Tender Is the Night (1962) - full transcript

* tender is the night

* so tender is the night

* there's no one
in the world *

* except the two of US

* should tomorrow find US
disenchanted *

* we have shared a love
that few have known *

*

*

*

* though we loved once
in splendor *

* how tender,
how tender the night *



Boy: Wheee! Yay!

Let's go out again.
We didn't fall
in the water once.

Want a child?

I'm not as young
as I was a few
minutes ago.

The truth is,
the three of US,
we're jealous of you.

Usually, it's only me.

Penalty: A kiss
for showing off.

How was
the water?

Salt, with a slight
taste of scotch.

Why don't you go
out there again, dick?

You might just drown,
and Nicole might
just remarry.

(Laughs) Dear, loyal,
devoted Tommy.

Disgusting,
but true.

Dick.
Yep.



First prize.
Thanks, Abe.

Bit early,
isn't it, Abe?

It's eleven.

By no means
one of the worst
times of the day.

Papa, look at my castle.

Oh!

Where'd you
get the flag?
Mama.

Mother went
and bought it.
You did?

According to
the Paris edition of
the New York herald,

today is
the fourth of July.

It is?
Well, in that case,

of course,
we must have a party

for all of
the Americans
on the beach.

A bad party,
in short.

Dick, you said
no more parties.

Dick: Uh-oh,
who's the girl?

It's Rosemary hoyt.

A new movie girl.

She's pretty,
don't you think, dick?

Do you suppose
she talks?

Why don't you go
find out, dick?

Better still,
invite her to the party.

Oh, and give her this
before she cries.

My name is dick diver.

My wife is worried
you'll get burned.

Thank you, Mr. Diver.

Is that your wife?

Yes. We hope you'll
come to our fourth of
July party tonight.

Will you?
Oh, yes. I'd love to.

Well, the only thing is,

I'm here with my mother,
and it's our only
day here, and...

Your mother will be
very welcome, miss hoyt.

By the way, I should
confess, I did not see
your last movie.

I've only made one.

This is my son lanier,
miss hoyt.

How do you do?
Glad to meet you,
lanier.

I am glad to meet
you, too, 'cause
you are very pretty.

Oh, well, after that,

you better come over
and meet the rest
of the family.

Oh, look.

The movie star is joining
the snob section.

Man: The divers can afford
that sort of thing.

It's her money,
isn't it?

Yeah.
Packing house money.

She was one of
the warrens
from Chicago.

I would like
to know them
very well.

Now, Louis...

I don't want
to know them.

I hate these rich
expatriates that--

sh, sh, sh.

Good afternoon.
I'm dick diver.

Albert Charles mckisco.

How do you do?

My wife.
Good afternoon.

Mrs. Dumphry.
How do you do?

Monsieur carrier.
Enchante,
monsieur.

Pleased to
meet you.

My wife and I would
like to invite you

to a fourth of July party
tonight at our house.

We'd absolutely love to.
Thank you very much.

I'm glad you can come.
We'll be there.
What time?

About eight o'clock
at the villa Diana,

up there on the hill.

*

Yes, we looked for
the perfect place to live,

and we fell in love
with this.

The sea,
the orange trees,

and the wine we grow
in our own vineyards
on a hill.

You know, it was
only just now that
I realized who you were.

Who was I?

You're Abe north,
the composer.

Keep to the past
tense, please.

Sure, I met you before.

I'm Albert Charles mckisco.

I wrote
"america unlimited."

Well, long live
Henry Ford.

What's your place in
the economy of life, barman?

I shoot.

Just any old
thing, huh?

Well, buffalo in Africa,
tigers in India,

bolsheviks in Europe.

Don't you ever get
the urge to do anything?

Yes, I would like to restore
the holy Roman empire.

Hey!

Sorry, Tommy, but
the first dance with
Nicole is always mine,

and for nothing
in the world would
I give that up.

And for nothing in the world
would I be the cause of
you giving anything up.

Thank you, Tommy.
The next?
Thank you.

Dr. Diver.

I want you.
Want you very much.

Say when.

Well, just to make sure...
How about two-twenty?

By no means one of
the worst times of the day.

No!

Oh, the divers
are darling.

I'm agreeing
with you, miss hoyt.

In love, too,
aren't they?

Yep. But did anyone
ever tell you

what beautiful
nostrils you have?

Now stop.

Oh, I'd love to see
the rest of the house
sometime,

and the gardens, too.

Ask dick to show you
the gardens.

He hung the lanterns,
and he's very proud of them.

Oh, I'd love to.

I believe I was
promised this one.

You were indeed.
Excuse me.

Miss hoyt.

I've been looking for you
in every place.

I'm Louis.

What do you do, Louis?

I teach French
to Mrs. Dumphry,

but she learns
very, very slowly.

But you, I can teach you
in six or seven nights.

Would you care
to dance?

Yes.

You look marvelous
tonight, Nicole.

It will be something
to take away.

Away? Oh, no, Tommy.

Where?

When?
Tomorrow.

Paris, and after
then, Africa.

Not that nonsense of
joining the Spanish
foreign legion.

It's my kind of
nonsense, so why not?

Because we'll
miss you, Tommy.

(Laughs)
Come on, Nicole.

I've little excuse for
having been here this long--

feeling as I do.

Oh, Tommy,
you absolute child.

It's true what I say.

It's also true that
any feelings I have for you

needn't concern you
in the least-- or dick.

But dick loves you
as much as I do.
Believe me.

I do believe you.
That's why I'm going to Spain.

Louis: Well, please,

I just thought
as you live in Hollywood

you would not think
there is anything
so wicked or wrong.

I'd rather not
talk about it.

Excuse me, Tommy.

Darling.

Go rescue golden girl.

She's safe.

Please, darling.
Go dance with her.

I don't know what
that word means,
and please don't tell me.

Excuse me, Louis,
your pupil awaits.

Not now. Please.
Oh, yes.

I apologize for Louis.

Please don't.
Mother brought me to Europe
to acquire experience.

To acquire it?
Or resist it?

That she left to me.

And Louis?

Louis is a resistible man.

( Tune ends )

* ( Up-tempo )

Do you like this?

I hate it.

Come on.

She's a very pretty girl,
Tommy.

It's her profession
to be.

She's what people call a...

A healthy girl.

She's healthy
and she's pretty
and I don't care.

You are a beautiful
woman, and I do care.

(Laughs)
In that case, Tommy,

you may get me another
glass of champagne.

( Tune ends )

( Applause )

( Plays melody )

Enjoying your
bad party, dick?

Yes, as long
as we're here.

How long do you think
it will last?

Oh, ten, twenty years,
maybe, it'll still
be going on.

The rest may have left,

but we'll still be here,
the two of US.

A little tired, maybe,
but by the summer sea.

Yes, please.

After all,
we're the only two
here right now.

The rest are all
people we've invented.

Yes.

But stay very close to me,
darling.

Don't ever leave me.

Because without you,
I'm not alive.

( Band begins new tune )

One more?
The last one?

Why, Tommy, you know
it's not going to be
the last.

Last or not,
I want it.

Mr. Diver?

Mrs. Hoyt, would you like
to see the garden, too?

No, Mr. Diver,
I think I've seen
all my gardens.

You two go ahead.

*

You have everything,
haven't you?
I have?

A beautiful home,
a beautiful wife
everyone adores.

And I speak French with
hardly a trace of an accent.

Right now, Mr. Diver,
you refuse to take
anything I say seriously,

but the time will come.

"Doctor" diver,
if you don't mind.

You're a doctor?

Everyone I've heard
calls you "mister."

That's the sort of
a doctor I am.

There's no mystery
about it, child,

I didn't disgrace myself
at the height of my career

and have to hide out
on the riviera.

Well, are you still
practicing?

Never stopped.

I think you're
the most wonderful person
I've ever met.

Except, of course,
for my mother.

She's a charming woman.

Very perceptive eyes.

Have I?

You have
romantic eyes.

You really think so?

They'll always see
only what they want to see,
nothing else.

Right now
they see you.

And the lanterns
you've hung in the garden.

Who told you I did?
Nicole.

And she practically insisted
you show them to me.

She did?
Yes.

Was there anything
wrong with that?

I think
we'd better go back.

Dick.

Nicole is upstairs.

I don't think
we have danced yet.

Anything wrong with her?

Mrs. Diver, I mean.

No.

( Door locked )

Nicole?

Nicole.

Please let me come in.

Nicole.

Nicole?

Go away.

Go away.

Nicole...

Now try to pull
yourself together.

Leave me alone!!!

Mrs. Mckisco!

Will you please
get out of here?

( Locks door )

I hate you.

I hate you!

All right...

Tell me why.

You swine.

You took that child
into the garden down there.

Nicole... you wanted
Rosemary here.

You'll wake the children!!!

( Sobbing )

Do you remember? Hmm?

You got me to ask her.

You asked her to have me
show her the garden.

Yes...

Because you wanted it,
that's why!

( Sobbing )

You took me into the garden...

