《His Mystery Girl (1923)》Storyline
With reluctant Lucius Malfoy""s (Jason Isaacs) borrowed wand, Voldemort demonstrated its power (with an Avada Kedavra curse) and killed bound and upside-down levitating Hogwarts Professor Charity Burbage (Carolyn Pickles) of Muggle Studies, before feeding her corpse as dinner to Voldemort""s snake Nagini.Below is a letter which reached my desk this morning.It""s a commentary on what we laughingly call a civilized world.Dear Miss Mitchell:Four years ago, I was fired out of my job.Since then, I haven""t been able to get another one.At first, I was sore at the state administration because it""s on account of the slimy politics here.We have all this unemployment.But in looking around, it seems the whole world is goin"" to pot.So in protest, I""m goin"" o commit suicide by jumping off the City Hall roof.Signed, a disgusted American citizen.John Doe.Editor""s Note: If you ask this column, the wrong people are jumping off the roofs.There is much publicity, uproar and ruckus following its publication (in the offices of the Governor (Vaughan Glaser), he Mayor (Gene Lockhart), the Chamber of Commerce and others) - and newspaper circulation improves.The film""s posters asked the intriguing questions:"What was the secret of Manderley?""Could the secret of Manderley destroy their love?"The film creates a brooding atmosphere surrounding he tragic courtship, marriage and relationship of a naive, plain and innocent young woman (Joan Fontaine) to a brooding and overburdened widower - an aristocratic, moody patriarch (Laurence Olivier) who lives in an estate named Manderley.A remade, 1982 TV movie based on the original Wilder screenplay starred the venerable Ralph Richardson in the Laughton role, with Deborah Kerr as his nurse, Beau Bridges as the accused Leonard Vole, and Diana Rigg as his wife Christine.Once safely inside the compound and house after repelling the ferocious, attacking bear and securing the outer door, Gandalf told everyone about the rue identity of the bear - the beast was the owner of the house ("That is our host").