Trouble in Paradise (1989) - full transcript
Rachel, a recent widow, is taking a cargo ship back to the US with her husband's body and the ship crashes onto a desert island. With only one other survivor they are determined to be rescued. With an extreme turn of events, they are found, but by her husband who faked his death.
♪♪
Grant to all who mourn a sure
confidence in Thy Fatherly care
that, casting all their grief on
Thee, they may know the
consolation of Thy love.
Help us, we pray, in the midst
of things we cannot understand
to believe and to trust in the
communion of saints, the
forgiveness of sins and the
resurrection to life
everlasting.
Grant us grace to entrust Arthur
to Thy never-failing love.
Receive him into the arms of Thy
mercy and remember him according
to the favor which Thou bearest
unto Thy people.
Grant us with all who have died
in the hope of the resurrection
to have our consummation and
bliss in Thy eternal and
everlasting glory, and with
blessed Arthur and all Thy
saints to receive the crown of
life which Thou dost promise to
all who share in the victory of
Thy son Jesus Christ, who liveth
and reigneth with Thee and the
Holy Spirit, one God forever and
ever, amen.
Amen.
My condolences, Mrs. Baxley.
I do hope you have a safe trip.
Thank you.
It was a lovely service.
Such a shame, Mrs. Baxley.
Your husband had so much
potential.
Yes.
Arthur always did have so much
potential.
I am so sorry, Rachel.
♪♪
[fabric ripping]
He get lost in traffic.
He'll be here soon.
Thank you.
There's still time to change
your mind, Rachel.
Planes fly to San Francisco
20 times a day.
Seth, you know how I hate
flying.
This will do me just fine.
Mr. Hughes.
Morning.
Danvers, British embassy.
How do you do?
I think you'll find
everything's in order.
200 on Spider, 200 on Spider,
come on.
[all clamoring]
Come on there, Spider, come on.
Here's another hundred
on Spider.
Come on, Spider, my beauty.
Hey-hey, hey-hey!
All contributions to the Jake
La Fontaine drinking fund are
welcome.
All those for the Wallaman
Two, we're boarding now.
Let's go.
Okay, okay, okay.
Move it.
Okay.
Let's see how much of Jake's
poison this will buy.
None of your local rocket fuel.
I just want the best Russian,
okay?
Hey...
for you.
Hey, time to go.
Yes, yes, yes.
Great.
All right... look at this.
[bottles clink]
You may not know it, Lustig,
but your liver is singing praise
for the captain at this very
moment.
On your way.
I want to thank you for being
here for me.
You're the only one I have now.
I'll meet you on the dock
in San Francisco.
Oh, you don't have to
do that.
It's already worked out.
I've arranged to attend
a Korean trade conference in
San Francisco that week.
Courtesy of Her Majesty's
government.
I think you should go now,
Seth.
Goodbyes make me nervous.
Well, I do have to meet
the Zardis at four.
Go.
Go on.
Take care.
[men arguing]
I was not interfering
with your job!
Okay, okay, okay.
You do not have to get
so excited about it.
I don't care which part of the
ship you say it's supposed to go
on-- for God's sake, man.
[shouting in Chinese]
Excuse me.
Ma'am.
What's going on here?
What's the matter?
Ahh...
why...
the matter?
No, no, there's nothing
the matter.
Well, where's the rest of
the crew for the ship?
Crew?
Ah...
it requires only a crew of 11,
a ship like this.
It's totally automated--
containers, you know.
Press the button:
Bob's your uncle.
Mm-hmm.
Well, they're not going to leave
poor Arthur just sitting here on
the dock, are they?
Does this belong to you?
Not exactly.
It's my late husband.
Oh, I am sorry to hear that.
Okay, I'll take care of that.
And if there's anything else
that a poor sailor can do for a
woman in this time of distress--
Yes, could you stop
patronizing me?
Yes, ma'am.
Hey, hey...
Bit of a snip,
that wife of yours,
don't you think?
♪♪
We don't often have
passengers, Mrs. Baxley.
We'll do our best to make you
comfortable.
Welcome aboard, ma'am.
This way.
Mind the step.
Thank you, Captain,
you're very kind.
♪♪
[ship's horn blowing]
[ship's horn blowing]
[harmonica playing]
[harmonica continues]
Oh, excuse me, I didn't mean
to interrupt.
I heard someone playing and--
Oh, you like music, do you?
Well, now, listen to this.
[plays classical flourish]
La Fontaine...
La Fontaine.
My mother it was.
She loved everything French.
Was a little town just outside
of Paris.
And she was shacked up with this
wonderfully handsome, dashing
Frenchman.
Of course you can tell
by the description
it was very likely my father.
And it, it was not so much his
bedroom manner, I think.
It was the name.
La Fontaine.
[plays quick flourish]
Jake La Fontaine.
Well, that tells me rather
everything I need to know,
doesn't it?
You'd not like a drink,
would you?
No, thank you.
Good night.
Did you check
that forward load?
Sir.
Here's the latest off
the weather fax, sir.
There's a low indicated.
Looks like a typhoon.
What's the exact position?
Due east, 0-9-0.
What do you think?
We could run from it, sir,
but we'll be in the following
sea and be thrown heavily
off course.
Go and tell Mrs. Baxley to
take care if she's moving about.
There are islands south of
here, difficult to see at night
in a gale.
Any reports from other
vessels?
No one that's close.
We'll change course
and run with it.
Yes, sir.
Tell the engine room to
reverse the starboard engine.
We're to come around quickly
so as to avoid getting
broadside on.
Course 1-6-0.
Reverse starboard engine.
[thunder rumbling,
ship creaking]
[knocking]
Yes?
Ma'am, the captain sent me to
tell you that we're headed for a
bit of rough weather.
No kidding.
He also said that if you're
moving around the ship that you
keep hand on the handrail, and
if you feel a little seasick,
the purser has some
seasick pills.
I never get seasick.
Thank you.
[knocking]
I hope I didn't offend you
too much last night.
That's it?
That's it.
[thunder crashing]
[ship creaking]
[wind howling]
[humming]
Where are you going?
To dinner.
We are in a damn typhoon!
I still have to eat.
Lady, will you please
get back to your cabin?
♪♪
What the devil is going on?
Wind's taken the lot out,
sir.
All the antennas-- radio,
LORAN, weather--
it's all gone.
Sat-nav's gone too.
Blast!
Keep her steady!
[loud crash, scraping]
Full astern, full astern!
Aah...!
Can you see anything out there?
Nothing.
It's a bar or a reef.
Captain, she's going to
broach!
She's not going to broach!
Right full rudder!
We'll steam ourselves off!
Captain, the men want to know
what to do.
Stay below, that's what
they're going to do!
You get back to your post!
Now, if you have any love
for life, you'll make your way
up to the deck!
Oh...!
Over here!
Come on-- here!
Oh...!
[screaming]
Hold on, hold on!
[screaming]
Go, go!
♪♪
[coughing]
[birds chirping]
♪♪
[sobbing]
[growling and panting]
[barking]
Ohh!
Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Ow! Oh!
Get off! No!
Oh! Oh!
[barking and yelling continue]
Get out of there!
[yelps]
Welcome to Ravalo, dear lady.
[chuckles]
I thought you drowned.
I thought you were dead.
Did you sleep well?
May I ask you something?
Why couldn't you drag me
up out of the surf?
I could be dead for all
you care.
Is there anyone else
around here?
Nope.
No?
Wait a minute, are you telling
me that...
You and I are...
We're the only survivors
on this island?
Well, let me put it this way.
You are the only one that has
happened along today.
And if you really want to know,
I diddrag you above
the tide line.
And I didcheck to see if your
heart was beating.
