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Under Capricorn (1949)
In director Alfred Hitchcock's historical, mystery-crime
and lurid costume (melo)-drama - it was the director's second Technicolor
film following after Rope
(1948) with a similar structure consisting of stitched-together
9-10 minute segments, although only a few sequences were shot using
that technique. The script by James Bridie and adaptation by Hume
Cronyn was based upon Helen de Guerry Simpson's 1937 novel of the
same name, that was derived from John Colton and Margaret Linden's
unpublished and unproduced play. The period drama's plot involved
a love-triangle (of sorts) with a hidden past secret (involving a
death and a false confession) looming above the overheated atmosphere.
The tagline announced star Ingrid Bergman's role as a repressed wife: "Ingrid
Bergman shows you the heights and the depths to which a woman like
this can go!"
The film's confusing title referred to the "Tropic
of Capricorn" latitude in the Southern Hemisphere that bisected the continent of
Australia - the location of the film's plot. Capricorn also referred
to the 10th sign of the Zodiac (symbolized by a mythological
sea goat hybrid creature), and the astronomical constellation. Most
of the film's locale was in London, England and the surrounding area,
although some of it was shot at the Warner Bros' ranch in the LA area.
This dialogue-heavy and unexciting film was most
similar to his earlier films Rebecca (1940), Suspicion
(1941) and Notorious (1946), and
Bergman's performance in Gaslight (1944).
It was very atypical of Hitchcock's reputation for suspenseful thrillers,
and one of Hitchcock's lesser works - and it was a major box-office
failure. This was a period in the director's career with a long string
of critical and box-office flops, including: The
Paradine Case (1947), Rope (1948), and Stage Fright
(1950). One reason for the film's poor reception was thought
to be that in 1949, his married Swedish star Ingrid Bergman (in her
third Hitchcock film) was revealed to be in an adulterous relationship
(followed by a pregnancy) with married Italian film director
Roberto Rossellini, when she ventured to Italy to make Rossellini's
film Stromboli (1950, It.).
- in December of 1831, Sydney - the capital of New
South Wales in colonial Australia, was a rough frontier town with
lots of unexplored land, mostly populated by convicted prisoners
from England; British King William IV had just appointed a new
Governor to be sent to the prison colony of Sydney - Irishman Sir
Richard Bourke (Cecil Parker) accompanied by his charming
and cheery but indolent second cousin from Western Ireland - the
Honorable Charles Adare (Michael Wilding) - a dandyish aristocrat
who was planning to "make his fortune" on the new continent
Charles Adare (Michael Wilding), the Second Cousin of the New Governor
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Newly-Appointed Governor of Sydney, New South Wales Sir Richard Bourke (Cecil
Parker)
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- before the Governor's speech ended during his arrival
ceremony, Adare was approached by banker Cedric Potter (John Ruddock),
the manager of the New South Wales bank, and they set up a meeting
for the following day; the proceedings were slightly marred by a rowdy and rough crowd (some
ex-convicts) who had been transported there from the British Isles
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New South Wales Banker Cedric Potter (John Ruddock)
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"Sam" Flusky (Joseph Cotten) - A Wealthy Landowner
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- the next morning inside the Bank of New South Wales,
Potter mentioned the name of another well-to-do bank customer nearby
named Samson "Sam" Flusky
(Joseph Cotten), and Adare claimed that the name sounded familiar
to him; Potter described how Flusky was an "admirable citizen"
- a powerful, hard-working, prosperous and wealthy landowner
("a financial genius") who owned a stud horse; when Charles questioned
Potter about Flusky's past, he was reminded
that in Australia, no one talked about the past; Flusky was presumably
an emancipated prisoner - one who had made his fortune there as
an ex-convict who was considered to have paid his debt to society
by time served: ("a man's past is his own business") [Note: Later,
it was remarked that Flusky was possibly a murderer in his past.]
