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The Letters (1973) is an anthology TV movie centered on three separate, dramatic stories wherein, after a postal plane crashes, crucial, life-altering letters are delayed for an entire year. Once delivered, these letters fundamentally change the lives of the recipients, revolving around infidelity, familial interference, and lost love
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00:00:17a mailman usually delivers about 1100 letters a day they come in all shapes
00:00:23and sizes bills mostly at least that's what people say but when you come to think of it
00:00:32there's probably nothing more important than what you get in your daily mail letters about births and
00:00:39deaths letters filled with happiness afternoon or despair the whole microcosm of life just for
00:00:49the price of a postage stamp did you ever stop to think what it'd be like if there was no
00:00:54mail or if
00:00:57letters written never got delivered or if urgent messages were delivered too late hi there pretty
00:01:08scary huh hmm you better believe it it could change the lives of everybody concerned it did too one time
00:01:22when three letters were delivered a year late yes sir change the lives of everybody
00:01:41you
00:01:49you
00:01:51you
00:01:52you
00:02:06you
00:02:36Are you sure you have everything?
00:02:37Think so.
00:02:38I wish I were going with you.
00:02:40Me too.
00:02:41Well, one thing about it, your trips are getting shorter and fewer.
00:02:44Yeah.
00:02:50I think we'd better get moving.
00:02:52We'd better.
00:02:53I told the children to hurry home.
00:02:56There!
00:02:57There!
00:02:58Hey!
00:02:58Hey!
00:02:59You almost missed the boat!
00:03:04The bus was late!
00:03:05Lisa runs like Dick Butkus.
00:03:07Who's Dick Butkus?
00:03:08Come on, now say goodbye to your father.
00:03:10I'll miss his plane.
00:03:10Bye-bye, love.
00:03:11So long, Dad.
00:03:13Could you give me one of those little liquor bottles from the plane?
00:03:16Yeah, sure.
00:03:16What kind?
00:03:17The mint stuff.
00:03:18The green kind.
00:03:19I don't have one of those.
00:03:20Gotcha.
00:03:20What do you want, Donna?
00:03:21I want a Mexican doll.
00:03:23A doll from Mexico.
00:03:26Yeah.
00:03:27Mom, can I go over with Trish?
00:03:28We've got a brownie meeting.
00:03:29All right.
00:03:31Bye.
00:03:32Bye.
00:03:32Hurry home.
00:03:33Get home before dark.
00:03:34Okay, Mom.
00:03:34Hey, Mom, I've got to go to Jimmy's.
00:03:36I'll be back later.
00:03:37All right.
00:03:38Bye, Dad.
00:03:40Oh, don't forget the Pro Bowl tickets.
00:03:43Okay.
00:03:45Come on, you better go.
00:03:46You're going to miss your plane.
00:04:02Something wrong?
00:04:04Why?
00:04:05You've hardly said a word since we left the house.
00:04:08Oh, I know it's silly, but I always hate it when you have to fly.
00:04:12You're right.
00:04:13That is silly.
00:04:14You know, on the way back home, I play the most awful game.
00:04:18What I'd do if anything ever happened to you and you didn't come home.
00:04:24That's kind of depressing.
00:04:25Mm-hmm.
00:04:36A woman's love is masochistic, don't you know that?
00:04:38No matter how happy we are, no matter how great things are going,
00:04:41there's always that chance that, um, well, it'll be taken away from us.
00:04:46And that's love?
00:04:48Mm, it'll do.
00:04:50At least for me.
00:04:54Well, take care of yourself.
00:04:56And the kids.
00:04:58Paul.
00:05:05You, too.
00:05:07Now, watch the food down there.
00:05:10I'll try to phone, but, you know, we're going to be looking at some land way out in the desert,
00:05:13so don't get worried, huh?
00:05:16I'll miss you, darling.
00:05:40I'll miss you, darling.
00:06:29Are you all right?
00:06:31Fine.
00:06:34Was it difficult?
00:06:39I didn't tell her.
00:06:50Anything?
00:06:52I tried.
00:06:53But every time I got close to it, I...
00:06:57I just don't want to hurt her, Laura.
00:07:01I swear, when we get there, I'll write to her.
00:07:04It'll be much easier for her.
00:07:07As a matter of fact, it'll be better for me, too.
00:07:09I'll be able to say things in that letter that I never would have been able to say ordinarily.
00:07:17It's been 14 years. It's not easy.
00:07:48I'll be able to say it.
00:07:55I'll be able to say it.
00:07:59Dearest Elaine, I wish I knew where to start.
00:08:04My life with you has been beautiful.
