Beat The Devil Hd 1953

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00:00:01Regalci, uno, due...

00:00:30Regalci, uno, due...

00:01:00Regalci, uno, due...

00:01:40These are four brilliant criminals at the climax of their most magnificent effort.

00:01:50This effort began six months ago on port of Eto'o, where we were all to board the ship for

00:01:54Africa and they were my associates in a quest for uranium.

00:01:59An element not one of them knew the first thing about except that they'd heard you could get dough for

00:02:03it. Big dough.

00:02:06Who, 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. They'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. Care 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 panned with Mr. Peterson.

00:02:43If I were to treat him with more than common politeness, he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.

00:02:49Mr. Peterson is a bully.

00:02:51Billy, did you see this?

00:02:55That man in London has been killed.

00:02:57What man?

00:02:58What's wrong with him?

00:02:59Paul Van Mier, a high ranking official in the colonial office, was stabbed to death early this morning by an

00:03:05unknown assailant outside a club in Soho.

00:03:08This is the third crime of violence to occur in that vicinity within 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.

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

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

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

00:03:53What about Jack Ross?

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, if it came true.

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

00:04:04Well?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:04:21He 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, half 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?

00:04:59Well, now to a cafe, drink a lot of Pernod

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.

00:05:19You're scared.

00:05:20You're scared.

00:05:22You're scared.

00:05:25You're right, Billy!

00:05:41I might have got my influence on you, Billy.

00:05:41The luggage is in there.

00:05:46Bring it up.

00:05:56Oh, look, the desperados.

00:05:58Shh!

00:06:01Not quite in our contract, Billy. Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:04I'm celebrating.

00:06:05Celebrating what?

00:06:06The safe arrival of the Major.

00:06:08He came galloping in a minute ago looking 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.

00:06:24Your 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 Ny Anker?

00:06:36Africa bound.

00:06:37So are we.

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

00:06:39How do you do? My name's Dan.

00:06:41How do you do?

00:06:42Are your friends sailing too?

00:06:44The whole kit and caboodle.

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

00:06:48Really, Gwendolyn?

00:06:49How so mysterious?

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

00:06:55Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:58Check.

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

00:07:03Correction.

00:07:03My associates.

00:07:05As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors.

00:07:09Evil ones, I mean.

00:07:10You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap to perform ghastly experiments which require the

00:07:17sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.

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

00:07:26Check me.

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

00:07:32Harry's been all out of sorts today. Usually, he's a wonderful loser.

00:07:37Good morning, Mr. Danrada. I bring you the captain's compliments along with the sad news that the sailing of the

00:07:43SS Nyanga has been postponed.

00:07:45Now, look here. This boat is definitely, most definitely, scheduled to sail at 2400 hours.

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

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

00:07:56Of course the captain is drunk.

00:07:58But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

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

00:08:02Quite right, sir. But 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?

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

00:08:15than a fortnight.

00:08:18Utter, hopeless inefficiency.

00:08:20Only it isn't the oil pump at all.

00:08:21Just making it an excuse to hang about and pick up extra cargo.

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

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

00:08:34Ever been in Port Averto before?

00:08:36No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

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

00:08:43Ruins to visit by moonlight, fine stretch of beach. Back there in the hills, one of the few spots left

00:08:49in the world where you can get decent food and drink. It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:08:54I insist you give me the pleasure of having dinner with us tonight.

00:08:58Well, that's awfully kind of you, but...

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

00:09:03My wife and me.

00:09:04The committee?

00:09:06Oh, uh, Mr. Tellmye, I want you to meet a friend of mine. This 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. We'll meet in front of the hotel at six.

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

00:09:29Don, rather.

00:09:30An American, I suppose.

00:09:32Anyway, I... I 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.

00:09:45You 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.

00:09:52But 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?

00:09:57Swiss manufactured.

00:09:59French hoarded.

00:10:00Italians squandered.

00:10:02Americans say it is money.

00:10:03Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:05You 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...

00:10:11I don't want any more talk about flying.

00:10:13The sky is for the birds.

00:10:14My feet are on the ground.