- Adare was introduced to
gruff Sam Flusky, who dismissed the fact that he had some familiarity
with West Ireland and Adare's father Lord Killale; as an aside,
banker Potter warned Adare against accepting any invitations to
Flusky's home ("a gentleman in your position can't be too careful");
outside the bank, Flusky offered Adare a business deal to purchase
a plot of land for £1,000 pounds; he proposed that Potter could
finance Adare's loan, and after the purchase, Adare would make
a profit by selling the land over to Plusky (in a private deal)
for more than he paid for it; Flusky
described how he had already bought the Crown's legal limit of
land that he was allowed, and wanted to continue accumulating
more frontier territory; Flusky invited Adare to dine at his
house the next evening at 6:30 pm and would provide a driver, and
then he handed over £100 pounds to assist him
- Adare told his uncle the Governor about his newfound
association with the town's wealthy magnate Flusky, and it was
ordered that Adare not accept a dinner invitation at Flusky's
house, due to his criminal past and unsavory
character: ("Get out of that dinner Charles, you can't be too careful..It
might be awkward for me")
- Charles accepted the dinner invitation nonetheless,
even though many in the society shunned the Fluskys; as Adare was
brought to the elegant home in a carriage, the coachman was spooked
by the sight of the mansion, and commented on the motto or name
of the mansion posted at its gates: "Minyago Yugilla?" ("Why
Weepest Thou?"); once
he arrived in front of the elegant home, Adare observed the housekeeper
Milly (Margaret Leighton) and butler Winter (Jack Watling) meeting
with Flusky about the dinner arrangements, and witnessed an unexplained
disturbance in the kitchen settled by the tyrannical, iron-fisted Milly
wielding a whip
- as the first guests arrived, Flusky seemed upset
that only the husbands showed up; it was clear,
after many of the husbands made excuses about their wives' absences,
that the Fluskys were often deliberately snubbed by the refined society;
Flusky also apologized to some of the guests that
his wife, Lady "Hattie" Henrietta Considine (Ingrid Bergman),
was also ill and confined to the upstairs, and would not be attending
the dinner
- after the men were seated and grace was recited
by Rev. Smiley (Victor Lucas), the barefooted,
pale but beautiful, drunken, and inappropriately-dressed
"Hattie" unexpectedly joined the men in the dining room
and sat at the opposite end of the table; Adare sat next to her and
introduced himself; during a private conversation between them,
Adare realized that he recognized Sam's wife - she was an upper-crust,
aristocratic neighbor who was a good friend of young Charlie's sister
Diana when they were all children in Ireland: ("You were the
only Adare who was a bad horseman")
- "Hattie" was too ill to remain at the
table for very long, and returned to her upstairs room; downstairs,
her hysterical screams were heard when she claimed to have seen a rat,
and she called for Adare to assist; although it was obvious
that she was suffering from a delusional hallucination, Adare
took her seriously and fired a gun into her upstairs fireplace, after
which "Hattie" seemed comforted and turned calmer
- after dinner on the terrace, the brooding Flusky
and Adare reminisced about their past youths in Ireland, when "Hattie" was
young and lived on her Considine family's landed gentry estate, and
Sam Flusky was the handsome stable boy (groom and riding instructor)
who taught her to ride; he remembered how she had a "reckless strain"
in her, and he had "a bit of the devil" in himself - and they
ended up in "trouble," but he didn't explain any further except
to say: "I was lucky to escape the gallows"; he was given a 7-year
sentence and transported to Australia; Hattie
sold all of her things and followed Sam to Australia, and waited
seven years in abject poverty for his release; once
they were rejoined together, their marital relationship never
recovered: ("We weren't the same people, the two of us, after all
those years"), and Hattie turned to drinking (helped by Milly plying
her with alcohol), while Sam concentrated on materialistic advancement
to make it up to her
- Flusky admitted that he had invited Adare for dinner
in the hopes that his presence might entice the local, opinionated
wives to meet him; there were many rumors, hearsay and gossip
about Flusky's wife and her scandalous behavior - she appeared
