- 8 months ago
Carol is thrilled when she unexpectedly wins the top prize in the French lottery, as she can now leave behind her unpleasant job.
Ann Harding as Carol Howard
Basil Rathbone as Gerald Lovell
Binnie Hale as Kate Meadows
Bruce Seton as Ronald Bruce
Jean Cadell as Aunt Lou
Bryan Powley as Doctor Gribble
Joan Hickson as Emmy
Donald Calthrop as Hobson
Eugene Leahy as Mr. Tuttle
Ann Harding as Carol Howard
Basil Rathbone as Gerald Lovell
Binnie Hale as Kate Meadows
Bruce Seton as Ronald Bruce
Jean Cadell as Aunt Lou
Bryan Powley as Doctor Gribble
Joan Hickson as Emmy
Donald Calthrop as Hobson
Eugene Leahy as Mr. Tuttle
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00:01:00Still raining cats and dogs, I'm getting rather used to it.
00:01:24You can get used to water at the end of your nose, but it doesn't mean you like it.
00:01:29I knew it was raining again.
00:01:31My poor corns.
00:01:32Do you mind, Carol, dear, if I get into your bed?
00:01:41I'm so lonely and chilly in my room.
00:01:43Oh, no, dear.
00:01:44Get right in.
00:01:45How are you feeling this morning, Aunt Lou?
00:01:48Not very well.
00:01:49My poor head.
00:01:50Yes, my head.
00:01:51Sure it isn't your liver, darling?
00:01:52It was your liver yesterday.
00:01:53Was it?
00:01:54Maybe tomorrow all your teeth will fall out, and you may break an egg.
00:02:00Wouldn't that be wonderful?
00:02:02Oh, your breakfast is ready, Carol.
00:02:06You have no idea how that woman needles me when you are out of sight.
00:02:16Oh, you just imagine that, Aunt Lou.
00:02:19Take the grand friend.
00:02:22I wish she was in Timbuktu.
00:02:23Oh, no, you don't.
00:02:24If it weren't for Kate, we couldn't afford this nice little place.
00:02:25It's all very well for you.
00:02:26You're at a nice, comfortable office all day long, but I have to stay at home listening
00:02:27to her giving music lessons.
00:02:28Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
00:02:29Ah.
00:02:30I suppose Aunt Lou will be hanging around your neck even after you marry Ronnie.
00:02:59I can't throw her in the dustbin.
00:03:00Why not?
00:03:01Don't let her mess up your married life.
00:03:02You don't know how lucky you are to get a husband.
00:03:03I know, Kate.
00:03:04And I do appreciate Ronnie.
00:03:05Oh, heaven.
00:03:06I'll be late.
00:03:07Oh, here.
00:03:08Take this with you.
00:03:09What will I bring home for dinner?
00:03:10Mutton.
00:03:11I'll bleed if you do.
00:03:12Can't you think of something else?
00:03:13Look.
00:03:14I'd feel as if I were carving into Aunt Lou.
00:03:30Well, how would you like some lobster, caviar, capon, and champagne?
00:03:38I know.
00:03:39Let's have something different.
00:03:40What?
00:03:41Mutton.
00:03:42Carol.
00:03:43She's gone.
00:03:44She's escaped.
00:03:45Ha, ha, ha.
00:03:46Oh, dear.
00:03:47Oh, dear.
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00:04:21Oh, dear.
00:04:22Oh, dear.
00:04:23Oh, dear.
00:04:31You are late, Miss Howard.
00:04:33I'm sorry, Mr. Delvin.
00:04:34What are you late, Miss Howard?
00:04:36I was looking at a hat.
00:04:39A hat?
00:04:40Yes, a hat.
00:04:41Well, well.
00:04:42On the foundations' dime, you were looking at a hat?
00:04:44I'm sorry, Mr. Turner.
00:04:45That will be all for the present.
00:04:47M-C-4-2-8-9-3.
00:05:15M-B-4-2-8-9-3.
00:05:16M-B...
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00:05:18Miss Howard.
00:05:19Miss Howard.
00:05:20In your report, would you please include...
00:05:21Miss Howard, Miss Howard, in your report, would you please include, Miss Howard, well
00:05:51Well I
00:06:05Carol!
00:06:07Go on, keep playing, I'm listening
00:06:12What happened? Been sick?
00:06:15I'm rich, I've won a fortune, thousands of pounds
00:06:209,600,000 pennies
00:06:25Oh come and sit down
00:06:27On you want to know what drive you crazy? You don't understand, Kate
00:06:30Sit down
00:06:32Go on, I'm listening
00:06:34I won the sweepstakes
00:06:36No, I know you're crazy
00:06:38That book of tickets you didn't want me to buy, I won it
00:06:39M, E, V, 4, 2, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, I'm so excited I can't remember the numbers
00:06:46You look
00:06:55I can't believe it
00:06:57Neither can I
00:06:59But it's true, thousands of pounds
00:07:02Oh think of it
00:07:04I can't think, my brain's curved
00:07:07How was that Miss Meadows?
00:07:09Oh wonderful
00:07:11Oh marvelous, magnificent
00:07:14Here, get your hat
00:07:17Go home
00:07:19And never come back again
00:07:25I threw all my money out of the savings bank and I've been shopping
00:07:29Look
00:07:31I'm afraid to, the hat's almost too much
00:07:34Now we can do the things we've dreamed about all our lives
00:07:36As soon as we collect the money in Paris we'll go to Switzerland and then to Venice
00:07:41And you can have your new piano and that in two weeks too
00:07:44And Aunt Lou can have a pleasant way to spend the rest of her life in Brighton if she wants to
00:07:50Where is she?
00:07:52Having a bath, don't tell her now, she'll drown
00:07:55Think of everything like this, everything that's happening to me
00:08:00We'll go make another tea
00:08:02Tea?
00:08:04Champagne
00:08:06Champagne
00:08:20Brighton, now hurry you'll miss your train
00:08:23I do believe you're glad to get rid of me
00:08:25Oh darling we'll miss you terribly now run along
00:08:27Brighton, send us a postcard when you get there
00:08:30Be good but not too good
00:08:33Don't push me dear
00:08:34Goodbye dear, goodbye
00:08:36Goodbye Aunt Lou
00:08:38Goodbye
00:08:41Brighton
00:08:43There, the stage is all set for the prodigal's return
00:08:46Happy to see him?
00:08:48Of course, do you realise it's been three years?
00:08:51I wonder if he's changed
00:08:53Not Ronnie, nothing could ever change him
00:08:56He's just good old substantial
00:08:59Won't he be happy when he hears the news?
00:09:05See you later
00:09:10Ronnie darling
00:09:12Oh I'm sorry, I thought
00:09:15This flat's delectable isn't it?
00:09:17Oh yes, yes
00:09:19Well, may I see it?
00:09:21The agent didn't tell me anyone was coming
00:09:23Oh I'm sorry, it's entirely my fault, I was to have let him know
00:09:26If it's inconvenient
00:09:28Oh not at all, it's quite alright, do come in
00:09:30Thank you
00:09:34This, this is the hall
00:09:36Ronnie, an obvious remark isn't it?
00:09:38But there you are, there's the hall
00:09:40Will you?
00:09:42Thank you
00:09:44And this is the sitting room
00:09:46Hmm, very attractive
00:09:49I see you like nice things
00:09:52Oh what a lovely Chippendale
00:09:56Did you inherit it?
00:09:59In a way yes
00:10:01I picked it up one day at an auction
00:10:03Ha ha
00:10:09You won't find the view very amusing
00:10:12Oh yes, yes it's just what I'm looking for
00:10:15Is it really?
00:10:17You see, this is one of the things I've remembered
00:10:20Through all the years I've been away from here
00:10:22I've looked upon all the beauties of the world
00:10:24The stars mirrored in the Gulf of Corinth
00:10:27The cherry blossoms of Japan, the Taj Mahal
00:10:29Like an eerie dream
00:10:32Still and cool in the moonlight
00:10:35And I've longed for this
00:10:38Perhaps because when I was a boy
00:10:41My window looked out upon the rooftops of London
00:10:48And that was before ambition was realised
00:10:51Before wars, travel, wealth
00:10:55That's why I felt the need of coming back
00:10:57That's why I felt the need of coming back to it
00:10:59Trying to recapture
00:11:01Not you, that's impossible
00:11:04But the dreams of youth
00:11:18Would you care to look at the kitchen?
00:11:21Is it a nice one?
