Film Gorillas
  • 5 years ago
Not Rated | 26min | Adventure, Drama, TV Series | Episode aired 1952

Steve Mitchell is sent to Casablanca to find and stop those responsible for trying to sabotage the relocation of European refugees to their own island in the Mediterranean.

Director: Bill Karn

Writers: Robert Ryf, Adrian Gendot

Stars: Brian Donlevy, Herb Butterfield, Paul Dubov
Transcript
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00:43Morning, Commissioner.
00:45You sent for me?
00:47Steve, how's your headache?
00:50Headache?
00:52I haven't got any headache.
00:53Well, yes, you have, as of right now.
00:56Here's your headache.
00:59Looks like an old warehouse on a dock.
01:02That's in Casablanca.
01:03It's a displaced persons camp.
01:06You mean people lived there?
01:08700 of them.
01:09About a year ago, I was in a camp.
01:12700 of them.
01:13About a year ago, they managed to get out of Eastern Europe.
01:17They've been living there ever since?
01:18Yes.
01:19Steve, there's a tiny island under international mandate
01:23in the Eastern Mediterranean, Galada.
01:26I get it.
01:27Turn the island over to them, let them build
01:29a new country of their own, huh?
01:31Yes, we're going to furnish them with a merchant ship
01:33to get them there.
01:34But somebody's been raising trouble in the camp.
01:40You mean, he doesn't want them to have a new home?
01:42Yeah.
01:43Steve, we've got to see that these people reach that island.
01:47Get over there, and don't let anything happen to them
01:49until they're safely aboard that ship.
01:52Well, that's it.
01:54You've got your assignment.
01:55Good luck.
01:56Sure, I've got my assignment.
02:07Fly over to Casablanca, put my finger on one guy
02:10and tell him to call the 700, the one who's
02:13trying to gum up the works.
02:15Then play bodyguard to the other 699
02:18until they get safely aboard ship.
02:21A real breeze.
02:23It's late Wednesday afternoon when my plane
02:25lands at Casablanca, and I head for the dock at the waterfront.
02:35Hi.
02:36Mr. Steve Mitchell?
02:37That's right.
02:38Welcome to our camp.
02:39You in charge here, John?
02:40No, my father Joseph Sieta is our leader.
02:42I help him around the camp.
02:43I see.
02:44Come, I will show you our home.
03:09Look at that.
03:10That's nice.
03:22This is where we around the camp.
03:24And this, this goes all the way down to the dock.
03:28It really works.
03:31Miklos is supposed to be around here.
03:34Miklos!
03:35Miklos!
03:36What do you want me?
03:38Your place is in the office.
03:40It will not happen again.
03:42If it does, I shall speak to my father.
03:57This is my home.
04:03Come, I will show you more.
04:09Not very friendly.
04:10Unfortunately, we are a divided people.
04:14This is Shari's room.
04:17Shari.
04:24Shari, this is Mr. Mitchell of the United States.
04:29Glad to meet you, Shari.
04:31Shari and I hope to marry one day,
04:33but she does not believe our dreams of a new home
04:35will come true.
04:36I don't wish to be a part of it.
04:38I don't wish to discuss it.
04:40Would be better if we were left alone.
04:45We will discuss this later.
04:47Come.
04:59He is better today.
05:00Come.
05:01Gorick.
05:02Oh, I wanted to have everything fixed.
05:04It does not matter.
05:08Gorick, this is Mr. Mitchell.
05:12Gorick?
05:12I'm most happy.
05:14Gorick is a construction engineer, now our handyman.
05:18Construction engineer?
05:19Yes, we've managed to do some road
05:20building for the government here, in return for food.
05:23I see.
05:25Well?
05:28I see.
05:30Well?
05:31How do you like it?
05:33Like it?
05:36The room?
05:37Yes, we fixed it for you while you were with us.
05:40That was very nice of you.
05:42Make yourself comfortable.
05:45If you want to wash.
05:52Soap.
05:58How long have you been living here?
06:00Well, 10 months.
06:01And before this?
06:03Before this, we had nothing.
06:05But think of what we will have on our island, our new home.
06:08And somebody is trying to block that.
06:11Yes.
06:11It's a bad thing to do to us.
06:14You know why they're trying to do it to you, don't you?
06:16Where you came from, there isn't any freedom anymore.
