Quality Street Page #2

Synopsis: It's 1805 England, specifically on Quality Street, where a gentleman passerby is an event, not only for the lady being called upon, but also for the ever watching nosy female neighbors. Based on recent events, twenty year old Phoebe Throssel believes that a proposal of marriage from Dr. Valentine Brown is imminent. However, what Dr. Brown has come to tell Phoebe is that he has enlisted in the army to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, with no mention of any romantic feeling for her from his side. Fast forward ten years. Phoebe and her similarly older spinster sister Susan now run a school. The years and situation have not been kind to Phoebe, now thirty, drab and thus considered an unmarriable spinster. Upon Captain Brown's arrival back to Quality Street, he, by his immediate reaction to seeing Phoebe, too has noticed how Phoebe has changed from what he previously knew as a pretty young thing. Heartbroken, Phoebe, if only for herself, decides to regain some of her youth by paying attention
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): George Stevens
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
NOT RATED
Year:
1937
83 min
129 Views


YOU WILL WEAR IT,

MY LOVE, WON'T YOU?

THE ROAST BEEF:

OF OLD ENGLAND:

AND ALL THE OLD:

IT IS HE.

THAT KNOCK.

SO DASHING.

SO IMPERIOUS.

SUSAN, I THINK

HE KISSED ME ONCE.

YOU THINK?

I KNOW HE DID.

THAT EVENING:

A WEEK AGO:

WHEN HE WAS SQUIRING ME

HOME FROM THE CONCERT.

IT WAS RAINING,

AND MY FACE WAS WET.

HE SAID THAT WAS WHY

HE DID IT.

BECAUSE YOUR FACE WAS WET?

DOESN'T SEEM A

SUFFICIENT EXCUSE NOW.

OH, PHOEBE,

BEFORE HE OFFERED.

I FEAR ME IT WAS

MOST UNLADYLIKE.

DR. BROWN!

MISS SUSAN.

HOW DO YOU DO, MA'AM?

MISS PHOEBE, THOUGH WE MET TODAY ALREADY,

I INSIST ON SHAKING

HANDS WITH YOU AGAIN.

ALWAYS SO DASHING.

WILL YOU TAKE TEA,

SIR?

THANK YOU.

HOW MANY LUMPS,

SIR, 2?

5, IF I MAY.

UM...

MAY I SIT ON THIS CHAIR, MISS PHOEBE?

I KNOW MISS SUSAN LIKES

ME TO BREAK HER CHAIRS.

INDEED I DO NOT,

SIR.

PHOEBE, HOW STRANGE

THAT HE SHOULD THINK SO.

HOW YOU SEE THROUGH ME, MISS PHOEBE.

SO YOU THINK ME DASHING, MISS SUSAN?

AM I DASHING,

MISS PHOEBE?

A LITTLE, I THINK.

I HAVE SOMETHING

TO TELL YOU TODAY

THAT I THINK IS:

RATHER DASHING.

BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING, MA'AM,

BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?

AYE. INDEED, SIR.

TO BE SURE.

I KNOW WHAT IT IS,

MR. BROWN.

SUSAN.

I MEAN, I DO NOT KNOW.

I MEAN... I CAN GUESS.

OH, WHY DON'T YOU STROLL

IN THE GARDEN?

SHALL WE?

YES, INDEED.

YOU KNOW, MISS PHOEBE...

YES, MR. BROWN-BROWN?

TO ME YOU'LL ALWAYS BE

LIKE THIS QUIE OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN

FULL OF THE FLOWERS

I LOVE BES BECAUSE I'VE KNOWN THEM

LONGEST:

THE DAISY THAT STANDS

FOR INNOCENCE,

THE HYACINTH:

FOR CONSTANCY,

THE MODEST VIOLET...

AND THE ROSE.

IT'S A PRETTY SPEECH,

SIR.

AND FROM MY HEART...

MISS SUSAN'S ANTICS JUST NOW

ARE MOST UNEXPECTED.

HOW COULD SHE KNOW

MY SECRET?

WELL...

YOU MEAN:

YOU'D FORESEEN IT, TOO?

SIR, YOU MUSTN' ASK THAT.

IN ANY CASE,

I THINK IT WAS YOU

WHO FIRST PUT I IN MY MIND.

OH, I HOPE NOT.

YOUR EYES FLASHED EVERY

TIME THE WAR WAS MENTIONED.

MR. BROWN...

WHAT IS IT THA YOU HAVE TO TELL US?

THAT I'VE ENLISTED,

MISS PHOEBE.

DID YOU SURMISE:

IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE?

GOING TO THE WAR,

MR. BROWN?

IS IT A JEST?

IT WOULD BE:

A SORRY JEST, MA'AM.

I THOUGHT YOU KNEW.

I CONCLUDED THE RECRUITING

SERGEANT HAD TALKED.

RECRUITING SERGEANT?

I SEE.

IN THESE STIRRING TIMES,

A MAN CAN'T STAY

AT HOME.

YESTERDAY I FOUND

THERE WERE 5 WAVERERS.

I ASKED THEM WOULD THEY

JOINED THE COLORS IF I DID,

AND THEY ASSENTED.

MISS PHOEBE, IT'S NOT ONE

MAN I GIVE TO THE KING,

BUT 6.

I THINK YOU'VE DONE

BRAVELY, MR. BROWN.

WE LEAVE IMMEDIATELY FOR

THE PETERBOROUGH BARRACKS.

SO THIS IS GOOD-BYE.

I SHALL PRAY THAT YOU MAY

BE PRESERVED IN BATTLE,

MR. BROWN.

WILL YOU AND MISS SUSAN

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