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- Since the end of World War II Berlin is divided in the American, Russian, British and French sectors. Still in the beginning of 1961 citizens can move freely between the sectors. But Berlin is a city, which has two different political and economic systems, and the difference becomes increasingly striking. While West Berlin has political liberty and growing wealth, East Berlin is socialistic and much poorer. 50.000 inhabitants live in East Berlin but work in West Berlin, and pass the border every day. More than 10.000 persons emigrate from East Berlin to find a better future in West. East Germany is bleeding out. A rumor says that the regime in the East is planning to build a wall through Berlin, but on a press conference on 15 June 1961 the East German leader Walter Ulbricht denies this. Two months later, 13 August 1961, the wall is built in a hurry. In the Bernauer Street an apartment house has its backside just at the border. This becomes for some days a last escape way, but the windows are soon bricked up. 27 October 1961 Soviet and American tanks face each other at Checkpoint Charlie, but withdraw after 16 hours.
- In West Berlin people hope that Kennedy will negotiate with Krushchev on tearing down the wall. In East Berlin the wall is called the antifascist protection wall, and the soldiers guarding it are seen as heroes of peace. The conflict between East and West is conceived as a class conflict. As this might lead to a new war, East Germany sets up a National Service, although the intention had been never to militarize Germany again. At the first anniversary of the wall, 13 August 1962, more than 20 persons have already been killed, while trying to flee East Berlin. People all over West Berlin observe three minutes' silence for the victims. Four days later 18-year-old Peter Fechter is shot by wall guards, while trying to flee to West Berlin. He lays mortally wounded, shouting for help, but nobody helps him. In July East Germany opens a modern airport at Berlin Schönefeld, but not many of its citizens are allowed to leave the country. In October the Cuba crisis generates panic in West Berlin, as many of its citizens believe that America now will avoid the Berlin conflict, and West Berlin become incorporated in East Germany.
- The wholesaler Karl-Alfred Pettersson is somewhat drunk, when he hits a lamppost with his car. The police tell him that this will probably render him 30 days in prison. At the same time a soldier called 67 Blomberg runs away from his military service, followed by two police detectives. Karl-Alfred stops his car at a cabana, puts on a bathing costume, and jumps into the sea. Blomberg flees into the cabana, where he finds Karl-Alfred's clothes. He changes clothes, passes the police detectives in the wholesaler's outfit, and drives away with Karl-Alfred's car. Unable to find his clothes in the cabana, Karl-Alfred dresses himself in Blomberg's clothes. The detectives are convinced that Karl-Alfred is the runaway 67 Blomberg, and take him to the regiment. There he meets his daughter's sweetheart, Lieutenant Tjäder, who doesn't help him, because of his rejection of Tjäder as a potential son-in-law. There is nothing for Karl-Alfred to do, but accepting his new role as soldier 67 Blomberg. Actually he quite quickly learns to appreciate the military camaraderie, and especially his new friends 65 Ramlösa and 66 Frisk. Meanwhile Blomberg has to spend 30 days in prison instead of Karl-Alfred.
- A high school reunion has a profound influence on a middle aged man and his life.
- Story of youth during the German occupation of Poland in World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.
- Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
- Liverpool, December 1941. Sheila has brought her son Peter home for Christmas, but her daughter Janet didn't want to leave the Thomas family in Wales. Peter hasn't seen his father David since summer, and is now eagerly awaiting his arrival. In Peter's fantasy his father is a war hero, and he anticipates all the marvelous stories he's going to hear. When David finally arrives Peter is disappointed. His father doesn't want to talk about his war experiences, and just says that he and the other pilots are frightened all the time. He also starts criticizing his son for small faults in his behavior. When David leaves Liverpool again at Christmas Eve, Peter says that he hates his father.