00:10:15Both of them.

00:10:18Come in, Billy boy.

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

00:10:23No fuss, Billy.

00:10:25We're merely wondering what course to pursue in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:10:29Join the peasants and 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 than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:10:45And now that we've had our moment of fun and all the better for it, let's get back to the

00:10:49question.

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

00:10:54Mustn't send cables.

00:10:55Can't you get it through your heads that the population down there has trained noses?

00:10:58They can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish.

00:11:02But aren't you afraid, Billy, that when our little party doesn't show up on the date you said,

00:11:07aren't you a teeny bit afraid that your friend might use this as an excuse to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:13If my friend were looking for an excuse, you'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:11:19What do you mean?

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

00:11:27Well, I'm appalled, Billy.

00:11:29What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues to imagine that we...

00:11:34Look here, Peterson, you don't have to convince me of anything.

00:11:37You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:11:39And I won't unless you ever decide to stick that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:11:44Watch yourself, Larry.

00:11:46Now, Jack, behave yourself.

00:11:49Sit down.

00:11:52For shame, Billy.

00:11:53I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:11:56And if you're half the gentleman I know you are, I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:01As I was saying, Peterson, you have nothing to worry about.

00:12:03My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:05For purely venal reasons, that'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 many years ago.

00:12:29Oh, it did.

00:12:30It was built for Oroposo, you know, the bullfighter.

00:12:32He had it made this way so he could stand up and take bows.

00:12:34He only got one ride in and 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, the 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.

00:12:56The cathedral town.

00:12:57Stroud fishing.

00:12:59Garden 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.

00:13:09And I've always kept up my subscription to country life and the toddler.

00:13:14Trouble 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.

00:13:20Well, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.

00:13:22It simply so happened that a relative of mine, first cousin actually,

00:13:25who died recently, happened 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.

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

00:13:36Now, there is a villa.

00:13:39Big.

00:13:39Well, that's the Villa Capriccio.

00:13:41Famed in song and story.

00:13:42A three-star attraction in Baydecker.

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.

00:13:48I 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, I 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.

00:14:03When I route old Charles out, he doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:06Charles!

00:14:07Charles!

00:14:08Charles!

00:14:09Oh!

00:14:10He must think we're extraordinarily naive.

00:14:12Charles!

00:14:13Knew all those people.

00:14:14Owned that vast villa.

00:14:15Charles!

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

00:14:18What utter ball did I?

00:14:20Oh, perhaps he did.

00:14:21I beg leave to doubt it.

00:14:22Did you notice his wife?

00:14:24She seemed to be rather a 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.

00:14:32We 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'll have to die in the hotel after all.

00:14:40Monsieur Dan!

00:14:42Oh, ho, ho, ho!

00:14:44Monsieur, Monsieur Dan!

00:14:47Madame, why did you not let me know you are 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.

00:15:18Oh, ho, ho, ho!

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.

00:15:27And Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:15:30Uh, his 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 bottles.

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.

00:16:11Uh, look 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.

00:16:44You can look at the town here.

00:16:48I'm so confused.

00:16:48I like it.

00:16:49Two minutes, and then watch it.

00:17:12You know, I've seen Americans on the street and in the cinema, of course,

00:17:17but 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:18:22as 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?

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

00:18:39Do you?

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

00:18:44Mr. Charlton?

00:18:46Yes?

00:18:47It's I, Mrs. Dunrother, 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, natural.

00:19:16Oh, I see. Naturally.

00:19:18I think it would be nice 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,

00:19:51it would be so much easier for us to be together a lot out there in Africa.

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

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

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

00:20:00But of course he is.

00:20:03You 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,

00:20:09you'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 is 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 teems with uranium.

00:20:31Wouldn't surprise me to see him become the uranium king.

00:20:35So 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.

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

00:21:08Billy boy.

00:21:13Had 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 called me over to tell me?

00:21:21Who are the Chelms?

00:21:22They're English.

00:21:23Going 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

00:21:30without caring whether there's any money in it or not.

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

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

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

00:21:41Well, now you know.

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

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

00:22:01Well, but only for you.

