Francesca, obsessed with her late lover, tries seducing her son James who has a girlfriend. Her husband learns of her intentions and attempts to kill her, resulting in a dramatic confrontati... Read allFrancesca, obsessed with her late lover, tries seducing her son James who has a girlfriend.
Release date: Jul 16, 1970
Duration: 01:36:00
Director: John Newland
Actors: Romy SchneiderDonald HoustonDennis Waterman …
Rating: 5.1/10 - 386 votes
Release date: Jul 16, 1970
Duration: 01:36:00
Director: John Newland
Actors: Romy SchneiderDonald HoustonDennis Waterman …
Rating: 5.1/10 - 386 votes
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00:01:30Frances.
00:01:35Frances.
00:01:41Frances!
00:01:52Frances!
00:02:00I
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00:03:50Francis Francis
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00:04:12Francis
00:04:30I
00:04:57You member
00:04:59Sorry
00:05:00Are you a new member of the club? I joined recently your accent sounds foreign
00:05:08Are you German I
00:05:12Was I thought you was are you always so welcoming to new members
00:05:21Nice class of people here, don't you think?
00:05:25Certainly
00:05:26I'm a social climber, you know, that's why I joined
00:05:33Are you part of the welcoming committee? Oh, no, I
00:05:38Am terribly timid you see. Oh, oh I get embarrassed to meet new people. I
00:05:47Have an idea let's go where shall we go? No
00:05:56I think I'll go and change my clothes
00:05:59And I'll change mine. Oh
00:06:01You know about telepathy. I try it's a game. Is it well today? My name is Maximilian now your name
00:06:09It's Francesca. I know I saw your driving license when
00:06:16When I looked in your handbag
00:06:18When when you were powdering your nose, I
00:06:23Hope I won't seem forward
00:06:26I
00:06:44Think I hear about coming
00:06:48But I
00:06:51Was thinking about dinner
00:06:53Do you think I'm dressed for it?
00:06:56More or less. Are you rich?
00:07:00Very rich good
00:07:07Where shall we go the Ritz
00:07:26I
00:07:49Don't think I'll play any more games today
00:07:56I
00:08:10Let's be enthusiastic, let's be glad to see him
00:08:13And
00:08:26Am I glad to be home how was Ethiopia hot and tiresome and it wasn't Ethiopia it was Kenya
00:08:33Well, what's it like? Well at that altitude you get drunk on a thimble full of gin. Yeah, give me a hand with those
00:08:39What are you doing home on a Thursday?
00:08:41Um, I have something on tonight and I've got permission
00:08:45How's it going?
00:08:47Well, it's a crash course and I'm cramming. My head is crammed good. Why didn't you let us know you're coming?
00:08:58Put them down over by the wardrobe James. Yes, sir. I brought you all kinds of nonsense
00:09:08How's that
00:09:11I
00:09:19Watch James doing home. Oh
00:09:21Some function in London tonight here after an hour ago some debutant party. Yes. Yes, I think so. I don't remember
00:09:30Do you know what date it is?
00:09:33Date
00:09:35June June, I don't know. Well, do you know what happened exactly 19 years ago today?
00:09:49Korea or something. I don't remember. I don't know a
00:09:53Skinny little girl on her first visit to London was standing at the stalls bar of the Palladium drinking lemonade
00:10:05Oh
00:10:22What that
00:10:35Well, if this is an anniversary, I think we ought to open this famous bottle of birth clicquot you've hidden somewhere in the house
00:10:43That's where us to drink and we have guests arriving guests. It's a celebration
00:10:49Anniversary and the completion of the Kenya deal. Oh
00:10:53How many hundreds about 36?
00:11:02James
00:11:05I
00:11:07Have not but we haven't got time for a game, but if you'd like me to teach you a few shots I can
00:11:14No, thanks
00:11:16You know, you can usually win yourself a drink or two with this kind of shot just watch
00:11:26Hey listen
00:11:31I
00:11:34Want to know something
00:11:38Do you always walk into your mother's bedroom like that I
00:11:43Don't know what you mean
00:11:46Do you always walk into your mother's bedroom like that?
00:11:51Without an announcement
00:11:54Couldn't you have announced yourself? I
00:11:56Did you did not?
00:11:59You in the habit of doing that. I
00:12:02Don't know well think of the appearances of it my boy
00:12:09And not a little child, you know
00:12:12You're a full-grown man. You understand my meaning if I do it's very insulting to my mother
00:12:19Do you think that I would insult your mother? I
00:12:24Think you'd insult God
00:12:31I
00:13:01Please
00:13:31Oh
00:13:36Hello, look at Francis, okay, you think she was James's girl not his mother
00:13:49Mother you are going back east again. Do you think when oh, yes, there's Bangkok. I'm starting a vast new complex there, you know
00:14:01Fascinated by mrs. Anderson. She's so terribly lively and refreshing
00:14:22What will you say
00:14:31Oh
00:15:01Oh
00:15:31Oh
00:16:01I
00:16:31I
00:17:01I
00:17:31I
00:18:01I
00:18:31I
00:19:01I
00:19:31I
00:19:38Would you send someone into the gentleman's to see if mr. Cameron's there he might be ill or something
00:19:53He's been gone a good half-hour
00:20:02Well in his absence may I buy you a drink oh, yes
00:20:12Mr. George can yes, that's right. They set up the door. He's left about 20 minutes ago. Oh, how very annoying
00:20:19What would you like? Oh the same scotch water to please?
