Windjammer (1937)

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1966, on the registry's reading: registration LP7367 of 1937 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. & Condor Pictures, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched. Record.

A prosecutor joins a yacht crew to deliver a subpoena, turning a legal errand into a contest between public duty and private escape.

In Windjammer (1937), an assistant state’s attorney signs aboard a racing yacht to serve a subpoena on its owner.³ George O’Brien plays the prosecutor, Bruce Lane.¹ The premise gives a small legal task the machinery of an adventure. Lane’s passage aboard the yacht is a means of bringing its owner within reach of an institution ashore. There is a social reversal here: to exercise public authority, the prosecutor takes a subordinate place in someone else’s private world.

Ewing Scott directed the film for producer George A. Hirliman.¹ Later promotional copy presents it as the last of Hirliman’s films starring O’Brien.⁸⁹ That description is not a verified production chronology. It offers a possible place in the actor’s working history, pending evidence beyond the copy repeated by a database and a retailer. The yacht setting gives O’Brien’s character a problem that official rank alone cannot solve.

The writing credits are less settled. One listing credits the screenplay to James Gruen and Roul Haig, the latter billed as Major Raoul Haig.¹ Another includes Dan Jarrett among the writers.² Jarrett’s place in the credits remains disputed. These listings do not provide a consistent account of who wrote the film.

What the premise plainly draws on is the friction between professional obligation and an unfamiliar working environment. Lane pursues his office’s business by becoming a crew member, making the journey itself part of the attempt to serve the papers. The yacht is the device that converts procedure into physical participation. His authority comes from ashore; his chosen means of exercising it is work aboard another man’s vessel.

Departure consequently threatens to put the owner beyond Lane’s immediate reach. The vessel’s private purpose comes into conflict with the legal demand from ashore. That conflict offers a way into the film without requiring an elaborate account of its plot. The atlas has no annotated beats yet to support a timed example of how Scott develops it through performance or cutting. A reading of the premise cannot substitute for an account of what happens within a shot.

The film’s later life is visible in scattered records of viewing and distribution rather than a continuous history of its reception. A retrospective writer in Retakes judged O’Brien’s Windjammer to have held up very well on television.¹⁰ That is one viewer’s assessment of a later encounter with the film. Alpha Video offered it in a budget DVD-R edition.⁹ The catalogue entry records an opportunity to obtain a copy. Neither establishes what rights assessment accompanied its circulation. In particular, the budget edition cannot itself prove the film’s copyright position.

Even identifying that afterlife requires care with the title. The Windjammer, directed by Harry Joe Brown, is a separate silent action film from 1926.¹² Windjammer also names a seafaring documentary from 1958.¹³ Running time is another imperfect identifier. A contemporary index gives the O’Brien film a running time of 57 minutes.⁶ Another catalogue entry gives 58 or 60 minutes.² These are conflicting reported lengths, not evidence by themselves of different cuts. Before comparing copies, a viewer must establish which film each record concerns. The question of what survives in the version at hand remains a separate task.

The record: Registration LP7367 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. & Condor Pictures, Inc is dated 6 August 1937. The registry found no renewal in the renewal volumes for 1964 to 1966, nor in the Copyright Office's records from 1978 on; on that reading the term ended on 31 December 1965 and the film has been free in the US since 1 January 1966. These are the registry’s findings. The research sources accompanying this entry do not independently document the registration or renewal search. The record does not settle whether the circulating copy preserves the film exactly as released.

Written 6 September 2026 by gpt-6-astra from the registry record, the atlas's own evidence and the sources below, gathered by Qwen/Qwen3.8-Max with web search and questioned by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Numbered notes are the sources; a claim marked unverified has no source yet; times open the atlas at that second. How these are made and checked.

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Inside the film

558 shots over 57:20 · 736 transcript lines · JSON

Every shot, 558 frames with timestamps and on-screen text

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558 shots over 57:20, read from the Internet Archive copy windjammer (windjammer.mp4, 640×480, 29.97 fps). Shot boundaries by PySceneDetect's adaptive detector; each frame links to the Archive's player at that second. Registry dossier: Windjammer No renewal found. JSON

Measurements: black-and-white film on its keyframes (0 of 558 shots judged colour), average shot 6.2s long, a frontal face detected in 36% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.

Transcript

Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 736 segments kept, 345 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.

1:07 Is it true that you're going to resign, Mr. Attorney General? No. Does the governor ask for your resignation? No. What do you think your chances are for re-election, Mr. Attorney General? I don't know. Did you speak on the call about Selby? No. Is it true that you're going to have a nervous breakdown? No. No.
1:22 I tell you nothing new has developed. Now for heaven's sake, leave me alone.
1:27 Please, why don't you stop hounding me?
1:29 The public wants to know what you intend to do about Selby. A lot of people seem to think that if Commodore Selby were a poor man, you'd have had him up before that investigating committee weeks ago. Nothing of the kind. We've used every effort to serve Commodore Selby with a subpoena. Our readers want to know how Commodore Selby managed to grab off all that state land for his own profit. I'll make him explain that to the Senate committee. But you know, as well as everybody else, that he's got a boat entered in the Honolulu Yacht Race.
1:51 - And they're leaving tomorrow. - Well, a lot can happen between now and tomorrow. A lot better happen between now and tomorrow.
2:01 Good morning, Mr Bishop.
2:02 Those importants are terribly annoying, aren't they?
2:05 - Don't let him alone. - Tell Bruce Lane I want to see him right away.
2:15 I'm going to go.
2:26 All right.
2:55 Morning, Chief.
2:56 Seen the morning paper?
3:00 Well, I guess you have.
3:02 There's nothing funny about this, Lane.
3:05 Sorry, I'm not looking for sympathy. I want action. I've done all I could.
3:09 I sent all of my best men out to sell me. They might just as well carry those subpoenas around in electric light signs.
3:15 Oh, well.
3:16 You know, you can't just walk up to Selby and slap a summons on him. Why, he has an army of bodyguards around him like a Tiamese potent.
3:23 I'm sick of hearing alibis.
3:27 you've got twenty four hours to serve that on celibate