00:11:23Quite
00:11:25Then I'll take your word for it
00:11:27I'm a bachelor and I know a lot more about
00:11:30Campfires in the forest than I do about kitchens
00:11:33We have two bedrooms, I'll show them to you
00:11:35If you don't mind waiting just a moment
00:11:37Thank you
00:11:40Hello Ronnie
00:11:42It isn't Ronnie, it's a man come to look at the flat
00:11:45Oh thank goodness you cleared up this room
00:11:47Don't show him in till I get out
00:11:49I'm just going to pick up the ticket
00:11:51When Ronnie comes, tell him to say bye to me
00:11:54Right
00:11:58All set for inspection?
00:12:02It's very cheerful
00:12:04It's a little bit fussy for a man's room
00:12:08Oh I shall have to store one of these beds
00:12:12Do you mind?
00:12:14Oh not at all, there's a small bedroom just off the hall
00:12:16You could store anything you didn't want in there
00:12:19Yes I have my trunks and photographic supplies
00:12:21Oh you're a photographer
00:12:23Oh an amateur one
00:12:24It's my hobby
00:12:26I'm merely a chemical engineer
00:12:28I haven't the slightest idea what that means
00:12:30It sounds dreadfully scientific
00:12:32I'm afraid it is
00:12:36Oh will you excuse me, there's someone at the door
00:12:44Darling
00:12:55Let's have a look at you
00:13:04Oh I'm so sorry
00:13:06This is my fiancé Mr Bruce
00:13:08Mr...
00:13:10Lovell, Gerald Lovell
00:13:12Mr Lovell was looking at the flat
00:13:14Oh how do you do, how do you do
00:13:16Please don't bother about it now
00:13:18I do like your flat though
00:13:20I'll drop back again a little bit later if you don't mind
00:13:22Oh not a bit, please do
00:13:25Thank you
00:13:37I've got some great news for you
00:13:39Well, I have a little news for you myself
00:13:42All right, I'll let you tell me yours first
00:13:45Well I have an awful confession to make
00:13:47You know how you've always scolded me about my vice
00:13:50Silly, you never had a vice in the world
00:13:51The only thing you ever did was to gamble all your money on crazy lotteries
00:13:54Well that's it, my vice
00:13:56And it turned into a virtue
00:13:58I won a French National Lottery, the grand prize
00:14:03Is this really true?
00:14:05Every word of it
00:14:10What's the matter Ronnie?
00:14:12Aren't you pleased about it?
00:14:14Oh yes, of course I'm pleased
00:14:16But...
00:14:17Why?
00:14:18Well it rather takes the wind out of my sails
00:14:23But why Ronnie?
00:14:27Well to come back and find the girl one's going to marry with
00:14:30With an overwhelming fortune
00:14:33Well you can't think it will make any difference with me
00:14:36Carol, can't you see
00:14:38I've been working for five years in the sedan with one end in view
00:14:41One ambition
00:14:43When I got back I'd be able to make things a little better for you
00:14:46Now this has happened
00:14:48Everything's so out of proportion to anything that I could do for you that...
00:14:53Oh Ronnie
00:14:55Let's forget all about this silly money business
00:14:57And just pretend that you aren't going to marry a rich woman
00:15:01I couldn't bear to lose you
00:15:05Who's going to lose me?
00:15:08You aren't suggesting that we break our engagement by any chance?
00:15:12I don't say foolish things like that
00:15:14Even in fun
00:15:15You see I'm the kind of stodgy person
00:15:18Well I'm not easily uprooted
00:15:20Oh don't worry about that
00:15:22I'll uproot you
00:15:24Oh wait till you hear the plan
00:15:26For our marriage?
00:15:28Of course darling but that...
00:15:30That comes later
00:15:34Let's not be married here
00:15:36Let's be married in some lovely romantic place like...
00:15:39Like Venice
00:15:41First of all we go to Paris to collect the prize money
00:15:42And I'm taking Kate along
00:15:44You don't mind do you?
00:15:46Kate's one of us
00:15:48And then I thought we'd dress it all over the cotton
00:15:50And all over the world if we want to
00:15:52You're not including me in this are you?
00:15:54Of course
00:15:56I have to be at the office on Monday to take over my new job
00:15:59Let them wait
00:16:01Let who wait?
00:16:03Oh the heads of the cotton company wherever they are
00:16:05Now Carol be sensible
00:16:07I'm not going to chuck up a job that's taken me practically all my life to get
00:16:10Why not?
00:16:12I'm sorry Ronnie I didn't mean to put it like that
00:16:15I only wanted you to realize that you don't have to keep your nose to the grindstone any longer
00:16:20What I have is yours naturally
00:16:22No it isn't Carol
00:16:24I'm glad you've got it but...
00:16:26But what?
00:16:28Well I just can't get used to the idea of you taking me on our honeymoon
00:16:31Do you have to go to Paris?
00:16:33Well naturally
00:16:35Couldn't Kate go for you?
00:16:37No I have to be there myself on Monday
00:16:39When do you come back?
00:16:40I don't know
00:16:42Well what do you mean you don't know?
00:16:44I'd like to see a little something of it after I'm there
00:16:47Surely you can't expect me to have a chance like this for the first time in my life and not take advantage of it
00:16:53No I suppose not
00:16:55Italy
00:16:57I've always dreamed of seeing Italy
00:16:59The Gulf of Cairo
00:17:01The cherry blossoms in Japan
00:17:04The tower of Mahal in the moonlight
00:17:06Oh dear me what an eerie dream
00:17:11It's all very well for you to laugh
00:17:13You've seen things, you've travelled
00:17:15Yes I've been to the filthy Sudan
00:17:17You call that travelling?
00:17:19No eerie dreams there Carol
00:17:21Well I was perfectly willing to go there with you when we were first engaged
00:17:24Thank heavens I had sense enough not to take you
00:17:26You'd have loathed it
00:17:28I wouldn't loathe anything out of the ordinary
00:17:30I'm fed up with routines
00:17:32I'm fed up with being alone
00:17:33I'm fed up with anything out of the ordinary
00:17:35I'm fed up with routine and drabness
00:17:37Daily life all cut out of the same pattern
00:17:40I want something exciting, something
00:17:42Oh something new and interesting and romantic
00:17:45The problem with you is this money's gone to your head
00:17:48Oh stop it Ronnie
00:17:50Just because your stubborn mind can't move out of the narrow little cell in which it lives
00:17:54You can't see anyone else's point of view
00:17:56You're unfair
00:17:58You've spoiled everything but I'm glad I found out about it in time
00:18:00Well I'm glad too if that's the way you feel
00:18:20Oh
00:18:22Shall I call him back?
00:18:24Oh no no it's er
00:18:26It wasn't anything important
00:18:27Just left in rather a hurry and I
00:18:31Won't you come in?
00:18:33Thank you
00:18:39Ronnie!
00:18:42I'm so glad to see you
00:18:44Hello Kate
00:18:46Have you seen Carol?
00:18:48Yes I've seen her
00:18:50Well what's the matter?
00:18:52Oh all this rotten money business it's ruined everything
00:18:54Go on you two have scrapped ever since you were kids
00:18:57Go back there
00:18:59Take her in your arms
00:19:01Tell her you're sorry
00:19:07No
00:19:09I see
00:19:11Big he-man's son
00:19:13Want to make the little girl crawl on her hands and knees to you
00:19:16All right Ronnie
00:19:18But it's your funeral
00:19:24If you're only going to be away about six weeks
00:19:27It seems hardly worth my while taking the flat
00:19:30But er
00:19:32I'll think it over and telephone you
00:19:34The number is Bayswater 6093
00:19:37Thank you
00:19:42The name is Miss Howard
00:19:44Miss Carol Howard
00:19:46Do you mind if I er
00:19:48If I make a note of it?
00:19:50Not at all
00:19:51Not that I'll forget it but
00:19:53I er
00:19:55I make a complete record of everything I do in this little book
00:19:58Oh
00:20:02What are you putting down now?
00:20:04Dinner tonight with Miss Carol Howard
00:20:08Oh really I'm sorry but I'm
00:20:11I'm leaving for Paris first thing in the morning
00:20:13Tonight I'm
00:20:15Of course
00:20:17You'll be dining with your fiancé
00:20:19Thank you Miss Howard
00:20:21For showing me the flat
00:20:49How do you do?
00:20:53Who's the bloke?
00:20:55That's the man who came to look at our flat yesterday
00:20:58Did you ask him to go to Paris with you?
