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Lux Radio Theatre - "King Solomons Mines" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Stuart Granger and Deborah Kerr returned to their 1950 screen
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  Speaker 1: roles as Alan Quatermain and Elizabeth Curtis in Lux Radio
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  Speaker 1: Theatre's adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. First heard on CBS
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  Speaker 1: on December 1st, 1952, this one-hour broadcast is episode 805
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  Speaker 1: of Lux Radio Theatre, sponsored by Lever Brothers for Lux
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  Speaker 1: Toilet Soap. Adapted from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, itself based on H.
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  Speaker 1: Ryder Haggard's novel, the drama follows Quatermain, an experienced hunter
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  Speaker 1: and expedition guide. Persuaded to lead Elizabeth and her brother,
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  Speaker 1: John Good, into the African interior, he joins their search
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  Speaker 1: for Elizabeth's missing husband, who vanished while pursuing the legendary
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  Speaker 1: mines of King Solomon. And now, we return to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux
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  Speaker 2: Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Deborah
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  Speaker 2: Carr and Stuart Granger in King Solomon's Mines. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Irving Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Many years ago, a
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  Speaker 5: legend existed that deep in unexplored Africa were the fabulous
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  Speaker 5: King Solomon's mines. That a man would be willing to
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  Speaker 5: gamble his life to find them was understandable. But for
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  Speaker 5: a woman to undertake such a perilous journey into an
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  Speaker 5: unknown land was unbelievable. But that is the basis for
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  Speaker 5: one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's greatest screen successes. And recreating their original roles,
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  Speaker 5: we have two of Hollywood's foremost stars, Stuart Granger and
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  Speaker 5: Deborah Carr. And whenever you see a star on a
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  Speaker 5: dressing room door in our motion picture studios, you can
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  Speaker 5: rest assured in these dressing rooms of glamorous screen beauties,
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  Speaker 5: the favorite beauty care is Luxe Toilet Soap. Refreshing Luxe
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  Speaker 5: facials bring such quick new beauty to skin. It's no
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  Speaker 5: wonder that our loveliest Hollywood stars are devoted to luck
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  Speaker 5: soap for their daily beauty care. Now, King Solomon's Minds,
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  Speaker 5: starring Deborah Carr as Beth Curtis and Stuart Granger as
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  Speaker 5: Alan Quatermain. We reached Africa in March of 1897.
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  Speaker 6: My sister Elizabeth and I, we journeyed at once to
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  Speaker 6: the Kenya Protective and there solicited the help of a
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  Speaker 6: government official to find the guide we were looking for,
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  Speaker 6: a man named Alan Quartermain.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it seems they've heard about you, Alan. And they're
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  Speaker 3: willing to pay almost anything. Thanks, Eric, but I've taken
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  Speaker 3: out my last safari. I've about made up my mind
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  Speaker 3: to send for my son. He's seven years old now,
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 7: Taking the boy out of here?
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  Speaker 3: But this is no life for a child. Well, I've
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  Speaker 3: thought about that, too. And if I don't send for him, well,
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  Speaker 3: then I'll just go back to England. And what would
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  Speaker 3: you do there? Become a shopkeeper?
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  Speaker 8: You've built a career here, Alan. You've attained the happiest
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  Speaker 8: fate a man can have in this world. To be
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  Speaker 8: the best at something.
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  Speaker 3: Here, have another drink. No, no, no, I mean it.
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  Speaker 8: This man and his sister, they've heard about you in London. Alan,
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  Speaker 8: did you ever meet a man named Henry Curtis?
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  Speaker 3: Curtis? Yes, there was a fellow named Curtis, about a
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  Speaker 3: year and a half ago. He wanted to go through
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  Speaker 3: unexplored country, some wild notion about a lost diamond mine. Well? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I turned him down, of course. That's the last I
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  Speaker 3: saw of him. Why?
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  Speaker 8: Because he disappeared. It's his wife who wants to hire
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  Speaker 8: you to lead a searching party. His wife and her brother.
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  Speaker 8: A woman on a safari?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. Besides, I meant what I said. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I can't force you to go, can I?
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  Speaker 8: And if you're serious about going back to England, well,
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  Speaker 8: perhaps I can be of some help.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Eric. Well, I'll stop by your office in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: I was in Eric Master's office that following day when
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  Speaker 6: Quartermain came in.
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  Speaker 3: I had insisted on waiting there to see him. I
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  Speaker 3: told him it was useless, Alan, but he's a most
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  Speaker 3: persistent fellow. I came all the way from England, Mr. Quatermain.
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  Speaker 3: The least you can do is to give me information.
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  Speaker 3: If I can, I'll be glad to.
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  Speaker 6: The last word we had from my brother-in-law was the
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  Speaker 6: letter which he sent from here. He said he was
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  Speaker 6: heading west into unexplored territory.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Masters tells me that you refuse to guide him.
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  Speaker 3: I most certainly refuse.
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because when I die, Mr. Good, I hope it will
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  Speaker 3: be doing something slightly more sensible than trying to run
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  Speaker 3: down a legend about a lost diamond mine. You mean
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  Speaker 3: the country's dangerous? I don't know if any white men
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  Speaker 3: have ever been in that region before, but I do
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  Speaker 3: know that none ever return to tell about it. Yes, Mr. Good,
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  Speaker 3: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 8: But you must admit, Alan, that as far as we know...
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  Speaker 8: Henry Curtis could still be alive.
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  Speaker 6: Well, as a captive, perhaps, but the chances are very slim.
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  Speaker 6: My sister feels if there's any chance at all, she
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  Speaker 6: must pursue it. She's had a bad time lately. She
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  Speaker 6: can't sleep nights, wakes up screaming, dreams about him wandering
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  Speaker 6: in the jungle. Surely you've made other inquiries about him, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 6: All we've been able to learn is that Henry was
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  Speaker 6: headed through the Kalawana country.
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  Speaker 3: Kalawana country? Well, what about it? Thousands of square miles, Mr. Good.