- In the 40's Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules Furthman writes a script, which follows the book closely. The location of the story is Cuba, but the US Government is against depicting corruption and violence on Cuba, and threatens to withdraw the film's export license. William Faulkner rewrites the script, and relocates the story to Martinique. Hawks's wife, Nancy Slim Gross, happens to see a young model at the cover of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and shows it to her husband. Hawks is a star-maker, who likes to discover and nurture new talents. After a screen test, he chooses the 19 year old model as the lead actress opposite Humphrey Bogart. She changes her name from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. At the first takes she is so nervous that she shakes. The only way for her to be still is to bow her head down to the chest, and look upwards at Bogart. Thus she invents The Look that will become her trademark. Three weeks into shooting Bogart and Bacall fall in love, which makes Hawks jealous. The following year they get married.
- The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war.
- Blue needs new boots and the ranch needs supplies but cash is limited. Big John agrees to let Blue join Buck on a trip to town for supplies along with Manolito. However, the three lose their guns and the money on poker, drink, and women.
- Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.
- Liverpool, October 1941. The rationing of food has led to the development of a black market. Sefton has a share in a pig, but wants to buy the other half of the pig as well. Harry Jenkins is reluctant to sell his part, but in the end he agrees. The next morning Harry tells Sefton that officers from the Ministry of Food have confiscated the dead pig, and that Sefton will probably be prosecuted for illegal slaughter. At the same time Margaret is taken to the hospital for her delivery, but the child is stillborn. And Freda confides under tears to Sheila that she has a crush on a married man, who doesn't know it and who she never can have.
- An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.
- A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a male barber they let a female hairdresser take care of the shaving. When the priest feels her soft fingers on his skin, he opens his eyes and sees the woman. He cannot do anything but stay in the chair, as he has shaving cream all around his chin. The woman continues the shaving in a rather sensual way. When the priest leaves the barber's shop, he looks disconcerted.
- Jancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12. Both of them also chose to stay in Hungary in '56, when many of their friends fled the country. The sudden death of the gang member Laci in leukemia is a hard blow for them all. The fear of death grabs Éva and Jancsi. They start seeing each other as obstacles to their own development, and drift apart.
- Alex hates Ove, and tries to avoid him. But Alex cannot speak out, so he often ends up in Ove's company nevertheless. In the middle of a quarrel between Alex and Anna the doorbell rings. When Alex opens the door and sees Ove, he gets furious, and shouts to Ove to go away. He screams that Ove is annoying and greedy, and slams the door. Alex's mother Margaretha tells Alex that she wants to become a member of the local golf club, but it will take 22 years, because the queue of applicants is very long. She asks Alex to influence some of his friends in the board to help her become a member immediately. When Fredde informs Alex that Ove is the president of the golf club, Alex realizes that he must reconcile himself with Ove first of all. Ove meets Alex with hostility, but Alex softens him up by inviting him and his wife Anette to dinner. During the dinner the two couples decide to celebrate both Midsummer Eve and New Year's Eve together, although Alex hates the prospect. When Ove is leaving, Alex asks him if he can help Margaretha become a member of the golf club. Ove explains that he cannot, because he is not the president anymore.
- A chorus girl is teased by the others, that she reads serious books because she can't get a man. She bets them that she can make 3 randomly chosen men propose to her.
- The Battle of Britain, defeats in Greece and Crete, Tobruk and life in Britain between the evacuation at Dunkirk and Operation Barbarossa.
- Hanson investigates a car theft ring while Hoffs keeps an eye on a foreign exchange student from Poland.
- Sixten Svensson is work-shy. He avoids employments and he doesn't want to work at home either. Because of this his family sinks into poverty, and his wife has to beg her parents for money and their neighbors for food. Their daughter Märta is well aware that baron Urse is highly interested in her. She dreams of getting married to the baron and to live a fashionable life with him, but his wife forms an obstacle to this. When the baron offers her an appointment as a housemaid, she declines the offer because of his wife. Outside the village shop some of the villagers are inspecting the raft which is used every summer when they cleanse the stream from too much vegetation. This is a yearly event, which turns into a ritual festivity of great importance for the village. To be chosen as one of the men on the raft is a great honor.
