The Ringer (1952) - Full British Action Thriller Movie - video Dailymotion

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The Ringer is a 1952 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton. The screenplay was Hamilton's directorial debut and the third English-language sound version of Edgar Wallace's 1929 play based on his 1925 Thriller novel The Gaunt Stranger.

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00:00:04The End

00:00:37The End

00:01:10It was in Cairo that I first met Arthur Milton.

00:01:13Only knew him a couple of days and we got married.

00:01:16It was all a bit of a rush.

00:01:17You see, the police were after Arthur.

00:01:19So we spent our honeymoon on the run.

00:01:22Paris, Cape Town, Singapore, Hong Kong.

00:01:25But it really wasn't much fun.

00:01:27It seems the police wanted Arthur everywhere.

00:01:31We hid quite successfully in Australia for a while.

00:01:33Almost got to know the neighbors.

00:01:35Until one night, Arthur committed suicide.

00:01:39At least that's what the police thought.

00:01:41Till they found out he was in London.

00:01:43My dear husband had quite calmly walked out on me.

00:01:46He thought he could do a certain job in London better on his own.

00:01:50Of all the stupid things to do.

00:01:52In London, Arthur was wanted more than anywhere.

00:01:55The police picked up petty crooks coming out of prison

00:01:57who might be able to help them find the ringer.

00:02:00Oh, that's what they called Arthur.

00:02:01The ringer.

00:02:02I never quite knew why.

00:02:04Anyway, the police thought this fellow Hackett here might know something.

00:02:08They soon whistled him up to Scotland Yard.

00:02:10Mr. Hackett, sir.

00:02:11All right, we won't keep your moment.

00:02:13No, the assistant commission isn't here yet.

00:02:15Right.

00:02:16This is the fellow Hackett.

00:02:17Listen, five, six years ago,

00:02:18I got him 18 months of London session.

00:02:20A born liar.

00:02:21What do you think Hackett knows about the ringer?

00:02:23Oh, he says he'd recognize him.

00:02:25I'd say anything to create a dissensation.

00:02:26What if Hackett doesn't know the ringer?

00:02:28Who else is going to identify him?

00:02:29Well, you, for one, that's why you're on the case.

00:02:31Me?

00:02:32Never set eyes on him.

00:02:33At his back turned to me the day, I tried to arrest him.

00:02:36Now the ringer's clever.

00:02:37I hand it to him.

00:02:37You don't seem very happy, Bliss.

00:02:39Mr. Goodhouse, back in Washington, had a soft job there.

00:02:42Checking scientists with the FBI, eh?

00:02:44Now you're back to the dull routine.

00:02:46Too bad.

00:02:47If you'd been to America, Wembrey, they'd have kept you there.

00:02:49They wanted me back at the yard.

00:02:51I like your manners.

00:02:52I hate your modesty.

00:02:53Come on, Sam.

00:02:54Hello, Mr. Wembrey.

00:02:55You're looking bright and healthy.

00:02:57How's the family?

00:02:58There isn't any family, Sam.

00:02:59I'm pleased we're going to back, too, eh?

00:03:01Good morning, sir.

00:03:02You remember Mr. Bliss?

00:03:04Bliss?

00:03:05Bliss?

00:03:06Here, you've changed a bit, haven't you?

00:03:07Where'd you get all the moss from?

00:03:08Oh, but I wouldn't have recognized you.

00:03:10Straight up, I wouldn't have recognized him.

00:03:12Oh, this is the man, sir.

00:03:15Morning, Mr. Hackett.

00:03:15Morning, sir.

00:03:16A nice little pitch you've got around here.

00:03:18All made out of steven and murder.

00:03:20We had a letter from you, Hackett, when you were in prison.

00:03:22Where is it?

00:03:22Here it is, sir.

00:03:24Yes, thank you.

00:03:26Yes, sir.

00:03:27This comes hoping to find you well and all kind friends at Scotland Yard.

00:03:31Yes, well, I didn't know Bliss was back.

00:03:32There's a lot of talk about the ringer here, him that was drowned in Australia.

00:03:35Yes, sir.

00:03:36I can tell you a lot about him now that he has departed from this life.

00:03:38R.I.P.

00:03:40As I once see him, though only for a second, and I knew where he lodged.

00:03:43Is that true?

00:03:44Ah, yes, sir.

00:03:45We lodged in the same house.

00:03:46Then you know what he looks like.

00:03:47Well, sir, what he did look like.

00:03:49I don't reckon I'd know him now with his wings.

00:03:51Wings?

00:03:52Yes, sir.

00:03:54Unfortunately, the ringer's alive.

00:03:59The ringer alive?

00:04:00Very much alive.

00:04:02Well, I'll say thanks very much.

00:04:04Good morning, all.

00:04:05Just a minute, Haggett.

00:04:07What do you know about him?

00:04:09Nothing, sir.

00:04:10Straight up, and without me, madam.

00:04:11Any what?

00:04:12Madam, without telling the tale, sir.

00:04:14In this letter, you expressed your willingness to act as an informer.

00:04:17Ah, maybe, sir, and a dead man, but not in the live ringer.

00:04:19Not much.

00:04:20Not me.

00:04:21If you can help us, we may be able to help you one day.

00:04:25Not if I was dead, you couldn't.

00:04:26You or anybody else, and that's what I'd be if I went nosing on the ringer.

00:04:29He's yellow like the rest of his kind.

00:04:31Always the same story when their own skins are in danger.

00:04:34Here.

00:04:34You've been closer to him than I have.

00:04:36He nearly done you once.

00:04:37What's keeping you back?

00:04:38Come on, Haggett.

00:04:39Tell us what you know.

00:04:40What are you afraid of?

00:04:41Well, same as here, sir.

00:04:43No, I'm sorry.

00:04:44I've been brought up here on what is termed a misapprehension, and I'll say good morning,

00:04:48all.

00:04:48Don't trouble.

00:04:49Won't be long before we'll see you again.

00:04:51Yes, and it's the one thing that would keep me straight, at least I thought of seeing you

00:04:53again.

00:04:54All right, Haggett.

00:04:55That's enough.

00:04:55Who's this man the ringer's supposed to be after?

00:04:58Meister.

00:04:58Morris Meister.

00:04:59Better let Meister know the ringer's back.

00:05:01Right, sir.

00:05:01What?

00:05:02The ringer's back, and Meister doesn't know it.

00:05:05They don't half a laugh any day.

00:05:08Hi, you.

00:05:11Watcha, boy.

00:05:12Mr. Meister in.

00:05:13You a friend of his?

00:05:14Yes.

00:05:14We went to different schools together.

00:05:16Well, he's busy.

00:05:16Well, he won't be too busy to see me when he finds out what I've got to tell him.

00:05:19My dear Mr. Bell, how can I give you advice as a lawyer on a matter which is outside the

00:05:24law?

00:05:24Oh, please be logical.

00:05:26Is there anything hollow-hacket?

00:05:27I do, Guff.

00:05:28Can I have a word with you?

00:05:29Sit down.

00:05:30I shall be a moment.

00:05:31Is there anything else you want to talk about?

00:05:33No, that's about everything.

00:05:34Shouldn't be any trouble with this job.

00:05:35You'd appreciate how well organized we are.

00:05:36Please, please don't tell me anything about it.

00:05:38It's no concern of mine.

00:05:39Pretty concerned with the results, though, aren't you?

00:05:41My dear fellow, I give you the benefit of my intelligence, and that is all.

00:05:44All right, all right, Santa Claus.

00:05:46Have it your own way.

00:05:46Didn't know you were out?

00:05:47Yes, sir, my boy.

00:05:48When are you going in?

00:05:49People like Mr. Bell don't, do they?

00:05:51Any jobs going?

00:05:51Not your class, chum.

00:05:53I see.

00:05:53Snob stuff, eh?

00:05:54Not the right accent.

00:05:56By the way, there is one thing.

00:05:58There's a night watchman.

00:05:59A case of accidents, we're counting on you.

00:06:01I would find it difficult to remove the absurd prejudice of a jury against a defendant who

00:06:05killed an elderly night watchman.

00:06:07There's nothing amateur about the work of our organization, Meister.

00:06:10We should know that better than you.

00:06:12Bye, Mr. Bell.

00:06:13When did they turn you loose, Hackett?

00:06:14Today.

00:06:15I came straight here.

00:06:16How nice of you.

00:06:17Why?

00:06:17Well, I've got a bit of information for you.

00:06:19Worth a couple of fives, at least.

00:06:20Don't tell me you've knocked off the chief warder's watch.

00:06:22Now, to good butchers, it wasn't worth pinching.

00:06:24But I'll tell you, I've got something.

00:06:26I've got a bit of information that'll paralyze you.

00:06:28Yes, Lisa?

00:06:29There are two gentlemen to see you.

00:06:30Who are they?

00:06:31They say they are from the police.

00:06:33Well, show them in, my dear.

00:06:34All right.

00:06:36I'll tell you what, Gunth.

00:06:37I'll let you have that bit of info for a fiver.

00:06:39I'm not interested in your nonsense, Hackett.

00:06:41A couple of quid, then.

00:06:42You'll be sorry.

00:06:44Blimey, don't you bogies move fast when there ain't no hurry.

00:06:46Good morning.

00:06:47Morning.

00:06:48Oh, would you take Mr. Hackett next door, my dear, whilst I speak to these gentlemen?

00:06:51Bearers of bad news used to have their heads cut off, Hackett.

00:06:54You're lucky.

00:06:55Lucky?

00:06:55I've not had a chance to tell him anything yet.

00:06:58Afraid I can't give you very much time.

00:06:59It's now ten past eleven.

00:07:00I have to defend at Greenwich Police Court.

00:07:03Things might go badly with my poor client if I'm not there.

00:07:05But the course of justice might go more smoothly.

00:07:08That's a matter of opinion.

00:07:09Would you care for a drink, gentlemen?

00:07:11None now.

00:07:12Have we met before?

00:07:13I'm sorry.

00:07:13Chief Inspector Bliss, Mr. Meister.

00:07:15Mr. Meister is a very successful lawyer with a large practice in Deptford.

00:07:19Funny district to choose.

00:07:20He's a kind of squire, Mr. Meister of Flanders Lane, and behaves like one too.

00:07:24How so?

00:07:25Looks after his people, defends them if they're in trouble,

00:07:27and if they go to prison, Mr. Meister supports the relatives.

00:07:30I'm not to be suspect, because I helped these unfortunate people.

00:07:32Suspect, my dear Meister?

00:07:34Who would mention the word?

00:07:35As far as the police are concerned, Mr. Meister's actions are motivated entirely by kindness.

00:07:40I've always had a very great regard for the intelligence of the police, but...

00:07:43Take a bow, Bliss.

00:07:44Gentlemen, what can I do for you?

00:07:46Excuse me.

00:07:47Why have you called?

00:07:48We were just coming to them.

00:07:49There was a girl whom you took into your employment.

00:07:52Her name was Gwenda Milton, a sister of the Ringer.

00:07:56She was found drowned.

00:08:00That is a tragedy I don't care to be reminded of.

