Deanna Ward goes back to her job as a customer representative. Her first customer is a bachelor who promises to buy something for his fiancée. When Deanna returns with the goods, however, she walks into a macabre and terrifying situation.
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00:32Hello.
00:34Good morning.
00:37Good morning, I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
00:42We're introducing Donna Cosmetics to your neighbourhood.
00:47Your neighbourhood today.
00:52Are you all right? Come in.
00:56Smile and then step forward.
01:03I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
01:08Come.
01:30Good morning, I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
01:37Bear in mind, selling is persuading, not arguing.
01:46A-Q-R-S-E.
01:50Agree, question, restate, satisfy, prove.
02:00...continue to have very unsettled weather, a lot of rain and pretty cold too.
02:05Over Scotland and Northern Ireland...
02:07People don't like to make decisions.
02:12If you want a decision, help me to arrive at one.
02:18...bitterly cold, temperatures of not much above 3 degrees centigrade...
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03:32Yes?
03:54Good morning, I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
03:56We're introducing Donna Cosmetics...
03:58Sorry, love, I work at the local chemist's.
04:00Get everything wholesale.
04:28I'll see you later.
04:57Hello?
05:17Good morning, I'm from...
05:21I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
05:23We're introducing Donna Cosmetics to your neighbourhood today. May I come in?
05:28Yes, please do.
05:32Oh, wet, isn't it?
05:33Very.
05:35I called last week.
05:37Oh, I did work.
05:39Now I'm on holiday.
05:40Oh, nice.
05:41Yes, very nice.
05:44Well...
05:48Bedroom through there.
05:50Yes.
05:58I used to have a flat like this.
06:00Well, you didn't. Not quite.
06:03Nobody had one quite like this.
06:05Come in, I'll show you.
06:07Oh, dear.
06:09You see?
06:10Gas holders by North Thames Gas, naturally.
06:14Oh, well, God bless them.
06:16They'd rent a big double if they weren't there.
06:18Red rust in summer and brown rust in winter.
06:21Flatulent and distended on Fridays and...
06:24squashed and empty after roast beef and veg on Sundays.
06:28Look, sit down and...
06:31let's have some warmth.
06:38Oh, dear.
06:40Take your shoes off.
06:42What?
06:43Well, they're wet.
06:46Come on.
06:50That's right.
06:53Notice.
06:55I'll dry them in the kitchen.
07:05Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
07:10Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
07:35The lady is fickle.
07:37What?
07:38La donnere mobile.
07:40No, Donna Cosmetics.
07:43Oh, yes.
07:46Oh, anything wrong?
07:48Could I speak to the lady of the house?
07:50What, Mrs B?
07:51Your wife?
07:52Oh, no, she's the char.
07:53Well, the daily.
07:54And you're not married?
07:56No.
07:57Mr...
07:58Dolby.
07:59Mr Dolby, we're introducing Donna Cosmetics to your neighbourhood today.
08:02Yes, so you said.
08:03Perfumes, powders, lipsticks.
08:06I'm wasting your time.
08:08Ah, you mean you're wasting your time?
08:10Or rather, I'm wasting it for you.
08:12Of course not.
08:13Well, I mean, wouldn't I buy some?
08:15For my mother?
08:16Well, by all means.
08:17It's her birthday in...
08:19soon.
08:20Splendid.
08:21We've got perfect presents for women of all ages.
08:24Gift-wrapped, no extra charge.
08:26Lovely to give or keep for yourself.
08:28Is business that bad?
08:29It's seasonal, you know.
08:30It's a little...
08:34Yes, it's bad.
08:37You know, you're too anxious.
08:39Am I?
08:40Far too anxious.
08:41No one would have thought that it was your first day.
08:44First day back?
08:47I gave it up for almost a week.
08:51One has to be positive in the client relationship.
08:54It's not easy.
08:57Well, sit down and have a smoke.
08:59Then you'll feel better.
09:01Then you can tell me all about it.
09:12No, I don't.
09:18It's amazing, isn't it?
09:19What is?
09:20Well, if we met on a train,
09:23you know, we probably wouldn't speak.
09:25It'd be, um...
09:27Tiddlypom, tiddlypom, tiddlypom, tiddlypom, tiddlypom, tiddlypom, tiddlypom,
09:31peepo over the headlines and not too draughty for you.
09:33That'd be it.
09:35Here we are, smoking, nattering,
09:37and you don't know the first thing about me.
