(majestic orchestral music) (tense, dramatic orchestral music) (upbeat orchestral music) >> Man: Stall please.

(audience applauding) (upbeat, playful orchestral music) (audience applauding) (baby crying) >> Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention and permission, I have the honor of presenting to you one of the most remarkable names in the world.

>> How remarkable?

>> He's sweating!

(audience laughs) >> And can you be surprised at that, gentlemen?

Every day, he commits to memory 50 new facts and remembers every one of them.

Facts from history, from geography, from newspapers, from scientific books.

Millions and millions of them.

Think of the strain involved by his prodigious feats.

>> [Woman In Audience] His feet ain't half as big as yours, Cully.

(audience laughs) >> I'm referring to his feats of memory.

>> [Woman In Audience] Oh.

>> Test him, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, ask him your questions, and he will answer you fully and freely.

Mr. Memory.

(dramatic orchestral music) (audience applauding) I also add, ladies and gentlemen, before retiring, that Mr. Memory has left his brain to the British Museum.

>> Crowd: Hooray!

(audience applauding) >> A question, please.

Ladies first.

>> [Woman In Audience] Where's my old man been since last Saturday?

>> [Woman In Audience] On the booze!

>> Man In Audience: In quod!

>> Man In Audience: Out with his bit!

>> A serious question, please.

>> What won the Derby in 1921?

>> Mr. Jack Joe Jumeris, with Steve Donoghue up.

Won a length at the odds of six to one.

Second and third, Craig-an-Eran and Lemonora.

Am I right, sir?

>> Right.

>> Man In Audience: What won 1936?

>> You come back in 1937 and I'll tell you, sir.

(audience laughs) >> How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?

>> What won the cup in 1926?

>> Mr. Memory: Cup?

Waterloo, football, or tea, sir?

>> Football, silly.

(audience laughs) >> Man In Audience: When did Chelsea win it?

>> Man In Audience: 63 B.C.

in the presence of the emperor Nero.

(audience laughs) >> What causes pip in poultry?

>> (shushes) Don't make yourself so common.

>> But our fowls have got it, haven't they?

(audience laughs) >> How many races did Mick the Miller win?

>> How old is my wife?

>> When was Crippen hanged?

>> Who was the last British heavyweight champion of the world?

>> Henry VIII!

>> My old woman!

(audience laughs) >> Bob Fitzsimmons.

He defeated Jim Corbett, heavyweight champion of America, at Carson City, Nevada, in October, 1897.

He was then 34 years of age, sir.

Am I right, sir?

>> Man In Audience: How old is Mae West?

>> I know, sir, but I never tell a lady's age.

(audience laughs) Next, please.

(crowd shouting) >> What causes pip in poultry?

(audience laughs) >> How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?

>> Miss Winnie who, sir?

>> How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?

>> Ah, a gentleman from Canada.

You're welcome, sir.

(audience laughs) Winnipeg, the third city of Canada and the capital of the province of Manitoba.

Distance from Montreal, 1,424 miles.

Am I right, sir?

>> Quite right.

(crowd shouting) >> Man: How old is Mae West?

(crowd chattering) How old's Mae West?

How old's Mae West!

>> Hey you!

>> Man: How old's Mae West!

>> Gentlemen, gentlemen.

Please, you're not at home!

(crowd chattering) >> Man: Hey you!

>> What causes pip in, causes pip in, (indistinct).

(gun firing) (crowd screaming) >> Man: Hey, come on there!

>> Play it, for god's sake, play something, man!

It'll stop them from running!

(upbeat music) (crowd chattering) >> Well, here we are.

>> May I come home with you?

>> What's the idea?

>> Well, I liked you.

>> Well, it's your funeral.

Come on, then, there's a bus.

(bus engine humming) (horn honking) >> Smith: You don't stay here always?

>> No, I've taken a furnished flat.

I'm only over here from Canada for a few months.

By the way, am I allowed to know your name?

>> Smith.

>> All right.

>> Do you want to know more about me?

What do you think I do for a living?

>> Actress?

>> Not in the way you mean.

>> Chorus?

>> No.

>> I'm sorry.

>> I am a freelance.

>> Out for adventure?

>> That's right.

>> This way.

I'm afraid you'll find my sitting room all upset.

I haven't decorated.

Wait 'til I find the switch.

>> Not yet.

Now.

Mr. Hannay, would you be so very kind and turn that mirror over so it's faced to the wall?

>> You'd be happier if there were curtains over those windows.

>> Smith: Yes.

>> I'm sorry.

(phone ringing) Hello, there's the telephone.

Just a minute.

>> Mr. Hannay, don't answer the telephone!

>> Why not?

>> Because I think it's for me.

>> Oh- >> Oh, please don't answer!

>> Just as you say.

Won't you sit down?

>> Thanks, if you'd please kick that foot stool over to me?

>> You needed that.

>> I did.

Thank you.

I owe you an explanation.

>> No, don't bother about me.

I'm nobody.

>> We cannot talk here.

>> All right.

>> Smith: Just a minute.

>> Okay?

>> Mm-hm.

>> Cigarette?

>> No thank you.

(phone ringing) >> It's our friend again.

>> Take no notice.

Would you think me very troublesome if I asked for something to eat?

I've had nothing all day.

>> Sure.

You like haddock?

>> Yes, please.

I suppose your name isn't really Smith.

>> Depends on where I am.

You may call back Annabella.

>> Annabella Smith.

Clergyman's daughter, I suppose?

(fire flaring) Hello.

Nervy?

Upset by those shots tonight?

>> I fired those shots.

>> You what?

>> Yes, to create a diversion.

You see, I had to get away from that theater quickly.

There were two men there who wanted to kill me.

>> Richard: Really?

You should be more careful in choosing your gentlemen friends.

>> No, no, no, you don't understand.

>> Well, you don't make it very easy for me, do you?

Beautiful, mysterious woman, pursued by gunmen.

Sounds like a spy story.

>> That's exactly what it is.

Only I prefer the word agent better.

>> Agent?

For what country?

>> Any country that pays me.

>> So what is your country?

>> I have no country.

>> Born in a balloon?

We'll let that go.

Now I suppose you've come over here to dig up some great, big state secret.

>> No, I am here to save a secret from being divulged.

A very important secret for this country.

Not because I love England, but because it will pay me better that way.

>> Richard: Thank you.

>> You see, a very brilliant agent of a certain foreign power is on the point of obtaining a secret vital to your air defense.

I tracked two of his men to that music hall.

Unfortunately they recognized me.

That's why they're after me now.

>> That was too bad.

You ever heard of a thing called persecution mania?

>> You don't believe me?

>> Frankly, I don't.

