"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) - Leslie Howard

have you got it i think so yes i think so labor my notebook what's the matter i thought i heard someone outside he's always hearing things since he got that message what message message i do not quite understand from whom that's just it i don't know but you think it's from this mysterious rescuer i believe it came from him yes i believe i shall be got safely away i wouldn't be the first and you'll go on with your work somewhere else out of reach of the nuts of course you always refuse to work for them haven't you i will sooner die my business is to cure not to kill weber you say you gave the last injection at four o'clock yes greatly increased resistance they were definitely better seems to be working there is a man outside he told me to give you this note let me read it thank you the mind of man is bounded only by the universe what's that mean i knew it saber get my head and coat quickly and bring my suitcase notebook please be careful please be careful what am i to lose good luck my friend in my newspaper freedom i shall tell proudly of a german whose brains could not be bought thank you but i should not advise you oh i am quite safe i am a pole my country is not at war yet goodbye goodbye weber see that they get better i am ready i think he will be all right dr bankerdorf he has gone away that car just left follow it you are wasting your time city mayor koslowski isn't it our time isn't entirely wasted you've saved us a journey inside oh no nobody knows who he is gentlemen please gentlemen the minister of propaganda instructs me to inform all foreign correspondents that rumors of a mysterious personage helping enemies of the state to escape from germany are without foundation we can assure you there have been no such escapes and there is no such rescuer furthermore in nazi germany no one can hope to be saved by anybody jordan jordan yes sir jordan you are nothing better than a vandal a god a spiritual descendant of the huns whose primary object was the desecration of beauty i wouldn't know what you mean sir not without a dictionary yours is the unique privilege of looking after the fairest goddess of them all the one sublime woman and how do you treat her look man look sorry sir as a matter of fact i'm very fond of that for doity very fond but there are many of them so many of them well in a manner of speaking they're wrong if there's only one woman like this look at the symmetry look at the grace look at look at the dust jordan sorry sir i'll go get my feather duster right away fun of her look girls there's juno no madam not juno aphrodite calipicos are you sure well i ought to know i discovered her really she's just come out of her bath and you see that towel she's holding in her hand that is not a towel madam it is a heat on a form of drapery it looks like a towel very good it's a towel to you it's a heat unto me she's the goddess of plenty no no no no the goddess of love of lawful wedded love she's a respectable goddess girl she's practically perfect as you can see and in the languishing eye and smiling lips there is a boundless compassion for the folly and ignorance of a blind world very jolly yes very charlie come along professor the college porter just called for you sir you're late late for what you lecture sir oh don't be ridiculous my lecture is until friday but today is friday sir good how extraordinary what happened to thursday we had it yesterday did we if he doesn't hurry the lecture will be over before it starts well i've sent a porter to write him out harvard has nothing he didn't tell up at all last week hey look at that boy that's beautiful i think it's insulting being so late what do you expect baby archaeologists are always a thousand years behind the times no mr maxwell a mere man for 35 minutes which compels me to omit two-thirds of my lecture for which no doubt you'll be duly grateful i shall therefore content myself with merely giving you something to think about until our next meeting the constitution of ancient greece bears witness to both practical and spiritual influences for example every line of the parthenon either returns to mother earth or slopes gently upwards to the heavens what is that oh that's a dice dice what's it doing here it uh showed a regrettable tendency to return to mother earth you better remove it yes sir give it to me mr maxwell i often wonder what persuaded you to join this class my old man figured that a course of archaeology would sober me he figured in vain anyhow he was crazy am i coming to england that i can well understand but to continue professor could i have my dicer to continue in the parthenon we see the working of the spiritual influence while in the dwelling houses of the greeks we find the practical as emphasized by a strict division of the women's quarters from the men's an arrangement which in my view proves the vast superiority of greek civilization over our own he's always making cracks at us greek women moreover were condemned to habitual seclusion an admirable practice which unfortunately is not followed in this university do you object to our presence here professor oh i can't object i can merely deplore it now that we've succeeded somewhat elaborately in getting rid of the female students i'd like to have a word with you for some time passed i've been making excavations in central europe for the purpose of discovering traces of an aryan civilization oh i'm perfectly serious gentlemen it may surprise you to learn the german government is most interested in the idea next week the term comes to an end yes mr maxwell it comes to an end and in the vacation i've decided that i might take a few archaeology students with me how does the idea appeal to you it appeals enormously to me sir and me sir i'd like to come sir so would i sir if the financial requirements can be kept within reasonable limits i think i can guarantee that mr mcintyre that's four four not a very flattering response would i be allowed to bring my young sister sir no mr ousted i am seeking to avoid the company of females in general and young sisters in particular i assume you would not be interested mr maxwell no sir i spend my vacations in the present not the past good good professor why don't we ask him for trouble going to germany's a time like this travel i mean i'd like to come too what the jolly old balloon might cover any moment you know why i hadn't thought of that a rough house is just my meat mr maxwell i've already accepted your refusal i take it back prof you can count me in oh but i assure you now prof you might need a few huskies and i my whale an organization you say the word now run the whole outfit mr maxwell one of the chief attractions of this expedition was the thought that for three whole months i wouldn't be seeing you however now that's to remind me of something of course crumpets for tea well think it over gentlemen those of you who want more information can come and see me in the morning good day i'll be around with the whole thing scheduled after dinner come on boys just really can the slightly toes disguise and gimbal in the way all mimsy ah professor good afternoon good afternoon how are you praying late for my crumpet as a matter of fact which unlike wine do not improve with keeping good days uh one moment it may have escaped your memory that i am the dean of this college so you ask i'm so sorry but you will hardly forgotten dr benkendorf my goodness the guinea pig my old friend how good it is to see well well it must be nearly 20 years all of that i am afraid ah this is wonderful how are the experiments coming along i tell you what you must come around to my rooms after hall and we'll talk the clock around may i remind you that the doctor is my guest no no no you're both of you my guests come along well goodbye extraordinary fellow well now that the dean has left us tell me all about it the serum was a success eh i left before i had the final proof well that was too bad on the other hand i still have my life it's hard to believe conditions are as bad as you say no worse my friend my escape was a miracle so it seems i very much regret um i am unable to thank my rescuer by the way who was he and how on earth did he manage it i had no idea he came and went like a shadow an invisible bodyguard every detail was arranged for me from the time i left my home regular crooks tour eh well anyway you're safe and alive and able to get on with your work