This 1970 American-British co-production drama film, directed by John Newland, tells the story of Francesca, a woman struggling to cope with the death of her lover and her unhappy marriage. As she becomes increasingly obsessed with her late lover, she begins to develop incestuous feelings towards her grown son, James, who has a girlfriend.
The film explores themes of grief, guilt, and the blurring of boundaries between mother and son. Francesca’s husband discovers her intentions and attempts to kill her, leading to a dramatic confrontation.
The film explores themes of grief, guilt, and the blurring of boundaries between mother and son. Francesca’s husband discovers her intentions and attempts to kill her, leading to a dramatic confrontation.
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00:30:35Have your bath.
00:30:43Jamie, darling, what are you thinking about?
00:30:47Cambridge?
00:30:49Yes.
00:30:51And what do you think about Cambridge?
00:30:56Oh, I don't know.
00:30:58What else can I do?
00:31:02He wouldn't just let me do nothing, would he?
00:31:04No.
00:31:06But I have got an idea I'm working on.
00:31:10You know I haven't been anywhere for five years, except Paris for some shopping.
00:31:15So I'm just going to say to him, why don't Jamie and I take a trip around the world?
00:31:24How?
00:31:27On a very slow boat.
00:31:43Shall we play one of our games today?
00:31:48Uh, I'm going out today.
00:31:54All day?
00:31:59That's all right.
00:32:01Do exactly what you want to.
00:32:04If you find boys' company so exciting.
00:32:07I don't know what you talk about what's so special.
00:32:11Oh, come on, Fran.
00:32:25Green everywhere, everywhere.
00:32:31The smell of flowers in the air, in the air.
00:32:36The winter's gone.
00:32:40It lasted so long.
00:32:46Sky's looking fair, looking fair.
00:32:50A gentle breeze in your hair, in your hair.
00:32:55The days are long.
00:33:00They wander along.
00:33:05And summer's here.
00:33:09Time to love you now.
00:33:14Let me love you now.
00:33:20Time hurries by, hurries by.
00:33:24And now you're here.
00:33:26See it fly, see it fly.
00:33:29But never mind.
00:33:33The weather's been kind.
00:33:38And summer's here.
00:33:43Time to love you now.
00:33:47Let me love you now.
00:33:57He's not a child and it's about time you stop treating him like one.
00:34:01No, Francis!
00:34:03He's meeting me here and he'd better be here.
00:34:05Now, goodbye.
00:34:14What's on your mind?
00:34:19What will you say?
00:34:25What's on your mind?
00:34:32Don't go away.
00:34:40Don't go away.
00:34:45When you looked at me the other day,
00:34:50your eyes were far away.
00:34:54I know I'm only just a name to you.
00:34:59Tell me now.
00:35:02Don't let me wonder now.
00:35:05Is there somebody?
00:35:10What's on your mind?
00:35:16What will you say?
00:35:35Oh!
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.
00:36:05Oh!
00:36:35Oh!
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.
00:37:05All they teach you is useless stuff so that I'll get into Cambridge.
00:37:10Try telling your father about the useless things.
00:37:14I might.
00:37:21The thing about her is her constant sense of fun.
00:37:24You know, anything and everything for a laugh.
00:37:28She plays games, too.
00:37:29What sort of games?
00:37:31She 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.
00:37:45Not old clothes.
00:37:46Antique 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?
00:38:01Not long ago.
00:38:02Where?
00:38:04At a swimming pool.
00:38:07And we got talking and then we went out.
00:38:13Have you always been attracted to older women?
00:38:16No, not really.
00:38:20Just this one.
00:38:28Tell Mr. Anderson you're here.
00:38:30No, don't bother.
00:38:31I'm meeting my son here and I'm early.
00:38:40I'll cut him off at the entrance.
00:38:48See if you can answer this.
00:38:50Which 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.
00:39:33No harm.
00:39:34What use is that to me?
00:39:36Useful, sir, useful.
00:39:39Cheers.
00:39:40I mean, the mind is a muscle, isn't it?
00:39:45It's exercising like any other.
00:39:46The eye is a muscle.
00:39:47It must be exercising.
00:39:49What else are muscles for?
