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00:00:00Regalci, uno, due...

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00:01:44in the climax of their most magnificent effort.

00:01:50This effort began six months ago in Porto Veto,

00:01:53where we were all to board the ship for Africa.

00:01:56They were my associates in a quest for uranium,

00:01:59an element not one of them knew the first thing about,

00:02:02except that they'd heard you could get dough for it.

00:02:04Big dough.

00:02:06Who are you? I mean, what do you suppose they are?

00:02:09Businessmen, does it matter?

00:02:11Well, if we're going to be on a small boat looking for weeks and weeks.

00:02:14I only said they might be filling passengers.

00:02:16Harry, we must beware of those men.

00:02:18They're desperate characters.

00:02:20What makes you say that?

00:02:21Not one of them looked at my legs.

00:02:28Good morning, Mrs. Danrother. Good morning, Billy Boy.

00:02:31Care to join us in a stroll?

00:02:32Turn up the liver, sweat out the toxins,

00:02:34help nature to help you.

00:02:36Wouldn't dream of it.

00:02:38Really, Billy, you mustn't be so offhand with Mr. Peterson.

00:02:43If I were to treat him with more than common politeness,

00:02:45he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.

00:02:48Mr. Peterson is a bully.

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

00:02:53That man in London has been killed.

00:02:56What man?

00:02:58Paul Van Mier, high-ranking official in the Colonial Office,

00:03:02was stabbed to death early this morning

00:03:04by an unknown assailant outside a club in Soho.

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

00:03:11within the past month.

00:03:15What is it, Billy?

00:03:17In heaven's name, Billy, say something.

00:03:30You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.

00:03:32It seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.

00:03:47Don't pretend to be a fool.

00:03:48But look, Billy, this happened early Tuesday morning.

00:03:51We'd all left London well before that.

00:03:53What about Jack Ross? What about the galloping major?

00:03:56But he only... I thought he only stayed behind

00:03:59to get that phone call from Mambassa, if it came true.

00:04:02He'll be here this morning.

00:04:04Well?

00:04:05Don't get so excited.

00:04:07Don't jump to unpleasant conclusions.

00:04:09Jump, they might as well have drawn a map.

00:04:11Why was Peterson worried about Van Mier?

00:04:13What made him think he was dangerous?

00:04:15He was afraid Van Mier wouldn't stay bought.

00:04:17I was afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone.

00:04:20The visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,

00:04:24renouncing I have certain information

00:04:26that certain persons have paid certain sums of money.

00:04:29Don't talk so loud, Billy.

00:04:30To obtain illegal rights to certain mineral supplies.

00:04:33That Indian, that Raj or whatever he was,

00:04:35that you worked for in the old days,

00:04:37he killed a lot of people, didn't he?

00:04:39Ah, but he had a better style.

00:04:41Besides, he was out for a kingdom,

00:04:43half the size of France.

00:04:45What's the difference between that and millions of dollars?

00:04:48We must think of the future, Billy.

00:04:50This is our big chance and maybe our last,

00:04:53except for Mr. Peterson,

00:04:55we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.

00:04:57Where are you going?

00:04:59I'm going to a cafe,

00:05:00drink a lot of piano and listen to the band.

00:05:02You won't make a fuss, will you?

00:05:03It doesn't do to make a fuss.

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

00:05:09Naturally, it doesn't do to be fussy.

00:05:12There are two, Governor羽,

00:05:13and the little always who can tune in

00:05:14in the darkroom,

00:05:15and the little more.

00:05:16Let's go.

00:05:19What's your name?

00:05:22Thank you, sir.

00:05:23The luggages in there.

00:05:31Bring it up.

00:05:37The luggages in there.

00:05:43Bring it up.

00:05:53Oh, look, the desperados.

00:05:59Not quite in our contract, Billy. Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:04I'm celebrating.

00:06:05Celebrating what?

00:06:06The safe arrival of the Major. He came galloping in a minute ago looking tired but satisfied.

00:06:14I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:06:16Yes, well, it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen. I'll see you later, Billy.

00:06:24Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:27Gwendolyn, it's your move.

00:06:29Oh.

00:06:30Check.

00:06:31At last.

00:06:33Are you sailing on the Niagara?

00:06:35Africa bound.

00:06:37So are we.

00:06:38Oh, my name is Chelm. This is my wife.

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

00:06:41How do you do?

00:06:42Are your friends sailing too?

00:06:44The whole kit and caboodle.

00:06:46You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:06:49Really, Gwendolyn?

00:06:50How so mysterious?

00:06:51Well, for one thing, you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:06:56Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:59Check.

00:07:01I have a theory about you and your friends.

00:07:03Correction. My associates.

00:07:06As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors. Evil ones, I mean.

00:07:11You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap to perform ghastly experiments

00:07:16which require the sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.

00:07:20You must excuse my wife. She has a very lively imagination.

00:07:26Check me.

00:07:28I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game when you keep talking all the time.

00:07:31Harry's been all out of sorts today. Usually, he's a wonderful loser.

00:07:36Good morning, Mr. Dan Radha. I bring you the captain's compliments along with the sad news that the sailing of the SS Nyanga has been postponed.

00:07:44Now, look here. This boat is definitely, most definitely, scheduled to sail at 2400 hours.

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

00:07:54The propeller go on, or is the captain drunk?

00:07:56Of course the captain is drunk. But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

00:07:59Well, it's not good enough. Simply not good enough.

00:08:02Quite right, sir. But you're putting it too mildly. The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:08:07Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:08:09To locate, bargain for, purchase and install a new one will require, I should say, more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:08:17Utter, hopeless inefficiency.

00:08:20Only it isn't the oil pump at all. Just making it an excuse to hang about and pick up extra cargo.

00:08:25Guns are open. I wouldn't be surprised if she turns out to be a smuggler.

00:08:29What a miserable place to be stuck in. Squally, fifth-rate port.

00:08:34Ever been in Port Averto before? No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:08:38Oh, I thought not. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so upset about staying. Magnificent country.

00:08:44Ruins to visit by moonlight, fine stretch of beach. Back there in the hills, one of the few spots left in the world

00:08:50where you can get decent food and drink. It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:08:55I insist you give me the pleasure of having dinner with us tonight.

00:08:59Well, that's awfully kind of you, but, uh...

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

00:09:03My wife and me. The committee?

00:09:06Oh, uh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet a friend of mine. This is the galloping major.

00:09:11The committee wants you to toddle around. Okay. Right away.

00:09:15I'll be along. They're to toddle. I said I'd be along.

00:09:18They don't like to be kept waiting.

00:09:21I'll lay on a car. We'll meet in front of the hotel at six.

00:09:25Out of a dare, chief.

00:09:29Dan Rather. An American, I suppose.

00:09:32Anyway, I... I quite like him.

00:09:34Time. 24 hours in the day. 1,440 minutes for somebody else to get busy on the same idea as ours.

00:09:42We ought to have got a plane and flown out, as I said from the start.

00:09:46Do you remember I said it, O'Horror?

00:09:47My name is not O'Horror. It is O'Horror. You hear? Mr. O'Horror.

00:09:51Yes, Mr. O'Horror. But do you remember I said it? I said we ought to take a plane.

00:09:56Time, time. What is time? Swiss manufactured, French hoarded, Italian squandered,

00:10:01Americans say it is money, Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:05You know what I say? I say time is a crook.

00:10:08If we took a plane, we'd be there inside 15 hours.

00:10:11Instead of...

00:10:12I don't want any more talk about flying. The sky is for the birds. My feet on the ground. Both of them.

00:10:19Come in, Billy boy.

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

00:10:24No fuss, Billy. We're merely wondering what course to pursue in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:10:29Join the peasants and their rebels. Go to church. Write your memoirs.

00:10:35Very funny. I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:10:39Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:10:46And now that we've had our moment of fun and all the better for it, let's get back to the question.

00:10:50Doesn't this delay call for a cable to your friend in British East?

00:10:53Mustn't send cables. Can't you get it through your heads that the population down there has trained noses they can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish?

00:11:02But aren't you afraid, Billy, that when our little party doesn't show up on the date you said, aren't you a teeny bit afraid that your friend might use that as an excuse to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:12If my friend were looking for an excuse, you'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:11:19What do you mean?

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

00:11:23Well, I'm appalled, Billy. What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues to imagine that we...

00:11:35Look here, Peterson. You don't have to convince me of anything. You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:11:40And I won't unless you ever decide to sick that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:11:45Watch yourself, Lenny.

00:11:47Now, Jack, behave yourself. Sit down.

00:11:50For shame, Billy.

00:11:54I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:11:57And if you're half the gentleman I know you are, I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:01As I was saying, Peterson, you have nothing to worry about. My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:06For purely venal reasons, that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:11Jack, give Billy a light.

00:12:21What a wonderful car.

00:12:25It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance many years ago.

00:12:29Oh, it did. It was built for Oroposo. You know, the bullfighter. He had it made this way so he could stand up and take powers.

00:12:34He only got one right and it acquiesced it to me on his deathbed. Well, here's to Oroposo. I hope you like champagne.

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

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

00:12:45Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:12:47Well, that was Brady Crampton's.

