WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 For Suspense, tonight we present Menace in Wax by John Dixon Carr. 00:49.000 --> 00:56.000 During the French Revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in one of the most famous books 00:56.000 --> 01:03.000 of the French Revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 who had just been guillotined. 01:06.000 --> 01:13.000 She married a Frenchman named Toussaint and came to London and she founded Madame Toussaint's 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 wax works. 01:20.000 --> 01:25.000 There it is, still in Marleybone Road near Baker Street Station. 01:25.000 --> 01:31.000 Not the original building, that was destroyed by fire, but it remained untouched when a 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 darker shadow than revolution came to England. 01:36.000 --> 01:41.000 They plastered high explosives all along that road and hit the cinema next door. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 We are going to London under the bomber's moon. 01:46.000 --> 01:53.000 Late one night in March of 1941, a young man hurried up to the great glass doors of Madame 01:53.000 --> 01:55.000 Toussaint's. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 Hey, open up there. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 Isn't there a night watchman around this place? 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 There he is, Governor, and I'm in. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 Now what do you want at this hour of the night? 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 My name is Roger. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 I'm from the Daily Record. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 If you let me get inside, I'll show you my press card. 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 Didn't you get any orders about me? 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, maybe I have at that. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Oh, you're the bloke who wants to see the Chimbaravaras. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 That's right. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 All right, you may as well come in. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 My paper got a tip there's something funny going on around here. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Something funny going on here? 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 That's a good one. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 The rain's not very heavy tonight, is it? 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 No, they're going over. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 You ain't heard where, Governor? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 We got a teletype flash. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 There was a Midlands. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 Lord Lummi and I've got a sister in Bromingham. 02:46.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, why can't she come and stop in a nice safe place like London? 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 There's the Regent Park guns opening up again. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 My teeth rattle and shakes the hats off the dummy's heads. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 You know, this Chimbaravaras is getting to be popular tonight. 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 You mean there's been somebody here before me? 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 Yes. 03:08.000 --> 03:09.000 A woman? 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 That's right, Governor. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 About five feet two inches tall, very pretty. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 If you like them brunette and big-eyed and their phony French accent. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 No, Governor, no. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 This was only an old lady that lost her handbag. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Oh, thank the Lord for that anyway. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 Now then, what is going on around here? 03:24.000 --> 03:25.000 Well, I don't know, Governor. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 You'll have to ask Pearson about that. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 Who's Pearson? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Oh, he's the bloke that's the watchman down there. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 He's old and he imagines things. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 He phoned your piper. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Have you got an electric torch? 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 Yes. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 Then go straight on through the marble hall and down the stairs on your left. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 And don't speak to the policeman because he's wax. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Yes, that's the way, Governor. 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 That's the way to the Chimbaravaras. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Thank you. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 Pearson. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Hello, Pearson. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 Pearson. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 Yes, sir. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 You're looking for me? 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Oh, I didn't see you there. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 I must have thought you were one of these wax dummies. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Ugly dim light, isn't it? 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Yes. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Rogers is my name. I'm from the Daily Record. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Oh, yes. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 I'm glad you came over. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 I phoned your piper myself. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 Maybe I'm just imagining things, but... 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 I don't blame you. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 This place would make anybody nervous, especially during an air raid. 04:31.000 --> 04:36.000 Well, sir, it's all right as long as you don't get to imagine they're watching you. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Oh, and do you? 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 Oh, yes. Sometimes. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 That's the gambling group in the center there. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Uh-huh. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 What's that thing over there? 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 That's the famous guillotine. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Oh, wait a minute, old boy. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 You're not trying to tell me that's the original guillotine. