Serpent Island (1954) Movie Script
1
San Pedro Harbor, sunny California.
Only here they have oil derricks
instead of palm trees.
Twenty miles inland in Los Angeles,
they complain about the smog.
Here nobody complains about it,
they make it.
This is no place to be broke.
Not that any places Shangri-La
when you're empty.
However, some places you can make it,
and nobody marks you lousy
as long as you keep trying.
Not California.
Maybe it's the weather,
maybe it's too easy to stay alive,
when there's no more reason for it,
or maybe it's the people.
You get a pretty odd crew
in California.
In the good old USA
when people run away,
from something, someplace or somebody,
the escape route is always West.
Maybe that's the reason
California gets the oddballs like me.
Yes, very funny.
Just another dockside tramp.
Good for a few laughs.
I didn't care where the school kept
or not, that was before I met Ricky.
You, you're Pete Mason.
If you don't like it, I'll change it.
Anything to please a lady.
They told me
you were a marine engineer.
They're right, I was.
Perhaps it'd be better
if we met in your office.
Step right in, Mason
always aims to satisfy.
You're probably a very funny man
in San Pedro, Mr Mason.
Yes, you're right.
Maybe I'm not the guy you want to see.
Maybe not.
Wait a minute, do you need a job?
Lady, I don't need anything,
but I'll take a job depending...
Do you know him?
Sam Quigley, yes.
I was in the Navy with him,
he was a lawyer in civilian life.
My lawyer, or rather,
my family's lawyer.
I'm Ricky Andre.
My great grandfather was Michelle Andre,
does that mean anything to you?
No.
Strange, Sam said
you knew the Caribbean.
I do, Ms Andre,
but that was ten years ago.
I imagine your great grandfather
was dead then.
He was killed
in the revolution against the French.
What do you want me to say?
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Nothing serious, I hope.
Look, you've been telling me
a guy I haven't seen as your lawyer,
and that your great grandfather
was killed 150 years ago, what's the deal?
Fifty dollars a week, and a percentage.
A percentage of what?
A million dollars in gold treasure.
Uh-huh.
What's so funny?
You don't mean to tell me
you've got those crazy maps.
It's not a map, it's a letter,
and I didn't buy it.
It's been in my family
since my great grandfather died.
Wait a minute, Michelle Andre,
the Andre letter.
I've heard about that someplace before.
Your great grandfather
was a fence, right?
A fence?
Meaning, he handled stolen property.
Hijacking the king's gold,
it was everybody's story.
It wasn't stolen.
They were French merchant ships.
French, British,
Spanish courtesy to all thieves.
I hope it doesn't run in the family.
Your great grandfather
was pretty notorious.
When he saw the revolution coming,
he sent his family away to New Orleans.
He hid his gold,
and wrote his last letter.
The revolution came a few days later,
and he was killed.
Yes, that's the story I heard.
Every ten years, a family member
comes back to look for it.
Is this your first trip?
I have the letter, but I need
someone who knows the islands.
Sam Quigley said you were the man.
Yes, I was a bum
seeing my pants coming up, what's next?
I've chartered a boat
from a man recommended by Sam.
He'll hire you on as a crew member.
Once we get to Haiti,
you'll be working for me, of course.
Indeed, what's the boat,
and who's the captain?
Come along, I'll show you.
Isn't she beautiful?
Yes, I've seen her kind before.
All clean, bright, and pretty.
After two days
you'll wish you were swimming.
What happened, Mr Mason?
Did the world owe you a living
and forget to pay?
That's about it.
Do you want the job, or don't you?
This is Kirk Ellis' boat, isn't it?
Yes, but what is that
got to do with it.
We've had differences
from time to time.
You might have trouble
getting me aboard.
Don't worry about that.
I have the Andre letter.
Both Kirk Ellis and Sam Quigley
are working for a slice
of whatever we find.
Then they both must know what's in it.
They're gambling.
No one but family
have ever read the letter.
It's the big family secret.
I can understand why.
I'm all yours for 50 bucks a week.
Wait here.
Not exactly love at first sight
when Ricky and I met.
I figured her a Disney doll,
and a get-rich-quick expedition.
I know I didn't exactly look
like Bum Street to her.
Either she was a good salesman,
or Ellis had his eye on that letter.
He hated my guts, but he hired me.
You're on, Mr Mason.
He won't be aboard til morning,
but he asked me to get my things,
and spend the night on the boat,
avoiding a last-minute rush.
I'll be here at nine with my luggage.
As long as we're in business together,
why don't you call me Pete
and I'll call you...
- Miss Andre.
- Yes.
I'll see you here
at 9:00.
Pete, hey, get away from there.
Help, help, help.
Who was he?
Common thief.
An uncommon thief, I'd guess.
I have the Andre letter in here,
and he was after it.
Someone sent him.
I hope this routine
doesn't come with the job.
You've been drinking.
For several years now,
hope to go on for a few more.
Are we now finished with my private life,
or is it included in the 50 bucks weekly?
Mason.
Yes.
I'm Kirk Ellis.
I'm the captain of this boat.
I know.
Let's get a few things straight, Mason.
We don't need you on this trip,
and I told her that yesterday.
Therefore?
Therefore, we sail today.
You quit now,
and there'll be no hard feelings.
I'll pay you a month's wages,
and I won't need you here.
I can take care of Ms Andre
in Haiti myself.
You'll have a little cash
for a big, long binge in San Pedro.
However, I've heard
you're not partial to work.
Ms Andre hired me,
I think I'll stay on.
It's your privilege,
however, remember one thing.
On The Constellation, I'm the captain.
You're working for me.
Aye, aye, sir.
A ship with her sails low
looks like a woman with hair in curlers.
Kirk Ellis insisted on leaving
when the tide was against us.
We had to run-out on a puller.
After we got aboard,
I didn't see Ricky for a while.
We never did find out
who the uncommon thief was.
I still have my own ideas
on the subject.
We had a long sail ahead,
down the California Coast to Mexico,
and Central America,
then through the Panama Canal
to the Caribbean.
If The Constellation wasn't seaworthy,
we'd be brushing up on our Spanish,
somewhere along the way.
Mates this is not a cruise.
If you can't find something to do,
I'll find it for you, head turn at two.
Kirk Ellis and I had never had
what could be called an argument.
People talk about
the chemistry of love.
This was a chemistry of hate.
