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00:08We simply must be brave, mustn't we?
00:12Heaven knows it'll be hard.
00:14It'll be beastly.
00:17But we're strong people, Tony, you and I.
00:20And what we feel for each other, it'll endure.
00:23It will endure.
00:27So...
00:29I shall stay in my shop.
00:32And you and yours.
00:34And all I ask is that you don't grow to hate me.
00:38How could I hate you, ma'am?
00:39What the hell was that?
00:41Cut!
00:43Billy, what was that?
00:45Just a car back bar, you think, mister?
00:47It sounded like a pistol.
00:49It didn't sound like a ruddy pistol, Stu.
00:51You all right, my pet?
00:52Yeah, I'm fine. I think I'm just a bit tired.
00:55Of course, darling. You must be.
00:57Tell you what, how about a proper dinner after this?
01:00Like we used to before the war.
01:02Oh, yeah. That would be wonderful.
01:04None of this canteen muck. No offence.
01:07Sandra, are you okay?
01:09Yes, yes, Jessie, I'm fine. Don't pass.
01:12How was my pout at the end?
01:13Could do with a dab, actually.
01:18Miss dear, only wears victory red.
01:20Besseme.
01:20Please, can we just stop faffing and get on with it?
01:23Mary, thank you.
01:24Yes, Miss dear.
01:25All right.
01:26All right.
01:27Ad Astra Peraspera.
01:29We must have bodies.
01:31Abracadabra.
01:31Stuart, stop it.
01:32I'd like to concentrate.
01:34Have.
01:36Quiet!
01:36Love Lorne in London.
01:38Scene 28, take three.
01:41Action!
01:43We simply must be brave, mustn't we?
01:47Heaven knows it'll be hard.
01:49It'll be feasted.
01:51I'm strong.
02:01Oh, my.
02:04And this is on his bedroom wall.
02:08Rose red and rolled gold.
02:11I said to him, Stuart, Stu, I said.
02:14You are just like this paper.
02:16You're so strong and modern.
02:18He handled this very role.
02:23Can I touch it?
02:25Uh, I shouldn't really, but, um,
02:30well, since your extra's in my cake shop.
02:40This is the last thing he sees when he gets him to bed.
02:43Yes.
02:44And the first thing he sees when he gets up in the morning
02:47and his hair's all disarranged.
02:50It's 14 shillings.
02:56Tell you what, it's a bit irregular, but, um,
03:01I could let you have a sample for, well, sixpence, say?
03:05And then you could keep a little reminder of him wherever you go.
03:08Oh, yes.
03:10Yeah, yeah.
03:29Cube change.
03:31Mr. Book, didn't expect a welcoming committee.
03:34I thought I'd better prepare you.
03:37For what?
03:37There have been some changes since you went away on your long errand, Jack.
03:41Oh, by the way, Lord Belbra's first folio.
03:44What did they say?
03:44Is it genuine?
03:46As his taste.
03:48Oh, dear.
03:54What the hell?
03:55Close.
03:57Hollywood.
03:58Or rather, the nearest England can get to it.
04:01Yes, Jack.
04:02They're going to be in pictures.
04:05All right, then.
04:06Let's hear it.
04:07Oh, you're ready.
04:10Life and death.
04:12The whole world is here in this little patch of London town.
04:17You're going to do it like that?
04:21Life and death.
04:22The whole world here in this little world.
04:24No, I think we'll just lose the line.
04:26I'm already worried about the...
04:28...nostage.
04:30You'll be smashing in the background there.
04:33Let's take ten.
04:35Ten minutes, Sue.
04:37Billy.
04:38Norena.
04:39Rather jumpy this morning, isn't she?
04:41Our dear Sandra.
04:43We work on hours in the picture business, Norena.
04:46Oh, don't I know it?
04:47And it must be so hard to keep that from telling on the faces of your stars.
04:52If you'll excuse me.
04:55Just the exteriors are being done here, you understand.
04:58The rest is at Ladyhurst.
05:00That's the studios.
05:01See, I know all the jargon.
05:02Who's in it?
05:03Morning, Mr. B.
05:04Good morning.
05:06Stuart Howard.
05:08Yes, mister.
05:08I like him.
05:09He's passed me by entirely, I'm afraid.
05:12He plays the hero.
05:13The idealistic young bookshop owner in love with the girl next door.
05:18Did you never see him in that submarine picture?
05:20He went mad and tried to throttle everyone.
05:22I mean, he was proper sweaty.
05:23Alash.
05:25Well, who else?
05:26Patience.
05:27You've literally arrived halfway through this picture, and you've yet to set eyes on our
05:30leading lady, who's also Stuart's fiancée, his real-life fiancée.
