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Delayed Action (1954)  58 min  |  Mystery, Crime, Drama  |  July 1954 (UK)    A suicidal man agrees to confess to crimes committed by two criminals before he kills himself.    Director: John Harlow    Writer: Geoffrey Orme (screenplay)    Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley

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00:00I want you to meet Mr. Cruden. Mr. Mark Cruden.

00:04How are you, Mr. Edison? Quite recovered, I hope.

00:07I'd like to know what all this is about.

00:09Who are you? What are you?

00:11A philanthropist.

00:13A breed went out with Dickens.

00:15Did you arrange to have me slugged and brought in here?

00:20I want to buy something that you seem to have no further use for.

00:24Oh? What?

00:26Your life.

00:30Is that meant to be funny? Not at all.

00:33I want to secure an option. On my life?

00:35No. On your dead body.

00:37It doesn't add up. Why not?

00:39At the risk of getting your feet wet, you could have dragged it out of the river.

00:42Oh, no, no, no. That wouldn't do at all.

00:44Would it, Saylors?

00:46The value of your life to me is that it must be available on demand.

00:52And how long do I have to stay on the hook?

00:55Oh, let's say 18 months.

00:58Then if I don't take up the option during that time, you'll have made a clear profit.

01:02How much?

01:06A thousand down.

01:08One hundred a month.

01:10And a further two thousand when the time comes.

01:15You're crazy.

01:16The bargain is rather an odd one because our business is hardly, shall we say, routine.

01:22Is it, Saylors?

01:24Oh, Mark and I have kicked around, you know.

01:26It's a tough world.

01:28We found a way to get what you want is to take it.

01:32Including dead bodies?

01:34Exactly.

01:35When I retire, I don't want to spend the rest of my life worrying about the police.

01:40So I occupy your coffin while you're on your way to, shall we say, South America?

01:45Only in the unpleasant contingency that the police should get on my tracks.

01:50Well, Mr. Ellison?

01:56I'd like to think it over.

01:58Naturally.

02:00Bob.

02:05Show Mr. Ellison the spare room, please.

02:08Pleasant dreams, Mr. Ellison.

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