yes i like to believe it was because of my work that he did it not a bad reason it is difficult for people like us to understand the motives of a true adventurer you and i are not men of action my friend no i hate violence it seems such a paradox to kill a man before you can persuade him what's right so uncivilized bless my soul what's that everything's lined up and i brought the bunch along for a final checkup i said tomorrow sure but i could up on you by 12 hours chief here's the itinerary of the times of arrival departure an iron ration will be carried by all and personal luggage restricted 28 pounds now we're all set to go go away don't you realize that i've oh oh i'm sorry sorry sir we'll stay prof can i have my bones guys no they're my bones now you're welcome prophecy in the morning good heavens did i dream all that i'm afraid not we're all set to go expression my home is in oil but when i am on duty i am billeted at the chalet you thinking about me no not unless i tell him to come here gentlemen i want you to meet a friend of mine from oi hello hi can i say professor we're not going to walk right on out of germany today are we my feet are giving out do you think they'll manage to carry you another 20 hours mr gregson what's all this bad wire for we are at the german swiss frontier gentlemen and the barbed wire is to prevent the oppressed swiss from escaping into free germany see do you see what i see what do you mean the cow yeah the cow yeah believe it or not boys that's a barnhofer cow they produce less milk than our jersey cows oh really you must tell me more of your experiences some some other times come on everything all right her professor and being splendid and the coffee is excellent i'm glad it's your taste still having prof yes we should only be doing about 15 miles tomorrow it'll seem like standing still well have you got our matching orders yeah just another 15 miles does he never relax he's like a man hunted by a conscience forever foraging ahead there must be a reason for it there is sex starvation no kidding maybe you're right well can we do something about it see that's quite an idea toodle on that little jock i'm going into action now gentlemen since our role in such magnificent spirits i've decided to alter slightly tomorrow's itinerary oh i think it will now be 20 miles 20 minutes 19 miles yes now as you all know we are now under zitsenberg altitude five thousand feet in the morning we shall climb to eight thousand feet feet and uh in the afternoon yes on second thoughts we'll postpone discussion about the afternoon's operations until later and so gentlemen to bed the call tomorrow morning is 5 30 a.m take it easy admiral i never shave in the evening it's getting late here professor thank you for reminding me my friend yes night ladies good night silence go to sleep so if you're looking for dames there aren't enough to go around yes come anybody coming here just now there's no one here but the english party so i haven't seen anyone sir are you sure yes sir i have been here since i came off duty so well he's in switzerland by now there'll be a devil to pay for this get your post you don't expect me to believe that nonsense yes i do it couldn't be the same man it might be it couldn't be here here here here here he couldn't be everywhere he could and last night here on the swiss frontier let's go and see how the reports are coming in what's the date just about tonka oh miss from breslau no information regarding identity of unknown man who assisted in carl clunker's escape i still know news of this fellow means trouble for someone any news message from hamburg no information regarding identity of unknown man who prevented the execution of joseph fiance breslau hamburg belgium plenty of french frontier all the same no news bunker seems to have got away over the swiss border same as joseph and bloomfield shinkan hurts went through holland but is this damn shadow that grounds after if we can believe in it well i do you call this thing a report what is the use here commandant of the gestapo arresting enemies of the reich if you permit them to escape every precaution was taken excuse your conduct we are answerable for our conduct to general von graham not to his assistant kindly have my report delivered i'm afraid you'll regret that he'll come undone please wait outside schmidt take this report to general von braun yes sir oh well don't you think at once get out oh hello schmidt take this report in there uh what is it only the report from the prison continent about carl plunker's escape i'm sorry i'm just going to have my lunch hoffman this is an order know your enemy i am told that the english have a secret weapon their sense of humor and i am determined to find out all about it for instance this the man with the beard side down in the forest something stirred is that funny no it's not funny good now the famous english humoristic journal punch young lady a telephone you say you have met an officer and a gentleman well bring them both up not funny no not funny edward leah there was an old man of bengal who went to a fancy dress ball he said i'll risk it and go as a biscuit and the dog ate him up in the hall very unfunny yes very now uh hair louis carol alice through the looking glass twas breidig and the slithy tobys did gar and gimble in the va painful rubbish very painful oh i have come to the conclusion that the english sense of humor is a myth they have no sense of humor and therefore they have no secret weapon the whole thing is a complete bluff yes yes ah but wait when i am gauliter of london i shall see whether there is no talk of sense of humor oh you will hair right minister what is this the report on the escape of karl plank bring them here get them i shall see the prisoner kozlowski in three minutes ah come in gentlemen come in incompetent clowns you have read this report i have sir i told the president comment what to expect you really the frontiers are watched all foreigners questioned it won't be long before we get the man who arranged these escapes oh then you have his description hardly sir no i never occurred to you to question the one man who will give it to you who's sir send in silly mirkowski of course just so a more impatient man might resent having to supply all the brains in his department prisoner koslovsky huh just the man we want to see i wanted to have a little chat with you about freedom oh not the paper you edited but your own personal freedom well in our last interview i asked you to let me have a list of the persons who contributed matter to your paper contrary to the interests of the right you did well suppose we forget that it will save you a lot of disappointment and suppose you answer me a much simpler question in return for what ticket to warsaw the freedom of your own country while it exists what do you want a description of the man who prevented the arrest of dr benkandov i can't give it you were present at the time a trained observer must have noticed some little peculiarity how he walked he talked his height what was his nationality i have no idea oh cow i should hate to leave you to the tender mercies of those idiots have just gone out very well under duress he was seven feet high and covered with red hair i see you are i believe a married man correct but with europe in its prison state my family is abroad no family consisting of one daughter yes she is safely in america in america yes thank you good day is it the real thing sir no mr dixon i'm afraid it's just a flint from one of mr hitler's new roads planner for your prof oh thank you i'm very sorry mr gregson well look at that oh that's very pretty an invitation from our embassy in berlin berlin oh that seems an awful long way away wait a minute don't tell me you've forgotten we're all set for berlin tomorrow morning are we sure what time are we leaving 9 52 oh and am and i'm going to write it down 9 52. now it's right here in your pocket thank you thank you well gentlemen nice to see you on the team 9 58 2 2 but where are you going tonight sir aren't you going to stay here probably probably thank you don't worry about me you know some guys should go around in a lead what are you doing you two nothing you were looking at something i was only looking at his hands why because they're the hands of the world's greatest fearless well who wants to look at the dirty hand of a dirty loafer i shall report you for this name maya coral fire get on with your work or you'll have