The Case of Mrs. Loring
(aka A Question of Adultery) (1958)
1h 26min | Drama | 10 February 1959 (USA)
A sterile race car driver seeks a divorce after his wife is artificially inseminated.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writers: Anne Edwards (written for the screen by), Denis Freeman (additional scenes)
Stars: Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney
(aka A Question of Adultery) (1958)
1h 26min | Drama | 10 February 1959 (USA)
A sterile race car driver seeks a divorce after his wife is artificially inseminated.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writers: Anne Edwards (written for the screen by), Denis Freeman (additional scenes)
Stars: Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney
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00:00:30♪
00:00:51Silence!
00:00:52Silence!
00:01:06Loring versus Loring, part heard.
00:01:10My Lord, I shall continue the evidence of Mr. Carl Dieter.
00:01:15Mr. Carl Dieter?
00:01:22I would remind you, Mr. Dieter, that you are still under oath.
00:01:33Yesterday, you told the court of the circumstances of your first meeting with the Respondent.
00:01:39Today there remains only one question that I need ask you.
00:01:43On that occasion, did you or did you not spend the night in your cabin with the Respondent,
00:01:49Mrs. Mark Loring?
00:01:53It is a little difficult to explain.
00:01:56Surely, Mr. Dieter, no more difficult than the simple yes or no.
00:02:08Yes.
00:02:17Mrs. Loring, is it a fact that you are now in a state of approaching motherhood?
00:02:28Yes or no, please?
00:02:31Yes or no?
00:02:33Yes.
00:02:34You have sworn an oath that Mark Loring has legally been your husband since April the
00:02:384th, 1955.
00:02:41Yes.
00:02:42Is Mark Loring responsible for this child you carry?
00:02:48He is my husband and would be the child's father.
00:02:51A yes or no answer is what the court requested.
00:02:56Did your husband beget this child?
00:03:00Is your husband the father of the child you now bear?
00:03:04No.
00:03:06Can you tell the court who the father is?
00:03:09No.
00:03:10Because you wish to withhold evidence from the court?
00:03:13Because I don't know.
00:03:18Do you recall the occasion of the Iberian Grand Prix on September the 27th?
00:04:13We have one of you on the hood of the car, Mrs. Loring.
00:04:42All right, Jimmy, take her out.
00:04:45Let's drive up to that flat out there.
00:04:51You do not understand?
00:05:02No.
00:05:03It's a very hard man to beat, your husband.
00:05:07Yes.
00:05:09All right, Mary, come with me.
00:05:11Will you sign my book, please?
00:05:13No, not now.
00:05:14You have to encourage every grease monkey on the track to make passes at you.
00:05:18Oh, for heaven's sakes, Mark.
00:05:20Senor Loring, please, with your wife.
00:05:22Can't you leave us alone just for five minutes without sticking a blasted camera in our faces?
00:05:26Well, I'm not going to play this scene to an audience.
00:05:29Mary.
00:05:39Not a bad race.
00:05:44Looks as if I might have a chance at the championship this year if I can pick up the Grand Prix at Silverstone.
00:05:57What's the matter?
00:05:59You've hardly spoken to me since the race.
00:06:02Will you please tell me why you pull that ridiculous jealous scene?
00:06:07I don't like you talking to strangers you find hanging around the rails, that's all.
00:06:11He was one of the crew in the next pit.
00:06:14A fan of yours.
00:06:15Mine?
00:06:17He didn't look like that to me.
00:06:19We were just talking.
00:06:22I like talking to people.
00:06:24I was brought up in show business and we're a friendly crowd.
00:06:27Yeah, too darn friendly.
00:06:30Mark.
00:06:34Darling Mark.
00:06:37I wish you could trust me.
00:06:41I love you so much.
00:06:44You can't trust me, you know.
00:06:46I want to.
00:06:47I really do, Mary.
00:06:49It's just that every time I see some idiot staring at you, I...
00:06:52I see red.
00:06:55Well, I think you should be pleased that people are attracted to your wife.
00:06:58I am.
00:06:59It's when they start circling around you.
00:07:02That's beyond my control.
00:07:04Come on, sit me up.
00:07:06Of course, we could move to a desert island.
00:07:09That's a great idea.
00:07:11Wouldn't get in much racing, though.
00:07:14Where are you going?
00:07:16Upstairs.
00:07:18Otherwise you'll never get ready and I'm starved.
00:07:20Meet you in the bar, okay?
00:07:22Okay.
00:08:02Buenas noches, senora.
00:08:05Hello.
00:08:06How nice to see you again.
00:08:09May I offer you an aperitif?
00:08:11Oh, no, thank you.
00:08:12I'm just waiting for my husband.
00:08:14Buenas noches, senora.
00:08:15Good evening.
00:08:17Forgive me.
00:08:18No, no.
00:08:19Don't go.
00:08:22Oh, Mark.
00:08:24Darling.
00:08:25This is the gentleman I was telling you about.
00:08:28You were right, darling.
00:08:31It is my autograph he wants.
00:08:33Let's have a drink.
00:08:40Oh, there's Mark.
00:08:41That must be his wife.
00:08:43Mark!
00:08:44Hello.
00:08:45Won't you join us?
00:08:46Well, thanks.
00:08:47We've already got a table.
00:08:48Oh, we'd accept no excuses.
00:08:50We'll be glad.
00:08:51Mark, you're caught.
00:08:52Give up and sit down.
00:08:53You look so cross.
00:08:54You've been keeping your charming wife from us far too long.
00:08:57Well, just one drink.
00:09:00Darling, this is for Mrs. Duncan.
00:09:05We're very old friends of Sir John.
00:09:07We've known Mark since he was a boy.
00:09:09Sir John idolizes Mark.
00:09:10Apparently, it's spoiled him.
00:09:12Yes, I know.
00:09:13Well, it's not surprising, really.
00:09:15Have you heard about the mother who made part if Mark was only a baby?
00:09:19She just walked out.
00:09:21American.
00:09:22Singer, I believe.
00:09:24You're American, aren't you?
00:09:26Yes.
00:09:27It's one of my old songs.
00:09:29Oh, do sing it.
00:09:31Now, please, won't you?
00:09:41Oh, they've recognized you, my dear.
00:09:43How simply thrilling.
00:09:44Well, you can't refuse now.
00:09:46You're not going to sing?
00:09:48Why not?
00:09:49I won't sing.
00:09:50You're not going to sing?
00:09:52Why not?
00:09:53I won't sing.
00:09:56Why not?
00:09:57I won't have it.
00:10:04My strange affair
00:10:07Is a lonely one
00:10:11A lonely one
00:10:15That's only a dream
00:10:20And when the sunshine awakens
00:10:24Each weeping willow
00:10:28The man I loved is gone
00:10:34And there's just my empty
00:10:38Pillow
00:10:44My strange affair
00:10:49Is too full of tears
00:10:54Tears that know
00:10:58There isn't a chance
00:11:03That someday, somehow
00:11:09Somewhere, someone
00:11:14Will come my way
00:11:22And change my strange affair
00:11:30To a real romance
00:11:44Hooray!
00:12:01Oh, sorry.
00:12:14Oh, sorry.
00:12:41Mary!
00:12:43Mary!
00:13:01Mary!
00:13:03What are you trying to do to me?
00:13:05What the devil are you trying to do?
00:13:13Hey, valiente!
00:13:33¡Vamos ya!
00:14:03¡Vamos ya!
00:14:33¡Vamos ya!
00:15:03¡Vamos ya!
00:15:34Darling, I don't think I could change you even if I wanted to.
00:15:40Mark, what are you trying to prove?
00:15:44That you're a man?
00:15:46You may have to prove that to your father, but you don't have to prove it to me.
00:15:56Hello?
00:15:59It's for you.
00:16:02Yes?
00:16:04Oh, it's my fan.
00:16:07Oh, you're very kind.
00:16:10Persistent, isn't he?