00:39:52I have a new friend who works for the BBC as a television mixer.
00:39:56Do you know what that is?
00:39:58No.
00:39:59Now, on that point, you can enlighten me.
00:40:03Well, a vision mixer sits at a sort of console, watching 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.
00:40:16That's a fantastic skill.
00:40:18Marvelous.
00:40:20I mean, can you imagine the responsibility of pushing all those buttons?
00:40:25Skill.
00:40:26Yes, an extraordinary skill.
00:40:29There is such a thing as skilled labour.
00:40:32Indeed, yes.
00:40:33And skilled labourers.
00:40:35Magnificent.
00:40:37They do not live in a house with numerous bedrooms, with spacious lawns behind an avenue of ancient elm trees.
00:40:44Their wives do not fly off to Paris for the day to buy a dress and come back empty-handed.
00:40:49They do not swan down to the head...
00:40:51These are the trimmings of life.
00:40:53Wages, sir.
00:40:54They earn wages.
00:40:56And spend the...
00:40:57Ah, yes.
00:40:58Happily, living by their hands.
00:41:01And from hand to mouth.
00:41:13James, I'm only a little bit more than twice your age.
00:41:19My feelings about things are as deeply felt as yours.
00:41:22Except that I have not lived twice as long as you have.
00:41:30You didn't have permission to leave school.
00:41:35You don't want to go back.
00:41:37No, 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 off your lungs.
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?
00:42:29I 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.
00:42:46And 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.
00:43:03I shall drive down tonight after my New York call comes through.
00:43:07I'll be back on Sunday.
00:43:09Before James leaves for school.
00:43:14All right.
00:43:16Bye.
00:43:42I don't think you didn't have anything to eat.
00:43:44A lot to eat.
00:43:46And a lot to drink.
00:43:49What was it?
00:43:50Another debutante party?
00:43:54No, a stag party.
00:43:56With the boys.
00:43:59Jeremy Holbrook's getting married tomorrow.
00:44:02Jeremy Holbrook is 19 years old.
00:44:05Yes.
00:44:06And he's getting married tomorrow.
00:44:14This is nice.
00:44:17Just the two of us.
00:44:19We're going to have a lovely, beautiful weekend.
00:44:24I have to go somewhere.
00:44:26I promised.
00:44:36Jamie.
00:44:38What happened tonight?
00:44:41What really happened between Robert and you?
00:44:43Tell 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.
00:45:01You're not lying to me about the stag party, are you?
00:45:05I am old enough to look after myself.
00:45:09And go where I like.
00:45:13When you're gone for hours, I...
00:45:16I worry.
00:45:19Coming home like last night and driving in this condition, I...
00:45:25I worry.
00:45:26Can't you let me swim in peace?
00:45:43I'm sorry.
00:46:06You didn't finish your drink.
00:46:10Let's go into the drawing.
00:46:13We'll have a nice Sunday together.
00:46:17I mean...
00:46:20It's not like it's our last weekend.
00:46:23I mean, I'm not going back to school, am I?
00:46:43I'm sorry if I sound cynical, but...
00:46:46I find it rather difficult to trust men.
00:46:50Or, let's face it, my relationships haven't been very successful.
00:46:55What about ours?
00:46:57We've barely started.
00:46:59We must work at it.
00:47:01It isn't easy.
00:47:03I think I already know that.
00:47:06I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:09It isn't easy.
00:47:11I think I already know that.
00:47:15I'm hungry.
00:47:17Do you like spaghetti?
00:47:19I serve the best spaghetti on any houseboat in the Thames.
00:47:27Since you like Italian food so much, why don't you go to Italy?
00:47:31I hear it's marvelous.
00:47:33She wanted me to go.
00:47:35She?
00:47:36Oh, the lady you were telling me about.
00:47:40You mean she wants you to go with her?
00:47:46I've never been.
00:47:52She's obviously very important to you.
00:48:06Is this a hammock?
00:48:36I'm sorry.
00:49:06Jimmy?
00:49:36Jimmy?
00:50:06It's all right.
00:50:36It's all right.
00:51:06It's all right.
00:51:36It's all right.
