Passed | 1h 12min | Drama , Romance | March 1931 (USA)
Father hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger.
Director: George Archainbaud
Writers: Robert Milton, Guy Bolton
Stars: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery
Father hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger.
Director: George Archainbaud
Writers: Robert Milton, Guy Bolton
Stars: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery
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00:05:00Hello, Dobbs. How's the old aches and twinges this weather?
00:05:03Thank you, sir.
00:05:04Oh, it's been nice of you, my boy, to tear the park,
00:05:07just for an evening with your aged male parents.
00:05:10There's nothing I like better.
00:05:12Meanwhile, what price a cocktail?
00:05:14Yes, Dobbs was shocked at that, but...
00:05:17Dobbs, where's the old training?
00:05:20Take Mr. Russell's coat and hat.
00:05:26You're surprised, aren't you, that I know about cocktails?
00:05:29You know, I'd learned from a barman at the Savoy.
00:05:32He used to live in Chicago.
00:05:35Allow me, sir.
00:05:36Thanks, Dobbs, but don't bother.
00:05:37I've got to be popping off directly.
00:05:45You're not stopping for dinner, then?
00:05:48I'm terribly sorry, Father, but when I promised you to come,
00:05:52I overlooked another engagement.
00:05:54Well, it's quite all right, of course.
00:06:00Only I'd hoped...
00:06:03Well, it can't be helped, can it?
00:06:06I mean to say, one does have other engagements, of course.
00:06:10I know it seems fairly awful.
00:06:13Let's have lunch together tomorrow.
00:06:15We'll have a good old-fashioned reunion.
00:06:18And you can scold me in a good old-fashioned way.
00:06:24Meanwhile, as you suggest, what price the merry old cocktail?
00:06:30Gentlemen, I give you Sir Gerald Courtney, my father,
00:06:35and a jolly good sportsman.
00:06:41Mmm, I say.
00:06:43You do know something about cocktails.
00:06:45Was that chap from Chicago, did you say?
00:06:47One of the survivors.
00:06:50One of the survivors.
00:06:51You know, that's a fruity joke.
00:06:54Is your engagement tonight with...
00:06:56Say, this scolding for tomorrow.
00:06:59Like a good fellow.
00:07:01Won't you?
00:07:05I wish we could talk things out together, my boy.
00:07:08Tomorrow, at luncheon.
00:07:11We'll both make after-dinner speeches.
00:07:17Right, tomorrow then.
00:07:19One o'clock, pronto.
00:07:26I'll be toddling along, sir, if you don't mind.
00:07:30Good night, father.
00:07:32Good night, my boy.
00:07:36Mind the fog.
00:07:37Right you are.
00:07:49It was more like a tick and a half.
00:07:51Did Papa let his little boy come out to play with bad little girls?
00:07:55To the pigeon pile, chum, and don't spare the carburetor.
00:08:56Oh, please, they're after me.
00:08:58I'll explain later.
00:09:02My dear girl, we were worried about you.
00:09:05Camping about in this fog.
00:09:07Why on earth didn't you take a taxi?
00:09:10Yes, well, officers, what is it?
00:09:12Come, come.
00:09:13What's all this about?
00:09:14You see, sir, we thought she was a...
00:09:17We thought she was a...
00:09:19A...
00:09:20A...
00:09:21A...
00:09:22A...
00:09:23We thought she was a...
00:09:25We thought, my lord, that she...
00:09:27That is, we thought, I mean...
00:09:29We thought that she got lost in the fog, didn't we, Albert?
00:09:32Oh, yes, sir, lost in the fog.
00:09:34That's what we thought.
00:09:35My niece lost in the little mist?
00:09:38Not this young lady.
00:09:39However, my dear, you should have taken a taxi.
00:09:42If you'd telephoned, we'd have sent the car for you.
00:09:44Hurry now, get out of this wet coat.
00:09:46Dobbs has kept dinner waiting, and you know Dobbs.
00:09:49Good old Dobbs.
00:09:51Quite so, good old Dobbs.
00:09:53Thanks so much.
00:09:54Wouldn't have troubled you for worlds.
00:09:58Good night, officers.
00:10:00You've been commendably vigilant.
00:10:02Good night.
00:10:03Thank you, sir.
00:10:06His niece.
00:10:07Sir Gerald Courtney's niece.
00:10:09And us, thinking there was nothing but a...
00:10:11Shh!
00:10:12Stow it, Albert.
00:10:13Stow it, mate.
00:10:18Better rest a moment.
00:10:20Rather, if you don't mind.
00:10:22Just until Albert and his pal clear off.
00:10:32Sit down here.
00:10:33There.
00:10:48I knew my purse leaked.
00:10:50But rain is the only thing that ever leaked into it.
00:10:53Try one of these.
00:10:59Probably give me the gout after these gasps as I'm used to.
00:11:03Oh, blimey.
00:11:04A short life and a merry one.
00:11:13No use trying to thank you.
00:11:16It was wonderfully sporting of you to take a chance on me.
00:11:19A stranger.
00:11:21Off the street.
00:11:22Oh, I see.
00:11:23That's rather an ugly way of putting it.
00:11:25Off the streets.
00:11:27Why did you do it?
00:11:29Well, you...
00:11:30You look lonely and a bit frightened.
00:11:33I mean, it just happens that I am, too.
00:11:36You, lonely and scared.
00:11:38Yes.
00:11:40That's about as true as that I'm your niece.
00:11:42Robert Neat, wasn't it, that thought about the niece?
00:11:44And good old Dobbs.
00:11:46Dobbs is a fact.
00:11:47Oh, quite a fact.
00:11:48Ah, Dobbs himself.
00:11:50I simply can't believe it.
00:11:53Word of honor.
00:11:54Is dinner served, Dobbs?
00:11:56Yes, sir.
00:11:57Hmm.
00:11:59Oh, but you're not going.
00:12:02Have you forgotten that we waited dinner for you?
00:12:06Albert and his friend will be gone by now.
00:12:09Oh, but I...
00:12:10I mean it.
00:12:11Really.
00:12:12I want you to stay.
00:12:16In a way, you know you rather owe it to me.
00:12:21Will you?
00:12:23Why not?
00:12:24Why not, indeed.