a taste of this how do you expect to be rescued from this place nothing but fields an open country i don't know but i believe there have been others you know stop talking now next time there's any trouble it'll be one of you scarecrows gosh the shutter's been at again world famous pianist escapes from labor camp that's how it looks carl meyer the pianist is reported to have crossed the french frontier in an exhausted condition it is suggested that his escape was affected by the mysterious personage believed to have been responsible for similar rescues of other enemies of the right why again better than burrowing like a rabbit for bits of the past that guy has guts even a rabbit has guts mr maxwell sounds awfully sensational who wonder how he does it by taking a chance may i'll catch him on the hop one of these days they always catch that sort of bloke don't there sir in the deplorable argo hue moderns i wouldn't know the man penetrated the camp in the guise of a scarecrow in the guise of a scarecrow he let's have a look the eyes of a scarecrow he was undoubtedly wounded for a ragged coat with a blood-soaked sleeve was picked up when the escape was affected blood-soaked sleeve very melodramatic pipped in the army wow i wouldn't pay too much attention to newspaper reports gentlemen well i suppose one can get a wash on this baby yes yes that's a good idea i think i'll have a wash too okay watch my hands are perfectly clean just so mr maxwell that a sensible fellow would keep his mouth shut oh gee oh boy oh boy well kick me from here to christmas apart from the weirdest such an undertaking i'm the one who should be kicked for the not unnatural mistake of underestimating your intelligence but how did you get into the racket the trouble was to keep out of it you see when a man holds the view that progress and civilization depend in every age upon the hands and brains of a few exceptional spirits it's rather hard to stand by and see them destroyed but how did you get away with it you of all people mr maxwell i'm not a spectacular person in fact a natural capacity for melting into the landscape has suddenly proved very useful i guess you're one of the greatest guys in creation that mr maxwell is a gross overstatement actually i'm a singularly weak person who invariably gives way to his impulses fellas come back here on all fours well gentlemen i i hope you feel duly refreshed yes thank you professor me i should by the hand certainly mr mcintyre especially as we shall soon be saying goodbye goodbye what else now that you've discovered my guilty secret yes we've got something to say about that plenty to say yes we've been talking it over here we want to be in it we're ironing it up to the neck and through the finish oh no you're not oh yes we are otherwise i'm afraid we'll have to give the whole show away hey fellas yes sir i don't really want to be yeah what is this gentleman blackmail a nice kind of blackmail yes hello characteristics of purely french rubbish the phrase or one like it occurs in no fewer than seven compositions of luback's earlier work nothing's happening well at least we're agreed about the tempo i maintain there is a modulation in the second movement but i heard the record and i didn't notice it when you listen more carefully you'd have heard that the tempo of the second movement is far slower than the temple of the third well you know will you be quiet here in this building we are supposed to know everything because i'm than germany you can hardly expect me to believe that these escapes were affected without treachery somewhere alright minister we've given all the information we possess is my loyalties in question i design resign that is your valuable contribution sit down now let us examine once more the available evidence first a scrap of music whistle in the night your pardon how like minister it went this way no this way no no stop that the origin of the tune is being traced by a committee of experts secondly the corner of a card found in the pocket of the scarecrow's coat send in here's ego where is it here it is a piece of pasteboard guilt-aged with rsvp printed in copper blade on one side and the figure's 952 in pencil on the reverse well it must be part of an invitation card sir oh well done they are small and that being so it is possibly one of a number issue for the same reception is it beyond the power of the gestapo to trace where that reception is being held here tico is here well unfortunately sir none of the persons who overheard the whistling that followed each escape has enjoyed a musical education so we have endeavoured to crystallize their renderings into a single musical phrase and score it there i asked you to trace the origin of the phrase it starts with the 27th bar of the third movement of lubas concerto in g minor may i play it for you no i will sit down put on the record made by the frontier guard but don't start it i don't believe it put on the record oh stop it well here at last we have something come over here you see identical absolutely identical the british embassy reception that means he must be english that's it how interesting and the fact that i too have received an invitation means that i must be english thank you gentlemen for your invaluable help you may all go and you what are you doing here i was just collecting some papers what for i don't know i always do what's your do you name music bob not very much do you like this melody it's quite nice for an english team did you say english too why of course an old english song there is a tavern in the town come here logna here jenna don't be nervous you shall be rewarded you are a genius you shall have a signed picture of the fuhrer have a chocolate thank you uh the ambassador's not here no no he had to fly to london oh things as bad as that eh well hope springs eternally uh reich minister general von braun my solicitation i'm so glad you were able to come well i never missed an opportunity of cementing the friendship between britain and the right i was very happily put i hope you will be able to come to the nurnberg rally yes i hope so what's your name this year peace captain and madame laroc colonel and mrs the earl of meadowbrook hello bussy what have you been doing absolutely nothing i never know you must never do it i know oh the charming was covered in general general fun crowd strong silent resolution no i'm afraid that's not the type i'm looking for no no i'm looking for brain not broad as you will anyhow all i can tell you is that the man we want will be here tonight see what you can do don't forget the general's name again we don't thank you sir roger and lady cadwa your card please sir thank you this way please thank you sir his excellency is the chilean ambassador have you got a match i'll get you one sir thank you senor and senorita goya old soldiers yes sir professor horatio smith hello george hello harris well i've come as i promised until i spend it uh can i go now oh i should stay a bit and enjoy yourself all right it's a nice suit did you make it yourself certainly not affiliate cambridge made it for me when i was 17. alice i'd like you to meet my brother professor smith the lady willowby not the professor smith why only the other day someone said i was the image of your aphrodite what do you think well it's rather hard to judge you see i only know my aphrodite in the nude i don't know whether these details of your private life yes well to the pure all things are pure so i mean i should take things a bit easy it's all right my head's like iron more ways than one believe me see there's a prop and it looks like he wants me you mean us who is that i have no idea she's here how do you know i've just been upstairs and have you noticed that sir i do my best not to mr bricks i'll bet she's got a headache holding that up let that serve as a reminder to you gentlemen that the rendezvous is 11 30 at vorax and i think i know who he is i don't speak until i'm certain i thought you said there were half a dozen cards with their corners drawn up yes but only one that would exactly fit the one that i have here i can hardly imagine the man you're looking for being wise enough to tear the corners from half a dozen and foolish enough to leave his own car you are a very intelligent young woman very intelligent now that he's in here i can promise he won't get out i haven't any complaints the champagne's not too hot in fact it's lukewarm what do you expect baby it's free see nipples