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Beat The Devil Hd 1953
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00:00:01Regalci, uno, due...
00:00:30Regalci, uno, due...
00:01:00Regalci, uno, due...
00:01:30Regalci, uno, due...
00:01:31Regalci, uno, due...
00:01:42Regalci, uno, due...
00:01:59An element not one of them knew the first thing about,
00:02:01except that they'd heard you could get dough for it.
00:02:04Big dough.
00:02:06Who are... I mean, what do you suppose they are?
00:02:09Businessmen, does it matter?
00:02:10Well, if we're going to be on a small boat looking for weeks and weeks.
00:02:13I only said they might be from the 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. Danrodder. Good morning, Billy Boy.
00:02:31Care to join us in a stroll?
00:02:32Turn up the liver, sweat out the toxins, help nature to help you.
00:02:36Wouldn't dream of it.
00:02:39Really, Billy, you mustn't be so offhand with Mr. Peterson.
00:02:44If I were to treat him with more than common politeness,
00:02:46he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.
00:02:48Mr. Peterson is a bully.
00:02:51Billy, what did you say?
00:02:53You see this?
00:02:54That man in London has been killed.
00:02:57What man?
00:02:59Paul Van Mier, high ranking official in the colonial office,
00:03:02was stabbed to death early this morning by an unknown assailant
00:03:06outside a club in Soho.
00:03:08This is the third crime of violence to occur in that vicinity
00:03:11within the past month.
00:03:15What is it, Billy?
00:03:27In heaven's name, Billy, say something.
00:03:42You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.
00:03:44It seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.
00:03:47Well, don'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?
00:03:54What about the galloping major?
00:03:56But he only...
00:03:57I thought he only stayed behind to get that phone call from Mambassa,
00:04:00if it came true.
00:04:02He'll be here this morning.
00:04:03Well?
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.
00:04:21He had visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,
00:04:24announcing, 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.
00:04:44What'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.
00:04:51It may be our last.
00:04:53Except for Mr. Peterson,
00:04:54we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.
00:04:57Where are you going?
00:04:59I'm going to a cafe, drink a lot of piano,
00:05:00and listen to the band.
00:05:01You 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.
00:05:19It's your move, Gwendolyn.
00:05:21Goodbye, sir.
00:05:41The luggage is in there.
00:05:42Come on.
00:05:42Come on.
00:05:47Come on.
00:05:47Bring it up.
00:05:56Oh, look.
00:05:57The desperadoes.
00:05:58Shh.
00:06:01Not quite in our contract, Billy.
00:06:02Hard liquor before noon.
00:06:04I'm celebrating.
00:06:05Celebrating what?
00:06:06The safe arrival of the Major.
00:06:08He came galloping in a minute ago,
00:06:09looking tired but satisfied.
00:06:14I take it his mission was accomplished?
00:06:16Yes, but it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen.
00:06:18I'll see you later, Billy.
00:06:23Your move, Gwendolyn.
00:06:27Gwendolyn, it's your move.
00:06:28Oh.
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.
00:06:39This is my wife.
00:06:39How do you do?
00:06:40My 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.
00:06:48Really, Gwendolyn?
00:06:49How so mysterious?
00:06:51Well, for one thing,
00:06:53you all appear to be of different nationalities.
00:06:56Your move, Gwendolyn.
00:06:58Check.
00:07:00I have a theory about you and your friends.
00:07:03Correction.
00:07:03My associates.
00:07:06As a matter of fact,
00:07:07I think you're doctors.
00:07:09Evil ones, I mean.
00:07:11You're going to the heart of the jungle
00:07:13where human life is cheap
00:07:14to perform ghastly experiments
00:07:16which require the sacrifice of thousands
00:07:18on the altar of science.
00:07:20You must excuse my wife.
00:07:21She has a very lively imagination.
00:07:26Check me.
00:07:28I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game
00:07:30when you keep talking all the time.
00:07:32Harry's been all out of sorts today.
00:07:35Usually, he's a wonderful loser.
00:07:37Good morning, Mr. Danrada.
00:07:38I bring you the captain's compliments
00:07:40along with the sad news
00:07:42that the sailing of the SS Nyanga
00:07:43has been postponed.
00:07:45Now, look here.
00:07:46This boat is definitely, most definitely,
00:07:48scheduled to sail at 2400 hours.
00:07:50Scheduled, Mr. Chelm,
00:07:51but not, I fear, destined to do so.
00:07:54Propeller, go on, or is the captain drunk?
00:07:56Oh, of course the captain is drunk.
00:07:58But the real trouble is with the oil pump.
00:08:00Well, it's not good enough.
00:08:01Simply not good enough.
00:08:02Quite right, sir.
00:08:03But you're putting it too mildly.
00:08:05The present oil pump is no good at all.
00:08:07Well, how much delay does this mean?
00:08:08Oh, to locate, bargain for, purchase,
00:08:11and install a new one
00:08:12will require, I should say,
00:08:13more than a day, less than a fortnight.
00:08:17Utter, hopeless inefficiency.
00:08:20Probably it isn't the oil pump at all.
00:08:22Just making it an excuse to hang about
00:08:23and pick up extra cargo.
00:08:25Guns are open.
00:08:26I wouldn't be surprised
00:08:27if she turns out to be a smuggler.
00:08:29What a miserable place to be stuck in.
00:08:31Squally, fifth-rate port.
00:08:34Ever been in Port Averter before?
00:08:36No, I don't know this part of the world at all.
00:08:38Oh, I thought not.
00:08:39Otherwise, you wouldn't be so upset
00:08:40about staying.
00:08:42Magnificent country.
00:08:43Ruins to visit by moonlight,
00:08:45fine stretch of beach.
00:08:46Back there in the hills,
00:08:48one of the few spots left in the world
00:08:50where you can get decent food and drink.
00:08:52It's called the Blue Pavilion.
00:08:54I insist you give me the pleasure
00:08:56of having dinner with us tonight.
00:08:58Well, that's awfully kind of you, but...
00:09:00Us?
00:09:01You and your associates?
00:09:03My wife and me.
00:09:04The committee?
00:09:06Oh, uh, Mr. Chelm,
00:09:07I want you to meet a friend of mine.
00:09:09This is the galloping major.
00:09:11The committee wants you to toddle around.
00:09:13Okay.
00:09:13Right away.
00:09:14I'll be along.
00:09:15They're to toddle.
00:09:16I said I'd be along.
00:09:18They don't like to be kept waiting.
00:09:21I'll lay on a car.
00:09:22We'll meet in front of the hotel at six.
00:09:25Out of a dare, chief.
00:09:29Dan Rather.
00:09:30An American, I suppose.
00:09:32Anyway, I...
00:09:33I quite like him.
00:09:35Time.
00:09:3624 hours in the day.
00:09:371,440 minutes.
00:09:39For somebody else to get busy on the same idea as ours.
00:09:42We ought to have got a plane and flown out.
00:09:44As I said from the start.
00:09:45Do you remember I said it, O'Horror?
00:09:47My name is not O'Horror.
00:09:49It is O'Horror.
00:09:50You hear?
00:09:50Mr. O'Horror.
00:09:51Yes, Mr. O'Horror.
00:09:52Hmm.
00:09:52But do you remember I said it?
00:09:54I said we ought to take a plane.
00:09:55Time.
00:09:56Time.
00:09:56What is time?
00:09:58Swiss manufactured.
00:09:59French hoarded.
00:10:00Italians squandered.
00:10:02Americans say it is money.
00:10:03Hindus say it does not exist.
00:10:04You know what I say?
00:10:06I say time is a crook.
00:10:07If we took a plane, we'd be there inside 15 hours.
00:10:11Instead of O'Horror.
00:10:12I don't want any more talk about flying.
00:10:13The sky is for the birds.
00:10:14My feet on the ground.
00:10:15Both of them.
00:10:18Come in, Billy boy.
00:10:22What's all the fuss about?
00:10:24No fuss, Billy.
00:10:25We're merely wondering what course to pursue
00:10:27in view of this unfortunate delay.
00:10:29Join the peasants in their rebels.
00:10:31Go to church.
00:10:31Write your memoirs.
00:10:35Very funny.
00:10:36I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.
00:10:39Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles
00:10:41than five minutes setting up exercises.
