1 00:02:24,292 --> 00:02:25,292 Ah! 2 00:02:45,917 --> 00:02:48,083 - Is this your first visit to South America? - Yes. 3 00:02:48,167 --> 00:02:50,542 I wish I could stay longer. It's a pleasant place. 4 00:02:50,583 --> 00:02:52,417 Senhor, congratulations. 5 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:55,000 - A wonderful party. - Thank you, senhora. 6 00:02:55,083 --> 00:02:59,458 The president himself told my husband it was the occasion of the year. 7 00:03:00,542 --> 00:03:02,250 Oh, senhora. 8 00:03:02,333 --> 00:03:05,542 I was going to send you this for your subscription list. 9 00:03:05,708 --> 00:03:07,500 The, uh, victims of the revolution. 10 00:03:07,583 --> 00:03:10,083 Perhaps I may be allowed to give it to you now. 11 00:03:10,250 --> 00:03:14,250 Thank you, senhor. Always so generous. 12 00:03:16,583 --> 00:03:19,083 The wife of Martin Gallardo, the frozen meat king. 13 00:03:19,583 --> 00:03:21,167 Very decent couple. 14 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:23,417 Oh, excuse me. Manuel? 15 00:03:25,792 --> 00:03:27,500 Pity you can't stay till Sunday. 16 00:03:27,583 --> 00:03:29,625 I've got a horse in the Jockey Club stakes. 17 00:03:30,250 --> 00:03:33,792 You... rode... a very good race. 18 00:03:35,542 --> 00:03:37,333 A very good race. 19 00:03:38,917 --> 00:03:41,208 Racing's not quite straight out here. 20 00:03:41,250 --> 00:03:43,750 Still, I do believe I've helped to raise the standard a little. 21 00:03:43,833 --> 00:03:45,750 Ah, Chiquita! Chiquita! 22 00:03:47,917 --> 00:03:49,833 I hoped I'd see you. Mm. 23 00:03:50,417 --> 00:03:53,333 You run along and get yourself that little birthday present. 24 00:03:53,667 --> 00:03:57,292 Oh, but how sweet of you. Thank you! 25 00:04:01,167 --> 00:04:04,167 You seem to have accomplished quite a lot in one year. 26 00:04:05,417 --> 00:04:07,000 One superb year. 27 00:04:08,083 --> 00:04:11,083 Just when I was beginning to believe I'd never achieve it. 28 00:04:11,125 --> 00:04:13,167 For 20 years, I've dreamed of a life like this. 29 00:04:13,250 --> 00:04:15,958 For 19 of those years, fate denied me the one contact 30 00:04:16,042 --> 00:04:18,583 essential to the success of all my plans. 31 00:04:19,833 --> 00:04:21,333 Still, I never quite lost sight of the goal. 32 00:04:21,417 --> 00:04:24,417 Inaccessible as it often seemed to me... 33 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:26,875 When I was merely a... 34 00:04:28,625 --> 00:04:30,542 Merely a nonentity... 35 00:04:31,750 --> 00:04:35,542 Among all those thousands who flock every morning into the City. 36 00:04:36,250 --> 00:04:39,000 Most men who long to be rich know inwardly 37 00:04:39,083 --> 00:04:41,875 that they will never achieve their ambition. 38 00:04:41,917 --> 00:04:43,875 But I was in the unique position of having 39 00:04:43,917 --> 00:04:46,750 a fortune literally within my grasp. 40 00:04:46,833 --> 00:04:49,958 For it was my job to supervise the deliveries of bullion, 41 00:04:50,042 --> 00:04:52,083 from the gold refinery to the bank. 42 00:05:19,167 --> 00:05:21,917 - Lucky I saw that. - Yes, very lucky. 43 00:05:21,958 --> 00:05:24,500 Mr Richards, with gold at 240 shillings per fine ounce, 44 00:05:24,583 --> 00:05:28,667 that particle, estimating its value at, uh, .025, 45 00:05:28,750 --> 00:05:30,875 would entail a loss of approximately six shillings. 46 00:05:30,917 --> 00:05:33,000 Well, I've got a bit more out here for you to check. 47 00:05:33,083 --> 00:05:34,417 One hundred gold bars, 48 00:05:34,458 --> 00:05:38,792 weighed to the value of £495,987! 49 00:05:42,708 --> 00:05:45,875 Well, Mr Richards, your deposit 50 00:05:45,917 --> 00:05:48,750 will be returned in the usual way, as soon as the gold enters the bank. 51 00:05:48,792 --> 00:05:50,542 You are both armed? 52 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:53,208 I was well aware they all ridiculed me 53 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:56,042 for the way I fussed and worried. 54 00:05:56,083 --> 00:06:00,083 That was precisely what I had striven for years to achieve. 55 00:06:30,042 --> 00:06:31,667 Here we go again. 56 00:06:41,417 --> 00:06:43,417 There's a car been following us. 57 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:44,917 - That one, sir? - No, of course not. 58 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,917 A black Chrysler, THX-375. It's gone on ahead. 59 00:06:47,958 --> 00:06:49,292 No sign of it now, sir. 60 00:06:49,375 --> 00:06:50,875 It's probably waiting for us around the next corner. 61 00:06:50,917 --> 00:06:53,875 Go and have a look... and leave me your gun, meanwhile. 62 00:06:58,250 --> 00:07:01,917 Nobody could say that my precautions were not fully justified. 63 00:07:02,333 --> 00:07:05,583 Many a rascal would have risked his all for half a million, 64 00:07:05,625 --> 00:07:08,208 not realizing that gold, in the form of bullion, 65 00:07:08,250 --> 00:07:11,917 is useless without a method of smuggling it abroad. 66 00:07:13,333 --> 00:07:15,750 To find that method was my last remaining problem. 67 00:07:15,792 --> 00:07:17,042 Come in. 68 00:07:17,583 --> 00:07:19,958 Meanwhile, I gave the bank their gold. 69 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:23,958 Oh, thanks, Holland. Everything quite in order? 70 00:07:24,042 --> 00:07:25,292 Yes, sir. 71 00:07:25,417 --> 00:07:29,042 Silly question. Twenty years, and nothing's ever been out of order yet. 72 00:07:30,917 --> 00:07:32,917 Er, that will do, Holland. 73 00:07:37,333 --> 00:07:40,000 Why don't you give that poor old devil a chance? 74 00:07:40,083 --> 00:07:42,667 Surely, after all this time, he deserves a leg up. 75 00:07:42,750 --> 00:07:44,667 Oh, I'm afraid it wouldn't work, sir. 76 00:07:44,750 --> 00:07:46,750 His one and only virtue is honesty. 77 00:07:46,833 --> 00:07:49,167 He has no imagination, no initiative, sir. 78 00:07:49,667 --> 00:07:51,917 I was a potential millionaire. 79 00:07:52,167 --> 00:07:57,167 Yet I had to be satisfied with eight pounds, fifteen shillings, less deductions. 80 00:07:57,542 --> 00:08:00,750 A weekly reminder that the years were passing, 81 00:08:00,833 --> 00:08:03,083 and my problem still unsolved. 82 00:08:04,833 --> 00:08:08,250 Until my ship came home, I was obliged to live 83 00:08:08,375 --> 00:08:11,583 at the Balmoral private hotel in Lavender Hill. 84 00:08:18,250 --> 00:08:21,458 Ah, Holland! The man of millions. 85 00:08:21,542 --> 00:08:22,667 What did you get away with today? 86 00:08:22,750 --> 00:08:25,208 Got any spare ingots for an old pal? 87 00:08:25,250 --> 00:08:27,375 You'll be the death of me, Holland! 88 00:08:27,417 --> 00:08:29,333 I sincerely trust so. 89 00:08:33,792 --> 00:08:37,083 Ah, Mr Holland. Always punctual. 90 00:08:37,583 --> 00:08:40,500 - I smell oxtail soup again. - Oh, dear. 91 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:45,833 Now, let's see. Where did we get? 92 00:08:45,917 --> 00:08:49,500 Duke Milligan was about to take a gander at Nicky the Greek's hideout. 93 00:08:49,583 --> 00:08:51,333 Oh, yes. Now, here we are. 94 00:08:53,583 --> 00:08:55,417 "I handed my fedora to a hat-check girl 95 00:08:55,458 --> 00:08:57,417 "with all that Venus de Milo had got, and then more, 96 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:00,250 "and I was admiring the more when I glimpsed something 97 00:09:00,333 --> 00:09:02,042 "in the back of this frail that set my underwear 98 00:09:02,083 --> 00:09:04,458 "creeping up on me like it had legs." 99 00:09:04,542 --> 00:09:06,000 I know that feeling well. 100 00:09:06,083 --> 00:09:08,083 "A guy had soft-shoed out of the door from the gaming room 101 00:09:08,125 --> 00:09:10,250 "as quiet as a snake on tip-belly. 102 00:09:10,333 --> 00:09:13,000 "And I didn't need my case history of smiling Ed Montana 103 00:09:13,083 --> 00:09:16,875 "to know that Sonny Boy was his number-one triggerman, Ricci the Filipino." 104 00:09:16,958 --> 00:09:18,583 I thought it was Little Boy Schultz 105 00:09:18,667 --> 00:09:20,542 who carried the rod for Mr Montana. 106 00:09:20,583 --> 00:09:23,500 It was, Mrs Chalk. But surely you remember? 107 00:09:23,583 --> 00:09:25,958 Montana found Schultz taking liberties with that redhead. 108 00:09:26,042 --> 00:09:28,792 Yes, yes. They took him for a ride. 109 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:30,042 Only last night, wasn't it? 110 00:09:30,083 --> 00:09:34,042 Oh, I must be getting old. Read on, Mr Holland. 111 00:09:34,083 --> 00:09:36,667 "If ever I felt like putting up a new high for the mile of the century, 112 00:09:36,750 --> 00:09:38,458 "This was the time. 113 00:09:39,042 --> 00:09:41,750 "And then I thought again of those 10,000 smackeroos..." 114 00:09:42,917 --> 00:09:43,958 Yes? 115 00:09:48,375 --> 00:09:51,000 Mr Holland, you're not concentrating. 116 00:09:52,458 --> 00:09:53,458 So sorry. 117 00:09:59,458 --> 00:10:00,750 Evesham must be upstairs. 118 00:10:19,667 --> 00:10:21,917 - Good evening. - Good evening. 119 00:10:25,042 --> 00:10:27,292 Tricky business, this moving, isn't it? 120 00:10:27,375 --> 00:10:28,708 - You've got a lot of stuff here. - Yeah. 121 00:10:28,750 --> 00:10:29,917 Can I give you a hand? 122 00:10:29,958 --> 00:10:31,000 Oh, that's very civil of you. 123 00:10:31,083 --> 00:10:33,583 - My name's Pendlebury. Yeah. - Holland. 124 00:10:34,917 --> 00:10:36,667 If you wouldn't mind taking "motherhood"... 