I pressed my ear to your breast
and there it was, pattering away
like the feet of little children
going to the fair.
In fact, I kept my ear pressed
to your breast until it began
to burn with passion.
[laughing]
You're just a dirty-minded
little boy, aren't you?
Oh!
Mr. La Fontaine!
Oh... not offended
by the human body, are you?
Certainly not.
I've seen bodies.
In fact I've seen better.
Oh.
Oh, where in hell are we
anyway?
We are in Ravalo.
I already told you.
One of the British Line Islands
and it's a kind of paradise.
We have meat.
We have fowl.
[shrieks]
We have fresh fruit
for the picking.
In fact, we have everything
we need.
Oh, yes.
We have everything.
Everything except polite
companionship.
Have you seen the ship?
What are you talking about?
Well, come on, I'll show you.
[surf crashing]
There she is, beyond the reef.
Oh, my God.
That's the main mast.
The rest of her is 40,
maybe 50 feet below.
There must be some survivors.
Going down this close,
there must be.
She sank with everyone
on board except you and me.
There are no survivors.
Nobody at all?
That's the way it is.
Oh, could you scratch
just there?
You know we could start
our own country.
Wait a minute, the house, all
these things, they must belong
to somebody.
There is no humanity on the
island except you and me.
Whoever was here left because of
the bomb.
The bomb, what bomb?
Wait a minute, what bomb?
The hydrogen bomb.
Is there any other kind?
Well, I don't see what that's
got to do with anything.
You certainly talk a lot,
lady.
Look, what in world
do you mean?
What's the bomb got to do
with there being no people
on this island?
[pigs squealing and grunting]
Lord, have mercy.
Oh...
That's the girl, just stay
right there.
Ooh...
Oh...
Ooh...
Get away.
Well, there, there must have
been people that lived
in this house.
Shh.
[whispering] Aren't you going
to tell me what...
[normal voice] What are you
ranting on about?
[chicken squawking]
[sighs]
Clever little tart.
I beg your pardon.
You much have talked your
husband to death.
You've heard about radiation,
fallout.
[chicken squawks]
Oh!
Well, have you?
Well, of course I have.
Well, this is where
the fallout fell out.
This was the Island
Commissioner's home.
It says here...
the papers here that...
tells how back in 1957,
the British had to evacuate
Ravalo to avoid the nuclear
radiation and this island being
in what they call the prevailing
winds, they had to evacuate
the entire native population.
Well, that was 30 years ago.
Meanwhile they repopulated the
Bikini Islands and all the rest.
So why hasn't anyone
come back here?
[chickens squawking]
Maybe they didn't want to
come back here.
So, I've caught my dinner.
Now all you have to do
is to catch yours.
Calls for a drink,
don't you think?
Mr. La Fontaine...
What about a fire?
I think we should build one.
That's a great idea.
You could be the cook.
I think the flint should be dry
by now.
I'm talking about
a signal fire.
What for?
For passing ships to see,
of course.
Forget it.
♪♪
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♪♪
[playing jaunty tune]
What?
Hmm?
[dog yawns]
[Jake yawns]
Nobody likes a critic.
This stuff genuinely wants
for something.
[dog whimpers]
What?
[fire crackling]
What the hell is that?
[sighs]
What the hell
is going on here?
We want to roast a couple of
chickens, we are not interested
in roasting a herd of cows here.
I know you said we're off the
shipping lines but that doesn't
mean that ships never pass
this way.
Oh, I can see you are gonna
be a real pain in the ass.
Yes, I am and there's
absolutely nothing you can do
about it.
What's that you're drinking?
That is for purely medicinal
purposes.
It is to cure men
of bossy women.
It says so right here
on the label.
Hey, now, wait a minute!
Damn you.
There may be two of us on this
island, lady, but one of us has
made a lifelong career of not
being told what to do!
Come on.
♪♪
Oh...
Oh...
What have we here?
This is a bedroom..
Bedroom.
Yes.
That's good, I like that.
Bedroom...
Oh, no, you don't. Hey!
This is my bedroom and
the next time you come into it,
you can knock first.
Oh...
Well, you know what they say.
If you can keep your head...
while everyone else around you
is losing theirs...
you probably don't understand
the situation.
Why, thank you,
Mr. La Fontaine, for those
pearls of wisdom... which you
can leave outside the door,
if you don't mind?
[snap]
♪♪
[animals squawking,
water lapping]
All these chickens and pigs
and cats and you, hmm?
Generation after generation,
nature.
And no human management
to muck things up,
thank you very much.
Look, look here.
Look what I found.
What's this?
This is us here, isn't it?
Could be.
How far away is this
Christmas Island?
You know, it's a great shame
that we were not born a little
further north, because you could
now be sitting in the bar of the
British Officers Club and you
could be telling them how this
simple sailor saved you from
the black and the deep.
This is the margin between fame
and obscurity.
Well, just how far away
is it?
It's 90 miles north.
[laughs]
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that there are
people only 90 miles from here,
just 90 miles away?
Oh, yeah, well, don't get
so excited.
Look, the moon looks like you
could reach out and touch it
but you can't, see?
But Jake, we have a boat.
We have that lifeboat right out
there and we could...
Jake, Jake, now it's Jake.
Now you want me to risk my life,
it's Jake.
[scoffs]
But if it's only 90 miles
away, we could just fix
that lifeboat.
We could drift up the coast and
who knows, we could...
Wait a minute.
Even if I could fix the boat,
even if I could make a sail, we
would rely on prevailing winds.
I mean...
We miss Christmas Island.
It is 5,000 miles of open ocean,
and that, Mrs. Baxley, is
getting to San Francisco
the hard way.
Well, I don't care.
It's worth the try.
You don't care.
You are a lost soul.
You have nothing to hold on to.
Oh, and you have
your vodka bottle.
Well, Mr. La Fontaine, you're
a shamelessly crude and
egotistical man, that's clear.
But you never struck me as also
being... well, a coward.
[scoffs]
That is the woman in you.
Trying to get your own way
by challenging my courage.
Well, I tell you, a dare is not
good enough, a man needs a lot
more than that to risk his life,
and I do not have a lot more
than that.
Isn't children, family,
friends, people that you've left
behind, isn't, isn't that enough
to make you want to do anything
to get out of this place?
Oh, there are lots of people
left behind, but none of 'em
who love me.
There's a couple of irate
husbands, bookies.
Yeah, daughter I haven't seen
since she was four.
You have a wife?
[sighs]
No, we, we never married.
She, uh, she talked to me every
time we were in port about
getting married and then one day
there was no one there in port
to talk about it and she didn't
even leave a note saying where
the little girl was.
Is that what you're going
back to, kids?
[thunder rumbling]
No.
Arthur and I never had children.
Why not?
I did... well...
I don't know, it...
no, no children.
How long were you married?
Eight years.
Eight years.
We were notmarried for five
years and we had one.
Well...
Well...
Well, there just,
there wasn't enough time.
You didn't have time
or he didn't have time?
I'm going to bed.
If you get cold,
please let me know, because
there was a time in Alaska
when I saved three Eskimo women
from a blizzard.
I... kept them alive
with my body warmth.
You should have tried your
breath, Mr. La Fontaine.
It might have saved
the whole village.
♪♪
This is our bed, Mutt.
Good night.
[thunder crashing]
Aah! [coughs]
What happened?
Ooh.
I dreamt I was drowning!
Oh.
Well, come on.
Over there.
[rain pattering and dripping]
I love the sound of the rain,
don't you?
You know, the thing about losing
a loved one is that you can't
let the world stop.
You gotta get right back on
the horse, you know what I mean?
I would hate to think if I were
dead that my wife was preventing
herself from enjoying life
because of some twisted memory
of me.
