Not Rated | 26min | Adventure, Drama, TV Series | Episode aired 1952
The Commissioner ships Special Agent Steve Mitchell off to the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves the death of a foreign leader was no accident.
Director: Bill Karn
Writers: Adrian Gendot, Robert Ryf
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Herb Butterfield, Stanley Waxman
The Commissioner ships Special Agent Steve Mitchell off to the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves the death of a foreign leader was no accident.
Director: Bill Karn
Writers: Adrian Gendot, Robert Ryf
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Herb Butterfield, Stanley Waxman
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00:45Morning, Commissioner. You sent for me?
00:47Steve, tell me all you know about Anton Draga.
00:50Anton Draga.
00:52Popular leader of a country that we've given a lot of help to.
00:56Right.
00:57Only it was money down the drain.
01:00Draga turned sour, tried to sell out his country,
01:03and when he was found out, he committed suicide.
01:07See, that was about a month ago.
01:09How am I doing?
01:10Fine, with a couple of important exceptions.
01:13In the first place, it wasn't money down the drain,
01:17because now we've got a chance to protect our investment.
01:22This morning, we found out there's a signed confession
01:27in existence, a document that reveals that Draga was murdered
01:31so that his country would become disunited.
01:34And fall into the hands of the outfit that knocked him off?
01:38Right.
01:39Steve, we've got to get that document.
01:41Where is it?
01:42We've been contacted by a man named Baumgartner.
01:46He owns an inn up in the Swiss Alps near Interlaken.
01:51He's got it?
01:52He says he's willing to act as go-between,
01:55that the blackmailer wants to sell at the highest figure.
01:58I'll bet the bidding will be pretty high.
02:00Yeah, because the outfit behind the plot will be after it.
02:04That'll be a good spot for any opportunities
02:07to resell at a higher figure.
02:12OK.
02:13How much am I authorized to bid?
02:15Not one cent.
02:17What?
02:18You know we don't bargain with blackmailers.
02:20Oh.
02:21How am I supposed to get it?
02:22Steve, how you get it is up to you.
02:25Just get it.
02:28Get it.
02:29Well, that's it.
02:30You've got your assignment?
02:32Good luck.
02:41Sure, I've got my assignment.
02:43Fly over to Switzerland and contact
02:45a gent named Baumgartner who owns an inn up in the Swiss Alps.
02:49Find out from Baumgartner who has a document so hot
02:52that it means that freedom or slavery
02:54for an entire European country.
02:57And then somehow get that document.
02:59Of course, any other parties involved
03:01will undoubtedly be bidding plenty of cold cash for it.
03:04But I'm supposed to use box tops or maybe
03:07bat my baby blue eyes at somebody.
03:10It's Tuesday when my plane lands at Bern, Switzerland.
03:14I grab a train to interlock in the closest town
03:17to Baumgartner's inn.
03:19At the depot, I'm met by a guy named Rudy
03:22who tells me Baumgartner sent him to bring me to the inn.
03:25He drives me up the mountain.
03:33The cold bothers you?
03:35This is quite mild.
03:36Are you kidding?
03:38You should have been with me in the ski troops.
03:40It was really cold then.
03:42Well, I'll settle for this.
03:43Hey, I don't see any inn.
03:47Across the gorge.
03:49Hey, how do we get over there in this contraption?
03:53Yeah, sure.
03:55You sure you've been checked out in this gadget?
03:58Checked out?
03:59You know how to operate it?
04:00Yeah, it's quite simple.
04:03Well, first time for everything.
04:07Here we go.
04:08Boy, what a view.
04:09Where's the hot dog?
04:10Right over there.
04:11Let's go out and have a look.
04:36Mr. Bernstein.
04:37What a view.
04:38Will you stop a moment?
04:40You can enjoy it.
04:46Hey, how deep is this gully, anyway?
04:50You will soon find out for yourself.
04:54This is the end of the line for you.
04:57Now look.
04:58You look.
05:00Over the side, where you're going.
05:07You tell me you were an old army man.