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3:31 I'm an attorney.
3:32 I never served a subpoena in my life. You'll serve this one or look for another job.
3:39 Oh.
3:41 So you're making me the goat, huh?
4:17 I'm
4:24 I say, hurry back for us, will you? We want to go aboard the Lady Betty.
4:27 Oh, I beg your pardon. I'm going out the same ship.
4:30 I'd be glad to share this taxi with you.
4:32 Thanks, awfully.
4:36 This is a bit of luck for us. We might have had quite a wait.
4:38 Pleasure, I assure you. Any friend of the Selby's is a friend of mine. I don't believe in that. My name is Lane. I'm Jay Montague Forsyte.
4:44 Thank you. May I present Mr Lane. How do you do.
4:47 Please?
4:48 Thank you. Very nice of you.
4:59 Oh, God.
5:00 What you mean, Commodore? A yacht can be temperamental, too. Exactly.
5:04 It requires careful handling.
5:06 That's why I'm going to skip a Lady Betty myself. Cheers to the Lady Betty. Am I being toasted, Father?
5:13 There's a good seat for you.
5:15 There's another Betty now, you know.
5:16 Daddy, imagine having a yacht for arrival.
5:20 Janet?
5:21 Terribly.
5:38 Good afternoon, Robert. How do you do, Mr. Forsythe? How are you, Robert?
5:43 Hello. Hello, Robert.
5:45 How do you do, sir?
5:48 May I have your name, sir?
5:50 Hey, certainly. It's Lane. Oh, don't be so particular, Jensen. He's all right. Oh, he's a friend of yours, Mr. Forsythe. He's a guest of Mr. Selby's.
5:57 I'm sorry, Mr. Forsythe. The gentleman's name isn't on the list and I have my orders.
6:01 Funny yes it is funny.
6:03 Commodore Selby invited you. Why didn't he put your name on the list?
6:07 Well, as a matter of fact, the Commodore didn't advise you. Oh, he didn't.
6:10 No, it was Mrs. Zeldon.
6:12 When did Mrs. Selby invite you?
6:14 Mrs. Selby's been dead for 10 years.
6:16 Oh, you must have misunderstood me. I said Miss Selby.
6:20 Hello, Monty. Oh, hello, dear. How are you? You're just in time. There's a friend of yours here in a little difficulty. Friend of mine?
6:27 Yes, sir.
6:27 Yeah.
6:28 Do you know this man, Miss Selby?
6:30 I know.
6:31 I've never seen him before in my life.
6:33 Oh, Miss Selby. I thought so. Come on, you beat it.
6:37 What do you expect me to do, walk ashore?
6:40 Who are you?
6:41 I mean, what are you doing here?
6:44 Believe it or not, I'm waiting for a taxi.
7:12 Stay quiet, these men. The boats are now two minutes off the starting line.
7:16 They're jumping into position nicely. They're off! There they go! Ready for five! They're off!
7:57 Here we are, Mr. Lane.
7:58 What's the address?
7:59 I'll tell you in a minute, Hurd. Perfect. Couldn't be any better. Here comes the Lady Betty now and she's well in the lead.
8:24 Hey, Bob.
8:27 Take the wheel. Steady on the court.
8:31 What are we doing, Captain?
8:33 We're making close to 12 knots. Let her go clean fold. Keep her at it.
8:37 Yes.
8:39 How do we line up, Monty?
8:41 Well, the falcon's drawing away from the others, but we're holding her, sir. That may look.
8:50 We're gaining on the falcon, Jack? Not a yard. She's giving us a close run. We've got ten good days to shake her off, sir. We'll shake her off right now. Captain. Yes, sir.
9:02 Break out the balloon, Jim.
9:04 - The balloon, Tibbs? - Yes.
9:06 Get the balloons here!
9:10 Get fired!
9:15 This is a pretty stiff freeze for a balloon jib, isn't it, Commodore? Do you think it's safe?
9:20 You don't win races by playing save.
9:35 We'll show them a tree in fair of heels now.
9:37 Turn overboard!
9:40 One other boy, out of Fort Barrow!
9:43 Help!
9:49 Help!
9:52 Bring her up to the wind!
9:55 Stand by the lower boat! Look here, Commodore, we can't stop now. We've got two good of these. One of the other boats will pick him up.
10:01 Help!
10:04 I don't think it can last that long.
10:08 Hey.
10:09 Come on.
10:17 Come on.
10:32 Let me have that blanket.
10:34 Here, wrap this around him. Where's that class?
10:40 The gatecrasher.
10:42 That's who it is.
10:50 A cordial invitation to appear before the Senate committee. A subpoena? A subpoena.
10:56 I'd like to give you a punch in the nose.
10:59 I'd like to see you try it.
11:01 Have a good might have by men.
11:05 The Falcon.
11:06 He's passing up.
11:10 What are you standing here for? Put about. Let's pass the pocket. Yes, Captain.
11:14 As far as you're concerned, this race is over.
11:16 I order you back to port.
11:18 You order?
11:19 I represent the Attorney General of this state. We're beyond the three-mile limit.
11:26 push the coastline back.
11:27 According to my reckoning, we're out about two miles and a quarter. By my reckoning,
11:31 You're going to Honolulu, and you're going to work your passage.
11:45 Oh, my God.
12:13 Thank you, kind sir.