05:37Sandra there.
05:39She's using my room, decanted my thing so she can do her mascara, sip her Vichy water,
05:44whatever it is these people do.
05:47I had a cigarette card of her, before the war, of course.
05:52Fuck.
05:54It's the book.
05:55Ah.
05:56Not getting too much in your way, I trust?
05:58Not at all.
05:58Certainly an education.
06:00Larry Olivier calls film an anemic little medium.
06:03He's such a crashing snob.
06:06For he today would shed his blood with me, shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile.
06:11Churlish when they gave him the Oscar.
06:12Jack, this is Mr. McKendrick.
06:14Delighted.
06:15Oh, and here's Nora.
06:16The gang's all here.
06:17So, you're all the director?
06:19And the writer.
06:20I thought you'd be older, with a monocle and a writing quote.
06:23Mustn't believe everything you read in the film magazines, young lady.
06:27I've seen you before.
06:29Mr. McKendrick had a lot of green penguins from us last summer.
06:32Oh, yeah.
06:34You look different.
06:35It's the shorts.
06:36I'm not wearing shorts.
06:38That's why you look different.
06:39Yes, you were very busy me, as I recall.
06:41You were always running about the place, weren't you, Mr. McKendrick?
06:43Jessie.
06:44Jessie.
06:46Ah, hello, Norena.
06:49In search of material for your next article?
06:51Always.
06:52Well, the bin's around the back.
06:56Aren't you going to introduce me?
06:58This is Mr. Book, from...
06:59Oh.
07:00The Apostrophe Man.
07:02They subbed your sign.
07:04I'm trying not to look.
07:06Would you have any chance to be a member of His Majesty's Press?
07:09Norena Bean.
07:10Picture-goer.
07:11If you have juicy titbits, my door is open.
07:15I'll bear that in mine.
07:23Nice fingers.
07:25Well, they're not real.
07:26Don't break a tooth.
07:38It's lovely.
07:41And he has this.
07:42From his ceiling.
07:46Does he talk about her?
07:49Fiancee.
07:50Does he say, I don't like her anymore, she's too old for me?
07:53No.
07:54Does he say, she's so old it's like kissing a leg of mutton?
07:58No.
07:59She's only 45, thank you very much.
08:01He says he was very excited about Lovelorn in London from the moment he saw the script.
08:05And he's very excited about married life.
08:09Though, he also has.
08:11One must keep an open mind.
08:13Because who knows what fate may throw your way.
08:16Hear that, Barbara?
08:20Heavens!
08:21God, is it bad?
08:22Barbara?
08:25Home is the hunter.
08:28Oh my God.
08:34He's and
08:36Oh my God.
10:13Yes, sir.
10:13She and her family didn't get on.
10:15Her friend said that's why she spent so much time at the...
10:19at the pictures.
10:24Inspector.
10:27Book.
10:28We are at home to death, it seems.
10:33Oh, they're upstairs.
10:46Royal appointment.
10:49What are they keeping from us, Stuart?
10:52All this waiting is making me tired.
10:55Perhaps one should have a mask made.
10:59A mask?
11:00With a permanent Victor's smile.
11:05They can do wonders with make-up now.
11:09I'll have Boris Karloff's number if you'd like.
11:16Dearest, Miss Dare, you don't know me, but I'm your most devoted admirer.
11:25I wonder what they'll think of lovelorn in London.
11:29Who?
11:30Them.
11:31They'll buy it.
11:33They love us, don't they?
11:34Both of us.
11:35They'll throw bottles at the screen.
11:44Do you know what they shouted at the test of brief encounter?
11:48Why doesn't she just kiss him?
11:52Only they didn't say kiss.
11:54Relax, darling.
11:56There'll be another smash.
11:57By the nation's most blissfully engaged couple, remember?
12:01And what a long engagement it's been.
12:07Oh, God, I can't wait to be back at the studio.
12:09Have you enjoyed our little field trip?
12:11If we're back at Lady House, it gets that dreadful marina bean out of my hair.
12:16The studio has gates.
12:17Fire breather of picture-goer.
12:20You know when you lift a stone or a branch
12:23and suddenly all these ghastly, filthy, damp little monstrosities
12:29are exposed to the daylight, scrabbling back into the shadows?
12:33Well, beneath them are even worse, filthy, damp little monstrosities.
12:38And under them is Marina Bean.
12:43She must have been rather sweet to me.
12:46Well, we've got good news for her, don't we?
12:50Do we?
12:52Deliveries.
12:52Our new three-picture deal, picture-goer exclusive.
