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On Approval (1944)
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00:00:30I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:01:00I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:01:30I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:02:01Oh dear, is this another war picture?
00:02:03Let's go back to the quiet and peaceful days before the war.
00:02:11So this is peace, so these are the tranquil days of 1939.
00:02:15Yes, for this is the age of speed and noise, so much like war you hardly notice the difference.
00:02:19This is the day of athletic sports of all kinds.
00:02:23This is the day of devotion to the graceful art of dancing.
00:02:36This is the day of the worship of the beautiful wide open spaces.
00:02:42And of giving thanks for all the blessings of the green and lovely countryside.
00:02:46This is 1939.
00:02:49No, this isn't what we want either.
00:02:52Although it's very pleasant.
00:02:54Let's go back further still to Grandmama's day.
00:02:57Don't you think it was so much nicer?
00:02:59So much more stately and dignified.
00:03:02Lazy days and gentle evenings undisturbed by any harsh note of reality.
00:03:07Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep.
00:03:15So beware, beware.
00:03:27Yes, these were the days.
00:03:29Grandmama knew that her place was in the home,
00:03:31although Grandpapa could go in for a stern life of dangerous sport.
00:03:37Women were women and they didn't forget it, even if men forgot it.
00:03:42And when they had finished their embroidery and needed a thrill of excitement,
00:03:45they could always unpick it and start again,
00:03:47while their menfolk roved abroad, a wheel, a wheel.
00:03:54And you needn't think they never had their moments.
00:03:56A young man was more or less expected to sow his wild oats,
00:03:59always providing that there was no harvest.
00:04:04But young ladies knew nothing of all that.
00:04:06They lived in a world apart until the day of true romance,
00:04:09the never-to-be-forgotten moment in a young girl's life.
00:04:15So different from modern times.
00:04:17Before the days of petrol rationing,
00:04:19you moderns looked upon the motor car as a most useful invention.
00:04:23It's hard to believe that the biggest thrill a Victorian girl got out of a carriage was this.
00:04:32You can't get into much trouble doing that.
00:04:35Very little remains undiscovered about the modern girl.
00:04:38You can see she's beautiful. You know she is no fool.
00:04:41But there used to be a song,
00:04:43Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
00:04:46But she was clever enough to be good.
00:04:48And the result, you must admit, was elegant and charming.
00:04:55If she seemed at times a little shy,
00:04:57it was because where the dashing stronger sex were concerned, she had to be so modest.
00:05:02She is gown for the theatre.
00:05:04And I wonder what it would be like, that play she was going to see.
00:05:07Would it be dull and stuffy?
00:05:09Or would she hide her blushes in the programme?
00:05:12They say it's very modern and terribly daring.
00:05:17Perhaps we're going to find out just why they were called the naughty nineties.
00:05:22I don't think he would know.
00:05:26Nor would she.
00:05:28Nor she. No, I'm sure she wouldn't.
00:05:31But he might.
00:05:32You see, he's a duke.
00:05:34And if you were a duke in the nineties, you could do almost anything.
00:05:36Handsome!
00:05:38A cab would stop for you without even considering that you could scarcely pay the fare.
00:05:42Bristol House.
00:05:44To Bristol House.
00:05:45Historic townhouse of successive generations of the Dukes of Bristol.
00:05:48Where many a lovely Duchess of Bristol had been at home for all the brilliant functions of the London season.
00:05:53Attended by kings and princesses.
00:05:55By the cultured, the famous and the aristocratic.
00:05:58And even, occasionally, by her husband.
00:06:01But George is a bachelor.
00:06:02And very hard up.
00:06:04And so this ninth Duke of Bristol...
00:06:06Tenth.
00:06:07And so this tenth Duke of Bristol finds himself in the unusual position of having accepted an invitation to a ball at his own house.
00:06:13Most remarkable.
00:06:17Tell me, Your Grace, how did you lose your money?
00:06:20Women.
00:06:21Yes, I know, I mean your big money.
00:06:24Big women.
00:06:28A gay and charming scene.
00:06:30But who is rich enough to be able to rent this great house from a Duke in need of money?
00:06:34Complete with his incomparable butler parks and a devoted staff of servants.
00:06:38Only someone exceedingly wealthy.
00:06:40But could anyone so wealthy be also young and beautiful?
00:06:44Surely, only an American.
00:06:47Well, here you would say would be a bride for George who would satisfy all his trustee's requirements.
00:06:52And indeed, most of George's also.
00:06:55But only in his dreams, lying in bed in the morning, can George contemplate the idea of marriage.
00:07:01In his waking hours, the thought fills him with horror.
00:07:04He scarcely sees her.
00:07:08Good evening, George.
00:07:10How nice of you to come.
00:07:12Not at all, Helen.
00:07:13Not at all.
00:07:22Well, there you are.
00:07:23All this wealth and gaiety after that would taste more acid than the pickles from which Helen's father built his fortune.
00:07:28As it does indeed to Richard Halton, who hasn't the advantage of wealth to sweeten the taste.
00:07:33Being a friend of George is burden enough for any man to bear.
00:07:36And for a man of the very highest breeding and the very lowest income, life is one long attempt to accomplish the impossible.
00:07:43Damn it, sir. That's not cricket.
00:07:51Poor George. It must be very sad, coming back to your own house as a guest.
00:07:55Better return as a guest than remain as a host to a broker's man.
00:07:58There's nothing for it, George. We must make some money.
00:08:00Try to think that I'm a duke, Richard, and talk sense.
00:08:02Good hope.
00:08:03We'll drink to the world.
00:08:04To the world.
00:08:05To the world.
00:08:06To the world.
00:08:07To the world.
00:08:08To the world.
00:08:09To the world.
00:08:10To the world.
00:08:11We'll drink to the woman I love.
00:08:13Don't be disgusting.
00:08:14Look, here she comes. The one on the left.
00:08:19Do you mean to tell me that you love Maria Wislak, having no respect for age?
00:08:23George.
00:08:24We must join them.
00:08:32Well, here we are again.
00:08:34Somehow I'm able to control my excitement.
00:08:36Splendid.
00:08:37Shall I get you some fruit cups?
00:08:38Or perhaps our dear, revered old friend, Mrs. Wislak, will lend us her slipper.
00:08:43I'm neither your dear, revered, or old friend.
00:08:46Naughty, naughty.
00:08:47That's the third time you've spoken harshly to me tonight.
00:08:50Don't do that.
00:08:51You know how I dislike it.
00:08:53If you had a little more brain, you'd be in an asylum.
00:08:57Richard has either enjoyed your joking mentally or has eaten something indigestible.
00:09:01One of these days, I shall write to the Times on present-day matters.
00:09:03That should be highly interesting.
00:09:05I think it will cause a sensation.
00:09:07That you can write a letter at all should cause a great sensation.
00:09:10I forgive you, Maria. Old friends are old friends.
00:09:12George, if you use the word old to me again, I shall throw something at you.
00:09:16Very well, Maria, but when I reached the age of 41, I was not ashamed.
00:09:20My sister will be 41 in August, isn't she?
00:09:22You beast!
00:09:27Bounder!
00:09:28Bounder!
00:09:35Am I a bounder, Helen?
00:09:37I don't think so, George. Not really.
00:09:40No, I don't think so either.
00:09:42Good evening, Helen.
00:09:43Good evening, Angela.
00:09:44Good evening, George.
00:09:45Good evening, Angela.
00:09:47I didn't know you knew her.
00:09:49Oh, yes, we have a sneering acquaintance.
00:09:51Really?
00:09:52She's also strongly fancied by my trustees.
00:09:54Oh, Helen.
00:09:55Richard, is Maria very upset?
00:09:57Oh, terribly. I couldn't do anything with her. Would you go to her?
00:09:59Of course. Excuse me, George.
00:10:02I suppose it amuses you to have made a woman cry.
00:10:05I said nothing that could possibly make her cry.
00:10:07Didn't you, in a sneering way, accuse her of being 41?
00:10:09I did, but she's not crying because I said she's 41.
00:10:12She's crying because she is 41.
00:10:16Well, if you must know, I'm the same age as his sister.
00:10:19That damn woman can't keep her mouth shut about anything.
00:10:22Oh, how I dislike him.
00:10:25I'm sorry because I like him so much.
00:10:27Yes, but you wouldn't marry him.
00:10:29How far is it in the Hanson from here to St. George's Hannover Square?
00:10:32Twenty minutes. Why?
00:10:34If he asked me to marry him tonight, I'd run it in five.
