On Approval (1944) Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers | Hollywood classic movie
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
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00:00:30I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:01:00I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:01:30I'm going to get you out of here, I'm going to get you out of here.
00:02:01Oh dear, is this another war picture?
00:02:03Let's go back to the quiet and peaceful days before the war.
00:02:11So this is peace, so these are the tranquil days of 1939.
00:02:15Yes, for this is the age of speed and noise, so much like war you hardly notice the difference.
00:02:19This is the day of athletic sports of all kinds.
00:02:23This is the day of devotion to the graceful art of dancing.
00:02:36This is the day of the worship of the beautiful wide open spaces.
00:02:42And of giving thanks for all the blessings of the green and lovely countryside.
00:02:46This is 1939.
00:02:49No, this isn't what we want either.
00:02:52Although it's very pleasant.
00:02:54Let's go back further still to Grandmama's day.
00:02:57Don't you think it was so much nicer?
00:02:59So much more stately and dignified.
00:03:02Lazy days and gentle evenings undisturbed by any harsh note of reality.
00:03:07Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep.
00:03:15So beware, beware.
00:03:27Yes, these were the days.
00:03:29Grandmama knew that her place was in the home,
00:03:31although Grandpapa could go in for a stern life of dangerous sport.
00:03:37Women were women and they didn't forget it, even if men forgot it.
00:03:42And when they had finished their embroidery and needed a thrill of excitement,
00:03:45they could always unpick it and start again,
00:03:47while their menfolk roved abroad, a wheel, a wheel.
00:03:54And you needn't think they never had their moments.
00:03:56A young man was more or less expected to sow his wild oats,
00:03:59always providing that there was no harvest.
00:04:04But young ladies knew nothing of all that.
00:04:06They lived in a world apart until the day of true romance,
00:04:09the never-to-be-forgotten moment in a young girl's life.
00:04:15So different from modern times.
00:04:17Before the days of petrol rationing,
00:04:19you moderns looked upon the motor car as a most useful invention.
00:04:23It's hard to believe that the biggest thrill a Victorian girl got out of a carriage was this.
00:04:32You can't get into much trouble doing that.
00:04:35Very little remains undiscovered about the modern girl.
00:04:38You can see she's beautiful. You know she is no fool.
00:04:41But there used to be a song,
00:04:43Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
00:04:46But she was clever enough to be good.
00:04:48And the result, you must admit, was elegant and charming.
00:04:55If she seemed at times a little shy,
00:04:57it was because where the dashing stronger sex were concerned, she had to be so modest.
00:05:02She is gown for the theatre.
00:05:04And I wonder what it would be like, that play she was going to see.
00:05:07Would it be dull and stuffy?
00:05:09Or would she hide her blushes in the programme?
00:05:12They say it's very modern and terribly daring.
00:05:17Perhaps we're going to find out just why they were called the naughty nineties.
00:05:22I don't think he would know.
00:05:26Nor would she.
00:05:28Nor she. No, I'm sure she wouldn't.
00:05:31But he might.
00:05:32You see, he's a duke.
00:05:34And if you were a duke in the nineties, you could do almost anything.
00:05:36Handsome!
00:05:38A cab would stop for you without even considering that you could scarcely pay the fare.
00:05:42Bristol House.
00:05:44To Bristol House.
00:05:45Historic townhouse of successive generations of the Dukes of Bristol.
00:05:48Where many a lovely Duchess of Bristol had been at home for all the brilliant functions of the London season.
00:05:53Attended by kings and princesses.
00:05:55By the cultured, the famous and the aristocratic.
00:05:58And even, occasionally, by her husband.
00:06:01But George is a bachelor.
00:06:02And very hard up.
00:06:04And so this ninth Duke of Bristol...
00:06:06Tenth.
00:06:07And so this tenth Duke of Bristol finds himself in the unusual position of having accepted an invitation to a ball at his own house.
00:06:13Most remarkable.
00:06:17Tell me, Your Grace, how did you lose your money?
00:06:20Women.
00:06:21Yes, I know, I mean your big money.
00:06:24Big women.
00:06:28A gay and charming scene.
00:06:30But who is rich enough to be able to rent this great house from a Duke in need of money?
00:06:34Complete with his incomparable butler parks and a devoted staff of servants.
00:06:38Only someone exceedingly wealthy.
00:06:40But could anyone so wealthy be also young and beautiful?
00:06:44Surely, only an American.
00:06:47Well, here you would say would be a bride for George who would satisfy all his trustee's requirements.
00:06:52And indeed, most of George's also.
00:06:55But only in his dreams, lying in bed in the morning, can George contemplate the idea of marriage.
00:07:01In his waking hours, the thought fills him with horror.
00:07:04He scarcely sees her.
00:07:08Good evening, George.
00:07:10How nice of you to come.
00:07:12Not at all, Helen.
00:07:13Not at all.
00:07:22Well, there you are.
00:07:23All this wealth and gaiety after that would taste more acid than the pickles from which Helen's father built his fortune.
00:07:28As it does indeed to Richard Halton, who hasn't the advantage of wealth to sweeten the taste.
00:07:33Being a friend of George is burden enough for any man to bear.
00:07:36And for a man of the very highest breeding and the very lowest income, life is one long attempt to accomplish the impossible.
00:07:43Damn it, sir. That's not cricket.
00:07:51Poor George. It must be very sad, coming back to your own house as a guest.
00:07:55Better return as a guest than remain as a host to a broker's man.
00:07:58There's nothing for it, George. We must make some money.
00:08:00Try to think that I'm a duke, Richard, and talk sense.
00:08:02Good hope.
00:08:03We'll drink to the world.
00:08:04To the world.
00:08:05To the world.
00:08:06To the world.
00:08:07To the world.
00:08:08To the world.
00:08:09To the world.
00:08:10To the world.
00:08:11We'll drink to the woman I love.
00:08:13Don't be disgusting.
00:08:14Look, here she comes. The one on the left.
00:08:19Do you mean to tell me that you love Maria Wislak, having no respect for age?
00:08:23George.
00:08:24We must join them.
00:08:32Well, here we are again.
00:08:34Somehow I'm able to control my excitement.
00:08:36Splendid.
00:08:37Shall I get you some fruit cups?
00:08:38Or perhaps our dear, revered old friend, Mrs. Wislak, will lend us her slipper.
00:08:43I'm neither your dear, revered, or old friend.
00:08:46Naughty, naughty.
00:08:47That's the third time you've spoken harshly to me tonight.
00:08:50Don't do that.
00:08:51You know how I dislike it.
00:08:53If you had a little more brain, you'd be in an asylum.
00:08:57Richard has either enjoyed your joking mentally or has eaten something indigestible.
00:09:01One of these days, I shall write to the Times on present-day matters.
00:09:03That should be highly interesting.
00:09:05I think it will cause a sensation.
00:09:07That you can write a letter at all should cause a great sensation.
00:09:10I forgive you, Maria. Old friends are old friends.
00:09:12George, if you use the word old to me again, I shall throw something at you.
00:09:16Very well, Maria, but when I reached the age of 41, I was not ashamed.
00:09:20My sister will be 41 in August, isn't she?
00:09:22You beast!
00:09:27Bounder!
00:09:28Bounder!
00:09:35Am I a bounder, Helen?
00:09:37I don't think so, George. Not really.
00:09:40No, I don't think so either.
00:09:42Good evening, Helen.
00:09:43Good evening, Angela.
00:09:44Good evening, George.
00:09:45Good evening, Angela.
00:09:47I didn't know you knew her.
00:09:49Oh, yes, we have a sneering acquaintance.
00:09:51Really?
00:09:52She's also strongly fancied by my trustees.
00:09:54Oh, Helen.
00:09:55Richard, is Maria very upset?
00:09:57Oh, terribly. I couldn't do anything with her. Would you go to her?
00:09:59Of course. Excuse me, George.
00:10:02I suppose it amuses you to have made a woman cry.
00:10:05I said nothing that could possibly make her cry.
00:10:07Didn't you, in a sneering way, accuse her of being 41?
00:10:09I did, but she's not crying because I said she's 41.
00:10:12She's crying because she is 41.
00:10:16Well, if you must know, I'm the same age as his sister.
00:10:19That damn woman can't keep her mouth shut about anything.
00:10:22Oh, how I dislike him.
00:10:25I'm sorry because I like him so much.
00:10:27Yes, but you wouldn't marry him.
00:10:29How far is it in the Hanson from here to St. George's Hannover Square?
00:10:32Twenty minutes. Why?
00:10:34If he asked me to marry him tonight, I'd run it in five.
00:10:37But if he did marry you, it'd only be for your money.
