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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:20,984 --> 00:00:25,817 LIBEL 2 00:01:28,486 --> 00:01:32,482 Directed by 3 00:01:33,973 --> 00:01:37,567 London, in 1959 4 00:02:11,635 --> 00:02:14,989 - Gotta match? - No. I'm sorry, I don't smoke. 5 00:02:19,851 --> 00:02:21,945 - Hello boy. - Pinka. 6 00:02:22,576 --> 00:02:24,753 - Pink. Thank you. - Hello, is this yours? 7 00:02:24,873 --> 00:02:27,385 - Yes, he is always doing that. - He is very friendly. 8 00:02:27,474 --> 00:02:30,168 Don't you believe it. He bit a man last week. 9 00:02:30,798 --> 00:02:32,893 I'm glad, he is in a better mood tonight. 10 00:02:33,013 --> 00:02:34,081 Come on. 11 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:35,564 Good boy. 12 00:02:41,593 --> 00:02:44,328 - On top form tonight Fred? - I can't do a thing right. 13 00:02:44,770 --> 00:02:46,960 - Good evening, Betty! - Hello Maisie! 14 00:02:47,716 --> 00:02:51,716 - Would you care for a drink? - Thanks. I usually have a gin and tonic. 15 00:02:51,836 --> 00:02:54,654 - Good. A gin and tonic and a beer, please? - Coming up! 16 00:02:55,305 --> 00:02:58,840 - Are you in town for long? - No, just two days between clients. 17 00:02:59,262 --> 00:03:01,348 - Have you been to London before? - Yes, yes. 18 00:03:01,396 --> 00:03:03,281 - I was here during the war. - Really? 19 00:03:03,401 --> 00:03:06,371 Hey Maisie, I haven't seen you for days. How have you been? 20 00:03:06,491 --> 00:03:08,316 - Three and three, sir. - Thank you. 21 00:03:09,527 --> 00:03:11,699 - Gin! - Thank you. Cheers! 22 00:03:11,819 --> 00:03:13,685 - Cheers! - Look Maisie... 23 00:03:13,805 --> 00:03:16,297 This is the BBC Television Service 24 00:03:18,601 --> 00:03:22,328 Tonight in our series, 'Historic Country Houses' 25 00:03:22,737 --> 00:03:26,117 we are privileged to visit Ingworth, the home of Sir Mark Loddon. 26 00:03:30,632 --> 00:03:33,946 You join us in one of the loveliest Elizabethan houses in England. 27 00:03:34,453 --> 00:03:37,713 And here tonight welcome us Sir Mark and Lady Loddon. 28 00:03:52,254 --> 00:03:56,046 Now Sir Mark, if you will, we'd like you first of all, to tell us something about 29 00:03:56,065 --> 00:03:57,768 the house and its history. 30 00:03:58,152 --> 00:03:59,968 I think your family has always lived here, in Ingworth. 31 00:04:00,088 --> 00:04:02,206 Yes, ever since it was built in 1580. 32 00:04:02,326 --> 00:04:05,928 It's a record we rather proud of. The family built it and we still live here. 33 00:04:06,177 --> 00:04:08,784 - Would you like to come on the grand tour? - Very much. 34 00:04:08,962 --> 00:04:10,716 Hey boys, we're missing the big fight. 35 00:04:11,143 --> 00:04:12,734 Charlie, switch it over. 36 00:04:13,619 --> 00:04:14,802 Excuse me sir. 37 00:04:17,276 --> 00:04:19,788 - Hey, switch that back, will you? - Leave it Charlie? 38 00:04:19,812 --> 00:04:22,769 - Look, I've got to see that program. - Well, you ain't gonna see in here, mate. 39 00:04:22,889 --> 00:04:25,164 That's enough sir. I don't want any trouble here. 40 00:04:25,222 --> 00:04:27,450 - He's got him cold. - I've got a dollar on him. 41 00:04:30,396 --> 00:04:33,193 - Do you live near here? - Well yes, just around the corner. 42 00:04:33,217 --> 00:04:34,724 - I share a flat with a girlfriend. - Good. 43 00:04:34,844 --> 00:04:37,080 What are you getting at? Nothing doing. 44 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,381 - No No. Have you got a television set? - What? 45 00:04:39,476 --> 00:04:40,898 Have you got a television set? 46 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:44,660 Here we are, it's over there. 47 00:04:50,336 --> 00:04:52,120 Doesn't this darn thing work? 48 00:04:52,567 --> 00:04:55,992 - Give it a chance to warm up. - All right, then. Come on, come on. 49 00:04:56,009 --> 00:04:58,047 Oh, I don't know what all the fuss is about. 50 00:04:58,071 --> 00:05:00,400 One TV program is same as any other. 51 00:05:01,270 --> 00:05:04,018 It's quite a great deal these days maintaining Ingworth 52 00:05:04,138 --> 00:05:06,515 Yes, if we didn't open the house to the public at weekends, 53 00:05:06,635 --> 00:05:10,237 and certain other holidays, we shouldn't able to afford to live here, anyway. 54 00:05:10,417 --> 00:05:12,977 - You are the seventh baronet, aren't you? - Yes, I am. 55 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:16,077 That's the first one there, Sir John Loddon. 56 00:05:18,054 --> 00:05:20,941 You know it's quite remarkable after all these years 57 00:05:21,201 --> 00:05:23,413 - The family like this, I mean. - Do you think I like him? 58 00:05:23,533 --> 00:05:26,570 - Yes, you got the Loddon face. - Can't see it myself. 59 00:05:26,690 --> 00:05:28,681 One's a very bad judge of one's own face. 60 00:05:28,801 --> 00:05:32,216 Oh, yes, darling, he is just like you. Except for the weight. 61 00:05:33,213 --> 00:05:35,237 - You really want to watch it? - Shhh... 62 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,911 What a splendid room. 63 00:05:39,031 --> 00:05:41,840 But we hardly ever use it. Not really since the war. 64 00:05:41,988 --> 00:05:44,595 Of course, you were a prisoner of war Mark, weren't you? 65 00:05:44,619 --> 00:05:46,263 Yes, I was taken prisoner at Dunkirk. 66 00:05:46,309 --> 00:05:49,532 - When were you released? - I escaped just before the end of the war. 67 00:05:49,621 --> 00:05:51,451 Just in time for the celebrations. 68 00:05:51,652 --> 00:05:54,780 I was in no condition to celebrate, I was in hospital for 6 months. 69 00:05:54,804 --> 00:05:56,618 Oh... That's lovely, isn't it? 70 00:05:57,125 --> 00:06:00,633 And then you were discharged from the army and got married soon afterwards. 71 00:06:00,657 --> 00:06:01,657 That's right, yes. 72 00:06:01,875 --> 00:06:05,193 - And your son was born in the following year? - Yes, on Christmas day. 73 00:06:05,217 --> 00:06:07,411 - Are we going to see him tonight? - Oh, I'm afraid not. 74 00:06:07,531 --> 00:06:09,952 He is asleep in his nursery. At least, I hope he is. 75 00:06:10,652 --> 00:06:13,969 - I dare say, a lot of famous people have dined in this room. - Yes. 76 00:06:14,391 --> 00:06:15,860 Queen Elizabeth I. 77 00:06:16,450 --> 00:06:18,039 Charles II. 78 00:06:18,718 --> 00:06:21,183 Margaret you're better at this than I, you take over. 79 00:06:21,207 --> 00:06:23,613 Naturally I'm American. And you know what Americans 80 00:06:23,625 --> 00:06:26,043 are like when they are hotfoot after culture. 81 00:06:26,451 --> 00:06:29,173 Well, it was Marlborough and Disraeli. 82 00:06:29,557 --> 00:06:32,212 - And this will surprise you, Benjamin Franklin. - Really? 83 00:06:32,227 --> 00:06:34,166 - Yes. - At all around this table? 84 00:06:34,687 --> 00:06:37,436 By the look of it you are expecting them again this evening 85 00:06:38,724 --> 00:06:40,905 We've laid it out especially for you. - For me? 86 00:06:40,998 --> 00:06:43,723 For you and the viewers. It set exactly as it was 87 00:06:43,724 --> 00:06:47,248 for my husband's 21st birthday party. - Is it? 88 00:06:47,694 --> 00:06:50,440 That would be interesting to know who the guests were on that occasion. 89 00:06:50,779 --> 00:06:52,533 Could you name them for us, Sir Mark? 90 00:06:54,944 --> 00:06:56,541 Ah, the guests... 91 00:06:58,128 --> 00:07:00,957 - You want to know their names. - Yes. 92 00:07:04,022 --> 00:07:05,339 Well... 93 00:07:06,565 --> 00:07:11,129 mostly just friends and relations. - Won't you name just a few for us? 94 00:07:12,157 --> 00:07:13,708 Just one if you like? 95 00:07:14,273 --> 00:07:16,381 - Well I... - Don't you remember? 96 00:07:16,501 --> 00:07:20,810 No, I don't remember. I'm terribly sorry. I don't remember. Is anything strange in that? 97 00:07:21,219 --> 00:07:24,689 Not strange at all, pal. Not strange at all. 98 00:07:25,038 --> 00:07:27,774 As matter of fact my husband hates all family ceremonies. 99 00:07:27,894 --> 00:07:31,022 - Oh, a lot of people do. - Well I like them. I love all tradition. 100 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,537 I'm fascinated by 101 00:07:32,538 --> 00:07:35,897 all the things my husband has always taken for granted. 102 00:07:36,333 --> 00:07:38,906 He's taking a lot for granted, that guy. 103 00:07:40,227 --> 00:07:42,158 Well don't tell me you know him? 104 00:07:43,110 --> 00:07:45,058 If it's who I think it is, I know him. 105 00:07:45,178 --> 00:07:48,853 I think we mustn't trespass on your time any more. Lady Loddon we must go. 106 00:07:48,973 --> 00:07:51,153 Come on, your hand. Let's see your hand. 107 00:07:51,213 --> 00:07:52,872 And to you Sir Mark, being so kind. 108 00:07:52,879 --> 00:07:54,917 - Good night. - Thank you very much, indeed. 109 00:07:56,071 --> 00:07:58,508 That was a visit to Ingworth the home of... 110 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,655 Thank Goodness that's over. 111 00:08:02,033 --> 00:08:04,648 Are you going to buy me a drink or something? I need it. 112 00:08:04,768 --> 00:08:06,192 Here. Buy yourself a bottle. 113 00:08:06,555 --> 00:08:10,718 But... Aren't you coming with me? I thought you didn't take off the two days. 114 00:08:12,106 --> 00:08:13,862 I may not take off at all. 115 00:08:18,625 --> 00:08:20,298 Oh, thank goodness that's over. 116 00:08:20,856 --> 00:08:22,421 - Good night! - Good night! 117 00:08:27,034 --> 00:08:29,037 - How do you think it went? - Fine. 118 00:08:29,157 --> 00:08:32,096 - Except when I made a fool of myself just now. - Oh, nonsense. 119 00:08:33,765 --> 00:08:35,993 His fault was for asking those stupid questions. 120 00:08:36,017 --> 00:08:38,577 Oh, you can't blame him darling. It was just bad luck. 121 00:08:38,697 --> 00:08:40,874 - How could he know? - Know what? 122 00:08:40,994 --> 00:08:44,644 That you can't always remember the things that happened to you before the war. 123 00:08:45,073 --> 00:08:46,571 What should I have done? 124 00:08:47,054 --> 00:08:50,221 Tell the hell country in general that the war changed my life? 125 00:08:53,913 --> 00:08:58,070 Except for the memory. It hasn't changed that much, has it? 126 00:08:58,522 --> 00:08:59,522 Hasn't it? 127 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,179 I don't know. 128 00:09:02,995 --> 00:09:05,540 I was only 26 and I hadn't had a gray hair on my head. 129 00:09:05,660 --> 00:09:08,288 And now you are an old, old man. 130 00:09:08,731 --> 00:09:10,727 Settled with a possessive wife. 131 00:09:10,847 --> 00:09:13,455 Now that part I rather like. 132 00:09:17,979 --> 00:09:20,472 Darling. Shall we go up? 133 00:09:21,748 --> 00:09:24,728 Ahh, no. Not just yet. 134 00:09:26,061 --> 00:09:27,844 I feel a little restless. 135 00:09:28,325 --> 00:09:31,720 You go up. I'll join you presently. 136 00:09:32,564 --> 00:09:34,047 All right darling. 137 00:09:35,203 --> 00:09:37,434 - Good night! - Good night! 138 00:09:48,332 --> 00:09:50,478 I thought you did very well. 139 00:11:08,410 --> 00:11:10,451 Get out! Get out! Get away! 140 00:11:14,424 --> 00:11:15,567 I'm sorry. 141 00:11:16,682 --> 00:11:20,083 - I'm terribly, terribly sorry. - Oh, darling, darling. 142 00:11:20,410 --> 00:11:23,580 I had to come down. I heard you playing that same tune again. 143 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:25,076 Yes, I know you did. 144 00:11:25,877 --> 00:11:27,566 Let me help you. Tell me. 145 00:11:28,195 --> 00:11:29,757 It came from nowhere. 146 00:11:30,048 --> 00:11:31,743 I wasn't even thinking about it. 147 00:11:32,431 --> 00:11:33,920 It suddenly started. 148 00:11:34,188 --> 00:11:36,321 It went on and on and on, beating in my brain. 149 00:11:36,345 --> 00:11:38,742 And always always stopping at the same place. 150 00:11:39,297 --> 00:11:41,515 Why does it always do that? Why? 151 00:11:41,635 --> 00:11:43,441 Yes, but this time there was something more, 152 00:11:43,453 --> 00:11:45,444 wasn't it? - Yes, there was something more. 153 00:11:45,609 --> 00:11:48,492 Standing there I saw a reflection, 154 00:11:49,375 --> 00:11:52,602 behind me in the looking glass. And then the music stopped. 155 00:11:53,231 --> 00:11:56,275 And I knew then at that moment... 156 00:11:56,867 --> 00:11:59,965 that those two things were part of my nightmare. 157 00:12:01,126 --> 00:12:04,795 The tune and the reflection. And for one second... 158 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,793 I knew quite clearly what that reflection was. 159 00:12:10,681 --> 00:12:13,926 Darling, it was me. 160 00:12:15,976 --> 00:12:16,976 No. 161 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:19,050 It wasn't you. 162 00:12:20,248 --> 00:12:23,254 - It wasn't you. - Who then? 163 00:12:24,086 --> 00:12:25,428 I don't know. 164 00:12:27,042 --> 00:12:29,156 Something I've forgotten. 165 00:12:31,456 --> 00:12:33,646 Oh, darling I can't help you. 166 00:12:34,547 --> 00:12:36,031 I can't help you! 167 00:12:36,565 --> 00:12:38,151 And I want so much to. 168 00:12:38,570 --> 00:12:40,232 I love you so. 169 00:12:42,290 --> 00:12:43,838 Whatever happens... 170 00:12:45,757 --> 00:12:47,188 or whatever I do... 171 00:12:49,721 --> 00:12:52,073 you'll never leave me, will you? - Never. 172 00:12:52,889 --> 00:12:54,277 Because I need you. 173 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,469 I need you. 174 00:13:19,266 --> 00:13:21,184 Ingworth, In Norfolk, England 175 00:13:37,128 --> 00:13:39,264 Welcome to Ingworth House. 176 00:13:39,509 --> 00:13:42,244 Ladies and Gentlemen, Ingworth is hardly altered at all 177 00:13:42,245 --> 00:13:44,744 since the first day it's stood here in the valley, 178 00:13:44,745 --> 00:13:47,931 before the Spanish armada sailed. This way ladies and gentlemen... 