00:08:07Your love, the kids.
00:08:10It's all any man could ask for.
00:08:13Dear God, I'd give anything if I could keep from hurting you.
00:08:17I want you to know, Elaine, that I'll always take care of you and the kids.
00:08:23I just hope you can explain to them that a divorce is not the end, that sometimes it can be
00:08:29a beginning.
00:08:45You're not dressed.
00:08:47My stomach is just killing me.
00:08:49Oh, can I do something?
00:08:51No, thank you.
00:08:51How about some antacid?
00:08:52No.
00:08:52What about some plain soda water?
00:08:54No, no, no.
00:08:54For heaven's sake, no, Elaine.
00:09:03I'm sorry, Laura.
00:09:07Don't be silly.
00:09:09It's nothing.
00:09:10I'm really very sorry, Laura.
00:09:18Well, I'll allow you at least three of those a week, all right?
00:09:21All right.
00:09:23Come on, you better hurry.
00:09:24We have a reservation in half an hour.
00:09:26My stomach is just exploding.
00:09:28It must have been those rum and tequila sours.
00:09:31Donnie, could we have dinner in the room?
00:09:33We've been out every night since we got here.
00:09:35It'd be good for both of us.
00:09:37We can't.
00:09:37We promised the Hortons, remember?
00:09:40Oh, yes, yes, of course.
00:09:41I completely forgot about them.
00:09:45Laura, I can't.
00:09:48Why don't you go and meet the Hortons?
00:09:52Why don't I just meet them for a quick dinner,
00:09:54and I'll be right back, okay?
00:09:55Okay.
00:09:56Is that all right with you?
00:09:57Yeah.
00:09:57Are you sure?
00:09:58Are you sure you don't want to miss?
00:09:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, really.
00:10:01Give me a chance to finish my letter.
00:10:03All right.
00:10:04I'll be back before you miss me.
00:10:06All right.
00:10:07Oh.
00:10:10Have a good time.
00:10:12I will, but I'll miss you.
00:10:13Take care.
00:10:15All right.
00:11:31Can't you find somewhere else to play?
00:11:33You've got the whole beach.
00:11:35ER's on.
00:11:36They shouldn't let kids in this hotel.
00:11:37You can't relax for a minute.
00:11:39Oh, Laura, they're just playing.
00:11:40They should find somewhere else to play.
00:11:45Come on.
00:11:46Let's go back to the room.
00:11:49Paul.
00:11:51Well, why are you acting like I'm some kind of ogre or something?
00:11:56Well, it wasn't intentional.
00:11:57They're just a couple of boys.
00:11:59Well, that's not what I'm talking about.
00:12:00I'm talking about the way you're acting, your attitude.
00:12:03I thought we were talking about your attitude.
00:12:05Just because I lose my temper once, that means I hate all kids.
00:12:08Laura, I didn't say that you hated kids.
00:12:13Well, I don't.
00:12:15I mean, I love them.
00:12:20And after a while, after we're married for a while, I want to have your children.
00:12:27Maybe that's what we're talking about here, really.
00:12:31What do you mean?
00:12:34I already have my children.
00:13:16I want you to stay.
00:13:19Your ticket's in here.
00:13:20Hotel bill is paid.
00:13:21And there's money in the envelope.
00:13:25Is that what you think I want?
00:13:27Your money?
00:13:28That's not what I meant, Laura.
00:13:29And you know it.
00:13:36Why run away?
00:13:39Let's talk about it.
00:13:41Maybe we can find some answers.
00:13:53I'm trying to do what's right for both of us.
00:13:56You don't believe that, but I am.
00:13:59Now, we could go on this way for days, weeks, maybe even years.
00:14:04But it would always end this way.
00:14:10Why?
00:14:12Because...
00:14:13Because...
00:14:15I'm part of a family.
00:14:20And whatever it is that a family is, well, I think that's important.
00:14:31If I'm too old and too tired to start a new one, it wouldn't be fair to you.
00:14:40Tell me the truth.
00:14:44You never intended to write that letter, did you?
00:14:50That's not true.
00:14:52I don't.
00:14:54I don't.
00:14:58I don't.
00:15:00I don't.
00:15:03I don't.
00:15:05I don't.
00:15:15I don't.
00:15:16I don't.
00:15:17I don't really know.
00:15:24I don't.
00:15:25I don't.
00:15:26I think that...
00:15:28That we could make it.
00:15:32Maybe.
00:15:45I'm sorry.
00:15:48I'm very sorry.
00:15:50I don't.
00:15:52I don't.
00:16:25I don't.