00:21:00Why is he following me?
00:21:02Don't be absurd
00:21:04Does he know you won the lottery?
00:21:06No and if he did it wouldn't mean anything
00:21:08He's a very rich man
00:21:10Well then why was he looking at our little two-by-four flat?
00:21:12He liked the view
00:21:14Probably won't even speak to him
00:21:16I'll give him ten minutes by the clock
00:21:18Come on
00:21:24Now that you've met Mr. Lovell what do you think of him?
00:21:26I don't think
00:21:28He's rather good looking isn't he?
00:21:30So is the hell of it
00:21:32Why did I bring that up?
00:21:34You must admit he has beautiful manners
00:21:37Never trust a man with beautiful manners
00:21:39He's just annoying me
00:21:41Would you like him better if he walked right up and sucked you in the nose?
00:21:44If he did I might go dandy about him
00:21:46Feeling better Miss Meadows?
00:21:48Never felt better in my life
00:21:50Good I've brought you some hot chocolate and whipped cream
00:21:52Some toasted sardines
00:21:54And a little French pastry
00:21:56Excuse me
00:21:59You stork
00:22:06Blown at last
00:22:08Oh that was a filthy trick
00:22:10Poor Kate
00:22:13Now I've got to go
00:22:15Nice to see you again
00:22:17It's rather a surprise
00:22:19Not for me
00:22:21Really?
00:22:23Did you find your flat with a view?
00:22:25Oh yes I found the flat
00:22:27But the view took a boat to Paris
00:22:29What about all that serious work you were going to do?
00:22:31Well as I've already confessed I can't work without inspiration
00:22:33So that's why you're going to Paris
00:22:35Inspiring city isn't it?
00:22:37You know I've never been there
00:22:39Never?
00:22:41No
00:22:42I'd like to show you Paris
00:22:44The Paris that I know
00:22:46Not the shoddy Paris that all the tourists see
00:22:48Oh thanks that's awfully kind of you
00:22:50But you know Kate has a marvellous guidebook
00:22:52Guidebook?
00:22:54I'm talking about strange out of the way places
00:22:56And wild exciting nights
00:22:58Ending up with onion soup in the market
00:23:00Kate and I will certainly have to do just that
00:23:03Pardon me Madam
00:23:05There's a lady hanging over the rail down there
00:23:07Says she's going to die
00:23:09If not she's a witch
00:23:11Coming back?
00:23:13Well I'll have to be back for my coat
00:23:41What are you doing Mr. Webber?
00:23:43Your table is quite merry
00:24:10Come on let's have a drink
00:24:12Oh how do you do
00:24:14They have a wonderful Napoleon brandy here
00:24:16But I don't trust them
00:24:18Here
00:24:20Let's take a trip to the cellar
00:24:22With pleasure sir
00:24:24I want to pick a bottle out for myself
00:24:26Order something while I'm gone will you?
00:24:28Oh must we eat again?
00:24:30Yes
00:24:32I'm stuffed already
00:24:34You just handed your heart to this fellow
00:24:36On the silver platter
00:24:38Did I bow when I handed it to him?
00:24:40As if I was being sold off
00:24:42Just about as a loop as a friendly dog
00:24:44Oh that isn't what worries me Kate
00:24:46What I want to know is
00:24:48Do you see any silver platters coming in my direction?
00:24:50I see him bringing you the family plate
00:24:52You do like him?
00:24:54I'm just crazy about him
00:24:56He's certainly got that whatever you call it
00:24:58You know Carol
00:25:00I think I better be trotting back to London
00:25:02Before this affair turns into a triangle
00:25:11Hello
00:25:13Hello
00:25:15Ronnie?
00:25:17What in the world are you doing in Paris?
00:25:21Oh I can't see you Ronnie
00:25:23Because I
00:25:26I can't see you
00:25:28I can't see you
00:25:30I can't see you
00:25:32I can't see you
00:25:34I can't see you
00:25:36I can't see you
00:25:38I can't see you
00:25:41Well
00:25:43Well maybe you'd better come up
00:25:45And then I can explain
00:25:47Right
00:26:05Hello Ronnie
00:26:07Hello Carol
00:26:08I'm sorry to dash in you like this
00:26:10But I really have to see you
00:26:12Come in
00:26:14Thank you
00:26:19It's different from the old flat in Bayswater isn't it?
00:26:22Well it is a bit
00:26:24Are you enjoying this new life?
00:26:26To the full
00:26:29I've been miserable without you
00:26:36Oh Ronnie
00:26:38I don't know how I'm going to say this to you
00:26:42I think I know what you're trying to tell me
00:26:44You think you're in love with this chap
00:26:46Is that it?
00:26:49Believe me Carol
00:26:51You're living in a fool's paradise
00:26:53You don't belong to this world of tinsel
00:26:55Why look at this suite
00:26:57It's simply
00:26:59Simply fantastic in its luxury
00:27:01Maybe all right for a few days but
00:27:03You're not the type to live this way
00:27:05Letting a fella like Lovell make you think
00:27:06That this and all that goes with it is reality
00:27:09Oh poor darling
00:27:11You can't let yourself get carried away
00:27:13By someone you don't know
00:27:15Especially this kind of a scoundrel
00:27:17How dare you say that
00:27:19You don't know anything about him
00:27:21Neither do you Carol
00:27:23Don't be such a trusting little girl all your life
00:27:26Unbelievable
00:27:37Do you see something symbolic about this aquarium?
00:27:43Look at those golden beauties
00:27:45Gliding with vain contentment through the crystal waters
00:27:47Completely oblivious to the fact that to the world
00:27:49They're nothing but
00:27:51Poor fish
00:27:53Ronnie I think you better
00:27:55Oh darling come back to England with me
00:27:57Before you're disillusioned and unhappy
00:27:59This fella's nothing more than a
00:28:01Than a fortune hunter
00:28:03Well stop it
00:28:04Enough Carol
00:28:06I've checked up on him
00:28:08All these yarns he told you and Kate
00:28:10About his South American oil company
00:28:12But they're true
00:28:14They're not true
00:28:16There is such a company but they never heard of Lovell
00:28:18They never even heard of him at the school
00:28:20He was supposed to have gone to
00:28:22Or at any hotel that he was supposed to have stayed at
00:28:24Frankly I got so worried that I
00:28:26I turned the entire case over to Scotland Yard
00:28:28You what?