00:12:49Oh, you mean Lord Crampton in Gloucestershire.

00:12:50In Gloucestershire. His family acres marched hand in hand with ours.

00:12:55Gloucestershire. The cathedral town, trout fishing, garden parties. What a beautiful life.

00:13:03You know England well.

00:13:05Immersionally, I am English. I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets.

00:13:10And I've always kept up my subscription to country life and to toddler.

00:13:14Trouble with England, it's all pomp in no circumstance. You're very wise to get out of it. Escape while you can.

00:13:20Well, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping. It simply so happened that a relative of mine, first cousin actually, who died recently, happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:13:28Africa's the place now. You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys. They just skimmed a little off the top.

00:13:33The potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.

00:13:37Now, there is a villa.

00:13:39Big.

00:13:40Well, that's the Villa Capriccio. Famed in song and story. A three-star attraction in Baedecker.

00:13:45Whose is it?

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

00:13:48Yours?

00:13:49Yes, I brought old Charles over from Fuquay's. You know, the old Fuquay's, to run it for me.

00:13:53Then when I decided to pull up steaks, I bought him this restaurant we're going to. Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:13:59Well, here we are.

00:14:01Charles! Charles!

00:14:03Wait here a minute while I route old Charles out. He doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:07Charles!

00:14:08He must think we're extraordinarily naive. Knew all those people. Owned that vast villa.

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

00:14:19What utter ball did I?

00:14:20Oh, perhaps he did.

00:14:21I beg leave to doubt it. Did you notice his wife?

00:14:24She seemed to be rather a sensitive little woman. Really embarrassed by all that rot.

00:14:28I am sorry, signore. As you see, we are closed. We do not open for another two months.

00:14:35Charles, what the devil's going on here? This place is falling to rack and ruin.

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

00:14:41Monsieur Dan.

00:14:45Monsieur, Monsieur Dan.

00:14:48Madame, why did you not let me know you were coming?

00:14:52You did not say you were with Monsieur Dan.

00:14:55Nothing is close to Monsieur Dan.

00:14:56I was good to see you again, Charles.

00:14:58It's been too long, Monsieur Dan. Not since the night you left the villa.

00:15:03Remember your farewell party.

00:15:05I've tried ever since to forget it.

00:15:07Remember how in the morning we escorted you to the train with violins playing?

00:15:12And everybody cried like when a king you love very much leaves this country.

00:15:21Aren't you dressed yet?

00:15:23Do I appear to be dressed?

00:15:25Do dress. Do hurry. It's the most wonderful day.

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

00:15:31His former villa.

00:15:33Obviously, I can't go. I've got a chill on my liver.

00:15:38What a miserable place to be ill.

00:15:39And you forgot to pack my hot water bottle.

00:15:42You packed it.

00:15:43Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember.

00:15:48Hello.

00:15:50Oh, hello.

00:15:52No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:15:54Harry has this wretched chill and...

00:15:55Give me the telephone.

00:15:59Chelm here.

00:16:01Yes.

00:16:03Quite.

00:16:04Absolutely.

00:16:05A hot water bottle.

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

00:16:10Look here, Dan Rather.

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

00:16:15She enjoys this sightseeing sort of stuff, you know.

00:16:18Splendid.

00:16:20Splendid.

00:16:21I'll send her along.

00:16:23You know, Gwendolyn, nowadays, one simply cannot afford to dismiss people just because they're not one's sort.

00:16:33One has to try and bridge the gulf.

00:16:36After all, it's a new world we're going into.

00:16:39One's got to take it as one finds it.

00:16:41Face it.

00:16:42Use it.

00:16:43Master it.

00:16:44The The King.

00:16:45One is going to come in.

00:16:46Or do you know?

00:16:47I'm not going to come in.

00:16:48This is going to come in.

00:16:49You know, I...

00:16:50I've asked one for example.

00:16:51It's not.

00:16:52They're going to come in.

00:16:53It's about to come out.

00:16:54I'll do it, you know.

00:16:55Well, you have a hand-hand.

00:16:56Just as you can.

00:16:57You know, I...

00:16:59I can't...

00:17:00You know I...

00:17:01I...

00:17:02You know, I...

00:17:03You know, I...

00:17:04You know, I...

00:17:06You know, I...

00:17:08You know, I...

00:17:09I...

00:17:10You know.

00:17:14I've seen Americans on the street and in the cinema, of course,

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

00:17:20Are you a typical American?

00:17:22I think it's important that I should know.

00:17:24Why important?

00:17:26There are two good reasons for falling in love.

00:17:29One is that the object of your affections is unlike anyone else,

00:17:34a rare spirit, such as Lord Byron.

00:17:38The other is that he's, like everybody else, only superior.

00:17:42Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.

00:17:44Well, if you must know, I'm a typical rare spirit.

00:17:48How long did you live here?

00:17:49Well, the longest I've ever lived anywhere is two years.

00:17:52Well, when you were a child, didn't you ever have a mother and a father,

00:17:56and a house and a street and a town?

00:17:58No, I, uh, I was an orphan until I was 20,

00:18:00and then a rich and beautiful lady adopted me.

00:18:04You know, I've changed my mind about your being an evil doctor.

00:18:08You're off to keep a rendezvous someplace in Africa,

00:18:11sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:13You're going to found a new empire

00:18:15and make yourself master of the riches of the world.

00:18:19But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress the natives

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

00:18:26That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:29Am I?

00:18:30Of course.

00:18:32I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.

00:18:35You don't believe that, do you?

00:18:37Well, I believe anything you say.

00:18:39Do you?

00:18:40No.

00:18:41Well, you shouldn't, you know.

00:18:42You really shouldn't.

00:18:44Mr. Charlton?

00:18:45Yes?

00:18:46It's I, Mrs. Dunroather, Maria.

00:18:49Oh, come in.

00:18:51Tea for two and two for tea?

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

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

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

00:19:00Bit of one on the liver.

00:19:01Two Tarzan.

00:19:02Milk, of course.

00:19:03Of course.

00:19:04I feel I should like somehow to do him a good turn of some kind.

00:19:14You do?

00:19:15Well, natural.

00:19:16Oh, I see.

00:19:17Naturally.

00:19:18I think it would be nice if you were able to do something for him.

00:19:23Help him along.

00:19:25Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:19:27Delighted, of course.

00:19:28For instance.

00:19:29Oh, something with business.

00:19:32He was very pleased with that tip you gave him on the way home last night about the gold shares.

00:19:36I've forgotten what I told him.

00:19:37What was it?

00:19:40I don't remember either.

00:19:42I was listening to your voice.

00:19:44I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:19:48You see, if you were helping him, it would be so much easier for us to be together a lot out there in Africa.

00:19:55Was he any head for business?

00:19:56Why, he's simply brilliant.

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

00:20:00But of course he is.

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

00:20:05If you imagine that Harry is simply going to Africa to plant coffee, you're very much mistaken.

00:20:11In point of fact, in point of fact, coffee is the least of Harry's interests.

00:20:17In point of fact, the land he is acquiring is extremely rich in certain minerals.

00:20:24Minerals which are indispensable to the production of atomic energy.

00:20:27Harry's land simply deems with uranium.

00:20:30Wouldn't surprise me to see him become the uranium king.

00:20:34So you see, my husband isn't such a ninny as you may have imagined.

00:20:38It might very well be worth your while to go in with him.

00:20:41The potential mineral wealth of Africa has hardly been scratched.

00:20:44I was telling you last night.

00:20:46Well, of course.

00:20:47It's a well known fact.

00:20:49It's a well known fact.

00:20:51Something Ohio Walk

00:20:54. , , . . . .

00:21:09Billy boy.

00:21:11Had a happy day?

00:21:14Very.

00:21:15I'm so glad.

00:21:16What an attractive woman Mrs. Chelm is.

00:21:19Is that what you call me over to tell me?

00:21:21Who are the Chelms?

00:21:22They're English. Going out to British East, they have a coffee plantation.

00:21:25Any money in coffee?

00:21:26No, but there's a type of Englishman goes off to coffee plantations

00:21:29without caring whether there's any money in it or not.

00:21:32Relatives leave them coffee plantations and they go out to them.

00:21:35But why this sudden interest in the Chelms?

00:21:37I'd just like to know who's making friends with my friends.

00:21:41Now you know.

00:21:55You know, if I ever leave you,

00:21:57it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:22:00But only for you.

00:22:02I suppose that type of Englishman is like a story I once heard.

00:22:06An English gardener in England was showing some Americans

00:22:10one of those wonderful English loans.

00:22:13And of course, they wanted to know how to make a loan like that.

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

00:22:18He said all you have to do is get some good grass and roll it every day for 600 years.

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

00:22:24Englishmen tell it when they're feeling down in the mouth.

00:22:27You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:22:31You're not even listening. You never do.

00:22:35Someday I'll say goodbye and you won't hear that either.

00:22:39One day a Chelm really meet my type and run off with him.

00:22:43And you'll be simply amazed.

00:22:45That's possible.

00:22:47George Moore said...

00:22:49I learned it by heart years ago.

00:22:51He said that each great passion is the fruit of many fruitless years.

00:22:57George Moore was a very distinguished English writer, you know.

