Svengali (1931) is an American Pre‑Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby. It stars John Barrymore in one of his most iconic roles, portraying the sinister hypnotist Svengali, whose mesmeric powers allow him to control the young model and singer Trilby O’Farrell. The film blends psychological drama, tragic romance, and elements of early horror, earning praise for Barrymore’s intense performance and its atmospheric set design.
The story follows Trilby, a charming but untalented model who becomes the obsession of Svengali. Using hypnotism, he transforms her into a celebrated singer entirely under his control. As Trilby’s former friends and her true love, Billee, try to reclaim her, Svengali’s power begins to weaken, leading to a tragic finale in which the fates of master and muse are intertwined. The film received positive critical attention upon release, though it underperformed at the box office.
Film Details
Title: Svengali
Year: 1931
Genre: Drama / Psychological Horror / Pre‑Code
Director: Archie Mayo
Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander
Based on: Trilby (1894 novel) by George du Maurier
Produced by: Jack L. Warner
Starring:
John Barrymore as Svengali
Marian Marsh as Trilby O’Farrell
Bramwell Fletcher as Billee
Donald Crisp as The Laird
Carmel Myers as Madame Honori
Cinematography: Barney McGill
Edited by: William Holmes
Production Company: Warner Bros.–First National
Release Date: May 1, 1931 (New York)
Runtime: 81 minutes
Country: United States
#Svengali1931 #JohnBarrymore #MarianMarsh #ArchieMayo #PreCodeHollywood #ClassicDrama #PsychologicalHorror #Trilby #1930sCinema
The story follows Trilby, a charming but untalented model who becomes the obsession of Svengali. Using hypnotism, he transforms her into a celebrated singer entirely under his control. As Trilby’s former friends and her true love, Billee, try to reclaim her, Svengali’s power begins to weaken, leading to a tragic finale in which the fates of master and muse are intertwined. The film received positive critical attention upon release, though it underperformed at the box office.
Film Details
Title: Svengali
Year: 1931
Genre: Drama / Psychological Horror / Pre‑Code
Director: Archie Mayo
Screenplay: J. Grubb Alexander
Based on: Trilby (1894 novel) by George du Maurier
Produced by: Jack L. Warner
Starring:
John Barrymore as Svengali
Marian Marsh as Trilby O’Farrell
Bramwell Fletcher as Billee
Donald Crisp as The Laird
Carmel Myers as Madame Honori
Cinematography: Barney McGill
Edited by: William Holmes
Production Company: Warner Bros.–First National
Release Date: May 1, 1931 (New York)
Runtime: 81 minutes
Country: United States
#Svengali1931 #JohnBarrymore #MarianMarsh #ArchieMayo #PreCodeHollywood #ClassicDrama #PsychologicalHorror #Trilby #1930sCinema
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00:01:24Madame Honorine.
00:01:26Bonsoir, Gecko.
00:01:27Madame.
00:01:31Monsieur.
00:01:32Monsieur.
00:01:33Monsieur is composing.
00:01:37Oh, composing.
00:01:41You will wait.
00:02:08Bengali.
00:02:12Madame, je suis enchantée.
00:02:16Oh, I'm sorry I've disturbed you.
00:02:18I'm early.
00:02:20On the contrary.
00:02:21You are just in time.
00:02:24I could hardly wait for this evening.
00:02:30My days are so empty.
00:02:33Ja, Liebchen, I know just how you feel.
00:02:37I am empty, too.
00:02:38Oh, how can you be?
00:02:41You have so many other pupils.
00:02:43Oh, ja, naturlich.
00:02:45But no one who responds like you.
00:02:50Heh.
00:02:52Now, what did we do last?
00:02:55Don't you remember?
00:02:58I am speaking about music.
00:03:01Ah, here?
00:03:03Ja.
00:03:05There.
00:03:07Now, remember?
00:03:09Leggero e robato.
00:03:10Leggero e robato.
00:03:12Leggero e robato.
00:03:16Leggero e robato.
00:03:29Come on.
00:03:31Come on.
00:03:32Come on.
00:03:32Ah, ah.
00:03:35We'll open the hut while you hear the trumpet glowing.
00:03:43Everyone has such fun when the tally pole's going
00:03:55All the joy for each girl and boy
00:04:04Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh
00:04:18Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh
00:04:22Halle-oh!
00:04:24Cheerio!
00:04:25If we all are playing
00:04:27Everyone on the hunt, we're on our way to the hunt.
00:04:32Over hill, over dale, here the horse is laying.
00:04:37Here we go, tally off.
00:04:43We're on our way to...
00:04:48Never mind.
00:04:49What's the matter?
00:04:50Nothing, darling. It is beautiful.
00:04:52But with such a delicate instrument, it must not be strange.
00:04:57Come now, we'll rest.
00:04:59We'll rest.
00:05:03There.
00:05:05Now you are comfortable, huh?
00:05:07Yes.
00:05:10Because there is a little something I must tell you.
00:05:13I have something to tell you.
00:05:15I've left my husband.
00:05:18Huh?
00:05:20I've left him for good.
00:05:27And, uh...
00:05:28How much has he left you?
00:05:32Huh?
00:05:32Do you think I'd take money from such a brute?
00:05:35I threw it in his face.
00:05:39He gave you money?
00:05:41And you threw it back at him?
00:05:43But he...
00:05:44He bit me on the wrist and...
00:05:47And kicked me.
00:05:50Oh...
00:05:50You have no idea what I've been through.
00:05:55And you left your husband...
