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An Asian rajah (George Arliss in an Oscar nominated role), who has three brothers sentenced to death by the British, plans to use three stranded British travelers for revenge. Directed by Alfred E. Green.
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00:00:01The End
00:00:50This park is off.
00:00:53The worst I've seen in years.
00:00:55We haven't seen the sun for hours.
00:01:03We've got to be clear soon. We'll be out of luck.
00:01:06Gas is always gone.
00:01:10I want the fool to let you talk me into this crazy trip.
00:01:13It's only because I thought we could see the children a week earlier.
00:01:16See the children?
00:01:17More likely to break our necks.
00:01:24Here's the standard lock.
00:01:26Well, thank heaven for that.
00:01:53I'm going to try for a landing.
00:01:55We're above the Himalayas. Miles from anywhere.
00:01:57We've no choice. Tanks empty.
00:02:00We'll be dash to pieces.
00:02:04Gotcha, isn't it?
00:02:06So here goes.
00:02:07Careful.
00:02:08C'mon.
00:02:10Let's go.
00:02:11I don't have to.
00:02:13I remember how you may have been here.
00:02:14I remember how you may have been there for to keep you.
00:02:24My sister, trusting you for everything.
00:02:25I'm telling you, I'll be due.
00:02:28And you will be feeling more about them.
00:02:29You are getting ready for them.
00:02:35I'm going to put you.
00:02:47I'm fine.
00:02:48Empress, you all right?
00:02:49You're not fair?
00:02:50I'm alright.
00:02:52She's dazed though, man she's fairly dazed.
00:02:55Don't exit anywhere.
00:02:56No.
00:02:57You sure?
00:02:57What an escape this is.
00:02:59Open that door.
00:03:00Open the door, get out.
00:03:03This thing might get fired.
00:03:12I'm afraid the old bus is about done for, but what does it matter as long as you're safe?
00:03:16What does it matter so long as we're all safe?
00:03:18That's not what Dr. Verhearn said.
00:03:20Why pretend to be blind to his chivalry?
00:03:22Well, of course, Major, I'm glad you're all right.
00:03:25But ladies first, you know.
00:03:27The perfect night errand.
00:03:32Hello, what's that? Let's have a look.
00:03:34They might be able to help.
00:03:36Yes.
00:03:37Well, that was a bit of luck.
00:03:38It wasn't luck. Your field is safe.
00:03:41Oh, you're very kind to me.
00:03:43Well, are you coming?
00:04:02That's a weird crowd.
00:04:04I wonder where we are.
00:04:05I'll try them in Hindustani.
00:04:07Fine.
00:04:14I can't get a word of it.
00:04:18I might try it in Russian, I know if you will.
00:04:20Go ahead, go ahead.
00:04:21Great.
00:04:22Joe, Etto.
00:04:24The Tristana.
00:04:25To Jastrook, Rok, Rok, Rok.
00:04:27What did you think was you rocking about?
00:04:29Oh, I believe I know.
00:04:30Oh, I must have left it in the plane.
00:04:35I read in the newspaper just before we started that the three men who murdered the political officer at Abdalabhad
00:04:41came from a wild region at the back of the Himalayas called Ruk.
00:04:44Now that you mention it, I believe I have heard of the place.
00:04:52Oh, that's his palace, is it?
00:04:54Well, we'd better make tracks for it.
00:04:57Here, come along.
00:05:02I think he's trying to tell us that they've sent for the Raja.
00:05:05In that case, we'd better await development, eh?
00:05:09Evidently.
00:05:09Mm-hmm.
00:05:11Mm-mm-mm.
00:05:13Come here.
00:05:14That one?
00:05:14No, thanks.
00:05:16All right.
00:05:18You know, these fellas...
00:05:34Why, you evidently were sitting on one of their gods.
00:05:37I see, he's begging the gods' pardon.
00:05:38Oh, why, the devil couldn't it tell me so.
00:05:40We'd better be careful not to anger these people.
00:05:42We have Mrs. Crespin to think of.
00:05:44Do you think I don't know how to take care of my own wife?
00:05:46Oh, Anthony.
00:05:48Won't you go and look for the newspaper adopted for her?
00:05:52Certainly.
00:05:58How on earth was I to know these poor fools worship a plog of stone?
00:06:02Good Lord.
00:06:05Well, we've had a narrow squeak.
00:06:09Yes, I suppose so.
00:06:11You don't seem very grateful to Providence.
00:06:14What do you mean?
00:06:15Oh, you good women.
00:06:17You don't know what forgiveness means.
00:06:19I have forgiven you.
00:06:22But when a man behaves as you have behaved,
00:06:25do you think it's possible to forget it?
00:06:26I see.
00:06:27And still love him.
00:06:29Would you please remember you're still my wife?
00:06:31No longer.
00:06:32Only the mother of your children.
00:06:34Oh, Lord.
00:06:35My children.
00:06:37And that gives you a terrible hold over me.
00:06:40Oh, dear, oh, dear.
00:06:47I found the newspaper you saw, Val.
00:06:50You were right about Rook.
00:06:52What is it?
00:06:54Abdulavad, Tuesday.
00:06:55Sentence of death has been passed on the three men
00:06:57found guilty of the murder of Mr. Warren.
00:06:59It appears that these miscreants are natives of Rook,
00:07:02a small and little-known independent state
00:07:04among the northern spurs of the Himalayas.
00:07:07This news isn't a very good passport in our present situation.
00:07:10But we're hundreds of miles from anywhere.
00:07:12It can't be known here yet.
00:07:13Well, in any case, they'd never dare to molest us.
00:07:16Just the same.
00:07:16It might be safest to burn this paragraph
00:07:20in case there's anyone here that can read it.
00:07:22All right.
00:07:31That's it.
00:07:44Sounds like the march of the great Panjandrum.
00:08:11Here comes Roger in all his glory.
00:08:14Here comes Roger in all his glory.
00:08:43Oh, yes, a little.
00:08:48Then we have to apologize for landing uninvited in your territory.
00:08:53Uninvited? But I assure you, not unwelcome.
00:08:57We understand this is the state of Rook.
00:08:59The kingdom of Rook.
00:09:01Major, if I rightly read the symbol on your sleeve.
00:09:07Major Crespin, sir, at your service. Permit me to introduce my wife.
00:09:13I am delighted, madame, to welcome you to my security dominions.
