To Τhe Ends Οf Τhe Earth (1948)

[Music] United States Department of Treasury that's right the place they make money but green stuff you scramble together and then give back every year so cheerfully yes Treasury's money but a lot more than that a lot of other bureaus too for instance Customs Secret Service Coast Guard the alcohol tax unit foreign funds and narcotics that's where I work my name by the way is barrels and as for what Treasury does stand for besides money I'm going to tell you a story about myself out of the files of my own Department first I'd like you to meet my boss he doesn't happen to be in right now he's over at Lake Success Long Island home of the United Nations where delegates are arriving for a special meeting of the world narcotics Commission you'll meet him here among these delegates who have come from all over the world there is the one in the middle Commissioner Harry J Anslinger and as for what brought these important people together it really boils down to just a little flower an innocent pretty little thing the poppy or not the kind you've seen after this one blooms and the petals fall the pod is ripe when you believe that pod the liquid that oozes out is processed and the finished product is opium how deadly a back in 1935 my boss said we came to realize that the enemies of decency were using opium as a weapon to keep the world divided and its citizens slaves and that's just what these delegates came about to sign a treaty to lick this world evil by standing together the only way you can do it took them a long time to learn that lesson and this is the story of how I learned it that same year by the way 1935 that was the year I took over the bureau in San Francisco it was just a routine day and my assistant Harry Hart brought in a message just off the wire for man slinging a freighter with no name our markings had tried to make a landing along the South American coast and was being driven north it could be another Japanese narcotic ship she'd been spotted off Peru Mexico the last time off Californian might try for landing around here refuel I passed the information along to coast guard to be on the lookout and keep me posted just a routine incident which was pretty much out of my mind by two days later when I started the short vacation puttering around at my favorite hobby my rose garden it was Coast Guard calling they'd spotted a freighter at early dawn and then lost her in the fog could be the narcotic ship we were looking for we hunted her the rest of that day it was almost dark and we were about ready to give up when we spotted a heading out to sea no name no markings must have been hiding into one of the island coves and now was making a run for it we signaled her to stop she was still inside our 12-mile limit and if she could make it she was protected by international law no answer to our signal and just in case she didn't see it she had to see that and her answer was all the speed she had we'd never catch her in time but we kept after her acting like we meant to board her and see what the bluff would do she was well past the 12-mile limit now but what we didn't know was the bluff was working if we meant to stop her illegally she couldn't run the risk of having something found on board [Music] by the time I gave the glasses to the captain it was all over I told him what I'd seen no matter what I've seen he had no authority to stop her outside the limit I asked him at least to catch up with her and come alongside and let me get a better look at her just a freighter and on the bridge a couple of her officers the captain would given the orders to jettison that Chinese cargo a face I'd never forget and out of the water came the only piece of evidence that said I hadn't dreamed the whole thing and it told me what I wanted to know that she was the Kira Maru out of Shanghai and that's where I was headed the next day wiring in slinger that I was going I was hot after the murder of a hundred men and just after dawn of the sixth day Shanghai still a free city in 1935 but with Japanese guns to the north and getting closer the man I had to see was a Japanese consul but unfortunately he had no record of a Japanese ship of that name very sorry indeed but he didn't top my story for a minute they would take action against the kira maru captain for his brutal act they brought in to trial in fact about a week later he wasn't there to defend himself of course and they couldn't be sure he even existed but they tried him and passed sentence this court having carefully considered the evidence presented find the defendant guilty and sentences him to prison for a term of 30 days 30 days in America that's what you get for reckless driving such sentence to be carried out if and when the defendant is apprehended this court however wishes to put on record that no evidence has been presented to show that any vessel of Japanese registry named Kira morrow does in fact exist that night I decided the best thing I could do was head back home and call it a licking pardon me mr. barrows we met in the courtroom today I followed your story with great interest you see I've always thought that the climate of South America was admirably to the growing of the poppy no doubt the slaves were intended for such work at South America's business and yet you came 6,000 miles on these business because that happened in my own backyard a long time ago they brought the puppy to my backyard to China and put her to sleep it seems to be South America's turn now and after that perhaps your country thanks for the warning when you saw the Keira Marui you could count a hundred slaves maybe 90 maybe a hundred and ten close enough sometimes a man counts with his pulse and you would recognize that captain again I would three days ago a Japanese captain was landed here illegally from a fishing boat why should such a man take employment is a ritual runner wherever I find him it might be wiser to discuss that at my office I am very evening stream 25 peacock Lane mr. barrows come in commissioner I would like to play a record for you it's not what I came here for but you'll be interested this was recorded in Egypt the last words of a dying man he says he broke his chains jumped from the ship and swam ashore what was the name of the ship joined the minister Shama here on the Kira Maru won't you sit down mr. Baran's he says there were 200 slaves the kurma rule brought them to plant a poppy field in Egypt ask him where in Egypt Sayyidi samadeva he doesn't know he keeps saying T in Hawke's who is gene Hawkes it's a sign he says a code may be a man may be a woman does he know where they opium from those this is the sorry sir he can't say anymore he's dying where did that record come from it was made in Cairo Egypt about six months ago who was asking those questions Hadley the British narcotics commissioner in Egypt that's official material how did you get it you are now in the office of Leung Chiu Chow Chinese commissioner of narcotics you rush to China a little impossibly but you may stay to do yourself some good Anslinger that's right for you this afternoon after i cabled mr. Anslinger that i would like to talk with you Oh gladden I commissioned pardon me this is Joe a sort of handyman thanks Joe I can use that slave said there were 200 like him taken to Egypt you counted one hundred six months later of the American coast certain facts begin to come together the two hundred slaves planted that field in Egypt only 100 would be needed to harvest it so once it was planted the other hundred were loaded back antequera Maru destination South America what's that got to do with the man you were gonna help me find if that rickshaw runner is the captain of the Kirra Maru he's the only link I have between Egypt and the refining of that opium which Shanghai Wyeth the stuff get here why not rounded up in Egypt before it's even harvested I was afraid you'd ask that the British and the Egyptians have searched for three months and they have not found a single poppy and you're expecting the raw opium from the poppies to show up here in Shanghai very soon the British informed me the petals will fall from the poppies tomorrow but they haven't found the field how would they know by the puppies they grow there for medicinal purposes planted about the same time now in Egypt the harvest must be completed five days after the petals fall or it will rot so you see that opium will be on its way here in five days Oh poppy feel that sighs that no one can find a story from a dying slave you expect me to swallow that I swallowed a hundred Chinese going overboard in Chains off the American coast okay commissioner I suppose I see this rickshaw runner and I say yes that the man you want me to leave him free to see what he leads to you'd prefer to bring him to justice immediately through the law or in a dark alley in either event warning the rest of the ring what do you suggest that before I direct you to him you agree to take orders from me for as long as I require you to sorry Commissioner I only work on cases when I believe in them then we can't identify this man and considering how we both feel that's unfortunate I suggest compromise for just five days mr. burrows pretends he believes in this case he follows orders after five days the case is finished oh there is no case then she says mr. burrows the