12:14 You're a very nice girl and you deserve the best. Oh, you overwhelm me. Darling, I'm not a good friend.
12:19 Let's get married in Honolulu.
12:20 What?
12:21 And have the wedding march played by ukuleles and hula girls the bridesmaids? But that's why it appeals to me. It's so different. But have you no regard to it?
12:28 The zombies have always been married at St. Thomas' Newt. Oh, I don't care what you say, Monty.
12:33 We haven't gained a yard on the falcon. I didn't say a word about the falcon.
12:38 Now, darling, why don't you try and relax?
12:40 Get some enjoyment out of the trip. Relax.
12:43 Do you realize how many times I tried to win this race?
12:47 But people will begin to think, I don't know how to handle a yacht.
12:50 The last time, just as we turned Diamond's head, we had to rip a sail.
12:54 The time before,
12:55 We dropped the rudder.
12:56 And this year we get off to a magnificent start, and this blithering idiot...
13:03 Commodore, we're not gaining a yard on the Falcon.
13:06 Who asked you?
13:08 I thought you'd like to know.
13:10 Well, I don't.
13:30 I beg pardon, sir. Beyond the three mile limit, we always use the soup spoon.
14:00 Not that time.
14:01 I had pulled out.
14:02 And left those smart alecks holding the bag. You know, Commodore, you're alluding that stock was a stroke of genius. You should have seen the faces of those small town bankers.
14:11 You should have seen my uncle's face.
14:13 What's left?
14:15 You should have seen my face.
14:16 Oh, you stung me too, good and proper, sugar.
14:20 Do you mean to imply I did anything dishonest?
14:22 Certainly not, Commodore. You were within the law. Only you filled out with a fortune and we filled out with headache. That's your hard luck. My father didn't ask you to buy any stuff, did he?
14:31 I'm not complaining, only I figured that I helped to buy your presentation at the Court of St. James last year. What do you mean, buy my presentation?
14:38 I was sponsored by the Duke and Duchess of Ferncroft, friends of my father's.
14:42 and a very expensive friendship.
14:43 Newspapers carry the story cost you over $100,000. That's not true.
14:48 I simply repay the Duke the money he actually spent.
14:51 And you ought to sue the Duchess. What do you mean? The way she let you trip, just as you were bowing to the King.
14:57 You fresh... Monty, do something.
15:00 Get out of here.
15:01 Well, go on.
15:02 What are you standing there for?
15:04 Just want to tell you, Commodore, we're not gaining the yard on the Falcon.
15:08 get out of it.
15:08 uh
15:14 That's what you get from being kind to strangers. If you'd taken my advice, we wouldn't have picked him up.
15:19 You just wait.
15:20 I'll fix that, Mother.
15:21 I'll make him wish he swam all the way back to the park.
15:23 From here to Honolulu, I'm going to concentrate on making his life as miserable as possible.
15:54 Well, now, ain't them pretty?
15:56 I think it's one of them merits.
16:00 Maybe some of those pancakes of yours broke away and is floating around out there. Hey, did you ever try to float one of his pancakes?
16:06 I tell you, it's one of them optical delusions.
16:10 You know?
16:12 Well, you think you're...
16:12 - Please stop.
16:13 There ain't nothing left.
16:21 Where do those things come from?
16:23 We must be near land.
16:25 No.
16:37 You're off your course, Mr. Peterson.
16:40 I've held to the course you gave me, Captain.
16:43 By now we should be too
16:44 2,000 miles off the California coast.
16:47 You mean to tell me those toy boats that come out here in the mid-ocean?
16:50 That's the annual yacht race to Honolulu.
16:53 Yacht race.
16:55 Play Bozitz.
16:57 I bet they've got hand-crocheted still.
17:02 Get the men below and restore those crates.
17:04 Broke loose again, huh?
17:06 Yeah, and that's not the kind of a cargo we want bumping around.
17:09 Aye, sir.
17:11 I mean now.
17:14 The last guy down gets a kick in the pants.
17:16 Come on!
17:18 Now get down there and do some work. Restore that cargo.
17:21 If there's any other stuff busted up, we'll fix it up.
17:24 Hold it!
17:30 Throw those crates back and put plenty of iron on them this time.
17:34 Get over there and turn off that corner.
17:39 Hey, stupid!
17:41 What do you want to do, blow this ship up?
17:43 Now get over there and give those guys a hand.
17:47 Hey, Mr. Peterson.
17:49 All do you want.
17:50 Top of this crate is busted.
17:52 I'll get some tools and make a new one.
18:06 We're heading into a good thick fog.
18:09 Put on the running lights and start the fog signal.
18:12 Aye, sir.
18:18 Steady.
18:20 Keep it dead on him.
18:25 *Mumbling*
18:35 Your coffee's getting cold, Father. I'll tell you why don't you want any.
18:38 How does it look, Marty?
18:40 Fogs thicker, if anything.
18:45 What's the matter?
