Chasing Fortune (1954

Izay Entertainment

Chasing Fortune (1954) is a classic adventure film that follows a group of fortune seekers entangled in a web of deception, greed, and unexpected twists as they pursue a hidden treasure in Africa. Filled with humor, suspense, and quirky characters, this journey reveals that not everyone can be trusted. Starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston, Chasing Fortune is a thrilling story of ambition, betrayal, and the relentless chase for wealth.

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00:00:00Ragazzi, uno, due...

00:00:30...y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n...

00:01:00...y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n...

00:01:30...y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n'y'n...

00:01:40these are four brilliant criminals at the climax of their most magnificent effort

00:01:48this effort began six months ago in port of eto where we were all to board the ship for africa

00:01:54they were my associates in a quest for uranium an element not one of them knew the first thing

00:02:00about except that they'd heard you could get dough for it big dough oh i mean what do you

00:02:06suppose they are businessmen does it matter well if we're going to be on a small boat with them for

00:02:11weeks and weeks i only said they might be filling passengers harry we must be aware of those men

00:02:17they're desperate characters what makes you say that not one of them looked at my legs

00:02:27good morning mrs denrother good morning billy boy care to join us in the stroll turn up the

00:02:32advance without the toxins help nature to help you wouldn't dream of it really billy you mustn't

00:02:40be so uphand with mr peterson if i were to treat him with more than common politeness he'd misunderstand

00:02:45and try to push me around mr peterson is a bully billy did you see this that man in london has been

00:02:55killed what man for one near high-ranking official in the colonial office was stepped to death early

00:03:02this morning by an unknown assailant outside the club in soho this is the third crime of violence to

00:03:08occur in that vicinity within the past month what is it billy

00:03:25you understand of course that peterson arranged this it seems there's been a lot of violence around

00:03:45there lately don't pretend to be a fool but look billy this happened early tuesday morning we'd all

00:03:50left london well before that what about jack ross what about the galloping major he only i thought

00:03:56he only stayed behind to get that phone call from ambassador if it came through he'll be here this

00:04:02morning well don't get so excited don't jump to unpleasant conclusions jump they might as well

00:04:09have drawn a map why was peterson worried about van meer what made him think he was dangerous he was

00:04:14afraid van meer wouldn't stay bought afraid he'd get the wind up after we'd gone

00:04:18the visions of him trotting upstairs to his superiors announcing i have certain information

00:04:25certain persons have paid certain sums of money don't talk so loud billy to obtain illegal rights

00:04:30to certain mineral supplies that indian that raja or whatever he was that you worked for in the old

00:04:35days he killed a lot of people didn't he ah but he had a better style besides he was out for a kingdom

00:04:42half the size of france what's the difference between that and millions of dollars we must think of the

00:04:47future billy this is our big chance it may be our last except for mr peterson we couldn't even pay

00:04:54last night's hotel bill where are you going to another cafe drink a lot of piano and listen to the

00:05:00band you won't make it fast will you it doesn't do to make it fast you have to think of the main objective

00:05:05actually it doesn't do to be fussy

00:05:18do you move went in

00:05:19glasses

00:05:35The luggage is in there.

00:05:45Bring it up.

00:05:54Oh, look, the desperados.

00:05:56Shh.

00:05:59Not quite in our contract, Billy. Hard liquor before noon.

00:06:02I'm celebrating.

00:06:03Celebrating what?

00:06:04The safe arrival of the Major. He came galloping in a minute ago, looking tired but satisfied.

00:06:12I take it his mission was accomplished?

00:06:14Yes. Well, it's getting on for lunchtime, gentlemen. I'll see you later, Billy.

00:06:22Your move, Gwendolyn.

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

00:06:27Oh.

00:06:28Check.

00:06:29Lance.

00:06:30Are you sailing on the Niagara?

00:06:34Africa bound.

00:06:35So are we.

00:06:36Oh, my name is Cho. This is my wife.

00:06:38How do you do? My name's Tanner.

00:06:39How do you do?

00:06:40Are your friends sailing too?

00:06:42The whole kit and caboodle.

00:06:45You're a very mysterious group, I must say.

00:06:47Really, Gwendolyn?

00:06:48How so mysterious?

00:06:49Well, for one thing, you all appear to be of different nationalities.

00:06:54Your move, Gwendolyn.

00:06:57Check.

00:06:59I have a theory about you and your friends.

00:07:01Correction. My associates.

00:07:03As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors. Evil ones, I mean.

00:07:09You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap

00:07:12to perform ghastly experiments which require the sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.

00:07:18You must excuse my wife. She has a very lively imagination.

00:07:24Check me.

00:07:26I don't know how you expect me to play a decent game when you keep talking all the time.

00:07:29Harry's been all out of sorts today. Usually, he's a wonderful loser.

00:07:35Good morning, Mr. Danrada.

00:07:37I bring you the captain's compliments along with the sad news that the sailing of the SS Nyanga has been postponed.

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

00:07:49Scheduled, Mr. Chelm, but not, I fear, destined to do so.

00:07:53The propeller go on, or is the captain drunk?

00:07:55Of course the captain is drunk. But the real trouble is with the oil pump.

00:07:58Well, it's not good enough. Simply not good enough.

00:08:01Quite right, sir. But you're putting it too mildly. The present oil pump is no good at all.

00:08:06Well, how much delay does this mean?

00:08:08To locate, bargain for, purchase and install a new one would require, I should say, more than a day, less than a fortnight.

00:08:16Utter, hopeless inefficiency.

00:08:19Probably it isn't the oil pump at all. Just making it an excuse to hang about and pick up extra cargo.

00:08:23Guns are open. I wouldn't be surprised if she turned out to be a smuggler.

00:08:28What a miserable place to be stuck in. Squally, fifth-rate port.

00:08:32Ever been in Fort Averro before?

00:08:35No, I don't know this part of the world at all.

00:08:37Oh, I thought not. Otherwise you wouldn't be so upset about staying. Magnificent country.

00:08:42Ruins to visit by moonlight, fine stretch of beach.

00:08:46Back there in the hills, one of the few spots left in the world where you can get decent food and drink.

00:08:51It's called the Blue Pavilion. I insist you give me the pleasure of having dinner with us tonight.

00:08:57Well, that's awfully kind of you, but...

00:08:59Us? You and your associates?

00:09:02My wife and me.

00:09:04The committee?

00:09:06Oh, uh, Mr. Chelm, I want you to meet a friend of mine. This is the galloping major.

00:09:10The committee wants you to toddle round.

00:09:12Okay. Right away.

00:09:14I'll be along.

00:09:16I said I'd be along.

00:09:17I don't like to be kept waiting.

00:09:20I'll lay on a car. We'll meet in front of the hotel at 6.

00:09:24Out of it, Edgy.

00:09:28Dan Rather. An American, I suppose.

00:09:31Anyway, I... I quite like him.

00:09:34Time. 24 hours in the day. 1,440 minutes.

00:09:38For somebody else to get busy on the same idea as ours.

00:09:41We ought to have got the plane and flown out.

00:09:43As I said from the start.

00:09:44Do you remember I said it, O'Hara?

00:09:46My name is not O'Hara. It is O'Hara. You hear? Mr. O'Hara.

00:09:50Yes, Mr. O'Hara.

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

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

00:09:57Swiss manufactured, French hoarded, Italians squandered, Americans say it is money, Hindus say it does not exist.

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

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

00:10:10Instead of who knows where?

00:10:11I don't want any more talk about flying. The sky is for the birds. My feet on the ground. Both of them.

00:10:17Come in, Billy boy.

00:10:21What's all the fuss about?

00:10:23No fuss, Billy. We're merely wondering what course to pursue in view of this unfortunate delay.

00:10:28Join the peasants in their rebels. Go to church. Write your memoirs.

00:10:32Very funny. I like an associate of mine to have a sense of humor.

00:10:38Good laugh does more for the stomach muscles than five minutes setting up exercises.

00:10:42And now that we've had our moment of fun and all the better for it, let's get back to the question.

00:10:47Doesn't this delay call for a cable to your friend in British East?

00:10:53Listen, Sam Cable, can't you get it through your head that the population down there has trained noses they can smell a uranium deal like a cat smells fish?

00:11:00But aren't you afraid, Billy, that when our little party doesn't show up on the date you said, aren't you a teeny bit afraid that your friend might use this as an excuse to begin negotiations elsewhere?

00:11:12If my friend were looking for an excuse, he'd find a better one in the morning papers.

00:11:18What do you mean?

00:11:19I'm talking about the untimely demise of Paul Van Mier.

00:11:26Well, I'm appalled, Billy. What an unwholesome opinion you must have of your colleagues to imagine that we...

00:11:33Look here, Peterson, you don't have to convince me of anything. You don't care what I think as long as I don't do anything about it.

00:11:38And I won't, unless you ever decide to sic that knife-happy little junkie on me.

00:11:43Watch yourself, Larry.

00:11:45Now, Jack, behave yourself. Sit down.

00:11:51For shame, Billy. I think you owe an apology to everybody in this room.

00:11:56And if you're half the gentleman I know you are, I'm sure you'll make it.

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

00:12:05For purely venal reasons, that's the last thing I have in mind.

00:12:09Jack, give Billy a light.

00:12:22What a wonderful car.

00:12:24It looks as if it had won the Grand Prix d'Elegance many years ago.

00:12:27Oh, it did. It was built for Oroposo. You know, the bullfighter. He had it made this way so he could stand up and take powers.

00:12:34He only got one ride in it, but acquiesced it to me on his deathbed. Well, here's to Oroposo. I hope you like champagne.

00:12:39You mean it's yours?

00:12:40Well, I gave it to my former chauffeur, the fat bandit in the front seat.

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

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

00:12:48Oh, you mean Lord Crampton in Gloucestershire. His family acres marched hand in hand with ours.

00:12:53Gloucestershire, the cathedral town, trout fishing, garden parties. What a beautiful life.

00:13:01You know England well?

00:13:03Immersionally, I am English. I serve tea every afternoon with crumpets. And I've always kept up my subscription to country life and to Teddler.