Japanese captain is now your private property well Joe finally said something okay gentlemen I'll pretend you have a case where do we start I took him home the largest to reach her garage in the Orient owned by Nicholas Aachen now let me give you a few facts about mr. Sorkin the next morning I was on the job heading to silk Eames garage I had a new name Tom Brent and a new profession deal in drugs and what I had promised in this little game was five days of my time under Lum cheese orders good morning sir good morning I'm looking for a mr. Souki I'm Nicholas opium what can I do for you do you have a Japanese working years of running I don't believe so very few Japanese work is wrong this man might have been hired four days ago he came in on a fishing boat obviously not legally that's right unfortunately this is an excellent place for such people to hide come to my office the man was a fisherman or a ship's officer couldn't be the captain of the kira maru rickshaw garage is much like a taxi company in your country learn things and you might be Commissioner barrows the name is Brent Tom Brad oh and are you under the impression mr. Brent that this Japanese is hiding here with my knowledge I didn't say that nor did you say that you recognize me should I if you went back far enough in your records though that could have been before your time ten years ago this was my last connection with narcotics since then I've been respectable at many business interests besides there's one all profitable all illegitimate if your man is here or any sign of him look for yourself did you see any Japanese out here I don't think so no most of my runners are inside one in sir [Music] [Music] hurt you will you please shut that door if you wish you Shanghai now everything is alright I'm sorry we came in from the north just last night I was looking for mr. Shannon ooh Shannon's world tour I understood they would start from here mr. Greek Shannon's world tour have they been here this morning for it shows they're scheduled for tomorrow morning sir I see thank you come on shoot it I'd open the door again for you never mind he isn't in there debris how many are on us here we are on the street about 25 sir Hey Japanese no sir have we hired any Japanese who have left you're aware we keep no accurate records for this was just four days ago this man is above average height not too young good physical condition calm mr. green I'll do my best sir I'm much obliged mr. torkle not at all I am concerned with my own reputation believe me where can you be reached mr. barrows the hotel nicer now my name is Brent Tom Bram good day mr. Brent good day nothing to do the rest of that day but go back to my hotel and wait with four-week-old American newspapers for company hello a man who worked for us just a few days this week the other owners are certain he was Japanese do you know where he is now as far as we could find out he is living in a rooming house it 17 berry alley and he goes by the name of Sargon I'm afraid that's the best I can do I'd been watching for nearly an hour what I know him if I saw him a face I'd seen once in bad light for just a few seconds that could be the man it was the same stocky build [Music] mr. Chanin has expected me of the Shannon will - what is his room number please 506 I could almost swear that was the man any American tours in town well there's a New York torn is Janet's word toy and I've heard of Shannon what's the schedule here's a big party see you there's one two four six eight well that's fine thank you you're welcome sir mr. Chanin himself very usefulness photograph it might show up in lunches records and before I forgot them the names of those eight tourists on that register [Music] just ten minutes later he was back down that didn't take long evidently he and mr. Shannon knew their own minds [Music] I followed him back to 17 berry alley I was itching to lay hands on this murderer but he wasn't my private property yet not for four more days Lum she would watch him now to see if he led to something called the Jean Hawks ring my job was to report back with his first clue mr. sham and the next step to look for Shannon and the records the narcotics codebook records that go back years with the histories of thousands of men and women in the racket a sort of international rogues County made possible through world cooperation after nearly an hour of searching and comparing there he was real name Shea world touring a Dodge Dimmick narcotics smuggling easier and some of his tourists must be tied up in this racket with him but we had to know was what they look like to and that was my next assignment the following morning to join Shannon's tour for the day and memorize those eight faces good morning welcome all good morning mr. Brent I want to thank you for yesterday you went to a lot of trouble for me I hope you found the Japanese no he wasn't there I'm sorry to hear that well you did your best I guess I'll be heading home tomorrow might as well spend my last day seeing the sights of Shanghai I'll have mr. Greek personally conduct you uh the blonde is much prettier than mr. green gunch think oh hi I understand Joachim I'm Shannon how do you do my party's ready I'll have the rickshaws backed by five o'clock mr. Shannon my name is Brett Tom Brant oriental rugs is my business I'm on the loose today one of I might tag along this is a private tour mr. Prentice around a good friend of mine I'd appreciate your helping him very well I'll get another rickshaw much large I saw that man ten years ago and I caught a smuggler penny he's a real name it's shade really is that a call rather a bad man to fool with very impulsive dangerous thanks okay this is my day off [Music] Pleasant days work ahead a tour of Shanghai and a chat for my companions as we went along this was Edward Clark 20-acre High furniture business and a Harrison school teacher for Fall River Massachusetts Harry Weber Allentown Pennsylvania and mrs. Weber mrs. Mary Payne librarian was seen Kansas J Martin automobile dealer Pittsburgh Herbert ribbon retired all the North Carolina Lewis Lawrence Boston restaurant on it that was all eight of them a face for every name to be checked later in the code book and at the will of patentee house a stop for refreshments my first chance at those two I'd met yesterday who were not on the list but were definitely with the tour brother crowded in here isn't that a Rosa Genesis you see I go in for oasiz the name is Tom Brant I travel for a rug firm hello she seems alright today and just what was the matter with the yesterday super speaks English oh I'm sorry I don't know oh that's quite all right as a matter of fact we think it's good to discuss it the Japanese captured Chopin's village and took a family away in boxcars seeing that sliding door yesterday and the cool is there in the dark kind of upset oh oh I see shoe pan that's a nice name I think I'll just call you princess I didn't get your name it's an grant it's sang good how do you do miss grant mrs. grant missus oh this is a nice tour isn't it mrs. grant you going all the way to the States princess yes to my new home where's that San Francisco well what do you know that's my hometown have you ever been there mrs. grant yes I had I ain't give all very lucky to be going to San Francisco mrs. grant isn't going to San Francisco oh and you were going all the way to the States alone not alone we mr. Sharon's tour and all these nice people and just staying in China you say Japan dear the well-known brush-off interesting and a little mysterious this mrs. grant and exactly why was she staying in China I wanted to know a little more about that well easy to move in through the Chinese kid and talk about a new home in San Francisco in fact pretty soon I was starting to write down some points of interest back home things she must be sure see just close your eyes for a moment before you go in the temple is very dark as we walked in but I didn't remember that until a long time later I folded that notebook and put it in my right hand pocket all I was thinking about at the time was mrs. grant finding it hard to believe that this good-looking gal was mixed up in the narcotics racket all in all it had been a very pleasant experience there in the dark but as we left that room what I didn't know was that the notebook was no longer in my right hand pocket I didn't miss it then I hadn't missed it yet when Shannon called it a day and the tourists were heading to the hotel so it didn't seem like anything out of the way that the wheel of my rickshaw was broken and that Shannon should offer to walk me back to the hotel showing me the way by the way something you've lost this afternoon it is yours isn't it yeah thanks what'd you say your business was again rugs oriental rug funny now how did I get the idea you were a census taker no idea might be from your habit of writing down names and notebooks what did you want those names for talk fast mister who are you before you get tough mr. Shea listen you've been in before this time you'll do five years unless you talk about one the kurma rule that's a touch up so we joined no slaveship I don't know what you're talking about but I know who you are and I'm not gonna let you pin a five-year stretch on me [Music] [Music] join our dog omniscient [Music] see when Shannon shanghaied you be shanghaied Shannon