00:05:57Without a settlement?
00:06:03I've come to you just as I am.
00:06:06With no settlement at all?
00:06:10Nothing?
00:06:13Nothing.
00:06:17Except me.
00:06:31Bengali...
00:06:31You...
00:06:33You don't want me?
00:06:39But...
00:06:40But you promised.
00:06:44My voice...
00:06:46It's yours now...
00:06:47To make us both famous.
00:06:51But you told me so often.
00:07:04But I've no other place to go.
00:07:08There's only you left.
00:07:13I worship you, Bengali.
00:07:17I'd even die for you.
00:07:41Don't look at me like that, Bengali.
00:07:45Don't look at me like that.
00:07:48Don't look at me like that.
00:07:49Take your eyes off me, Bengali.
00:07:56Take your eyes off me.
00:07:58Take your eyes off me...
00:08:06Oh, my God!
00:08:07Oh, my God!
00:08:14Oh.
00:08:26Madame Honorine, they have found her in the river.
00:08:32Oh, that is not possible, in this weather.
00:08:36But it is true, maestro.
00:08:37I just saw her body in the morning.
00:08:44In the morgue?
00:08:46Yes, maestro.
00:08:55That is a pity.
00:08:58She was very, very sweet.
00:09:03But a bad businesswoman.
00:09:11Maestro.
00:09:14I am worried about something.
00:09:20What do you mean?
00:09:21Do you mind if I tell you?
00:09:25Now what?
00:09:26How are we going to pay the rent?
00:09:31You promised by noon.
00:09:33Ya, ya.
00:09:35Noon is a long way off.
00:09:37In the meantime, my dear gecko.
00:09:41I am very hungry.
00:09:43I presume you are too.
00:09:46Get me my coat.
00:09:49We will go visit him.
00:09:57Hey.
00:09:58Maestro, I don't know what we are going to do.
00:10:01We have borrowed from everyone we know.
00:10:03We cannot go back to Barnard's.
00:10:06He will throw us out.
00:10:07Oh, possibly, possibly.
00:10:11But there are other people.
00:10:15Our English friends.
00:10:17They have not enjoyed the fragrance of our society.
00:10:22For a week.
00:10:24We will go there.
00:10:25What maestro, the last time we were there.
00:10:28Mr. Taffy.
00:10:29And Mr. Dallaire.
00:10:30Anything.
00:10:31The little Billy.
00:10:32He is so kind.
00:10:33Now listen.
00:10:34Ya, gecko.
00:10:36You know, the trouble with you is you have not sufficient optimism.
00:10:42Little things discourage you.
00:10:44Remember, in the bright lexicon of youth, there is no such word as fail.
00:10:54추rie gets thisbat with dice.
00:10:56F seventeen vol of youth,
00:10:57V 왕.
00:11:00FMIire.
00:11:08FMIire.
00:11:12FMIO SALE.
00:11:14TI LA.
00:11:15FMIO SALE.
00:11:17AH.
00:11:17TOTA.
00:11:46Oh
00:11:55These Englanders get dirty very quickly
00:12:21Thank you maestro, don't mention it
00:12:32Taffy, who's that?
00:12:33It sounds like Svengali
00:12:38Here, Taffy, hide my purse before his music melts my scotch horns
00:12:45I didn't want to lie to him, but if I haven't
00:13:16any money on me, I cannot resist him
00:13:18I'm shivering here
00:13:22Well, my patriotic friends, are you up yet?
00:13:27Yeah, I'm up, and I want to be down, you Polish scavenger
00:13:30Oh, is it my fault that you Englanders have to take a battle every morning?
00:13:36How long is it since you took one?
00:13:38Huh?
00:13:39Not since I tripped and fell in the sewer
00:14:06Now that you're in the tub, you better make a good job of it
00:14:10It's good for him
00:14:13Stay there now
00:14:15We'll see that he can't get out
00:14:17Hey, and don't walk around here in the nude
00:14:20Sometimes we have respectable callers
00:14:22It's good for him
00:14:28Gott straf England
00:14:32Well done, Benny
00:14:36Hey there, Benny
00:14:38Benny, are you here?
00:14:39How are you with news, boys?
00:14:41Eh, the wonder of the world
00:14:43Svengali's taking a bath
00:14:45Svengali's taking a bath
00:14:47Er, he did not do it because he wanted to do it
00:14:49He did it because we pushed him in
00:14:51He can't get out
00:14:52We have his clothes
00:14:55Righto, I got an idea
00:14:56Go over to Carroll's school, bring the whole crowd over to see him
00:14:59It's too good to miss
00:15:01By God, that's a good idea
00:15:02We'll do it
00:15:02Come on
00:15:03Come on
00:15:38Come on
00:15:38Come on
00:15:38Bonjour, Gecko
00:15:40Maestro
00:15:45It is Monsieur Taffy's Sunday suit
00:15:47Ya
00:15:48But it is very becoming on weekdays
00:15:50Ah, Monsieur Taffy
00:15:52My dear Gecko, I have a pleasant surprise for you
00:15:56Monsieur Taffy is a very large-hearted man
00:16:00Ya, he has been unusually generous
00:16:02Look
00:16:03Ha
00:16:04The rent for Madame Dinar
00:16:07Breakfast
00:16:09Dinner
00:16:10Supper
00:16:12And the rest
00:16:14We will spend foolishly
00:16:17Remember what I told you, Gecko
00:16:20In the bright lexicon of youth
00:16:23There is no such word as
00:16:25Milk below
00:16:29Milk below
00:16:32You know
00:16:32You know
00:16:32It would be a pity
00:16:33To let such hospitable friends starve
00:16:39Get the milk pitcher, Gecko
00:16:40But we must hurry
00:16:57May I come in?