>> Go and look down into the street there.

>> You win.

>> Are they there?

>> Yes.

>> I hoped they'd change their minds.

Listen, I'm going to tell you something which is not very healthy to know.

But now that they have followed me here, you are in it as much as I am.

>> How do you mean?

>> Have you ever heard of the 39 Steps?

>> No, what's that?

A pub?

>> Never mind.

But what you were laughing at just now is true.

These men will stick at nothing.

I'm the only person who can stop them.

If they're not stopped it's only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.

>> Well, why don't you phone the police or something?

>> 'Cause they wouldn't believe me any more than you did.

And if they did, how long do you think it would take to get them going?

These men act quickly.

You don't know how clever their chief is.

Clever and ruthless.

>> Who is he?

What's his name?

>> He has a dozen names.

He can look like a hundred people.

But one thing he cannot disguise.

This part of his little finger is missing.

So if ever you should meet a man with no top joint there, be very careful, my friend.

>> Thanks.

I'll make a note of it.

Meanwhile, what are you going to do?

>> First, I'll eat my haddock.

And then, if you're not going to turn me out into the street, have a good night's rest.

>> Well, you're welcome to my bed.

I'll get a sheet down on the couch.

Anything else I can get you?

>> A map of Scotland.

>> Why Scotland?

>> There's a man in Scotland whom I must visit next, if anything is to be done.

>> Are the 39 Steps in Scotland, by any chance?

>> Perhaps I'll tell you tomorrow.

(silverware clinking) (fabric rustling) >> Clear out, Hannay!

They'll get you next!

(Annabella coughing) (phone ringing) What you were laughing at just now is true.

These men will stop at nothing.

There is a man in Scotland whom I must visit next, if anything is to be done.

It is only a matter of days, perhaps hours, before the secret is out of the country.

Police would not believe me any more than you did.

I tell you, these men act quickly.

Quickly, quickly.

>> Good morning, sir.

You're up bright and early this morning.

>> Could you use a pound note, brother?

>> What's the catch?

>> I want to borrow your cap and coat.

>> Yeah, wait a minute.

What's all this?

What's the big idea?

>> I want to make a getaway.

>> To a bunk?

>> Yes.

>> What have you been up to?

>> I'll have to trust you.

There's been a murder committed up on the first floor.

>> Are you-- >> No, no.

But those two men out there.

>> I see.

Now I suppose they're waiting there as good as gold for a copper to come and arrest them.

>> It's quite true.

Listen, they're spies, foreigners.

They've murdered a woman in my flat, and now they're waiting for me.

>> Oh, come off it.

Funny jokes at five o'clock in the morning.

>> All right, all right.

I'll tell you the truth.

Are you married?

>> Yes, but don't rub it in.

What's the idea now?

>> Well I'm not, you see?

I'm a bachelor.

>> Oh, are you?

>> A married woman lives on the first floor.

>> Does she?

>> Yes.

And I've just been paying her a call.

And now I want to go home.

>> Well, what's preventing you?

>> One of those men's her brother, the other's her husband.

Now do you see?

>> Well, why didn't you tell me before, old fella?

I only wanted to be told.

Trying to kid me with a lot of tales about murders and foreigners.

>> Here, put this on, put on my little hat.

There.

>> Take the pound.

>> No, no, no, sir, you're welcome to it.

You'll do the same for me, one day.

Leave the pony around the corner.

(glasses clinking) So long, old sport.

>> Goodbye.

Thank you.

>> Oi!

The empties!

(steam hissing) >> Man: Cigars, magazine, chocolate, cigarette.

(man shouting) (conductor whistling) (train whistling) (train chugging) >> There he is.

(train whistling) >> Man: Well, for one thing, they're much prettier than they were 20 years ago.

>> Man: More free.

Free and easy.

>> You're right there.

I can never understand how people used to put up with the old-fashioned sort.

All bones and no bend.

>> Though I will say something for the old-fashioned.

They did last longer.

>> Oh, I dunno.

Mine last about a year.

Here, I'll show you.

Big demand for these now.

The old-fashioned sort.

>> (buzzes lips) My wife.

>> Now take a look at these.

Our new streamlined model number one.

What have I been talking to you about?

>> Man In Glasses: Anything to go with it?

>> I should say so.

This.

Put a pretty girl inside those, and she needn't be ashamed of herself anywhere.

>> All right.

Bring it back to me when it's filled.

>> I will.

Hello, what's this?

Edinburgh, Waverley.

We're getting on.

>> I hope you'll pardon us for talking business, sir.

>> Oh, certainly, certainly.

(train hissing) Excuse me.

>> Good day, sir.

>> Good day.

>> Good day.

>> Broad-minded old geezer.

>> I'll bet he's very good at charades.

I wonder what won the two o'clock at Windsor?

>> I don't know.

Let's get a paper.

>> Paperboy: Get dispatch paper, get dispatch- >> Hey, son.

Speak-a the English?

Dispatch.

>> Paperboy: Red, paper!

Red, paper.

>> Hello.

>> Well, what is it?

>> There's been another woman murdered in a West End flat.

>> Man In Glasses: What?

>> Woman murdered in West End flat.

>> These sex dramas don't appeal to me.

What won?

>> Bachelor Bud.

>> Good.

>> 7 to 4 odds.

Oh, not so good.

>> Portland Mansions, Portland Place.

>> By the BBC.

That's a nice, quiet place to put someone to sleep.

>> Man: Goodnight, everybody.

Goodnight.

>> (laughs) That's a good one.

What was she like?

One of the usual?

>> A well-dressed woman of about 35 with a knife in her back.

Lieutenant Richard Hannay is missing.

>> You surprise me.

(laughs) >> At seven o'clock this morning, the charwoman, Elizabeth Briggs, well, if that isn't the blasted limit.

>> What's the matter now?

>> Is there no honesty in this world at all?

I ask you.

A new Bodyline rubber panty corset.

On sale today.

McCutchen Brothers, Princess Street.

Price, 17 and 9.

Brassiere to match.

4 and 11.

Did you get that?

The Bodyline.

One and three cheaper than our Streamline.

No use going to Aberdeen now.

>> Richard: Might I have a look at your paper?

>> Certainly.

>> Paperboy: Paper, red, evening dispatch.

Paper, red, evening dispatch.

Paper, red, evening dispatch.

Evening dispatch paper, red.

>> Thank you.

>> All right.

>> Paperboy: Paper, red.

Red, evening dispatch.

Paper, red, red, red.

Paper, red, evening dispatch.

Paper, red.

(crowd chattering) >> There's enough evidence there to hang any man.

What can I do for you, son?