00:12:27You hear what the young lady says, Dobbs?
00:12:29Why not, sir?
00:12:31Quite.
00:12:32And you might just give us a hand here.
00:12:35Let me help you with that coat, niece.
00:12:39Thank you, uncle.
00:12:57You've been disappointed, haven't you?
00:12:59I?
00:13:00Oh, not a bit of it.
00:13:01You fit perfectly.
00:13:03Really.
00:13:05I don't mean me.
00:13:07Fish and chips is more my style.
00:13:10But I mean the lady you were expecting to dinner.
00:13:14But I wasn't expecting a lady.
00:13:17No, really.
00:13:20As a matter of fact, I was expecting a man.
00:13:23A young man that I'm rather fond of.
00:13:37Time for your drops, old man.
00:13:39Come on.
00:13:40Come on.
00:13:41Come on.
00:13:42Come on.
00:13:43Come on.
00:13:44Come on.
00:13:45Come on.
00:13:46Come on.
00:13:47Come on.
00:13:48Come on.
00:13:49Come on.
00:13:50Come on.
00:13:51Come on.
00:13:52Time for your drops, old girl.
00:13:54Darling.
00:13:55Still betting because it's my father's clothes.
00:13:57Don't be ridiculous.
00:13:58Never gave the old governor a second thought.
00:14:04Take your hands off me.
00:14:06Pick what I want to drink, darling.
00:14:08Like a shot.
00:14:09No sooner said than done.
00:14:11Good old Nikolai Rabinovich.
00:14:12Chum of my childhood days.
00:14:14Oh, thank you, my good man.
00:14:16Come, come, Mickey O'Lantern.
00:14:17Don't stop me.
00:14:18If he won't, I will him with a certain amount of cash.
00:14:23There we are.
00:14:26You know, to do your governor good,
00:14:28to get out himself for a binge now and then.
00:14:30You don't know my father.
00:14:32He's a man, isn't he?
00:14:33The trouble is, he forgets how it was when he was alive.
00:14:36He still thinks I'm a schoolboy.
00:14:39He'll let me have it tomorrow at lunch.
00:14:42Good boy.
00:14:43You're having luncheon with me.
00:14:45That's my plan.
00:14:47Little boy, rather have a scolding from a...
00:15:00Pardon me, Nikolai, will you?
00:15:18Nikolai, you're a fool.
00:15:19You can't act this way.
00:15:21You will tell me what I can do.
00:15:23You're just jealous.
00:15:24Certainly I am jealous.
00:15:26Quit it, will you?
00:15:27I'm not in love with you.
00:15:28Of course not.
00:15:29How could you be when you have me?
00:15:31But don't forget, you have me.
00:15:34He's got money, Nikolai.
00:15:36That is, he's old man's got money.
00:15:38Bags of it.
00:15:39Lot of good it will do you if I...
00:15:41You'll be looking for your share.
00:15:43And I will get it.
00:15:44Always have, haven't you?
00:15:46Always, my dear.
00:15:49I have been talking.
00:15:51Telling the story of my life, you might say.
00:15:54Yes?
00:15:55Excuse me, Mr. Gerald.
00:15:56I...
00:15:57That is, he just telephoned, sir.
00:16:00Oh, yes, yes.
00:16:01I'll speak to him.
00:16:05He didn't wait, sir.
00:16:07He, uh...
00:16:09He didn't wait, sir.
00:16:11He, uh...
00:16:12He gave me a message.
00:16:14He said that, uh...
00:16:15He couldn't have luncheon with you tomorrow.
00:16:18I see.
00:16:21Uh, thank you, Dobbs.
00:16:30Disappointed again?
00:16:32Eh?
00:16:33Oh.
00:16:34By the boy?
00:16:38The one you were telling me about at dinner?
00:16:40Oh, I hate to see him do it.
00:16:42It's not the drink alone or women.
00:16:44A few wild oats are indicated for a young man,
00:16:46but this woman, ah!
00:16:48Well, you know, he could become a really great architect.
00:16:51There's a touch of genius in his drawings.
00:16:53Why, do you know, even when he was a little chap, he...
00:16:56I'm sorry.
00:16:58You are fond of him, aren't you?
00:17:00We've been the best of comrades, always.
00:17:03And now there seems to be a barrier between us.
00:17:06We can't even talk things out.
00:17:09There are two times when no one can advise a man.
00:17:13The first is when he's drinking too much.
00:17:17The other is when he loves the wrong woman.
00:17:21Is that bar even a father?
00:17:24Especially a father.
00:17:27You know, you make me feel very inexperienced.
00:17:32As if you knew a lot more about life and things than I.
00:17:36Oh, I do.
00:17:38A great deal more.
00:17:41About life and men and women.
00:17:45Particularly men.
00:17:47You might advise me.
00:17:50Might?
00:17:52Oh, I expect I'm hopelessly of another generation.
00:17:55Maybe I'm too old.
00:17:57You? Old?
00:18:00Well, I'm still young enough to fairly purr at that.
00:18:05Well, well, here I am going on about my troubles.
00:18:09And usually it's the other way around, isn't it?
00:18:12I mean, usually it's the young lady who tells the story of her life.
00:18:17I'm not sure.
00:18:20I've never had any such experience.
00:18:23Yet.
00:18:25You see, this is my first night at that sort of thing.
00:18:32It does sound like the usual story, doesn't it?
00:18:35Fact, though.
00:18:38I've been broke.
00:18:41And I decided it was either that or the bridge.
00:18:47I never could feel sorry enough for myself to have a go at the bridge.
00:19:01You know, that's interesting.
00:19:03Very.
00:19:05And just tonight you decided to put yourself, let us say, on the market?
00:19:14I'm afraid I have.
00:19:17Afraid?
00:19:20Not by long odds.
00:19:22Good.
00:19:25Because I want to make a bid for your services.
00:19:32After all, I did put myself on the, let us say, market.
00:19:38Then you'd be willing to...
00:19:42Oh, I say, I didn't mean that.
00:19:45Really, I mean, it's not me, you see.
00:19:49At least, not exactly.
00:19:53Look here.
00:19:55What would you do for 1,000 pounds?
00:19:591,000 pounds?
00:20:01$5,000?
