Come in.
Did you get them?
Let me see them.
Good.
Now all we've got to do is fill in the names.
Then you've made your final choice?
Yes. Will you get me those files, please?
That is one of them.
An englishman. A titled englishman.
Lord Brett sinclair.
What do you know about him?
Everything. Will he fall for it?
If we're clever enough.
Who's the other? That is something different.
An American.
Danny wilde.
About him I don't know everything.
There are some oddly blank areas in his background,
but I know enough.
You think you can snare him, too?
I've got to. One without the other is no good to me.
It won't work without them both.
Why these?
They each have something.
But jointly, like chemicals,
take two relatively harmless compounds,
say nitro and glycerine,
mix them both together and you have a very potent combination.
Handle it carelessly and it can blow your head off.
I like the analogy.
Nitro and glycerine and I light the fuse.
Mr wilde. Excuse me, sir, we're coming into nice airport.
Oh, I didn't know we took off.
This is it.
Nous sommes arrivees.
Oh.
Next?
Goodbye. It was nice to see you.
Bye.
Have a nice time while you are here. Thank you.
Oh, I'm going.
And thank sir Louis for the use of his plane.
Mr wilde.
Thank you.
Merci bien.
How.
Car horn
hey. Yeah, you.
Would you move your car, please? Thank you very much.
Car horn
why don't you do that in your bedroom? Get out of the way.
Engine revs
car horn
They rev engines
♪ this old town is getting gloomy
♪ feel the cold wind blowing through me every day
♪ wheels are turning into motion
♪ we could ride the wide blue ocean
♪ come away
♪ like a bird we'll soon be flying way up in the sky
♪ and for a while we'll say goodbye
♪ gotta get away
♪ once we're heading down the track
♪ gotta get away
♪ and there'll be no turning back
♪ gotta get away
♪ where the sky is blue above
♪ and the sun shines down on love
♪ gotta get away
♪ leave behind the stormy weather
♪ we can find the sun together come what may
♪ join the migration
♪ heading for some destination far away
♪ we can touch the new horizon way out in the blue
♪ a brave new world is waiting there for me and you
♪ gotta get away
♪ heading down the track
♪ gotta get away
♪ then they'll be no turning back
♪ gotta get away
♪ where the sky is blue above
♪ and the sun shines down on love.
♪ Gotta get away
♪ so if you hear me knocking at your door
♪ don't wait a minute more
♪ come out and join me we've just gotta try
♪ until we're flying high
♪ this old town is getting gloomy
♪ feel the cold wind blowing through me
♪ every day
♪ wheels are turning into motion
♪ we can ride the wide blue ocean
♪ come away
♪ like a bird we'll soon be flying
♪ way up in the sky
♪ and for a while forget your worries, say goodbye
♪ gotta get away
♪ heading down the track.
♪ Gotta get away
♪ and they'll be no turning back
♪ gotta get away.
♪ Where the sky is blue above
♪ and the sun shines down on love
♪ gotta get away. ♪
Wh...?
Lord sinclair. Good to see you again.
Nice to be back. Your usual suite is all prepared.
Well, I...
By the way, Henri, who sent this invitation?
"Be my guest at the hotel De Paris. It's going to be a ball."
I don't know who sent it, mr wilde.
We had instructions to make reservations for you
and charge everything to the banque De France.
Then, start charging. And if you have a bell boy,
send up the luggage. Or maybe a bell girl.
Bell girl, get it? Forget it.
We were simply told that your wishes were our command.
An attitude of which I app...
Lounge music
Good evening. Two creole screams, please.
Monsieur? Two creole scr...
Are you new here? Yes, monsieur.
Let me tell you, next to women and dogs,
a man's best friend is a creole scream.
Are you listening? Yes.
A jigger of white rum, a dash of bitters, chilled vermouth,
chilled not iced, and a measure of grenadine.
Then mix, stir in some crushed ice, shake, strain and pour.
Top it off with one olive. Two!