And made love there...

Because it's secret,
and you're ashamed of me.

Nicole...

This is not real.
Do you understand?

This is fantasy--
something imagined.

That's what
you always say,
Dr. Diver.

Something that did not happen
except in your own mind.

There.

Take that.
You'll feel better.

From what I just
saw and heard upstairs--

Tommy: Mrs. Mckisco.

I forbid you
to talk further
about the divers.

Hey, barman!

Where do you get off
forbidding my wife anything?!

Albert! It's time
we went home.

Hear, hear.

Uh, will all of you
please excuse Nicole and me?

We had a long day
in the sun and my wife's
gone to bed.

My dear fellow,
no apologies.

Louis,
I told you to let me know
when it was one o'clock.

Good night.

Good-bye. It's been
a marvelous party,

and thank you
for asking me.
Thanks for coming.

Good night, sir.
Good night, Louis.

It was a lovely evening.

It was the most wonderful
evening I've ever spent.

I'll, uh, tell Nicole that.

You know, we're going
to Paris in the morning.

I wish we weren't--
we'll see each other
again soon, I'm sure.

Good night.
Good night.

Good night.
Night.

How's Nicole?

She's all right.

I gave her a sedative.

Will you tell her
good-bye for me?

I will.

And to you, dick.
I wish you luck, all good.

Good-bye, Tommy,
you coward--

running off
to a war.

( Both chuckle )

Please hurry.
Oh, keep your shirt on.

Good night, diver,
we had a wonderful time.

Thank you very much.
Glad you could come.

Good night.
Good night.

Well, I just hope
you enjoyed yourself.

Why, sure I did!

These aren't really
bad people at heart.

Trouble with me is,
I'm my own worst enemy.

Not while
I'm alive.

Daddy?

LAN.
What are you
doing up?

Go back to bed.

Topsy needed
a drink of water,

and last time you said--
you go back to bed.

That's a good boy.
What's that noise?

Nothing.
One of the guests.

Daddy?
Shh!

Will you be quiet?
You'll wake your sister.

She's already
awake.

No, I'm not.
I'm asleep.

Daddy?

Yes, what?
Go to sleep.

Can you count up
to ten backwards?

Sure I can.
Now good night.

But count to ten backwards.

Lanier, will you
go to sleep?

Nicole?

Darling.

Sorry.

No. No...

Don't be.

Yes.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.

We're going to win.

You will.

I won't. I can't.

You will.
You will.

You will.

What went wrong, dick?

I was doing so well.

Wasn't I?

Wasn't I?
You were.

You are.

No.

I'll never be all right.

And you'll always
be all right.

You're one of those people
that's meant to work well
in this world, my darling.

I'll always be like this.

No good for thee, my darling...

No good for thee.
Nicole.

It won't be like that.

I swear, whatever happens,
it won't be like that.

Oh, dick.

It won't?

Do you really in your heart
think it won't?

On my life.
I swear it.

Remember...

Who I love?

What I swore,
what I promised?

Yes. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

I remember.

* ( Piano )

What time is it?

After six.

You're up early.

Late.

Either way.

What I always say is,

a party's at its best
when everybody's gone home.

Abe, I wish you'd
finish that damn tune
or throw it away.

I told you that in Paris--
ten times.

Yes. Almost
as many times

as you were gonna finish
that opus about schizophrenia

or whatever it is.

( Glass breaks )
Oops.

My autobiography.

Tell you what.
Let's all pack up
and go to Capri.

Huh?

Listen, Abe...
The party is over.

Terminé. Finito.

Compris?

Says who?
Says I.

Nicole and I are going to
spend the next part of our lives

quietly...alone.

I'm going back to work.

I'd like to see the day.

Look, Abe,
I'm fed up.

I'm tired of picnics,
parties and balls.

Now listen, dick,

ten years ago i--

I had two musicals
on Broadway.

One of 'em
wasn't bad, either.

Mr. North,
I'm in no mood
for biographies.

Sorry to bore you, Mr. Diver.

My point, in brief,

is that I can finish a tune,
and you can't finish--
Abe.

Go to bed.

( Abe playing piano
in distance )

Dick (thinking):
Dr. Dohmler, you knew
didn't you? You knew.

Dr. Dohmler:
We can thank Dr. Diver
for a brilliant result
with your sister.

We consider the progress
she has made since he took over
the case remarkable.

Yes, but when will my sister
be able to leave here?

Dr. Diver?

I like frankness,
doctor,

and as her guardian,
I'm entitled to it.

I should hope
in a matter of months

now that we've uncovered
the precipitating factor--
the clue.

Perhaps if you had been
more forthright with US,
miss Warren,

in the beginning,
and at the other institutions

where your sister spent
so much of her young womanhood.

I beg your pardon.
Just because I've listened to
your so-called theory, clue,

is no reason that
I accept it as the truth,

and besides, if anything like
that had happened to Nicole,

she'd have told me
years ago.

Miss Warren,
you don't understand.

That would have been
impossible.

The secret was buried
deep in her subconscious.

And but why,
pray?

Your father
was your sister's
only protector,

her god,
supreme and perfect,

on a pedestal,
high, high, high.

And then came this...
This event.

And she was unable
to reconcile her former
concept of your father

with the shock--
her mind broke.

(Laughs)
That's sheer fantasy.

She always was
a creature of fantasy.

When my mother died,

Nicole became the apple
of my father's eye.

If anybody had even
gone near her,

he would have killed him.

I saw that look.

My father, one of
the most distinguished

and respected men
in america?

I didn't say he wasn't,
miss Warren.

But what are you implying?

Did Nicole say anything?
What did she say?

You're accusing my father,

the most perfect human being
I ever knew,

of this sordid
criminal act?

Please, miss Warren.
We are accusing nobody.

And you must
put out of your mind

the words "sordid"
and "criminal."

We are not moralists here,
let alone police.

Only by knowing the truth
can we help your sister.

Forgive me for
bringing this up,
miss Warren,

but Nicole seems
very preoccupied

with the idea that
your father took his own life.

It was an accident.
He was--he was overworked.

Yes, but before his death
he said nothing that would
shed some light on this?

Please,
miss Warren.

He only said--

however trivial.
Who knows?
It might help.

It was not trivial.

I was with him just before he--

just before he died,
and...Father whispered--

I always thought
he imagined things
before the end--

he said...

He did say only god
could forgive him for
the wrong he'd done Nicole.

You've helped your sister,
miss Warren.

I hope father
understands why I told you.

He would want her to be well,
you must believe that.

Of course he would.

Of course.

When this is all over,

we will give you
some more positive proof
of our gratitude.

The most positive proof
you can give

is to understand Nicole
and love her.

Are you sure
it's all right,
my not seeing Nicole?

Quite all right.
She didn't know
you were coming,

and I won't tell her
you were here.

That is miss Warren,
the sister of Nicole, nicht?
Yes, doctor.

It's not bad
for the clinic
that she came here.

After all,
the warrens are big--

so big as Morgan's bank
and rockefeller.

It will be good
for all of US.

Sehr gut.

Franz...

I don't even know
if it's going to be
a total cure.

Ha ha! Total cure.

Enough that you have
gone so far so quickly.

Dick, what is this
new modesty you have?

I remember once, in your
shameless American way,

you said, "I want to be
a good psychiatrist,

maybe the greatest one
that ever lived."

I'm afraid
I was still very young.

Franz...

In the dead hours
of the morning

did you ever lie awake
in a sweat, thinking...

"Dear god, am I like
the rest, after all?"

Am I like
all the rest?
Ha ha ha!

No, no, no, no, no.

I lie awake worrying
that I am not.

Opposites, you and I.
That's why we
work well together.

We will have
our own clinic one day.

Yeah...
Maybe this one.

You will see, dick.

Well, I'm seeing Nicole.
See you later.
No, no, no.

We have a drink together
to your future,

to ou future.

Guten tag, Dr. Diver.

I'll get miss Warren
down now.

Danke schoen.

Miss Warren,
Dr. Diver is here.

Nicole:
Thank you.

Hello, captain diver!

( Clicks heels )

I've been waiting for you.

Did you see the sketch
I started of you?
Yes.

I tried to think of you
as a captain.

Well, it's very good.
And very flattering.

Well, I don't know whether
I like you as a captain or not.

I don't like the army
or things like that.

I prefer to
think of you as a...

As a great white cat!

Meow!

( Both laugh )

Well, how have you been?

Oh, I...

Still think one thing today
and another thing tomorrow.

That's really all that's
the matter with me...
In my head.

But you know, i--

my stomach still gets
tied up in knots,

and it hurts.

One doctor in Chicago
said I was bluffing.

But that was years ago.

You feel the same way
now as then?

No.

Now I think...
Love is all there is

or should be.

I can understand that.

Oh! They understand you
to death here!

You get lazy!

I've got some
phonograph records
my sister ordered from america.

Shall I put one on?
Yes. It's been a long time

since I've heard
any new music from home.

You know,
you'd like my sister.

Her name is really Beth,
but we've always
called her "baby."

