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00:01:32 Lee has surrendered to Grant.
00:01:35 And even now, as I write an eyewitness story for Leslie's Weekly,
00:01:40 this Virginia countryside no longer trembles to the sound of guns.
00:01:47 I have followed the war for five years, and the silence, the silence of peace is too much for my nerves.
00:01:59 I am overcome with emotion.
00:02:01 You better take a drink, Jim. You don't want to be overcome with emotion.
00:02:04 You want your reading public to do the emoting.
00:02:07 You're right. I got the shakes.
00:02:10 Of course, it don't seem natural for a fact.
00:02:16 No guns booming, no ambulances staggering down the road.
00:02:23 Turn on the old hot tonic that made you famous, Jim.
00:02:26 Today, the ambulances lie idle, says Jim Steve, the celebrated war correspondent.
00:02:31 No longer is there precious cargo of shattered humanity.
00:02:34 That's enough!
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00:02:48 Joppa, Jehoshaphat!
00:02:52 What's the matter?
00:02:53 It's Lee! Lee riding home from the wars!
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00:03:15 You haven't surrendered to them, have you, General? You haven't quit fighting them, have you, sir?
00:03:18 No, no, we're just going home to plant a crop, then come back and fight them some more, ain't we, General?
00:03:23 Oh, we ain't going home. We ain't just playing a trick on them bluecoats, ain't we, General?
00:03:31 What's your name, Lieutenant?
00:03:32 Cleve Blunt, sir.
00:03:34 Where's your home?
00:03:35 Hopewell, sir, in the Bull Run Mountain country.
00:03:38 Then you must be Miss Patty Blunt's boy.
00:03:41 Yes, sir.
00:03:43 Well, you go home, Lieutenant, and tell your mother you must lay down your arms now and return to your books.
00:03:50 But I want to go on fighting, General, until we beat them.
00:03:54 Peace hath her victories no less than war.
00:03:58 There's an old hymn which says, "Chance and change are busy ever. Man decays, but ages move."
00:04:08 We must move with the ages, Cleve.
00:04:12 There can be no standing still.
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00:04:49 I'm from Leslie's Weekly. I heard the General tell you to go to college.
00:04:53 Aren't you going to take his advice?
00:04:54 I've never done anything but fight since I was 16.
00:04:58 I couldn't stop it now if I tried.
00:05:05 Who is in charge here?
00:05:06 You must place yourself at my disposal for a few minutes. It is most urgent.
00:05:10 I am an accredited military observer, and I wish to send my dispatch through our embassy in Washington to the Count von Bismarck in Berlin.
00:05:17 You're an accredited to Frank Leslie, are you?
00:05:19 Leslie, bah! I wish to send my dispatch to the Count von Bismarck, do you understand?
00:05:24 The Count von Bismarck is just a herring to me.
00:05:28 Hello, Count.
00:05:29 Ah, Herr Steele, you must help me. The Count von Bismarck is waiting for my report.
00:05:33 I wish to point out the mistakes your General Lee has made.
00:05:37 Sure, you can point out Lee's mistakes.
00:05:40 But only a great man like Lee Yonder can point out the mistakes that will be made after the guns are silent.
00:05:46 Guns are never silent, Herr Steele.
00:05:49 Guns are wisdom. Guns are love to you Prussians.
00:05:53 Go ahead and send it.
00:06:15 She's really charming.
00:06:16 Yes, I saw her in Vienna.
00:06:18 Auf Wiedersehen, Colonel.
00:06:19 It was a pleasure, Your Excellency.
00:06:20 Goodbye.
00:06:21 Goodbye.
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00:06:23 Goodbye.
00:06:25 There's old Stead.
00:06:28 A war horse in white tie and tails.
00:06:31 Stead, old boy.
00:06:33 Hello, Colonel.
00:06:34 Hello.
00:06:35 Lylas, this is Mr. Stead, with whom I had the pleasure of reporting the war between the states.
00:06:38 My fiancée, Miss Thorndike.
00:06:40 How do you do?
00:06:41 An American war correspondent in Berlin.
00:06:43 Well, we're like vultures, lady.
00:06:45 We gather around and wait for the lions to die.
00:06:47 You don't think the Prussian lion's going to die?
00:06:49 No, but I think the Austrian lion's going to be pretty badly mauled.
00:06:52 Shh, Jim, we're in Berlin.
00:06:54 I'm sure Mr. Stead isn't here to report a war.
00:06:57 Like everybody else, he's here to throw himself at the feet of the Viennese ballerina.
00:07:01 Now, what chance would I have against an Austrian archduke?
00:07:03 Jim, I'm his Majesty's military attaché.
00:07:05 We don't talk about such things.
00:07:09 Pardon me.
00:07:10 Yeah.
00:07:11 Jim, I have waited a whole hour for you.
00:07:13 I had a cable from New York, a very important assignment.
00:07:16 Huh.
00:07:20 My German teacher.
00:07:22 Ah, yes.
00:07:23 Is it true that that dancer hopes to marry the Austrian prince?
00:07:26 Uh, every woman hopes to become a princess.
00:07:28 Shh.
00:07:29 Pardon me.
00:07:31 Yes.
00:07:32 Jim.
00:07:33 No scenes, please.
00:07:34 I promise you.
00:07:35 You promise?
00:07:36 Yes, I'll be there.
00:07:37 Please.
00:07:41 Another German teacher?
00:07:43 No, she gives me lessons, uh, piano.
00:07:46 Piano.
00:07:47 About the ballerina, wasn't she asked by the Prussian government to dance tonight?
00:07:50 You know, sort of a compliment to the Royal House of Vienna.
00:07:53 No bones broken.
00:07:55 I read a perfectly horrid article about her in one of those awful mud-slinging American weeklies.
00:08:00 Liar!
00:08:01 Well, I did read it.
00:08:02 I'm flattered.
00:08:03 I wrote it.
00:08:05 Oh.
00:08:08 She was probably thrown out of Vienna.
00:08:10 Well, they didn't throw her far enough.
00:08:12 I wish she'd landed in New York.
00:08:14 Oh, that's the bell for the overture.
00:08:16 May I have some champagne, please?
00:08:18 I'd like a word with the American bluebeard.
00:08:20 I'll join you.
00:08:21 Very well, dear.
00:08:22 I'll see you later.
00:08:23 Yes.
00:08:24 Now, look here.
00:08:25 Don't you stick your inquisitive American nose into high politics.
00:08:29 I may get a punch in the nose before the night's over, but I think I'll be able to hit back sooner or later.
00:08:34 When you're thrown in jail, give me a signal.
00:08:36 I have connections.
00:08:37 Send me a file and a loaf of bread, old boy.
00:08:39 She's beautiful.
00:08:58 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:00 She's beautiful.
00:09:01 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:02 She's beautiful.
00:09:03 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:06 She's beautiful.
00:09:07 She's beautiful.
00:09:08 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:09 She's beautiful.
00:09:10 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:11 She's beautiful.
00:09:12 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:13 She's beautiful.
00:09:14 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:15 She's beautiful.
00:09:16 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:17 She's beautiful.
00:09:18 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:19 She's beautiful.
