One Wild Oat Page #3

Synopsis: A barrister attempts to discourage his daughter's infatuation for a philanderer by revealing his past. The plan backfires when the daughter's would-be father-in-law threatens to reveal the barrister's shady background.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Year:
1951
77 min
48 Views


Eddie you like a cup of tea used to

guilty I'd hate it

well don't be disgusting all right just

thought it might make you feel more at

home at home here the smallest bed in

the building no you're being insulting

I'm sorry I didn't mean to be won't you

sit down just for a moment why just for

a moment am I not welcome here goodness

sake I hope I'm not keeping you up no no

no as a matter of fact I'm not that

anxious to have a chat with you indeed

the anxiety seems to have turned your

toupee white oh I'm sorry I

I was only trying it on yeah you were

trying on something on your telephone

weren't you uh would you care to dance a

beer if I can find one are you trying to

weed me no no no no certainly not

it's just that I think it's time we bury

tachat that's why your telephone and

call me disgusting chip of a nasty old

block I wasn't aware that I was

addressing you Madame ops were intended

for your son.

Oh oh it's different that makes me feel

much more friendly hi dad

it won't the fact that I've reluctantly

agreed for Fred to marry your daughter

over my dead body

that's an excellent suggestion well

Betty you with a hatchet it'll save my

son having a sabbatarian Pekinese for

the father-in-law you're trying to

settle the wrong horse guilty I've kept

a young fellow named Gregory cross all

up my sleeve for over two years and I'm

not gonna let him down no listen.

Proudfoot

a table for table putting pound foot so

does he tours all the way property mind

if I go yeah big toe it's shorter if my

son is stupid enough to want to marry

your daughter you're gonna marry her and

nothing you can say or do will stop him

well that's where you make a blue mouth

or what

a blue mouth you're going back a bit

aren't you on the contrary I'm looking I

paid it so happens the chili is underage

and any question about marriage requires

my permission in writing and you're not

gonna give it not for all the tea in

China there and after I've been so

charming I've even brought your bag of

luxuries Oh what sort of luxuries Eames

twelve eautiful new-laid eggs and now I

don't know what to do with them

what'd you say nothing what you thought

something didn't you no no not exactly

would you like to hold them for a moment

no I would not

you ungrateful little humbug and I bring

you a gift you take it unlike it's a

little silly now I don't want to take

any unfair advantage big toe so I'm

going to ask you quite nicely and simply

are you going to let those two kids find

their happiness in their own way where

are you going to be an interfering old

nuisance and make them both you're

terribly sad and unhappy

you better narrow escape yes thank you

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Vernon Sylvaine

Vernon Sylvaine (1896–1957) was a British playwright and screenwriter. He is known for writing several popular stage farces. He began working in film in 1937 when his stage hit Aren't Men Beasts! was turned into a film of the same title starring Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton. Hare and Drayton starred in two further adaptations of his plays A Spot of Bother (1938) and Women Aren't Angels (1943). He adapted his own play for the 1943 comedy-thriller Warn That Man starring Gordon Harker, Basil Radford and Judy Kelly. His 1948 play One Wild Oat was turned into a 1951 film of the same title. He was the father of the actress June Sylvaine. more…

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