A rich Englishman's (Donald Houston) neurotic wife (Romy Schneider) has unnatural feelings for their teenage son (Dennis Waterman).
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00:01:30Frances!
00:01:41Frances!
00:01:51Frances!
00:02:00Frances!
00:02:30Ah!
00:02:36Ah!
00:02:43Ah!
00:02:49Ah!
00:03:09Come on!
00:03:13Misha!
00:03:21Misha!
00:03:32Misha!
00:03:37Ah!
00:03:50Frances!
00:03:53Frances!
00:04:07Frances!
00:04:37Ah!
00:04:57New member?
00:04:59Sorry?
00:05:01Are you a new member of the club?
00:05:03I joined recently.
00:05:05Your accent sounds foreign.
00:05:08Are you German?
00:05:12I was.
00:05:14I thought you was.
00:05:16Are you always so welcoming to new members?
00:05:22Nice class of people here, don't you think?
00:05:25Certainly.
00:05:27I'm a social climber, you know.
00:05:29That's why I joined.
00:05:33Are you part of the welcoming committee?
00:05:36Oh, no.
00:05:38I'm terribly timid, you see.
00:05:41Oh!
00:05:42Oh, I get embarrassed to meet new people.
00:05:47I have an idea.
00:05:50Let's go out.
00:05:52Where shall we go?
00:05:54No.
00:05:56I think I'll go and change my clothes.
00:06:00And I'll change mine.
00:06:02Oh, you know about telepathy.
00:06:04I try. It's a game, is it?
00:06:06Well, today my name is Maximilian.
00:06:08Now your name?
00:06:10It's Francesca.
00:06:12I know. I saw your driving license.
00:06:14When?
00:06:16When I looked in your handbag.
00:06:19When?
00:06:21When you were powdering your nose.
00:06:24I hope I won't seem forward.
00:06:45I think I hear a but coming.
00:06:48But?
00:06:51I was thinking about dinner.
00:06:54Do you think I'm dressed for it?
00:06:57More or less.
00:06:59Are you rich?
00:07:01Very rich.
00:07:03Good.
00:07:08Where shall we go?
00:07:10The Ritz?
00:07:21The Ritz?
00:07:23I don't think I'll play any more games today.
00:07:53Frances!
00:08:03Frances!
00:08:07Hi!
00:08:11Let's be enthusiastic.
00:08:13Let's be glad to see him.
00:08:17Frances!
00:08:19Hello!
00:08:21Three days early.
00:08:23And am I glad to be home.
00:08:25How was Ethiopia?
00:08:27Hot and tiresome. And it wasn't Ethiopia, it was Kenya.
00:08:30Well, what's it like?
00:08:32Well, at that altitude you get drunk on a thimble full of gin.
00:08:35Here, give me a hand with those.
00:08:37What are you doing home on a Thursday, eh?
00:08:39Um, I have something on tonight and I've got permission.
00:08:42Ah, good.
00:08:44How's it going?
00:08:46Well, it's a crash course and I'm cramming.
00:08:49My head is crammed.
00:08:51Good.
00:08:52Why didn't you let us know you were coming?
00:08:57Put that down over by the wardrobe, James.
00:08:59Yes, sir.
00:09:01I brought you all kinds of nonsense.
00:09:07Look, how's that, eh?
00:09:14Mm.
00:09:19What's James doing home?
00:09:21Oh, some function in London tonight. He arrived an hour ago.
00:09:24Ah, some debutante party, eh?
00:09:27Yes, I think so. I don't remember.
00:09:30Do you know what date it is?
00:09:33Date?
00:09:35Uh, June...
00:09:37June...
00:09:39I don't know.
00:09:40Well, do you know what happened exactly 19 years ago today?
00:09:48Um, Korea or something.
00:09:51I don't remember. I don't know.
00:09:54A skinny little girl on her first visit to London
00:09:57was standing at the stalls bar of the Palladium,
00:10:00drinking lemonade.
00:10:02Mm.
00:10:10Mm.
00:10:23What the...
00:10:36Well, if this is an anniversary,
00:10:39we ought to open this famous bottle of Boeuf Clicquot
00:10:42you've hidden somewhere in the house, eh?