05:11Yeah, which means I know how to handle this.
05:18Ah, don't!
05:19Ahh!
05:20Ahh!
05:20Ahh!
05:21Ahh!
05:22Ahh!
05:23Ahh!
05:24Ahh!
05:25Ahh!
05:25Ahh!
05:26Ahh!
05:27Ahh!
05:28Ahh!
05:29Ahh!
05:30Ahh!
05:30Ahh!
05:31Ahh!
05:32Ahh!
05:33Ahh!
05:34Ahh!
05:34Ahh!
05:35Ahh!
06:06Oh, I'm sorry.
06:07Oh, it's my fault.
06:08Did I hurt you?
06:09No, not at all.
06:11Can I buy you another drink?
06:13Thank you, but no.
06:16Well, you sure now?
06:18No, really, but I will take, how do you call it,
06:23a rain check on it.
06:24Yeah, a rain check.
06:25That's a deal.
06:27Is Mr. Baumgartner around?
06:29Yeah, right over there.
06:32Thanks.
06:37Mr. Baumgartner?
06:38Yeah?
06:39Steve Mitchell.
06:40Ah, Mr. Mitchell.
06:41Free to beer for Mr. Mitchell.
06:43Now, sit down.
06:44Sit down.
06:45I'm glad to see you.
06:46How are you?
06:47Fine.
06:48What do you do for a living?
06:49I'm a farmer.
06:50Farmer?
06:51Farmer.
06:52Farmer.
06:53Farmer.
06:54Farmer.
06:55I'm glad to see you.
06:58You know, Mr. Baumgartner, you do pretty good.
07:02Do?
07:03Do?
07:04You act like you aren't surprised to see me.
07:07Surprised?
07:08I was expecting you.
07:09You're telling me.
07:12That was quite a reception you arranged for me back there
07:15at Interlochen, in the bucket.
07:18Reception?
07:19In the bucket?
07:21I don't know what you're talking about.
07:22You're strong arm Rudy.
07:25You sent Rudy back there to Interlochen
07:27to polish me off.
07:30Polish me off?
07:32I want to do business with you.
07:34I didn't send anybody to meet you.
07:37You're sure of that?
07:38I swear it.
07:40I wanted to just see you so I could.
07:43Jimmy, let's go.
07:55I swear I do not know this Rudy.
07:58Then where did he come from?
08:00I don't know.
08:01Hm?
08:02I don't know.
08:04Wait a minute.
08:05Maybe this Rudy was working for one of the other parties
08:09who have been bidding on this document.
08:11One of the other parties?
08:13I, uh, that is the owner has received two other bids.
08:18Well, if Rudy was working for one of these other outfits,
08:21they sure mean business.
08:23Indeed.
08:24To anybody that would do them any harm.
08:26Hm?
08:28Do not try to frighten me.
08:30You see, I happen to be on very good terms with both parties.
08:34Are you sure you're just the go-between in this deal?
08:37Oh, I'm just a go-between.
08:39But you will have to deal directly with me.
08:41Hm.
08:43How do I know the document is still in existence?
08:46Oh, you will have to take my word for it.
08:48I have seen it.
08:50Where is it?
08:54In the safety deposit box.
08:56In there.
09:05Now, let us get down to business, huh?
09:08As I told you, we have had two other offers on the document.
09:11But I've been holding off until I heard about your offer.
09:14How much?
09:15Not one cent.
09:17Not one cent?
09:20I like a man with a sense of humor.
09:24Oh, I'm a whiz.
09:26But now let us be serious, huh?
09:28Did you think I was kidding?
09:30Mr. Mitchell, this document is worth
09:33thousands of American dollars.
09:35If not to you, then to somebody else.
09:37Mr. Baumgartner, don't you realize
09:40that this document can make or break
09:42a country, depending on how you look at it?
09:46Do you realize that this document can make or break
09:49a country, depending upon whose hands it gets into?
09:52I'm not interested in what good or what
09:55harm this document can do.
09:57I'm only interested in what good it can do me,
10:00and its owner, of course.
