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Yes, Lux toilet soap can make your skin smoother, fresher, and give you that radiantly alive look that comes from your daily Lux toilet soap facials. Now, Five Fingers, starring James Mason as D'Yellow and Pamela Collino as Countess de Vesca. This account begins in 1944. The war was at its height, but some nations still were neutral, among them, Turkey. One evening early in March, a Natasha of the German Embassy at Ankara, a man named Moisic, was about to enter his quarters when a stranger appeared from out of the shadows. Whatever you do, don't raise your voice. Who are you? What do you want? Take me to your office. Either you tell me who you are or I'll be fooled. I've brought you the opportunity of a lifetime. I can make you the envy of the entire German foreign service. Now, open the door. The stranger was in his middle thirties, well dressed, and as Moisic soon found out, exceedingly sure of himself. Let me warn you, Moisic, not one word of this must reach anyone except your ambassador. My life will depend on your discretion. A responsibility I do not choose to accept. I'm afraid you'll have no choice. Your life will depend upon it, too. You see, certain British documents, classed as Moisic, have come into my possession. The price is 20,000 pounds, English pounds sterling. 20,000? Who are you? I am a spy, obviously. I'm also a businessman. And you consider it sound business to pay 20,000 pounds to an unidentified amateur for a set of so-called secret documents? It's not so-called, not secret. I said most secret. You will inform Herr von Karpen of my offer. Naturally, he'll have to check with Berlin. I'll telephone you on Friday for his answer. I must have more information. If you accept, I'll return at 7 o'clock Friday evening with two rolls of film containing photographs of the documents. And I will receive from you the sum of 20,000 pounds in English banknotes. For each subsequent roll of film, the price will be 15,000 pounds. Is this clear? It is not clear at all. What documents? Containing what? For one thing, the English have been discussing with the Turks their possible participation in the war. A matter of pure supposition. I have the minutes of their secret talks. Your ambassador, Herr von Karpen, would find them enlightening and frightening. What else? The latest allied plans for the shuttle bombing of certain Balkan targets. When and by whom and how many? Gone? Don't be greedy, Moisic. What do you expect for 20,000 pounds? How did you obtain such information? There is no concern of yours, nor is my identity, and please do not have me followed. You Germans have no talent for it. You keep wanting to get ahead of the people you follow. Yes, destiny extends its hand to you. Take it and hold on. Good night, Moisic. The man left. Moisic did not have him followed, but had he done so, he would have discovered that his visitor was in the employ of the British Embassy. The ambassador's valet. And like any proper valet, he was at his post when the ambassador returned shortly before midnight from a reception. A pleasant reception, sir? Diplomatic receptions are never pleasant to Yellow. The faces may be, but never the motives. Your coat, sir. Alarm, please. Speaking of pleasant faces to Yellow, at one time weren't you in the service of the Countess Tabiska? I was the valet to her late husband, sir, at the court of St. James. She was at the reception. Is she well, sir? It's charming, lovely as ever, but not so well off. The Nazis in Poland have confiscated everything she owns. I'm sorry to hear it, sir. She was a lady of great wealth. And she used it well. More than any one I have ever known, Countess Tabiska symbolized the world in which she lived. A world of beauty and luxury. Gone forever, I'm afraid. Let us hope not, sir. I put the survey of Turkish manganese beside your bed together with your journal. Oh, yes. Thank you. That'll be all, D'Ello. One moment, sir. Your capsule. D'Ello, have you ever considered the possibility that you might just for once forget something? Often, sir. I don't think you'd ever get over it. Nor do I. Good night, Erekson, sir. Three days later, the German ambassador, Franz von Papen, sent for his aid Moisich. He had just received a dispatch from Berlin. Well, he's here, Moisich. Read it. Transaction approved. Take every precaution. Essential, you determine identity of agent. Expect immediate report. It was sent by Carlton Gruner. Well, here's the money. Twenty thousand pounds. There's no need to count it, Moisich. I have not taken any of it. Oh, sir, but I had no intention. Believe me, I was just... Are you sure you can handle this alone? Oh, yes, sir. And I can develop the film myself. Good. The fewer people who know about this, the better. Particularly if this fellow makes fools of us. What was your impression, Moisich? Elegant, spoiled, cynical, a British aristocrat, if ever I saw one. Fantastic. And by the way, a code name has been assigned to him. He is to be referred to as Cicero. The name is the personal choice of Herr Ribbentrop. Has it any significance, sir? None that I know of, except the surprising fact that Herr Ribbentrop had even heard of Cicero. He'll be here tonight. He's set seven o'clock, sir. Keep your wits sharp. A great deal depends on you. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Moisich. Yes, your Excellency? The money. Here. You forgot it. Your Excellency. Promptly at seven o'clock, D.E.L.O. arrived at Moisich's office. On the desk lay the pile of banknotes. Ah, you have the money, I see. Thank you, Moisich. It's a film. Yeah, two rolls. Oh, fetch me a drink while I count it, will you? Scotch whiskey, please. I'm sure you must have some. We have the best of everything. One of the pleasures of duty in a neutral country. You Germans can drink fine Scotch whiskey, and your enemies can fill up on fine German beer. You can count some money later. It goes into the safe until I have developed a film. Are you going to develop the film yourself? Yes. There is a dark room down to Hall. Then perhaps you'd better drink this. You're trembling like a butterfly. You will remain here until I come back. I'll lock the door. I won't lock anyone in but you. Now, hurry. Moisich was stunned by the contents of the film as well he might have been. Back in his office, he did his best to hide his excitement. Interesting snapshots, aren't they? Sir, the documents seem to be genuine. Don't be pompous, Moisich. My government has authorized me to make further arrangements with you. Splendid, 15,000 pounds for each additional roll of film owned about my present fee. I've counted the money. It was all there. That money is in the safe. It was. You opened the safe. It's open. You see, I said to myself, if I were an ambitious attaché like Moisich, what would be the combination of my safe? How dare you? And the answer? 130, 33, the day Hitler came to power. I imagine that would open half the safes in Germany. What an unimaginative lot you are. Well, don't be upset, Moisich. There was nothing else worth taking. My government is prepared to pay 10,000 pounds per roll. No more. We won't, Hagel. I risked my life to get these photographs. My price is quite reasonable. You'll pay it. Not until we know who you are and how you obtain such information. That is my business. I will tell you this. I work at the British Embassy. Sooner or later, you'll find that out anyway. You have been assigned a codename, Cicero. Cicero, a man of nobility, eloquence and dissatisfaction. I like that name. When will you bring more film? A week from tonight. Have the money ready. Oh, and change the combination of your safe. May I suggest one? Try 618-15. That's the day for the battle of Waterloo. Good night, Moisich. Diallo left. Then he took a walk which led him to a rather shabby section of the town and to a rooming house. The quarters of Countess Anna Staviska. Oh, it's you, Diallo. Well, come in. Do I disturb you, madam? Not at all. Fortunately, I have a dinner engagement, but he is an undersecretary and he's used to waiting. Any particular undersecretary, madam? Undersecretaries are never particular, Diallo. Perhaps that's why they take me to dinner. It is far more likely that in madam's presence they feel like ambassadors. Of all the diplomats I've ever known, you are still the best. It is my good fortune that you have known so few valets. Diallo, please. I've spoken to you before about this. You're the valet to the British ambassador, not to me. Now sit down and tell me the gossip. I'll begin with the British ambassador, madam. He finds you the most radiant, the most sought-after lady in Ankara. To him, you are the symbol of everything worth having and wanting. The symbol of the good old days. That's me. You see this, Diallo? An emerald. The last of the lot. I want you to take this to the pawn shop tomorrow. I couldn't face another trip. Would it not be pleasant to make just one more trip, madam, this time to redeem your jewels? Redeem? With English pounds. Here. Where did you get that money? Of course. 5,000 pounds. But it can't be real. There's nothing as real as money. But I may never be able to pay this back. I don't want it back. But I can't permit you. Why, it must be the savings of a lifetime. Not savings, madam. I'm not a saving man. A business venture of mine has paid off handsomely. But what has it to do with me? I propose to advance you 5,000 pounds in return for certain favors. I have here another 15,000. I'll probably keep such sums at the embassy, nor do I want to draw attention to myself by depositing into my inner bank. But you, madam, you could keep it for me. Go on, Diallo. You could leave this grubby room. Rent an attractive villa. Live as you please. But how would all this be a favor to you? From time to time, I shall want to transact my business in privacy. You would set aside certain quarters for me. I see. If all goes well, I shall have some 200,000 pounds within 12 weeks at the amount I've set as my goal. And then? South America. A new life, a new name. Now, of course, we require a passport, visas, letters of credit. You could be of great help to me in obtaining them. How? I'll explain that when the time comes. Is there anything else? Nothing, except all I've told you must remain extremely confidential. Seems little enough to ask for 5,000 pounds. Are you going to tell me what your business is? Sometime, perhaps, not now. This is quite a trust you put in me. You seem very sure of yourself. I'm sure of you, madam. Oh? For three years, I was valid to your late husband. It is said that no man is a hero to his valid. It is also true that no woman is a mystery to her husband's valid. You know me that well? Well enough. The source of your money has never concerned you any more than the source of your electric light. They became worrisome only when they were shut off. Quite true. But there's pride. I have pride. A great deal. I depend on your pride. You will find it intolerable to have it known that your wealth was the gift of a servant. So, you will keep your mouth shut