00:28:30They'll soon get a line on him
00:28:32Oh Carol come back with me
00:28:34Carol I
00:28:36Just
00:28:38Hello Bruce
00:28:40Surprised to see you here
00:28:43Darling
00:28:45To be quite frank Ronnie came here
00:28:47To rescue me from you
00:28:49He had so much to say on the subject
00:28:51He really didn't give me a chance to tell him
00:28:53That we were married this morning
00:29:04Oh I am sorry Ronnie
00:29:07I wanted to tell you
00:29:09Quite differently
00:29:22I know how you must feel
00:29:24I couldn't have taken it as well as you have
00:29:27You see I
00:29:29I happen to love Carol myself
00:29:31So I can sympathize
00:29:32So I can sympathize
00:29:52Oh darling I'm so sorry that had to happen
00:29:54I'm glad he came
00:29:57I want you to be sure
00:29:59Very sure
00:30:03It was my fault
00:30:05Rushing you into a marriage like this
00:30:09But I love you and that's my only excuse
00:30:13Carol
00:30:16Carol you should take time to think it over
00:30:19Then
00:30:27Even if you want the marriage to be over
00:30:29You can't
00:30:31Even if you want the marriage dissolved
00:30:33I'd understand because
00:30:37I do love you
00:30:40And I always shall
00:31:01This is Mrs. Lovell's suite Madam
00:31:03Thank you
00:31:05Royal plush
00:31:07It's still looking out on Hyde Park
00:31:09It's fancy to my blood
00:31:11Don't you think Carol should be here to meet her
00:31:13Not at all
00:31:15She'll pop up any minute
00:31:17She'll be very glad to see us after all this time
00:31:19She'll be very glad to see us after all this time
00:31:21She'll be very glad to see us
00:31:23She'll be very glad to see us
00:31:25She'll be very glad to see us
00:31:27She'll be very glad to see us
00:31:28She'll be very glad to see us
00:31:30She will be so sorry about this pain in my side
00:31:33Which side
00:31:35The left
00:31:37It was the right last night
00:31:39Well, the pain can float can't it
00:31:41Don't go telling Carol your troubles
00:31:43Maybe she's got trouble of her own
00:31:45What do you mean
00:31:47Doctor
00:31:49You're not letting Ronnie turn you against Gerald are you
00:31:52I don't know
00:31:54I've been doing a lot of thinking lately
00:31:56Perhaps I may be the only one
00:31:58I've made a mistake leaving Carol alone with him
00:32:00If I'd have stayed there
00:32:02She might not have married him
00:32:04Then you are worried
00:32:06I suppose I am
00:32:08I'll know more about it when I see Carol
00:32:10And if I find she's not happy
00:32:12Ah
00:32:14I'm afraid you'll find Carol ridiculously happy
00:32:17Hello Kate
00:32:19Hello Gerald
00:32:21Nice to see you again
00:32:23I suppose this is my Auntie New
00:32:25She can't answer
00:32:26She can't answer
00:32:28She's got to get rid of the Adam's apple
00:32:30It was Kate who said those awful things about you
00:32:32Not me
00:32:34I didn't open my mouth
00:32:36I don't blame Kate
00:32:38She's a good friend and she's Carol's influence
00:32:40It's hard
00:32:42Won't you sit down
00:32:44Darling
00:32:46Darling
00:32:48Aunt Lou
00:32:50And Kate
00:32:52Carol
00:32:54My you are looking fit
00:32:56I'm on her side
00:32:58Which side do you mean
00:33:00Well
00:33:02It's slopes
00:33:04Carol darling
00:33:06Kate's got a pain too
00:33:08Really
00:33:10In her heart
00:33:12She's been worrying about you ever since our marriage
00:33:14Oh Kate I've had too much of heaven
00:33:16I'm glad
00:33:18I just wanted to check up on Gerald
00:33:20I wanted to see if he was doing right by our nails
00:33:22Oh
00:33:24Yes
00:33:26He's in the house I think
00:33:28While I'm sitting in the next room
00:33:30Will you put this call on the other telephone please
00:33:32Thank you
00:33:34Sit down darling
00:33:36We'll have tea up here
00:33:38Let me look at you Carol
00:33:40Have I changed
00:33:42No but Gerald has
00:33:44I don't think he's looking so well
00:33:46He isn't Kate I'm worried about him
00:33:48He had a heart attack in Venice
00:33:50It was really quite frightening for a moment
00:33:52You see he was rather badly hurt in the war
00:33:53He gets the most dreadful pressure in his head
00:33:55Yes yes all right I'll take care of it
00:34:02So that's why we're buying a house in the country
00:34:05Gerald must have quiet and seclusion
00:34:07Besides he has a lot of important work to do
00:34:09Where are you buying the house
00:34:11In Kent
00:34:13Old Gerald said it's a duck of a place
00:34:15About ten acres no prying neighbours it's an old house
00:34:17Haven't you seen it
00:34:19No he wants to keep it as a surprise
00:34:20It's a delightful place to spend a weekend
00:34:26How's Ronnie
00:34:28Still pretty broken up
00:34:30Poor darling
00:34:32Of course you can see now Kate
00:34:34There's nothing but jealousy
00:34:36I suppose so
00:34:39Oh come in
00:34:44Don't order much for me dear
00:34:46My doctor has put me on a strict diet
00:34:48Can you have tea
00:34:50Ordered sandwiches
00:34:52Or a little hot muffin
00:34:54Oh yes how about some pastries
00:34:56That sounds very nice dear
00:34:59Now you order whatever else you like
00:35:01I'm going to go and take off my bonnet
00:35:03Waiter
00:35:05Have you got those little meringuey things
00:35:07The chocolate and the cream
00:35:09And the cherries on the top
00:35:11Gerald
00:35:17Gerald darling what's the matter
00:35:18Are you ill
00:35:20No dear it's nothing don't be alarmed
00:35:23Well has something gone wrong
00:35:25No no really nothing at all
00:35:29Kate didn't say something that hurt you
00:35:32Oh I
00:35:34I suppose I shouldn't blame her
00:35:36Oh
00:35:38It's only that she's so fond of me
00:35:40And now that she sees how happy I am
00:35:42Of course dear I understand
00:35:49Darling what is troubling you
00:35:52Couldn't you get the house
00:35:54Oh yes we can get it but
00:35:56But what dear
00:35:58That was my solicitor on the telephone
00:36:00Oh I thought he said it was the agent for the house
00:36:02No no dear you misunderstood it was my solicitor
00:36:04Bad news
00:36:06Yes rather
00:36:08They're holding up my South American bank draft
00:36:11May not be straightened out today
00:36:13Oh is that all
00:36:15Well that's enough isn't it
00:36:16Oh darling I was afraid it was something
00:36:18Perfectly dreadful if that's all it is
00:36:20Well I can do something about that
00:36:23No no
00:36:28Now you mustn't have such a silly false pride
00:36:31You can't mind if I help
00:36:33Now Carol you're a sweet person
00:36:36Now never let's discuss this again
00:36:38What's yours is yours
00:36:40And what's mine is also yours
00:36:42Is that quite clear
00:36:43If I'm forced to borrow 5,000 pounds for the house
00:36:46Understand it's a business agreement
00:36:48And I'll pay you interest
00:36:50I demand my interest in advance
00:36:53Please may I collect right now
00:37:00Now for the first part of this foolish agreement
00:37:03I'll have your signature to a paper
00:37:05Certainly what is it
00:37:07Oh something in connection with the purchase of the place
00:37:09It's full of to which to whom's
00:37:10Whereas it's whomsoever's and a few
00:37:12Parties of the first part
00:37:14Where do I sign it
00:37:16There dear aren't you going to read it
00:37:18Have you read it
00:37:20Of course I'm going to sign anything I don't read
00:37:22Is it all right
00:37:24Of course
00:37:26Then why should I bother to read it
00:37:28One more dear
00:37:29Thank you
00:37:40Happy with it
00:37:42Delighted
00:37:44You are darling
00:38:00Here they come
00:38:02Uncle George, Master, this is here they come
00:38:04The cart's coming up the tide now it is
00:38:06Yes dear
00:38:08I'll run and let them in I will
00:38:10No my girl you won't do nothing in the short way
00:38:12You're too excited
00:38:14You're all over trampled
00:38:16Where you might go and mutter or stutter
00:38:18Fall over yourself or something
00:38:20You'll take this trash into the kitchen
00:38:22Miriam what are you doing with those flowers
00:38:24Here we are
00:38:26Home
00:38:28Oh Gerald it is lovely
00:38:30It's all peaceful isn't it
00:38:32Not a neighbour for miles
00:38:34No cars, no telephones
00:38:36In other words the simple life
00:38:38Will you bring the luggage in this way please
00:38:40Happy one
00:38:42Oh thank you
00:38:44This is Hobson he's been the gardener on the place for years
00:38:46So I thought I'd keep him
00:38:48How do you do Hobson
00:38:50Oh I do, I do, thank you
00:38:52Right
00:38:54Oh Gerald
00:38:55You must have had something in there
00:38:59Oh this is Emmy, Hobson's niece
00:39:01I thought I'd keep her on too
00:39:03How do you do Emmy
00:39:05I do very nicely ma'am
00:39:07Except on ironing
00:39:09I ain't so awful good at ironing
00:39:11Emmy's a good girl ma'am
00:39:13But she ain't so bright
00:39:15Put these down here sir
00:39:17Yes please
00:39:19Thank you very much
00:39:21Take the things upstairs will you Hobson
00:39:23I'll show you where to put them
00:39:25I'm beginning to feel at home already
00:39:29You happy
00:39:39I'll be back in a moment
00:39:45Are you married ma'am
00:39:48Why certainly Emmy
00:39:50Well I didn't know
00:39:52You act so daffy about him
00:39:55Well we're still on our honeymoon
00:39:57Perhaps that explains it
00:40:00I never expect to get me a man
00:40:03Mr. Uncle George Hobson says I ain't quite bright
00:40:08But I'm willing
00:40:12Well Emmy will you see him
00:40:14And get us a cup of tea please
00:40:16Oh yes ma'am
00:40:18Oh sir
00:40:20I'm sorry I quite forgot to tell you
00:40:22A parcel arrived for you this morning
00:40:24Oh where did you put it
00:40:26Why in the cellar sir
00:40:28I told you to keep out of there
00:40:30No one is to go into that cellar but me
00:40:32No one
00:40:34Why
00:40:36Oh Caroline
00:40:38I was just explaining to Hobson
00:40:40The cellar is my own private property
00:40:43And it's mine
00:40:44My cellar is my own private property
00:40:47My darkroom
00:40:49For photographs and experiments
00:40:51So I shall have chemicals
00:40:53And things that are dangerous
00:40:55Oh please don't go blowing us up
00:40:57With a lot of old chemicals
00:40:59I'm much too happy to want to die just yet
00:41:01Don't worry I'll be very careful
00:41:03Hobson
00:41:05You haven't shown Mrs. Lovell your garden
00:41:08Thank you sir
00:41:10I'm afraid there isn't very much to show you
00:41:12Madam
00:41:14But this is of the flowering shrubs
00:41:16To the left now
00:41:17No
00:41:41Oh it's a lovely garden Hobson
00:41:44Oh I don't know
00:41:45She may have run down a bit
00:42:15Thank you
00:42:45Gerald
00:43:15Thank you
00:43:45Thank you
00:44:15Where did you come from?
