A FAMILY AFFAIR Full Movie

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00:01:41 These are four brilliant criminals at the climax of their most magnificent effort.

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00:01:50 This effort began six months ago in Puerto Verto,

00:01:53 where we were all aboard the ship for Africa.

00:01:55 They were my associates in a quest for uranium.

00:01:59 An element not one of them knew the first thing about,

00:02:01 except that they'd heard you could get dough for it.

00:02:04 Big dough.

00:02:06 Who? I mean, what do you suppose they are?

00:02:09 Businessmen, does it matter?

00:02:11 Well, if we're going to be on a small boat with them for weeks and weeks.

00:02:14 I only said they might be friendly passengers.

00:02:16 Harry, we must beware of those men.

00:02:18 They're desperate characters.

00:02:20 What makes you say that?

00:02:21 Not one of them looked at my legs.

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00:02:28 Good morning, Mrs. Janrother.

00:02:30 Good morning, Billy Boy.

00:02:31 Care to join us in the stroll?

00:02:32 Turn up the levars, sweat out the toxins.

00:02:35 I'm here to help nature, to help you.

00:02:37 Wouldn't dream of it.

00:02:40 Really, Billy, you mustn't be so offhand with Mr. Peterson.

00:02:44 If I were to treat him with more than common politeness,

00:02:46 he'd misunderstand and try to push me around.

00:02:49 Mr. Peterson is a bully.

00:02:51 Billy, did you see this?

00:02:55 That man in London has been killed.

00:02:58 What man?

00:02:59 Paul Van Meer, high-ranking official in the colonial office,

00:03:03 was stabbed to death early this morning by an unknown assailant

00:03:07 outside a club in Soho.

00:03:09 This is the third crime of violence to occur in that vicinity

00:03:12 within the past month.

00:03:16 What is it, Billy?

00:03:28 In heaven's name, Billy, say something.

00:03:42 You understand, of course, that Peterson arranged this.

00:03:45 It seems there's been a lot of violence around there lately.

00:03:47 Don't pretend to be a fool.

00:03:49 But look, Billy, this happened early Tuesday morning.

00:03:51 We'd all left London well before that.

00:03:54 What about Jack Ross?

00:03:55 What about the galloping major?

00:03:57 Billy, I thought he only stayed behind to get that phone call

00:04:00 from Ambassador, if it came through.

00:04:03 He'll be here this morning.

00:04:04 Well?

00:04:05 Don't get so excited.

00:04:07 Don't jump to unpleasant conclusions.

00:04:10 Jump? They might as well have drawn a map.

00:04:12 Why was Peterson worried about Van Meer?

00:04:14 What made him think he was dangerous?

00:04:16 He was afraid Van Meer wouldn't stay bought.

00:04:18 Afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone.

00:04:21 He had visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors,

00:04:25 announcing, "I have certain information,

00:04:27 certain persons have paid certain sums of money."

00:04:29 Don't talk so loud, Billy.

00:04:31 To obtain illegal rights to certain mineral supplies.

00:04:33 That Indian, that Raj, or whatever he was,

00:04:36 that you worked for in the old days,

00:04:38 he killed a lot of people, didn't he?

00:04:40 Ah, but he had a better style.

00:04:42 Besides, he was out for a kingdom, half the size of France.

00:04:45 What's the difference between that and millions of dollars?

00:04:48 We must think of the future, Billy.

00:04:51 This is our big chance, and maybe our last.

00:04:53 Except for Mr. Peterson,

00:04:55 we couldn't even pay last night's hotel bill.

00:04:57 Where are you going?

00:04:59 I'm going to a cafe, drink a lot of Perenol, and listen to the band.

00:05:02 You won't make a fuss, will you?

00:05:04 It doesn't do to make a fuss.

00:05:05 You have to think of the main objective.

00:05:07 Naturally, it doesn't do to be fussy.

00:05:12 Two more quenlins.

00:05:21 Gracias.

00:05:23 The luggage is in there.

00:05:43 Bring it up.

00:05:49 (BILLY'S FAMILY ARE COMING)

00:05:51 Hey, look, the Desperados.

00:05:58 Shh.

00:05:59 Not quite now, Contract Billy. Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:04 - I'm celebrating. - Celebrating what?

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

00:06:08 He came galloping in a minute ago, looking tired but satisfied.

00:06:11 I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:06:16 Yes, but it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen.

00:06:18 I'll see you later, Billy.

00:06:20 Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:25 Gwendolyn, it's your move.

00:06:29 Oh. Check.

00:06:31 At last.

00:06:32 Are you sailing on the Nianga?

00:06:35 Africa bound.

00:06:37 So are we.

00:06:38 Oh, my name is Chelm. This is my wife.

00:06:40 How do you do? My name's Dan.

00:06:42 Are your friends sailing too?

00:06:44 The whole kit and caboodle.

00:06:46 You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:06:49 - Really, Gwendolyn? - How so mysterious?

00:06:51 Well, for one thing, you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:06:56 Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:58 Check.

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

00:07:03 Correction. My associates.

00:07:05 As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors.

00:07:09 Evil ones, I mean.

00:07:11 You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap...

00:07:14 ...to perform ghastly experiments...

00:07:16 ...which require the sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.

00:07:19 You must excuse my wife. She has a very lively imagination.

00:07:23 Checkmate.

00:07:27 I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game when you keep talking all the time.

00:07:31 Harry's been all out of sorts today.

00:07:34 Usually he's a wonderful loser.

00:07:36 Good morning, Mr. Danrada.

00:07:38 I bring you the captain's compliments.

00:07:40 Along with the sad news that the sailing of the SS Nyanga has been postponed.

00:07:44 Now look here. This boat is definitely, most definitely scheduled to sail at 2400 hours.

00:07:50 Scheduled, Mr. Chelm, but not, I fear, destined to do so.

00:07:54 - The propeller go on, or is the captain drunk? - Of course the captain is drunk.

00:07:58 But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

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

00:08:02 Quite right, sir. But you're putting it too mildly.

00:08:05 The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:08:07 Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:08:09 To locate, bargain for, purchase and install a new one would require, I should say,

00:08:13 more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:08:16 Utter hopeless inefficiency.

00:08:19 Probably it isn't the oil pump at all.

00:08:22 Just making it an excuse to hang about and pick up extra cargo.

00:08:25 Gardens are open. I wouldn't be surprised if she turns out to be a smuggler.

00:08:29 What a miserable place to be stuck in.

00:08:31 Squalid, fifth-rate port.

00:08:33 Ever been in Fort Averdell before?

00:08:36 No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:08:38 I thought not. Otherwise you wouldn't be so upset about staying.

00:08:41 Magnificent country.

00:08:43 Ruins divided by moonlight, fine stretch of beach.

00:08:46 Back there in the hills, one of the few spots left in the world

00:08:50 where you can get decent food and drink.

00:08:52 It's called the Blue Pavilion.

00:08:54 I insist you give me the pleasure of having dinner with us tonight.

00:08:58 - Well, that's awfully kind of you, but... - Us?

00:09:01 - You and your associates? - My wife and me.

00:09:04 You're committed?

00:09:06 Oh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet a friend of mine.

00:09:09 This is the galloping major.

00:09:11 - The committee wants you to toddle around. - Okay.

00:09:13 - Right away. - I'll be along.

00:09:15 - Better toddle. - I said I'd be along.

00:09:18 They don't like to be kept waiting.

00:09:20 I'll lay on a car. We'll meet in front of the hotel at six.

00:09:24 Out of a dutchie.

00:09:26 Dan Rather. An American, I suppose.

00:09:32 Anyway, I... I quite like him.

00:09:35 Time. 24 hours in the day.

00:09:37 1,440 minutes for somebody else to get busy on the same idea as ours.

00:09:42 We ought to have got a plane and flown out, as I said from the start.

00:09:46 - You remember I said it, O'Hara? - My name is not O'Hara.

00:09:49 - It is O'Hara. You hear? Mr. O'Hara. - Yes, Mr. O'Hara.

00:09:52 But you remember I said it? I said we ought to take a plane.

00:09:55 Time, time. What is time?

00:09:57 Swiss-manufactured, French-ordered, Italian-squandered.

00:10:01 Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.

00:10:04 You know what I say? I say time is a crook.

00:10:07 If we took a plane, we'd be there inside 15 hours.

00:10:10 - Instead of... - I don't want any more talk about flying.

00:10:13 The sky is for the birds. My feet are on the ground. Both of them.

00:10:17 Come in, Billy boy.

00:10:20 - What's all the fuss about? - No fuss, Billy.

00:10:25 We're merely wondering what course to pursue in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:10:29 Join the peasants in their revels. Go to church. Write your memoirs.

00:10:33 (Laughs)

00:10:35 Very funny. I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:10:39 Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles than five-minute setting-up exercises.

00:10:44 Now that we've had our moment of fun, let's get back to the question.

00:10:50 Doesn't this delay call for a cable to your friend in British East?

00:10:54 Mustn't send cables. Can't you get it through your heads that the population has trained noses?

00:10:59 They can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish.

00:11:02 But aren't you afraid, Billy, that when our little party doesn't show up on the date you said,

00:11:07 aren't you a teeny bit afraid that your friend might use that as an excuse to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:13 If my friend were looking for an excuse, he'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:11:19 - What do you mean? - I'm talking about the untimely demise of Paul Van Meer.

00:11:27 Well, I'm appalled, Billy. What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues.