00:51:39It's all right.
00:52:06Oh, Cicely.
00:52:10How is it that some men can communicate with their sons...
00:52:15...and that no matter how much I try, I can't?
00:52:19Like Sidney Brent in the end.
00:52:23Do you remember last year I made a suggestion...
00:52:26...about interesting him in something that he didn't like?
00:52:30I don't know.
00:52:32Do you remember last year I made a suggestion...
00:52:35...about interesting him in something that you could do together?
00:52:38Like golf?
00:52:39Bores him.
00:52:42What does he like?
00:52:45Experimental films in foreign languages.
00:52:49And they bore me.
00:52:58Whose is this?
00:53:00It's one of the things that Rod left behind.
00:53:03That's the Australian?
00:53:13I wasn't very good, was I?
00:53:16You know, it has something to do with experience.
00:53:25I feel a mess.
00:53:28Failure.
00:53:30Can you swim?
00:53:32Yes.
00:53:33Can you remember the first time you swam? Were you good? Were you confident?
00:53:38I don't know.
00:53:40I was terrified. Scared to death.
00:53:43Sex is like that, in a way.
00:53:47I don't mean to go on about it, but it was the first time, wasn't it?
00:53:52No.
00:53:54No, many times. Many.
00:53:57An imagination?
00:54:08The older woman you were telling me about this evening, is she foreign?
00:54:12No, she's English.
00:54:14Born here?
00:54:16Well, an English subject.
00:54:18Not born here, though.
00:54:20What are you asking that for?
00:54:23I thought you might have been thinking of her.
00:54:26Earlier, when we...
00:54:29Maybe I was.
00:54:31I had a message at the television centre today, while we were out.
00:54:35From a lady with an accent.
00:54:37She said she was Mrs Anderson.
00:54:39At first, I thought it must be her wife.
00:54:43Then I thought about it, and put two and two together.
00:54:48Very clever.
00:54:50Or one and one.
00:54:54She's your mother, isn't she?
00:54:57Isn't she?
00:55:54What's on your mind?
00:55:59What's on your mind?
00:56:05I will...
00:56:23I will...
00:56:53I will...
00:57:04Hello?
00:57:07It's time to go.
00:57:12Not when I'm drinking.
00:57:15Come on, Fran, we're going home.
00:57:18You're drunk!
00:57:20And I'm drinking.
00:57:23And I'm drinking.
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 to the girl I love.
00:58:00If you wanna try another line,
00:58:03run a little on my track.
00:58:06Hey, hey, hey, hey!
00:58:07Come on!
00:58:08Take it easy on my mind.
00:58:10If not, we'll just get off my back.
00:58:13If not, we'll 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 to the girl I love.
00:58:45Mama!
00:58:47Mama!
00:58:49Good things I want, the good things.
00:58:51Let's go home.
00:58:52No time for your things.
00:58:54I wanna have a little time to live now.
00:58:57I wanna give now some of my time to the girl I love.
00:59:16I've often worried about her mental health.
00:59:21She has a crazed look sometimes.
00:59:25I don't know how to describe it.
00:59:29What are you worried about?
00:59:33James.
00:59:37He must get home tonight.
00:59:40He must get home tonight.
01:00:02No.
01:00:04I can't.
01:00:09I can't.
01:00:24Mesa?
01:00:28Mesa?
01:00:39Mesa?
01:00:40Mesa?
01:00:41Mesa?
01:00:42Mesa?
01:00:43Mesa?
01:00:44Mesa?
01:00:45Mesa?
01:00:46Mesa?
01:00:47Mesa?
01:00:48Mesa?
01:00:49Mesa?
01:00:50Mesa?
01:00:51Mesa?
01:00:52Mesa?
01:00:53Mesa?
01:00:54Mesa?
01:00:55Mesa?
01:00:56Mesa?
01:00:57Mesa?
01:00:58Mesa?
01:00:59Mesa?
01:01:00Mesa?
01:01:01Mesa?
01:01:02Mesa?
01:01:03Mesa?
01:01:04Mesa?
01:01:05Mesa?
01:01:06Mesa?
01:01:07Mesa?
01:01:08Mesa?