00:10:45And now that we've had our moment of fun,
00:10:47and all the better for it,
00:10:48let's get back to the question.
00:10:50Doesn't this delay call for a cable to your friend
00:10:53in British East?
00:10:54Mustn't send cables.
00:10:55Can't you get it through your head
00:10:56that the population down there has trained noses
00:10:58they can smell a uranium deal
00:11:00like a cat smells fish?
00:11:02But aren't you afraid, Billy,
00:11:03that when our little party doesn't show up
00:11:05on the date you said,
00:11:07aren't you a teeny bit afraid
00:11:08that your friend might use that as an excuse
00:11:10to begin negotiations elsewhere?
00:11:13If my friend were looking for an excuse,
00:11:16he'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 Vermeer.
00:11:27Well, I'm appalled, Billy.
00:11:29What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues
00:11:32to imagine that we...
00:11:34Look here, Peterson.
00:11:35You don't have to convince me of anything.
00:11:37You don't care what I think
00:11:38as long as I don't do anything about it.
00:11:40And I won't unless you ever decide
00:11:42to sick that knife-happy little junkie on me.
00:11:44Watch yourself, Larry.
00:11:46Now, Jack.
00:11:47Behave yourself.
00:11:49Sit down.
00:11:52For shame, Billy.
00:11:53I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.
00:11:57And if you're half the gentleman I know you are,
00:11:59I'm sure you'll make it.
00:12:01As I was saying, Peterson,
00:12:02you have nothing to worry about.
00:12:03My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.
00:12:05For purely venal reasons,
00:12:07that's the last thing I have in mind.
00:12:10Jack, give Billy a light.
00:12:23What a wonderful car.
00:12:25It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance
00:12:28many years ago.
00:12:29Oh, it did.
00:12:30It was built for Oroposo.
00:12:31You know, the bullfighter.
00:12:32He had it made this way
00:12:33so he could stand up and take bows.
00:12:35He only got one ride in it
00:12:36and acquiesced it to me on his deathbed.
00:12:37Well, here's to Oroposo.
00:12:39I hope you like champagne.
00:12:40You mean it's yours?
00:12:41Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur,
00:12:43the fat bandit in the front seat.
00:12:45Harry, look at that wonderful villa.
00:12:47Well, that was Bertie Crampton's.
00:12:48Oh, you mean Lord Crampton in Gloucestershire.
00:12:51His family acres marched hand in hand with ours.
00:12:55Gloucestershire, the cathedral town,
00:12:57trout fishing, garden parties.
00:13:00What a beautiful life.
00:13:02You know England well?
00:13:04Immersionally, I am English.
00:13:06I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets.
00:13:10And I've always kept up my subscription
00:13:12to country life and to toddler.
00:13:15Trouble with England.
00:13:15It's all pomp in no circumstance.
00:13:17You're very wise to get out of it.
00:13:18Escape while you can.
00:13:20Oh, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.
00:13:22It simply so happened that a relative of mine,
00:13:24first cousin actually, who died recently,
00:13:25happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.
00:13:27Africa's the place now.
00:13:28You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys.
00:13:31They just skimmed a little off the top.
00:13:33Potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.
00:13:36Now, there is a villa.
00:13:38Big.
00:13:39Well, that's the Villa Capriccio.
00:13:41Famed in song and story.
00:13:42A three-star attraction in Baedecker.
00:13:44Whose is it?
00:13:45Well, the bank's on it now.
00:13:46Used to be mine.
00:13:47Yours?
00:13:48Yes, I brought old Charles over from Fuquay's.
00:13:50You know, the old Fuquay's, to run it for me.
00:13:52Then when I decided to pull up steaks,
00:13:54I bought him this restaurant we're going to.
00:13:56Least I could do to show my appreciation.
00:13:58Well, here we are.
00:14:00Charles!
00:14:01Charles!
00:14:02Wait here a minute.
00:14:03While I route old Charles out,
00:14:04he doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.
00:14:06Charles!
00:14:08Charles!
00:14:10He must think we're extraordinarily naive.
00:14:12Knew all those people.
00:14:14Owned that vast villa.
00:14:16Bought this place because he liked the fella's cooking.
00:14:18What utter ball today.
00:14:20Oh, perhaps he did.
00:14:21I beg leave to doubt it.
00:14:22Did you notice his wife?
00:14:23She seemed to be a rather sensitive little woman.
00:14:26Really embarrassed by all that rot.
00:14:28I am sorry, signore.
00:14:30As you see, we are closed.
00:14:31We do not open for another two months.
00:14:34Charles!
00:14:35What the devil's going on here?
00:14:36This place is falling to rack and ruin.
00:14:38The place is closed.
00:14:38We shall have to dine in the hotel after all.
00:14:40Monsieur Dan.
00:14:44Monsieur, Monsieur Dan.
00:14:47Madame, why did you not let me know you were coming?
00:14:51You did not say you were with Monsieur Dan.
00:14:54Nothing is close to Monsieur Dan.
00:14:56It's good to see you again, Charles.
00:14:58It's been too long, Monsieur Dan.
00:15:00Not 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
00:15:10with violins playing and everybody cried
00:15:14like when a king you love very much leaves this country.
00:15:20Aren't you dressed yet?
00:15:22Do I appear to be dressed?
00:15:24Do dress.
00:15:25Do hurry.
00:15:26It's the most wonderful day.
00:15:28And Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.
00:15:29His former villa.
00:15:32Obviously I can't go.
00:15:34I've got a chill on my liver.
00:15:37What 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.
00:15:53Harry has this wretched chill and...
00:15:55Give me the telephone.
00:15:59Chelm here.
00:16:00Yes.
00:16:02Quite.
00:16:04Absolutely.
00:16:05A hot water bottle.
00:16:08That's very, very good of you, old boy.
00:16:11Look 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.
00:16:19Splendid.
00:16:20Splendid.
00:16:21I'll send her along.
00:16:26You know, Gwendolyn, nowadays,
00:16:28one simply cannot afford to dismiss people
00:16:29just because they're not one's sort.
00:16:32One has to try and bridge the gulf.
00:16:35After all, it's a new world we're going into.
00:16:38One's got to take it as one finds it.
00:16:40Face it.
00:16:41Use it.
00:16:42Master it.
00:17:12You know, I've seen Americans on the street, in the cinema, of course, but I've never talked to one before.
00:17:19Are you a typical American?
00:17:21I think it's important that I should know.
00:17:23Why 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.
00:17:33A rare spirit, such as Lord Byron.
00:17:37The other is that he's, like everybody else, only superior.
00:17:41Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.
00:17:44Well, if you must know, I'm a typical rare spirit.
00:17:47How long did you live here?
00:17:49The 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 and a house and a
00:17:56street and a town?
00:17:58No, I, uh, I was an orphan until I was twenty and 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 sacred to the tribesmen.
00:18:13You're going to found a new empire and make yourself master of the riches of the world.
00:18:19But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress the natives as the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.
00:18:26That's why you're making a pass at me.
00:18:28Am I?
00:18:29Of course.
00:18:31I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.
00:18:35You don't believe that, do you?
00:18:36Well, I believe anything you say.
00:18:39Do you?
00:18:41Well, you shouldn't, you know. You really shouldn't.
00:18:45Mr. Chalden?
00:18:46Yes?
00:18:47It's I, Mrs. Dunroather, Maria.
00:18:50Oh, come in.
00:18:53Tea for two and two for tea?
00:18:56Now, that's most awfully kind. You shouldn't have troubled, really.
00:18:59Billy told me you had a chill.
00:19:01Bit of one on the liver. Two Tarsin.
00:19:03Milk, of course.
00:19:05Of course.
00:19:09I feel I should like somehow to do him a good turn of some kind.
00:19:13You do?
00:19:15Well, naturally.
00:19:16Oh, I see. Naturally.
00:19:18I think it would be nice if, if you were able to do something for him.
00:19:23Help him along. Give him the benefit of your advice.
00:19:27Delighted, of course. For 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. What was it?
00:19:40I don't remember either.
00:19:42I was listening to your voice.
00:19:43I 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
00:19:53out 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.
00:20:03You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny, do you?
00:20:06If you imagine that Harry's simply going to Africa to plant coffee, you're very much mistaken.
00:20:12In point of fact, in point of fact, coffee is the least of Harry's interests.