00:11:33 - To imagine that we... - Look here, Peterson. You don't have to convince me of anything.

00:11:37 You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:11:40 And I won't, unless you ever decide to sic that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:11:44 - Watch yourself, laddie. - Now, Jack, behave yourself.

00:11:48 Sit down.

00:11:52 For shame, Billy. I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:11:57 And if you're half the gentleman I know you are, I'm sure you'll make it.

00:12:01 As I was saying, you have nothing to worry about. My friend won't pull out unless I tell him to.

00:12:06 For purely venal reasons, that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:10 Jack, give Billy a light.

00:12:13 (train whistle)

00:12:16 What a wonderful car. It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance many years ago.

00:12:29 Oh, it did. It was built for Oroposo. You know, the bullfighter.

00:12:32 He had it made this way so he could stand up and take bows.

00:12:35 He only got one ride in. Never queefed it to me on his deathbed.

00:12:38 Well, here's to Oroposo. I hope you like champagne.

00:12:40 You mean it's yours?

00:12:41 Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur, the fat bandit in the front seat.

00:12:44 Harry, look at that wonderful villa.

00:12:46 Well, that was Brady Crampton's.

00:12:48 Oh, you mean Lord Crampton, in Gloucestershire.

00:12:51 His family acres marched hand in hand with ours.

00:12:54 Gloucestershire. The cathedral town. Strout fishing. Garden parties. What a beautiful life.

00:13:02 You know England well?

00:13:04 Immersionally, I am English. I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets.

00:13:10 And I've always kept up my subscription to Country Life and to Tedlar.

00:13:15 Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance.

00:13:17 You're very wise to get out of it. Escape while you can.

00:13:20 Oh, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping.

00:13:22 Simply so happened that a relative of mine, first cousin actually,

00:13:25 who died recently, happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:13:28 Africa's the place now. You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys.

00:13:31 They just skimmed a little off the top.

00:13:33 The potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.

00:13:36 Now there is a villa.

00:13:38 Big.

00:13:39 Well, that's the Villa Capriccio. Famed in song and story.

00:13:42 A three-star attraction in Baydecker.

00:13:44 Well, whose is it?

00:13:45 Well, the bank's on it now. It used to be mine.

00:13:47 Yours?

00:13:48 Yes, I brought old Charles over from Phuket.

00:13:50 You know, the old Phuket, to run it for me.

00:13:52 Then when I decided to pull up stakes, I bought him this restaurant we're going to.

00:13:56 Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:13:58 Well, here we are.

00:14:00 Charles! Charles!

00:14:02 Wait here a minute while I route old Charles out.

00:14:04 He doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:06 Charles! Charles!

00:14:09 He must think we're extraordinarily naive.

00:14:12 Knew all those people. Owned that vast villa.

00:14:15 Bought this place because he liked the fella's cookie.

00:14:18 What utter balderdash.

00:14:20 Ah, perhaps he did.

00:14:21 I beg leave to doubt it. Did you notice his wife?

00:14:24 She seemed to be a rather sensitive little woman.

00:14:26 Rarely embarrassed by all that rot.

00:14:28 I am sorry, signore.

00:14:30 As you see, we are closed.

00:14:32 We do not open for another two months.

00:14:34 Charles, what the devil's going on here?

00:14:36 This place is falling to rack and ruin.

00:14:38 The place is closed. We'll have to die in the hotel after all.

00:14:40 Monsieur Don!

00:14:42 Monsieur, Monsieur Don!

00:14:46 Madame, why did you not let me know you were coming?

00:14:51 You did not say you were with Monsieur Don.

00:14:54 Nothing is closed to Monsieur Don.

00:14:56 I'm glad to see you again, Charles.

00:14:58 It's been too long, Monsieur Don.

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

00:15:03 Remember your farewell party.

00:15:05 I try never since to forget it.

00:15:07 Remember how in the morning we escorted you to the train

00:15:10 with violins playing and everybody cried

00:15:14 like when a king you love very much leaves his country.

00:15:18 Aren't you dressed yet?

00:15:22 Do I appear to be dressed?

00:15:24 Do dress. Do hurry.

00:15:26 It's a most wonderful day.

00:15:28 And Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:15:30 His former villa.

00:15:32 Obviously I can't go.

00:15:34 I've got a chill on my liver.

00:15:36 What a miserable place to be ill.

00:15:40 And you forgot to pack my hot water bottle.

00:15:42 You packed it.

00:15:44 Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember...

00:15:46 Hello.

00:15:50 Oh, hello.

00:15:52 No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:15:54 Harry has this wretched chill...

00:15:56 Give me the telephone.

00:15:58 Chilm here.

00:16:01 Yes.

00:16:03 Quite. Absolutely.

00:16:05 A hot water bottle.

00:16:07 That's very, very good of you, old boy.

00:16:11 Look here, Danrother.

00:16:13 Would you mind very much if my wife went alone?

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

00:16:19 Splendid.

00:16:21 Splendid. I'll send her along.

00:16:24 You know, Gwendolyn, nowadays...

00:16:26 One simply cannot afford to dismiss people...

00:16:28 Just because they're not one's sort.

00:16:30 One has to try and bridge the gulf.

00:16:33 After all, it's a new world we're going into.

00:16:36 One's got to take it as one finds it.

00:16:38 Face it. Use it.

00:16:40 Master it.

00:16:43 (Birds chirping)

00:16:45 (Birds chirping)

00:17:12 You know, I've seen Americans on the street...

00:17:15 In the cinema, of course, but I've never talked to one before.

00:17:19 Are you a typical American?

00:17:21 I think it's important that I should know.

00:17:23 Why important?

00:17:25 There are two good reasons for falling in love.

00:17:29 One is that the object of your affections is unlike anyone else.

00:17:33 A rare spirit, such as Lord Byron.

00:17:37 The other is that he's, like everybody else, only superior.

00:17:41 Harry, for instance, is the very best of a type.

00:17:44 Well, if you must know, I'm a typical rare spirit.

00:17:47 How long did you live here?

00:17:49 The longest I've ever lived anywhere is two years.

00:17:52 But when you were a child, didn't you ever have a mother and a father...

00:17:56 And a house and a street and a town?

00:17:58 No, I was an orphan until I was 20...

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

00:18:03 You know, I've changed my mind about your being an evil doctor.

00:18:08 You're off to keep a rendezvous someplace in Africa sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:13 You're going to found a new empire...

00:18:15 And make yourself master of the riches of the world.

00:18:19 But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress the natives...

00:18:22 As the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.

00:18:26 That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:28 Am I?

00:18:30 Of course.

00:18:32 I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.

00:18:35 You don't believe that, do you?

00:18:37 I believe anything you say.

00:18:39 Do you?

00:18:41 Well, you shouldn't, you know. You really shouldn't.

00:18:44 Mr. Charlton?

00:18:46 Yes?

00:18:47 It's I, Mrs. D'Arnaud. Maria.

00:18:50 Oh, come in.

00:18:52 Tea for two and two for tea?

00:18:56 Now, that's most awfully kind of you. You shouldn't have trouble, really.

00:18:59 Billy told me you had a chill.

00:19:01 Bit of one on the liver, two tarsal.

00:19:04 And milk, of course.

00:19:05 Of course.

00:19:07 I feel I should like somehow to do him a good turn of some kind.

00:19:14 You do?

00:19:15 Well, naturally.

00:19:16 Oh, I see. Naturally.

00:19:19 I think it would be nice if...

00:19:21 If you were able to do something for him.

00:19:23 Help him along.

00:19:25 Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:19:27 Delighted, of course. For instance.

00:19:30 Oh, something with business.

00:19:32 He was very pleased with that tip you gave him on the way home last night about the gold shares.

00:19:36 I've forgotten what I told him. What was it?

00:19:39 I don't remember either.

00:19:42 I was listening to your voice.

00:19:44 I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:19:46 You see, if you were helping him,

00:19:51 it would be so much easier for us to be together a lot out there in Africa.

00:19:55 Was he any head for business?

00:19:57 Why, he's simply brilliant.

00:19:59 I wouldn't have thought it.

00:20:01 Of course he is.

00:20:03 You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny, do you?

00:20:06 If you imagine that Harry's simply going to Africa to plant coffee,

00:20:10 you're very much mistaken.

00:20:12 In point of fact...

00:20:14 In point of fact, coffee is the least of Harry's interests.

00:20:18 In point of fact, the land he's acquiring is extremely rich in certain minerals.

00:20:24 Minerals which are indispensable to the production of atomic energy.

00:20:28 Harry's land simply teems with uranium.

00:20:31 Wouldn't surprise me to see him become a uranium king.

00:20:35 So you see, my husband isn't such a ninny as you may have imagined.

00:20:39 It might very well be worth your while to go in with him.

00:20:42 The potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.

00:20:46 I was telling you last night.

00:20:48 Well, of course. It's a well-known fact.

00:20:51 (HORN HONKS)

00:20:53 Billy boy.

00:21:11 Had a happy day?

00:21:15 Very. I'm so glad.

00:21:17 What an attractive woman Mrs Chelm is.

00:21:20 Is that what you called me over to tell me?

00:21:22 Who are the Chelms?

00:21:23 They're English going out to British East. They have a coffee plantation.

00:21:26 Any money in coffee?

00:21:27 No, but there's a type of Englishman goes off to coffee plantations

00:21:30 without caring whether there's any money in it or not.

00:21:33 Relatives leave them coffee plantations and they go out to them.