Did you say something? No.
No. I said two. Two. You were perfect up until the olives.
Two olives. That way they can gently bounce up against each other.
Well, I'm afraid the spectacle of two olives gently bouncing up
against each other is a pleasure I shall forgo. One!
But you don't want to bust up a pair.
Why not? It's cruel. Two.
You're gonna thank me for this.
Kindly allow me to make up my own mind. One.
Excuse me, your mind, yes. But not the drink's.
Two. Now, I oughtta know. The creole scream is an American drink.
Well, then you ought to know that it comes from a southern state
invented by a gentleman, an English gentleman. One olive.
Oh, I didn't know that. You do now.
I'm only trying to do you a favour.
Oh. Well, then, why don't you leave the bar?
Or the restaurant. Or better still, the country.
Listen, friend... Do not call me "friend".
People might think you're serious.
Are you looking for a fight?
No. Are you?
Well, I wasn't, but I am now.
You have an endearing quality, honesty.
Yeah, inside or outside?
I have a choice? Yes.
Inside. There's no air conditioning outside.
Lord sinclair, please! Don't worry, Bruno.
All damages will be paid for.
Lord sinclair? Would you believe it?
I never did it to a lord before.
Another endearing quality. Optimism.
I'm terribly sorry.
I must have slipped on something. Would you mind your own business?
Sit down, my dear. This will only take a moment.
I don't need your help. I'm not helping you.
I'm trying to get this off the gentleman.
Was that any help?
You lords are quite dirty.
How do you think we lords became lords?
Besides, I like to adapt myself to the company I keep.
Sorry about that.
It's people like you that give English tourists such a bad name.
Will you butt out?
Hi, well, that will teach you never to trust a friend.
Ah...
Can't you be a little more careful?
Poor man. Sorry about that.
Arrest that maniac.
What are you grabbing me for?
How much was the damage?
Are you gonna tell me or not?
Not!
Now, I wanna pay my share. How much was it?
I wouldn't hear of it.
I'm insisting. It is traditional.
What's traditional?
The winner always pays.
The winner? What are you talking about?
What winner? What were we doing tonight?
You mean the fi... Winner?
Can I tell you something? You're lucky you're standing up.
You're frail. I am what?
You must have been very weak as a kid.
Would you like to start again? Inside or outside?
We have no choice. Go ahead.
Perhaps it's some kind of new open prison.
Yeah, maybe it is.
Hey, what's-your-name, come here.
Want to take a look?
Not particularly.
I wish you wouldn't do that.
Hey, do you suppose liberace lives here?
No. Count Dracula's birthday. ♪ Happy birthday to you... ♪
shh. Hey.
Look at this.
Photograph of you.
Here's another one of you. Here's one of me.
Photographs of us.
What else is down there?
Here.
Newspaper clippings. Door clicks
Good evening, gentlemen.
Please, sit down.
Do make yourselves comfortable, gentlemen.
You prefer to remain on your feet, mr wilde.
It's an old habit. Yes.
A legacy of those old in-fighting days in the Bronx, I imagine.
However, you will have a drink.
A creole scream for you, lord sinclair, with one olive?
You see?
And for you, mr wilde, with two olives.
Thank you. Thanks a lot.
Well, thank you, sir.
Although I do feel at a certain disadvantage.
Well, you are. You're both still under arrest.
Your health, gentlemen.
How would you like three months in jail?
My name is fulton. I am a judge. Or I should say I was a judge.
I am now retired.
But don't let that mislead you.
Without going into details, I do assure you
I can promise you three months inside.
He makes it sound like we won first prize.
90 days, no option of a fine, no remission.
I can arrange it.
Or let us say, I might arrange it.
Oh, yes, let's do say that.
Often. Irrepressible.
Optimistic. Indeed.
Courageous, and a sense of humour.
Those are great qualities, mr wilde.
Qualities that pulled you out of a New York slum
and pushed you to the top of the financial tree.
You have made and lost several fortunes.
