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It's hard to be tender

It's hard to stay open

when you're dizzy with anger

When your dreams have been

broken

The tree is so green and alive.

Loving is fatigue.

And at the entrance of this drug, the catatonic may appear to be quite normal,

but only for a very few minutes.

There you see now, he's beginning to relax already.

How are you today?

My name is Dr. Simon.

And that is Nurse Jeanne.

Can you repeat our names, please?

Dr. Simon.

I'm going to be taking care of you, Edmund.

You know this lady?

I... It's Elaine.

I'm your sister.

No, I... I don't have a sister.

No! No!

My name is... George LeClair.

George LeClair is the name.

when we were escaping from the Gestapo.

Oh, no.

No, you've seen my papers.

Oh, no, no, it's all right.

Don't call me that.

I've never seen you before.

I don't know who you are.

Yes, you do.

Yes, you do.

Now, look at me. Look at me, Edmund.

He's still locked in the post.

There is... There is hope in that.

With the latest drugs and your love, there is every hope.

But it'll take time.

Jeanne is a fine nurse.

Don't worry.

I'll stay until Edmund's well.

Sorry I'm late.

I was busy with Edmund. No problem.

Happy birthday.

Oh, you always give me cufflinks. No, it's a quip.

Listen, I'm really glad that you could make it. Even you have to get out of

Munson, right? Yes.

Why do you worry about me too much? Well, what else are friends for?

Well, Hélène.

Hubert.

Anybody.

Any colour.

As long as it's not Hubert de Ville.

Oh, so this is Hubert de Ville.

Yes. Well, I've heard so much about you.

Not from Helen, of course.

You're really quite a joke, you know that, don't you?

What have you heard?

Only that you're no use to the ladies.

And obviously of no use to Hélène. So, if you please, stay out of our way.

Let's go, Jack.

Capisce?

Oh, Hélène.

My darling. Oh, dear.

Jack, you've got to watch for an evening. Bravo for you.

And you, my darling, magnificent as always. Won't you both join us?

But of course.

Ah, why not?

Hélène Junot, my directress and good friend.

Jacques d 'Anvers, the most talented star in France, just ask him.

Dan Wargold, the film producer. Bill Whitehood. And of course, my friend Eric

Ottland in Paris for his concert series.

It's a great pleasure, Mr. Holland.

Thank you.

At times like these, I wish I had mastered the continental technique.

But an American kissing a lady's hand never quite comes off.

Pleasure to meet you, Jacques. Pleasure's mine.

You're very beautiful.

I've seen you before.

Yes, at the concert hall several months ago. I didn't think you'd remember.

But I do.

I've been trying to talk Odile into costuming the new picture I'm doing.

It has Eric's best score.

How can you resent?

I probably can't.

Not without you know, I'm giving a special concert, and could I take

of this lucky break by inviting you as my guest?

The lucky break is mine, Mr. Hovland.

Eric.

Eric?

Well, maybe the lucky break is ours.

Cheers to that.

Helen, will you marry me?

Oh, Eric.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

May the Spirit of God never cease to fill your heart with love.

May Almighty God bless you by the word of his mouth and unite your

hearts. in the enduring bond of pure love.

May you be blessed in your children, and may the love that you fledged from them

be returned a hundredfold.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

Yes, you do. How are you? I'm fine.

So good to see you. What's new? Well, I was on my way to Monte Carlo, but I

simply had to stop because I've got some good news.

Good. Well, where's Helen?

Well, she's right down here. Come on, come on, come on.

What a beautiful place. Isn't it lovely?

Helen and I have been having the time of our lives.

It's so beautiful here.

Helen, look who's here.

Jack.

Oh, Jack, what a wonderful surprise.

Hug me.

Good to see you.

And now I am fine.

What are you doing here? What am I doing? You've had a week all to

thought I'd come and I'd bring you down to earth. Oh, wonderful. Sit down.

You sit down.

And take a look at this.

The issue is sold out, Ellen.

The model as murderous. What do you think?

Thanks, Jack.

No, no, no. They've given us four photos inside. Take a look. Take a look.

Here.

Voilà. Practically a whole spread.

Good photography.

Helen, you are practically the most famous model in all of France now.

You don't believe me, do you? All right, well, I've got the proof of it. A

contract from Bonjour Madame. They want to handle you exclusively.

Take a look at this guarantee.

No, thanks, Jacques.

What?

I'm not interested.

If you're concerned about me... Yes, darling, I am concerned about you.

But that's not the reason. Helen, I've watched you risk your life for an

opportunity like this. Darling, I know you have, but that was a long time ago.

I'm sorry, Jacques, but things are different now.

Everything's changed. I'm just happy being Mrs. Hovland.

Sorry.

I'm sure you'll find another model, Jacques.

Jacques says you're passing up the opportunity of a lifetime.

I just don't get anything from posing prettily anymore.

I've got other dreams now.

For one, I wanted to have a baby.

Helen, that's for a younger man.

Oh, but you're full of life. You'd have so much to give to our children.

Look, even if we have a child, you have other needs.

Family life just won't be enough for you.

Well, there is something else.

You've seen that folder I've been working on.

Yes. Well, I've been making sketches and putting down ideas for a new magazine,

my own fashion magazine.

It'll be fresh, unconventional, and full of surprises.

Why, yes.

Yes, of course. Why, you'd be marvelous at that.

How much money would it take?

Eric, darling, I don't want your money.

It's not my money. It's our money.

Helen, I just want to help you make your dreams come true.

You must never abandon them.

I wanted you.

We're dying.

You're going to see.

It's an emergency.

Yes.

I'm calling from the Eric Hovland villa.

There's been a tragic accident.

Eric Hovland is dead.

Give me that phone.

Give it to me.

Give it to me.

Calm down, Elaine.

I've already told them what happened.

Oh, you'll never get away with it.

You're a murderer. You killed Eric.

He shouldn't have interfered. I didn't mean to kill him, but I'm glad I did.

glad he's dead.

Elaine!

If you accuse me, I'll tell them you did it.

They'll never believe you.

Won't they?

If you persist in your explanation, I'll say I was passing by.

It's perfectly logical, because I have a villa next door.

I heard shouting and argument.

I came just in time to see you push him over the top of the balcony.

It'll be your word against mine.

The word of Hubert de Ville from one of the oldest families in France.

Against that of an... an ex -model.

An ex -kept woman who married an old man for his money and then decided she

couldn't wait for him to die.

On the other hand, if it's an accident, everything's different.

You're not a murderess.

You're Eric Hovland's bereaved widow.

Think about it.

Which do you prefer?

Wealth?

Freedom?

Or the guillotine?

Once again.

How did you first become aware that Monsieur Havilland was dead? I'd stopped

for a visit.

The lady this time.

Please.

Go on.

My husband and Mr. Deville and I were talking in this room.

Eric was tired and he wanted to go up to Desperate Nap.

All of a sudden we heard this crash and we found his body here at the bottom of

the stairs.

And you made no attempt to revive him?

Yes, of course I did. But I realized immediately that he was dead.

How and when did you and Monsieur de Ville become acquainted?

We'd known each other for many years.

Oh, yes.

And I suppose that it was just coincidence then, Monsieur de Ville,

happened to be renting the villa next door.

What are you implying?

Implying? Nothing.

I made a statement.

A true one, as a matter of fact.

When I took the villa, I had no idea the Hovlands would be staying here.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

Why?

Why did you dismiss all your house servants two weeks ago? Inspector, I

your tone and line of questioning highly offensive.

Do you?

Then consider.

You and the lady know each other for many years.

She marries a man much older than herself from whom she stands to inherit

great deal of money.

You and she are alone with this man when he dies and there are, shall we say,

questionable circumstances.

Inspector, you should consider to whom you are talking.

Pardon me, monsieur, but being a devil doesn't put you above the law.

With my family connections, I'm in a position to have you removed from your

Now, if you have any evidence, arrest us.

If not, I demand you cease this harassment at once.

At once.

Is that quite clear, Inspector?

Monsieur de Ville, Monsieur Hovland was a very famous American.

The American ambassador has requested that you come to Paris to explain the

events to him.

So you can answer questions from the Avalon family.

If you don't have any objections.

Of course.

Of course not, Inspector.

Madame Avalon.

Monsieur.

Bye, Inspector.

Obviously, Helene, you made the right decision.

Interesting.

He thinks you and I are involved with each other.

I feel so badly for you, my dear.

I know how much you loved him.

If I can be of any help, my darling, I'll come down right away.

Thank you, Odile.

I miss Eric so much.

You made his last days his happiest.

Always remember that.

His greatest happiness was ahead.

A child.

Our child.

Odile, I think I'm pregnant.

