if I may.
00:38:53Aye, and that's why you lost your jewelry.
00:38:55Ah, yes.
00:38:56But what's important is that I am one of the few people who can probably identify him.
00:39:01And what's more, I've got a hunch.
00:39:03What, another one?
00:39:04I believe Fennec Price was Crackerjack.
00:39:07Stop the nonsense.
00:39:08Well, why shouldn't Fennec Price be Crackerjack?
00:39:10Just as likely he be Jack Drake.
00:39:12What made you say that?
00:39:13What?
00:39:14What made you mention Jack Drake?
00:39:16Well, didn't you have a hunch about him when you were reading that daft book?
00:39:19Oh, that was nothing.
00:39:22But I'm serious about this.
00:39:24I'm sure Fennec Price was Crackerjack.
00:39:27And I'm going to tell the police.
00:39:29Pass me that phone.
00:39:34Well, I'm much obliged for the information, Mr. Drake.
00:39:36If I want you again, I shall find you here.
00:39:37Certainly.
00:39:38And I shall be glad to hear of any developments.
00:39:40I shall be very glad when there are any.
00:39:41Good day, sir.
00:39:42Good day.
00:39:53I'm nervous.
00:39:54Why? I'm as safe as a house.
00:39:56What, with 15,000 pounds worth of stolen property around your neck?
00:39:59You'd better get rid of this at once.
00:40:01We'll be lucky if we can find anybody to take it.
00:40:03I'm a lucky man.
00:40:05What on earth did you want to say you'd seen Fennec Price for?
00:40:09Have you never learnt, Burge, that attack is the safest defense?
00:40:13I see. Taking the bull by the horns.
00:40:15Well, not exactly, because English bulls haven't got horns.
00:40:19Well, I must dress for my luncheon party.
00:40:22I can't keep the Baroness waiting.
00:40:28So you won't forgive me?
00:40:31I suppose you've entirely forgotten Berlin.
00:40:33Not for one moment.
00:40:35But we've such a lot to look forward to in the future.
00:40:37Don't let's worry about the past.
00:40:39You imagine we're going to see a lot of each other?
00:40:41Of course.
00:40:43We're on the same floor, aren't we?
00:40:45So we were in Berlin.
00:40:47I wrote you a letter, you know, after that.
00:40:49But it was returned.
00:40:51I returned it myself.
00:40:52Well, then you know what I asked you?
00:40:54No. I never opened the letter.
00:40:56No?
00:40:58I had no idea there was such strong-minded women.
00:41:01I just wasn't interested, that's all.
00:41:08I'd like to see the Baroness von Holtz.
00:41:11I've got a theory.
00:41:13That Fennec Price and Cracker Jack are one and the same.
00:41:17I never credited you with such a vivid imagination.
00:41:20Call it instinct.
00:41:22To be honest, my dear, I should call it nonsense.
00:41:25Other people are not of the same opinion.
00:41:29Let's go somewhere out of town this afternoon.
00:41:31I'm sorry. I have an appointment.
00:41:33Well, this evening, then.
00:41:35I shall be engaged.
00:41:36Two to five.
00:41:39Two to five.
00:41:40Mr. Benting is in the hall, madam, asking to see you.
00:41:43Thank you. Tell him I'll come over straight away.
00:41:46Did I hear him say Benting?
00:41:48How sharp you are.
00:41:50That's exactly what he did say.
00:41:52Excuse me.
00:41:54Thank you very much.
00:41:58You said on the telephone you had something to tell me about your meeting with Fennec Price last night.
00:42:03Yes.
00:42:04I thought it over this morning and it struck me that he might be...
00:42:08Who?
00:42:09Well, let's call him the author of Cracker Jack.
00:42:12So you know who the author is?
00:42:15I think I do.
00:42:17Then you're a very clever woman.
00:42:19It's the one thing everyone in London is trying to find out.
00:42:24You see, there are certain things in that book that I can't help associating with a man I know very well.
00:42:31Can't we forget about the book? I'm interested in Fennec Price.
00:42:35So am I. And I'm trying to tell you what I think about him.
00:42:38What is it?
00:42:39That he does not exist.
00:42:42You mean that it was a disguise?
00:42:45Exactly.
00:42:48Well, you're certainly making things easier for us.
00:42:51I suppose now we shall have to...
00:42:53Good gracious.
00:42:56Will you excuse me a moment? There's a man over there I particularly want to talk to.
00:43:03Drake! How are you?
00:43:05Hello, Banty, old boy. Glad to see you. I meant to let you know I was here.
00:43:09I knew that, all right. We get to hear of most arrivals in London, you know, but I've been frankly busy.