Now money-making has become so easy for you
that you don't really bother any more.
You have a remarkable talent, mr wilde.
But what have you done with it?
You just drift around the world gambling and womanising.
What have you done with those qualities?
What have you achieved over the past few years?
You've wasted yourself, mr wilde.
You were a nothing who became a something.
And now you're a nothing again.
In fact, you're no better than lord sinclair here.
Lord Brett sinclair.
Now, that was once a proud and noble name.
A name that fought for justice and defended freedom.
What have you done with it?
You are a first-class athlete.
You're a connoisseur of the arts
and gourmet with a lusty taste in wine and women,
and you speak how many languages is it, six?
Seven. Seven.
And all you ever use them for is to order a cocktail.
Yours is the glib tongue of 100 mindless parties.
Lord Brett sinclair, born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
And all he ever does is lick the jam from it.
Two adult men, both with immense quality and potential,
and what do you find to do with it? You fight over an olive.
Two olives. You're both facile and foolish
and a useless waste of humanity, but you like to fight.
All right. I'll give you a fight.
If you're up to it.
I'll either make use of you
or I'll see that you're put away for three months. That's blackmail.
This is out-and-out coercion. Look at him.
He means business. Three months, right? 90 days?
I can count.
And nights.
What do we have to do?
It's a question of identification.
Well, I like it.
Stunning.
She says she is Maria Lorenzo.
But if she is the girl I think she is,
she'll have a little heart-shaped birthmark in the small of her back.
Who do you think she is?
That, gentlemen, is for you to find out.
All we have to do is see whether she has a birthmark?
You mean, just check her out? That's right.
It's your choice, gentlemen.
A simple task or 90 days?
90 days.
We're convinced. Oh, yes, we're convinced.
Are you sure she's here?
I don't wish to be sure.
It's the uncertainties that add spice to life.
Yeah. You must get a lot of them. Uncertainties, I mean.
The way you look at everything.
What is wrong with the way I look? There's nothing really wrong.
Maybe too dignified, not enough razzamatazz.
Would you do one big favour for me? Fix the brakes on your car?
If you see any razzamatazz on my shoulder, brush it off.
Funny, funny, funny.
Huh?
Ok, leave her to me. Us.
I'll have it wrapped up in ten minutes.
We are, regrettably, in this together.
Besides, I have a plan to captivate her interest.
I pose as an intrepid explorer just returned with my latest discovery,
a neolithic gibbering ape man.
Yeah, simple for you. Just continue to jibber.
I've got a better plan. Take a swim and start to drown.
And you jump in and save me? No.
I jump in and hold you under. That way I'm a hero.
I've got a better idea. Got a coin?
We'll toss for it, as simple as that.
Nothing could be fairer. Heads I win, tails you lose.
Tails. You lose.
See you later.
I forgot.
Hums
incredible.
Incredible. I don't believe it.
Just incredible. What's incredible?
Your face. Is something wrong with it?
Not at all.
You don't mind if I sit down? Thank you.
It's beautiful. Hmm...
Please go away. You're probably related.
It was your late great, great grandmother.
What are you talking about? Do you know Milan? Very well.
This is way outside of Milan actually.
It's a small, little village and it's called pasolini
and there's a chapel there that's called the shrine of the grandes.
The grandes are Spanish. That's what makes it unique.
An Italian-Spanish village.
Can I help you?
Please go away.
Well, this chapel, I go there a lot.
I've got this feeling for these kind of joints.
I mean "places". It gets me here and here and gets me everywhere.
Will you please go away?
There's this painting on the wall of a heart.
I mean of a girl,
who is reputed to be the most beautiful girl in all of Italy.
I love to go and look and look and look and look.
It makes a man feel... humble.
Somebody else is trying to make time with her.
Here.
Do you know him?
No.
Could be just another poolside Romeo.
We'd better check him out.
Right.
Please, would you tell me what your name is?
Maria. Maria?
I love it. Sounds so romantic, doesn't it?