and die boy do you see what i see what's got new your chance there's a different approach to each type watch me excuse me oh i'm so sorry i thought it was somebody else clearly a case of mistaken identity i'm looking for jiggle and i find hyde jiku hi or an english joke well hardly a joke i'll excuse me no no you mustn't go tell me more about yourself i'm always interested in local customs and habits for instance what do you do with yourself i hunt for the enemies of the right do you do you get much shooting oh wait there well excuse me i think someone wants me no no not until you've had your coffee they tell me the british embassy is the last place in germany where it can be obtained in germany we have discovered that a substitute can be better than the real thing ah the story of the grapes tell me is it affected in your country there's no longer any freedom of speech all lies from the degenerate plutocratic press ah is that so but then you see that journalism is so untrustworthy isn't it yes what brings you to germany a thirst for knowledge i'm trying to discover whether there was or was not an aryan civilization in this country there was ah some people say there wasn't but i shall find out here's a rescue puzzle what do you have in it absolutely nothing you know it is extraordinary busy's vocabulary consists of absolutely nothing it's sublime it's ridiculous it can mean anything and it can mean absolutely nothing it can't even be an insult or a password tell me i am curious your english humorist uh lewis carr why does he write such idiots listen to us bridling and the slithy tobys did gyre and gimble in the barbie does not make sense but it does it was brilliant and the slithery toes did gyre and gimble in the wave all mimsy where the borogroves and the moon wraths outgrabe it makes perfect sense but what does it mean it means whatever you want it to mean you can either use it directly or as i'm afraid i do sometimes in place of swear words strong as a matter of fact you know ever since i've been in germany i felt exactly like alice in wonderland oh but germany is a wonderland oh it is it is but we have one problem to be or not to be as our great german poet says german but that's shakespeare but you don't know but i know it's shakespeare i thought shakespeare was english no no shakespeare is a german professor schutzbacher has proved it once and for all they are very upsetting still you must admit that the english translations are most remarkable good night good night good night parting is such sweet sorrow what is that one of the most famous lines in german literature you haven't even told me your name it's ludmilla what a lullaby milly for short no loose income have you noticed the music stopped all right back to earth again let's talk about you for a change apart from being american what are you i'm a student of archaeology very funny on the level i'm a member of the professor smith expedition and proud of smith oh the vague person i saw you talking to looks as though he hated coming into the middle of the room the greatest guy that ever drew breath really i always said one shouldn't go by appearances i could tell you things about him that had knocked the legs from under you you could then do now i guess you'll have to take my word for it and give me a glass of champagne to make up for it sure i'm certain it's him i've just been listening to him absolutely nothing why bother me but that's what he said did you want me yes our friend marx thinks that that are there yes yes i would have said he was more likely that man by the statue well that's what i think intuition oh hello george hello harris i say george can i leave now reminder for the course i hope you enjoyed yourself oddly enough i did quite a pleasure to be on british territory again technically oh general excuse me i have friends of course you have but do you know the walrus and the carpenter evidently not in america they regard german propaganda stories as jokes they are mistaken in germany we never joke we as a terrible fellow has been haunting me all evening he's following me about like a shadow excuse me though what do you want now i want to arrest that man who the man they call bussy the earl of nato broke yeah the british embassy don't be a fool all the same i want what are you doing though absolutely nothing lovely trees a midsummer night's dream oh i beg your pardon it's quite all right now i know a balcony where there isn't so much traffic i find it quite pleasant here i've been looking for you all over the place the professor's just leaving he would well be going to scramble yeah my instructions are that i'm not to let you out of my sight have a heart please stick around someplace all right i'll wait for you on the staircase another party oh just getting together with the rest of the gang at a beer cellar of course there wouldn't be any balconies in the beer well uh no that is uh it'd be swell if you could come you know it's just a dump i don't think you'd like it i bet it couldn't be any worse than smokey joe's on 6th avenue do you know smokey jones yes don't let it go any further come on this has got to be another party can i take your head sir thank you well well well well still at liberty and they say the age of miracles is fast well you put on weight for that what's the news democratic league's in trouble not a game and they've arrested that police deliver kozlowski oh there's hot heads ah koslovsky's a great man i know but i'm not interested in politics i know but you should be good evening gentlemen what was the party like sir it was very instructive mr spencer i want your help i think i'll have a pilsner yes who's that new waiter yes she used to be in the telephone service really he was dismissed little trouble with an ss man oh yeah excuse me already for tonight sir not so loud there might be a microphone hidden under the table you don't mean no mr l said i don't mean we're perfectly safe here look what's just come in and i wasn't allowed to bring my sister who's the girl i'm sorry professor i did my best but but someone else did better i understand hiya allow me to present professor smith this is ludmilla a poem from little old new york how do you do i had no idea you were so interested in modern poetry mr maxwell won't you sit down oh thank you very much prop see you presently well gentlemen i regret you were unnecessarily called to this rendezvous or nothing doing tonight sir on account of mr maxwell's regrettable preoccupation with american poetry there will be nothing doing tonight but we meet at the excavations tomorrow you can have my beer good night afternoon animals root over helps where did you go then no no i'm very interested well i'll tell you forgive me for interrupting but uh haven't i seen you somewhere before sure tonight at the embassy of course how silly well prof you'll excuse us we're gonna dance we've done quite enough dancing for one night oh you should have seen her why she's just lighten her feet as a butterfly on a daffodil not a very happy simulator when daffodils are in season butterflies are mere grubs oh prof that's hardly complimentary but scientifically accurate as i rather expected the professor would be thank you could you be an angel and get my hand back i must have left in the car well i please okay well we seem to be alone so we do your friends been telling me all sorts of flattering things rachel i hope you didn't believe them well i prefer to judge myself oh and i must be on my best behavior i should hate you to leave here with the wrong impression i should take to leave with the wrong impression actually who's the girl i don't know who she is he wouldn't come away with that you were with her all evening but i don't know who she is i've looked everywhere it isn't there what is it there our hamburg but he's here he's been there all the time good night good night a swell guy but vague i wouldn't have said what going on already professor zorak you see my impulsive young american friend over there i see him you see the mysterious young woman with him i see her be a good fellow and investigate partially but i don't think anything but i'd like to know good night good night professor thank you sir i think you've made a mistake this is my room aren't you being rather unwise i want to talk to you i dare say you do but this is neither the time nor the place don't worry no one saw me come into the room and let's hope no one sees you go out good night no you've got to