Doctor's Dilemma, The (1958)

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Harley Street,the home
of the medical profession.

Here they all are:

The good and the bad.

And the surgeons are the worst.

They found out that the man's
body is full of bits and scraps

of old organs there is no use for

You can cut out half a dozen of them out,
without leaving him any the worse

Except for the illness
and the guineas it costs him

I know him. He used to snip off
the ends of people's uvulas for 50 guineas.

And that fellow too

He extirpated tonsils for
two hundred guineas

until he took up women's
cases at double the fees

Cutler Walpole,he got hold of
something he called the nuciform sac

which he's made
quite the fashion

You could pay him
500 guineas to cut it out.

And might as well get their hair
cut,for all the difference it makes.

Hello? Reporters already

Of course

Famous doctor receives knighthood:
Sir Colenso Ridgeon.

Well,well

I am with 'The Globe'.
I wonder if Mr Colenso..

No he can't

Oh, Sir Patrick,you'd better come in

Good Morning

- Could we possibly see...
- No you couldn't

I wanted to be the first
to congratulate him

I was never so taken aback

I always thought his great
discoveries was fudge

let alone the mess of them
with his drops of this and that

and tubes full of fever

-All in the interest of science,Emmy
-I don't take much of science

I've lived with it too long

I'll tell him you are there.

Have you finished your two eggs,sonny?

Oh,yes

That’s my ducky diamond!

Now keep yourself tidy and don’t go
messing about and dirtying your hands

The people are coming to congratulate you.

You can come in,Sir Patrick

Well,young fellow,is your
hat too small for you,eh?

Much too small,and I owe it all to you.

Blarney,my boy,thank you all the same

I live in a state of siege ever since
they got that about that I am a magician

who can cure consumption
with a drop of serum

Modern science is a very
interesting thing,Colly

Look at your great discovery,look
at all the great discoveries.

What are they all leading to?

Why, right back to my poor dear
old father's ideas and discoveries.

And he's been dead now over 40 years.

It's very interesting.

There is nothing like progress.

So you found out how to
cure consumption,Colly?

I believe so

Well,I've known over 30 men who
found out how to cure consumption

Why do people go on dying of it,Colly?

Devilment, I suppose

Don't move.

Jinny,don't move

I should rest now,you can come down.

I've had enough of this
I said that before

Look at those bills.
I'd have other people do it before

You don't think that I
must have the money now.

I'll promise you tomorrow you'll
be paid everything,I promise

-All right
-Thank you

He wanted to be paid,I suppose?

They are refusing to
deliver it anymore unless we pay.

Damn those fellows.

They can give nothing and care for
nothing but their wretched money.

Money, money, money,money

So sordid

I loathe money

Don't be unhappy,love

I can easily earn enough
and more back

Next year I'll have
my own exhibition.

You don't believe a bit of
my discovery, you old cynic

I don't go as far as that,Colly

Have a look at my pamphlet

Redpenny.

Yes,Sir

You're late as usual

I was held up at the hospital
for the night report

Oh,(?)what I want for a drink.

You go up to the drawing room and
help your self,I'll join you in a minute.

As a matter of fact I like
a word with you alone

Opsonin? What's the devil is opsonin?

Opsonin is what you butter
the disease germs with

so that the white corpuscle will eat them.

But you must understand the treatment

Inoculate at the right moment and cure

Inoculate at the wrong moment can k*ll.

That's my discovery.

The greatest since Harvey
discovered the circulation of the blood

I need a drink.

-Old Paddy Cullen can still knock it back
-Indeed

And who taught you to call Sir
Patrick Cullen,Old Paddy Cullen?

You never call him anything else

You fellows will be calling
me old Colly Ridgeon next.

Ah,we do it at St. Anne's.

That's what makes the medical students

the most disgusting figure
in modern civilization.

No veneration, no manners.

-Do you think Sir Colenso Ridgeon could..
-No,I don't

-Well
-May I see Sir Colenso?

I don't have an appointment and I know
what a busy date it must be for him

But I come on a very urgent matter.
Do you think you could arrange it for me?

I'd like your advice.

Professional advice?

Oh yes

There is something that matters with me.

Oh,there's nothing wrong with my organs.

It's just I feel unsettled, as if
something is going to happen

And it's another symptom scraps of tunes
keep on going through my head

Which seem to me to be quite pretty

which are in fact quite commonplace.

-Do you hear voices?
-No

I'm glad for that.

When my patients tell me they made
a greater discovery than Harvey

and they hear voices,
I'll lock them up.

-Do you think I'm mad?
-You're sure there are no voices?

Oh quite sure

Then it's only foolishness. Very common
between the age of 17 and 22.

Sometimes comes on at 40 year,there about

You are a bachelor, you see,makes it not
serious if you are careful.

-How about my food?
-No, about your behavior.

You are not going to die, but you
may be making a fool of yourself.

So be careful.

-Dear lady wants her husband's lungs cured
-I told you I'll see nobody

Then I'll tell her to wait.

You'll tell her I'll not see her, and
send her away,do you hear?

Well,will you see Mr.Cutler Walpole?
He don't ask to be cured

He only wants to congratulate you

- Yes, I'll see him
- You can come in.

Mr Cutler Walpole

My dear Richard,best wishes,the heartiest
congratulations you deserve them.

Thanks

As a man of course,as a man

You deserve it as a man,this discovery
of yours is of course,is all nonsense.

Opsonin? Absolute rot,as any
capable surgeon will tell you

That we're all delighted

delighted to see your personal
qualities officially recognized

-Sir Patrick,how are you?
-Well

I've sent you a paper lately
about a little thing I invented

A new saw for shoulder blades.

Yes,I got it needs a good saw.
Very useful and handy useful.

I knew you'll see it's points.

-I remember that saw 65 years ago.
-What?

It was called a cabinet
maker's jimmy then.

-Get out,nonsense, a cabinet maker's
-No never mind him, he's only jealous.

Sir Colenso,Sir

I say I hope I'm not interrupting
you two in anything private?

Oh,no,no,I was only consulting
about I'm a little out of sorts

Overwork I suppose

I know what's the matter with you

I see it in your complexion.
I felt it in the grip of your hand

- What?
- Blood poisoning.

Blood poisoning,impossible

Blood poisoning 95 percent of the human
race suffer from chronic blood poisoning.

And die of it

It's simple as ABC. Your nuciform sac.

What's wrong with my nuciform sac?

It is full of decaying matter

Ridgeon,take my advice

Let me cut it out for you.

You'll be another man afterwards

Don't you like him as he is?

No, I do not like,I don't like any
man who hasn't got a healthy circulation.

I tell you this

in an intelligent governed country

people wouldn't be allowed to go
about with their nuciform sacs

The operation ought to
be compulsory

Have you had your own
sacs removed,may I ask?

I haven't got one

Well look at me. I have no symptoms,
I'm as sound as a bell.

About five percent,five
percent of the population

don't seem to have any sac at all

Well,luckily I just happen to be
one of the five percent.

That I've only come across
one another case like me

Mrs Jack Foljambe
The smart Mrs Foljambe

Somehow I made this up but
she would have a new norm

And I told her so

And in the true hygienic
spirit she insisted

She absolutely insisted
that I should operate on her

You know,she hadn't any sac at all.

No a trace, not a rudiment.

I was so upset...

that I forgot to take
the sponges out

As I was stitching her up.
One of the nurses...

Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington.

Where is he?

Drat him, I thought he was following me.
He's stayed down to talk to that lady

- I told you to tell that lady
- Here he is.