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 No, that was burnt in the fire. 04:58.000 --> 05:02.000 Madame Toussaint bought it from Sanson, the executioner. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Let me tell you something, Mr. Rogers. 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 What? 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 Years ago, if this is straight, 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 a young French woman came in here. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 There was nobody else in the place. 05:16.000 --> 05:23.000 She thought it would be great fun to say she'd put her neck in the same guillotine as Brie Antoinette. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 So she climbed up on that platform. 05:26.000 --> 05:33.000 She snapped the little wooden collar down round her neck, shutting herself in. 05:33.000 --> 05:40.000 All of a sudden, she realized she didn't know which spring controlled the collar 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 and which spring controlled the knife. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Oh, good Lord, she didn't know. 05:45.000 --> 05:49.000 But they say she went crazy. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 They say she screamed and screamed. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 What's that? 05:55.000 --> 06:01.000 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, but sweet mama, I'm so scared of myself I cannot help it. 06:01.000 --> 06:02.000 Susie. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Oh, no, no, no, no, not Susie. 06:04.000 --> 06:09.000 Susie, you make it so it rhymes with floozy. That is not nice. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Why, you little devil, I ought to turn you across my knee. 06:12.000 --> 06:16.000 What are you doing here? And will you forget that French accent? You're driving me crazy. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 You know this young lady, sir. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 Do I? She works for my paper. She's haunting me. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Bert, that's not nice. I like the way I talk. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 I only try to give you ideas. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 That's just what I mean. Now, take your arms from around my neck. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 She's French. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Her mother came from New York like I did. 06:32.000 --> 06:35.000 She's got some funny ideas, accents, and disguises. 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 So I dress up as an old lady and I come along too. That is clever, no? 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 Definitely no. 06:40.000 --> 06:46.000 But I go into what I think is the lady's room and there is Jack the Ripper. I'm so scared I almost kick the ghost. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 Whatever else you do miss, for the love of heaven, put out that cigarette. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 It is not permitted? 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 It is what they are most afraid of in this place. Fire! 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 If you vouch for this young lady, Mr. Rogers... 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 I don't vouch for anybody. But go on now. What's all the mystery here at Madame Tussauds? 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 You see the group over there? It's called the Gamblers. 07:07.000 --> 07:12.000 That three men and a woman in 18th century costumes sitting around a table playing cards? 07:12.000 --> 07:17.000 Yes. And about once a week, when the lights are out... 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Yes? 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 Those dummies do play cards. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Is this a publicity trick of some kind? 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 Oh no sir. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Then what's the game? 07:28.000 --> 07:32.000 I'm not crazy. I know they don't actually do it sir. 07:32.000 --> 07:39.000 What I want to know is who changes the cards round in their hands? And why? 07:39.000 --> 07:43.000 Could anybody? Anybody from the outside I mean, get in to change the cards? 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 Oh yes. There's a back door. 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 But why would anyone want to break in here just to change those cards around? 07:50.000 --> 07:54.000 Monsieur Berthes, listen. I have made a discovery. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 Listen, if you're going to talk, speak English. Or better yet, just keep still. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 But I have made a discovery. This card game. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 What about it? 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 It is crooked. Here is a man which has two deuces of hearts in the same hand. 08:05.000 --> 08:11.000 Listen Susie, I don't give a... Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's have a look at those cards. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 I give you ideas, yes? 08:13.000 --> 08:20.000 Susie, for once you're right. And look here. Two of these players have all the clubs and hearts. 08:20.000 --> 08:25.000 The other two have all the diamonds and spades. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Susie, how many letters in the alphabet? 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Twenty-six, no? 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 And twice twenty-six is... 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 Twenty-two. 08:30.000 --> 08:43.000 The number of cards in a pack. Give me a pencil Susie, quick. 08:43.000 --> 08:49.000 The War Office, Whitehall. MI5, headquarters of military intelligence. 08:49.000 --> 08:55.000 There next morning in the map room used as an office by Colonel Warrender. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Mr. Rogers, I am a busy man. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 I appreciate that Colonel Warrender. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Anyhow, sit down. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 Thank you sir. 09:02.000 --> 09:07.000 Now what's all this? These cards you claim form a code, is that it? 09:07.000 --> 09:12.000 Yes sir. Now look sir. Let each letter of the alphabet represent a card in clubs and hearts. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 That's twenty-six. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 And then? 09:14.000 --> 09:19.000 And then when you get to the middle of the message, switch the alphabet over to diamonds and spades. 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Then you won't keep on repeating. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Now will you read what I've got written on this piece of paper? 09:23.000 --> 09:29.000 Jack of diamonds, Q, three of clubs, F. That doesn't seem to mean much. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 Never mind the cards Colonel, just read the letters. 09:32.000 --> 09:36.000 Q, F, A, C, T, O, R, Y. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 Yes sir, Q factory. Go on. 09:38.000 --> 09:42.000 Oh just a moment. What is that infernal noise? Johnson Burrows! 