It should be some consolation for you, Hélène.

He's left you two marvelous legacies.

His music and his baby.

I'm sure they both will give you solace.

And listen, I hope we see you again in Paris soon.

You will.

Bye -bye.

What's so amusing over there?

Nothing, Cadet. What do you mean, nothing?

Let me see.

How dare they?

She loved that poor man.

She loved him.

Trash, that's what it is.

Get it to me!

Calm down, Helene.

I've already told her what happened. You'll never get away with it.

You're a murderer. You killed him and you tried to rape me. Rape him?

Take what was mine.

He shouldn't have interfered.

I didn't mean to kill him, but I'm glad I did. I'm glad he's dead.

If you accuse me, I'll tell them you did it.

I'll never believe you.

Won't they?

If you persist in your explanation, I'll say I was passing by.

It's perfectly logical because I have the villa next door.

I heard shouting.

Idiot!

What do you want?

Money.

But you're a wealthy young woman now.

His family is contesting his will.

His money will be tied up in America for years.

Don't give her anything.

She's bluffing.

She'd never go to the police.

Of course she will.

And if it weren't for our family, I would encourage her to myself.

Because nothing would give me more pleasure than to see you in prison for

rest of your life.

Enough to start my own fashion magazine.

70 million francs.

But... But that's impossible.

You're talking about a murder.

Your son killed my husband.

Think about the honour of the Deville family.

Hélène.

Burry is on the bull.

Hélène, is it now?

Whore. You better make that a hundred million francs.

And have the money with my lawyer by 12 noon tomorrow.

Good day, gentlemen.

Get out of here.

Get out of this house.

Can't you try to understand how much I've been tortured?

You disgust me.

Bonjour. Bonjour, madame.

Good

morning,

madame Helden.

I'm Dr. Bowman.

Doctor.

Much better.

You gave us quite a scare yesterday.

Shock, hemorrhage.

I lost the baby, didn't I?

It was bound to happen.

What do you mean?

My examination indicated that you were severely injured internally when you

quite young.

Yes, I... I was raped during the war when I was a child.

I see.

There might have been an infection afterwards.

There's a great deal of scar tissue.

Doctor, what are you trying to tell me?

I'm sorry, Madame Howland.

You'll never be able to have children.

I'll see you later.

Hello, darling.

So good to see you.

I wanted to visit you at the hospital, but I couldn't leave Edmund.

I'm so sorry about your husband.

Thank you.

Are you all right?

Oh, yes, yes, I'm fine.

How's Edmund?

Is he okay?

He's a little better every day. His body movements are almost normal, but still

no memory for anything before the hospital in Austria.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you up.

It's all right.

I've slept enough anyway.

Where have you been?

I've been away.

You've been away too, Edmund.

You know that, don't you?

Yes.

Edmund, I want you back.

I want you back, Edmund.

There were three of us then.

Three. We had a little sister, Marie. Do you remember her?

I'll never forget what you said.

If one of us is lost, the others will never stop searching.

If one of us needs help, the others will find that help.

Edmund.

Edmund, I need your help. Now, because of all the people in this world that

loved, you are the only one I have left.

My God, I remember you.

Because your mind is full of horrors.

I want to fill it with love instead.

This is our mother's wedding ring.

Do you remember our family? We were so close. We were so loving, Edmund.

We are as one.

Yes.

And always will be. Yes.

No matter what.

Yes.

Oh, yes, I've just been accepted as a special student at the university.

I've got a lot to learn.

You'll catch up with everybody in no time.

You know Dr.

Simone says that I won't be needing any further treatment.

But I'm better now.

He told me the same thing.

At noon it's time I took my preliminary vote.

No, Cheryl, don't.

I have to.

It's what I've always wanted. It's my way of serving God.

I don't want to lose you.

Edmund, if you ever need me again, I'll always be there.

I need you in a different way.

Edmund, don't.

At least wait.

Give it time.

I'm afraid that waiting will only make it more difficult.

Hello, is anybody home?

Yes, I'm in here.

Someone? My chief photographer.

Oh, wait just a minute. I already have a job, you know that.

You want some coffee?

Some wine or some cheese?

Yeah, coffee, coffee.

Not bad, not bad at all.

Jack, how much is the opinion?

$5 ,000 a month.

I'll get it. $10 ,000 a month.

And $15 ,000 when we hit the stand.

Oh, but that won't be for months.

Oh, it's not that long.

Helene, you don't even have furniture in there. I know, but I've got money.

Yes, and you can lose that fast. Oh, I don't intend to.

Listen, Helene, I have the utmost respect for you. You know that.

But this is serious business, and you're a novice.

Darling, everybody's a novice to start with. I intend to get the best stuff

money can buy.

I've already signed Lubitsch Arena.

You have Luba?

I have Luba. That impresses you, doesn't it?

Luba is the top editor in all of Europe. How did you steal her?

In the same way I'm stealing you. I'm doubling her salary.

I want complete control of all photography.

You've got it.

But there's one condition.

You are exclusive.

No moonlighting, not under your name or anyone else's.

When you work for me, you just work for me.

Great agreed

It's

so good to see you

again. Well, it's wonderful to see you. Thank you, you know Jacques down there,

don't you? We've met, of course. I'm a great admirer.

How are you, Jacques? Well, quite frankly, I'm impressed that you were

be joining Couture.

Well, I didn't know whether to take our Mademoiselle Junot here seriously until

she told me she had you.

She told you that?

Well, it's true, isn't it?

I think we're going to make a most fantastic team.

Jacques, will you do the honors? We're going to have a glass of champagne. Of

course.

Only fitting that you do the tribute. With pleasure.

To couture.

To couture. To couture. And to the two of you.

Are you sure that this SS colonel, this von Eidefeldt, was the same Gestapo

officer that you later encountered in France as a major?

Yes, I'm positive.

Very well, then.

We'll see what we can do.

Just a couple of lab men I have to interview, that's all. I thought you did

yesterday.

Don't keep tabs on me, Zarina.

I'm not one of your editorial assistants.

Happy?

Three copies and no erasers.

Zarina, I like that.

On to the revolution.

I'm calling to you from Vienna.

Hélène, I may have found your man.

How soon can you and Edmund come here to identify him?

As soon as we can get a plane reservation.

He lunches here almost every day. That's his table over there.

His name's Carl von Eidefeldt.

Very wealthy, powerful family, involved in big business enterprises.

He still uses his real name.

He changed shortly after the war, but then apparently decided he had nothing

fear, even though he's been linked to many atrocities besides the ones we've

described.

Massacre of whole villages on the eastern front, for instance.

Carl von Eidefeldt.

Good morning, Bertrand.

There he is now.

Is that the man?

Yes.

Yes.

So, we've got our man.

Now, what do we do with him?

Bring him to trial.

The world must not be allowed to forget what he's done.

The problem is, extraditing will involve all sorts of legal difficulties.

He'll have to be tried in Austria.

What's the problem with Austria?

Because more than a few Austrians...

We want to promote the fiction that they were only unwilling Nazis here. We'd

very much like to forget the fact that they were disproportionately represented

in the Gestapo and the SS and the death squad. They won't forget after they've

heard Edmund's testimony.

Some would try.

The number of indictments and convictions for war crimes in Austria

less than 30.

And we mustn't forget that Edmund helped the Queen.

Reliving your experiences.

Possibly unsympathetic courtroom, hostile cross -examination.

Whatever's necessary.

Very well.

We begin at the state prosecutor's office.

Don't worry.

It will be on my expense.

Thank you.

Shall we go?

Good afternoon,

Major Von Eidefeldt.

of such evidence, we will prove beyond a doubt that Karl von Eidefeld, officer

in the SS, knowingly committed the bestial crimes of which he is accused.

And bearing in mind his outstanding military record, we may conclude that

Karl von Eidefeld was a good soldier.

There was a war going on.

He did his duty, no less and no more.

Public would maintain proper decorum.

Mr. Johnson.

You were a captain in the United States Army in 1946.

That's correct.

Please tell the court how you first became familiar with the name Castle

Barthel.

In 1946, I served on an American military corps in Nuremberg, which tried

number of men who had supervised exterminations in the various

camps.

One of the defendants... Do you recall his name? Yes, Alfred Werner.

He told us that he had been trained for his work at a facility...

actually a school for mass murder, for genocide.

The school was located at the Castle Barthelm, a medieval castle in eastern

Austria.

Was there anything special about the victims at Castle Barthelm?

Yes.

The victims were not Jews, nor gypsies, nor Slavs.

They had to be Aryans, Germans, Austrians, later many Frenchmen,

Forced laborers.

Why only Aryans?