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

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

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

00:22:14And 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.

00:22:29You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:22:33You're not even listening.

00:22:35You never do.

00:22:36Someday I'll say goodbye and you won't hear that either.

00:22:40One day I shall really meet my type and run off with him.

00:22:44And you'll be simply amazed.

00:22:45That's possible.

00:22:48George Moore said...

00:22:50I 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,

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

00:23:10One 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...

00:23:28is a tip-top name.

00:23:30Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:23:33Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:23:34Madam, my respects.

00:23:37Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

00:23:40Yes, uh...

00:23:41maybe perhaps, uh...

00:23:43a little whiskey, huh?

00:23:44Very weak, please.

00:23:46What's this visit in honor of?

00:23:48Oh.

00:23:50Just 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.

00:23:58I...

00:23:59I give you my word I feel to you like, uh...

00:24:03like an older brother.

00:24:04Well, it's not so much the difference of age.

00:24:07It's, uh...

00:24:08It's probably...

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

00:24:11because I come from a culture

00:24:13which is so much older than yours in my country.

00:24:16A child, six years old,

00:24:19is older in his heart than you'll be at 60.

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

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

00:24:28The point...

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

00:24:32that Peterson, Ravello, myself...

00:24:35we are the principals 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...

00:24:51uh...

00:24:52Peterson...

00:24:56They're fellow passengers, I believe.

00:24:58Not quite yet, would you say?

00:24:59Too sadly true.

00:25:01By any chance, you...

00:25:02you don't happen to have seen your Mr. Danruther about?

00:25:04I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:25:06Not 11.

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

00:25:08But he said...

00:25:09he said...

00:25:10Well, anyway...

00:25:11I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:25:13particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:25:15It's not that he means to break his word,

00:25:16but 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 behaviour...

00:25:25is one.

00:25:26Oh, yes, very.

00:25:27Well, quite, Harry.

00:25:29I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband...

00:25:30and having a chat about Africa.

00:25:32By all means.

00:25:34I understand he's in coffee?

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

00:25:39Part of Africa we're going to...

00:25:41is due for some pretty important changes.

00:25:43In my opinion, things will be booming out there...

00:25:45before you can say Jack Robinson.

00:25:47I do hope there won't be too many changes.

00:25:49It's completely unspoilt, I hear,

00:25:50with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:25:53I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery...

00:25:55than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds...

00:25:57cropping up on a piece of land I'd bought for a song.

00:26:00Heaven forbid.

00:26:01Next thing there'd be big, ugly holes everywhere...

00:26:03and great, horrid machines...

00:26:05instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:08Anyway, I don't think my husband...

00:26:10worries much about money and business, that sort of thing.

00:26:12Really?

00:26:13I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view...

00:26:16one 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...

00:26:30where 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...

00:26:40with 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...

00:26:50Oh, 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...

00:27:02would go to Africa just for the coffee plenty.

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...

00:27:17sin.

00:27:19Sin?

00:27:20Since the war, my husband has been almost exclusively concerned...

00:27:24with spiritual values.

00:27:26He feels that if he can get away there...

00:27:28in the heart of Africa...

00:27:30he will come face to face with essentials.

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

00:27:35Sin?

00:27:36Why, yes, of course.

00:27:38Isn'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?

00:28:04Oh, nothing, Harry.

00:28:05He got onto the subject of religion...

00:28:07and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:12Billy, I...

00:28:13I think it is a hard time to take stock of yourself.

00:28:17Can you truthfully say about yourself...

00:28:19I, I, Billy Dan Reuter...

00:28:21have 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.

00:28:30Perhaps he's the soul of honor...

00:28:31and 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 conduct doesn't...

00:28:41Your conduct does not inspire confidence...

00:28:43and confidence, Billy, is the most important necessity...

00:28:46in an undertaking of all kinds.

00:28:48One may be completely innocent, but if one's actions invite suspicion...

00:28:52one might as well be guilty.

00:28:53To be trustworthy is not more important than...

00:28:56than 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.

00:29:28I am.

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

00:29:43How about a drink?

00:29:44Well, I...