00:20:24You
00:20:29You'll have to put this on his account his accounts over a hundred pounds now miss I can't do that
00:20:34Well, I haven't enough. I can't pay for it myself. You can give us a check. Well, I haven't got my check
00:20:38You could fill in a blank check. Excuse me
00:20:43How much is mr. Kim worth its bill for tonight
00:20:47Six pounds ten shillings
00:20:50I'll be pleased to pay that. Thank you very much
00:20:53Mr. Kenworthy can pay me when I next see
00:21:06I'd say that was rather shabby
00:21:09Thank you. I would say oh you shouldn't have but you shouldn't have
00:21:23A great friend of yours is he well until now. I think this may be his way of saying goodbye
00:21:29Very abrupt. Well, he's a Scott sometimes they are abrupt
00:21:37Would you like to dance? Yes. All right
00:21:40I
00:21:51Well by this time I was getting my two feet back on the ground and I was up to grade BBC from assistant floor manager to
00:21:57trainee vision mixer, I
00:21:59Think it was that fact made me say. All right, Rod
00:22:02quits out
00:22:04finish
00:22:06And so on to Kenworth
00:22:08Yes
00:22:10Did you quarrel tonight I never quite sometimes I
00:22:18Would you like another drink I think I'd rather have some air instead
00:22:26My mother always felt very strongly about not betraying one's class just so old-fashioned
00:22:33Boring, it's boring and wrong
00:22:39We all have that problem one way or another yes, I suppose so
00:22:46Do you work today? No, I've just finished a show. I'm off until Saturday. Well, I'm exhausted. I think I'll say goodnight
00:22:56Is this it yes the boat well now you find your way you must come see me and thank you
00:23:08Mr. Kenworth, thank you, and I thank you
00:23:20Good night
00:23:38Why didn't the caterers men do all this?
00:23:56It was late.
00:23:57I sent them home.
00:23:58You know, I find you the most fabulous Spanish couple, and you sent them packing.
00:24:05I do not want live-in service.
00:24:08A daily woman is enough, I've told you.
00:24:11Hey.
00:24:12Have you been telling people that you were a circus artist when you were a girl?
00:24:19Huh?
00:24:20There was a very boring man, Mr. Woods Poulsen.
00:24:23Mr. Woods, Woods.
00:24:25And to keep myself from being bored, I told him that when I was a child, I performed in
00:24:30a circus.
00:24:31You have a very special way of embarrassing me, haven't you?
00:24:38Go to bed.
00:24:44Are you going to bed?
00:24:47Not until Jamie's home.
00:24:51Jamie!
00:24:52Jamie!
00:24:54I'm your husband!
00:25:07Guten Morgen.
00:25:25Where were you?
00:25:29On a tour of the flesh pots, naturally.
00:25:33With the accent on the flesh or the pot?
00:25:42Well, we're about equally stressed.
00:25:45You know I never touch the hard stuff.
00:25:50I don't know anything of the kind.
00:25:53I don't know anything about you.
00:25:57Were you in London?
00:26:00The man who is tired of London is tired of life.
00:26:05Dr. Johnson said that over 200 years ago.
00:26:10What's more, you're drunk.
00:26:12Are you insane, driving in that condition?
00:26:15You could kill somebody.
00:26:17No, you could.
00:26:19You have that familiar murderer's glint in your eye.
00:26:24I might have got engaged to be married tonight.
00:26:28On the other hand, I might not have.
00:26:31It is possible she wasn't taking me seriously.
00:26:45I didn't mean it, Fran.
00:26:47I was only joking, really.
00:26:49I'll never forget it.
00:26:51Go to your room.
00:27:21Good night.
00:27:52What time did he get home?
00:27:57Quite late.
00:28:00So long as his work doesn't suffer.
00:28:07Do you really think he should go back to that school?
00:28:12Will he never get into university if he doesn't?
00:28:15Some boys are cut out for university and some aren't.
00:28:20You know, you're so transparent, you should wear armor.
00:28:24In just one term away from home, he's grown up so rapidly that you can't bear it.
00:28:30You don't want to risk what's going to happen to him if he goes away.
00:28:36I think you will find he's beginning to have a will of his own.
00:28:40Meaning precisely what?
00:28:42That he doesn't want to go back to that school.
00:28:44And if he does, he won't study.
00:28:46He will fail to get into university by his own choice.
00:28:51I could always hire a male companion for you while he's away.
00:28:56Or a dog.
00:28:58I could buy you a nice, big sheepdog.
00:29:01For an hour's session.
00:29:03To follow you about wherever you go.
00:29:12Yes?
00:29:15Mr. Browning morning.
00:29:17I thought he had permission.
00:29:20Four days?
00:29:24I assure you that he will be there on Monday morning.
00:29:30James!
00:29:39James!
00:29:45I want to talk to you alone.
00:29:49Without your mother.
00:29:51I shall expect you in my office tonight.
00:29:54At seven o'clock.
00:30:04Jamie.
00:30:06Why don't you have your bath in my bathroom?
00:30:09It's nicer.