179 00:14:16,932 --> 00:14:20,108 Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you all have the seen the dining room 180 00:14:20,132 --> 00:14:24,361 I'd like to take you to the next item of interest, which is the long gallery. 181 00:14:24,481 --> 00:14:29,571 But first of all, may I draw your attention on this magnificent staircase, 182 00:14:29,691 --> 00:14:32,113 which is of course part of the original building. 183 00:14:32,682 --> 00:14:35,131 Well now I'll take you upstairs to the long gallery. 184 00:14:35,251 --> 00:14:37,087 This way ladies and gentlemen, please. 185 00:14:39,401 --> 00:14:43,157 Both sides up it all goes the same way. 186 00:14:43,277 --> 00:14:45,770 Robert, put that down! Come away, both of you. 187 00:14:45,890 --> 00:14:46,890 Thank you. 188 00:15:02,615 --> 00:15:04,930 - Good afternoon, sir. - Good afternoon, Pete. 189 00:15:05,050 --> 00:15:07,461 - Had a good day? - Yes, sir. Nearly 500. 190 00:15:07,581 --> 00:15:10,005 - Very good day. - Did they break anything? 191 00:15:10,125 --> 00:15:12,782 - No, sir. Not this time. - That's a blessing. 192 00:15:14,136 --> 00:15:17,170 Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? 193 00:15:17,604 --> 00:15:20,903 Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full; 194 00:15:21,023 --> 00:15:22,973 One for the... - master, 195 00:15:23,093 --> 00:15:25,163 And one for the... - maid, 196 00:15:25,283 --> 00:15:29,479 And one for - the little boy Who lives down the lane. 197 00:15:29,759 --> 00:15:32,461 You make a very charming picture you know. - Hello, daddy. 198 00:15:32,485 --> 00:15:34,950 - What would you call the picture? - Oh I don't know. 199 00:15:35,355 --> 00:15:36,867 Domestic bliss, I suppose. 200 00:15:37,168 --> 00:15:39,908 No one can fit in more perfectly with the surroundings. 201 00:15:40,028 --> 00:15:42,289 Thank you, sir. I'm glad you think so. 202 00:15:42,970 --> 00:15:46,193 Come Michael now. You go off to the kitchen, take those to Mrs. Bead. 203 00:15:46,217 --> 00:15:48,966 - Take Jason with you, darling. - Yes, take Jason with you. 204 00:15:48,979 --> 00:15:50,308 Come on, Jason. 205 00:15:52,272 --> 00:15:54,121 Just think if we'd never met, you and I. 206 00:15:56,184 --> 00:15:58,802 There'd be just you and just me miles and miles apart. 207 00:15:58,922 --> 00:16:00,260 A dreadful thought. 208 00:16:00,949 --> 00:16:03,512 - What would you be doing? - Oh, working. 209 00:16:03,632 --> 00:16:07,096 - New York. In some office, I suppose. - And you? 210 00:16:07,994 --> 00:16:09,640 I wouldn't be alive. 211 00:16:11,577 --> 00:16:12,789 Margaret... 212 00:16:16,751 --> 00:16:18,680 I... have a feeling. 213 00:16:19,908 --> 00:16:21,928 that I won't have that nightmare again. 214 00:16:24,065 --> 00:16:25,919 When I... 215 00:16:27,210 --> 00:16:29,725 when I shouted at you last night, 216 00:16:30,705 --> 00:16:34,639 - You won't laugh at this, will you? - Oh, darling I'm not laughing at you. 217 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:39,077 I felt... I felt as if a devil had gone out of me. 218 00:16:40,750 --> 00:16:42,497 I think for good. 219 00:16:43,970 --> 00:16:44,970 Really? 220 00:16:45,850 --> 00:16:46,980 Yes, really. 221 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,070 I'm not even 222 00:16:53,065 --> 00:16:55,688 I'm not even frightened of that tune anymore. 223 00:17:35,929 --> 00:17:37,460 What are you doing in here? 224 00:17:41,229 --> 00:17:43,350 These are the private apartments, you know. 225 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,320 Did you lose your way? 226 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,339 I'll show you out, right? 227 00:17:52,884 --> 00:17:54,448 I know you. 228 00:17:56,660 --> 00:17:57,945 You're... 229 00:17:59,142 --> 00:18:00,142 Jeff... 230 00:18:01,290 --> 00:18:03,090 - Jeffrey... - Buckenham. 231 00:18:03,210 --> 00:18:05,050 Of course. 232 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,833 Alpine Camp 1945. - The same hut. 233 00:18:09,093 --> 00:18:11,820 Of course I remember you. Jeffrey Buckenham from Montreal. 234 00:18:11,940 --> 00:18:13,970 Where had you been all these years? 235 00:18:14,090 --> 00:18:17,063 - Places. - Well, why didn't you contact me sooner? 236 00:18:18,465 --> 00:18:21,356 Now that you're here, don't think you're going away so easily. 237 00:18:21,380 --> 00:18:22,992 You'll stay for dinner, won't you? 238 00:18:23,050 --> 00:18:25,599 Maggie will be delighted to see you. You remember Margaret, don't you? 239 00:18:25,719 --> 00:18:26,990 I told you all about her. 240 00:18:27,110 --> 00:18:29,717 Oh, we finally did get married. Here at Ingworth church. 241 00:18:31,807 --> 00:18:33,656 Jeff, it's really good to see you again. 242 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,179 How are you? - I'm fine. 243 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:38,944 How are you? - I'm fine. 244 00:18:44,220 --> 00:18:45,686 Hello Frank! 245 00:18:48,580 --> 00:18:50,121 What did you say? 246 00:18:52,130 --> 00:18:54,366 Your name. Just your name, Frank Welney. 247 00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:59,551 I'm the one with the bad memory. 248 00:19:00,540 --> 00:19:02,070 My name is Mark. 249 00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:04,840 Don't you remember? - I remember. 250 00:19:06,550 --> 00:19:07,870 That's the trouble. 251 00:19:09,230 --> 00:19:11,026 I remember that hand. 252 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,024 I remember your theme song. 253 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:17,652 What are you talking about? 254 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,543 You, the English baronet. 255 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:39,870 Yeah, you played the part pretty well, Frank, but I'm afraid the show is over. 256 00:19:43,980 --> 00:19:45,610 What is this? What do you want? 257 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,911 You forget I was there. 258 00:19:50,470 --> 00:19:52,183 I know what happened to Mark. 259 00:19:53,653 --> 00:19:56,191 And I'm going to make you pay for this. 260 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,062 If it's the last think I do I'm gonna make you pay for this. 261 00:20:00,790 --> 00:20:02,030 Pay for what? 262 00:20:04,173 --> 00:20:05,524 Oh, I see what it is. 263 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,286 Money, that's it. 264 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,872 A case of a little blackmail. 265 00:20:11,132 --> 00:20:12,871 Oh, no. You got me wrong Frank. 266 00:20:14,491 --> 00:20:16,672 I'll name the price alright and you'll pay it. 267 00:20:16,696 --> 00:20:18,370 But it won't be just a few pounds. 268 00:20:19,230 --> 00:20:22,214 I want a lot more than that and I'm going to get it. 269 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,295 I want to see you crawl, Frank. 270 00:20:27,950 --> 00:20:30,770 I want the whole world to see what a louse you are. 271 00:20:30,890 --> 00:20:33,601 Get out! Get out! - You damn fraud. 272 00:20:34,159 --> 00:20:35,159 Get out! 273 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:40,364 I'm not gonna touch you. 274 00:20:43,210 --> 00:20:45,575 What I'm gonna do is gonna hurt a lot more. 275 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 I'm... 276 00:20:55,270 --> 00:20:57,820 I'm sorry, I can't stay for dinner, Frank. 277 00:21:06,915 --> 00:21:08,480 Who was that? 278 00:21:09,514 --> 00:21:11,897 A war time companion. 279 00:21:14,134 --> 00:21:19,262 - Why did he call you, Frank? - He mistook me for someone else. 280 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,251 Someone we both knew a long time ago. 281 00:21:46,704 --> 00:21:48,553 - Good afternoon, sir! - Good afternoon! 282 00:21:48,577 --> 00:21:50,495 Can I speak to Captain Gerald Loddon, please? 283 00:21:50,563 --> 00:21:53,454 - Certainly, I just get him. - Thank you. 284 00:22:09,890 --> 00:22:11,110 Nice, isn't it? 285 00:22:11,650 --> 00:22:13,130 - Captain Loddon? - Yes. 286 00:22:13,620 --> 00:22:15,160 You're, Sir Mark Loddon's cousin. 287 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,157 - Yes. Why? Do you know him? - I met him during the war. 288 00:22:18,277 --> 00:22:19,409 Ah, splendid. 289 00:22:19,666 --> 00:22:22,226 How do you like the new cars? They're pretty hot stuff. 290 00:22:22,250 --> 00:22:24,749 I'm not really suppose to talk about speed, 291 00:22:24,750 --> 00:22:27,590 most of our customers are a bit slow. - Look, I'm here on a personal matter. 292 00:22:27,710 --> 00:22:28,710 Oh. 293 00:22:29,490 --> 00:22:32,610 If Mark Loddon hadn't come back from the war... 294 00:22:33,052 --> 00:22:35,065 you would have inherited everything. 295 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:37,718 What are you getting at? 296 00:22:38,670 --> 00:22:39,825 Only this. 297 00:22:44,846 --> 00:22:47,145 Mark Loddon didn't come back from the war. 298 00:22:52,639 --> 00:22:53,945 Frank... 299 00:22:56,205 --> 00:22:57,715 I remember. 300 00:22:59,450 --> 00:23:01,348 That's the trouble, Frank. 301 00:23:03,144 --> 00:23:04,763 I remember. 302 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,089 Maggie... 303 00:23:24,450 --> 00:23:25,722 What is it? 304 00:23:28,321 --> 00:23:29,779 I don't know. 305 00:23:30,390 --> 00:23:33,545 So you see from what I said, he can't be your cousin. 306 00:23:36,239 --> 00:23:38,424 I don't know if what you say is true. 307 00:23:38,544 --> 00:23:41,230 It is true. I was there. 308 00:23:41,964 --> 00:23:44,751 I don't deny he has changed a bit since the war. 309 00:23:45,470 --> 00:23:46,940 Almost a different man. 310 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,766 But you know I hardly feel I can do anything about it. 311 00:23:51,066 --> 00:23:53,957 Well if you won't do anything I will. I will go to the police. 312 00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:55,966 But I doubt if they would listen to you. 313 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,021 Somebody is going to listen to me. 314 00:24:00,050 --> 00:24:01,960 I want to get this thing out to the open. 315 00:24:07,650 --> 00:24:10,526 You know you could always... 316 00:24:11,790 --> 00:24:12,950 Always what? 317 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:16,773 No, if I were you I would forget all about it. - What were you gonna say? 318 00:24:17,430 --> 00:24:19,332 Well I was only going to say 319 00:24:19,993 --> 00:24:22,029 you could always go right to the press. 320 00:24:22,470 --> 00:24:25,024 You know an open letter publicly exposing him. 321 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,057 Some papers would jump at it. 322 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,350 - What papers? - Well, the... 323 00:24:30,644 --> 00:24:33,147 Sunday Gazette for one. It's right up their street. 324 00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:37,582 You know fearless exposure, Sunday Gazette speaks out for justice. 325 00:24:38,179 --> 00:24:39,798 They love that sort of thing. 326 00:24:41,159 --> 00:24:43,446 As it happens they don't love my cousin, Mark. 327 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Thank you. 328 00:24:50,410 --> 00:24:54,410 Now look old chap. I didn't mean that I shouldn't have spoken. 329 00:24:54,930 --> 00:24:58,774 You may get into trouble. Besides I'm very fond of my cousin. 330 00:25:00,127 --> 00:25:01,664 He is not your cousin. 331 00:25:02,203 --> 00:25:03,760 And I want trouble. 332 00:25:06,052 --> 00:25:08,584 - Mommy? - What is it, darling? 333 00:25:08,704 --> 00:25:10,518 Mommy, mommy, come here! 334 00:25:11,011 --> 00:25:13,175 Michael, what's the matter? 335 00:25:13,449 --> 00:25:17,408 - Who are you? What are you doing here? - Sorry, we're just taking a few pictures. 336 00:25:17,528 --> 00:25:20,015 - Did you get Sir Mark's permission? - We sent our message out... 337 00:25:20,135 --> 00:25:22,058 - But did he give you his permission? - No, he didn't. 338 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,219 Stop it! Michael go on up to the nursery. 339 00:25:26,460 --> 00:25:28,959 How dare you come bursting in here like this. 340 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,818 Take it easy. We got a job to do and a living to make same as anybody else. 341 00:25:31,938 --> 00:25:33,400 - You're news? - News? 342 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,826 You should know. 343 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,693 - You are Lady Loddon aren't you? - Yes, I am. 344 00:25:37,762 --> 00:25:40,325 Well then, what do you expect? After that letter in the Gazette. 345 00:25:40,445 --> 00:25:43,470 - Letter? What letter? - Haven't you read it? 346 00:25:43,590 --> 00:25:45,487 Must be the only one. Here. 347 00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:50,080 BOGUS BARONET 348 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,320 Fraud and impostor. 349 00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:55,988 Not very nice, is it? 350 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,380 You got your pictures. 351 00:25:59,870 --> 00:26:02,404 Now, will you please go? - Come on, Harry. 352 00:26:04,091 --> 00:26:05,275 Darling. 353 00:26:06,550 --> 00:26:07,550 Maggie... 354 00:26:07,850 --> 00:26:10,836 Who were they at the church? - Mark, I think you gotta see this. 355 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,510 Oh, yes. I have seen it. 356 00:26:13,630 --> 00:26:16,880 Pete showed it to me. - But who could write such stuff. 