00:21:36 But why this sudden interest in the Chelms?

00:21:38 I'd just like to know who's making friends with my friends.

00:21:42 Now you know.

00:21:48 (MUMBLES)

00:21:50 You know, if I ever leave you,

00:21:58 it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:22:01 I'll believe you.

00:22:03 I suppose that type of Englishman is like a story I once heard.

00:22:07 An English gardener in England was showing some Americans

00:22:11 one of those wonderful English lawns.

00:22:14 And of course, they wanted to know how to make a lawn like that.

00:22:17 And this English gardener said...

00:22:19 He said, "All you have to do is get some good grass

00:22:21 "and roll it every day for 600 years."

00:22:23 I heard that story before you were born.

00:22:26 Englishmen tell it when they're feeling down in the mouth.

00:22:29 You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:22:31 (HUMMING)

00:22:33 You're not even listening. You never do.

00:22:36 Someday I'll say goodbye and you won't hear that either.

00:22:40 One day I shall really meet my type and run off with him.

00:22:44 And you'll be simply amazed.

00:22:46 That's possible.

00:22:48 George Moore said... I learned it by heart years ago.

00:22:52 He said that each great passion

00:22:55 is the fruit of many fruitless years.

00:22:58 George Moore was a very distinguished English writer, you know.

00:23:02 Except that he was Irish.

00:23:04 Cheer up, sugar.

00:23:06 If I make a million on this deal, I'll buy you an old English lawn

00:23:10 one we can roll up and take with us.

00:23:13 Billy, good morning.

00:23:15 What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun doing outside my door?

00:23:19 Why do you always make jokes about my name, huh?

00:23:22 In Chile, the name of O'Hara is a tip-top name.

00:23:26 Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:23:29 Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:23:31 Madame, my respects.

00:23:33 Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

00:23:36 Yes, uh, maybe perhaps a glass of wine.

00:23:40 Yes, uh, maybe perhaps a little whiskey, huh?

00:23:44 Very weak, please.

00:23:46 What's this visit in honor of?

00:23:48 Oh, just wanted to have a little talk with you.

00:23:52 Okay, but make it fast.

00:23:55 Fast?

00:23:57 I give you my word, Billy, I...

00:23:59 I give you my word, I feel to you like, uh...

00:24:03 like an older brother.

00:24:05 Oh, it's not so much a difference of age, it's, uh...

00:24:08 It's probably, yes, the reason is because...

00:24:11 'cause I come from a culture which is so much older than yours in my country.

00:24:16 A child, six years old, is older in his heart than you'll be at 60.

00:24:23 It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.

00:24:26 At this rate, I'll be 60 before you get to the point.

00:24:29 The point...

00:24:31 The point is that Peterson, Ravel, and myself,

00:24:35 we are the principals in this case.

00:24:37 We are in with the money.

00:24:39 We cannot switch around and turn and...

00:24:41 But an agent, it's easy to imagine that he could conceivably...

00:24:46 doesn't feel himself quite as irrevocably committed as, uh, Peterson or...

00:24:53 They're fellow passengers, I believe.

00:24:58 Not quite yet, would you say?

00:25:00 Too sadly true.

00:25:01 By any chance, you don't happen to have seen your Mr. Dan, Ravel?

00:25:04 I don't think Billy's up yet.

00:25:06 Not eleven, he's rather a late riser.

00:25:08 But he said... he said...

00:25:10 Well, anyway.

00:25:11 I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says,

00:25:13 particularly when he's had a few drinks.

00:25:15 It's not that he means to break his word, he just forgets that he's given it.

00:25:18 Charm and dependability so seldom go in one package.

00:25:21 There are exceptions, of course.

00:25:22 Your husband, I imagine, from his manner and behavior, is one.

00:25:26 Oh, yes, very.

00:25:27 Well, quite, I mean.

00:25:29 I'm so looking forward to meeting your husband and having a chat about Africa.

00:25:32 By all means.

00:25:34 I understand he's in coffee?

00:25:36 He makes it sound like a total immersion.

00:25:39 Part of Africa we're going to is due for some pretty important changes.

00:25:43 In my opinion, things will be booming out there before you can say Jack Robinson.

00:25:47 I do hope there won't be too many changes.

00:25:49 It's completely unspoilt, I hear, with some of the loveliest scenery in the world.

00:25:53 I can't imagine anything more lovely in the way of scenery

00:25:55 than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds

00:25:57 cropping up on a piece of land I bought for a song.

00:26:00 Heaven forbid, next thing there'd be big ugly holes everywhere

00:26:04 and great horrid machines instead of lovely scenery.

00:26:08 Anyway, I don't think my husband worries much about money and business, that sort of thing.

00:26:13 Really?

00:26:14 I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view,

00:26:17 one has to understand his background.

00:26:20 Those lawns, hundreds of years in the making.

00:26:23 Those immemorial elms.

00:26:25 Those walls hung with family portraits.

00:26:28 Generations of them.

00:26:29 Those great echoing galleries where so much of English history is being made.

00:26:34 Taxes must be terrific on a place like that.

00:26:37 What would people like the Chelms care about taxes with their kind of money?

00:26:42 I mean, when a family's been a power in the city of London for so long.

00:26:46 One of the great financial families.

00:26:48 Power in the city? You mean...

00:26:50 Oh, yes, of course, one of those Chelms.

00:26:53 I'm surprised you know about them at all.

00:26:56 Very few people do.

00:26:57 They prefer to work behind the scenes.

00:26:59 I find it rather hard to believe that a man in your husband's position

00:27:03 would go to Africa just for the coffee plotty.

00:27:07 You're very quick, aren't you?

00:27:09 In point of fact, he isn't.

00:27:11 In point of fact, he has a very special reason.

00:27:13 So I suspect it.

00:27:15 It has to do with...

00:27:17 sin.

00:27:19 Sin?

00:27:20 Since the war, my husband has been almost exclusively concerned with spiritual values.

00:27:26 He feels that if he can get away there, in the heart of Africa,

00:27:30 he will come face to face with essentials.

00:27:33 He wants to work out the problem of sin.

00:27:36 Sin?

00:27:37 Why, yes, of course.

00:27:38 Isn't that what we're all most concerned with?

00:27:41 Sin?

00:27:43 Gwendolyn, what are you doing here?

00:27:47 I thought we were supposed to meet on the beach.

00:27:49 Harry, I want you to meet Mr...

00:27:51 My name is Peterson.

00:27:52 I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.

00:27:54 She tells me you're interested in spiritual values.

00:27:57 I myself am vastly concerned.

00:27:59 Harry, we'd really better be going.

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

00:28:02 What have you been telling that man?

00:28:04 Nothing, Harry.

00:28:05 He got on to the subject of religion,

00:28:07 and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:11 Billy, I...

00:28:14 I think it is high time you take stock of yourself.

00:28:17 Can you truthfully say about yourself,

00:28:19 "I, I, Billy Dan Reuter, have acted fairly and squarely to my associates"?

00:28:25 But of course he can, Mr. O'Hara.

00:28:27 Everybody knows Billy's the soul of honor.

00:28:29 Shut up, Shivia.

00:28:30 Perhaps he is the soul of honor, and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

00:28:33 Do you mind telling me what it is I'm supposed to have done?

00:28:36 Nothing.

00:28:37 It's your conduct.

00:28:38 Your... Your conduct is...

00:28:40 Your conduct does not inspire confidence,

00:28:44 and confidence, Billy, is the most important necessity

00:28:47 in an undertaking of our kind.

00:28:48 One may be completely innocent,

00:28:50 but if one's actions invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.

00:28:53 To be trustworthy is not more important than to seem to be trustworthy.

00:28:58 Billy, have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:05 Tell me, Billy.

00:29:07 Tell me the truth.

00:29:09 My conduct.

00:29:11 Who do they think I am, their hired man?

00:29:14 But you are, you know.

00:29:16 You are their hired man.

00:29:18 How good and kind of you to remind me.

00:29:21 How good, how true, how kind.

00:29:26 Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you.

00:29:43 How about a drink?

00:29:44 Well, I...

00:29:45 Oh, come on, my dear fellow, let me buy you a drink.

00:29:47 Oh, Gwendolyn, don't forget to send one to Aunt Beatrice.

00:29:52 I can't understand it.

00:29:57 Gwendolyn distinctly said she'd join me on the beach.

00:29:59 Then I come back and find her sitting there in that cafe.

00:30:01 Extraordinary creatures, women.

00:30:03 Well, let's drink to them.

00:30:04 Pernod.

00:30:06 Scotch.

00:30:07 Come on, you tiny little wreck, have a drink.

00:30:09 We're drinking to women.

00:30:13 Take the drink, but we won't join you in the toast.

00:30:15 Glass of Irish.

00:30:17 Women.

00:30:18 Hitler had the right idea.

00:30:20 Keep them in their place.

00:30:21 Client akin to Kirk and babies in the kitchen.

00:30:24 Say what you want to about Hitler, he had his points.

00:30:26 Come, come.

00:30:27 This generation's had its chance.

00:30:29 Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men.

00:30:31 Now is the age of the barbarians.

00:30:33 The world's going up in smoke.

00:30:34 I say, let it come, get it over with.

00:30:36 Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worry.

00:30:39 Worry?

00:30:40 Just one minute, laddies.

00:30:41 I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies, and that's don't worry.

00:30:45 Don't ever worry.

00:30:46 I'm in a position to know secret information.