00:20:03Do you mean it?
00:20:05What would I do?
00:20:07Just try me.
00:20:13Now, interesting.
00:20:17Very.
00:20:23This is our best number.
00:20:25Oh.
00:20:26Awfully...
00:20:27I mean, it's...
00:20:29It's...
00:20:30It's...
00:20:31It's...
00:20:32It's...
00:20:33It's...
00:20:34It's...
00:20:35It's...
00:20:36It's...
00:20:37It's...
00:20:38It's...
00:20:39It's...
00:20:40It's...
00:20:41It's...
00:20:42It's quite...
00:20:46Oh, thank you.
00:20:47The young lady is waiting, Sir Gerald.
00:20:49Oh, thanks so much, ma'am.
00:20:50I mean to say, thanks so much.
00:21:01Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:21:03I really do.
00:21:04This way, Sir Gerald, please.
00:21:11Oh, I'm so sorry. I had no idea that...
00:21:15Oh, come in, Jerry. I didn't think they made bashful men anymore.
00:21:19But, uh...
00:21:21And you haven't said a word about this.
00:21:23Well, it's fairly breathtaking. Stunning. I mean to say, stunning.
00:21:29And do you think it might catch our young man's eye?
00:21:33Look here, my dear. Let's give this thing up.
00:21:37I've been thinking it over and...
00:21:39I'm sorry, old man. A bargain's a bargain.
00:21:42But...
00:21:46But, you know, I don't want to put you in such a position.
00:21:50Now, don't you fret about me, Jerry.
00:21:52I'm having the time of my life, and I want that thousand pounds.
00:21:56Oh, look here. I'll give you a thousand pounds, and we'll forget all about our little plot.
00:22:01I've got to earn that money.
00:22:03I promised to get your son away from that woman, and I'm going to do it.
00:22:07But I must tell you that, uh...
00:22:08Are you pleased to, Gerald, with the negligee and the...
00:22:11Oh, uh, yes, uh, we'll take these and, uh, and these.
00:22:15And these? And this too, if you don't mind.
00:22:18Oh, by all means, if you'll have it.
00:22:20Uh-huh.
00:22:21They're rather expensive, aren't they?
00:22:23Well, that's rather in their favor, isn't it?
00:22:25Oh, shall I have these sent to your apartment, madame?
00:22:29And, uh, madame's address?
00:22:32Oh, yes. The address.
00:22:34It is, uh, 7 Comsterbury Street.
00:22:36And, uh, might I just see the manager, please?
00:22:38Oh, certainly, Mr. Gerald.
00:22:45Fancy, madame not knowing her own address.
00:22:48Ha, ha, ha.
00:22:50It's not so strange. My marriage, it only took place this afternoon.
00:22:54Is it the one we wanted?
00:22:55Oh, quite. But I still feel, uh...
00:22:59Well...
00:23:01Ha, ha, ha.
00:23:03Come on, boys and girls.
00:23:05We're all doing something.
00:23:06Oh, boy.
00:23:07Oh, boy.
00:23:08Oh, boy.
00:23:10Oh, boy.
00:23:11Oh, boy.
00:23:12Oh, boy.
00:23:13Come on, Russell, my boy.
00:23:14Oh, I don't care to crawl this evening.
00:23:16Come along.
00:23:17Let's go with that.
00:23:18See you to the door, though.
00:23:20Good old party.
00:23:22Oh, boy.
00:23:24Oh, oh.
00:23:25Beg your pardon, Nicolai.
00:23:27Beg your pardon, Nicolai.
00:23:28Mustn't be jealous, old thing.
00:23:30Ha, ha, ha.
00:23:36Russell did get swiped in a hurry, didn't he?
00:23:39You know, I can't understand the younger generation.
00:23:41Nine o'clock and the blighter can't even crawl.
00:23:44Ha, ha, ha.
00:23:46Why, we're going to be down there.
00:23:48Only in my car.
00:23:50Look out.
00:23:51There you go.
00:23:52We're going.
00:23:53We're sorry.
00:23:54Now, look here, pretty.
00:23:55Come along.
00:23:57Come along.
00:24:04Will you, Bertine?
00:24:05Tonight in my flat?
00:24:07Darling, I'd love it, but you're tight.
00:24:10Not too tight.
00:24:12Just a little tight, maybe.
00:24:14Another drink and you'll go to sleep.
00:24:16I know you.
00:24:17I won't take another drink.
00:24:19Solomon.
00:24:20Will you, Bertine?
00:24:21How can I, darling?
00:24:22I've got to go with the party.
00:24:24Give him a slip.
00:24:25Pretend you're going home, see?
00:24:27Then come back.
00:24:28I'll wait.
00:24:29But Nikolai, he'll be suspicious.
00:24:31Oh, Nikolai.
00:24:32Who cares for Nikolai?
00:24:34Will you, Bertine?
00:24:36I'll be back inside an hour.
00:24:38But remember now, no more drinks.
00:24:41Uh-uh.
00:24:42No more drinks.
00:24:49The royal coach.
00:24:50A couple of royal coaches.
00:24:52Good night, sweet prince.
00:25:09Well, hello.
00:25:11Fancy meeting you here.
00:25:14Who are you, anyway?
00:25:16Oh, how you frightened me.
00:25:19Sorry.
00:25:20Beg your pardon.
00:25:21What's the matter?
00:25:22An awfully stupid thing.
00:25:23I'm afraid I've lost my key.
00:25:25Oh, it's nothing.
00:25:26Absolutely nothing.
00:25:27Lady in distress never appealed to a courtney in vain.
00:25:31I'm afraid you can't.
00:25:32You see...
00:25:33Oh, no such word as can't.
00:25:35Just leave it on me.
00:25:37Good old rocker gib...
00:25:40Gib...
00:25:41Rocker...
00:25:42Anyway, good old rock.
00:25:45Millie!
00:25:46Coming soon and I'll partake.
00:25:48So first, no favor, Millie.
00:25:50Charming lady's lost her key.
00:25:53All right, all right.
00:25:55Everything will be as right as rain in our family.
00:25:58Here we are.
00:26:02There we are.
00:26:03Thank you, Millie.
00:26:04Thank you, Millie.