00:10:37But if he did marry you, it'd only be for your money.
00:10:40Well, why not? Plenty of women have lived with him for his.
00:10:43I've loved her for more years than I care to remember.
00:10:46Do you mean to tell me that you've loved that old...
00:10:48Silence! You were about to call her by a name that would have prevented me ever speaking to you again.
00:10:52Have a drink. Or have you had too many?
00:10:55I will have a drink, and I've not had too many.
00:10:57Richard, old boy, I love you as a brother, but I must say I would rather see you dead.
00:11:01George, I warn you, if you say another word against Mrs. Wislak, our friendship is at an end.
00:11:06Very well. But you can't stop me wishing you were dead.
00:11:09Are you addressing me, sir?
00:11:11I see your point.
00:11:12You'd never marry again? Not even if you loved someone terribly?
00:11:15Well, I shall require to know a great deal more about my next.
00:11:18Well, how can you until you marry him?
00:11:20I shall take him away with me for a month alone.
00:11:23Take him away? On approval?
00:11:26Take a man away with...
00:11:29But, Maria, how can you think of such a thing?
00:11:32Oh, Helen, I thought you Americans were unconventional.
00:11:35Well, I don't think we'd go as far as that.
00:11:37No?
00:11:39Well, our men are different. Perhaps Englishmen are less amorous, less enterprising.
00:11:44I shouldn't rely too much on that.
00:11:47Did you know her late husband, Arthur Wislak?
00:11:50Did I know him? Did I watch him with murder in my heart,
00:11:53treating that divine creature with cruelty, neglect, and eventually die of drink?
00:11:57He hated drink.
00:11:58Then why did he?
00:11:59He chose it as the most agreeable way of being unconscious while waiting his release.
00:12:03George, I warn you, if you said another word...
00:12:05Richard, old boy, if I, having any way, hurt your feelings, I apologize. Have a cigar.
00:12:09Now I know your apology is sincere. Is it yours?
00:12:13Certainly not. It was provided by our hostess.
00:12:16But, Marat, is it fair to expose a man to such temptation?
00:12:20Suppose his love for you overcame him and he should attempt to...
00:12:23I should, of course, take a revolver.
00:12:25Yes, but suppose you came to care for him.
00:12:27Then my aim might not be so accurate.
00:12:29But what is more important? Have you asked her if she loves you?
00:12:32How can I? My income is 300 a year.
00:12:36Hers is 25,000.
00:12:38Oh, now I take everything back. You have given me a reason why you are right to love her.
00:12:42Are you suggesting that I love her for the money?
00:12:44I'm suggesting it's a reason you should.
00:12:46What do you think you could learn about a man in a month?
00:12:48As much as I wish.
00:12:49But, Marat, the scandal.
00:12:51Oh, I should choose someone less inclined to gossip than those men.
00:12:54Marat, I believe you've got someone in mind.
00:12:57Well, as a matter of fact, there is a man in your party tonight who, within a month, might surprise me.
00:13:01There's nothing, Boyd, Richard. You must propose to her.
00:13:04I haven't the courage.
00:13:05Ever tried brandy?
00:13:07One day I sat with a bottle of brandy in front of me and recited to it the language I should use when asking her to be my wife.
00:13:13With the result that when I went into the room, I was unable even to wish her good evening.
00:13:17Ah, bad luck.
00:13:18But, Richard, do as I say, and I give you my word that a month from tonight, you'll pop into her bed with a cry,
00:13:24Marat, here I am.
00:13:26George, that is an observation which I consider most unsuitable, either here or in the place you suggest.
00:13:32I'm speaking metaphorically.
00:13:34I trust her.
00:13:35You must have courage, Richard.
00:13:36Think what marriage to Marat means to you.
00:13:38Someone to be with, to talk to, no money cares, no cares of any kind.
00:13:42It's not for me.
00:13:43Think of the little ones prattling up and down the room.
00:13:46No, no, I take that back.
00:13:48Why?
00:13:49Very well, if you insist.
00:13:50My dear George, married life to me without children is...
00:13:53Are you laughing, George?
00:13:55No, no, I've got a cold coming up.
00:13:57It's the sort of thing you would laugh at.
00:14:01One other little thing.
00:14:02Please be polite to Marat.
00:14:04That's not a little thing, but I will help you, Richard.
00:14:06I'll even warm Marat up for you to make your proposal.
00:14:09Cigars and the drawing will not impress Marat favourably.
00:14:13Number 16 then, after the dancers.
00:14:15Charmed, I'm sure.
00:14:17Thank you.
00:14:20Marat.
00:14:21Well?
00:14:22Tonight I apparently said something quite unintentionally that hurt your feelings.
00:14:26Oh, well?
00:14:27I'm sorry.
00:14:29Obviously you have been drinking.
00:14:31Why?
00:14:32Otherwise you would never have apologised.
00:14:34I admit I have been drinking.
00:14:36I drank because I was depressed.
00:14:38Richard depressed me.
00:14:39Oh.
00:14:41Richard has been pointing out to me my limitations,
00:14:43but so gently, so understandingly, that I was compelled to listen.
00:14:47Oh.
00:14:49Until tonight I never knew the real Richard.
00:14:51Dear Richard.
00:14:52Oh.
00:14:53Have you lost your voice by any chance?
00:14:55No.
00:14:56Why?
00:14:57It's unlike you, only to be able to say, oh, George.
00:15:00Ah, there you are.
00:15:01You see?
00:15:05Would you mind, Dr. Graham?
00:15:07What's that?
00:15:08May we join you?
00:15:09Oh, yes, yes, certainly.
00:15:10I'm just going when I finish this.
00:15:14Dr. Graham, famous air specialist.
00:15:16A great success, apparently.
00:15:17We were talking of Richard.
00:15:19You were talking of Richard.
00:15:21Of his gentleness, his love of little children.
00:15:24How many children does he have?
00:15:26I don't know.
00:15:28Of his gentleness, his love of little children.
00:15:31How many has he got?
00:15:32Richard is a bachelor.
00:15:33That has not answered my question.
00:15:35None.
00:15:36How do you know?
00:15:37Well, he's not that kind of a man.
00:15:39I trust not.
00:15:42And it is through Richard that tonight I have a feeling I'd like to get nearer to nature.
00:15:46To walk on grass, to hear the birds sing their simple songs of love.
00:15:50Birds don't sing at night.
00:15:52Perhaps not for you, Mariah.
00:15:54Would it amuse you to accompany me, Helen?
00:15:56I'd love to, George.
00:15:57Well, how about supper?
00:15:58We are to move to eat.
00:16:02Besides, there's a buffet in the marquee.
00:16:04I'd not forgotten that.
00:16:06Just what were you saying to George?
00:16:09I was telling him of the need men have for the affection of a good woman.
00:16:15Go on.
00:16:17I drew a little picture of returning to one's home in the evening.
00:16:20Where'd you be in the afternoon?
00:16:22Oh, nowhere in particular.
00:16:25I see.
00:16:26Go on.
00:16:28And there, seated at one's dinner table, a divine lady.
00:16:33To whom you would address a few kind words before going out to dine with someone else.
00:16:37Oh, not at all. I should stay and dine with her.
00:16:40That's original.
00:16:41I've never really thanked you for letting me rent this lovely house of yours.
00:16:45I've never really thanked you for renting it.
00:16:48Somehow I hate the thought of leaving it when I go back to America.
00:16:51Somehow so do I.
00:16:53You know, Helen, I am not appreciated.
00:16:56You easily could be.
00:16:58But how?
00:16:59Well, don't you ever want to do anything for anyone?
00:17:02My dear, the most that can be expected from any duke is to think.
00:17:06Well then, if you feel you're not being appreciated, why don't you marry?
00:17:10Ah, that I will tell you.
00:17:13Feeling as you do, Richard, I wonder you never married.
00:17:16Ah.
00:17:17Meaning?
00:17:19Well, the love of a good woman is not for me.
00:17:22Then why not try one of the others?
00:17:24There's plenty to choose from.
00:17:26Oh, no, you don't understand.
00:17:28There's only one woman.
00:17:30And she's too good, too beautiful, too noble for such as me.
00:17:33Oh, shut up.
00:17:35I'm sorry.
00:17:37How much longer are you going on beating about the bush?
00:17:39Why not come out in the open like a man and say,
00:17:41Mariah, I love you.
00:17:43Will you or won't you be my wife?
00:17:45I had no idea you knew.
00:17:46Go on then, say it. Say it.
00:17:52You have a sweet voice, Helen.