00:20:18In point of fact, the land he's acquiring is extremely rich in certain minerals.
00:20:24Minerals which are indispensable to the production of atomic energy.
00:20:28Harry's land simply deems with uranium.
00:20:31Wouldn'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.
00:20:39It might very well be worth your while to go in with him.
00:20:42The potential mineral wealth of Africa has hardly been scratched.
00:20:45I was telling you last night.
00:20:47Well, of course. It's a well-known fact.
00:21:08Billy boy.
00:21:12I...
00:21:13...had 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?
00:21:27No, but there's a type of Englishman goes off to coffee plantations without caring whether there's any money in it
00:21:31or not.
00:21:32Relatives leave them coffee plantations and they go out to them.
00:21:35But why this sudden interest in the Chelm?
00:21:38I'd just like to know who's making friends with my friends.
00:21:41Well, now you know.
00:21:55You know, if I ever leave you, it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.
00:22:01Well, but only for you.
00:22:02I suppose that type of Englishman is like a story I once heard.
00:22:07An English gardener in England was showing some Americans one of those wonderful English loans.
00:22:14And, of course, they wanted to know how to make a loan like that.
00:22:17And this English gardener said...
00:22:19He said, all you have to do is get some good grass and roll it every day for 600 years.
00:22:23I heard that story before you were born.
00:22:26Englishmen tell it when they're feeling down in the mouth.
00:22:28You just don't understand the Chelm type.
00:22:33You're not even listening. You never do.
00:22:36Someday I'll say goodbye and you won't hear that either.
00:22:40One day a Chelm really meet my type and run off with him and you'll be simply amazed.
00:22:46That's possible.
00:22:48George Moore said, I learned it by heart years ago.
00:22:52He said that each great passion is the fruit of many fruitless years.
00:22:58George Moore was a very distinguished English writer, you know.
00:23:02Except that he was Irish.
00:23:05Cheer up, sugar.
00:23:05If I make a million on this deal, I'll buy you an old English lawn.
00:23:10When we can roll up and take with us.
00:23:18Billy, good morning.
00:23:20What'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 a tip-top name.
00:23:30Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.
00:23:32Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.
00:23:35Madam, my respects.
00:23:37Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?
00:23:40Yes, maybe perhaps a little whiskey, huh?
00:23:44Very weak, please.
00:23:46What's this visit in honor of?
00:23:48Oh, just wanted to have a little talk with you.
00:23:53Okay, but make it fast.
00:23:55Fast?
00:23:57I give you my word, Billy.
00:24:00I feel to you like...
00:24:03Like an older brother.
00:24:04Well, it's not so much the difference of age.
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 sixty.
00:24:23It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.
00:24:26At this rate, I'll be sixty before you get to the point.
00:24:29The point...
00:24:30The point is that Peterson, Ravello and myself, we are the principles in this case.
00:24:37We are in with the money.
00:24:39We cannot switch around and turn and...
00:24:41But an agent...
00:24:43It's easy to imagine that he could conceivably...
00:24:47Doesn't feel himself quite as irrevocably committed as...
00:24:51As Peterson or...
00:24:56We're fellow passengers, I believe.
00:24:58Not quite yet, would you say?
00:24:59Too sadly true.
00:25:01By any chance, you don't happen to have seen your Mr. Danrath about...
00:25:04I don't think Billy's up yet.
00:25:06Not eleven, he's rather a late riser.
00:25:08But he said...
00:25:09He said...
00:25:11Anyway...
00:25:11I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says, particularly when he's had a few drinks.
00:25:15It's not that he means to break his word, he just forgets that he's given it.
00:25:18Charm and dependability so seldom go in one package.
00:25:21There are exceptions, of course.
00:25:22Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behavior is one.
00:25:26Oh, yes, very.
00:25:27Well, quite, Harry.
00:25:29I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband and having a chat about Africa.
00:25:32By all means.
00:25:34I understand he's in coffee?
00:25:36He makes it sound like a total immersion.
00:25:39The part of Africa we're going through is due for some pretty important changes.
00:25:43In my opinion, things will be booming out there before you can say Jack Robinson.
00:25:47I do hope there won't be too many changes.
00:25:49It's completely unspoiled, I hear, with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.
00:25:53I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery than to have a few acres of gold and
00:25:56diamonds cropping up on a piece of land I'd bought for a song.
00:25:59Oh.
00:26:00Heaven forbid.
00:26:01Next thing there'd be big ugly holes everywhere and great horrid machines instead of lovely scenery.
00:26:08Anyway, I don't think my husband worries much about money and business, that sort of thing.
00:26:12Really?
00:26:13I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view, one has to understand his background.
00:26:19Those lawns.
00:26:20Hundreds of years in the making.
00:26:22Those immemorial elms.
00:26:24Those walls hung with family portraits.
00:26:27Generations of them.
00:26:29Those great echoing galleries where so much of English history's been made.
00:26:34Taxes must be terrific on a place like that.
00:26:37What 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.
00:26:48Power in the city?
00:26:49You mean, oh yes, of course, one of those Chelms.
00:26:53I'm surprised you know about them at all.
00:26:55Very few people do.
00:26:57They prefer to work behind the scenes.
00:26:59I find it rather hard to believe that a man in your husband's position would go to Africa just for
00:27:04the coffee planty.
00:27:06You're very quick, aren't you?
00:27:09In point of fact, he isn't.
00:27:10In point of fact, he has a very special reason.
00:27:13So I suspect it.
00:27:14It has to do with sin.
00:27:19Sin?
00:27:20Since the war, my husband has been almost exclusively concerned with spiritual values.
00:27:26He feels that if he can get away there, in the heart of Africa, he would come face to face
00:27:31with essentials.
00:27:32He wants to work out the problem of sin.
00:27:35Sin?
00:27:36Why yes, of course.
00:27:38Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?
00:27:41Sin?
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.
00:27:52I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.
00:27:54She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.
00:27:57I myself am vastly concerned.
00:27:58Harry, we'd really better be going.
00:28:00You'll excuse us, Mr. Peterson.
00:28:02What have you been telling that man?
00:28:04Nothing, Harry.
00:28:05He got onto the subject of religion, and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on
00:28:10Sunday.
00:28:12Billy.
00:28:13Billy, I think it is a hard time to take stock of yourself.
00:28:17Can you truthfully say about yourself, I, I, Billy Dan Reuter, have acted fairly and squarely to my associates, huh?
00:28:25But of course he can, Mr. O'Hara.
00:28:27Everybody knows Billy's the soul of honor.
00:28:29Shut up, Shiver.
00:28:29Perhaps he is the soul of honor, and perhaps appearances are deceiving.
00:28:33Do you mind telling me what it is I'm supposed to have done?
00:28:36Nothing.
00:28:37It's your conduct.
00:28:38Your, your, your conduct doesn't...
00:28:41Your conduct does not inspire confidence, and, and confidence really is the most important necessity in an undertaking of our
00:28:48kind.
00:28:48One may be completely innocent, but if one's actions invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.
00:28:53To be trustworthy is not more important 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.
00:29:12Who do they think I am?
00:29:13The hired man?
00:29:14But you are, you know.
00:29:16You are the hired man.
00:29:19How good and kind of you to remind me.
00:29:22How good, how true, how kind.
00:29:42Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you. How about a drink?
00:29:44Well, I, uh...
00:29:45Oh, come on, my dear fellow, let me buy you a drink.
00:29:49Oh, uh, Gwendolyn, don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.
00:29:56Can't understand it. Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beach.
00:29:59Then I come back and find her sitting there in that cafe.
00:30:02Extraordinary creatures, women.
00:30:03Well, let's drink to them.
00:30:05Perno.
00:30:06Scotch.
00:30:07Come on, you tiny little wreck, have a drink.
00:30:09We're drinking to women.
00:30:13Take the drink, but it won't join you in the toast.
00:30:16Glass of Irish.
00:30:17Women.
00:30:18Hitler had the right idea.
00:30:20Keep them in their place.
00:30:21Klein akin to Kirken.
00:30:23Babies 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 here.
00:30:28This generation's had its chance.
00:30:29Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men.
00:30:31Now is the age of the barbarians.
00:30:33The world's going up in smoke.
00:30:35I say, let it come, get it over with.
00:30:36Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worry.
00:30:39Worry?
00:30:39Just one minute, laddies.