00:16:13Oh, no, I'm afraid we can't. We're busy.
00:16:16Yes, if you would, would you please sleep with the barman?
00:16:21I dropped my glove at the race.
00:16:23And a handsome stranger who happened to be passing by picked it up.
00:16:26Et cetera, et cetera.
00:16:29Bit old-fashioned, isn't it?
00:16:31Besides, I don't care to share you this morning.
00:16:34Oh, Mark.
00:16:36I never seem to have you to myself.
00:16:38There's always something.
00:16:40Somebody.
00:16:41Nothing's ever enough for you, Mark.
00:16:45Not even me.
00:16:59Get a move on, Mary. We're on our way.
00:17:01What?
00:17:04We're leaving.
00:17:06Where are we going?
00:17:07London. Home.
00:17:09Home?
00:17:11That's something we don't have.
00:17:12I mean my father's house in London.
00:17:14My home and yours, too.
00:17:16And right now I'm ready to go home.
00:17:18The trophy in one hand and me in the other.
00:17:21Not bad.
00:17:24I hope he hates me a little less this time.
00:17:26Hates you? He hardly knows you.
00:17:28Doesn't need to.
00:17:30As far as he's concerned, I'm just like your mother.
00:17:33He hated her.
00:17:43Home.
00:17:45You're always talking about a home.
00:17:48It's what you want most in the world, isn't it?
00:17:51Second most.
00:17:52What's the most?
00:17:55Something that's going to happen very soon.
00:17:58Something that makes the second very important.
00:18:01Hmm?
00:18:03I'm going to have a baby.
00:18:06Ours, I hope.
00:18:13Mary.
00:18:15Mary, I'm terribly sorry.
00:18:25Mary!
00:18:41Senorita, senorita.
00:18:49My husband. My husband!
00:18:51Si, si, si.
00:18:55Doctor! Doctor!
00:18:58Si, si, senorita.
00:19:26Father.
00:19:29Would you mind, sister?
00:19:32Take it easy, boy. Everything's going to be all right now.
00:19:35I'm here. Why are you here?
00:19:38Duncan's heard about the crash. He called me.
00:19:41Take it gently, boy. Gently.
00:19:44You're badly hurt.
00:19:46How badly?
00:19:47Badly enough.
00:19:49We'll soon have you on the mend.
00:19:51I've made arrangements for a convalescent home near London.
00:19:55Can't seem to remember what happened.
00:20:01Mary?
00:20:02She's along the corridor. She's not seriously hurt.
00:20:05Thank heavens.
00:20:09She's going to have a baby, Father.
00:20:15What is it?
00:20:18I don't...
00:20:24I'm sorry, Mark.
00:20:29Come in, Doctor.
00:20:31Good evening, senora.
00:20:34Ah, it is a shame.
00:20:36You do not like Spanish cooking.
00:20:39It's just that I'm not hungry.
00:20:42Your husband is conscious. His father is with him.
00:20:45I do not want you out of bed now anyway.
00:20:47It will soon be time enough.
00:20:49You haven't told him?
00:20:50About the baby?
00:20:51No, no. About him.
00:20:53There will be time enough for that as well.
00:20:55Couldn't you tell him it was me?
00:20:58Can't you just say your wife can't have any more children?
00:21:03You could adopt a child in your circumstances.
00:21:07There are many children.
00:21:09You don't know, Mark.
00:21:11You will see.
00:21:13You don't understand.
00:21:15Maybe I do.
00:21:18I doubt it.
00:21:24You try to get some sleep.
00:21:26We will talk about it tomorrow.
00:21:54Do you hate me?
00:21:57No.
00:22:00Oh, no.
00:22:03Mary, I've had some time to think.
00:22:06No, no. Please listen to me.
00:22:09As soon as I'm out of here, I'll make things up to you.
00:22:12We'll settle down like ordinary people...
00:22:15and have another child.
00:22:18Don't, darling.
00:22:21Not now.
00:22:24We'll talk about it all later.
00:22:28Everything's going to be fine.
00:22:31Just fine.
00:22:35Did they tell you something they didn't tell me?
00:22:39No.
00:22:40No wheelchairs?
00:22:42No.
00:22:45No.
00:22:46No wheelchairs?
00:22:49No wheelchairs.
00:22:55Am I intruding?
00:22:58One wouldn't accuse you of subtlety, my dear.
00:23:03It's just that Mark and I wanted to be alone.
00:23:07Had you thought of that?
00:23:10Constantly.
00:23:11Mary, please.
00:23:14I've got some wonderful plans for you, Mark.
00:23:18We're going to travel.
00:23:20We'll take the yacht.
00:23:22Go to the Far East or West Indies.
00:23:24Oh, there's a lot we can do.
00:23:26It's time I took some time off.
00:23:28You mean the two of us?
00:23:30It's bound to end sooner or later.
00:23:32These affairs always do.
00:23:34This is not an affair. It's a marriage.
00:23:36Do you really believe that?
00:23:39Once upon a time, I thought that too.
00:23:42Now I have to stand around and watch the whole thing happening all over again.
00:23:47You're two lovers in the throes of an affair.
00:23:50People can't go through life that way.
00:23:53Maybe I want to.
00:23:54That's what you think now.
00:23:56The man can't want that for very long.
00:23:59Well, I'm going back to London.
00:24:01I'll be waiting for you.
00:24:03Meantime, they'll move you to the convalescent home the weekend.
00:24:06Goodbye, Mark.
00:24:13Come in.
00:24:18Is this a social call?
00:24:20Oh, no, my dear.
00:24:22Just a little private talk.
00:24:25You want to buy me off.
00:24:27Well, I'm not for sale. I never have been.
00:24:30Perhaps I underestimated you.
00:24:32Or Mark.
00:24:34Now, it's time that you faced facts.
00:24:36You and Mark can never have a real marriage.
00:24:39You and Mark can never have a real marriage.
00:24:42Not now.
00:24:43He can't have a son, an heir.
00:24:46Somebody should tell him.
00:24:48No.
00:24:49He doesn't have to know. Not now. It's too soon.
00:24:52Maybe after a while, when he's well again.
00:24:55We just need a little time.
00:24:57By ourselves.
00:24:58He belongs with me.
00:25:00We'll only hurt each other.
00:25:02I'll take my chances on that.
00:25:04I'm not worried about you, my dear.
00:25:06Mark is my only concern.
00:25:08Mark?
00:25:09Your property. That's all Mark is to you.
00:25:11Just a piece of property, like your ships or your factories.
00:25:15And you try to buy him from me like a piece of real estate.
00:25:18Well, I'm not selling.
00:25:19You haven't got enough love to buy him with.
00:25:22Sir John.
00:25:23Even now, your son is more of a man than you'll ever be.
00:25:27At least he's not afraid of a fight.
00:25:30What he doesn't know is that you're the enemy.
00:25:39Thank you, nurse.
00:25:43You see?
00:25:44I promised your son on your first day out.
00:25:47You also promised me no wheelchairs.
00:25:49Just one more wig, darling.
00:26:00Mark.
00:26:02Mark.
00:26:06I want a baby.
00:26:08Mary. Mary.
00:26:10Listen to me. Please listen to me, darling.
00:26:12Why, you give me a blueprint of my deficiency.
00:26:17Oh, Mark.
00:26:21They told you.
00:26:23Father did.
00:26:25Your father?
00:26:27But he had no right to...
00:26:28Does it matter?
00:26:30I had to know sometime that the accident has left me sterile.
00:26:34Mary.
00:26:35I can still be a husband to you,
00:26:37but you know I can't give you a child.
00:26:41If you want to leave me, this is the time.
00:26:44And understand.
00:26:46Oh, Mark, how could you?
00:26:49You didn't think me any less a woman
00:26:51when you thought I couldn't have another child.
00:26:53Well, I don't think you any less a man now.
00:27:01But we can have another child, darling.
00:27:03No, no. Adopting a child wouldn't work.
00:27:05Not for us.