Once free of the harbor,
we had the exhilarating unfilled sail.
Move it before we drift to Catalina.
All right, take a leg, Mason,
you're not on the beach.
Kirk Ellis obviously had planned,
me to play Mr Christian, Captain Bligh.
I wonder if he'd ever read
the end of that story.
Hey, mister, do you have a dirty sight?
You'll pardon me
if I don't rise to the occasion.
After all, you got me into this.
Is it too tough?
If you don't like it,
you can always get out and swim.
I'd run into the nearest rock.
Here try it, just hold her steady.
This is a beautiful ship, Kirk.
I'm glad you like it
Ricky, I know she likes you.
That's nice to hear.
You're not the first to go
after the Andre gold, are you?
What do you know about the letter?
Nothing, except it's
the last thing Andre wrote.
It's supposed to have some clues
about the gold.
Why do we always think of people
who lived in the past as old?
Actually, Michelle Andre
was only 32 when he was killed.
I'd say a very successful, young man.
Sorry, they didn't look
like the ideal couple to me.
Everything I'd heard about Ellis
was now beginning to stick in my crock.
I never learned
what he did during the war,
but I heard about
a couple of fancy deals.
I know he didn't get The Constellation
out of inheritance money.
Kirk Ellis was not my idea
of a companion for treasure hunting.
I kept wondering what would happen
if we ever found it.
Ms Andre.
Have you had a difficult day, Mr Mason?
Let's just say I was a little
out of practice.
Hard work is an easy habit to loose.
My habits are really none
of your business.
Unless that goes with the job too.
Sorry, I was out of line.
I need you as an ally, and I seem to say
the wrong thing at every opportunity.
Ally, if it's boring include me out.
There's a lot of money involved.
If you find the gold,
if there is any gold.
If I find the gold.
What exactly am I expected to do
in this whole business?
You're well known in Haiti,
and I need someone I can trust.
How do you know you can trust me?
For the reason
that you don't want anything.
A person has to want something
badly enough to be violent,
or dishonest to be untrustworthy.
Whatever it was you wanted, I think
you gave up a long time ago.
Therefore, I'm a guide, bodyguard,
and professional hand holder.
That sums it up pretty well.
Do you mind telling me something?
What are you doing this for?
If you can afford this type of excursion,
you certainly don't need money.
The truth is, I can't afford
this type of excursion.
I'm a working girl, Mr Mason,
secretary to the president
of a stocking factory
in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- However, your family...
- An excellent family, but flat broke.
I've saved two years for this.
I've got six weeks of vacation
accumulated in 2,000 dollars.
Couldn't you think of better ways
to spend six weeks,
and a couple of thousand bucks?
I'm sure you can, for you.
Have you ever been to Scranton?
Have you ever sat
over a hot typewriter week in and out.
Seeing the same dull faces,
and smelled the same dull factory smells?
I don't think so.
You're not the type to mind
of having your clothes covered in soot,
every day when you come home.
The hurry and push and shove
of a thousand little meaningless lives.
What about the gold?
The gold is all
we've got left in the family.
Someone has to go look for it,
or we're liable to forget about it.
Don't misunderstand me,
I'd like to find it, and maybe I will.
Then I'll never have
to go back to Scranton.
I can just stay on this boat forever.
Ellis would probably
like that just fine.
I'm sure he would.
You can have him with six points.
Keep the points, Mr Mason.
If I want him, I'll have him
without your help.
Kirk Ellis didn't impress me
as a type of evening constitutionalist.
I wasn't worried about what he'd heard,
but I couldn't figure out,
what he expected to hear.
Do you like your job, Mason?
It's a nice boat.
However, the job doesn't like you,
you're soft Mason.
You harbor bums
don't get much exercise, do you?
About as much as a yacht, captain.
You listen to me, mister.
We got a long time on this trip,
a long time.
There's a lot of money,
and I'm getting my share of it.
No harbor bum is going to change it.
You get that straight.
You can take it one way
or another, tough, or quit.
I think you'd better quit.
I'll do my job.
Let's be friends.
You can spend a long time in jail
for mutiny, Mason.
Just as you said Ellis,
it'll be a while before we hit the beach.
I got a long time
to train for the rematch.
Charming fellow.
I knew I'd let myself in
for more than playing nursemaid
to a pretty girl on a sailboat.
At first we made good time.
There are places I'd have jumped ship.
Ciuatineo, must be the prettiest town
in Mexico, and the prettiest girls.
Caliento, Puntarenas, looked just as
tempting, I should have gone.
A lot of trouble could have been avoided,
I don't like trouble.
However, I figured to collect
the 50 a week,
show her the sights on the islands,
then escort her back to Scranton, PA.
That's not how it turned out.
The Constellation proved herself
some days out of Panama.
She ran into a Tabasco,
a vicious Pacific coastal hurricane.
That was a sweet ship.
She rode it out like a lady.
We hit the Panama Canal in good shape.
This is going to be our last look
at home country.
After this,
we were strictly on our own.
Ricky was giving Ellis the business,
but good women who can figure them.
It took us a while
to squeeze through the ditch.
We were all too busy with The
Constellation than anything else.
Then we were on the other side.
I had a feeling that
the closer we got to Haiti,
the sooner we'd see trouble.
It came sooner than I thought.
Get out of here.
Help, quick, somebody.
Help, help.
Where are all the big brave men?
What's all the hollering?
Someone broke into my cabin,
and took the letter.
Get Ellis, I'm going below.
Looks like your secret is out,
it was on the bunk.
It makes two of us
who know what's in there.
Me and the guy who took it
in the first place.
Maybe that makes it just you.
Hey, wait a minute.
I didn't take your letter,
it was on the bunk.
I did read it.
Somebody else did too,
and put it back in the bunk.
I think you'd better get off the boat
when we get to Haiti.
When you get to Haiti,
you don't want me prowling
around those islands
with your secret up here.
I can see the rest of the trip
was going to be lovely, just lovely.
Only two days out of Port au Prince
and a lot was getting on my nerves.
I had to talk to Ricky.
Ricky, don't be afraid.
We'll be in Haiti the day after tomorrow,
and you'll need me.
If I don't want your help any longer,
suppose I don't trust you?
You have no choice, baby.
Like it or not,
I know your precious secret.
Look lady, I don't want to go
if there is a treasure.
I just came along for the ride.
It wasn't a fluke
of buying a pack of travel,
but I'm going
to do the job I was hired for.
