An army officer attends a course to test his resistance to enemy interrogation. But are the interrogators all they appear to be and who should he trust?
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00:30I'm going to do a little bit of a walk-through of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.
00:37I'm going to show you a little bit of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.
00:42I'm going to show you a little bit of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.
00:47I'm going to show you a little bit of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.
00:52I'm going to show you a little bit of what I've been up to over the last couple of days.
00:57MUSIC
01:16I'll wear my suit, I think. Best to arrive looking smart.
01:23How long have you been gone?
01:25I haven't been gone a week. Well, maybe a bit more.
01:31You said it would be a week at the most.
01:35Well, I'll let you know if I have to stay any longer. Or they will.
01:45I should be getting up.
01:49It's an eight-hour drive. I don't want to be late.
01:52You could drive a bit faster.
02:00Penny, you're ridiculous.
02:02I'm not sending you off to some unknown place unsatisfied.
02:09I tell old Jankers you made me late. And why.
02:12That old schoolmaster.
02:16Is he going on the course?
02:19He's my sponsor, you might say.
02:22He can do with a bit of this dry old stick that he is.
02:26He's a nice old boy. I'm very fond of him.
02:29So am I, but he's still a dry old stick.
02:32He was very odd yesterday. Not his usual self at all.
02:36He wished me luck and all that, but, I don't know, he seemed embarrassed.
02:44What's this? Instructions for the course.
02:47Let's have a look. Not to be opened until I get there.
02:50By order of the great Jankers. Yup.
02:56Penny, give it back.
02:59Look.
03:14Don't forget, I'll be at Mother's all next week if you want to phone me.
03:17I don't think I'll have much opportunity, darling.
03:22Bye, darling. Take care.
03:30Don't stand about in your negligee.
03:33Give the neighbours a treat. You have to advertise, you know.
03:36They see you with the suitcases, me and my nightie, might get some offers.
03:40Get inside. You're a harlot underneath it all, do you know that? A harlot.
03:54Call again next time you're in town.
04:27Come on.
04:29Oh, come on.
04:59Come on.
05:29Come on.
05:59I don't have a car, I just ran away. I mean, in a town?
06:02I could be a bit of a nuisance.
06:17Listen, darling, if you agree, just say that I've had trouble with the car, OK?
06:22I don't know, they're working on it now.
06:25Yeah. OK.
06:29One, two, please.
06:33Hello, mate.
06:35Oh, I forgot.
06:37OK.
06:39I won't get that done today.
06:41What's wrong with it?
06:43It's the tea, Beth. It's all clogged up, like treacle.
06:46You're out of someone with a grudge against you.
06:48Not that I'm aware of.
06:50I couldn't make it out for a bit, then it hit me.
06:53Your tank is full of people.
06:55I couldn't make it out for a bit, then it hit me.
06:58Your tank is full of bleeding sugar.
07:00Sugar? I don't believe it. No-one would do a thing like that.
07:03I left out a new tank.
07:05Can't you fix it?
07:07Not tonight, not tomorrow either.
07:09I'll have to strip her right down.
07:26Uh, excuse me, can I...
07:28Thanks very much.
07:34I couldn't help overhearing.
07:36Disgraceful. Nothing is safer these days.
07:39I can't understand. I mean, who goes around...
07:42Holy goodness.
07:44Bring back capital punishment, I would.
07:46You must have made a mistake.
07:56Going far, are you?
07:58Yes.
07:59Going north?
08:00Yes.
08:01I'm going that way.
08:03Northumberland?
08:04Which part?
08:06Well, I was heading for Hexham.
08:08Yes, I'm going that way, all right.
08:10I'd be very grateful if you could just drop me near a railway station.
08:21I'll just get my bags.
08:23Which is your car?
08:24The Austin. Gray.
08:26Marvellous. Thanks very much indeed.
09:39Ah, for that relief, much thanks.
09:43You should eat more than that, a young lad like you.
09:46I'm not hungry.
09:48I'm a bit anxious about the time.
09:50Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
09:58What time do you say you're due?
10:00Eight o'clock.
10:02I don't like to be late. It makes a bad impression.
10:05That'll be your training, I expect.
10:08What training?
10:10I'd say you'd been in the services.
10:13What makes you say that?
