5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay written by Michael Wilson was based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero (original German: Der Fall Cicero) by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German embassy in Ankara, Turkey (1943–44).
The film is based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, a spy with the code name of Cicero who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. Bazna would photograph top-secret documents and deliver the pictures to Franz von Papen, the German ambassador in Turkey and a former German chancellor, using Moyzisch as the intermediary.
James Mason plays Ulysses Diello (Cicero), the character based on Bazna. The film also stars Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Herbert Berghof and Walter Hampden.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director for Mankiewicz and Best Screenplay for Wilson. Mankiewicz was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures by the Directors Guild of America and Wilson was nominated for Best Written American Drama by the Writers Guild of America. He won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.
The film is based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, a spy with the code name of Cicero who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. Bazna would photograph top-secret documents and deliver the pictures to Franz von Papen, the German ambassador in Turkey and a former German chancellor, using Moyzisch as the intermediary.
James Mason plays Ulysses Diello (Cicero), the character based on Bazna. The film also stars Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Herbert Berghof and Walter Hampden.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director for Mankiewicz and Best Screenplay for Wilson. Mankiewicz was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures by the Directors Guild of America and Wilson was nominated for Best Written American Drama by the Writers Guild of America. He won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.
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00:00:00On the 18th of October 1950, a member of the British Parliament rose in the House of Commons
00:00:19to address a question to the Foreign Secretary.
00:00:22This book purports to be a true account of espionage.
00:00:26Written by a former German military attaché, it reveals the most astonishing details of
00:00:31a case said to have occurred within His Majesty's Embassy in Turkey in 1944, and in which hundreds
00:00:37of top secrets, including plans for the invasion of Normandy, were stolen and transmitted to
00:00:42the Germans.
00:00:45Has an inquiry into these fantastic charges taken place?
00:00:48Measures have been taken to prevent any future recurrence of such an incredible lapse in
00:00:53security.
00:00:54However, it must be regretfully admitted that, in substance, the story to which the Honourable
00:00:59Member refers is a true one.
00:01:24The Honourable Member of the House of Commons, the Honourable Member of the House of Commons,
00:01:31the Honourable Member of the House of Commons, the Honourable Member of the House of Commons,
00:01:38the Honourable Member of the House of Commons, the Honourable Member of the House of Commons,
00:01:45the Honourable Member of the House of Commons, the Honourable Member of the House of Commons,
00:01:52the Honourable Member of the House of Commons.
00:02:03To be exact, our story began on 4 March 1944, it was a day of gruelling fighting on the
00:02:11widely spread battlefronts of the Second World War, but the sun was shining serenely on neutral
00:02:17Turkey.
00:02:18The very same evening, on March the 4th, 1944,
00:02:21a Turkish minister held a reception for the entire diplomatic corps.
00:02:25The place? Ankara, the capital of neutral Turkey.
00:02:34If Excellency will excuse me, I have suddenly acquired a rather severe headache.
00:02:38I've had mine for some time.
00:02:40Perhaps from standing too much?
00:02:43From listening too much. Wagner makes me ill.
00:02:46Herr von Papen, I hope your country appreciates you.
00:02:49You are the only unpredictable German I have ever met.
00:03:17I cannot remember when I've seen a lady as beautiful as you,
00:03:20eat as heartily as you.
00:03:25Just a little more of the salad, if you please.
00:03:46No one admires Turkish food more than I.
00:03:49Still the prospect of actually dining from a buffet at a diplomatic reception.
00:03:53The number of actual dinners I eat these days
00:03:56is equal to the number of diplomatic receptions to which I'm lucky enough to be invited.
00:04:00Champagne?
00:04:02I have beer, thank you.
00:04:04I've often wondered, Countess, why did you leave Warsaw?
00:04:07Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.
00:04:10Then why did you come here?
00:04:12You and your late husband had lived so long in England.
00:04:14You had many friends there.
00:04:16I did not consider being bombed in London more attractive than being bombed in Warsaw.
00:04:20You could have returned to your own country, to France.
00:04:23As the impoverished widow of a pro-German Polish count,
00:04:26it would have required courage.
00:04:29I have none.
00:04:31You could have counted upon our protection.
00:04:34I understand you are now protecting my estates
00:04:37and all of my possessions in Poland.
00:04:40Who has them?
00:04:42With Marshal Goering, I believe.
00:04:45Ah, at last.
00:04:48Many of our German friends before the war
00:04:51would come as our guests to hunt wild pig.
00:04:54I refused to invite Goering.
00:04:56I couldn't tolerate his killing a wild pig.
00:04:59It seemed too much like brother against brother.
00:05:04Bon appétit, madame.
00:05:06As always, I've enjoyed.
00:05:08Herr von Papen.
00:05:10Herr von Papen, I need money.
00:05:13These must be difficult times for you, I know.
00:05:16Please, don't be diplomatic for just a moment.
00:05:19You can help me.
00:05:21Nothing would please me more, if I can.
00:05:24I want back what belongs to me.
00:05:26Unfortunately, there is a war.
00:05:28After the war, then?
00:05:29I can give you every assurance.
00:05:31But in the meantime, I can be of service to you, to Germany.
00:05:34If I can prove my worth, then afterwards it would be easier.
00:05:37How would you go about proving it?
00:05:39Loan me the means to live again, here in Ankara.
00:05:42Advance it to me.
00:05:44I can more than make it worth your while.
00:05:46You of all men must know what a fount of knowledge
00:05:49a clever hostess can become.
00:05:51Countess Staviska, are you suggesting
00:05:53that the German government set you up as a spy?
00:05:56I'm suggesting that I can earn my keep.
00:05:59It's a sordid, unrewarding business.
00:06:02Sordid, but not unrewarding.
00:06:04In terms of money, perhaps.
00:06:06What other terms are there?
00:06:08I'm sorry. I'm afraid it's quite impossible.
00:06:12What am I going to do, then?
00:06:14Call upon your friends.
00:06:16I have none that I want.
00:06:18And those who want to be, quite frankly, cannot afford it.
00:06:22I beg your pardon.
00:06:23Yes?
00:06:24Excellency, the British ambassador has just driven up.
00:06:27So soon?
00:06:29Perhaps we can talk longer at the next reception, madame.
00:06:33And it's my turn to arrive for the last half of the evening.
00:06:36One thing about being a neutral.
00:06:38I can come early and stay late.
00:06:40And perhaps continue our conversation with the British ambassador?
00:06:51Come, Moyses.
00:06:52Please, do not look at me as if you had a source of income
00:06:55other than your salary.
00:07:06Thank you.
00:07:36Thank you.
00:08:07Excellency.
00:08:08Yes?
00:08:09The Countess Staviska.
00:08:11What about her?
00:08:13I, um...
00:08:15Based upon something she said to me,
00:08:17I have reason to believe she needs money.
00:08:19You do, Moyses?
00:08:21I assure you that it wasn't I, Excellency, who approached her.
00:08:24However, it occurred to me...
00:08:26No.
00:08:27She has many friends.
00:08:29And I have no reason to believe she needs money.
00:08:32However, it occurred to me...
00:08:33No.
00:08:34She has many friends.
00:08:36Access to many sources.
00:08:38Definitely not.
00:08:39Good night, Moyses.
00:08:41Good night, Excellency.
00:09:03Whatever you do, don't raise your voice.
00:09:05Who are you?
00:09:06Take me to your office.
00:09:07What do you want?
00:09:08Let's get out of this. Take me to your office.
00:09:09Don't be a fool, Moyses.
00:09:10I've brought you the opportunity of your lifetime.
00:09:12Choose right now.
00:09:14You could be the envy of the German Foreign Service.
00:09:17Or you can go through life as a diplomatic valet.
00:09:22After all, what if I were a thief?
00:09:24What could I steal from you?
00:09:32I don't know.
00:09:48Before I state my proposition,
00:09:50let me warn you not to breathe a word of it to anyone except your chief.
00:09:54My life will depend upon your discretion.
00:09:56A responsibility I do not choose to accept.
00:09:58I'm afraid you have no choice.
00:09:59Your life will depend upon it, too.
00:10:02State your proposition.
00:10:04Very well.
00:10:06Certain British documents, classified as most secret,
00:10:09have come into my possession.
00:10:11Military and political documents of utmost value to your government.
00:10:15I'm prepared to sell them.
00:10:17The price is 20,000 pounds.
00:10:20English pounds, sterling.
00:10:2220,000 pounds.
00:10:24Who are you?
00:10:26I'm a spy, obviously.
00:10:28And this is your life work?
00:10:30Espionage.
00:10:31Not exactly.
00:10:34But I have spent a lot of my life preparing for this day.
00:10:38To my knowledge, no spy in history has ever been paid 20,000 pounds for any information.
00:10:43No spy in history has had to sell what I have to sell.
00:10:46Besides, spies are notoriously poor businessmen.
00:10:50Most of them are professional patriots, frustrated liberals, or victims of blackmail.
00:10:54And in all such cases, the emotional involvement weakens their bargaining position
00:10:58and destroys sound business judgment.
00:11:00Would you consider it sound business for a German government
00:11:04to pay 20,000 pounds to an unidentified amateur
00:11:08for a set of so-called secret documents?
00:11:10Not so-called. Not secret.
00:11:15Most secret. Top secret.
00:11:18I'm sure they are.
00:11:20And now I have more serious matters to attend to.
00:11:23I'll have an attendant show you out.
00:11:26Moyzisch.
00:11:30It appears I must think for both of us.
00:11:33First, you'll inform Herr von Papen of my offer.
00:11:35Naturally, he'll have to check with Berlin.
00:11:37I'll give you three days to consider my proposition.
00:11:40On the 7th of March at 3 in the afternoon,
00:11:42I'll telephone you here and ask if you've received a letter for me.