00:30:11But I thought your bathroom was forbidden territory.
00:30:17All right.
00:30:19You make me sound forbidding. I'm never that, am I?
00:30:22No, not really.
00:30:25Jamie?
00:30:35Have your bath.
00:30:42Jamie, darling.
00:30:44What are you thinking about?
00:30:46Cambridge?
00:30:48Yes.
00:30:50And what do you think about Cambridge?
00:30:55Oh, I don't know.
00:30:57What else can I do?
00:31:00He wouldn't just let me do nothing, would he?
00:31:02No.
00:31:04But I have got an idea I'm working on.
00:31:07You know I haven't been anywhere for five years.
00:31:10Except Paris for some shopping.
00:31:12So I'm just going to say to him,
00:31:14why don't Jamie and I take a trip around the world?
00:31:21How?
00:31:24On a very slow boat.
00:31:38Shall we play one of our games today?
00:31:44Uh, I'm going out today.
00:31:50All day?
00:31:55That's all right.
00:31:57Do exactly what you want to.
00:32:00If you find boys' company so exciting,
00:32:03If you find boys' company so exciting,
00:32:06I don't know what you talk about what's so special.
00:32:10Oh, come on, Fran.
00:32:27Green everywhere, everywhere
00:32:30The smell of flowers in the air, in the air
00:32:35The winter's gone
00:32:40It lasted so long
00:32:46Skies looking fair, looking fair
00:32:49A gentle breeze in your hair, in your hair
00:32:54The days are long
00:32:59They wander along
00:33:04And summer's here
00:33:08Time to love you now
00:33:13Let me love you now
00:33:20Time hurries by, hurries by
00:33:23And now you're here
00:33:25See it fly, see it fly
00:33:28But never mind
00:33:32The weather's been kind
00:33:37And summer's here
00:33:42Time to love you now
00:33:46Let me love you now
00:33:56He's not a child, and it's about time you stopped treating him like one.
00:34:00No, Francis! He's meeting me here, and he'd better be here.
00:34:04Now, goodbye.
00:34:06What's On Your Mind?
00:34:22What's on your mind?
00:34:28What will you say?
00:34:34What's on your mind?
00:34:39Don't go away
00:34:45When you looked at me the other day
00:34:49Your eyes were far away
00:34:53I know I'm only just a name to you
00:34:59Tell me now
00:35:01Don't let me wonder now
00:35:04Is there somebody
00:35:09What's on your mind?
00:35:15What will you say?
00:35:28What will you say?
00:35:40Oh!
00:35:42Well, let's go and see the real thing.
00:35:44Won't you get a complex?
00:35:49I've never been here before.
00:35:58What's on your mind?
00:36:28What will you say?
00:36:33What will you say?
00:36:54Now, with birds, their natural instinct is to leave the nest.
00:36:59In education has some uses.
00:37:02Oh, I didn't learn that in school.
00:37:04All they teach you is useless stuff, so that I'll get into Cambridge.
00:37:10Try telling your father about the useless things.
00:37:13I might.
00:37:20The thing about her is her constant sense of fun.
00:37:24You know, anything and everything for a laugh.
00:37:27She plays games, too.
00:37:29What sort of games?
00:37:30Oh, she just makes them up.
00:37:34Her clothes are all sort of French.
00:37:38Except when she decides to dress like a Chelsea bird.
00:37:42She has antique clothes, too.
00:37:44Well, for parties, not old clothes, antique clothes.
00:37:47That does sound smart.
00:37:49In some ways, she's very European.
00:37:52But in others, she's...
00:37:57When did you meet?
00:38:00Not long ago.
00:38:02Where?
00:38:04At a swimming pool.
00:38:06And we got talking, and then we went out.
00:38:12Have you always been attracted to older women?
00:38:15No.
00:38:17Not really.
00:38:20Just this one.
00:38:27I'll tell Mr. Anderson you're here.
00:38:29No, don't bother. I'm meeting my son here, and I'm early.
00:38:39I'll cut him off at the entrance.
00:38:47See if you can answer this.
00:38:49Which king first married a Spanish princess, then an Austrian princess,
00:38:54then the daughter of a French king, all of whom pre-deceased him?
00:38:57Henry VIII, of course.
00:39:00Philip II of Spain.
00:39:02Oh, so it was.
00:39:04Here, a large scotch and half pint of bitter, please.
00:39:07I prefer a scotch.
00:39:11Two large scotches.
00:39:14Where on this planet, if you walked five miles south, five miles west, and five miles north again,
00:39:20would you end up at the precise point where you began?
00:39:23That's one of those equator riddles.
00:39:26I don't let my head get fuzzy with that sort of thing.
00:39:29That was one of the problems in logic I had to deal with recently.
00:39:32No harm.
00:39:33What use is that to me?
00:39:35Useful, sir. Useful.
00:39:38Cheers.
00:39:40I mean, the mind is a muscle, isn't it?
00:39:44It's exercising like any other.
00:39:46The eye is a muscle. It must be exercising.
00:39:48I mean, what else are muscles for?
00:39:51I have a new friend who works for the BBC as a television mixer.
00:39:55Do you know what that is?
00:39:57No.
00:39:58Now, on that point, you can enlighten me.