Huh?
[sighs]
Good night, Mr. La Fontaine.
♪♪
We are going to have to make
a useful member of society
out of you.
[chuckles]
What will we make you?
[laughs]
We will make you the resident
sex therapist.
Sex therapist!
Hey, great job.
Unless you would prefer to be
the official wine taster, hmm?
[growling]
[chuckles]
Reserve your decision.
[spits]
What we need is something
to strain this.
A piece of cheesecloth would be
ideal, come on.
[chickens clucking]
♪♪
Oh...
What on earth are you doing?
A miracle.
In ten days we will be drinking
Chateau Ravalo.
Are you out of your mind?
I don't believe this is
happening to me.
Is that my dress?
Give me that.
Oh, you...
Hey, take it easy.
It was ruined away.
How could you?
Oh...
You're impossible!
♪♪
Oh, great.
You desert me too.
[dog barking]
Some sex therapist!
♪♪
Oh, thank God.
Lovely.
Aah...
[laughs]
Ooh!
[laughs]
♪♪
Aah.
Aah...
[Mutt barking]
Hey, stop!
Stop that! No!
Come back!
Oh!
No!
Oh... oh...
Oh, Mutt!
No...
Oh...
What's this, eh?
[laughs]
[chuckling]
You look wonderful
in that outf--
Don't say it.
Here, try these for size.
[chickens squawk,
Rachel shrieks]
Some sex therapist, huh?
Great.
Not a very good idea,
stealing the dress.
Now she hates me.
Thanks to you.
Get out, go on.
[tools clank]
Okay, buster, it's about time
you got off your backside and
made yourself useful.
What is that?
That is tools to fix
the boat.
You're such a forceful woman.
Why can you not also be
a reasonable woman?
I told you, we have about
a 50/50 chance, if that.
Look, if I could do it myself
I would, but I can't.
So if you won't help me fix
the boat, I'm afraid I'll just
have to shoot you.
The way I figure it,
we are marooned, lady, and you
are a woman in her prime time of
need about to shoot the only man
on the island.
[chuckles]
[chuckles]
Need, prime time?
You imbecile.
Aah!
[laughs]
Well, shall we,
Mr. La Fontaine?
[laughs]
You don't have to stand there
like a bloody prison guard.
If you're so damn keen to get
yourself killed, how about
giving me a hand?
Okay, just don't give me
any trouble.
Okay, now heave.
[groans]
[groans]
This is hopeless.
What about a rope?
Ever think of that?
So who was the guy playing
kissy face with you back
at the dock?
Not that it's any of your
business, his name is Seth.
Seth, is it?
Arthur still warm in his
little coffin.
[chuckles]
Seth happened to be a friend
of my husband's from
the British Embassy.
Besides, I was separated
from my husband a long time
before he died.
Are you ready?
Now, when I heave and the
boat goes over, you be ready to
step out of the way real quick.
Okay...
Heave!
Go.
Oh.
♪♪
♪♪
What happened to him?
Your husband?
How'd he die?
Oh.
He just got caught in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
Sorry.
Yeah... so am I.
I don't know exactly
what happened.
He was working as a consultant
at the State Department in
Thailand and...
Well, he was killed in a border
dispute, or so they tell me.
Someone just...
opened fire on his car
and everyone in it.
Should have been a tradesman,
don't you think?
Yeah.
If you had,
you wouldn't be here.
Oh, I had a lot of jobs.
I used to work as a window
cleaner once.
[groaning softly]
And, uh...
You okay?
Oh, yeah, sure.
I used to love it up there.
38 floors up.
A view of Sydney Harbor.
Boats, hills...
And then one day I made
this incredible discovery.
You know, we had gone right
round the building and we were
back at the window where I
started... and it was dirty.
[chuckles]
It was dirty, we had to start
again and go round the building
again, can you imagine that?
Can you imagine that, going
around and around the building
for the rest of your life?
[laughing]
[laughs]
So I quit the job...
and I went down there.
I got onto one of those boats
and I never looked back.
Oh, God.
I've known men like you.
I was married to one.
Irresponsible children.
They spend their whole lives
chasing after something that...
doesn't exist, a dream...
that they can't catch.
Take it easy on the dream.
For some people it's the only
thing that makes reality
possible.
Yeah.
Tell that to your four-year-old
daughter you abandoned
and let me know what she feels
about your dream.
♪♪
Ah, please.
I'm trying to sleep.
Just like to have a drink
with a sailor?
I'm too tired.
She is a tough one, mate.
[humming]
One drink.
Oh, that's much better.
Please come in, sit down.
Make yourself comfortable.
And, uh...
[yawns]
Couple of shot glasses.
Care of the late commissioner's
cupboard and kept for just such
an occasion.
Very nice.
I warn you, I'm not
a very good drinker.
Are you just gonna
look at it?
Come on.
[coughs]
God, how can you stand
to drink this stuff?
Hey, that's the way, you got
your feet wet.
Now you gotta dive right in.
Ah, oh....
Oh.
[coughing]
[laughs]
That's the spirit.
Hey, here you go.
No, no, no, no, I've... I've
had enough, I'm-- I've had my
one drink, Jake.
One...
And now I'm going.
Oh...
One drink, one drink.
I, I told you.
I wasn't a drinker.
Rachel, will you loosen up?
All right.
Here's to you, Jake, and, uh...
Thank you for fixing the boat
today.
And here's to Christmas Island.
[chuckles]
And here's to you, milady.
And to our future disaster.
[both laugh]
Okay, mmm.
[coughing]
Right.
Oh, no, wait, wait.
Now we can get on with it.
Get on with what?
Well, one more little drink
maybe and then perhaps
some music.
[giggles]
[playing harmonica]
I think I've heard enough
harmonica music to life
a lasttime.
I break my back around here
trying to lighten it up.
Don't you think it's about time
that you sang a song?
I don't know any songs.
Of course you do.
I can't think of any.
You could learn one.
Come on.
[humming]
♪ One Sunday morning...
Come on.
♪ Ning
What? "Ning?"
[laughs]
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ King
[laughs]
Please, come on, hey.
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
Hey, come on, come on, look.
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I chanced to stray
Come on.
♪ I heard a convict
♪ His fate bewai...
Come on.
[muttering]
♪ Sunday morning
♪ Bris... waters stray
♪ Sunday morning
♪ I went walking
Oh, God... hey...
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I, I...
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane...
Come on.
♪ Waters I chanced to stray
[both] ♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I chanced to stray
♪ I heard a convict
♪ As I went walking...
[singing continues]
[Mutt barking]
[both garbling song]
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whew.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I'm feeling very dizzy.
You're all right.
You'll be fine.
That's all right.
I'll be fine.
[rooster crowing]
[groaning]
Oh, I was wondering
when you'd get up.
How are we?
[groans]
Ready for the big trip?
[moaning]
We can always cancel it
if you're not feeling so well.
If you're sick.
I am not sick.
You don't look so good.
I am...
perfectly all right.
Okay.
Let's go.
Oh, my head hurts.
Don't your worry about her,
Miss Mutt, she'll be fine.
Oh, oh.
Oh...
Good girl, in there.
Come on.
Oh.
Oh.
Grab this.
Okay.
Bon voyage, killer!
Oh, come on, get in.
Jake!
Jake!
Not me, dear heart.
Oh, come on.
I have decided to wait
for the Titanic.
Come back!
Jake!
Oh, come on.
I take the dog.
You take civilization.
It's the best deal
a man can make.
Jake, come back!
Oh!
Well, Mutt, see?
Nothing much we can do
about that crazy lady.
Jake!
But when the tide changes,
our little family will be
together again.
Don't leave me out here.
Oh, Jake.
Come on.
