They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
1h 33min | Drama | 4 March 1946 (UK)
A clerk's family experiences financial gain and ruin with a financier's advice.
Director: Norman Walker
Writers: Victor MacLure, Norman Walker
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Nora Swinburne, Joyce Howard
1h 33min | Drama | 4 March 1946 (UK)
A clerk's family experiences financial gain and ruin with a financier's advice.
Director: Norman Walker
Writers: Victor MacLure, Norman Walker
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Nora Swinburne, Joyce Howard
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00:01:37The old devil.
00:01:41I wonder what he's up to now.
00:01:43Has he got a buyer in view?
00:01:45Or is he just trying to twist my tail?
00:01:48Celia, you heard what I said?
00:01:51Oh yes, Thomas. You mean about Mr. Simpson threatening to sell the works?
00:01:54Doesn't it worry you?
00:01:55He's threatened before.
00:01:56This time I think he means it.
00:01:58He's thought that before.
00:02:00I don't think it's a thing to be sniffy about. It's our living.
00:02:03That's not what I'm sniffing at.
00:02:05Can you smell what I smell?
00:02:07Good Lord.
00:02:11Douglas again.
00:02:12Terrible.
00:02:15Oh really, Douglas. This is too bad. So early in the morning.
00:02:19I've got it, Mother.
00:02:21Soft-breaded hydrogen.
00:02:22And doesn't it just stink of rotten eggs?
00:02:24Much worse. It'll put everybody off breakfast.
00:02:26It won't put me off.
00:02:27I say, Mother, bags me the bathroom next.
00:02:29No, darling. I'm next after Daddy.
00:02:31He's catching the 8.15 for Leicester.
00:02:33I must see to his breakfast.
00:02:35Darling, throw all these smelly things down the landing sink.
00:02:38I'm going to. It's no use to me anymore.
00:02:40I've got all the experiment down in my notebook.
00:02:42Hurry.
00:02:46Morning, children.
00:02:48I'm sure this awful smell will be in my hair all day.
00:02:54Can't you stop him, Mother?
00:02:56Now, Freda, we must let Douglas have his hobby.
00:02:58He's so terribly keen on his chemistry.
00:03:01Drool. It might have been white mice.
00:03:03Morning, Mother.
00:03:05It's awful. It'll soon pass off.
00:03:07Get up, Ruth.
00:03:09I bet he's bagged the bathroom after Daddy, too.
00:03:12Now I'm next.
00:03:13I wish we didn't have to live in this pokey house.
00:03:16Douglas's stinks and the smell of cooking all through it.
00:03:20I wish we didn't have to deal with only one bathroom.
00:03:22I wish. I wish. I wish.
00:03:25Mother, did you know you beget a Duchess unawares?
00:03:28Mothers don't beget, darling. They bear.
00:03:31Budding authors ought to know what words mean.
00:03:34Oh, budding author.
00:03:36Much more chance of me being an author than you being a Duchess anyhow.
00:03:39Now, now.
00:03:41Bad-tempered author.
00:03:43My brush.
00:03:45Ready, Thomas?
00:03:46Couple of shakes.
00:03:48Agnes?
00:03:50Mum?
00:03:51The master'll be down in five minutes.
00:03:53Start him off with his porridge, will you?
00:03:55Yes, Mum.
00:03:57Here.
00:04:02Hello.
00:04:04Morning, Dad.
00:04:05Hello, Daddy.
00:04:06Oh.
00:04:07Hello, children.
00:04:11Move up a bit.
00:04:14Let Fida have the bath next.
00:04:16She's a bit peevish this morning.
00:04:18She's peevish every morning.
00:04:19And you only take a sec to chuck on your clothes after your usual cat-slick.
00:04:23Usual cat-slick? I like that.
00:04:25Go on, Douglas.
00:04:26I don't mind.
00:04:28You go next after Fida, if you like.
00:04:30I can go up and weigh out some chemicals.
00:04:32Thanks, Douglas.
00:04:34You aren't a bad old egg, though you smell like one.
00:04:37I suppose you don't know that Oxford and Cambridge always call chemistry stinks.
00:04:41I'll smell a lot worse than this before I've finished.
00:04:44Phew.
00:04:50Well, darling, have a good day.
00:04:52I expect it'll be much as usual.
00:04:54Oh, you never know.
00:05:24Morning miracle, the arrival of the great Mr. Knight.
00:05:55Lawrence Knight, you know, the great financier.
00:05:59Knott's Chronicle, please.
00:06:04Morning, Mr. Knight.
00:06:05Morning.
00:06:07Damn it, that bastard.
00:06:24Orange peel.
00:06:25Why don't you keep these tips clean?
00:06:27Orange peel, sir?
00:06:28Well, can't you use your eyes?
00:06:30What's that?