00:27:06We'd just be using it to keep our marriage together.
00:27:09It wouldn't be fair.
00:27:12Well, there's another way.
00:27:15For me to have a child, I mean.
00:27:17What do you mean? I...
00:27:19Artificial insemination.
00:27:22You must be crazy.
00:27:24No, Mark.
00:27:26I'm not crazy.
00:27:28I'm not crazy.
00:27:30We both want a baby.
00:27:32Our own baby.
00:27:34This is the only possible way.
00:27:35But it wouldn't be ours. I wouldn't be the father.
00:27:37But I'd be the mother.
00:27:39Would be born to us.
00:27:41And if you tried, really tried,
00:27:43would be your baby just as much as mine.
00:27:47And if I don't agree?
00:27:54Then I don't see any future for us.
00:27:58Then only your father will be happy.
00:28:01Let's go away, Mark.
00:28:03As soon as you're well.
00:28:04Away from any outside influence.
00:28:09Then we'll know.
00:28:11Whatever we decide, it'll be our own decision.
00:28:14I've heard about a clinic in Switzerland.
00:28:17It's run by a man named Cameron.
00:28:19We could go there.
00:28:23What do you say, Mark?
00:28:26Yes or no?
00:28:30Darling.
00:28:32Yes or no?
00:28:34It'll be your child.
00:28:36It'll be your decision.
00:28:39Shepherd.
00:28:40Shepherd, they're here.
00:28:42Dr. Cameron.
00:28:44The new couple have arrived.
00:28:46I heard Kurt sound his hooter.
00:28:48The secret signal.
00:28:50Is Shepherd pulling up the drawbridge?
00:28:52They like to see an open door when they arrive.
00:28:54It makes them feel at home.
00:28:56Well, let's go.
00:28:58Come on.
00:29:00Come on.
00:29:02Come on.
00:29:04Come on.
00:29:06They like to see an open door when they arrive.
00:29:08It makes them feel much more welcome.
00:29:10I'll show them to their room.
00:29:11No, no, don't do that.
00:29:13Bring them in here.
00:29:15Do you have any coffee?
00:29:16I've just made some.
00:29:17Of course, of course.
00:29:21I'm Nurse Parsons.
00:29:22Do come in.
00:29:24Mrs. Loring, how nice to meet you.
00:29:26Nice to meet you, Doctor.
00:29:27Take your coat, Mr. Loring.
00:29:29You're actually on time.
00:29:31It isn't always like that around here.
00:29:34Sit down, Mr. Loring.
00:29:38I believe there's some coffee on the half, Nurse.
00:29:40Yes, plenty.
00:29:41I'll bring it in.
00:29:42How long are we going to be here, Doctor?
00:29:44Quite a little while.
00:29:46Several weeks.
00:29:47The doctor explained in his letter, darling.
00:29:49He did?
00:29:51There are certain preliminaries.
00:29:53Blood tests and things like that.
00:29:56And I'd like to understand the background of the case.
00:29:58It all takes time.
00:30:01Mr. Loring, what's your view about this?
00:30:03We want a baby.
00:30:05Very badly.
00:30:07That's the most important thing.
00:30:09Two people must really want a child.
00:30:11The medical treatment is not too complicated.
00:30:14Many children are born every year by this same method.
00:30:18You've got to make sure the people involved are in good health,
00:30:21there's no question of hereditary diseases,
00:30:24and that they can fully take care of the child.
00:30:28You both obviously understand all about it.
00:30:32You wouldn't have come here.
00:30:35Ah, Nurse.
00:30:36I think I'll go to our room.
00:30:38You don't want any coffee?
00:30:40No, thank you.
00:30:41Well, I'm sure your journey was very tiring.
00:30:44Not particularly.
00:30:48We'll meet after dinner and discuss everything then.
00:30:52There's something I want you to know.
00:30:55None of my patients are just cases to me.
00:30:59What I'll do is something very special.
00:31:02Both of you.
00:31:06I think you behave disgustingly.
00:31:08If you want to take it out on anybody, take it out on me, not Dr. Cameron.
00:31:11I can't stand being humored.
00:31:13Coffee on the hob.
00:31:15Comfortable English armchairs.
00:31:18Boring English backsides.
00:31:20Why the devil do we leave home?
00:31:22To protect you from people.
00:31:23Why do you suppose?
00:31:24I don't care about people.
00:31:25Well, what do you care about?
00:31:27Is that what pride?
00:31:28That's about all it could be.
00:31:29All I'm guilty of is trying to hold this marriage together.
00:31:32I don't know what you want me to do or to say.
00:31:51I have some good news, Philbeth.
00:31:53Look, I'd have the baby.
00:32:01Isn't it wonderful news, Mark?
00:32:03Say it's wonderful.
00:32:04Go on, say it.
00:32:05Yes, yes, yes, it's wonderful.
00:32:07It's wonderful.
00:32:08You know what I'd like to do today?
00:32:09I'll let you go right up to the forest slopes.
00:32:12You'll have to go without me.
00:32:13Oh, no, Mark.
00:32:14Please come.
00:32:16We haven't been there together in so long.
00:32:18Look, Mary, I just don't feel like it.
00:32:20If you want to go, you can go alone.
00:32:22You can manage without me.
00:32:23Oh, but I can't.
00:32:25You seem to have done pretty well so far.
00:32:27You idiot!
00:32:29You fool, you stupid, senseless, ridiculous fool!
00:32:32Why do you suppose I did it?
00:32:33Why do you suppose I strained every nerve in my body to make this happen?
00:32:36Because I love you, whatever kind of a man you are.
00:32:39I love you, I love you!
00:33:15I love you, I love you!
00:33:45I love you, I love you!
00:34:01Stay where you are.
00:34:02Don't move.
00:34:07Now, let's see.
00:34:22All right?
00:34:24Uh-huh.
00:34:29You're very lucky.
00:34:34No pain?
00:34:35No.
00:34:38Yeah, my ankle.
00:34:40A little bit.
00:34:42Are you with anyone?
00:34:44No.
00:34:45No, I'm alone.
00:34:46Oh, not so good.
00:34:48You know, it's a long way back to the hotel.
00:34:50With that ankle.
00:34:51Oh, I'm not staying at the hotel.
00:34:52I'm at Dr. Cameron's.
00:34:53Oh, I see.
00:34:55You know him?
00:34:56Yes, we are.
00:34:57We're old friends.
00:34:58Now, you think you can walk?
00:35:00Oh, I think so.
00:35:01You haven't to go very far.
00:35:03Do you mind telling me where we're going?
00:35:05My cabin.
00:35:07Oh, you're not a tourist.
00:35:08No, I, uh, I drive the right.
00:35:11Oh.
00:35:12Now, let's see.
00:35:19Isn't Mary back?
00:35:20No.
00:35:23She's probably met some of the skiers.
00:35:26Perhaps she's at the lodge.
00:35:27Anyhow, please, please, please stay.
00:35:29I'd like to talk to you.
00:35:31You're angry.
00:35:32Very angry.
00:35:34It's because of Mary's present condition, isn't it?
00:35:36It's none of your blasted business.
00:35:37Very much my blasted business.
00:35:39I assume that you wanted this child.
00:35:41I agreed on paper.
00:35:42That should end your responsibility.
00:35:43I'm afraid there's a little more to it than that.
00:35:45I'm no quack, Mr. Loring.
00:35:48The thing I do, I do with sincerity and humility.
00:35:52I admire your dedication.
00:35:53I'm not asking for your admiration.
00:35:55The fact remains that I've already made you a father.
00:35:58You may marry a mother.
00:36:19Do you have a phone?
00:36:21Oh, no.
00:36:22No, I'm sorry.
00:36:23I want to call my husband.
00:36:24I'm afraid he'll be worried.
00:36:25Now, you think about that in a moment.
00:36:27First, I'll make you some coffee.
00:36:28Okay.
00:36:29You look frozen.
00:36:30Yes, I am.