09:39Nor you about me.
09:41True.
09:43But you see, I'm a criminal.
09:45Does that surprise you?
09:47I don't believe it.
09:48It's true.
09:50I wasn't always a layabout.
09:52You're on holiday, you said so.
09:54Well, yes, I work in a betting shop,
09:57but five meetings rained off,
09:59so they gave me a couple of days' holiday.
10:03Stay there. I'll show you something.
10:25What?
10:48Well?
10:49Well, what?
10:50Guess what?
10:51A photograph?
10:52A photograph?
10:54I've no idea.
10:58A tube ticket?
10:59Not a ticket.
11:01The ticket.
11:02Which one?
11:03The one that should have been in my pocket.
11:05Was that your crime?
11:08Everybody's done that sometime in their lives, a bus...
11:11Not everybody gets caught.
11:12That's nothing.
11:14The most...
11:17important thing...
11:19that ever happened to me.
11:20Are you fine?
11:22Not only that.
11:26Now, I appealed, I tried to fight it.
11:28Well, I did fight it.
11:30But I lost.
11:31The case, my job,
11:33my pride,
11:36even the will to live.
11:39You lost your job because of a tube ticket? Surely.
11:42You see, I worked for a firm of solicitors,
11:44but we don't...
11:45I'm sorry, old boy,
11:46we do not employ members of the criminal classes.
11:49And do you know something? I bought that ticket.
11:51Cross my heart, I genuinely lost it.
11:54I don't know whether it was my...
11:56morning fruit and nut in the slot machine,
11:58or a rush for the lift,
12:00or a sudden sneeze out with a handkerchief.
12:02Gone.
12:03Pocket full of fingers.
12:05Well, couldn't you explain?
12:07Explain?
12:10Now, I don't hold with the colour bar,
12:12and, you know, South African cherry does not pass these lips.
12:15But try to explain to 15 Stones, a West Indian woman,
12:20when it has one idea in its head at the time,
12:22and when that idea is you're a villain, man.
12:26Do you believe in British justice?
12:28Of course.
12:29Well, you and Timothy Ovens.
12:32I walked into that courtroom,
12:35responsible, sober,
12:37white-collar worker,
12:40and I came out a criminal.
12:42And I came out a criminal.
12:44Frightening.
12:45It is.
12:48And someday,
12:50someone will pay.
12:55Someday.
12:56Oh, you were unlucky.
12:57No, we're talking about the law, not football pools.
13:00I've seen it from both sides, you know.
13:02Magistrates trying to send men to prison for offences they aren't empowered to hear.
13:06Now, you realise it was only a couple of years ago
13:08they received any compulsory legal training.
13:10I mean, one day a butcher, next day a magistrate.
13:14Do you remember the boy on the motoring offence
13:15who was asked if he slept with his girlfriend?
13:18It's true.
13:19I didn't know.
13:20Heard of Oscar Slater?
13:21No, I...
13:22Served 18 years for a murder he didn't commit.
13:2418 years?
13:27Was he pardoned?
13:28Oh, yes. A little late, though, wasn't it?
13:30Adolf Beck? No?
13:32Sorry.
13:33Wrongly convicted twice.
13:35A mere seven years.
13:37What?
13:38Mistakes are bound to happen.
13:51Odd choice of job, selling cosmetics.
13:53What's odd about it?
13:55Somebody like you, somebody nervous like you.
13:58That's why I'm doing it.
14:00To force myself to meet people, talk with them.
14:04Make the effort.
14:06You've been ill?
14:08Yes.
14:09Serious?
14:11Reasonably.
14:14Oh, tell me.
14:16It was nothing, really.
14:19It was two Christmases ago.
14:21I was working in an Oxford Street store
14:23in the packing department, down below ground.
14:26Some work's busy.
14:28Very busy and stiflingly hot.
14:31So hot it smelt.
14:32So hot it smelt.
14:34Packing, wrapping, invoicing.
14:36I hadn't been sleeping.
14:38Night after night, parcels that wouldn't tie.
14:42The harder, the longer we worked, the more there was to do.
14:45Box, wrap, tie, label, box, wrap, tie.
14:50Suddenly, everyone stopped work and looked up.
14:53At me.
14:56I was standing on a table.
14:59Screaming.
15:03Do you mind if we change the subject?
15:06No, of course not.
15:09So, you have to nerve yourself to speak to people.