- ARIA. Inspired by Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, this exquisite stop-motion film by Canadian director Pjotr Sapegin relates the eternal and heartbreaking tale of unrequited love.
- On board the ocean liner Southern Cross from Southampton to Tahiti the Botman family lead an idle life, but Ernst tells his children, that they will start having regular school lessons, when the ship has passed the Panama Canal. The behavior of two Russian passengers arouses Villervalle's suspicion. He tails them to the baggage room, where he sees them open two boxes. Later Villervalle returns and investigates the boxes. He finds what he thinks is a secret transmitter and a time bomb. He draws the conclusion that the two Russians are atom spies going to the Pacific, where USA will soon start testing atomic bombs. In the baggage room he is surprised by a colored boy called Kaoko, who as a stowaway is on his way home to his father at a little island not far from Tahiti. Villervalle and Kaoko capture the two Russians in a net and tie them up. When Villervalle reports this to the captain, he is rebuked for having offended the two Russian gentlemen, and told that Kaoko will be sent back to England.
- A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
- Lisa, a young woman living in the countryside, is going to Stockholm to meet her biological mother, Augusta Magnusson, for the first time since she was an infant. On the train she meets Holger Jönsgård, who has just finished his studies at the agricultural school in Altorp. Holger follows Lisa to her mother's dwelling on the South Side of Stockholm. Augusta is deeply moved when seeing her daughter after all those years. She and her new husband David, together with their neighbors Smulle and Klara Månsson, have prepared a crayfish party in the evening, to which both Lisa and Holger are invited. During the evening Lisa and Holger fall in love. Smulle and Klara have a beautiful daughter, Ingrid, who is courted by two young men. One of them, the wealthy Helge Hagström, lures her away in his car to a hotel outside Stockholm, where he tries to seduce her in her room by night. Ingrid resists, and back home she falls in the arms of her other wooer, the destitute Einar Hallbäck. Helge steals money from his wealthy father, and accuses Einar of the theft, thus hoping to get rid of his rival and win Lisa back.
- Kurt Olsson and his cameraman Arne start broadcasting Kurt Olsson's Television from a small cottage beside the switch yard at the Gothenburg railway station. Kurt hasn't got any permission from his sister-in-law to use her cottage. In the middle of the show she turns up, is very upset, but cannot stop the program. The show contains a series of recurring pieces. In "This Is My Life" Kurt shows the razed stones of his childhood home. In "Sweden in Real Life" Kurt reports from a platform at the railway station. In enthusiastic words he describes the electrified atmosphere in the crowd waiting for the train. When the train arrives, he interviews passengers and the engineer about the fantastic trip. In "Pottering" Kurt shows how to make a bonnet that can protect the hair from getting greasy, when you are frying bacon. The musical parts of the show are performed by Kurt Olsson's Lady Orchestra. He treats the female musicians in a condescending way, except his favorite Gudrun. Accompanied by the orchestra Kurt sings two of Siw Malmkvist's old hits.
- The siblings Sam and Minna are flying with their mother Eva to the Orchid Coast in Southern Europe, where they are going to celebrate Christmas with their cousin Bianca and her mother Anja. Anja is a sister of their dead father. She runs a hotel called Villa More, just beside the sea. The three children run down to the beach to play. In the sand they find an old wooden sign from a shipwreck. The first letters of the boat name are missing, but the ending of the name is "cella Sangre". Bianca sees something shining in the sea. When she looks down into the water, she finds a mysterious bronze mask. She picks it up and puts it on her face. A glowing cross appears on the forehead of the mask. Immediately the weather changes from shining sun to thunderbolts. In panic Bianca throws the mask back into the sea, and faints on the beach. When she comes around, she rushes into the hotel, but her mother is too occupied to listen to her story.