to be a traumatized and delusional alcoholic - a possible reason
for her shunning by the polite society, and he was still hoping
that Henrietta "might pull herself together"
- Sam invited Adare to return frequently to the house
to see Hattie, realizing that his short visit had cheered up his
wife who was on the verge of madness, and that maybe more visits
would make her more stable ("Maybe there's some hope after
all") and get her talking about "old times"
- Adare was scolded by the Governor for deliberately
disobeying his orders regarding the Flusky dinner, to "take part
in an unsavory debauch with the scum of the convict colony"; Adare
defended himself, mentioning how the Governor's own Attorney
General Corrigan (Denis O'Dea) was also in attendance; the Governor
strongly ordered Adare from making any business deals
with the "shady" Flusky, even
though the land purchase deal was legal; the Governor spoke about
the "hushed up" case of how the "blackard" young stable boy Flusky
had eloped with Hattie, and admitted to murdering her brother Dermot
"in cold blood" - but because it was determined that the crime
was "culpable homicide" (both
shooters were armed), Sam was not sentenced to hang, but was transported
to the penal colony in Australia; however, he still believed that
Flusky had the reputation of being a "violent brute"
- when Adare refused to reneg on his land deal,
the angered Governor expelled his cousin from the Government House; without
any money of his own, Adare accepted Sam's offer to move into the Flusky household
- on the porch during a long discussion with Adare,
Henrietta confirmed that her marriage to Sam deteriorated after
he was released from his 7-year prison term; she told him: "We
lost each other. I'm no good now, Charles, no good at all...I'm
finished!"; Adare encouraged her to attempt to restore her self-confidence
and interests and rehabilitate her exhausted will and condition,
including resuming her horse-riding, travel, and other activities;
most importantly, he wanted her to take care of herself so that
she would recover, and reestablish her authority in the house; Milly
became suspicious of Adare and spied on him during future visits;
she watched him suspiciously and was fearful of her power being
usurped, as they became closer and closer
- as he had promised, Adare's efforts to have
Henrietta 'reincarnated' including having her increase her self-reliance
and lucid thinking by costuming her in beautiful dresses, and having
her look at herself in a mirror; Adare also realized that the
housekeeper Milly had completely taken over
the running of the Flusky household; he insisted that Henrietta, as
the "mistress" of the house, should retain control of the keys
and the kitchen: ("You must give all of the orders!")
- in a dramatic sequence before the kitchen staff,
Henrietta challenged Milly's control and authority by giving her
an order: "I want you to consult me about everything, everything. I
have left too much on your shoulders"; Milly would now have
to obey her instructions delivered every morning; the disdainful
Milly embarrassed Henrietta by having Winter disclose the many
hidden, empty bottles of alcohol from her bedroom cabinet, causing
her to flee to her bedroom and bolt the door; later that evening,
Flusky advised Adare to give up on his efforts to rehabilitate
his wife, but Adare vowed: "I'm not done yet"
- Charles climbed up to her bedroom's terrace and found
her drunk and in bed, and feeling defeated:
("I don't want to see you ever again. I couldn't do what you told
me. Go back home and tell them I died...Go back to Ireland...I
am no good to any living soul"); he encouraged her to always stand
on her own two feet, and seriously insisted: "You must have courage"
- and they shared a passionate kiss together; Henrietta cautioned him: "This
is all wrong...I'll do my best, but this is not the way," and she
sobbed: "I can't do anything anymore," but he vowed to continue
helping her and suggested that she go to bed
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Henrietta Found Drunk and in Bed - Feeling Defeated
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Charles to Henrietta: "You must have courage"
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Followed by a Passionate Kiss
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- when Milly was called to the bolted bedroom door
to enter and help Henrietta get ready for bed, Milly snidely
commented to Adare about her suspicions of romance
