You Pay Your Money (1957)

Hugh McDermott: Bob Westlake

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• Bob Westlake : And in one of the two cases are these 'Prophecies of Achmed'?

  Dr. Burger : We believe so. And possibly Mr Mordaunt was not even aware of the fact. But I can assure you they are highly dangerous

  Bob Westlake : What are they exactly?

  Dr. Burger : Achmed the Elder was a great eastern seer and prophet in the early part of the fourteenth century. There is a belief that in his work, he foretold the fate of the entire Arab world and its eventual triumph over the infidel

  Bob Westlake : I see

  Dr. Burger : In recent years, a new Achmed cult has appeared. Their leader, Hejez Delal, is a skilled agitator and with the aid of those original works he could well set the whole of the Middle East aflame - Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

  Bob Westlake : Sort of holy war?

  Dr. Burger : A Jihad - exactly. And on a vast scale. There is still widespread superstition amongst the desert tribes - and, as you know, there is already trouble enough in Morocco and elsewhere

  Bob Westlake : And this is the mob that's kidnapped my wife...