00:11:45I'll call myself Pierre.
00:11:47If you say no, you'll never see me again.
00:11:49If you say yes, it'll mean you've accepted my offer.
00:11:51But I must have more information.
00:11:53If you accept, I'll return at 10 o'clock that evening.
00:11:56You will then receive two rolls of film
00:11:58containing photographs of the documents.
00:12:00I will receive from you the sum of 20,000 pounds
00:12:02in English banknotes of small denominations.
00:12:05Should you approve of my first delivery,
00:12:08you can have more.
00:12:11For each subsequent roll of film, the price will be 15,000 pounds.
00:12:15Is this all clear?
00:12:17It is not at all clear.
00:12:19What are the documents? What do they contain?
00:12:21I hadn't thought to bring samples with me.
00:12:23But for one thing, the English have been discussing with the Turks
00:12:26their possible participation in the war.
00:12:28A matter of pure supposition.
00:12:30I have the minutes of their secret talks.
00:12:32Erwin Papen would find them enlightening and frightening.
00:12:35What else?
00:12:36The latest Allied timetable of the shuttle bombing
00:12:38of certain Balkan targets.
00:12:40Where and when and by whom and by how many.
00:12:43One.
00:12:44The secret minutes of the Tehran conference.
00:12:46What else?
00:12:48Don't be greedy, Moyzisch.
00:12:50What do you expect for 20,000 pounds?
00:12:53How did you obtain such information?
00:12:56That is no concern of yours.
00:12:58You know it's my identity, and please do not have me followed.
00:13:01You Germans have no talent for it.
00:13:02You keep wanting to get ahead of the people you follow.
00:13:07Destiny has held out its hand to you tonight.
00:13:10Take it and hold on.
00:13:12Good night, Moyzisch.
00:13:20Good night.
00:13:50Good night.
00:14:20Good night.
00:14:50Good night.
00:14:51Good night.
00:15:19Good evening, Diallo.
00:15:20Pleasant reception, sir?
00:15:21Diplomatic receptions are never pleasant.
00:15:23Necessary and unnecessary, successful and unsuccessful,
00:15:27or noncommittal.
00:15:28The faces may be pleasant, but never the motives.
00:15:32Yes, sir.
00:15:34Oh, speaking of pleasant faces,
00:15:36weren't you at one time in the service of the Countess Staviska?
00:15:39I was valet to her late husband, the Count,
00:15:41when he was attached to the Polish embassy
00:15:43at the court of St. James.
00:15:44She was at the reception this evening.
00:15:47I hadn't seen her for years.
00:15:49Is she well, sir?
00:15:50As charming as ever, but not well off.
00:15:53It seems that the Nazis have confiscated all of her possessions.
00:15:57I'm sorry to hear it.
00:15:59She was a lady of great wealth.
00:16:01It was becoming to her.
00:16:02She used it well.
00:16:03A generous and brilliant hostess, the Countess Staviska.
00:16:06Yes, sir.
00:16:07More than anyone I've ever known,
00:16:09she symbolized the world in which she lived
00:16:11and which she thought would never end.
00:16:13A world of infinite beauty, luxury and indulgence.
00:16:20Those were pleasant days, sir.
00:16:23Gone forever, I'm afraid.
00:16:25Let us hope not, sir.
00:16:27I put the survey of Turkish manganese beside your bed
00:16:29together with your journal.
00:16:30Oh, yes, thank you.
00:16:31One moment, sir.
00:16:32Your capsule.
00:16:33Do you know,
00:16:34have you ever considered the possibility
00:16:36that you might just once forget something?
00:16:38Often, sir.
00:16:39I don't think you'll ever get over it.
00:16:42Nor do I, sir.
00:16:44Good night, Diallo.
00:16:45Good night, Your Excellency.
00:17:07Dispatch from Berlin has just arrived.
00:17:10Dispatch from Berlin has just arrived.
00:17:13Transaction approved.
00:17:14Take every precaution.
00:17:16Essential, you determine identity of agent.
00:17:19Expect immediate report after delivery of documents.
00:17:23Signed, Kaltenbrunner.
00:17:24What does he mean, sir, by take every precaution?
00:17:26That you are not to hand over the money
00:17:28until you have developed the films, examined them
00:17:31and decided whether they are genuine and worth it.
00:17:33That's quite a responsibility.
00:17:35Yes, it is.
00:17:36Money arrived by courier from Berlin this morning.
00:17:3820,000 pounds.
00:17:42I have not taken any of it, Neusitz.
00:17:45You can count it in your own office.
00:17:47Yes, sir.
00:17:48I had no intention, believe me.
00:17:49Are you sure you can handle this alone?
00:17:51Yes, sir.
00:17:52What about developing the films?
00:17:54Photography is a hobby of mine.
00:17:55I have used the darkroom often.
00:17:57Good.
00:17:58The fewer people who know about this, the better.
00:18:01Particularly if this fellow makes fools of us.
00:18:04Personally,
00:18:06I sense something bogus about the whole affair.
00:18:09The man may be a clever swindler,
00:18:12perhaps even a British agent
00:18:14trying to plant false information on us.
00:18:17What was your impression of him, Neusitz?
00:18:19Well, sir,
00:18:20I'd pick him to be a highly trained special agent,
00:18:22perhaps a foreign office career man.
00:18:24British, of course.
00:18:25An Oxford bred aristocrat, if ever I saw one.
00:18:27You know the type, sir.
00:18:29Arrogant, spoiled, cynical
00:18:31and completely decadent.
00:18:33Fantastic.
00:18:35By the way,
00:18:36a codename has been assigned to him.
00:18:38Cicero.
00:18:40He's to be referred to as Cicero.
00:18:41Cicero?
00:18:43A name is the personal choice of Herr Ribbentrop.
00:18:45Is it any significant, sir?
00:18:47None that I know of,
00:18:48except the surprising fact
00:18:50that Herr Ribbentrop has even heard of Cicero.
00:18:52Yes, sir.
00:18:53That's all, Moisich.
00:18:54Good luck.
00:18:55And keep your wits sharp.
00:18:57A great deal depends on you.
00:18:58Yes, sir.
00:19:05Have I got the money?
00:19:36You have the money, I see.
00:19:38You have the film?
00:19:43Fetch me a drink while I count it, will you?
00:19:46Scotch whisky.
00:19:47I'm sure that you must have some.
00:19:57I'll be back in a minute.
00:19:58Thank you, sir.
00:19:59Thank you.
00:20:00Thank you.
00:20:01Thank you.
00:20:02Thank you.
00:20:03Thank you.
00:20:13Thank you.
00:20:14One of the pleasures of duty in a neutral country.
00:20:17You Germans can drink fine Scotch whisky,
00:20:20and your enemies can fill up on fine German beer.
00:20:31Twenty thousand.
00:20:32Well done, Moisich.
00:20:33The film.
00:20:39Not yet.
00:20:40You must wait until I develop the film.
00:20:42It will take only a few minutes.
00:20:44Those are my orders.
00:20:45If you insist, just this once.
00:20:48Are you going to develop the film yourself?
00:20:50Yes.
00:20:53You'd better drink this.
00:20:55You're trembling like a butterfly.
00:20:56It'll help steady your wings.
00:21:18The door will be locked.
00:21:19I won't open it to anyone but you.
00:21:47Come on.
00:21:48Let's go.
00:22:17Let's go.
00:22:48Turkish government ready to offer full support
00:22:53short of entering war as open co-belligerent.
00:23:17Open up, Moisich.
00:23:38Interesting snapshots, aren't they?
00:23:40The documents seem to be genuine.
00:23:42Don't be pompous, Moisich.
00:23:45My government has authorized me
00:23:46to make further arrangements with you.
00:23:48I assume you've informed them of the price.
00:23:50Fifteen thousand pounds,
00:23:51each additional roll of film.
00:23:56How did...
00:23:57I said to myself,
00:23:58if I were an ambitious attaché in the German embassy,
00:24:01what would be the combination of my safe?
00:24:03How dare you!
00:24:041-30-33, the day Hitler came to power.
00:24:07I imagine that'd open half the safes in Germany,
00:24:10and Hitler's birthday, the other half.
00:24:12What an unimaginative lot you are.
00:24:14Don't be upset, Moisich.
00:24:15There wasn't anything else worth taking.
00:24:18My government is prepared to pay
00:24:2010,000 pounds per roll, no more.
00:24:22We won't haggle, Moisich.
00:24:23I risk my life to get these documents,
00:24:2515 of them at 1,000 pounds each.
00:24:27The price is quite reasonable.
00:24:29You'll pay it.
00:24:30But on the one condition.
00:24:31My superiors insist on knowing who you are
00:24:34and how you obtain your information.
00:24:36Why?
00:24:37Because...
00:24:38Because it's highly irregular
00:24:39having an agent in our employ
00:24:41upon whom we know nothing.
00:24:42I am not an agent in your employ.
00:24:44I understand that clearly.
00:24:45All the same, it's essential that we know.
00:24:47It's unessential that you know anything about me.
00:24:50However, I will tell you this much.
00:24:52I work at the British embassy.
00:24:53Sooner or later, you'll find that out anyway.
00:24:55As to my name...
00:24:57You have been assigned a code name, Cicero.
00:25:00Cicero?
00:25:01A man of nobility, eloquence, and...
00:25:04dissatisfaction.
00:25:06I like that name.
00:25:08When will you bring more film?
00:25:10A week from tonight at the same hour.
00:25:12And have the money ready.
00:25:14On Moyzisch, change the combination if that's safe.
00:25:17May I suggest one?
00:25:18Try 6, 18, 15.
00:25:21That's the date of the Battle of Waterloo.
00:25:23Good night.
00:25:38Good night.
00:26:08Good night.
00:26:35Oh, it's you, Diallo.
00:26:37Did I disturb you, madam?