I don't know why.

She's been married twice,
but she still calls
herself Warren.

Baby was a duchess once,
for a year or two.

( Record plays )
This one's called
"I never knew."

* ( Up-tempo )

*

( Music stops )

Nicole, how would you
like to go downtown?

Downtown?
You mean in Zurich?

You mean just go there?

The two of US.

Well, what would we do?

Take a walk.

When?
Right now.

Through the streets?

There'll be
thousands of people
in the streets.

I know.

Well, dick, i--

well, you see,
it's my clothes.

I haven't been to town--
to any town--

you look fine
just as you are.

Oh, no, i--
I hate myself in this.

And...my hair.

Nicole, nobody
gives a damn about
your hair in Zurich.

Oh, dick, i--
I can't do it.

You're going to do it.

You're not cross with me?
No.

But it wouldn't matter
if I was.

You don't have to be concerned
about my feelings at all. Ever.

Understand?

Yes, dick.

Can I put on a hat?
Sure.

Suppose you don't like it?

I'm crazy about it already.
Go on, put it on.

( Laughs excitedly )

Dick: We're going out
for a while.

We'll be back in
about an hour.

Come on.

You like the world?

I do with you!

You'll find
it's a wonderful place,
even without me.

( Bicycle bell rings )

You know,
I had a bicycle once.

You did?

What are they
looking at me for?

What are you
looking at them for?

( Laughs )

Stockholm!

And Cairo.

Oh, I'd love to go.

London. You know...

I was taken there
when I was eleven.

I don't remember
a mortal thing about it.

The fog, maybe.

Oh. (Laughs)

Dick...

Do you think that people
see that I'm a crazy woman,

or whatever I am?

Nobody in the world
sees any such thing.

Well, then they're blind,
because I am crazy--

but with happiness, dick.

And gratitude.

That's not abnormal,
is it?

Being grateful?

Oh! I want to run!

Just run!

Hey!

( Both laughing )

Ah...

That's the most exercise
I've had...

Since I ran after an ambulance
three miles at the argonne.

I can run very far.

However far I run, will you
always catch me, dick?

Always?

No, Nicole,

there'll be other men
to do that.

Many of them.

Well...

Dick, there's something else.

All right.
What is it?

There's something
at the back of my head

that keeps asking
a terrible question.

Yes?

I want to know...

Whether I'll ever be able
to be at ease with other men

the way I am with you.

You certainly will,
after I discharge you.

Discharge me?

That sounds so cold,

like divorce me
or something.

You don't think
I'll be fit to marry anybody
for a long time, do you?

I don't see why not.

You're attractive,

bright, charming...

Thank you for
telling me that, dick.

Well, I, uh...

Think we'd better
be getting back.

I have a patient waiting.

Do we have to?

Dick:
Of course,

miss Warren still suffers

from a certain
social maladjustment.

But I feel that contact
with the outside world
is now indicated.

Her fear of men
has greatly diminished.

Unless you yourself
now aggravate the problem,
doctor.

I'm not sure
I quite understand, sir.

Dick, your position
is a difficult one.

Miss Warren is
an attractive woman,

but the situation
must be terminated--

the transference,
the dependence on you,

her infatuation--ended.

Of course.

Certainly before
she is sent out
to the world alone.

Now you must ask yourself
quite candidly

what are your own feelings
in the matter?

My feelings?

Your feelings,
Dr. Diver.

I'm in love with her.

Du lieber gott!

I was afraid of that.

Afraid mostly for you.

Hmm. Love.

How can a first-class brain
with a brilliant future

fall in love, so-called,
with the broken mind
it is healing?

There have been cases
of good marriages

between psychiatrists
and patients.

Yes, so I've been told.

But--but even in these cases,

it is the tyranny of the weak,
the tyranny of the sick!

First you learn...

To live life their way.

And then later on,
to like their way.

But if the patient
is already cured!

Talk like a scientist, dick,
not like a love-sick schoolboy.

You cannot be both lover
and psychiatrist
to the same woman.

You cannot be a guide,
a doctor, a god,

and a husband.

For when she discovers
that she married a human being,

a fallible human being--

crash! Disaster--

for one or the other
or for the both.

Now, dick,
I have been your teacher--

your very proud teacher--

but you are not a pupil
any longer.

You must do what you think right
as a doctor, as a man,

and in the best interest
of your patient.

More than ever,
if she be the woman you love.

I'm sure you can count upon me
to do that, sir.

Coffee?

Aren't you glad
you'll be through with
doctor and sanitariums?

Yes, I suppose so.

It will be nice
to have fun like other people.

Oh, dick.

Don't move.

I'd like to draw you
just the way you are now.

( Laughs )

Now, you mustn't
overdo things
for a year or so.

Go back to america
and be happy.

Oh, I don't want
to go back to america.

I want to stay here--
in Switzerland, I mean.

Oh, you've had
enough of Switzerland.

Go back home and fall in love.

Oh, i--
I couldn't do that.

Why, sure you can.

Maybe not
for a year or so,

but sooner or later.

You can lead
a perfectly normal life

with a houseful
of beautiful descendants.

I, uh, I suppose
I won't be fit to marry
for a long time.

Oh, nonsense.

You'll be pulling
your own weight
in no time at all--

long after your friends have
been carried away screaming,

I assure you.

( Laughs )

Uh, your sister said
she'd pick you up
about the tenth of the month.

Oh? Well, I'm glad
you'll be meeting her at last.

I'm afraid I won't
be meeting her.
I'm going away.

When?
Tonight.

I'm taking the train
to Geneva.

Dr. Dohmler has
kindly given me
a leave of absence,

and I want to do
some more work on my book.

Oh, but...
But what about me?

Nicole...

Think how happy
you're going to be
now that you're cured.

Cured?
Yes.

Yes.

You see,
for months and months

there seemed such a reason
to be cured.

And when you lose that,
it seems it wasn't
any reason at all.

Now, Nicole,
you mustn't say that.

The very fact that
you've made a complete comeback
after all these years

proves that
the precipitating factors
of the--

well, it...

It's getting rather late.

I...i guess I'd better
be getting back.

I'll take you back.

Oh, please, doctor,
couldn't I go back alone?

That is,
if you think it's all right.

Of course
it's all right.

Well,
good-bye, doctor.

Good luck.
Have a nice vacation.

Have a nice life.

( Laughing )

Oh...

Hello!

Dick!
Nicole!

How are you?

Well, tell me.

Wonderful!

How good you've
come here too, dick.

You must dine with US.
We're at the palace.

Baby's with US.
You'll get to meet her at last!

Oh, I'm sorry.

Dr. Diver,
this is captain barman,

and the conte de marmora.

How do you?
It's a pleasure.

How's Zurich these days?

Oh, as healthy
and dull as usual.

I'm going back tomorrow.

So soon?
Do you live
in Zurich?

No--
do you really have to
go back tomorrow?

I must. I'm going to
zoom down the hill at dawn
on my bicycle.

Ha! With me on
your handlebars!

No, I mean really, dick.
Will you?

I can't think of more fun.

Oh, no, Nicole,
I will carry you down
in my arms.

Or I will throw you,

and you will fall gently
like a feather.

( All laugh )

As long as Dr. Diver
is there to put
the pieces together.

Oh, Tommy,
how right you are.

You have no idea.

You're not at the palace?

No, no, I'm at
a little pension,

the rosier,
further down the hill.

Oh. Well, dinner at eight,
black tie.

Then I'm afraid no dinner.

Oh, don't be ridiculous.
Come as you are.

( Both laugh )

*

Baby, will you
dance with me?

Have this one
with Nicole, Tommy.

Will you?
Yes, Tommy.
Dance with me.

I'd like that.

You have the next one
with me, Dr. Diver.

I don't think
you'd like that.
( Laughs )

They were very indefinite
at the clinic

when I took Nicole away.

Old Dr. Gregovius--
or whatever his name is--

said that she should lead
as natural a life as possible.

Well, that's not so easy
with a wild creature
like Nicole.

You must remember,
she's seeing life
for the first time.

Before I knew it,
almost in front of my eyes,

she had her hair cut off
because of a picture in vogue.

You have to understand
my part of the problem--

not only am I her sister,
but I am her guardian,
her trustee.

Cutting her hair
is all right.

She's an eccentric.
You can't change that.

But how does anybody
know the difference

between what's eccentric
and what's...Crazy?

Oh, Nicole is all
fresh and happy.
You needn't be afraid.

Suppose I were to
take her home to Chicago.

Our father gave lots of money to
the university medical school--
millions.

What could be better than
if she met a nice doctor?

Not too old
but very stable.

You mean just
call up the Dean and say,

"have you a nice,
stable, any-age doctor
you don't need?"

No doubt this is a very
amusing situation to you.

Not to me.
And it won't be
to the doctor.

Oh, there'll be plenty
who will jump at the chance.

Well, anyhow,
when you start shopping around,

you'd better take
somebody along with you
who knows his doctors.

Then you won't get
a pig in a poke.