listen to me i'm rather desperate and i do need your help you may not believe a word i say but before i leave this room you will believe now my dear young lady i do wish no please don't say anything to love heard me do you know of a polish paper called freedom i'm familiar with it yes have you heard of its editor siddimir kozlowski yes some weeks ago he came to berlin for material he was arrested yes he would be they put him in a concentration camp they would he happens to be my father i received a cable in new york which i believed was from him begging me to come at once it wasn't from him it was from the gestapo they had been trying to force him to give the names of his german associates but he wouldn't speak nothing they could do would make him speak so they hit on the idea of getting me over to persuade him and did you you don't know my father he's fearless unshakable no two people were ever closer than he and i he filled my life with love and tenderness he's wonderful that's why i don't care what i do to earn his freedom there's nothing nobody i wouldn't sacrifice for that i think he's worth it yeah he must be he is so i made a bargain with crown he promised to let my father go i helped him find the man who's been responsible for all these escapes and have you yes but i don't want to be forced to give him away why not because i admire what he's doing why are you telling me all this you are that man just for nonsense you do talk i guessed at the moment i saw you and the admiration of that boy david convinced me you and your party when the other frontier post when karl plunke escaped your diggings were only a few miles from a concentration camp where a scarecrow came to life you are that man i know it aren't you tell me well won't that be enough for tonight tell me i know you're quite harmless but please please go before i go you've got to choose either you help my father to escape or i go straight to the gestapo and tell them what i know very well go there quickly i hope they'll prove less skeptical than i what on earth you crying for what have i done you brought this all on yourself i didn't ask you to come here i i horrified at the idea of a strange woman in my rooms and a woman in tears at that where are they tears yes they are well they don't have any effect on me believe me yeah mop them up with that you look awful and don't you try any more fairy tales with me here you've forgotten your have you noticed a delightful smell everywhere this morning you mean the egg everything smells delightful to me but of course you wouldn't understand that mr maxwell you're sure you feel all right prof i feel splendid thank you not before i tell me why you were here so early in the morning you asked me to get you some information about a certain young lady so i did well i've got it in the first place her name is nicole's at all it's kozlowski in the second place don't tell me anymore now i feel even better what is all this trailing a girl with whom i have a luncheon date have you sure good have saved me a telephone call off i don't get it exactly you made the same mistake i did the trouble with us mr maxwell is that we don't understand women we've even forgotten they used powder on their faces miss you can i help you are you french yes you're not german no i'm still french this is a french shop you see the french oasis is in a german desert what can i do for you oh yes powder powder powder yes i like some powder certainly but what kind of powder bath tubes talcum faithful which map would you prefer well i what would you suggest i always use dory do you oh yes i have some of that you won't regret it what shade well what shades have you got aussies fish yeah i'm afraid all that's rather beyond me i uh uh i'll be back tomorrow who knows you what is she like well i really don't quite remember she saw him what's her coloring dark wouldn't it i know what you want you take this i'll have a pound of that that will last a lifetime this is the biggest box i've got all right i have two of those two very well well don't bother to wrap it up ah i'll just take it the way it is all right thank you how much is that that would be 42 marks here we'll take it two months thank you thank you will you allow born in france born in france it's remarkable goodbye goodbye hello prof come to our wedding good morning mr maxwell good morning i hope you'll forgive me for having invited myself to luncheon certainly if i knew right here yours i believe what's this your handbag thank you yes i would have run after you last night but unfortunately everything fell and scattered all over the place i reached home before i realized i've left it behind say when did all this happen as a matter of fact you're proud of the spill too and i uh i bought you some to make up for it i'm even the father always no bother at all there i'm safe my favorite shave how did you know intuition yeah what's going on first you're downright to each other now look at this well now the business where's the menu by the way whose luncheon is this mine no it's not it's mine it's all the bells mr maxwell if you heard that a very remarkable man had been imprisoned by the nazis what would you do my damnedness to get him out isn't that amazing every now and then he and i have exactly the same idea could i have some water please certainly not um some champagne what kind of champagne oh dashing i've had this conversation before any kind rashel natural the best you have only hurry i don't know what to say to you can't quite believe it's true suppose we have some nice cold trout to start and we'll follow that with i don't even know where where they've taken him no one knows except the gestapo he's a gross bird what's this milk fed ban cooked in cream tomorrow things they think she's been watched every minute there's the report went up to his room enterprising in my opinion she's wasting her time yes the question is she wasting her idiotic archaeologist lunch lasted two hours conversation appeared friendly and animated he presented him with a box of powder how glad how helpful that is i don't know what the gustavo would do without it this is all nonsense all right surely ah good day miss cope you're looking very radiant it must be loud i'm afraid not even though i did go to his room last night the professors didn't you know as a new recruit i made sure i would be followed quite so but we like to get our news at first very well here it is at first hand you were right and i was wrong that is crazy and so is i to think that he's your famous rescuer so much of your intuition eh i made a mistake and i'm afraid i made rather a fool of myself oh well rome wasn't built in a day even by mussolini and secret agents aren't made in the night you did your best their bargain still stands oh but of course i've given you my word as a party member isn't that enough more than enough you shall have another assignment there are several persons i suspect you're very kind be kind to still and tell me something how is my father well i find out for you let me see he's a prospect of course bring in the kozlowski file would you like to see your father more than anything you don't mean it that wasn't in our bargain i wanted to give a little encouragement i'd be so grateful if you would thank you hmm he appears to be in excellent health is he oh a transfer order he's being moved to a more comfortable camp will i be able to see him there well i don't see why not excuse me hello all right i'll be honest away excuse me i'll be back in a moment well my dear young lady i'm very busy at the moment but i'll be sending for you again shortly and i hope you and your father will be together again very soon goodbye thank you goodbye marx i didn't believe her marx i didn't believe her but i do now that idiotic archaeologist sir but we've got to have proof but we have absolutely nothing against him you'll see my dear fellow you'll see now if you'd said the isle of meadows on saturday morning i've got a job for you gurs bear and in the afternoon i shall be there myself to be at the kill as the english say have a chocolate i found out something something which might give used to look i made a note of it my father's being transferred from grosberg to reason felt on saturday afternoon with four other men who are they truman fleck gruber and holstein that makes five altogether yes how did you know never mind go on they're leaving crossbow by car at 4 30 and arriving at reason felt at about six now we're