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  Speaker 3: Even the natives are afraid to go near it. And
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  Speaker 3: how would you proceed to get there? We have a map.
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  Speaker 6: Henry sent us a copy of the map he planned
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  Speaker 6: to follow, here.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, there are no maps. There isn't a
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  Speaker 3: native village or river recorded beyond the Kalawana region. These
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  Speaker 3: sort of maps are constantly being peddled to greenhorns from
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  Speaker 3: Timbuktu to Johannesburg. You may be right, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Henry said he bought the original map to King Solomon's
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  Speaker 6: mines from an Arab trader who claimed it was 400
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  Speaker 6: years old.
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  Speaker 3: The Flying Dutchman, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Captain Kidd's treasure.
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  Speaker 6: All right, there is no diamond mine. But at least
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  Speaker 6: the map tells us where to look for Henry. And
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  Speaker 6: with your help, we'll follow him.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Good, I assure you, you have absolutely no idea
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  Speaker 3: of the dangers of such a trip. Neither have I.
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  Speaker 3: But at least I can guess. My advice to you
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  Speaker 3: is to take your overwrought sister back to London as
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  Speaker 3: quickly as possible. I'm sorry, I can't be.
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  Speaker 6: I told Elizabeth about my meeting with Quartermain.
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  Speaker 3: She left at once to see him herself.
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  Speaker 7: My brother told me your reasons for turning us down, Mr. Quatermain,
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  Speaker 7: but there was one argument he neglected to use.
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  Speaker 3: What was that?
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  Speaker 7: Money.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's a very good argument, Mrs. Curtis.
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  Speaker 7: I'm willing to pay almost anything.
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  Speaker 3: I can't understand your determination to go on with this foolishness.
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  Speaker 7: Well, for one thing, it's quite possible that you're exaggerating
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  Speaker 7: the dangers. With proper equipment and your services, we should
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  Speaker 7: be able to manage. I'm not afraid.
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  Speaker 3: Your courage does you no credit, Mrs. Curtis. It's the
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  Speaker 3: result of ignorance.
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  Speaker 7: What is your usual fee for a safari?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, 200 pounds on all expenses. I wouldn't undertake this
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  Speaker 3: one for 500.
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  Speaker 7: Would you for 5,000?
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  Speaker 3: 5,000? That's a great deal of money.
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  Speaker 7: I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: It's more than I could save in a lifetime. Would
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  Speaker 3: you pay it win or lose?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you backed out before we got a tenth
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  Speaker 3: of the way?
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  Speaker 7: You expect me to back out, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm counting on it.
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  Speaker 7: I'll pay you 5,000 in advance and a bonus of
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  Speaker 7: 500 at the end, whether I back out or not.
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  Speaker 7: You're weakening, aren't you? You've half decided to accept.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I've fully decided to accept. I'd try almost anything
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  Speaker 3: for that much cash.
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  Speaker 7: Then you're not so certain after all that we'd never return.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just as certain as ever.
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  Speaker 7: And yet you'd go?
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  Speaker 3: Mrs. Curtis, the average life of a man in my
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  Speaker 3: profession is eight or nine years. I've been at it
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  Speaker 3: now for 15. So you see, I'm living on borrowed time.
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  Speaker 3: My wife died here six years ago. Sooner or later,
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  Speaker 3: an animal, a native, or some sort of disease will
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  Speaker 3: get me. But I have a son in England. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the money you're offering would provide for him very nicely
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  Speaker 3: until he's old enough to take care of himself.
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  Speaker 7: I see.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll take your safari. But before we leave, I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to send the money to England. You can pay
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  Speaker 3: the bonus when we return.
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  Speaker 7: You mean if we return?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. From now on, we'll say when
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  Speaker 3: we return. What I privately think must never darken the
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  Speaker 3: spirit of this fine safari.
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  Speaker 7: Mr. Quatermain, there's something else on your mind. What is it?
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  Speaker 3: I simply don't understand your motives.
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  Speaker 7: You don't understand? Or you don't believe them?
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  Speaker 3: Well, frankly, I don't. But it's wiser if we don't
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  Speaker 3: discuss it, Mrs. Curtis.
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, because on a safari, it's better to travel with
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  Speaker 3: people one likes.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, in that case, you better tell me now and
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  Speaker 7: give me time to recover. Now, what about my motives?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's occurred to me that since your husband's body
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  Speaker 3: was never found... You can't inherit his money until you
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  Speaker 3: prove that he's dead.
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  Speaker 7: One of the reasons my husband went looking for that
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  Speaker 7: diamond mine was the possibly foolish hope of finding a
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  Speaker 7: fortune of his own. You see, I hold all the
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  Speaker 7: wealth there is in the family.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I still don't understand.
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  Speaker 7: That I'd be willing to risk my life for my husband.
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  Speaker 3: That you propose to throw it away. That's not normal.
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  Speaker 3: It has a smell of sickness about it.
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  Speaker 7: I happen to love my husband. Or is that something
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  Speaker 7: else you can't understand?
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 3: But I have known people to make elaborate sacrifices for
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  Speaker 3: reasons they themselves don't quite understand. Sometimes to expiate a
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  Speaker 3: feeling of guilt.
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  Speaker 7: If I were you, I'd examine my own motives, Mr. Quatermain.
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  Speaker 7: A man who doesn't care whether he lives or dies
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  Speaker 7: is not exactly a wholesome specimen. I'm risking my life
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  Speaker 7: for a man I love. You're doing it for money.
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  Speaker 3: I told you that I had a son in New England.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, it's not your son. There are things you
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  Speaker 7: can do for him other than toss your life away.
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  Speaker 7: What's your sickness, Mr. Quatermain? Just nothing? to live for?
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  Speaker 7: I'll meet you in Mr. Master's office at 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 7: tomorrow morning. Good night, Mr. Quatermain.
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  Speaker 6: A few days later, we began our safari. But not
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  Speaker 6: until we were well underway did it occur to me
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  Speaker 6: that I had failed to thank our guide.
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  Speaker 6: It's quite all right, Jack. You don't have to thank me.