00:09:20 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:21 She's beautiful.
00:09:22 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:23 She's beautiful.
00:09:24 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:25 She's beautiful.
00:09:26 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:27 She's beautiful.
00:09:28 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:29 She's beautiful.
00:09:30 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:31 She's beautiful.
00:09:32 She's worth of a campaign.
00:09:33 She's beautiful.
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00:09:56 - After four years in America,
00:10:21 I hardly know how to begin a European campaign.
00:10:24 - Opening moves are always the same.
00:10:27 Flowers and champagne.
00:10:28 - Love is like war.
00:10:31 First a demonstration of friendliness
00:10:32 to put your opponent at ease.
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00:10:38 - The lady has access to the royal family in Vienna.
00:10:50 In fact, one of the haves but may think more of her
00:10:53 than he does of his emperor.
00:10:54 - Remember me, von Bolland?
00:10:58 Got your dispatch off after Appomattox.
00:11:00 - You are forcing yourself upon the Count von Bismarck.
00:11:04 - You introduced me, Count.
00:11:06 Saw you in the audience,
00:11:07 just thought I'd ask you to give me
00:11:08 a little information that I need.
00:11:10 - This man is presuming upon a chance acquaintance.
00:11:13 Get out.
00:11:14 Get out before I have you thrown out.
00:11:17 - Now look, Count, is that any way
00:11:18 to treat an American war correspondent?
00:11:19 - Yes, Harry.
00:11:21 An old comrade in arms.
00:11:22 I very much admire the valiant campaigns
00:11:25 of the American General Jackson.
00:11:27 - I say, I could talk to you about old Stonewall all night.
00:11:30 - Hardly tonight.
00:11:31 Could we be of any service to you in Berlin, Herr Steed?
00:11:35 - You sure could, Count von Bismarck.
00:11:38 You could help me score a beat on the world
00:11:39 if you'll tell me the day you're gonna make war on Austria.
00:11:42 - So, such a frontry should receive a slap across the face.
00:11:46 - Of course, Herr Steed, if our Austrian cousins
00:11:49 allied themselves with France,
00:11:51 they must protect the fatherland.
00:11:54 - That's just what I thought, sir.
00:11:56 Hope you've excused the interruption.
00:11:57 - I have not.
00:11:58 - He's irritable tonight.
00:11:59 It is always so when one is assigned to a delicate test.
00:12:04 Good luck to you, gentlemen.
00:12:07 Now you see how simple and honest our great Iron Chancellor is.
00:12:13 Imagine breaking in on your General Grant that way.
00:12:15 What would he have done to you?
00:12:17 - He always gave me a cigar and then told me the truth.
00:12:20 (audience applauding)
00:12:32 - The ladies were admiring your flowers, Herr Grant.
00:12:43 (laughing)
00:12:45 (footsteps tapping)
00:12:48 - Ja?
00:12:57 - Huh?
00:12:58 Oh, from His Excellency, the Count von Bismarck.
00:13:00 - Ah, I argued to hear you.
00:13:03 Prussian beasts, their eyes.
00:13:14 - Every man disrobes me.
00:13:16 - I'd say, ma'am, there isn't much to disrobe.
00:13:19 - Sophie, this gentleman?
00:13:22 - He is from His Excellency, the Count von Bismarck.
00:13:24 - Huh, from that vulture in the box.
00:13:27 - She's got me wrong, ma'am.
00:13:29 I'm from Frank Leslie's Weekly.
00:13:31 - From what?
00:13:32 - Frank Leslie's Weekly.
00:13:34 - Hm, 'tis a very bad likeness of me.
00:13:38 Look, are my shoulders made of iron?
00:13:42 - No, ma'am, I'd say they were made of butter and sugar.
00:13:44 - Which will never be at Count Bismarck's feast.
00:13:48 - I'm sure of that, ma'am.
00:13:49 But the other one in the box,
00:13:51 now, I'd like to interest you in a little business proposition.
00:13:56 I came back here because I happened to overhear
00:13:59 a conversation about you between Count von Bismarck
00:14:01 and Count von Bohlen.
00:14:02 I happened to overhear it because I make it my business
00:14:06 to eavesdrop.
00:14:07 - I am uninterested in their opinion of me.
00:14:10 - I'll play a little game with you.
00:14:12 If you can find out from von Bohlen
00:14:13 just when Prussia expects to make war against Austria,
00:14:17 I will undertake to forward your messages back to Vienna.
00:14:20 - You'll undertake it?
00:14:21 Can I not write to my prince?
00:14:23 - Not if you're as shrewd as you look.
00:14:26 The day that you begin to receive von Bohlen's attentions,
00:14:29 that day you will be under surveillance.
00:14:31 - But I am not going to receive his attentions.
00:14:34 - But that's what I want to urge you to do,
00:14:36 to have supper in his rooms,
00:14:38 to have possibly a great amount of curiosity
00:14:40 as to the contents of his bureau
00:14:42 or his desk or his letter file.
00:14:43 You'd get more places that way in a war
00:14:52 than General Grant could in a full dress uniform.
00:14:54 - In whose pay are you?
00:14:57 - Has it ever occurred to you, Salome,
00:15:00 that we're all instruments of divine providence?
00:15:04 I'm a member of a despised tribe, a newspaper man,
00:15:07 and you're eating your heart out
00:15:08 because you can never be a Habsburg princess.
00:15:11 Now, suppose we could unmask that Tiger Bismarck
00:15:14 when he attempts to strike in the spring,
00:15:17 show that it is cool, deliberate murder.
00:15:19 To my mind, that's a finer thing to do
00:15:22 for your prince and your country
00:15:24 than any mere queenly thing.
00:15:25 'Tis a queenly thing, oh, Salome,
00:15:28 to do good and be evil-spoken of.
00:15:30 (knocking)
00:15:32 - And so if he see you, Knox?
00:15:33 - It is fate knocking, Salome.
00:15:37 (dramatic music)
00:15:40 - Madame Maria, it gives to me great pleasure
00:15:45 to present His Excellency Count von Bohlm
00:15:47 of the Prussian General Staff.
00:15:49 - Mars, making a customary homage to Venus.
00:15:54 It would do me great honor, Gnaeus Froehlein,
00:15:57 to order supper for us at the Bristol.
00:15:59 Of course, in the great dining room.
00:16:01 - Oh, it is such a large room.
00:16:04 I am frightened by such great beauty,
00:16:06 or I would ask to order supper in your room.
00:16:09 - My rooms are stuffy.
00:16:13 - I would hardly say in my room.
00:16:16 - An actress in your rooms?
00:16:20 Yes, that would be frowned upon
00:16:22 by the chief of the Prussian General Staff.
00:16:24 I thank you for the lovely flowers.
00:16:28 They are exquisite.
00:16:30 Sophie, take care of these.
00:16:35 - What wine will you choose?
00:16:36 - I love the wine of Hungary, the Tokaj.
00:16:41 - And the temperature?
00:16:43 - The temperature of your rooms.
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00:16:47 - Who, uh, who tells you Americans
00:17:01 all the secrets of our European wars?
00:17:03 A little bird?
00:17:04 - You military attachés never see the woods for the trees.