10:15Has your hair cut?
10:18No, it's more the way you walk.
10:20Not the usual modern slouch that passes for a walk.
10:24Can't stand the way young people today carry themselves.
10:32You been out long?
10:34No, not very long.
10:36Army? Navy. Fleet Air Arm.
10:39Having a go at Civvy Street, eh?
10:42I'm starting a course today.
10:44That's why I'm anxious not to be late.
11:07Thanks very much for all your trouble.
11:09Good night.
11:36Good night.
12:06White. Left turn.
12:08Yes, we've been expecting you.
12:20I'm awfully late. Car broke down.
12:22I'm sorry to have got you on.
12:24I'll show you to your room.
12:36Good night.
13:07Phew!
13:25Ah, that bed's a welcome sight.
13:30There is one thing you can help me with.
13:32In the morning, what should I wear?
13:34I mean, I've got no idea. Should it be fatigues or what?
13:37It's up to you, I suppose.
13:39I suppose if I'd arrived on time, I would have had a briefing.
13:43All in good time. Sleep well. Good night.
13:46Good night.
14:04Good night.
14:34Good night.
15:04Jesus!
15:34Yes?
15:44Who gave you sodding permission to smoke?
15:47It's a filthy, bloody habit. Makes everything stink.
15:50Well, cleanliness is the rule here, and spotlessness is the order.
15:55Just a minute! What rank are you?
15:58Rank? You dare to ask my rank?
16:01A snivelling little fart like you?
16:03You turn up here hours late in the middle of the night
16:06with some cock-and-ball story about your car breaking down?
16:09It's more likely you was in Newcastle with some old tart.
16:13This is a window ledge, not a bloody wardrobe.
16:16Justin! What the hell do you think you're doing?
16:19Oh, brought some fine clothes, have we, to impress the ladies?
16:23Well, you'll find no tarts here, mister.
16:26I see.
16:28You see? And what do you see, you stupid little fart?
16:31It's begun, has it?
16:33Now you just listen, you obnoxious little fart.
16:36Get this place cleaned up,
16:38otherwise it'll be more than your bloody car breaking down!
16:44Oh, God!
17:01HE SIGHS
17:12Clean it up yourself, you great turd.
17:24KNOCKING
17:32KNOCKING
17:41KNOCKING
17:50KNOCKING
18:02KNOCKING
18:06Did you spend the night there?
18:08What was left of it.
18:10That was a bit unnecessary.
18:12Why don't you get dressed? Fatigue would be appropriate.
18:15Oh.
18:17What a mess, this place.
18:19Your umpire is Captain Reed.
18:21You can request to see him at any hour of the day or night.
18:24You will never be impersonated and will stop the procedure
18:27any time you're asking him to do so.
18:29You have willingly volunteered for a course of intensive interrogation.
18:32Do you understand what that implies? Yes, sir.
18:34Chadwick.
18:36We'll be seeing a bit of each other.
18:38Am I allowed breakfast?
18:40When do you course?
18:42You were late arriving, I understand.
18:44My car broke down.
18:46Oh, you chaps will insist on these fast sports cars.
18:49You know the best car ever made in this country?
18:52The Morris Minor.
18:54It's a damn shame they discontinued them.
18:56I left my car at a garage in the Midlands.
18:58Yes.
19:00I didn't have it with me last night.
19:02I don't expect you did have it if you left it in the Midlands.
19:07We'll arrange to pick it up.
19:09Oh, it'll have to come out of your pay, of course.
19:11Unless you're a member of the AA.
19:13No.
19:15What was wrong with it? Bad luck you're not being a member.
19:18Someone put sugar in the tank.
19:20Someone did what?
19:22So the mechanic said.
19:24You're not screwing around, are you?
19:29That's an impertinent question.
19:31I agree.
19:33Are you?
19:35No. Why do you ask?
19:37The only other case I heard of, this chap was knocking around with another fellow's wife.
19:40The husband got to hear about it and put sugar in the lover boy's tank.
19:43It cost him a fortune.
19:45New tank, tubes, the lot.
19:47I never heard it would pay for the affair.
19:50So, how did you get from the Midlands to here?
19:53I got a lift.
19:55No, there was a chap in the garage who was going north and he offered me a lift.
19:59That was decent of him. Where did he drop you?