00:09:17You are the first lady of your nation that I have had the honor of receiving.
00:09:22Your Highness is very kind.
00:09:23And this, sir, is Dr. Basil Trahorn.
00:09:26Dr. Trahorn? Not the Dr. Trahorn, whose name I have so often seen in the newspapers.
00:09:32The pastor of malaria.
00:09:33Oh, the newspapers make altogether too much of my work.
00:09:36You are an aviator as well.
00:09:38Only an amateur.
00:09:39I presume it is a misadventure.
00:09:41A most fortunate misadventure for me.
00:09:44That has carried you so far into the wilds of the Himalayas.
00:09:48But we became lost in the fog.
00:09:49I was bringing Major and Mrs. Crespin up from the plains to see their children at a hill station.
00:09:54Ah, Pahari, no doubt.
00:09:56Yes, Pahari.
00:09:57Madame is a sportswoman then.
00:09:59Oh, I've been up many times.
00:10:01Oh, yes.
00:10:02Many times.
00:10:04I trust, sir, we shall incur no difficulty in securing transportation back to civilization.
00:10:10Back to India.
00:10:12To civilization, you were about to say.
00:10:14Well, why hesitate, my dear sir.
00:10:18We know very well that we are barbarians.
00:10:21We are quite reconciled to the fact.
00:10:23You see, we have had some 5,000 years to accustom ourselves to.
00:10:29The sword is a barbarous weapon compared with your revolver.
00:10:36But it was worn by my ancestors when yours were diligently employed in painting themselves blue
00:10:43and getting a precarious livelihood in the woods.
00:10:47But Madame is standing all this time.
00:10:50Walk in.
00:10:52Your Honor, what are you thinking of?
00:10:55Some cushions.
00:11:00A litter will arrive for Madame in a few moments.
00:11:02And then I hope you will accept the hospitality of my poor house.
00:11:06You're giving a great deal of trouble, Your Honor.
00:11:08A great deal of pleasure.
00:11:09I hope, sir, there will be no difficulty in obtaining transportation back to, uh, India.
00:11:17Time enough to talk of that, Major.
00:11:18When you have rested and recuperated after your adventure.
00:11:21The cushions, Your Honor.
00:11:23Won't you sit down now?
00:11:27Oh, this is much more comfortable.
00:11:32You will do me the honor of dining with me this evening?
00:11:35I trust you will find that we are not altogether uncivilized.
00:11:40Then, as for civilization, you know, I have always at my elbow one of its most finished products.
00:11:46Now, Watkins.
00:11:49Your Honor.
00:11:52You are recognizing Watkins, gentlemen.
00:11:55Another representative of the ruling race.
00:11:59I assure you, he rules me with an iron hand.
00:12:03Not always in a velvet glove, eh, Watkins?
00:12:06Your Honor.
00:12:07Well, your little joke.
00:12:09He is my prime minister and all my carrying.
00:12:13But more particularly, he is my Lord Chamberlain.
00:12:18No one can touch him of making a salad or mixing a cocktail.
00:12:23I have sometimes thought of instituting a purge in order that I might raise Watkins to it.
00:12:31But, eh, I mustn't let my admiration of British institutions carry me too far.
00:12:39Those scoundrels of bearers are a very long time watching.
00:12:42The lady is literate to have fresh cottons, Your Honor.
00:12:45It won't be a minute now, sir.
00:12:49These, I suppose, are your bodyguard.
00:12:58My household troops, madam.
00:13:00How picturesque they are.
00:13:02Oh.
00:13:02A relic of barbarism, I know.
00:13:05I can quite understand the contempt with which my friend the major is at this moment regarding that.
00:13:14Irregular troops, sir, often first-class fighting men.
00:13:17And you think that if irregularity is the virtue of irregular troops, that these, eh, what is that expression, Watkins?
00:13:30Like the kite, Your Honor?
00:13:32Take the cake.
00:13:36That is what you were thinking.
00:13:38They might be hard to beat, sir.
00:13:40I repeat, a relic of barbarism.
00:13:42You see, I have strong conservative instincts.
00:13:46I cling to the fashions of my fathers.
00:13:48But I also like to move with the times, as I trust Your Honor will allow me to show you.
00:14:04Oh, how do you know?
00:14:05Good Lord.
00:14:13I trust I didn't startle you, madam.
00:14:15Oh, not at all.
00:14:18Of course, you realize that this effect is not original.
00:14:22I plagiarized it from the excellent Walter Scott.
00:14:25These are Ken Alpin's warriors, true.
00:14:28And Saxon, I am Roderick Dune.
00:14:33But I think you will admit, Major, that my men know how to take cover.
00:14:37A very fine body of men, Roger.
00:14:39I congratulate you for the training.
00:14:42I am greatly flattered, sir.
00:14:43Oh.
00:14:44I superintend it myself.
00:14:45The latest litter, Your Honest.
00:14:48The litter.
00:14:51Cabochet.
00:14:54Come up.
00:14:56Hey!
00:15:10What do I mean?
00:15:18A newspaper.
00:15:21Will you permit me?
00:15:25Now, forgive me, but this is such a rarity.
00:15:28May I glance at it?
00:15:31Only two days old.
00:15:33In my seclusion, I hunger for news of the civilized world.
00:15:42The telegraphic news torn out.
00:15:44How disappointing.
00:15:59You burned it.
00:16:01Unfortunately, I lighted my cigarette with it.
00:16:04I know your motive, Dr. Trahan, and I appreciate it.
00:16:08You destroyed it out of consideration for my feelings, wishing to spare me a painful piece
00:16:13of intelligence.
00:16:14of intelligence.
00:16:15That was very thoughtful of you, but quite unnecessary.
00:16:19I already know what you tried to conceal.
00:16:22You know?
00:16:23I know that three of my subjects accused of a political crime have been sentenced to death.
00:16:30How could you know that?
00:16:32Bad news travels fast, Dr. Trahan.
00:16:37But there is one thing perhaps you can tell me.
00:16:41Is there any chance of their sentence being remitted?
00:16:46Remitted?
00:16:47I should rather say not.
00:16:49It was a cold-blooded, unprovoked murder.
00:16:52Unprovoked, sure thing.
00:16:57I won't argue with you, Major.
00:17:00And the execution is to be?
00:17:04Tomorrow or the day after.
00:17:09Tomorrow or the day after.
00:17:12Tomorrow or the day after.
00:17:18Forgive me, my dear.