00:17:54Thank you, George.
00:17:55But you seldom sing.
00:17:57That is a great accomplishment.
00:18:00You were talking of marriage.
00:18:01Alas, yes.
00:18:03It has no attraction for you?
00:18:05On the contrary, the husbands of no less than three women I've known have threatened me with it.
00:18:09No, I meant some unmarried girl who's fond of you and might make you happy.
00:18:14I've often thought of marriage.
00:18:15Yes?
00:18:16With distaste.
00:18:18But there is one woman.
00:18:19Yes?
00:18:20The one woman in the world.
00:18:22Beautiful, charming, gracious, intelligent.
00:18:26You'd marry her?
00:18:27Happily.
00:18:28But where is she?
00:18:29Where?
00:18:32Where indeed?
00:18:36Now tell me, Richard, do you love me?
00:18:38With all my heart, with all my...
00:18:39I love you embraces all that.
00:18:41Now then, is your object matrimony or the other thing?
00:18:46I'd give ten years of my life to be your husband.
00:18:48Thank you.
00:18:49But I've no desire that our marriage ceremony should take the form of a burial service.
00:18:53Richard, I should like you to know I'm very fond of you.
00:18:57But I can't believe it.
00:18:58Why should you care for me?
00:19:00You'd be wise not to let me dwell on that.
00:19:02This is too wonderful.
00:19:03Don't get excited.
00:19:04You're getting the best part first.
00:19:06Now, get up and sit down.
00:19:10Now let's be practical.
00:19:12My income is 25,000 pounds a year.
00:19:15Many congratulations.
00:19:16Thank you.
00:19:17What's yours?
00:19:18Mine?
00:19:20Well, it varies.
00:19:22Sometimes it's up and then again it's down.
00:19:25What is it when it's up?
00:19:27Well, you know, money means so little to me I really haven't an idea.
00:19:31Where do you bank?
00:19:32Anywhere, I simply don't care.
00:19:34Fortunately, I can provide for both of us in the style to which I'm accustomed.
00:19:38I love you.
00:19:39Thank you.
00:19:40Now then, what is today?
00:19:42Tuesday.
00:19:43Very well.
00:19:44On Friday, we'll leave on the midday train to Scotland where, to all intents and purposes,
00:19:48we shall spend a month together as married people.
00:19:52Right.
00:19:53Well?
00:19:54You and I spend a month together alone as married people.
00:19:57Yes.
00:19:58You're not serious.
00:19:59I am.
00:20:01But what an extremely good idea.
00:20:04What an intensely good idea.
00:20:07But this is perfectly delightful and the courage of it all.
00:20:11If at the end of the month I find that we both feel alike, as it were, we will get married.
00:20:16If not, we'll have had a grand time and no harm done.
00:20:19None.
00:20:20Oh, I really must congratulate you.
00:20:22I never remember looking forward to anything so much and the courage of it.
00:20:26Oh, if there were only more women in the world like you, what a happy world the world would be.
00:20:34Really, George, I feel Richard needs my protection.
00:20:38Oh, one more thing.
00:20:39Every night you'll hear the clock in the hall strike eleven.
00:20:42Oh, now that's original.
00:20:44I really must congratulate you again.
00:20:46Which will be the signal for you to start putting on your coat.
00:20:48We've got ideas.
00:20:49With the idea of going out.
00:20:51Oh, but I should have had all the exercise I need during the day.
00:20:54Oh, I know, the dog.
00:20:56On the table in the hall you'll find a lantern,
00:20:58which will enable you to find your way down to the boat so that you can row across to the mainland.
00:21:02Why should I want to go to the mainland?
00:21:03That is where you'll be sleeping.
00:21:06Oh, so I don't sleep in the house.
00:21:10You do not.
00:21:12How about wet nights?
00:21:14I should advise you to bring a raincoat.
00:21:17Raincoat.
00:21:18You know, I must say I feel you'd learn a great deal more about me if I were actually in the house the whole time.
00:21:24After all, I hope I'm a gentleman.
00:21:26That I should be able to decide in a month's time.
00:21:28Ah, number fifteen.
00:21:30Well, let's sit this one out.
00:21:31Nonsense, I never sit out the lances.
00:21:33Your arm, Richard.
00:21:37Very hot.
00:21:39What do you mean?
00:21:40So you and she go off alone for a month together to see if you'll be all right married.
00:21:45I dislike your phraseology, but the answer is we do.
00:21:49What is George talking about?
00:21:51He's a bad influence, that man.
00:21:53I think they're under chanting.
00:21:55They look quite innocent.
00:22:07Yes.
00:22:09I sleep in a hotel on the mainland.
00:22:37You mean you leave her every night?
00:22:57Very hot.
00:22:59What a mind.
00:23:08You're not suggesting that I should stay in the same house at night alone with her, are you?
00:23:12Why not?
00:23:13How dare you.
00:23:26I suppose it's raining.
00:23:30I've got her that.
00:23:31I'm taking her raincoat.
00:23:33You haven't got one?
00:23:34No, but Bruce hardly has.
00:23:41What are you two up to?
00:23:42Plotting, Maria, just plotting.
00:23:54I trust this is not too violent for you, Maria?
00:23:56No, I love it.
00:23:58Good.
00:24:02Help him out, George.
00:24:04Stop, George, stop!
00:24:15Handsome.
00:24:16There's one.
00:24:26I'm sorry to disturb you.
00:24:27What is your name?
00:24:28Orishogs.
00:24:29I'm delighted.
00:24:30This is Mr. Richard Holden, Mr. Orishogs.
00:24:32How do you do?
00:24:33Pleased to meet you.
00:24:34Will you guard that for me?
00:24:35Yes, certainly.
00:24:36Thank you very much.
00:24:37Hurry, Richard, hurry.
00:24:45Richard.
00:24:46Yeah?
00:24:47You really think you can convince Maria that you'll be all right married?
00:24:48I am all right.
00:24:49Of course, you know, you really ought to stay in the house with her.
00:24:50Maria will never consent.
00:24:51I wish you wouldn't refer to it again.
00:24:52Very well.
00:24:53But I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:24:54Richard.
00:24:55Is that you?
00:24:56Yes.
00:24:57Is that you?
00:24:58Yes.
00:24:59Is that you?
00:25:00Yes.
00:25:01Is that you?
00:25:02Yes.
00:25:03Is that you?
00:25:04Yes.
00:25:05Is that you?
00:25:06Yes.
00:25:07Is that you?
00:25:08Yes.
00:25:09Is that you?
00:25:10Yes.
00:25:11Is that you?
00:25:12Yes.
00:25:13reconstitute the mansion.
00:25:14The talisman has been inflicted.
00:25:15Tackle it now.
00:25:16Yes.
00:25:17They are at the Radisson.
00:25:18It's a nice party.
00:25:19Very nice.
00:25:20I forgot to say good night to Parks.
00:25:21Who's Parks?
00:25:22My butler, led my host to the season.
00:25:23My butler, led my host to the season.
00:25:24They bounced on the season.
00:25:25You're ordered...
00:25:26Yes.
00:25:27...to go back and say good night to them.
00:25:28To go back and say good night to them.
00:25:29That's right.
00:25:30Around we go.
00:25:31We have arrived, Mr. Odd, sir.
00:25:55Thank you.
00:25:59Ooh! That'll be half a crown.
00:26:02Half a crown?
00:26:03Here's the sovereign change. Say goodnight to your horse for me, will you?
00:26:13Good evening, Ponce.
00:26:14Good morning, Your Grace.
00:26:15Mr. Halton and I would like to take a drink with you.
00:26:18Your room's somewhere at the back here, isn't it?
00:26:20Yes, Your Grace.
00:26:21Near the cellar?
00:26:22You'll find Madam has made very few changes, Your Grace.
00:26:24That's very proper. Good evening, Mrs. Daggett.
00:26:26Good evening, Your Grace.
00:26:27How's your new business?
00:26:28Well, things are very queer these days.
00:26:30Queer?
00:26:31Hardly any noise.
00:26:32No.
00:26:33Hardly any drinking.
00:26:34No.
00:26:35And hardly any...
00:26:36Oh, I'm surprised.
00:26:37And we gets paid regular.
00:26:39That's very queer.
00:26:43You weren't here in my time, were you?
00:26:45No, Your Grace.
00:26:46Pity.
00:26:47You beast.
00:26:48That's very handsome of you, Ponce.
00:26:51I know Your Grace's preference.
00:26:54Have another drink?