00:06:31I rather think it's apple, sir.
00:06:34Apple, orange or blasted banana.
00:06:36It ought not to be that.
00:06:38I apologize, Mr. Knight, sir, on behalf of the company.
00:06:41Providential, I thought, this gentleman being behind to catch you.
00:06:45By Georges, fetched you a nasty smack in the wind.
00:06:48Are you hurt much?
00:06:49Not much.
00:06:50Hardly at all, in fact.
00:06:51Oh, good.
00:06:52Orange peel, you know, sheer damn carelessness.
00:06:54I might have broken an arm or a leg.
00:06:56Me?
00:06:57I dare say you have time to lay up.
00:06:59I ought to report it.
00:07:00In the public interest, what?
00:07:02Well, but I won't.
00:07:04Thanks, sir.
00:07:13Sure I didn't hurt you?
00:07:14Quite sure.
00:07:15Good.
00:07:20Going up to London?
00:07:21No, only as far as Leicester.
00:07:25Seen you on this train before, haven't I?
00:07:27I've been on it several times lately, yes.
00:07:32Coming in here?
00:07:34Thanks.
00:07:59Oh, morning, Barry.
00:08:00Good morning, Frieda.
00:08:01Miss Barry.
00:08:02Morning, Miss Barry.
00:08:03Keeping first-class company these days, aren't we, Blake?
00:08:06What do you mean?
00:08:07In the Leicester train on Friday.
00:08:09The great Mr. Lawrence Knight, wasn't it?
00:08:11Oh, that.
00:08:12Just a little business discussion with Mr. Knight.
00:08:15It's about the only place you can catch him.
00:08:16He's a very busy man.
00:08:17Better watch, Mr. Blake, that he doesn't catch you.
00:08:20You said it, Mrs. Green.
00:08:22How are your roses doing, Mr. Green?
00:08:24I think they'll do well this year.
00:08:25Oh, Miss Manley, can I have a word with you?
00:08:29What are you dodging about for?
00:08:31It's the head you chomped.
00:08:33Good morning, Ruth.
00:08:34Good morning, Mr. Porter.
00:08:35Ah, Douglas.
00:08:38Good morning, Miss Blake.
00:08:39Good morning.
00:08:41Thanks very much, Miss Manley.
00:08:42Goodbye.
00:08:43Goodbye, Mr. Blake.
00:08:44I shan't forget.
00:08:45Thanks.
00:08:47Same old tramp, I suppose.
00:08:49Catch daddy letting us off.
00:08:50Every blessed Sunday.
00:08:52I hate Grandma's house.
00:08:53Smells of apples and mice.
00:08:56Well, come along.
00:09:01Must we go to Grandma's?
00:09:03Of course.
00:09:04Why not, Miss?
00:09:12Why doesn't Edward see to this gate?
00:09:14Edward?
00:09:15I'll have to do it myself.
00:09:16Or send a man up from the works.
00:09:24Anybody in?
00:09:25Sorry.
00:09:30So you've come, have you?
00:09:32How have you been, Mother?
00:09:33Not so well.
00:09:37What's to do that you've come today?
00:09:40I wanted to.
00:09:41Oh.
00:09:43Well, you'd better sit down.
00:09:45All of you.
00:09:48Is Edward in?
00:09:49In bed.
00:09:50Where's Isabel?
00:09:51In the kitchen, I suppose.
00:09:53Come along, children, and talk to your aunt.
00:10:01Pity there isn't a Blake among those children.
00:10:04Oh, I don't know.
00:10:05Douglas is rather like I used to be.
00:10:08Not him.
00:10:09I could rely on you at his age.
00:10:11No need to rely on Douglas yet.
00:10:13Let him be a boy as long as he can.
00:10:15That sort of thing can be carried too far.
00:10:18Your father was a boy all his life.
00:10:21Well, that's brought us all to.
00:10:23Lovely day, isn't it?
00:10:25Is it?
00:10:26I don't know.
00:10:27You don't see much what sort of a day it is here.
00:10:29I was chopping the cabbage.
00:10:31So I see.
00:10:33How's your head, Isabel?
00:10:35One of my bad turns is coming on, I think.
00:10:37You'd better come over to the grove again for a change.
00:10:40I can't.
00:10:41Not with Mother and Edward.
00:10:43I'm too tied here.
00:10:45Perhaps I can manage it later on.
00:10:47Yes, do.
00:10:48How's Edward getting on at Parsons?
00:10:50Twice this week.
00:10:51He wasn't out of the house till gone nine.
00:10:53If he loses this job, I won't go touting round for another for him.
00:10:56He can look out for himself.
00:10:57I'm absolutely sick of him.
00:10:59And what do you think I am then?
00:11:01Edward, your father all over again.
00:11:04Always after easy money.