00:13:13Trouble with England, it's all pomp in no circumstance. You're very wise to get out of it. Escape while you can.

00:13:19Well, I'd hardly describe myself as escaping. Simply so happened that a relative of mine, first cousin actually, who died recently, happened to be the owner of a coffee plantation.

00:13:27Africa's the place now. You talk about the diamond boys, the gold boys. They just skimmed a little off the top. Potential mineral wealth of Africa's hardly been scratched.

00:13:35Now, there is a villa.

00:13:37Big.

00:13:38Big.

00:13:39Well, that's the Villa Capriccio. Famed in song and story. A three-star attraction in Baedecker.

00:13:43Whose is it?

00:13:44Well, the bank's on it now. It used to be mine.

00:13:46Yours?

00:13:47Yes, I brought old Charles over from Fuquese. You know, the old Fuquese, to run it for me. Then when I decided to pull up steaks, I bought him this restaurant we're going to. Least I could do to show my appreciation.

00:13:57Well, here we are.

00:13:59Charles! Charles!

00:14:02Wait here a minute. When I route old Charles out, he doesn't even know we're in this neck of the woods.

00:14:06Charles! Charles!

00:14:09He must think we're extraordinarily naive. Knew all those people. Owned that vast villa. Bought this place because he liked the fellas cooking. What utter ball to do.

00:14:19Oh, perhaps he did.

00:14:21I beg leave to doubt it. Did you notice his wife? She seemed to be rather sensitive little woman. Really embarrassed by all that rot.

00:14:28I am sorry, signore. As you see, we are closed. We do not open for another two months.

00:14:34Charles, what the devil's going on here? This place is falling to rack and ruin.

00:14:36The place is closed. We'll have to die in the hotel after all.

00:14:39Monsieur Dan.

00:14:43Monsieur, Monsieur Dan.

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

00:14:50You did not say you were with Monsieur Dan.

00:14:53Nothing is close to Monsieur Dan.

00:14:56I'd better see you again, Charles.

00:14:57It's been too long, Monsieur Dan. Not since the night you left the villa.

00:15:02Remember your pervert party life. I never sensed to forget it.

00:15:06Remember how in the morning we escorted you to the train with violins playing and everybody cried like when a king you love very much leaves this country.

00:15:18I'm not.

00:15:20Aren't you dressed yet?

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

00:15:23Do dress. Do hurry.

00:15:25It's the most wonderful day.

00:15:27And Billy wants us to drive out and see his villa.

00:15:29Uh, his former villa.

00:15:32Obviously, I can't go. I've got a chill on my liver.

00:15:37What a miserable place to be healed.

00:15:38And you forgot to pack my hot water bottle.

00:15:41You packed it.

00:15:42Gwendolyn, I distinctly remember.

00:15:47Hello.

00:15:49Oh, hello.

00:15:51No, I'm afraid we can't.

00:15:53Harry has this wretched chill and...

00:15:54Give me the telephone.

00:15:58Chelm here.

00:16:00Yes.

00:16:02Quite.

00:16:03Absolutely.

00:16:04A hot water bottle.

00:16:05That's very, very good of you, old boy.

00:16:09Uh, look here, Dan Rather.

00:16:11Would you mind very much if my wife went alone?

00:16:14She enjoys this sightseeing sort of stuff, you know.

00:16:17Splendid.

00:16:19Splendid.

00:16:20I'll send her along.

00:16:25You know, Gwendolyn, nowadays one simply cannot afford to dismiss people just because they're not one sort.

00:16:31One has to try and bridge the gulf.

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

00:16:37One's got to take it as one finds it.

00:16:39Face it.

00:16:40Use it.

00:16:41Master it.

00:16:42I'll go to the straight-rest.

00:16:44This is what I see all the Japanese people.

00:16:46I don't see it, but it'll do not have to do it.

00:16:48This is how we need to, let's do it.

00:16:50The benötet.

00:16:52And you have to do it.

00:16:54They are to do it.

00:16:56You never need to do it.

00:16:58It's all perfect.

00:17:00And you have to do it.

00:17:02It's all perfect.

00:17:03If you have to do it.

00:17:04You know, I've seen Americans on the street and in the cinema, of course,

00:17:16but I've never talked to one before.

00:17:19Are you a typical American?

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

00:17:23Why important?

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

00:17:28One is that the object of your affections is unlike anyone else.

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

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

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

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

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

00:17:48Well, the longest I've ever lived anywhere is two years.

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

00:17:55and a house and a street in a town?

00:17:57No, I was an orphan until I was 20, and then a rich and beautiful lady adopted me.

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

00:18:07You're off to keep a rendezvous someplace in Africa, sacred to the tribesmen.

00:18:12You're going to found a new empire and make yourself master of the riches of the world.

00:18:17But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress the natives as the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba.

00:18:25That's why you're making a pass at me.

00:18:28Am I?

00:18:29Of course.

00:18:30I don't generally go sightseeing with strange men.

00:18:34You don't believe that, do you?

00:18:36Well, I believe anything you say.

00:18:38Do you?

00:18:40Well, you shouldn't, you know.

00:18:42You really shouldn't.

00:18:44Mr. Chalvin?

00:18:45Yes?

00:18:45It's I, Mrs. D'Arrother, Maria.

00:18:50Oh, come in.

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

00:18:55Now, that's most awfully kind.

00:18:57You shouldn't have troubled, really.

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

00:19:01Bit of one on the liver.

00:19:02Two Tarsin.

00:19:03Milk, of course.

00:19:04Of course.

00:19:04I feel I should like somehow to do him a good turn of some kind.

00:19:13You do?

00:19:14Well, naturally.

00:19:15Oh, I see.

00:19:16Naturally.

00:19:18I think it would be nice if you were able to do something for him.

00:19:23Help him along.

00:19:24Give him the benefit of your advice.

00:19:26Delighted, of course.

00:19:27For instance.

00:19:29Oh, something with business.

00:19:31He was very pleased with that tip you gave him on the way home last night

00:19:34about the gold shares.

00:19:35I've forgotten what I told him.

00:19:37What was it?

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

00:19:41I was listening to your voice.

00:19:43I wasn't listening to what you said.

00:19:47You see, if you were helping him,

00:19:50it would be so much easier for us to be together a lot out there in Africa.

00:19:54Was he any head for business?

00:19:56Why, he's simply brilliant.

00:19:58I wouldn't have thought it.

00:20:00But of course he is.

00:20:01You don't suppose I'd marry a ninny, do you?

00:20:05If you imagine that Harry is simply going to Africa to plant coffee,

00:20:09you're very much mistaken.

00:20:11In point of fact, in point of fact,

00:20:14coffee is the least of Harry's interests.

00:20:18In point of fact, the land he is acquiring

00:20:20is extremely rich in certain minerals.

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

00:20:27Harry's land simply deems with uranium.

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

00:20:34So you see,

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

00:20:38It might very well be worth your while to go in with him.

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

00:20:45I was telling you last night.

00:20:47Well, of course.

00:20:48It's a well-known fact.

00:20:49There's no way to eat it.

00:21:06The wind is so weak.

00:21:07It's a keep in mind.

00:21:08Billy boy.

00:21:12Had a happy day?

00:21:14Very.

00:21:15I'm so glad.

00:21:16What an attractive woman Mrs. Chelm is.

00:21:19Is that what you called me over to tell me?

00:21:20Who are the Chelms?

00:21:22They're English. Going out to British East, they have a coffee plantation.

00:21:25Any money in coffee?

00:21:26No, but there's a type of Englishman goes off to coffee plantations

00:21:29without caring whether there's any money in it or not.

00:21:31Relatives leave them coffee plantations and they go out to them.

00:21:35But why this sudden interest in the Chelms?

00:21:37I'd just like to know who's making friends with my friends.

00:21:41Now you know.

00:21:41You know, if I ever leave you, it'll be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.

00:22:01Well, but maybe for you.

00:22:02I suppose that type of Englishman is like a story I once heard.

00:22:07An English gardener in England was showing some Americans one of those wonderful English loans.

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

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

00:22:19He said, all you have to do is get some good grass and roll it every day for 600 years.

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

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

00:22:28You just don't understand the Chelm type.

00:22:33You're not even listening.

00:22:35You never do.

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

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

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

00:22:46That's possible.

00:22:47George Moore said, I learned it by heart years ago, he said that each great passion is the fruit of many fruitless years.

00:22:59George Moore was a very distinguished English writer, you know.

00:23:03Except that he was Irish.

00:23:05Cheer up, sugar.

00:23:06If I make a million on this deal, I'll buy you an old English lawn when we can roll up and take with us.

00:23:17Billy, good morning.

00:23:20What's our wide-eyed Irish leprechaun doing outside my door?

00:23:24Why do you always make jokes about my name, huh?

00:23:26In Chile, the name of O'Hara is a tip-top name.

00:23:30Many Germans in Chile have become to be called O'Hara.

00:23:33Good morning, Mr. O'Hara.

00:23:35Madame, my respects.

00:23:37Perhaps Mr. O'Hara would like something to drink?

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

00:23:44Very weak, please.

00:23:45What's this visit in honor of?

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

00:23:53Okay, but make it fast.

00:23:55Fast?

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

00:23:59I give you my word.

00:24:00I feel to you like, uh, like an older brother.

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

00:24:07It's, uh, it's probably, yes, the reason is because, because I come from a culture which is so much older than yours.

00:24:15Because in my country, a child, six years old, is older in his heart than you'll be at, at, at, at 60.

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

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

00:24:29The point, uh, the point is that, that Peterson, Revelle, myself, we are the principles in this case.

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

00:24:39We cannot switch around and turn and, but an agent, it's easy to imagine that he could conceivably, doesn't feel himself quite as irrevocably committed as, uh, Peterson or...

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

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

00:25:00Too sadly true.

00:25:01By any chance, you, you don't happen to have seen your Mr. Danruther about me.

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

00:25:06He's not 11.

00:25:07He's rather a late riser.

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

00:25:10Well, anyway.