00:40:02Well, a vision mixer sits at a sort of console,
00:40:06watching eight telescreens, four in a row, four below.
00:40:10My friend selects which shot will be seen by the public by pressing button one.
00:40:15That's a fantastic skill.
00:40:18Marvelous.
00:40:19I mean, can you imagine the responsibility of pushing all those buttons?
00:40:24Skill.
00:40:25Yes, an extraordinary skill.
00:40:28There is such a thing as skilled labour.
00:40:31Indeed, yes.
00:40:32And skilled labourers.
00:40:34Magnificent.
00:40:36They do not live in a house with numerous bedrooms,
00:40:39with spacious lawns behind an avenue of ancient elm trees.
00:40:43Their wives do not fly off to Paris for the day to buy a dress and come back empty-handed.
00:40:48They do not swan down to the...
00:40:50These are the trimmings of life.
00:40:52Wages, sir.
00:40:54They earn wages.
00:40:56And spend the...
00:40:57Ah, yes.
00:40:58Happily, living by their hands.
00:41:00And from hand to mouth.
00:41:02James.
00:41:15I'm only a little bit more than twice your age.
00:41:18My feelings about things are as deeply felt as yours.
00:41:22Except that I have felt them twice as long as you have.
00:41:29You didn't have permission to leave school.
00:41:34You don't want to go back.
00:41:36No, I don't.
00:41:39I want you back there first thing Monday morning.
00:41:42I'd like to talk about that.
00:41:43No more talk.
00:41:46Monday morning.
00:42:02Well, why should I do what he says?
00:42:04I mean, what can he do?
00:42:06Well, he could cut up your lunch.
00:42:10I'll earn my living.
00:42:12What would you do?
00:42:15Well, anything.
00:42:18It isn't easy.
00:42:21I'll manage.
00:42:22Do you know what you really want to do?
00:42:28I just want to be myself.
00:42:32Whatever that is.
00:42:34If you'd like some dinner to be sent in, Miss Clarkson, then why don't you?
00:42:37Thanks.
00:42:41I thought you called Miss Clarkson by her Christian name.
00:42:44Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.
00:42:50You saw James?
00:42:52I saw James.
00:42:54We'll have a nice talk about him at dinner.
00:42:57Where are you going to take me? To the Gorizia?
00:43:00I have to be in Torquay first thing in the morning.
00:43:02I shall drive down tonight after my New York call comes through.
00:43:07I'll be back on Sunday before James leaves for school.
00:43:38I'll bet you didn't have anything to eat.
00:43:41A lot to eat, and a lot to drink.
00:43:45What was it?
00:43:47Another debutante party?
00:43:51No, a stag party.
00:43:53With the boys.
00:43:56Jeremy Holbrook's getting married tomorrow.
00:43:59Jeremy Holbrook is 19 years old.
00:44:02Jeremy Holbrook is 19 years old.
00:44:05Yes, and he's getting married tomorrow.
00:44:13This is nice.
00:44:16Just the two of us.
00:44:19We're going to have a lovely, beautiful weekend.
00:44:23I have to go somewhere.
00:44:26I promised.
00:44:29Oh.
00:44:36Jamie, what happened tonight?
00:44:40What really happened between Robert and you? Tell me.
00:44:44Well, we had a good old-fashioned heart-to-heart.
00:44:49And then later I decided I'm not going to university.
00:44:53Good.
00:45:00You're not lying to me about the stag party, are you?
00:45:04I am old enough to look after myself.
00:45:08And go where I like.
00:45:17When you're gone for hours, I... I worry.
00:45:22Coming home like last night and driving in this condition, I...
00:45:29I worry.
00:45:31Can't you let me swim in peace?
00:46:00You didn't finish your drink.
00:46:04Let's go and do the drawing.
00:46:08We'll have a nice Sunday together.
00:46:12I mean...
00:46:15It's not like it's our last weekend.
00:46:19I mean, I'm not going back to school, am I?
00:46:23I mean, I'm not going back to school, am I?
00:46:28I'm sorry if I sound cynical, but I find it rather difficult to trust men.
00:46:35Or let me put it this way.
00:46:38I don't trust men.
00:46:41I don't trust men.
00:46:44I don't trust men.
00:46:47I don't trust men.
00:46:50I don't trust men.
00:46:53I find it rather difficult to trust men.
00:46:57Or let's face it, my relationships haven't been very successful.
00:47:02What about ours?
00:47:04We've barely started.
00:47:06We must work at it. It isn't easy.
00:47:10I think I already know that.
00:47:14I'm hungry.
00:47:16Do you like spaghetti?
00:47:18I serve the best spaghetti on any houseboat in the Thames.
00:47:26Since you like Italian food so much, why don't you go to Italy?
00:47:30I hear it's marvellous.
00:47:32She wanted me to go.
00:47:34She?
00:47:36Oh, the lady you were telling me about.
00:47:39You mean she wants you to go with her?
00:47:44I've never been.
00:47:50She is obviously very important to you.
00:48:13Is this a hammock?
00:48:43I don't know.
00:49:13Jimmy?
00:49:43Jimmy?
00:50:13It's all right.
00:50:43It's all right.
00:51:13It's all right.
00:51:36It's all right.
00:51:39It's all right.
00:51:43It's all right.
00:52:14Oh, Cicely.