00:29:45Oh, come on, my dear fellow, let me buy you a drink.

00:29:50Oh, Gwendolyn, don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.

00:29:55Can't understand it.

00:29:57Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beat.

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.

00:30:18If they had the right idea, keep them in their place.

00:30:21Client akin to Kirken.

00:30:23Babies in the kitchen.

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

00:30:26He had his points.

00:30:26Come, come.

00:30:27Look here.

00:30:27This 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.

00:30:36Get it over with.

00:30:36Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:30:39Worry?

00:30:40Just 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.

00:30:50The Great White Brotherhood.

00:30:51The High Secret Orders.

00:30:52Which 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 you, the watchman call it.

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.

00:31:11Mussolini.

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 me what certain people imagine.

00:31:20An officer may find himself strapped for money.

00:31:23And he may undertake certain things which in other circumstances is no.

00:31:27Absolutely no.

00:31:28Absolutely.

00:31:29I mean, absolutely no.

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

00:31:49The bar?

00:31:51You're Major Ross?

00:31:53Right.

00:31:57Ross here.

00:31:59Right.

00:32:00Right again.

00:32:02Come along, the committee.

00:32:05Save for 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 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?

00:32:23Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:32:40British Africa too.

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

00:32:43Every time the plane lands, I'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 it would give.

00:32:52No, you can't at the moment.

00:32:54We need him right now.

00:32:55We need that swinish, lying, double...

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 plan, 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 about when 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.

00:33:27Well, there'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.

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

00:33:40and ask questions.

00:33:41Is that your real opinion, Billy, or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage

00:33:45with the attractive Mrs. Chelmer 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.

00:34:23Let him go.

00:34:24Tell me those revolting men.

00:34:25What are 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

00:34:46if everyone told 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.

00:34:57Probably cost a good deal, but it'd 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?

00:35:18Either 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.

00:35:35The car's waiting.

00:35:53You can't get faster than this, we'll miss the plane.

00:35:55Press on!

00:35:56Press on!

00:36:05Drive hosting.

00:36:12Press on!

00:36:34You can push!

00:36:35Push, push!

00:36:41Come on.

00:36:43One, two, three.

00:37:15Pfeiffer! Pfeiffer!

00:37:47Go, go, go.

00:37:53Go, go.

00:38:05Hey,92!

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 is anything more than the 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.

00:39:23Now, you...

00:39:29Don't take it down!

00:39:30Don't take it down!

00:39:31Don't take it down!

00:39:32Don't take it down!

00:39:33Don't take it 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.

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

00:39:53I 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 very much.

00:40:08That's why I trust him with his little and important amours.

00:40:12And what does he say about yours?

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

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

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

00:40:33This is Dan 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? What 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. What 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, the 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 of 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. Just you wait there. I'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 as 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?

00:42:22I was in love with him.

00:42:24Rarely, darling.

00:42:25Have you 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 own self again.

00:42:58And there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:01Is this so?

00:43:03Oh, please go away.

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

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

00:43:18Yes, well, get on with it.

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

00:43:24I 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 churned.

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 Nayanga will sail at midnight.

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

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.

00:44:53He says he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

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

00:45:04Say, look. What's happened to Harry?

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

00:45:10Oh?

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. It made you seem less dead.

00:45:19And?

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

00:45:22He thought my nerves were upset.

00:45:23A sort 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.

00:45:31Well, 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.

00:45:41Because Greg cooped up on that tub with a suspicious husband.

00:45:49Billy.

00:45:54Let's not go.

00:45:56What do you mean?

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

00:46:03Now.

00:46:03What 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 be wonderful.

00:46:16But 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.

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

00:46:34We'll take the bus and catch an express for some matter.

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.

00:46:47Doctors' orders are that I must have a lot of money.

00:46:49Otherwise, I'd 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.

00:47:47Ah.

00:47:49Ah.

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 fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:13Blow, blow, blow the hands out.

00:48:17Blow the hands out, Billy.

00:48:19Blow the hands out.

00:48:20Good morning, Mrs. Chell.

