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A freak accident leads to the discovery of a drug smuggling ring, which leads to John Drake posing as one of the smugglers.
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00:00THE END
00:30Doctor?
00:35Cocaine?
00:39Yes, sir.
00:44I'm sorry.
00:47I'm sorry.
00:50I'm sorry.
00:53I'm sorry.
00:55I'm sorry.
00:59Cocaine.
01:12Every government has its secret service branch.
01:15America at CIA, France, Dezien Bureau, England, MI5.
01:20A messy job?
01:22Well, that's when they usually call on me or someone like me.
01:25Oh, yes.
01:26My name is Drake.
01:28John Drake.
01:47Hello, Drake.
01:49Glad you could make it.
01:50Thanks for remembering me, Colonel.
01:51Well, I knew how you felt about this sort of thing.
01:54Might be a chance to hit back.
01:55Unadulterated.
01:56$50,000 worth.
01:58This is the jacket.
02:00There's no reason why it shouldn't work, is there?
02:02Well, not till they open it.
02:04You must keep them from doing that as long as possible.
02:07Uh, who is he?
02:08Angelo Rossi.
02:09Longshoreman.
02:10Any previous record?
02:12Oh, a couple of small wraps.
02:14Petty theft.
02:15Nothing in narcotics before.
02:16What exactly happened?
02:17A packing case fell off a sling.
02:19He was standing right under it.
02:20Accident?
02:21Yes.
02:22He was unconscious when they brought him in.
02:24There was a tear in a jacket.
02:25A nurse discovered it.
02:26And he has no idea that we're onto him?
02:28Nope.
02:29Hello, how is he?
02:30Can he talk?
02:31Sure.
02:32He keeps on asking for his clothes.
02:33Much damage?
02:34No, I've got him well strapped up.
02:35He'll be on his back a few days.
02:37Oh, keep him like that.
02:38Make him think he's really sick.
02:39We want as much time as we can get.
02:41Oh, by the way, have you got a spare one of these outfits?
02:43Oh, yes, sir.
02:44Thanks very much.
02:45Um, what ship was he working on?
02:47Italian.
02:48The Caponero.
02:49When did she sail?
02:50She sailed.
02:51She's due in Genoa on the 17th.
02:53This jacket must have belonged to one of the crew.
02:55Except that they say Rossi always wore a quilted jacket.
02:58Oh, that jacket belonged to one of the crew.
03:00Rossi went aboard with an identical jacket.
03:02Somehow they changed over accidentally on purpose.
03:05It could be a regular arrangement.
03:06Yeah.
03:07They could be doing it on more than one ship.
03:09We think that the Genoa end is all controlled by one big operator.
03:13We can't put a finger on him, but we figure he's somebody pretty high up in the social swim.
03:17Very important man.
03:18You're, um, hamstrung politically, aren't you, Colonel?
03:21In this particular instance, I'd like to operate independently if you've got no objection.
03:25If I find this gentleman, even if his blood is, uh, navy blue, he'll still get the full treatment from me.
03:30Oh, thanks.
03:31I hope so, too.
03:32Thanks.
03:33Um, may I see Rossi?
03:34Oh, sure.
03:35Thank you, Colonel.
03:36Come on.
03:41How are you feeling?
03:42Oh, a whole lot better, Doc.
03:43You have to take it easy for a day or two, you know.
03:45Now, we keep these for you till you get up.
03:47Put them in a locker for you.
03:48Just check the list here and see that everything's there.
03:50Oh, yeah.
03:51Let me see.
03:54Ah, let's, uh, have a pencil, Doc.
03:57Uh, could you get a message through to my folks for me?
03:59Sure.
04:00Tell him, Angelo says, uh, everything's okay.
04:02Not to worry.
04:03See him as soon as I get out of here.
04:04All right.
04:05Is that all?
04:06Oh, sure thing.
04:07Totally I will understand.
04:08All right.
04:09You take it easy now.