00:16:27Would you like a drink, sir?
00:16:29Sir?
00:16:30Would you like a drink?
00:16:31Oh, yes.
00:16:32Scotch and soda, please.
00:16:34No.
00:16:34That green stuff.
00:16:37Creme de menthe, please.
00:16:38Yes, sir.
00:16:55If you want a drink, please.
00:16:56But no one wants to vote.
00:16:56No.
00:17:02No.
00:17:03No.
00:17:05No.
00:17:15No.
00:17:15No.
00:17:15No.
00:17:16No.
00:17:17No.
00:17:18No.
00:17:18No.
00:17:19No.
00:17:19No.
00:17:21Come in, please.
00:17:56Would you mail this for me, please?
00:17:58Si, senorita.
00:18:00So, letter number one was on its way.
00:18:06In quite different surroundings, a love affair would lead to the second letter.
00:18:19Do, do, do, do.
00:18:24Do, do, do, do!
00:18:30Do, do.
00:19:10Thank you. Thank you for coming.
00:19:19Oh, Derek, you were wonderful.
00:19:21Don't.
00:19:23Please, don't.
00:19:24No, I mean it. You are. You were brilliant.
00:19:26And how many of them were here? Or even gave a damn?
00:19:28Well, I, for one, very much gave a damn.
00:19:31That's it. Tomorrow night is my last recital, the last one I give.
00:19:35You can't mean that.
00:19:36You can't walk out on a talent, on a God-given gift.
00:19:40The only thing that God ever gave me is enough talent to taste what success might be like.
00:19:43And that, for 20 years, that's all I've done is taste it and smell it.
00:19:46Coming from somebody else's kitchen.
00:19:48I can't make it.
00:19:50Not if you don't believe you can.
00:19:53You're good, Derek. Better than most.
00:19:56All you need is a chance.
00:19:59A well-financed, well-planned concert tour.
00:20:03And you'll get it. I know you will.
00:20:09I'm sorry, Ben.
00:20:12We are talking about me.
00:20:14Why don't we change the subject?
00:20:16To what?
00:20:18Something more important than all of this.
00:20:21To us.
00:20:23I want to marry you.
00:20:28What, don't you want to?
00:20:30Oh, Derek.
00:20:32Oh, yes, I want to.
00:20:35Oh.
00:20:36But we, we have to talk.
00:20:38There's so many things I have to tell you.
00:20:39We can talk whenever you like.
00:20:42Tomorrow?
00:20:43At my house?
00:21:10Where you will be.
00:21:11What?
00:21:11Oh, sorry.
00:21:27The plot.
00:21:27How many people you provided in here?
00:21:27Oh, my goodness.
00:21:28What do?
00:21:28The flag is not as not.
00:21:28A good actor.
00:21:29What?
00:21:29I dare not.
00:21:29There you go for.
00:21:29I'll never interview to because he knows over here so many.
00:21:29So many people, can you imagine and take that a Halloween?
00:21:29Best?
00:21:29Oh, okay.
00:21:31Are you?
00:21:31This one 우리?
00:21:38There would be a queen left?
00:21:38I'll never get it filled with my friend right now.
00:21:39I'll do something.
00:21:48my my aren't you glad to see me i wasn't expecting you till sometime next month
00:21:54i know i called last night to tell you i was coming back which you wanted in
00:21:57i was yes michael told me about your mr child i must say he's much better looking than all the
00:22:05others he's much more than that oh i'm sure he is but let me find out for myself i love
00:22:11surprises
00:22:16geraldine don't spoil it for me not this time please did you tell him yet
00:22:28oh you didn't did you no not yet but i will and it won't make any difference
00:22:34well i'm sure if he's all you think he is he he should be a unique experience in your life
00:22:45tell him penny or i will
00:22:53and you know how much pleasure that will give me
00:23:22michael bring the drinks over here please
00:23:31my sister geraldine derek child hi has penny introduced you to the parking and family drink
00:23:38yet eric not yet it's derrick oh i'm sorry i like eric much better i had a puppy dog once
00:23:48named eric
00:23:49go on taste it it's the first of a two-part test you'll have to pass in order to even
00:23:54be considered
00:23:55a likely candidate but for what office the keeper of the parkington treasure key
00:24:03job does offer great possibilities doesn't it eric
00:24:07future sister-in-law i hope i'm wrong but i don't think you and i are going to get along
00:24:12oh but we'll have to who
00:24:15unless of course you're everything that penny says you are and that you
00:24:19haven't any interest in money at all he's geraldine oh dear i've been through this so many times with
00:24:28penny's friends it's um it's difficult to find a fresh approach why don't you tell us straight up
00:24:35that would be a fresh approach for you all right straight up penny doesn't have any money of her
00:24:41own except for a 10 000 yearly allowance i control the entire parkington fortune
00:24:51you see my father had two very different gifts to give his daughters money and love the trouble was
00:24:58that well he he never gave both to one person it was either one or the other and penny got
00:25:05his love
00:25:06which you tried to steal from me for as long as i can remember oh penny darling i don't have
00:25:13to steal
00:25:13anything i can buy whatever i want
00:25:24derek it's uh it's getting late i better go get dressed for the recital you haven't tasted your drink
00:25:37it's very good it's very good isn't it
00:25:58so
00:26:10so
00:26:12so
00:26:48Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo.