Let's get to the point,
diver.

What about yourself?

Not interested,
thank you.

I was under the impression
that you like Nicole.

I do.

I more than like her.
That's why I'm not interested.

Suppose Nicole were poor
instead of extremely rich?

Money has nothing
to do with it.

Our kind of money has
a lot to do with anything.

Oh, I know there's
the type of man that
thinks money, big money,

will demoralize him,
emasculate him
or something.

Money never hurt a good man--
except in books.

It's been very interesting
meeting you again, miss Warren.

Sit down, diver,
I haven't finished
with you yet.

I'm sorry, miss Warren,
but you have.

*

Tommy, forgive me,
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid--

I'm afraid I understand.

Dick!

Your dance, doctor.

Right out here.

You'd only die of cold,
and my work would have
been in vain.

I didn't know how to dance
when I last saw you.

Aren't you proud of me?

Very.

You seem absolutely...

Ha! "Absolutely"
is how I feel, dick!

( Music stops
to applause )

Did baby annoy you?
I think I annoyed baby.

You don't ever
have to like her.

I just want her
to like you.

And I could see she did.
She's got a good eye, dick.

I'm sure.

At the clinic you...
You did like me a bit,
didn't you?

Or was being nice to me
part of the treatment?

Part of the treatment.

If I hadn't been sick,
would you, uh...

I mean, the sort of woman
you might have...

Oh, you know what I mean.

Now you're teasing yourself,
my dear.

Why, once I knew a man
who fell in love with his nurse.

Oh, bull.

That is a vulgar
expression.

Well, what about it?
You don't think
I have any sense.

When I was sick,
I didn't have any.
But I have now.

And if I don't know you're
the most attractive man
I ever met,

then you must think
I'm still crazy.

It's my hard luck,
all right.

But don't pretend I don't know.

I know all about you and me.

You Warren girls
know all about everything,
don't you?

Well, here's something
you'd better know.

You're very attractive,
but I could not fall in love.

You won't give me a chance.

A chance?
A chance at what?

Give me a chance now.

I can remember
how I stood waiting for you
in the garden

holding all myself
in my arms like
a basket of flowers.

( Laughs )
It was that to me,
anyway.

I want you to
go back through those doors...

Back to your life.

That's what I cured you for.

That was my work.
It's finished.

If I am cured, I...

I can love
and hope to be loved back.

What else is there for
a woman to be cured for?

Isn't this true, dick?

A woman can fall in love...

Even a woman who's been sick,

without it being madness
or...Neurotic need.

Even a woman who spent
years and years and years
in a sanitarium

can fall in love.

All right, doctor.

If you're still afraid.

Nicole!

( Church bells ringing )

( Music, chatter )

Enjoy yourself.

Best wishes for
a long, happy life together.

Thank you, Tommy.
All my best, dick.

Thank you, Tommy.
Be sure and come
and see US

after the honeymoon.

I hope it's not going to be
a long honeymoon.

Oh, very short.

But be sure and come
and see US, Tommy,

always come and see US.

Our best wishes, dick.

And congratulations
again, Nicole.

Oh, thank you, doctor.

May I steal him away
just for a moment?

Well,
only for a moment.

Thank you.

It's good to love so bravely
and be loved in return.

You were never
married, doctor?
Yes, I was married.

You will be luckier,
I hope.

You will be
coming back soon
to work.

I will, doctor.

And while you are away,
work a little on your book.

This can be so important
for all of US.

Thank you, doctor.
I will. I'll work on it.

I shall miss you,

even for this short time.

These past three years
have meant very, very much.

Thank you, doctor.
I hate to interrupt,

no, no,
no interruption.

This is very important.

When you're alone.
Open this.

What is it,
instructions?
(Laughing) Oh, idiot!

It's that embarrassing thing
that some people refer to
as a small check,

only this is a big check.

Thank you, baby,
but I thought I made
my position clear about money.

I never go back
on my bargains.

But we didn't
make a bargain.

I married Nicole
because I loved her--
no arguments, brother dear,

you're in the family now,
so what's the difference?

Oh...

After como,
where do you go?

Back to Zurich.

Right.
Back to Zurich.
And to work.

Never heard
such nonsense.

Do you realize
this bride of yours

have never even
seen Paris?

Let along Cairo
or venice or the riviera.

The riviera!
Could we, dick?

I...think
we'd better go.

( Thunder crackles )

Nicole: It's so wonderful to be
just like everybody else...

To reach out and find you
all warm beside me.

Shall we just love and love?

But I love the most.

Fantasy.

And I can tell--

what can you tell?

I can tell when you're
away from me even a little.

All: Olé!

Hello, baby!

Yes, I hear you!

Baby, you have no more idea
what dick is like than--

no, no, I want you
to settle all the money matters,

because it doesn't matter in
the least how much I'm allowed.

I mean, how little.

We are going to live
very simply in Zurich
after our trip.

Dick has almost enough
for both of US.

Delete "almost."

Have I been all right?

Oh, I'm so happy, I...

I dare not breathe
for fear it might end.

There's no need
to open the card to tell
that these are from baby.

Why, no!
It's from Tommy barban.

"With love,
from Casablanca."

Ah!
Tommy's a good friend.

He's fond of you, dick.
Well, that's nice.

I like people
to be fond of me.

How about you?
Are you fond of me?

More than ever...

Now that there are
three of US.

Shows I'm normal,
doesn't it?

Sometimes it's rather
frightening being normal--

you're expected to behave
just like everybody else.

Dick: You know, lanier is
a very handsome boy.

( All singing
"auld lang syne" )

*

* for old acquaintance
be forgot... *

hey, Abe!

( Both shouting )

I want you to meet my wife.

Here. Abe!
Who's your
undistinguished friend?

*

( * ends )

( Cheers, applause )

Ladies and gentlemen,

we are fortunate this evening
in having with US

the world famous
American composer
Abe north.

In his own style,
he's going to wish US all
a happy new year.

( Applause )

* ( Up-tempo )

Dick...

Look at that pretty girl.

Who's the man--
her father?

I haven't
a clue in the world.
Come on. Let's dance.

Did you make your
new year's resolutions?

Select one
and we'll keep it.

To make this
the happiest,
healthiest,

most peaceful year
of our lives.

We're off to a good start!

( Dick and Nicole singing )

* I wonder why

* dabba dabba dabba

* won't someone
hear my plea *

* and take a chance with me

* because I'm nobody's

* won't you be my baby?
Happy new year.

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

* oh, won't you be my baby?

* da-Dee-Dee-Dee-Dee

* baby, da-doo-doo-doo-doo

* won't you be my

* ba-by?

* do-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

* amba-damba-damba-
damba-damba-damba *

( both laughing )

A-one...

And a-two...

Unbutton your shoe.

( Growling )

Ow!

I am not going to

let...go...of you!

( Chatter, laughter )

But you know something,
darling,

that we have to do,
and soon?

What?

Go back to Zurich.

Oh, no, dick.

Please. Why?

It's an obligation
that I have

to my profession,
to myself,

to get back to work.

Oh, but why does it
have to be in that
clinic at Zurich?

We're in such
a wonderful world.

It's a promise I made
to Dr. Dohmler, to myself.

I know...

I know, your work.
Your book.

Uh-huh.

It's very important
to you.

It's very important
that you work somewhere
very quiet.

Baby told me about
a villa on the riviera,

high above the sea,

where we can be warm
and brown...

And quiet.

And we'll build
a special workroom for you.

Oh, my sweet.

You know, darling...

That's wonderful.

But it doesn't
answer our needs.

You mean my needs,
don't you, dick?

It's what you must mean.

Something I've done.

No.

No, Nicole.

I'm a doctor.
A professional man.

Yes, yes, I know
you're a doctor.

And I'm your patient,
and I always will be.

Oh, please, darling.

Let me go.

Dick, would it be better for you
if we separated?

Nicole.

We're never...
Never going to separate.

Would you let me
keep my babies
if we did?

Nicole.

We won't.

We won't go back to Zurich.

We'll...

We'll...

*

Nearly finished
your song.

It's called
"the diver song."

You're the inspiration
of the whole thing!

Doctor, I've got a block!

( Shouts, sobs )

Dick: Abe.

Go to bed.

Nicole:
Good morning.

Good morning.
How are you feeling?

The best--
the best ever.

I've got a plan.

We'll take the speedboat,
zoom across the bay--

and I suppose have
a couple of bottles
of champagne

and a chicken sandwich--
and nothing doing.

It's Zurich.

What?

Zurich, Switzerland.

Oh, dick, no!

When?
Right now.

But last night was--

it'll never--

I promise--

Nicole,
it isn't last night.

It's all the nights,
and all the lovely days.

And we are going...
To save our lives.

Well, dick, i--

I'll go anywhere
in the world you say...

As long as it's with you.
Good.

Close the house.
Shut it down, nail it up.

I'll go to Zurich today,
see dohmler, and get
a house for US.

And I'll meet you
and the children
in Paris on Thursday,

and we'll all go
to Zurich together.

