Unfaithfully Yours Page #7

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


470

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And am I glad I did.

That hunch has paid off in golden dividends.

471

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31:02,827 -- 00:31:07,457

I've never missed one of your concerts -

within the metropolitan area, of course.

472

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31:07,565 -- 00:31:11,365

I'm no millionaire, and I can't afford

to travel around the country after you...

473

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31:11,469 -- 00:31:14,632

to South Dakota and places like that.

474

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31:14,739 -- 00:31:17,799

Here's to the world's greatest living conductor.

475

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31:17,909 -- 00:31:20,605

This is hardly what

I came to see you about, Mr. -

476

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31:20,712 -- 00:31:22,976

The way you handle Handel, Sir Alfred.

477

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31:23,081 -- 00:31:26,608

For me there's nobody handles Handel

like you handle Handel.

478

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31:26,718 -- 00:31:28,618

- Really?

- There's you up here.

479

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31:28,720 -- 00:31:32,121

And then there's nobody-

no second, no third.

480

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31:32,223 -- 00:31:34,748

Maybe way down here Arturo - a poor fourth.

481

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31:34,859 -- 00:31:37,726

That is largely debatable.

In any case, what I came to see you about -

482

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31:37,829 -- 00:31:40,297

And your Delius - delirious.

483

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31:40,398 -- 00:31:42,593

I usually have my tickets

as soon as they're printed.

484

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31:42,700 -- 00:31:46,431

That change in schedule

loused me up a little, but I'll get in somehow.

485

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31:46,537 -- 00:31:48,630

I'm bitterly sorry to hear

that you're a music lover.

486

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31:48,740 -- 00:31:51,174

I live for music.

Without music I wouldn't -

487

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31:51,276 -- 00:31:54,109

I had always hoped that music had

a certain moral and antiseptic power...

488

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31:54,212 -- 00:31:56,680

quite apart from its obvious

engorgement of the senses...

489

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31:56,781 -- 00:31:59,147

which elevated and purified its disciples...

490

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31:59,250 -- 00:32:02,378

- lifting them out of professions like this infamy.

- You're just hurt. I can see it.

491

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32:02,487 -- 00:32:04,387

- Oh, Sir Alfred -

- So spare me your compliments.

492

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32:04,489 -- 00:32:06,389

The flattery of a footpad

is an insult in itself.

493

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32:06,491 -- 00:32:08,823

[ Chuckles ]

You mean a flatfoot, don't you, Sir Alfred?

494

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32:08,927 -- 00:32:11,191

- You don't mean a footpad.

- I mean a footpad!

495

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32:11,296 -- 00:32:15,392

And now that I know that you like them,

I shall probably cut Handel and Delius

out of my program forever.

496

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32:15,500 -- 00:32:19,061

- Don't talk like that.

- Please refrain from mentioning

any other of your musical favorites...

497

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32:19,170 -- 00:32:21,297

and poisoning those for me also!

498

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32:21,406 -- 00:32:23,874

You're just hurt. I can see it.

499

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32:23,975 -- 00:32:26,808

You read that report,

and naturally it upset you.

500

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32:26,911 -- 00:32:31,439

Aw, we fall for these little dames

and try to believe they're in love with us...

501

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32:31,549 -- 00:32:35,212

when every morning

our shaving mirror yells, " They can't be''...

502

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32:35,320 -- 00:32:39,381

till one day we find out that youth

belongs to youth, like you just done.

503

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32:39,490 -- 00:32:41,390

- And then -

- Take your hands off me!

504

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32:41,492 -- 00:32:44,120

Aw, don't be sore at me.

What have I got to do with it?

505

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32:44,228 -- 00:32:47,789

I suppose it was me that went down to

3406 in the middle of the night...

506

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32:47,899 -- 00:32:51,733

wearing only a negligee

and stayed for 38 minutes.

507

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32:51,836 -- 00:32:54,498

I suppose that's the part that bothered you.