00:36:31My clothes are kind of wet.
00:36:32We'll dry them.
00:36:33Okay.
00:36:37Here we are.
00:36:39Behind that curtain.
00:36:40All right.
00:36:53This will be real coffee.
00:36:54Not like the one you drink in America.
00:36:56As long as it's hot.
00:36:58Don't worry.
00:37:00We'll be there.
00:37:02You live here all year round?
00:37:04Yes.
00:37:05It must be lonely.
00:37:08No.
00:37:17Coffee will be ready in a moment.
00:37:19Good.
00:37:24You know, we were lucky.
00:37:25There's a blizzard coming up.
00:37:28I'm afraid I...
00:37:30I can't get you back now.
00:37:31Well, how long do you think it'll last?
00:37:33Oh, you can't tell with a mountain storm.
00:37:36Sometimes it doesn't last long and...
00:37:39Well?
00:37:41How do I look?
00:37:43Very funny.
00:37:46I'd better have another look.
00:37:47Mm-hmm.
00:37:56It's only a muscle.
00:37:57Great.
00:38:02I'll get a fire started.
00:38:05Can I help you?
00:38:06No, no.
00:38:07You rest.
00:38:08Besides, building a fire is a man's job.
00:38:12But it's an art, all the same.
00:38:15You know, you can tell a man's character
00:38:17by the way he's dressed.
00:38:19You know, you can tell a man's character
00:38:21by the way he's dressed.
00:38:22You know, you can tell a man's character
00:38:24by the way he makes a fire.
00:38:25Oh, didn't you know that?
00:38:26Really?
00:38:28I'll show you.
00:38:30Now, first there is the spent strength.
00:38:36Very unreliable.
00:38:38Then we have the scientific technique.
00:38:44Beware of such a man.
00:38:46Mean.
00:38:47Insensitive.
00:38:48Then we have the doctor.
00:38:55Well, which sort of man are you?
00:38:58I?
00:39:00I'm the most dangerous of all.
00:39:04I'll never start a fire twice the same way.
00:39:12Mr. Loring.
00:39:15Mr. Loring.
00:39:17Mr. Loring.
00:39:19You can't go out without a guide.
00:39:23I'll get you one.
00:39:29All right, sir.
00:39:30It's no big deal.
00:39:32Captain here.
00:39:33One of my patients is lost in the mountains.
00:39:35Could you send out a guide immediately?
00:39:38The guide will be here in a few moments, Mr. Loring.
00:39:56Was there a reason for all this solitude?
00:39:59None.
00:40:01Except that I like it.
00:40:08It's getting awfully late.
00:40:13We can't go back yet.
00:40:14It's still snowing heavily.
00:40:19Coffee's getting cold.
00:40:41We can stop snowing.
00:40:45I'll take you home now.
00:40:48Your ankle all right?
00:40:49Oh, yes.
00:40:51You'd better get changed.
00:41:11This is Herr Dieters' hut.
00:41:29Mark!
00:41:32And I spent the entire night searching for you.
00:41:38It doesn't seem any of this holiday was necessary.
00:41:40You don't seem to understand.
00:41:41She hurt her ankle.
00:41:42Don't insult my intelligence.
00:41:44Well, you're the one who's being insulted.
00:42:12Oh, my.
00:42:42Come on.
00:43:06Here, touch this.
00:43:12Has Dieter lived around here long?
00:43:14Yes.
00:43:17Here, go on.
00:43:18You've been enough help already.
00:43:26I'm sorry I've caused you so much trouble, Doctor.
00:43:30You seem to have a bigger problem on your hands.
00:43:33Well, you can't blame him too much.
00:43:36It hasn't been easy for him.
00:43:39Everyone knows why we're here.
00:43:42He feels that he caused it.
00:43:47I guess he feels like some kind of freak.
00:44:02What are you doing?
00:44:03Isn't it obvious?
00:44:06I'm not leaving.
00:44:07You're not invited.
00:44:13Mark.
00:44:15I won't beg you.
00:44:17But someday you'll realize you're making a terrible mistake.
00:44:22You're going to be a father.
00:44:24No, no.
00:44:25You've got it all wrong.
00:44:27You're going to be a mother.
00:44:29I shall never be the father.
00:44:31It'll be anybody but me.
00:44:39It's a terrible thing we've done to Dieter.
00:44:42Dr. Cameron making him believe we wanted this child.
00:44:44We wanted the child?
00:44:45You mean you did?
00:45:01Is there something you want to tell me, ma'am?
00:45:03I've been very dishonest with you, Doctor.
00:45:05I led you to believe that Mark wanted this child too.
00:45:08You thought it would hold you together?
00:45:10Yes, I did.
00:45:12It will, you know.
00:45:13Just give it time.
00:45:24It's too late now.
00:45:38Come in.
00:45:42You look tired.
00:45:44I am.
00:45:45Make yourself comfortable.
00:46:00I've left her.
00:46:02So it's happened.
00:46:05Oh, my poor boy.
00:46:07I've been through this.
00:46:09How I wish you could have been spared.
00:46:12I did try.
00:46:13Father, what can I do?
00:46:15Another man.
00:46:18She's pregnant.
00:46:20And I'm not the father.
00:46:21That should be enough for any judge.
00:46:23Adult to him, that's simple.
00:46:26I think Stanley's our man.
00:46:28He's tough.
00:46:29Just look how embarrassed he won for a case like this.
00:46:31You think I...
00:46:33I should divorce Mary?
00:46:35Had you any other thought?
00:46:36Well...
00:46:38No, no, I...
00:46:39No, of course you're right.
00:46:40I must divorce her.
00:46:42Good.
00:46:43I'll arrange for you to see Stanley in the morning,
00:46:45and I think I'll come along, too.
00:46:46Now, listen, my boy.
00:46:48Everybody makes mistakes, even I do.
00:46:50The important thing is to correct them as soon as possible.
00:46:54You do want this divorce, don't you?
00:46:56Yes.
00:46:57There's no going back on a thing like this, you know.
00:47:00I made up my mind.
00:47:02Of course, the press will crucify me, but...
00:47:04Oh, that doesn't worry me.
00:47:05Let's go home.
00:47:06Be like old days, huh?
00:47:07Oh, say.
00:47:09Why don't we have dinner at the club tonight?
00:47:12It's been a long time since we've been there.
00:47:26Anything wrong, doctor?
00:47:28Come sit down, Mary.
00:47:31Your case is down for hearing six weeks from today.
00:47:33Even my medical statements can't prosper, Liz.
00:47:36You could let him have it by default.
00:47:39And have my child branded father unknown?
00:47:42No.
00:47:44No, I'll go to London.
00:47:48Will it harm you in any way?
00:47:51If it was something that was bound to happen eventually,
00:47:54then thank you, Jane.
00:47:58People like the lawyering, the slyness,
00:48:01people like the lawyering simply can't be expected
00:48:04to realize the importance of this.
00:48:07They'll fight to secure the money, the blood.
00:48:11They'll build banks for both.
00:48:15But a bank to secure humanity.
00:48:21Anyhow, as long as it doesn't harm you.
00:48:28Come in.
00:48:31Mary!
00:48:33You're just in time for coffee.
00:48:35You must have got up at dawn to be so early.
00:48:38This must be a special occasion.
00:48:40Well, I had to come early.
00:48:42I wanted to tell you myself.
00:48:44Carl, I have to leave here.
00:48:47When are you going?
00:48:49Today, on the afternoon plane from Zurich.
00:48:51So quickly?
00:48:53Is it important, then?
00:48:55Yes.
00:48:57Mark's divorcing me.
00:48:59So you're defending the case?
00:49:02Of course.
00:49:04What did you think?
00:49:06You're doing it for the child.
00:49:08Because I don't want to lose Mark.
00:49:10You still love him.
00:49:12Well, it's never been any other way.
00:49:15I think Mark still loves me.
00:49:18It's not him I'm fighting, Carl.
00:49:20It's his father.