04:10Have a good rest.
04:12I flew to Rome and caught the Rapido up to Genoa.
04:15I rented myself a room in the lower town.
04:18It may not have been the last thing in luxury,
04:21but it had a view of the berth where the Caponero would dock,
04:24and it was good enough for an out-of-work deckhand.
04:26And now there was nothing to do but wait.
04:29The ship was not due in until that evening.
04:44It was midnight before the crew started to come ashore.
04:52There was my man at deckhand off the Caponero,
04:55in an identical quilted jacket.
04:57So my hunch was right.
04:58The exchange had been made in New York.
05:00Now I'd stick with him.
05:02See where he led me.
05:03Dalla mamma accompagnata,
05:08na jaquetta galanata,
05:10na petilia ricamata,
05:12na gannella cremesina,
05:15e di egli occhi e tianentà.
05:24E la bella Sorrentina, la centellia nomena.
05:30E la bella Sorrentina, la centellia nomena.
05:35E la bella Sorrentina, la centellia nomena.
05:39La centellia nomena.
05:46E la cocaina.
05:51Sailor.
05:52I've got an objai dire here.
05:54Go away.
05:55Your watch 36 jewels, seven rubies genuine.
05:58No, Peter, get lost.
06:0010,000 lire is dirt cheap, huh?
06:02I said get lost.
06:03There's no need to get nasty.
06:05I'd mark the jacket.
06:07I'd know if it was changed again.
06:09Maybe someone was making a date for my sailor friend
06:12to collect a $50,000 consignment of cocaine.
06:28If it wasn't, I'd love the most beautiful love
06:33But the most beautiful love
06:37And I'd love the most beautiful love
06:53The switch had been made already.
06:55How many men changed jackets in that gay little cafe
06:58in a year?
06:59How many ports did they sail to?
07:01With how many grams of cocaine to enslave their victims?
07:04First, I must have that jacket.
07:28It was way too much for me to take care of myself.
07:29I'd love the değildies.
07:30I'm asking you to stay away.
07:31You're lying, I'm waiting for the tools of my wife.
07:33You're lying, I'm not sure.
07:34You're lying, I'm not sure.
07:35You're lying in my way.
07:36I'm lying in my chair.
07:37You're lying, you're lying.
07:38I'm lying, I'm lying, I'm lying.
07:39It's not just a shame.
07:40Let's go.
08:10It's a beautiful blonde. Maybe she asked me for a date.
08:40Hello, my friend.
09:00I'd like to make yourself some money.
09:02See this little dog?
09:06You take it along to that door there, see?
09:08Inside is a sailor.
09:09Just come ashore.
09:10He got lots of money.
09:11He may like to buy it for his girlfriend.
09:12And what's I should ask, eh?
09:13Ask 20, but don't take less than 10.
09:16All right.
09:16Hey, what are you doing with that?
09:25He's a nice dog.
09:25He's a nice dog.
09:25He's a nice dog.
09:25He's a nice dog.
09:26What do you mean I want to buy?
09:28He's mine.
09:30She's stealing my dog.
09:31I wasn't wasting any more time on the sailor.
09:40He was just a carrier.
09:42I was after the power behind the organization.
09:45I wanted action.
09:46And it seemed the best way to get it would be to walk back into that cafe wearing the quilted jacket.
09:51Hey, something wrong?
09:54No.
09:56Who are you?
09:57What do you want?
09:58I want a drink.
09:59Oh, I'm closing up.
10:00It's a cold night, though, isn't it?
10:03It's a nice warm jacket you got there.
10:05Yeah.
10:09I like to have a jacket like that.
10:12Where do you get it, huh?
10:13No, you are.
10:14How about that drink, huh?
10:17Sure.
10:18Sure.
10:21You pay me now, eh?
10:27I want a closer, too.
10:38You drink up and get out of here now, huh?
10:39Yeah.
10:40I'm talking a bit of business first, huh?
