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00:00Hello. Hello, Fran. Yeah, I just signed. I'm an ex-automobile manufacturer now.
00:07Okay, Fran, I'll take myself seriously. Sure, I'll be home early, Fran.
00:11I'm just dropping in to say goodbye to the boys in the assembly line. Goodbye, Fran.
00:16Albert. Yes, it does work.
00:18While we're gone, whatever you do, don't use my good lace tablecloth. Put them on the shelves in my... Sam?
00:23Me, Fran, your old, retired husband. Everything settled?
00:27The Revelation Motor Company, Samuel Dartworth, president and founder, became the property of United Motors this very afternoon.
00:33How do you feel? Well, a little lost.
00:36I guess the way a man is supposed to feel who's just sold 25 years of his life.
00:40Well, you've got to expect to feel kind of lost for a while.
00:43I knew what I was doing when I sold, Fran. You mustn't feel lost, Sam.
00:46Life is going to be fuller than ever and richer for both of us. We're free.
00:50I'm just as keen on this trip as you are, Fran. I'm raring to go. I've always wanted to see London and Paris.
00:54But it's got to mean much more than a trip to us, Sam.
00:56It's got to be a new life all over from the very beginning.
00:59We're going to start over.
01:01Well, I'd almost sell this house so we wouldn't have anything to tie us down.
01:05Wait a minute, Fran. This is our home. We've built ourselves into it.
01:09I want to get us some new selves now.
01:11Why, if we weren't tied to this deadly, half-baked, middle-western...
01:15Now, Fran, don't start knocking Zenith.
01:17I'm not knocking Zenith, Sam. But I'm thinking of my freedom.
01:20I want the lovely things I've got a right to.
01:23In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting to where men take a serious interest in her.
01:27I won't be put on the shelf for my daughter when I can still dance better and longer than she can.
01:32No one ever takes me for more than 35 or 30, even.
01:35I'm begging for life, Sam.
01:37No, I'm not. I'm demanding it.
01:40Well, if that's how you feel, I'll enjoy life as it kills me. And it probably will.
01:45How about a kiss?
01:47There. Oh, and I'll love you much more when you're not just an old horse on a treadmill.
01:52Oh, about it, Fran, there's something I haven't told you since I came in.
01:56That I remember to tell you the day that I adore you.
02:09You folks finish your brandy. I'll just take a quick stroll around the deck.
02:13Why go on deck to smoke that old pipe of yours?
02:15Well, it's wonderful out on deck. Besides, I want to see that light, my first sight of England.
02:19Oh, Sam.
02:20I'm so excited, I'll admit it.
02:22Major Lockhart, you'll see that my wife dances all she wants.
02:25It'll be my pleasure, Mr. Doddsworth.
02:27Close that door, Sam. You're blowing my hair all over the place.
02:30See you later.
02:31Any orders, sir?
02:32Anything for you, Mrs. Doddsworth?
02:33No, thanks.
02:34Bring me a brandy and soda.
02:35Yes, sir.
02:36Oh, it's been such a pleasant voyage.
02:38Sorry it's over?
02:39Yes and no. I've had a very good time, thanks to you, Major Lockhart.
02:42If it hadn't been for meeting you British yourself.
02:45Talk about Sam not being able to wait to set foot on British soil.
02:49Neither can I. And when I do set foot...
02:51You'll try your wings.
02:53Oh, that's very pretty, Major. I hope I don't fall.
02:55No, you won't. You'll soar out of sight.
02:57I shall be there with my telescope, watching.
02:59You know, I've been laying out things for us to do in London.
03:02For us to do? Really, Major Lockhart?
03:04Oh, I know all about these steamship intimacies.
03:07The moment we sight land...
03:08Good evening, Mrs. Doddsworth.
03:09Oh, how do you do?
03:10Won't you join us, Mrs. Cartwright?
03:12No, thanks. I'm going outside to get a bit of air.
03:15You'd think she'd dress for dinner.
03:18Why is the traveling American always so dreadful?
03:21Forgive me, Mrs. Doddsworth, but why are you Americans always such snobs?
03:26You enjoy taking me down, don't you?
03:28But is it snobbish to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
03:32Or to want to know more of life than one's always known?
03:35Well, to us in England, life in America has always seemed so enviable.
03:38So safe and sane. So normal.
03:40You don't know what one misses living a safe and sane, normal American life.
03:44I may be a snob, but I know what I want, you see.
03:47That's what Americans generally do, I've found.
03:49And right now, I want you to dance with me, Major Lockhart.
03:51With pleasure.
03:57Good evening, Mrs. Cartwright.
03:58Good evening.
04:00You see that light over there?
04:03Is that Bishop's Light?
04:05It is.
04:06Bishop's Light.
04:08I've never been across before. I get excited.
04:12Take one look at that light and all the things I've ever read about England come to life.
04:17A town behind it are those flat-faced brick houses
04:20and a cart crawling up a hill between high hedges
04:24and Jane Austen and Oliver Twist and Robin Hood.
04:27England.
04:29Mother England.
04:31Home.
04:32Have you always felt that way about England?
04:34I don't know. It just struck me, but I guess I must have.
04:37There's nothing like a first trip to Europe.
04:39Especially when you're old enough to know what you're after.
04:42What are you after?
04:43My wife, of course, she's been over before.
04:45She wants me to learn how to enjoy my leisure.
04:47Now I've retired.
04:49What it boils down to, I've been doing things myself for a long time now.
04:52I thought I'd give things a chance to do something to me.
04:55How long have you given yourself?
04:56Six months.
04:57To get all that done?
04:58I'll be homesick by then.
05:00Yes.
05:01I was homesick the first year I came over.
05:03Came over? Where from?
05:05Michigan.
05:06Are you an American?
05:07I don't know what I am.
05:09I used to be a British subject by marriage.
05:11I don't know that one can be a British subject by divorce.
05:14I expect I'm just a woman who lives in Italy.
05:17Do people live in Italy?
05:19There are quite a few Italians.
05:20I mean people like you.
05:22I live in Italy by the thousand, Mr. Dartsworth.
05:24Why?
05:25It's cheap.
05:27My wife tells me I ask too many questions.
