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1976 PERIOD DRAMA "A con artist, posing as a Baron, dupes a greedy American guest and seduces a lonely young bride, as a vigilant and intrigued Louisa monitors his every move." Starring Gemma Jones, Leigh Lawson, Angharad Rees, John Cater, John Welsh
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00:34mm-hmm cool this suit you sir George yeah got a bathroom of course
00:55of course you'll be gone by the time you come I should hope so got a room for my
01:00wife well ain't that big big enough thing my dear good woman no sensible man
01:05wants to spend all night in bed with a woman if he can afford not to well there's
01:12this room over here
01:21well that'll do how much do you charge you? with breakfast free guineas. ruins. you people are all robbers
01:31does that including a sitting room as well? no I'm sorry sir George they're all took. well this one
01:36seems empty enough. uh-uh that's Azelmares and he's promised to a total gentleman come from the
01:41continent a baron. damn foreigners for as I'm concerned mrs. strotter black men begin at
01:47carry. your tickets my lord starts at a quarter to eight madam. champagne and
01:57thirty-four is in your room at midnight sir. general clerk's expecting you my lord number
02:02five up the stairs second door on the left.
02:09your carriage is waiting sir George. damn well hope it is waiting if it weren't exactly good.
02:14we're going to the opera and we're late as usual.
02:21good evening sir. star? yes sir.
02:25oh baron yes sir we're expecting you.
02:27lord hazelmere told me to trust you in everything except your advice on horses.
02:32mrs. trotter how about some more champagne? oh thank you senator.
02:40what the devil have you been doing woman? i'm so sorry George please don't be angry.
02:48if you could spare a moment baron mrs trotter would like to see you. of course.
02:56who is that ma'am? i've no idea. why was he ogling you? hmm? some damned puddle faker. come on.
03:08this is indeed a pleasure. it's nice to have you baron. how long will you be staying? a few days.
03:14perhaps a week. i've come over especially for important conferences with my tailor and my shirt
03:19maker. i'll put you in lord hazelmere's room seeing as a friend of yours. a very good friend.
03:24he sends his kindest regards. how is he? in the best of health. and since he saved the old marchesa
03:29fantucci from drowning when her carriage went careering into the harbor he is the toast of monte
03:34carlo. monte carlo? who said monte carlo? don't mind him. senator meet this is baron paul. what's
03:48going on to make your queen's baron? deeply honored. you know you're the first genuine baron i've ever
03:52had the honor to bump into. well aren't you going to offer the baron a drink senator? indeed i am.
03:58must have a drink for my uh what you call it mrs trotter? your cherry bum. hey my cherry bum.
04:05he's ever
04:05such a nice boy really. the first american. quelle chance. uh oh thank you. very pleased and honored
04:16to propose the toast to the baron. a real live genuine cherry bum for a real live genuine baron.
04:26skin off your nose. oh and off yours mrs trotter.
04:31you will excuse me senator if i drink to my own health.
04:40bought for number three. whiskey after all that champagne.
04:44the american gentleman like many others i observed who have come from that country appears to have
04:50hollow legs. what are they doing up there? playing poker and the american gentleman is using marked cards.
04:58i'm on for it. christen the lamp post one last time then we'll shut up shop and go to bed.
05:08raise your ten.
05:14double.
05:20i'll see you.
05:25oh you have a flush is that right?
05:28no no baron. that is called a full house. queen's high. that's right full house. queen's high.
05:36you're too good for me senator. ah you'll get the knack in time baron. i'm quite astonished to find that
05:41you've never played poker before. do you know that? thank you.
05:44will that be all sir? that'll be all. thank you. thank you. a few games of basique and a hand
05:50of piquet with my old great aunt the princess. that's about all the cards that were allowed in my family.
05:56help yourself senator. i'm not a real senator you know baron. that's uh just one of mrs trotter's
06:04wry little jokes. my name is crocker. carlis c crocker. i'm delighted to make your acquaintance
06:12mr crocker. call me carlis. coolis. i'm gratified. i'm just a country boy from cedar rapids hour.
06:23made my pile can of beef. chicago. ccc the best beef there be. expect your head of it. oh yes
06:30of
06:31quotes. yeah ccc that's me. nothing wrong with money eh baron? no indeed. i'm glad to hear you
06:39say that. i wouldn't be here now without it. yeah only one thing wrong with my life. what's that? my
06:48wife. she's not here? god forbid. oh no. she's been took religious. she's in des moines. yeah she's took
06:55religious and she's took against drink. nearly ruined my life. oh i had to invent this trip
07:00in europe just to save my sanity. another drink. why not? we got another week. no time to waste huh?