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  Speaker 6: I must say, Elizabeth surprised me. I never knew she
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  Speaker 6: could be so persuasive.
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  Speaker 3: There's something very persuasive about 5,000 pounds.
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  Speaker 6: She's quite a nice girl, really. Definite ideas of her own,
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  Speaker 6: of course. Well, like those clothes she's wearing. I gather
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  Speaker 6: that you didn't quite approve.
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  Speaker 3: A tailored suit isn't exactly what I recommended. Well, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you tell her? Because she'll find out for herself
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  Speaker 3: any moment now.
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  Speaker 6: In charge of the natives was Quatermain's personal servant, Keeper.
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  Speaker 6: A few minutes later, he reported our first minor difficulty. Water!
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  Speaker 7: Water!
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  Speaker 3: Water! Lady, sick water. Lady, an ox wagon. Oh, very sick, sick.
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  Speaker 3: Something wrong, Mrs. Curtis? No, of course not. I just
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  Speaker 3: think I prefer to walk.
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  Speaker 7: For a while.
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  Speaker 3: You sure you're all right, Beth?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that old wagon. It's not very comfortable. And the trail,
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  Speaker 7: it's nothing but rocks and holes and.
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  Speaker 3: She's seasick.
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  Speaker 7: I'm perfectly all right. Now, let's go on. In a moment...
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  Speaker 7: Just what do you think you're doing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, I'm going to loosen your jacket
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  Speaker 3: and unfasten that collar.
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  Speaker 7: Really, Mr. Quatermain, just because you're... Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, out here, perspiration has got to evaporate or you
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  Speaker 3: won't last two hours. You're sealed up like a tin
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  Speaker 3: of pears. Kiva, get the lady's box. Now, this may
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  Speaker 3: be just the costume for shooting pheasant in Sussex, but
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  Speaker 3: it won't do out here, so get behind those bushes
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  Speaker 3: and change your clothes. And take off those corsets. You.
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  Speaker 7: you wretched man. Oh, you impertinent, unbearable.
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  Speaker 6: Hurry up, please. We'll wait here till you're ready. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: with each plodding mile of our journey... our complete dependence
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  Speaker 6: upon Alan Quartermain became increasingly evident. But a dozen times
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  Speaker 6: a day we'd forget the violence of the heat... and
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  Speaker 6: the ferocity of the insects... in some new and awesome
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  Speaker 6: sight of nature... Beautiful and terrifying. The elephants that almost
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  Speaker 6: charged us. The hippopotamia and the crocodiles in the steaming swamp.
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  Speaker 6: The frightened zebra, the streaking deer. And the lions that
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  Speaker 6: rose up in the trail not 40 feet.
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  Speaker 3: Ahead of us. Stand still. No, don't shoot.
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  Speaker 7: We can't just stand here.
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  Speaker 3: Keep quiet. You see? They're walking off. I don't believe
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  Speaker 3: I could move if I wanted to. Why didn't they
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  Speaker 3: attack us? Because they're not hungry. They're not dangerous unless
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  Speaker 3: they're hungry.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how do you know when they're hungry?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if they eat you, Mrs. Curtis, then they're hungry. Now,
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  Speaker 3: look behind those rocks. Ooh. Zebra? Yeah, a fresh kill.
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, the vultures will come. Then the lions
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  Speaker 3: will return. After the lions, the jackals. Come on. Mardi Gras, 20.
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  Speaker 6: The days went by, and we became a little more accustomed,
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  Speaker 6: Elizabeth and I, to the endless walking, to a diet
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  Speaker 6: of freshly killed meat, and to the ever-present perils that
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  Speaker 6: beset strangers in a land where they do not belong.
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  Speaker 3: One night after supper....
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  Speaker 7: I see that you're looking at the map, Mr. Quatermain. Well,
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  Speaker 7: how far have we come?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is where we started from, and now we're
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  Speaker 3: somewhere about here.
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  Speaker 7: That took us seven days.
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  Speaker 3: We have to head for the Kalawana village, which lies
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  Speaker 3: about here. Now, here's the other map, the one Curtis
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  Speaker 3: sent you, Jack.
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  Speaker 6: It seems to start where your government map ends.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. His map starts at the Kalawana village. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we know where that is, but we know very little
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  Speaker 3: else about them.
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  Speaker 7: You've never been among them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a hunter, Mrs. Curtis, not an explorer. No white
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  Speaker 3: man has been near the Kalawanas in years. They're feared
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  Speaker 3: as much by the natives as they are by the whites.
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  Speaker 3: You mean our own natives, too? Yes, we'll probably have
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  Speaker 3: trouble persuading them to go much further.
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  Speaker 7: We can't even be sure that my husband reached the Kalawanas.
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  Speaker 3: No, but we'll inquire of other tribes on the way.
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  Speaker 7: How long will it take us?
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  Speaker 9: Weeks?
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  Speaker 3: Months? I don't know. I've never taken a woman on
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  Speaker 3: safari before.
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  Speaker 7: Have I been such a handicap?
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  Speaker 3: No, Mrs. Curtis, but the fun hasn't started yet.
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  Speaker 7: When it does, I'm sure we'll all enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: This veldt is the easy part, but we've got jungle
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  Speaker 3: and rivers ahead of us.
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  Speaker 7: Those natives, what are they chattering about?
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  Speaker 3: Probably about deserting us. No, no, no, they're talking about
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  Speaker 3: their work. All the money they've earned, about their wives
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  Speaker 3: and sweethearts, all the things they're going to do when
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  Speaker 3: they get back home. Once in a while, they talk
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  Speaker 3: about you.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. They call you Memsaib Nuali Nikunda. That means the
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  Speaker 3: lady with the flaming hair. You see, they've never seen
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  Speaker 3: a redhead before. Oh.
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  Speaker 7: And what else?
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  Speaker 3: Well, a moment ago, they were saying that you're very
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  Speaker 3: fortunate because Bwana Elani, that's me, will protect you from lions, leopards, elephants,
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  Speaker 3: all the terrors of the jungle.