00:23:01Except that he was Irish.

00:23:03Cheer up, sugar.

00:23:05If I make a million on this deal,

00:23:07I'll buy you an old English lawn.

00:23:09One we can roll up and take with us.

00:23:17Billy, good morning.

00:23:19What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun doing outside my door?

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

00:23:26In Chile, the name of O'Hara is...

00:23:28He's a tip-top name.

00:23:29Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:23:32Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:23:34Madam, my respects.

00:23:36Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

00:23:39Yes, uh...

00:23:40Maybe perhaps, uh...

00:23:42A little whiskey, huh?

00:23:44Very weak, please.

00:23:45What's this visit in honor of?

00:23:47Oh...

00:23:49Just wanted to have a little talk with you.

00:23:52Okay, but make it fast.

00:23:54Fast?

00:23:56I give you my word, Billy.

00:23:58I...

00:23:59I give you my word.

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

00:24:02Like an older brother.

00:24:04Oh, it's not so much a difference of age.

00:24:06It's, uh...

00:24:07It's probably...

00:24:09Yes, the reason is because...

00:24:11Because I come from a culture which is so much older than yours in my country.

00:24:16A child, six years old, is older in his heart than you'll be at 60.

00:24:23It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.

00:24:26At this rate, I'll be 60 before you get to the point.

00:24:29At the point...

00:24:30The point is that...

00:24:32That Peterson, Ravella, myself...

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

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

00:24:38We cannot switch around and turn and...

00:24:40But an agent...

00:24:42It's easy to imagine that he could conceivably...

00:24:46Doesn't feel himself quite as irrevocably committed as...

00:24:50As, uh...

00:24:51Peterson or...

00:24:52We are fellow passengers, I believe.

00:24:57Not quite yet, would you say?

00:24:59Too sadly true.

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

00:25:01You don't happen to have seen your Mr. Dan Rather about...

00:25:03I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:25:05Not 11.

00:25:06He's rather a late riser.

00:25:07But he said...

00:25:08He said...

00:25:09Well, anyway...

00:25:10I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:25:12particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:25:14It's not that he means to break his word, he just forgets that he's given it.

00:25:17Charm and dependability so seldom go in one package.

00:25:20There are exceptions, of course.

00:25:22Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behaviour is one.

00:25:25Oh, yes, very.

00:25:27Well, quite, Harry.

00:25:28I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband and having a chat about Africa.

00:25:32By all means.

00:25:33I understand he's in coffee?

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

00:25:38Part of Africa we're going through is due for some pretty important changes.

00:25:42In my opinion, things will be booming out there before you can say Jack Robinson.

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

00:25:48It's completely unspoilt, I hear, with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:25:52I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery

00:25:54than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds cropping up on a piece of land I bought for a song.

00:25:59Heaven forbid.

00:26:00Next thing there'd be big ugly holes everywhere and great horrid machines instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:06Anyway, I don't think my husband worries much about money and business, that sort of thing.

00:26:11Really?

00:26:12I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view, one has to understand his background.

00:26:18Those lawns, hundreds of years in the making.

00:26:22Those immemorial elms.

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

00:26:26Generations of them.

00:26:28Those great echoing galleries where so much of English history's been made.

00:26:32Taxes must be terrific on a place like that.

00:26:36What would people like the Chelms care about taxes with their kind of money?

00:26:41I mean, when a family's been a power in the city of London for so long.

00:26:45One of the great financial families.

00:26:47Power in the city?

00:26:48You mean?

00:26:49Oh yes, of course, one of those Chelms.

00:26:51I'm surprised you know about them at all.

00:26:54Very few people do.

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

00:26:58I find it rather hard to believe that a man in your husband's position would go to Africa just for the coffee planty.

00:27:05You're very quick, aren't you?

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

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

00:27:12So I suspect it.

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

00:27:17Sin?

00:27:19Since the war, my husband has been almost exclusively concerned with spiritual values.

00:27:25He feels that if he can get away there, in the heart of Africa, he will come face to face with essentials.

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

00:27:35Sin?

00:27:36Why yes, of course.

00:27:37Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?

00:27:40Sin?

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

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

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

00:27:50My name is Peterson.

00:27:51I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.

00:27:53She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.

00:27:56I myself am vastly concerned.

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

00:27:59You'll excuse us, Mr. Peterson.

00:28:01What have you been telling that man?

00:28:03Nothing, Harry.

00:28:04He got onto the subject of religion and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:10Billy, I think it is a hard time to take stock of yourself.

00:28:16Can you truthfully say about yourself I, I, Billy Dan Reuter, have acted fairly and squarely to my associates, huh?

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

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

00:28:28Shut up, Shiver.

00:28:29Perhaps he is the soul of honor and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

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

00:28:35Nothing.

00:28:36It's your conduct.

00:28:37Your, your, your conduct doesn't, your conduct does not inspire confidence.

00:28:42And, and confidence really is the most important necessity in an undertaking of our kind.

00:28:47One may be completely innocent, but if one's actions invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.

00:28:52To be trustworthy is not more important than, than to seem to be trustworthy.

00:29:01Billy, have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:05Tell me, Billy.

00:29:07Tell me the truth.

00:29:09My conduct.

00:29:11Who do they think I am?

00:29:13The hired man?

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

00:29:16You are the hired man.

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

00:29:21How good, how true, how kind.

00:29:41Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you.

00:29:43How about a drink?

00:29:44Well, I...

00:29:45Oh, come on, my dear fellow.

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

00:29:47Oh, Gwendolyn, don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.

00:29:52Ha, ha.

00:29:55Can't understand it.

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

00:29:58Then I come back and find her sitting there in that cafe.

00:30:01Extraordinary creatures, women.

00:30:03Well, let's drink to them.

00:30:04Perno.

00:30:05Scotch.

00:30:06Scotch.

00:30:07Come on, you tiny little wreck.

00:30:08Have a drink.

00:30:09We're drinking to women.

00:30:13Take the drink.

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

00:30:16Glass of Irish.

00:30:17Women.

00:30:18Hitler had the right idea.

00:30:19Keep them in their place.

00:30:21Klein akin to Kirken.

00:30:22Babies in the kitchen.

00:30:24Say what you want to about Hitler.

00:30:25He had his points.

00:30:26Come, come.

00:30:27Look at us.

00:30:28Hitler and Mussolini.

00:30:29Those were the men.

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

00:30:31The world's going up in smoke.

00:30:32I say, let it come.

00:30:33Get it over with.

00:30:34Well, if you don't mind,

00:30:35I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:30:36Worry?

00:30:37Just one minute, laddies.

00:30:38I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies,

00:30:39and that's don't worry.

00:30:40Don't ever worry.

00:30:41I'm in a position to know secret information.

00:30:43The Rosicrucians.

00:30:44The Great White Brotherhood.

00:30:45The high secret orders.

00:30:46But you've no faith.

00:30:47You must have faith.

00:30:48Faith and power.

00:30:49Secret power.

00:30:50Men who guard the trust.

00:30:51From the deepest inside of the watchman call it.

00:30:53Mystic rulers.

00:30:54All one club.

00:30:55Chained together by one purpose.

00:30:56One idea.

00:30:57Mankind's champions.

00:30:58Follow me, Billy?

00:30:59Oh, why, of course.

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

00:31:01Hitler, Mussolini.

00:31:02I can't stand here and permit you.

00:31:03Are you interrupting me?

00:31:04Relax, Jack.

00:31:05Have another drink.

00:31:06I simply want to state that things don't happen to me

00:31:07what certain people imagine.

00:31:08An opportunity.

00:31:09I can't stand here and permit you.

00:31:10Are you interrupting me?

00:31:11Relax, Jack.

00:31:12Have another drink.

00:31:13I simply want to state that things don't happen to me

00:31:15what certain people imagine.

00:31:16An opportunity.

00:31:17I can't stand here.

00:31:18I can't stand here and permit you.

00:31:19What certain people imagine.

00:31:21An officer may find himself strapped for money.

00:31:23And he may undertake certain things which in other circumstances

00:31:26is no.

00:31:27Absolutely no.

00:31:28Absolutely.

00:31:29I mean, absolutely no.

00:31:30In the old days, I should have simply told people of your ilk

00:31:33to buy their own drinks.

00:31:35Poor old Jack.

00:31:37I'll teach you.

00:31:39I'll teach you to insult an ex-officer of the Indian army.

00:31:44Well, are you yellow?

00:31:47The bar.

00:31:48You're Major Ross.

00:31:49Right.

00:31:50Ross here.

00:31:51Right.

00:31:52Right.

00:31:53Right again.

00:31:54Come along, the committee.

00:31:55Save for the bell.

00:31:56I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:31:58Sin.

00:31:59Oh, sin.

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

00:32:01No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:02These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:03Sit here and help me close.

00:32:04But how could they possibly know what we're up to?

00:32:06Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:32:07Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us even before we get started.

00:32:08We must get ahead of them.

00:32:09Time has entered the picture in a new way.

00:32:10Never forget the time factor, gentlemen.

00:32:11It always enters the picture in the end.

00:32:12I'm sending a cable to London.

00:32:13I want full information on those Chelms interests.

00:32:15British Africa too.