00:26:56Definitely.
00:26:58Good.
00:27:00Whisper.
00:27:02Soda.
00:27:05Whisper.
00:27:07Soda.
00:27:09We'll drink to Maria.
00:27:11That's nice of you, George.
00:27:12Yeah, I'll talk.
00:27:13There you are.
00:27:14Thank you, George.
00:27:15To Maria.
00:27:16To Maria.
00:27:17I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:27:19Good health.
00:27:22This whiskey tastes funny.
00:27:23You've no palate.
00:27:24Taste again.
00:27:25It's McQuish's Highland Liquor.
00:27:29All right.
00:27:30I apologize.
00:27:32If you apologize, I'll come to Scotland with you.
00:27:35Oh, no, George.
00:27:36I asked you not to.
00:27:38Give me another drink.
00:27:39Not so strong.
00:27:40All right.
00:27:42Whisper.
00:27:43Soda.
00:27:45Whisper.
00:27:47Soda.
00:27:49There you are.
00:27:51Thank you, George.
00:27:56Now you've drowned it.
00:28:00I mistrust you, George.
00:28:02Why do you want to come with me?
00:28:04Oh, trustee.
00:28:06Marriage.
00:28:07Bankruptcy.
00:28:09Get away from it all.
00:28:11You'll have to sleep in a hotel.
00:28:13Hotel's full.
00:28:15It isn't.
00:28:18Make it full.
00:28:19Just a minute.
00:28:22You're full.
00:28:23I'm full.
00:28:24But the hotel's not full.
00:28:28What's the name of the hotel?
00:28:32Dandrannach Arms.
00:28:34Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:37What's the name of the hotel?
00:28:41Dandrannach Arms.
00:28:44Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:48Reserve?
00:28:49Reserve?
00:28:51All?
00:28:52Rooms?
00:28:54Saturday?
00:28:56Family?
00:28:57Eight.
00:28:59Do you think of a name?
00:29:01Twelve.
00:29:03Oh, that's very good.
00:29:05No, no.
00:29:06American name.
00:29:07All hotels impress Americans.
00:29:11Silas K.
00:29:12Must be Silas K.
00:29:14Oh, that's very good.
00:29:16Silas K.
00:29:20McQuillis.
00:29:22That reminds me.
00:29:24Give me another drink.
00:29:31Who says birds don't sing at night?
00:29:39Good morning, Pat.
00:29:40Good morning, madam.
00:29:42Lovely party, don't you think?
00:29:43Yes, madam.
00:29:44I thought everything was perfect.
00:29:45They all stayed on and on.
00:29:47Yes, madam.
00:29:48That's always a good sign, isn't it?
00:29:49Indeed it is, madam.
00:29:51In fact...
00:29:52Yes, Pat?
00:29:53Some of them haven't gone yet.
00:29:55Haven't gone yet?
00:29:57Well, where are they?
00:30:19What is the matter with you, Richard?
00:30:21Why are you so nervous?
00:30:22I'm all right, Marat.
00:30:24I'm glad to see you brought your raincoat.
00:30:26Yes, I hope I shan't have to use it, Marat.
00:30:28If you're still cherishing the hope that you're going to stay in the house with me,
00:30:31you're very much mistaken.
00:30:33Oh, no, Marat.
00:30:34I'm only cherishing the hope that it won't rain.
00:30:49We're off.
00:30:54Oh, dear.
00:30:55For goodness sake, stop fussing, Richard.
00:30:57You're making that gentleman most uncomfortable.
00:30:59Excuse me, sir.
00:31:00I hope we haven't bothered you too much.
00:31:02Not at all, madam.
00:31:03Thank you.
00:31:04Did you remember to bring...
00:31:19Here we are.
00:31:21One of your hats, Marat, I believe.
00:31:25Goodbye, Marat.
00:31:26A pleasant holiday to you.
00:31:27I'm afraid we shan't meet till it's over.
00:31:29Yes, then.
00:31:30Goodbye.
00:31:31Goodbye.
00:31:32Hurry with the luggage, will you?
00:31:33Yes, sir.
00:31:34Thank you.
00:31:35Goodbye.
00:31:36Goodbye.
00:31:37Goodbye.
00:31:38Goodbye.
00:31:39Goodbye.
00:31:40Goodbye.
00:31:41Goodbye.
00:31:42Goodbye.
00:31:43Goodbye.
00:31:44Goodbye.
00:31:45Goodbye.
00:31:46Goodbye.
00:31:47Hurry with the luggage, Richard.
00:31:52I shall expect you in the morning to breakfast at 8.30.
00:31:55You will find the dinghy by the jetty.
00:31:57And you can row yourself across.
00:31:59Yes, Marat.
00:32:00I'm looking forward to our first day together.
00:32:02Alone.
00:32:04You haven't any rooms, have you?
00:32:06No.
00:32:07Good.
00:32:10Stop, stop.
00:32:11What's happened?
00:32:12Is anything the matter?
00:32:13The hotel is full.
00:32:14Not a room left.
00:32:15Richard.
00:32:16Did you forget to reserve a room for yourself?
00:32:18He did not forget.
00:32:19They received his wire, but too late.
00:32:21McQuilsh has them all.
00:32:23McQuilsh?
00:32:24Silas K. McQuilsh.
00:32:25His wife and six children.
00:32:28I must look into this.
00:32:30Excuse me.
00:32:43Have you no accommodation whatever?
00:32:45We're full.
00:32:46Oh, but did you not receive a telegram from this gentleman?
00:32:48Mr. McQuilsh?
00:32:49No, no.
00:32:50Richard Horton.
00:32:51He says he sent one.
00:32:52Ah, he did.
00:32:53We're full.
00:32:54Have you no odd corner where I can stand up and sleep like a horse?
00:32:57Why, Maria!
00:33:00Oh, Helen.
00:33:01Why, Helen, what on earth are you doing here?
00:33:03Darling, I've been trying to reach you.
00:33:05The McQuilshes are over from the States and I'm showing them round.
00:33:08I told Silas he simply had to see your island.
00:33:12Did you receive a wire from Mr. McQuilsh?
00:33:14I...
00:33:15Unfortunately, your friends, the McQuilshes, have taken all the rooms.
00:33:18And the hotels foo the new.
00:33:20Well, as it happens, that can be fixed.
00:33:22Silas has had to go to a conference in Glasgow
00:33:25and the family won't be here for two or three days.
00:33:27I'm the advance guard.
00:33:29Richard and George can have their rooms.
00:33:31Splendid!
00:33:33Splendid, splendid.
00:33:34One of the rooms Mr. McQuilsh reserved was for me.
00:33:37And I thought that...
00:33:38Mr. McQuilsh reserved no rooms.
00:33:40There were no rooms left for Mr. McQuilsh to reserve.
00:33:43We're foo the new.
00:33:45The new.
00:33:46The new.
00:33:47If you'll excuse me, I'll have my tea.
00:34:11Hurry along, Richard. Don't lag behind.
00:34:34You will guard this very carefully.
00:34:36You will guard this very carefully.
00:34:38It contains my old friend Mrs. Wislak's favourite toque.
00:34:41Tell me, Marat,
00:34:43which is the late Mr. Wislak?
00:34:46Oh, George, please.
00:34:48Mrs. McQuilsh, are the rooms ready?
00:34:50You said in your letter it was only you and a guest.
00:34:53Well, that's quite right, but...
00:34:54You said nothing about the two gentlemen.
00:34:56I know. That happened afterwards.
00:34:58Afterwards?
00:34:59Is it your honeymoon you're on?
00:35:00Oh, nonsense. I'm not married.
00:35:02Nobody's married.
00:35:04Go to the kitchen.
00:35:07Come on.
00:35:12Shut the door.
00:35:14Now, will you kindly explain?
00:35:16I don't have to explain anything to you, Mrs. McQuilsh.
00:35:20Please see to the luggage.
00:35:21I'll take no part in your plans.
00:35:23You'll be here two weeks and you'll do as you're told,
00:35:25or you won't receive a penny.
00:35:27Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:28Oh, I'll have nothing.
00:35:30No, you won't. Not a penny.
00:35:32Very well. I'll stay.
00:35:35But mind you, I'll be watching and biding my time.
00:35:38Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:39I'm the one to give orders in this house.
00:35:41The whiskey will be unpacked and locked up in due course.
00:35:45I like your little cottage, Maria.
00:35:47It's so simple.
00:35:49Oh, thank you, George.
00:35:50I'm glad you like it.
00:35:51Where did you get the staircase?