00:10:44That's for us to drink. And we have guests arriving.
00:10:47Guests?
00:10:48Well, it's a celebration.
00:10:50An anniversary and the completion of the Kino deal.
00:10:54Oh. How many? Hundreds?
00:10:56About 36.
00:11:03James.
00:11:06Mm. Not bad, not bad.
00:11:09Look, we haven't got time for a game,
00:11:11but if you'd like me to teach you a few shots, I can.
00:11:14No, thanks.
00:11:16You know, you could usually win yourself a drink or two
00:11:19with this kind of shot.
00:11:21Just watch.
00:11:26Hey! Listen.
00:11:30I want to know something.
00:11:34Do you always walk into your mother's bedroom like that?
00:11:40I don't know what you mean.
00:11:42Do you always walk into your mother's bedroom like that?
00:11:48Without an announcement?
00:11:50Couldn't you have announced yourself?
00:11:52I did.
00:11:54You did not.
00:11:56I did.
00:11:58You did not.
00:12:00You in the habit of doing that?
00:12:02I don't know.
00:12:04Well, think of the appearances of it, my boy.
00:12:09You're not a little child, you know.
00:12:12You're a full-grown man, if you understand my meaning.
00:12:16If I do, it's very insulting to my mother.
00:12:19Do you think that I would insult your mother?
00:12:24I think you'd insult God.
00:12:26Cheeky little bastard.
00:12:53Please.
00:13:24Hello.
00:13:36Hello.
00:13:40Look at Frances.
00:13:42You'd think she was James' girl, not his mother.
00:13:49Mother, you going back east again, do you think?
00:13:52Oh, yes, yes, Bangkok.
00:13:54I'm starting a vast new complex there, you know.
00:14:01I'm fascinated by Mrs. Anderson.
00:14:03She's so terribly lively and refreshing.
00:14:22What will you say?
00:14:28What's on your mind?
00:14:33Don't go away
00:14:47I know I'm only just a stranger now
00:14:53Something's wrong
00:14:55I've known it all along
00:14:58We're half the love and all
00:15:03What's on your mind?
00:15:09What will you say?
00:15:22I know I'm only just a stranger now
00:15:26Something's wrong
00:15:29I've known it all along
00:15:33We're half the love and all
00:15:37What's on your mind?
00:15:41What's on your mind?
00:15:52What's on your mind?
00:16:22What's on your mind?
00:16:52What's on your mind?
00:17:22What's on your mind?
00:17:53What's on your mind?
00:17:57What's on your mind?
00:18:01What's on your mind?
00:18:05What's on your mind?
00:18:09What's on your mind?
00:18:13What's on your mind?
00:18:17What's on your mind?
00:18:21What's on your mind?
00:18:25What's on your mind?
00:18:51What's on your mind?
00:18:55What's on your mind?
00:18:59What's on your mind?
00:19:29Barman!
00:19:31Barman!
00:19:33Barman!
00:19:35Barman!
00:19:37Would you send someone in to the gentleman's to see if Mr. Kemble is there?
00:19:41He might be ill or something
00:19:54He's been gone a good half hour
00:20:00Well, in his absence, may I buy you a drink?
00:20:04Oh, yes, all right
00:20:11Mr. George Kemble
00:20:13Yes, that's right
00:20:14They said at the door he'd left about 20 minutes ago
00:20:16Oh, how very annoying
00:20:18What would you like?
00:20:20Oh, the same, scotch and water
00:20:22Two, please
00:20:30You'll have to put this on his account
00:20:32His account's over £100 now, miss, I can't do that
00:20:35Oh, I haven't enough, I can't pay for it myself
00:20:37You can give us a cheque
00:20:38Oh, I haven't got my chequebook
00:20:39You could fill in a blank cheque
00:20:41Excuse me
00:20:43How much is Mr. Kenworthy's bill for tonight?
00:20:47£6.10, sir
00:20:50I'd be pleased to pay that
00:20:52Thank you very much
00:20:54Mr. Kenworthy can pay me when I next see him
00:21:00Thank you
00:21:07I'd say that was rather shabby of Mr. Kenworthy
00:21:10Thank you
00:21:11I won't say, oh, you shouldn't have
00:21:14But you shouldn't have
00:21:25A great friend of yours, is he?
