1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:42,400 The thrill of the night time, the hushed voice and the prowling step, the crime that is almost 3 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:49,200 committed, the finger of suspicion pointing perhaps at the wrong man, the stir of nerves 4 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:55,040 at the ticking of the clock, the rescue that might be too late or the murderer who might 5 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:00,960 get away, mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 6 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:11,560 We invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in suspense. 7 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:31,920 For suspense, tonight we present The Lord of the Witch Doctors by John Dixon Carr. 8 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,640 The drums were beating that night. 9 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,920 The Lord of the Witch Doctors was on his way. 10 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,320 Thirty miles off the East African coast, fanned by the blistering heat of the Indian 11 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:47,160 Ocean, lies the island of Zanzibar. 12 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:53,960 Here many years ago, to be exact in the year 1889, three nations were rivals for imperial 13 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:54,960 German eagles. 14 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:03,800 At Mogadishu were the Italians, a mixed population boiled along that coast, Portuguese, Arabs, 15 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:04,800 Swahili. 16 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:11,720 On the island itself, Sayyid Khalif, Sultan of Zanzibar, ruled the remains of a once mighty 17 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,200 empire, Mohammedan Bantus of the tribe of Zeng. 18 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:23,480 Look over there in the moonlight, that white building patched and rotted was the palace 19 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:31,560 where Sayyid Khalif lived with his fat wives and his captive lions. 20 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,400 Not far away on the hill overlooking the harbor stood the British Residency. 21 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:43,360 The British Residents, or Crown official, held uneasy sway against German and Italian 22 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,120 influence. 23 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,960 And at the Residency on that hot night long. 24 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Martha. 25 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:50,960 Yes, Father? 26 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,720 Come away from the windows, please. 27 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,520 But Father, those drums are on the mainland. 28 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,520 Never mind. 29 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,520 Twenty miles from here. 30 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,520 I'd rather you stood there. 31 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,720 It's the fires I don't like, sir. 32 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,880 You can see the red light all this distance. 33 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,720 They're having a beano of some kind. 34 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,680 You'd better stand back too, Mr. Harris. 35 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:07,680 What's up here, sir? 36 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:08,680 Yes, Mr. Harris? 37 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,400 I've been your diplomatic attache in this place for three years. 38 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,240 Couldn't you call me by my first name in private? 39 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,720 Just as you please. 40 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,400 Lower the sun blinds and turn down the wick of that lamp. 41 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,280 You don't think there's any danger? 42 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:21,280 There's no danger whatever, but... 43 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,280 The air out seems terribly restless tonight. 44 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Only natural, my dear, with the drums going. 45 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,280 Everybody seems restless. 46 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,280 This has been going on for days. 47 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,280 You begin to get in your nerves. 48 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:32,680 So you feel it too, eh? 49 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,440 And I do wish, said, Collet wouldn't tease Nero. 50 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,040 Jab at him with the meat fork and that kind of thing. 51 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,040 If that lion ever got me... 52 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,440 Nerves, my dear, nothing but nerves. 53 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Let's face it, sir. 54 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,920 There's something very queer going on over on that mainland. 55 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,640 Well, suppose there is. 56 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,000 All we know is what Nyoka knows. 57 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,760 This great witch doctor, whoever he is, 58 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,040 been making a triumphal progress to the coast. 59 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,560 The whole bush is afraid of him. 60 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,120 You alarm me. 61 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,920 Nyoka says he's got horns. 62 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,880 He can make himself seven feet tall, 63 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,880 like stretching an accordion. 64 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:03,880 Oh, really, Bill Harris. 65 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,680 Well, I don't say I believe it. 66 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,720 I say it might be dangerous. 67 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,840 Now, for instance, could this be one of Dr. Schmidt's tricks? 68 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,640 Dr. Schmidt is a friend of ours. 69 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,200 Yes, he's also head of the German East Africa Company. 70 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,800 Dr. Schmidt is a gentleman. 71 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,520 Look at that coast over there. 72 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,720 He's got every native chief in his pocket. 73 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,160 Dr. Schmidt assured me that the German emperor 74 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,640 has no more territorial claims in East Africa. 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,840 We get our trade concessions from Said Khalif. 76 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:34,520 Said's our only friend, but we can't even be sure of him. 77 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,840 The Germans give him trade gin and a grand piano. 78 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:41,240 The Italians give him three new wives for his harem. 79 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,240 What do we give him? 80 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,040 I have no instructions from London 81 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,040 about the situation in this island. 