00:26:59Eric, I thought I bought out the house for tonight's performance.
00:27:04What else did you buy, Geraldine?
00:27:06Penelope.
00:27:10I'll go backstage and change.
00:27:13I'll be right out.
00:27:20You can't have him, Geraldine.
00:27:21I won't let you.
00:27:24I'm going to marry him.
00:27:25Oh, don't be childish, Penny.
00:27:27If I want him, and mind you, I do find him rather interesting, much more of a man than you
00:27:32could ever handle.
00:27:33If I want him, I will take him.
00:27:38You should have died!
00:27:43Next time, I'll let you die.
00:27:46There won't be a next time I'm having too much fun to even think of suicide.
00:27:50Oh, there'll be another time.
00:27:52And I'm just going to watch.
00:27:54And I'm not going to lift a finger to stop you.
00:27:57Oh, poor, dear, sweet Penelope.
00:28:00The soft and tender child that Daddy loves so much.
00:28:03If you did let me die, you would have had it all by now.
00:28:07But you couldn't.
00:28:08You were too soft and tender.
00:28:10Disgustingly giving.
00:28:11That's why Daddy left me all the money.
00:28:13If he left it to you, you'd give it away like so much ice cream to a lot of hungry
00:28:17children.
00:28:18He knew that without it, you were nothing.
00:28:21Even with it, you don't come up to much.
00:28:25Enough to take what you want.
00:28:28Now, Penny, Derek is mine.
00:28:32I'm going to take him.
00:28:34He loves me!
00:28:36Me!
00:28:37He loves one thing.
00:28:39Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
00:28:44For as much as these two people have consented together in holy wedlock
00:28:48and have witnessed the same before God and this company
00:28:51and thereto have given and pledged their troth each to the other
00:28:54and have declared the same by giving and receiving a ring and by joining hands,
00:28:58I pronounce that they are man and wife.
00:29:01In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
00:29:21We're going to hop these islands forever and ever.
00:29:24Just the two of us.
00:29:26It's been three months.
00:29:27What happens when you run out of islands?
00:29:29I'll buy another island.
00:29:31Anything you want.
00:29:33I'll build you another island.
00:29:35That's what I'll do.
00:29:35What I want, just what you promised me.
00:29:37Nothing else.
00:29:38That's who the best concert tour money can buy.
00:29:40Good when?
00:29:41When I decide it's time.
00:29:59Okay, boat's ready.
00:30:00You set?
00:30:01All set.
00:30:03Darling, oh darling, you are wonderful.
00:30:06After what happened yesterday, well, you're just wonderful.
00:30:09You know, you probably did me a favor.
00:30:11Truth is, I'm really afraid.
00:30:12When I think about it, maybe it's better if I don't find out whether I could have made it a
00:30:17matter.
00:30:18Come on, we've got enough liquor out there to make Parkinson's.
00:30:20We'll fill the ocean with them.
00:30:24All right.
00:30:25Yeah, I'll buy leather.
00:30:27All right?
00:30:28Yeah.
00:30:28Let's go.
00:30:38No more for me.
00:30:39Come on, come on now.
00:30:41You're slowing down.
00:30:43No.
00:30:45I don't know whether it's drinking these things on the ocean.
00:30:50I'm drinking these things on water, but these yours are even a lot stronger than me.
00:31:01Here you are.
00:31:03Come on now, finish that.
00:31:04No.
00:31:04Come on.
00:31:05No, I can't.
00:31:05Come on.
00:31:06That's a good girl.
00:31:08Finish it up.
00:31:09All the way.
00:31:10That's a good girl.
00:31:11Now, you can finish one more.
00:31:13Oh, no, no, no.
00:31:13One more.
00:31:14Come on.
00:31:15Come on.
00:31:16Come on.
00:31:19That's it.