Therefore, I'm stuck with you,
is that it?
Any problems, Ricky?
None that I can't handle
myself, thank you.
Apparently,
you can't take a hint, Mason.
You'd be doing yourself a big favor
to get off this boat in Haiti.
I don't start many jobs, Ellis,
but the ones I do, I like to finish.
I think I'll stay a while.
Suit yourself,
but I'll guarantee you'll regret it.
Hello, Kirk, how's the admiral tonight?
Good evening, Ricky.
How did you know I was there?
You're very quiet.
When everything is very quiet,
I know you're there.
If that's confusing,
it's meant to be because I am,
about a lot of things.
Ricky, why don't you let me help you?
I can prove who took the ladder,
even though we both already know.
I don't know anything, Kirk.
After all, what would it prove?
I have the letter back.
No, it's something else.
Why don't you tell me, Ricky?
I can't, I don't know.
This all isn't turning out
the way I'd planned it.
I'm trying to have the time of my life,
and that's just not the way it is.
Wait till you get that gold,
then you'll feel better.
Hang the gold.
I'm not sure I even expect to find it.
Isn't that why
you hired the big expert?
He knows all the answers,
including the classified ones.
I don't like that guy Ricky,
and I don't trust him.
Why don't you get rid of him?
You and I can go
after this thing together.
While we're at it,
I'll show you these islands
as they should be seen.
You make it sound good, Kirk.
I don't know, we'll see.
Is that Haiti?
That little patch of grass, no.
When you come up on Haiti
in a boat like this,
she looks like another continent.
The sun burning down her,
all bright green.
Full of flowers, and laughing people.
Other times she seems to keep saying:
Go away from me stranger,
go away because I'm evil.
She is, you know.
No, that's an island I know pretty
well, I had some friends there once.
I think that's where your gold is.
You won't find treasure in Haiti.
Why, why do you say that?
Something in the letter.
We can get off from the small boat
before they hit port, then we can talk.
Hello, Kirk.
Did you tell him?
Tell him, what?
That he's fired, of course.
You get off the boat
before our plans, Mason.
- I'll see that you get passage home.
- Not yet Kirk.
I want my money's worth from Mr Mason.
Ricky, this guy's
a no-good harbor tramp.
He's gutless and useless.
We're lucky he stayed sober this long.
That's all right, Kirk.
Look, you better go in, and get him.
I should have left him for the sharks.
Even the sharks wouldn't have him.
Ellis was in no mood
to argue about the boat.
The crew put us aside,
while The Constellation anchored.
This was my last chance
to put sense into Ricky.
It had to be good.
Did you bring the letter?
Yes, I keep it with me
all the time now.
Tell me something,
where did everyone else look before?
On Haiti.
Correct, and no one's found it
because it's not there.
Maybe it doesn't exist,
you said that yourself.
That was then,
before I'd read the letter.
There's a passage that reminds me
of something from 12 years ago.
You mean you think it's possible.
That Andre's gold is in these
islands somewhere, not Haiti.
Why?
The letter tells the story,
I'm surprised no ones figured it out.
Remember, that passage where he writes:
In my image is golden life.
The sea is the harbor of safety,
remember that?
Yes.
What do you think it means?
I don't know,
I never gave it much thought.
I just assumed it referred to his son.
Maybe that's all it means,
maybe I'm wrong, maybe.
However, when I was here in 1942,
I made a lot of good friends.
I remember talking
about a golden voodoo idol.
You'll pardon me if I say so, what?
I've think there's a connection
between the two,
Also the reference to the sea.
I think Andre moved his gold from Haiti
to one of these islands, this island.
I'm scared, Pete.
Maybe I don't want there
to be any gold.
You've got a point there.
We're over this far,
how about going ashore?
I'm scared of that place.
Do you like it?
I'm ready to go back any time,
if that's what you mean.
Do they have bugs here?
A few, snakes too.
Take it easy, we're not going yet.
How about a swim first?
Now you're earning your money.
The story of my life.
A pretty sad story, if that's it.
You'll pardon me,
if I always doing the wrong thing.
Forget about it, I will.
I'd been expecting it before this
from one of you.
You wouldn't mind it from Ellis.
I didn't say that.
Just stay on your side,
and I'll stay on mine.
I'm pretty slow about learning lessons,
but there's one I have learned.
You're all the same, all of you.
Some are
in a higher bracket than others.
Get this one thing straight, baby.
We're both on the same side
of the fence in this.
All your fancy heirs,
and your fancy broke family,
don't make you better than me.
Kirk Ellis was right,
you're a tramp, a no good...
Okay.
Okay.
I'm sorry we didn't get off
to a better start.
Don't be sorry, things are improving.
What happened to you Pete?
A lot, when you get
a spare a week or two, I'll tell you.
Tell me now.
What about the engineering business?
You had the right dope.
I was a marine engineer before the war.
Pretty good future, too.
That got torpedoed
along with other things.
You wouldn't be suffering
from chronic self-pity, would you?
A lot of people
got fouled up in the war.
A lot of people got rich,
in and out of the service.
When I got out,
all the ships had been built,
The market for young men was flooded.
I couldn't get a decent job anywhere.
Therefore, you took your ball and bat
and went home?
That's about it.
There was also a young lady.
When I got back,
I intended to marry her.
Somebody else beat me to it.
She didn't bother to write a dear John.
The landlady told me,
when I showed up to surprise her.
Some surprise.
You then drifted.
Therefore, I drifted
on out to the coast.
Odd jobs here and there,
anything to stay alive.
Then suddenly
it was too late to straighten out.
You see, Rick,
I'm not exactly a model citizen.
There's time.
Listen.
I've heard them before.
Surprised you didn't hear them.
What is it?
Maybe it's
a Republican Party Convention.
There's a good golf course
in these islands.
Don't make jokes, Pete, I'm scared.
They're voodoo drums, honey.
I wouldn't be surprised
if they were talking about us.
Let's get out of here, Pete.
We won't learn anything
by going back to the boat.
Got a couple of hours before dark.
Do you want to take a look?
Let's pull the dinghy
further up on the beach.
Load another boat, I'm going ashore.
Pete, let's go back.
No.
I'll go alone from here.
I was acting very brave for Ricky,
but it was just that, an act.
Those drums worried me.
Voodoo is a secret thing.
Where is everyone?
