None But the Lonely Heart

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

Actors: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez

Production: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.6

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: PASSED
Year:: 1944
: 113 min
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Oy, what's this?
What's this tonight?
Memorial services.
Armistice day tomorrow,
you know.
Stay there, nipper.
It might be my son.
Might.
Might be my old man.
Might.
Good night.
Night.
When ernie mott,
humble citizen
of the city of london,
saw for the first time
the tomb
of the unknown warrior,
he little realized that he,
ernie mott,
might someday soon become
the unknown warrior
of a second world war.
Yes, someday soon,
he might become
a glowing legend
for happy boys and girls,
living a life
he merely dreamed about.
High destiny
for quiet ernie mott,
who quarreled, hungered, loved,
and was loved.
For this is his story-
the story of ernie mott,
who searched for a free,
a beautiful, and noble life
in the second quarter
of the 20th century.
Ernie, grub's ready.
Don't be all year,
or you'll fight
the birds for it.
Won't be
but a minute, ma.
Yes, yes, yes.
Here.
Don't you think
pork sausage
is too good
for the beast?
Stay. Come on.
Nothing too good
for that dog, ma.
Part of myself,
he is.
Don't like him,
do you?
Where you been?
Oh, knocking about
a bit up north,
all over the shop.
What's up?
Why?
You're standing there
looking as if i'd jabbed you
with your hatpin
or something.
What did you come
back home for, son?
Miss me?
Can't say i did, ma.
You know me, ducky,
tramp of the universe.
Anything in the shop
needs mending, ma?
Nothing that needs your
help, ernie, sweets.
Besides, it's sunday.
Painting, polishing,
doing a spot of gardening?
Mean to do my best
by you, ma, love.
Happy couple,
aren't we?
A bit of proper respect
is what's needed.
I get no more from you
than i got from
that father of yours.
And that's that.
That's that.
So you got
your choice.
What choice?
Stay or get out.
Take hold here
and do a man's job,
or don't come back.
Stay put so i don't keep
fretting my fat about you.
What call have you to go
wandering around the country
like a breath
of homeless wind?
Don't i treat you
right, or what?
Okey-doke.
I'll be off
in the morning.
How is it, ernie boy?
Home for a time?
How'd you know
i was back, ma?
I live so close, i can
hear you change your mind.
Nice music
on the old wireless.
Don't know what
i'd do without it.
The piano
needs tuning, too.
I'll stop in and look
at it around teatime.
Thanks, ernie.
Hello, dad.
When are you
mending that window?
Catch me mucking around
with a window, ern boy.
Life's too short.
You're a man
after my own heart, dad.
Woman:
Ern!
See you.
Been home long?
Bring yourself in
for a cup of tea.
Me basket's
full of breakfast.
Come in anyway, ern.
Practicing?
It's a living. It pays
to keep your tools sharp.
Good to be back.
Nicest drawing room in the
neighborhood, this, aggie.
It's yours
whenever you want it.
Have to take you,
too, aggie?
You want me
to move out?
he's the boy for me
i'm the girl for him
he's my lump of toffee,
cake, and pudding
you're the biggest fool
i ever met, aggie.
Why?
Black as the ace, i am.
Don't you know it yet?
Matter of fact, ma give me
the ultimatum today.
Stay put or stay out.
What are you going
to do about it?
Something.
What?
Something.
You're a little flat
there, aggie.
What's the music called?
None but
the lonely heart.
Italian?
No. Russian.
Nice.
Oh, well.
See you tonight?
Tonight?
About 9:
00?
All alike,
you women.
I don't go on timetables like a train.
I'm ernie mott.
I don't stay put.
I understand.
Do you?
Of course.
Well, then maybe
i'll see you tonight.
Nipper.
Maybe i will...
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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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