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For one reason or another, most countries have a crazy period at least

in the year.

In New York, it's St. Patrick's Day.

Paris, Bastille Day. And in Rio, of course, the Mardi Gras.

But here in Munich, they have the October Parade.

Now, for some reason, which no one seems to be able to explain, the October

Parade takes place in September.

All I know is that once started, the festivities go on all day and all night.

How are you? I'm great.

I can't believe it. Hey, I gotta get a shot of this.

The Munich Parade, starring my old friend, Simon Templer.

How are we going to get through that crowd?

We can't until it's over. It's the day of the big festival.

Just our luck.

You know what they say?

If you can't beat them, join them. Come on, let's go watch a parade.

That's the kind of truck we want.

You know how to drive this?

After six years in the service, Uncle Sam, I can drive anything that's got

wheels on it.

Watch and see those TIs don't come back.

Come on, Sam, let's cut out of here.

Hey, get him over there!

And you can do the talking. Yeah, but the truck's empty. Why would anybody

to steal an empty truck?

Hey, Schultz, you square -headed old sausage eater.

We've done it.

Look at that. Look at those tires. See, that's best American rubber. They're

going to carry six tons for us tonight. No one saw you?

Well, only to wave goodbye to... Come on, little facelift. That's all she

This is all you have to change. Number plate, huh?

Yep.

Good. Then I will tell her last that we are ready.

Yes? My dear, we are ready. We can go ahead tonight.

Good.

Be sure to get in touch with our inside people and let them know.

Yeah, my dear. I will speak to this.

What did he say?

We go ahead. That's planned.

Great.

All that space is just crying out to be filled with liquor and cigarettes and

everything the Army PX has to offer. Ah, yes, but first I have to get the keys.

Sure. No use busting in when all we got to do is put a key in the lock and open

the door.

Zimmerman, stack these.

I want all this stuff squared away before tonight, okay?

Interrupt.

Hey, Matilda.

I've got an idea.

Yes, I know.

How about coming up to my cabin for the weekend?

And just why should they do that?

Well, it's beautiful.

It's isolated and restful. Tucked away in the mountains where we can relax.

I'm sure.

How about it?

I'm sorry.

What's the matter with me anyway?

Oh, nothing.

You're charming.

Then why don't you enjoy me? I'm yours for the asking.

Now what?

One moment, please.

Nobody can ever do anything around here without a conference.

I already have an engagement.

I'll kill him. Oh, you won't. You're too kind. I know.

That's my problem.

I'm just a nice, sweet, good -natured slob. And you promised I could leave

tonight. Oh, so I did.

Okay, buzz off. Thanks. On one condition.

Which is?

You give me a goodbye kiss.

Oh, with pleasure.

Thanks, Mr.

Sergeant.

You play your cards right, you can drive me crazy.

First we meet in San Francisco, then Honolulu, London, and now Munich.

Now, I've got to say, it is a small world. It sure is. But worth drinking a

toast to. Now, the first one is supposed to go down in one go.

All right? On the count of three? You're on.

Eins, zwei, deep breath.

You're early.

Oh, yes.

I had influence with Sergeant Paco.

Congratulations, you made it. Oh, you were distracted and very charmingly so,

I might add.

I'd like you to meet an old friend of mine. Simon Templer? Matilda Vaughan.

do you do? Matilda works at the base PX where I'm stationed. Lucky you.

Oh, not so famous, Mr. Templer. I've heard so much about it.

the same, and everything you've heard about him is true.

Oh, how fascinating.

Depends what you heard.

Matilda, I've bad news.

Frank took sick, and I've drawn guard duty tonight.

Oh, no.

I'm sorry, but it can't be helped. It's only until midnight.

Well, the town only starts getting nicely warmed up at that hour. And Simon

entertain you until I'm finished, won't you, Simon?

Oh, no, please.

I'd be the writer.

Oh, no, I really couldn't. Of course you can.

And then at midnight, both of you can drive out and pick me up. Okay, Simon?

That's a date.

Well, I guess I'd better be going.

See you later, honey.

Goodbye, Henry. You look after her, finally. You bet.

