Such a great movie


I'm watching it now on TCM and really enjoying it.

Kitty Collins: Tell me, little boy, did you get a whistle or baseball bat with that suit?

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Watching it too. James Mason is awesome in it.

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I enjoyed it too! But what happened to Margaret at the end? I don't remember seeing her after that scene in court.


"AIN'T NOBODY COMIN TO SEE YOU OTIS!!"--David Ruffin, The Temptations(best tv movie EVER)

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she's overtaken with emotion before she can testify, so her father walks her out to an anteroom. Her boyfriend, whose letters the father had destroyed, without ever letting her see them, then joins her and obviously mentions these letters she has never seen. When the father returns to her, she throws this in his face and how awful he was to their mother and walks out on him with the boyfriend, leaving him behind a broken man.

Of course in those days they could not be obvious about it, but I thought the father's interest in Margaret, rather creepy and suggestive of incestuous feelings for her.

Great movie, and Mr. Mason enragingly good, although the acting was somewhat exaggerated and the British actors of that time sure looked very dorky.

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Of course in those days they could not be obvious about it, but I thought the father's interest in Margaret, rather creepy and suggestive of incestuous feelings for her.


Might have had something to do with the fact that they were man and wife.

The young girls, Judith and Sarah, were played by Ann and Helen Stephens. I wonder if they were sisters.

the British actors of that time sure looked very dorky.


British child actors of the era were very precious and very annoying.

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They weren't married yet. Irregardless of the fact of being married or not, the relationship was sick between father and daughter. The lines made it so, not the acting...

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Tell us, what's so great about it?

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I will tell you. Largely forgotten now, TWS dealt with topics that no other films even touched upon. Spouse abuse, child neglect, alcoholism, suicide, and even the suggestion of a sexual relationship between Stephen (Mason) and his daughter. I thought she was his secretary and they were having an affair until I heard her call him "daddy". In 1945, these topics weren't even discussed in private, let alone the subjects of popular media. The movie was a trail blazer.

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Exactly, uncharted territory in those days. I thought it did an excellent job portraying such taboo subjects of the day

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