Some are sticking pins
in dolls, I assume.
Let's get back to the boat,
we'll come again later.
[French spoken audio]
Do you speak French?
I could read a menu, but not well.
[French spoken audio]
My dad always told me,
never fight a man in his own territory.
I didn't listen to him, and that's
how I became a success in life.
Can you find your way back to the boat?
I think so.
Good, I'm going to take a poke
at our friend here,
and when I do,
you start using those 60-mile legs.
Pete, he'll kill you.
That's possible.
If that's the way you feel about it.
Kirk, I'm so glad.
What's the matter, where's Mason?
Back there, they've got him.
Who are they?
Come on, Ricky.
I don't know.
There was a big man,
Pete fought with him, so I can run away.
All right, come on,
we'll go back to The Constellation.
What about Pete,
we can't leave him here.
Mason brought his trouble,
let him pay for it.
No, Kirk, no.
You go ahead.
I'm not leaving here without Pete.
Look, Ricky, it's getting dark.
Let's lay off on the beach till morning,
then we'll come back and get him.
You go ahead, I'm staying.
Are you in love with him, Ricky?
I'm not sure,
but I am sure of one thing.
Pete knows where the gold is.
You're a very clever girl, Ricky.
Suppose we both go back,
and get Mr Mason,
share the wealth I always say.
When this began,
I figured on giving Ricky time
to get back to the beach,
then making a break for the woods myself.
However, I began to get curious
about the prayer meeting.
It looked like Katherine Dunham
in the floor show at Ciro's.
Obviously, I wasn't invited
to the party.
They had a patch of grass
reserved for guests.
That's where they put me.
What now?
What happens after all that hiking?
Don't I even get a merit badge?
[French spoken audio]
Well.
Got a match?
Jack, hurry Jack.
Ann, Ann Kristoff.
Peter Mason,
you have come back after all.
What if they have got him,
what are we to do?
Risk our necks to get him?
Risk our necks?
Kirk, this isn't 100 years ago,
this is today.
These people aren't savages.
Don't forget, Pete
knows where the gold is.
Where gold is concerned,
everybody is a savage.
If we have any trouble,
and that gold is still here,
I'm not leaving without it.
You follow me,
I don't trust your esteem for Mr Mason.
I've been expecting you
for some time now.
She moved pretty fast.
You know how it is, I'm sorry
I didn't let you know
that we were coming.
I knew you were coming even
before you did.
What does that mean?
The girl left from New York.
She tells the maid.
The maid tells the porter.
The porter tells someone else.
With a system like that,
you'll never get investigated.
What do you do here,
run the zombie concession?
Always making jokes.
You haven't changed, have you, Pete?
A few more wrinkles, a few more beards.
You shouldn't have come here.
I'm getting that idea myself,
but what about you?
You remember my mother.
The Mamaloy?
She is dead, and now I'm the Mamaloy.
You, a voodoo priestess.
If you take what you came for,
I must have Jack kill you.
Then there is gold.
Yes, there is gold,
but it is forbidden.
This is the Aldor, The Golden Island,
to us that is sacred.
We've been coming here
since the revolution.
Others who come for the gold
do not return.
If we take it?
You will not even see it.
Although it's not so very far away.
No, Pete, you will not take the gold.
You see, they also know you are here,
and they know why.
What are they doing?
How am I supposed to know?
Whatever it is, it's not good for us.
That's where the gold is, isn't it?
That's where Mason went, isn't it?
Listen, Kirk,
you're acting like a jackass.
Let's find Pete and get out of here.
Forget about the gold.
Just so you and Mason
can come back for it later.
We've got to get that gold,
and get it right now.
When we do, Mr Mason
can stay on this island.
You're also privileged
to stay with him.
If they don't finish him, I will.
Kirk.
Shut up, follow me, and stay quiet.
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky,
stop playing games.
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky,
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky.
Pete, oh Pete, Pete.
How did you get back?
Kirk, he was following us with a gun.
Ricky, this is Ann Kristoff.
Kristoff.
Yes, Kristoff.
My great grandfather killed yours,
and the gold that was stolen
is now in the hands
of its rightful owners.
That gold is mine.
Ricky.
I have a right, Pete.
We've come all this way,
150 years my family searched for the...
Listen, Ricky, I'm with you.
You said the gold didn't matter,
there was something else.
I didn't care
that I didn't believe it existed.
If it does, it belongs to me.
Pete, Scranton is a long way away.
I didn't want to go back there.
That gold is mine.
If you go near that gold, you will die.
I'm working for the lady Ann.
If she wants the gold,
I'll help her get it.
You will see the gold.
The girl will go first.
After all, she says, the gold is hers,
and you will follow behind with Jack.
If this is a trick.
It's no trick.
Jack.
What about the others?
Will you keep them off our necks?
I will try.
Do you think it's all right?
No, I don't.
If you broke, the beach he'd have us
before you got 100 yards.
Wait here with Jack, he will take you.
We went further down the trail,
while Ann did a solo number
for the local Rotarians.
Following instructions,
the big boy held me back,
while he sent Ricky on alone.
I tried to vote against it,
but he out-voted me with his might.
Pete.
Pete.
It's okay now, Ricky, he's gone.
Oh, Pete.
Make it all right?
We know now what Michelle Andre
meant by the image in his letter.
He must have had a replica
of this in his house.
He brought it with his gold,
and the cup of slaves.
Probably melted the cast from the
statue, and put the gold into it.
Why didn't the slaves tell anyone?
Your esteemed great grandfather
came back alone...
It's pretty Mason,
now let's talk about the brotherhood.
One of us is going to leave here
with the secret of this statue,
and it's obvious who that one will be.
He's half gone, when I shout,
you start running back to the beach.
If I'm not there by sunrise,
you ride The Constellation yourself.
Now.
You don't have a chance, Mason.
Stay here and rot.
Listen.
What now?
The drums have stopped.
They know we're gone.
What's so funny?
The gold, coming all this way,
and not finding it.
It's so funny.
Oh, Pete.
Stop, stop, stop Ricky.
It's been rough, honey.
I even feel sorry
for what happened to Ellis.
Listen to me Rick,
maybe all the treasure isn't gold.
Maybe some of it is a simple lesson.
If you want something in this life,
you've got to work for it.
You just can't go on hiding.
When we started,
you didn't want anything.
I do now,
we didn't leave all the gold behind.
