Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1976) - full transcript
An American track team has just arrived in The Philippines for an international competition. Among the competitors are Ginger and Pam, nicknamed "Ivory" and "Ebony", who meet up with another friend, Jackie, nicknamed "Jade". After they arrive at their hotel, a gang of thugs kidnaps them, along with some other girls from the team. To get away, the trio are going to have to use all their fighting skills.
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(Crowd Commotion)
now preparing for the 100 meter finals for women,
we have the favorites ginger douglas 22 year old
heiress of the douglas supermarket chain and
probably the only girl who ever had a coming
out party and an olympic medal the same year also
pam rogers the pride of pensacola the fleet-footed
femme fatale who's been running away with the gold
all year that is till ginger caught up with her.
casey barnes the powerhouse of the pencil fund she
already has guaranteed herself the crown jewels
(Soul Music)
it's a dead heat it looks like the
beginning of another great sports rivalry
and we'll be watching it all the way to
the women's international meet in hong kong
(Celebratory Music)
yes
coach morrison i'm coach morrison
i'm uh mr reed from the embassy
oh the embassy oh well gee that uh well
that's great i'm glad to meet you i'm
really glad to meet you yeah can you come
this way for sure excuse me please
hey you know it's really great if you had
to come down immediately how was your flight
never fails the toughest part of every
track meet is the free for all at the airport
now to get the baggage
the police wouldn't let me through since when did
you ever let a little thing like a police stand
in your way? well i'll have you know i respected
them. teaching young girls to be young ladies
it's no easy thing to be respectable. you're lucky
i gotta be respectable for the seven o'clock news
four months we train for this extravaganza
first we'd run in morning and then we have
lunch and then they teach us table manners
sounds corny and then we run in the afternoon
and then they teach us the speech we have to
say to the grand whatchamacallit or whoever
it is we gotta talk to you you think you
all went around here not a curtsy girl
i'm so damn respectful they
will vote my visa for detroit
you're amateurs you understand amateurs now if
you want to put on a diving show for the hotel
you put it on but you don't take any money you
don't take any food you don't take any clothes
you don't even take an aspirin unless you pay
for it me i'm the one who's gonna take an aspirin
what was that all about the coach
is just blowing his whistle again
hey did you see a big fat man
anywhere no i can't say that i have
i think he's been following me
around all day i hadn't noticed him
american athlete pamela rogers
who was unidentified oriental girl
and when we were in school it was jackie wow
and some unidentified black american chick
it's about time i can still whip you
remember that time my father was running the
supply depot at that army base in okinawa
we had that fight about who's gonna
be sergeant you didn't beat me then
santa santa sam i'm not paying for this room
hey it looks like the action's already started
whatever it is looks like you're gonna be dressed
for it you got enough stuff there to open up
a department store hey listen why don't we
make it easy on each other okay i didn't ask for
this room ain't my job to make it easy for you
that was my mama's job listen i
don't know what you want from me
i thought we were on the same team i'm on my
own team girl you want to go on that track
waving the stars and stripes you go on ahead
but don't be telling me we're on the same team
you lose here you go back to being miss debutante
i lose i'm going to be well in tv sets i'm 65.
i didn't come here to play games
and i didn't come here to lose
yeah you're going to love them i'm short
and now look the days of us stealing each
other's boyfriends are over the number
two you hear me i think old pam's in love
oh i don't know he's just the first man
i ever met that could keep up with me
on the track or in this oh
you know you got a dirty mind
besides he could whip your ass he got a
gold medal in the last olympics for boxing
they asked him to turn pro he said no way
make a lot of money getting his head bashed in
besides he's doing a whole lot better
just talking in the microphones well
i can see him announce it for the race
everybody else wondering who else is in it
when i'm on the track there's nobody
else anyway hi i'll drink to that
the coach finds out we're out boogie in the gym
joints we're going to be like that famous canary
the cat age first of all he ain't going to find
out we think he is he's up in that hotel with
his damn schedule trying to figure he's going
to take his pants off i think he said something
about practicing his whistle his whistle
got no tooth left in it good evening ladies
only he was the only horny over the
best bunch of women you ever ever saw
you think we ought to keep
him take him to the hotel
i don't think he's big enough to hang on the job
i don't think you're worth the bother darling
wow i've never seen anybody move
that fast we should have kept him
put a uniform on him and run
him in 100 meters excuse me
that girl's amazing she never gets drunk
she never has a hangover but she spends
more time in that bathroom than a plumber you
know this traveling is really getting to me
i was changing some money at the hotel this
morning and my american money looks so funny
now
do you think the chinese team is out
practicing with hangovers this morning
i suppose you think the russians sent their girls
out to inspect the saloons of hong kong last night
damn it girls you're not people you're athletes
you're not supposed to drink you're not supposed
to smoke you're supposed to run and jump
and throw things now what do you think we
train you for so you can get loaded and get out
there perform like you got your feet in buckets
now listen girls you want
to win this thing don't you
don't you
so we're right damn it get the hell out
there i don't want anybody but nobody
leaves the track today until you're
back in shape now get out there hit it
come on
casey good i have some aspirin in my
bag thanks but i don't think it helped
sure you know the whole time on our way
over here pam kept talking about you
she kept saying how you were always
there with whatever she needed
we're friends wish you had what i needed
and what's that about 10-hour sleep
anything the girls could tell you i could tell
you they run i talk to the paper now what do you
want to know what i want to know is what really
happened last night nothing happened last night
the girls just went out and had
a good time that's all excuse me
monica can you tell benny we're
gonna be a little late right