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Don't bother with that sir, just read the message please. 09:45.000 --> 09:50.000 Q factory, ten p.m., fifteenth. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.000 Today's the fifteenth of March Colonel. 09:53.000 --> 09:58.000 All preparations made. Use dive-bobbers. 09:58.000 --> 10:02.000 I see. This message was left openly. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 So openly that nobody ever noticed it. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Yes, the trick's been tried before. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 No contacts, no gatherings, no letters that might be intercepted. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 The whole spy ring could walk through that wax museum and read the message without being seen. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 You newspaper men trying to teach me my job? 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 Oh I'm sorry sir, I only... 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 No, no, go on. 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 Well don't you see, three or four little boats with portable wireless sets go down the Thames estuary. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 When they're beyond pursuit they send that message by radio. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Somebody listens. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 And it's no secret in Fleet Street sir that Q factory is out in the wilds of Gleibeshire. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 There's no secret anywhere. 10:33.000 --> 10:36.000 And that we're making the Shaftesbury bomber out there. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 So tonight, unless we do something about it, they're coming over and bomb Q factory to blazes. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Oh that's impossible. 10:41.000 --> 10:44.000 Why? Or can't you tell me? 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 I can tell you this much. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Yes sir? 10:46.000 --> 10:51.000 Q factory is so well hidden that even our own pilots can't fight it from the air. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 That's one objection to this message. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 Any other objection? 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 Yes, this talk about dive bombers. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Dive bombers in a night attack. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 What's the good of a dive bomber if he can't see his objective? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Well suppose somebody showed a light. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 He'd be shot dead as soon as he showed it. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Every inch of country for a quarter of a mile around the factory, 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 a quarter of a mile Mr Rogers is patrolled day and night. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Well, just the same, they're going to have a try at it sir. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 How? 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 I don't know how. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 Then if you'll excuse me Mr Rogers. 11:18.000 --> 11:22.000 Listen Colonel Winder, will you give me a pass to go down there to the factory? 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 Certainly not. No one's permitted to go there except the workers. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 How is the place defended? 11:27.000 --> 11:32.000 There's a night fighter station nearby and several batches of four 3.7 guns. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Then give me a pass to the fighter station or to the gun post. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 That's a legitimate newspaper request. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 Well I might manage a pass to one of the gun posts. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 Then you'll do it. 11:41.000 --> 11:45.000 Well what on earth is that infernal row? 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 Sounds like somebody locked up in a coat cupboard. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 Yes, as a matter of fact Colonel, it is somebody locked up in a coat cupboard. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 A young lady so called. 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 A young lady? Who locked her up? 11:55.000 --> 11:56.000 I did. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 And just what the devil do you mean sir? 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Locking up people in coat cupboards in the war office? 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 Well she's a bit excitable Colonel. I thought that she'd better not see you. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Thanks for the consideration. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 There's just one other favor I'd like to ask. 12:08.000 --> 12:09.000 As well? 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 If she asks you for a pass, don't give it to her. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Don't give it to her under any circumstances. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 What's her name? 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 Susie Dubois. 12:16.000 --> 12:19.000 You're rather too late for that young man. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 The public relations office granted her a pass two hours ago. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 What? Oh. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 A woman to an anti-aircraft battery? 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 This is what we call a mixed battery. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 Women on the guns as well as men. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 She said it would make a good human interest story for the press. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 I must say I agree with her. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 One moment Mr. Rogers before you go. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 Yes sir. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 That gun post is fully two miles from the factory. 12:41.000 --> 12:47.000 You can go there, but if you take one step further you'll be shot on sight by our guards. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 I warn you. 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 I'll be careful Colonel. I'll be careful. 12:59.000 --> 13:05.000 Somewhere in the West Country, a yellow moon shines over bare trees. 13:05.000 --> 13:09.000 A white mist moving clings to the ground. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Susie are you sure we're on the right road? 13:19.000 --> 13:24.000 Oh, mon cher. They have taken away all the signposts in case there is an invasion. 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 I know that. 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 But I follow the map. The map cannot be wrong. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 We've been driving for hours. It must be... 