Night and the City
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- 1950
- 96 min
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Night and the city.
The night is tonight,
tomorrow night...
or any night.
The city is London.
Mary?
Mary?
You won't find
any money there, Harry.
What do you mean,
spying on me?
I, uh-- I was just
looking for a cigarette.
Mmm.
Would I steal
from you?
- Who are you running away from now?
Running? Me?
Now, you know me better than that.
- Three days and three nights, and not a word from you.
- Well, I've been very busy.
For all I knew, you were lying in the gutter
somewhere with a knife in your back.
Lying in the gutter?
Now, look, sweetheart.
I'll tell you what happened.
- I was in Birmingham.
- Birmingham?
Yes! There's a fellow up there
starting a new greyhound track.
And he wants me
for a partner.
It's the chance of a lifetime.
I'll be in on the ground floor.
I only expected to be gone for a day,
but when I saw that layout I stayed over.
And when you see--
Look, honey. Look, here's the plan.
How much?
- "How much"?
- Look, Harry, we've been through this a thousand times.
How much?
Oh. Mmm.
Well, all right.
For our share,
it's only 300.
- 300, and it's a life of ease and plenty.
- No!
- You've got the money. You've got it right here.
- Sure. Sure, I've got it.
But not for
any greyhound track.
- Why, last month it was--
- But this is different, Mary. This can't lose!
Oh, Harry, why can't you
ever grow up?
Harry, you gotta
get hold of yourself.
You can't go on forever
always running, always in a sweat.
night after night at the Silver Fox...
getting drunks drunker?
But I'm sticking it out,
waiting for the day we can marry...
lead decent,
normal lives.
Remember them, Harry?
Nice people.
Nice to know and be with.
Remember the plans
they used to make?
The kind of life
they were going to live?
I just want to
be somebody.
I've got to hurry,
Harry.
- Nosseross is angry with you.
- Let him wait.
Him and his
big, fat belly.
I'm not leaving here.
You mean you're afraid to leave.
How much?
I... paid him everything
but five pounds.
He's the one that put up the money
for the football pool.
Wait here.
Come in!
- Adam!
- Open the windows!
Don't tell me you tried
cooking spaghetti again.
Yes! With the usual
disastrous results!
Mary, get that siphon bottle there!
Quickly!
- The soda?
- Yes! Hurry! Hurry!
- Here!
- Ohh!
Don't just stand there, woman!
Squirt! Squirt!
There.
You're just in time to enjoy
the most heavenly spaghetti dinner.
Aw, thanks, but I've just had
breakfast, unfortunately.
I admit it does look
a little overdone.
Oh, well.
Try again next week.
but I'll master it in the end, I promise.
That's the thing that
keeps us apart, you know.
Your spaghetti?
Yes, in a way.
When I'm having my spaghetti,
you're looking for your morning toast.
Do you think we might ever arrange our day
to meet somewhere around teatime?
Come on, sit down.
- Let me get these hideous monsters out of the way.
- Oh, he's cute!
- She.
- Well, she's cute.
The shops tell me it's the best-selling
design I've given them so far.
- Discouraging.
- You're probably pleased as punch.
Of course. Sit down
and really be comfortable.
Thanks, Adam,
but I've got to get on to work.
- I've come to ask for a favor.
- Name it.
- Could you let me have three pounds until tomorrow?
- Help yourself.
Punch the night bell. The old lady of
Threadneedle St. Is well stocked and generous.
- It does look like the Bank of England.
- Well, it should.
I spent half my youth
reproducing it.
- It's very good.
- Of course.
Wonderful!
You're very clever,
Adam.
I am about
unimportant things.
Help yourself.
Thanks, Adam.
I happen to need this right now for-
- Well, I didn't expect them to deliver the--
- Sure.
Harry's back.
You knew that,
didn't you?
These walls. Just one big, happy family.
He gets so excited,
almost like a child.
But anyone has to fight
not to get pulled in by his excitement.
- His ideas always have so much imagination.
- I know.
- Harry's an artist without an art.
- What does that mean?
Well, that's something that'd
make a man very unhappy, Mary-
groping for the right lever,
the means with which to express himself.
Yes, he is that,
isn't he?
I like that, Adam.
It's a very nice thought.
Yes, but it
can be dangerous.
Oh. No, you don't.
Not again.
Every time you talk, you mix me up so
I can't think straight for a week.
- Thanks, Adam.
- Anything.
Anytime.
- Hi, hi, Harry!
- Evening, Maggie!
Can't win, boys!
Watch it!
Evening, boys.
- How's Fabian's stocks and shares, Harry?
- Never mind!
- When are you gonna open up your Paris office, Harry?
- Ehh!
- Lovely flowers!
- Evening, Molly, my girl!
Hello, Harry.
How are you?
Well, you're sober.
Trade must be slow.
Slow?
Disintegrating.
- You need a fresh carnation.
- Thanks, Molly. Put it on my account.
- That's all right, my dear. I'll trust you.
- There you are, Bert.
Bless you, Harry. Half a crown!
Don't mention it.
If you girls want to work for my husband,
you've got to start offi on the right foot.
You must understand the rules--
what he'll stand for and what he won't.
First, no stealing from the gentlemen
while you're in the club.
What you do outside
is none of his business...
but in here we take it from them legitimate
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