357 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,785 Was it that man who was here the other day? 358 00:26:21,130 --> 00:26:25,490 - The man who called you Frank? - Yes, yes, it was. 359 00:26:26,330 --> 00:26:29,808 I have told you he'd made a mistake then. 360 00:26:30,060 --> 00:26:32,146 He's got mad and paper's mad for printing it. 361 00:26:32,253 --> 00:26:34,718 What are you going to do? - Do? 362 00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:36,555 I'm going to ignore it. 363 00:26:37,377 --> 00:26:40,316 What does one do with muck like that? We shall be late darling. 364 00:26:40,340 --> 00:26:42,003 I don't think I want to go. 365 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,085 Margaret, you must go. 366 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,724 We've got to go. 367 00:27:04,892 --> 00:27:07,804 My dear, isn't it awful? About Mark Loddon I mean. 368 00:27:07,924 --> 00:27:10,920 If you mean that rubbish in the paper Mildred... 369 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,400 Excuse me, does sir Mark Loddon always come here to church? 370 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,924 Well, nearly always, but I don't expect he will today. 371 00:27:18,184 --> 00:27:21,440 - Why on earth not Mildred? - Well, under the circumstances 372 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,308 you hardly expect him to show his face in public. 373 00:27:24,590 --> 00:27:27,089 Unless of course, she made him. 374 00:27:27,090 --> 00:27:30,176 She is an American and you know how Americans adore publicity. 375 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,939 I mean if he doesn't, well. one knows what to think. 376 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:43,818 - Doesn't it? - Exactly. 377 00:27:43,938 --> 00:27:46,939 Dear Lady Loddon. I am so sorry. 378 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:49,530 Of course, I don't believe a word... 379 00:27:50,986 --> 00:27:53,000 My dear, my dear. 380 00:27:53,350 --> 00:27:56,310 Don't let this ridiculous rubbish worry you too much. 381 00:27:56,810 --> 00:27:59,077 Nobody there seems to believe it. 382 00:28:00,734 --> 00:28:02,940 Would you care to make a statement, Sir Mark? 383 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,462 Can't you see I'm busy. 384 00:28:09,315 --> 00:28:11,590 I told you I don't want to talk about it anymore. 385 00:28:11,610 --> 00:28:14,501 - I really don't understand. - There is nothing to understand. 386 00:28:14,550 --> 00:28:17,337 The Gazette is being a little more vulgar than usual. That's all. 387 00:28:17,457 --> 00:28:20,110 You're not going to do anything about it? - What do you want me to do? 388 00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:22,697 Go to court and expose my whole life in public? 389 00:28:22,817 --> 00:28:26,207 Your life? It's my life, too. And Michael's. 390 00:28:26,327 --> 00:28:29,224 All right. Supposing I do sue for libel. 391 00:28:29,332 --> 00:28:32,176 Do you know what it means? It means going to the witness box. 392 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,475 Having the last shreds of privacy ripped from us. 393 00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:37,469 Being plastered over in every newspaper in the land. Do you think I want that? 394 00:28:37,589 --> 00:28:40,122 Mark, there's nothing you haven't told me, is there? 395 00:28:40,242 --> 00:28:42,060 I've told you there's nothing. Isn't that enough? 396 00:28:42,180 --> 00:28:44,425 Or do you think I'm an impostor too? I haven't thought of that one. 397 00:28:44,545 --> 00:28:46,055 Oh, Mark. - But at least that's something. 398 00:28:46,175 --> 00:28:48,830 But you still want me to go and prove who I am. What for? 399 00:28:49,163 --> 00:28:52,481 For some tiresome neighbours, some boring acquaintances. Why? What for? 400 00:28:52,505 --> 00:28:54,712 For Michael. I don't care for myself. 401 00:28:54,832 --> 00:28:57,229 But you don't want a cloud over him. Perhaps for the rest of his life. 402 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,269 You must Mark for his sake, you must. 403 00:28:59,389 --> 00:29:01,960 No, I won't. - Please, Mark, please. 404 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:04,926 I know our life together. 405 00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:07,307 Our whole future depends on it. 406 00:29:25,970 --> 00:29:27,490 I didn't think he dare. 407 00:29:28,670 --> 00:29:31,656 Just listen to this. - A lot of people let's go into the office. 408 00:29:38,837 --> 00:29:40,781 A summons from the High Court of Justice. 409 00:29:41,272 --> 00:29:44,306 Sir Mark Loddon against the Sunday Gazette and Jeffrey Buckenham. 410 00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:46,315 Plaintiff claims damages for libel. 411 00:29:46,435 --> 00:29:49,807 Oh, the fat is in the fire, isn't it? - It sure is he's in for it now. 412 00:29:50,050 --> 00:29:52,700 You seem very confident. - I am. 413 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:54,421 I hope so for your sake. 414 00:29:54,892 --> 00:29:57,973 By the way, I've been looking through my correspondence with Mark. 415 00:29:57,997 --> 00:29:59,467 I've got something to show you. 416 00:30:02,150 --> 00:30:05,705 There's a rather curious sentence on this page, I think might interest you. 417 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,730 Well, this proves what I've said. 418 00:30:13,850 --> 00:30:15,665 That's for the court to decide, isn't it? 419 00:30:15,685 --> 00:30:17,879 Now you hang onto it, it might be of use to you. 420 00:30:17,899 --> 00:30:21,691 But please don't disclose who gave it to you because if you do, I should deny it. 421 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,323 All right. Will you be in court? 422 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,178 Well if I am it will be give evidence for my cousin. 423 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,635 Well, I have to, you know. blood is thicker than water and all that stuff... 424 00:30:31,650 --> 00:30:33,748 But don't worry, I don't think you will find 425 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,869 anything I have to say or do will be helpful. 426 00:30:36,353 --> 00:30:37,353 I see. 427 00:30:38,770 --> 00:30:41,614 You really must excuse me, I got some customers to attend to. 428 00:30:43,010 --> 00:30:44,706 Good bye. See you in court. 429 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,739 It's time to go darling. - I shan't be a moment. 430 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,709 How long do you think the case will last? 431 00:30:55,210 --> 00:30:56,975 About 2-3 days, I should think. 432 00:31:00,948 --> 00:31:03,066 - Maggie... - Yes? 433 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,495 - If anything should happen... - What could happen? 434 00:31:11,550 --> 00:31:13,096 I don't know. 435 00:31:14,660 --> 00:31:17,710 But things may not turn out just as we hope. 436 00:31:18,470 --> 00:31:19,871 Darling, 437 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,640 you're quite sure there is nothing you haven't told me? 438 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,776 Because if there is anything... 439 00:31:26,044 --> 00:31:27,510 you must tell me now. 440 00:31:28,110 --> 00:31:29,572 No, no. 441 00:31:30,670 --> 00:31:32,130 I've told you all I know. 442 00:31:32,770 --> 00:31:34,465 Then things can only go one way. 443 00:31:34,585 --> 00:31:37,409 You've got the truth on your side and that's all it matters. 444 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,511 You'll have to be very brave, you know. 445 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,969 This is going to be... 446 00:31:48,750 --> 00:31:50,541 going to be quite annoying. 447 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,908 I'm ready for it. 448 00:31:58,100 --> 00:31:59,430 Shall we go? 449 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,477 LIBEL CASE SENSATION 450 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,490 Loddon against the Sunday Gazette and another. 451 00:32:40,856 --> 00:32:43,917 My Lord, I call Sir Mark Loddon. 452 00:32:56,490 --> 00:32:59,326 Repeat after me: I swear by Almighty God, 453 00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:02,858 I swear by Almighty God... 454 00:33:03,230 --> 00:33:06,392 - that the evidence I shall give, - that the evidence I shall give, 455 00:33:06,512 --> 00:33:08,773 - shall be the truth, - shall be the truth, 456 00:33:08,893 --> 00:33:11,164 - the whole truth - the whole truth 457 00:33:11,284 --> 00:33:14,165 - and nothing but the truth. - and nothing but the truth. 458 00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:20,780 You are Sir Mark Loddon? 459 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:25,011 The seventh Baronet of Ingworth House, in the County of Dorset. 460 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:26,600 That's so. 461 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,080 And I believe Sir Mark that you joined up at the outbreak of war, 462 00:33:30,379 --> 00:33:32,556 and went to France with your unit, 463 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:35,051 in 1939. - Yes, I did. 464 00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:39,250 - Were you wounded and taken prisoner at Dunkirk? - I was. 465 00:33:39,660 --> 00:33:42,641 And did you subsequently escape from the prison camp Hobhigh 466 00:33:42,761 --> 00:33:45,880 known as Altflag 9A in April 1945? 467 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,490 - I did. - What effect that have on you? 468 00:33:50,270 --> 00:33:51,726 My hair went grey. 469 00:33:52,220 --> 00:33:55,127 - As it is now. - And your health? 470 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,300 - Apart from my memory I don't complain. - What of your memory? 471 00:34:02,078 --> 00:34:03,690 It's unreliable. 472 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,846 It's unreliable about events which occurred 473 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,850 before my escape. 474 00:34:10,970 --> 00:34:12,265 I mean it's... 475 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,701 it has great gaps in it. 476 00:34:15,558 --> 00:34:17,354 There is some things that I... 477 00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,463 remember quite clearly. 478 00:34:20,330 --> 00:34:22,700 Things which keep coming up to the surface like... 479 00:34:23,927 --> 00:34:25,396 like wreckage. 480 00:34:26,380 --> 00:34:28,825 But there are quite odd things, quite distrunted 481 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:30,899 very trivial things. 482 00:34:31,019 --> 00:34:34,550 Nothing is too trivial if it helps us to arrive at the truth. 483 00:34:34,670 --> 00:34:37,822 What are these trivial matters to which you refer? 484 00:34:40,580 --> 00:34:41,960 Well, I remember... 485 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,300 I remember that I had a linnet, in a cage. 486 00:34:47,580 --> 00:34:51,350 It was given to my own 5th birthday by the head gardener. 487 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,250 I remember his name, too. It was Mr. Sal. 488 00:34:56,370 --> 00:34:58,600 Do you remember old Sal, John? 489 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,800 The... the cage was... 490 00:35:02,460 --> 00:35:06,099 it was too small. The bird kept fluttering 491 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,140 Really quite trivial things. 492 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:11,280 Other more important events 493 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:14,682 and people I don't remember at all. 494 00:35:15,150 --> 00:35:18,831 Have any members of your family have ever found difficulty identifying you? 495 00:35:19,915 --> 00:35:20,915 No. 496 00:35:21,705 --> 00:35:25,515 And these of course are the people who know you most intimately. 497 00:35:26,570 --> 00:35:28,059 And now the Sunday Gazette, 498 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,880 which proudly claims the readership of... 499 00:35:31,350 --> 00:35:33,712 of... Give it to me! 500 00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:41,246 of 1200036 registered readers. 501 00:35:42,380 --> 00:35:43,946 Are you one of them? - No. 502 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,954 I don't subscribe to the gutterpress. 503 00:35:47,220 --> 00:35:49,258 Have you ever in public voiced your distaste 504 00:35:49,270 --> 00:35:51,290 of the sensational type of journalism 505 00:35:51,533 --> 00:35:53,397 practiced by the Sunday Gazette? 506 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:56,638 Yes, once I made a speech locally. 507 00:35:56,890 --> 00:35:59,493 In which I expressed my opinions in no uncertain terms. 508 00:35:59,710 --> 00:36:02,448 And would it be true to say the Sunday Gazette 509 00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:05,210 has lost no opportunity to try and discredit you? 510 00:36:06,940 --> 00:36:09,008 Yes, I am told so. 511 00:36:09,910 --> 00:36:11,703 I choose to ignore it. 512 00:36:11,823 --> 00:36:14,909 And that these petty acts of spitefulness have culminated 513 00:36:14,910 --> 00:36:16,839 in the publication of a gross libel 514 00:36:16,851 --> 00:36:20,508 which you do not choose to ignore. - No, I do not. 515 00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:24,929 Thank you, Sir Mark. I think that's all. 516 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:32,642 I suggest that ever since April 1945 517 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:37,648 you've indulged in the unscrupulous pretense of being an English baronet. 