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

00:48:23Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:26Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:30Blow, blow, blow the hands out.

00:48:34Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:37Give me some time to blow the hands out.

00:48:40Mr. Peterson, Mr. Peterson, radiogram.

00:49:00No chalmers tate Gloucestershire star, no 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.

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

00:49:30The 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. Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:49:55Your face, for instance, ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:50:00Now 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 aboard 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.

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 here, Skipper.

00:52:42There'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.

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

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

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

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

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

00:53:35That's all, Purser.

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 in chance?

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 sow 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. What 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. Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:01And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital. Didn't we?

00:55:06You, Ravello, my own partner, sneak up behind my back and try to cheat me.

00:55:12Milk 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. Time factor has entered the picture again.

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

00:55:33Two weeks before we reach port.

00:55:35That 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.

00:56:07No 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?

00:56:19I am deeply in love.

00:56:24Maria.

00:56:26My dear.

00:56:27My 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.

00:56:54What 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.

00:57:21But you can see if you cause trouble the whole of our plans, my plans,

00:57:28you would not want to make the innocent suffer.

00:57:32It will be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:34I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:37Then you intend to go ahead with this business, tell 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, please, write a letter.

00:57:50Then there will be no trouble for you, no trouble for us,

00:57:53no 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?

00:58:00But Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.

00:58:03First you made love to me.

00:58:05Now 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.

00:58:10Go 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 arm pump's 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

00:58:34will welcome the advice of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:58:41Please.

00:58:52Look here, you fool.

00:58:53Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:58:54I insist on something being done.

00:58:56For instance?

00:58:57Well, give out the life-belts.

00:58:58Organise the boat drill.

00:59:00The clientele are requested to remain calm.

00:59:02To remain calm to the captain

00:59:03feel no central responsibility for the lives of his passengers.

00:59:06It's my opinion that the captain

00:59:08doesn'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

00:59:21and 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

00:59:32has taken charge in the engine room.

00:59:34Who's taken charge?

00:59:36Harry, and he'll fool's lid for sure.

00:59:38Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:40Your husband claims to have learned all about the engine

00:59:43and such things when 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

00:59:52to 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.

01:00:04He 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,

01:00:15may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:17I'm happy to inform you

01:00:18that the oil pump is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:21Putting it right was no great accomplishment

01:00:22for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:24Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay

01:00:26and in absolute safety.

01:00:30Oh, Harry, you did.

01:00:32You did.

01:00:32You fools of it.

01:00:33What have you wrecked my ship?

01:00:35Where is he?

01:00:36I'll tear up this hill.

01:00:36I'll tell forward to you.

01:00:38Captain, I'll see you.

01:00:39There you are.

01:00:41You devil.

01:00:41You wrecked my beautiful ship.

01:00:43Nothing of the sort.

01:00:44Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work

01:00:46out of pure malice.

01:00:47You explode my head in my head.

01:00:49Keep your head down.

01:00:50I let it all my head quick, little gentleman.

01:00:52Stay out of this, grandmother.

01:00:53I can handle the boat.

01:00:55What's happens now?

01:00:57Do we get the life of best?

01:00:59Do we abandon the ship?

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.

01:01:09All right.

01:01:10Let's go.

01:01:14Come along.

01:01:19Now, who is last down?

01:01:20Last.

01:01:24Billy boy, be a good fellow and make a fourth of the bridge.

01:01:27The major has no head for cards.

01:01:29A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:31Oh, thank you.

01:01:32I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:33In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:35No ice, no water.

01:01:36All right, sir.

01:01:37How about you, Pierre-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.

01:01:50We'll boys will 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 or else leave the sebum.

01:02:02Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:03I 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.

01:02:11We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:13You 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.

01:02:21Purser, 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.

01:02:31Enjoy 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 who I intend in a few hours' time

01:02:40to denounce in a 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.

01:02:50Sweet jobs.

01:02:53Gwendolyn, 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.

01:03:10Four tonics.

01:03:11I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:13Why should I?

01:03:14If he's going to be so childish and unreasonable.

01:03:17Take 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.

01:03:36I love you.

01:03:36Keeping 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 is starting to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:03:54They killed a man?