10:02Mr. Baumgartner.
10:04Unless you make a definite offer,
10:06I will sell to the highest bidder.
10:09Well, maybe I can raise some money
10:11and get in on the bidding.
10:12Ha, this attitude I like much better.
10:15Tomorrow night at 10 o'clock,
10:16I will sell to the highest bidder.
10:18You have until then.
10:19OK.
10:20I better get back to interlocking
10:22and contact my boss in the United States.
10:25Good.
10:26I will send along my bartender with you as a bodyguard.
10:29I don't want anything to happen to you, Mitchell.
10:31You see, I think your bid will be the highest, huh?
10:35Ha, ha, ha.
10:36Ha, ha, ha.
10:37That will do you no good, we have seen to that.
11:06Out!
11:20You killed him in cold blood.
11:22An eye for an eye, Mitchell.
11:24An eye for an eye?
11:25Oh.
11:26That guy Rudy that tried to shove me out of this contraption, he was one of your stooges?
11:31Yeah, but the bartender didn't have any.
11:33Because obviously your bodyguard and therefore had to be put out of the way.
11:37You see, Mitchell, I am a small man, unfortunately.
11:42Nobody is impressed with me.
11:44So I must use means that will impress them.
11:48Who are you?
11:50My name is Gerlach, if that means anything to you.
11:54It doesn't.
11:55No matter.
11:56Please, it's a document.
11:59I haven't got it.
12:03Please, Mr. Mitchell, do not delay.
12:06It is chilly up here, and I would much rather
12:09be in front of a warm fire.
12:11And I am sure your conscience would bother you
12:15if you should make me catch a cold.
12:17Yeah.
12:18I'd hate myself in the morning.
12:20Look, I don't have it.
12:25Hey, now, look, gun or no gun, if you
12:27think that I'm going to stand here and argue with you all, just.
12:34That will be enough for now.
12:42So, Otto, you did not hit him too hard after all.
12:45Well, my two buddies, huh?
12:50You're still with me.
12:52Oh, never fear, Mitchell.
12:54We will be with you to the end.
12:57That's a nice thought.
12:58Where are we?
12:59Your room in Interlochen.
13:01Oh, I was luckier than the bartender then, huh?
13:04Pause a moment.
13:06Did you give him a decent burial,
13:07or is that asking too much?
13:09As decent a burial as you gave to Rudy.
13:11We shoved his body into the gorge.
13:14Hey, you know, that's getting to be a nasty habit with you.
13:18I'm going to have to break you off at some point.
13:20I have more for you.
13:21Ah, I can wait.
13:23I suggest we now resume our negotiations, Mitchell.
13:26Look, for the last time, I don't have that document.
13:31You got to the inn in spite of Rudy,
13:33and you had a talk with the genial Herr Baumgartner.
13:36Look, when I was unconscious, you undoubtedly searched me.
13:41You know I haven't got the document.
13:43However, I believe you do know where it is.
13:47No.
13:49Otto.
13:49Oh.
13:51Hey, look, you know, this isn't going to do you any good.
13:54Rest assured it will not do you any good either.
13:57You see, Mitchell, it is as I said up at the cable car.
14:01You are not impressed with me.
14:03You do not think I mean business.
14:05You're kidding.
14:06How much impressing do you think I need?
14:09There is an unlimited amount available.
14:12For instance.
14:13Hey, wait a minute.
14:14Wait a minute.
14:16Hey, wait a minute.
14:17Wait a minute.
14:18To continue.
14:21Oh, wait a minute.
14:22What is this?
14:23Well, well.
14:24So the brave man has had enough, hm?
14:27Yeah, I've had enough.
14:29Look, I'm kind of groggy.
14:33I want to get a little air.
14:34Of course.
14:36The poor man has gone through a great deal.
14:40Get your fresh air.
14:41Then we talk, huh?
14:44But please, do not try anything.
14:47Mm.
15:02Help him.
15:06Ah!
15:07Ah!
15:10You did us!
15:14I just really like it here.
15:17Just for a break.