07:11hey if you won't think it rude my asking baron. what do you do? do? for a living. a living?
07:19oh you mean
07:20how do i live? well i live uh like like this in a pleasant sort of way. i mean what
07:27do you do for work?
07:29work? yeah. what work do you do? but i don't do any work. well none of your family do any
07:36work. not that
07:37i've heard of. not for several hundred years anyway. you see my family have always had big estates in
07:42bohemia and thuringia. money and commerce are never mentioned at home. well you must be rich. not ever have
07:50to make money. not even to talk about it. in fact i can only think of one of my forebears
07:58who made money.
07:59my great great uncle philippe. he did literally make money. well most people have to make money to live.
08:07no no. i mean he actually manufactured money. you mean he had a printing press? a mint of his own?
08:17i think it's a story better left hidden in the midst of time. not a very creditable chapter in the
08:23history of my family. look baron. i won't think no worse of you or your family for it.
08:30i've sailed pretty close to the wind once or twice myself.
08:37toward the end of the 18th century it became clear to my great great uncle philippe
08:43that one of the foremen on his estates had sired a young man with a genius for invention.
08:49my great great uncle being a philanthropic sort of man sent the boy to study in vienna
08:55where he quickly astonished his professors.
09:02one of his inventions was a machine for reproducing paper money.
09:07a sort of magic box. well that's a useful kind of box. i wish people could still make toys like
09:14that.
09:15anyway it probably wasn't quite as good as you said it was at the time. oh yes it was.
09:20well you really know that for sure? oh yes you see the box still exists. it exists?
09:28you mean uh
09:32where? under god in a vault. uh somewhere on the continent. no no here in london as a matter of
09:38fact.
09:39i always take it with me wherever i go. it is a promise i made to my father on his
09:44deathbed
09:44when he put it into my hands. put it into your hands? it's not uh... no no no no no
09:51no. well uh
09:53what's it like? a small wooden box. beautifully made. typical 18th century craftsmanship. boy well
10:00i'd give just to see it. you couldn't uh... no no of course not. what? well allow me the very
10:10special privilege of seeing it. huh? just once.
10:18well perhaps sometime before i leave. well that'll just about kept my trip to europe.
10:24all right if it would really amuse you so very much i'll bring it here tomorrow.
10:29to this very room? for your eyes alone. baron i am deeply gratified. may i say touched by your
10:40confidence in me. well you have a singer for a neighbor. yes. hope she doesn't go on all night.
10:49huh? i say could i borrow back ten pounds? surely. let you have it back in the morning.
10:56thank you. good night goodness. good night baron.
11:03thank you.
12:23no cabs about anywhere I'm afraid sir if I don't get one I shall be late for a most
12:28important engagement. cabs are as difficult to find as honest horse
12:31stealers on wet days like this one. oh excuse me might I ask in which direction
12:35you're going? several row madam but I have no conveyance. but I have my carriage and I'm
12:40going to Bond Street. would you think it very forward of me to offer you a lift in it?
12:44indeed I would not. good morning lady Adam good morning Baron. you have met? not exactly.
12:50might I introduce you? lady Adam is an angel sent straight from heaven as far as
12:54I'm concerned. that's nice. she's about to save me from the ultimate disgrace being
12:59late for an appointment with my tailor.
13:05but George it was raining so hard. all I did was give the poor man a lift. have you
13:10considered what people will say when we hear that the new young wife of sir
13:13George Adam is in the habit of taking strange men round the west end of London
13:17in his carriage. I shall be the laughingstock of London. it was quite a short way and he
13:23was so grateful. yes I'm sure he was and so will all the gossip be grateful as well. you have
13:29no idea how to behave madam. none at all.
13:31it's the way a woman of the tongue would act. a street walker. a whore. George I won't be spoken
13:37to like that.
13:38you will. there. you're not the first bad mannered filly I've broken in me time. you need teaching a lesson.
13:47and you shall be.
13:48look George I'm sorry.
13:51too late.
13:54stop and listen to your old lover. I'll send you home.
13:57but George my maid. I'm not undressed.
14:02don't tell me you can't undress your shirt.