00:32:16Check up on his interests there.

00:32:17Every time the plane lands, I'll try and reach you by telephone to get you.

00:32:19I'm going to take a straight face.

00:32:20I'm going to take a straight face.

00:32:21No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:22These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:23Sit here and help me close.

00:32:24But how could they possibly know what we're up to?

00:32:25Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:32:26Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us even before we get started.

00:32:29We must get ahead of them.

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

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

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

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

00:32:37I want full information on those Chelms interests.

00:32:40British Africa too.

00:32:41Check up on his interests there.

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

00:32:45Keep me informed of the latest development.

00:32:46Stand right here.

00:32:47That lying, swinish, rum-swilling, double-crosser.

00:32:50What pleasure.

00:32:51No, you can't at the moment.

00:32:53We need him right now.

00:32:54We need that swinish, lying, double-crosser.

00:32:56Did I hear my name?

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

00:32:59Three men in a tub.

00:33:01Tub?

00:33:03Oh.

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

00:33:07You and I are leaving for Africa.

00:33:09How's that?

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

00:33:13Oh, what's happened, Peterson?

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

00:33:16Perfectly simple, Billy boy.

00:33:17The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty about when the anger will sails

00:33:21forces me to sacrifice my personal comfort.

00:33:23I prefer to fly rather than run the risk of arriving too late.

00:33:26There's also such a thing as arriving too early.

00:33:29What do you mean by that?

00:33:31The land doesn't come up for auction for a couple of weeks.

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

00:33:35If we sit around British East all that time, somebody's gonna start wondering who we are

00:33:39and ask questions.

00:33:40Is that your real opinion, Billy?

00:33:42Or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage with the attractive Mrs. Chalmers,

00:33:46your companion?

00:33:47Or perhaps you have even other reasons?

00:33:49Such as?

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

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

00:33:54Billy?

00:33:55Where are you going?

00:33:56Off to Africa, flying.

00:33:57Just like that?

00:33:58Weren't you even going to kiss me goodbye?

00:34:01I wish...

00:34:02Don't say it.

00:34:03What?

00:34:04That you wish we'd never met.

00:34:05You'll be coming on the boat and in Africa we'll get together and...

00:34:08I think I hate you.

00:34:09Letting those rivers go away.

00:34:10I don't know.

00:34:11I don't know.

00:34:12I don't know.

00:34:13I don't know.

00:34:14I don't know.

00:34:15I don't know.

00:34:16I don't know.

00:34:17I don't know.

00:34:18I don't know.

00:34:19I don't know.

00:34:20I don't know.

00:34:21I don't know.

00:34:22I don't know.

00:34:23Letting those revolting men order you about.

00:34:26Don't deny it.

00:34:27I've watched them.

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

00:34:29They say, hop it and off you hop.

00:34:32I know what it is.

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

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

00:34:39What makes you think that?

00:34:41No, it happens all the time.

00:34:43My old Spanish nurse told me that half the people in the world would be ruined at once if everyone told what they knew.

00:34:48But...

00:34:50Couldn't you have them done away with?

00:34:52You must know plenty of people who could bump them off.

00:34:56It would probably cost a good deal, but it would be worth it certainly.

00:34:59Well, it's not impossible except that afterwards I wouldn't have any money.

00:35:02This way I stand to make a lot.

00:35:04Millions?

00:35:05Maybe.

00:35:06Then perhaps your connection with those men isn't quite so undignified as I thought.

00:35:12Those millions, would they be pounds or dollars?

00:35:17Either way suits me.

00:35:19No, that's very careless of you.

00:35:21The state of the pound is so uncertain.

00:35:23You must think in terms of hard currency.

00:35:25Maybe I should hire you to handle my affairs.

00:35:28You could do worse.

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

00:35:32Come along, Billy boy.

00:35:34The car's waiting.

00:35:35You can't get faster than this, we'll miss the plane.

00:35:38Press on!

00:35:39Press on!

00:35:40Press on!

00:35:41Drive hosting!

00:35:42Drive hosting!

00:36:13Oh

00:36:34Bisogna spingere push push

00:36:43What

00:37:13Diver, diver

00:37:43Oh

00:37:47Oh

00:37:49Oh

00:37:53Oh

00:37:55Oh

00:37:59Oh

00:38:01Oh

00:38:05Oh

00:38:07Oh

00:38:09Oh

00:38:11My car! My car! My beautiful car!

00:38:18You did that on purpose!

00:38:20What? You planned it that way.

00:38:21I know what you're up to. I know everything.

00:38:23I know about the uranium on the Chelms land,

00:38:25the Chelms interest in the city of London.

00:38:27The what?

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

00:38:29I take it your information comes from a reliable source.

00:38:31It does, from Mrs. Chelms herself, in fact.

00:38:33Ah, magnificent. Simply magnificent.

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

00:38:38If you weren't a benighted jackass, if you could see as far as you could spit,

00:38:41you'd know there's no such thing as the Chelms interest.

00:38:43You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Dan Rather!

00:38:45Very much better than that!

00:38:46Don't believe me!

00:38:47Check with London.

00:38:48If you find out it's anything more than a Donald Hill, Gloucestershire Squire,

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

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

00:38:57Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.

00:39:01You will make restitution.

00:39:03We know, Mr. Dan, either the money or a new car.

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

00:39:09How I came by it is beside the point.

00:39:12The fact you gave it to me doesn't make it any the less mine.

00:39:16Shut up!

00:39:17That's right. Threaten me.

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

00:39:23Now, you...

00:39:24Stop!

00:39:25Stop!

00:39:26Stop!

00:39:27Stop!

00:39:28Stop!

00:39:29Stop!

00:39:30Stop!

00:39:31Stop!

00:39:32Stop!

00:39:33Stop!

00:39:34Stop!

00:39:35Stop!

00:39:36Stop!

00:39:37Stop!

00:39:38More than anything, I want Billy to make a grand success out there.

00:39:42Well, as you care so much about money.

00:39:46I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.

00:39:49I shouldn't think Billy would mind, really.

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

00:39:55You are a strange girl.

00:39:58Of course I love Billy.

00:40:00Actually, I adore him.

00:40:02And Billy loves me very, very, but very much.

00:40:07That's why I trust him with his little and important amours.

00:40:11And what does he say about yours?

00:40:13But, darling, all husbands like their wives to seem attractive to other men.

00:40:23Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:25I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:33This is Dan, Robert.

00:40:34Maria.

00:40:35I have, I'm afraid, I have some shocking news for you.

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

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

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

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

00:40:47It seems almost certain that...

00:40:49What is it?

00:40:50What are you trying to say?

00:40:54He's saying that Billy is dead.

00:40:57It's become necessary to redistribute the stock in our company.

00:41:00Stock!

00:41:01Stock!

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

00:41:03We can't deal with Darada's friend.

00:41:06Not without Darada.

00:41:08All the effort.

00:41:09The money.

00:41:10Everything went over the cliff with that car.

00:41:13Ravello.

00:41:14You forget the English are very sentimental people.

00:41:17I tell you, there is nothing that Billy's friend will not do for his widow.

00:41:21And in black, she's a very touching figure.

00:41:26Poor Maria, you really have had a wretched time with it.

00:41:31You are very understanding.

00:41:34If only there was something I could do.

00:41:37Just now, if you could bring me an aspirin.

00:41:41I have a headache.

00:41:42Don't move.

00:41:43Just you wait there.

00:41:44I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:45tusk.

00:41:51Cool.

00:41:52Usserl-ini.

00:41:53Hitler, and now Peterson.

00:41:54A great man, a great loss.

00:41:55I'm ...

00:41:56I'm going upstairs and reading my bible.

00:41:58Why all the clues?

00:42:02Maria has a headache.

00:42:06What's the matter with you?

00:42:10Go away. My dear gal, I'm sorry about Dan Ruther

00:42:14as you are, but after all, it isn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:18I was in love with him. He was a very pleasant acquaintance. What did you say?

00:42:22I was in love with him. Really, darling, having no control over your romantic fantasies.

00:42:26I loved it! Can't you hear me?

00:42:30I love you! I love you! Oh, Rost, you're just dramatising again.

00:42:34By George, you were right, after all. I did pack it.

00:42:38Oh, what shall I do?

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

00:42:46He's dead. He's dead, and I'm loved with a fool like you.

00:42:52I tell you what to do. Have a bit of shut eye.

00:42:55You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again,

00:42:57and there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:01Is this so?

00:43:03Oh, please, go away!

00:43:05I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:13Mr Chelm, this is very important for you as well as for myself.

00:43:17Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:19There is now an opportunity for you to set your enormous profits with virtually no risk.

00:43:23I won't read about the bush.

00:43:25Our papers in good work.

00:43:27For you as Billy's widow, it will be very easy to persuade his friend in British East,

00:43:31and for capital we have churned.

00:43:33Why don't you be less informed as to my interest?

00:43:35What's the matter with all of you?

00:43:49Somebody dead?

00:43:51A car. It went over a cliff.

00:43:53We thought you'd both been killed.

00:43:55Damn rather, I'm delighted to see you're alive,

00:43:57but your wife is in a fainting condition.

00:43:59Do you mean you're not dead at all?

00:44:01Obviously, I'm not dead.