i'm ready when you are jackie says
it's gonna be a big festival next week
i got better things to do casey
there's gonna be music and dancing
and all kinds of food and she knows the people
who are putting it on you want to go maybe
what the hell is this
yeah are you a deaf mute do you talk english
they do not talk english and neither
do you either talk english or chinese
or french or anything if you say one word you die
wow
uh
so
is
at this hour there remains no word from
the man who left two dead this morning
in the bloody kidnapping of photo american
women athletes from hong kong sports arena
president ford has called the incident as foul
a blow to international understanding as i can
remember and supermarket tycoon bennett douglas
has offered to pay any ransom demanded for the
release of his daughter and the other girls
douglas is at this moment preparing to leave
for hong kong to work with us embassy officials
who report that progress is being made on the case
what about those senate hearings
you know according to the news media
the cia has infiltrated every place in the world
from what i've heard you guys have spies and every
girl scout troop in asia so if you got so many
spies why can't you do a little goddamn spine
yeah i'll wait what else am i supposed to do
look up the kidnappers on the yellow pages
they ought to change their name to just
central agency their intelligence is nil
you give a man a lot of hope rusty wade
now we've been expecting you have a seat
any new developments well they're chinese
according to the witnesses two of them were
chinese so we figured that the rest are also i
don't know i just don't know what figures anymore
mr reed what are you doing about it i'm
waiting just like you're waiting just like
the cia's waiting just like the world's waiting
i'm just sitting and waiting i'm not gonna just
sit here and wait mr reed while pamela's out
there in trouble be glad it's not just her
not just her but my three best girls one of
them is ginger douglas now that guarantees
us that the world will be keeping an eye
on this yeah a couple of black girls don't
guarantees a thing does it that's not what i meant
it doesn't matter what you meant it's the way
things are yeah i don't much like the way things
are i don't much like waiting that's all we can do
oh this is insane if they wanted us to
give them something or confess to something
but there's nothing i never
depended on anyone in my life
yeah well it's time you learned it's time
you shut up hey listen if we get out of this
mess it's going to be because of me my family
knows everybody they know that dude in the hall
hey what's your family going to do for us the
same thing they've always done wash your underwear
you know how you always see the woman
in the cowboy movies that's tied up
and she rubs ropes against the chair
and gets loose yeah don't believe it
you're not gonna get away with this
that's all you get [ __ ] what's going on i put
that bite on him did you bite it off that's next
all right all right that's enough
what's going on it changes they want five
million hong kong dollars the details come later
then they'll let the girls go right no
what do you mean no the government has uh
declined to come up with the money they've done
what wait a minute wait a minute the government
no whose government nobody's asked me to vote
man now who makes that decision whoever makes
those decisions it wasn't me so what now we hope
that bennett douglas comes up with the five mill
i hope he doesn't try to
make a deal for his own kid
leaving [ __ ] on their own hey don't call
him that i call my goddamn well please man
now this was new york of y'all busting
heads in 15 minutes i know what's going on
you want to try it i'm not going to stop you
it would make my life one hell of a lot easier
if somebody could find them i got 20 reporters
waiting out there i don't need that i wouldn't
know where to start well maybe i could put you in
touch with someone who might be able to help you
nick dorenzie he's worked with the cia i
don't want any cia man he's worked with
a communist he's worked with the russians he's
probably even worked for the goddamn ethiopians
somebody told me that nick had been paid in
every kind of money there is in the world
now if there's anybody that knows what's
going on in hong kong it's nick dorenzie
i already made the transfer of the
money to your bank in switzerland
the hong kong police commissioner wants to thank
you personally for the things you've done mr chua
extends his apologies regarding last week's heist
he begs for an audience with you to make peace
by the way the rumor about the manila people
is true they'll be here soon what do you mean
they are here
welcome to hong kong uh
huh
um
thank you
nick dorenzie yes rusty wade hiya uh have a drink
while i finish my business it won't take long
so
so
oh you have to forgive me this it's been one
of those days you have everybody tell me uh
you really nicki remzy what
do you want a business card
well i figured you'd be you know different caller
i had to change my name you know business how
seriously would people take a soldier fortune name
nico meadows the yang yang
nick duranza sounds so dazzy so
now how much were your dashing car
well depends on how much dashing is required well
now you won't have to do it alone tell you what
ordinarily i don't like having my employers alone
they have a tendency to uh want to make decisions
but you may come in handy you don't do a bad job
not have bad uh what about these girls of yours
move
faster
now
so
this is stupid
oh
all this trouble for nothing we must
be philosophical about this it may be
difficult for you to remain philosophical about
losing five million dollars when a person loses
her value she becomes flesh and flesh has a value
all its own so we lose nothing we can only profit
buy me a drink is that part of our deal i buy
the drinks i always get an expense account
you want my theory the americans won't pay the
ransom because they think the kidnappers are
chinese and some idiot in the state department
decided that the ransom would be foreign aid
they don't give foreign aid to china uh there's
a man named lou he's a mercenary that's the same
sort of what i do so he's got to price us by him
ah it's not that easy he's working with one slang
a young radical and i suspect he's behind this
plot so it's got to be politics it's possible
come on let's get to work
you will be kept here for a short time we are
just waiting for your government to deliver
so any further attempts to fight us will only
endanger you needlessly is this understood
hey
remove the tapes
hey listen you're getting your
money so you can at least entire us
we're american citizens we're being treated like
american citizens at least the way this american
citizen's always been treated both you just
shut up and looking at us a lot so what are we
supposed to do until then starve to death you'll