00:11:06Like your father selling the works.
00:11:08That's an old story, Mother.
00:11:10How are you off the money?
00:11:12Getting pretty low.
00:11:13Would a pound do?
00:11:15I dare say.
00:11:16I do wish you'd claim your old age pension, Mother.
00:11:19You know I won't.
00:11:21Me, go to the post office for public money.
00:11:24You want to humiliate me?
00:11:26I only mean it would be a little extra for you.
00:11:28Of course.
00:11:30If you can't spare the money, you'd better keep it.
00:11:32Of course I can spare it.
00:11:34It's only that I get a bit hard up at times.
00:11:37The children's education costs a lot.
00:11:39And Douglas will have to go somewhere later.
00:11:42It's all your father's fault.
00:11:45Well, there can't be help now.
00:11:48Perhaps I'll be able to put it right someday.
00:11:52You're a good boy.
00:11:55I don't know what I should do without you.
00:11:59Time you were going, I think.
00:12:01You want to go, do you?
00:12:02Well, we ought to.
00:12:04I promised Agnes I'd let her off early.
00:12:06I don't call that much reason for going.
00:12:08Good afternoon.
00:12:09Besides, I have a pie in the oven.
00:12:11Say goodbye to Grandma.
00:12:12I'll try to be over during the week, Mother.
00:12:19Oh.
00:12:21Remind me to tell you about an interesting man I met in the train.
00:12:24Knight of Financia.
00:12:25You've heard of him, haven't you?
00:12:27No, I haven't.
00:12:29Well, you will.
00:12:39Why is he such a down on you, Mr. Edward?
00:12:42I suppose because I'm really not much good.
00:12:44Now, don't say that.
00:12:46But it's the truth, Miss Gary.
00:12:48I've never had a job I've thought worth doing.
00:12:51So I've never kept one.
00:12:53My father said when I was a youngster, I'd never make an engineer.
00:12:56I wanted to be an architect.
00:12:58But he tried to make a lawyer out of me and, well, I failed.
00:13:02Still, your brother needn't be so hard on you.
00:13:04I don't see that he could do anything else.
00:13:07He'd never make any excuses for himself.
00:13:09How can he make any for me?
00:13:11Well, it seems hard-hearted of him not to try.
00:13:15He isn't hard-hearted.
00:13:17He's simply got an uncomfortable sense of duty.
00:13:20Sunday after Sunday to that bleak house to see Mother.
00:13:23With that awful, dreary walk to face each time.
00:13:33Can I give you a lift, Blake?
00:13:36Why, it's night.
00:13:40I didn't expect to see you here at this time of day, sir.
00:13:42Always about somewhere, Blake. Always about somewhere.
00:13:45Well, jump in, all of you. We're rather a crowd.
00:13:48Oh, there's room. There's room.
00:13:57I see you go to the King's School, young man.
00:14:00Yes.
00:14:01I went to the King's School. I once wore that same cap.
00:14:04Did you?
00:14:05Yes. I've never been back to the school.
00:14:07Oh, you should. They'd be proud to have a visit from you.
00:14:10Well, perhaps I will one day.
00:14:13I'll tell you what. I'll give the school a cup or something.
00:14:16Will you, sir? That's very handsome of you, sir.
00:14:18There you can tell your headmaster you've met Lawrence Knight.
00:14:21I expect he'll know who I am.
00:14:23Tell him I promised the school a gold cup.
00:14:33Forgive me running in, won't you? But I have a pie in the oven.
00:14:36Not at all. Goodbye, Mrs. Blake.
00:14:38Goodbye.
00:14:39You have met you all.
00:14:41So that's their greatness tonight, is it?
00:14:46Don't forget the gold cup.
00:14:47No, no, sir. I won't.
00:14:48Goodbye.
00:14:49Goodbye.
00:14:50Goodbye.
00:14:57Thank goodness. The pie's all right.
00:14:59Lovely.
00:15:00It ought to be, ma'am. I put it in dead on the quarter, as the saying is.
00:15:03Thank you, Agnes. You can go now. Girls and I'll manage.
00:15:05Thank you, ma'am.
00:15:10Well, what did I tell you? Isn't he a great fellow?
00:15:13I'm going to put Mr. Knight into my new story.
00:15:16Ruth, take my coat upstairs.
00:15:18Yes.
00:15:19Golly, won't the chaps cheer when the head tells them about the gold cup at prayers tomorrow?
00:15:23Yes. I expect they will.
00:15:25Douglas, you'd better go upstairs and wash your hands.
00:15:29Freda, help me strain the greens while I see to the potatoes.
00:15:40Oh, Lord.
00:16:00God bless them all.
00:16:10Never let me fail.
00:16:12Huh? Who's failed?
