Images
- R
- Year:
- 1972
- 104 min
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"In Search of Unicorns...
"a Book for Children."
Chapter 1.
All in a night, spring came...
...rushing from beyond
the ends of the earth...
...and spilling out
all over Umberny...
...its sack full of colors...
...and buds and birds' eggs...
...snails and tadpoles...
...rainbows and newborn animals.
Bees hummed...
...mammoths gamboled...
...meadows rang
with the plighting of troths...
...and deep
in his ancestral cave...
Hero... Fairbeard frisky...
Lord of all Umbs...
...snored and grunted...
...stirred and groaned...
...and got out of bed
to look outside.
"Fiddle-fuddle, Umb.
Cathryn...
Una stared at the carved,
curving creature...
...delicate, questing, perfect...
with arched neck
"Sir Frisky," she cried.
"Sir Frisky, what was it?
"What did I see?"
Hero stared back.
"Why, a unicorn."
Una was trembling
like an aspen...
...pale as a unicorn herself.
Straight past his nose
zoomed 7 enormous butterflies...
with eyes like stars
and bright blue wings...
...and each one was humming.
And then Hero
started to tremble...
...for it seemed to be
him who was humming...
...not with his usual
tuneless hum...
...but a butterfly's humming...
...just as if one
had flown down his throat.
The stone circle
was shrouded in stillness.
There was no whisker of wind...
...but the holy tree
swayed and tossed...
...as if in the grip
of some terrible storm.
Deep sobbing broke
from its trunk...
...as though some locked creature
was struggling to escape.
It was raining...
a sudden, torrential downpour.
Snug in Rose Nest with all
Amberlash was cozily
entertaining Eggbert to tea.
"This lovely weather
should hold...
"shouldn't it,
Eggbert, darling?
not seriously...
"I mean, die of pneumonia...
out tonight."
Cathryn...
In the pit, the water
rose round Una's ankles...
...creeping up about her knees.
"Oh, bother. Blast!"
She sobbed.
"I bet I'll drown."
Suddenly,
the sounds of something...
...came crashing through
the forest, nearer and nearer...
...several somethings.
And then she heard
the snorkeling trumpetings of...
"Hero! Hero!
"Help, help! Get me out!"
In a flash, the Lord of Umberny
was off his steed...
...leaning over
the edge of the pit...
...stretching a long arm down
in the pouring rain.
"It's no good," Una sobbed.
"I can't see anything...
"not even your hands.
"I'm too deep."
- Hello?
- Cathryn?
It's Joan. Can you talk?
Hey, you sound different.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Fine.
You didn't sound
like yourself.
Must be the connection.
You know what just happened?
That son of a b*tch
called me just now.
He wants me to pay
some goddamn percentage...
...of last year's taxes...
...because we were legally
community property then...
...or some such bullshit.
Oh, God.
Well, yeah. I had a date
with this guy Howard.
You don't know him.
Only met him last week
at some party or other.
Anyway, he was
sitting right here...
...and I broke down
and just cried...
...and hung up on him.
Then I made a damn fool
out of myself with Howard.
Told him to leave,
that I couldn't go out.
And he... Ouch! God... Damn it!
That cat!
Well, he just stepped right
on my boob.
That hurts.
Joan?
Hello?
Joan, is that you?
No. Who did you want?
I was talking to Joan.
Is that you, Cathryn?
- Who's speaking, please?
- Don't you know?
Cathryn! Cathryn!
Are you there?
Cathryn, can you hear me?
Well, what happened?
I don't know.
Must have been a crossed line.
Well, listen.
Are you and Hugh going out?
No. Hugh's got to st...
Hugh's got a business dinner.
Oh. Well, maybe I'll come over.
I'd really like a drink.
What movie's on tonight?
I don't know. I was going to go
to bed, but come on over.
Listen, I promised Judy
I'd call her.
I'll get right back to you, ok?
Ok. Fine.
I'll get right back.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
Hello?
Cathryn?
Is that you, Cathryn?
Yes. Who is it, please?
Do you know
where your husband is tonight?
What?
I said, do you know...
where your husband is tonight?
Who's speaking, please?
You don't know?
- Hello?
- Hello. Alert.
This is a blow alert.
- This is the telephone company.
- Hugh, Hugh!
We're going
to blow out the lines.
Yeah, baby, it's me. Listen.
Listen, I just called
to tell you not to wait up.
I'm going to be later
than I thought.
- What?
- You hear me?
What?
I just wanted to tell you.
Oh, fine.
Do you know
what's black and white...
...and black and white
and black and white? Huh?
A nun falling downstairs.
That's good, eh?
Listen, I'll see you
in the morning.
- Hugh?
- No, it's me.
Cathryn. Cathryn?
Yes? I want to speak
to my husband, please.
That's who I'm calling about...
old Hugh.
Please, will you
put my husband on?
Oh, Cathryn,
I would if I could.
If this is one
of Hugh's little jokes...
...just tell him
I don't think it's very funny.
- Funny, eh?
- Who's speaking, please?
Not funny.
At this moment,
old Hugh is with a girl...
...probably in bed by now...
...at Ambassador Towers...
1334 Commercial Drive.
The telephone number
is 274-9382.
Why are you telling me this?
Why are you telling me this?
Good-bye.
I just thought
I'd better tell you...
...if you try to call them...
...you'll probably get
a busy sound.
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