be pleased to know we've sent for food i wanna
what are you the den mother at least i got us food
didn't i you could have got us killed oh well you
two stop yelling at each other what else is there
to do 24 hours after their abduction there remains
no word from american track stars pamela rogers
ginger douglas casey barnes and monica newton
american officials refusing to give in to a
reported five million dollar ransom demand
cited their unwillingness to and i quote
encourage this sort of thing president
ford has called the incident a slur on the
honorable name of international athlete
sure
did you find anything zero
might as well call it a day
boss i'll go into the bar right i'll see you
see you uh let's go agrees huh let's go eat oh
yeah
ah
i thought the money was unimportant only to you we
kidnap them because they're americans we keep them
because they're valuable valuable for a cause not
for money show me a course that doesn't need money
you look like some kind of weird siamese twins i
feel like houdini yeah the day forgot the trick
i think we're getting it that one he just pulled
do it again i don't know which one it was was the
one on the left is starting to go the one you just
pulled pull it again no that's my right my left
what if they come in and find you and tying each
other what if they do well all of us could just
get killed all right i'll save your life for you
we get untied and we'll leave you the way you are
come on jackie it's just starting to get loose
if we just listen to what they say then maybe
we'll be you don't stop talking you're not gonna
have to worry about what they're gonna do to you
you don't seem to understand miss
america we're not on the track anymore
this isn't a game they just killed two girls
there's nothing to keep them from killing a
couple more but they're getting the money when i
see the government of the united states handing
out money for me that's when i'll believe
that oh stop talking like a martyr that's
all you're trying to be is another black martyr
you wanna get killed not as bad as you do girl
god damn it jackie come on
i'm doing the best i can fair
well if it ain't julia child bon appetit
yes
so
all right the exercise is over
mr reed there are two men in the united
states senate who owe their jobs to me
one word from me and you know what will
happen to your job my job does not consist
of making national policy my policy mr reed is
to pay for what i want and i want ginger back
i'm prepared to give them the money
where the hell are we welcome to
shangri-la oh pardon the smell
i don't believe this i mean my
father's got to be going crazy
absolutely crazy things like this just don't
happen in our family i got a sister who's
kidnapped well we thought she's kidnapped anyhow
up she got picked up for roberto liquor store
she was born three days before we heard from her
you know it wouldn't make any
sense that she was kidnapped
the only ransom we could have paid was
the rent money and we didn't have that
i just wish it wasn't taking so long i mean
i can't understand why it's taking them two
days to get the money together i wonder how
much it is i wonder how much we're worth
well not much this isn't exactly first class
accommodation i wish i could see the newspapers
what are they saying about us i bet we made the
cover of newsweek i bet we make the cover of jet
it'll be something to show
our grandchildren all right
i mean all those old clippings this is your
grandmother when she was kidnapped back in the 70s
hey i think i'll start a scrapbook i
just hope we get to see it oh we will
if you two don't get crazy again
fighting won't get us anywhere
i never thought i'd hear you say that i tried it
i almost got raped i don't want to hear about that
it's nothing to be afraid about
this happened i'd rather be afraid
yeah i was involved in the job yeah
i know i'm wonderful you're okay
too yeah i promise you yeah bye-bye
oh sleep well what do you want coffee black
how come you got an office in a
bar nick rusty if i was a carpenter
i'd work where they build houses if i was a
baseball player i'd work where they play baseball
the kind of people i deal with
i work in a place like this
what do you want me to do open a sound a bath
something doesn't feel right and i can't stand the
waiting it's all we can do i talked to some people
last night started getting the word around that uh
we're ready to do business all we can do is wait
you think they'll get in touch with us for five
million bucks wouldn't you i would have by now i
expect the girls keeping them busy you want some
i finally understand how from china man is so
short i don't know how they ever get any food
and been all these damn things it's really
a matter of what you grow up with you know
my group of knives and forks mostly nines mostly
parts of your neighborhood well the best thing
about these chopsticks is you don't have to
eat too fast a restaurant new york so food
like this may be shut down but we'll just have
to see if we can get an inspector to come in
i think we got our inspector
ladies i have an important visitor to see
you soon i want you to look presentable
hello
yes he's here
this is bennett douglas i'm prepared to pay
the money you asked if i get my daughter back
alive let me speak to her i don't take the
word of criminals don't make her mad now
you're questioning me when i tell
you i have the money sir i have it
you'll get nothing until i get ginger back
i might i might if i see proof she's alive
you'll get 10 000 and no more and you'll bring
me proof whenever you say i'll let you talk to
my associate here i'm afraid i don't know the
city well enough i don't know the city either yes
we'll be there
my
i don't like carrying this kind of money you'll
get you street the only people i know who carry
this kind of money yeah but don't forget
that we're going to buy some women and tweets
mr wade yeah your friend primal rogers
sends her regards when do we get her back
when we get the five million dollars did
you bring the deposit you bring the proof
the wonders of modern technology mr
wade who's ever listening to this
we're being treated like [ __ ] but we're still
alive it's getting dark now this is the third day
since we've been kidnapped so you know when we're
recording this nobody's forcing me to say this
they've got guns pointed at us
but that's nothing unusual anymore
nobody's telling me what to say
we're just waiting for you to bail us
out this is ginger douglas we're being
treated like animals and we're in a
i'm afraid the next part is how do you say
classified information uh how do we know you
didn't kill the girls after they recorded that why
would i kill them of what use would they be dead
are you saying lou you have me at a disadvantage
nick derensey
an unexpected pleasure you know we could do
things the two of us i'm already working thanks
i could have you killed at this