00:21:26Well, until now
00:21:28That's his way of saying goodbye
00:21:30Very abrupt
00:21:31Well, he's a Scot, sometimes they are abrupt
00:21:37Erm, would you like to dance?
00:21:39Yes, all right
00:21:52Well, by this time I was getting my two feet back on the ground
00:21:55An upgrade of BBC from assistant floor manager to trainee vision mixer
00:22:00I think it was that fact made me say, all right, Rod, quits, out, finish
00:22:06And so, on to Kenworthy
00:22:09Yes
00:22:11Did you quarrel tonight?
00:22:13I never quarrel
00:22:14Sometimes I disagree mildly
00:22:19Would you like another drink?
00:22:21I think I'd rather have some air instead
00:22:26My mother always felt very strongly about not betraying one's class
00:22:31It's just so old-fashioned
00:22:33Boring
00:22:35It's boring
00:22:36And wrong
00:22:37Wrong
00:22:40We all have that problem, one way or another
00:22:42Yes, I suppose so
00:22:46Do you work today?
00:22:47No, I've just finished a show, I'm off until Saturday
00:22:50Well, I'm exhausted
00:22:52I think I'll say goodnight
00:22:56Is this it?
00:22:57Yes
00:22:58The boat?
00:22:59Well, now you find your way, you must come and see me
00:23:02And thank you
00:23:13Mr. Kenworthy thanks you
00:23:15And I thank you
00:23:22Good night
00:23:53Why didn't the caterers men do all this?
00:23:56It was late, I sent them home
00:24:00You know, I find you the most fabulous Spanish couple and you sent them packing
00:24:05I do not want live-in service, the daily woman is enough, I've told you
00:24:10Hey
00:24:13Have you been telling people that you were a circus artiste when you were a girl?
00:24:20It was a very boring man, Mr. Woods pulled some
00:24:24Mr. Woods, Woods
00:24:26And to keep myself from being bored, I told him that when I was a child I performed in a circus
00:24:33You have a very special way of embarrassing me, haven't you?
00:24:40Go to bed
00:24:45Are you coming to bed?
00:24:47Not until Jamie's home
00:24:51Jamie, Jamie
00:24:54I'm your husband
00:25:17Good morning
00:25:26Where were you?
00:25:30On a tour of the flesh pots naturally
00:25:35With the accent on the flesh or the pot?
00:25:40Well, we're about equally stressed
00:25:44You know I never touch the hard stuff
00:25:49I don't know anything of the kind
00:25:52I don't know anything about you
00:25:56Were you in London?
00:26:00The man who is tired of London is tired of life
00:26:04Dr. Johnson said that over 200 years ago
00:26:07What's more, you're drunk
00:26:09Are you insane driving in that condition?
00:26:12You could kill somebody
00:26:14No, you could
00:26:16You 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
00:26:30It is possible she wasn't taking me seriously
00:26:34I didn't mean it, Fran
00:26:36I was only joking, really
00:26:38I'll never leave you
00:26:40Go to your room
00:26:43I didn't mean it, Fran
00:26:45I was only joking, really
00:26:47I'll never leave you
00:26:49Go to your room
00:27:12Go to your room
00:27:43What time did he get home?
00:27:48Quite late
00:27:51So long as his work doesn't suffer
00:27:59Do you really think he should go back to that school?
00:28:02I don't know
00:28:04I don't know
00:28:06I don't know
00:28:08I don't know
00:28:10Do you really think he should go back to that school?
00:28:14Will he never get into university if he doesn't?
00:28:17Some boys are cut out for university and some aren't
00:28:21You know, you're so transparent you should wear armor
00:28:25In just one term away from home
00:28:28He's grown up so rapidly that you can't bear it
00:28:31You 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 outstation
00:29:03To follow you about wherever you go
00:29:13Yes?
00:29:16Mr. Browning morning
00:29:18But I thought he had permission
00:29:21Four days?
