The Lash (1934)

John Mills: Arthur Haughton

Quotes 

• Mr. Charles : I'm asking you, is it a time to bring my daughter home, four o'clock in the morning? Is it, Mr Haughton? You're a fine specimen. You ruin my daughter, disgrace her parents and then come whining the car broke down.

  Mary : But it did!

  Mr. Charles : That'll do from you. Hold your tongue.

  Mary : But dad, it's the truth.

  Mr. Charles : We've heard that story before, eh Mother? But I never expected to hear it in my own home. I thought I'd brought you up to know better than to go gallivanting with the first young waster who took a fancy to you.

  Mary : But Father...

  Mr. Charles : Be quiet. I've done with you for good and all. As for you, what do you intend to do about it?

  Arthur Haughton : Do?

  Mr. Charles : Yes. Do. If you think you can play around and ruin a respectable girl and get off scot free just because she happens to work in your nightclub, you've chosen a girl with the wrong father. I'm going to see you do the right thing by her.

  Mary : Father, please...

  Mr. Charles : Shut up, you.

  Arthur Haughton : I, er, I. How much?

  Mr. Charles : How dare you? I don't care if you're the son of a millionaire fifty times over. His money won't buy you out of this. You're going to marry my daughter. You'll get a special licence first thing in the morning.

  Mary : Father, you can't do that.

  Arthur Haughton : Marry? But I can't. My father would...

  Mr. Charles : So, you're afraid of your father are you? Alright, we'll see what millionaire Haughton has to say to his son, eh, Mother?

  Arthur Haughton : You can't. He's in New York.

  Mr. Charles : New York or Timbuktu, it's all the same to us. You're going to marry my daughter.

• Dora Bush : You've no right to force your way in here like this.

  Bronson Haughton : Haven't I?

  Arthur Haughton : Take your hands off me. I won't have it, d'you hear?

  Bronson Haughton : No?

  [he shoves Arthur across the room and takes a whip out of his coat pocket] 

  Dora Bush : You're not going to hit him...! Anyway, what's this got to do with you?

  Bronson Haughton : Everything. I've decided there's only one way to deal with you. I'm going to give you a thrashing you'll remember all your life.

  Arthur Haughton : You wouldn't dare.

  Arthur Haughton : Oh, no?

  [he commences to lash him] 

  Arthur Haughton : Ohhh! Owww!

  Arthur Haughton : Stop, stop hitting him. I won't let you hit him. Stop!

  [Bronson manhandles Dora into the bathroom and closes the door] 

  Arthur Haughton : . No, you stay here.

  [he recommences lashing Arthur] 

  Arthur Haughton : .

  Arthur Haughton : Owww! Owww! Owww!

  Arthur Haughton : Get up!

  [he continues to beat him on the floor] 

  Arthur Haughton : Ohh, Owwww! Stop it, stop it. You don't know what you're doing.

  Bronson Haughton : Don't I? It's what I should have done years ago, you waster!

  [he thrashes him over and over again] 

  Arthur Haughton : Owww! Owww!

  Dora Bush : [from the bathroom]  Stop! For pity's sake stop.

  [the lashing continues] 

  Dora Bush : .