The theory was that if the student had no scruples about torturing and killing

an Aryan, he would have no difficulty with a Jew, or other,

what they called intermention, subhumans.

Can you name for the court the commandant of Castle Barthelm?

During 1944 and 1945.

Yes, I can.

The defendant called von Eiderfeld.

I thought it started rather well. What did you think?

True. I'm waiting for von Eiderfeld. Oh, yes.

Let's see what happens next.

Mademoiselle Junot, may I have a word with you, please? You stay away from

It may be of interest to you and your...

Brother.

It's all right. You go ahead. I'll join you in a minute.

Mademoiselle, you know I congratulate you on your tenacity after all these

years. I remember you very well, you know.

Do you? Yes.

You and your brother.

The interrogation in Chartres.

You're both very brave.

What else do you regret?

Murdering my mother?

Sending my sister off to die? Or what you did to Edmund?

I regret all the tragedy of the war.

We can't change the past.

We can only refrain from torturing ourselves with it.

What do you want to have on Eidefeld?

Vengeance serves no purpose.

Let me make amends without shaming myself and those...

Mademoiselle Junot, I'm an immensely wealthy man.

Drop this vendetta.

Go home. And you and your brother will be financially secure for the rest of

your lives.

Of course.

But not before you stand in that court, make your confession, and accept the

punishment that you deserve.

These are my countrymen, you know.

I... Don't think they will convict me.

Oh, I think that they will.

I should have disposed of you that day in Chartres.

How unfortunate for you that you didn't.

When

were you at

Castle Barthelm?

I was sent to Castle Bartholme in the spring of 1945.

Why?

I'd been in forced labor camps in Germany, in the rock quarries.

There'd been an accident. I was injured. I couldn't work.

I was sent to Castle Bartholme along with half a dozen French prisoners and

two women.

Did Colonel von Eiderfeld recognize you from your earlier encounter in France?

He did.

What was his reaction?

He said that it really didn't matter whether I was Edmund, you know, or not.

That I was going to die.

He said that everyone who came to Castle Barthelm as a prisoner died.

Did you ever see Colonel von Eiderfeld personally kill anyone at Castle

Barthelm?

Tell the court about it, please.

The first time was... was when we

arrived.

We were standing in the courtyard and Ida Felt came to inspect the

new shipment.

There was a horrible stench from the crematoriums and the air was

filled with a sticky soot.

One of the women was coughing and she couldn't stop it. It was aggravated by

foul air and he asked her to stop and she couldn't.

just couldn't stop.

So he killed her.

How?

He took a bayonet from one of the guards and pushed it through her

throat.

Go on, please.

Another time we were in the cells where they conducted the experiments.

There were four of us. We were strapped to a table.

They were injecting us with a drug to see how much... To

see how much... How much torture we could take

before lapsing into unconsciousness.

Gestapo were very interested in the results of these tests because, of

they would be able to prolong.

The interrogations with torture, if...

The

screams

and the noise was so...

One of the guards asked if he could be excused.

And von Neiderfeld shot him.

No further questions.

We'll proceed with cross -examination of this witness tomorrow.

You were very strong today. I was proud of you. Jeanne.

I'd never have been strong enough to do it if it hadn't been for you.

That isn't true, Edmund.

I believe it is.

But that isn't the reason why I love you. Edmund, I... I love you as any man

would love a kind, beautiful, gentle woman who's become part of his heart and

soul.

Put off taking your vows because you feel exactly the same thing that I do.

And tell me the truth. That is the reason, isn't it?

Yes.

I've been praying for strength.

To turn away from me?

Yes.

But your prayers haven't been answered, have they?

Because that's not the way it's meant to be.

Jeanne, I want you to marry me.

You say that you lost your mind, yet you claim to remember walking out of Castle

Bartel.

Yes, after the Nazis left in 1945.

How long were you held by the Russians?

Five years.

And how long after that were you found by your sister?

Nine years.

And until six months ago, you claim that you were catatonic, that you didn't

even know who you were.

That is true.

What a strange and convenient disease you have, Mr Juno.

Isn't it possible, then, that all this story you've told us about Castle

was suggested to you by the Russians?

Or by the French?

Or by your sister, Mademoiselle Juno?

And that none of it ever happened?

That it's pure fantasy?

That indeed you never were at Castle Bartell. It happened.

I was there.

We shall see.

I have no further questions.

How old were you when this

alleged rape occurred?

Alleged?

There are no corroborating witnesses, are there?

How old were you?

I was 13.

Nor are there corroborating witnesses to the death of your mother, allegedly

beaten to death by Hervon Eidefeld.

My brother Edmund was with me.

But you testified that neither of you could see what was happening from your

hiding place.

According to records, Paris Central Hospital for the night in question, an

autopsy indicated that your mother died of natural causes.

Hemorrhage during a miscarriage.

Provoked by a vicious beating.

Ordered by Major von Eidefeld.

So you say.

And, I will concede this, grew to believe as the years went by.

And on the basis of which... You resolved to revenge yourself on Herr von

Eidefeld.

Did you not make such a resolution?

Yes, I vowed to bring him to justice.

Justice?

Or punishment for these alleged crimes?

I put it to you that when Edmund was found, his marvellous, sick, blank

mind... You chose him as the instrument of your revenge, and you convinced or

conditioned him to say that he was at Castle Barthelm and witnessed crimes

never occurred, when indeed there is not one shred of evidence that he was ever

there. Oh, yeah.

The thick mind that you described does not belong to Edmund, but to you.

Those crimes did occur, and if there is justice in this courtroom, Hervon

Idafield will pay for them.

I will be brief.

Were you ever stationed at Castle Bartel?

Regretfully, yes.

From July 1944 until the end of the war.

What were your duties?

I was administrative head of the facility.

Administrative head?

Yes.

My duties involved the supply, discipline, and assignment of military

Did you have any dealings with the detainees?

No.

You heard the witness, Edmund Juno, testify that you personally committed

several murders.

I heard his testimony.

Yes.

Was what he said true?

It was pure fantasy.

Or malicious falsehood.

Did you ever see Edmund Juno at Castle Bartelm?

No.

To the best of your knowledge, was Edmund Juno ever at Castle Bartel?

No, he was not.

Were the detainees at Castle Bartel never given any sort of special

identification?

Yes.

What was that, please?

Upon arrival at Castle Bartel, all detainees were tattooed with a special

-digit identification number on the...

Right wrist.

All detainees?

Yes.

Will the court give me permission to examine the wrist of the witness Edmund

Juno? That won't be necessary.

I have no such tattoo.

Both my arms were burnt in an explosion in the quarries.

That's why I was sent to Bartelm.

The guards were unable to tattoo me, so instead they branded me for hot iron.

We have.

Will you take your value to the court? We find the defendants guilty at trial.

Carl von Eiderfeld.

The jury has found you guilty as charged.

I have no choice but to pronounce the penalty required by law for the crimes

which you've been convicted.

You are hereby sentenced to life in prison.

or in Paris?

Paris. That's where Jeanne and I are going to be married.

Oh, Jeanne, is that true?

Yes, Hélène, it's true. Oh, that's wonderful.

Congratulations to you both.

Yes, congratulations.

Bonjour,

mon dieu. Bonjour, madame.

On vous attendait. Soyez le bienvenu.

How beautiful can she look, right? Okay. On this one, I want... It's a sweeping

pose. You're all in the shot. Attention.

Attention. All right.

You're all in the shot. I need a big sweeping one on this one. Ready.

Animation.

Bon.

Charm. Charm. Good. Good. Good.

Good. That's it. That's it.

I like that one. Yeah.

Nice. That... Now, it's more feminine. You must give me...

That's what I want. Now just hold. Just hold.

With this issue, we are now the third largest selling fashion magazine in

Europe.

For those of you who just joined us, I want you to understand where we're

I'm predicting that the 60s are going to be grim, full of violence and war.

And women are going to be looking for escape.

They're going to be looking for beauty and frivolity. And couture is going to

provide it for them.

See you in a moment.

Good evening, Jack.

Oh, dear, what a lovely outfit. Thank you. Hello, darling.

Hello.

To have preserved this final work with a splendid act of love.

Wait until you hear it.

I'm looking forward to it.

By the way, your couture is coming up strongly.

Then for your next showing, you can move us to the front row of your press

section. Must I?

Yes. You're getting a bit pushy, you know, Luba.

Anyway, I'll see to it. Thank you.

Listen, Odile, you must simply join us. I better not.

Well, then come in the intermission and have a glass of champagne.

With pleasure.

Bye. See you then. See you then.

Aunt Edmund and Jeanne coming? Yes, it's supposed to be. I don't know why

they're so late.

Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers.