00:43:16Yes, crime's becoming quite the fashion this season.
00:43:19That's because everyone who's anyone is in London just now.
00:43:22Funny to think that in a pure world, you'd be out of a job.
00:43:26That's not very flattering.
00:43:30Oh, so you've fallen for that book too.
00:43:32Yes, any good?
00:43:33Well, you know...
00:43:35Just what I expected.
00:43:36Hello! I didn't know you two knew each other.
00:43:39It sounds terribly conventional, but Drake once saved my life.
00:43:42Really?
00:43:43Yes, I think you might sound a little more interested.
00:43:46The Baroness is more interested in that book at the moment.
00:43:49She's trying to persuade me to hunt Crackerjack instead of Fennec Price.
00:43:52Well, of course, she may be right.
00:43:54You want to hold the telephone, please, madam?
00:43:56Thank you. Well, I'm afraid I have to say goodbye.
00:43:59Don't forget to let me know if you get on the trail of Crackerjack.
00:44:02Why should I do your work for you?
00:44:04Because it's a woman's job, not a policeman's.
00:44:07Perhaps.
00:44:09Ah, Bente, just an idea.
00:44:11Has it ever crossed your mind that that airplane gang
00:44:14might be responsible for the Aston House business?
00:44:16Their methods are very similar.
00:44:17It has.
00:44:18Did you ever find out who they were?
00:44:20I have a very shrewd notion.
00:44:22Really?
00:44:23If only I could get a line on them.
00:44:24That's very good news.
00:44:26What?
00:44:27All right, Embro, I'll be in.
00:44:29You, of all people, can help me in a matter of the most vital importance to me.
00:44:35Come up to my suite, 225.
00:44:38Half an hour.
00:44:40Yes, I'll be round in half an hour.
00:44:47Well, that's certainly very interesting.
00:44:49Sculpey and Coe, eh?
00:44:51Well, I wish you luck, Bente, old boy.
00:44:52There are a lowdown lot of rats.
00:44:54Good afternoon, sir.
00:44:55Oh.
00:44:56Did you get the money from the bank all right?
00:44:57All correct, sir.
00:44:58I'll see you upstairs.
00:44:59Very good.
00:45:00Well, goodbye, old man.
00:45:01Goodbye. We must have a business meeting.
00:45:03Well, goodbye, old man.
00:45:04Goodbye. We must have a bit of dinner one night.
00:45:06Get in touch with me at Scotland Yard.
00:45:08I most certainly will.
00:45:15Where's the money?
00:45:16Here, 15,000 pounds.
00:45:18Have any trouble with the buyer?
00:45:20He was scared of it, but he paid.
00:45:22Good.
00:45:23Well, deal with the hospital right away and the overdraft.
00:45:25Yes.
00:45:27And then, for heaven's sake, let us clear out.
00:45:29Why?
00:45:30Well, it gives me the shiver seeing you talking to Scotland Yard.
00:45:32Things are getting too hot.
00:45:33Yes, well, we're not leaving just yet.
00:45:35And what on earth is stopping us?
00:45:37That infernal woman, I suppose.
00:45:40Don't forget there's a possible murder charge hanging over your head.
00:45:42You've hit on the two reasons that are keeping me here.
00:45:45Firstly, the infernal woman you mentioned.
00:45:47And secondly, I just like having my nice, clean, charitable robberies
00:45:50messed up by a lot of murdering swine.
00:45:53I'm going to put those gangsters out of business, Burge.
00:45:55How?
00:45:57I haven't the faintest idea.
00:46:03I'm sorry to disturb you, Baroness.
00:46:05And I'm afraid you'll think me nothing more than an old fool.
00:46:07But I did want to have a talk to you about that dreadful affair last night.
00:46:11Any new developments?
00:46:12No, no.
00:46:13Nothing that I know of.
00:46:14But I've got an idea.
00:46:16I can't get it out of my head.
00:46:18Well, what is it?
00:46:19I was wondering.
00:46:21Could it be possible that Fennec Price was Cracker Jack?
00:46:27I was afraid you'd laugh at me.
00:46:29You're late, Humbro.
00:46:30The newspapers are full of it.
00:46:32And I myself have been trying to convince Scotland Yard that there was something in it.
00:46:36Of course, I have no proof. Have you?
00:46:38No, none whatsoever.
00:46:40But I'm not interested in Scotland Yard.
00:46:42It's from a purely personal angle that I want to get in touch with him.
00:46:45Well, we all want to do that.
00:46:47I've been robbed too, you know.
00:46:48That's just it.
00:46:49He took a ring of mine of great sentimental value to me.