00:08:03Neither should I if I were in your shoes.

00:08:05What does that mean?

00:08:06I shouldn't care to have the Ringer as an enemy.

00:08:08The Ringer died in Australia.

00:08:10What makes you think that?

00:08:11It's common knowledge, my dear chap.

00:08:13It was reported in the press months ago.

00:08:15Perhaps it hasn't yet reached the ears of the police.

00:08:17He left a sister in your care.

00:08:18Why did she end her life?

00:08:20Dear fellow, why do women end their lives?

00:08:22I don't know.

00:08:23There's one reason as old as the hills and you know it.

00:08:25Oh, melodrama, Wembrey.

00:08:27You'd arrange for her to go into a nursing home.

00:08:29It didn't come out of the inquest.

00:08:30Nobody knew about it but Scotland Yard and Henry Arthur Milton.

00:08:33Scotland Yard couldn't do anything about it.

00:08:36And Mr. Milton is dead.

00:08:39I'm afraid we must disillusion you about that.

00:08:41Mr. Milton is here.

00:08:45Hasn't it come over at the grapevine that the Ringer's back?

00:08:47It hasn't.

00:08:49And not a bird moves in Deptford, but I know it.

00:08:52Someone is fooling you, Inspector.

00:08:53The Ringer's here and he's alive.

00:08:55Get that into your head.

00:08:56We've come here to warn you.

00:08:58Warn me?

00:08:59But why?

00:09:02Look, get out, will you?

00:09:04Do it later.

00:09:09Warn me, why?

00:09:10Don't strike attitudes.

00:09:11You're not in the police court.

00:09:12We think he may have an idea.

00:09:14He has an account to settle.

00:09:15With me?

00:09:16Who else?

00:09:20His sister was my secretary and that was all.

00:09:23Well, you'd better explain it pretty quickly to him when you meet him.

00:09:27Dear fellow, why should I meet him?

00:09:29I've never seen him in my life.

00:09:30I don't know the man.

00:09:31If he's back here with a life sentence hanging over him, why don't you get him?

00:09:34Oh, it's so easy to get the Ringer.

00:09:36Well, get his wife, Coroanne.

00:09:38Wherever she is, he is.

00:09:39He is crazy about her.

00:09:41I mean, he was.

00:09:44Do you mean to say you're serious about all this?

00:09:46Yes.

00:09:46She's the crazy one.

00:09:47She followed him to Australia.

00:09:49Well, whoever follows who, the one is never very far from the other.

00:09:53Get her and you get him.

00:09:54We're not worried about her.

00:09:55You're our immediate worry.

00:09:56Yes, and, Meister, you'd better warn some of your clients we're around.

00:10:00The last person they want to see is a police officer.

00:10:03And, uh, don't admit anybody after dark.

00:10:05Never leave the house except for the police escort and have some shutters put on those windows.

00:10:09Shutters, Gov?

00:10:10No good now, you know.

00:10:11Well, uh, what do you advise?

00:10:13Nothing short of steel bars.

00:10:15And another thing, see that the rivets are on the inside.

00:10:17Straight up.

00:10:18The day you take him, I'll give a thousand pounds to the police orphanage.

00:10:22We don't need money so badly as that.

00:10:23Well, give it to the Prisoners Aid Association, Gov.

00:10:26I'll have a look around here for a bit, Wambury.

00:10:27Cover the garden and grounds.

00:10:29No objection, I take it, Mr. Meister?

00:10:30Must flatter you to have the police looking after your interest.

00:10:33I'm tickled pink, my dear fellow.

00:10:34Now, Hackett here is supposed to know the ringer.

00:10:37It might not be a bad idea if you kept him on the premises.

00:10:39He could tip you off.

00:10:40What may sit on the bullseye and the ringer a dead shot?

00:10:43What do you mean, tip me off?

00:10:44It surely is the responsibility of the police.

00:10:46The ringer is a murderer.

00:10:47We couldn't prove it.

00:10:48But you know it.

00:10:49Knowledge is not proof.

00:10:50No one should know they're better than you, Meister.

00:10:52The ringer got rid of a couple of people.

00:10:53The police were glad to be rid of them.

00:10:54Ah, sure did right there.

00:10:55There was.

00:10:56So the police shut their eyes.

00:10:58You're an offensive character, Meister.

00:11:00The police never shut their eyes.

00:11:01You take my advice.

00:11:02You keep this fellow Hackett around.

00:11:04Do you want an honest job, Sam?

00:11:05Oh, no, sir.

00:11:06No qualifications.

00:11:07Come on, take it.

00:11:08It's easy money for a change.

00:11:09Mr. Meister would pay you well, wouldn't you, Meister?

00:11:11Well, this is all a very silly game, I must say.

00:11:14Maybe, but I'd take my advice if I were you.

00:11:16Still, if the police insist,

00:11:17and if he makes himself useful about the house,

00:11:19I'm prepared to pay him a few pounds and his keep.

00:11:21What, me live here?

00:11:22The house not comfortable enough for you, Mr. Hackett.

00:11:24Ah, no. Too unhealthy.

00:11:26Come on, Sam, what do you say?

00:11:27Now, look here, governor.

00:11:28The ringer might bump him off before I get my pay packet.

00:11:30See?

00:11:31Here.

00:11:32I'll tell you what I do, though.

00:11:33You make it a daily rate and I chance it.

00:11:35Now, look here, Hackett, I'm a busy man.

00:11:36Sam, the first thing you've got to do

00:11:37is to make this house burglar-proof.

00:11:39Yes, but you know that's impossible, Mr. Wembrey.

00:11:41Anyway, I'll do my best.

00:11:43Good, get a move on.

00:11:44Get everything done by tonight if you can.

00:11:46Good morning, Mr. Meister.

00:11:48Sam.

00:11:49Bye, sir.

00:11:51Now, don't worry, Gov.

00:11:53I don't want to see the ringer any more than you do.

00:12:05The police.

00:12:07They ask for me in my papers.

00:12:09Hmm?

00:12:12Yes, dear, but don't worry.

00:12:15I dealt with them.

00:12:16But you told them I wait for Johnny.

00:12:18That wouldn't have been wise.

00:12:20Why not?

00:12:20Why not, my dear Lisa?

00:12:22Because Johnny is serving a sentence.

00:12:25Whatever he is in your eyes, and there's he's a criminal.

00:12:27Wouldn't exactly commend you to the police

00:12:29if I told them you were waiting to marry Johnny.

00:12:31Oh, well, Johnny was foolish, that's all.

00:12:35You don't get a four-year sentence just for foolishness.

00:12:37Well, he wanted money quickly to marry me.

00:12:39I know, I know, and those crooks promised him money.

00:12:42Well, if you associate yourself with crooks,

00:12:43you have to be clever.

00:12:45Johnny wasn't clever.

00:12:47He gets himself caught.

00:12:49Leaves his girl at the mercy of the world.

00:12:51What sort of a man is that to pin your face to, hmm?

00:12:54Faithfulness, my dear, can be carried too far.

00:12:57Comes ridiculous.

00:12:58What did you tell the police?

00:13:00Do they...

00:13:02Do they want to send me out of England?

00:13:03No, no, no, they won't.

00:13:06Not as long as you are here under my wing, as it were.

00:13:09The police have a high regard for me, you know.

00:13:11Yes, but...

00:13:12But do they know I'm not a criminal?

00:13:14Well, do you explain to them how it happened?

00:13:16That I came in with Johnny on a visitor's permit?

00:13:19That we were going to get married?

00:13:21Well, I've done nothing wrong to stay in this country to wait for him.

00:13:24Nothing wrong?

00:13:26Remaining in a country after the expiration of your visa?

00:13:29Oh, my dear child.

00:13:31But I've seen to that.

00:13:33I give you protection here.

00:13:35I give you sanctuary.

00:13:36What's that?

00:13:37Sanctuary?

00:13:38Oh, a roof over your head, food, clothes.

00:13:41And, I hope, a little friendship.

00:13:43But, of course.

00:13:45And I'm very grateful to you for letting me work here.

00:13:48You're very good at it too, my dear.

00:13:51I wish you weren't as good at, uh, waiting for Johnny.

00:13:55As if your only role in life was to wait for Johnny.

00:13:58I'm afraid it is.

00:14:01It's a role many women like, hmm?

00:14:03Gives them, uh, immunity.

00:14:06Untouchability.

00:14:07It's also full of tricks.

00:14:09I have no tricks.

00:14:10Oh, that would be very boring, Lisa, dear.

00:14:13Are you sure you wouldn't rather I took a job somewhere else?

00:14:17But you couldn't get a job anywhere else, Lisa.

00:14:19You have no papers.

00:14:21But why argue?

00:14:22You like it here, don't you?

00:14:23And you could hardly call me a slave driver.

00:14:25Oh, no, no, you're kind.

00:14:26Then what are we arguing about?

00:14:28Look, uh, run along now.

00:14:30Finish your work.

00:14:31I'm busy this afternoon, but I'll see you at dinner.

00:14:34Oh, Lisa.

00:14:36Smile.

00:14:37I said smile.

00:14:38Smile a little.

00:14:39Oh, yes.

00:15:09Smile.

00:15:11Smile.

00:15:15Smile.

00:15:15Mr. Master.

00:15:16I'm just going outside and have a look round, go.

00:15:22Here.

00:15:25I've got a job of work for you.

00:15:26I want bars.

00:15:28Bars everywhere.

00:15:29Right.

00:15:30And I don't mean the kind of bars where you get the old half pint, see?

00:15:32I want flipping great bars on all them windows.

00:15:35Here.

00:15:36Who are you?

00:15:37The Ministry of Defence.

00:15:38Strictly pro tem.

00:15:40See?

00:16:10Oh, yes.

00:16:10Four men to guard a crook's house and the Metropolitan Police 2,000 understrength, sir.

00:16:15Never inquire into the mysteries of Scotland Yard, Carter.

00:16:19Oh, morning, miss.

00:16:20Morning.

00:16:20My name's Cora Ann Milton.

00:16:22I'm a Dominican citizen.

00:16:24This is my passport.

00:16:25Tend to that right away, will you, Carter?

00:16:27Oh, right.

00:16:27I've come to register my change of address.

00:16:29I'm moving down to this district.

00:16:30Oh, right, miss.

00:16:33I wish I didn't know so much about criminology.

00:16:36I find other books on this subject remarkably unenlightening.

00:16:41Consequently, I never read them.

00:16:42But then, that makes me wonder whether anybody will ever read mine.

00:16:47Wimbury, will you have a wee nip?

00:16:49Carter!

00:16:49Never become too erudite, Wimbury.

00:16:51Never become an expert.

00:16:53Life becomes too dull.

00:16:55Do you know, the older I get, the more I become convinced that cross-examination remains the only art left

00:17:01to the criminologist.

00:17:02Will I ever convince you of that?

00:17:03Sir, no.

00:17:04Carter.

00:17:04Yes, sir.

00:17:04Do you know anything about this report from B Division?

00:17:06B Division?

00:17:07Okay.

00:17:08Keep that woman here.

