The scene where Linda and Dick are having a conversation in their apartment near the end and Allan is frantically phoning her to prevent her from telling him.
Did Linda tell Dick that she had slept with Allan? Did Dick know that Linda had had an affair at all?
If Dick did indeed know that Linda slept with Allan, why did he give Allan such a warm goodbye in the end?
Yes, she told him. The ending parallels the ending in "Casablanca", when Victor -- who knows that Ilsa slept with Rick -- nonetheless welcomes Rick back to the fight. He recognizes that Rick was now being selfless. Dick recognizes the same thing in Allan.
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She may have told her husband that she had an affair with someone, or that she was in love with someone else, but I don't think she specified it was with Woody Allen's character. The way she kept dismissing him on the phone made it seem like he was just their friend interrupting a serious moment. The husband asked, "is that HIM?" and she said something like, "no, it's just Allan."
If she had told her husband that she had the affair with Allan, then when Allan called, the husband probably would have been infuriated (i.e. demanding to speak with him, or storming out of the apartment, etc.) I don't think he knew.
Tony Roberts' facial expressions and lines in the "Casablance" scene are a bit ambiguous; it seems like I've watched it before and thought, "Oh, he's figured it out," especially when he says, "Nobody owes me an explanation." I don't think she told him, but he may have guessed it. Still, during my most recent viewing, when Allan says, "What you don't know is that she was babysitting me," I thought, OK, Allan's taking the high road here, not just giving up Linda but also also giving Dick a reason to believe they HADN'T slept together. Maybe in today's world of disease, honesty about these things is always best, but back then, I really believe he was doing Dick a favor and letting them get on with their marriage.
shareYou make very good points. I disagree, though, because their dialogue at the airport suggests that Dick knew "him" was (Woody). ("What you didn't know is that last night...")
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