15:12That's right.
15:14I wouldn't have known, honestly.
15:17That's because you talk a lot yourself.
15:19Always have. Empty vessels.
15:22Do you live alone?
15:23Yes.
15:24No flatmates?
15:26Parents?
15:27Both dead.
15:28Oh, I'm sorry.
15:29Years ago.
15:30Brothers, sisters?
15:32No.
15:33Only child?
15:35Well, isn't there anybody you could confide in?
15:38No.
15:39Next of kin?
15:40He must have one of those.
15:43Old aunt, arthritic, spring of mint in her pocket,
15:46grows roses, cottage near Sidmouth.
15:49Wish I had.
15:50School friend?
15:53I can't believe it.
15:56Do you know what my last telephone account was?
15:59A quarter's rent in advance.
16:01Not even a word with Tim?
16:03Got an electric plug.
16:07There's a skin freshener on special offer.
16:10A shopper stopper.
16:11A what?
16:12Shopper stopper.
16:13Something they're dropping from the range and they sell it off cheap.
16:15It's very good value.
16:16Packaged in a glass decanter.
16:18When it's empty, you can pierce the cap and it makes a charming vase.
16:22What's wrong?
16:24Does it say a word in there?
16:26Every word.
16:27Sounded like it.
16:28Supposing you won 25,000 on the premium bonds,
16:31who'd be the first person you'd tell?
16:35I don't know.
16:37What about Donna?
16:38Nobody.
16:39Nobody. I deal with a supervisor.
16:41She and I don't get on.
16:43Is that bad?
16:44Could be fatal.
16:46How do you mean?
16:47If I don't turn in some orders by the weekend,
16:49I'll lose my job.
16:52That's a good thing for you.
16:53It's raining at sundown.
16:54Oh.
16:55Excuse me.
16:57Sorry to interrupt.
16:59Oh, that's all right.
17:00We're only talking.
17:05Two hours, 12 shillings,
17:08and 37 pence for sugar and coffee.
17:12Yes, that's...
17:14That's 97 pence.
17:16Well, keep the change.
17:18And buy yourself something nice.
17:19Thank you very much.
17:21Well, keep the change.
17:23And buy yourself something nice, Mrs. B.
17:24Thank you very much, sir.
17:26Don't blame you keeping her to yourself.
17:28She's pretty.
17:30Do you think so?
17:31Very.
17:33Well, there might, just might,
17:36be an announcement soon.
17:38Congratulations!
17:40Really!
18:19Sugar or sweeteners?
18:21Sweeteners, please.
18:30I don't know your name, do I?
18:32Ward.
18:33Diana Ward.
18:34Diana.
18:35Huntress.
18:36Chaste and fair.
18:39Diana.
18:40Diana?
18:43Oh, that's nice.
18:46Mummy was a Durban fan.
18:48Wall sing, wall sing, high in the clouds.
18:51Only you and I in the clouds.
19:00You heard it.
19:01Dad hates you.
19:03I was afraid so.
19:05It's funny how names acquire a vogue.
19:07What's yours?
19:08Oh, John.
19:09Plain John.
19:11Mother with no imagination.
19:12Well, there've been some famous ones.
19:14John Realgood, John Lennon.
19:16John George Haig.
19:17John Reginald Halliday Christie.
19:19I've heard of them.
19:20In 1949, Haig was executed.
19:22And in 1950, the name John was the most popular baby's name.
19:27It probably would have been anyway.
19:30Yes, probably.
19:35Chocolate's suggestive.
19:37No, thank you.
19:40Well now, isn't this nice?
19:44I noticed.
19:45I noticed.
19:47Yes, go on.
19:49It doesn't matter.
19:50One shouldn't make personal remarks.
19:52Be my guest.
19:53You have your nails manicured.
19:57Observant.
19:58Donna trains us to look for things like that.
20:01Evaluation of sales potential.
20:03My one vice.
20:05Fortnightly manicure.
20:08Ten minutes of sensuous luxury.
20:13Now you're warm, cosy.
20:15Cocooned in this white sheet.
20:18Half-closed eyes.
20:21And this blue-smocked goddess.
20:24The air smelling of perfume.
20:27Paddling my palms.
20:30And pinching my fingers.
20:33With soft hands.
20:38I'd pass her in the street with the hat on, she wouldn't recognise me.
20:41But just for that moment, you're the master.