15:23Well, we wait here, too, huh?
15:25I don't know.
15:26If you go on and on.
15:39Nobody's following us.
15:41Good.
15:44Thanks, uh...
15:46Liza. Liza Strauss.
15:49I'm Steve Mitchell.
15:51Steve?
15:52Where are we going?
15:54You can rest at my house a little if you want.
15:58Fine.
16:00At this point, any place is fine.
16:03As long as those two characters aren't around.
16:15Do you feel better now?
16:17Only about a thousand percent, Liza.
16:20Well, I guess this is the rain check we were talking about at the end, huh?
16:24This rain check, it is very fitting.
16:27Because for you, it's going to start raining.
16:30Oh, no.
16:31Not again.
16:33This will be the last time.
16:36You too, huh?
16:40The document, where is it?
16:42I don't know.
16:44Is that your final answer?
16:46It's my only answer.
16:48Look, I don't get it.
16:50If you're working with Gerlach, why did you help me give him the slip?
16:54I'm not working with Gerlach.
16:56It's true, those two of us are citizens of the same country.
17:00And we're after the same document.
17:02Not for the same reasons, though.
17:04You see, our government came into power...
17:07because of a disunity in our country.
17:10Yeah, I know.
17:11The country thought that its democratic leader...
17:14had sold the country out and committed suicide.
17:17The document in question, however, proves differently.
17:21Yeah, proves the whole thing is a big frame.
17:24So Gerlach was appointed to get the document, huh?
17:27Yes.
17:28But there are those of us who don't like Gerlach.
17:33If he comes back empty-handed...
17:35it will be liquidated.
17:37You're a real sweet bunch of kids.
17:40Exactly.
17:42Stand up, Steve.
17:49I'm sorry.
17:52Well, what happens now?
17:55Are you going to shoot me?
17:57Not exactly.
17:59We don't play by the same rules.
18:02I see. You'll turn me over to the police.
18:05No, Lisa, I'm not going to turn you over to the police.
18:09You're a strange man, Steve.
18:20I'll be seeing you.
18:22Sure.
18:23I'll look you up...
18:25next time I want to get shot at.
18:31By the time I check in at a hotel...
18:33by the time I check in at a hotel, it's daylight.
18:36It looks like I'm licked.
18:38At 10 o'clock tonight, Baumgartner will turn over that key...
18:42to the safety deposit box and burn to the highest bidder.
18:45Either Gerlach or Lisa.
18:48That puts the pressure on me, but good.
18:50Pressure.
18:52Pressure.
18:53All of a sudden, a crazy idea hits me...
18:56just crazy enough to work.
18:58After all, pressure can be transmitted in more than one direction.
19:01Yes.
19:09That night, I timed it to arrive at the inn at 9 o'clock.
19:17Ah, Mr. Mitchell.
19:19Mr. Baumgartner.
19:21You beat the deadline by over an hour.
19:23Mr. Baumgartner, you said you were just the go-between in this deal.
19:28Of course.
19:29Who's the other guy?
19:31That does not concern you.
19:33You know, I've got a hunch there isn't any other guy.
19:36I think you dreamed up this story about being the go-between...
19:39just to protect yourself from Lisa and Gerlach.
19:41See here, Mitchell, that is not true.
19:43In any way, it does not concern you.
19:45Okay, skip it.
19:47Now, let's just get down to business, huh?
19:50How much are you prepared to beat?
19:52You misunderstand.
19:53I just came by to say goodbye.
19:56Mr. Mitchell, sometimes I find your sense of humor very annoying.
20:01This is no joke.
20:02My train leaves for Bern in two hours.
20:05You're serious?
20:06Never more serious than my life.
20:09But I expected you to buy the document.
20:12Yeah. Yeah, I know you did.
20:28So long, chum.
20:32Just in case you're carrying another gun, sweetheart.
20:35Gun doesn't seem to be much good against you.
20:39Maybe I'll try some other weapons.
20:41I'm sorry.
20:42It was great while it lasted,
20:44but I'm glad it didn't last another minute.
20:47You're leaving?
