Original subtitles

[train roaring]

[suspenseful curtain music]

[music stops]

[soft music]

[suspenseful music]

(Tintin, off) It all started when Herbert Dawes

was murdered because of a mysterious crab tin.

Did you get it?

(Dawes) This is what to look for.

(man) You disappointed, Dawes.

[Dawes, shouting and splash]

(Tintin, off) The police thought it was an accident.

(Tintin) What are these?

(Thomson) Objects found on a drowning victim.

(Tintin, off) But I wasn't so sure.

The crab tin label led me back to the harbor.

To the cargo ship Karaboudjan.

Look out! [loud thump]

You missed!

We must be on something, Snowy.

(Tintin, off) It's clear I wasn't wanted aboard.

But I knew that's where I'd find some answers.

Now we're getting somewhere!

(Tintin, off) I found something I wasn't supposed to.

There was much more to that crab tin than I thought.

How do I get into these messes?

[barking]

(Tintin) Snowy! Boy, am I glad to see you!

(Tintin, off) That's when I found out what was going on.

I'm a policeman from Japan.

I've been working on this case for months.

Drug smugglers!

(Tintin, off) That was what it was all about.

The only person that could help was the Captain.

I had to find them before they found me.

Who are you?

Don't say a word.

(Tintin, off) We managed to escape and get off the ship.

(man) One of the lifeboats is gone!

Fool!

(Tintin, off) But that didn't stop the smugglers.

Look out! [gunshots]

[shouting, gunshots and plane engine]

(Tintin, off) The pilot was ordered to finish us off.

But we weren't going to let them win that easily.

[startled]

(Tintin, off) Help was only a call away

once we reached the radio in the plane.

(Tintin) The police should be waiting for the Karaboudjan

when it reaches Bagghar.

[suspenseful music]

[plane engine]

(Tintin) Imagine the look on Allan's face

when he sees the welcoming committee we set up for him!

(Haddock) Just as long as I get my hands on him before the police do!

You're sure we're on the right course for Bagghar?

Of course we're on course.

But it looks like there's trouble ahead.

(Tintin) Oh, no! We're in for a rough ride!

Get your nose up! Flap your flaps!

Full power to the prow!

We're gonna crash!

[thunder]

[Snowy, whimpering]

[suspenseful music]

[thunder]

[snowy, whimpering]

[all shouting]

[loud thump]

[barking]

[suspenseful music continues]

[thump and cry]

(Haddock) Tintin!

Tintin!

[plane engine]

[shouting]

[Haddock, thump and groaning]

[wind and thunder]

Tintin! Wake up!

[plane free-falling]

[Haddock groans]

Oh.

Great snakes!

Hold her!

I'm trying!

[thump and shouting]

[crash]

[flames]

[explosion]

[barking]

[whimpering]

[sizzling]

[barking]

[soft music]

[growling]

It's gonna blow!

[both grunting]

[explosion]

[thumps and crashes]

[sighs] That was close!

[Haddock, grunting]

I don't know where we are

but it sure isn't Bagghar.

The storm must've blown us off course.

[barking]

(Tintin) What have you found, Snowy?

[barking]

[ominous music]

(Haddock) Th-- Th-- That's a camel!

That was a camel.

It probably died of thirst.

We're as good as dead.

[suspenseful music]

[Haddock, complaining] Marooned in the middle of the desert!

We'll die!

(Tintin) Take it easy, Captain.

Things aren't that bad.

[suspenseful music]

(Haddock) I'm really thirsty.

Really thirsty!

Keep moving. We can't give up!

[Haddock, groaning]

No. I've gotta lie down.

Which bed is mine? [moans]

Okay. We'll rest in the shadow of this dune.

But we can't stay long.

[grumbling] Huh?

How are we ever gonna get out of this one, Snowy?

Huh? Bottle!

Of Champagne!

I'm saved! Saved!

[laughing]

Confounded cork. It's on too tight. [grunting]

[Tintin, grunting] Captain!

[thump, shouting]

Easy! The heat must be getting to you.

Look! A lake!

We're saved!

Oh, no.

[laughing]

Captain! It's only a mirage.

[barking]

[growling]

[snap and whimper]

[shouting and thump]

Captain. [moaning]

[suspenseful music]

[groaning and thump]

[howling, echoing]

[camel grunt]

[suspenseful music]

[camel grunting]

[groaning]

[shouting]

[thump]

[whining]

[sighs] Where are we?

[barking]

[suspenseful music]

(Tintin) Who are you?

Come with me.

[percussion music]

[indistinct radio sounds]

(man) Ah, there you are. Come in.

[British accent] I'm Lieutenant Delcourt in command of this outpost.

Please to meet you. I'm Tintin.

Take a seat, please, Mr. Tintin.