05:30I didn't mind answering, so I couldn't have minded.
05:32You don't seem to talk to many people on board.
05:35Wife said she didn't open up much when she tries you.
05:38Perhaps I wasn't feeling so well that day.
05:41Feeling better tonight?
05:42Much better, thank you.
05:44You've lived abroad. What's it like?
05:46Well, that depends on what one's after.
05:48Well, the man has no more job.
05:51Wife wants a fling.
05:52They're worse things than travel.
05:54Much worse.
05:56It wouldn't do for me.
05:57Steady thing, give me America.
05:59Your wife wouldn't say that.
06:00She will by the time our six months are up.
06:03I hope she does.
06:04Drifting isn't nearly so pleasant as it looks.
06:07Well, if you don't like it, why don't you give it up?
06:10One drift for lack of a reason would do anything else.
06:13What do you want?
06:15What do you suppose any lone woman wants?
06:18Well, there are plenty of lone women in America.
06:21Women without men, I suppose you mean.
06:24That's exactly what I do mean.
06:26But in America, well, they're among Americans.
06:32Could you put down that paper and listen to me for a moment, Sam Dartsworth?
06:35Hold on.
06:36I just wondered if I could remind you that this is a London hotel room
06:39and not our living room in Venus.
06:41Can't you put all those biographies and things somewhere and that box of cigars?
06:44Oh, Fran, there's no place to put anything in these hotel rooms.
06:47I don't see what I'm supposed to do.
06:48Now, please don't complain, Sam.
06:49It makes the room look as though...
06:51Come in.
06:53Oh, hello, Clyde.
06:54How are you, Major Lockhart?
06:55Good evening.
06:56Where have you been all day, young fella?
06:57I tried to get you for lunch.
06:58And when he couldn't, he went to the Tower of London.
07:01Sure I went to the Tower.
07:02It's in London, isn't it?
07:03You're so hopelessly American, Sam.
07:05What do you mean, hopelessly?
07:06I assure you, he's becoming a regular tripper.
07:09It was nice of you, Clyde, to ask me tonight.
07:11Well, I was afraid maybe I was too early, but I'm glad to see I'm not.
07:14That's an exciting bit of good you've got on, Fran.
07:16I'm glad you like it.
07:17I bought it with you in mind.
07:19Come on, Clyde.
07:20Have a good time at your stag party, Sam.
07:21Yeah, I think I will.
07:22They tell me there are a couple of Americans there who live in Manchester
07:24in the automobile business.
07:25They sort of think that...
07:26I'm sure it'll bring back all the charms of Venus.
07:29Don't drink too much, will you?
07:31Don't worry.
07:32If they've got me right whiskey over here, I'm unable to find it.
07:35I probably won't drink at all.
07:37Good night, Mr. Doddsworth.
07:38Good night.
07:39Don't you dance too well, young fellow.
07:41Fran's mad enough at me already.
07:43All right, Mr. Doddsworth.
07:51I don't know why you like this place.
07:53To me, all night clubs are foul.
07:55I feel so alive in them.
07:57Well, I was thinking of turning in early.
07:59Oh, will you?
08:00I've got a meeting in the morning, and if I'm the least bit sleepy...
08:02Don't let me keep you up, Clyde.
08:03Sam will be out very late,
08:05and I had hoped we could stay here and dance until all hours...
08:07No, no, I didn't mean...
08:09Well, I mean, how long do you expect his dinner to keep him?
08:12That depends entirely on how much he has to drink.
08:14I say, he isn't likely to come in roaring, is he?
08:16Shoot me if he finds me here.
08:17Sam...
08:18Well, men have done such things.
08:19Sam has all the old-fashioned virtues except jealousy.
08:22Call it a virtue, do you?
08:23Well, when a wife who isn't exactly plain
08:26seems to be attractive to other men
08:28and doesn't seem to mind when they show her she's attractive...
08:31Fran...
08:32Yes?
08:33Don't go trekking over to the continent.
08:35Stay here in England.
08:36You belong here.
08:37We need you and love you here.
08:38I shouldn't be human, Clyde, if I didn't love hearing that,
08:40but I wish you'd change the subject.
08:43I will not change the subject,
08:44and I want to kiss you here and now.
08:47That was a very silly thing for me to do, Clyde,
08:49and I don't like it.
08:50Oh, you will when you think it over.
08:52Look, why don't I take you back to the hotel,
08:54and tomorrow you come have tea at my place?
08:56I shall not come to your place tomorrow,
08:57and I want you to take me home now.
08:59You know, you're taking a wickedly unfair advantage of me,
09:01trying to make me believe you resented that.
09:03Didn't you think I would resent it?
09:05No, I thought I was doing what was expected of me.
09:07What was expected of you?
09:09Not you alone, Fran.
09:10There's a tradition about this sort of thing.
09:12I thought civilized people knew where an innocent flirtation stops.
09:16For a civilized woman who's been married as long as you have,
09:18you're making a great deal of a small matter.
09:20If you don't mind, I'm going home alone.
09:22Well, if you insist.
09:23I'd rather you wouldn't.
09:25And I'd like to offer you one bit of advice.
09:28Give up undertaking things you aren't prepared to finish.
09:31Do you really think...
09:32You have the most charming and most childish misconceptions about yourself, Fran.
09:36You think you're a woman of the world, and nothing of the sort.
09:39And I'm awfully afraid you never will be.
09:41I never want to see or hear of you again.
09:44Well, that won't be too difficult to arrange.
09:46Waiter?
09:47Yes, sir?
09:48Check, please.
09:50Fran?
09:51Yes, Henry?
09:53What's the matter with you, Fran?
09:54Nothing.
09:55You're crying.
09:56Is it sweet? What is it?
09:57I was never so furious in my life.
10:00That man, that man...
10:01What did he do?
10:02He insulted me.
10:03How far did he go?
10:04He kissed me.
10:05And when I tried to put him in his place, he humiliated me.
10:08He said things to me, he said things...
10:10I can't bear it.
10:11I suppose it's up to me to go out and shoot him.
10:13Don't joke, Sam.
10:14Well, I would feel like a fool.
