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.
00:15:34 You, Knut Huseby, are a wealthy man, and I myself am no church mouse.
00:16:05 Go out and find Aslaug, Sigurd.
00:17:34 It so happens that Aslaug and I have loved each other for a long time.
00:18:29 ...to share the marriage bed with smallholders' sons.
00:19:17 A few days later. Aslaug brought the cattle to the summer pasture.
00:27:26 God's peace on the summer farm!
00:29:52 ...I guess me and my sons should give it a try. I may still possess some talent in that direction.
00:33:58 A lazybone like you will have to accept whatever comes his way.
00:39:10 A few days passed.
00:41:08 You are probably a bit lonely now that Nesset cannot come here anymore?
00:42:22 If next Saturday you manage to slip past the Huseby wolf and his cubs, the girl will be yours.
00:44:10 Position yourselves two at every hill. If he approaches, whistle!
00:49:19 The end of Act 3
00:54:51 Where could you find a rose where no rose ever grows?
01:01:18 That fellow is worth having. The girl shall be his.
01:02:10 The end.