Sir Colenso,Sir Colenso welcome
to the order of knight hood

Thank you, B. B.

Sir Patrick you here?
How are we today?

A little chilly a little stiff?

But still hale and still
the cleverest of us all

-Old Walpole, the absent minded beggar,eh?
-Now what does that mean?

Have you forgotten that lovely
opera singer I sent you?

They had a growth diagnosed
at the vocal cords

Great heavens man you didn't sent
her for a throat operation?

Ha,you removed her nuciform sac

Force of habit,my dear
fellow,force of habit.

Never mind,she got her
voice back afterward

She thinks you are the greatest
surgeon in the world, so you are,so you are

Blood poisoning.

And a house of a certain
distinguished family

getting on under your care,Sir Richard?

Ridgeon here will be glad to hear

I used his opsonin treatment on the little
Prince Henry with complete success

-But how?
-I suspected blood poisoning.

So I called in at St Anne's one morning
for a tube of your very excellent serum

You were out unfortunately

Well,I hope they explained
very carefully

Good heavens,I didn't need any explanation

I left my wife waiting in
a carriage at the door

and I'd no time to be taught my
business by your young fellows

No,no besides I know all about antitoxins

But they are not antitoxins

They are very dangerous,
if they are not used at the right time

Well of course they are

everything is dangerous unless
it is used at the right time.

An apple in the morning does you good
An apple at bedtime upsets you for a week

There is only two rules for any toxin

first,never be afraid of them

second inject them a quarter of an hour
before meals three times a day

- Great heavens,B.B no,no
- But Colly,yes,yes

It was a great success

worked like magic on little prince Henry.

The family was so nice but
their gratitude was quite touching

I explained,they owed it all to you

and I am glad to think your
knighthood is the result

I am deeply obliged.

Yes?

-I am Dr. Blenkinsop.
-Thank you doctor,come in

That's why I'm taking up your treatment,
Colly,pushing it,it's scientific

Will you see a Dr. Blenkinsop ?

Oh,Blenkinsop,yes of course.

I've just come to offer my humble
congratulations.

Blenkinsop,how are you ?

-All the great g*ns I have before me
-How are you Blenkinsop? How are you?

And Sir Patrick too.

-Do you know Walpole?
-No,it's the first time I've had that honor

How do you do

In my poor little practice there are no
chances of meeting you great men

I know only these St Anne's
men on my own days

And so you are Sir Colenso now.
How does that it feel?

Rather foolish first.Don't
take any notice of it

I'm afraid I haven't a notion
of what your great discovery is

but I congratulate you just the
same for the sake of old times

My dear Blenkinsop you used
to be so keen on science

Ah,I used to be a lot of
things,look at me now

What can I do?

I have never opened a book since I
qualified. They are so expensive one

But I have experience

clinical experience,and bedside experience
is the main thing isn't it?

Nonsense. All you better
see is the outside of the patient,

It's not the outside that is wrong

What you need is the daily
familiarity of people's inside

And that you could only get with the knife.

Ah,that's all very well for
you gentlemen to talk

but because you haven't had my practice

Except for the workmen my
patients are all clerks and shop-men

They dare not be ill.They can't afford it

And the worst of it is

I'm too poor to keep well myself on this
sort of cooking I have to put up with

How am I to inspire confidence?

No,Blenkinsop I can't bear it

The most tragic thing
in the world is a sick doctor.

Like a bald headed man
trying to sell a hair restorer

Yeah

Thank God I'm a surgeon

Of course I am never sick
Never had a day's illness in my life.

This what enables me to
sympathize with my patients.

-What! You're never sick?
-No,no,never

That's very interesting.You know, I
believe you have no nuciform sac

I say B.B.,if you ever do feel at all q*eer

I wish you let me open you up
and I just have a little look

It's kind of you but I'm rather
busy just at the moment

It may sound ridiculous to you great men

but what I always recommend
to my patients is

a pound of right greengages everyday
half an hour before lunch.

I'm sure they'll find a benefit
They are very cheap

Very sensible,I'm so glad to hear
Blenkinsop. You disapprove of drugs

Drugs are a delusion

Look at the newspapers

full of the most scandalous advertisements
for patent medicines.

A vast commercial system
of quackery and poison.

Who is responsible? We are

We talk to people to believe
in bottles of doctors stuff

Now they buy it themselves,
instead of calling a medical man

The really remedy for all
diseases is Nature's remedies

Nature has provided
in the white corpuscles

in the phagocytes as we call them

a certain method of devouring
and destroying all disease germs

There is at bottom only one
scientific treatment for all diseases

and that is to stimulate the
phagocytes,stimulate the phagocytes

Mr Walpole

Your motorcar has come here and it's
frightening Sir Patrick's horses

So come along quick

Oh dear in that case I'd better go.
Well Good Bye Ridgeon

Delighted to have met you,Blenkinsop

Walpole you get my point?

No.

The phagocytes are pure rot

all cases are blood-poisoning
and the only real remedy is the knife

Walpole has no intellect,
a mere surgeon.

Wonderful operator but
after all what is operating

The nuciform sac,of course,
is utter nonsense.

Still I'm glad for Walpole's sake
that the operation is so fashionable.

Now,Colly, you mustn't
fret about your health.

If you're restless,try a little sedative.

If that doesn't answer little mercury
never did any users any harm

If you can't sleep: Trional,trional,trional

But no drugs,Colly, remember that.

No, no quite right as a
temporary experience

but not as a treatment,Good
bye Blenkinsop,Good Bye

There is only one scientific
treatment for all diseases

and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

-BTW who is the patient?- Who?
-Charming woman,tuberculous husband

Is she there still?

Come on, Sir Ralph,your
wife's waiting in the carriage.

You tell that woman once and for all

I can't and I will not see her.Do you hear?

She is not in a hurry,she doesn't
mind how long she waits.

I must be off too. Every half hour I spend
away from my work costs me 18 pence.

-Come to lunch one day.
-I can't afford it,dear boy

besides it would put me off
my own food for a week.

Thank you for all the same

Poor fellow

Well,we can't be all
geniuses like you.

And for all you know Bloomfield Bonington
kills less people than you do

Very likely

but he really ought to know the difference
between a vaccine and an antitoxin

Stimulate the phagocytes. To put a tube
of serum in his hands is m*rder

Simple m*rder

Now, Sir Patrick. It's time for
Colly to get to his work

Whats that to you, you old catamaran?

Come, come, now!None of your temper to me

Behave yourself,Emmy

Oh,I've learn how to behave
myself before I learn you to do it

Come along now,come along

-Goodbye Colly
-Good Bye,Paddy,thank you for coming

You are an ugly old devil, and no mistake.

You're no beauty yourself

Manners.

Here now, are you going to see
that poor thing or are you not?

Come now,just see her for a
minute to please me,there’s a good boy

She's given me half a crown.

She thinks it's life and death to
her husband for her to see you.

Values her husband's life at half-a-crown!

Well, it's all she can afford, poor lamb

Besides, she'll put you in a
good temper for the day,

And she's the sort that gets round you

Oh, send her up and be hanged.

-Redpenny
-Yes,Sir

There's a patient come to see me.

If she hasn't gone in a few moments

come in with an urgent message
from the hospital for me

You understand,she's to have
a strong hint to go.

I have

Mrs Dubedat.

Doctor

Wait.Before we begin,
let me tell you at once,

there is nothing I can do for you

I sent you that answer by my servant,
you wouldn't take that answer

How could I?

-You bribed her.
-I did

That doesn’t matter.
She coaxed me to see you

Well, you must take it from me now

that with all the good will in the
world, I cannot undertake another case.