00:17:07 (dramatic music)
00:17:10 - The trees are lovely sapling there, huh?
00:17:15 (dramatic music)
00:17:17 - Beside a sturdy Prussian oak.
00:17:25 (dramatic music)
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00:17:31 - I say, Steve, you're quite a gay young dog
00:17:41 beneath your rugged exterior, aren't you?
00:17:43 - Do you mind?
00:17:44 - Not at all, old boy.
00:17:46 You dropped a billet d'oeuvre for me,
00:17:47 I'd have read it first, and I shall pardon later.
00:17:50 Now, the matter of that small wager
00:17:56 on Bismarck's intentions towards Austria.
00:17:58 - Never bet on a sure thing, Colonel.
00:18:00 You know, Colonel, with your rank and my brains,
00:18:04 we could run this war.
00:18:06 - My dear fellow, what war?
00:18:07 - One that starts tomorrow.
00:18:09 - Steve, I give you top marks.
00:18:16 - Time's a-wasting, Colonel.
00:18:18 I must send my dispatch to Leslie's Weekly.
00:18:21 And I request the pleasure of your company,
00:18:22 my dear Henderson, for the opening of the war
00:18:24 between Prussia and Austria tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
00:18:28 (dramatic music)
00:18:31 - Now, Colonel, if the Austrians tried
00:18:50 that outflanking maneuver on old Stonewall Jackson,
00:18:52 they'd lose their pants before nightfall.
00:18:54 Then I can assure you they're going to lose them.
00:18:56 These Prussians have learned more from Stonewall Jackson
00:18:58 than Frederick the Great ever taught them.
00:19:00 - We'd better get out of here.
00:19:03 (dramatic music)
00:19:06 - Oh, darn it, you can tell a livery-stable horse
00:19:22 in any country.
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00:19:57 - Napoleon Brandy.
00:20:12 Great G. Hossefad, brother.
00:20:15 What a deluxe war you Austrians fight.
00:20:17 - Well, I guess the least I can do is take your name
00:20:23 and let your folks know you didn't suffer.
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00:20:51 (gunshot)
00:20:53 - I'm sorry, your Royal Highness,
00:20:56 but a lady's life can hang in the balance
00:20:58 on this little perfume scale.
00:21:00 (dramatic music)
00:21:02 (gunshot)
00:21:16 (dramatic music)
00:21:19 (dramatic music)
00:21:22 - You are wounded, Hasteen.
00:21:24 - Only a bad fall from a horse.
00:21:27 - Which conveniently places you
00:21:28 in a position to loot the dead.
00:21:30 (water splashing)
00:21:32 - Feldwebel!
00:21:35 (dramatic music)
00:21:39 - The threads run together, eh?
00:21:46 The pattern on the broad loom of intelligence
00:21:48 begins to take shape.
00:21:49 You were with him.
00:21:51 - There was confusion in retreat.
00:21:52 I was thrown here by him.
00:21:54 - A packet of letters which you have hidden under the stone.
00:21:56 You were reading them.
00:21:58 - Yes.
00:21:59 - And you were about to steal the locket.
00:22:01 - I was about to return it to someone.
00:22:03 - You must permit me to do that for you.
00:22:05 You see, I'm going to have you shot as a battlefield ghoul.
00:22:12 - Perhaps we should let the Feldwebel return them.
00:22:15 You see, when you turn those letters
00:22:16 over to your chief of staff up there,
00:22:18 he'll have you shot for revealing military secrets
00:22:20 to a lady who's made a fool of you.
00:22:22 - A lie for a life.
00:22:25 - Two lies for your one.
00:22:27 - Naturally, I would not hurt her.
00:22:31 I am unfortunate enough to love her.
00:22:33 (gun firing)
00:22:36 Feldwebel!
00:22:37 (speaking in foreign language)
00:22:41 I am giving you safe conduct and escort.
00:22:43 Be good enough to tell him where you wish to go.
00:22:45 (dramatic music)
00:22:48 - Oh, Count.
00:22:51 Haven't you forgotten something, Count?
00:22:57 - The lady's letters.
00:22:58 Or shall I call them to the attention of your chief of staff?
00:23:01 (dramatic music)
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00:23:14 (gentle music)
00:23:22 - Lipien, the American is right.
00:23:40 You can't remain in Vienna.
00:23:42 - Prussians will enter the city tomorrow.
00:23:43 We have no time to stand on manners now.
00:23:45 - He will go to Paris.
00:23:49 - Prussians will be there next year.
00:23:50 You ought to know that better than I do.
00:23:52 - If only Kurt had used up on him.
00:23:55 The plans I stole for his sake.
00:24:00 - You should be proud of him.
00:24:03 He lost a war, lost his life.
00:24:06 Rather than let anyone know that the girl he loved
00:24:07 had placed herself in a position
00:24:09 to loot the rooms of a Prussian officer.
00:24:11 Yes, a man could love you that much.
00:24:14 - And now this Prussian will hunt me
00:24:19 to the ends of the earth.
00:24:21 - FrÀulein, he is here.
00:24:28 - Look, I have enough money to take us
00:24:29 on the new steam package from Trieste to Galveston.
00:24:31 We have Professor Max here to arrange your music,
00:24:33 then we'll dance our way across the Oberlin stage route
00:24:35 to San Francisco.
00:24:36 - Philippian, I'm not too old to be a pioneer.
00:24:39 - You may present his excellency
00:24:40 in the FrÀulein sitting room in two minutes, Sophia.
00:24:42 Do as I say, Sophie.
00:24:44 Don't you see, San Francisco is made for you.
00:24:47 You think Paris or Vienna is profligate?
00:24:49 You should see those nabobs on the Gold Coast.
00:24:51 - But it would all be too new.
00:24:55 - New, San Francisco?
00:24:57 Why, it's a chapter out of the Arabian Nights.
00:24:59 We'll descend on the Golden Gate
00:25:01 like a pack of wolves on a sheepfold.
00:25:03 This is one time a reporter would rather create
00:25:05 a great story than write one.
00:25:06 Look, I got you into this and I'll get you out of it.
00:25:08 You're gonna stand here, a portrait of a faithless lady
00:25:10 waiting for the big reconciliation.
00:25:12 In the meantime, Uncle Jim, good old Uncle Jim,
00:25:15 will take up his position back in the door.
00:25:17 He'll come in, strike an attitude,
00:25:21 shout that he's been hornswoggled,
00:25:22 and that's when you blow out the lamp.
00:25:24 Music, Professor.
00:25:24 - Yes?
00:25:29 - All along you were acting,
00:25:33 proving another of your great performances.
00:25:36 You tricked me into loving you
00:25:37 and that I cannot never forget.
00:25:38 (upbeat music)
00:25:49 (upbeat music)
00:25:51 - You can take it easy now and relax.
00:26:11 - What did you say?
00:26:13 - I said you can relax.
00:26:17 Ain't no danger of a holdup now.
00:26:20 That's Drinkman Wells right over there.
00:26:23 - I'm sick of waiting to step back.
00:26:27 - Oh, don't blame Jim.
00:26:31 He forgot what a big country he lives in, how wide it is.