00:30:41I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies,
00:30:44and that's don't worry.
00:30:45Don't ever worry.
00:30:46I'm in a position to know secret information.
00:30:49The Rosicrucians, the Great White Brotherhood,
00:30:51the High Secret Orders, which have no faith.
00:30:53You must have faith.
00:30:55Faith and power.
00:30:56Secret power.
00:30:57Men who guard the trust from the deepest inside of the Watchmacoret.
00:31:00Mystic rulers.
00:31:01All one club.
00:31:02Chained together by one purpose, one idea.
00:31:04Mankind's champions.
00:31:06Follow me, Billy?
00:31:06Oh, why, of course.
00:31:08This generation's had its chance.
00:31:10Hitler, Mussolini.
00:31:11I can't stand here and permit you.
00:31:13Are you interrupting me?
00:31:14Relax, Jack.
00:31:15Have another drink.
00:31:16I simply want to state that things don't happen to be what 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 is no.
00:31:26Absolutely 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 to buy their own drinks.
00:31:35Poor old Jack.
00:31:37I'll teach you.
00:31:40I'll teach you to insult an ex-officer of the Indian Army.
00:31:45Well, are you yellow?
00:31:47Hello.
00:31:49The bar.
00:31:52You're Major Ross.
00:31:53Right.
00:31:57Ross here.
00:31:59Right.
00:32:00Right.
00:32:01Right.
00:32:01Right again.
00:32:03Come along, the committee.
00:32:05Saved by the bell.
00:32:10I've never heard such rot in my life.
00:32:12Sin.
00:32:13Oh, sin.
00:32:14All I could do was to keep a straight face.
00:32:16No, I'm certain that you're not.
00:32:17I'm afraid of it now.
00:32:17These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.
00:32:20Sit here and help me close.
00:32:21But how could they possibly know what we're up to?
00:32:24Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.
00:32:26Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us even before we get started.
00:32:29We must get ahead of them.
00:32:30Time has entered the picture in a new way.
00:32:33Never 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 every time the plane lands.
00:32:44I'll try and reach you by telephone.
00:32:45Keep me informed of the latest development.
00:32:47Dan Reuter, that lying, swinish, rum-swilling, double-crosser.
00:32:51What pleasure.
00:32:52No, you can't at the moment.
00:32:54We need him right now.
00:32:55We need that swinish, lying, double-crosser.
00:32:57Did I hear my name?
00:32:59Rub-a-dub-dub.
00:33:00Three men in a tub.
00:33:02Tub?
00:33:04Oh.
00:33:06Been a change of pen, Billy Boy.
00:33:08You and I 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.
00:33:18The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty
00:33:20about when and the anger will sail
00:33:21forces me to sacrifice my personal comfort.
00:33:24I prefer to fly rather than run the risk of arriving too late.
00:33:27There's also such a thing as arriving too early.
00:33:30What do you mean by that?
00:33:31Well, the land doesn't come up for auction for a couple of weeks.
00:33:34My friend can't make his move until then.
00:33:36If we sit around British East all that time,
00:33:38somebody's gonna start wondering who we are and ask questions.
00:33:41Is that your real opinion, Billy?
00:33:42Or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage
00:33:45with the attractive Mrs. Chelm as your companion?
00:33:47Or perhaps you have even other reasons?
00:33:50Such as?
00:33:50That's for you to know and for us to find out.
00:33:52You'd better get your packing done.
00:33:59Billy?
00:34:01Where are you going?
00:34:03Off to Africa, flying.
00:34:05Just like that?
00:34:07Weren't you even going to kiss me goodbye?
00:34:14I wish...
00:34:15Don't say it.
00:34:16What?
00:34:17That you wish we'd never met.
00:34:19You'll be coming on the boat and in Africa we'll get together and...
00:34:21I think I hate you.
00:34:23Letting the boat and in Africa we'll get together and...
00:34:24tell me those revolting men order you about.
00:34:26Don't deny it.
00:34:27I've watched them.
00:34:27They treat you like a servant.
00:34:29They say hop it and off you hop.
00:34:33I 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
00:34:47told what they knew.
00:34:49But...
00:34:50Couldn't you have them done away with?
00:34:52You must know plenty of people who could bump them off.
00:34:57It would probably cost a good deal but it would be worth it certainly.
00:35:00Well, it's not impossible except that afterwards I wouldn't have any money.
00:35:03This way I stand to make a lot.
00:35:05Millions?
00:35:06Maybe.
00:35:08Then perhaps your connection with those men isn't quite so undignified as I thought.
00:35:13Those millions, would they be pounds or dollars?
00:35:17Either way suits me.
00:35:20No, that's very careless of you.
00:35:22The state of the pound is so uncertain.
00:35:24You must think in terms of hard currency.
00:35:26Maybe I should hire you to handle my affairs.
00:35:29You could do worse.
00:35:31I'm awfully intelligent really.
00:35:33Come along Billy boy, the car's waiting.
00:35:53You can't get faster than this, we'll miss the plane.
00:35:56Press on! Press on!
00:36:00Press on!
00:36:05Try posting.
00:36:09Go!
00:36:10The air!
00:36:11The air!
00:36:21This is the air!
00:36:34There's no force.
00:36:35didn't do anything.
00:36:36Nothing!
00:36:36Push.
00:36:41Come on.
00:36:43One, two, three.
00:37:14Diver! Diver!
00:37:16Diver!
00:37:35Diver!
00:37:59No, he's trying to combine things.
00:38:14My car! My car! My beautiful car!
00:38:19You did that on purpose!
00:38:20What?
00:38:20You planned it that way. I know what you're up to. I know everything.
00:38:23I know about the uranium on the Chelms land, the Chelms interest in the city of London.
00:38:27The what?
00:38:28You heard me. The Chelms interest.
00:38:30I take it your information comes from a reliable source.
00:38:32It does. From Mrs. Chelms herself, in fact.
00:38:34Ah, magnificent. Simply magnificent.
00:38:36You must pay me back for the loss of my beautiful car.
00:38:39If 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.
00:38:44You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Dan Rather. Very much better than that.
00:38:47Don't believe me! Check with London.
00:38:49If you find out it's anything more than a Don at Hill, Gloucestershire Squire,
00:38:52you can have my services for nothing.
00:38:54You mean Mrs. Chelms is an unqualified liar?
00:38:58Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.
00:39:01You will make restitution. We 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.
00:39:24Now you...
00:39:25My beautiful car!
00:39:29Don't hang down!
00:39:30Don't hang down!
00:39:31Don't hang down!
00:39:31Don't hang down!
00:39:33Don't hang down!
00:39:37More than anything, I want Billy to make a grand success out there.
00:39:43Well, as you care so much about money.
00:39:46I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.
00:39:50I shouldn't think Billy would mind, really.
00:39:52I mean, neither of you are in love or anything.
00:39:56You 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...
00:40:06Very much.
00:40:08That's why I trust him with his little and important amours.
00:40:12And what does he say about yours?
00:40:14But, 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 Rubber, Maria.
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.
00:40:45The 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.
00:41:01Stock, stock.
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.
00:41:11Everything went over the cliff with that car.
00:41:14Ravello, you 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.
00:41:27Poor 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.
00:41:47Mussolini, Hitler, and now Peterson.
00:41:50A great man, a great loss.
00:41:55I'm going upstairs and reading my Bible.
00:42:00Why all the clues?
00:42:04Maria has a headache.
00:42:09What's the matter with you?
00:42:12Go away.
00:42:13My dear gal, I'm sorry about Dan Ruther as you are.
00:42:15But after all, it isn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.
00:42:18I was in love with him.
00:42:19He was a very pleasant acquaintance.
00:42:21What did you say?
00:42:22Darling?
00:42:22I was in love with him.
00:42:24Really, darling?
00:42:25Having no control over your romantic fantasies.
00:42:27I loved it!
00:42:28Can't you hear me?
00:42:30I love you!
00:42:31I love you!
00:42:32Oh, Rost, you're just dramatizing again.
00:42:35By George, you were right after all.
00:42:37I did pack it.
00:42:39Oh, what shall I do?
00:42:43I feel as though I was drowning.
00:42:47He's dead.
00:42:49He's dead and I'm loved with a fool like you.
00:42:53I tell you what to do.
00:42:55Have a bit of shut eye.
00:42:56You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again.