00:52:18How is it that some men can communicate with their sons...
00:52:23and that no matter how much I try, I can't?
00:52:27Like Sidney Brent in the end.
00:52:31Do you remember last year I made a suggestion...
00:52:34about interesting him in something that you could do together?
00:52:37Like golf?
00:52:39Oh, Cicely.
00:52:41What does he like?
00:52:44Experimental films in foreign languages.
00:52:48And they bore me.
00:52:57Whose is this?
00:52:59It's one of the things that Rod left behind.
00:53:03That's the Australian?
00:53:12I wasn't very good, was I?
00:53:15You know, it has something to do with experience.
00:53:24I feel a mess.
00:53:27Failure.
00:53:29Can you swim?
00:53:31Yes.
00:53:33Can you remember the first time you swam? Were you good? Were you confident?
00:53:37I don't know.
00:53:39I was terrified. Scared to death.
00:53:43Sex is like that, in a way.
00:53:46I don't mean to go on about it, but it was the first time, wasn't it?
00:53:51No.
00:53:53No, many times. Many.
00:53:56An imagination?
00:53:59Yes.
00:54:07The older woman you were telling me about this evening, is she foreign?
00:54:11No, she's English.
00:54:13Born here?
00:54:15Well, an English subject.
00:54:17Not born here, though.
00:54:19What are you asking that for?
00:54:22I thought you might have been thinking of her.
00:54:26Earlier, when we...
00:54:28Maybe I was.
00:54:30I had a message at the television centre today, while we were out.
00:54:34From a lady with an accent.
00:54:36She said she was Mrs Anderson.
00:54:39At first, I thought it must be your wife.
00:54:43Then I thought about it, and put two and two together.
00:54:47Very clever.
00:54:49Or one and one.
00:54:53She's your mother, isn't she?
00:54:56Isn't she?
00:55:26Oh, dear.
00:55:57What's on your mind?
00:56:04What will...
00:56:26What's on your mind?
00:56:56Hello?
00:57:06It's time to go.
00:57:11Not when I'm drinking.
00:57:14Come on, Fran, we're going home.
00:57:17You're drunk!
00:57:19And I'm drinking.
00:57:22Home!
00:57:27You can live your life, but I got mine.
00:57:30I just wanna set me free.
00:57:34Gonna make the most of all my time.
00:57:37Make the most of all for me.
00:57:41Make the most of all for me.
00:57:44Good things I want, the good things.
00:57:47No time for your things.
00:57:49I wanna have a little time to live now.
00:57:52I wanna give now some of my time.
00:57:55Little girl, I know.
00:58:00If you wanna try another line,
00:58:03Run a little on my track.
00:58:07Come on, take it easy on my mind.
00:58:10If not, well, just get off my back.
00:58:13If not, well, just get off my back.
00:58:17Good things I want, the good things.
00:58:20No time for your things.
00:58:22I wanna have a little time to live now.
00:58:25I wanna give now some of my time.
00:58:28Little girl, I know.
00:58:46Mama!
00:58:49Let's go home.
00:58:51Good things I want, the good things.
00:58:53No time for your things.
00:58:55I wanna have a little time to live now.
00:58:58I wanna give now some of my time.
00:59:01Little girl, I know.
00:59:15Little girl, I know.
00:59:21I've often worried about her mental health.
00:59:26She has a crazed look sometimes.
00:59:30I don't know how to describe it.
00:59:34What are you worried about?
00:59:38James.
00:59:42Stay at home tonight.
01:00:04No, I can't.
01:00:23Mesa?
01:00:27Mesa?
01:00:56Mesa?
01:01:26Mesa?
01:01:56Mesa?
01:02:16Mesa?
01:02:34Are you Mesa?
01:02:39No.
01:02:45Mesa is dead.
01:02:49Come along now.
01:02:53You don't look like him at all.
01:02:55Come along. You're spilling your wine.
01:02:57Come along where?
01:02:58You're spilling it.
01:03:05I am landscaping.
01:03:09I'm planning to make this garden into something really special.
01:03:13Marvellous idea.
01:03:14Along the lines of Versailles, you know?
01:03:16Splendid, splendid.
01:03:18Oh, Robert, do orange trees grow here?
01:03:21Of course.
01:03:22Costs a lot.
01:03:24But I don't care.
01:03:25I don't care at all.
01:03:27Come along.
01:03:29Careful.
01:03:31Are you drunk?
01:03:34I think you've been drinking.
01:03:37I'm going to make you some coffee.
01:03:46Why was James's light on?
01:03:48I'm really sorry because I thought Jamie was still in school.
01:03:53I mean, Jamie.
01:04:01I'll bet you don't know what those people think of you.
01:04:04What people?
01:04:05Well, those people, you know.
01:04:07The other evening at the party.
01:04:10They think you are grotesque.
01:04:13I am not going to quarrel with you when you're drunk.
01:04:16Well, my speech is clear.
01:04:18I'm not that terribly drunk.
01:04:21Darling, I have to explain to you talking about money is vulgar.
01:04:27In this country, you do not blow your own horn.
01:04:30You do not talk about property deals in Kenya.
01:04:32You go the other way.
01:04:35Now, just take this advice from me once, will you?
01:04:39Go to sleep.
01:04:40They think you are vulgar.