00:25:11I shouldn't put too much stock on what Billy says, particularly when he's had a few drinks.

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

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

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

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

00:25:26Oh, yes, very.

00:25:28Well, quite, Harry.

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

00:25:32By all means.

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

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

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

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

00:25:46I do hope there won't be too many changes.

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

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

00:25:55than to have a few acres of gold and diamonds cropping up on a piece of land I'd bought for a song.

00:26:00Heaven forbid.

00:26:01Next thing, there'd be big, ugly holes everywhere and great, horrid machines

00:26:05instead of lovely scenery.

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

00:26:12Really?

00:26:13I mean, to appreciate my husband's point of view, one has to understand his background.

00:26:19Those lawns.

00:26:21Hundreds of years in the making.

00:26:23Those immemorial elms.

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

00:26:27Generations of them.

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

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

00:26:36What would people like the Chelms care about taxes with their kind of money?

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

00:26:45One of the great financial families.

00:26:48Power in the city?

00:26:49You mean, oh yes, of course, one of those Chelms.

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

00:26:55Very few people do.

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

00:26:59I find it rather hard to believe that a man in your husband's position would go to Africa just for the coffee plantain.

00:27:06You're very quick, aren't you?

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

00:27:10In point of fact, he has a very special reason.

00:27:13So I suspect it.

00:27:14It has to do with sin.

00:27:19Sin?

00:27:19Since the war, my husband has been almost exclusively concerned with spiritual values.

00:27:26He feels that if he can get away there, in the heart of Africa, he will come face to face with essentials.

00:27:32He wants to work out the problem of sin.

00:27:35Sin?

00:27:36Why, yes, of course.

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

00:27:41Sin?

00:27:44Gwendolyn, what are you doing here?

00:27:46I thought we were supposed to meet on the beach.

00:27:48Harry, I want you to meet Mr...

00:27:50My name is Peterson.

00:27:51I've been having the most delightful talk to your wife.

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

00:27:57I myself am vastly concerned.

00:27:58Harry, we'd really better be going.

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

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

00:28:04Oh, nothing, Harry.

00:28:05He got onto the subject of religion, and I just happened to mention that we usually go to church on Sunday.

00:28:12Billy, I think it is a hard time to take stock of yourself.

00:28:16Can you truthfully say about yourself, I, I, Billy Dan Reuter, have acted fairly and squarely to my associates, huh?

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

00:28:26Everybody knows Billy's the soul of honor.

00:28:29Shut up, Shiver.

00:28:29Perhaps he's the soul of honor, and perhaps appearances are deceiving.

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

00:28:36Nothing.

00:28:37It's your conduct.

00:28:38Your conduct isn't...

00:28:40Your conduct does not inspire confidence, and confidence, Billy, is the most important necessity in an undertaking of our kind.

00:28:48One may be completely innocent, but if one's actions invite suspicion, one might as well be guilty.

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

00:28:57Billy, have you done something you shouldn't have?

00:29:05Tell me, Billy.

00:29:07Tell me the truth.

00:29:09My conduct.

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

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

00:29:16You are the hired man.

00:29:19How good and kind of you to remind me.

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

00:29:41Oh, I say, dear brother, good to see you.

00:29:43How about a drink?

00:29:44Well, I, uh...

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

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

00:29:55Can't understand it.

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

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

00:30:02Extraordinary creatures, women.

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

00:30:05Perno.

00:30:06Scotch.

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

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

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

00:30:16Bloss of Irish.

00:30:17Women.

00:30:19Hitler had the right idea.

00:30:20Keep them in their place.

00:30:21Kind of kin to Kirk and babies in the kitchen.

00:30:24Say what you want to about Hitler.

00:30:25He had his points.

00:30:26Come, come.

00:30:27Look here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:30:39Worry?

00:30:39Just one minute, laddies.

00:30:41I've just two or three words to say to you, laddies,

00:30:43and that's don't worry.

00:30:45Don't ever worry.

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

00:30:49The Rosicrucians, the Great White Brotherhood, the high secret orders,

00:30:52which have no faith.

00:30:53You must have faith.

00:30:55Faith and power.

00:30:56Secret power.

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

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

00:31:04Mankind's champions.

00:31:05Follow me, Billy?

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

00:31:08This generation's had its chance.

00:31:10Hitler, Mussolini.

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

00:31:13Are you interrupting me?

00:31:14Relax, Jack.

00:31:15Have another drink.

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

00:31:21An officer may find himself strapped for money,

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

00:31:26Absolutely no.

00:31:28Absolutely.

00:31:28I mean, absolutely no.

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

00:31:35Poor old Jack.

00:31:37I'll teach you.

00:31:40I'll teach you to insult an ex-officer of the Indian Army.

00:31:45Well, are you yellow?

00:31:49Debar?

00:31:51You're Major Ross?

00:31:53Right.

00:31:57Ross here.

00:31:59Right.

00:32:00Right again.

00:32:03Come along, the committee.

00:32:04Save for the bell.

00:32:10I've never heard such rot in my life.

00:32:12Sin.

00:32:13Oh, sin.

00:32:14All I could do was to keep a straight face.

00:32:16No, I'm certain of it now.

00:32:17These are two very clever and dangerous antagonists.

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

00:32:21But how could they possibly know what we're up to?

00:32:23Great interests like the Chelms have ways and means.

00:32:26Yes, and I'm convinced they're out to get us even before we get started.

00:32:29We must get ahead of them.

00:32:30Time has entered the picture in a new way.

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

00:32:34It always enters the picture in the end.

00:32:36I'm sending a cable to London.

00:32:37I want full information on those Chelms interests.

00:32:40British Africa, too.

00:32:41Check up on his interest there.

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

00:32:45Keep me informed of the latest development.

00:32:47Dan Reuter, that lying, swinish, rum-swilling double-crosser.

00:32:51What pleasure.

00:32:52No, you can't at the moment.

00:32:54We need him right now.

00:32:55Oh, we need that swinish lying double-crosser.

00:32:57Is that your my name?

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

00:33:00Three men in a tub.

00:33:02Tub?

00:33:04Oh.

00:33:06Been a change of plan, Billy Boy.

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

00:33:09How's that?

00:33:10You and I are flying to Africa by the next plane.

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

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

00:33:16Perfectly simple, Billy Boy.

00:33:18The trouble with the oil pump and the general uncertainty about when and the anger will sail

00:33:21forces me to sacrifice my personal comfort.

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

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

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

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

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

00:33:35If we sit around British East all that time,

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

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

00:33:42Or are you just looking forward to a long sea voyage

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

00:33:47Or perhaps you have even other reasons.

00:33:49Such as?

00:33:50That's for you to know and for us to find out.

00:33:52You'd better get your packing done.

00:33:59Billy?

00:34:01Where are you going?

00:34:03Off to Africa, flying.

00:34:05Just like that?

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

00:34:14I wish.

00:34:15Don't say it.

00:34:16What?

00:34:17That you wish we'd never met.

00:34:19You'll be coming on the boat in Africa.

00:34:20We'll get together and...

00:34:21I think I hate you.

00:34:23Letting those revolting men order you about.

00:34:26Don't deny it.

00:34:26I've watched them.

00:34:27They treat you like a servant.

00:34:29They say, hop it and off you hop.

00:34:33I know what it is.

00:34:34I have a hold on you.

00:34:36Some black secret that could ruin you.

00:34:39What makes you think that?

00:34:41No, it happens all the time.

00:34:42My old Spanish nurse told me that half the people in the world would be ruined at once if everyone told what they knew.

00:34:49But...

00:34:50Couldn't you have them done away with?

00:34:52You must know plenty of people who could bump them off.

00:34:56It'd probably cost a good deal, but it'd be worth it, certainly.

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

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

00:35:05Millions?

00:35:05Maybe.

00:35:06Then perhaps your connection with those men isn't quite so indignified as I thought.

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

00:35:17Either way suits me.

00:35:19No, that's very careless of you.

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

00:35:23You must think in terms of hard currency.

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

00:35:29You could do worse.

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

00:35:33Come along, Billy boy.

00:35:35The car's waiting.

00:35:35We can't get faster than this, we'll miss the plane.

00:35:55Press on!

00:35:56Press on!

00:35:57Press on!

00:36:19You have to push me, push, push, come on, one, two, three, four, four, four, four, four,

00:36:49four, four, four, five, six, six, six, seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, ten, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine

00:37:49Oh, my God!

00:38:06My car!

00:38:15My car!

00:38:16My beautiful car!

00:38:19You did that on purpose.

00:38:20What?

00:38:20You planned it that way.

00:38:21I know what you're up to.

00:38:22I know everything.

00:38:23I know about the uranium on the Chelmsland, the Chelms interest in the city of London.

00:38:27The what?

00:38:28You heard me, the Chelms interest.

00:38:29I take it your information comes from a reliable source.

00:38:31It does, from Mrs. Chelms herself.

00:38:33Ha, ha, magnificent.

00:38:35Simply magnificent.

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

00:38:38If you weren't a benighted jackass, if you could see as far as you could spit, you'd know there's

00:38:42no such thing as a Chelms interest.

00:38:43You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Dan Rather, very much better than that.

00:38:46Don't believe me!

00:38:47Check with London.

00:38:48If you find out it's anything more than a Don at Hill, Gloucestershire Squire, you can

00:38:52have my services for nothing.

00:38:54You mean Mrs. Chelms is an unqualified liar?

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

00:39:01You will make restitution.

00:39:03We know, Mr. Dan, either the money or a new car.

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

00:39:08How I came by it is beside the point.

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

00:39:16Shut up!

00:39:17That's right.

00:39:19Threaten me.

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

00:39:23Now you...

00:39:24Get my beautiful car!

00:39:28Stop!

00:39:29Stop!

00:39:30Stop!

00:39:30More than anything, I want Billy to make a grand success out there.

00:39:43Well, as you care so much about money.

00:39:46I should have thought you would have left Billy for some rich man.

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

00:39:52I mean, neither of you are in love or anything.

00:39:55You are a strange girl.

00:39:58Of course I love Billy.

00:39:59Actually, I adore him.