00:10:40Well, why not? Plenty of women have lived with him for his.
00:10:43I've loved her for more years than I care to remember.
00:10:46Do you mean to tell me that you've loved that old...
00:10:48Silence! You were about to call her by a name that would have prevented me ever speaking to you again.
00:10:52Have a drink. Or have you had too many?
00:10:55I will have a drink, and I've not had too many.
00:10:57Richard, old boy, I love you as a brother, but I must say I would rather see you dead.
00:11:01George, I warn you, if you say another word against Mrs. Wislak, our friendship is at an end.
00:11:06Very well. But you can't stop me wishing you were dead.
00:11:09Are you addressing me, sir?
00:11:11I see your point.
00:11:12You'd never marry again? Not even if you loved someone terribly?
00:11:15Well, I shall require to know a great deal more about my next.
00:11:18Well, how can you until you marry him?
00:11:20I shall take him away with me for a month alone.
00:11:23Take him away? On approval?
00:11:26Take a man away with...
00:11:29But, Maria, how can you think of such a thing?
00:11:32Oh, Helen, I thought you Americans were unconventional.
00:11:35Well, I don't think we'd go as far as that.
00:11:37No?
00:11:39Well, our men are different. Perhaps Englishmen are less amorous, less enterprising.
00:11:44I shouldn't rely too much on that.
00:11:47Did you know her late husband, Arthur Wislak?
00:11:50Did I know him? Did I watch him with murder in my heart,
00:11:53treating that divine creature with cruelty, neglect, and eventually die of drink?
00:11:57He hated drink.
00:11:58Then why did he?
00:11:59He chose it as the most agreeable way of being unconscious while waiting his release.
00:12:03George, I warn you, if you said another word...
00:12:05Richard, old boy, if I, having any way, hurt your feelings, I apologize. Have a cigar.
00:12:09Now I know your apology is sincere. Is it yours?
00:12:13Certainly not. It was provided by our hostess.
00:12:16But, Marat, is it fair to expose a man to such temptation?
00:12:20Suppose his love for you overcame him and he should attempt to...
00:12:23I should, of course, take a revolver.
00:12:25Yes, but suppose you came to care for him.
00:12:27Then my aim might not be so accurate.
00:12:29But what is more important? Have you asked her if she loves you?
00:12:32How can I? My income is 300 a year.
00:12:36Hers is 25,000.
00:12:38Oh, now I take everything back. You have given me a reason why you are right to love her.
00:12:42Are you suggesting that I love her for the money?
00:12:44I'm suggesting it's a reason you should.
00:12:46What do you think you could learn about a man in a month?
00:12:48As much as I wish.
00:12:49But, Marat, the scandal.
00:12:51Oh, I should choose someone less inclined to gossip than those men.
00:12:54Marat, I believe you've got someone in mind.
00:12:57Well, as a matter of fact, there is a man in your party tonight who, within a month, might surprise me.
00:13:01There's nothing, Boyd, Richard. You must propose to her.
00:13:04I haven't the courage.
00:13:05Ever tried brandy?
00:13:07One day I sat with a bottle of brandy in front of me and recited to it the language I should use when asking her to be my wife.
00:13:13With the result that when I went into the room, I was unable even to wish her good evening.
00:13:17Ah, bad luck.
00:13:18But, Richard, do as I say, and I give you my word that a month from tonight, you'll pop into her bed with a cry,
00:13:24Marat, here I am.
00:13:26George, that is an observation which I consider most unsuitable, either here or in the place you suggest.
00:13:32I'm speaking metaphorically.
00:13:34I trust her.
00:13:35You must have courage, Richard.
00:13:36Think what marriage to Marat means to you.
00:13:38Someone to be with, to talk to, no money cares, no cares of any kind.
00:13:42It's not for me.
00:13:43Think of the little ones prattling up and down the room.
00:13:46No, no, I take that back.
00:13:48Why?
00:13:49Very well, if you insist.
00:13:50My dear George, married life to me without children is...
00:13:53Are you laughing, George?
00:13:55No, no, I've got a cold coming up.
00:13:57It's the sort of thing you would laugh at.
00:14:01One other little thing.
00:14:02Please be polite to Marat.
00:14:04That's not a little thing, but I will help you, Richard.
00:14:06I'll even warm Marat up for you to make your proposal.
00:14:09Cigars and the drawing will not impress Marat favourably.
00:14:13Number 16 then, after the dancers.
00:14:15Charmed, I'm sure.
00:14:20Marat.
00:14:21Well?
00:14:22Tonight I apparently said something quite unintentionally that hurt your feelings.
00:14:26Oh, well?
00:14:27I'm sorry.
00:14:29Obviously you have been drinking.
00:14:31Why?
00:14:32Otherwise you would never have apologised.
00:14:34I admit I have been drinking.
00:14:36I drank because I was depressed.
00:14:38Richard depressed me.
00:14:39Oh.
00:14:41Richard has been pointing out to me my limitations,
00:14:43but so gently, so understandingly, that I was compelled to listen.
00:14:47Oh.
00:14:49Until tonight I never knew the real Richard.
00:14:51Dear Richard.
00:14:52Oh.
00:14:53Have you lost your voice by any chance?
00:14:55No.
00:14:56Why?
00:14:57It's unlike you, only to be able to say, oh, George.
00:15:00Ah, there you are.
00:15:01You see?
00:15:05Would you mind, Dr. Graham?
00:15:07What's that?
00:15:08May we join you?
00:15:09Oh, yes, yes, certainly.
00:15:10I'm just going when I finish this.
00:15:14Dr. Graham, famous air specialist.
00:15:16A great success, apparently.
00:15:17We were talking of Richard.
00:15:19You were talking of Richard.
00:15:21Of his gentleness, his love of little children.
00:15:24How many children does he have?
00:15:26I don't know.
00:15:28Of his gentleness, his love of little children.
00:15:31How many has he got?
00:15:32Richard is a bachelor.
00:15:33That has not answered my question.
00:15:35None.
00:15:36How do you know?
00:15:37Well, he's not that kind of a man.
00:15:39I trust not.
00:15:42And it is through Richard that tonight I have a feeling I'd like to get nearer to nature.
00:15:46To walk on grass, to hear the birds sing their simple songs of love.
00:15:50Birds don't sing at night.
00:15:52Perhaps not for you, Mariah.
00:15:54Would it amuse you to accompany me, Helen?
00:15:56I'd love to, George.
00:15:57Well, how about supper?
00:15:58We are to move to eat.
00:16:02Besides, there's a buffet in the marquee.
00:16:04I'd not forgotten that.
00:16:06Just what were you saying to George?
00:16:09I was telling him of the need men have for the affection of a good woman.
00:16:15Go on.
00:16:17I drew a little picture of returning to one's home in the evening.
00:16:20Where'd you be in the afternoon?
00:16:22Oh, nowhere in particular.
00:16:25I see.
00:16:26Go on.
00:16:28And there, seated at one's dinner table, a divine lady.
00:16:33To whom you would address a few kind words before going out to dine with someone else.
00:16:37Oh, not at all. I should stay and dine with her.
00:16:40That's original.
00:16:41I've never really thanked you for letting me rent this lovely house of yours.
00:16:45I've never really thanked you for renting it.
00:16:48Somehow I hate the thought of leaving it when I go back to America.
00:16:51Somehow so do I.
00:16:53You know, Helen, I am not appreciated.
00:16:56You easily could be.
00:16:58But how?
00:16:59Well, don't you ever want to do anything for anyone?
00:17:02My dear, the most that can be expected from any duke is to think.
00:17:06Well then, if you feel you're not being appreciated, why don't you marry?
00:17:10Ah, that I will tell you.
00:17:13Feeling as you do, Richard, I wonder you never married.
00:17:16Ah.
00:17:17Meaning?
00:17:19Well, the love of a good woman is not for me.
00:17:22Then why not try one of the others?
00:17:24There's plenty to choose from.
00:17:26Oh, no, you don't understand.
00:17:28There's only one woman.
00:17:30And she's too good, too beautiful, too noble for such as me.
00:17:33Oh, shut up.
00:17:35I'm sorry.
00:17:37How much longer are you going on beating about the bush?
00:17:39Why not come out in the open like a man and say,
00:17:41Mariah, I love you.
00:17:43Will you or won't you be my wife?
00:17:45I had no idea you knew.
00:17:46Go on then, say it. Say it.
00:17:52You have a sweet voice, Helen.
00:17:54Thank you, George.
00:17:55But you seldom sing.
00:17:57That is a great accomplishment.
00:18:00You were talking of marriage.
00:18:01Alas, yes.
00:18:03It has no attraction for you?
00:18:05On the contrary, the husbands of no less than three women I've known have threatened me with it.