14:04don't tell me you can't undress your shirt.
14:20well.
14:21have you got the machine?
14:22as promised.
14:24I must ask you to give me your word that everything you see or hear in this room within the
14:30next few minutes will go no further than these four walls.
14:32Surely I will.
14:58Here it is.
15:01And here...
15:04is one of the first notes the boy made with it.
15:08How many of these boxes did that young fellow make?
15:11Only one. This is the only one in existence.
15:14Shortly after the boy made it he...
15:17met with a fatal accident.
15:18Arranged some say by my great great uncle.
15:21You see philanthropist as he was he was also a very practical man.
15:25And he believed there are some people on this earth who are better dead than alive.
15:30For the safety of the rest of mankind.
15:33I guess your uncle had his head screwed on the right way.
15:35I suppose it should really be in a scientific museum but...
15:41I like to keep it a souvenir, a heirloom, a beautiful and amusing toy if you like.
15:49If only it still worked.
15:51Oh it's in perfect working order.
15:54It's not.
15:55Yes it is.
15:56Of course I never use it except very occasionally to amuse my friends.
16:00You see in the wrong hands it could be rather a dangerous toy.
16:03That's why I make sure very few people even know of its existence.
16:07You're right there.
16:08Dead right.
16:10I suppose I couldn't ask you to give me the very great privilege of a demonstration.
16:17Why not?
16:19May I have the loan of the note you lent me last night for just a little longer?
16:22Surely.
16:24Here is your note.
16:28And similar paper you see.
16:38I assure you no harm will come to your money.
16:41The secret of how it works died with its inventor.
16:45But the mechanism is activated by clockwork.
16:51How long does it take?
16:53Twelve hours.
16:54Twelve hours precisely.
16:59So.
17:03Now.
17:07We will leave it in peace.
17:11And.
17:12I hope you will pay me another visit this evening.
17:15Surely.
17:20Yes come in.
17:23Any boots for cleaning sir?
17:24Oh yes.
17:25I wanted a word with you sir.
17:36Thank you sir.
17:41Now.
17:42What about a drink?
17:43Oh I'm not sure the most delightful brocade I've found.
17:46Freeway skirt.
17:47Or perhaps a dressing gown.
17:49Very tasteful Baron.
17:51But if you'll excuse me I have to be off to a luncheon engagement.
17:55Au revoir.
17:55To listen.
17:57I don't know how I'll stick the waiting.
18:00I don't know how I'll stick the waiting.
18:28I won't trust you.
18:30To leave.
18:30To be fine.
18:41I'll stick the waiting.
18:42Better to wait for him.
18:46I'll stick my room.
18:49If you want to try my room if you want to be off to sit down.
18:50I'll stick it in the room.
18:52Also.
18:54This one is over.
18:54I'll stick this to you.
18:55I'll do this to you.
19:55And he asked me, confidential, if a way could be found for him to add possession of the key to
20:00the connecting door to the next room.
20:03I see.
20:06Well, why not let him have his bit of fun?
20:09He's a nice looking boy.
20:12There you are.
20:14Well, careful how it's done, eh?
20:16Of course, ma'am.
20:18Here, Star, how much?
20:21How much what, madam?
20:22How much grease did he put on your palm?
20:25Come on, I wasn't born yesterday.
20:37Eight quid for Lady Adam and Eve and Kiss Me Quick.
20:39That's a bit cheap, isn't it?
20:41Here, here's your perks.
20:45And don't forget, no one else in this hotel goes about selling keys.
20:49Only me.
20:50Oh, indeed, madam.
20:51Not on my account.
20:52Right.
20:55Precisely 12 hours.
20:56You will lock the door, please.
21:08This part is rather complicated.
21:20Now, we wait 10 seconds.
21:25Hmm.
21:36No, no, don't, don't touch.
21:40Don't touch.
22:05There we are.
22:09Hmm.
22:10Hmm.
22:12Yeah.
22:17Well, I can't tell which is the false one.
22:19Neither of them is false.
22:21One is an exact copy of the other.
22:23No one could tell them apart.
22:24Oh, not even an expert?
22:26In the morning, you take them to a bank, or rather, to separate banks, of course.
22:31Of course.
22:31Ask the opinion of anyone in the bank.
22:34The teller, the cashier, anyone you like.
22:37But be careful.
22:39Never to let a living soul see you with those two notes together.