getting someplace wouldn't that be our chance prof saturday afternoon possibly yes say this is terrific where are those maps do you mind if i try to work this out prof not at all thanks now here's reason felt and here's grosberg that's about um 60 miles say 45 miles per hour starting 4 30. now we're parked in this road here somewhere look there's a wood at the bottom of the hill there yeah i'll be going through that what about 5 15. yes we can get a tree across the road that order hold them up for long enough yeah then we can scoot down the side road here and catch the main road to berlin here how's that sounds all right why surprise he's a principal element surprise if only you could do something don't worry we will well if i can't give any more used to i'll leave you my taxes ticking away goodbye thank you for coming you've done very well goodbye i'll show you the way so where's she going it's too late you missed your chance oh well say how's that for the plan prof what plan the plan of the escape gentlemen mr maxwell was serious about this plan but we'll never get another chance like this possibly that's exactly what the gestapo wanted you to think this guy's going to be saved somebody's got to be done saturday on the contrary if we do anything it'll be on friday friday but you said sadly with the day of what i found is it any use any use this this is remarkable say listen prof my plan a thousand bc i think never had anything like this here wait till oxford university hear about this there'll be green within my plan this is astonishing really astonishing thank you mr elston thank you 48 hours and he hasn't uttered a word do you think he's thought of anything let's ask him say prof i hate to interrupt the seance but have you thought of anything yet thought of anything that guy kosloska's got to be rescued oh yes of course that uh guy because lobster's got to be rescued on friday and four other guys with him what all five of them but of course jeepers creepers as a matter of fact i have thought of something yeah yes have any of you gentlemen ever considered journalism as a profession a listener no no no you listen i'm getting now all right here we are i'll tap the private line go to it propaganda ministry estapo headquarters speaking department x2 about those six american journalists we are permitting their visit to grossberg the journalists who wish to accompany her modern chats you're representative of the boon what do you mean you don't know and find out i take it easy there how long have you been here you don't know me ever heard of the american department oh yes sir i told her i don't apologize see if you can find my umbrella i left it behind the other day golden shacks is the name excuse me well just the man i wanted to see you don't recognize me but i remember you i heard dr gerbil say some very nice things about you so keep it yourself how is the baby we're getting married at the end of the month so now how about the six american journalists what about them i'm asking you if you don't know anything about it get me someone who does perhaps hair growbits would know grab it should know now look your hair gravity do you know anything of six american journalists no yes smells was just asking me there was a message from the gestapo who's the head of the department oh here's stein off but he wouldn't know we'll see here i don't care steinhardt where are the permits for the six american journalists hermits yeah don't you say hi hitler anymore uh hired hitler i don't think i know you now what do you know have you ever heard of america yes good the mayor of the permits now listen i'm bone sets the man who got the nazi party those nice headlines in america where they don't like you i'm the man who put the nazi american bund on the map and you've never even heard of me let this be a listen to you gentlemen picture no no no let me speak i've come all the way from new york to correct your blunders with the american correspondents i spent two whole weeks with them trying to nurse them into a better this afternoon i was taking them to the grossberg camp so they could cable the united states and tell them not to believe those stories they hear about the german concentration camps you've got to spoil everything i ask for permits and you haven't got any permits no one told me anything about this the gustavo did telephone oh so now you're deliberately obstructing the gestapo that'll be the last thing i do perhaps if you came back tomorrow tomorrow do you want me to keep the representatives of six of the biggest newspapers in america waiting outside this building until tomorrow unless i get those permits in two minutes you'll be responsible i'll be responsible right i know what i'll do get me doctor goggles no no her heard and [ __ ] shut up i'll find the permits we'll find them find them there are some here that's better now you can fill them up as we go as we go certainly didn't i say you were coming with us no no i have but all that here's too much please get me doctor no no no no i i can finish the work home yeah that's right and we've been waiting long enough come along come along you know the trouble with you propaganda boys you get so used to telling lies you don't recognize the truth when you hear it but all those are orders well you know garbage you're a smart boy thank you sir yes you can do something for me bring up the grossberg captain phillip we're on the way heaven prepare everything in the usual ministry of propaganda style and remember america is a soft-hearted democracy forgive me leave her to me had one shot your umbrella sir oh umbrella thank you the journalists are just arriving here coming up hit him i'm signed off of the ministry of propaganda this is her voting shouts to a nazi american bundle i am honored hi hitler allow me to present you the chicago tribune baltimore sun new york herald tribune boston transcript philadelphia public ledger and the scripps howard syndicate 350 newspapers throughout america colossal three forty nine hey makeup on i love accuracy welcome gentlemen let me show you around our little camp you will see how happy everybody is come on do your propaganda stuff you can talk don't you you see gentlemen there is plenty of food eggs vegetables bread butter jam and fruit a real fruit ketchup is everybody happy yes sir everybody's happy the eggs were fresh for breakfast the eggs were fresh for breakfast good in this hut we have some men who were stupid enough to insult a beloved theorem the editor of an anarchist polish paper and four misguided german contributors well i'm glad you've all learned the truth in america they have the idiotic idea that german concentration camps are full of unhappy people and the truth is the american people only pretend to be democratic at heart they are 100 national socialists i thank you i don't need that well goodbye voting chats you were the contestants of all the most objectionable men i ever met but you served a noble purpose i don't often lose my nerve but can't we get on all right he's just coming he's just been to telephone to make sure it's clear for you to go to your destination touch what are they doing down there stir them up sergeant get bring that quite a bit closer what happens there he's unconscious someone must have hit him on the head there hey covenant why didn't you know about this you fool oh gee oh boy my head's like the inside of a beehive ah talk about piledrivers what's happened journalist slug by gorillas american flag insulted where's that pony borden shots he started it alarm bell turn out the guard teleport gentlemen my apologies i don't understand i'll get you a card take you to berlin why you wanna be pasted till the wall here snap out of it fellas and get under these pants the gentleman who could foresee the gestapo telephone give me five minutes with a transatlantic telephone and i won't be understanding when i puzzle it how could a simple sort of man like myself imagine that instead of attempting to rescue your father tomorrow as i expected you to do after you had so carefully examined my papers you would rescue him today what do you mean what do you mean your acting is very clever but i'm getting a little bored with it your accomplice may have rescued your father but please remember that you are still here my father's escaped yes astounding isn't it alright minister steinhardt is here bring it in take her in there good evening and you are the man who has just been bluffed by this