00:42:58And there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.
00:43:02Is 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.
00:43:18Yes, well, get on with it.
00:43:19There is now an opportunity for you to set you enormous profits with virtually no risk.
00:43:24I want to read about the bush.
00:43:26Our papers...
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 challenged.
00:43:33Why don't you be misinformed as to my interest?
00:43:48What's the matter with all of you?
00:43:50Somebody dead?
00:43:51A car. It went over a cliff.
00:43:53We thought you'd both been killed.
00:43:55Dear Mother, I'm delighted to see you're alive.
00:43:57But your wife is in a fainting condition.
00:44:00You mean you're not dead at all?
00:44:02Obviously, I'm not dead.
00:44:03I knew you weren't dead. I knew it.
00:44:05I counted 13 backwards 13 times.
00:44:07My old Spanish nurse said if you did that, a miracle would happen.
00:44:10And you see, it has.
00:44:12Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the glad tidings.
00:44:16The captain is sober and the SS Nyong'a will sail at midnight.
00:44:32I can't see it anywhere.
00:44:35What can have happened to it?
00:44:37My dispatch box, where is it?
00:44:39A black tin box this size, what have you done with it?
00:44:44I told you to take the most particular care of it.
00:44:46I shall not go on board when my dispatch box has been found.
00:44:49You're having trouble, Chell?
00:44:50I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.
00:44:54He said he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.
00:45:00Idiot!
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 fish eye all evening.
00:45:09Oh?
00:45:10What is it?
00:45:12Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead, I told him I was in love with you.
00:45:16You what?
00:45:16I couldn't help it.
00:45:18It made you seem less dead.
00:45:19And?
00:45:20Oh, he didn't believe me.
00:45:21He thought my nerves were upset.
00:45:23Sort of delirium.
00:45:25He thought it quite a joke.
00:45:26The idea of my inventing a love affair with a middle-aged roustabout like you.
00:45:31That's what he called you.
00:45:32Well, now that I'm back in the flesh, you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.
00:45:37I suppose seeing you alive is different from thinking of you dead.
00:45:41Well, because Greg cooped up on that tub with a suspicious husband.
00:45:49Billy.
00:45:54Let's not go.
00:45:56Well, what do you mean?
00:46:00I'm asking you to run away with me.
00:46:03Now.
00:46:03Well, what about the millions in hard currency?
00:46:06What's happened to you?
00:46:07I thought you were my shrewd little manager.
00:46:09Yeah, I've changed my point of view.
00:46:12I thought we'd get to Africa and you'd make your fortune and everything would be wonderful,
00:46:15but now I think it's all too risky.
00:46:19Too many things can happen.
00:46:20I want us to cut and run for it right now.
00:46:22You really mean that?
00:46:23With all my heart.
00:46:24Oh, no, that's impossible.
00:46:26Why?
00:46:26Well, for one thing, Mrs. Danruther might not go for the idea.
00:46:29She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.
00:46:31Please, Billy, listen to me.
00:46:32I've thought it all out.
00:46:34We'll take the bus and catch an express for some matter.
00:46:37No, no, no.
00:46:37The shot's not on the table.
00:46:40You're not in love the way I am.
00:46:42If I loved you a thousand times more than you say you love me, it still wouldn't make any difference.
00:46:46I've got to have money.
00:46:47Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money.
00:46:49Otherwise, I become dull, listless, and have trouble with my complexion.
00:46:53But you're not like that now and 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.
00:47:02And your main reason for wanting lots of money is so that you'll be ever so attractive and I'll love
00:47:06you more and more.
00:47:07That's right, baby.
00:47:09I'll help you, Billy.
00:47:10I can, too.
00:47:12I'm something of a witch.
00:47:14My old Spanish nurse said I could have been a professional.
00:47:17Don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.
00:47:33Sea air, ozone.
00:47:35What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.
00:47:37What a fortune we'd make.
00:47:39Neptune's mixture.
00:47:40Now breathe deeply.
00:47:41Remember 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. Damrubba.
00:47:58I'd hardly call myself that.
00:48:00I only dabble.
00:48:01The nose is not enough long.
00:48:03The ears are too small.
00:48:05Only has one eye.
00:48:06Now come along, gentlemen.
00:48:07We must not dawdle.
00:48:09Blow the hands out, bully, blow the hands out.
00:48:13Blow, blow, blow, blow the hands out.
00:48:16Blow, blow the hands out.
00:48:20Good morning, Mrs. Chell.
00:48:21Let's hope she breaks her neck.
00:48:23Blow the hands out, bully, blow the hands out.
00:48:30Blow, blow, blow them down.
00:48:34Blow them down, bully, blow them down.
00:48:37Give me some time to blow them down.
00:48:40Mr. Peterson, Mr. Peterson, radiogram.
00:49:00No chalmers take Gloucestershire stock,
00:49:04no lend a gentry chalms.
00:49:06What do you make of that?
00:49:08He's not a Gloucestershire squire.
00:49:09Like Billy said.
00:49:11Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face value.
00:49:14But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?
00:49:17We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.
00:49:21Mystery, more mystery.
00:49:22Billy is a liar. Heaven only knows what chalms is.
00:49:26C.I.D. maybe.
00:49:27You borrowed my thought.
00:49:29World to do, world to do.
00:49:31The time has come for direct action.
00:49:33You 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 them is an endless puzzle.
00:49:55Your face, for instance.
00:49:57Ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.
00:49:59Now the light is changed and is chalky white.
00:50:05What?
00:50:07Tinged with green.
00:50:10Green?
00:50:13It must be getting rough.
00:50:15Just a little.
00:50:16Don't break the pose.
00:50:19I don't feel very well.
00:50:21I think I'll go below and take a pill.
00:50:28It's incredible.
00:50:29Harry Chalm is just...
00:50:31Just Harry Chalm?
00:50:32Nothing.
00:50:32Nobody.
00:50:32A ruddy refugee from Earl's Court.
00:50:34We'd hold a hold of bottle.
00:50:36In the letter of introduction to the secretary of the governor.
00:50:39The secretary, mind you.
00:50:41Disgusting.
00:50:43Purser.
00:50:44I boxed.
00:50:45A bit up and down, isn't it, sir?
00:50:47It's gone.
00:50:48Oh, yes, indeed.
00:50:49Major Ross took it.
00:50:50I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.
00:50:52I like to keep my eye on what goes on about the ship.
00:50:55Where did he take it?
00:50:56I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.
00:50:58In fact, I'm sure.
00:51:06Oh, no.
00:51:09And now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?
00:51:15He forgot his hot water bottle.
00:51:23Billy.
00:51:23Come in.
00:51:26Billy, 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.
00:51:42My fault?
00:51:42Well, the poppycock you've been peddling.
00:51:44All that junk about the Chalm interest in London.
00:51:46Uranium on your land.
00:51:49Well, in a way you're the one to blame.
00:51:51I'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...
00:52:02The 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, the way he acts, I thought...
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.
00:52:21It'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.
00:52:26Well, country gent, son of a boarding house of whatever he is.
00:52:29I suppose I'd better get his box back.
00:52:30Oh, he got it back himself.
00:52:32Well, then 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?
00:52:39He says that's what they did in the Royal Marines.
00:52:41Look, Herr Skipper, there's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.
00:52:45I 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
00:52:52somewhere else by mistake.
00:52:53The Major found what he thought was my box in the saloon with some other luggage.
00:52:57The 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.
00:53:04I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged,
00:53:06so that I could return it to its rightful owner.
00:53:08I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine 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.
00:53:21Why, 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 the 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.
00:53:41Just a case of a misunderstanding.
00:53:43That's how I look at it.
00:53:45Now, what about a little cognac?
00:53:46To wash away any ill feeling?
00:53:48I don't care for a drink.
00:53:50And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.
00:53:52While rifling through my personal effects,
00:53:54I feel certain that you must have noticed I had a letter of introduction to the secretary of the governor.
00:53:58I suspect he'll be much more interested in what I have to say than this gin-soaked so-called ship's
00:54:02captain.
00:54:02You mind your tongue?
00:54:04Any more entails?
00:54:05The other one I put in my hands.
00:54:09As far as I'm concerned, this is a close incident.
00:54:17You've got your box back. Why don't you forget the whole thing?
00:54:20What possible interest do you expect the colonial office to take?