10:41What kind of business?
10:43Fying and selling.
10:43I got pretty good contacts in New York for a certain type of merchandise.
10:47Look, I'm tired.
10:48I want to go to bed.
10:49You come back in the morning.
10:50We talk.
10:50No, no, no.
10:52Come on.
10:52You get out of here.
10:52I'm sorry.
10:53You looking for trouble?
10:54No.
10:55No.
10:59Say no more, huh?
11:00If I see you or if I don't see you, it makes no difference to me.
11:04I wondered why he'd let me go so easily.
11:07Now I knew.
11:09He'd fixed my drink.
11:10I heard them following me along the street.
11:13There was nothing I could do about it.
11:15How are you feeling?
11:31How are you feeling?
11:35What happened?
11:37You were in a fight.
11:41Maybe this will help you.
11:43How did I...
11:45How did I get here?
11:47My husband brought you.
11:49You were in a fight on the waterfront.
11:51Where's my jacket? What happened to it?
11:53They said you had a stolen jacket.
11:57They took it?
11:59My husband could stop them.
12:01You were lying unconscious in the gutter.
12:03He could not just leave you there.
12:09Thank you, Maria. You can go back to bed.
12:11I shall not need you again.
12:13I am up now.
12:17The coffee is strong. It will do you good.
12:19Thank you very much.
12:21How long have I been here, ma'am?
12:25Two. Nearly three hours.
12:31Are you feeling all right?
12:33That's good coffee.
12:35What is your name?
12:37Why are you in general?
12:39You are not Italian.
12:41Let's just say that I...
12:43I miss my boat and leave it at that.
12:47It is unpleasant to remember.
12:49Oh, what's the good anyway?
12:51I hit the bottle too much.
12:53The skipper paid me off in Naples a month ago.
12:57Why...
12:59Why did you take the jacket?
13:01It gets cold at nights down there.
13:03And this guy, he got mixed up with the doll.
13:05So he was warm enough for the cigarette.
13:07Oh, yes.
13:13I, uh...
13:14Could you, uh...
13:15Would you do me a favor, ma'am?
13:17Of course.
13:20I'm not always like this, you know.
13:21Ah, a shave and a change of clothes.
13:23It could work wonders for you, yes?
13:25I need a job.
13:26I don't mind what it is,
13:27as long as there's something to do.
13:29Perhaps your husband could help me.
13:31Oh, my husband is not here.
13:33Oh.
13:35Oh, well, I, uh...
13:37I figured that, as you said, he brought me here.
13:39Uh, yes, he did bring you here.
13:41But you see, uh...
13:42The unfortunate business of the fight,
13:43it delayed him, it made him late,
13:44and he had to leave for Rome.
13:45Huh?
13:46Oh, he, uh...
13:48Are you all right?
13:50I'm sorry, I just have to walk it off.
13:51That's all.
13:52I have to walk it.
13:53Oh.
13:54Oh, I don't just sit down.
14:01You.
14:02There goes along.
14:04Where did you get them?
14:05Stole them.
14:06Who was it?
14:07Who was it that came in here last night?
14:08Huh?
14:09No one.
14:10Someone came into this room.
14:11Someone came in to take me away.
14:12Who was it?
14:13No one came.
14:14How much did they pay you?
14:15You were drunk.
14:16You were shouting.
14:17You were disgusting.
14:18I hadn't been dreaming.
14:19She really existed.
14:20Her husband could be the clue to the whole problem.
14:22I had to find her again.
14:23Oh, come on.
14:24Come on.
14:25I was alone.
14:26I was alone.
14:27All alone in here.
14:28You...
14:29You...
14:30This is the law.
14:31Where did you get them?
14:32I stole them.
14:33Who was it that came in here last night?
14:34Huh?
14:35No one.
14:36Someone came into this room.
14:37Someone came in to take me away.
14:38Who was it?
14:39No one came.
14:40How much did they pay you?