82 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:46,960 No. 83 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,280 Somebody in Whitehall probably forgot to post them. 84 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:51,400 For the last time, Mr. Harris, I will not 85 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,320 hear His Majesty's government criticized like that. 86 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,120 Sorry. 87 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,720 Sorry. 88 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,120 These things take time. 89 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,120 If there's any danger, we'll be notified in due course. 90 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,040 Yes, sir. 91 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,640 They're only our own natives. 92 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,480 They beat their own drums, you know. 93 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,200 Somebody went past that window. 94 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,440 That's probably only Nyoka, my dear. 95 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,640 Surely you're not afraid of our own servant. 96 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 No, but I... 97 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Master! 98 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 Master! 99 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:19,640 Master! 100 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,160 Nyoka, listen to me. 101 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,720 Don't hang on to that big curtain. 102 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:23,720 You'll pull it down. 103 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,400 Now stand up straight and tell me. 104 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,120 What is it? 105 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,320 He here, Bonner. 106 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,040 He here, yes, please. 107 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:29,800 Who's here? 108 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,960 Big witch doctor here, yes, please. 109 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:34,880 He come up passing moonlight. 110 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,120 He walks slow boom boom. 111 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,880 He got big teeth. 112 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,960 He with me outside front door now. 113 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,520 What was that? 114 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,360 Drums are stopped. 115 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,240 Nyoka's right, sir. 116 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,440 We have got a visitor. 117 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,240 There's somebody coming down the hall. 118 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,240 Better turn down that lamp, Arthur. 119 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,240 I... 120 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,240 I can't seem to find the lamp. 121 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,240 My fingers are all thumbs. 122 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,600 There's a revolver in the table drawer behind you, sir. 123 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:04,600 I don't need it. 124 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,120 Stand perfectly still, all of you. 125 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,480 Now, please, friends all, don't be alarmed. 126 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,960 Are you English? 127 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,480 That's right, miss, born and bred in Stredden. 128 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,080 Which of you is the British Consul? 129 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,720 I am the British resident, sir. 130 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,920 My name is Richardson. 131 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,920 May I ask the meaning of this tomfoolery? 132 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:25,760 Well, that's just what I'm here to tell you. 133 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,480 Or maybe I'd better show you. 134 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:28,880 Now, observe me right hand. 135 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,800 I hold it up so and as I live, I light it cigar. 136 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,720 That perhaps the lady doesn't like smoking in the drawing room. 137 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,840 Now, lucky, there's nothing up my sleeves. 138 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:39,680 I wouldn't deceive you for the world. 139 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,240 I turn over me hand and would you believe it? 140 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,160 A glass of water. 141 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:44,640 Is this man insane? 142 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,560 Father, I think he's trying to tell you he's a magician. 143 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,840 That's right, miss, direct from the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly. 144 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:52,320 Animal taming and magic. 145 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,560 That's my line. 146 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,560 Then you're the famous witch doctor that's 147 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:56,920 got all the natives in an uproar? 148 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,400 Nobody else, young fellow. 149 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,600 Yes, well, you tell us what you mean by this nonsense, 150 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,560 scaring everybody when there's no danger. 151 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,880 No danger? 152 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,040 I suppose you haven't heard about Saeed Caleb 153 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,280 and his Gatling guns. 154 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,240 Gatling guns? 155 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,000 Kindly presented by Dr. Otto Schmidt. 156 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,920 And believe me, all you've got is an appointment 157 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,480 with a Gatling gun unless my nonsense steps in. 158 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,680 Here, take a look at this. 159 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,080 What, you can't be from the British Foreign Office? 160 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:22,640 Well, that's just what I am, Governor, 161 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,760 and going up in the world, don't you think? 162 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,240 By the way, I'd better give you your instructions. 163 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,920 The envelope's pretty dirty and a little bit 164 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,160 smelly from being under my furs and devil pink, but, uh. 165 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,280 Read it, sir. 166 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,000 Go on and read it. 167 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,920 Foreign Office, Whitehall, British Consul Zanzibar. 168 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,160 Bearer of this letter, the great Mephisto. 169 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,760 That's me, real name Barney Ick. 170 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,240 They must be out of their minds. 171 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,160 Are they? 172 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,320 Listen, old man. 173 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:53,800 I've been three weeks in that jungle 174 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,760 with a Swahili interpreter. 175 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,480 I've been bitten and stung and fried to death. 