00:26:38Not at all.
00:26:39It's always a pleasure to see you.
00:26:41Come in.
00:26:45Take your coat off.
00:26:46Sit down and gossip with me.
00:26:49Fortunately, I have a dinner engagement.
00:26:51But here's an undersecretary unused to waiting.
00:26:54Any particular undersecretary, madam?
00:26:56Undersecretaries are never particularly yellow.
00:26:59Perhaps that's why they take me to dinner.
00:27:02It is far more likely that in madam's presence...
00:27:05You're like ambassadors.
00:27:06Of all the diplomats I've known, you're still the best.
00:27:09It is my good fortune that you've known so few valets.
00:27:12Diallo, please.
00:27:13I've spoken to you about this before.
00:27:15You're a valet to the British ambassador, not to me.
00:27:18Now, sit down and tell me the gossip.
00:27:21Well, to begin with,
00:27:23the noses of the wives of the diplomatic corps,
00:27:25Axis, Allied and Neutral,
00:27:28have been badly out of joint this past week.
00:27:30Due to?
00:27:31Due to the ease with which the Countess Staviska
00:27:33once more proved herself the most radiant, beautiful
00:27:36and sought-after lady in Ankara at last week's reception.
00:27:40Another of your unverified rumors.
00:27:43I was afraid madam would accuse me unjustly.
00:27:45I'm prepared to name my authority.
00:27:47Who?
00:27:48The British ambassador, no less.
00:27:50He spoke of your beauty and brilliance and hospitality,
00:27:53of how in the old days you were a symbol
00:27:55of everything worth having and wanting.
00:27:57A symbol of the good old days.
00:27:59That's me.
00:28:03The last of the lot.
00:28:05If I'm lucky, I'll get a thousand lira.
00:28:09Dielo, will you take it to the pawn shop for me tomorrow?
00:28:12I couldn't face the haggling and whining.
00:28:16Perhaps it would be pleasant for you to go by yourself tomorrow.
00:28:20And bring back the jewels you redeem.
00:28:25I don't understand.
00:28:27Redeem?
00:28:31It's yours.
00:28:33Five thousand pounds.
00:28:36It's from me.
00:28:39From you?
00:28:42Is it a joke?
00:28:43It can't be real.
00:28:46There's nothing as real as money.
00:28:49But Dielo, I don't know when I could pay this back to you.
00:28:52I don't want it back.
00:28:53But I can't permit you to.
00:28:56It must be the savings of a lifetime.
00:28:58They're not my savings. I'm not a saving man.
00:29:00If you must know, a business venture of mine has paid off handsomely.
00:29:05And gives promise of far greater profits to come.
00:29:09But what has it to do with me?
00:29:11I propose to advance you these five thousand pounds in return for certain favors.
00:29:15At the moment, this particular enterprise must remain highly confidential.
00:29:19The ambassador, of course, knows nothing about it.
00:29:21Nor does anyone except my business associates and you.
00:29:25The profits will be exceedingly large.
00:29:28I couldn't possibly keep such sums at the embassy,
00:29:30nor do I want to draw attention to myself by depositing the money in a bank.
00:29:35But you could keep it for me.
00:29:40Well, go on.
00:29:44You could leave this grubby room,
00:29:46rent an attractive house, live as you please, entertain as you please.
00:29:50And how would all that be a favor to you?
00:29:53From time to time, I shall want to transact my business in privacy.
00:29:56Naturally, I shall continue to live at the embassy.
00:29:59But you would set aside certain quarters for me.
00:30:01I see.
00:30:03If all goes well, I shall have some 200,000 pounds within 12 weeks.
00:30:07That's the amount I've set as my goal.
00:30:09And then?
00:30:10And then, South America.
00:30:13To a new life, a new name.
00:30:15That, of course, will require certain papers of identity, passport, visas, letters of credit.
00:30:19You could be of great help in obtaining such documents for me.
00:30:22How?
00:30:23I'll explain that when the time comes.
00:30:25Is there anything else?
00:30:28Nothing.
00:30:29It seems little enough to ask for 5,000 pounds.
00:30:34Are you going to tell me what your business is?
00:30:36Sometime, perhaps. Not now.
00:30:39I see quite a trust you put in me.
00:30:41If I were to be indiscreet, it would ruin everything for you.
00:30:44And for you, too.
00:30:45You seem very sure of yourself.
00:30:48I'm sure of you.
00:30:49Oh.
00:30:51For three years, I was valid to the late Count Stavisky.
00:30:54It is said that no man is a hero to his valet.
00:30:57It is also true that no woman is a mystery to her husband's valet.
00:31:01You know me that well?
00:31:03Well enough.
00:31:04The source of your money has never concerned you any more than the source of your electric light.
00:31:08They became worrisome only when they were shut off.
00:31:10Quite true.
00:31:12But there's pride.
00:31:14I have pride.
00:31:16A great deal. I depend upon your pride.
00:31:19You'd find it intolerable to have it known that your wealth was the gift of a servant.
00:31:25Madam, you'll keep your mouth shut tight.
00:31:30Get me a brandy.
00:31:43I shall drink only out of one glass, thank you.
00:31:48Thank you.
00:31:58D'Ello.
00:31:59Do you know why I discharged you after my husband died?
00:32:03You said you'd be traveling and wouldn't need a man's servant.
00:32:06That was a lie.
00:32:07Yes, it was.
00:32:09I let you go because you made me uneasy.
00:32:12You were much too clever for a servant.
00:32:15Too suave.
00:32:16Too wise.
00:32:17Too self-contained.
00:32:19I was almost afraid of you.
00:32:21I felt you had an evil genius for something.
00:32:25Little did I know it was a genius for making money.
00:32:28That is a lie too.
00:32:30That wasn't why I made you uneasy.
00:32:32No?
00:32:33No.
00:32:34You were attracted to me.
00:32:36It was upsetting to feel that way about a valet.
00:32:39And to feel that the valet knew it all the time.
00:32:48Anna, have I offended you?
00:32:51You'll soon be very rich.
00:32:53Everything worth having and wanting.
00:32:55He didn't say that about you, I did.
00:32:57That's how I've always thought about you.
00:32:58And now you want me to go with you.
00:33:00To South America.
00:33:01Yes.
00:33:02To a new life.
00:33:03Yes.
00:33:04Away from the wars, the intrigues, the fears.
00:33:07The poverty.
00:33:09And it would be right for us now.
00:33:11Because now, now at last, we are equals.
00:33:15Yes.
00:33:17Yes.
00:33:22Where are you going?
00:33:24Madam has a dinner engagement and we seem to have run out of gossip.
00:33:27I shall cancel the dinner.
00:33:29And we can talk business.
00:33:31You made me a business proposition.
00:33:34I agree to that part of it.
00:33:36As for the rest of the proposition, it's not an impossibility.
00:33:40It's merely an improbability.
00:33:42And above all, an impertinence.
00:33:44Because I addressed you as an equal.
00:33:45No.
00:33:47Because you addressed me as a servant.
00:33:49Because in the manner of an inferior, you tried to buy something.
00:33:53You didn't think you merited on your own.
00:33:55Now, let's get down to the details of business.
00:33:59As Madam wishes.
00:34:01My name is Anna.
00:34:05Yes, Anna.
00:34:06Yes, Anna.
00:34:1424 hours after the Cicero documents had reached Gestapo headquarters in Germany,
00:34:19Moyzisch was summoned to Berlin to report personally to General Kaltenbrunner.
00:34:23Incredible.
00:34:25Do you have the negatives?
00:34:27Yes, sir.
00:34:29Give them to Colonel von Richter.
00:34:31Too good to be true.
00:34:3325 top secret documents from an unknown agent.
00:34:34This has all the earmarks of a British trap.
00:34:37Sir.
00:34:39Yes?
00:34:41Ambassador von Papen requests me to report that in his opinion, the documents are genuine.
00:34:44I'm not interested in von Papen's opinion.
00:34:46I want facts, proof, conclusive proof.
00:34:48What's the real identity of this fellow Cicero?
00:34:50What are his motives, aside from the money?
00:34:52Does he have a confederate?
00:34:54You haven't answered any of these vital questions.
00:34:56I'm happy to, sir.
00:34:58Cicero is most uncooperative.
00:35:00Teach him to cooperate.
00:35:02That's your job.
00:35:04That looks authentic, but it's such high-level material.
00:35:07We have no means of verifying it.
00:35:09Exactly.
00:35:11And we can't act on what we can confirm.
00:35:13But there's one document here that can be confirmed.
00:35:15This.
00:35:17The operational plan for the shuttle bombing of Balkan targets.
00:35:19According to this, British heavies are going to bomb the Ploesti oil fields on April 5th.
00:35:23If the raid takes place on schedule,
00:35:25that would serve to confirm the authenticity of the other documents.
00:35:28Good point.
00:35:30Is it your intention, sir, to warn the Romanians?
00:35:32Of course not.
00:35:34What purpose would that serve?
00:35:36Have you made another rendezvous with Cicero?
00:35:38For next Thursday evening.
00:35:40Very well. You fly back to Ankara and keep that appointment.
00:35:42But try to get some facts on the man.
00:35:44Tell him we can't keep paying out such sums of money
00:35:46unless we know how he gets his information.
00:35:48I'll do my best, sir.
00:35:50Try to do better than that.
00:35:52Yes, sir.
00:35:54This is your responsibility, Moyzisch.
00:35:56I warn you.
00:35:58Yes, sir.
00:36:05Half-witted, paranoid gangsters.
00:36:08Refusing to warn the Romanians.
00:36:10Thousands of dead.
00:36:12Millions of gallons of precious oil and gasoline gone.
00:36:15Because Kaltenbrunner and von Richter can no longer admit
00:36:18that anything in the world is genuine.
00:36:20But surely the air raid will convince them.