10:16You and I aren't up to this kind of thing.
10:18It makes us look like the hicks we are.
10:20Well, it does.
10:21It's your own fault for leading him on.
10:23So I'm to blame?
10:24You must have had some excuse for making him pass.
10:26You've been flirting with him.
10:27You've got such a sweet way of bawling me out in front of him.
10:29He'd naturally conclude.
10:30I've never said anything to embarrass you.
10:31I've always been loyal.
10:32Oh, you'll be sorry.
10:33You'll be sorry.
10:34Fran, I'm tired.
10:35You think I'm not tired?
10:36Well, then let's forget about it.
10:38Oh, Sam.
10:39What is it now?
10:41We never used to scrap so much at home.
10:44I guess we haven't had enough else to do over here.
10:47It's England.
10:49England's such a strain.
10:51I want to go over to France tomorrow.
10:53Oh, but Fran, I'm just beginning to get on to London.
10:55There's some aeroplane things.
10:56I want to leave right away.
10:58I'm so ashamed about this locket business.
11:00Ashamed way down inside of me.
11:03I can't stay in this country with that man laughing at me insane.
11:06Saying what?
11:07That you told him a couple of things?
11:09Oh, that's not what he'd say.
11:11You've got to take me away.
11:13You've got to look after me.
11:14I don't trust myself, Sam.
11:16I'm afraid of myself.
11:17Afraid, sweetheart?
11:18Yes, Sam.
11:19Sam, I'm just a woolly American like you, after all.
11:22And if you ever catch me trying to be anything else,
11:25will you beat me?
11:26Well, I have to beat you very long at a time.
11:29You know, beating you would be a pretty new thing for me.
11:32I'd have to go at it kind of slow.
11:40I'm too divine, don't you, Mrs. Cortright?
11:43There are many tributes I could pay to the French,
11:45but the divine, I'm not sure.
11:47Oh, but everything is done so perfectly,
11:49with such taste and ease.
11:50Just take these hotel rooms, this apartment,
11:52and that fellow next door turned into a salamandre.
11:56At a moment's notice,
11:57Sam wanted this little dinner to be chiffon, Mrs. Cortright,
12:00and he was so glad that you were able to stay over.
12:03It's never hard for me to stay in Paris.
12:05And you, dear Madame de Penable,
12:06if I could begin to tell you how touched I am
12:08by your concern over Sam and me.
12:10I know Sam hasn't seemed very cordial, but really,
12:12you have to know American men and how to manage them.
12:15Underneath the exterior,
12:16no matter how gruff they seem.
12:17I understand perfectly, my dear friend,
12:19but don't you think perhaps before the men come back,
12:22you really must...
12:23What, madame?
12:24Sign the lease for the house.
12:26A lease on staying here?
12:27Oh, no, no, it's a...
12:29Well, I've got the photographs right here.
12:31It's the most wonderful stroke of luck being able to rent it.
12:34It's the Duchesse de Quatrecheux's villa
12:36at Montreux on Lake Geneva.
12:38That mountain's the...
12:40What mountain is it, Madame de Penable?
12:42What mountain is it, Madame de Penable?
12:44The Don de Midi.
12:45Of course, the Don de Midi.
12:47And that is the Castle of Chillon,
12:50Brian's prisoner, you know?
12:51But if you haven't told your husband about it...
12:53You heard him at dinner.
12:54He's gone sightseeing, mad.
12:55I thought you were sailing home in June.
12:57That's Sam's idea.
12:58I remember so well the talk I had with your husband
13:01last night on the boat
13:02about what he was after in Europe.
13:04Oh, really?
13:05Seems to be developing into something quite different.
13:08I hope so.
13:09In the afternoon where Napoleon was drowned,
13:11the fellas at the American Express told me to go there.
13:13There I was, sitting down,
13:14Napoleon and Sam Dodsworth, the Zenith, together.
13:17And I looked up at the rose window.
13:20First, I saw what it was,
13:22and then I began to see what it meant.
13:24I began to feel...
13:25I began to feel...
13:26Sam, what are you talking about?
13:28Your husband has been simply fascinating, Mrs. Dodsworth.
13:30Has he, Kurt?
13:31I suppose you told him all about Napoleon's tomb.
13:34Sam, don't you realize that Herr von Oberstdorf
13:36knows all about Napoleon's tomb?
13:38It wasn't necessary for you to...
13:40I wonder, friend, if you will excuse me.
13:42It is already so late.
13:43Good night, my dearest friend.
13:45Friend, do you really have to go?
13:46Oui, Parisienne.
13:47I'm not used to such late hours in Paris as you Americans.
13:50I'll get your coat, Mrs. Pinaball.
13:56I suppose I must be leaving too.
13:58Smoke one more cigarette.
14:00It has been such a charming evening.
14:02And now you and your husband must dine with me.
14:04Are you free Tuesday?
14:05Shall we say eight?
14:06Here I will write down my address.
14:08Quai Voltaire, rue de Carvousel, and straight over the river.
14:10What a charming address.
14:12It is where I stay when I'm in Paris.
14:14If I dare hope that ever you would come to Vienna,
14:17there I think I could promise you
14:18that you would like my establishment.
14:20It has been in our family so long.
14:22Well, here I have only a small place.
14:24What an ideal existence.
14:25I shall look for you Tuesday, then.
14:27Oh.
14:28I beg pardon.
14:29I have offended you.
14:30Of course not.
14:31It's just...
14:32Well, I'm...
14:33I'm still not used to having my hand kissed by a stranger.
14:36Stranger?
14:37Surely, Fran, you do not think of me as...
14:39Oh, please.
14:40Excuse me.
14:41Oh, come in, Mrs. Cotter.
14:42I couldn't, I was just...
14:43Thank you so much, Mrs. Osborne, for a charming evening.
14:45I don't suppose we'll be seeing you again.
14:47No.
14:48I'm off to Italy in the morning.
14:50And please forgive me for interfering in your affairs,
14:52but don't, my dear.
14:54Don't.
14:55You're so charming.
14:56Don't what?
14:57Fran, you wouldn't believe it,
14:58but I really tried to kiss Mrs. Pinaball's hand.