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  Speaker 7: And what are they saying now? I mean, right now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they, um... They're saying that I'm very fortunate, too. Father!
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  Speaker 3: Grab Keeva. Cloth house is ready, Father.
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  Speaker 7: Time to sleep.
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  Speaker 6: I'd say he's got the right idea.
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  Speaker 3: I've never been so tired in my life. Good night, Alan.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep under the netting and keep your rifle handy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you tell us that every night.
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  Speaker 3: And you wake up every morning reasonably intact.
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  Speaker 7: Good night, Mr. Courtenay.
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  Speaker 6: Some hours later, I was awakened by screaming. The sort
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  Speaker 6: of scream I had heard before all too many times.
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  Speaker 6: I saw Quatermain rushing to Elizabeth's tent.
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  Speaker 3: What is it? What's wrong?
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry. I couldn't help it.
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  Speaker 3: A dream?
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  Speaker 7: Yes. I've had the same dream many times. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I truly am.
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  Speaker 3: Get back to sleep. We've two hours yet before daylight.
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  Speaker 6: We were at breakfast the next morning when Kiva told
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  Speaker 6: Quatermain that some of the native bearers were leaving.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: Well, isn't there something you can do about it, Mr.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Quatermain? No, nothing. So we may just as well finish
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: our breakfast. What's that going to do to us, Alan?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Nothing I hadn't planned on or warned you about.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: By the way, did you hear anything last night? I
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: thought I heard someone scream.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I didn't hear anything. You must have been dreaming. Excuse me,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I have to pay the native. Beth.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: He's quite a decent sort, isn't he? I said he... Yes.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: I heard you.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Look, about the natives. Are you sure you don't want
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: to go back with the ones.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Who are leaving?
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: Eat your breakfast, Jack. It's getting cold.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: We'll continue shortly with Act Two of King Solomon's Minds. Meanwhile,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: here's your Lux Hollywood reporter, Libby Collins.
• 17:32
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• 17:35
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• 17:43
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• 17:47
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• 17:51
  Speaker 10: stars Danny Kaye, Folly Granger, and introduces the new French ballerina,
• 17:56
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• 17:57
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• 18:01
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• 18:12
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• 18:16
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• 18:20
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• 19:05
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• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Irving Cummings.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Act II of King Solomon's Mind, starring Stuart Granger as
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Alan Quatermain and Deborah Carr as Beth Curtis.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: The following week, we reached the jungle.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: It was as different from the veldt as the veldt
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: had been from Mombasa, but just as overpowering, a dark
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: place filled with secrets. I suppose you had your reasons
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: for warning us, Mr. Quatermain, but if this is jungle,
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: it certainly seems peaceful enough.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Well, stop for a moment, and I'll show you what
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I mean. Now, here's one small area, this little clearing.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Not half as large, probably, as your own garden at home. Well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: right here, there are a thousand creatures. Living, reproducing, killing,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: being killed, eating, being eaten. There's not a square inch
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: that isn't at war if you look for it. You
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: see that log? Now watch it when I roll it over.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, horrible.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Slugs, white slugs, six inches long. And centipedes and crabs
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: and termites. Now look over there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: I don't see anything.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Under that bush. It'll move in a moment. Snake. A
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: green snake. Yes, it's a mamba. One dip from her
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and you'd stay here. Now look up in the trees.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Half the forest lives up there. The apes, monkeys, baboons,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: a hundred different birds.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: The vines are so dense you can't even see the sky.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: In some places those vines shut out the sun so
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: completely that nothing will ever grow beneath them. Well, let's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: get moving again. Only... Just don't step on that mound
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: up there.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, ants!
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Safari ants. They attack in thousands, giving half the chance
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: they'd eat you, too. Look off there, Jack. Ant eater? Yes,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: you'll find them as soon as we've gone.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Eating and being eaten.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: There's not a creature in the forest that isn't hunted
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: by something else. You watch the cycle of life and death.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: It seems pointless and endless. But one simple pattern always emerges.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: One is born, one lives for a time... and then dies.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: And all the rest is Yuyatsava.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Is what?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yuyatsava. It's a game that the natives play. It doesn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: make a bit of sense. A chases B, B chases C,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: C chases A. And they turn around and go the
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: other way. Make a great fuss about trying to get
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: things away from each other. Bits of nothing. Twigs. Leaves.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: It's quite pointless, except that the fellow who is here
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: has satisfied his desire to be over there, and everybody's
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: had the fun of running after something that they wanted,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: only because everybody else wanted it. And, well, it's endless.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It's a very silly game, Yuri Otsovich.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Sorry?
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: You are sick of life, aren't you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Motives.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Well, you're being very enigmatic about it. No, she's not.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: She's making very good sense.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: I suppose I puzzled over motives for most of the
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: day as we struggled on through the jungle. But then
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: something happened that made me forget completely about it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: All right. Kiva just shot an antelope. It's not proper
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: for visitors to call without bringing meat.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Visitors?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been watched for more than an hour. These
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: people are the Zahambaris. Now, don't start screaming. Oh, there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: There in the bushes. There's a face over there watching us.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Look, there's another. What do they want? Are they surrounding us?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Then why are they being so quiet? Why don't they
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: say something?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: There's nothing to say. They know who I am. They're
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: just checking. Alan, we'd better stop. Don't you see those
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: fellas staring at us?