18:47 These men want me to speak to you, sir. I think even you'll admit we've all done our best.
18:52 These are all good men. Most of them have families. What are you getting at? Come on, ma'am. Out with it. Well, sir, I've placed you strong.
18:58 We're taking on water faster than we can pump it out.
19:01 Glass has been falling all day and we're in for a blow. What do you expect me to do? I can't control the weather. No sir, but there's one thing about this ship you can control.
19:08 We're carrying too much canvas. Now if you unseal the motors. Unseal the motors?
19:12 you know what you are saying
19:14 Those mortars were sealed by the racing committee.
19:16 If I touch them before we reach for Lulu, I'll be just gonna find.
19:19 And what makes you think we'll ever reach Honolulu? Oh, don't be ridiculous.
19:23 By my reckoning, we can't be more than 300 miles from there right now.
19:26 Might as well be 3,000. If that storm ever hits us, it'll crack us wide open.
19:30 Well, within 40 miles of Talow Island, if you'd start those motors, we could lay over there until the storm's over. Haven't you been in a sportsmanship? You think I'd deliberately put my daughter in danger? Now, you men get back up on deck.
19:43 You and Morrison, get up on deck.
19:45 We want those motors unseen. What is this?
19:48 - New to me? - No, sir.
19:50 This man's a lawyer and he says we're within our rights.
19:53 I don't want to hear anything from him. Every one of you men signed articles and you're going to live up to them.
19:59 uh,
20:00 Captain, these articles you and your men signed, they're a form of contract? That's right.
20:05 And in these articles, did it specify that you were to sail with steel motor? Absolutely not.
20:12 Commodore.
20:13 You're taking a very arbitrary stand in my opinion. Nobody wants your opinion.
20:18 These gentlemen do.
20:20 You're doing this for spite. You put these men up to mutiny. I beg your pardon?
20:25 The only one showing signs of mutiny so far is your father. I own this ship.
20:29 This man is the captain and those very same articles you've been talking about and
20:35 specify that in time of emergency this man's word is law. There is no emergency. I think there is. You're placing us all in needless danger.
20:43 Just to win a silver cup. That's my business. And the safety of his crew is my business.
20:48 Whether you like it or not, we're going to unseal those motors.
20:50 Your Honor.
20:51 All right.
20:58 Now you men get up on deck. Where do you belong? - Mr. Sildur, you're going to force me. - I told you to get out of here.
21:06 I'd advise you to listen, Commodore. If you don't get out of here,
21:11 All right.
21:12 you're making a mistake
21:20 Father, please put that gun away. They forced me to it. Nobody's going to tell me how to run my own boat.
21:25 A fine lot of hoodrums.
21:27 I think you're right about Ling. He started this whole business. I've never met anyone in my life that could upset me the way he does. I'll take care of him when we get to home a little.
21:35 If there's anything left off him when I get through with him.
21:38 I wonder if the fog has lifted anything.
21:45 - What's the matter, Father? - That's a motorboat.
21:48 It's right alongside.
21:56 You dirty coward! We'll head him to Tallow Island! You can come with us if you want to! I'll put you in jail for this! Shut off, Ant!
22:04 *Humming*
22:11 Now we're without a crew.
22:15 Well, there are three of us.
22:16 - Will men it somehow? - Well, of course it will.
22:19 I wish that crew had some of you, old Brit.
22:22 Well, there's nothing left to do now but unseal the motors.
22:25 That's like locking the stable after the horse is gone, isn't it?
22:29 Oh, I'll give you a hand.
22:31 I'm all right.
22:32 Now, take the wheel, dear.
22:48 I'm disappointing you, Mr. Lane.
22:52 What would I do now?
22:53 Well, I was enjoying myself, thinking you were 100% no good.
22:58 But I see you're staying aboard.
23:00 Well, don't let us spoil your enjoyment.
23:02 You know, I still have to serve that subpoena on your father.
23:05 And I'm sticking right with them until we get back to California.
23:09 Now I can hate you all the more. Better be careful. You know the old saying...
23:14 hatreds akin to love.
23:15 Not with me, it is.
23:17 That's fine. He had me worried for a minute. You'll have something real to worry about when we get to Honolulu.
23:23 I think we'll all have something to worry about before that. Fog is getting thicker.
23:27 I think we should drop these sales.
23:29 I suppose you're quite an authority on seamanship, Mr. Lee. Oh, glad you asked me.
23:35 You know when I was in college I spent all my summer vacations working aboard real sailing vessels. Dear, dear, Barnacle, Billy himself.