176 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,160 But Schmidt or no Schmidt, I've got those native chiefs 177 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,120 just where I want them. 178 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,720 You see what happens when I announce 179 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,840 I'm a friend of the great white queen? 180 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,840 Well, you'll have them eaten out of your hand. 181 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:09,680 Well, that's true. 182 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,920 And all we've got to do is get around St. Kelly 183 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:12,920 if he had only silence. 184 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,520 But do we need to get around him? 185 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,280 The young lady would be good enough not to speak 186 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,280 until you're spoken to. 187 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,880 Oh, I'm sorry, Father. 188 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,040 Say it may be lazy and as fat as a hippopotamus. 189 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,480 He's rather a fine old boy. 190 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:24,840 Is he? 191 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,480 You said something about Gatling guns. 192 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:27,640 Now listen. 193 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,280 Here's the game. 194 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,760 Father, I don't like this. 195 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,840 I've never heard Nero's restless as that. 196 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,080 Never mind, Nero. 197 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:34,800 Go on. 198 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,120 I came over here tonight in a steam launch. 199 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,840 Tomorrow I'm paying my state visit to the great sultan 200 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,160 Sayed Caliph. 201 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,600 Now you present me as your friend 202 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,840 and a friend of the great white queen. 203 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,760 And I do me best tricks at home. 204 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,320 Is anything wrong with your native boy? 205 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:52,560 My old girl, be still. 206 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,840 You're not afraid of our witch doctor friend, are you? 207 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:55,480 No. 208 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,000 I could Christian. 209 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,040 Here, what are you doing? 210 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,440 Come out from under that sofa. 211 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,760 But, Puanah, I see something. 212 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,400 I look out through window slats. 213 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,920 See Puanah bald head coming apart? 214 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:07,800 Puanah bald head? 215 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,880 That's Dr. Schmidt. 216 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:09,880 Dr. Schmidt? 217 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,200 Well, he mustn't find me here. 218 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,400 Yes, I quite agree. 219 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,600 This is most irregular. 220 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:15,840 Is there a back way out of here? 221 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,200 Yes, through that arch. 222 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,400 Stay in the back room. 223 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,400 Naoka will show you. 224 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,760 Me go with witch doctor. 225 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:22,000 Yes, hurry, please. 226 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:22,800 I don't like, I don't like. 227 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:23,760 Never mind what you like. 228 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:24,360 You go. 229 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,640 I don't like, master. 230 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,560 I don't like. 231 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:31,960 It's all right. 232 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:32,920 They've gone. 233 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,680 Yes, about time, too. 234 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:37,520 Good evening, Dr. Schmidt. 235 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,080 Pleasure to see you. 236 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,840 Always a pleasure to see you. 237 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,320 Ah, my friends, I wish I could say it was such a pleasure to see you. 238 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,600 Isn't it, doctor? 239 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,320 This at any time, but now. 240 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:49,680 Do not mistake me, I beg of you. 241 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,880 No, it is that confounded line, Nero. 242 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,960 Always I said it will happen, and now it has happened. 243 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,320 What about Nero? 244 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,280 My friends, I regret. 245 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,760 Their smite is killing. 246 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,280 Theirs tasted blood. 247 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,280 What's that? 248 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,600 You permit that I sit down and take off my sun helmet. 249 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,560 I am not young and I am tired. 250 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:10,920 It's not saying it, Kelly. 251 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,320 Yeah, yeah, it is so. 252 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,800 Yes, these at line once too often. 253 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,840 Oh, poor old boy. 254 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,560 He was our friend. 255 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,080 He's not dead. 256 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,560 Yeah, yeah, I regret. 257 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:22,240 Yeah, he is dead. 258 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,960 Certain of sense of ours dead. 259 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,400 Oh, God. 260 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,200 But how did the lion ever get at him? 261 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,960 He drink too much pum. 262 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,280 That was his trouble. 263 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,760 He get drunk and think he can do too much. 264 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,560 So he open the door and went to the lion's cage. 265 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:36,440 Into the cage? 266 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:37,800 Yeah, would you believe it? 267 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,600 Not easily. 268 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:39,840 But it is true. 269 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,000 Over the palace there is what you call gnashing of teeth. 270 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,960 It's unobvious in tears. 