tight. Get me a brandy there on the table. Of course. No D.L.O., not two glasses. I shall drink only out of one, thank you. Do you know why I discharged you after my husband died? I think I do, madam. Because you made me uneasy. I felt you had an evil genius for something. Little did I know it was for making money. That's a lie. That wasn't why I made you uneasy. No? No. You were attracted to me. It was upsetting to feel that way about a valid and to feel that the valid knew it all the time. Have I offended you? You'll soon be very rich. Everything worth having and wanting. The ambassador didn't say that about you. I did. That's how I've always thought about you. And now you want me to go with you to South America? Yes. Away from the war, the intrigues, the fears? And the poverty. And it would be right for us now. Because now, now at last, we are equals. Yes. Equals. Who's lying now, D.L.O.? Where are you going? Madam has a dinner engagement and we seem suddenly to have run out of gossip. You made me a business proposition. I agree to that part of it. As for the rest, it's not an impossibility. It's merely an improbability and above all an impertinence. Because I address you as an equal. You know, because you address me as a servant. Because in the manner of an inferior, you tried to buy something you didn't think you married it on your own. Now, let us get down to the details of business. As Madam wishes. My name is Anna. Yes, Anna. Thank you. It was inevitable, of course, that the British Embassy would discover that many of their carefully guarded secrets were now known to the Nazis. When this disturbing news reached London, a counter-espionage agent named Travers was sent to the Ambassador at Ankara. He's made all sorts of preliminary checks, Mr. Travers. So far, we've failed. I haven't the slightest idea how the German Embassy is getting this information. And if I were to assume that the source is someone here. Here at the Embassy, sir. Our personnel and permanent employees have had security clearance from London. You'll forgive me, but I've never known a self-respecting spy without security clearance. Where do you store your state papers, sir? Right here in my study, in that safe. What about the code room? Fadden can answer that. Code room is under constant guard night and day. Sir Frederick, don't you think that this lamentable lapse in security could be due to a slip of the lip at some party or reception? My lips are not in the habit of slipping, Mr. Travers. No, do I imply that they are, sir. But our secret information does pass through other hands. It might pass through other lips. Now, McFadden's been telling me about an unattached lady. A certain contest stavisca. It is possible, is it not, that... I beg your pardon, Your Excellency. What is it, Yellow? It's time for your capsule, sir. Oh, thank you, Yellow. Just set it down. Yes, sir. You were saying, Travers... You're valid? Yes. He's been with me for years. Well, about the contest. According to McFadden, her circumstances have taken a startling change for the better. Does anyone know the source of her sudden good fortune? I'm not able to answer that. However, she has many friends on either side. The Lide and Exist. Now, by the way, you'll be interested to know that I am not the only newcomer to Ankara. Colonel Van Richter was also on the train from Istanbul. Van Richter? The Gestapo? Yes. He called himself Rudolf Hoedler, a tobacco buyer from Bern. He went directly to the German embassy, sir. No doubt he is reporting to Von Papen, as I am reporting to you, sir. If we only knew what they say. Yes, Sir Friedig, if we only knew. Von Papen's reception of Von Richter was anything but cordial. Von Papen had good reason to be aroused. So, you come here seeking confirmation of the documents we brought from Cicero. You've had your confirmation on the 5th of April. We sent you to British plans to bomb the Polesti oil fields. Well, though they bombed the warranty, thousands of dead, millions of gallons of precious oil destroyed. What is the price of confirmation here, Von Richter? Regarding Cicero, it remains the opinion of General Kautenbruner and myself that all this still could be a British trap. Now then, you seem very certain about a connection between the Contas de Visca and Cicero. May I ask why? Because it is obvious. Why else would you choose her new home for his next meeting with Moisice? What a strange and sudden and perfect relationship. Too strange, too sudden and too perfect. The unknown Cicero and the well-known Contas. Well-known for her anti-German sentiments. Yet only a month ago, she pleaded with me for an opportunity to work in our interest. For love here, Von Poppen, or for money? For money, of course. A loan until the time when we return her property we've confiscated in Poland. I want to talk to Cicero myself. Moisice, when do you meet with him next? Uh, toast the evening, Herr Colonel. Then you are arranged for Mr. Hodler, the Swiss businessman, to be present. On Thursday night, the Contas de Visca was again entertaining. Among her guests was the tobacco buyer from Switzerland. During the evening, she led him through the house to a secluded wing where someone was waiting for him. You will find your man in that room, Mr. Hodler. I shall see that you are not disturbed. Thank you, Madame. Are you too a diplomat, Monsieur, like Herr Moisice? I suppose you could call me a middleman. There are so many Swiss middlemen. It seems to be a national occupation. What could be more natural? After all, the Swiss