00:40:02And Billy loves me very, very, very much.

00:40:07That's why I trust him with his little and important amours.

00:40:11And what does he say about yours?

00:40:13But darling, all husbands like the wife to seem attractive to other men.

00:40:22Be sure you explain that to Harry.

00:40:25I'm going back to the hotel.

00:40:29This is Dan Ruther, Maria.

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

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

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

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

00:40:44The people on the bus saw it fall into the sea.

00:40:47It seems almost certain that...

00:40:49What is it?

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

00:40:53He's saying that Billy is dead.

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

00:41:00Stock, stock.

00:41:02What good is the stock now?

00:41:03We can't deal with Darada's friends.

00:41:06Not without Darada.

00:41:08All the effort.

00:41:09The money.

00:41:10Everything went over the cliff with that car.

00:41:14Ravello.

00:41:14You forget the English are very sentimental people.

00:41:17I tell you, there is nothing that Billy's friend will not do for his widow.

00:41:21And in black, she's a very touching figure.

00:41:26Poor Maria.

00:41:28You really have had a wretched time with her.

00:41:31You are very understanding.

00:41:33If only there was something I could do.

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

00:41:41I have a headache.

00:41:42Don't move.

00:41:42Just you wait there.

00:41:43I'll be back in a moment.

00:41:47Mussolini, Hitler, and now Peterson.

00:41:49A great man, a great loss.

00:41:53I'm going upstairs and reading my Bible.

00:42:00Why all the clues?

00:42:03Maria has a headache.

00:42:09What's the matter with you?

00:42:11Go away.

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

00:42:15But after all, it isn't as if he was one of our oldest friends.

00:42:17I was in love with him.

00:42:19He was a very pleasant acquaintance.

00:42:21What did you say?

00:42:22I was in love with him.

00:42:23There.

00:42:24Really, darling?

00:42:25Having no control over your romantic fantasies.

00:42:27I love it!

00:42:28Can't you hear me?

00:42:29I love you!

00:42:30I love you!

00:42:31Oh, rot.

00:42:32You're just dramatizing again.

00:42:34By George, you were right after all.

00:42:36I did pack it.

00:42:38Oh, what shall I do?

00:42:41I feel as though I were downed.

00:42:44He's dead.

00:42:45He's dead and I'm left in a fool like you.

00:42:51I tell you what to do, but have a bit of shut-eye.

00:42:55You'll wake up in an hour feeling your old self again.

00:42:57And there'll be no more silly stories about falling for a middle-aged roustabout.

00:43:01Is this so?

00:43:02Oh, please go away.

00:43:04I'll just take these to Maria.

00:43:05Mr. Chelm, this is very important for you as well as for myself.

00:43:17Yes, well, get on with it.

00:43:19There is now an opportunity for you to secure enormous profits with virtually no risk.

00:43:23I want to read about the bush.

00:43:25Our papers and going to...

00:43:26For you, as Billy's widow, it will be very easy to persuade his friend in British East,

00:43:31and for capital, we have churned.

00:43:33Why don't you be less informed as to my interest?

00:43:35What's the matter with all of you?

00:43:49Somebody dead?

00:43:51A car.

00:43:52It went over a cliff.

00:43:53We thought you'd both been killed.

00:43:55Dear brother, I'm delighted to see you're alive, but your wife is in a fainting condition.

00:43:59You mean you're not dead at all?

00:44:01Obviously, I'm not dead.

00:44:03I knew you weren't dead.

00:44:04I knew it.

00:44:04I counted 13 backwards 13 times.

00:44:07My old Spanish note said if you did that, a miracle would happen.

00:44:10And you see, it has.

00:44:12Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the glad tidings.

00:44:16The captain is sober, and the SS Nyong'a will sail at midnight.

00:44:19I can't see it anymore.

00:44:34What can have happened to it?

00:44:36My dispatch box, where is it?

00:44:38A black tin box this size.

00:44:39What have you done with it?

00:44:40I told you to take the most particular care of it.

00:44:45I shall not go on board if my dispatch box has been found.

00:44:48Having trouble, gel?

00:44:49I think that I can't cope with myself, ain't you?

00:44:50It's the second time I tell you.

00:44:52The hat has been put in the cabin and you will insist on me.

00:44:55It says he put it in your cabin, whatever it is.

00:44:59Idiot!

00:44:59Why didn't he say so in the first place?

00:45:03Say, look.

00:45:05What's happened to Harry?

00:45:07He's been giving me the fisheye all evening.

00:45:09Oh?

00:45:09What is it?

00:45:11Perhaps it's because when I thought you were dead, I told him I was in love with you.

00:45:15You what?

00:45:16I couldn't help it.

00:45:17It made you seem less dead.

00:45:18And?

00:45:19Oh, he didn't believe me.

00:45:21He thought my nerves were upset.

00:45:22Sort of delirium.

00:45:24He thought it quite a joke.

00:45:26The idea of my inventing a love affair with a middle-aged roustabout like you.

00:45:30That's when he called you.

00:45:30Well, now that I'm back in the flesh, you'll begin wondering about that delirium of yours.

00:45:36I suppose seeing you alive is different from thinking of you dead.

00:45:40Because Greg cooped up on that tub with his suspicious husband.

00:45:43I suppose he's going to kill you dead.

00:45:44I suppose he's going to kill you dead.

00:45:45I suppose he's going to kill you dead.

00:45:46I suppose he's going to kill you dead.

00:45:48Billy.

00:45:53Let's not go.

00:45:55What do you mean?

00:45:59I'm asking you to run away with me.

00:46:02Now.

00:46:02What about the millions in hard currency?

00:46:05What's happened to you?

00:46:06I thought you were my shrewd little manager.

00:46:08I've changed my point of view.

00:46:10I thought we'd get to Africa and you'd make your fortune and everything be wonderful.

00:46:15But now I think it's all too risky.

00:46:18Too many things can happen.

00:46:19I want us to cut and run for it right now.

00:46:21You really mean that?

00:46:22With all my heart.

00:46:23Oh, no.

00:46:23That's impossible.

00:46:25Why?

00:46:25Well, for one thing, Mrs. Dan Rather might not go for the idea.

00:46:28She's not quite as sophisticated as you are.

00:46:30Please, Billy, listen to me.

00:46:32I've thought it all out.

00:46:33We'll take the bus and catch an express or somewhere.

00:46:36Not the shots, not on the table.

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

00:46:41If I loved you a thousand times more than you say you love me, it still wouldn't make any difference.

00:46:45I've got to have money.

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

00:46:48Otherwise, I become dull, listless, and have trouble with my complexion.

00:46:52But you're not like that now, and you haven't any money.

00:46:54It's my expectations that hold me together.

00:46:57You really mean that, don't you, darling?

00:46:59Sure, I mean it.

00:47:00And 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.

00:47:06That's right, baby.

00:47:08I'll help you, Billy.

00:47:09I can, too.

00:47:11I'm something of a witch.

00:47:13My old Spanish nurse said I could have been professional.

00:47:16Well, don't look now, but they're raising the gangway.

00:47:18What's the air?

00:47:33Ozone.

00:47:34What a pity we can't bottle it, gentlemen.

00:47:36What a fortune we'd make.

00:47:38Neptune's mixture.

00:47:39Now, breathe deeply.

00:47:40Remember, every breath is a guinea in the bank of help.

00:47:43Oh, my God.

00:47:44Oh, my God.

00:47:48Good morning, Chell.

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

00:47:53Very good indeed.

00:47:54I didn't know you were an artist, Mrs. Damrubba.

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

00:47:59I only dabble.

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

00:48:02The ears are too small.

00:48:04Only has one eye.

00:48:05Now, come along, gentlemen.

00:48:06We must not dawdle.

00:48:08Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:12Blow, blow, blow the hands out.

00:48:16Blow the hands out, baby.

00:48:17Blow the hands out.

00:48:19Good morning, Mrs. Chell.

00:48:20Let's hope she breaks her neck.

00:48:22Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:25Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:29Blow, blow, blow the hands out.

00:48:33Blow the hands out fully, blow the hands out.

00:48:36Give me some time to blow the hands out.

00:48:39Mr. Peterson?

00:48:41Mr. Peterson?

00:48:42Radiogram.

00:48:47No charm a state, Gloucestershire star.

00:49:03No lend a gentry charms.

00:49:05What do you make of that?

00:49:07He's not a Gloucestershire swire.

00:49:09Like Billy said.

00:49:10Just as I was beginning to take Billy at his face stallion.

00:49:12Yes, but if he's not what Billy said, then what is he?

00:49:16We are at sea again, gentlemen, in more ways than one.

00:49:20Mystery, more mystery.

00:49:21Billy is a liar.

00:49:23Heaven only knows what Chell is.

00:49:25C.I.D. maybe.

00:49:26You borrowed my thought.

00:49:28What to do?

00:49:29What to do?

00:49:29The time has come for direct action.

00:49:32You remember last night when we came on board?

00:49:34The fuss he was making about his dispatch box?

00:49:37I love colors.

00:49:50Working with them is an endless puzzle.

00:49:54Your face, for instance, ten minutes ago, it was all brown and pink.

00:49:59Now the light is changed and is chalky white.

00:50:05What?

00:50:05Thinged with green.

00:50:09Green?

00:50:12It must be getting rough.

00:50:14Just a little.

00:50:16Don't break the pose.

00:50:18I don't feel very well.

00:50:20I think I'll go below and take a pill.

00:50:27It's incredible.

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

00:50:30Just Harry Chelm?

00:50:31Nothing.

00:50:31Nobody.

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

00:50:33We'd hold a hold of bottle.

00:50:34Look.

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

00:50:38The secretary, mind you.

00:50:40Disgusting.

00:50:42Purser.

00:50:43My box.

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

00:50:46It's gone.

00:50:47Oh, yes, indeed.

00:50:48Major Ross took it.

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

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

00:50:54Where did he take it?

00:50:54I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.

00:50:56I believe Mr. Peterson's cabin.

00:50:56In fact, I'm sure.

00:51:05Ah.

00:51:08And now may I ask what explanation you have to offer?

