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Synopsis: Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. To live, George has had to rent out his London castle to visiting young American socialite Helen Hale. So the only way George has access to his own home is when he is invited to a party hosted by Helen. Much to George's surprise, Richard confesses to him that he is in love from afar with and would like to marry wealthy widowed Maria Wislack, Helen's friend who George considers a haggard, controlling, old (forty-one) shrew of a woman. Richard believes he has no chance with Maria due to the difference in their financial situations. Richard is surprised to find that Maria knows he is in love with her, she in turn attracted to him. However, to test if they will be compatible as husband and wife, Maria proposes they spend one month together in her mansion on an otherwise deserted island off the coast of Scotland, Richard who is to row to the mainland every night and row back
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1944
80 min
140 Views


Mrs Wislack will let us have slipper?

I'm neither you dear, revered

or your old friend. And I...

Naught naughty, it's the third time

you've spoken harshly to me tonight.

Don't do that.

You know how I dislike it.

If you had a little more brain,

you'd be in an asylum.

Richard and I enjoyed your joke immensely.

It was even something indigestible.

One of these days I will right to

The Times on present day matters.

That should be highly interesting.

I think it would cause a sensation.

That you can write a letter at all

should cause a great sensation.

I forgive you Maria, old

friends are old friends.

George, if you use the world 'old' with

me again I shall throw something at you.

Very well Maria, but when I reached

the age of 41 I was not asahmed.

My sister will be 41 in August.

You beast!

Bounder!

Am I a bounder Helen?

I don't think so George. Not really.

No I don't think so either.

Good evening Helen.

Good evening Angela.

Good evening George.

Good evening... Angela.

I didn't know you knew her.

Oh yes, we have a sneering aquaintance.

Really?

She's also strongly

fancied by my trustees.

Oh Helen.

Richard, is Maria very upset?

Oh terribly, I couldn't do anything

with her. Would you go to her?

Of course. Excuse me George.

I suppose it amuses you to

have made a woman cry?

I did nothing that could

possibly make her cry.

Didn't you, in a sneering way,

accuse her of being 41?

I did, but she's not crying

because I said she's 41...

she's crying because she is 41!

Well if you must know I'm

the same age as his sister.

That damn woman can't keep

her mouth shut about anything.

Oh how I dislike him.

I'm sorry because I like him so much.

Yes, but you wouldn't marry him.

How far is it in a hansom to

St Georges Hanover square?

20 minutes, why?

If he asked me to marry him tonight...

I'd run it in five.

Well if he did marry you

it'd only be for your money.

Well why not? Plenty of women

have lived with him for his.

I've loved her for more years

than I care to remember.

You mean to tell me that

you've loved that old...

Silence, you were about

to call her by a name...

that would prevent me

speaking to you ever again.

Have a drink.

Or have you had too many?

I will have a drink and

i've not had too many.

Richard old boy, I love you as a brother...

but i'd rather see you dead than...

George I must warn you, if you say

another word against Mrs Wislack...

our friendship is at an end.

Very well, but you can't stop

me wishing you were dead.

Are you addressing me sir?

I see your point.

You'd never marry again? Not even

if you loved someone terribly?

Well I should require to know a

great deal more about my next.

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Frederick Lonsdale

Frederick Lonsdale (5 February 1881 – 4 April 1954) was an English dramatist. more…

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