have been in the middle for hundreds of years. Just knock on the door, Monsieur. Colonel von Richter? Sit down, please. Moisice tells me you are to be the new intermediary. That is correct. Moisice is too well known here. It will be safer for me to deal with you. I'm happy to hear it. I share your concern. The Contas, have you told her who I am? Of course not. Does she know the nature of your business? No. Then just what is her relation? Dear Colonel, I didn't invite you here to discuss my personal affairs. We have some business to transact. Did you bring the money? You will be paid after we have developed the film. During the past weeks, I have sold Moisice 50 photographs, all of genuine secret documents. That's proof enough of my good faith. Henceforth you will pay on delivery. Now? Well, possibly you are no longer interested in the strategic plans of the Allies for the entire Mediterranean area. The second front? I do not know the number of the front. I do know that in these documents, Mr Churchill keeps referring to the soft underbelly of Europe. Of course, I could take the films to Fontpapin and ask that he himself queered the German high command as to their interests. Very well. Here. 15,000 pounds. Why, you had it with you all the time. Who are you anyway? If I told you I was, um, the valet to the British ambassador, would you believe me? Certainly not, you see. At least tell me why you are selling us this information. I thought that was self-evident for money. But you must have some other motive. Perhaps you share our disgust with British decadence. If I have a disgust for anything, it is for poverty. You sell us information which will help us win the war, yet you insist upon being paid in money with a very dubious future. British pound. What makes you think I think Germany will win the war? Apart from the money we pay you, you attach little importance to these documents. Why? In the first place, I cannot sell you the intelligence to make the proper use of them. In the second place, by informing a man about to be hanged of the exact size, location and strength of the rope, you do not remove either the hangman or the certainty of his being hanged. And now I'm sure you will want to rejoin the party. One week from tonight, I shall have more film for you. Good night, Colonel. I trust your meeting was a happy one, Mr. Hoedler. Quite satisfactory, thank you. And you will honor us soon again? The honor will be mine. Good night, Madame. How charmingly you twist, click your heels. Good night, Mr. Act two of Five Fingers, starring James Mason as D'Ello and Pamela Collino as the Countess. And known to the British as D'Ello the Vellet and to the Nazis as Cicero the Spy, continued his audacious operations. How did he get his information? Months before, he had learned the combination of the safe in the Ambassador's study. Removing the documents, he would place them under a lamp. But the ordinary electric light bulb was not bright enough. So he would substitute a much more powerful one and then, with a tiny pocket camera, quickly photograph each new document. In a matter of moments, the papers would be back in the safe and the original bulb restored to the lamp. Simple and incredible. Simple and incredibly bold. And bound sooner or later to be discovered. But not yet. No, not yet. Another profitable evening? Profitable enough to bring the total to 75,000 pounds. Why don't you stop now? Why go on playing with fire? What makes you think I am? Oh, don't treat me like an idiot child. Your friend Holdler, he is in Swiss. I know a Prussian when I see one. Does it matter to you? Your safety matters to me. My security depends upon yours. I keep thinking of myself as a man. I keep forgetting I'm a valet who pays dividends. I can't see why a man as rich as you should go on pressing the trousers of the British ambassador. That's where I get my money. I steal the loose change from his pockets. Before you go, get me a drink, will you? Tell me, where do you plan to settle when you go to South America? Real. There's no city like it in the world. When did you decide to go there? Many years ago. I was a cabin boy on a dirty tramp steamer. I can remember looking up at a villa high on the mountainside above the harbour. I could see a man on a balcony. He was wearing a white dinner jacket. He seemed close enough to touch. And yet he was beyond the reach of anyone. I swore then that someday I would be that man. My drink, please. Do you have a nationality, D.L.O.? You're not a native Englishman, are you? Albanian. English by adoption. In England it seemed profitable to become a gentleman, so I went into service. As you have pointed out, I am not yet a gentleman. But I am the best of the gentleman's gentlemen, which reminds me the ambassador will be wondering what has kept me. And what will you tell him? Yes, yes, Anna. What shall I tell him? I shall tell him that I was detained by a Turkish chambermaid. I think that I shall find Rio very much to my liking. You have waited a long time to kiss me. You don't have to wait any longer. Anna. Yes, D.L.O.? Get me a drink. During the following weeks, D.L.O.'s fortune grew to 155,000 pounds. And yet, despite the unearing accuracy of the information which he sold to the Germans, they stubbornly and amazingly refused to act upon it. Still afraid that D.L.O. was really a British agent. At the British Embassy, Travers the Countess Espionage Officer continued on the merry-go-round which had led him exactly nowhere. But one morning he asked the ambassador to send for