moment i could have you killed
yeah but of what use would i be dead
did you bring the money yeah
inform mr douglas we will speak with him
tomorrow when will you release the girls
we will speak with mr douglas tomorrow
me in the front of every
newspaper looking like this
i'm ready for my close-ups will be the mill
i look like a model from a woman's magazine
are you taking us with you are you letting us
go now not just yet are you from the embassy
you got the money number
questions you're still prisoners
that's like saying here's a present but
don't open until christmas we could still
be here christmas no i don't think it'll take much
longer now what do you think they'll do let's talk
are you sure this lou really has the
girls i mean you gave him the money
you kept up your end of the
bargain why didn't he keep his
he played us the recording mr douglas
ah you know anyone can fake a recording
it's true we're running out of time now those
girls are supposed to march at a flower parade
if things don't change i may have to put on a
wig and march myself wait a minute what when
you talked to them on the phone yesterday did
you tell them who was gonna bring the money
i i'm not sure i believe i did i believe you
didn't i believe you just said you're associate
didn't you but what possible difference did
that make well the difference that it makes
is that they said to him are you mr wade
what the hell they were supposed to say
uh dr livingston i presume but how
would they know his name was wade
if mr douglas here didn't tell him well i
thought i did you didn't well then who did
benny what what's your guess who's been talking
to those people and what else have they told them
other than wade's name oh the hell should i know
somebody's gotta know look somebody set this thing
up and it wasn't any china when it wasn't the
communist but why would mr morris five million
dollars maybe how about it benny how's it sound to
you how far could you go on five million dollars
hey man you're you're crazy how about
you and i taking a little walk upstairs
are you nuts man look i just want you to meet a
friend of mine you're absolutely nuts man ready
who the hell is this huh
this waiting is getting on everyone's nerves
what if lou doesn't release the girl that's
a possibility i wouldn't discount knowing you
so patience my friend huh patience is a trait i
never had nick what's the matter you're afraid
of lou it is something you americans will
never understand i figured someday he and
i ran across a target you could get your chance
to settle that competition i'm not sure i could
i'm not sure i didn't try wait till they pose
a guard on you i don't think he would he had
his chance he could have killed us in a minute he
and i are the only ones left we killed each other
it would give the business a very bad name
anytime i came across somebody in the ring
who even thought that he was better than me i
whipped him but there always be another one look
rusty how would you have felt if there's
only one other boxer in the whole world
i would have fought it and i would have
won i'd keep forgetting the american way
ladies i have good news you will soon
forget all about me and this place
this gentleman will be taking you soon to
the place from which you will be liberated
i thought that would please you why don't
we get going indeed since we've had some
trouble in transporting you we're
going to take a small precaution
hey now hold on what are you gonna do to us the
drug will only put you to sleep for a few hours we
don't have to run some money yet we're gonna take
the risk of having you escape you do understand
i understand but anybody puts
a needle in me is in trouble
he doesn't seem to be in trouble yeah
now you understand the reason for our precautions
do
jackie
you right up so you see my friends the old
rule about playing both ends against the middle
is not necessarily true the americans
refused to pay as we knew they would
but we get paid for our trouble with the ten
thousand dollar bonus and then we turn around and
do business with mr chang we get money for taking
them and we get money for getting rid of them
it is not western politics that keeps me from
being a communist it is western money it is
western money that keeps you from being free
and i suppose you'll turn down your share yeah
the young are often trapped by their own innocence
my only innocence was believing what you said we
kidnapped them because we wanted to show the
world that the americans did not belong here
yet
bring them inside
hey faster then come on
come on come on get up
what's wrong with you come on
come on let's go
mr douglas how soon do you expect the
release of the girls i'm interested in
the release of my daughter and that's all
if the government doesn't care about the
other girls why should i i'm no crusader but
mr dockless don't you think i think you're
wasting my time mr dogmas could you give us
an idea i'll give you a punch in the nose
if you don't leave me alone but mr rita the
embassy you can tell mr reading go to hell
we got word that you and the
girls are at festival island
right i'll be at the ambassador get in
touch as soon as you get the information
and double check on all long distance
calls we place and mind this story
rusty something bothers me
dog was in festival island too
are you okay
i don't know
i just wish somebody would come for us
somebody will be coming from
us but it won't be americans
what do you mean why do you think
we're here they're selling us to what
we're being sold as slaves a hundred years of
progress and i'm back with my grandmother was
enough conversation
you lied to me all the lies were in your head
a man sees things as he wishes some of the men
joined me for the money some of them joined
for the revolution some joined because it was
the only way they could get near a woman if a
man can do what i require of him i need to ask
his reasons for joining if he cannot do what
i require i think he knows what could happen
i cannot do what you require i'm sorry
uh
now you drop it
all right to the truck
go
by the way thanks for joining
the team i got my own reasons
what's the matter we ran out of gas holy
come down come on this way come on
they can be very far cut them off there let's go
you gotta strike those men do
something anything you want come on go
fellas hi how you doing um um i
was wondering if you could help me
um you speak english oh you
know you're really kind of
thank you thanks a lot listen i was gonna
ask you oh look i i think i have to go
oh [ __ ] we got company
can't you go any faster
so
foreign
uh
so
oh
hey
hey
wait here
hey the bus to town is due in a
minute come on hey you're gone
(Upbeat Music)
(Upbeat Music)
wait a minute come on come on
it's a water festival jackie was
talking about yeah it's way out
hello hello? can you take us to the water
festival please? please can you take us?
