None But the Lonely Heart Page #2

Synopsis: A sickly English woman runs a store by herself, while her irresponsible son travels aimlessly, refusing to contact her. When told that his mother has cancer, the young man comes home, reforms himself, and helps his mom run the shop. Soon however, each becomes involved in illegal activities.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Clifford Odets
Production: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
PASSED
Year:
1944
113 min
150 Views


i seen you before?

Here's a present

for you.

Here you are.

,

out of tune.

I'm mordinoy.

Jim mordinoy.

Am i supposed

to know you?

Thought as

how you might.

Ever fight your pup?

Never. What

about the piano?

What about it?

Should i tune it?

Cost you half a bar.

Life's easier than that. Take a

quid and leave the piano undisturbed.

Now why would

i take your quid?

Just to be a pal.

Hey, what's that i

smell on you? Hair oil?

I can't understand why

a man of your talents

wears them rags.

Clothes are a lot

of blinking excitement

about nothing

most of the time.

As to what

you call my rags,

they are the uniform

of my independence.

Clothed in your

perfect pitch.

Now you understand me,

mr. Mordinoy.

Life's a piece of meat

when you know how.

Most people here

are victims.

Hurry, worry, and scurry

to make a bit of brass.

What's your kind, mr.

Mordinoy? Willful and deceitful.

Take what you want,

right? Right.

That's what it's about.

Be a victim or a thug.

But suppose you don't want

to be neither, like me-

not the heir and not

the owned. Then what?

Woman:

Then what?

Who's talking

to you?

Hey, who's

the piece of pastry

in the jersey?

Ada brantlin.

Fair blinds you

with science, don't she?

She don't like

the rough stuff.

Have to

box clever there.

Yes, i suppose

you would.

Change, please,

miss.

You're new here,

aren't you?

Who's this mordinoy?

Run the place now, does he?

Wouldn't dirty

his hands on it.

Then what's

he doing here?

The gentlemen come in

to converse with me.

Now kindly move on.

How do i get

in your good books, ada?

There we are.

Lovely fingernails.

What's up?

Don't you know when

your health is good?

Wished i was a painter.

And you'd do what?

Well, what does

a painter do?

In this book,

a painter does some

very strange things.

Calls it art, too,

he does.

You an artist?

Me? Tune pianos,

that's me.

Play the piano by ear,

polish furniture,

shoot rodents

with a rifle.

Bugs in your house?

Send for ernie mott.

Know how

to medicate animals.

Excellent at repairing

delicate machinery.

I invent inventions.

What you invent?

Uh, oh...

i see.

I happen to be working

on my greatest invention-

a human animal which don't

look for a master.

Ain't easy.

Listen. Come closer.

I like that kind

of talk.

You do?

It sounds barmy as the

muffin man, but i like it.

That brings up

one question, ada.

What?

What time

do you get off?

Half 6:
00.

Around the back.

Thank you.

Change, miss.

Oy.

Catch.

Thank you, sir.

Charitable sort,

you are.

Oh, that?

Friend of mine.

Knew him when.

When what?

When he was a man.

Old ike webber, a friend

of my ma's, told me this.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Odets was widely seen as a successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill as O'Neill began to retire from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash in the mid-1930s. From early 1935 on, Odets' socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets' works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet, and Jon Robin Baitz. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941–1942 season, Odets focused his energies on film projects, remaining in Hollywood for the next seven years. He began to be eclipsed by such playwrights as Miller, Tennessee Williams and, in 1950, William Inge. Except for his adaptation of Konstantin Simonov's play The Russian People in the 1942–1943 season, Odets did not return to Broadway until 1949, with the premiere of The Big Knife, an allegorical play about Hollywood. At the time of his death in 1963, Odets was serving as both script writer and script supervisor on The Richard Boone Show, born of a plan for televised repertory theater. Though many obituaries lamented his work in Hollywood and considered him someone who had not lived up to his promise, director Elia Kazan understood it differently. "The tragedy of our times in the theatre is the tragedy of Clifford Odets," Kazan began, before defending his late friend against the accusations of failure that had appeared in his obituaries. "His plan, he said, was to . . . come back to New York and get [some new] plays on. They’d be, he assured me, the best plays of his life. . . .Cliff wasn't 'shot.' . . . The mind and talent were alive in the man." more…

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