00:54:23On 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.
00:54:36Just one moment, sir.
00:54:39What leads you to believe?
00:54:41This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit to inform you that during your supposed demise,
00:54:45he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.
00:54:48Unfortunately for you, he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts.
00:54:51Facts which I intend to communicate to the proper authority at the very earliest opportunity.
00:54:57I thought you were dead. That's what they told me.
00:55:00Everyone told me you were dead.
00:55:01And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.
00:55:04Didn't we?
00:55:06You, Ravello, my own partner, sneak up behind my back and try to cheat me.
00:55:12Milk's spilt. It's no good crying over it. Get after him, Billy.
00:55:15Calm him down. Talk to him. See if you can't get him to change his attitude.
00:55:18I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.
00:55:20I don't know why we have to worry about Chelms' attitude. Talk's no good.
00:55:23Conversation never convinced anybody. I say put an end to words.
00:55:27Shut up, Jack.
00:55:28Time factor has entered the picture again. This time fortunately it's working on our side.
00:55:33Two weeks before we reach port. That should be plenty of time to convince our friend, Chelms.
00:55:38I beg you. Please end all this trouble.
00:55:42If things go on, either you will be done away with before 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.
00:55:56They're thoroughly undesirable.
00:55:57The long run. I'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.
00:56:08No need to worry about me.
00:56:09Ever since I met you, you feel my thinking.
00:56:14You are becoming an obsession.
00:56:17Don't you understand, Harry? I am deeply in love.
00:56:23Maria.
00:56:26My dear.
00:56:40Only you could make a woman feel like this.
00:56:44All I want is to be in your arms, now and always.
00:56:50You forget I'm going to be done away with.
00:56:52Oh, no, no. It will be easy to arrange.
00:56:55What you must do is this.
00:56:56You will write me a letter.
00:56:58A love letter.
00:56:59You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson,
00:57:02because then I will suffer too.
00:57:05Because you love me so much, you cannot bear to hurt me.
00:57:10Such a letter they will believe if I show it to them.
00:57:14My dear girl, you must see that this is quite out of the question.
00:57:16I don't propose to make compromises.
00:57:19Not compromises, Harry, darling.
00:57:22But you can see if you cause trouble the whole of our plans,
00:57:25my plans, you would not want to make the innocent suffer.
00:57:32It will be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.
00:57:35I must handle this as I see fit.
00:57:37Then you intend to go ahead with this business,
00:57:40tell stories and ruin everything?
00:57:42It will be much better if you cut loose from these people.
00:57:44No happiness can come from such an association.
00:57:46Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.
00:57:49Please, write a letter.
00:57:50Then there will be no trouble for you,
00:57:52no trouble for us, no risk when we get to Africa.
00:57:55I'm sorry, my dear.
00:57:57We English are a very pig-headed lot.
00:57:59You think you can get away with this?
00:58:01But Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.
00:58:03First you made love to me.
00:58:04Now you tell me you will ruin me.
00:58:07You'll forgive me, but it was you who made...
00:58:09Oh, shut your trap. Go on, do what you like.
00:58:11You think you're such a brave man.
00:58:14I'll tell you what you are.
00:58:15You are a heel.
00:58:20The blazes now.
00:58:22What's happening?
00:58:22What's going on here?
00:58:23The oil pumps on the blink.
00:58:24The electricity's failed.
00:58:25What a 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.
00:58:52Look here, you fool.
00:58:53Are we simply abandoned to our fate?
00:58:55I insist on something being done.
00:58:56For instance?
00:58:57Give out the life belts.
00:58:58Organize the boat drill.
00:59:00The clientele are requested to remain calm.
00:59:02To remain calm to the captain feel no central responsibility
00:59:05for the lives of his passengers.
00:59:06It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.
00:59:10You 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.
00:59:17Oh, sit down, old man.
00:59:17What have you got to worry about?
00:59:19We're only adrift in an open sea
00:59:20where the drunken captain and engine is liable to explode at any moment.
00:59:24Perfectly ordinary situation.
00:59:25Happens every day.
00:59:27But just in case any of you are still at all anxious,
00:59:30let it be known that Mr. Chelm has taken charge in the engine room.
00:59:34Who's taken charge?
00:59:36Harry.
00:59:37Any of fools lit for sure.
00:59:38Shall I get out the hymn books?
00:59:40Your husband claims to have learned all about engine and such things
00:59:44when he was an officer in the Royal Marines.
00:59:46If he ever was.
00:59:48In point of fact, not only was he an officer,
00:59:50but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire to rescue someone.
00:59:54It's only a bit of wreckage and not a man,
00:59:56but that wasn't Harry's fault.
00:59:57Just a slight error in judgment.
01:00:01Oh, the lights, they come on.
01:00:04You must have fixed it.
01:00:07Impossible.
01:00:07The engines are turning.
01:00:09We are underway.
01:00:10I still say it's impossible.
01:00:13Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention for a moment?
01:00:17I'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.
01:00:24Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay and in absolute safety.
01:00:30Oh, Harry, you did. You did. You fool of me.
01:00:33What made you wreck my ship? Where is he?
01:00:36I'll tell forward to him. Yes, he wants to see you.
01:00:39There you are. You devil. You wreck my beautiful ship.
01:00:43Nothing of the sort.
01:00:44Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work out of pure malice.
01:00:47You explode my head in there.
01:00:49Keep your head down.
01:00:50Hold my head quick, little gentleman.
01:00:52Stay out of this, grandmother. I can handle the boat.
01:00:55What's up, mister, now?
01:00:57Do we get the life of bears?
01:00:59Do we abandon the sheep?
01:01:01There's no immediate danger.
01:01:02The passengers were pleased to return to the saloon.
01:01:05We're heading for the nearest port,
01:01:06and there seems to be some chance of our making.
01:01:10Let's go.
01:01:14Come along.
01:01:19Now, 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. I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.
01:01:33In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.
01:01:35No ice, no water.
01:01:36That's it.
01:01:37How about you, dear Mrs. Dadrubber?
01:01:38Little bridge?
01:01:40Oh, so sorry.
01:01:41I have the most fearful headache.
01:01:43I think I'll go to my cabin.
01:01:48Oh, what a shame.
01:01:50Well, boys, we'll have to make it cutthroat.
01:01:52What about Harry here?
01:01:53Maybe he'll take a hand.
01:01:55That, under the circumstances, is a most unsuitable suggestion.
01:01:58Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table,
01:02:00or else leave this boat.
01:02:02Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.
01:02:04I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.
01:02:07Don't be absurd.
01:02:08Billy's not a criminal.
01:02:09He's the best friend we have on this boat.
01:02:12We're not in need of such friends.
01:02:13You don't need any friends you can get.
01:02:15The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits.
01:02:18That's not my idea of adequate protection.
01:02:20Now, Purser, how much longer before this ship reaches port?
01:02:24If we ever do get to port, it should be within 14 or 15 hours.
01:02:28That's a long time.
01:02:29Sit down.
01:02:30Make yourself comfortable.
01:02:31Have a drink.
01:02:32Enjoy the Major's piano recital.
01:02:34Come on, Peterson.
01:02:35Buy us a drink.
01:02:37I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality from persons whom I intend in a few hours' time
01:02:40to denounce the place of justice.
01:02:42Two spades.
01:02:44I admire your sans-froid, Mr. Peterson.
01:02:47Or perhaps you don't think I'm serious.
01:02:48We shall see.
01:02:50Three clubs.
01:02:53Gwendolyn, how are you going to do as I say?
01:02:55Not when you speak to me in that tone.
01:02:57Not when you try to order me about.
01:02:59In that case...
01:03:00Where are you going?
01:03:01On deck, where the air is less polluted.
01:03:09Burser, four 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.
01:03:20I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.
01:03:22The loyal wife at her husband's side.
01:03:25No, Billy.
01:03:26I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.
01:03:29I shall not deny it.
01:03:31Either by word or by deed.
01:03:32I love you.
01:03:33Let the whole world know it.
01:03:35I love you, I love you.
01:03:36We're keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.
01:03:40Why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?
01:03:42He's being such a deadly bore tonight.
01:03:44Deadly, but not dead.
01:03:45Not yet.
01:03:46What 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 here is starting to blow the whole thing wide open.
01:03:53They killed a man?
01:03:55Really?
01:03:56Who?