00:44:17Go on go on I like it
00:44:19I beg you to play the piano
00:44:21You've been keeping secrets from me
00:44:23Don't stop I want to hear it
00:44:25I like that thing you were playing
00:44:27I like it because it's fast
00:44:29Oh heavens I can't play
00:44:31Go on try try
00:44:33Oh I don't even know if I remember it
00:44:40That's it Doctor
00:44:45Faster
00:44:50Faster
00:44:58Faster
00:45:12Faster faster
00:45:16I can't Gerald
00:45:18If speed is what you want
00:45:20I'll have to get you a mechanical piano or a gramophone
00:45:22I have a portable gramophone downstairs
00:45:24I play it a great deal while I'm working
00:45:26It excites my mind, quickens my thoughts
00:45:28Makes my head spin
00:45:30Reminding me of the war or of a dawn
00:45:34Standing in cold terror on the trench
00:45:37The enemy barrage creeping up
00:45:40Shells
00:45:42Squeaking
00:45:43Exploding in staccato rhythm
00:45:46Closer closer
00:45:49And suddenly the noise changes into music
00:45:53Turning my first terror
00:45:55Into ecstasy
00:46:01Yes Hobson
00:46:03I thought you might like some of these Maren
00:46:05They smell the outside
00:46:07Nice light
00:46:09Oh thank you Hobson they are sweet
00:46:11Oh
00:46:13Hobson I
00:46:15I find you pick in trouble
00:46:17Did he sir?
00:46:19Where were they?
00:46:21In the cellar
00:46:23And you have I been blaming them gypsies
00:46:25Are the gypsies about?
00:46:27Oh worse than fleas
00:46:29They come down to the village every year for the fair
00:46:32Fair?
00:46:34When is the fair?
00:46:36This year
00:46:37On September the 5th
00:46:39September the 5th
00:46:41Yes
00:46:43Oh thank you Hobson
00:46:45Good afternoon ma'am and sir
00:46:47Thank you
00:46:49What now?
00:46:51September the 5th
00:46:53Oh I see the fair
00:46:55Nine o'clock
00:46:57Why nine o'clock?
00:47:01That's the hour
00:47:03The hour we go to the fair?
00:47:04When we go to the fair
00:47:08Oh
00:47:10Oh
00:47:12Gerald
00:47:14You paid five thousand pounds for the house didn't you?
00:47:17Yes why do you ask?
00:47:19Well Hobson was telling me
00:47:21That the man who owned the house was asking only half that much
00:47:24Are you going to believe that doddering old fool or me?
00:47:26Well
00:47:28There's no question of believing you
00:47:30I just thought possibly you might have been cheating
00:47:31No you weren't implying
00:47:33Because you had to advance me the money
00:47:35On my own I understand but I
00:47:37Oh
00:47:40But Gerald
00:47:46How can you say a thing like that?
00:47:48I'm sorry it was
00:47:50It was a misunderstanding
00:47:52But I'm naturally sensitive about
00:47:54Borrowing money especially
00:47:55Take out that little book
00:47:57Why?
00:47:59I want you to write something in it
00:48:04Now put down
00:48:06Today we had our first and last quarrel
00:48:09I adore my wife
00:48:11Do you?
00:48:13And I've got a present for her
00:48:15A present?
00:48:17A present
00:48:19A present
00:48:21A present
00:48:23A present
00:48:25A present
00:48:31What is it?
00:48:37Gerald
00:48:41Oh how lovely
00:48:43Oh it's nothing very much
00:48:45It's got a sentimental value attached to it
00:48:47Wait a minute I'll show you how it's worn
00:48:51I bought it in the bazaar in Cairo
00:48:53I'll take you there someday
00:48:55Moonlight in the desert
00:48:57Weird music
00:48:59Mysterious
00:49:01Emmie
00:49:03Excuse me ma'am
00:49:05You nearly chopped me
00:49:07Sorry
00:49:09What happened?
00:49:11Look so pretty
00:49:13Got me all fuddled inside
00:49:15That's all right Emmie
00:49:20Don't let anyone
00:49:21Disturb our happiness
00:49:23Not that noisy cake
00:49:25Nor Aunty Lune or anyone
00:49:27I'll do my very best to keep them all away
00:50:51Get out!
00:50:53Get out!
00:50:55Get out!
00:51:21Darling
00:51:41Darling forgive me
00:51:43It startled me so
00:51:45I didn't know what I was doing
00:51:48Let go of me Gerald
00:51:49Let go
00:51:51Please dearest
00:51:53Please let me explain
00:51:55I was so absorbed in my work
00:51:57It's my nerves
00:51:59They're almost at the breaking point
00:52:01I didn't realize at first that it was you
00:52:04Standing there in the doorway
00:52:07Like a ghost
00:52:09Yes a ghost
00:52:12I'll never forget the way you looked
00:52:16Like a mad thing
00:52:19Oh Carol
00:52:21Carol beloved
00:52:23Don't go away from me
00:52:25Don't you see that I'm your
00:52:29Serious Leo
00:52:31I don't know what it is
00:52:34Something inside my head
00:52:37Burns and tortures me
00:52:41That reaches down into my heart
00:52:44Twisting and tearing at it
00:52:46Carol
00:52:48Carol
00:53:00Don't be alarmed
00:53:02It's nothing
00:53:04Just one of those attacks
00:53:09They go as quickly as they come
00:53:11It's almost gone now
00:53:13Gerald
00:53:15You must let me send for a doctor
00:53:17No
00:53:19No they're all quacks
00:53:21I've tried specialists all over the world
00:53:23They've never done a thing for me
00:53:25Darling if you love me you'll let me send for one
00:53:28I love you
00:53:30You don't know what you mean to me
00:53:33My happiness
00:53:35My life
00:53:37I need you Carol
00:53:39I need you
00:53:40I need you Carol
00:53:43Never leave me darling
00:53:45Never
00:53:48No I won't
00:53:52I won't
00:53:59Kate
00:54:01Carol
00:54:03Oh I'm so thrilled to see you
00:54:05I began to think I had smallpox or something
00:54:07Not being invited here till eleven
00:54:08Well didn't Aunt Lou explain
00:54:10Yes she told me Gerald had been ill
00:54:12But you know how straight she gets anything
00:54:14Like a corkscrew
00:54:16Well Gerald is ill
00:54:18As a matter of fact the doctor's upstairs with him now
00:54:20Oh but Aunt Lou said he wouldn't even see a doctor
00:54:22I made him
00:54:24It's only the village doctor but he has a fine reputation
00:54:26I just had to know that Gerald was well enough to travel tomorrow
00:54:29Oh where you off to
00:54:31Only Gerald knows
00:54:33Oh come along and I'm dying to talk to you
00:54:35Oh Carol listen
00:54:36Ronnie's outside
00:54:38What
00:54:40He drove me down
00:54:42He wants to say goodbye to you
00:54:44Go on see him
00:54:46Suppose Gerald
00:54:48Oh I'll deal with the old dragon
00:54:50I'm not afraid of him
00:54:52Oh silly Emmy of course Gerald will understand
00:54:54And he isn't an old dragon
00:54:56You go along out and bring Ronnie in
00:54:58I'll get Emmy started with the tea
00:55:00Oh I'm so glad to see you
00:55:02Emmy
00:55:05What ever in the world are you doing up there
00:55:07Didn't you hear the phone call down there
00:55:09Oh I didn't hear that
00:55:11Miss Hartford's all on the fair tonight
00:55:13I heard the gypsies out on the road
00:55:15Well you'll have plenty of time for that later Emmy
00:55:17I want you to get tea for three please
00:55:19Oh the master said I could go home early now
00:55:21Now
00:55:23He gave me ten shillings
00:55:25The master gave you
00:55:27Yes above my wages ten shillings to go to the fair tonight
00:55:29And he said not to bother to come back in the morning
00:55:31Because you won't be needing me
00:55:33Well it's the first I've heard of all this Emmy
00:55:36Oh
00:55:38Oh well please ma'am
00:55:40Shall I come
00:55:42I got everything ready for your dinner
00:55:45Oh of course it's all right
00:55:47Just put on the kettle and then you can go
00:55:49Oh thank you ma'am
00:55:51And you will take good care of things while we're away won't you
00:55:53Oh that I will
00:55:55And you let me know when you'll be coming back
00:55:57Yes we'll give you good warning about that
00:55:59Good bye
00:56:02Hello Ronnie
00:56:04Oh
00:56:07Well
00:56:09Well
00:56:11Well well now let's get all these formalities over
00:56:13Since we can all be ourselves
00:56:15Well first of all Ronnie wants to know if you've forgiven him
00:56:17For the way he acted that night in Paris
00:56:19Oh of course I have
00:56:21Oh well now we're getting on
00:56:23Oh the next thing
00:56:25He wants to tell you that they didn't find out anything at Scotland Yard
00:56:27So he told them to drop the investigation
00:56:29Now I wonder if there's anything else
00:56:31I can do my own explaining
00:56:33I know you can but you take so long
00:56:35We've got a lot to talk about haven't we Carol
00:56:37Well I should like to apologize to Gerald may I
