Set in a quirky seaside resort known as the Hotel Splendide, the film follows a web of comical misunderstandings, class clashes, and eccentric characters who bring the hotel to life with charm and satire.
The plot centers on the hotel staff and guests, whose lives and personalities collide over a weekend of farcical events. The story unfolds as the pompous hotel manager tries to uphold order in an increasingly chaotic environment. Miscommunication, social faux pas, and absurd situations abound — especially when a high-society lady arrives and sparks intrigue among the male staff and guests.
As the day progresses, the staff’s efforts to impress their elite guests unravel in a series of laugh-out-loud moments. A lost jewel, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements drive the comedy to a delightful crescendo.
While the plot seems lighthearted, Hotel Splendide subtly critiques British social structures and classism, which were especially relevant during the interwar period.
The plot centers on the hotel staff and guests, whose lives and personalities collide over a weekend of farcical events. The story unfolds as the pompous hotel manager tries to uphold order in an increasingly chaotic environment. Miscommunication, social faux pas, and absurd situations abound — especially when a high-society lady arrives and sparks intrigue among the male staff and guests.
As the day progresses, the staff’s efforts to impress their elite guests unravel in a series of laugh-out-loud moments. A lost jewel, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements drive the comedy to a delightful crescendo.
While the plot seems lighthearted, Hotel Splendide subtly critiques British social structures and classism, which were especially relevant during the interwar period.
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00:30We are again, happy as can be, all good pals and jolly good company, strolling round the town, out upon the street, all good pals and jolly good company, never mind the weather, never mind the rain, now we're all together, whoops, she goes again, la-di-da-di-da, la-di-da-di-dee, all good pals and jolly good company.
01:30Yes, this is the International Fruit Company speaking.
01:43You want a thousand pairs?
01:46You want them buttoned, not laced?
01:49You're mad, sir.
01:51I said this was the International Fruit Company, not Boot Company.
01:53Give me Central 12,000.
02:01Is that the offices of the Daily Clarion?
02:04Put me through immediately to Lord Winterbottom.
02:07That you, Winterbottom?
02:09Yes, it's me.
02:10See, I rang up, my dear fellow, to have a few words about that proposition we lunched over the other day.
02:15I've made up my mind I'm not coming in.
02:18I can't help that, my dear fellow.
02:20I am not coming in.
02:23Then I'll be going out.
02:25What the devil do you mean, sir?
02:26Now look here, Winterbottom.
02:27You may own newspapers, but you don't know me.
02:30I'm a hard man if I'm crossed.
02:32Don't get on the wrong side of me, Winterbottom.
02:35Very well, then.
02:36You needn't apologize.
02:38But remember what I said.
02:40I am not coming in.
02:45Ah, Mason, it's you, is it?
02:47Sit down, my boy.
02:48Sit down.
02:51Mason, I want to speak to you seriously.
02:55You came into this office as a junior clerk two years ago.
02:58I have watched your progress with great interest.
03:01You have promised, Mason.
03:03Definite promise.
03:05But there is one direction in which you fail.
03:08You need thrust.
03:10You must assert yourself.
03:13Now suppose tomorrow I fell ill,
03:15and Mr. Sarnison wanted you to take on the duties of foreign manager.
03:18What would you do?
03:21Come, sir, come.
03:22Answer me now.
03:24Now, Mason, pull yourself together and give me an answer.
03:28Mason, I order you to answer me.
03:32This meeting has taken longer than I thought, Sarnison.
03:36I shall be late for my luncheon appointment.
03:38If I don't hurry.
03:39I'm very sorry, sir.
03:40I'm afraid that I, uh...
03:41Oh, not at all, not at all.
03:43You see, Mason, it takes me five or ten minutes to get an answer out of you.
03:47Do you think you'll ever get anywhere without thrust and self-confidence?
03:51You are a boy of talent, and yet you persist in hiding this talent under a bushel.
03:58Get me, Sarnison.
03:59That you, Sarnison?
04:05Why the devil haven't you told me before about young Mason?
04:08You know you are supposed to inform me when you come across anyone of mocked ability.
04:12No, it's useless talking, Sarnison.
04:14If I have any more of this behavior, I'm afraid I shall have to take drastic steps.
04:19Yes, drastic steps.
04:20It's useless, Sarnison.
04:23You are an incompetent nincompoop, sir.
04:26And another thing, Sarnison.
04:27I can't have you in my office with a mustache like that.
04:30You'd better cut it off.
04:32It isn't a mustache, sir.