I don't know how to sail.
♪♪
[playing slow tune]
Jake, you son of a bitch!
Where are you?!
How could leave me out there?
How could you do this to me?!
I love it when you walk
like that.
Is that all you can
think about?
What kind of a poor excuse
for a man are you?
Bastard!
Hey.
How dare you?
What do you think you're doing?
[crying]
[gasping]
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm, I'm sorry.
Miss Mutt, we have
a real problem.
Damn you.
I was only trying to teach you
a lesson.
You could have swum back from
the boat any time you liked.
[sobbing]
[tearfully, feverishly] Oh!
I'm... sorry!
I'm sorry!
Hey, hey, take it easy.
Why are you doing this?
Why...?
[sobbing quietly]
♪♪
[barking]
About time, mate.
Whoa-ho!
Well now, look at this.
For a moment there, I thought
you were going to sleep the full
100 years.
How do you feel?
Am I... on an island?
You are.
I thought so.
Well, we're getting there.
I think the fever has broken.
Oh.
Hey, hey, hey.
It's okay, it's okay.
What? What?
It's okay.
Nothing spicy going on here.
Just lay back.
Nothing.
It's okay.
No time at all we're gonna
have you...
taking on the welterweight
champion or whoever else
gets in your way, hon.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I guess you must be a bit mad
at me.
Mm-hmm.
Does it make it difficult?
I'm... very grateful and...
I'm going to forget
everything else.
I guess I'd better be going.
No.
Please.
Don't go.
Stay with me... please...
What are you doing
out of bed?
I'm hungry.
Soup.
Mmm, it smells good.
Flowers?
They okay?
Oh, they're...
They're very okay.
♪♪
Oh...
Really, if you're going to
creep up on a fella...
could you kick a can
or something?
Feeling a little nervous?
No, I'm fine.
Whatever you say.
I like that.
Yeah.
I'm a little nervous.
Why would that be?
I don't know maybe, uh, now
that we're getting on together,
I find that uncomfortable,
and, uh...
If it'll help I can get
mad at you again.
[laughs]
No.
Well, it...
It's just that you're,
you're not like any other woman
I've ever known.
In what way?
I never thought that, um...
a woman like you would be
at all interested in someone
like me.
And what do you think now?
Well, I think maybe you are.
A little.
♪♪
You think?
♪ Remember
♪ The time we spent together
♪♪
♪ So tender
♪ A love no one really knew
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪
Ooh, morning.
Good morning.
Ooh.
[giggles]
What a delightful morning.
You know...
[chuckles]
I have the most
irresistible urge...
to make breakfast.
I wonder what means?
Well, I hope it means...
Mm-hmm?
That the hens are laying.
Ooh!
What's this?
Oh...oh.
Let me see, come on.
No.
Come on, come on, come on.
It's a locket.
Who's that?
Arthur.
Your husband.
Mm-hmm.
With black hair.
Yeah.
So what?
Nothing.
Well, I promise you
that Arthur will never
come between us again.
Mutt, wait.
♪♪
Here, Miss Mutt.
Let's have a look at this.
Jake, where are you?
Something worrying you?
How did Arthur die?
Well, I told you, he was
killed in a border incident.
Shot?
Yes.
Did you see the body?
Seth identified the body.
Jake, I don't want to
talk about it.
Do you still love him?
Arthur's dead.
He's... he's just a memory.
What sort of memory?
Some of it very good.
Most of it... very bad.
[giggles]
I'm gonna go rebuild
the signal fire.
I was just thinking, you know,
it hasn't been lit since, well,
since I was sick.
Oh, Jake, please don't look
so glum.
I mean, after all, together or
apart we can't... we can't live
here forever, can we?
Why not?
[both laugh]
Don't be silly.
Oh, my God.
Hello!
Hello!
Jake!
Hey!
Hey!
Rachel?
Hey!
[Mutt barking]
Oh, Jake, they found us.
They found us!
Yes, yes.
Come on, Mutt, in you get.
Hello?
Anyone here?
Yoo-hoo?
Seth.
Rachel?
I can't believe it.
Oh, well, I... I just...
This is fantastic.
How did you find me?
Well, it's incredible.
We thought everyone went down
with the ship.
No.
This is Mr. La Fontaine.
He was on the crew.
Hi.
Are there any others?
No.
I'm afraid we're the only ones
that are left.
Just the two of you.
You've been doing
some diving?
I'm stunned.
Yeah.
How in the world did you
get here?
We knew the general location
of the ship before the storm.
I hired this boat, and we've
been looking for signs of
the ship for a week.
How do you do, Mrs. Baxley?
I'm Ringe.
[speaking native language]
What are they up to?
Hey, shh.
They're looking for something.
[Ringe and diver converse]
Hello, Rachel.
Arthur.
You should have taken
the plane, Rachel.
[moans]
Oh, she is really pleased
to see you.
Now, Mr. La Fontaine...
We seem to have
lost something.
Maybe you could help us find it.
Guys, I'm just a simple
sailor.
Casket.
Where is it?
The casket?
Uh, the, uh, like a,
like a coffin?
With the wrong body in it?
Your help would be greatly
appreciated, Mr. La Fontaine.
Yeah, it's, uh...
In the #10 hold.
And where is that?
Oh, you just go
straight down there...
first on the left,
second to the right.
Then why don't you shut up
and get it for us?
That wasn't a very nice...
thing to do was it?
To a lady...
Up and die like that.
We had no choice.
We had a shipment to deliver.
We found a stiff in Hong Kong
to take my place.
Seth here arranged the details.
Pretty nice trick, huh?
That's enough talk.
Hey.
No, thank you.
I never learned to use
one of those things.
There's an air pocket
down there-- there'll be
plenty of air to breathe.
Hey, stay close, slime bag.
♪♪
Well, we'll never see him
again.
Gang Han will take care of him.
Is that really necessary?
As long as he finds the stuff.
Seth, we are talking about
65 million dollars' worth
of heroin here.
Now, we're finished
at the embassy.
Our future is here.
I mean, we can't look back.
And we can't leave any
loose ends either.
What do you care what happens
to this guy?
Arthur, please.
Just let him be.
He can swim back to the island.
You'll... You'll never hear
from him again.
Rachel, this man is
very serious.
Now, if you are extremely nice,
he might do me a personal favor
as regards you.
Oh, Arthur.
I can't believe I ever fell
in love with you.
And as for you, Seth...
You want to live through
this, Rachel, then shut up.
He's got it!
That's it, that's it!
We're rich, we're rich.
He's got it!
Give it to me, give it to me.
[men laughing]
Jake, look out!
Rachel, grab the gun!
Ow!
Rachel, Rachel,
I still love you.
Shut up, Arthur.
Oh!
Oh, damn it.
You shot me, Rachel!
Your aim's improving.
Thank you.
I never thought you'd
do this, Rachel.
What?
Leaving you here in paradise?
[laughs]
That's not so bad.
Not that.
Going off with him.
Hey, Arthur, I may not be
the best catch in the world.
But if I ever tell you I'm dead,
you can be sure it's the truth,
and women like a man they can
depend on.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
He's got a point there,
Arthur.
I hope you guys learn
to love each other.
And by the way...
I never thought
she'd shoot me.
Oh, shut up, Arthur.
Look what I found.
Good girl.
You were awfully brave
back there.
Not half as brave
as I'm being now.
Things have a way of not working
out for me in civilization.
Well, maybe this time
it'll be different.
We'll play it as it comes.
How is that?
You tell me.
What do you think, Miss Mutt?
[barking]
Come on.
[engine sputtering]
Maybe we're not going anywhere.
Oh.
Mr. La Fontaine.
Mr. La Fontaine?
What happened to Jake?