between them: ("It looks like it's your job"); then,
the next day, Milly attempted to undermine Adare and
complained to Flusky about his efforts to "meddle" and
usurp her authority by helping Hattie to rehabilitate herself and
recover; Adare confronted Milly in Flusky's presence, and accused
her of "calculated and brutal rudeness" in the kitchen the previous
day; Milly counter-accused Adare of being in Henrietta's locked
bedroom with romantic intentions: "The two of them alone and
half their clothes off - that's rudeness for you!"; Milly
then sabotaged Winter by blaming him for embarrassing Henrietta
by displaying her many alcohol bottles; Flusky
told long-time, gossipy Milly that she could resign if she was
dissatisfied - and she decided to leave: "I'm
getting out. I wouldn't stay another hour in this house. If you
can put up with such goings-on, that's your business"; as
she entered a carriage to depart, Milly told Sam: "I'll pray
to the Lord that your eyes may be opened"
- at first, Hattie was devastated that Milly was
ousted: ("I can't do without her!"), but with Adare's
previous encouragement, she was determined to take charge of the
house and exhibit her authority over the unruly and disrespectful
household kitchen staff; her first official act was to burn Milly's
whip as she vowed: "After today, nobody will be beaten in this
house," and then she demanded respect by being referred to as "My
Lady"; she also specified three rules for the staff: no noise,
fighting, or stealing - any offense would result in being sent
back to prison; she proposed a contest between them to cook breakfast,
in order to judge who was the best cook for the house; Charles'
efforts to reform her were paying off
- during breakfast, Adare showed off a blank invite
to the Subscription Ball (for the Honorable Irish Society of Sydney)
held at Government House in Sydney, claiming that it invited them
to attend; although Sam declined to attend due to his ex-convict
past, he gave his permission to Charles to escort Hattie to the event,
so she could show off a beautiful dress and the new waltz dance
style; Sam also showed his confidence in Hattie's restored health,
by clipping Milly's key-ring onto her waist
- the night of the Ball, as Charles and Hattie were
leaving, Sam proposed how a "collar of rubies" might
enhance her dress; then, he hesitated and ultimately dejectedly
decided to not present Hattie with a ruby necklace that he was
holding behind his back, and tucked it back into his
pants; he had purchased it for her (as a symbol of his love), but
changed his mind after Charles joked that she would look like a
Christmas tree, and Hattie mentioned that the ruby color didn't
match well with her ball gown (she also added: "Besides,
I haven't any rubies")
- just after they departed, the manipulative Milly
entered the Flusky house and remarked on the "handsome couple";
she had come back to stay the night in her old room to retrieve
her "chest" before starting her new job with the Attorney
General early the next day; she deliberately planted jealous suspicions
in Sam's mind about a growing relationship between Adare and his
wife - it was a remarkable monologue with a very sinister motive
- to edge Henrietta out of Sam's life; her plan all along was to
destroy Henrietta and win Sam's affections for herself: ("She
looked lovely tonight, like as if something new had come into her
life");
underhandedly, she insinuated that Charles was humiliating him
in public by entertaining her socially, and that their lower social-class
sensibilities would allow them to behave shamefully: ("There
she is, going to the Governor's Ball. Wonders will never cease.
The whole town talking about her Ball dress and how beautiful it
was...They're gentry, you see. They don't have the same rules as
us, Mr. Fusky. They take everything for granted. But here, I'm
talking on and on. It's the loneliness. I think it's right that
her ladyship should have a bit of pleasure, so long as she doesn't
lose her head. It's none of my business at all. And you wouldn't
have let them go if there had been any of that sort of thing. You're
not the sort to let a young spark play fast and loose with his
wife. You're a man that respects himself, Mr. Flusky. That's why
we all respect you, least-ways nearly all of us. But it's, it's
wonderful that her ladyship should be out there driving in a carriage
through the darkness, and then into the lights and the music. They
tell me there's a new kind of dance very fashionable these days.