22:43No one in this country knows of the existence of this machine except you and me.
22:48Oh, I swear I won't.
22:51Don't let anyone see you leaving my room, eh?
22:53Be on the safe side.
22:55Yes.
22:57Yes.
23:21The porter requests me to give you this, sir.
23:24Oh, thank you, Merriman.
23:26Will that be all, sir?
23:27That'll be all, thank you.
23:28Thank you, sir.
23:31Eh, porridge and devil kidneys for breakfast as usual, sir.
23:34As usual, thank you, Merriman.
23:36Thank you, sir.
24:08Oh, my dear lady, Adam, I had no idea this was your room.
24:13Yes.
24:14I heard the noise of someone apparently in distress and finding the door was open.
24:19I, I, I, please accept my apologies, sir.
24:23I'm sorry if I've disturbed you.
24:26Good evening.
24:27Oh, baron.
24:28Wait, please, wait.
24:30What is it?
24:32Oh, my lady is unhappy.
24:36Yes.
24:37Warm yourself.
24:39Oh, thank you.
24:42Oh.
24:44Would you like some coffee and a sandwich?
24:47Oh, yes, please.
24:49I'm famished.
24:55I say, what a nice room you've got.
24:57Yes.
24:59You do have a lot of pictures of animals, don't you?
25:06They're so much nicer than human beings.
25:09I mean, much more handsome, don't you agree?
25:12Most human beings.
25:15We have a picture of a bull at home.
25:17A prize bull.
25:19It must have weighed tons.
25:22It's got the biggest, biggest horns you've ever seen.
25:28And sheep.
25:30Not looking like real sheep at all, but a lot of woolly haystacks.
25:37I say, what a funny pass.
25:40Oh, please, don't touch it.
25:42Why not?
25:43Well, it's rather delicate.
25:45You're just like my husband.
25:47He won't let me touch any of the china or anything at home in case I break it.
25:52Oh, excuse me.
25:53Haven't had any supper.
25:55No supper?
25:56But you could always ring the bell for a wait.
25:59My door's locked.
26:01My husband locks me in my room at night.
26:04But...
26:04But why?
26:06He's angry with me.
26:09You see, ever since you've been in London, men keep looking at me.
26:14Well, I can't help it.
26:16You should take it as a compliment.
26:17Oh, I do.
26:18But my husband doesn't.
26:21He was furious with me because of you.
26:24Because of me?
26:25Because I took you in our carriage.
26:27Now, was that so very wrong?
26:29I thought perhaps it was with his permission.
26:32I shall, of course, explain everything in the moment.
26:34Oh, no, no, don't.
26:35He wouldn't understand.
26:35You see, he thinks you're a poodle faker.
26:37He doesn't very much like foreigners.
26:39Oh, forgive me for saying that.
26:41It's not what I think.
26:43But I'm sorry to say that I'm finding my husband is rather a bad-tempered old man.
26:50My dear poor lady.
26:52Don't cry.
26:56There.
26:57Yes.
26:58That's better.
27:01May I ask you a personal question?
27:04Yes.
27:05Why did you marry Sir George?
27:08Was it to escape from something else?
27:12Oh, yes.
27:13How did you know that?
27:15Oh, most people marry to escape from something.
27:18Do they?
27:19Gracious, how sad.
27:20What were you trying to escape from?
27:23Oh, everything, I suppose.
27:26The life I was leading.
27:29You see, we live in the country where George is the local bigwig.
27:33My father was a parson,
27:35but he died last year and left my sister,
27:37my mother and myself without hardly a penny.
27:41Poor as church mice.
27:43Oh.
27:45I didn't mind so much being poor because I was used to it.
27:48But life at home was awful
27:50because my sister is a pig.
27:53Quite a nice-looking pig, but a pig.
27:55And we used to quarrel all the time.
27:59Well, I was faced with having to become the companion of an awful old harridan
28:04when George saw me in church.
28:06He doesn't often go, so it must have been Easter or something.
28:10He kept staring at me from that great big family pew of his
28:14with all the coats of arms on it.
28:16He really looked like God.
28:18Then after church he talked to my mother
28:21saying how sorry he was that father had died and that sort of thing.
28:24Then he invited us for tea
28:26and then the next Sunday asked me to marry him.
28:29And you said yes?
28:31Well, yes.
28:33He lived in a great house in a lovely park
28:36and everybody said how rich he was.