15:00I couldn't make it.
15:01Maybe one of these days.
15:03You're not going, Mrs. Cordright?
15:05Oh, I must.
15:06But if ever you are in April...
15:08Here.
15:09I stole a bit of your letter paper to write my address on.
15:11Swell.
15:12I'll say good night, too.
15:13If you wish, Mrs. Cotter, I can drop you at your hotel.
15:16Good night, Kurt.
15:17Thanks for your sweet flowers.
15:18Call me up tomorrow.
15:20Maybe we can dance somewhere for tea.
15:22With gladness.
15:23Good night, Mr. Dudford.
15:24Good night.
15:25Good night, Mrs. Cotter.
15:28I like that woman.
15:30You know, I'm always glad to see any friends of yours, Sam.
15:33Even the not particularly amusing ones.
15:35Amusing?
15:36Are you trying to tell me...
15:37Oh, there are interesting strangers.
15:39They just take a bit of finding.
15:41A bit of finding.
15:43You're starting to talk funny, Fran.
15:45Guess it'll wear off when we get back to Zenith.
15:48Dear old Zenith, huh?
15:49I'll say dear old Zenith.
15:51Don't you think it's time we began thinking of going back home, Fran?
15:53Home?
15:54Well, really, Sam.
15:56I want to see lots more of Europe.
15:58You're the boss.
15:59Lots more of Europe it is.
16:01But I ought to be getting home before too long, you know.
16:03I've got some business to attend to.
16:05I'd like to see how Emily's getting along in the old house.
16:07Oh, the old house will still be there.
16:09Would you mind bringing my cold cream sandwich on the bureau?
16:11All right.
16:13No, it's not.
16:14Well, it's in the bathroom, then.
16:16And those, you know, paper things with it.
16:19We've got to begin making plans pretty soon.
16:21We can't keep on drifting.
16:22Drifting?
16:24Oh, dear, how sleepy I am.
16:28I've got an idea, Sam.
16:30Why don't you go home?
16:32What's that?
16:33Well, if you'd come into the same room with me.
16:35Okay, now I'm in the same room with you.
16:38What'd you say?
16:40Why don't you go home to Zenith?
16:43Without you?
16:45Yeah.
16:46Get yourself a new lease on life, then come back and join me.
16:49Why don't you?
16:50But I wouldn't want to go home without you, Fran.
16:51Well, you're not enjoying Europe.
16:53I'm only thinking of your pleasure.
16:55If it were not of mine, you wouldn't ask me to leave here.
16:57And we're just getting to know some really nice people.
17:00I don't think they're so nice.
17:01Well, we needn't go into that again.
17:03And Mrs. Penable, there's something fishy about her.
17:05You mark my words.
17:06And that Kurt, I'd hate to think who pays the bill when he takes you out.
17:11We might dance somewhere for tea.
17:13And for the last time, Sam, it's Madame de Penable, not Mrs. Penable.
17:18And anyone will tell you she's a true woman of the great world here.
17:21As for Kurt, he may be poor.
17:23But he holds one of the oldest titles in Austria.
17:25And both of them belong to the most amusing and exclusive crowd in Europe.
17:29Fran, do you really think the real thing in Europe would hang out with a couple of hicks like us?
17:33Sam, I won't tell you.
17:34What else are we?
17:36I am an ordinary businessman.
17:37I married the daughter of a Zenith brewer who seems to be flying pretty high these days.
17:42You're getting tiresome about that daughter of a Zenith brewer.
17:46I've heard my friends insulted enough.
17:48A lot of gigolos.
17:49You may be the most impressive man in Zenith, but you're not in Zenith now.
17:52You're in Paris.
17:53And I'm sick and tired of apologizing to my friends.
17:55Have you been apologizing?
17:56Yes, I have.
17:59Hello?
18:02I'm sorry.
18:04All right.
18:06We've been making so much noise, someone's complained.
18:09How humiliating.
18:10Yes, isn't it?
18:11Well, go ahead.
18:12Pipe down, but go ahead.
18:13You are hopeless.
18:14If you had the mischievous notion of civilization here.
18:17Maybe I don't think so much of civilization here.
18:20Maybe clean hospitals and concrete high roads and no soldiers along the Canadian border.
18:25My idea of civilization.
18:27There are 20 million cars at home in America, and I've contributed something to all of them
18:31out of my personal civilization.
18:33And that's not more than just knowing how to order a meat course under a glass top.
18:37You are a hick, Sam, and you just don't want to be anything else.
18:40I could teach you, but you won't let me.
18:41I belong here.
18:42They accept me here.
18:43They'd better get used to getting along without you because I'm going to get out of this town
18:46and I'm going to do something and take you along.
18:48You might as well face it now, Sam.
18:50I'm not going.
18:51Oh, yes, you are.
18:52We need a vacation from each other, Sam.
18:54I don't feel that way.
18:55I think I've been weak with you long enough, Fran.
18:57Well, I was going to tell you tomorrow, but...
19:00Well, I've...
19:01I've taken a villa for the summer.
19:03It's right up a novel in Switzerland.
19:06I've signed the lease.
19:08I think you might have told me.
19:10I've got my own money.
19:11Fran.
19:13What?
19:14Fran, darling.
19:16You're not drifting away from me, Fran.
19:19I hope not.
19:20You and I, Fran, after 20 years...
19:24I won't go home.
19:25I'll give it up.
19:26I'll...
19:27No, you've got to go.
19:28You've simply got to go.
19:29I can't stand being torn this way any longer.
19:31I'm suffocating.
19:32Fran.
19:33If we're going on together, I've just got to be left alone this summer.
19:35Oh, don't look so hurt and please don't be angry.
19:38Oh, do be angry.
19:39It'll make you any happier.
19:40Remember, I did make a real home for you.
19:42You've got to let me have my sling now.
19:44Because you're simply rushing into old age, Sam.
19:46And I'm not ready for that yet.
19:48Please understand.
19:49I think I understand, Fran.
19:51Don't be angry, Sam.
19:52Hello.
19:54Sam, what are you doing?
19:56I just thought I'd call the porter.
19:58Hello.
19:59Pardon me.
20:01Hello, porter.