01:01:09Mesa?
01:01:10Mesa?
01:01:11Mesa?
01:01:38Mesa?
01:01:39Mesa?
01:01:40Mesa?
01:01:41Mesa?
01:01:42Mesa?
01:01:43Mesa?
01:01:44Mesa?
01:01:45Mesa?
01:01:46Mesa?
01:01:47Mesa?
01:01:48Mesa?
01:01:49Mesa?
01:01:50Mesa?
01:01:51Mesa?
01:01:52Mesa?
01:01:53Mesa?
01:01:54Mesa?
01:01:55Mesa?
01:01:56Mesa?
01:01:57Mesa?
01:01:58Mesa?
01:01:59Mesa?
01:02:00Mesa?
01:02:01Mesa?
01:02:02Mesa?
01:02:03Mesa?
01:02:04Mesa?
01:02:05Mesa?
01:02:06Mesa?
01:02:07Mesa?
01:02:08Mesa?
01:02:09Mesa?
01:02:10Mesa?
01:02:11Mesa?
01:02:12Mesa?
01:02:13Mesa?
01:02:14Mesa?
01:02:15Mesa?
01:02:16Mesa?
01:02:17Mesa?
01:02:18Mesa?
01:02:19Mesa?
01:02:20Mesa?
01:02:21Mesa?
01:02:22Mesa?
01:02:23Mesa?
01:02:24Mesa?
01:02:25Mesa?
01:02:26Mesa?
01:02:27Mesa?
01:02:28Mesa?
01:02:29Mesa?
01:02:30Mesa?
01:02:31Mesa?
01:02:32Mesa?
01:02:33Mesa?
01:02:34Mesa?
01:02:35Mesa?
01:02:36No.
01:02:40You're Mesa grown old.
01:02:43Mesa is dead.
01:02:46Come along now.
01:02:50You don't look like him at all.
01:02:52Come along. You're spilling your wine.
01:02:54Come along where?
01:02:55You're spilling it.
01:02:57I am landscaping.
01:03:01I'm planning to make this garden into something really special.
01:03:06Marvellous idea.
01:03:07Along the lines of Versailles, you know.
01:03:09Splendid. Splendid.
01:03:11Oh, Robert. Do orange trees grow here?
01:03:14Of course.
01:03:15Costs a lot.
01:03:17But I don't care.
01:03:19I'm going to make a garden.
01:03:21I'm going to make a garden.
01:03:23I'm going to make a garden.
01:03:25But I don't care.
01:03:26I don't care at all.
01:03:28Come along.
01:03:30Careful.
01:03:32Are you drunk?
01:03:35I 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.
01:03:52When Jamie...
01:04:00I'll bet you don't know what those people think of you.
01:04:03What people?
01:04:04Well, those people, you know.
01:04:06The other evening at the party.
01:04:09They think you are grotesque.
01:04:12I am not going to quarrel with you when you're drunk.
01:04:15Well, my speech is clear.
01:04:17I'm not that terribly drunk.
01:04:19Darling, I have to explain to you talking about money is vulgar.
01:04:25In this country, you do not blow your own horn.
01:04:28You do not talk about property deals in Kenya.
01:04:30You go the other way.
01:04:33Now, just take this advice from me once, will you?
01:04:37Go to sleep.
01:04:38I think you are vulgar.
01:04:42Oh, do that again.
01:04:43Where did you learn that?
01:04:45Is that school?
01:04:46Where did you learn that?
01:04:48Is that school?
01:04:49What's it called, the school?
01:04:50You said the Cheltenham?
01:04:52Oh, 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.
01:05:07Where did your father's money come from?
01:05:09Sand and gravel?
01:05:11Why didn't you go to that school, you pretend?
01:05:14Because you didn't have the class.
01:05:17You know, they ask you to know classical Greek before you get into a place like that.
01:05:21And 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.
01:05:32Or break something.
01:05:33Break the furniture, the house.
01:05:35Smash everything, because you're very good at that.
01:05:40Oh, I kill me.
01:05:41I kill me.
01:05:43Come on.
01:05:49Alright, I will tell you something which will make you do it.
01:05:53It will help you.