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Don't worry, Jack. They're acquaintances of Mr. Quatermain with nothing
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: to say, just checking.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Kiva, leave a bag of salt with the antelope.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I always thought it was beads they wanted.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: If you had to live here, you'd find a bag
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: of salt worth a hundred times its weight in beads.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: They're not stupid, you know.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: But I am. If that's what you mean, why don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: you just come out and say so?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Mrs. Curtis, I thought we had an understanding that when... Look,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I apologize.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're so gracious, Mr.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Quatermain.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Um, well, do we go on? Yes, to the village.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Can't be far from here. And beyond the village is
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the Zambari River. I'll try to drive a bargain for
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the use of their boats. Just follow me and stay close.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: They swarmed about us as we walked into their compound,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: curious and unsmiling, but friendly enough. Alan left us with
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Kiva and proceeded to start the bargaining with the chief.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Almost an hour passed before he retired. Well, they've got
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: boats all right, and they'll help us cross the river,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: but not till tomorrow. Our coming is a big event.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: There'll be a feast of sorts and a great deal
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: of caterwauling and dancing. If we behave properly and are
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: duly impressed, they'll take us across in the morning. All
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: of us. And our bearers, too.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Is that all you talked about? Getting across the river?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I asked about your husband. The chief claims he remembers him. Well?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: He says there was another white man with him. A
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: chap with one eye and a scar on his cheek.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I hope he's right. I know that fellow. He's tough
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: and he knows the country. Now come. The chief's invited
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: us to eat. Eat?
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: What?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't inquire if I were you. Just eat it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: It's amazing, really. Your charm, your courtesy, they never fail you,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: do they?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: When will you realize where we are and what we're doing?
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: I'd rather not discuss it, do you mind?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: THE END.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Once across the river, Alan drove us harder than he
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: ever had before. It was a desperate trek through knee-deep
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: swamps teeming with crocodiles and water snakes. Nor would he
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: halt even when we reached higher ground. We made camp
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: only when it was too dark to go any farther.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Just look at me. I'm nothing but cuts and scratches
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: and bites.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Well, just hold still, dear. This ointment will take the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: sting out of them anyway. Beth, I've been thinking. What
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: would you say?
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, if there's one thing that bothers me more than
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: anything else, it's those horrible centipedes. I've counted 40 varieties.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Have you noticed the one that leaves that slimy trail?
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: It's that long, Jack. It's that long.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, dear, I know.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: I think I'll have one stuffed and mounted. It'll make
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: a far more interesting trophy than the usual lions or panthers.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'll take a panther any day.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Or Alan Quatermain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: No, he's not a bad sort, Beth. What's wrong between
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: you two?
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Does something seem wrong?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Well, you keep watching each other. Each of you seems
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: to be hoping the other will fall on his face. Beth,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: I've made a decision. I think we should turn back.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: I just mentioned it to Alan. He's willing if you are.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: He'd like nothing better than to see me give up.
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: That swamp. I'm sure he took us through it deliberately. Oh,
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: that dreadful man.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: That's not true, Beth. He asked me this morning if
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I thought you were up to it. You're being unfair.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Nevertheless, we made a poor choice in our selection of
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: a guide. His heart's not in it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I wonder.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, look at my hair. I've lost all my hairpins.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: It's nothing but a trap for every fly, every mosquito,
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: and every ant in the forest. And they... and they bite.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Did you ever think of trying pigtails? I remember when
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you wore them and very attractive they were.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: I'm a grown woman, Jack.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I wonder about that, too. Beth, I think you
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: owe that man an apology and some gesture of friendliness. Well,
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: he says we'll be eating in 15 minutes.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: I never want to eat again. Do you know what
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: they served us yesterday in that wretched village? I asked Kiva. Snake.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: We ate snake.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, dear.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: And rather good, I think. There was no further talk
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: of turning back. Elizabeth didn't even mention it, and her
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: determination to continue was expressed perfectly in her hair. Her
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: beautiful hair, of which she was so proud. She cut
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: it off. We were now at the start of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: hill country. We stopped at a stream, a waterfall. Well,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: how was your bath?
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: Very pleasant, thank you. I never thought I'd ever be
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: clean again. Oh, this terrible country.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's beautiful here. You can stop to look around.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: Yes, I suppose it is.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: What have you done to your hair?
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: I cut it off.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Good idea. It must be coming.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sure it is. I don't dare look in
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: a mirror.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Tell me something. If we should find your husband, if
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you go back to England again, what... Kiva. Give me
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: your hand. Hurry.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: A stranger had come upon our camp. He stood on
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: a rock some distance away. Stood like a statue, staring
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: into space. He was dressed like no other native I
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: had ever seen. Bright-colored cloth, almost like a robe. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: in his hand, he carried a spear.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Good heavens, what a strange-looking creature.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Alan, who the devil is that? I don't know. He
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: wants to know if he can.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Speak to me in Swahili.
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: He doesn't.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: He must be seven feet tall and so thin.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I've heard of men like this, but far to the north,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: beyond Ethiopia. His face, his features, why, they're almost European.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: He wants to join us. He's been following us. He
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: has no rifle and there are many wild animals here.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: How did he get this far alone? I don't know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: but he needs our help to get through the dark country.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: He can't make it alone.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: But why would he want to go into the dark country?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: He says he doesn't ask questions. Why should I? Well,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I don't like him.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Why not?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Look at him. He's too arrogant.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Perhaps you've grown too accustomed to subservience. I like him.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: You going to turn him down? Oh, no. I'd sooner
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: have him with us than tracking us.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Are you sure he said he wanted to go to
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: the dark country? Perhaps he meant he was willing to go.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: He said he wanted to go. And I'd like to
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: know why.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: His name was Mbopa. Alan assigned him to me as
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: a gun bearer, and we pushed on. But the passing
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: days gave us but little more knowledge about the newcomer.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Look at him. I wish we knew what was on
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: that fellow's mind. Every time we make camp, he goes
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: off by himself and stands alone, brooding. He never joins
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: the other natives.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Still, he seems to like them. They like him. Have
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: you found out any more about him? Where he's from?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: He grew up in the Karabi village. That's hundreds of
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: miles from where we found him. He doesn't say he
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: was born there, just that he lived there with his mother.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: When she died, he left. He made her a promise
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: or something to visit the dark country.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Have you ever noticed the shape of his eyes?
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, they're strange, aren't they?