00:16:15Nobody, Thomas. I was just thinking aloud.
00:16:19It's early teatime. I'll call the children.
00:16:23There you are, Douglas.
00:16:25Ruth.
00:16:26Look, Daddy, I...
00:16:28If I get the best notepaper,
00:16:30will you write and tell the head about Mr. Knight?
00:16:32Yes, of course.
00:16:33I'm sure he'll like it.
00:16:35If I get the best notepaper,
00:16:37will you write and tell the head about Mr. Knight's gold cup?
00:16:40Can't I ring him up tomorrow?
00:16:42Oh, he's always so mad if you come when he's in form and say telephone.
00:16:46But if you write a note, Dad, perhaps he'll give it out at prayer
00:16:49and the chaps will cheer like anything.
00:16:51All right. I'll do it after tea.
00:16:55Freda.
00:16:56Coming, Mother.
00:16:57Freda.
00:17:02Talking of Freda, Miss Manley gave me an idea this morning.
00:17:05Freda better be a teacher.
00:17:10Teacher?
00:17:12Why?
00:17:13Because it's a very good job.
00:17:15Look at Miss Manley.
00:17:18Teacher.
00:17:20Oh, I...
00:17:21I couldn't bear it.
00:17:23Why couldn't you bear it?
00:17:24You have your living to earn, you know.
00:17:26Me?
00:17:28Teacher?
00:17:29Well, would you rather go into an office?
00:17:33Office?
00:17:36No.
00:17:37Rest my soul, what do you want to do?
00:17:39You don't know what you want to do.
00:17:41You don't know anything.
00:17:42It's time you realized that life is a serious thing.
00:17:50What on earth's the matter with the girl?
00:17:53Let's get on with our tea.
00:17:55I'll go up and talk to her later.
00:18:21Ah, good morning, Blake.
00:18:22Good morning.
00:18:23Waiting for me?
00:18:24Thank you, darling.
00:18:42Oh, have a cigar, Blake.
00:18:43I don't think I...
00:18:44Well, yes, I will.
00:18:46Thanks.
00:18:48These engineering works.
00:18:50How much would this fellow Simpson sell for?
00:18:52I don't know.
00:18:53Between 10 and 12,000, I suppose.
00:18:57How much does Simpson make out of it?
00:18:59He used to get 2,000.
00:19:01But lately, well, not more than 1,300.
00:19:07And what do you get?
00:19:09600.
00:19:10Good Lord.
00:19:12No other means?
00:19:13No.
00:19:15A bit of money put into old goods just now would double itself in less than a month.
00:19:18I haven't any spare money.
00:19:20Well, it's only my helping you to increase what you haven't got then, is it?
00:19:35Well, I'll look into your affairs, Blake, and see what I can suggest.
00:19:39If you can suggest a way out, sir, I'll be your debtor for life.
00:19:43But I don't suppose I'll be seeing you, lest a job's finished.
00:19:46Oh, I shall forget.
00:19:47I never forget anything.
00:19:49I'll let you know.
00:19:53By the way, I've let myself in for presenting that cup at the King's School next month.
00:19:58Are you going to support me?
00:19:59I shall be there, but not on the platform.
00:20:02I'm only a parent, you know.
00:20:03Well, dammit, I don't know how to talk to the young.
00:20:05Well, who does?
00:20:06But you'll be all right.
00:20:08Just throw in something about Esprit de Corps and Mensa and...
00:20:12L'Holly Soir and Paris de Fogoire.
00:20:15And it remains for me now to thank our generous and most enterprising fellow citizen,
00:20:22Quod Mare Non Novit Quinecid Ariona Tellus,
00:20:25for his beautiful and valuable gift to his old school.
00:20:29And to introduce to you, Mr. Lawrence Knight.
00:20:37My Lord Mayor, Mr. Headmaster, ladies and gentlemen, boys,
00:20:44I have been thanked, as well as in English, in some dead languages,
00:20:49none of which I understood,
00:20:53for giving my old school this gold cup.
00:20:58Well now, I want you boys to look at it.
00:21:02It's a symbol.
00:21:04It's gold, you see.
00:21:06It's here to remind you that in the pursuit of learning,
00:21:09you mustn't forget the gold.
00:21:11Don't forget money.
00:21:12Don't let anybody teach you to despise money.
00:21:15You can't do anything without it.
00:21:17You can't choose your own life without it.
00:21:19You can't buy leisure without it.
00:21:21Ah, and you can't do good on a large scale without money.
00:21:25Endow hospitals, found schools, help the churches.
00:21:29Believe me, boys, you need money for everything.
00:21:32And that's what this is to remind you of.
00:21:35This is to remind you of.
00:21:38My advice to you is to get out into the world and get out soon.
00:21:44Don't bother about a university education.
00:21:47I never went to a university.