28:39My poor mother was so pathetically pleased.
28:43Of course, I didn't know George then.
28:46But I don't think anybody does when they get married.
28:49I have no idea. I'm not married myself.
28:52Oh.
28:53Why do I think they do?
28:54The whole thing's bound to be like a lottery.
28:57And you really married for your family's sake?
28:59Well, that was a kind thing to do.
29:01Well, not really.
29:03I'm married to spite my sister if you really want to know
29:06because she was so jealous.
29:08Wasn't that wicked?
29:11Yes.
29:13Have some brandy.
29:15Oh, yes, please.
29:18Oh, no, I've eaten all your sandwiches.
29:20Don't worry.
29:21I did have supper.
29:24May I give you some advice?
29:27Yes, please.
29:29Be very careful
29:31to behave absolutely correctly
29:33to your husband
29:34and to everyone else in public
29:36however boring it may be.
29:39And then you will be able
29:40to enjoy yourself more easily
29:41in private.
29:43You mean play possum?
29:45I've not heard the expression...
29:47We used to say it at school.
29:49Ah.
29:49Will you teach me?
29:51Teach you what?
29:53How to enjoy myself more easily in private.
29:56Wait.
29:58We'll have to see.
30:00But not tonight.
30:15Senator Zinaria, Fred.
30:24It's a miracle, Baron.
30:25A goddamn miracle.
30:27I went to the Bank of America,
30:29the First National Bank of Chicago,
30:30and both the chief cashiers
30:32say the notes are genuine.
30:35Of course.
30:37Hey.
30:38Hey, that's mine.
30:39No, no, that one's yours.
30:40This one's mine.
30:42Ah, but how do you know
30:43which one is which?
30:44You said there was no difference.
30:45No, there was.
30:47Ah.
30:48One of them was kind of it, wasn't it?
30:50No, they were both exactly the same.
30:52Ah, but, uh,
30:54tearing up money,
30:55that seems a real pity.
30:57Oh, well,
30:58I have to admit that sometimes
31:00even I am tempted.
31:03Well, uh,
31:04if you ever need money,
31:06I'll, uh,
31:07I'll buy that box off you.
31:08For cash
31:09at a really handsome price.
31:11No, no, no, no.
31:12No question of that.
31:14I don't want to sound too old-fashioned.
31:16It's...
31:18It's a question of honor.
31:20Family honor.
31:22Family honor, huh?
31:23Now, that's a damn tough thing
31:25for a man like me to understand.
31:27Yeah, that's, uh,
31:28that's something mighty powerful.
31:30I'm sorry, Collis.
31:31I have to get dressed.
31:32I have an appointment with my bootmaker.
31:33Sure, sure.
31:34Uh, perhaps a little, uh,
31:36poker game later on?
31:37Why not?
31:38I've bought some cards.
31:43Oh, I don't know.
31:46Talk about throwing money away.
31:48I thought it was right
31:49to draw your attention to this incident, ma'am.
31:50Yeah, you were quite right, Merriman.
31:53For a man who looks like a desiccated old bat,
31:55you've got remarkable sharp eyes.
31:57Thank you, ma'am.
31:59That you were kind enough to observe
32:00the good Lord has blessed me
32:01with a good pair of eyes,
32:02and eyes are to be used
32:04if you take my meaning.
32:04Come on out with it.
32:05Stop blethering.
32:07I should like to draw your attention
32:08to another aspect
32:09of the gentleman in number three.
32:11What aspect?
32:12If you can spare me five minutes, ma'am.
32:16You've got no right
32:17to go poking and prying about
32:18in the guest rooms?
32:19No, no, ma'am.
32:20Of course not.
32:20It's just I happen to observe the gentleman.
32:22What is it, then?
32:23Peculiar looking thing.
32:25Bone, is it?
32:26Eh, not that I know, ma'am.
32:28No, it's just I happen to remember
32:29seeing a similar object many years ago
32:31when I was working
32:33in the first class dining saloon
32:34on the passenger ship.
32:35It belonged to a gentleman.
32:37He was also a foreign gentleman, ma'am.
32:39And another gentleman,
32:40that appears at the time,
32:41had boarded off the first gentleman.
32:43Merriman?
32:43Well, anyway,
32:44when we reached the plate,
32:46that's the river plate
32:47in South America, ma'am,
32:48the police came on board
32:50and arrested the foreign gentleman.