00:36:22Even if it does.
00:36:24Now, they can't admit it.
00:36:26But if Ribbentrop found out Kaltenbrunner made a mistake,
00:36:28and if Goebbels found out about Ribbentrop,
00:36:30and if Himmler found out about Goebbels,
00:36:31Moyzisch, it's time you understood.
00:36:33We represent a government of juvenile delinquents.
00:36:35Yes, sir.
00:36:37Well, if Berlin doesn't know how to utilize Cicero,
00:36:40I most certainly do.
00:36:43Have you received an answer from the Turkish Foreign Office?
00:36:46Yes, Excellency.
00:36:48His Excellency will be unable to see you this evening.
00:36:50He's attending a reception.
00:36:52What reception?
00:36:54At the Countess Taviskas, I believe.
00:36:56At the Countess Taviskas?
00:36:58I shall be there myself, Excellency.
00:36:59What's all this about?
00:37:01Excellence was invited, but you declined.
00:37:03So I did.
00:37:05I didn't realize.
00:37:07For the Countess has found a benefactor after all.
00:37:10I wonder who.
00:37:12No, no, sir, none of my income.
00:37:14This could only happen in Ankara,
00:37:16and only to the Countess Taviska.
00:37:19Last month, penniless.
00:37:21This month, the Turkish Foreign Office
00:37:23supplies her guest of honor.
00:37:24Call the Countess.
00:37:26Say, I find myself free this evening after all,
00:37:29and would be delighted to attend.
00:37:31Thanks.
00:37:34Maybe next year.
00:37:35Shall we go with you?
00:37:39How?
00:37:41I'm just wondering,
00:37:43if there's an opportunity to visit my countence tonight.
00:37:46A good opportunity.
00:37:50I confront you,
00:37:54but first of all
00:37:56let me say,
00:37:58I wish
00:38:00♪♪
00:38:10♪♪
00:38:20♪♪
00:38:30♪♪
00:38:40♪♪
00:38:50♪♪
00:39:00♪♪
00:39:10♪♪
00:39:20♪♪
00:39:30♪♪
00:39:40Yes?
00:39:41I'm afraid you'll have to wake Morrison and ask him to come here at once.
00:39:43Yes, sir.
00:39:44♪♪
00:39:52Will you change back into your jacket, sir?
00:39:53Oh, uh, thank you, dear.
00:39:55♪♪
00:40:02♪♪
00:40:08Morrison will be there directly, sir.
00:40:09Thank you.
00:40:10♪♪
00:40:13Turn on that lamp, will you, dear?
00:40:14Yes, sir.
00:40:15♪♪
00:40:21Oh, uh, this bulb must be burnt out, sir.
00:40:24I'll have it replaced.
00:40:26♪♪
00:40:32Yes, sir?
00:40:33Morrison, sorry to waken you.
00:40:34Get this dispatch off to Whitehall at once.
00:40:37Have this coded and classified as most secret.
00:40:41Upon representation from Turkish Foreign Office,
00:40:45there is strong reason to believe...
00:40:47Yellow, will you shut the door, please?
00:40:51There is strong reason to believe that von Papen is in possession of top-secret information,
00:40:57which would indicate leak in security here.
00:41:00Upon receipt of this highly classified message,
00:41:02the Foreign Office in London took immediate action.
00:41:05Let me read you what we received from Ankara early this morning.
00:41:09Upon representation from Turkish Foreign Office,
00:41:12there is strong reason to believe that von Papen is in possession of top-secret information,
00:41:16which would indicate leak in security here,
00:41:18or Nazi access to secret documents,
00:41:21or possibility of broken British diplomatic cipher.
00:41:23Colin Travers, a special agent of British counterintelligence,
00:41:26left London by plane next morning, bound for Istanbul.
00:41:30Colonel von Richter of the Gestapo counterespionage service
00:41:34left Berlin by plane the same day.
00:41:37Travers and Colonel von Richter arrived at Istanbul the same evening
00:41:41and boarded the Anatolian Express.
00:41:44They reached Ankara next morning.
00:41:47Von Richter carried a Swiss passport,
00:41:49identifying him as Herr Rudolf Hodler,
00:41:52a tobacco buyer from Bern, Switzerland.
00:42:00He was met at the station by a Gestapo agent named Siebert
00:42:03and immediately escorted to the German embassy to confer with Herr von Papen.
00:42:13Travers was greeted outside the station by Keith McFadden,
00:42:16a British agent attached to the embassy at Ankara.
00:42:19McFadden? Glad to see you, Travers.
00:42:21They left without delay to meet with the British ambassador.
00:42:29To begin with, sir, I think we must assume
00:42:31that the source of information to the Nazis is someone here at the embassy.
00:42:35After that has been all out...
00:42:37All our personnel and permanent employees
00:42:39have had previous security clearance from London.
00:42:41I've never known a self-respecting spy without a security clearance.
00:42:45Where do you store classified information, sir?
00:42:47Right there in my safe in the first secretaries.
00:42:49What about the code room? Under guard day and night.
00:42:52Don't you think it most likely, sir, that this lamentable lapse in security
00:42:55was due to some unintentional slip of the lip at some party or reception?
00:42:59My lips are not in the habit of slipping, Mr. Travers.
00:43:02Nor do I imply that they are, sir.
00:43:04But our material does pass through other hands.
00:43:06It might pass through other lips.
00:43:08McFadden was telling me about an unattached lady,
00:43:11a certain Countess Staviska.
00:43:20Thank you, Diello. You were saying?
00:43:23Yes.
00:43:29A certain Countess Staviska.
00:43:31It seems she's quite recently and suddenly begun to entertain
00:43:34informal gay little gatherings.
00:43:37I assume some of our embassy personnel have attended from time to time.
00:43:41The Countess has a wide circle of friends,
00:43:43which I'm happy to say has included me for some time.
00:43:45That circle no doubt would also include Herr von Papen and his associates.
00:43:48Mr. Travers, the Countess is doing her very best, I assure you,
00:43:51to remain neutrally in a neutral country.
00:43:53Under the circumstances...
00:43:54According to Mack here,
00:43:55her circumstances have taken a startling change for the better.
00:43:58Does anyone know the source of her sudden good fortune?
00:44:00I cannot see that it concerns anyone but the Countess Staviska.
00:44:03And I certainly cannot see what the source of her income
00:44:05has to do with our problem.
00:44:07I'm probably just a gossip at heart.
00:44:09Maybe that's why I like my work.
00:44:11Counter-espionage is the highest form of gossip.
00:44:16It is obvious that Sisso is paying the bills for the Countess.
00:44:19And thus would he choose her villa for his next rendezvous with Moisich.
00:44:22What a strange and sudden and perfect relationship.
00:44:25Too strange, too sudden and too perfect.
00:44:29The unknown Cicero and the well-known Countess.
00:44:32Well known for her anti-German sentiments.
00:44:35Yet only recently.
00:44:37She pleaded with me personally for an opportunity to work in our interest.
00:44:41A suggestion of British intelligence, no doubt.
00:44:45Colonel von Richter, just what will convince you
00:44:48that Sisso is what he says he is?
00:44:50A spy, selling us genuine documents
00:44:53of great value for a great sum of money.
00:44:56I've come here to convince myself of one way or the other.
00:45:00A talk with Sisso might help.
00:45:03Moisich, when do you meet him next?
00:45:06In the villa, next Thursday evening.
00:45:08Then you will arrange for Mr. Hodler, the Swiss businessman, to be present.
00:45:14My incognito.
00:45:16I think it's preferable that Moisich remain our only contact with Cicero.
00:45:20I'm afraid you do not understand why I'm here, Excellence.
00:45:24I've come to Ankara to relieve you of all responsibility
00:45:27in our relations with Cicero.
00:45:29I cannot be relieved of that responsibility,
00:45:31except by the order of Frau Minister Ribbentrop.
00:45:34General Kartenbrunner expressed the hope
00:45:36that you would not force him to bypass Herr Ribbentrop
00:45:39and bring the matter directly to the Führer.
00:45:42What further instructions has the Gestapo for me?
00:45:46In the future, all documents from Cicero will be sent directly to Berlin.
00:45:50Those which General Kartenbrunner feels are pertinent to your diplomatic mission
00:45:55will then be transmitted to you.
00:46:02Moisich, do what you can
00:46:04to make the Colonel stay in Ankara a comfortable one.
00:46:12Thank you.
00:46:42GENERAL KARTENBRUNNER
00:47:12Yes. I've called him out.
00:47:15Yes, of course.
00:47:20Oh, Monsieur Hodler, there's a gentleman here
00:47:22who wishes to see you privately.
00:47:24You had a business appointment, I believe.
00:47:26I believe so.
00:47:28I'll take you to him.
00:47:30I'm indebted to Herr Moisich for suggesting
00:47:32that I ask you to our little musical evening.
00:47:34The honour is mine, madame.
00:47:36I hope you haven't found it too subdued.
00:47:38On the contrary.
00:47:40It's been exactly as I would have wished it.
00:47:42Have you known Herr Moisich long?
00:47:44We have been business associates for some time.
00:47:47Are you, too, a diplomat, Monsieur Hodler?
00:47:50I suppose you could call me a middleman.
00:47:52There are so many Swiss middlemen.
00:47:54It seems to be a national occupation.
00:47:56What could be more natural?
00:47:58After all, we Swiss have been in the middle for hundreds of years.
00:48:06Come in.
00:48:08I'll see that you're not disturbed.
00:48:17Colonel von Richter?
00:48:19Sit down, please.
00:48:22Moisich tells me you're to be the new intermediary.
00:48:25That's correct.
00:48:27Sent from Berlin by General Kaltenbrunner,
00:48:29I should imagine, to see to it
00:48:31that von Papen keeps his hands off the information I supply.