00:17:07Are you Mr. Taffy?
00:17:09No.
00:17:10The lead, then?
00:17:12No.
00:17:13Who are you?
00:17:14Who are you?
00:17:15Me? I'm a model. I work for Durian upstairs.
00:17:18He sent me down for Mr. Taffy and the lead to look at.
00:17:21A model, huh?
00:17:24For a moment, I thought you were a gendarme.
00:17:26Oh, I pose them, these.
00:17:29Hi-ya.
00:17:31Gecko, wait outside.
00:17:33But, maestro.
00:17:34So we will not miss our friends.
00:17:36But, uh...
00:17:38You need a model?
00:17:39All the artists say I have a very classic figure.
00:17:41Durian, mallow...
00:17:42My dear young lady, I don't doubt it.
00:17:44As far as I can see...
00:17:46Shall I show you?
00:17:50Well, uh...
00:17:50Oh, I'd be glad to.
00:17:52Perhaps you can use me sometime.
00:17:56Well, uh...
00:17:57That's what I had in mind.
00:17:59Well, where shall I change?
00:18:00Oh, in there?
00:18:03Well, that is as good a place as any.
00:18:05Very well.
00:18:06I'll be right out.
00:18:07I can hardly wait.
00:18:29They are coming, maestro.
00:18:31Who?
00:18:32The lair and the taffy.
00:18:34They're across the street.
00:18:36You always arrive just in time.
00:18:39But there is a mob coming here that'll make a fool of you.
00:18:42Just as I am about to enjoy myself artistically,
00:18:47there is that face.
00:18:49Oh, maestro, come, please.
00:18:51Oh, please.
00:18:52Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice than though?
00:19:03Sweet Alice with hair so brown.
00:19:08The taffy.
00:19:12Fabula.
00:19:13People with voices like that you've not seen.
00:19:15I can't go.
00:19:16I can't go.
00:19:16The fool that shows you know nothing.
00:19:20The roof of her mouth must be like the dome of a cathedral
00:19:26to push out sounds like that.
00:19:29Come, come, maestro.
00:19:31I can't hold him.
00:19:32I can't hold him.
00:19:33Come, come, quick, maestro.
00:19:34Come, come, let's see.
00:19:37It's wonderful that you hear the volume, Gecko.
00:19:41But the dome is terrible.
00:19:43For you, a rough diamond is like a piece of coal.
00:19:46I've got to find out about that room.
00:19:48I've got to find out my way.
00:20:02It seems the joke's on me.
00:20:05And your new suit's on here.
00:20:09You should have the Scotch forethought I had
00:20:12and hid your suit like I hid my bus.
00:20:14You should have to find out my pants.
00:20:16Uh, by the way, where did you hide my pants?
00:20:20I put it safely away.
00:20:22In the pocket of those trousers.
00:20:24Oh!
00:20:25Oh!
00:20:27Oh!
00:20:42Oh!
00:20:44Oh!
00:20:44Hello.
00:20:52Where's the fire?
00:20:57not exactly a fire
00:20:58I was looking for Svengali
00:21:01Svengali?
00:21:02yes
00:21:02he was here taking a bath
00:21:05oh I'm sorry
00:21:07oh that's alright
00:21:08but there's been no one taking a bath while I've been here
00:21:10no
00:21:11he's a tall creature
00:21:13Polish or something
00:21:14oh so that's Svengali
00:21:17well
00:21:19I've been looking for that artist myself
00:21:21artist?
00:21:22oh he's not an artist
00:21:23that is not in the sense of a painter
00:21:25he's a singing teacher and a pianist
00:21:29well that's one on me
00:21:32I'll get even with that fellow
00:21:33why?