obvious hoax that you stop and result itself responsible for what for the incompetence and stupidity of the ministry of propaganda bowed and shots couldn't any of you checked up on this story we are not policemen unfortunately would you recognize the man of his time again i have an excellent memory for faces thank you i may give you an opportunity to prove it before long mars ah mark said archaeologist professor smith yes professor smith i want to see him here a bunch bring him but he's did you want me did you want to see me yes that's odd because i wanted to see you come in here thank you i'm so glad to find you're not busy because i've been doing a little research work that's just what i want to do on the identity of shakespeare i'd like to know how you spend this afternoon what's the matter with you you seem upset i spent the afternoon the library of the embassy now this this proves conclusively that shakespeare wasn't really shakespeare at all no no he was the earl of oxford now you can't pretend that the earl of oxford was a german can you now can you no no well there you are hell general how much longer am i to stand here have you anything to say to me please we have a visitor i think you have met professor smith no good day goodbye but you have met her voting shots fun shots do you know voting shots no should i ah anyway i didn't come here to discuss shakespeare if you want me you know where i am the earl of oxford was a very bright elizabethan light but this book will tell you he was a good deal more than that i owe you an apology professor can you spare me a few moments longer with pleasure here's somebody who will recognize him come in miss curls ah the young lady who asks questions but doesn't answer them professor smith that was a remarkable affair this afternoon oh have i missed something five prisoners escaped from gross bear oh splendid splendid why bigger pardon uh how annoying for you by a strange coincidence miss curl's father was among them well congratulations miss coles and just sir a few days ago this young lady called here and obtained some secret information she then went straight to your excavations why not we welcome visitors you must come one day do you deny having received that information really general fund ground because if the person who received it is not punished the person who gave it will be well miss curls which is it to be what exactly do you want to know just the name of the person to whom you gave that information i gave it to no one then you will be caught marshall tomorrow on a charge of espionage and you know that for that there is only one penalty in german law what's that the state execution of mugdabl oh yes of course i've forgotten you've gone back to the acts of the middle ages that we wear modern dress white gloves white tie white waistcoat the dress of an english gentleman at a dinner a french gentleman at a wedding and a german gentleman person at a murder that's good hebrews i just remember that excuse me hold on my dear child to a man of peace like myself always seems incredible but in your own interests if you do know anything wouldn't it be wiser to speak take it away may i say a word general fun ground to regard me with some suspicion first of all you confront me with an individual who's supposed to identify me as something or other but refuses to do so next you threaten the life of this young lady on the presumption that i shall make a gallant gesture and declare myself as this fellow you want but i'm not in a position to do that i see go on well after such a procession of disappointments you surely cannot intend to commit the crowning folly of cutting off your uh chief source of information in the absence of any hint of subtlety it doesn't surprise me that this rescuer has been so successful so it's no concern of mine i just came here to talk about shakespeare perhaps you can't read about the earl of oxford i do wish it were my power to help you well goodbye professor you should have been a detective of me oh thank you all right mrs coles you can go does that mean i'm free for the moment yes perhaps the professor would care to see you at home oh dear i'm afraid i'm a very poor escort well allow me i hope you won't regret taking my advice i shan't why did you let her go it's not her i want you fool it's him that man with using this superiority seems to be mocking at our greater german world power and i've got to get him got to yes minister how are you feeling all right no don't ask me any questions we're not alone ah how about a glass of wine you need but if my father's safe why can't i go to him because we want to keep him safe is he in berlin the fewer people who know where he is the better yeah drink your wine it'll do you good excuse me do you like music no good enjoy yourself wait a minute take some wine with my compliments to that unhappy looking fellow over there very good sir cigarette is that him that's him i've given him wine and music and i'm afraid that's all i can do for you i think you're the bravest man i've ever you mustn't met especially after your own remarkable courage but if you have no fear for yourself what about those who depend on you nobody does i'm a bachelor i wonder why well i'll tell you a secret years ago i fell in love but i've been in love ever since is she pretty not pretty divinely beautiful is she english no she's greek would you like to see her photo i always carry around with me but that's aphrodite callipigos the perfect wolf i found her at lesbos ours is an ideal relationship you know they say no woman compares with her physical perfection and as for her mental equipment well i tried to supply that do you never wish you could come to life i've always thought that would be most unsatisfactory in fact during the last few days i've suddenly she's become less real to me just marble spitting well i think we better be going now and in opposite directions i'm afraid you better go first alone now i want you to trust me implicitly it's going to be hard but whatever happens you mustn't get in touch with us or try to see us this is going to be a battle of nerves we're going to be watched day and night but you must trust me to the end i will how well whatever happens don't worry i promise you i won't leave germany without you give my love to father and keep some for yourself goodbye a week a whole week and what has happened nothing to report nothing to report the girl has been to a hairdresser and he has kept digging why why why what's his game i can't stand this waiting in here say prof we've dug up half germany what do we do now dig up the other half you all that's for the berlin museum thank you i'm most grateful not at all you've been most helpful doctor i wish i could do more one has to be careful i know thank you what are you doing with that just bringing a little sunshine into the line we'll give it my love what's the matter the gestapo where all right this is where i go to work hurry up oh david i wonder how you did professor smith come along please you must excuse my coming up but you did invite me i brought some of my bullets enlightened well what a large family you don't mind they're taking a look around they're so interested in your operation not at all make yourselves at home gentlemen you know dr fullrot of the berlin museum making a catalogue of the relics which your government is permitting us to take back to england professor smith's discoveries have been quite remarkable he's been most generous in his gifts to our museum so yes you'll be surprised what we've discovered about an early aryan civilization what's in there oh relics of pottery weapons yeah same thing and uh here a man a dead man would you like to see him there we are buried with all his weapons you see presumably in the belief that there might be a rearmament program in the hereafter hey mr spencer an ancient tutor alas poor yarick get me to my lady's chamber my dear general tell her though she paint an inch thick to this favor must she come make her laugh at that the earl of oxford wrote that you remember no no no so what i'm going already then we better say goodbye if we should be leaving ourselves in the morning it's okay boys have gone we'll never get out of here never they'll watch a stay at night take it easy buddy the professor won't fail us we'll get away all right yes but how pect and bran and marked fragile changing god sir all present and correct what are you taking so much care of red herrings red herrings