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Yes it is, nearly half past nine. 13:32.000 --> 13:36.000 Half an hour to go. Trees, trees and still more trees. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 Look, there's a break and the trees ahead. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 It will be open country in a minute. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Yeah, that's funny. Look how deep the leaves are here on the road. 13:47.000 --> 13:51.000 But one thing I tell you, just between you and me and the bedpost... 13:51.000 --> 13:56.000 Gatepost Susie, the term is between you and me and the gatepost. And speak English. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 I am speaking English very well thank you. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 I do not need your help to be here. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 No, I do not need your help to be pure. 14:03.000 --> 14:04.000 All right, all right. 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Now this map. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Well, what about it? 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 It say we should go through a lot of villages. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 Mitford, Archedeen and Sephora Weville. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 I have not seen any villages. 14:16.000 --> 14:17.000 Did you say Mitford? 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Oui mon cher. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 Susie, let me have a look at that map. Come on, come on, hand it over. 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 But what is wrong? It is a perfectly good map. 14:26.000 --> 14:31.000 Yes, Susie, it is a fine map. It is an excellent map. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 Only it is a map of the wrong county. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 I have made a mistake. No? 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 I do not even believe you can read. This is a map of Barsichur. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 We should be somewhere in Glebesher. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Now where in the devil are we? 14:42.000 --> 14:45.000 With the entrance to some kind of clearing with leaves on it. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 Oh. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 Hello there. 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 What was that? 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 Hello there. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 Somebody calling us. If we are in forbidden area. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 I see him now. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Where? 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Behind us. He came out of a white cottage back there. 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 He is a big heavy man. With a moustache. 15:01.000 --> 15:05.000 Never mind the moustache. He is wearing some kind of a uniform and he has got a rifle. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 You think he plugged us? No? 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 I think it is not unlikely. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Get out those war office passes of ours. 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 Quick. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Good evening my friends. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Good evening. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Can you tell me? 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 We do not mean any harm. 15:18.000 --> 15:22.000 Can you tell me what time it is? 15:22.000 --> 15:25.000 Oh. What time it is? 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Yes. 15:26.000 --> 15:31.000 Oh. It is 28 and a half minutes past nine. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 Thank you. 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 I will keep you covered while I set my watch. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Yeah. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 My next question is. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Would you like me to shoot you both? 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 No. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 Listen Mr. Mr. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 McCallister. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 Captain. Captain McCallister. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 That is right. 15:52.000 --> 15:57.000 Captain. This girl. She has been reading the wrong map. 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 You see we do not even know where we are. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 You are in Hollywood forest my friend. 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 Hollywood forest. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 Is that good or bad? 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 And you do not know what is just beyond the edge of this clearing? 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 No. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 There is a big open space of a quarter of a mile. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 In the middle of that open space. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Q Factory. We are right on top of it. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 Then you have heard of Q Factory my friend. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 Captain McCallister. We are from the war office and we have got passes to prove it. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Let's see the passes. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 We were trying to find gunsight number. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 I have forgotten the number. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 But it is here on that card. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 You have passed the gunsight. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Two miles back up the road. 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 All right. Here are your passes. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 What are you going to do to us? 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 I am not in the regular army. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 You can thank your stars I am not. 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 I am forestry preservation. 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 You are not going to chuck us in the cooler even? 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 No. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 Turn that car around and get back along this road as fast as you can. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 If they fire at you as they probably will. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Oh I wish I am home. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 I pray no more. I wish I am home. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Well they will hope for the best. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 My watch had stopped and you did me a good turn. 17:04.000 --> 17:25.000 Well hurry along. Hurry. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 Gun sight of heavy attack battery. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 Four three point seven guns against a moon growing clear white. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 White as the concrete emplacements. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 Sealed against light where the crews men and women sitting waiting. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 Waiting. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 Waiting. 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 Well sir. 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 I am glad to have you both here. 17:45.000 --> 17:54.000 This idea of yours about dive bombers attacking a blacked out factory in the middle of a forest is rather fantastic don't you think? 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 I admit it doesn't make much sense Captain Bronson. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 But I have a hunch that I am right. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 You and Miss Susie drove out don't see many strangers. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Frightly boring. Nice country of course. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Good air and everything but dull. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 Dull as ditch water. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 What's that? 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Only some of the lads and lasses inside. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 Like to walk along the emplacement here. 18:14.000 --> 18:15.000 Oh is that allowed? 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 Oh certainly old boy why not. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Bright moon tonight isn't it? 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 Yes bombers moon. 18:21.000 --> 18:24.000 We nearly get shot on our way here. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 Quiet Susie. We are not supposed to have been there. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 If I nearly get shot I am going to say I nearly get shot. 18:30.000 --> 18:34.000 It was a man which is called Mick Callister. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Oh old Mack. Very decent sort Mack. He's a tree doctor. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 A what? 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Tree doctor. Got to have wood you know. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 But trees start to die. 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 Mack goes round the edge of the clearing and smears him with stuff to keep him well. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 How did you come to meet him? 18:50.000 --> 18:54.000 Well the fact is we nearly got as far as the factory tonight. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 Oh then you were lucky to get back alive. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 There weren't any barrage balloons over the factory I noticed. 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 Hardly old boy. They wouldn't advertise would they? With balloons in open country. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 And if the Germans did use dive bombers? 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 Oh they're not coming old boy. Just make up your mind to that. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 I wonder if you'll say so at ten o'clock. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 But it is ten o'clock. It's just ten now. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 It can't be. We drove here like blazes. It was only half past nine then. 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 Then your watch must be very slow old boy. 19:22.000 --> 19:26.000 No I'm afraid you're wrong. I've never seen it quieter. 19:26.000 --> 19:29.000 Cold tonight. Very dry for March. 19:29.000 --> 19:35.000 Look all around you. Moonlight. Open country. Not a sign of life in it. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Quiet. Peaceful. And silent as the... 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 What was that? 19:41.000 --> 19:45.000 Why George I think we've got some visitors. I think we're going to see some fun. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 Enemy planes approaching south southwest. Action stations. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 Enemy planes approaching south southwest. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 Now do you believe me? 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 Stand back old boy. Operation crew's coming on. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 I said now do you believe me? 19:58.000 --> 20:03.000 I want you to watch these girls work. They do everything you know except actually fire the guns. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Now now now keep your hair on old boy. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Susie he still can't see it. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Oh they'll only be going over. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 You think so? 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 Oh yes. We sometimes get a crack at them when they're making for Bristol. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 Enemy fire for action. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Enemy fire. 20:17.000 --> 20:25.000 Listen. 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 I have heard that noise a thousand times. 20:27.000 --> 20:31.000 But every time I hear it I get sick. 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 They're flying ruddy low you know. 20:34.000 --> 20:40.000 Just what I was thinking. 20:40.000 --> 20:46.000 Spotter. Spotter. Any identification? 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 Junkers. 88. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 Dive bombers. 20:50.000 --> 20:53.000 Point. 5200. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Look here you two newspaper people. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 Yes sir. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 There might be things popping you know. Can't tell. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 I'd like to get below. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 Oh no thanks. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 I don't like this Bert but I'll stay too. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Range finder. 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 Range finder. On target. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 Look here you two. Those war office passes you gave me. 21:11.000 --> 21:15.000 I'm not supposed to keep them. I'd better give them back just in case. 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 Predictor. Predictor. On target. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Here we go ladies and gents. 21:20.000 --> 21:26.000 Fire. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 Stand by. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Predictor on target. 21:29.000 --> 21:35.000 Fire. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Stand by. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 Predictor on target. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Headquarters message sir. 21:39.000 --> 21:40.000 Yes corporal. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 No more fire. Night fighters taking off. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Full fire. Night fighters taking off. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Full fire. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Message understood. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 What is the matter with them? 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 With who? 21:52.000 --> 21:57.000 Those harsh planes. They're still a good way off but they don't come any closer. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 Must be going over after all. 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 They're circling. I think they're waiting for a signal. 22:03.000 --> 22:08.000 Anyhow here are your war office passes. You seem to have got them all smeared with oil. 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 Oil? 22:09.000 --> 22:14.000 That is all right, Monsher. When we get them back from Captain McAllister, they have oil on them. 22:14.000 --> 22:18.000 I think maybe drop them on the leaves because there's oil on the tires of the car too. 22:18.000 --> 22:22.000 Then I think how always in this we meet things at birth. 22:22.000 --> 22:26.000 At Madame Tussauds last night, they would not let me smoke a cigarette in case of fire. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 Fire. That said fire. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 What's the matter with you old boy? 22:30.000 --> 22:34.000 Why did that fella way out at the end of nowhere want to know what time it was? 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 Are you scatter? 22:36.000 --> 22:42.000 McAllister, you told me so yourself. He goes around the edges of the clearing and smears the trees with stuff to keep them well. 22:42.000 --> 22:43.000 What about it? 22:43.000 --> 22:49.000 Suppose it was crude oil. Suppose between each tree he laid an invisible fuse of dead leaves soaked in oil. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 I don't understand. 22:51.000 --> 22:55.000 In 30 seconds a complete square of fire runs around the limits of the factory grounds. 22:55.000 --> 23:00.000 That draws the bombers in. Then as the flames blaze higher, they've got enough light to dive on their target. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 There. Our night fighters are letting loose. 23:05.000 --> 23:11.000 Bronson, I see it all now. Come on. We've got to get to that tree, Dr. McAllister. It's a matter of minutes. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Susie, is Bronson following in the car behind us? 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Yes. He's following in men with rifles. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 We've got to get to McAllister's cottage. 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 This McAllister... 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 I'll bet you 10 to 1. The real McAllister is either dead or tied up in that cottage. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 The fellow we saw was an imposter. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Look out, Susie. Keep your head down. 23:45.000 --> 23:49.000 Oh, those fighters. They will chew a better younger in the place. 23:49.000 --> 23:53.000 They have not got the chance of a snowshoe in heaven. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 No, Susie, not a snowshoe in heaven. You mean a... 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 I know you are English at a time like this. What I cannot understand... 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Look out! 24:01.000 --> 24:05.000 I don't see why he hasn't set his signal off. What is delaying him? 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Why don't he strike a match when the bombers come over? 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Because he's a good Nazi. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 A good Nazi? 24:10.000 --> 24:14.000 My watch was slow, don't you remember? I gave him the wrong time. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 He had orders to strike his match at 10 o'clock. 24:16.000 --> 24:20.000 He'll not do it until 10 o'clock if there are 500 planes instead of 20. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Bert, I see him. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Where? 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 Far up the road. He's running. 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 Yeah. Yeah, that's him. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 Think we can reach him before he gets to the clearing? 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 Not the chance of a snowshoe in heaven. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Signal brunts in the passes. A long shot with a rifle might... 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 Bert! Bert! One of the anchors has hit. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 What? 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 He's right over us. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 That's not all. He's unloading his bombs. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 That whole stick is coming straight down in our direction. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 Keep your head down. 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 I want to see... 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 Good job, baby. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 Good job, baby. 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 Are you all right? 25:00.000 --> 25:03.000 I... I don't feel her. 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 This is a dirt road. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 The bomb sank too deeply before it exploded. 25:06.000 --> 25:08.000 We didn't catch the blast. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 Come on, Susie. The callister was just ahead of us. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 Come on, let's get out. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 We can't drive any further. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 This road is full of bomb craters. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 Wait a minute, Susie. There's my callister. 25:23.000 --> 25:27.000 He... he is dead. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 Yes, Susie. 25:28.000 --> 25:31.000 Killed by a Nazi bomb. 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 Look, on the ground. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 What are those two white cards? 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 Oh. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 They're all smeared with oil. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 They must have fallen out of Macalester's pocket just before he got hit. 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 Let's see. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Huh. What do you know? 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 What are the cards for? 25:49.000 --> 25:53.000 Two tickets for Madame Tussaud's waxworks. 25:53.000 --> 25:56.000 I'm afraid our friend's never going to get to use them. 25:56.000 --> 26:11.000 Not the chance of us. 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