20:46And then afterwards, when it's all sordid and money,
20:50you look at them, critically.
20:53And you don't say anything for a moment, you make her wait.
20:56Skivvy.
20:58And then you smile, very condescendingly.
21:01And you say,
21:04that's fine.
21:08Shall we go back?
21:10Why?
21:12Decide what you're going to buy.
21:39Come on.
21:54All things bright and beautiful.
21:57All creatures great and small.
22:00It's a C.F. Alexander.
22:01What?
22:03Cecil Francis Alexander.
22:05Oh, what about him?
22:06Her. She wrote that hymn.
22:07Really? How do you know?
22:09I know every hymn.
22:10Well, almost every one in ancient and modern.
22:12Oh, I don't believe you.
22:14What are you, a quagga?
22:15Something like.
22:18I say, I say, I say.
22:19Ladies and gentlemen, I can't believe that this young lady
22:21knows every hymn from ancient and modern.
22:23I do. Choose a number.
22:24Any number from 1 to 636.
22:25Any number from 1 to 636.
22:28Thank you, sir. 205.
22:29Good. 205.
22:32Love divine or love's excelling.
22:35And we haven't met before, have we?
22:37Nothing up my sleeve.
22:39Another one, please, sir.
22:4162. Bottle, my friend.
22:42Thank you, sir. 62.
22:44Easy.
22:45While shepherds wash their socks by night.
22:52Hold on.
22:53Oh, Mr. Dole.
22:54Oh, yes, thank you.
23:10What are you doing?
23:13I'm going to take your photo.
23:14Why?
23:16Well, I only got it on approval,
23:17and I have to test it before I decide to buy or not.
23:21You don't mind, do you?
23:22Does it matter?
23:23Temper.
23:24Well, hurry.
23:25Flash photograph, eh?
23:28Right.
23:29Oh, yes, hold that.
23:31Lovely.
23:32Now, by the window.
23:34No, just a little bit there.
23:35There, that's fine.
23:36Just hold it there.
23:39That's very good.
23:41And smile.
23:44One for the gasworks.
23:46Right, hold it.
23:47Great.
23:48Now, one more.
23:50With your coat off this time.
23:51No.
23:53All right, with your coat on, then.
23:55Sit down now.
23:57Let's see what we can do.
23:59That's lovely.
24:00Now, sit up just a fraction.
24:02That's right.
24:03And hold it.
24:06Hold that.
24:07Now, go on, look at the camera.
24:08Nice, big smile.
24:14Now, um...
24:15No.
24:16Now, listen, a straight answer.
24:17Do you want to buy any of these things or not?
24:21No.
24:22No.
24:23No.
24:25No.
24:26No.
24:27No.
24:29Good.
24:35Your brochure.
24:42Pick up your pencil and prepare to write.
24:49It foams, scents and softens the water with a heart-shaped bath sponge.
24:54What a glorious idea.
24:55Just put me down for one of those, heart-shaped.
24:58Very appropriate.
24:59Your mother?
25:02Fiance.
25:03Changed my mind.
25:04Oh.
25:06What's she like?
25:08She's, um...
25:10Fragrant pagan peach.
25:12Yes, that describes her as well as anything.
25:14She's about five foot four, voluptuous.
25:19Your coloring.
25:21What about some bath crystals?
25:23Can't go far wrong with those.
25:24Yes, fine.
25:25And some talcum powder, you know.
25:27I'll leave it to you.
25:29How much do you want to spend?
25:31Oh, three or four pounds.
25:34How many?
25:35Three or four?
25:36Three.
25:37Well, four then.
25:39What happened to your parents?
25:40Was it an accident?
25:42It was the Marmar.
25:43Oh.
25:44My father was a major.
25:46Ex-army.
25:48They'd settled in Kenya.
25:49Major Ward.
25:51You knew him?
25:53What were his initials?
25:54A.R. Arthur.
25:56Major A.R. Ward.
26:00No, no.
26:01Must have been somebody else.
26:03Do you read any other newspaper?
26:05No.
26:06I don't often finish this.
26:08Well, what happens now?
26:10I order it.
26:11It'll take a few days.
26:12It'll be through by about Saturday, then I'll bring it round.
26:15I'll leave it with your daily.
26:17Oh, no, no.
26:18What's wrong?
26:19Well, she doesn't come on Saturdays and she's not that reliable.
26:23Her husband's a cinema organist.