01:03:56Really?

01:03:57Who?

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.

01:04:15No, 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 our cabin.

01:04:30Peterson, tell the Major to soft pedal it.

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?

01:04:50Major!

01:05:21Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:24One down.

01:05:28Captain!

01:05:30Captain!

01:05:32Captain!

01:05:45What happened?

01:05:47Oh, Billy, all that screaming. I thought someone had been killed.

01:05:50Someone nearly was.

01:05:51Indeed they were. Look at the Major.

01:05:53Better get a new act, Peterson.

01:05:54The curtain's going down on this one.

01:05:55Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:05:57The passengers break the engine.

01:05:59They beat each other to feet.

01:06:00They throw each other overboard.

01:06:01That man attacked me.

01:06:03Oh, 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?

01:06:09Well...

01:06:10It's no use, Billy.

01:06:12My trying to protect Harry any further.

01:06:15I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:18Captain, it grieves me to confess this.

01:06:20But 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.

01:06:39For 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.

01:06:45He 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 liked my ship!

01:06:51You tried to kill the passengers!

01:06:52But I know you saved persons on this ship!

01:06:54Let's fight all against me!

01:06:56Let me go!

01:06:56I'll kill the none of you!

01:06:57I've warned you, Captain!

01:06:59Why did I kill you?

01:07:00Poor Harry.

01:07:00It's awfully sad.

01:07:02We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:04Take your hooligans off me!

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!

01:07:12Good!

01:07:12We'll have no trouble from you!

01:07:16Scum!

01:07:17Mongrels!

01:07:18I'll bring you to book!

01:07:20Every one of you!

01:07:21Every man's jack of you!

01:07:25After all, it was the only solution.

01:07:27Harry's safely locked in his cabin where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:07:31On the other hand, he can't say or do anything now to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:07:37I mean, the authorities would hardly listen to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:07:41They won't even let him off the boat!

01:07:44Well, in that case, he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.

01:07:47It's a good heart on the old boy, don't you think?

01:07:50Yes, but after you've amassed all those African millions, we'll make it up to him.

01:07:56We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire with some rough shooting and 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 for English country life.

01:08:10And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:13Especially us, Billy.

01:08:16Board station, everyone!

01:08:18Prepare to abandon ship!

01:08:19What's going on?

01:08:20I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:21Board station, everybody!

01:08:23Lock your license!

01:08:25We're sinking!

01:08:27Harry!

01:08:28Harry, open the door!

01:08:30You must! The ship's sinking!

01:08:31You'd leave him there!

01:08:35They wouldn't!

01:08:44That's not million!

01:08:54Look what you are.

01:08:55That's your competitor!

01:08:57My carkeeper!

01:08:59Look what you are doing!

01:08:59The ship's sinking!

01:09:00All right, let's go!

01:09:01Stay tuned! What are you doing there?

01:09:04You've got the bar in the bar!

01:09:07Don't go!

01:09:09Stay tuned!

01:09:12Come on!

01:09:13Come on!

01:09:14Come on!

01:09:15Come on!

01:09:16Come on!

01:09:17Come on!

01:09:19Come on!

01:09:21Presto l'altro l'altro!

01:09:23Sbrigatemi!

01:09:25Calatela giù!

01:09:27Presto! Presto!

01:09:29Guardatela giù!

01:09:30Sbrigatemi!

01:09:33Palla! Palla!

01:09:36Giù!

01:09:37Guardatela!

01:09:38Guardatela!

01:09:42Guardatela!

01:09:43Presto! Presto!

01:09:45Guardatela giù!

01:09:49Guardatela!

01:09:52We can't!

01:09:53We simply can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry!

01:09:56Hm...

01:09:57We'll run across him out there.

01:09:58He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:09:59Can we run across him?

01:10:00I don't say we will, but it's possible.

01:10:02Anything possible.

01:10:17Harry!

01:10:23Harry!

01:10:51Harry!

01:11:00Harry!

01:11:01Where do you suppose we are?

01:11:02Africa.

01:11:03What part of Africa?