00:26:06And thank you, too, so much.
00:26:08That's all right.
00:26:10Just trust me in our apparel.
00:26:13Regular old rocker gib...
00:26:15Rocker gib...
00:26:17Anyway, I tried that once before.
00:26:20I'd like to ask you in, but...
00:26:22Oh, oh.
00:26:24Would you step into my palace as a spider to the fly?
00:26:29Nice little spider, though.
00:26:32Cute spider.
00:26:34Sorry, some other time.
00:26:36Other engagement.
00:26:37One does have other engagements.
00:26:40Engagement with a lady, too.
00:26:42But maybe I could give you a drink.
00:26:44Drink?
00:26:45Me?
00:26:46No, don't drink.
00:26:48Gave him a solemn promise.
00:26:50Word of honor.
00:26:51Then perhaps a cup of coffee.
00:26:53Oh, I can't sleep a week when I drink coffee at night.
00:27:00Say, who wants coffee anyway?
00:27:04How about a dash of whiskey?
00:27:06Nature's own remedy.
00:27:08The very thing.
00:27:10Strange I didn't think of that myself.
00:27:46A very respectable place.
00:27:51An old man.
00:27:53Much too cozy to be respectable.
00:28:05Clever little spider.
00:28:08But I must be toddling along.
00:28:11Engagement.
00:28:13A beautiful lady.
00:28:24Just what I needed.
00:28:26What you really need, old man, is a tuck in and a little bye-bye.
00:28:31Naughty little spider.
00:28:44Oh, I say.
00:28:48Really, I gotta be getting along.
00:28:52Come on.
00:28:54Just a little rest, old man.
00:28:57Now, I know it isn't respectable.
00:29:01Beds are respectable.
00:29:04An old man.
00:29:07Especially this bed isn't respectable.
00:29:12Wicked little spider.
00:29:16Come on.
00:29:17Just a little rest.
00:29:19Go bye-bye.
00:29:21Go bye-bye.
00:29:33Russell.
00:29:36Darling.
00:29:39Darling.
00:30:09Oh.
00:30:39Oh.
00:31:09Oh.
00:31:39Oh.
00:31:59Was I fairly awful?
00:32:01The important thing is, how are you this morning?
00:32:04Fairly awful.
00:32:06You'll feel better after some tea and a bit of breakfast.
00:32:10Don't you think a mild brandy and soda would be more to the point?
00:32:22I seem to remember nothing except vaguely a lost key
00:32:27and something about the Rock of Gibralt.
00:32:30Don't you remember anything else?
00:32:33You don't mean to tell me...
00:32:35Well, that is, maybe it's not quite courteous, but...
00:32:40Oh, dear.
00:32:43Not even calling me a cute, naughty little spider?
00:32:47Did I do that?
00:32:50Baby talk.
00:32:53And what else?
00:32:55What else?
00:32:56Look here.
00:32:57I mean, did I...
00:32:59That is, did we...
00:33:01Oh, you mean, did you...
00:33:03That is, did we...
00:33:04Where am I anyway?
00:33:07Isn't it the girl that's supposed to ask that?
00:33:10Oh, where am I?
00:33:12You're in my flat.
00:33:14I found you wandering about in the hallway
00:33:16and thought you'd be safer here with me.
00:33:22Was I?
00:33:23Was you what?
00:33:25Was I safer?
00:33:31Better get into these, haven't you?
00:33:33But I mean, didn't we...
00:33:36That is, how did I get out of these and into these?
00:33:41Don't blush.
00:33:42It's all right.
00:33:43I once studied to be a trained nurse.
00:33:52Look here, you're an awfully good sort.
00:33:54I'm afraid I misjudged.
00:33:56I'm sorry.
00:33:58Good heavens.
00:34:00I just remembered.
00:34:01I had an engagement.
00:34:03With a lady?
00:34:04Uh-huh.
00:34:05A very important lady?
00:34:06Well, she seemed important last night.
00:34:09Awfully.
00:34:10And she won't apologizing to this morning.
00:34:12Don't overdo the apologies.
00:34:14After all, you didn't do anything but break an engagement.
00:34:17Then I...
00:34:18Then I didn't...
00:34:19That is, we...
00:34:22I simply can't understand why you've done such a thing for me.
00:34:26A perfect stranger.
00:34:28And I didn't do it for you precisely.
00:34:30And you're not a perfect stranger.
00:34:32Far from perfect, I should say.
00:34:34Well, then we've met before somewhere.
00:34:37Mutual friends?
00:34:40It's too much of a riddle in my present feeble condition.
00:34:43You'll feel better after a tub and a bit of breakfast.
00:34:46But look here.
00:34:47I'd like to, uh...
00:34:49That is, I'd like to talk with you.
00:34:52The tub first.
00:34:53Up in your own flat.
00:34:54Then back here for breakfast.
00:34:56Movie chat.
00:34:58You care for that?
00:34:59Care for it?
00:35:00Oh, I say, I'd love it.
00:35:26What do you mean you can't put me through?
00:35:40Pull up your socks, sister, and let's hear that tinkle.
00:35:43Ring them.
00:35:44What's that?
00:35:45Oh, ring them again.
00:35:46Ring them again.
00:36:15Oh, never mind then.
00:36:44Maybe there is another woman.
00:36:52When I hook them, they stay hooked.
00:36:55But you haven't seen him, so you tell me, for more than a month.
00:37:01If anything drove Russell off, it's your jealousy.
00:37:03It spoiled everything.
00:37:04It's business.
00:37:05Business?
00:37:06Of course.
00:37:07Of course.
00:37:08Monkey business.
00:37:14You are still in love with him, my precious.
00:37:16But remember, you still have me.
00:37:19How can I forget it?
00:37:22If you do, it will be just deplorable.
00:37:28The woman who tries to make the fool out of me.
00:37:33Do you know what I would do?
00:37:36No, darling.
00:37:38How could I love anyone but my Nicky?
00:37:46Don't tell me you've lost your key.
00:37:51I'll always bless the one you did lose.
00:37:53I hope you always will.
00:37:59Good heavens, 11 o'clock.
00:38:01You've got to run along.
00:38:03Remember, you're a hardworking man.
00:38:05Don't you think you can get over this early?