D.L.O.O. I feel you can help us, D.L.O.O. After all, you were valid to the husband of Countess Daviska for some time. I'm sure you learned more about both of them than we could in a lifetime of investigation. Infinitely more, Mr. Travers. Well then tell me, did you ever hear the Countess express sympathy for the Nazis? To my knowledge, the Countess never spoke of countries or of political parties, sir. The world to her was made up of individual people whom she either liked or disliked. Well, would you consider her to have been pro-German? The Countess was capable of being pro anything, sir, if it made for a congenial dinner party. Then you would consider it possible for her to have become a German agent, hm? Only for money, sir. Of which she has suddenly acquired a most generous supply. I know nothing about spies, of course, but I can remember that the Countess had a remarkable talent for receiving confidences from important people. The late Count always relied upon her for acquiring information. Thank you, D.L.O.O.O.O.O.O. That's all. Oh, I'll be dining at the American Embassy. You may take the evening off. Thank you, sir. Clever chap. He told us nothing. And the fact remains that von Papen still anticipates every move I make. Well, Traverse, no argument? No, Your Excellency. No argument. That same evening, Colonel Von Richter was once again at Countess Taviska's home meeting with the other night and something troubling you this house is part of dangerous a meeting place for us i wouldn't be surprised if the british were watching not yet but they will they suspect the countess is a german agent are you serious and all the while you suspected she was a british agent amusing isn't it we should never have met here from now on we won't do you know the aslan honey mosque in the old quarter might as it will find it for you we'll meet there week from tonight a week is too long it must be sooner really because there is something about which we must see a cure information as quickly as possible a certain code word has appeared in several of the documents you brought us last week where it is overlawed we are convinced that overlawed is the name for their so-called second front what we must know is the place and the date the where and the when i can understand your curiosity i'll pay you well for it forty thousand pounds generous of you but is information of that nature likely to turn up at the british embassy in don't you read the documents you sell us i photograph everything that stamped secret most secret and top secret i'm not particularly interested in what they contain but you photographed the dispatch last week stating that the ambassador would receive a copy of the revised strategic plan for overlawed within ten days forty thousand pounds you said for the where and the when we'll meet at the aslan honey mosque on Thursday night bring the money with you in the morning mister travers for the first time had some good news for the ambassador the british had succeeded in breaking the diplomatic code of the nazi ambassador from popin and now for a change sir you can even drop on from popin all right mcfam will you read the message this is from one popin sir to the right for a minister in berlin in reply to your query concerning the authenticity of documents obtained from sisero and firmly convinced the material is genuine sisero lives within the british embassy obviously he has access to top-secret information calton brunner's failure to evaluate the documents and one victor's refusal to make them available to me is a tragic wonder i strongly urge you to bring this matter to the personal attention of the fewer without delay sign one popin sisero that's the code name for them former sir and i would get permission i'll order a house search at once but an open search will put him right on his guard and it can't be helped if we can't catch him we've got to frighten him and have to make him stop for a while as you know i've expected in kiro tomorrow evening until i return take any security measure you think necessary well for one thing sir i suggest the combination on your safety change and safety devices installed a dozen members of the staff here have access to most of your secret documents there's also mcfaden and you and i sisero could be any one of us yes sir any one of us well mcfaden you better start changing that combination how long will it take in a few days sir but i can install an alarm bell in the matter of hours i'm sorry to disturb you sir about your trip to kiro shall i pack your uniforms i won't be needing them thank you dear very well sir i'll close your bags by the way dearlo don't be upset if these gentlemen ransacked my quarters while i'm gone there would be no need for that i'm sure sir on thursday night moisich and fun rickter appeared as scheduled at the entrance of the aslan honey musk but the man they were looking for was not there it's never been late before never could it be possible sir that the british have found him out it is more possible that the british have known about him all the time it is very curious how easily sisero acquired the documents he wanted to sell and how when only once we named the information we want to buy how mysteriously he fails to deliver it what does the colonel propose to do now precisely nothing all spies and time outlive their usefulness i'm afraid moisich that your friend sisero has just about outlived his now drive me back to the embassy no, dearlo did not appear that night at the musk he went instead to call on the countess to visca