518 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,380 That's a stupid lie. 519 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,040 And most unscrupulous pretense of all 520 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,284 of being entitled to woo and marry your wife. 521 00:36:47,430 --> 00:36:50,369 You won't make me lose my temper as easily as that, Mr. Foxley. 522 00:36:50,393 --> 00:36:52,874 We shall see. Now then. 523 00:36:53,610 --> 00:36:56,041 When did you last see Frank Welney? 524 00:36:56,294 --> 00:36:57,890 Whom did you say, Mr. Foxley? 525 00:36:59,210 --> 00:37:00,934 Frank Welney, My Lord. 526 00:37:02,910 --> 00:37:06,602 - You at least have heard of Frank Welney? - Yes. 527 00:37:06,990 --> 00:37:10,261 - I was with him in a German prison camp. - When did you last see him? 528 00:37:13,090 --> 00:37:14,520 Let me help you. 529 00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:16,773 Did you shave yourself this morning? 530 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:19,730 Yes, why? 531 00:37:20,090 --> 00:37:21,401 Didn't you see him then? 532 00:37:21,412 --> 00:37:25,448 Really My Lord, is it necessary from my friend to be so deliberately offensive? 533 00:37:25,870 --> 00:37:28,802 I think you must Let him pursue his own mind, Mr. Wilfred. 534 00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:34,639 - Have he any peculiarities? - No, he was a very ordinary man. 535 00:37:34,970 --> 00:37:36,980 Wasn't he remarkably like you? 536 00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:39,700 - I never noticed it. - I see, you never noticed, no... 537 00:37:40,660 --> 00:37:43,346 Well now then I wonder if you know 538 00:37:43,466 --> 00:37:46,678 whether Sir Mark ever wrote to anybody about this similarity? 539 00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:50,337 Did I? No, certainly not. 540 00:37:52,656 --> 00:37:55,200 Do you recognize the handwriting on this letter? 541 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:00,850 - Yes, I do. - It's yours. 542 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:06,112 - Of course, it is my signature, right? - It's signed, Mark Loddon. 543 00:38:08,030 --> 00:38:10,863 It's a page of a letter written by Sir Mark Loddon 544 00:38:10,983 --> 00:38:15,373 from the prison camp in Germany and contains pertinent information. 545 00:38:15,830 --> 00:38:17,820 Would you please read it to the jury? 546 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,996 There are only two other British prisoners in our hut here. 547 00:38:22,770 --> 00:38:25,287 A chap called Buckenham from Canada, and a 548 00:38:25,299 --> 00:38:27,827 man called Welney, from heaven knows where. 549 00:38:28,710 --> 00:38:32,349 - Proceed please. - Welney himself says we might be brothers. 550 00:38:32,940 --> 00:38:36,144 He says it makes him feel like one of the family. 551 00:38:36,923 --> 00:38:38,964 "Feel like one of the family." 552 00:38:40,250 --> 00:38:42,689 Doesn't that letter recall anything to you? 553 00:38:43,478 --> 00:38:44,934 "One of the family." 554 00:38:45,710 --> 00:38:46,950 Yes. 555 00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:51,560 Yes, it does. 556 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,440 It was a day that Buckenham was giving out the mail. 557 00:38:58,070 --> 00:38:59,344 Here chap. 558 00:39:01,548 --> 00:39:02,870 Sorry, not you. 559 00:39:08,883 --> 00:39:10,067 Ed. 560 00:39:13,237 --> 00:39:14,720 George. 561 00:39:30,050 --> 00:39:33,230 - Letter for you André. - Merci! 562 00:39:34,353 --> 00:39:35,890 Letter for you, Mark? 563 00:39:43,350 --> 00:39:45,959 Hey, that's not yours. - All right, all right, 564 00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:49,766 you boring Canadian lumberjack. Just remember you gave it to me. 565 00:39:49,886 --> 00:39:51,699 You know it damn well because I thought... 566 00:39:51,711 --> 00:39:53,536 Thought I was Mark, didn't you? 567 00:39:53,550 --> 00:39:56,155 Ah, there you are. I'm frightfully sorry old 568 00:39:56,167 --> 00:39:58,784 chap, our lumberjack friend made a mistake. 569 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,784 He thought that I was you. 570 00:40:01,018 --> 00:40:03,149 I opened it without even reading it. 571 00:40:03,269 --> 00:40:05,715 You were reading it as quick as you darn well could. 572 00:40:05,835 --> 00:40:08,916 That's just exactly a kind of remark I would've expected from you. 573 00:40:09,630 --> 00:40:11,001 Shut up, you two! 574 00:40:11,428 --> 00:40:13,380 I'll hit him if I stay here. 575 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,911 He really is impossible, that chap. 576 00:40:26,650 --> 00:40:28,509 So uncouth. 577 00:40:29,752 --> 00:40:32,596 I just wish we could have have him transferred to another hut. 578 00:40:32,870 --> 00:40:34,482 Jeff's a very good friend of mine. 579 00:40:34,530 --> 00:40:37,421 If it wasn't for him, I would have been off my head years ago. 580 00:40:40,150 --> 00:40:43,089 You don't think I was deliberately reading your letter, do you? 581 00:40:43,197 --> 00:40:44,558 No, of course not. 582 00:40:44,830 --> 00:40:46,571 I'm glad of that Mark. 583 00:40:47,285 --> 00:40:50,793 You don't mind me calling you Mark, do you? It's rather presumptuous of me. 584 00:40:50,817 --> 00:40:53,144 It's a bit silly after 3 years, wouldn't it? 585 00:40:54,030 --> 00:40:55,175 Yes. 586 00:40:56,150 --> 00:40:59,040 You see it's so frightfully good to talk to you Mark. 587 00:40:59,631 --> 00:41:01,299 You understand people. 588 00:41:01,965 --> 00:41:04,940 I'm quite sure that lumberjack just said that I was... 589 00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:07,173 a little snob sucking up to you. 590 00:41:07,293 --> 00:41:08,629 Oh, don't be silly. 591 00:41:08,749 --> 00:41:11,037 I realize perfectly well compared to you, 592 00:41:11,157 --> 00:41:13,190 I'm absolute nothing, I am just a... 593 00:41:13,310 --> 00:41:16,247 provincial actor, small parts. 594 00:41:17,060 --> 00:41:19,036 No background, no standing. 595 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,730 But what's a chap to do? 596 00:41:22,290 --> 00:41:26,648 One can't get on in the theater these days unless one is in with the right people. 597 00:41:27,042 --> 00:41:30,660 Talent is I am afraid is really, not all together enough. 598 00:41:31,670 --> 00:41:33,446 And I am quite talented. 599 00:41:34,094 --> 00:41:36,606 Well, perhaps you'll have better luck when we get out. 600 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:39,709 I certainly mean to get on. 601 00:41:40,130 --> 00:41:41,670 I assure you that. 602 00:41:50,260 --> 00:41:52,502 Mark, I am sorry about the letter. 603 00:41:53,536 --> 00:41:55,520 It was from your fiancee, wasn't it? 604 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,650 I saw her name on the envelope. 605 00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:01,850 Or does one say, envelope in your accent. 606 00:42:01,970 --> 00:42:03,600 I don't think it matters why? 607 00:42:04,460 --> 00:42:06,216 One doesn't want to make mistakes. 608 00:42:08,330 --> 00:42:11,730 Would you give her my regards when you write? 609 00:42:12,211 --> 00:42:15,520 You and I being so like each other at least people say we are. 610 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,035 Almost makes me feel like one of the family. 611 00:42:19,592 --> 00:42:23,102 It just goes to show, doesn't it how easily some people can be mistaken. 612 00:42:23,222 --> 00:42:26,120 Can they? I am lucky enough to... 613 00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:30,010 have here an official description of Welney from the army records, 614 00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:32,747 "Thick, crop of grey hair." 615 00:42:33,141 --> 00:42:34,597 How would you describe yours? 616 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,125 Mr. Foxley, what is the date of that document? 617 00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:40,234 The year 1939. 618 00:42:41,250 --> 00:42:43,730 Supposing a man's hair had not been grey then 619 00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:47,022 surely it could have turned grey after all these year. 620 00:42:47,142 --> 00:42:48,519 I am aware of that, My Lord. 621 00:42:48,639 --> 00:42:51,733 Indeed it hadn't largely disappeared. 622 00:42:51,993 --> 00:42:54,709 It has for so many of us. 623 00:42:57,832 --> 00:43:01,701 But it is also on record that Frank Welney 624 00:43:01,821 --> 00:43:05,284 has lost the first two joints of the first finger of his right hand. 625 00:43:06,030 --> 00:43:09,870 - Have you? - Would you please hold up your right hand to the jury? 626 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,514 May I ask how you lost your finger? 627 00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:25,360 - It was shot off during the escape. - How very convenient. 628 00:43:25,990 --> 00:43:29,498 So that would produce the interesting result that no one in the prison camp 629 00:43:29,614 --> 00:43:32,427 could remember that Sir Mark Loddon had lost his finger. 630 00:43:33,130 --> 00:43:34,441 Naturally. 631 00:43:34,561 --> 00:43:36,253 - But I do. - Thank you. 632 00:43:37,060 --> 00:43:40,514 And so today by another remarkable coincidence 633 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:46,460 your body combines all the physical peculiarities of both Welney and Loddon. 634 00:43:47,517 --> 00:43:48,999 So it would appear. 635 00:43:49,259 --> 00:43:51,612 When did you say you last saw Welney? 636 00:43:54,450 --> 00:43:56,131 I repeat the question. 637 00:43:56,391 --> 00:43:59,009 When did you last see Frank Welney? 638 00:44:02,350 --> 00:44:03,930 It was during the escape. 639 00:44:05,290 --> 00:44:07,517 Was anyone else a party to the escape? 640 00:44:08,013 --> 00:44:09,013 Yes. 641 00:44:10,070 --> 00:44:11,223 Buckenham. 642 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:16,081 Would you please tell us exactly what happened? 643 00:44:17,730 --> 00:44:18,880 Well, we... 644 00:44:20,070 --> 00:44:21,739 we started away from... 645 00:44:22,580 --> 00:44:23,943 from the camp... 646 00:44:25,295 --> 00:44:27,826 We were making our way to the Dutch border. 647 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,972 Hiding by day and walking by night. 648 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,121 We had very little food, 649 00:44:35,693 --> 00:44:37,183 and not much sleep. 650 00:44:39,220 --> 00:44:41,060 One night we... 651 00:44:42,070 --> 00:44:43,497 we came to the outskirts 652 00:44:44,270 --> 00:44:45,456 of a town. 653 00:46:13,399 --> 00:46:15,127 All right, they have gone. 654 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,015 I could eat a horse. 655 00:46:31,850 --> 00:46:33,576 Better go and find one. 656 00:46:38,590 --> 00:46:40,271 We'd not eaten for 3 days. 657 00:46:42,230 --> 00:46:43,500 And Buckenham... 658 00:46:44,992 --> 00:46:46,540 Yes, Buckenham? 659 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:48,964 Well there was... 660 00:46:49,570 --> 00:46:50,788 there was a... 661 00:46:51,270 --> 00:46:53,475 a kind of farm across the field. 662 00:46:54,426 --> 00:46:56,766 So we decided amongst ourselves that... 663 00:46:57,827 --> 00:47:00,232 one of us ought to go and find something. 664 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,934 And I wanted to... 665 00:47:03,730 --> 00:47:07,065 but you said no, because I was the only one in British uniform 666 00:47:07,650 --> 00:47:09,540 and anyway you were the youngest. 667 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:10,734 You? 668 00:47:11,530 --> 00:47:13,214 Do you mean Mr. Buckenham? 669 00:47:15,296 --> 00:47:17,650 Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. 670 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,283 Then he left us. 671 00:47:24,450 --> 00:47:25,670 And eh... 672 00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:27,180 And then? 673 00:47:28,210 --> 00:47:29,700 Welney and I... 674 00:47:30,730 --> 00:47:32,300 were left to wait for him. 675 00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:35,058 You were alone together. 676 00:47:35,684 --> 00:47:36,868 Yes. 677 00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:39,854 We were alone together. 678 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:41,560 And then? 679 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,510 And then... 680 00:47:45,910 --> 00:47:48,292 Yes? And then? 681 00:47:49,530 --> 00:47:50,918 There was a mist. 682 00:47:53,646 --> 00:47:55,109 And water moving. 683 00:47:56,118 --> 00:47:58,417 Pulling and waving. 684 00:48:01,066 --> 00:48:03,724 And Buckenham crawling away. 685 00:48:05,383 --> 00:48:09,582 Something... in the water. 686 00:48:12,253 --> 00:48:15,719 - And Welney. - And Welney? 687 00:48:16,782 --> 00:48:18,960 What about Welney? 688 00:48:20,511 --> 00:48:22,701 What about Welney? 689 00:48:24,890 --> 00:48:26,060 Witness! 690 00:48:27,051 --> 00:48:28,820 What happened to Welney? 691 00:48:33,017 --> 00:48:35,126 I can't remember. 692 00:48:38,550 --> 00:48:41,152 So you can't remember. How very interesting. 693 00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:43,674 I can't remember! 