- Kurt and Arne return to the small cottage to broadcast a new episode of Kurt Olsson's Television. Gudrun is going with them in the car, but the rest of the Lady Orchestra has to walk, carrying all their musical instruments. In the series "This Is My Life" Kurt returns to his childhood schoolyard. He shows how his classmates used to let out the air of the headmaster's bike, and he being unjustly accused of it. In the tour around the big TV-house, Kurt this time shows the painters' workshop and the joinery in an inadequate way. In the series "Sweden in Real Life" Kurt reports from the yard of the big car industry in Gothenburg. Kurt says that the air smells fresh, although a fir tree and a bear die in the background. In today's "Pottery" Kurt shows how to turn an inner tube of a bike into a fitness tool. Accompanied by the Lady Orchestra Kurt sings two old hits, originally performed by Nona Brockstedt and Siw Malmkvist.
- Minna, Sam and cousin Bianca visit their grandfather Ivo, who lives some distance away along the coast. Inside his house Minna discovers that a ship on a painting is called Doncella Sangre, the same name as on the old wooden sign they found on the beach. Ivo tells them that the ship belonged to the pirate captain Aquila, who helped the people on the Orchid Coast, while another pirate captain, Marquis de Roche, plundered them. In a terrible fight, Aquila's ship foundered, and a big treasure sank with the ship to the bottom of the sea. Suddenly a car stops outside the house, and Ivo goes out. When Minna touches the painting, a brazen plate falls down from the back of it. It has a sign, which corresponds to a similar sign on the pirate ship. When Ivo returns, he tells the children that the woman outside was from Holtexz, a big company which intends to build industries all over the Orchid Coast. Because of this all people are forced to leave their houses before Christmas. Minna gets the idea, that if they find the pirate treasure, they can save the Orchid Coast.
- Kurt has got a cold and should have been at home in his bed, but is going to make today's program nevertheless, as he doesn't want to make his viewers disappointed. In the series "This Is My Life" Kurt shows his old workplace at the storage in the Eriksberg dockyard, where he doesn't give the workers the tools they ask for. In the series "How to make television" he shows a control room at the big TV studio. A red light signals that a live broadcast is going on, but Kurt ignores this and enters the studio. Siwert Öholm is interviewing the prime minister, while others try to get Kurt out of the studio. But Kurt goes straight up to the prime minister, and starts interviewing him for Kurt Olsson's Television. In the series "Sweden in Real Life" Kurt visits the bridge in a ferry at Gothenburg harbor. When he tries to start the machinery, the ferry capsizes and sinks to the bottom. In today's "Pottery" Kurt shows how to transform an empty plastic vessel into a flower vase. . Accompanied by the Lady Orchestra Kurt sings two old hits, originally performed by Sven-Gösta Jonsson and Siw Malmkvist.
- In the hotel kitchen Minna feels something strange radiating against her. She and her brother Sam push away a cupboard, and behind it they find an opening in the wall. They crawl through it, and are suddenly standing in a tunnel. Their cousin Bianca is looking for them in the kitchen. When she sees the opening in the wall, she crawls through it as well, and walks along the tunnel until she finds Sam and Minna. The tunnel ends at some cliffs close to the sea. When the children come out of it, they hear some voices, and hide themselves behind a rock. From their hiding place they can see a young couple in front of a tent at the beach. The young woman says to the young man that they must find the pirate treasure, which will make them rich. The children now understand that the pirate treasure really exists, and that there are more people looking for it.
- Kurt show the viewers how to make their own soap dish and visit a restaurant to have pea soup.