01:11:04Yes, that's important.

01:11:05What part?

01:11:05Not a bad place to land.

01:11:07No customs.

01:11:07No forms to fill out.

01:11:08Tell us at once where we are.

01:11:10It's important I know.

01:11:11You mean to say there are parts of the dark continent where you won't be received like the prodigal son?

01:11:15Allio.

01:11:16What's that?

01:11:18Allio.

01:11:23Better get down, everybody.

01:11:25Oh dear, mamma mia!

01:11:25Arabs!

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.

01:11:32Ooh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, hydro!

01:11:48Ethical, odont!

01:11:50Hershepets!

01:11:51Mmh?

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 was defective.

01:12:28Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:31The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:12:35For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:12:37I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:12:50Come on!

01:12:51Come on!

01:12:53Come on!

01:12:54Come on!

01:12:57Come on!

01:13:00Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:13:03Why, it's simply...

01:13:05Shocking.

01:13:06Harry wouldn't have let them do it.

01:13:08He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:10I have a sense of survival.

01:13:12Billy, what is going to happen?

01:13:14Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:16Just let them try it.

01:13:18I'm a British subject.

01:13:19I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:13:20Come on!

01:13:40We shipwreck.

01:13:43Big boat, go down.

01:13:46Bottom ocean.

01:13:47We 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.

01:14:08Come ashore.

01:14:10Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.

01:14:13No good way to treat 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 hold 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 Nyanga, she's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:05I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:09Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency, we should come to this shore in a small boat if we'd

01:15:13not been shipwrecked?

01:15:14Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:17Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:18Agents of certain foreign governments sometimes try to enter it by stealth, hoping to fan the flames of revolution.

01:15:27Therefore, we check carefully on the activities of strangers.

01:15:33But surely, Your Excellency, in our case, one look is sufficient to 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, the logical thing is to boot us out.

01:16:08Send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:11We shan't object.

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.

01:16:22Sewing 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 sailers man.

01:16:36The ringleader of this group.

01:16:39Oh, no, no 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 you'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.

01:17:06I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:08Off to the wrong side, Peterson.

01:17:10There's only one way to deal with these spines.

01:17:13Spines!

01:17:14Spines!

01:17:15Spines!

01:17:15You'd better be careful.

01:17:17My husband, my late husband, who was drowned in the Niagara disaster, happened to be one

01:17:22of the most important figures in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:26In point of fact, we had letters from the Prime Minister and the Queen telling everybody

01:17:31to be particularly courteous to us and our friends.

01:17:34So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands, it will become a major international incident.

01:17:40Would you instruct that one?

01:17:42That in my country, a female's lips may move, but her words are not hurt.

01:17:48Well, Harry.

01:17:49Harry.

01:17:52If only you were here.

01:17:55And now, sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence and tell me who you really are and what is

01:18:02your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:05I'm a sick man.

01:18:06I've got a bad heart.

01:18:07I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:08You refuse to answer.

01:18:10That is interesting.

01:18:11It makes of it a contest.

01:18:13A contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:17We of this country have had 4,000 years' experience in asking questions

01:18:22and getting answers.

01:18:25Who are you?

01:18:27Why are you here?

01:18:29Don't hit me again.

01:18:31My heart, I have an attack.

01:18:52Don't hit me again.

01:18:59Don't hit me again.

01:19:00Of course, Billy has led a thoroughly decadent life.

01:19:03Must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.

01:19:06Backbone.

01:19:07Either you have it or you haven't.

01:19:09Do you 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 Fatgut'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.

01:20:01Your demands are very great under the circumstances.

01:20:05Why shouldn't they be?

01:20:06Fatgut's my best friend.

01:20:08I will not betray him cheaply.

01:20:10You are certain that you are the friend of the Peelist Rita?

01:20:13Come, come, Ahmed.

01:20:14Mine back to business.

01:20:17Very well.

01:20:18Fifty-fifty.

01:20:20Oh, by the way, Fatgut's nature is noble like ours.

01:20:24He might try to bargain.

01:20:25I do not bargain with a puffball like that.