when he resisted the law might call it murder except that he was about to murder you mister sukham tried to warn you about Shannon we found this belt on Shannon unrefined opium isn't it sir yeah did you know you had it on him not until after he was dead but we knew he had it somewhere how he called on mr. Sok him to refine it about an hour before the tour started what happened mr. su Kim told him he was no longer in the business then what Shannon didn't believe him he said if mr. Seok Ian was afraid that this shipment was perfectly safe straight off a Japanese boat what boat he didn't say did he say where it was gone in the near East Egypt he did mention Egypt did he say where in Egypt no sir just Egypt Greg had a car waiting I asked him to take me to my friends at 25 peacock Lane well if you feel all right I leave you now mr. barrows okay great thank you this is the end of an interesting Tour alum get up Greg I want to talk to you help him up Joe listen to this i tangle with Shannon this afternoon was not cold woke up miles away crossing a stream Shannon was there too only he was dead mr. greeghan the sole Keim's orders saved my life mr. Sok team did more he tried to close this case for us mr. Greek said he found that on Shannon opium from the caramuru from Egypt that's what you said wasn't mr. greed that's what Shannon said what you heard him say it well did you yes you're a liar that opium couldn't come from Egypt because poppies can't be harvested until the petals fall they fell today the opium we're looking for is still in Egypt Shannon got them from the Japanese captain he got nothing from the Japanese captain Shannon was just a small-time operator so Kim told the and to lead me to the hotel that night I was supposed to hear him say mr. Shannon's room please he went upstairs never went to the room roam around the halls and came down that was to throw me off pen suspicion on Shannon and then mr. soll kiemce saved my life through mists of narcotics it could have been Shannon's or anybody's they certainly weren't from the caramuru perfect except for one little item mr. Grigg those poppy petals down in Egypt took their own sweet time about falling and you know where that refining equipment is you're looking for a Lum it's somewhere a mr. Sok Eames rickshaw garage still waiting for that opium from Egypt an amazing deduction commissioner based on a poppy field that doesn't exist within an hour we were set to raid so Kim's garage as soon as we could get mr. silk him out of the way so Kim I called to tell you I was pretty banged up but your man Greg was read a lot worse than I was I think you better get over as soon as you can immediately you'll be right over coming with us mr. barrows yes captain but a way you can leave it to me to clean up the Shannon affair I'll have all the tourists brought in the three men who attacked you are suddenly tied up with him perhaps they all are except grant the blonde girl I don't think she has any connection with Shannon at all and why not because Shannon's tour was leaving Shanghai the girl is staying and since she can't be tied up with Shannon but she could be tied up with soakin where did you first see her not at the hotel not with the tourists but it's Ockham's now under orders from sokham she joins the tool just to bring about what happened to you last night after that her job is to stay in Shanghai to wait for those narcotics coming from Egypt you believe all that commissioner maybe not by the way you said your notebook was taking while you were in the temple was the grand girl with you yeah and you were writing something in it for the child before you went in so the blunt lady must have seen it Joe when mr. sock him arrived you will know how to entertain him alum van grad is half as smart as you're saying you'll get nothing out of her I think I can find out exactly why she's staying in Shanghai through the Chinese kids she trusts me what are you suggesting did you just call in mrs. grant leave the kid there and then instead of going on the raid with you I'll have a talk with a child all right captain very good [Music] [Music] good morning menses who's grant in she went out she was very upset the tour is not sailing to America yes I heard about that I thought I can help get you to San Francisco some other way [Music] don't you sit down mr. silk I bet you two known each other a long time just a year just a year back home in no Union she was my governess well no wonder you feel the way you do about her everyone did what do you mean princess I mean when the bombs fell and so many were killed so many children without parents at home sit yeah yeah let's not think about that anymore what are you reading they have human beginning that's what we call the new year no I should have known about that because in San Francisco the Chinese New Year's a big thing do they have the dance of the Dragon - sure very what isn't I don't imagine it is masters healthiest well it's what if I had something I could use for a dragon you could use this yeah I suppose I could Wow don't we have to have coins wrapped up and caught on paper for the children and presents for the grown-ups who aren't married that means you get one but mrs. grant doesn't because she's married there yes mr. grant isn't he dad in pinyin oh that's too bad I suppose mr. grant was a teacher or a missionary maybe no an engineer an engineer you work in your opinion and that's where they met oh no they were married in America well hey your coins happy new year no no happy new year Corrine I've been here well here we go [Music] [Music] happy new year that's a San Francisco dragon is that what it is sure Pam would you run down to the desk and see if there's any mail please yes of course what are you doing here once you call at the station about Shannon yes I was but there's gonna be back for my papers well I was called to they couldn't hold me because I wasn't booked with the tour they're holding both of us for questioning uh-huh I don't mind about my synth but it can't take root pan into that police station and it can't keep in Shanghai well I have a little influence here I'll see what I can do I'm a lot more grateful than I can tell you mr. bent I was pretty rude yesterday look suppose I could clear you both how about two tickets on the clapper one for you that's very kind but I'm not going to America I just love to take the kid back after that naturally you would want to go home America is my home no I married an American and lived there for many years Wow if America really is your home why not go back you've been gone quite a while it's out of a question it isn't a matter of money for the trip you just want to stay in China that's right well I guess you have your reasons they must be pretty important you give that a very peculiar tone mr. bent sorry I guess I've got to see what I can do about you pans release I really am sorry and I am very grateful look uh we might get together after Shu pan leaves that is if you're gonna stay in Shanghai perhaps a week or so I'll be very busy shopping I love to shop look I've got to get back what are you gonna shop for clothes yes clothes and farm tools and seed and all the canned food I can find in Shanghai playing governess to the whole opinion the children of this they have a right to live and believe in the future you're kind of young and healthy to bury yourself and pay in the end what is this shoe pan tell you something about my husband Babs I believe she did mention it yes he was killed by Japanese bombs while doing a job for China I intend to stay here and finish that job the best way I can what could you teach those Chinese kids about a future when you haven't got the courage to make one for yourself it takes courage to pick up the pieces and start to live again why not go back home tell America about China raise barrels of money for millions of shoe pans he's at all alright maybe there's something you don't want to talk about what makes you think so because if Shu pan means to you what you say she does after point she doesn't the sooner she sure I didn't mean that dear of course she didn't princess yes it's rather important that you come to circumscribe mr. brand that is if you have finished I'll be right over it's the people who sent for you while I'm there I'll try to make those arrangements everything's gonna be all right Francis [Music] [Music] dummy mr. barrows take a look mr. Slocum's refining equipment hello just a moment [Music] good morning gentlemen you join me no thank you you're missing something I had this specially prepared will you talk now mr. Sorkin very clever of you mr. barrows the poppy petals I mean I overlooked that little fact but you did know about it and the location of the field in Egypt you know that too yes but mr. Greek doesn't know the captain of the Kurama rule gentlemen your case ends here don't be too sure or I'm very get a doctor much too late Commissioner I've been eating for some time your American friend is puzzled explain to him what happens and bamboo slivers are rolled up in food oh where is the field what made you do it fear of Jean Hawks poutine Hawks don't be a child [Music] we should never have moved in on so Kim we should have waited until all the stuff from Egypt was in that garage I'm afraid we had to move in once you knocked mr. Greek down there was little else