12:57What do you want?
13:01Barley sugar boy?
13:03I'm afraid there's been an accident.
13:17The contents of a handbag.
13:20Melancholy, isn't it?
13:22Evidence of a little life spilled on the floor.
13:29Oh, what's this?
13:33You kiss your excess lipstick onto your favourite style.
13:37Yeah, well, it takes all sorts.
13:39This interests me, may I?
13:41Mm-hmm.
13:44Very carefully wrapped.
13:46Tenderly, I'd say.
13:49Ah.
13:50Well, they are still on the ration.
13:53They look expensive, but there are only coppers in this purse.
13:57Trotty.
13:57Yes.
13:57Did they have money, these girls?
13:59Very little.
14:01So they didn't buy them.
14:03I didn't notice the production providing fancy confectionery.
14:08No, the ferns bring them.
14:11Letters and presents.
14:13Sad little things they've knitted.
14:15They're left through there.
14:17Billy brings them up to them.
14:19Actually, he had a box of chocolates with him just now.
14:26Puncture mark.
14:28Barbara was breathless, Trotty, yes?
14:30Yes, and twitchy.
14:35Strychny.
14:36Oh, hell's bells.
14:48Poor girl.
14:51Someone's been at these.
14:53Oh, darling, you shouldn't...
14:54You don't know where they've been.
14:56Drop it, it's poison.
14:57I'm absurd.
14:58They're by wrong appointment.
14:59I'm afraid it's true, sir.
15:02You didn't have any, did you, Miss Dare?
15:03Oh, no, no.
15:05What about you, Mr. Howard?
15:06No.
15:06Oh, good.
15:08Have you ever received chocolates like this before, Miss Dare?
15:11Yes, all the time.
15:12My fans know they're my favourite, but I never eat them.
15:15It seems reasonable to assume, then, that you were the intended victim.
15:20Intended victim?
15:22What does he mean?
15:23Intended victim?
15:24We're investigating the death of Barbara Markham.
15:27Oh, yes, that unfortunate young woman.
15:30Yes.
15:32Oh, my God.
15:33I have been sent some strange things in my time, but...
15:35Howard, anyone want to kill me?
15:39Billy, who gave you these chocolates?
15:41Nobody.
15:42They were just with the usual mail.
15:43I always have to deal with it.
15:45Where anyone could have got to them.
15:47And Barbara and her friend presumably did.
15:50Jesus Christ, we could have both died.
15:52What were you thinking about bringing that muck up here?
15:54Sorry, Mr. Howard, but you told me to bring everything...
15:56Now, don't answer me back.
15:59I need to find myself a new assistant.
16:05You all right, my love?
16:07It's a brutal question, Mr. Howard, but I'm afraid it must be asked.
16:12Do you have any idea who might want to kill you?
16:16Can't this wait?
16:17Yes, of course.
16:18He'd excuse us.
16:20Sir.
16:21Out.
16:22I need to remind you that this is an official murder investigation.
16:26Oh, my God.
16:26Don't talk to the press.
16:47There once was an actress called Dare, whose allure was exceedingly rare.
16:53Her chocolates were spiked with strychnine, not nice.
16:58But it was Barbara that ate them.
17:00Not fair.
17:03I hope we did the right thing, letting those people into the lane.
17:07Why did you?
17:08I'm afraid it was money.
17:11Yes, my love.
17:12Those little pieces of paper that keep us out of the small claims courts.
17:16How much?
17:18Twenty guineas.
17:19A week?
17:20Per diem.
17:21For ten diems.
17:27The devil's going on out there.
17:29Bobby's swarming about like the cup final.
17:31Ah.
17:32Mrs. Goodwin.
17:33Yes.
17:34I'm afraid there's been an accident.
17:36Oh.
17:37Well, nothing to do with Sandra Dare, I hope.
17:40I heard she was in the neighbourhood.
17:41Oh, so that's why we're here.
17:43Always been a fan.
17:44They don't want to hear about your juvenile antics, woman.
17:48Miss Dare is perfectly sound, I'm happy to say.
17:50The Scarlet Pimpernel you heard from us last time, wasn't it?
17:53I trust you enjoyed it.
17:54Oh, very much.
17:55Well, I promised you the sequel.
17:56I'm teeing off at quarter two.
17:58Chh.
17:59Sorry?
17:59Chh.
18:00Dinky.
18:02I will repay.
18:03What?
18:04That's the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
18:06Jack?
18:08Oh, um.
18:09Underneath Hardy Perennials, the biography of Danton and the stack of unpaid bills.
18:14Got anything on, uh, how to cook?