Hello?

Anybody there?

Jean, wait.

Let me help you.

Everything will be okay.

What happened?

I didn't think it better would do yet.

It's not due for another two and a half months. The doctor said it was toxemia.

Acute toxemia.

Toxemia?

Helen, I'm afraid she's going to die.

No.

Dr. Duran, this is...

Helen. Hello, Jan.

You're going to be fine.

You're going to be home in no time.

No, Helen.

I'm never going home.

Jan. I don't have you talking that way.

You can't give up. You have everything to live for.

There, Helen.

Where's the fighter?

I would advise an immediate caesarean.

No, doctor.

You told me what would happen to the baby.

The longer we wait, we said, the better.

Your condition is worse, Madame Junot.

I can't do it. I can't.

My baby must have every chance.

Edmund, we must wait.

Doctor, would you let me be alone with my wife for a moment?

You must have the operation.

No.

Jeanne, listen to Edmund.

He loves you, Jeanne.

Don't leave me.

I want to be with you, Edmund.

You've made me so happy.

I never knew I could be so happy.

Then you must do this for us both.

I can't.

It's for God to decide who lives and who dies.

My love will always be with you, Edmund.

Do you understand?

Helen.

If by grace of God our baby is born, you must help Edmund bring it up.

And you must love it as your own. Do you promise?

Sure.

I promise.

Pray for the baby and me.

Monsieur Junot, your wife has given birth to a little girl.

The doctors think that the child will survive.

And, Jan?

I'm sorry.

Madame Junot passed away a few minutes ago.

Good you came, monsieur.

How is he?

We don't know, hour to hour.

How terrible.

May I?

Yes, but not too long.

Come back to Chateau Vicennes, Father.

Back to stay.

Oh, I've missed it, you know.

But now it's going to be all mine.

Along with the townhouse on Rue Mayo, where you entertained your women.

But there's no more women for you, Father.

Can't even talk now?

What a pity.

But that's the reality of things, Father.

You see, even real men die.

I've asked you a thousand...

Forget it. Forget it. It's not going to work.

Hello, Luba. How's it going?

Helen, when did you get in? About an hour ago. Well, I'm glad you're here.

How's Jacques?

He does everything but shoot pictures for the last few days.

I'm worried about the September issue.

Well, I think I shall have a few words with him. Be my guest.

Frank, put the boat this way.

That's fine.

Ellen. Hi. What on earth are you doing here?

Just checking.

Checking, huh?

Lubison for you, didn't she? Yes, she's worried about the September issue. I

haven't let you down yet, have I?

Cesarina, she pushes everybody, but she is not going to push me.

Every time she does, I go in the opposite direction. Can you understand

Yes, I can understand that.

I want to talk to you, Jacques.

All right, Hélène, let's talk.

Here are five pages of fashion pictures taken against an eruption of Mount Eden.

This was my idea, Jacques. They have your photo credit and they're running in

our biggest competitor. Why?

I needed the money.

That's ridiculous. I pay you a fortune if you do it. Yes, and I spend it.

But that isn't the only reason why I took that job, Hélène.

I took it because I wanted to prove that I am still Jacques d 'Anvers and not

Hélène Junot's personal property.

I never made you feel like that, Jacques.

If you can say that, Helen, then you are blind to what's been happening to you.

Look, you're not the same girl that I met in Monmartre.

I loved her.

But not you. You've become some arrogant autocrat who has to call all the shots.

I'm sorry about this, Helen.

I was just trying to say something.

I guess I chose the wrong way to do it.

I'll resign if that's what you want.

That's not what I want, Shaq.

Look, I take your point, and I accept it.

But please promise me that this will never happen again.

Promise, old friend?

Okay.

Friends? Oh, yes.

Yes.

Now, will you please shoot those pictures?

Of course. I was just waiting for the right light.

Very beautiful.

Yes. Okay.

Now come together. I'll let you know.

Okay. That's it. That's it.

Now I want you to hold it this time.

All right. That's nice.

All right.

Okay. Deal.

That's it. A little more feminine.

That's the one. That's the one.

Well, I guess we better get back to work.

All right. I'll... I'll pay the bill and finish my espresso.

All work and no play makes Jacques a dull boy.

Oh, don't forget, you've got lunch at the Zeno's tomorrow.

Think you'll make it? Well, if we don't, it won't be my fault.

I doubt it somehow.

Good luck, darling.

Pardon me.

I hope I'm not being too forward, but I've been observing you for some time.

Yes. So I've noticed.

Forgive me. I didn't mean to be so obvious.

May I introduce myself?

I'm Marcello Ditri, from Milan.

Helene Junot.

A lovely name for a lovely lady.

May I? Well, I was just about to leave, but... Yes.

Thank you.

I've always believed that this view is one of the finest in the world.

Yes, it certainly is.

Do you know Venice well?

No, this is my first time.

I come here often from Milan to refresh my soul.

What exactly is it that you do in Milan, signor?

Dietary.

Dietary?

It's not worth talking about.

Ah, you must be Lord Byron's house.

Over there.

Now, the point of love.

Aha. Looking at you, I can't help but recall those lines.

She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless skies and starry skies.

Lovely words, aren't they?

Yes. Yes, they are.

And they fit you so well.

Thank you.

Pardon me once again for being bold, but... I'd be delighted if you let

me show you a bit of it tonight.

Well...

I've been delighted.

Please, allow me.

You must tell her.

Oh, thank you. I've booked us in, too.

This is Lubercherina Marcella Dietrich. Thank you.

Come in. Come and sit down.

Please sit down. Would you like some champagne?

No, just a little drop.

Luber is my friend and associate.

Associate?

You ladies are in some sort of business?

Oh, come on, Marcello, that's enough.

You know exactly who we are and what we do, just as we know everything there is

to know about you. For example, we know that you're struggling not to go

bankrupt with a little publication called Girl, even though you were

financed by some wealthy and, shall we say, mature ladies.

I said it wasn't worth talking about.

But cultivating me was.

I resent that.

I was attracted to you as a woman.

I didn't know who you were until you told me your name.

And even then, I had no intention of bringing business into our relationship.

Until you got to know me better.

Mademoiselle, if you imply... What is it that you want, Signor Dietrich?

A loan.

A sizable one, of course.

A sizable one is required.

Well, that fits in exactly with what we've heard.

We've heard that you have an excellent relationship with your staff and with

your advertisers. You only have one problem.

Nobody wants to buy your magazine.

Well,

we have been looking for an Italian outlet.

And in return for any monies that we may advance, we would expect to take over

Girl, change the name to Couture Italiana, and assume artistic control.

What happens to me?

You would remain, of course, as editor -in -chief.

What is, in effect, an Italian couture. I become a figurehead puppet.

A rich one.

I have my pride.

You'll also have a substantial down payment, a very good salary, and 10

% of the profit.

Impossible.

Well, if you'd rather go bankrupt...

Fifty percent.

Twenty -five.

When do we start?

As soon as the contract's drawn up.

Very well, then.

If I'm to be a slut, I'd be a happy one.

I'll take both you ladies to dinner.

I'm too bad.

If you'll have me.

Dinner will be fine, Marcella.

Well? About the metalworks in Stuttgart, it is available at the price you

specified.

I can have the trust go ahead and make the purchase, if you wish.

Good. Do it then.

It will be an excellent base of operations.

And what do the lawyers say about my release?

They are confident it will come soon. How soon?

Your friends in high places are working very hard for it. How soon?

Look, they feel it is important not to attract publicity.

How soon?

They say it will be very soon.

Good.

And they're still working on a dossier of Helen Juno?

As you instructed.

The only thing that sustains me in this place is settling the score with

Helen Juno.

Can I help you? Your hand?

Thank you. Hello. Hello.

Hello. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hello.

Hello.

And I read couture.

Bravissima. Thank you.

Please sit down. I'm going to get you a drink.

I was taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.

I had been assigned to observing troop movements from a helicopter.

We were hit. We crashed behind enemy lines. I was the only survivor.

Helen, no one knew I was alive until I escaped nine years later.

Oh, God.

All those years.

Well, I didn't think it was right to just pop back into your life, so I wrote

you several letters.

But I never got a single one of them.

But I thought you had.

No. When I hadn't received any word back, I thought I...

It was just too late.

David.

I've never stopped caring for you.

We've got a lot of catching up to do.

Oh, yes, we do.

We do.

Are you still in the army? No.

Remember I told you the family occupation was politics?

I'm a second -term congressman. There's some talk about the Senate. I have to be

back for the primaries next week. David, that's wonderful.

Did you ever marry?

No. I was engaged a couple of years ago to a beautiful girl from a fine Richmond

family.

