Beat the Devil (1953) - (Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama) - video Dailymotion

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Approved | 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 17 December 1953 (Italy)  On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...  Director: John Huston  Writers: Claud Cockburn, Truman Capote   Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida

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00:00:00Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:00:30Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:01:00Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:01:30Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:01:34Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:01:37I must say, I do resent the way these people stare at us.

00:01:40They look as if they might be going to spit.

00:01:43Gwendolen, dash it all.

00:01:45It's unlucky to have someone spit at you unless you spit first.

00:01:48What a filthy superstition.

00:01:50May yours be defiled.

00:01:53What's that about?

00:01:54These people may be thinking of putting a curse on us.

00:01:57You know, like, may your grandmothers be defiled.

00:02:00That's why I say it first, just in case.

00:02:03Where on earth do you get all this stuff?

00:02:05My old Spanish nurse told me.

00:02:07Surely you don't believe it now.

00:02:08You were only a child then.

00:02:10She wasn't a child.

00:02:11She was old.

00:02:12I always wondered why your parents left you in charge

00:02:14of such a dirty, ignorant old woman.

00:02:16They cared for nothing except to have me off their hands.

00:02:19I've told you that.

00:02:20They'd have sold me on the slave market

00:02:22if they hadn't been afraid of scandal.

00:02:24Besides, my father was incompetent.

00:02:26I don't suppose he knew just how to contact slave people.

00:02:29Don't believe a word of it.

00:02:31Probably they were quite fond of you, really.

00:02:34Stop it, Gwendolyn.

00:02:36Don't do it.

00:02:37You'll be sorry if we run into bad luck

00:02:39just because we didn't take proper precautions.

00:02:41Suppose when we get to Africa, we find there's a native rising

00:02:44and they're slaughtering all the whites.

00:02:46Gwendolyn.

00:02:47If you don't let me spit,

00:02:48I shall feel like standing here in the streets

00:02:50and just screaming with terror.

00:02:51Stop it, Gwendolyn.

00:02:52Look, those men.

00:02:53They might be fellow passengers.

00:02:55Nonsense.

00:02:56Best thing for you.

00:02:57Fresh air is to the blood what water is to the heart.

00:03:00Clean blood makes for a clear head.

00:03:02Clear head makes for straight thinking.

00:03:04Must keep fit, Mr. O'Hara.

00:03:05Fighting fit, fit to fight.

00:03:06Do you know whose motto that was?

00:03:08By Count Montgomery,

00:03:09Commandery Chief, British Forces.

00:03:11Now it's mine.

00:03:12Wait!

00:03:13Who?

00:03:14I mean, what do you suppose they are?

00:03:16Businessmen, does it matter?

00:03:17Well, if we're going to be on a small boat with them

00:03:19for weeks and weeks.

00:03:20I only said they might be fellow passengers.

00:03:22Harry, we must beware of those men.

00:03:24They're desperate characters.

00:03:26What makes you say that?

00:03:27Not one of them looked at my legs.

00:03:30Good morning, Mrs. Danrother.

00:03:32Good morning, Billy Boy.

00:03:33Care to join us in a stroll?

00:03:35Turn up the livers?

00:03:36Sweat out the toxins?

00:03:37Help nature to help you?

00:03:39Wouldn't dream of it.

00:03:42Really, Billy,

00:03:43you mustn't be so offhand with Mr. Peterson.

00:03:46If I were to treat him with more than common politeness,

00:03:48he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.

00:03:51Mr. Peterson is a bully.

00:03:53Billy.

00:03:54Huh?

00:03:55Did you see this?

00:03:56See what?

00:03:57That man in London has been killed.

00:03:59What man?

00:04:00Paul Van Meer, high-ranking official in the colonial office,

00:04:04was stabbed to death early this morning

00:04:06by an unknown assailant outside a club in Soho.

00:04:09This is the third crime of violence

00:04:11to occur in that vicinity within the past month.

00:04:19What is it, Billy?

00:04:22What is it, Billy?

00:04:33In heaven's name, Billy, say something.

00:04:47You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.

00:04:50Seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.

00:04:52Oh, don't pretend to be a fool.

00:04:54But look, Billy, this happened early Tuesday morning.

00:04:56We'd all left London well before that.

00:04:58What about Jack Ross?

00:04:59What about the galloping major?

00:05:01But he only...

00:05:02I thought he only stayed behind to get that phone call from Ambassador,

00:05:05if it came through.

00:05:07He'll be here this morning.

00:05:08Well?

00:05:09Don't get so excited.

00:05:11Don't jump to unpleasant conclusions.

00:05:13Jump? They might as well have drawn a map.

00:05:15Why was Peterson worried about Van Meer?

00:05:17What made him think he was dangerous?

00:05:19He was afraid Van Meer wouldn't stay bought.

00:05:21Afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone.

00:05:24He had visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,

00:05:28announcing,

00:05:29I have certain information,

00:05:30certain persons have paid certain sums of money...

00:05:32Don't talk so loud, Billy.

00:05:33To obtain illegal rights to certain mineral supplies.

00:05:36That Indian, that Roger, or whatever he was,

00:05:38that you worked for in the old days,

00:05:40he killed a lot of people, didn't he?

00:05:42Nah, but he had a better style.

00:05:44Besides, he was out for a kingdom,

00:05:46half the size of France.

00:05:47What's the difference between that and millions of dollars?

00:05:50We must think of the future, Billy.

00:05:52This is our big chance.

00:05:54It may be our last.

00:05:55Except for Mr. Peterson,

00:05:56we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.

00:05:59Where are you going?

00:06:00I'm going out to a cafe,

00:06:01drink a lot of Pernod and listen to the band.

00:06:03You won't make a fuss, will you?

00:06:04It doesn't do to make a fuss.

00:06:06You have to think of the main objective.

00:06:10Naturally, it doesn't do to be fussy.

00:06:18It's your move, Wendland.

00:06:20Gracias.

00:06:40The luggage is in there.

00:06:47Bring it up.

00:06:56Oh, look, the Desperados.

00:06:58Shh.

00:07:01Not quite now, contract, Billy.

00:07:02Hard liquor before noon.

00:07:04I'm celebrating.

00:07:05Celebrating what?

00:07:06The safe arrival of the Major.

00:07:07He came galloping in a minute ago,

00:07:09looking tired but satisfied.

00:07:13I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:07:15Yes, well, it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen.

00:07:17I'll see you later, Billy.

00:07:22Your move, Wendland.

00:07:26Wendland, it's your move.

00:07:27Oh.

00:07:28Check.

00:07:29At last.

00:07:32Are you sailing on the Niagara?

00:07:34Africa bound.

00:07:35So are we.

00:07:36Oh, my name is Cho, and this is my wife.

00:07:38How do you do? My name's Danrod.

00:07:39How do you do?

00:07:40Are your friends sailing too?

00:07:42The whole kit and caboodle.

00:07:44You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:07:46Really, Wendland?

00:07:47How so mysterious?

00:07:49Well, for one thing,

00:07:50you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:07:53Your move, Wendland.

00:07:56Check.

00:07:58I have a theory about you and your friends.

00:08:00Correction.

00:08:01My associates.

00:08:03As a matter of fact,

00:08:04I think you're doctors.

00:08:06Evil ones, I mean.

00:08:08You're going to the heart of the jungle,

00:08:09where human life is cheap,

00:08:11to perform ghastly experiments

00:08:13which require the sacrifice of thousands

00:08:15on the altar of science.

00:08:17You must excuse my wife.

00:08:18She has a very lively imagination.

00:08:23Check me.

00:08:25I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game

00:08:26when you keep talking all the time.

00:08:29Harry's been all out of sorts today.

00:08:31Usually, he's a wonderful loser.

00:08:33Good morning, Mr. Danrada.

00:08:34I bring you the captain's compliments,

00:08:36along with the sad news

00:08:38that the sailing of the SS Niaga has been postponed.

00:08:41Now, look here.

00:08:42It is definitely, most definitely scheduled

00:08:44to sail at 2400 hours.

00:08:46Scheduled, Mr. Chelm,

00:08:47but not, I fear, destined to do so.

00:08:49The propeller go on, or is the captain drunk?

00:08:51Of course the captain is drunk.

00:08:53But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

00:08:55Well, it's not good enough.

00:08:56Simply not good enough.

00:08:57Quite right, sir.

00:08:58But you're putting it too mildly.

00:09:00The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:09:02Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:09:03Oh, to locate, bargain for, purchase,

00:09:05and install a new one will require, I should say,

00:09:08more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:09:12Sir, hopeless inefficiency.

00:09:14Probably it isn't the oil pump at all.

00:09:16Just making it an excuse to hang about

00:09:18and pick up extra cargo.

00:09:19Guns are open.

00:09:20I wouldn't be surprised if she turns out to be a smuggler.

00:09:23What a miserable place to be stuck in.

00:09:25Squalid, fifth-rate port.

00:09:27Ever been in Port Averno before?

00:09:29No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:09:31I thought not,

00:09:32otherwise you wouldn't be so upset about staying.

00:09:34Magnificent country.

00:09:36Ruins divided by moonlight, fine stretch of beach.

00:09:39Back there in the hills,

00:09:40one of the few spots left in the world

00:09:43where you can get decent food and drink.

00:09:45It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:09:47I insist you give me the pleasure of having dinner with us tonight.

00:09:50Oh, that's awfully kind of you, but...

00:09:52Us?

00:09:53You and your associates?

00:09:55My wife and me.

00:09:56The committee?

00:09:58Oh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet a friend of mine.

00:10:01This is the galloping major.

00:10:03The committee wants you to toddle around.

00:10:04Okay.

00:10:05Right away.

00:10:06I'll be along.

00:10:07Better toddle.

00:10:08I said I'd be along.

00:10:09I don't like to be kept waiting.

00:10:12I'll lay on a car.

00:10:13We'll meet in front of the hotel at six.

00:10:15Out of a dutchie.

00:10:19Dunrather.