I brought enough for a wedding ring.
San Pedro Harbor, sunny California.
Only here they have oil derricks
instead of palm trees.
Twenty miles inland in Los Angeles,
they complain about the smog.
Here nobody complains about it,
they make it.
This is no place to be broke.
Not that any places Shangri-La
when you're empty.
However, some places you can make it,
and nobody marks you lousy
as long as you keep trying.
Not California.
Maybe it's the weather,
maybe it's too easy to stay alive,
when there's no more reason for it,
or maybe it's the people.
You get a pretty odd crew
in California.
In the good old USA
when people run away,
from something, someplace or somebody,
the escape route is always West.
Maybe that's the reason
California gets the oddballs like me.
Yes, very funny.
Just another dockside tramp.
Good for a few laughs.
I didn't care where the school kept
or not, that was before I met Ricky.
You, you're Pete Mason.
If you don't like it, I'll change it.
Anything to please a lady.
They told me
you were a marine engineer.
They're right, I was.
Perhaps it'd be better
if we met in your office.
Step right in, Mason
always aims to satisfy.
You're probably a very funny man
in San Pedro, Mr Mason.
Yes, you're right.
Maybe I'm not the guy you want to see.
Maybe not.
Wait a minute, do you need a job?
Lady, I don't need anything,
but I'll take a job depending...
Do you know him?
Sam Quigley, yes.
I was in the Navy with him,
he was a lawyer in civilian life.
My lawyer, or rather,
my family's lawyer.
I'm Ricky Andre.
My great grandfather was Michelle Andre,
does that mean anything to you?
No.
Strange, Sam said
you knew the Caribbean.
I do, Ms Andre,
but that was ten years ago.
I imagine your great grandfather
was dead then.
He was killed
in the revolution against the French.
What do you want me to say?
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Nothing serious, I hope.
Look, you've been telling me
a guy I haven't seen as your lawyer,
and that your great grandfather
was killed 150 years ago, what's the deal?
Fifty dollars a week, and a percentage.
A percentage of what?
A million dollars in gold treasure.
Uh-huh.
What's so funny?
You don't mean to tell me
you've got those crazy maps.
It's not a map, it's a letter,
and I didn't buy it.
It's been in my family
since my great grandfather died.
Wait a minute, Michelle Andre,
the Andre letter.
I've heard about that someplace before.
Your great grandfather
was a fence, right?
A fence?
Meaning, he handled stolen property.
Hijacking the king's gold,
it was everybody's story.
It wasn't stolen.
They were French merchant ships.
French, British,
Spanish courtesy to all thieves.
I hope it doesn't run in the family.
Your great grandfather
was pretty notorious.
When he saw the revolution coming,
he sent his family away to New Orleans.
He hid his gold,
and wrote his last letter.
The revolution came a few days later,
and he was killed.
Yes, that's the story I heard.
Every ten years, a family member
comes back to look for it.
Is this your first trip?
I have the letter, but I need
someone who knows the islands.
Sam Quigley said you were the man.
Yes, I was a bum
seeing my pants coming up, what's next?
I've chartered a boat
from a man recommended by Sam.
He'll hire you on as a crew member.
Once we get to Haiti,
you'll be working for me, of course.
Indeed, what's the boat,
and who's the captain?
Come along, I'll show you.
Isn't she beautiful?
Yes, I've seen her kind before.
All clean, bright, and pretty.
After two days
you'll wish you were swimming.
What happened, Mr Mason?
Did the world owe you a living
and forget to pay?
That's about it.
Do you want the job, or don't you?
This is Kirk Ellis' boat, isn't it?
Yes, but what is that
got to do with it.
We've had differences
from time to time.
You might have trouble
getting me aboard.
Don't worry about that.
I have the Andre letter.
Both Kirk Ellis and Sam Quigley
are working for a slice
of whatever we find.
Then they both must know what's in it.
They're gambling.
No one but family
have ever read the letter.
It's the big family secret.
I can understand why.
I'm all yours for 50 bucks a week.
Wait here.
Not exactly love at first sight
when Ricky and I met.
I figured her a Disney doll,
and a get-rich-quick expedition.
I know I didn't exactly look
like Bum Street to her.
Either she was a good salesman,
or Ellis had his eye on that letter.
He hated my guts, but he hired me.
You're on, Mr Mason.
He won't be aboard til morning,
but he asked me to get my things,
and spend the night on the boat,
avoiding a last-minute rush.
I'll be here at nine with my luggage.
As long as we're in business together,
why don't you call me Pete
and I'll call you...
- Miss Andre.
- Yes.
I'll see you here
at 9:00.
Pete, hey, get away from there.
Help, help, help.
Who was he?
Common thief.
An uncommon thief, I'd guess.
I have the Andre letter in here,
and he was after it.
Someone sent him.
I hope this routine
doesn't come with the job.
You've been drinking.
For several years now,
hope to go on for a few more.
Are we now finished with my private life,
or is it included in the 50 bucks weekly?
Mason.
Yes.
I'm Kirk Ellis.
I'm the captain of this boat.
I know.
Let's get a few things straight, Mason.
We don't need you on this trip,
and I told her that yesterday.
Therefore?
Therefore, we sail today.
You quit now,
and there'll be no hard feelings.
I'll pay you a month's wages,
and I won't need you here.
I can take care of Ms Andre
in Haiti myself.
You'll have a little cash
for a big, long binge in San Pedro.
However, I've heard
you're not partial to work.
Ms Andre hired me,
I think I'll stay on.
It's your privilege,
however, remember one thing.
On The Constellation, I'm the captain.
You're working for me.
Aye, aye, sir.
A ship with her sails low
looks like a woman with hair in curlers.
Kirk Ellis insisted on leaving
when the tide was against us.
We had to run-out on a puller.
After we got aboard,
I didn't see Ricky for a while.
We never did find out
who the uncommon thief was.
I still have my own ideas
on the subject.
We had a long sail ahead,
down the California Coast to Mexico,
and Central America,
then through the Panama Canal
to the Caribbean.
If The Constellation wasn't seaworthy,
we'd be brushing up on our Spanish,
somewhere along the way.
Mates this is not a cruise.
If you can't find something to do,
I'll find it for you, head turn at two.
Kirk Ellis and I had never had
what could be called an argument.
People talk about
the chemistry of love.
This was a chemistry of hate.
Once free of the harbor,
we had the exhilarating unfilled sail.