26:25Don't worry.
26:26I'll be here.
26:28All right.
26:29Saturday, then.
26:31Pay on delivery.
26:33Fair enough.
26:34Cash in my hot little hand.
26:36Till Saturday, then.
26:38Do you know, he's been redundant for 20 years.
26:41They occasionally let him in of a morning.
26:43For a whirl on the whirl, it's a...
26:46Well, I hope I haven't kept you too long.
26:47Not at all.
26:49I enjoyed it.
26:50Liar.
26:51Oh, really?
26:53Well, it's been a pleasure meeting you.
27:00Goodbye, Mr. Dolby.
27:02Goodbye.
27:17Goodbye.
27:41Good morning.
27:43I'm your Donna Cosmetics girl.
27:45Bear in mind,
27:47selling is persuading,
27:50not arguing.
28:15Now, I prefer to do it myself.
28:18I saw the engagement notice in the paper.
28:21Made me quite proud to read your name like that.
28:24It's three pounds and 60 pence
28:26and you're the first to mention it.
28:28It'll be a white wedding?
28:30Oh, if we ever get that far.
28:32There seems so much to do.
28:34Oh, in a couple years' time,
28:36you'll wonder what I've been up to.
28:38You'll wonder what I've been up to.
28:40You'll wonder what I've been up to.
28:42You'll wonder what I've been up to.
28:44You'll wonder what all the fuss was about.
28:46Well, time like this, everyone's on edge.
28:49Don't repeat this.
28:51As if I would.
28:53She's such a temper.
28:55It scares me.
28:57Is she Irish?
29:00Do you know, I almost...
29:02Almost what?
29:04Well, you wouldn't believe this.
29:05What?
29:06Because it gave me such a fright.
29:08I almost hit her.
29:09It's true.
29:10I got so worked up, I...
29:12I honestly didn't know what I was doing.
29:17It was a terrifying experience.
29:21That'll be her now.
29:23I'll let her in as I go.
29:26Mrs. B,
29:29thanks for everything.
29:31Whatever do you mean?
29:33Well,
29:35looking after me all this time.
29:37Nonsense.
29:39No need to get maudlin.
29:40See you on Monday.
29:55Come in, dear.
29:59Congratulations.
30:07Mr. Dalby?
30:11Come in.
30:25Good morning.
30:27Oh, hello.
30:28Do you like it?
30:30Very smart.
30:31Especially for your benefit.
30:32Why's that?
30:33Well, I didn't think you'd believe me.
30:35Once a bum, always a bum.
30:37I believed you.
30:38I believed you when you said
30:39your daily didn't come on Saturdays.
30:41I said that?
30:43Are you sure?
30:44When I suggested leaving the parcel with her, remember?
30:47No.
30:48Well, you said...
30:50Well, I don't remember exactly what you said.
30:53So I notice.
30:55You said she was unreliable.
30:57Mrs. B,
30:58well, it couldn't be further from the truth.
31:00Well, you said it.
31:01All right.
31:03Why?
31:04I mean, why invent a story like that?
31:09It came to 387.
31:11Fine.
31:14Cash.
31:15Yes, you said that.
31:18I think it's to do.
31:19It is Saturday, you know.
31:21Yes, Newmarket, Catrick Bridge, Kenton Park.
31:25You brought me luck.
31:26I want to reward you.
31:27Pay me.
31:28That's a reward.
31:29You sound just like one of those manicurists.
31:34My fiancée has agreed to the date.
31:35Congratulations.
31:37Why are you so frigid?
31:39I'm not.
31:40So cold.
31:41So unfriendly.
31:43Why did you deny saying what you did?
31:45But I didn't.
31:46It didn't take place, honestly.
31:48What would be the point of denying it?
31:50Let me take your coat.
31:51I'm not staying.
31:53To meet people, to talk to them.
31:54Your words, not mine.
31:57You said her husband was a...
31:59a cinema organist.
32:01Whose husband?
32:02Your woman.
32:03Mrs. B?
32:04Yes.
32:05You're so funny.
32:07He drives a brick lorry.
32:09Come and have a drink.
32:12And I'll get your money.
32:20You brought me luck, too.
32:22Over £12 worth.
32:24What for?
32:25Cosmetics.
32:26You?
32:27You were the turning point.
32:28Oh, that's good.
32:29I'm delighted.
32:32Give me your coat.
32:44Cold?
32:55I've never drunk champagne before.
