All language subtitles for Number 17 (1932)- English

Oh god, Oh god, Oh god.

- Oh god.
- Hurt yourself?

- Oh god.
- Where's that candle?

Here, have some of this.

Let me have it.

That's enough.

Blimey.

Sort of kicked stairs down guvnor.

What about that? Up there...

- Let me go Guvnor, I haven't done it.
- What were you doing up there then?

I'm coming here for sleeping, see you.

Must have somewhere to sleep, mustn't I?

Ain't got no money, see? No, not a shellin.

I ain't never murdered him guvnor.

No, I am dead short, sure my bob, I ain't.

We'll see about that.

- Come on up.
- What you say?

Me going up them stairs, no blooming fear

I'm not going up them stairs again,
governor. Not for you or nobody else.

Oh yes, you are. Come on.

Hey, hey guvnor, what's your
game with you're playing at?

I'm going to have a look
at that body. Then I'll decide.

I can tell you right
now guvnor, get a cooper.

- Go on.
- Oh god.

- Hey, guvnor I got an idea.
- Well?

- You go first.
- Come on.

Oh god.

What are you doing down there?

- I was looking for you guvnor.
- Where am I?

- Well, go.
- Come on.

Oh, dynamite up there.

They're after me guvnor

I'll coming for queasy.

Who done him in guvnor?

Hit on the head I should think,
coming out of that door.

Who hit him? That's what I can't make out.

Who hit him?

Hear guvnor.

Wait, wait...

Quite sure you don't know
anything about that?

But me?

If I had done it I'd have noted it, won't I?

Don't suppose one forgets a
murder like posting of a letter.

Have another think.

Don't worry if I did.

Now, what you got in your pockets?

- Holes.
- What else?

There, handkerchief.

Used that to gag him with, eh?

This string? Oh yes, stabbed him with it.

Sausage.

That's what I hit him on his head with.

Don't mind about that.

I said never mind about that.

Oh, sorry.

Yours?

- Yes.
- Jolly little kid.

Yes, she was.

Hey, is something for look
guvnor, half a fag.

When the little Lock Charles, he
smokes one here I smoke the other, see?

What about your pockets, eh?

Two eyed guvnor, sorry I
ain't so nosy Parker as you.

Here, take this candle.

Hey, look.

Hey...

you sure are moving Charlie.
Here, let's have a look at your pockets.

Aha...

What the hell is he doing with bracelets?

A gun.

Wonder if it's loaded.

Blimey, the trigger is stiff.

Got anything else about you mate.

- Find anything else guvnor?
- No, only this candle.

- Where do these come from?
- Eh?

I found them on the body
guvnor, whose are they?

Do you never seen a pair of handcuffs before?

No sir.

Never worn them, I was brought up baptist.

Or we better take a look at this chap.

- Light.
- Ah? Thank you.

It always pay an innocent
man to play straight, you know.

Darn, who said I'm
an innocent man, oh blimey.

Who said I ain't playing straight?

Ain't Ok guvnor?

Chuck you see, chuck it.
This is a Bobby's job, you see.

Making it bad, that's all
you're doing, making it bad.

Hail Glory.

It's all right guvnor, I got him.

Keep still, young man. I got him guvnor.

Did you hit her?

- That.
- Take that.

Oh look at that, lapping it up.

Let me go, let me go. Where's my father?

Dad, Dad...

Dad.

- What have you done with my father?
- What?

Now, what's the trouble.

We'll try and do something
for you, if you tell us.

Yes, I'm sure they tell you that a
girl is been knocked out and all that.

- Oh, my mistake Miss.
- Who are you two?

My name is Fordryce and his is...

What's your name?

- Ben.
- Ben what?

Well, if it wasn't for you
Guvnor, it be Ben Bolt.

Did enough to hurt me when you
hit me just now. I feel quite dizzy.

That wasn't me Miss.

That was the brandy he give
you to bring you on, see?

- Oh, thanks.
- Now, what's all this about your father?

Will someone look on the roof
and see if you can see anybody.

- Yes, go on Ben, up you go.
- Why me?

God love a duck, checks is with me.

You see, Dad and me live next door
at number fifteen and this evening...

Dad went up to the top room and a few
minutes later a telegram came for him.

So I took it up and found the door locked.

And when I banged on it he didn't
answer so I've been scared ever since.

- Can you see anything?
- Yes.

- What?
- What?

- Houses.
- Silly idiot.

Go on.

- Now, go on.
- Oh, I'm alright, thanks.

Well...

Anyway, I looked all over the place
for a key that would open the door.

- When I found one the room was empty.
- Yes?