00:46:54It was my father's ring.
00:46:56I paid ten times its value to get that ring again.
00:46:59I'm sure you would.
00:47:00But why tell me about it?
00:47:02Well, I hardly like to mention it, but...
00:47:06remembering your work in the Secret Service...
00:47:10As far as I'm concerned, that's done with and forgotten.
00:47:13Couldn't I persuade you?
00:47:14No.
00:47:15Surely you want to get your own things back again?
00:47:17Naturally.
00:47:18But why do you think I of all people can trace that man, if he exists at all?
00:47:23You're a very clever young woman.
00:47:25Thanks.
00:47:27You're the second person within the last hour who has told me that this is a woman's job.
00:47:32Well, going about as you do, meeting so many people,
00:47:36it does seem to me that you have a chance to...
00:47:40Ask him to come to you with tears in his eyes and say,
00:47:43Here's your ring.
00:47:45No.
00:47:46All the same, I'm sure that if I met him,
00:47:49I should be able to persuade him to do so.
00:47:52The only way you will meet that man is to catch him on a job.
00:47:57That would be one way.
00:48:00Yes.
00:48:02And now you're asking me to fix an appointment with him
00:48:05while he's cracking a safe or something?
00:48:09I know it sounds very foolish.
00:48:11All the same, if you could help me in any way...
00:48:14But it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
00:48:17And even if I decided to, how on earth would I set about it?
00:48:21Many problems, my dear, have been solved by a woman's intuition.
00:48:26No, Ambrose, leave it to Scotland Yard.
00:48:29Say it's set a trap for him, and he'll fall into it, sooner or later.
00:48:34Well, think it over.
00:48:52Don't apologize. Would you care for anything else?
00:48:56Yes, it's in here, too. The agony column.
00:48:58What is?
00:48:59A message from your pals at Scotland Yard.
00:49:02Oh, to who?
00:49:03To your own sweet self.
00:49:05Listen.
00:49:06It starts,
00:49:07Crackerjack, I'm in great trouble.
00:49:11Please help me immediately.
00:49:14Now, isn't that touching?
00:49:16Anything else?
00:49:17Now, isn't that touching?
00:49:19Anything else?
00:49:20Please trust me.
00:49:22How can I communicate with you?
00:49:24Box Z.
00:49:27Something very subtle about your friend who's the police.
00:49:30So you think it's a police trap?
00:49:32I'm actually convinced of it. Don't you?
00:49:34It might be genuine.
00:49:36We should worry.
00:49:38I don't know.
00:49:39We've never passed by a signal of distress yet.
00:49:42You're not thinking of answering it, are you?
00:49:44Don't you think it's a trap?
00:49:46Well, if it is, I should know how to deal with it.
00:49:49Take down this reply.
00:49:50Oh, yes.
00:49:53Take down this reply.
00:50:05Well, that's all right, then, isn't it?
00:50:08Now, how shall we begin?
00:50:09Sir or madam, as the case may be.
00:50:11Oh, no, let's try and be a little original.
00:50:14If you will be at the Albert Gate tomorrow evening...
00:50:17That's not very original, is it?
00:50:18No.
00:50:19All right, begin again.
00:50:21I have received your message.
00:50:24You will be put in...
00:50:25Charge?
00:50:26Touch.
00:50:27You will be put in touch with the person you require
00:50:30if you will stick closely to the following instructions.
00:50:33What are the instructions?
00:50:34No, no, don't hurry me.
00:50:36I'm enjoying this.
00:50:38Firstly,
00:50:40dress shabbily in old-fashioned clothes.
00:50:43Secondly, carry a large umbrella.
00:50:46Will you arrange for the rain?
00:50:48Oh, we must leave something to Providence.
00:50:51Thirdly, carry a copy of the Financial Times
00:50:53and wear one yellow glove.
00:50:56Destroy...
00:50:57The other glove?
00:50:58This letter.
00:50:59Oh, this letter.
00:51:00But bring the enclosure.
00:51:03What is the enclosure?
00:51:05There you are.
00:51:06The torn edges are as good an identification as fingerprints.
00:51:11And the meeting place?
00:51:12Do you know, I think we'll stick to the Albert Gate after all.
00:51:16There's room for another memorial.
00:51:35But the Financial Times?
00:51:36No, but I can tell you.
00:51:37Mines is improving.
00:51:38Industrials look like having a rise.
00:51:40But Wall Street's a market.
00:51:42At present prices shouldn't pick up a million.
00:51:45I've got a tenner for a cup of coffee.
00:51:49No deal.
00:51:53I've got a tenner for a cup of coffee.
00:51:56I've got a tenner for a cup of coffee.