32:58It's one of those things you have to do at least once in your life.
33:01We've both got something to celebrate.
33:03An odd thing happened this morning.
33:05Oh?
33:06Just before I came out.
33:08A photographer rang up.
33:09Oh, what for?
33:11To ask if he could quote for doing some photos.
33:14What photos are these?
33:16Wedding photos.
33:19What did you say?
33:20We're hung up.
33:23Odd sense of humour, some people.
33:25You think it was a prank?
33:26Oh, don't you?
33:27I suppose.
33:29That envelope.
33:30Open it.
33:33Oh.
33:38Not bad, is it?
33:40It's good of you.
33:44No, it's for you.
33:45It's memento.
33:52Not where it'll get squashed.
33:54Right.
34:01Congratulations.
34:03Oh, no, no.
34:04Nothing so personal.
34:07Justice.
34:08Didn't think you believed in it.
34:10It all comes right in the end.
34:13Justice?
34:20Wow, it's good, isn't it?
34:21Very.
34:24What sort of house are you going to look for?
34:27One I can afford.
34:29I like regency houses.
34:31No, it doesn't.
34:32I've got a question for you.
34:34Hildrop Crescent.
34:35Who lived there?
34:36No idea.
34:37Hildrop Crescent, down in Camden Town.
34:39Hawley Harvey Crippen.
34:41He's American, you know.
34:43Not generally known, that, is he?
34:45Oh, let me top you up.
34:47Something about a house or a street that's had murder committed in it.
34:50You know, they changed the name of Rillington Place to Ruston Close.
34:53What are you looking for?
34:54Cigarettes.
34:56Oh, have one of mine.
35:03I thought you didn't smoke.
35:05It would be a strange engagement present.
35:07Cigarette case to a novel smoker.
35:11To J.D. with all my love, D.W.
35:14J.D.
35:16and D.W.
35:17J.D.
35:19and D.W.
35:21And a nicer couple you couldn't wish to meet.
35:23Same initials as me.
35:26So it is.
35:28May I look?
35:29Oh, please do.
35:38Oh, it's nice.
35:39Very nice.
35:40Gift wrapped.
35:41All Mark Collins.
35:43I won't disturb you.
35:44Let's go through.
35:45It's more comfy.
35:46It's a lot more.
35:47Come on, not a bubble.
35:49I should be squiffy.
36:00Can you smell it?
36:01What?
36:02Gas.
36:03This wind must have changed direction.
36:06Oh, well, gas before seven, fine by eleven.
36:15What about the death penalty?
36:17Yes.
36:18Good thing.
36:20I don't know.
36:21I haven't thought about it.
36:22Go on, think.
36:25Death penalty.
36:27Well,
36:29it makes mistakes.
36:31Irrevocable.
36:34You agree?
36:35I'm not agreeing or disagreeing.
36:36No, I'm listening.
36:38Why shoot this at me?
36:39Why not?
36:40You want to talk.
36:41Talk.
36:42Well,
36:44maybe there's something to be said for retaining it for police killing.
36:46Maybe there's something to be said for.
36:48What's wrong with that?
36:49It's a cliche.
36:50Sounds like a politician.
36:52You don't have many opinions, do you?
36:54What if I did?
36:55You'd be a more interesting person.
36:57And who'd notice?
36:58I might, for one.
37:00Go on, don't feel so sorry for yourself.
37:03So, I have all these great opinions.
37:06Assaults on the bomb, Vietnam, birth control.
37:09Who do I express them to?
37:11Who do I convince?
37:12Well, you made your bed.
37:14Cliche.
37:16Now you're doing it.
37:17Good, good.
37:18You're fighting back.
37:20Maybe we won't need the lifeboats.
37:24Must be the champagne.
37:25Why did you say birth control?
37:28Why not?
37:29It's a topic, like any other.
37:30Like any other.
37:31Like any other.
37:32Hardly.
37:33I said...
37:35It doesn't matter.
37:37Go on, go on, send him home.
37:39That little censor up there.
37:41Everything you say is...
37:43pre-digested.
37:44You know, it's sieved, it's considered.
37:46Now go on, talk.
37:49No, four-letter words, filth, anything you like.
37:51It doesn't matter.
37:53Well,
37:54somebody sent me a pamphlet.
37:56A booklet about it in the post.
37:58Did you read it?
37:59Of course not.
38:00You're a liar.