00:29:25I can assure you that he will be there on Monday morning
00:29:31James!
00:29:39James!
00:29:47I want to talk to you alone
00:29:49Without your mother
00:29:52I shall expect you in my office tonight
00:29:54At seven o'clock
00:30:02Jimmy
00:30:04Why don't you have your bath in my bathroom?
00:30:06It's nicer
00:30:09But I thought your bathroom was forbidden territory
00:30:15All right
00:30:16You make me sound forbidding, I'm never that, am I?
00:30:20No, not really
00:30:23Jimmy
00:30:32Jimmy
00:30:36Have your bath
00:30:44Jimmy, darling
00:30:46What are you thinking about?
00:30:48Cambridge?
00:30:50Yes
00:30:52And what do you think about Cambridge?
00:30:57Oh, I don't know
00:30:59What 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
00:31:13Except Paris for some shopping
00:31:15So I'm just going to say to him
00:31:17Why don't Jamie and I take a trip around the world?
00:31:24How?
00:31:26On a very slow boat
00:31:43Shall we play one of our games today?
00:31:50I'm going out today
00:31:51All day?
00:31:56That's all right
00:31:58Do exactly what you want to
00:32:01If you find boys' company so exciting
00:32:04I don't know what you talk about, what's so special?
00:32:08Oh, come on, Fran
00:32:51Gentle breeze in your hair, in your hair
00:32:56The 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
00:33:21Time hurries by, hurries by
00:33:24And now you're here
00:33:26See it fly, see it fly
00:33:29But never mind
00:33:34The 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 stopped treating him like one
00:34:01No, Francis!
00:34:02He's meeting me here and he'd better be here
00:34:05Now, goodbye
00:34:17What's on your mind?
00:34:23What's on your mind?
00:34:29What will you say?
00:34:35What's on your mind?
00:34:40Don't go away
00:34:44When 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 give
00:34:58Tell me now, don't let me wonder now
00:35:04Is there somebody new?
00:35:08What's on your mind?
00:35:14What will you say?
00:35:18What will you say?
00:35:43Well, let's go and see the real thing
00:35:45Won't you get a complex?
00:35:48I've never been here before
00:36:18What's on your mind?
00:36:48Now, with birds, their natural instinct is to leave the nest
00:36:54In education has some uses
00:36:57Oh, I didn't learn that in school
00:36:59All they teach you is useless stuff
00:37:02So that I'll get into Cambridge
00:37:05Try telling your father about the useless things
00:37:08I might
00:37:19The thing about her is her constant sense of fun
00:37:23You know, anything and everything for a laugh
00:37:26She plays games too
00:37:28What sort of games?
00:37:30Oh, she just, she just makes them up
00:37:33Her clothes are all sort of French
00:37:36Except when she decides to dress like a Chelsea bird
00:37:40She has antique clothes too
00:37:43Well, 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 her?
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
00:38:11Have you always been attracted to old women?
00:38:15No, not really
00:38:19Just this one
00:38:27I'll tell Mr. Anderson you're here
00:38:29No, 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
00:38:53Then an Austrian princess
00:38:54Then the daughter of a French king
00:38:56All of whom were pre-deceased
00:38:58Henry VIII, of course
00:39:00Philip II of Spain
00:39:03Oh, so he was
00:39:05A large scotch and half a pint of bitter, please
00:39:08I prefer a scotch
00:39:11Two large scotches
00:39:15Where on this planet, if you walked five miles south
00:39:18Five miles west and five miles north again
00:39:21Would you end up at the precise point where you began?
00:39:24That'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
00:39:39Yes
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, 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
00:40:07Watching eight telescreens, four in a row, four below
00:40:10My friend selects which shot will be seen by the public
00:40:14By pressing button one
00:40:16That's a fantastic skill
00:40:18Marvellous
00:40:20I mean, can you imagine the responsibility of pushing all those buttons?