so you can be very proud of me dearlo you have everything you asked for your passport your visas and your tickets your name is now roberto antonini well done senora antonini it was nothing one of my many pleasant wifely duties how much did they cost five thousand pounds another thousand for birth and marriage certificates and the tickets two first-class compartments separate cars on the istanbul express leaving tomorrow evening and the ship an argentine passenger freighter sailing from istanbul directly to rio day after tomorrow at sundown now remember you have to take no notice of me whatsoever on the train when we reach istanbul we'll go aboard the ship at once how does it go to the bank the size of the deposit created quite a stir the manager seemed extremely curious but the papers will be ready tomorrow morning another thousand and all my powers of persuasion decide of respectability that leaves roughly one hundred and thirty thousand pounds in dollars but six hundred thousand in brazilian cresceros about eleven and a half million plus the forty thousand you got tonight no i was drew from that transaction the market's getting shaky i've decided to retire you have before you an argentine gentleman of leisure about to take up residence in brazil i'm glad we have more than enough anyway we have more than enough my dear senator and to meet me where i come from a man's money is his own and if his wife is a good wife he gives us some from time to time whatever you say roberto will you miss being a counters not for a moment darling not for a moment in the morning mister travis for the first time had reason to specifically question the ambassadors ballot or do you know me i ask what you're doing with those letters these are mister morris and get into me the ambassadors personal mail so i see perhaps you better take charge of it so until he returns from carol yes i think we'd better put it in the safe how many letters are there five sir this one seems quite personal ladies handwriting you were looking at it went to its perfumed it struck me as such a pity that so few ladies use the perfumed letter paper these days by the way dearler weren't you away from the embassy last night between nine and ten yes sir would you mind accounting for your movements of course sir i walked for a while on the boulevard stopped for a drink at the yuksel palace then back to the embassy one other question about the contest do you remember any particularly close friends you may have had in switzerland or did she go there often oh very often sir she was extremely fond of switzerland well then that explains it a contest of isca left by playing for switzerland this morning i hope she can enjoy it in the style to which she is accustomed or that shouldn't be any problem she took with her one hundred and thirty thousand pounds i wonder where she got it i wonder we'll continue with act three of five fingers in a few moments the curtain rises on act three of five fingers starring james mason as the yellow and pamela collino as the car to the yellow the new is was unthinkable and as to visca had stolen his money and gone to switzerland he had it away from the embassy went to a cafe and telephoned moisage listen carefully moisage tell kennel von wichter i have decided to get the information about overlord i uh... i need the money but i'm being watched an intermediate place in estambul i'll call you there tomorrow at the german consulate that's about it travers after the phone call the yellow came directly back here to the embassy did you speak to anyone at the bar now no one i think you're on the wrong track sniffing up to deal or after all he didn't button i am when you told him about the contest but why would you go to a cafe to make a telephone call and then why did he now maybe all right where is he not upstairs if he should be began he'll be followed of course yes the yellow was upstairs staring at the ambassadors say from the newly installed wiring that led out to the hall to an electric alarm bell in the safe was a secret worth forty thousand pounds but one turn of the dial in the entire british embassy would descend upon him but then he smiled how simple it would be the yellow walked down the hall to a broom closet in it was a fuse box he removed the fuse that served the ambassador study and thus broke the current of the alarm bell two minutes later he was taking photographs of half a dozen papers containing the word overlawed and then there was no time to return the documents to the safe no time for anything but to find out who was at the door what do you want to support us i clean off us now no not now it's excellent they won't be back until tomorrow but it is not necessary not now i said come back later but the porter was not one to quickly surrender if he could not tidy up the study at least he could vacuum the carpets in the corridor but when he turned on the vacuum cleaner there was no electricity so he went to the broom closet observed that a fuse was missing and promptly replaced it and where did he go did you see him stand back where's yellow mccrabbin he's not gone off the back stairway he was chasing someone alright johnson you and kim will follow him find him and stick with him modison get a dispatch off to london i want all available information on dlo sent here at once all right mccrabbin come on let's have a look at the safe the papers are all here now what about the letters that batch of mail that came to the ambassador there were five letters one letter is missing the one with the bucket