00:48:34Havanas.
00:48:36Havanas.
00:48:38The finest money can buy.
00:48:40I approve of the change.
00:48:42Moisich is conscientious but not very bright
00:48:44and too well known in Ankara.
00:48:46It'll be safer for me to deal with you.
00:48:48Your security is a matter of grave concern to us.
00:48:51I'm happy to hear it. I share your concern.
00:48:53For this reason, I must ask you about the countess.
00:48:56Have you told her who I am?
00:48:58Of course not.
00:49:00Does she know the nature of your business?
00:49:02No.
00:49:04Tell us what is her relation...
00:49:06My dear Colonel, I did not invite you here to discuss my private affairs.
00:49:09We have some business to transact. Did you bring the money?
00:49:12As always, you will be paid after we have developed the film.
00:49:15During the past six weeks, I've sold Moisich 50 photographs,
00:49:18all of genuine secret documents.
00:49:20That's proof enough of my good faith.
00:49:22Henceforth, you will pay on delivery.
00:49:24The money?
00:49:27Possibly you're no longer interested
00:49:29in the strategic plans of the Allies
00:49:31for the entire Mediterranean area.
00:49:34You mean a second front?
00:49:37I do not know the number of the front.
00:49:39I do know that in these documents
00:49:41Mr. Churchill keeps referring to the soft underbelly of Europe.
00:49:45Of course, I could take the film to von Papen
00:49:48and ask that he himself query the German high command
00:49:50as to their interest.
00:49:52Very well.
00:49:56Why, you had it with you all the time.
00:49:58Who are you, anyway?
00:50:00If I told you I was, let's say,
00:50:02valet to the British ambassador, would you believe me?
00:50:04Certainly not.
00:50:06Then at least satisfy my personal curiosity on one point.
00:50:09Why are you selling us information?
00:50:11I thought that was self-evident, for money.
00:50:13But you must have some other motive.
00:50:15Perhaps you share our disgust with British decadence
00:50:18or our faith in the future of Germany.
00:50:20Colonel von Richter,
00:50:22if I have a disgust for anything, it is poverty.
00:50:25And if I have faith in the future of anything,
00:50:27it is in the future of money.
00:50:29I cannot understand why on the one hand
00:50:31you sell us information which will help us to win the war,
00:50:34and on the other hand you insist upon being paid in money
00:50:37with a very dubious future, British pounds.
00:50:39What makes you think I think Germany will win the war?
00:50:41Apart from all other considerations,
00:50:43apparently you attach little importance to these documents.
00:50:46In the first place, I cannot sell you the ability
00:50:48to make proper use of the information I get for you.
00:50:51In the second place, by informing a man about to be hanged
00:50:54of the exact size, location and strength of the rope,
00:50:57I cannot give you either the hangman
00:50:59or the certainty of his being hanged.
00:51:01Now I'm sure you'll want to rejoin your friends.
00:51:03One week from tonight at the same hour,
00:51:05I shall have more film for you. Good night.
00:51:08Good night.
00:51:18I trust your meeting was a satisfactory one, M. Hadler.
00:51:21Quite satisfactory, thank you, madame.
00:51:23And that you will honour us again soon.
00:51:25The honour will be mine, madame.
00:51:27Good night.
00:51:29How charmingly you Swiss click your heels.
00:51:32An old Swiss custom.
00:51:37Good night.
00:51:45You may retire. Just turn out the light.
00:51:48Thank you, madame.
00:51:55Good night.
00:52:17A profitable evening?
00:52:19Profitable enough to bring the total to 75,000 pounds.
00:52:22Another six or seven weeks should do it.
00:52:24Why don't you stop now? Why go on playing with fire?
00:52:27What makes you think I am?
00:52:29Oh, don't treat me like an idiot child.
00:52:31Your friend Hadler, he isn't Swiss.
00:52:33Oh?
00:52:35I know impression when I see one.
00:52:37Does it matter to you?
00:52:39Your safety matters to me.
00:52:41So many people are concerned about my safety.
00:52:43I never felt more secure.
00:52:45Well, I don't. And my security depends upon yours.
00:52:48Forgive me. I keep thinking of myself as a man.
00:52:52I'm forgetting I'm a valet who pays dividends.
00:52:55Must you leave so soon?
00:52:57I mustn't stay away from the embassy any longer than necessary.
00:53:00I can't see why a man as rich as you
00:53:02should go on pressing the trousers of the British ambassador.
00:53:05That's where I get my money.
00:53:07I steal the loose change from his pockets.
00:53:09No, before you go, Diallo, get me a drink.
00:53:12Will you?
00:53:14Tell me, where do you plan to settle
00:53:16when you leave for South America?
00:53:18Rio.
00:53:20I've never been there.
00:53:22There's nothing like it in the world.
00:53:24When did you decide to go there?
00:53:26Let's go back.
00:53:28I decided that the moment I first saw it, many years ago.
00:53:31I was a cabin boy on a dirty tramp steamer.
00:53:35I can remember standing at the rail
00:53:37and thinking,
00:53:39I was a cabin boy on a dirty tramp steamer.
00:53:42I can remember standing at the rail
00:53:44looking up at a villa
00:53:46high on the mountainside above the harbour.
00:53:48I could see a man on a balcony
00:53:50looking down at my ship.
00:53:52He was wearing a white dinner jacket.
00:53:55He seemed close enough to touch,
00:53:58and yet he was beyond the reach of anyone.
00:54:04I swore then that someday I'd be that man.
00:54:10You might find Rio de Janeiro not to your liking.
00:54:14Do you have a nationality, Diallo?
00:54:16Most people are born somewhere.
00:54:18You're not a native Englishman. What are you?
00:54:20Albanian. English by adoption.
00:54:22You're the only Albanian I've ever known.
00:54:24If you know one, you know them all.
00:54:26I ran away to sea when I was a boy.
00:54:28And then?
00:54:29Finding myself in England,
00:54:31it seemed profitable to become a gentleman,
00:54:33so I went into sea.
00:54:35Finding myself in England,
00:54:37it seemed profitable to become a gentleman,
00:54:39so I went into service.
00:54:41As you have pointed out, I am not yet a gentleman.
00:54:43But I am the best of the gentleman's gentlemen.
00:54:45Which reminds me, the ambassador will be wondering what has kept me.
00:54:48What will you tell him?
00:54:50That I was detained by a Turkish chambermaid.
00:54:52He might not approve.
00:54:54Why shouldn't he?
00:54:56Only a woman of my own class would want to detain me.
00:54:58And only a man of my class would permit her to.
00:55:00Diallo.
00:55:02Yes, Anna?
00:55:06On the contrary,
00:55:08I think I'll find Rio de Janeiro
00:55:10very much to my liking.
00:55:22Anna.
00:55:24Yes, Diallo?
00:55:26Get me a drink.
00:55:36During the next five weeks,
00:55:38Cicero sold the Germans
00:55:4035 top-secret documents
00:55:42which brought his growing fortune
00:55:44to £155,000 sterling.
00:55:46The Germans were informed of every secret word
00:55:48the British ambassador set to paper,
00:55:50every secret conference,
00:55:52every secret pact.
00:55:54And yet, despite the unerring accuracy
00:55:56of the information gathered from the Cicero documents,
00:55:58German intelligence refused to act upon it,
00:56:00out of fear that Cicero
00:56:02might be a British plant.
00:56:05As for the British,
00:56:07they had failed to uncover any breach in their security.
00:56:09Travers grew increasingly certain
00:56:11that his first assumption must have been correct,
00:56:13that there was no spy to lay hands on.
00:56:15And so, in your three years
00:56:17as her husband's valet,
00:56:19I'm sure you learned more about them both
00:56:21than we could in a lifetime of investigation.
00:56:23Infinitely more, sir.
00:56:25I respect your reluctance to discuss
00:56:27the private affairs of a past employer.
00:56:29It's also reassuring to me, personally.
00:56:31But, Diallo, we are at war.
00:56:33I understand, sir.
00:56:35Tell me, did you ever have occasion to hear the Countess express
00:56:37sympathy for the Nazis, privately or openly?
00:56:39To my knowledge, sir,
00:56:41the Countess never spoke of countries,
00:56:43political parties or groups.
00:56:45The world to her was made up of individual people
00:56:47she either liked or disliked.
00:56:49Would you consider her to have been pro-German?
00:56:51The Countess was capable of being pro-anything,
00:56:53if it made for a congenial dinner party.
00:56:55Then would you consider it possible,
00:56:57under certain circumstances,
00:56:59for her to have become a German agent?
00:57:01Yes, sir.
00:57:03Of which she has suddenly acquired a plentiful supply?
00:57:05I know nothing about spies, of course,
00:57:07and the way they function,
00:57:09but I can remember that the Countess
00:57:11had a remarkable talent for receiving
00:57:13confidences from important people.
00:57:15The Count always relied upon her
00:57:17for a great deal of information
00:57:19that was otherwise unavailable to him.
00:57:21Thank you, Diallo. That's all.
00:57:23Thank you, sir.
00:57:25I'll be dining at the American Embassy.
00:57:27You may take the evening off.
00:57:30A clever chap.
00:57:32Because he supports your theory
00:57:34that the breach in our security
00:57:36was no more than a few irresponsible remarks
00:57:38at one of Anna Staviska's dinner parties.
00:57:40Well, frankly, sir, that is a fairly accurate summary
00:57:42of the report I was planning to send to London.
00:57:44I hope you're right.
00:57:46Fact remains, however,
00:57:48that von Papen still anticipates
00:57:50every move I make.
00:57:52You may soon be doing some anticipating of your own, sir,
00:57:54about Herr von Papen and his moves.
00:57:56How do you mean that?
00:57:58This is extremely confidential, of course,
00:58:00but our cryptographers in London
00:58:02have just succeeded in breaking a German diplomatic code.