well what did you say he's gone proline gone yes he left for england on the 10 30 train this morning they've all gone but she can't have but it's true i spoke to the whole poor to put their luggage on the taxi they've gone all right thank you this cosmos get out sit down i require some information which only you can give me where are we now we nearly had felt in cash until what's the exact time 247 means we're four minutes late good not very long to wait you all know what to do two hours to the frontier and with ordinary like gentlemen our last adventure will be successfully concluded in case there's no opportunity to do so later i want to tell you now that your conduct throughout in spite of occasional fits of lunacy has been most exemplary i do hope the trip has proved instructive i suppose we should all be meeting again pretty soon at cambridge sir i wonder i have an idea that our country may have more important work for us anyway i do thank you all you steve and you uh herbert how did you remember all those names sir excuse the familiarity mr maxwell oh by the way i owe you an apology i did my best at cambridge to prevent your joining this expedition i admit now that would have been a mistake oh allow me to return to you your bones take care of yourself rob i will now gentlemen i'm just going to take a little nap meanwhile do your stuff sure good night that's the signal excuse me one of us is gonna move pal and it isn't gonna be me this is it we'll never get through never we don't stand a chance we'll all get through we are in good hands i'm a bit nervous myself because not kozlovsky here please when we enter poland they won't belong now the restoration of order scheme b is to be put into operation immediately understand in holland denmark don't bother me a report from the trains the professor is asleep the professors are seen and the students are guarding the packing cases don't bother did you say packing cases yes they had permits to take packing cases precisely the train's coming in get ready there turn out those cases as soon as she stops where is he here he is oh are we here yet but that's not him you idiot what have you been doing what are you guys looking for professor smith we're the one free here's the rest well you'll be unlucky he's not here excuse me but i saw a very suspicious character just now where was he in there but he's not a he it's a shield headquarters right away david those thugs are breaking up not great what yes madame tantra give me your platform please thank you party passport please all your passports party i want your passport please thank you yes that's right anymore transport party anymore hey please i've been grossly insulted i'm sorry pass along i mean kendall madam please can't you see the officers busy it's disgraceful i'm a married woman and in 30 years of married life i have never been manhandled what can i do about it all right take your flogging ship away come along cook's party this way please it's an outrage this way sir this way madam cook father this way thank you all right come along come along bits of please what did you expect ostrich feathers aren't you gentlemen of the cook's party sure sure we are well come along gentlemen come along the rest of the parties already across the frontier you but i didn't expect i told you i'd come back for you but but i thought that i'd forgotten my promise no yes grant's been here for hours i don't know they never left me alone they said you'd run away they said my father been arrested again they never stopped asking questions they never stopped talking your father safely across the frontier oh is he quite safe what have i done you'll never forgive me for what i've done i'll never forgive you if you don't put on your coat we have much time you know yes but in the end you see i did tell them things they tricked me into them i didn't know what to do it seemed the only way to save my father they said they'd shoot him so of course you told them you're so human they haven't wasted much time why did you come back tell me is there any other way out of this house except the front door yes the back door and the fire escape why did you come back because i said i would come here here put this on yes they're gone the fire escape come with me you'll go down and bring the car around to the back why is the headquarters they kind of got found come on well i'm almost ashamed of use that old trick but it nearly always works what do we do now now in the immortal words of mr maxwell we scram it was brilliant and the slidy toes did gyre and gimble in being checked and every frontier watched he can't get away in a few moments i should be able to give him some definite information well see to it i'll give him myself understand myself when do we get that about 25 minutes and then then england england you've never been to england well there are varying opinions about it there was an englishman named rupert brooke who was also in germany when he said god i will pack and take a train and get me to england once again for england's the one land i know where men with splendid hearts may go and women with splendid hearts too good morning professor smith good morning will you come with me i have orders to detain you i'm coming too no matter your train is waiting take this lady through the barrier i won't go without you i should be all right go straight to montarie hotel excelsior your father's waiting for you but you can you manage i shall do my best i don't know train's waiting for this way please in here please professor well professor of archaeology well captain of murderers you won't mind spending a few minutes with me until our special train arrives i take it i have no choice very little this must be a big moment for you a minor satisfaction i wanted to get you out of my system before i turn my mind to more important matters you would become a great nuisance to me professor almost an obsession but everything comes to an end what particular end have you planned for me maybe go into details at least it will be quick but violent i suppose a strange end for one who despises violence at the hands of those who worship it the new german god of course we worship it violence means power and power crushes opposition the epoch of the council chamber is over here professor i tell you that power and strength and violence will rule the world why are you sweating my dear general this isn't very warm are you afraid of something afraid we germans fear nothing ah because you have a pistol yes i have a pistol it has eight bullets eight lives and i have 28 lives um scientists men of letters artists doctors 28 saved from your pagan pistol and all you've got is my humble self not a very profitable transaction we can afford to make a loss our profits will be tremendous tonight we march against poland and tomorrow we'll see the dawn of a new order we shall make a german empire of the world why do i talk to you you are a dead man may a dead man say a few words to you general for your enlightenment you will never rule the world because you are doomed all of you who have demoralized and corrupted a nation are doomed tonight you will take the first step along a dark road from which there is no turning back you will have to go on and on from one madness to another leaving behind you a wilderness of misery and hatred and still you will have to go on because you will find no horizon and see no dawn until at last you are lost and destroyed you are doomed captain of murderers and one day sooner or later you will remember my words how could one die better than waving goodbye to a friend all right take charge of him take him out of that lab where i can see him all right minister be careful he's only to step past the barrier across the frontier that's exactly what i want him to do ah shot while trying to escape and by me by me all right get out i will protect you myself professor would you care for an english cigarette general it might steady your nerves my nerves are perfectly steady they don't appear to be just an old-fashioned match there's rather a valuable relic at your feet general may i pick it up to preserve it for the future no i will how careless of them to have overlooked it it's charming isn't it it proves among other things the complete non-existence of an early aryan civilization in this country get back who called you back don't worry i shall be back we shall all be back foreign you

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