we could do that's right if we'd held him or if you'd let him go so Kim had to know within an hour I made a bad mistake there Oh in my time I've made a few myself commissioner death by bamboo slivers cruel method isn't it the act of a fanatic fanatic who was also afraid afraid of what enough to kill himself well what else do we know those are worse narcotics here are certain that for years there has been an organization here in China operating in drugs organized by the Japanese government and paid by them when I was in Manchuria in 1931 I saw there such an organization spreading narcotics to the people why drugs eat away their will to resist making conquest that much easier an excellent military strategy isn't it the people in this organization not all Japanese by any means no these are citizens of every nation in the world fanatical sodium's who believed in conquest and degenerates who can be bought to do this filthy work for the Japanese High Command that is Jean Hawkes Commissioner which explains so Kim's death the price for failure an organization that perhaps reaches around the world with collaborators even in Egypt which explains how a poppy field can be so wonderfully hidden and a hundred Chinese taken across the Atlantic that makes sense LOM if so then we also know this Sock'em suicide has warned them they'll change their plans those narcotics will never come here for refining nothing much we can do to stop it now unless they come on some trace of the field in Egypt I'm sending sake of papers to Cairo immediately Commissioner Hadley may find something in them that ties in with what he knows they're a bare possibility can you get the man time the poppy petals fell yesterday if we say five days to harvest that leaves three days after today the papers can be flown to Cairo in two days and nights in one war Air Force planes leaving just one day after they get there not much time huh hmm that's why I thought if someone from here were to go with them someone who had your experiences and mine on this case too strenuous a trip for me I am afraid I hoped you would go commissioner I don't see how I can Lum I know it was my blunder that finished this job here but it's finished I can't take it on myself to go to Egypt not Anna bare possibility I'm sorry so am i as a matter of fact I should be making some sort of arrangements about going home I I think I better go back to the hotel now and see what I can do about it before I leave I'll I'll see that you get a report on my talk with mrs. grant I'll appreciate it hello I've got the report for you long thank you you made your arrangements I see yes I have reservations on the Clipper tonight come in here you might look this over while I pack I'm sorry that's all right mr. Leung Chiu Chow and Joe mrs. grant how do you do mrs. grant how do you do I had something important to tell you certainly well that's all right that'd just be a minute I've changed my mind mr. Brent I am going back to the states with Chopin before I try to get reservations I'd like to know if you can get releases for both of us I don't see what I can do should be able to let you know in an hour thank you very much goodbye definitely stayin in China we agreed that after circle his death there would be a change of plans except that what I said to her this morning may have made the difference it's all in the report there are some things you report may not contain Commissioner I have mrs. grants passport which the police are holding an American passport yes she was married to an American you'll find that covered too but not these perhaps she did not arrive here directly from America for a year and a half before coming to China she was in Egypt the visas and dates leave no doubt of it they'll be checking up on mrs. Grantham he's a runaway I sent a cable to Cairo an hour ago this release she wants why not if she's tied up on this why not let her go and follow her she'll be watched from the minute she gets to San Francisco I had three of course digging up something in Egypt is the main hope and someone who had known her might be an enormous help dear Alam I told you and a decision on my going to Egypt would have to be made by my boss Anslinger as to that commissioner he's quite willing to have you go mr. an singer and I have been in communication so Kim's papers and I thought you could use a Sun helmet for Egypt farther and farther from my Rose Garden in San Francisco doing myself some good as penciling had said which is what I wrote him about if he meant getting educated at a rate that was making me dizzy I hoped he was the same regards and on the last day left for the harvesting of those poppies if our timetable was correct Cairo where I was met by the Egyptian commissioner of narcotics Armour Hassan and the British narcotics commissioner Lionel Hadley and all I brought for them was a Shanghai experience and a lot of reading manner that box full of so Kim's papers we hurried from the airfield in narcotics headquarters in Cairo not a trace yet of that poppy field and only hours left of this last day [Music] laboratory men went right to work on so Kim's papers had Lee explained to me that the only thing they were fairly certain are was what direction those narcotics would take leaving Egypt you see the shaded area here we call it area s meaning suspected area we see that either it's here or we can never hope to find it because this cross is the point for the slave whose voice you heard on the records from a Shah the rest of the slaves must have landed nearby and at night now where could they have been taken in one night's march without being seen no further than to some point within this area if so the most logical way out of Egypt if those narcotics would be across the Suez Canal and the nearest crossing of the canal is here your real hope is the Suez crossing exactly and in the last four days there we haven't caught anything unfortunately there are a few tricks we still have to learn about and your only chance is the last of the harvest when he goes through tonight pretty slim one if they've been succeeding for four days here's the report on and grant Commissioner she and her husband Jerome grant entered Egypt at Alexandria September 20th 1933 stopped at Windsor Hotel for weeks moved on from there October 15th to Cairo stayed at Shepherds Hotel approximately eight weeks and left on tour no record of them for more than ten months no forwarding addresses they just dropped out of sight Commissioner professor salient found something you should see each Serban letters from a mr. William Adams no address given business letters referring to a consignment of goods to one of so Kim's enterprises what about them the handwriting yes sir looks like plain English to me I mean the man who wrote than first learned to write in Arabic I know because I did too we examined the paper itself it was made in France well then mr. William Adams could hardly have written from Egypt French made paper isn't so here it is sold in the French Mondays in Syria Hadley and in Lebanon so that William Adams could be a wealthy Lebanon it would yes get out all the film we have on the 11 other states yes sir C barrows you're reading matter came in useful well that's fine but I thought the fields in Egypt it is whereas Lebanon come in lemonade we have hundreds of leather nights for the states in Egypt especially an area is a state of Ali Yusuf 10 miles northwest from beer Hawaii 10 acres of roses grown for perfume what kind of Rose is that rose I think the probably that's the rose the pharaohs grow your rose fancier barrels I certainly am in fact I'd like to get a cutting of that roses Sancta to take back home with me the estate of Suleiman Jafar Pasha all in maize 20 miles south of the landing place look like mister you barrel yes it does a state of cubic Ahmed Pasha growing mostly cotton here we out in the uplands betters how they get the water up here spiked over from the now and then drawn up that bumps it's a bit of engineering how did the pharaohs do it the water was carried up by slaves a state of bean dasha under north edge of the by daya plateau 30 acres and roses for perfume artificial irrigation again yes very modern job wasn't up there two years ago a state of Hassan Ali 25 acres of cotton I'm uh you wouldn't remember that engineers name what engineer would get the job and been - ours no he wasn't American was he I have no idea well that's that I don't know what we expected to find you never that film a dozen times sheriff battle perhaps what we all need is a drink how far is this a state have been the shards about three hours back huh what I like to borrow a car and go after especially under that rose Michele would never let you in it's strictly against law for men to hunt huh some of those places we had to photograph from the air why couldn't I climb one of these clips are you serious why not even if you didn't break a neck getting up there the Southern's would break it for you when you got to the top it'll be dark when I get there three hours by car to the cliffs behind bender Shaw's estate and nothing could dissuade amar and Hadley from making that climb with me they knew it was more than a rose I was after and these were the last desperate minutes of the last day they were ready to follow even this wild hunch of mine a hunch about an engineering job possibly