00:44:03I knew you weren't dead. I knew it.

00:44:04I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:06My old Spanish nurse said if you did that, a miracle would happen.

00:44:09And you see, it has.

00:44:11Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the glad tidings.

00:44:15The captain is sober and the SS Nayanga will sail at midnight.

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

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

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

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

00:44:41I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:44:46I shall not go on board when my dispatch box has been found.

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

00:44:49I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.

00:44:51It's the second time I tell you,

00:44:53my wallet has been put in the cabin,

00:44:55and you can insist on me.

00:44:57He says he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

00:44:59Idiot!

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

00:45:04Say, look.

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

00:45:07You're giving me the fisheye all evening.

00:45:09Oh?

00:45:10What is it?

00:45:11Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead,

00:45:13I told him I was in love with you.

00:45:15You what?

00:45:16I couldn't help it.

00:45:17It made you seem less dead.

00:45:19And?

00:45:20Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:45:21He thought my nerves were upset,

00:45:23a sort of delirium.

00:45:24He thought it quite a joke,

00:45:26the idea of my inventing a love affair

00:45:28with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:45:30That's what he called you.

00:45:31Well, now that I'm back in the flesh,

00:45:33you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:45:35I suppose seeing you alive is different from thinking of you dead.

00:45:40Because Greg cooped up on that tub with a suspicious husband.

00:45:44What happened?

00:45:45Billy.

00:45:46Let's not go.

00:45:47Well, what do you mean?

00:45:48I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:45:58Now.

00:45:59What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:01What's happened to you?

00:46:02I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:03I've changed my point of view.

00:46:05I thought we'd get to Africa

00:46:06and you'd make your fortune,

00:46:07and everything would be wonderful.

00:46:08But now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:10Too many things can happen.

00:46:12I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:46:14You really mean that?

00:46:15With all my heart.

00:46:16Oh, no.

00:46:17That's impossible.

00:46:18Why?

00:46:19Well, for one thing,

00:46:20Mrs. Danruther might not go for the idea.

00:46:22Well, I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:46:23Now.

00:46:24What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:25What's happened to you?

00:46:26Why?

00:46:27Well, for one thing,

00:46:28Mrs. Danruther might not go for the idea.

00:46:29She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:46:31Please, Billy.

00:46:32Listen to me.

00:46:33I've thought it all out.

00:46:34We'll take the bus

00:46:35and catch an express for some matter.

00:46:36Oh, no.

00:46:37The shot's not.

00:46:38The shot's not on the table.

00:46:39You're not in love the way I am.

00:46:41If I loved you a thousand times more

00:46:43than you say you love me,

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

00:46:45I've got to have money.

00:46:47Doctor's orders are

00:46:48that I must have a lot of money.

00:46:49Otherwise, I become dull, listless,

00:46:51and have trouble with my complexion.

00:46:53But you're not like that now

00:46:54and you haven't any money.

00:46:55It's my expectations that hold me together.

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

00:47:00Sure, I mean it.

00:47:01And your main reason for wanting lots of money

00:47:03is so that you'll be ever so attractive

00:47:05and I'll love you more and more.

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

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

00:47:10I can, too.

00:47:11I'm something of a witch.

00:47:13My old Spanish nurse said

00:47:14I could have been a professional.

00:47:16Well, don't look now,

00:47:17but they're raising the gangway.

00:47:33The air, ozone.

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

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

00:47:38Neptune's mixture.

00:47:39Now, breathe deeply.

00:47:40Remember, every breath is a guinea in the bank of health.

00:47:50Good morning, Chell.

00:47:53Why, that's good.

00:47:54Very good, indeed.

00:47:55I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Dan Rubber.

00:47:57I'd hardly call myself that.

00:47:59I only dabble.

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

00:48:02The ears are too small.

00:48:03Only has one eye.

00:48:04Now, come along, gentlemen.

00:48:06We must not dawdle.

00:48:08Blow them down, bully, blow them down.

00:48:12Blow, blow, blow them down.

00:48:15Blow them down, bully, blow them down.

00:48:19Good morning, Mrs. Chell.

00:48:21Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:23Blow them down, bully, blow them down.

00:48:25Blow them down, bully, blow them down.

00:48:27Blow them down, bully, blow them down.

00:48:29Blow, blow, blow the man down.

00:48:31Blow the man down, blow the man down.

00:48:33Blow the man down, bully, blow the man down.

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

00:48:39Mr. Peterson, Mr. Peterson, radiogram.

00:48:59What do you make of that?

00:49:07He's not a Gloucestershire squire, like Billy said.

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

00:49:13But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:17We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:20Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:22Billy is a liar. Heaven only knows what Chelm is.

00:49:26C.I.D. maybe.

00:49:27You borrowed my thought.

00:49:29What to do? What to do?

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

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

00:49:35The fuss he was making about his dispatch box?

00:49:49I love colors.

00:49:51Working with him is an endless puzzle.

00:49:54Your face, for instance.

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

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

00:50:04What?

00:50:06Tinged with green.

00:50:09Green?

00:50:11It must be getting rough.

00:50:14Just a little.

00:50:16Don't break the pose.

00:50:18I don't feel very well.

00:50:20I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:28It's incredible.

00:50:29Harry Chelm is just...

00:50:30Just Harry Chelm?

00:50:31Nothing.

00:50:32Nobody.

00:50:33A ruddy refugee from Earl's Court.

00:50:34We'd hold a hold of bottle.

00:50:35Look.

00:50:36In the letter of introduction to the secretary of the governor.

00:50:38The secretary, mind you, disgusting.

00:50:41Purser.

00:50:43I boxed.

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

00:50:46It's gone.

00:50:47Oh, yes, indeed.

00:50:48Major Ross took it.

00:50:49I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.

00:50:51I like to keep my eye on what goes on about the ship.

00:50:54Where did he take it?

00:50:55I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.

00:50:57In fact, I'm sure.

00:50:59I'm sure.

00:51:06Ah.

00:51:09And now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:16He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:23Billy.

00:51:24Come in.

00:51:27Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:28I haven't seen the paper in days.

00:51:30It's not funny.

00:51:31They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:34Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:35That dreadful little Major.

00:51:37He took it to Peterson.

00:51:38They went through it.

00:51:39It was all your fault.

00:51:40I suppose you know that.

00:51:41My fault?

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

00:51:43All that junk about the Chelm interest in London.

00:51:46Uranium on your land.

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

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

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

00:51:54I was falling in love with you and I...

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

00:51:59Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:02The...

00:52:03The son of a what?

00:52:04A boarding house.

00:52:06That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:08They run a boarding house for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:11But the way he talks.

00:52:12The way he acts.

00:52:13I thought that...

00:52:14It's just that he sees himself in a place in the west country with trout streams and horses.

00:52:18Leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:20It's not his fault if people take it for granted that he has a place like that.

00:52:24He's never once said that he had.

00:52:26Country gent.

00:52:27Son of a boarding house of whatever he is.

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

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

00:52:32Then there's no harm done.

00:52:33Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:52:35He's going to have them put in irons.

00:52:37He is what?

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

00:52:41Look, Herr Skipper, there's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.

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

00:52:48When I didn't find it in my cabin, I asked Major Ross to see if it had been stowed away somewhere else by mistake.

00:52:53The Major found what he thought was my box in the saloon with some other luggage.

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

00:52:59Under the berth.

00:53:00As soon as I saw the box, of course, I realized at once that it wasn't mine.

00:53:03I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged,

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

00:53:08I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine I should be interested in a box containing patent medicines.

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

00:53:17Purser, tell the captain exactly what you told me about the box.

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

00:53:23and I said it might be the one I'd seen being carried along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:27You distinctly told me that you'd seen it being taken from my cabin.

00:53:30Oh, you must have misunderstood.

00:53:33You were rather ill at that time, if you remember, sir.

00:53:36That's the old person.

00:53:37He's been bribed.

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

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

00:53:43That's how I look at it.

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

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

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

00:53:49And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.

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

00:53:53I feel certain that you must have noticed I had a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Governor.

00:53:57I suspect he'll be much more interested in what I have to say than this gin-soaked, so-called ship's captain.

00:54:02You mind, Dr. Tang?

00:54:03Anyone else?

00:54:04The other one I put in my hands.

00:54:09As far as I'm concerned, this is a close incident.

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

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

00:54:19What possible interest do you expect the Colonial Office to take?

00:54:22On the contrary, I expect them to show considerable interest in a gang of crooks

00:54:25who are trying to swindle the country out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:37Just one moment, sir.

00:54:39What leads you to believe?

00:54:41This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit to inform you

00:54:43that during your supposed demise,

00:54:45he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.

00:54:47Unfortunately for you, he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts,

00:54:51facts which I intend to communicate to the proper authority

00:54:53at the very earliest opportunity.

00:54:57I thought you were dead.

00:54:58That's what they told me.

00:54:59Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:01And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:04Didn't we?

00:55:05You, Ravello, my own partner,

00:55:08sneak up behind my back and try to cheat me.

00:55:11The milk's spilt.

00:55:12It's no good crying over it.

00:55:13Get after him, Billy.

00:55:14Calm him down.

00:55:15Talk to him.