32:52Crook, was he?
32:53Oh, yes, ma'am.
32:53So it appears at the time.
32:55He went to prison, certainly,
32:56and no doubt he'd never come out.
32:58Oh, them prisoners of South America, ma'am.
32:59What was his crime?
33:00Oh, at that time,
33:01never did find out exactly, ma'am,
33:03but the police came back
33:04and they examined
33:05every single piece of paper money
33:07there was on that ship.
33:09Well, you're a proper little old Sherlock Holmes,
33:12no mistake.
33:12Oh, thank you, ma'am.
33:14If I might suggest, ma'am,
33:15don't you think it might be advisable
33:17to warn the American gentleman?
33:19Warn him?
33:20Warn him about what?
33:21Eh, well, eh,
33:22Look, Merriman,
33:22you're the waiter here,
33:23not the bloody manager.
33:25What people do or don't do
33:26in this hotel
33:27is their business,
33:28and mine.
33:29Eh?
33:30And I'm not the lawyer,
33:31except when it comes
33:31to getting rid of me staff.
33:34Oh.
33:36Can I double?
33:38Sure you can if you want to.
33:40Well,
33:41I'm probably wrong,
33:44but I'll double.
33:48I'll see you.
33:50Full house,
33:50King's High.
33:53You're sure getting
33:53a real knack
33:54for this game, Baron.
33:55Using your cards.
33:56Must be lucky.
33:57Your deal.
33:58Well, if you'll forgive me, Baron,
34:00I've got something
34:01more serious than cards
34:03to talk to you about.
34:05All the day,
34:06I haven't been able
34:08to get the thought
34:08of that box
34:09out of my mind.
34:10If you'll excuse me saying so,
34:12it's far too valuable
34:14to be left lying around
34:14in hotel rooms
34:15where anyone could steal it.
34:17Oh, I'm sure no one
34:18except you or I
34:19would have the least idea
34:20what it was.
34:21Or hidden away
34:22in some old vault
34:23where no one
34:24could ever see it.
34:26That box
34:27is of great historic
34:29and scientific interest.
34:30And I've got a proposition
34:32to put to you, Baron.
34:36Ever since I set foot
34:38in Europe,
34:39I've been deeply impressed
34:41by the sense of history,
34:43the sense of tradition
34:45that I found
34:45that I found all around me.
34:47Well, I guess we'd all
34:48like to leave
34:49a little bit of ourselves
34:50on this earth
34:50to be remembered by.
34:54Well,
34:56I am going to build
34:57a museum.
34:59The Colisee Crocker
35:00Museum of Science.
35:01But that's a noble idea.
35:03Bang in the middle
35:04of one of the greatest cities
35:05in the world.
35:06Chicago.
35:07People are going to come
35:08from all over
35:08the civilized world
35:09to see that museum, Baron,
35:10and shall I tell you why.
35:13They will make a pilgrimage
35:14to the Oppendorf room
35:16of my museum
35:17to see one of the great marvels
35:19of scientific history.
35:22That is,
35:23if you'll let me have your box.
35:27It's a most generous offer, Colise,
35:29and don't think
35:30I don't appreciate it.
35:31It's just that
35:33I have to think of the promise
35:35I made to my father
35:36and the promise
35:37The name of your family
35:38will be preserved
35:40and honored forevermore
35:41in the halls of fame, Baron.
35:44I'll give you $20,000 for it.
35:47In cash.
35:49$24,000.
35:50Now that is really being generous.
35:57He's set to get it all
35:58from the Marconi office
35:59before it closes.
36:01Yeah, well,
36:02you better run off then.
36:04I'll keep an eye on it all.
36:06Hey, Star,
36:07hang on a moat.
36:08I want to send a cable meself
36:10to Lord Hazel, mate.
36:13Well, don't stand there gawping.
36:14I'll bring it out.
36:15Madam.
36:41My dear lady,
36:43you called me?
36:44No.
36:46Yes.
36:48How can I help you?
36:50I'm cold.
36:53And lonely.
36:55I see.
36:58Well,
37:01we'll have to do something about it.
37:06Won't we?
37:1422,
37:1623,
37:1824.
37:20I hope I'm doing the right thing.
37:22Sure you are.
37:33Have you got those instructions
37:35written out for me?
37:36But you won't be using it,
37:37so you won't need them.