00:58:04A code used by their embassy here?
00:58:06That's welcome news, I must say.
00:58:08Of course, they'll discard the code sooner or later,
00:58:10just as we change ours periodically.
00:58:12But for a while,
00:58:14we'll be eavesdropping on the German ambassador.
00:58:16To eavesdrop on von Papen.
00:58:18A pleasure I have long hoped for.
00:58:28Nervous, Colonel?
00:58:30This house is far too dangerous a meeting place for us.
00:58:32I wouldn't be surprised if the British were watching it.
00:58:34They haven't yet, but they will soon.
00:58:36They suspect the countess is a German agent.
00:58:38Are you serious?
00:58:40And all the while,
00:58:42you suspected she was a British agent.
00:58:44Amusing, isn't it?
00:58:46Not at all, and under the circumstances,
00:58:48we shouldn't have met here.
00:58:50From now on, we won't.
00:58:52Do you know the Aslan Hane Mosque in the old quarter?
00:58:54Isaac will find it.
00:58:56It will be open a week from tonight at the same hour.
00:58:58Be sure to take your shoes off.
00:59:00The Muslims will resent it if you don't.
00:59:02Childish.
00:59:04To them no more childish than you're resenting
00:59:06someone's hat being on in church.
00:59:12What am I buying this week?
00:59:14An exchange of notes between the Turks and the British.
00:59:16The Turks have decided to remain
00:59:18ostensibly neutral for the time being.
00:59:20Such information is hardly worth 20,000 pounds.
00:59:22Is good news of no value to you Germans,
00:59:24or are you willing to pay only for storm warnings
00:59:26of approaching disasters you can do nothing about?
00:59:28There's one disaster we can do something about,
00:59:30and about which it is most important
00:59:32for us to have full information
00:59:34as quickly as possible.
00:59:36Sounds exciting.
00:59:40A certain code word has appeared
00:59:42in several of the documents you've sold us.
00:59:44The word is Overlord.
00:59:46Do you know what it means?
00:59:48Not the foggiest notion.
00:59:50We are convinced that Overlord is the code name
00:59:52for what is called Second Front,
00:59:54the invasion plan for Western Europe.
00:59:56What we must know is the place and date,
00:59:58the where and the when.
01:00:00The where and when of the Allies' invasion of Europe.
01:00:02It would be nice to know.
01:00:04I can understand your curiosity.
01:00:06I'll pay you double for it, 40,000 pounds.
01:00:08Generous of you, but is information of that nature
01:00:10likely to turn up at the British Embassy in Ankara?
01:00:12Don't you read the documents you sell to us?
01:00:14Not all of them, and never thoroughly.
01:00:16I'm not particularly interested in what they say.
01:00:18I usually just photograph everything in sight
01:00:20and keep the most secret and top secret.
01:00:22For your information, last week you photographed
01:00:24a dispatch from London to the British Ambassador.
01:00:26It stated that the Ambassador would receive
01:00:28a copy of the revised strategic plan
01:00:30for Overlord within 10 days.
01:00:32Hmm.
01:00:34Did you say 40,000 pounds?
01:00:36For the where and the when.
01:00:38We'll meet at the Aslan Hane Mosque
01:00:40one week from tonight.
01:00:42Do you mind going out through the garden, Colonel?
01:00:44Not at all.
01:00:50You and the Countess
01:00:52must be running out of small talk, anyway.
01:00:54Good night.
01:01:04This was deciphered
01:01:06from the German code we've broken?
01:01:08Yes, sir.
01:01:10Who's seen it?
01:01:12You and I, sir, that's all.
01:01:14But McFadden should hear it.
01:01:16I'll need his help.
01:01:18Here's your query concerning authenticity.
01:01:20Documents obtained from Cicero
01:01:22and firmly convinced material genuine.
01:01:24Cicero lives within British Embassy.
01:01:26Obviously has access
01:01:28to top secret information.
01:01:30Colton Brunner's failure
01:01:32to evaluate documents and the Richter's refusal
01:01:34to make them available to me, tragic blunder.
01:01:36Strongly urge you bring this matter
01:01:38to personal attention of the Führer.
01:01:40Signed from...
01:01:44Cicero. Cicero.
01:01:46It's obviously a code name for their informant.
01:01:48Where do we start?
01:01:50With your permission, sir, I'll order a house search at once.
01:01:52It's hardly likely our friend Cicero
01:01:54has left anything incriminating lying about, but something might turn up.
01:01:56But one thing's sure.
01:01:58An open search will put him right on his guard.
01:02:00That can't be helped.
01:02:02If we can't catch this spy, we've got to frighten him.
01:02:04Perhaps frighten him enough to make him stop for a while.
01:02:06At any rate, we'll gain time.
01:02:08Gentlemen, for the present, I'm forced to leave this matter in your hands.
01:02:10As you know, I'm expected in Cairo tomorrow evening.
01:02:12Until my return,
01:02:14of course, take all the security measures you consider necessary.
01:02:16For one thing, I suggest the combinations
01:02:18of the safe speed chains and safety devices installed.
01:02:20Of course. What about assistance?
01:02:22Do you have enough men?
01:02:24We have four other agents in Ankara on other assignments.
01:02:26I can reassign them to this.
01:02:28Whatever you think.
01:02:32Tell me, Travis,
01:02:34do you have any idea who it might be?
01:02:36A dozen members of the staff have access to classified material.
01:02:38Code clerks, attaches,
01:02:40undersecretaries, first counselor, and so on.
01:02:42McFadden, you and I.
01:02:44In short, Cicero could be any one of us.
01:02:46Yes, sir. Any one of us.
01:02:58There you are, sir.
01:03:00Be a few days before I get the combination changed,
01:03:02with the alarms on and ready to go.
01:03:04Well, just so that I don't set it off by myself,
01:03:06you'd better explain again how it works.
01:03:08There's nothing to work, sir.
01:03:10If the alarm were to change in either direction,
01:03:12the alarm would go off.
01:03:14To cut off the alarm.
01:03:18I'm sorry to disturb you, sir.
01:03:20Shall I pack your uniforms?
01:03:22I won't be needing them, thank you, D'Ello.
01:03:24Very well, sir. I'll enclose your bags.
01:03:26And by the way, don't be upset
01:03:28if Mr. McFadden should ransack my quarters
01:03:30while I'm gone.
01:03:32There'll be no need of that, I'm sure, sir.
01:03:40♪♪
01:03:49I've never seen you go into the woods, I've never seen you go into the woods.
01:04:02I've never seen you go into the woods, I've never seen you go into the woods.
01:04:16Stone is wet, cold and wet. Acceptable to Mohammedan feet perhaps, but not to mine.
01:04:25It's 22 minutes late.
01:04:27It's the first time, he's never been late before.
01:04:29And you say he hasn't been to the villa all this week?
01:04:32Siebel has kept a day and night watch. Cicero has not appeared once.
01:04:36And the countess?
01:04:37She has not entertained. She has gone out a few evenings, alone.
01:04:40Cigarette.
01:04:42Can it be possible, sir, that the British have found him out?
01:04:45It can also be possible that the British have known about him all the time.
01:04:49Curious, how easily Cicero acquired the documents he wanted to sell.
01:04:53And when only once we named the documents we wanted to buy,
01:04:56he mysteriously has failed to deliver it.
01:04:58Good night.
01:05:00What does the colonel propose to do now?
01:05:02Precisely nothing.
01:05:04All spies in time outlive their usefulness.
01:05:07And I'm afraid, Moisich, that your friend Cicero has just about outlived his.
01:05:12If any.
01:05:38Voila.
01:05:53Well done, Signora Antonini.
01:05:56It was nothing, Signor. One of my many pleasant wifely duties.
01:05:59How much did they cost?
01:06:01Five thousand pounds. Another thousand for a set of papers to go with them.
01:06:04Birth and marriage certificates, that sort of thing.
01:06:07And another thousand to help him forget all about us.
01:06:10Money well spent. What about the tickets?
01:06:12Two first-class compartments in separate cars on the Istanbul Express,
01:06:16leaving tomorrow evening.
01:06:18And the ship?
01:06:20An Argentine passenger freighter, sailing from Istanbul direct to Rio.
01:06:23When?
01:06:25Day after tomorrow at sundown.
01:06:27Now, remember, you're to take no notice of me whatsoever on the train.
01:06:30When we reach Istanbul, we'll go aboard the ship at once.
01:06:33How did it go at the bank?
01:06:35The size of the deposit created quite a stir.
01:06:38The manager of the bank seemed extremely curious.
01:06:41But I managed to satisfy his curiosity on all points,
01:06:44while he took me to lunch.
01:06:46And?
01:06:48He will personally expedite the transfer of funds.
01:06:50The papers will be ready tomorrow morning.
01:06:52How much did that cost?
01:06:54Another thousand. And all of my powers of persuasion,
01:06:57this side of respectability.
01:06:59A little overgenerous, perhaps.
01:07:01Five, seven, nine thousand for expenses.
01:07:03That leaves roughly 130,000 pounds in dollars,
01:07:06about 600,000 in Brazilian cruisers,
01:07:09about 11.5 million.
01:07:11Plus the 40,000 pounds you're getting tomorrow.
01:07:13I've bought out of that particular transaction.
01:07:15The market's getting shaky. I've decided to retire.
01:07:17You have before you an Argentine gentleman of leisure,
01:07:20about to take up residence in Brazil.
01:07:22I'm glad. We have more than enough, anyway.
01:07:25We? We have more than enough?
01:07:27My dear Signora Antonini,
01:07:29where I come from, a man's money is his own.
01:07:31And if his wife is a good wife,
01:07:33he gives her some from time to time.
01:07:43Will you miss being a countess?
01:07:45Not for a moment.