18:16I beg your pardon?
18:18That's what she needs.
18:20Can hardly boil a ruddy egg.
18:23How are your feet?
18:24Oh, how much better.
18:26Oh, I'll wait in the car.
18:30Ah, that's just a bomb.
18:32Oh, and I put this to one side, too, uh, on the house.
18:36What is it?
18:37Oh, just a little play.
18:38Ibsen, a doll's house.
18:40It's about a woman who realises she's rather trapped, unfulfilled.
18:46But you might find it enlightening.
18:51Cheerio.
18:56How's business been?
18:58Booming.
18:59Goodbye to bullying.
19:01All the Stuart Howard fans are mad for it.
19:04Is he in the film version?
19:06That's what I'm telling them.
19:10I, uh, better unpack.
19:12Oh, Jack, be a darling and fetch my bag from my room, would you?
19:16It's the green one with the amber clasp.
19:21Right.
19:40Oh, Jack.
19:49Come on.
20:20I don't know.
21:02You really think someone tried to kill me?
21:05It really looks that way.
21:06Good God.
21:08At least we'll be back at Ladyhurst tonight.
21:11Are you sure you're okay to shoot?
21:12I have to be, won't I?
21:14Deirdre?
21:16Silly me.
21:17My memory.
21:18Sandra?
21:19Are you ready?
21:20Ready?
21:21My exclusive.
21:23Oh, excuse me.
21:25I promised an interview.
21:27Harold.
21:28Mr.
21:29Marina, I can give you two minutes.
21:33Necessary evil, I suppose.
21:34One must feed the machine, Mr. Booker.
21:39Ah.
21:42Finally.
21:46If you'd be so great.
21:48You know my motto.
21:49If you've nothing nice to say, come and sit by me.
21:54And here you are.
21:56Sitting by me.
21:57Ah, yes.
21:59But I do have something nice to say, Marina.
22:02Oh?
22:03Lovelorn in London is the first of a new three-picture deal.
22:08Oh.
22:09A deal Stuart and I have signed on for.
22:12Isn't that marvelous?
22:14Marvellous.
22:15And your shooting interiors at Ladyhurst, aren't you?
22:19Not exactly MGM, is it Ladyhurst?
22:22Oh, it'll do nicely.
22:25You know the place, though, don't you?
22:27I made plenty of pictures there in the past.
22:30Like the one where you played the simple crofter's daughter who married a duke.
22:34Hmm, yes.
22:35And the one where you played a simple fisherman's daughter who married a duke magnet.
22:40Yes.
22:41I always forget what duke is.
22:43It's a kind of fiber.
22:44People make bags with it.
22:48What's the first film you made there, Sandra?
22:52At Ladyhurst?
22:54Hmm.
22:55Um, I don't know.
23:00Springtime for Mary, I think.
23:02About a simple blacksmith's daughter who married...
23:05All right.
23:07I think it was quite a bit before that.
23:11But you know, our readers would be fascinated to learn that not all Sandra Day's pictures were talking pictures.
23:18I love those old inter-titles, came the dawn and all that.
23:25Or I can check the date later, Deidre.
23:28That is your real name, isn't it?
23:31The one you used to go by.
23:34Deidre Piddock.
23:36Perhaps you should concentrate on the present, Noreena.
23:41Well...
23:42Someone is trying to kill me.
23:56Jesse and I are taking Sandra for supper.
23:59Trying to take her mind off things.
24:01If that's not inappropriate under the circumstances.
24:03Well, one must eat.
24:05Where are you going?
24:06Wheeler's?
24:07No.
24:08Camille's.
24:08On the Strand.
24:09Good choice.
24:11Don't have the oysters.
24:15I saw them taking that girl away.
24:17I assumed it was an accident.
24:19Poisoned chocolates.
24:21Really?
24:22And they were intended for me.
24:24And that poor, sad girl intercepted them.
24:28Oh, God.
24:29How's that for an exclusive?
24:30Tragic.
24:32And what an angle.
24:34Oh, sorry.
24:35That was crass of me.
24:37But still.
24:39What an angle.
24:41Well, there's your story, Noreena.
24:44You ready, darling?
24:45Oh, yeah.
24:46I was just leaving.
24:47Congratulations on the new contract, Stuart.
24:55Much to chew on.
24:58Always lovely to see you.
25:03That's the lady, Hursties, in five minutes.
25:06Five minutes, everyone.
25:08What are you waiting for?
25:09The last post?
25:13Mr. Masterson.
25:15What a pleasure to see you again.
25:17Noreena Bean.
25:19Looking lovely as ever.
25:21What can I do for you?
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