01:03:58Just a man.
01:04:00Well, for all Harry's being too, too tiresome and my loving you to distraction, I still wouldn't want to see
01:04:08him done in.
01:04:09He 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.
01:04:17Keep him in your cabin.
01:04:19Never let him out of your sight.
01:04:20Keep him under lock and key.
01:04:24Oh, Billy, that awful music.
01:04:26It's so loud.
01:04:27It comes right into a cabin.
01:04:30Peterson, tell the major to saw a peddler.
01:04:33And 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.
01:04:40Do you, Jack?
01:04:44Oh.
01:04:49Major.
01:05:20Do I hear a lady screaming?
01:05:24One down.
01:05:28Captain!
01:05:30Captain!
01:05:45What happened?
01:05:47Oh, Billy, all that screaming.
01:05:49I thought someone had been killed.
01:05:50No, someone nearly was.
01:05:51Indeed they were.
01:05:52Look at the major.
01:05:53Better get a new act finished in the curtains going down on this one.
01:05:55Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.
01:05:57The passengers break the engine, they beat each other to feed, and they throw each other overboard.
01:06:01That man attacked me.
01:06:03Ah, 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...
01:06:10It's no use, Billy.
01:06:12My trying to protect Harry any further.
01:06:14I may as well tell the whole truth.
01:06:18Captain, it grieves me to confess this.
01:06:20But 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.
01:06:32The psychiatrists say it's because he believes people are plotting against him.
01:06:36And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.
01:06:39Friendly!
01:06:40For heaven's sake, woman!
01:06:41What's the meaning of this treachery?
01:06:42Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.
01:06:46He knows!
01:06:46He saved my life!
01:06:47He'll tell the truth!
01:06:48I wouldn't contradict the lady.
01:06:50You're acting by ship!
01:06:51You're trying to kill the passengers!
01:06:52But I know you say he's further off the ship!
01:06:54Let's fight against me!
01:06:56Let me go!
01:06:56I'll kill the none of you!
01:06:57I've warned you, Captain!
01:06:58I'll kill you!
01:06:59Poor Harry!
01:07:00It's awfully sad.
01:07:02We've tried everything to cure him.
01:07:04Take your hooligans off!
01:07:05I don't understand!
01:07:05How dare you lay hands on me!
01:07:07You hooligans!
01:07:08I'll have you put in irons!
01:07:10You'll be the ones in irons!
01:07:11Good, good!
01:07:12We'll have no trouble from you!
01:07:16Scum!
01:07:17Mongrels!
01:07:18I'll bring you to book!
01:07:19Every one of you!
01:07:20Every mad jack of you!
01:07:25After all, it was the only solution.
01:07:27Harry's safely locked in his cabin,
01:07:29where those beastly men can't do him any harm.
01:07:32On the other hand,
01:07:33he can't say or do anything now
01:07:34to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.
01:07:37I mean, the authorities would hardly listen
01:07:39to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?
01:07:41They won't even let him off the boat!
01:07:44Well, in that case,
01:07:45he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.
01:07:47It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?
01:07:50Yes, 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.
01:08:04Maria will marry him, perhaps.
01:08:06She seems to have a very real feeling
01:08:09for English country life.
01:08:10And everybody lives happily ever after.
01:08:13Especially us, Billy.
01:08:16Board station, everybody!
01:08:17Prepare to abandon ship!
01:08:19What's going on?
01:08:20I believe, sir, that we're sinking.
01:08:21Board station, everybody!
01:08:23Board station, everybody!
01:08:23Lock your license!
01:08:25We are sinking!
01:08:27Marion!
01:08:28Harry!
01:08:28Harry, open the door!
01:08:30You must!
01:08:31The ship's sinking!
01:08:32Come on!
01:08:34Get back!
01:08:34Move here!
01:08:39Get back!
01:08:41Get back!
01:08:43Get back!
01:08:44So far away!
01:08:45Get back!
01:08:48The escort's out!
01:08:48Head!
01:08:50Get back!
01:08:51Get back!
01:08:51Your head is $360.
01:08:54Put your head down and get the fort!
01:09:07You and us
01:09:09wash your hands!
01:09:11Don't!
01:09:13Knot!
01:09:17I just let you know now,
01:09:31Oh
01:09:52We can't. We simply can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry.
01:09:56Maybe we'll run across him out there. He's a strong climber, isn't he?
01:10:00To the relatives.
01:10:00I don't say we will, but it's possible, anything possible.
01:10:08Harry!
01:10:22Harry!
01:11:00Harry!
01:11:02Harry!
01:11:07Harry!
01:11:19Harry!
01:11:21Harry!
01:11:22Harry!
01:11:23Let her get down, everybody.
01:11:25Oh, dear, mamma mia!
01:11:26Arabs!
01:11:26Oh, dear, mamma mia!
01:11:27Get rid of your passports, boys.
01:11:29Mrs. Chow, Billy boy, my identity must remain a secret.
01:11:35Get rid of your passports, boys.
01:11:46Get rid of the passports, boys!
01:11:50Get rid of our way!
01:11:52Get rid of our heads!
01:11:55Get rid of our heads!
01:11:58Get rid of our heads!
01:12:00Let's go!
01:12:00Come on, Doctor!
01:12:03Come on, Doctor!
01:12:07Come on, Doctor!
01:12:10Let's move the man! Let's move the man!
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 ammunition.
01:12:35For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...
01:12:37I'll see you drawn and quartered.
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. I'm a British subject.
01:13:19I would say it too loud.
01:13:41We shipwreck.
01:13:43Big boat.
01:13:44Go down.
01:13:46Bottom ocean.
01:13:48We take...
01:13:49Little boat.
01:13:51Row all day.
01:13:54Row all night.
01:13:56Savvy.
01:13:57There's only one way to deal with these swine.
01:13:59Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.
01:14:01Show them who's boss right away.
01:14:03We sight land.
01:14:04Your land.
01:14:06Praise Allah.
01:14:09Come ashore.
01:14:10Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.
01:14:13No good way to eat shipwreck, people.
01:14:16You will please to hand over your passports.
01:14:37There seem to be four missing.
01:14:40Will those who have not handed over their passports
01:14:42hold up their hands?
01:14:50All left on board ship, Your Excellency.
01:14:53A terrifying experience.
01:14:55An incompetent crew.
01:14:56A burning ship.
01:14:57Put 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
01:15:06has been reported lost at sea.
01:15:08Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency,
01:15:10we should come to this shore in a small boat
01:15:12if 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
01:15:20sometimes try to enter it by stealth,
01:15:24hoping to fan the flames of revolution.
01:15:27Therefore, we check carefully
01:15:30on the activities of strangers.
01:15:32Surely, Your Excellency, in our case,
01:15:35one look is sufficient
01:15:36to convince you of our innocence.
01:15:53No.
01:15:56One look is not enough.
01:16:04If you think we're the enemies of your country,
01:16:06the 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.
01:16:12We've got important business elsewhere.
01:16:14Where is elsewhere?
01:16:16Central Africa.
01:16:18And what sort of business?
01:16:21Vacuum cleaners.
01:16:22Vacuum cleaners.
01:16:22Sewing machines.
01:16:23Ah, yes.
01:16:25Businessmen.
01:16:26All going to Central Africa to sell vacuum cleaners.
01:16:31Hut to hut, I suppose.
01:16:34And you, sir, take it as the head salesman.
01:16:36The ringleader of this group.
01:16:39Oh, no.
01:16:40No group.
01:16:41We met for the first time on board ship.
01:16:44Complete strangers to one another.
01:16:46Liar!
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.
01:16:57I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native
01:16:59you're fool enough to take me for.
01:17:01I am a great man.
01:17:03A serious man.
01:17:04I spit on you, too.
01:17:05I spit on you and all your life.
01:17:09Off to the wrong start, Peterson.
01:17:10There's only one way to deal with this.
01:17:12Fine!
01:17:13Fine!
01:17:13Fine!
01:17:14Fine!
01:17:15You'd better be careful.
01:17:17My husband, my late husband, who was drowned in the Niagara disaster,
01:17:21happened to be one of the most important figures in the British government,
01:17:24Sir Harry Chelm.
01:17:26In point of fact, we had letters from the Prime Minister and the Queen
01:17:30telling everybody to be particularly courteous to us and our friends.