00:17:20I kept you waiting.
00:17:21I kept you waiting.
00:17:29Does your highness know anything of these men?
00:17:33Know them?
00:17:35Oh, yes.
00:17:37They are my brothers.
00:17:59They are my brothers.
00:18:02They are your brothers.
00:18:04They are my brothers.
00:18:10I'm a men of the angels.
00:18:15They told me they are my brothers.
00:18:17They've been taken by policemen from this year.
00:18:18They?
00:18:19They told me they told me they told you that all elektransit was shot.
00:19:30Will you start that record?
00:20:08Don't you know it?
00:20:09Yes, but I can't think what it is.
00:20:11It's Guno's funeral march of a marionette.
00:20:14A most humorous composition.
00:20:21I trust my mistress of the robes to punish you with all you require.
00:20:24She offered me quite a bewildering array of gorgeous apparel.
00:20:27I am glad.
00:20:29I had hoped that perhaps your choice might have fallen on something more...
00:20:36But no, I was wrong.
00:20:38Madame's taste is irreproachable.
00:20:41My mistress of robes is chosen well.
00:20:49What do you say, Major?
00:20:50What?
00:20:51What?
00:20:52Oh!
00:20:53Oh, I say if you'll tell that fellow over there to give me another glass of this kemble,
00:20:58I'll let you have your own way about it.
00:21:00Give me another glass.
00:21:05Oh, splendidly fellow.
00:21:07Good job.
00:21:12Oh, very well.
00:21:19Now, are you all quite comfortable?
00:21:22Quite.
00:21:23Perfectly, thank you.
00:21:23Yes, I'm all right.
00:21:24Then we will go into committee on your position here.
00:21:28If you please, sir.
00:21:29I'm afraid you may find it rather disagreeable.
00:21:33Oh, communication's bad, eh?
00:21:35We have a difficult journey before us?
00:21:36A long journey, I fear.
00:21:38Though not precisely difficult.
00:21:40Well, it can be so very long,
00:21:42or you couldn't have heard of the sentence passed on those murderers only a few days ago.
00:21:46I'm glad, Major, that you have so tactfully spared me the pain of reopening that sentence.
00:21:52We should have had to come to it sooner or later.
00:21:54When your highness said they were your brothers,
00:21:56you were, of course, speaking figuratively.
00:21:58You meant your tribesmen.
00:21:59Not at all.
00:22:00They are sons of my father, though not of my mother.
00:22:03We intrude upon you at such a time.
00:22:05Oh, pray don't apologize.
00:22:07I assure you your arrival has given great satisfaction.
00:22:11How do you mean?
00:22:12One moment, Doctor.
00:22:13Let's understand these other Roger.
00:22:16You don't surely approve of this abominable crime?
00:22:19And my brothers are fanaticists.
00:22:22But there is no fanaticism in me.
00:22:24Although, as I say, I have no prejudice here.
00:22:26Although there is no fanaticism in me,
00:22:29I am of Indian race, and I do not love her times.
00:22:34In Schotzer, you defend this debilish murder.
00:22:36Oh, no.
00:22:37I think it foolish and futile.
00:22:39But there is a romantic side to my nature.
00:22:42And from the romantic point of view, I rather admire it.
00:22:46Then, sir, the less we intrude upon your hospitality, the better.
00:22:51If you will be good enough to furnish us with transportation tomorrow morning...
00:22:54Ah.
00:22:55That is just where the difficulty arises.
00:22:57In what way?
00:22:59Materially, it might be managed.
00:23:01But morally, I fear it is...
00:23:04Excuse the colloquialism, Madame.
00:23:07Ah.
00:23:07A no-go.
00:23:08What about your news, sir?
00:23:09Will your habits be good enough to explain?
00:23:12Since the news has spread,
00:23:13that three Faringis have dropped from the skies,
00:23:16precisely at the time when three princes of the royal house
00:23:20are threatened with death at the hands of the Faringi government,
00:23:24my people have taken it into their heads
00:23:27that you have been personally conducted with us
00:23:30by the Goddess.
00:23:31The Goddess?
00:23:32And here is her portrait, Madame.
00:23:35Much admired by Hanneson.
00:23:37In my eyes, of course, your arrival is the nearest coincidence.
00:23:41A most charming coincidence.
00:23:43But my people are hold primitive views.
00:23:47Then the upshot of all this Pallà there is
00:23:49that you intend to hold us as hostages
00:23:51to exchange for your brothers.
00:23:53Is that it?
00:23:54That is not precisely the idea, my dear sir.
00:23:58Effective, my priests do not hold
00:24:00that an exchange is what the Goddess decrees.
00:24:04Nor, to be quite frank with you,
00:24:07would it altogether suit my book.
00:24:09Not to get your brothers back again?
00:24:12You may have noted in history, dear lady,
00:24:15that family affection is seldom the strong point of princes.
00:24:20My sons are quite young, and were I to die,
00:24:23we are all mortal.
00:24:29There might be some trouble about the succession.
00:24:34In our family, uncles seldom love nephews.
00:24:38So you would raise no finger to save your brothers?
00:24:40That is not my only reason, Madame.
00:24:43Supposing it were possible for me to bully the government of India
00:24:46into giving up my relatives,
00:24:48do you think they would sit calmly down under the humiliation?
00:24:51No, no, dear lady.
00:24:54We should assuredly have a punitive expedition.
00:24:57It would cost thousands of lives and millions of money,
00:25:00but what would that matter?
00:25:02Prestige would be restored,
00:25:04and I should end my days in a maisonette in Switzerland.
00:25:10It wouldn't suit me at all.
00:25:12Will you come to the point, sir?
00:25:13The point is that the religion of my people
00:25:19has not yet emerged from the mosaic stage of development.
00:25:26What do you mean?
00:25:28They demand an eye for an eye,
00:25:31a tooth for a tooth,
00:25:34a life for a life.
00:25:37You mean to say that...
00:25:39Unfortunately, I do.
00:25:44Not I, Madame.
00:25:45The high church party.
00:25:47You mean that if your brother assassins are hanged,
00:25:51and they undoubtedly will be,
00:25:53that you will put to death in cold blood?
00:25:56Oh, no.
00:25:57Not in cold blood, Major.
00:25:59There is nothing cold bloodied about the goddess.
00:26:02Does your goddess demand the life of a woman?
00:26:05Well, on that point,
00:26:07she might not be too exact.