06:20That's why we left.
06:22They don't want you to find freedom or a new life
06:27because what you can do, others can do.
06:31Yes, I know.
06:32That is why there's trouble, whisperings,
06:35ugly rumors that we will never reach our island,
06:38be cheated of our home.
06:39The dissension is growing.
06:41Any idea who's in back of it?
06:44John, I would like to speak to you.
06:47Of course.
06:48Excuse me, Mr. Mitchell.
06:50John, like his father, believes the way most of us do.
06:54But our destiny lies in the island in the Mediterranean,
06:59our home to be.
07:01Zari doesn't believe that?
07:03She's skeptical.
07:04She suspects some trick.
07:06Do you happen to know whether she's
07:08been trying to convince the other people of the same thing?
07:11Well, a beautiful woman can be most persuasive.
07:15Well, I don't know.
07:17Wait.
07:21Hmm.
07:22Miklos.
07:23I do not trust him.
07:25Always he's whispering to people.
07:27Any idea what he's whispering about?
07:31No.
07:32Well, I'll go along now.
07:35Maybe we can talk later.
07:40Excuse me.
07:42Excuse me.
07:54Mr. Mitchell, I am sorry to be such a rude host,
07:58but Shari is upset about something she wishes to talk.
08:01Well, go right ahead.
08:01Don't worry about me.
08:03If you will wait here, my father will meet you.
08:05Fine.
09:37What happened, Mr. Mitchell?
09:40Some guy conked me when I jumped him.
09:42He was trying to drop a barrel on an old man.
09:45That was my father.
09:47We found you on the catwalk up above
09:48and brought you down here.
09:50Where is your father?
09:51Here, Mr. Mitchell, saying a prayer for you.
09:54Thanks.
09:55I'll go and get him.
09:56You stay here.
09:57I'll go and get him.
09:58I'll go and get him.
09:59I'll go and get him.
10:00I'll go and get him.
10:01I'll go and get him.
10:02I'll go and get him.
10:03I'll go and get him.
10:05Thanks.
10:07Sorry, things were so busy, I didn't
10:08have a chance to get acquainted.
10:10Welcome to our home, Mr. Mitchell.
10:12Thanks.
10:13I want to thank you for saving the life of my father.
10:16But who would want to kill me?
10:18You are our symbol.
10:21Without you, father, our dissension
10:22would even be greater.
10:24Would you recognize the man who did this?
10:27No, I didn't get a look at him.
10:28His partner slugged me from behind.
10:30Yosef!
10:31Yosef!
10:32Yosef, come!
10:33All of you!
10:35Come see for yourselves!
10:50The ship to take us to our new homeland.
10:54It's really here.
10:56You didn't think it would come?
10:58No.
10:59Even up until now, I didn't think it would come.
11:05Yosef, with your permission, I will
11:07ask for a volunteer work party to start
11:09loading our supplies aboard.
11:11Right away?
11:12The sooner we get aboard, the better.
11:14May be a good idea.
11:16All right.
11:25You better keep your eye on your dad
11:26until we're all safely aboard.
11:28Garek, you mentioned that you didn't trust Miklos.
11:34I do not.
11:36I'd like to talk to him.
11:38You'll find him in the office.
11:51Miklos?
11:52Yes, Mr. Mitchell?
11:54I didn't know you knew Miklos.
11:57I didn't know you knew my name.
11:59Oh, a person who works in this office
12:01knows all the affairs of the camp.
12:03Yeah, I guess so.
12:05Yes, anything I can do for you?
12:07He was here first.
12:09Oh, I'm just visiting, waiting for a friend.
12:12How long have you been working here?
12:13Ever since the camp started.
12:15No, no.
12:15I mean tonight.
12:16Oh, all evening.
12:19You sure?
12:21Why, of course.
12:23You sure you weren't up on the catwalk this afternoon?
12:27How could I be there when I was here?
12:31That's a good question.
12:32When I find an answer, I'll be back.
12:43Well, hello.
12:45Hello.
12:47What's your name, honey?
12:48Nina Richards.
12:50I'm Steve Mitchell.
12:51How are you?
12:52I'm fine.
12:53I'm glad to hear that.
12:55This is Tisha, Mr. Mitchell.
12:58Isn't she pretty?