Perfect match, it said.

But I finally called it off.

Why?

I wasn't in love with her.

I read about the death of Eric Hovland.

He was a very special man. Yes.

I heard the music he wrote for you. It's quite beautiful.

Yes, it is.

I could see you as I listened to it. He must have loved you very much.

Yes.

You know, after he died, I found out that I was pregnant.

And I miscarried.

I was told that I couldn't have any more children.

Another legacy from the war. Helen, I'm so sorry.

We're both survivors.

You and me. We could be more than that.

I want to be with you.

I want to protect you. I want so much to make you happy.

Let's get married.

What? I said, let's get married.

Are you sure that's not because I'm talking?

No, I'm not.

What about you?

No.

No? I mean, yes.

I mean, yes.

You seem to be enjoying your party.

Is there something you would like to tell us?

You're going to get married.

I was hoping it would at least be that.

Why is Couture doing this?

Couture wants to reach the Italian woman with its special point of view.

And you'll do that with one small column?

Actually, it's one small section. And naturally, we will lend our expertise

elsewhere as required.

And I will lend my expertise to Couture as well.

on Italian matters.

The truth is that the fashion world is not exclusively French.

Italy rivals France in every way.

Therefore, the arbiter of Italian fashion, Marcello Ditri, must be

with. Thank you all for coming.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Very good question.

Big, bad Marcello. He huffs and he puffs and he'll never blow the house down. It

would cost him too much. Forget Dietrich.

Let's enjoy Venice in the rain.

How can I when I've been listening to that pompous fool for an hour? Off with

his head, eh, Tsarina?

Do I detect a note of disapproval from you too?

You're not with Dietrich. You're with me.

You don't have to play, Tsarina.

What would you have me be?

Exactly what you are. A beautiful, vulnerable woman.

What are you afraid of?

I'm afraid of many things.

Professional.

Personal.

And moments like this.

Moments like this are where we live all the others.

We've both wanted each other for a long time.

There's always been the memory of Sian.

There always will be.

But I can't... I can't live in the past any longer.

Nope.

Not exactly what you're used to in Paris, Hélène, but we do our best.

Well, you do very well indeed, Mrs. Westfield. I love your house, and I

everything about Virginia.

It's not all lovely landscapes and beautiful homes, you know.

There are loads of problems.

Right here in David's district, there are farmers being squeezed, factories

closing.

Yes, David told me.

I know how important his work is, and I'm going to do everything I can to help

him.

That would be difficult, wouldn't it, with your obligations in Europe?

No, I intend to make the necessary adjustments.

We both will, darling.

We'll work it out, Mother.

That might be easier said than done.

We'll know soon enough. We're planning to get married the last weekend of

August.

David, you're forcing me to be blunt.

You are jeopardizing your whole career.

Mother, this is hardly necessary. Please, let me go on.

We've never had a president in the family.

David's father and I always thought that maybe David could be the first.

Can you imagine him as president?

Yes, of course I can.

And yourself as married to a president?

I can see myself as David's wife.

As married to a president, is what I asked.

Consider who you are.

Mrs. Westfield.

I am a respected businesswoman.

I run a huge and very successful company.

Do you think that's what they say about you in an American election campaign?

Or would it be about your questionable role in the death of Eric Hovland?

Or your days as a model in Paris when you were a kept woman?

Mother, that is a viciously distorted view of her life.

Don't be naive.

Do you think your political enemies will present a fair one?

They'll use you to beat David in November.

A defeated congressman doesn't have much future in politics, does he?

I intend to marry Helen.

If they wish to smear me, I will fight them.

Excuse me, madam.

When did you free just drove up, sir?

He said that you were expected at the committee meeting in town.

Tell him.

Tell him I'm not going.

David, darling, you must go. You promised him.

As far as I'm concerned, this argument is over.

The wedding date stands, Mother.

Have our coffee in the library.

Yes, that would be very nice.

See, Hélène?

Our name goes back almost three centuries.

Into colonial times.

Thank you.

It would be tragic if it were to die with David.

It won't.

David told me you cannot have children.

Yes, that's unfortunately true, but we plan to adopt.

It's not the same as blood, is it?

Mrs. Westfield, David told me that when he came back to America from Vietnam,

he had written me several letters. I had never received those letters.

And I wondered if you had anything to do with that.

I plead guilty.

It was only to protect him from what you are doing to him now.

Elaine, I'm being as honest as I can.

I know the sacrifice I'm asking, but if you marry David, you will take away his

future, along with the children he's always wanted, everything he's lived for

and could have been.

I cannot believe that's what you want to do to the man you say you love.

I know the sacrifice I'm asking, but if you marry David, you will take away his

future, along with the children he's always wanted and everything he's always

lived for and could have been.

Very elegant.

Very Parisian.

Charming. The French do the 19th century really well.

Lighten up, Zizi.

We promised each other we were going to enjoy this, remember?

We've made a lot of promises, Steve. Well, why don't we start off by keeping

them this time?

I always have.

Zizi.

Are we going to make this work or not?

I'll do my share.

Then let's get this meeting over with, drive out into the country and get to

know each other again.

We'll see.

We've been tremendous admirers of your work ever since our first trip to New

York. It seems that every beautiful building that we fell in love with was

designed by you two.

I really appreciate the fact that you could fly over so fast.

Well, your brother said you wanted to conquer America. It's a big country. We

figured there'd be no time to lose.

This tower we designed for you, it should suit your needs perfectly.

Journal publications can occupy as many floors as you like and you can rent out

the rest.

It's exciting. It's...

Contemporary, it's original.

I love it.

Great. There's a prime parcel available right now off Lexington, and I... It

would be a huge financial commitment.

That can hardly be helped, can it?

We are talking about a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan.

Which, nevertheless, has to be paid for.

Well, um, wherever we build it, I suggest we call it Juno Tower.

The most striking building in New York for, perhaps, the most striking woman in

Europe.

Thank you, Mr. Bryant.

Steve, please.

Steve. You know, I've got a feeling I can really get along with you. I hope

Have you noticed the way I designed the tower? I'm not going to lie. The top

floor would make an excellent penthouse for... May I call you Helene?

I'm starting to find this mademoiselle business a bit cloying.

Thank you. Good.

So... I think the only way we could manage to raise the money, Helene, would

by going public.

Listing, you know, publications on exchange and selling stock. Well, what's

wrong with that? Nothing. As a matter of fact, I will pledge the first two

million dollars worth of stock myself.

Wonderful.

What my husband means is, uh, after we discuss it, perhaps we could defer two

million of our fee.

Exactly.

Of course, going public would mean we'd lose some control, but if we really want

to expand into America, I think it's the way to do it.

I say yes.

Good. Let's... Spill the Juno Tower.

You're late.

Yes, I'm sorry.

I had to stop off at your lawyer's. Oh.

Something wrong?

They've made the purchase of the metalworks in Stuttgart, and the trust

it until...

Until you release.

What about the release?

Have they set a date?

I'm afraid there has been a complication.

It's Totenschloss.

The castle of death.

I'm afraid a release is out of the question. For now.

Idiots.

I'm so sorry.

Did you learn how to do that?

Do what?

Walk into a room and make time stop.

How long have you been working on that line?

Since I finished building Juno Tower.

Not bad.

I meant it.

Thanks. Steve, I could do with a compliment this evening.

Problems? Not a good day.

Let's see if we can fix that.

Play it, Sam.

What are you drinking?

Bourbon on the rocks.

You're a girl after my own heart.

Waiter.

Since this is becoming such a frank and honest evening,

why don't you tell me a little bit about you and Zizi?

Zizi and I met in architecture school.

I spent my whole professional life with her.

The marriage part went sour a long time ago.

I survived by having a lot of meaningless affairs.

I guess she survived by beating up on me about them.

I can't make it that way anymore.

It's changed.

I'm madly in love with you.

Like what?

I've been in love with you since the first minute I met you.

It's taken me a long time to admit it.

That's very scary to me.

I think you're attracted to me, too. Am I wrong about that?

No, you're not wrong about that.

All right, no commitments.

Just come out to the island for the weekend.

See what happens.

You mean your infamous beach house?

Infamous? Oh, yes. Everyone knows that that's where you always take weird

Maybe you can put a stop to all that.

Maybe I could.

But I don't want that kind of relationship, Steve.

Here's hoping.

Venice has hosted many glamorous affairs over the years, but none quite like

this. The spectacular Golden Ball in honor of Marcello Zittri and the 50th

of Couture Italiana.

I ask it for good, Fabio.

Spray it.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, goodbye.

I know she does.

Oh, Marcello.

Congratulations on such a wonderful party. You've done a superb job.