271 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,160 Did you see this happen, doctor? 272 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,480 No, no, no, I go there later and they tell me. 273 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,760 It's all the worse because of some foolish toy, 274 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,200 tomb head story. 275 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,400 He has been stuck over the head and thrown into the cage 276 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,160 by someone who did not like him. 277 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:58,800 That's more likely, if you ask me. 278 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,920 My friend, it is foolishness. 279 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,600 Everybody liked old man. 280 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,480 There was a father to his people and a kind friend. 281 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,920 Doctor, are you telling us that Said may have been put 282 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,760 into that cage unconscious? 283 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,280 It is what one African soldier says, yeah. 284 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,800 Well, then he may still be alive. 285 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,880 Life? 286 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,400 It is impossible. 287 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,560 It's more than possible. 288 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:21,560 A lion may maul an unconscious man, 289 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,560 but it doesn't often kill him. 290 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:24,840 This is vital. 291 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,680 Vital to Said himself and others as well. 292 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:28,640 You're a doctor. 293 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:29,760 Can't you go and make sure? 294 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,160 My friend, I regret. 295 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,040 I am not that kind of a doctor. 296 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:34,520 That is, you may be right. 297 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:35,800 I think I'd better go myself. 298 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,680 Is this a good idea, sir? 299 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,800 I'll stay here and entertain Dr. Schmidt, 300 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,000 unless of course he wants to go too. 301 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,400 No, no, no, I think. 302 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,080 I do not like sides of that sort. 303 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,640 I have a tender heart and I have illnesses. 304 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,600 Besides, you can do nothing. 305 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,000 I tell you, he is dead. 306 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:51,840 We'll see. 307 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,200 Martha, you better come with me. 308 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,680 Your nurse is training, maybe of some use at last. 309 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:57,240 Of course. 310 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,480 Haven't we better go the back way and speak to Nyoka? 311 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,920 Yes, Nyoka mustn't be troubled in that back room. 312 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,280 A very good evening to you, Dr. Schmidt. 313 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,720 Ah, Mr. Harris, they have good hearts, 314 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,400 but they're so foolish. 315 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,440 I would give my own right arm to aid that poor man. 316 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,840 But, well, we must have philosophy. 317 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,840 We must cheer up and be at ease. 318 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,520 Yes. 319 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,760 Now, doctor, we're all alone. 320 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,400 So we are, so we are. 321 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,120 We must sit down and have a nice, comfortable chat. 322 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:32,720 Yes? 323 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,600 Definitely, yes. 324 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,160 I wanted to have a word with you anyway. 325 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:41,080 So? 326 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,120 About what, Mr. Harris? 327 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,520 Various things. 328 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,240 I am happy to give you all the time in the world. 329 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,640 I like talking to young people. 330 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,920 It makes me feel young again myself. 331 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,120 Like Nobby? 332 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,280 Nobby? 333 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,520 Said Khalif's eldest son, the new sultan. 334 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,440 Ah, one fine young man, for a savage. 335 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:07,960 Yes, but weak, easy to manage, and very fond of his father, too. 336 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,800 It's a wonder he didn't have the lions shot 337 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,200 after they got the body away. 338 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,360 Shot with what, my friend? 339 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,560 I beg your pardon, I do not consider the matters funny. 340 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,000 No, no, no. 341 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,840 But, uh, shot with what? 342 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,040 These spruits, they have nothing but tiloting muskets. 343 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,680 You're near overdose? 344 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,400 Suppose they had gatling guns. 345 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:32,320 Pardon? 346 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,480 Just suppose that, of course. 347 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,520 Of course. 348 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:40,520 Well, ah, my friend, gatlings would be of no better use. 349 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,880 You're only a wound. 350 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:43,720 To kill a lion, you must reach the eye or heart 351 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,000 with a high-power bullet. 352 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,720 What is the matter with us? 353 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,160 Why are we talking of these things? 354 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,280 Talking of death, you mean? 355 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,200 Of Sayed Khalif, who gave all the trade concessions 356 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,040 on Zanzibar to the British? 357 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:02,320 My friend, I was talking about express rifles. 358 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,320 OK, don't you find it warm in here? 359 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,680 Yeah, yeah, a little. 360 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:11,120 Yes, it smells of animals' fur, doesn't it? 361 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:12,640 I'll just raise those sun lines. 