00:38:07It's been a long time, like a good little boy.
00:38:09Tea again tomorrow?
00:38:11Good night, June.
00:38:12These have been great days for me.
00:38:14They've been great for me too.
00:38:15Really, June?
00:38:17Good night, my dear boy.
00:38:34Good night.
00:39:05How dare you, sir?
00:39:08At this hour?
00:39:11How did I know?
00:39:14Now, really, Jerry, who else would think of calling me at such a time?
00:39:18I'm afraid it is rather late, but I do so want to see you.
00:39:22Look here, suppose I bring the car around.
00:39:25Well, I could bring the car around.
00:39:28I do so want to see you.
00:39:30Look here, suppose I bring the car around.
00:39:33Well, I could wait down the street.
00:39:36A little air might do you good.
00:39:38What?
00:39:40Besides, I've got something to tell you.
00:39:45Feeling better?
00:39:46Mm.
00:39:48I knew a drive would do you good.
00:39:50I was tired, but I'm not now.
00:39:55You know, I feel rather guilty dragging you out like this.
00:39:59You needn't.
00:40:00I wanted to come.
00:40:02What did you have to tell me?
00:40:05Oh, lots of things.
00:40:08You're too sleepy now to listen.
00:40:11No, no, I'm not.
00:40:13Really?
00:40:14Heh, heh.
00:40:44Have a night, sir.
00:40:46Father, this is a surprise.
00:40:50Heh, heh.
00:40:51Sit down, won't you?
00:40:52Oh, better still, let's have tea together.
00:40:54No, no, awfully sorry, my boy, but...
00:40:56Look, you don't have to tease seriously.
00:40:58Just because I'm not drinking is no reason why you shouldn't have a spot of the best.
00:41:02Well, to tell you the truth, my boy, I have an engagement.
00:41:05Ah, can't be helped, can it?
00:41:07One does have other engagements, of course.
00:41:10No, but really, I...
00:41:11Oh, some wench, I presume, eh?
00:41:13Now, now, now, my boy, save the scolding for luncheon tomorrow.
00:41:17What are our fathers coming to anyway?
00:41:21Heh, heh, heh.
00:41:23Well, you see, I was just toddling by and I thought I'd pop in and...
00:41:27By the way, Cotton says you're doing rather well.
00:41:32Rather well?
00:41:34Modest old cotton.
00:41:36Look here, if he gives me the proper chance,
00:41:39I'll put this musty old firm on its feet.
00:41:43Heh, heh, heh, good boy.
00:41:52My job's about done.
00:41:54And I think I deserve a pat on the head.
00:41:56Really.
00:41:58It's only a month, and the other woman's out of it,
00:42:01and the boy is hard at work.
00:42:03Oh, it's all beyond thanks.
00:42:05I've got my boy back, and I owe you...
00:42:08You owe me exactly 1,000 pounds.
00:42:11You've earned it, too, every penny.
00:42:15It wasn't really such a hard job.
00:42:18Russell's a decent boy,
00:42:20and after all, a few wild oats are indicated.
00:42:25You know, the amazing thing to me is that he hasn't fallen in love with me.
00:42:31He hasn't fallen in love with you.
00:42:35I've been careful of that.
00:42:38Russell and I are just good pals,
00:42:40as if I were a sister or another chap.
00:42:43Suppose he were in love with you.
00:42:48It couldn't be.
00:42:51You see, there's another man.
00:42:54Another... oh.
00:42:57Shocked? You shouldn't be.
00:42:59You see, I never imagined that...
00:43:02Oh, perhaps you should be,
00:43:04because the other man is... is you.
00:43:11Oh, my dear, my dear, I've been waiting for you.
00:43:17Oh, my dear, my dear, I've been waiting and wanting to tell you it.
00:43:22And I've been wanting to hear it.
00:43:24But not now. No, don't.
00:43:27It's no go, Jerry.
00:43:29I hate to remind you, but I'm only a woman that came to you from the street.
00:43:33Oh, my dear, you're not really that sort.
00:43:36You see, you'd never be able to trust me.
00:43:39You'd always wonder about the past.
00:43:42All men do.
00:43:44Don't say things like that.
00:43:46I tell you, I wouldn't care.
00:43:49I'd trust you in spite of anything that happened.
00:43:55It's too good to be true.
00:43:57Much too good to be true.
00:43:59Oh, have faith, my dear. Have faith. I have.
00:44:04Perhaps.
00:44:06It might be.
00:44:08But I must go away first, if only for a little while.
00:44:11And when I come back, if I come back...
00:44:14I won't let you go.
00:44:16Oh, but I must go and think things out away from you.
00:44:20In the meantime, my job's not quite done.
00:44:24We always agreed we should tell Russell the truth.
00:44:27And now's the time. We must be fair with the boy.
00:44:30You know, I almost wish we...
00:44:32Oh, don't you bother. I'll tell him.
00:44:35But...
00:44:36He'll take it with a smile.
00:44:38You see, we're pals.
00:44:47These quiet little teas have been the sweetest things in my life.
00:44:50You've been a great pal, June.
00:44:52We are pals, aren't we, Russell?
00:44:54The best. And nothing but.
00:44:58Look here.
00:45:00You're not going serious on me, are you?
00:45:02Sometimes it's hard even for pals to talk about things.
00:45:05After the lectures I've listened to.
00:45:08Fire away, old chum.
00:45:10Swing your blooming axe.
00:45:12Remember that first morning when you found yourself in my bed?
00:45:15Spare my blushes.
00:45:17And I told you you weren't precisely a stranger?
00:45:20Perfect stranger was the exact and somewhat vicious phrase.
00:45:23You see, I knew about you, Russell.
00:45:26All about you.
00:45:28You did say you trained for nursing.
00:45:31I'm sorry. Please go on.
00:45:34I knew about you because I was hired.
00:45:36Hired to find out.
00:45:38To get you away from that other girl.
00:45:40You're joking.
00:45:42But, June, who was?
00:45:45Your father.
00:45:54Good old governor.
00:45:56Now, wouldn't he, though, just...
00:45:58You're not angry.
00:45:59Angry? Angry because the two dearest people in the world saved me from making a fool of myself?
00:46:04I knew you'd take it this way.