00:51:10He forgot his hot water bottle.

00:51:22Billy.

00:51:22Come in.

00:51:25Billy, have you heard what's happened?

00:51:27I've seen the paper in days.

00:51:29It's not funny.

00:51:30They've stolen Harry's dispatch box.

00:51:33Who stole his dispatch box?

00:51:34That dreadful little major.

00:51:36He took it to Peterson.

00:51:37They went through it.

00:51:38It was all your fault.

00:51:39I suppose you know that.

00:51:41My fault?

00:51:41Well, the poppycock you've been peddling.

00:51:43All that junk about the chalm interest in London.

00:51:45Uranium on your land.

00:51:47Well, in a way, you're the one to blame.

00:51:50I'm the...

00:51:50I mean, you acted so superior.

00:51:53I was falling in love with you,

00:51:55and I couldn't bear it for you to think I was just nobody.

00:51:58Married to the son of a boarding house in Earl's Court.

00:52:01The son of a what?

00:52:03A boarding house.

00:52:05That's what Harry's parents do.

00:52:07They run a boarding house for decayed gentlefolk.

00:52:10But the way he talks, the way he acts, I thought...

00:52:12It's just that he sees himself in a place in the West Country

00:52:15with trout streams and horses,

00:52:17leading the life of a country squire.

00:52:19It's not his fault if people take it for granted

00:52:22that he has a place like that.

00:52:23He's never once said that he had.

00:52:25Well, country gent, son of a boarding house,

00:52:27or whatever he is,

00:52:28I suppose I'd better get his box back.

00:52:29Oh, he got it back himself.

00:52:31Well, then there's no harm done.

00:52:32Except that Harry's gone to the captain.

00:52:34He's going to have them put in irons.

00:52:36He is what?

00:52:38He says that's what they did in the Royal Marines.

00:52:40Look, Herr Skipper,

00:52:41there's a perfectly simple explanation for all this.

00:52:44I happen to own a dispatch box

00:52:45which is very similar to Mr. Chelms.

00:52:47When I didn't find it in my cabin,

00:52:49I asked Major Ross to see if it had been stowed away

00:52:51somewhere else by mistake.

00:52:52The Major found what he thought was my box

00:52:54in the saloon with some other luggage.

00:52:55The box has been in my cabin ever since we sailed,

00:52:58under the berth.

00:52:59As soon as I saw the box, of course,

00:53:01I realized at once that it wasn't mine.

00:53:03I simply opened it to find out to whom it belonged

00:53:05so that I could return it to its rightful owner.

00:53:07I can't conceive why this gentleman should imagine

00:53:10I should be interested in the box

00:53:11containing patent medicines.

00:53:13I'm not a hypochondriac.

00:53:16Purser, tell the captain exactly

00:53:18what you told me about the box.

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

00:53:22and I said it might be the one I'd seen

00:53:24being carried along the passage by Major Ross.

00:53:26You distinctly told me that you'd seen it

00:53:28being taken from my cabin.

00:53:29Oh, you must have misunderstood.

00:53:32You were rather ill at the time,

00:53:34if you remember, sir.

00:53:35That's all, Purser.

00:53:36He's been bribed.

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

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

00:53:42That's how I look at it.

00:53:44Now, what about a little cognac?

00:53:45To wash away any ill feeling.

00:53:47I don't care for a drink.

00:53:49And let me assure you that this matter

00:53:50is far from settled.

00:53:51While rifling through my personal effects,

00:53:53I feel certain that you must have noticed

00:53:54I had a letter of introduction

00:53:55to the secretary of the governor.

00:53:57I suspect he'll be much more interested

00:53:58in what I have to say

00:53:59than this gin-soaked so-called ship's captain.

00:54:01You mind, Dr. Ang?

00:54:03Any mind, Charles?

00:54:04You're the one I put in my hands.

00:54:08As far as I'm concerned,

00:54:10this is a close internet.

00:54:16You've got your box back.

00:54:17Why don't you forget the whole thing?

00:54:19What possible interest do you expect

00:54:20the Colonial Office to take?

00:54:22On the contrary,

00:54:22I expect them to serve considerable interest

00:54:24in a gang of crooks

00:54:24who are trying to swindle the country

00:54:25out of vast uranium deposits.

00:54:27Just one moment, sir.

00:54:38What leads you to believe?

00:54:40This gentleman obviously hasn't seen fit

00:54:42to inform you

00:54:42that during your supposed demise,

00:54:44he attempted to lure me

00:54:45into your nefarious venture.

00:54:47Unfortunately for you,

00:54:48he acquainted me

00:54:49with all the pertinent facts,

00:54:50facts which I intend to communicate

00:54:52to the proper authority

00:54:52at the very earliest opportunity.

00:54:54I thought you were dead.

00:54:58That's what they told me.

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

00:55:01And if you were dead,

00:55:02we head to a fresh capital.

00:55:03Didn't we?

00:55:04You, Ravello,

00:55:06my own partner,

00:55:07sneak up behind my back

00:55:09and try to cheat me.

00:55:11The milk's spilt.

00:55:12It's no good crying over it.

00:55:13Get after him, Billy.

00:55:14Calm him down.

00:55:15Talk to him.

00:55:15See if you can't get him

00:55:16to change his attitude.

00:55:17I'll try,

00:55:18but I don't think it'll do any good.

00:55:20I don't know why we have to worry

00:55:20about Chelms' attitude.

00:55:22Talk's no good.

00:55:23Conversation never convinced anybody.

00:55:25I say put an end to words.

00:55:26Shut up, Jack.

00:55:27Time factor has entered

00:55:28the picture again.

00:55:29This time, fortunately,

00:55:30it's working on our side.

00:55:32Two weeks before we reach port.

00:55:34That should be plenty of time

00:55:35to convince our friend, Chelms.

00:55:37I beg you,

00:55:39please end all this trouble.

00:55:41If things go on,

00:55:42either you will be done away with

00:55:44before we ever get to Africa,

00:55:46or you will leave

00:55:46and denounce Peterson

00:55:47to the authorities,

00:55:48and that will be the ruin

00:55:50of all my plans and hopes.

00:55:53In the long run,

00:55:53you'll do much better

00:55:54to get care of these people.

00:55:55They're thoroughly undesirable.

00:55:56The long run.

00:55:57I'm tired of the long run.

00:56:00I am not even thinking about them

00:56:02or about myself.

00:56:04It's only you

00:56:05that concerns me, Harry.

00:56:07No need to worry about me.

00:56:09Ever since I met you,

00:56:11you feel my thinking.

00:56:12You are becoming an obsession.

00:56:16Don't you understand, Harry?

00:56:19I am deeply in love.

00:56:23Maria.

00:56:26My dear.

00:56:27Yeah.

00:56:27Only you could make

00:56:41a woman feel like this.

00:56:44All I want

00:56:45is to be in your arms

00:56:46now and always.

00:56:49You forget

00:56:50I'm going to be done away with.

00:56:51Oh, no, no.

00:56:52It will be easy to arrange.

00:56:54What you must do is this.

00:56:55You will write me a letter.

00:56:57A love letter.

00:56:59You will tell me

00:57:00that you cannot denounce Peterson

00:57:01because then I will suffer too.

00:57:04Because you love me so much

00:57:07you cannot bear to hurt me.

00:57:10Such a letter they will believe

00:57:11if I show it to them.

00:57:13My dear girl,

00:57:14you must see that this is

00:57:14quite out of the question.

00:57:16I don't propose

00:57:16to make compromises.

00:57:18Not compromises,

00:57:20Harry, darling.

00:57:21But you can see

00:57:22if you cause trouble

00:57:23the whole of our plans,

00:57:24my plans,

00:57:25you would not want

00:57:28to make the innocent suffer.

00:57:32It would be much better

00:57:33if you don't interfere, Maria.

00:57:34I must handle this

00:57:35as I see fit.

00:57:36Then you intend

00:57:37to go ahead

00:57:38with this business,

00:57:39tell stories

00:57:40and ruin everything?

00:57:41It would be much better

00:57:42if you cut loose

00:57:42from these people.

00:57:43No happiness can come

00:57:44from such an association.

00:57:45Harry, I'm asking you

00:57:46not to do this.

00:57:48Please, write a letter.

00:57:50Then there will be

00:57:50no trouble for you,

00:57:51no trouble for us,

00:57:52no risk when we get

00:57:53to Africa.

00:57:55I'm sorry, my dear.

00:57:56We English are

00:57:57a very pink-headed lot.

00:57:58You think you can

00:57:59get away with this?

00:58:00But Maria,

00:58:01my dear good Maria,

00:58:02listen.

00:58:02First you made love to me.

00:58:04Now you tell me

00:58:04you will ruin me.

00:58:06You'll forgive me,

00:58:07but it was you

00:58:07who made...

00:58:08Oh, shut your trap.

00:58:09Go on,

00:58:10do what you like.

00:58:11You think you're

00:58:11such a brave man.

00:58:13I'll tell you

00:58:14what you are.

00:58:15You are a heel.

00:58:16What the blazes now?

00:58:21What's happening?

00:58:21What's going on here?

00:58:22The arm pumps

00:58:23on the blimp.

00:58:24The electricity's failed.

00:58:25What's up, Polly?

00:58:25A ship lying in darkness

00:58:26this way?

00:58:27We might well

00:58:27be rammed at any minute.

00:58:29I'll tend to this myself.

00:58:30Which way is the engine room?

00:58:31The passengers are not...

00:58:32I'm sure your chief engineer

00:58:33will welcome the advice

00:58:34of an ex-officer

00:58:34of the Royal Marines.

00:58:35Look here, you fool.

00:58:52Are we simply abandoned

00:58:53to our fate?

00:58:54I insist on something

00:58:55being done.

00:58:55For instance?

00:58:56Well, give out the lifebelts.

00:58:57Organize the boat drill.

00:58:59The clientele are requested

00:59:00to remain calm.

00:59:02To remain calm

00:59:02does the captain feel

00:59:03no central responsibility

00:59:04for the lives of his parents?