May I offer you something to drink?

A beer, I suppose.

But would you excuse me for just a moment? I have to telephone.

Of course.

Do you have the key, Fraulein?

Yes.

Leave it by the telephone.

Yes, all right.

Your alibi for tonight has just walked out.

I have another one.

Well,

the rest of the evening is ours.

Until midnight.

It's 10th Armored Corps, Base Landsberg.

A deeper closet's in 10 minutes.

Yeah, sorry. I had a couple of breakdowns on the way here.

Okay, straight through. You'll see the loading bays in front of you. Thanks.

Now, there's an optimist for you. Who's that?

The guy that just came in. He's come to pick up supplies.

And laughing boy Pargo's going to be delighted to see him. You want this

now? In ten minutes, we close up for the night. I'm sorry. I had trouble with

the truck getting here.

No, maybe we can do it. You got your truck backed up?

Let's get it organized.

Sergeant, you make me late.

Well, you get overtime.

Double pay.

Think of all the beer you can buy with it. Okay.

Discard it.

All right, Buzzard. Forget it. We'll load this up in the morning.

And you better be sure you can move this thing.

All right, I'll work on it now.

All right, you can knock off.

That guy's truck is broken down.

There's nothing we can do about it till the morning.

Thanks.

And just hold it steady and squeeze.

Squeeze slowly.

Good shot.

A bullseye.

My English is silly.

Charlie. May I have another shoot?

I shocked you. You can have as many as you like.

Oh, but no. I think you have paid the race so much.

Let's do something else.

Ferris wheel?

Will you be on our way to pick up Henry?

Oh, don't be silly. It's early yet. And I know a shortcut to the base. It'll

take us only a couple of minutes.

Completely in your hands.

I thought you'd like some coffee.

Oh, thanks.

Do you know what you're doing?

I mean, I know something about motors, if you want a hand. No, it's all right,

thanks. All right.

Don't forget to check out when you leave tonight.

I won't.

Showtime!

I'm sorry, Mr. Templer, to be, what you'd say, the poor sport.

Not at all.

But I've been on my feet all day, and I'm tired.

Well, after a while, the festival gets boring.

I know what you mean. A lot of people running around, convincing themselves

they're enjoying it.

In a way, this is the story of my life.

Oh?

You have no idea what it was like to be brought up in Germany after the war.

Everybody running all the time.

Running away from past, away from loneliness, away from men.

Is that what you're doing?

Yes.

And it would be so easy to relax, to drift.

But I can't. I want so much.

What, for instance?

Respect, money, power, roots.

And love?

No, not love.

I thought you were Henry John's girl.

I'm nobody's girl.

Does Henry know that?

I'm just me, Mathilde Baum.

Independent, free.

You know what I mean, surely?

That's not Mathilde.

These are just words.

Nobody can really be independent.

Are you suggesting I should marry and settle down?

It all depends on how tired you are of running.

To whom?

A fat businessman?

An American soldier?

Somebody like Henry Johns, maybe.

Why not?

And when you said that, you said it all.

Henry Johns is a nice boy, but...

All right, let's go.

Yeah. Look at him.

Hey, love that boot.

That means good night.

I wish you wouldn't go.

I can tell you to.

Please.

I'll give your love to Henry.

That's about all we can take.

Come on, let's get it loaded.

We're going to take $40 ,000 worth of stuff out of here tonight.

I want to choke him to death.

You all right?

Yeah.

Get in

the

phone and call some help.

You have to suit him for it. Keep going.

Why did you have to shoot him?

It was him or us. Yeah, now we're stuck in the middle of this town. The plan was

to be clear on Munich.

Keep your hands to yourself.

Stop it!

There is no point in us fighting.

The raid was planned to the last detail.

To work quietly, smoothly, efficiently.

You bundled it. It could not be helped, Fraulein.

At any rate, it's done.

And I won't be able to go back to the base.

Won't that look suspicious? They don't know anything about you.

And I don't intend them to.

Fine. I'm going home to pack a bag.

Pick me up at my place in half an hour.

Yeah, Father.

He lost a bit.

Hans, there's been a mistake.

