I don't actually know who I am by birth. I was... well, I was found. Found? Yes. The late...
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Jack:
I don't actually know who I am by birth. I was... well, I was found.
Lady Bracknell:
Found?
Jack:
Yes. The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentlemen of a kindly disposition found me and gave me the name of Worthing because he happened to have a first class ticket to Worthing at the time. Worthing is a place in Sussex. It's a seaside resort.
Lady Bracknell:
And where did this charitable gentlemen with the first class ticket to the seaside resort find you?
Jack:
In a handbag.
Lady Bracknell:
[closes eyes briefly]
A handbag?
Jack:
Yes, Lady Bracknell, I was in a hand bag. A somewhat large... black... leather handbag with handles... to it.
[pause]
Lady Bracknell:
An ordinary handbag.
Lady Bracknell:
And where did this Mr. James... or, Thomas Cardew come across this ordinary handbag?
Jack:
The cloak room at Victoria Station. It was given to him in mistake for his own...
Lady Bracknell:
[Shocked]
The cloak room at Victoria Station?
Jack:
Yes. The Brighton line.
Lady Bracknell:
The line is immaterial.
[begins tearing up notes]
Lady Bracknell:
Mr. Worthing. I must confess that I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate bred in a handbag, whether it have handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life which reminds one of the worst excesses of the French revolution, and I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
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I adore you
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But you haven't proposed to me yet
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Nothing's been said at all about marriage
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The subject has not even been touched on
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Gwendolen
00:00:20.061 --> 00:00:23.148
Yes Mr Worthing what have you to say to me
00:00:23.148 --> 00:00:25.567
You know what I have to say to you
Clip duration: 27 seconds
Views: 261
Timestamp in movie: 00h 16m 48s
Uploaded: 01 April, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Summary: In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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00:07 True In matters of grave importance
00:07 We've already missed five if not six trains
00:13 You don't think there's any chance of Gwendolen...
00:18 I do not know whether there's anything
00:15 I'm sorry if we're a little late Algy
00:05 Where questions of self sacrifice are concerned
00:11 To lose one parent Mr Worthing
00:08 Oh what a charming boy
00:07 Did you hear what I was playing Lane
00:22 I don't seem to care about anything anymore
00:15 I really don't see what there is romantic about...
00:08 Mr Worthing
00:07 The only way to behave to a woman
00:08 You mustn't laugh at me darling
00:06 By the first train on Monday morning
00:21 Good heavens I suppose a man
00:07 Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier
00:15 How you can sit there calmly eating muffins
00:26 I think your high notes
00:37 I've always been of opinion