04:33It's a public offense, sir.
04:39I should very much like to know, Mason, the meaning of this behavior.
04:42What are you doing in my office?
04:44Are you mad or have you been drinking?
04:46I'm so sorry, Mr. Sarnison.
04:47Ever so sorry, Mr. Sarnison.
04:48You see, but I thought that you...
04:50That will do.
04:51I don't know what steps to take over this amazing affair.
04:57But, Mr. Sarnison, I was just going to explain, sir.
04:59You see, I thought that you and the old...
05:02I beg your pardon, sir.
05:03I thought that you and the president had gone out to lunch, sir.
05:08Very silly, my boy.
05:18It's a crying shame.
05:24By all rights, half of that £2,000 first price should have belonged to me.
05:29Don't bother, Morgan.
05:30This sort of money is no use to any man.
05:34Easy come, easy go.
05:36That's all me I.
05:37There's no such thing as easy money.
05:39Isn't there, though?
05:40What about these flash crooks and confidence men?
05:42Look here, Bill.
05:43Here's Charles Miller.
05:44Known as Gentleman Charlie.
05:46He's out today.
05:46Is he?
05:47Well, what of it?
05:48What of it?
05:49Don't you remember the case?
05:50I do.
05:51Gentleman Charlie was arrested in Lord Dysart's house.
05:54They only found some money on him, but the famous Dysart Pearls had gone.
05:57Gentleman Charlie swore he knew nothing about them.
06:00But what I see...
06:00Hey, look here.
06:02Dysart Pearls.
06:03£10,000.
06:04Rewards till open.
06:06Easy come.
06:07£10,000, eh?
06:08Easy go.
06:08What couldn't I do to that, eh, Gerry?
06:10£10,000.
06:11If I had it, I wouldn't stop in this rotten office.
06:14These newspapers never think of Scotland Yard.
06:22This publicity will scare Charlie off the poles.
06:24I don't think so, sir.
06:25Nothing can keep Charlie away from them.
06:27Are you sure you've put a good man on him?
06:29One of the best, sir.
06:30Sergeant Graham.
06:31He'll pick him up outside Pentonville
06:33and never leave off until Charlie leads him to where he's hidden the necklace.
06:37You know where Charlie's going?
06:38I should say he'd go across the river to Lambeth
06:40and hitch up with his old partner, Slim Fawcett.
06:42Hmm.
07:13Charlie, you old geezer.
07:17His Majesty don't seem to have done you too bad.
07:19Ah, they fatten you up now before you come out.
07:22Stir's not what it was, Slim.
07:24Not by a long shot.
07:25Seen this, Charlie.
07:27Well, what of it?
07:28The press can't hurt me.
07:29If you say so.
07:34You have cut all this cackle.
07:36Didn't you get the stuff?
07:37Did I, hell?
07:38What, you didn't?
07:39Didn't I tell you I didn't?
07:41Didn't I send you a message by old Beacon Rogers?
07:43Didn't I tell you where the stuff was buried?
07:45Yeah, you told me.
07:47Wait four years, go down to Spamuth,
07:49find a field where that shack of yours used to be,
07:51measure four yards left from the centre of the big oak,
07:53then start a dig.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Yeah, but you can't dig a house away.
07:57House?
07:57Yeah, some fool built a house right in the centre of the field.
08:00The oak tree isn't there.
08:02And the pearls are either underneath the foundation
08:03or underneath the garden.
08:05How can I tell?
08:06I'm not a surveyor.
08:08Oh, damn the luck.
08:09What sort of a house is it?
08:11House?
08:11It's a hotel.
08:12Hotel Splondid.
08:17Supposing Pussy's been down there?
08:19He was in on the job and the pearls.
08:21Pussy Saunders?
08:22Don't worry about him.
08:24He got ten years for that Sydney bank job.
08:26That was only three years ago.
08:31Yes.
08:32Yes, it's me, Pussy.
08:34That you, Marconi?
08:36Charlie's back there with Slim already, is he?
08:39Can you hear everything they're saying?
08:41Fine.
08:42Keep your ears open.
08:44My ears are open all right, Pussy.
08:46They've stopped talking for a moment.
08:49Say, this is a great idea, this detective phone.
08:52Wait.
08:53They started talking about you again.
08:56Slim says you're down under.
08:59In quad.
09:00Charlie says there isn't a jail strong enough to hold you.
09:03Charlie's getting smart, the dirty double-crosser.
09:06There isn't.
09:08Until I get my hands on those pearls.