362 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,480 No, no, no, no, you must not trouble yourself to do that. 363 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:16,360 It's no trouble. 364 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,440 I-I-I beg of you, not to trouble. 365 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,800 It is not necessary. 366 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,240 Doctor, you've been mopping your fart 367 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,200 for a long time since you've been here. 368 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Little fresh air never hurt anybody. 369 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,360 Here. 370 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,600 Here, isn't that better? 371 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,280 Much, much. 372 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,720 Why not sit down, my boy, and we have a nice chat? 373 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,480 It's a fine enough night. 374 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,240 No smell of the animals' cage here. 375 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,760 My friend, you talk like a hunter. 376 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,960 Yes, or a victim. 377 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,600 Yes, it's a fine night. 378 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,240 At least for this part of the world. 379 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,400 Fire's still burning on the mainland. 380 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,800 I wonder if that's a good sign. 381 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,520 Of what? 382 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,880 I wish I knew. 383 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,560 And the sea is like skim milk under the moon. 384 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,720 And... 385 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,680 Good Lord. 386 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:11,840 What is it? 387 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,560 What makes you jump? 388 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,880 Look there, in the harbor. 389 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,800 My friend, I see nothing. 390 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,640 Perhaps if I take off my spectacles and dive... 391 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,080 Why, man, you must see it, in the harbor, out at the left there, 392 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,120 beyond the shadow of those big palm trees. 393 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,880 Don't you see our riding lights? 394 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,520 It looks like... 395 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,040 By George, it is. 396 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,000 It's a warship. 397 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,120 It's only a German gunboat, my friend. 398 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,040 Only very little German gunboat. 399 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:40,920 German gunboat? 400 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,520 My friend, you must not be so distrustful. 401 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,960 That is not kind. 402 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:45,800 Let me get a telescope. 403 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,120 But I tell you who she is. 404 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,280 It is nothing. 405 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,040 She is on what you call a goodwill tour. 406 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,040 You're not angry. 407 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,160 Angry? 408 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,360 My friend... 409 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,320 I did not know. 410 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,440 I could not guess. 411 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,400 That is, England is our heart and the stand. 412 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,720 We know that ourselves. 413 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,920 I tell you something in confidence. 414 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,520 The Germans are sensitive. 415 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,160 The British object it. 416 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:13,960 The natives feel too strong. 417 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,880 I tell the gunboat to go away. 418 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,120 I fire an express rifle. 419 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:18,080 It has a sound. 420 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:19,480 Boom! 421 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,240 You cannot mistake one another. 422 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,800 That is why I think of an express rifle. 423 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,480 But nobody will object. 424 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,080 Why, not the least bit. 425 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,320 Tell me, doctor, do you like it here on this island? 426 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,800 Well, just not barely. 427 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,680 Don't you ever want to get away from a forsaken mud heap 428 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,000 like this? 429 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,600 My friend, I am a chairman. 430 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,360 My duty is here, and so I stay here. 431 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,440 Yes, I know. 432 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,360 Between ourselves, that's exactly my position. 433 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,600 Oh, try young. 434 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,120 That's not the point. 435 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,480 It's the importance of the job. 436 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,080 The British don't rule Zanzibar. 437 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,760 We hold the trade concessions from Said Khalif, 438 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,440 and our residency has to protect them. 439 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,960 But even you, doctor, would be surprised at the amount 440 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,320 of trade that we have to protect. 441 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,360 And the revenue that comes out of this island. 442 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:12,280 Is it so now? 443 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,440 You don't say so. 444 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,400 I do say so. 445 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,160 You say it so much. 446 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,240 More than you think. 447 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,120 Of course, I'm not allowed to give you any figures. 448 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:21,960 No, no, no. 449 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,840 Of course not. 450 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,720 I would not deem of asking you. 451 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,920 How much would you say it comes to, roughly? 452 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,280 Oh, come now, doctor. 453 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,400 As one gentleman to another, you're not asking me 454 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:35,280 to give away secrets. 455 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,240 Oh, no, no, no. 456 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,440 That's only a joke, you understand? 