done by a man named grant [Music] [Music] [Music] they're roses alright [Music] come on [Music] let's get in here playhouse for his children look like american toys all european what would they be doing here governor's could have sent for them would he have a foreign governess lots of these fellows to an Grant had been a governess and pan yen just another hunch just one more coincidence let's get back to the teeth [Music] [Music] where's bad I had to take a look at that irrigated soil my hunch was leaping around like mad and then all of a sudden the almost unbelievable answer a battered stem that had been holed under just a little while ago not a roast stem but a stubby one with a swollen part at the end that could have been grown under the roses and never been seen from a plain stem of the opium poppy papi stamps they were growing them under the rose bushes now we know exactly where it's coming from how it might be going through imperfect ours or customs of rose petals I should be at the Swiss crossing tell my men what to look for suppose the last of the harvest is still up there but he goes to the crossing I'm going back in there to find out I'll go with you I should be at the Suez crossing in half an hour I'll since I'm in right back here to watch for you they'll be waiting on the beach good idea better take this you got a date please see us we inched our way back over bender shaza state taking us more than an hour near the barns we came on the last of a fire of what looked like leaves and twigs actually it was the fire that burned the evidence the poppy stems have had been gathered after the harvest finally the barn that held the entire secret all that was left of the 200 slaves brought to eat it six months ago on the caramuru and it was a toss-up whether these were any luckier than the hundred I've seen drowned there were the hands that had harvested the poppies you could tell that from the stained index finger that's how the harvesting is done first with these little knives making a slit in the pod a gummy substance oozes out and this is what the index finger scoops up after that scraping it off the finger into these little harvesting cups from those cups into a vat of boiling water where leaves and twigs another foreign matter float to the surface and the skimmed off this far died just a few hours ago the amber liquid had cooled into a hard tile like substance which was then pounded with these mallets into a million little pieces looks like this stuff is gone Hadley I think you're right Paris they're sweating they made a trip tonight you mean this other stuff go down possibly not all the way to the so is causing probably just down to the edge of the desert and then picked up by car or camels may I ask what you are doing here Ben - ah yes we were we've been learning about the harvesting of the opium poppy lonely roses a half sit here and the petrol system or for perfume you mean you didn't know that poppies were growing under your roses are you certain come over here [Music] what's this the poppy stem and you are welcome to it liver because the opium from those puppies left here an hour ago for the Suez Crossing is meso and after the Suez crossing where was it going a Luna murder won't help you out of this right now your estate is surrounded by our men you are lying Lera give me your light [Music] the best thing you can do is to tell us where those narcotics are going I've completely forgotten you're coming with us order your men to put down their guns a tooth color and now send them back to the corner a second fanatic like Sookie paying with his life for failure and taking all information with him Hadley and I headed at once for the Suez gate through which those narcotics had to come amar was on the job searching carefully and quietly the point was not to take that opium but to be able to follow it the first thing I did was to send a cable to my assistant in San Francisco orders to watch and grant from the moment she arrived and to keep me advised of every move she made during the next few hours nothing and amar still quietly on the job in its raw form the narcotics would be of considerable buff but even if they broke it up into small parcels we stood a good chance to come on some trace of it get more driver going to Beirut in French Lebanon taking another hair there three days ago three days ago that's a long trip well that's the point the only way he could have made it was to move with his camels day and night and then race back here by car What did he say said he was taking them to a Beirut slaughterhouse they needed camels there and had just raised their price for him was he carrying anything not a thing searched him and everything on his camels not a thing it was nearly dawn and nothing yet when a Mars men arrived from ben de chars where they'd stayed to search for anything that seemed important then de Shahs private papers yielded nothing but out of the pump house came an interesting item an engineer's logbook recognized arrows this is grant so I could have been asking her the right questions in Shanghai there's a lot I'd like to say to her now remember that camel driver he was lying I got in touch with Beirut no slaughterhouse there is paying more for camels but you searched him he wasn't carrying anything no he wasn't still all we had the shoe for the night as a camel driver who live that's right come on you know about camels tell us things what things what have they seldom for Aaron hi hair for brushes and clothes but what about the camel himself well I could give you the textbook recital the camel a prehistoric animal with a miserable disposition as four stomachs sleeps with its legs folded under it its lifespan is about just a minute suppose we catch up with that camel hood and check on the Mars facts if batters can have the hunch so can i within an hour we were headed for the port of Beirut the first step in Hadleys plan of action it phoned ahead to the commissioner of narcotics in French Lebanon lorry CA Medicine the airport according to instructions there were two cars waiting one of them a light truck which carried certain equipment happy had asked for we headed back in the direction from which we had come taking the caravan trail for the purpose of intercepting that camel driver timing our ride of more than 200 miles to come on him late that night we figured that camel driver would be traveling fast and it was likely he would make camp that night at the oasis of B Rossini that's what we counted on [Music] we had to get there late when he was certain to be asleep it was after midnight when we arrived and we saw the herd crouched around the fire we stopped a safe distance off out of the truck came the equipment it was a portable fluoroscope whenever I see one today I call it Hadley's inspiration everything depended on that camel driver never knowing we'd paid him a visit if he should awake they were instructed to knock him out to make it seem like he'd been attacked and robbed the business now was to unhoppy all those camels and lead them one by one to our truck our fluoroscope is ready and there in the stomach of the camel metal cartridges containing that raw opium from been Bashar's poppies small enough to be forced down the camels throat and remain in his first stomach until they could be removed at the slaughterhouse an estimated 100 thousand dollars worth of unrefined narcotics in each camel a million dollars worth all told in the ten beasts in this herd four times that much we estimated had gone through in the same way to someone in Beirut and when the last Campbell was led back and hobbled our job was to get away just as we've come because we wanted to know who that someone in Beirut was and for the next 40 hours all the way there that Caravan was never out of sight of Larissa as men on the second day he arrived there and then we knew that the next link in the Jeanne Hawks chain was the slaughterhouse owned by a man named Agha sees it was late that afternoon that a truck left the slaughterhouse with three bales on it addressed for shipment and headed for the docks the first bale was unloaded at a mediterranean freighter and addressed to a mr. el éxito athens greece the second was put aboard a French line freighter headed for Marseille going to a man named dole yay the third one boarded the Dutch freighter addressed to n Brandstatter Havana Cuba we were fairly sure that a million dollars worth of narcotics was in one of those three bales we were certain of it when the Ghazis left his slaughterhouse that same day for Damascus his job was finished an hour ECA picked three men to follow each of those bales to the country to which it was going this was the trail to the Jean Hawkes ring the first solid clue in all these months and that was something worth celebrating but I'd have been a lot less relaxed during that dinner if I'd known what still lay ahead of me well yes tomorrow's fancier do you lis what you are thanks boys but would someone tell me exactly what that Li hua means the word of respect it means man of great importance I'm afraid you've got the wrong man if we would really do him honour there's the word Pasha meaning man belonging to mankind a few weeks ago I started looking for something narcotics what I found was some men too in China Lum G and Joe they belong to mankind on the other side of the world