You must love it yourself.
Excuse me, is this man bothering you? Is he your friend?
I'm his psychiatrist.
If he has been bothering you, I apologise.
I have tried to keep him under control. Excuse us, please.
Stop bothering me. He follows me everywhere.
See? Persecution mania. Allow me to introduce myself.
Brett sinclair.
Brett to my friends, but you may call me "darling".
Oh.
Ah, no.
Now we've got two of them.
So, what do you say, lunch?
How about a swim? I declare today a public holiday.
The three of us? We'll need a Butler.
Give me five minutes to change.
We'll see you in the lobby.
Ciao. Ciao.
Did you get a look?
No.
I've left my bag.
Here it is.
In the lobby.
Well, her real name now and we're off to the races.
Get her door key and we search her room.
Like taking candy from a baby. So I noticed.
Shall we?
I believe that this will do the trick.
I believe it will deceive them.
It contains a great deal of information about Maria.
And some manufactured evidence linking wilde and sinclair with me.
Now, put it in wilde's room.
Where it can be found.
If my superiors ever find out that I'm helping you,
I shall be drummed out of the force.
Yes, I know, inspector flavel and I appreciate what you're doing.
And I'm sure you realise it's in the best possible cause.
Yes, perhaps. But I still think you're wrong about the whole thing.
We shall soon know the truth about that.
But if you are right, this puts those two young men
in very serious danger.
Yes.
But if they are half the men I believe they are,
they can take care of themselves. For their sakes, I hope so.
Yes, I hope so, too.
Here we are.
Thanks for a lovely day. I'll see you at eight.
We'll call for you. No, I'll see you there.
I didn't get it.
When? Since we started out.
You...
Mimics: "Since we started out."
Come on in, we've been waiting for you.
What do you want?
What do you mean by coming to my room?
Those two men, Maria.
You're not to see them again.
Why? Why not?
Just take my word for it, huh?
Don't see them again. I'm having dinner with them tonight.
Yes.
And this time you are not going to spoil things.
Every time I meet somebody I like, you stop me seeing them.
Only the ones who could be dangerous.
Please understand, this is our job.
I don't care about your job. For once I've enjoyed myself.
You think they have no motive for squiring you around?
No. Why should they have?
Sorry, Maria.
We found this in the American's room.
Chapter and verse on you.
Everything you have done since you were six years old.
I don't know whether they are police or press,
but either way, you don't see them again.
I'm very sorry.
But this time it's bad, Maria.
So bad I'm taking you out of town.
Where?
I can't tell you that, but there is someone I want you to meet.
Do I have a choice? No.
Would you get your coat, please?
I want to tell them I won't be meeting them for dinner.
Truyer will take care of that. Here.
You will tell them, won't you, truyer?
She can't meet them for dinner.
Yeah. I'll tell 'em.
A table for three, please.
Hi.
I'm sorry, my lord, we are full.
My dear Bruno, tonight we are at peace with one another.
Ten skilled workmen have laboured ceaselessly
to redecorate the room.
They've done a fine job.
Eh, pal, beautiful. That's an understatement.
"Pal?" yeah, my buddy.
Your differences have been settled?
Are you kidding?
For now, our relationship is one of complete accord and Harmony.
Then I shall be pleased to serve you.
Oh, Bruno. About the middle of the dinner,
I'd like you to call me away to the telephone. Naturally, my lord.
All you have to do is keep her talking.
It may be difficult, but try not to bore her to death.
Oh.
Sit down.
Coughs friends of yours?
I don't think so.
Why don't you find a chair? No.
Maria won't be coming tonight.
Maria won't be... I guess he's from the telegraph company.
Then why doesn't he sing the message?
Maybe he can't sing. Looks like a baritone to me.
Do you want some advice? Not particularly.
But I suppose we're gonna get it anyway. Go ahead.
Get out of town. Oh.
That's easier said than done. You've got to pack, check out...
True.
There's something else. Don't see Maria again.