457 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,360 Please do not try to uptrip me. 458 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:47,600 I would try to pull your leg, and it was only a joke, believe me. 459 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:48,880 It's all in the game, isn't it? 460 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,400 Yes, all in the game, as gentlemen. 461 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,680 Doctor, you're quite a humorist. 462 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,160 You're not defended? 463 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,280 Not at all. 464 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,400 No, as I was saying, I hold a rather important job. 465 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,720 Of course, Mr. Richardson holds an even more important one. 466 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,920 He's been very friendly with old Said Khalifa in this job. 467 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,560 Um, of course you know what that job is. 468 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,040 Of course. 469 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,520 It's the British Council. 470 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,480 What is the matter with you? 471 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,440 You're not smiling any longer. 472 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,000 Why are you looking at me like that? 473 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,640 So that's it. 474 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,520 That's the game. 475 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,560 You made exactly the same mistake that he did. 476 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,200 Let's shoot it. 477 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:40,160 Dr. Schmidt, have you met the great lord of the witch doctors, 478 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,680 the maker of spells and the tamer of lions? 479 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:43,600 I am a good Christian. 480 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,080 I pay no attention to what natives say. 481 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,680 I do not believe in witch doctors. 482 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:47,640 No, neither do I. 483 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,160 Not in this one at any rate. 484 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,000 What one? 485 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,680 The witch doctor who came here tonight 486 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,880 and said that he was on a mission for the British Foreign Office. 487 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,720 He's an imposter from the word go, and you're working with him. 488 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,160 Oh, don't upset your chair like that, Dr. Schmidt. 489 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,120 Because if you fall on it, you may hurt yourself. 490 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,280 I have not hurt myself, young man. 491 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,040 Oh, yes, you have. 492 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,800 The fellow who came here tonight addressed Mr. 493 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,680 Richardson as the British Consul. 494 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,960 That might have been a slip of the tongue. 495 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,480 But then you see the letter on the table there. 496 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,760 I have eyesight, I thank you. 497 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,360 That letter is supposed to come from the Foreign Office. 498 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,080 And it calls him the British Consul, too. 499 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,600 I heard it read aloud. 500 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,720 Foreign Office may make mistakes, but they don't make mistakes like that. 501 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,720 That letter, doctor, is a forgery. 502 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,160 It was forged by a German and probably by the German who 503 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:38,840 calls himself Barney Hicks or the great Mephisto. 504 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,040 He's in the back room now. 505 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,760 No, he's not, Governor. 506 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,280 He's standing in the doorway behind you now. 507 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,840 Yes, I thought I heard you. 508 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,920 Don't turn around to look at me. 509 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,760 I'm just warning you. 510 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:51,160 Have you got anything to enforce that? 511 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,280 Yes. 512 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:56,480 I've got a 500 Express rifle that could smear you all over the opposite wall. 513 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,320 Kyle, what's the matter with you? 514 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,240 No, I'm not in the mood for this. 515 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,880 If you fellows are going to shoot me, I wish you'd speak English about it. 516 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,520 Kyle, I beg of you. 517 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:05,720 No, no, no. 518 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:06,840 Don't fire that rifle. 519 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,160 Exactly. 520 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,480 You see, Kyle, I'm turning around. 521 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,000 This is all very... 522 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:12,640 Now, Kyle. 523 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,680 You see what the doctor means, Kyle? 524 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,080 If you fire that rifle, you'll send your gunboat out of that harbor 525 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,880 just when you need it. 526 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,520 Isn't that the signal, doctor, to send the gunboat away? 527 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:23,320 Kyle, I beg of you. 528 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,920 Yes, it is. 529 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,920 Very simple, economical German signal. 530 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,320 So you two kill Saeed Khalif. 531 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,520 But the slender, that cannot be proved. 532 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,280 Had to do it, I imagine. 533 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,360 Saeed was the one chief that you couldn't buy or frighten with your witch doctor, 534 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:40,840 so you got rid of him. 535 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,760 Tomorrow morning, the witch doctor would have appeared. 536 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,120 He'd have scared the daylights out of a weak and superstitious son, Nobby. 537 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:49,240 I told you I was fairly good at my work, Governor. 538 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:49,960 And I am. 539 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:50,520 Yes. 540 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,280 And then the witch doctor would have taken over everything. 541 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,880 The British resident had to be bamboozled for 24 hours 542 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:01,400 to keep him out of the way with a ghost story about a British agent. 