00:51:59I've got a tenner for a cup of coffee.
00:52:01I've got a tenner for a cup of coffee.
00:52:04Yeah.
00:52:20Are you from Cricketer?
00:52:21Shh, Mr. X, even parks have ears.
00:52:24Are you Mr. X?
00:52:26No, but I'm to take you to him if I consider you genuine.
00:52:29Look.
00:52:30Go on. Come in the taxi.
00:52:33How do I know you really are going?
00:52:35Do you want to go or don't you?
00:52:37Well, yes, of course I do.
00:53:01Is this where Cracker Jack lives?
00:53:03This is where you get in touch with him, lady.
00:53:07Tell me, what's he like?
00:53:09Wouldn't you like to know?
00:53:10Is he married?
00:53:11Well, while we're on the subject, are you?
00:53:16Tell me, does he travel very much?
00:53:18Has he been to Paris lately? Or Berlin?
00:53:20Now, don't you ask so many questions.
00:53:22Now, come on, he's waiting for you. Come on.
00:53:24Come in.
00:53:30The Master will see you.
00:54:00Stop. Remember where you are.
00:54:22Now, don't try to frighten me.
00:54:24I understood I was to see Cracker Jack.
00:54:27I understand you do.
00:54:29Well, where are you?
00:54:31How do I know you are Cracker Jack?
00:54:33You have my word.
00:54:35I've come to the point.
00:54:36What is it you want?
00:54:38I pay you whatever price you want.
00:54:40I have no price.
00:54:42My help is not for sale.
00:54:44I understand.
00:54:48You disapprove of blackmail, don't you?
00:54:50It is one of the deadliest sins.
00:54:53You see, there's a man who's got some letters of mine in his possession.
00:54:58And as long as he's got those letters, he can prevent me from marrying.
00:55:02Marrying?
00:55:04Yes.
00:55:05I thought this would be the least strange part of my story.
00:55:08The name of this man?
00:55:11Hambro Golding.
00:55:13What do you suppose marriage is?
00:55:16Who?
00:55:17Hambro Golding.
00:55:19No, no. Golding is the man who can prevent me from marriage.
00:55:23Then the name of the man you're going to marry.
00:55:26That I can't say.
00:55:28Would it be impossible for you to tell me when you'll start?
00:55:33I don't take the risk.
00:55:35You see, he doesn't know I'm going to marry him.
00:55:39Oh, please don't ask me so many questions.
00:55:43It means so much to me.
00:55:45Well, what do you want me to do?
00:55:47Please get those letters for me.
00:55:50Where from?
00:55:52Mr. Golding has just taken a house on the Thames near Maidenhead.
00:55:56It's called Large Hall, and the letters are in a safe in his library.
00:56:00Will you repeat that address, please?
00:56:04Large Hall near Maidenhead.
00:56:08Thank you. That is all the information I require.
00:56:12Then you'll do this for me?
00:56:14You may have heard that I usually assist institutions, not individuals.
00:56:20But in your case, I will make an exception.
00:56:24I'm so grateful.
00:56:27Now, when do you think you'll start on this?
00:56:30Today is Friday. The matter will be attended to tomorrow night.
00:56:35But couldn't you tell me exactly when you would do...
00:56:39Now, wait!
00:56:42Yes.
00:56:51Go on. I'll take you back.
00:56:53But I don't want to.
00:56:54You're going back to the Albert Gate by the same route you come by.
00:56:57But I hate the Albert Gate.
00:56:59So do I. But that's where we're going.
00:57:01I'm going to jump out at the first traffic block.
00:57:03Oh, no, you don't. Because I've got to lock the door from the front seat.
00:57:07Come on.
00:57:10No matter who asks, do you understand?
00:57:12Perfectly. Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Drake.
00:57:15Good evening, Mr. Drake.
00:57:16Good evening.
00:57:24Good evening, Baroness. Sensible shoes, sensible dress.
00:57:28I hardly know you. Tell me, is it actually raining?
00:57:31Not that I noticed. I'm sorry, I must go.
00:57:34How steel today.
00:57:36How should I know?
00:57:37Rather brittle, I see.
00:57:39Still, I should have hardly thought the Financial Times was a paper to take on a shadow bank tour.
00:57:43Will you please let me pass?
00:57:45I suppose you're enjoying yourself, making a fool of me in public.
00:57:48Well, my dear, walking about London in shabby clothes with a large umbrella and one yellow glove.
00:57:55How do you know I've only got one glove?
00:57:58Well, I've got two.
00:58:01How do you know I've only got one glove?
00:58:04Well, my dear, where is the other?
00:58:09After you, Baroness.