00:35:53Arthur picked it up in Venice
00:35:55on the first night of our honeymoon.
00:35:57Picked it up on the first night of your honeymoon?
00:36:01What a man.
00:36:03Unpack for me, will you?
00:36:04Yes, mistress.
00:36:05Mistress? Not yet.
00:36:14It's a nightdress.
00:36:27I hope you'll find your bed comfortable.
00:36:29Eh? Oh, I can't use that very much.
00:36:35You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
00:36:37Can't you get me some whiskey?
00:37:00I can see through it.
00:37:02Come away.
00:37:03Richard, there's a speck of dust in my eye.
00:37:05Will you kindly remove it?
00:37:14Pack your things.
00:37:29Richard, count the silver.
00:37:34Well, is dinner ready?
00:37:36No.
00:37:37Don't be a fool, George. All the servants have left.
00:37:39Well, we'll have to manage ourselves.
00:37:41I'll cook. You and Helen, I know, will help.
00:37:43Delighted, delighted, Maria.
00:37:44George, of course, will be utterly useless.
00:37:46On the contrary, Maria, you'll find I'm incredibly useful.
00:37:49I'm at my best at beds, I welcome washing up,
00:37:51and I'm a dab at dusting.
00:37:53You can leave everything to me.
00:38:04I'm just 17, and I've never been...
00:38:16I'm just 17.
00:38:23I'm just 17.
00:38:29I'm nervous something's happened to George.
00:38:31I'm nervous that something hasn't.
00:38:33Having spent three weeks practically alone with him,
00:38:35I wonder you can tolerate his miserable selfishness.
00:38:38Well, he's completely unconscious of it.
00:38:42Richard's been a long time gone to the village.
00:38:44Well, it's a long pull there and back.
00:38:46Now, there's the kindest, sweetest man I've ever met.
00:38:49You don't think he's merely giving a good impression?
00:38:51Well, you haven't left much undone to find out
00:38:53if he has any weaknesses, have you, darling?
00:38:56Are you suggesting that I haven't been nice to him?
00:38:58How could I, when he always describes you as an angel?
00:39:02He probably knew you'd repeat it to me.
00:39:12Oh, thank heaven you're safe.
00:39:14Why, Helen, did you think something had happened to me?
00:39:16Well, I did, rather.
00:39:17You see, when you went out and I asked you,
00:39:19as there were no servants, to be back at one for lunch,
00:39:21well, naturally, when two o'clock came,
00:39:23I began to think something terrible might have happened to you.
00:39:26Oh, that's very charming of you, Helen,
00:39:28but I don't in the least mind having lunch late.
00:39:30Is it ready? I'm very hungry.
00:39:32Dinner's been ready for over an hour.
00:39:34Really? I hope it isn't spoiled.
00:39:36I'll get it for you, George, dear.
00:39:38Well...
00:39:56I'll get it.
00:40:27There you are, George, darling.
00:40:29Thank you, Helen. Some bread?
00:40:31Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:40:56Thank you.
00:41:26Bread, George, dear.
00:41:28Thank you, Helen. And some butter?
00:41:30Oh, yes.
00:41:37George?
00:41:38Mariah?
00:41:39In the cellar, there's some champagne,
00:41:41Moselle, hop. Please let me fetch it for you.
00:41:44Mariah, you know I never drink at lunch.
00:41:46Oh, but I want you to. I want you to let me fetch it for you.
00:41:49If you'll allow me to say so, I find your joke singularly out of place.
00:41:52Would you like some rice pudding?
00:41:54To say I would like some rice pudding would be both inaccurate and insincere.
00:41:58To say that I'm hungry and will eat some isn't an entirely different matter.
00:42:01Where's the cream?
00:42:02There is no cream.
00:42:03What, no cream?
00:42:04George.
00:42:05Mariah?
00:42:06Look at me.
00:42:07Does my face express anything to you?
00:42:11No.
00:42:12Do you know what would give me more pleasure than anything in the world?
00:42:16I can't imagine.
00:42:17To rub your face with my hand.
00:42:19Do you know what would give me more pleasure than anything in the world?
00:42:22I can't imagine.
00:42:23To rub your nose in the rice pudding.
00:42:25You should try to avoid crudity, Mariah.
00:42:28I'm afraid I haven't put enough milk in it.
00:42:30I agree, but what it lacks in milk, it makes up for in price.
00:42:33Throw it at him. Throw it at him.
00:42:35I can quite see why you don't keep your servants, Mariah.
00:42:37George, please.
00:42:38Are you suggesting that it's my fault that my servants left me?
00:42:40I'll put it another way.
00:42:42I suggest that one has to like you very much to remain in the same house with you, Mariah dear.
00:42:46Just one second.
00:42:47No!
00:43:02Richard, you must be quite exhausted.
00:43:04Thank you, Helen. I am rather.
00:43:06Where's Mariah?
00:43:07In the kitchen.
00:43:08Is she all right?
00:43:09Well, of course she's all right.
00:43:10That is not true.
00:43:11Richard, my dear fellow, I have some very bad news for you.
00:43:13You mean she's annoyed with me for being so long?
00:43:15Worse than that. Far worse.
00:43:16What?
00:43:17What do you think? She pulled my nose.
00:43:19Why isn't that damn thing bleeding?
00:43:21Why did she pull your nose?
00:43:22I've no idea.
00:43:23It doesn't seem to have improved it.
00:43:25So this is the return I get for coming up here to help you win her, hmm?
00:43:27Let me tell you something. I haven't got a chance in the world of winning her.
00:43:30And even if I had, it would be in spite of you at least 50 times.
00:43:33I don't want to hear any more. I shall go outside and read.
00:43:35Give me my newspaper.
00:43:36I didn't have time to get it.
00:43:37You mean to say you haven't brought me my time?
00:43:38I have not.
00:43:39Of all the selfish devils.
00:43:41Oh, I've forgotten to send Mariah's telegram.
00:43:43Good.
00:43:47Come on, Manchu.
00:43:49Oh, there you are at last, Richard.
00:43:51I hope you remembered to send my telegram.
00:43:53Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I'm afraid I didn't.
00:43:55Really, it's too bad of you.
00:43:56Do you realize I shall have nothing to read for two or three days?
00:43:59Oh, I know. I can't tell you how sorry I am.
00:44:01Well, if I'd known you weren't going to send it, I'd have gone myself.
00:44:03I noticed you've brought all the things you want.
00:44:08Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:10What did you say?
00:44:11Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:13What?
00:44:14I said you look tired and not at all well.
00:44:16Naughty.
00:44:17Oh, I'm all right, really I am.
00:44:18He's quite all right, aren't you?
00:44:20Yes, of course.
00:44:21Oh, tell me something I can do to make up.
00:44:23Go on, give Manchu his little bath.
00:44:25Think you could?
00:44:26Oh, yes, of course.
00:44:28I have a way with animals.
00:44:29They take to me, you know.
00:44:35How you can hope to impress Mariah favorably by ill-treating her little dog,
00:44:39I don't know.
00:44:41I bent down in a friendly way, nothing more.
00:44:43The little beast bit me.
00:44:44Oh, what's the use?
00:44:46Give me that, Richard.
00:44:48It's lucky for you that I feel particularly good tempered tonight.
00:44:51What caused that?
00:44:52Drink, food, or money?
00:44:54None of those.
00:44:55I have decided to make Helen a faithful husband.
00:44:58Jolly decent of you.
00:44:59Well, it's the most unusual thing in our family.
00:45:01I agree.
00:45:02Yes, I've been watching Helen carefully,
00:45:04and I've come to the conclusion that she's a fit and proper person
00:45:08to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:45:10Well, does she think you're a fit and proper person to be the Duke?
00:45:13Tonight, after a simple meal, a glass of wine, I hope, and a cigar.
00:45:17Where do you hide your cigars?
00:45:19I only brought 50, very considerate.
00:45:21I only smoke them when you're not there.
00:45:23You mean devil.
00:45:24As I was saying, tonight, after a simple meal, et cetera,
00:45:28I shall ask her to become my wife.
00:45:30It's my experience that after a meal, simple or otherwise,
00:45:33you invariably go to sleep.
00:45:34Sleep?
00:45:35On this, my night of romance?
00:45:37Sleep?
00:45:38Ha!
00:45:41SNORING
00:45:54SINGING
00:46:03Damn it, is there no peace in this house?
00:46:06I agree.
00:46:07That's very, very interesting.
00:46:09Oh, Maru, I'm terribly sorry.