01:07:47Not for one moment.
01:08:00The other.
01:08:10Here's the official correspondence.
01:08:12The ambassador's personal mail.
01:08:14Will you keep it for him? I'm leaving for the weekend.
01:08:16I'll keep it for him.
01:08:18I'll keep it for him.
01:08:20I'll keep it for him.
01:08:22I'll keep it for him.
01:08:24I'll keep it for him.
01:08:26I'll keep it for him.
01:08:28I'll keep it for him. I'm leaving for the weekend.
01:08:30Will his excellency return tomorrow as he planned?
01:08:32Not till Sunday. I've put a list of his calls on the desk.
01:08:53What a pity, sir, that so few ladies
01:08:55use perfumed letter paper these days.
01:08:57Perhaps we'd better lock up that mail, too, Diallo.
01:09:00As you wish, sir.
01:09:06Oh, Diallo,
01:09:08weren't you away from the embassy between 9 and 10 last night?
01:09:10Yes, sir.
01:09:12Would you mind accounting for your movements?
01:09:14Not at all, sir. I walked for a while on the boulevard,
01:09:16stopped for a drink at the Yucca Palace,
01:09:18then back to the embassy.
01:09:22Oh, one other question about the countess again.
01:09:24Do you remember any particularly close friends
01:09:26she may have had in Switzerland?
01:09:28Did she go there often?
01:09:30Very often, sir. The countess was extremely fond of Switzerland.
01:09:32She went every spring.
01:09:34Oh, then that explains it.
01:09:36The countess left by plane for Switzerland this morning.
01:09:40I hope she can enjoy it in the style to which she is accustomed.
01:09:42That shouldn't be any problem.
01:09:44She took 130,000 pounds with her.
01:09:46You ready, mate?
01:09:56Yes, sir.
01:10:26Let's go.
01:10:56I'm calling for His Excellency, the British ambassador.
01:10:58I have a message for the countess Stavisky.
01:11:00Madame left for Switzerland this morning, sir.
01:11:02I don't know, sir.
01:11:04Madame said it was for an indefinite stay.
01:11:06Yes, sir.
01:11:08Thank you, sir.
01:11:10Yes.
01:11:12Yes.
01:11:14No, sir.
01:11:16No, sir.
01:11:18No, sir.
01:11:20No, sir.
01:11:22No, sir.
01:11:24Yes.
01:11:26No, I can give you no information, Your Excellency,
01:11:28beyond the fact that the countess Stavisky
01:11:30has withdrawn all of her funds.
01:11:32Yes.
01:11:34You are very welcome.
01:11:54Yes, yes.
01:11:56I can reach Colonel von Richter immediately.
01:11:58Tell the colonel I can get the merchandise he wanted.
01:12:00However, I cannot deliver it here in Ankara.
01:12:02Now, it's quite impossible.
01:12:04I'm being watched too closely.
01:12:10I shall have to ring off now.
01:12:12Tell the colonel I'll arrange a meeting place in Istanbul.
01:12:14I'm leaving this evening.
01:12:16I'll call you at the German consulate in Istanbul tomorrow.
01:12:24He didn't speak to anyone in the bar.
01:12:26He made a couple of phone calls and then came back here.
01:12:28I think you're on the wrong track sniffing after Dielo.
01:12:30After all, he didn't bat an eye
01:12:32when you told him about the countess.
01:12:34There's something about him.
01:12:36There's something about him.
01:12:38Why, for one thing, should he go on to a café
01:12:40to make a few phone calls?
01:12:54Good night.
01:13:24Good night.
01:13:54Good night.
01:14:24Good night.
01:14:54Good night.
01:15:24Good night.
01:15:44What do you want?
01:15:46It's all right. I clean office now.
01:15:48No, not now. His Excellency won't be back until tomorrow.
01:15:50But it's necessary. I wash windows while it's still daylight.
01:15:52Come back later.
01:16:22Good night.
01:16:52Good night.
01:17:22Good night.
01:17:52Did you see him?
01:17:54Who?
01:18:02Turn off the alarm. Open it up.
01:18:04Dielo!
01:18:06Where's Dielo?
01:18:08He just ran out. He seemed to be chasing someone.
01:18:16Follow him, Johnson. Find him and stick with him.
01:18:18Shall I try to hold him?
01:18:20Just find him and report back.
01:18:22Get off a dispatch to London.
01:18:24I want all available information on Dielo flown to me here at once.
01:18:26Give me that dispatch case.
01:18:32Nothing seems to be missing here.
01:18:34How many letters have you there?
01:18:36Four.
01:18:38We locked up five.
01:18:40That letter.
01:18:42Perfumed letter gone, but nothing out of the dispatch case.
01:18:46That's odd.
01:18:50McFadden.
01:18:56Photographs.
01:19:02Have Burroughs and Murray watch the approach to the German Embassy.
01:19:04We've got to keep them from delivering that film.
01:19:06It'll be sticky grabbing him in public. Our Turkish friends might not like it.
01:19:08We can't kidnap him, McFadden. We'll have to kill him.
01:19:12There's a little matter called Operation Overlord we've got to consider.
01:19:14Send a man out to the airport.
01:19:16After Johnson gets back, you and I'll get out to the railroad station.
01:19:20Siebert.
01:19:22You and Stuyvesant take the train to Istanbul this evening.
01:19:24Moisich and I will take the plane.
01:19:26It's bound to be aboard one or the other.
01:19:28Shall we go armed, Colonel?
01:19:30Naturally.
01:19:32You're to protect Cicero from the British at all costs
01:19:34until we get that film.
01:19:36And after that?
01:19:38After that, Moisich, it will be up to Cicero to protect himself
01:19:40from the British
01:19:42and from us. That's all.
01:19:50Istanbul. Newspapers.
01:19:52Republic. Evening. Time.
01:19:56National. Latest news.
01:19:58Freedom. Evening.
01:20:00Republic.
01:20:02Evening.
01:20:04Republic. Newspapers. Latest news.
01:20:10Republic. Evening. Time.
01:20:12Republic.
01:20:14Attention. Attention.
01:20:16Ankara. Aydar Pasha Express.
01:20:18Evening.
01:20:20Republic.
01:20:22Evening.
01:20:24Ankara. Aydar Pasha Express.
01:20:26Evening.
01:20:28Republic.
01:20:30Evening.
01:20:36Republic.
01:20:38Evening.
01:20:44Republic.
01:20:46Evening.
01:20:58Republic.
01:21:00Evening.
01:21:02Republic.
01:21:04Evening.
01:21:06Republic.
01:21:08Evening.
01:21:10Republic.
01:21:12Evening.
01:21:14Republic.
01:21:16Evening.
01:21:18Republic.
01:21:20Evening.
01:21:22Republic.
01:21:24Evening.
01:21:26Republic.
01:21:28Evening.
01:21:30This is the car.
01:21:32I couldn't see which compartment exactly.
01:21:34Try them all.
01:21:38Excuse me.
01:21:40Is it occupied?
01:21:42I'm sorry.
01:21:44I won't let you down, sir.
01:21:46This compartment is occupied, gentlemen.
01:21:48May I see your reservation?
01:21:50We didn't have time to get it.
01:21:52If possible, we'd like to buy a compartment in this car.
01:21:54I'm sorry. There are none available.
01:21:56We'd be happy to make it worth your while.
01:21:58There are none available, gentlemen.
01:22:00I shall have to ask you to move on to the next car.
01:22:30You might as well put that away
01:22:32and fill your pipe instead.
01:22:34There's nothing to do between here and Istanbul
01:22:36but see to it that none of them get off.
01:22:38Suppose the Nazis have already got the films?
01:22:40No.
01:22:42They wouldn't be playing watchdog for him if they did.
01:22:44They're going to take good care of him
01:22:46until he hands it over.
01:22:48That'll be somewhere in Istanbul.
01:23:00Aah!
01:23:10And so by the time you receive this,
01:23:12my dear ambassador,
01:23:14I shall be far away from Ankara.
01:23:16Far away from intrigue and uncertainty
01:23:18and humiliation.
01:23:22I shall be settled, I hope,
01:23:24in a new life of peace and security
01:23:26and self-respect.
01:23:28You have spoken so often to me,
01:23:30my dear friend, of Diallo,
01:23:32the perfect valet
01:23:34who served my late husband
01:23:36and who serves you now.
01:23:38Surely I can offer no greater proof
01:23:40of my affection for you
01:23:42and my devotion to the Allied cause
01:23:44than to inform you now
01:23:46that your trusted Diallo
01:23:48is a German spy.
01:23:50I know that both you
01:23:52and your government...
01:23:55Aah!
01:24:10Just a few minutes, sir.
01:24:24Good morning, gentlemen.
01:24:26Did you sleep well?
01:24:28I slept extremely well.
01:24:30Guards to the left of me, guards to the right of me.
01:24:32You are my bodyguards, aren't you,
01:24:34or are you my assassins?
01:24:36We are to see that no harm comes to you from the British.
01:24:38Honoured. Puts me right in a class
01:24:40with Norway and Denmark and Holland
01:24:42and any number of things you're protecting from the British.
01:24:44Besides, if anyone were to lay a hand on me,
01:24:46I could expose and ruin this film
01:24:48in a matter of seconds.
01:24:50You are in no danger at all.
01:24:52Don't be whimsical.
01:24:54I've come to give you a message for Moyzisch.
01:24:56Tell him he is to meet me at Hakim's restaurant
01:24:58near the watchtower at 6 o'clock sharp this evening.
01:25:00We would prefer if you come to the German consulate
01:25:02at the same hour, if you like.
01:25:04No, thank you, although I'm tempted.
01:25:06So many more people go into German consulates than come out.
01:25:08I've often wondered what possible attraction
01:25:10could keep them there so long.
01:25:12We must have some guarantee that you have the film.