125 00:10:38,750 --> 00:10:42,750 Good evening, Mr Pendlebury. Welcome to Balmoral. 126 00:10:43,333 --> 00:10:45,333 How very nice to see you. 127 00:10:47,083 --> 00:10:50,125 Oh! Mr Pendlebury! 128 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:54,208 I knew you were an artistic gentleman, but really! 129 00:10:54,250 --> 00:10:56,625 - Take all this. - Oh! Thank you. 130 00:10:56,708 --> 00:10:59,917 I thought I'd made myself quite plain when I phoned, miss Evesham. 131 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,042 I'd... I'd no idea it would mean... 132 00:11:03,083 --> 00:11:05,292 But there's no place to put it all! 133 00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:08,708 - What about the stable? - I suppose it could go there. 134 00:11:09,250 --> 00:11:11,417 Mind your toes, miss Evesham. 135 00:11:16,583 --> 00:11:18,583 Back shortly, Mrs. Chalk. 136 00:11:23,083 --> 00:11:25,167 Oh, this is capital. Capital! 137 00:11:25,250 --> 00:11:27,333 A ready-made studio! 138 00:11:27,458 --> 00:11:29,667 A thing I wanted all my life. 139 00:11:30,083 --> 00:11:31,750 Why, it's even got a north light, too. 140 00:11:31,833 --> 00:11:35,375 Mr Pendlebury, just one moment. The terms of my lease... 141 00:11:35,417 --> 00:11:37,375 Oh, I say! Steady, steady, steady. 142 00:11:37,417 --> 00:11:38,750 So sorry. Oh, it's all right. 143 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:41,292 I had to g... Had to cast her in gilding metal. 144 00:11:41,375 --> 00:11:42,875 - It's a little delicate, you know? - Mr Pendlebury... 145 00:11:42,917 --> 00:11:44,417 I did it in my factory. 146 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,208 Interesting process. You must see it one of these days. 147 00:11:46,250 --> 00:11:49,292 - Mr Pendlebury! - Ooh, these walls! 148 00:11:49,375 --> 00:11:51,833 Oh, an admirable background for my canvases. 149 00:11:51,917 --> 00:11:55,417 Mr Pendlebury! Let me inform you here and now 150 00:11:55,458 --> 00:11:58,875 that no business occupation may be performed on these premises. 151 00:11:58,917 --> 00:12:00,333 Oh-ho, my dear lady. 152 00:12:00,417 --> 00:12:02,875 This is not my business occupation. I wish it were. 153 00:12:02,917 --> 00:12:05,792 No, these are my wings. 154 00:12:05,917 --> 00:12:08,958 My escape after the cares of the day are over. 155 00:12:09,083 --> 00:12:12,333 My business occupation is something unspeakably hideous. 156 00:12:13,292 --> 00:12:15,125 I'm in the "Presents from" trade. 157 00:12:15,208 --> 00:12:18,500 You know, "Presents from Brighton," "Souvenir of Tunbridge Wells." 158 00:12:18,583 --> 00:12:20,042 Yes, if tourists only realized, 159 00:12:20,083 --> 00:12:21,958 they could save themselves a lot of luggage space 160 00:12:22,042 --> 00:12:24,792 by applying to us direct for their holiday memories. 161 00:12:25,583 --> 00:12:28,417 And the irony of it, Holland, the irony is... 162 00:12:28,458 --> 00:12:30,917 I must design them all myself. 163 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,750 I propagate British cultural depravity. 164 00:12:34,667 --> 00:12:35,917 Look at this. 165 00:12:36,417 --> 00:12:39,250 Anne Hathaway's cottage for keeping string in. 166 00:12:39,917 --> 00:12:44,292 Wouldn't you infinitely prefer the comparative purity of an old biscuit tin? 167 00:12:44,792 --> 00:12:46,500 Southend Pier! 168 00:12:47,083 --> 00:12:50,375 Oh, I... I've thought for years to cut loose from it all, 169 00:12:50,958 --> 00:12:52,958 but I never had the courage. 170 00:12:53,042 --> 00:12:55,958 "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 171 00:12:56,917 --> 00:12:58,833 "the saddest are these: 172 00:13:00,417 --> 00:13:01,750 "'It might have been" '. 173 00:13:05,417 --> 00:13:06,833 Forgive me. 174 00:13:06,917 --> 00:13:08,208 Come and see the casting room. 175 00:13:08,250 --> 00:13:11,500 We're busy at present on one of our export lines. Paperweights. 176 00:13:11,583 --> 00:13:13,583 We ship a thousand a week over to France. 177 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:17,083 Here's a little... speciality. 178 00:13:38,917 --> 00:13:41,250 Quite a simple process, really. 179 00:13:41,292 --> 00:13:44,250 Pour the molten lead into the mould, allow it to harden. 180 00:13:44,333 --> 00:13:46,583 As soon as it's cool, it's sprayed with gold paint... 181 00:13:46,625 --> 00:13:48,625 And then it's ready to be shipped to France. 182 00:14:12,583 --> 00:14:15,417 "Slave, I have set my life upon a cast." 183 00:14:16,917 --> 00:14:18,292 Richard Ill. 184 00:14:19,167 --> 00:14:21,125 I believe it's turning into a self-portrait. 185 00:14:22,333 --> 00:14:24,542 I shall call him "The Slave." 186 00:14:25,375 --> 00:14:27,708 Oh, my dear Holland, I'm so sorry. You're still feeling bad. 187 00:14:27,750 --> 00:14:29,083 The heat of that place. I always forget. 188 00:14:29,208 --> 00:14:32,750 No, it wasn't the heat. I'm used to that in my job. 189 00:14:32,875 --> 00:14:34,000 Oh, really? 190 00:14:34,083 --> 00:14:36,875 Your place is very similar to the refinery. 191 00:14:37,042 --> 00:14:38,583 Really? I had no idea. 192 00:14:38,667 --> 00:14:41,500 We turn gold into bars, you turn lead into Eiffel Towers. 193 00:14:41,583 --> 00:14:46,250 - That's the only difference. - Only! If I had gold to deal with... 194 00:14:47,625 --> 00:14:50,708 - Yes? - Ah, an idle dream. 195 00:14:52,083 --> 00:14:54,583 - Must be a big responsibility. - No, not really. 196 00:14:59,375 --> 00:15:01,417 If anyone did rob our van, 197 00:15:01,750 --> 00:15:03,833 well, it's virtually impossible to dispose of stolen bullion, 198 00:15:03,917 --> 00:15:06,083 in this country, at any rate. 199 00:15:06,125 --> 00:15:07,625 Yes. Oh, yes, I imagine so. 200 00:15:07,708 --> 00:15:10,292 But if it could be smuggled abroad... 201 00:15:11,083 --> 00:15:14,000 - What a hope. - Well, I wouldn't say it's out of the question. 202 00:15:14,083 --> 00:15:16,750 Saying one had the means of melting the stuff down. 203 00:15:16,792 --> 00:15:19,208 In the kitchen stove? What a job. 204 00:15:19,250 --> 00:15:20,542 Oh, of course not. 205 00:15:22,208 --> 00:15:24,625 It would mean taking on a partner. 206 00:15:24,792 --> 00:15:27,583 Ah, Risky. Bringing other people in. 207 00:15:27,667 --> 00:15:29,708 That would be essential, in any case. 208 00:15:29,750 --> 00:15:32,292 No one person could rob our van unaided. 209 00:15:32,917 --> 00:15:35,750 - You mean, he'd need accomplices? - Precisely. 210 00:15:42,917 --> 00:15:44,125 A gang. 211 00:15:44,875 --> 00:15:46,625 A gang? Not so easy to come by. 212 00:15:46,708 --> 00:15:48,708 Oh, I don't know. 213 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:50,500 With gold selling on the continental black market 214 00:15:50,583 --> 00:15:53,208 at two and a half times its standard price? 215 00:15:53,250 --> 00:15:54,250 I mean, quite a few people 216 00:15:54,333 --> 00:15:57,208 would be willing to chance an arm for half a million. 217 00:15:59,958 --> 00:16:01,875 Yes, but how... 218 00:16:01,917 --> 00:16:04,583 How would you get your gold across to the continent? 219 00:16:05,542 --> 00:16:06,625 Well. 220 00:16:09,417 --> 00:16:11,792 Supposing one had the right sort of partner, 221 00:16:13,583 --> 00:16:16,708 in the form of, uh, shall we say... 222 00:16:18,333 --> 00:16:20,625 Eiffel Tower paperweights? 223 00:16:25,583 --> 00:16:28,792 By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we are both honest men. 224 00:16:30,458 --> 00:16:32,708 It is indeed, Pendlebury. 225 00:17:02,917 --> 00:17:04,167 Come in. 226 00:17:07,417 --> 00:17:10,083 Oh, there you are, Holland. Come in and sit down. 227 00:17:13,917 --> 00:17:17,708 Well, Holland, you've been quite the subject of discussion lately. 228 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:20,708 Don't look so worried, man. 229 00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:23,750 I've managed to persuade the chief cashier to give you a leg up. 230 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:25,750 - A leg up, sir? - Promotion. 231 00:17:25,833 --> 00:17:27,792 You're going up to foreign exchange. 232 00:17:27,875 --> 00:17:30,333 No more uncomfortable journeys in that dreary van. 233 00:17:30,417 --> 00:17:33,083 - But, sir... - Now, now, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. 234 00:17:33,208 --> 00:17:34,417 Don't bother to thank me, man. 235 00:17:34,458 --> 00:17:37,167 I told Abercrombie that you can start with him next Monday. 236 00:17:37,250 --> 00:17:39,250 - But I can't, sir! - Why not? 237 00:17:39,292 --> 00:17:42,917 Because, um... Because... 238 00:17:44,625 --> 00:17:46,958 I'm too old to change my views now, sir. 239 00:17:47,042 --> 00:17:49,750 Ah, one's never too old to better oneself. 240 00:17:49,833 --> 00:17:52,917 Think what you can do with an extra 15 shillings a week! 241 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,458 But sir, I like the bullion office. It holds all I ever wished for. 242 00:17:56,583 --> 00:17:57,833 The trouble with you, Holland, 243 00:17:57,917 --> 00:18:00,750 if I may speak frankly, is that you haven't enough ambition. 244 00:18:00,792 --> 00:18:04,875 When a good opportunity comes along, grab it with both hands! 245 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:06,833 It may not occur again. 246 00:18:09,542 --> 00:18:12,958 Very good, sir. I'll follow your advice. 