Doctor,you must save my husband.You must

When I explain to you,
you will see that you must

It is not an ordinary case.
Not like any other case

He is not like anybody else in the world

believe me,he is not,
I can prove it to you.

And you can save him,
the papers say you can

- What is the matter with him?
- His left lung.

Ah,yes,you needn't tell me about that.

You can cure him, if only you will

It is true that you can, isn't it?

Oh, tell me, please tell me

Now you are going to be very quiet

And self-possessed

I beg you pardon, I know I should

Oh, please, say that you can,
and then I shall be all right.

I am not a cure monger,if you want cures,
you must go to the people who sell them.

But I have ten patients
who I believe I can save

-Oh thank you
-Wait a minute

Try and think of those ten patients as ten
shipwrecked men on a raft

that will not support one more

Suddenly,another head bobs up through
the waves and begs to be taken aboard

He implores the captain to save him

But the captain can only do this

by pushing off one of his ten men

and drowning him in order to
take the new comer on

That is what you're asking me to do

Can you give me the name of another
doctor who understands your secret?

Every man in this street is a doctor

But apart from myself and a handful
of men I am training at St Anne's

No one has mastered the opsonin treatment

And we are full.

I am sorry

But that's all I have to say

Good Morning

Doctor

Look at these,you understand drawings,
you had good ones in your waiting room.

- Look at them.
- It's no use my looking

This is the real thing.

It's very clever

It's unfinished ,isn't it?

He gets tired so soon,but you see,
don't you, what a genius he is.

You see that he is worth saving

That's you,isn't it?

Yes,it was the first one he ever did

It's a wonderful drawing.

-What a fascinating dress.
-Yes,he liked me in it very much

Why is it called Guinevere?

My name is Guinevere

It's only what you call Jennifer I think

Jennifer

Jennifer

May I ask is it for sale?
I'll like to buy it.

Take it,doctor,it's my own,he gave it to me

take it,take them all,
ask anything but save him,doctor

Sir,they've just telephoned from
the hospital that you’re to come instantly

A patient on the point of death
the carriage is waiting.

Oh,nonsense,get out what do you
mean by interrupting me like this

Can't you see I'm engaged,be off

Doctor

Doctor

-Doctor,one instant only before you go
-Sit down, it's nothing.

But the patient,he said he was dying

He's probably dead by now.
Don't mind sit down

Oh, but if you care. You
see people die every day.

Nonsense,I told him to come and say that.

I thought I should want to get rid of you

Don’t look so bewildered,
nobody is dying.

My husband is.

Oh yes, I forgot about your husband

Mrs Dubedat,you're asking
me to do a very serious thing.

I am only asking you to save
the life of a great man

You are asking me to k*ll
another man for his sake

For if I take a new case

I shall have to return one of the old
ones for the ordinary treatment

Well, I will not shrink from that I
had to do it before, and I will do it again

If you can convince me that
his life is more valuable

than the worst life I am now trying to save

But you must convince me first

He made those drawings

He is very young,doctor,
his whole life is before him.

Well, deary,have you got round him?

I see you have

-That’s a good boy
-Hold your tongue

And call me a hansom cab

-Come inside.
-Wait I have a better idea.

I'm giving a dinner to some friends
in Richmond to celebrate my knighthood.

Perhaps you read about it lately

Yes,it was how I found out about you

It'll be a doctor's dinner and and it
was to have been a bachelors' dinner.

I am a bachelor

If you were to entertain for
me and bring your husband

He will not only meet me

He will meet some of the most
eminent members of my profession

I could put his case to them

and he will have to stand or
fall by what we think of him.

Will you come?

Oh yes,of course we will
come, thank you,thank you

You've made me so happy.

I know you would
admire and like him

Oh,doctor

Yes,what is it?

I mean

Your fees for the consultation.

Shall we say a beautiful portrait
of his favorite model.

Entire treatment and cure?

You are very generous

Thank you

-I know you will cure him.
-I will cure him

-Good bye
-Good bye

Oh, Louis I've got some wonderful news

Louis

Louis

Oh Louis,how beautiful

We can't afford that darling

I have some wonderful news for you

What?

It has to be a marvelous dinner

This?

No,I said marvelous dinner

I am glad for your dinner.
My own taste is very simple,Mr Dubedat

A mere crust of bread
and I'm happy and contented

Unfortunately I have to
live and eat and drink

in a manner expected by my
patients from their medical attendant

Yes,indeed I do know exactly what you mean

I suppose it's the same for all professions

Take an artist. People expect us to be
intemperate, disheveled,dissolute.

Indeed they are very angry when we are not.

So we are

Don't look so solemn, Jinny baby.

Why do you let him spoil your beautiful
name like that,Mrs Dubedat?

You don't understand these things,
Richard,you're a bachelor

Look at me,I also have two names. In moment
of domestic crisis I'm simple Ralph.

But when the sun shines in the home
I am Beedle Deedle Dumkins.

Such is married life.

Look at that light,see
how they are sparkling things

Exquisite thing.

I wondered if you'd be kind enough
to sign your name on the menu?

-Cigarette BB?
-No thank you

-Under the sketch you made of me.
-May I borrow it?

Certainly

Oh yes mine,mine too

-If you'd be so good,
-Thank you

What do you think of Louis?
Or am I wrong to ask?

Wrong?

We are all charmed of him.
You shall go away happy.

He is worth saving.
He must and shall be saved.

Certainly.

How can I ever thank you?

From this night on I can
begin to be happy at last

Oh,no, come,come dear lady

Don't mind us have a good cry

You mustn't cry. Mr Dubedat mustn't
know we're talking about him.

No,of course

The motor is here ,Sir.And there is an
urgent telephone call for Dr. Blenkinsop

I'm so sorry we have to go.It's seems
such a pity this beautiful night

And we have enjoyed it so much.

I'm sure another half an hour
won't do him any harm

No,no Colly,none of that.You take your man
home,Mrs Dubedat and put him to bed.

Quite right,bed before eleven,
sorry to lose you,dear lady

-Yes we,come
-I'll get my coat and join you in the front

Good night.I'm so happy to have met you

Good night,Dubedat

Never fear,never mind
I shall cure that cough.

Oh,thank you,thank you all so much

Good night,Mrs Dubedat

We shall stimulate the phagocytes.

If the phagocytes fail
come to me,I’ll put him right

How glorious it must be to be a doctor

Now wrap yourself up well.

Don't think your lungs are made of iron
because they're stronger than his

Thank you for coming

A charming woman,gifted man.
Lucky Ridgeon

I'm sorry to have left you like this,
but there was a telephone message

They found half a
milkman at our level crossing

with a prescription of mine in his pocket.

-Where's Mrs Dubedat?
-They are just going

Going?

Perhaps I can overtake them

Very,very nice people

I must confess I was afraid the husband
would turn out an appalling bounder

But he is almost as charming
in his way as she is in hers.

And there's no mistake
his being a genius

Well,it's something to have found a case
really worth saving

Do you say there's something
wrong with Dubadet, Sir Patrick?

What could be wrong with him?
A charming young man

What could be wrong with him?

There are two things that can
be wrong with any man.

One is the cheque. The other is a woman

Until you know a man's sound on those
two points, you know nothing about him.

He's all right as to the cheque
for the time being at all events

He talked to me quite frankly before dinner

about the pressure of money
difficulties in an artist

Apparently he has no
vices and is most economical

So I just said, bang out

why not let me lend you twenty pounds, and
you can pay me when your ship comes home

I must say he was very nice about it

He took it like a man

When was this?