00:10:20An American, I suppose.

00:10:22Anyway, I...

00:10:23I quite like him.

00:10:25Time.

00:10:2624 hours in a day.

00:10:271,440 minutes

00:10:29for somebody else to get busy on the same idea as ours.

00:10:32We ought to have got the plane and flown out.

00:10:34As I said from the start.

00:10:35You remember I say the horror?

00:10:37My name is not horror.

00:10:38It is O'Hara.

00:10:39You hear?

00:10:40Mr. O'Hara.

00:10:41Yes, Mr. O'Hara.

00:10:42But you remember I said it.

00:10:43I said we ought to take a plane.

00:10:45Time.

00:10:46Time.

00:10:47What is time?

00:10:48Swiss manufactured.

00:10:49French ordered.

00:10:50Italian squandered.

00:10:51Americans say it is money.

00:10:52Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:54You know what I say?

00:10:55I say time is a crook.

00:10:56If we took a plane, we'd be there inside 15 hours.

00:10:59Instead of...

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

00:11:02The sky is for the birds.

00:11:03My feet are on the ground.

00:11:04Both of them.

00:11:07Come in, Billy boy.

00:11:11What's all the fuss about?

00:11:12No fuss, Billy.

00:11:13We're merely wondering what course to pursue

00:11:15in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:11:17Join the peasants in their revels.

00:11:19Go to church.

00:11:20Write your memoirs.

00:11:23Very funny.

00:11:24I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:11:27Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles

00:11:29than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:11:33And now that we've had our moment of fun

00:11:35and all the better for it, let's get back to the question.

00:11:37Doesn't this delay call for a cable to your friend

00:11:40in British East?

00:11:41Mustn't send cables.

00:11:42Can't you get it through your head

00:11:43that the population down there has trained noses?

00:11:45They can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish.

00:11:49But aren't you afraid, Billy,

00:11:50that when our little party doesn't show up

00:11:52on the date you said,

00:11:53aren't you a teeny bit afraid

00:11:55that your friend might use that as an excuse

00:11:57to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:12:00If my friend were looking for an excuse,

00:12:03he'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:12:05What do you mean?

00:12:06I'm talking about the untimely demise of Paul Vermeer.

00:12:13Well, I'm appalled, Billy.

00:12:15What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues

00:12:18to imagine that we...

00:12:20Look here, Peterson.

00:12:21You don't have to convince me of anything.

00:12:22You don't care what I think

00:12:23as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:12:25And I won't, unless you ever decide

00:12:27to sic that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:12:29Watch yourself, Larry.

00:12:31Now, Jack, behave yourself.

00:12:33Sit down.

00:12:36For shame, Billy.

00:12:38I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:12:41And if you're half the gentleman I know you are,

00:12:43I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:45As I was saying, Peterson, you have nothing to worry about.

00:12:47My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:49For purely venal reasons,

00:12:51that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:54Jack, give Billy a light.

00:13:02What a wonderful car.

00:13:04It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance

00:13:06many years ago.

00:13:07Oh, it did.

00:13:08It was built for Oroposo.

00:13:09You know, the bullfighter.

00:13:10He had it made this way

00:13:11so he could stand up and take bows.

00:13:13He only got one ride in.

00:13:14Never queested to me on his deathbed.

00:13:16Well, here's to Oroposo.

00:13:17I hope you like champagne.

00:13:18You mean it's yours?

00:13:19Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur,

00:13:20the fat bandit in the front seat.

00:13:22Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:13:24Well, that was Bertie Crampton's.

00:13:26It was his.

00:13:27It was his.

00:13:28Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:13:30Well, that was Bertie Crampton's.

00:13:31Oh, you mean Lord Crampton, in Gloucestershire.

00:13:34His family acres marched hand in hand with ours.

00:13:37Gloucestershire, the cathedral town,

00:13:40trout fishing, garden parties.

00:13:43What a beautiful life.

00:13:44You know England well.

00:13:46Emotionally, I am English.

00:13:48I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets,

00:13:52and I've always kept up my subscription

00:13:54to Country Life and the Tattler.

00:13:56Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance.

00:13:58You're very wise to get out of it.

00:14:00Escape while you can.

00:14:01Well, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.

00:14:03Simply so happened that a relative of mine,

00:14:05first cousin, actually, who died recently,

00:14:06happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:14:08Africa's the place now.

00:14:09You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys.

00:14:11They just skimmed a little off the top.

00:14:13The potential mineral wealth of Africa's

00:14:15hardly been scratched.

00:14:17Now, there is a villa.

00:14:19Big.

00:14:20Well, that's the Villa Capriccio,

00:14:21famed in song and story,

00:14:22a three-star attraction in Baydecker.

00:14:24Well, whose is it?

00:14:25Well, the bank's on it now.

00:14:26It used to be mine.

00:14:27Yours?

00:14:28Yes, I brought old Charles over from Fouquet's.

00:14:30You know, the old Fouquet's, to run it for me.

00:14:32Then when I decided to pull up stakes,

00:14:34I bought him this restaurant we're going to.

00:14:36Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:14:38Well, here we are.

00:14:40Charles!

00:14:41Charles!

00:14:42Wait here a minute while I route old Charles out.

00:14:44He doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:46Charles!

00:14:47Charles!

00:14:50He must think we're extraordinarily naive.

00:14:52Knew all those people.

00:14:53Owned that vast villa.

00:14:55Bought this place because he liked the fella's cookie.

00:14:58What utter balderdash.

00:14:59Oh, perhaps he did.

00:15:00I beg leave to doubt it.

00:15:01Did you notice his wife?

00:15:03She seemed to be rather a sensitive little woman.

00:15:05Rarely embarrassed by all that rot.

00:15:07I am sorry, signore.

00:15:08As you see, we are closed.

00:15:10We do not open for another two months.

00:15:13Charles, what the devil's going on here?

00:15:14This place is falling to rack and ruin.

00:15:16Place is closed.

00:15:17We shall have to die in the hotel after all.

00:15:19Monsieur Don.

00:15:21Monsieur...

00:15:22Monsieur Don.

00:15:24Madame.

00:15:25Why did you not let me know you were coming?

00:15:28You did not say you were with Monsieur Don.

00:15:31Nothing is closed to Monsieur Don.

00:15:33Good to see you again, Charles.

00:15:35It's been too long, Monsieur Don.

00:15:37Not since the night you left the villa.

00:15:39Remember your farewell party.

00:15:41I tried ever since to forget it.

00:15:43Remember how in the morning we escorted you to the train

00:15:46with violins playing

00:15:48and everybody cried

00:15:50like when a king you love very much

00:15:52leaves his country.

00:15:56Aren't you dressed yet?

00:15:58Do I appear to be dressed?

00:16:00Do dress, do hurry.

00:16:01It's a most wonderful day

00:16:03and Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:16:05His former villa.

00:16:07Obviously, I can't go.

00:16:09I've got to chill on my liver.

00:16:12What a miserable place to be ill.

00:16:14And you forgot to pack my hot water bottle.

00:16:17You packed it.

00:16:19Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember.

00:16:23Hello.

00:16:25Oh, hello.

00:16:27No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:16:29Harry has this wretched chill and...

00:16:31Give me the telephone.

00:16:33Chelm here.

00:16:35Yes.

00:16:37Quite.

00:16:38Absolutely.

00:16:40A hot water bottle.

00:16:42That's very, very good of you, old boy.

00:16:45Look here, Danrother.

00:16:47Would you mind very much if my wife went alone?

00:16:50She enjoys this sightseeing sort of stuff, you know.

00:16:53Spend it, spend it.

00:16:55I'll send her along.

00:17:00You know, Gwendolyn, nowadays

00:17:02one simply cannot afford to dismiss people

00:17:04just because they're not one sort.

00:17:06One has to try and bridge the gulf.

00:17:09After all, it's a new world we're going into.

00:17:11One's got to take it as one finds it.

00:17:13Face it. Use it.

00:17:15Master it.

00:17:43You know, I've seen Americans on the street

00:17:46and in the cinema, of course,

00:17:48but I've never talked to one before.

00:17:50Are you a typical American?

00:17:52I think it's important that I should know.

00:17:54Why important?

00:17:56There are two good reasons for falling in love.

00:17:59One is that the object of your affections

00:18:02is unlike anyone else.

00:18:04A rare spirit, such as Lord Byron.

00:18:07The other is that he's, like everybody else,

00:18:09only superior.

00:18:11Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.

00:18:13Well, if you must know, I'm a typical rare spirit.

00:18:16How long did you live here?

00:18:18Oh, the longest I've ever lived anywhere is two years.

00:18:21But when you were a child,

00:18:23didn't you ever have a mother and a father

00:18:25and a house and a street and a town?

00:18:27No, I was an orphan until I was 20,

00:18:29and then a rich and beautiful lady adopted me.

00:18:32You know, I've changed my mind

00:18:34about your being an evil doctor.

00:18:36You're off to keep a rendezvous

00:18:38someplace in Africa sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:41You're going to found a new empire

00:18:43and make yourself master of the riches of the world.

00:18:46But you need a beautiful blonde queen

00:18:48to impress the natives

00:18:50as the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.

00:18:53That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:55Am I?

00:18:57Of course.

00:18:59I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.

00:19:01You don't believe that, do you?

00:19:03Oh, I believe anything you say.

00:19:05Do you?

00:19:08Well, you shouldn't, you know.

00:19:10You really shouldn't.

00:19:12You can make that pass now.

00:19:38Mr. Charlton?

00:19:40Yes?

00:19:42It's I, Mrs. D'Arnaud.

00:19:44Maria.

00:19:46Oh, come in.

00:19:48Tea for two and two for tea?

00:19:50Now, that's most awfully kind of you.

00:19:52You shouldn't have troubled, really.

00:19:54Billy told me you had a chill.

00:19:56Bit of one on the liver, two tarsal.

00:19:58Milk, of course.

00:20:00Of course.

00:20:04Tea and crumpets.