00:30:49 The Rosicrucians, the Great White Brotherhood, the High Secret Orders.

00:30:52 But you've no faith.

00:30:53 You must have faith.

00:30:55 Faith and power, secret power.

00:30:57 Men who guard the trust from the deepest inside, as the watchmen call it.

00:31:00 Mystic rulers, all one club, chained together by one purpose, one idea.

00:31:04 Mankind's champions.

00:31:05 Follow me, Billy?

00:31:06 Oh, why, of course.

00:31:07 This generation's had its chance.

00:31:10 Hitler, Mussolini.

00:31:11 I can't stand here and permit you...

00:31:13 Are you interrupting me?

00:31:14 Relax, Jack.

00:31:15 Have another drink.

00:31:16 I simply want to state that things don't happen to be what certain people imagine.

00:31:20 An officer may find himself strapped for money,

00:31:23 and he may undertake certain things which in other circumstances, no, absolutely no.

00:31:27 Absolutely.

00:31:28 I mean, absolutely no.

00:31:30 In the old days, I should have simply told people of your ilk to buy their own drinks.

00:31:35 Poor old Jack.

00:31:36 I'll teach you.

00:31:38 I'll teach you to insult an ex-officer of the Indian Army.

00:31:43 Well, are you yellow?

00:31:46 The bar.

00:31:49 You're Major Ross?

00:31:52 Right.

00:31:53 Ross here.

00:31:57 Right.

00:31:58 Right again.

00:32:00 Come along, the committee.

00:32:03 Save for the bell.

00:32:06 Come along.

00:32:07 I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:32:13 Sin.

00:32:14 Sin.

00:32:15 All I could do was to keep a straight face.

00:32:17 No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:18 These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

00:32:20 Sit here and help me close.

00:32:22 But how could they possibly know what we're up to?

00:32:24 Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:32:27 Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us even before we get started.

00:32:30 We must get ahead of them.

00:32:31 Time has entered the picture in a new way.

00:32:33 Never forget the time factor, gentlemen.

00:32:35 Time always enters the picture in the end.

00:32:37 I'm sending a cable to London.

00:32:38 I want full information on those Chelm interests.

00:32:41 British Africa, too.

00:32:42 Check up on his interests there.

00:32:43 Every time the plane lands, I'll try and reach you by telephone.

00:32:46 Keep me informed of the latest development.

00:32:48 Damn right, that lying, swineish, rum-swilling double-crosser.

00:32:51 What pleasure I'd give to--

00:32:53 No, you can't at the moment.

00:32:54 We need him right now.

00:32:56 We need that swineish, lying, double--

00:32:58 Did I hear my name?

00:32:59 Rub-a-dub-dub.

00:33:01 Three men and a tub.

00:33:03 Tub?

00:33:04 Oh.

00:33:05 [laughs]

00:33:07 Been a change of plan, Billy-boy.

00:33:08 You and I leaving for Africa.

00:33:10 How's that?

00:33:11 You and I are flying to Africa by the next plane.

00:33:13 Oh, what's happened, Peters?

00:33:14 Must be something important to get you on a plane.

00:33:16 Perfectly simple, Billy-boy.

00:33:18 The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty

00:33:20 about when the Anger will sail

00:33:22 forces me to sacrifice my personal comfort.

00:33:24 I prefer to fly rather than run the risk of arriving too late.

00:33:27 There's also such a thing as arriving too early.

00:33:30 What do you mean by that?

00:33:31 Well, the land doesn't come up for auction for a couple of weeks.

00:33:34 My friend can't make it move until then.

00:33:36 If we sit around British East all that time,

00:33:38 somebody's going to start wondering who we are and ask questions.

00:33:41 Is that your real opinion, Billy,

00:33:43 or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage

00:33:45 with the attractive Mrs. Chelm as your companion?

00:33:48 Or perhaps you have even other reasons.

00:33:50 Such as?

00:33:51 That's for you to know, and for us to find out.

00:33:53 You'd better get your packing done.

00:34:00 Billy!

00:34:01 Where are you going?

00:34:03 Off to Africa, flying.

00:34:05 Just like that?

00:34:07 Weren't you even going to kiss me goodbye?

00:34:09 I wish...

00:34:16 Don't say it.

00:34:17 What?

00:34:18 That you wish we'd never met.

00:34:19 You'll be coming on the boat, and in Africa we'll get together and...

00:34:22 I think I hate you.

00:34:24 Letting those revolting men order you about.

00:34:26 Don't deny it. I've watched them.

00:34:28 They treat you like a servant.

00:34:29 They say, "Hop in," and off you hop.

00:34:32 I know what it is.

00:34:35 They have a hold on you.

00:34:37 Some black secret that could ruin you.

00:34:39 What makes you think that?

00:34:41 It happens all the time.

00:34:43 My old Spanish nurse told me that half the people in the world

00:34:46 would be ruined at once if everyone told what they knew.

00:34:49 But...

00:34:50 couldn't we have them done away with?

00:34:53 You must know plenty of people who could bump them off.

00:34:57 It'd probably cost a good deal, but it'd be worth it, certainly.

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

00:35:03 This way I stand to make a lot.

00:35:05 Millions?

00:35:06 Maybe.

00:35:07 Then perhaps your connection with those men isn't quite so indignified as I thought.

00:35:13 Those millions, would they be pounds or dollars?

00:35:18 Either way suits me.

00:35:20 No, that's very careless of you.

00:35:22 The state of the pound is so uncertain.

00:35:24 You must think in terms of hard currency.

00:35:26 Maybe I should hire you to handle my affairs.

00:35:29 You could do worse.

00:35:31 I'm awfully intelligent, really.

00:35:33 Come along, Billy boy. The car's waiting.

00:35:53 Can't go faster than this, we'll miss the plane.

00:35:56 Press on, press on!

00:35:58 Dry posting.

00:36:07 [music]

00:36:35 Push, push!

00:36:37 Come on.

00:36:42 One, two, three!

00:36:45 [grunting]

00:36:47 [music]

00:37:15 Driver, driver!

00:37:17 [music]

00:37:46 [music]

00:38:15 My car!

00:38:16 My car!

00:38:17 My beautiful car!

00:38:19 You did that on purpose!

00:38:20 What?

00:38:21 You planned it that way!

00:38:22 I know what you're up to, I know everything!

00:38:24 I know about the uranium on the Chelm's land, the Chelm interests in the city of London.

00:38:28 The what?

00:38:29 You heard me, the Chelm interests!

00:38:30 I take it your information comes from a reliable source.

00:38:32 It does, from Mrs. Chelm herself, in fact.

00:38:34 Ha ha ha, magnificent.

00:38:35 Simply magnificent.

00:38:36 You must pay me back for the loss of my beautiful car.

00:38:39 If you weren't a benighted jackass, if you could see as far as you could spit,

00:38:42 you'd know there's no such thing as the Chelm interests.

00:38:44 You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Danrother, very much better than that!

00:38:47 Don't believe me!

00:38:48 Check with London.

00:38:49 If you find out it's anything more than a down-at-heel Gloucestershire squire,

00:38:52 you can have my services for nothing.

00:38:55 You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?

00:38:58 Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.

00:39:01 You will make restitution with no, Mr. Dan, either the money or a new car.

00:39:06 Why, you fat bandit, I gave you the car in the first place.

00:39:09 How I came by it is beside the point.

00:39:12 The fact you gave it to me doesn't make it any the less mine.

00:39:16 Shut up!

00:39:17 That's right.

00:39:19 Threaten me.

00:39:20 It is not enough that you destroy my beautiful car.

00:39:23 Now you...

00:39:24 [HONKING]

00:39:27 Stop!

00:39:30 [SHOUTING]

00:39:38 More than anything, I want Billy to make a grand success out there.

00:39:44 As you care so much about money,

00:39:47 I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.

00:39:50 I shouldn't think Billy would mind, really.

00:39:53 I mean, neither of you are in love or anything.

00:39:56 You are a strange girl.

00:39:59 Of course I love Billy.

00:40:01 Actually, I adore him.

00:40:03 And Billy loves me very, very, but very much.

00:40:08 That's why I trust him with this little unimportant amours.

00:40:12 And what does he say about yours?

00:40:14 But darling, all husbands like their wives to seem attractive to other men.

00:40:20 Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:26 I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:29 [HORSE GALLOPING]

00:40:32 Mrs. Danrover, Maria.

00:40:35 I have, I'm afraid, I have some shocking news for you.

00:40:38 The boat is not going at all?

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

00:40:42 Your husband's car drove over a cliff.

00:40:45 The people on the bus saw it fall into the sea.

00:40:47 It seems almost certain, but...

00:40:49 What is it? What are you trying to say?

00:40:52 He's saying that Billy is dead.

00:40:57 It's become necessary to redistribute the stock in our company.

00:41:01 Stock, stock? What good is the stock now?

00:41:04 We can't deal with D'Arrada's friend.

00:41:07 Not without D'Arrada.

00:41:09 All the effort, the money, everything went over the cliff with that car.

00:41:14 Ravello, you forget the English are very sentimental people.

00:41:18 I tell you, there is nothing that Billy's friend will not do for his widow.

00:41:22 In black, she's a very touching figure.

00:41:27 Poor Maria. You really have had a wretched time, Rita.

00:41:31 You are very understanding.

00:41:34 If only there was something I could do.

00:41:37 Just now, if you could bring me an aspirin.

00:41:41 I have a headache.