You had us all quite worried.

It was sheer luck that we found you, really.

My men came across the wreckage of your plane

and followed the tracks.

They found the three of you unconscious.

What about the Captain? Is he all right?

A drink! I need a drink!

[chuckling] He's all right.

Good heavens! Where are my manners?

Name your poison, gentlemen.

(Tintin) No thanks, and none for the Captain, either.

[shouting] What?

Captain.

Oh. All right!

So tell me,

what brings you to this forsaken sandbox of ours?

(male over radio) We interrupt this program with a special report.

Severe weather at sea

has caused heavy losses to shipping.

Gale winds have driven the ships

Tanganyika and The Jupiter ashore.

[louder] And an SOS was received

from the merchant ship Karaboudjan.

A rescue vessel searched the area

but no wreckage or survivors were found.

[suspenseful music]

Bunji.

It is presumed the Karaboudjan went down with all hands.

Impossible! [thump]

[glasses rattling]

To sink without having time and abandon ship?

[shouting] I don't believe it! [thump]

Yes, I agree.

Lieutenant!

[glasses rattling]

We must get to Bagghar immediately!

[suspenseful music]

[percussion music]

[camel grunting]

(Tintin) As soon as we reach Bagghar

we'll check in at the Harbormaster's office.

They'll know one way or the other if the Karaboudjan sank.

[Haddock, glass clinking] Ah.

[gunshot and barking]

Blue blistering barnacles!

(Tintin) Please! Quick! Behind the sand dune!

[camels grunting]

[gunshots]

Outnumbered and short of bullets.

Confound everything!

The last one!

[gunshot and crash]

[growling]

Revenge! Revenge! [gunshots]

Revenge!

Captain!

Desert tramps!

Swines! Jellyfish!

Troglodytes!

Captain, stop! They'll kill you!

(Haddock) Rats!

[indistinct]

Freshwater swabs!

Snowy, he's scaring them off! [barking]

Come back here, you cowards!

I'll give you a taste of my rifle!

[gunshot and thump]

[barking]

[groaning]

(Tintin) Nice going, Captain!

[barking]

If they had waited, I would have shown them

no one shoots at me and gets away with it. [gunshots]

(Lieutenant) After them, men!

They're getting away.

Lieutenant!

(Lieutenant) I received a dispatch

warning about bandits in the area.

Looks like we got here just in time!

You, you mean it wasn't me who scared off those raiders?

I'm sure you did your best, Captain.

But my men and I will accompany you the rest of the way.

(Tintin) Thank you, Lieutenant.

[seagulls crying]

[percussion music]

Are you sure the Harbormaster's office is this way?

I could have sworn the merchant said it was the other way.

(Tintin) Do you speak Arabic, Captain?

No.

Then we'll continue this way.

[Snowy, growling]

(Tintin) What is it, boy?

[suspenseful music]

Allan!

I knew the Karaboudjan didn't sink!

Come on, Snowy! Let's see where he's going.

(Haddock) Hey! Wait for me!

[suspenseful music]

[both, thump] Ugh.

(Haddock) Blistering barnacles! Why don't you--

Tintin! Help!

[percussion music]

Careful, Snowy.

If we're lucky, Allan will lead us

to whoever is buying his drugs.

[suspenseful music]

[donkey braying]

Oh, no!

[whimpering]

He's gone.

[seagulls and ship horn]

[can clanking]

Where the blue blazes is Tintin?

Blistering barnacles!

That's the Karaboudjan!

You there!

The radio said the Karaboudjan

went down with all hands!

So what's it doing here?

This here is Djebel Amilah. Can't you read?

Of course I can read!

But that's the Karaboudjan!

(Haddock! You!

You, mutinous deck rat!

Tell him the real name of this ship!

Do you know this nut?

Never laid eyes on him.

Police! Police! Help!

Police!

Police!

[foreign accent] Okay. What's the problem here?

That ship, officers.

It's the Karaboudjan.

They said it sunk. But it didn't!

I'd know her anywhere because I'm her Captain

and she's loaded with crab meat, I, I mean, opium.

And we just escaped by the skin of our teeth in a long boat

and we flew into a terrible storm,

and crashed in the desert--

Oh, you'd better come with us.

But, but, but--

(Haddock) But it's the truth I tell ya!

What?

Haddock?

You're sure?

Then you can bet Tintin's not far behind.

I don't care how you do it

but get me Haddock!

Alive! [suspenseful music]

[loud clink]

[crowing]

Ugh.

And don't let it happen again!

[slamming door]

Flat foots! Pencil pushers!

You wouldn't know a crime if you had fell over one!

You miserable [indistinct] like gherkins!

[suspenseful music]

(Haddock) Help! [indistinct]

Brigands!