00:21:34oh it's nothing
00:21:35I'll see him again
00:21:36he lives here
00:21:36oh no he doesn't
00:21:37nobody lives here but Taffy and the Laird
00:21:39I just come in the studio to paint
00:21:41there's Billy
00:21:42slaving away his art
00:21:44over work will be his ruin yet
00:21:46look out now Billy
00:21:46now hold on
00:21:50don't
00:21:50these are the gentlemen
00:21:51you came to meet
00:21:52Miss
00:21:52Chilly O'Farrell
00:21:54Miss O'Farrell
00:21:55let me present
00:21:56Taffy and the Laird
00:21:58now you've met the three musketeers of the brush
00:22:02hello
00:22:04Durian sent her down
00:22:06oh you sit to him
00:22:07oh yes
00:22:08modeling's my business
00:22:09head
00:22:10hands
00:22:11feet
00:22:11everything
00:22:12especially feet
00:22:14isn't that a pretty foot
00:22:15it is that
00:22:16it's very pretty indeed
00:22:17it is isn't it
00:22:18everyone says it's the most beautiful foot in Paris
00:22:21it's very pretty
00:22:22there's only one that can match it
00:22:24uh-huh
00:22:24and where's that
00:22:32what time is it
00:22:33oh it's about um
00:22:34quarter past ten
00:22:43yes monsieur Durian
00:22:44I'll be right up
00:22:45well there you are
00:22:47work work work
00:22:48but what's the difference
00:22:49so long as you're happy
00:22:51well goodbye to you all
00:22:53you're coming back
00:22:55of course
00:22:56there's several reasons why I must come back
00:22:58what are they
00:23:01well first of all
00:23:03this place looks like a pig pen
00:23:05and needs a feminine touch
00:23:07hey a pig pen
00:23:08oh keep quiet
00:23:09what's the real one
00:23:14this place looks like a pig pen
00:23:16and needs a feminine touch
00:23:20that girl has a wee bit of scotch in it
00:23:22I think she's a wee bit of the devil
00:23:25I think you're right
00:23:28I think she's lovely
00:23:30oh no you don't
00:23:31no you don't know Billy
00:23:32you're just fooling when you say that
00:23:34he doesn't really mean that
00:23:35yes I do
00:23:38she's lovely
00:23:39oh but all fooling aside
00:23:42she did have a foot like an angel
00:23:45aye
00:23:47she had that
00:24:07she had that
00:24:20do you realize the light's going
00:24:22and you haven't worked on your canvas all day
00:24:24I know
00:24:25I don't believe you've touched it for a week
00:24:27no and I don't intend to until you give me your answer
00:24:30do you mean to tell me you'd leave me out there on that cold canvas unfinished
00:24:33forever
00:24:34forever and ever
00:24:36until you give me your answer
00:24:41well
00:24:43I suppose I must answer sometime
00:24:47in the interest of art
00:24:57true me
00:24:57oh but I saw it
00:24:59you do love me
00:25:02you do mean it
00:25:07don't you know
00:25:09haven't I been telling you for a week
00:25:14what's well
00:25:15where's I meet
00:25:17is anybody here
00:25:19everybody's out
00:25:24this seems to be the odor
00:25:26of baking in the air
00:25:43good
00:25:44delicious
00:25:46good as mother makes
00:25:48oh I can't be as good as all that
00:25:50oh yes you are
00:25:53you're wonderful
00:25:56you're the sweetest thing I've ever known
00:26:00when we're married
00:26:01I want to take you to England
00:26:03and to my mother
00:26:04she'll be proud of you Truby
00:26:06proud of you as I am
00:26:16tell me what's England like
00:26:19oh England's beautiful
00:26:21green fields and hedgerows and hollyhocks
00:26:27primroses
00:26:28and fog
00:26:29and pneumonia
00:26:31and shopkeepers
00:26:33and flat feet
00:26:35and boiled beef and cabbage
00:26:40Truby in England
00:26:42would be like a butterfly in mutton soup
00:26:46silly
00:26:51tarts for supper
00:26:53yes and you won't get any
00:26:55if you don't come and play for them
00:26:56I don't feel like playing the piano
00:27:00no no no
00:27:01I don't feel like playing it now
00:27:02I want to talk to you seriously
00:27:05yeah I want to talk to you about your voice
00:27:08oh that's a good one
00:27:09while you tell me next I want to
00:27:11ah you don't understand
00:27:12I look for you everywhere today
00:27:14I went to durian
00:27:16mayo
00:27:17there is no Trilby
00:27:18where you been huh
00:27:20oh I had one of my funny headaches
00:27:21and didn't work all day
00:27:22headache
00:27:24yes but don't tell anyone
00:27:25they'd send me home
00:27:26ah poor Lievchen
00:27:28oh it's nothing
00:27:30it'll go away like it always does
00:27:32possibly
00:27:32I can take it away for you right now
00:27:35oh
00:27:35I mean it
00:27:37it is so easy
00:27:41sit down I show you
00:27:46can you really take the pain away
00:27:48yeah now
00:27:48now you sit there quietly
00:27:50and do just as I tell you
00:27:52huh
00:27:52now you look
00:27:54you look at pretty Svengali
00:27:57looking at you is a funny way to cure my headache
00:27:59Svengali
00:28:01yeah I know
00:28:05now don't be afraid
00:28:08look me right in the eyes
00:28:10Lievchen
00:28:12right in the eye
00:28:13if you can really cure my headache
00:28:15if you can really cure my headache
00:28:15if you can really cure my headache
00:28:36you shall see nothing
00:28:41hear nothing
00:28:42hear nothing
00:28:42dream of nothing but Svengali. Svengali. Svengali. Svengali. Svengali. Svengali.
00:29:12That is right, Liebsch. Now sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
00:29:50Open your mouth, Liebsch. Why? I was right. A soundboard like an angel. The roof of her mouth
00:30:10is like the dome of the Pantheon. Shh.
00:30:29He headache, Liebsch. He go away. What's happening there?
00:30:45What's the matter, Trilby? What have you done to her? Trilby! Trilby! Wake her up!
00:30:59Are you asleep, Trilby? No.
00:31:04Then open your eyes and say you're all right. Can you open your eyes, Trilby?
00:31:13No. He's hypnotized her. Bring her out of it at once!
00:31:17At once, do you hear me? Can you hear me, Trilby? Yes.
00:31:25Then open your eyes. Why, what's happened? Are you all right?
00:31:32Why, yes. My headache's gone. How on earth did you do it?
00:31:37I told you. It is so easy. Oh.
00:31:49What's the matter?
00:31:51Huh?
00:31:54Your headache is here in my heart.
00:31:56Oh, I'm sorry.
00:31:57Ah, it's nothing.
00:32:00I will keep it as a souvenir.
00:32:03You're with the pain in your heart. Come on. Come on.
00:32:06Gentlemen, no violence.
00:32:08No violence.
00:32:12And no dinner.
00:32:16What'd he do?
00:32:17He hypnotized you.
00:32:18Hey, and don't you ever let him do it again.