00:26:13That Madame would be so gracious
00:26:15as to favour me with her society.
00:26:21I gather you do not so please.
00:26:24Well, I scarcely hoped you would.
00:26:26I don't press the point,
00:26:28but the suggestion remains open.
00:26:31If I turn off a word,
00:26:32and I'll shoot you like a dog.
00:26:33Oh, no, Major.
00:26:34I've had your teeth dry.
00:26:39That's because she was taken while you were at your back.
00:26:42Besides, it wouldn't help you a bit.
00:26:44You'd only be torn to pieces instead of...
00:26:51I am a boastful.
00:27:01This is interesting.
00:27:03You'll excuse me?
00:27:09If you'll wait here a few moments,
00:27:12I may have news for you.
00:27:26What can we do?
00:27:28Think of something.
00:27:29We might bribe Watkins.
00:27:31Offering every penny we have in the world.
00:27:33How if we picked up our host and dropped him on those razor-aged rocks?
00:27:37No. No, that wouldn't do any good.
00:27:39We don't even torn to pieces, they're quicker.
00:27:42If it went full of silver, I'd do it just the same.
00:27:49What's that?
00:27:55Wireless.
00:27:56Wireless by Jupiter.
00:27:58They're sending out a message.
00:28:01That explains everything.
00:28:03They're in wireless communication with India.
00:28:04Aren't you the news all about wireless?
00:28:06My job also the war.
00:28:10Transmitting in code.
00:28:11Or I could read it.
00:28:14This may be our salvation.
00:28:17If I could get my hands on that wireless for five minutes,
00:28:20and send the call of the airdrome at Amil Sarai,
00:28:24we'd soon bring this Roger to his senses.
00:28:27Where do you suppose the wireless woman?
00:28:29That's what we've got to find out.
00:28:37That's what we've got to find out.
00:28:49Say, not the vaccinated.
00:28:58We must, on no account, let this fanatic suspect that we know anything about wireless.
00:29:04He'll be back here presently.
00:29:06We must play up to him.
00:29:07And if only I could remember the wavelength and call for Amul Sarai.
00:29:10I was constantly using it at one time.
00:29:13It'll come back to you.
00:29:14We must, on no account, appear to be consulted.
00:29:18Major, you sit down.
00:29:21Relax.
00:29:26Relax.
00:29:53I told you I might have news for you.
00:29:58It is coming.
00:30:03What is it?
00:30:04My brother's execution escapes for tomorrow.
00:30:09Um, tomorrow?
00:30:11Yes.
00:30:13At sunset.
00:30:20In the meantime, I pray regard my poor house as your own.
00:30:25This is Liberty Hall, you know.
00:30:27My tennis courts, my billiard room, my library are all at your disposal.
00:30:31I would advise you not to attempt to go beyond the palace gates.
00:30:37For popular feeling runs very high.
00:30:40Sorry.
00:30:41There are 300 miles of impassable country between here and the nearest British post.
00:30:47Then how has this news reached you?
00:30:50No.
00:30:50Is that personal you?
00:30:51Don't you give?
00:30:54I thought it might be wireless.
00:30:56Have you observed nothing to confirm that idea?
00:30:59No.
00:31:01Did you not notice the light suddenly went down?
00:31:03Yes.
00:31:04And at the same time, we noticed a peculiar buzzing sound.
00:31:07And you, none of you knew what it meant?
00:31:10No.
00:31:11No.
00:31:12Then you have no knowledge of wireless telegraphy?
00:31:15No.
00:31:15Oh.
00:31:17Then I may tell you that that buzzing is the sound of wireless transmission.
00:31:21I am in communication with India.
00:31:24You see, I was right.
00:31:26You have a wireless expert here?
00:31:28What, India?
00:31:30That invaluable fellow is my operator.
00:31:34With whom do you communicate?
00:31:39Do you think that's quite a fair question, Doctor?
00:31:43Does it show your usual tact?
00:31:46I have my agents.
00:31:48I can say no more.
00:31:51And now, madame, shall I ring for the ayah to show you to your room?
00:31:55If you please.
00:31:57No.
00:31:57Stop a moment.
00:32:00Friends, I have two children.
00:32:02For their sake, won't you try to bring about an exchange?
00:32:06Your brothers' lives for ours.
00:32:09I am sorry, madame, but that is impossible.
00:32:12No whisper of your presence here must ever reach India.
00:32:17Or, again, forgive the vulgarism, my goose is cooked.
00:32:22The thought of my children does not move you.
00:32:24My brothers have children.
00:32:27Does the thought of them move the government of India?
00:32:30No.
00:32:32I am desolated to refuse you, madame.
00:32:35But you must not ask for the impossible.
00:32:39Doesn't it strike you that if you drive us to desperation,
00:32:42we may find means of cheating your goddess?
00:32:45What is to prevent me from throwing myself from that balcony?
00:32:48Nothing, dear lady.
00:32:50Except that clinging to the known,
00:32:52and shrinking from the unknown,
00:32:54that we all of us feel even while we despise it.
00:32:58Besides, while there is life, there is hope.
00:33:01You cannot read my thoughts.
00:33:04For anything you know,
00:33:05I may only be playing a little joke upon you.
00:33:08I trust you have observed that I have a sense of humor now.
00:33:13Ah, viaja.
00:33:17Good night, madame.
00:33:27Keep well.
00:33:33Do you ever get a better beer?
00:33:35Thank you, Holmes, upon the otherternet.
00:34:10Send you back?
00:34:12I think you're the major.
00:34:14If I were ever so willing,
00:34:15it's more than my place is worth.
00:34:18You don't know how my faithful subjects are looking forward
00:34:20to tomorrow's ceremony.
00:34:22You must be reasonable, my dear sir.
00:34:24Do you think we would bargain with you
00:34:26if it were not for my wife?
00:34:27But for her, we'll promise you anything.
00:34:29What can you promise?
00:34:31It'll be worth a brass farthing to me.
00:34:33No, Asia has a long score against you,
00:34:37swaggering lords of creation.
00:34:38And by all the gods,
00:34:40I mean to see some of it paid tomorrow.
00:34:47In the meantime, there is no reason
00:34:49why we shouldn't behave like civilized beings.
00:34:53Now, how would you like to pass the time?
00:34:57I'm sorry, I can't offer you any shooting.
00:35:00What do you say to billions?