00:55:16See if you can't get him to change his attitude.

00:55:18I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:20I don't know why we have to worry about Chelm's attitude.

00:55:22Talk's no good.

00:55:23Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:25I say put an end to words.

00:55:26Shut up, Jack.

00:55:27Time factor has entered the picture again.

00:55:30This time, fortunately, it's working on our side.

00:55:32Two weeks before we reach port.

00:55:34That should be plenty of time to convince our friend Chelm.

00:55:37I beg you.

00:55:39Please end all this trouble.

00:55:41If things go on, either you will be done away with

00:55:44before we ever get to Africa,

00:55:46or you will leave and denounce Peterson to the authorities.

00:55:49And that will be the ruin of all my plans and hopes.

00:55:53In the long run, you'll do much better to get clear of these people.

00:55:55They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:55:57The long run.

00:55:58I'm tired of the long run.

00:56:00I am not even thinking about them or about myself.

00:56:04It's only you that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:07No need to worry about me.

00:56:09Ever since I met you,

00:56:11you feel my thinking.

00:56:13You are becoming an obsession.

00:56:16Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:19I am deeply in love.

00:56:22Maria.

00:56:24My dear.

00:56:39Only you could make a woman feel like this.

00:56:44All I want is to be in your arms now and always.

00:56:49You forget I'm going to be done away with.

00:56:52Oh, no, no.

00:56:53It will be easy to arrange.

00:56:54What you must do is this.

00:56:56You will write me a letter.

00:56:57A love letter.

00:56:59You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson,

00:57:02because then I will suffer too.

00:57:04Because you love me so much,

00:57:07you cannot bear to hurt me.

00:57:10Such a letter they will believe if I show it to them.

00:57:13My dear girl, you must see that this is quite out of the question.

00:57:16I don't propose to make compromises.

00:57:18Not compromises, Harry, darling.

00:57:21But you can see if you cause trouble the whole of our plans,

00:57:24my plans,

00:57:28you would not want to make the innocent suffer.

00:57:32It will be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:34I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:36Then you intend to go ahead with this business,

00:57:39tell stories and ruin everything.

00:57:41It will be much better if you cut loose from these people.

00:57:43No happiness can come from such an association.

00:57:45Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.

00:57:48Please, write a letter.

00:57:50Then there will be no trouble for you,

00:57:52no trouble for us,

00:57:53no risk when we get to Africa.

00:57:55I'm sorry, my dear.

00:57:56We English are a very pig-headed lot.

00:57:58You think you can get away with this?

00:58:00But Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.

00:58:03First you made love to me.

00:58:04Now you tell me you will ruin me.

00:58:06You'll forgive me, but it was you who made...

00:58:08Oh, shut your trap.

00:58:09Go on, do what you like.

00:58:11You think you're such a brave man.

00:58:13I'll tell you what you are.

00:58:15You are a heel.

00:58:17The blazes now.

00:58:21What's happening?

00:58:22What's going on here?

00:58:23The iron pumps on the bling.

00:58:24The electricity's failed.

00:58:25What's our folly?

00:58:26A ship lying in darkness this way?

00:58:27We might well be rammed at any minute.

00:58:29I'll tend to this myself.

00:58:30Which way is the engine room?

00:58:31The passengers are not...

00:58:32I'm sure your chief engineer will welcome the advice

00:58:34of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:58:36I'll call your flight.

00:58:37At least, your phone doesn't ruin everything.

00:58:39No.

00:58:40No!

00:58:41No!

00:58:42No.

00:58:43No!

00:58:44No!

00:58:46No!

00:58:47No.

00:58:48No!

00:58:50No!

00:58:51No!

00:58:52Look here, you fool.

00:58:53Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:58:54I insist on something being done.

00:58:55For instance?

00:58:56Well, give out the life-belts.

00:58:57Organize the boat drill.

00:58:58We've organized the boat drill.

00:59:00The clientele are requested to remain calm.

00:59:02To remain calm? Does the captain feel no central responsibility for the lives of his passengers?

00:59:06It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.

00:59:09You mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:11The fellow ought to be made to walk the plank.

00:59:13I'm afraid just now he cannot walk at all.

00:59:15This is outrageous.

00:59:16Come on, old man. What have you got to worry about?

00:59:18We're only adrift in an open sea with a drunken captain and engine that's liable to explode at any moment.

00:59:23Perfectly ordinary situation. Happens every day.

00:59:26But just in case any of you are still at all anxious, let it be known that Mr. Chelm has taken charge in the engine room.

00:59:33Who's taken charge?

00:59:35Harry, and he'll fool's lit for sure.

00:59:37Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:39Your husband claims to have learned all about engines and such things when he was an officer in the Royal Marines.

00:59:45If he ever was.

00:59:47In point of fact, not only was he an officer, but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire to rescue someone.

00:59:53He's only a bit of wreckage and not a man, but that wasn't Harry's fault.

00:59:57Just a slight error in judgment.

01:00:01Oh, the lights, they come on.

01:00:04He must have fixed it.

01:00:06Impossible. The engines are turning.

01:00:08We are underway.

01:00:09I still say it's impossible.

01:00:11Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:16I'm happy to inform you that the oil pump is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:20Putting it right was no great accomplishment for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:23Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay and in absolute safety.

01:00:27Oh, Harry, you did. You did. You fools of it.

01:00:32You fools of it.

01:00:33I've been you wrecked my ship.

01:00:34Where is he?

01:00:35I'm there on this ship.

01:00:36I can't tell forward to him.

01:00:38Yes, he wants to see you.

01:00:39There you are.

01:00:40You devil.

01:00:41You wrecked me a beautiful ship.

01:00:42Nothing of the sort.

01:00:43Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work out of pure malice.

01:00:47You explode my hands and I'll keep your head down.

01:00:49I'll hold my hands quick, little gentleman.

01:00:51Stay out of this down, mother.

01:00:53I can handle the boat.

01:00:54What's happens now?

01:00:56Do we get the life of bears?

01:00:58Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:00There's no immediate danger.

01:01:02The passengers will please to return to the saloon.

01:01:04We're heading for the nearest port

01:01:06and there seems to be some chance of our making.

01:01:13Come along.

01:01:18Now, who was last down?

01:01:20Last.

01:01:24Billy boy, be a good fellow and make a fourth of the bridge.

01:01:27The Major has no head for cards.

01:01:29A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:31Oh, thank you.

01:01:32I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:33In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:34No ice, no water.

01:01:35That's it.

01:01:36How about you, Pierre, Mrs. Dadrubber?

01:01:38Little bridge?

01:01:39Oh, so sorry.

01:01:40I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:43I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:48Oh, what a shame.

01:01:49Well, boys, we'll have to make it cutthroat.

01:01:51What about Harry here?

01:01:52Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:01:53That, under the circumstances, is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:01:57Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table

01:01:59or else leave the saloon.

01:02:01Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:03I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.

01:02:06Don't be absurd.

01:02:07Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:08He's the best friend we have on this boat.

01:02:10We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:12You don't need any friends you can get.

01:02:14The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits.

01:02:17That's not my idea of adequate protection.

01:02:20Purser, how much longer before this ship reaches port?

01:02:23If we ever do get to port, it should be within 14 or 15 hours.

01:02:27That's a long time.

01:02:28Sit down.

01:02:29Make yourself comfortable.

01:02:30Have a drink.

01:02:31Enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:33Come on, Peterson.

01:02:34Buy us a drink.

01:02:35I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality from persons whom I intend in a few hours' time

01:02:40to denounce in a place of justice.

01:02:42Two spades.

01:02:43I admire your sans-froid, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:46Or perhaps you don't think I'm serious.

01:02:48We shall see.

01:02:49Sweet crabs.

01:02:51Gwendolyn, are you going to do as I say?

01:02:54Not when you speak to me in that tone.

01:02:56Not when you try to order me about.

01:02:58In that case...

01:02:59Where are you going?

01:03:00On deck, where the air is less polluted.

01:03:03Come on.

01:03:09Burser.

01:03:10Four tonics.

01:03:11I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:13Why should I?

01:03:14If he's going to be so childish and unreasonable.

01:03:16Take my advice.

01:03:17Go to him.

01:03:18Stay with him.

01:03:19I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.

01:03:22The loyal wife at her husband's side.

01:03:24No, Billy.

01:03:26I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.

01:03:29I shall not deny it.

01:03:30Either by word or by deed.

01:03:32I love you.

01:03:33Let the whole world know it.

01:03:35I love you.

01:03:36I love you.

01:03:37Keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.

01:03:39Why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?

01:03:41He's being such a deadly bore tonight.

01:03:43Deadly, but not dead.

01:03:44Not yet.

01:03:45What do you mean?

01:03:47They killed one man just because they thought he might try to get in their way.

01:03:50Now, handsome Harry is certain to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:03:53They killed a man?

01:03:55Really?

01:03:56Who?

01:03:57Just a man.

01:03:58Well, for all Harry's being too, too tiresome and my loving you to distraction, I still wouldn't want to see him done in.

01:04:08He has some perfectly darling traits, really.

01:04:11I mean, like always remembering one's birthday.

01:04:14No, we simply mustn't let anybody murder Harry.

01:04:16Headline, keep him in your cabin.