694 00:48:44,230 --> 00:48:48,035 I've told you. I can't remember anything after that. 695 00:48:49,407 --> 00:48:52,370 It's not because I don't want remember because I can't. 696 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:56,740 I remember a mist. 697 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,257 I remember water. 698 00:49:02,390 --> 00:49:04,246 And Buckenham, crawling away. 699 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,734 That is all! 700 00:49:07,557 --> 00:49:09,027 Silence! 701 00:49:09,610 --> 00:49:12,263 You made a great deal of this loss of memory. 702 00:49:12,383 --> 00:49:14,018 Even if it isn't so complete. 703 00:49:14,138 --> 00:49:17,555 How is it possible for you to remember your pre-war engagement, 704 00:49:17,675 --> 00:49:20,303 and the lady's name on your return? 705 00:49:22,346 --> 00:49:24,459 Do you refuse to answer that question? 706 00:49:26,750 --> 00:49:27,750 Well. 707 00:49:29,150 --> 00:49:30,553 I did forget her. 708 00:49:30,673 --> 00:49:33,227 I forgot her name, her face, her very existence. 709 00:49:34,696 --> 00:49:36,823 But she wrote to me while I was in hospital 710 00:49:36,835 --> 00:49:38,974 and her letters revived my memory of her. 711 00:49:39,094 --> 00:49:42,327 Could you produce any letters written by Sir Mark Loddon 712 00:49:42,447 --> 00:49:44,910 which refer to his wound 713 00:49:45,030 --> 00:49:46,910 and his loss of memory? - No. 714 00:49:47,290 --> 00:49:50,375 No, I can't produce any letters like that. 715 00:49:51,260 --> 00:49:53,800 I never wrote about those things. 716 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,804 Rightly or wrongly, I... 717 00:49:56,381 --> 00:49:57,899 I kept them from her. 718 00:49:58,550 --> 00:50:01,378 You seem to have kept a great deal from her. 719 00:50:01,890 --> 00:50:04,723 If I am Welney, what became of Loddon? 720 00:50:04,843 --> 00:50:06,770 That's a very interesting question 721 00:50:06,890 --> 00:50:10,349 which I don't propose to answer now. Thank you. 722 00:50:10,810 --> 00:50:12,100 That will be all. 723 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:19,274 Mr. Foxley I think this might be an appropriate moment for an enjoyable lunch. 724 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,179 Lady Loddon. Excuse me, a fellow countryman of yours 725 00:50:31,299 --> 00:50:33,438 Barry Medox, American Press Service. 726 00:50:33,558 --> 00:50:35,045 I'm sure people in America would be interested knowing how... 727 00:50:35,165 --> 00:50:37,482 Lady Loddon has nothing to say. Will you leave us alone please? 728 00:50:37,602 --> 00:50:39,153 Excuse me. 729 00:50:40,269 --> 00:50:44,024 Hello Hubert, what's good today? - The trout's excellent. 730 00:50:44,970 --> 00:50:48,665 My learned friend highly recommends the trout. 731 00:50:48,785 --> 00:50:51,450 - Which is a very good reason for having the turnout. - Now now. 732 00:50:51,570 --> 00:50:54,245 You mustn't be too put off by Fox's professional manner. 733 00:50:54,365 --> 00:50:57,905 We fight like angry stags in court but outside we are the best of friends. 734 00:50:57,938 --> 00:51:00,545 Now then this afternoon should be quite straightforward. 735 00:51:00,569 --> 00:51:03,413 I'm going to call your relatives as to discuss and after that 736 00:51:03,450 --> 00:51:06,772 I should like to put Lady Loddon in the box, just to clinch things. 737 00:51:06,892 --> 00:51:08,898 You’ll do no such thing. - Why not my dear fellow? 738 00:51:09,018 --> 00:51:11,440 Just a few simple, straightforward questions. 739 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,360 Lady Loddon is our principal asset. 740 00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,527 She'll ensure the jury's sympathy. 741 00:51:15,780 --> 00:51:18,279 You speak as if there was some doubt about the result of this case. 742 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,134 Darling if he thinks it will help... 743 00:51:20,254 --> 00:51:22,882 No it's quite out of question. I won't have you humiliated in that box. 744 00:51:23,002 --> 00:51:25,100 The whole thing's sordid without dragging you 745 00:51:25,112 --> 00:51:27,221 into it. That's the end to the whole matter. 746 00:51:28,310 --> 00:51:31,335 Captain Loddon, when you were questioned by my learned friend, 747 00:51:31,455 --> 00:51:33,410 - you said, you recognized your cousin 748 00:51:33,422 --> 00:51:35,508 anywhere. - Of course, Known him all my life. 749 00:51:35,860 --> 00:51:38,420 I often went to Ingworth on holiday when we were kids. 750 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,499 But I use to bully him a lot then. 751 00:51:40,619 --> 00:51:44,181 I remember on one occasion we were larking around and he felt down from a tree. 752 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,036 He still has a scar to thank me for. 753 00:51:46,156 --> 00:51:47,957 - Then another time... - Just a moment. 754 00:51:48,290 --> 00:51:52,288 This scar you mentioned. Where is it? - On the left leg, just about the knee. 755 00:51:52,408 --> 00:51:54,320 - You're sure? - Oh quite positive. 756 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,939 Yes, thank you. I have here Captain Loddon 757 00:51:56,941 --> 00:51:59,378 report of a full medical examination to which the 758 00:51:59,390 --> 00:52:01,855 plaintiff was good enough to submit to at our request. 759 00:52:01,958 --> 00:52:04,913 It contains no reference to any scar. 760 00:52:06,134 --> 00:52:07,980 I don't quite understand that. 761 00:52:08,426 --> 00:52:11,886 As I remember it was a pretty serious cut that had several stitches in it. 762 00:52:11,910 --> 00:52:13,565 I'd say that scar would still be there. 763 00:52:13,685 --> 00:52:16,721 I'm quite prepared to believe that Sir Mark Loddon had a scar 764 00:52:16,841 --> 00:52:18,749 but the plaintiff obviously hasn't. 765 00:52:19,490 --> 00:52:22,451 - Look I hope you don't think... - Thank you Captain Loddon. 766 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,260 I should like to re-examine this witness, my Lord. 767 00:52:27,590 --> 00:52:28,958 By all means. 768 00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:31,212 Apart from the question of the scar 769 00:52:31,332 --> 00:52:34,423 about which there appears to be some conflict of opinion, 770 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,233 you are absolutely certain are you not that the plaintiff 771 00:52:38,353 --> 00:52:41,406 in fact Sir Mark Loddon. - Yes, of course, except... 772 00:52:41,526 --> 00:52:42,630 Except? 773 00:52:43,030 --> 00:52:45,963 - Nothing, I'm absolutely certain. - Exactly. 774 00:52:46,710 --> 00:52:48,548 Thank you Captain Loddon. 775 00:52:49,609 --> 00:52:53,286 I consider it absolutely essential that we should call Lady Loddon... 776 00:52:53,406 --> 00:52:56,114 - On no account. - She knows you better than anybody. 777 00:52:56,385 --> 00:52:59,040 The evidence about the scar could be very damaging to us. 778 00:52:59,064 --> 00:53:01,760 - I said no. - Lady Loddon I appeal to you... 779 00:53:04,064 --> 00:53:06,023 Not if Mark doesn't want me to do. 780 00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:10,165 - Sir Wilfred when you are ready? - I beg your Lordship's pardon. 781 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,896 I have no further witnesses to call. 782 00:53:13,550 --> 00:53:16,107 In that case we will adjourn until tomorrow. 783 00:53:24,175 --> 00:53:25,495 Excuse me. 784 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,270 LIBEL CASE LATEST 785 00:53:41,285 --> 00:53:43,360 Back a winner mister? - Looks like it. 786 00:53:49,650 --> 00:53:52,120 - Are you awake? - Yes. 787 00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:56,000 I can't sleep either. 788 00:53:58,110 --> 00:54:01,904 But you must. I'll get you something. 789 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,781 You'll need all your strength for tomorrow. 790 00:54:09,510 --> 00:54:10,888 Mark. 791 00:54:12,433 --> 00:54:14,262 Why did you never tell me that 792 00:54:14,382 --> 00:54:17,596 there was a time when you've forgotten me all together? 793 00:54:19,470 --> 00:54:21,393 I thought it might be... 794 00:54:22,421 --> 00:54:24,625 might be the one thing you couldn't forgive. 795 00:54:26,470 --> 00:54:28,314 And that you wouldn't marry me. 796 00:54:31,986 --> 00:54:34,203 I didn't know you then as I know you now. 797 00:54:37,490 --> 00:54:40,545 Take it. It'll make you sleep. 798 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,467 Why didn't you tell me afterwards? 799 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,310 After it didn't seem to matter. 800 00:54:51,430 --> 00:54:52,570 And anyway... 801 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,358 I thought it might hurt you. 802 00:54:56,620 --> 00:54:59,127 Hurt me much more hearing it like that today. 803 00:55:01,182 --> 00:55:03,944 Do you think it didn't hurt me to have to say it like that? 804 00:55:04,064 --> 00:55:07,229 Oh darling, that was a horribly selfish thing for me to say. 805 00:55:07,490 --> 00:55:08,767 Forgive me. 806 00:55:10,285 --> 00:55:12,775 It isn't very often that I have to do that, is it? 807 00:55:36,236 --> 00:55:38,032 - Good night. - Good night. 808 00:56:05,985 --> 00:56:07,730 - Maggie. - Yes? 809 00:56:08,366 --> 00:56:10,338 It happened again today. 810 00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:14,257 - In court. - I guessed. 811 00:56:15,070 --> 00:56:18,023 I was remembering the water... 812 00:56:19,570 --> 00:56:21,384 and something moving in it. 813 00:56:22,650 --> 00:56:24,214 When the music stopped. 814 00:56:28,490 --> 00:56:29,934 Of course. 815 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,655 It was a reflection. 816 00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,555 It was the same reflection I saw on the looking glass that night. 817 00:56:38,954 --> 00:56:40,819 What is it? 818 00:56:40,820 --> 00:56:43,319 What is it? What is it? 819 00:56:43,579 --> 00:56:45,553 It was only yourself. 820 00:56:45,673 --> 00:56:49,091 If it was myself why does it frighten me so much. Why? Why? 821 00:56:53,211 --> 00:56:54,585 Unless... 822 00:56:59,306 --> 00:57:01,428 Supposing it were true. 823 00:57:02,020 --> 00:57:03,841 Supposing what were true? 824 00:57:06,990 --> 00:57:08,750 That I was not myself. 825 00:57:10,941 --> 00:57:12,886 That that other man... 826 00:57:16,696 --> 00:57:18,329 How can you be? 827 00:57:19,281 --> 00:57:20,872 What do you mean? 828 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,621 Oh, darling I am your wife, I know who you are. 829 00:57:25,852 --> 00:57:28,614 And I'll swear it in court if you let me. 830 00:57:39,660 --> 00:57:43,239 Loddon against the Sunday Gazette and another. 831 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,932 Part 3rd 832 00:57:47,020 --> 00:57:48,625 Jeffrey Buckenham. 833 00:57:59,350 --> 00:58:01,050 What is your full name? 834 00:58:01,730 --> 00:58:02,978 Jeffrey Buckenham. 835 00:58:03,950 --> 00:58:06,413 Heh heh, Buckenham is on. Buckenham is on. 836 00:58:09,379 --> 00:58:13,280 And you are the author of the letter in the Sunday Gazette. 837 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:14,400 Yes. 838 00:58:14,750 --> 00:58:16,962 Have you gained anything by its publication? 839 00:58:17,507 --> 00:58:18,570 Not yet. 840 00:58:18,950 --> 00:58:20,723 Do you stand to gain anything? 841 00:58:21,030 --> 00:58:23,798 - A lot. - Financially? 842 00:58:23,918 --> 00:58:25,825 - No. - What then? 843 00:58:27,220 --> 00:58:29,036 Personal satisfaction. 844 00:58:29,847 --> 00:58:33,258 - Mark Loddon was my friend. - You say, was. 845 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,730 Yes, I said, was. 846 00:58:38,210 --> 00:58:40,709 - He is dead. - My Lord, I really must protest 847 00:58:40,710 --> 00:58:42,752 against such a monstrous statement. 848 00:58:42,872 --> 00:58:46,684 - Unsupported by one shred of evidence... - Really my Lord, my learned friend 849 00:58:46,804 --> 00:58:49,760 does more credit to his heart than to his head. 850 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,630 Evidence will be forthcoming. 851 00:58:52,860 --> 00:58:55,359 Now Mr. Buckenham you heard 852 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,299 the plaintiff described an incident which occurred in prison hut, 853 00:58:58,355 --> 00:59:01,052 when you mistook Welney for Sir Mark. 854 00:59:01,172 --> 00:59:02,954 Was that account accurate? 855 00:59:04,220 --> 00:59:06,240 Part of it was but he left out a lot. 856 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,794 Would you please describe the incident in your own words? 857 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:12,760 Well. 858 00:59:13,460 --> 00:59:15,688 Like he said one day I came in with the letters. 859 00:59:19,110 --> 00:59:20,660 Letter for you, Mark. 860 00:59:21,910 --> 00:59:22,944 André! 861 00:59:23,991 --> 00:59:25,189 Oh, Merci! 862 00:59:39,750 --> 00:59:41,033 That's not yours. 863 00:59:41,153 --> 00:59:44,114 All right, all right, you boring Canadian lumberjack. 864 00:59:44,134 --> 00:59:47,035 - Just to remember you did give it to me. - Well give it back. 865 00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:48,807 You dirty, little thief. 866 00:59:57,477 --> 00:59:58,550 Welney! 867 01:00:11,330 --> 01:00:13,098 Caught him reading your letter. 868 01:00:13,780 --> 01:00:16,000 Our lumberjack friend made a mistake. 869 01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:17,928 He mistook me for you. 870 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,625 - I opened it without even looking at it. - You liar. 871 01:00:22,110 --> 01:00:23,938 You were reading as fast as you could. 