00:46:06I told him you would.
00:46:07What other way is there?
00:46:09How could I be anything but grateful when it brought me you?
00:46:13You dear, dear June.
00:46:15And I'll play the little joke off on father.
00:46:18Rare old father when I tell him about us.
00:46:23You know already, don't you, June?
00:46:25No, no. Oh, Russell.
00:46:26Oh, no. You didn't know.
00:46:28You know how I love you, how I want you.
00:46:30Don't say it. Don't.
00:46:31But I have said it.
00:46:33Oh.
00:46:35You mean you don't care for me?
00:46:38That way, I mean?
00:46:43June.
00:46:49Is there...
00:46:52Is there someone else?
00:46:58Forget it, then, June.
00:47:01I'm sorry.
00:47:04Awfully sorry.
00:47:08Just forget what I said.
00:47:10We're still pals.
00:47:15June.
00:47:17It's not...
00:47:18Not him.
00:47:20Not my father.
00:47:30Not my father.
00:47:47Good afternoon, sir.
00:47:48Good afternoon, sir.
00:47:55Care for more, Dobbs?
00:47:57Never remove the rare old liquors.
00:48:26Drinking, Russell?
00:48:28Drinking?
00:48:30I'd scarcely call it drinking, Sir Gerald.
00:48:34Let us say, uh, preparation.
00:48:37Laying a foundation for some real drinking.
00:48:43Surely you don't grudge me a mild spot of whiskey.
00:48:46You share everything else with your only son.
00:48:51Gentlemen, I give you Sir Gerald Courtney, my father.
00:48:58And when I say I give him, gentlemen, I mean I give him.
00:49:02You can have him.
00:49:04I don't want him.
00:49:06What's got into you, my boy?
00:49:08Unusual, what?
00:49:10Prodigal son disowning proud father?
00:49:12No, you're talking nonsense.
00:49:13Aw, quit it.
00:49:14Quit your lies.
00:49:16You've been bleating that you and I couldn't talk things out.
00:49:19Well, we're going to talk now, only I'm going to do the talking.
00:49:22She's told me.
00:49:23Told me of your sneaking underhand tricks.
00:49:25Steady on, my boy.
00:49:26She's told me.
00:49:27Told me how you sent her to me.
00:49:29To make me love her.
00:49:30To make me want her more than I've ever wanted anything.
00:49:33You?
00:49:35Love her?
00:49:36Oh.
00:49:38I'm sorry.
00:49:39I didn't know.
00:49:40Yes, you're sorry.
00:49:42You didn't know.
00:49:43Russell, I only meant...
00:49:44Oh, don't whine.
00:49:45Talk up like a man.
00:49:46Don't merely mouth me.
00:49:47Please, please, please believe me.
00:49:49Believe you?
00:49:50Why should I believe you?
00:49:51You're a liar.
00:49:54Listen to me.
00:49:55You've got to listen.
00:49:56You listen.
00:49:57I'm sick of lies and sick of liars.
00:49:59Sick of everything.
00:50:00Reform me, eh?
00:50:02You reform me.
00:50:04You and that one, you hypocrite.
00:50:06Sending her to me.
00:50:08My own father.
00:50:09Sending her...
00:50:10You don't say that.
00:50:11Ugly word, isn't it?
00:50:12But it fits her.
00:50:13The woman you picked up in the streets.
00:50:14Nothing but a common...
00:50:15Stop.
00:50:16Go ahead, hit me.
00:50:17You've done everything else to me.
00:50:19If it were anyone else but my own son, I'd...
00:50:21Well, I haven't the same compulsion.
00:50:23My father...
00:50:30Russell.
00:50:40Oh, Russell.
00:50:52What's happened?
00:50:54Tell me, Jerry.
00:50:56He's been here.
00:50:58And he's gone.
00:51:01Forever.
00:51:03Oh, no.
00:51:05No.
00:51:07I'll bring him back to you.
00:51:08I'll...
00:51:09He wanted to strike me.
00:51:13Me.
00:51:14Me.
00:51:15Me.
00:51:16Me.
00:51:17Me.
00:51:18Me.
00:51:19He wanted to strike me.
00:51:21My own son.
00:51:25Oh, no, no, he didn't.
00:51:28He didn't mean to.
00:51:30He's only a boy.
00:51:32And he was hurt.
00:51:33Like a boy.
00:51:36He wanted to hurt someone else.
00:51:39Try to understand.
00:51:41You wouldn't mind if a child in the nursery struck you.
00:51:45That's what it was.
00:51:47I've lost my son.
00:51:52Oh.
00:51:55No, no.
00:51:56It can't be.
00:52:00I won't let it happen.
00:52:02It has happened.
00:52:08And I'm to blame.
00:52:12It's all my fault.
00:52:15I should have known it would be like this.
00:52:18I think I did know in my heart.
00:52:21But I wouldn't listen.
00:52:25You see.
00:52:27I love you, Jerry.
00:52:29And I wanted to help you.
00:52:33Great help I've been.
00:52:40I...
00:52:41I do love you.
00:52:44I'll always love you.
00:52:47And I love you too much to hurt you.
00:52:50You?
00:52:52Hurt me?
00:52:54Do you think I could go on and have you remember that because of me you lost him?
00:53:15It's the boy.
00:53:17Isn't it, Jerry?
00:53:19You want him.
00:53:28It's not too late.
00:53:31I'll find him and send him back to you.
00:53:36That's what you hired me for, wasn't it?
00:53:41That's what you hired me for, wasn't it?
00:53:44To save your boy for a thousand pounds.
00:53:48You just watch me earn that money.
00:53:56Hello.
00:53:57Who?
00:54:00Russell!
00:54:02Why, darling.
00:54:05Am I surprised?
00:54:07Oh, rather.
00:54:08You sound familiar, though.
00:54:10Just a bit tight, aren't you?
00:54:13I thought you'd given up whiskey and me.
00:54:16What's that?
00:54:17A party.
00:54:18I'm just ripe for a binge.
00:54:20Where?
00:54:22Your flat?
00:54:24Don't know about that.
00:54:26You know, the last time you asked me to meet you there, you didn't show up.
00:54:29All right, darling.
00:54:31Your flat, 11 o'clock.