00:35:02It's a harmless game.
00:35:07Of all the infernal purring devils.
00:35:55I'm afraid I startled you, my dear.
00:35:58I understood that these were my apartments.
00:36:01I'm sorry if I am true.
00:36:02I will withdraw.
00:36:06But I wish to speak to you about your children.
00:36:23Prince, if I write them a letter of farewell,
00:36:26will you give me your word of honor
00:36:28that it shall reach something else?
00:36:30There you must pardon me.
00:36:32I have already said that the last thing I desire
00:36:34is to attract the attention of the government of India.
00:36:37I will say nothing to show where I am
00:36:39or what is before me.
00:36:41An ingenious idea.
00:36:43But the strength of my position, you see,
00:36:45is that no one will ever know what has become of you.
00:36:48You will simply disappear in the uncharted seas of the Himalayas.
00:36:54No, madame, I cannot risk it.
00:36:57But there is one thing I can do.
00:36:59What?
00:37:00I cannot undertake to have a letter sent to your children,
00:37:03but it would be quite easy for me to have them carried off
00:37:07and brought to you here.
00:37:09What do you mean?
00:37:09I mean that in less than a month,
00:37:11you can have your children in your arms if...
00:37:14If...
00:37:14Oh, in your own time,
00:37:17of your own free will,
00:37:19you will accept the homage
00:37:21that it would be my privilege to offer you.
00:37:25You have the courage to die, dear lady.
00:37:28Why not have the courage to live?
00:37:30What I offer you
00:37:32is a life utterly cut off from the past,
00:37:35except that your children will be with you,
00:37:38living, breathing, loving.
00:37:41They will grow to manhood and womanhood under your own eyes
00:37:44and ultimately, if you so wish,
00:37:46you could return with them to civilization.
00:37:49In the meantime,
00:37:51you are only on the threshold of the best years of your life.
00:37:54With me, they would be passed,
00:37:57not as a Mem Saab in a paltry Indian cantonment,
00:38:00but as the absolute queen of an absolute king.
00:38:05Your son, if you gave me one,
00:38:08should be the prince of princes.
00:38:09My other son should bow down before him and serve him.
00:38:13For though I hate the arrogance of Europe,
00:38:15I believe that from a blending of the flower of the East
00:38:18with the flower of the West,
00:38:20that the man of the future,
00:38:21the Superman,
00:38:22will be born.
00:38:26Your lips are bleeding, madame.
00:38:31My baby, in my arms.
00:38:34I offer you life with your children.
00:38:42Yes, but on what terms
00:38:44that I should desert my husband and my friends,
00:38:47let them go alone to their death,
00:38:50cower in some back room of this murderous house of yours,
00:38:53listening to the ticking of the clock and thinking,
00:38:55no,
00:38:57now the stroke has fallen,
00:38:59stopping my ears so as not to hear the yells
00:39:02of your blood-sensitive savages,
00:39:03and yet,
00:39:04perhaps,
00:39:05hearing nothing else to my dying day.
00:39:08No, prince.
00:39:11That is your answer, madame.
00:39:13The only possible answer.
00:39:16What would be the good of having my children in my arms
00:39:18if I couldn't look them in the face?
00:39:26I wish you'd worn that purple frock.
00:39:38Is the billiard room door closed?
00:39:42Yes, sir, honor.
00:39:50Read that.
00:39:51A message to be sent out, sir.
00:39:54The lady has come to term.
00:39:58She will enter his highness's household.
00:40:06Quite so, sir.
00:40:07What suite will she occupy?
00:40:11My innocent Watkins,
00:40:12do you think it's true?
00:40:14That's just a bait for the Ferengi.
00:40:16If either of them can read the moss code,
00:40:20the devil's in it if he doesn't give himself away.
00:40:23I beg pardon, sir.
00:40:24I didn't quite catch on.
00:40:27And if they move so much as an eyelash, Watkins?
00:40:34Then afterwards, if, as you were saying,
00:40:38they was to try to corrupt me, sir.
00:40:44That would be painting the lily with a vengeance.
00:40:48The person that tries to get at me, sir, what are your instructions?
00:40:51What do you mean?
00:40:52Oh, shall I let on to take the bait?
00:40:55You may do exactly as you like.
00:40:57I have implicit confidence in you, Watkins.
00:41:00Very good.
00:41:00I know that anything they have to offer you
00:41:03will have to be paid either in England or in India.
00:41:06And I know that you dare not show your nose in either country.
00:41:10You have a very comfortable job here.
00:41:13My grateful thanks to you, sir.
00:41:16And you don't want to give the hangman a job
00:41:19either in London or in India.
00:41:23So I rely entirely upon your discretion, Watkins.
00:41:27Yes.
00:41:29Watkins, when you finish,
00:41:33you'd better lock the door and say any orders.
00:41:38If I say no orders, Watkins,
00:41:42that would mean that I'm confident they don't understand.
00:41:46If I think they do understand,
00:41:49I'll give you what orders I think necessary.
00:41:55Yes.
00:41:59I think we ought to have the lady present, Watkins.
00:42:02Very good, Your Honor, sir.
00:42:09You're up to them, sir.
00:42:10You're up.
00:42:16Now, open the door and stand by.
00:42:29Oh, Major.
00:42:30Doctor.
00:42:31Watkins is just about to send out a wireless message.
00:42:35He might amuse you to see the instrument at work.
00:42:44This gentleman is the Apparelius.
00:42:49Oh, Madame.
00:42:52I thought you might like to witness
00:42:55our little wireless demonstration.
00:42:59Won't you sit down?
00:43:08Already Watkins?
00:43:10I haven't coded it yet, Your Honor.
00:43:13Oh, well.
00:43:14Send it in clear.
00:43:16I think we may safely send an order
00:43:18for twelve cases of champagne
00:43:20without causing international complications.
00:43:23Oh, yes.
00:43:35He's waiting for the reply signal.
00:43:40May I have one of your excellent cigars, Roger?
00:43:42By all means, a keeper of the will.
00:43:45Hold on, sir.
00:43:46He's got it.
00:44:14May we speak?
00:44:15Oh, yes.
00:44:17Let us drink and smoke.
00:44:19For tomorrow we...
00:44:26There.
00:44:28That is how it's done.
00:44:30Any order, sir?
00:44:33No order, Watkins.
00:44:52The first one?
00:44:54No order, sir.
00:44:55Oh, yes.