I couldn't make it out.
Then, I saw the window was open and look.

This was on the ledge outside.

I thought perhaps dad had dropped it.

So I got out of the window and on to
the roof and crawled across the dutch roof...

and I'm just up to the sky light.

You are always falling over Ben.

- Have you hurt yourself?
- What me? No.

What happened to me in the war guvnor.

Blown up by a mine and come down singing.

- Oh, that telegram that came to your father?
- Oh, I forgot.

Oh, well. Funny, can't make it that out.

You know who Barton is?

- Oh, I dropped that.
- What, this here?

What's she mean guvnor?

Means for the half past twelve
something is going to happen at number 17.

- Well, that may be a nice change, won't it?
- You'd better go home before anything..

- No, I'm not going to.
- You want me to help you?

He's a great help for you Miss..

Not been able to help me for the last hour.

When I come rushing down these
apples and pears, chicken and aspidistra.

Blimey, if you do smother me
around and march me up here again.

Can't do enough to help me, he can't.

Come on, we must to get
move on it's nearly half past now.

- What can happen then?
- Ben is going to flick.

- Twelve o'clock.
- Half past, you fool.

That's done it, my god that's done it.

Perhaps it's the police.

- Blimey, if it is, I better put this back.
- What you mean? Back where?

- On the corpse.
- Corpse?

The corpse, my father?

Oh, let's stall it, the guvnor can't
admit. Sure I can tell you, it's all...

God, it's gone.

The agent said we might see over the house.

Oh, yes, yes. I tried to realize that but...

Well, I thought perhaps...

You wouldn't mind.

May I come in too uncle?

Hadn't we better see upstairs first uncle?

Yes, perhaps that would be better.

Oh, by the way, we
don't know your name, do we?

- Surely the agent told you.
- Oh yes, but I am afraid I've forgotten it.

You don't by any chance happened to
forgotten the agent's name as well, do you?

That's extraordinary.

If you dare to hear
the truth I'm afraid I have.

Well now...

as you've seen only the staircase, perhaps
you like to look at some of the rooms.

Who's that man?

If you don't mind, I think that's rather an
unusual question for a househunter, isn't it?

I beg you pardon.

Not at all, if you want to
know that's my servant, Ben.

Yes.

And you're a little friend
of ours, ain't you?

- This isn't your house yet, you know?
- But what if we insist on going upstairs?

- Insist?
- That's what he said, insists.

None of your source.

- Source?
- Yes, that's what I said. S O R S Source.

- Leave that to me Ben.
- Let him come up and say one stool guvnor.

Now then young nosy Parkers. Come have
a look, see, look till you are boss-eyed.

- What an amusing man.
- Oh yes, a regular George Robey, ain't I?

- Come on, up you come.
- Damn fool.

All right guvnor, they won't
find no blooming body up here.

This way Marmaduke.

- Nothing unusual here uncle.
- No nephew?

No skeleton, no coffins Ducky.

Well, I suppose you take the blimpey
house or you can have it for me

- I ain't making no offers I open it, see.
- Just a moment, not quite so fast.

Fast, fast am I? Oh yes,
I'm like flash and lightning, ain't I?

I've been trying to make my way out of this
house for an hour and I ain't moved out inch.

Oh, I'm a regular Derby winner I am.

Ney, get out of it. See. Oh god.

- Where on earth did you get that gun?
- I, I got it off the corpse guvnor.

And if anybody tries to stop me, there's
going to be more corpses here, blimey that.

You fool get back.

- What happened? What do you done with that?
- Done, me?

That's right guvnor, blame me.
I've done everything, don't I?

You don't have to do
nothing in this eerie house.

The strangest thing is happen,
everything is loopy here.

People coming here and been murdered...

and open it the gun drive no apologies,
footsteps without no feet.

Sweeping and fast I'm sick to death but
laughing at, straight, when I open it, see?

Put that down.

Blimey, he's got a gun.
Hey, let me go, keep off myself, keep off.

Oh poor guvnor,
I didn't do it to you, I didn't.

How do you know it was loaded? Call perhaps.

Go on, you get from there.

Come on you two.

It's all right thanks, I can manage.

Thanks

I'm afraid you are wasting your time.

You see, she can neither hear nor speak.

You mind? Hands up.

Will you search this gentleman

I'll take it you've no objections.

I don't mind.

- One and nine.
- Blimey, he's on the dole.

All right.

- Now for you Ben.
- Who gave you permission to call me Ben?

- Sorry I don't know your other name.
- Lloyd George.

- I like you Ben, you make me laugh.
- I'll remember that guvnor.

Give you a job in the cabinet next elections.