00:31:22I knew you could do it.
00:31:24You've got to be a sailor, you've got to know how to drink, you know.
00:31:27Sailors drink rum and all that.
00:31:29Fifteen men and a dead men.
00:31:45Hey, Jerry.
00:31:52Geraldine.
00:31:54Geraldine.
00:31:58Geraldine.
00:32:03Hey, Geraldine, come on.
00:32:35Oh, my God.
00:33:01Oh, my God.
00:33:31Oh, my God.
00:34:08Oh, my God.
00:34:43Oh, my God.
00:34:59Oh, my God.
00:35:23Oh, my God.
00:35:23Oh, my God.
00:35:47Oh, my God.
00:35:55Oh, my God.
00:35:57Oh, my God.
00:36:05Oh, my God.
00:36:08Oh, my God.
00:36:10Oh, my God.
00:36:14Oh, my God.
00:36:28Oh, my God.
00:36:48Joe, when are you going to marry me?
00:36:52We need to marry me.
00:36:55We need to marry you.
00:37:40We need to marry you.
00:37:51I get it, man. I got nothing to prove.
00:37:52You're proving something just by standing there with you guys hanging out yelling.
00:37:59What's Hastings going to think when he hears you backed out?
00:38:02Ain't going to have much confidence.
00:38:04Word gets around here pretty fast, and before you know it, the whole county finds out.
00:38:09Ain't no track going to want you.
00:38:11Yes, sir. The only way you're going to race around here, boys, is if you can take me.
00:38:16You got that.
00:38:21You got that.
00:38:24You got that.
00:38:54You got that.
00:39:00You got that.
00:39:14You got that.
00:39:23Sonny!
00:39:24Sonny!
00:39:24You can't help him, Billy!
00:39:25Let him go!
00:39:26You can't help him!
00:39:29You killed him!
00:39:30You killed my brother!
00:39:32He was trying to run me into the rail, you saw it?
00:39:34Yeah, that ain't the way it looked us.
00:39:36You know, this town don't know you two, well, but they know all of us.
00:39:38And what do you think they're gonna do when we bring you in for murdering Sonny?
00:39:46No, no!
00:39:46No!
00:39:49No!
00:39:50No!
00:39:51No!
00:39:51No!
00:39:55No!
00:39:58No!
00:40:09Well, I'll find out, mister.
00:40:12Hang on just a minute.
00:40:13Yeah.
00:40:16Hey, Joe?
00:40:17Yeah?
00:40:18Is Mrs. Forrester's car ready yet?
00:40:20Yeah, yeah.
00:40:21It's all set.
00:40:22It's out back.
00:40:23She wants you to bring it over to the club.
00:40:25Hey, I'm on my way.
00:40:47I have your keys, Mrs. Forrester.
00:40:50You're welcome.
00:40:53Do you suppose if we could talk, ma'am?
00:40:57No, not we.
00:40:59No, not we.
00:40:59I'll talk.
00:41:01I think you should listen.
00:41:05Joe.
00:41:08Please sit down, will you?
00:41:19I wanted to talk to you, Mrs. Forrester, because I thought that maybe we could work something out between us
00:41:25so that Karen could have it a little easier.
00:41:33Leave her alone, will you please, Joe?
00:41:36It could never work hard, and you know it.
00:41:38I love Karen.
00:41:40Now, that's what's really important, isn't it?
00:41:42That's what frightens me.
00:41:44Well, then you're just gonna have to keep running scared, Mrs. Forrester.
00:41:50Karen and me are getting married.
00:41:53No, you're not, Joe.
00:41:55If you try, you go to jail where you belong.
00:42:01It only took a week and one private detective to find out about you.
00:42:11Oh, you're something.
00:42:14You're really something else, you know that lady?
00:42:19I'm a mother, Joe.
00:42:23That's all.
00:42:25A mother who doesn't want to see her daughter drown.
00:42:30Please believe me, I don't want to hurt you.
00:42:33But if I have to, I'll bury you.
00:42:36Now, Joe, I want you out of town by tonight, and if you don't go, I'll call the sheriff's office
00:42:41and they'll take you out.
00:42:43Back across the state line, where they want you for the killing of that boy.
00:42:47That was an accident, Mrs. Forrester.
00:42:50Of course, I don't expect you to believe that, any more than you believe that I love Karen or that
00:42:55she's the only good thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life.
00:42:59Joe, give her a chance to live.
00:43:00Give her a chance to find some happiness.
00:43:04You can't give her anything but misery.
00:43:09Heartbreak.
00:43:16Joe, leave town today.
00:43:19Don't try to see her again.