>> Oh, can you tell me what station that train stops at next?

>> What do you think I am, a railway porter?

Go ahead and find out for yourself.

(men laughing) >> I can have a better one than that presentation.

>> Well, you couldn't ever pay the time.

>> Oh, you liked it, did you?

>> Have you heard the one about the young lady (indistinct)?

>> If I did, I can't remember it.

>> Oh, you must hear that.

There was a young lady of Bulgar.

>> Yes, we... (train chugging) >> Taking tea, sir?

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you.

(train whistling) (door clattering) >> Darling, how lovely to see you!

>> Don't mind having a free meal in there.

>> I was desperate.

I'm terribly sorry.

I had to do it, look at me.

My name's Hannay.

They're after me.

I swear I'm innocent.

You've got to help me.

I've got to keep free for the next two days.

>> Have either of you seen a man passing in the last few minutes?

>> This is the man you want, I think.

>> When we passed just now?

>> Forced his way in here and told me his name was Hannay.

>> Is your name Hannay?

>> No.

>> Are you coming in to tea, sir?

>> I'll be right along.

(train roaring) (door clattering) >> Officer: Pull that cord!

(train squeaking) (tray clattering) (dogs barking) >> Wait a minute, go on there, go to the end.

>> Yes.

>> Get on with it!

>> Heel, heel.

What for did you pull the communication cord?

>> To stop the train, you old fool.

>> It's against all the regulations to stop the train on the bridge.

>> But a man jumped off.

>> Officer: He's a madman!

We've gotta chase him.

>> Conductor: Which way did he go?

>> Officer: He must have jumped off here.

I cannot see him.

>> Conductor: You sure he jumped?

>> Officer: Anyway, I cannot wait here any longer.

(whistle tweeting) >> There he is, getting on the train.

>> No, that's a passenger.

>> It's he, I tell ya.

>> Come on with you then!

(train clattering) (telegraph beeping) >> Paperboy: Hannay escapes!

Paper!

>> Paperboy: Hannay escapes!

Paper!

>> Paperboy: Paper!

Extra special!

Paper!

They say he escaped on Orkney!

Paper!

(crowd chattering) >> Paperboy: Extra, extra, paper!

>> Reporter: Height, about 5 foot 10.

Small mustache.

Last seen wearing a dark suit.

But he may have obtained a change of clothing.

(cow lowing) >> Good day.

>> And to you.

What'll your business be?

>> I'm a motor mechanic.

I'm looking for a job.

>> You'll find no work about here.

>> Oh, are there no big houses around here?

>> Only Sir Andrews, and he won't be wanting you.

He's had the same chauffeur for 40 years.

>> I didn't know there'd been cars that long.

>> He was coachman besides when he was a boy.

>> Oh.

I see.

Oh, what's that?

>> That's the manse.

But the minister hasn't got a motorcar.

>> Are there no newcomers?

>> Aye, there's an Englishman, a kind of professor.

>> Professor?

>> He lives it out in Alt-na-Shellach.

>> Where?

>> Alt-na-Shellach.

On the other side of the loch.

>> Would that be anywhere near that village?

>> It would.

>> Thanks.

Thanks, I'll try there.

>> You won't try tonight.

It's 14 miles.

>> Richard: Think I could get a lift in that van?

>> No.

Bound the other way.

>> I guess you're right.

Could you put me up for the night, somehow?

>> Free?

>> No, I'll pay.

>> Aye.

Could you eat herring?

>> I could eat half a dozen right now.

>> Can you sleep in a box bed?

>> I can try.

>> Two and six.

>> Take it now, thank you.

Go in with the gentleman.

He'll stay with us till tomorrow morning.

>> Your daughter?

>> My wife.

>> Will you not come in?

>> Thank you.

>> Here's your bed.

I'll lift these things.

Could you sleep there, do you think?

>> You try and stop me.

>> You'll be tired.

>> I'll say I am.

I'm on the tramp looking for a job.

>> Won't you sit down, please, while I go on with our supper.

>> Oh, thank you.

You been in these parts long?

>> No, I'm from Glasgow.

Did you ever see it?

>> No.

>> Oh, you should see Sauchiehall Street with all its fine shops.

And Argyll Street on a Saturday night, with the trams and the lights.

And the cinema palaces and their crowds.

It's Saturday night tonight.

>> You certainly don't get those things out here.

>> No.

>> Richard: You miss them?

>> Sometimes.

>> Well, I've never been to Glasgow.

But I've been to Edinburgh and Montreal and London.

I'll tell you all about London at supper.

>> John wouldn't approve of that, I doubt.

>> Why not?

>> He says it's best not to think of such places and all the wickedness that goes on there.

>> Well, why not listen now, before he comes back?

What do you want to know?

>> Well, is it true that all the ladies paint their toenails?

>> Some of them.

>> Do London ladies look beautiful?

>> They do.

But they wouldn't if you were beside them.

>> You ought not to say that.

>> John: What ought say?

>> I was just saying to your wife that I prefer living in town than the country.

>> God made the country.

Is the supper ready, woman?

>> Margaret: Right.

>> You mind if I have a look at your paper?

>> No, I don't mind.

>> Thank you.

(match clicking) >> You didn't tell me your name.

>> Hammond.

>> Well, Mr. Hammond, if you'll put down that paper, I'll say our blessing.

>> Yes, of course.

>> Sanctify these bounteous mercies to us miserable sinners.

Oh Lord, make us truly thankful for them and for all thy manifold blessings.

And continually turn our hearts from wickedness and from worldly things unto thee.

Amen.

Mind, I forgot to lock the barn.

(door clicking) (horn honking) >> There are cars coming.

That'll be the police, you best be going.

>> Thank you, you're doing us a grand (indistinct).

>> Oh yeah, don't let them catch you.

>> All right.

I'll never forget you for doing this for me.

Which way do I go?

>> I'll show you.

>> Aye.

I might have known.

Making love behind my back.

Get out.

>> Just a minute- >> Aye, and you, too.

Get out of my house before I- >> Aye, go, go.

>> And leave you like this?

No fear.

>> It's your chance of liberty- >> You don't understand.

(horn honking) Look here, you're all wrong about this.

She's only trying to help me.

>> Aye, to bring shame and disgrace upon my house.

>> She was helping me to escape from the police.

>> The police?

>> Yes, the police.

They're after me for murder.

>> What?

>> They're here.

She was only trying to warn me.

I had to tell her about it last night.

Don't let them in.

Say I'm not here.

I'll make it worth your while.

>> How much?

>> Five pounds.

>> Have you got that much?

>> Yes.

>> Give it to me.

>> After they've gone.

(knocking on door) >> Get back into the bed.