247 00:18:22,042 --> 00:18:25,250 - So it's now or never. - This week. Friday's delivery. 248 00:18:25,292 --> 00:18:28,042 - Three days to go. - Two desperadoes to find. 249 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,583 - Bait. - Bait? 250 00:18:38,708 --> 00:18:42,333 I said, bait. Trap 'em! 251 00:18:48,750 --> 00:18:50,125 Mr Pendlebury? 252 00:18:52,583 --> 00:18:54,750 - Hello, Mr Pendlebury! - Hello! 253 00:18:54,875 --> 00:18:56,167 Why, good evening. Ha! 254 00:18:56,250 --> 00:18:59,500 By Jove, what a bit of luck! Just the man I wanted to see. 255 00:18:59,583 --> 00:19:02,292 - What's the trouble? - That safe in my office. 256 00:19:02,375 --> 00:19:05,000 Something's gone wrong with the lock. 257 00:19:05,417 --> 00:19:08,583 - I'll send a man round tomorrow. - I wish you would. 258 00:19:08,667 --> 00:19:11,750 It worries me a little, leaving the staff wages there overnight. 259 00:19:14,625 --> 00:19:17,125 You know the address, "Gewgaws, Limited." 260 00:19:18,083 --> 00:19:21,625 "Gewgaws, limited." You know, the back of Rathbing Place, there. 261 00:19:21,708 --> 00:19:23,417 Fancy leaving all that money there. 262 00:19:23,458 --> 00:19:26,042 Why, anybody could break into the place tonight, and help themselves! 263 00:19:26,083 --> 00:19:28,250 Come on, number five! You've done it. 264 00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:30,667 Stay there, me beauty, stay there! 265 00:19:54,083 --> 00:19:57,292 One never knows. Somebody may have been listening. 266 00:19:57,375 --> 00:19:59,250 I suggest we give them till midnight. 267 00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:02,417 - Where are those guns? - Guns? 268 00:20:02,583 --> 00:20:04,792 Yes. It's essential that we're armed. 269 00:20:04,875 --> 00:20:08,792 - Here they are. Here's yours. - Is it loaded? 270 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:13,083 Yes. It's a present from Margate. It fires a stick of rock. 271 00:20:20,583 --> 00:20:22,917 The safe's in the office, over there. 272 00:20:25,875 --> 00:20:30,083 You squeeze behind that bench, and surprise anyone making for the safe. 273 00:20:30,250 --> 00:20:33,875 I'm going over here, to prevent an escape through the packing room. 274 00:20:47,292 --> 00:20:48,458 Ready? 275 00:21:24,833 --> 00:21:27,875 - What's that? - Cramp. 276 00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:30,958 - What? - Pins and needles. 277 00:22:35,417 --> 00:22:36,917 Reach for it. 278 00:22:40,667 --> 00:22:43,250 Don't shoot, Guv. Don't shoot. I won't give no trouble. 279 00:22:43,333 --> 00:22:44,500 Please don't be 'ard on me. 280 00:22:44,583 --> 00:22:45,917 I got a wife and six kids. 281 00:22:45,958 --> 00:22:48,583 I never done nothing like this before. 282 00:22:51,417 --> 00:22:53,875 - Is that true? - Yes, Guv. I'm on the level. 283 00:22:53,958 --> 00:22:55,375 May I drop dead if I lie. 284 00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:57,417 I been honest all me life. 285 00:22:57,458 --> 00:22:59,083 It was just the temptation. 286 00:22:59,167 --> 00:23:01,625 - This is your first crime? - Yes, Guv. I swear it. 287 00:23:01,708 --> 00:23:03,583 And I'll never go wrong no more. 288 00:23:03,667 --> 00:23:05,625 Suppose we asked you to do a job for us. 289 00:23:05,708 --> 00:23:06,833 I'd do it. That's all I want. 290 00:23:06,917 --> 00:23:08,750 A chance to turn an honest penny. 291 00:23:08,792 --> 00:23:10,542 Well, supposing it wasn't exactly an honest penny. 292 00:23:10,583 --> 00:23:11,625 Careful now, careful. 293 00:23:11,708 --> 00:23:13,417 We don't want anyone who's going straight. 294 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:15,500 In any case, we need someone far bigger. 295 00:23:15,583 --> 00:23:16,583 Such as me? 296 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:22,417 - Who are you? - Who are you? 297 00:23:22,458 --> 00:23:24,500 Oh, take those things away. I'm not hungry. 298 00:23:24,583 --> 00:23:25,667 Name of Lackery Wood. 299 00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:28,500 Otherwise known as Sawdust Steve, the Wandsworth boy. 300 00:23:28,583 --> 00:23:31,000 Two convictions for 'ousebreaking, one for larceny of the person. 301 00:23:31,083 --> 00:23:32,792 Total 18 months only, in 10 years' work. 302 00:23:32,875 --> 00:23:34,625 Here you are... some cuttings, if you'd like to see 'em. 303 00:23:34,750 --> 00:23:35,792 How long have you been here? 304 00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:37,417 Just long enough to hide when I heard you comin' in. 305 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:40,000 Thought I'd been taken for a mug! Me! What's the job? 306 00:23:40,083 --> 00:23:41,083 Useful. 307 00:23:42,417 --> 00:23:45,042 Never worked nothing else but single-handed. 308 00:23:45,083 --> 00:23:47,042 Sensible. Very sensible. 309 00:23:47,083 --> 00:23:49,167 Just the same meself. 310 00:23:49,250 --> 00:23:51,417 Kept on me Jack Jones ever since Nobby Curtis got me done 311 00:23:51,458 --> 00:23:54,333 - for that job at Bellamy's. - Bellamy's in Bromley? 312 00:23:54,417 --> 00:23:56,042 That's right. Last June, twelve month. 313 00:23:56,083 --> 00:23:57,875 I was casing that joint the night you got pinched! 314 00:23:57,917 --> 00:23:58,958 Well, what do you know? 315 00:23:59,042 --> 00:24:00,875 - I'm Shorty Fisher. - Ah, nice to have met ya. 316 00:24:00,917 --> 00:24:03,583 Excuse me, I... I may be slow, but do I understand 317 00:24:03,625 --> 00:24:06,708 that you two are, in fact, both professional criminals? 318 00:24:07,458 --> 00:24:09,208 What else do you take us for? Ruddy snoopers? 319 00:24:09,250 --> 00:24:11,833 - What's the setup? - Just a moment, Pendlebury. 320 00:24:11,958 --> 00:24:13,208 We require a team, 321 00:24:13,250 --> 00:24:15,000 and if these two gentlemen insist on working alone... 322 00:24:15,083 --> 00:24:16,583 Wait a minute. 323 00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:17,875 You make it worth our while, cock, 324 00:24:17,917 --> 00:24:19,458 we'll work in with the band of hope. Eh, Shorty? 325 00:24:19,542 --> 00:24:21,083 - You said it. - Well, in that case, 326 00:24:21,208 --> 00:24:23,250 if you would both join us in the office, 327 00:24:23,333 --> 00:24:26,250 my friend Mr Holland will outline what we have in mind. 328 00:24:30,375 --> 00:24:33,250 I must apologize, gentlemen, for the somewhat informal manner 329 00:24:33,292 --> 00:24:35,417 in which we effected our introduction. 330 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:36,792 But my colleague and I 331 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:40,042 have a certain proposition which we'd like to put to you. 332 00:24:40,917 --> 00:24:43,333 I might almost call it a "gilt-edged proposition." 333 00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:48,042 Although, paradoxically, it does entail a measure of risk. 334 00:24:48,542 --> 00:24:52,542 However, when I quote the anticipated dividend, 335 00:24:52,583 --> 00:24:54,708 I'm sure that you will both agree with me that the... 336 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,958 Not another one, surely. 337 00:24:59,667 --> 00:25:01,417 Tell him we're suited. 338 00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:04,583 - Everything all right here, sir? - Yes, thank you, officer. 339 00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:07,042 My, uh, my partner and I are busy stock-taking. 340 00:25:07,125 --> 00:25:09,417 - Only I saw the window open, you see? - Oh, yes, yes. 341 00:25:09,458 --> 00:25:11,000 I'll close it. Thank you very much. 342 00:25:11,083 --> 00:25:12,833 - Good night, officer. - Good night, sir. 343 00:25:30,250 --> 00:25:33,500 And, um, here's the order for tomorrow's consignment. 344 00:25:33,583 --> 00:25:36,083 Somewhat larger than I expected, 212 bars. 345 00:25:36,167 --> 00:25:38,750 - That won't worry me, sir. - Dependable to the last. 346 00:25:38,792 --> 00:25:41,292 - I'm going to miss you, Holland. - You're very kind, sir. 347 00:25:41,375 --> 00:25:44,333 I shall always have the happiest memories of the dear old bullion office. 348 00:25:44,417 --> 00:25:46,333 Has Mr Abercrombie spoken to you about your holiday? 349 00:25:46,417 --> 00:25:48,500 - Yes, sir. I'm going to Paris. - Paris, eh? 350 00:25:48,583 --> 00:25:49,875 You're stepping out, Holland. 351 00:25:49,917 --> 00:25:52,125 Wonderful, isn't it, what a little extra money will do. 352 00:25:52,208 --> 00:25:54,667 Yes. It's going to make a big difference to me. 353 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:09,333 Oh! 354 00:26:11,375 --> 00:26:13,708 - Have a go out on your own now. - Thank you, mate. 355 00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:16,458 That's it. And how are you getting on? 356 00:26:20,792 --> 00:26:23,417 No, you must show some sense of proportion. 357 00:26:23,458 --> 00:26:26,083 Look at that seagull. It's bigger than the funnel. 358 00:26:27,083 --> 00:26:30,750 Can't I do something else, Guv? Sell matches, or boot laces? 359 00:26:30,833 --> 00:26:33,208 No, no. Mr Holland specified a pavement artist, 360 00:26:33,250 --> 00:26:35,458 and a pavement artist it's got to be. 361 00:26:35,833 --> 00:26:37,958 Come on, try again. It's coming slowly. 362 00:26:54,958 --> 00:26:56,458 You're teaching the wrong man. 363 00:26:56,542 --> 00:26:59,583 Well, I had to change them over. Shorty can't ride a bicycle. 