WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:05.919 Fed up with the everyday grind, tied out from the 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:10.320 summer heat, want to get away from it. Ah, we 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:11.160 offer you. 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:20.640 Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.359 of today. For a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.839 You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the 7 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:34.640 richest man in the world. While haunting you, terrifying you 8 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.719 is the knowledge that the ultimate escape will be death. 9 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.520 Tonight we escape to an isolated Montana plateau and the 10 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:52.799 strange secret of a stranger family. 11 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:53.479 As F. 12 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:57.759 Scott Fitzgerald told it in his fantastic story The Diamond 13 00:00:57.960 --> 00:00:59.119 As Big as the Ritz. 14 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.560 I've been going to Saint Midas Prep School for a 15 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.040 couple of years. This was my second summer vacation. I'd 16 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:15.079 met this fellow, Percy Washington, during the winter, got to 17 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.439 be pretty good friends with him. Only I didn't know 18 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.519 about his family, or where he came from, or anything 19 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.439 like that. Of course, I knew he must be rich. 20 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.120 All the fellows at Saint Midas came from wealthy families. 21 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.000 So when he invited me to spend the summer at 22 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.959 his home out west someplace, it was okay by me. 23 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:36.640 Been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it. 24 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.079 I don't even remember now what led up to it. 25 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:45.040 We'd been talking about, first one thing and then another. Percy, 26 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.439 Exactly where is your home? I mean you bought the 27 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:49.000 train tickets. 28 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.120 It's in Montana's Montana. 29 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.200 Oh yeah, pretty wild country, isn't it. Some of it 30 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.280 is now. You take Haydes, Missouri, where I come from. 31 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.000 It's been settled for one hundred and fifty years, one 32 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:02.719 of the first towns on the Mississippi River. 33 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.760 Indeed, Oh, sure, that's very interesting. 34 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.919 I sure to appreciate you're not making jokes about it 35 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.520 the way some of the fellas do. And I say, 36 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:11.520 I come from Hades. 37 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.319 Why you know my father's huh do you know that 38 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.039 my father is the richest man in the world. 39 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:20.120 Oh? 40 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:21.280 By father riches? 41 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.319 I read about a man that paid taxes on a 42 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.439 five million dollar income. 43 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:30.360 Small fry. If my father paid tax on his real income, 44 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.199 he'd disrupt the whole economy of the United States. 45 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.599 No kidding. Oh, I like rich people. The richer fellow 46 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:38.800 with the better I like him. 47 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.039 My father could buy out all of the millionaires in 48 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.039 the country and not even know he had done it. 49 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:48.240 Is that a fact? I visited the Schlitzer Murphys. Once 50 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.199 they're plenty rich, Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as 51 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.400 big as hen's eggs and sapphires that glow like headlamps. 52 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:58.919 I like jewels, always have. I used to collect them 53 00:02:58.960 --> 00:02:59.759 instead of stamps. 54 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.360 Diamonds. The Slitzer Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts. 55 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:08.400 Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all. My father has 56 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:13.719 a diamond as big as the Ritz. Please I'm not joking, but. 57 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:19.039 You mean as big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Exactly. 58 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.080 My father has a diamond as big. 59 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:30.240 As the Ritz. We got off the train about dusk 60 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:33.280 at a little whistle stop called fish Montana. There wasn't 61 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:36.639 anything there, not even a station, just a broken down 62 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.879 old buggy and four or five sheep herders lounging beside 63 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:44.039 the track. And I suppose, wondering who we were anyway, 64 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:47.199 Percy and I climbed into the buggy, and without saying 65 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.280 a word, the driver cracked his whip and off we went. 66 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.919 I don't know how far we traveled. We didn't seem 67 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.840 to be following any road, though, and after an hour 68 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.639 or so it gotten dark, but the driver kept right on, 69 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:03.400 never saying a word. 70 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.240 I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have 71 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:09.879 to take certain precautions, you know. 72 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:10.960 Oh that's all right. 73 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.039 Anyway, we're almost there. 74 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:14.840 You're home you mean? 75 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.399 Oh, no, to the place where we consider it safe 76 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.639 to transfer a transfer? 77 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:20.839 What do you mean? 78 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.480 Oh, there's the signal. Now headlights, we'll let the horse 79 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:24.959 abs them. 80 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.160 Here we are an automobile. But how there's no road? 81 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:38.279 Oh this caused special build doesn't need roads. Welcome home, Master, 82 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:44.519 Good evening, Gigsum. Come on, John, let's get in cars. 83 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:46.720 There's this car. What it's made out of? Silver? 