00:21:53Looks as if I'm putting my foot in it.
00:21:56But perhaps a businessman shouldn't be asked to make a speech.
00:22:00He may tell the truth.
00:22:03Anyhow, let's get on with the most important business of the evening.
00:22:06The presentation of the prizes.
00:22:13We have speech to make in those surroundings.
00:22:16Perhaps.
00:22:18But night's right, you know.
00:22:20All that talk of material success.
00:22:23Haven't we been happy enough?
00:22:25In a way.
00:22:26But I'd be happier if I could own the works.
00:22:29Aren't you excited about going out to Field Place?
00:22:31It'll be a change, anyhow, from the usual trek to Holly House.
00:22:35Do you think Knight would have invited us all?
00:22:37And on Sunday, if he meant to talk business?
00:22:40But that's his kindness.
00:22:42I'm certain it means something.
00:22:44Oh, Mummy, isn't it lovely?
00:23:14Come in, please.
00:23:37Mr. and Mrs. Blake and family.
00:23:40Ah, here you are.
00:23:42Come and sit down.
00:23:43How do you do?
00:23:45I say, are all these children yours?
00:23:47Oh, my, you have done well.
00:23:50Pretty girl.
00:23:51Coming along nicely, isn't she?
00:23:52Come and sit over here by the fire, Mrs. Blake, won't you?
00:23:55I hope you weren't cold coming along in the car.
00:23:57Not in the least.
00:23:58Ah, no, it's a nice, comfortable car, isn't it?
00:24:00Sit down, children.
00:24:01Oh, here's the sherry.
00:24:02All right, since, thank you, I'll take care of it.
00:24:04Will the children have orange juice, Mrs. Blake?
00:24:06It's so good for them.
00:24:07That'll be very nice, Mrs. Knight.
00:24:09Of course, you haven't taken to sherry yet.
00:24:12Oh, no.
00:24:13No, that's right.
00:24:14Good girl, good girl.
00:24:15Stay off it as long as you can.
00:24:16Very bad for complexion.
00:24:19All the same, when I find myself a bit blotchy,
00:24:22I have a nice glass of stout for my lunch,
00:24:24and it clears it at once.
00:24:25Doesn't it, lull?
00:24:26Really?
00:24:27At once, Mrs. Blake.
00:24:29Just you try it.
00:24:30Marvelous.
00:24:31Well, happy days, everybody.
00:24:35I always say a spot of something nice breaks the ice.
00:24:37Don't I, lull?
00:24:38Live in Clinton, don't you?
00:24:40Yes.
00:24:41Dull hole, isn't it?
00:24:42Still, perhaps it's because I don't know many people there.
00:24:44Makes a difference, doesn't it?
00:24:46I expect it does.
00:24:47Come along, Blake.
00:24:48We'll let the ladies gossip by themselves.
00:24:51Morty, I'll have some more sherry in the library.
00:24:53Oh, very well, dear.
00:24:54I'll send it in.
00:24:56Well, it's too wonderful.
00:24:58What did he say?
00:24:59Say, we're going to buy the works.
00:25:01Knight's going to lend me 2,000 pounds,
00:25:03and I've got to raise the other 3,000.
00:25:05I don't know how the devil I'm going to do it.
00:25:073,000 pounds?
00:25:09I'll do it somehow.
00:25:10I wondered if you'd let me have your 1,500.
00:25:13Of course you can have it.
00:25:14You can have my saving certificates, Daddy.
00:25:17Douglas, old chap, this is a great day.
00:25:19Blake's is Blake's again.
00:25:21Topping.
00:25:22Daddy, Daddy, if the works belong to you,
00:25:25shall we be rich?
00:25:27I don't know about rich, but we shall be better off.
00:25:30Shall we have enough money for me not to be a teacher?
00:25:34Don't you want to be a teacher?
00:25:36Oh, Daddy, you know I don't.
00:25:37But you don't know what you want.
00:25:39Oh, I know what I don't want.
00:25:42Daddy, Daddy, just say that if the works belong to you,
00:25:46I don't need to be a teacher.
00:25:49Oh, all right, all right.
00:25:51Oh, thank you.
00:25:53Oh, thank you, Daddy.
00:26:04Oh, thank you, Daddy.
00:26:35I'd rather have given the men the dinner,
00:26:38but there it is.
00:26:39I can't afford it.
00:26:41Who do we ask to the party?
00:26:43You want to ask Mr. and Mrs. Knight?
00:26:45Good Lord, no.
00:26:46We'd have to make it a special occasion.
00:26:48Why?
00:26:49Well, Knight's very advanced about food.
00:26:51Game, caviar.
00:26:53We could have caviar.
00:26:54Could we?
00:26:55Oh, darling, you are funny.
00:26:57Funny?
