Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
77 min | Comedy, Thriller | 6 November 1951 (UK)
A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs Officers try & find out where the brandy went.
Director: Derek N. Twist (as Derek Twist)
Writers: Howard Clewes (novel), Howard Clewes (screenplay)
Stars: Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton
77 min | Comedy, Thriller | 6 November 1951 (UK)
A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs Officers try & find out where the brandy went.
Director: Derek N. Twist (as Derek Twist)
Writers: Howard Clewes (novel), Howard Clewes (screenplay)
Stars: Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton
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00:00You mean Colonel Gill.
00:02We marsh farmers made this land, pinched it from the sea inch by inch,
00:07then put up a wall to keep the sea out.
00:09Took a devil of a lot of work and money.
00:12And generations of fellows...
00:14There's nothing to laugh at.
00:15Oh, I'm not laughing. It's just the way my face is made.
00:18Everybody thinks that.
00:19Oh.
00:20And that's why the king gave us our charter.
00:23Let us offer few taxes.
00:25Allowed us to appoint our own justices and so forth.
00:28And that's why it's called the liberty.
00:31And now these white old johnnies are going to tell us how to farm it, are they?
00:38You know, there's little point in my giving you an interview, young woman,
00:41if you don't trouble to write it down.
00:43I'm so sorry.
00:44My leg upset you?
00:45No. No, not at all.
00:47Keep meaning to oil it. Always forget.
00:51It amuses you, doesn't it?
00:53Yes.
00:54How long have you been a reporter?
00:56Oh, ages.
00:57How did you get on with Tom Cuffley the other time?
01:00Pretty well.
01:01He's my father.
01:02What?
01:03Well, well, well.
01:05So you're Meg Cuffley.
01:08Well, you know, I thought I knew your face.
01:10Where have you been all these years?
01:12Oh, getting educated.
01:13In Scotland, mostly.
01:15They wouldn't let me come home during the war.
01:17Quite grown up, aren't you?
01:19For getting married next thing you know.
01:21Well, that's the general idea, yes.
01:22Oh, plenty of time here.
01:24Why not now?
01:25Why not indeed?
01:27Why not me, for instance?
01:29Well, I think there's too much difference in our ages.
01:33Oh, very true.
01:35If I were only a few years younger...
01:38Well, what about young Sam Everard?
01:40Too sentimental.
01:41Wants to hold hands all the time.
01:43I can't be bothered.
01:44You seem to be unhealthily discriminating, my dear.
01:47Oh, I hate messing about.
01:48I want to get married.
01:50Well, haven't we better get on with this interview?
01:53Yeah, well, what more do you want to know?
01:54Well, what's your plan of campaign?
01:56If I catch one of these ministry beggars this side of Burley Gutter,
02:00I'll run him in for trespass.
02:01Oh, that would make a wonderful story.
02:03It's almost like the old days with the customs officers.
02:06Customs officers?
02:08What do you mean?
02:09Well, the smugglers used to bribe them, didn't they?
02:12Oh, you can't do that sort of thing nowadays.
02:14Oh, no, no, of course not.
02:16Oh, that sort of thing's dead and done with long ago, that sort of thing.
02:20It's rather a shame, really.
02:21They're a bad business.
02:22Oh, I'm glad you agree.
02:23No, no, no, I meant the smugglers.
02:25Oh.
02:26Well, I must be going.