Shut him in.

Hide him.

(dog barking) >> No, not there.

I do not trust him.

>> But he took the money.

- He couldn't have resisted.

Here.

(men speaking softly) >> John: It's a little late.

What do you want?

>> Officer: Have seen a stranger about here?

>> John: What kind of a stranger?

(officer speaking quietly) >> I was right.

He's asking if there's a reward if you get catched.

He'll argy-bargy for a moment longer before he lets them in.

Now's your time.

Oh, your jacket's terrible light-colored.

I'm afeared they'll see you.

You best take this one.

>> This your husband's coat?

>> Aye, his Sunday best one, but never mind.

They mustn't see you.

>> What'll happen to you?

>> Well, I'll say I couldn't have stopped you.

>> He'll not ill treat you?

>> No.

He'll pray at me, but no more.

>> What's your name?

>> Margaret.

>> Goodbye, Margaret, I'll never forget you for this.

(tense music) >> Detective: There he goes!

Spread out in a line.

(helicopter whirring) (dramatic music) >> Is the master in?

>> What name shall I say, sir?

>> Well, he wouldn't know my name.

Ask him if he knows Miss Annabella Smith.

>> Would you wait here, while I- >> Yes, go on.

>> Officer: We'd better make inquiries here.

>> Officer: Aye!

Somebody might have seen him through the windows.

>> Look, there's been a couple of motorcars here.

>> Aye.

>> Murderers do not make calls in motorcars.

Good day, dear.

>> Good day to you.

Have you seen any strangers about this morning?

>> There's a few callers upstairs now, but they're no strangers.

>> You haven't seen any suspicion-looking bodies, outside the windows or calling at the house?

>> No, sir.

There hasn't been anybody near here for the last half hour.

>> You're from Annabella Smith?

>> Yes.

>> We're just having a few drinks to celebrate my daughter Hilary's birthday.

Give me five minutes to get rid of these people, then we can talk.

>> Of course.

>> Come along in and meet my wife.

Louisa, my dear., I have another guest for you.

This is mister, I forgot to ask your name.

>> Hammond.

>> Mr. Hammond.

He's come to see me on business.

All the way from London.

>> There's a police inspector at the door, sir, and he wants to speak to you.

>> At the door?

All right, all right, I'll deal with it.

Take him in, my dear, will you please?

>> Come and meet my daughter.

>> I'll be back in a moment.

>> This is Patricia.

>> How do you do?

>> Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Huntley.

Oh, Hilary, my dear, this is mister... >> Hammond.

>> Hammond.

He's just arrived from London.

>> How do you do, Mr. Hammond?

Forgive the orgy.

We've all been to church and the sermon the last three quarters of an hour.

This is Captain and Mrs. Ogilvey.

>> How do you do?

>> Have a drink, Mr. Hammond?

>> Thank you.

>> This is Derek, Derek Stewart.

And this is Sheriff Watson.

You've gotta be polite to him.

>> Jim: He's our sheriff substitute.

Scotch for a local beak.

>> Give you six months hard soon as look at you.

(Jim laughing) Remember the time when my car ran into those- >> It's all right.

Don't worry, I've sent them away.

Come and look at the view from this window, Mr. Hammond.

(crowd chattering) We're rather proud of it.

>> Jim: By the way, Sheriff, when you gonna catch that murderer?

>> Woman: Murderer?

What murderer?

>> Hilary: My dear, haven't you heard?

Why, the man who stuck a carving knife into that woman in Portland Place last week.

Here's here in the district.

>> Woman: Darling, how exciting, where.

>> Hilary: Oh, somewhere about.

Must have been on the moors.

Bridge (indistinct) or somewhere.

Sheriff Ames, why don't catch him?

Wouldn't like me being stuck in the back with a carving knife, would you?

>> Ames: Oh, it's no business of mine to catch him.

You catch him, but I'll convict him.

>> Is the reward- >> Gracious, it's nearly 1:00.

Jim, we must get out of here.

Professor wants his lunch.

>> There's no hurry, my dear.

Still, if you must go.

Pat!

Ring for Captain Ogilvey's car, will you?

>> Yes, of course.

>> Hey, I'll take you with me.

(crowd chattering) >> Come again another Sunday.

>> Goodbye, my dear.

(crowd chattering) >> Well, whatever you do, Captain, you can find me at the Sheriff's court at 10:00 every morning, so bring him along.

>> Woman: Goodbye Sheriff.

(crowd chattering) >> Louisa, my dear.

If you'll excuse us, Mr. Hammond and I want to have a chat before lunch.

(lock clicking) Now, Mr. Hannay, I suppose it's safe to call you by your real name now.

What about our mutual friend, Annabella?

>> She's been murdered.

>> Murdered?

Oh, the Portland Mansions affair.

What our friends outside looking for you for?

>> I didn't do it.

>> Course you didn't.

But why come all this way to Scotland to tell me about it?

>> I believe she was coming to see you about some Air Ministry secret.

She was killed by a foreign agent who was interested, too.

>> She tell you what the foreign agent looked like?

>> There wasn't time.

No, there was one thing.

Part of his little finger was missing.

>> Which one?

>> This one, I think.

>> Sure it wasn't this one?

(door clattering) (lock clinking) >> Lunch is ready, dear.

>> I'm coming right away.

Well, Mr. Hannay, I'm afraid I've been guilty of leading you down the garden path.

Or should it be up?

I never can remember.

>> It seems to be the wrong garden, all right.

Well, what are we gonna do about it?

>> That's just the point.

What are we going to do about it?

You see, I live here as a respectable citizen.

And you must realize that my whole existence would be jeopardized if it became known that I'm not, what shall we say, not what I seem.

Oh, Mr. Hannay, why have you come here?

Why have you forced me into this difficult position?

I can't lock you up in a room or anything like that.

You see, there's my wife and daughters to think of.

I don't know what to think.

Really, I don't.

What makes it doubly important that I shouldn't let you go is that I'm just about to convey some very vital information out of the country.

Oh, yes.

I've got it.

I'm afraid poor Annabella would have been too late in any case.

>> Well, that's fair.

>> Yes.

What about it?

>> What about what?

>> About yourself.

Seems to me there's only one way out of it.

>> And what's that?

>> Supposing I left you alone with this revolver.

Tomorrow's newspapers would be able to announce that the Portland Place murderer had taken his own life.

>> I thought you were coming to lunch directly, dear?

We've all been waiting.

Mr. Hammond be staying?

>> I don't think so, dear.

Well?

What do you think, Mr. Hannay?

Well, I'm afraid you leave me no alternative.

(gun firing) (body thudding) >> I cannot find my hymn book.