00:40:24Skill
00:40:26Yes, 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 head
00:40:50These are the trimmings of life
00:40:52Wages, sir
00:40:54They earn wages
00:40:56And spend them
00:40:57Ah, yes
00:40:58Happily
00:40:59Living by their hands
00:41:01And from hand to mouth
00:41:13James
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
00:41:27You didn't have permission to leave school
00:41:33You don't want to come back
00:41:35No, I don't
00:41:37I want you back there first thing Monday morning
00:41:40I'd like to talk about that
00:41:42No more talk
00:41:44Monday morning
00:41:57Well, why should I do what he says?
00:41:59I mean, what can he do?
00:42:01Well, he could cut up your lunch
00:42:05I'll earn my living
00:42:07What would you do?
00:42:10Well, anything
00:42:13It isn't easy
00:42:15I'll manage
00:42:17Do you know what you really want to do?
00:42:20What?
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
00:42:46And sometimes I don't
00:42:49You saw James?
00:42:51I saw James
00:42:53We'll have a nice talk about him at dinner
00:42:56Where are you going to take me? To the Gorizia?
00:42:59I have to be in Torquay first thing in the morning
00:43:02I shall drive down tonight after my New York call comes through
00:43:06I'll be back on Sunday
00:43:08Before James leaves for school
00:43:18Bye
00:43:42I bet you didn't have anything to eat
00:43:45A lot to eat and a lot to drink
00:43:49What was it?
00:43:51Another debutante party?
00:43:55No, a stag party
00:43:57With the boys
00:44:00Jeremy Holbrooke's getting married tomorrow
00:44:03Jeremy Holbrooke is 19 years old
00:44:06Yes, and he's getting married tomorrow
00:44:09Oh
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
00:44:29Oh
00:44:36Jamie
00:44:38What happened tonight?
00:44:40What 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
00:45:18When you're gone for hours, I...
00:45:21I worry
00:45:23Coming home like last night and driving in this condition, I...
00:45:29I worry
00:45:31Can't you let me swim in peace?
00:45:34No
00:46:05You didn't finish your drink
00:46:09Let's go and do 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?
00:46:34No
00:46:51I'm sorry if I sound cynical, but...
00:46:54I find it rather difficult to trust men
00:46:58Or 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
00:47:08It isn't easy
00:47:10I think I already know that
00:47:15I'm hungry
00:47:16Do you like spaghetti?
00:47:18I 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?
00:47:30I hear it's marvelous
00:47:33She wanted me to go
00:47:34She?
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
00:48:01Is this a handmaid?
00:48:23Is this a handmaid?
00:48:30It's a handmaid
00:49:00Jimmy?
00:49:30Jimmy?
00:50:00It's all right
00:50:30It's all right
00:51:00It's all right
00:51:31It's all right
00:51:35It's all right
00:52:00It's all right
00:52:16Oh, Cicely
00:52:20How is it that some men can communicate with their sons
00:52:25And that no matter how much I try, I can't?
00:52:28I've never been to Italy
00:52:32Do you remember last year I made a suggestion
00:52:34About interesting him in something that you could do together
00:52:37Like golf?
00:52:39Bores 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
00:53:04That's the Australian?
00:53:13I wasn't very good, was I?
00:53:17You 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
00:53:41Scared to death
00:53:43Sex is like that in a way
00:53:47I don't mean to go on about it
00:53:49But 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 walked
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
00:54:45And put two and two together
00:54:48Very clever
00:54:50Or one and one
00:54:54She's your mother, isn't she?
00:54:58Isn't she?
00:55:20Don't go away
00:55:23What's on your mind?
00:55:27Don't go away
00:55:31What's on your mind?
00:55:35Don't go away
00:55:39What's on your mind?
00:55:43Don't go away
00:55:47What's on your mind?
00:56:00What's on your mind?
00:56:05I will...
00:56:17I will...
00:56:47Hello
00:57:06It's time to go
00:57:11Not when I'm drinking
00:57:14Come on, Fran, we're going home
00:57:18You're drunk
00:57:20And I'm drinking
00:57:22Home
00:57:25You can live your life but I got mine
00:57:30I just wanna set me free
00:57:33Gonna make the most of all my time
00:57:37Make the most of all for me
00:57:40Make the least 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
00:57:55To 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, take 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
00:58:28To the girl I love
00:58:45Mama
00:58:48Mama
00:58:50Let'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
00:59:00To the girl I love
00:59:18I've often worried about her mental health.
