Unfaithfully Yours Page #5

Synopsis: Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation. When the concert ends, he tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as well in reality as they did in his imagination.
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Production: Fox
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
APPROVED
Year:
1948
105 min
463 Views


How do you do?

Remember, you have a lot of other jerks...

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waiting for you in front room

after you get through in here.

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I'll take the razor down to the barbershop.

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Now, my dear August,

what happy updraft wafts you hither?

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Thank you.

Now let me see. How to begin.

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- At the beginning.

- [ Chuckles ] Yes, quite so.

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You are no doubt aware, Alfred,

that I have a deep sense of family obligation.

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I wasn't aware of it,

but I'm willing to take your word for it.

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- We are brothers-in-law, aren't we?

- I'm afraid we are.

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There's not a blasted thing

we can do about it.

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Oh? It may come as quite a shook to you

to realize that I don't actually relish...

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being your brother-in-law

any more than you relish being mine.

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- No?

- Yes.

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In the first place, I hate music,

which doesn't relieve me from having to snore...

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through every confounded soiree

that you promulgate.

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- Soiree.

- Precisely.

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And in the second place,

I am embarrassed about the product...

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that your family made its money out of.

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- And in the third place -

-Just as good as sucking mortgages,

if you should happen to ask me.

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It may be, but I prefer mortgages.

And lastly, as a humble American...

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the only titles that I have any use for...

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are in my vault in

the Guaranty Title and Trust Company.

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I see. Well, you have

my deepest sympathy, August...

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but I am a baronet, I am a bandleader...

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and my family's product has

kept England on time since Waterloo.

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There it is. Now, if I may inquire again

for the reason for this happy visitation.

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I'll come to the point at once.

When you left for England...

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and asked me to keep an eye

on your wife during your absence -

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- Keep an eye on my wife?

- I naturally accepted in the same spirit...

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for a Sturges character to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate. Sturges famously sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. more…

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