00:41:42 Don't move. Just you wait there. I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:45 Mussolini, Hitler, and now Peterson.

00:41:51 A great man, a great loss.

00:41:54 I'm going upstairs and reading my Bible.

00:41:58 Why all the clothes?

00:42:04 Maria has a headache.

00:42:06 What's the matter with you?

00:42:12 Go away.

00:42:13 My dear girl, I'm as sorry about Dan Ruther as you are.

00:42:16 But after all, it's as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:18 I'm in love with him.

00:42:20 I have a very pleasant acquaintance.

00:42:21 What did you say?

00:42:23 I'm in love with him.

00:42:25 Really, darling? Having no control over your romantic fantasies?

00:42:27 I love it. Can't you hear me?

00:42:30 I love you. I love you.

00:42:32 Oh, rot. You're just dramatizing again.

00:42:35 By George, you were right after all.

00:42:38 I did pet it.

00:42:40 Oh, what shall I do?

00:42:44 I feel as though I were drowning.

00:42:47 He's dead. He's dead, and I'm left with a fool like you.

00:42:53 I'll tell you what to do.

00:42:55 Have a bit of shut eye.

00:42:56 You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again.

00:42:58 And there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:01 If you say so.

00:43:03 Oh, please go away.

00:43:05 I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:07 Mr. Chelm, this is very important.

00:43:16 For you as well as for myself.

00:43:18 Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:20 There is now an opportunity for you to secure enormous profits with virtually no risk.

00:43:24 I want to read about the bush.

00:43:26 Our papers...

00:43:27 For you as Billy's widow, it will be very easy to persuade his friend in British East.

00:43:31 And for Capital, we have Chelm.

00:43:34 Quite evidently, you've been misinformed as to my interest.

00:43:36 (Screams)

00:43:38 What's the matter with all of you?

00:43:50 Somebody dead?

00:43:52 A car. It went over a cliff.

00:43:54 We thought you'd both been killed.

00:43:56 Don't bother. I'm delighted to see you're alive.

00:43:58 But your wife is in a fainting condition.

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

00:44:02 Obviously I'm not dead.

00:44:04 I knew you weren't dead. I knew it.

00:44:06 I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:08 My old Spanish nurse said if you did that, a miracle would happen.

00:44:11 And you see, it has.

00:44:13 Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the glad tidings.

00:44:17 The captain is sober and the SS Nyanga will sail at midnight.

00:44:21 Go! Go! Go!

00:44:33 I can't see it anymore.

00:44:35 What can have happened to it?

00:44:37 My dispatch box, where is it?

00:44:39 A black tin box this size. What have you done with it?

00:44:42 I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:44:47 I shall not go on board till my dispatch box has been found.

00:44:49 Having trouble, Chelm?

00:44:50 I think that I can't cope with myself, thank you.

00:44:52 Let me put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

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

00:45:02 What am I going to do now?

00:45:04 Say, look.

00:45:06 What's happened to Harry?

00:45:08 You've been giving me the fish eye all evening.

00:45:10 Oh?

00:45:11 What is it?

00:45:12 Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead, I told him I was in love with you.

00:45:16 You what?

00:45:17 I couldn't help it. It made you seem less dead.

00:45:20 And?

00:45:21 Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:45:22 He thought my nerves were upset.

00:45:24 Sort of delirium.

00:45:25 He thought it quite a joke.

00:45:27 The idea of my inventing a love affair with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:45:31 That's what he called you.

00:45:32 Well, now that I'm back in the flesh, you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:45:37 I suppose seeing you alive is different from thinking of you dead.

00:45:41 You're just very cooped up on that tub with a suspicious husband.

00:45:45 Billy.

00:45:50 Let's not go.

00:45:56 What do you mean?

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

00:46:02 Now.

00:46:04 What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:06 What's happened to you? I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:09 I've changed my point of view.

00:46:11 I thought we'd get to Africa and you'd make your fortune and everything would be wonderful, but...

00:46:16 Now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:18 Too many things can happen.

00:46:20 I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:46:22 You really mean that?

00:46:23 With all my heart.

00:46:24 Oh, no, that's impossible.

00:46:26 Why?

00:46:27 Well, for one thing, Mrs. Danrother might not go for the idea.

00:46:30 She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:46:32 Please, Billy, listen to me.

00:46:33 I've thought it all out.

00:46:35 We'll take the bus and catch an express or some mad...

00:46:37 Oh, now, Bichotte, stop.

00:46:38 Bichotte's not on the table.

00:46:39 You're not in love the way I am.

00:46:42 If I loved you a thousand times more than you say you love me, it still wouldn't make any difference.

00:46:46 I've got to have money.

00:46:47 Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money.

00:46:50 Otherwise I become dull, listless, and have trouble with my complexion.

00:46:53 But you're not like that now and you haven't any money.

00:46:56 It's the expectations that hold me together.

00:46:58 You really mean that, don't you, darling?

00:47:01 Sure, I mean it.

00:47:02 And your main reason for wanting lots of money is so that you'll be ever so attractive and I'll love you more and more.

00:47:07 That's right, baby.

00:47:09 I'll help you, Billy.

00:47:11 I can, too.

00:47:12 I'm something of a witch.

00:47:14 My old Spanish nurse said I could have been a professional.

00:47:17 Don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.

00:47:21 What are you doing there?

00:47:23 You've ruined the most beautiful boat in the world.

00:47:25 Sea air, ozone.

00:47:36 What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.

00:47:38 What a fortune we'd make.

00:47:39 Neptune's mixture.

00:47:41 Now breathe deeply.

00:47:42 Remember, every breath is a guinea in the Bank of Health.

00:47:45 [Breathing]

00:47:50 Good morning, Cheryl.

00:47:52 Why, that's good.

00:47:54 Very good indeed.

00:47:55 I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Danrubber.

00:47:57 I'd hardly call myself that.

00:47:59 I only dabble.

00:48:01 The nose is not enough long.

00:48:03 The ears are too small.

00:48:04 Only has one eye.

00:48:06 Now come along, gentlemen.

00:48:07 We must not dawdle.

00:48:09 Blow the man down, bully, blow the man down.

00:48:13 Blow, blow, blow the man down.

00:48:16 Blow the man down, buddy, blow the man down.

00:48:20 Good morning, Mrs. Chelm.

00:48:21 Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:23 Blow the man down, bully, blow the man down.

00:48:26 Blow the man down, bully, blow the man down.

00:48:29 Blow, blow, blow the man down.

00:48:33 Blow the man down, bully, blow the man down.

00:48:37 Give me some time to blow the man down.

00:48:40 Mr. Peterson.

00:48:41 Mr. Peterson.

00:48:43 Radiogram.

00:48:44 No Chelm estate, Gloucestershire.

00:49:03 Stop.

00:49:04 No land of gentry Chelms.

00:49:07 What do you make of that?

00:49:08 He's not a Gloucestershire.

00:49:10 Like Billy said.

00:49:11 Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face value.

00:49:14 But if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:17 We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:21 Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:23 Billy is a liar.

00:49:24 Heaven only knows what Chelm is.

00:49:26 CID, maybe.

00:49:28 You borrowed my thought.

00:49:29 What to do, what to do?

00:49:31 The time has come for direct action.

00:49:33 You remember last night when we came on board?

00:49:35 The fuss he was making about his dispatch box.

00:49:38 I love colors.

00:49:51 Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:49:54 Your face, for instance.

00:49:56 Ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:50:00 Now the light has changed and is chalky white.

00:50:05 What?

00:50:06 Tinged with green.

00:50:08 Green?

00:50:10 It must be getting rough.

00:50:14 Just a little.

00:50:15 Don't break the pose.

00:50:17 I don't feel very well.

00:50:19 I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:22 It's incredible.

00:50:28 Harry Chelm is just...

00:50:29 Just Harry Chelm.

00:50:30 Nothing, nobody.

00:50:31 A ruddy refugee from Earl's Island.

00:50:33 With a hard bottle.

00:50:34 Look.

00:50:35 And a letter of introduction to the secretary of the governor.

00:50:38 The secretary, mind you.

00:50:39 Disgusting.

00:50:40 Turser!

00:50:43 My box!

00:50:44 A bit up and down, isn't it, sir?

00:50:46 It's gone!

00:50:47 Oh, yes, indeed.

00:50:48 Major Ross took it.

00:50:49 I saw him sneak it out of your cabin.

00:50:51 I like to keep my eye on what goes on aboard the ship.

00:50:54 Where did he take it?

00:50:55 I believe it's in Peterson's cabin.

00:50:57 In fact, I'm sure.

00:51:00 Ah!

00:51:01 Now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:07 He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:13 Billy!

00:51:19 Come in.

00:51:20 Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:24 I've seen the news.

00:51:25 I'm sure it's true.

00:51:26 Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:28 I've seen the paper in days.

00:51:30 It's not funny.

00:51:31 They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:33 Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:36 That dreadful little Major.

00:51:37 He took it to Peterson.

00:51:38 They went through it.

00:51:39 It's all your fault.

00:51:40 I suppose you know that.

00:51:42 My fault?

00:51:43 With the poppycock you've been peddling.

00:51:44 All that junk about the Chelm interest in London.

00:51:46 Uranium on your land.

00:51:48 Well, in a way, you're the one to blame.

00:51:51 I'm the...

00:51:52 I mean, you acted so superior.

00:51:54 I was falling in love with you and I...

00:51:56 I couldn't bear it for you to think I was just nobody.