20:03Maybe he can tell me the first boat I can catch.
20:12It's all right.
20:23You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Doddsworth,
20:26starring Orson Welles and Faye Bader with Nan Sunderland.
20:30This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
20:33And now Orson Welles resumes our Campbell Playhouse presentation of Doddsworth,
20:37starring Faye Bader with Nan Sunderland.
20:41Really, Renée, you shouldn't...
20:43You know, Renée, you're not my chaperone.
20:45That is not my ambition.
20:47Remember, I would have had your husband here.
20:49Oh, yes.
20:50The afternoon post came while you were gone.
20:52There was a letter for you.
20:54You might want to amuse Kurt by reading your husband's letter.
20:57Oh, yes.
20:58There was a letter for you.
20:59You might want to amuse Kurt by reading your husband's letter aloud to him.
21:03Has Renée always been like this, Kurt?
21:05Lately, she seems to me to be so difficult.
21:08Would you do something for me if I were to ask you, Fran?
21:11Within reason. Why not?
21:12Read your husband's letter.
21:14To yourself will do.
21:15That's an odd request, Kurt.
21:17Do you really want to hear the news of Zenith?
21:19If you want to tell it to me.
21:21Well, my daughter's well.
21:24Tubby's well.
21:25I've never told you about Tubby.
21:27He's my husband's best friend.
21:29Sam's golf has gone off.
21:32He misses me.
21:34His friends seem to have grown much older.
21:37You don't know how old men can grow until you've seen Sam's friends.
21:41Sam himself might give you a rough idea.
21:43And presently, he'll be taking you back to Zenith.
21:45Kurt, are you trying to torture me?
21:47No, I'm making love to you.
21:49Oh.
21:50It was not an impulse.
21:51It's something I've wanted to do since...
21:53ever since we met.
21:55Don't make love to me, Kurt.
21:56I was thinking of you and of this place tonight.
21:58I was thinking of the attraction you and I feel for each other.
22:01There is such an attraction, isn't there?
22:03No.
22:04There isn't, I...
22:05No.
22:06I'm leaving in a few days, friend.
22:07This cannot be.
22:08But it is.
22:09You mustn't be afraid, friend, of anything.
22:12I shouldn't want to do anything to hurt Sam.
22:15That I care for you, that need not hurt your husband.
22:18Live in the present tonight, friend.
22:20That letter you're holding, that letter is the past.
22:23It's the future too, Kurt.
22:24At least for me.
22:25We will get rid of both present and future, if you wish.
22:29How?
22:30The cigarette lighter.
22:32Could that not be of use to you?
22:34Your cigarette lighter?
22:35I don't understand.
22:36I light it.
22:39I hand it to you.
22:40Yes.
22:42You touch the flame to the letter, like this.
22:46It burns, like this.
22:49It burns rapidly.
22:52Now the letter is almost gone.
23:01Sam, you might have cabled me before you left New York.
23:03Here you are, son.
23:04I mean, Garcon.
23:05Yes, monsieur.
23:06See, I've been studying French while I was gone.
23:08You like that, friend?
23:09Garcon.
23:10Very good, Sam, very good.
23:12If you knew how nearly I missed meeting you at that boat trip.
23:15Now, carry this bag into the bedroom.
23:16I forgot it.
23:17I guess I tipped him too early.
23:19Oh, Sam, I forgot to tell you.
23:21I thought you'd be tired after your long ride from Cherbourg.
23:24I took two bedrooms this time.
23:26That's yours on the right.
23:27You'll like it.
23:28It's got a nice bathroom.
23:30You don't mind, do you, Sam?
23:32I don't mind anything now that I'm back with you, friend.
23:35You must be tired too.
23:37I am, dead.
23:39Why do you keep looking at your watch, Sam?
23:42I'm expecting a call at...
23:43This late?
23:44Who?
23:45At Cherbourg.
23:46I sent a man a telegram to meet me here.
23:47Give him ten minutes more before we go.
23:49You're very mysterious.
23:51I've never seen you like this before.
23:53I've never seen you like this before either.
23:56Tell me, friend.
23:57Weren't you pretty lonely in Montreux?
23:59It's nice there, Sam.
24:00The lake is lovely.
24:01Who can that be?
24:02It's my caller, probably.
24:03I told him to send him right up.
24:04I'll wait in the bedroom.
24:05Will you be long?
24:06How do you stay, friend?
24:08Someone you know.
24:09One of your European friends.
24:11Has Renée de Penable been gossiping about me?
24:14Because if she has, it's all a pack of lies.
24:16I haven't heard a word from Mrs. de Penable
24:19Sam, what are you up to?
24:20Sit down, darling.
24:21Come in.
24:23Good evening.
24:24Good.
24:25Good evening.
24:26Was it court you telegraphed to, Sam?
24:27I think you might have told me.
24:29Our first night together after all these weeks.
24:31I tried to reach you on the phone, friend,
24:32to let you know I was coming.
24:33I wanted to see you two face to face.
24:37Fran alone would have wasted time acting.
24:41I knew you hadn't been in Montreux all this time.
24:44You'd been in Biarritz together.
24:46Well, I've never heard of anything so outrageous in my life.
24:48Well, of course it was in Biarritz when I was there.
24:50Are you implying, Sam Dodsworth,
24:52that there's anything wrong between court and me?
24:55Do you know how insulting you are?
24:57You don't know how insulting I'm going to be
24:58if you don't stop this play acting.
24:59Play acting?
25:00Just because court and I...
25:01Stop it, Fran.
25:03Your ex-friend, Madame de Penable,
25:06took the trouble to write me a friendly letter.
25:08Oh.
25:09I got the two of you here
25:11because I want to know exactly
25:12how important this thing is to you, friend.
25:14I'd be so happy if I could make you understand.
25:16I understand.
25:18I'm sure you've given her things she wanted
25:22and things she needed and never got from me.
25:26I'm interested in what I want and need, too.
25:29That happens to be peace of mind.
25:31This is not what you think, Mr. Dodsworth.
25:33If you can bring yourself to see matters reasonably...
25:34Reasonably.
25:36I've crossed the Atlantic Ocean to be reasonable.