20:48Yeah. Better hurry.
20:50Might miss my train.
20:52You admit defeat.
20:54Yes, I admit defeat.
20:56I'm sorry.
20:57Better hurry. Might miss my train.
21:00You admit defeat, then?
21:02Yeah, sure.
21:05Hey, you're sure you're not...
21:07Mm-hmm.
21:09Goodbye.
21:22Can you hear me?
21:24Tell your boss goodbye for me.
21:26Tell him he was just a little too late. Got it?
21:57Hi.
22:19Mitchum?
22:20Hello, Baumgaard.
22:22What have you done to me?
22:23What?
22:24What have you done to me?
22:25What, Baumgartner?
22:26I don't know what you mean.
22:27They are chasing me.
22:29Kellick and Lysette, they are somewhere on the plane.
22:31They want to kill me.
22:32Why should they want to kill you?
22:34Because of what you told them.
22:35I didn't tell them anything except that I was leaving.
22:38But they think you are leaving because I've
22:40sold you the document.
22:41Well, I can't help what they're thinking, can I, Baumgartner?
22:43But they want to kill me.
22:44Uh-huh.
22:45Yeah, I guess you're right.
22:47Why did you do this to me?
22:48I didn't do anything to you, Baumgartner.
22:50You just outsmarted yourself.
22:51But, but.
22:52Never mind the but.
22:53Now, look, you were using each of them against the other.
22:56You promised the document to each of them.
22:58Now they think that you've double-crossed them.
23:00But I didn't double-cross anybody.
23:02You know that. You must help me.
23:03You are the only one.
23:05Why don't you go to the police?
23:06I cannot go to the police with this.
23:07You know that.
23:08Well, it looks like you and I got to make a little deal.
23:10Deal?
23:11Yeah, the keep the safety deposit box.
23:13You got it?
23:14Yes.
23:14Well, give it to me, and I'll tell them
23:15both that I was bluffing.
23:17But that's the way I will make nothing.
23:19That's right.
23:19The other way you'll make nothing,
23:20too, because you'll be dead.
23:22No, I will not do it.
23:24OK, suit yourself.
23:30What is it?
23:31Thought I heard somebody coming.
23:34Yeah.
23:35Yeah, I guess somebody's coming here.
23:37Here, take the key.
23:38Please, anything. You must protect me.
23:40Remember, please, take it.
23:41You must protect me.
23:45No, no, no.
23:47Me too.
23:48I should have known I'd find the two of you together.
23:51How nice.
23:53Now you can both die together.
24:01No, no.
24:03You promised it to me, but you sold it to Steve, huh?
24:07Tell her, Mitchell.
24:07Tell her.
24:08Well, you see, Lisa.
24:09Leave the explanations for me.
24:12Now you will give me back the key, huh?
24:14You know, I knew I shouldn't have trusted you.
24:17Give me the key.
24:19Well, now you'll never get it.
24:27Well, I'll get it.
24:28Don't worry.
24:29Well, happy landings.
24:31Who pulled the emergency?
24:32The guy that just jumped off the train.
24:34How?
24:35What?
24:36It's just the way it is.
24:37It's the way it is.
24:38It's the way it is.
24:39It's the way it is.
24:40It's the way it is.
24:41I'll tell you about it on the way to Bern.
24:43Keep this thing going.
24:51Well, that's about it, Commissioner.
24:53Lisa and Gerlach got what was coming to them.
24:56I had his stooge Otto arrested for a couple of murders.
25:00Baumgartner's probably still wandering around in the snow
25:03with a bad case of frostbite.
25:05Well, what about the document?
25:07Got it right here.
25:08And when it's published, I think the country
25:10involved will open its eyes enough
25:12to do a little housecleaning.
25:14Good.
25:15I'll take the next plane back.
25:17Incidentally, will you do me a favor?
25:19Sure.
25:20What is it?
25:21Have a new key made for my apartment.
25:24New key for your apartment?
25:27I don't get it.
25:29Neither did Baumgartner.
25:31So long, Commissioner.