01:25:14I thought you were the silent partner.
01:25:16Here's all the guarantee you'll need.
01:25:18Don't unwrap it.
01:25:22It's a Strauber film.
01:25:24Have Moyzisch develop it,
01:25:26and you will see a piece of the document
01:25:28that Colonel von Richter wants to buy.
01:25:30I'll deliver the rest of it when Moyzisch meets me
01:25:32and pays me 100,000 pounds.
01:25:34100,000?
01:25:36I forgot to tell you I raised the price.
01:25:44Lady Moyzisch?
01:25:46Yes, sir.
01:25:48Remember to be extremely friendly.
01:25:50Give him the money first.
01:25:52As soon as you have the other portion of the film,
01:25:54come straight back here.
01:25:56Yes, sir.
01:25:58Do you know what to do after that?
01:26:00There is a problem of the Turkish police.
01:26:02It is hardly likely you will choose to kill Cicero
01:26:04on a crowded street or in the presence of a policeman.
01:26:06On the other hand, it is hardly likely
01:26:08he will go to the police himself,
01:26:10not with 100,000 British pounds in his pocket.
01:26:12Yes, sir.
01:26:14Good luck.
01:26:20No luck?
01:26:22This city was created by Allah
01:26:24primarily for the convenience of spies.
01:26:26Nobody ever found anybody in Istanbul.
01:26:28Anything going on here?
01:26:30Von Richter and Moyzisch went in.
01:26:32Likewise, our two playmates.
01:26:34Nobody's come out...
01:26:36yet.
01:26:50Let's go.
01:27:10Hazelnuts.
01:27:12Hazelnuts, hazelnuts.
01:27:14Hugs.
01:27:16Hazelnuts.
01:27:18Hazelnuts.
01:27:20Hazelnuts.
01:27:24Hazelnuts.
01:27:26Hazelnuts.
01:27:28Hazelnuts.
01:27:30Hugs.
01:27:48Moyzisch, my dear colleague,
01:27:50I am delighted to see you.
01:27:52It's far too early for civilized dining,
01:27:54but I have a busy evening before me.
01:27:56Will you have something to eat?
01:27:58I am not hungry.
01:28:00Do you feel faint perhaps?
01:28:02Then sit down
01:28:04and have some Turkish banana brandy.
01:28:06It stimulates the blood
01:28:08and makes heroes of all who drink it.
01:28:10I must accustom myself to pouring drinks
01:28:12from a sitting position.
01:28:14It isn't easy to break the habits of a lifetime.
01:28:16habits of a lifetime. let's get on with the business. did you bring all of it?
01:28:22100,000? if I were a gentleman I would assume that the money is all here.
01:28:27unfortunately I shall not be a gentleman until I finished counting it.
01:28:32do you speak English? a little. I'm looking for a friend. he may be in a private room.
01:28:49do you have private rooms? he's occupied. then he must be in there. I'll just... I'm
01:28:55sorry he not wish to be disturbed. but he's expecting me. I'm sorry. you will sit
01:29:01here please.
01:29:09time for using your wits and a time for blasting away for my part. no monopoly
01:29:14on blasting away in this room. those two dim-witted supermen would drop us before
01:29:17we got clear of this table. but he may be handing over the films this minute. as of
01:29:21this minute we don't want the films. they're worthless. plans can be changed you know.
01:29:25we want Cicero and we want him alive so he can tell us just how much the Nazis
01:29:29have found out. come to think of it for exactly the same reasons the Nazis must
01:29:36want him very much dead.
01:29:44you're barmy. you're completely barmy. he'll jump at it.
01:29:53my friend may not know we're waiting. would you give this to him please? yes.
01:29:59up to bay. how can I ever thank you enough for your hospitality courtesy and
01:30:09kitchen. it is always a joy to see you Diallo. it takes me back to old times.
01:30:14thank you. no answer required. who was that note from? what was in it? would you
01:30:23like to purchase a photograph of it? why so nervous Moyzisch? this is the greatest
01:30:28day of your life. when you die Hitler will dip you in bronze and name streets
01:30:31after you. can't you count a little faster? haste makes waste. you've grown fond of me
01:30:37is that it? you're troubled because you know that I haven't much longer to live.
01:30:41those two men are here to protect you from the British. which two men? I didn't
01:30:44say anything about two men. really Moyzisch you and your guilty conscience and
01:30:48big mouth. here's the film. has it occurred to you that our roles are now
01:30:57reversed? the British may try to kill you. how does it feel being me? keep a stiff
01:31:04upper lip Moyzisch. that's one thing I have learned from the British the
01:31:06importance of an exterior.
01:31:27Mr. Travers I'm talking to you.
01:31:29Mr. Travers I'm touched by your solicitude.
01:31:58I'm happy to accept your offer of protection. imagine me of all men with a
01:32:02British sword and a British shield. personally I'd rather slit your throat.
01:32:06impractical. in that case I'd be unable to tell you the things you want to know.
01:32:09you've no idea how confused the Nazis will be to see you protecting me. they
01:32:14still half suspect I've been a British plant all along. we'll see you safely to
01:32:17a taxi and then to the British consulate. that'll be almost back where I started
01:32:20from. no thank you. we'll walk away together and then say goodbye. listen
01:32:24Mr. Allen we'll protect you from the Gestapo but we intend to take you alive.
01:32:28I have no intention of being taken alive. we'll get the Turkish police to arrest
01:32:31you. it's against the law here to carry a weapon McFadden. did you know that?
01:32:35however first things first. shall we begin by startling the Nazis with your
01:32:39concern for my safety. you seem to disapprove of me. you're the most
01:32:49cold-blooded thief traitor and criminal I've seen in a lifetime of looking at
01:32:53human trash. what a pity. I rather hoped I'd look like a gentleman.
01:33:12Cicero and the British? put that away. too many people.
01:34:23our shoes. what's the matter with our shoes?
01:35:23I
01:35:53you must believe me colonel. the British held us off. they were protecting him.
01:36:22nonsense. but they let him get away sir. what's more back in the restaurant they
01:36:26passed Cicero a note. it has no logic. it does not make sense. an urgent dispatch
01:36:32for you sir from his excellency the ambassador. Moisich what's the delay?
01:36:41I spoiled the first print. what? I was so nervous but the second one is almost
01:36:46ready. hurry up.
01:36:52here it is sir. they fit together perfectly. D-day for operation overlord is tentatively set for early
01:37:18June along the coast of Normandy and Cherbourg Peninsula. Cal did you hear it?
01:37:25yes I heard. now you hear this. an urgent dispatch from Fomparton. have just
01:37:31received personal letter from countess Anastasia naming Cicero as British
01:37:36agent. I'm unable to corroborate the accusation because countess has left
01:37:39country but in view of her past efforts to ingratiate herself with us I'm
01:37:43compelled to believe her charge is true. I don't believe it. I've always believed
01:37:48that from the first. I told you so. I know the British and their childish tricks. I
01:37:52don't believe it. the earlier documents they were genuine even proved them genuine.
01:37:57of course they had to be so that we would swallow that big lie. that one. I
01:38:01nearly paid with my life for this. I knew it. I knew it all along.
01:38:31I knew it all along.
01:38:55dinner is served
01:39:01you had too much confidence. it's over. it's over. you had a wonderful wife. so beautiful. so beautiful. you couldn't make her happy. she left alone.
01:39:31oh
01:39:52two gentlemen have come to see you senor. your banker and another gentleman.
01:39:57senor da Costa at this hour? very well have them come out.
01:40:17senor da Costa. an unexpected pleasure. senor Antonini please forgive this
01:40:22intrusion. may I present my friend senor Santos. I'm honored senor Santos. I've
01:40:25looked forward to meeting you senor. please sit down gentlemen. will you join
01:40:28me for dinner? thank you senor. we have dined. some wine perhaps. senor Antonini
01:40:34is already known in Rio for his exquisite taste in wine. are you
01:40:38associated with the bank too senor Santos? no senor. with the Brazilian
01:40:42Department of Investigation. ah then I assume you investigate Argentine
01:40:47citizens who settle in your beautiful city. among other things yes. have you
01:40:52discovered some irregularity in my papers? no senor. your papers are all
01:40:56perfectly in order. there is an irregularity however senor. it is a
01:41:02matter of your account at the bank. am I overdrawn? as of yesterday I had
01:41:06approximately 7 million cruzeiros to my account. I was referring to the bank
01:41:10draft with which you purchased this villa. as I recall that transaction I
01:41:13paid the full sum in cash 25,000 pounds sterling. that is correct. what seems to
01:41:19be the difficulty? the money has been returned. what on earth for? it's
01:41:24counterfeit. you have a distorted sense of humor senor. the money is counterfeit.
01:41:30so is the money which you exchanged for Brazilian currency. it is all counterfeit.
01:41:35believe me senor. I do not wish to leap to conclusions. a gentleman of your
01:41:39obvious refinement. perhaps you are an unfortunate dupe. this currency has been
01:41:43in circulation for months and the British authorities have only recently
01:41:47detected the forgery. I have samples here of every series in your possession. they
01:41:51are the most skillful facsimiles I have ever seen. senor Antonini I implore you
01:41:55to cooperate. you see we know that these counterfeit notes were printed in
01:41:59Germany. the British have established that beyond a shadow of a doubt and so
01:42:03far they have turned up in three places. here in Brazil, in Turkey and in
01:42:08Switzerland. Switzerland? over 100,000 counterfeit British pounds were
01:42:15confiscated there recently. in the possession of a political refugee. a lady.
01:42:19it would be in your interest to tell us where and how you got this money.
01:42:24Switzerland. believe me senor. this is no laughing matter. it is my unhappy duty to
01:42:31inform you that you are under arrest.
01:42:35Anna. I beg your pardon?
01:42:39poor Anna.