00:32:20Those fellas can make you do anything and say anything you want.
00:32:23Lie, steal, anything.
00:32:24And then they make you kill yourself when they're done with you.
00:32:26Hey, they do that.
00:32:27But he took my pain away.
00:32:28I'd rather have the pain than have it cured like that.
00:32:34Thrilvy, don't forget what I told you about the headaches.
00:32:41Gentlemen, it might be as well to remember,
00:32:47there are more things in heaven and earth
00:32:51than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
00:33:03Don't go wrong.
00:33:06Devote, do that.
00:33:24como ized
00:33:25It's worth hitting me.
00:33:25Hey, I love you one day.
00:33:31They zosta�IST.
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00:35:42Come in, my dear.
00:36:13I, I'm sorry to trouble you.
00:36:19I shouldn't have come at this hour.
00:36:25Oh, it is no trouble at all.
00:36:28It is never too late to trouble Svengali.
00:36:37I thought I had to come.
00:36:42But I, I think,
00:36:54I think I'd better go now.
00:36:55I think I'd better go.
00:37:07Without telling me what is troubling you?
00:37:10Oh, it's nothing.
00:37:13Really?
00:37:14Nothing at all.
00:37:17Except.
00:37:19Except?
00:37:21Did it come back?
00:37:25The headache.
00:37:29Yes.
00:37:30I woke up with it.
00:37:32And you thought I could help you, huh?
00:37:36Yes.
00:37:38That's why I came here.
00:37:40Ja, ja.
00:37:42Svengali told you
00:37:43whenever you were in pain
00:37:46to come to him
00:37:49and he would take it away from you.
00:37:53My dear child is the most natural thing in the world.
00:37:57Come in, my dear child.
00:37:59It's cold out here.
00:38:11Come.
00:38:13Don't be frightened.
00:38:16Sit down.
00:38:20Here.
00:38:24Are you comfortable?
00:38:27Hmm?
00:38:28Ja.
00:38:34Oh, poor Clyde.
00:38:38Oh, your nerves are jumping like mad.
00:38:42Ja.
00:38:43But...
00:38:44And your skin?
00:38:47Oh, it's hot like fire.
00:38:51Poor legion.
00:38:54Oh, look at me.
00:38:57Come.
00:39:00Look me in the eyes, Liebschen.
00:39:16No.
00:39:17No.
00:39:19Please.
00:39:21Take your eyes off me.
00:39:23Let me go.
00:39:24Let me go.
00:39:25But the pain leaves you.
00:39:28No, no.
00:39:28It's gone now.
00:39:29Oh, boy.
00:39:58Oh, boy.
00:40:09Truby.
00:40:17Truby!
00:40:35Truby!
00:41:18Truby!
00:41:20It's been galli!
00:41:23Oh, don't go, Liebchen.
00:41:26It's been so long since I've seen you.
00:41:28It's been so long since I've seen you.
00:41:29But I, I must, I...
00:41:31Ah.
00:41:33You've been crying.
00:41:37Poor Trillie.
00:41:39You know, perhaps I can cure a pain in the heart
00:41:43just as easily as one in the head.
00:41:46But nobody can cure this pain.
00:41:50It's for someone, someone else, whom I've hurt.
00:41:54Oh, I see.
00:41:59Oh, come.
00:42:00Tell old Svengali all about it, huh?
00:42:04Yeah, he'll understand.
00:42:08You know, when human beings are unhappy,
00:42:12there's always something to do about it.
00:42:14Come on now, tell me.
00:42:19Tell me all about it.
00:42:22Well, it's, it's Billy.
00:42:24Today, today I posed at Corral School.
00:42:28And he saw me there, before all those men.
00:42:32Oh, you won't understand.
00:42:34But I'm so ashamed.
00:42:37Ah, but I do understand.
00:42:41Yali.
00:42:43Billy is not like the others.
00:42:46Ah, my poor Trillie, do your eyes reflect the virtue
00:42:52that he sees in you?
00:42:55Look in your mirror.
00:42:59Do you think you should be on such a high pedestal?
00:43:04After all the other artists you have known?
00:43:11What do you mean?
00:43:14Does he, uh...
00:43:17Does he know about Durian?
00:43:20Durian?
00:43:22What is there to know about him?
00:43:27Only what all the rest of us know, my poor Trillie.
00:43:32Except the innocent little Billy.
00:43:34I won't listen to you any longer.
00:43:39How could I help being kind to a man
00:43:41who had been so kind to me?
00:43:42Oh, kindness is a virtue undeniably,
00:43:45but to be so very kind.
00:43:48I am good, I tell you.
00:43:49I'm not like those others.
00:43:51I'm not, I'm not.
00:43:56Ah, poor Trillie.
00:43:59Poor little Beach.
00:44:01Surely you are good.
00:44:03You are good like a little bird.
00:44:06Like a lark
00:44:08that must sing in the sunlight.
00:44:12But are you good enough to face
00:44:15little Billy's mother
00:44:18as his wife?
00:44:25After Durian, the sculptor,
00:44:29Mayo, the painter,
00:44:32Lamarie?
00:44:36Come, come, Billy lad.
00:44:37There's nothing to worry about.
00:44:39Ah, you know.
00:44:40A wee drop and Doris
00:44:41and we'll have Trillie
00:44:42be back in your arms
00:44:42we in an hour.
00:44:43What are you standing there for, man?
00:44:45Get the washkey.
00:44:47I'll get the glasses myself.
00:45:18Now, here we are.
00:45:19Here you are.