00:26:34 - And how much it costs to go from nowhere to nowhere.
00:26:38 28 days already and not a crone left between us.
00:26:42 - Don't worry, Max.
00:26:44 Before us lies the small but thriving community
00:26:46 of Drinkman Wells, where our Viennese lily
00:26:49 will bloom in the desert or we'll all die of thirst.
00:26:51 (upbeat music)
00:27:15 - Well, folks, here we are, Drinkman Wells.
00:27:18 - Oh, look, Max.
00:27:22 Madame Europe's.
00:27:25 That is what Jim would call a hunch, yeah?
00:27:28 - That's right.
00:27:29 - Well, she might welcome show folks.
00:27:31 She used to be on the stage herself until her arches fell.
00:27:34 Place is right across the street.
00:27:36 - Thanks.
00:27:37 (bell ringing)
00:27:43 (bell ringing)
00:27:46 - What do you want?
00:27:56 - We want the best that Madame Europe can afford
00:28:00 and a lot of it.
00:28:01 European cuisine, Spanish wines, French beds,
00:28:04 Bechstein Grand for our professor here to play
00:28:07 and a stage for our Glorina.
00:28:09 - Hmm.
00:28:09 Show folks, huh?
00:28:12 Step right in.
00:28:13 Well, you've got to excuse this reception.
00:28:23 We've been having a little trouble down here
00:28:25 in Drinkman Wells.
00:28:26 - Kind of trouble.
00:28:27 - Bandit trouble.
00:28:28 Stage coach Cleve, he calls himself.
00:28:31 He blows up strong boxes with a newfangled explosion
00:28:33 called nitro kerosene.
00:28:35 Nobody cares about a little regular banditry,
00:28:38 but when it comes right down to using
00:28:39 these unorthodox methods, makes the boys around town
00:28:42 mighty sore.
00:28:43 - Well, maybe we have just what this town needs,
00:28:45 a good rousing show.
00:28:47 And when it comes to explosion liquor,
00:28:49 this little lady is dynamite.
00:28:51 - Well, she don't look to me like she could explode
00:28:54 no better than a penny firecracker right now.
00:28:57 - Forgive me if I don't live up to his description,
00:29:00 but the trip was very long.
00:29:02 It's so hot.
00:29:03 - Yeah.
00:29:05 Well, go on, get your duds.
00:29:08 - We're right about the hunch.
00:29:10 It won't be long.
00:29:10 - Madame Yoroff, you are indeed an oasis.
00:29:16 - Well, I've been called a lot of things,
00:29:18 but that's a new one on me.
00:29:19 (laughing)
00:29:21 (gentle music)
00:29:25 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:29:35 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:29:40 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:29:45 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:29:51 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:29:56 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:01 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:06 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:12 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:17 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:22 â™Ș Whose tales of love shall tell â™Ș
00:30:28 - Why not the Sleeping Beauty?
00:30:30 - Uh-uh, not here.
00:30:32 They don't like 'em sleeping.
00:30:34 - I know something that'll wake 'em up.
00:30:36 Salome.
00:30:37 - Salome?
00:30:38 Does she dance that good?
00:30:40 - That good?
00:30:41 Drinkman Wells will remember it forever.
00:30:44 (dramatic music)
00:30:47 - Move!
00:30:48 (dramatic music)
00:30:51 - Salome, beautiful girl of Malala.
00:31:08 Here we go.
00:31:08 - Have your tickets ready.
00:31:09 - All right.
00:31:10 - Terribly.
00:31:11 - Now, keep my knife.
00:31:13 - Boy, I figure you're needin' some peas in there, Dobie.
00:31:15 (laughing)
00:31:17 (crowd chattering)
00:31:20 - May I have your attention, gentlemen?
00:31:33 A little introduction music, professor.
00:31:36 (dramatic music)
00:31:38 Gentlemen, welcome.
00:31:40 At last, expense, and across the burning wastes
00:31:43 of the great American desert,
00:31:45 from across the storm-swept Atlantic,
00:31:47 from the gilded capitals of Europe,
00:31:50 we have assembled the greatest array of talent,
00:31:52 foreign, domestic, and strictly local,
00:31:55 ever presented in this outpost of desert culture,
00:31:58 Drinkman Wells.
00:31:59 (crowd cheering)
00:32:01 Quiet, please.
00:32:03 Our orchestra is under the baton
00:32:05 of that celebrated Viennese composer,
00:32:07 formerly opera host,
00:32:09 pair professor, Max Blumenthal.
00:32:11 (crowd cheering)
00:32:15 - Hey, you crazy, go on, give me that shoe, man.
00:32:19 - What's the matter with you?
00:32:20 - Why, for our first number,
00:32:22 it gives me great pleasure to present
00:32:25 that old favorite from the Bohemian Girls, Madame Europe.
00:32:28 (crowd cheering)
00:32:31 - Hey, look at old Bess.
00:32:39 She don't look a deal before he.
00:32:44 - Hey, what are you doing with that shoe in our chair?
00:32:48 (crowd laughing)
00:32:51 â™Ș I dreamt I should be â™Ș
00:33:05 â™Ș He was coming, he was coming â™Ș
00:33:09 â™Ș With the silver serfs at my side â™Ș
00:33:14 â™Ș And all who assembled â™Ș
00:33:20 - Jim, Jim.
00:33:21 - What's the matter, honey?
00:33:24 - It isn't going well, is it?
00:33:26 - It isn't going at all, it's stuck in the mud.
00:33:28 Madame Europe is laying an egg the size of a beer barrel.
00:33:31 â™Ș I also ran to it â™Ș
00:33:34 - Jim, I'm worried.
00:33:38 - Don't you worry, honey.
00:33:39 You're gonna ride to the rescue.
00:33:40 - This audience, it staggers me.
00:33:46 - They'll eat right out of your hand, the same way I did.
00:33:49 - How's the cash box?
00:33:52 - We made enough money to go to San Francisco in style.
00:33:56 - Where's Salome coming on?
00:33:58 (crowd cheering)
00:34:00 - But these men, they're not like any I've ever met.
00:34:06 - Look, honey, when you dance, a man's a man,
00:34:08 a checkered shirt and chewing tobacco,
00:34:10 or a gentleman in white tie and tails.
00:34:13 - Oh, Jim, you're just what I need.
00:34:15 - When we get some big money,
00:34:17 how about making that a permanent deal?
00:34:19 - Are you proposing to me?
00:34:23 - This isn't just a case of stage fright.
00:34:25 I've been proposing to you since the first time I saw you.
00:34:28 Oh, get ready for action.
00:34:31 (crowd chanting)
00:34:33 (upbeat music)
00:34:36 - All right, next one, gentlemen.
00:34:55 We've got a great show.
00:34:59 Lots of fire in this pavement.
00:35:01 (crowd chanting)
00:35:04 All right, all right.
00:35:08 Fire down, rusty man.
00:35:10 Salome!
00:35:11 (crowd cheering)
00:35:14 (upbeat music)
00:35:17 (crowd cheering)
00:35:19 - Oh, Salome!
00:35:34 (upbeat music)
00:35:38 (crowd cheering)
00:35:41 (crowd cheering)
00:35:54 - All right, all right.