09:10You're nervous, Charlie.
09:11Pussy couldn't be around here without my knowing it.
09:13Pussy could.
09:14He could walk in here as your long-lost brother
09:15and you'd never know him.
09:17Ah, cut it.
09:18What's worrying me is whether those darn pearls
09:20that won't have rotted away or spoiled.
09:22You make me sick.
09:23They can't spoil.
09:24I put them in a tin box and sold it up.
09:26When are we going to Spameth?
09:28Tomorrow.
09:29Tomorrow?
09:30Why not tonight?
09:31Not me.
09:32I'm five years late for an appointment.
09:35I can't let a lady down.
09:41The moment Mr. Mason comes in,
09:43tell him I wish to see him.
09:44The moment he comes in.
09:46You understand?
09:47Very good, sir.
09:50Right, Mr. Humphreys, I'll come in.
09:52I wonder who it's from.
10:12Why don't you happen it?
10:13Shall us?
10:14Let's.
10:15Let's go.
10:45Hey, Mr. Mason.
10:51Mr. Mason.
10:52Well, Potter, what is it?
10:54Mr. Sanderson wants to see you.
10:56He's fair frothing at the mouth.
10:57Well, let him froth.
10:59What does he want me to do?
11:01Go in and rub him down?
11:11You wanted to see me?
11:12Yes, Mason, I did.
11:13Well, I want to see you.
11:14I've got a lot to tell you, Sanderson.
11:16How?
11:16I'm sick of this office.
11:17I'm sick of the blokes I work with.
11:18I'm sick of the blinking ledgers.
11:19And I'm sick of you.
11:20What?
11:20I don't like your voice.
11:21I don't like your face.
11:22I don't like your manners.
11:23And I don't like your mustache.
11:25What the?
11:25In fact, Sanderson, I don't like you.
11:27Oh.
11:28I came in here to give you notice.
11:29I'm leaving.
11:30Leaving?
11:30You'll have to get along without me as best you can.
11:33Oh, Lord knows what sort of a mess you'll make of it.
11:35I'm leaving.
11:36Leaving?
11:37Put that in your pipe and smoke it, and I hope it makes you sick.
11:39What the?
11:40And if you want to, you can sue me for breach of contract.
11:43Mason, I am!
11:47Ah, my dear fellow, there you are.
11:59Well, he's left me every bit of his estate.
12:02Really?
12:02I must congratulate you, Mason.
12:05I assume your uncle was a very prosperous man.
12:08Prosperous?
12:08I suppose one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hotel proprietor on the west coast.
12:13Really?
12:14Of course, I intend to run the place myself.
12:16That's what it wants, I expect.
12:17Competent handling.
12:18This is very fine news, View Mason.
12:20What's the name of this hotel?
12:22Uh, Hotel Splendee, Spamoth-on-Sea.
12:31Did you look up those trains?
12:33Yeah.
12:34Best one's 1110.
12:35Doesn't stop till it gets to Spamoth.
12:36Right.
12:391110 it shall be.
12:40And good luck to us.
12:42It isn't a question of luck.
12:44As soon as I get down there, it's just pure skill.
12:47It's all okay as long as...
12:49What's up now?
12:50As long as pussy hasn't got onto it.
12:52Ah, shut up about pussy.
12:54Yes?
13:02It's the 1110, pussy.
13:04Good.
13:05We leave it once by car.
13:06Okay.
13:06Okay.
13:06Okay.
13:06Okay.
13:08Okay.
13:18Okay.
15:50But I didn't.
15:51Is it...
15:52I'm terribly sorry about that, Bill.
15:56I mean, I...
16:00All me own fault.
16:04Didn't know me own strength.
16:05Oh.
16:08That's me.
16:09Oh, Mr. Mason.
16:11I'm so sorry.
16:12I'm Joyce Dacre.
16:13Won't you please come in?
16:14Thanks.
16:15Thanks.
16:15I've been managing this hotel for your uncle for the past year.
16:35I'm afraid, Mr. Mason, you don't quite know how this place has been going...
16:40That's all right.
16:41Quite all right.
16:43Oh, good morning, Miss Meek.
16:45Good morning, Miss Dacre.
16:46Good morning, Miss Dacre.
16:47This is the lounge hall, Mr. Mason.
17:02Half past ten and breakfast's not cleared.
17:04Won't you sit down, Mr. Mason?
17:27It's very nice of you to spare the time to come down here.
17:32I had a letter saying you were coming from the solicitors.
17:34Oh, yes.