Don't ever see her.
I think he's trying to tell us something.
You're putting me on. No.
All right, if I can't tell you, then I'll have to show you.
Mouths
Mine won't go down.
You're not getting enough power in. Be my guest.
Did you see that? Oh, yeah.
Much better. I think we'd better go.
Put it on my tab.
We'll be in for lunch. Four.
Maria? Can't you say that softly?
Maria. You don't have to scream.
Lock it. Right.
Are you always this nervous when you come into a lady's bedroom?
We've got 90 days hanging over us. I don't want six years.
Then start searching. Right.
I wonder where Maria is.
She could give us some information about her beefy boyfriends.
As far as I'm conc... Concerned...
That can remain one of life's little secrets.
I just want to find out what her real name is and get out.
I say, Daniel.
Oh. I'll buy you one.
In blue.
I think I got something.
There.
Michelle Annette dupont.
That's it, man.
We know her real name, she's got a birthmark.
Now we're in the clear, no 90 days. Let's tell the judge.
Excellent. Excellent.
Gentlemen, this calls for a celebration.
A free drink is better than 90...
Oh, yes, that.
That was here when I rented the villa.
Years of courtroom technique have given me a flair for the dramatic.
And, finally, you searched her room?
You were seen by somebody, I hope?
Seen?
Forgive me, I'm confused.
Me also.
She's got a birthmark on her back.
And her real name is Michelle Annette dupont, right?
But you seem more concerned in how we did it.
Of course I am. I've always known she was Michelle dupont.
All right. So it went wrong.
What do you want done now?
Do you mean it?
Fulton?
And the two guys?
All right.
But permanent this time?
Right.
You see,
I had to set a red rag to a bull.
Gentlemen, you provided the red rag.
I also took the Liberty of planting information
which made you look dangerous to the people I'm after.
Wait a minute. Stage one is accomplished.
We had a deal. A little matter of evading 90 days.
That's all settled, forgotten and forgiven.
Did you hear it, pal. I did indeed.
Wait a minute. You still could help.
Judgeship, you can talk all night if you like.
But we wouldn't stay here a second longer.
Glass smashing and gunfire
where are you going? Get our drinks.
Get the lights.
I've been looking for you. I didn't think they'd go this far!
There's a pistol in my desk. Can I go this way?
Turn left!
Gunfire
is this because we spent time with Maria? Of course.
You set us up for this. I had to.
He's hit. Let's get out of here!
Hurry it up.
Will you get out of here?
Now, look, wise guy, you'd better come up with a pretty good reason
why you suckered us into this.
Does the name Robert dupont mean anything to you?
Nothing apart from the fact that Maria's surname is dupont.
Robert was her brother.
Robert dupont, the racketeer?
He's dead. He was shot two years ago.
Forgive me, but the name means nothing to me.
Robert dupont was a gangster. A racketeer.
Who ran the whole mediterranean crime syndicate.
You've heard about crime. He was a fink and a hood.
I'm sorry, but the London times
devotes little space to finks and hoods.
But I gather he was not a nice man to know.
An evil man. But he's dead.
His body was never found.
After his death they expected the usual struggle for power.
Gang way, killings. But it never happened.
What did? Nothing.
The whole corrupt organisation carried on as smoothly as ever.
Which leads you to one inevitable conclusion.
Precisely.
Glass rings
stop it, stop it!
How much longer do we have to stay here?
Creaking
Hello, Michelle.
Robert?
Robert.
I'm sorry to have kept the truth from you for so long.
I was desperately ill for a long time. I had to build a new identity.
It has taken so much time.
Why couldn't you have told me?
It was safer for you not to know the truth.
Those who even suspected would have tried to get at me through you.
That's why coley screened everybody you saw and talked to.
You should have told me.
Trusted me. Perhaps.
But now everything is all right.
I have a new face, name, background.
I am almost safe.
Almost safe?
There's one man still believes I didn't die.
After tonight, there will be no-one.
