The two of them weep and tremble as the boy's parents curse and scream and break each other and the furniture. At noon the boy is in the Alhambra. It is a small movie house in Quincy. The theater is quiet and cool. Nobody shouts there.
Nobody hits anybody except on the screen.
When furniture gets broken at the Alhambra about half the time people laugh. Costello breaks a chair, Hope gets stabbed with a sofa spring. The boy goes to the Alhambra almost every day. Robert Donat holds a small cylinder in his hand. In extreme close-up we see him set the timer for 45 minutes.