00:44:56The way it is.
00:44:58On the other way.
00:45:06And a very dangerous fanatic.
00:45:18His grace reminds me of some arrangements for tomorrow's ceremony,
00:45:24which as Archbishop of Canterbury, I am a tenu in person.
00:45:29Oh, allow me to introduce you.
00:45:32Mrs. Crespin, Major Crespin, Dr. Drahan, as his grace.
00:45:48The Archbishop's manners are not good.
00:45:52They regard you all, I regret to say, as unclean pictures.
00:45:56Only God.
00:46:02Will you pardon me?
00:46:04A prayer, make yourselves at home.
00:46:09And the other one.
00:46:13Salam!
00:46:13Salam!
00:46:14Salam!
00:46:20His grace says, own it one.
00:46:22And so do I.
00:46:33What was the message?
00:46:35It said, the lady has accepted her life on his terms.
00:46:40Oh, a trap for us.
00:46:42Of course.
00:46:43A put up job.
00:46:43You gave no time after me.
00:46:45He must have been reassured.
00:46:46Naturally, or he wouldn't have left us here.
00:46:47Then let's try to bribe Watkins.
00:46:49But even if that scoundrel can be bought,
00:46:51what good is it when I can't remember the wavelength of the call for I'm a Sarai?
00:46:54Salam.
00:46:55Oh, you'll think of it all of a sudden.
00:46:57In the meantime, let's see what we can do with Watkins.
00:46:59There's a bell there.
00:46:59No, no, wait a minute.
00:47:00We've got to decide what to do if he won't take money.
00:47:02If he won't take money, there's only one thing.
00:47:10What?
00:47:11What?
00:47:12Over there.
00:47:14Under the rocks.
00:47:18Quiet.
00:47:19I'm afraid it can't be helped.
00:47:24I'm going to ring for Watkins.
00:47:26Go ahead.
00:47:30Give me that shawl.
00:47:32Please.
00:47:57You're welcome.
00:47:58I'll submit for the message.
00:48:00Major Crespin, wife Traherne.
00:48:02Imprisoned, broke Rogers Palace.
00:48:04Death threatened tomorrow.
00:48:06Rescue urgent.
00:48:07That's good.
00:48:08Look out.
00:48:11You rang, sir?
00:48:13Yes, Watkins.
00:48:14Would you close that door and come over here?
00:48:26Mark.
00:48:28I dare say you know what we want to do.
00:48:29I ain't no end of guessing, sir.
00:48:31You know what's proposed for tomorrow?
00:48:34I've heard it's your number, sir.
00:48:36You surely don't intend to stand by and see us murdered.
00:48:39Three of your own people, and one of them a lady.
00:48:41Me own people, is it?
00:48:43And a lady.
00:48:45You want me to risk my life for the three of you?
00:48:48I wouldn't do for all you bloomin' England.
00:48:50You're wasting time to her and come to the point.
00:48:52I was just taking a chance, Major, that we might have misjudged our man.
00:48:55Well, you did.
00:48:56If you took him for a V.C. year old,
00:48:58what would lay down his life for England, dome, and beauty?
00:49:02The only thing England ever done for me
00:49:04was to wear me sent to a reformator
00:49:05for pinching a silver rattle off of a young aristocrat in his pramber later.
00:49:11And why did I do it?
00:49:13Because my mother would have bashed my face in if I'd come back empty-handed.
00:49:18That's what old man's beauty meant for me.
00:49:20The point is, what will you take to get us out of this?
00:49:23Get you out of this?
00:49:24Oh, how could I do that?
00:49:26By going into that room and sending out a message to the Amal Sarai Airdrones.
00:49:32Oh, that's the guy he made it.
00:49:34That, as you say, is the game.
00:49:36You know what you're risking?
00:49:37What do you mean?
00:49:38Well, if he's nibs, you as you go well through to India,
00:49:41it's ten to one, he'd wipe you off the slate.
00:49:43Like that.
00:49:45Without waiting for tomorrow.
00:49:46That makes no difference. We've got to take that chance.
00:49:48Come now, Watkins.
00:49:49On your own showing loyalty to your master of him to stand in your way.
00:49:52I don't suppose gratitude is one of your weaknesses?
00:49:54Gratitude?
00:49:56To him?
00:49:58What for?
00:49:59Oh, I ain't so badly over to be sure,
00:50:02but there's nothing to what I does for him.
00:50:04And I hate him for his funny little ways.
00:50:07But think I don't see he's always pulling me legs?
00:50:10Then you won't mind selling him.
00:50:12We've only just settled the price.
00:50:13That's all very fine, sir.
00:50:15But what do you gents got to offer?
00:50:18Well, we've had a little cash with us.
00:50:19We'll give you our I.O.Us.
00:50:21Now do I know you'll pay of it.
00:50:23I suppose you do know
00:50:24that there are people in this world
00:50:26who'd rather die than break a solemn promise.
00:50:28Even to a hound like you, Watkins.
00:50:30I vowed you to keep a civil tongue in your head, Major.
00:50:33Don't you forget I got you in the honor of my hand.
00:50:36True, Watkins, true.
00:50:37And the hollow of your hand's a very disagreeable place to be in.
00:50:39That's why we're ready to pay well to get out of it.
00:50:42Come now.
00:50:42What do you say?
00:50:45What about a little first installment in cash?
00:50:49Be it ever so once.
00:51:02I'll never mind the chicken for you.
00:51:05Now about the balance.
00:51:07Shall we say a thousand pounds?
00:51:08A thousand?
00:51:10What's the good of a thousand pounds to me?
00:51:13Now, sir, if I'm going to do this job,
00:51:16I've got to have enough to make a gentleman of me.
00:51:21We'll make it two thousand and I'll see what can be done.
00:51:24All right.
00:51:27Thank you kindly, sir.
00:51:30Oh, and you too, lady.
00:51:32You're very welcome.
00:51:37Oh, now, Major, may I sign it too?
00:51:47There you are, you gentleman.
00:51:54The message first.
00:51:56Oh, all right, all right.
00:51:59Now go to work and call the Prime Minister Rice.
00:52:02Oh, all right.
00:52:06Do you know the call, Prime Minister Rice?
00:52:09That's all right, sir.
00:52:11I know it.
00:52:37That's not a call for Emil Sarai.
00:52:41Got him, sir.
00:52:42Now the message.
00:52:44That's not a message.