00:17:09Find out something wrong with those papers and send her in in a couple of minutes.

00:17:13Oh, right, sir.

00:17:14Who is she?

00:17:15Cora Ann Milton.

00:17:18Cora Ann.

00:17:22Cora Ann.

00:17:24It's a pretty name.

00:17:25Pretty woman, too.

00:17:27Wife of the ringer.

00:17:28The ringer?

00:17:29A very dangerous customer.

00:17:31Yeah, but why do you call him the ringer?

00:17:32Rings the changes in his personal appearance.

00:17:35Really?

00:17:36But then don't they all?

00:17:37Not like this one.

00:17:38He's unique.

00:17:39In Deptford, they say he can change the colour of his eyes.

00:17:42So they turn him into a legend, eh?

00:17:45What's he look like?

00:17:46Descriptions.

00:17:47Several descriptions.

00:17:48All poles apart.

00:17:49No photographs.

00:17:50We've got this drawing here made by a steward on a boat.

00:17:54That's all.

00:17:54And why this sudden interest in the ringer?

00:17:57Well, he's supposed to have died in Australia, but the yard weren't convinced.

00:18:00You see, people like the ringer, they just don't die in Australia.

00:18:05The yard had a report that he was here.

00:18:07We weren't convinced of that either.

00:18:08At least I wasn't.

00:18:10Not till now.

00:18:10And what complicated process of reduction leads you from the presence of Cora Ann Milton here

00:18:15to the suspicion that her husband's alive?

00:18:18Well, that's just what I hope to find out in a minute.

00:18:20Now, when we're in it, why don't you let me try my hand on her?

00:18:23Oh, heaven forbid.

00:18:24The powers of cross-examination, scientifically applied, should never be underrated.

00:18:29Oh, er, yes?

00:18:30What is your measure?

00:18:31There seems to be something wrong with this term.

00:18:32All right, all right.

00:18:33Ask Mrs. Milton to come in.

00:18:34I was coming in, in any case.

00:18:36Where my passport goes, I go.

00:18:37It's one of the things I don't like out of my sight.

00:18:39Quite right.

00:18:40Won't you sit down?

00:18:42This is Dr. Lowman.

00:18:43He's quite harmless.

00:18:44That's too bad.

00:18:45How do you do?

00:18:45This isn't your first visit to London, is it, Mrs. Milton?

00:18:48No, it's all in the book there.

00:18:50Ah, yes, I see.

00:18:51Now, did you arrive alone?

00:18:52Except for a plane load of other people, yes.

00:18:54I mean, essentially alone.

00:18:55You were not accompanied by your husband?

00:18:57No, sir.

00:18:57Nor my mother or any of my aunts.

00:18:59That was very careless of your husband.

00:19:01Do you allow that kind of remark?

00:19:03Dr. Lowman is our police surgeon.

00:19:04They're not strictly on the force, but we allow them a little latitude, of course,

00:19:07but not too much.

00:19:08Why, now, isn't that nice?

00:19:10You know, I'm just dying to talk to somebody.

00:19:11What's the best show in London, anyway?

00:19:13The best show in London, Mrs. Milton, is Scotland Yard.

00:19:17Melodrama without music, and you, the leading lady.

00:19:21Oh?

00:19:22What am I leading?

00:19:24Well, me, for the moment.

00:19:26Really?

00:19:27Why, you know, Doctor, that I haven't seen my husband in years,

00:19:29and that I'm not likely to see him again.

00:19:31I thought everybody had read that in the newspapers.

00:19:34Poor Arthur was drowned in Sydney Harbour, as if you didn't know, Inspector.

00:19:37Shall I know?

00:19:37There's nothing wrong with my passport, is there?

00:19:39You just wanted to talk to me.

00:19:40Now, your husband left this country hurriedly two years ago, or was it three?

00:19:44Three.

00:19:45When did you see him last?

00:19:47Two, or was it three?

00:19:48Now, let's be accurate, my dear girl.

00:19:50You saw him in Australia.

00:19:52You arrived in Sydney about three months after he reached there,

00:19:56and while you were there, you were, well, shall we say, in communication with him?

00:20:00You seem to have it all there, so why bother to ask me?

00:20:02I never saw him, and that's the truth.

00:20:04You never saw him?

00:20:05He was afraid that somebody might be trailing you,

00:20:08afraid that you might lead the police to him.

00:20:11Afraid?

00:20:11You don't know what you're talking about.

00:20:12He wasn't afraid of anything or anybody.

00:20:14And now you say he's dead, hmm?

00:20:17Come in, Henry Arthur Milton, who recently left Australia with another woman.

00:20:24Come in, please.

00:20:26He's not there.

00:20:27That's a dirty trick.

00:20:30I'm sorry, but I don't like the way he kids me along.

00:20:33Oh, don't let him worry you.

00:20:34He has an unfortunate manner.

00:20:36I don't know anything, and you've nothing on me.

00:20:38And I certainly don't have to answer any of your fool questions.

00:20:41It is, Mrs. Milton, isn't it?

00:20:42What does that mean?

00:20:43Oh, I just thought it might be one of those happy natural liaisons.

00:20:47It was happy, it was natural, and it was legal.

00:20:50Well, well.

00:20:51And you can get that bug out of your head about another woman.

00:20:54There was no other woman ever in Arthur Milton's life.

00:20:57I'd walk down Collins Street with the police tailing me,

00:21:00because he'd rung me and asked me to.

00:21:02All because he wanted just to look at me.

00:21:04He risked everything to see me.

00:21:06I wouldn't recognize him, but he'd be there.

00:21:08Is that the kind of man who goes off with some other woman?

00:21:11No, no.

00:21:12Yeah, but he sounds to me very much like a man who is alive here in England.

00:21:16If he is, why don't you catch him?

00:21:19May I have my passport, please?

00:21:20I'm sorry you've been detained.

00:21:22Your papers are quite in order.

00:21:23You met him and you didn't recognize him?

00:21:26Love is blind.

00:21:28And you think you'd know him if you saw him, Dr. Sparney?

00:21:30You want us to believe he was so well disguised

00:21:33that he could walk down Collins Street in broad daylight without being recognized?

00:21:38I'm sorry, Courant, but it won't do.

00:21:40On Collins Street.

00:21:42He'd walk on Regent Street.

00:21:43If he felt that way, he'd come right to Scotland Yard.

00:21:46You laugh.

00:21:46Go on, laugh.

00:21:47But he'd do it.

00:21:51He'd do what, Mrs. Milton?

00:21:56I'm sorry.

00:21:58What is it?

00:22:00I'm sorry, but I'm rather nervous today.

00:22:02Anything makes me jump.

00:22:03Well, I guess that lets me out.

00:22:05You just try to get me back again.

00:22:07What's the matter, Mrs. Milton?

00:22:09What are you frightened of?

00:22:10You're in a police station.

00:22:11Well, I'll tell you.

00:22:12It was that drawing.

00:22:13I just got a glimpse of it and it gave me a shock.

00:22:16You see, I rather liked Arthur.

00:22:20And say, don't be so darn sure.

00:22:21There's nothing to be afraid of in a police station.

00:22:53I see you men.

00:22:54See that you get them rivets on the inside.

00:22:56And you?

00:22:57Keep your dirty hands off the walls.

00:22:59You're holding brandy, sir.

00:23:01Put it there.

00:23:02Here?

00:23:03There.

00:23:06How do you like my posh accent?

00:23:08All got up to match the tray.

00:23:10Have you called Miss Leeser?

00:23:12It's a nice bit of stuff, too.

00:23:13Do you mean Miss Leeser or the brandy?

00:23:16No, the tray.

00:23:18I'm under police protection, Hackie.

00:23:19That includes my property.

00:23:21Yeah.

00:23:21You know, taking it all in all, Gull.

00:23:23It is a bit of a flipping laugh, ain't it, eh?

00:23:25I feel like something out of Madam Two Sod's.

00:23:27I'm not cut out to be a gent's gentleman.

00:23:29Too flippin' familiar, that's what you are.

00:23:32Draw the curtains, will you?

00:23:35Here.

00:23:37You've got them things far too far apart.

00:23:39Ain't no plenty of gentlemen with rubber guts

00:23:41who can squeeze through that, Gep.

00:23:42Who's giving orders?

00:23:43Me, that's who.

00:23:44That's what I'm here for.

00:23:45Expert, eh?

00:23:46Dead right, mate.

00:23:47On both sides of the fence.

00:23:48You watch me, keep your eyes and ears open

00:23:50and you'll be all right.

00:23:51Hack it, please.

00:23:52Sorry, Guff.

00:23:54It's all this blooming clobber.

00:23:55Those blokes won't take any notes of me in this fancy dress.

00:23:58Tell them to get on with it in the tent of things indoors

00:23:59and fetch Miss Lisa's coffee.

00:24:01Okay.

00:24:01It's on the ob.

00:24:05I like it very black.

00:24:06Oh, it's just black as silk, miss.

00:24:07Smells like it, too.

00:24:08I'm afraid I'm not very good at this coffee-making like them.

00:24:11Now, if it was charred.

00:24:11That's enough, Hack it.

00:24:16Oh, that moron gets on my nerves.

00:24:18He makes me laugh.

00:24:19He's no good in the house and he talks too much.

00:24:21I can hardly understand what it says.

00:24:23Eh, a dialect.

00:24:25Cockney, dear.

00:24:26Cockney?

00:24:26Yes.

00:24:27A gay little language.

00:24:29All on its own.

00:24:30Only slightly connected with the King's English.

00:24:33Have you typed those things I gave you?

00:24:35Oh, yes.

00:24:36Good.

00:24:36Clever girl.

00:24:37I don't know what I should do without you.

00:24:40There are plenty of people who can type.

00:24:44They don't look like you.

00:24:46Or smile like you.

00:24:48Or walk like you.

00:24:51Why does it embarrass you?

00:24:54It cuts across your favourite act, doesn't it?

00:24:57What act?

00:24:58Waiting for Johnny.

00:25:01It's not an act.

00:25:02Oh, of course not, my dear.

00:25:03I was joking.

00:25:03I'm sorry.

00:25:05No girl could have kept it up for so long if it were.

00:25:08No sensitive, intelligent girl like you, I mean.

00:25:16This house is going to look like a prison.

00:25:19I'm sorry about all this, Lisa.

00:25:24Oh, thank you.

00:25:25Black enough, miss?

00:25:25Oh, yes.

00:25:27Haggid, I'm not going to stand much more of this.

00:25:28Haven't they finished yet?

00:25:29They're just putting the alarms in.

00:25:31Alarms?

00:25:31Yes, burglar alarms.

00:25:34I hope you never hear none of them, miss,

00:25:35when you're on the wrong side of the door.

00:25:37Blimey, the scares I've had.

00:25:38After that, I said the last trumpet

00:25:39sound like the penny whistle.

00:25:41I don't hire as a raconteur, Hackett.

00:25:43Eh?

00:25:44Look, get me two more brandies, will you?

00:25:45If you haven't drunk at all.

00:25:47What, me drink brandy?

00:25:48With all that bubbly lying about?

