Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: lodger named Harold Guppey has stumbled into town to look up long-lost brother, Fact2: Harold refer as mum giving more than little oedipal slant to subsequent lustful antics, Fact3: Marjorie turns him from being apathetic towards her to being intrigued by her, Fact4: Marjorie 's husband is older than wife, Fact5: Sick of being caught between mother and daughter joining army and getting new more suitable girlfriend but Marjorie manages to blackmail him into coming back
Output (English): Marjorie Beaslie Walters is a housewife in her forties who takes in a lodger named Harold Guppey Graves, who has just stumbled into town to look up his longlost brother played by Les Dennis. Although seemingly prudish she no longer sleeps in the same bed as her husband, for medical reasons, Marjorie takes a liking to Harold despite him being a good twenty years her junior. They begin to have a clandestine affair, sneaking into bed together at night. Ever since taking in her lodger, Marjorie insists that Harold refer to her as mum, giving more than a little oedipal slant to their subsequent lustful antics. Marjories youngest daughter is fourteenyearold Joyce Sadler, a precocious, Lolitalike girl who alternates between trying to act grown up by putting on make up and smoking cigarettes, and acting childish by grossing people out with tales of medieval punishments and giggling at rude words. Joyce is fascinated by Harold and with her teasing behaviour she cunningly turns him from being apathetic towards her to being intrigued by her. At one point, she catches Harold in bed with her mum, but seemingly does not realise what they are up to and merely thinks theyre having an innocent bunk up. She talks her way into getting them to let her climb into the bed, both Harold and Marjorie continue their intimate relations whilst Joyce is asleep, or rather, pretending to be and steadily realising what is actually going on. A few days later, Joyce blackmails Harold into taking her to a hotel for the night, where he turns the tables on her with every intent and purpose but actually diverts his attention by doing much the opposite as he seduces her before spurning her. Marjories husband, Stanley, who is a onelegged World War I veteran, is much older than his wife. Stanley sleeps in a separate room from her and is as oblivious to all the sordid antics of his wife, and daughter, initially as the rest of the suburban neighbourhood is. Sick of being caught between a mother and daughter, who are too old and too young for him respectively, Harold tries to get out of the house and move away, joining the army and getting a new more suitable girlfriend but Marjorie manages to emotionally blackmail him into coming back. One day, Harold takes Marjorie and Joyce out for a picnic, although things are tense between the trio. Having sent her daughter Joyce away to play, Marjorie begins to ravish Harold, but Joyce returns and hits her mother with an axe. Harold panics and attempts to get Marjorie into the car to take her to hospital but, with blood streaming down her face, Marjorie manages to pick up a knife Harold drops and attacks him with it. Harold fights Marjorie off and stabs her to death. Joyce then tries to attack Harold and so he stabs her to death too. Finally, Harold stabs himself in the stomach in an attempt to emphasise that his actions were out of selfdefence. It is said in the postscript to the movie the fact he, the real Albert Goozee, was sentenced to death for Joyces murder, to revise the original decision made during the proceedings the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, with much demand and to further the matter the added charge of murdering Marjorie which had been included in the ruling was dropped because it was considered that there was not enough evidence suitable in the correct degree for this to stand.