When I joined you that time on the terrace.

Good heavens he had just borrowed
10 pounds from me.

Well, it was hardly borrowing

as he said himself heaven only
knows when he could pay me back

But I couldn't very well refuse,you see.

It seems that Mrs Dubedat has
taken a sort of fancy to me

And?

-No,it was to me
-No,no your name was never mentioned

He is still wrapped up in his work he
has to leave her a good deal alone

And the poor innocent young fellow

Of course he has no idea of
my position or how busy I am

Actually suggested that I might like to
call her occasionally and talk with her.

It was exactly he said that to me

Good heavens

I say,Ridgeon,this begins to look serious.

Hello,Blenkinsop,did you catch him?

No,excuse me running away like that.

- What's the matter?
- It's nothing

Trifle,something ridiculous

Can't be helped,never mind

Is it anything to do with Dubedat?

I ought to keep it to myself

It's too ridiculous

Dubedat asked me to lend him half-a crown
to tip the cloakroom

He said he only wanted it for five
minutes, as his wife had his purse

So naturally I lent it to him
He has forgotten to pay me back.

I've just two pence to get back with

Oh never mind about that

No,no,look,I know what you are going
to say but I won't take it now

I've never borrowed a penny
in my life and I never will

If none of you could meet me

without being afraid that my civility was
leading up to the loan of five shillings

there would be an end of everything for me

I'll train it as far as the twopence
will take me and I'll tr*mp the rest.

Nonsense,you'll go the
whole distance in my motor car

Come along

Thank you very much

I beg you pardon,Sir

Yes?

I was wondering,Sir

if you could give me the address of that
gentleman who was with your dinner?

You mean the young gentleman?

Yes,Sir,the one who just left with
that woman he brought with him

Woman?

You mean the lady who dined
here, the gentleman's wife?

You'd better not think so,
she is not his wife, she can't be.

I am his wife.

My good girl!

I could run upstairs and get you my
marriage certificate

say if you doubt my word.

He's Mr Louis Dubedat, isn't he?

Yes

Well I think so,Sir

Believe me or not, but I am
the lawful Mrs. Dubedat

And I wed three years ago last April.

Why aren't you living with your husband?

We couldn't afford it,Sir

I had thirty pounds saved and
we spent it all in three weeks

And more than that he borrowed

Then he went to London ,I
never saw or heard of him again.

On my soul I'm beginning to suspect
our young friend maybe rather careless.

Careless? He's a damned young blackguard

That's severe,Sir Patrick,he's very young

She is very pretty.

Oh,please can't you tell me,
where can I find him?

Shall I give her the address?

Give her your own address
and then we'll see

- What's your name?
- Minnie,Sir.

-Write to this address,and it'll be sent on
-Thank you,Sir

Thank you all gentlemen,excuse the liberty

Do you realize we've promised
Mrs Dubedat to save this fellow's life?

-What's the matter with him?
-Tuberculosis.

- And you can cure that?
- I believe so.

I wish you could cure me.My right
lung is touched,I'm sorry to say

No,no,no no use

I know what you are going to say

A fortnight holiday would save
my life, I should have to die.

I can't afford to look after
myself and that's the end of it

Don't let us talk about it

Mr Walpole,I wonder if I might spunge
on you for another of those nice cigarets?

Of course,certainly

Oh,no

Yes,I remember now

I passed Dubedat my cigaret case and
he never returned it

It was a gold one

A wonderful night

Exquisite scenery,stimulating
conversation,a capital dinner

My own tastes

My own tastes

Are very simple,Mrs Dubedat

A mere crust of bread
and I'm happy and contented

Unfortunately

I have to eat and drink

in a manner which my patients
expect of their medical attendant

Dubedat will be saved.He'll
paint better than ever before.

His health will be restored

He will have a one man exhibition
which will make him rich and famous

And I owe it all to you.

Well, Mr Savior of Lives,which is it to be?

That honest decent man Blenkinsop,
or that rotten blackguard of an artist,eh?

It's a difficult case to judge

Blenkinsop is honest and
decent man,but is there any use?

Dubedat's a rotten blackguard

but he's a genuine source of pretty
and pleasant good things.

What will he be a source of
for that poor innocent wife of his

when she finds him out?

Yes,that's true.
Her life will be a hell

Still,it's a dilemma

Yes it's a dilemma

Ans there is a complication
I haven't mentioned that

What's that?

Well, if I let Blenkinsop die

at least no one will say I did it
because I wanted to marry his widow

I see

If I let Dubedat die,I'll
marry his widow.

Perhaps, she won't have you, you know

I've flair for that sort of thing. I can
tell when a woman is interested in me.

Well, sometimes a man knows
best and sometimes he knows worst

You'd much better save them both

But I can't.I'm at my limit I might
squeeze in one more case,but not two

I must choose

Well, you must choose as
if she didn’t exist that's all

She troubles my judgment

To me, it's a plain choice between
a man and a lot of pictures.

It's easier to replace a dead
man than a good picture

Guinevere

Guinevere

It's a dilemma.

Yes, it's a dilemma

-Johnson,I'm taking on another case
-Could I have his name ,Sir?

I'll give you his name
and particulars tomorrow.

Repeat whit me. I promise...

I promise

Honestly and faithfully...

Honestly and faithfully

Never to..

-Never to
-No,no.

Never to

Never to

borrow any more money

Until?

Until I first ask you

That's that

Otherwise might get people
the wrong impression of you

If I was strong enough to
work most of the day

I'd make my darling's house a temple

and a shrine more beautiful

whatever imagined

Louis

Did you finish those drawings for McLean?

That doesn't matter anymore.I got
nearly all the money from him in advance

That's why you should finish those

He asked me the other day whether
you really intended to finish them

Confound his impudence!

What the devil does he take me for?

They have destroyed
all my interest in the job

I've a good mind to throw up the
commission give his money back

Louis,we can't afford that,dear

Why not you finish the drawings
and have done with them

I think it is a mistake
to accept money in advance

Goodness,I didn't know it was so
late the doctors will be here in any minute

Oh,Louis,isn't it
extraordinary kind of them

to insist on coming all of
them to consult about you

Oh, I dare say they think it's a feather in
their cap to cure a rising artist

They wouldn't come if it didn't
amuse them,anyhow.

Ridgeon I'm delighted to see you

You must forgive this place
it's only a studio,you know.

But we peg along somehow,
thanks to Jennifer

So good of you to come, Doctor.
Please come in.

Now I'll run along,if you forgive me

And then perhaps later on,
when you finish with Louis

I may come in and hear the verdict

-Or would you rather I didn’t?
-Not at all,not at all

Don't look so grave. There’s nothing
awful going to happen, is it?

No

That's all right

You know Jennifer has been
looking forward to this visit of yours

more than you can imagine

She's taken quite a fancy to you, Ridgeon

The poor girl has got no one to talk to

I'm always painting

This is for a picture I'm going to call
'Death and the maiden'.Rather fun

What do you think of this?

A sketch that I made of her yesterday.

Yes,she showed me a fortnight
ago when she first called on me

Oh! did she?

Good Lord

How time does fly! I could have
sworn I'd only just finished it.

You know it's hard for her here,
seeing me piling up drawings

and nobody coming in to buy them

Of course I shall sell them all next
year at my one man exhibition

But while the grass grows steed starves

I hate to have her coming to me for
money all the time,having none to give her

But what can I do?

What do you think of that?

I've not come here to discuss your drawings

I have got more urgent and
pressing business with you.