364 00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:07,083 - Doesn't look as if he can, either. - We're learnin' him. 365 00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:11,250 - Why couldn't you learn Shorty? - Because Lackery's color-blind. 366 00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:13,542 - What's that got to do with it? - Oh, my dear Holland, 367 00:27:13,583 --> 00:27:16,208 do use your intelligence, if a policeman were to come along 368 00:27:16,250 --> 00:27:17,750 and see a green sunset over a purple sea... 369 00:27:17,833 --> 00:27:19,917 All right, all right. Spare me the details. 370 00:27:20,042 --> 00:27:21,958 - Is everything else fixed? - Yes, the map's in the office. 371 00:27:22,042 --> 00:27:24,250 Come along, boys, this is the setup. 372 00:27:31,667 --> 00:27:33,583 Uh, Mr Fisher will be sitting here. 373 00:27:33,625 --> 00:27:35,625 The van will stop in front of him at 4:30. 374 00:27:35,708 --> 00:27:37,708 A minute later, the guard will appear round this corner, 375 00:27:37,750 --> 00:27:40,542 and you, Pendlebury, will detain him for at least half a minute. 376 00:27:40,583 --> 00:27:42,792 Ask him for a light, ask him anything, but keep him there. 377 00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:44,583 We must have those 30 seconds. 378 00:27:44,667 --> 00:27:46,417 - Edgar! - I beg your pardon? 379 00:27:48,125 --> 00:27:49,875 Isn't one supposed to say that when one's being briefed? 380 00:27:49,917 --> 00:27:52,792 - On my rare visits to the kinema... - The word is "Roger." 381 00:27:53,250 --> 00:27:56,375 - Oh, Roger! How silly of me. - To continue. 382 00:27:56,417 --> 00:27:57,458 As soon as we've captured the van, 383 00:27:57,542 --> 00:28:00,417 Mr Wood and Mr Pendlebury will proceed straight to the warehouse. 384 00:28:00,542 --> 00:28:02,000 Bit risky, isn't it? 385 00:28:02,083 --> 00:28:04,583 Making Mr Pendlebury go there, after the guard's seen him? 386 00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:06,167 It's a risk we must take. 387 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,750 We need everyone. We've more than 200 bars to move, 388 00:28:08,833 --> 00:28:10,750 and I must have my alibi. 389 00:28:10,792 --> 00:28:14,375 You've got to gag me, bind me, tear my clothes, roll me in the dust. 390 00:28:14,417 --> 00:28:16,375 We can't afford to waste one second. 391 00:28:16,417 --> 00:28:17,792 Okay. You're the boss. 392 00:28:17,875 --> 00:28:18,917 Yes. 393 00:28:22,708 --> 00:28:25,500 Yes, that's right. I am. 394 00:28:28,125 --> 00:28:33,000 Two hundred and eleven, two hundred and twelve. 395 00:28:34,167 --> 00:28:37,625 Ah, Mr Richards. Your deposit will be returned in the usual way 396 00:28:39,917 --> 00:28:42,292 as soon as the gold enters the bank. 397 00:28:42,458 --> 00:28:44,333 Uh, you're both, uh... 398 00:30:19,417 --> 00:30:22,333 Oi! Oi! 399 00:30:25,542 --> 00:30:27,208 - Here, no you don't. - Don't what? 400 00:30:27,250 --> 00:30:28,583 I saw you pinch it. 401 00:30:28,625 --> 00:30:30,625 Good gracious, whatever must you think of me. 402 00:30:30,708 --> 00:30:31,917 I think you're the bloke what pinched 403 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,250 my "Monarch of the Glen" last week. 404 00:30:33,333 --> 00:30:35,875 Oh, no, I assure you. Pinch a Landseer, me? 405 00:30:35,958 --> 00:30:37,417 Well, you better come quiet. 406 00:30:37,458 --> 00:30:39,083 If you'll have five minutes' patience, I'll explain. 407 00:30:39,125 --> 00:30:41,917 Five minutes? Oi, Charlie, get on the blower. 999. 408 00:30:41,958 --> 00:30:43,083 No, no, no. 409 00:30:43,167 --> 00:30:44,833 Come on, come along with me. 410 00:31:05,917 --> 00:31:07,958 He's picked a wrong 'un this time. 411 00:31:08,083 --> 00:31:11,417 No, no, no! It's all a ghastly mistake, officer. 412 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:12,875 I'm completely innocent. 413 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:19,833 - Did you see that car? - Yes, sir. Police car. 414 00:31:19,917 --> 00:31:22,792 What? Nothing to be afraid of there, sir. Bloke was a copper. 415 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:24,042 I... It's some trick. 416 00:31:24,083 --> 00:31:26,167 I'm sure it's the same car that followed us the other day. 417 00:31:26,250 --> 00:31:29,375 You want me to go and look round the corner, sir? 418 00:31:52,375 --> 00:31:54,500 It's all a mistake, officer. 419 00:32:01,250 --> 00:32:03,250 You got a flat tire there, mate! 420 00:32:14,750 --> 00:32:16,208 Help! Help! 421 00:32:22,917 --> 00:32:25,250 - Help! Help! Police! - What's happened? 422 00:32:25,292 --> 00:32:27,083 The van! They've pinched the van! What's this? 423 00:32:27,167 --> 00:32:29,750 Our van. Stolen. Load of bullion. Kidnapped the boss. 424 00:32:31,708 --> 00:32:34,583 Oi! Stop, thief! 425 00:32:35,125 --> 00:32:38,250 Oi! Stop, thief! 426 00:32:43,792 --> 00:32:46,917 Hello, M2GW, from one-four. Urgent me... 427 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,833 Urgent message begins. Maroon-colored van, 428 00:32:49,917 --> 00:32:53,708 LKL638, containing bull... 429 00:32:53,750 --> 00:32:56,125 Containing bullion, value one million pounds, 430 00:32:56,208 --> 00:32:59,083 believed stolen in the vicinity of Queen Victoria Street. 431 00:33:04,667 --> 00:33:06,667 Hello, all cars from M2GW. 432 00:33:07,042 --> 00:33:08,917 Message number 48 begins. 433 00:33:09,250 --> 00:33:11,875 Maroon-colored van, LKL638, 434 00:33:11,917 --> 00:33:14,667 containing bullion, value one million pounds, 435 00:33:15,208 --> 00:33:17,583 stolen from the vicinity of Queen Victoria Street. 436 00:33:39,542 --> 00:33:41,792 - Cor, what a weight! - The others will be here soon. 437 00:33:51,625 --> 00:33:54,208 Hoi! Hoi, Shorty. 438 00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:57,375 They got Mr Pendlebury. 439 00:33:57,417 --> 00:33:59,167 - Who has? - The cops, of course! 440 00:33:59,458 --> 00:34:01,458 I saw a crowd down there. The driver of the van's there. 441 00:34:01,542 --> 00:34:03,167 There's two cops, and they're holding him. 442 00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:04,792 Will he grass? 443 00:34:04,875 --> 00:34:06,750 Will he squeal? Will he split? 444 00:34:07,958 --> 00:34:09,750 - No. - Then it don't matter. 445 00:34:09,792 --> 00:34:11,417 We can deliver the stuff as arranged. 446 00:34:11,458 --> 00:34:13,125 We don't need him. Come on. 447 00:34:26,250 --> 00:34:27,625 Sergeant Wilson, you take your men and 448 00:34:27,708 --> 00:34:30,417 search the east end of the street, moving down towards the centre. 449 00:34:30,458 --> 00:34:31,708 Sergeant Cripps, you take the west end 450 00:34:31,750 --> 00:34:33,583 and move down here to meet Sergeant Wilson. 451 00:34:33,875 --> 00:34:35,333 Rose, come with me. 452 00:34:35,417 --> 00:34:37,083 We'd better have a look at those warehouses. 453 00:34:39,458 --> 00:34:41,833 That's all right. Leave the rest. 454 00:34:41,917 --> 00:34:44,083 - Blimey, guv'nor, why? - Help my alibi. 455 00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:46,417 Turn it up, Guv. There's 75,000 quid in there. 456 00:34:46,958 --> 00:34:50,958 - I said, leave it. - A ruddy waste. 457 00:34:53,292 --> 00:34:55,208 There's many a starving bloke'd be glad of that lot. 458 00:34:55,250 --> 00:34:56,750 Come on, now. 459 00:34:58,083 --> 00:35:00,250 - Fix me up. - No, behind you. 460 00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:03,417 Left-hand pocket. 461 00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:05,917 Well, stand still. 462 00:35:07,208 --> 00:35:08,208 What's that? 463 00:35:17,042 --> 00:35:18,917 You turn. It's easier. 464 00:35:20,833 --> 00:35:23,125 Other way. Okay. 465 00:35:31,792 --> 00:35:33,583 Hey! Look! 466 00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:37,750 Hey. Hey! 467 00:35:40,583 --> 00:35:43,333 - Come on! Scram! - Wait! Wait! 468 00:35:43,417 --> 00:35:45,750 Mess me up! Mr Fisher! 469 00:35:46,083 --> 00:35:47,292 Mr Wood! 470 00:35:48,292 --> 00:35:50,708 Mess me up! It's essential! 471 00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:56,583 Wait! Wait! Wait! Stop! 472 00:35:56,625 --> 00:35:58,750 Wait! You can't leave me like this. 473 00:36:01,958 --> 00:36:04,167 Wait. Wait, stop. 474 00:37:04,333 --> 00:37:05,333 Help! 475 00:37:11,417 --> 00:37:14,250 Help! Help! 476 00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:23,125 Can you see from down there? 477 00:37:26,375 --> 00:37:27,458 Help! 478 00:37:29,583 --> 00:37:33,167 - Sir! Inspector Talbot! Sir! - I'll get you! 479 00:37:33,292 --> 00:37:35,083 Fight going on over there. 480 00:37:54,958 --> 00:37:57,708 Purely an oversight, officer. I had something on my mind. 481 00:37:57,750 --> 00:37:59,833 Three pictures in a week I missed from there. 482 00:37:59,917 --> 00:38:01,667 You can't accuse him of taking those others, too. 483 00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:03,292 I should think not. 484 00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:07,167 I'm no thief, officer. My character's an open book. 485 00:38:29,750 --> 00:38:30,750 Well? 486 00:38:37,333 --> 00:38:38,583 Well, you might as well know. 487 00:38:38,667 --> 00:38:40,917 I was lying. I am a thief. 488 00:38:42,458 --> 00:38:44,583 It was madness to attempt it. 489 00:38:44,667 --> 00:38:47,042 We weren't cut out for crime, either of us. 490 00:38:47,083 --> 00:38:49,083 - We? - My partner and I. 491 00:38:49,167 --> 00:38:50,167 Your partner? 