- What's that going to be?
- Give him a mess in a back department.

- A sausage?
- Here, here it is, of course.

What do you think it is?

Christmas cracker?

- Go on, makes you go in the larder you.
- And now for the young lady.

Keep the hands to your self.

My dad here, you wouldn't ask cop-out.

What do you got there?

Detective Barton, eh?

- Where you get this telegram?
- Mind your own business.

- Are you Miss Ackroyd?
- I said mind your own business.

Now young lady, you better answer
me sensibly or else I shall have to...

You better answer him Miss Ackroyd,
it will save a lot of trouble.

Now, did your father know
anything about that telegram?

Well, it came after he had gone
out tonight, if you want to know.

- What about those diamonds?
- I don't know anything about any diamonds.

Mightn't your father have some
secret that he's keeping from you?

If you ask me any more
questions I shall spit in your eye.

- What are you here for?
- The train.

Who the devil are you anyway?

Being your nephew
by adoption on the doorstep.

Don't be funny. What are you after?

- Skipping the country?
- And that's part of the idea

I've been told that it's Mr Sheldrake's the
goods train ferry it runs to the continent.

Goes under this house, doesn't it?

Here's my ticket, where's yours?

Quite sure that's your ticket?

Oh god, the lights gone out.

- You blow out that light?
- What? Me?

Oh, yes. I've done everything, don't I?

First time murder,
young man, I'm an assassin.

Then I throw the body out of the
window on a empty stomach.

Well, I don't want paid much?

Then, then I blow all the lights
out of the blooming house.

Blimey if I could blow like that.

Of course, I rather
you could get a cold blast if I wouldn't.

- Where do we put him then?
- In the bathroom.

True blimey, it's the same my lucky day,
Oh, I am a murderer, I am a liar...

and now I'm a bathroom fitted.

Those Suffolk diamonds now,
you know anything about them?

- Were you in that scoop?
- Why should I be, that was Sheldrake's job.

He's hidden them too well.
Probably in this house.

Yes, and according to that telegram
it looks very much as though...

Mr Detective Barton knows about it too.

You know if he turns up here we
should be thoroughly very well finished.

- Yes.
- Look here.

When Sheldrake comes,
what about making him divide?

We might, but from what I heard
about Sheldrake it won't be too easy.

His reputation is probably
grossly exaggerated.

That remains to be seen.

He may be dead, that body you know.

Takes quite a lot to
kill old Sheldrake I believe.

Look.

As you were saying it takes a lot to kill me.

Are you Sheldrake?

You both for the train?

And the girl too.

- Who's that with the Ackroyd girl?
- We found him nosing around when we came in.

There another locked in the
bathroom, he's probably asleep by now.

We can't bother about them now.
We better be getting down.

I do hear, haven't we better..

Oh I, I don't know what
one does in these cases, but...

these two? Haven't we
better tie them up or something?

Is necessary?

Unless you want them to run
down stairs to call for the police.

Hope you don't mind, we got to catch train.

Don't be damned silly.

Come on please.

Sorry we have to go on this journey...

but we must leave someone
about in the house, you know

I see, so many thieves about, eh?

Now for the train.

Through there.

- Dad, good.
- All right both.

Your father?

Damn good the way
you bluffed them Mr Ackroyd.

Yes, I've been watching
this house for some time.

- For the police?
- Something like that.

Damn these mobs.

I know Dad, make Ben help.

- Who's Ben?
- He's locked in the bathroom.

Or I settle with you on the landing.

Oh god, I'll make a brother.

Hold on, not so fast. Get back.

Go on.

You are a damn fine bunch. I got
to wash my hands for the love of it.

Now come on, tie this fellow up again.
Properly this time.

- Where's the other fellow who was locked up?
- I shut him at the end of the passage

I suppose you thought it was me.

I suppose there's no
mistake about it this time.

You are Mr Sheldrake?

Growing wise at last then?

They haven't done anything
awful to Dad have they?

No, no, they are only bluffing.

What's upsetting you?

- Come on speak can't you?
- Leave her alone, she's deaf and dumb.

- Come on, aren't we going?
- Yes, go on.

- Yes.
- Is this the right way?

Of course it is, straight on
and down to the cellar.

Would you mind going first?

I'm coming back.

She spoke.

That deaf and dumb business was a fake.

A trick of a crook.

- Is like the pictures, isn't it?
- Too much for my liking.

Thanks.

Oh, I fainted.

- What do you doing with those crooks?
- You don't think I want to beat them?

Why go back to them?

The best thing I can do,
because it safer for you.

Anyway as the police do, catch them.

- They can't be helped, can they?
- But surely there's a way out.