00:20:08That's very good of you.

00:20:12Poor Harry.

00:20:14Chill won't kill him.

00:20:16I feel just now I...

00:20:18I should like somehow to do him a good turn of some kind.

00:20:20You do?

00:20:22Well, naturally.

00:20:24Oh, I see. Naturally.

00:20:26I think it would be nice if...

00:20:28if you were able to do something for him.

00:20:30Help him along.

00:20:32Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:20:34Delighted, of course. For instance.

00:20:36Oh, something with business.

00:20:38He was very pleased with that tip you gave him

00:20:40on the way home last night about the gold shares.

00:20:42I've forgotten what I told him. What was it?

00:20:46I don't remember either.

00:20:48I was listening to your voice.

00:20:50I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:20:54You see, if you were helping him,

00:20:56it would be so much easier

00:20:58for us to be together a lot out there in Africa.

00:21:00Was Hanny headed for business?

00:21:02Why, simply brilliant.

00:21:04I wouldn't have thought it.

00:21:06But of course he is.

00:21:08You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny, do you?

00:21:10If you imagine that

00:21:12Harry's simply going to Africa to plant coffee,

00:21:14you're very much mistaken.

00:21:16In point of fact...

00:21:18In point of fact,

00:21:20coffee is the least of Harry's interests.

00:21:22In point of fact,

00:21:24the land he's acquiring

00:21:26is extremely rich in certain minerals.

00:21:28Minerals which are indispensable

00:21:30to the production of atomic energy.

00:21:32Harry's land simply teems with uranium.

00:21:34It wouldn't surprise me

00:21:36to see him become the uranium king.

00:21:38So you see,

00:21:40my husband isn't such a ninny as you may have imagined.

00:21:42It might very well be

00:21:44worth your while to go in with him.

00:21:46The potential mineral wealth of Africa

00:21:48has hardly been scratched.

00:21:50So I was telling you last night.

00:21:52Well, of course. It's a well-known fact.

00:22:02Billy boy!

00:22:06Had a happy day?

00:22:08Very.

00:22:10I'm so glad.

00:22:12What an attractive woman Mrs. Chelm is.

00:22:14Is that what you called me over to tell me?

00:22:16Who are the Chelms?

00:22:18They're English going out to British East.

00:22:20They have a coffee plantation.

00:22:22Any money in coffee?

00:22:24No, but there's a type of Englishman

00:22:26who goes off to coffee plantations

00:22:28without carrying one's own money.

00:22:30Relatives leave them coffee plantations

00:22:32and they go out to them.

00:22:34But why this sudden interest in the Chelms?

00:22:36I'd just like to know who's making friends

00:22:38with my friends.

00:22:40Now you know.

00:22:54You know, if I ever leave you,

00:22:56it'll be for someone else.

00:22:58If I ever leave you,

00:23:00it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:23:02Well, bully for you.

00:23:04I suppose that type of Englishman

00:23:06is like a story I once heard.

00:23:08An English gardener in England

00:23:10was showing some Americans

00:23:12one of those wonderful English lawns.

00:23:14And of course, they wanted to know

00:23:16how to make a lawn like that.

00:23:18And this English gardener said...

00:23:20He said, all you have to do is get some good grass

00:23:22and roll it every day for 600 years.

00:23:24I heard that story before you were born.

00:23:26Englishmen tell it when they're feeling down in the mouth.

00:23:28You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:23:32You're not even listening.

00:23:34You never do.

00:23:36Someday I'll say goodbye and you won't hear that either.

00:23:40One day I shall really meet my type

00:23:42and run off with him.

00:23:44And you'll be simply amazed.

00:23:46That's possible.

00:23:48George Moore said...

00:23:50I learned it by heart years ago.

00:23:52He said that each great passion

00:23:54is the fruit of many fruitless years.

00:23:56George Moore

00:23:58was a very distinguished English writer, you know.

00:24:00Except that he was Irish.

00:24:02Cheer up, sugar.

00:24:04If I make a million on this deal,

00:24:06I'll buy you an old English lawn

00:24:08one we can roll up and take with us.

00:24:14Billy,

00:24:16good morning.

00:24:18What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun

00:24:20doing outside my door?

00:24:22Don't make jokes about my name, huh?

00:24:24In Chile, the name of O'Hara is...

00:24:26is a tip-top name.

00:24:28Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:24:30Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:24:32Madame, my respects.

00:24:34Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

00:24:36Yes, uh,

00:24:38maybe perhaps, uh,

00:24:40a little whiskey, huh?

00:24:42Very weak, please.

00:24:44What's this visit in honor of?

00:24:46Oh, just wanted to have a little talk with you.

00:24:48Okay, but make it fast.

00:24:50Fast?

00:24:52I give you my word, Billy.

00:24:54I give you my word,

00:24:56I feel to you like, uh,

00:24:58like an older brother.

00:25:00Oh, it's not so much the difference of age.

00:25:02It's, uh, it's probably...

00:25:04Yes, the reason is because...

00:25:06because I come from a culture

00:25:08which is so much older than yours

00:25:10in my country.

00:25:12A child six years old

00:25:14is older in his heart than you'll be

00:25:16at sixty.

00:25:18It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.

00:25:20At this rate, I'll be sixty

00:25:22before you get to the point.

00:25:24The point...

00:25:26The point is that Peterson,

00:25:28Ravel, and myself,

00:25:30we are the principals in this case.

00:25:32We are in with the money.

00:25:34We cannot switch around and turn and...

00:25:36But an agent,

00:25:38it's easy to imagine that he could conceivably

00:25:40doesn't feel himself

00:25:42quite as irrevocably committed

00:25:44as, uh, Peterson...

00:25:50We're fellow passengers, I believe.

00:25:52Not quite yet, would you say?

00:25:54Too sadly true.

00:25:56By any chance, you don't happen to have seen your Mr. Dan, Ravel?

00:25:58I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:26:00He's rather a late riser.

00:26:02But he said...

00:26:04Well, anyway.

00:26:06I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:26:08particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:26:10It's not that he means to break his word,

00:26:12but it is so seldom go in one package.

00:26:14There are exceptions, of course.

00:26:16Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behavior, is one.

00:26:18Oh, yes, very.

00:26:20Well, quite, I mean.

00:26:22I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband

00:26:24and having a chat about Africa.

00:26:26By all means.

00:26:28I understand he's in coffee?

00:26:30You make it sound like a total immersion.

00:26:32Part of Africa we're going to

00:26:34is due for some pretty important changes.

00:26:36In my opinion, things will be booming out there

00:26:38before you can say Jack Robinson.

00:26:40If there are any changes, it's completely unspoiled, I hear,

00:26:42with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:26:44I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery

00:26:46than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds

00:26:48cropping up on a piece of land I bought for a song.

00:26:50Heaven forbid.

00:26:52Next thing, there'd be big ugly holes everywhere

00:26:54and great horrid machines

00:26:56instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:58Anyway, I don't think my husband

00:27:00worries much about money and business,

00:27:02that sort of thing.

00:27:04Really?

00:27:06I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view,

00:27:08and his background,

00:27:10those lawns, hundreds of years in the making,

00:27:12those immemorial elms,

00:27:14those walls hung with family portraits,

00:27:16generations of them,

00:27:18those great echoing galleries

00:27:20where so much of English history is being made.

00:27:22Taxes must be terrific

00:27:24on a place like that.

00:27:26What would people like the Chelms

00:27:28care about taxes with their kind of money?

00:27:30I mean, when a family's been a power

00:27:32in the city of London for so long,

00:27:34one of the great financial families.

00:27:36Power in the city?

00:27:38You mean...

00:27:40Oh, yes, of course, one of those Chelms.

00:27:42I'm surprised you know about them at all.

00:27:44Very few people do.

00:27:46They prefer to work behind the scenes.

00:27:48I find it rather hard to believe

00:27:50that a man in your husband's position

00:27:52would go to Africa just for the coffee planty.

00:27:54You're very quick, aren't you?

00:27:56In point of fact, he isn't.

00:27:58In point of fact, he has a very special reason.

00:28:00So I suspected.

00:28:02It has to do with...

00:28:04Sin.

00:28:06Sin?

00:28:08Since the war, my husband has been

00:28:10almost exclusively concerned with

00:28:12spiritual values.

00:28:14He feels that if he can get away there

00:28:16in the heart of Africa,

00:28:18he will come face to face with essentials.

00:28:20He wants to work out the problem of sin.

00:28:22Sin?

00:28:24Why, yes, of course.

00:28:26Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?

00:28:28Sin?

00:28:30Gwendolyn, what are you doing here?

00:28:32I thought we were supposed to meet on the beach.

00:28:34Harry, I want you to meet Mr...

00:28:36My name is Peterson.

00:28:38I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.

00:28:40She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.

00:28:42I myself am vastly concerned.

00:28:44Harry, we'd really better be going.

00:28:46You'll excuse us, Mr. Peterson.

00:28:48What have you been telling that man?

00:28:50Nothing, Harry.

00:28:52He got on to the subject of religion,

00:28:54and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:58Billie, I think it is high time

00:29:00you take stock of yourself.

00:29:02Can you truthfully say about yourself,

00:29:04I, Billie Danreuther,

00:29:06have acted fairly and squarely

00:29:08to my associates, huh?

00:29:10But of course he can, Mr. O'Hara.

00:29:12Everybody knows Billie's the soul of honor.

00:29:14Shut up, sugar.

00:29:16Perhaps he is the soul of honor, and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

00:29:18Do you mind telling me what it is I'm supposed to have done?

00:29:20Nothing.

00:29:22It's your conduct. Your conduct is...

00:29:26Your conduct does not inspire confidence,

00:29:28and confidence, Billie, is the most important necessity

00:29:30in an undertaking of our kind.

00:29:32One may be completely innocent,

00:29:34but if one's actions invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.

00:29:36To be trustworthy

00:29:38is not more important than to seem to be trustworthy.