I believed that if I could make it seem
as if I was investigating Maria,
sooner or later dupont would have to stop me.
Tonight has proved that point.
You mean you let us in for all this?
I hoped they might get you angry enough
to make you see this through to the end.
You make me angry enough!
You think I'll risk my life or his?
You've gotta be... Come along, Stanley.
They do say discretion is the better part of valour.
I can't ask any more of you.
I'll, from here on, go it alone.
Good night.
Good night, sir.
Would you believe that guy?
Outrageous.
Trying to put us in the middle.
Who needs it?
Certainly not I.
Would you look at the road?
"Certainly not I."
You suppose he meant what he said about going it alone?
I think so.
He's a pretty tough old guy.
Imagine. Us up against dupont?
Well, it would be a challenge, I suppose.
Oh, definitely.
We've got other things to do.
Absolutely.
What have you got to do?
Nothing. Certainly not I. Me neither.
We gotta be nutcases.
We don't like being pushed around, do we?
Would you hurry?
Try a forward gear.
Oh.
Tyres screech
Gunshots
I went through every paper in that house.
There's no hint where this dupont might be. How about you?
Apart from the fact that this comes from a vineyard area... what?
It's full of wine-making equipment.
There's nothing here but a label.
Chateau palliard.
Hey, English. I think we're in the right place.
Why? Look.
You could be right.
Yes.
Ok, ok, ok, ok.
Ok, ok.
I should have taken their guns and just... why didn't you?
I'm a coward. Hi, judge.
Here comes the judge. Gentlemen...
I know this will sound ridiculously inadequate,
but, well...
Under the circumstances,
I do offer you my most abject apologies.
Oh, that's ok. We decided to come on our own.
We came to help you. That was our first mistake.
Possibly your last. Break it to us gently.
Well, they'll kill us.
They have to kill us. Oh.
I thought they might do something serious.
Everything has been covered, you're sure of that? Positive.
Good, good. See how the others are coming along.
Why, judge? Why?
Why your involvement in all this?
I sat as a judge for 15 years
and during that time I did my best to defend the innocent
and punish the guilty.
The guilty ones that came to court.
One of the anomalies of the law is that in protecting the innocent...
..The guilty often go free, too, hmm?
Since my retirement, I've done my best to redress that
in my small, private way.
In fact, it's become an obsession.
You see, now I have time to think, to study,
to search for loopholes that others might have overlooked.
To ferret out.
To chase an idea.
You think I'm a crazy old man.
No, I think you're one of the sanest men I ever met.
I've done it!
The lock? No, my finger nail.
I broke my finger nail.
You are wasting your time.
I've searched the whole area. There is no way out.
I suggest we all have a drink.
Then let's get it over.
Stay here.
Please let them go.
Drunken singing
♪ always together
♪ in all kinds of weather... ♪
oh!
Our dancing partners?
Mr wilde, bring your friends in. We have guests.
Take them outside.
How would you like a little wine?
Slurs
this won't take a minute.
Ok, leave him.
Behind you!
Daniel, Daniel, come on.
I'm coming, believe me, I'm coming.
Crooks! I will have you!
Very nice, Daniel. Come along. Oh, my heart.
Open up, judge. Quickly.
Let's go.
Judge, ok,
lock them up and stay out of everybody's way, ok?
Six months. Contempt and bodily harm.
Ow!
Can you imagine that? A girl shooting her own brother?
Maybe she didn't like him. Bonjour.
I'll tell you what I think.
I think she wanted to be an only child. Probably.
It's a most ridiculous situation.
I'm not sorry it's over
but I really rather enjoyed it.
It's been a pleasure meeting you.
There's one thing you can do for me. Never mention that name again.
Excuse me. Judge fulton sent me.
You must help me. I'm in serious trouble.
And you'd like to talk somewhere private?
Come along with us.
The key, please.
Thank you very much. Wait.
Come on in, Daniel.
Did you think I'd leave you out there?
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