Men and women dance around in each other's arms till they're giddy
- a waltz they call it. Humph, they wouldn't have that at the Governor's
Ball. No decent woman would let a strange man be hugging her, and
her half-naked and everybody looking on")
- Flusky continued to listen to Milly's convincing
yet greatly-exaggerated stories of what Adare had done in Lady
Henrietta's bedroom: "And oh, oh Mr. Flusky, I've been worried
to death. I hope you haven't been giving too much thought to what
I said about Mr. Adare and her ladyship in her bedroom. I'm sure
it wasn't her fault. Well, she wasn't what you call responsible
at the time. I know she wasn't, because she had half her clothes
off and didn't seem to notice. It was their taking so long to open
the door that made me suspicious. But I may have been wrong. I
pray that I was wrong"
- the film transitioned to the Governor's Ball, where
as they arrived, they were told that their invitation was illegitimate,
and that they weren't listed on the guest register; Adare had
forged the handwriting on their invitation
- the Governor was exceedingly impressed by Hattie's
stunning presence and asked: ("Who is that exquisite creature?")
before he was introduced to her; there was a short period of embarrassment
for everyone when the Governor realized that Adare's
invitation was fraudulent; the Governor admitted he had specifically
taken Adare off the invite list as punishment for disobeying him
and for keeping "bad company" with Sam Flusky; the
decision to immediately expel him was reversed when it was evident
that the Governor realized that he knew Henrietta from his past
in Ireland, and that she was Flusky's wife who was accompanying
Charles for the evening
- an enraged and furious Flusky appeared at the ball,
and created a disturbance with the Governor by inappropriately mentioning
how Henrietta "married beneath her" since he was only
a stable boy, and that they were in the company of upper-class "swells";
embarrassed and upset by the scene, Henrietta returned home, devastated
and crying
- she was joined by Adare who tried to calm her; he
stated how Sam was jealous of Henrietta's superior gentry status:
("He
knows he's inferior to you and it fills him with black hatred.
He's jealous of your shadow, jealous of your world"); when
Adare suggested that she return to Ireland ("You owe him nothing"),
she responded by telling him about her earlier, honor-bound love
for Sam, and her steadfast indebtedness to him due to the many "wrongs" she
had done to him; Henrietta explained how she and Sam were
still bound together with a terrible secret: ("Sam is part
of me and I am part of Sam for ever and ever")
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Henrietta Reminiscing: "Sam is part of me,
and I am part of Sam"
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- she happily described how in the past, after she
and her stable groom Sam became overcome with love for each other,
that they eloped, ran away and were married at Gretna Green in
Scotland by a blacksmith, breaking society's taboos; afterwards,
her family was furious that their aristocratic daughter Henrietta
had paired up with a lowly servant; the couple was confronted
by her angry brother Dermot ("with murder in his eyes"),
who aimed his pistol at her; Sam jumped in front of Henrietta to
shield her; she grabbed Sam's horse gun and in self-defense, fatally
shot her brother; the fact that Dermot had wildly fired his own
pistol saved Sam's "neck"
from hanging; Sam made a false confession that he had murdered
Hattie's brother to save her; during the proceedings, Henrietta
became delirious and ill for weeks, and was kept from knowing anything
to avoid a scandal; when she revived, Sam was already "in
chains" on a convict ship bound
for Australia; they vowed to keep a pact of secrecy about what
had happened
- Adare asked how she had survived for seven years
awaiting his release, but Henrietta deflected his question: "What
does that matter now?"; her dream to start afresh in the new
country had been marred by her memory of "so many hideous
things" that
occurred in a little hut down by the docks (she called it a time
of "hot misery"); she had never fully recovered her mental
health, even after Sam was freed: "Even now, I sometimes long
to go down, down, down to where I can go no further, down, where
nothing can hurt me anymore"; Adare responded to her suicidal
urges that she was only hurting herself: ("No man alive is