I know,you want to sound my wretched lung

I'll be just quite frank with you,Ridgeon

The trouble in this house
isn't lungs but bills.

It doesn’t matter about me

But you know Jennifer

Jennifer actually has to
economize in the matter of food

You've made us feel that
we can treat you as a friend.

Will you lend us a hundred
and fifty pounds?

No

- Why not?
- I am not a rich man.

I need every penny I can spare
and more for my researches

You mean you want your money back again

I presume people do sometimes have
that in view when they lend money.

I can manage that for
you. I'll give you a cheque

There's no reason why you
shouldn't make a bit out of it too

I'll give you a cheque for two hundred.

Why not cash the cheque
yourself without troubling me?

Bless you! they wouldn't cash it
I'm overdrawn as it is

Indeed.You have to find some
other means getting the money

- You mean that you refuse?
- Of course I refuse,man

Once and for all, I will
not lend you a farthing.

I will be little glad to help your wife

but lending money to
you is of no service to her

Oh well, if you're in
earnest about helping her

I'll tell you what you might do

You might get your patients to buy
some of my things or

Or give me a few portrait commissioning

My patients call me in as a physician,
not as a commercial traveller

Yes,but you have such a
great authority with the money

You must know such a
lots of things about them

Private things

Things they wouldn't like to have known

They wouldn't dare refuse you

Well, upon my

Walpole,Sir Patrick

I've only been here a few moments
and he tried to borrow 150 pounds of me

And he was just interrupted

in the act of suggesting

that I should blackmail my patients
into sitting to him for their portraits

Ridgeon

I spoke to you in confidence

We are all going to speak
to you in confidence,young man

Don't be alarmed,Dubedat,
you are a fascinating fellow

and we all like you

Well,all right,all right,you'd better
all sit down where you can

Sir Patrick would you like
to come and sit on the throne

I think it is more comfortable there,
come on,up you go Oopsy Daisy

B.B, I think you're more
comfortable there too

-How kind
-I get you a cushion.

Thank you

-One and two
-Excellent

- Comfortable?
- Most

-May I take your hat?
-Please

Walpole,about you,you might sit on
this,it's really quite comfortable

BTW, I'll trouble you for
my cigaret case,if you don't mind?

What cigaret case?

The gold one I lent to you
at the Star and Garters

-Was that yours?
-Yes

My dear chap,I'm terribly sorry

I wondered whose it was

But this is all what is left of it

No,no,fine,that's yours.

A pawn ticket

It's all right,it's perfectly safe
and he can't sell it for a year

Oh Walpole

I'm most terribly sorry.

No,no,please don’t mention it. It adds
to your fascination.

Before we go any further,
you have a debt to pay

I have a precious lot of debts to
pay, Ridgeon. I'll shall get you a chair.

You shall not leave this
room until he's paid

It's a small one but pay
him too must and shall

I do not mind you borrowing 10 £ of
one of my guest and 20 £ of another

No,no I walked into that when I offered

They can afford it

but to strip poor Blenkinsop off his last
half crown that was damnable

I need to give him back that half-crown

and be in a position to pledge
my word that you paid it

-I'll have that out of you, at all events
-All right,don't fuss,don't fuss

Of course I should pay

Quite right,Ridgeon,come on
young fellow,down with the dust

I had no idea the poor fellow was hard up.
I am as shocked about as the rest of you

Here you are

Except that I have no money
on me at present

Would you mind lending me
half-a crown,Walpole?Just to settle it

Lend you half a crown?

Well if you don't, Blenkinsop won't
get it for I haven't a rap

you may search my pockets if you care

That’s conclusive.

There

I really am glad that's settled,
it's been on my conscience

-Then I hope you are all satisfied
-Not quite,Mr Dubedat

Do you happen to know a young
woman called Minnie?

Minnie?

Yes,I should say I do and
Minnie knows me too

She's a nice good girl,Minnie,
I wonder what ever became of her?

It's no use bluffing, Dubedat.
We've seen Minnie's marriage lines.

Indeed? Have you seen Jennifer's?

You mean to insinuate

that Mrs Dubedat is living with you
without being married to you?

Why not?

-Why not?
-Why not

Why not?

Yes,why not? Lots of people do it.
Just as good people as you

Why don’t you chaps learn to think

instead of bleating and
blighing like a lot of sheep

when you come up against something
you don't understand

I must say I should like
to draw the lot of you

You look jolly foolish

Especially you, Ridgeon

-I had you that time, you know
-How, pray?

You claim to appreciate Jennifer, but you
despise me,don’t you?

-I loathe you.
-Just so

And yet you are prepared to
believe that Jennifer is a bad lot

simply because you think I told you so.

What did you tell her?

I merely asked you whether
you'd seen Jennifer's marriage lines

and you concluded straight
away that she hadn’t got any

You don't know a lady when you see one

-What do you mean by that?
-Pray,I am only an immoral artist

But if you told me that
Jennifer wasn't married

I should have had the gentlemanly
feeling and artistic instinct

to say that she carried
her marriage certificate

in her face and character

But you are all moral men and
Jennifer is only an artist's wife

A model

And morality consists in suspecting
other people of not being legally married

Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Can one of you look
me in the face after it?

Its very difficult to look
you in the face,Dubedat

you have such a dazzling
cheek. What about Minnie eh?

Minnie Tinwell is a young woman

who has had three glorious weeks of
happiness in her poor little life

Which is more than most girls in
her position get,I can tell you

Just you ask her whether she'd
take it back if she could

She's got her name into history that girl

She'll have a page in my biography

My little sketches of her will be
fought for by collectors at Christie's

Pretty good,that I think, for a
still-room maid at a seaside hotel

What have you chaps done
for her to compare with that?

We haven't trapped her into
a marriage and deserted her

No,you wouldn’t have the pluck

But don’t fret yourselves.
I didn't desert little Minnie

-We spent all our money
-Her money,you mean.

All our money,I said,hers and mine.
Her thirty pounds didn't last three days

I had to borrow four times
as much to spend on her

I didn't grudge it,when we were
cleaned out,we'd had enough of it

You can hardly suppose that we were fit
company for longer than that

I,an artist, and she quite out of art
and literature and refined living

and all that sort of thing

There was no desertion,
no misunderstanding,no police court

Nothing for you chaps to lick
your lips over at breakfast

We simply said, the money's gone

We've had a wonderful time
that nobody can ever take from us

She went back to service,
and I went off to Brittany

-Two years later I met Jennifer
-And committed bigamy

Bigamy,bigamy,bigamy

What a fascination anything connected
with the police has for you moralists!

Did you tell Jennifer that you
were already married?

Of course not.Don't you see
that if she had known

it would have spoiled everything for her

I had to think of her self-respect

What are we to do with this daisy?

Oh, go and do whatever
the devil you please.

Put Minnie in the witness box

Put me in prison. k*ll Jennifer
with the disgrace of it all

And then,when you've
done all the mischief you can

go to church and feel good about it

-He's got us you know
-He has

Is he to be allowed to
defy the law of the land?

The law,it won't do Minnie any good
and only lay his wife's life waste.

You can put the law out
of your head once for all

Sir Patrick

You turn your head just a little
more this way,no,no there's too much

Put down your foolish pencil ,man and
think of your position

You can defy the laws made by men
but there are the laws to reckon it

You know that you're going to die

-We're all going to die aren't we?
-We are not all going to die in six months

How do you know?

Upon my soul,I will not stand this

It is in questionable taste
under any circumstances

or in any company to
harp on the subject of death

It is a monstrous advantage
to take of a medical man

I will not allow it, do you understand?

