Young and Innocent

Christine!

Don't shout, I tell you!

Don't shout!

I will shout if I want to! Who's

going to prevent me from shouting.

Listen to me! Why won't you

listen?

You're a liar! A liar! You lied

when you met me!

You lied to get rid of me!

You're a liar and a cheat!

That's enough of it! Get out

of here!

That's a nice thing for a wife

to say!

I'm nothing of the sort!

Oh, yes, you are! And you're not

going to get rid of me with...

...your silly Reno divorce!

You're my wife!

Well, what about it?

And I'm not going to have any

boys hanging around.

What do you mean?

Oh, you can't fool me! I've

watched him! I saw him come in!

Don't be a fool! That boy

is not...

- A liar! A liar!

- Why won't you listen?

Because I'm not an idiot!

You quit me eight years ago to go

on the screen!

I, who worked for you! Took you

out the chorus...

...let you out of the gutter.

And now you spend your time

going around with boys, you!

Go on, say it, say it!

Christine!

- Is she drowned?

- No, she's a mermaid.

This woman was never drowned

She was strangled with this belt.

Keep back, please!

Now then, which of you found the

body first?

- I did.

- No, he didn't! We did.

- Both of you?

- Elsa saw it first.

- That's right!

- But he says he did.

- Well, he didn't!

- Contradict the evidence, eh?

Don't be silly.

Well, just a moment if you

don't mind.

Now, miss, what's your tale?

Well, we were both going down

to bathe.

And just as we got...

We saw this young man running

away

It's absurd, I was running to

get home.

You weren't, you were running

away, wasn't he, Helen?

- That's right

- Nonsense, the girl's hysterical.

I'm not! I'm not hysterical!

You were running away, you know

you were!

It's fantastic! I saw the body

from the top of the crest and...

...naturally came down.

I couldn't be sure if she was

already dead or only unconscious.

You see, I didn't see the belt.

I ran out to get help so that I

could make artificial respiration.

I was only there a few minutes.

This woman has only been dead

a few minutes.

Well, it's time we got this thing

finished.

Now, is this belt yours or

isn't it?

For the hundredth time I tell

you it isn't!

How do you know it isn't?

You've already admitted that

you've got a raincoat.

Don't put down "got",

put "had" a raincoat.

- Which you've lost

- No, not lost, which I had stolen.

Why are you trying to distort

everything I say?

Don't get excited, old man, it's

only a formality.

You had it stolen, let it go as

that. When was it stolen?

Well, I can't remember.

You see, I left it in the car and

went in to get some cigarettes.

When I came back it was gone.

You mean it just went into

thin air?

What sort of a place was this?

A common shelter called

Tom's Hat.

All right, we'll let that go.

Now, did you know the dead

woman well?

Yes, fairly well, I knew her in

America.

Could it be unfair to suggest

that you were especially...

...good friends?

- Mr. Kent means her lover.

- It would be unfair!

Then we could put down that you

were friends, good friends.

Oh, put down what you like!

Were you good enough friends to

discuss money?

What's the idea? We discussed

money three years ago when...

... I sold her a story.

Paid in good hard cash.

I received money from her on

former occasions.

Talking of money, would it be

accurate to say that you are...

...not well off?

More than that, it would be

practically true.

Would it? Considering the fact

that she's left you...

...twelve hundred pounds in

her will?

- What's happened to him?

- He passed out or pretended to.

Of course he's passed out.

I've been told that.

- What's that for?

- To put under his head, of course.

That's no good. Sit him up and

hold his head down.

Give me a hand!

Go and get some brandy.

You seem to be pretty good at

this sort of thing.

Yes, I learnt something about it

in a girl guide.

You learnt that slapping trick

in the guides too?

No, I learnt that from riding in

cars with detectives.

Could you do that to detective's

ears as well?

No, I got this from a boxer's

dressing room.

Brings them round like fun.

A bit painful, isn't?

Well, you don't know, sir, when

you have the rest of your face...

...bashed in.

I'd say we weren't as brutal as

all that, you know.

Give me the brandy, I'll do it.

You'll be all right in a minute.

What have you been doing to him?

Oh, he's all right. Don't waste

your time on him, miss Burgoyne.

- Is he guilty?

- No idea yet

He doesn't look like a criminal.

Don't let the looks influence

you, young lady.

I don't.

- Anyway, he's not my type at all

- What the hell has happened?

You passed out.

Don't be ridiculous, I never

pass out. What do you mean?

Well, that was something very

much like it.

Don't worry, you'll be all right.

I must go and find my father.

He seems to like the brandy.

He will probably go again.

Next time throw a bucket of water

on him.

- Who's that?

- She's Chief Constable's daughter.

- She's got a nerve!

- She certainly has!

Hello, father!

The proceeding has been

quite formal.

Well, in that case, why have they

questioned him half the night?

Scotland Yard may have their own

methods, sir.

Is there someone decent to

represent him?

I think they've got

Mr. Briggs, sir.

- Don't talk nonsense, Inspector.

- Well, there was no one else, sir.

- All right. Where have you been?

- I've been snooping around.

I left my papers in the car

Go on, go and get them for me.

- Get them yourself!

- Well, ordinarily I would.

If I was seen beside that thing

I'd have to resign.

You never said you were a

disgusting snob, father.

Besides, it's almost human, you

ought to love it.

And you're asked very politely

to move.

It's blocking the entrance of the

court.

Come on!

Sorry I can't help you.

Some other time, perhaps.

- Come on.

- Try and give it some brandy.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

I'm Briggs. Lovely morning.

We mustn't be downhearted on a

morning like this, must we?

It does one good to see the sun,

doesn't it?

My wife was saying only this

morning:

"?Henry, don't be so gloomy about

the case", she said.

- Nice of her!

- Wasn't it?

We hadn't had a case like this

for... twelve years.

Hardly to be expected in a little

place of this sort.

Mostly affiliation orders and

things like that.

No, a case like this is most

exciting for us all.

Wouldn't it be a good thing to

talk it over?

Well, it can't do any actual harm.

There will be plenty of time

before the trial.

- The trial?

- Oh, I'm afraid so.

Oh, dear, dear, dear.

Well now, where was I?

Oh, yes! Yes. Well now...

Well, it doesn't look too good,

does it?

However, we mustn't be

depressed about it.

Now, take this point.

Those two girls that saw you

running away.

- Why were you running away?

- I wasn't.

No? Well, it certainly looked

very like it.

I mean, that's going to be very

hard to explain away.

Like the money that poor dead

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