23:42 - Aren't we lucky? - Certainly are.
23:45 Well, as I said before, I think we should drop these sails.
23:56 I'm going to go.
24:01 *thud*
24:08 Hmm.
24:15 Out of port!
24:18 Ahoy there, it's a wheel! Hard to port!
24:34 - Out of port! - Out of port!
24:40 I reported this, sir.
24:42 Take in, you speck of sheep! That longhorn's coming off our starved bow!
24:47 Hard over the port!
24:49 Don't touch your posts!
25:05 Let's go across our bow, sir.
25:12 Ahoy there! Many attention to it.
25:17 That horn's on our pot bow.
25:21 Stop it, boy! Stop it, boy!
25:27 I think I'm mistaken. It's up our port side. Don't do that!
25:57 Mr. Peterson? Aye, sir.
26:04 Swing a light bulb over here.
26:05 Game boy, the man, the pork wolf.
26:09 Make it easy, Commodore. Make it easy now.
26:12 Just relax.
26:15 I'm alive. Get on. Hi.
26:22 - Rich, let's get it. - We're going home. - Yeah, take care of the cover, though. - Yeah.
26:27 - No, come on.
26:52 Are you all right?
26:53 They're putting a line down to a snout.
27:17 How about you?
27:21 As I said before, Captain, uh...
27:24 What did you say your name is?
27:26 I told you three times, Morgan. Oh, yes.
27:30 It's not the loss of the yacht.
27:32 Although she cost a lot of money.
27:34 But it's a great disappointment not to be able to finish the race. Just when we figured we had it won.
27:39 Of course.
27:40 I'm not blaming you, Captain.
27:42 Oh.
27:43 So you're not blaming me, eh?
27:45 Well, ain't that nice. I'm sure you did everything you could to avoid us. Yeah, I would have had to go to another ocean to avoid a Jew.
27:51 There was only one way he could have gotten smacked.
27:55 But he found it all right.
27:57 I suppose you can furnish us with quarters, Captain. Sure.
28:01 Tell Mr Peterson to come below, Slim. I ask him.
28:05 This ain't the Queen Mary, you understand? Oh, don't apologize, Captain.
28:09 I figure we should be in Honolulu in a few days.
28:12 We should.
28:13 We were going that way, but we're not.
28:16 What do you mean?
28:17 I mean that this ship is headed for Macau.
28:19 But you can drop us off at Honolulu. I said this ship is headed for Macau with no stops en route.
28:26 And what are you laughing at?
28:28 Oh, something just struck me funny.
28:30 Quite a sense of humor, haven't you?
28:34 Now see here, Captain.
28:35 You can't turn high, yes sir.
28:36 Miss high-handed, ma'am. What do you mean Shanghai?
28:40 You planted yourself all over my bouts for it and I had a fish out of the water, didn't I?
28:43 Now, if you don't want to go to Macau, you can jump over the side all four of you. This is outrageous. I demand to be put ashore.
28:50 I'm Commodore Selby. I wouldn't care if you're Admiral Selby.
28:55 I'm not gonna change my course for you or nobody else.
28:58 But I'll miss it once you're while.
29:02 You want to pay me 100,000 bucks?
29:04 Don't be ridiculous.
29:06 That's what it's worth to put into Honolulu.
29:08 It'll take us weeks to get to Macau. Always has.
29:12 No, Captain Morgan.
29:16 We realize that if you say we have to go to Macau,
29:20 We have to go to Macau.
29:22 What's all the argument about?
29:24 Just a matter of legality.
29:26 We're casual, Lopin.
29:27 The law specifically states that you must put us ashore at the nearest port.
29:32 Oh.
29:33 A seal of it, huh? Not quite, but I do know something about the law.
29:37 Well...
29:39 I stood by and picked you up, didn't I?
29:41 And we appreciate that but you're keeping American citizens aboard this vessel by direct and
29:47 coercion and implied threat for a longer time than is necessary.
29:52 Now, Captain.
29:53 I know you're far too intelligent a man not to realize that. Just a moment.
29:57 Now, see here, my man.
29:59 We're not going to temporize with you. You'll put us into Honolulu immediately or take the consequences.
30:03 We know the law.
30:05 A stuart.
30:07 You're in a law.
30:08 I'm alive here.
30:11 And let me tell you something, Mr. Sealiar.
30:14 For a minute I was thinking about putting you people ashore.
30:18 But now you're going to a coward you like it a lot. You meddler. Why don't you mind your own business?
30:24 - You don't drink jackass? - What a ride of you to disappear.
30:27 We've had bad luck from the moment we first saw you.
30:29 Please, Captain, we're not responsible for this man's stupidity.
30:32 He's not with us.
30:34 He came on your ship, didn't he? Yes, but he came aboard by a trick. I made him work his way. Well, he'll work his way here, too.
30:40 Hey, you.
30:42 Lee?
30:43 Yeah, you.
30:44 Mother here.
30:46 Clean that room up.
30:48 Whatever's laying around.
30:51 You can use that cabin, miss.
30:52 I think you're being very unfair, Captain. You'll regret this, sir. I'll report you to the American consul the minute we land at MacArthur. Huh?