00:18:09No, I meant some unmarried girl who's fond of you and might make you happy.
00:18:14I've often thought of marriage.
00:18:15Yes?
00:18:16With distaste.
00:18:18But there is one woman.
00:18:19Yes?
00:18:20The one woman in the world.
00:18:22Beautiful, charming, gracious, intelligent.
00:18:26You'd marry her?
00:18:27Happily.
00:18:28But where is she?
00:18:29Where?
00:18:32Where indeed?
00:18:36Now tell me, Richard, do you love me?
00:18:38With all my heart, with all my...
00:18:39I love you embraces all that.
00:18:41Now then, is your object matrimony or the other thing?
00:18:46I'd give ten years of my life to be your husband.
00:18:49But I've no desire that our marriage ceremony should take the form of a burial service.
00:18:53Richard, I should like you to know I'm very fond of you.
00:18:57But I can't believe it.
00:18:58Why should you care for me?
00:19:00You'd be wise not to let me dwell on that.
00:19:02This is too wonderful.
00:19:03Don't get excited.
00:19:04You're getting the best part first.
00:19:06Now, get up and sit down.
00:19:10Now let's be practical.
00:19:12My income is 25,000 pounds a year.
00:19:15Many congratulations.
00:19:17What's yours?
00:19:18Mine?
00:19:20Well, it varies.
00:19:22Sometimes it's up and then again it's down.
00:19:25What is it when it's up?
00:19:27Well, you know, money means so little to me I really haven't an idea.
00:19:31Where do you bank?
00:19:32Anywhere, I simply don't care.
00:19:34Fortunately, I can provide for both of us in the style to which I'm accustomed.
00:19:38I love you.
00:19:40Now then, what is today?
00:19:42Tuesday.
00:19:43Very well.
00:19:44On Friday, we'll leave on the midday train to Scotland where, to all intents and purposes,
00:19:48we shall spend a month together as married people.
00:19:52Right.
00:19:53Well?
00:19:54You and I spend a month together alone as married people.
00:19:57Yes.
00:19:58You're not serious.
00:19:59I am.
00:20:01But what an extremely good idea.
00:20:04What an intensely good idea.
00:20:07But this is perfectly delightful and the courage of it all.
00:20:11If at the end of the month I find that we both feel alike, as it were, we will get married.
00:20:16If not, we'll have had a grand time and no harm done.
00:20:19None.
00:20:20Oh, I really must congratulate you.
00:20:22I never remember looking forward to anything so much and the courage of it.
00:20:26Oh, if there were only more women in the world like you, what a happy world the world would be.
00:20:34Really, George, I feel Richard needs my protection.
00:20:38Oh, one more thing.
00:20:39Every night you'll hear the clock in the hall strike eleven.
00:20:42Oh, now that's original.
00:20:44I really must congratulate you again.
00:20:46Which will be the signal for you to start putting on your coat.
00:20:48We've got ideas.
00:20:49With the idea of going out.
00:20:51Oh, but I should have had all the exercise I need during the day.
00:20:54Oh, I know, the dog.
00:20:56On the table in the hall you'll find a lantern,
00:20:58which will enable you to find your way down to the boat so that you can row across to the mainland.
00:21:02Why should I want to go to the mainland?
00:21:03That is where you'll be sleeping.
00:21:06Oh, so I don't sleep in the house.
00:21:10You do not.
00:21:12How about wet nights?
00:21:14I should advise you to bring a raincoat.
00:21:17Raincoat.
00:21:18You know, I must say I feel you'd learn a great deal more about me if I were actually in the house the whole time.
00:21:24After all, I hope I'm a gentleman.
00:21:26That I should be able to decide in a month's time.
00:21:28Ah, number fifteen.
00:21:30Well, let's sit this one out.
00:21:31Nonsense, I never sit out the lances.
00:21:33Your arm, Richard.
00:21:37Very hot.
00:21:39What do you mean?
00:21:40So you and she go off alone for a month together to see if you'll be all right married.
00:21:45I dislike your phraseology, but the answer is we do.
00:21:49What is George talking about?
00:21:51He's a bad influence, that man.
00:21:53I think they're under chanting.
00:21:55They look quite innocent.
00:22:07Yes.
00:22:08I sleep in a hotel on the mainland.
00:22:37You mean you leave her every night?
00:22:57Very hot.
00:22:59You're not suggesting that I should stay in the same house at night alone with her, are you?
00:23:12Why not?
00:23:13How dare you?
00:23:26I suppose it's raining.
00:23:30I've got her that.
00:23:31I'm taking her raincoat.
00:23:33You haven't got one?
00:23:34No, but Bruce hardly has.
00:23:41What are you two up to?
00:23:42Plotting, Maria, just plotting.
00:23:54I trust this is not too violent for you, Maria?
00:23:56No, I love it.
00:23:58Good.
00:24:02Help him out, George.
00:24:04Stop, George, stop!
00:24:15Handsome.
00:24:16There's one.
00:24:26I'm sorry to disturb you.
00:24:27What is your name?
00:24:28Orish Oggs.
00:24:29I'm delighted.
00:24:30This is Mr. Richard Holden, Mr. Orish Oggs.
00:24:32How do you do?
00:24:33Pleased to meet you.
00:24:34Will you guard that for me?
00:24:35Yes, certainly.
00:24:36Thank you very much.
00:24:37Hurry, Richard, hurry.
00:24:44Mr. Richard Holden.
00:24:54Richard.
00:24:56Yes?
00:24:57Do you really think you can convince Maria that you'll be all right married?
00:25:00I am all right.
00:25:01Of course, you know you really ought to stay in the house with her.
00:25:03Maria will never consent.
00:25:04I wish you wouldn't refer to it again.
00:25:05Very well, but I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:25:12It's a nice party.
00:25:14Yes, very nice.
00:25:16I forgot to say goodnight to Parks.
00:25:18Who's Parks?
00:25:19My butler.
00:25:20Let my house for the season, let Parks for the season.
00:25:23George!
00:25:24Yes?
00:25:25You ought to go back and say goodnight to them.
00:25:26That's right.
00:25:27Round we go.
00:25:28Giddy up!
00:25:42Is Mr. Parks below?
00:25:49Yes, Your Grace.
00:25:50Good.
00:25:51I wish to visit him.
00:25:53We have arrived, Mr. Odd, sir.
00:25:59Ooh!
00:26:01That'll be half a crown.
00:26:02Half a crown?
00:26:03Here's the sovereign change.
00:26:04Say goodnight to your horse for me, will you?
00:26:13Good evening, Parks.
00:26:14Good morning, Your Grace.
00:26:15Mr. Halton and I would like to take a drink with you.
00:26:17Pleasure.
00:26:18Your room's somewhere at the back here, isn't it?
00:26:19Yes, Your Grace.
00:26:20Near the cellar.
00:26:21You'll find Madam has made very few changes, Your Grace.
00:26:23That's very proper.
00:26:24Good evening, Mrs. Daggett.
00:26:25Good evening, Your Grace.
00:26:26How are you getting on with your new mistress?
00:26:27Well, things are very queer these days.
00:26:30Queer?
00:26:31Hardly any noise.
00:26:32No.
00:26:33Hardly any drinking.
00:26:34No.
00:26:35And hardly any...
00:26:36Oh, I'm surprised.
00:26:37And we gets paid regular.
00:26:38That's very queer.
00:26:43You weren't here in my time, were you?
00:26:45No, Your Grace.
00:26:46Pity.
00:26:47You beast.
00:26:48That's very handsome of you, Parks.
00:26:51I know Your Grace's preference.
00:26:55Have another drink?
00:26:57Definitely.
00:26:59Good.
00:27:01Whisper.
00:27:03Soda.
00:27:05Whisper.
00:27:08Soda.
00:27:10We'll drink to Miran.
00:27:11That's nice of you, George.
00:27:12Nice of you.
00:27:13There you are.
00:27:14Thank you, George.
00:27:15To Miran.
00:27:16To Miran.
00:27:17I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:27:20Good health.
00:27:22This whiskey tastes funny.
00:27:23You have no palate.
00:27:24Taste again.
00:27:25It's McQuish's Highland Liquor.
00:27:29All right.
00:27:30I apologize.
00:27:32If you apologize, I'll come to Scotland with you.
00:27:36Oh, no, George.
00:27:37I asked you not to.
00:27:38Give me another drink.
00:27:39Not so strong.
00:27:40All right.
00:27:42Whisper.
00:27:44Soda.
00:27:46Whisper.
00:27:48Soda.
00:27:49There you are.
00:27:51Thank you, George.
00:27:56Now you've drowned it.
00:28:00I mistrust you, George.
