Man of the World Page #7

Synopsis: A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.3
Year:
1931
74 min
160 Views


The sooner you get out ofhere,

the better it suits me.

Why did you tell me about yourself

if you didn't mean what you said?

If you weren't really--

You are a silly little girl, aren't you?

Suppose someone had seen you with me

before I had everything ready.

They might have found out

who I was and have told you.

So I told you myself.

I congratulate you.

Here it is.

Allow me. After all,

he has me to thank for it.

It'll be all right, Mary.

It'll be all right.

You'll forget all about it

as soon as Frank gets back.

Monsieur Trevor.

Monsieur Trevor.

Inspector Lyons from the prefecture

of police. I will be brief.

As a result of information

supplied by a friend,

we have today established

the identity of the editor

of the American Scandal Sheet,

which has annoyed

so many of your compatriots.

However, the French

government has no desire...

to fill its jails with such

undesirable foreigners.

You would be conferring

a favor upon this man...

by letting him know that the police will

call upon him tomorrow at this time.

They would be pleased

if they were unable to arrest him...

because by that hour,

he had left the frontiers of France

behind him for all time.

If they do arrest him,

it will go very hard with him.

Do you understand, Mr. Trevor?

Yes, thoroughly.

That will be all then

until 4:
00 tomorrow.

Going away?

Long trip?

Yes.

Any place in particular?

I was thinking of Cape Town.

Africa, hmm?

They say it's very nice there.

I suppose you know that

I tipped off the little lads of the law.

So I guessed.

I've been keeping tabs on you.

You went to see her and

her uncle at their hotel today.

I did.

I couldn't stand it any longer.

Thinking of you and her.

You were right about her.

I, uh-- I convinced her you were right.

Hmm?

It wasn't very difficult.

I just made a couple

of things clear to her.

You're a great guy, Michael Trevor.

I suppose I'm the only one

in the whole world who thinks so.

But the world's been wrong before.

So it seems.

I wasn't going to let you

go through with holding them up,

after I found out how much

you cared for her.

I sold those platinum

bracelets of mine yesterday

and wired the money to my brother.

You're something

of a swell guy yourself, Irene.

Michael.

I've never been to South Africa.

Take me with you.

Well, I'm taking so much

excess baggage, I...

suppose I might as well take you too.

What are you thinking about, honey?

It's a funny thing.

All my life, I've dreamed of Paris.

And now all I can think of

is that it's four days before

we get back to Pittsburgh.

The head man on the ship says

we reach Cape Town in about 10 days.

You know, it's a funny thing.

I thought I could never

get along without Paris.

Now I'm happier with every mile

we get farther away from it.

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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane. Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. more…

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