30:59 You can report me to whoever you blooming well like.
31:02 As long as you're aboard my ship, you'll do as I say.
31:05 If I hear another bet out of you, Al. Where do you want these, Captain?
31:10 I'd like them right over there.
31:14 Hey!
31:15 What are you doing with my clothes?
31:17 You're gonna fuck up Ford with the second mate.
31:20 With the second mate. Yeah, you remember the second mate.
31:25 Take these men up to the guest cabin.
31:29 All right, sir.
31:30 This way.
31:31 Good night, Father.
31:32 - Good night, Marty. - Good night, dear.
31:35 And you, freshwater.
31:37 You better get yourself a good night's sleep.
31:40 And pleasant dreams to you, Captain.
31:44 All right, Mr. Peterson.
31:46 Come on.
32:15 Good hat.
32:16 Do you want a light? Sure.
32:24 Mm-hmm.
32:25 Much prettier in the dark.
32:27 I'll hear you, Bounce. After you, Commodore.
32:46 Want to make anything of it? What?
32:49 I said you want to make anything of it.
32:51 Don't be foolish.
32:58 Marty.
32:59 Open up some of those portholes. You'll open up nothing.
33:03 What do you want to do, give us pneumonia?
33:06 Must be one of them fresh air fiends.
33:09 smelly in here.
33:11 Now ain't he vulgar? What, Gates?
33:14 - Special flower garden? - Hey, park down.
33:17 This is an outrage.
33:19 The captain told you to take us to the guest cabin.
33:21 Well, what does this look like?
33:25 Feeding time at the zoo.
33:28 Uh, pardon me, Mr. Peterson, but did the gentlemen bring their nightgowns with him? I told you to pipe down.
33:34 very apparent and you keep everybody awake
33:37 All right.
33:38 I'll never be able to sleep in this terrible place.
33:42 Well, do tell.
33:44 And you won't let nobody else sleep, neither.
33:47 I was not addressing you, sir. Well, I'm addressing you.
33:50 And if they don't shut your trap,
33:52 I'll get down there and shut it for you.
34:03 What's the matter, handsome?
34:04 I'm gonna smack that guy. That's what's the matter.
34:07 breaking up my sleep.
34:10 He isn't breaking it up any more than I am. Well...
34:14 Well...
34:26 I...
34:38 - You stole those sea lilies? - Yeah, but they put up an awful beef.
34:42 Yeah?
34:43 You should have heard the beast they put up back here.
34:46 Especially the old man. Yeah? He told me he was Commodore Selby.
34:52 Salvi?
34:54 Yeah.
34:54 The way he was throwing his weight around, you'd think he had a lot of dough.
34:58 Wow.
35:00 If that's Russell P. Selby, he has a lot of dough.
35:05 And who was Russell P. Selby?
35:07 one of the four richest men in the United States.
35:11 Yeah.
35:12 Yeah.
35:15 It'd be funny if that old guy Ford was Russell P. Salvey, wouldn't it?
35:40 Well, you wanted a sea voyage, now you're getting a real one with all the trimming.
35:43 Yes, but this is little more than we bargained for, Captain. Ah, you'll be in Macau before you know it.
35:49 By the way,
35:51 You folks owned that yacht, didn't you?
35:52 Yes, it belongs to the Commodore.
35:57 Must have cost a heap of money.
36:00 Well...
36:01 What are you doing there? You told me to coil this line, didn't you? Well, do it someplace else.
36:05 All right, Captain.
36:06 By the way,
36:07 How much did that yacht cost?
36:09 Oh, I should say around half a million.
36:12 Here.
36:13 That's just about breaks the Commodore, doesn't it?
36:15 Breaks the comforter.
36:17 Don't be absurd, but that's hardly a dron--
36:22 That's hardly dropping the bucket to Mr. Selby.
36:25 He must be related to Russell P. Selby.
36:27 related to him.
36:29 Yes, Russell.
36:32 Are you doing that deliberately?
36:35 What's the idea?
36:39 Captain, I hate to be a decent fellow like you being taken in by a poor flesher.
36:43 - Four-flusher? - What do you mean?
36:46 The Commodore isn't a rich man. He was just a guest aboard that yacht.
36:49 - His name is Selby, isn't it? - Oh, well.
36:52 The telephone book will find a lot of cellmates.
36:54 I tell you, his name is Russell P. Selby. Did you call me, Marty? Come here a minute, will you, Commodore? Commodore?
37:00 Now you keep your mouth shut.
37:02 Captain, I wouldn't think of it. Forsythe has been kidding the captain. He says you're Russell P. Selby. I am Russell P. Selby.
37:11 How come it all?
37:13 and say a thing like that.
37:15 This watch has my name on it.
37:17 It was presented to me by...
37:19 Thomas Edison.
37:22 Good enough for me, Commodore.
37:25 Smart guy, eh?
37:27 I know class when I see it.
37:30 I'm
37:34 My boy.
37:35 What was your object in denying my identity?
37:38 Oh, just a hunch. I thought he was a little too interested in your bank account.
37:42 That's the only way to impress a fella like Morgan's, with the size of your bank accounts.
37:45 Yes, sometimes it'll backfire on you.