>> Margaret: Where did you leave it?

>> In the breast pocket of my overcoat.

It was hanging here.

>> John, I, I'm afraid I gave it to that gentleman who was staying here that night.

(hand slapping) (Margaret screaming) (man laughing) >> Cigarette cases, yes.

But I've never seen it happen to a hymn book before, except on the movies.

>> And this bullet stuck among the hymns, eh?

Well, I'm not surprised, Mr. Hannay.

Some of those hymns are terrible hard to get through.

I've stuck in them myself before now.

(laughs) >> I'm not complaining, Sheriff.

Hymns that have helped me.

>> Yes, that's a good one, Mr. Hannay.

That's fine.

And to think that I was drinking his champagne only half an hour before.

Well, it's a lesson to us all, Mr. Hannay, not to mix with doubtful company on the sabbath.

And how did you escape?

>> Well, if you look through the window, sir, you'll see.

They put the body in the dressing room.

When I came to I borrowed this suit, in case one of his men recognized me and pinched his car.

Sheriff, I don't want to hurry you, or anything.

But oughtn't we to be taking steps?

This is serious, you know.

If it weren't you don't suppose I'd put myself in your hands with a murder charge hanging over me.

>> Never heed the murder, Mr. Hannay.

I don't doubt you'll be able to convince Scotland Yard of your innocence as easily as you've convinced me.

All I'll need will be a short statement that I can forward to the proper authority.

>> Okay.

>> I have someone coming over from the police station next door to take it down.

>> Thank you, sir.

>> Are you wishing to see me, Sheriff?

>> Indeed I am.

Do you think I enjoy playing for time with a murderer?

>> Murderer?

>> Certainly.

Hannay, you'd under arrest on the charge of willful murder of a woman unknown in Portland Mansions, London, on Tuesday last.

Take him over to the county jail.

>> Sheriff, you heard my story.

You must believe it.

>> Come along.

>> It's true.

I meant every word of it.

>> Hannay, we are not so daft in Scotland as some smart Londoners may thing.

Do you think I believed your cock and bull story about the professor?

Why, he's my best friend in the district.

Give me Professor Jordan.

>> If the professor didn't shoot me, where did that bullet come from?

>> Oh, that's easy!

From one of your pursuers on the moor.

Isn't that so, inspector?

>> That's so, sir.

I had a shot at him myself.

>> I demand that you allow me to telephone to the high commissioner for Canada in London.

>> You better do that from London.

You'll be there soon enough.

It'll save you the cost of a trunk call.

>> That's the professor's car, all right.

Hannay must be inside, spilling the beans.

(glass shattering) >> Hey stop him!

>> Stop him!

>> My god!

(car engine revving) (upbeat marching band music) >> Oh, how do you do, how do you do?

It's all great for you.

Pamela's gone to meet you at the station.

This way, this way.

>> Come out face this leader and standard-bearer himself.

I welcome this opportunity of discussing with you another question vital to the import of our country at this critical and momentous hour.

But first of all, as a preliminary service, I shall occupy your time by- (man shouting from audience) >> Woman: We've had enough of you!

(crowd chattering) (gavel tapping) >> Ladies and gentlemen, I'm now going to call upon the speaker of the evening.

>> Speak out!

>> There's no need for me to tell you who he is, nor to speak of his brilliant record as a soldier and a statesman.

He's a son of Scotland- >> [Woman In Audience] Speak out!

>> Border and conquered England.

He is now one of the foremost speakers in the diplomatic and political world in the great city of London.

I'm therefore going to ask him to tell you something.

>> Man: It's about time, too.

(people in crowd talking over each other) >> To this constituency that at this crucial by-election, our candidate should be returned by an active majority.

I know ask for Captain Frasier.

(audience applauding) (audience cheering) >> Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for my hesitation in rising just now, but to tell you the simple truth, I'd entirely failed, while listening to the chairman's flattering description of the next speaker, to realize he was talking about me.

(audience laughs) (Richard clears throat) As for you, may I say, from the bottom of my heart, and with the utmost sincerity, how delighted and relieved I am to find myself in your presence at this moment.

(audience applauding) Delighted, of course, with your friendly reception.

Relieved because, so long as I stand on this platform, I am delivered from the moment, from the cares and anxieties which must always be the lot of a man in my position.

When I journeyed up to Scotland a few days ago, traveling on the Highland Express, oh, that magnificent structure, the Forth Bridge, that monument to Scottish engineering and Scottish muscle.

(audience applauding) That is to say, on that journey, I had no idea that in a few days' time I should find myself addressing an important political meeting.

No idea.

I had planned a very different program for myself.

A very different program.

>> You'd prefer the moor, to shoot something!

>> Yes, or somebody, I'm a rotten shot.

(audience laughs) Anyhow, I little thought I should be speaking tonight in support of that, that brilliant young statesman, that rising, the gentleman on my right, already known among you as one destined to make no uncertain mark in politics.

In other words, your future member of parliament, your candidate, mister, uh, McCroquodale.

>> Doesn't even know the candidate's name!

(audience laughs) >> I know your candidate will forgive my referring to him by the, the friendly nickname by which he's already known in anticipation, in anticipation mark you, at Westminster.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna discuss some topic.

What shall it be?

>> The herring fishery!

>> Unemployment!

>> Man In Audience: What about the idle rich?

>> The idle rich?

That's a bit of an old-fashioned topic these days.

Especially for me, because I'm not rich, and I've never been idle.

(audience laughs) I've been pretty busy all my life, and I expect to be much busier quite soon.

>> Man In Audience: Have you ever worked with your hands?

>> Indeed I have.

And I've known what it is to feel lonely and helpless, and to have the whole world against me.

And those are things that no man or woman ought to feel.

And I ask your candidate, and all those who love their fellow men, to set themselves resolutely to make this world a happier place to live in, a world where no nation plots against nation, where no neighbor plots against neighbor.

Where there is no persecution or hunting down.

Where everybody gets a square deal and a sporting chance, and where people try to help and not to hinder.

A world from which suspicion and cruelty and fear have been forever banished.

That is the sort of world I want!

Is that the sort of world you want?

(audience applauding) (audience cheering) That's right!

That's all I have to say.

Good night!

I kept them going as log as I could for you.

>> Well, you're certainly a difficult man to follow.

>> Well, I suppose you think you've been damn clever.

>> Officer, will you tell your prisoner not to insult me, please.

>> You try and stop me.

>> You come along with me.

>> Couldn't you realize I was speaking the truth in that railway carriage?

You must have seen I was genuine.

Well, whether you believe me or not, will you put a telephone call through to the high commissioner for Canada in London, and tell him an enormously important secret- >> Officer: That'll do now!