37:38Of course not,
37:39but it'll be more interesting,
37:41historically,
37:42scientifically,
37:43if we have them framed
37:45by the exhibit itself.
37:48So it will.
37:57And you'll want the key,
37:58won't you?
37:58Oh,
37:59hey,
38:00I'd forgotten that.
38:01Well,
38:02yes,
38:02yes,
38:03best be thorough.
38:06When I,
38:07when I have the museum built,
38:09Baron,
38:09I'll,
38:10I'll have you come over
38:11and open it.
38:12I shall look forward
38:13to that great day.
38:14You can always find me
38:15via the Ritz in Paris.
38:16Fine.
38:17Fine.
38:37Just whistle up your carriage,
38:39Sir John.
38:39Yeah.
38:46Good evening,
38:47Mrs. Stroud.
38:47Good evening, Baron.
38:49off to the ball.
38:51Make an handsome couple,
38:53don't they?
38:54They say it's a real love match.
38:59I trust you're enjoying
39:00your stay in London?
39:01Oh,
39:01yes,
39:02yes,
39:02very much.
39:04Very much indeed.
39:05I'm sorry to say
39:06it's coming to an end.
39:07I should like my bill
39:08in the morning,
39:09please.
39:09Oh,
39:09I'm glad of that.
39:11Glad I'm not gonna have
39:12to chuck you out.
39:14you're British.
39:15I shall never understand you.
39:24Oh,
39:25Paul.
39:26Darling,
39:27Paul.
39:30We've only got a few more hours left.
39:33Only think of the present,
39:35never the future.
39:36But it's so difficult.
39:39I wish you'd found me
39:41before my husband did.
39:43So do I.
39:44Still,
39:45it's hardly likely
39:46that you would have stumbled
39:47across me
39:47in Buckinghamshire
39:48Vicarage.
39:53Paul.
39:55Why don't we run away together?
39:58Now or this minute?
39:59That wouldn't be fair on you.
40:01But I don't care.
40:02I'd go anywhere,
40:03do anything with you.
40:04I don't care what people say.
40:06I'd be yours if you want me.
40:12This is our secret love.
40:15Only you and I
40:17will ever know of it.
40:19It is our special treasure.
40:23We mustn't do anything
40:24that would destroy it.
40:26We must be
40:27very patient
40:29and very careful.
40:31Oh, Paul.
40:33You're so wise.
40:37But you will promise
40:38to come back and find me
40:40and take me off
40:41to St. Petersburg
40:42or Paris
40:43or Prague
40:44wherever you're living.
40:46Where do you live,
40:47my lovely Paul?
40:48I live nowhere
40:50and everywhere.
40:52Everywhere.
40:54That'll do for me.
40:56Right at the moment
40:58I live here.
41:00Yes.
41:01In my heart.
41:04Can you feel it beating for you?
41:19not look tonight.
41:20Oh, George must have forgotten.
41:27Oh, Paul.
41:30Darling, Paul.
41:33We are tragic figures
41:35you and I
41:36locked in our secret heaven.
41:39This old brass bed
41:40our magic carpet
41:41and doomed to be parted
41:44at dawn forever.
41:46Make a lovely sad fairy story.
41:49You took a lot of nonsense.
41:51something to tell
41:52something to tell
41:52our grandchildren.
41:54Oh, I think you've got
41:56the most beautiful eyes
41:58in the world.
41:59and there's a lot ofgef
42:06Oh, I think it's been a long time
42:07Oh, boy.
42:10Fuck it.
42:16He told me
42:18to or
42:18So,
42:20what I'm going言
42:21to see
43:56Mrs. Trotter.
43:57Oh good morning Lady Adam.
43:58You're up with the lark this morning.
44:00He wasn't her.
44:02Come and have a nice cup of tea.
44:04Mrs. Trotter.
44:05Something terrible's happened.
44:08Oh it's difficult for me to tell you but I must tell someone.
44:11And as it's your hotel well really you're the only person I can tell.
44:14Has the George been at you again?
44:15No.
44:16Mrs. Trotter my diamonds have been stolen.
44:20Oh my God.
44:21And what's worse I'm sure it was the baron who stole them.
44:24Well I can you be so sure.
44:25Because I saw him.
44:26Now please please don't call the police.
44:28No I wasn't going to.
44:30If my husband discovers will he'll kill me.
44:35Look the awful thing is that on the way home we were meant to be putting them back in the
44:38bank.
