deaddogsmoking
  • 4 months ago
A Cold War era espionage thriller, about the leaking of secrets at a German facility shared by the Americans and the British.

Norman Wooland ... Col. Mark Cleaver
Tilda Thamar ... Helen Quaid
Wayne Morris ... Maj. Thomas Brent
Mary Mackenzie ... Miss Gray
Arnold Bell ... Gen. Harry Goulding
Marjorie Stewart ... Yvonne Goulding
Laurie Main ... Johnny Orwell
Frederick Schrecker ... Dr. Morganstern
Alec Finter ... Plane Passenger with Cut Finger
John Gabriel ... Dr. Horn
Seymour Green ... Major
Lucienne Hill ... Kathleen Steffanson
Richard Marner ... Man
Alan Tilvern ... Otto Szimek

Directed by Cy Endfield (as Hugh Raker)
Transcript
00:00:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:00:30["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:00:56["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:01:03Now, have you found a way out for your queen major, huh?
00:01:08Well, I don't know whether it's the right thing or not, but it's the best I can think of.
00:01:12Oh, I see. The major moves the bishop.
00:01:16But has he anticipated this from the enemy, huh?
00:01:22Why didn't I think of that?
00:01:25Maybe that's why I'm only a major, you see.
00:01:28Help! This man's hurt!
00:01:30I'm a doctor. Perhaps I can help.
00:01:32It's nothing. I was sharpening my pencils. A little cut.
00:01:35Oh, I see. Oh, yes, that is nothing.
00:01:37You have mercy. Help her, yes?
00:01:39So, let me see.
00:01:44You don't mind, sir?
00:01:45Oh, no, of course not.
00:01:46I'll get you something to drink.
00:01:47Thank you.
00:01:51I guess you'll be all right. Are you sure that you're...
00:01:54Oh, yes, thank you. It was just such a shock.
00:01:57I'm afraid I can't stand the sight of blood.
00:02:02You are American.
00:02:06You are.
00:02:12I'm sorry.
00:02:16Did you say something?
00:02:17Nothing. I asked you if you were American.
00:02:21I must have got lost there for a minute.
00:02:23Yes, I'm American.
00:02:24He's much better now.
00:02:26And how are you, my dear?
00:02:28Fine, thank you.
00:02:29Don't you want your seat back?
00:02:30No, no, no. Let the young people stay together.
00:02:33I'm going back for a drink.
00:02:35We'll finish our play another time, yes?
00:02:37All right.
00:02:39You saved me from getting a beating.
00:02:40I'm glad I was of some help.
00:02:42I brought you some coffee.
00:02:43Oh, thank you.
00:02:45Oh, thank you very much.
00:02:49Happy landings.
00:02:50Happy landings.
00:02:51Happy landings.
00:03:20Tom! Tom! Tom!
00:03:36Mark, how are you?
00:03:37Major Thomas Brent, I can't believe you.
00:03:39You look great, Mark. You haven't changed a bit in eight years.
00:03:41Neither have you, Tom. We're both liars.
00:03:43In that case, meet a professional.
00:03:45This is our public relations man, Johnny Orwell.
00:03:47How are you, Johnny?
00:03:48I've heard a lot about you, Major. Korean War and all that.
00:03:50How about a few things I can publish?
00:03:51You know, medals, acts of valor, decorations.
00:03:53Oh, give him a chance, Johnny. Give him a chance.
00:03:55But there must be something.
00:03:56After all, once a hero, always a hero.
00:03:58I know all about you saving the colonel's life in the last war.
00:04:00I didn't know what I was doing.
00:04:02I'm quoting him, Colonel. I'm quoting him.
00:04:03Thank you.
00:04:05I've got some luggage around here someplace.
00:04:06I wonder where the porter is.
00:04:07Have you got a number?
00:04:08It's 70.
00:04:09Oh, chase him up, Johnny.
00:04:10And would you, I want to get Tom into his hotel room
00:04:12and over to headquarters as soon as possible.
00:04:13Right.
00:04:18You'll be in hospital for a while.
00:04:20Oh, sort of an overgrown headache.
00:04:22I got tangled up with a mortar and laid up for a few days.
00:04:25Not perfect?
00:04:26Nothing. Perfectly okay.
00:04:28Mark, now that I'm here, would you mind telling me why?
00:04:33Being responsible for security for the combined armies of 14 nations is a big job.
00:04:37I want to share the burden.
00:04:39That's why I put in for the best man that I ever knew.
00:04:42What's the situation?
00:04:44An information leak from the inside.
00:04:47In fact, so close to home that if I use perfect logic, I'd have to suspect myself.
00:04:51That's why I asked for you.
00:04:53All set.
00:04:54Oh, good.
00:04:56Auf Wiedersehen, my friend.
00:04:58Auf Wiedersehen, Doctor.
00:04:59It was a pleasure.
00:05:00Oh, very nice.
00:05:01Thanks a lot. See you later.
00:05:04A little character I met on the plane, he beat the heck out of me playing chess.
00:05:07Goodbye, Doctor.
00:05:10It was also a very beautiful brunette.
00:05:12Brunette? That's the Tom I remember.
00:05:39Welcome.
00:05:40Goodbye.
00:05:41Goodbye.
00:06:08Miss Gray, Major Brent.
00:06:10How are you?
00:06:11How do you do?
00:06:12Colonel, this needs your immediate attention.
00:06:16Here you are, Mark.
00:06:20Works like an incendiary bomb.
00:06:23Tom, I'm afraid we shall have to work late tonight.
00:06:25Do you mind breaking that date?
00:06:27How did you know I had a date?
00:06:28Well, it wasn't your appointment at the Hotel Koenigs, huh?
00:06:31Yes, how did you know that?
00:06:33Didn't you tell me?
00:06:34Definitely not.
00:06:35Certain you did.
00:06:36The brunette on the plane.
00:06:38Kathleen Stephenson.
00:06:39Alias...
00:06:40Oh, many aliases.
00:06:43Didn't know she was a brunette.
00:06:44That's not so difficult for a woman.
00:06:47How are you supposed to know these people? By the color of their eyes?
00:06:50A better standard might be the plunge of their neckline.
00:06:52Danger is usually in direct proportion to the attractiveness of the bait.
00:06:55Just ring up the Hotel Koenigs half and make their cancellation, would you?
00:06:58Yes, sir.
00:06:59Ready, Tom?
00:07:00Ready for anything.
00:07:05Hello?
00:07:06Put me through to the Hotel Koenigs half, please.
00:07:09Yes, I'll hold on.
00:07:11Ready?
00:07:12Ready.
00:07:16Now, that sets the outer door in a relay alarm system.
00:07:18There's another security check in Miss Gray's room.
00:07:21Miss Gray?
00:07:22Yes, sir?
00:07:23We're locked in.
00:07:24Please check the electric eye detector.
00:07:27Now, all controls are connected with the guard room.
00:07:29Nothing bigger than an eyelash can get through without warning us.
00:07:32All controls working, sir.
00:07:33Shall I block the telephone?
00:07:34Not until further notice.
00:07:35And I'm disconnecting the intercom.
00:07:39That's maximum security.
00:07:41If anything gets out, the culprit's you or I.
00:07:45See that wall bracket?
00:07:46Yeah.
00:07:47Turn to the left, will you?
00:07:54Our filing cabinet.
00:07:55I mean, the filing cabinet.
00:07:56Now, it's very cloak and dagger-ish, I admit, but it's necessary.
00:08:00See if there's any weeks out of here.
00:08:01They've got mental telepaths working for them.
00:08:03I open it with a letter series that I change frequently.
00:08:07Stand back, do you mind?
00:08:08No.
00:08:15Go on, Tom.
00:08:16Take a look.
00:08:25Now, this is going to be your workroom for the next few days, Tom.
00:08:29I want you to get as much of this stuff into your head as you can.
00:08:33Everything, if possible.
00:08:39All except that one.
