It was also possible that either she or Helen called a con-man later identified as Marriott, giving him Marlowe's name and phone number.Arguments will start.Should he commit suicide or should he not? People will write in, pleading with him - but NO! No sir, John Doe will remain adamant." Knowing that the brooding Spartacus had unspoken feelings for Varinia, the two were often humiliated in public, and Varinia was forced to sleep with the Spaniard - to spite Spartacus.Plot SynopsisBeginning in the late 1800s, the film told the story of a club-footed, sensitive artist Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an Englishman who had been studying painting in Paris for four years, but was advised by his art teacher Monsieur Flourney (Adrian Rosley) hat his work was mediocre and second-rate, and that he lacked talent and promise ("There is no talent here, merely industry and intelligence.