00:59:05It's my opinion

00:59:06that the captain

00:59:07doesn't feel much of anything

00:59:08at the moment.

00:59:09You mean to say he's drunk?

00:59:11The fellow ought to be made

00:59:11to walk the tank.

00:59:13I'm afraid just now

00:59:13he cannot walk at all.

00:59:15This is outrageous.

00:59:15Oh, just hang on, old man.

00:59:16What have you got to worry about?

00:59:18We're only adrift

00:59:19in an open sea

00:59:20where the drunken captain

00:59:21and engine is liable

00:59:22to explode at any moment.

00:59:23Perfectly ordinary situation.

00:59:25Happens every day.

00:59:26But just in case

00:59:27any of you

00:59:28are still at all anxious,

00:59:30let it be known

00:59:30that Mr. Chelm

00:59:31has taken charge

00:59:32in the engine room.

00:59:33He's taken charge?

00:59:35Harry,

00:59:36and he'll fool it for sure.

00:59:37Shall I get out

00:59:38the hymn books?

00:59:39Your husband claims

00:59:40to have learned

00:59:41all about the engine

00:59:42and such things

00:59:43when he was an officer

00:59:44in the Royal Marines.

00:59:45If he ever was.

00:59:47In point of fact,

00:59:48not only was he an officer,

00:59:49but he once won a medal

00:59:50for jumping into a sea of fire

00:59:52to rescue someone.

00:59:53It's only a bit of wreckage

00:59:54and not a man,

00:59:55but that wasn't Harry's fault.

00:59:56Cut the slight error

00:59:58in judgment.

01:00:01Oh, the lights,

01:00:02they come on.

01:00:04You must have fixed it.

01:00:06Impossible.

01:00:07The engines are turning.

01:00:08We are underway.

01:00:09I still say it's impossible.

01:00:13Ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:15may I have your attention

01:00:15for a moment?

01:00:16I'm happy to inform you

01:00:17that the oil pump

01:00:18is now in perfect

01:00:19working condition.

01:00:20Putting it right

01:00:20was no great accomplishment

01:00:21for anyone

01:00:22with the slightest

01:00:22mechanical bent.

01:00:23Anyhow,

01:00:23we may now proceed

01:00:24without further delay

01:00:25and in absolute safety.

01:00:29Oh, Harry,

01:00:30you did, you did.

01:00:31You boozled it.

01:00:32What did you wreck my ship?

01:00:34Where is he?

01:00:35I'm there.

01:00:36I'm there.

01:00:37He's guessing

01:00:37wanted to see you.

01:00:39There you are.

01:00:40You dare it.

01:00:41You wrecked my beautiful ship.

01:00:42Nothing of the sort.

01:00:43Some scary wag down there

01:00:44sabotaged my work

01:00:45out of pure Marys.

01:00:47You explode my head

01:00:48and I'll keep your head

01:00:49down.

01:00:49Let's all my head

01:00:50like little gentleman.

01:00:51We must say

01:00:52I don't understand

01:00:52how I can handle

01:00:53the broochers.

01:00:54What's happens now?

01:00:56Do we get the life

01:00:57of best?

01:00:58Do we abandon the ship?

01:01:00There's no immediate

01:01:01danger.

01:01:02The passengers will

01:01:02please to return

01:01:03to the saloon.

01:01:04We're heading

01:01:04for the nearest port

01:01:05and there seems to be

01:01:06some chance

01:01:07of our making.

01:01:09Let's go.

01:01:13Come along.

01:01:18Now, who was last

01:01:19down?

01:01:19Last?

01:01:21Billy boy, be a good

01:01:25fellow and make

01:01:25a fourth of the bridge.

01:01:26The major has no head

01:01:27for cards.

01:01:28A few rubbers will

01:01:29soothe all our nerves.

01:01:31Oh, thank you.

01:01:31I'll soothe mine

01:01:32with a double scotch.

01:01:33In fact, I think I'll

01:01:33make it a triple.

01:01:34No ice, no water.

01:01:35Great, sir.

01:01:36How about you,

01:01:37dear Mrs. Thadrubber?

01:01:38A little bridge?

01:01:39Oh, so sorry.

01:01:40I have the most fearful headache.

01:01:43I think I'll go to my cabin.

01:01:44Oh, what a shame.

01:01:49We're boys,

01:01:50we'll have to make him

01:01:50cutthroat.

01:01:51What about Harry here?

01:01:52Maybe he'll take a hand.

01:01:54That, under the circumstances,

01:01:55is a most unsuitable suggestion.

01:01:57Gwendolyn, I must ask you

01:01:58to either move to another table

01:01:59or else leave the school.

01:02:01Oh, Harry, for heaven's sake.

01:02:03I don't care for my wife

01:02:04to associate with

01:02:05an associate of criminals.

01:02:06Don't be absurd.

01:02:07Billy's not a criminal.

01:02:08He's the best friend

01:02:09we have on this boat.

01:02:11We're not in need

01:02:12of such friends.

01:02:12You need any friends

01:02:13you can get.

01:02:14The only thing standing

01:02:15between you and a watery grave

01:02:17is your wits.

01:02:18That's not my idea

01:02:19of adequate protection.

01:02:20Purser, how much longer

01:02:22before this ship reaches port?

01:02:23If we ever do get to port,

01:02:24it should be within

01:02:2514 or 15 hours.

01:02:27That's a long time.

01:02:28Sit down,

01:02:29make yourself comfortable,

01:02:30have a drink,

01:02:31enjoy the Major's piano recital.

01:02:34Come on, Peterson,

01:02:35buy us a drink.

01:02:36I'm afraid I can't

01:02:37accept hospitality

01:02:37from persons who I intend

01:02:39in a few hours' time

01:02:39to denounce

01:02:40a place of justice.

01:02:42Two spades.

01:02:43I admire your

01:02:44sans-froid, Mr. Peterson.

01:02:46Or perhaps you don't

01:02:47think I'm serious.

01:02:48We shall see.

01:02:50Sweet clubs.

01:02:53Gwendolyn,

01:02:53how are you going

01:02:53to do as I say?

01:02:54Not when you speak

01:02:55to me in that tone.

01:02:56Not when you try

01:02:57to order me about.

01:02:58In that case...

01:03:00Where are you going?

01:03:01On deck,

01:03:01where the air

01:03:01is less polluted.

01:03:02I think you'd better

01:03:11go after Harry.

01:03:12Why should I?

01:03:14He's going to be

01:03:14so childish

01:03:15and unreasonable.

01:03:16Take my advice,

01:03:17go to him,

01:03:17stay with him.

01:03:17I suppose you think

01:03:20we should keep up

01:03:21appearances.

01:03:22The loyal wife

01:03:22at her husband's side.

01:03:24No, Billy,

01:03:25I'm experiencing

01:03:27something that is

01:03:27rare and beautiful.

01:03:29I shall not deny it,

01:03:30either by word

01:03:31or by deed.

01:03:32I love you.

01:03:33Let the whole world

01:03:34know it.

01:03:34I love you,

01:03:35I love you.

01:03:36Keeping up appearances

01:03:37isn't exactly what I meant.

01:03:39Why do you want to

01:03:40send me tagging

01:03:40after Harry?

01:03:41He's being such a deadly

01:03:42bore tonight.

01:03:43Deadly,

01:03:43but not dead,

01:03:44not yet.

01:03:45What do you mean?

01:03:46They killed one man

01:03:48just because they thought

01:03:48he might try

01:03:49to get in their way.

01:03:50Now,

01:03:50handsome Harry here

01:03:51is starting to blow

01:03:51the whole thing

01:03:52wide open.

01:03:53They killed a man?

01:03:55Really?

01:03:56Who?

01:03:57Just a man.

01:04:00Well,

01:04:01for all Harry's

01:04:02being too,

01:04:02too tiresome

01:04:03and my loving

01:04:04you to distraction,

01:04:05I still wouldn't

01:04:07want to see him

01:04:07done in.

01:04:08He has some

01:04:09perfectly darling

01:04:10traits, really.

01:04:11I mean,

01:04:11like always remembering

01:04:12one's birthday

01:04:13no,

01:04:14we simply

01:04:15mustn't let anybody

01:04:16murder Harry.

01:04:16Keep him in your cabin.

01:04:18Never let him

01:04:18out of your sight.

01:04:19Keep him under lock

01:04:20and key.

01:04:22Oh,

01:04:23Billy,

01:04:24that awful music.

01:04:25It's so loud.

01:04:26It comes right

01:04:27into our cabin.

01:04:28Peterson,

01:04:29tell the night

01:04:29he just saw

01:04:30peddlet.

01:04:32And while he's about it,

01:04:33he might change the tune.

01:04:34Oh, don't you like it?

01:04:35It's one of my favorites.

01:04:36I'm afraid

01:04:36he doesn't know

01:04:37any others.

01:04:38Do you, Jack?

01:04:39Major!

01:04:49Major!

01:04:50Major!

01:04:51Major!

01:04:52Major!

01:04:53Major!

01:04:54Major!

01:04:55Major!

01:04:56Major!

01:04:57Major!

01:04:58Major!

01:04:59Major!

01:05:00Major!

01:05:01Major!

01:05:02Major!

01:05:03Major!

01:05:04Major!

01:05:05Major!

01:05:06Major!

01:05:07Major!

01:05:08Do I hear a lady screaming?

01:05:22One down.

01:05:27Captain!

01:05:28Captain!

01:05:38What happened?

01:05:46Oh, Billy, all that screaming.

01:05:47I thought someone had been killed.

01:05:49Someone nearly was.

01:05:50Indeed they were.

01:05:50Look at the major.

01:05:51Better get a new act finished in the curtain going down on this one.

01:05:53Every time I turn my back, someone makes trouble.

01:05:56The passengers break the engine.

01:05:57They beat each other to feed.

01:05:58They throw each other overboard.

01:06:00That man attacked me.

01:06:01Ah, you!

01:06:02You again!

01:06:03If I struck him, it was in self-defense.

01:06:04He came sneaking up behind me and tried to run me through with his sword.

01:06:07It's not true!

01:06:08Well...