00:25:49Oh, I'll get him.

00:25:51You must be the best audience he's ever had.

00:25:53He knows it, too.

00:25:54I think he's very funny.

00:25:56Oh, well, he's all yours, dear.

00:25:57Drink your coffee before it gets cold.

00:26:00Now what goes on?

00:26:01Are you going to make much more noise?

00:26:03I've got to connect up the alarm bell with that switch.

00:26:05Oh.

00:26:06Am I in your way?

00:26:07No, miss.

00:26:07You're all right.

00:26:08Stay where you are.

00:26:10Do you understand those things?

00:26:11Should do.

00:26:12Should do?

00:26:13Why isn't the electrician here himself?

00:26:14He's been a place as lousy with silver trays.

00:26:17Hackett, we don't want a running commentary on your duties.

00:26:19There you are, sir.

00:26:20Stephens.

00:26:21Lisa.

00:26:22No, thank you.

00:26:22Not for me.

00:26:23Come on, take it.

00:26:24It's good for the nerves.

00:26:25No, thank you.

00:26:25Take it.

00:26:30Let's have some light, shall we?

00:26:43What have you done, you fools?

00:26:47Give us something.

00:26:49Hello?

00:26:50Hello?

00:26:51Stop those bells, will you?

00:26:52Hello?

00:26:53Hello?

00:26:54Shhh.

00:26:55Hello?

00:26:55Uh-uh.

00:26:5799.

00:27:00Hey, well, there you are, Mr. Meister.

00:27:02You'll have a sore hand for a day or maybe two, but it could have been worse.

00:27:06And now I think we could all do with a drink.

00:27:08Hackett a drink.

00:27:09Hackett.

00:27:10In future, if the alarm bells for you, send to the electricians, not the police.

00:27:13Well, I was asking I wasn't a ringer.

00:27:14Well, the simple process of looking, half-wit.

00:27:17You know, Mr. Wenberry, one of these days I'm gonna do him. Honest of will, I'll do him.

00:27:21Sam, behave yourself.

00:27:24Here, gov.

00:27:25That's a nice bit of stuff, isn't it, eh?

00:27:26Would so well, wouldn't it?

00:27:27I wonder what I'd get for it.

00:27:29About three years.

00:27:30Is he all right, doctor?

00:27:32Maestro.

00:27:32He's all right.

00:27:35What are you, the factotum?

00:27:37Hello, sir.

00:27:38English.

00:27:39What's your name?

00:27:40Samuel Carthbert Hackett.

00:27:42Oh, that's a terrible name.

00:27:44Would you like to earn an honest five pounds?

00:27:47I pay on the results.

00:27:48I'm from Aberdeen.

00:27:50Can you tell me something about the ringer?

00:27:52Something that I don't know already, hm?

00:27:55Well, do you mind if I give you a bit of advice for nothing?

00:27:58Don't go nosing in on the ringer.

00:27:59That is, if you vary your skin.

00:28:01They tell me that you're a friend of his.

00:28:03Well, I'm not saying yes, and I'm not saying no.

00:28:06But I'll tell you this much.

00:28:08He wouldn't half get a laugh if he could see all this I had to do.

00:28:10Them bars.

00:28:12Plot me that wouldn't keep me out that'd own the ringer.

00:28:15Scrap she are the ringer.

00:28:19Please don't make jokes like that, sir, please.

00:28:22I'll turn my stomach right over.

00:28:26Remember, they're awful dangerous contraptions, these burglar alarms.

00:28:31Oh, by the way, I was fascinated by your friend Cora Hamm.

00:28:34Yes, I noticed.

00:28:35I'd put that thing down if I will.

00:28:37Aye.

00:28:38Would you say I had a good approach?

00:28:40To women?

00:28:40On the Elephantine side, I'd say.

00:28:43Oh, don't depress me, Wembrey.

00:28:44I thought I'd made an impression.

00:28:46Hardly the right one.

00:28:47You were trying too hard.

00:28:48Are you likely to see her again?

00:28:50Not while you're around.

00:28:51Competition, eh?

00:28:52Not where the ringer's wife is concerned, old boy.

00:28:54That would be curtains.

00:28:56Doesn't the risk appeal to you?

00:28:57The element of challenge, eh?

00:28:59Oh, what's happening to men nowadays?

00:29:01Look, Dr. Casanova, lay off the ringer's wife.

00:29:04She's a very beautiful girl.

00:29:05Yes, and you might look beautiful too, lying on a marble slab, though I doubt it.

00:29:09Would you send me lilies?

00:29:12Leading.

00:29:13Yes?

00:29:13He wants to see Mr. Meister.

00:29:14Is he in?

00:29:15Mr. Meister's busy.

00:29:16I won't keep it long.

00:29:17I tell you he's busy.

00:29:18He won't see anyone.

00:29:19I've got to see him.

00:29:20Well, give me a message.

00:29:22Him or you?

00:29:24All right, Constable.

00:29:24I'll deal with this.

00:29:27Well, my boy's in trouble, see.

00:29:30He's been on a job and comes up before the beak tomorrow, and I promised I'd get Meister there to

00:29:33defend him.

00:29:34Oh.

00:29:36You wait here.

00:29:38Samuel.

00:29:39Samuel Cuthbert Hackett.

00:29:41That's a terrible name.

00:29:42Have you seen this contraption?

00:29:44Hmm?

00:29:46Ah, it's natty, isn't it?

00:29:48It's very empty.

00:29:49I'll get you.

00:29:50Refill?

00:29:51Aye.

00:29:51Come in the dispensary.

00:29:54Oh, is that where the fuse boxes are?

00:29:57They're awful elaborate.

00:29:58I used to potter with electricity when I was a real lad.

00:30:03Well, he says phone him tomorrow.

00:30:05Look, I don't want any nonsense.

00:30:07And nor do we.

00:30:08He can't get away with this.

00:30:09He's got to see me.

00:30:10It's his duty.

00:30:11Now, now, what's the trouble?

00:30:12Who are you?

00:30:13No one comes in here without me knowing it.

00:30:15He wants to see Meister, but Meister won't see him.

00:30:17Well, that's it.

00:30:18Ain't it, mate?

00:30:19You'll phone him tomorrow.

00:30:20He'll talk to you then.

00:30:21Yes, you've got too many police around here.

00:30:23Well, do you know what I'd do?

00:30:24You might be wasting your time, pal.

00:30:26Someone who has exactly the same idea.

00:30:27Don't you worry.

00:30:28I'll be back.

00:30:34Excuse me, if you'll please.

00:30:35Just a moment, madam.

00:30:36Now, look here.

00:30:36My old man's in there.

00:30:38They've just told me down at the station.

00:30:39So don't you try and gammon me.

00:30:40Not needing weapons on you, eh?

00:30:42If I have them, my own private property.

00:30:44What's your business, anyway?

00:30:45I've told you.

00:30:45I want to see Mr Hackett and it's very urgent.

00:30:47Mr Hackett?

00:30:48What's he up to in there?

00:30:49How should I know?

00:30:50That's what I'm here to find out.

00:30:54Sam Hackett.

00:30:55So here you are.

00:30:56Now, Bill!

00:30:56I found you at last, have I, you snake?

00:30:58Enjoying yourself while me and the kids can starve.

00:31:01Put a sock in it.

00:31:01You'd get me fired!

00:31:02You call yourself a man hiding behind that dickie.

00:31:04Why don't you come home like you always does?

00:31:06Don't shout!

00:31:07I'm not dead!

00:31:08We can wait, we can.

00:31:10While you strut around and up like a dog's dinner.

00:31:12You're acting above yourself.

00:31:13That's what you are, Sam Hackett.

00:31:14But what do you think I'm doing it for?

00:31:16You and the kids?

00:31:17You haven't gone straight, have you?

00:31:19Don't talk daft.

00:31:21I'm making contact, see?

00:31:22It might raise us up into the meogony class.

00:31:24Well, what about raising a bit of housekeeping money?

00:31:27Because now that you're out, I'm giving up my job at Woolworths.

00:31:29All right, all right.

00:31:31As soon as I touch.

00:31:32Oh, I know you, Sam Hackett.

00:31:33As soon as you touch and the big noise in the pub until it's all blow.

00:31:36Hackett, can't you carry on your domestic argument somewhere else?

00:31:39The kitchen, perhaps.

00:31:40And who asks you to push your big ugly mug in?

00:31:43That's right, go on, get me another six months.

00:31:45He's only the cheek dick from Flanders Lane.

00:31:47Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

00:31:49But it's his fault, you know.

00:31:50He's a lazy good for nothing.

00:31:52Well, why put up with him?

00:31:53Why don't you leave him?

00:31:54Leave him?

00:31:55Well, how can I leave him?

00:31:57I'm not married to him.

00:31:58Hmm?

00:31:59Oh.

00:32:00Now, go on, hop it.

00:32:01Oh, come on, Sam.

00:32:03It's all right.

00:32:03As soon as the governor's bumped off.

00:32:05Well, how long's that gonna be?

00:32:06Any moment now.

00:32:07Yes, but, Sam...

00:32:13Don't worry.

00:32:14Don't worry about it.

00:32:15I'll be home soon.

00:32:16Come on, Sam.

00:32:17Don't forget what I told you now.

00:32:19Yes.

00:32:19All right.

00:32:19All right, Hackett.

00:32:20You know this man?

00:32:22Yes.

00:32:22I didn't expect to see you here, Johnny.

00:32:26What's that?

00:32:27What's all the fuss about?

00:32:28What are you all dressed up for?

00:32:29I've got the greatest bit of news for you.

00:32:31You'll die when I tell you.

00:32:32What do you mean by the ringer being back?

00:32:33Where's Lisa?

00:32:34Here.

00:32:35How did you know?

00:32:36When did you get out?

00:32:37Oh, blimey.

00:32:37You look well.

00:32:38Dartmoor must be a blooming holiday.

00:32:41Johnny.

00:32:42Johnny.

00:32:43Lisa.

00:32:45Johnny.

00:32:46Johnny.

00:32:47Johnny, but what cheer is it?

00:32:48I must be all mixed up.

00:32:51Listen.

00:32:52You're out too soon.

00:32:54I'm out.

00:32:54I'm free.

00:32:55Darling.

00:32:57Darling, you haven't escaped.

00:32:59I helped to ward her when some damn fool attacked him, so they remitted my sentence.

00:33:03Oh, Johnny.

00:33:04Help in a screw.

00:33:07Darling.

00:33:09Promise me one thing.

00:33:12Don't make any more trouble.

00:33:14No more trouble ever.

00:33:15No more police.

00:33:18You swear it.

00:33:21I swear it.

00:33:22Why didn't you write?

00:33:23Well, I didn't know myself till this morning.

00:33:25Well, well.

00:33:26Look who's here.

00:33:28Hello, Meister.

00:33:30Hello, Johnny.

00:33:31Let's have a look at you.

00:33:33How did you manage it?

00:33:34He saved a warder's life.

00:33:36One of your ex-clients attacked him, Meister.

00:33:39We must drink to our little hero, shall we?

