Quality Street Page #3

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


WRITE TO ME:

IF AN OCCASION OFFERS?

IF YOU WISH IT.

WITH ALL THE STIRRING NEWS

OF DEAR QUALITY STREET.

IT SEEMS STIRRING TO US.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN

MERELY LAUGHABLE TO YOU.

I'VE MADE FRIENDS HERE-

2 VERY SWEET LADIES.

AND DID I AMUSE YOU ALSO?

ENORMOUSLY.

THOSE OTHER LADIES

WERE ALWAYS SCOLDING,

AND YOUR YOUTHFULNESS

SHOCKED THEM.

I BELIEVE THEY THOUGH YOU DASHING.

I SOMETIMES FEEL THAT I

WAS PERHAPS TOO DASHING.

TELL ME, IS IT-

SUSAN.

YOU SEEM SO CALM,

PHOEBE.

SUSAN, HE IS A GENTLEMAN

WHO HAS ENLISTED,

AND HE CAME TO TELL US

THAT AND SAY GOOD-BYE.

GOING AWAY?

YES, DEAR.

WELL, AM I NO THE IDEAL RECRUIT, MA'AM?

A MAN WITHOUT A WIFE,

A MOTHER, OR A SWEETHEART.

NO SWEETHEART?

HAVE YOU ONE FOR ME,

MISS SUSAN?

SUSAN, WE SHALL

HAVE TO TELL HIM NOW.

YOU WILL LAUGH, SIR,

AND SAY THAT IT IS JUS LIKE QUALITY STREET.

WELL, INDEED,

SINCE I MET YOU TODAY

AND YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU

HAD SOMETHING TO COMMUNICATE,

WE'VE BEEN PUZZLING

AS TO WHAT IT COULD BE,

AND WE CONCLUDED THAT YOU

WERE GOING TO BE... MARRIED.

OH, WAS THAT IT?

SO LIKE WOMEN, YOU KNOW.

WE THOUGHT PERHAPS

WE KNEW HER.

WE WERE EVEN DISCUSSING WHA WE SHOULD WEAR AT THE WEDDING.

WELL, I WONDER WHO'D

HAVE ME, MISS SUSAN.

I MUST LEAVE NOW.

GOD BLESS YOU BOTH.

YOU ARE GOING?

NO MORE MUD ON YOUR CARPETS, MISS SUSAN.

NO MORE BREAKING

YOUR CHAIRS.

A GOOD RIDDANCE.

MISS PHOEBE,

A LAST LOOK:

AT THE GARDEN.

GOOD-BYE.

A MISUNDERSTANDING.

JUST A MISTAKE.

WE CAN LET IT DOWN.

OTHER GENTLEMEN HAVE BEEN

ATTRACTED BY YOU, PHOEBE.

I DIDN'T WANT THEM.

THEY WILL COME AGAIN.

AND OTHERS.

NO.

NEVER SPEAK OF THA TO ME ANYMORE.

I LET HIM KISS ME.

YOU COULD NOT PREVENT HIM.

YES, I COULD.

I KNOW I COULD NOW.

I WANTED HIM TO DO IT.

OH, NEVER SPEAK TO ME

OF OTHERS AFTER THAT.

PERHAPS HE SAW:

I WANTED HIM TO DO I AND DID IT TO PLEASE ME.

BUT I MEANT IT.

INDEED I DID,

AND I GAVE IT TO HIM

WILL ALL MY LOVE.

SISTER, I COULD BEAR

ALL THE REST...

BUT I'VE BEEN

UNLADYLIKE.

LEFT!

LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT!

LEFT!

LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT!

DON'T BREAK

YOUR MOTHER'S HEART,

AND YOU WON'T BREAK MINE!

PHOEBE.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

THAT WILL DO.

YOU MAY BE SEATED.

PHOEBE, HOW MUCH

ARE 14 AND 17?

THANK YOU.

HOW CLEVER YOU ARE.

MASTER DOUGLAS, RISE.

NOT DOUGLAS MAJOR,

DOUGLAS MINOR.

HOW MUCH ARE 14 AND 17?

COME ON!

COME ON!

PERHAPS HE REMAINS

IN LONDON.

COME, CHILDREN.

CHILDREN. CHILDREN, YOU WILL

ALL RETURN TO YOUR DESKS,

IF YOU PLEASE.

GO ON. GO.

PHOEBE, IF A HERRING AND

A HALF COSTS 3 HALFPENCE,

HOW MANY FOR 11 PENCE?

WILLIAM SMITH SAYS IT'S 15,

AND HE'S SUCH A BIG BOY.

DO YOU THINK:

I OUGHT TO CONTRADICT HIM?

MAY I SUGGES THERE ARE DIFFERENCES

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