00:35:56 (crowd cheering)
00:35:59 (upbeat music)
00:36:17 (crowd chanting)
00:36:20 (crowd cheering)
00:36:45 (upbeat music)
00:36:48 (gunshot)
00:36:53 - Rise to your seats.
00:36:54 Rise and shine.
00:36:57 Reach for it and keep reaching.
00:37:00 Go ahead, boys.
00:37:05 - Max.
00:37:09 It's cool to come to life.
00:37:13 - You're a low down critter stagecoach.
00:37:15 Not only robbing, but busting up the show.
00:37:18 - Yeah, too bad, Sheriff.
00:37:20 Mighty nice of you getting the folks together though.
00:37:22 And throwing the guns in the back to collect them easier.
00:37:24 Thanks.
00:37:25 - I remember you.
00:37:43 You're Cleve Blount.
00:37:45 You spoke to General Lee after Appomattox.
00:37:47 - It's stagecoach Cleve now.
00:37:50 - He's still fighting.
00:37:52 - I'll cover you for that cash box, mister.
00:37:54 - If you are quite through robbing these poor people,
00:38:07 I would like to go on with my dance.
00:38:09 That's what they came here for and paid for.
00:38:12 - Go ahead, lady, dance.
00:38:14 - Sit down, boys.
00:38:16 Sorry to have interrupted your fun,
00:38:18 but keep your hands up.
00:38:19 - Go ahead and play, Max.
00:38:21 (upbeat music)
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00:40:00 (upbeat music)
00:40:23 (upbeat music)
00:40:26 (audience applauding)
00:40:41 - Keep 'em up.
00:40:47 (audience applauding)
00:40:52 Bravo, that was wonderful.
00:40:54 - I thought the American bandit was romantic,
00:40:57 like the desert.
00:40:58 Not a low common thief,
00:41:00 sneaking into Rob Hood, defenseless people.
00:41:02 (audience exclaiming)
00:41:05 - All right, boys, let's go.
00:41:08 (gun firing)
00:41:15 Steady.
00:41:18 Come on, boys, let's get going.
00:41:21 (audience exclaiming)
00:41:24 - Well, it was wonderful of you dancing for them.
00:41:31 - Yeah, yeah, but how are we going to get to San Francisco?
00:41:34 - Looks like we ain't.
00:41:35 Looks like Drickman Wells has got a permanent theater
00:41:38 and looks like I got a lot of permanent non-paying guests.
00:41:41 - Yeah.
00:41:42 (dramatic music)
00:41:47 (gun firing)
00:41:49 â™Ș I am a rolling gambler â™Ș
00:42:10 â™Ș I gamble all around â™Ș
00:42:13 â™Ș Wherever I meet for the deck of cards â™Ș
00:42:16 â™Ș I lay my money down â™Ș
00:42:19 â™Ș I gamble now in Washington â™Ș
00:42:22 â™Ș I gamble over in Spain â™Ș
00:42:25 â™Ș I'm on my way to Georgia â™Ș
00:42:28 â™Ș To knock down my last game â™Ș
00:42:31 â™Ș I had not been in Washington â™Ș
00:42:34 â™Ș Many more weeks than three â™Ș
00:42:37 â™Ș But I fell in love with a pretty little girl â™Ș
00:42:40 â™Ș And she fell in love with me â™Ș
00:42:42 â™Ș She took me and her father â™Ș
00:42:45 â™Ș She pulled me with her hand â™Ș
00:42:48 â™Ș She whispered low in her mother's ear â™Ș
00:42:51 â™Ș I love this gambling man â™Ș
00:42:54 â™Ș Oh, daughter, oh, dear daughter â™Ș
00:42:56 - Why not?
00:42:57 Isn't this romantic enough for you?
00:42:58 â™Ș Will treat me so â™Ș
00:43:00 â™Ș Believe your dear old mother â™Ș
00:43:03 â™Ș And with a gambler go â™Ș
00:43:08 â™Ș Oh, probably see â™Ș
00:43:14 - Why you looked at me the way you did?
00:43:16 Why you danced for me?
00:43:18 - No, you don't understand.
00:43:21 You reminded me of someone else.
00:43:26 While I was dancing, I seemed to be alive again.
00:43:30 Almost happy once more.
00:43:32 - Where is he now?
00:43:34 - He's...
00:43:37 He's dead.
00:43:38 - I'm sorry.
00:43:43 - He was killed in a war.
00:43:45 Were you a soldier too?
00:43:49 - Yes, I was a Confederate soldier.
00:43:52 Under General Lee.
00:43:54 - Then I don't understand why you are a bandit now.
00:43:58 - The fruits of defeat.
00:44:00 Over the world, nursing their scars,
00:44:02 sit the old soldiers, broke in the wars.
00:44:05 - You have been broken into wars?
00:44:08 - Yes, ma'am.
00:44:11 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
00:44:14 Yes, we hanged our harps upon the willows
00:44:17 and we wept when we remembered Zion.
00:44:20 - Yes, that is a beautiful song.
00:44:23 And those who carried us away captive
00:44:28 required of us a song.
00:44:30 â™Ș Oh, Tannenbaum â™Ș
00:44:35 â™Ș Oh, Tannenbaum â™Ș
00:44:38 â™Ș Die GrĂŒn sind deine BlĂ€tter â™Ș
00:44:43 â™Ș Du grĂŒnst nicht nur zur Sammelzeit â™Ș
00:44:49 â™Ș Da noch im Winter wenn es schneit â™Ș
00:44:55 â™Ș Tannenbaum â™Ș
00:44:57 â™Ș Oh, Tannenbaum â™Ș
00:45:01 â™Ș Die GrĂŒn sind deine BlĂ€tter â™Ș
00:45:10 - What do your words say?
00:45:14 - They tell about a Christmas tree.
00:45:18 A Christmas tree with lights and snow.
00:45:21 - And the colored folks rolling the Christmas log into the hall.
00:45:26 Candied apples, strings of popcorn,
00:45:29 frosted cookies.
00:45:31 - You see, you're not a bandit, really.
00:45:35 Just someone who has lost his faith for a little time.
00:45:39 - How can one have faith when there's nothing and no one?
00:45:45 - But there is, if you have faith.
00:45:48 - I don't have faith.
00:45:50 - I want some of you men to come with me.
00:46:05 You know this part of the country better than I do.
00:46:07 We can't leave this to the sheriff and his posse alone.
00:46:10 We've all got to join in the search.
00:46:12 Now then, how many of you men... - Look!
00:46:14 [Music]
00:46:19 - Here is their money, every cent of it.
00:46:29 And this is ours, Jim.
00:46:31 - Hey, folks, come back! The miracle has happened!
00:46:34 - Look!
00:46:35 [Murmuring]
00:46:43 [Murmuring]
00:46:45 - Are you all right?
00:46:46 - Yes, Jim, don't worry.
00:46:48 - But, Leap, you were kidnapped and in danger,
00:46:50 and now you say don't worry?
00:46:52 - Well, she's right. We'll soon be getting out of here,
00:46:54 then we'll win over all the day bobs on the Gold Coast.