Well, it's enough to say that the police will be looking for the truck.

We need another to take its place, quickly.

But Pago is the sergeant in charge of these stores, and I want him.

You search every beer hall in town until you find him.

But don't you say yes, sir. Get the lead out and move.

Go on, Templin.

Well, that's all there is to it, Major. I was on my way here to pick up Sergeant

Johns and the truck passed me.

And you think the driver was in uniform?

I don't think. I know.

This is incredible.

It's the worst security I've bumped into in my life.

All they've got to do is drive onto the base and they help themselves.

That's not quite true, sir.

Look, all you guys do at that game house is sit around and drink coffee.

I'm sorry Johns was killed.

You're grief -stricken.

If he'd been doing his duty, he'd be alive.

Major, you weren't there.

So don't jump to conclusions.

Temple, you're a civilian. This is a military matter.

Thanks for your information, such as it was.

But I don't need you anymore.

I remember that, Major.

Thanks for your courtesy.

American PX bases robbed in the past six months.

Now, I'm going to find out how and why.

Yes, sir. At this last time, Sergeant, an American soldier was brutally shot

down.

Yes, sir, I know.

Johns was a friend of mine.

Sergeant, that main door was open with a key.

It was?

Yeah.

So let's see yours.

Yes, sir.

Key to the cold storage locker.

This is the safe.

My office.

And the one at the main door?

It's gone.

Oh, it is, is it?

I can't understand it, sir. These keys are never out of my possession. Never.

That's not quite true, is it?

No, sir.

Now, as of this moment, you consider yourself under open arrest until this

investigation is finished.

Major, I've been in the Army for 15 years.

You don't think I'm going to start goofing off now?

There are a lot of soldiers with longer service than you, Sergeant, who have

soured off.

That ain't so hard.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Sergeant, I wonder whether you could give me a light.

Oh, yeah, sure.

I took the liberty of standing rather close to that door. I understand there's

key missing. Thank you.

Yeah, there sure is.

Well, were your keys out of your sight even for a few seconds today?

No. I mean, if I lost my keys, they'd give me 600 years.

That's quite a sentence.

Hey, just before closing time, Matilda asked me to open the file that she

to put a folder in.

Just then, somebody called me. And you left her office?

Yeah, but only for ten seconds.

But Matilda was alone with the keys.

Yeah, I guess so.

I was up with her this evening. She seemed rather anxious to detain me.

Might be quite an idea if you and I drop around just to say hello.

All right.

Who the heck are you?

I was a friend of Sergeant John's. I'll explain on the way.

Now what do we do?

You wait here.

Sort of situation where three's a crowd.

Nobody's girl.

Simon, what do you want?

Feet have recovered, I see. It's a little traveling going far.

Well, I must go to West Berlin. My mother got sick.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

But it's nice to know you're such a dutiful daughter.

I don't quite understand why you're here.

Let me explain.

I told my pet I'd come to warn you.

What do you mean?

You're not going to be independent and free much longer. Those little feet of

yours are going to get quite sore trampling around the prison courtyard.

I am not in the mood for cheap jokes.

All right, let's try riddles.

Who killed Sergeant Henry Johns tonight?

You're drunk.

And who stole Sergeant Pago's key?

I have no time for this kind of nonsense.

You'll just have to make the time, won't you?

You hypnotize Sergeant Pargo with those great big beautiful eyes, and you've got

the key.

What do you think you're doing?

I don't know anything about that thing.

Who killed Johns?

Night, night.

His name's Polly. You know where he is? Yes. What about that truckload of stolen

goods? In the garage. No problem here.

Here, hurry.

All right, get in. We're ready.

Mother Hubbard's cupboard.

That figures.

Hold it.

Let's not worry about him.

Let's worry about the other truck. This one being hot, they've obviously

transferred the goods to that one. Could be.

This road leads to the East Salt Bridge. After that, it's open country.

What are we waiting for?

Another half an hour and we'll be there.

Pull him on the side and then bounce him off the road.

Recognize him? Yeah.

He's the guy who drove the truck into the PX. Pretended he had a breakdown.