00:58:18If anyone inquire for Mr. Jack Drake, he has already dined.
00:58:21But he hasn't dined.
00:58:22If I said he has dined, he has dined.
00:58:25You understand? Pass the word.
00:58:29I've had the most interesting evening, if you only knew.
00:58:32Interesting? In what way?
00:58:35There's nothing I enjoy so much as gorging on good food by myself.
00:58:39You've dined?
00:58:40Indeed, yes.
00:58:42Where?
00:58:43On the best the Blenheim could offer.
00:58:46I see.
00:58:48Well, good night.
00:58:49Good night.
00:58:51Allow me.
00:58:52Good night.
00:58:53Good night.
00:58:56Mother of glory, what a sight you look!
00:59:02I've had enough comments on my personal appearance for one day.
00:59:06You must be clean out of your mind to go out looking that way.
00:59:10But you've been out of your mind ever since that fellow Drake turned up again.
00:59:13Hold your tongue, please, Annie.
00:59:15Bring down to the restaurant.
00:59:17Head waiter, please.
00:59:19Have some food, sender.
00:59:21I want the head waiter... Oh, it's him speaking.
00:59:24Why didn't you say so?
00:59:25Will you send up some food to 225?
00:59:27I want some cold breast of chicken and salad for one.
00:59:31Hold on.
00:59:34No, not for one. Send up dinner for two, please.
00:59:38Yes, full-course dinner.
00:59:40Mr. Drake may be dining with me.
00:59:42But, madame, Mr. Drake has had his dinner.
00:59:45Only one hour ago.
00:59:47Oh.
00:59:48Oh, I see.
01:00:04Tobacco's down, steel's down, gold mines are down.
01:00:08In fact, everything's down.
01:00:10Yes, but I see here there's a better demand for diamonds.
01:00:12Diamonds? Now you're talking.
01:00:14When are we going to fill up that Ashton House stuff?
01:00:16That's my part of the job, Sculpey.
01:00:18We're busy. We're never going to find those humble pearls,
01:00:20nor the rat who took them by sitting around here.
01:00:22I use brains, not guns.
01:00:24Oh, you do, do you?
01:00:25That's why you went after that dame with the sub-stuff about your ring, eh?
01:00:28Brains.
01:00:30Is Mr. Golding at home?
01:00:48What name, please?
01:00:49Baroness von Holz.
01:00:50Yes, come this way, please, madame.
01:00:52Uh, will you please wait here, madame?
01:01:08Excuse me, sir, there's someone to see you.
01:01:11Who is it, Proctor?
01:01:12The Baroness von Holz.
01:01:14Baroness von Holz.
01:01:16Very good, Proctor.
01:01:17When I ring, show her in here.
01:01:22Now, quickly, fellows, into the next room.
01:01:24All of you.
01:01:25Hurry up there.
01:01:33Baroness von Holz, sir.
01:01:36Hambrough, I've got news.
01:01:38Oh?
01:01:39I talked to Crackerjack.
01:01:41You have?
01:01:42Wonderful.
01:01:43How on earth did you manage it?
01:01:44Well, never mind about that now.
01:01:46I've talked to him, and he's coming down here tonight.
01:01:49Here?
01:01:50Tonight?
01:01:51What for?
01:01:52To burgle your safe.
01:01:54Oh, please.
01:01:56I can't.
01:01:57He's done it.
01:01:58Yes, sure enough.
01:01:59You're right.
01:02:00Quiet.
01:02:01I want to listen.
01:02:02Baroness, stop joking.
01:02:03But it's true.
01:02:04You see, I told him that you had letters of mine and were blackmailing me.
01:02:07I had to make you out to be a crook.
01:02:09A crook?
01:02:10Well, I couldn't think of anything else.
01:02:13That's an awkward sort of thing to say to a fellow.
01:02:15Fresh.
01:02:16You're not annoyed, are you?
01:02:19No.
01:02:21No, on the contrary.
01:02:23I'm rather amused.
01:02:26It's magnificent work, Baroness.
01:02:28But I have to make immediate preparations to receive this gentleman.
01:02:31You see, it means a very great deal to me.
01:02:33I wish you luck.
01:02:34I hope you get your ring back.
01:02:35Thank you, Baroness.
01:02:37It's extremely kind of you to have come all this way down here to warn me.
01:02:42Hambrough, do you mind if I wait?
01:02:44I'd like to be here when he comes.
01:02:46I want to see him too, you know.
01:02:48Impossible, my dear child.
01:02:49Why, the man's a dangerous criminal.
01:02:51Besides, he may already have checked up on you.
01:02:53Yes.