(Boat Motor) (Gunshots)
oh
i made it
(Horn Music)
oh hold on telephone mr dorenzy hello according
to new york mr douglas is ginger's step father
there are some stocks and inheritance involved
the girl seems to be the main stumbling block
and besides ginger's real father set
up douglas in the first place right
what's up i'll tell you on the way let's go
hold on
a deal is a deal you're not happy with our
deal mr douglas you can always go to the police
whatever they're paying you for her i'll double
it it seems they've been trapped shall we
daddy oh daddy daddy
you know what to do take her away
what's wrong what's happening let me go
no let me go let me go
let me go
let's go
(Soul Music)
granzi
the moment we've been waiting for
(Soul Music) (Fighting)
(Cheering Crowd)
(Celebratory Music)
(Crowd Commotion)
now preparing for the 100 meter finals for women,
we have the favorites ginger douglas 22 year old
heiress of the douglas supermarket chain and
probably the only girl who ever had a coming
out party and an olympic medal the same year also
pam rogers the pride of pensacola the fleet-footed
femme fatale who's been running away with the gold
all year that is till ginger caught up with her.
casey barnes the powerhouse of the pencil fund she
already has guaranteed herself the crown jewels
(Soul Music)
it's a dead heat it looks like the
beginning of another great sports rivalry
and we'll be watching it all the way to
the women's international meet in hong kong
(Celebratory Music)
yes
coach morrison i'm coach morrison
i'm uh mr reed from the embassy
oh the embassy oh well gee that uh well
that's great i'm glad to meet you i'm
really glad to meet you yeah can you come
this way for sure excuse me please
hey you know it's really great if you had
to come down immediately how was your flight
never fails the toughest part of every
track meet is the free for all at the airport
now to get the baggage
the police wouldn't let me through since when did
you ever let a little thing like a police stand
in your way? well i'll have you know i respected
them. teaching young girls to be young ladies
it's no easy thing to be respectable. you're lucky
i gotta be respectable for the seven o'clock news
four months we train for this extravaganza
first we'd run in morning and then we have
lunch and then they teach us table manners
sounds corny and then we run in the afternoon
and then they teach us the speech we have to
say to the grand whatchamacallit or whoever
it is we gotta talk to you you think you
all went around here not a curtsy girl
i'm so damn respectful they
will vote my visa for detroit
you're amateurs you understand amateurs now if
you want to put on a diving show for the hotel
you put it on but you don't take any money you
don't take any food you don't take any clothes
you don't even take an aspirin unless you pay
for it me i'm the one who's gonna take an aspirin
what was that all about the coach
is just blowing his whistle again
hey did you see a big fat man
anywhere no i can't say that i have
i think he's been following me
around all day i hadn't noticed him
american athlete pamela rogers
who was unidentified oriental girl
and when we were in school it was jackie wow
and some unidentified black american chick
it's about time i can still whip you
remember that time my father was running the
supply depot at that army base in okinawa
we had that fight about who's gonna
be sergeant you didn't beat me then
santa santa sam i'm not paying for this room
hey it looks like the action's already started
whatever it is looks like you're gonna be dressed
for it you got enough stuff there to open up
a department store hey listen why don't we
make it easy on each other okay i didn't ask for
this room ain't my job to make it easy for you
that was my mama's job listen i
don't know what you want from me
i thought we were on the same team i'm on my
own team girl you want to go on that track
waving the stars and stripes you go on ahead
but don't be telling me we're on the same team
you lose here you go back to being miss debutante
i lose i'm going to be well in tv sets i'm 65.
i didn't come here to play games
and i didn't come here to lose
yeah you're going to love them i'm short
and now look the days of us stealing each
other's boyfriends are over the number
two you hear me i think old pam's in love
oh i don't know he's just the first man
i ever met that could keep up with me
on the track or in this oh
you know you got a dirty mind
besides he could whip your ass he got a
gold medal in the last olympics for boxing
they asked him to turn pro he said no way
make a lot of money getting his head bashed in
besides he's doing a whole lot better
just talking in the microphones well
i can see him announce it for the race
everybody else wondering who else is in it
when i'm on the track there's nobody
else anyway hi i'll drink to that
the coach finds out we're out boogie in the gym
joints we're going to be like that famous canary
the cat age first of all he ain't going to find
out we think he is he's up in that hotel with
his damn schedule trying to figure he's going
to take his pants off i think he said something
about practicing his whistle his whistle
got no tooth left in it good evening ladies
only he was the only horny over the
best bunch of women you ever ever saw
you think we ought to keep
him take him to the hotel
i don't think he's big enough to hang on the job
i don't think you're worth the bother darling
wow i've never seen anybody move
that fast we should have kept him
put a uniform on him and run
him in 100 meters excuse me
that girl's amazing she never gets drunk
she never has a hangover but she spends
more time in that bathroom than a plumber you
know this traveling is really getting to me
i was changing some money at the hotel this
morning and my american money looks so funny
now
do you think the chinese team is out
practicing with hangovers this morning
i suppose you think the russians sent their girls
out to inspect the saloons of hong kong last night
damn it girls you're not people you're athletes
you're not supposed to drink you're not supposed
to smoke you're supposed to run and jump
and throw things now what do you think we
train you for so you can get loaded and get out
there perform like you got your feet in buckets
now listen girls you want
to win this thing don't you
don't you
so we're right damn it get the hell out
there i don't want anybody but nobody
leaves the track today until you're
back in shape now get out there hit it
come on
casey good i have some aspirin in my
bag thanks but i don't think it helped
sure you know the whole time on our way
over here pam kept talking about you
she kept saying how you were always
there with whatever she needed
we're friends wish you had what i needed
and what's that about 10-hour sleep
anything the girls could tell you i could tell
you they run i talk to the paper now what do you
want to know what i want to know is what really
happened last night nothing happened last night
the girls just went out and had
a good time that's all excuse me
monica can you tell benny we're
gonna be a little late right
i'm ready when you are jackie says