00:46:11You frightened me. I was asleep.
00:46:13Really?
00:46:14You know how one says things when one's half unconscious.
00:46:16The last man I married was frequently in that condition.
00:46:19I found that was the only time he spoke the truth.
00:46:22But you know I didn't mean it.
00:46:23Then why say it?
00:46:24Well, good heavens, woman, I...
00:46:25Don't call me woman and don't shout at me.
00:46:27I'm not deaf.
00:46:28I'm sorry, Maru.
00:46:29And if you must smoke cigars, which I've told you I hate,
00:46:32kindly don't drop your ash on the floor.
00:46:34I'll get something and clean it up.
00:46:36Yes, darling.
00:46:40Well...
00:46:47There's another bit there.
00:46:54Why, Richard, what are you doing?
00:46:56Sweeping up George's cigar ash.
00:46:59I'm sorry to have interrupted your after-dinner nap, Richard.
00:47:02Since you're awake now, perhaps you've no objection to my going on practising.
00:47:06No, of course not, Marat.
00:47:08Thank you.
00:47:10I can't understand it.
00:47:13Before I came here, she always gave me the impression that she liked me.
00:47:17It's too bad, Alfred.
00:47:19What do you suggest I should do?
00:47:21Tell her to go to hell.
00:47:22What?
00:47:23Tell her to go to H-E-L-L.
00:47:26Oh, I couldn't do...
00:47:31Richard, when I'm married, you can live with us.
00:47:34I'll even insist on Helen making you a small allowance.
00:47:37Certainly not.
00:47:38How much?
00:47:39Well, Helen's a very well-to-do girl.
00:47:41Five shillings a week.
00:47:48Why, Helen.
00:47:50What a charming answer to my thoughts.
00:47:52You were thinking of me, George.
00:47:54Indeed I was.
00:47:57Do you remember this music?
00:47:59Yes, I know it very well.
00:48:01Do you remember where you heard it last?
00:48:03Mmm, I've heard it so often, you know.
00:48:05Oh.
00:48:07You don't mind cigars?
00:48:09No, I like them.
00:48:10Ah, that's why you're so delightful, so sympathetic.
00:48:13You always seem to understand.
00:48:15I hope you'll always think so, George, dear.
00:48:17I shall. Believe me.
00:48:19Helen...
00:48:22I'm anxious to tell you something that's long been in my mind.
00:48:26Please do.
00:48:27I beg of you not to consider it the impulse of youth.
00:48:30I won't, George, dear.
00:48:32Very well.
00:48:35There is only one woman in the world
00:48:37I would ask to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:48:39That's very interesting.
00:48:41And if you ask me who she is,
00:48:43I will tell you.
00:48:45Who is she, George?
00:48:47You, Helen.
00:48:49I'm very touched and very flattered.
00:48:51And I am very happy.
00:49:01Ah.
00:49:02Thank you, George.
00:49:04I suppose there's only one woman in this world
00:49:06who would refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:09And if you ask me who she is, I will tell you.
00:49:12Who is she, then?
00:49:14Me, George, dear.
00:49:16Do I hear correctly?
00:49:17Your hearing is perfect.
00:49:19You refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol?
00:49:21I do.
00:49:22May I ask why?
00:49:24Only because you happen to be the Duke.
00:49:29Are you insulting me, Helen?
00:49:31Not nearly as much as you've insulted me.
00:49:34What do you mean?
00:49:35You should have only asked me for my money.
00:49:38You should not have included me with it.
00:49:40I emphatically deny that I asked you to be my wife
00:49:43merely on account of your money.
00:49:44No.
00:49:45No, and I'd have you know
00:49:46there are many women who would be delighted to marry me.
00:49:48I'm sure there are many women
00:49:49who would have loved to have been the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:52Frankly, I wanted to myself
00:49:54until I spent three weeks with you here.
00:49:58May I give you a piece of advice, George?
00:50:01Marry Maria.
00:50:02How dare you?
00:50:03For sheer selfishness, you'll both win the cup outright.
00:50:05Do you mean to tell me that I'm anything like Maria?
00:50:07If she doesn't get away about everything, she sucks.
00:50:10So do you.
00:50:11If Richard doesn't wait on her hand and foot...
00:50:13I've never allowed Richard to wait on me once.
00:50:15Only because you were too busy allowing meat.
00:50:18I thought you liked it.
00:50:20Anyway, yours is a grand position.
00:50:22I envy you.
00:50:23It's something for a profiteer's daughter
00:50:25to have refused a duke.
00:50:29George, many years ago, there was a butcher's shop.
00:50:32An august person passing it one day
00:50:34was not attracted by the meat in the window
00:50:36but by the butcher's wife.
00:50:38The butcher, with an ambitious eye to a knighthood,
00:50:41encouraged him to pass it frequently.
00:50:44With the result, he became a baronet.
00:50:47Now the butcher's wife was encouraged.
00:50:50She too acquired an ambition.
00:50:52So she left the butcher.
00:50:54With the result, her son was born a duke.
00:50:58So far as I can see,
00:51:00the only difference between our two families is
00:51:03my father only profiteered in pickles.
00:51:16You are divine, George, dear.
00:51:18I hope I shall always know you.
00:51:21What are you laughing at?
00:51:23If ever another girl falls in love with you,
00:51:26marry her the next day.
00:51:35What on earth's the matter with George today?
00:51:37Do you think we ought to break his door down?
00:51:39I'm getting quite worried about him.
00:51:40I don't think you need be,
00:51:41just because he stays in his room all day.
00:51:43He hasn't even eaten the food I left on the tray for him.
00:51:45That, I admit, is remarkable.
00:51:47You don't suppose he's cut his throat or hanged himself, do you?
00:51:49Nonsense. He would never be so considerate.
00:51:51I'm glad you didn't wait tea for me.
00:51:53The tide was stronger than I thought.
00:51:57The tide?
00:51:58Yes, it was my turn to row over and get the post.
00:52:01Look what you've done, you fool.
00:52:03Oh, it's all right. There's nothing broken.
00:52:05We just need some more milk.
00:52:06You must be tired.
00:52:08I'll get it.
00:52:16Somebody ought to go with him.
00:52:17He's not safe to be left alone.
00:52:19Nonsense. He's all right.
00:52:25Sorry I've been so long.
00:52:27You're quite well, George, old man.
00:52:29I feel terribly well, thank you, Richard.
00:52:32Where's the post?
00:52:33Post?
00:52:37There wasn't any.
00:52:50Pretty, don't you think?
00:52:55Stop!
00:52:56Stop!
00:52:58Stop him, Richard!
00:53:00Why, Maria, I'm so sorry.
00:53:02I was only playing for you. I thought you liked it.
00:53:04George, I've had enough of this.
00:53:05This what?
00:53:06This fooling, can't you see? You're frightening Maria.
00:53:08Oh, I'm so sorry, Maria. I didn't mean to.
00:53:10I'm very sorry.
00:53:11Careful, George, old man, careful!
00:53:12It's my turn to do the washing up.
00:53:14Oh, don't hurry me.
00:53:16It's my turn to do the washing up.
00:53:18Oh, don't hurry with your tea.
00:53:20I'll go and put the kettle on.
00:53:25All this before he sets fire to the house.
00:53:27Why are you behaving like an idiot, frightening us all?
00:53:47I'm showing Helen I'm not a bit like Maria.
00:53:49What on earth are you talking about?
00:53:51Don't tell me I'm a liar, because I'm not.
00:53:53Do you know what she said when I asked her to marry me?
00:53:55Know what?
00:53:56I'm an ass, I'm conceited, I'm selfish, I nag.
00:53:58I'm the descendant of a...
00:54:00No, no.
00:54:01I'll tell you who I am.
00:54:03Or she says I am.
00:54:04I've never been so disappointed in anybody in all my life.
00:54:07Everything would have been all right if your old woman hadn't started this unapproval business.
00:54:11Are you referring to Mrs. Wisdak?
00:54:13In the last three weeks, Helen's found out a thousand things about me and she doesn't like one of them.
00:54:16I'm leaving tomorrow in the midday train.
00:54:19Did you love her, George?
00:54:20How could a man harassed to death with financial troubles as I am concentrate on love?
00:54:24It's unreasonable, Richard.
00:54:25Anyway, you go and get your old woman to turn you down and see how you like it.
00:54:28Thank you, I have more sense than you have.
00:54:30I'm not risking it.
00:54:32I'm leaving with you.
00:54:33Coward.
00:54:34Not at all.