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: The only other place I ever saw eyes like that
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: was in a museum... He's like the ghost of an
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: ancient Egyptian king.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: That night, our first real disaster occurred. Our native bearers disappeared.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: They'd run away.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: They're not only gone, but look, they've stolen half our supply.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Well, we couldn't carry them anyway. They took very little
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: more than what they'd earned. Alan, why did they disappear?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Because we've entered the Kalawana country. Well... There are just
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: the five of us now. The three of us, Kiva
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: and Mbopa, which means we must make a decision. Shall
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: we go on or not? Oh, I don't know. What
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: do you think? Oh, I'm being paid. I haven't finished
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: my job yet.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Well, that's scarcely the right answer.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Beth, please. We've got to weigh our chances.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Exactly. And from now on, the conditions of travel will
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: be the same whether we continue or turn back, won't they?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: But if we turn back and head south, we may
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: be able to pick up some bearers from the friendly tribe.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: Well, we've come all this way just to get to
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: the Calhounas. You said yourself that among them we might
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: get the first accurate news of Henry, good or bad.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. How about you, Jack? Well, we haven't done too badly.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: No one likes to give up before he's beaten. Well,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: then we'll go on. You two wait here. I'll help
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Kiva remake our pack.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: I pray we're doing the right thing, Jack.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Alan doesn't want to turn back either.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Did you ever dream that you were in some dreadful trouble?
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: You're crying for help and people are going by, but
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: nobody hears and no one cares. That's how I think
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: about Henry.
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: Henry?
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: That he's alive somewhere, hoping help will come, but forsaken.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: That last year, Beth, before Henry left for Africa, I
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: used to feel very sorry.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: For him sometimes.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: Sorry for him? Whatever for?
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Someday I'll tell you. Or perhaps someday you'll tell me.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Any doubt we may have had of being in the
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: Kalawana country vanished the following day. Far off through the jungle,
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: we heard a sound. A horn of some kind, and
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: its meaning was clear enough. The Kalawanas had found us.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: The End.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: These indeed were savages, painted, befeathered, wild and menacing. In
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: the center of their village was the largest hut, obviously
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: the house of their chief. And then a man appeared
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: in the doorway, a white man.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: You speak English?
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: I speak English.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: My name's Quartermain. This is Mrs. Curtis and her brother.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Just the three of you and the two bears? For
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: the moment, yes. Lost your other bears, huh?
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: Too bad.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Well, come in, won't you?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Before we continue with Act Three of King Solomon's Mines,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: here's Mr. Cummings to introduce that popular Hollywood commentator, Francis Scully.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Hello, Francis. So nice to see you again.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's always a pleasure to be here, Irving.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Last time we met, it was at the preview of
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's latest Technicolor epic, Plymouth Adventure. produced and directed
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: by my good friends Dory Sherry and Clarence Brown.
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• 34:52
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• 34:56
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• 36:42
  Speaker 5: The curtain rises on Act Three of King Solomon's Mind,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: starring Deborah Carr as Beth Curtis and Stuart Granger as
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Alan Quatermain.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: It was incredible. A white man living with the Kaluanas.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: He stared at us for a moment and then he
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: started to smile.
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: Forgive me. I have not seen a white face for
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: five years.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: You've been here for five years, Mr.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Smith, Mr. Goodsmith.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: Yes, I rather like it here. Now, what are you
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: doing in these parts?
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: We're looking for a man named Curtis. Curtis? Henry Curtis?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: He was here?
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes. He passed through here about a year ago.
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: Curtis and another man. One eye, a scar across his cheek.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Where is Henry Curtis now? Please, if there's anything you
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: can tell him.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: I wish I could, ma'am. I wish I could.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: Curtis had a notion that there was a desert to
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: the northwest. His bones are probably moldering in the jungle
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: by now.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Is there a desert out there?
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: Who knows that, Mr. Quartz of Maine? Nobody ever goes
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: as far as that.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Why not? Taboo, legends. What about?
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: Oh, monstrous gods and terrible animals.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: But not about the desert? No.
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: Not even about diamond mines. I know, I know. Curtis
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: was after the mines.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Crazy fool.
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: I knew he couldn't last long out there. So I
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: let him go.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Are you saying you let Curtis go because you were
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: sure he would die?
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: It was not my business.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: You've been here for five years, Mr. Smith. You must
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: know these Caloanas rather well. Are these stories of murder true?
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: Murder? Oh, that is such an unpleasant word. I will
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: tell you this. They are by nature... Very warlike.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Have you heard any rumors about Curtis? From the natives,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Nothing, unless you believe what one eye said when he
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: came back.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Came back?
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, he came back.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Alone.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: Well, what did he say?
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: The natives found him. He was dying. He lasted three
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: or four hours. He died right here in my hut.
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: And they buried him. That is, I think they buried him.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: What did he die of, Mr. Smith?
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: Exhaustion, maybe.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Starvation. He said nothing before he died?
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: He was out of his head. Kept talking about burning
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: sun and burning earth.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: But what did he say about Henry Kirk?
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Not one word, ma'am. If you ask me, he deserted
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: Curtis and tried to come back. Well, he almost made it.
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: To these natives, he died because he broke taboo. And
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: sometimes I am not so sure that What are you doing, Mr.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Quatermain?
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: If you mean to point that revolver at me, then
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: I advise you that you.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Just listen carefully, Mr. Smith. We're getting out of here,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: and you are taking us. Am I? Well, maybe so.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: You had no intention of letting us leave here alive.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Your name's Van Bruen. I've had your description for years.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: You know this man?
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: He's wanted for murder in Nairobi.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: And he said he had let Henry go because he
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: was sure to die.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: But you're not so sure about us, are you? So
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: you're going to get us out of here before those
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Kalawanas start carrying out your orders?
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: I am not so sure that I am able to
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: control them, Mr.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Quaterman. You walk out first. We'll be right behind you. Elizabeth,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: you know what this means. Are you ready?