84 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.439 No platinum? Those are emeralds in the hubcabs. 85 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:51.959 And the upholstering it. 86 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:53.240 It's fur mink. 87 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:54.680 You're ready, Master. 88 00:04:55.000 --> 00:05:01.079 Anytime, Gigsum. You'll probably notice the exceptional fitness of the headlamps. 89 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:03.399 The lenses are cut from diamonds. 90 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.279 Boy, what a car. 91 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:17.879 This old junkie who years at first station wagon? Hey? 92 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.000 Why did we stop, Percy? This is just a deserted canyon. 93 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.519 Oh we're not yet there yet, John. Wait, you'll see 94 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.160 they sent down the hooks while we were coming from 95 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.439 the station. The hooks, yes, to attach the wheels, you know, 96 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:38.199 that's what Gigson's doing now. Incidentally, Gigson will look after 97 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.639 you during our visit, look after me, your personal valet. 98 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.240 Of course, there'll be other slaves available too, whenever you 99 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:46.680 need them. 100 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.319 Do you have a lot of slaves? 101 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:54.800 Three or four hundred? I suppose, Oh already, Gigsum. 102 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:06.959 Yes, must hello, hoist away. Look we're leaving the ground. 103 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.519 Yes, there's a hoist up there on top of the cliff, 104 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.040 has cables about a quarter of a mile long. But 105 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.319 what four it's the only way. 106 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:18.759 In imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile 107 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:19.879 up the side of a cliff. 108 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.600 It's really nothing. As you may have guessed, John, this 109 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.120 is not going to be like anything you ever saw 110 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:36.160 before in your life. Well, John, there it is. 111 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:42.480 That's your home. It's magnificent Palatio. 112 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:43.920 That's not bad. 113 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.000 How big is it? 114 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.240 I think it's around one hundred and forty rooms. The 115 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:49.800 father may remember exactly. 116 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:50.560 Then. 117 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.560 Of course there are other buildings, slaves, quarters and things. 118 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.279 Why hasn't anyone ever found out about it? This place? 119 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.480 I mean, well, for one thing, it's the only five 120 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.439 square in the United States that have never been surveyed. 121 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:04.240 Why not? 122 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.839 Oh? Things were arranged. 123 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:09.560 I don't see how that's possible. 124 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.199 Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had 125 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.959 to bribe three government bureaus, a vice president and half 126 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.240 of Congress. Wants to keep the place off the maps. 127 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:22.639 But somebody surely stumbled onto it to prospectors people like that. 128 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:26.879 Oh yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have 129 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.759 to arrange things, you mean, not always. Usually we just 130 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.839 take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators. 131 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:36.800 Planes come here. 132 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.560 Once in a while, they fly over. Of course they 133 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.639 never get away. We have nine anti aircraft batteries around 134 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:44.160 the hills. 135 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.519 You shoot them down. 136 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.319 Oh yes, great sport. It does upset mother a bit, 137 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:55.839 and there's always a chance one might get away. That's 138 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.040 father's greatest worry. 139 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.519 This place is, this whole thing is It's fantastic. 140 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:03.759 Oh come now, John, I picked you for a fellow 141 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.439 with his feet on the ground, and you haven't seen 142 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:12.000 anything yet. You know, this is only the beginning. 143 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.639 And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres 144 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.879 of Wan and entered the Great Chateau, and from that 145 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.079 moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic 146 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.839 kaleidoscope of color, symmetry, and exquisite harmony. There were corridors 147 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.879 lined with gleaming crystals, lit by lamps cut from emerald, 148 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.639 and great halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine. And 149 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:42.480 there was a white haired man, pink faced and very pleasant, 150 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:47.840 who was Percy's father, and Percy's mother, a lovely lady 151 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.799 with dark hair piled high on her head like a 152 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:55.840 fragile queen. Soft music came from hidden places, Perfumes filled 153 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.879 the air, Exotic foods and wines more rare than pearl. 154 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.480 I thought there could be no more nor greater wonders. 155 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.000 I was wrong. There were many more and greater ones. 156 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.320 And one of them I discovered the next morning in 157 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:26.639 the garden. Hello there, Yeah, Oh you're lovely. 