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Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
91 min | Comedy, Drama | June 1950 (UK)

A prominent doctor and his psychiatrist wife are taken aback when their innocent young son draws a picture of a horse, with all necessary reproductive equipment lovingly detailed. While the husband is all for paddling his precocious offspring, the wife decides that the boy should be rewarded for so freely expressing his subconscious. This minor misunderstanding brews into a major brouhaha involving split-ups, supposed infidelity and tearful reconciliations.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Writers: Lesley Storm (play), Brock Williams

Stars: Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond
Transcript
00:00Hello, everybody.
00:01Oh, nice to see you here.
00:02We didn't expect you.
00:04Yes, it is a bit sudden.
00:05Hello, dear.
00:06Hello, darling.
00:07Hello, Tim.
00:08Hello.
00:09Hello, you wicked old man.
00:10Hello, Claire Barleywater.
00:14Hello, Joan.
00:15You're looking wonderful.
00:16You feeling excited?
00:17Well, sort of.
00:18She's nervous.
00:19Nervous?
00:20You flatter yourself.
00:21Give me a gin and French, darling.
00:22I need one.
00:23This is quite reasonable, Sherry.
00:25Gin and French, please.
00:26Large one.
00:28So you got back all right?
00:29Lost sheep returned?
00:31How did you know we lost him?
00:33I went round to Claire's for a drink.
00:35Oh.
00:36How nice.
00:37We wondered.
00:39Are you staying the night, dear?
00:41Yes, if you don't mind.
00:42Oh, delighted to have you, Charles.
00:44Several nights, I'm afraid.
00:45Hope that's how you like it.
00:47Oh, thank you.
00:48Well, here's half.
00:52Hmm.
00:53I needed that.
00:54Is anything the matter, dear?
00:56Yes, in a way.
00:58You see, I've left Howard.
00:59Left Howard?
01:01Do you mean left him?
01:03Yes.
01:05Claire, what sort of nonsense is this?
01:08Don't take any notice.
01:09It's some silly joke.
01:10If it is, it's on me.
01:12You're not well, dear.
01:14I can see that.
01:15I'm perfectly well, thank you.
01:17Oh, you look as if you're running a temperature.
01:19There's been a lot of this one day flu about.
01:21We'll get a doctor for you.
01:23A doctor, that's all I need.
01:25Come along, dear.
01:26We'll go upstairs and talk it over.
01:30But to say it all happened over Tony
01:32drawing a horse is preposterous.
01:34Boys will draw on walls.
01:35When he's here, he draws on the garage walls.
01:37Horses?
01:38No, dear, of course not.
01:39Cars.
01:40Well, that limits him quite a bit.
01:41And darling, if you could stop prowling up and down.
01:43Well, of course, there is something about Tony's drawing.
01:46I've always said it.
01:47Even cars.
01:48He contrives to make more like cars than, uh, well, cars.
01:51We needn't go into the artistic merits of the matter.
01:54It's Howard's insufferable attitude
01:55that's at the bottom of all this.
01:57Doctors are like that.
01:58They have to be always right or no one would have
02:00enough faith in them to get well.
02:02You ought to know that.
02:03Well, let him be always right on his own.
02:05You've had rows about Tony before.
02:07You could have gone on having him in your own place
02:09just between yourselves.
02:10To come here and inundate the whole family
02:12like a, like a burst water main.
02:14And at a time like this, I do think it's inconsiderate.
02:17Just before the wedding.
02:18I'm sorry.
02:19What about me?
02:20It's not your wedding, darling.
02:22Not my wedding.
02:23I'm the bride's mother.
02:25Yes, I forgot.
02:26Your crowning triumph.
02:27The last of your fledglings safely airborne.
02:30Well, if I'm spoiling all that, I'm sorry.
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