01:04:42Ah!
01:04:44Oh, do that again.
01:04:45Where did you learn that?
01:04:47In that school?
01:04:48What's it called, the school?
01:04:49You said the Cheltenham?
01:04:51Oh, you never went to Cheltenham, honey, because I checked.
01:04:55And you never went to Polytechnic either.
01:04:59You know what you are?
01:05:01Common.
01:05:03Just common.
01:05:06Where did your father's money come from?
01:05:08Sand and gravel?
01:05:10Why didn't you go to that school, you pretend?
01:05:14Because you didn't have the class.
01:05:18You know, they ask you to know classical Greek before you get into a place like that.
01:05:22And you don't even know what a la carte means.
01:05:28Are you going to hit me again?
01:05:30Come on.
01:05:31Hit me.
01:05:33Or break something.
01:05:34Break the furniture, the house.
01:05:35Smash everything.
01:05:36Because you are very good at that.
01:05:40Oh, I kill me.
01:05:43Come on.
01:05:49All right.
01:05:50I will tell you something which will make you do it.
01:05:52It will help you.
01:05:54If you are not going to do it now.
01:05:56Bitch.
01:05:57You bitch.
01:05:59I will send that boy to school and I will spend so rapidly that it will make your head swim.
01:06:05And I'm only going to sign those endless company papers if you give me a lot of cash.
01:06:10This too I will spend very quickly so you are back at sand and gravel like your father.
01:06:15Before anyone could say builder.
01:06:21Robert.
01:06:23I want to tell you something.
01:06:26But I have to whisper it.
01:06:28It's a secret for you.
01:06:32Liar.
01:06:33You.
01:06:34Change of my lawyer.
01:06:36Get off.
01:06:39Get.
01:06:40Off me.
01:06:41Get off.
01:06:42Get me.
01:06:43Get me.
01:06:44Get me.
01:06:45Get me.
01:06:46Stop.
01:06:47Get off.
01:06:48Get.
01:06:50Off.
01:06:51It's.
01:06:52Get him!
01:07:01Danny!
01:07:05Danny!
01:07:11Get in the car.
01:07:22Get in the car!
01:07:52Get in the car!
01:08:15Fuck!
01:08:22Holy cow!
01:08:48Danny!
01:08:52Danny!
01:09:18He's dead.
01:09:22Danny!
01:09:41James, listen. We were expecting Robert last night.
01:09:44And when he didn't turn up, we just imagined that he would drive back this morning.
01:09:49We didn't expect him. We weren't worried, right? Which is the truth.
01:09:53I see.
01:09:55And when was the last time you saw your father?
01:10:01Friday evening.
01:10:03Where was that?
01:10:06Outside his office. We went for a drink.
01:10:10What time was it? Do you remember?
01:10:15Seven.
01:10:17Well, just after. I was a little late.
01:10:21And that was the last time you saw him?
01:10:23Sir?
01:10:26James?
01:10:29When you met your father last Friday, was that the last time you saw him or spoke to him?
01:10:37Yes.
01:10:48Yes, well, that'll be all for now.
01:11:02What?
01:11:07They know.
01:11:09You mean...
01:11:11You didn't tell Chidley?
01:11:13It was an accident. They were fighting.
01:11:16You mean... Oh, my God.
01:11:20It was an accident.
01:11:22Yes, but whatever possessed you to lie to the police?
01:11:28Don't you see?
01:11:35What am I going to do?
01:11:47Thank you.
01:12:06You're too gentle to have done it.
01:12:10But I did it. It was an accident.
01:12:14Well, if I called the police straight away, maybe...
01:12:20I'm about to be tried.
01:12:22I don't know what I would do.
01:12:25But if there's anything I could do to help, I'd do it.
01:12:29Could you be at the court?
01:12:31Of course.
01:13:13It's all right.
01:13:34This is the jury.
01:13:36If what the Crown said were true,
01:13:39it would be a grim tale indeed.
01:13:43The tale of a son who deliberately took his father's life,
01:13:47brutally, in the full knowledge of what he was doing.
01:13:52You are asked to deduce this from facts
01:13:56which can be understood in many ways.
01:14:03I intend to ask an eyewitness.
01:14:07The accused boy,
01:14:09James Lawrence Anderson.
01:14:13It is with confidence that I submit him to your attention
01:14:18and your care.
01:14:29Is it true that your mother was bleeding profusely at the mouth where your father struck her?
01:14:34Yes, it is.
01:14:36And that you held him up, managed to get behind the wheel of the rover,
01:14:40and that your mother was barefooted and wearing only a penwire?
01:14:43Yes.
01:14:45Is it correct that she got in the seat behind you and you drove off?
01:14:49Yes.
01:14:51Where, in fact, were you planning to go?
01:14:54To a doctor.
01:14:56A doctor in Twickenham, where we went afterwards.
01:14:59And then?
01:15:01A car was following.
01:15:04That's not very clear.
01:15:07Suddenly,
01:15:10my father had overtaken us.
01:15:13Somehow he forced us into a verge.
01:15:16And there he was, with the golf club.
01:15:21I thought he was going to kill us both.
01:15:23I told her to run, which she did.
01:15:26And then he hit me with the club.
01:15:29With which end of the club, can you tell us?
01:15:32The shaft.