20:01Well, he said he was spending the night in Newcastle.
20:04Insisted on driving me out here.
20:07He was only trying to be kind. He knew I was late, you see.
20:14Can I have a cup of tea?
20:16How did he know you were there?
20:18I told him.
20:20I told him I was starting a civilian course and didn't want to be late on my first day.
20:24Did you tell him anything else?
20:26No.
20:28Why did you say civilian? Civilian course?
20:31Well, he guessed that I'd been in the forces.
20:34He said, was I in the forces? And I said, I used to be.
20:37Did he ask you any other questions?
20:40Well, we just chatted, you know.
20:42And you let him bring you here?
20:46You are aware how sensitive this installation is?
20:49He just...
20:51Where's your car? I told you.
20:53The address.
20:55Well, I wrote it down.
21:02What about my breakfast?
21:04Breakfast's over. Perhaps you'll catch lunch or failing that, dinner.
21:07This place could look smarter.
21:15It's really quite clever.
21:17What is?
21:19All this business about the lift. All part of the exercise.
21:22Well, you'd better pray he really was just a good Samaritan.
21:25If he wasn't, my lad, you won't know what's hit you.
21:45Right.
22:07Right. Ablutions. When do I eat?
22:09You've missed breakfast. Move!
22:11And you won't need that. It's not a bloody beauty parlour.
22:15Right.
22:35I need a towel.
22:45Get out of my way, right!
22:49Right. You, out!
22:54Head butt, head butt, head butt, head butt, head butt, head butt, head butt, head butt!
23:01You sods won't rape me.
23:15Check the light in 14, will you?
23:42It's only a course, James.
24:00Well, this way, sir.
24:15Steak, please.
24:16How would you like it, sir?
24:18Medium.
24:19Medium to rare or medium to well done?
24:21Medium, with potatoes.
24:22Vegetables?
24:24Yes, sir.
24:25And cigarettes, Benson's.
24:26Certainly, sir.
24:27And matches, I want them now.
24:29Sir.
24:45Hello, James.
24:49Don't get up.
24:51Mind if I join you?
24:53My pleasure, I assure you, sir.
24:55You look a bit rough, old chap.
24:58Well, I never expected to see you here, sir.
25:00One or two other things to do.
25:04It's a relief to see somebody one knows.
25:07Ask Penny?
25:08Oh, Ace.
25:09She's spending the week with her mother.
25:11We must all get together when there's lots over.
25:13She makes me laugh.
25:15Makes me feel young.
25:16What would you like to order, sir?
25:18Large gin and tonic, please.
25:19No ice.
25:20And a menu.
25:21Sir.
25:22Can I have my cigarettes?
25:23Sorry, sir.
25:26Have one of mine.
25:28Thank you, sir.
25:32Damn fine girl, Penny.
25:34She still referred to me as Jankers.
25:40How did you know she called you that, sir?
25:42Jankers?
25:43Came up sometime or other.
25:46She would hardly call you that to your face.
25:48Don't worry, old chap.
25:49No offense taken.
25:50On the contrary, I was quite charmed by...
25:53Christmas party, I think it was.
25:55I call you Jankers, she said.
25:57Oh, Jankers.
25:58That's right.
25:59I took it as a term of affection.
26:01You should try the spotted dick here.
26:03It's excellent.
26:05You've been here before?
26:07Once or twice.
26:08You seem to be bearing up.
26:10Oh, apart from the lack of food and sleep, I'm fine.
26:15How long does it go on for, sir?
26:17You can stop it any time you wish.
26:19Oh, no, no.
26:20I wouldn't stop it.
26:22I just wondered how long.
26:24It's up to the chaps here.
26:28No one will think any less of you if you don't complete.
26:32I will.
26:34Yeah.
26:35It's one's own limits that are important.
26:42Can you give a message to Penny?
26:44I'm afraid I can't do that, old chap.
26:49Sir, why did you give me this?
26:53I was requested to do so.
26:57I see.
27:00Sir, this is the first time I've been allowed out of my room
27:03for, I think, four days.
27:05I can come in here and order a meal,
27:07which I don't believe for one second I shall be allowed to eat,
27:11and then you join me.
27:13Forgive me, sir, it does seem a little coincidental.