I didn't start it,you fellows did

It's always the way with
the inartistic professions

With all your talk you've only
one trump card in your hand

and that’s intimidation

Well,whatever I am,I'm not a
coward,so it doesn't bother me

I'll tell you what you are,Sir.
You are a scoundrel

Oh, I don't mind you calling
me a scoundrel in the very least

It's only a word,the word you don't
know the meaning of

-What is a scoundrel?
-You are a scoundrel!

Just,Sir, I am a scoundrel

What is a scoundrel? I am.
It's just arguing round the circle

And you call yourself a man of science?

I have a very good mind to
take you by the scruff of your neck

and give you a sound hiding

I jolly wish you would

You'd pay quite a handsome price
to keep it out of the law courts

You know our opinion
of you now,at all events

You are on the wrong track altogether.
I am not a criminal

All your moralizing have no value
for me. I don't believe in morality

Good afternoon

Sir Patrick,please don't go,I didn't
mean to shock you,on my honor

I don't mind sparing here a few more
minutes.But don’t address yourself to me

For I've retired from practice

and I don't pretend to be
able to cure your complaint

Your life is in the hands
of these gentlemen

Not in mine

I won't lift a finger to save him

And what do you say,Mr. Walpole?

I like to take him in hand,I don't mind

It's clear to me that he's suffering
from some obscure form of blood-poisoning

Which is almost certainly due

to an accumulation of
ptomaines in the nuciform sac.

I will remove the sac

You mean to operate on me? No thank you.

Don't be afraid.You won't feel anything.
You'll be under an anesthetic,of course.

It should be be extraordinary interesting

Oh,well, if it would be of interest to you,
and if it wont hurt,that’s another matter

How much will you pay me to let you do it?

How much? What do you mean?

Well, you don't imagine to let
you cut me up for nothing,do you?

Would you paint my portrait for nothing?

No,I'll give you the
painting when its finished

You could sell it afterward
for perhaps the double prize

But I can't sell my nuciform
sac when you've cut it out,can I?

Richard,did you ever
hear of anything like that?

You can keep your nuciform sac

One would almost think I was
conferring a favor on the fellow!

That leaves only one medical man who has
not withdrawn from the case,Mr Dubedat.

You have nobody now to appeal to
but Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington

If I were you, B. B.,I shouldn't
touch him with a pair of tongs

Let him take his lungs to some hospital

They wont cure him but they
might as well teach him manners

My difficulty is that I have
never been able to say No

even to the most thoroughly
undeserving people

What is our young friend here?

A vicious and ignorant young
man with a talent for drawing.

But then, what are the
majority of my patients?

Vicious and ignorant young men
without any talent for anything

No,having made a promise to
his wife,to stimulate the phagocytes

stimulate them I shall

Well, Mr Dubedat,as Sir Ralph has kindly
offered to take charge of the case

Then allow me to excuse me

Yes,Sir Patrick,I'm quite finished with you

While you've been talking, I've been
doing.What's the result of your moralizing?

A little carbonic acid gas which made
the room unhealthy

The result of mine? There

-You young rascal
-That's right and good

I wish I could afford to give
it to you as a gift,Sir Patrick

But I'd really pay five guineas
rather than part from it.

- I give 6 for it
- And I give you 10.

I think Sir Patrick is morally
entitled to it,after all, he sat for it.

May I send it to your house,
Sir Patrick,for 12 guineas?

Twelve guineas! Not if you were
President of the Royal Academy,young man

I shall take it for 12 guineas

Accept it from me, Paddy and may
you long be spared to contemplate it.

Thank you B.B.

I shall not settle with you now,
my fees will come to more than that

Well,of all the means.I consider
you've stolen that drawing

So we've converted you
to a belief in morality after all, eh?

My hat

You chaps have said some pretty hard
things to me here in my own home

I don’t mind that,I'm a man
and can look after myself.

I'm going to call Jennifer
in now and when she comes

I would be grateful if you
remember that she is a lady.

And you are supposed to be gentlemen

Jennifer

Good Day to you

Come,come lay out and
put out your countenance

I am not out of countenance,by Jupiter

I should like to see the fellow who
could put me out of countenance

Thank you all so much for coming.

Mrs Dubedat.How are we today?

Life has been worth living
since I have known you

And it used to be nothing but fear

Won't you all come in and tell
me the result of the consultation?

Sir Colenso

I'll go if you don't mind,
Mrs Dubedat,I have an appointment

If I am needed,and
needed I shall be finally

Well,then you know where to find me

I am always at your service,Mrs Dubedat

I too must ask you to excuse me,Madam

Sir Patrick

There’s nothing wrong, is there? You
don’t find Louis worse?

No,he is not worse. Just the same

Thank you,you frightened me

Mrs Dubedat, if I have to
have the charge of the patient

You! But I thought that Sir Colenso--

My dear lady, your husband is to have Me

No,please not another word,it'll be
a pleasure to do it for your sake

But Colenso

Sir Colenso will be in his rightful place,
at the bacteriological laboratory

I shall be in my rightful
place,at the bedside

Your husband will be treated exactly as
if he was a member of the royal family

No,no,please,don't thank me,
that would only embarrass me

On Tuesday next,we shall start to stimulate
the phagocytes,I'll let you know later

Colly,send me down on Tuesday
some of that very excellent antitoxin

Goodbye,my dear lady,rely on me

Eat well, sleep regularly,keep happy

Keep the patient's spirits up,remember
there is no tonic like a beautiful woman

No medicine like cheerfulness,drive on,
no resource like science,Goodbye, Goodbye

Jinny

Jinny

Where are you?

Emmy

Emmy

Mrs Dubedat!

I know I ought to be very grateful.
Believe me, I am very grateful

What's the matter?

I had set my heart on you curing Louis.

Well,so is Bloomfield Bonington

Yes, I know, I know,it is a great privilege
to have him.But oh,I wish it had been you

I know it's unreasonable,
I can't explain but

I had such a strong instinct
that you would cure Louis

I don't,I cant feel the
same about Sir Ralph

You promised me. Why did you give Louis up?

I told you

I cannot take another case

But at Richmond?

At Richmond I thought
I could take another case

But that place has been claimed
by my old friend Dr Blenkinsop

His lung is affected

Do you mean that man,that rather silly

I mean the gentleman who dined with us

He's an excellent and honest man, whose
life is as valuable as anyone else's

I have arranged to take his case

and Sir Ralph Bloomfield
Bonington will take Mr Dubedat's

I see what it is

Oh! It is mean,cruel and envious

And I thought that you were
above such a thing.

What do you mean?

Do you think I don’t know?

Do you think it has never happened before?

Why does everyone turn against him?

Can you not forgive him
for being superior to you?

For being cleverer? For being braver?
For being a great artist?

Yes,I can forgive him all that

Well, have you anything to say against him?

I have challenged everyone
who has turned against him

challenged them face to face to tell
me any wrong thing he had done

any ignoble thought he had uttered.

They have always confessed that
they could not tell me one.

I challenge you now.
What are you accusing him of?

I am like all the rest

Face to face,I cannot tell
you one thing against him.

But your manner is changed

And you have broken your promise

I think you are being a little unreasonable

You have had the best
medical advice in London

and his case has been taken in
hand by a leader of the profession,surely

It's so cruel to keep telling me that

It sounds right and it puts me in
the wrong,but I'm not in the wrong

I have faith in you and I
have no faith in the others

We have seen many doctors

I have come at last to know when
they are only talking and can do nothing

It is different with you.
I feel that you know.