872 01:00:24,058 --> 01:00:27,376 I caught you reading them before. - Oh for Heaven's sake Jeff. Shut up! 873 01:00:27,740 --> 01:00:30,160 Then you shut up too with all this lumberjack stuff. 874 01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,992 You both sound like a couple of kids and you know it. 875 01:00:38,550 --> 01:00:39,838 Fact is we... 876 01:00:40,620 --> 01:00:42,888 we are getting on each other's nervous, yeah? 877 01:00:46,181 --> 01:00:48,532 Not really surprising, being caged up like this. 878 01:00:49,740 --> 01:00:51,677 It's a rotten thing, a cage. 879 01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,233 I once had a bird in a cage. 880 01:00:55,660 --> 01:00:57,254 A linnet. 881 01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:01,090 It was given to me by old Sal, the gardener. My 5th birthday. 882 01:01:02,100 --> 01:01:04,927 Cage was too small the bird was always trying to get out. 883 01:01:05,950 --> 01:01:08,718 I was used to imagine what it was feeling 884 01:01:11,450 --> 01:01:13,871 It must have been rather fun. 885 01:01:14,670 --> 01:01:17,910 - All those birthday parties at Ingworth - Yes, they were. 886 01:01:20,700 --> 01:01:23,946 - Did you have a special one for your 21st? - Yes, I think so. 887 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,390 I have spent my 21st in theatrical lodgings. 888 01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:30,280 In... 889 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,270 in Darlington. 890 01:01:33,072 --> 01:01:35,027 I don't think it matters where you spend 891 01:01:35,039 --> 01:01:37,030 your 21st As long as you were with friends. 892 01:01:38,090 --> 01:01:39,826 I was alone. 893 01:01:45,247 --> 01:01:48,159 Always that same tune, doesn't he know any other? 894 01:01:50,570 --> 01:01:52,367 No letter again for you? 895 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,129 No. 896 01:01:55,807 --> 01:01:57,943 Don't have one for quite a while, have you? 897 01:01:58,860 --> 01:02:02,460 No, she stopped writing months ago. I guess she got tired of waiting. 898 01:02:03,027 --> 01:02:04,265 Oh, I see. 899 01:02:05,210 --> 01:02:07,993 Look, why don't you write to Maggie? 900 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:10,998 She's like it if you did, she'd write back. 901 01:02:11,820 --> 01:02:13,611 Wouldn't she think it a little bit... 902 01:02:14,490 --> 01:02:17,529 She wouldn't be a little bit anything. You don't know Maggie. 903 01:02:18,910 --> 01:02:20,141 No, I don't. 904 01:02:21,060 --> 01:02:22,399 What's she like? 905 01:02:22,870 --> 01:02:25,970 Oh, she is American and very pretty. 906 01:02:26,700 --> 01:02:28,958 I didn't mean that. What's she really like? 907 01:02:29,892 --> 01:02:32,613 It's rather difficult to describe her really. She is... 908 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:34,600 Well. 909 01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:37,474 When you are with her, you're at your best. 910 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,876 Even quite dull people become amusing when they are in her company. 911 01:02:42,686 --> 01:02:45,056 Even people you don't like very much, you suddenly 912 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:46,909 you suddenly find there... 913 01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:49,237 nice things about them. 914 01:02:50,020 --> 01:02:51,710 Things you didn't know were there. 915 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,006 Do you know what I mean? 916 01:02:57,712 --> 01:03:01,902 - Yeah, I know what you mean. - Well, you write to her then. 917 01:03:06,410 --> 01:03:08,049 What happened with the linnet? 918 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,485 - The linnet. - Oh... 919 01:03:13,274 --> 01:03:14,947 I let it go. 920 01:03:19,670 --> 01:03:22,325 So that would account for the plaintiff’s vivid memory 921 01:03:22,445 --> 01:03:26,434 of his 5th birthday present from the head gardener, Mr. Sal. 922 01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:29,836 Wouldn't it, Mr. Buckenham? 923 01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,390 Yes. Yes, it sure would. 924 01:03:35,180 --> 01:03:38,580 - Did anything further come of this incident?- Yes. 925 01:03:38,962 --> 01:03:42,192 He kept asking Mark questions about personal things. 926 01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:44,844 Family, 927 01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:46,980 servants, 928 01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:49,484 even the furniture in the rooms. 929 01:03:50,980 --> 01:03:53,492 I told Mark that he was preparing to be his understudy 930 01:03:53,605 --> 01:03:56,354 And if he wasn't careful, he would take over the star part. 931 01:03:56,900 --> 01:03:58,565 At the time I was only kidding. 932 01:03:59,060 --> 01:04:02,382 But then one afternoon I was lying in my bunk, 933 01:04:03,170 --> 01:04:04,734 well, he didn't know I was there. 934 01:04:08,020 --> 01:04:10,148 Mark Sebastian Loddon. 935 01:04:11,190 --> 01:04:13,508 I know you almost as I know myself. 936 01:04:14,620 --> 01:04:15,895 Better. 937 01:04:17,050 --> 01:04:19,609 And this is one performance I can give 938 01:04:20,140 --> 01:04:22,534 complete with affection. 939 01:04:24,540 --> 01:04:26,334 A change of hair, 940 01:04:29,380 --> 01:04:31,123 the change of voice, 941 01:04:32,350 --> 01:04:33,680 and I am... 942 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:36,959 Mark Sebastian Loddon. 943 01:04:38,140 --> 01:04:39,721 Seventh Baronet 944 01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:42,170 and owner of Ingworth House. 945 01:04:42,890 --> 01:04:45,765 One of the stately homes of England. 946 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,071 I'm also one of the luckiest men alive. 947 01:04:50,070 --> 01:04:52,500 Margaret Madison, Maggie. 948 01:04:53,314 --> 01:04:55,089 The girl I intend to marry. 949 01:04:55,361 --> 01:04:57,130 I met in Ascot, 950 01:04:58,420 --> 01:05:00,080 in 1939. 951 01:05:00,450 --> 01:05:03,470 Hey you, clown? You leave Maggie out of this. 952 01:05:06,630 --> 01:05:07,789 Mark. 953 01:05:09,482 --> 01:05:11,958 Our great actor was pretending he was you. 954 01:05:13,090 --> 01:05:14,690 He is taking over Ingworth. 955 01:05:14,810 --> 01:05:16,716 I haven't taken over Ingworth at all. 956 01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,002 I was merely doing a little impersonation of you 957 01:05:20,122 --> 01:05:22,342 which I thought I might do at the Camp concert. Do you mind? 958 01:05:22,730 --> 01:05:25,621 No, not a bit as long as it's good. Let's hear a piece of it. 959 01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,750 Really well you are the most 960 01:05:30,870 --> 01:05:34,803 insufferable boor. I don't know why we put up with you in this house. 961 01:05:34,923 --> 01:05:37,714 - It's very good. - I'm glad you like it. 962 01:05:40,523 --> 01:05:43,841 Do you know one of the Poles actually mistook me for you the other day. 963 01:05:43,865 --> 01:05:46,037 He must have been making fun of you. 964 01:05:47,750 --> 01:05:49,782 You know if you could dispose of me. 965 01:05:51,020 --> 01:05:52,970 I believe you could go back to Ingworth. 966 01:05:53,090 --> 01:05:54,300 Take over. 967 01:05:54,683 --> 01:05:56,451 And there won't be anyone the wiser. 968 01:05:57,700 --> 01:05:59,080 Do you really think so? 969 01:06:01,371 --> 01:06:02,568 I wonder... 970 01:06:06,550 --> 01:06:09,740 I might do it if you aren't really careful. 971 01:06:13,542 --> 01:06:15,147 Yes, Mister Buckenham. 972 01:06:19,528 --> 01:06:20,780 Yeah... 973 01:06:27,590 --> 01:06:29,317 That's what you did. 974 01:06:32,344 --> 01:06:34,943 That's just what you did. 975 01:06:37,030 --> 01:06:38,610 You killed him. 976 01:06:40,091 --> 01:06:41,829 My Lord, this is intolerable. 977 01:06:41,830 --> 01:06:44,741 Is there no limit to the license allowed 978 01:06:44,861 --> 01:06:46,658 this witness? - Silence! 979 01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,350 We appreciate your point, Wilfred. 980 01:06:52,140 --> 01:06:53,752 - The witness will... - But he did! 981 01:06:54,290 --> 01:06:56,208 I know it now, I know it. 982 01:06:56,328 --> 01:06:59,946 If the witness's persist in interrupting I will have him held for contempt of court. 983 01:07:00,066 --> 01:07:02,489 Please, confine yourself to answering the question. 984 01:07:04,390 --> 01:07:07,822 - Proceed Mr. Foxley. - I thank you, you Lordship. 985 01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,243 Mr. Buckenham about the escape. 986 01:07:10,952 --> 01:07:12,924 Was the plaintiff’s account accurate? 987 01:07:14,270 --> 01:07:17,103 Yes, up to the point that I left him. - Then what happened? 988 01:07:17,606 --> 01:07:18,735 Well, I... 989 01:07:19,370 --> 01:07:20,898 I managed to get some food 990 01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,402 and I was making my way back. 991 01:07:57,874 --> 01:07:59,100 Er ist schon tot. 992 01:08:00,870 --> 01:08:02,338 Los gehen wir shon. 993 01:08:06,623 --> 01:08:09,751 And you're absolutely certain Mr Buckenham the body was Mr. Mark's? 994 01:08:09,775 --> 01:08:13,127 Certain. He was the only one of us wearing a battle dress jacket. 995 01:08:13,170 --> 01:08:16,775 - Were you certain he was dead? - I know that 'tot' is the German word for dead. 996 01:08:16,795 --> 01:08:20,631 And you're reasonably certain the man you saw making off was Welney? 997 01:08:20,751 --> 01:08:23,265 Yes, he was the only one was wearing a leather jacket. 998 01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:25,350 Thank you, Mr. Buckenham. 999 01:08:29,610 --> 01:08:33,275 My Lord, I will dispose of the evidence of this gentleman, 1000 01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:35,397 with the brevity it merits. 1001 01:08:36,250 --> 01:08:38,715 Although it's not strictly necessary for me to do so, 1002 01:08:38,741 --> 01:08:41,437 I will deal with the fantastic charge of murder. 1003 01:08:42,440 --> 01:08:46,040 You say when you returned from foraging, you heard shots. 1004 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,810 - Yes. - Were you... 1005 01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:53,200 or Welney, or Sir Mark carrying firearms? 1006 01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:56,374 - No, of course not. - Well then I suppose you were right. 1007 01:08:56,494 --> 01:09:00,826 And the man you saw escaping was Welney and the body was that of Sir Mark. 1008 01:09:01,290 --> 01:09:02,663 It follows, doesn't it? 1009 01:09:03,020 --> 01:09:05,895 That Welney couldn't possible have shot Sir Mark. 1010 01:09:08,630 --> 01:09:10,367 Kindly answer the question. 1011 01:09:11,570 --> 01:09:14,330 - Yeah, I guess so. - Thank you. 1012 01:09:15,220 --> 01:09:16,578 The jury may conclude 1013 01:09:16,970 --> 01:09:19,909 that the man who was made one wildly irresponsible 1014 01:09:20,029 --> 01:09:25,076 and palpably false statement is not incapable of having made another. 1015 01:09:25,530 --> 01:09:28,643 And now let us turn to this famous impersonation. 1016 01:09:28,990 --> 01:09:32,490 You say, you came across Welney rehearsing an imitation of Sir Mark 1017 01:09:32,765 --> 01:09:34,371 for a camp concert. 1018 01:09:35,010 --> 01:09:36,060 No. 1019 01:09:37,140 --> 01:09:38,410 I mean... 1020 01:09:39,590 --> 01:09:42,182 What he was doing before he knew I was watching... 1021 01:09:42,540 --> 01:09:44,087 wasn't for his act. 1022 01:09:44,490 --> 01:09:48,850 It wasn't that kind of thing. He was practicing being Sir Mark. 1023 01:09:49,180 --> 01:09:50,573 Did you like Welney? 1024 01:09:52,940 --> 01:09:54,257 I hate his guts. 1025 01:09:56,353 --> 01:10:00,528 So that your interpretation of his intentions could hardly be impartial. 1026 01:10:01,460 --> 01:10:04,490 And so on the strength of a five minute imitation. 1027 01:10:04,930 --> 01:10:08,912 You are suggesting that Frank Welney could over the years 1028 01:10:09,172 --> 01:10:12,620 have persuaded Sir Mark Loddon's nearest relative, 1029 01:10:12,740 --> 01:10:15,818 his family who knew him ever since he was a little boy. 1030 01:10:15,938 --> 01:10:19,297 The lady to whom he was betrothed and whom he subsequently married. 1031 01:10:19,710 --> 01:10:24,010 You have the effrontery to suggest that he could persuade all these people 1032 01:10:24,130 --> 01:10:26,280 that he was Sir Mark Loddon? 1033 01:10:27,980 --> 01:10:29,020 Yes. 1034 01:10:29,420 --> 01:10:33,710 I gravely doubt that anybody else would accept such an outrageous suggestion. 1035 01:10:34,270 --> 01:10:36,390 Now then let us come to the escape. 1036 01:10:36,510 --> 01:10:40,050 You said immediately after the shots you saw Welney making off. 1037 01:10:40,890 --> 01:10:42,239 Did you see his face? 1038 01:10:42,824 --> 01:10:43,837 No. 1039 01:10:43,957 --> 01:10:46,616 And the body on the ground in British battle dress. 1040 01:10:46,984 --> 01:10:50,207 Were you close enough to see its face? - No, but I told you he was... 1041 01:10:50,231 --> 01:10:53,967 My Lord, on the witness' own evidence it was dark and misty. 1042 01:10:54,310 --> 01:10:56,091 He saw a figure in a leather jacket. 1043 01:10:56,550 --> 01:10:59,196 He saw a body wearing a British army jacket. 1044 01:10:59,570 --> 01:11:01,256 And that was all he saw. 1045 01:11:01,910 --> 01:11:05,093 I don't think we need detain this gentleman any longer. 