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Film Released: 1949 The film is set in New York in 1849 - affluent Washington Square to be more precise, where Catherine Sloper (played by Olivia de Havilland) a shy, artless, plain-Jane if a girl, lives with her father, Dr Austin Sloper (played by Ralph Richardson).
Catherine's mother died in childbirth but was by all accounts a refined beauty - a fact which her father constantly reminds her of, often comparing her lack of beauty and social graces to that of his dead wife's outstanding qualities. Catherine directly inherited her mother's wealth and with Dr. Sloper himself being well off, upon his death Catherine will be an extremely rich woman which, according to her father, should enable her to find a suitable husband despite her shortcomings as a woman.
So when Morris Townsend (played by Montgomery Clift), a handsome, well-bred but poor man embarks on a mission to court Catherine, her father is convinced that he must be a gold-digger only interested in her money, and resolves to stop the courtship. Unfortunately, he doesn't bargain for the fact that Catherine has been bewitched by Morris' ardent attentions and has fallen in love with him, convinced that he loves and admires her for what she is - the sort of love she has been starved of from her father.
When her father confronts Morris with his suspicions, she defends Morris, stands up to her father for the first time in her life, and arranges to elope. Dr. Sloper immediately threatens to cut off her inheritance but still convinced Morris loves her, she tells Morris of her father's intentions and on the evening when they are supposed to run off together, Morris jilts her, leaving her waiting all night for him to come. This has a profound effect on Catherine whose heart has hardened towards her father on whom she used to dote. Even when he is dying, she doesn't recant.
Many years pass and Morris returns, saying that he'd only left because he didn't want to be the cause of Catherine being disinherited. Catherine agrees to elope with him again, however when Morris arrives to take her away, he finds the door bolted.
The food aspect appears almost at the beginning of the film when Catherine is buys some fish from a door-to-door fishmonger. Carrying the whopper of a fish into the house he says
"Look father, I bought a fine fish for the chowder you like"
By the looks of it, a 6lb Halibut seems to be the fish in question, so here's a recipe for a Halibut Chowder but you could use any white fish.
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Halibut
Chowder HT SP 50mins
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