>> An enormously important secret is being taken out of this country by a foreign agent.

I can't do anything myself because of this fool of a detective.

Has that penetrated?

>> Right to the funny bone.

Now tell me another one.

>> Haven't you any sense at all?

Put that call through, I beg of you, and refer them to me.

Will you do this?

>> No.

Goodnight.

>> I beg pardon, miss, but we should like you to come, too.

>> Whatever for?

>> To identify the prisoner formally.

Will you come to the police station?

>> What?

>> It's only for a few minutes.

>> All right, if it's absolutely necessary.

Let's get it over.

>> [Man Giving Speech] That'll be the outcome of wise planning.

(audience applauding) >> Now you.

>> Must I sit next to this man?

>> It's only for a short time, miss.

>> Well, be as quick as you can.

>> Officer: All right.

>> Isn't that the police station?

We're running past it.

Tell the man.

>> Officer: I'm afraid you must have misunderstood me, miss.

We're not exactly going to this police station >> Well, where are we going?

>> To Inverary.

>> Inverary?

>> Officer: Yes miss, this man is to be questioned by the Sheriff Principal.

We have orders to take him there direct.

>> But you've no orders to take me.

>> No, miss.

But I'm afraid you must go.

I'll see you're sent back at the earliest possible moment.

>> Well, how far is it to Inverary?

>> 40 miles.

>> Will you keep quiet?

>> Sorry.

>> We'll be there in less than two hours, miss.

>> Two hours?

You think I'm going to spend half the night with you all?

>> Looks like it.

(car creaking) (engine revving) >> Isn't the an going the wrong way?

That's the way down to the south.

Surely that's the way to Inverary.

>> Officer: There's a bridge fallen down on that road, miss.

We shall have to go around.

The man knows the way.

(Pamela sighs) >> Might I see your warrant?

>> Officer: You shut your mouth.

You'll see it soon enough when we get to the station.

(Richard whistles) >> You might have a small bet with me, Pamela?

All right, I'll have it with you, Sherlock.

I'll lay you 100 to 1 that your Sheriff Principal has the top joint of his little finger missing.

>> Officer: What about it?

>> I win.

(brakes screeching) Hello, what are we stopping for?

>> Man: Oh, it's a whole flock of detectives.

(sheep bleating) >> Sheep all over the road, damned sinner things.

Get out, won't you, and clear them away?

>> Officer: What about him?

>> I'll soon fix that.

There, miss, now you're a special constable.

>> What's the idea, what are you doing this for?

>> As long as you stay, he stays.

>> Yes, and as long as I go, you go, come on!

>> Officer: Stop them, they've got away!

>> Come on, Miss!

>> I won't!

>> Won't?

(Pamela muttering) >> Shut up!

>> Officer: See if they've gone down that way.

>> Officer: Where the devil could they have gone?

(Pamela groaning) >> Help, help!

Help, let me go!

Let me go!

(water rushing) >> One yip out of you and I'll shoot you first and myself after, I mean that.

>> Officer: There's nobody down here, I tell you.

>> Then come up here, blast you.

And don't waste any more time.

Spread out and find them.

>> We must be a mile away by now.

>> Oh, don't do that.

(Richard whistling) Oh, do stop whistling.

What are you doing all this for?

You can't possibly escape.

What chance have you got tied to me?

>> Keep that question for your husband.

Meanwhile, I'll admit you're the white man's burden.

>> I know, and I can't tell you what comfort that thought gives me.

I say, what is the use of all this?

Those policemen will get you as soon as its daylight.

>> They may get me, but they're not policemen.

>> And when did you find that out?

>> You should have found that out yourself.

I should never have known that was the wrong road to Inverary.

They were taking us to their boss, and God help either you or me if they ever catch us again.

>> I see, still sticking to your penny novelette spy story.

(Richard sighs) >> There are 20 million women in the island, and I've gotta be chained to you.

Now look here, listen, once more, I'm telling you the truth.

I told you once in the train last week.

I tried to tell you after that election meeting this evening.

I'm telling it to you now for the third time.

There's a dangerous conspiracy against this island, and we're the only people who can stop it.

Think what you've seen happen right under your very nose.

>> The gallant knight to the rescue.

>> All right!

Then I'm just a plain, common murderer, who stabbed an innocent, defenseless in the back not four days ago.

How do you come out over that?

I don't know how innocent you may be, but you're a woman, and you're defenseless, and you're alone on a desolate moor in the dark, manacled to a murderer who would stop at nothing to get you off his hands.

If that's the situation you prefer, have it, my lovely, and welcome.

>> I'm not afraid of (sneezes).

>> For all you know, I may murder a woman a week.

So listen to one bit of advice.

From now on, do every single thing I tell you to do, and do it quick.

>> You big bully!

>> I like your pluck.

>> Come on.

(Richard whistles) We're going in there.

>> What for?

>> That's my business.

>> But- >> Now, remember what I said.

The civil tongue, or else.

We're going in there and you're going to back me up in every single thing I say or do.

Has that penetrated the ivory dome?

>> Only just.

>> All right, pull yourself together.

Now put your hand in my pocket and look as though you're in a hurry, come along.

>> Oh, come in, come and enter.

Oh, the young lady's terrible wet.

>> Oh, yes, we had an accident with our car a few miles back.

>> Oh, you'll be staying the night?

>> Yes.

>> We have just the one room left with one bed in it.

But you'll not be minding that.

>> Oh, no, no, no, no, no, quite the reverse.

>> You're man and wife, I suppose.

>> Oh, yes.

>> Uh, yes.

>> Have you any luggage?

>> No, we left that behind in the car.

>> Oh, maybe I could lend the young lady a nightgown.

Will you please to register?

James, the book.

>> James: Aye-aye.

>> I'll away up and light the fire for you.

Will you be needing your supper?

>> Oh, thank you.

Just send up a large whiskey and soda and a few sandwiches.

Oh, and a glass of milk.

>> Innkeeper: Very well, sir.

>> Can't write with my left hand, my dear, but I can shoot with it.

You can guess what's in this pocket, come on.

You shall sign, darling.

The sooner you get used to writing your new name, the better.

Off we go, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hopkinson, the Hollyhocks, Hammersmith.

>> Man: I'll be back in a minute chaps.

(men chattering) (Richard whistling) (door closing) >> Now, dearie, off with that wet skirt of yours and I'll have it dried in the kitchen.

>> Oh, don't bother.

It'll dry in front of the fire just as well, thanks all the same.

>> No doubt the gentleman will take care of you.

Goodnight, sir.

Goodnight.

>> Goodnight.

>> Goodnight.