it's gonna be a big festival next week
i got better things to do casey
there's gonna be music and dancing
and all kinds of food and she knows the people
who are putting it on you want to go maybe
what the hell is this
yeah are you a deaf mute do you talk english
they do not talk english and neither
do you either talk english or chinese
or french or anything if you say one word you die
wow
uh
so
is
at this hour there remains no word from
the man who left two dead this morning
in the bloody kidnapping of photo american
women athletes from hong kong sports arena
president ford has called the incident as foul
a blow to international understanding as i can
remember and supermarket tycoon bennett douglas
has offered to pay any ransom demanded for the
release of his daughter and the other girls
douglas is at this moment preparing to leave
for hong kong to work with us embassy officials
who report that progress is being made on the case
what about those senate hearings
you know according to the news media
the cia has infiltrated every place in the world
from what i've heard you guys have spies and every
girl scout troop in asia so if you got so many
spies why can't you do a little goddamn spine
yeah i'll wait what else am i supposed to do
look up the kidnappers on the yellow pages
they ought to change their name to just
central agency their intelligence is nil
you give a man a lot of hope rusty wade
now we've been expecting you have a seat
any new developments well they're chinese
according to the witnesses two of them were
chinese so we figured that the rest are also i
don't know i just don't know what figures anymore
mr reed what are you doing about it i'm
waiting just like you're waiting just like
the cia's waiting just like the world's waiting
i'm just sitting and waiting i'm not gonna just
sit here and wait mr reed while pamela's out
there in trouble be glad it's not just her
not just her but my three best girls one of
them is ginger douglas now that guarantees
us that the world will be keeping an eye
on this yeah a couple of black girls don't
guarantees a thing does it that's not what i meant
it doesn't matter what you meant it's the way
things are yeah i don't much like the way things
are i don't much like waiting that's all we can do
oh this is insane if they wanted us to
give them something or confess to something
but there's nothing i never
depended on anyone in my life
yeah well it's time you learned it's time
you shut up hey listen if we get out of this
mess it's going to be because of me my family
knows everybody they know that dude in the hall
hey what's your family going to do for us the
same thing they've always done wash your underwear
you know how you always see the woman
in the cowboy movies that's tied up
and she rubs ropes against the chair
and gets loose yeah don't believe it
you're not gonna get away with this
that's all you get [ __ ] what's going on i put
that bite on him did you bite it off that's next
all right all right that's enough
what's going on it changes they want five
million hong kong dollars the details come later
then they'll let the girls go right no
what do you mean no the government has uh
declined to come up with the money they've done
what wait a minute wait a minute the government
no whose government nobody's asked me to vote
man now who makes that decision whoever makes
those decisions it wasn't me so what now we hope
that bennett douglas comes up with the five mill
i hope he doesn't try to
make a deal for his own kid
leaving [ __ ] on their own hey don't call
him that i call my goddamn well please man
now this was new york of y'all busting
heads in 15 minutes i know what's going on
you want to try it i'm not going to stop you
it would make my life one hell of a lot easier
if somebody could find them i got 20 reporters
waiting out there i don't need that i wouldn't
know where to start well maybe i could put you in
touch with someone who might be able to help you
nick dorenzie he's worked with the cia i
don't want any cia man he's worked with
a communist he's worked with the russians he's
probably even worked for the goddamn ethiopians
somebody told me that nick had been paid in
every kind of money there is in the world
now if there's anybody that knows what's
going on in hong kong it's nick dorenzie
i already made the transfer of the
money to your bank in switzerland
the hong kong police commissioner wants to thank
you personally for the things you've done mr chua
extends his apologies regarding last week's heist
he begs for an audience with you to make peace
by the way the rumor about the manila people
is true they'll be here soon what do you mean
they are here
welcome to hong kong uh
huh
um
thank you
nick dorenzie yes rusty wade hiya uh have a drink
while i finish my business it won't take long
so
so
oh you have to forgive me this it's been one
of those days you have everybody tell me uh
you really nicki remzy what
do you want a business card
well i figured you'd be you know different caller
i had to change my name you know business how
seriously would people take a soldier fortune name
nico meadows the yang yang
nick duranza sounds so dazzy so
now how much were your dashing car
well depends on how much dashing is required well
now you won't have to do it alone tell you what
ordinarily i don't like having my employers alone
they have a tendency to uh want to make decisions
but you may come in handy you don't do a bad job
not have bad uh what about these girls of yours
move
faster
now
so
this is stupid
oh
all this trouble for nothing we must
be philosophical about this it may be
difficult for you to remain philosophical about
losing five million dollars when a person loses
her value she becomes flesh and flesh has a value
all its own so we lose nothing we can only profit
buy me a drink is that part of our deal i buy
the drinks i always get an expense account
you want my theory the americans won't pay the
ransom because they think the kidnappers are
chinese and some idiot in the state department
decided that the ransom would be foreign aid
they don't give foreign aid to china uh there's
a man named lou he's a mercenary that's the same
sort of what i do so he's got to price us by him
ah it's not that easy he's working with one slang
a young radical and i suspect he's behind this
plot so it's got to be politics it's possible
come on let's get to work
you will be kept here for a short time we are
just waiting for your government to deliver
so any further attempts to fight us will only
endanger you needlessly is this understood
hey
remove the tapes
hey listen you're getting your
money so you can at least entire us
we're american citizens we're being treated like
american citizens at least the way this american
citizen's always been treated both you just
shut up and looking at us a lot so what are we
supposed to do until then starve to death you'll
be pleased to know we've sent for food i wanna
what are you the den mother at least i got us food
didn't i you could have got us killed oh well you
two stop yelling at each other what else is there
to do 24 hours after their abduction there remains