27:18James, I've known you since your school days.
27:20We've always been very close.
27:23This chap who gave you a lift,
27:26had you ever seen him before?
27:28No.
27:30Had you ever communicated with him by any means whatsoever?
27:33No.
27:35Intelligence, chaps, and a bit of a spin.
27:41Sir, when you're not allowed to sleep,
27:43you think all sorts of things.
27:45Isn't this all part of the exercise?
27:47This chap who gave you a lift is known to intelligence.
27:53God almighty.
27:56Well, then, why...
27:57James, I'd like to sound you out on one, two things.
27:59As part of the exercise?
28:01No, between us.
28:03Why did you volunteer for this course?
28:07Partly because you brought it to my attention, I suppose.
28:10And?
28:12Well, I fly in very advanced aircraft.
28:15Should I fall into the hands of an enemy,
28:17I should like to be prepared.
28:19I should like to be able to resist him.
28:21Good.
28:23There are some people I'd like you to meet when this is all over.
28:26Yes.
28:28The people running this course
28:30are concerned quite properly with an external threat.
28:33However, there are others who are of the opinion
28:35that the battle may take place here at home,
28:38rather than in a corner of some far-flung foreign field.
28:42We'd like to know what you up-and-coming chaps feel.
28:47I don't follow, sir.
28:49Some of us are of the opinion that the time is fast approaching
28:52when only the combined forces will be able and willing to keep order.
28:57And that it will be our duty to do so.
29:02But I...
29:04We take such instructions from the government of the day.
29:07Well, that presupposes the government is capable of governing.
29:12Our feeling is simply that we should be ready if the need arises.
29:16If not, we should precipitate the situation.
29:19Give it some thought, James, and we'll have a chat when you return.
29:27Excuse me, sir.
29:29You, on your feet.
29:33I said, on your feet!
29:37I am not leaving here without my cigarettes.
29:40You will do...
29:41And the matches!
29:46And the matches!
30:05Here you are, fellow chap.
30:17I'll have them, thanks. May you work.
30:21I'll have them, one way or another. In here.
30:46I'm sorry.
31:05What did they do to you?
31:09Sensory deprivation.
31:12You know what it is in advance.
31:14I mean, you know they're going to hood you.
31:17You know there'll be the noise.
31:20I prepared myself for it.
31:22I thought I could hold out.
31:26I'm not going through it anymore.
31:30I've had enough. No more.
31:33How long do they do this?
31:37You lose track.
31:39You lose track.
31:41What day is it?
31:43Thursday.
31:46I think.
31:48I want out.
31:50You here?
31:52Why don't you call for your umpire?
31:54On the form we signed, it did say...
31:56I don't trust anybody here.
32:00But it said the umpire could be completely trusted.
32:03That only means to me that nobody else can be.
32:09So everyone can be somebody else.
32:12Including you.
32:16When you arrive... No more talk.
32:18Get out.
32:21You, out.
32:39Describe the man who gave you the lift.
32:42Who are you?
32:45Is this him?
32:53Yes.
32:55Have you ever seen him before?
32:57No. Who are you?
33:00Who I am is not your concern.
33:03You told Major Chadwick this man was never out of your sight.
33:07Yes. How long were you together?
33:10Six hours, maybe a bit more.
33:13And you led him straight here?
33:15You are aware of the classification this installation has?
33:18He was very insistent. I thought he was just being kind.
33:23Did he mention what work he did?
33:25If he did, I don't remember.
33:27I see. You did all the talking.
33:29I didn't tell him anything.
33:31You told him you were in the Fleet Air Arm.
33:33You told him you were going on a course.
33:35You let him bring you here.
33:37You allowed him to interrogate you for six hours.
33:39What else did you tell him, you dumb bastard?
33:41Get yourself to attention!
33:45He did not interrogate me, sir.
33:47You wouldn't be aware of it.
33:49Not with a man of his experience.
33:53How many times have you made contact with this man?
33:56Never. You're asking us to believe it was pure coincidence?
33:59You know the penalty for passing information to an enemy?
34:01I did not pass any information, sir.
34:03We believe you were carrying classified information.
34:06When your belongings were cleared from this room,
34:08that information was not among them.
34:10You passed that information on to him?
34:12No, sir. Then where is it?