Don't you worry
about the house.

I'll take care
of everything.

Thank you, darling.

We'll have a new life...
And a good one.

Is it Dr. Diver?

Professor dohmler.

Well, of course!

Of course! Come to me.
Welcome.

Pull that chair up here
and sit down.

( Both chuckle )

What happened?
What's the matter with you?

Well, what happened
is quite simple: I'm old.

You? Never.

At my youngest
I was never as young
as you, dick.

But surely
you're not seriously ill?

( Chuckles )
"Seriously."

I would rather say "finally."

But dick, I can see
you are well.

But are you...
Seriously well?

What frivolous errand
brought you to Zurich?

To see you, of course.

And--
yes? And?

I want to come back.

To go forward, I hope.

How is Nicole?

Tell me, how is
the frau dokt diver?

Well, that's one
of the reasons--

one of the reasons--
I came here, professor.

There have been relapses?

Bad ones?

It isn't the relapses
themselves, it's...

It's the waiting.

It's the fear of them that
puts the greatest strain on US.

That was not too difficult
to predict.

It is the tyranny
of the weak.

You still don't understand
that when the relapses end...

The love ends.

When she finds out that
she married a human being,

a fallible human being,
not a god...

You may smile,
professor,

but I think it possible
Nicole will love me
as a human being.

Of course,
all things are possible.

But what will you be
by that time?

Will you be still
what she wants?

Or what you want?

What has already
happened to you?

Ours is a strange profession.

Many of US come into it
because ourselves are
a little bit broken up,

a little crippled.

We become clinical
before we can fight our own
battles with life.

That's another reason
I want to come back.

It's not only the work,
not only Nicole.

I need help myself.

Nicole could be helped
were it not for you;

you could be helped
were it not for Nicole.

As for your work,

gregorovius is my successor;
It is up to him.

Franz is a good man.

Franz is a limited man.
I had hoped--

I had hoped, too.

But I'll be happy
to work for Franz
if he'll have me.

Good, dick.

I am glad that
your humility hasn't changed.

Franz can learn from you.

Nurse: Dr. Diver?

I'm sorry,
but I must ask--

oh. Of course.

I hope I haven't overstayed.

Auf wiedersehen, dick...

Auf wiedersehen.

Good-bye.

( Door closes )

Now at last we will
run the clinic as partners.

Really, Franz?
Do you mean it?

Of course.
What a pair, you and me.

Yeah, but Franz,
I don't know if i--
no, no,

it would not bind you, dick.
It would give you a base.

In the winter
you can go to France,
to america--

do research,
write your books,

make important contacts.

But I wouldn't
want to go away.

Once I come back,
I'd want to work here.

Zurich, to me--
so much the better.

Ah, dick,
what a team we'll make.

Me the executive manager,

you the brilliant
theoretician.

But I'd need some time
to brush up.

You see,
I've fallen behind.

Well, after all,
we have to wait
a decent interval,

but I have spoken to
the board of trustees,

and I think for me--
no, for US, dick--

we could have it for...

About $200,00.

A bargain.
Oh?

Of course, later on
we'll need a little more--

certain innovations,
additions.

But where do we
get the money?

Oh, dick.
(Chuckles)

Yes, I see, of course.

Dick, it could be
a gold mine.

Good-bye, Franz.

Now, now.

You're not angry with me?

Oh, no, I'm not angry.

What else could you
possibly need me for
except the money?

Now, look, dick,
let's be fair.

Personally, I think
it's wonderful you have
such a good life--

nice clothes, good food--

everything.

Cars waiting.

But you can't expect me--
after all...

I don't blame you, Franz.

I certainly blame myself,
but not you.

Dick, why don't you
think it over?

I'll probably
think it over

every hour of my life
for the next twenty years.

Good-bye, Franz.

Oh, darling!

How wonderful!

I didn't expect you
till tomorrow.
You said Thursday.

Abe: Hello, dick!
Welcome home!

Rosemary: Hello!

Hello, everybody.

Darling...
What's wrong?

Nothing. Nothing.

Well, this looks like
a nice early party.

Didn't you bring US
any toys?

What are they doing here?

Rosemary telephoned.
I asked her to come over.

She's a nice girl.

Abe just came by.

Darling, what it is?
Did something happen
yesterday?

Before yesterday.

Oh, don't be like that.

Go on, tell me.

Well, it's rather
a long story.

I'll tell you
about it later.

Come on,
let's join the others.

Well, Rosemary,
how are you?

Welcome back to
the city of lights.

Abe: (Whistles)
She's learning fast.

What's this?
I thought you
didn't drink.

It's Wednesday.

I'm twenty-one today.

Oh, Rosemary!
Why didn't you tell US?

That's a terribly
important age.

When I was her age,
I was thirty-one.

Or was it
forty-one?

Rosemary, nothing
important happens
until you're twenty-one.

And the same thing
happens after that.
Right, dick?

Anyway, we'll all
have a birthday party.

Oh, I can't. Mother and I
are going on a sentimental tour
of the old battlefields today.

I've always
wanted to do that!

I think that's
rather wonderful.

Only an American girl
would visit the trenches

on her twenty-first
birthday.

I celebrated a birthday
in the trenches years ago.

Father's a commander
in the American legion,
and he made US promise.

Why don't you come too,
Nicole?

It'd be the most wonderful
birthday in the whole world
if you'd all come!

Oh, please, dick!

Of course he will.
We al will.

We will! Say...

I'll tell ya what.
Let's have a party--

an absolutely
tremendous party!

Here's a toast
to you, Rosemary.

And to you, Abe.
To the imperishable glory
of our generation.

Ours or hers?

( Both laugh )

Dick and I are
the same age today.

You ready, Nicole?

All ready.

All ready with thee.

Tender is the night.

Rosemary: What's that?
Keats.

Thank you, darling.

We'll stop by my hotel
and pick up mother.

Your mother,
three bottles
of champagne,

two of scotch,
and a fifth of bourbon.

And we go!

* ( Up-tempo )

We're ready, Mr. Diver.

I hope just this once
we could have scrambled eggs
without champagne.

Or champagne without
scrambled eggs.

I wish mother
hadn't been so tired.

She would have loved
to have seen this.

Hey, Tommy!

Hello, dick.
How are ya, Tommy?

Tommy, I thought
you were in Africa!
When do you leave?

Any moment.
Just waiting for orders.

Don't be impatient.
There must be a war
going on somewhere.

Well, we all
did our bit
today.

Made sure all was
quiet out there

on the old
western front.

Oh, dick was
wonderful!

Sit down, Tommy,
we'll buy you a drink

to your return
from the wars.

Oh, no, I spent many nights
in the Sahara

dreaming of
a dance with Nicole.

And don't tell me
the first dance is yours.

Nonsense. Of course,
the first dance always belongs
to the departing warrior.

*
( Whispering )

(Slurred)
Hey, Rosemary.
Who he?

You were introduced
just two minutes ago.
Remember?

Collis Clay. I met him
at a Yale prom.

Oh, yes!
I remember.

I remember very well.
Hello, Mr. Clay.

Hello again,
Mr. Diver.

* boola boola

* boola
boola boola *

hold that line.

*

pretty piece of baggage,
Rosemary.

Yeah.
Magazine cover.

Not like Nicole.

Nicole is a Raphael.

Misjudged you, doctor.

Thought you had
an anatomical interest
in Rosemary.

No, no.
Nicole is my girl.

( Tune ends to applause )

Dick.
Hmm?

I'm terribly tired.
Could we go home?

Home? Why, the party's
just beginning!

Then you stay
and have a good time.

What about Rosemary?

Show golden girl
the town.

You sure?

I'm sure of you, darling.

Tommy: I'll be happy
to take Nicole home.
Do you mind?

Well, the answer to that
has to be wrong,
so I'll say that I do mind.

Tell Rosemary
good night for me.

Good night, Abe.
'Revoir.

I was only kidding,
Tommy. Of course
you can take her home.

She can do as she pleases.
She knows that.

All right, dick,
but I warn you--

from now on,
it's Nicole's feelings
I shall respect; Not yours.

I'm sorry.

Respect her feelings,
and nobody will
ever be sorry.

Good night, Abe.
Abe: Good night.

* loved you from
the start, honey *

* bless your little
heart, honey *

* every day would be
so sunny *

* honey, with you

*

monsieur,
don't you dance?

Yeah, but that's
my girl over there.

Oh?

(Heavy accent)
Maybe you shouldn't
disturb her now.

What'd you say?

You know,

I can't even talk about you
to anyone...

Because I don't want
anymore people to know
how wonderful you are.

Honestly, dick...
I love you.

I really do.

Besides being
very pretty,

you're a very good actress.

Everything you do, like
pretending to be in love,

or pretending to be shy,

gets across.

But we're both such actors.
Aren't we, dick?

( Chuckles )

Every time you smile
I always think I'll see a gap

where you've lost
some baby teeth.

Dick, I know
you don't love me.

I don't even expect it.

But...