00:26:58Why am I funny?
00:26:59Have you ever tasted caviar?
00:27:01Yes.
00:27:02Often in the old days with Dad.
00:27:04Could we have it at the party?
00:27:06If only to see what Mrs. Green makes of it.
00:27:10What the hell is it?
00:27:12It's caviar.
00:27:13Oh, yes, of course.
00:27:16Is it better?
00:27:17Thank you, dear.
00:27:21Well, I've never eaten caviar before,
00:27:24and I never want to again.
00:27:26Oh, this isn't right.
00:27:27Not right at all.
00:27:30Real caviar isn't like this.
00:27:32It's a great delicacy.
00:27:34But didn't I tell you?
00:27:36They're out to climb.
00:27:37How do you mean?
00:27:38Well, look at the way they're making up to those Knights.
00:27:40And caviar.
00:27:42My answer.
00:27:43Celia, where's the port?
00:27:45Just behind you, dear.
00:27:47These mushroom financiers.
00:27:49Don't they a bit have to come down bang?
00:27:51Knight's no mushroom.
00:27:53He's steady.
00:27:54He works on a safe small scale.
00:27:56He knows what he's doing.
00:27:57All these chaps go crazy in the end.
00:27:59It's like juggling.
00:28:01They get too many plates in the air.
00:28:02They can't keep them up forever,
00:28:03and they can't catch them.
00:28:05So there's a fearful crash,
00:28:07and the lights go out.
00:28:09Can't get hold of many plates these days.
00:28:11Times aren't what they were for financiers.
00:28:13Frieda.
00:28:16I think that's why Knight was ready to put a bit
00:28:18into my little concern.
00:28:21I wonder.
00:28:23Anyway, he's done me a good turn.
00:28:26And I'm going to ask you to drink his health.
00:28:29All supplied?
00:28:30Yes, sir.
00:28:31Good.
00:28:32Well, your very good health,
00:28:34coupled with that of my friend, Mr. Knight,
00:28:36and not forgetting Blake's.
00:28:38Here's to you.
00:28:40Good health.
00:28:42It's rather a lot to get out of one glass of port.
00:28:45We must all have another.
00:28:48You know, Mrs. Knight,
00:28:51you know Mrs. Knight?
00:28:53Yes.
00:28:54What age woman is she?
00:28:56Oh, about 47 to 48, I should say.
00:28:58Have you been to the house?
00:28:59I have.
00:29:00Well, was Frieda going to Field Place the other day
00:29:03when the car came for her?
00:29:04Yes, and she's going again tomorrow.
00:29:08Everything smells like berries.
00:29:11Douglas.
00:29:20Hello, Edward.
00:29:23Hello, Mrs. Knight.
00:29:26Hello, Mr. Knight.
00:29:29How are you?
00:29:32I'm fine, Mrs. Knight.
00:29:35And you?
00:29:38I'm fine.
00:29:41And you?
00:29:44I'm fine, Mrs. Knight.
00:29:48Hello, Edward.
00:29:50Hello, Celia.
00:29:51Well, I hope, and the children?
00:29:53Yes, thanks. Is Thomas...
00:29:54Yes, he's in his office.
00:29:58Goodbye, Celia.
00:29:59Goodbye.
00:30:02Good morning, Mrs. Blake.
00:30:04You know your way all right?
00:30:05Yes, thank you.
00:30:14May I come in?
00:30:15Yes, do.
00:30:16You thought of money?
00:30:17Not more than usual.
00:30:19What was Edward wanting?
00:30:21He wants me to give him a job.
00:30:22Well, can't you?
00:30:23Can't I?
00:30:25Really, Celia.
00:30:26Do you think I can have a slacker like Edward about the place?
00:30:29What an example for the men.
00:30:31You know your own business best,
00:30:33but I can't help feeling rather sorry for him.
00:30:36Don't you waste your pity on him.
00:30:38I sent him down to the labor exchange.
00:30:40I gave him a pound, though I couldn't spare it.
00:30:42Poor old Thomas.
00:30:45Well, and what brought you here?
00:30:48I've had an idea.
00:30:50I want us to do something for Frida.
00:30:52Something for Frida?
00:30:53How do you mean?
00:30:55Well, she's growing up.
00:30:56She needs to meet young people of her own age and have some fun.
00:31:00I want us to take her to the charity ball.
00:31:03The tickets are two guineas.
00:31:05The tickets are what?
00:31:06Oh, I know it's an awful price.
00:31:08And they'll be Frida's frock.
00:31:10I can't possibly afford it.
00:31:12Oh, Thomas, you must.
00:31:14Just this once.
00:31:30Mother!
00:31:31Oh, Mother, I've had such a lovely time at Field Place.
00:31:34Have you, darling?
00:31:35Oh, yes, it was...
