The Dark Angel Page #8

Synopsis: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sidney Franklin
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
PASSED
Year:
1935
106 min
136 Views


Kitty, like much soda?

Here we are.

But, Alan, why?

It's about right?

Gerald.

Thanks.

Sit down, old boy,

Sit down.

Mind if I have a pipe?

I'll show you

Around my garden later.

I'm terribly proud

Of my roses.

Alan...

What's happened to us?

Why are you holding us off?

I found your engagement

In the tattler.

I was so delighted

When I saw your picture.

It's right there

Beside you, Gerald.

And here's something I've

Been wanting to do ever since.

My love to you both.

And I hope you'll be

Very, very happy.

Is that it?

Is that why you

Sit there torturing us?

It doesn't explain anything.

It doesn't excuse anything.

Do you realize

That for three years

You let us

Believe you were dead.

Mother... Kitty...

Kitty!

Do you know

What that's meant?

Do you know

What we've suffered?

Why have you done it?

And now we come here

After all this time and...

We're strangers.

If it's because...

Alan, you've only to

Look at Kitty's face

To know what you're doing

To her, to know that she's-

No, no.

Please don't.

Gerald...

I want to talk

To Alan alone.

But I-

I see no reason.

Alan...

Tell me now.

Well, there's

Nothing to tell, really.

You've suffered, darling.

Something's hurt you.

Won't you tell me?

Alan, why didn't you

Come home?

It's hard

To tell you, Kitty,

But I've got to.

See, the war

Did something to me.

I've changed.

Changed?

Well, after all,

A war doesn't leave you

Quite where it finds you,

Does it?

I spent several months

In a german hospital,

And months in a prison camp...

When I came out, I wanted

To be alone for a while.

I wanted to...

Start all over again...

To build a new life...

Sort of away

From old friends and...

Old memories.

So I came here.

I always meant to

Come home sometime, but I-

I liked it here,

And I got used to it.

Well, I just didn't

Come back.

You found...

When... When you found...

You'd stopped loving me?

That was it, Alan?

I love you, Kitty.

I loved you then...

But in a different way,

I suppose.

I didn't have

Courage enough to tell you.

I see.

I understand.

Forgive me, Alan.

I've been tormenting you.

This means we won't...

We won't...

See each other again.

Yes.

But before that happens,

I want to tell you

That I loved you then.

I love you now as much.

I love you with all my heart.

I've never loved

Anyone else.

I never will again.

Goodbye.

Goodbye, Kitty.

Alan.

Goodbye, Gerald.

Be happy, both of you.

Goodbye.

Is that you, Miss west?

You must excuse me.

I'm tired.

Desperately tired.

We won't do

Any work tonight.

I wanted to talk to you.

I've been thinking lately

Of going away...

Leaving the country.

There are reasons,

Unfortunately.

I shall Miss you.

You've been very kind.

But of course...

Miss west?

Miss west?

Alan!

Oh, my darling!

My darling!

Kitty!

Kitty, you-

Darling, I know.

That was why, wasn't it?

Kitty,

Think what it means.

It means life again.

I've been dead. Oh,

Dearest, it was cruel of you.

How could you know me

So little?

Will you listen to me?

No, I won't!

I won't!

You told me once

Never to stop watching you,

Never to go away.

I never will.

Never.

You may as well

Face it, darling-

You'll never be alone again.

Wherever you are,

I'll be with you always.

Always.

I never could

Escape from you, could I?

Never.

You were always

Popping up.

Always.

Thank heaven

You popped up this time.

Thank heaven.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay, which starred Bette Davis and received an Academy Award nomination in 1942. Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett, author of the classic detective novels The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, who also was blacklisted for 10 years until his death in 1961. The couple never married. Hellman's accuracy was challenged after she brought a libel suit against Mary McCarthy. In 1979, on The Dick Cavett Show, McCarthy said that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." During the libel suit, investigators found errors in Hellman's popular memoirs such as Pentimento. They said that the "Julia" section of Pentimento, which had been the basis for the Oscar-winning 1977 movie of the same name, was actually based on the life of Muriel Gardiner. Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prominent war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as Ernest Hemingway's third wife, said that Hellman's remembrances of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War were wrong. McCarthy, Gellhorn and others accused Hellman of lying about her membership in the Communist Party and being an unrepentant Stalinist. more…

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