It's Hedley

Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

FILMS IN 2023: → A Free Soul (1931) — dir. clarence brown

Era mi momento para hablar. “Conchita ¿sabes por qué he venido?”, me miró con la sonrisa de pícara e inteligente que tenía y me dijo: “Leslie Howard”, asentí con la cabeza y con otra sonrisa. Le dije para tranquilizarla que los sabía todo, ella me dijo que ya se dio cuenta desde el primer día que me vio, pero se había venido para confirmarlo y para hacer justicia a un gran hombre y un gran amigo de ella, y ella añadió: “y un gran amor”. (J. Rey-Ximena, El Vuelo de Ibis, 2008)

—Please come sit down, Gabrielle. You see…I’ve got to tell you now that I love you. —Alan… —I tell you solemnly…you’re the first person I ever loved in my life. —Alan, they’re all staring at us. —I know, but you’ve got to believe and remember…because, you see, this is my one chance of survival. I told you about that major artist that’s been hidden. Well, I’m transferring him to you. You’ll find a line in that poem of Villon’s that fits that.  Something about: Thus in your field my seed of harvestry will thrive…Well, I’ve provided barren soil for that seed, but you’ll give it fertility and growth and fruition. … —I told you I was looking for something to believe in, worth living for and dying for. Well, I… I believe I found it…here in the valley of the sh- —Alan, what have you found? —I don’t know.