You do appreciate quality when you see it. Yes, I certainly do.

Enjoy it. Yes, darling. Thank you.

What the hell am I doing here?

I've come 3 ,000 miles to see the woman you're sleeping with.

I'm not sleeping with Helen Juneau.

It's just a business relationship.

Our business with her has been over a long time.

Why are we here?

We're going to a party.

3 ,000 miles for a party.

You could have stayed home.

And leave you alone with her? Very nice.

Zizi, you got a great talent for ruining a good time.

You picked the wrong color scheme for this party, Marcello.

It should be red or blood.

Ah, you're such a man for complaining, Fabrizio. Why don't you enjoy life as I

do? You're enjoying it on money you stole from me.

But it's here you shouldn't say things like that.

Especially so loud a voice.

Someone might misunderstand.

Now, you'll be discreet, won't you?

Salute.

Can you believe we're paying for all this and Marcello's taking all the vows?

mean, why are we doing it? He claims it'll help him raise the advertising

Well, couture circulation's been climbing all the time. I mean, you'd

you'd be able to raise the rates any time you want. I know.

I think there's something wrong somewhere, Luba.

And the stones are beautiful.

They look real.

I think it's wonderful. Helen!

Zizi! Steve, you made it!

Lovely dress.

Understated as usual.

Thanks for inviting us, Helene.

Oh, Steve.

Yes, Steve was thrilled.

He spent simply hours getting stuffed up for you.

But then I should be used to that, shouldn't I?

After the five years building the tower, when you and Steve spent all your time

in the penthouse together?

It's easy. I know I'm probably wasting my time, but how many times have I told

you that there's absolutely nothing between your husband and me except for

business and, I hope, friendship, right, Steve?

Of course. Great.

Then I guess I can stop flopping about like a bug on a pin, can't I?

I have your words of honor.

I think we should have a drink.

Splendid. After all, we've come 3 ,000 miles for it.

Try the Bellinis.

Natalie tells me it's something of a saxophone. No, it's just a hobby,

No John Coltrane, huh?

Hi, Elaine.

Natalie. Oh, darling.

I'm so happy you could come. Yes, I brought them to Venice as a surprise.

you like the costumes?

Two rambling wrecks from Georgia Tech. And a hell of an engineer.

We must find them a room. Oh, don't bother. We'll find something.

But telling Venice is completely cool.

One room is all we need.

I see.

Look, have a good time. We'll see you both later.

Okay. I'm a big hit with your aunt, aren't I?

I think I shocked her.

Give her time.

what I brought.

Ah, Zeno. Good to see you. Oh, Zeno. Oh, Deb, how are you? Hello, Ed. Helen, I

hope it's all right, but the Westfields were visiting on my job.

David.

Oh, David, it's good to see you. Helen, you're looking wonderful.

Thank you.

I read about your election to the Senate. I was very thrilled for you.

Thank you.

This is my brother, Edmund, Senator Westfield.

Pleased to meet you, sir. David, please.

Did your wife come with you? No, I'm joining her for dinner tonight. She's

buying venison.

Spectacular party headache. Well, it's different.

Zeno, let me show you to a table. Yes, sure.

Would you like some caviar?

I still don't like caviar, David.

You know, I've never forgiven you for what you did.

Not to even take my phone calls.

I wanted to, David, but I just couldn't handle them.

All I knew is that I made the hardest decision of my life and I had to stick

it. Any decision about us should have been ours to make, not just yours.

Why did you come here, David?

To see you.

To tell you I've never stopped loving you.

This is not doing either of us any good.

Let me call you in New York. I don't know. Why?

Because I gave you up for the right reasons and you've got the career to

it.

And I'm not sorry that I did that.

Fabrizio, all you have to do is to tell Hélène the same thing you told me.

All the advertisers are very worried, mademoiselle, you know, that you may

down Couture Italiana.

Unfortunately, Fabrizio, we may have to, unless we can raise our advertising

rate. That's not all. Tell her the whole thing, Fabrizio.

That wouldn't be necessary if Marcello Dietri didn't keep almost half of what

pay him.

What? Helen, he's telling you the truth.

That's right.

He blackmails us. We want the space in your magazine, but in order to get it,

must put up with his dishonesty.

The oldest trick in the book.

Very serious accusation you're making.

Do you have any proof of what you're saying?

Of course.

I can show you my books. Fabrizio.

Fabrizio Corelli, one of my favorite people.

One of your favorite people says you're a thief.

Thief? Yes, he said you've been taking kickbacks from the advertisers.

That's not true.

Oh, isn't it?

Fabrizio. You'll regret this, Lavo. Don't threaten me.

I'm going to introduce you to Rapali in Batuardo. Enough!

How dare you take the occasion of my own party to accuse me of a crime?

Your party? I demand that you leave at once. All of you. Marcello. Throw them

out!

Gentlemen, I think you know who's paying your salary.

Marcello, I suggest that you leave now, quietly, while you still have your

dignity.

I make a vow.

Marcello Ditri will revenge himself for this insult.

Jack, I think I'd better make some sort of an announcement.

Okay, I'll set it up.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to take a few minutes of your time. You'll

just... Bear with me.

Thank you.

We're all very proud to have you here with us this evening to share in this

golden issue anniversary of Couture Italiana.

And we're very proud of what we've accomplished so far.

Therefore, I think that you'll

all be interested to learn that Marcello Dietri has resigned.

Starting tomorrow, there will be a new executive with whom I'm sure you'll find

it easier to deal.

Thank you.

I bring good news, Hélène.

Karl von Eidefeld has been pardoned.

He was released from prison this afternoon.

Heil Hitler!

I like that concert.

Don't you, Natalie?

Yes.

Couture should be pure magic. There's too much worry about skin cancer rather

than how to get a magnificent tan, and too much slimming rather than gourmet

dining. It seems to me that with the latest knowledge and good reporting, we

combine concepts such as tan without danger, Nouvelle cuisine and a slim

gourmet. Yes.

What do you think about that?

Well, maybe Natalie would like to prepare a few examples.

I will.

I'd also like to make a suggestion about our look.

We need more excitement.

More heat.

More frivolity.

Well, then I'm going to need a lot more information.

I'll supply it.

Good. All right, I think that's it for now. Thank you, everyone.

Thanks, Luna.

Natalie, would you stay, darling? I would like to have a word with you. All

right, yeah.

How about a cup of coffee? No, thanks.

Edmund told me that you've moved in with Wade Alexander.

Why didn't you tell me? I didn't want any confrontations. So instead we have a

fate accompli.

Lost in Soho, I've researched your way. I'm sure you have.

Natalie, he's just a good -looking American boy, that's all he is. I happen

believe he's got a great future.

Does he have to be a composer or a senator?

No, but he has to be at least your equal.

I don't want to be free in the way you are, Elaine.

I'd rather live with someone I love than alone in Juneau Tower.

I'd better get started on that material for Luba.

Natalie.

I'm raising your salary 20%. Get yourself a decent place in Manhattan,

suitable. I'll pay.

I'll take the raise if you want to give it to me without strings. I think I

deserve it.

But I'm staying in Soho with Wade.

I can't believe it.

The only girl in the world I want to marry and she likes saxophone music.

Suppose I didn't. I'd have given it up.

How much more?

me not to.

But now you've got to explain yourself.

I love you.

I want you to marry me.

You can't do it, Natalie.

You can't. It's crazy.

Since when is getting married crazy? You did it. My mother did it. Just hold on

a minute.

We both want Natalie to be happy.

Let's just leave things as they are for a month or two and then see how you both

feel.

I'll agree to that.

So will I.

Thank you, Elaine.

Good. Now, I want you in Paris on Monday.

I don't understand.

Helen. Well, it's very simple. We're having editorial problems in Paris.

What problems? The staff needs shaking up. Your job will be the same as Lubin's

here. I won't go.

Helen, you're just being unreasonable.

I don't think so, Edmund.

I do.

I'll see you in my office this afternoon. We'll go over the Paris

I won't go.

I quit. I'm through.

You are throwing away your future.

I don't want the future you've got mapped out for me. I don't want to be a

carbon copy of you.

Ladies Weekly have made me an offer and they don't give a damn whom I marry.

Let her go.

Helen, she has to lead her own life. I've no intention of stopping her.

Hi.

Oh, I should have taken you up on your invitation a long time ago.

Oh, that felt nice.

I feel like a billion dollars this morning.

How about you?

I feel like two billion.

You know what I'm planning?

I'm going to build the world's tallest skyscraper.

I'm going to dedicate it to you for last night.

Just for last night?

After the weekend, I might build you a whole city.

Well, in that case, I'm going to make you a very nourishing breakfast so

got the energy to do all that.