worth that sacrifice"),
and pressured her to get away: ("You still have some life
to live. Come away, come away from all this"), but she remained
steadfast and loyal
- after Sam arrived back at the house, he ordered
Adare to leave permanently; as Henrietta was calling Sam a "madman"
and he countered by calling her "trash," Adare took off
on Sam's favorite mare in the dark, but since he was not an accomplished
horseman, the horse fell and broke its leg; Flusky
was forced to shoot the horse dead (off-screen), and as he reentered
the house, he chastised Adare as a "bloody murdering gentleman";
Flusky's gun went off accidentally and seriously wounded Adare;
the next morning, Milly was still lingering in the Flusky household,
as Henrietta attended to Adare at a hospital where he was hovering
between life and death
- the Governor threatened that the "violent
brute" Sam
would be prosecuted for his assault upon Adare; as an ex-convict
committing a second offense of further violence (attempted murder),
he could be sent back to prison and possibly executed if Adare
died; the Governor also speculated that if Adare lived, he would
be sent back to Ireland in disgrace
- to save Sam again, Henrietta confessed to the
Governor that Sam was wrongly accused of his first crime of murder:
("He should never have been a convict"); she was the
one who shot and killed her brother ("Sam took the blame"); of
course, her confession brought further complications; the Governor
(and his Attorney General) stated that if her assertion about a
capital crime was true, by law she should be deported back to Ireland
to stand trial and be sent to jail; but alternately, if Sam didn't
corroborate her confession, he would be imprisoned; the
Governor ignored Henrietta's claim that Sam was innocent of both
crimes
- Henrietta returned home to Sam and expressed her
"blessed Heavenly relief" that she had confessed to killing her
own brother, to get him off the hook; initially,
Sam misunderstood Henrietta's motivation and wrongly believed that
she wanted to replace him and return to Ireland with Charles (if
he lived), and that she didn't love him; he was insensitively angry:
"You've been fool enough to spill your story, so you pay for it
this time, not me"; Henrietta vowed she had unselfishly confessed
for Sam's sake, but Sam denounced her: "I'm done with you!"
- once Adare recovered, the Governor told him that
he and Henrietta (who had confessed to a crime) would have to be
returned to Ireland, on separate ships; Milly,
who was very much in love with Sam, was restored to her old position,
and tried to further drive Hattie insane and claim Sam for herself;
she was hoping that Hattie would soon vacate the home and bring peace
to Sam: ("You've never known peace"); Milly was shocked when Sam told
her that he would accompany Hattie to Ireland after selling everything:
("It's madness to go, Mr. Flusky...Stay here with me, I'll look after
you")
- meanwhile, Hattie had reverted to delusionary fears
and madness in a retreat to her bedroom; Hattie fainted after seeing
a
real shrunken, decapitated head in her bed; after regaining consciousness,
Hattie watched as Milly picked up the head
and concealed it in a jewelry basket on her dresser, and then prepared
a fatal overdose of her prescribed sleeping potion in a glass of
wine; in her perverted mind, Milly loved Sam and wanted him all
to herself: ("Take this, then you can go to bed and sleep.
Drink it all down")
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Milly's Planted Shrunken Head in Hattie's Bed
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Milly Preparing a Fatal Overdose of Hattie's Sleeping
Potion in a Wine Glass
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Hattie Watching as Milly Doctored Her Wine Glass
and Offered It to Her
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- Hattie called for Sam and reported on Milly's many
wrong-doings and sabotage; Sam finally realized Milly's true nature:
("So this is the way of it, is it! You'd work to the death
for me, eh? The death all right!"); Hattie asked: ("What
kind of love drives you to make such horrible things?...Why do
you want to kill me? Do you think he could love a murderess?")
- as Milly was being dismissed permanently, she even denounced Sam:
("Mr. Flusky, I'm not good enough for you, I know that. I'm only
good enough to work for you and slave for you and look after your - your drunken...")