00:29:44Billie,

00:29:46have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:48Tell me, Billie.

00:29:50Tell me the truth.

00:29:52My conduct.

00:29:54Who do they think I am?

00:29:56The hired man?

00:29:58But you are, you know.

00:30:00You are the hired man.

00:30:02How good and kind of you to remind me.

00:30:04How good.

00:30:06How true.

00:30:08How kind.

00:30:10Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you.

00:30:12How about a drink?

00:30:14Well, I...

00:30:16Oh, come on, my dear fellow.

00:30:18Let me buy you a drink.

00:30:20Oh, Gwendolyn,

00:30:22don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.

00:30:26I can't understand it.

00:30:28Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on this.

00:30:30I don't understand it.

00:30:32I don't understand it.

00:30:34I don't understand it.

00:30:36I don't understand it.

00:30:38Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beat.

00:30:40Then I come back and find her sitting there in that cafe.

00:30:42Extraordinary creatures, women.

00:30:44Well, let's drink to them.

00:30:46Pernod. Scotch.

00:30:48Come on, you tiny little wreck, have a drink.

00:30:50We're drinking to women.

00:30:54Take the drink, but we won't join you in the toast.

00:30:56Glass of Irish.

00:30:58Women.

00:31:00Hitler had the right idea. Keep them in their place.

00:31:02Kind akin to Kirk and babies in the kitchen.

00:31:04Say what you want to about Hitler, he had his points.

00:31:06Come, come. Look here.

00:31:08This generation's had its chance.

00:31:10Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men.

00:31:12Now is the age of the barbarians.

00:31:14The world's going up in smoke. I say, let it come. Get it over with.

00:31:16Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:31:18Worry? Just one minute, laddies.

00:31:20I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies,

00:31:22and that's don't worry.

00:31:24Don't ever worry.

00:31:26I'm in a position to know secret information.

00:31:28The Rosicrucians, the Great White Brotherhood,

00:31:30the High Secret Orders.

00:31:32But you've no faith. You must have faith.

00:31:34Faith and power, secret power.

00:31:36Men who guard the trust from the deepest inside you,

00:31:38the watchmen call it. Mystic rulers, all one club,

00:31:40chained together by one purpose, one idea.

00:31:42Mankind's champions.

00:31:44Follow me, Billy? Oh, why, of course.

00:31:46This generation's had its chance.

00:31:48Hitler, Mussolini.

00:31:50I can't stand here and permit you... Are you interrupting me?

00:31:52Relax, Jack. Have another drink.

00:31:54I simply want to state that things don't happen to me

00:31:56what certain people imagine.

00:31:58An officer may find himself strapped for money,

00:32:00and he may undertake certain things

00:32:02which in other circumstances, no.

00:32:04Absolutely no. Absolutely.

00:32:06I mean, absolutely no.

00:32:08In the old days, I should have simply told people

00:32:10if you're ill to buy their own drinks.

00:32:12Poor old Jack.

00:32:14I'll teach you.

00:32:16I'll teach you

00:32:18to insult an ex-officer of the Indian Army.

00:32:20Well?

00:32:22Are you yellow?

00:32:24The bar.

00:32:28You're Major Ross?

00:32:30Right.

00:32:34Ross here.

00:32:36Right. Right again.

00:32:38Come along to the committee.

00:32:40Save for the bell.

00:32:46I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:32:48Sin. Oh, sin.

00:32:50All I could do was to keep a straight face.

00:32:52No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:54These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:56Sit here and help me close this.

00:32:58What are we up to?

00:33:00Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:33:02Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us

00:33:04even before we get started.

00:33:06We must get ahead of them.

00:33:08Time has entered the picture in a new way.

00:33:10Never forget the time factor, gentlemen.

00:33:12It always enters the picture in the end.

00:33:14I'm sending a cable to London.

00:33:16I want full information on those Chelm interests.

00:33:18British Africa, too.

00:33:20Check up on his interests there every time the plane lands.

00:33:22I'll try and reach you by telephone.

00:33:24Keep me informed of the latest development.

00:33:26No, you can't at the moment.

00:33:28We need him right now. We need that swine.

00:33:30He's lying double dead.

00:33:32Did I hear my name? Rub-a-dub-dub.

00:33:34Three men and a tub.

00:33:36Tub?

00:33:38Oh.

00:33:40Been a change of plan, Billy Boy.

00:33:42You and I leaving for Africa.

00:33:44How's that?

00:33:46You and I are flying to Africa by the next plane.

00:33:48What's happened, Peterson? Must be something important to get you on a plane.

00:33:50Perfectly simple, Billy Boy.

00:33:52The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty

00:33:54of the anchorable sail forces me to sacrifice

00:33:56my personal comfort. I prefer to fly

00:33:58rather than run the risk of arriving too late.

00:34:00There's also such a thing as arriving too early.

00:34:02What do you mean by that?

00:34:04The land doesn't come up for auction for a couple of weeks.

00:34:06My friend can't make it move until then.

00:34:08If we sit around British East all that time,

00:34:10somebody's going to start wondering who we are

00:34:12and ask questions.

00:34:14Is that your real opinion, Billy, or are you just looking forward

00:34:16to a long sea voyage with the attractive

00:34:18Mrs. Chelm as your companion?

00:34:20Or perhaps you have even other reasons.

00:34:22That's for you to know, and for us to find out.

00:34:24You'd better get your packing done.

00:34:30Billy!

00:34:32Where are you going?

00:34:34Off to Africa, flying.

00:34:36Just like that?

00:34:38Weren't you even going to kiss me goodbye?

00:34:44I wish...

00:34:46Don't say it.

00:34:48What?

00:34:50We'll be coming on the boat in Africa. We'll get together and...

00:34:52I think I hate you.

00:34:54Letting those revolting men order you about.

00:34:56Don't deny it. I've watched them.

00:34:58They treat you like a servant.

00:35:00They say, hop it, and off you hop.

00:35:02I know what it is.

00:35:04They have a hold on you.

00:35:06Some black secret that could ruin you.

00:35:08What makes you think that?

00:35:10No, it happens all the time.

00:35:12My old Spanish nurse told me that

00:35:14half the people in the world would be ruined at once

00:35:16if everyone told what they knew.

00:35:18But...

00:35:20couldn't we have them done away with?

00:35:22You must know plenty of people

00:35:24who could bump them off.

00:35:26It'd probably cost a good deal,

00:35:28but it'd be worth it, certainly.

00:35:30It's not impossible, except that afterwards I wouldn't have any money.

00:35:32This way I stand to make a lot.

00:35:34Millions? Maybe.

00:35:36Then perhaps your connection

00:35:38with those men isn't quite so

00:35:40undignified as I thought.

00:35:42Those millions, would they be

00:35:44pounds or dollars?

00:35:46Either way suits me.

00:35:48No, that's very careless of you.

00:35:50State of the pound is so uncertain.

00:35:52You must think in terms of hard currency.

00:35:54Maybe I should hire you to handle my affairs.

00:35:56You could do worse.

00:35:58I'm awfully intelligent, really.

00:36:00Come along, Billy boy.

00:36:02The car's waiting.

00:36:16We can't get faster than this.

00:36:18We'll miss the plane.

00:36:20Press on! Press on!

00:36:28The high posting.

00:36:46Watch out!

00:37:00Push, push.

00:37:06Come on.

00:37:08One, two, three.

00:37:16Driver! Driver!

00:37:46Come on.

00:38:16Come on.

00:38:38My car!

00:38:40My car!

00:38:42My beautiful car!

00:38:44I know about the uranium on the Chelm's land,

00:38:46the Chelm interest in the city of London.

00:38:48The what?

00:38:49You heard me, the Chelm interest!

00:38:50I take it your information comes from a reliable source?

00:38:52It does, from Mrs. Chelm herself, in fact.

00:38:54Ah, magnificent!

00:38:55Simply magnificent!

00:38:56You must pay me back for the loss of my beautiful car.

00:38:59If you weren't a benighted jackass,

00:39:00if you could see as far as you could spit,

00:39:02you'd know there's no such thing as the Chelm interest.

00:39:04You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Danrother,

00:39:05very much better than that!

00:39:06Don't believe me!

00:39:07Check with London.

00:39:09If you find out he's anything more than a down-at-heels,

00:39:11Gloucestershire squire,

00:39:12you can have my services for nothing!

00:39:14You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?

00:39:17Well, let's say she uses her imagination

00:39:19rather than her memory.

00:39:21You will make restitution.

00:39:22We know, Mr. Dan, either the money or a new car.

00:39:25Why, you fat bandit, I gave you the car in the first place!

00:39:28How I came by it is beside the point.

00:39:31The fact you gave it to me

00:39:33doesn't make it any the less mine.

00:39:35Shut up!

00:39:36That's right.

00:39:37Threaten me.

00:39:39It is not enough that you destroy my beautiful car.

00:39:42Now you...

00:39:43My beautiful car!

00:39:47Stop! Hey, stop!

00:39:48Stop!

00:39:55More than anything,

00:39:57I want Billy to make a grand success out there.

00:40:01Well, as you care so much about money,

00:40:04I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.

00:40:07I shouldn't think Billy would mind, really.

00:40:10I mean, neither of you are in love or anything.

00:40:13You are a strange girl.

00:40:15Of course I love Billy.

00:40:17Actually, I adore him.

00:40:19And Billy loves me very, very, but...

00:40:23very much.

00:40:24That's why I trust him with his little unimportant amours.

00:40:28And what does he say about yours?

00:40:30But darling, all husbands like their wives

00:40:33to seem attractive to other men.

00:40:38Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:41I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:48Mrs. Danrother, Maria.

00:40:50I have, I'm afraid, I have some shocking news for you.

00:40:53The boat is not going at all?

00:40:55There's been a terrible accident.

00:40:57Your husband's car drove over a cliff.

00:40:59The people on the bus saw it fall into the sea.

00:41:02It seems almost certain, but...

00:41:04What is it? What are you trying to say?

00:41:08He's saying that Billy is dead.