00:33:42The boy who makes good.

00:33:43What will you have, Johnny?

00:33:44Not for me, Meister.

00:33:45Lisa?

00:33:46No, thank you.

00:33:47Lisa and I are going to be married.

00:33:49I know.

00:33:50Congratulations.

00:33:51I'm taking her to my people in Liverpool tonight.

00:33:53Tonight?

00:33:55I'm sorry, Johnny, but you forget she's my secretary.

00:33:58One can't let the secretary go at the moment's notice.

00:34:00She knows more about my affairs than I do myself.

00:34:03I'd be completely lost without her.

00:34:04But of course, in a few days, I'll be glad to make arrangements.

00:34:06That's too bad, but by taking the first train, I want her out of here.

00:34:10But why?

00:34:11She's been happy here.

00:34:13Haven't you, Lisa?

00:34:14Oh, yes.

00:34:15Yes, I like my work.

00:34:16He asked you, Lisa, whether you've been happy.

00:34:18Yes, darling, but I think it's reasonable that we should wait for a few days until I clear up my

00:34:25work.

00:34:26A few days?

00:34:26You talk as if a few days were nothing.

00:34:27I've been waiting two years.

00:34:29Now, don't be hysterical, Johnny.

00:34:30I'm trying to help you.

00:34:32Keep your advice for people who pay for it.

00:34:33My dear boy, you are hysterical.

00:34:36You'll have to try and adapt yourself to civilized life again.

00:34:38You should talk about civilized life.

00:34:40How about Gwenda Milton?

00:34:41I wonder why she committed suicide.

00:34:43Shut your filthy mouth.

00:34:45And who came out of the whole thing as innocent as a lamb?

00:34:47You can fool the lawmeister because you know every move of the game.

00:34:50But there's someone around you can't fool who's just waiting for an opportunity to take the law into his own

00:34:54hands and good luck to him.

00:34:56Johnny!

00:34:56What are you so frightened about?

00:34:57Does nobody speak the truth right here?

00:34:58He comes out of prison and he talks about truth.

00:35:00I'm not.

00:35:01It's all right, Johnny.

00:35:02I quite understand.

00:35:05Hello, Doctor.

00:35:06Are you sure I'm not butting in?

00:35:08No, no, no.

00:35:09Not at all.

00:35:09I was just away.

00:35:11Excuse me.

00:35:12I'll get my bag.

00:35:13Oh, this is a friend of mine, Mr. Lenley.

00:35:15I've just been having a wee bit chat with our friend there in the pantry.

00:35:20Lenley?

00:35:21You're just back from the country, aren't you?

00:35:24I'm just out of prison, if that's what you mean.

00:35:26Uh-huh.

00:35:29Go.

00:35:29Yes, what is it?

00:35:31There's a party outside wants to see you.

00:35:34Who is it?

00:35:35Well, they asked me not to divulge the name.

00:35:36This party said, just say, I'm from the ringer.

00:35:39A party from the ringer?

00:35:41Show him in.

00:35:43Doctor, are you mad?

00:35:44I know what I'm doing.

00:35:46Show him in.

00:35:59Hello, Meister.

00:36:02Remember me?

00:36:04I'm very sorry, but just for the moment, I'm rather at the loss.

00:36:07Think hard.

00:36:08I'll give you a clue.

00:36:09You knew my husband.

00:36:10That's a terrible opening to a conversation.

00:36:12You knew my husband.

00:36:14Do you mind keeping eye out of this?

00:36:15My name's Coran Milton.

00:36:20Oh, yes, of course.

00:36:21My dear Mrs. Milton, how do you do?

00:36:23Prettier than ever.

00:36:24Oh, shut up.

00:36:25And, uh, how is your husband?

00:36:27Oh, he's fine.

00:36:28Just fine.

00:36:30You'll be pleased to hear that.

00:36:31Oh, yes, indeed.

00:36:32I, um...

00:36:34I brought you a message from him.

00:36:35Oh?

00:36:36Do you mind if we talk alone somewhere?

00:36:37Uh, if you wish.

00:36:41Uh, this way.

00:36:42You'll excuse us, won't you, Doctor?

00:36:43Certainly.

00:36:44What's Mrs. Milton doing here?

00:36:47Blimey, where have you two been? Making the beds?

00:36:49Isn't that like a couple of coppers, eh?

00:36:51Never on the spot when you're wanted.

00:36:53Now, listen.

00:36:54There isn't much time.

00:36:55Why don't you go away, out of the country?

00:36:57Arthur Milton is here in London for one purpose only.

00:37:00To get you, Meister.

00:37:01It's a mania with him.

00:37:03Whatever happened between you and his history pinned her death on you.

00:37:05It's been burning up his mind for two years.

00:37:07He's got one idea left, and that's to get you.

00:37:09So he's in London, hmm?

00:37:11You've been listening to the police, Mrs. Milton.

00:37:13I told the police.

00:37:17Trying to lead me to the ringer, hmm?

00:37:20Very ingenious, I must say.

00:37:22I leave London, where he would never dare show himself,

00:37:25and I go, say, to the Argentine.

00:37:28And he'd be waiting for me there, tipped off by you.

00:37:31What do you take me for, Mrs. Milton?

00:37:33You can cut that out.

00:37:34I wouldn't lift a finger to save you from hell.

00:37:36Get that into your head, Meister.

00:37:37And run fast while you still have some breath in you to do it with.

00:37:40And run to the ringer?

00:37:41From the ringer, you fool.

00:37:44It's here in this house you'll meet him, and not anywhere else.

00:38:11You're looking very beautiful today, Cora Ann.

00:38:14Well, that's more than I can say of you, Doctor.

00:38:16The merry widow, eh?

00:38:17You can cut out the widow stuff.

00:38:18It's too near home.

00:38:19The merry grass widow, then.

00:38:21Not so merry as all that.

00:38:23Still hankering after that husband of yours?

00:38:26Isn't it time you stopped worrying?

00:38:28Oh, dead right it is, Doctor.

00:38:30You can't still be in love with him.

00:38:32Love?

00:38:33I don't know.

00:38:35What's love, anyhow?

00:38:36I've forgotten.

00:38:37Love?

00:38:37Well, they say in the books it's where the heart is.

00:38:41Well, mine's in my mouth most of the time.

00:38:43That's anatomically impossible, my dear.

00:38:46It was love that took you all the way to Australia after him, wasn't it?

00:38:49Was it?

00:38:50A honeymoon alone in a single birth cabin?

00:38:52Not my idea of love.

00:38:53Why don't you forget him, Cora Ann?

00:38:55Do you think he wants me to forget him?

00:38:57I don't know.

00:38:58He might.

00:38:59Is any man worth what you are suffering?

00:39:02Sooner or later he'll be caught.

00:39:04If he's alive.

00:39:05If he's alive, aye.

00:39:06The long arm of the law will stretch out and seize him.

00:39:10And the long leg of the law will boot him into prison.

00:39:12Oh, will you please stop talking about my husband?

00:39:14All right.

00:39:15Anything you wish.

00:39:17I mean, I'm only trying to help you, lassie.

00:39:20Well, do you mind helping me at a distance?

00:39:21But you attract me, Cora Ann.

00:39:24What am I supposed to do about that?

00:39:25Cheer?

00:39:26Oh, dear, if only I was five years younger.

00:39:2825, you mean.

00:39:30Well, can I offer you a wee bit of advice?

00:39:32Medical advice?

00:39:33No, no, no, no.

00:39:34Just friendly.

00:39:36It'd be a good idea if you were to go right away

00:39:38and forget all about the ringer.

00:39:41Find another interest.

00:39:43Cut him right out of your mind.

00:39:45I'm thinking of all the time you're wasting,

00:39:48waiting for something to happen

00:39:49with that heart of yours in your mouth.

00:39:52You've got some reason behind all this.

00:39:53Aye, I've got plenty of reasons.

00:39:56It's your one chance, Cora Ann.

00:39:58Who says so?

00:39:59Dr Lomond?

00:40:00Aye.

00:40:01When Arthur Milton says, I'm tired of you,

00:40:03I'm sick of you, you're out.

00:40:04Then I'll go.

00:40:06My way, not your way.

00:40:08Good night.

00:40:10Excuse me, madam.

00:40:11But would you mind doing me a favour?

00:40:13The next time you see the ringer,

00:40:14would you put in a good word for me?

00:40:16Samuel Hackett's the name.

00:40:17Word in for what?

00:40:18Well, I'm ambitious, you see.

00:40:19I want to better myself.

00:40:20I want to get out of the rut.

00:40:21Well, there's no place like a rut, Sam.

00:40:22At least you know where you are.

00:40:23Ah, that's just it, madam.

00:40:24You see, a rut's a rut.

00:40:25And I want to get out of it.

00:40:26A man with my experience

00:40:27ought to get out of the rut.

00:40:28Experience, did you say?

00:40:29Yes, here.

00:40:29Have you seen my press cuttings?

00:40:31No, I...

00:40:31Do you mind?

00:40:32There you are, look.

00:40:34That's me, with the bracelets on.

00:40:36I think I'd better start a book on Cora Ann

00:40:39and forget all about criminology.

00:40:42Where's my pencil?

00:40:44There's one on the desk.

00:40:46Oh.

00:40:48Thank you, Mr. Maester.

00:40:53Tell me something.

00:40:55What's she doing here?

00:40:57Well, you should know that.

00:40:59It was you she came to see, not me.

00:41:02What reason have the police to think that the ringer is here?

00:41:05I know they have a suspicion that he's here,

00:41:06but have they any real reason to think so?

00:41:10Well, couldn't you get that out of Cora Ann?

00:41:14She is here.

00:41:15He is not very far away.

00:41:17Oh, is that what they've been telling you?

00:41:20They didn't tell me she was here.

00:41:23Now, what kind of recommendations are those?

00:41:24In each one of them you've been pinched.

00:41:26Yes, I know.

00:41:26But why?

00:41:27Why?

00:41:27I'll tell you why.

00:41:28Because I leave my trademark, see?

00:41:30Fingerprints?

00:41:30No, that's the trouble.

00:41:32No fingerprints.

00:41:33No busted locks.

00:41:34No clues.

00:41:34So that when they see the perfect job, they know it's me, Sam Hackett.

00:41:39The trouble with me, miss, is that I'm the victim of my own perfection.

00:41:44Excuse me.

00:41:47All right, Samuel, I'll put in a word for you.

00:41:49Good night, Samuel.

00:41:49Tell me something, Mamrie.

00:41:50What?

00:41:51How the hell did you get landed with this Scotch comedian of yours?

00:41:55In a moment.

00:41:56Always a nice old boy, really.

00:41:58Bit irritating at times, but after all, he's got precious little to do it in Flanders Lane.

00:42:02I don't like amateurs.

00:42:03He doesn't do anybody any harm.

00:42:05When exactly did you start this job here?

00:42:06About six months ago to get material for research for that book of his.

00:42:11Spent most of his life abroad.

00:42:12Somebody must have recommended him.

00:42:14It's a nice quiet job for an old boy in semi-retirement.