25:40Fran, I've loved you and been married to you for 20 years.
25:43I'd like to hang on to you if I can.
25:46Do you two want to marry each other?
25:48I won't let you throw me at court's head.
25:51I'll answer for both of us.
25:52No, we don't.
25:53Nothing has happened between court and me.
25:55Then we'll have it that way, Fran.
25:56We'll just forget what hasn't happened.
25:58Start on a long hike tomorrow, eh, Fran?
26:01Tyrol, Italy, any place,
26:03and sail back home in October.
26:05Home?
26:06You're trying to take my happiness,
26:08my youth away from me.
26:09The only romantic happiness I've ever known.
26:11Stop being ridiculous, Fran.
26:12I'm not being ridiculous.
26:13I'm fighting for my life.
26:14You don't have to fight.
26:16All you've got to do is to divorce me.
26:19If you don't want to do that...
26:20He's right, Fran.
26:21Thank you, and if you don't mind...
26:22If you'll excuse me...
26:23Have you any more to say to him, Fran?
26:25No.
26:26Neither have I.
26:28Except this.
26:29If I ever find you as much as talking to my wife again...
26:31You don't frighten me, Mr. Dodsworth.
26:33I've respected your wishes,
26:35but only because I think they mean more for her happiness.
26:38Good night.
26:39That's what I'm concerned about, her happiness.
26:42Good night.
26:44Good night.
26:47Well...
26:49When do we start?
26:50Where do we go?
26:51Wherever you like.
26:53Till we go home in October.
26:55Home in October.
26:57Xena.
26:58In October.
26:59You'll be wanting to go home in October.
27:03Emily's having a baby in October.
27:05Emily?
27:06A baby?
27:07But she didn't tell me.
27:08You left it to me to tell you.
27:09I was saving it up.
27:10Oh, is she? Is she well?
27:11She's fine.
27:12I'm going to send her a cable.
27:13Good night, telephone.
27:14Now, think of Emily.
27:15We darn well got to behave ourselves.
27:17We'll be a couple of old grandparents in October.
27:21Is that you, Fran?
27:23Yes, Sam.
27:25Fran.
27:27Yes, Sam.
27:28Weren't you quite a long time at the dressmaker's?
27:30Oh, let me alone, Sam.
27:31I'm tired and I'm not on a time schedule, you know.
27:33Don't talk to me like that, Fran.
27:36We're all we've got, you and I, to talk to, to do anything with.
27:39That's just it.
27:40You've become too dependent on me and...
27:42Maybe I have, Fran.
27:44I was just thinking, now...
27:47If we're going on together, if I'm to make you happy,
27:49we've got to cut out this homeless stuff and meet it right back where we belong.
27:52Zeno...
27:53I'm going to grab off the first sailing.
27:54That's a good idea, Sam.
27:56But you'd better arrange to go alone.
27:58I'm staying here.
27:59What?
28:00Yes.
28:01I didn't go to the dressmaker's this afternoon.
28:04I saw Kurt von Oberstdorf.
28:06He's in Berlin.
28:08He phoned me yesterday.
28:09Oh.
28:10Whatever you think, I'm telling you the truth.
28:11I haven't seen him since Paris until today.
28:13I don't believe you, Fran.
28:14It doesn't make any difference whether you do.
28:16Even if what you think is true, it wouldn't make any difference.
28:18I love Kurt and he loves me and I'm going to marry him.
28:21Fran!
28:22He asked me this afternoon.
28:23I've only just now decided, just this minute,
28:25since I found out exactly what this happiness is that you want to give me.
28:28Take me back to Zenith, where you can be yourself.
28:30But where there's nothing for me, nothing.
28:32Just to be the little woman, meet the wife.
28:34Fran, that's not...
28:35Oh, you don't know anything about me.
28:36You've never known anything about me.
28:37Not what I had on when I fought with the sacrifices I made.
28:39Look out!
28:40I'll be happy with Kurt.
28:41Can you get your divorce now, Fran?
28:44What?
28:45Your divorce.
28:47Oh.
28:49I think it's...
28:50I wish you'd wait a few months, not for me, for you.
28:52Why?
28:53I'd like you to feel absolutely sure about Kurt.
28:56Well, it's my funeral now, isn't it?
28:59Well, I'll have to get used to that idea, I guess.
29:03Your funeral.
29:06I hope it isn't, Fran.
29:10Hello.
29:11Damien Derna, leaving for Sorrento.
29:13Amalfi, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius.
29:16Excuse me, is there anything for Doddsworth?
29:19Not a thing, Mr. Doddsworth.
29:23What have you got to offer in the way of excursions today?
29:25We have a tourist party just starting for Pompeii.
29:28I've been there.
29:29I've been everywhere.
29:30How would you like Paestum, sir?
29:33Here is the folder.
29:34Greek temples in excellent preservation.
29:36That's more than I am.
29:38I'll take a chance.
29:39Give me a card.
29:40How many in the party, sir?
29:41One.
29:42Yes, sir.
29:43The driver will have your ticket.
29:44Okay.
29:45Pardon me, madame.
29:46I'm sorry.
29:47I'm so sorry.
29:48Hello.
29:49Mr. Doddsworth.
29:50Do you remember me?
29:51Sure, Mrs. Cordright, the steamer.
29:53Paris.
29:54This is great.
29:55How is Mrs. Doddsworth?
29:56Oh, fine, thanks.
29:57Fine.
29:58She stayed in Berlin.
29:59She didn't like traveling.
30:00I see.
30:01And the education?
30:02How is that coming on?
30:03I gave it up.
30:04It didn't work out the way I expected.
30:07I found myself learning things I didn't want to learn.
30:09Your car is ready, sir.
30:10Hold it.
30:11Oh, you're busy.
30:12I'm sorry.
30:13I didn't...
30:14Busy?
30:15I've got nothing today but some ruined temples they'll keep.
30:16They've kept this long.
30:17Then come after me for lunch.
30:19Today?
30:20Yes, why not?
30:21Mrs. Cordright, there's no use trying to fool you.
30:24I'm lonelier than you can imagine.
30:26I accept with pleasure.