00:41:11It's become necessary to redistribute the stock in our company.

00:41:15Stock? Stock? What good is the stock now?

00:41:18We can't deal with Danrother's friends.

00:41:20Not without Danrother.

00:41:22All the effort, the money.

00:41:24Everything went over the cliff with that car.

00:41:27Ravello, you forget the English are very sentimental people.

00:41:31I tell you, there is nothing that Billy's friend

00:41:33will not do for his way to an end.

00:41:36In black, she's a very touching figure.

00:41:40Poor Maria.

00:41:41You really have had a wretched time, Rita.

00:41:44You are very understanding.

00:41:47If only there was something I could do.

00:41:50Just now, if you could bring me an aspirin.

00:41:53I have a headache.

00:41:55Don't move. Just you wait there.

00:41:56I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:59Mussolini, Hitler, and now Peterson.

00:42:03A great man, a great loss.

00:42:06I'm going upstairs and reading my Bible.

00:42:12Why all the clues?

00:42:15Maria has a headache.

00:42:21What's the matter with you?

00:42:23Go away.

00:42:24My dear girl, I'm as sorry about Danrother as you are.

00:42:27But after all, it isn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:29I'm in love with him.

00:42:31He was a very pleasant acquaintance.

00:42:33What did you say?

00:42:34I was in love with him.

00:42:36Really, darling?

00:42:37Have you no control over your romantic fantasies?

00:42:39I loved it.

00:42:40Can't you hear me?

00:42:41I love you. I love you.

00:42:43Oh, Rost.

00:42:44You're just dramatizing again.

00:42:46By George, you were right after all.

00:42:48I did peg it.

00:42:50Oh, what shall I do?

00:42:54I feel as though I were drowning.

00:42:57He's dead.

00:42:59He's dead and I'm left with a fool like you.

00:43:03I'll tell you what to do.

00:43:04Have a bit of shut-eye.

00:43:05You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again.

00:43:07And there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:11You'll notice so.

00:43:12Oh, please go away.

00:43:14I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:22Mr. Chelm, this is very important for you as well as for myself.

00:43:26Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:28There is now an opportunity for you to secure enormous profits with virtually no risk.

00:43:32I want to meet about the bush.

00:43:34Our papers...

00:43:35For you as Billy's widow, it will be very easy to persuade his friend in British East

00:43:39and for capital, for capital, we have Chelm.

00:43:42He has money?

00:43:43Money?

00:43:44Shh.

00:43:45Enormous.

00:43:46All you have to do is speak to him.

00:43:48No, he would think it bad taste to raise such a question at this moment.

00:43:52I know the type of Englishman better than you do.

00:43:56Revello.

00:44:01Revello.

00:44:02Quite evident you've been misinformed as to my interests as well as to my character.

00:44:06Revello, just came from London.

00:44:08No Chelm family financial interest London.

00:44:11What does it mean?

00:44:12What does it mean?

00:44:13It means what it says.

00:44:14There are no Chelm interests.

00:44:16Ah!

00:44:26What's the matter with all of you?

00:44:28Somebody dead?

00:44:29A car.

00:44:30It went over a cliff.

00:44:31We thought you'd both been killed.

00:44:33I'm delighted to see you're alive, but your wife is in a fainting condition.

00:44:39You mean you're not dead at all?

00:44:41Obviously I'm not dead.

00:44:43Please come to your senses.

00:44:44What have you got here?

00:44:45Oh, there.

00:44:46I knew you weren't dead.

00:44:47I knew it.

00:44:48You couldn't be.

00:44:49I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:51My old Spanish teacher told me.

00:44:53I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:55My old Spanish nurse said if you did that a miracle would happen.

00:44:58And you see it has.

00:45:00Ladies and gentlemen.

00:45:02I bring you the glad tidings.

00:45:04The captain is sober and the SS Nyanga will sail at midnight.

00:45:08Go.

00:45:09Go.

00:45:10Go.

00:45:11Go.

00:45:12Go.

00:45:13Hop.

00:45:14Hop.

00:45:15I can't see it anymore.

00:45:18What can have happened to it?

00:45:20My dispatch box, where is it?

00:45:23It's a tin box this size.

00:45:24What have you done with it?

00:45:27I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:45:30I shall not go on board till my dispatch box has been found.

00:45:32Having trouble, General?

00:45:33I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.

00:45:40Does he put it in your cabin, whatever it is?

00:45:42Idiot.

00:45:43Why didn't he say so in the first place?

00:45:47Say, look.

00:45:48What's happened to Harry?

00:45:50You've been giving me the fish eye all evening.

00:45:52What is it?

00:45:53Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead,

00:45:55I told him I was in love with you.

00:45:57You what?

00:45:58I couldn't help it.

00:45:59It made you seem less dead.

00:46:01And?

00:46:02Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:46:03He thought my nerves were upset.

00:46:04Sort of delirium.

00:46:06He thought it quite a joke.

00:46:08The idea of my inventing a love affair with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:46:11That's what he called you.

00:46:12Well, now that I'm back in the flesh,

00:46:14you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:46:18I suppose seeing you alive is different from thinking of you dead.

00:46:22Because Greg cooped up on that tub with a suspicious husband.

00:46:29Billy.

00:46:34Let's not go.

00:46:35What do you mean?

00:46:39I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:46:42Now.

00:46:43What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:45What's happened to you?

00:46:46I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:48You have changed my point of view.

00:46:50I thought we'd get to Africa and you'd make your fortune

00:46:53and everything would be wonderful, but...

00:46:55Now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:57Too many things can happen.

00:46:59I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:47:01You really mean that?

00:47:02With all my heart.

00:47:03Oh, no, that's impossible.

00:47:04Why?

00:47:05Well, for one thing, Mrs. Danrother might not go for the idea.

00:47:07She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:47:09Please, Billy, listen to me.

00:47:11I've thought it all out.

00:47:12We'll take the bus and catch an express for some man...

00:47:14No, no, the shot's not...

00:47:15The shot's not on the table.

00:47:17You're not in love the way I am.

00:47:20If I loved you a thousand times more than you say you love me,

00:47:23it still wouldn't make any difference.

00:47:24I've got to have money.

00:47:25Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money,

00:47:27otherwise I become dull, listless,

00:47:29and have trouble with my complexion.

00:47:31But you're not like that now, and you haven't any money.

00:47:33It's my expectations that hold me together.

00:47:36You really mean that, don't you, darling?

00:47:38Sure I mean it.

00:47:39And your main reason for wanting lots of money

00:47:41is so that you'll be ever so attractive

00:47:43and I'll love you more and more.

00:47:44That's right, baby.

00:47:46I'll help you, Billy.

00:47:47I can, too.

00:47:49I'm something of a witch.

00:47:50My old Spanish nurse said I could have been a professional.

00:47:54Don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.

00:48:09The air, ozone.

00:48:11What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.

00:48:13What a fortune we'd make.

00:48:14Neptune's mixture.

00:48:16Now breathe deeply.

00:48:18Remember, every breath is a guinea in the bank of hell.

00:48:26Good morning, Chelm.

00:48:29Why, that's good.

00:48:30Very good indeed.

00:48:31I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Danbrother.

00:48:33I'd hardly call myself that.

00:48:35I only dabble.

00:48:36The nose is not enough long.

00:48:38The ears are too small.

00:48:40Only has one eye.

00:48:41Now come along, gentlemen.

00:48:42We must start dawdling.

00:48:43Blow the man down, Bully, blow the man down.

00:48:47Blow, blow, blow the man down.

00:48:50Blow the man down, Bully, blow the man down.

00:48:54Good morning, Mrs. Chelm.

00:48:55Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:57Blow the man down, Bully, blow the man down.

00:49:00Blow the man down, Bully, blow the man down.

00:49:03Blow, blow, blow the man down.

00:49:07Blow the man down, Bully, blow the man down.

00:49:10Give me some time to blow the man down.

00:49:13Mr. Peterson.

00:49:14Mr. Peterson.

00:49:15Radiogram.

00:49:32No Chelm estate lost this year.

00:49:35Stopped.

00:49:36Nolan, the gentry, Chelms.

00:49:38What do you make of that?

00:49:40He's not a Gloucestershire.

00:49:42Like Billy said.

00:49:43Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face value.

00:49:46But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:49We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:52Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:54Billy is a liar.

00:49:55Heaven only knows what Chelm is.

00:49:58CID, maybe.

00:49:59You borrowed my thought.

00:50:00What to do?

00:50:01What to do?

00:50:02The time has come for direct action.

00:50:04You remember last night when we came on board?

00:50:06The fuss he was making about his dispatch box?

00:50:10I love colors.

00:50:12Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:50:16Your face, for instance, 10 minutes ago,

00:50:19it was all brown and pink.

00:50:22Now the light is changed and it's chalky white.

00:50:27What?

00:50:28Tinged with green.

00:50:31I don't know.

00:50:32I don't know.

00:50:33I don't know.

00:50:34I don't know.

00:50:35I don't know.

00:50:36I don't know.

00:50:37I don't know.

00:50:38Green.

00:50:40Green?

00:50:43It must be getting rough.

00:50:44Just a little.

00:50:46Don't break the pose.

00:50:49I don't feel very well.

00:50:50I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:57It's incredible.

00:50:58Harry Chelm is just...

00:50:59Just Harry Chelm.

00:51:00Nothing.

00:51:01Nobody.

00:51:02A ruddy refugee from Earl's Court.

00:51:03We'd heard a lot about him.

00:51:04Look.

00:51:05In the letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Governor.

00:51:08The Secretary, mind you.

00:51:09Disgusting.

00:51:11Purser.

00:51:12My box.

00:51:13A bit up and down, isn't it, sir?

00:51:15It's gone.

00:51:16Oh, yes, indeed.

00:51:17Major Ross took it.

00:51:18I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.

00:51:20I like to keep my eye on what goes on aboard the ship.

00:51:22Where did he take it?

00:51:23I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.