Egyptian an Englishman a Frenchman they'd all learn to speak as one it's a happy thought that when we say mankind we also knew womankind yes I found something in that line too and Shanghai had Lee you have the photograph is gonna keep for me short of the boys thank you a lady named Anne graph looks intelligent very intelligent knew they were poppies growing advantage chars much too intelligent to mention it the governess alors ACA that man you're sending to Havana what if you'd mind holding him that's on my way home I'd like to follow that bale myself another hunch better no information this time and grant left San Francisco a few hours after arrival destination Havana [Music] I was on a steamer the next night bound for Cuba passing that Dutch freighter the next day I'd be there long ahead of her we've cabled the Cuban narcotics commissioner I was coming and that I wanted to get into Havana unnoticed this is what he cabled back tell your friend on arrival to hire finest cab available we'll make his stay more pleasant out there - Bravo [Music] that's a six American dollars for today six dollars nice get Senor six American dollars a day eight dollars car for higher eight American dollars for the day a lil expensive aren't you finest cab available singer will make your stay more pleasant you got a deal you come from Europe singer no the Near East oh I have a relative out there very prominent man maybe you know him what's the big place what's his name Lodi CA oh yes I know him relative huh my brother you don't look much like a different fathers oh the different name huh hey Dada well it's all a very simple barreto there should be a lady named Ann grant here in Havana I'd like to know where she is what she does and whom she sees so far simple enough one person she will be seeing I think is a fellow named brand static knowing yes a manufacturer of artists supplies the brushes things of that kind getting his camel hair from the Near East several shipments a year probably probably sugar thank you then just another bale of camel hair arriving in a few days wouldn't have much trouble getting through customs Oh hole punched in the side two finger poke around no more and anything buried in the middle of that bale would go through all right mm-hmm like say a million dollars worth of unrefined narcotics it's as simple as that now you could go down to customs and just pick it up but no because four times that much as in branch status now you wouldn't want to tip him off and lose that so you let it go through now it's all there easy to get now but not yet you wait and let him refine it now he's ready to ship it out with his artist supplies you let him do that watch where it's going and follow it all right I do after thanking you for your health and hospitality five million dollars worth of narcotics inside Cuba's Porter's all I do I help them refine it and ship it away a lot to ask him quite a luck commissioner I think I'm gonna have to take you on a world tour an hour later my friend Bharata was on the job in fact that same night he arranged a change of quarters for me to a small hotel on Concordia Street commanding a view of an interesting building the place of business of n Branstad and a certain lady was in Havana and a surprise a man named Chen su would arrive two days ago from South America known as Shu pans uncle and it was none other than mr. n Brandstatter who was showing them the city a pleasant little party with nothing to do until a certain Dutch freighter arrived from the Near East which was two days later at the progress of that bail through customs was exactly as barato had predicted a finger poke around inside normal and a few hours later night work for the first time and ran status place the refining of those raw narcotics to become the deadly powder one-tenth its formal weight and bulk and ten times easier to ship when that light goes up singer I will be a slightly nervous man so will I my friend from that Benetton barratto's men were stationed around brand status watching for anything that might leave the place and ready to follow it and now they watched all cargo manifests or whatever might be shipped by Brandstatter checking the bills of lading of all boats in port are about to arrive and at the same time a routine checkup of all passenger list just in case and out of that checkup suddenly came a bombshell Brandstatter and grant Shoop and Chan soo had booked passage on the SS car deal for New York she steamed into Havana that afternoon a cargo ship of about ten thousand tons carrying a hundred passengers sailing at noon the next day for New York my own backyard we went back and checked their cargo manifest again still nothing listed from France data and by nighttime barato and I were a couple of pretty troubled men this means there will be no shipments like there were from Beirut branch Tata is taking it there himself at the New York New York and expects to smuggle it through our customs which means he must have a plan to do it it's hopeless singular why you want to follow these narcotics to do this now you must know how they are taken aboard where they hide them of course I've got to know that then you would have to search every piece of cargo every passenger his personal package the minute you do this Fran starter will know why you are doing it that will be the end of his feeling of safety and the end of everything you are trying to do I know and he can get it on board a thousand ways his people may be passengers members of the crew and we may lose it all at least the risk is fantastic well what's the answer beretta so take the narcotics tonight while they're still over there you mean give up and right across the water is the rest of this outfit maybe the top of the whole heap on the other hand singer I am responsible for five million dollars worth of narcotics that are now inside Cuba's board there's no such thing as borders verrat oh not while this ring operates in the whole world no one country has licked its problem until every country has three men and beirut took a big risk that's how you found out there was a criminal in Cuba by the name of RAM static that was a brave speech but barato was still right we decided to wait a little longer we might still see it leave in a suitcase or package that we could follow on board a desperate chance and a desperate night of waiting not until 8 o'clock in the morning a small ray of hope last-minute cargo for the card EU from France Tanner artists supplies to a Henry chef Maiden Lane New York and that's what they loaded on the truck an hour later three hours before sailing time a ray of hope but actually it made no sense there wasn't a chance the stuff was in those packages brand Santa was smart enough to know he hadn't a prayer of getting that amount of narcotics through New York customs that way those boxes would be picked clean and a routine check up in New York Harbor in five minutes flat he had to know that it must be his barato said Branstetter was taking it there himself if so why this cargo and why he waited so long to declare it just a few hours before sailing probably meant nothing but so far that was all we had to go on [Music] the fellow in the warehouse lookout reported the obvious the packages had been turned over to customers well barratto's men would have to follow it on board and see where it was stowed then travel with it to New York but we felt in our bones this wasn't the answer it was too late to do anything now but let bran static get it on board his own way and we'd have to take our chances the big risk agreed to by Bharata a very remarkable little fight and right then a couple of foolhardy men got lucky it was just an ordinary incident a stalled motor so ordinary it might have been missed if the fellow and the lookout hadn't been extra curious while one of those men worked on the motor the other was tearing the wrappings off some other packages in the back of the truck the truck had stalled right near the kitchen supplies for the car dealer specifically the cartons of butter waiting to go on board and with the wrappings off that's what Fran said his packages were cartons of butter exactly like the others but obviously Branstetter wasn't shipping butter within a half-hour we were at the dock and minutes later those food stores were going aboard no mystery now why France Tana had waited that late to bring his cargo to the dock that butter couldn't stand in the warehouse as much as an hour because it was perishable so France dead it had to wait until exactly the right time and obviously had to have someone on board the cardia who knew the schedule that butter would move from the deck into the galley and naturally would go into the refrigerator and that's where France tatters man or men would have to be when those cartons arrived a big responsibility for that man because three of those cartons held five million dollars worth of narcotics and his job was to be able to tell which ones they were there had to be markings of some kind by which he could do it separating the vital three from the others and guaranteeing that during the voyage those three wouldn't be touched an hour before sailing and our friends were coming aboard the meaning of those three cartons and what would happen to them as we entered New York Harbor that was ran' status secret and that's what I had to