01:02:55But you let me know what happens, won't you, Hambrough?
01:02:57Of course, my dear Baroness, with pleasure.
01:03:00And again, a thousand thanks.
01:03:04What do you make of it, Scalpi?
01:03:06He seems to have come through all right.
01:03:08Maybe I had him wrong.
01:03:10What's wrong?
01:03:18I forgot my handbag. Wait for me here.
01:03:20Yes, madam.
01:03:28So you see, that sob story about my ring has worked after all.
01:03:32Yes.
01:03:33Wouldn't you believe a woman could fall for a silly yard like that?
01:03:36She has.
01:03:37We'll give him a warmer reception when he comes, won't we, boys?
01:03:41If he's the guy I've been looking for, tonight will be his last party.
01:03:47Wouldn't you believe a woman could fall for a silly yard like that?
01:03:53The Blenheim Hotel, as quick as you can.
01:03:55Yes, madam.
01:03:58Ah, there you are.
01:03:59I wish you wouldn't do these disappearing tricks.
01:04:01Disappearing?
01:04:02Well, first of all, you slip away in the middle of the night without a word,
01:04:04and then return next day as if nothing has happened.
01:04:06Well, nothing has happened.
01:04:07What have you been doing? Have you been camping in the park?
01:04:10No, Birch. I've had an important matter to attend to.
01:04:13I've been investigating.
01:04:15Just taking a peep at Larch Hall.
01:04:17Larch Hall?
01:04:19What is the matter with you?
01:04:21Nothing.
01:04:26My key, please.
01:04:27Yes, madam.
01:04:28Is Mr. Drake in the hotel?
01:04:29Yes, madam. He's over there.
01:04:32Send a page, please, and ask him to come immediately to my suite.
01:04:35It's very important.
01:04:36Certainly, madam.
01:04:37You see, Birch, I'm not such a fool as I look.
01:04:40I hope not.
01:04:41Steady, please.
01:04:43The Baroness Von Holtz would like you to go to her suite immediately, please.
01:04:47The Baroness...
01:04:48Wait a minute. I want to talk to you.
01:04:50Presently.
01:04:51You ought to know by now that where the Baroness is concerned, you matter very little.
01:05:02I'm so glad you've come.
01:05:04Good afternoon.
01:05:06How is the temper today?
01:05:07Listen, Jake, I've got to talk to you seriously.
01:05:10Do you know, you look even more attractive when you're serious than you do when you're angry.
01:05:14Please, Jake, for the moment let's drop all pretenses.
01:05:18I'd drop anything for you, excepting my itches.
01:05:21You're always laughing.
01:05:22Whenever I ask you anything, you wriggle out of a straight answer.
01:05:25But now you've got to tell me this.
01:05:27What?
01:05:28Look at me.
01:05:30Are you Cracker Jake?
01:05:32Oh.
01:05:34Jake, I'm serious.
01:05:35Please, please answer me.
01:05:37Are you Cracker Jake?
01:05:39No, just plain Jake.
01:05:41Do you swear that?
01:05:43My dear, you may know what you're talking about, but I'm dashed if I do.
01:05:47Pardon me.
01:05:54Does the name Larch Hall mean anything to you?
01:05:58Larch Hall? No.
01:06:00But an aunt of mine lives at a house called the Larches.
01:06:02Oh, please.
01:06:03At Sunningdale, right on the Gulf Coast.
01:06:05Can't you ever be sensible?
01:06:08Do you know you look really worried?
01:06:10I am. Desperately.
01:06:13Suppose you tell me why.
01:06:18Will you dine with me tonight?
01:06:21I'm very flattered.
01:06:22Will you?
01:06:23Let me see.
01:06:25Oh, too bad.
01:06:26Tonight of all nights.
01:06:28You won't?
01:06:30And yet, what's an engagement for, except to be broken for a better one?
01:06:33I accept.
01:06:35I'm so glad.
01:06:368.30 in the lounge.
01:06:388.30.
01:06:39Do you mind if we make it 9 o'clock?
01:06:41Very well.
01:06:43But Jake, please don't keep me waiting.
01:06:45I promise I won't keep you waiting for hours and hours.
01:06:559.30.
01:07:03Good evening, madame.
01:07:04Good evening. Have you seen Mr. Jake Drake?
01:07:06No, not yet, madame.
01:07:07Well, I'll give you a toast.
01:07:09Here's to our nocturnal visitor.
01:07:12Oh, yeah, yeah, I get you, yeah.
01:07:15What time does this kind of fellow usually arrive?
01:07:17Oh, he won't come till he thinks we're all safely tucked up in bed.