00:51:25In fact, I'm sure.

00:51:33Ah.

00:51:34And now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:40He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:46Billy.

00:51:47Come in.

00:51:50Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:51I've seen the paper in days.

00:51:53It's not funny.

00:51:54They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:57Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:58That dreadful little Major.

00:52:00He took it to Peterson.

00:52:01They went through it.

00:52:02It's all your fault.

00:52:03I suppose you know that.

00:52:04My fault?

00:52:05With the poppycock you've been peddling,

00:52:06all that junk about the Chelm interest in London,

00:52:08uranium on your land.

00:52:10Well, in a way, you're the one to blame.

00:52:12I'm the...

00:52:13I mean, you acted so superior.

00:52:15I was falling in love with you,

00:52:17and I couldn't bear it for you to think I was just nobody.

00:52:20Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:23The son of a what?

00:52:25A boarding house.

00:52:27That's what it was.

00:52:29A boarding house?

00:52:31That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:33They run a boarding house for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:36But the way he talks, the way he acts, I thought...

00:52:38It's just that he sees himself in a place in the West Country

00:52:41with trout streams and horses,

00:52:43leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:45It's not his fault if people take it for granted

00:52:47that he has a place like that.

00:52:48He's never once said that he had.

00:52:50Well, country gent, son of a boarding house,

00:52:52or whatever he is,

00:52:53I suppose I'd better get his box back.

00:52:55Oh, he got it back himself.

00:52:56Well, then there's no harm done.

00:52:57Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:52:59He's going to have them put in irons.

00:53:01He is what?

00:53:02He says that's what they did in the Royal Marines.

00:53:05Look here, Skipper,

00:53:06there's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.

00:53:08I happen to own a dispatch box which is very similar to Mr. Chelms'.

00:53:11When I didn't find it in my cabin,

00:53:13I asked Major Ross to see if it had been stowed away somewhere else by mistake.

00:53:16The Major found what he thought was my box

00:53:18in the saloon with some other luggage.

00:53:20The box has been in my cabin ever since we sailed,

00:53:22under the berth.

00:53:23As soon as I saw the box, of course,

00:53:26it wasn't mine.

00:53:27I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged

00:53:29so that I could return it to its rightful owner.

00:53:31I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine

00:53:33I should be interested in a box containing patent medicines.

00:53:36I'm not a hypochondriac.

00:53:39Purser, tell the captain exactly what you told me about the box.

00:53:42Why, sir, you asked me whether I'd seen it

00:53:45and I said it might be the one I'd seen being carried

00:53:47along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:49You distinctly told me that you'd seen it being taken from my cabin.

00:53:52Oh, you must have misunderstood.

00:53:54You were rather ill at the time, if you remember, sir.

00:53:57That's all, Purser.

00:53:58He's been bribed.

00:53:59He's in league with these criminals.

00:54:01Just a case of a misunderstanding.

00:54:03That's how I look at it.

00:54:05Now, what about a little cognac

00:54:07to wash away any ill feeling?

00:54:09I don't care for a drink.

00:54:10And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.

00:54:12While rifling through my personal effects,

00:54:14I feel certain that you must have noticed

00:54:16I had a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Governor.

00:54:18I suspect he'll be much more interested in what I have to say

00:54:20than this gin-soaked so-called ship's captain.

00:54:22You mind your tongue!

00:54:23Anyone tells, the other one I put in hands.

00:54:28As far as I'm concerned,

00:54:30this is a close incident!

00:54:36You've got your box back.

00:54:37Why don't you forget the whole thing?

00:54:39What possible interest do you expect the Colonial Office to take in?

00:54:41On the contrary, I expect them to show considerable interest

00:54:43in a gang of crooks who are trying to swindle the country

00:54:45out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:52Just one moment, sir.

00:54:54What leads you to believe?

00:54:56This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit to inform you

00:54:58that during your supposed demise,

00:55:00he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.

00:55:02Unfortunately for you,

00:55:04he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts,

00:55:06facts which I intend to communicate to the proper authority

00:55:08at the very earliest opportunity.

00:55:11I thought you were dead.

00:55:13That's what they told me.

00:55:15Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:17And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:19Didn't we?

00:55:22You, Ravello, my own partner,

00:55:24sneak up behind my back

00:55:26and try to cheat me.

00:55:28The milk's spilt, it's no good crying over it.

00:55:30Get after him, Billy.

00:55:32Calm him down, talk to him,

00:55:34see if you can't get him to change his attitude.

00:55:36I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:38I don't know why we have to worry about Chelm's attitude.

00:55:40Talk's no good.

00:55:42Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:44I say put an end to her.

00:55:46Shut up, Jack.

00:55:48Time factor has entered the picture again.

00:55:50If we don't get to the French port,

00:55:52there should be plenty of time to convince our friend Chelm.

00:55:54I beg you, please end all this trouble.

00:55:56If things go on,

00:55:58either you will be done away with

00:56:00before we ever get to Africa

00:56:02or you will leave and denounce Peterson to the authorities.

00:56:04And that will be the ruin

00:56:06of all my plans and hopes.

00:56:08In the long run, you'll do much better

00:56:10to get clear of these people.

00:56:12They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:56:14In the long run? I'm tired of the long run.

00:56:16I am not even thinking about them

00:56:19or myself.

00:56:21It's only you that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:23No need to worry about me.

00:56:25Ever since I met you,

00:56:27you fill my thinking.

00:56:29You are becoming an obsession.

00:56:31Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:33I am deeply in love.

00:56:37Maria.

00:56:41My dear.

00:56:49Only you

00:56:51could make a woman feel like this.

00:56:53All I want

00:56:55is to be in your arms

00:56:57now and always.

00:56:59You forget I'm going to be done away with.

00:57:01Oh, no, no.

00:57:03It will be easy to arrange.

00:57:05What you must do is this.

00:57:07You will write me a letter.

00:57:09A love letter.

00:57:11You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson

00:57:13because then I will suffer, too.

00:57:15Because you love me.

00:57:17Because you love me so much

00:57:19you cannot bear to hurt me.

00:57:21Such a letter they will believe

00:57:23if I show it to them.

00:57:25My dear girl, you must see that this is quite out of the question.

00:57:27I don't propose to make compromises.

00:57:29Not compromises,

00:57:31Harry darling.

00:57:33But you can see, if you cause trouble

00:57:35to all of our plans, my plans,

00:57:39you would not want to make the

00:57:41innocent suffer.

00:57:43It would be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:45I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:47Then you intend to go ahead with this business?

00:57:49Tell stories and ruin everything?

00:57:51It would be much better if you cut loose from these people.

00:57:53No happiness can come from such an association.

00:57:55Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.

00:57:57Please, write a letter.

00:57:59Then there will be no trouble for you,

00:58:01no trouble for us,

00:58:03no risk when we get to Africa.

00:58:05I'm sorry, my dear.

00:58:07We English are a very pig-headed lot.

00:58:09You think you can get away with this?

00:58:11But, Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.

00:58:14Now you tell me you will ruin me.

00:58:16You forgive me, but it was you who made...

00:58:18Oh, shut your trap. Go on, do what you like.

00:58:20You think you're such a brave man.

00:58:22I'll tell you what you are.

00:58:24You are a heel.

00:58:30What the blazes now?

00:58:35What's happening? What's going on here?

00:58:37The oil pump's on the blink. The electricity's failed.

00:58:39Out of folly. A ship lying in darkness this way?

00:58:41We might well be rammed at any minute.

00:58:43I'll tend to this myself. Which way is the entry room?

00:58:45The passengers are not...

00:58:47I'm sure your chief engineer will welcome the advice

00:58:49of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:59:05Look here, you fool. Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:59:07I insist on something being done.

00:59:09For instance? Give out the lifebelts.

00:59:12It's a boat drill.

00:59:14The clientele are requested to remain calm.

00:59:16To remain calm? Does the captain feel no sense of responsibility

00:59:18for the lives of his passengers?

00:59:20It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.

00:59:22You mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:24The fellow ought to be made to walk the plank.

00:59:26I'm afraid just now he cannot walk at all.

00:59:28This is outrageous.

00:59:30Calm down, old man. What have you got to worry about?

00:59:32We're only adrift in an open sea where the drunken captain

00:59:34and engine is liable to explode at any moment.

00:59:36It's a perfectly ordinary situation.

00:59:38It happens every day.

00:59:40If any of you are still at all anxious,

00:59:42let it be known that Mr. Chelm has taken charge

00:59:44in the engine room.

00:59:46He's taken charge?

00:59:48Harry, and he'll foozle it for sure.

00:59:50Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:52Your husband claims to have learned all about the engine

00:59:54and such things when he was an officer

00:59:56in the Royal Marines.

00:59:58If he ever was.

01:00:00In point of fact, not only was he an officer,

01:00:02but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire

01:00:04to rescue someone.

01:00:06It's only a bit of wreckage and not a man,

01:00:08a slight error in judgment.

01:00:12Oh, the lights, they come on.

01:00:14He must have fixed it.

01:00:16Impossible. The engines are turning.

01:00:18We are underway.

01:00:20I still say it's impossible.

01:00:22Ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:24may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:26I'm happy to inform you that the oil pump

01:00:28is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:30Putting it right was no great accomplishment

01:00:32for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:34Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay

01:00:37Oh, Harry, you did, you did.

01:00:39You fooled me.

01:00:41My friend, you wrecked my ship.

01:00:43Where is it?

01:00:45I can't tell who it is.

01:00:47Captain wants to see you.

01:00:49There you are, you devil.

01:00:51You wrecked my beautiful ship.

01:00:53Nothing of the sort.

01:00:55Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work

01:00:57out of pure malice.

01:00:59Keep your head down.

01:01:01Stay out of this, Dad and Mother.

01:01:03I can handle the boat.

01:01:05Do we get the life abeyance?

01:01:07Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:09There's no immediate danger.

01:01:11The passengers were pleased to return to the saloon.

01:01:13We're heading for the nearest port

01:01:15and there seems to be some chance of our making.