no word from american track stars pamela rogers
ginger douglas casey barnes and monica newton
american officials refusing to give in to a
reported five million dollar ransom demand
cited their unwillingness to and i quote
encourage this sort of thing president
ford has called the incident a slur on the
honorable name of international athlete
sure
did you find anything zero
might as well call it a day
boss i'll go into the bar right i'll see you
see you uh let's go agrees huh let's go eat oh
yeah
ah
i thought the money was unimportant only to you we
kidnap them because they're americans we keep them
because they're valuable valuable for a cause not
for money show me a course that doesn't need money
you look like some kind of weird siamese twins i
feel like houdini yeah the day forgot the trick
i think we're getting it that one he just pulled
do it again i don't know which one it was was the
one on the left is starting to go the one you just
pulled pull it again no that's my right my left
what if they come in and find you and tying each
other what if they do well all of us could just
get killed all right i'll save your life for you
we get untied and we'll leave you the way you are
come on jackie it's just starting to get loose
if we just listen to what they say then maybe
we'll be you don't stop talking you're not gonna
have to worry about what they're gonna do to you
you don't seem to understand miss
america we're not on the track anymore
this isn't a game they just killed two girls
there's nothing to keep them from killing a
couple more but they're getting the money when i
see the government of the united states handing
out money for me that's when i'll believe
that oh stop talking like a martyr that's
all you're trying to be is another black martyr
you wanna get killed not as bad as you do girl
god damn it jackie come on
i'm doing the best i can fair
well if it ain't julia child bon appetit
yes
so
all right the exercise is over
mr reed there are two men in the united
states senate who owe their jobs to me
one word from me and you know what will
happen to your job my job does not consist
of making national policy my policy mr reed is
to pay for what i want and i want ginger back
i'm prepared to give them the money
where the hell are we welcome to
shangri-la oh pardon the smell
i don't believe this i mean my
father's got to be going crazy
absolutely crazy things like this just don't
happen in our family i got a sister who's
kidnapped well we thought she's kidnapped anyhow
up she got picked up for roberto liquor store
she was born three days before we heard from her
you know it wouldn't make any
sense that she was kidnapped
the only ransom we could have paid was
the rent money and we didn't have that
i just wish it wasn't taking so long i mean
i can't understand why it's taking them two
days to get the money together i wonder how
much it is i wonder how much we're worth
well not much this isn't exactly first class
accommodation i wish i could see the newspapers
what are they saying about us i bet we made the
cover of newsweek i bet we make the cover of jet
it'll be something to show
our grandchildren all right
i mean all those old clippings this is your
grandmother when she was kidnapped back in the 70s
hey i think i'll start a scrapbook i
just hope we get to see it oh we will
if you two don't get crazy again
fighting won't get us anywhere
i never thought i'd hear you say that i tried it
i almost got raped i don't want to hear about that
it's nothing to be afraid about
this happened i'd rather be afraid
yeah i was involved in the job yeah
i know i'm wonderful you're okay
too yeah i promise you yeah bye-bye
oh sleep well what do you want coffee black
how come you got an office in a
bar nick rusty if i was a carpenter
i'd work where they build houses if i was a
baseball player i'd work where they play baseball
the kind of people i deal with
i work in a place like this
what do you want me to do open a sound a bath
something doesn't feel right and i can't stand the
waiting it's all we can do i talked to some people
last night started getting the word around that uh
we're ready to do business all we can do is wait
you think they'll get in touch with us for five
million bucks wouldn't you i would have by now i
expect the girls keeping them busy you want some
i finally understand how from china man is so
short i don't know how they ever get any food
and been all these damn things it's really
a matter of what you grow up with you know
my group of knives and forks mostly nines mostly
parts of your neighborhood well the best thing
about these chopsticks is you don't have to
eat too fast a restaurant new york so food
like this may be shut down but we'll just have
to see if we can get an inspector to come in
i think we got our inspector
ladies i have an important visitor to see
you soon i want you to look presentable
hello
yes he's here
this is bennett douglas i'm prepared to pay
the money you asked if i get my daughter back
alive let me speak to her i don't take the
word of criminals don't make her mad now
you're questioning me when i tell
you i have the money sir i have it
you'll get nothing until i get ginger back
i might i might if i see proof she's alive
you'll get 10 000 and no more and you'll bring
me proof whenever you say i'll let you talk to
my associate here i'm afraid i don't know the
city well enough i don't know the city either yes
we'll be there
my
i don't like carrying this kind of money you'll
get you street the only people i know who carry
this kind of money yeah but don't forget
that we're going to buy some women and tweets
mr wade yeah your friend primal rogers
sends her regards when do we get her back
when we get the five million dollars did
you bring the deposit you bring the proof
the wonders of modern technology mr
wade who's ever listening to this
we're being treated like [ __ ] but we're still
alive it's getting dark now this is the third day
since we've been kidnapped so you know when we're
recording this nobody's forcing me to say this
they've got guns pointed at us
but that's nothing unusual anymore
nobody's telling me what to say
we're just waiting for you to bail us
out this is ginger douglas we're being
treated like animals and we're in a
i'm afraid the next part is how do you say
classified information uh how do we know you
didn't kill the girls after they recorded that why
would i kill them of what use would they be dead
are you saying lou you have me at a disadvantage
nick derensey
an unexpected pleasure you know we could do
things the two of us i'm already working thanks
i could have you killed at this
moment i could have you killed
yeah but of what use would i be dead
did you bring the money yeah
inform mr douglas we will speak with him
tomorrow when will you release the girls
we will speak with mr douglas tomorrow
me in the front of every
newspaper looking like this
i'm ready for my close-ups will be the mill
i look like a model from a woman's magazine
are you taking us with you are you letting us
go now not just yet are you from the embassy
you got the money number
questions you're still prisoners