Take you where?

I don't care where.

Oh, no, no, that's just
the champagne talking.

Besides, have you thought
how much that might hurt Nicole?

Oh, this doesn't have
anything to do with her!

Well, there's the fact
that I love her.

You can love more than
just one person, can't you?

You want to begin your life
with a terrible mess?

Oh, that doesn't matter.

*

( stops playing )

You want a finish?
I'll give you
a finish.

*

( Continues playing )

( Finishes tune )

Not what I had in mind.

Okay. You show me how
you had it in mind.

Why should I show you?

You don't have to.
I just figured you
were in trouble with it,

so I wanted to
give you a finish.

( Shouting in French )

La police! La police!

( Shouting, screaming )

Aaaah!

( Blowing whistle )

( French )

( French )

Now, you stay there
till I come back.

I don't understand.
What's he talking about?
Dick: Officer. Officer.

I'll take full
responsibility.
Que vous?

Do you speaking English?
A little.

May I speak to you a moment
privately, please?
Why?

Please. Come over here
just a moment.

That man's name is...

( Whispers )

That's right.

Oh. (French)

You mu find Dr. Diver.

If he isn't at zelli's,
try all the other
night clubs.

Yes, montmarte too.
Abbey's, kiely's--
all of them!

You're so wonderful.

Who's for breakfast
at the vegetable market?

I am!
You're going home.

And so are you.

I scarcely know you,
but you're going home too.

I still think
you're the prettiest girl
I ever did see, miss hoyt.

That's my girl!

Hotel ritz,
s'il vous plait.

Abe, we'll drop you off.

Let's....
All go to the Florence!

Absolutely not.

Then I won't play.

Say...

He's married, isn't he?
How come he's got
that beautiful girl?

He's got her because
he doesn't want her.

Such, my friend,
is the economy of love.

*...

*...
He's at it again.

Listen!

*

listen to him!

*

*...

I'll settle his hash!

( Speaking French )

Nice little place
I have here.

Oh, I'm sure it's been in
your family for generations
and generations.

But of course.

( Both laugh )

Say, we'll wake Nicole
and have some breakfast.

Good idea.
Ha ha!

Garcon?
Oui, monsieur?

Send some champagne
to my apartment
immediately.

Roederer '24.
Man: Monsieur driver!

Thanks heavens
you are here!

We've been looking
all over Paris for you.

What's happened?
Your little daughter
has been very ill.

What do you mean?
She has been poisoned.

What do you mean, poisoned?!
She is with the doctor.

Concierge.
Mademoiselle?

Will you please
call a taxi for me?

With pleasure.

What is it?
What's the matter?
Thank goodness.

Oh, monsieur.

This is my husband,
Dr. Diver. Dr. Faure.

Good morning.

Yes, doctor.
What is it?

Your daughter's been
seriously ill.

I have pumped out
all the alcohol.

Alcohol?

Oh, darling,
you go back to
your own room

and go
to bed now.

Topsy isn't sick
anymore is she?

No, dear.
She'll be
all right.

Come on, LAN.
Go to bed.

Back to bed.

I will, monsieur.

Apparently topsy
got thirsty in the night

and found all those drinks
in the living room.

Oh?

Where were you
when this happened?

I was asleep.

Asleep?!

She slipped out of the bed
without waking me.

And when I woke up,
she was ill.

And she talked and acted
so strangely

I couldn't understand her.

So lanier told me where
she got the drink of water.

There.

Then I knew the child
was intoxicated--

but what were you
doing asleep?!

It's not her fault!
We left those drinks
in the living room

after mademoiselle
went to bed.

I'll visit again
later.

Good morning,
Dr. Diver.

You--you will
stay with her,
mademoiselle?

Mais oui, madame.

( Heavy sigh )

Dick...

We've got to
do something.

We've got to end this...
This binge.

I know.

What happened
in Zurich?

What difference
does it make?

It makes all
the difference.

Well...

Gregorovius, he's taken
dohmler's place,

said that I could come back
if I found $200,000.

After what happened tonight,
I think his price is low,
don't you?

I-I don't understand.

He's arranging
to buy the place,

and take me back with him
if I put up the money.

Not otherwise.

Dick, I kept you from going back
when you could have gone back.

Now we have to go back.

The money doesn't matter.
I'll arrange that with baby.

We have to go back
to save ourselves.

I just don't know what
we'd be saving, Nicole...

Especially as far
as I'm concerned.

Dick, you're too great a man
to believe things like that.

Ah...

I just can't make
my head work anymore.

It's as if my brain locks shut
every time I try to think.

And now topsy...

( Telephone rings )

Darling--
( Rings )

Yes?

Non, c'est madam diver,
qui parla.

Ou ca?

Mais comment?

Mon vari va venir.

Now what?

That was the police.

Abe has been killed.

What?

Oh, my god.

( Knocking on door )

( Knocking )
All right!

Madame.

Where shall I put it?

Just put it down
over there, please.

Au revoir, madame.

Dick!

Hmm? Oh, Franz!

Miserable weather,
isn't it?

Did you forget
we have an appointment?

Hmm? Me?
(Laughs) No.

No.

By the way, I saw
the Lennox girl again.

Yes? What is
your diagnosis?

My diagnosis is the same:
Neuro-syphilis.

The wasserman
notwithstanding.

That was a very good idea
of Nicole's to take
the attendants out of uniform.

Yeah, I suppose so.
Makes for a "freer" atmosphere.

Would you and Nicole
join me for dinner tonight?

I think she has something
planned with the children.

I'll ask Nicole.

Dick!
Hmm?

The pardo boy's father
is waiting.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I'd like to
tell that guy the facts of life.

Please, dick.
Be a little patient
today, nicht?

He has one of the largest
estates in Chile.

What are we running here,
a sanitarium or a marketplace?

Tell him the truth,
as dohmler would have.

But you are not dohmler.

( Knocking on door )

Ah, señor pardo.
This is Dr. Diver.
How do you do?

How do you do?
Come in.

Well, Francisco,
how are you?

Very well,
Dr. Diver.

Now, doctor, have you gotten
anywhere with this boy yet?

You were highly
recommended to me.

You took him with you.
Cure him.

Please, Dr. Diver,
tell to him what
you tell to me.

He might listen to you.
Uh...

Will you excuse US
a moment, Francisco?

Go on up to your room
for a while.

He is incorrigibly
corrupt.

I'll see you later,
Francisco.

Señor pardo...

When a young man
feels an insecurity
about being a man,

one often looks
to childhood causes.

Obviously, serious mistakes
were made early in his life

by you or probably
by his mother.

You dare to impugn
señora pardo?!

No, no, Dr. Diver
didn't mean it that way,
I assure you.

What he meant was--
now, now,

señor pardo is
a sophisticated man.

He can understand that
the boy's impotence

might have been caused by
an excessive dependency
upon his mother.

I desire one quality
in a son: Manhood.

Did you think
you'd make a man of him

when you stripped him to
the waist and horsewhipped him

until he had to be sent
to a hospital?

I hope any gentleman
who is not degenerate

would have the fortitude
to do the same.

Your hostile attitude
toward your son only makes
matters more difficult.

Dick! Dick...

He is an intelligent boy,
sensitive and talented.

And if this excessive
dependency--

I think you are
hardly the one to talk
about excessive dependency,

Dr. Diver.

Just what do you
mean by that?

Your habits.
The bottle.

Sophistication?
It takes one of a kind
to know one.

And your affection
for my son would indicate

that you may be
the same sort of swine
that he is!

You know,
I think I'll beat
the hell out of you!

Stop it! Stop it!

Now stop it!

Uh...
(Laughs nervously)...

I'll be right back.

Dick! For a moment
I thought you would
actually--

well, there goes
another patient.

Sorry, Franz, it was
inexcusable to lose my head.

Well, dick, after all,
we are only human, too.

I'll, uh, go and try
to save him.

The patient?
Or the customer?

( Thunder rumbling )

We're about to lose
another patient.

The Johnson girl?

How did you know?

She wrote me a letter.

Did she tell you
I seduced her?

Well, I had no relations
of any kind with that girl.

Didn't even like her.

Yes, I've been
trying to think that.

That's absurd.
She was a mental patient.

I was a mental patient.

( Sighs )

Dear god.

Oh, darling.

You must know I didn't
believe a word of it.

( Sighs )

( Thunder )

Dick!

Please, dick.

Please.

I-I didn't believe
the girl.

I know you had nothing
to do with her.

It's just all part
of this miserable place.

I loathe it.

I know.

It's been hard
on you, too...

Hasn't it?

Darling.

Oh!

Franz!
Franz.

Hello, Nicole. Dick.

What are you doing
standing here in the gloom?

W-Would you like
a drink, Franz?

No. No, thank you.
I want to talk to dick.

Of course.
See you later, Franz.

You sure
you won't join me?

Quite sure.

You don't mind
if I have one?

No. Why should I?

Just because
some of the patients--

oh, exactly.

No reason for some people to
give up what they regard as food

just because a few neurotics
can't handle it.