01:06:09It's no use, Billy.

01:06:11Am I trying to protect Harry any further?

01:06:13I may as well tell the whole truth.

01:06:16Captain, it grieves me to confess this.

01:06:19But in point of fact, my husband has an illness of the mind.

01:06:24The medical word for it is paranoia.

01:06:27On occasion, he displays homicidal tendencies.

01:06:30The psychiatrists say it's because he believes people are plotting against him.

01:06:34And so he strikes back and tries to kill them.

01:06:37Gwendolyn, for heaven's sake, woman, what's the meaning of this treachery?

01:06:41Believe it or not, Harry, I'm doing it for your own good.

01:06:44He knows.

01:06:45He saved my life.

01:06:46He'll tell the truth.

01:06:47I wouldn't contradict the lady.

01:06:48You're liking my ship.

01:06:49You're trying to kill the passengers.

01:06:51But I know you're saying further on this ship.

01:06:53That's why you're all against me.

01:06:54Let me go.

01:06:55I'll kill the love of you.

01:06:56I've warned you, Captain.

01:06:57Get him.

01:06:57What did I kill the love of you?

01:06:58Oh, Harry.

01:06:59It's awfully sad.

01:07:00We've tried everything to cure him.

01:07:02Take your hooligans off.

01:07:03How dare you lay hands on me, you hooligans.

01:07:07I'll have you put in irons.

01:07:08You'll be the ones in irons.

01:07:10Good, good.

01:07:11We'll have no trouble from you.

01:07:15Scum, mongrels.

01:07:17I'll bring you the book.

01:07:18Every one of you.

01:07:19Every man jack of you.

01:07:23After all, it was the only solution.

01:07:26Harry's safely locked in his cabin

01:07:27where those beastly men can't do him any harm.

01:07:30On the other hand, he can't say or do anything now

01:07:33to interfere with your making that fortune in Africa.

01:07:35I mean, the authorities would hardly listen

01:07:38to the ravings of a lunatic, would they?

01:07:40They won't even let him off the boat.

01:07:42Well, in that case, he'll just have to stay shut up

01:07:45for a few weeks.

01:07:46It's a bit hard on the old boy, don't you think?

01:07:48Yes, but after you've amassed all those African millions,

01:07:53we'll make it up to him.

01:07:54We'll buy him a country place in Gloucestershire

01:07:57with some rough shooting and a trout stream

01:08:01like he's always wanted.

01:08:02Maria will marry him, perhaps.

01:08:05She seems to have a very real feeling

01:08:07for English country life.

01:08:09And everybody lives happily ever after.

01:08:12Especially us, Billy.

01:08:15Broad station, everyone.

01:08:16There's so abundant sheep.

01:08:17What's going on?

01:08:18I believe, sir, that we're sinking.

01:08:20Broad station, everybody.

01:08:22Broad and light, please.

01:08:23We're sinking.

01:08:24Harry, Harry, open the door.

01:08:29You must, the ship's sinking.

01:08:30You got it.

01:08:43Get out of my way.

01:08:44Get out of my way.

01:08:46Get out of my way.

01:08:48Get out of my way.

01:08:49Get out of my way.

01:08:50Get out of my way.

01:08:51Get out of my way.

01:08:52Get out of my way.

01:09:03Get out of my way.

01:09:06Get out of my way.

01:09:08Oh

01:09:38We can't, we can't leave without finding out what's happened to Harry.

01:09:55Maybe we'll run across him out there.

01:09:56He's a strong swimmer, isn't he?

01:09:58I don't say we will, but it's possible, anything's possible.

01:10:02Harry!

01:10:06Harry!

01:10:09Harry!

01:10:32Harry!

01:10:33Harry!

01:10:37Harry!

01:10:47Harry!

01:10:51Harry!

01:10:53Harry!

01:10:55Harry!

01:10:57Harry!

01:10:59Where do you s'pose we are?

01:11:00Africa.

01:11:01What part of Africa?

01:11:02Yes, that's important.

01:11:03What part?

01:11:04Not a bad place to land.

01:11:05No customs.

01:11:06No forms to fill out.

01:11:07Tell us at once where we are.

01:11:08It's important, I know.

01:11:09You mean to say there are parts of the dark continent where you won't be received like

01:11:12the prodigal son?

01:11:13Allio.

01:11:14What's that?

01:11:15Allio.

01:11:22Better get down, everybody.

01:11:25Get rid of your passports, boys.

01:11:27Mrs. Joe Billyboy, my identity must remain a secret.

01:11:57Shut up!

01:11:58Excuse me, doctor.

01:12:01No one on the uppercut!

01:12:06Put the land and allie on!

01:12:10Just a critter!

01:12:16Allio!

01:12:17What's that?

01:12:18It was a company of sold armies to the Arab Legions.

01:12:20Wait a minute, that rang's a bell.

01:12:22Some of the equipment we sold was defective.

01:12:25Been too long under the water in the Gulf of Leyte.

01:12:28The Arabs claim they lost the war because of rusty guns and dud ammunition.

01:12:32For heaven's sake, be quiet. If you go on like that, I'll be...

01:12:35I'll see you drawn and quartered.

01:12:52Are you going to allow them to bully you in this way? Why, it's simply...

01:13:02Shocking.

01:13:03Harry wouldn't have let them do it. He had a sense of dignity.

01:13:07I have a sense of survival.

01:13:09Billy, what is going to happen? Do you think they will torture us?

01:13:13Just let them try it. I'm a British subject.

01:13:16I wouldn't say it too loud.

01:13:22We shipwreck.

01:13:40Big boat go down.

01:13:44Bottom ocean.

01:13:46We take little boat row all day.

01:13:51Row all night.

01:13:53Seppi?

01:13:54There's only one way to deal with these swine.

01:13:56Walk up to them and kick them in the belly.

01:13:58Show them who's boss right away.

01:14:00We sight land.

01:14:02Your land.

01:14:03Praise Allah.

01:14:05Come ashore.

01:14:07Suddenly, boom, boom, boom.

01:14:10No good way to treat shipwreck, people.

01:14:13You will please to hand over your passports.

01:14:16There seem to be four missing.

01:14:17Will those who have a knot handed over their passports hold up their hands?

01:14:31All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:14:32A terrifying experience.

01:14:33An incompetent crew.

01:14:34A burning ship.

01:14:35Put overboard in a small boat, a dead of night.

01:14:36What was the name of the vessel?

01:14:37The SS Nyanga.

01:14:38She's a Portuguese ship.

01:14:39I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:14:44Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency, we should come to this shore in a small boat

01:14:45if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:14:46Our country isn't still in the sea.

01:14:47It's still in the sea.

01:14:48It's still in the sea.

01:14:49It's still in the sea.

01:14:50It's still in the sea.

01:14:51All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:14:52All left on board ship, Your Excellency.

01:14:53A terrifying experience.

01:14:54An incompetent crew.

01:14:55A burning ship.

01:14:56Put overboard in a small boat, a dead of night.

01:14:59What was the name of the vessel?

01:15:00The SS Nyanga.

01:15:01She's a Portuguese ship.

01:15:02I will investigate whether such a ship has been reported lost at sea.

01:15:07Well, does it stand to reason, Your Excellency, we should come to this shore in a small

01:15:10boat if we'd not been shipwrecked?

01:15:12Our country is in a state of unrest.

01:15:15Oh, I am sorry.

01:15:16Agents of certain foreign governments sometimes try to enter it by stealth, hoping to fend

01:15:23the flames of revolution.

01:15:26Therefore, we check carefully on the activities of strangers.

01:15:31Surely, Your Excellency, in our case, one look is sufficient to convince you of our innocence.

01:15:42No.

01:15:43One look is not enough.

01:15:57If you think we're the enemies of your country, the logical thing is to boot us out.

01:16:02Send us packing by the first available boat or train.

01:16:03We shan't object.

01:16:04We've got important business elsewhere.

01:16:05Where is elsewhere?

01:16:06Central Africa.

01:16:07And what sort of business?

01:16:08Vacuum cleaners.

01:16:09Ah, yes.

01:16:10Businessmen.

01:16:11All going to Central Africa to sell vacuum cleaners.

01:16:14Hut to hut, I suppose.

01:16:16And you, sir, I take it as the head salesman.

01:16:17The ringleader of his group.

01:16:18Oh, no, no group.

01:16:19We met for the first time on board ship.

01:16:20Complete strangers to one another.

01:16:21Liar!

01:16:22The others all look at you each time I ask a question.

01:16:23I am a keen observer.

01:16:37You four are together.

01:16:38You two are together.

01:16:43You search on the ship once, that's Yoursẹ.

01:16:49I am a keen observer.

01:16:51You four are together.

01:16:53Oh, no, my fat gutted friend.

01:16:55I'm not the illiterate, simple-minded native

01:16:58you're fool enough to take me forward.

01:17:00I am a great man, a serious man.

01:17:02I spit on you, too.

01:17:05I spit on you and all your life.

01:17:07Off to the wrong side, Peterson.

01:17:08There's only one way to deal with these spines.

01:17:11Spines, spines, spines, spines.

01:17:14You'd better be careful.

01:17:16My husband, my late husband, who was drowned in the Niagara

01:17:19disaster, happened to be one of the most important figures

01:17:21in the British government, Sir Harry Chelm.

01:17:24In point of fact, we had letters from the Prime Minister

01:17:27and the Queen telling everybody to be particularly

01:17:30courteous to us and our friends.

01:17:32So you see, if any harm befalls us at your hands,

01:17:35it will become a major international incident.

01:17:38Would you instruct that one, that in my country,

01:17:42a female's lips may move, but her words are not heard?

01:17:47Harry, Harry, if only you were here.

01:17:54And now, sir, you will stop abusing my intelligence

01:17:58and tell me who you really are and what is your actual purpose

01:18:02in being here.

01:18:03I'm a sick man.

01:18:04I've got a bad heart.

01:18:05I mustn't talk anymore.

01:18:06You refuse to answer.

01:18:08That is interesting.

01:18:10It makes of it a contest.

01:18:12A contest in a game at which we excel.