34:24Why did you hide it?
34:26Why did you feel you had to hide it?
34:28I don't know, sir. I did it instinctively.
34:31Perhaps these are the reason.
34:37Recognize them?
34:40They seem to be...
34:41Photostats of everything that was in that envelope.
34:45We traced your good Samaritan to a room in Newcastle.
34:48We got these, but not him.
34:50And we want him.
34:52How do you contact him?
34:55Look, I've told you, I've never seen him.
34:58Did you make these copies?
35:00No.
35:01You had the envelope in your home overnight.
35:03Perhaps your wife made the copies.
35:04Don't be ridiculous.
35:05Somebody did.
35:12There was one time when we weren't together.
35:15We stopped at a pub for a sandwich. He went to the lavatory.
35:19When I arrived here and I unpacked my clothes,
35:21they were in the wrong order.
35:23I noticed it, but it didn't make sense.
35:25And now it does. How convenient.
35:27And there were scratches on the lock of my case.
35:29Why didn't you remember this before?
35:31I forgot!
35:33I haven't had much sleep.
35:35You probably scratched the locks yourself.
35:37I didn't.
35:38It's a pretty poor try.
35:40A man of his experience doesn't scratch locks.
35:42You'll have to find a better one than that.
35:45It's the truth.
35:53Why were you carrying classified documents
35:55related to regional seats of government?
35:58They were issued to me.
36:00Ah, yes. By Commodore Jacobs.
36:02I find that a little strange.
36:04Don't you?
36:08I did.
36:10He was very formal.
36:13I said to my wife that he seemed embarrassed.
36:15You showed those papers to your wife?
36:17No!
36:19She saw the envelope. I didn't unpack it until I arrived here.
36:23I thought it was all part of the course,
36:25but that would be the information you would try to get out of me.
36:27Very enterprising of you.
36:37Thank you for waiting, sir.
36:39This man claims you gave him this envelope
36:41containing information relating to RSGs.
36:44Did you do that, sir?
36:46Certainly not. I never saw them before.
36:48Thank you, sir.
36:55You're welcome.
37:26Oh!
37:32Oh, sorry.
37:34Dozed off.
37:36It's a tiring old business.
37:40Bastard.
37:43Oh, no.
37:46You're in no condition for life.
37:48I'm fit.
37:50I've always kept myself in good shape.
37:52I play squash.
37:54Oh, God.
37:58Please let me sleep.
38:00Please, just ask them to let me sleep.
38:04You can sleep all you want.
38:06Soon.
38:19Tell me about your contact.
38:21Where are men you meet? What do you give them?
38:24I gave him nothing.
38:26Nothing.
38:28I'm inclined to believe you.
38:30Oh, then leave me alone.
38:33The snag is,
38:35we have no satisfactory explanation for those photostats.
38:39If you didn't make them, who did?
38:42Don't know.
38:44You like to keep fit, you say.
38:46Does that please your wife?
38:52What?
38:54Does that please Penny?
38:58You stay away from my private life.
39:01You have no private life.
39:03You must grasp that fact.
39:05Leave her alone.
39:07She is, I believe, what the Americans used to call a hot little number.
39:10To put it bluntly, do you satisfy her?
39:14It's a funny thing,
39:16but often it's not the strong, fit young men that make the best lovers.
39:21For instance, what is she at while you're here?
39:25She's gone to her mother's.
39:27She hasn't, you know.
39:34She said that's what she was going to do.
39:37Perhaps she changed her mind.
39:39You see, the easiest way to recruit people is blackmail.
39:44If Penny hadn't, shall we say, been indiscreet...
39:51If you could give that matter some objective thought,
39:55you might come up with some clue, some hint.
39:58Then we could clear up this business.
40:04You can sleep now.
40:51Yeah?
40:53When?
40:57Just find out which police station.
40:59Then get me Major Chadwick.
41:04Beats me how you got through that.
41:07Where did you think you were going?
41:12All you needed to do was to call for your umpire.
41:20And you'd just forget the photo stats?
41:25No.
41:34You want to see your wife?
41:39Yes.
41:41OK.
41:50More coffee?
41:52No, thanks.
41:54Well, it's not every day that I have breakfast with a pretty girl.
41:58Now, you didn't ask me here to flatter me.