00:49:22And what if you lose the case?
00:49:25Oh, I don't know.
00:49:26I'll face that when it happens.
00:49:28If it happens.
00:49:30You will face it on your own?
00:49:32Well, in the end, everything's faced on one's own.
00:49:35Not always.
00:49:41Goodbye, Carl.
00:49:43Thank you for everything.
00:49:45I've done nothing
00:49:47except cause trouble for you.
00:49:49No, I'm afraid there's more to it than that night.
00:49:52I'm sure Mark's probably forgotten all about you by now.
00:49:54Oh, no.
00:49:56He hasn't.
00:49:58I'm also coming to London.
00:50:01Your husband has named me
00:50:03co-respondent.
00:50:08Now then, Mrs. Loring,
00:50:10how many times would you say that you saw Mr. Dieter?
00:50:12Would you say one time?
00:50:16Two times?
00:50:18Three times?
00:50:21Many times?
00:50:22Yes.
00:50:24Many times.
00:50:26We became friends.
00:50:28You became friends.
00:50:30Is that what you said, Mrs. Loring?
00:50:32Yes.
00:50:34After or before you spent the night with him?
00:50:36What are you suggesting?
00:50:38After or before?
00:50:41After.
00:50:43So you became friends that night.
00:50:45Intimate friends?
00:50:47Friends, but not intimate.
00:50:49Not in any way intimate?
00:50:50Intimate.
00:50:52Not in any way?
00:50:54He didn't even kiss you?
00:50:56Not that night, nor any other night.
00:50:59But you, uh,
00:51:01you enjoyed talking to him, I assume.
00:51:04As you did the mechanic, Mario Fiorenzo,
00:51:06on the occasion of the Iberian Grand Prix.
00:51:09There was hardly much conversation
00:51:11between Mr. Fiorenzo and myself.
00:51:13The incident with Mr. Fiorenzo
00:51:15occurred before your trip to Dr. Cameron, did it not?
00:51:18Incident?
00:51:20What incident?
00:51:22You met, then, before the accident.
00:51:24Yes, at the racetrack.
00:51:26In the evening, you met again.
00:51:28In the bar at the Hotel Playa.
00:51:30By arrangement?
00:51:32I know.
00:51:34My husband was changing for dinner, so...
00:51:36And you preferred the bar and Mr. Fiorenzo
00:51:38to your husband's company?
00:51:40No.
00:51:42I left my husband alone deliberately.
00:51:44He'd just driven a hard race.
00:51:46I left him to unwind.
00:51:48Had you quarreled?
00:51:50I didn't quarrel with my husband.
00:51:52About Mr. Fiorenzo?
00:51:54Yes.
00:51:56So knowing that,
00:51:58you preferred the company of this mechanic
00:52:00who couldn't even speak to you.
00:52:02Preferred it enough not to stop and think
00:52:04that you were placing yourself in a position
00:52:06that your husband could both misconstrue
00:52:08and be offended by.
00:52:10It was so very unimportant.
00:52:12Did you explain or apologize to your husband?
00:52:14Apologize?
00:52:16No.
00:52:18I just laughed it away.
00:52:20I quite understand.
00:52:22No, I don't think you do.
00:52:24I assure you, Mrs. Loring,
00:52:26your meaning couldn't be clearer.
00:52:28But we both...
00:52:30Please, Mrs. Loring.
00:52:32So after the accident,
00:52:34when you decided that the only way to save your marriage
00:52:36was by having a child,
00:52:38you quite naturally didn't consider
00:52:40your husband's feelings in the matter.
00:52:42My husband's feelings were my main consideration.
00:52:44Your main consideration.
00:52:46There were others then.
00:52:48Possibly you considered the child
00:52:50as your main concern.
00:52:52I don't see.
00:52:54What do you mean?
00:52:56Were you aware of your husband's great family wealth?
00:52:58Yes.
00:53:00Were you equally aware
00:53:02of your father-in-law's disapproval of you?
00:53:05Yes, I was.
00:53:07Knowing that,
00:53:09it might have occurred to you
00:53:11that your future was most insecure
00:53:13unless you could produce an heir.
00:53:15And since a natural heir was no longer possible,
00:53:17you were obliged to force your husband
00:53:18to have a child.
00:53:20You were about to ask a question, Mr. Stanley?
00:53:22I was simply thinking aloud, my lord.
00:53:25Unwise, Mr. Stanley.
00:53:27Most of our private thoughts
00:53:29are best left unsaid.
00:53:31I know from up here most of mine are.
00:53:34Forgive me, my lord.
00:53:38Now answer me this question, Mrs. Loring.
00:53:41Were you as decided and as desperate
00:53:43to have this baby before the accident
00:53:45as you were after the accident?
00:53:46I always believed a child
00:53:48was necessary to our marriage.
00:53:50Always!
00:53:52Necessary? Why?
00:53:54My husband
00:53:57was never very sure of himself.
00:54:01It was very important
00:54:04for him to be a man.
00:54:08That's why I was so happy
00:54:10when I knew we were going to have a child.
00:54:12Then there was the accident.
00:54:16We lost our baby.
00:54:20After the accident,
00:54:23I thought another child might compensate.
00:54:28I find it difficult to follow your reasoning.
00:54:31How could you possibly compensate your husband
00:54:34with somebody else's child?
00:54:36Because I'm part of my husband.
00:54:38The child is part of me.
00:54:40So I thought...
00:54:42Very, this is all rather high-flown, isn't it?
00:54:45I suggest that your reason for producing this child
00:54:48was on a far more material basis.
00:54:50All I want,
00:54:54all I have ever wanted
00:54:56is my husband's love.
00:54:59Nothing else is of any importance.
00:55:03I don't want anything else.
00:55:05Nothing else is of any importance.
00:55:11Stop the examination.
00:55:13Look at her.
00:55:15I want you to stop the examination.
00:55:18My Lord,
00:55:20Mrs. Loring is under very great physical strain.
00:55:22My Lord,
00:55:24the jury and I,
00:55:26and I doubt it's your lordship,
00:55:28have been admiring the respondent's performance.
00:55:31The theatrical profession has lost a talented actress.
00:55:34Anything after this would be an anticlimax.
00:55:37All I have left to say is
00:55:40thank you, Mrs. Loring.
00:55:45My Lord, if it would please the court,
00:55:48I would like to ask for a short adjournment
00:55:50on behalf of my client.
00:55:52Yes, I shall rise for 15 minutes.
00:56:05Mark!
00:56:13I can't stand it anymore.
00:56:17It's horrible.
00:56:20I'd say give in now
00:56:22if I thought that was what you really wanted.
00:56:26I'm not going to put you in the witness box again.
00:56:29The jury is with you emotionally, I mean.
00:56:32But I must have something more factual
00:56:34to say to the judge.
00:56:36You must give me permission to re-examine your husband.
00:56:38Oh, what good would it do?
00:56:40What good?
00:56:42There are two vital points I can establish.
00:56:44And this I must do
00:56:46if you're to have any chance at all of winning this case.
00:56:49I don't think I care anymore.
00:56:54Does it really matter what you care, Mrs. Loring?
00:56:58Have you the right to deliberately bastardize your child?
00:57:09In fact, Mr. Loring,
00:57:11you have been jealous of your wife
00:57:13since the day of your marriage.
00:57:15I didn't enjoy the attention as my wife encouraged it,
00:57:18if that's what you mean.
00:57:20No, that is not what I mean.
00:57:22You did not enjoy them.
00:57:24Or were you jealous of them?
00:57:26I did not like them.
00:57:28Because you wanted to be the only man she was aware of?
00:57:30Naturally, she was my wife.
00:57:32Is your wife jealous of you?
00:57:34Of my wife, Mr. Loring.
00:57:36You may have arrived at your own verdict.
00:57:38The court has not.
00:57:41So, we have established
00:57:43that you did not like your wife
00:57:45being civil to Mario Fiorenza.