44:39Does your maid know?
44:39No.
44:41But if she finds out she'll tell she's a sneaky old brute.
44:45You were the only person I could think of who could help me.
44:47Well I don't know.
44:49Come on.
44:50What me?
44:51Yeah.
44:52Well can't I stay here?
44:53No.
44:53We might have to have a bit of a bash up with that bad old baron.
44:59You ain't seen number three have you?
45:00The baron?
45:01No ma'am.
45:01Not going out is he?
45:02No madam.
45:03Not least ways the front way.
45:04That's right.
45:04Come on.
45:11Who's that for Mr. Merriman?
45:12It's Sir George's breakfast.
45:14You want to watch out you don't have it chucked in your face?
45:17Won't be the first time.
45:19Gentlemen with Sir George's temperament and nature never easy to please.
45:23But then there's a reward in it sometimes when they smile.
45:27This is the drawer he took them from.
45:30There's the case still.
45:33It must have been a nightmare.
45:35Huh?
45:36A nightmare?
45:36I'm not surprised after all that caviar.
45:40Oh yes George dear.
45:42And I couldn't sleep so I went for a walk.
45:44Sensible girl.
45:47Ah.
45:48Well what's going on here?
45:50Regular hen's party.
45:52Your wife was just showing me her beautiful diamonds Sir George.
45:54My beautiful diamonds Mrs. Trotter.
45:57Well I propose to do the signal honour
46:00of breaking my fast in here with your permission.
46:05Oh I was proud of my wife last night Mrs. Trotter.
46:10She not only engaged the favourable attention of the King of England
46:14but she made all the other damn women look like a lot of selling platers.
46:41So I have to note that she doesn't have so many other things about playing she wants.
46:55that's too much no it ain't not considering considering what considering you're not a
47:02baron not no more than i am well a little more surely i am at least of the masculine gender
47:07baron opendorf alias cant ginsky alias prince zanofsky they're highly titled your family what
47:14is all this nonsense i wired to house with me seeing as i as a mate of yours to check
47:18up he says
47:19here he's found out you're nothing but a common little crook wanted by the froggy police for crimes
47:23too numerous to recount he advises me to contact scotland yard immediately which being a sensible
47:30woman and mindful of the reputation of your hotel you haven't done no and will not do that depends
47:39i don't promise nothing who are you baron a soldier of fortune fighting the good fight in the great
47:46battle of life i'm not daisy adam
47:52my father kept a livery stable in hounslow i grew up to prefer women and money to horses so i
48:00went into
48:00service oh we do have something in common i went to amsterdam with the diplomat as his valet well it
48:07didn't take long for me to realize how easily greedy men are parted from their money and how
48:12irresistibly attractive i am to women not all women no no rich lonely women whose husbands didn't care
48:21anymore or who were too concerned with their latest mistress sad women mainly who wanted a man women
48:27who luckily for me are stupidly careless where they put their jewelry ain't you getting a bit careless
48:32yourself bored i took risks for the fun of it i came here for uh rest i didn't intend to
48:41work
48:44well who could resist lady adam or the senator or our dear greedy old senator 24 000 for a rotten
48:53old
48:53box there's not much you don't seem to know when you're running hotel you want to know what's going
48:59on we're two of a kind really thanks for the compliment it was your suggestion wasn't it yeah
49:06we give them what they want we make them pay for it but i'd do it straight and you cheat
49:10them it's a
49:11bit different you know not much what was in that box some simple clockwork a couple of rollers and a
49:18tin tray that's all i've got a little joiner knocks them up for me quite cheap in brussels do
49:22you know i've sold five of those in a year that makes a profitable sideline exactly men who are really
49:27greedy you'll buy anything and when our friend the senator tried to cheat me at poker i mean me
49:33of all people using marked cards well i thought he needed teaching a lesson
49:42well i must be off russia miss my boat if i might pay my bill please
49:47what are you doing add in a note
49:52nine hundred guineas that is sheer blackmail oh what a rude word to use to a lady
50:01i'll take it in dollars if it's more convenient
50:10thanks goodbye mrs trotter it's been a pleasure to have known you goodbye baron i hope never to set
50:16eyes on you again you won't i never draw the same cover twice here baron why did you put them
50:24diamonds
50:25back well because you'd gone soft on a ladieship was it they weren't diamonds at all paste and not very
50:34good paste at that
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