You look like you could do with a little breakfast.

You cook, too?

Yes, and among other things, I'm an expert in pancakes, waffles.

Hey, where are those pancakes you were going to make me?

I don't cook, remember?

What are you doing here?

I live here.

This is our house.

A better question is what is Helen Junot doing here?

Wait, don't tell me.

You're doing business, right?

It's easy.

We've been miserable together for years and years. Not nearly as miserable as

I'm going to make you now!

You and her!

Easy.

Time for you to let him go.

Who are you?

Coming into my house, sleeping with my husband?

Telling me what to do with my life.

You finally lost him. Be smart.

Let him go gracefully.

Who says I've lost him? You?

You say I've lost him?

I do.

Listen to you.

Listen to you.

You really worked him over good, didn't you? Well, let me tell you something.

For your information, he's gotten this far before.

And he's never left me.

Never. And he's not going to.

Tell her.

Tell her, please. I have to leave. Look, this time it's different.

It's over. Please. Dave!

No! Let me go!

Please!

Let me go!

I've got to get some water.

Lizzie, I'm sorry.

Steve told me that he had been in love with you for a very long time.

He told you that?

Yes, he did.

I wouldn't be here otherwise.

What's happened?

What's happened to him?

It's his heart.

Steve.

Steve.

I love you. Oh, please.

I love you.

You killed my husband.

reason to hate you.

The question is, what are they planning to do about it?

I don't know.

But they have something else in common other than their hatred of me.

They all own a considerable amount of Juno publication stock.

Stop right here.

Yeah, it's me.

What's bugging you?

My client's bugging me. He wants to know how you're going to do it. Remember,

she's got to suffer.

Can you see me?

Yes. You see the girl on the stairs?

I see her.

Watch.

My dear Luba, the Count is at the head of a group of French, American, and

Italian investors starting a new fashion magazine to be published in the United

States, but designed to compete with couture.

My advice to the Count was get my old friend and colleague Luba Cirina and

put her in charge.

We, of course, had your name from other knowledgeable sources, but Signor Titri,

having worked with you...

Alain, you know Isaac exploited you.

She exploits everyone for too long.

She's been very generous to me.

Generous? She doesn't know the meaning of the word.

You are couture.

Without you, she's nothing.

We propose a starting salary of 400 ,000 per year, plus bonuses tied to

circulation.

When would I be expected to start?

Within 48 hours.

But I can't leave her now. She needs me.

So do we.

We won't wait.

Luba, we in the industry know you for the genius you are.

Create this new publication in your own image and at last the world will know

too.

Hello? Jacques, this is Marcello Dietrich.

Marcello? I'd like to talk to you about something interesting.

Money.

All right, David.

All right. Now take a look to your left.

Now straight at me.

Now give me some shoulders. Good. Fine.

Yes.

Okay. Open up. Split it different.

That's good.

Very good.

All right, back off a bit. A little bit. Just a little.

That's it.

All right, now tilt your head to the left. How are you doing here, Edmund?

Oh, hello, Helen.

I'm taking Luba to lunch. Do you want to join us?

I don't think Luba wants to have lunch with me.

Helen, there's something I want to talk to you about. I've been waiting all

morning for you to come and talk to me, but since you haven't, don't bother

going back to your office because it's been closed under my orders and all your

personal possessions have been sent back to your apartment.

Why?

You mean you don't know?

She is leaving us to take a job with Hubert Deville.

Is that true, Luba?

Yes. Deville has offered me a position where I can be my own boss.

Helen, I can't work for you anymore. You're stifling me in everything I have

offer. You've made this magazine a substitute for a husband and children,

I've led your life too long.

I'm sorry, but I've got to live my own now.

We are in the middle of the worst business crisis this company has ever

Now you're walking out to join Hubert de Vil, and you're firing your editor -in

-chief.

Look, let's all go to lunch and talk this over.

I can't abide treachery, and I am not going to change my mind.

I'm not going to change mine either.

I love you, Helen, but I'm glad I'm free of you.

Luba, keep playing right into their hands, Helen. Solve the problem. She's

traitor. She's a traitor. Don't be so damned proud. There's too much at stake.

don't care. Luba!

Luba!

Luba.

Why didn't you talk to me about this?

Because I knew you'd persuade me not to go.

Stay with us. We need you. At least till this is all over.

I need you.

I can't, Edmund. I love you very much, but I don't want to harm you.

I must go.

Please don't let this end between us. Please.

You know, my days of living dangerously are over, Helen.

Staying with me right now may be the most dangerous thing you've ever done.

Shut up.

Don't move.

Who are you?

That doesn't matter.

What I and my associates have to offer.

Offer? One million dollars.

If you call Alan Juno's loan at once.

A million dollars?

With a stock price down.

100 ,000 as evidence of our good faith.

I'll call you at home tonight.

How did we close?

Down two points.

The word on Wall Street is that if Luba quits, it's because we're finished.

That's exactly why they wanted her.

Drive down the price and then break it before the next issue of Woman of Today.

We can manage without her, Edmund.

Wall Street doesn't agree.

The information on Gore.

He's been spending four or five times more than he's earned and has been for

several years.

I'm going to send it to the Manhattan Bank.

You really think we should send it?

What have we got to lose?

If he can substantiate his position, he's in the clear.

We've got to do something.

You're right.

Send it.

I love watching you brush your hair.

Gorgeous hair.

Hello?

Mr. Gore?

Yes? Have you come to a decision?

It's agreed.

Who was that?

Someone from the bank.

Sweetheart.

Darling, you go and get yourself those diamonds.

Really?

Do you mean that?

I want you to be happy.

always come through for me.

I love you.

I love you too.

You're my man.

I'll get that, sir.

Good day.

David! Oh.

Did you come up with anything?

Yes, a group of people are trying to drive the price of Juno stock down. It

appears to be a conspiracy to take it over.

Do you know who they are? No.

I'm afraid we'll need more time.

Which is what we don't have.

Put on a way to the bank right now. They're about to call Helen's loan. What

your chances?

Not good.

All right, do everything you can to stall them. I'll use your phone to call

Washington. Talk to you later.

I'm sorry.

I really just don't see any alternative.

This is very taxing for me, too, you know.

We all have our pressures.

I have my pressures.

Just as you know, this is not something I want to do. Look, all we're asking you

to do is wait two weeks till the next issue of Woman of Today. Then the stock

you're holding will rise.

And if it fails, then the value of the stock will fall even further.

Isn't that true?

It's not going to fail. Believe me, Mr. Gore.

As you know, I'm sorry.

There's nothing I can do.

Your willingness to help.

A closed mind that bothers me.

You should have sent that material sooner.

Good afternoon, mademoiselle Junot.

What are you doing here?

I came to pay my respects.

That is, I believe, the correct expression, when one visits a corpse.

that easy to kill. You should know that by now.

When will you ever learn humility?

Never. No, of course not. I understand how these opulent surroundings must feed

your arrogance.

But they won't be yours much longer, I'm afraid, will they?

You underestimate me, von Eidefeld.

What a shame you didn't take up my generous offer in Vienna long ago.

Instead, you chose revenge.

So, this is the beginning of your destruction.

First step, public humiliation.

And then, who knows?

You're a pathetic old man.

And you don't intimidate me with your threats.

Your bravado won't help you now.

You are a walking corpse.

Auf Wiedersehen, Helen.

Yes? There's two inspectors from Central Division to see you. They say it's

important.

Who? A Mr. Paluzzi and a Mr. O 'Rourke.

All right.

Send them in.

Gentlemen.

I'm Mike Paluzzi. This is Jack O 'Rourke, Central Branch Internal Audit.

So the girl said.

Won't you have a seat?

So what can I do for you?

We've run your accounts through the central computer, Mr. Gore.

Oh?

Any particular reason?

Routine.

I know the routines, Mr. O 'Rourke.

Why is not the question right now.

The point is there are discrepancies.

What kind of discrepancies?

We think you already know, Mr. Gore.

I'm afraid I don't understand.

We'll do a more detailed audit, of course.

But at the moment, we have reason to believe that your accounts are short

$3 ,382 ,000.

There's some mistake, gentlemen.

We don't think so, Mr. Gore.

Are you accusing me of embezzlement?

We're not accusing you of anything, Mr. Gore.

We're informing you of what we found.

We'd appreciate any help you can give us.

Are the computer readouts available?

At Central.

I'd like to go over them.

Of course.

With counsel.

Absolutely.

If the both of you gentlemen will wait outside my office, I'll make a phone

and we'll set up an appointment.

Thank you, Mr. Gorham.

Still not right.

We're getting awfully close to deadline.

I need to speak to you for a moment.

