Unfaithfully Yours

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
515 Views


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j&j& [ Classical ]

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I tell you, you've got nothing

to worry about.

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- The plane is perfectly safe.

- Can I have -

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- It ran a little low on gas when it got

into all that fog, that's all.

- Thank you.

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So they had to set down in -

Give me that one again, Max.

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A rooster? Oh, Aroostook.

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Aroostook. And where is Aroostook

supposing to be it shouldn't happen?

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It's in the general neighborhood

of Nova Scotia.

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And from this general neighborhood,

maybe you can tell me...

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how tonight at philharmonic

he is a concert conducting?

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By "telewision, " I am presuming.

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Is it a very bad fog?

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- Make him tell me the truth, Hugo.

- Of course it ain't.

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- Don't worry, honey.

-[ Man ] It's hardly a fog at all, madam.

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It's - It's more of a mist, really.

More of a -

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- Yes, Max?

-Just something to make the engines run better.

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- Don't worry, darling.

- Correction, please.

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- [ Woman ] What is it?

- It was not Aroostook. It was Antigonish.

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And where is this mudhole,

if I ain't too optimistic?

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In the general neighborhood

of Nova Scotia, I believe.

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- [ Hugo ] What a neighborhood.

- Hugo, do try to find out.

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- Correction, please.

- Shh.

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It turns out it wasn't Antigonish after all.

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It was Apohaqui.

And it didn't get there, it left there.

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- Apohaqui!

- Then where is it now?

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In the general neighborhood of Nova Scotia.

Where else?

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[ Man ]

Far, far from it, my friend.

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As a matter of fact, there it is, coming in...

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- Hooray!

- directly behind you right now.

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- What an airline.

- There is one reassuring thing about airplanes...

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- they always come down.

- Come on, stupid.

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[ Bell Dings ]

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[ Hugo ] Am I glad to see you, Alfie .

Again Wolfgang is sick.

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So our concert got to be shoved up.

Tonight we are giving it yet.

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Did you think of me every night?

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Of course I did, my love.

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Did you take my picture to bed with you?

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Of course I did, my darling.

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Are they kidding? If she wasn't my own sister,

I'd have a name for her that'd make -

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Dream of me after you went to sleep?

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Every single night, my love.

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- Only I - I didn't sleep very well.

- Will somebody get me an ice pack?

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Put 'em back on your nose

and learn something.

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At least did you get some rest

on the plane last night?

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- Frankly, not a particle.

- Oh.

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Then I'm going to take you

right straight home...

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put you into a nice hot tub -

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I really don't think

they ought to do this in public.

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Of course, it's better to do it in public

than not to do it at all.

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[ Woman ]

And then we'll have our little nap.

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And then I'll wake you up with a nice

frosted bottle of brut champagne.

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I found same Pol Roger '34.

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- And then-

- You see, some men just naturally...

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make you think of brut champagne.

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- With others, you think of prune juice.

- [ Laughs ]

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You have nothing to laugh at.

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So then you'll go down

and rehearse your men.

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- Oughtn't that to be time enough, Hugo?

- Look...

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it ain't as if you was

a rehearser anyway.

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He's a hypnotist. Out of what dogs

have I seen him coax it out of.

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Of course it'll be soon enough.

It's the men who really count.

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All I do is wave a little wand a little,

and out comes the music.

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A little magic wand, darling,

dipped in a little stardust.

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[ Bell Dings ]

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j&j& [ "Jingle Bells'' ]

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- j&j& [ Cranks, Stops ]

- [ Speaks Foreign Language ]

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Don't that drive you nuts, always leaving

you hanging up on the meat hook like that?

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[ Man ]

I confess, it is quite irritating, sir.

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I suppose I ought to wake him up

if he's gonna see anyone before the concerts.

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Oh, give him a couple of minutes.

Ain't you ever been in love?

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j& Da, da, da, da, da, dee j&

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j& Da, da, da, dee j&

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- j&j& [ Piano Continues ]

- [ Knocking ]

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- I'm so sorry.

- Oh, isn't it customary to knock

before coming into a bedroom?

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- Or am I just old-fashioned?

- I did knock, Sir Alfred.

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- Extremely sorry. I didn't hear you.

- I just wanted to make sure you were awake...

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and ask you what to do about

the morning delegation of crackpots.

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Oh, dear.

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Among them a lady reporter who wants

to know why you conduct with a stick.

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What's she expect me to use,

an umbrella?

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- She says Stokie uses just his hands.

- Ah, but they're so beautiful.

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So large. So white. So free and easy on the draw.

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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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