[engine starts]
Well...
All right, you can be the boss.
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪
Grant to all who mourn a sure
confidence in Thy Fatherly care
that, casting all their grief on
Thee, they may know the
consolation of Thy love.
Help us, we pray, in the midst
of things we cannot understand
to believe and to trust in the
communion of saints, the
forgiveness of sins and the
resurrection to life
everlasting.
Grant us grace to entrust Arthur
to Thy never-failing love.
Receive him into the arms of Thy
mercy and remember him according
to the favor which Thou bearest
unto Thy people.
Grant us with all who have died
in the hope of the resurrection
to have our consummation and
bliss in Thy eternal and
everlasting glory, and with
blessed Arthur and all Thy
saints to receive the crown of
life which Thou dost promise to
all who share in the victory of
Thy son Jesus Christ, who liveth
and reigneth with Thee and the
Holy Spirit, one God forever and
ever, amen.
Amen.
My condolences, Mrs. Baxley.
I do hope you have a safe trip.
Thank you.
It was a lovely service.
Such a shame, Mrs. Baxley.
Your husband had so much
potential.
Yes.
Arthur always did have so much
potential.
I am so sorry, Rachel.
♪♪
[fabric ripping]
He get lost in traffic.
He'll be here soon.
Thank you.
There's still time to change
your mind, Rachel.
Planes fly to San Francisco
20 times a day.
Seth, you know how I hate
flying.
This will do me just fine.
Mr. Hughes.
Morning.
Danvers, British embassy.
How do you do?
I think you'll find
everything's in order.
200 on Spider, 200 on Spider,
come on.
[all clamoring]
Come on there, Spider, come on.
Here's another hundred
on Spider.
Come on, Spider, my beauty.
Hey-hey, hey-hey!
All contributions to the Jake
La Fontaine drinking fund are
welcome.
All those for the Wallaman
Two, we're boarding now.
Let's go.
Okay, okay, okay.
Move it.
Okay.
Let's see how much of Jake's
poison this will buy.
None of your local rocket fuel.
I just want the best Russian,
okay?
Hey...
for you.
Hey, time to go.
Yes, yes, yes.
Great.
All right... look at this.
[bottles clink]
You may not know it, Lustig,
but your liver is singing praise
for the captain at this very
moment.
On your way.
I want to thank you for being
here for me.
You're the only one I have now.
I'll meet you on the dock
in San Francisco.
Oh, you don't have to
do that.
It's already worked out.
I've arranged to attend
a Korean trade conference in
San Francisco that week.
Courtesy of Her Majesty's
government.
I think you should go now,
Seth.
Goodbyes make me nervous.
Well, I do have to meet
the Zardis at four.
Go.
Go on.
Take care.
[men arguing]
I was not interfering
with your job!
Okay, okay, okay.
You do not have to get
so excited about it.
I don't care which part of the
ship you say it's supposed to go
on-- for God's sake, man.
[shouting in Chinese]
Excuse me.
Ma'am.
What's going on here?
What's the matter?
Ahh...
why...
the matter?
No, no, there's nothing
the matter.
Well, where's the rest of
the crew for the ship?
Crew?
Ah...
it requires only a crew of 11,
a ship like this.
It's totally automated--
containers, you know.
Press the button:
Bob's your uncle.
Mm-hmm.
Well, they're not going to leave
poor Arthur just sitting here on
the dock, are they?
Does this belong to you?
Not exactly.
It's my late husband.
Oh, I am sorry to hear that.
Okay, I'll take care of that.
And if there's anything else
that a poor sailor can do for a
woman in this time of distress--
Yes, could you stop
patronizing me?
Yes, ma'am.
Hey, hey...
Bit of a snip,
that wife of yours,
don't you think?
♪♪
We don't often have
passengers, Mrs. Baxley.
We'll do our best to make you
comfortable.
Welcome aboard, ma'am.
This way.
Mind the step.
Thank you, Captain,
you're very kind.
♪♪
[ship's horn blowing]
[ship's horn blowing]
[harmonica playing]
[harmonica continues]
Oh, excuse me, I didn't mean
to interrupt.
I heard someone playing and--
Oh, you like music, do you?
Well, now, listen to this.
[plays classical flourish]
La Fontaine...
La Fontaine.
My mother it was.
She loved everything French.
Was a little town just outside
of Paris.
And she was shacked up with this
wonderfully handsome, dashing
Frenchman.
Of course you can tell
by the description
it was very likely my father.
And it, it was not so much his
bedroom manner, I think.
It was the name.
La Fontaine.
[plays quick flourish]
Jake La Fontaine.
Well, that tells me rather
everything I need to know,
doesn't it?
You'd not like a drink,
would you?
No, thank you.
Good night.
Did you check
that forward load?
Sir.
Here's the latest off
the weather fax, sir.
There's a low indicated.
Looks like a typhoon.
What's the exact position?
Due east, 0-9-0.
What do you think?
We could run from it, sir,
but we'll be in the following
sea and be thrown heavily
off course.
Go and tell Mrs. Baxley to
take care if she's moving about.
There are islands south of
here, difficult to see at night
in a gale.
Any reports from other
vessels?
No one that's close.
We'll change course
and run with it.
Yes, sir.
Tell the engine room to
reverse the starboard engine.
We're to come around quickly
so as to avoid getting
broadside on.
Course 1-6-0.
Reverse starboard engine.
[thunder rumbling,
ship creaking]
[knocking]
Yes?
Ma'am, the captain sent me to
tell you that we're headed for a
bit of rough weather.
No kidding.
He also said that if you're
moving around the ship that you
keep hand on the handrail, and
if you feel a little seasick,
the purser has some
seasick pills.
I never get seasick.
Thank you.
[knocking]
I hope I didn't offend you
too much last night.
That's it?
That's it.
[thunder crashing]
[ship creaking]
[wind howling]
[humming]
Where are you going?
To dinner.
We are in a damn typhoon!
I still have to eat.
Lady, will you please
get back to your cabin?
♪♪
What the devil is going on?
Wind's taken the lot out,
sir.
All the antennas-- radio,
LORAN, weather--
it's all gone.
Sat-nav's gone too.
Blast!
Keep her steady!
[loud crash, scraping]
Full astern, full astern!
Aah...!
Can you see anything out there?
Nothing.
It's a bar or a reef.
Captain, she's going to
broach!
She's not going to broach!
Right full rudder!
We'll steam ourselves off!
Captain, the men want to know
what to do.
Stay below, that's what
they're going to do!
You get back to your post!
Now, if you have any love
for life, you'll make your way
up to the deck!
Oh...!
Over here!
Come on-- here!
Oh...!
[screaming]
Hold on, hold on!
[screaming]
Go, go!
♪♪
[coughing]
[birds chirping]
♪♪
[sobbing]
[growling and panting]
[barking]
Ohh!
Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Ow! Oh!
Get off! No!
Oh! Oh!
[barking and yelling continue]
Get out of there!
[yelps]
Welcome to Ravalo, dear lady.
[chuckles]
I thought you drowned.
I thought you were dead.
Did you sleep well?
May I ask you something?
Why couldn't you drag me
up out of the surf?
I could be dead for all
you care.
Is there anyone else
around here?
Nope.
No?
Wait a minute, are you telling
me that...
You and I are...
We're the only survivors
on this island?
Well, let me put it this way.
You are the only one that has
happened along today.
And if you really want to know,
I diddrag you above
the tide line.
And I didcheck to see if your
heart was beating.
I pressed my ear to your breast
and there it was, pattering away
like the feet of little children
going to the fair.
In fact, I kept my ear pressed
to your breast until it began
to burn with passion.
[laughing]
You're just a dirty-minded
little boy, aren't you?
Oh!