Captain!

Bushwhackers! Ugh!

Captain!

Tintin! [engine starting]

[roaring]

Our only chance of finding the Captain

is to go back to where we lost Allan.

(Thompson) Remember, Thomson, we are friendly locals.

(Thomson) Precisely, inconspicuous and blending in with the crowd.

[giggling]

[sheep bleating]

(Tintin) Thompson and Thomson!

Excuse us, please,

but we are not Thompson and Thomson

we are friendly locals.

Detectives! It's me, Tintin!

Alive!

And well.

I need your help.

(Tintin) So far, the only clue are the crab tins.

(Thompson) And you say the drugs are hidden inside the tins?

Yes. They've got a gold label with a red crab.

But we saw some tins like that this morning.

Where?

(Thomson) Well, I think, uh,

There's a lot of strange shops in these towns, you know.

[suspenseful music]

[barking]

(Thomson) Where are you going?

Well?

Crab.

What are you doing?

Don't worry, sir. We'll pay.

(Thompson and Thomson) Yes.

Could you tell us who supplies you with these tins?

[Arab accent] Certainly, young sir.

They come from Omar Ben Salaad.

The wealthiest trader of all of Bagghar.

Thank you, sir.

Ask around about Mr. Salaad.

But be discreet, okay?

Snowy and I will try to find the Captain.

(Thompson and Thomson) Right then.

(both) Thank you, sir.

[playful music]

Wait! Wait! Who's going to pay?

(both) Huh? Oh.

[suspenseful music]

[coins clinking]

A thousand blessings on you.

[whining]

I know it's hot, boy,

but the only way to find the Captain

is to find Allan.

He came this way once,

he may come this way again.

[footsteps]

Sh.

Ah!

Ugh.

[footsteps]

[suspenseful music]

Confounded paving stones.

What do you say we pay him a visit?

[playful music]

(Thompson) There he goes.

(Thomson) Keep up with him, Thompson.

(Thompson) Be discreet.

[door creaking]

[suspenseful music]

(Tintin) I'll bet he went down there.

[suspenseful music]

(Tintin) Where'd he go?

I wonder if-- [knocking]

[knocking]

[creaking]

A secret door!

[creaking]

[barking]

[suspenseful music continues]

[barking]

[gasping]

I'll bet these tins are full of drugs.

(Haddock) Untie me, you Neanderthals!

[gasping] Captain!

[indistinct]

(Allan) Yell all you want. No one's gonna hear ya.

Now for the last time,

[shouting] where's Tintin?

Here I am!

Tintin!

[suspenseful curtain music]

Ah!

Ugh.

Hands up!

Tintin, my boy,

I'm so glad to see you.

Don't make a move.

Captain, keep an eye on them while I find Allan.

[mumbling]

(Haddock) Freeze!

[percussion music]

(Salaad) Ah, gentlemen, do sit down.

May I offer you some refreshments?

(Thompson) No, thank you, Mr. Salaad,

this visit is strictly business.

Quite so, we're conducting an investigation.

A very discreet investigation.

I see.

And what is the nature of your investigation, gentlemen?

(both) We think you're smuggling drugs.

By the beard of the Prophet,

how dare you?

(both) Huh?

(Salaad) Get out or I'll have you flogged!

Guards! Guards! Throw--

Run for it, Omar! The jig is up!

I'm leaving now, detectives.

I'm afraid I'll have to eliminate you,

of course.

[barking]

[gunshot]

[triumphant music]

Good boy, Snowy!

Tintin!

Well done!

(Tintin) Don't let him out of your sight.

[percussion music]

[suspenseful music and market walla]

(Tintin) He's heading for the docks, Snowy, stop him!

[suspenseful music continues]

[whining]

[barking]

Hey! Stop that guy!

He's stealing my boat!

[engine roaring]

Hey!

[barking]

Hey, stop!

[engine roaring]

[clicking, empty]

[barking]

[hulls clanking]

[whining]

Ah!

[engine continues to roar]

[punch] Ugh.

[chuckling]

[accelerating]

Oh!

Ah! No!

[barking]

Tintin!

(Allan) What?

Ugh.

[splash]

Ah!

[barking]

[indistinct] to you too.

[shouting]

(Haddock) Throw them in irons, the filthy pirates!

Mutineers! Scalawags!

Fat heads!

(Thompson) The correct spelling for that is,

Thompson with a P.

(Bunji) If it wasn't for the actions

of Mr. Tintin and his friends,

none of this would've been possible.

(Tintin) Bunji, you made it!

Thanks to you, Tintin.

And Thomson without a P.

(reporter) How's it feel to be a hero, Mr. Tintin?

It feels great.

[barking]

[flash]

[all laugh]

[soft music]

[suspenseful curtain music]