00:45:20There you are.
00:45:21Now, what's the matter, laddie?
00:45:25What is it, Billy?
00:45:35She says she's not good enough for me,
00:45:39but I saw her today as she really is.
00:45:44She's going away
00:45:45and never see me again.
00:45:47Well, Billy,
00:45:48she tells you that she loves you.
00:45:50Never see me again.
00:45:56Never again.
00:45:59Or anybody else,
00:46:01she says.
00:46:02Stop her.
00:46:03Point her.
00:46:04Trilby!
00:46:05Billy!
00:46:05Billy, boy!
00:46:07Kill her!
00:46:18Do you know Trilby, O'Faro?
00:46:21Are these her clothes?
00:46:25We found them
00:46:26on the bank of the Seine.
00:46:32Where is she?
00:46:33In the morgue.
00:46:35If they found her body by now.
00:46:38I'm afraid we'll never find her, monsieur.
00:46:40The river is too high to drag.
00:46:48Tell us now, madame.
00:46:50Trilby.
00:46:52For a few minutes, you're on time.
00:46:53Oh, the pitot.
00:46:56Go inside.
00:47:03I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:08I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:10I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:15I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:17I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:18I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:19I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:20I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:20I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:21I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:21I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:23I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:31I'm afraid we'll never find her.
00:47:57Maestro Svengaard, this is a marvellous change since we saw him last.
00:48:01It's been just five years.
00:48:04Wonderful.
00:48:04They say that his wife is a very beautiful woman.
00:48:07Didn't you say that she was a Polish woman that he picked up in Russia?
00:48:12Yeah, that's what I heard.
00:48:14Well, if she's as beautiful as they say she is, he must have hypnotized her into marrying him.
00:48:18I'm no interested in that.
00:48:20What I want to know is who's giving him his baths now?
00:48:24Probably she is, in self-defense.
00:48:28Come, laddie, we must get the tickets now. Get out of here.
00:48:31We are quite on the side.
00:48:38The standing room early.
00:48:39Oh, let me.
00:48:40So, Ed, get him. That's enough to pay to see Svengaard in a dress suit.
00:48:45Please, please, come.
00:48:54Ah! Is M. Bengali here?
00:48:57Not yet.
00:48:58Not yet!
00:48:59But tonight it's the debut of La Bengali in Paris.
00:49:03Paris is not different than Berlin, or Vienna, or...
00:49:07But it is almost time for the concert!
00:49:09And I have a very important message for Monsieur Bengali.
00:49:13You'll pardon me, please?
00:49:26Monsieur Bengali, I am speechless, Madame.
00:49:30Every night you grow more beautiful.
00:49:33Thank you, Signor Bernali.
00:49:35Home Paris is waiting at your feet.
00:49:38But what are you waiting for?
00:49:39Oh, I burst with pride.
00:49:41Well, control yourself a moment, just a moment.
00:49:44Martha!
00:49:49Now, why do you burst?
00:49:51Three illustrious gentlemen are waiting in the green room to interview La Spengali.
00:49:57Madame Spengali never gives interviews.
00:50:00How many times must I tell you?
00:50:02But it means another command performance in St. Petersburg.
00:50:07These three gentlemen are messengers from the court of Russia.
00:50:11It does not matter.
00:50:12Oh, I am desolated.
00:50:15Here, attached to this beautiful bouquet, is a present from the Tsar himself.
00:50:26Do you still refuse to allow Madame to see these gentlemen?
00:50:30You refuse positively?
00:50:33Not the necklace, only the interview.
00:50:35But, Monsieur Bengali!
00:50:38Monsieur Bengali!
00:50:40Monsieur Bengali!
00:50:40But...
00:50:41That animal!
00:50:42Porco!
00:50:43Maiale!
00:50:44Tassino!
00:50:46You'll never hit me!
00:50:52But...
00:51:14Here is a little trifle I thought would be becoming.
00:51:21A trifle? Why they're gorgeous.
00:51:25There is nothing too beautiful for La Spengali.
00:51:38You are sweet to me, Spengali.
00:51:43What are you staring at, you old fool?
00:51:48I am very sorry to disturb you, but you are late.
00:51:51The theatre is already back. Even the standing room is gone.
00:51:55That is as it should be. Go away.
00:52:07You have never looked more lovely. Never more adorable.
00:52:39Do we ever see anything?
00:52:41Why is that?
00:52:42I can't see a thing myself.
00:53:07You are so proud of where you cannot see him. Has he changed much?
00:53:10I can't even see a grease spot on him.
00:53:13Then he's changed much.
00:53:23Why not have a chair in the aisle for Monsieur?
00:53:26My glasses, please.
00:53:28Merci beaucoup.
00:53:29Sorry to trouble you.
00:53:30No trouble at all.
00:53:31Thank you, La Spengali.
00:53:48Thank you, La Spengali.
00:54:11I can't see her face.
00:54:12Is she as beautiful as they think?
00:54:14I cannot see myself.
00:54:37How about three more chairs?
00:54:39I am sorry, Mr., that was the last one.
00:54:41But I will try to get you some opera glasses so you can see those Bengalis.
00:54:44You do that, lady.
00:54:46frame
00:55:06Say, lad, did you forget the opera glasses?
00:55:08No, monsieur, I'm sorry.
00:55:09They are all rented like everything else tonight.
00:55:19No, monsieur, I'm sorry.
00:56:15No, monsieur, I'm sorry.
00:56:16No, monsieur, I'm sorry.