00:46:57 And when the sheriff gets back,
00:46:58 we will tell him that stagecoach Cleve will never trouble him again,
00:47:02 because he's going away with us, too.
00:47:05 - With us?
00:47:06 That's a free country, Steed.
00:47:08 But it's sort of wild up there.
00:47:09 The lady needs protection.
00:47:12 - Looks like you're going to have some competition.
00:47:14 [Murmuring]
00:47:20 - Gentlemen!
00:47:21 I hope that everything has been returned to you.
00:47:25 - How about it, boys? A cheer for the little lady!
00:47:27 [Cheering]
00:47:31 - Oh, thank you.
00:47:32 Never in my whole life will I forget the town of...
00:47:36 The town of...
00:47:37 The town of... Say, wait a minute.
00:47:40 Henceforth, this town will no longer hide its fame
00:47:44 under the prosaic appellation of Drinkman Wells.
00:47:47 From now on, this town will be known as Salome, Where She Danced.
00:47:52 [Cheering]
00:48:05 - I am so glad we followed Hellstead's advice and came to San Francisco.
00:48:09 It's filled with the haunting music of a city out of the Arabian Nights.
00:48:13 Now, if we could only find the key that unlocks the golden gate.
00:48:16 - Oh, dearie, dearie, you're going to look swell draped in this.
00:48:19 All ready for the grand entrance.
00:48:21 All you need now is a center door fancy,
00:48:23 the plush curtains, the grand staircase, and then...
00:48:26 Ta-da!
00:48:27 - Bravo, bravo!
00:48:29 - Oh, I wish Cleve would hurry back.
00:48:31 I'm so excited and nervous.
00:48:34 It feels just like an opening night.
00:48:36 I hope I don't forget my lines.
00:48:38 - Well, I never forgot my lines,
00:48:40 but I do remember a most embarrassing moment when I did forget my...
00:48:44 - Uh-uh. Madame Europe.
00:48:46 - Tiara, I was about to say.
00:48:49 - You won't have any opening night to worry about unless we can find an angel.
00:48:52 - Why, this town is filthy with gold.
00:48:55 - Oh, so far we've managed to remain surprisingly clean.
00:48:58 But I've just been reading about a very likely prospect.
00:49:01 San Francisco's most fabulous nabob, Colonel Ivan Dmitrioff.
00:49:04 We may as well start at the top.
00:49:06 Paper's full of his exploits.
00:49:08 Dmitrioff entertains royalty, Dmitrioff buys gold mine,
00:49:11 Dmitrioff gives a fortune to charity, and so on.
00:49:14 - Is that his picture? - That's him, all right.
00:49:16 Now all we have to do is to interest him in our own little charitable organization.
00:49:20 - Heh, heh.
00:49:21 - Just a touch of pico de marbocca, please.
00:49:25 I keep forgetting, Colonel.
00:49:27 - Thank you.
00:49:29 [music]
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00:50:15 - I understand you're the richest nabob on the Gold Coast, Colonel.
00:50:19 - Yes, I'm one malefacto makes no attempt to conceal his enormous wealth.
00:50:23 - Then maybe you'd like to buy this secret I caught on the Malay stage.
00:50:28 It's a very rare specimen.
00:50:30 - Yes, I believe it to be Adea Sumatrana.
00:50:34 But the divine apparition over there is wearing nothing better than Adea Puperea,
00:50:39 the common heron of Europe, and to be had for a few pennies in any Paris shop.
00:50:44 - It's yours for, uh, $1,500.
00:50:48 - My good fellow, I consider that a bargain.
00:50:52 - Here are $2,000.
00:50:54 - I'm afraid I haven't got the...
00:50:55 - Never mind. You may keep the change.
00:50:57 - Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you.
00:51:00 - Sir, will you do me the honor of telling me the name of the lady who has just entered?
00:51:04 - Which lady, sir?
00:51:06 - Is there more than one?
00:51:08 - The lady, sir, is a celebrated Viennese dancer who is said to have provoked the recent war between Prussia and Austria.
00:51:14 She has suffered deeply.
00:51:16 - Her suffering will soon be at an end.
00:51:18 [gunshot]
00:51:20 - Oh, oh, oh, I can feel it again.
00:51:22 - Don't. I'm not hurt. We've hooked him.
00:51:26 - I ask your pardon, but mademoiselle is far too genuine to be wearing false feathers.
00:51:35 The tropics of the Indian seas have labored a million years to find plumage worthy of your grace.
00:51:42 - I hate gun smoke.
00:51:44 Shall we go?
00:51:46 [music]
00:52:04 - Oh, madame Europe.
00:52:06 - Well, what now?
00:52:07 - Could it be real, that Rembrandt? Is it not beautiful?
00:52:11 - He looks like he needs a dose of caramel to me.
00:52:14 [music]
00:52:27 - Six bits out of plumber, Dimitrioff.
00:52:30 - Oh, no, Cleve.
00:52:32 Russians are a very demonstrative people, and they are also very generous.
00:52:38 Now, after it is all over and he has built a theater for me, this Colonel Dimitrioff will laugh at Jimsty's little trick.
00:52:45 - That's what I don't like, this trick.
00:52:47 You've seen enough trouble. You've probably caused enough trouble.
00:52:50 - Cleve.
00:52:51 - Oh, I don't want to hurt you, Salome.
00:52:53 I've had trouble too, but the theater's no place to start life again.
00:52:57 You don't belong here.
00:52:58 - Why, this is all very fine.
00:53:00 It is like Paris, a little.
00:53:03 - You were saying you'd do anything if I'd go straight.
00:53:07 - Yes, anything.
00:53:09 - Then come home with me, to Virginia.
00:53:12 I want to take you out of all this.
00:53:14 None of this is any good.
00:53:15 None of it.
00:53:16 You know it.
00:53:17 - Oh, Cleve.
00:53:19 [knocking]
00:53:21 Yes?
00:53:22 [speaking Russian]
00:53:38 - What in tarnation?
00:53:40 - What a city!
00:53:42 Russians, Chausseurs, a Rembrandt.
00:53:45 It is just like the Arabian Nights.
00:53:48 Max, Max!
00:53:49 - What is it?
00:53:50 What is happening?
00:53:51 - Look, look.
00:53:53 - Him.
00:53:54 It's a Rembrandt.
00:53:56 Rembrandt himself.
00:53:58 And it's authentic.
00:54:00 Yes, all of life, all of art, all of sorrow.
00:54:03 - So he got it.
00:54:04 - Got it?
00:54:05 - Sure, the colonel bought the Rembrandt.
00:54:07 Little present for you.
00:54:08 - A dirty old bar fry with a tamar shanty?
00:54:10 Say, how much is a thing like that worth?
00:54:12 - Probably $50,000.
00:54:14 - Uh-oh.
00:54:15 - See what he's got to say.
00:54:16 The old guy in the picture?
00:54:17 He says he could sure do with a drink.
00:54:19 So could I.
00:54:20 The colonel wants us all to do him the honor of coming to dinner.
00:54:23 - Swell.
00:54:24 We'll eat him out of house and home.