158 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.840 My name is kiss Mine. You're John Hunger. You're a 159 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.480 friend of my brother. You from the East. 160 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.879 Oh no, at least not exactly. I I am from 161 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.080 hades O Misery. 162 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.039 Oh would you like to sit down here on the grass? 163 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.399 Why? Oh, yes, sure I would. 164 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.279 I'm going east to school this fall. Just suppose I 165 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:51.799 like it. 166 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.639 I think so. Of course it'll be different from all this. 167 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:01.039 That's what Jasmine said. She's in the East. Now I've 168 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:02.159 never been outside. 169 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.039 Who is Jasmine? 170 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.039 My sister? She's older than I am. 171 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:12.000 I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most 172 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.080 beautiful girl I've ever seen. 173 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.159 Yes, I know why I surprised you didn't. I a 174 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.720 year ago I would have said thank you. But father 175 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.399 says it's very necessary to learn to take things for granted. 176 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.320 So now I just take it for granted that I'm beautiful. 177 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.480 You see, you're pretty sophisticated, an't you. 178 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.240 Oh I'm not at all. I believe girls should enjoy 179 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.080 their youth in a wholesome sort of way. 180 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.480 Y oh, oh, so do. 181 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:42.759 I I like you, John. I wish you'd spend some 182 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.000 of your time with me this summer, not all with Percy. 183 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.879 I will kiss me, I I will. 184 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.159 You may be in love with me if you'd like to. 185 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.799 I'm absolutely fresh ground. You know. 186 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.240 I am in love with you. 187 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.120 Of course we'll have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't 188 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:02.120 permit it if they knew. 189 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:04.159 Then that's what we'll do. 190 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.799 I have to go now, I'm supposed to be with 191 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.759 mother at eleven. Aren't you going to ask me for 192 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.240 a kiss? Jasmine says, boys always do nowadays. 193 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.879 Some of them do, but not me. We don't expect 194 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.480 nice girls to do that sort of thing. In hades, 195 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:37.000 It was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly, 196 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.240 always smiling, and yet all the time I had a 197 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.480 feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just 198 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:50.200 around the corner. Er few days after I had met Kismine, 199 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:55.720 Percy remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred. A 200 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.000 man had escaped from the cage. I didn't know what 201 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.039 he meant then, but the next morning I was walking 202 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:06.440 with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate and 203 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:10.759 mister Washington Percy said something about a man escaping from 204 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.320 the cage. I didn't quite get it. 205 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.759 The cage here, Well, perhaps you'd like to see it. 206 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.039 This might prove interesting just as a novelty. 207 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.879 It's over there, these trees sixty feet tall, and they 208 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:26.080 have roses blooming all of. 209 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.759 Yes, yes, it's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist. 210 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.759 These are the only ones in the world we. 211 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.039 Although I suppose you'll see them all over the country 212 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:36.639 in a few years. 213 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.799 No, these are the only ones that was arranged. 214 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:45.679 Ah. Here we are the cage it's a pit dug 215 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.159 in the ground grading on top. 216 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.720 Oh well, yes, it's not really a cage, except in 217 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:52.960 a certain sense. 218 00:12:53.799 --> 00:13:00.799 Well, boys, how are you getting along? How many men 219 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:02.120 are there down there? 220 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.200 About fifty? 221 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:06.720 As I recall, who are they? 222 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.960 The aviators we've shot down, wandering prospectors and many of 223 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:12.440 that sort. 224 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.919 But why are they kept there? 225 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.200 And they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered 226 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:23.480 El Dorado? Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. 227 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.480 I am sure you would like to know that your 228 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:32.279 companion who departed without my permission, has been taken care of. Yes, 229 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:36.360 he was shot by some of my agents in fourteen 230 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:37.879 different places. 231 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:44.960 Golf, mister Hunger. They found him. Then the man who 232 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:45.360 got away. 233 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.279 No, those places were towns. 234 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:48.720 My agents were over eager. 235 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:51.960 None of them could offer a positive identification. 236 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.039 I'm afraid the man may still be at large. 237 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.000 You see. It's not all utopia here. 238 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.440 We do have our difficulties. 239 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.399 Isn't it a little unnecessary houlding them like that? 240 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:06.159 Not at all. 241 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.000 It's the only way to keep this place hidden. 