00:28:02Why do you want to come with me?
00:28:04Oh, trustee.
00:28:06Marriage.
00:28:07Bankruptcy.
00:28:08Get away from it all.
00:28:10Do I have to sleep in a hotel?
00:28:12Hotel's full.
00:28:14It isn't.
00:28:17Make it full.
00:28:18Just a minute.
00:28:23You're full.
00:28:24I'm full.
00:28:25But the hotel's not full.
00:28:29What is the name of the hotel?
00:28:30Me?
00:28:32Dundranach Arms.
00:28:35Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:36What's the name of the hotel?
00:28:39Dund...
00:28:40Eh?
00:28:41Dundranach Arms.
00:28:43Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:46Reserve.
00:28:48All.
00:28:49Rooms.
00:28:51Saturday.
00:28:53Family.
00:28:54Eight.
00:28:56Do you think of a name?
00:28:58Twelve.
00:29:00Oh, yes.
00:29:01Very good.
00:29:03No, no.
00:29:04American name.
00:29:05All hotels impressed by Americans.
00:29:08Silas K.
00:29:10Must be Silas K.
00:29:12Oh, that's very good.
00:29:14Silas...
00:29:15K...
00:29:18McQuillis.
00:29:20That reminds me.
00:29:22Get me another drink.
00:29:29Who says birds don't sing at night?
00:29:31Eh?
00:29:33Good morning, Pats.
00:29:34Good morning, madam.
00:29:36Lovely party, don't you think?
00:29:38Yes, madam.
00:29:39I thought everything was perfect.
00:29:40They all stayed on and on.
00:29:41Yes, madam.
00:29:42And that's always a good sign, isn't it?
00:29:44Indeed it is, madam.
00:29:45In fact...
00:29:46Yes, Pats?
00:29:47Some of them haven't gone yet.
00:29:49Haven't gone yet?
00:29:51Well, where are they?
00:29:57I don't know.
00:29:58I don't know.
00:29:59I don't know.
00:30:21What is the matter with you, Richard?
00:30:22Why are you so nervous?
00:30:23I'm all right, Marat.
00:30:25I'm glad to see you've brought your raincoat.
00:30:27Yes, I hope I shan't have to use it, Marat.
00:30:29If you're still cherishing the hope that you're going to stay in the house with me,
00:30:32you're very much mistaken.
00:30:34Oh, no, Marat.
00:30:35I'm only cherishing the hope that it won't rain.
00:30:37Oh, dear.
00:30:56We're off.
00:31:02Oh, dear, for goodness sake, stop fussing, Richard.
00:31:04You're making that gentleman most uncomfortable.
00:31:06Excuse me, sir.
00:31:07I hope we haven't bothered you too much.
00:31:09Not at all, madam.
00:31:11Did you remember to bring...
00:31:13Oh!
00:31:34Here we are.
00:31:36One of your hats, Marat, I believe.
00:31:40Goodbye, Marat.
00:31:41May I buy a pleasant holiday to you?
00:31:43I'm afraid we shan't meet till it's over.
00:31:45If then, goodbye.
00:31:46Goodbye.
00:31:47Hurry with the luggage, Richard.
00:31:53I shall expect you in the morning to breakfast at 8.30.
00:31:56You will find the dinghy by the jetty.
00:31:58And you can row yourself across.
00:32:00Yes, Marat.
00:32:01I'm looking forward to our first day together.
00:32:03Alone.
00:32:05You haven't any rooms, have you?
00:32:06No.
00:32:07Good.
00:32:09Stop, stop!
00:32:10What's happened? Is anything the matter?
00:32:12The hotel is full. Not a room left.
00:32:14Richard!
00:32:15Did you forget to reserve a room for yourself?
00:32:17He did not forget.
00:32:18They received his wire, but too late.
00:32:20McQuilsh has them all.
00:32:22McQuilsh?
00:32:23Silas K. McQuilsh.
00:32:24His wife and six children.
00:32:27I must look into this.
00:32:29Excuse me.
00:32:39Have you no accommodation, whatever?
00:32:41We're full.
00:32:42Oh, but did you not receive a telegram from this gentleman?
00:32:45Mr. McQuilsh?
00:32:46No, no. Richard Horton.
00:32:48He says he sent one.
00:32:49Aye, he did.
00:32:50We're full.
00:32:51Have you no odd corner where I can stand up and sleep like a horse?
00:32:54Why, Maria!
00:32:56Oh, Helen.
00:32:58Why, Helen, what on earth are you doing here?
00:33:00Darling, I've been trying to reach you.
00:33:02The McQuilshes are over from the States,
00:33:04and I'm showing them the way.
00:33:06I told Silas he simply had to see your island.
00:33:10Did you receive a wire from Mr. McQuilsh?
00:33:12Aye.
00:33:13Unfortunately, your friends, the McQuilshes, have taken all the rooms,
00:33:15and the hotels foo the new.
00:33:17Well, as it happens, that can be fixed.
00:33:19Silas has had to go to a conference in Glasgow,
00:33:22and the family won't be here for two or three days.
00:33:24I'm the advance guard.
00:33:26Richard and George can have their rooms.
00:33:28Splendid!
00:33:30Splendid, splendid.
00:33:31One of the rooms Mr. McQuilsh has reserved
00:33:33was for me, and I thought that...
00:33:35Mr. McQuilsh reserved no rooms.
00:33:37There were no rooms left for Mr. McQuilsh to reserve.
00:33:40We're foo.
00:33:42The new.
00:33:43The new.
00:33:44If you'll excuse me, I'll have my tea.
00:34:03Hurry along, Richard. Don't lag behind.
00:34:34You will guard this very carefully.
00:34:36It contains my old friend Mrs. Wislak's favorite toque.
00:34:39Tell me, Marat,
00:34:41which is the late Mr. Wislak?
00:34:43Oh, George, please.
00:34:45Mrs. McQuilsh, are the rooms ready?
00:34:47You said in your letter it was only you and a guest.
00:34:50Well, that's quite right, but...
00:34:51You said nothing about the two gentlemen.
00:34:53I know. That happened afterwards.
00:34:55Afterwards?
00:34:56Is it your honeymoon you're on?
00:34:58Oh, nonsense. I'm not married.
00:35:00Nobody's married.
00:35:01Go to the kitchen.
00:35:10Shut the door.
00:35:11Now, will you kindly explain?
00:35:13I don't have to explain anything to you, Mrs. McQuilsh.
00:35:17Please see to the luggage.
00:35:19I'll take no part in your plans.
00:35:21You'll be here two weeks, and you'll do as you're told,
00:35:23or you won't receive a penny.
00:35:25Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:26Oh, I'll have nothing.
00:35:28No, you won't.
00:35:29I'll have nothing.
00:35:30No, you won't.
00:35:31Not a penny.
00:35:32Very well. I'll stay.
00:35:35But mind you, I'll be watching and biding my time.
00:35:38Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:39I'm the one to give orders in this house.
00:35:41The whiskey will be unpacked and locked up in due course.
00:35:45I like your little cottage, Maria.
00:35:47It's so simple.
00:35:49Thank you, George.
00:35:50I'm glad you like it.
00:35:51Where did you get the staircase?
00:35:53Arthur picked it up in Venice
00:35:55on the first night of our honeymoon.
00:35:57Picked it up on the first night of your honeymoon?
00:36:00What a man.
00:36:02Unpack for me, will you?
00:36:04Yes, mistress.
00:36:05Mistress? Not yet.
00:36:14It's a nightdress.
00:36:27I hope you'll find your bed comfortable.
00:36:29Eh? Oh, I can't use that very much.
00:36:35You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
00:36:37Can't you get me some whiskey?
00:36:58I can see through it.
00:37:00Come away.
00:37:02Richard, there's a speck of dust in my eye.
00:37:04Will you kindly remove it?
00:37:13Pack your things.
00:37:28Richard, count the silver.
00:37:34Well, is dinner ready?
00:37:36No.
00:37:37Don't be a fool, George. All the servants have left.
00:37:39Well, we'll have to manage ourselves.
00:37:41I'll cook. You and Helen, I know, will help.
00:37:43Delighted, delighted, Maria.
00:37:44George, of course, will be utterly useless.
00:37:46On the contrary, Maria, you'll find I'm incredibly useful.
00:37:49I'm at my best at beds, I welcome washing up,
00:37:51and I'm a dab at dusting.
00:37:53You can leave everything to me.
00:37:58I'm just 17, and I've never been...
00:38:13I'm just 17...
00:38:20I'm just 17...
00:38:28I'm just 17...
00:38:32I'm nervous something's happened to George.
00:38:34I'm nervous that something hasn't.