00:59:23She has a crazed look sometimes.
00:59:27I don't know how to describe it. It's...
00:59:31What are you worried about?
00:59:35James.
00:59:39Must get home tonight.
00:59:42Must get home tonight.
01:00:06I can't.
01:00:12I can't.
01:00:24Mesa?
01:00:28Mesa?
01:00:41Mesa?
01:01:11Mesa?
01:01:41Mesa?
01:02:12Are you Mesa?
01:02:14Are you Mesa?
01:02:33Are you Mesa?
01:02:38No.
01:02:41Oh, oh, you're Mesa Grown-Ode.
01:02:46Mesa 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.
01:03:08I'm planning to make this garden into something really special.
01:03:13Marvellous idea.
01:03:15Along the lines of Versailles, you know.
01:03:17Splendid, splendid.
01:03:18Oh, Robert, do orange trees grow here?
01:03:22Of course.
01:03:23Costs a lot, but I don't care.
01:03:26I don't care at all.
01:03:28Come along.
01:03:30Careful.
01:03:32Are you drunk?
01:03:34I think you've been drinking.
01:03:36I'm going to make you some coffee.
01:03:45Why was James's light on?
01:03:47I'm really sorry, because I thought Jamie was still in school.
01:03:52I mean, Jamie...
01:04:00I'll bet you don't know what those people think of you.
01:04:03What people?
01:04:05What people?
01:04:06Well, those people you know.
01:04:08The 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.
01:04:17Well, my speech is clear.
01:04:19I'm not that terribly drunk.
01:04:22Darling, I have to explain to you talking about money is vulgar.
01:04:28In this country, you do not blow your own horn.
01:04:31You do not talk about property deals in Kenya.
01:04:33You 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.
01:04:44Oh, 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.
01:05:17You 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.
01:05:33Or break something, break the furniture, the house, smash everything.
01:05:36Because you are very good at that.
01:05:40Oh, I kill me.
01:05:43Come on.
01:05:49Alright, I 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.
01:05:58Bitch.
01:06:00Take 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.
01:06:27It's a little secret for you.
01:06:32Liar.
01:06:35Change of a liar.
01:06:38Dammit.
01:06:41Dammit.
01:06:42Dammit.
01:06:44Dammit.
01:06:45Dammit.
01:06:47Dammit.
01:06:48Dammit.
01:06:49Stop.
01:06:50Dammit.
01:06:51Dammit.
01:06:52Dammit.
01:06:53Bitch.
01:06:54Dammit.
01:06:55Dammit.
01:06:57Dammit.
01:07:01Dammit.
01:07:05Dammit.
01:07:11Get in the car.
01:07:26Get in the car.
01:07:57Get in the car.
01:08:15Fuck.
01:08:22Sleep.
01:08:27Sleep.
01:08:49Dammit.
01:08:57Dammit.
01:09:18He's dead.
01:09:27Dammit.
01:09:42James, listen.
01:09:43We were expecting Robert last night.
01:09:45And when he didn't turn up we just imagined that he would drive back this morning.
01:09:50We didn't expect him.
01:09:51We weren't worried, right?
01:09:53Which is the truth.
01:09:54I 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.
01:10:07We went for a drink.
01:10:10What time was it?
01:10:12Do 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?
01:10:24Sir.
01:10:27James.
01:10:29When you met your father last Friday, was that the last time you saw him or spoke to him?
01:10:38Yes.
01:10:49Yes, well, that'll be all for now.
01:10:54What?
01:10:58They know.
01:10:59You mean...
01:11:01You didn't tell Chitley?
01:11:04It was an accident. They were fighting.
01:11:07You mean...
01:11:09Oh, my God.
01:11:11It was an accident.
01:11:13Yes, but what happened?
01:11:15I don't know.
01:11:17I don't know.
01:11:19I don't know.
01:11:21I don't know.
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?
01:11:52I don't know.
01:11:54You know, in fact, they didn't look very normal.
01:11:57Naughty.
01:11:58My dear, some of these didn't look as rich as the Rothschilds.