- The children get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, to be able to search for the pirate treasure in the sea before the couple in the tent. When Sam and Minna surreptitiously pass the reception, they see their mother welcoming a new guest, a diving couch called Johnny. Together with cousin Bianca they go to the sea through the secret tunnel . On the beach they pass the tent, where the young couple is still asleep. Outside the tent they find some flippers. Sam and Minna dive into the sea, while Bianca mounts guard at the shore. Suddenly the young man in the tent wakes up. He goes out to urinate, whereby he discovers the children diving in the sea. He wakes his girl friend Fatima, to help him chase the children. At that very moment Sam comes up from the sea with the old treasure casket. The children quickly hide under a rock, and after a while they return to the hotel through the secret tunnel. They cannot open the treasure casket at once, and hide it under Minna's bed.
- As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
- The auditorium of a movie theater is crowded with animals in human clothes, eagerly waiting for the film to start. The show opens with a newsreel called Warmer News. It presents the implementation of war to peace time use. With the help of radar the father of a family can detect the approach of his mother-in-law, and hide the entire house before she arrives. During the newsreel a wolf in the auditorium falls asleep, but when the feature starts, he quickly awakens. The feature presents the two stars Bogey Gocart and Laurie Bee Cool in "To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have". When Laurie in the film asks "Anybody have a light?", the wolf in the audience gets randy. And when she continues: "You only have to whistle", the wolf starts whistling loudly. Full of excitement he jumps on to the narrow stage in front of the movie. Bogey Gocart sees the wolf and shoots him through the screen.
- The ballet pupil Camilla Favier tells the author Jean Mayol that she had learned all lines of the main character in his new play. When the stage manager announces that the leading lady is sick, Jean suggests that Camilla could replace her this evening. Camilla makes a huge success, and she and Jean fall in love. Jean introduces her to his friend, the painter Paul Rich, who wants to make a painting of her. While she is in his atelier, Jean gets a love letter from Yvette Simon, the wife of a rich rentier, asking for a rendezvous in the wood. In Jean's empty apartment Camilla finds the letter and is devastated. In revenge she reveals the secret love story for Mr. Simon and his guests at a big party. Later she finds a new love message from Yvette Simon. She brings it to Mr. Simon, who gets furious, grabs a pistol and goes to Jean's apartment. Camilla repents and rushes away to warn Jean and Yvette. To deceive her husband Yvette dresses herself in Camilla's clothes, but he recognizes her nonetheless and kills her. Camilla is shocked and brought to a hospital by Paul, who takes care of her afterwards. When Jean turns up and approaches her, she rejects him and stays with Paul.
- People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.
- A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
- Buck unknowingly hires a group of Army deserters at the same time an Army patrol stops at High Chaparral documenting fights with the Apaches. When a troop takes high level Apache hostages, Cochise attacks returning the favor.
- In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- "The blue colour of Malmö FF was dropped into my eyes by an angel when I was born" These are the words used by writer Björn Ranelid to explain the feelings a devoted fan has for his team. This documentary presents the supporters of Malmö FF, who will do anything for their team, whether they win or lose. "True Blue" is a film for anyone, who ever supported a team, be it Malmö FF or any other.
- In 1920 Atlantic City, politician Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson makes arrangements to operate a liquor smuggling business during the early days of Prohibition. His driver, Jimmy Darmody, wishes to prove his usefulness.
- Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- The seamstress Bolette lives in a little village in the countryside. She is unmarried, but in her youth she had a love affair with Peter Enevoldsen, who now is the political leader of the parish. Bolette is a strong and frank woman, who never hesitates to express pungent truths. She finds out that Enevoldsen's son Karl is in love with the housemaid Sophie and has made her pregnant. As Sophie needs financial support Bolette goes straight to Enevoldsen and tells him the whole story. He gets furious and disowns his son. The prominent men in the parish are tired of Bolette's sharp tongue and want to get rid of her. Enevoldsen suggests that they shall try to marry off Bolette with the peddler Morten Madsen, who lives in another parish. When they offer Morten 650 Danish crowns, a pig, a fatted calf and an alarm-clock if he marries Bolette, he accepts. Bolette and Morten find out that they like each other and the wedding day is settled. But Morten now has a bad conscience about taking bribes for marrying Bolette and doesn't know how to solve this.