00:57:47You did not like her
00:57:49accepting a light from your father's old friend,
00:57:51Mr. Duncan.
00:57:53I consider she was provoking him.
00:57:55We've already gone into that.
00:57:57I am merely summarizing the points we have established
00:57:59about your likes and dislikes.
00:58:01You did not like her singing in a nightclub.
00:58:02I did not.
00:58:04And you did not like her
00:58:06accepting the hospitality of Mr. Carl Dieter.
00:58:08When it was apparent to everybody for miles around
00:58:10the circumstances offered her no alternative.
00:58:13I put it to you
00:58:15that this divorce action was first motivated by jealousy.
00:58:18Purely and simply by jealousy.
00:58:20You went back on your word, on your promises
00:58:22because you were jealous of your wife and Mr. Dieter.
00:58:25You misconstrued an act of kindness
00:58:27as you have misconstrued
00:58:29every episode I have recalled to you
00:58:30just because of your unreasonable, uncontrollable jealousy.
00:58:33It's not true.
00:58:35What is not true?
00:58:37That you went back on your word?
00:58:39Or that you are jealous?
00:58:41It wasn't a question of going back on my word.
00:58:43That's got nothing to do with it.
00:58:45Being jealous of Dieter, I mean.
00:58:47But I...
00:58:49Well, he put my wife in a most compromising position.
00:58:51He put your wife in a most compromising position.
00:58:54I see.
00:58:57Now,
00:58:58I would like to take you back to the Iberian Grand Prix
00:59:01and the night you seem to recall so vividly
00:59:03at the Hotel Playa.
00:59:05Do you also recall the events that followed?
00:59:08Yes, I do.
00:59:10She ran out on the beach. I was annoyed with her.
00:59:12She sang in a nightclub, made a public exhibition of herself.
00:59:14A public exhibition?
00:59:16I see.
00:59:19You found your wife alone.
00:59:21There was no one else with her.
00:59:23No.
00:59:25No one else.
00:59:26Were you not aware that the beach was a public one
00:59:28overlooked by the terraces of the hotel?
00:59:30Well...
00:59:32And that other eyes were watching
00:59:34while you forced your wife into an act of love?
00:59:36I never said...
00:59:38Did you or did you not make love to your wife
00:59:40on a public beach overlooked by the hotel?
00:59:43Yes, I did.
00:59:45And of course, your wife was willing.
00:59:47No.
00:59:49But since she was your wife, this didn't matter?
00:59:51Nor did it matter
00:59:53that you were compromising her,
00:59:54making a public exhibition of her.
00:59:56I object, my Lord.
00:59:58Yes, Mr. Stanley?
01:00:00You allowed Mr. Loring to be recalled
01:00:02on the grounds of new evidence.
01:00:04All this is irrelevant, totally irrelevant.
01:00:06Lord, with all due respect to my learned friend,
01:00:08all this is not in the least irrelevant.
01:00:10It is necessary, substantiating evidence.
01:00:12Proceed.
01:00:16As I was saying...
01:00:18I know exactly what you were saying
01:00:20and my answer is I had the right to.
01:00:22She was my wife.
01:00:24How could I deny that she had no rights as such?
01:00:28After the accident,
01:00:30while you were still in hospital
01:00:32and before you were aware of your condition,
01:00:34did you or did you not say to your wife,
01:00:36I will make it up to you?
01:00:38Well, I...
01:00:40I'm not sure.
01:00:42You do not recall saying those words?
01:00:44I don't recall the exact phraseology, my Lord.
01:00:47But you did say something similar.
01:00:49Yes, my Lord.
01:00:51Soon afterwards, you signed a document
01:00:52agreeing to your wife's treatment by Dr. Cameron.
01:00:55But between signing the document
01:00:58and its fruition,
01:01:00you told neither your wife nor Dr. Cameron
01:01:02that you had suddenly taken a violent dislike
01:01:04to the whole business.
01:01:06Do you recall the day of May the 27th?
01:01:09I'm not sure.
01:01:11Then I will refresh your memory.
01:01:13It was on that day that your wife first told you
01:01:15that she was pregnant.
01:01:17Shortly afterward, you made love to her
01:01:19and in so doing,
01:01:20you accepted the fact of her condition.
01:01:22You had condoned it!
01:01:26Did you or did you not?
01:01:28I cannot say that...
01:01:30Did you or did you not?
01:01:32Silence in court!
01:01:34Yes, I did.
01:01:38That will be all, my Lord.
01:01:40You may be seated, Mr. Loring.
01:01:51My Lord,
01:01:53I would like to call Sir John Loring.
01:01:55After luncheon, Mr. Stanley, don't you think?
01:01:59It's almost one o'clock.
01:02:06I'm sorry, my Lord,
01:02:08but I have to go.
01:02:10I have to go.
01:02:12I have to go.
01:02:14I have to go.
01:02:16I have to go.
01:02:18I have to go.
01:02:20I have to go.
01:02:22Here you are, another slice of searing human drama
01:02:24for the afternoon edition.
01:02:26Off you go.
01:02:28Okay, sir.
01:02:30Oh, tell the sports editor not to forget my ticket
01:02:32for the big fight tonight.
01:02:34Hello, Mark.
01:02:36I've got a table at the Savoy.
01:02:51So you thoroughly disapproved of this marriage?
01:02:54It was a clandestine marriage, and I didn't like that.
01:02:57Come, come, Sir John.
01:02:59Clandestine?
01:03:01Well, that means something secret.
01:03:03Underhand.
01:03:05This young couple married on the spur of the moment.
01:03:07There was nothing underhand about it.
01:03:09I objected to the offhanded fashion
01:03:11in which it was your daughter-in-law
01:03:13that you objected to, wasn't it?
01:03:15I hardly knew my son's wife.
01:03:17I mean, you objected to her on principle.
01:03:18She came from show business.
01:03:20A theater.
01:03:22A singer, in fact.
01:03:24You weren't prepared to give her a chance.
01:03:27The unhappy memory of your own
01:03:29unsuccessful marriage to an actress.
01:03:31I must protest.
01:03:33My Lord, this is absolutely monstrous.
01:03:35Yes.
01:03:37I think, Mr. Jacobus, I need hardly say.
01:03:39I apologize, my Lord.
01:03:41You had a conversation with your daughter-in-law
01:03:44in the hospital shortly after the tragic accident.
01:03:46I did.
01:03:48Was it then you made your first attempt
01:03:50to break up this marriage?
01:03:52First?
01:03:54Well, you admit you made an attempt on that occasion.
01:03:56Yes, I did.
01:03:58In fact, you tried to buy Mrs. Loring off.
01:04:00Oh, put it that way if you want to.
01:04:03Why did you want to separate this young couple?
01:04:07Didn't your son need his wife more than ever
01:04:09after what had happened?
01:04:11I know my son.
01:04:13He would soon have tired of her.
01:04:14It was nothing more than a passing infatuation.
01:04:17So you thought to rid him of her quickly?
01:04:19Naturally, I was concerned for my son.
01:04:21As it turned out, it was for both their sakes.
01:04:24She'd lost their child.
01:04:26He was now sterile and no further use to her.
01:04:29I thought she'd be pleased and practical enough
01:04:32to agree to an arrangement.
01:04:34But she didn't agree.
01:04:36She had more ambitious ideas.
01:04:38She knew that a child was her only hope.
01:04:41Of what?
01:04:42Of having a permanent hold on my son.
01:04:44And of the Loring fortune?
01:04:46Exactly.
01:04:48You realized this?
01:04:50I did indeed.
01:04:52And I took care of it by informing my son
01:04:54that he was sterile.
01:04:56I wished to protect him from a scheming woman.
01:04:58And also to protect the Loring estate.
01:05:00Same thing.
01:05:02So naturally, you weren't very happy
01:05:04when you learned of the outcome of this visit
01:05:06to Dr. Cameron's clinic.
01:05:08I was absolutely disgusted.