Don't look inside.

You know you can get in trouble, sonny boy, driving like that. Hey, look at

this.

Look who's traveling passenger.

She badly hurt?

In cuss. She must have bumped her head in the windshield or something. Take

of this one.

This is it.

Everything marked PX.

Where are you going with this stuff?

Get lost, will you, Mac?

You're an American, aren't you? What do you want me to do, sing the Star

Spangled Banner?

An American was killed hijacking this stuff. Doesn't that mean anything to

I had nothing to do with that.

Oh, brother.

I really enjoy working you over.

Simon, I've got a little cabin there here.

Absolutely isolated.

Be a good place to convince this character we're serious?

Yeah.

Is the cabin of yours much farther?

About two minutes.

Simon, this load of stuff.

I figure I ought to take it back to the base.

No, not yet.

No?

You just hide the truck.

I'll explain later.

Come on.

Make a real good job of hiding it, Prager.

Sit down, make yourself comfortable.

Now, what's your name?

Joplin. Where are you from?

Miami. Been in the army?

Yeah. And you've got a dishonorable discharge.

What do you want me to do, Blush?

Where's Boyer?

I don't know.

Who's behind this PX operation?

I don't know that either.

You know, Joplin, you're so little use to me, you might just as well be dead.

Now, are you going to talk or not?

I don't know the whole setup. I just get paid to drive the trucks.

You must know where they're going.

No.

Just some place in the country.

They said they'd guide me there.

All right, Boryev. The one who killed Johns.

Tell me about him.

I told you, I don't know the inside stuff.

Boryev was just a dumb, gun -happy crowd. I told him so.

I told him Johns was a nice guy.

You knew him?

No.

But he passed me a cup of coffee when I was pretending to fix the truck. I

didn't even ask him.

He was all right.

Now he's dead.

Yeah. And I'm sorry.

All right, tell me about Matilda.

She works at the base. She does the inside job.

Was she in on the other operations, too? Why not ask her personally?

On your feet.

Well, nobody's got again.

Yes. And at the moment, I am still very independent and quite free.

Touché. But you can't shoot, remember?

I can.

You know, a lot of people have mistaken ideas about how easy it is to put a

moving target, even at this close range.

Care to try me?

Now, Mr. Templer, where is that truck?

That's very valuable information.

It's a buyer's market.

Care to try and shoot the information out of me?

What's your proposition?

The shipment's worth, say, 40 ,000, 45 ,000.

About that.

120.

You know where it is?

No, Pargo drove it somewhere.

And you won't find it in a month of Sundays.

And what's more, unless...

We make a deal, the whole shipment will return to the PX within 24 hours.

Why not think it over and call me? Get into his car.

I'll return your car tomorrow, Mr. Templer.

Don't be shy about using my first name.

Where's Jockley?

There's bunks comfortable.

Huh? I feel sleepy.

What's going on?

Pago, the trap is baited.

Listen, Simon, I know you're good at this kind of thing, but I gotta call a

major. What for?

To let him know that we found this stuff, that it's safe.

I wouldn't do that.

If you do, the army police will come tramping in with their great big feet

our friends will quite literally vanish.

I'm going to catch them.

All of them.

So just be patient. As I say, the trap is baited.

All we have to do is sit back and wait for the prey.

Hans, there must be no more violence.

Please. I won't hear of it.

You won't hear of it. You are not running this organization.

Boreas. To make a deal with Templer would simply be to give away $20 ,000.

We can afford it.

We grossed $250 ,000 with the five rates.

What difference does $20 ,000 less make?

$4 ,000 of that is mine.

And I want... Listen, both of you.

Thank you.

I agree with Matilda.

You mean make a deal?

Matilda's right. We can afford it.

You mustn't press our luck too far, Boryev.

Mr. Templer's a very clever and very dangerous man. And if $20 ,000 will keep

him quiet, I think it's an excellent investment.

Well, if you say so, thank you.

Thank you, Hans.

Tell me, there's a telephone in that cabin.

Yes.

Bring Templin and ask him to meet you at the Ratskeller tonight at, say, seven?

And what's the proposition?