37:49 Captain Morgan wants you folks to have lunch with him. There you are. You see, it's had its effect already.
37:55 Not you.
38:03 You two go on ahead. I'll join you in a minute.
38:10 You found out, sir.
38:12 What is it?
38:15 Please.
38:20 I was working in the hole this morning.
38:22 And I found a cargo of guns and ammunition.
38:27 That's why he wouldn't put in a ton of Lulu.
38:29 Naturally, he couldn't stand inspections.
38:31 Morgan is nothing more than an outlet.
38:33 That's why I wanted to shut Forsythe up.
38:35 You mean about father?
38:38 What's that, Gustavo?
38:40 Well, chance for a shake down, isn't it?
38:41 He wouldn't dare.
38:43 Nobody knows we're on board.
38:47 What are we going to do? Don't you let on. You suspect anything.
38:50 Don't say anything to pardon.
38:51 or Mr. Forsyte.
38:53 Right.
38:56 What are you laughing at?
38:58 Today we're fellow conspirators.
39:00 Yesterday you were calling me a low down test.
39:04 Well, a woman has the right to change her mind.
39:06 I'm sorry.
40:07 I'm sorry.
40:22 It's not as good as a pillow, but... That's fine, Mary.
40:27 Maybe some fresh air would do you the world, of course.
40:30 Perhaps if I get Monty we can... No, Betty, please.
40:34 I'm all right. Here.
40:36 I feel better as long as I can lie quietly.
40:40 All right.
40:41 Could I get you some soup?
40:43 You haven't eaten anything now for a couple of days.
40:47 Then how about a nice cup of hot tea?
40:51 Well...
40:52 That sounds better.
40:54 I'll be right back.
40:57 - Are you going to put any lime of beams in this? - Sure.
41:01 Bring any up. Give me the key to the locker. I'll get some. Say you stay out of that locker.
41:05 I'll get it myself.
41:14 Oh
41:16 Hello there.
41:18 Hello, yourself. How's your father? Well, he's still a bit weak, but he'll be all right.
41:25 Do you mind getting the tea? It's right over there.
41:28 Yeah.
41:31 I'm afraid we haven't anything but condensed milk. Oh, I think you can get off about that.
41:36 If you had some sugar, this will be fine.
41:39 Right away.
41:41 There we are.
41:44 Say, what's going on here? I was just making my father a couple of teeth.
41:48 Oh, yeah.
41:49 What do you think this is, a short order joint? Well, you see, father hasn't been able to eat anything, and I thought that... Oh, he don't like my cooking, I suppose.
41:56 - Why, yes. - Anyway.
41:58 Who told you to come in here and help yourself? I told Miss Feldy it'd be alright, Slum.
42:03 Hey, listen. I'm running this galley.
42:05 Nothing goes out of here without I say so.
42:08 All right, Slum.
42:09 Now we'll remember that next time.
42:11 I said nothing goes out of you. Go ahead.
42:14 Oh!
42:17 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to call it.
42:20 Perfectly all right.
42:21 It's cold by now. Come, we'll put another pinch of tea. But I don't want to cause you any more trouble. There won't be any more trouble.
42:29 How about a slum?
42:30 It's all right if Miss Selby takes a cup of tea to her father, isn't it?
42:33 Sure.
42:34 There you are.
42:53 Stand by to give us more to life.
42:57 All in, you spanker sheep!
43:01 Bruce!
43:03 It's the pilot.
43:04 We'll be ashore by tomorrow. Why do we need a pilot?
43:08 Take us up the cruise, Solomon. Captain Morgan says it's way up a river.
43:13 Who's thou, huh?
43:14 Look.
43:16 I didn't think he'd put into a regular pot.
43:18 Well...
43:19 It's all right with me. Any old place to get off this tub.
43:23 It seemed a little funny to get back home again.
43:25 to pick up where we left off.
43:27 All our old friends and everything.
43:31 It happened too soon for me.
43:34 It seemed a little strange, too.
43:36 Here we've been together for weeks.
43:38 I need me.
43:39 started off almost as bitter enemies.
43:41 and suddenly we became...
43:43 You know...
43:43 Pretty good friends.
43:46 I don't suppose we all see much of it.
43:48 when we get back home, will we?
43:52 Suppose not.
43:54 I guess you think I'm crazy, but...
43:56 I thought of Grant and Mike,
43:58 - Hello.
44:00 You are crazy.
44:02 What can you possibly like about it?
44:05 Do you remember about a month ago you told me you'd like to give me a good shaking?
44:12 Yes.
44:12 That's just what I'd like to do to you right now.
44:20 Betty!
44:23 Hey, you!
44:27 Uh, did you speak to me? What are you laughing at?
44:32 I'm happy. Weren't you ever happy, Mr. Peterson? Get aft and give Bilgey a hand with that ladder. Aye, aye, sir. Aye, aye.
44:40 Are you all right?
44:44 - There it is. Put it over. - All right, Belty.
44:49 I
45:09 Hiya, Morgan.
45:12 Mandrell sent us out for you.
45:14 Mandriel, my beloved brother, sends you profoundest greetings.
45:17 He will welcome you at his home. Run, lad, line up for it.