1046 01:11:20,044 --> 01:11:21,731 Court will now adjourn. 1047 01:11:27,769 --> 01:11:29,034 Buckenham. 1048 01:11:30,199 --> 01:11:33,564 I don't suppose we should even be seen together, but I must talk to you. 1049 01:11:33,588 --> 01:11:35,550 - Look, there is no... - Listen. 1050 01:11:41,359 --> 01:11:42,719 You must listen to me. 1051 01:11:42,990 --> 01:11:44,736 Before I saw you in the witness box I thought 1052 01:11:44,748 --> 01:11:46,506 you must be a madman or a blackmailer. 1053 01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,219 Now I know you neither. 1054 01:11:48,540 --> 01:11:51,947 I believe you are telling the truth and I know you really love Mark. 1055 01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:54,246 - Thank you. - Know one who didn't could have 1056 01:11:54,270 --> 01:11:57,253 described so well the Mark that I fell in love with. 1057 01:11:57,870 --> 01:12:00,281 But now you made a mistake. 1058 01:12:01,210 --> 01:12:05,111 - Have the courage to say so. - How can I? 1059 01:12:06,330 --> 01:12:07,941 I saw him lying there dead. 1060 01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:10,286 But you just said, you couldn't see his face. 1061 01:12:10,540 --> 01:12:12,110 How can you be sure it was Mark? 1062 01:12:12,980 --> 01:12:14,882 Are you sure the man you married is Mark? 1063 01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,283 Is he the same Mark you felt in love with? 1064 01:12:18,690 --> 01:12:22,340 Well, naturally because of all his... - Look. 1065 01:12:23,170 --> 01:12:25,047 Do you think I like doing this to you? 1066 01:12:27,460 --> 01:12:28,747 You see. 1067 01:12:29,790 --> 01:12:31,516 I feel I know you. 1068 01:12:32,223 --> 01:12:33,312 Because... 1069 01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:36,958 well because... 1070 01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:39,257 Mark talked so much about you. 1071 01:12:40,670 --> 01:12:44,192 Made me feel rather proud because he... 1072 01:12:44,312 --> 01:12:46,837 let me share a little bit of how he felt. 1073 01:12:49,740 --> 01:12:53,230 - Sorry, I can't put it into words. - You don't have to. 1074 01:12:55,263 --> 01:12:58,045 Do you know the last time he spoke to me it was about you? 1075 01:12:58,165 --> 01:13:01,413 - Was it? - Yes, it was that night I went off to get food. 1076 01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:06,685 He left Welney and came after me, trying again to stop me and go himself. 1077 01:13:08,470 --> 01:13:10,712 He said that if anything happen 1078 01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,410 would I take back the last thing that you gave him? 1079 01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:18,642 - Well of course I wouldn't let him - The last thing I've ever gave him 1080 01:13:19,570 --> 01:13:21,830 Yes, it was a little charm, a medallion. 1081 01:13:21,950 --> 01:13:24,411 Well, of course I didn't let him... 1082 01:13:31,010 --> 01:13:33,558 He didn't bring it back, did he? 1083 01:13:34,850 --> 01:13:38,518 - I expect he lost it. - And he's never mentioned it, has he? 1084 01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:41,910 - He's probably forgotten all about it. - The 1085 01:13:41,922 --> 01:13:44,053 last thing you gave him before France. 1086 01:13:44,850 --> 01:13:47,526 - He's forgotten so many things. - Yes. 1087 01:13:49,090 --> 01:13:51,468 He's forgotten so many things. 1088 01:13:55,641 --> 01:13:57,437 I'm sorry. 1089 01:13:58,040 --> 01:13:59,501 Mr. Buckenham. 1090 01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:02,167 Mark has forgotten so many things 1091 01:14:02,790 --> 01:14:05,092 much more important things than my medallion. 1092 01:14:06,140 --> 01:14:07,734 but one thing I know, 1093 01:14:08,650 --> 01:14:11,258 he is not this Frank Welney you described. 1094 01:14:16,550 --> 01:14:18,078 He is Mark. 1095 01:14:31,390 --> 01:14:33,556 Your name is Heinrich Schrott. 1096 01:14:33,676 --> 01:14:36,481 You are physician and surgeon to the mental home at Cleaves. 1097 01:14:36,740 --> 01:14:39,170 That is true for the last 20 years. 1098 01:14:40,010 --> 01:14:44,144 Mr. Schrott is your English good enough to enable you to follow my questions 1099 01:14:44,264 --> 01:14:47,774 without an interpreter. - Sufficiently, yes. 1100 01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:50,756 I've learnt the language from a phonograph playing records. 1101 01:14:50,876 --> 01:14:52,864 - Splendid. I... - Splendid, yes. 1102 01:14:53,890 --> 01:14:56,740 I hope your memory is equally good, Dr. Schrott. 1103 01:14:57,460 --> 01:15:00,108 Can you by any chance remember something which happened 1104 01:15:00,228 --> 01:15:02,890 two days before the surrender in 1945? 1105 01:15:03,010 --> 01:15:07,294 Yes and no. So many things happened those days. 1106 01:15:07,690 --> 01:15:11,989 Was someone brought to you who've been found near Oxbridge over the canal? 1107 01:15:12,109 --> 01:15:15,594 Yes, a man in a British army jacket. 1108 01:15:15,950 --> 01:15:18,273 What was his condition when he was brought to you? 1109 01:15:19,290 --> 01:15:22,077 Terrible. More dead than alive. 1110 01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,920 - But he had not been shot? - No. 1111 01:15:25,180 --> 01:15:28,961 Skull fracture. The face unrecognizable. 1112 01:15:29,081 --> 01:15:32,709 Right arm smashed, we had to amputate. 1113 01:15:32,829 --> 01:15:36,919 You didn't happen to notice whether any of the fingers were missing? 1114 01:15:38,210 --> 01:15:42,481 No, it was an emergency operation. I don't remember now. 1115 01:15:42,770 --> 01:15:46,644 - Did your patient die, doctor? - Yes and no. 1116 01:15:46,764 --> 01:15:50,830 The body of my poor unfortunate slowly recovered but 1117 01:15:51,660 --> 01:15:56,638 the mind is lost, blows, damaged his brain. 1118 01:15:56,758 --> 01:15:58,820 - I see. - He breathes. 1119 01:15:58,940 --> 01:16:01,640 It is true he eats, he sleeps but... 1120 01:16:03,232 --> 01:16:04,569 he is not alive. 1121 01:16:04,689 --> 01:16:05,820 Doctor, 1122 01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,749 the extinction of life is murder, is it not? 1123 01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,067 Yes. 1124 01:16:13,230 --> 01:16:16,821 Would you so kind as to tell us what has happened to this living corpse? 1125 01:16:17,420 --> 01:16:21,027 Ever since he's been an inmate of our home 1126 01:16:21,147 --> 01:16:24,199 we call him Nummer Fünfzehn. Number 15. 1127 01:16:24,530 --> 01:16:26,017 Number 15? Why? 1128 01:16:26,137 --> 01:16:29,677 That's the number of his bed, we have no other name. 1129 01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:34,833 I understand you can produce 1 or 2 exhibits associated with this sad case. 1130 01:16:34,953 --> 01:16:36,012 Yes. 1131 01:16:36,490 --> 01:16:41,264 Khaki jacket. Number 15 was wearing at the time. 1132 01:16:47,660 --> 01:16:51,860 As the jury will see for themselves it is that of a Major's of the British Army, 1133 01:16:52,350 --> 01:16:54,409 the rank of Sir Mark Loddon. 1134 01:16:59,440 --> 01:17:02,095 You say Dr. Schrott no one has been able to identify him. 1135 01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,178 Isn't it possible that the sight of a well-known face 1136 01:17:05,298 --> 01:17:07,956 might revive the memory of this unfortunate man? 1137 01:17:10,020 --> 01:17:12,014 It's just possible. 1138 01:17:12,420 --> 01:17:15,266 Please, bring Number 15 into court! 1139 01:18:49,610 --> 01:18:51,830 You bloody swine. 1140 01:19:02,110 --> 01:19:04,609 Doctor, did your patient ever say anything 1141 01:19:04,610 --> 01:19:09,464 even unconsciously to indicate his assailant might have been known to him? 1142 01:19:09,584 --> 01:19:11,678 Might even have been a former friend? 1143 01:19:11,798 --> 01:19:15,430 Nein, nein, it was not a friend. It was a murderer. 1144 01:19:15,838 --> 01:19:19,393 Is there anything at all about the jacket that might indicate its ownership? 1145 01:19:19,417 --> 01:19:23,295 Apart from the fact that it belonged to a Major in the British Army. 1146 01:19:23,630 --> 01:19:26,928 - Nothing. - then I need hardly remind the jury 1147 01:19:27,048 --> 01:19:29,791 that there was more than one Major in the British Army. 1148 01:19:30,316 --> 01:19:33,804 Now I want you to be perfectly clear on one point doctor. 1149 01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:38,780 Nobody has identified him. Nobody claims to know who he is. 1150 01:19:38,900 --> 01:19:41,476 - That is so. - And I'm going to suggest you 1151 01:19:41,488 --> 01:19:44,076 that he can not possibly be Sir Mark Loddon. 1152 01:19:44,550 --> 01:19:48,450 Since Sir Mark Loddon is here alive and well. 1153 01:19:48,710 --> 01:19:51,301 My Lord, surely that's for the jury to decide. 1154 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,488 Is this man Mark Loddon or is he Frank Welney? 1155 01:19:56,070 --> 01:19:59,896 I suggest that after this evidence the jury can give but one answer. 1156 01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:02,672 That will be all, Dr Schrott. 1157 01:20:08,980 --> 01:20:11,301 Sir. Mark, I'm going to call your wife. 1158 01:20:11,313 --> 01:20:13,646 After that evidence I have no other choice. 1159 01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,460 Sir Mark, this is our only hope. 1160 01:20:19,091 --> 01:20:23,472 - All right. - Lady Loddon, please. 1161 01:20:25,450 --> 01:20:28,500 I would like your Lordship's permission to call Lady Loddon. 1162 01:20:28,620 --> 01:20:30,912 - Certainly. - Lady Loddon. 1163 01:20:43,220 --> 01:20:46,348 - What is your full name? - Margaret Loddon. 1164 01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:49,219 Take the book in your right hand and raise your hand. 1165 01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,369 Repeat after me. 1166 01:20:51,870 --> 01:20:55,315 - I swear by Almighty God, - I swear by Almighty God, 1167 01:20:55,435 --> 01:20:58,311 - that the evidence I shall give, - that the evidence I shall give, 1168 01:20:58,431 --> 01:21:00,543 - shall be the truth, - shall be the truth, 1169 01:21:00,663 --> 01:21:02,815 - the whole truth - the whole truth 1170 01:21:02,935 --> 01:21:05,610 - and nothing but the truth. - and nothing but the truth. 1171 01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:09,949 You are Lady Loddon? 1172 01:21:10,220 --> 01:21:12,996 Wife of Sir Mark Loddon, seventh Baronet of Ingworth Hall? 1173 01:21:13,116 --> 01:21:13,994 - Yes. 1174 01:21:14,114 --> 01:21:17,708 In 1946 you were married at Ingworth church. 1175 01:21:17,828 --> 01:21:18,828 Yes. 1176 01:21:18,993 --> 01:21:22,169 Was the plaintiff married to you bearing the name of Sir Mark Loddon? 1177 01:21:22,193 --> 01:21:23,193 Yes. 1178 01:21:23,490 --> 01:21:26,381 And did you at any time have any reason to doubt his identity? 1179 01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:27,880 No. 1180 01:21:28,340 --> 01:21:30,714 And do you still believe that your husband the 1181 01:21:30,726 --> 01:21:33,112 plaintiff in this action is Sir Mark Loddon? 1182 01:21:42,060 --> 01:21:43,260 Lady Loddon? 1183 01:21:53,610 --> 01:21:55,250 No, no he is not Mark Loddon. 1184 01:22:12,958 --> 01:22:14,114 Silence! 1185 01:22:15,010 --> 01:22:19,844 Lady Loddon I feel we owe his Lordship and the jury an explanation. 1186 01:22:20,980 --> 01:22:23,633 I called you to give evidence for your husband. 1187 01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:27,919 The court realizes that this trial has been a very great deal to you. 1188 01:22:28,890 --> 01:22:32,015 Do you still wish to affirm what you have just said? 1189 01:22:34,380 --> 01:22:36,698 I must ask you to answer my question. 1190 01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:38,740 Yes, I do. 1191 01:22:40,130 --> 01:22:42,082 What made you change your mind? 1192 01:22:44,290 --> 01:22:46,890 What I have just seen and heard. 1193 01:22:47,580 --> 01:22:50,990 But at what point did you know, did you come to believe... 1194 01:22:51,940 --> 01:22:54,177 that your husband was not Sir Mark Loddon? 1195 01:22:56,090 --> 01:22:59,060 When I saw he recognized Number 15. 1196 01:22:59,970 --> 01:23:02,299 And that poor creature recognized him. 1197 01:23:02,580 --> 01:23:05,550 I'm going to put it to you that you may have misinterpreted what you just saw. 1198 01:23:05,670 --> 01:23:06,670 No. 1199 01:23:06,990 --> 01:23:10,992 I couldn't misinterpret the horror and the guilt I saw on my husband's face. 1200 01:23:11,300 --> 01:23:14,739 Lady Loddon, you are married to the plaintiff. 1201 01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:17,250 You have lived together as husband and wife. 1202 01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,250 You have a child. 1203 01:23:19,750 --> 01:23:21,985 You've never had any doubts up to now. 1204 01:23:22,940 --> 01:23:24,597 I'm going to suggest to you 1205 01:23:25,060 --> 01:23:29,410 that the shock of your recent experience has clouded your judgment. 1206 01:23:29,740 --> 01:23:32,866 No! It is cleared it. 1207 01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:37,874 I have always known that the Mark who came back to me 1208 01:23:38,527 --> 01:23:42,017 was not the Mark I knew and loved before the war, 1209 01:23:42,762 --> 01:23:45,333 but I thought that was because all he had been through. 