00:51:59 Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:02 The... the son of a what?

00:52:04 A boarding house.

00:52:06 That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:08 They run a boarding house for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:11 But the way he talks, the way he acts, I thought...

00:52:13 It's just that he sees himself in a place in the West Country

00:52:16 with trout streams and horses

00:52:18 leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:20 It's not his fault if people take it for granted

00:52:23 that he has a place like that.

00:52:24 He's never once said that he had.

00:52:26 Country gent, son of a boarding house, or whatever he is.

00:52:29 I suppose I'd better get his box back.

00:52:31 Oh, he got it back himself.

00:52:32 Well, then there's no harm done.

00:52:34 Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:52:36 He's going to have them put in irons.

00:52:38 He is what?

00:52:39 He says that's what they did in the Royal Marines.

00:52:42 Look here, Skipper, there's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.

00:52:45 I happen to own a dispatch box which is very similar to Mr. Chelm's.

00:52:48 When I didn't find it in my cabin,

00:52:50 I asked Major Ross to see if it had been stowed away somewhere else by mistake.

00:52:53 The Major found what he thought was my box in the saloon with some other luggage.

00:52:57 The box has been in my cabin ever since we sailed.

00:52:59 Under the berth.

00:53:00 As soon as I saw the box, of course, I realized at once that it wasn't mine.

00:53:04 I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged

00:53:06 so that I could return it to its rightful owner.

00:53:08 I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine

00:53:11 I should be interested in a box containing patent medicines.

00:53:14 I'm not a hypochondriac.

00:53:17 Purser, tell the captain exactly what you told me about the box.

00:53:20 Why, sir, you asked me whether I'd seen it

00:53:23 and I said it might be the one I'd seen being carried along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:27 You distinctly told me that you'd seen it being taken from my cabin.

00:53:30 Oh, you must have misunderstood.

00:53:33 You were rather ill at the time, if you remember, sir.

00:53:36 That's all, Purser.

00:53:37 He's been bribed. He's in league with these criminals.

00:53:40 Just a case of a misunderstanding.

00:53:43 That's how I look at it.

00:53:45 Now, what about a little cognac to wash away any ill feeling?

00:53:48 I don't care for a drink.

00:53:50 And let me assure you that this matter is far from settled.

00:53:52 While rifling through my personal effects,

00:53:54 I feel certain that you must have noticed I had a letter of introduction

00:53:56 to the secretary of the governor.

00:53:58 I suspect he'll be much more interested in what I have to say

00:54:00 than this gin-soaked so-called ship's captain.

00:54:02 You mind your tongue!

00:54:04 Any more interests, you're the one I put in hands.

00:54:07 As far as I'm concerned, this is a close incident.

00:54:13 I'm dead.

00:54:15 You've got your box back.

00:54:19 Why don't you forget the whole thing?

00:54:21 What possible interest do you expect the colonial office to take in?

00:54:23 On the contrary, I expect them to show considerable interest

00:54:25 in a gang of crooks who are trying to swindle the country

00:54:27 out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:29 Just one moment, sir.

00:54:39 What leads you to believe?

00:54:41 This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit to inform you

00:54:43 that during your supposed demise,

00:54:45 he attempted to lure me into your nefarious venture.

00:54:47 Unfortunately for you,

00:54:49 he acquainted me with all the pertinent facts,

00:54:51 facts which I intend to communicate to the proper authority

00:54:53 at the very earliest opportunity.

00:54:55 I thought you were dead. That's what they told me.

00:54:59 Everyone told me you were dead.

00:55:01 And if you were dead, we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:03 Didn't we?

00:55:05 You, Ravello, my own partner,

00:55:07 sneak up behind my back

00:55:09 and try to cheat me.

00:55:11 The milk's spilt. It's no good crying over it.

00:55:13 Get after him, Billy. Calm him down.

00:55:15 Talk to him. See if you can't get him to change his attitude.

00:55:17 I'll try, but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:19 I don't know why we have to worry about Chelm's attitude.

00:55:21 Talk's no good. Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:23 I say put an end to her.

00:55:25 Shut up, Jack.

00:55:27 Time factor has entered the picture again.

00:55:29 This time, fortunately, it's working on our side.

00:55:31 Two weeks before we reach port.

00:55:33 That should be plenty of time to convince our friend, Chelm.

00:55:37 I beg you.

00:55:39 Please end all this trouble.

00:55:41 If things go on, either you will be done away with

00:55:43 before we ever get to Africa,

00:55:45 or you will leave and denounce Peterson to the authorities.

00:55:47 And that will be the ruin of all my plans and hopes.

00:55:49 In the long run, you'll do much better to get clear of these people.

00:55:53 They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:55:55 The long run? I'm tired of the long run.

00:55:57 I am not even thinking about them, or about myself.

00:56:01 It's only you that concerns me.

00:56:05 It's only you that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:07 No need to worry about me.

00:56:09 Ever since I met you,

00:56:11 you feel my thinking.

00:56:13 You are becoming an obsession.

00:56:15 Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:19 I am deeply in love.

00:56:21 Maria.

00:56:25 My dear.

00:56:27 My dear.

00:56:29 Only you could make a woman feel like this.

00:56:43 All I want is to be in your arms, now and always.

00:56:47 You forget I'm going to be done away with.

00:56:53 Oh, no, no. It will be easy to arrange.

00:56:55 What you must do is this.

00:56:57 You will write me a letter.

00:56:59 A love letter.

00:57:01 You will tell me that you cannot denounce Peterson,

00:57:03 because then I will suffer, too.

00:57:05 Because you love me so much,

00:57:07 you cannot bear to hurt me.

00:57:09 Such a letter they will believe if I show it to them.

00:57:13 My dear girl, you must see that this is quite out of the question.

00:57:17 I don't propose to make compromises.

00:57:19 Not compromises, Harry darling.

00:57:23 If you cause trouble to all of our plans,

00:57:25 my plans,

00:57:27 you would not want to make the innocent suffer.

00:57:31 It would be much better if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:35 I must handle this as I see fit.

00:57:37 Then you intend to go ahead with this business,

00:57:39 tell stories and ruin everything?

00:57:41 It would be much better if you cut loose from these people.

00:57:45 No happiness can come from such an association.

00:57:47 Harry, I'm asking you not to do this.

00:57:49 Please, write a letter.

00:57:51 Then there will be no trouble for you,

00:57:53 no trouble for us, no risk when we get to Africa.

00:57:55 I'm sorry, my dear. We English are a very pig-headed lot.

00:57:59 You think you can get away with this?

00:58:01 But Maria, my dear good Maria, listen.

00:58:03 First you made love to me.

00:58:05 Now you tell me you will ruin me.

00:58:07 You'll forgive me, but it was you who made...

00:58:09 Oh, shut your trap. Go on. Do what you like.

00:58:11 You think you're such a brave man.

00:58:13 I'll tell you what you are.

00:58:15 You are a heel.

00:58:17 Huh.

00:58:19 The blaze is down.

00:58:21 What's happening? What's going on here?

00:58:23 The oil pump's on the blink. The electricity's failing.

00:58:25 Out of folly. A ship lying in darkness this way?

00:58:27 We might well be rammed at any minute.

00:58:29 I'll tend to this myself. Which way is the engine room?

00:58:31 The passengers are not...

00:58:33 I'm sure your chief engineer will welcome the advice

00:58:35 of an ex-officer of the Royal Marines.

00:58:37 (Bell ringing)

00:58:39 (Speaking Italian)

00:58:41 Look here, you fool.

00:58:53 Are we simply abandoned to our fate?

00:58:55 I insist on something being done.

00:58:57 For instance? Give out the lifebelts.

00:58:59 Organize the boat drill.

00:59:01 The clientele are requested to remain calm.

00:59:03 To remain calm? Does the captain feel no sense of responsibility

00:59:05 for the lives of his passengers?

00:59:07 It's my opinion that the captain doesn't feel much of anything at the moment.

00:59:09 You mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:11 The fellow ought to be made to walk the plank.

00:59:13 I'm afraid just now he cannot walk at all.

00:59:15 This is outrageous.

00:59:17 Calm down, old man. What have you got to worry about?

00:59:19 We're only adrift in an open sea

00:59:21 where the drunken captain of an engine is liable to explode at any moment.

00:59:23 It's a perfectly ordinary situation.

00:59:25 Happens every day.

00:59:27 But just in case any of you are still at all anxious,

00:59:29 let it be known that Mr. Chelm

00:59:31 has taken charge in the engine room.

00:59:33 Who's taken charge?

00:59:35 Harry. And he'll foozle it for sure.

00:59:37 Shall I get out the hymn books?

00:59:39 Your husband claims to have learned all about the engine

00:59:41 and such things when he was an officer in the Royal Marines.

00:59:43 If he ever was.

00:59:45 In point of fact, not only was he an officer,

00:59:47 but he once won a medal for jumping into a sea of fire

00:59:49 to rescue someone.

00:59:51 It's only a bit of wreckage and not a man,

00:59:53 but that wasn't Harry's fault.

00:59:55 Just a slight error in judgment.

00:59:57 Oh, did I say something?

01:00:01 Oh, the lights, they come on.

01:00:03 He must have fixed it.

01:00:05 Impossible.

01:00:07 The engines are turning.

01:00:09 We are underway.

01:00:11 I still say it's impossible.

01:00:13 Ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:15 may I have your attention for a moment?

01:00:17 I'm happy to inform you that the oil pump

01:00:19 is now in perfect working condition.