00:54:36I want to save her the embarrassment of telling me I failed her.
00:54:44Are you better?
00:54:47Are you better?
00:54:49Are you better?
00:54:50Please don't shout at me, Maria.
00:54:52I wish to tell you that your behavior was perfectly disgraceful.
00:54:55And shall I tell you why my behavior was perfectly disgraceful?
00:54:57Why?
00:54:58I wish to be known that I have not one thing in common, nor am I in the least like...
00:55:01George!
00:55:02Very well, Richard, for your sake I won't.
00:55:04But I'm writing to you, Maria.
00:55:11Your hand is all wet, Richard.
00:55:13I'm sorry, Maria, I was about to wash up.
00:55:17You made such a noise.
00:55:18The washing up is to be done, Maria.
00:55:19Of course it is and I'm very grateful to you.
00:55:21Richard, I want to tell you something.
00:55:23Oh, that's all right, Maria, I know.
00:55:24Oh, please, Richard, what I have to say is very embarrassing and you might realize it.
00:55:27I know and I'm sorry.
00:55:28I brought you here for the purpose of finding out, as you know,
00:55:31that if we married, would there be a chance of us both being happy.
00:55:33Quiet, Maria.
00:55:34Will you please be quiet?
00:55:35Sorry.
00:55:36When I left London, I liked you very much.
00:55:38I almost believed you possessed qualities that might endear you to me.
00:55:40I know.
00:55:41But I had no idea how nice you really are.
00:55:43What did you say?
00:55:44Don't interrupt, please.
00:55:45I was going to say, I think you're a thousand times nicer than I ever thought you were.
00:55:48Nicer?
00:55:49Please don't interrupt.
00:55:50It's very irritating.
00:55:51Now, what was I saying?
00:55:53Oh, yes.
00:55:54I have decided not only to marry you, but to prove to you how much I trust you.
00:55:59I'm going to settle 5,000 a year on you for life.
00:56:02Are you pleased?
00:56:04Pleased.
00:56:05But I'm delighted.
00:56:07And all this time, I thought you disliked me.
00:56:09You'll never begin to know how miserable I've been.
00:56:12Oh, but why?
00:56:13Well, you were so intolerant, so horrid to me.
00:56:15Horrid to you?
00:56:16What are you talking about?
00:56:18Oh, now let's straighten this out.
00:56:20You know you tried every way of provoking me to see whether I was bad-tempered or not.
00:56:23I did nothing of the kind.
00:56:25I'd never descend to anything so mean.
00:56:27Maria.
00:56:29You don't mean to tell me that that was really you all the time?
00:56:33Of course.
00:56:35Is that how you'd be if we were married?
00:56:38Naturally.
00:56:41How long did your late husband live with you, Maria?
00:56:4418 years. Why?
00:56:45What a man.
00:56:47What a constitution.
00:56:49How dare you speak to me like that?
00:56:51If you had the faintest idea how you've been speaking to me during the last three weeks,
00:56:55you'd know how and why I dared.
00:56:57Richard, are you mad?
00:56:59Maria, dear, double that 5,000, triple that 5,000,
00:57:02give me every shilling you have in the world, and then the answer would be no.
00:57:05Oh, Richard.
00:57:06Maria, I shall always love you for having given me the opportunity of finding you out.
00:57:11I would have married you, not knowing.
00:57:13You, you beast.
00:57:16May I remind you, Maria, there's a great deal more washing up to be done.
00:57:28George.
00:57:29If you have anything to say to me, kindly address me through a third person.
00:57:32What have you been doing in your room all this evening?
00:57:34Seeking repose.
00:57:35And just now?
00:57:36Seeking alcohol, without much success, I may say.
00:57:39George, will you come and talk to me?
00:57:43If you promise not to revile me again.
00:57:45Not tonight, anyway.
00:57:48Helen, once there was a time when I thought you liked me.
00:57:52Liked you?
00:57:54Three weeks ago, I adored you.
00:57:56If you'd asked me to marry you then, I would have.
00:57:59I adored you so much.
00:58:01And now?
00:58:03I've spent the last three weeks with you, and I think it's been my greatest disappointment.
00:58:08You mean I died on you?
00:58:09The second day.
00:58:11Well, that's not the experience of other women who have known me.
00:58:14You know, Helen, I'm always being asked out to dinner parties because people find me amusing.
00:58:19A dinner party only lasts two hours.
00:58:21A marriage has been known to last for two years.
00:58:24Yes.
00:58:26Helen, these last three weeks, are they indelibly imprinted on your mind?
00:58:32They are imprinted.
00:58:34Why?
00:58:37I only asked.
00:58:38I only asked.
00:58:45I suppose it's because I'm a woman and therefore infinitely foolish.
00:58:49But I think I could forget these past three weeks, if you could tell me one thing.
00:58:54Dadly.
00:58:56The color of my eyes?
00:58:59Blue.
00:59:09Good night, George, dear.
00:59:18Come in.
00:59:21Helen.
00:59:22Shh.
00:59:23Come away from the door.
00:59:24I thought for a moment you were Maria.
00:59:26Maria's lying in bed stunned by the shock you gave her.
00:59:28I find myself curiously unmoved.
00:59:30I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a fright.
00:59:32I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a fright.
00:59:35I find myself curiously unmoved.
00:59:37I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a fright, too.
00:59:39Oh, where is he?
00:59:40Poor dear, he's sitting at the bottom of the stairs trying to convince himself he's colorblind.
00:59:43Colorblind?
00:59:44Oh, it doesn't matter, Richard.
00:59:46He'll recover.
00:59:47To do any good, I'm afraid he needs at least six months on a desert island.
00:59:51Alone with Maria.
00:59:53Alone with Maria.
00:59:55Richard, I really came to ask whether you were enjoying it here very much.
00:59:59Oh, Helen, you know I'm having a perfectly awful time.
01:00:02Then why go on having a perfectly awful time?
01:00:06Oh, I see what you mean.
01:00:08Oh, you are clever, Helen.
01:00:10But of course, the sooner the better.
01:00:12Then you agree that the island should be deserted?
01:00:14As far as I'm concerned, tomorrow.
01:00:15All right, then. Tomorrow.
01:00:17Good night.
01:00:18I'll see if the coast is clear.
01:00:20Richard.
01:00:21Yes?
01:00:22I wonder if you could tell me something.
01:00:23Of course, Helen. What?
01:00:24The color of my eyes.
01:00:26What a funny question.
01:00:28Green, of course.
01:00:30How observant you are.
01:00:32Thank you, Richard.
01:00:36Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
01:01:00Tomorrow.
01:01:21Not a sound.
01:01:25Not a sound.
01:01:26You'd hardly believe they were in the house.
01:01:28Well, how dare they stay here?
01:01:29Well, you can't expect them to wait on a cold railway platform.
01:01:32Why not?
01:01:35To think that I brought that brute here to see if I liked him.
01:01:38And he has the audacity to say he doesn't like me.
01:01:41My stomach is cold, my head is hot, my arteries are hardening.
01:01:45Only alcohol will get me on the train.
01:01:47Nonsense.
01:01:48Never again do I raise a finger.
01:01:50Besides, you shouldn't have drunk all the cooking, Sherry.
01:01:53I would not have asked you, Richard,
01:01:55were it not for the fact that I knew those extremely unpleasant women.
01:01:59As it is, I shall die standing.
01:02:01I'm not sure which of us is the luckier.
01:02:03I, to have lost a vulgar little man.
01:02:06Or you, to have avoided marrying a congenital idiot.
01:02:09Well, George isn't entirely an idiot.
01:02:11I quite agree.
01:02:13What do you want?
01:02:14The rain is now coming through the roof in 15 places.
01:02:17Well, what of it?
01:02:20We have only 14 receptacles.
01:02:22Well?
01:02:23What do you suggest?
01:02:24I suggest that you will find the railway platform far less uncomfortable than my house.
01:02:28Well, Richard and I have talked it over and decided we'll find it exactly the same.
01:02:31Then why not get Richard to mend the roof?
01:02:32I don't think he'd agree.
01:02:34Ever since he told you the truth about yourself, he's so conceited there's no holding him.
01:02:37Is he boasting about that?
01:02:38Rather.
01:02:39Now he's bragging that one day he'll turn you into a decent woman.
01:02:42How dare he?
01:02:43Well, he says it can be done.
01:02:44He's very childish today.
01:02:48Mrs. Wislak, would you give me the key of the alcohol cupboard?
01:02:51I will not.
01:02:54Did you have that brandy and sodas I told you?