Oh, Franz,
I want to talk to you

about that new man
on the staff,

you know, from Vienna,
lladislov?

Dick, today they took away
the Johnson girl.

Her mother was indignant.
I know.

The girl wrote a letter--
to Nicole.

Ah. What happened?

Precisely nothing.

Nicole knows me
better than that.

Wonderful.
Nicole is cured.

There is no doubt
about that.

Ohh, I am very happy
to have your diagnosis,

Dr. Gregorovius.

And to what do you
attribute this cure?

You know very well from where
comes her new ego strength.

Ah, you think
it's anaclitic, do you,

this transference of strength
between doctor and patient?

Why are you so bitter, dick?

Oh, come now, Franz,
you can tell me.

What you also mean is that
it has worked in reverse.

What I mean is that
Nicole is no longer
dependent on you.

You imply the transference
is over,

the counter-transference
has begun,

and I am the weak one.

No, I don't mean
any offense, dick.

You know I'm very fond
of you and Nicole.

You're impertinent!

And what's more,
you're presumptuous!

Nicole is well, as I don't
need you to tell me.

And as far as
your observations
are concerned--

oh, let's face it, Franz.

This is no go.

That has occurred to me also.

Your heart is not
in this project, dick.

Correct.
I want to leave.

We'll strike some arrangement
for taking Nicole's money out.

To be perfectly frank with you,
I thought about that also.

I saw this coming.

I have been able
to arrange other backing.

You can take all your money
in a year, maybe.

Fine. As you say.

That's all, Franz.

( Door closes )

( Door opens,
closes )

Oh, darling.

I'll be good tonight.

Make a real chum out of Franz.

Well, you don't
have to bother.

We are not going to dine
with the good doctor.

Bully for US!

What happened?

I am through with Zurich.

You resigned?

He's buying US out.

It was his suggestion,
not mine.

Well, that's what we wanted.

Isn't it?

Is it?

Now you can be rid of
all this money-grubbing.

You can do what you--
what you want,

what you
ought to be doing.

Well, what is that?

Well, you...
You can, uh...

You can start
your own sanitarium.

I've emptied this one
of patients. Now I can
empty my own.

Oh, darling,
that's not true.

You can be rid of
all these rich,
spoiled neurotics.

You can...

You can take care of people
who really need you.

You can have
your own free clinic,

the way you've
always dreamed.

Please, darling,
don't you see?

This is a blessing
in disguise.

You're better than
any of them.

You always were,
and you always will be.

Just look what
you've done for me.

Yes...

There is that, isn't there?

Will you do it, dick?
Will you?

Well, what will we use
for money?

Well, you said
Franz was buying US out.

He said it might
take a year,

maybe even longer.

And if I have to wait--

we won't wait one day.

And anyway, we've got
the experience now.

Oh, we have.

And where will we build
this sanitarium?

On the riviera, maybe?

Why not?
That's a wonderful idea!

Just think what it would
mean to the patients

to be in a proper climate
where it's warm and gay!

You know,
I was only kidding,

but perhaps you're right.

Oh, but it would take
an awful lot of money.

Well, we'll go to baby.

After all, it is m-my--
our money, darling.

She's only the trustee.

I'll go to see her in Rome.
Tomorrow.

No, if anybody
is going to see her,

it's got to be me.
Oh, but i--

no, no. Pride demands that
I beard this lioness alone.

Well, whatever
you say, darling.

Oh, won't it be wonderful
to be in the villa Diana again?

I can hardly wait
to tell the children.

Now...
What about dinner?

Whatever you say.

Well, let's go downtown.

I feel like
painting this whole town...

A permanent bright red.

Why not?

Let's celebrate!

All right,
I'll get dressed.

( Door closes )

( Sighs )
Oh, dick.

( Crying )

Darling...

Man:
Pronto, señorina.

( Speaking Italian )

Hello, youngster.

But this is fantastic!
What are you doing here?

I'm making a motion picture.
"The grandeur that was Rome."

But what are you
doing here?

Well, I, uh,
just got off the train.

Listen, I have
a very short day today.

Please call me later.

Clerk: Miss Warren,
one moment.

Don't forget.
Miss Warren for you now,
Dr. Diver.

Thank you.

Hello, baby.

Yeah, I just got in
and I can't wait to talk to you.

I'll take a shower and see you
in about an hour.

Hmm? It's ten minutes of eight.

Eight?!
(Groans)

Call me about eleven, hmm?

( Chuckles )
Yeah, sure.

Ohh...

It's good to hear
your nice articulate
voice again, dick.

Well, I admit that
300,000 is a lot of money.

But it could turn out to be
a fine investment, too, baby.

Oh, now, come on, dick.

With blue chip stocks
going up five points a day,

don't talk to me about
a mental clinic being
an investment.

Well, then, from
a financial standpoint,
I can't win.

Anything I do is bound to be
a drop in the bucket.

But that doesn't change the fact
that this kind of a clinic
is needed, baby.

But Nicole is cured now,
isn't she?

But baby, psychiatry
is my career, my profession.

My dear brother-in-law,
you've done your stuff.

Now she's well.

Done my stuff?

Surely with Nicole well now
you don't expect her

to have a lifetime
full of sanitariums
and psychiatrists.

I'm a psychiatrist, baby.
Remember?

Yes, I remember.

And the bargain
we made in Switzerland.

What bargain?
We made no bargain.

I married Nicole
because I loved her.
I still love her.

Then why don't you
think about her for a change?

Oh, don't think we're not
grateful for all you've done,

and we know
you've had a hard time,

but now that you've fulfilled
your part of the bargain--

you don't listen, baby.
Like a lot of rich women,
you don't listen!

I love Nicole.
She is my entire life.

But my life would be nothing
either without my work.

You think you'd be happier
with somebody else?

Me?
Are you crazy?

Or maybe I'm going crazy
myself at last.

Oh, now, come on, dick,

you're a charming man
and you still have
beautiful manners.

There's been too much
beautiful manners.

You're right, dick.
You've always had
a fatal desire to please,

but from what I hear
that went on in Zurich,

you don't quite please
as you used to.

Did Nicole ever say that?

Nicole would be incapable of
saying anything bad about you.

But you know,
I should think you would
just jump at the chance

of leaving clinics
and enjoying life,

but apparently there
still is some middle class
puritan thing somewhere.

You don't seem quite able
to embrace the pleasant side
of life today.

Why don't you settle down
with nice, well-balanced,
sane people?

Oh, you yourself would have
great success in London,

and probably some wild romance
with some duchess.

Dick?

Dick?

( Chatter, piano playing )

( Door buzzer )

Well.

A little more grown up...

A little more beautiful.

And you look much better
than this morning.

I was just having some coffee.
Would you like some?

Now, don't go putting me
on the defensive.

Coffee? No.

No, I would like whiskey,

because I have been
drinking whiskey.

You know, the first drink
I ever had was with you.

Do you regret it?

Today seems like
a promising day
for regrets.

Ooh. Ooh. No, no.

Don't you know I've gone into
a process of deterioration?

No. In fact, you've always
been the ideal by which
I've judged other men.

Ah, but at first
it didn't show.

You see, the manner
remains intact

( telephone rings )
For a long time
after the decay starts.

Excuse me.

Hello? Bruno?

Si.

Si. Oh, non,
non a possible.

Who's that,
young Mussolini?
Oh, shush!

Bruno? Si...

Si, domani.

Si, caro, domani.

You're not annoyed?

Me? No, I can't
afford to be.

You see,
I expect nourishment
from people now.

Well, you should, dick.
You give so much of yourself.

And I haven't finished.
Now, take you--

( telephone rings )
Excuse me.

Hello?

Yes.

Yes. Meet me downstairs
in the bar.

Yeah, the entrance
to the hotel lobby.

Bye.

Dick...

Did you come here
to make love to me,

or just to find out
if I still wanted
to make love to you?

The latter,
now that I think of it.

( Laughs )
Well...

Kiss me
and I'll tell you.

( Sighs )

I never could have believed
that kissing you

could remind me
of how very much
I love somebody else.

Oh, thank you.
That's charming.

Well, when you kiss me,

doesn't it remind you
of how much you love Nicole?

Or pretended to?

Get out!

Get out!!!

( Chatter, piano playing )

Dr. Diver.
Hi, there.

Hi, there, diver.

The last person I expected
to run into in Rome was you.

Hello.
Mind if I join ya?
Collis Clay.

No, no, why not?
Any old port in a storm.

Thank you.
Sit down.

What'll you have?

Bourbon and water, please.
Yes, sir.

You know who's here?

Hmm. "The grandeur
that was Rome."

Have you seen her?

I was just up in her room.

Were you, now?
Just...Up--

I was now just--uh.

Maybe I ought to
go back to Atlanta.

I hear she's been tying
these Roman boys up in bags,

and now you.

You know, I don't know why
you ever left Atlanta.

Think I'm gonna spend
twenty years sittin'
in my daddy's office?

You too good for it?