Move it before we drift to Catalina.
All right, take a leg, Mason,
you're not on the beach.
Kirk Ellis obviously had planned,
me to play Mr Christian, Captain Bligh.
I wonder if he'd ever read
the end of that story.
Hey, mister, do you have a dirty sight?
You'll pardon me
if I don't rise to the occasion.
After all, you got me into this.
Is it too tough?
If you don't like it,
you can always get out and swim.
I'd run into the nearest rock.
Here try it, just hold her steady.
This is a beautiful ship, Kirk.
I'm glad you like it
Ricky, I know she likes you.
That's nice to hear.
You're not the first to go
after the Andre gold, are you?
What do you know about the letter?
Nothing, except it's
the last thing Andre wrote.
It's supposed to have some clues
about the gold.
Why do we always think of people
who lived in the past as old?
Actually, Michelle Andre
was only 32 when he was killed.
I'd say a very successful, young man.
Sorry, they didn't look
like the ideal couple to me.
Everything I'd heard about Ellis
was now beginning to stick in my crock.
I never learned
what he did during the war,
but I heard about
a couple of fancy deals.
I know he didn't get The Constellation
out of inheritance money.
Kirk Ellis was not my idea
of a companion for treasure hunting.
I kept wondering what would happen
if we ever found it.
Ms Andre.
Have you had a difficult day, Mr Mason?
Let's just say I was a little
out of practice.
Hard work is an easy habit to loose.
My habits are really none
of your business.
Unless that goes with the job too.
Sorry, I was out of line.
I need you as an ally, and I seem to say
the wrong thing at every opportunity.
Ally, if it's boring include me out.
There's a lot of money involved.
If you find the gold,
if there is any gold.
If I find the gold.
What exactly am I expected to do
in this whole business?
You're well known in Haiti,
and I need someone I can trust.
How do you know you can trust me?
For the reason
that you don't want anything.
A person has to want something
badly enough to be violent,
or dishonest to be untrustworthy.
Whatever it was you wanted, I think
you gave up a long time ago.
Therefore, I'm a guide, bodyguard,
and professional hand holder.
That sums it up pretty well.
Do you mind telling me something?
What are you doing this for?
If you can afford this type of excursion,
you certainly don't need money.
The truth is, I can't afford
this type of excursion.
I'm a working girl, Mr Mason,
secretary to the president
of a stocking factory
in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- However, your family...
- An excellent family, but flat broke.
I've saved two years for this.
I've got six weeks of vacation
accumulated in 2,000 dollars.
Couldn't you think of better ways
to spend six weeks,
and a couple of thousand bucks?
I'm sure you can, for you.
Have you ever been to Scranton?
Have you ever sat
over a hot typewriter week in and out.
Seeing the same dull faces,
and smelled the same dull factory smells?
I don't think so.
You're not the type to mind
of having your clothes covered in soot,
every day when you come home.
The hurry and push and shove
of a thousand little meaningless lives.
What about the gold?
The gold is all
we've got left in the family.
Someone has to go look for it,
or we're liable to forget about it.
Don't misunderstand me,
I'd like to find it, and maybe I will.
Then I'll never have
to go back to Scranton.
I can just stay on this boat forever.
Ellis would probably
like that just fine.
I'm sure he would.
You can have him with six points.
Keep the points, Mr Mason.
If I want him, I'll have him
without your help.
Kirk Ellis didn't impress me
as a type of evening constitutionalist.
I wasn't worried about what he'd heard,
but I couldn't figure out,
what he expected to hear.
Do you like your job, Mason?
It's a nice boat.
However, the job doesn't like you,
you're soft Mason.
You harbor bums
don't get much exercise, do you?
About as much as a yacht, captain.
You listen to me, mister.
We got a long time on this trip,
a long time.
There's a lot of money,
and I'm getting my share of it.
No harbor bum is going to change it.
You get that straight.
You can take it one way
or another, tough, or quit.
I think you'd better quit.
I'll do my job.
Let's be friends.
You can spend a long time in jail
for mutiny, Mason.
Just as you said Ellis,
it'll be a while before we hit the beach.
I got a long time
to train for the rematch.
Charming fellow.
I knew I'd let myself in
for more than playing nursemaid
to a pretty girl on a sailboat.
At first we made good time.
There are places I'd have jumped ship.
Ciuatineo, must be the prettiest town
in Mexico, and the prettiest girls.
Caliento, Puntarenas, looked just as
tempting, I should have gone.
A lot of trouble could have been avoided,
I don't like trouble.
However, I figured to collect
the 50 a week,
show her the sights on the islands,
then escort her back to Scranton, PA.
That's not how it turned out.
The Constellation proved herself
some days out of Panama.
She ran into a Tabasco,
a vicious Pacific coastal hurricane.
That was a sweet ship.
She rode it out like a lady.
We hit the Panama Canal in good shape.
This is going to be our last look
at home country.
After this,
we were strictly on our own.
Ricky was giving Ellis the business,
but good women who can figure them.
It took us a while
to squeeze through the ditch.
We were all too busy with The
Constellation than anything else.
Then we were on the other side.
I had a feeling that
the closer we got to Haiti,
the sooner we'd see trouble.
It came sooner than I thought.
Get out of here.
Help, quick, somebody.
Help, help.
Where are all the big brave men?
What's all the hollering?
Someone broke into my cabin,
and took the letter.
Get Ellis, I'm going below.
Looks like your secret is out,
it was on the bunk.
It makes two of us
who know what's in there.
Me and the guy who took it
in the first place.
Maybe that makes it just you.
Hey, wait a minute.
I didn't take your letter,
it was on the bunk.
I did read it.
Somebody else did too,
and put it back in the bunk.
I think you'd better get off the boat
when we get to Haiti.
When you get to Haiti,
you don't want me prowling
around those islands
with your secret up here.
I can see the rest of the trip
was going to be lovely, just lovely.
Only two days out of Port au Prince
and a lot was getting on my nerves.
I had to talk to Ricky.
Ricky, don't be afraid.
We'll be in Haiti the day after tomorrow,
and you'll need me.
If I don't want your help any longer,
suppose I don't trust you?
You have no choice, baby.
Like it or not,
I know your precious secret.
Look lady, I don't want to go
if there is a treasure.
I just came along for the ride.
It wasn't a fluke
of buying a pack of travel,
but I'm going
to do the job I was hired for.
