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00:00 [Music]
00:07 Foreign Intrigue, an exciting television drama played against the tense background of present-day Europe.
00:15 Produced in Europe especially for television by Sheldon Reynolds.
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00:23 [Music]
00:27 Steel, a critical factor in a world where guns point across borders and men bargain with the lives of fellow men.
00:38 The world watches the old steel barons, the men who once dictated the fates of nations with a promise of steel.
00:48 Many foundries and factories are rebuilt today.
00:52 And the question that enters one's mind is, will this power be returned to the men who used it once to tear the world apart?
01:02 The world wonders and waits.
01:07 [Music]
01:12 [Explosion]
01:15 [Music]
01:34 Kulenburg Castle, a fortress on the Rhine.
01:39 I was preparing a series of articles on Baron Kulenburg.
01:44 The problem was critical.
01:46 The Allied Commission was discussing whether or not they would return the mines and steel mills to the man who had once abused the power it gave him.
01:55 Baron Kulenburg had heard of my proposed series and invited me to be his house guest for the weekend.
02:03 The invitation was unexpected and promised an interesting few days.
02:08 [Music]
02:36 [Explosion]
02:42 [Music]
02:47 Robert Cannon.
02:48 Oh yes, Mr. Cannon.
02:49 Please come in.
02:50 [Music]
03:10 Herr Cannon has arrived.
03:12 [Music]
03:16 What owes me 1000 marks, Mr. Cannon?
03:20 He wedged you wouldn't accept my invitation.
03:23 I overestimated Mr. Cannon's honesty.
03:26 Or underestimated his intelligence.
03:28 What to kill my nephew?
03:31 Come, Mr. Cannon.
03:32 I will show you my little home.
03:34 We will have a chat.
03:35 We shan't then interfere with my nephew's piano playing.
03:38 He doesn't seem to let anything disturb us.
03:41 That's one of his thoughts.
03:43 I would prefer this to Chopin.
03:46 [Music]
04:11 And this, as you see, is the gun room to which I have added a billiard table.
04:17 Hunting and billiards are my only forms of relaxation.
04:20 How old is this castle, Herr Kuhlenberg?
04:22 About 600 years.
04:24 Oh, that's very youthful for a Reinkarcer.
04:28 This happens to be in a rather sorry state.
04:31 I bought it before the war with the intention of renovating it.
04:35 But of course, however, when materials are more freely available, I will...
04:43 Do you play?
04:44 A little.
04:45 Shall I wait?
04:46 You wish.
04:48 Please.
04:58 You play well, Mr. Cannon.
05:00 Proof of a misspent youth, some of them once said.
05:04 Enough for misspent, since it resulted finally in a brilliant journalistic career.
05:10 Now you do flatter me.
05:12 Mr. Cannon, you have flattered me considerably.
05:15 Are you planning to write a series of articles about me?
05:18 They were meant to be flattering.
05:22 Just realistic?
05:23 I plan to write these articles as objectively and as accurately as I can.
05:28 And would it be possible for the subject to have a preview of the material?
05:33 I'm sorry.
05:34 But I could manage for you to be among the first to receive copies of the articles as they appear.
05:40 But that would be too late.
05:43 You see, Mr. Cannon, I am presently in the midst of delicate negotiations,
05:48 looking toward my reinstatement as director of the Kulenbergenhaus in Stilwitz.
05:55 I don't see how you're getting the preview of the facts that possibly alter them,
06:00 admitting, of course, that it would be to your benefit to alter them.
06:04 The Allied Commission, being what it is, sensitive to public opinion,
06:09 you have it in your power to make a delicate situation slightly difficult.
06:18 Impossible, perhaps.
06:21 Nothing is impossible, Mr. Cannon.
06:24 Not for anyone who has the will and the means.
06:28 I may be delayed, but ultimately my steel mills, my forge, my rolling mills, my mines, my factories,
06:37 all will be under my control again.
06:41 Now some men say that it's difficult to make long-range plans in Europe today.
06:51 Why are you so determined to stand in my way?
06:54 Because I was once a Nazi, a supporter of Hitler.
06:58 Well, that's all in the past.
07:00 And I have been, as it is so pleasantly thrown, penisified.
07:05 I know.