30:28While I'm about it, I guess you caught on about my wife.
30:32It must be a pretty ordinary story.
30:34She's younger than I am and livelier.
30:37I'm staying here to be on hand for the divorce.
30:39I see.
30:40Where?
30:41Berlin.
30:42What would you like for lunch?
30:44Couldn't we fit up some American dish?
30:46Could we have clam chowder?
30:48Get me the clams.
30:49I'll make you the chowder.
30:50I used to be quite a chef in Zenith.
30:51Nothing fancy, of course.
30:53Want to hire me?
30:54First class cook and mechanic.
30:56I'm a pretty good fisherman, too.
30:57Could you let yourself enjoy life for a while?
30:59Could I?
31:00Could I?
31:01Well, then, why don't you break away from your hotel?
31:03Forget about Berlin.
31:05Move out to me.
31:07Out to you?
31:08Out where I live, at the Xelipo.
31:10My maiden, I can't make you as comfortable as your hotel does, of course.
31:13When you want a bath, you have to choose between a tin tub and the Mediterranean.
31:16But if you really like swimming and fishing and a willing listener...
31:19You know, that's awful kind of you, Mrs. Cordright.
31:21Mighty friendly, but...
31:23You see, I could.
31:24Why not?
31:25What did your neighbors say?
31:27I know what they'd say in Zenith.
31:29That's exactly what they'll say here.
31:31But that doesn't mean that we'd have to care.
31:33As long as we knew it wasn't so.
31:35You mean you really wouldn't care?
31:36Certainly not.
31:38It's a deal.
31:39Porter, if you don't mind.
31:41Take our bags, please.
31:45Oh, dear.
31:46I want you to meet my mother.
31:48Mother, this is Fran.
31:50Cord has told me so much about his mother.
31:52You look so strange, Cord.
31:54I'm the one who should look strange, but I don't feel it.
31:57I love your mother, and...
31:59I hope she's going to love me.
32:01I would not find it difficult to become most fond of you, Mrs. Dodsworth.
32:05I wish you wouldn't call me Mrs. Dodsworth.
32:07But that is your name.
32:08Well, it won't be much longer, and it shouldn't be to you now.
32:11Fran, my mother believes we should postpone our marriage.
32:14Cord...
32:15I did not say postpone.
32:17I will try to make it clear to you, as I hoped I had to Cord...
32:21Why I could not give him the permission he asked of me to marry you.
32:25Cord asked...
32:27your permission to marry me?
32:29And I am so sorry that I cannot give it.
32:32I think you might have told me, Cord, that you're not a free agent.
32:36You do not understand how such things are arranged in our old families.
32:40No, I'm afraid I don't quite.
32:43What have you got against me, Baroness?
32:45I love your family.
32:47I'm really rather a nice person.
32:49You seem to be a very nice person, my dear.
32:52But I'm so much older than you.
32:55You'll forgive me if I observe that you're older than my son.
33:00Have you thought how little happiness there can be for the old wife of a young husband?
33:07Cord loves me, and I love him.
33:09No matter what you think, there's no reason...
33:11Oh, but there is.
33:12Your husband is living, Mrs. Dodsworth.
33:15It will be necessary for you to be divorced.
33:18That's not so serious, is it?
33:19It is more than serious in our family.
33:22It is final.
33:26Hello.
33:27Hello, operator.
33:29I want to put in a long-distance call.
33:31To Naples.
33:33Naples?
33:35In Italy, yes.
33:36Yes.
33:38Yes, I'll hold on.
33:39Fran, Fran, you do not understand.
33:41I'd rather not talk about it.
33:42We can still be married, Fran.
33:44In a year, perhaps.
33:45After we have won her over.
33:46Go away, Cord.
33:47Please go away.
33:48Hello?
33:49Long-distance?
33:50Naples?
33:52I want the Villa Corthright at Pusillipo.
33:54Yes, that's it.
33:57I want to speak to Mr. Samuel Dodsworth.
34:01Yes, yes.
34:03The Villa Corthright.
34:07Hello?
34:08Yes?
34:09This is the Villa Corthright.
34:11What?
34:13He isn't here right now.
34:16You'll call later?
34:18Uh, any fish today, lady?
34:20Oh.
34:21I was worried about you.
34:22It was getting so late.
34:23I was fishing out with Pietro.
34:24He showed me a few Florida tricks I know.
34:27Did you hear that?
34:28That's not Pietro.
34:30You haven't.
34:31He's crazy about that motor.
34:32Oh, you haven't put it on his boat
34:33with the beautiful sail I bought him?
34:34Yes.
34:35Damn Dodsworth.
34:36Oh, now, don't be hard on me.
34:37Setting up that motor is the first real fun
34:38I've had since I quit business.
34:39It's going to be, going to be swell.
34:41I'm raring to go for the first time.
34:43To go?
34:44Away from here?
34:45Well, any place where I get back in harness.
34:47I think I may try aviation this time.
34:49The idea of a Moscow to Seattle airline
34:51kind of strikes me.
34:52Moscow to Seattle?
34:53Buy in on a transcontinental connection there.
34:55Maybe work up to around the world system.
34:57I know what I'll do.
34:59What we'll do.
35:00We?
35:01The day after this divorce comes through,
35:02we'll hop off and go straight across.
35:04We, Sam?
35:05Top going on you.
35:06There's only one little suitcase.
35:07Think you can stand up?
35:08Sam, I'll fly across Siberia with you on one suitcase.
35:11I'll spend one short month here with you in this house.
35:15And I can't imagine ever living without you again.
35:18I can't imagine ever living without you either.
35:21I think I must love you a great deal, Sam.
35:25Let's take a ride in Petra's boat, Sam.
35:27Oh, but I, I just came.
35:28I want to get out of the house.
35:29I want to get out from the water,
35:30but they can't get at it.
35:31He does.
35:32Are you coming or aren't you?
35:34Well, if you're that set on it,
35:36just give me time to get my fishing tackle.
35:37If somebody won't answer that phone, I'll answer it.
35:39Sam, please come, please.
35:41What's that, Bellino?
35:42Bellino!
35:43Well, that's Italian for Berlin.
35:46Edith, they're calling me from Berlin.