01:17:33So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands,
01:17:37it 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,
01:17:46but her words are not heard.
01:17:48Oh, Harry, Harry.
01:17:52If only you were here.
01:17:55And now, sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence
01:17:59and tell me who you really are
01:18:01and what is your 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
01:18:21in asking questions and getting answers.
01:18:25Who are you?
01:18:27Why are you here?
01:18:30Don't hit me again.
01:18:31My heart, I have an attack.
01:18:34I have an attack.
01:18:37Come on.
01:18:40Oh, I have a lie outside.
01:19:00Of course, Billy's led a thoroughly decadent life.
01:19:02I must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.
01:19:06Backbone.
01:19:07Either you have it or you haven't.
01:19:09You see the beating I took at the hands of that great ugly brute without even flinching.
01:19:14Billy was crazed with fear before they even laid a finger on him.
01:19:19Tell me more about Rita Hayworth.
01:19:22You really know her very well?
01:19:24Do I know Rita?
01:19:25Do I know her?
01:19:27I'll give you a letter of introduction.
01:19:29She'll fall an immediate victim to your charms.
01:19:31You really think so?
01:19:33Oh, but certainly a man like you.
01:19:35Suave, intelligent, darkly handsome.
01:19:39You have everything, Ahmed, except money.
01:19:42And if you'll listen to me, a boat will be placed at our disposal.
01:19:46A very slow boat.
01:19:48So that Fat God's check will have plenty of time to clear.
01:19:50And you will trust me for your share?
01:19:54Does one man of the world ask another to trust his own brother?
01:19:57Oh, no, Ahmed.
01:19:59You'll give me a check for half.
01:20:00Your demands are very great under the circumstances.
01:20:05Why shouldn't they be?
01:20:06Fat God's my best friend.
01:20:08I will not betray him cheaply.
01:20:10You are certain that you are the friend of the peerless Rita?
01:20:13Come, come, Ahmed.
01:20:14Mine back to business.
01:20:17Very well.
01:20:19Fifty-fifty.
01:20:19Oh, by the way, Fat God's nature is noble like ours.
01:20:24He might try to bargain.
01:20:25I do not bargain with a puffer ball like that.
01:20:28It's beneath my dignity.
01:20:30It'll be dawn soon.
01:20:31The correct hour for a firing squad.
01:20:34But if we have him shot, what about the money?
01:20:38Well, I was just thinking that if he had a volley at the psychological moment,
01:20:41he might not be so inclined to haggle.
01:20:44No, I believe you must have Arab blood.
01:20:48Westerners are not usually so subtle.
01:20:57Look, how am I?
01:21:00Look, how am I?
01:21:04Where are you taking me?
01:21:05I won't go.
01:21:06I demand to see a doctor.
01:21:08Would you say that in Paris, among smart people,
01:21:14the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac is considered more chic?
01:21:21Well, that's no problem.
01:21:22No problem at all.
01:21:24A man in your position should have both.
01:21:26Ah.
01:21:33Mr. Donnerother, I believe, would like a word with you.
01:21:38Billy.
01:21:39Sit down, Peterson.
01:21:48I've been talking to Armand here.
01:21:51And, uh, he's made a bomb.
01:21:57It's blackmail.
01:22:00I can't pay.
01:22:06What was that?
01:22:09Fighting squad.
01:22:11It's execution day.
01:22:15Will he take a check?
01:22:16Will he take a check?
01:22:45Billy.
01:22:46Billy.
01:22:47Look.
01:22:48The dang.
01:22:55Stay away.
01:22:56Stay away from my ship.
01:22:58If you try to come aboard, I will shoot you.
01:23:01I will shoot you.
01:23:03Get my gun.
01:23:04Get my gun.
01:23:06Give it to him.
01:23:07Maybe he'll shoot himself.
01:23:09My gun.
01:23:10My gun.
01:23:27Excuse me.
01:23:28Are you Mr. William Donnerother?
01:23:29That's right.
01:23:30I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.
01:23:31I'm sorry.
01:23:32Not now.
01:23:33Forgive me, but it's rather important.
01:23:34Yes, it always is.
01:23:36I was a newspaper man myself once.
01:23:38Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic except Mrs. Dan Rather, who ate all our boots.
01:23:43Very amusing, but, uh, I'm not a reporter.
01:23:45Oh?
01:23:46Jack.
01:23:46Go to the phone.
01:23:47Make reservations.
01:23:48The first plane to Nairobi.
01:23:50Six seats.
01:23:50Yes, and if they don't have any, talk to the right man and tell him if he kicks other people
01:23:54off 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. Horrode?
01:24:00I said, we ought to take a plane.
01:24:02Mustn't doble with it, boy.
01:24:03Great deal to do.
01:24:03Not much time.
01:24:04Those for the other members of your party?
01:24:06Yes, I'd like to talk with them, too.
01:24:08Well, what's it all about?
01:24:09I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Muir, now deceased.
01:24:15Peterson, you and the boys better come back down.
01:24:18The gentleman here wants to speak to you, a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.
01:24:22You think you're right here or up his taste, Mr. Dan?
01:24:25No, we'll have it here.
01:24:26Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?
01:24:27No, thanks.
01:24:28It's a bit early in the day for me.
01:24:29I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.
01:24:34Is that true, Mr. Clayton?
01:24:36Quite true.
01:24:37Mrs. Dunruther?
01:24:38No, I'm Mrs. Chelm.
01:24:40This is Mrs. Dunruther.
01:24:42Oh, how do you do?
01:24:43Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies.
01:24:46So perhaps I'll have a glass of bubbly after all.
01:24:49Peterson, how do you do, sir?
01:24:51How do you do?
01:24:53Ravelu.
01:24:54And Mr. O'Hara.
01:24:56O'Hara.
01:24:57Julius O'Hara.
01:24:58Delighted.
01:24:59No, I'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.
01:25:07Hold on an investigation.
01:25:09I've spent quite a lot of money.
01:25:11And my chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends.
01:25:14Particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.
01:25:17Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Van Mere murder case.
01:25:20The Van Mere murder case?
01:25:21Oh, yes, yes.
01:25:23That fellow in the colonial office.
01:25:24Yes, I read about that in the paper.
01:25:26It was a shocking affair.
01:25:28According to Mr. Van Mere's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,
01:25:31you had lunch with him at the Savoy a few days before his death.
01:25:34That's quite correct.
01:25:35Mr. Van Mere 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, a crop yield, the native labour situation.
01:25:47Inches of rain.
01:25:48A vaccination, shorts.
01:25:51How long did you know, Mr. Van Mere?
01:25:53Oh, a couple of months.
01:25:54We met half a dozen times.
01:25:55Did he ever make mention of any enemies, business 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 Mere struck me as being every inch a gentleman.
01:26:08Oh, of course, of course.
01:26:11Well, that's all.
01:26:12Unless somebody has anything further to add.
01:26:16I have.
01:26:21I think you ought to know
01:26:22that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.
01:26:26I beg your pardon?
01:26:29Major Ross, I mean.
01:26:30I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Van Mere person.
01:26:34I assure you, however,
01:26:35he attempted to murder my husband
01:26:37with a long, thin dagger
01:26:39which he always carried about
01:26:40in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.
01:26:43Go on, Mrs. Chil.
01:26:44You see,
01:26:45Major Ross
01:26:46is employed by Mr. Peterson there
01:26:48to 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,
01:26:59a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.
01:27:02And that's why Mr. Peterson
01:27:03decided 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?
01:27:15No, thank you.
01:27:32As I said before,
01:27:35very smart fellows indeed.
01:27:40Should you ever think of me
01:27:41in Earl's court?
01:27:43That's where I'll be,
01:27:44helping 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.
01:27:58Goodbye, Billy.
01:27:59Goodbye.
01:28:05Poor Mrs. Chelm just came on the ship's wireless.
01:28:09Oh, by the way, Mr. Danrada,
01:28:11do you know that your associates
01:28:13are all in the who's gown?
01:28:15Oh, not that I'm a bit surprised.
01:28:17I put them down as thoroughly bad characters
01:28:20right off the bat.
01:28:21But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.
01:28:24Take mine, for instance.
01:28:27Harry!
01:28:28Harry, he's alive!
01:28:32He's alive!
01:29:07Oh, this is the end.
01:29:13The end.
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