Mr. La Fontaine!
Oh... not offended
by the human body, are you?
Certainly not.
I've seen bodies.
In fact I've seen better.
Oh.
Oh, where in hell are we
anyway?
We are in Ravalo.
I already told you.
One of the British Line Islands
and it's a kind of paradise.
We have meat.
We have fowl.
[shrieks]
We have fresh fruit
for the picking.
In fact, we have everything
we need.
Oh, yes.
We have everything.
Everything except polite
companionship.
Have you seen the ship?
What are you talking about?
Well, come on, I'll show you.
[surf crashing]
There she is, beyond the reef.
Oh, my God.
That's the main mast.
The rest of her is 40,
maybe 50 feet below.
There must be some survivors.
Going down this close,
there must be.
She sank with everyone
on board except you and me.
There are no survivors.
Nobody at all?
That's the way it is.
Oh, could you scratch
just there?
You know we could start
our own country.
Wait a minute, the house, all
these things, they must belong
to somebody.
There is no humanity on the
island except you and me.
Whoever was here left because of
the bomb.
The bomb, what bomb?
Wait a minute, what bomb?
The hydrogen bomb.
Is there any other kind?
Well, I don't see what that's
got to do with anything.
You certainly talk a lot,
lady.
Look, what in world
do you mean?
What's the bomb got to do
with there being no people
on this island?
[pigs squealing and grunting]
Lord, have mercy.
Oh...
That's the girl, just stay
right there.
Ooh...
Oh...
Ooh...
Get away.
Well, there, there must have
been people that lived
in this house.
Shh.
[whispering] Aren't you going
to tell me what...
[normal voice] What are you
ranting on about?
[chicken squawking]
[sighs]
Clever little tart.
I beg your pardon.
You much have talked your
husband to death.
You've heard about radiation,
fallout.
[chicken squawks]
Oh!
Well, have you?
Well, of course I have.
Well, this is where
the fallout fell out.
This was the Island
Commissioner's home.
It says here...
the papers here that...
tells how back in 1957,
the British had to evacuate
Ravalo to avoid the nuclear
radiation and this island being
in what they call the prevailing
winds, they had to evacuate
the entire native population.
Well, that was 30 years ago.
Meanwhile they repopulated the
Bikini Islands and all the rest.
So why hasn't anyone
come back here?
[chickens squawking]
Maybe they didn't want to
come back here.
So, I've caught my dinner.
Now all you have to do
is to catch yours.
Calls for a drink,
don't you think?
Mr. La Fontaine...
What about a fire?
I think we should build one.
That's a great idea.
You could be the cook.
I think the flint should be dry
by now.
I'm talking about
a signal fire.
What for?
For passing ships to see,
of course.
Forget it.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[playing jaunty tune]
What?
Hmm?
[dog yawns]
[Jake yawns]
Nobody likes a critic.
This stuff genuinely wants
for something.
[dog whimpers]
What?
[fire crackling]
What the hell is that?
[sighs]
What the hell
is going on here?
We want to roast a couple of
chickens, we are not interested
in roasting a herd of cows here.
I know you said we're off the
shipping lines but that doesn't
mean that ships never pass
this way.
Oh, I can see you are gonna
be a real pain in the ass.
Yes, I am and there's
absolutely nothing you can do
about it.
What's that you're drinking?
That is for purely medicinal
purposes.
It is to cure men
of bossy women.
It says so right here
on the label.
Hey, now, wait a minute!
Damn you.
There may be two of us on this
island, lady, but one of us has
made a lifelong career of not
being told what to do!
Come on.
♪♪
Oh...
Oh...
What have we here?
This is a bedroom..
Bedroom.
Yes.
That's good, I like that.
Bedroom...
Oh, no, you don't. Hey!
This is my bedroom and
the next time you come into it,
you can knock first.
Oh...
Well, you know what they say.
If you can keep your head...
while everyone else around you
is losing theirs...
you probably don't understand
the situation.
Why, thank you,
Mr. La Fontaine, for those
pearls of wisdom... which you
can leave outside the door,
if you don't mind?
[snap]
♪♪
[animals squawking,
water lapping]
All these chickens and pigs
and cats and you, hmm?
Generation after generation,
nature.
And no human management
to muck things up,
thank you very much.
Look, look here.
Look what I found.
What's this?
This is us here, isn't it?
Could be.
How far away is this
Christmas Island?
You know, it's a great shame
that we were not born a little
further north, because you could
now be sitting in the bar of the
British Officers Club and you
could be telling them how this
simple sailor saved you from
the black and the deep.
This is the margin between fame
and obscurity.
Well, just how far away
is it?
It's 90 miles north.
[laughs]
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that there are
people only 90 miles from here,
just 90 miles away?
Oh, yeah, well, don't get
so excited.
Look, the moon looks like you
could reach out and touch it
but you can't, see?
But Jake, we have a boat.
We have that lifeboat right out
there and we could...
Jake, Jake, now it's Jake.
Now you want me to risk my life,
it's Jake.
[scoffs]
But if it's only 90 miles
away, we could just fix
that lifeboat.
We could drift up the coast and
who knows, we could...
Wait a minute.
Even if I could fix the boat,
even if I could make a sail, we
would rely on prevailing winds.
I mean...
We miss Christmas Island.
It is 5,000 miles of open ocean,
and that, Mrs. Baxley, is
getting to San Francisco
the hard way.
Well, I don't care.
It's worth the try.
You don't care.
You are a lost soul.
You have nothing to hold on to.
Oh, and you have
your vodka bottle.
Well, Mr. La Fontaine, you're
a shamelessly crude and
egotistical man, that's clear.
But you never struck me as also
being... well, a coward.
[scoffs]
That is the woman in you.
Trying to get your own way
by challenging my courage.
Well, I tell you, a dare is not
good enough, a man needs a lot
more than that to risk his life,
and I do not have a lot more
than that.
Isn't children, family,
friends, people that you've left
behind, isn't, isn't that enough
to make you want to do anything
to get out of this place?
Oh, there are lots of people
left behind, but none of 'em
who love me.
There's a couple of irate
husbands, bookies.
Yeah, daughter I haven't seen
since she was four.
You have a wife?
[sighs]
No, we, we never married.
She, uh, she talked to me every
time we were in port about
getting married and then one day
there was no one there in port
to talk about it and she didn't
even leave a note saying where
the little girl was.
Is that what you're going
back to, kids?
[thunder rumbling]
No.
Arthur and I never had children.
Why not?
I did... well...
I don't know, it...
no, no children.
How long were you married?
Eight years.
Eight years.
We were notmarried for five
years and we had one.
Well...
Well...
Well, there just,
there wasn't enough time.
You didn't have time
or he didn't have time?
I'm going to bed.
If you get cold,
please let me know, because
there was a time in Alaska
when I saved three Eskimo women
from a blizzard.
I... kept them alive
with my body warmth.
You should have tried your
breath, Mr. La Fontaine.
It might have saved
the whole village.
♪♪
This is our bed, Mutt.
Good night.
[thunder crashing]
Aah! [coughs]
What happened?
Ooh.
I dreamt I was drowning!
Oh.
Well, come on.
Over there.
[rain pattering and dripping]
I love the sound of the rain,
don't you?
You know, the thing about losing
a loved one is that you can't
let the world stop.
You gotta get right back on
the horse, you know what I mean?
I would hate to think if I were
dead that my wife was preventing
herself from enjoying life
because of some twisted memory
of me.
Huh?
[sighs]
Good night, Mr. La Fontaine.
♪♪
We are going to have to make
a useful member of society
out of you.
[chuckles]
What will we make you?
[laughs]
We will make you the resident
sex therapist.
Sex therapist!