Well, now, I don't notice
you killin' yourself.

Why don't you practice
as a doctor if you like
to work so much?

You know, you got
a point there, boy.

And as long as
your daddy foots the bills--

that's better than
your wife payin' 'em,
where I come from.

Now, don't go too far,
Sonny boy.

You know something else?
If I lived off my wife,

I'd be too scared
to two-time her,
even with Rosemary hoyt.

( Chuckles )

Stand up.

You must be kiddin', diver.

I said stand up!!!

Woman: Please! Please!
Gentlemen!

Oh!

( Camera shutter clicks )

Dick, what do you think
you're doing?

What is this all about?

Mostly it was about you.

Take me someplace else.
This is bad publicity.

Ahoy there!

Where's baby?

Miss Warren is in
the counting house,

counting out
her money.

( Laughs )

Oh.

I thought it would be better
if we had our reunion alone.

She'll be along later.

How was the trip?

I was practically
in irons.

I didn't care. I wanted
to be home with you.

I gather you accomplished
rather a lot

during your short stay.

I'm sorry.

But if it's of any interest,

baby turned me down before,
not after, the fracas.

I'm sorry
you went to baby.

It was my idea,
but it was a mistake.

I should never have
put you in that position.

I insisted on it.

Rosemary looked very fetching
in the newspapers.

Yes, I saw her for less
than ten minutes, all told.

That was quick.
Now, look,
if you believe--

I didn't.

Come on, here's the car.

How are the children?

Well, i--

I sent them away
for the day.

Oh? Why?

I didn't know what
condition you'd be in.

Yeah.

Yeah, I see
what you mean.

They can be back
tomorrow.

Thank you.
I'd like that very much.

Say, by the way,
would you drive?

I feel a bit rocky
all of a sudden.

( Starts car )

Home...

Beautiful land and sea.

It was the best,
wasn't it?

Yes, dick, it was.

It was the best.

Funny thing...

This might not have been
a bad place for a clinic.

With the right man.

So what do we do now,
dick?

Well, um, how about
dinner for two...

On the terrace,
with an ice-cold
bottle of chablis?

I mean what do we do
for the rest of our lives?

Oh.

Yes, I see what you mean.

Well, I don't quite
know what to say.

Except I love you very much.

Baby!
Tommy!

You heavenly creature!

It seems like years.
It I years.

I've never been
so happy to see anyone.

What infernal regions
did you come from?

The Congo.
The Congo?

Have you seen
Nicole yet?
Is she here?

She's up there on the deck.
Go surprise her. Go.

Tommy?

What's the matter?
Am I such a ghost?
It's me.

Well...
(Laughing)...

Well, no, but i--

I was thinking about you
that very second!

I-I was even
writing you a letter!

How is--
how is everybody?

Oh, the children are fine.
Dick's back from Rome.

Yes, I heard about Rome.
Was he hurt?

No, not physically.

He's out there on the water
somewhere now,

with his play clothes on.

Ride 'em cowboy!

Hey! Hi!

Hi, dick!

Faster! Faster!

Why? Why does he
have to show off?

Look at the idiot.
He'll break his neck!

He's been breaking it
for years, hasn't he?

( Dick laughing )

That's enough, dick!

Tommy's here!

Hello, Tommy!

Hello, dick!

Ha ha ha!

Hang on, Dr. Diver,
we'll tow you in.

Okay!

I think we'd better
go down and get him.

You were doing wonderfully,
Dr. Diver, until you skidded!

Ah...good to see you,
Tommy boy! Ha ha!

Hey, who's for
a French '75?

Dick, you go
straight below.

Take a hot shower
and have a rest.

See, Tommy?
I got her well trained.

Fingers never idle,
distaff flying.

Please.

( Shower running )

Oh, Tommy, Tommy.

I feel many things
falling away.

Dick's not in condition,
that's all.

Oh, stop your
eternal gallantry.

He drinks too much.
Make him stop.

Me tell dick what
he should or shouldn't do?

Ha! That would be a twist.

Anyway, it's a little late
for that.

Tommy (through vent):
I didn't know you smoked.

Nicole:
I didn't.

I don't know what to do.

I don't much care.

Or maybe I do.

I don't want
to talk about it.

You have to.
And face up to it.

And I'm the one who's
going to see that you do.

I've loved you
for a long time, Nicole.

More each time.

I'm frightened,
Tommy.

But I can't hurt dick.
I've loved him
too much for that.

It's not his fault that
I had a crazy, mixed-up
concept of what he was.

But you were ill.

And I'd still be ill
if it weren't for him.

I'd have spent
the rest of my life
in hospitals.

For his sake
as well as yours,

whatever is done
must be done now.

Simply decide what to do
and do it.

I-I don't know if
I can feel love anymore.

Do you want
to go ashore?

( Footsteps )

( Revs engine )

( Car door shuts )

( Car drives away )

I said good night
to the children.

I'm going for
a walk on the beach.

I want to think about why
I've been so slow to see

that what is happening...

Started to happen,
fall apart, a long time ago.

It's so easy to miss the moment
when the most important thing
in life changes.

You think I've failed you,
don't you, dick?

You?

On the contrary,
you're a great success.

One of those people
who are made to work well
in this world.

Dick, i--

I can't say
what I want to say.

Well, then don't.

It's lonely
being together now,
isn't it, Nicole?

That's it over there.

Wait for me at
the cafe des allies.
And don't worry.

( Car drives away )

Dick, I want
to talk with you.

All right.

Will you come
with me, please?

As soon as
my haircut is finished.

Nicole is waiting.

( Speaking French )

( French )

The cafe des allies.

Apres vous,
monsieur.

( French )
Nicole?

Citron presse.

Tommy?
Whiskey, avec siphon.

Cafe.

Well, now,
this is homey.

It's plain that
your marriage to Nicole
has run its course.

Oh, may I have
a cigarette, please?

I'm here only to say things
which Nicole would find
too distressing to say herself.

Just what is it you find
so distressing to say?

Nicole wants a divorce.

For how many years
have you waited
to tell me that?

Very many.

Well, since this is
an open discussion,

shall we ask
our good friend here

his opinion on
the general problems
of divorce? Hmm?

Can't you at least try
to meet this with decency?

Oh ho ho.
What a question.

All Nicole asks from you now
is an agreement in principle.

There'll be
dozens of details.

Oh, dozens.
Dozens.

Tommy, shut up.
Both of you!

Listen to me, dick.
We're not happy.

You'd don't really care anymore,
it's just a habit.

Well, then...

I don't know what
you two are going
to do about it all,

but I am going to
finish my haircut.

Pay the check, Tommy.

Well, that's over.

Our lawyers in New York
will handle everything.

What did he say?

Actually, it was
easier than I thought.

We had quite a long talk,
and he won't take anything,
not one cent.

What did you expect?

I must say
he was fair enough.

Dick has always
been fair.

Well, anyway,
the sooner he leaves
the house, the better.

This is his home,
baby.

And these are his children,
too.

When a person is
taken out of his depth

he's apt to drown
in one liquid or another.

Dick was a good husband to me.

And he always did his best
never to let anything hurt me.

Of course, darling,
but that's what
he was educated for.

If you don't mind,
I'd like to say good-bye
to Nicole alone.

Of course.

Did you see the children?

Not yet.

Dick, if you--
if you'd like--

for their sake,
well, to stay on,

e-even keep up the marriage--

no, it'd be bad
for the children.

They'll be better off
with you.

They adore you!

Things could never
be the same, it's true,

but we could have
a marriage of sorts,
I suppose.

It'd be no worse
than it is with other people.

But we're not other people,
Nicole; We're better than that.

Are we?

Are we, dick?

Maybe that's what's been
the trouble with US:

Thinking we're better
than other people.

I know now that I'm not.

And I know that I...
I was unfair to you.

I built you up in my mind
to some kind of a god.

Vanished, didn't he?

Woman:
Madame.

Monsieur, the taxi is here.

( French )

Merci, Jeanne.

Dick, why are you
taking a taxi?

Take one of the cars.

No, thanks.

I'll say good-bye
to the children.

Can we pretend to them
I'm just going away
for a while?

Of course, dick.

When does your train leave?

Twelve-fifteen.

By no means...

One of the worst times
of the day.

Baby:
Has he gone?

Yes.

He's gone.

I wonder if dick
has any plans.

I asked him.
At first he said no,

and then he mentioned someplace
in upper New York state.

I don't know whether
he meant practicing there

or getting a job
or what.

Some small town,
he said.

Glenn falls.
He was born there.

Yes, that's it.
Near there.

Those little towns
can be nice.

I wouldn't be surprised
if he ended up in that
section of the country,

one town or another.

Nicole...

I suggest you let
well enough alone.

Nicole.

Don't take advantage
again.

What do you mean?

His weakness.
His love for you.

Don't you see that
his last hope,

his only salvation,
is to get away from you.

* even though
our dreams may vanish *

* with the morning light

* we loved once in splendor

* how tender

* how tender is the night

* we loved once

* in splendor

*