492 00:38:50,250 --> 00:38:52,417 If you're working with a fence who's got them other pictures... 493 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:53,917 Shh. Carry on. 494 00:38:53,958 --> 00:38:55,583 Oh, I make no excuses. 495 00:38:55,667 --> 00:39:00,417 All my life it's been my ambition to surround myself with rare and beautiful things. 496 00:39:01,250 --> 00:39:03,750 Suddenly faced with this golden opportunity... 497 00:39:03,792 --> 00:39:07,042 Here. You call that picture of mine rare and beautiful? 498 00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:11,250 Since you will keep on interrupting me, you ought to know... 499 00:39:11,333 --> 00:39:13,958 It's a charming example of an early Rochet, 500 00:39:14,417 --> 00:39:17,292 while he was still under the influence of Corot. 501 00:39:17,375 --> 00:39:18,625 Oh, yeah. 502 00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:21,375 - How much is it worth? - Ten pounds, 503 00:39:22,125 --> 00:39:24,250 to those who can afford it. 504 00:39:24,417 --> 00:39:27,917 Oh, blimey. I've got it marked up at five bob. 505 00:39:28,042 --> 00:39:30,208 - Here, what about this charge? - Let him go. 506 00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:32,917 I've got to get back before they sell that picture! 507 00:39:34,333 --> 00:39:36,333 Your lucky day, it seems. 508 00:39:36,917 --> 00:39:40,417 All right. Case dismissed. Off you go. 509 00:39:44,542 --> 00:39:47,833 Yes, about five minutes ago. Who, sir? 510 00:39:47,917 --> 00:39:49,583 Oh, yes, we've got him, all right. 511 00:39:49,625 --> 00:39:51,542 He's here now, giving us a statement. 512 00:39:52,417 --> 00:39:54,042 Yes, he's told us quite a lot already. 513 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,500 Go on. Hop it. 514 00:40:08,042 --> 00:40:09,042 Yes. 515 00:40:10,583 --> 00:40:11,625 Yes, you can depend on that, sir. 516 00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:13,458 We'll get all we can out of him. 517 00:40:14,292 --> 00:40:15,458 I see. 518 00:40:17,250 --> 00:40:19,458 Yes, he stood it pretty well. 519 00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:22,417 Yes, we'll look after him all right, sir. 520 00:40:22,458 --> 00:40:24,833 We're fixing him up with some dry clothes now. 521 00:40:25,417 --> 00:40:28,667 Yes, I agree, sir. We're up against some very tough customers. 522 00:40:36,958 --> 00:40:39,292 - Here, what are you doin'? - They'll have to put a new floor in. 523 00:40:39,917 --> 00:40:41,167 He'll be able to afford it. 524 00:40:41,250 --> 00:40:42,500 Get on with the job. 525 00:40:42,583 --> 00:40:44,208 You make me sick. 526 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,000 What's happened? 527 00:40:49,083 --> 00:40:52,667 - She only just made it. - Here! I thought you was pinched. 528 00:40:52,792 --> 00:40:55,125 - No, it's Holland they've got. - Holland? 529 00:40:55,333 --> 00:40:57,500 I was in the police station when they brought him in, under arrest. 530 00:40:57,583 --> 00:41:00,167 - You sure of that? - Of course I'm sure! 531 00:41:00,917 --> 00:41:02,917 He was all dripping wet. There were two policemen holding him. 532 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,167 They must have seen everything. 533 00:41:04,250 --> 00:41:06,125 - We gotta blow. - Nah, wait a minute. 534 00:41:06,208 --> 00:41:08,417 Can they connect you with him? I don't know. 535 00:41:08,667 --> 00:41:10,292 We both live at the same house, but... 536 00:41:10,375 --> 00:41:11,875 - What? - The map! 537 00:41:12,333 --> 00:41:14,167 The map showing the route from here to the warehouse. 538 00:41:14,250 --> 00:41:16,542 - Holland took it home with him. - Now we are done for. 539 00:41:16,625 --> 00:41:18,750 No, we're not. You finish the job. 540 00:41:18,875 --> 00:41:20,333 - Come on. - Where to? 541 00:41:21,583 --> 00:41:24,333 Your place. If they ain't searched his room yet. 542 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:39,083 Too late. 543 00:41:39,167 --> 00:41:41,583 - Helmet's in the hall. - You'll have to go in alone, Guv. 544 00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:43,583 Might be somebody I know. 545 00:41:43,625 --> 00:41:44,958 But they're there already. 546 00:41:45,042 --> 00:41:46,917 There's still a chance they haven't found it yet. 547 00:41:46,958 --> 00:41:48,125 Go on, get weaving. 548 00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:54,500 But surely you must have some suspicion. 549 00:41:54,708 --> 00:41:57,583 Who work the hoist rackets in this territory? 550 00:41:57,875 --> 00:41:58,875 Beg pardon, lady? 551 00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:01,417 Oh, really, I can't make myself much plainer. 552 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:04,958 Which hoodlums around here specialize in Toby jobs? 553 00:42:21,708 --> 00:42:23,917 - Holland! - Pendlebury! 554 00:42:58,583 --> 00:43:02,250 Determination, pluck and fortitude worthy of the highest praise. 555 00:43:02,333 --> 00:43:04,208 Come along, now. We mustn't keep him waiting. 556 00:44:01,708 --> 00:44:05,250 Star, News or Standard! Star, News or Standard! 557 00:44:06,417 --> 00:44:08,292 Star, News or Standard! 558 00:44:33,125 --> 00:44:34,125 Now! 559 00:44:44,083 --> 00:44:46,875 - Pretty, isn't it? - I could watch it all night. 560 00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:48,917 Three pence an ounce up again today. 561 00:44:48,958 --> 00:44:53,083 "Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns." Proverb. 562 00:44:55,208 --> 00:44:58,208 Holland... Holland! 563 00:45:00,833 --> 00:45:04,167 These plain-sided crates are filled with the lead towers made by the daytime staff. 564 00:45:04,250 --> 00:45:06,333 They must never be touched. 565 00:45:07,458 --> 00:45:11,875 This "R" stands for "reserve stock." 566 00:45:11,958 --> 00:45:13,750 These crates will remain in our Paris warehouse. 567 00:45:13,833 --> 00:45:15,833 I've sent instructions to our young lady over there, 568 00:45:15,917 --> 00:45:17,333 she's never to use anything 569 00:45:17,417 --> 00:45:19,417 from a crate marked "R" till I give the authority. 570 00:45:19,458 --> 00:45:21,417 - So, these are the ones I work on. - Exactly. 571 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:24,458 Get rid of the contents and refill with, um... 572 00:45:24,583 --> 00:45:26,417 How long do you think it'll all take? 573 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:28,917 Oh, I estimate about two weeks here. 574 00:45:28,958 --> 00:45:31,042 And then a week in Paris, to find our market, 575 00:45:31,083 --> 00:45:34,958 then three months back here till it all blows over... 576 00:45:35,042 --> 00:45:36,083 That'll bring us to the end of the year, 577 00:45:36,167 --> 00:45:38,167 an excellent time to retire. 578 00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:39,458 Blimey, you're not going to the bank 579 00:45:39,542 --> 00:45:40,958 after the stuff's left the country, are you? 580 00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:42,917 Certainly. It would look most suspicious 581 00:45:42,958 --> 00:45:45,375 if I gave up my job immediately. 582 00:45:45,417 --> 00:45:49,292 Ah-ha. "Patience is a virtue." Shakespeare. 583 00:45:59,792 --> 00:46:01,417 Our firstborn. 584 00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:11,417 Oh, yes. That's the man you describe in your statement 585 00:46:11,458 --> 00:46:14,042 as having a snake tattooed on his wrist. 586 00:46:14,083 --> 00:46:16,125 Uh, yes. Oh, and I should mention that, 587 00:46:16,208 --> 00:46:19,000 uh, one of them had a distinct foreign accent. 588 00:46:19,333 --> 00:46:21,417 Come on, China! Get weaving! 589 00:46:32,417 --> 00:46:36,500 Scotland Yard are searching the Rogues' Gallery in the hunt for the criminals, 590 00:46:36,583 --> 00:46:40,917 and helping them is the bank clerk hero, plucky little Holland. 591 00:46:40,958 --> 00:46:43,750 There is no doubt that this robbery is the work of a mastermind. 592 00:46:50,667 --> 00:46:52,583 The police of every county have instructions 593 00:46:52,667 --> 00:46:55,875 to leave no stone unturned in their nationwide search. 594 00:46:55,917 --> 00:46:58,250 Every possible clue is being investigated, 595 00:46:58,292 --> 00:47:01,500 however small and unimportant it may appear on the surface. 596 00:47:01,583 --> 00:47:04,042 The yard are confident of ultimate success, 597 00:47:04,083 --> 00:47:08,542 because anyone who traffics in stolen gold will find it's too hot to handle. 598 00:47:16,167 --> 00:47:18,750 Scientific research reinforces the man on the beat. 599 00:47:18,792 --> 00:47:21,125 All the big guns are on the side of the law. 600 00:47:21,208 --> 00:47:24,958 Link by link, a chain of cast iron evidence is forged. 601 00:47:32,917 --> 00:47:35,750 Men who might be able to assist the police in their inquiries 602 00:47:35,792 --> 00:47:37,958 are being sought in all likely hideouts. 603 00:47:38,042 --> 00:47:41,667 It is expected that a charge will be made within 24 hours. 604 00:47:42,375 --> 00:47:44,292 Meanwhile, the yard chiefs 605 00:47:44,375 --> 00:47:47,583 continue to work in calm and imperturbable harmony. 606 00:47:47,958 --> 00:47:51,167 A spirit of complete confidence prevails. 607 00:47:51,250 --> 00:47:52,917 The gold has not left the country. 