17:35Peabody Brothers, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, and Peabody.
17:37Mr. Mason, you've never been here, so you don't know anything about the place?
17:41No.
17:42Mr. Mason, the hotel's a failure.
17:44Always was a failure.
17:46But, of course, that wouldn't mean anything to a man in your position.
17:49I suppose you'll be selling it.
17:50Sell it?
17:51Why, no.
17:52I intended to live here.
17:54I was going to run the hotel to make it my business.
17:57Oh.
17:58Oh, I see.
17:59Well, if you want my advice, and I do know what I'm talking about,
18:02I should sell this place now for what you can get.
18:05It won't be very much, but at least it'll be more than anything you'll ever make out of it.
18:11No.
18:12No what?
18:14I don't know.
18:16Mr. Mason, have you been listening to a word of what I was saying?
18:19Yes.
18:20Is there anything else you want to say?
18:22I'm afraid I don't quite understand you.
18:24Yes, there's one more thing.
18:25Well, what is it?
18:27If you're going to stay here, I suppose you'll be manager.
18:30Yes.
18:31Oh, very well.
18:34I suppose I shall have to go.
18:36When shall I go?
18:37Go?
18:38What do you mean, go?
18:40You don't think I'm...
18:40Giving me the sack?
18:41Yes, of course I do.
18:42You don't want two managers and a place that can't afford a between maid?
18:45Listen to me, listen to me.
18:46I've got to make this hotel go and I can't make it go without your assistance.
18:50Miss Dacre, you've got thrust and thrust is what we need.
18:54First of all, show me of the hotel.
18:55Then we'll have a conference.
18:56Very nice.
19:03Beautiful view.
19:11Very nice.
19:12Beautiful view.
19:18Very nice.
19:18Beautiful view.
19:19Very nice.
19:34May we come in, Mrs. LaGrange?
19:36This is Mr. Mason, the new proprietor.
19:38Mr. Mason, Mrs. LaGrange.
19:39Mr. Mason, Miss LaGrange.
19:41Mrs. and Miss LaGrange are our latest arrivals, Mr. Mason.
19:44Oh, yes.
19:44Of course.
19:46Well, I hope you'll be very comfortable.
19:48Well, what's he say, dear?
19:50He says he hopes you'll be very comfortable, Granny dear.
19:55Oh.
20:03I'll show you.
20:05We're going to make this place go.
20:06With our abilities and thrust, we'll soon have the finest hotel on the West Coast.
20:09You know all about housekeeping.
20:11I know all about business.
20:12And, Miss Dacre, what is the coping stone of big business today?
20:15You don't know.
20:16I'll tell you.
20:17It's publicity.
20:18Where do you think the international fruit company would have been if I hadn't been their
20:21advertising manager?
20:23Advertise.
20:23Advertise.
20:25And advertise.
20:26Watch me.
20:27Who are the biggest drapers in town?
20:29Filson's.
20:29Number?
20:32Spamoth 2060.
20:34Spamoth 2060.
20:35Is that Filson's?
20:37Mr. Mason speaking.
20:39Mr. Mason, the new proprietor of the Hotel Splendide.
20:42Oh, very well then.
20:43Splendid.
20:45Now, I want you to make me a flag.
20:47No, not a stag.
20:48A flag.
20:50I want it made right away.
20:52And it's to be made like this.
20:53Three chairs.
21:23for the new Hotel Splendide.
21:25Hip, hip.
21:26Hooray!
21:28Miss Dacre, to work.
21:30Oh, and by the by, there ain't going to be no lunch.
21:49No lunch?
21:49No lunch.
21:50Not till you pride the butcher.
21:52Or so he says.
21:53Oh, take no notice.
21:53Tell the boy we'll send a check tomorrow.
21:55Tomorrow.
21:56Tomorrow.
22:05Miss Dacre, I've been having a talk with my brother,
22:08and we both agree that the coverings on our bed
22:09wouldn't keep a cat warm.
22:11Too frigid.
22:12How about a couple of eider-dongs?
22:14I'll look into it at once, Miss Meek.
22:16I hope we should be able to have them tonight, Miss Dacre.
22:19Night air.
22:20Definitely chilly.
22:21I'll certainly look into it at once, Mr. Meek.
22:23I'll see Mr. Mason about it.
22:25I'm sure that he'll see you're satisfied in every way.
22:28Well, well, here we are.
22:32Here we are.
22:33You mark my words.
22:33Our new publicity campaign...
22:35Oh, for goodness sake, be quiet.
22:36Publicity campaign, indeed.
