1:18:04
Mr. Westlake, I'm terribly sorry.
These gentlemen--
1:18:06
- It's about
the Kendig manuscript.
- That's all right.
1:18:08
- I've been looking
forward to this.
- Good.
1:18:10
Glad you're not gonna try
one of those I-don't-know-what-
you're-talking-about stories.
1:18:15
My name is Parker Westlake.
1:18:17
- The point is--
- What's yours?
1:18:20
- What?
- What are your names?
1:18:24
Smith and Jones.
1:18:26
From my reading of the manuscript,
you have to be Myerson.
1:18:29
Are you Joe Cutter, by any chance?
I'm glad to meet you.
1:18:33
Now, please,
why don't we sit down
and reason this thing together?
1:18:37
Why don't you give us
the manuscript?
You can't publish it.
1:18:41
I think you're wrong about that.
1:18:47
Tell him,Joe.
1:18:50
I'm afraid he's right.
1:18:53
I don't like to make threats.
They sound foolish in the daylight.
1:18:57
But I am to infer that if I
don't give you the manuscript...
1:19:00
you'll creep in here
one dark night and take it.
1:19:03
Or is it more along
the lines of, uh...
1:19:06
if you don't cooperate with us,
we'll set off bombs in your offices?
1:19:11
You said it, we didn't.
1:19:13
Gentlemen, let me
tell you something.
1:19:15
I think this is one of the most
exciting literary properties
I've seen in a long time.
1:19:20
It simply isn't possible
for you to suppress it.
1:19:22
Let me caution you.
I've run off copies
of the manuscript...
1:19:26
and had them put
in safe places.
1:19:28
So even if I suffer
an unfortunate accident...
1:19:32
the process of publication
will continue.
1:19:35
Naturally, we don't intend to
use our usual printing house.
1:19:39
So no one will know
where the book is...
1:19:41
until it's far too late to stop
its distribution to the bookshops.
1:19:45
I think your friend Kendig...
1:19:48
has you well and truly
by the short hairs.
1:19:55
If you publish that book, you're
signing his death warrant.
1:19:58
There's only one man who can stop
the publication of that book...