![]() When Sophie is on her deathbed, she tells Marguerite and Octavius that her marriage was forced, but that she grew to love Octavius completely. Timothy, who secretly loved Marianne in San Pierre, strong-arms William into marrying her and not disappointing the would-be bride. In New Zealand William, expecting Marguerite, realizes his mistake only when he sees Marianne come off the boat. As they approach New Zealand, O'Hara warns Marianne that William gave him the note in a drunken stupor and may not be serious, but she affirms that she loves William and will make a good man out of him. Marianne decides, against her father's wishes, to set off on the Green Dolphin for New Zealand to be with William. Marianne is elated and Marguerite crushed by the news, not realizing the mistake. ![]() Sophie reads the letter aloud to the family. Having settled in New Zealand and become a successful lumberman, William drunkenly writes a letter to the family proposing marriage to Marianne, meaning to write "Marguerite" and confusing the names. Captain O'Hara finds William work in New Zealand as a school teacher, but he chooses to travel into the back-country with Timothy instead. He sneaks aboard the ship and travels to New Zealand, where he will be safe from the law. Fortuitously, he finds the Green Dolphin in the Chinese port. He misses his ship and is labeled as a deserter. In China, he sends a love letter and gift to Marguerite, but is then drugged and robbed. William reluctantly agrees to return to his ship and travels to China. On the island, he secretly declares his love for Marguerite and his father dies suddenly. After a two-year time skip, William returns to the island for a day. Marianne then schemes for her father to sponsor William to be a naval officer. Captain O'Hara believes his story and agrees to smuggle the man to New Zealand. Captain O'Hara's men catch a stow-away, Timothy Haslam, who recently killed his brother-in-law in self-defence. ![]() The captain of the ship, Captain O'Hara, tells William and Marianne of the wonders of the new colony of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the new clipper ship Green Dolphin arrives in the island's port. She married Octavius afterwards, under pressure from her parents. Sophie's mother broke up their youthful romance over Edmond's heavy drinking and lower social status. Ozanne is the former teenage lover of Sophie Patourel, Marguerite and Marianne's mother. Edmond Ozanne, who has recently returned to the island after many years away. Marguerite is sweet and simple, while Marianne is extremely shrewd and plans to take over the family shipping business. In the 1840s, in the town of San Pierre on the English Channel Island of Guernsey, two sisters, Marguerite and Marianne Patourel, daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel, fall in love with the same young man, William Ozanne. Based on the 1944 novel Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge, it was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 American historical drama disaster film directed by Victor Saville and starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed.
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