Therefore, I'm stuck with you,
is that it?
Any problems, Ricky?
None that I can't handle
myself, thank you.
Apparently,
you can't take a hint, Mason.
You'd be doing yourself a big favor
to get off this boat in Haiti.
I don't start many jobs, Ellis,
but the ones I do, I like to finish.
I think I'll stay a while.
Suit yourself,
but I'll guarantee you'll regret it.
Hello, Kirk, how's the admiral tonight?
Good evening, Ricky.
How did you know I was there?
You're very quiet.
When everything is very quiet,
I know you're there.
If that's confusing,
it's meant to be because I am,
about a lot of things.
Ricky, why don't you let me help you?
I can prove who took the ladder,
even though we both already know.
I don't know anything, Kirk.
After all, what would it prove?
I have the letter back.
No, it's something else.
Why don't you tell me, Ricky?
I can't, I don't know.
This all isn't turning out
the way I'd planned it.
I'm trying to have the time of my life,
and that's just not the way it is.
Wait till you get that gold,
then you'll feel better.
Hang the gold.
I'm not sure I even expect to find it.
Isn't that why
you hired the big expert?
He knows all the answers,
including the classified ones.
I don't like that guy Ricky,
and I don't trust him.
Why don't you get rid of him?
You and I can go
after this thing together.
While we're at it,
I'll show you these islands
as they should be seen.
You make it sound good, Kirk.
I don't know, we'll see.
Is that Haiti?
That little patch of grass, no.
When you come up on Haiti
in a boat like this,
she looks like another continent.
The sun burning down her,
all bright green.
Full of flowers, and laughing people.
Other times she seems to keep saying:
Go away from me stranger,
go away because I'm evil.
She is, you know.
No, that's an island I know pretty
well, I had some friends there once.
I think that's where your gold is.
You won't find treasure in Haiti.
Why, why do you say that?
Something in the letter.
We can get off from the small boat
before they hit port, then we can talk.
Hello, Kirk.
Did you tell him?
Tell him, what?
That he's fired, of course.
You get off the boat
before our plans, Mason.
- I'll see that you get passage home.
- Not yet Kirk.
I want my money's worth from Mr Mason.
Ricky, this guy's
a no-good harbor tramp.
He's gutless and useless.
We're lucky he stayed sober this long.
That's all right, Kirk.
Look, you better go in, and get him.
I should have left him for the sharks.
Even the sharks wouldn't have him.
Ellis was in no mood
to argue about the boat.
The crew put us aside,
while The Constellation anchored.
This was my last chance
to put sense into Ricky.
It had to be good.
Did you bring the letter?
Yes, I keep it with me
all the time now.
Tell me something,
where did everyone else look before?
On Haiti.
Correct, and no one's found it
because it's not there.
Maybe it doesn't exist,
you said that yourself.
That was then,
before I'd read the letter.
There's a passage that reminds me
of something from 12 years ago.
You mean you think it's possible.
That Andre's gold is in these
islands somewhere, not Haiti.
Why?
The letter tells the story,
I'm surprised no ones figured it out.
Remember, that passage where he writes:
In my image is golden life.
The sea is the harbor of safety,
remember that?
Yes.
What do you think it means?
I don't know,
I never gave it much thought.
I just assumed it referred to his son.
Maybe that's all it means,
maybe I'm wrong, maybe.
However, when I was here in 1942,
I made a lot of good friends.
I remember talking
about a golden voodoo idol.
You'll pardon me if I say so, what?
I've think there's a connection
between the two,
Also the reference to the sea.
I think Andre moved his gold from Haiti
to one of these islands, this island.
I'm scared, Pete.
Maybe I don't want there
to be any gold.
You've got a point there.
We're over this far,
how about going ashore?
I'm scared of that place.
Do you like it?
I'm ready to go back any time,
if that's what you mean.
Do they have bugs here?
A few, snakes too.
Take it easy, we're not going yet.
How about a swim first?
Now you're earning your money.
The story of my life.
A pretty sad story, if that's it.
You'll pardon me,
if I always doing the wrong thing.
Forget about it, I will.
I'd been expecting it before this
from one of you.
You wouldn't mind it from Ellis.
I didn't say that.
Just stay on your side,
and I'll stay on mine.
I'm pretty slow about learning lessons,
but there's one I have learned.
You're all the same, all of you.
Some are
in a higher bracket than others.
Get this one thing straight, baby.
We're both on the same side
of the fence in this.
All your fancy heirs,
and your fancy broke family,
don't make you better than me.
Kirk Ellis was right,
you're a tramp, a no good...
Okay.
Okay.
I'm sorry we didn't get off
to a better start.
Don't be sorry, things are improving.
What happened to you Pete?
A lot, when you get
a spare a week or two, I'll tell you.
Tell me now.
What about the engineering business?
You had the right dope.
I was a marine engineer before the war.
Pretty good future, too.
That got torpedoed
along with other things.
You wouldn't be suffering
from chronic self-pity, would you?
A lot of people
got fouled up in the war.
A lot of people got rich,
in and out of the service.
When I got out,
all the ships had been built,
The market for young men was flooded.
I couldn't get a decent job anywhere.
Therefore, you took your ball and bat
and went home?
That's about it.
There was also a young lady.
When I got back,
I intended to marry her.
Somebody else beat me to it.
She didn't bother to write a dear John.
The landlady told me,
when I showed up to surprise her.
Some surprise.
You then drifted.
Therefore, I drifted
on out to the coast.
Odd jobs here and there,
anything to stay alive.
Then suddenly
it was too late to straighten out.
You see, Rick,
I'm not exactly a model citizen.
There's time.
Listen.
I've heard them before.
Surprised you didn't hear them.
What is it?
Maybe it's
a Republican Party Convention.
There's a good golf course
in these islands.
Don't make jokes, Pete, I'm scared.
They're voodoo drums, honey.
I wouldn't be surprised
if they were talking about us.
Let's get out of here, Pete.
We won't learn anything
by going back to the boat.
Got a couple of hours before dark.
Do you want to take a look?
Let's pull the dinghy
further up on the beach.
Load another boat, I'm going ashore.
Pete, let's go back.
No.
I'll go alone from here.
I was acting very brave for Ricky,
but it was just that, an act.
Those drums worried me.
Voodoo is a secret thing.
Where is everyone?
Some are sticking pins
in dolls, I assume.