00:08:41Oh?
00:08:42No.
00:08:44You'll keep it where it is.
00:08:48But you don't look at it until I tell you.
00:08:52That's an order.
00:08:53Oh, I couldn't help seeing the title.
00:08:55I intended you to.
00:08:57Unfortunately, that title has been seen by others.
00:09:00And I hope only the title.
00:09:03Can you imagine what's in it?
00:09:05Well, I can guess the general subject matter.
00:09:07Well, perhaps you can also guess how many people would be interested in the specific contents.
00:09:12Kathleen Stephenson?
00:09:14Kathleen Stephenson, Mata Hari, and all their near relatives.
00:09:19Miss Gray?
00:09:20Yes, sir?
00:09:22See if the switchboard is holding any calls for us.
00:09:26You should never be approached about this, however indirectly.
00:09:29I haven't seen it, I haven't heard of it, I don't know a thing about it.
00:09:32All I know is my name, rank and serial number.
00:09:35That's the idea.
00:09:36Because I want to know if there's the slightest interest either outside this building or inside it.
00:09:41I understand.
00:09:43Now, you want to know the combination to reopen it?
00:09:45Yes.
00:09:47It's a name.
00:09:49Helen.
00:09:50H-E-L-E-N.
00:09:52Very simple.
00:09:55You say that as if it were a beautiful memory.
00:09:57More than a memory.
00:09:59Perhaps a hope for the future.
00:10:01Sounds like the real thing, Mark.
00:10:03Yes?
00:10:05Miss Gray, lift the security check, will you?
00:10:07Hold on.
00:10:09Locking is the same thing in reverse.
00:10:12Yes, Yvonne?
00:10:14Yes, by all means, pop in.
00:10:16Of course, bring her.
00:10:18Right.
00:10:19Miss Gray, Mrs. Goulding is coming in with Miss Quaid.
00:10:22Show them right through.
00:10:23Yes, sir.
00:10:24The ladies are on the way.
00:10:26What ladies?
00:10:28The general's wife and her social secretary, Miss Helen Quaid.
00:10:31Is that the Helen?
00:10:32The only Helen.
00:10:33Remember, we're cooperators, not competitors.
00:10:37Why, Mark, don't you trust me?
00:10:39With my life, with my money, but not with my women.
00:10:44The ladies are here, Ken.
00:10:45Mark, I want a direct and honest answer.
00:10:47Did you tell my husband we could not go to the concert tonight?
00:10:50Yvonne, I take it those had nothing to do with it.
00:10:52They shifted the date of the meeting tomorrow.
00:10:54Now, what has that to do with the concert tonight?
00:10:56Helen and I are tired of being Cold War widows.
00:10:59Besides, you and the general can talk over what is necessary in the interval.
00:11:02Now, promise me you'll tell him, sir.
00:11:04I'll do my best.
00:11:05Oh, by the way, this is my new assistant, Major Brent.
00:11:08How do you do, Major?
00:11:09How do you do?
00:11:10It's so nice to meet a young, unmarried American.
00:11:13How can you tell?
00:11:14Those lovely blue eyes have a glint, not a glaze.
00:11:18Helen, meet Major Brent.
00:11:20How do you do?
00:11:21How do you do?
00:11:23I told Yvonne it wasn't right to break in on you like this.
00:11:26It wasn't right to break in on you like this.
00:11:28Well, I was going to ring you anyhow.
00:11:29You see, our lunch date for tomorrow...
00:11:31Oh, yes.
00:11:32You will be leaving tomorrow morning.
00:11:34Let that be a warning.
00:11:35Never get entangled with the military.
00:11:37They're always going off to a meeting or a war or something.
00:11:40Yvonne, don't discourage her.
00:11:42I'm not discouraging her.
00:11:43Facts are facts.
00:11:46Yes?
00:11:47Sorry to interrupt, Colonel Cleaver, but the general wants to see you at once.
00:11:50Right.
00:11:51You heard, ladies.
00:11:52The master's voice.
00:11:53Good.
00:11:54Now is your chance to tell him what you promised.
00:11:56Well, why not walk along the hall with me?
00:11:58You tell the general what you want and I'll back you up.
00:12:00That's a good idea.
00:12:01You two young people amuse each other.
00:12:03Back in a minute.
00:12:06May I?
00:12:07Oh, yes.
00:12:09Sorry.
00:12:10Thank you.
00:12:18Yvonne has been here too long.
00:12:20Staying in one city for more than six months makes her nervous.
00:12:24Have you been here long enough to get nervous?
00:12:26No.
00:12:27Just long enough to be bored.
00:12:30I imagine that being the social secretary of a general's wife might put you in the center of things.
00:12:35It's better than doing nothing.
00:12:37Madame Goulding was a college friend of my mother's.
00:12:41I'm half English myself, you know.
00:12:43Well, I thought that the French half might get a kick out of that social world.
00:12:47Not for me.
00:12:48I suppose all these parties and entertainments are necessary for the building up of goodwill among the dignitaries.
00:12:55But it's not as Mama would say, my cup of tea.
00:13:01Well, if it weren't for Mark, I think I'll go back to Paris tomorrow.
00:13:11Peter Blint.
00:13:19Major Blint.
00:13:25Oh.
00:13:28Oh, I'm sorry.
00:13:30What happened?
00:13:32I just quit thinking, I guess.
00:13:36You had me frightened for a moment.
00:13:39Does this happen often?
00:13:40No.
00:13:45How long was I like that?
00:13:46I don't know, a few seconds, two, three.
00:13:52I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't say anything about this to anybody, the colonel.
00:13:56It happens to a lot of people who are under the strain, overworked.
00:14:01I wouldn't want him to worry.
00:14:04I understand.
00:14:06I, too, like him very much.
00:14:08Thanks.
00:14:09Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt, Major Blint.
00:14:11You're not interrupting.
00:14:12Miss Gray, the colonel phoned to say he'd be a bit late.
00:14:14And Mrs. Goulden asked if you'd meet her in her husband's reception room.
00:14:18Thank you very much.
00:14:22I'll see you sometimes, yes?
00:14:26Yes.
00:14:29Well, Miss Gray.
00:14:30Yes, sir?
00:14:31Is there anything I can read on the routine around here?
00:14:33I'd like to start learning my way around.
00:14:35I put the standing orders in the personnel file there on your desk.
00:14:38They should give you all the details.
00:14:40Oh, that's fine.
00:14:41I can see why the colonel relies on you.
00:14:44A cigarette?
00:14:45No, thank you.
00:14:47You don't smoke while on duty?
00:14:48I don't smoke.
00:14:49Miss Gray?
00:14:50Yes, sir?
00:14:51I expect that you've been around here a long time, huh?
00:14:53I started with the colonel two years ago.
00:14:56Are you bored around here?
00:14:58Not in the least.
00:15:00Were you with the colonel in London?
00:15:02No, I wasn't.
00:15:03But you've always been attached to military establishments, haven't you?
00:15:06Yes, sir.
00:15:07No, I wasn't.
00:15:08But you've always been attached to military establishments, huh?
00:15:10No, I...
00:15:14Is this an interrogation, Major?
00:15:16Why, no.
00:15:17Because if it is, my file is in security.
00:15:19I have been screened.
00:15:21Oh, for Pete's sake, I wasn't checking up on you.
00:15:23I was just trying to get acquainted.
00:15:24After all, we are going to work together, aren't we?
00:15:26So I understand, sir.
00:15:28Well, there isn't any doubt about it.
00:15:30I'm going to be around here a long time.
00:15:32Is that clear, Miss Gray?
00:15:35Perfectly, Major Brent.
00:15:37Thank you.
00:16:38THE END
00:17:04Security.
00:17:06Yes, he's here. Yes, ma'am.
00:17:07A candle for you.
00:17:08Oh, thanks.
00:17:10Oh, Mark.
00:17:13Yeah, it's just beginning to make a little sense to me now.