13:00I think she's just about the prettiest
13:02I've ever seen, Nina.
13:05Are you going to live with us?
13:07Yeah, for a little while.
13:09Oh, I'd like that.
13:12You know, I think I'm going to like it, too.
13:15Are you going to come to our new home with us?
13:19Yeah, yeah.
13:20Do you know where it is?
13:23Well, approximately.
13:25Tell us about it, please.
13:27What?
13:28Haven't you heard all about it?
13:30Oh, yes, so many times.
13:32But it's been so long, and it's always so wonderful.
13:39Well, it's a little island, and it's all
13:42surrounded by the blue sea.
13:45We can go swimming.
13:46Oh, sure.
13:47You can have picnics on the beach
13:49and go walking in the woods.
13:51Oh, there'll be birds singing.
13:53Sure, sure.
13:54And squirrels chirping and, oh, all kinds of nice things.
13:58Will we have school again, real school?
14:01Oh, sure, with playgrounds.
14:07And will we have Sunday school once again,
14:09real, really and truly?
14:12Really and truly.
14:15Oh, Mr. Mitchell, we'll be so happy.
14:18I'm sure we will.
14:22Goodbye, Mr. Mitchell.
14:24Goodbye, Nina.
14:40Mr. Mitchell.
14:42Oh, John.
14:43I guess I fell asleep.
14:46Well?
14:49You telephoned for me.
14:51Telephone?
14:52Only a few minutes ago, my father
14:53answered the telephone and said it was you,
14:55that you wanted to see me.
14:57I didn't telephone you.
14:59Then who?
15:00Someone fixed it so your father would be alone.
15:13No sign of a struggle.
15:15And no sign of Father.
15:16Hey, his pipe.
15:18It's still warm.
15:20It can't have been gone long.
15:26We must spread the word.
15:35Thank heaven you are safe.
15:37Safe?
15:38That phone call was a fake to get John away from you.
15:40Well, then the second one must have been false too.
15:43The second one?
15:44Right after you left, there was another one.
15:47I was wanted immediately in back of the building here.
15:50As I was on my way, I saw Frederick here
15:52and stopped to see how he was getting on.
15:54I'm glad you did.
15:57Where did it come from?
15:59Somewhere from above.
16:00There he goes.
16:01Oh, we could never catch him in the shadows.
16:03There are so many places one could hide in this warehouse.
16:06Those phone calls, they must have come from the office.
16:09Miklos.
16:10Yeah, come on.
16:18Where's Miklos?
16:19The man who works here?
16:20He just left a minute ago.
16:21Who are you?
16:22What are you doing here?
16:23Oh, just visiting.
16:25Strange.
16:26I don't remember ever seeing this man before.
16:29Where's Miklos?
16:30Miklos?
16:38Shari with Miklos.
16:41Come on.
16:48John.
16:49Hey, what is this perfume?
16:52Soap, candy bars.
16:53Black market.
16:54There is always a demand.
16:56If it were not I, someone else would do it.
16:59That's what you've been whispering to people about,
17:01drumming up business, huh?
17:02Shari, you dealt with this man.
17:04No, John.
17:06I only, well, he told me he had some things he wanted to show me.
17:10I didn't know what he meant.
17:12And when I found out, well, if that's what you think of me,
17:19John.
17:20Shari, wait.
17:23Now she is angry with me again.
17:25She'll probably simmer down.
17:27It still doesn't explain the trap you set for Joseph
17:29with those phone calls.
17:31Trap?
17:32I set no trap.
17:33Those phone calls had to come from the office.
17:36The visitor.
17:37He was the one that wanted to use the phone.
17:40The man we talked to back there.
17:42He set the trap and shot at your father.
17:43Come on.
17:50Hey.
17:53Hey.
17:55Hey.
17:58It could only have happened a few minutes ago.
18:02Yeah, that means the guy we're after
18:04is still one jump ahead of us.
18:05This guy was just a stooge.
18:07He had served his purpose and a knife
18:10in the back to shut his mouth.
18:13Yeah, which means the boy we want is still on the loose.
18:17But the attempt on father's life has failed.
18:19And maybe in the morning when we are all aboard ship,
18:22maybe then we will be safe.
18:25Yeah, maybe.
18:29By morning it's completed and we all go aboard.
18:33I should be breathing a sigh of relief along about now,
18:36but I'm not.
