A Dangerous Proposal
1919 · 65 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 54 VOTES · DIR. Rune Carlsten
Overview
The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.
Dialogue Timeline — 96 lines
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00:00:02 A DANGEROUS PROPOSAL
00:00:20 Published by Scandia-film
00:00:50 The nights before Sunday were the worst.
00:02:23 I have talked to Knut Huseby, and you will receive a warm welcome.
00:03:55 Sigurd and Oivind, Huseby's sons - Hugo Tranberg and Gosta Cederlund
00:05:51 There you go! I think you dampened his burning desire.
00:11:03 Tomorrow I will follow you to Huseby and propose in Knut's presence.
00:11:58 You, a poor smallholder's son, could never get the daughter at Huseby.
00:15:17 Is your father at home?
00:15:53 It seems a fair offer, but in this case my daughter will have to make her own decision.
00:16:35 ...when a bloke like Ola Thormundsen has come to propose to you.
00:18:25 As yet, there is no tradition here on Huseby for farmers' daughters
00:19:13 A DANGEROUS PROPOSAL Act 2
00:22:45 Would you believe that boy! He seems to be heading for the mountain farm!
00:29:50 Well, if no one else can keep him at bay
00:32:02 Don't forget your fiddle when you come to our wedding.
00:39:02 The end of Act 2
00:40:37 What do you want, my lad?
00:41:22 ...that he's probably lost all desire to go courting again at the Huseby mountain farm.
00:43:11 We're just here to make sure that the smallholder boy from Nesset stays away from the summer farm tonight.
00:48:54 The two of us as well. The girl will finally have to give up
00:54:36 It was on a Saturday evening. I had been awaiting you.
01:00:54 God's peace on the mountain farm!
01:01:39 Against the sky in bluish hue the mighty mountains loom.