00:17:18Oh, she's a big help.
00:17:21Don't know what I'd do without her.
00:17:24She's a real doll.
00:17:31Come over right away?
00:17:33Oh.
00:17:34I'm sorry, old boy.
00:17:36But a suggestion from a general is a command to a major.
00:17:39All right. I'll be there as soon as I can.
00:17:41Right.
00:17:43Miss Gray?
00:17:45Yes, sir?
00:17:46I'm knocking off now. Will you call me a car and a driver?
00:17:48Yes, sir.
00:17:56Uh, and Miss Gray?
00:17:58Yes, sir?
00:17:59Where I come from, guys like dolls.
00:18:02Yes, sir.
00:18:04Thank you, sir.
00:18:11Motor pool.
00:18:17How many more intervals are there in this thing? One or two?
00:18:19Only one, dearest. You can relax.
00:18:27Oh, there is Colette.
00:18:28I must speak to her. Excuse me.
00:18:30Chérie, viens avec moi.
00:18:32I'll be late for dinner.
00:18:35Ah, here's Tom.
00:18:37Hi, Mark.
00:18:39General Goulding.
00:18:40Major Brent.
00:18:41How do you do?
00:18:42Glad to see you.
00:18:43Does he know?
00:18:44No.
00:18:45Do I know why?
00:18:47It's happened again, Tom.
00:18:49The meeting place tomorrow at Fairing Lodge.
00:18:51Somehow they knew.
00:18:52The place has been wired.
00:18:54It's uncanny, Major.
00:18:58I didn't think anybody could do a better job than the colonel.
00:19:01He tells me that you're going to plug all the leaks he can't find.
00:19:04Is there anything I should do about this situation?
00:19:07Oh, look.
00:19:08Could we carry on a bit later?
00:19:09I must join the ladies.
00:19:11If one gets very fussy, I neglect.
00:19:13Excuse me.
00:19:16Hello, Major.
00:19:18Hello, Doctor.
00:19:19You're a music lover as well as a chess player, huh?
00:19:22Yeah, I'm just about as good at one as I am the other.
00:19:25See you around.
00:19:26Take it easy.
00:19:28That's the little doctor that was on the plane with me.
00:19:31He's the man who said hello to you at the airport.
00:19:33Yes.
00:19:34I've been thinking.
00:19:35I never would have met that Kathleen Staffinson if he hadn't gotten up and given her his seat.
00:19:40He's talking to the general's wife.
00:19:42Wait a minute, I'll see what I can find.
00:19:43Mark, darling.
00:19:45Oh, hello, Major.
00:19:47Are you going?
00:19:48I'm just going to speak to the general about tomorrow's trip.
00:19:50And, my darling, I want you to keep an eye on Tom while I'm away.
00:19:54I suppose that's your way of saying you want him to keep an eye on me.
00:19:58Very well, Major.
00:20:00Would you like to have the colonel's lunch date tomorrow?
00:20:02Because he's deserting me.
00:20:05That's an idea.
00:20:06You'll have to for the sake of your boss's conscience.
00:20:08That's an order.
00:20:09That's a date.
00:20:10It's a pleasure.
00:20:11Excuse me, I'll go and talk to the old man.
00:20:15Thank you, Bussard.
00:20:18Well, shall we fix a place?
00:20:21You set the place because I'm a stranger here.
00:20:24At the Max's.
00:20:26Yes, the Max's restaurant.
00:20:27Because I will be in that part of the town.
00:20:29All right. Max's restaurant, one o'clock.
00:20:32I'll phone and make the arrangement.
00:20:33One o'clock sharp. I will be prompt.
00:20:36Now, disengage you two.
00:20:37I don't like this. She's committed to her.
00:20:39Yes, I do know.
00:20:41Why don't you join us, Major?
00:20:42Thank you very much, sir.
00:20:44Speaker.
00:20:48Apparently, Dr. Morgan Stern is a very close friend of the general's wife.
00:20:52Took care of her back, she said.
00:20:54Does she know about that meeting place?
00:20:55Probably.
00:20:57A little music, Major.
00:20:59Thank you very much, Colonel.
00:21:08Major Brent.
00:21:09Yes.
00:21:11I have the dossier on Dr. Morgan Stern from the local police.
00:21:14Oh, good.
00:21:18Not much here, is it?
00:21:20But the fact he's on record at all is something.
00:21:23Yes, sir.
00:21:26It's past 12, your lunch date.
00:21:27Oh, yes. Oh, and Miss Gray.
00:21:30Will you remind me this afternoon that I have to call Colonel Cleaver tonight?
00:21:33I could put through a call now, sir. He ought to have arrived.
00:21:36Yeah.
00:21:41What makes you say that?
00:21:43The train doesn't get to Bering Lodge until this evening, does it?
00:21:46Oh, but I thought...
00:21:47Yes?
00:21:49Nothing, sir.
00:21:51Were you told that the meeting place had been changed?
00:21:53Yes, sir. The colonel informed me.
00:21:55Mm-hmm.
00:21:57That's strange.
00:21:59I was under the impression that he told nobody.
00:22:02Even the people concerned weren't told until they got to the station.
00:22:04I can't help that, sir. The colonel did tell me.
00:22:06You can check with him if you like.
00:22:07I don't doubt that.
00:22:09But why should you presume that he told me?
00:22:11I didn't, sir.
00:22:12But you unwittingly let me know, didn't you?
00:22:15I suppose so, sir.
00:22:17I don't often make mistakes like this. It's just that...
00:22:21That...
00:22:22I upset you.
00:22:23I know.
00:22:28All right. Forget about it.
00:22:34I'm going out, Miss Gray.
00:22:37Will you call me a car and a driver, please?
00:22:40Yes, sir.
00:22:53All right.
00:23:16Who is he?
00:23:23Hello, Major.
00:23:25You wait for a lady, no?
00:23:29If they don't keep the fellow waiting, they know later.
00:23:33What part of the States do you come from?
00:23:36California.
00:23:37I always wanted to go to California.
00:23:40Hey, you know Cleveland?
00:23:41No, I've never been there.
00:23:42The one percent town, they call it.
00:23:44Lived there for two years, never found out why.
00:23:47Great city, plenty of money.
00:23:49Yeah.
00:23:50That's the only door.
00:23:52She's got to find you.
00:23:54Have another drink, Major.
00:23:55Oh, no, thanks. This is just lemonade.
00:23:57Oh, have another lemonade.
00:23:59Hey, Max.
00:24:00Yes, sir.
00:24:01Give the gentleman a lemonade.
00:24:03Limonade?
00:24:04It's an insult to the grapes of the vineyard.
00:24:07He don't like what you drink.
00:24:09Give the gentleman what he asked.
00:24:10What's the matter with you?
00:24:13Same with me.
00:24:14You know, Major,
00:24:16I've never been to California.
00:24:17Same with me.
00:24:18You know, Major,
00:24:21I shouldn't take the strong stuff.
00:24:24This stuff is bad for my ulcers.
00:24:27Some fellows get butterflies in their stomach.
00:24:29I get pigeons.
00:24:31When you get eagles, then you better start worrying.
00:24:33You said it.
00:24:34I like to talk to Americans.
00:24:35They got a sense of humor.
00:24:36Cigarette.
00:24:37Sorry.
00:24:38Hey, watch what you're doing.
00:24:40Sorry, sorry, sorry.
00:24:41Sorry, sorry.
00:24:44Over here, they got no sense of humor.
00:24:46Everybody going around with a long face
00:24:48looking over his shoulder.
00:24:50Where's the telephone?
00:24:52You got to give the girls plenty of time.
00:24:54What do you think of this one?
00:24:56Some peach, huh?
00:24:58Pretty good.
00:24:59That's me in Cleveland.
00:25:01Pretty sharp, eh?
00:25:03Always like to dress good.
00:25:05You got to dress good in my line.
00:25:09All right.
00:25:11What's your line?