38:04Do me a favour, will you?
38:06Depends.
38:07If you say
38:08no, I'll quite understand.
38:11What is it?
38:12It really would be a great favour.
38:14Really.
38:17I'd like you
38:19to try this on.
38:21Just for a moment.
38:22Do you mind?
38:23Why?
38:24Well, I've only seen it in the shop and
38:26now I'd like to see it on somebody.
38:28Being worn, casually.
38:30Do you know what I mean?
38:31I'm sure it's bad luck.
38:32Nonsense, nonsense.
38:33Just let me
38:34slip it on.
38:36It's too tight, it won't go on.
38:37Of course it will.
38:42There.
38:44Oh, it's lovely.
38:46It's tight.
38:47It's a beautiful fit.
38:50Wave it around a bit.
38:58Well, what do you think
38:59Mrs. Dalby?
39:01What will your fiancé think?
39:03That's what matters.
39:05I ought to take it off now.
39:06No, you keep it on.
39:07Special licence.
39:08We could be married by Monday.
39:11Really, I've things to do.
39:13I must go, really.
39:18All right.
39:21I'll get your money.
39:25Three, what was it?
39:26Three eighty-seven.
40:00What's wrong?
40:02Look.
40:03Oh, it looks fine.
40:04No.
40:05The temperature will only make it worse.
40:09Well, let's try some soap.
40:11You still think it was a good idea?
40:13Made for each other, obviously.
40:18Go on, give me.
40:23Oh, it's lovely.
40:25It's lovely.
40:26Go on, give me.
40:32Oh, soft hands.
40:35My manicurist.
40:44No, no, no, no, no.
40:45Daddy won't eat you.
40:50Your knuckle's swollen.
40:51I am.
40:53Well, don't worry.
40:54We'll try again later.
40:57I'd better order an extra pint of milk, just in case.
41:01What?
41:02Joke.
41:04Sit down and hold your armour.
41:06Why?
41:07Well, let the blood drain from your fingers.
41:20Never been in court, have you?
41:22No.
41:24Now, this is the edge of the box.
41:26You're the prisoner on the stand.
41:29The judge.
41:31Morning, Your Lordship.
41:35A little flattery never did any harm.
41:38And the gallery, packed.
41:40Woman in trouble, big draw.
41:45Ready?
41:47What's the offence?
41:49Oh, does it matter?
41:50Er...
41:51I'll tell you later.
41:54Now.
42:01Miss Ward.
42:03Lower your hand, you've been sworn in.
42:05Miss Ward, you didn't tell the court
42:08exactly what this illness of yours was.
42:11However, I deduce from your reticence
42:14certain things you've said and not said
42:17it was related to your nerves.
42:20Am I correct?
42:21Yes.
42:23What form did this illness take?
42:26A breakdown?
42:28Sort of.
42:29Far.
42:30A mental breakdown?
42:31Please, I...
42:32A simple yes or no?
42:34I didn't make the rules.
42:36Yes or no?
42:38Yes.
42:39You had treatment?
42:41Yes.
42:42Extensive treatment?
42:43Yes.
42:44At an institution?
42:45A hospital.
42:47A hospital.
42:50And now you've recovered?
42:53You know I have.
42:54Don't restrict yourself to answering the questions, please.
42:55I don't want to go.
42:56No, no, we did ask, but we have to.
43:01You know that.
43:03No, no.
43:12Does this embarrass you?
43:13Does it?
43:14Yes.
43:15Right, yes, that's the two of us.
43:17Warm and dry.
43:18Friendly pass to the fridge.
43:21Do you know what it was like for me?
43:24Crowded court.
43:25Magistrates, policemen, solicitors.
43:28Women.
43:30In shopping baskets and short skirts.
43:35Knees like rows of nylon grapefruit.
43:40Even the chairman of the bench was a chairwoman.
43:42And you were embarrassed.
43:43Couldn't we get to a duel?
43:44They can't leave the court, sorry.
43:47What's so shameful about this breakdown of yours?
43:50Nothing.
43:51Do you have shock treatment?
43:52Wiring the old grey matter up to the national grid.
43:57No.
43:58No.
43:59It affects the memory, doesn't it?
44:01A psychiatrist, then?
44:02Yes.
44:03Describe the paper on his ceiling.
44:06I can't.
44:07Or somebody else's ceiling, then.
44:08Anybody's.
44:11Oh, really, Your Lordship?