perfume has one letter gone but none of the papers now i wonder why he that light in the bedroom lamp son yes it's an unusually bright lamp isn't it come here photographic barb he's photographing have borrows and marie watch the german embassy we've got to keep him from delivering that film grab him in public our turkeys friends might not like it well if we can't kidnap him a pattern we'll have to kill him there's a little matter of overlord we've got to consider right now send out a man to the airport after johnson gets back to you and i'll get out of the railroad station if he doesn't show up at their embassy you can be sure he's leaving town at the german embassy colonel von rickter was also making plans based on dlo's phone call from the cafe to moisich he said he would arrange a meeting in istanbul very well see but you and sterben take the train moisich and i will go by plane sissaro is bound to be on one or the other shall we go armed colonel naturally you are to protect sissaro from the british at all costs until we get that film and after that after that moisich it will be up to sissaro to protect himself from the british at the crowded railroad station four men kept their tents watch for the yellow two british and two nazis but there was no sign of the yellow not until the train started to move from the platform and then from his hiding place the yellow dash through the crowd and onto the train i've gone through the last three cars there's no sign of him he's in the car just ahead second compartment doors closed there's nothing to do between here in infestuous istanbul but make sure that none of them get off them? yes down there the old familiar faces the same two we saw on the station but what if he's given them the film? they wouldn't be playing watchdog for him if he did so uh... put your gun away mcfaden and light up your pipe long ride was her move in his compartment the yellow was reading a letter the letter with the delicate scent addressed to the british ambassador and so by the time you received this letter i shall be far from anger and far from uncertainty and hunger and humiliation i shall be settled i hope in a new life of security and self respect you have spoken to me so often my dear ambassador of the yellow the perfect valet surely i can offer no greater proof of my devotion to the allied cause than to inform you that your trusted yellow is a german spy i know both you and your government following morning yellow leftist compartment and entered another good morning gentlemen did you sleep well? i slept extremely well guards to the right of me, guards to the left of me you are my bodyguards aren't you? or are you my assassins? we are here to see that no harm comes to you from the british you will stay at your side till we reach this german consulate don't be whimsical i'm here only to give you a message from moisage tell him to meet me at hakim's restaurant at six o'clock this evening he will prefer the consulate so many more people go into german consulates than come out he must have some guarantee that your film is genuine here is a little strip of film have moisage develop it and you will see a piece of the document that kennel von richter wants to buy i'll deliver the rest of it when moisage pays me one hundred thousand pounds one hundred thousand? oh i forgot to tell you i've just raised the price at six o'clock in istanbul in a restaurant called hakim's moisage kept his appointment with the yellow some moments later they were followed there by travers and mcfaden do you wish it table? i'm looking for a friend he uh... he'll be in a private room that is a private room over there? it is occupied and he's here i am sorry he does not wish to be disturbed ah but he's expecting us i am sorry if you get away please to be seated here well he's here mcfaden and moisage is in there with him there is a time for using your wits and a time for blasting away let's get it over with we have no monopoly on blasting away in this place oh not so friends again huh? yes those dim-witted supermen over there would drop us before we got clear of the table but he may be handing over the film this minute well as of this minute we don't want the film stands can be changed you know we want yellow we've got to know just how much the nazis have found out now look i'm going to send him a note just a word or two to let him know that we'll protect him you're balmy travers oh no he'll jump at it uh... uh... you if you don't mind my friend may not know that we're waiting for him would you give him this note please? don't you just got who is it from what does it say? ah you're troubled moisage is it because you know that i haven't much longer to live the two Gestapo men are here to protect you from the british what two men? really moisage you and your guilty conscience and your big mouth well the money is all in order and here is the film has it occurred to you that our roles are now reversed that the british may try to kill you well moisage shall we go he's heading towards us travers your note worked mr travers i'm touched by your solicitude imagine me of all men with a british sword and a british shield personally i'd rather slit your throat impractical in that case i'd be unable to tell you all the things you want to know you've no idea how confused the Nazis are to see you protecting me there's still half suspect i've been a british plant all along we have a car outside we'll see you safely to the british consulate no no thank you we'll walk away together and then say goodbye