01:00:21 Putting it right was no great accomplishment

01:00:23 for anyone with the slightest mechanical bent.

01:00:25 Anyhow, we may now proceed without further delay

01:00:27 and in absolute safety.

01:00:29 (tires screeching)

01:00:31 Oh, Harry, you did, you did, you fool.

01:00:33 (shouting)

01:00:35 Where is he?

01:00:37 I'll tell you.

01:00:39 There you are, you devil.

01:00:41 You wrecked me, you devil's ship.

01:00:43 Nothing of the sort.

01:00:45 Some scallywag down there sabotaged my work

01:00:47 out of pure malice.

01:00:49 (shouting)

01:00:51 Stay out of this, Dan Rather.

01:00:53 I can handle the brute.

01:00:55 What's up, Mr. Nowell?

01:00:57 Do we get the life abeyance?

01:00:59 Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:01 There's no immediate danger.

01:01:03 The passengers were pleased to return to the saloon.

01:01:05 We're heading for the nearest port

01:01:07 and there seems to be some chance of our making.

01:01:09 Right. Let's go.

01:01:11 Come along.

01:01:15 Now, who was last out?

01:01:21 Last.

01:01:25 Billy boy, be a good fellow and make a forth at bridge.

01:01:27 The major has no head for cards.

01:01:29 A few rubbers will soothe all our nerves.

01:01:31 Oh, thank you. I'll soothe mine with a double scotch.

01:01:33 In fact, I think I'll make it a triple.

01:01:35 No ice, no water. That's it.

01:01:37 How about you, dear Mrs. Dan Rather?

01:01:39 Little bridge?

01:01:41 Oh, so sorry. I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:43 I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:45 Oh, what a shame.

01:01:51 Well, boys, we'll have to make it cutthroat.

01:01:53 I'll stay here. Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:01:55 That, under the circumstances, is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:01:57 Gwendolyn, I must ask you to either move to another table

01:01:59 or else leave the saloon.

01:02:01 Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:03 I don't care for my wife to associate with an associate of criminals.

01:02:05 Don't be absurd.

01:02:07 Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:09 He's the best friend we have on this boat.

01:02:11 We're not in need of such friends.

01:02:13 You don't need any friends you can get.

01:02:15 The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits.

01:02:17 That's not my idea of adequate protection.

01:02:19 Percer, how much longer before we get to the port?

01:02:21 If we ever do get to port, it should be within 14 or 15 hours.

01:02:23 That's a long time.

01:02:25 Sit down. Make yourself comfortable. Have a drink.

01:02:27 Enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:29 Come on, Peterson. Buy us a drink.

01:02:31 I'm afraid I can't accept hospitality from persons

01:02:33 whom I intend, in a few hours' time,

01:02:35 to denounce in a place of justice.

01:02:37 Two spades.

01:02:39 I admire your saint-froid, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:41 Or perhaps you don't think I'm serious.

01:02:43 We shall see.

01:02:45 Of course.

01:02:47 I'm not going to be a fool.

01:02:49 We shall see.

01:02:51 Sleep, chaps.

01:02:53 Gwendolyn, are you going to do as I say?

01:02:55 Not when you speak to me in that tone.

01:02:57 Not when you try to order me about.

01:02:59 In that case...

01:03:01 Where are you going?

01:03:03 On deck, where the air is less polluted.

01:03:05 Percer, four tonics.

01:03:11 I think you'd better go after Harry.

01:03:13 Why should I, if he's going to be so childish and unreasonable?

01:03:17 Take my advice, go to him. Stay with him.

01:03:19 I suppose you think we should keep up appearances.

01:03:23 The loyal wife at her husband's side.

01:03:25 No, Billy.

01:03:27 I'm experiencing something that is rare and beautiful.

01:03:29 And I shall not deny it.

01:03:31 Either by word or by deed.

01:03:33 I love you. Let the whole world know it.

01:03:35 I love you. I love you.

01:03:37 Keeping up appearances isn't exactly what I meant.

01:03:39 Then why do you want to send me tagging after Harry?

01:03:42 He's being such a deadly bore tonight.

01:03:44 Deadly, but not dead. Not yet.

01:03:46 What do you mean?

01:03:48 They killed one man just because they thought he might try to get in their way.

01:03:51 Now, handsome Harry, he's certain to blow the whole thing wide open.

01:03:54 They killed a man?

01:03:56 Really? Who?

01:03:58 Just a man.

01:04:00 For all Harry's being too, too tiresome...

01:04:04 And my loving you to distraction...

01:04:06 I still wouldn't want to see him done in.

01:04:09 He has some perfectly darling traits, really.

01:04:12 I mean, like always remembering one's birthday.

01:04:15 No, we simply mustn't let anybody murder Harry.

01:04:18 Keep him in your cabin. Never let him out of your sight.

01:04:20 Keep him under lock and key.

01:04:22 Oh, Billy, that awful music.

01:04:27 It's so loud, it comes right into our cabin.

01:04:30 Peterson, tell the major to soft-pedal it.

01:04:33 And while he's about it, he might change the tune.

01:04:36 Oh, don't you like it? It's one of my favorites.

01:04:38 I'm afraid he doesn't know any others.

01:04:40 Do you, Jack?

01:04:44 Oh.

01:04:46 Major!

01:04:52 ( music playing )

01:05:20 ( screams )

01:05:22 Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:24 One down.

01:05:26 ( screams )

01:05:29 Captain! Captain!

01:05:32 Oh, God.

01:05:44 What happened?

01:05:48 Oh, Billy, all that screaming. I thought someone had been killed.

01:05:50 Someone nearly was. Indeed, they were. Look at the major.

01:05:53 Better get a new act finished when the curtain's going down on this one.

01:05:55 Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:05:57 The passengers break the engine, they beat each other to feet,

01:06:00 - they throw each other overboard. - That man attacked me.

01:06:03 How you? You again?

01:06:05 If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:07 He came sneaking up behind me and tried to run me through with his sword.

01:06:09 - Is that true? - Well...

01:06:11 It's no use, Billy.

01:06:13 Am I trying to protect Harry any further?

01:06:15 I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:18 Captain, it grieves me to confess this,

01:06:21 but in point of fact, my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:06:25 The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:06:28 On occasion, he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:06:32 The psychiatrists say it's because he believes people are plotting against him.

01:06:36 And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:06:39 Gwendolen, for heaven's sake, woman, what's the meaning of this treachery?

01:06:42 Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:06:45 - He knows! He saved my life! - He'll tell the truth.

01:06:48 I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:06:50 You wrecked my ship! You tried to kill the passengers!

01:06:52 - But I'm not saying further about this ship! - Caruso!

01:06:54 - Let's fight away against me! - Let me go! I'll kill the lot of you!

01:06:57 I warned you, Captain! When I tell the whole truth...

01:06:59 Poor Harry. It's awfully sad.

01:07:02 We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:04 How dare you lay hands on me, you hooligans!

01:07:08 I'll have you put in irons! You'll be the ones in irons!

01:07:11 Good, good. We'll have no trouble from you.

01:07:15 Scum! Mongrels!

01:07:18 I'll bring you to book, every one of you!

01:07:20 Every man, Jack, of you!

01:07:22 After all, it was the only solution.

01:07:27 Harry's safely locked in his cabin...

01:07:29 where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:07:31 On the other hand, he can't say or do anything now...

01:07:34 to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:07:37 I mean, the authorities would hardly listen to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:07:41 They won't even let him off the boat.

01:07:44 Well, in that case, he'll just have to stay shut up for a few weeks.

01:07:47 It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?

01:07:50 Yes, but after you've amassed all those African millions...

01:07:54 we'll make it up to him.

01:07:56 We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire...

01:07:59 with some rough shooting and a trout stream like he's always wanted.

01:08:04 Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:06 She seems to have a very real feeling for English country life.

01:08:10 And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:13 Especially us, Billy.

01:08:15 Board station, everyone! Prepare to abandon ship!

01:08:19 What's going on?

01:08:20 I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:22 Board station, everybody!

01:08:24 We're sinking!

01:08:26 Harry! Harry, open the door!

01:08:30 You must! The ship's sinking!

01:08:33 Let go of me!

01:08:35 Let go of me!

01:08:37 Get out of the boat!

01:08:46 I'll have you all killed!

01:08:48 You scoundrels!

01:08:50 Get out of the boat!

01:08:52 I'll have you all killed!

01:08:56 You scoundrels!

01:08:59 You scoundrels!

01:09:01 Get out of the boat!

01:09:03 What are you doing there?

01:09:05 You've ruined the whole boat!

01:09:07 You scoundrels!

01:09:09 Get out of the boat!

01:09:11 Get out of the boat!

01:09:13 I'll have you all killed!

01:09:15 I'll have you all killed!

01:09:17 You scoundrels!

01:09:19 You scoundrels!

01:09:21 Call the ambulance!

01:09:23 Hurry!

01:09:25 Call the ambulance!

01:09:27 Hurry! Hurry!

01:09:29 Look down there!

01:09:31 Hurry! Hurry!

01:09:33 Look! Look!

01:09:35 Down there!

01:09:37 I'll have you all killed!

01:09:39 I'll have you all killed!

01:09:41 I'll have you all killed!

01:09:43 Hurry! Hurry!

01:09:45 Look down there!

01:09:47 Look down there!

01:09:49 Look down there!

01:09:51 Look down there!

01:09:53 We can't! We simply can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry!