00:42:17You coming, Doctor?

00:42:18Aye, in a minute.

00:42:19Aye.

00:42:20It's warmer in here than out there in the garden.

00:42:23Don't you think so, Mr. Bliss?

00:42:26I saw you out there setting a trap for the ringer, weren't you?

00:42:31Certainly a more practical way of catching criminals and writing all those books

00:42:34and that anthropological muck that you waste your time on.

00:42:36Well, that's a matter of opinion.

00:42:39By the way, Bliss, have you ever noticed your ears?

00:42:41A typical criminal's ear and the prognathic process of the jaw suggests a rabid homicide.

00:42:47Tell me, did you ever commit a murder?

00:42:49Not yet, but am I any moment?

00:42:52How you must hate your ears.

00:42:55They're the most pointed I ever saw.

00:42:56I'll be interested to see what happens to you.

00:42:59The last time I saw ears like that was in India.

00:43:02They belonged to a woman who murdered her husband.

00:43:04Mind, I'm not blaming a poor soul.

00:43:05He was in the native cavalry.

00:43:07He used to go to bed in his spurs.

00:43:09You keep your flippancy for another time, Lomond.

00:43:10We've got a lot on our hands.

00:43:12The ringer was a very clever criminal.

00:43:13Ah, there's no such thing as a clever criminal.

00:43:16That doctrine was inculcated into me when I was a bairn.

00:43:19Oh, aye, toots, toots.

00:43:20I resent that remark.

00:43:22Take care of that hand of yours, Mr. Meister.

00:43:25Good night.

00:43:26Here you are, Doc.

00:43:28Is it full, Samuel?

00:43:29Is it full?

00:43:30Blah, it's the first time I've ever measured it by the yard.

00:43:34I'll see you later.

00:43:54You'll have to put up with a lot of things, you know.

00:43:56People will whisper behind your back.

00:44:00Her husband was in prison.

00:44:02Well, how will you feel about it then, when you wish you'd never met me?

00:44:05But, darling, if you'd never met me, you wouldn't have gone to prison.

00:44:09You wouldn't have needed that money if it hadn't been for me.

00:44:20All the things I planned to say, I don't know, I just couldn't.

00:44:24Tell me them now.

00:44:25First of all, I wanted to ask you to forgive me for all the things I promised.

00:44:29Never let it be said that I'm not sympathetic with young love.

00:44:32No, no, no, no, don't get up.

00:44:34I am sorry about my little outburst a moment ago, Johnny.

00:44:37But, you see, where I expected thanks,

00:44:39it was a little disconcerting to receive abuse.

00:44:41Well, I've heard that.

00:44:42I've been thinking too much right away there.

00:44:44I understand.

00:44:45It's always a mistake.

00:44:46Are you still thinking of taking Lisa away tonight?

00:44:49Yes.

00:44:49That's a pity.

00:44:50I shall miss you, Lisa, dear.

00:44:51When is your train?

00:44:52Eleven o'clock.

00:44:53Look, give me two hours of her time to go over what is most urgent.

00:44:58All right.

00:44:59Well, what about your packing?

00:45:00That's easy.

00:45:00I haven't got much to pack.

00:45:01Go and pack now, Lisa.

00:45:02Then you've got everything prepared,

00:45:03and we can run through the way quickly.

00:45:11Oh, Blast.

00:45:12What's the matter?

00:45:13There's a file in my office.

00:45:15It's important she checks through with me.

00:45:16I'll get it myself, but I can't leave the house.

00:45:19I wonder if Lisa...

00:45:20Lisa!

00:45:21Oh, don't disturb her.

00:45:22Let her finish her packing.

00:45:23I'll get you a file.

00:45:24Oh, that's very kind of you, Johnny.

00:45:26I'll get you the keys.

00:45:28It's the top floor of 258 Piccadilly.

00:45:31If you take a taxi, you'll be there in 20 minutes.

00:45:33Here is some money.

00:45:34Oh, don't worry.

00:45:35It's a thick green file.

00:45:37You'll find it in the bottom drawer of my desk.

00:45:38Right.

00:45:39258 Piccadilly.

00:45:40Mm-hmm.

00:46:09What's that?

00:46:12What's the matter?

00:46:14What are you doing here, Bliss?

00:46:16Looking after you like a father, Mr. Meister.

00:46:19I thought your activities were confined to the outside of my house.

00:46:22I shan't be troubling again this evening.

00:46:23All my men are on duty.

00:46:25However, if you can't sleep, do give me a ring.

00:46:27I'll come and read you some bedtime stories.

00:46:30Good night.

00:46:49I see.

00:46:55258 Piccadilly.

00:46:58Yes.

00:46:59Yes. In about 20 minutes.

00:47:02I see. Can I have your name, please, sir?

00:47:06No, no name.

00:47:44No, no, no, no, no.

00:48:28No, no, no, no.

00:48:45Hello? Hello, Meister? Hello? Meister? Is anybody there? Hello? Meister?

00:49:20Don't move. What are you doing here, anyway?

00:49:25Here we are.

00:49:26Here we are.

00:50:03Here we are.

00:50:06Here we are.

00:50:07Here we are.

00:50:18Here we are.

00:50:24Here we are.

00:50:25Here we are.

00:50:28Here we are.

00:50:33Let's go.

00:50:58Right, Peters.

00:51:00Acting on information, sir, he's at 258 Piccadilly.

00:51:03I find the co-taker hurt and the office at the top entered into.

00:51:06Later, we arrested this man who resisted arrest.

00:51:09What's the charge?

00:51:11He's charged with being on enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose.

00:51:14What's your name?

00:51:16John Lenley, sir.

00:51:17All right, Sgt.

00:51:19I've seen you before tonight, sir, haven't I?

00:51:21Well, anything to say?

00:51:23Meister did you off, didn't he?

00:51:24What's Meister got to do with this?

00:51:26Look, he sent me to his office to get a file.

00:51:28He gave me those keys.

00:51:29It was a trap.

00:51:30If it's a trap, as you say, why not stand and explain to the police?

00:51:33Because, can't you see?

00:51:34I realized I was walking into a trap.

00:51:36If you're innocent, the victim of a trick, now, why should the police hold you?

00:51:40Because I've got a record.

00:51:41Mm-mm.

00:51:43I see.

00:51:44I, um, I came out of prison this morning.

00:51:47Meister a friend of yours?

00:51:48So friendly that I landed with a four-year sentence and looked like landing with another one.

00:51:51That's how friendly we are.

00:51:52That's a pretty fantastic story, Lindley.

00:51:54Whatever it is to you, it's a real-life nightmare to me.

00:51:57All right, you'll be detained.

00:51:59Take him away.

00:52:00All right, put him in number nine.

00:52:01Look, can I put a call through to Lisa?

00:52:03I haven't done anything.

00:52:04I'm not a criminal.

00:52:04All I want is a chance to put things right with her.

00:52:06You're under arrest.

00:52:07Don't let's have any nonsense.

00:52:08Look, if anything happens to Lisa, I'll kill him.

00:52:10I'm warning you, I'll kill him.

00:52:12Who's he going to kill?

00:52:13Meister.

00:52:14Seems quite an epidemic.

00:52:15I want a gun.

00:52:16I beg your pardon, sir.

00:52:17I want a revolver.

00:52:19That's right, Sergeant.

00:52:20Inspector Bliss of Scotland Yard requires a revolver.

00:52:23What do you want it for, Bliss?

00:52:24Going ratting?

00:52:25Yes, but you don't have to worry, Wembrey.

00:52:27Thanks.

00:52:27What do you want a gun for?

00:52:29What's that good do with you?

00:52:30Oh, quite a bit.

00:52:30This is my division, you know.

00:52:32Any reason why I shouldn't have it?

00:52:33None.

00:52:35I should sign for it, though.

00:52:38What's the matter, Bliss?

00:52:38You seem to be forgetting the routine.

00:52:41I've been a long time away from this regulation-ridden country.

00:52:46Good evening, Mr. Bliss.

00:52:47Evening, Darkdow.

00:52:48You seem to live here.

00:52:49Found the ringer yet?

00:52:50Not yet.

00:52:51You want to write another book?

00:52:52And perhaps you will.

00:52:54You know, sometimes I think it's folly to be wise.

00:52:58I wish he'd ask me why.

00:53:00Why, sir?

00:53:01When ignorance is bliss.

00:53:05Curious the inspector does a no-station routine, isn't it, sir?

00:53:08Everything is curious about Mr. Bliss, Sergeant.

00:53:10Bliss, I wonder where he got that name from.

00:53:12Perhaps it was his mother's.

00:53:13What's Meister's phone number?

00:53:152140, I think, sir.

00:53:18Yeah, that's right, sir.

00:53:19Yes, I'm worried about that boy's story.

00:53:22It's Mr. Wembrey.

00:53:23Tell him I'm busy.

00:53:25You can also tell him there is no need for him to worry about me any longer.

00:53:27I'm leaving the country tonight.

00:53:29He's leaving.

00:53:30He's pushing off.

00:53:31Yeah.

00:53:32For why?

00:53:33Well, I'll tell you for why, Mr. Wembrey.

00:53:35Cora ain't seen him.

00:53:37Yeah, and for all I know, I might have seen him too.

00:53:39Tell him I'll be over right away.

00:53:41I've got to see him before he goes.

00:53:43Draw me a gun cutter, will you?

00:53:44Oh, right, sir.

00:53:45What's the matter?

00:53:47Meister's moving out.

00:53:48I've got to find out more about that boy Lendley before he goes.

00:53:51That girlfriend of yours has been up to her tricks again.

00:53:53You better come along.

00:53:55You're the only friend she's got around here.

00:53:57She may need your help if I lay my hands on her.

00:53:59You're not going to shoot her?

00:54:00Oh, come on.

00:54:01Oh, come on.

00:54:34Good evening, Mr. Meister.

00:54:36He's packing.

00:54:37He's going away.

00:54:38Are you going away too, eh?

00:54:39Yes.

00:54:40I'm waiting for my fiancé.

00:54:41He's coming to fetch me any moment now.

00:54:43Who, Lendley?

00:54:44Yes.

00:54:44Too bad.

00:54:47What's wrong?

00:54:48I'm afraid you'll have to put that off for a bit.

00:54:50He is under arrest.

00:54:52What has he done?

00:54:54He broke into what is known as enclosed premises.

00:54:55He's also charged with assault.

00:54:59But, but, is he in a prison?

00:55:01For the time being, he's just been detained.

00:55:04How serious is it?

00:55:05Very serious, unless his story can be corroborated.

00:55:09Ah, Wembrey.

00:55:09Doctor, how nice of you to come and see me out.

00:55:12Why, Lise, dear, what's the matter?

00:55:13I'd like a word with you.

00:55:15What has happened?

00:55:16Where is Johnny?

00:55:17Where do you think he is?

00:55:19He's been arrested.

00:55:21Is that so?

00:55:22That is so.

00:55:22Acting on information received, he was arrested this evening.

00:55:29I'm terribly sorry about this, Lise, dear.

00:55:31He was arrested in your office, oddly enough.