00:56:36No, monsieur, I'm sorry.
00:57:02We're here to see monsieur Svengali.
00:57:05I'm sorry, gentlemen, I have strict audace to admit nobody.
00:57:10Oh, but we're old and intimate friends of monsieur.
00:57:13I'm sorry, nobody.
00:57:20I'm sorry.
00:57:24No need to try and keep his feet clean.
00:57:27He hasn't been clean for five years.
00:57:29You know that.
00:57:30Why, Gekko?
00:57:30Why, Gekko?
00:57:31Why, Gekko?
00:57:31Why don't you begin to see Svengali?
00:57:33It is very difficult to see Mr. Svengali at any time.
00:57:36Gekko, tell me, is he still dodging the landladies?
00:57:39Mr. Svengali is beyond such a thing, sirs' rant.
00:57:42Mrs. Svengali...
00:57:42I've noticed you're not beyond getting yourself a belly.
00:57:44Oh, look at the nice afro-coaties.
00:57:46Gentlemen, gentlemen, if you'll excuse me.
00:57:49I must go.
00:57:49I am in a hurry.
00:57:50Oh, certainly.
00:57:51Certainly.
00:57:53Come on.
00:57:56Come on.
00:57:57Come on.
00:57:58Come on.
00:57:58Come on.
00:58:00Come on.
00:58:00Little beggar on horseback.
00:58:01Hey, ride into his doom.
00:58:16Truby.
00:58:36It's Truby, she's not...
00:58:40It is Truby, isn't it?
00:58:42It can't be.
00:58:49The pain again, maestro.
00:58:53Yeah.
00:59:00The pain again, maestro.
00:59:03All right.
00:59:06Come on.
00:59:24The pain again, maestro.
00:59:43Well, it is, I'm sure of it.
00:59:46But it is, I'm sure of it.
00:59:52Why, it's Billy!
00:59:58Billy!
01:00:00Kathy and the Laird!
01:00:01Oh, it's so good to see you all again!
01:00:17I...
01:00:18I beg your pardon.
01:00:21I must have mistaken you with someone I knew.
01:00:44Don't make a scene here, Billy.
01:00:45Don't make a scene here.
01:01:30Oh, I seem to have been asleep for ages.
01:01:34Haven't I been good to you, Trilby?
01:01:36When you were ill, who...
01:01:40who gave you back your life?
01:01:44You did.
01:01:46I've done everything I could to repay you.
01:01:50Yeah.
01:01:50Ah, except love me.
01:01:55And, oh, Liebchen, I do love you so much.
01:02:00Oh, please.
01:02:02Please.
01:02:07Bengali.
01:02:10I've tried, but I...
01:02:14But you know very well why you can't.
01:02:17It is the magnificent young Englander,
01:02:21the head of the Purity Brigade,
01:02:25Sir Galahad.
01:02:28Hmm, the stiff-necked little Billy.
01:02:33What is he, Liebchen,
01:02:36with his silly paints in one hand
01:02:39and his twiddling brushes
01:02:41of pig's bristles in the other?
01:02:44What does he amount to compared to Svengali?
01:02:49Oh, he paints his silly pictures
01:02:52and sends them to London
01:02:53where they hang up on the wall
01:02:55like dead soldiers on parade
01:02:59and the people pass in a long procession
01:03:03and yawn.
01:03:08Svengali will go to London himself
01:03:11where he will be all alone on the platform
01:03:18and princesses
01:03:20and countesses
01:03:22and serene highnesses
01:03:25will fling him their jewels
01:03:27and applaud him
01:03:29and invite him to their palaces.
01:03:33And he will take you with him, Liebchen,
01:03:36and never look at them.
01:03:39D'oh, we could be so happy.
01:03:42But I...
01:03:43I don't like palaces.
01:03:48No.
01:03:50Not anything else that other women like
01:03:53except the little Billy.
01:03:58Look at me in the eyes.
01:04:17Open your eyes.
01:04:33Oh, I do love you.
01:04:37Oh, close your eyes.
01:04:47I don't say it.
01:04:51Eh?
01:04:56Eh?
01:04:58Eh?
01:04:59You are beautiful,
01:05:01my manufactured love.
01:05:06But it is only Svengali
01:05:11talking to himself again.
01:05:23Did you get tickets for the concert tonight?
01:05:26There won't be any concert tonight.
01:05:28Svengali and his company
01:05:29have cancelled the engagement
01:05:30and gone away.
01:05:48And where are you going?
01:05:50After him.
01:05:51Svengali is not running away from you?
01:05:53Not from me, Taffy.
01:05:55But from the fear of the day
01:05:57when his spell over Truby
01:05:58will be broken
01:05:59as it was for a moment last night.
01:06:02Eh?
01:06:03And what will you do
01:06:04when you catch up with him?
01:06:08Just wait till the day comes.
01:06:11I'll get her back
01:06:13if I have to follow them
01:06:15round the world.
01:06:17I'll get her back.
01:06:18I'll get her back.
01:06:20I'll get her back.
01:06:22I'll get her back.
01:06:26I'll get her back.
01:06:30I'll get her back.
01:06:31I'll get her back.
01:06:31I'll get her back.
01:06:32I'll get her back.
01:06:32I'll get her back.
01:06:32I'll get her back.
01:06:33I'll get her back.
01:06:33I'll get her back.
01:06:33I'll get her back.
01:06:34I'll get her back.
01:06:35I'll get her back.
01:06:35I'll get her back.
01:06:36I'll get her back.
01:06:37I'll get her back.