01:07:20But when he does come, I'll have plenty to say to him.
01:07:22I'll say, hey, come on, I'm thirsty.
01:07:25Anyway, he won't forget it.
01:07:27Proctor, we'll have coffee in here.
01:07:33Oh, good evening, madame.
01:07:35You remember me?
01:07:36Oh, yes.
01:07:37Mr. Drake asked me to give you a message.
01:07:38What's happened to him?
01:07:39Oh, nothing, nothing. He's just been detained.
01:07:41Detained?
01:07:42Purely temporarily.
01:07:43He asked me to take you in and start dinner.
01:07:44Without him?
01:07:45Yes.
01:07:46Oh, no. I'm going to stay here and wait for him until he comes.
01:07:50Well, I bet two to one he's here before twelve.
01:07:52I'll take that. He won't come till after.
01:07:54Well, let's make a sweepstake of it.
01:07:56All right, I'll take ten numbers.
01:08:01Get rid of old sourpuss.
01:08:03Proctor.
01:08:04Yeah?
01:08:05Put the drinks out in the next room.
01:08:06And that'll be all for tonight.
01:08:08Have the rest of the evening off.
01:08:10Go out and enjoy yourself.
01:08:15Nice and peaceful in the country this time of year, isn't it?
01:08:17Yeah, too peaceful.
01:08:19Why don't you go back to see town again and get a bit of fresh air?
01:08:21I think I'll have another glass of port wine.
01:08:23No, no, you can't do that.
01:08:24Well, what do you mean?
01:08:25All this port wine.
01:08:49Here.
01:09:08Cigarette?
01:09:09No, thanks. I prefer lucky.
01:09:11Here, have one of these.
01:09:12I know where I can get some.
01:09:14Get away from that window.
01:09:15Boys, come in here a minute.
01:09:19Get a load of this, Goulding.
01:09:21Proctor?
01:09:22What are you doing?
01:09:23Well, didn't you tell old sourpuss to enjoy himself?
01:09:26This, this isn't Proctor.
01:09:27This is an imposter.
01:09:28Then who is it?
01:09:29Can this guy be Crackerjack?
01:09:31I get it. I believe you've hit it.
01:09:33That's it?
01:09:34He's made it an inside job.
01:09:36And we expected it to be an outside one.
01:09:38Wait a minute.
01:09:40All right, all right.
01:09:41I'll save you the trouble.
01:09:45Good Lord, it's Jack Drake.
01:09:47I've seen that mug before.
01:09:49That's right.
01:09:50Sure.
01:09:52In the aeroplane.
01:09:54You're the guy that swiped the rocks.
01:09:56Why, you dirty double-crossing son of a...
01:09:58Oh, I know, I know.
01:10:00But so live for the greater glory of East Walthamstead.
01:10:03So Crackerjack's the well-known philanthropist and man about town,
01:10:07Mr. Drake.
01:10:09Hey, hey, hey.
01:10:11We live and learn.
01:10:13And the respectable Mr. Golding, a fence.
01:10:16The Honorable Tony Davenport, a crook.
01:10:18As you say, one lives and learns.
01:10:21Don't count too much on the living.
01:10:23And all for the love of a baroness.
01:10:25I was right, wasn't I, boys?
01:10:27Yes, yes. Now I understand.
01:10:31Well, I don't want to hurry you, gentlemen,
01:10:33but I'm already late for an appointment.
01:10:35Better late than never. It'll be never if you don't listen to me.
01:10:37I want to talk to you. Step over here.
01:10:42I refuse to stay here a minute longer.
01:10:44I'm going to Larch Hall.
01:10:46What for?
01:10:47Because he's there.
01:10:49Now, stop bluffing me. I know who he is.
01:10:51You do? Then why did you send him there?
01:10:53Because I was a fool.
01:10:55I told him a lot of lies about letters and blackmail,
01:10:57but I didn't know then what they were going to do with him.
01:10:59I tried to stop him, but he only laughed at me.
01:11:01Oh, don't upset yourself.
01:11:03He knows who got you to send him there and why.
01:11:05Oh, well, then he'll never forgive me.
01:11:07Oh, please, I must go to him at once and explain everything.
01:11:09All right.
01:11:11I promise, but please hurry.
01:11:13Yes, we shall have to hurry, or you'll be late.
01:11:15What do you mean?
01:11:17He's expecting you.
01:11:19Expecting me?
01:11:21What do you think I'm here for?
01:11:23Come on.
01:11:25What I mean is, it's just a chance we might give you a break,
01:11:27because there's big business we can do together and stop this competition.
01:11:29Do you mean you're inviting me to join your gang?