42:01No, of course not. You're quite right.
42:06James is on a very tough course.
42:09There's nothing to be alarmed about.
42:11It's just a friendly word. It's not official.
42:13What sort of course?
42:15Didn't he tell you? No, of course he wouldn't.
42:18I can't tell you either.
42:20Suffice to say that it'll have an effect on him for a while.
42:25He'll be irritable and nervous.
42:29He'll even be a bit irrational.
42:32Try to understand and support him.
42:36Can't you tell me any more?
42:38I shouldn't be telling you this much.
42:40Just remember the course will have been a great strain.
42:45James is very fond of you. I understand why.
42:49Not a word about our meeting.
42:51It might look a bit to James like the old man meddling.
42:53He'd be flattered.
42:55I must insist on that point. I must have your promise, my dear.
42:58If you insist. I do.
43:04There's one.
43:10You want some cigarettes?
43:14I'll have a packet of Benson's.
43:16Won't be a second.
43:44It's all right. I know where he's going.
44:14James! What are you doing home?
44:32Surprised?
44:33You said it'd be a week at least.
44:35I'll draw the curtains.
44:37Leave them.
44:39Switch on a light.
44:44My God, you look awful.
44:55What's going on, James?
44:57Nothing's going on.
45:00They gave me a day off.
45:02Thought I'd come home.
45:05I could do with a cup of coffee.
45:08Yes.
45:17Seen anyone while I've been away?
45:19I saw Simon and Janet the other night.
45:22I thought you were going to your mother's.
45:24She carried on a bit about my not giving her enough warning, so I decided to stay at home.
45:30Darling, what is this course? You look terrible.
45:34I'm not allowed to say.
45:39Has Jankers been in touch?
45:42Should he have been?
45:45I asked him to give you a message.
45:49What was it?
45:51Doesn't matter now.
45:57When do you have to go back?
45:59Tonight.
46:01Tomorrow.
46:03I'll make you something to eat.
46:05Why don't you go to bed?
46:11Bed?
46:13Aren't you satisfied?
46:18Don't I satisfy you?
46:25Someone put sugar in my tank!
46:27Did you know that?
46:29What are you talking about?
46:30They didn't tell you.
46:32You liar!
46:34What are they doing to you?
46:52What does it say this time?
46:54I, Lieutenant James White, confess that on the 10th of November,
46:57I did willingly and for gain,
47:00hand over classified information to an agent of a foreign power.
47:10Why do you do this work?
47:12Someone has to do it.
47:13Why?
47:15Why does someone have to do it?
47:17A society that does not prepare is a society that has no regard for itself.
47:22Do you have any regard for yourself?
47:24I seldom give it much thought.
47:37This is a lie.
47:39So you say.
47:42Because I know it to be the truth.
47:45But you just said it was a lie.
47:50It is the truth that it is a lie.
47:55Or it's a lie that it is the truth.
48:08Do you really want to know who made those photostats?
48:15Commodore Jacobs.
48:17Why would he do that?
48:19He's one of a group of senior officers who are preparing for the day
48:23when the military will have to take over.
48:25Two in England?
48:26Yes.
48:28You don't expect me to believe that?
48:30No.
48:33Not for a second.
49:03We thought you'd be more vulnerable to a mental approach.
49:10Sorry to have treated you so badly, old chap.
49:12The experience might come in useful one of these days.
49:23No coffees?
49:24No.
49:29It's over, James.
49:32Well done.
49:48You said that he was an enemy agent.
49:51I said he was known to intelligence, which of course he is.
49:57So he was just part of the game.
50:00Yeah.
50:02Well, I guessed that from the beginning.
50:05But you didn't really believe your guess was correct.
50:08So you left yourself open to all sorts of suggestions,
50:12which they duly fed to you.
50:17If you've been lying all along, how can I believe you now?
50:22I had tagged Penny.
50:24I assaulted my own wife.
50:28I'm sorry, James, that wasn't meant to happen.
50:30But it did.
50:40Going all the way, are you?
50:43Years since I've been to London.
50:46On business?
50:48Or going out on the weekend?
50:50Why are you asking all these bloody questions?
50:54What business of yours is it where I'm going?
50:57Mind your own business, OK?
50:59Mind your own bloody business.