508

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32:54,605 -- 00:32:56,505

It usually is.

509

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32:59,143 -- 00:33:01,043

3406.

510

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33:01,145 -- 00:33:03,045

Yeah, I think that was the number.

511

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33:03,147 -- 00:33:05,240

I got it here someplace if you want it.

512

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33:05,350 -- 00:33:07,614

But it's only circumstantial evidence.

513

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33:07,719 -- 00:33:10,813

- Why don't we give her the benefit of the doubt?

- [ Drawers Rattling ]

514

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33:12,323 -- 00:33:15,759

Maybe she couldn't open her toothpaste.

You was in England...

515

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33:15,860 -- 00:33:18,294

so she goes down

and gets this guy to do it for her.

516

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33:19,397 -- 00:33:23,493

Or maybe she seen a mouse in her room,

and it upset her and she wanted company.

517

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33:23,601 -- 00:33:25,569

Aw, of course, that one's kind of thin.

518

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33:25,670 -- 00:33:28,537

Aw, why don't we give her

the benefit of the doubt anyway?

519

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33:28,639 -- 00:33:31,130

Maybe she woke up out of a bad dream,

and without thinking...

520

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33:31,242 -- 00:33:33,267

where she was going,

slipped into a negligee and -

521

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33:33,378 -- 00:33:36,347

Are you presuming

to discuss Lady de Carter, my wife?

522

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33:36,447 -- 00:33:40,383

Well -Well, you read it, didn't you?

523

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33:40,485 -- 00:33:43,147

Oh, I thought that's why

Henschler said he wanted -

524

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33:43,254 -- 00:33:45,154

Holy Moses.

525

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33:46,524 -- 00:33:49,789

Uh - Here, sit down someplace.

526

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33:51,529 -- 00:33:54,020

- Is this the only copy?

- Yeah, that's the original.

527

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33:57,668 -- 00:34:00,694

You're a wise man. I been through it.

528

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34:00,805 -- 00:34:03,000

Only I wasn't as smart as you are.

529

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34:03,107 -- 00:34:05,974

So I lost my piano and my savings...

530

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34:06,077 -- 00:34:08,511

and a little shack I had down at the beach -

531

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34:08,613 -- 00:34:11,173

and her.

532

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34:11,282 -- 00:34:14,115

So what have I got now?

533

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34:14,218 -- 00:34:17,676

Maybe I shouldn't be saying it,

but if it was me...

534

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34:17,789 -- 00:34:19,780

I'd never have 'em tailed.

535

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34:19,891 -- 00:34:22,325

I'd never try to find out nothing.

536

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34:22,427 -- 00:34:26,193

I'd just be grateful for whatever

they was willing to give me -

537

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34:26,297 -- 00:34:30,927

a year, a week, an hour.

538

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34:35,873 -- 00:34:38,637

[ Buzzer Buzzes ]

539

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34:51,155 -- 00:34:53,089

[ Buzzer Buzzes ]

540

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34:53,191 -- 00:34:55,921

For tonight.

541

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34:56,027 -- 00:34:59,554

- [ Door Closes ]

- [ Footsteps Departing ]

542

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34:59,664 -- 00:35:01,564

Sir Alfred.

543

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35:03,601 -- 00:35:08,061

I'm sure I would know about it, sweetie, although

this joint is a little like Grand Central Station.

544

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- Well, I just thought he might be, that's all.

- Well, I'm sure he isn't.

545

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35:11,409 -- 00:35:14,173

But wait a minute.

I'll go and ask Casanova.

546

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35:24,355 -- 00:35:26,983

- Oh.

- Daphne wants to know if you've seen Alfred.

547

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- He seems to have disappeared.

- No, I haven't.

548

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But we're not exactly

on the best of terms anyway, so -

549

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Okay.

550

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No, he isn't, sweetie. There's nobody here but

Sitting Bull counting his money in the other room.

551

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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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