that's like saying here's a present but
don't open until christmas we could still
be here christmas no i don't think it'll take much
longer now what do you think they'll do let's talk
are you sure this lou really has the
girls i mean you gave him the money
you kept up your end of the
bargain why didn't he keep his
he played us the recording mr douglas
ah you know anyone can fake a recording
it's true we're running out of time now those
girls are supposed to march at a flower parade
if things don't change i may have to put on a
wig and march myself wait a minute what when
you talked to them on the phone yesterday did
you tell them who was gonna bring the money
i i'm not sure i believe i did i believe you
didn't i believe you just said you're associate
didn't you but what possible difference did
that make well the difference that it makes
is that they said to him are you mr wade
what the hell they were supposed to say
uh dr livingston i presume but how
would they know his name was wade
if mr douglas here didn't tell him well i
thought i did you didn't well then who did
benny what what's your guess who's been talking
to those people and what else have they told them
other than wade's name oh the hell should i know
somebody's gotta know look somebody set this thing
up and it wasn't any china when it wasn't the
communist but why would mr morris five million
dollars maybe how about it benny how's it sound to
you how far could you go on five million dollars
hey man you're you're crazy how about
you and i taking a little walk upstairs
are you nuts man look i just want you to meet a
friend of mine you're absolutely nuts man ready
who the hell is this huh
this waiting is getting on everyone's nerves
what if lou doesn't release the girl that's
a possibility i wouldn't discount knowing you
so patience my friend huh patience is a trait i
never had nick what's the matter you're afraid
of lou it is something you americans will
never understand i figured someday he and
i ran across a target you could get your chance
to settle that competition i'm not sure i could
i'm not sure i didn't try wait till they pose
a guard on you i don't think he would he had
his chance he could have killed us in a minute he
and i are the only ones left we killed each other
it would give the business a very bad name
anytime i came across somebody in the ring
who even thought that he was better than me i
whipped him but there always be another one look
rusty how would you have felt if there's
only one other boxer in the whole world
i would have fought it and i would have
won i'd keep forgetting the american way
ladies i have good news you will soon
forget all about me and this place
this gentleman will be taking you soon to
the place from which you will be liberated
i thought that would please you why don't
we get going indeed since we've had some
trouble in transporting you we're
going to take a small precaution
hey now hold on what are you gonna do to us the
drug will only put you to sleep for a few hours we
don't have to run some money yet we're gonna take
the risk of having you escape you do understand
i understand but anybody puts
a needle in me is in trouble
he doesn't seem to be in trouble yeah
now you understand the reason for our precautions
do
jackie
you right up so you see my friends the old
rule about playing both ends against the middle
is not necessarily true the americans
refused to pay as we knew they would
but we get paid for our trouble with the ten
thousand dollar bonus and then we turn around and
do business with mr chang we get money for taking
them and we get money for getting rid of them
it is not western politics that keeps me from
being a communist it is western money it is
western money that keeps you from being free
and i suppose you'll turn down your share yeah
the young are often trapped by their own innocence
my only innocence was believing what you said we
kidnapped them because we wanted to show the
world that the americans did not belong here
yet
bring them inside
hey faster then come on
come on come on get up
what's wrong with you come on
come on let's go
mr douglas how soon do you expect the
release of the girls i'm interested in
the release of my daughter and that's all
if the government doesn't care about the
other girls why should i i'm no crusader but
mr dockless don't you think i think you're
wasting my time mr dogmas could you give us
an idea i'll give you a punch in the nose
if you don't leave me alone but mr rita the
embassy you can tell mr reading go to hell
we got word that you and the
girls are at festival island
right i'll be at the ambassador get in
touch as soon as you get the information
and double check on all long distance
calls we place and mind this story
rusty something bothers me
dog was in festival island too
are you okay
i don't know
i just wish somebody would come for us
somebody will be coming from
us but it won't be americans
what do you mean why do you think
we're here they're selling us to what
we're being sold as slaves a hundred years of
progress and i'm back with my grandmother was
enough conversation
you lied to me all the lies were in your head
a man sees things as he wishes some of the men
joined me for the money some of them joined
for the revolution some joined because it was
the only way they could get near a woman if a
man can do what i require of him i need to ask
his reasons for joining if he cannot do what
i require i think he knows what could happen
i cannot do what you require i'm sorry
uh
now you drop it
all right to the truck
go
by the way thanks for joining
the team i got my own reasons
what's the matter we ran out of gas holy
come down come on this way come on
they can be very far cut them off there let's go
you gotta strike those men do
something anything you want come on go
fellas hi how you doing um um i
was wondering if you could help me
um you speak english oh you
know you're really kind of
thank you thanks a lot listen i was gonna
ask you oh look i i think i have to go
oh [ __ ] we got company
can't you go any faster
so
foreign
uh
so
oh
hey
hey
wait here
hey the bus to town is due in a
minute come on hey you're gone
(Upbeat Music)
(Upbeat Music)
wait a minute come on come on
it's a water festival jackie was
talking about yeah it's way out
hello hello? can you take us to the water
festival please? please can you take us?
(Boat Motor) (Gunshots)
oh
i made it
(Horn Music)
oh hold on telephone mr dorenzy hello according
to new york mr douglas is ginger's step father
there are some stocks and inheritance involved
the girl seems to be the main stumbling block
and besides ginger's real father set
up douglas in the first place right
what's up i'll tell you on the way let's go
hold on
a deal is a deal you're not happy with our
deal mr douglas you can always go to the police
whatever they're paying you for her i'll double
it it seems they've been trapped shall we
daddy oh daddy daddy
you know what to do take her away
what's wrong what's happening let me go
no let me go let me go
let me go
let's go
(Soul Music)
granzi
the moment we've been waiting for
(Soul Music) (Fighting)
(Cheering Crowd)
(Celebratory Music)