>> Is he married to her, you think?

>> I do not ken, and I do not care.

They're so terrible in love with each other.

>> I tell you, I can't stand it any longer.

I'm going to tell them the whole story.

>> Richard: You want to hang me for a murder I never committed, come on.

>> As long as they hang you, I don't care if you committed it or not.

And let me go!

Do you think I'm going to spend the whole night with you in this room?

>> Of course you are.

What else can you do?

Come on!

(knocking) >> Innkeeper: Can I come in, sir?

>> Come in.

Oh, we were just warm before the fire.

>> I can see that.

I thought maybe you'd like this in your bed, sir.

>> Oh, thank you very much.

She'd like a hot water bottle, wouldn't you, my sweet.

Say yes, darling.

>> Yes, darling.

>> Innkeeper: Very well.

>> I say, please don't go.

>> Why not?

Is anything wrong?

>> Of course there's nothing wrong.

She wants to tell you something, that's all.

We're a runaway couple.

>> I kenned it all the time.

And they're after you?

>> You won't give us away, will you?

Please?

>> Of course we will not give you up.

A good night to you both.

You'll no be disturbed.

>> But!

>> Thank god for a bite to eat.

Come along.

There you are.

Now what's the next item on the program?

>> Get these things off.

>> Right.

>> How we going to set about it?

Anything in that bag of yours that would help?

A pair of scissors or a hairpin or something?

>> Nail file, the edge, do you think that'd help?

>> Easily, it'll take about 10 years, but we can try.

Now let's make ourselves as comfortable as possible.

What about that skirt of yours?

Still pretty damp, you know.

Don't want to be tied to a pneumonia case on top of everything else.

Take it off, I don't mind.

>> I shall keep it on, thank you.

>> And that is that.

>> My shoes and stockings are soaked.

I think I'll take them off.

>> It's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.

Can I be of any assistance?

>> No, thank you.

>> Fine.

>> Here, hold this.

>> Oh, yes.

Half a minute.

>> Um, thank you.

>> Don't mention it.

Do you like your milk now?

>> No thank you, I'll wait a little.

>> All right.

Cheerio.

That's better.

Now, your feet quite warm again?

>> Yes, thanks.

>> Well, come on.

Now, will you kindly place yourself on the operating table.

All right, all right, nobody's gonna hurt you.

This is Armistice Day.

Let's get some rest while we can.

>> I'm not going to lie on this bed.

>> Richard: So long as you're chained to me you'll lie wherever I lie.

We're the Siamese twins.

>> Oh, don't gloat!

>> Gloat!

Do you think I'm looking forward to waking up in the morning and seeing your face beside me, unwashed and shiny?

What a sight you'll be.

Give me that nail file.

Let's have a go at this.

Thank you.

(Richard whistles) There I go again.

I wish I could get that damn tune out of me head.

I wonder where I heard it?

(sighs) >> You sound very sleepy.

>> Sleepy?

I'll say so.

Do you know when I last slept in a bed?

Saturday night, whenever that was.

Then I only got a couple of hours.

>> What made you wake so soon?

Dreams?

>> What do you mean, dreams?

>> I've always been told murderers have terrible dreams.

>> Oh, but only at first.

Got over that a long time ago.

When I first took to crime I was quite squeamish about it.

I was a most sensitive child.

>> You surprise me.

>> Used to wake up in the middle of the night, screaming, thinking the police were after me.

But one gets hardened.

>> How did you start?

>> Oh, quite a small way, like most of us.

Pilfering pennies from other children's lockers at school.

Then a little pocket-picking and a spot of car-pinching.

Then smash-and-grab, and so on to plain burglary.

Killed my first man when I was 19.

(yawns) And in years to come you'll be able to take your grandchildren to Madame Tussaud's and point me out.

>> Which section?

>> Oh, it's early to say.

I'm still young.

But I'll be there, all right, in one department or another.

Yes, you'll point me out and say, "Chicks, if I were to tell you how matey I once was with that gentleman, you'd be-" What's the matter?

>> You're pinching my wrist with this handcuff.

>> Oh, Sorry.

Talking of Madame Tussaud's, that's how it all began.

>> What began?

>> My career of crime.

All hereditary.

Great uncle Penruddock.

>> Who was he?

>> My good girl, Where were you brought up?

Never heard of my great uncle Penruddock?

Cornish Bluebeard?

Got it all from him.

>> I thought your family came from Canada.

>> No, that's where they went after the Penruddock incident.

And he murdered three wives and got away with it.

But his third mother-in-law got the goods on him and tried to have him arrested.

Did she succeed?

No.

He was too quick for her.

Took her for a walk to Land's End and shoved her over into the Atlantic Ocean.

He's in Madame Tussaud's, all right.

There's no doubt about his department.

We must go down and see him sometime.

Can't mistake him.

Third on the left as you go in.

Red whiskers and a harelip.

And that, lady, is the sad story of my life.

Poor orphan boy who never had a chance.

Are you still set on giving me up to the police?

>> You're sure everything's going to be quite all right?

>> Bound to be.

He can't have much time.

As soon as I've picked up, you know what, I'll clear out of the country.

>> Be careful.

Wire to me.

Goodbye, dear.

>> Hilary: Goodbye.

(car door slamming) (Pamela sighs) (Richard groans) (thudding) (men chattering) >> Officer: Is that Professor Jordan's house?

Can I speak to Mrs. Jordan, then?

Is that Mrs. Jordan?

Oh, he's gone to London already, has he?

If you could manage it, I'd like that whiskey hot.

>> Man: Oh, go and get the hot water.

>> No, he ducked down a side street and the police when the wrong way.

The girl handed him over to us, thinking we were detectives.

We had to take her as well, (indistinct) for everything.

Very good, ma'am, I see.

Yes, ma'am.

>> Well?

>> The old man's got the wind up.

He's cleared out already.

>> Whatever for?

>> Thought it too dangerous with Hannay on the loose.

He's warning the whole 39 Steps.

>> Has he got the, uh, you know?

>> Yes, he's picking up our friend at the London Palladium on the way out.

>> Here's your toddy.

That'll be half a crown.

>> And the phone call?

>> James: Oh, we'll say a shilling.

>> Is this a hotel, as well?

>> Aye.

>> I mean, do you have people staying here?

>> Aye.

>> I suppose you get a few odd people at this time of the year?

>> Oh, aye.

>> Hm, you didn't happen to have anyone in tonight, did you?

>> Aye.

>> They, they weren't, by any chance, a young couple, were they?

>> James!

Mercy me!

What kind of a silly creature am I married to?

Do you want to get us all jailed?

How much did you get for these?

>> Half a crown.

>> Oh!