00:25:13I'm a contact.
00:25:15I'm a contact.
00:25:21Everybody wants a contact.
00:25:23Like, for instance, it was you
00:25:25when you were entertaining a couple of friends
00:25:26from out of town.
00:25:28They only human.
00:25:30Okay.
00:25:31You ring up Otto Jimmick.
00:25:33Or you want to buy, sell.
00:25:36Automobile, camera, penicillin.
00:25:39Any merchandise.
00:25:41You got dollars?
00:25:42I give you top price for it.
00:25:43You interested?
00:25:45Or even cigarettes, maybe.
00:25:47You get cigarettes with PX, no?
00:25:49What are you saying?
00:25:50What's the matter?
00:25:51You feel sick?
00:25:52No, it's all right.
00:25:54You better sit down, mate.
00:25:55You don't look so good.
00:25:56No, it's all right.
00:25:57Now, this has happened before.
00:26:01Hey, Max.
00:26:03What you put in this lemonade?
00:26:05What you put in here?
00:26:07It's limonade.
00:26:08That would make anybody sick.
00:26:12You'd better go outside in the street
00:26:14and get some fresh air.
00:26:16That's okay.
00:26:17We get you some air, Major.
00:26:19Yeah.
00:26:20Now, I gotta phone.
00:26:21Now, come on.
00:26:22You feel better.
00:26:23You get outside.
00:26:24Hold on, fella.
00:26:25Come on.
00:26:26Give me a hand.
00:26:27That's right, Major.
00:26:28Take it nice and easy.
00:26:29You get some air.
00:26:30You feel better.
00:26:39Colonel Cleaver's office.
00:26:40Has Major Brint returned to the office?
00:26:43No, he hasn't.
00:26:44I'm worried.
00:26:46Yes, I had an appointment with him at one o'clock
00:26:49and I arrived a little bit late.
00:26:52Yes, at Max's.
00:26:54They said something about a man in American uniform
00:26:57who was ill and went out
00:26:59and I wondered...
00:27:03Yes, thank you.
00:27:10Well?
00:27:12Well, what?
00:27:13Are you ready?
00:27:15I'm ready.
00:27:17The patient is not.
00:27:19I can't start until he gains consciousness.
00:27:22I've got to know a bit more about him first.
00:27:24Why must you know more about him?
00:27:26I mean medically.
00:27:27I must know why he fainted.
00:27:29Why waste time?
00:27:30You know you're in too deep to get out of it.
00:27:33I'm sure you know why.
00:27:35I'm sure you know why.
00:27:37I'm sure you know why.
00:27:38Why waste time?
00:27:39You know you're in too deep to get out now.
00:27:47Well?
00:27:49How far do you want me to take it?
00:27:51As far as possible.
00:27:53Will he tell me everything he knows?
00:27:56Is that much I can guarantee?
00:27:58More important,
00:28:00will he obey orders when he gets out?
00:28:02We know very little about hypnotic drugs.
00:28:05Every new subject is an experiment.
00:28:08The human mind is a very funny instrument.
00:28:11Especially an injured one.
00:28:17Is this the one you use, doctor?
00:28:21Very soon you'll be able to do this for yourself, won't you?
00:28:32Put me through to Mr. Orwell's room, please.
00:28:39Hello?
00:28:40What?
00:28:41Oh, yes.
00:28:43Hello?
00:28:45Oh, I'm sorry, darling, I can't come over just now.
00:28:48I've got a temperature.
00:28:50I've decided to stay in bed.
00:28:53Where?
00:28:54At Max's?
00:28:56No, I'll call you back later.
00:29:05You're all right now.
00:29:09Where am I?
00:29:11You're in my office.
00:29:12I'm a doctor.
00:29:14How long have I been here?
00:29:16Two hours.
00:29:17Two hours?
00:29:27It's a baby.
00:29:28Here, sniff this.
00:29:31Better now?
00:29:33Thanks.
00:29:34Tell me, your head injury,
00:29:36it's a recent one, isn't it?
00:29:38About a year.
00:29:41Was I really out for two hours?
00:29:42Yes.
00:29:44I've never lasted that long before.
00:29:46You've gone out like this before?
00:29:49Yeah, but, you know, like a few seconds at a time.
00:29:55You didn't call anybody? You didn't tell me?
00:29:57No, no, no.
00:29:59I thought you might have looked in my identification papers.
00:30:02Oh, I did, Major, but I thought I'd wait until you came round.
00:30:05Not everybody wants his associates to know about his difficulties.
00:30:09Yeah, thanks.
00:30:12I'll make a phone call.
00:30:15But I thought you didn't want anybody told.
00:30:19I just want to phone him and let him know I'll be back there shortly.
00:30:33Extension 269, please.
00:30:37Hello, Miss Gray?
00:30:39Yes, I know.
00:30:41I was delayed.
00:30:43I'll be along shortly.
00:30:46All right, thanks.
00:30:51I'd better sit down for a minute.
00:30:52By all means.
00:30:54Jack?
00:30:56Jack?
00:30:58Jack?
00:31:00Jack?
00:31:02Just bear your arm a minute, will you, please?
00:31:06What's this for?
00:31:07Oh, it's just a little stimulant.
00:31:09It'll help you.
00:31:12Doctor?
00:31:14There's something I think that you should know.
00:31:18You see, in my job, I'm expected to be in complete command of my senses at all times.
00:31:24And this two-hour thing is getting me worried.
00:31:28I think I'll turn myself in to the army medical authorities and let them handle it.
00:31:31But this is just to help you temporarily.
00:31:33To see you home, so to speak.
00:31:35No. No, I know what I've got to do now, and I'm going to do it.
00:31:38But, Major, I must insist on this.
00:31:40You are under my care, and I consider this a medical necessity.
00:31:45Listen, Doctor.
00:31:46Where I come from, it's up to the patient to decide whatever particular doctor that he wants.
00:31:50Now, if I owe you anything, I'll be glad to pay it.
00:31:53Just how much do you propose paying us, Major?
00:31:57What's this?
00:31:58Major, I know you're a brave man.
00:32:01I don't think you're a foolish one.
00:32:03What do you want from me?
00:32:05Not your money.
00:32:06The doctor wishes to treat you, and you resist him.
00:32:10I ask only that you should cooperate.
00:32:14Extend your arm.
00:32:31Get him up. On the table.
00:33:02Don't try to talk.
00:33:04You'll be asleep in a moment.
00:33:06Relax.
00:33:08Relax.
00:33:10I am your chief, and you will obey.
00:33:15Obey.
00:33:17I am your chief.
00:33:24Oh, would you try that number again, please?
00:33:26One more time.
00:33:28Oh, would you try that number again, please?
00:33:30Well, try it again.
00:33:32Bitte.
00:33:34Oh, now, be a good girl.
00:33:36That's what you're getting paid for, isn't it?
00:33:38That's the idea.
00:33:41Oh, is he?
00:33:42Oh, thanks very much.
00:33:55Don't think. Drink.
00:33:57Welcome home.
00:33:58How did you get in here?
00:33:59Your porter let me in.
00:34:00But why the vile mood?
00:34:02Oh, three days of pure grass.
00:34:04Wretched train journeys.
00:34:06Just coming into the station,
00:34:07the old man tells me he wants to be down at headquarters at once.
00:34:10Be down in about a quarter of an hour.
00:34:12Helen's expected here any minute.
00:34:17By the way, did you get my wire asking Tom to meet me here?
00:34:19Well, I just finished phoning him again.
00:34:20He's not in his room.
00:34:22Very elusive character, you know.
00:34:23He keeps himself locked in that office all day,
00:34:25and he's either not in his room at night,
00:34:26or he's not taking calls.
00:34:29Well, thanks for the welcoming committee, Johnny.
00:34:31I'd be very pleased to know if you'd do the vanishing act.
00:34:33I know precisely what you mean,
00:34:34and I'm off with just one for the road.
00:34:37What road?