01:02:56She whom you once loved refuses to cough up the key.
01:03:00Give me the key of that cupboard which should never be locked.
01:03:02I'll do nothing of the sort.
01:03:03Give it to me, I tell you.
01:03:04No.
01:03:05Then you place me in the hideous position
01:03:07of having to reveal myself as a man who has always known where it was.
01:03:17You mean to say that all this time you've had access to the liquor without telling me?
01:03:20You had your cigars.
01:03:22And it's only because you're cold that I'm relenting.
01:03:27Helen.
01:03:27Yes?
01:03:29Be good enough to get George a small brandy and soda.
01:03:33You'd better go and get ready.
01:03:34How dare you whisper to my late fiancée?
01:03:37Ah!
01:03:38You libertine, blowing kisses to a girl young enough to be your daughter.
01:03:42Mrs. Wislak, for me to have been Helen's father
01:03:46I should have had to have been an enterprising boy of fourteen.
01:03:53How long?
01:03:54Four minutes.
01:03:55In the kitchen.
01:03:56Go down the back stairs.
01:03:57Four minutes.
01:04:00Mrs. Wislak!
01:04:03Araya!
01:04:04I don't want to speak to you, but I must.
01:04:05I don't want to speak to you and I won't.
01:04:06Stop!
01:04:08Do you love Richard?
01:04:08Shh! Don't shout.
01:04:10Do you love Richard?
01:04:11Yes, you beast.
01:04:12Must you shout the facts of life outside Richard's bedroom?
01:04:15Come to my room.
01:04:23I never thought I would willingly enter here.
01:04:28Please be seated.
01:04:29I feel less frightened of you when you're sitting down.
01:04:31What have you got to say?
01:04:32Are you prepared to call a truce for ten minutes?
01:04:34For reason?
01:04:35Love.
01:04:35Five minutes.
01:04:36Very well.
01:04:36In a few hours, Richard and I will have left this house forever.
01:04:39Thank heaven.
01:04:40Stop pretending.
01:04:41Well, surely a woman's entitled to some modesty.
01:04:43Not when you're about to lose your loved one.
01:04:45I close my eyes.
01:04:45I see a divine face.
01:04:47Her little hands.
01:04:48I am in love.
01:04:49With yourself, perhaps.
01:04:51Shut up!
01:04:53Hmm?
01:04:56Out!
01:05:08What are you doing?
01:05:09Kindly put down my nightdress.
01:05:11It's a nightdress no longer.
01:05:12It's a flag of truce.
01:05:13Sit down.
01:05:14Now, to continue.
01:05:16I propose to stay here and keep Richard too.
01:05:19Oh.
01:05:20In such moments, damnable as it is,
01:05:22we must forget the word honor.
01:05:23That should be easy for you.
01:05:25Aye.
01:05:26I beg your pardon.
01:05:27Granted.
01:05:28Now, I thought of a way to win them back.
01:05:30Oh.
01:05:31Maria, I imagine few men have been in love with you.
01:05:34Ah.
01:05:35I beg your pardon.
01:05:36Granted.
01:05:37Of one thing I am certain.
01:05:39I must never let Helen see my heart is broken.
01:05:43I have a pain here.
01:05:45Wind.
01:05:47I beg your pardon.
01:05:48Granted, but you try me very hard, Maria.
01:05:51Now, what I suggest is that we shall be so pleasant and friendly
01:05:54and even affectionate to each other
01:05:56that Richard will not dare to leave me here with you.
01:05:58If we show them a united front, we'll lose confidence.
01:06:01Drink to me only with thine eyes
01:06:09and I will pleasure thee mine.
01:06:17You hurry down to the boat.
01:06:17I'll meet you with the luggage in a few minutes.
01:06:19You're quite sure we're doing the right thing?
01:06:21Of course, I'm sure.
01:06:22Oh, very well, then.
01:06:23But don't be too long.
01:06:25Not for me.
01:06:26I thought I heard.
01:06:29I did.
01:06:32The pursuit from the soul doth rise
01:06:40and doth ask a drink divine.
01:06:50But might I of Job's nectar stop,
01:06:58I would not change
01:07:04all mine.
01:07:13Charming, my dear, charming.
01:07:15What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:17Thank you, George.
01:07:18What did you say, George, just then?
01:07:19Charming, my dear, charming.
01:07:20What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:22Oh, that's what I thought you said.
01:07:23Oh, by the way, Richard, Maria's persuaded me to stay on.
01:07:25I hope your journey south will not be too lonely.
01:07:27What did you say, George?
01:07:28Oh, pay no attention to that vulgar little man.
01:07:30I'm not a vulgar little man.
01:07:32You look vulgar.
01:07:33You're quite right, George.
01:07:34Ah, bless you, Maria, bless you.
01:07:35Don't.
01:07:37Don't you think Patti's quite wonderful this season?
01:07:39Personally, I prefer Caviar.
01:07:41No, I mean the singer, Adelina.
01:07:43Oh, the cotton garden woman.
01:07:44Well, Maria, there are voices and there are voices.
01:07:47That's what I feel about yours.
01:07:48You know, your voice has a certain rare quality,
01:07:52fortunately.
01:07:53Thank you, Maria.
01:07:54What would you like me to sing?
01:07:56That one about when you were 41.
01:07:58What?
01:07:5917.
01:08:00Oh.
01:08:01Oh, you mean this one?
01:08:04That's the one.
01:08:06Richard, instead of standing there gaping,
01:08:07you could be upstairs unpacking my suitcases.
01:08:10All of them?
01:08:10All of them, and put out my pajamas.
01:08:12Maria, what is your favorite color?
01:08:15Pink.
01:08:16Put out my pink pajamas.
01:08:18Pink.
01:08:19Play away, Maria, but let your music be only for me.
01:08:23I'm just 17, and I've never been to any stately ball.
01:08:32What have you been doing?
01:08:34Putting out George's pink pajamas.
01:08:36I have opened wide my lattice, letting in the laughing breeze.
01:08:40Telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees.
01:08:44Telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees.
01:08:52my lattice letting in the laughing breeze
01:08:55telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees
01:08:59telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees
01:09:08oh the spring, oh the spring is coming
01:09:17oh the spring, the spring is coming, it is goodbye to all of...
01:09:23they're coming let them find us in a more romantic setting
01:09:26come
01:09:33they've both gone
01:09:37idiot
01:09:56it's all your fault stop them stop them why don't you do
01:09:59something have to bite me to swim out like a dog and bring them both back in
01:10:02my teeth bite him manchu bite him i warn you
01:10:05one move from that loathsome creature and i'll hurl her into the water
01:10:08and i may not stop at her him
01:10:17maria maria well do boats ever come near this island
01:10:22not for weeks on end couldn't we signal to the mainland
01:10:25but how we could burn down the house you try
01:10:28that means you and i alone here yes and just think what people will say they'll
01:10:32say nothing my reputation will save you from that
01:10:35you're what my reputation is a man of taste
01:10:38where are you going what are you going to do i'm going to my bed
01:10:42well you needn't trouble to knock your door maria only the rain will want to
01:10:45come in
01:10:49George
01:11:01george
01:11:19oh
01:11:23ah
01:11:27ah
01:11:41so
01:11:57so
01:12:09ah
01:12:27so
01:12:48oh
01:12:57oh
01:13:03oh
01:13:11oh
01:13:15oh
01:13:24ah
01:13:38George
01:13:45ah whatever's the matter oh it's you oh i can't sleep at all i'm having such
01:13:51terrible dreams oh so am i it's the haggis
01:13:53i want to go back so do i get out you
01:13:58no
01:14:15so
01:14:35george george how do you do there's a man in my room
01:14:41why she's not in her bed
01:15:04ah there they are ah so it was you breaking into maria's bed what are you
01:15:08doing with maria what are you doing in george's room i thought you'd finish for him
01:15:11oh you burglars how dare you how dare i what make love to maria
01:15:15i'm very fond of maria
01:15:30and that's grand mama and that's grand papa
01:15:38oh and that's a picture of your daddy taken on our honeymoon
01:15:41honeymoon is when you go away together after you are married
01:15:45pardon me lady bristol haven't you made a mistake
01:15:48oh i'm not lady bristol and i don't think i made a mistake
01:15:52you mean you married richard that's right
01:15:56but what happened to george whom did he marry in the end
01:15:59you'd be surprised look
01:16:02you're joking
01:16:05believe me it's no joke
01:16:08george coming darling
01:16:15ho