Hey, great job.
Unless you would prefer to be
the official wine taster, hmm?
[growling]
[chuckles]
Reserve your decision.
[spits]
What we need is something
to strain this.
A piece of cheesecloth would be
ideal, come on.
[chickens clucking]
♪♪
Oh...
What on earth are you doing?
A miracle.
In ten days we will be drinking
Chateau Ravalo.
Are you out of your mind?
I don't believe this is
happening to me.
Is that my dress?
Give me that.
Oh, you...
Hey, take it easy.
It was ruined away.
How could you?
Oh...
You're impossible!
♪♪
Oh, great.
You desert me too.
[dog barking]
Some sex therapist!
♪♪
Oh, thank God.
Lovely.
Aah...
[laughs]
Ooh!
[laughs]
♪♪
Aah.
Aah...
[Mutt barking]
Hey, stop!
Stop that! No!
Come back!
Oh!
No!
Oh... oh...
Oh, Mutt!
No...
Oh...
What's this, eh?
[laughs]
[chuckling]
You look wonderful
in that outf--
Don't say it.
Here, try these for size.
[chickens squawk,
Rachel shrieks]
Some sex therapist, huh?
Great.
Not a very good idea,
stealing the dress.
Now she hates me.
Thanks to you.
Get out, go on.
[tools clank]
Okay, buster, it's about time
you got off your backside and
made yourself useful.
What is that?
That is tools to fix
the boat.
You're such a forceful woman.
Why can you not also be
a reasonable woman?
I told you, we have about
a 50/50 chance, if that.
Look, if I could do it myself
I would, but I can't.
So if you won't help me fix
the boat, I'm afraid I'll just
have to shoot you.
The way I figure it,
we are marooned, lady, and you
are a woman in her prime time of
need about to shoot the only man
on the island.
[chuckles]
[chuckles]
Need, prime time?
You imbecile.
Aah!
[laughs]
Well, shall we,
Mr. La Fontaine?
[laughs]
You don't have to stand there
like a bloody prison guard.
If you're so damn keen to get
yourself killed, how about
giving me a hand?
Okay, just don't give me
any trouble.
Okay, now heave.
[groans]
[groans]
This is hopeless.
What about a rope?
Ever think of that?
So who was the guy playing
kissy face with you back
at the dock?
Not that it's any of your
business, his name is Seth.
Seth, is it?
Arthur still warm in his
little coffin.
[chuckles]
Seth happened to be a friend
of my husband's from
the British Embassy.
Besides, I was separated
from my husband a long time
before he died.
Are you ready?
Now, when I heave and the
boat goes over, you be ready to
step out of the way real quick.
Okay...
Heave!
Go.
Oh.
♪♪
♪♪
What happened to him?
Your husband?
How'd he die?
Oh.
He just got caught in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
Sorry.
Yeah... so am I.
I don't know exactly
what happened.
He was working as a consultant
at the State Department in
Thailand and...
Well, he was killed in a border
dispute, or so they tell me.
Someone just...
opened fire on his car
and everyone in it.
Should have been a tradesman,
don't you think?
Yeah.
If you had,
you wouldn't be here.
Oh, I had a lot of jobs.
I used to work as a window
cleaner once.
[groaning softly]
And, uh...
You okay?
Oh, yeah, sure.
I used to love it up there.
38 floors up.
A view of Sydney Harbor.
Boats, hills...
And then one day I made
this incredible discovery.
You know, we had gone right
round the building and we were
back at the window where I
started... and it was dirty.
[chuckles]
It was dirty, we had to start
again and go round the building
again, can you imagine that?
Can you imagine that, going
around and around the building
for the rest of your life?
[laughing]
[laughs]
So I quit the job...
and I went down there.
I got onto one of those boats
and I never looked back.
Oh, God.
I've known men like you.
I was married to one.
Irresponsible children.
They spend their whole lives
chasing after something that...
doesn't exist, a dream...
that they can't catch.
Take it easy on the dream.
For some people it's the only
thing that makes reality
possible.
Yeah.
Tell that to your four-year-old
daughter you abandoned
and let me know what she feels
about your dream.
♪♪
Ah, please.
I'm trying to sleep.
Just like to have a drink
with a sailor?
I'm too tired.
She is a tough one, mate.
[humming]
One drink.
Oh, that's much better.
Please come in, sit down.
Make yourself comfortable.
And, uh...
[yawns]
Couple of shot glasses.
Care of the late commissioner's
cupboard and kept for just such
an occasion.
Very nice.
I warn you, I'm not
a very good drinker.
Are you just gonna
look at it?
Come on.
[coughs]
God, how can you stand
to drink this stuff?
Hey, that's the way, you got
your feet wet.
Now you gotta dive right in.
Ah, oh....
Oh.
[coughing]
[laughs]
That's the spirit.
Hey, here you go.
No, no, no, no, I've... I've
had enough, I'm-- I've had my
one drink, Jake.
One...
And now I'm going.
Oh...
One drink, one drink.
I, I told you.
I wasn't a drinker.
Rachel, will you loosen up?
All right.
Here's to you, Jake, and, uh...
Thank you for fixing the boat
today.
And here's to Christmas Island.
[chuckles]
And here's to you, milady.
And to our future disaster.
[both laugh]
Okay, mmm.
[coughing]
Right.
Oh, no, wait, wait.
Now we can get on with it.
Get on with what?
Well, one more little drink
maybe and then perhaps
some music.
[giggles]
[playing harmonica]
I think I've heard enough
harmonica music to life
a lasttime.
I break my back around here
trying to lighten it up.
Don't you think it's about time
that you sang a song?
I don't know any songs.
Of course you do.
I can't think of any.
You could learn one.
Come on.
[humming]
♪ One Sunday morning...
Come on.
♪ Ning
What? "Ning?"
[laughs]
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ King
[laughs]
Please, come on, hey.
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
Hey, come on, come on, look.
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I chanced to stray
Come on.
♪ I heard a convict
♪ His fate bewai...
Come on.
[muttering]
♪ Sunday morning
♪ Bris... waters stray
♪ Sunday morning
♪ I went walking
Oh, God... hey...
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I, I...
♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane...
Come on.
♪ Waters I chanced to stray
[both] ♪ One Sunday morning
♪ As I went walking
♪ By Brisbane waters
♪ I chanced to stray
♪ I heard a convict
♪ As I went walking...
[singing continues]
[Mutt barking]
[both garbling song]
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whew.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I'm feeling very dizzy.
You're all right.
You'll be fine.
That's all right.
I'll be fine.
[rooster crowing]
[groaning]
Oh, I was wondering
when you'd get up.
How are we?
[groans]
Ready for the big trip?
[moaning]
We can always cancel it
if you're not feeling so well.
If you're sick.
I am not sick.
You don't look so good.
I am...
perfectly all right.
Okay.
Let's go.
Oh, my head hurts.
Don't your worry about her,
Miss Mutt, she'll be fine.
Oh, oh.
Oh...
Good girl, in there.
Come on.
Oh.
Oh.
Grab this.
Okay.
Bon voyage, killer!
Oh, come on, get in.
Jake!
Jake!
Not me, dear heart.
Oh, come on.
I have decided to wait
for the Titanic.
Come back!
Jake!
Oh, come on.
I take the dog.
You take civilization.
It's the best deal
a man can make.
Jake, come back!
Oh!
Well, Mutt, see?
Nothing much we can do
about that crazy lady.
Jake!
But when the tide changes,
our little family will be
together again.
Don't leave me out here.
Oh, Jake.
Come on.
I don't know how to sail.
♪♪
[playing slow tune]
Jake, you son of a bitch!
Where are you?!
How could leave me out there?
How could you do this to me?!