00:54:33Bye.
00:54:34Yes, I will.
00:54:36Bye.
00:55:06Bye.
00:55:07Bye.
00:55:36Russell!
00:55:52Russell, darling.
00:56:00Russell, Russell darling, sure you're not napping, here's for Athene.
00:56:15Shut your mouth! Where is he?
00:56:21Please don't neglect me!
00:56:22Calm my angel, don't be so excited.
00:56:25Oh, don't, don't!
00:56:26Be calm and sweet and try to entertain me with some of your delightful lies.
00:56:31Don't, Nicolai, don't!
00:56:33We shall sit here together, you and I, and wait for him.
00:56:50Oh, Russell!
00:56:51Get away! Take your dirty hands off!
00:56:54All right, Russell.
00:56:55It's not all right!
00:56:56I won't touch you!
00:56:58Still trying to earn your dirty wages, huh?
00:57:00No, you don't!
00:57:01You won't trick me into your place again, you lying, sneaking...
00:57:04I won't listen to such insolence!
00:57:05You won't, huh?
00:57:06You'll listen to me, all right, you filthy gutter whelp!
00:57:09I won't, you hear? Go away!
00:57:11Fire me out, will you?
00:57:13I'll show you!
00:57:14Don't try to put on airs with me, you little tramp!
00:57:17Pretending you're particular who comes in here,
00:57:19is you'll hear the kind of talk you deserve,
00:57:21you smirking, rotten cheek!
00:57:24Oh, laughing at me, ain't you?
00:57:26You both laughed at me, you and that sweet-scented father of mine.
00:57:30Go ahead and laugh!
00:57:31I'm not laughing, Russell. We never laugh.
00:57:33You're a liar!
00:57:34Why shouldn't you laugh?
00:57:35Me thinking all the time you were everything sweet and clean and decent.
00:57:39Afraid almost to touch you.
00:57:41Go ahead, laugh, it's a joke.
00:57:43Me thinking poetic thoughts about you.
00:57:45About you, a woman for hire,
00:57:48a woman with a price mark on her, not much of a price at that.
00:57:51A mangy, shaggy cat.
00:57:53Anybody's cat, anybody's woman.
00:57:55You're right, Russell, that's all I am.
00:57:57You're even worse.
00:57:58Oh, right again.
00:57:59But I've learned my lesson, I'm going away.
00:58:01With him, naturally.
00:58:02Alone.
00:58:03It's not that way between your father and me.
00:58:05Don't you see, I care too much for you to stand between us.
00:58:08You're going with him, that's where you're going.
00:58:10Well, I'll show you, and I'll show him too.
00:58:18What?
00:58:22So, you think I'm going to your old gent, eh?
00:58:25What a priceless pair of fatheads you and your papa are.
00:58:29Me, in love with Sir Gerald Blinken Courtney.
00:58:32Him pretending he was better than the rest.
00:58:34The only difference was that he tried to get with pounds, what others try to get with shillings.
00:58:39Little Junie's the one that got this time.
00:58:42I got this flat, and clothes, and money.
00:58:45All for a sweet smile and a thank you, sir.
00:58:49Nothing but a...
00:58:50Nothing but.
00:58:52What did you expect, lilies of the blooming valley?
00:58:54I did your old man in the eye and he never even blinked.
00:58:57The dolly old boy didn't even get so much as a kiss.
00:59:00You're lying.
00:59:01You're his, and he can have you.
00:59:03Oh, thank you to be slinging your hook.
00:59:07Think I'm drunk, don't you?
00:59:11Maybe I am.
00:59:12I'm not drunk enough to let you trick me again.
00:59:15Not as drunk as I'm going to get.
00:59:17Do you know what I'm going to do, tonight?
00:59:20Of course I do.
00:59:22Like father, like son.
00:59:23You're going to meet that prize package, Berthine Waller, up in your flat.
00:59:27Don't like that, do you?
00:59:29Why not?
00:59:30Us girls got to live.
00:59:34Give me a drink.
00:59:37Give you a drink?
00:59:38Milk's more your style.
00:59:40Why, you're not man enough.
00:59:42Oh, I ain't.
00:59:43Still reforming me, aren't you?
00:59:45Give me that drink.
00:59:46No, I won't.
00:59:47Do you hear?
00:59:50Stop it.
00:59:51Who do you think you...
00:59:58Leave me alone.
01:00:01Don't try your dirty tricks on me.
01:00:07Leave me alone.
01:00:10Leave me alone.
01:00:41It's the same, the old world's over.
01:00:44It's the poor what gets the blime.
01:00:48It's the rich what gets the pleasure.
01:00:51Ain't it a gloom and shine?
01:01:10It's the same, the old world's over.
01:01:40It's the same, the old world's over.
01:01:53It's the poor what...
01:01:55Hello, Mr. Courtney.
01:01:57What's that?
01:01:58I said it's a ripping morning, sir.
01:02:00Oh, yes.
01:02:01Ripping.
01:02:10Ripping.
01:02:11Ripping.
01:02:12Ripping.
01:02:13Ripping.
01:02:14Ripping.
01:02:15Ripping.
01:02:16Ripping.
01:02:17Ripping.
01:02:18Ripping.
01:02:19Ripping.
01:02:20Ripping.
01:02:21Ripping.
01:02:22Ripping.
01:02:23Ripping.
01:02:24Ripping.
01:02:25Ripping.
01:02:26Ripping.
01:02:27Ripping.
01:02:28Ripping.
01:02:29Ripping.
01:02:30Ripping.
01:02:31Ripping.
01:02:32Ripping.
01:02:33Ripping.
01:02:34Ripping.
01:02:35Ripping.
01:02:36Ripping.
01:02:37Ripping.
01:02:38Ripping.
01:02:40Murder!
01:02:41Murder!
01:02:42He's murdered her!
01:02:48Plain enough.
01:02:49Happened sometime during the night.
01:02:51She came to his flat, and he'd done her in.
01:02:52All we gotta do is find the lad.
01:02:54That won't be hard, we'll have him by night.
01:02:56You say you saw him coming out of his flat?
01:02:58Yes, sir.
01:02:59He was coming down the steps.
01:03:01And he looked like he'd been drinking.
01:03:02He looked worse than that.