01:04:18Never let him out of your sight.

01:04:19Keep him under lock and key.

01:04:23Oh, Billy, that awful music.

01:04:26It's so loud.

01:04:27It comes right into our cabin.

01:04:29Peterson, tell the major to saw a peddler.

01:04:32And while he's about it, he might change the tune.

01:04:35Oh, don't you like it?

01:04:36It's one of my favorites.

01:04:37I'm afraid he doesn't know any others.

01:04:39Do you, Jack?

01:04:43Oh.

01:04:50Major.

01:05:07Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:23One down.

01:05:28Captain!

01:05:29Captain!

01:05:37What happened?

01:05:46Oh, Billy.

01:05:47All that screaming.

01:05:48I thought someone had been killed.

01:05:50Someone nearly was.

01:05:51Indeed they were.

01:05:52Look at the major.

01:05:53Better get a new act, Peterson.

01:05:54The curtain's going down on this one.

01:05:55Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:05:57The passengers break the engine.

01:05:58They beat each other to feed.

01:05:59They throw each other overboard.

01:06:01That man attacked me.

01:06:02Ah, you!

01:06:03You again!

01:06:04If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:06He came sneaking up behind me and tried to run me through with his sword.

01:06:09Is that true?

01:06:10Well...

01:06:11It's no use, Billy.

01:06:12My trying to protect Harry any further.

01:06:15I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:18Captain, it grieves me to confess this.

01:06:21But in point of fact, my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:06:25The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:06:28On occasion, he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:06:31The psychiatrists say it's because he believes people are plotting against him.

01:06:35And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:06:38Friendly!

01:06:39For heaven's sake, woman!

01:06:40What's the meaning of this treachery?

01:06:42Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:06:44He knows!

01:06:45He saved my life!

01:06:46He'll tell the truth!

01:06:47I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:06:49You're acting by ship!

01:06:50You're trying to kill the passengers!

01:06:52But I'm not going to say he's first off this ship!

01:06:54Let's fight against me!

01:06:55Let me go!

01:06:56I'll kill the none of you!

01:06:57I've warned you, Captain!

01:06:59Poor Harry.

01:07:00It's awfully sad.

01:07:01We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:03Take your hooligans off!

01:07:05How dare you lay hands on me!

01:07:07You hooligans!

01:07:08I'll have you put in irons!

01:07:09You'll be the ones in irons!

01:07:11Good, good!

01:07:12We'll have no trouble from you!

01:07:14Scum!

01:07:16Mongrels!

01:07:17I'll bring you the book!

01:07:19Every one of you!

01:07:20Every mad jack of you!

01:07:24After all, it was the only solution.

01:07:26Harry's safely locked in his cabin

01:07:28where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:07:31On the other hand,

01:07:32he can't say or do anything now

01:07:34to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:07:36I mean, the authorities would hardly listen

01:07:38to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:07:40Well, they won't even let him off the boat.

01:07:43Well, in that case, he'll just have to stay shut up

01:07:46for a few weeks.

01:07:47It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?

01:07:49Yes, but after you've amassed

01:07:52all those African millions,

01:07:54we'll make it up to him.

01:07:55We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire

01:07:58with some rough shooting

01:08:00and a trout stream like he's always wanted.

01:08:03Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:05She seems to have a very real feeling

01:08:08for English country life.

01:08:10And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:12Especially us, Billy.

01:08:16Board stations, everyone.

01:08:17Prepare to abandon ship.

01:08:18What's going on?

01:08:19I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:21Board station, everybody.

01:08:22Load your license.

01:08:24We're sinking.

01:08:27Harry!

01:08:28Harry, open the door.

01:08:29You must.

01:08:30The ship's sinking.

01:08:31Let's sink it.

01:08:32Susan!

01:08:33That's sinking!

01:08:35That's sinking!

01:08:37That's sinking!

01:08:41Why do you not do anything like this?

01:08:43Will it be tua?

01:08:44You must TP add me up or whatever.

01:08:46Who's you not feeling?

01:08:47Come on, I did my Nana!

01:08:48Oh, come on.

01:08:49Up, he's got HK!

01:08:50Go Ha, got hakk.

01:08:51Okay, but now i don't know.

01:08:52Bye!

01:08:53Bye!

01:08:54If TP came up or something

01:08:56comes SAMACKSimo!

01:08:58Stay tuned!

01:09:00Stay tuned!

01:09:03What's going on, you won the best part?

01:09:07Stay tuned!

01:09:09Stay tuned!

01:09:11Don't worry.

01:09:13Everything's going on, good luck.

01:09:15Let's go!

01:09:17Don't know?

01:09:19Come on!

01:09:21Rest, wait for me!

01:09:23Get back!

01:09:25Stay tuned!

01:09:27Resto! Resto!

01:09:29Portatela giù!

01:09:31Sbrigatemi! Sbrigatemi!

01:09:33Ballo! Ballo!

01:09:35Giù!

01:09:41Resto! Resto!

01:09:43Resto! Resto!

01:09:45Never atentela giù!

01:09:51We can't.

01:09:53We simply can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry.

01:09:56Maybe we'll run across him out there.

01:09:58He's a strong plimmer, isn't he?

01:10:00I don't say we will, but it's possible.

01:10:02Anything possible.

01:10:16Harry!

01:10:23Harry!

01:10:26Come here!

01:10:28We can't.

01:10:30Black.

01:10:32Can't.

01:10:34To be back, could you see me?

01:10:36I can't see you see me.

01:10:38Here, Harry.

01:10:40Let's go.

01:10:41I want them.

01:10:42I want them.

01:10:44Let's go.

01:10:46I want them.

01:10:48where do you suppose we are Africa what part of Africa yes that's important what part not a bad

01:11:06place to land no customs no forms to fill out tell us at once where we are it's important I know

01:11:11you mean to say there are parts of the dark continent where you won't be received like

01:11:14the prodigal son Arlio what's that Arlio better get down everybody get rid of your passport boys

01:11:29mrs. tell Billy boy my identity must remain a seat

01:11:44mrs. I'm going to. Oh

01:11:49I'm not I'm not. Oh

01:11:51you're not I'm not. I'm out.

01:11:56Oh

01:11:59Oh

01:12:01yeah

01:12:03yeah

01:12:06Oh

01:12:08yeah

01:12:11Cut them off the bat!

01:12:19Arlio, what's that?

01:12:20It was a company that sold arms to the Arab legions.

01:12:23Wait a minute. That rings a bell.

01:12:25Some of the equipment we sold that was defective.

01:12:28Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:31The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:12:35For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:12:38I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:12:41Come on!

01:12:43Come on!

01:12:44Come on!

01:12:45Come on!

01:12:46Come on!

01:12:47Come on!

01:12:48Come on!

01:12:49Come on!

01:12:50Come on!

01:12:51Come on!

01:12:52Come on!

01:12:53Come on!

01:12:54Come on!

01:12:55Come on!

01:12:56Come on!

01:12:57Come on!

01:12:58Come on!

01:12:59Come on!

01:13:00Come on!

01:13:01Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:13:03Why, it's simply...

01:13:05Shocking.

01:13:06Harry wouldn't have let them do it.

01:13:08He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:10I have a sense of survival.

01:13:12Billy, what is going to happen?

01:13:14Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:16Just let them try it.

01:13:18I'm a British subject.

01:13:19I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:13:20We shipwreck.

01:13:21Big boat.

01:13:22Go down.

01:13:23Bottom ocean.

01:13:24We take...

01:13:25Little boat.

01:13:26Row all day.

01:13:27Row all night.

01:13:28Savvy?

01:13:29There's only one way to deal with his swine.

01:13:30I don't know.

01:13:31We shipwreck.

01:13:32Big boat.

01:13:33Go down.

01:13:34Bottom ocean.

01:13:35We take...

01:13:36Little boat.

01:13:37Row all day.

01:13:38Row all night.

01:13:40We shipwreck, big boat, go down, bottom ocean.

01:13:47We take little boat, row all day, row all night.

01:13:55Savvy?

01:13:56There's only one way to deal with these swine.

01:13:58Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.

01:14:00Show them who's boss right away.

01:14:02We sight land, your land.

01:14:05Praise Allah.

01:14:08Come ashore, suddenly boom, boom, boom.

01:14:13No good way to treat shipwreck, people.

01:14:16You will please to hand over your passports.

01:14:38There seem to be four missing.

01:14:40Will those who have not handed over their passports hold up their hands?

01:14:50All left on board ship, your excellency.

01:14:53A terrifying experience.

01:14:55An incompetent crew, a burning ship, put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

01:15:00What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:02The SS Nianga.

01:15:03She's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:04I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:08Well, does it stand to reason, your excellency, we should come to this shore in a small boat if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:14Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:17Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:18Agents of certain foreign governments sometimes try to enter it by staff, hoping to fend the flames of revolution.

01:15:28Therefore, we check carefully on the activities of strangers.

01:15:33Surely, your excellency, in our case, one look is sufficient to convince you of our innocence.

01:15:48No. One look is not enough.

01:16:04If you think we're the enemies of your country, the logical thing is to boot us out.

01:16:08Send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:11We shan't object. We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:14Where is elsewhere?