35:48Berlin.
35:49Hello?
35:52Yes, Fran.
35:54This is Sam.
35:58Sorry to hear that.
36:01When are you sailing?
36:03Yes, I guess I'll have to.
36:06No, it's all right.
36:09Get the ticket.
36:11Goodbye.
36:14That was your wife, wasn't it?
36:16Yes.
36:18Kurt's chucked her.
36:19She's dropping the divorce.
36:20She's sailing the day after tomorrow.
36:22I've got to go with her.
36:23I won't let you.
36:24What else can I do?
36:25It's four o'clock.
36:26I can get a plane up to Rome.
36:27I won't let you go back to her.
36:28Edith, I know this is a jolt.
36:29It's a jolt to me, too.
36:30I won't see you killed by her selfishness.
36:32You don't understand, Edith.
36:33It's going to be tough on her with all the talk.
36:35You don't know Zenith.
36:36I love you.
36:37She doesn't.
36:38You're content with me.
36:39I love her.
36:40A minute ago, you had the whole world in your hands.
36:42I won't let her take it away from you.
36:43Don't be fair, Edith.
36:44She needs me.
36:45You might think of me.
36:46I am thinking of you, but I've got to take care of her.
36:51I've got to.
36:53I'll go pack now, Edith.
36:55There's nothing that can stop you?
36:56Nothing.
36:58You see, marriage has always been a kind of a partnership with me,
37:00just because one partner doesn't want to hold up his end.
37:04You can't get out of things that easily, Edith.
37:07Not if you want to live with yourself.
37:11You know, it's funny, but I'd like to think that you wouldn't love me
37:14if I didn't do what I'm going to do now.
37:17I'll love you always, Sam.
37:19No matter what you do.
37:28Why do you want to go in the smoking room for, Sam?
37:30Why don't we go down and at least look at the cabin?
37:32Do it!
37:33Do it! Bring me a brandy and soda.
37:34Yes, sir.
37:35You might have asked me if I wanted anything.
37:36Do you?
37:37No.
37:38But if I've got to sit in this icebox while you drink,
37:39you've got to shut that door.
37:42Go on, you think.
37:43Oh, yes.
37:44But it's nice to be going somewhere again.
37:45After all those weeks, I was so bored in Berlin.
37:47And you were so right about Kurt, Sam, dear.
37:49You wanted me to wait and...
37:51I can't think how you guessed it,
37:52because you aren't usually awfully good at judging character.
37:55Except in the case of businessmen, of course.
37:57But you were right that time.
37:58His family may be as old as the Coliseum,
38:00but when I saw his mother,
38:03an old, awful country bumpkin...
38:05Fran.
38:06Sammy, you're crushing my hand, please.
38:09Don't get ardent yet.
38:10Remember, I've still got to get used to...
38:12I'm not ardent.
38:13I mean, you shouldn't ride Kurt and his mother that way, that's all.
38:16I'm sorry.
38:17I'll be good.
38:18Well, I shouldn't have expected you to defend them.
38:20I suppose I ought to beg you to forgive me.
38:22I thought of it.
38:23But I know how you always let bygones be bygones.
38:25It's such a wonderfully happy ending
38:27to all our wild escapades, I suppose I should say.
38:31I suppose so.
38:32You seem rather distrayed, Sam, considering our reunion.
38:34Do I?
38:35Maybe I can't let bygones be bygones that easily, Fran.
38:37I do think you might meet me halfway.
38:39After all, I wasn't completely to blame.
38:41You were a good deal at fault, too, you know.
38:44George!
38:45Yes, sir?
38:46Take this cheque.
38:47Get the suitcase with the number and bring it here.
38:48Yes, sir.
38:49What's the idea, Sammy?
38:50I'm not sailing with you.
38:51Sammy, what...
38:52No use trying to put a tag, babe.
38:53I just can't make a go of things any longer.
38:55And this is the man I've loved for 20 years.
38:57Oh, no, it's the man who has loved you.
38:59I'm through, finished.
39:00What's going to become of me?
39:01I don't know.
39:02You'll have to stop getting younger someday.
39:03Oh, you can't hurt me.
39:04Sorry.
39:05Goodbye, Fran.
39:06Are you going to say to them what they'll be thinking when they go?
39:09Yes.
39:10When I've got my divorce, I'm going to marry her.
39:12Then do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
39:14Yes.
39:15Love's got to stop somewhere short of suicide.
39:18Goodbye.
39:19Sam!
39:20Sam!
39:30Goodbye.
39:31Goodbye.
39:32Goodbye.
39:33Goodbye.
39:34Goodbye.
39:35Goodbye.
39:36Goodbye.
39:37Goodbye.
39:38Goodbye.
39:39Goodbye.
39:48Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot remember any time on the Campbell Playhouse when we've
39:51been so very, especially fortunate in our guests as we are this evening.
39:55the great trio Faye Bainter, Walter Huston, and Nan Sunderland who created the play
40:00Dodsworth on the New York stage. Two are with us tonight. The first, Miss Faye
40:04Bainter, has long been one of the leading figures in the theater. East is West, the
40:08Willow Tree, Jealousy are only a few of her successes. You heard her tonight as
40:14theatergoers the country over heard her and believed her during the two and a
40:17half years she played the part of Fran Dodsworth. It's my great pleasure to
40:22present to you Miss Faye Bainter. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and thank
40:26you, Orson Welles. I've always enjoyed playing this part and I enjoyed it again
40:29tonight. You know, the thing that has always made Fran Dodsworth such a
40:33satisfying character to play is the feeling that she's such a real person. I
40:37can easily understand that. And to our other guest, my highest tribute is that
40:41she is a woman of her word. When she played Isabel Amberson in The
40:46Magnificent Ambersons with us a few weeks ago, she promised she'd be back here
40:50soon and here she is, Nan Sunderland. I'm very happy to be here. I'm especially
40:53happy to play you once again, Miss Faye Bainter. Thanks, Nan. I hope you too, Miss
40:57Bainter, will develop the habit of appearing with us frequently on the
40:59Campbell Playhouse. Thanks again, Miss Bainter and Miss Sunderland, and good night.