608 00:47:52,958 --> 00:47:54,958 Ach! I hope you're right. 609 00:47:55,042 --> 00:47:57,083 If it has, we'll never see one grain of it again. 610 00:47:57,125 --> 00:47:59,250 Ports are being watched as they've never been watched before. 611 00:47:59,292 --> 00:48:01,583 We're counting the matchsticks. 612 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:05,917 Gewgaws, limited. Souvenir models, Eiffel Tower in lead... 613 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,875 Okay. As usual. 614 00:48:07,917 --> 00:48:10,750 And in view of rising public anxiety, 615 00:48:10,792 --> 00:48:13,292 can he assure the house that this very large sum of money 616 00:48:13,375 --> 00:48:15,750 is not irretrievably lost to the nation? 617 00:48:16,292 --> 00:48:18,750 Yes, sir, I think I may give that assurance. 618 00:48:18,875 --> 00:48:21,917 Measures have been taken which render it virtually impossible 619 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,167 for any substantial quantity of gold to be removed from this country. 620 00:48:44,917 --> 00:48:47,167 Now that it's all over, I suppose I may dare say 621 00:48:47,250 --> 00:48:49,333 it's been a most remarkable coup. 622 00:48:49,417 --> 00:48:52,750 The biggest job since One-Eyed Dobson got away with the Gl's pay packets. 623 00:48:52,792 --> 00:48:55,083 Two million dollars, Grosvenor Square, '45. 624 00:48:55,167 --> 00:48:58,542 That was before devaluation, and this is one million pounds. 625 00:48:59,042 --> 00:49:01,208 Well, that's right. Blimey. 626 00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:02,750 We got the record! 627 00:49:06,417 --> 00:49:07,625 Is that you, Lackery? 628 00:49:15,542 --> 00:49:17,583 - What's the matter? - Trouble. 629 00:49:18,417 --> 00:49:20,833 - Nothing serious, I hope. - I can't go. 630 00:49:20,917 --> 00:49:23,792 - Why not? - The missus won't let me. 631 00:49:26,458 --> 00:49:29,667 Can't-can't you say it's in connection with an important business deal? 632 00:49:29,750 --> 00:49:31,500 I told her. She won't wear it. 633 00:49:31,583 --> 00:49:33,750 Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester... Bob's your bloomin' uncle. 634 00:49:33,833 --> 00:49:35,083 - Paris? - No. 635 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,458 You know we can't pay you till we get to Paris? 636 00:49:39,083 --> 00:49:41,167 I'll settle for a half a dozen of these. I know a safe fence. 637 00:49:41,250 --> 00:49:43,958 - Out of the question! - Are you mad? 638 00:49:44,042 --> 00:49:46,208 Leave vital evidence on this side of the channel? 639 00:49:46,250 --> 00:49:47,375 Why, if anything went wrong, 640 00:49:47,417 --> 00:49:49,292 the police would be on to us in no time. 641 00:49:49,375 --> 00:49:51,750 Ah, you can't ask a thing like that, mate. 642 00:49:52,458 --> 00:49:54,583 I suppose. I'm sorry, Guv. I wasn't thinking. 643 00:49:54,667 --> 00:49:56,500 I'm a little upset. 644 00:49:57,458 --> 00:49:58,958 Here! I'll tell you what! 645 00:49:59,542 --> 00:50:03,083 I didn't like to say so, but I don't really fancy goin' to Paris meself. 646 00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:04,417 Why? 647 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:07,917 A friend of mine, he pinched a couple of tickets for the test match, see? 648 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,000 I wouldn't half like to see that. Right! 649 00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:13,750 Now, you're both coming straight back here once you've flogged the stuff. 650 00:50:13,917 --> 00:50:16,583 Okay, just smuggle our money over inside your socks. 651 00:50:16,667 --> 00:50:18,667 I'll lend you a false-bottom bag! 652 00:50:18,750 --> 00:50:20,708 You mean, you both trust us? 653 00:50:20,875 --> 00:50:22,458 Oh, come off it, Guv. 654 00:50:22,542 --> 00:50:23,750 You're as straight a pair of gentlemen... 655 00:50:23,833 --> 00:50:25,708 - As I ever worked for. - Hear, hear! 656 00:50:26,750 --> 00:50:28,917 Well, that seems an excellent solution. 657 00:50:30,125 --> 00:50:31,708 Thank you, boys. 658 00:50:33,458 --> 00:50:37,333 Just let me nail this down I've got a little surprise for you all. 659 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:10,250 Work it up to me. Here. 660 00:51:12,750 --> 00:51:14,500 Good. Come on. Shh! 661 00:51:18,917 --> 00:51:22,250 You naughty men. Waking us all up at this hour. 662 00:51:22,333 --> 00:51:24,375 A thousand pardons. 663 00:51:25,792 --> 00:51:26,792 Wipe your feet. 664 00:51:30,667 --> 00:51:33,042 - A little celebration. - Already? 665 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,458 Your holidays don't start until tomorrow. 666 00:51:36,583 --> 00:51:38,250 Today is tomorrow. 667 00:51:38,292 --> 00:51:41,042 "Oh, polished perturbation! Golden care! 668 00:51:41,083 --> 00:51:45,417 "That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide!" 669 00:51:45,458 --> 00:51:47,417 Henry IV, part two. 670 00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:49,625 Good night, you naughty men. 671 00:51:50,417 --> 00:51:53,750 - Don't forget to switch off! - Night, miss Evesham. 672 00:52:01,625 --> 00:52:03,458 - Pendlebury? - Yeah. 673 00:52:09,208 --> 00:52:10,833 - Pendlebury? - What? 674 00:52:11,958 --> 00:52:16,833 - May I call you Alfred? - Alfred? Call me Al. 675 00:52:18,042 --> 00:52:21,000 And I'll call you... Henry, isn't it? 676 00:52:21,583 --> 00:52:23,708 A name I never cared for. 677 00:52:23,958 --> 00:52:25,625 No. Mm... 678 00:52:27,292 --> 00:52:28,917 Call me "Dutch." 679 00:52:29,250 --> 00:52:31,708 Dutch. Yes! 680 00:52:33,542 --> 00:52:35,542 Good night, Dutch. 681 00:52:36,333 --> 00:52:38,125 Night night... Al. Mm. 682 00:52:53,958 --> 00:52:58,917 "Ah, gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease." 683 00:53:43,917 --> 00:53:46,917 Holland, the world is ours. 684 00:53:55,167 --> 00:53:57,375 Look, you'll lose your hat if you're not careful. 685 00:53:58,083 --> 00:53:59,375 Our train leaves in 20 minutes! 686 00:54:05,917 --> 00:54:08,167 Thank you. My friend, Mr Holland. 687 00:54:08,250 --> 00:54:11,375 - Ah, Monsieur! Enchante. - How do you do? 688 00:54:15,875 --> 00:54:17,750 How did that get here? 689 00:54:20,125 --> 00:54:22,792 I told you never to use a crate marked "R". 690 00:54:23,292 --> 00:54:24,833 But that is not an "ah", Monsieur, 691 00:54:24,917 --> 00:54:26,458 - it is an "air". - It's an "R" in English! 692 00:54:26,542 --> 00:54:28,125 How many have you sold from that case? 693 00:54:28,208 --> 00:54:31,292 Six, Monsieur. To the little English girls. 694 00:54:32,250 --> 00:54:34,250 Don't sell any more! I'll be back. 695 00:54:37,542 --> 00:54:41,417 Wait! Stop! Stop! Wait! 696 00:54:43,083 --> 00:54:44,083 Come on! 697 00:55:05,125 --> 00:55:06,667 Stop! Wait! 698 00:55:07,792 --> 00:55:10,833 Wait! Wait, Dutch, wait! 699 00:55:11,417 --> 00:55:12,500 What do we care? 700 00:55:12,583 --> 00:55:14,417 We've still got all the others. 701 00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:16,875 We mustn't let them get back to England! We'll be traced! 702 00:55:16,917 --> 00:55:18,542 Who's to know they're gold? 703 00:55:18,583 --> 00:55:20,708 We can't afford to take any chances! 704 00:55:23,875 --> 00:55:25,792 Dutch! Wait! 705 00:55:28,875 --> 00:55:32,250 Dutch! Wait for me! 706 00:56:11,708 --> 00:56:13,833 There's nothing to laugh at. 707 00:56:45,250 --> 00:56:47,583 Stop! Wait! 708 00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:53,250 Taxi! Hey! Hey! 709 00:57:16,083 --> 00:57:19,750 No. Come on. It's no good. The train has gone. 710 00:57:19,833 --> 00:57:21,833 Get the rest out of the warehouse and disappear with them. 711 00:57:21,917 --> 00:57:23,583 With half the police in the world looking for us? 712 00:57:23,625 --> 00:57:25,792 - To Calais. - The warehouse. Calais! 713 00:57:26,042 --> 00:57:29,625 Oh, face the facts, man! You'll have to change your plan. 714 00:57:29,708 --> 00:57:31,958 Rubbish. It's a perfect plan. 715 00:57:32,875 --> 00:57:35,750 - What's the French for "faster"? - I'm not gonna tell you. 716 00:57:35,792 --> 00:57:36,917 For heaven's sake. 717 00:57:36,958 --> 00:57:39,208 Do you want to be a hunted man all your life? 718 00:57:56,750 --> 00:57:59,083 - Yes. Yes. - Did you all enjoy yourselves? 719 00:58:00,500 --> 00:58:02,250 There they are! 720 00:58:10,833 --> 00:58:11,833 See some friends. 721 00:58:16,417 --> 00:58:18,125 Tickets. 722 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,875 - We'll never do it. - We must. 723 00:58:32,292 --> 00:58:33,875 - Which way? - Here. In here. 724 00:58:33,917 --> 00:58:36,708 Dover! Dover! Deux, deux. 725 00:58:51,250 --> 00:58:52,667 - What? - Passports. 726 00:58:52,750 --> 00:58:54,583 - What? - Passports! 727 00:59:03,083 --> 00:59:04,750 Thank you. Merci. 728 00:59:08,083 --> 00:59:10,708 - Al. Al! - I thought I had it. 729 00:59:18,917 --> 00:59:19,917 Got it! 730 00:59:47,583 --> 00:59:48,583 Got it! 731 00:59:49,042 --> 00:59:51,417 - Oh, Pendlebury! - I'm sorry. I couldn't find it. 732 00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:53,042 Pardon, messieurs. 733 00:59:54,250 --> 00:59:57,417 - Oh! Customs! - Hey! Hey, hey! 734 00:59:58,250 --> 01:00:00,000 Hey. We've bought nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing. 735 01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:14,458 - Oh! Open. - Open. 736 01:00:16,833 --> 01:00:18,042 Pyjamas. 