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm... I'm ready.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: All right, Mr. Smith, start walking.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: The Kalawanas watched us, but they made no move to
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: attack or follow. But once we were in the jungle again,
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: the beat of their drums and the weird sound of
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: their war cries were all too clear in the distance.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: They wanted the sport of pursuit before they ran us
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: down and killed us. We ran as long as we could,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: with Alan still keeping Smith covered, and then.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Get up here with us. You've got to keep up
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: with us.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: I can't keep up. I just can't.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, Kiefer, take my rifle. Keep him covered. Please, Elizabeth.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: You've got to try. If we can shake them off
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: for just a few minutes.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: Somehow, Smith had wrested the rifle away from Kiefer and
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: killed him. But Mbopa, too, had fired, and Smith's brief
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: grasp of freedom was over. And then Yumbubu was saying
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: something to Alan.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: He's going off to make a false trail. He's going
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: to lead them the other way. I've still got to
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: run for it, isn't it? All right, then I'll carry you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Straight ahead, Jack. Bear to your left and hurry.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: When we were able to go no farther, we struggled
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: up the vines into the dense covering of a giant tree.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: For hours we could hear the Kalawanas combing the jungle
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: for us. But gradually their cries grew fainter and fainter,
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: and we had escaped.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Elizabeth, it's all right. It's all right.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, Alan. Alan.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: We're safe now. Rest. Just try to rest.
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: You're not leaving me?
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: No.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: When you're close to me like this, I.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Just shut your eyes.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: I've behaved so.
• 42:28
  Speaker 12: Badly, Alan.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Have you? No. Not really. If I've seemed angry with you,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: it's only because you matter so much to me. Nothing
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: must happen to you.
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: With the coming of daylight, I saw that we were
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: not alone. Mbopa had returned. He was standing motionless, quite
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: as we had first seen him staring off into the distance.
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: It's difficult to recall in detail our escape from the
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: jungle or the number of days that passed before we
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: were done with it. But the moment came when we
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: stood at its edge and caught our first sight of
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: what next lay before us.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: It's the desert. Look, it's the desert. The map was right.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: But where does it end? The map doesn't say that,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: does it? Oh, we'll have to cross it somehow. And
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: we'll stay here until dark and go by night. It'd
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: be too hot out there to travel by day.
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: There may even be a diamond mine out there. If
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: the map was right about the desert, it may be
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: right about the mine.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I'll be happy if it's right about the waterhole. We'll
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: need water more than diamonds.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Alan, have you ever thought about the problem of getting back?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I was hoping no one would ever mention that. But
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: we can always sprout wings and fly back to England.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: You're being awfully cheerful about it.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, I don't care. I want to
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: see what's out there. And I have a feeling that
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: when the mist's clear, we're going to see mountains. Well,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: they're clearly marked on the map. Smith said that one
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: eye talked about burning earth and burning sand. That means
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: that Henry Curtis reached this desert. And if the waterhole
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: is where the map says it is, he may have
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: reached that too.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: Then you do have a hope that Henry may still.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't say that. It's been more than a year.
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: Well, I shall never give up hope.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Never.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, we could see the mountains far across the desert.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: They were five days away.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: But it was not the will of Providence to bring
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: us safely through the Velton jungle, only that we should
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: perish now. We reached the waterhole, rested there for two days,
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: and at long last arrived at the plateau at the
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: foot of the mountains. And there, once again, this strange,
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: wild country brought into view a sight that left us
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: all but speechless.
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: Good heavens. It's a valley. Miles and miles of valley. Alan, look. Why,
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: it's just like the English countryside. Temperate country in the
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: heart of Africa.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, we've been climbing ever since we left that waterhole.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: This plateau must be much higher than the desert.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: Even Umbopa seems impressed.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: He's found something. Yes, he's pointing to that mound of rocks.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Some natives bury their dead that way.
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: Bury their dead?
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: There's a marker on the rocks, a rifle. Take it down.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: See what it looks like. It's his. It's Henry's rifle.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: What makes you so sure?
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: There's a message scratched on the stock.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Here, read it. Ammunition gun. Heading northwest. Inform my wife.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: 73 Grosvenor Square, London. Henry Curtis. He's alive out there somewhere. Elizabeth,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: you wait here with Jack. I'll take him, Boper, and
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: look around a bit. Beth.
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: You said someday you'd tell me.
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: You said you'd tell me.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: You weren't in love with Henry. You treated him badly.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: That's why he left England.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: That's about it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Hasn't this trip been penance enough?
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: More than enough. In more ways than you can guess.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: But I think I can guess. It's Alan, isn't it?
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: He loves you both and you.
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: The human heart's a strange thing. When I started on
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: this trip, I was very confused. I thought my motives
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: were so noble. But Alan guessed the truth the first
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: time I met him. It was guilt. I know it now,
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: and I'm better for knowing it. The nightmares are over.
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: But another sort of nightmare seems to be beginning. What
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: are we to do?
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Can't we face that when we come to it?
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: I have a feeling we'll be facing it sooner than... Oh, look.
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: Alan's waving at us. He's calling us. Come, quickly.
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: Come.
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: As we reached Alan, he was pointing down the mountain trail. There,
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: a hundred yards away, at the mouth of a small canyon,
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: stood Mbopa. And around him were half a dozen men.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Like Mbopa, they were very tall and thin. Their faces
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: bore the same almost Semitic features. And again, like Mbopa,
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: they wore brightly colored toga-like garments. But strangest of all
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: was their conduct. They were touching their hands to the
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: ground and then to their foreheads. Bewildered, we looked at Alan.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: These are his people. Ambopa's come home.
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: They're bowing their heads. They're saluting him. Yes.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: It appears we've been traveling with a king. He just
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: told me. These people are the Watutsu. When he was
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: a boy, his throne was taken away from him by
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: his cousin. Well, he's come back to claim it.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: You mean those men recognize him? But if he's been
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: gone for years... There's a mark on his body, the
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: figure of a snake. Every time a king is born,
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: they carve that snake on him. He wants me to
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: join them.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Diego!
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: Alan, about... About Henry.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, of course. I'll find out whatever I can.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: Alan was with the Watootsie for several moments. When he returned,
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: he had much to tell us.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, a couple of the men have
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: agreed to lead us to the village. I think we
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: should go.
