Our Mother's House Page #2

Synopsis: When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jack Clayton
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
1967
104 min
105 Views


Because she's been ill

a long time.

That's right...

and she's still very ill.

She's not ill... she's dead.

Oh, Gerty!

But she is, isn't she?

Yes, but you mustn't tell anyone.

Remember?

Not even Miss Bailey?

You'll never understand.

I do!..It's a secret!

And if we tell

we go to hell.

That's right!

Come on... we mustn't be late.

Jimminy... no hanging about

after school.

Remember?

It's Mother's cheque.

Elsa...

Do we HAVE to go?

Don't worry...

Come on, we'll manage.

We managed all the time

Mother was ill...

We'll manage now.

We've got to have faith.

Yes, Willy...

we'll talk to her tonight.

We'll have "Mother-time" the same

as usual... and we'll talk to her.

Everything's going to be

exactly the same, as it always was.

Oh Mother, you are always with us.

Oh Mother, you are

always with us.

When we are awake

and when we are asleep.

When we are awake

and when we are asleep.

We kept with you to guide us.

We kept with you to guide us.

To watch us and to love us

To watch us and to love us

In your house and in your tabernacle

In your house and

in your tabernacle

Speak to us oh Mother,

for we love you.

Speak to us oh Mother,

for we love you.

Amen.

Mother, we'll always be here.

My beloved spake

and said unto me...

Look, Miss Bailey...

That's nice, Jimminy...

Is it YOUR house?

Diana says it's a tabernacle.

For Mother.

Is she any better?

Elsa looks after us now.

And we all look after Mother.

After... after...

V...

I...

O...

L...

E...

...T.

42 pounds is

an awful lot of money.

Isn't it, Else?

No it isn't...

Not after you've paid all the bills...

and bought food and that.

But it comes every month.

There's never anything left.

We're not rich, Gerty.

You mustn't go thinking that.

O...O...K

That's very good!

"Violet Hook"

No one will ever know

the difference.

...30 pounds...

We... get... more... than... he does...

Good morning miss...

What can I do for you?

It's Mother's cheque...

The annuity... to be cashed.

Mother's annuity, eh?

Why can't Mother cash this herself?

She's ill...

She wrote you a letter...

Just a minute.

How would you like it, miss?

39...40...41...

42 pounds, 3 shillings and sixpence!

I told you!

You're a genius, Jimminy.

Now you're going to sign for Mother

every month!

It's easy...

-Hooray for Jimminy!

There's this too...

Mother's savings account.

I found it in her desk.

433 pounds, 10

shillings and sevenpence!

We're rich! We're rich!

No we aren't.

Mother said that's money

for a rainy day.

Isn't it a rainy day now?

We forgot to do the shopping.

Can you buy some baked beans...

please... please... please!

Elsa!

Is that you?

Where's your mother?

Where is she... what's up?

Where's all her furniture?

She's gone away, Mrs Quayle.

Gone away?

And she asked me to tell you

we shan't be needing you anymore.

Not after today.

You won't be needing me anymore?

Me?

Look...What is all this?

What do you mean,

she's gone away?

Mrs Quayle...

Mother's very ill...

She's had to go away

to the seaside.

The doctor sent her to the seaside

to get better.

The doctor!?

And it's going to cost

a lot of money...

So we can't afford you,

any more, Mrs Quayle.

Doctor! Look, don't give me that!

You're mother wouldn't have

a doctor in this house

if you were all dying

on your feet!

That much I DO know!

Mrs Quayle...I think you'd better go.

Oh, don't worry dear...I'm going!

I wouldn't stay in this house.

It's marvellous, i'n it?.

I don't even get a week's notice!

After all the love

I've given you children.

And that's all the thanks I get!

Cleaning up after you lot...

Waiting on HER...

hand and foot!

I'm not a fool, you know.

I thought there was

something funny going on...

Locking herself up in her room like

that hardly saying a word to me.

And you lot acting so queer.

I knew there was something going on.

Here's your money, Mrs Quayle.

May I have your key, please?

After all I've done

for your mother!

Listening to her groaning

and screaming!

Putting it on the Lord

to forgive her sins...

Yes, that's something I better not say

too much about.

Though I COULD, mind you!

I could!

We don't need a cleaning lady, anyway.

Does it mean I have to do rubbish?

Elsa!

What is it?

There's a letter for Mother...

From someone called Mr Charles Hook.

Must be one of our relations.

Elsa!

We don't want anything

to do with him.

Why?

Who is he?

Well, who is he?

If you must know...

He's Mother's husband.

Husband?

Elsa, that means he's our father.

We could have told him, Elsa.

About Mother.

Will he...

-No!

Mother wouldn't have wanted that.

She said he was a beast

and we're well rid of him.

He must love us.

We don't need him, Hugh.

Honest, we don't.

We've got each other...

haven't we?

Gerty... stop that this minute!

You won't tell the others,

will you, Hugh?

I promised Mother not to.

Please.

Alright, I'm coming!

Gerty...Dun... what's the matter?

You've got to stop screaming!

He said I'm not allowed to play

on the swing anymore!

She'll sing out loudly to everyone!

Can't you leave her alone?

He said I'm not allowed to play

in the garden at all....anymore!

It's Mother's garden now.

You see, you've got no respect!

You're a sinner!

And God will rip your insides out

and leave you to rot...

...if you play in the garden

any more.

Can I have a ride?

Oh, please can I have a ride!

Please!

Thank you very much!

Mother is here.

Mother is listening.

Does anyone wish to

speak to Mother?

Gerty does....she wants to confess.

-No I don't... I got a tummy-ache.

Mother says...

"What has Gerty done wrong?"

Nothing!

You brought a stranger

to the house, didn't you?!

She's too little, Dun!

Too little to tell.

I didn't tell...

I didn't!

Do you want them to find out

about Mother?

Do you want them

to take Mother away?

Do you?!

Mother says...

"What else has Gerty done wrong?"

Nothing!

You let the stranger touch you,

didn't you?

He didn't! He didn't!

You're lying...

I saw you!

I didn't! I didn't!

Honest I didn't.

I only kissed him...

That's all.

Harlot!

Poor Mother.

What else did you do?

Mother wants to know!

You were vulgar...

weren't you!?

No... no... no... no... no!

Stop it, Dun! Stop it!

Guess who's forgotten Mother!

Gerty must me punished.

Mother... dear Mother...

Tell us what Gerty's punishment

should be.

Take her...

Take away the comb.

Take away the comb!

No!

Cut off her hair!

No!

Punish!

Cut her hair!

It's grown long again...

Punish little daughter...

Punish sin!

You can't do it, Dun!

You can't!

Do you know better than Mother?

Do you think you know better

than God?

Oh Mother, you are always with us.

Oh Mother, you are always with us.

When we are awake

and when we are asleep.

When we are awake

and when we are asleep.

No!

No...No...No...Please!

No... stop please!

Oh please, no!

Gerty...

Gerty...

Gerty...

Mummy...

Come to bed, Gerty.

It's alright, Gerty.

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Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks (17 December 1926 – 27 June 1994) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist. He is best known for his novels (particularly Jampot Smith, Henry's War and Smith, As Hero) and for his stage adaptations of classic works, particularly a series of Maxim Gorky plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His novels were praised for their lyricism and for their "Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos". Anthony Burgess, in The Novel Now said "Jeremy Brooks has come to considerable stature in Jampot Smith and Smith, as Hero: he has created one of the few really large picaresque characters in the post-war novel." more…

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