242 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.000 Yes, I guess that must be important. Oh, Percy was 243 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.840 telling me something on the train. I thought he was kidding, 244 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.799 but he said, you had a diamond as big as 245 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:19.879 the Ritz called an hotel. 246 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.200 Yes, yes, indeed, as a matter of fact, it's much 247 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.279 bigger than the Ritz, much bigger. 248 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.679 Well, summer went on, I was more and more in 249 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:39.000 love with his mind. She was priceless, exquisite, like no 250 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.679 other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks, 251 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.080 I kissed her, of course, and I was really in 252 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.440 love for the first time. I should have known, should 253 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:53.240 have put two and two together when Percy's father showed 254 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.440 me the cage, but I didn't until one morning late 255 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.919 in the summer. I slipped off with his mind to 256 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:04.039 the Rose Gardens, kiss mine. I think we ought to Elope. 257 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.799 I don't know. It would be much nicer to be 258 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:13.360 married here. Then it'd be more romantic to Elope. Yes, 259 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:18.799 all of Sunday supplements would write stories about fabulous errors elopes. 260 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.559 I knew an heiress from Omaha once, but I don't 261 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.679 think you'd like her. She visited my sister here. 262 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.720 Oh you've uh had other guests. 263 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.279 Then, well, yes, we've had a few. 264 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.360 What wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside? Well, 265 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:39.159 to some extent. 266 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.279 Let's talk about something more pleasant. 267 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.440 What's so unpleasant? About it. 268 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.559 Well, I I grew quite fond of some of them. 269 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.679 You mean they told and your father. 270 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.399 They didn't get a chance to Father had to be sure. 271 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.799 But that's murder. 272 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.159 What else could we do in the cage. They'd have 273 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.559 been a constant reproach to us, and father does it 274 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.360 so nicely. They're always drugged in their sleep, and we 275 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.000 tell their families they died of scarlet fever, and butwed 276 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:17.799 I'm not sure how that affects the statistics there. 277 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:18.840 All the horrible it is not. 278 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.639 You're all to be terribly boring here without ever having anybody. 279 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:27.519 My father and mother have sacrificed some of their best friends. 280 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:33.399 You're no better than that's what they plan to do 281 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:33.919 with me? Then? 282 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.840 Couldn't you try to forget it? Be nice to me 283 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:42.840 until until you're put away. It's only for two or 284 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:43.559 three weeks. 285 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:48.799 You you'd go on this way, kissing, talking about love 286 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:50.799 when you know I'm not much better than a corpse. 287 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.559 You're not a corpse, You're not. I won't have you 288 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.720 saying I kissed a corp. 289 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.600 That wasn't what I said. You did too, I did not. 290 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:02.200 You said it a just a moment. Who kissed a corpse. 291 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:04.240 Nobody. 292 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:06.240 We were just joking. 293 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.200 You two haven't any business here anyway. Now, Gius mine 294 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.279 go read, go, go, go, go, go play golf. Now, 295 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.920 don't you let me find you here when I come back? Yes, father, 296 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:18.000 good day children. 297 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.319 You see now he knows you've spoiled everything. 298 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:28.000 You don't really love me, his mine? You? What's the 299 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:33.519 use if you are rich and have this place? Why 300 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.640 would it be so terrible if anyone found out about it? 301 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:38.119 It's on account of the diamond. 302 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.640 Of course, diamond. What is this diamond all of you 303 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.880 talk about. 304 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.960 You'd better ask Percy. I'm always getting things mixed up. 305 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.640 I will ask him. And another thing I'm getting out 306 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.640 of here tonight. If I have to dig through the mountains, 307 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.079 I'm going back east. Take me with you? No, why not? 308 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:57.640 Your father wouldn't permit it. 309 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:00.319 You won't take me. I'll go tell him I want 310 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:01.279 to marry you. 311 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.000 You can't do that. He'd bump me off this afternoon. 312 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:11.000 Please take me, darling. It will be terribly poor and 313 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.960 very happy, and I'll cook things for you, herbs and 314 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.559 berries and stuff. Will that be fun? 315 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:20.559 Oh? 316 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:21.559 You will, won't you? 317 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:30.680 John? Well, My head was really in a whirld. This 318 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:35.000 whole thing was fantastic, and so was the family, even 319 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:38.200 kids mine. I couldn't think of anything to do, but 320 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:39.480 I rushed to see Percy. 