00:55:33My office?

00:55:34What on earth was he doing in my office?

00:55:36We haven't quite cleared that up yet.

00:55:38Lise, what stupidity has he been up to?

00:55:40Now, of all times, when...

00:55:43Don't cry.

00:55:45Look, I'll do everything humanly possible for him, I promise you.

00:55:48What can you do?

00:55:49What can anybody do?

00:55:50Well, if there is a way out, you can rest assured that I'll find it.

00:55:54Let me talk to Wembrey.

00:55:57Look, you go up for a while, hmm?

00:55:59Come.

00:56:01I've never let you down, and I never shall.

00:56:03If, by any chance, this matter can't be straightened out,

00:56:05you'll come with me.

00:56:07You can't stay here alone, and you know why.

00:56:11Why not let her make up her own mind?

00:56:14Why can't I go and see him?

00:56:15That's not possible.

00:56:16Now, please go upstairs and wait.

00:56:17I can settle this matter much better on my own, and time is short.

00:56:20That is, if you want me to help.

00:56:30Hackett?

00:56:31You seen Hackett?

00:56:32No.

00:56:36Are you here again, Cora, Anne?

00:56:38I might say the same to you.

00:56:40Well, I just came to bid a fond farewell to Mr. Meister,

00:56:42but what's the matter?

00:56:44There's a queer, vacant look in your eyes.

00:56:46The vacancy isn't in my eyes.

00:56:47I haven't eaten a thing since lunch.

00:56:49If you like, you can take me out to supper.

00:56:51Oh, I might miss some fun,

00:56:53if the ringer knows that Meister's leaving.

00:56:55You've got some strange ideas of fun.

00:56:57Now, why don't you take me out to supper?

00:56:59Are there any restaurants around here?

00:57:01I would, who'll pay?

00:57:02I'll pay for it.

00:57:03You can come along as my Scotch gigolo.

00:57:04Oh, so you think I'm your type now?

00:57:06You'll do.

00:57:07I'm not feeling at all particular at the moment.

00:57:09You're very tempting, Cora, Anne.

00:57:10It's such an economical proposition

00:57:12that you nearly make me forget why I'm here.

00:57:14Why are you here?

00:57:15In my professional capacity, in case of accidents.

00:57:18Come on, I'm hungry.

00:57:19Now, Cora, Anne,

00:57:21don't lure a man away from his duty.

00:57:23What duty?

00:57:23The ringer might feel

00:57:25that he had something to say

00:57:26to Mr. Meister before he left.

00:57:28What, with all these police around?

00:57:29He wouldn't be such a madman,

00:57:30not even the ringer.

00:57:31I wonder how well you know him, Cora, Anne.

00:57:34There's a look in your eyes I don't like, Doctor.

00:57:39I'm not the ringer's accomplice.

00:57:41You want to see him hang.

00:57:42Don't be hysterical.

00:57:43Your husband wouldn't like that.

00:57:44He might be somewhere around

00:57:46and it would worry him.

00:57:47I'll give you five minutes, no more.

00:57:49Doctor,

00:57:50if you must make love to the ringer's wife,

00:57:52you might choose another moment

00:57:53and another place.

00:57:54It would be more convenient

00:57:55if you went home.

00:57:57Why?

00:57:58Because I don't want

00:57:59two tragedies on my hands.

00:58:03Mr. Meister.

00:58:04I'm in a hurry, Doctor.

00:58:05I think I know the reason

00:58:06for your burnt hand.

00:58:08Is that all?

00:58:08Aye.

00:58:09There's an old transformer here.

00:58:11It must have worked to lift at some time.

00:58:13If the wires had been connected to that,

00:58:15it might have proved fatal.

00:58:17Now, are you listening to me?

00:58:20How about that anonymous phone call

00:58:22you made at the station tonight?

00:58:24Dear Wembury,

00:58:24I'm much too vain a man

00:58:25to impart information anonymously.

00:58:27You should know me better.

00:58:28You fixed Langley, didn't you?

00:58:29For some purpose of your own.

00:58:31Don't let's argue, my dear fellow.

00:58:32Let's part friends, shall we?

00:58:34At least I'm saving you the trouble

00:58:35and expense of guarding me any longer.

00:58:37Good evening.

00:58:38Mr. Meister?

00:58:39What do you want?

00:58:40I've got your tickets.

00:58:41I'll give them to him.

00:58:42I'm sorry.

00:58:43I've got to get his signature for them.

00:58:44All right.

00:58:44Come this way.

00:58:46Your tickets.

00:58:47Oh, put them down, will you?

00:58:48Two.

00:58:49Will you sign this, please, sir?

00:58:50Why two?

00:58:52Why two?

00:58:53Because Lisa is coming to America with me.

00:58:55Oh, sir, that's it, is it?

00:58:57I haven't time to sift your obscure ideas, Wembury.

00:58:59The fact is that Lisa will decide

00:59:01to be realistic about this boy.

00:59:03Must be an end even to her patience.

00:59:05Thank you, sir.

00:59:06So Lisa will decide, eh?

00:59:08There are moments, Meister,

00:59:09when I wish the police had wider powers

00:59:11to carry arms, perhaps, you mean?

00:59:13Nothing so dramatic.

00:59:14One fist will be enough,

00:59:16given the greater pleasure.

00:59:17Schoolboy stuff, Wembury.

00:59:18You don't know the world.

00:59:19Go and touch me, Lisa, will you?

00:59:21I'm taking this girl away

00:59:22from a petty, small-time crook.

00:59:24To lift her into the big-time stuff.

00:59:26Strange snobberies you people have.

00:59:27To give her a new life in America.

00:59:29Not if she goes with you.

00:59:30She is going with me.

00:59:33Do you know something, Meister?

00:59:34I could cheerfully do the ringer out of a job.

00:59:37It would make rather an ass of the law, wouldn't it?

00:59:39Hack it.

00:59:40Hack it.

00:59:41Hack it!

00:59:51There, you.

00:59:59Oh, dear.

01:00:24Well, Daryl, it'll only get me into trouble.

01:00:27Good evening, Sergeant.

01:00:29Look what they're doing to me. Why didn't you stop there moaning me down?

01:00:31What's the trouble?

01:00:32I saw this man behind Depford Broadway and asked him what he had in his bag.

01:00:35That's exceeding your duty, Constable. Go on, Sergeant. Tick him off.

01:00:37He refused to open the bag.

01:00:39Now, that's a lie. Don't purge yourself in front of witnesses.

01:00:42All I said was, if you want the bag, take it.

01:00:44Shut up, Hankit. I then took him into custody.

01:00:46Yes, it's the first two words you've spoken.

01:00:48Look here. He come up to me and he give me a lot of madams, see?

01:00:50So I said to him, I don't want to be seen talking to a bogey this hour tonight.

01:00:54Then he got the dead needle and pinched me.

01:00:56Now, I wouldn't take the liberty in your manner, would I?

01:00:59What's in the bag?

01:01:01Oh, it's funny you should mention that.

01:01:03I was just going to tell you about it.

01:01:04Well, the truth of the matter is, see, I was walking down a dark street.

01:01:08It was very dark. I could hardly see.

01:01:09When, all of a sudden, I trod on something soft, see?

01:01:12Well, I bent down to have a look. Well, there was the bag.

01:01:15So I said, now, what are you doing there?

01:01:17And what did the bag say?

01:01:18If I'm telling a lie, I might be struck down here this very minute.

01:01:22Go on, nobody's heard you.

01:01:24Well, then I got my second breath, see?

01:01:26Thought I'd bring it up to the police station when up comes this bogey.

01:01:29All right, let's have a look at it.

01:01:32What's that?

01:01:33A silver teapot.

01:01:35Well, bless my soul.

01:01:37If it ain't Old Meister's teapot.

01:01:40Well, would I come inside and say?

01:01:42I was only rubbing it up this morning.

01:01:45Oh, well, it doesn't matter after all. He doesn't drink tea.

01:01:48Oh.

01:01:49And Meister's cash box.

01:01:50Yeah.

01:01:51And a wad of money.

01:01:53Yeah.

01:01:53Oh, bad luck, Ackett.

01:01:55Yeah.

01:01:55Rank bad luck.

01:01:57Yeah.

01:01:58Yeah, that's good luck, that's what I call it.

01:02:00I ought to get a reward for this.

01:02:02Yeah, you can't that lot, will you?

01:02:03I know what them coppers are.

01:02:04I'll be turning up here next week in a brand new suit.

01:02:07All right, Ackett.

01:02:08You're charged with being in possession of property reasonably suspected of being stolen

01:02:11or unlawfully obtained in contravention of Section 66 of the Metropolitan Police Act.

01:02:161839.

01:02:17Old, innit?

01:02:18All right, it's a fair cop.

01:02:20Name?

01:02:21Samuel Cuthbert Ackett.

01:02:23Samuel Cuthbert Ackett.

01:02:28Address?

01:02:30Buckingham Palace.

01:02:31Buckingham.

01:02:34No fixed abode.

01:02:36What was your last job?

01:02:38Chambermaid.

01:02:38Get out of my way now.

01:02:39Let me pass.

01:02:40I know he's here and I want to see my husband.

01:02:42Am I right?

01:02:43Truth, here comes my biggest fan.

01:02:44Sam Ackett, it's true then.

01:02:46Oh, I could hardly believe my ears when they told me.

01:02:49Please, Mrs Ackett.

01:02:50It's no good, Sergeant.

01:02:51She never stops once she starts.

01:02:53Call yourself an expert being found with the goods on you.

01:02:55Why didn't you bury the stuff in the back garden and come back later for it?

01:02:58You're slipping, that's what you are, Sam Ackett.

01:03:00But I told you I was out of training.

01:03:01And for a mouldy bit of silver like this.

01:03:04Here.

01:03:05Haven't I seen this before?

01:03:07Didn't you knock this off last time he was out and then flog it to Mr Meister?

01:03:11Well, I like that.

01:03:11Flog it to Mr Meister and then pinch it back off him again.

01:03:14That's plain dishonest, you know, Sam Ackett.

01:03:16Sorry, Mrs Ackett.

01:03:17We've got to take him down now.

01:03:19Number seven.

01:03:20Quite a full house tonight.

01:03:21Oh.

01:03:23Come on, Ducks.

01:03:24Perhaps I'll be home for Christmas.

01:03:25Well, it's going to be an hard grind for me and the kids until you can get back on the

01:03:29job again, Sam.

01:03:31I mean, it's not as if we were married.

01:03:33I get no family allowance or anything.

01:03:35It's gone up three, Bob, now, you know.

01:03:38Well, look, Ducks.

01:03:39I'll tell you what.

01:03:41As soon as I get out of here and I've done my first job, we make it legal, see?

01:03:47Help me, Bob.

01:03:48I'll marry you.

01:03:49Oh, Sam.

01:03:51Sarge, there's no one in number nine.

01:03:52The door's open.

01:03:53Number nine?

01:03:55Lenley.

01:03:56Are you sure he got away?

01:03:58Yes, sir.

01:03:59The door in the station yard is open, sir.