01:06:38I'll get her back.
01:06:39I'll get her back.
01:06:40I'll get her back.
01:06:47Signore, take your place, please, take your place, come on, come on, everybody, come on.
01:06:53Please, please, I'm afraid of you.
01:06:55He's very afraid.
01:06:56Take your place.
01:06:57Gecko.
01:06:58This is Bengali.
01:06:59When will he be ready?
01:07:00When he's ready, he'll be here.
01:07:02But he's already one hour late.
01:07:03If people are telling him down the house.
01:07:05When he's ready, he'll be here.
01:07:06Oh, I must go and make your explanation.
01:07:09Got it, please, take your place.
01:07:20Signore e signori, vi domando perdono per questo grande ritardo, ma non è colpa mia.
01:07:26Il cavallo della carrozza del signore e della signora Svengali è morto per istrada, oh!
01:07:32Sì!
01:07:33Ma adesso sono arrivati, sono là che si cambiano i vestiti e fra poco lo spettacolo comincerà.
01:07:38Grazie mille.
01:07:40Grazie mille, Solti!
01:07:53Grazie mille!
01:07:54Signore!
01:07:55You're not made up yet!
01:07:57They're waiting after the council to begin!
01:08:02Waiting is good for such a refrain.
01:08:29Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
01:08:46Miss Maddha, you're not sick?
01:08:51Yeah, I am sick. I cannot go on.
01:08:56But what about Las Bengali?
01:08:59Has she ever appeared without me?
01:09:02You mean you refuse to give the concert again?
01:09:06Yeah. We are no concert.
01:09:09Then they will never be another one.
01:09:11If Las Bengali does not sing tonight, her career in Europe is ended.
01:09:16I tell you, I am sick.
01:09:19All right, then I am through.
01:09:21From now on, you can manage yourself into the poor house.
01:09:24Every place you have broken your engagements until there isn't another theater that will contract for Las Bengali's appearance.
01:09:33Are you trying to tell me what to do?
01:09:36I would like to tell you where to go, but there isn't any place for you except the dives.
01:09:41And now, that's where you belong.
01:09:44Shh!
01:09:55Go tell that rabble.
01:09:59Las Bengali cannot appear tonight.
01:10:04But they will kill me, Maestro!
01:10:07Huh?
01:10:09I will give you a military funeral.
01:10:13Oh,turn that guy!
01:10:27Oh, listen!
01:10:29Oh, he's meeting the Lord!
01:10:31It's not one point, wasn't he?
01:10:35Oh, thank you, that's one.
01:10:37Oh, Deus!
01:12:40Ah, calm yourself.
01:12:43I did not come here to fight.
01:12:45Do you expect me to sit down and talk quietly?
01:12:47I think it would be as well for all of us.
01:12:51I think you will agree with me after I explain.
01:12:57Sit down, sit down.
01:12:58Have a drink.
01:13:02Some champagne will clear the atmosphere.
01:13:07Garçon.
01:13:14Now we can talk like old friends.
01:13:16What do you want?
01:13:17The alarm.
01:13:19Nothing from you.
01:13:22What do you want?
01:13:34You will not have to follow me after tonight.
01:13:42You will probably would not want to.
01:13:45What do you mean?
01:13:47What are you driving at?
01:13:49Oh, nothing, Miss Thiel.
01:13:55Tonight is Las Fengali's last concert.
01:13:59Do you mean you're taking Trilby back to Paris?
01:14:01My dear young friend, my dear young friend, that is for her to decide.
01:14:10To Trilby and her freedom.
01:14:37The next act has been brought from Europe at tremendous expense.
01:14:42He is probably eluding.
01:14:44To that superb artist, Svengali, I have an act now, you know.
01:14:54The queen of the kings, the toast of emperors, assisted by the great maestro Svengali.
01:15:09You can hear with what delirious appreciation they look forward to my music.
01:15:16I, uh, I feel sure you would not wish me to keep them waiting.
01:15:20Excusez-moi.
01:15:47Excusez-moi.
01:15:50Au revoir.
01:15:52Au revoir.
01:15:55Au revoir.
01:16:11Au revoir.
01:16:15Puisz-moi.
01:16:19What's the matter, Liepchen?
01:16:22Are you all right?
01:16:23Why, yes, except I feel...
01:16:30Ja, ja.
01:16:34Strangely.
01:16:38Listen, my dear.
01:16:42Tonight I want you to watch me very closely.
01:16:49Do not take your eyes off mine, even for an instant.
01:16:56And remember, there is nothing in your mind, nothing in your heart, nothing in your soul, but Svengali.
01:17:17Svengali.
01:17:21Svengali.
01:17:23Svengali.
01:17:31Svengali.
01:17:33Svengali.
01:17:34Svengali.
01:17:35Svengali.
01:17:40Svengali.
01:17:49Svengali.
01:17:51Svengali.
01:17:51Svengali.
01:17:52Svengali.
01:18:03Svengali.
01:18:15Svengali.
01:18:15Svengali.
01:18:16Svengali.
01:18:17Svengali.
01:19:49Shilby, it's Billy.
01:19:52I'm right here with you.
01:19:54Speak to me, darling.
01:20:01Oh, God, grant me in death what you denied me in life, the woman I love.
01:20:24It's Bengali.
01:20:37Avanti, signori.
01:20:39I'm sorry.
01:20:41I'm sorry.
01:20:42I'm sorry.
01:20:45I'm sorry.
01:20:59I'm sorry.
01:21:02You're welcome.
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