01:05:54If you're not going to do it now.
01:05:57Bitch.
01:05:58You bitch.
01:05:59You 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're 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 little secret for you.
01:06:33Liar.
01:06:36Change of mind.
01:06:37Liar.
01:06:41Let go of me.
01:06:42Jamie.
01:06:44Jamie.
01:06:46Dammit.
01:06:47Jamie.
01:07:01Jamie.
01:07:05Dammit.
01:07:10And in the car.
01:08:10Oh
01:08:40Oh
01:09:10It's dead
01:09:41James, listen. We were expecting Robert last night.
01:09:45And 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?
01:09:52Which is the truth.
01:09:53I see.
01:09:55And when was the last time you saw your father?
01:10:00Uh, Friday evening.
01:10:03Where was that?
01:10:06Outside his office. We went for a drink.
01:10:09Mm-hmm. What time was it? Do you remember?
01:10:15Seven.
01:10:17Well, uh, just after. I was a little late.
01:10:21And that was the last time you saw him?
01:10:24Sir?
01:10:27James?
01:10:29When you met your father last Friday, was that the last time you saw him or spoke to him?
01:10:36Yes.
01:10:47Yes, well, that'll be all for now.
01:11:01What?
01:11:06They know.
01:11:08You mean...
01:11:10You didn't tell Chitley?
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?
01:12:06You'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.
01:13:05It's all right.
01:13:35As for the jury, if what the Crown said was true, it would be a grim tale indeed.
01:13:43The tale of a son who deliberately took his father's life, brutally, in the full knowledge of what he was doing.
01:13:53You are asked to deduce this from facts which can be understood in many ways.
01:13:59Yes.
01:14:04I intend to ask an eyewitness.
01:14:08The accused boy, James Lawrence Anderson.
01:14:14It is with confidence that I submit him to your attention and your care.
01:14:30Is it true that your mother was bleeding profusely at the mouth where your father struck her?
01:14:35Yes, it is.
01:14:36And that you held him off, managed to get behind the wheel of the rover, and that your mother was barefooted and wearing only a penwa?
01:14:44Yes.
01:14:45Is it correct that she got in the seat behind you and you drove off?
01:14:50Yes.
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.
01:15:08Suddenly, my father had overtaken us.
01:15:14Somehow he forced us into a verge.
01:15:17And there he was, with the golf club.
01:15:22I thought he was going to kill us both.
01:15:24I told her to run, which she did.
01:15:27And then he hit me with the club.
01:15:30With which end of the club, can you tell us?
01:15:33The shaft.
01:15:35And what did you do?
01:15:38I hit him back.
01:15:41I suppose I must have grabbed the club and struck him.
01:15:48How many times, I don't know.
01:15:51One last question.
01:15:52One last question.
01:15:54Why did you lie to the police about what had happened?
01:15:59I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that I had killed my own father.
01:16:09The fact was just too terrible.
01:16:15Even now I wish it were a dream.
01:16:19But it isn't.
01:16:21It wasn't.
01:16:28It's just done.
01:16:37If I may say so, you have a highly developed histrionic ability, Mr. Anderson.
01:16:41But this is a courtroom, not a theater.
01:16:44We are here to establish facts.
01:16:46Dr. Donaldson has testified that your mother was wearing only a pen wire to conceal her nakedness
01:16:51when she appeared at his twickening surgery to be treated for the unfortunate injury to her upper lip.
01:16:56The doctor has also testified that you were wearing a raincoat.
01:17:00Were you wearing a raincoat?
01:17:04I think I wore a raincoat.
01:17:06Very sensible. Nights can be chilly.
01:17:09It suggests a certain forethought.
01:17:11I mean, after this violent attack upon your mother,
01:17:14you had time to think, to find a raincoat to wear before fleeing in the rover from your,
01:17:20I use Melanie Fenn's language, deranged father.
01:17:24I didn't think about it. I just know I was wearing my raincoat.
01:17:29I 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?
01:17:41I wasn't wearing anything else.
01:17:44Ah, now that had not been established.
01:17:48You were in fact wearing nothing at all until your raincoat miraculously appeared from somewhere, is that it?