01:09:56 Maybe we'll run across him out there. He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:09:59 Do you think we'll run across him?

01:10:01 I don't say we will, but it's possible. Anything's possible.

01:10:04 Ah! The accident!

01:10:07 John! Bill!

01:10:09 Roush!

01:10:11 My God! Terry's Roush is all over the ground!

01:10:14 Let's go! They'll find a bunch of fish and crabs!

01:10:17 Hurry!

01:10:19 Harry!

01:10:26 [Music]

01:10:28 [Music]

01:10:30 [Music]

01:10:33 [Music]

01:11:00 Where do you suppose we are?

01:11:02 Africa.

01:11:03 What part of Africa?

01:11:04 Yes, that's important. What part?

01:11:06 Not a bad place to land. No customs, no forms to fill out.

01:11:09 Tell us at once where we are. It's important. I know.

01:11:12 You mean to say there are parts of the Dark Continent where you won't be received like the prodigal son?

01:11:16 Alio.

01:11:17 What's that?

01:11:18 Alio.

01:11:20 [Gunshot]

01:11:22 [Gunshot]

01:11:24 Better get down, everybody.

01:11:26 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:11:28 Get rid of your passports, boys.

01:11:30 Mrs. Chell, Billy boy, my identity must remain a secret.

01:11:33 [Music]

01:11:36 [Music]

01:11:39 [Music]

01:11:42 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:11:45 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:11:48 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:11:50 [Gunshot]

01:12:16 [Music]

01:12:18 Alio, what's that?

01:12:20 It was a company that sold arms to the Arab legions.

01:12:23 Wait a minute, that rings a bell.

01:12:25 Some of the equipment we sold them was defective.

01:12:28 Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:31 The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:12:35 For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:12:38 I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:12:40 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:12:44 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:12:46 Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way?

01:13:04 It's simply...

01:13:06 Shocking.

01:13:07 Harry wouldn't have let them do it.

01:13:09 He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:11 I have a sense of survival.

01:13:13 What is going to happen?

01:13:15 Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:17 Just let them try it. I'm a British subject.

01:13:20 I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:13:22 [Singing in foreign language]

01:13:41 We shipwreck.

01:13:43 Big boat go down.

01:13:46 Bottom ocean.

01:13:48 We take little boat.

01:13:51 Row all day.

01:13:53 Row all night.

01:13:56 Savvy?

01:13:57 There's only one way to deal with these swine.

01:13:59 Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.

01:14:01 Show them who's boss right away.

01:14:03 We sight land.

01:14:05 Your land.

01:14:06 Praise Allah.

01:14:08 Come ashore.

01:14:10 Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.

01:14:13 No good way to treat shipwreck people.

01:14:16 You will please to hand over your passports.

01:14:38 There seem to be four missing.

01:14:40 Will those who have not handed over their passports

01:14:43 hold up their hands?

01:14:45 All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:14:53 A terrifying experience.

01:14:55 An incompetent crew, a burning ship,

01:14:58 put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

01:15:01 What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:03 The SS Nyanga. She's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:05 I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:09 Does it stand to reason, Your Excellency,

01:15:11 we should come to this shore in a small boat

01:15:13 if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:15 Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:17 Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:19 Agents of certain foreign governments

01:15:21 sometimes try to enter it by stealth,

01:15:24 hoping to fan the flames of revolution.

01:15:28 Therefore, we check carefully

01:15:31 on the activities of strangers.

01:15:33 But surely, Your Excellency, in our case,

01:15:35 one look is sufficient to convince you of our innocence.

01:15:39 No.

01:15:56 One look is not enough.

01:16:01 If you think we're the enemies of your country,

01:16:04 the logical thing is to boot us out.

01:16:06 Send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:09 We shan't object.

01:16:10 We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:12 Where is elsewhere?

01:16:14 Central Africa.

01:16:16 And what sort of business?

01:16:19 Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines.

01:16:21 Ah, yes.

01:16:23 Businessmen, all going to Central Africa

01:16:26 to sell vacuum cleaners.

01:16:29 Hut to hut, I suppose.

01:16:31 Can you, sir, take it at the head, sailor's man,

01:16:35 the ringleader of this group?

01:16:37 Oh, no, no group.

01:16:39 We met for the first time on board ship.

01:16:42 Complete strangers to one another.

01:16:44 Liar!

01:16:45 The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:16:48 I am a keen observer.

01:16:50 You four are together.

01:16:52 Oh, no, my fat gutted friend.

01:16:54 I'm not as illiterate as simple man.

01:16:57 I'm not as illiterate, simple-minded native.

01:17:00 You're fool enough to take me for.

01:17:02 I am a great man, a serious man.

01:17:05 I spit on you, too.

01:17:07 I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:09 Off to the wrong star, Peterson.

01:17:11 There's only one way to deal with these spines.

01:17:13 Spine! Spine! Spine!

01:17:16 You'd better be careful.

01:17:18 My husband, my late husband,

01:17:20 who was drowned in the Niagara disaster,

01:17:22 happened to be one of the most important figures

01:17:24 in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:26 In point of fact, we had letters

01:17:28 from the Prime Minister and the Queen

01:17:30 telling everybody to be particularly courteous

01:17:32 to us and our friends.

01:17:34 So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands,

01:17:37 it will become a major international incident.

01:17:40 Would you instruct that one

01:17:42 that in my country a female's lips may move,

01:17:46 but her words are not heard.

01:17:48 Oh, Harry. Harry.

01:17:50 If only you were here.

01:17:54 And now, Sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence

01:17:58 and tell me who you really are

01:18:00 and what is your actual purpose in being here.

01:18:03 I'm a sick man. I've got a bad heart.

01:18:05 I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:07 You refuse to answer.

01:18:09 That is interesting.

01:18:10 It makes of it a contest,

01:18:12 a contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:16 We of this country have had 4,000 years experience

01:18:20 in asking questions and gathering information.

01:18:23 We have been in the army for 4,000 years.

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01:24:15 Peterson, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:18 The gentleman here wants to speak to you...

01:24:20 ...with Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:22 You take your wine here or upstairs, Mr. Dunn?

01:24:25 We'll have it here.

01:24:26 Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:28 No, thanks. It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:30 I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man...

01:24:32 ...never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:35 - Is that true, Mr. Clayton? - Quite true.

01:24:37 - Mrs. Dunrother? - No, I'm Mrs. Chell.

01:24:40 This is Mrs. Dunrother.

01:24:42 How do you do?

01:24:44 I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies.

01:24:46 So perhaps I'll have a glass of bubbly after all.

01:24:49 - Peterson, how do you do, sir? - How do you do?

01:24:52 - Ravelo. - And, um...

01:24:54 - Mr. O'Hara. - O'Hara.

01:24:56 Julius O'Hara. Delighted.

01:24:58 No, I'm not one to be delighted.

01:25:00 It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:25:03 That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:05 You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:09 I've spent quite a lot of money.

01:25:11 My chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends.

01:25:14 Particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:17 Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Vanmere murder case.

01:25:20 The Vanmere murder case?

01:25:22 Oh, yes, yes. That fellow in the colonial office.

01:25:24 Yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:26 It was a shocking affair.

01:25:28 According to Mr. Vanmere's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,

01:25:31 you had lunch with him at the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:34 That's quite correct. Mr. Vanmere was an expert on African matters.

01:25:38 We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:41 Do you recall the subject of the discussion?

01:25:43 Vaguely. Cropyard. The native labour situation.

01:25:47 Inches of rain.

01:25:49 Shorts.

01:25:51 How long haven't you known Mr. Vanmere?

01:25:53 A couple of months. We met half a dozen times.

01:25:55 Did he ever make mention of any enemies? Business or otherwise?

01:25:58 Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:26:00 Did he name any women?

01:26:02 No. I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:26:05 Mr. Vanmere struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:08 Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:10 Well, that's all.

01:26:12 Unless somebody has anything further to add?

01:26:15 I have.

01:26:18 I think you ought to know that the business of one of these businessmen is murder.

01:26:25 I beg your pardon?

01:26:29 Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:31 I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Vanmere person.

01:26:34 I assure you, however, he attempted to murder my husband with a long, thin dagger...

01:26:39 ...which he always carried about in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:43 Go on, Mrs. Chow.

01:26:45 You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:50 One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:52 My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:55 Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire.

01:26:58 Involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:27:02 And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away with.

01:27:05 Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:27:07 That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:10 Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:12 More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:14 No, thank you.

01:27:17 [Music]

01:27:33 As I said before, very smart fellows indeed.

01:27:38 Should you ever think of me in Earl's Court...

01:27:43 ...that's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodgers.

01:27:47 Should you ever think of me, try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:52 You kiss her too, Billy.

01:27:54 And tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:56 Sure, sure.

01:27:58 Goodbye, Billy.

01:28:00 Goodbye.

01:28:02 For Mrs. Chelm. Just came on the ship's wire.

01:28:09 Oh, by the way, Mr. Danrada, do you know that your associates are all in the Who's Gow?

01:28:15 Oh, now that I'm a bit surprised.

01:28:17 I put them down as thoroughly bad characters, right off the bat.

01:28:21 But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:24 Take mine, for instance.

01:28:26 Harry! He's alive!

01:28:31 [Music]

01:28:42 [Whimpering]

01:28:45 [Music]

01:28:53 [Laughter]

01:29:06 Oh, this is the end.

01:29:10 [Music]

01:29:14 The end.

01:29:16 [Music]

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