00:34:38The well-known one.
00:34:39To ruin.
00:34:42Hello, darling.
00:34:44Oh, it's you.
00:34:46Yes, it's me.
00:34:47Darling is there.
00:34:49Are you leaving?
00:34:51I've been ejected.
00:34:53Well, my soldier boy is back from the war.
00:34:57Yes, my darling, and waiting for the traditional welcome.
00:35:01Oh, my angel.
00:35:03After three days of generals at my elbow,
00:35:05I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have you in my arms again.
00:35:10Even if it is only for a few minutes.
00:35:12What happened?
00:35:14Why only for a few minutes?
00:35:16Well, the general wants me to return to him.
00:35:19But still, it probably won't be late.
00:35:22Oh, Mark.
00:35:24Your first evening home.
00:35:26But what can I do?
00:35:28Does it have to be just right now?
00:35:31Well, we'll let him wait for ten minutes.
00:35:36Are you really angry?
00:35:38Well, I suppose I should be grateful for your
00:35:40whole ten minutes of your precious time.
00:35:43You're not being very fair, Helen.
00:35:45You know what my life is.
00:35:46How can I?
00:35:48I only see you a couple of minutes each day.
00:35:52Your life is locked away behind a steel door.
00:35:57I may as well tell you, Mark.
00:36:00I'm thinking of going home.
00:36:02Oh, no, you can't do that.
00:36:06Darling, I would like to be with you.
00:36:09I mean, I mean really help.
00:36:12Then I wouldn't...
00:36:13Then I wouldn't feel useless and I wouldn't feel
00:36:15shut out by that steel door.
00:36:18My darling, I...
00:36:19I've got an assistant, I've got a secretary,
00:36:21I've got a chauffeur.
00:36:23Besides, if you were in my office,
00:36:24you can just imagine the amount of work I'd get done.
00:36:27Well, you'd better hurry.
00:36:30Your bus is waiting for you.
00:36:31No, Helen, don't go like that.
00:36:34All right, I love you.
00:36:35Good night.
00:36:38Helen, wait.
00:36:40Helen, wait.
00:36:46Cleaver here.
00:36:48Yes, Miss Gray.
00:36:51I just got in.
00:36:53No, I'm just off to headquarters.
00:36:56Yes, that's a good idea.
00:36:57You meet me there.
00:36:59By the way, have you seen Mary Brent at all?
00:37:03I see.
00:37:05All right, I was just looking for her.
00:37:07All right, see you soon.
00:37:10Bye.
00:37:18Have you seen anything of Tom Brent today?
00:37:20No.
00:37:22I saw him the last night on the concert.
00:37:25Oh.
00:37:27Didn't you have lunch with him the day after?
00:37:30Didn't he tell you?
00:37:31Well, I haven't been in touch with him, you know.
00:37:33Well, it was just one of those things,
00:37:34a misconnection.
00:37:35Yes, but didn't he ring afterwards or anything?
00:37:37Oh, Mark, it doesn't matter in the least.
00:37:39I have to go back to Yvonne.
00:37:40Good night.
00:37:41Yes, but Helen...
00:37:51Oh, do you by any chance know...
00:37:52I'm here, Miss Gray.
00:37:55Oh, I thought you might be with the General, sir.
00:37:57No.
00:37:58I expect to hear from him in a few minutes.
00:38:01I hope I didn't get you away from anything.
00:38:05What's the smile for?
00:38:06Well, if you don't mind my saying so, sir,
00:38:07it's the first time I've ever shown any concern
00:38:09about that possibility.
00:38:11Well, I just had a little lecture on my inhumanity to women.
00:38:15I suppose it softened me up a bit.
00:38:17Haven't got Major Brent to take you out
00:38:19on one of these long evenings?
00:38:20Of all possibilities,
00:38:21that's just about the most far-fetched.
00:38:23Oh, like that, is it?
00:38:25I wonder what he does do.
00:38:28I can't get the slightest clue where he is tonight.
00:38:30Well, he's usually in the office at this time.
00:38:31I thought you'd know that.
00:38:34And how am I supposed to know that?
00:38:35I haven't been here.
00:38:36But isn't this the time you always ring him?
00:38:40We seem to have our wires crossed.
00:38:42I haven't spoken with Major Brent since I left.
00:38:46Oh?
00:38:48What's the matter? You don't look so good.
00:38:50Sit down.
00:38:51Perfectly well.
00:38:53Did you say you haven't spoken to Major Brent?
00:38:56Here, what's the matter with you?
00:38:57I've never had to repeat myself to you before.
00:38:59But not the day you left.
00:39:01At nine o'clock that night.
00:39:02And the next two nights at the same time.
00:39:04When did you get this impression?
00:39:06When I heard him talking to you.
00:39:08He called you chief.
00:39:10You were giving him instructions three times.
00:39:12Not once.
00:39:14What is all this?
00:39:23There's something wrong with Major Brent.
00:39:26He's ill, I think.
00:39:28The first day you left him in charge,
00:39:30he didn't come back until you called him chief.
00:39:32He didn't come back after lunch.
00:39:34He phoned about 3.30 to say he'd been held up,
00:39:36but was on his way.
00:39:38I waited for him, but he didn't show up till after eight.
00:39:41He looked terrible.
00:39:43As though he was sick with drinking or something.
00:39:47He said he was going to lock up and wouldn't need me.
00:39:50He said he'd take all the calls on the direct line.
00:39:54He came in and locked up,
00:39:56and then the phone rang.
00:39:59How would you know who phoned?
00:40:00There's no check on my private line.
00:40:02He didn't understand the intercom.
00:40:04It was switched on,
00:40:06and you know how you can hear everything
00:40:08from your office into mine.
00:40:10I was just putting on my hat and coat.
00:40:12I don't remember instructing you
00:40:14to carry out counter-espionage on Major Brent.
00:40:16Perhaps, sir, you'll be glad that it hadn't like this.
00:40:19All this time I've worked for you,
00:40:21I've done my duty,
00:40:23and never before has it been questioned.
00:40:25Oh, please, don't let's have any more female dramatics, Miss Gray.
00:40:28I've had enough of them.
00:40:31Now, just go on.
00:40:34You thought, thought, I said,
00:40:36that he was talking to me.
00:40:38Why?
00:40:40I told you.
00:40:42He called you chief
00:40:44and said, yes, he understood.
00:40:46I only heard his end of the conversation through this.
00:40:51And after that?
00:40:53I didn't see him until the next morning.
00:40:55Did he still seem ill?
00:40:57No.
00:40:58Did he still seem ill?
00:41:00It's difficult to tell.
00:41:02He hardly spoke a word.
00:41:04He locked himself in here most of the day.
00:41:07Go on.
00:41:09Well, at nine that night,
00:41:11there was another phone call.
00:41:13I mean, I heard the phone ringing.
00:41:16The intercom was switched off,
00:41:18so I didn't hear a word that was said.
00:41:20So you couldn't have used up the second night?
00:41:22Colonel, no one in the world,
00:41:24including you, can use that name to me.
00:41:28All right, all right, I'm sorry.
00:41:31Now, listen to me for a minute.
00:41:33You've always resented Major Brent's
00:41:35coming here from the beginning.
00:41:37That's not true.
00:41:39Well, it's obvious.
00:41:41I'm not saying you're speaking out of malice.
00:41:43For your information,
00:41:45Major Brent has orders to study those files.
00:41:47It's a job that will take nights as well as days.
00:41:49As to that telephone, well,
00:41:51it's a coincidence.
00:41:53Some friend that he's made,
00:41:55and you misunderstood them.
00:41:56It's not just what you call my resentment.
00:41:59I tell you there's something terribly wrong.
00:42:04Last night, I waited in there
00:42:06until he'd locked himself in and taken the phone call.
00:42:09Then I heard a sort of clicking sound,
00:42:11like the shutter of a camera or something.
