how did the press know he had them? im guessing he wrote them whilst in prison correct? or were they in his house during the flashback?
im not sure what the ending was supposed to signify; him getting caught or him just remembering that he had left them at his house.
"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*
For a man of his stature I guess at the time when in circumstances like that they wrote their memoirs or jsut because he was bored whilst waiting to be executed, and yes he did write them in prison.
You can take the ending like you can of the italian job(the original) or lock stock and two smoking barrels, it lets the audience decide in their own minds what happens to him.
Some may think the prison guards could have picked it up and read what he had written and tried to arrest him, or that he went back into the prison to get them, maybe even that he just got out of there as fast as he could or some other ending.
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Since he was a Duke and he was treated as such by the guards and the Colonel, I'm sure he could have quite properly knocked on the prison door and said that he had left behind something he had been writing and needed to retrieve it. Considering his great skill for crafting stories, he could probably say that it was meant to go to his wife as a sort of private good-bye, and considering who he was and how he was treated, the people at the prison would probably think nothing of it.
For whatever reason, I like to think that he gets away with it all in the end. I also hope he realizes that Edith was the right choice.
I thought it was fairly obvious that the journalist wasn't referring to the memoirs he had written the previous night in prison. His publication merely wanted to buy the exclusive story of the biggest name in the news that week. The fact that the journalist's magazine was called Tit Bits suggests that it is a shallow gossip rag, comparable to say OK or Hello today. The scene is designed as the punchline to the whole film, i.e. that he has just been aquitted for murder, and is reminded by the journalist's innocent question that he has left a complete confession to six other murders in his prison cell.
There's nothing wrong with wishing to expand your mind. After all, you have considerable capacity to do so.
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