00:56:39There's no need to apologize he understands
00:56:41Besides he'll be down in just a minute
00:56:43As soon as the doctor leaves
00:56:45I do want you to be friends
00:56:47Goodie goodie now all that said also
00:56:49Let's sit down and relax
00:56:59It's a pack of lies
00:57:01I'm afraid it isn't
00:57:03I found a definite myocardial condition
00:57:07You're a quack
00:57:09Like all the others
00:57:11A pulse doesn't lie
00:57:13Yours is 120
00:57:15I wouldn't advise you to get too excited about anything
00:57:17You over exert yourself in any way
00:57:21It's no use prescribing
00:57:23I don't believe in that sort of thing
00:57:25I'll leave them here
00:57:27They might relieve the pressure in your head
00:57:29I tell you nothing can relieve it nothing I
00:57:31Can't
00:57:43Interested in criminology
00:57:45Hmm
00:57:47Oh yes I am
00:57:50You'll find some remarkable cases in that book
00:57:52I've made quite a study of crime myself
00:57:54Happen to have this book in my own library
00:57:56Just published
00:57:58Picked it up only the other day
00:57:59Really did you
00:58:02What do you think of the Fletcher case
00:58:04Extraordinary wasn't it
00:58:06Three women
00:58:08Must have been pretty relentless
00:58:10Or mad he could have been mad you know
00:58:12Oh undoubtedly he was mad
00:58:14Then how do you account for his brilliance
00:58:16Escaping the law
00:58:18Turning up here there everywhere
00:58:20Hello where's Fletcher's photograph
00:58:22Photograph
00:58:26I don't think I've ever seen a photograph of him
00:58:27I'm positive there was one in the book
00:58:34No no nothing here
00:58:36There's one in my book at home
00:58:38I'll bring it round someday
00:58:40Oh I was forgetting
00:58:42You're leaving in the morning
00:58:44Oh well I can see it when I get back
00:58:49I've always been rather interested in Fletcher
00:58:52What type of man is he
00:58:54His appearance
00:58:55Fairish sandy type
00:58:57Weird moustache
00:58:59If that heart of yours cuts out again Lovell
00:59:01Take some of those pills
00:59:03They won't kill you
00:59:26I don't want to worry you Mrs. Lovell
00:59:28But I wish you'd keep in touch with me
00:59:30And if your husband should get any worse
00:59:32Call me in
00:59:34Anytime night or day
00:59:36We'll get a specialist
00:59:38Oh thank you Dr. Gribble
00:59:49I suppose we'd better be hopping off
00:59:51I'm sorry I'm late
00:59:52I suppose we'd better be hopping off
00:59:54Oh no you mustn't leave
00:59:56We're having tea and then you've got to stay for dinner
00:59:58Happy potluck
01:00:00My cook's off tonight
01:00:02Oh we'll have fun Kate
01:00:04Rustling round the kitchen
01:00:06To where we used to in the old days
01:00:08But how about
01:00:10Oh yes well I'll
01:00:12Wait a minute I'll just dash up and see
01:00:14All right
01:00:19Feel better about things now
01:00:20Yes and no
01:00:22Mind you my feelings about Carol
01:00:24Will never change
01:00:26I'm crazy about her
01:00:28And always will be
01:00:32Does she seem really happy to you
01:00:34There are one or two things
01:00:36That strike me as being distinctly odd
01:00:38In what way
01:00:40They're going away like this
01:00:42So secretly
01:00:44Nobody knowing where
01:00:46Oh that's too much
01:00:48Kate was better than that man
01:00:50Hey send them away
01:00:52Send them away at once
01:00:58Well well
01:01:00I wouldn't be a bit surprised
01:01:02If he wanted us to leave
01:01:16I'm so sorry
01:01:18You'll have to excuse Gerald
01:01:20I'm feeling a little off colour tonight
01:01:22A bit nervy and all that
01:01:24We understand
01:01:26After all it is a bit awkward isn't it
01:01:28We'd better be going
01:01:31Oh I can't bear to have you leave
01:01:34It's been heaven seeing
01:01:48You'll write to us won't you
01:01:50Of course I shall
01:01:52When are you coming back
01:01:54Oh next spring
01:01:56Early summer I expect
01:01:58Carol are you sure you're all right
01:02:01Of course I am Ronnie
01:02:04Goodbye
01:02:06Take care of yourself
01:02:08Bless you
01:02:21I never hated leaving anyone so much
01:02:23In all my life
01:02:25Gives me a funny kind of feeling too
01:02:28I have a good mind to go back and
01:02:30No
01:02:32You'll only make it more embarrassing for Carol
01:02:37Come on
01:02:39Let's go
01:02:41Come on
01:02:43Come on
01:02:45Come on
01:02:47Come on
01:02:48Come on
01:02:52They've gone
01:02:54Good
01:02:56Sorry to shoot you off like that dear
01:03:00But it's good to be alone with you again
01:03:02Feeling better
01:03:04Much
01:03:06Well the old pill-slinger didn't alarm you did he
01:03:08Not at all
01:03:10Good
01:03:12Whatever there's a fee in sight
01:03:14The medicos can always find something wrong with one
01:03:16I wouldn't say that about Dr. Gribble
01:03:18He's a sincere and intelligent person
01:03:20Gerald
01:03:22Did you tell Emma she could go off to the fair tonight
01:03:26Yes
01:03:28Had you forgotten that we were going ourselves
01:03:30At nine o'clock
01:03:32Don't you remember you put it in your little book
01:03:34What an excellent memory you have
01:03:36But as we're leaving so early in the morning
01:03:38I think we'd better go to the fair right here
01:03:40You can help me clean up my darkroom
01:03:42At nine o'clock
01:03:48All right
01:04:19Oh Dr. Gribble come in
01:04:21Good evening Mrs. Lovell
01:04:23I happen to see a patient nearby
01:04:25So I thought I'd run in and have a chat with Mr. Lovell
01:04:28Oh I'm sorry
01:04:30Now Mr. Lovell's just gone down to the village
01:04:32Oh then he must be feeling better
01:04:34When do you expect him back
01:04:36Well I promised to have dinner ready for him at eight o'clock
01:04:38He'll probably be alone by then
01:04:40What time do you leave in the morning
01:04:42At the crack of dawn
01:04:44Oh then I'm afraid I shan't see him
01:04:46I'll leave him this book
01:04:49Oh he has that one
01:04:51Oh it's a different edition I think
01:04:53He asked me about a photograph of Fletcher
01:04:56A man who's mentioned in the book
01:04:58I wish he wouldn't read that stuff
01:05:00That's the one
01:05:02Who is he
01:05:03A murderer
01:05:04He killed three women
01:05:06Doesn't seem possible does it
01:05:08He looks more like a doctor
01:05:10A scientist
01:05:11Not a doctor I hope
01:05:15Strange
01:05:17I must have seen pictures of him somewhere before
01:05:20Newspapers I'd say
01:05:23Won't you sit down and wait for Mr. Lovell
01:05:25No thanks I must get along
01:05:27Well you'll probably pass him on the road
01:05:29I hope so
01:05:30Don't you bother to come to the door
01:05:31Good night
01:05:32Good night
01:05:33And thank you
01:05:36Good night
01:05:47Good night
01:06:00How did that photograph get back into my book
01:06:02I thought you'd gone down to the village
01:06:05That photograph
01:06:08I burned it
01:06:09At the bottom of the garden
01:06:11The ashes flew away
01:06:13I saw them
01:06:16I got back
01:06:18Tell me
01:06:20Don't look at me like that Gerald
01:06:22It's perfectly simple
01:06:24Dr. Gribble was just
01:06:26So that's it is it
01:06:28A conspiracy you and Gribble
01:06:30So he's in it too
01:06:33What are you trying to find out
01:06:36Why are you asking me all these questions tell me
01:06:40I haven't asked you any questions
01:06:44Give me that book
01:06:46Give me that book
01:06:51What's the matter with you
01:06:53What are you staring at
01:06:57You startled me
01:06:59What do you mean I startled you
01:07:01Why are you startled
01:07:04It's perfectly natural isn't it
01:07:07You fly into a violent rage over a book
01:07:10That Dr. Gribble has just
01:07:12Brought five minutes ago
01:07:13I thought you'd gone to the village I told him
01:07:16Oh so this is old Gribble's book is it
01:07:19And why didn't you say so before
01:07:22He really
01:07:24Didn't give me a chance
01:07:26He flared up at me
01:07:28So I
01:07:30Thought you were going to be ill
01:07:32That's why I was so frightened
01:07:34Oh
01:07:36Yes I see
01:07:39I'm sorry it was silly of me
01:07:40No
01:07:43Silly of me to be
01:07:45Such a baby
01:07:53Well don't blame me
01:07:56I'll be all right tomorrow
01:08:01You shouldn't look at these books
01:08:03They always disturb you
01:08:05Especially the illustrations
01:08:06That's why I destroyed the photograph in my copy
