When Frank refuses to cooperate with his attorney at the trial, Frank is left to defend himself, and cross-examines Gow bitterly. Gow orders Frank's arrest, but he and Hegarty are defended by the F.F.F.F., an animal rights organization.
When Horace announces that he plans to divorce Lisbet, Vickie believes she is no longer wanted at home. Meanwhile, Lisbet, the wife of newspaper owner Horace Skirving, is moved by Gow's humiliation to admit that she loves him. When the party leaders gather at the Gow home, Frank fills it with dogs to embarrass Gow and prevent him from receiving the nomination. Just as Frank is about to help Gow, he learns that Hegarty's ice cream truck has been seized, which means war between the two men. Gow believes that Frank set up the mob, but Vickie knows he is innocent. Before Gow can see the morning paper, he addresses a planned rally, where he is jeered with imitation dog barks as the crowd shouts him down. Both Vickie and Frank are sympathetic, but Gow ignores her, so Frank changes the headline to note the dog incident. Gow gives Frank an officious interview, which is interrupted by Hegarty's complaints about her treatment. Frank and Vickie encounter each other again at a town council meeting, where Frank offends her by his comments about her father. Meanwhile, Vickie is reunited with her father, Willie Gow, the Provost, and learns that he now believes himself to be a man of destiny and has joined the Scottish Nationalist Party, hoping to win its nomination for a seat on the town council.
After Vickie leaves, Frank observes the police enter the cottage of Honoria Hegarty and seize her dog Patsy for non-payment of fines. For fans of British humor in particular, Storm in a Teacup is a real gem.Victoria Gow and reporter Frank Burden have a brief, chance meeting as they disembark from a ship at Baikie, on the west coast of Scotland. What an enjoyable film! The script, based on a stage play, is tremendously witty, the acting talent (including a young Vivien Leigh) is some of the finest of its time, and the direction makes the most of both. It all ends in a hilarious climactic trial. Furious at this unwinding of his political prospects, the mayor has the reporter arrested and tried on a vague offense. The article incites a local political rebellion, and further actions by the reporter undermine the mayor’s chances for higher office. Instead, he uses this opportunity to publicly attack the mayor for his cruel behavior. He has just been hired by the local paper to do a flattering story on the mayor.
All the old woman’s pleas for mercy fall on deaf ears.Įnter the hero, a principled reporter with a sharp pen. So the town mayor, a law-and-order man in the midst of a campaign for higher office, orders that the dog be seized and executed.
The old woman refused to pay for a dog license, and so has been fined five pounds. The film doesn’t argue against licensing as such but just the heartless application of law without regard to the situation.Īt the center of this story is a poor old woman and her mongrel dog. “Oppression is never small.” So says the heroic reporter at the center of this story as he exposes an authoritarian town mayor for condemning to death an unlicensed dog. For fans of British humor in particular, Storm in a Teacup is a real gem.” “The script, based on a stage play, is tremendously witty, the acting talent (including a young Vivien Leigh) is some of the finest of its time, and the direction makes the most of both.
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