01:01:17Right. Let's go.

01:01:21Come along.

01:01:25Now, who was last out?

01:01:27Last.

01:01:31Billy boy, be a good fellow and make a forfeit bridge.

01:01:34The Major has no head for cards.

01:01:36A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:38Thank you. I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:40In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:42No ice, no water. That's it.

01:01:44How about you, dear Mrs. Dadrother?

01:01:46Little bridge?

01:01:48Oh, so sorry. I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:50I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:54Oh, what a shame.

01:01:56Well, boys, we'll have to make it cutthroat.

01:01:58What about Harry here? Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:02:00That, under the circumstances,

01:02:02is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:02:04Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table

01:02:06or else leave the saloon.

01:02:08Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:10I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.

01:02:12Don't be absurd. Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:14He's the best friend we have on this boat.

01:02:16We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:18You don't need any friends you can get.

01:02:20The only thing standing between you and a watery grave

01:02:22is your wits.

01:02:24That's not my idea of adequate protection.

01:02:26Purser, how much longer before this ship reaches port?

01:02:28If we ever do get to port,

01:02:30we'll be there in 14 or 15 hours.

01:02:32That's a long time.

01:02:34Sit down, make yourself comfortable, have a drink.

01:02:36Enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:38Come on, Peterson, buy us a drink.

01:02:40I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality

01:02:42from persons who I intend, in a few hours' time,

01:02:44to denounce in a place of justice.

01:02:46Two spades?

01:02:48I admire your sans-froid, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:50Or perhaps you don't think I'm serious.

01:02:52We shall see.

01:02:54Three clubs.

01:02:56Double.

01:03:00Gwendolyn, are you going to do as I say?

01:03:02Not when you speak to me in that tone.

01:03:04Not when you try to order me about.

01:03:06In that case...

01:03:08Where are you going?

01:03:10On deck, where the air is less polluted.

01:03:30No, sir. Four tonics.

01:03:46I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:48Why should I?

01:03:50If he's going to be so childish and unreasonable.

01:03:52Take my advice, go to him. Stay with him.

01:03:54I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality

01:03:56from persons who I intend, in a few hours' time,

01:03:59I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.

01:04:01The loyal wife at her husband's side.

01:04:03No, Billy.

01:04:05I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.

01:04:07And I shall not deny it.

01:04:09Either by word or by deed.

01:04:11I love you. Let the whole world know it.

01:04:13I love you. I love you.

01:04:15Keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.

01:04:17Then why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?

01:04:19He's being such a deadly bore tonight.

01:04:21Deadly, but not dead. Not yet.

01:04:23What do you mean?

01:04:25They killed one man just because they thought

01:04:28he might try to get in their way.

01:04:30Now, handsome Harry, he's certain to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:04:32They killed a man?

01:04:34Really? Who?

01:04:36Just a man.

01:04:38Well,

01:04:40for all Harry's being too, too tiresome

01:04:42and my loving you to distraction,

01:04:44I still wouldn't want to see him done in.

01:04:46He has some perfectly darling traits, really.

01:04:48I mean, like always remembering one's birthday.

01:04:52No, we simply mustn't let anybody murder Harry.

01:04:54Yes, but keep him in your cabin.

01:04:57Never let him out of your sight. Keep him under lock and key.

01:05:03Oh!

01:05:09Oh, Billy, that awful music.

01:05:11It's so loud, it comes right into our cabin.

01:05:15Peterson, tell the manager to soft-pedal it.

01:05:17And while he's about it, he might change the tune.

01:05:19Oh, don't you like it? It's one of my favorites.

01:05:21I'm afraid he doesn't know any others.

01:05:23Do you, Jack?

01:05:27Waiter!

01:05:33I love the tinny sound of a player piano.

01:05:35It reminds me of the days of my youth.

01:05:37I love the tinny sound of a player piano.

01:05:39It reminds me of the days of my youth.

01:05:41Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:06:09Something down.

01:06:11Captain!

01:06:13Captain!

01:06:29What happened?

01:06:31Oh, Billy, all that screaming, I thought someone had been killed.

01:06:34There was someone nearly wiped.

01:06:35Indeed there were. Look at the Major.

01:06:36We'd better get a new act finished and the curtain's going down on this one.

01:06:38Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:06:40The passengers break the engine.

01:06:42They beat each other to feet.

01:06:43They throw each other overboard.

01:06:44That man attacked me.

01:06:45How are you?

01:06:46You again!

01:06:47If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:49He came sneaking up behind me and tried to run me through with his sword.

01:06:51Is that true?

01:06:52Well...

01:06:53It's no use, Billy.

01:06:54Am I trying to protect Harry any further?

01:06:56I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:59Captain, it... it grieves me to confess this.

01:07:02But in point of fact, my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:07:06The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:07:09On occasion, he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:07:12The psychiatrists say it's because he...

01:07:14He believes people are plotting against him.

01:07:16And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:07:19Gwendolyn!

01:07:20For heaven's sake, woman!

01:07:21What's the meaning of this treachery?

01:07:23Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:07:25He knows! He saved my life!

01:07:27He'll tell the truth!

01:07:28I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:07:30You wrecked my ship!

01:07:31You tried to kill the passengers!

01:07:32But I'm...

01:07:34Let me go! I'll kill the lot of you!

01:07:36I warn you, Captain!

01:07:38Oh, Harry, it's awfully sad.

01:07:40We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:43How dare you lay hands on me!

01:07:45You hooligans!

01:07:46I'll have you put in irons!

01:07:47You'll be the ones in irons!

01:07:49Good, good!

01:07:50We'll have no trouble from you!

01:07:53Scum!

01:07:54Mongrels!

01:07:55I'll bring you to book!

01:07:56Every one of you!

01:07:57Every man jack of you!

01:07:59After all, it was the only solution.

01:08:01Harry's safely locked in his cabin

01:08:03where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:08:05On the other hand,

01:08:06he can't say or do anything now

01:08:08to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:08:10I mean, the authorities would hardly listen

01:08:12to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:08:14They won't even let him off the boat.

01:08:17Well, in that case,

01:08:18he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.

01:08:20It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?

01:08:22Yes, it is.

01:08:24I mean, it's a bit hard.

01:08:26It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?

01:08:28Yes, but after you've amassed all those African millions,

01:08:32we'll make it up to him.

01:08:34We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire

01:08:37with some rough shooting

01:08:39and a trout stream like he's always wanted.

01:08:42Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:44She seems to have a very real feeling

01:08:46for English country life.

01:08:48And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:50Especially us, Billy.

01:08:53What's going on?

01:08:55I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:57Board station, everybody.

01:08:59We're sinking.

01:09:02Harry! Harry, open the door!

01:09:04You must! The ship's sinking!

01:09:06Get back!

01:09:08The ship's sinking!

01:09:39What are you doing there?

01:09:41You've ruined the life of the boat!

01:09:43Get back!

01:09:45Pull up! Be careful!

01:09:47Get back!

01:09:49They're going to buy us!

01:09:51They're going to buy us!

01:09:53Get back!

01:09:55They're going to buy us!

01:09:57Get back!

01:09:59Get back!

01:10:01Get back!

01:10:03Get back!

01:10:05Get back!

01:10:07Get back!

01:10:09Get back!

01:10:26We can't. We simply can't leave

01:10:28without finding out what's happened to Harry.

01:10:30Maybe we'll run across him out there.

01:10:32He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:10:34I don't say we will, but it's possible.

01:10:36Anything's possible.

01:10:40John! Bill!

01:10:42Josh!

01:10:49Harry!

01:10:55Harry!

01:11:07Harry!

01:11:31Where do you suppose we are?

01:11:33Africa. What part of Africa?

01:11:35That's important. What part?

01:11:37Not a bad place to land. No customs, no forms to fill out.

01:11:39Tell us at once where we are. It's important, I know.

01:11:41You mean to say there are parts of the Dark Continent

01:11:43where you won't be received like the prodigal son?

01:11:45Alio.

01:11:47What's that?

01:11:49Alio.

01:11:53Better get down, everybody.

01:11:57Get rid of your passports, boys.

01:11:59Mrs. Chelm, Billy Boy, my identity must remain a secret.

01:12:05Go, go, go!

01:12:35Put them down!

01:12:46Alio, what's that?

01:12:48It was a company that sold arms to the Arab legions.

01:12:50Wait a minute. That rings a bell.

01:12:52Some of the equipment we sold was defective.

01:12:55Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:58The Arabs claim they lost the war

01:13:00because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:13:02For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:13:04I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:13:26Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:13:28Why, it's simply...

01:13:30Shocking.

01:13:32Harry wouldn't have let them do it.

01:13:34He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:36I have a sense of survival.

01:13:38Billy, what is going to happen?

01:13:40Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:42Just let them try it. I'm a British subject.

01:13:45I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:14:03We shipwreck.

01:14:05Big boat, go down.

01:14:08Bottom ocean.

01:14:10We take little boat.

01:14:13Row all day.

01:14:16Row all night.

01:14:18There's only one way to deal with these swine.

01:14:20Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.

01:14:22Show them who's boss right away.

01:14:24We sight land.

01:14:26Your land.

01:14:28Praise Allah.

01:14:30Come ashore.

01:14:32Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.

01:14:34No good way to treat shipwreck people.

01:14:37You will please to hand over your passports.

01:14:41There seem to be four missing.

01:14:43Will those who have not handed over their passports hold up their hands?

01:14:48All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:14:51A terrifying experience.

01:14:53An incompetent crew, a shipwreck.

01:14:55A shipwreck.

01:14:57A shipwreck.

01:14:59A shipwreck.

01:15:01A shipwreck.

01:15:03A shipwreck.

01:15:05A shipwreck.

01:15:07A shipwreck.

01:15:09A shipwreck.

01:15:11A shipwreck.

01:15:13A shipwreck.

01:15:15A terrifying experience.

