Sloper, Ben Chaplin as Morris Townsend, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Catherine, and Maggie Smith as Lavinia.]The film then returns to about fifteen years earlier, and the story of the orphaned/adopted Geste brothers, "three young gentlemen of fortune":"Beau" (Donald O""Connor as a child), the oldest brother, nicknamed for his charmJohn (Billy Cook as a child)Digby (Martin Spellman as a child)While growing up, the three Geste brothers are being raised as wards by kindly blueblood Lady Patricia Brandon (Heather Thatcher) at her English estate, Brandon Abbas.As Filiba explains how he was knocked out and robbed of 20,000 lira by a fake, mustached/side-burned doctor who appeared at his door, his words are excitably translated and elaborated upon by the hotel manager to a group of equally-astonished and excitable Italian policemen." He disagreed that there was only a "growing" distance between both of them and their daughter: "Growing? She hates me.