00:31:36Mother, what's the matter?
00:31:37You look as if you've got something up your sleeve.
00:31:39I have.
00:31:40I've got a surprise for you.
00:31:41I've got a surprise for you,
00:31:43You, you tell yours first.
00:31:45Well, well...
00:31:47Oh, go on, Mother.
00:31:49Daddy and I have decided to take you to this grand charity ball.
00:31:54What is it?
00:31:57Frida, what's the matter?
00:31:59Well, your surprise is the same as mine.
00:32:03Mrs. Knight is going to take me to that.
00:32:06Well, there'll be no need for Mrs. Knight to take you now.
00:32:09We'll take you ourselves.
00:32:11But she wants to take me.
00:32:13Mr. Knight is having a party for it.
00:32:16But you'll meet them there, even if you are with us.
00:32:19But, Mother, it won't be the same.
00:32:22Besides, it would cost so much, the tickets and everything.
00:32:26You'll save six guineas if I go with the Knights.
00:32:30I wanted to take you to your first dance.
00:32:32But all that sort of thing is over.
00:32:34Girls always go to dances and parties now.
00:32:38Oh, I was so happy when Mrs. Knight asked me.
00:32:40Now it's all spoiled.
00:32:42Why is it all spoiled?
00:32:44Well, you and Father want to go.
00:32:46Want to go?
00:32:48We don't want to go at all.
00:32:50We only wanted to go for your sake.
00:32:54Oh, well, that's all right then, isn't it?
00:32:57You don't need to go.
00:32:59Mrs. Knight really does want to take me.
00:33:02They've asked me back to Field Place for the night.
00:33:04We'll have bacon and eggs in the kitchen at four o'clock in the morning.
00:33:08Won't it be fun?
00:33:10Oh, Mother, may I go?
00:33:12Yes.
00:33:14Oh, how wonderful!
00:33:16Oh, but where can I get a frock?
00:33:18May I have a really nice one?
00:33:21I thought of Mirella.
00:33:24Mirella!
00:33:26Oh, Mother!
00:33:38Oh, Mother!
00:34:08Oh!
00:34:25Who are those people over there?
00:34:27Where, dear?
00:34:28Oh, those over there?
00:34:32I don't know.
00:34:34He's a good-looking boy, isn't he? We'll find out.
00:34:37Lull?
00:34:39Lull, I'm speaking to you.
00:34:41Who are those people over there?
00:34:43I'm speaking to Lady Gaskin now, look.
00:34:46Oh, that young Hewitt of Felton Green.
00:34:48And the Pelham girls.
00:34:50And Geoffrey Selby.
00:35:04Enjoying yourself, young woman?
00:35:07Oh, yes. Yes, I am.
00:35:10I say, Coggy.
00:35:11Oh, hello, old boy.
00:35:12Who's that girl over there with Knight?
00:35:14Do you mean the fair young one?
00:35:18I don't know.
00:35:19No, no, no, no.
00:35:20That lovely creature in red, old boy.
00:35:22Yes, well, I don't know her either.
00:35:23You'll be greeted.
00:35:27Oh, it's young Hewitt.
00:35:30Will you excuse me, please?
00:35:31Yes, of course.
00:35:34Good evening, Mr. Knight.
00:35:36Good evening.
00:35:37Oh, how do you do?
00:35:38Mr. Hobson, isn't it?
00:35:39Hewitt, Maudie.
00:35:40Bobby Hewitt.
00:35:41My wife.
00:35:42Benno Burberry.
00:35:44And, of course, little Frieda, Miss Blake.
00:35:46Nice party, isn't it?
00:35:48Such a good band.
00:35:49Too good a number to miss.
00:35:51Shall we?
00:35:55That's not a bad idea.
00:35:56What about it, Tommy?
00:35:57I'd love to.
00:35:59Excuse me, darling.
00:36:00I'm going to dance, too.
00:36:01Oh, would you?
00:36:03I'm sure he'll ask you later.
00:36:07Do hope so.
00:36:09Mrs. Knight, would you excuse me if I went to tidy my hair?
00:36:12Of course, dear, of course.
00:36:14I'll wait for you here.
00:36:32I'll be back.
00:36:51Uncle Edward?
00:36:53Oh, he can't be.
00:37:01To you.
00:37:02Thank you, sir.
00:37:03Thank you, sir.
00:37:28Oh, it's too bad.
00:37:33Quiet today.
00:37:34Yes, it is, Zack.
00:37:35I'm just as glad.
00:37:37Don't feel in the vein for company.
00:37:39I thought there was something.
00:37:41You don't often come in at dinner time on Sundays.
00:37:43Anything particular?
00:37:45Or just a deep depression moving over Iceland?
00:37:50Well?
00:37:51Had a row with my brother.