You must listen to me doctor

I know Louis as nobody else knows
him or can ever know him.I am his wife

I know he has little faults

sensitiveness,impatience

even little selfishness which are
too trivial for him to notice.

I know that he sometimes
shocks people about money

because he is so utterly above it

and can't understand the value
ordinary people set on it

Tell me,did he borrow money from you?

He asked me for some once

Oh,I'm sorry,I'm so sorry
but he will never do it again

I pledge you my word for that

He has given me his promise and
he is incapable of breaking his word

That was his only real weakness
.

And now it is conquered
and done with forever

Was that really his only weakness?

He is perhaps sometimes weak about women

because they adore him so,
and are always laying traps for him

And of course when he says
he doesn’t believe in morality

ordinary pious people think
he must be wicked.

But you understand, can't you, how all this
starts a great deal of gossip about him

and gets repeated until even his
good friends get set against him?

Yes,I understand

Oh,if you only knew the
other side of him as I do!

You know, doctor, that if Louis
dishonored himself by a really bad action

I should k*ll myself

- Come now! Don't exaggerate
- I should

You don't understand that?
You don't know me.

I should like to

Tell me about yourself

I had a great many dreams

But at last they all came to one dream

-The usual dream
-Is it usual?

As I guess,but you haven't
told me what it was

I knew that man of genius always
had a terrible struggle at first

With poverty and neglect

My dream was to save one of them from
that,and bring some happiness into his life

Louis was not like the other men I met

Only fancy, doctor,he never
even wanted to marry me

He never thought of the
things other men think of!

I had to propose it myself.
Then he said he had no money

When I told him I had some, he said

"Oh, all right," just like a boy.

He is still like that,quite unspoiled

A man in his thoughts

a great poet and artist in his dreams

and child in his ways

I gave him myself and all I had

that he might grow to his full
height with plenty of sunshine

If I lost faith in him, it would mean
the wreck and failure of my whole life

Then I shall die

You must cure him,doctor

You must make him quite well again for me

I know that you can do it,
and that nobody else can

Doctor,I implore you not to refuse
what I am going to ask you to do

Take Louis yourself and let
Sir Ralph cure Dr Blenkinsop

Mrs Dubedat

Do you really believe in my knowledge
and skill as you say you do?

Absolutely. I do not give
my trust by halves

I know that

Well, I'm going to test you hard

Will you believe me when I say,no doubt,
understood what you have just told me?

And my only wish is to serve
you in the most faithful friendship?

and that your hero must be preserved to you

Oh forgive me,forgive what I said. You will
preserve him to me.

At all hazards

Wait

Let me finish

Will you believe me when I say that
the one chance of preserving your hero

lies in Louis being in
the care of Sir Ralph?

If you say so, I believe you.

I have no more doubt

Thank you

Sir Ralph,I am with the
'The Globe'.I wonder if you could..

Young man,there's a time
and place for everything

This is neither time nor the place.

What happened?

He has got through three months
galloping consumption in three days

B. B. got in on the negative phase
.

Negative or positive, the lad's done for

He wont last out the afternoon.
He'll go suddenly,I've often seen it

Let's hope he goes out
before she finds him out

It's a little hard on
a poor lad to be k*lled

because his wife has too
high an opinion of him

Fortunately few of us
are in any danger of that

Ah, there you are, Ridgeon.
You heard of course

Yes

By Jupiter,it's a fascinating case

you know if I didn’t know
as a matter of scientific fact

that I'd been stimulating the phagocytes

I should say I'd been stimulating
the other things instead

Paddy,what's your explanation?

Colly,how do we account for it?

Have we overstimulated the phagocytes?

Have they begun to
prey on the lungs themselves?

Or on one another? I must
write a paper about this case

Fascinating

Oh B.B.

You've done it this time

- What do you mean?
- k*lled him

The worst case of neglected
blood-poisoning I ever saw

It's too late to operate now.
He'd die under the anesthetic

Really,if your monomania
wasn't so well known

I should take that remark
very seriously,indeed

Come come!

When you've both k*lled as
many people as I have in my time

you'll feel humble enough about it

Come and look at him,Colly

I apologize, B. B. But it's blood-poisoning

Well,of course,everything
is blood-poisoning

But upon my soul, I shall never use
any of that stuff of Ridgeon's again

made me so sensitive
about what you said just now

was,strictly between ourselves

Ridgeon cooked our young friend's goose

Sir Ralph,what am I to do?
This man is from a newspaper

An article appeared this morning
saying that Louis is seriously ill

He wants to interview him about it

How can people be so brutally callous?

Just you leave him to me

But Louis insists on seeing him

He almost began to cry about it

And he says he cant
bear his room any longer

He says he wants to

see his studio for the last time.

Sir Patrick says to let him
have his way,it can do no harm

-What shall we do?
-Follow Sir Patrick's excellent advice

Of course,he said it could do no harm
and it may do good,a great deal of good

He'll be all better for it

Then Mr Walpole,will you tell
the man that he may come in

But that he mustn't
exhaust Louis by talking?

Of course

Sir Ralph

Please don't be angry with me

but Louis will die if he stays here

Let me take him to Brittany
I know he will recover

Brittany? Of course,the very place for him

How stupid of me not to
have thought of it myself

You are his best physician after all,
dear lady,it's a wonderful place for lungs

-Brittany is of course an inspiration
-Oh,Sir Ralph,you're very kind

But,don't give me too
much hope,or I shall cry

-And Louis can't bear that
-Then we'll go and fetch him in here

Brittany of course

That's the very place

This is his studio, I suppose

Yes

Where he has his models, eh?

No doubt about it

Are you one of the family or the doctor?

I'm neither one nor the other.
I am Mr Cutler Walpole.

Mr Butler...

Perhaps I'd better write it for you,
you'd be sure to get it wrong

That what comes of belonging to
an illiterate profession

Oh I say,you have got
your knife into us,haven't you?

I wish I had,yes,I'd make
a better man of you

Now,attend,Mr. Dubedat would
be brought in here presently

He wants to talk to you because
he doesn't know how bad he is

We'll allow you to wait for a
few minutes only to humor him

but if you talk to him,out you go.
He may die at any moment

Is he as bad as that?
I say,I'm in luck today

Sit down over there and keep quiet

Here we are. This is where you belong

You'll be painting again in no time

That's happiness

To be in the studio

Happiness

-Jennifer
-Yes,my darling

Is the newspaper man here?

Yes Mr Dubedat,here I am,at your service.
I represent the press

I thought you might like to let
us have a few words about

about,well, on your illness, and
your plans for the season

My plans for the season

Are very simple

-I'm going to die
-Oh Louis

Darling,I'm very weak and tired

Don't put on me the horrible strain
of pretending I don’t know

I've been lying in there
listening to the doctors

Laughing to myself

They know

Darling,don't cry.It makes you
ugly, I can't stand that

My love,my love don't talk

-It will only waste your strength.
-It only uses it up

-If Mrs Dubedat,if you could possibly
-Mr Walpole,please

Ridgeon,give me something to keep me going

Not one of your confounded
antitoxins,if you don’t mind

I have some things to say before I go

I suppose it can do no harm?

In milk. Don't set him coughing

Jennifer

-I want you to promise me something
-Yes,dear,you know I will

If there’s one thing I hate

more than another, it's a widow

Promise me that you'll never be

A widow

What do you mean?

I want you to look beautiful

I want people to see in your eyes

that you were married to me

In Italy

People used to point to Dante and say:

"There goes the man
who's been in hell."

I want them to point at you and say

"There goes the woman who's
been in heaven."

It has been heaven,
darling,hasn't it?