00:42:13Then the lights fused,
00:42:15and the porter at the gate said
00:42:17the short circuit came from in here.
00:42:21Have you said anything about this to anybody else?
00:42:24No, I didn't know who to go to.
00:42:26After all, you'd left Major Brent in charge.
00:42:29I see.
00:42:33Miss Gray,
00:42:35I don't question your loyalty to me,
00:42:37but, you know,
00:42:39you wouldn't be the first person in this work
00:42:41who'd caught espionage fever.
00:42:43And that's when you start looking for spies under your bed,
00:42:45and every word, look and movement
00:42:47contains some frightening secret.
00:42:51I think you're overworked,
00:42:53a little hysterical.
00:42:54I suggest you take a little holiday.
00:42:56I can get a relief worker in the morning.
00:42:58No, Colonel, it's...
00:43:00Never mind, I'll get you a car.
00:43:05It's nine o'clock.
00:43:24You answer it.
00:43:29Security.
00:43:31Miss Gray speaking.
00:43:34No, Major Brent isn't in yet.
00:43:38Am I expecting him?
00:43:40Yes, he should be in any minute.
00:43:42Could I say who...
00:43:49Was it the voice of anyone you knew?
00:43:51No, sir.
00:43:54You go anyhow.
00:43:56Try and get some rest.
00:43:58We'll discuss this further tomorrow if necessary.
00:44:01Try not to worry about anything.
00:44:05Thank you, sir.
00:44:15Good night.
00:44:16Good night, Ken.
00:44:24Good night.
00:44:55Guard room.
00:44:57In case Major Brent comes through the gate.
00:44:59He has.
00:45:01I see. Thank you.
00:45:24Good night.
00:45:55Guard room.
00:45:57This is Major Brent.
00:45:59I'm locking up now.
00:46:01Check you right back.
00:46:25All locked up.
00:46:27Right.
00:46:30Colonel Cleveland.
00:46:55Yes?
00:46:59Yes, Chief.
00:47:02Tonight.
00:47:05Yes, Chief.
00:47:24Good night.
00:47:54Good night.
00:48:24Good night.
00:48:55How about you're doing, Tom?
00:48:58Put that camera down.
00:49:02Don't move.
00:49:06Now go ahead, Tom.
00:49:08What is all this?
00:49:11Tell me.
00:49:13What is all this?
00:49:15What is all this?
00:49:17What is all this?
00:49:19What is all this?
00:49:21What is all this?
00:49:23Tell me, Tom. I want to hear.
00:49:27I'm obeying my orders.
00:49:40Tom.
00:49:43Sit down there.
00:49:46Now what were the orders?
00:49:50To...
00:49:52Read the file.
00:49:54To make a copy of the master plan.
00:49:56Tom.
00:49:58This is life and death.
00:50:00Who gave you those orders?
00:50:03The Chief.
00:50:05My Chief.
00:50:07What's happened, Tom?
00:50:09You're ill.
00:50:10I'm not.
00:50:12I'm fit.
00:50:14It's my duty to be fit.
00:50:17I won't let my Chief down.
00:50:18All right.
00:50:20It's just for a minute.
00:50:22Each time it lasts just for a minute.
00:50:28There was something wrong, Tom.
00:50:30Why didn't you tell me?
00:50:32I've got to know everything that's happened since I left.
00:50:35Think of everything you've done.
00:50:36Everyone you've spoken to.
00:50:40I can't remember.
00:50:41Try, try.
00:50:42I can't remember.
00:50:45I can't remember.
00:50:46I can't remember.
00:50:50Major.
00:50:53Stand up.
00:50:58I am your commanding officer.
00:51:00I order you to make your report.
00:51:02You'll omit nothing.
00:51:04You understand?
00:51:06You will remember.
00:51:08Only my orders count.
00:51:11I order you to remember.
00:51:16There were...
00:51:19There were two men.
00:51:20The one?
00:51:22Two men?
00:51:24Who were they?
00:51:26They...
00:51:29I thought I told you to go home, Miss Gray.
00:51:32Is that you, Cleaver?
00:51:33Cleaver?
00:51:34Is that you?
00:51:36Yes.
00:51:39Would you mind opening up your confounded box of tricks?
00:51:43I'll take a minute, sir.
00:51:47I'm going to take the biggest chance of my life.
00:51:50I'm going to cover for you.
00:51:52Now, for my sake and yours,
00:51:54try and take a grip on yourself.
00:51:57Sit there.
00:51:58Now, don't move.
00:52:17Where the devil were you?
00:52:18You said you'd be in in a minute.
00:52:20I'm sorry, General.
00:52:21I'm ready now.
00:52:22It's just...
00:52:23It's too late now.
00:52:24The newspaper men have come and gone.
00:52:25I don't know what I gave them.
00:52:27Major Brent.
00:52:29This is what kept me here.
00:52:30Major Brent has been in an accident.
00:52:32He was on his way to me to report
00:52:33and his car was rammed.
00:52:34Badly shaken.
00:52:35Perhaps some concussion.
00:52:36Great Jupiter.
00:52:37Now, don't try to move, old man.
00:52:39These crazy men.
00:52:41They're going to kill me.
00:52:43They're going to kill me.
00:52:44Don't move, old man.
00:52:45These crazy motorists in this country,
00:52:47they're all invented.
00:52:48I must get a doctor.
00:52:49Well, I was just going to, sir.
00:52:51Hello, switchboard?
00:52:52General Goulding here.
00:52:54Tell the medical officer on duty
00:52:55to report to Colonel Cleaver's office immediately.
00:52:56Well, he may not be so serious.
00:52:57Why take a chance?
00:52:59Now, take it easy, old man.
00:53:00You'll be all right.
00:53:02Get him to a bed or to a hospital,
00:53:03whatever the doctor says.
00:53:04Then come down the hall.
00:53:05I want to talk to you.
00:53:06Very good, sir.
00:53:07Damn motorists around here.
00:53:08I'd like to sit them all under an artillery barrage.
00:53:15The doctor will be here in a minute.
00:53:16Perhaps I can keep him out.
00:53:17Anyway, we've got to work fast.
00:53:18How are you feeling?
00:53:20Major, stand up.
00:53:24You'll now obey my orders.
00:53:26Try to think back to three days ago.
00:53:29You had an appointment with someone.
00:53:32Remember who it was?
00:53:35Remember.
00:53:37The safe.
00:53:38The combination of a safe and a gun.
00:53:41Remember.
00:53:42The safe.
00:53:43The combination of a safe.
00:53:46Helen.
00:53:47Yes.
00:53:48Helen, Helen.
00:53:50When she arrived to meet you, you were gone.
00:53:51Where did you go?
00:53:52What happened?
00:53:55She was late.
00:53:57The doctor.
00:53:59I was sick.
00:54:01Zhamak took me out.
00:54:02Who's Zhamak, Tom?
00:54:04Zhamak.
00:54:06Otto Zhamak.
00:54:08A contact man.
00:54:10Hold it.
00:54:16She was late.
00:54:21Hi, Major.
00:54:22I'm afraid I've got a beastly headache.
00:54:25A headache, huh?
00:54:26Is that why the general called me over so urgently?
00:54:28Well, I...
00:54:30I didn't want him to, but you know how he is.
00:54:32I've got a lot of work to finish up.
00:54:33If that is all, I have something here.
00:54:35I must get back myself.
00:54:39Tom!
00:54:40Tom, open up!
00:54:42Tom!
00:54:44Tom!
00:54:46Don't answer that phone!
00:54:48Tom!
00:54:49Yes?
00:54:50Open up!
00:54:51Tom!
00:54:53Yes, Chief.
00:54:54Tom!
00:54:57Operator.
00:54:58Colonel Cleaver here.
00:54:59I'm locked out of my office.
00:55:00There's a call on our private line.
00:55:02Is there anything you can do about it?
00:55:04No, sir.
00:55:05No, sir.
00:55:06It's a private line.
00:55:07Is there anything you can do about it?