00:38:36Having spent three weeks practically alone with him,
00:38:38I wonder you can tolerate his miserable selfishness.
00:38:41Well, he's completely unconscious of it.
00:38:45Richard's been a long time gone to the village.
00:38:47Well, it's a long pull there and back.
00:38:49Now, there's the kindest, sweetest man I've ever met.
00:38:52You don't think he's merely giving a good impression?
00:38:54Well, you haven't left much undone to find out if he has any weaknesses,
00:38:57have you, darling?
00:38:59Are you suggesting that I haven't been nice to him?
00:39:01How could I, when he always describes you as an angel?
00:39:05He probably knew you'd repeat it to me.
00:39:15Oh, thank heaven you're safe.
00:39:17Why, Helen, did you think something had happened to me?
00:39:19Well, I did, rather.
00:39:20You see, when you went out and I asked you,
00:39:22as there were no servants, to be back at one for lunch,
00:39:25well, naturally, when two o'clock came,
00:39:27I began to think something terrible must have happened.
00:39:29Oh, that's very charming of you, Helen,
00:39:31but I don't in the least mind having lunch late.
00:39:33Is it ready? I'm very hungry.
00:39:35Dinner's been ready for over an hour.
00:39:37Really? I hope it isn't spoiled.
00:39:39I'll get it for you, George, dear.
00:39:41Well...
00:40:23There you are, George, darling.
00:40:25Thank you, Helen. Some bread?
00:40:27Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:40:52I'm so sorry.
00:41:23Bread, George, dear.
00:41:25Thank you, Helen. Some butter?
00:41:27Oh, yes.
00:41:34George.
00:41:35Mariah.
00:41:36In the cellar, there's some champagne,
00:41:38Moselle, hock.
00:41:39Please, let me fetch it for you.
00:41:41Mariah, you know I never drink at lunch.
00:41:43Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:44Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:45Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:46Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:47Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:48Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:49Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:50Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:51Oh, but I want you to.
00:41:52I want you to let me fetch it for you.
00:41:54If you'll allow me to say so, I find your joke singularly unfunny.
00:41:57Would you like some rice pudding?
00:41:59To say I would like some rice pudding would be both inaccurate and insincere.
00:42:02To say that I'm hungry and will eat some isn't an entirely different matter.
00:42:05Where's the cream?
00:42:06There is no cream.
00:42:07What, no cream?
00:42:08George.
00:42:09Mariah.
00:42:10Look at me.
00:42:11Does my face express anything to you?
00:42:15No.
00:42:16Do you know what would give me more pleasure than anything in the world?
00:42:20I can't imagine.
00:42:21To rub your nose in the rice pudding.
00:42:23You should try to avoid crudity, Mariah.
00:42:26I'm afraid I haven't put enough milk in it.
00:42:28I agree, but what it lacks in milk it makes up for in rice.
00:42:31Throw it at him.
00:42:32Throw it at him.
00:42:33I can quite see why you don't keep your servants, Mariah.
00:42:35George, please.
00:42:36Are you suggesting that it's my fault that my servants left me?
00:42:39I'll put it another way.
00:42:40I suggest that one has to like you very much to remain in the same house with you, Mariah dear.
00:42:44Just one second.
00:42:45Ouch!
00:42:46Ouch!
00:42:51Ouch!
00:43:02Richard, you must be quite exhausted.
00:43:04Oh, thank you, Helen.
00:43:05I am rather.
00:43:06Where's Mariah?
00:43:07In the kitchen.
00:43:08She all right?
00:43:09Well, of course she's all right.
00:43:10That is not true.
00:43:11Richard, my dear fellow, I have some very bad news for you.
00:43:13You mean she's annoyed with me for being so long?
00:43:15Worse than that.
00:43:16Far worse.
00:43:17What?
00:43:18What do you think?
00:43:19Why isn't that damn thing bleeding?
00:43:21Why did she pull your nose?
00:43:22I've no idea.
00:43:23It doesn't seem to have improved it.
00:43:25So this is the return I get for coming up here to help you win her, hmm?
00:43:27Let me tell you something.
00:43:28I haven't got a chance in the world of winning her.
00:43:30And even if I had, it would be in spite of you at least 50 times.
00:43:33I don't want to hear any more.
00:43:34I shall go outside and read.
00:43:35Give me my newspaper.
00:43:36I didn't have time to get it.
00:43:37You mean to say you haven't brought me my time?
00:43:38I have not.
00:43:39Of all the selfish devils.
00:43:40Oh, I've forgotten to send Mariah's telegram.
00:43:43Good.
00:43:49Come on, Manchu.
00:43:50Oh, there you are at last, Richard.
00:43:52I hope you remembered to send my telegram.
00:43:54Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
00:43:55I'm afraid I didn't.
00:43:56Really?
00:43:57It's too bad of you.
00:43:58Do you realize I shall have nothing to read for two or three days?
00:44:00Oh, I know.
00:44:01I can't tell you how sorry I am.
00:44:02Well, if I'd known you weren't going to send it, I'd have gone myself.
00:44:04I noticed you've brought all the things you want.
00:44:09Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:11What did you say?
00:44:12Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:14What?
00:44:15I said you look tired and not at all well.
00:44:18Oh, I'm all right.
00:44:19Really, I am.
00:44:20He's quite all right, aren't you?
00:44:21Yes, of course.
00:44:22Oh, tell me something I can do to make up.
00:44:24Go on, give Manchu his little bath.
00:44:26Think you could?
00:44:27Oh, yes, of course.
00:44:29I have a way with animals.
00:44:30They take to me, you know.
00:44:36How you can hope to impress Mariah favorably by ill-treating her little dog,
00:44:40I don't know.
00:44:42I bent down in a friendly way, nothing more than the little beast bit me.
00:44:45Oh, what's the use?
00:44:47Give me that, Richard.
00:44:48It's lucky for you that I feel particularly good-tempered tonight.
00:44:51What caused that?
00:44:53Drink, food, or money?
00:44:54None of those.
00:44:55I have decided to make Helen a faithful husband.
00:44:58Jolly decent of you.
00:44:59Well, it's the most unusual thing in our family.
00:45:01I agree.
00:45:02Yes, I've been watching Helen carefully,
00:45:05and I've come to the conclusion that she's a fit and proper person to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:45:10Does she think you're a fit and proper person to be the Duke?
00:45:13Tonight, after a simple meal, a glass of wine, I hope, and a cigar.
00:45:18Where do you hide your cigars?
00:45:20I only brought 50, very considerate.
00:45:22I only smoke them when you're not there.
00:45:24You mean devil.
00:45:25As I was saying, tonight, after a simple meal, et cetera,
00:45:28I shall ask her to become my wife.
00:45:30It's my experience that after a meal, simple or otherwise, you invariably go to sleep.
00:45:35Sleep? On this, my night of romance?
00:45:37Sleep? Ha!
00:45:43Ah!
00:45:54Ah!
00:45:59Ah!
00:46:04Dammit, is there no peace in this house?
00:46:06I agree.
00:46:07That's very, very interesting.
00:46:09Oh, Maru, I'm terribly sorry.
00:46:11I'm sorry. You frightened me. I was asleep.
00:46:13Really?
00:46:14You know how one says things when one's half unconscious.
00:46:16The last man I married was frequently in that condition.
00:46:20I found that was the only time he spoke the truth.
00:46:22But you know I didn't mean it.
00:46:23Then why say it?
00:46:24Well, good heavens, woman, I...
00:46:25Don't call me woman and don't shout at me. I'm not deaf.
00:46:28I'm sorry.
00:46:29And if you must smoke cigars, which I've told you I hate,
00:46:32kindly don't drop your ash on the floor.
00:46:34I'll get something and clean it up.
00:46:36Yes, darling.
00:46:42There's another bit there.
00:46:49Why, Richard, what are you doing?
00:46:51Sweeping up George's cigar ash.
00:46:54I'm sorry to have interrupted your after-dinner nap, Richard.
00:46:57Since you're awake now,
00:46:58perhaps you've no objection to my going on practising.
00:47:01No, of course not, Mariah.
00:47:04My God, I'm so tired.
00:47:06I'm so tired.
00:47:07I'm so tired.
00:47:08I'm so tired.
00:47:10I can't understand it.
00:47:13Before I came here, she always gave me the impression that she liked me.
00:47:17It's too bad, Al.
00:47:18Oh, boy.
00:47:19What do you suggest I should do?
00:47:21Tell her to go to hell.
00:47:22What?
00:47:23Tell her to go to H-E-L-L.
00:47:25Oh, I couldn't...
00:47:31Richard, when I'm married, you can live with us.
00:47:34I'll even insist on Helen making you a small allowance.
00:47:36Certainly not.