737 01:00:21,792 --> 01:00:22,792 Oh! 738 01:00:22,917 --> 01:00:24,458 Eh, eh, eh, eh! 739 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,417 Oh! Sadists! Torturers! Money. 740 01:00:36,500 --> 01:00:38,750 No foreign currency? How much do you have? 741 01:00:38,833 --> 01:00:40,542 There! Count it! 742 01:00:46,250 --> 01:00:47,917 Bye! Goodbye! 743 01:01:28,917 --> 01:01:31,125 - Yes? - I'd like to see Mr Holland. 744 01:01:31,250 --> 01:01:33,458 - Mr Holland's in Paris. - In Paris? 745 01:01:33,583 --> 01:01:35,500 Yes. He's gone there for a fortnight's holiday. 746 01:01:35,583 --> 01:01:37,292 Oh. He never told me. 747 01:01:37,375 --> 01:01:40,292 - Have you his address? - I haven't. I'm sorry. 748 01:01:40,375 --> 01:01:41,875 He didn't know where he'd be staying. 749 01:01:41,917 --> 01:01:43,542 I see. All right. Thank you. 750 01:01:43,583 --> 01:01:45,458 Pleased to be of help. 751 01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:53,250 Why, Mr Holland? 752 01:01:54,042 --> 01:01:55,500 What is the meaning of this? 753 01:01:55,583 --> 01:01:58,583 Transport strike in Paris made things too difficult. 754 01:01:58,625 --> 01:02:00,250 And Mr Pendlebury, is he with you? 755 01:02:00,292 --> 01:02:03,250 He's flying back tomorrow. He had some important business to see to. 756 01:02:03,333 --> 01:02:05,875 - You have dined, I hope. - I'm afraid not. 757 01:02:05,917 --> 01:02:06,958 Oh! 758 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,000 Good evening. 759 01:02:10,583 --> 01:02:12,583 Oh. Good evening, Inspector. 760 01:02:12,625 --> 01:02:15,500 - It's bad luck about your holiday. - It is, isn't it? 761 01:02:15,583 --> 01:02:17,125 Should have informed us you were going abroad. 762 01:02:17,208 --> 01:02:19,208 You're our most important witness. 763 01:02:19,250 --> 01:02:21,625 Oh. So sorry. Anything I can do? 764 01:02:21,750 --> 01:02:22,917 We've traced four vans 765 01:02:22,958 --> 01:02:24,917 seen near the warehouse at the time of the robbery. 766 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,750 It's just possible you may have got a glimpse of one. 767 01:02:27,833 --> 01:02:32,875 Um, a blue van with the name "Loveday and Bone" on the side. 768 01:02:32,958 --> 01:02:35,000 No. It all happened so quickly. They never gave me a chance. 769 01:02:35,083 --> 01:02:36,875 Well, you never know. 770 01:02:37,375 --> 01:02:39,333 A white van. "The Blackheath Spotless Laundry." 771 01:02:39,417 --> 01:02:42,125 - No, I'm afraid not. - Another blue one. 772 01:02:42,250 --> 01:02:44,708 "The Spring Song Mattress Company". No. Uh, as I told you. 773 01:02:44,750 --> 01:02:50,083 A green van. "Gewgaws, Limited". Does that ring a bell? 774 01:02:51,750 --> 01:02:53,417 No. It was definitely none of them. 775 01:02:53,458 --> 01:02:56,208 You can't say that for certain if you didn't see it, can you? 776 01:02:56,250 --> 01:02:58,917 - Ha. Silly of me. - Thank you very much. 777 01:02:58,958 --> 01:03:00,958 You'll be available now if we want you again? 778 01:03:01,042 --> 01:03:03,417 - Good night, Mr Holland. - Good night, Inspector. 779 01:03:21,083 --> 01:03:22,958 John, how lovely to see you. 780 01:03:27,417 --> 01:03:30,583 Dutch! Hello there. Nice of you to come and meet me. 781 01:03:30,625 --> 01:03:31,792 I took the crates back to the warehouse. 782 01:03:31,875 --> 01:03:33,292 How well you're looking. 783 01:03:33,375 --> 01:03:35,750 - Say nothing. Just smile. - What did you say? 784 01:03:35,833 --> 01:03:37,125 Nothing like a change I always say. 785 01:03:37,208 --> 01:03:39,917 Smile now. The police may be watching. 786 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,667 - The police? - They suspect your van was involved. 787 01:03:43,875 --> 01:03:46,625 Oh! I told you it was madness to come back. 788 01:03:46,708 --> 01:03:47,875 Good thing we did. 789 01:03:47,917 --> 01:03:50,167 This makes it more important we get hold of those towers. 790 01:03:50,250 --> 01:03:52,292 Oh, I was a fool to let you persuade me. 791 01:03:52,375 --> 01:03:53,625 You're acting like a fool now. 792 01:03:53,708 --> 01:03:55,833 Suspicions aren't evidence. Once we get those out of reach... 793 01:03:55,917 --> 01:03:58,708 We've got to get ourselves out of their reach. 794 01:03:58,750 --> 01:04:00,167 I'm going after those towers. 795 01:04:00,250 --> 01:04:02,500 Are you? Well, I'm going back to Paris. 796 01:04:02,583 --> 01:04:06,583 Very well. But remember, if I fail, you're for it too. 797 01:04:13,250 --> 01:04:15,000 Did you trace those girls? 798 01:04:15,083 --> 01:04:16,583 Yes. St. Christopher's School, Hendon. 799 01:04:16,625 --> 01:04:19,042 Come on. Don't waste any more time. 800 01:04:54,792 --> 01:04:56,292 Shh. Sit down girls. 801 01:04:58,917 --> 01:05:00,542 These gentlemen are from the firm 802 01:05:00,583 --> 01:05:02,583 that makes the Eiffel Tower models 803 01:05:02,625 --> 01:05:05,042 that some of you bought in Paris. 804 01:05:05,083 --> 01:05:07,250 It appears that, by a mistake, 805 01:05:07,333 --> 01:05:09,875 you were sold a new experimental type 806 01:05:09,917 --> 01:05:11,542 which they're anxious to have back. 807 01:05:11,583 --> 01:05:13,917 They'll exchange them for others equally good. 808 01:05:13,958 --> 01:05:18,458 Also and I consider this most generous... 809 01:05:18,542 --> 01:05:20,208 They will give ten shillings 810 01:05:20,250 --> 01:05:23,333 to each girl who helps them in this way. 811 01:05:39,208 --> 01:05:41,417 Here you are. And for you. 812 01:05:41,458 --> 01:05:46,042 There's yours. And that's for you. Thank you. 813 01:05:46,083 --> 01:05:49,458 One, two, three, four, five. 814 01:05:49,542 --> 01:05:53,167 Only five. Who bought the sixth one? 815 01:05:55,292 --> 01:05:57,125 Who bought the sixth? 816 01:05:58,417 --> 01:06:00,417 June Edwards bought one. 817 01:06:01,083 --> 01:06:02,958 You have one, too, have you dear? 818 01:06:03,042 --> 01:06:04,750 Where is it, June? In here? 819 01:06:04,917 --> 01:06:06,500 Now, don't be silly, June, dear. 820 01:06:06,583 --> 01:06:08,292 Wouldn't you like to have ten shillings... 821 01:06:08,375 --> 01:06:11,833 - Another one just as nice? - Oh, come, come. 822 01:06:11,917 --> 01:06:14,042 Think of all the sweeties you could buy with this. 823 01:06:14,083 --> 01:06:15,792 There we are. 824 01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:18,958 Just as pretty, isn't it? 825 01:06:19,042 --> 01:06:22,500 Really, June. Look at them together and you'll see. 826 01:06:24,583 --> 01:06:26,250 There's no difference, is there? 827 01:06:27,042 --> 01:06:29,750 Now, come on. Tell us. What's the difference? 828 01:06:29,875 --> 01:06:31,500 That one is mine. 829 01:06:33,167 --> 01:06:36,083 Well, I'm sorry. I can't force the child to give it up. 830 01:06:36,167 --> 01:06:38,750 - Does the odd one really matter? - Indeed, it does, madam. 831 01:06:38,833 --> 01:06:41,583 - Were it to fall into the hands of... - A business rival. 832 01:06:41,667 --> 01:06:43,833 - Yes. - But that won't happen. 833 01:06:43,917 --> 01:06:46,458 We've kept you too long as it is. Thank you very much. 834 01:06:46,542 --> 01:06:49,250 But, but I... but... what? 835 01:06:56,708 --> 01:06:58,417 Oh. That's interesting. 836 01:06:58,458 --> 01:07:01,917 I bought a pyramid stud box in Cairo during the war. 837 01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,292 - I suppose that was made here too. - I expect so. 838 01:07:04,375 --> 01:07:05,917 We send stuff all over the world. 839 01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,042 - Just finished, sir. - Good. 840 01:07:08,083 --> 01:07:10,000 You don't keep a record of where the van goes? 841 01:07:10,083 --> 01:07:12,500 Anyone takes the blooming thing when they feel like it. 842 01:07:12,583 --> 01:07:14,292 Away for a week, just recently, it was. 843 01:07:14,417 --> 01:07:17,167 No recollection of who had it that particular afternoon? 844 01:07:17,250 --> 01:07:18,250 Well... 845 01:07:19,667 --> 01:07:21,208 I've an idea it was the boss. 846 01:07:21,250 --> 01:07:23,458 - Mr Pendlebury. - Mr Pendlebury. 847 01:07:23,542 --> 01:07:27,208 But I'm not really sure, and I can't ask him 'cause he's away in Paris. 848 01:07:27,292 --> 01:07:29,583 In Paris? Oh, well. Thanks. 849 01:07:30,083 --> 01:07:32,000 All right. Hendon. 850 01:07:36,250 --> 01:07:38,417 But, Dutch, robbing a child... 851 01:07:38,458 --> 01:07:40,917 It won't be robbing her. It'll simply be a swap. 852 01:07:41,750 --> 01:07:43,458 If only you had let me talk to that woman. 853 01:07:43,542 --> 01:07:46,500 I couldn't, Al. She was getting suspicious as it was. 854 01:07:47,417 --> 01:07:48,500 Look. 855 01:08:12,792 --> 01:08:15,750 - Isn't George here today? - No. I'm taking his place today. 856 01:08:15,792 --> 01:08:18,250 Your boyfriend's on duty in there. 857 01:08:48,125 --> 01:08:49,917 Exhibition's straight ahead, sir. 858 01:09:08,750 --> 01:09:10,792 Straight ahead for the exhibition, sir. 859 01:09:19,875 --> 01:09:24,292 ...on the steering wheel of a car stolen last night in Piccadilly... 860 01:09:24,375 --> 01:09:27,375 And abandoned two hours later near Croydon. 861 01:09:28,750 --> 01:09:33,083 In the west gallery, you will find a display from the criminal records office 862 01:09:33,208 --> 01:09:35,000 containing, for example, 863 01:09:35,083 --> 01:09:39,458 the actual dossier of a man now serving a sentence for housebreaking. 