22:37Excuse me, Miss Dacre.
22:39But Graham has been ringing for the maid for such a long time.
22:41I think that...
22:42Been ringing the bell for 15 minutes.
22:44Yes, Granny dear.
22:45I'm telling them.
22:46I'm so sorry, Mrs. Legrange.
22:48Leave this to me.
22:49Mrs. Legrange, I'm sorry you should have had cause for complaints.
22:53I may say that my manager has been laboring under extreme difficulty.
22:56But the Hotel Splendide is now approaching a new epoch in its era.
23:01The management has passed into the hands of one who is accustomed to big business.
23:04And if you would give us a chance, I think that we can...
23:07Hmm.
23:08What's he say, Doris?
23:10He says, everything will be all right now, Granny dear.
23:15Well, come along.
23:26It's all very well to talk like that to the poorer woman, but how are you going to do
23:32all these things?
23:33You've got to find some way of paying the butcher and the baker and the rest.
23:36And you've got to pay for your stupid old flag.
23:39But perhaps you've got the money.
23:40Wait.
23:55What's my publicity?
23:56Let her bring new people and they'll bring money.
23:58Don't be silly.
23:59How can you be so stupid?
24:01Why, look.
24:02There.
24:03Just a drop in the bucket.
24:11Whatever.
24:12Get the register.
24:13I'll go meet them.
24:18Hurry, Pansy, hurry.
24:19Hurry, is it?
24:20No, you're on one and lunch not late.
24:21You'll never mind that now.
24:22There's some new visitors.
24:25They must be Dorf.
24:26That'll do.
24:27Go and open the rooms.
24:28Yes, they do.
24:30We were wondering whether you were...
24:32I would like to know if you have any accommodation.
24:35We saw your beautiful flag staff and we thought...
24:37Are your terms reasonable?
24:40Good morning, gentlemen.
24:41Good morning.
24:42Good morning.
24:43Can you accommodate a couple of gentlemen for a few days?
24:46Just a spot of golf, you know.
24:47Certainly.
24:48May I show you the rooms?
24:49Follow me, will you please?
24:50Thought you said this place was quiet.
24:51It was.
24:52Well, it isn't any more.
24:53It's like Whipsnay.
24:57We would prefer a room that...
24:59Your terms seem entirely satisfactory.
25:01I would like to see the room before I decide.
25:04Certainly.
25:04Let me show you.
25:20There you are, gentlemen.
25:21This is one of our finest fronts.
25:22Of course, of course.
25:23Don't you think so, George?
25:24Uh, rather...
25:26So airy.
25:29Oh.
25:30So this room is, uh...
25:32Not at all.
25:32Not at all.
25:33My friend and I can look at some other rooms.
25:35Uh, quite.
25:36Quite.
25:40You see, madam, this is one of our most comfortable rooms.
25:43Oh.
25:52There you are, gentlemen.
25:53One of our finest fronts.
25:55Ah, of course.
25:55Of course.
25:56Don't you think so, George?
25:57Uh, rather.
25:59So airy.
26:02Oh.
26:02So this room is...
26:03Not at all.
26:04Not at all.
26:04My friend and I can look at some other rooms.
26:06Uh, quite.
26:07Quite.
26:07Quite.
26:08Quite.
26:08Quite.
26:08Quite.
26:08Quite.
26:08Quite.
26:10Well, quite a coincidence.
26:19Now, I take it you gentlemen...
26:21Oh!
26:22I think, after all, I prefer...
26:24I think it can be easily arranged.
26:28What I want to know is, who's running this place?
26:31You're only the proprietor.
26:32If you go blundering about like this, we'll have both slots leaving before we know where we are.
26:40There we go.
27:01Oh, Mr. Mason, the Harknesses are in number two, and the other gentlemen in numbers three and five.
27:16I've changed the numbers.
27:17Two hundred and two, two hundred and three, two hundred and five.
27:20We must think big.
27:21Also, Mr. Mason, here are the deposits I've collected from the other guests.
27:26Place them in the petty cash, Miss Dacre.
27:31Mr. Mason, the gong's gone, you know.
27:35All the guests are in the dining room.
27:37Hadn't you better go in and carve?
27:38Aren't you coming in, Miss Dacre?
27:40Oh, I'll just have a bite in the office.
27:42I'd better be on hand, don't you think?
27:43Why?
27:44There's probably a horde of clients surging along the seafront.
27:47The results of your publicity scheme, you know.
27:59I'm very glad to be able to welcome you all here today.