01:18:15We, of this country, have had 4,000 years' experience

01:18:20in asking questions and getting answers.

01:18:24Who are you?

01:18:26Why are you here?

01:18:28Don't hit me again.

01:18:29How to break down my heart of heaven attack!

01:18:48How to break down my heart!

01:18:52Of course, Billy has led a thoroughly decadent life.

01:18:56Must say, I thought he had more backbone than that.

01:19:00Backbone.

01:19:02Either you have it or you haven't.

01:19:04Do you see the beating I took at the hands of that great ugly brute without even flinching?

01:19:08Billy was crazed with fear before they even laid a finger on him.

01:19:16Tell me more about Rita Hayworth.

01:19:18You really know her very well.

01:19:20Do I know Rita? Do I know her?

01:19:22I'll give you a letter of introduction.

01:19:24She'll fall an immediate victim to your charms.

01:19:26You really think so?

01:19:28Oh, but certainly a man like you.

01:19:30Suave, intelligent, darkly handsome.

01:19:34You have everything, Ahmed, except money.

01:19:36And if you'll listen to me, a boat will be placed at our disposal.

01:19:40A very slow boat.

01:19:42So that Fat God's check will have plenty of time to clear.

01:19:44And you will trust me?

01:19:46You will trust me?

01:19:48Does one man of the world ask another to trust his own brother?

01:19:52Oh, no, Ahmed.

01:19:54You'll give me a check for half.

01:19:56Your demands are very great under the circumstances.

01:19:58Why shouldn't they be?

01:20:00Fat God's my best friend.

01:20:02I will not betray him cheaply.

01:20:04You are certain that you are the friend of the peerless Rita?

01:20:06Come, come, Ahmed.

01:20:07Mine back to business.

01:20:08Very well.

01:20:09Fifty-fifty.

01:20:10Oh, by the way, Fat God's nature is noble like ours.

01:20:12You might try to bargain.

01:20:13I do not bargain with a puff ball like that.

01:20:15It's beneath my dignity.

01:20:17It will be dawn soon.

01:20:19The correct hour for a firing squad.

01:20:21But if we have him shot, what about the man?

01:20:23Well, I was just thinking that if he had a volley at the psychological moment,

01:20:27might not be so inclined to haggle.

01:20:30I believe you must have Arab blood.

01:20:31Westerners are not usually so subtle.

01:20:41Who are you from?

01:20:44What should I do?

01:20:48Who am I?

01:20:49I am dude.

01:20:50Let me strike my men.

01:20:52Look, how am I?

01:20:53Look, how am I?

01:20:54Ah!

01:20:55Where are you taking me?

01:20:56I won't go.

01:20:57I demand to see a doctor.

01:20:59Would you say that in Paris, among smart people, the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac is considered

01:21:18more chic?

01:21:19Well, that's no problem, no problem at all.

01:21:22A man in your position should have both.

01:21:24Ah.

01:21:29Mr. Donnerather, I believe, would like a word with you.

01:21:35Billy.

01:21:36Go down, Peterson.

01:21:46Ah, I've been talking to Ahmed here.

01:21:48And, uh, he'll make the bomb.

01:21:51Oh, shit.

01:21:53He's blackmailed.

01:21:55I can't pay.

01:21:56Let's go!

01:21:57Hammer!

01:21:58What was that?

01:21:59Fire is what?

01:22:00It's execution day.

01:22:02Will he take a check?

01:22:03Will he take a check?

01:22:17Let's go.

01:22:47I'm going to shoot you!

01:22:49I'm going to shoot you!

01:22:51Get to my gun!

01:22:53Get to my gun!

01:22:55Give it to him.

01:22:57Maybe he'll shoot himself.

01:22:59My gun!

01:23:01My gun!

01:23:03My gun!

01:23:05My gun!

01:23:07My gun!

01:23:17Excuse me.

01:23:21Are you Mr. William Danruther?

01:23:23That's right.

01:23:24I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.

01:23:25I'm sorry, not now.

01:23:27Forgive me, but it's rather important.

01:23:29Yes, it always is.

01:23:30I was a newspaper man myself once.

01:23:32Well, you may quote me as saying that everybody was heroic except Mr. Danruther, who weighed all our boots.

01:23:37Very amusing, but I'm not a reporter.

01:23:39Jack, go to the phone, make reservations.

01:23:41The first plane to Nairobi.

01:23:43Six seats.

01:23:45Yes, and if they don't have any, talk to the right man and tell him if he kicks out of people off the plane, we'll make it worth his while.

01:23:49I always said we ought to take a plane.

01:23:51You remember I said that Mr. Horrell?

01:23:53I said we ought to take a plane.

01:23:54Mustn't dawdle, Billy boy.

01:23:55Great deal to do.

01:23:56Not much time.

01:23:57Those of the other members of your party?

01:23:58Yes, I'd like to talk with them, too.

01:24:00Well, what's it all about?

01:24:01I believe you were acquainted with a Mr. Van Muir, now deceased.

01:24:04Please, then.

01:24:06Yes, sir.

01:24:07Yes, sir.

01:24:08Yes, sir.

01:24:09Yes, sir.

01:24:10Peter, you and the boys better come back down.

01:24:15The gentleman here wants to speak to you, a Mr. Jack Clayton of Scotland Yard.

01:24:19You think you're right here or upstairs, Mr. Dunn?

01:24:21No, we'll have it here.

01:24:22Care to join us in a drink, Clayton?

01:24:24No, thanks.

01:24:25It's a bit early in the day for me.

01:24:26I read somewhere that a Scotland Yard man never accepts a drink from anyone he intends to arrest.

01:24:31Is that true, Mr. Clayton?

01:24:33Quite so.

01:24:34Mrs. Dunruther?

01:24:35No, I'm Mrs. Chelm.

01:24:37This is Mrs. Dunruther.

01:24:39Oh, how do you do?

01:24:40Well, I wouldn't dream of alarming you lovely ladies.

01:24:43So perhaps I'll have a glass of lovely after all.

01:24:46Peter, sir.

01:24:47How do you do, sir?

01:24:48How do you do, sir?

01:24:49Bravo.

01:24:50And Mr. O'Hara, Julius O'Hara, if you like it.

01:24:55No, I'm the one to be delighted.

01:24:57It had begun to look as though I'd never catch up with you people.

01:25:00That would have been a bit embarrassing.

01:25:02You see, this is the first time I've ever been abroad on an investigation.

01:25:05I've spent quite a lot of money.

01:25:07And my chief can be very sarcastic about the money one spends.

01:25:10Particularly if you fail to deliver the goods.

01:25:12Mr. Clayton is presently interested in the Van Muir murder case.

01:25:16The Van Muir murder case?

01:25:18Oh, yes, yes.

01:25:19That fellow in the colonial office.

01:25:20Yes, I read about that in the paper.

01:25:22It was a shocking affair.

01:25:24According to Mr. Van Muir's appointment book, Mr. Peterson,

01:25:27you had lunch with him at the Savoy a few days before his death.

01:25:30That's quite correct.

01:25:31Mr. Van Muir was expert on African matters.

01:25:34We wanted his advice about affairs in British East.

01:25:37Do you recall the subject under discussion?

01:25:39Vaguely.

01:25:40Croppy old.

01:25:41The native labour situation.

01:25:43Inches of rain.

01:25:45Shorts.

01:25:46How long do you know, Mr. Van Muir?

01:25:49A couple of months.

01:25:50We met half a dozen times.

01:25:51Did he ever make mention of any enemies?

01:25:53Business or otherwise?

01:25:54Did he say anything about romantic attachments?

01:25:56I mean, did he name any women?

01:25:58No.

01:25:59I should have been very surprised if he had done.

01:26:01Mr. Van Muir struck me as being every inch a gentleman.

01:26:04Oh, of course, of course.

01:26:06Well, that's all.

01:26:08Unless somebody has anything further to add.

01:26:11I have.

01:26:14I think you ought to know that the business of one of these businesses

01:26:20is murder.

01:26:22I beg your pardon.

01:26:25Major Ross, I mean.

01:26:27I can't guarantee Major Ross murdered this Van Muir person.

01:26:30I assure you, however, he attempted to murder my husband

01:26:33with a long, thin dagger, which he always carried about

01:26:36in what looked like an innocent swagger stick.

01:26:39Go on, Mrs. Cho.

01:26:41You see, Major Ross is employed by Mr. Peterson there to do his dirty work.

01:26:46One might say he's a professional killer.

01:26:48My husband found out certain things about Mr. Peterson.

01:26:51Things in point of fact that are a matter of empire,

01:26:54involving, as they do, a plot to exploit our kingdom's uranium resources.

01:26:58And that's why Mr. Peterson decided to have him done away with it.

01:27:01Don't run away, Mr. Peterson.

01:27:03That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.

01:27:06Tantamount is what I call it.

01:27:08More champagne, Clayton?

01:27:10No, thank you.

01:27:29As I said before, very smart fellows indeed.

01:27:33Should you ever think of me in Earl's court?

01:27:36That's where I'll be, helping Harry's parents with the lodges.

01:27:39Should you ever think of me?

01:27:40Try not to let it be too harshly.

01:27:43You kiss her too, Billy, and tell her she's forgiven.

01:27:46Sure, sure.

01:27:47Goodbye, dear.

01:27:48Bye.

01:27:49Yes.

01:27:50Poor Mrs. Chelm.

01:27:51Just came on the ship's wireless.

01:27:52Oh, by the way, Mr. Dunradar, do you know that your associates are all in the whose gown?

01:27:56Oh, not that I'm a bit surprised.

01:27:57I put them down as thoroughly bad characters, right off the bat.

01:28:00But then there are so many bad characters nowadays.

01:28:01Take mine for instance.

01:28:02Hey!

01:28:03He's alive!

01:28:04Oh!

01:28:05Oh!

01:28:06Oh!

01:28:07Oh!

01:28:08Oh!

01:28:09Oh!

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01:28:38Oh!

01:28:52Oh!

01:28:57Oh!

01:28:58Oh, this is the end.

01:29:09The end.

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