864 01:09:39,542 --> 01:09:43,083 It contains all his known aliases and nicknames... 865 01:09:43,167 --> 01:09:45,875 And those of his relatives and friends. 866 01:09:47,417 --> 01:09:51,000 Next door, a fingerprint expert is ready to take... 867 01:09:51,083 --> 01:09:52,958 - Hello. - Hello. 868 01:09:53,208 --> 01:09:54,458 Where have you been all this time? 869 01:09:54,542 --> 01:09:57,417 I've been to Paris, and I brought this back for you. 870 01:09:57,458 --> 01:10:00,625 I say, that is nice of you. What a beautiful present. 871 01:10:00,708 --> 01:10:03,417 It's a paperweight. Put it on those papers. 872 01:10:04,292 --> 01:10:05,833 Thank you very much indeed. 873 01:10:05,917 --> 01:10:07,667 - Cheerio. - Bye-bye. 874 01:10:07,750 --> 01:10:10,250 - Now what do we do? - Tell him the same story. 875 01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:13,583 - Excuse me. - One moment, sir. 876 01:10:13,625 --> 01:10:16,292 ...a demonstration of police scientists 877 01:10:16,375 --> 01:10:17,958 that work on an actual case... 878 01:10:18,042 --> 01:10:20,583 The recent big gold robbery. 879 01:10:20,667 --> 01:10:24,917 CID officers have taken samples of dust from four different vans... 880 01:10:24,958 --> 01:10:27,125 - Take your fingerprints, sir? - No. 881 01:10:27,208 --> 01:10:29,958 We are testing those samples for gold content. 882 01:10:30,042 --> 01:10:33,417 - Had the van repaired? - Yes. Completely new floor. 883 01:10:33,458 --> 01:10:36,208 The dust is being placed in nitric acid, 884 01:10:36,292 --> 01:10:39,750 which will dissolve any metal with the exception of gold. 885 01:10:39,792 --> 01:10:43,292 That's funny. I've just come from the place where they make these things. 886 01:10:43,417 --> 01:10:44,417 Pretty, isn't it? 887 01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:46,875 My little girlfriend brought it back from Paris. 888 01:10:46,958 --> 01:10:48,125 Paris. 889 01:10:50,125 --> 01:10:52,417 - Try this. - Come on. Let's get out here. 890 01:10:52,500 --> 01:10:54,667 No! The evidence! 891 01:11:04,958 --> 01:11:06,750 - Run, Dutch! Run! - Stop those men! 892 01:11:14,583 --> 01:11:17,292 - Stop those two! - Break it up! 893 01:11:21,708 --> 01:11:23,417 - Stop those men! - Stop that woman! 894 01:11:23,500 --> 01:11:26,250 - Where'd they go? - There they are! 895 01:11:26,333 --> 01:11:27,958 Stop that woman! 896 01:11:29,042 --> 01:11:30,042 Stop them, Charlie! 897 01:11:34,667 --> 01:11:37,000 Stop him, Charlie! Stop them! 898 01:11:39,833 --> 01:11:43,917 Stop the men! Stop them! Which way did they go? 899 01:11:43,958 --> 01:11:48,250 Attention, everyone, please. Attention, everyone, please. 900 01:11:52,792 --> 01:11:55,417 Two dangerous men are at large in this building. 901 01:11:56,583 --> 01:11:58,083 There he is! 902 01:11:58,167 --> 01:12:02,042 You can assist the police by keeping the gangways clear. 903 01:12:02,083 --> 01:12:04,917 Now keep calm and avoid crowding. 904 01:12:04,958 --> 01:12:05,958 Do not panic. 905 01:12:14,542 --> 01:12:16,875 Attention, everyone, please. 906 01:12:17,125 --> 01:12:19,583 The men are now believed to be in the east gallery. 907 01:12:20,083 --> 01:12:21,750 Cut them off that way! 908 01:12:23,500 --> 01:12:24,667 Psst! 909 01:12:25,375 --> 01:12:28,417 Help the police by leaving the gangways clear. 910 01:12:28,917 --> 01:12:32,625 Keep calm. Avoid crowding. Don't panic. 911 01:12:36,250 --> 01:12:39,750 The public can assist the police by keeping the gangways clear. 912 01:12:40,167 --> 01:12:43,917 Now keep calm, do not panic and avoid crowding. 913 01:12:55,583 --> 01:12:57,917 Keep calm. Avoid crowding. 914 01:12:58,417 --> 01:13:00,875 Don't panic. Don't panic! 915 01:13:14,167 --> 01:13:15,750 I-I can't drive. 916 01:13:28,542 --> 01:13:33,083 Hello. M2GW from HPC. Urgent message begins. 917 01:13:33,167 --> 01:13:35,083 Vicinity of police college. 918 01:13:35,167 --> 01:13:39,375 Two men wanted for questioning in connection with theft of bullion. 919 01:13:54,583 --> 01:13:56,500 Hello. All cars from M2GW. 920 01:13:56,583 --> 01:13:59,042 Two men wanted in connection with bullion theft. 921 01:13:59,083 --> 01:14:00,083 Last seen... 922 01:14:04,292 --> 01:14:09,042 Last seen escaping from police college on foot, but may have stolen car. Over. 923 01:14:09,125 --> 01:14:11,333 Better call them up. Put them on a false scent. 924 01:14:11,417 --> 01:14:13,458 - What's our number? - This must be it. "U3". 925 01:14:16,333 --> 01:14:19,625 - Put them on to that one. - Hello. M2GW from U3. 926 01:14:19,750 --> 01:14:21,042 Men answering your description are reported 927 01:14:21,083 --> 01:14:24,417 to have stolen Gray Vauxhall, DLH436. Over. 928 01:14:27,917 --> 01:14:31,625 Hello. U3 from M2GW. Your message received. Over. 929 01:14:31,708 --> 01:14:33,833 Hello. All cars from M2GW. 930 01:14:39,708 --> 01:14:42,708 - Must be somewhere ahead. - Yes. But why isn't U3 chasing them? 931 01:14:43,167 --> 01:14:44,708 There they are. 932 01:14:47,792 --> 01:14:50,250 Yes, it was a police car all right. 933 01:14:50,708 --> 01:14:52,750 But the driver was wearing a top hat. 934 01:15:08,792 --> 01:15:10,875 No. It was a top hat. 935 01:15:11,792 --> 01:15:15,208 Point duty constable reports peculiar individual wearing top hat 936 01:15:15,250 --> 01:15:18,083 seen driving wireless car JYN888, sir. 937 01:15:19,833 --> 01:15:23,167 That's U4's number. They must've stolen that. 938 01:15:23,250 --> 01:15:28,542 Hello. M2GW from U4. Have apprehended two men in clerical attire. 939 01:15:28,583 --> 01:15:32,125 Switch it off. That proves it. They're giving us false description. 940 01:15:32,208 --> 01:15:34,458 Urgent call to all cars. U4's been stolen. 941 01:15:34,583 --> 01:15:37,542 Hello. All cars from M2GW. Urgent call begins. 942 01:15:37,583 --> 01:15:39,250 Men wanted in connection with gold theft 943 01:15:39,292 --> 01:15:41,583 have stolen police wireless car U4. 944 01:15:41,667 --> 01:15:45,250 The number of this car is JYN888. Over. 945 01:15:45,375 --> 01:15:47,000 You said this car was U3. 946 01:15:47,083 --> 01:15:49,333 That's right. They've got it all mixed up. 947 01:15:50,042 --> 01:15:51,542 They haven't. They're onto us. 948 01:15:55,667 --> 01:15:56,667 Step on it. 949 01:16:01,583 --> 01:16:04,417 - TMG928. - Oh. That's not the one then. 950 01:16:09,292 --> 01:16:11,125 They've turned off. 951 01:16:11,750 --> 01:16:14,875 Hello. M2GW from U3. Am in pursuit of stolen police car. 952 01:16:14,917 --> 01:16:17,583 Proceeding west along Portobello Road. Over. 953 01:16:20,125 --> 01:16:21,750 Let them sort that one out. 954 01:16:21,833 --> 01:16:25,583 Hello. U3 from M2GW. Your message received. Over. 955 01:16:26,083 --> 01:16:28,167 Both U5 and U6 are in that area. 956 01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:30,250 Tell them to cut them off at Junction Road. 957 01:16:30,375 --> 01:16:32,042 Hello. U5 from M2GW. 958 01:16:32,083 --> 01:16:34,833 Stolen police car proceeding west along Portobello Road. 959 01:16:34,958 --> 01:16:37,167 Intercept at Junction Road. Over. 960 01:16:39,583 --> 01:16:41,375 Hello. U6 from M2GW. 961 01:16:41,417 --> 01:16:43,833 Stolen police car proceeding west along Portobello Road. 962 01:16:43,958 --> 01:16:46,375 Intercept at Junction Road. Over. 963 01:16:50,042 --> 01:16:53,417 Am proceeding east towards Junction Road. Over. 964 01:16:53,458 --> 01:16:56,333 Am proceeding west towards Junction Road. Over. 965 01:16:56,667 --> 01:16:57,917 Bring in everything we've got. 966 01:17:02,500 --> 01:17:04,917 Am now proceeding north towards Junction Road. Over. 967 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,792 Am proceeding south towards Junction Road. Over. 968 01:17:52,750 --> 01:17:54,125 Would you mind giving me a lift to the police box? 969 01:17:54,208 --> 01:17:55,750 They're flashing for me. 970 01:18:04,292 --> 01:18:06,167 Nice to have music when you're driving, isn't it? 971 01:18:14,083 --> 01:18:16,167 We sing that in our choir down at the station. 972 01:18:16,250 --> 01:18:17,750 Well, thank you very much, sir. 973 01:18:17,917 --> 01:18:21,000 Hello. All cars from M2GW. 974 01:18:21,083 --> 01:18:23,583 - Stolen police car... - Drive on! 975 01:18:28,083 --> 01:18:29,708 Quick, Al! Out! 976 01:18:31,500 --> 01:18:34,333 Dutch! Dutch! Run! 977 01:18:34,417 --> 01:18:36,292 Run, Dutch! Run! 978 01:18:39,708 --> 01:18:41,417 Stop! Oi! Stop him! 979 01:19:10,750 --> 01:19:12,625 Instead of changing as usual at Charring Cross, 980 01:19:12,708 --> 01:19:14,875 I came straight on to Rio de Janeiro, 981 01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,792 "Gay spritely land of mirth and social ease." 982 01:19:18,875 --> 01:19:22,208 Pendlebury. Plus six Eiffel Towers. 983 01:19:22,792 --> 01:19:26,333 - How much did they fetch? - 25,000 pounds. 984 01:19:26,417 --> 01:19:27,792 Enough to keep me for one year 985 01:19:27,875 --> 01:19:30,417 in the style to which I was, um, unaccustomed. 986 01:19:30,542 --> 01:19:33,583 Hello there. By Jove, that was a party you gave the other evening. 987 01:19:33,667 --> 01:19:35,708 We should give a few like it at the embassy, what? 988 01:19:35,750 --> 01:19:37,167 Your Excellency is very kind. 989 01:19:37,250 --> 01:19:39,583 Done a lot for our prestige out here. 990 01:19:39,833 --> 01:19:42,708 Worth a battleship. Jolly good show. Well done. 991 01:19:48,667 --> 01:19:51,708 - Ready? - Ready.