28:01On this, my first day of proprietorship.
28:04I don't intend to make a great speech today, but I do feel that I should say that this day
28:10is one of the happiest days of my life, up to today.
28:14Personally, I think business is inartistic, too sordid.
28:35Yet the businessman is a creative artist.
28:38He builds.
28:39Or digs, eh?
28:41What, sir?
28:42Oh, beg pardon, I'm sure.
28:45Extremely good exercise.
28:47Digging?
28:47Yes.
28:48I like digging, too.
28:50My favorite recreation, digging.
28:52Really?
28:52You should have been here this morning, then, mister.
28:55There was plenty of digging going on then.
28:57Why?
28:58Why?
28:58What?
28:59Yes, dear.
29:01Whoever was digging?
29:03Well, if you must know, I was.
29:05Whatever for, Mr. Mason?
29:07Mr. Mason was digging a new hole for the flagstaff.
29:11Well, why didn't he say so?
29:12Oh!
29:12Uh, I'm sorry.
29:14I'm sure.
29:17Now, I hope...
29:18I hope you'll all be able to enjoy yourselves this afternoon.
29:24Oi, they're done.
29:25Then about time to.
29:27I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that with my arrival here,
29:30a new page in the history of the Hotel Splendide has dawned.
29:35Here, here.
29:36Here, here.
29:39Distinctly.
29:39What's he say, Doris?
29:41He says everything's going to be all right now, Granny dear.
29:58Haven't you anything to do, Mr. Mason?
30:00I'm thinking.
30:04Another publicity scheme?
30:05No.
30:07Well, we're sitting pretty.
30:11That fool Charlie will be useful to me.
30:14Just a question of waiting now.
30:16Sooner or later, the whole lot will fall into my hands.
30:19The Hotel Splendide, one of the most palatial,
30:42one of the best-known family hotels round the seaboard of this fair island,
30:48has now passed into eminently and capable new hands.
30:56Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Mason,
30:58but my friend and I here were wondering whether there's been an explosion in your hotel recently.
31:03Explosion?
31:04Any explosions lately, Mr. Acre?
31:06Explosions?
31:06I know it must seem rather an extraordinary question,
31:08but I had to ask it, er, because of my friend here.
31:12Er, that's quite right.
31:13Quite right.
31:14We, er, you see, my friend here was blown up by a gas stove when he was a nipper.
31:18Fancy.
31:19What's that?
31:20I said, er, fancy.
31:21We've just been out in your rather charming garden
31:26and seen, er, seen the signs of a hole recently filled in.
31:31Now, Mr. Mason, if that hole were caused by an explosion of gas,
31:34my friend couldn't possibly stay here.
31:37Er, that's quite right.
31:39There was no explosion, I assure you.
31:41Maybe the hole where the flagstaff was before I removed it.
31:44And we do not cook with gas.
31:45Oh, er, thank you so much.
31:47Let's, let's get on.
31:59I'm sure we've had enough exercise, Hector.
32:02You mustn't overtax your strength, you know.
32:05I'm sorry for Charlie.
32:06He's so dumb.
32:08Still, he'll be useful.
32:10If anyone knows where the pearls are, Charlie does.
32:14The window cord appears to be broken, my dear.
32:17I shan't be in the wind.
32:18I shan't be in the wind.
32:47Then, Miss Pansy, she's no good.
33:15What we want is efficiency in the staff and tidiness.
33:18If you're so keen on tidiness, Mr. Mason,
33:19I wish you'd do something about the broken sash cord in number two.
33:23And you're such a handyman, Mr. Mason.
33:26Look at the way you can dig holes.
33:29Can't mend a sash. Haven't any cord.
33:30I have.
33:32100% efficiency, Mr. Mason.
34:32Well, Mr. Morgan, everything all right?
34:34Oh, yes, thanks. Everything's quite all right.
34:36Quite.
35:14Get all of your animals and come down quickly.
35:33I am so sorry, Mr. Macy. I'm afraid it's all my stupid fault.
35:57My eyes are so weak, you know. I thought that bell was for the maid.
36:01Oh, an incredible woman. She'll be...
36:03That's all right, Mrs. LaGrange. Part of the hotel's plundi service.
36:07The guest is always right.
36:09Too grim.
36:10Oh, I don't understand talk.
36:14Oh, you're so kind. I was such a silly.
36:18You're all of a Twitter, my dear. You must let me take you along to your room.
36:23There you go.
36:25I wish we had a fire alarm every day. We'd get better acquainted then.