Let's get back to the boat,
we'll come again later.
[French spoken audio]
Do you speak French?
I could read a menu, but not well.
[French spoken audio]
My dad always told me,
never fight a man in his own territory.
I didn't listen to him, and that's
how I became a success in life.
Can you find your way back to the boat?
I think so.
Good, I'm going to take a poke
at our friend here,
and when I do,
you start using those 60-mile legs.
Pete, he'll kill you.
That's possible.
If that's the way you feel about it.
Kirk, I'm so glad.
What's the matter, where's Mason?
Back there, they've got him.
Who are they?
Come on, Ricky.
I don't know.
There was a big man,
Pete fought with him, so I can run away.
All right, come on,
we'll go back to The Constellation.
What about Pete,
we can't leave him here.
Mason brought his trouble,
let him pay for it.
No, Kirk, no.
You go ahead.
I'm not leaving here without Pete.
Look, Ricky, it's getting dark.
Let's lay off on the beach till morning,
then we'll come back and get him.
You go ahead, I'm staying.
Are you in love with him, Ricky?
I'm not sure,
but I am sure of one thing.
Pete knows where the gold is.
You're a very clever girl, Ricky.
Suppose we both go back,
and get Mr Mason,
share the wealth I always say.
When this began,
I figured on giving Ricky time
to get back to the beach,
then making a break for the woods myself.
However, I began to get curious
about the prayer meeting.
It looked like Katherine Dunham
in the floor show at Ciro's.
Obviously, I wasn't invited
to the party.
They had a patch of grass
reserved for guests.
That's where they put me.
What now?
What happens after all that hiking?
Don't I even get a merit badge?
[French spoken audio]
Well.
Got a match?
Jack, hurry Jack.
Ann, Ann Kristoff.
Peter Mason,
you have come back after all.
What if they have got him,
what are we to do?
Risk our necks to get him?
Risk our necks?
Kirk, this isn't 100 years ago,
this is today.
These people aren't savages.
Don't forget, Pete
knows where the gold is.
Where gold is concerned,
everybody is a savage.
If we have any trouble,
and that gold is still here,
I'm not leaving without it.
You follow me,
I don't trust your esteem for Mr Mason.
I've been expecting you
for some time now.
She moved pretty fast.
You know how it is, I'm sorry
I didn't let you know
that we were coming.
I knew you were coming even
before you did.
What does that mean?
The girl left from New York.
She tells the maid.
The maid tells the porter.
The porter tells someone else.
With a system like that,
you'll never get investigated.
What do you do here,
run the zombie concession?
Always making jokes.
You haven't changed, have you, Pete?
A few more wrinkles, a few more beards.
You shouldn't have come here.
I'm getting that idea myself,
but what about you?
You remember my mother.
The Mamaloy?
She is dead, and now I'm the Mamaloy.
You, a voodoo priestess.
If you take what you came for,
I must have Jack kill you.
Then there is gold.
Yes, there is gold,
but it is forbidden.
This is the Aldor, The Golden Island,
to us that is sacred.
We've been coming here
since the revolution.
Others who come for the gold
do not return.
If we take it?
You will not even see it.
Although it's not so very far away.
No, Pete, you will not take the gold.
You see, they also know you are here,
and they know why.
What are they doing?
How am I supposed to know?
Whatever it is, it's not good for us.
That's where the gold is, isn't it?
That's where Mason went, isn't it?
Listen, Kirk,
you're acting like a jackass.
Let's find Pete and get out of here.
Forget about the gold.
Just so you and Mason
can come back for it later.
We've got to get that gold,
and get it right now.
When we do, Mr Mason
can stay on this island.
You're also privileged
to stay with him.
If they don't finish him, I will.
Kirk.
Shut up, follow me, and stay quiet.
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky,
stop playing games.
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky,
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky.
Pete, oh Pete, Pete.
How did you get back?
Kirk, he was following us with a gun.
Ricky, this is Ann Kristoff.
Kristoff.
Yes, Kristoff.
My great grandfather killed yours,
and the gold that was stolen
is now in the hands
of its rightful owners.
That gold is mine.
Ricky.
I have a right, Pete.
We've come all this way,
150 years my family searched for the...
Listen, Ricky, I'm with you.
You said the gold didn't matter,
there was something else.
I didn't care
that I didn't believe it existed.
If it does, it belongs to me.
Pete, Scranton is a long way away.
I didn't want to go back there.
That gold is mine.
If you go near that gold, you will die.
I'm working for the lady Ann.
If she wants the gold,
I'll help her get it.
You will see the gold.
The girl will go first.
After all, she says, the gold is hers,
and you will follow behind with Jack.
If this is a trick.
It's no trick.
Jack.
What about the others?
Will you keep them off our necks?
I will try.
Do you think it's all right?
No, I don't.
If you broke, the beach he'd have us
before you got 100 yards.
Wait here with Jack, he will take you.
We went further down the trail,
while Ann did a solo number
for the local Rotarians.
Following instructions,
the big boy held me back,
while he sent Ricky on alone.
I tried to vote against it,
but he out-voted me with his might.
Pete.
Pete.
It's okay now, Ricky, he's gone.
Oh, Pete.
Make it all right?
We know now what Michelle Andre
meant by the image in his letter.
He must have had a replica
of this in his house.
He brought it with his gold,
and the cup of slaves.
Probably melted the cast from the
statue, and put the gold into it.
Why didn't the slaves tell anyone?
Your esteemed great grandfather
came back alone...
It's pretty Mason,
now let's talk about the brotherhood.
One of us is going to leave here
with the secret of this statue,
and it's obvious who that one will be.
He's half gone, when I shout,
you start running back to the beach.
If I'm not there by sunrise,
you ride The Constellation yourself.
Now.
You don't have a chance, Mason.
Stay here and rot.
Listen.
What now?
The drums have stopped.
They know we're gone.
What's so funny?
The gold, coming all this way,
and not finding it.
It's so funny.
Oh, Pete.
Stop, stop, stop Ricky.
It's been rough, honey.
I even feel sorry
for what happened to Ellis.
Listen to me Rick,
maybe all the treasure isn't gold.
Maybe some of it is a simple lesson.
If you want something in this life,
you've got to work for it.
You just can't go on hiding.
When we started,
you didn't want anything.
I do now,
we didn't leave all the gold behind.
I brought enough for a wedding ring.