01:12:02Oh, no.
01:12:03No, they weren't. They weren't very good.
01:12:06You're too gentle to have done it.
01:12:10But I did it.
01:12:11It was an accident.
01:12:14Well, if I called the police straight away, maybe...
01:12:17Oh.
01:12:19I'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.
01:12:48It's all right.
01:13:19THE END
01:13:35Mentors of the jury,
01:13:37if what the Crown said were true,
01:13:40it would be a grim tale indeed.
01:13:43The tale of a son who deliberately took his father's life,
01:13:47brutally,
01:13:49in the full knowledge of what he was doing.
01:13:53You are asked to deduce this from facts
01:13:57which can be understood in many ways.
01:14:03I intend to ask an eyewitness,
01:14:08the accused boy, James Lawrence Anderson.
01:14:13It is with confidence that I submit him to your attention
01:14:18and 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 up,
01:14:38managed to get behind the wheel of the rover,
01:14:40and that your mother was barefooted and wearing only a penwa?
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?
01:15:00A car was following.
01:15:03That's not very clear.
01:15:06Suddenly,
01:15:09my father had overtaken us.
01:15:12Somehow he forced us into a verge.
01:15:15And there he was, with the golf club.
01:15:20I thought he was going to kill us both.
01:15:22I told her to run, which she did.
01:15:25And then he hit me with the club.
01:15:28With which end of the club, can you tell us?
01:15:31The shaft.
01:15:32And what happened?
01:15:33The shaft.
01:15:34And what did you do?
01:15:37I hit him back.
01:15:38I...
01:15:40I suppose I must have grabbed the club
01:15:44and struck him.
01:15:47How many times, I don't know.
01:15:51One last question.
01:15:53Why did you lie to the police about what had happened?
01:15:58I didn't want to admit,
01:16:00even to myself,
01:16:02that I had killed my own father.
01:16:06The fact
01:16:08was just too terrible.
01:16:13Even now, I wish it were a dream.
01:16:17But it isn't.
01:16:19It wasn't.
01:16:26It's just done.
01:16:28It's just done.
01:16:36If I may say so,
01:16:37you have a highly developed histrionic ability, Mr. Anderson.
01:16:40But this is a courtroom, not a theatre.
01:16:43We are here to establish facts.
01:16:46Now, Dr. Donaldson has testified that your mother
01:16:48was wearing only a pen wire to conceal her nakedness
01:16:50when she appeared at his twickening surgery
01:16:52to be treated for the unfortunate injury to her upper lip.
01:16:57The doctor has also testified that you were wearing a raincoat.
01:17:01Were you wearing a raincoat?
01:17:05I think I wore a raincoat.
01:17:06Very sensible.
01:17:07Nights can be chilly.
01:17:09It suggests a certain forethought.
01:17:11I mean,
01:17:12after this violent attack upon your mother,
01:17:15you had time to think,
01:17:17to find a raincoat to wear
01:17:18before fleeing in the rover from your...
01:17:21I use Melanie Fenn's language,
01:17:23deranged father.
01:17:25I didn't think about it.
01:17:26I...
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.
01:17:34Did you have your watch on?
01:17:35I...
01:17:36I 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 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,
01:18:08leapt from your bed,
01:18:09and 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
01:18:24to take it as the day she bore you,
01:18:26a fully grown man like yourself?
01:18:30And I shall not dwell on the unwholesome
01:18:33and even unthinkable aspects of this case.
01:18:37I should merely like to introduce into evidence Exhibit 8.
01:18:49Do you recognise this?
01:18:51I don't know.
01:18:53You said that your father tried to thrash you with a club.
01:18:57Yes.
01:18:58There was no club found in his hand.
01:19:00Explain that if you can.
01:19:03He must have dropped it.
01:19:04In which case it would have been somewhere near the body.
01:19:06Yet this was the only club found,
01:19:08and this was some 15 feet from the body.
01:19:12It must be the same club.
01:19:14Then this is the weapon with which you killed your father.
01:19:19I can't remember.
01:19:22I 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?
01:20:19Are you Mrs. Anderson?
01:20:20Yes.
01:20:21I wanted to thank you for being here.