01:15:17An incompetent crew, a burning ship,

01:15:19put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

01:15:22What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:24The SS Nyanga. She's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:26I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:30Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency,

01:15:32we should come to this shore in a small boat if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:35Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:38Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:40Agents of certain foreign governments

01:15:42try to enter it by stealth,

01:15:44hoping to fan the flames of revolution.

01:15:47Therefore, we track carefully

01:15:50on the activities of strangers.

01:15:52But surely, Your Excellency, in our case,

01:15:55one look is sufficient to convince you of our innocence.

01:16:12No.

01:16:14One look is not enough.

01:16:22If you think we're the enemies of your country,

01:16:24the logical thing is to boot us out.

01:16:26Send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:29We shan't object. We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:32Where is elsewhere?

01:16:34Central Africa.

01:16:36In what sort of a business?

01:16:38Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines.

01:16:41Ah, yes.

01:16:43Businessmen, all going to Central Africa

01:16:46to sell vacuum cleaners.

01:16:48Hut to hut, I suppose.

01:16:51And you, sir, take it at the head, sailor's man,

01:16:54the ringleader of this group.

01:16:56Oh, no, no group.

01:16:58We met for the first time on board ship.

01:17:01Complete strangers to one another.

01:17:03Liar!

01:17:04The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:17:07I am a keen observer.

01:17:09You fought us together.

01:17:11Oh, no, my fat-gutted friend.

01:17:13I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native

01:17:15you're fool enough to take me for.

01:17:17I am a great man, a serious man.

01:17:20I spit on you, too.

01:17:22I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:24Off to the wrong star, Peterson.

01:17:26There's only one way to deal with these spines.

01:17:28Spines! Spines! Spines!

01:17:31You'd better be careful.

01:17:33My husband, my late husband,

01:17:35who was drowned in the Niagara disaster,

01:17:37is going to be one of the most important figures

01:17:39in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:41In point of fact, we had letters

01:17:43from the Prime Minister and the Queen

01:17:45telling everybody to be particularly courteous

01:17:47to us and our friends.

01:17:49So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands,

01:17:52it will become a major international incident.

01:17:55Would you instruct that one

01:17:57that in my country a female's lips may move,

01:18:00but her words are not heard?

01:18:03Harry, Harry.

01:18:06If only you were here.

01:18:09And now, sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence

01:18:13and tell me who you really are

01:18:15and what is your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:18I'm a sick man. I've got a bad heart.

01:18:20I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:21You refuse to answer.

01:18:23That is interesting.

01:18:24It makes of it a contest,

01:18:26a contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:30We of this country have had 4,000 years' experience

01:18:34in asking questions and getting answers.

01:18:38Who are you?

01:18:40Why are you here?

01:18:42Don't hit me again.

01:18:44My heart, I have an attack.

01:18:46Come on, come on.

01:18:49Come on, come on.

01:18:59Come on, come on.

01:19:11Of course, Billy's led a thoroughly decadent life.

01:19:14I must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.

01:19:17Backbone.

01:19:18Either you have it or you haven't.

01:19:20You see the beating I took at the hands of that great ugly brute

01:19:23without even flinching.

01:19:25Billy was crazed with fear before they even laid a finger on him.

01:19:30Tell me more about Rita Hayworth.

01:19:32You really know her very well?

01:19:34Do I know Rita?

01:19:36Do I know her?

01:19:37I'll give you a lot of introduction.

01:19:39She'll fall an immediate victim to your charms.

01:19:41You really think so?

01:19:43But certainly, a man like you,

01:19:45suave, intelligent, darkly handsome,

01:19:49you have everything, Ahmet, except money.

01:19:52And if you'll listen to me,

01:19:54a boat will be placed at our disposal, a very slow boat,

01:19:57so that Fatka's check will have plenty of time to clear.

01:20:00And you will trust me for your share?

01:20:03Does one man of the world ask another to trust his own brother?

01:20:07Oh, no, Ahmet.

01:20:08You'll give me a check for half.

01:20:10Demands are very great under the circumstances.

01:20:14Why shouldn't they be? Fatka's my best friend.

01:20:17I will not betray him cheaply.

01:20:19You are certain that you are the friend of the peerless Rita?

01:20:22Come, come, Ahmet.

01:20:23Fine. Back to business.

01:20:26Very well. Fifty-fifty.

01:20:28Oh, by the way, Fatka's nature is noble like ours.

01:20:32He might try to bargain.

01:20:33I do not bargain with a puffball like that.

01:20:36It's beneath my dignity.

01:20:38It'll be dawn soon.

01:20:39The correct hour for a firing squad.

01:20:41But if we have him shot, what about the money?

01:20:45Well, I was just thinking that if he had a volley at the psychological moment,

01:20:49he might not be so inclined to haggle.

01:20:51I believe you must have Arab blood.

01:20:55Westerners are not usually so subtle.

01:21:04Look how am I!

01:21:07Look how am I!

01:21:10Where are you taking me? I won't go.

01:21:12I demand to see a doctor.

01:21:14Would you say that in Paris, among smart people,

01:21:19the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac is considered more chic?

01:21:26That's no problem, no problem at all.

01:21:29A man in your position should have both.

01:21:32Ah.

01:21:38Mr. Donald Arthur, I believe, would like a word with you.

01:21:42Billy.

01:21:43Sit down, Peterson.

01:21:52Ah, I've been talking to Ahmet here, and, uh...

01:22:02It's blackmail.

01:22:05I can't pay.

01:22:11What was that?

01:22:13Firing squad. It's execution day.

01:22:18Will he take a check?

01:22:32Ah!

01:22:45Billy!

01:22:48Billy!

01:22:49Look!

01:22:55Stay away! Stay away from my ship!

01:22:58If you try to come aboard, I will shoot you!

01:23:01I will shoot you!

01:23:02Get to my gun! Get to my gun!

01:23:05Give it to him. Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:23:08My gun! My gun!

01:23:10My gun!

01:23:26Excuse me. Are you Mr. William Danrother?

01:23:28That's right.

01:23:29I'd like to ask you a few questions, my man.

01:23:31I'm sorry, not now.

01:23:32Forgive me, but it's rather important.

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

01:23:37They called me a saint.

01:23:38Everybody was heroic except Mr. Danrother, who ate all our boots.

01:23:41Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:44Oh?

01:23:45Jack, go to the phone, make reservations.

01:23:47The first plane to Nairobi. Six seats.

01:23:49Yes, and if they don't have any, talk to the right man and tell him

01:23:52if he kicks other people off the plane, we'll make it worth his while.

01:23:55I always said we ought to take a plane.

01:23:57You remember I said that, Mr. Horror. I said we ought to take a plane.

01:24:00Mustn't dawdle, Billy boy. Great deal to do and not much time.

01:24:02Those are the other members of your party?

01:24:04Yes. I'd like to talk to them, too.

01:24:06What's it all about?

01:24:07I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Meer, now deceased.

01:24:12Peterson, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:15There's a gentleman here who wants to speak to you,

01:24:17a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:19You'll take your wine here or upstairs, Mr. Danrother?

01:24:22We'll have it here.

01:24:23Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:24No, thanks. It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:26I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man

01:24:28never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:31Is that true, Mr. Clayton?

01:24:32Quite true.

01:24:33Mrs. Danrother?

01:24:34No, I'm Mrs. Chell.

01:24:36This is Mrs. Danrother.

01:24:38Ah, how do you do?

01:24:39Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies,

01:24:41so perhaps I'll have a glass of bubbly after all.

01:24:45Peterson, how do you do, sir?

01:24:47How do you do?

01:24:48Bravo.

01:24:49And, um, Mr. O'Hara.

01:24:51O'Hara. Julius O'Hara. Delighted.

01:24:54No, I'm not one to be delighted.

01:24:56It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:24:58That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:00You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:03I've spent quite a lot of money.

01:25:05My chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends,

01:25:08particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:10Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Vanmere murder case.

01:25:14The Vanmere murder case?

01:25:16Oh, yes, yes.

01:25:17That fellow in the colonial office.

01:25:18Yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:20It was a shocking affair.

01:25:21According to Mr. Vanmere's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,

01:25:24you had lunch with him in the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:27That's quite correct.

01:25:28Mr. Vanmere was an expert on African matters.

01:25:31We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:34Do you recall the subject of the discussion?

01:25:36Vaguely. Cropyard.

01:25:38The native labor situation.

01:25:40Inches of rain.

01:25:41Initial shorts.

01:25:43How long haven't you known Mr. Vanmere?

01:25:45A couple of months. We met half a dozen times.

01:25:47Did he ever make mention of any enemies, business or otherwise?

01:25:50Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:25:52I mean, did he name any women?

01:25:54No. I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:25:57Mr. Vanmere struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:00Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:02Well, that's all.

01:26:04Unless somebody has anything further to add?

01:26:07I have.

01:26:12I think you ought to know that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.

01:26:18I beg your pardon?

01:26:20Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:21I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Vanmere person.

01:26:25I assure you, however, he attempted to murder my husband

01:26:28with a long, thin dagger which he always carried about in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:34Go on, Mrs. Cho.

01:26:35You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:40One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:42My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:45Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire.

01:26:48Involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:26:52And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away with.

01:26:55Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:26:57That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:00Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:02More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:04No, thank you.

01:27:28Should you ever think of me in Earl's Court.

01:27:31That's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodgers.

01:27:35Should you ever think of me, try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:40You kiss her too, Billy.

01:27:42And tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:44Sure, sure.

01:27:46Goodbye, Billy.

01:27:47Bye.

01:27:53For Mrs. Chelm.

01:27:54Just came on the ship's wireless.

01:27:57Oh, by the way, Mr. Danrada.

01:27:59Do you know that your associates are all in the Who's Gow?

01:28:03Oh, not that I'm a bit surprised.

01:28:05I put them down as thoroughly bad characters, right off the bat.

01:28:08But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:11Take mine, for instance.

01:28:14Harry!

01:28:16He's alive!

01:28:28Oh!

01:28:52Oh, this is the end.

01:28:57The end.

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