- A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
- 25 July 1961 S/S Malmö makes its last trip to Copenhagen. The steamboat was built in 1914 for transporting passengers across the Öresund. 47 years later it has had its day.. After leaving the last load of passengers in Copenhagen, the steamboat returns empty to Malmö. For the last time it passes the well-known views along the quays of Copenhagen, accompanied by the shrill cries of the gulls. Emptiness is the prevailing atmosphere inside the boat, in the saloons, in the kitchen, in the passageways. The only sounds are the fateful poundings, when a pendulous anchor hits the hull. When the steamboat reaches Malmö, a tugboat pulls it to a scrap dock. There the destruction of the boat immediately begins. Silent workers dismantle it methodically, piece by piece. The sounds from sledgehammers and blowtorches are only interrupted by the cries of the gulls. A big crane, with four sprawling legs, comes rolling along its rails, like a huge spider. With the help of the crane large pieces of the boat are transferred to the quay, until only the bottom hull remains, which is hauled ashore.
- Julius Caesar's rise to power, from his military success to his decision to return home and seize power from his old ally Pompey.
- At the world premiere of "Gertrud" in Paris, December 1964, Dreyer is greeted by many celebrities of the French cinema: Clouzot, Langlois, Truffaut, Godard, Anna Karina. Afterwards Dreyer delivers short comments on the style of each of his films. Already in his first film, from 1920, he strove for simplicity, especially in the set design. He started from the idea that each apartment gives an impression of the owner's personality. By removing all superfluous details of the furnishing, the remaining, simplified scenery gives a heightened sense of authenticity. An authentic setting creates, according to Dreyer, a genuine style. To find this authenticity he often studies paintings from the period in which the story takes place. In his later films he brings this simplification process even further. He removes everything from the film that is not related to the story. He also simplifies the dialogue to find a more concise form, whereby he comes closer to the style of tragedy.
- Carl Theodor Dreyer is a young journalist in Copenhagen when he gets involved in the early Danish film industry. He writes scripts and inter-titles, and for some years he is the main editor at Nordisk Film. After those years of apprenticeship he gets the opportunity to direct his first film in 1917. Dreyer wanted his films to carry his personal imprints down to the smallest details, and already in his first silent movies it's possible to find stylistic traits that characterize his entire film production until his last film in 1964. The settings of his first films are naturalistic, but for Dreyer realism is not an art in itself. Only psychological realism is. His main interest is not the outer life, but the inner, emotional life of human beings. Emotions are most visible in facial expressions, and Dreyer's films are full of close-ups of human faces. By capturing the subtle, visual expressions of his characters, Dreyer tries to reveal the feelings they conceal and the storms that are raging inside them. Although many of his films end in tragedy, his intention is always to create a hymn to the triumph of the soul over life. Dreyer's own character was just as complex and contradictory as his film characters. Many of the actors he worked with describe him as a modest, amiable man, who was quiet in his statements, but intense and strong-willed inside. While his outer appearance was utterly self-effacing, he had at the same time an insistent stubbornness, which didn't accept any artistic compromises.
- The vagabond Cocl and his companion observe Mr. Burkett and his family leaving their house for summer vacation in Ostend. As the house will be uninhabited for three months the two companions see their chance, and climb into it through a window. They find some elegant clothes. Cocl dresses himself up as a gentleman, and his companion as his servant. They put up a handwritten poster outside the house, announcing that apartments are to be let at a cheap rate. Soon five lodgers turn up: a lady who wants a room with a piano, a nervous man who needs the greatest quietness, an athlete who wants a room with thick walls, a fancy rifle shot who wants a large room, and an animal fancier. All of them pay the rent in advance. Already the first evening the five lodgers disturb each other. They rush out from their rooms, and start a fight. Mr. Burkett returns earlier than expected, and is confronted by the mess, but Cocl and his companion succeed to sneak away with the money.