00:43:21Don't ever talk to her.
00:43:23Or I swear it, if I have to, I'll keep you apart with prison bars.
00:43:30Don't.
00:43:33No.
00:43:35Oh, my God.
00:44:21Oh, my God.
00:44:49Oh, my God.
00:44:57Oh, my God.
00:44:57Oh, my God.
00:44:58Oh, my God.
00:45:08Oh, my God.
00:45:27Oh, my God.
00:45:27Oh, my God.
00:45:28Oh, my God.
00:45:43Oh, my God.
00:45:47Oh, my God.
00:45:49Oh, my God.
00:46:03Oh, my God.
00:46:08Oh, my God.
00:46:09Oh, my God.
00:46:16Oh, my God.
00:46:31Oh, my God.
00:46:33Oh, my God.
00:46:35You know, I've told you and I've warned you.
00:46:38Now, if you call again, I'm going to the police.
00:46:52What's the matter? You look all shook up.
00:46:55Oh, nothing, dear. Just a little headache.
00:46:58Then maybe I'd better wait to talk to you.
00:47:00About what?
00:47:01I tell you about what, there's no point in waiting, is there?
00:47:04Now, Karen, if you want to talk to me, I want to listen.
00:47:09But if we're just going to have anger and bitterness, then you're right. I'll wait.
00:47:15Mother, that day that Joe came to see you at the club,
00:47:19if he told you that he loved me and wanted to marry me,
00:47:22what would you have said to him?
00:47:24No, not again.
00:47:26I'm not going through this with you one more time.
00:47:28Mother, please, just once more. It's important.
00:47:31All right. I would have tried to talk him out of it,
00:47:33told him he wasn't ready to get married, and neither were you.
00:47:36Yes, I was.
00:47:39I'm pregnant.
00:47:53I'm pregnant.
00:47:54How far along?
00:47:56Three months.
00:48:00Now, listen, Karen, maybe we can...
00:48:02Mother, I am going to keep this baby, so don't try and talk me out of it.
00:48:05I'll leave here if I have to.
00:48:07But I'm keeping Joe's baby.
00:48:11For a man you're never going to see again?
00:48:13Joe is coming back.
00:48:15And when he does, I'll be here waiting for him with his baby.
00:48:19He's not coming back, Karen.
00:48:21You've got to take my word for it.
00:48:23Joe loves me.
00:48:26He'll be back.
00:48:40Joe?
00:48:44Oh, no, Jane.
00:48:45I...
00:48:46I'm sorry.
00:48:47I'm not coming to the club today.
00:48:50I'll call you later.
00:48:52Right, goodbye.
00:49:39Hi, Mrs. White.
00:49:40Hi, Joe.
00:49:41How's work?
00:49:43Oh, you know, the same.
00:49:44Okay.
00:49:45Want me to order you some supper?
00:49:49No, no.
00:49:50No, thank you.
00:49:51Got me a letter to write.
00:49:54Dear Mrs. Forrester,
00:49:57I'm writing to you because I know that you'd never let Karen get my letter.
00:50:01You were right in what you said back there about me and Karen.
00:50:05I couldn't have given her anything but a bad time.
00:50:08Not because I didn't love her enough.
00:50:11Because I did.
00:50:12And I still do.
00:50:15No, it wasn't that.
00:50:17But the trouble was I didn't like myself enough.
00:50:20I felt that giving her me was like giving her nothing.
00:50:24And she deserves much more than that.
00:50:27So tomorrow morning, I'm going back because I didn't kill that fellow and I'm going to prove it.
00:50:32And if it turns out for me, then it's got to.
00:50:37Then I'm coming back for Karen.
00:50:46Ready for yourself for now, Joe?
00:50:47Yes, ma'am.
00:50:48Just as soon as I mail this letter.
00:50:50And Mrs. White, you better make it the biggest T-bone you got because I am hungry.
00:51:04What a crazy fool.
00:51:05He ran out of nowhere.
00:51:06I didn't even see him until it was too late.
00:51:10Stand back, everybody.
00:51:11Stand back.
00:51:12Please, ma'am.
00:51:13Give him room.
00:51:21Anyone know this kid?
00:51:23He's dead.
00:51:39Everyone stand clear.
00:51:40I'll call the coroner.
00:51:54Operator, I'd like to make a long-distance call to Oxnard, California.
00:51:59Yes.
00:52:01No, I don't know the number, but the name of the party is Forrester.
00:52:06I see.
00:52:10Yes.
00:52:11Yes, we did know the boy.
00:52:16Thank you so much for calling me.