I love it when you walk
like that.
Is that all you can
think about?
What kind of a poor excuse
for a man are you?
Bastard!
Hey.
How dare you?
What do you think you're doing?
[crying]
[gasping]
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm, I'm sorry.
Miss Mutt, we have
a real problem.
Damn you.
I was only trying to teach you
a lesson.
You could have swum back from
the boat any time you liked.
[sobbing]
[tearfully, feverishly] Oh!
I'm... sorry!
I'm sorry!
Hey, hey, take it easy.
Why are you doing this?
Why...?
[sobbing quietly]
♪♪
[barking]
About time, mate.
Whoa-ho!
Well now, look at this.
For a moment there, I thought
you were going to sleep the full
100 years.
How do you feel?
Am I... on an island?
You are.
I thought so.
Well, we're getting there.
I think the fever has broken.
Oh.
Hey, hey, hey.
It's okay, it's okay.
What? What?
It's okay.
Nothing spicy going on here.
Just lay back.
Nothing.
It's okay.
No time at all we're gonna
have you...
taking on the welterweight
champion or whoever else
gets in your way, hon.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I guess you must be a bit mad
at me.
Mm-hmm.
Does it make it difficult?
I'm... very grateful and...
I'm going to forget
everything else.
I guess I'd better be going.
No.
Please.
Don't go.
Stay with me... please...
What are you doing
out of bed?
I'm hungry.
Soup.
Mmm, it smells good.
Flowers?
They okay?
Oh, they're...
They're very okay.
♪♪
Oh...
Really, if you're going to
creep up on a fella...
could you kick a can
or something?
Feeling a little nervous?
No, I'm fine.
Whatever you say.
I like that.
Yeah.
I'm a little nervous.
Why would that be?
I don't know maybe, uh, now
that we're getting on together,
I find that uncomfortable,
and, uh...
If it'll help I can get
mad at you again.
[laughs]
No.
Well, it...
It's just that you're,
you're not like any other woman
I've ever known.
In what way?
I never thought that, um...
a woman like you would be
at all interested in someone
like me.
And what do you think now?
Well, I think maybe you are.
A little.
♪♪
You think?
♪ Remember
♪ The time we spent together
♪♪
♪ So tender
♪ A love no one really knew
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪
Ooh, morning.
Good morning.
Ooh.
[giggles]
What a delightful morning.
You know...
[chuckles]
I have the most
irresistible urge...
to make breakfast.
I wonder what means?
Well, I hope it means...
Mm-hmm?
That the hens are laying.
Ooh!
What's this?
Oh...oh.
Let me see, come on.
No.
Come on, come on, come on.
It's a locket.
Who's that?
Arthur.
Your husband.
Mm-hmm.
With black hair.
Yeah.
So what?
Nothing.
Well, I promise you
that Arthur will never
come between us again.
Mutt, wait.
♪♪
Here, Miss Mutt.
Let's have a look at this.
Jake, where are you?
Something worrying you?
How did Arthur die?
Well, I told you, he was
killed in a border incident.
Shot?
Yes.
Did you see the body?
Seth identified the body.
Jake, I don't want to
talk about it.
Do you still love him?
Arthur's dead.
He's... he's just a memory.
What sort of memory?
Some of it very good.
Most of it... very bad.
[giggles]
I'm gonna go rebuild
the signal fire.
I was just thinking, you know,
it hasn't been lit since, well,
since I was sick.
Oh, Jake, please don't look
so glum.
I mean, after all, together or
apart we can't... we can't live
here forever, can we?
Why not?
[both laugh]
Don't be silly.
Oh, my God.
Hello!
Hello!
Jake!
Hey!
Hey!
Rachel?
Hey!
[Mutt barking]
Oh, Jake, they found us.
They found us!
Yes, yes.
Come on, Mutt, in you get.
Hello?
Anyone here?
Yoo-hoo?
Seth.
Rachel?
I can't believe it.
Oh, well, I... I just...
This is fantastic.
How did you find me?
Well, it's incredible.
We thought everyone went down
with the ship.
No.
This is Mr. La Fontaine.
He was on the crew.
Hi.
Are there any others?
No.
I'm afraid we're the only ones
that are left.
Just the two of you.
You've been doing
some diving?
I'm stunned.
Yeah.
How in the world did you
get here?
We knew the general location
of the ship before the storm.
I hired this boat, and we've
been looking for signs of
the ship for a week.
How do you do, Mrs. Baxley?
I'm Ringe.
[speaking native language]
What are they up to?
Hey, shh.
They're looking for something.
[Ringe and diver converse]
Hello, Rachel.
Arthur.
You should have taken
the plane, Rachel.
[moans]
Oh, she is really pleased
to see you.
Now, Mr. La Fontaine...
We seem to have
lost something.
Maybe you could help us find it.
Guys, I'm just a simple
sailor.
Casket.
Where is it?
The casket?
Uh, the, uh, like a,
like a coffin?
With the wrong body in it?
Your help would be greatly
appreciated, Mr. La Fontaine.
Yeah, it's, uh...
In the #10 hold.
And where is that?
Oh, you just go
straight down there...
first on the left,
second to the right.
Then why don't you shut up
and get it for us?
That wasn't a very nice...
thing to do was it?
To a lady...
Up and die like that.
We had no choice.
We had a shipment to deliver.
We found a stiff in Hong Kong
to take my place.
Seth here arranged the details.
Pretty nice trick, huh?
That's enough talk.
Hey.
No, thank you.
I never learned to use
one of those things.
There's an air pocket
down there-- there'll be
plenty of air to breathe.
Hey, stay close, slime bag.
♪♪
Well, we'll never see him
again.
Gang Han will take care of him.
Is that really necessary?
As long as he finds the stuff.
Seth, we are talking about
65 million dollars' worth
of heroin here.
Now, we're finished
at the embassy.
Our future is here.
I mean, we can't look back.
And we can't leave any
loose ends either.
What do you care what happens
to this guy?
Arthur, please.
Just let him be.
He can swim back to the island.
You'll... You'll never hear
from him again.
Rachel, this man is
very serious.
Now, if you are extremely nice,
he might do me a personal favor
as regards you.
Oh, Arthur.
I can't believe I ever fell
in love with you.
And as for you, Seth...
You want to live through
this, Rachel, then shut up.
He's got it!
That's it, that's it!
We're rich, we're rich.
He's got it!
Give it to me, give it to me.
[men laughing]
Jake, look out!
Rachel, grab the gun!
Ow!
Rachel, Rachel,
I still love you.
Shut up, Arthur.
Oh!
Oh, damn it.
You shot me, Rachel!
Your aim's improving.
Thank you.
I never thought you'd
do this, Rachel.
What?
Leaving you here in paradise?
[laughs]
That's not so bad.
Not that.
Going off with him.
Hey, Arthur, I may not be
the best catch in the world.
But if I ever tell you I'm dead,
you can be sure it's the truth,
and women like a man they can
depend on.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
He's got a point there,
Arthur.
I hope you guys learn
to love each other.
And by the way...
I never thought
she'd shoot me.
Oh, shut up, Arthur.
Look what I found.
Good girl.
You were awfully brave
back there.
Not half as brave
as I'm being now.
Things have a way of not working
out for me in civilization.
Well, maybe this time
it'll be different.
We'll play it as it comes.
How is that?
You tell me.
What do you think, Miss Mutt?
[barking]
Come on.
[engine sputtering]
Maybe we're not going anywhere.
Oh.
Mr. La Fontaine.
Mr. La Fontaine?
What happened to Jake?
[engine starts]
Well...
All right, you can be the boss.
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪
♪ My dear
♪ You listened to my fears
♪ You give a love so clear
♪ You hear my heart
♪♪