- as Milly ran off, Flusky was approached by the Attorney
General who asked him to corroborate Hattie's confessed statement;
if he cooperated, he was promised a "free pardon" and as a "second
offender" wouldn't be returned to prison (and a chain gang)
for the attempted murder of Charles Adare; Sam refused, having
finally realized that Hattie loved him: "I must help you to hang
my wife, eh?...It comes to this. You can do nothing to her without
my evidence...You can take yourselves out of here!"; Sam was threatened
with an arrest warrant for the attempted murder of Charles Adare
if he continued to persist in not cooperating; he knew that if
he cooperated, however, that he was setting up Henrietta for a
conviction and death sentence back in Ireland
- Sam acknowledged to Hattie that she had
sacrificed herself for him: "You were determined to risk your neck
for me, weren't you?", and that her brother's murder years ago had
been "paid for" by his serving of a 7-year prison sentence: ("Why
must they go on and on and on at it?"); she assured him: "Nobody
can touch you. Nobody can hurt you. I'm safe with you now. We should
always be together"
- the next morning, Sam was
arrested by the Governor for the attempted murder of Charles Adare,
and he was brought to Sydney to be jailed before being returned to
prison; Hattie took a carriage to Sydney to plead with the Governor,
where she also saw that Charles had recovered from his injuries;
she begged for Charles to help her and set Sam free: ("Give him
back to me, Charles"); Charles testified that he was truly
and accidentally shot in the shoulder by Sam - there was no confrontation,
and no struggle over the gun; after his statement, Flusky was released
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Charles' Account of the Shooting as Accidental - Sam Flusky Was
Freed From Jail - Henrietta Was Overjoyed
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The Fluskys Bidding Charles Adare Farewell at the
Dock Before His Return to Ireland
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- in the final scene, Flusky and Hattie
(smiling together at the dock and reconciled) bid a grateful farewell
to Adare who, because of his love and respect for Hattie, was returning
to Ireland alone
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The Exterior of the Flusky Mansion
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The Gate Sign: "Minyago Yugilla?" ("Why Weepest Thou?")
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Sam Flusky With His Stern Housekeeper Milly (Margaret Leighton)
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First View of Sam Flusky's Barefooted, Disturbed, and Drunk Wife "Hattie"
or Henrietta Considine Flusky (Ingrid Bergman)
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Adare at the Dinner Table with Henrietta
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Henrietta's Delusional Fear of a Rat in Her Bedroom
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Adare and Flusky Reminiscing About Their Youths in Ireland - And Past Acquaintance
with "Hattie"
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Sam's Disturbed Wife Henrietta
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Adare Moved Into the Flusky Household, With the Goal to Help Henrietta Recover
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The Authoritarian Presence of Milly in the House
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Henrietta Urged by Charles to Rehabilitate Herself - Look in a Mirror
and Dress Beautifully
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Milly's Disdain For Henrietta's Rehabilitation and Recovery
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Milly's Complaints to Flusky About Henrietta's Usurping of Her Authority,
Due to Adare's Encouragement
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Housekeeper Milly Ousted For Rudeness and Gossip
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Hattie Re-establishing Control Over Her Unruly and Disrespectful Kitchen
Staff
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Invitation to Governors Ball
Henrietta and Charles Leaving for the Governors Ball
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Sam's Ungifted Present of a Ruby Necklace
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Milly Planting Jealous Suspicions in Sam Flusky's
Head About His Wife Henrietta's Unfaithfulness to Him
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The Governor at the Ball - Pointing at Henrietta:
("Who is that exquisite creature?")
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The Governor with Charles and Henrietta Flusky
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Sam Making a Scene With the Governor at the Ball
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Adare to Henrietta: "No man alive is worth that sacrifice"
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Henrietta Accusing Sam of Being a "Madman," While He Called Her "Trash"
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Adare Seriously Wounded by Flusky's Accidental Gunshot
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Henrietta's Confession to the Governor: "I shot my brother"
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Henrietta Reverting To Her Former Madness
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Hattie in Sam's Arms: "We should always be together"
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