1210 01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:48,092 Now I know, 1211 01:23:49,590 --> 01:23:51,275 he never came back at all. 1212 01:23:53,620 --> 01:23:55,983 I have no further questions to put. 1213 01:23:57,424 --> 01:24:00,940 Lady Loddon believe me I would willingly spare you any further questions, 1214 01:24:00,964 --> 01:24:03,905 but there is just one that must be answered. 1215 01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:09,227 Must not then that pitiful creature be Sir Mark Loddon? 1216 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:16,036 Behind those terrible scars couldn't you recognize him? 1217 01:24:18,701 --> 01:24:22,272 No, I couldn't. 1218 01:24:24,799 --> 01:24:26,237 But he did. 1219 01:24:27,859 --> 01:24:29,152 I saw his face. 1220 01:24:31,670 --> 01:24:32,948 He did. 1221 01:24:33,590 --> 01:24:36,640 He did! He did! 1222 01:24:38,770 --> 01:24:41,159 I think the witness should be allowed to rest. 1223 01:24:41,630 --> 01:24:43,970 I have no further questions, My Lord. 1224 01:24:45,853 --> 01:24:48,669 This noise in court, please. 1225 01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:53,232 In that case we should adjourn until tomorrow morning. 1226 01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:07,902 Margaret! 1227 01:25:08,947 --> 01:25:09,980 Maggie! 1228 01:25:16,378 --> 01:25:17,650 Open the door! 1229 01:25:19,412 --> 01:25:20,699 Open the door! 1230 01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:24,079 Maggie. 1231 01:25:25,246 --> 01:25:27,586 If you won't let me in, at least listen to me. 1232 01:25:28,660 --> 01:25:32,150 - Please, please, listen to me. - I'm listening. 1233 01:25:33,650 --> 01:25:35,711 Please, open the door. I must see you. 1234 01:25:36,740 --> 01:25:38,585 I won't come in. I swear, I swear. 1235 01:25:47,290 --> 01:25:48,562 Margaret. 1236 01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:52,240 I need you. 1237 01:25:56,360 --> 01:25:58,796 - Who needs me? - I do. I do 1238 01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:06,036 The man you loved, the man you married. 1239 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,050 - You did love me, didn't you? - Yes. 1240 01:26:10,170 --> 01:26:13,200 And all through the years you went on loving me, didn't you? 1241 01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:14,110 Yes. 1242 01:26:14,230 --> 01:26:17,249 And it was me, wasn't it? Not just someone called Mark Loddon. 1243 01:26:17,369 --> 01:26:19,126 But me, me, myself. 1244 01:26:21,623 --> 01:26:23,803 Nothing can make that love unreal. 1245 01:26:25,392 --> 01:26:30,467 Yes, because you were unreal. 1246 01:26:31,528 --> 01:26:33,563 I believed you were Mark. 1247 01:26:34,182 --> 01:26:37,859 So I imagined I saw in you the man I'd fallen in love with. 1248 01:26:38,580 --> 01:26:41,284 The man who had changed because of all he'd suffered. 1249 01:26:41,690 --> 01:26:43,918 And who needed me all than more because of that. 1250 01:26:44,392 --> 01:26:46,814 And I gave him all I had to give. 1251 01:26:47,460 --> 01:26:51,769 And now, now I find I've been living with a stranger. 1252 01:26:51,889 --> 01:26:53,467 - I love you. - Don't touch me. 1253 01:26:54,038 --> 01:26:57,102 A stranger who stole my love, 1254 01:26:57,222 --> 01:27:00,678 my sympathy, my understanding, everything. 1255 01:27:01,110 --> 01:27:05,712 By a confidence trick. - It wasn't. You can't believe that. 1256 01:27:08,030 --> 01:27:10,868 You can't believe that everything about me was false. 1257 01:27:12,890 --> 01:27:14,174 My love, 1258 01:27:16,020 --> 01:27:17,857 my need for you. 1259 01:27:19,930 --> 01:27:21,738 Not everything. 1260 01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:24,582 Your terror was real. 1261 01:27:25,580 --> 01:27:28,377 but it wasn't the terror of something you couldn't remember. 1262 01:27:29,100 --> 01:27:31,798 Your terror was of something you couldn't forget. 1263 01:27:32,450 --> 01:27:34,519 The murder of a friend. 1264 01:29:11,570 --> 01:29:15,460 My Lord, with your permission I must bow to my client's insistent demand. 1265 01:29:15,580 --> 01:29:17,524 That I should call him to the witness box. 1266 01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:21,017 - Certainly. - Are you going to the box, Sir Mark? 1267 01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:33,926 Sir Mark, you had the opportunity yesterday of seeing the jacket, 1268 01:29:34,046 --> 01:29:37,477 produced by Dr. Schrott. - Yes, I did. 1269 01:29:37,597 --> 01:29:38,988 Whose jacket is it? 1270 01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:43,365 I have no doubt at all that it is mine. 1271 01:29:48,150 --> 01:29:51,540 - You identify it as yours? - Yes, My Lord. 1272 01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:57,002 You mean that your jacket was on Number 15 when he was discovered by Dr. Schrott? 1273 01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,790 - Yes, I do. - Will you tell the court, 1274 01:30:00,910 --> 01:30:04,347 how your jacket came to be on the man, known as Number 15? 1275 01:30:06,530 --> 01:30:08,100 I put it on him. 1276 01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,594 After Buckenham went to find some food that night, 1277 01:30:14,930 --> 01:30:16,505 Welney and I waited for him. 1278 01:31:02,746 --> 01:31:05,181 I beat him and beat him. 1279 01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:08,284 I only knew it was my life or his. 1280 01:31:08,990 --> 01:31:11,005 And I wanted it to be mine. 1281 01:31:15,430 --> 01:31:17,207 When he was still... 1282 01:31:17,980 --> 01:31:21,108 I ripped off his leather jacket and changed it for my battle dress. 1283 01:31:21,950 --> 01:31:25,642 But they heard me and fired some shots. one shot hit my hand. 1284 01:31:26,616 --> 01:31:28,811 But I got away and two days later I was picked 1285 01:31:28,823 --> 01:31:31,030 up by a forward patrol of British troops. 1286 01:31:32,410 --> 01:31:36,149 When you first gave evidence, did I hear you take the oath? 1287 01:31:36,790 --> 01:31:40,000 Did you swear to tell the truth the whole truth? 1288 01:31:40,330 --> 01:31:41,442 Yes. 1289 01:31:41,900 --> 01:31:43,915 Why didn't you tell the whole truth then? 1290 01:31:45,110 --> 01:31:46,390 I did. 1291 01:31:47,550 --> 01:31:49,736 Up until yesterday that's all I could remember. 1292 01:31:50,030 --> 01:31:53,910 And what is it that has so miraculously opened the book of your memory? 1293 01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:58,929 Seeing Number 15 standing before me yesterday. 1294 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:04,072 For years now I've been haunted by a sort of dream. 1295 01:32:04,740 --> 01:32:07,982 In which there was always mist and water. 1296 01:32:09,110 --> 01:32:10,989 And something moving in the water. 1297 01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:14,360 And running through my head the fragment of a 1298 01:32:14,372 --> 01:32:16,703 tune always ending at exactly the same place. 1299 01:32:18,180 --> 01:32:20,812 I only knew that these things meant violence. 1300 01:32:23,010 --> 01:32:25,098 When I saw Number 15 yesterday, 1301 01:32:26,330 --> 01:32:29,245 I knew quite clearly in that instant 1302 01:32:30,350 --> 01:32:32,442 that his terrible twisted face, 1303 01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,259 was the image in the water. 1304 01:32:36,510 --> 01:32:38,282 But I knew no more than that. 1305 01:32:41,420 --> 01:32:42,933 When my wife... 1306 01:32:44,390 --> 01:32:46,146 denied me in the witness box, 1307 01:32:47,711 --> 01:32:49,892 I knew quite clearly that one of us was Welney, 1308 01:32:49,916 --> 01:32:52,611 one of us was Loddon but I didn't know which was which. 1309 01:32:52,700 --> 01:32:56,501 - What then? - All night I tried to remember. 1310 01:32:57,906 --> 01:33:00,178 And then just before dawn... 1311 01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:03,323 I was standing by a canal, 1312 01:33:04,750 --> 01:33:08,343 watching my own reflection in the water pulling and twisting. 1313 01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:11,606 And suddenly the tune started again. 1314 01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:15,430 and broke off in exactly the same place. 1315 01:33:17,670 --> 01:33:19,361 And my reflection... 1316 01:33:20,460 --> 01:33:22,207 became his. 1317 01:33:23,420 --> 01:33:25,431 Twisted and mad with hatred. 1318 01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:30,452 And it was Welney. 1319 01:33:30,870 --> 01:33:33,858 And now my memory is quite clear. 1320 01:33:34,210 --> 01:33:38,741 Is that the truth? Have we got it now? Or are we still hiding something? 1321 01:33:39,890 --> 01:33:42,360 The truth is that Number 15 is Welney, 1322 01:33:43,950 --> 01:33:45,475 and I am responsible for him. 1323 01:33:45,820 --> 01:33:50,060 So you admit to being a man capable of a brutal murder? 1324 01:33:52,030 --> 01:33:54,924 Is there any evidence to substantiate your story? 1325 01:33:57,030 --> 01:33:58,720 Apart from my own word, 1326 01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:01,727 - No, My Lord. - I see. 1327 01:34:11,626 --> 01:34:15,212 Mr. Foxely, would you like to make your final address to the jury? 1328 01:34:15,660 --> 01:34:17,348 May it please, your Lordship? 1329 01:34:17,592 --> 01:34:21,429 Members of the jury. This case which began as a case for libel, 1330 01:34:21,660 --> 01:34:24,830 has turned into a case for attempted murder. 1331 01:34:24,950 --> 01:34:28,031 So it seems to me, members of the jury, that you are confronted... 1332 01:34:28,151 --> 01:34:30,412 - My Lord! - You're interrupting counsel. 1333 01:34:32,430 --> 01:34:34,915 May I be permitted to examine my jacket again? 1334 01:34:35,260 --> 01:34:38,057 Well certainly. I don't see how it can be of any help to us. 1335 01:34:38,960 --> 01:34:41,539 Asha, pass the jacket to the plaintiff. 1336 01:34:43,198 --> 01:34:46,409 There might be something inside. 1337 01:34:48,610 --> 01:34:52,103 Something I hid in the lining. 1338 01:34:53,290 --> 01:34:57,559 It should be a... little medallion. 1339 01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:00,717 Silver and the enam... 1340 01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:03,340 enamel. 1341 01:35:09,170 --> 01:35:10,662 Here it is. 1342 01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:17,712 This was the last thing my wife gave to me before I went to France. 1343 01:35:20,010 --> 01:35:23,145 I even asked Buckenham to give it back to her. 1344 01:35:23,390 --> 01:35:25,554 If anything should happen to me. 1345 01:35:27,670 --> 01:35:29,243 He said nothing would. 1346 01:35:30,931 --> 01:35:32,332 Oh, my God! 1347 01:35:41,952 --> 01:35:45,463 Tell them. Tell them! You must tell them! 1348 01:35:49,297 --> 01:35:50,358 My Lord! 1349 01:35:50,478 --> 01:35:53,701 If you wish to give an evidence you must say it from the witness box. 1350 01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:04,222 My Lord! 1351 01:36:05,580 --> 01:36:07,334 The story about the medallion is true. 1352 01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:10,603 Mark and I were alone when he gave it to me, so... 1353 01:36:11,390 --> 01:36:13,681 Welney couldn't possible have known about it. 1354 01:36:18,746 --> 01:36:20,814 He is Mark Loddon. 1355 01:36:34,924 --> 01:36:38,285 My Lord, it's abundantly clear that the plaintiff has been the victim 1356 01:36:38,405 --> 01:36:40,020 of an appalling mistake. 1357 01:36:40,140 --> 01:36:43,790 If your Lordship will allow me a moment to confer with the plaintiff's counsel 1358 01:36:43,794 --> 01:36:47,123 the jury won't be troubled in this case. - Certainly, certainly. 1359 01:36:47,243 --> 01:36:50,959 I feel sure Sir Wilfred will not find my clients ungenerous. 1360 01:36:51,950 --> 01:36:56,163 I will adjourn the case to allow council time to come to terms of settlement. 1361 01:37:09,350 --> 01:37:12,180 Will you leave the question of the damages to me, yeah? 1362 01:37:12,820 --> 01:37:14,235 Sir Mark. 1363 01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:18,235 - Will you leave the question of damages to me? - Yes yes, anything. 1364 01:37:19,490 --> 01:37:21,197 Enough to keep Welney for his life. 1365 01:37:22,244 --> 01:37:24,707 Congratulations. I never had any doubts. 1366 01:37:25,170 --> 01:37:28,640 Come along Hubert. Your client can pay for the champagne. 1367 01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:30,612 That's not all he'll have to pay for. 1368 01:37:31,891 --> 01:37:34,816 My dear Mark, let me be the first who congratulate you. 1369 01:37:38,652 --> 01:37:39,959 Thank you. 1370 01:37:45,619 --> 01:37:47,211 Hello Jeff! 1371 01:37:48,368 --> 01:37:49,959 There are no words. 1372 01:37:51,445 --> 01:37:52,833 Just thank you. 1373 01:37:54,820 --> 01:37:56,085 Thank me? 1374 01:37:58,300 --> 01:37:59,989 After what I have done? 1375 01:38:00,730 --> 01:38:03,398 What you have done, you did for me. 1376 01:38:03,730 --> 01:38:06,813 And I shall never forget for that, ever. 1377 01:38:07,820 --> 01:38:09,657 You've restored me to myself. 1378 01:38:10,570 --> 01:38:12,351 You've given me back everything. 1379 01:38:17,340 --> 01:38:18,587 Everything? 1380 01:38:24,905 --> 01:38:26,075 Yes. 1381 01:38:26,932 --> 01:38:28,116 Everything. 1382 01:38:30,347 --> 01:38:31,544 Thank you. 1383 01:38:37,602 --> 01:38:38,936 Darling. 1384 01:38:41,833 --> 01:38:43,219 Are you coming home? 1385 01:38:51,339 --> 01:38:52,713 Mark! 1386 01:39:06,705 --> 01:39:12,205 THE END 1387 01:39:16,320 --> 01:39:21,320 Subtitles: mitbrille Karagarga@2014 109340

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