Fine.

Let's take a break and come back after lunch, all right?

Right. Bring me that layout.

What is it?

Adam Gore's dead.

When?

Sometime after we left him.

It appears the bank discovered that he was embezzling huge sums of money. He

jumped out of his window.

God.

We killed him. No, Helen.

Yes, that's true. We knew he was involved in something like this. We

him. We didn't kill him.

He was trying to break us, Helen. We defended ourselves.

And we've succeeded, at least for the time being.

Because he did.

I've just been speaking to the people at Manhattan Bank.

They've assured me they... They won't call the loan until the new man has had

time to review the situation.

Probably long enough to get out the next issue.

Summer, that only makes me feel worse.

Look, why don't we call it quits for today?

Go out to my place in the country and get some fresh air.

It'll make us feel a lot better.

David, how are you?

Fine. How are you and Helen?

Oh, yeah, we're fine. We're fine. We... We had a reprieve. Yes, I heard.

Listen, hold on a minute.

Why don't we ask David out to the country?

He needs some cheerio.

Why not?

David, why don't you come out and join us at the farm?

This weekend?

Yes, this weekend.

Come on, we'll see you later. I'd love it. Bye.

Would you like some more coffee?

No, thank you.

I just can't stop thinking about Gordon.

Whether we were responsible for what happened to him.

Here.

All right.

I'll meet you down by the bridge.

Don't be long.

Helen.

I have to call Paris. It'll take a while.

I'll catch you up.

Okay, I'll walk ahead.

Are you hurt?

No. Oh, my God.

I could have lost you.

Oh, damn it, Helen.

Why do we play these dumb games with our lives?

I promise you we're going to be together. I promise you that. Oh,

darling, I want to be with you, but... Don't talk, listen to me.

I'm getting a divorce.

Oh, David, it's going to wreck your career. Hear me out, hear me out.

I'm getting a divorce because life is too damn precious to live it as Sandra

I do.

That's a lie, and I love you too much.

I can't live that way anymore.

David, I loved you. I've always loved you.

Do you think Natalie would be home from work by now?

Would you like to go and see?

I'd like to see her, Edmund.

Good.

Checking somebody?

No.

Hello. I hope you don't mind my keep dropping by like this.

Oh, come right in.

Hello, Natalie.

Helene.

How have you all been?

Oh, we've been great.

Been reading about some of your problems.

Sorry, Helen.

Thank you.

Look at him.

Edmund's been sending me photographs, but they've certainly done to him, Jack.

Will you stay for dinner?

Oh, no, I can't.

Your father's waiting out in the car.

Get him, please, Wade.

Wade, no.

I want to have a few moments with Natalie alone.

Sure.

How about a glass of wine? Oh, no, no,

thanks.

Natalie, several things have happened to me in the last few days that have made

me look back over my life and...

Realize the mistakes I've made.

They say that the greatest sin in life is the sin of pride, and I seem to have

amassed too much of that.

I think that's one of the reasons that the new magazine failed.

I mean, I wanted to do something that I wasn't capable of, but I couldn't admit

to myself that I was wrong.

Natalie, I want you to help me save it.

Help you how?

You are living the life of the woman we are trying to reach.

You have the baby, you have the career, you have the lifestyle.

Natalie, I want you to run it.

I'll help you, but you will be completely in charge.

Have you read the new issue?

Of course.

And I have lots of ideas, but... If I were to say yes... When?

Now, immediately.

I can't. I have obligations with the weekly.

Let them sue. I'll handle them.

Well... Not everything's changed about you, has it?

I hope not.

How much time is there?

We've got two weeks.

That's just enough time to shoot a new cover, to do new editorials, new

pictorials, even get new advertising.

I mean, if they can bring out Time and Newsweek every week, why can't we?

I'll give it a try.

Natalie. Oh, Natalie.

Yes?

I had some problems.

It didn't happen.

Dammit. What am I supposed to tell my client? We have a contract.

The deal was that she'd be dead by this evening.

I'm paying for a professional, and I want results.

Take it easy, will you?

You guaranteed it.

You still owe me a lot of money.

I owe you nothing.

She's still alive, isn't she?

Yeah.

Give me three days, will you?

What do you mean, three days?

You've got 24 hours.

Okay, let's go to the studio. They're shooting a new cover.

This has to be something that it fights. It is a little violent. It is not

cosmopolitan.

Not just a bit. Yes, but it should have that sense of beauty about it. Fine, now

we understand each other.

How are you feeling?

Oh, I'm feeling much better.

I think you should know. I called the police out on the island.

They found an abandoned car near the railroad station. Inside the car they

a dog just like the one that attacked you.

Shot dead.

Put in some more security.

The attempt to kill Helen Juno must cease.

First of all, she must see everything she's built, her whole life destroyed.

She must suffer the way she's made all of us. You have no right to accuse her.

If anyone's out to kill her, it's you.

Certainly, Carl, you must admit.

You've had more experience than he thinks.

Yeah, I could have killed her a thousand times.

But I will allow her no easy... death.

Who was it?

Signor Dietrich.

You still worried about your money?

Yes, I'm worried about it.

We had advanced huge sums to Goran Luba.

We sold our stock at loss to drive the price down, and she's still in charge.

you decided to have her killed, destroy Juno Publications, and so recover your

money. No, I'm not a murderer.

We all are, given the right provocation.

You got impatient and decided to hire a killer.

I hired no one, and I will not be interrogated this way.

This is not the Third Reich.

How fortunate for some people.

Madame Bryant!

What an exquisite revenge.

Helen Juno's pretty face shredded by a killer dog.

See, the thought of it doesn't displease you. That doesn't mean I did anything

about it.

I can understand if you did.

She was responsible for your husband's death and you had no career.

I didn't hire anyone.

And you, Count de V, you so numb with drink that you failed to appreciate the

beauty of our enterprise?

I wanted to pay, but in the way we planned.

Remember, I was your earliest... Darius, but you got bored and you wanted a

taste of black!

One of you is lying.

Let's start again.

No, I won't. I'm leaving.

Get out of my way! Not until we have solved this problem. You can't solve

anything. Not until the bank wants a new bank manager.

She's got time now. She's got time to get another issue of the damn magazine

out. Can't you see that? She's winning. She's winning! She's only winning if we

give her an easy way out.

A killer dog wasn't an easy way out.

So, it did you, isn't it?

Isn't it? We waited long enough. We waited for your plan to work. We waited

Gore to commit suicide. We?

Who is we? Who is your partner? Get your hands off me.

Get away from him.

Oh.

Billet.

What a pair you both make.

Vengeful neurotic woman.

And the empty compass fraud.

How fitting you should choose others to do your killing for you.

Because you have no guts to do it yourself.

Give me that gun.

Give it to me.

Almost ready. I need one rifle for this model here. All

right, everybody, animation, animation.

All right, now listen, I'm going to explain this... Hello, studio?

Yes, who's calling, please?

Miss Juno?

Miss Juno?

Telephone.

All right, you models with the long hair, it's going to get into your face.

Hello?

Von Eidefeldt is dead.

Von Eidefeldt is dead.

He killed him.

What else happened?

Miss Juneau's just coming out of the anesthetic now. How is she?

You can go in one by one, but just for one or two minutes.

I'm so glad you're here.

Don't speak.

I've called Sandra.

And she's agreed to a divorce.

Darling.

I always knew you were worth waiting for.

How long will she be in the hospital, Doctor?

Oh, several weeks at least.

The pellets missed her heart, but there was lung damage.

And that'll take a while to heal.

But she'll be as good as new now if you'll excuse me.

Thank you Several weeks It's all up to you now

I love you.

I want you.

I want you to marry me.

I don't love you.

But you will.

You'll learn to.

I've got the initial sales figures.

Yes.

Natalie, I don't want you to be disappointed.

You gave it everything you had.

No good, huh?

No good.

Splendid. What?

Splendid. Look, it'll win a sellout in every major year in the city.

Dad!

Well, Helen, the stock's at a record high, the collateral's safe, and we're a

big success.

Oh, that's wonderful, Edmund.

Oh, there she is. Oh, here, here. That's wonderful.

Look at all of this.

Thank you. How are you feeling, Miss Junot? Oh, I'm feeling just great, thank

you. Will you be going back to work? No, no, not for a while.

My niece...

That leaves Junot, who's done such a splendid job on Woman of the Day, is

to be taking over all of Junot's publications in the future.

Hello.

And you, what are you going to do, Miss Junot?

Me?

Oh, uh... I'm going to live.

Isn't this a wonderful way to end a honeymoon?

End? It's just the beginning.

Why don't you kiss me?

Or have you lost interest now that I'm a happily married woman?