I don't know.

I must hurry, the others may be coming back.

Well...

Feel all right?

We must get the others.
They're still locked in the bathroom.

You bear what have you done now.

God love, is Miss

- I didn't know it was you.
- Is the second time tonight.

Serves you right.

Oh god.

Oh yes Miss.

Hit his head on the bloody bathtub he did.

I got his badge, you better get a doctor.

You get on with the
others, I'll be all right.

Sure.

- Come on Ben, take the candle.
- Can you.

Bloody I am going mad. Oh, god.

- Now what's the matter?
- A hit on the head, guvnor.

Of course you bump your head
if you keep up stopping.

Bound to keep some stopping taken
such bumps in the head.

I'm not going.

Not so dumb after all, eh?

- What's the idea?
- I'm not going.

What you mean?

I'm not going, that's all.

You don't get a chance every night, you know?

All the trains don't have empty
trucks that get back to the continent

I've made up my mind I'm not going.

You're acting rather childish, won't you?

Hear, I don't know what
your game is, but you are going.

You know too much to be left behind.

What's your idea of running back
after that fellows we tied up?

Nothing except...

Never mind, you can tell
us all about it on the train.

Now come on.

Hey, give it up guvnor, get the coppers.

What? And have the girl arrested?

Not if I can help it.

The guard is seen us, we
better go along and see him.

- Good evening.
- Now, look here.

- I hope we're not intruding but...
- You've no right on this train

- I'm going to stop it.
- No, I rather you didn't do that because...

Come on, let's tie
him up and put him in there.

How on earth you be locked here?
You must be sway.

Thanks.

Come on? What about it?

- What about what?
- The diamonds.

We are going to split, aren't we?

- These coaches can't travel out of context.
- Where?

Better give them, Sheldrake.

Keep your hands where they are.

Come on Sheldrake, it's no
use pretending you left them behind.

- You know it damn well, don't you?
- You better.

Come along, hand them
over there as a good fellow.

You think I carry them
about in my watch chain?

No, what about your pockets?

Down that gun you fools,
can't you see the cop?

My god Sheldrake, you are right.

I only met him tonight for the
first time at that door step.

And I thought that there was
something funny about him.

- What damned nonsense.
- Get over there.

Keep an eye on him Brent. Keep an
eye on that bloodie detective Barton.

All right Sheldrake, but you are not
going to get away with that necklace.

Aren't I?

I haven't got it.

- You dirty little cross, hand it over.
- Me? I haven't got it on me.

No, but you want that rotten deaf
and dumb girl to get it for you.

Hello.

Let me have that necklace, will you Nora?

- What's the idea?
- We may as well got this pretend.

Yes, you are going to tell me the one
thing I've been suspicious about all night.

That I am a police officer, eh?

Well, now that is clear, what about it?

- I haven't got it.
- You didn't go back to your bad for nothing

I know no more about this necklace than Ben.

- If I had the necklace I'd give it to you.
- Hear hear, I'm afraid I have to search you.

Oh, come on guvnor,
you can't do that to a Lady.

Hey guvnor, let go her, here they are.

Now come on, who's been fooling about?

All right young lady.

Joe, look...

Get out of it, get out of there.

- No, no...
- Now come on, get off there.

Come on, keep on going.

He's out, hit him, get on that bar.

- What do you mean?
- That they got wised me.

Found out who I was.

- Who are you?
- He's a detective.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm Barton.

I say, not T. Barton?

Yes, I've been following up Sheldrake
and the Suffolk necklace for weeks.

You haven't got it yet.

No, but we got the girl
here that's the same thing.

I say Mr Barton.

Mr Barton don't let's be too hasty over this.

I don't want to be seen rude but
aren't you exceeding your rights.

Kindly let me deal with this in my own way.

All right, and suppose you drop Barton
and take on your own name of Doyle.

What you mean Doyle?

You're a clever fellow Doyle,
you made two bad mistakes.

The first thing he's a police
only after the necklace.

- They were also after you.
- Me?

Yes, they knew a sure
the necklace will draw Sheldrake...

so Sheldrake will draw you Mr Henry Doyle.

- You are wrong.
- Am I?

And the second bad mistake was imposing as
a detective and of all detectives as Barton.

The comic part of it is, I am Barton.

Hard luck, Henry.

Good night Nora.

Oh no.

- Good Night.
- Good Night.

Hey, you're a real armed detective?
And making me to warm the work.

Well?

- Well?
- What are you going do about it?

What are you going do about it?

You better come along with me.

But, where?

To have some breakfast.

Will you see me safely home guvnor,
if I gives you a nice wedding present, eh?