Sometimes?

Yes,always,always

If you wear black and cry, people will say:

"Look at that miserable woman,
her husband has made her miserable."

No,never.You've been the light
and the blessing of my life

I have never lived until I knew you

Then you must always
wear beautiful dresses

And splendid magic jewels.

Think of all the wonderful paintings

I shall never paint

You must be transfigured

with all the beauty of those pictures

There must be a great tradition of beauty

A great atmosphere of wonder

and romance

That's what men must always think of

when they think of me

That's the sort of immortality I want

Promise me that immortality

Promise me you won't make
a little hell of crying and crape

And undertaker's horrors
and withering flowers and all that

-That vulgar rubbish
-I promise.

But all that is far off, dear

You are to come to Brittany
with me and get well

Sir Ralph says so

Poor old B.B.

Poor fellow! Brains going

Jennifer

Do you remember

the burning bush?

Oh yes

Oh my dear, how it strains
my heart to sense it now!

Does it?

It fills me with joy

Tell them about it

It was nothing

only that once in Brittany

We lit the first fire of the winter

and when we looked through
the window in the garden

then we saw the flames dancing
in a burning bush

Such a colour

Garnet color. Waving like silk

Liquid lovely flame flowing up through
the bay leaves, and not burning them

I shall be a flame

I'm sorry to disappoint
the poor little worms

but the last of me shall be
the flame in the burning bush

When you see the flame,Jennifer

That will be me

-You will marry,again,Jennifer.
-Oh,Louis,how can you

Yes, because people who
have found marriage happy

always marry again

All right,I shan't be jealous

Only don’t talk

about me too much to the
other fellow,he won't like it

I shall be your lover all the time

but it will be a secret from him

poor devil!

Come! You've talked enough.
Try to rest a while

Yes,I'm fearfully tired

I shall have a long rest presently

I have something to say to you,fellows

-You are all there,aren't you?
-Yes,we are all here.

That voice sounded devilish

Take care,Ridgeon

My ears hear things that
other people's ears can't

And I've been thinking

I'm cleverer than you imagine

You've got on his nerves,Colly.
Slip out quietly

Would you deprive the dying
actor of the audience?

I heard that,Ridgeon

That was good

I know what you think of me

I'm not ashamed

I've been threatened...

and blackmailed..

and insulted...

and shelved

Now that it's all over...

There's an indescribable

peace

Michelangelo...

Rembrandt...

Velasquez

The mystery of colour

Beauty

everlasting

I should like to rest my head

on your bosom

Only

It might

-tire you
-Louis,how could you tire me?

That's good.That’s real.

Don't spare me,dear

Indeed, indeed you will not tire me

Lean on me with all your weight

Jinny Gwinny

I think I shall recover after all

Suddenly...
Suddenly I want to sleep

Just an ordinary sleep

Yes, dear

Oh,sleep

Do not disturb him

That's right dear,lean on me with
all your weight,now you are really resting

Let me put him back on his pillow,
Madame it's better for him.

No he's not tiring me

He will be so hurt when he wakes
if he finds I have put him away

He will never wake again

Is he dead?

Yes

Will you wait for me a moment?

I will come back

Ought we to follow her? Is she all right?

Yes.She's all right. Leave her alone.

Poor young fellow.He died splendidly

Aye! that is how the wicked die

When you are old as I am

you realize that it matters
really little how a man dies

What matters is how he lives

No matter,there's no concern of ours
he is in an another world now

Probably borrowing his first 5 £ note

Come,come,don't let us
be hard on him. Not now

Not now

After all,he had only two failings:
Money and women

All these affairs are so
well arranged at present

that a disregard of the usual
arrangements indicates real depravity?

Confound the usual arrangements!

What I mind his utter disregard
of everything but his own

His own pocket,his own fancies

Don’t waste your time wrangling about him

A blackguard's a blackguard,
an honest man's an honest man

Perhaps,perhaps

Still, de mortuis nil
nisi bonum..

I think it was Shakespeare,who said

that the good that men do lives after them

the evil is often interred in their bones

Interred in their bones

We're all mortal,Ridgeon

that's common lot,Paddy

Say what you will,Walpole

That your debt must be paid

If not today,then it'll be tomorrow.

To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow
After life's fitful...

I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting..

-I'm sorry I kept you waiting.
-It doesn't matter,quite all right

I felt that I must shake hands with
his friends once before we part today

We have shared together a great
happiness and a great privilege

Life will always be beautiful to us

Death will always be beautiful to us

May we shake hands on that?

Remember,all letters had better be
left to your solicitor

Let him open everything and settle
everything. That’s the law, you know

Thank you,I didn't know

Good bye,Mrs Dubedat

I blame myself

I should have insisted operating

Good bye,dear lady

I shall send the proper people,they'll
know what to do,you'll have no trouble

Good bye Mrs Dubedat

I said his friends,Sir Colenso

Jennifer

Jennifer

The last of me is the flame
in the burning bush

When you see the flame,Jennifer

That will be me

This way,please

You can put it down there.

-Thank you
-Thank you,Mam,thank you

Mrs Dubedat

-Dr Blenkinsop?
-Yes,certainly

I wonder if I might
have a word with you?

Thank you

You look the fit of health and prosperity

Yes,I've been made a Medical
Officer of Health,you see

I was successful in curing
the Chairman of the Borough Council

With Dr. Colenso Ridgeon's medicine?

Oh,no,I believe it was with
a pound of the right greengages

I've been very fortunate

You have indeed been very fortunate

Your life has been spared

Mrs Dubedat,I know what you must be feeling

I felt I had to came
and tell you I had no idea

I didn't know that there was to be a choice
between your husband's life and mine

And how do you know?

Your husband was a great artist

He cannot be replaced,but I can.

Thank you

But please don't blame Sir Colenso.
We were old friends

It was not for his friendship
to you that I blame Sir Colenso

I had quite forgotten

There is somebody coming
to see Louis's paintings

They are going to collect them,
will you please forgive me

Thank you

Good Afternoon,how kind of you to come.

I am afraid I haven't had
time to share the kind of...

-Good Morning,Mr Danby
-Good Morning,Sir Colenso

I'm afraid we're run out of catalogs
you can have mine if you don't mind

Thank you

There he is,Louis Dubedat

You knew him here I suppose?

Oh, we knew him. Better than most people,
Sir Colenso,in some ways,perhaps

So did I

My dear,simply everyone is here.

I'm sorry

Clever brute

Mrs Dubedat,I beg you pardon,
I did not know you where here

I am glad we have met,Sir Colenso Ridgeon

Dr. Blenkinsop is here.I congratulate
you on a wonderful cure

Come,talk to me

You have something to reproach me with

Out with it

It's too late for reproaches

I said,turning and saw you just now

I wondered how you could come
here coolly to look at his pictures.

You answered the question.
To you, he was only a clever brute

Please

I knew quite well you did not like Louis

I could forgive you that

if you would only acknowledge
what a dreadful mistake you made

I made no mistake whatever

Oh,doctor

I made no mistake whatever

Have you forgotten that he died?

He is not dead,he is there
and there,in his pictures

But for you there would many others

I have better be going

I am sorry

I have marked that picture to be sold to me

It will not be sold to you

This is my birthday and it was bought
for me this morning by my husband

By whom?

By my husband,he is over there

What husband? Whose husband?

Do you mean to say that
you are married again?

Have you forgetting that?
Louis disliked widows

And that people who have married
happily once always marry again

So glad you liked the pictures,Sir Colenso

Good Morning

Richard

I hate you that time,you remember