01:03:04He was in a daze-like.
01:03:06That's him right enough.
01:03:08That's him right enough. Tell headquarters to arrest Russell Courtney.
01:03:11Serious arresting the son of Sir Gerald Courtney.
01:03:14That's serious too, doing a young lady in.
01:03:16It's a clear case.
01:03:22Paper!
01:03:24Horrible happening in my life!
01:03:27Evening paper!
01:03:31Very well, Burton.
01:03:33Tell the officers we'll surrender their prisoner in five minutes.
01:03:39Now you better tell us, Russell, my boy.
01:03:42We can hardly expect further lenience from the police.
01:03:44They've been more than fair in bringing you here.
01:03:47Now won't you tell us, your father and your lawyer, where you were?
01:03:53And telling where I was is the only way to clear myself?
01:03:57No matter who else it hurts?
01:03:59It's your only chance.
01:04:02If I told the truth, the real truth,
01:04:07it would be too hard to believe.
01:04:10Tell me, my boy, can't you?
01:04:13I'll understand.
01:04:18I'm afraid, father, you'll be the last to understand.
01:04:23The entire truth.
01:04:26Oh, I don't mean to be unkind.
01:04:29Oh, my boy.
01:04:31Tell me.
01:04:32It's our last chance.
01:04:44I've treated you shabbily enough already.
01:04:47Haven't I, father?
01:04:53Sorry.
01:05:02Begging pardon, Sir James, but this young lady asking to see you says it's very important.
01:05:07A young lady?
01:05:08Well, sir, that is...
01:05:09Let me, sir.
01:05:10Tell her to return in the morning.
01:05:11But...
01:05:12Oh, nonsense, I say.
01:05:13Dismiss her.
01:05:16Good evening, gentlemen.
01:05:22Oh, my dear, it's good of you to come.
01:05:24I've been looking for you and I...
01:05:25Wait, James.
01:05:26Wait.
01:05:27Wait.
01:05:28Wait.
01:05:29Wait.
01:05:30Wait.
01:05:31I've been looking for you and I...
01:05:32Wait, Jerry.
01:05:33Wait until you've heard what I have to say.
01:05:42You haven't told them, have you?
01:05:45I was certain you wouldn't.
01:05:47Trying to save my reputation?
01:05:49It's past saving, my dear boy.
01:05:52Do you know where Russell was last night?
01:05:55Rather.
01:05:56He was in a lady's apartment all night.
01:05:58How do you know?
01:05:59I happen to be the lady.
01:06:01You mean it can't be true.
01:06:03Not you and...
01:06:04Let me tell him.
01:06:08But of course it's true.
01:06:11It was to be expected, wasn't it?
01:06:22Sorry.
01:06:24I was afraid you'd take it this way.
01:06:30But I'm not sorry.
01:06:32I'm glad.
01:06:34Glad to know the truth.
01:06:37The wedding's off, eh, Sir Gerald?
01:06:40Can't quite stick it now, can you?
01:06:43Remember when I told you you'd never be able to trust me?
01:06:46No, you said yourself that you and he were together.
01:06:48What of it?
01:06:50Where's the faith you swore you'd have in spite of anything that's happened?
01:06:54Well, something's happened, hasn't it?
01:06:56And worse than anything else, it's happened with me.
01:06:59Me being what I am.
01:07:01It was to be expected, wasn't it?
01:07:04I loved you.
01:07:06Don't you see?
01:07:09That's what makes it so...
01:07:11Inconvenient is the word.
01:07:13Jealous of your own son.
01:07:15Let me tell him.
01:07:16Oh, I've heard enough.
01:07:18You'll hear just a bit more, Sir Gerald, and you'll listen.
01:07:21Oh, yes, you will.
01:07:23Russell knew how you'd take it.
01:07:25That's why he wouldn't tell where he was.
01:07:27This righteous code that gentlemen have.
01:07:31Marry you?
01:07:33Don't fret, Sir Gerald.
01:07:35I'm not having any.
01:07:37I'm just a woman that came to you from the street, out of the fog.
01:07:40A woman for hire.
01:07:42Someone you could buy, and did buy.
01:07:45But not someone so help me you can marry.
01:07:48You've done this for me.
01:07:50I've done it for me, and a thousand pounds.
01:07:54You haven't forgotten the thousand quid, have you?
01:07:59You hired me to save your boy.
01:08:01Me, a stray Sheeally cat, and blimey, I've saved him.
01:08:06I'll take the check, if you please.
01:08:10Sir James.
01:08:26Begging pardon, Sir James, but it wasn't Mr. Courtney who did it at all.
01:08:30They've nipped a chap, a sort of foreigner, that is.
01:08:32Yes, he does it, Burton.
01:08:33Scotland Yard just reports that they've caught a man named Nicola Rabinoff.
01:08:37Caught him in Miss Waller's flat.
01:08:39I confess, Sir. Confess that he killed Miss Waller.
01:08:43Tell the Scotland Yard men I'll see them in a few moments.
01:08:48Well, you're twice lucky, young man.
01:08:51This, of course, clears you absolutely.
01:08:56Too bad, my dear, this couldn't have come a bit sooner.
01:09:00It would have saved this ugly explanation.
01:09:04The gentleman's cold again.
01:09:06Covering up the unpleasant thing.
01:09:09I'd have told him anyway.
01:09:11I'm convinced you would.
01:09:17Thanks so much.
01:09:28I'm sorry. Really sorry.
01:09:32I believe you are.
01:09:34But still sorry for the wrong person.
01:09:38Goodbye, Sir Gerald.
01:09:41Goodbye, Jerry old man.
01:09:56There's just one other thing, Sir Gerald.
01:10:00Russell was in my apartment last night.
01:10:03All night.
01:10:05But I wasn't with him.
01:10:07As you were, Sir Gerald.
01:10:09That doesn't change things in the least with you and me.
01:10:16As for this, you know, I have a sort of code too.
01:10:22I'll probably be sorry for this in the morning.
01:10:26However, right now...
01:10:34Joan! Joan!
01:10:37Don't you think you've caused her trouble enough?
01:10:44Father!
01:10:46She loves you. Go after her.
01:10:49Wherever she goes, my boy, I'll follow.