00:55:09All I will put me through is that guard room.
00:55:12Guard room!
00:55:13This is Colonel Cleaver here.
00:55:14I'm locked out of my office.
00:55:15Now, this is urgent.
00:55:16Send an engineer up at once.
00:55:17Help me break the security lock.
00:55:19Right.
00:55:21Tom!
00:55:22Tom, open up!
00:55:23Yes.
00:55:24I have it here.
00:55:29Right.
00:55:37Tom!
00:55:39Tom!
00:56:05All set.
00:56:07Here he is.
00:56:08Coming.
00:56:10Come on, Colonel.
00:56:11Give me that key.
00:56:13Come here.
00:56:14Now, get that open on the double.
00:56:15Yes, sir.
00:56:34Completed.
00:56:37Yes, chief.
00:56:49Don't shoot!
00:56:54Tom!
00:56:56Tom!
00:57:05I'm warning you, Lieutenant.
00:57:06If there are any leaks about this from any of your men,
00:57:08the Army's going to save itself a lot of money
00:57:10by the sudden reduction of your salary.
00:57:13There's to be no communications with the local press
00:57:15except in the form of official statements
00:57:17coming from this office.
00:57:22Operator.
00:57:23Operator.
00:57:24I'm trying to get through to Miss Gray's private number.
00:57:26Are you sure...
00:57:27Oh, hello?
00:57:28Hello, dear.
00:57:30Listen, you'd better get back here immediately.
00:57:32Is there anybody with you?
00:57:34Did you check in the hospital for me?
00:57:35I see.
00:57:38Excuse me.
00:57:39Mark, where's Harry?
00:57:40Hold on a minute.
00:57:42What are you doing here?
00:57:43I told you not to come out.
00:57:44Don't be a fool, Harry.
00:57:45I have to know what happened.
00:57:47Is that poor boy dead?
00:57:48Get in here.
00:57:54All right, Sergeant.
00:57:55We're all equally humble and part of a willful woman.
00:57:59Hello.
00:58:00Tell Major Probert I want all hospital reports
00:58:02sent immediately through to my office.
00:58:04Right.
00:58:07Well, Sergeant,
00:58:08I want your squad to continue the search.
00:58:10You'll come in touch with the local police
00:58:12to let us know the AWOL soldier we're looking for.
00:58:14This is a private matter.
00:58:15We want to keep it that way, understand?
00:58:16Yes, sir.
00:58:18Please, Yvonne.
00:58:20Will you tell this woman it was an accident?
00:58:22Major Brent was handling a gun
00:58:23and he shot himself accidentally.
00:58:25That's what it was, Yvonne.
00:58:26Now, please, my dear,
00:58:27will you go home and for once in your life
00:58:28don't talk to anybody?
00:58:29Why would he be handling a gun?
00:58:32Oh, heavens, Harry.
00:58:34I feel sick.
00:58:35Give me a cigarette or something.
00:58:38I teased him
00:58:40because he was not like the other boys we usually get.
00:58:44I was even trying to find a girl for him.
00:58:48It's dreadful to think what can happen.
00:58:52Yes?
00:58:54The hospital.
00:58:55Put him through.
00:58:57Yes?
00:59:01Yes.
00:59:05How is he?
00:59:07Is he dead?
00:59:09No.
00:59:10Still in a critical condition.
00:59:12Horrible.
00:59:14Just horrible.
00:59:15Yes, my dear, it is.
00:59:16Now, please, will you go over to my office
00:59:17and wait in my reception room?
00:59:18I have to talk to Mark.
00:59:19All right.
00:59:20Don't be long.
00:59:21You understand.
00:59:26I don't know.
00:59:27The way things are today,
00:59:28it looks as though one's own mother
00:59:29could turn out to be a traitor.
00:59:30Tom was not a traitor.
00:59:31Don't take that tone with me, Colonel.
00:59:33You protected this man all along
00:59:34and you're still trying to cover up for him.
00:59:36Brent was your choice, your prodigy.
00:59:38By your own admission,
00:59:39you found him photographing top-secret documents.
00:59:42I don't think he knew what he was doing.
00:59:45He must have been drugged, hypnotized.
00:59:47Oh, please, Colonel.
00:59:48I know these fantasy novels are all the vogue, but...
00:59:51You know how he looked.
00:59:53It wasn't hard to make you believe
00:59:54that he was suffering from concussion.
00:59:55Remember how he sat in that chair.
00:59:57Couldn't he have been play-acting for you, too?
00:59:59How do you know that he's been 100% on the level with you?
01:00:03I didn't believe that.
01:00:05I pack up my job tomorrow.
01:00:07I believe he was absolutely in the power of these people.
01:00:09But why should they want to kill him
01:00:11if they had him under control?
01:00:12Because he'd finished the job they wanted.
01:00:18Button.
01:00:19Yes.
01:00:20I think you have the same butt that I have.
01:00:23Yes.
01:00:26Why should they want to try and shoot him
01:00:28before he'd hand it over to the camp?
01:00:32The film.
01:00:36He took it out.
01:00:39Could he have thrown it out of the window?
01:00:41No, I don't think so. The window was closed.
01:00:43The shot came through the glass.
01:00:45He could have hidden it somewhere in this room
01:00:47or outside with the doctor.
01:00:52How big was it?
01:00:53Oh, tiny.
01:00:54Microfilm.
01:00:56Could have been put into anything.
01:00:59Cigarette box, for instance.
01:01:06Box of matches.
01:01:08No.
01:01:10No, couldn't have been that.
01:01:13Wait.
01:01:15He used to carry a lighter.
01:01:17Big one.
01:01:19Yes.
01:01:21I remember it wasn't in his pockets when we entered them.
01:01:24Now, a dozen people have been in this room since it was shot.
01:01:27The doctor, the police officers, the guard.
01:01:31The people who carried him out.
01:01:33Any one of them might have taken him.
01:01:36It's what I've suspected all along, what we've both known all the time.
01:01:38What do you mean?
01:01:39Someone from the inside has been transmitting information.
01:01:43And that same person has taken the lighter.
01:01:46There couldn't have been any of the outsiders.
01:01:49That leaves...
01:01:51That leaves the guard and the porter.
01:01:54But neither of them took it.
01:01:57You're forgetting my wife.
01:01:59You're forgetting Yvonne.
01:02:01Yes, of course.
01:02:02She asked for a cigarette and she was using a lighter.
01:02:04She took it from this desk to try and light it.
01:02:07Then you answered the call about the hospital and we haven't seen it since.
01:02:11We must get her back.
01:02:12She could have taken it by mistake.
01:02:13After all, she was upset about the whole thing.
01:02:16Hello, General Golding here.
01:02:18Get me my reception room, please.
01:02:20Hold it, General.
01:02:23This is it.
01:02:26Hello.
01:02:27Never mind, I'll change my mind.
01:02:32See if the film's in there.
01:02:40Do you realize what I was thinking?
01:02:41Do you know what was in my mind?
01:02:44Then you know how I must feel about Tom Prince.
01:02:51Yes?
01:02:52This is Miss Gray, sir.
01:02:54Johnny Orwell phoned me and told me what happened.
01:02:57I came back in case you might need me.
01:02:59Thank you, Miss Gray.
01:03:01I may call you in a moment.
01:03:03I may call you in a moment.
01:03:13What are you doing?
01:03:15There's only one way of proving that Tom Brent is not a traitor.
01:03:18And that's by finding the contact who will come for this lighter.
01:03:22It'll be tonight.
01:03:24I don't think they dare risk waiting until tomorrow.
01:03:26But who do you think...
01:03:27Any one of a dozen people who rightfully come to this room every day.
01:03:31Miss Gray, for instance.
01:03:33But it couldn't possibly be her.
01:03:34You told me yourself that she was the one who warned you what Brent was doing.
01:03:37That may have been a blind.
01:03:39We shall soon see.
01:03:46Oh, good evening, sir.