07:08 You could read about that in my article.
07:10 You are not convinced?
07:14 Suppose you regain control of your factories again.
07:18 Would you choose your customers carefully?
07:21 Or would you sell to the highest bidder regardless of where he stands or what he may do with your products?
07:26 You speak as if I had some voice in the matter.
07:29 No, Mr. Cannon.
07:31 You cannot impute to me a lack of principles.
07:35 It's steel which is immoral, which knows no law.
07:39 Steel is above or below all laws, all ethics.
07:44 It flows in the furnace.
07:46 It flows in the marketplace.
07:48 It flows towards money.
07:49 No, Mr. Cannon.
07:50 I could no more refuse to sell to the highest bidder than this ball can refuse to roll when I strike it with my tooth.
08:01 The world has heard that kind of philosophy before.
08:04 They call it overture to war.
08:08 You Americans, ill-provenced, ill-pure at any case.
08:13 Well, wait.
08:14 We shall talk about that again.
08:16 At least having you here will give me an opportunity to convince you that I am not entirely an oaf.
08:24 Come, Mr. Cannon.
08:26 I will introduce you to the more attractive things in Kulenbeikasse.
08:40 Very beautiful.
08:41 Yes, the first snow is always beautiful.
08:49 Oh, Lisa.
08:51 There you are.
08:52 But if you insist on taking your walks, you must be more warmly dressed.
08:59 Lisa, my dear, I want you to meet Mr. Cannon, Mr. Cannon, Miss Housley.
09:04 How do you do?
09:05 Lisa needs Scheringer.
09:07 Otto and I are in so much use in that department, so I leave you to get acquainted.
09:15 Do you mind if I walk with you?
09:17 I'd like to see the grounds.
09:19 May do as you please.
09:21 Sorry if I'm intruding.
09:23 How much did you sell out for, Mr. Cannon?
09:26 I'm sure it was enough to keep you comfortable for a long time.
09:54 Come in.
09:56 Would you care for a nightcap, Mr. Cannon?
09:58 Oh, thanks.
09:59 I don't mind if I do.
10:17 Too incorruptibility.
10:19 I'll drink to that.
10:23 What's on your mind?
10:25 I know you didn't come here to offer me a drink.
10:27 No, I didn't.
10:29 Tell me, why did you accept the old man's invitation to spend the weekend?
10:33 If you intended to continue with your articles, was it simply out of, let's say, good sportmanship?
10:41 To give him a chance to get your opinion of him?
10:44 You're being very generous, so I won't contradict you.
10:48 Tell me, how much do you stand to make on a series like that?
10:52 If I'm not being too inquisitive.
10:55 Just my usual salary.
10:57 I see, Mr. Cannon.
11:06 I'd like to buy that series from you.
11:09 You're Kuhlenberg's nephew.
11:11 Yes.
11:12 Well, it's only natural that you should have your uncle's interest at heart.
11:18 That's right.
11:19 And since either part of all of his holdings will go to you someday, suppressing these articles wouldn't exactly hurt your interests either, would it?
11:30 An acute diagnosis, but a wrong one.
11:34 I don't happen to be included in my uncle's will, Herr Cannon.
11:38 No?
11:39 And yet you're so solicitous of his welfare.
11:43 Why?
11:44 My motives are hardly your affair, Herr Cannon.
11:47 I've offered to buy those articles.
11:49 You can aim your own price.
11:51 They're not for sale.
11:57 Herr Kuhlenberg has made up his mind that they should never be published.
12:02 Take my word for it. He's a determined man.
12:05 I'll keep that in mind.
12:07 There are less resorts, Herr Cannon.
12:11 I'll keep that in mind too.
12:14 Another drink?
12:15 I've had enough.
12:17 Thank you.
12:38 Mr. Cannon.
12:40 Please, come in.
12:42 I apologize for my hasty words this afternoon.
12:45 Then you no longer despise me. That's nice to know.
12:49 Herr Kuhlenberg is utterly unprincipled.
12:52 To put such power back into his hands would bring us that much closer to another war.
12:56 You think so too?
12:59 I'm glad you're so determined to go on with your articles.
13:02 But since you are, I beg you to leave this house immediately.
13:07 Your life is in danger.