find out by the time we got there [Music] it looked like I was on my way home [Music] according to plan that would be a vacant cabin on deck see cabin C 22 and the man waiting for me there would be the steward of this corridor barratto's man remember yes commissioner Bethany Oh an hour later in the galley our Nando had his Night Watch on the job it was the night baker an old friend of his not a narcotics agent but a fighter for decent causes from way back and by morning Orlando had his day shift organized one of these men was the ship's butcher the other was an assistant chef [Music] from here to New York that refrigerator would be watched around-the-clock and that same morning Hernando had the ship's chat for me all marked on deck see the ship's kitchen and the refrigerator here I was and she ensued here the cabin next to me and the outside one across from me also vacant on deck B brand status cabin and the one shared by Anne grant and Chopin as for mr. Branstad er report said he was quite social by lunchtime he'd made the acquaintance of half the passengers perhaps checking on him but he couldn't imagine that he was anything but completely safe admit afternoon of that first day I sent a message in code to Anslinger everything was under control ask him to send some of our men aboard with the pile of New York Harbor so the purser said anyone will do so long as the plumbing works I do any system plumbing that works that one is an inside cabin senior the outside ones are here still that one is empty two should not be locked I can get the key from the person if you can to see it this one will do very well if you see that my baggage was brought please I checked his stories in your the plumbing was really out of order if it was deliberately tampered with it was very skillfully done thanks Hernando goodnight why didn't he take one of those vacant cabins on his deck because the only outside cabin left was down here possible but more likely he had tampered with that plumbing in order to check every vacant cabin on board well the soul now he knew this vacant cabin was locked the next thing you'd have to know was why I beg your pardon how stupid they gave me the wrong key and I simply went to the number like a sheep I'm very sorry I don't believe we've met I came aboard ill very sorry to hear it please forgive me score for mr. Fran Saturn cabin 22 marked vacant was not vacant and no occupant for c22 on the passenger list the list printed on board after the shippers at sea and now he'd never stop until he knew exactly who that unlisted passenger and c22 was a good chance I was a narcotics agent an outside chance I'd been on this trail since China that's where mrs. grant had been to a million to one shot she'd seen me there and would know who I was a chance this skillful maniac would never overlook sooner or later he had to bring mrs. grant to see me no move by France tattoo the rest of that night morning of the second day at sea travelling along the coast of Florida halfway home and in the galley nothing but cartons of butter had come out of that refrigerator the narcotics were still in their friends dead a had to bring mrs. grant just a matter of time and he was taking plenty of it why not where could I go it was near the end of the second day at sea off Cape Hatteras now just 24 hours out of New York Harbor and that second day was the longest day I'd ever lived [Music] it was the last night of the voyage and be a sort of captain's dinner tonight I could hear the orchestra all very gay and friendly and I had a feeling that Branstetter would make his move tonight what more perfect time by a man of finesse for a visit to a poor shut-in in Cabin 20 to come in good evening we brought you a little cheer from the captain's table and may I present hello mrs. grant you know each other yes incidentally I met in Shanghai mr. France doctor you seem to be feeling much better tonight it's much better I'll be up and around tomorrow good they will spend their last they would bought together I really should be going back to the party why don't you stay a while mrs. grant I'm sure you all have a lot to talk about good night mr. Brent see in the morning I'm sorry you'll be nil a touch of fever it gets me down on and I picked it up in Egypt oh that's where you went from Shanghai I thought you went to San Francisco we did get there but she'll pass uncle had gone to a van our business he insisted we meet him there and this branch daughter ship's acquaintance a business friend of super soccer he was very kind to us in Havana charming fellow isn't he you're looking well mrs. grant I feel wonderful that's good I'm glad we met again we were bound to in San Francisco weren't we I wanted to thank you for something yeah the things you said to me that morning in the hotel oh yes I remember about picking up the pieces and starting to live again yes so whatever happened as I have in the future I owe to a conversation in Shanghai well it's those little accidents and life that make all the difference I don't want to keep you from your party could you join us not tonight tomorrow we'll have a big day tomorrow suppose we meet in the lounge at 10:00 we'll both show up together all right good night good night ee careful watch in the galley from now until New York late tomorrow morning mrs. grant and I met at exactly the time arranged and I was starting the most important day since I left San Francisco and as the morning wore on a friendly little group chatting away carefree and happy and at lunchtime still inseparable shoo pan gave me the sketch to keep the artist had said there were lines of suffering in that face there'd be a few more when she found out their palm doff a phony blood relation on her and from the galley no move to touch those cartons and nothing reported by mid-afternoon less than three hours from New York and up of the lounge warm friends by this time and reading each other's minds like open books but nothing was worrying France tannic or an grant the passing of time the closest to New York like they didn't know the name was barrels not brand like it wasn't up to them to make a move in that galley within a couple of hours I couldn't understand it close to 5:00 now less than an hour to picking up the pilot in New York Harbor what if those three cartons down there were just decoys what if Fran's dad have known who I was long before I got to Havana and had set me on this false trail while he got the narcotics onboard some other way this panic of mine was growing every minute we'll be taking on a harbor pilots on maybe we should break this up or not yet we have plenty of time another glass mr. Brent well continued friendship [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you smell smoke there was a grease fire in the galley nothing to worry about grease fire that's not uncommon aboard ship [Music] it's identity I know some excellent place to eat why don't we all have dinner tonight to show Oh could you yes Francis I think I could look we'll be docking in about an hour I have a lot of things to do I haven't started to peg let me better go back if you do I'll see the ladies do that captain thank you look at the gull the follow the been waiting for garbage let's go and watch [Music] [Music] there was a fire in the galley I know anything happened the boxes emptied was taken out during the fire where did it go what about our men down there there was so much smoke they could not see [Music] anando you go back to the galley I'm gonna see what happened to our friends [Music] [Music] ready come from a lifeboat the man was stowing gear in Kerala something wasn't it I'm sorry sir you better rest a while miss Brent I'll be all right doctor thank you very much Frank kind of it how'd you feel I wouldn't worry that much about it mrs. grant are you right signore it's nothing just a little accident what time is it 5:20 the fire comes aboard in a few minutes oh and mrs. grant you better get back to your packing I have time God I helped you know Thank You Ike manage and on don't give me a hand I'll see you later all right just as I was going back on deck an accident no I wasn't wanted up there why what about the galley no trace of it you say the pilots coming aboard huh and the men from the Bureau Oh fine I got a lot to tell them a stage two fire and the stuff is gone the lady doctor rosepettle it's a lovely touch isn't it now let me think 520 I left her in the lounge 20 minutes ago and she was going to pack how did you get down here how'd she hear about it I heard it when I started back from the galley it was suddenly all over the ship that it was me somebody said the American who came on board he'll know American I came on Fernando look he's a finger marks aren't they yes looks like grease grease she was undoing my collar grease on her fingers she couldn't have been packing maybe she never got back to her cabin this Rose was healthy enough about 20 minutes ago up in the lounge she couldn't have been here for over five minutes where are we see the other 15 minutes before that Hernando I'm going back up on deck you meet them in when they come aboard send one to watch Brian status cabin and the Chinese uncles tell the rest to go to the galley close the place off and start searching the crew's quarters bunks lockers tear the place apart I've been on the galley myself in ten minutes [Music] [Music] [Music] mr. brand what about the crew's quarters got three men down there nothing yet let's take a look in here that's right that's how I came aboard just right come on and this is out they told which was which look check my turn all of them but not on that it wasn't on any of the others it staged a fire to get it out of here working for us didn't and will tell you they work tonight Baker here I need two men but you're in a certain cut well if needed two or three men to pull that job Clark they're still right here and his crew except that we haven't time to find them what did they dump the garbage out there what do you mean out there over the side no at the stern oh it's Stern they take it way back there huh what do you uh I'm just trying to pin something down show me yes sir come on [Music] what time is that garbage dumped exactly what time was it before the fire after the fire somebody ought to know that it was before you sure yes before the fire huh no I don't think so good-looking pork grease fire huh where did it start thank you for the stove right there right there huh right down this way maybe yes sir down between the can the fire didn't get over there huh no look Clark if I started back there but the stall came down between these two cans look at them that can escort's the other one isn't there's the other support scam over there which means the garbage was dumped after the fire and the cans didn't get back to the same places and he says it was before the fire he's lying and he knows he's lying why I'm not sure but I've got a hunch it's a while or don't I have only a little time to prove it wait here for me [Music] when I couldn't find you I was afraid afraid you had just disappeared I ran down to your cabin and then I went all over the ship looking for you no it's that funny I was just going to call you and ask you to do something for me it's kind of a secret I'll put it to you this way do you think Anne likes me a little well I like her a lot here's the point I just received a radiogram I won't be able to have dinner with you tonight I have to get the first plane for Chicago may be weeks before we see each other again in San Francisco so would you wait here while I talk with Anne alone for just 10 minutes yes mr. brim that's a good girl Oh mr. Branstad I wanted the business address I won't have time to see him so I wrote it down while I'm with Anne would you take this to his cabin don't forget come right thank you and wait for me come in hello a little bad news party's off tonight I'm flying right out oh that's a shape yes isn't it so many things I wanted to ask you well we'll all meet in San Francisco no but not for a month or so some of this can't wait go ahead and pack you got a late start we'll just talk a little that's your past life don't your husband tell me about him just like that yeah shouldn't be too unpleasant quite a love story wasn't it maybe it wasn't not the last year of it no really you were full of his memory in Shanghai you were going to stay in China to finish his work he's work or something yes oh you're proof to that huh I'll just work then an engineer believes in building something the point is what we don't all want the same thing the Japanese High Command for instance they want to build one kind of world I want to build another meaning what meaning your husband Jerome grant called Jerry quite a coincidence picking this up in Egypt where did you get it well you played governess Jerry was building something irrigation for better poppies that was his work helping to make a billion slaves of the next generation then - ah that really breaks you down doesn't it nothing we could pin on you as long as we never dug up in - ah that really hurts doesn't it I just want the answer to one question from you when you were back at the stern watching the girls stuff went over the garbage didn't it didn't it afraid to talk like the rest of well I'm here to prove it did and if that's your pal then I'll know for sure now pick that up say just one word hello and then give it to me hello oh Japan I just couldn't wait what did she say everything is going fine princess you just wait right there huh that wasn't the one mrs. grant you stay here watch er the third fanatic who paid for failure but this death told me what I wanted to know and in the chat room a few minutes later the first officer was figuring the point where those narcotics had been thrown overboard knowing the time it happened and knowing his course and the speed of the ship he could pend on within a mile the spot where that stuff must be riding at anchor on ocean bottom we could guess now what had happened that stuff must be anchored on ropes that had been chemically treated wearing away gradually in salt water with boys attached and when those ropes broke had would rise fast to the surface and the Jean Hawkes ring would be waiting for it I had put in a call to Coast Guard and now I asked them for boats to meet the cardia on the way in as fast as they could get to us inside of an hour they were there to take us off that phony Chinese uncle was under guard in his cabin but I wanted to take an grant along with me she wouldn't be separated from Chu pan so we let her have it her way [Music] it was ten or twelve miles back to that place back into enemy was with my too cold and worried passengers and the question was would we make it there in time how thick was that role how fast was it wearing away it might have broken already and the stuff been picked up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what looked like the last of the Jean Hawks ring was herded together and I had the whole of that narcotics cargo transferred to Bible [Music] and then we headed back the members of the ring would be taken in to be jailed but I cut off from the others taking a course directly into customs to bring in those narcotics and very likely Jean Hawkes herself [Music] get back what's your idea put that gun down make for a point I'm all about Conover vegan she's mine did you hear what I said that's for sure a mile above Conover beacon never heard of Jean Hawkes mrs. grant Jean Hawkes the name that took those narcotics around the world ever since North China never heard of it amazing could be our babyface princes nearly 20 years old a Chinese girl for the honor and glory of Japan my father is Attorney General of occupied Manchuria the tree was bent Yan wasn't it tell him to go faster ladies to speed up what are you gonna do get this stuff ashore huh for the rest of your gang is waiting and to make sure you get away you would have to kill the four people on this boat that's insane Jean Hawkes would do that without batting an eye and you had no idea mrs. grant didn't know who I was or what happened at benders shores until I told you didn't know your husband was hired by Japan to grow narcotics that you've been chaperoning Jean Hawkes ever since pan yen you the respectable widow of an American killed by Japanese bombs didn't know that huh or maybe that isn't how he died at all maybe he knew too much it wasn't a fanatic he should have done he wasn't quite you murdered him no you did with notions of helping China and asking questions he was told to get rid of you but couldn't bring himself to do it huh still had a little feeling for his wife that weakness licked him didn't it that's the weakness that licked me too the feeling I had for a frightened helpless little girl I was a sucker for that wasn't I your side trades in that kind of thing decent human feeling no use for it's yourself except a fake it but I've been learning fast princes and I learned that lesson just in time in fact I had an idea who you were when you got in this boat you see after the accident happens mrs. Grant was standing by my bed but not the warm little girl who loved me so much why was she at the stern watching girls I found out little later she must have heard about at the same time as his grant did what made her so late and coming to find me that's where I began to learn I thought back to how a notebook could have been taken out of my pocket in the temple back in Shanghai and those lines of suffering in that artist sketch of a young girl could be the madness of a grown woman I wasn't sure yet about you or mrs. grant so the next step was that note to ranch static when he didn't call mrs. grant and killed himself that could mean that you opened the note on the way told Brandstatter he'd failed and that his services were no longer required see what I mean princess you can't fake real feelings not for long they're the exclusive property of real human beings put down that gun come and take it mr. Brent [Music] tie up that mess of garbage notify Coast Guard a mile above Connor a beacon that'll be the end of this trail that was the end of that trail and the beginnings you might say of a fellow named Michael barrels narcotics agent or as my boss just said today twelve years later by this time I hope we have learned the deeper lesson that no boundaries between people's are as important as a simple common lasting bond of belonging to the human race [Music]

Channel: Chris T

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Keywords: Film noir, noir, cinema, classic, film, movie, retro, b/w, crime

Id: Z7t1Cep0LIg

Length: 108min 18sec (6498 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 11 2018