321 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.359 But John, why didn't you ask me before? 322 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:44.519 Because I thought you were kidding all the time. 323 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.640 I know you wouldn't believe me if I'd told you. 324 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:50.720 I'm ready to believe anything now. 325 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:54.160 Well, it was my grandfather who started the whole thing, 326 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.720 purely by accident. He came out here from Virginia after 327 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.680 the War between the States and stumbled onto it under 328 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.440 what the diamond. Of course, that's what made all this possible. 329 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.839 Grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of 330 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:10.960 the world selling bits of it. Then he started building 331 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.000 this place. He put his money into jewels, but father 332 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.720 found that radium took up much less space. But but 333 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.880 why the secrecy, Oh, we just wouldn't do if anyone 334 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:24.720 found out, ruined the whole economy of the world. The 335 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:25.519 thing's too big. 336 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:31.680 This has been going on for three generations. When the 337 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:35.599 cage and and this thing of inviting friends. 338 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:40.079 Oh yes, you see, there wasn't really any danger before aeroplanes. 339 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.240 They are what worrious And you knew when you invited 340 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.079 me here. What would happen? Please? 341 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:50.160 John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it. After all, 342 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.240 you can see my position. 343 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:57.240 Yeah, where is it? Where do you keep this diamond? 344 00:19:57.240 --> 00:19:58.920 That's cast? So clock had much trouble? 345 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:02.000 Oh, I thought you'd guest. You've noticed the hill the 346 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:06.119 chateau stands on. Yes, it contains a cubic mile, and 347 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:10.240 except for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big, 348 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.079 solid diamond. 349 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.599 It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me, 350 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:24.240 but all of a sudden I we was staring across 351 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:27.759 the patches of moonlight, spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom, 352 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:31.480 staring at three slaves I'd never seen before. They just 353 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:35.279 slipped inside the door and stood there, each with a 354 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:44.400 vicious length of shiny copper wire, the official executioners. I 355 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.480 lay there on the bed, watching them, counting heartbeats, not 356 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:48.920 daring to move, not daring not to move. They didn't 357 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.920 know I'd waken. They began edging across the room. 358 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:54.599 Come on, all three of you. 359 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.440 There's no time now for these all Hell's broken loose. 360 00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:57.799 Hurry. 361 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.000 I took one long, deep breath, the first one in 362 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:03.839 several moments. Then I was out of the bed in 363 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.480 an instant, throwing on my clothes and dashing through the 364 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:13.920 long crystal corridor to kis Mine's roma. Kis Mine, are 365 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:15.720 you awake over here by the window? 366 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.160 So they woke you up too? 367 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:19.759 If you mean three of your father's slaves? 368 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:20.839 Two airplanes? 369 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.160 Airplanes? So that's what it is. 370 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.319 At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon. 371 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.920 Look they're circling way over there. 372 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:30.680 You think they're here on purpose? 373 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:35.000 Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who 374 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:35.799 got away from. 375 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.440 The cage, you know, good for him, This wasn't he clever? 376 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:40.839 I think we'll open up on them any second. 377 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:42.039 Now, open up? 378 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:43.279 Yes, are any aircraft? 379 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:46.079 This is going to be thrilling, thrilling. 380 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:54.000 Oh, look they're in range now, Brabo, get away from 381 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:54.440 that window. 382 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:00.839 Did you see that? 383 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.039 Yes? And we've got to get out of here. Can't 384 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:04.319 you understand there's a. 385 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:06.599 Little group of trees across the side of the mountains. 386 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:09.039 We always keep one of the cars there. We'll have 387 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.880 a nice view of everything. 388 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.000 A nice views mine. You don't seem to understand they 389 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.119 mean business. They're out to finish off you and your 390 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:16.680 whole family. 391 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:18.640 But it all seems so silly. 392 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:22.279 But when you come right down to it, they've never 393 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:33.160 even met us. 394 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.680 What time is it, John, Is it morning yet? 395 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:46.519 I don't know. I've lost my watch. Seems to be 396 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:47.200 getting lighter. 397 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:50.160 All right, it's quieter too. 398 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:58.079 Your guns and knocked out every last one of them. 399 00:22:58.319 --> 00:22:59.440 It won't belong now. 400 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:05.440 Seems such a shame. The family put so much work 401 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:10.000