Does anyone else think that when the man on the train tells Iris "my father always taught me never desert a lady in trouble...he even carried that as far as marrying mother" he meant his father got his mother pregnant and therefore married her? That's the way I take it (and I find it funnier than a more generalized meaning), but I would imagine that would have been a little taboo in 1938. Thoughts?
shareYes that's what he was implying although it seemed more a piece of banter than literal truth about his parents. Having said that it would not have been socially acceptable to have sex outside marriage let alone become pregnant but such things have always happened ... even in 1938!
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You're correct, though he meant it as a joke I am sure. He's a good man. His parents must be good people too.
As for taboo, I think people get more offended about stuff in movies now, then back then.
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also, remember the Brits didn't have the Hayes codes, and were probably a little less Prudish in general than he Americans in 1938, so got away with more. Like the comment you mention, and like when the Heroine is slapped soundly on the rear, and when we find those two gentlemen in bed sharing a pair of pajamas.