00:47:38How much?
00:47:39Well, Helen's a very well-to-do girl.
00:47:41Five shillings a week.
00:47:47Why, Helen.
00:47:50What a charming answer to my thoughts.
00:47:52You were thinking of me, George.
00:47:53Indeed I was.
00:47:57Do you remember this music?
00:47:58Yes, I know it very well.
00:48:00Do you remember where you heard it last?
00:48:02Mmm, I've heard it so often, you know.
00:48:05Oh.
00:48:07You don't mind cigars?
00:48:08No, I like them.
00:48:10Ah, that's why you're so delightful, so sympathetic.
00:48:12You always seem to understand.
00:48:14I hope you will always think so, George, dear.
00:48:17I shall. Believe me.
00:48:19Helen...
00:48:21I'm anxious to tell you something that's long been in my mind.
00:48:25Please do.
00:48:26I beg of you not to consider it the impulse of youth.
00:48:30I won't, George, dear.
00:48:32Very well.
00:48:34There is only one woman in the world I would ask to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:48:37That's very interesting.
00:48:39And if you ask me who she is, I will tell you.
00:48:43Who is she, George?
00:48:45You, Helen.
00:48:47I'm very touched and very glad.
00:48:50And I am very happy.
00:49:03Thank you, George.
00:49:04I suppose there's only one woman in this world
00:49:06who would refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:09And if you ask me who she is, I will tell you.
00:49:12Who is she, then?
00:49:14Me, George, dear.
00:49:15Do I hear correctly?
00:49:17Your hearing is perfect.
00:49:18You refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol?
00:49:21I do.
00:49:22May I ask why?
00:49:24Only because you happen to be the Duke.
00:49:28Are you insulting me, Helen?
00:49:31Not nearly as much as you've insulted me.
00:49:34What do you mean?
00:49:35You should have only asked me for my money.
00:49:38You should not have included me with it.
00:49:40I emphatically deny that I asked you to be my wife
00:49:42merely on account of your money.
00:49:44No, and I'd have you know there are many women
00:49:46who would be delighted to marry me.
00:49:47I'm sure there are many women
00:49:48who would have loved to have been the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:51Frankly, I wanted to myself,
00:49:53until I spent three weeks with you here.
00:49:57May I give you a piece of advice, George?
00:49:59Marry Maria.
00:50:00How dare you?
00:50:01For sheer selfishness, you'll both win the cup outright.
00:50:04Do you mean to tell me that I'm anything like Maria?
00:50:06If she doesn't get away about everything, she sucks.
00:50:08So do you.
00:50:09If Richard doesn't wait on her hand and foot, she...
00:50:11I've never allowed Richard to wait on me once.
00:50:13Only because you were too busy allowing meat.
00:50:16I thought you liked it.
00:50:18Anyway, yours is a grand position.
00:50:20I envy you.
00:50:21It's something for a profiteer's daughter
00:50:23to have refused to take on.
00:50:25Refused a duke.
00:50:29George, many years ago, there was a butcher's shop.
00:50:32An august person passing it one day
00:50:34was not attracted by the meat in the window,
00:50:36but by the butcher's wife.
00:50:38The butcher, with an ambitious eye to a knighthood,
00:50:41encouraged him to pass it frequently.
00:50:44With the result, he became a baronet.
00:50:48Now, the butcher's wife was encouraged.
00:50:50She, too, acquired an ambition.
00:50:53So she left the butcher.
00:50:55With the result, her son was born a duke.
00:50:59So far as I can see,
00:51:01the only difference between our two families is
00:51:04my father only profiteered in pickles.
00:51:17You are divine, George, dear.
00:51:19I hope I shall always know you.
00:51:22What are you laughing at?
00:51:24If ever another girl falls in love with you,
00:51:27marry her the next day.
00:51:36What on earth's the matter with George today?
00:51:38Do you think we ought to break his door down?
00:51:40I'm getting quite worried about him.
00:51:41I don't think you need be,
00:51:42just because he stays in his room all day.
00:51:44He hasn't even eaten the food I left on the tray for him.
00:51:46That, I admit, is remarkable.
00:51:48You don't suppose he's cut his throat or hanged himself, do you?
00:51:50Nonsense. He would never be so considerate.
00:51:52I'm glad you didn't wait tea for me.
00:51:55The tide was stronger than I thought.
00:51:59The tide?
00:52:00Yes, it was my turn to row over and get the post.
00:52:03Look what you've done, you fool.
00:52:05Oh, it's all right. There's nothing broken.
00:52:06We just need some more milk.
00:52:08You must be tired.
00:52:10I'll get it.
00:52:18Somebody ought to go with him.
00:52:19He's not safe to be left alone.
00:52:21Nonsense. He's all right.
00:52:27Sorry I've been so long.
00:52:30You're quite well, George, old man.
00:52:31I feel terribly well, thank you, Richard.
00:52:34Where's the post?
00:52:36Post?
00:52:39There wasn't any.
00:52:52Pretty, don't you think?
00:52:57Stop! Stop!
00:53:00Stop him, Richard!
00:53:02Why, Maria, I'm so sorry.
00:53:04I was only playing for you. I thought you liked it.
00:53:06George, I've had enough of this.
00:53:07This what?
00:53:08This fooling, can't you see? You're frightening Maria.
00:53:10Oh, I'm so sorry, Maria. I didn't mean to.
00:53:12I'm very sorry.
00:53:13Careful, George, old man, careful!
00:53:14It's my turn to do the washing up.
00:53:16Oh, don't hurry with your tea.
00:53:18I'll go and put the kettle on.
00:53:22All this before he sets fire to the house.
00:53:42Why are you behaving like an idiot, frightening us all?
00:53:44I'm showing Helen I'm not a bit like Maria.
00:53:48What on earth are you talking about?
00:53:49Don't tell me I'm a liar.
00:53:50Do you know what she said when I asked her to marry me?
00:53:52What?
00:53:53She said I'm an ass, I'm conceited, I'm selfish, I nag.
00:53:55I'm the descendant of a...
00:53:57No, no.
00:53:58I'll tell you who I am.
00:53:59Or she says I am.
00:54:01I've never been so disappointed in anybody in all my life.
00:54:03Everything would have been all right
00:54:04if your old woman hadn't started this unapproval business.
00:54:06Are you referring to Mrs. Wisdak?
00:54:08In the last three weeks,
00:54:10Helen's found out a thousand things about me
00:54:11and she doesn't like one of them.
00:54:13I'm leaving tomorrow in the midday train.
00:54:15Did you love her, George?
00:54:16Yes.
00:54:17How could a man harrassed to death with financial troubles as I am
00:54:18concentrate on love?
00:54:19It's unreasonable, Richard.
00:54:20Anyway, you go and get your old woman
00:54:21to turn you down and see how you like it.
00:54:24I have more sense than you have.
00:54:25I'm not risking it.
00:54:27I'm leaving with you.
00:54:28Coward.
00:54:29Not at all.
00:54:30I want to save her the embarrassment
00:54:31of telling me I've failed her.
00:54:38Are you better?
00:54:39Yes.
00:54:40I'm fine.
00:54:41I'm fine.
00:54:42I'm fine.
00:54:44I'm fine.
00:54:45I'm fine.
00:54:46I'm fine.
00:54:48Are you better?
00:54:49Are you better?
00:54:50Please don't shout at me, Maria.
00:54:52I wish to tell you that your behavior
00:54:53was perfectly disgraceful.
00:54:54And shall I tell you why my behavior
00:54:55was perfectly disgraceful?
00:54:56Why?
00:54:57I wish it to be known that I've not one thing in common,
00:54:58nor am I in the least like...
00:54:59George!
00:55:00Very well, Richard.
00:55:02For your sake, I won't.
00:55:03But I'm writing to you, Maria.
00:55:10Your hand is all wet, Richard.
00:55:12I'm sorry, Maria.
00:55:13I was about to wash up.
00:55:14You made such a noise.
00:55:15I think the washing up's to be done, Maria.
00:55:16Of course it is, and I'm very grateful to you.
00:55:19Richard, I want to tell you something.
00:55:21Oh, that's all right, Maria.
00:55:22Oh, please, Richard.
00:55:23What I have to say is very embarrassing
00:55:24and you might realize it.
00:55:25I know, and I'm sorry.
00:55:26I brought you here for the purpose
00:55:27of finding out, as you know,
00:55:28that if we married,
00:55:29would there be a chance of us both being happy.
00:55:30Quiet, Maria.
00:55:31Will you please be quiet?
00:55:32Sorry.
00:55:34When I left London, I liked you very much.
00:55:35I almost believed you possessed qualities
00:55:36that might endear you to me.