01:08:10Well
01:08:12We'll get rid of this one now shall we
01:08:18And this time
01:08:20We'll make sure of it
01:08:37Let me
01:08:39Let me
01:08:41Let me
01:09:07Hello my dear
01:09:09Where are you off to
01:09:12Just going into the garden
01:09:14Why
01:09:16Just
01:09:18Getting flowers for the table
01:09:20Oh no my precious
01:09:22I wouldn't think of letting you wander
01:09:24In the garden alone
01:09:26There are a lot of undesirable people about
01:09:28You know what it is
01:09:30The fairs
01:09:32Gypsies and so on
01:09:36Heaven knows when we'll be prowling around
01:09:38We'd better be on the safe side
01:09:40Yes
01:09:42You're quite right
01:09:44I'll just get on with the dinner
01:09:50Wait a minute I want to help you
01:09:54What's the matter
01:09:56Nothing I just
01:09:58Of course you need some food
01:10:00It would never do to have you feeling faint
01:10:02Would it sweetheart
01:10:04I feel quite all right
01:10:06Don't I
01:10:08Beautiful
01:10:10My lovely dutiful wife
01:10:12Who does everything I ask
01:10:14Prepares my dinner with her own hands
01:10:16Wears the dress that I asked her to wear
01:10:18Love, honour and obey
01:10:20That's it isn't it Carol
01:10:22Yes
01:10:24Come on let's get the dinner
01:10:26Excellent supper
01:10:30I'm glad you enjoyed it
01:10:34Have some more brandy
01:10:36No thank you I still have some here
01:10:38Ha ha
01:10:40You know I believe you're trying to make me drunk
01:10:42You couldn't do that
01:10:44I've got a very strong head
01:10:46And I've got a very strong heart
01:10:48And I've got a very strong heart
01:10:50And I've got a very strong heart
01:10:52And I've got a very strong heart
01:10:53And I've got a very strong head
01:10:57And it's always a pity
01:10:59To drink too much at moments like these
01:11:03It deadens the appreciate
01:11:08Funny sound
01:11:10Hear that
01:11:13It deadens the appreciation
01:11:24What a demise
01:11:26That reminds me
01:11:28You remember we lost the key to the clock
01:11:30Well I found it in the pocket of one of my suits
01:11:32Time I wound the old thing up
01:11:35Seems hardly worthwhile if we're leaving tomorrow
01:11:53It always gives me a strange sort of thrill
01:11:55To see the minutes slipping by
01:11:57One by one
01:11:59I can remember so well
01:12:01Standing at my headmaster's study at school
01:12:03Waiting for a beating
01:12:05Watching the hands of a clock move on
01:12:07Knowing there was nothing I could do to stop it
01:12:10I can remember the strange mixture of sensations
01:12:12It used to give me
01:12:14Terror
01:12:16And yet with it a strange sort of delight
01:12:19You can't find the key to the door dear
01:12:21I have it
01:12:24I was only fetching your coffee
01:12:27What?
01:12:29Here's your coffee
01:12:32Oh yes
01:12:34How far away your voice sounds
01:12:37Must be my head
01:12:42Don't you think you'd better lie down
01:12:45No we must be getting to work soon
01:12:50Don't you think it would be better
01:12:51If you didn't do any more this evening
01:12:53No I've made my plans
01:12:55And I never alter my plans
01:12:58Oh all right
01:13:00You're a sensible girl aren't you
01:13:02How do you mean
01:13:04Well you don't go on at a man
01:13:06Very few women can say
01:13:08Oh all right
01:13:10And leave it at that
01:13:12And then most women are fools
01:13:14Do you think so
01:13:16I don't think I know
01:13:18Born fools
01:13:19A woman's weakness
01:13:21Is man's opportunity
01:13:26Did someone write that
01:13:29Or did I think of it myself
01:13:31If I did it's good
01:13:34It's very good
01:13:38A woman's weakness
01:13:40Is man's opportunity
01:13:47You have exceptional insight into things
01:13:49Some more coffee
01:13:51Yes yes I have great insight
01:13:53But well you see I'm
01:13:55I'm different from other people
01:13:57Yes I think you are
01:13:59For instance I've a lot of power over women
01:14:01I've always had it
01:14:03I discovered quite early in life
01:14:05That I could twist women around my little finger
01:14:07It's a useful gift
01:14:09It must be
01:14:11If you could be slightly different
01:14:13From their own men folk
01:14:15In what way
01:14:17Well few men have sense enough
01:14:19All the world over
01:14:21There are women longing for romance
01:14:25They're not content with their lives
01:14:27They want to colour them
01:14:29To be adventurous
01:14:31Yes I see
01:14:34When the house agent told me
01:14:36That you were letting your flat
01:14:38Because you'd won the lottery
01:14:43I knew that you
01:14:45Would be looking for some escape
01:14:46Some romantic escape
01:14:49I don't know why I'm telling you all this
01:14:51I'm sure
01:14:54Oh because you know how
01:14:56How much it interests me
01:15:01No woman ever tires of hearing
01:15:04How a man came to fall in love with her
01:15:10No of course she doesn't
01:15:12Does she my treasure
01:15:13And ours was a real romance wasn't it
01:15:16Just what you were looking for
01:15:26It's stuffy in here
01:15:37Where are you going
01:15:39There's no air in here
01:15:40You have all the doors and windows shut
01:15:42What's the matter you're shivering
01:15:44No
01:15:45Yes you are
01:15:47You don't need that night air
01:15:48What you need is a cup of coffee
01:15:50No thanks
01:15:51Oh yes you do
01:15:53Where's your scarf
01:15:55Time to put it on
01:15:58Time
01:15:59Time
01:16:01Because you're cold
01:16:04Come and sit down
01:16:06Come and sit down
01:16:17I'll get it for you
01:16:19I don't need it really
01:16:21Sure
01:16:29Strange coincidence
01:16:30Dr. Gribble and I both been interested in Fletcher
01:16:33Yes isn't it
01:16:34He thinks that most murderers are mad
01:16:36That they've got a kink somewhere
01:16:37That's nonsense of course
01:16:39A murderer is often a bit saner than other people
01:16:41Don't you agree
01:16:43You know that I don't study these things
01:16:45I don't know anything about it
01:16:47No
01:16:48Pity
01:16:49Now Fletcher here
01:16:51Fletcher's well worth studying
01:16:55He never makes a mistake
01:16:58He must be very clever
01:17:01He's a genius
01:17:05Gerald if you don't mind
01:17:08I think I'll go to bed
01:17:09I'm really terribly tired
01:17:13Have you forgotten
01:17:14You were going to help me
01:17:17Yes if you just
01:17:19Relax for a moment
01:17:20You seem to be under such tension
01:17:22Very well then I will
01:17:23If you read to me
01:17:25Read what
01:17:26From this book
01:17:28Not about
01:17:29Yes yes
01:17:30I want to hear
01:17:31I want to hear someone reading it
01:17:32Reading it out loud
01:17:34Thousands and thousands of people
01:17:35Must have read it
01:17:36Maybe reading it now
01:17:37But one can't see or hear them
01:17:40That's right that's right
01:17:41Begin at the
01:17:42Begin at the introduction
01:17:44All the best part of it's there
01:17:48Oh go on go on
01:17:51George Edward Fletcher
01:17:52To give him the name by which he was tried
01:17:55For his real name is still unknown
01:17:57Was acquitted of an attempted murder charge
01:18:00Owing to insufficient evidence
01:18:02And the brilliance of his defense
01:18:05Although he was suspected of having done away
01:18:07With no less than three young women
01:18:09Three
01:18:13After his acquittal
01:18:14Fletcher disappeared
01:18:16And three months later
01:18:17Overwhelming evidence against him came to light
01:18:20Speak louder dear
01:18:21Possessed of an extraordinary fascination
01:18:24He would make the acquaintance of a girl
01:18:26Persuade her to marry him
01:18:27After only a few weeks or even days
01:18:30And then induce her
01:18:31To sign papers making over to him
01:18:34Any sum of money she might possess
01:18:36I still can't hear you
01:18:38It was his habit to rent a small place
01:18:40In an out of the way neighborhood
01:18:42After living there for two or three months
01:18:44He would announce to neighbors or acquaintances
01:18:47That he and his wife were going abroad for some time
01:18:50Go on louder louder louder
01:18:52The fact that to Mrs. Fletcher
01:18:53At the moment was never actually seen
01:18:54To leave the place
01:18:56Seems to have awakened no suspicion
01:18:59Yet in every case
01:19:00The seller could have told a guilty secret
01:19:04Gerald!