00:52:19Goodbye.
00:52:23Boy, have I got the flaws.
00:52:34Karen.
00:52:38Listen to me, dear.
00:52:42Joe.
00:52:44What about Joe?
00:52:47I had a call.
00:52:52He's been killed in a car accident somewhere in Arizona.
00:52:58No.
00:53:01No.
00:53:04No.
00:53:04No.
00:53:12And now, all three letters were mailed.
00:53:21They all came here, the central processing.
00:53:26Oh, my God.
00:53:28They all came here.
00:53:54From here, they were put on a carrier plane.
00:54:36And they stopped here.
00:54:46We don't often lose mail, but here's where these letters stayed for almost a year.
00:55:21And they stopped here.
00:55:29And now, after all this time, they finally came to me to be delivered.
00:55:55Here, let me help you.
00:55:56No, that's all right. You get the door. I'll handle this.
00:55:59You must take a terrible ribbing down at the office.
00:56:03Seeking off time to go grocery shopping.
00:56:07No, no, no. I'll just tell them that I've got a wife who can't see over her own stomach and
00:56:13trips over the lawn sprinklers.
00:56:15Thank you. I needed that.
00:56:23.
00:56:24.
00:56:25.
00:56:26.
00:56:28.
00:56:29.
00:57:02Yes?
00:57:03Uh, Mrs. Paul Anderson, please.
00:57:05She's busy at the moment. May I help? I'm Mr. Anderson.
00:57:07Oh, I have a special delivery letter for her. It was mailed over a year ago.
00:57:12Unfortunately, a carrier was lost. Plane crash. And, uh, we just recovered it.
00:57:19I've been authorized to deliver it along with the Postal Service's apologies for the delay.
00:57:24That letter, sir, where was it mailed from?
00:57:27All right. It's, uh, Postmark Gwemus.
00:57:30Oh, well, I see. Uh, thank you. I wrote it a year ago while I was off on a business
00:57:34trip.
00:57:34Oh. What do I sign for it?
00:57:36Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Anderson. Because of the special circumstances, I have to deliver this personally to the party it's
00:57:43addressed to.
00:57:45May I see, Mrs. Anderson?
00:57:49Oh, sir. That letter never should have been mailed.
00:57:55Delivering it now would only hurt my wife. Please.
00:58:01I'm sorry, Mr. Anderson. There's really nothing I can do about it. It has to be delivered.
00:58:07You don't understand. I wrote it a year ago. It will ruin everything.
00:58:17I'm truly sorry.
00:58:29This gentleman has got something for you.
00:58:32Now, this letter was mailed to you a year ago. A carrier plane crashed and a bag of mail from
00:58:37it was just found.
00:58:38If you'll, uh, sign here, please.
00:58:41Oh, yes.
00:58:44Thank you. We're sorry about the delay. Very sorry.
00:59:15Stuart, they say about the post office.
00:59:18Either rain, snow, heat, or...
00:59:22or gloom of night could...
00:59:28Elaine.
00:59:55I guess I can't complain that you didn't write me while you were in Mexico.
00:59:58There we go.
01:00:48Why did you do that?
01:00:50Who wants to read a letter that's a year old?
01:00:53Probably a travelogue anyway.
01:00:56You never were a very good letter writer.
01:01:01I'll bet you one thing.
01:01:04What's that, darling?
01:01:06I'll never write another one.
01:01:08Who wants to read another cookie?
01:01:23You never write another cookie?
01:01:23Tenderáve, Mr. Childs.
01:01:25Your manager's on the line.
01:01:26I'm here.
01:01:26All right, I'm in.
01:01:36Uh, Phil?
01:01:38No. No, that is not good enough. I've already played Carnegie Hall. Look, Phil, I don't want to argue about
01:01:46it. Either arrange out a European tour or I'll get somebody else. And start with London.
01:01:54I'm afraid Miss Parkington no longer lives here.
01:01:57Oh. Well, do you have a forwarding address for her?
01:02:01Yes, I'll write it down for you.
01:02:03Okay.
01:02:06We're sorry about the foul of them delivering this. Hope it didn't spoil anything. Would you sign here, please?
01:02:17Thanks, Miss Parkington.
01:02:39Dearest Penelope, just a short note to let you know how happy I've been these past three months. It's hard
01:02:46to believe it's me, but I'm in love.
01:02:48Yes, with your Derek.
01:02:50I owe you so much, Penny. There's so much to repay.
01:02:54Now, that's a lovely testimonial to a charitable and fine woman, but what is the point to all of this,
01:03:01Penelope? I'm a very busy man.