01:03:48I didn't realize...
01:03:49Oh, that's all right. Good evening.
01:03:51Miss Gray, I don't think there's anything just now.
01:03:54But I'd be very grateful if you'd stand by.
01:03:56Yes, sir.
01:04:00How is Major Brent, sir?
01:04:02Badly wounded.
01:04:03But we're very hopeful.
01:04:05All events, it'll mean a long stay in hospital.
01:04:07I see.
01:04:09I thought perhaps I might collect the Major's things.
01:04:14Oh, yes.
01:04:16He may have left some in the washroom or his desk.
01:04:19Well, better have a look.
01:04:21Yes, sir.
01:04:26Well, if it's overcoat, you'd better take that.
01:04:29He hardly used it.
01:04:41I guess this is about all.
01:04:45Miss Gray.
01:04:46Yes, sir.
01:04:48Thank you very much.
01:04:50Well, if it were Miss Gray...
01:04:55I think I'd rather not know.
01:04:57Well, it's clear enough that it's not.
01:05:00I can't stand much of this.
01:05:02Our own family.
01:05:04I wonder who's next on the list.
01:05:05I'll tell if it's with the King or Sir...
01:05:07Oh.
01:05:08Oh, excuse me, sir.
01:05:09I didn't realize she meant you.
01:05:11What is it, Orwell?
01:05:12I've got the papers.
01:05:13I've got the papers.
01:05:14I've got the papers.
01:05:15I've got the papers.
01:05:16I've got the papers.
01:05:17I can't stand much of this.
01:05:18Why, Miss Gray?
01:05:19I didn't realize she meant you.
01:05:20Why, Miss Gray?
01:05:21I've got the doctor's certificate and a prepared press statement.
01:05:23I thought you'd like to check it.
01:05:24I've got the doctor's certificate and a prepared press statement.
01:05:25I thought you'd like to check it.
01:05:26All this on top of everything, it's killing me.
01:05:28You know, tragic accident while examining revolver, et cetera, et cetera.
01:05:29You know, tragic accident while examining revolver, et cetera, et cetera.
01:05:31Tell me, Maya.
01:05:33Do you think anybody's going to believe what we say?
01:05:35No job to make them believe it.
01:05:36Yes, but I...
01:05:37Yes, Miss Gray.
01:05:38Yes, Miss Gray.
01:05:39Is it all right if I leave for the hospital now, sir?
01:05:47Supposing some of the newsboys get hold of the doctor?
01:05:49He knows what to say.
01:05:51What about the guard who saw the shot fired?
01:05:53They've had instructions to clamp down until further notice.
01:05:55It'll be a miracle if we can make this story stick.
01:05:58I don't get any sleep anyhow, but with this on my mind, what a place, what a job.
01:06:03Don't lose any sleep on our account. Just take care of that job.
01:06:06My job? I'm giving that away to the first asker.
01:06:10Excuse me, General, but I need a drink, and I need it fast.
01:06:13Just a minute, Orwell.
01:06:17I'm coming with you.
01:06:18Oh, that's great. I've got something in my office.
01:06:22What am I doing? I'm out of my mind.
01:06:32Coming, General?
01:06:33Yes. Call me if you find anything, Mark.
01:06:35Right, sir.
01:06:47♪♪♪
01:07:18Mark?
01:07:23Come in.
01:07:29I just left Yvonne. She thought you might want to see me.
01:07:33She did?
01:07:34Yes.
01:07:35I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
01:07:37No, it's all right.
01:07:38I just wanted to see you.
01:07:40Oh, I'm sorry.
01:07:41I didn't mean to interrupt you.
01:07:43It's all right.
01:07:44She thought you might want to see me.
01:07:46She did?
01:07:47Don't you?
01:07:49Oh, you are still angry with me.
01:07:52You have work to do.
01:07:54No.
01:07:56I was expecting.
01:08:00Oh, Mark, I know you must feel so terribly upset about what happened to Tom.
01:08:07And I feel awful how I acted earlier this evening.
01:08:10If it means anything to you, I'll change my mind.
01:08:18You mean you're staying?
01:08:22Has your job become more interesting?
01:08:25Mark, why do you treat me like this?
01:08:29You know why I'm staying.
01:08:32That's funny.
01:08:34You're staying, I'm going.
01:08:36You're going?
01:08:37Until I can be replaced here.
01:08:39Why?
01:08:40Because I'm no longer fit for my job.
01:08:42Because I have no longer faith in the people I was doing it with.
01:08:52I don't understand.
01:08:54Is it something about Tom?
01:08:59Something has happened tonight.
01:09:01Something worse than just Tom being shot.
01:09:04Was it something he did?
01:09:06What is it?
01:09:08You don't know.
01:09:10No?
01:09:12Why do you look at me like that?
01:09:19You are so strange.
01:09:21Is it something about me?
01:09:23Something I have done?
01:09:26Helen.
01:09:29For the sake of everything, we have been together, Mark.
01:09:32Tell me what you are afraid of.
01:09:34Let me help you.
01:09:36But you have, Helen.
01:09:38You'll never know how much.
01:09:41Tell me then.
01:09:42It's not important. Let's forget it.
01:09:46You'll never know how small the things still between me and the depths of despair.
01:09:52I don't understand, but I don't care.
01:09:56I go now and leave you alone.
01:09:58Good night, darling.
01:09:59Good night, darling.
01:10:02Good night, darling.
01:10:07Good night.
01:10:10Will you phone me tomorrow?
01:10:14Such a small thing.
01:10:17A lighter that works and one that doesn't.
01:10:21Stay where you are, Helen.
01:10:24Give me that lighter.
01:10:26I don't know what you are talking about.
01:10:27The one you've got in your pocket.
01:10:29The one you exchanged for this one when my back was turned.
01:10:33Too much sentiment makes a man dull.
01:10:36To think that I couldn't think of so simple a trick as two identical lighters.
01:10:41And your friend should also be more careful about details.
01:10:46Come on, give it me.
01:10:48Not that it makes any difference.
01:10:50I'd already removed the film.
01:10:58You'll never know how much I didn't want it to be you.
01:11:01Please, don't make this seem longer than it has to be.
01:11:04Why don't you call the guard?
01:11:06Because I want to take a good look at you.
01:11:09You see, I've waited a long time for this.
01:11:12Waited to see the face of my enemy.
01:11:16My enemy.
01:11:18Mark.
01:11:21You can still walk out of this building free.
01:11:24In return for what?
01:11:25Yes.
01:11:26Your signature to a confession.
01:11:28That you've been transmitting secret information from this building to your organization.
01:11:32A statement of your willingness to provide me with evidence
01:11:35that will enable the police to arrest all your group.
01:11:39A statement also of the truth about what happened to Tom Brent.
01:11:44All you have to do is sign.
01:11:47I'll take you to the police myself and I'll guarantee your release.
01:11:51Do you really think it would do me any good?
01:11:53They would know who gave the information.
01:11:56In your hands I might get only a jail sentence.
01:12:00With them, the sentence is sure.
01:12:03It would be death.
01:12:04Not if you brought them what they expect you to bring.
01:12:07Yes.
01:12:08Yes.
01:12:09You can walk out with this too.
01:12:11It's worthless.
01:12:13The plan and master file were a decoy to catch a traitor.
01:12:17I just didn't realize I'd have to pay so high a price.
01:12:20I think Tom Brent was successful in the job he came to do.
01:12:24I'm trading your freedom
01:12:27and his future.
01:12:29Sign.
01:12:44Come in.
01:12:51I want you to detain Miss Quaden in the guard room until I call.
01:12:59Mark.
01:13:03There is one part of all this that wasn't a lie.
01:13:09I want you to know that.
01:13:21Keep me at the hospital.
01:13:25Colonel Cleaver here.
01:13:27I want to report on Major Brent.
01:13:30Is the operation completed?
01:13:34Operation successful.
01:13:50Operation successful.