13:09 I think you and Herr Kiel are inclined to be a bit overdramatic.
13:14 Kuhlenberg may not like being dissected and pricked,
13:17 but I hardly think he's the man to resort to violence.
13:20 He killed my father.
13:23 What?
13:24 Herr Kuhlenberg murdered my father.
13:27 They went hunting together and my father's gun exploded.
13:30 It might have been an accident.
13:32 It was no accident.
13:36 Can you prove that?
13:38 No, I can't prove it.
13:40 But Herr Kuhlenberg had the opportunity to tamper with the gun.
13:43 And he had the motive.
13:45 What motive?
13:50 Under the terms of his agreement with my father on the death of either partner,
13:55 the control of the company was to go to the survivor.
13:59 You know, the more I hear about him, the more I marvel at his choice of house guests.
14:05 He invites me, a writer, about to drag his name through the mud.
14:09 You, the daughter of the man he murdered, if what you say is true.
14:13 The starboarder is a man who wants to buy my ex per se.
14:17 Obviously for no good reason.
14:19 I can't make the old gent out, unless he intends to make short work of all of us.
14:24 No.
14:25 Just you, Mr. Cannon.
14:27 He doesn't know I suspect him.
14:29 He doesn't know Otto made this proposition tonight.
14:32 It's only you I'm concerned about at the moment.
14:40 At dinner tonight, I heard him invite you to go hunting with him tomorrow morning.
14:46 Don't go.
14:48 You don't think he'd be silly enough to try the same thing twice, do you?
14:51 Why not?
14:52 It worked the first time.
14:54 Well, thanks for the warning, Miss Halsall.
14:57 I'll take every precaution.
14:59 Please leave this house.
15:01 If it's not a hunting accident, it'll be another kind of an accident.
15:05 But some way or another, he's going to stop you from publishing those articles.
15:09 I'll remember that.
15:13 Oh, I wouldn't use that door.
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15:39 [music]
16:06 It wasn't loaded, but it might have been.
16:09 What am I to infer from that?
16:11 Anything you wish, Herr Cannon.
16:13 Anything you wish.
16:16 Don't try it again.
16:21 I don't like guns being pointed at me, loaded or not.
16:24 But you do have an interest in guns.
16:27 A considerable interest to bring you down here at 1 in the morning.
16:31 I couldn't sleep since I was invited to go hunting tomorrow.
16:35 I was curious enough to want to have a more thorough look at Herr Kulenberg's collection.
16:40 Guns fascinate me.
16:42 The excellence of man's weapons, the true measure of his civilization.
16:48 The gun in a man's hand gives him a thought dimension, an extension into space.
16:56 With modern weapons, man can make his power felt 100 miles away.
17:00 You're far too conservative.
17:03 A bullet fired in the far east can ricochet in London.
17:08 By the way, did you notice that one of the rifles is missing off the rack?
17:12 Yes, that was the rifle which accidentally exploded and killed Fraulein Haas's father.
17:20 Were you there when it happened?
17:23 No, I didn't go hunting that day.
17:28 Ironical, Mr. Cannon. I don't suppose any munitions maker ever paid more dearly for a defect in one of his own products.
17:36 If it was a defect, it caused the explosion.
17:40 The police were satisfied that it was.
17:44 Are you tempted to interpret the accident as another one of Herr Kulenberg's transgressions?
17:49 If I did, it would make my article more valuable as a piece of property, wouldn't it?
17:56 Yes, if you could make your reasoning sufficiently convincing.
18:00 But you won't find any proof here.
18:03 As you pointed out, that particular rifle is missing.
18:07 Do you know where it is?
18:10 If I did, Herr Cannon, I would not tell you.
18:16 Rest assured, Herr Cannon, a similar accident will not happen to you.
18:22 So...
18:24 You need not worry about the guns tonight.
18:31 Good night, Mr. Cannon.
18:33 Good night.
18:36 Are you quite certain you won't change your mind, Mr. Cannon?
18:50 There are plenty of wild ducks that you can catch in less time than an hour.
18:55 If it's the same with you, Herr Kulenberg, I'd rather not this morning.
18:59 Very well. I was looking forward to your joining me.
19:03 Perhaps you would like to come up?
19:06 No, thank you. This morning I'm in the mood for music, not gunfire.