01:03:04The postmark on this letter is the same day that Geraldine died.
01:03:08Oh, right. What's that supposed to prove?
01:03:12I think back to the three attempts I made on my life, and I thank God I was never successful.
01:03:17What a beautiful life it is, Penny, and what a terrible waste it would have been.
01:03:22Does that sound like a woman about to commit suicide?
01:03:26Well, does it, Derek?
01:03:27Now, listen.
01:03:30I told the police what happened.
01:03:33I, uh, I was up, up in the deck, and, uh, she was below filling us up with those drinks,
01:03:38and when I came down, she'd already done it.
01:03:41Now, what motive could I have, Penelope?
01:03:44I had everything.
01:03:46She would have given me the world if I'd asked for it.
01:03:48Except what you really wanted.
01:03:51Derek keeps bringing up the concert tour, I promised him.
01:03:55But I can't go through with it.
01:03:57Sometimes I feel the hatred so strong in his eyes, I think he might even kill me, and I'm frightened.
01:04:02But then he smiles, and it's all wonderful again.
01:04:07Penelope, that is nothing.
01:04:10That's not hard proof. That's nothing.
01:04:11I wonder if a second inquest would feel the same way as you do.
01:04:15The first time, it was touch and go. Do you remember, Derek?
01:04:18For a while there, I thought you weren't going to make it.
01:04:23Oh, fair enough.
01:04:25Why don't we let them read Geraldine's letter and decide for themselves?
01:04:40It's just a copy, Derek.
01:04:42The original is in my lawyer's safe, along with a letter from me,
01:04:45stating that should I die suddenly, you might be considered a prime suspect.
01:04:57Penelope, please, don't go to the police, please.
01:05:04The police?
01:05:07Oh, no, Derek, no.
01:05:11Now, I'm not going to go to the police.
01:05:13I've waited much too long, and I have too much to make up for to let them have you.
01:05:27There are two things that I want from you, Derek.
01:05:32The first, and there'll be no further discussion about this,
01:05:35no more music for you.
01:05:38You can't afford it.
01:05:44And second,
01:05:47bring my suitcases up to our bedroom,
01:05:52Eric Dali.
01:06:13Oh, my God!
01:06:34Ah!
01:06:50Karen what's wrong with him I don't know what's wrong with her Karen
01:07:01she is your baby don't you want to take care of her no mother I can't not right now
01:07:12it's been happening just like you said every time I look at her all kinds of questions go
01:07:18through my mind why did he leave me did he love me mother did he really love me I could
01:07:24live with
01:07:25that I could live with her just knowing he did but not like this
01:08:16all right
01:08:18all right
01:08:40I have an airmail letter for mrs. Forrester oh I'm mrs. Forrester this letter's been delayed a while over a
01:08:46year as a matter of fact I think I better explain
01:08:52and she deserves much more than that so tomorrow morning I'm going back mrs. Forrester back to
01:08:59where my life became dirt because I didn't kill that fellow and I'm going to prove it and if it
01:09:05turns out for me and it's got to then I'm coming back for Karen
01:09:11you
01:09:21who
01:09:23are
01:09:39bear
01:10:03It was lost in a plane crash.
01:10:06They just recovered it.
01:10:10Darling, I'm sorry.
01:10:14You were right in what you said back there about me and Karen.
01:10:18Not because I didn't love her enough.
01:10:20Because I did.
01:10:22And I still do.
01:10:23And if it turns out for me, and it's got to,
01:10:29then I'm coming back for Karen.
01:10:37I only wanted to do what was best for you.
01:10:41I swear that's all I wanted.
01:11:12I wanted to do what was best for you.
01:11:33Don't go in there.
01:11:42Don't go in there.
01:11:43You didn't, and I love you for it.
01:11:45I don't know what it took for you to give me that letter.
01:11:49But you didn't just give me a letter.
01:11:54You gave me Joe back.
01:11:56But you gave me my daughter back.
01:12:02I love you, Mama.
01:12:06Don't you say that you Bettina never night.
01:12:06I mean, you didn't ask me.
01:12:07I'll do my best for you.
01:12:15My sister.
01:12:16Bye.
01:12:16Bye.
01:12:16Bye.
01:12:19Bye.
01:12:21Bye.
01:12:21Bye.
01:12:22Bye.
01:12:23Bye.
01:12:24Bye.
01:12:34Yes, sir, you never know what's in a letter, do you?
01:12:37Good news, bad news, you just never know.
01:12:41Well, we'll see that you get your mail, okay?
01:12:44May take us a little time, but sooner or later, you'll get your letter.
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