36:28Oh, you're so brave, Mr. Morgan.
36:31Not at all. Now, you just dash along to your room, slip on a wrap, and we'll snatch a cocktail before dinner.
36:36That'd be lovely.
36:38Yes.
36:46Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
36:49I'm in such a state. Such a state.
36:52I think I'd better go to my room.
36:54That's the best thing you could do, Mrs. LaGrange.
36:56Quite the best thing.
36:57Can we do anything, Mrs. LaGrange?
36:59Oh, no, thank you. It's quite all right.
37:01Oh, come, Hector.
37:02Do you know, my mother was the same.
37:03She always forgot...
37:05I wonder whether you and your friend would be so kind as to take poor Granny upstairs.
37:10Why, certainly, Mrs. LaGrange.
37:12Why not buy Granny a cocktail, too?
37:20Oh, Mr. Mason, it was very kind of you to fix our window, but...
37:24Our window won't shut.
37:25Yesterday, it wouldn't open.
37:27Will you please fix it?
37:29Certainly.
37:29Oh, thank you.
37:31Thank you, gentlemen, for your kind assistance.
37:34But please, I'd rather be left alone.
37:36Come on.
37:37No, no, Doris.
37:38Not even you, my dear.
37:39Thank you, Mrs. LaGrange.
38:09Thank you, Mrs. LaGrange.
38:39Thank you, Mrs. LaGrange.
39:09I'm sorry to have practiced this deception on you, Mr. Mason, but I couldn't help myself.
39:20My name is Hawksby.
39:21I'm a detective.
39:22In this box are the famous Dysart Pearls, stolen six years ago.
39:27I've been on the trail of the gang who took them for years, and now I've got them.
39:31Cool.
39:32Now, listen, Mr. Mason, you can assist me and the police.
39:36I want you to take care of this box.
39:38I can't make any arrests yet because I must get the whole gang.
39:41And I want you to give me your promise that you'll assist me.
39:43After I've made my arrests, you can have the reward.
39:46Will you help?
39:47Yes.
39:48Of course, I'll help.
39:49Good.
39:50And remember, don't let anybody see that box.
39:59Of course, the silly thing is, you see, she wasn't married.
40:01My dear, I distinctly remember.
40:17My dear, isn't that the...
40:18Shh.
40:27Look here, pussy.
40:28What the devil do you want to go and give the box to that little one for?
40:30Oh, no.
40:55They're a funny rock, right?
40:56They're a funny rock, right?
40:56They're a funny.
40:57Atmosphere is a place.
40:59It's really too depressing.
41:01I shouldn't eat that soup.
41:02Oh, I don't know.
41:03It's all amusing.
41:06What is it now?
41:07Hurry up with that there joint.
41:08They're lapping up the soup like mad.
41:10Let them lap.
41:10So, there you are.
41:24I don't know what to think.
41:25I don't like it either.
41:27They all seem so suspicious.
41:28Come in.
41:29Come in.
41:40Come in.
41:44Well, Mr. Popp.
41:49Well, Mr. Mason, this young lady is really my assistant and secretary, Miss Priscilla Bedford.
41:55Very pleased to meet you, Miss Bedford.
41:59Miss Dacre.
42:00How do you do?
42:02Now, Mr. Mason, if you'll be good enough to let me have that box, I think I can promise
42:06you that you won't be sorry.
42:07Certainly.
42:08How do you open the beastly thing?
42:16I don't know.
42:17You see, we've never used the safe since I've been here.
42:19Oh, cool.
42:23Hmm.
42:24I see.
42:26Well, in that case, there's nothing to do but wait till tomorrow and then send to town
42:29for a locksmith.
42:29That's an odd lot.
42:36Which?
42:37The old skate and her daughter.
42:39Hmm.
42:40Say, Slim, she's a peach.
42:43The girl?
42:44Ah.
42:45Skirts will be the death of you and me too if I stay with you.
42:47Don't you worry.
42:48I shan't let a skirt interfere with my job.
42:50I'll find that box tonight.
42:52You watch my smoke.
42:54Charlie's the only one who can open that safe.
42:56We must have it before morning or all our plans will go wrong.
43:00He's sweet on you.
43:01Tip him the wink.
43:01All innocent.
43:03Tell him it's in the safe.
43:04But don't let him get on to you.
43:05When he's got the box, we'll step right in.
43:09I got you.
43:10Don't worry that he'll tumble.
43:12He's all goofy about me.
43:16What a life.
43:17Rush about half the day and I suppose half the night too.