01:20:23I 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.
01:20:58He kept talking about this other woman.
01:21:02I never realized it was his mother.
01:21:09You know,
01:21:11James 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.
01:21:31We could go and visit him there together.
01:21:48Mrs. Anderson.
01:21:51Would you tell His Lordship the true position in your own words?
01:21:58Very much has already been said.
01:22:00The fact that I sleep without a nightdress,
01:22:03that my son sleeps without pajamas.
01:22:05Must I talk about that?
01:22:09My son is here accused of murder because he killed his father.
01:22:14My son is here accused of murder because he killed his father
01:22:18to protect me and himself.
01:22:21If he hadn't, his father would be standing in this box today,
01:22:24defending himself against a much more serious charge.
01:22:28Am I wrong?
01:22:29You 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.
01:22:41I was about to be killed, and...
01:22:45the fear of it...
01:22:48I cannot explain.
01:22:54James killed his father.
01:22:57I saw it.
01:23:01Why 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.
01:23:21You really are a most accomplished witness, Mrs. Anderson.
01:23:25Please accept my compliments.
01:23:28May I inquire as to the state of your upper lip,
01:23:30which seems to have been the cause of this dreadful deed?
01:23:34My lip has healed, I think.
01:23:36My lip has healed, I think.
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 after you were hit in the mouth?
01:23:54If it is the same found near Robert's body, it...
01:23:58it must be the same.
01:24:00And you testify that you saw your son kill his father with this club?
01:24:04I saw him hit him with a club. It may be the same.
01:24:07Account for 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.
01:24:35James was in a kind of stupor in the front of my car.
01:24:43I took this club and wiped it.
01:25:00Members of the jury,
01:25:03have you considered your verdict?
01:25:05We have.
01:25:06And how do you find the prisoner, James Lawrence Anderson,
01:25:10guilty or not guilty?
01:25:13We find the prisoner not guilty.
01:25:15That is the verdict of you all.
01:25:17It is.
01:26:33Jamie.
01:26:36Change that music.
01:26:38It's so sad.
01:26:40Come on.
01:27:03Are you hungry?
01:27:05Shall I make you eggs with cream,
01:27:08and salad and cheese and fruit?
01:27:11No, I don't think I'll eat today.
01:27:15I could make you garlic bread.
01:27:20He liked garlic.
01:27:24No, thank you.
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.
01:28:04Oh.
01:28:08Could I meet him?
01:28:10I really would like to meet him.
01:28:13Her.
01:28:27Jamie.
01:28:30Jamie, it's our house now.
01:28:33It's our house. We'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.
01:29:00I killed my father.
01:29:09No, Jamie.
01:29:12No.
01:29:29Yes.
01:30:00He liked to think so, but he wasn't.
01:30:12Then who is?
01:30:16Who was my father?
01:30:21Mesa.
01:30:24Mesa.
01:30:27Mesa.
01:30:29He's dead.
01:30:35I'm with you now. It's our house.
01:30:38Our 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.
01:30:58We charter a yacht.
01:31:00And we go somewhere.
01:31:02Anywhere, wherever you want to.
01:31:04You always can avoid winter if you're rich.
01:31:06And now we are rich.
01:31:15We don't need to see anyone.
01:31:18Unless you want to.
01:31:23I don't.
01:31:47Jamie, did you hear something?
01:31:53No.
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. We are alone.
01:32:22He cannot frighten us. It's us. It's us.
01:32:28Jamie! Jamie!
01:32:30Please! Please!
01:32:32Jamie! Jamie!
01:32:34Jamie, please! Please! Please!
01:32:37Jamie! Please!
01:32:39Please, don't go!
01:32:41Please, don't go!
01:32:43Don't leave me alone! No, Jamie!
01:32:45No, no, no!
01:32:47Jamie! Jamie!
01:32:49Jamie!
01:32:51Jamie! Jamie!
01:32:55Jamie! Jamie!
01:33:03Don't leave me alone!
01:33:07Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:12Jamie, don't leave me alone.
01:33:16Jamie.
01:33:18Jamie, please.
01:33:21Jamie.
01:34:48Yeah.