00:55:37I know.
00:55:38But I had no idea how nice you really are.
00:55:39What did you say?
00:55:40Don't interrupt, please.
00:55:41I'm sorry.
00:55:44Please.
00:55:45I was going to say,
00:55:46I think you're a thousand times nicer
00:55:47than I ever thought you were.
00:55:48Nicer?
00:55:50Please don't interrupt.
00:55:51It's very irritating.
00:55:52Now, what was I saying?
00:55:53Oh, yes.
00:55:54I have decided not only to marry you,
00:55:56but to prove to you how much I trust you.
00:55:59I'm going to settle 5,000 a year on you for life.
00:56:02Are you pleased?
00:56:04Pleased.
00:56:05But I'm delighted.
00:56:07And all this time, I thought you disliked me.
00:56:09You'll never begin to know how miserable I've been.
00:56:12Oh, but why?
00:56:13Because you were so intolerant, so horrid to me.
00:56:15Horrid to you?
00:56:16What are you talking about?
00:56:18Oh, now, let's straighten this out.
00:56:20You know you tried every way of provoking me
00:56:21to see whether I was bad-tempered or not.
00:56:23I did nothing of the kind.
00:56:25I'd never descend to anything so mean.
00:56:27Maria.
00:56:29You don't mean to tell me
00:56:30that that was really you all the time?
00:56:33Of course.
00:56:35Is that how you'd be if we were married?
00:56:37Naturally.
00:56:39How long did your late husband live with you, Maria?
00:56:4318 years. Why?
00:56:44What a man.
00:56:46What a constitution.
00:56:47How dare you speak to me like that?
00:56:49If you had the faintest idea
00:56:51how you've been speaking to me during the last three weeks,
00:56:53you'd know how and why I dared.
00:56:55Richard, are you mad?
00:56:57Maria, dear, double that 5,000,
00:56:59triple that 5,000,
00:57:00give me every shilling you have in the world,
00:57:02and then the answer would be no.
00:57:03Oh, Richard.
00:57:04Maria, I shall always love you
00:57:06for having given me the opportunity
00:57:08of finding you out.
00:57:09I would have married you, not knowing.
00:57:11You... You beast.
00:57:14May I remind you, Maria,
00:57:16there's a great deal more washing up to be done.
00:57:26George.
00:57:27If you have anything to say to me,
00:57:28kindly address me through a third person.
00:57:30What have you been doing in your room all this evening?
00:57:32Seeking repose.
00:57:33And just now?
00:57:34Seeking alcohol without much thought.
00:57:36Seeking alcohol without much success, I may say.
00:57:39George, will you come and talk to me?
00:57:42If you promise not to revile me again.
00:57:45Not tonight, anyway.
00:57:48Helen,
00:57:49why is there a time when I thought you liked me?
00:57:51Liked you?
00:57:54Three weeks ago, I adored you.
00:57:56If you'd asked me to marry you then, I would have.
00:57:59I adored you so much.
00:58:01And now?
00:58:03I've spent the last three weeks with you,
00:58:05and I think it's been my greatest disappointment.
00:58:07You mean I died on you?
00:58:09The second day.
00:58:10The second day?
00:58:12Well, that's not the experience of other women who have known me.
00:58:15You know, Helen, I'm always being asked out to dinner parties
00:58:17because people find me amusing.
00:58:20A dinner party only lasts two hours.
00:58:22A marriage has been known to last for two years.
00:58:25Yes.
00:58:27Helen,
00:58:29these last three weeks,
00:58:31are they indelibly imprinted on your mind?
00:58:34They are imprinted.
00:58:35Why?
00:58:38I only asked.
00:58:45I suppose it's because I'm a woman and therefore infinitely foolish.
00:58:49But I think I could forget these past three weeks
00:58:52if you could tell me one thing.
00:58:54Dadley.
00:58:56The colour of my eyes?
00:58:59Blue.
00:59:04I love you.
00:59:06I love you.
00:59:12Goodnight, George, dear.
00:59:19Ta, ra, ra...
00:59:21Bum, dee, eh.
00:59:24Ta, ra, ra...
00:59:26Come in.
00:59:27Helen!
00:59:29Come away from the door.
00:59:31I thought for a moment you were Maria.
00:59:32Mariah's lying in bed stunned by the shock you gave her.
00:59:34I find myself curiously unmoved.
00:59:36I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a shock, too.
00:59:38Oh? Where's he?
00:59:39Poor dear, he's sitting at the bottom of the stairs trying to convince himself he's colorblind.
00:59:43Colorblind?
00:59:44Oh, it doesn't matter, Richard. He'll recover.
00:59:47To do any good, I'm afraid he needs at least six months on a desert island.
00:59:50Mmm. Alone with Mariah.
00:59:53Alone with Mariah.
00:59:55Richard, I really came to ask whether you were enjoying it here very much.
00:59:59Oh, Helen. You know, I'm having a perfectly awful time.
01:00:02Then, why go on having a perfectly awful time?
01:00:05Hmm. Oh, I see what you mean.
01:00:08Oh, you are clever, Helen. But of course, the sooner the better.
01:00:12Then you agree that the island should be deserted?
01:00:14As far as I'm concerned, tomorrow.
01:00:15All right, then. Tomorrow.
01:00:17Good night.
01:00:18I'll see if the coast's clear.
01:00:19Richard?
01:00:20Yes?
01:00:21I wonder if you could tell me something.
01:00:23Of course, Helen. What?
01:00:24The color of my eyes.
01:00:26Oh, what a funny question. Green, of course.
01:00:30How observant you are.
01:00:32Thank you, Richard.
01:00:35Tomorrow, Helen. Tomorrow.
01:01:02Not a sound.
01:01:24Not a sound.
01:01:26You'd hardly believe they were in the house.
01:01:28Well, how dare they stay here?
01:01:29Well, you can't expect them to wait on a cold railway platform.
01:01:32Why not?
01:01:35To think that I brought that brute here to see if I liked him,
01:01:38and he has the audacity to say he doesn't like me.
01:01:41My stomach is cold, my head is hot, my arteries are hardening.
01:01:45Only alcohol will get me on the train.
01:01:47Nonsense.
01:01:48Never again do I raise a finger.
01:01:50Besides, you shouldn't have drunk all the cooking, Sherry.
01:01:53I would not have asked you, Richard,
01:01:55were it not for the fact that I meet those extremely unpleasant women.
01:01:59As it is, I shall die standing.
01:02:01I'm not sure which of us is the luckier.
01:02:03I, to have lost a vulgar little man,
01:02:06or you, to have avoided marrying a congenital idiot.
01:02:09Well, George isn't entirely an idiot.
01:02:11I quite agree.
01:02:13What do you want?
01:02:14The rain is now coming through the roof in 15 places.
01:02:17Well, what of it?
01:02:20We have only 14 receptacles.
01:02:22Well?
01:02:23What do you suggest?
01:02:24I suggest that you will find the railway platform
01:02:26far less uncomfortable than my house.
01:02:28Richard and I have talked it over and decided we'll find it exactly the same.
01:02:31Then why not get Richard to mend the roof?
01:02:32I don't think he'd agree.
01:02:33Ever since he told you the truth about yourself,
01:02:35he's so conceited there's no holding him.
01:02:37Is he boasting about that?
01:02:38Rather.
01:02:39Now he's bragging that one day he'll turn you into a decent woman.
01:02:42How dare he?
01:02:43Well, he says it can be done.
01:02:44He's very childish today.
01:02:48Mrs. Wislak, would you give me the key of the alcohol cupboard?
01:02:51I will not.
01:02:54Did you have that brandy and sodas I told you?
01:02:56She whom you once loved refuses to cough up the key.
01:03:00Give me the key of that cupboard which should never be locked.
01:03:02I'll do nothing of the sort.
01:03:03Give it to me, I tell you.
01:03:04No.
01:03:05Then you place me in the hideous position
01:03:07of having to reveal myself as a man
01:03:09who has always known where it was.
01:03:17You mean to say that all this time
01:03:18you've had access to the liquor without telling me?
01:03:20You had your cigars.
01:03:22And it's only because you're cold that I'm relenting.
01:03:26Helen?
01:03:27Yes?
01:03:29Be good enough to get George a small brandy and soda.
01:03:32You'd better go and get ready.
01:03:34How dare you whisper to my late fiancée?
01:03:36Ah!
01:03:38You libertine, blowing kisses to a girl young enough to be your daughter.
01:03:42Mrs. Wislak, for me to have been Helen's father,
01:03:45I should have had to have been an enterprising boy of 14.
01:03:53How long?
01:03:54Four minutes.
01:03:55In the kitchen.