00:54:26 River of blue
00:54:33 Janu by new
00:54:39 When I think of you
00:54:45 I think of him too
00:54:51 The glow of a kiss
00:54:57 Like Viennese wine
00:55:05 And how I'd fill with a thrill
00:55:13 When he'd say, "My love, be mine"
00:55:24 How long, how long ago
00:55:31 When we saw the death new blue
00:55:38 Just a boy, a girl, a moon
00:55:46 Sharing dreams that are rendered
00:55:52 From all too soon
00:56:00 River of blue
00:56:08 Janu by new
00:56:14 When I think of you
00:56:20 I think of him too
00:56:28 The sound of his voice
00:56:35 The touch of his hand
00:56:43 The love on his face
00:56:48 His embrace
00:56:53 Just a few glad moments
00:57:00 Will last
00:57:10 (applause)
00:57:14 Wonderful, wonderful, my dear U.S. of Perry.
00:57:17 I'm really proud of you.
00:57:19 I was proud of you from the beginning.
00:57:25 And so grand and gilded a cage.
00:57:28 Why, you talk just like my granddaddy.
00:57:30 And was he from China, Larry?
00:57:32 No, sir, he was from Scotland.
00:57:34 Oh, Scotland.
00:57:36 Where I took my medical degree and learned.
00:57:39 And here I am, a practicing metaphysician
00:57:42 at the court of this fabulous man, Dmitrioff.
00:57:46 I'm so thrilled.
00:57:47 You must be home in Vienna.
00:57:49 Colonel Dmitrioff, you are a magician.
00:57:51 Mademoiselle Anna Maria, it is a privilege to welcome the great artist.
00:57:55 My dear, you are enchanting.
00:58:02 I wish to put you at your ease, mademoiselle,
00:58:04 by saying that a city which has thrown itself at the feet of Lola Montez
00:58:08 has capitulated without firing a shot.
00:58:11 You are very kind.
00:58:13 In opera, it is a tragedy that the voice grows in proportion to the voice.
00:58:19 But with this slender creature.
00:58:22 Move to Minparvo.
00:58:24 Oh, how marvelous is your perspicacity.
00:58:28 I can readily see that you are a woman of discernment.
00:58:31 As the Greeks so aptly put it.
00:58:33 Just a moment, Plato.
00:58:43 I knew that rapper was genuine, Sinatra.
00:58:46 My dear.
00:58:47 And so in the restaurant, I could not possibly exchange shots with your Captain Blunt.
00:58:51 Indeed, I am grateful to him.
00:58:53 Yes, my nephew Captain Blunt's a fine lad.
00:58:56 And where did the lady meet him?
00:58:58 Why, uh...
00:58:59 He was confederate attache to the Habsburg court in Vienna.
00:59:03 And when I was forced to leave my country, Captain Blunt was good enough to...
00:59:07 You see, she's so charming that when she babbles your press agents make believe,
00:59:11 she almost makes me believe it.
00:59:14 This ex-bandit will never be prosecuted as long as he has me for a friend.
00:59:19 Ex-bandit? Why, Colonel, you must be misinformed.
00:59:22 Now, now, Mr. Steed.
00:59:24 You see, Dr. Ling keeps me very well informed.
00:59:30 What do you propose to do?
00:59:32 The boy befriended us and the last dollar I have is at his service.
00:59:35 Exactly, the last dollar.
00:59:37 I propose to befriend him.
00:59:39 I've already taken up the matter with the Butterfield stage line.
00:59:43 You're all right, Colonel.
00:59:45 I can't tell you how happy this makes me.
00:59:48 Then come, my dear.
00:59:49 Let's have champagne and celebrate.
00:59:51 Champagne, please.
00:59:52 Yes, sir.
00:59:55 And now, ladies and gentlemen, let's all drink a toast to beautiful Anna Maria.
01:00:01 Her star is in ascendance.
01:00:03 May it ever shine with increasing brilliance.
01:00:12 Young lassie is not for you.
01:00:14 Dmitriyev has seen her.
01:00:16 He will be bound to have her.
01:00:19 My Scotch ancestry won't allow me to give up easily.
01:00:38 Mr. Steed, I'm greatly disturbed.
01:00:42 Look, we have a lovely woman, temperamental and willful,
01:00:47 who sees in her present cavalier the image of one she once loved.
01:00:50 Now, until his future is settled, how can I plan her life?
01:00:54 How can I build a great theater?
01:00:56 How can I transplant that genius of the ballet into the harsh soil of the new world?
01:01:02 Well, if you could have Cleve pardon and give him a post as shotgun messenger on the Butterfield line,
01:01:06 you'd go a long way toward clearing the air.
01:01:09 Yes, but not have him pardon and return to Virginia.
01:01:14 Because he wouldn't agree to go.
01:01:16 Yes, I can well see why he wants to stay where he is.
01:01:30 You're growing rather jealous of him, Colonel Dmitriyev.
01:01:33 My good friend, we need the wisdom of the East.
01:01:38 I am aware of the dilemma.
01:01:41 I was about to suggest that a young man be given a post on the line between Fresno and San Francisco.
01:01:47 That was still not removing from the scene.
01:01:49 To do that would destroy your chances forever, Colonel.
01:01:52 For one lover to send another to a far country.
01:01:55 My, my, it'd commit the sin of King David in the Old Testament.
01:02:00 But to give the young man a post where he was neither near nor far.
01:02:03 Would be the end of mystery and romance.
01:02:06 My dear Dr. Ling, you're wonderful.
01:02:08 The next item on the agenda of our consular war is how to get rid of Major Steed.
01:02:14 Any suggestions, Major?
01:02:17 Well, Dr. Ling, if your information is correct and Von Bolin is on his way here,
01:02:21 maybe he will perform that duty for you.
01:02:24 Alas, Major Steed, business before pleasure.
01:02:27 And I claim the honor of handling that Prussian in my own way.
01:02:31 It will require the utmost alertness and vigilance on all our parts to protect our Anna Maria.
01:02:39 In spying on their intrigues, she has incurred the highest penalty.
01:02:44 To revenge a conceit is without mercy.
01:02:47 And the blood of this girl is the only thing that will restore the glory of the Count Von Bolin.
01:02:55 I knew Dr. Ling would find a solution.
01:02:57 I hope it works. I'm anxious to get started with the show.
01:03:00 You must remember, John.
01:03:03 Well, never have I seen such conspirators.
01:03:06 You would think they had been planning a holdup instead of a ballet.
01:03:09 I never looked like that when I planned my holdups.
01:03:11 Oh, but that is all over now.
01:03:13 Yes, I've arranged a full pardon for your boyish escapades.
01:03:19 Well, that's mighty nice of you, Colonel.
01:03:20 I've also arranged a post for you, a shotgun messenger on the very same stagecoach as you used to rob.
01:03:25 You have, eh?
01:03:26 Indeed, I have.
01:03:28 You think I'll now begin to shoot my old friends?
01:03:31 I'm not ready to turn my cook yet.
01:03:33 I'd rather go back to robbing.
01:03:37 Well, gentlemen, you must think of some other way to take him from me.
01:03:44 Lassie.
01:03:46 I trust you believe in me as a friend.