543 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,760 And there was a gunboat in the harbor in case of trouble. 544 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,760 Slight mistake there, Governor. 545 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,800 There is a gunboat in the harbor. 546 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:08,520 Yes. 547 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,840 It's really worked out beautifully. 548 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,600 The emperor should be pleased. 549 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,640 I don't think your white queen will be very happy, though. 550 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,280 I'm the great witch doctor to that frightened mob over there. 551 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,960 Saeed is dead. 552 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,080 And there's a German gunboat in the harbor. 553 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,560 Listen, I think I hear something. 554 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,200 Whoever's out there, stay back. 555 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,320 Whoever's out there, stay back. 556 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,280 Bill, listen to me. 557 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,640 Saeed's alive. 558 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:37,760 He's alive. 559 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,680 This is impossible. 560 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:39,880 We can see him breathe. 561 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,240 We don't even think he's badly hurt. 562 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,880 But he's still in the cage, unconscious. 563 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,440 Still in the cage? 564 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,080 You mean they can't get him out of there? 565 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,840 If he wakes up or they attempt anything nearer, 566 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,320 we'll tear him to pieces. 567 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,440 The whole crowd over there is nearly crazy. 568 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,400 But they don't dare go into the cage. 569 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,840 Well, gentlemen, you should have been more careful. 570 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,640 If they do get Saeed out of there alive, you're done for. 571 00:21:58,640 --> 00:21:59,840 Be quiet. 572 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:00,640 Listen. 573 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,720 Nobby and the rest of the natives are coming up here now. 574 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:03,560 See here, miss. 575 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,080 Are you talking about the old boy's son? 576 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,040 Nobby, yes. 577 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,680 He wants to see the witch doctor. 578 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,000 The witch doctor? 579 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,120 This puts you in some slight trouble, Carl. 580 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:11,920 Listen to me, miss. 581 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,600 I couldn't get that old buzzard from the... 582 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,080 out of the way from that line, even if I... 583 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,320 I've got to get out of here. 584 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:18,880 Too late now, my dear witch doctor. 585 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,600 The natives have surrounded the house. 586 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,640 Who's that? 587 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:24,200 It's Nobby. 588 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,280 He's coming down the hall. 589 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,280 Seva, abudu sabe. 590 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,560 My Nobby, speak white language. 591 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,720 Tarry Sultan's wand. 592 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,640 Witch doctor, much respect. 593 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,640 Fall on floor. 594 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:39,640 Go ahead. 595 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,200 Play your part, Carl. 596 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,520 Play your ruddy part. 597 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,360 Get up again. 598 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:50,360 Great medicine man. 599 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:55,360 Father hurt, in cage with lion. 600 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:56,000 You come. 601 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Say something, Carl. 602 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,800 You can't be a dumb wizard. 603 00:22:58,800 --> 00:22:59,600 You come. 604 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,120 My dear Nobby, my friend. 605 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,240 The witch doctor can't understand you. 606 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,080 Be witch doctor. 607 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,120 Not speak everything. 608 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:08,120 Part witch doctor. 609 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:08,920 No, no. 610 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:09,920 It is not that. 611 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,240 He does not hear you. 612 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,920 He's in another world. 613 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,320 See how his eye is closed. 614 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,920 See how his face is. 615 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,280 He's not a child. 616 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,600 He's close. 617 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:21,800 See how his face. 618 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,960 I know this. 619 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,280 He saved my father. 620 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,040 Or maybe all of you. 621 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,080 We will kill all white people here. 622 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,800 Witch doctor saved my father from lion. 623 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,680 You come. 624 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,880 Nobby, listen to me. 625 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,480 You needn't worry. 626 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,280 The great witch doctor can save your father. 627 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,280 Go in cage? 628 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,760 No, not go in cage. 629 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:46,760 Strike with fire? 630 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,080 Yes, that's it. 631 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,400 Set fire. 632 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,840 Open heaven. 633 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,560 Flash great light. 634 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,600 Narrow scream and die. 635 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,200 Father saved. 636 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,360 You must not save him. 637 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:58,080 He will remain alive. 638 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,200 He will talk. 639 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,600 Then the natives will know. 640 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,840 You don't want to save father? 