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  • 11 years ago
Comedy (1937) 87 minutes ~ Black & White
Vivien Leigh plays the daughter of politician Cecil Parker in a small Scottish town who is under attack by the local paper. Rex Harrison plays the reporter who writes an embarrassing article about her father when he orders a dog to be put down because its feisty owner, an elderly widow (Allgood), can't afford a license. While Harrison battles with the father, he also falls head over heels in love with his beautiful daughter, in this fast-moving, Ealing-style comedy.

Director: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville

Writers: Bruno Frank (play), James Bridie (Anglo-Scottish version), Ian Dalrymple, Donald Bull

Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker
Transcript
00:30Is this for the courier?
00:32No, I'm expecting a car.
00:35Oh, you're welcome.
00:37I don't seem to be.
00:47What's it, no?
00:51What's it like to cry in front?
00:53Get up, please.
00:54What do you mean?
00:55Who are you?
00:56Get up.
00:58Turn around a minute.
01:02You don't want this, do you?
01:04Anyway, it isn't yours.
01:06How disgusting.
01:10There you are, Mary darling.
01:12The lady is quite finished with it.
01:19Would you like some spit?
01:21No, thank you.
01:23Nothing I can do.
01:25Nothing I can do.
01:27Well, you can take those to the end of the pier.
01:29What, all of them?
01:31Oh, never mind. Don't trouble.
01:35Paris-London, Paris-London, Paris-London.
01:39You've been to Paris?
01:41Yes.
01:42Doing what?
01:44Finishing school.
01:45Ah. Finished being finished?
01:47Yes.
01:48Good.
01:52Your penny, please.
01:54My what?
01:55Your penny, land, in fee.
01:56But I've landed.
01:57Oh, your penny, please.
01:58There's a gentleman there with my luggage.
02:01Very good, miss.
02:02Come on.
02:03Will you please observe?
02:04I hay me hand to pigeon my pooch.

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