01:04:01Well, get the duty car to go around and warn all patrols.

01:04:03You can describe the men.

01:04:04When did this happen?

01:04:06Well, when they took them their meal, sir.

01:04:07Get under the night office of the yard and circulate the description.

01:04:11Right, sir.

01:04:12Get under the yard and circulate Lenny's description right away.

01:04:15Right, John.

01:04:15He threatens to murder Meister, then he escapes.

01:04:17What am I supposed to think?

01:04:18But Johnny doesn't think like you.

01:04:20He's been in prison for a long time.

01:04:22He thinks everybody's against him.

01:04:23But there's a reasonable chance of my being able to help him.

01:04:25But not now.

01:04:27I don't know.

01:04:28He may have to go back.

01:04:29He may not.

01:04:29Oh, please don't tell me one thing, then another.

01:04:32Please tell me.

01:04:33Where is he?

01:04:33I don't know.

01:04:34Probably on his way here to stop you going away with Meister.

01:04:36On his way here.

01:04:38But I'm not going away with Mr. Meister.

01:04:40Well, he seems to think you are.

01:04:42I'm going to stay here even if I have to break every law there is.

01:04:45Like Johnny?

01:04:46Dear, dear.

01:04:47I've never seen such a terrible mess as they've made of these burglar alarms.

01:04:51It's a mercy.

01:04:52They've never been needed.

01:04:53Where is that electrician?

01:04:55He's gone home, I suppose.

01:04:56I wish you'd gone home too.

01:04:58I will when I've tried to disconnect this Heath Robinson contraption.

01:05:02Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is where we say goodbye.

01:05:04I hope you have enjoyed my hospitality and that the good time was had by all.

01:05:07But now the silly game is over and I'm locking up.

01:05:09Aye, you'll be glad to be away.

01:05:11Goodbye, Mrs. Milton.

01:05:12Thanks for the timely warning.

01:05:14It's a little secret you will have to keep from your husband, I take it.

01:05:17Goodbye, Bliss.

01:05:18I shall watch the English papers for further news of your success.

01:05:21Goodbye, Doctor.

01:05:22What are you doing there?

01:05:23I'm just pottering.

01:05:24Well, stop pottering.

01:05:25I'm locking out.

01:05:27Aye.

01:05:29I'm not coming with you.

01:05:30Johnny is out.

01:05:31He's on his way here.

01:05:32Out?

01:05:32Who said so?

01:05:33He's escaped.

01:05:35It's a trick, Lisa.

01:05:36A police trick.

01:05:37No one ever escapes.

01:05:38It's a very cruel thing, Wembrey, to raise hope when you know the situation as well as I do.

01:05:42Better than you, shall we say?

01:05:43What does that mean?

01:05:44You...

01:05:45You tell me things and I don't understand what you mean.

01:05:48Where is Johnny?

01:05:49It's the old cat and mouse game, my dear.

01:05:51If he has escaped, you'll be back on the lock and key before the day's over.

01:05:54If he were free, why don't you produce him, Bliss?

01:05:56Give us time.

01:05:57Time?

01:05:57Not much to ask when we've got a couple of minutes early.

01:05:59Can't you see what nonsense this is, Lisa?

01:06:01Whom are you prepared to trust?

01:06:02Me, whom you've known for two years, or the police, who lock Johnny up and then try to insinuate

01:06:07that there may have been a mistake?

01:06:08Insinuate nothing.

01:06:09We haven't yet proved him guilty, that's all.

01:06:11You will.

01:06:12Get the luggage into the car.

01:06:14Now, don't be sidetracked by this last minute nonsense, Lisa.

01:06:15Let's discuss it in the plane.

01:06:17If you still feel strongly about it, you can always come back.

01:06:19There is nothing final about you coming with me, but I should have no peace of mind if I left

01:06:22you here now,

01:06:23under the circumstances.

01:06:24Don't you see?

01:06:29Yes, of course you do.

01:06:30Now we must hurry.

01:06:31Where are the tickets?

01:06:32I think you left them on your desk.

01:06:34Oh, yes, of course.

01:06:52I'm afraid there's nothing I can do.

01:06:53But he just can't be dead like that.

01:06:55Men do something quick.

01:06:56But he is dead.

01:06:57Keep your hands away from that place.

01:06:58Don't touch it.

01:06:59That's what it is.

01:07:00He's been electrocuted.

01:07:02I'll go and switch off at the mains.

01:07:04Don't you touch that.

01:07:05Oh, what a terrible thing.

01:07:13Electrocuted, eh?

01:07:16The wires must have been touching the tray and acted as a conductor.

01:07:19And the tickets were on the tray.

01:07:21Yeah.

01:07:22They took him further than he reckoned.

01:07:42Distilled in Australia, eh?

01:07:48Why the stethoscope?

01:07:50It was so foolish of the old boy to tamper with this thing, wasn't it?

01:07:56Someone who knows nothing about electricity.

01:07:59Or for someone who knows a great deal about electricity.

01:08:02Mrs. Milton, I'd be grateful if you'd stand just where you are.

01:08:06What a terrible thing.

01:08:08Still, you never know.

01:08:10Perhaps Meister was lucky to die like this.

01:08:13He might have met the ringer one day,

01:08:15and then it probably wouldn't have been so painless.

01:08:18We think he has met the ringer.

01:08:23Now, what makes you say that, Bliss?

01:08:26Where?

01:08:26You can drop the accent.

01:08:28Yes, it's been rather getting on our nerves, Doctor.

01:08:31Harry Lauder made a fortune out of it.

01:08:33You won't.

01:08:34I don't have to.

01:08:36Get the police, Van Wembrey.

01:08:37Stop this nonsense.

01:08:42My dear chap, isn't that my whiskey?

01:08:44Good heavens, yes.

01:08:46Very special stuff.

01:08:47You can't get it in this country.

01:08:49Will you have one?

01:08:50You may never have another chance.

01:08:52I'll see to that, Doctor Lomond.

01:08:53So, probably shall I, but don't call me Doctor, please.

01:08:56It makes me feel such a fraud.

01:08:57You see, there was a real Doctor Lomond, a very nice old chap.

01:09:00He died in Australia while he was treating me for kangaroo bite.

01:09:03Kangaroos do bite, you know.

01:09:04He had very excellent credentials, quite wonderful.

01:09:07Scotland Yard always insists on excellent credentials.

01:09:09So I borrowed them.

01:09:12Impersonation and murder.

01:09:13Murder?

01:09:14You mean this unfortunate accident to Meister?

01:09:17You find it very hard to prove anything else.

01:09:19My dear Bliss, think again.

01:09:21Arthur.

01:09:22Oh, my dear.

01:09:23I'm so sorry.

01:09:25How are you?

01:09:26You let Lenny out of the cell tonight.

01:09:27Why?

01:09:28My dear Wembrey, he'd no business to be there.

01:09:30You know that as well as I do.

01:09:31Well, you won't find a good Samaritan ready to let you out once you're in.

01:09:34And you'll stay there for the rest of your life.

01:09:36I don't think Arthur would want to live as long as that.

01:09:48I think you'd better look after the Doctor.

01:10:07Take the car and get some men down here quickly.

01:10:09Very good, sir.

01:10:19They're still in the house, that's certain.

01:10:21Did you even go through this door?

01:10:22No, sir.

01:10:22Nobody passed me from the time I heard the shot till I came in.

01:10:25There's a cordon around the house, sir.

01:10:26We're worried outside.

01:10:27They're sending more men down from the station to search inside.

01:10:29They'll be here in a few minutes, Frank.

01:10:39You realize where you stand, Mrs. Milton?

01:10:42Obstructing the law?

01:10:43Helping a prisoner to escape?

01:10:44You're going to be out of circulation for quite some time.

01:10:46That'll be a nice rest.

01:10:48I've been doing too much traveling lately.

01:10:50You'd better get her out of here.

01:10:51Come on.

01:10:52We'll start upstairs.

01:10:53There's been an accident.

01:10:55Get a man to watch, Mrs. Milton.

01:10:57I'll have to take one off the guard outside.

01:10:58No, don't do that.

01:10:59But listen to me, Johnny.

01:11:00If you want, I'll come too, but we won't have a chance.

01:11:03I don't need that.

01:11:04Hello?

01:11:05Lenley?

01:11:06This is Inspector Wembrey speaking.

01:11:07Now listen to me.

01:11:08The sooner you realize you're in serious trouble, the better.

01:11:11No, no.

01:11:12I don't want any excuses.

01:11:13Look, if I come round, will you promise me that...

01:11:15And I'm not making any promises?

01:11:17What?

01:11:18Well, where are you?

01:11:20Well, come here immediately.

01:11:21No.

01:11:22No.

01:11:24You're going to have trouble with that, young man.

01:11:26Who are you?

01:11:27Terrace, sir.

01:11:28F Division.

01:11:28I've come here looking for a man called Lenley, believed to be on the premises.

01:11:31Well, never mind about that now.

01:11:33Hankins, bring Mrs. Milton out here, will you?

01:11:36I've seen you before somewhere, haven't I?

01:11:38Yes, sir.

01:11:38I used to be in your division, sir.

01:11:40Oh.

01:11:42Well, take Mrs. Milton down to Flanders Lane.

01:11:43You ought to have another man, but I can't spare one.

01:11:45Don't worry, sir.

01:11:46I can manage.

01:11:46I'm glad to hear.

01:11:47Somebody's got so much confidence.

01:11:49Mr. Wembrey, sir.

01:11:50Well, what is it?

01:11:50I'd like to get back to your division if there should ever be a vacancy.

01:11:53I enjoyed working with you, sir.

01:11:54Did you now?

01:11:55Good night, sir.

01:11:56Good night.

01:12:06Where's the driver?

01:12:07Searching in the ground, I think, sir.

01:12:09Shall I take Mrs. Milton down to Flanders Lane and then come straight back?

01:12:11All right.

01:12:12Right, sir.

01:12:12Mr. Wembrey.

01:12:15Come here.

01:12:21What would happen if I kissed you?

01:12:22Arthur, shut up.

01:12:23No, tell me.

01:12:24What would happen?

01:12:25I'd probably give you away like I nearly did to the police station.

01:12:27When Bliss came in, poor old Bliss, they all thought it was him.

01:12:30Arthur, please.

01:12:31Well, where do you want to go to?

01:12:33Anywhere, so long as you can get us out of this.

01:12:35Peru.

01:12:36Is it warm in Peru?

01:12:38The sun shines all day and the moon shines all night.

01:12:40Let's go there, then.

01:12:42Right?

01:12:43Go on, get into the house before anything more happens to you.

01:12:45Go and ask Lisa to keep an eye on you.

01:12:47Go on.

01:12:50All right.

01:12:51On your way.

01:12:58Do you love me?

01:13:00Cora Anne?

01:13:25No.

01:13:37No, no!

01:13:38Join me!

01:13:39No, no, no, no!

01:13:41No!

01:13:42No!

01:13:43No!

01:13:47Dashboard, manga where it went.

01:13:49Not charged.

The Ringer (1952) - Full British Action Thriller Movie

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