Unfaithfully Yours Page #4

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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Then your whole family is contaminated. No man

who employs detectives should ever be disappointed.

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I hope every time

you've engaged these vermin...

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you've discovered that you had antlers out to here,

that you were the laughingstock of the city...

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that you came crawling out

of the agency, your face aflame...

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your briefcase stuffed with

undeniable evidence of your multiple betrayal...

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dishonor dripping from your ears

like garlands of seaweed.

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I forgive your insults on the grounds

that you are excited.

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I forbid you to forgive me anything

on any grounds whatsoever...

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and I may still punch you

in the nose at any instant!

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Get out of here and never speak to me

again unless it's in some public place...

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where your silence might cause comment

or embarrassment to our wives!

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Oh, dear.

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I don't imagine that you'd be much interested

in the operator's report.

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- Yes, I would!

- Although it contained a couple of passages...

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- that I, for one -

- That you for one what?

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Now get out of here

before I do the same to you.

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I suppose I'll see you at the concert this evening.

I've already bought two tickets.

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I suppose so.

I'm usually there on the nights I conduct.

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I see.

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[ Door Opens, Closes ]

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[ Clattering ]

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What is that supposed to be?

You angel.

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It's supposed to contain flowers.

It might easily turn out to be a rowing machine.

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[ Sighs ]

You sweet love.

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Well, I just wonder where we're going

to find anything big enough to put them in.

252

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- I wonder if the kitchen would have anything.

- You really do love me, don't you?

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- What?

- You really do love me, don't you?

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I don't know what I'd be doing here if I didn't.

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I don't either.

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By the way, you didn't do anything

you shouldn't while I was away, did you?

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I mean, like, falling in love with anyone else,

or anything like that.

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How could I fall in love with anyone else

when you took my heart with you?

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No man ever had a better answer than that.

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Will you meet me at La Lotte's about 1 :00

on the way to lunch?

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- La Lotte's? What for?

- 'Cause you haven't a thing to wear.

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I'd like to buy you a little something.

Would you do that for me?

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- But, darling, I have closets full of-

- And then lunch with me?

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[ Sighs ]

Of course I will. But I don't really need a thing.

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- I have -

- It says here in very small type.

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- I'll see you at La Lotte's.

- All right, darling.

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j&j& [ Classical ]

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j&j& [ Surges ]

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j&j& [ Ends ]

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[ Alfred ] And now, gentlemen, merely to follow

the wishes clearly expressed by the composer...

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pizzicato con molto vibrato.

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Like a dentist chipping out an old filling.

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- [ Laughing ]

- j&j& [ Resumes ]

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j&j& [ Humming With Melody ]

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Keep playing, gentlemen.

I don't want to waste your time.

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- Dr. Schultz.

- Yes, Sir Alfred?

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Yours is my favorite instrument

in the entire orchestra.

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I've been looking at you,

but I can't hear you.

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I was afraid of being a little loud, Sir Alfred.

You know, vulgar.

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As a small boy I was learned always

never to be vulgar.

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Be vulgar, by all means,

but let me hear that brazen laugh.

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j&j& [ Cymbals Crash ]

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[ Chuckling ]

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[ Laughing ]

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- j&j& [ Continues, Faint ]

- Okay. Follow your nose to first door...

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open door, walk through,

come to wall, stop.

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j&j& [ Humming With Melody ]

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Shh.

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j&j& [ Cymbals Crash ]

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j&j& [ Cymbals Crash ]

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j&j& [ Cymbals Crash ]

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j&j& [ Ends ]

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Splendid, gentlemen. Splendid.

It's already much too good for them.

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[ Laughing ]

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Besides which I've got an appointment

with a beautiful young lady.

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- I'll see you later.

- [ Chattering ]

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j&j& [ Humming ]

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This gentleman says

he has something for you.

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- He's from the hotel.

- And I ain't a gentleman. I'm the detective there.

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- You remember me, don't you, Sir Alfred?

- Yes, I think I've seen you skulking around.

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You're what's known

as the house dick, aren't you?

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That's me.

Can I see you alone a minute?

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I suppose so. I shan't enjoy it.

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[ Sighs ]

Hot work.

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I'd like to make this alone,

if it's all the same to you, buddy.

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Oh, very well.

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- [ Man ] Beautiful music, sir.

- [ Alfred ] Thank you.

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Just beautiful.

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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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