14:41You were drunk.
14:42You were shouting.
14:43You were disgusting.
14:44I searched high and low, but mostly high.
14:50The races, the opera, the nightclubs.
14:54Three days and three nights, with no luck.
14:57Wherever I went, I ran into the same gossip columnist,
15:01Giulio Ventura.
15:02Suddenly, like a comic, you flash across our social scene
15:05and always alone.
15:08And I say to myself, Giulio, there must be a secret.
15:12Tell me your secret, Mr. Drake.
15:13Have it discussed at every breakfast table in Italino.
15:19Good evening, madame.
15:21Good evening.
15:27A woman coming in now.
15:29Who is she?
15:30A woman?
15:31An angel.
15:33Contessa Francesca Scarafino.
15:36Contessa?
15:37She, how you say, walks in beauty as the knight.
15:40And the count?
15:41The creature with her?
15:42He's not a husband.
15:44Who is he, then?
15:45Oh, a minister of stage, a nobody.
15:47He behaves like a somebody.
15:48Oh, I despair of all exhibitionists.
15:51But the count, a husband.
15:53Oh, there is a man.
15:55With his finger in many pies, so they say.
15:58Do you know they tell me?
15:59Oh, but I'm not one for idle gossip.
16:04Introduce me.
16:05It will infuriate the minister.
16:07I think I will.
16:08Good.
16:11Francesca, my angel.
16:13Giulio.
16:14In humble adoration.
16:16Permit me to introduce an American friend of mine, Mr. John Drake.
16:19The Contessa Scarafino.
16:22And the minister of state, uh, genado.
16:25Sir Kondo.
16:27We have met before, Mr. Drake.
16:30I regret not.
16:31Otherwise, I should have remembered.
16:32Oh, surely there cannot be two gentlemen like you.
16:36But this is most intriguing.
16:37I was, uh, fascinated to hear the latest scandal, minister.
16:43What scandal?
16:44The story regarding your ministry, of course.
16:47What else?
16:48They may joke about us, if they like.
16:50Oh, this is no joke.
16:52They say the prime minister.
16:55But then, uh, you know all about it, of course.
17:00If you will excuse me for one moment, Contessa, senor.
17:04Please, Mr. Drake.
17:10Perhaps I can refresh your memory.
17:13There was a fight.
17:14The matter of a jacket.
17:16Oh, but perhaps you do not wish to remember.
17:18If we'd met before, I can assure you, I'd be happy to remember.
17:21Maybe I can convince you.
17:24Ah, but here comes the center.
17:25Shall we dance?
17:28Excuse me.
17:29Pardon me.
17:34It's been a long time since I danced.
17:37Never with your husband.
17:39Oh, when we first met.
17:41But things were so different.
17:43Where did you meet?
17:45In Naples, in the Basso Porto.
17:47Oh, the Basso Porto.
17:48No, I was born there.
17:51And I can never forget it.
17:52It was always with me.
17:54The poverty and the hunger.
17:57I met my husband there.
17:59He caught me eating chocolate in his car.
18:01You stole it?
18:03Oh, but of course.
18:04We picked the lock.
18:06Everyone else got away except me.
18:08I can still see him standing there.
18:11So tall and dark.
18:14When he went back to his villa, I went with him.
18:18We were married on my 16th birthday.
18:21I, um, I should like to meet your husband.
18:24It is very easily arranged.
18:26They say in Milan that he can fix almost anything.
18:29What is your business?
18:30The same as his.
18:32Drink.
18:36My angel.
18:37Don't look now, but I think
18:39me, instead of state, is about to burst a blood vessel.
18:46Why, are you serious about wanting to meet my husband?
18:48Never more serious in my life.
18:51One hour's time, the bar beside the opera house.
18:53I'm obliged.
18:54And now, perhaps, I would reach him.
19:01The man who pulled all the strings.
19:03Her husband.
19:05I wondered, would he be there?
19:07Please pour yourself a drink.