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: Think we should go? Isn't Mbopa going?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: No, no. He says there's trouble there. Why didn't the
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: men talk to you? They speak a dialect I've never
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: heard before. If we go to the village, we'll have
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: difficulty making ourselves understood. You said there was trouble. Well,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: it seems the present king is not a very nice fellow.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: One of them, the old man, says there's a civil
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: war brewing. And with Mbopa returning? Exactly. It can very
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: easily come to a head. Almost half the village is
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: scattered now among these hills. The rebels. Mbopa wants to
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: talk to them first. Well, then why don't we stay
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: here with him? Because one of the men told Mbopa
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: that a white man had come to their village before. Alan. Yes. Yes.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Your husband. It's almost a certainty.
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: Then I want to go to the village. Now.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Well, it promises to be quite exciting.
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: Exciting?
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Well, let's get ready.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: From the first moment of our meeting with King Tuala
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: and his followers, their arrogance left little doubt that we
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: were in unfriendly hands. True, it was impossible to know
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: what they were talking about, but it was uncomfortably clear
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: that they regarded us with scorn and amusement.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Well, at least we know if we're ever going to
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: find Henry Curtis, we'll find him here. How can you
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: still be so certain? Did you look at the headpiece
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: the king is wearing? And the witch doctors? Those stones
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: are diamonds. Uncut diamonds.
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: King Solomon's mind. But we also know what their intentions are.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: Well, they seem to respect the power of our rifles.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: We'll be safe for a while.
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: But you said our ammunition's almost gone.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: That's something they don't know.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: Alan, you kept repeating Henry's name. You kept asking them.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, and they recognized it. And as near as I
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: can tell, they mean to take us to him.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: They're calling to us. They want us to follow them.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Then we'd better go. It's just one more chance we'll
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: have to take.
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: At least it will soon be over, one way or another. Alan,
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: there's something I want to tell you. I must tell you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Beth. There's nothing to say that I
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: A dozen Watutsi led us out of the village. About
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: a mile away, at the base of a rocky crest,
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: was an entrance to a cave. They lighted torches and
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: gave them to us. But only one of them came
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: with us. It was a labyrinth inside, dark, twisting channels
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: and lurching shadows. At almost every turn, there was a
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: choice of passageways, but our leader never hesitated. And then, suddenly,
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: a vast chamber opened before us. A low-vaulted room filled
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: with weirdly-shaped stalagmites and a constant sound of dripping water.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: And here, our leader paused. I come upon my last name.
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: He's... He's pointing at something.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Just keep your rifle ready.
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: Alan, there are chests, stone chests, filled with diamonds, diamonds.
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: There on the floor of the cave was a human skeleton.
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Alan put his arm around Beth and led her away.
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: On one of the fingers was a ring. Yes, we
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: had found Henry Curtis. When I looked up, we were alone.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: The Watootsie had disappeared. And then we knew what had
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: been planned for us. He had loosened the rocks and
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: sealed the entrance of the cavern.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: It's hopeless.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: We'll never dig our way out of here. The only
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: end of this is suffocation. Alan, Alan, wait. Our torches.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Look at the torches. Where? They're burning as brightly as ever.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: We've been in here for hours.
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: The torches should be going out from lack of oxygen.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Well, then there's air coming in from somewhere. Give me
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: that torch.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: Slowly, carefully, he crept around the walls of the cavern.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: And then abruptly he stopped. For the flame of the
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: torch was reacting to a draft of air.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: There's a crevice in the rocks.
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: The rocks are loose.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Come on, give me a hand.
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: I can hear something. Water. Running water.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Hold on a minute. It's a stream. A stream. And
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: streams have to lead somewhere. Then we've still got a chance.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: All right, Jack.
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Lift her with the rocks.
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  Speaker 6: An hour later, we stumbled out of the stream into
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  Speaker 6: the bright sunlight of the mountainside. We were close to
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  Speaker 6: the village again, but hidden from their sight. There was
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  Speaker 6: great activity below us. Something of vital importance was taking place.
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  Speaker 3: They're celebrating our death, probably. Elizabeth, can you go on?
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  Speaker 3: The sooner we get out of here, the better.
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  Speaker 7: But where could we go?
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  Speaker 3: Anywhere. Perhaps we'll find Mbopa. Mbopa's in the village, look.
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  Speaker 3: They're in the compound. They're fighting Mbopa and the king.
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  Speaker 7: But how could he have come near the village? If
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  Speaker 7: the king found Mbopa, why wasn't he killed?
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me I've read about this sort of
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  Speaker 3: thing somewhere. Yes, perhaps they're not quite the ignorant savages
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  Speaker 3: we so often think they are. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: An ancient custom. When there are two claimants to a throne,
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  Speaker 3: they must settle it by hand-to-hand combat. They discover that
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  Speaker 3: it saves war and bloodshed. And if I were you, Beth,
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  Speaker 3: I'd turn my head and look the other way.
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  Speaker 6: When the awful struggle was over, the Watutsi had a
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  Speaker 6: new king, the rightful king, Mbopa. And the simple kindnesses
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  Speaker 6: we may have shown to him were now returned to
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  Speaker 6: us a thousandfold. No, not with the diamonds of King
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  Speaker 6: Solomon's mines, but with all that we might need in
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  Speaker 6: men and supplies to see us safely back to civilization.
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  Speaker 6: Once again, we started on safari. Beth, I'm... I'm not
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  Speaker 6: much good at apologies.
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  Speaker 7: You owe me no apologies, Alan.
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  Speaker 3: For what I said the night of our first meeting.
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  Speaker 7: But you were right.
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  Speaker 5: And our heartiest congratulations to Stuart Granger and Deborah Cox.
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  Speaker 5: That was quite an experience, accompanying you two on a safari.
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  Speaker 7: If you think that was an experience, you should have
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  Speaker 7: been there when we made the picture. Stuart actually is
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  Speaker 7: a big game hunter, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I believe he shot five wild buffalo and two
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  Speaker 2: Heard in our cast tonight were Michael Pate as John,
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  Speaker 2: Leo Britt as Eric, Bob Griffin as Mbopa, William Conrad
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