Out, the pair of you.

And do not let on to anybody that you got a drink here after hours!

(sighs) You old fool, you.

You wouldn't give away a young couple, would you?

(gentle orchestral music) >> Good morning.

>> What's the idea?

How did we get out of these?

>> We didn't, at least, you didn't.

I slipped out of mine last night and came and camped out here.

>> Well, why didn't you run away?

>> I did, but just as I was going I, I discovered that you'd been speaking the truth.

So I decided to stay.

>> May I ask what earthquake caused your brain to work at last?

>> Those two men were in here last night.

I overheard them telephoning.

>> What did they say?

>> Oh, uh, a lot of stuff about the 39 Steps.

(Richard stammers) >> What?

>> No, go on, go on.

>> Someone's going to warn them.

How can you warn steps?

>> Never mind, go on.

>> Well yes, yes, and there was another thing.

Someone got scared and is clearing out.

And, um, oh, yes, yes, I know, and is picking up someone at the London Palladium.

>> London Palladium?

Is it the professor?

Our friend with the little finger missing?

What does he want to go there?

>> I feel such a fool not having believed you.

>> Oh, that's all right.

Um, well we ought to get a move on.

What room are those two men in?

>> No room, they went as soon as they telephoned.

>> They what?

>> Didn't I tell you?

>> You let them go after hearing what they said?

You button-headed little idiot!

>> Don't talk to me like that!

>> Four or five precious hours wasted.

Why didn't you wake me up at once?

Even you must have realized that what they said was important!

>> Well, now they've called these men up, why not let well alone?

>> Let well alone?

My good girl, I'm accused of murder.

Can't you realize the only way I can clear myself is to expose these spies?

>> You still can.

The man's going to the London Palladium.

>> Really?

First house or second house?

I'll get there five hours late!

>> Fine.

The show'll just about suit you.

>> What's that?

>> Crazy Month!

(door slamming) (horns honking) (phone buzzing) >> You're quite right, madam.

It's true the Air Ministry has got a new thing quite a lot of people are interested in.

But they are positive that no papers are missing about it that would be of any use to a spy.

>> But I tell you, I'm quite certain about it.

There's a man leaving the country tonight with something.

>> Since you phoned to us from Scotland this morning we've made the minutest inquiries.

(Pamela scoffs) >> Obviously I'm wasting my time here.

>> Just a moment, miss, please.

There's one thing you haven't told us.

Where's Richard Hannay?

>> I haven't the faintest idea.

>> Now look here, miss, you can't- >> You're in the telephone book, aren't you?

>> Yes.

>> Well, if anything crops up, we'll give you a ring.

That'll be all now, thank you.

>> Tell Archer and Seagrave to get another taxi and follow that girl.

She'll lead us to Hannay, all right.

(upbeat music) (crowd laughing) ♪ Long is a song but love ♪ (audience laughs) (frantic drumming) >> Cover every exit, and on no account let anyone leave the building.

Now you two men go in the orchestra put.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, we shall now sing!

(upbeat music) (feet tapping) (audience laughs) >> Go on, move along there, please.

Go on, sir.

>> Sorry, sir, but no one's allowed to leave the theater.

>> What's the big idea?

Can't a man go out and have a drink?

(Pamela speaking drowned out by laughing) Can I go through, please?

>> Oh, there you go.

(upbeat music) (audience laughs) >> She's seen him.

She's on her way down to the stall now, sir.

(crowd chattering) (audience laughs) >> Can I borrow your opera glasses, please?

>> Excuse me, may I take your place, please?

>> What are you doing here?

Listen, I've found him.

He's up in that box.

>> But you can't do anything about it.

I've been to Scotland Yard.

Nothing has ever been stolen from the Air Ministry.

They're absolutely certain about it.

>> Did you hear those men say he'd got in?

There he is.

>> Should we take him now, sir, or wait til the interval?

(audience laughs) >> What are you going to do?

There's nothing missing.

There's an end to it.

(audience applauding) (audience cheering) (upbeat music) >> You hear that tune?

It's that thing I couldn't get out of my head.

Now I know where I heard it before.

Of course, that music hall, Annabella's... (audience applauding) >> Ladies and gentlemen.

With your kind attention and permission I have now the honor to present to you one of the most remarkable men in the world.

>> It's the same little man.

>> Every day, he commits to memory 50 new facts and remembers every one of them.

Texts from history, from geography, from newspapers, from scientific textbooks.

Millions and millions of them, down to the smallest detail.

Test him, ladies and gentlemen.

Ask him any question.

>> I've got it, I've got it.

Of course there are no papers missing.

All the information's inside Memory's head.

>> Stage Announcer: Mr. Memory!

>> But I still don't understand it.

>> Don't you see?

The details of that Air Ministry secret were borrowed, memorized by this little man, and then replaced before anyone could find out.

That's why he's here tonight.

To take Memory out of the country after the show.

>> But surely- >> Some gentlemen here would like to speak to you.

>> Mr. Memory: Question please, question please.

>> Man: Who won the boat race?

>> Woman: When'd the swan's nightingale die?

>> Man: What is the height of the Empire State Building?

>> Are you Richard Hannay?

>> Listen, there's something you ought to know.

>> I know, Hannay, come along quietly.

>> Yes, but look here, that man on the stage- >> Now look here, old man.

You don't want to cause any trouble and spoil people's entertainment.

>> Man: Where's the capital of- >> Richard: What are the 39 Steps?

Come on, answer that!

What are the 39 Steps?

>> The 39 Steps is an organization of spies collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of- (gun firing) (Mr. Memory groaning) (crowd screaming) >> Please keep your seats!

Keep seats, please!

There is no need for alarm, no cause for alarm.

>> I'm all right.

(men speaking over one another) >> I don't want a chair.

No, no, no, all right, now let me rest here.

I'm all right.

>> Take it easy, take it easy, now.

Take it easy.

>> I'm all right.

>> Get the girls on, straight away!

(phone clinking) >> Girls introduction, right away.

(upbeat music) >> Richard: Mr. Memory, what was the secret formula you were taking out of the country?

>> Will it be all right, me telling you, sir?

It was a big job to learn it.

The biggest job I ever tackled.

And I don't want to throw it all away.

>> Richard: It'll be quite all right.

>> The first feature of the new engine is its greatly increased ratio of compression, represented by R minus one over R to the power of gamma, where R represents the ratio of compression and gamma, seen in end elevation, the axis of the two lines of cylinders, angle of 65 degrees.

Dimensions of cylinders as follows...

This device renders the engine completely silent.

Am I right, sir?

>> Richard: Quite right, old chap.

>> Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm glad it's off my mind at last.