01:11:31Uh-huh. This is very interesting.
01:11:33Not too much exercise, brother.
01:11:35It's all right, it's all right. I'm only just stretching my legs.
01:11:37What are your terms?
01:11:39For a start, the humble pearls.
01:11:41Why?
01:11:43Oh, because I haven't got them.
01:11:45Don't try to pull that. We know you grabbed them.
01:11:47Oh, I grabbed them all right, but I cashed in on them next day.
01:11:49Oh, you did, did you?
01:11:51Red-hot stuff that every cop and insurance bull in town was sweating after.
01:11:53There was only one man that could handle them, and he did.
01:11:55I'd like to know a sucker like that. Who was it?
01:11:57Oh, you know him better than I do.
01:11:59Come on, quit stalling. Give me his name.
01:12:01Certainly.
01:12:03The man who bought them was, um, Hambrough Golding,
01:12:05in his Bond Street shop.
01:12:07Come again?
01:12:09Hasn't I told you?
01:12:11You're such a drag!
01:12:13Why, you rat!
01:12:18Put him up, all of you. Quick, boy.
01:12:20Now, don't get me wrong.
01:12:22Don't think because I wear an eyeglass that I won't use this.
01:12:25Now, listen, Drake, I didn't mean anything personal.
01:12:27We just wanted you to be one of us.
01:12:29Yes, that was the real insult.
01:12:31But we wanted you real bad. We've got big plans for the future.
01:12:33I've planned your future for you, and you won't have to wait long.
01:12:35The police will be here at any minute.
01:12:37Police?
01:12:39Yes, they're great friends of mine,
01:12:41but I can't do their work unless you force me to.
01:12:43Go on, back there.
01:12:45Back against the fireplace, all of you.
01:12:47Go on.
01:12:49Will you sit down?
01:12:51How can you expect me to sit down and do nothing?
01:12:53He's in danger, I tell you.
01:12:55Oh, he'll get out of it just as he almost has. Sit down.
01:12:57Sergeant, you cover the back of the house.
01:12:59You two cover that side.
01:13:01You two cover this side.
01:13:03And you two stay with me.
01:13:05All set, sir.
01:13:07Right.
01:13:09Now, once more, don't move.
01:13:11Keep perfectly still.
01:13:13I warn you.
01:13:17Come on, boys.
01:13:23I'm still here.
01:13:24I'm still here.
01:13:25I'm still here.
01:13:26Come on, boys.
01:13:54This is the Ashton House stuff, all right, sir?
01:13:56Yes, that's the man you once gone through that window.
01:13:58Cracker Jack.
01:13:59Yes.
01:14:00Look.
01:14:01What?
01:14:02What?
01:14:07Everything all right, sir?
01:14:09What did you expect?
01:14:11Jack.
01:14:13Jack, I must talk to you.
01:14:16Take your hand off the choke.
01:14:19But I must explain.
01:14:22I tried to stop you.
01:14:24Why did you go down?
01:14:26I didn't have a choice.
01:14:28But what about Goldie in his game?
01:14:30We know all about that.
01:14:32Well, I can tell you who he is.
01:14:34Don't tell me.
01:14:35Tell your grandmother.
01:14:36But this is preposterous.
01:14:37Take them away.
01:14:38It's an outrage.
01:14:39And you call yourselves cops.
01:14:40Come on.
01:14:41We must fetch the police.
01:14:42Oh, no.
01:14:43No, I forgot.
01:14:44I was going to say...
01:14:45Shut up.
01:14:47He ought to be here by now.
01:14:49If he isn't, there he is.
01:14:51He must have cut off his engine.
01:14:53Signal to him to land right away.
01:14:57All right.
01:14:58He's answered.
01:15:00You can hold up the wrong man, I tell you.
01:15:02I have a good memory for faces.
01:15:04There are certain things I never forget.
01:15:06I can tell you that if I...
01:15:08Oh, boy, if you could only cook.
01:15:10Come on.
01:15:17Well-timed.
01:15:18Good fella.
01:15:19Well, goodbye.
01:15:20Thanks for coming to see me off.
01:15:22Can't I come too?
01:15:23No, of course you can't, sir.
01:15:24But I want to.
01:15:25There's only room for two in this airplane.
01:15:27Oh, Jack, you think of everything.
01:15:30Come on, then.
01:15:31Oh, just a minute.
01:15:32Oh, I said...
01:15:33Oh, no, please.
01:15:34Please, just a minute, please.
01:15:35No, I...
01:15:36Hi.
01:15:37Don't you want me?
01:15:39On our honeymoon.
01:15:40Don't be silly.
01:15:54© BF-WATCH TV 2021