00:52:46He's not sending a message at all.
00:52:50He's holding us.
00:52:52He's holding us.
00:52:55He's holding us.
00:53:27He's holding us.
00:53:37Well, at least we didn't take it lying down.
00:53:44Wait!
00:53:46I have it!
00:53:48Yes, by God, I have it!
00:53:50I remember the call!
00:53:52Of course!
00:54:00Let me alone! Can you lock the door?
00:54:04No keys here!
00:54:05I'm holding! I can't see anyone coming!
00:54:07You get any answer?
00:54:08I haven't the power, but if even money I can get them!
00:54:11Quick! The Roger may come at any moment!
00:54:13Well, that's why it's so long, the agent's suspect!
00:54:14What do I care? As long as I can get him to make his foe!
00:54:17Well, Anthony, if you can do that, we'll save!
00:54:19He's coming! He's crossing the tunnel now! Quick!
00:54:22Quick! Quick!
00:54:22Can you do it, Anthony?
00:54:23Wait! Wait! Wait!
00:54:24What is that?
00:54:25Who is holding us down?
00:54:27Hurry up!
00:54:28Hurry up!
00:54:29Hurry up!
00:54:32Got me!
00:54:47Did you get this through?
00:54:54No!
00:54:58No!
00:55:03All over, eh?
00:55:06And he didn't get it through.
00:55:10The Major has laid down his life in vain.
00:55:13We shall adhere to our program for tomorrow.
00:55:20One life has been sacrificed.
00:55:23My people demand two others.
00:55:26A life for a life.
00:55:30Oh God!
00:55:34Yes, sir!
00:55:38Yes, sir.
00:55:40Oh God!
00:55:50Yes, sir!
00:55:52Yes, sir!
00:55:53Yes, sir!
00:55:54Yes, sir!
00:55:56Yes, sir!
00:55:58That's the move!
00:55:59Oh, see a book of good looking.
00:56:30Oh
00:56:47Yeah, bingo
00:56:59So you've come for the last lap.
00:57:01It has to be run sometime, you know.
00:57:03Why am I brought here?
00:57:04This is where the final rake begins.
00:57:07What have you done with Mrs. Crespin?
00:57:09Don't be alarmed. She'll be here in due time.
00:57:12Roger.
00:57:13Do what you will with me, but let Mrs. Crespin go.
00:57:16I'm sure for her children's sake she'll swear to keep absolute silence.
00:57:20And you don't believe I could not save you if I would?
00:57:24Believe it? No.
00:57:26You are quite right, Doctor.
00:57:29I am not a high priest for nothing.
00:57:31I might work the oracle.
00:57:33I might get a command from the goddess to hurt no hair upon your head.
00:57:38Then what devilish pleasure do you find in putting us to death?
00:57:41The pleasure of a double vengeance, Doctor Gohan.
00:57:44Vengeance for today, my brothers,
00:57:46and vengeance for centuries of subjection and insult.
00:58:02I am lying at the feet of the goddess.
00:58:07You see I have three brothers.
00:58:10A head for a head.
00:58:22Vengeance for today, Doctor.
00:58:25Now lay it at the feet of the goddess.
00:58:25I'm ringing Mrs. Kessner.
00:59:14I apologize, madame, for the manners of my people.
00:59:19Their villages are beyond my control.
00:59:22How long have we left?
00:59:23When the sun reaches the green goddess here,
00:59:27then the great gun will sound,
00:59:29and you'll be led to the shadow of the goddess out yonder.
00:59:35Will you grant us one last request?
00:59:40I wonder if you've granted Watkins his last request.
00:59:44Poor Watkins, a great loss to me.
00:59:48But I bear no malice for a fair act of war.
00:59:53What is your request?
00:59:55That you leave us alone for the time that remains to us.
00:59:58Alone?
01:00:00Of thy own need.
01:00:06Good job.
01:00:11Far I go, madame, may I remind you of my offer of yesterday.
01:00:17It is not yet too late.
01:00:22Is it fair to your children to refuse?
01:00:24I will not be able to refuse.
01:00:26Immoveable?
01:00:28So be it.
01:00:41Oh, the best is the end.
01:00:49Don't go still, Father.
01:00:52If I could only have seen my children again,
01:00:55if I could only have told them how their father died.
01:00:58There was something fine about him.
01:01:00He proved that yesterday.
01:01:02Poor Anthony.
01:01:04What offer did that devil make you?
01:01:07He offered to let me live and to bring my children here to me.
01:01:11You know on what terms.
01:01:13To bring your children here?
01:01:16He said in a month I might have them in my arms.
01:01:19Think of it.
01:01:20Ronnie and Iris in my arms.
01:01:22Are you sure you did right to refuse?
01:01:26You mean...
01:01:27Are you sure it isn't wrong to refuse?
01:01:30Father, I should die of shame and misery.
01:01:34Then my children would be left to the mercy of this man.
01:01:40Forgive me, but I felt I had to ask.
01:01:46Father, do you think that after death I may see them again?
01:01:52Who knows, Lucilla.
01:01:54Your spirit may be with them all the days of their lives.
01:01:57But I want them in my arms.
01:01:59And I love a child I can't give.
01:02:02That can't look me in the eyes and kiss me back again.
01:02:05Don't, Lucilla.
01:02:06Don't.
01:02:07Don't remind me of all that we're losing.
01:02:10Of all this life might have meant for you and me.
01:02:14For you and me, Lucilla.
01:02:19I meant to have left it all unspoken.
01:02:22But we've only one more moment now between us and eternity.
01:02:27Do you know what it's meant to me to live these years without you?
01:02:30See you bound by ties I couldn't ask you to break?
01:02:34Yes, I know.
01:02:35I have known from the beginning.
01:02:38Oh, it's a mockery to speak of love without hands, touch with lips, to kiss me.
01:02:44We've thrown away all the beauty and the glory of life.
01:02:47We've been fools.
01:02:48We've been cowards.
01:02:49No, dear.
01:02:50Don't call it cowardice.
01:02:51We've been brave.
01:02:53Brave.
01:02:55For I have loved you always.
01:02:59Oh, my dear.
01:03:01Oh, dear.
01:03:13The sun has reached the darkness.
01:03:16The shadow is upon us.
01:03:20The time has come.
01:03:29Goodbye.
01:03:31Fear not.
01:04:02May I trouble you to move a little on one side?