45:20 - Secure rest. - All right, sir.
45:22 Mr. Peterson?
45:23 Get the sails on us. I say all ends in the main floor.
45:27 What do you think you're doing there?
45:48 Bruce!
45:50 Hey, you!
45:51 Please!
45:52 Get over there!
46:05 Yeah.
46:06 Under level.
46:07 I met her in San Francisco. She was singing in a joint.
46:10 She's a very beautiful young lady. I congratulate you.
46:13 Ah, you guys know how it is.
46:16 A fella gets lonesome every once in a while.
46:25 Say, I might even turn soft and get married. Yeah.
46:29 But not to Miss Selby.
46:32 What's that you said?
46:33 Try to do chittis, Morgan?
46:35 We've got radios out here.
46:37 Weidemann's broadcasting sobeys disappears for the last six weeks. We also have newspapers.
46:43 Red pictures.
46:44 They didn't say they were on my ship.
46:47 No, but I say it.
46:49 You wouldn't hold on on a pal, would you?
46:51 My wise brother Mendriel says...
46:54 Good fortune brings unhappiness.
46:56 Unless shared with friends.
47:00 Say it.
47:01 I figured I'm cutting you guys in.
47:03 Yeah, I know.
47:06 - Do we have to cut in the crew, too? - No, it's a close cooperation.
47:09 Just us three.
47:10 And my estimable brother, Mandriel.
47:12 His home will be enriched with these charming guests.
47:19 Come in.
47:22 There's an American patrol cruiser off the port bow. She wants to talk with you.
47:27 Come on.
47:39 That's the most beautiful sight I've seen since I left California.
47:55 What do they want?
47:57 The usual thing, sir.
47:59 Where from and where about?
48:01 Come on the west coast of Coosab.
48:03 Yes, sir.
48:23 We want to know if we picked up any survivors from the yacht Lady Battles. Tell them sure.
48:28 Commodore Selby's daughter and party aboard.
48:31 Yes.
48:33 Wait a minute.
48:35 Give me those glasses.
48:40 Tell them you haven't seen any sign of the records of the Lady Betty or survivors.
49:13 A Commodore!
49:15 They'll tell all your friends you're okay.
49:18 Thank you, Captain.
49:22 What's the matter, Bruce?
49:24 Hmm?
49:25 What's the matter?
49:26 Oh, nothing. Nothing.
49:28 I wish we were going home on that cruiser.
49:31 So do I.
49:35 Wait a minute.
49:40 What is the proof?
49:41 - That message you sent was a phony. - How do you know?
49:45 I read the semaphore code.
49:47 Now, will you be quiet for a minute, please? Why should he... Ransom.
49:50 We're getting into Cousteau tomorrow. We've got to get off this boat tonight. That's easy enough to say.
49:55 There's our one chance we've got to get away in that small boat.
49:58 That'd simply be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Anything is better than being handed over to foreign bandits. What'll we do, Bruce?
50:05 Look at that.
50:06 We'll stay on deck tonight till the crew turns in.
50:08 After Morgan and his two friends go to sleep,
50:10 You sneak up here.
50:12 There'll be one man and the helsman on watch. We'll take care of them. We're apt to drift around for days without being rescued in a small boat like that.
50:18 We may die of starvation or thirst. Well, I'll get some signal rockets out of the hole.
50:23 That crew should be close enough to see them.
50:44 Mm-hmm.
51:22 Mm-hmm.
52:12 Mm-hmm.
52:43 I'm going to go.
53:08 Rockets, huh? Got them.
53:11 Sure.
53:12 Why do you want them?
53:13 Just rumble.
53:21 Oh, my God.
53:37 Oh.
53:39 I'm going to go.
53:45 Come on.
53:49 I'm going to go.
54:13 Willie! Willie, wake up!
54:17 - Here you fellas, take him up on deck. - Mark it.
54:28 small.
54:29 I'll take care of the health room.
54:31 Right.
54:35 Forward and keep quiet about it. Come on.
54:37 Yeah.
54:39 Come on.
54:40 Yes?
54:41 Put the line under Betty's arms and lower into that small boat.
54:50 Quickly, Capito. Quickly.
54:53 What's this? Iron the hole!
54:55 All hands on deck!
54:57 - Let's get in the boat! - What about him? Let the crew look at him!
55:00 You two, give me a hand!
55:02 Where are you going?
55:03 What are you doing there? That's Ford where you belong.
55:06 That summer boat! You heard what I said. Get forward now.
55:16 Amen.
55:18 Hurry up!
55:19 - Hey, son, I'm full. - Lower away on the lightbulb.
55:25 In hell!
55:26 Yeah.
55:28 Yeah.
55:32 Come on, there's a walk, then.
55:52 Come on, let's go. Come on, let's get us!
56:11 Yeah?
56:13 Here we are.
56:14 Yes, but we haven't got any rockets.
56:21 There you, Rucker.
56:26 I do.
56:28 Amen.
56:39 This message is...
56:40 going to the Honorable Marvin T. Bishop.
56:43 attorney's office.
56:44 Please excuse delay.
56:46 - Yeah.
56:47 Russell, please.
56:48 ...returning of his own volition to testify at Senate inquiry.
56:52 Yeah.
56:52 I accept my resignation. Take effect immediately.
56:55 Stop.
56:56 Remaining Asiatic waters, extended honeymoons.
57:06 I've got you.