01:03:55 Oh, dear Dr. Ling, I cherish your friendship greatly.
01:03:59 Your teachings have cleared my mind of many doubts and fears.
01:04:03 Then I must endeavor to make you see clearly why it is sometimes better that a wise woman adapt herself to circumstances,
01:04:11 as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
01:04:23 Never try to reform the choice of a lady's heart, gentlemen,
01:04:28 unless you can succeed in making her believe that she has been the instrument of this reformation.
01:04:34 Well, that reformation shouldn't be difficult.
01:04:36 It's your wisdom and Demetrius' generosity.
01:04:39 And the lady's talent.
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01:05:15 Hello, Jim.
01:05:16 Hi, boys.
01:05:17 What's on your mind, fellas?
01:05:20 We need you, Cleve.
01:05:22 It's the biggest thing we've ever come across.
01:05:24 There's a pile in it for everybody.
01:05:25 How'd you get word to me?
01:05:27 We heard the Butterfield line was going to grant you a pardon at the request of the Russian government.
01:05:31 What's the joke?
01:05:32 Chinese junk has dropped anchor off there.
01:05:37 She's loaded with soak and jade.
01:05:39 Met one of her crew last night.
01:05:41 We had a few drinks together.
01:05:42 He's coming in on a deal with us.
01:05:44 We're going to knock it off and sail her to Panama.
01:05:46 Piracy on the high seas.
01:05:48 Ain't that something?
01:05:49 Yeah, that's something.
01:05:50 We want you in on it.
01:05:51 What's holding us?
01:05:53 Nothing.
01:05:54 We got it all planned.
01:05:55 Come on, boys.
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01:06:07 I'll go below and bring up the captain.
01:06:24 You stay here and take care of the crew.
01:06:25 Remember, no killing.
01:06:27 Don't worry.
01:06:28 We'll keep him alive to sail the ship.
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01:06:37 Put 'em up, mister.
01:07:03 You look too saintly to kill.
01:07:04 Come in, laddie.
01:07:06 And repent your sinful ways.
01:07:10 Dr. Ling.
01:07:12 You heard they tell you to get 'em up?
01:07:22 Yes.
01:07:24 I'll get 'em up.
01:07:26 I know.
01:07:28 But you robbed me, laddie.
01:07:30 I heard here a boy
01:07:32 written by a man 2,000 years ago
01:07:35 in praise of a peach tree which bloomed in his garden.
01:07:38 And who would rob the peach tree of its blossoms, laddie?
01:07:42 The wind does that every spring.
01:07:45 You're gonna lead me to the captain of this ship?
01:07:47 He's right behind you.
01:07:49 A queer contraption the crossbow, laddie,
01:07:54 but it strikes a blow that kills as dead as a bullet.
01:07:57 What's coming off you?
01:07:58 Where are Jed and my friend?
01:08:00 Look through the porthole, laddie.
01:08:02 So it was a frame-up.
01:08:18 And you're sorry?
01:08:20 No, I'm not sorry.
01:08:21 Each of your friends has been freed and told to mend his ways.
01:08:25 What way are you going, laddie?
01:08:28 What way have I ever taken but the wrong way?
01:08:31 Whenever I stood before two roads, I took the wrong one.
01:08:34 You were offered the right one, laddie.
01:08:36 To turn against my old friends?
01:08:38 The right road is always the hard one.
01:08:41 When a man is redeemed,
01:08:43 when he begins again,
01:08:44 it is never the length of the road that dismays him.
01:08:47 No.
01:08:48 It is the thought of leaving the old comrades in arms.
01:08:52 The thought of going it alone along the bitter path of peace.
01:08:56 You have been bred for war and taught to fight.
01:08:59 And taught nothing else.
01:09:01 Yes, that's it.
01:09:02 I've been fighting since I was 16.
01:09:05 But it is a fine thing, laddie, to fight for the right.
01:09:08 What is the right?
01:09:13 What a true man believes in.
01:09:15 I believe in nothing.
01:09:17 Not even in Salome?
01:09:23 Yes, I believe in her.
01:09:26 Dr. Ling, I...
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01:10:50 So you're part of it too?
01:10:53 Yes.
01:10:55 Are you angry?
01:10:57 No.
01:10:58 Nothing matters when I'm with you.
01:11:01 No wonder men would die for you.
01:11:03 I would rather I may have lived.
01:11:05 For you?
01:11:06 For himself.
01:11:08 Cleve, will you promise...
01:11:10 I promise to love you all my life.
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01:11:24 If only I could remember you always as you are right now.
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01:11:34 This is part of me.
01:11:37 Maybe it will help you.
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01:12:15 It was ever the way of youth.
01:12:18 Give them beauty and you can keep your wisdom.
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01:12:33 Boy, driving a team like this makes me homesick for Virginia.
01:12:37 Yeah, blue smoke crawling around the tobacco barns.
01:12:40 I haven't thought of anything else for six months.
01:12:43 Still, fresh air is better than sitting in jail.
01:12:45 Yeah, real educational too.
01:12:48 Come on boys, here we go.
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01:13:08 See the dude in the blue coat?
01:13:10 Ain't no dude.
01:13:12 That's a killing gentleman if I ever saw one.
01:13:14 Maybe.
01:13:15 Ask me was I sure we'd get to San Francisco in time for...
01:13:18 Time for what?
01:13:19 Said he wants to be sure he sees Salome on the opening night.
01:13:22 Oh, he did, eh?
01:13:23 Yeah.
01:13:24 I guess a famous dancer that way.
01:13:27 Dudes flock from everywhere.
01:13:29 Killer, huh?
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01:13:54 Ladies and gentlemen of the company, Mr. Steed wants to speak to you.
01:14:02 Folks, it's four in the morning and we open tonight.
01:14:05 When it's over, we will have the cream of San Francisco throwing their diamonds on the stage.
01:14:11 You've all been wonderful through these six weeks of rehearsal.
01:14:13 I'm sorry we've had to keep you so late.
01:14:15 I know you're all tired, so go straight home and get some rest.
01:14:17 Good night, everybody.
01:14:18 Good night, Steve.
01:14:23 Well, since you've changed, I'll be glad to take you to your hotel.
01:14:25 Thank you, Jim, but I want to stay and rehearse a few pirouettes I'm not sure of.
01:14:29 But, Lipschitz, this is foolish.
01:14:30 You have done enough.
01:14:31 You need your rest.
01:14:33 No, no, Max, don't argue.
01:14:34 You know where to begin.
01:14:36 Don't worry, Jim.
01:14:37 Max will take me home.
01:14:38 Good night.
01:14:39 Good night, Jim.
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01:15:09 So, you are surprised?
01:15:10 Pleasantly, I hope.
01:15:11 Evidently, your clever friends did not expect me so soon.
01:15:12 You have no hold on me here.
01:15:13 I have come from Washington.
01:15:14 Through our influence, the diplomatic difficulties have been cleared.
01:15:15 You are returning with me to Berlin.
01:15:16 She is not a subject of the Prussian king.
01:15:17 Washington does not send back political refugees.
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01:17:01 Where I come from, we defend a lady's name.
01:17:02 Where I come from, we defend a lady's name.
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