Storm in a Teacup Page #9

Who hit you below the belt?

- You did.

- In what way?

You wormed all the way

into my family circle...

Stop that!

I won't have your...

Family circle mentioned in this court.

You won't have it!

If you'd shown a little

decent feeling earlier on...

Stop, stop.

What's all this about Mr.

Gow's family circle?

Ask him!

My lord, the reference must be to Mr. Gow's

daughter, she's a witness of the prosecution.

Yes, my lord, that's the sort of man he is.

- Mr. Burdon!

- But it's scandalous!

- Quieter!

- I won't be quiet!

I'm calling her next, my lord.

No, you are not!

Silence!

Come out here, you.

Now.

Who are you and what did you say?

I am Mr. Gow's daughter and I said

I wasn't being called as a witness.

Why not, pray?

Because I can't give evidence.

Yes you can, we'll see about that!

- Oh, but I can't!

- And why not?

Because...

The... Accused and I are husband and wife!

Silence!

But is this true?

Yes!

My lord... I must ask for an adjournment.

But I can't keep on adjourning!

- But my lord, this is a profound shock.

- Very well.

Shhh! Shhhh!

They are married!

Ay, and a wife can't give evidence against

her husband, that's the law!

Call Mr. Burdon here at once.

- You can't do that, sir. It's most irregular.

- Do as I tell you!

Yes, sir.

- Vickie...

- I'll tell you what, Willie!

Don't start jammering at me!

- You've done a nice thing!

- But I asked you not to go on with the case!

- Why didn't you tell me?

- I can't have a son in law serving six months.

You sent for me?

What do you mean by marrying my daughter?

- I haven't.

- What?

I only just said that.

We haven't seen each other

since I left the house.

But why in heavens name?

- To stop you.

- Hmm

To save you both from your stupid pride.

But...

Do you realize what she's done?

They can have her for contempt...

For...

My...

It's worse, it's perjury!

Yes!

Oh...

Stop the case!

What? I can't stop the case,

I won't stop the case!

- Willie!

- For insufficient evidence!

Very well, I'll put you back in the bar.

Willie!

- No you won't!

- Oh, you can't make a fool of the Crown!

You can't force me!

And you can't bully me.

You go back in that dock, for longer.

- Very well!

- Willie!

Oh, go to blazes, woman.

Horace!

He called me a woman.

It's all right, my dear.

Now, Mr. Gow...

The news just heard it has caused

a great shock to you.

No!

Silence!

Do you mean to tell the Court that you condone

this manoeuvre on the part of the penal?

Yes!

Silence!

Mr. Gow, it was with your

consent that this scandal...

- My lord, may I make a statement?

- My lord, I protest!

Go on, Mr. Gow.

I want to say...

That in my considered opinion...

Mr. Burdon was fully justified in

all the actions he took against me.

I think... Mr. Burdon misjudged me.

But he misjudged me without malice.

Hurrah for the Provost!

Clear the court! Clear the court!

Clear the Town! Clear the Town!

I hadn't fully realized that a public man

is apt to get above himself.

I'm grateful to Mr. Burdon

for bringing me back to earth.

In regard to Mrs. Hegarty...

And her dog Patsy...

I forgot to apply one of the

great principles of my life

It is this:

It is only the realization...

The sympathetic realization...

A deep and sympathetic realization...

That each unit in the State...

Is a living, breathing, soul.

Each with his own aspirations...

Each with his own peculiarly

intense perception...

Of his own rights and his own wrongs.

A leader must have that

strange sixth sense...

That enables him to see into

the hearths of his people.

To feel in his own flesh...

And in his own blood...

The wounds and the stresses they suffer.

To a leader...

ever made since the film's release in 1937.

They are intended as a

tribute to Vivien Leigh.

Regrettably, they are by a

non-native English speaker...

and therefore as close to the script as permitted by spots of dense

dialect, obsolete idioms, indistinct diction and poor sound quality.

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