01:20:27It'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, he might not be so

01:20:43inclined to haggle.

01:20:44No, I believe you must have Arab blood.

01:20:48Westerners are not usually so subtle.

01:20:57Look at how am I.

01:21:00Look at how am I.

01:21:02Ah!

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, the 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. Donnerather, I believe, would like a word with you.

01:21:38Billy.

01:21:39Sit down, Peterson.

01:21:48Uh, I've been talking to Ahmed here, and, uh, he's made a bomb now.

01:21:58It's blackmail.

01:22:00I can't pay.

01:22:03How did I go?

01:22:04Peter!

01:22:07What was that?

01:22:09Fighting squad, it's execution day.

01:22:14Will he take a check?

01:22:43Bill.

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 want to shoot you! Get to my gun! Get to my gun!

01:23:06Give it to him. Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:23:09My gun! My gun!

01:23:27Excuse me. Are you Mr. William Tanruthers?

01:23:29That's right. I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.

01:23:31I'm sorry. Not now.

01:23:33Forgive me, but it's rather important.

01:23:34Yes, it always is. I was a newspaper man myself once.

01:23:38Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic except Mrs. Tanruthers who ate all our boots.

01:23:43Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:45Oh? Jack, go to the phone. Make reservations. The first plane to Nairobi. Six seats.

01:23:51Yes, 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. You remember I said that, Mr. Horro. I said we ought

01:24:01to take a plane.

01:24:02Mustn't dawdle with it, boy. Great deal to do and not much time.

01:24:04Those for the other members of your party? Yes. I'd like to talk to them, too.

01:24:08Well, what's it all about?

01:24:09I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Mere, now deceased.

01:24:15Peterson, you and the boys better come back down. The gentleman here wants to speak to you, a Mr. Jack

01:24:20Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:22You think you're right here or up his taste, Mr. Dunn, or we'll have it here?

01:24:26Care to join us in a drink, Clayton? No, thanks. It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:29I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:34Is that true, Mr. Clayton? Quite true. Mrs. Dunnruther?

01:24:38No, I'm Mrs. Chelm. This is Mrs. Dunnruther.

01:24:42Oh, how do you do? Well, 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? How do you do?

01:24:53Ravello, and Mr. O'Hara, Julius O'Hara, delighted.

01:24:58No, I'm the one to be delighted. It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you

01:25:02people.

01:25:03That would have been a bit embarrassing. You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an

01:25:08investigation.

01:25:09I've spent quite a lot of money, and my chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends,

01:25:14particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:16Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Van Mere murder case.

01:25:19The Van Mere murder case? Oh, yes, yes, that fellow in the colonial office.

01:25:24Yes, I read about that in the paper. It 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. Mr. 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 have you known Mr. Van Mere?

01:25:53A couple of months. We 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? I mean, did he name any women?

01:26:02No. I 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. Unless somebody has anything further to add.

01:26:16I have.

01:26:21I think you ought to know that 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, he attempted to murder my husband with a long, thin dagger,

01:26:39which he always carried about in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:43Go on, Mrs. Cho.

01:26:44You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:50One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:52My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:55Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire,

01:26:58involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:27:02And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away.

01:27:05Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:27:07That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:09Tantamount? Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:12More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:15No, thank you.

01:27:32As I said before, very smart fellows indeed.

01:27:40Should you ever think of me in Earl's court?

01:27:43That's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodges.

01:27:46Should you ever think of me?

01:27:48Try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:52You kiss her too, Billy, and tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:56Sure, sure.

01:27:58Goodbye, Billy.

01:27:59Bye.

01:28:05For Mrs. Chelm, just came on the ship's wireless.

01:28:09Oh, by the way, Mr. Dan Rudder, do you know that your associates are 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, right off the bat.

01:28:21But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:24Take mine for instance.

01:28:27Harry!

01:28:29He's alive!

01:28:30Harry!

01:28:32Harry!

01:28:32He's alive!

01:28:33What the hell isnię?

01:28:40He's alive!

01:28:42Oh, my God!

01:28:46Oh, my God!

01:29:07Oh, this is the end.

01:29:13The end.

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