01:03:56Go down the back stairs.
01:03:57Four minutes.
01:04:00Mrs. Wislak!
01:04:02Araya!
01:04:03I don't want to speak to you, but I must.
01:04:05I don't want to speak to you, and I won't.
01:04:07Stop!
01:04:08Do you love Richard?
01:04:09Shh! Don't shout.
01:04:10Do you love Richard?
01:04:11Yes, you beast.
01:04:12Must you shout the facts of life outside Richard's bedroom?
01:04:15Come to my room.
01:04:17I never thought I would willingly enter here.
01:04:22Please be seated.
01:04:23I feel less frightened of you when you're sitting down.
01:04:25What have you got to say?
01:04:26Are you prepared to call a truce for ten minutes?
01:04:28For reason?
01:04:29Love.
01:04:30Five minutes.
01:04:31Very well.
01:04:32In a few hours, Richard and I will have left this house forever.
01:04:34Thank heaven.
01:04:35Stop pretending.
01:04:36Well, surely a woman's entitled to some modesty.
01:04:38Not when you're about to lose your loved one.
01:04:40I close my eyes.
01:04:41I see a divine woman.
01:04:42I see a divine woman.
01:04:43Not when you're about to lose your loved one.
01:04:45I close my eyes.
01:04:46I see a divine face.
01:04:47Her little hands.
01:04:48I am in love.
01:04:49With yourself, perhaps.
01:04:50Shut up!
01:04:56Out!
01:05:08What are you doing?
01:05:09Kindly put down my nightdress.
01:05:11It's a nightdress no longer.
01:05:12It's a flag of truce.
01:05:13Sit down.
01:05:14Now, to continue.
01:05:16I propose to stay here and keep Richard too.
01:05:19Oh.
01:05:20In such moments, damnable as it is, we must forget the word honor.
01:05:23That should be easy for you.
01:05:24Aye.
01:05:25I beg your pardon.
01:05:26Granted.
01:05:27Now, I thought of a way to win them back.
01:05:30Oh.
01:05:31Maria, I imagine few men have been in love with you.
01:05:34I beg your pardon.
01:05:36Granted.
01:05:37Of one thing I am certain.
01:05:39I must never let Helen see my heart is broken.
01:05:43I have a pain here.
01:05:45Wind.
01:05:47I beg your pardon.
01:05:48Granted, but you try me very hard, Maria.
01:05:50Now, what I suggest is that we shall be so pleasant and friendly
01:05:54and even affectionate to each other
01:05:55that Richard will not dare to leave me here with you.
01:05:58If we show them a united front, we'll lose confidence.
01:06:01Drink to me only
01:06:05with thine eyes
01:06:08and I will pledge thee mine.
01:06:16You hurry down to the boat.
01:06:17I'll meet you with the luggage in a few minutes.
01:06:19You're quite sure we're doing the right thing?
01:06:21Of course, I'm sure.
01:06:22Oh, very well, then.
01:06:23But don't be too long.
01:06:24Not for me.
01:06:26I thought I heard.
01:06:28I did.
01:06:31The thirst that from the soul doth rise
01:06:40doth ask a drink divine.
01:06:49But might I of Job's net assault
01:06:58I would not change for mine.
01:07:13Charming, my dear, charming.
01:07:15What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:17Thank you, George.
01:07:18What did you say, George, just then?
01:07:19Charming, my dear, charming.
01:07:20What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:21Oh, that's what I thought you said.
01:07:22Oh, by the way, Richard,
01:07:23Mariah's persuaded me to stay on.
01:07:25I hope your journey south will not be too lonely.
01:07:27What did you say, George?
01:07:28Oh, pay no attention to that vulgar little man.
01:07:30I'm not a vulgar little man.
01:07:32You look vulgar.
01:07:33You're quite right, George.
01:07:34Ah, bless you, Mariah, bless you.
01:07:35Don't.
01:07:36Don't you think Patty's quite wonderful this season?
01:07:39Personally, I prefer Caviar.
01:07:41No, I mean the singer, Adelina.
01:07:43Oh, the cotton garden woman.
01:07:44Well, Mariah, there are voices and there are voices.
01:07:46That's what I feel about yours.
01:07:47You know, your voice has a certain rare quality, fortunately.
01:07:52Thank you, Mariah.
01:07:53What would you like me to sing?
01:07:55That one about when you were 41.
01:07:57What?
01:07:5817.
01:07:59Oh.
01:08:00Oh, do you mean this one?
01:08:02That's the one.
01:08:04Richard, instead of standing there gaping,
01:08:06you could be upstairs unpacking my suitcases.
01:08:09All of them?
01:08:10All of them, and put out my pajamas.
01:08:11Mariah, what is your favorite color?
01:08:14Pink.
01:08:15Put out my pink pajamas.
01:08:17Pink.
01:08:18Play away, Mariah, but let your music be only for me.
01:08:25I'm just 17, and I've never been to any stately ball.
01:08:34What have you been doing?
01:08:36Putting out George's pink pajamas.
01:08:45Oh.
01:08:51I have opened wide my lattice, letting in the laughing breeze.
01:08:55Telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees.
01:08:59Telling happy stories to the flowers and the trees.
01:09:07Oh, the spring.
01:09:10Oh, the spring.
01:09:13Oh, it is coming.
01:09:17Oh, the spring.
01:09:18The spring is coming.
01:09:20It is goodbye to all of us.
01:09:22They're coming.
01:09:23Let them find us in a more romantic setting.
01:09:26Come.
01:09:33They've both gone.
01:09:37Idiots.
01:09:44Idiots.
01:09:56It's all your fault.
01:09:58Stop them. Stop them.
01:09:59Why don't you do something?
01:10:00Perhaps you'd like me to swim out like a dog and bring them both back to my teeth.
01:10:03Bite him, Manchu. Bite him.
01:10:04I warn you.
01:10:05One move from that loathsome creature and I'll hurl her into the water.
01:10:08And I may not stop at her.
01:10:10Him.
01:10:11Come on, then.
01:10:14Maria.
01:10:15Maria!
01:10:16Well?
01:10:17Do boats ever come near this island?
01:10:19Not for weeks on end.
01:10:20Couldn't we signal to the mainland?
01:10:22But how?
01:10:23We could burn down the house.
01:10:24You try.
01:10:25That means you and I alone here.
01:10:27Yes, and just think what people will say.
01:10:28They'll say nothing.
01:10:29My reputation will save you from that.
01:10:31Your what?
01:10:32My reputation as a man of taste.
01:10:35Where are you going?
01:10:36What are you going to do?
01:10:37I'm going to my bed.
01:10:38Well, you needn't trouble to knock your door.
01:10:40Only the rain will want to come in.
01:10:55George.
01:11:11George.
01:11:22No!
01:11:23No!
01:11:41George!
01:11:42George!
01:11:43George!
01:11:44George!
01:11:45George!
01:11:46George!
01:11:47George!
01:11:48George!
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01:13:36George! George!
01:13:38George!
01:13:40Oh, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!
01:13:44Richard!
01:13:45Whatever's the matter?
01:13:46Oh, it's you again.
01:13:48Oh, I can't sleep at all. I'm having such terrible dreams.
01:13:51Oh, so am I. It's the haggis.
01:13:52I want to go back.
01:13:53So do I.
01:13:54Get out! You! Move!
01:14:06George! George!
01:14:35George!
01:14:37How do you do?
01:14:38There's a man in my room.
01:14:40Why?
01:14:42She's not in her bed.
01:14:44Ah, there they are.
01:15:05Ah, so it was you breaking into Maria's bedroom.
01:15:07What are you doing with Maria?
01:15:08What are you doing in George's room?
01:15:09I thought you'd finished with him.
01:15:10How dare you! Burglar!
01:15:12How dare you!
01:15:13How dare I what?
01:15:14Make love to Maria!
01:15:15I'm very fond of Maria.
01:15:16I'm very fond of you.
01:15:17You're very fond of me.
01:15:18Take off that!
01:15:29And that's Grandma Ma.
01:15:32And that's Grandpa Pa.
01:15:38Oh, and that's a picture of your daddy taken on our honeymoon.
01:15:41Honeymoon is when you go away together after you are married.
01:15:45Pardon me, Lady Bristol, haven't you made a mistake?
01:15:48Oh, I'm not Lady Bristol.
01:15:50And I don't think I made a mistake.
01:15:52You mean you married Richard?
01:15:54That's right.
01:15:56But what happened to George? Whom did he marry in the end?
01:15:59You'd be surprised.
01:16:01Look.
01:16:03You're joking.
01:16:05Believe me, it's no joke.
01:16:07George!
01:16:08Coming, darling.
01:16:11Ho!