We'll meet him at the Vornrede and Neurede crossroads tonight at ten.

We'll pay him cash, and then he'll lead us to the truck.

I'm very grateful to you, and I'll call him now.

And you're also very logical and...

Very beautiful.

So, you've got a knuckle under, eh?

My dear Joppa, you know me better than that. I haven't the faintest intention

paying Templar any money.

You haven't?

Not the slightest.

Next turn on the left, it's about two miles.

Fine.

Templer. Life's full of surprises.

Templer, listen.

You know, I've done a lot of things in my time, and I'm not particularly

of any of them.

Except Henry John's.

Joplin has a conscience.

No. No, I haven't.

It's just I draw the line at letting Germans shoot down my own countrymen.

This whole deal at the crossroads is a double cross.

There's five guys in the trees deployed around. They're going to shoot you down.

That means they won't get the truck. Yeah, they will.

They won't shoot Pargo.

They'll make him talk.

That's all I had to say.

I had to warn you.

Wait.

Joplin, I don't want just the guy who pulled the trigger. I want the whole

operation. What will it cost for your help?

No, I don't want to get mixed up. I just want to save you from getting shot.

$200?

No. It's too dangerous.

Five? A thousand?

What do you want me to do?

Where do they operate from?

A country place about eight miles from here.

Take me there?

There's nobody there.

They're all at the crossroads waiting for you.

Exactly.

When they get back from the crossroads, I'll be there waiting for them.

When do you pay me?

Right now, if you want.

Come on, use my car.

It's all right, Fritz. It's only me.

Good evening, Mr. Templer.

The reception committee.

Congratulations, you pulled off the double -double cross very well.

Got your money back?

I thought we made a deal.

$20 ,000 is an awful lot of money, Mr. Templer, even for me.

Yes, I can see you're pretty poverty -stricken. I prefer Swedish modern

Will you please sit down? And, Mr. Parker.

Mr. Templer, I've heard a lot about you.

I knew that a most intensive effort would be required to outwit you.

I want that van.

And I want it very bad.

I'm sure you do.

And I intend to have it.

Really? You know what this is?

I believe it's called a flail.

Yes, you're quite right. It's a very ancient and quite devastating weapon.

Now, will you, Mr. Pargo, please be so kind as to place your hands on the

I'm done.

Like that.

What is this?

Do as he says. It's a Ouija board.

Thank you.

For you.

Show them.

Oh, nobody's girl again.

What are you doing?

F is showing his price.

You said you'd pay Templer off.

You promised me there would be no more violence.

Matilda, mind your own affairs. Don't interrupt, otherwise Schultz will escort

you to your room. Now, Mr. Templer, where's that van?

I'm afraid to say, dear.

Aurief?

What about you, Mr. Pargo?

In ten seconds from now, your right hand is going to be useless for the rest of

your life. Now, where is that van?

Are you kidding?

It's in the woods near my cabin. It's pretty well hidden. You'd never find it

alone. But you'd volunteer as a guide.

And how.

Thank you so much.

Choppy, you go with Schultz. On your way, Mr. Fargo.

Now, Mr. Templer, we've got 15 or 20 minutes to kill.

May I offer you anything?

Mind if I smoke?

No, of course not.

I prefer my own.

Be very careful, aren't you?

Tell me, you've had an interesting career, haven't you?

Yes, but why the past tense?

Slip of the tongue.

Watch it.

Hello, Fraulein.

Hello.

Hans, don't.

Fool.

I don't intend to have this deal ruined by your stupid sentimentality.

You promised me, Hans.

You swore to me there would be no more killing.

Now get up to your room and keep out of this, and I'm warning you, Matilda,

interfere with me and you'll be sorry. Now get up!

Police, please. Now.

Police have got the gang. The army gets its property back.

What if I get nothing?

Won't you expect a medal?

Well, no, but... Lucky you didn't get that 600 years.

Yeah, maybe so.

And what will happen to me?

Well, you did make the phone call.

I suppose that warrants some consideration.

I'll help you.

That's more than I deserve.

I know.

But if I get the chance, I'm going to drive you crazy for a change.