19:19I will see if my husband is home.
19:21Oh, there's, um, there's a note here.
19:25Oh.
19:27Oh, dear.
19:28My husband has gone to bed.
19:29He has to catch an early plane in the morning to Paris.
19:31Well, I will see if he's awake.
19:33I'm sure if he is, he'll want to see you.
19:35All right.
20:05My husband died four years ago.
20:11I'm, uh, surprised that you managed to keep him alive for so long.
20:15There are ways.
20:17He traveled extensively.
20:18We never entertained, and I made his apologies.
20:21Why?
20:21You think the kind of man that works in this business would obey a woman?
20:24My husband, yes.
20:26They feared him.
20:27I kept that fear alive.
20:28I have built his name into a legend.
20:30A very profitable legend?
20:32When you have known poverty like I have,
20:34you don't care where the money comes from.
20:35As long as you have enough of it.
20:37My husband lifted me from the gutter.
20:39He treated me like a princess.
20:40And he gave me everything I wanted.
20:43And his customers paid the bill.
20:52All I know is the way he treated me.
20:54Nothing was too good for me.
20:56And I found out where the money was coming from.
20:58It was too late.
21:00And after all, you never saw what it did to the customers, did you?
21:03I saw what it did to him.
21:06That is what I meant when I said it was too late.
21:09There was nothing to go back to.
21:11You know, there was nothing to look forward to.
21:13So I could just as easily shoot you now as
21:15ask you to stay here with me.
21:17I see.
21:19Well, ma'am, we're in the same business.
21:23You'll have to convince me of that.
21:25Now, where do you think I got the jacket?
21:27I bought my information from a junkie up one of the boats.
21:30I know all about your little deal.
21:32And now you want a piece?
21:35You really think I am that stupid?
21:37I don't think you're that smart.
21:3890% of the profits must go to the operators in New York.
21:41You're lucky if you end up with 10%.
21:43Now, you don't think I came here with a pipe dream in my pocket, do you?
21:48You know all there is to know about finding the stuff.
21:50I know all there is to know about marketing it.
21:52For every kilo that you can find, I can peddle it 10 times over.
21:56Now, look, we'll bypass the operators in New York
21:58and share the profits, uh, 50-50.
22:05Wait here.
22:13He's upstairs. I've locked him in a room.
22:18So much the better.
22:19Julio, I have found out why he is in Genoa.
22:21He told you.
22:22He wants to make a deal, market all the stuff we can get.
22:26He says he has good connections in the States.
22:28He will give us 50% of his take.
22:31Sweet Francesca, angel, grow up.
22:33You are a woman, not a star-struck girl.
22:37Julio, it could work.
22:39Oh, your sailor friend is the kind who only works for himself.
22:43Right now, he will settle for 50%, but it won't stop there.
22:46In three months, it'll be 75, then 100.
22:53Hello.
22:57This is the Contessa speaking.
22:59Oh, go ahead.
23:01A cable from New York.
23:05Julio's birthday present.
23:07Detained in customs.
23:12The last consignment has not been delivered.
23:14It was intercepted.
23:16Then we can expect trouble.
23:18They'll have an undercover agent over here
23:20ferreting out the source before...
23:21the cellar, present in the consignment...
23:22The분 don't want to get in.
23:29No bite.
23:34Maybe there's an underwater agent over here...
23:35You'll have to get out.
23:35Bye-bye.
23:36Well, I leave the car when I'm for a boyfriend.
23:37I leave the eye on and out.
23:39It's etcetera.
23:42It's not a dia or two.
23:45I leave thatPhone yet.
23:46I'm not sure if he forgot today.
24:18I won't have to die.
24:48In the gutter.
24:57Julio's angel.
24:59A contessa from the gutters of Naples.
25:18A contessa from the gutters of Naples.
25:48A contemosaurus.
25:49A contessa from
25:50naples.
25:50A contessa from the gutters of Naples.
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