641 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,400 The witch doctor does want to save your father, Nobby. 642 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,800 You see that gun under his arm? 643 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:06,680 Gun? 644 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,280 Gun no good. 645 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,960 Not used gun. 646 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,800 Only wound lion. 647 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,320 Lion in pain killed father. 648 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,040 No, that's not like your muskets, Nobby. 649 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,280 It's an express gun. 650 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,480 It's a magic gun. 651 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,360 Magic gun? 652 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,600 Listen, Nobby. 653 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,280 Magic gun save your father with one shot. 654 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,760 Just like that. 655 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,600 Lion fall over dead. 656 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,320 Your father well again. 657 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,200 And our friend. 658 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,680 We use gun? 659 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,240 Give me gun. 660 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:36,880 No. 661 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,440 You could not use it, Nobby. 662 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,480 Witch doctor can use it best. 663 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:41,960 Tell him to use it. 664 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,160 Tell him to be sure that he hits the lion. 665 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,080 Look here, Harris. 666 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,280 I don't know for this. 667 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,560 Yes, Nobby. 668 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,000 If he wants to hit narrow with that white fire, 669 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,160 he can strike the lion dead before you could wink your eyes. 670 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,800 Then do. 671 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,000 You better try it, Carl. 672 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,840 And you better not miss him, or you know what will happen 673 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,320 to every white person in this room. 674 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,240 My hands are shaking like... 675 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,520 Magician with shaky hands? 676 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:03,440 That won't do. 677 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,160 I take your shoulder. 678 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,240 You follow. 679 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,200 Yalla, n'gomba. 680 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:27,360 All come. 681 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,120 There is cage. 682 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:31,160 By Palastor. 683 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,800 All caught over river. 684 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,640 Bright as day. 685 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,000 Thousand torches. 686 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,760 All make light. 687 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,040 Now do. 688 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:47,600 Now do. 689 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,240 See how quiet they get when Nobby raises his hand. 690 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,440 They're praying. 691 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,360 So are we. 692 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,360 Won't do it. 693 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:54,200 You better. 694 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,400 I told you that. 695 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,080 They're out of hand now. 696 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,400 If you miss, you're no witch doctor. 697 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,760 And if you had any thought of hitting Said instead, 698 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,160 just imagine what they do to you. 699 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,960 I can't see these torches flying me. 700 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,400 You do. 701 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,320 I think the old man's moving. 702 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,120 If he stirs, the lion will kill him. 703 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:13,080 You know what that means. 704 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,360 That's right. 705 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,360 Up with a rifle. 706 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:16,960 My hands are shaking. 707 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,520 Be careful of your sights. 708 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:25,320 It's a point blank shot. 709 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,520 Alla, focus. 710 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,040 All right, Nobby. 711 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,720 The lion is dead. 712 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,520 They can go in and carry our father out now. 713 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,000 Lion dead? 714 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,800 German magic is great magic. 715 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,800 Yes, Nobby, it is. 716 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,640 But English magic is greater. 717 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,880 English magic better than German magic? 718 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:53,600 Yes, Nobby. 719 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,360 Now prove it. 720 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,800 Turn around. 721 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,200 Look out towards the harbor. 722 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,840 I stand here. 723 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,120 I wave my hand like this. 724 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,920 Nothing up my sleeves. 725 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,520 I wouldn't deceive you for the world. 726 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:13,240 I wave my hand towards the gunboat in the bay. 727 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,200 The gunboat sails away. 728 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,720 English magic, Nobby. 729 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:36,760 English magic. 730 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,720 And so ends the Lord of the Witch Doctors. 731 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,720 Tonight's story of suspense. 732 00:27:45,720 --> 00:28:13,200 Next Tuesday, when CBS again brings you suspense, our story will be The Devil in the Summerhouse. 733 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:19,760 The broadcast for next week only is scheduled for 10 p.m. Eastern wartime, a half hour later 734 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,320 than usual. 735 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:27,960 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Bernard Herrmann, the composer-conductor, 736 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:42,720 and John Dixon Carr, the author, are all collaborators on suspense. 737 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,640 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.