01:05:10For any particular reason?
01:05:12For every possible reason.
01:05:14You heard your daughter-in-law say in this court
01:05:16that she loved your son.
01:05:18That she would always love you.
01:05:20I did.
01:05:22I believe that was what she said to you in the hospital
01:05:24after you offered her a comfortable way
01:05:26out of this marriage.
01:05:28It was.
01:05:30Do you think she was telling the truth?
01:05:32Do I think?
01:05:34Look where we are now.
01:05:36Do you suppose that my son would have been forced
01:05:38to take refuge here
01:05:40if his wife had really loved him?
01:05:43I have nothing more to ask you.
01:05:51Silence!
01:06:07My Lord,
01:06:09on behalf of Sir John Cameron,
01:06:10may I beg the indulgence of the court
01:06:12in asking...
01:06:19There you are, Mark.
01:06:21Mark, do you hear me?
01:06:23I'm going back to the office.
01:06:25The judge was most reasonable about it.
01:06:27They can always send for me if they want to,
01:06:29but they won't, of course.
01:06:31Well, I think I've just about done the trick for us.
01:06:33They've got that disgusting old quack,
01:06:35Cameron, in the box now.
01:06:37Stanley will deal with him.
01:06:38And during these 18 years
01:06:40as a specialist in artificial insemination,
01:06:42I assume that many couples have come to you.
01:06:45Many.
01:06:47People who would otherwise have led childish
01:06:49or not happy lives.
01:06:51In these cases,
01:06:53whose name is on the birth certificate is the father.
01:06:55The husband.
01:06:57I always insist upon that.
01:06:59But that is a false statement.
01:07:01It's the same as an adoption.
01:07:03A couple assume responsibility for the child.
01:07:05Adoption is legal.
01:07:06You can't force your patients deliberately
01:07:08to sign a fraudulent statement as criminal.
01:07:10A risk I am prepared to take.
01:07:12Would you say that Mark Loring,
01:07:14at the time of signing the document
01:07:16agreeing to your treatment,
01:07:18was emotionally stable?
01:07:20It was obvious that he was under strain.
01:07:22But I fully believed,
01:07:24and his wife did too,
01:07:26that having this child would alleviate that.
01:07:28And now then, Dr. Cameron,
01:07:30you were a party to this technical adultery.
01:07:32I won't accept that. It is not adultery.
01:07:34Oh, no, that's too easy. Far too easy.
01:07:36Anyone who commits adultery can say,
01:07:38no, I didn't. It was by artificial insemination.
01:07:40Ask Dr. Cameron. It's a splendid alibi.
01:07:42How dare you?
01:07:44My Lord, this is an attempt on the part of my learned friend
01:07:46to debase an honest man
01:07:48whose treatment is done openly and decently.
01:07:50Decently?
01:07:52In order to conceive a child.
01:07:54Mr. Stanley, the act of adultery
01:07:56is unrelated to its consequences.
01:07:58But, my Lord, this is adultery.
01:08:00From a husband, it is not regarded as intercourse.
01:08:02That has been established by law.
01:08:04Therefore, from a donor, it is not adultery.
01:08:06It is designed for the preservation of family life.
01:08:08It holds that the surrender of the reproductive powers
01:08:11to another man is adultery.
01:08:13But in this case, it is not another man.
01:08:15It is a test tube.
01:08:17Therefore, I maintain that men like Dr. Cameron
01:08:21are striking at the very heart of our civilization,
01:08:23conjuring up these phantom fathers
01:08:25to fill the world with test tube babies.
01:08:28I maintain it's time the law brought its ideas up to date.
01:08:30First of all, Mr. Stanley,
01:08:35are you cross-examining the witness
01:08:37or addressing the court?
01:08:39I do most humbly apologize, my Lord.
01:08:41And your turn will come too, Mr. Jacobus.
01:08:43I beg your pardon, my Lord.
01:08:45As for you, Dr. Cameron,
01:08:47you will restrain yourself
01:08:49and only answer the questions put to you.
01:08:51As for your last remark,
01:08:53it was quite out of order and most disrespectful.
01:08:56May I explain?
01:08:58The court is doing exactly as you suggest.
01:09:00In this particular case, as always,
01:09:01we're all working very hard
01:09:03to bring our ideas up to date.
01:09:07The court will now adjourn
01:09:09until tomorrow morning at half-past ten.
01:09:18Good afternoon, Mr. Martin.
01:09:20Don't give me a minute, my boy.
01:09:22There's something important here that won't wait.
01:09:24And I have something important
01:09:26which won't wait either.
01:09:28Oh, what is it?
01:09:29Oh, a bit of a tussle today, huh?
01:09:31Still, I'm quite happy with the way things are going.
01:09:34And I'm deeply unhappy.
01:09:36Oh, come, come, Mark.
01:09:38Just because you had a bit of a trouncing
01:09:40in the witness box,
01:09:42I mean, they had to expect something like this.
01:09:44You were in court.
01:09:46You must have seen what a fool I've been.
01:09:48I thought you came out very well.
01:09:50There's no reason for you to reproach yourself.
01:09:52There's every reason to.
01:09:54I don't understand.
01:09:56Well, of course you don't.
01:09:57We've never understood each other.
01:09:59You and I have spoken a different language
01:10:01all our lives.
01:10:03What the devil are you talking about?
01:10:05The lousy mess I've made of my life with Mary.
01:10:07This is no time for recriminations.
01:10:09The past is finished.
01:10:11We've disposed of Mary.
01:10:13You mean you've disposed of Mary?
01:10:15I'm not finding it quite that easy.
01:10:17This is a fine time to tell me this.
01:10:19After all the trouble and expense
01:10:21I've had to rid ourselves of this woman.
01:10:23You know, I'm just beginning to see
01:10:25what kind of a person you are.
01:10:27What kind of a person you really are.
01:10:29Mark?
01:10:31I escaped from you when I married Mary.
01:10:33I axed them as your chance to get me back.
01:10:35Of course, I wasn't an entirely complete human being,
01:10:37but that didn't matter to you.
01:10:39The bits and pieces were enough
01:10:41as long as you could have them all to yourself.
01:10:43I wanted to protect you.
01:10:45You wanted to possess me
01:10:47just as I wanted to possess Mary.
01:10:49She said to me once,
01:10:51nothing's ever enough for you, Mark,
01:10:53not even me.
01:10:55If only I'd understood her.
01:10:57I'd have thought things out
01:10:59instead of blimping back to you.
01:11:01Some people don't know what is best for them.
01:11:03And there are those who play God.
01:11:05How dare you!
01:11:07Don't shout at me!
01:11:13I've done what I could for you
01:11:15because you're my son.
01:11:17The father wants his son,
01:11:19his only son,
01:11:21to be perfect,
01:11:23something to be proud of.
01:11:25And am I something to be proud of?
01:11:27Mark, Mark,
01:11:29you've had a trying day.
01:11:31Let's have dinner at the club and talk it over.
01:11:33There aren't going to be any more dinners at the club.
01:11:41Well, what'll happen then?
01:11:43Well, there'll be two speeches, for and against.
01:11:45Him and her?
01:11:47Sort of, yeah.
01:11:49Then the judge will say,
01:11:51there should be some good stuff there between the three of them.
01:11:53Anyway, you stick around. I may need you.
01:11:55Yes, sir.
01:11:57I'm sure he's got the great big sentimental world behind him.
01:11:59It should be easy for him.
01:12:01Morning, Mrs. Lorry.
01:12:03You let me know if I'm wanted.
01:12:05Indeed.
01:12:12I promised your lawyer I wouldn't speak to you
01:12:14until the case was over, but I...
01:12:16Oh, it seems so silly.
01:12:18It makes sense, really.
01:12:20Of course it does.
01:12:22People, the jury and all the others are easily misled.
01:12:24Well, with Dr. Cameron here, it's most respectable.
01:12:27I'm not so sure anymore.
01:12:29Mary, there's something I want to tell you.