01:15:34And what did you do?
01:15:37I hit him back.
01:15:40I suppose I must have grabbed the club
01:15:44and struck him.
01:15:47How many times, I don't know.
01:15:50One last question.
01:15:53Why did you lie to the police about what had happened?
01:15:57I didn't want to admit,
01:16:01even to myself,
01:16:03that I had killed my own father.
01:16:08The fact was just too terrible.
01:16:14Even now I wish it were a dream.
01:16:18But it isn't.
01:16:20It wasn't.
01:16:27It's just done.
01:16:34If I may say so, you have a highly developed histrionic ability, Mr. Anderson.
01:16:39But this is a courtroom, not a theatre.
01:16:41We are here to establish facts.
01:16:44Now, Dr. Donaldson has testified that your mother was wearing only a pen wire
01:16:48to conceal her nakedness when she appeared at his twickening surgery
01:16:51to be treated for the unfortunate injury to her upper lip.
01:16:54The doctor has also testified that you were wearing a raincoat.
01:16:58Were you wearing a raincoat?
01:17:00Were you wearing a raincoat?
01:17:04I think I wore a raincoat.
01:17:06Very sensible. The nights can be chilly.
01:17:08It suggests a certain forethought.
01:17:11I mean, after this violent attack upon your mother,
01:17:14you had time to think,
01:17:16to find a raincoat to wear before fleeing in the rover from your,
01:17:20I use Melanie Fenn's language,
01:17:22deranged father.
01:17:25I didn't think about it.
01:17:27I just know I was wearing my raincoat.
01:17:29Oh, I see.
01:17:31Perhaps you remember what kind of shirt you wore.
01:17:33Your shoes. Did you have your watch on?
01:17:35I only remember my raincoat.
01:17:38Why is that?
01:17:42I wasn't wearing anything else.
01:17:44Ah, now that had not been established.
01:17:48You were in fact wearing nothing at all
01:17:50until your raincoat miraculously appeared from somewhere, is that it?
01:17:54Is that it?
01:17:57I was sleeping.
01:17:59You habitually sleep in the noon?
01:18:01In summer I do.
01:18:03A habit learnt at your mother's knee, no doubt.
01:18:05I take it you were awakened by your father shouting,
01:18:08leapt from your bed and rushed to your mother's side in her defence.
01:18:11Am I correct?
01:18:13Yes.
01:18:14Wearing?
01:18:15Wearing what?
01:18:16Your raincoat.
01:18:20I think I...
01:18:21Do you mean to tell me that you went to your mother's aid
01:18:23as naked as the day she bore you?
01:18:25A fully grown man like yourself?
01:18:29And I shall not dwell on the unwholesome
01:18:32and even unthinkable aspects of this case.
01:18:36I should merely like to introduce into evidence Exhibit 8.
01:18:48Do you recognise this?
01:18:50I don't know.
01:18:52You said that your father tried to thrash you with a club.
01:18:56Yes.
01:18:57There was no club found in his hand.
01:18:59Explain that if you can.
01:19:02He must have dropped it.
01:19:03In which case it would have been somewhere near the body.
01:19:05Yet this was the only club found
01:19:07and this was some 15 feet from the body.
01:19:11It must be the same club.
01:19:13Then this is the weapon with which you killed your father.
01:19:18I can't remember.
01:19:21I don't know. I can't remember.
01:19:25If you don't remember killing him
01:19:28do you remember wiping away your incriminating fingerprints afterwards?
01:19:40I think this would be a convenient moment to adjourn.
01:19:44As your Lordship pleases.
01:19:47Well, he's tried premeditation.
01:19:49Now he's going for something even worse.
01:19:54Francesca, are you listening?
01:19:57I must speak to that girl, Sidney. I must speak to her.
01:20:00Well, you know I'm going to call you after lunch.
01:20:12Julie?
01:20:14Are you Mrs. Anderson?
01:20:15Yes.
01:20:16I wanted to thank you for being here.
01:20:18I wish we had met earlier.
01:20:21You surprise me.
01:20:23Do I?
01:20:25You know this is all your fault.
01:20:28You won't let him go.
01:20:31He's your son. Don't you know what that means?
01:20:36Do you...
01:20:37Oh, of course not.
01:20:39How could you?
01:20:41He came to me for help.
01:20:43He wanted to get away from you.
01:20:45He wanted a normal relationship.
01:20:50He kept talking about this other woman.
01:20:54I never realized it was his mother.
01:21:00I don't know what to do.
01:21:02I never realized it was his mother.
01:21:08You know...
01:21:10James and I, we have a special relationship.
01:21:14But I wouldn't expect you to understand that, of course not.
01:21:18When all this is over, we'll talk.
01:21:20And after the acquittal, he will have to go to some place, of course.
01:21:24I don't mean a horrible place. I'm not talking about this.
01:21:27You know, nowadays, for the insane, they have some hotels, quite nice.
01:21:31Let's go and visit him there together.
01:21:54Mrs. Anderson.
01:21:56Would you tell His Lordship the true position in your own words?
01:22:02Very much has already been said.
01:22:04The fact that I sleep without a nightdress,
01:22:07that my son sleeps without pajamas.
01:22:09Must I talk about that?