19:11 Excuse me.
19:13 I would like to go for a walk, though. I'd like to see more of the castle grounds.
19:17 Good. I will leave you in the company of Foylan Housen.
19:21 I presume she has gone walking on the grounds again.
19:26 Does your niece often walk in this kind of weather?
19:29 My niece is a moody girl, Mr. Cannon.
19:31 Why?
19:32 My home reminds her of her father.
19:35 He was killed in a hunting accident.
19:37 The gun exploded.
19:38 Yes.
19:39 She will inherit all my holdings, providing they are mine to pass on.
19:43 Why should she take precedence over your nephew?
19:46 Otto?
19:47 He is good for nothing but to bind the keeper.
19:50 The moonlight sonata.
19:53 At least he has a good taste in music.
19:56 Now, Mr. Cannon, I must leave you to amuse yourself.
20:00 I'll manage.
20:01 Hello there.
20:03 Good. Now you will have company.
20:06 Mr. Cannon has refused to join me in hunting wild dachshunds, so I leave him in your care.
20:11 I'll do my best.
20:13 As for me, hunting has lost its fascination now that they are together.
20:18 I will amuse myself with pilliards.
20:21 As little as I like hunting, I like being hunted even less.
20:30 Are you making fun of me?
20:32 You still don't take seriously what I told you last night?
20:35 No, but I haven't forgotten.
20:38 "The End"
20:41 Do you often walk in this kind of weather?
20:53 I enjoy walking.
20:55 And I like the snow. It's fresh and clean.
20:58 Otto is in good form this morning.
21:02 Yes, he is forever at the piano.
21:04 Sometimes one gets a little tired of music, even good music.
21:07 So one goes for a walk?
21:09 It passes the time.
21:10 Do you mind if I walk with you?
21:12 No.
21:13 Like my uncle, I enjoy company.
21:17 "The End"
21:20 No, Kulenberg is having fun with the pilliards.
21:44 Otto is still at the piano.
21:45 Come on, let's go to Kulenberg.
21:46 No, Mr. Cannon, I'm listening.
21:48 Where were you just now?
21:50 I went to get a cigar.
21:52 You weren't on the parapet above the terrace?
21:54 Why should I have been there?
21:56 Why? Because you were trying to kill Mr. Cannon.
21:59 Just like you killed my father.
22:01 Only this time you didn't use a gun.
22:03 I don't understand you.
22:05 You got away with it then, but this time your plan didn't work.
22:08 Please, Mr. Cannon.
22:11 Miss Hauser believes that you killed her father to get the steel mills for yourself.
22:15 But you invited me here to buy me off or shut me up in any way that you could.
22:18 Please, sir, that is not so.
22:20 And who dropped that block of stone off the wall?
22:23 Kiel has been inside playing the piano all this time.
22:26 Or did you put one of your servants up to it?
22:28 It must have been an accident.
22:30 I didn't do it, nor did I order it done.
22:32 This is an old castle. Stone has fallen before.
22:35 It almost cost Frau Anhauser her life.
22:37 Please, sir, I thought you were the target.
22:40 [Music]
23:06 [Music]
23:12 Moonlight Sonata.
23:14 I thought you were outdoing yourself today, Kiel.
23:17 [Music]
23:28 Better call the police, Lisa.
23:30 He's dead.
23:32 [Music]
23:37 This accident didn't turn out as well as the first one, did it, Kiel?
23:41 [Music]
23:45 You think he killed my father?
23:48 First your father, to get him out of the way.
23:52 Next, you.
23:54 That would leave him as Kulenberg's only heir.
23:59 I wonder if he would have waited for the old gent to die.
24:02 Or would he have arranged a third accident?
24:05 Otto has one consoling thought to take with him to prison.
24:13 What's that?
24:15 Those articles won't be written now.
24:17 They were intended as a means of keeping vital steel from the hands of an unprincipled man.
24:23 But that danger is over now.
24:27 That power belongs to you.
24:29 It's frightening.
24:31 The harm it can do is frightening.
24:34 It can do a lot of good.
24:36 I'll try.
24:38 [Music]
24:43 Snow is beginning to melt.
24:46 Kulenberg said the first snow was always beautiful.
24:51 [Music]
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