01:12:37This is a bad place to say these things.
01:12:40Everything seems to get twisted around, but...
01:12:43Mary, I'm not a rich man,
01:12:45and I have very little to offer you.
01:12:47No, please, please listen to me.
01:12:49Whatever happens in court today,
01:12:51whatever happens,
01:12:53I want you to know that if there's anything I can do,
01:12:54or if you should need any help,
01:12:56I will be there.
01:12:59Don't say anything now.
01:13:01Just remember what I said.
01:13:03I will be there.
01:13:11Pitt, please, the court.
01:13:13Yes, Mr. Jacobus.
01:13:15My lord.
01:13:17And members of the jury,
01:13:20who has the right to condemn a woman
01:13:22for being a woman
01:13:24and for wanting to give her husband a child,
01:13:27the one thing that he truly has to give?
01:13:31What wife should be deserted
01:13:33because she went to every extreme to save a marriage?
01:13:37Can a husband call this mental cruelty?
01:13:40And can the world call Mary Loring's search for fulfillment
01:13:46a matter of adultery?
01:13:47Thou shalt not commit adultery!
01:13:51But what does the word adultery mean?
01:14:01A voluntary act
01:14:03by a married person
01:14:05with one to whom they are not married.
01:14:09There has been no evidence given in this courtroom
01:14:12that Mary Loring has committed adultery.
01:14:14There has been no evidence given in this courtroom
01:14:17that either the respondent or her husband
01:14:19has been guilty of such an act.
01:14:22Mr. Stanley has spoken of technical adultery.
01:14:27One word negates the other.
01:14:29If a woman is guilty of adultery,
01:14:31then she is guilty of having been with another man.
01:14:34Our correspondent in this case
01:14:36is an unknown man,
01:14:38unknown to both Mark and Mary Loring.
01:14:41I do not think
01:14:42that the moral aspect should be discussed in this courtroom.
01:14:46The morality of what they have done
01:14:48must lie with Mark and Mary Loring,
01:14:50in their hearts and in their consciences
01:14:53and with God above.
01:14:56Mark Loring
01:14:58agreed to his wife's treatment in this clinic
01:15:00of his own free will.
01:15:02By his own admission,
01:15:04he condoned the act shortly after it took place.
01:15:06And then,
01:15:08because he was filled with his own inner doubts
01:15:09and governed by his uncontrollable jealousy,
01:15:13he left her
01:15:15to go through this pregnancy alone.
01:15:19He sued her for divorce
01:15:21and in due course
01:15:23accused her of adultery
01:15:26and seeks to label this child,
01:15:28this child that he had agreed to
01:15:30of his own free will
01:15:32as illegitimate.
01:15:34Who then is guilty?
01:15:36Guilty
01:15:38of mental cruelty.
01:15:45I have
01:15:47only the greatest compassion
01:15:50for Mark Loring.
01:15:52But he is an adult
01:15:54to whom all civil rights are availed.
01:15:58But what of this child?
01:16:00This unborn child who as yet
01:16:02has no rights
01:16:03civil or otherwise.
01:16:06Is it to be cruelly victimized
01:16:09by a man's jealousy,
01:16:11harshly dealt with because of a man's false pride?
01:16:19The child's status as
01:16:21heir to the Loring estate
01:16:23is a matter for this court.
01:16:26But the legitimacy of its birth
01:16:28cannot be questioned.
01:16:30I say
01:16:31that whosoever should be its father
01:16:33it is legally,
01:16:35undisputedly and clearly
01:16:37Mark Loring's child.
01:16:40Where then
01:16:42is there a question of adultery?
01:16:47That is the case for the respondent, my lord.
01:16:53My lord,
01:16:55the members of the jury,
01:16:57I do not use the authorities
01:16:59as reference
01:17:01or substantiation in our case.
01:17:04Instead,
01:17:06I use the Bible.
01:17:10And so,
01:17:12members of the jury,
01:17:14you will understand
01:17:16that this is a grave and serious matter.
01:17:18For what in fact
01:17:20you are going to decide in this case
01:17:23is whether artificial insemination
01:17:25resulting in the conception of a child
01:17:27is adultery.
01:17:29Or, alternatively,
01:17:31whether in resorting
01:17:33to such a method of conception
01:17:35the respondent has been guilty
01:17:37of treating her husband with cruelty.
01:17:40The other questions
01:17:42that arise
01:17:44from this
01:17:46are governed by it.
01:17:48It is a question of adultery.
01:17:51You will now retire
01:17:53and consider your verdict.
01:17:58One moment.
01:18:21Would you like to come outside?
01:18:23The jury may be gone sometime.
01:18:25No, thank you.
01:18:28Mr. Loring,
01:18:30it is perhaps difficult
01:18:32for you to speak to me,
01:18:34but there is something I want to say to you.
01:18:36Something you must believe.
01:18:39Nothing happened between Mary and me that night.
01:18:42She was too much in love with you
01:18:44for me to have a chance.
01:18:46And I think she is.
01:18:48And I think she is.
01:18:50And I think she is.
01:18:52And I think she is.
01:18:54And I think she is.
01:18:55And I think she is.
01:18:57And if you were not an Englishman,
01:18:59you would know that yourself.
01:19:02Please excuse me.
01:19:08It shouldn't be long now.
01:19:10Are you sure you won't come out?
01:19:12No, thank you.
01:19:26Do you...
01:19:28Do you mind if I talk to you?
01:19:31No.
01:19:33Are you all right?
01:19:35Oh, yes.
01:19:37Yes, thanks.
01:19:40After all this, you must hate me.
01:19:44Oh, Mark.
01:19:46Oh, Mark.
01:19:48Oh, Mark.
01:19:50Oh, Mark.
01:19:52Oh, Mark.
01:19:53Oh, Mark.
01:19:55Oh, Mark.
01:19:57I could never hate you.
01:20:03It all seems so...
01:20:05indecent.
01:20:07Yes.
01:20:09Yes, it was.
01:20:11The child will be taken care of.
01:20:13I've made all the arrangements.
01:20:18I've learned a lot about myself in this...
01:20:20in this courtroom.
01:20:23No matter what the jury decides...
01:20:25Let's wait for them.
01:20:30Doesn't seem any more to say.
01:20:33I shall always love you.
01:20:42Silence!
01:20:53Silence!
01:21:11Has the jury reached its verdict?
01:21:13No.
01:21:15I'm sorry, my lord.
01:21:17We find ourselves unable to agree.
01:21:19We will never be able to agree, my lord.
01:21:21It's most unfortunate.
01:21:23I won't!
01:21:25I want to stop this case.
01:21:27I was completely wrong.
01:21:29I should never have brought it.
01:21:31Mr. Stanley, I trust there's some explanation...
01:21:33for the petitioner's extraordinary behavior.
01:21:35My lord.
01:21:37I know I do not appeal to you in vain...
01:21:39to forgive the impetuosity of a young man...
01:21:41who has suddenly realized...
01:21:43that he has made an almost irreparable mistake.
01:21:46Well, Mr. Stanley?
01:21:48My lord.
01:21:50Members of the jury...
01:21:51my client...
01:21:53the petitioner in this divorce action...
01:21:55begs the indulgence of the court...
01:21:57and apologizes most sincerely...
01:21:59for the trouble that he has caused.
01:22:02But at this time...
01:22:05he wishes to withdraw the charges...
01:22:07against the respondent...
01:22:10and ask your lordship...
01:22:12to dismiss the petition.
01:22:17I find this an eminently satisfactory...
01:22:19and a very good thing.
01:22:21Very good.
01:22:43Mary.
01:22:52It's too full of tears
01:22:57Tears that know
01:23:00There isn't a chance
01:23:05That someday
01:23:08Somehow
01:23:11Somewhere
01:23:14Someone
01:23:16Will come
01:23:17My way
01:23:23And change
01:23:26My strange affair
01:23:31To a real
01:23:35Romance
01:23:47To a real romance