01:16:16Central Africa.

01:16:18And what sort of business?

01:16:20Vacuum cleaners.

01:16:22Sewing machines.

01:16:23Ah, yes.

01:16:25Businessmen.

01:16:26All going to Central Africa to sell vacuum cleaners.

01:16:30Hut to hut, I suppose.

01:16:33And you, sir, take it as the head salesman.

01:16:36The ringleader of this group.

01:16:39No, no group.

01:16:41We met for the first time on board ship.

01:16:43Complete strangers to one another.

01:16:45Liar!

01:16:47The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:16:50I am a keen observer.

01:16:52You four are together.

01:16:54Oh, no, my fat gutted friend.

01:16:56I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native you're fool enough to take me for.

01:17:01I am a great man.

01:17:02A serious man.

01:17:03I spit on you, too.

01:17:05I spit on you, too.

01:17:06I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:08Off to the wrong start, Peterson.

01:17:10There's only one way to deal with these.

01:17:11Spine!

01:17:12Spine!

01:17:13Spine!

01:17:14Spine!

01:17:15Spine!

01:17:16You'd better be careful.

01:17:17Spine!

01:17:18My husband, my late husband, who was drowned in the Niagara disaster, happened to be one

01:17:22of the most important figures in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:26In point of fact, we had letters from the Prime Minister and the Queen telling everybody

01:17:30to be particularly courteous to us and our friends.

01:17:34So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands, it will become a major international incident.

01:17:40Would you instruct that one?

01:17:42That in my country, a female's leaves may move, but her words are not heard.

01:17:48Oh, Harry, Harry.

01:17:51If only you were here.

01:17:55And now, sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence and tell me who you really are and what is

01:18:02your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:05I'm a sick man.

01:18:06I've got a bad heart.

01:18:07I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:08You refuse to answer.

01:18:10That is interesting.

01:18:11It makes of it a contest.

01:18:13A contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:17We of this country have had 4,000 years' experience in asking questions and getting answers.

01:18:24Who are you?

01:18:25Why are you here?

01:18:26Don't hit me again.

01:18:27My heart, I have an attack.

01:18:31All right.

01:18:32My heart, I have an attack.

01:18:34All right.

01:18:35All right, go ahead.

01:18:49All right.

01:18:50All right.

01:18:52of course billy's led a thoroughly decadent life must say i thought he had more backbone than that

01:19:06backbone either you have it or you haven't you see the beating i took at the hands of

01:19:11that great ugly brute without even flinching billy was crazed with fear before they even

01:19:16made a finger on him tell me more about rita hayward you really know her very well do i know rita do i

01:19:26know her i'll give you a letter of introduction she'll fall an immediate victim to your charms

01:19:31you really think so oh but certainly a man like you suave intelligent darkly handsome

01:19:39you have everything i'm at except money and if you listen to me a boat will be placed at our

01:19:46disposal a very slow boat so that fat cut's check will have plenty of time to clear and you will

01:19:51trust me for your share does one man of the world ask another to trust his own brother oh no ahmed

01:19:59you give me a check for half your demands are very great under the circumstances why shouldn't they be

01:20:06fat cut's my best friend i will not betray him cheaply you are certain that you are the friend

01:20:12of the peerless reed come come ahmed mine back to business very well 50 50. oh by the way fat cut's

01:20:22nature is noble like ours he might try to bargain i do not bargain with a puff ball like that it's beneath

01:20:28my dignity it'll be dawn soon the correct hour for a firing squad but if we have him shot what about

01:20:37the money well i was just thinking that if he had a volley at the psychological moment

01:20:42he might not be so inclined to haggle i believe you must have arab blood westerners are not usually so

01:20:50subtle

01:20:53so

01:21:02where are you taking me i won't go i demand to see a doctor would you say that in paris

01:21:12among smart people the rolls royce or the cadillac is considered more chic

01:21:20well that's no problem no problem at all a man in your position should have both

01:21:33mr donna rather i believe would like a word with you billy sit down peterson

01:21:40i've been talking to ahmed here and uh

01:22:01i can't pay

01:22:02what was that firing squad it's execution day

01:22:15will he take a check

01:22:32what's going on

01:22:41what's going on

01:22:46Billy! Look!

01:22:48Zidane!

01:22:55Stay away! Stay away from my ship!

01:22:58If you try to come aboard, I will shoot you!

01:23:01I will shoot you! Get my gun! Get my gun!

01:23:06Give it to him. Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:23:08My gun! My gun!

01:23:16Excuse me. Are you Mr. William Danruther?

01:23:18That's right. I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.

01:23:20I'm sorry. Not now.

01:23:22Forgive me, but it's rather important.

01:23:24Yes, it always is. I was a newspaper man myself once.

01:23:27Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic

01:23:29except Mrs. Danruther, who ate all our boots.

01:23:31Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:33Oh?

01:23:34I'm not a reporter.

01:23:35Oh?

01:23:36I'm not a reporter.

01:23:37I'm not a reporter.

01:23:38I'm not a reporter.

01:23:39I'm not a reporter.

01:23:40I'm not a reporter.

01:23:41I'm not a reporter.

01:23:43Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:45Oh?

01:23:46Jack.

01:23:47Go 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 and tell him

01:23:53if he kicks other people off the plane, we'll make it worth his while.

01:23:56I always said, we ought to take a plane.

01:23:58You remember I said that, Mr. Horrood?

01:24:00I said, we ought to take a plane.

01:24:01Mustn't dawdle with you, boy.

01:24:02Great deal to do. Not much time.

01:24:04Those of the other members of your party?

01:24:05Yes.

01:24:06I'd like to talk with them, too.

01:24:07Well, what's it all about?

01:24:09I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Mier, now deceased.

01:24:12Pearson, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:17The gentleman here wants to speak to you,

01:24:19a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:21You think your wine here or upstairs, Mr. Dan?

01:24:24No, we'll have it here.

01:24:25Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:27No, thanks. It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:29I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man never accepts a drink

01:24:32from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:34Is that true, Mr. Clayton?

01:24:35Quite true.

01:24:36Mrs. Danruther?

01:24:37No, I'm Mrs. Chown.

01:24:39This is Mrs. Danruther.

01:24:42Oh, how do you do?

01:24:43Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies,

01:24:45so perhaps I'll have a glass of bubbly after all.

01:24:48Peterson, how do you do, sir?

01:24:51How do you do?

01:24:52Ravello.

01:24:53And Mr. O'Hara.

01:24:56O'Hara.

01:24:57Julius O'Hara.

01:24:58Delighted.

01:24:59I'm the one to be delighted.

01:25:00It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:25:03That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:05You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:08I've spent quite a lot of money,

01:25:10and my chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends,

01:25:13particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:16Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Van Muir murder case.

01:25:19The Van Muir murder case?

01:25:21Oh, yes, yes.

01:25:22That fellow in the colonial office.

01:25:24Yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:25It was a shocking affair.

01:25:27According to Mr. Van Muir's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,

01:25:30you had lunch with him at the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:33That's quite correct.

01:25:35Mr. Van Muir was an expert on African matters.

01:25:38We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:41Do you recall the subject under discussion?

01:25:43Vaguely.

01:25:44Crop yield.

01:25:45The native labour situation.

01:25:47Inches of rain.

01:25:48Vaccination.

01:25:49Shorts.

01:25:50How long did you know Mr. Van Muir?

01:25:52A couple of months.

01:25:53We met half a dozen times.

01:25:55Did he ever make mention of any enemies?

01:25:57Business or otherwise?

01:25:58Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:26:00I mean, did he name any women?

01:26:02No.

01:26:03I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:26:05Mr. Van Muir struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:08Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:10Well, that's all.

01:26:12Unless somebody has anything further to add.

01:26:14Mr. Luetta.

01:26:15I have.

01:26:21I think you ought to know that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.

01:26:27I beg your pardon?

01:26:29Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:31I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Van Muir person.

01:26:34I assure you, however, he attempted to murder my husband with a long, thin dagger,

01:26:39which he always carried about in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:43Go on, Mrs. Cho.

01:26:44You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:50One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:52My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:55Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire.

01:26:58Involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:27:02And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away.

01:27:05Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:27:07That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:10Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:12More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:14No, thank you.

01:27:32As I said before, very smart fellows indeed.

01:27:40Should you ever think of me in Earl's court?

01:27:43That's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodges.

01:27:46Should you ever think of me?

01:27:48Try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:52You kiss her too, Billy.

01:27:54And tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:56Sure, sure.

01:27:57Goodbye, Billy.

01:27:59Goodbye.

01:28:00Poor Mrs. Chelm just came on the ship's wireless.

01:28:07Oh, by the way, Mr. Danrada,

01:28:10do you know that your associates are all in whose gown?

01:28:14Oh, not that I'm a bit surprised.

01:28:16I put them down as thoroughly bad characters, right off the bat.

01:28:20But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:23Take mine for instance.

01:28:25Harry!

01:28:27He's alive!

01:28:29He's alive!

01:28:30He's alive!

01:28:32Oh!

01:28:33Oh!

01:28:34Oh!

01:28:35Oh!

01:28:36Oh, my God.

01:29:06Oh, this is the end.

01:29:12The end.

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