44:14Very well, I withdraw the question.
44:18What caused this breakdown, did he tell you?
44:20No.
44:21Repression?
44:22I want to go.
44:23Depression?
44:24Give me the money and let me go.
44:25Yes, I get depressions.
44:28When I'm depressed, I shrink.
44:30I go down two or three inches.
44:34My watch starts to go slow.
44:38Loses anything up to five minutes a day.
44:43What money?
44:45For the cosmetics.
44:47Uh, not entered in evidence.
44:50Sorry.
44:52This ward.
44:55Exhibit A.
44:57The murder weapon.
45:01Next time you see it,
45:03there'll be a little tag and string attached to it.
45:07See, there's you in there.
45:08God's file.
45:09You still having treatment?
45:11No.
45:12Speak up so the court can hear.
45:13I have to go back.
45:15When?
45:16Every three months.
45:17Must be the old Bailey, you know.
45:18Have to speak up there.
45:19Else they won't hear a word.
45:21Who won't?
45:22The jury, your peers.
45:24Twelve of them, tried and true.
45:25What are you talking about?
45:28Someday.
45:30Someone.
45:34Do you remember what I said?
45:36No.
45:42No.
45:44Where were we?
45:46Come on, Nick, come on.
45:47You frightened?
45:49Yes.
45:50Doesn't matter.
45:52A little nervousness in performance wins support.
45:57Jurors are very unpredictable.
46:02Now, this fear of yours, of meeting people.
46:04Does it have any traceable origin?
46:08Does it have any traceable origin?
46:12I'll have you for contempt.
46:15Is it something to do with a member or members
46:18of the opposite sex?
46:20No, it isn't.
46:21That's a hateful thing to say.
46:22Hateful?
46:23That's an interesting choice of word
46:24because it's often said that the prostitute hates her clients,
46:27despises them.
46:28A prostitute?
46:29Yes.
46:30Tart, hustler, whore, streetwalker.
46:35The court acknowledges them all.
46:38Where it does have to pay credit for originality
46:41is in your choice of modus operandi.
46:44Cosmetic sales, lady, sounds so upright.
46:48And it's surely, the more we think of it,
46:50can we really imagine a doctor saying,
46:53go out and sell a few lipsticks,
46:55meet a few people, you'll feel heaps better?
46:58It's true, on my honour.
46:59Well, that goes without saying, you took the oath.
47:01Miss Ward, what was the first question you asked
47:03on entering Mr Dalby's flat?
47:07I don't remember.
47:08Try a little harder!
47:10Try!
47:11No, it's no good.
47:12Was it?
47:14Where is the bedroom?
47:17Yes, but...
47:18No, no buts. Yes or no?
47:21Yes?
47:22Yes.
47:23Yes!
47:25The moment you walked in the front door,
47:26man, you hadn't set eyes on before!
47:30Where is the bedroom?
47:34Next thing you'll be telling the court you felt sleepy.
47:39A small, seeming innocent bag of cosmetics.
47:44Well, makes a change from the shop doorway,
47:47the parked car,
47:49or the first floor Soho window with pea shooter routine.
47:53Nevertheless, we are not in the awarding marks
47:55for originality business.
47:57Deanna Ward's offence
48:00and her profession, yes, profession!
48:02That term is hard earned.
48:06Not just the same ones
48:07as are so often paraded through this court.
48:09Governess teaches French, strict disciplinarian.
48:13Sadie, second floor,
48:15personal massage.
48:17Deanna Ward, cosmetic sales lady!
48:21Personal visits,
48:23upon request.
48:30Members of the jury,
48:32I put it to you that the accused's testimony
48:34is a tissue of lies,
48:36ranging from this phony breakdown,
48:37a cheap bit for sympathy if ever I saw one,
48:40through the alleged suicide attempt,
48:43telephone in one hand,
48:45razor blade in the other,
48:48to this sales lady routine.
48:52We know that the
48:54Street Offences Act of 1959
48:55appeared to sweep the streets clean.
48:57Nevertheless, appearances are not reality!
49:00And when
49:02Deanna Ward was swept
49:04into John Dalby's flat,
49:06her aim was that of any other common prostitute.
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49:49Hello love.
49:50Morning, I'm your Donna Cosmetics Girl.
49:52We are introducing Donna Cosmetics
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49:55What's wrong?
49:56You alright?
49:57Would you like to come in?
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