43:22Don't think much of this hotel life now.
43:24Never mind.
43:25You're tired, Mr. Mason.
43:26And I don't wonder.
43:27Look at all you've done.
43:28Fat lot I've done.
43:29It's you that's done all the work.
43:31Oh, don't be silly.
43:32If it hadn't been for you, there wouldn't have been any work to do.
43:37Why, the hotel's nearly full.
43:38So's Coney Hatch.
43:40Cheer up.
43:41And don't forget we turn the lights off at 10.30.
43:43The main switch is under the stairs.
43:47And I'm terribly sorry I was beastly to you.
43:51Good night.
43:52Good night.
43:54Good night.
44:24Good night.
44:54Good night.
45:24Hello, Charlie, dear.
45:45Pussy Saunders.
45:47Yes.
45:49Now, you be a good boy, Charlie, and hand over those pearls,
45:52and I'll give you my return ticket to Australia.
45:54Now, look here. You can't talk to a pen.
46:24Open the door.
46:36I can't find the key.
46:39Come on. Follow me.
46:44Catch.
46:46We're in.
46:46You got the stuff?
46:51Yes, but Charlie met with an accident.
46:54Now, come along. Put on a dressing gown and join the others.
46:56It'll look queer if you don't.
46:58Then get back here and join me. We're clearing.
47:00Do you get me?
47:01I got you.
47:02Well, come along, then.
47:07Jenny, what's happened?
47:08Stand back, now.
47:09Come on.
47:10Oh, my God.
47:11You don't have to sleep at all.
47:12Come on.
47:15A shot or an explosion.
47:17Oh, look, there's a body there.
47:18Can you see who it is?
47:19Looks to me like that tall family.
47:21Look.
47:23As I see the situation,
47:25this unfortunate, uh, uh,
47:27incident must have been caused
47:29by someone
47:30in the hotel.
47:32Well, I suggest, Mr. Mason,
47:34that no one is allowed to leave.
47:37It wouldn't be a bad idea, Mr. Mason,
47:39if you telephone the police.
47:43Come look there.
47:50How'd it get in here?
47:52Watch where it goes.
48:02Let's go.
48:10Let's go.
48:15Let's go.
48:19Let's go.
50:21Right up.
50:23Doris.
50:25Doris, where are you?
50:27Here.
50:28Here.
50:28The LaGrange girl seems to be definitely ill.
50:31I think...
50:32You poor mutt.
50:37So sorry.
50:38Sure.
50:39You keep your nose out of this.
50:40And you.
50:42And the rest of you.
50:44Don't move.
50:46Any of you.
50:48Stay where you are.
50:49Why don't you do something?
51:00Seems to be done.
51:05What is the meaning of all this?
51:06Who are you, sir?
51:07I must inform you, Mr. Mason, that I am a detective officer.
51:10Oh, no.
51:11I can't bear this.
51:12He said he was.
51:13Much more of this, and I shall be two of the big four.
51:16What's he say?
51:18I'm Detective Sergeant Graham, CID.
51:21And this is my assistant, Miss Hellmore.
51:24You've only to ring up the police station to find out, Mr. Mason.
51:28Yes.
51:29Well, who's that, then?
51:30That is George Arthur Burtonshaw.
51:33Alias Pussy Saunders.
51:35But we've got him.
51:36And with him, we've got the Dysart Pearls.
51:39Unfortunately, Mr. Mason, Miss Hellmore and myself being official, Lord Dysart is lucky.
51:44He won't have to pay.
51:45Now, if any private person had...
51:48What the...
51:49What?
51:50It's empty.
51:51What?
51:52They've gone.
51:53It's been opened with a tin opener.
51:56How much was the reward?
51:58Ten thousand.
51:59Is this what you want?
52:01What?
52:03I thought you said I couldn't make this hotel pay.
52:09Here we are again, happy as can be.
52:13All good pals and jolly good company.
52:16Stolen round the town, out upon the spree.
52:20All good pals and jolly good company.
52:28All good pals and jolly good company.
52:33That's a nice thing, but if you take 4-5 million times, what is it?
52:35What does it mean?
52:35What do you tell me?
52:36What does it mean?
52:37What will it mean?
52:37I'll constantly use when you ever shoot 5-15 minutes.
52:40You can tap on it,ito and you get the spot on.
52:41You can tap.
52:42Make the table a little bit as a miracle hissing class.
52:44That's it.
52:45You can take 12 hours away when you guys hold it with themäßail.
52:46How much Will do you have to do this for theputers?