get the turkish police to arrest you is that a gun in your pocket mr mcfaden? it's against the law here to carry a weapon didn't you know? come along of course you disapprove of me don't you mr travers you're the most cold-blooded traitor i've seen in a lifetime of looking at human trash what a pity i'd rather hoped i looked like a gentleman they left the restaurant behind them came the two gestapo men cbert and stoibann but diello had known exactly what he was doing when he picked akumas as a meeting place for the narrowest street was jammed with people in traffic they walked not more than fifty feet when he suddenly darted away and was lost in the crowd meanwhile moisich had rushed to the german consulate with the role of form that had cost a hundred thousand pounds the film has developed kungal i have exactly the information you wanted have you it took you long enough i was so nervous i spoiled the first print but here it is the day for operation of the lord is tentatively set for early june along the coast of normandy and the sharebook peninsula colonel did you hear me now you hear this an urgent dispatch from from poppin from poppin have just received personal letter from countess anastaviska naming cicero as british agent and unable to confirm accusation because countess is now in switzerland but in view of past efforts to ingratiate herself with us and compelled to believe her charges true i cannot believe it i have always believed it from the best that's the documents were genuine events prove them genuine of course they had to be so that we would swallow that big lie that one in your hand i knew it all along i knew it lies lies lies yes the yellow had one as rebutto antonini he sailed away to real he bought a magnificent home high on a hill overlooking the harbor and he wore a beautiful white dinner jacket every night but one evening as his ballot was serving dinner out on the balcony two gentlemen came to call on this is a non-expected pressure senor dacosta may i present my friend senor santo i am honored senor are you too associated with the bank no senior with the brazilian department of investigation and you have discovered some irregularity in my papers your papers are all perfectly in order uh... there is an irregularity how about your account at the banks in your am i overdrawn as of yesterday i had approximately seven million cruzeros in my account i was referring to the twenty five thousand pounds in case with which you purchased this video the money has been returned what an ask for it is counterfeit you have a distorted sense of humor senor so is the money which was changed for brazilian currency it is all counterfeit the most skillful i have ever seen it's a lot of money and i implore you to cooperate that those counterfeit notes were printed in germany the british have just established that beyond the doubt and so far they have turned up in three places here in brazil in turkey and in switzerland switzerland over one hundred thousand counterfeit british pounds were confiscated there two days ago in the possession of a political refugee a lady a contest it will be to your interest in your to tell us where and how you've got this money switzerland now believe me senor believe me this is no laughing matter it is my unhappy duty to inform you you are under arrest i beg your pardon honor poor little honor in a moment our stars will return and here they are coming forward for a well earned call james mason and tamala collino but we're much happier to know you as you really are after all nobody likes a man masquerading as someone else well that's not necessary to take a good one people love him whether he must create the center clause or a counterfeiter or even an apple very good and that role yes in twentieth century foxes picture something for the birds terry co-stars with big mature and patricia neal and he plays an engraver who forges lovely invitations to parties and then attends an admiral of the united states navy i know it'll be a comedy hit time a lot but i still prefer people who don't masquerade like luxe girls after all you can't hide a luxe complexion but who would want to particularly when like so because you're wonderful complexion care are your smart as well as beautiful time a lot our audience knows you're a popular novelist as well as an actress so have you written any new best sellers no i think since the success of oh henry's full house i think i might try writing short stories just like oh henry did i'd rather you wouldn't be a remember oh henry wrote those stories in prison who'd run the house and take care of portland it might be worth it jimmy i once directed no henry story for twentieth century fox and it became one of the first full length talking i've read that was in old arizona which was nominated for one of the first academy awards yes there's nothing like a good story and fine actors to make an outstanding picture and that reminds me of next week's play it's adapted from a best-selling novel and is the rollicking story of a different reactions of six convicts to a new fangled doctor called a psych psychologist it's the stanley cramer production of my six convicts and starring it is not his original role will be that excellent actor milard mitchell and as the doctor one of your very favorite stars dana andrews we won't miss it every goodnight goodnight mr. and mrs. mason stockings who aren't only a few times yet suddenly you pop to run and you never knew why has this ever happened 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