01:22:13My son is here accused of murder,
01:22:15because he killed his father to protect me and himself.
01:22:20If he hadn't, his father would be standing in this box today,
01:22:23defending himself against a much more serious charge.
01:22:27Am I wrong?
01:22:28You mustn't ask questions of me, Mrs. Anderson.
01:22:32I saw James kill Robert.
01:22:37In another moment, James would have been struck dead.
01:22:41I was about to be killed, and...
01:22:45The fear of it...
01:22:48I cannot explain.
01:22:54James killed his father.
01:22:58I saw it.
01:23:02Why do you think he lied to the police?
01:23:04To protect me.
01:23:07I told him to lie. I told him what to say to protect him.
01:23:13I should really be the one to stand trial here.
01:23:22You really are a most accomplished witness, Mrs. Anderson.
01:23:26Please accept my compliments.
01:23:29May I inquire as to the state of your upper lip,
01:23:31which seems to have been the cause of this dreadful deed?
01:23:35My lip has healed, I think.
01:23:37And your late husband is interred in his family plot in Sussex?
01:23:40Yes.
01:23:41Then all is in order.
01:23:46Would this be the golf club that you saw used after you were hit in the mouth?
01:23:51If it is the same found near Robert's body, it...
01:23:56It must be the same.
01:23:57Then you testify that you saw your son kill his father with this club.
01:24:01I saw him hit him with a club. It may be the same.
01:24:04Account for me, if you can, or will,
01:24:07the interesting fact that neither your husband's fingerprints
01:24:10nor those of your son were to be found anywhere on this club.
01:24:15I felt Robert's heart.
01:24:19And I saw this club.
01:24:23I had watched a terrible accident.
01:24:28James was in a kind of stupor in the front of my car.
01:24:36I took this club and wiped it.
01:24:39I took this club and wiped it.
01:24:56Members of the jury.
01:24:59Have you considered your verdict?
01:25:01We have.
01:25:02And how do you find the prisoner?
01:25:05We have.
01:25:06And how do you find the prisoner, James Lawrence Anderson?
01:25:09Guilty or not guilty?
01:25:12We find the prisoner not guilty.
01:25:14That is the verdict of you all.
01:25:16It is.
01:26:35Jamie.
01:26:38Change that music.
01:26:40It's so sad.
01:26:43Come on.
01:27:05Are you hungry?
01:27:07Shall I make you eggs with cream?
01:27:10And salad and cheese and fruit?
01:27:13No, I don't think I'll eat today.
01:27:17I could make you garlic bread.
01:27:22He liked garlic.
01:27:26No, thank you.
01:27:29PHONE RINGS
01:27:33Hello?
01:27:36Yes.
01:27:39Oh, hello.
01:27:43Yes.
01:27:46Well, nearly.
01:27:50I don't know. I'll try.
01:27:54Bye-bye.
01:27:58Who was it on the phone, Jamie?
01:28:01My drinking companion from the BBC.
01:28:03Oh.
01:28:07Could I meet him?
01:28:10I really would like to meet him.
01:28:13Her.
01:28:26Jamie.
01:28:29Jamie.
01:28:30It's our house now.
01:28:32It's our house.
01:28:33We're alone.
01:28:37Jamie.
01:28:38It's not our house.
01:28:42It's his.
01:28:45Everything's closing in.
01:28:47I can't live in his house.
01:28:54I killed him.
01:28:59I killed my father.
01:29:07No, Jamie.
01:29:11No.
01:29:28Yes.
01:29:58PHONE RINGS
01:30:08He liked to think so, but he wasn't.
01:30:19Then who is?
01:30:23Who was my father?
01:30:28Mesa.
01:30:30He's dead.
01:30:35I'm with you now. It's our house.
01:30:39Our house.
01:30:45You know, it's easy to ring for what we need.
01:30:49And we have it delivered to the door.
01:30:53And later, of course, when the weather turns bad, we go away.
01:30:57We charter a yacht.
01:30:59And we go somewhere.
01:31:01Anywhere, wherever you want to.
01:31:03You always can avoid winter if you're rich.
01:31:06And now we are rich.
01:31:14We don't need to see anyone.
01:31:18Unless you want to.
01:31:27PHONE RINGS
01:31:46Jamie, did you hear something?
01:31:57PHONE RINGS
01:32:12We are alone, Jamie.
01:32:15I've told you there's nobody. It's our house. We are alone.
01:32:18I've told you we are alone. We are alone.
01:32:21He cannot frighten us. It's us. It's us.
01:32:28Jamie, don't leave me. Please.
01:32:30Please.
01:32:31Jamie.
01:32:32Jamie.
01:32:33Jamie.
01:32:34Jamie, please.
01:32:35Please.
01:32:36Jamie.
01:32:38Please, don't go.
01:32:40Please, don't go.
01:32:42Don't leave me alone.
01:32:43No, Jamie.
01:32:44No, no, no.
01:32:46Jamie.
01:32:47Jamie.
01:32:50Jamie.
01:32:51Jamie.
01:32:52Jamie.
01:32:54Jamie.
01:32:55Jamie.
01:32:57Jamie.
01:33:02Don't leave me alone.
01:33:07Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:11Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:15Jamie.
01:33:19Jamie, please.
01:33:22Jamie.
01:33:27Don't leave me alone.
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