01:17:55Is 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, leapt from your bed and rushed to your mother's side in her defence.
01:18:11Am I correct?
01:18:13Yes.
01:18:15Wearing? Wearing what? Your raincoat?
01:18:20I think...
01:18:22Do you mean to tell me that you went to your mother's aid as naked as the day she bore you?
01:18:26A fully grown man like yourself?
01:18:30And I shall not dwell on the unwholesome and even unthinkable aspects of this case.
01:18:37I should merely like to introduce into evidence Exhibit 8.
01:18:43Do you recognise this?
01:18:45I don't know.
01:18:47You said that your father tried to thrash you with a club.
01:18:50Yes.
01:18:52There was no club found in his hand.
01:18:54Explain that if you can.
01:18:57He must have dropped it.
01:18:59In which case it would have been somewhere near the body.
01:19:01Yet this was the only club found and this was some 15 feet from the body.
01:19:06I don't know.
01:19:07It must be the same club.
01:19:09Then this is the weapon with which you killed your father.
01:19:14I can't remember.
01:19:17I don't know. I can't remember.
01:19:20If you don't remember killing him,
01:19:23do you remember wiping away your incriminating fingerprints afterwards?
01:19:29I think this would be a convenient moment to adjourn.
01:19:34As your Lordship pleases.
01:19:36Well, he's tried premeditation.
01:19:39Now he's going for something even worse.
01:19:44Francesca, are you listening?
01:19:47I must say, I don't know.
01:19:49I don't know.
01:19:51I don't know.
01:19:53I don't know.
01:19:55I don't know.
01:19:57I must speak to that girl, Sidney. I must speak to her.
01:20:01Well, you know I'm going to call you after lunch.
01:20:12Julie.
01:20:19Are you Mrs. Anderson?
01:20:21Yes. I wanted to thank you for being here.
01:20:24I wish we had met earlier.
01:20:26You surprise me.
01:20:28Do I?
01:20:30You know this is all your fault.
01:20:33You won't let him go.
01:20:36He's your son. Don't you know what that means?
01:20:41Do you...
01:20:44Of course not.
01:20:47How could you?
01:20:49He came to me for help.
01:20:51He wanted to get away from you.
01:20:53He wanted a normal relationship.
01:20:57He kept talking about this other woman.
01:21:01I never realized it was his mother.
01:21:08You know,
01:21:10James and I, we have a special relationship.
01:21:13But I wouldn't expect you to understand that, of course not.
01:21:17When all this is over, we'll talk.
01:21:20And after the acquittal, he will have to go to some place, of course.
01:21:23I don't mean a horrible place. I'm not talking about this.
01:21:26You know, nowadays, for the insane, they have some hotels, quite nice.
01:21:30We could go and visit him there together.
01:21:54Mrs. Anderson,
01:21:56would you tell his lordship
01:21:58the true position in your own words?
01:22:03Very much has already been said.
01:22:06The fact that I sleep without a nightdress,
01:22:08that my son sleeps without pajamas.
01:22:11Must I talk about that?
01:22:14My son is here accused of murder
01:22:17because he killed his father to protect me and himself.
01:22:21If he hadn't,
01:22:23his father would be standing in this box today,
01:22:25defending himself against a much more serious charge.
01:22:28Am I wrong?
01:22:30You mustn't ask questions of me, Mrs. Anderson.
01:22:33I saw James kill Robert.
01:22:38In another moment, James would have been struck dead.
01:22:42I was about to be killed.
01:22:44And
01:22:46the fear of it,
01:22:47I cannot explain.
01:22:53James killed his father.
01:22:57I saw it.
01:23:00Why do you think he lied to the police?
01:23:03To protect me.
01:23:06I told him to lie. I told him what to say to protect him.
01:23:11I should really be the one to stand trial here.
01:23:14You really are a most accomplished witness, Mrs. Anderson.
01:23:18Please accept my compliments.
01:23:21May I inquire as to the state of your upper lip,
01:23:24which seems to have been the cause of this dreadful deed?
01:23:28My lip has healed, I think.
01:23:30And your late husband is interred in his family plot in Sussex?
01:23:33Yes.
01:23:35Then all is in order.