18:37I can't seem to get rid of that uneasy feeling,
18:40almost like waiting for something to happen.
18:43But as we steam uneventfully through the Mediterranean
18:46heading east, I begin to relax a little.
18:49Maybe our trouble is over.
18:52Along toward evening, the weather starts kicking up.
18:55And by 10 o'clock, the ship is finding the going pretty rough.
19:01This is not good for the stomach, Mitchell.
19:04That old uncertain feeling, huh, Gorrick?
19:07A little.
19:08But even so, tonight I'm a happy man.
19:11The loading completed satisfactorily.
19:14The construction equipment all turned back to the Moroccan government.
19:17And now to start planning our new island home.
19:21Yes, in spite of my stomach, I'm a happy man.
19:26Well, I could use a little sleep.
19:28See you later.
19:29Right-o, Mitchell.
19:30Night.
19:31Good night.
19:35Steve.
19:36Oh, John.
19:37What's the matter?
19:38Steve, I just received an urgent radio message
19:40from the government in Morocco.
19:41They say a large quantity of explosives
19:43is missing from the supplies we returned to them.
19:46Who had charge of loading the ship back there?
19:48Gorrick himself.
19:49Gorrick?
19:50It's been him all along.
19:51He was in the perfect spot for it.
19:53But why steal explosives?
19:55Why do you think he was so anxious
19:56to get everybody aboard the ship?
19:58He intends to blow up the ship with everybody on it.
20:01Yeah.
20:03Where's Gorrick?
20:04He left the bridge right after you did, Mitchell.
20:06Steve, would he blow up the ship with himself on it?
20:08I saw him look at the charts.
20:09I looked at them earlier myself.
20:11Shortly before midnight, we passed a small island.
20:13That's right.
20:14He could drop a life raft over the side near the island.
20:16After he'd set the time bomb.
20:17Steve, that bomb is ticking away.
20:18We must spread the word.
20:19We must.
20:20No, no, no.
20:21We'd start a stampede.
20:22You're quite right, Mitchell.
20:23We can't put the passengers overboard in a lifeboat
20:25and undersea like this.
20:26All of which means we've got to find
20:27Gorrick and the time bomb fast.
20:29Oh, but where do we begin to look?
20:30It would affect the, uh, maximum damage
20:32would probably be below the waterline
20:34and just about amid ships.
20:35All right, you take one side of the ship,
20:36and I'll take the other.
20:37Fine.
20:38I'll get my tools and a gun.
20:39A gun?
20:40I'm a man of peace, but Gorrick cannot do this to my people.
20:43And if we find the time bomb, I will know what to do.
20:45I was on demolition duty during the war.
20:47Good.
20:48Lela, let's try the next one.
21:18Where's the bomb?
21:45I was going to die of overboard.
21:47After I armed it.
21:49Now it doesn't matter.
21:51Where's the bomb?
21:54You'll find out at midnight.
21:58Three minutes to.
22:02It must be in here someplace.
22:05Stand still and listen.
22:09Ticking.
22:10The bomb.
22:12Where?
22:18It's louder over here.
22:31Here.
22:32Here's the bomb.
22:34I think we can disarm it by loosening the nut gently
22:37and sliding the timing mechanism out.
22:50Can you reach it?
22:51I think so.
22:53Here.
22:55Take the wrench.
22:56What do I do?
22:58Put it on very gently.
23:03Yeah.
23:04Turn.
23:06Careful, careful.
23:07Water from that busted line.
23:15One minute to midnight.
23:21It's coming.
23:24Hurry.
23:25Hurry.
23:2740 seconds left.
23:33So slippery.
23:35Maybe I loosened it enough.
23:37Just about got it.
23:3930 seconds, Steve.
23:41Maybe I got it enough.
23:45Keep it up.
23:46I just about got it.
23:49Keep it up.
24:04What now?
24:05Slide the cylinder out.
24:07That's the trigger.
24:2010 seconds left.
24:27It won't budge.
24:29It must be right in the lip.
24:32One half turn either way.
24:38It's coming.
24:39It's coming.
24:57That's all.
24:58That's all.
25:10There it is.
25:13There it is.
25:17Last night, I did not think we would live to see it.
25:21Mr. Mitchell, you cannot know how much this means to us.
25:28I think I do.
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