01:19:05What?
01:19:09Now go on go on go on
01:19:11What if one of these women had found out beforehand
01:19:14And made an appeal to him
01:19:16Why do you ask?
01:19:18Well it's interesting to know
01:19:19How the mind of that kind of man works
01:19:22Do you think if he was fond of the woman
01:19:23That I suppose he was fond of some of them?
01:19:26Oh yes a bit certainly
01:19:27Then don't you think he would have listened to an appeal?
01:19:30The situation never arose
01:19:32I just imagine
01:19:33But no no no I'm quite sure
01:19:34He would never have let anything influence him
01:19:37But suppose she said to him look here
01:19:38I know who you are and what you're after
01:19:40I'm entirely at your mercy
01:19:42You can take the money all of it
01:19:44Ah but he got that money already
01:19:46Yes I know but suppose she said to him
01:19:47I don't care about that
01:19:49If only you let me go I promise
01:19:50I'll never prosecute you
01:19:51I'll never inform the police
01:19:53What do you think he might have said?
01:19:55Can you imagine
01:19:56Can you imagine a man risking his life
01:19:58On a woman's silence?
01:20:00And yet you think he'd welcome any chance
01:20:02Of escaping from the horror of the actual
01:20:07Then perhaps it didn't seem
01:20:12Perhaps there was no horror in it for him
01:20:16No no you see there are other sides to it
01:20:18Power
01:20:19The culmination of the race
01:20:20The climax of the music
01:20:22At one moment to hold someone in your arms
01:20:24And at the next to hold something
01:20:30Even if you scream no one will hear you
01:20:32Gerald wait
01:20:33Wait there's something I've got to tell you
01:20:34I don't want to hear it
01:20:35You will you must it concerns you
01:20:37What do you mean?
01:20:38It would be a queer thing wouldn't it
01:20:39If a murderer were to marry a murderess
01:20:41Queer yes
01:20:42But perfectly true
01:20:43It's about a woman who killed a man
01:20:45And was never found out
01:20:47What?
01:20:49What?
01:21:04Well what are you waiting for?
01:21:10I want to get the whole thing perfectly clear in my mind
01:21:15The whole truth
01:21:21You see
01:21:23It's my own story Gerald
01:21:25Your story?
01:21:27I killed a man
01:21:30And I was never found out
01:21:32You have?
01:21:33No one knew about it except my mother
01:21:37When was this?
01:21:39When I was 18
01:21:41When I was 18
01:21:43I was his secretary
01:21:45He had money
01:21:47I was terribly tired of being poor
01:21:49And this thing to wear out
01:21:52I loathed him he was mean
01:21:54He was years older than I was
01:21:57But I married him
01:22:00Well?
01:22:02It was really he who first put the idea into my head
01:22:04He used to say to me
01:22:07If we're careful with our money now
01:22:09It'll be all or more for me to leave you
01:22:12Where did all this happen?
01:22:15On the east coast
01:22:17A horrible little place
01:22:20The wind never stopped blowing
01:22:23Go on go on
01:22:25I turned plan after plan over in my mind
01:22:28And then finally my opportunity came
01:22:32What was it? Poison?
01:22:34Women usually use poison
01:22:36No
01:22:37It was much safer than that
01:22:40That winter he had pneumonia
01:22:42I pretended to be heartbroken
01:22:44It deceived everyone
01:22:46I insisted on taking care of it myself
01:22:48Ah yes yes that was clever of you
01:22:51And one night when I was alone with him
01:22:53I realized the crisis had perched
01:22:56That he was going to get better
01:22:59I walked over to the window
01:23:02I can see myself now standing there
01:23:05The frost had made such pretty patterns on the window pane
01:23:10I stood there trying to make up my mind
01:23:15You opened the window
01:23:18The air was like the night
01:23:22I stripped down to bed clothes
01:23:25And then I went outside to wait on the landing
01:23:31When I came back into the room
01:23:33He was dead
01:23:37I closed the window
01:23:39I made up the fire
01:23:42I even put fresh hot water bottles in the bed
01:23:45Ah good good good
01:23:47And then I went to the doctor
01:23:52No one suspected?
01:23:53No not a thing
01:23:56And the money?
01:23:57I was very foolish about the money
01:24:00It didn't last very long
01:24:03Ah yes I understand so well
01:24:06I always do exactly the same thing myself
01:24:09Only there's just one thing that I don't understand
01:24:15Oh?
01:24:16Why have you been telling me all this now?
01:24:20Don't you see?
01:24:21You know all about me and I know all about you
01:24:24Don't you see?
01:24:25You know all about me now
01:24:27I wouldn't dare give you away
01:24:29I thought perhaps you and I could be of use to one another in the future
01:24:34Yes yes that's a very good idea
01:24:39If only there were a grain of truth in your story
01:24:42Very clever of you Carol
01:24:44Arousing my interest in trying to put me off
01:24:46But I happen to know that story
01:24:47I've read the book myself
01:24:49I remembered it the moment you told me that bit about the frost on the window panes
01:24:52I remember that bit about the hot water bottle
01:24:54Struck me as being such a good idea when I read it
01:24:57You!
01:24:59You!
01:25:00Opening the window and waiting for him to die
01:25:05You don't think I believe that story do you?
01:25:09No!
01:25:10Not for one moment did I expect you to believe it
01:25:13I didn't care whether you believed it or not
01:25:15What?
01:25:16You've forgotten one thing you wonderful genius
01:25:19I didn't drink any coffee
01:25:22Coffee? What's that got to do with it?
01:25:24I only wanted to hold your interest for a little while to gain time
01:25:27Time for the stuff to work
01:25:29Stuff? What stuff?
01:25:30You're right it was a funny coincidence that Dr. Gribble should bring me that book tonight
01:25:35Gribble? He gave you...
01:25:36Yes! Yes!
01:25:37Women always use poison don't they?
01:25:41Now
01:25:47It's beginning to paralyze you
01:25:49You can't move Cameron
01:25:50You can't move
01:26:11Cameron dear
01:26:19He's dead. I'm positive this is Fletcher.
01:26:25Strange that we both had the same misgivings about him.
01:26:28I mean it, he's dead for sure.
01:26:31Yes, he is.
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