01:04:07I am, for the moment, not a king, but a priest.
01:04:12I must observe a sudden dignity.
01:04:18Ridiculous, isn't it?
01:04:35I must do violence to my feelings, madame, by including you in the approaching ceremony.
01:04:42There is still time.
01:04:45The autocrats are badly brought up.
01:04:47We are not accustomed to having our desires denied.
01:04:50Will you never stop tormenting her?
01:04:52I repeat my offer to your children.
01:04:54I die a hundred times rather than see them in your hands.
01:04:56Remember my power.
01:04:58If I may not take you back to my palace as my queen,
01:05:01I can send you back as my...
01:05:04Devil!
01:05:04Die!
01:05:06Bring it not die!
01:05:07I...
01:05:07Go on to the blue bar.
01:05:09Go on to the blue bar.
01:05:10That's the good story.
01:05:11That's the good story.
01:05:12That's the good story.
01:05:17That's the good story!
01:05:29My colleagues insist on subjecting you to a process of expiation.
01:05:34You mean torture?
01:05:35Yes.
01:05:36Not you, madame.
01:05:37Not you.
01:05:38They're knocking your hand away.
01:05:39I'll speak to you.
01:05:40Speak to you all out.
01:05:41Oh, you sinner.
01:05:43I beg you.
01:05:47I beg you.
01:05:48Grand the Lord.
01:05:57Let him go unharmed.
01:05:58And it shall be as you wish.
01:06:02So, you do for your lover what you would not do to have your children restored to you.
01:06:09Well, suppose I agree.
01:06:12Would he accept the sacrifice?
01:06:13No, no, he wouldn't, but he must have no choice.
01:06:15That's part of the bargain.
01:06:17You don't care what he thinks of you.
01:06:19He will know what to think.
01:06:20And I, too, know what to think.
01:06:23You think of my eyes.
01:06:24And tell me that you honestly intend to keep your part of the bargain.
01:06:28Ha!
01:06:29I knew it.
01:06:30You are playing with me.
01:06:33I must be played with.
01:06:34The confiding barbarian is not so simple as you imagine.
01:06:37You think when the time comes to pay up that you'll put me up with your dead body.
01:06:42Let me tell you I have no use for your dead.
01:06:44I want you with all the blood in your veins, with all the pride in that damn sly brain of
01:06:51yours,
01:06:52I'll strip off the delicate English lady and come down to the elemental woman.
01:06:57Now, I'll make your pain up.
01:07:00I will, for Dr. DeHaan, over the country, I want a bishop.
01:07:04Would you authorize him to hand over your children?
01:07:06Never, never.
01:07:07I'll make no bargain involved my children.
01:07:09You see, you are giving me no hostages.
01:07:12I must have a pledge.
01:07:14For without that pledge, I don't believe in you one little bit.
01:07:18What pledge?
01:07:19Only one is possible.
01:07:20Dr. DeHaan himself.
01:07:22I may save his life while keeping him in prison.
01:07:24And when you have fulfilled your bond, fulfilled it,
01:07:28when you are flesh of my flesh and the mother of my child,
01:07:31then I'll let him go free.
01:07:33At the moment you attempt to evade your pledge,
01:07:36I'll hand him over to the priests,
01:07:38and I'll put no restraint upon their savages.
01:07:40It is, it is for you, madame, that you choose.
01:07:54Oh, my!
01:07:55Oh, my!
01:07:58Oh, my!
01:07:59Oh, my!
01:08:01Oh, my!
01:08:01Oh, my!
01:08:02Oh, my!
01:08:05Oh, my!
01:08:13Oh, my!
01:08:15Oh, my!
01:08:15I'm all right.
01:08:17I'm all right.
01:09:00So, Major outwitted us all, eh?
01:09:04Lied like a gentleman.
01:09:06Good old Major.
01:09:08I didn't think he had an interest.
01:09:11One of your planes has landed.
01:09:13I have sent a pressing invitation for the officer to come here.
01:09:18Perhaps I'd better receive him with some ceremony.
01:09:50Thank God we're in time.
01:09:52Is this Mrs. Creston?
01:09:54And, uh, Major Creston?
01:09:55The Major Creston was shot.
01:09:57Shot while transmitting our message by...
01:10:01Who are you?
01:10:03I'm the Roger of the Rooks.
01:10:05Who are you?
01:10:06Flight Lieutenant Cardew.
01:10:07I am directed to demand the immediate freedom of His Majesty's subject, forcibly detained by you.
01:10:13Demand?
01:10:13I am prepared to discuss terms.
01:10:16I'm not here to discuss terms.
01:10:18My men in the other planes are circling about.
01:10:20If they get no signal from me within three minutes of my landing...
01:10:30Bones!
01:10:31Exactly.
01:10:32Bones!
01:10:32Bones!
01:10:33Bones!
01:10:34Bones!
01:10:35If you kill one of my people, no power enough can save them.
01:10:39Easy, easy, Roger.
01:10:40There's no harm done yet.
01:10:41That one fell in the ravine.
01:10:43It was only an indication of what we can do.
01:10:45If you do not immediately hand over this lady and gentleman, and let me signal that fact to my squadron
01:10:50commander, the next bomb...
01:10:52Well, if you're wise, there won't be a next bomb.
01:10:59Well, I think I must admit, Lieutenant Cardew, that my game is up.
01:11:07I give you.
01:11:08This comes to falling behind the tide.
01:11:11If I'd only had anti-aircraft guns.
01:11:14Thank your stars you haven't.
01:11:15Then you accept our demands.
01:11:17Barbara Tasha bows to civilize you.
01:11:20Then provide us an escort through the crowd while I signal.
01:11:23He's much taken.
01:11:24He's much taken.
01:11:25Pujo.
01:11:27Yana jinga.
01:11:28He's gonna go out.
01:11:47And now, it only remains for me...
01:11:50To speed the parting gift.
01:11:52I hope to me one day, when you are acquainted, you're not here.
01:11:56I fail to foresee, that I shall have to join the other kings next hour.
01:12:02Perhaps we may meet in Humber, or in Monte Carlo, and talk over old town.
01:12:08Ah.
01:12:10Here is your escort.
01:12:12Where?
01:12:14Where?
01:12:17Where?
01:12:19Where?
01:12:20Mr. Trespeed.
01:12:21Have my left with you.
01:12:42Very well...
01:12:43...she'd probably have been a damn nuisance.
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