01:23:37Yes, sir.
01:23:38And your late husband is interred in his family plot in Sussex?
01:23:41Yes.
01:23:42Then all is in order.
01:23:47Would this be the golf club that you saw used
01:23:51after you were hit in the mouth?
01:23:54If it is the same found near Robert's body,
01:23:57it...
01:23:59it must be the same.
01:24:00And you testify that you saw your son
01:24:02kill his father with this club?
01:24:04I saw him hit him with a club.
01:24:06It may be the same.
01:24:08Tell me if you can, or will,
01:24:10the interesting fact that neither your husband's fingerprints
01:24:13nor those of your son were to be found anywhere on this club.
01:24:22I felt Robert's heart.
01:24:26And I saw this club.
01:24:29I had watched a terrible accident.
01:24:34James was in a kind of stupor in the front of my car.
01:24:39I took this club and wiped it.
01:24:58Members of the jury.
01:25:01Have you considered your verdict?
01:25:03We have.
01:25:05And how do you find the prisoner?
01:25:06James Lawrence Anderson.
01:25:08Guilty or not guilty?
01:25:11We find the prisoner not guilty.
01:25:13That is the verdict of you all?
01:25:15It is.
01:26:37Jamie.
01:26:40Change that music.
01:26:42It's so sad.
01:26:45Come on.
01:27:06Are you hungry?
01:27:08Shall I make you eggs with cream?
01:27:11And salad and cheese and fruit?
01:27:14No, I don't think I'll eat today.
01:27:18I could make you garlic bread.
01:27:23He liked garlic.
01:27:27No, thank you.
01:27:34Hello?
01:27:36Yes?
01:27:39Oh, hello.
01:27:43Yes.
01:27:47Well, nearly.
01:27:50I don't know. I'll try.
01:27:54Bye-bye.
01:27:59Who was it on the phone, Jamie?
01:28:01My drinking companion from the BBC.
01:28:04Oh.
01:28:07Could I meet him?
01:28:10I really would like to meet him.
01:28:13Yes.
01:28:27Jamie.
01:28:29Jamie, it's our house now.
01:28:32It's our house.
01:28:34We are alone.
01:28:37Jamie.
01:28:39It'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.
01:29:02I killed my father.
01:29:07No, Jamie.
01:29:11No.
01:29:36No.
01:30:07He liked to...
01:30:09He liked to think so, but...
01:30:11He wasn't.
01:30:19Then, who is?
01:30:23Who was my father?
01:30:28Mesa.
01:30:30He's dead.
01:30:32I'm with you now. It's our house.
01:30:36Our house.
01:30:43You know, it's easy to ring for what we need.
01:30:47And...
01:30:49We have it delivered to the door.
01:30:51And later, of course, when the weather turns bad, we go away.
01:30:56We charter a yacht.
01:30:58And we go somewhere.
01:30:59Anywhere, wherever you want to.
01:31:01You always can avoid winter if you're rich.
01:31:03And now, we are rich.
01:31:12We don't need to...
01:31:14We don't need to see anyone.
01:31:16Unless you want to.
01:31:29Jamie.
01:31:47Jamie, did you hear something?
01:32:00Jamie.
01:32:13We are alone, Jamie.
01:32:16I've told you there's nobody. It's our house. We are alone.
01:32:19I've told you we are alone.
01:32:21We are alone.
01:32:23He cannot frighten us. It's us. It's us.
01:32:29Please, Jamie!
01:32:32Please! Jamie!
01:32:34Jamie, please!
01:32:39Please! Don't go!
01:32:42Don't leave me alone.
01:32:44Jamie!
01:32:51Jamie!
01:32:53Jamie!
01:32:55Jamie!
01:32:59Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:04Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:09Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:13Jamie.
01:33:17Jamie, please.
01:33:20Jamie.
01:33:29Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:32Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:36Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:39Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:42Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:45Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:48Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:51Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:54Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:56Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:59Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:02Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:05Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:08Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:11Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:14Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:17Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:20Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:23Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:26Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:56Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:34:59Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:02Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:05Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:08Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:11Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:14Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:17Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:26Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:29Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:32Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:35Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:38Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:41Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:44Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:47Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:50Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:35:53Jamie, don't leave me alone.