00:37:53He's angry with me for taking the job of cloakroom attendant at the ball on Friday.
00:37:58Cloakroom attendant?
00:38:00Uniform, livery.
00:38:02Trouble is, my niece was at the ball and saw me.
00:38:05It upset her.
00:38:06Went home in tears.
00:38:08Well, I'm not surprised your brother was upset.
00:38:10You mustn't go doing things like that.
00:38:13You, a gentleman, brought up as you've been brought up.
00:38:16Really, Miss Dreadwood, I'm surprised at you.
00:38:19Don't you begin on me, Miss Carrie.
00:38:22This is the only place I get any peace.
00:38:25I know I'm no good.
00:38:27But when I try to be, you're all down on me like a ton of bricks.
00:38:31Even you.
00:38:32Ah, no, it's not that.
00:38:33I don't like the idea of you demeaning yourself like that.
00:38:37All right, Miss Carrie.
00:38:38Thank you, Amy.
00:38:40Now, have you had your dinner yet?
00:38:42This will do me all right.
00:38:43You mustn't drink on an empty stomach.
00:38:46Our dinner's just going in upstairs, and if you care to join Mother and me, you're very welcome.
00:38:51I don't think I could.
00:38:53You're too kind.
00:38:56If that's all that's troubling you, come along then.
00:39:09I ought to be going.
00:39:11Going where?
00:39:12Oh, just going.
00:39:14Now, you stay where you are.
00:39:16Here's the Sunday pictorial, if you don't feel like talking.
00:39:20Oh, but I do.
00:39:21Only.
00:39:23Oh, she won't mind.
00:39:26The way you kept her laughing at dinner.
00:39:28Why, you fell on her heart, Mr. Edward.
00:39:30Have I?
00:39:32I wish I could say the same about...
00:39:35About who?
00:39:39I daren't risk it.
00:39:43I dare say you've been in most of the week.
00:39:46What about a walk?
00:39:48If you like.
00:39:49I'll go and get me things on.
00:40:00So Mother sent me along to tell you at once.
00:40:03Oh, but perhaps I oughtn't to have come out with it before, Mrs. Knight.
00:40:06Oh, don't mind me.
00:40:08Of course, she's terribly angry.
00:40:09Why?
00:40:10Why?
00:40:11Well, for one thing, she's sure that Edward will drink himself to death.
00:40:14Oh, I don't think he will somehow.
00:40:16Not if she makes him happy.
00:40:17Well, Mother wants Thomas to put his foot down.
00:40:19Oh, but, Daddy, must.
00:40:20It's terrible.
00:40:21A public housewoman.
00:40:22Now, Frida, we mustn't exaggerate.
00:40:25Nor you, Isabel.
00:40:26Besides, it's none of our business.
00:40:28Edward breaks of age and Miss Pollett may be very nice.
00:40:32In any case, we don't want to bore Mrs. Knight with our family troubles.
00:40:35Oh, I'm not bored.
00:40:37Well, I think a fresh pot of tea would be nice for all of us.
00:40:40Come along, Frida.
00:40:44Families are difficult sometimes, aren't they?
00:40:47Aren't they?
00:40:49That's cozier.
00:40:50Be friendly, I always say.
00:40:52How is it you and I haven't met before?
00:40:54Oh, well, I don't get out much.
00:40:56You see, I'm so tied to the house.
00:40:58There's my mother, my brother.
00:41:00Oh, is that the one you were talking about?
00:41:01Yes.
00:41:02Well, from what I overheard, I think he's done the sensible thing.
00:41:05Behind the bar of a cozy pub, that's just the life he needs.
00:41:09You think so, Mrs. Knight?
00:41:10Oh, I do.
00:41:11He wants to be where he can talk to people.
00:41:13I'm like that.
00:41:14Give me plenty of company and a good old gossip, I always say.
00:41:17So do I. So do I.
00:41:19I thought you did.
00:41:20I knew you were my sort the moment I saw you.
00:41:23You must come to Field Place and have a cup of tea and a nice long talk, will you?
00:41:26Oh, thank you.
00:41:27That's if you're not too tied up.
00:41:29Oh, no, no.
00:41:30I'd never be too tied up for that.
00:41:32Oh, that's all right, then.
00:41:44Bobby Hewitt.
00:41:46I imagine he's the reason for your giving this party.
00:41:49Mother, I hardly know him.
00:41:52I'm looking forward to meeting him.
00:41:54Oh, but when they give their parties, there's nobody there but us.
00:41:59Besides, their kind of party's so different, you wouldn't understand.
00:42:04Why shouldn't I?
00:42:06Darling, I do wish you'd remember.
00:42:08Besides being your mother, I'm a woman.
00:42:10What is there about them that I shouldn't understand?
00:42:12Well, they never have any parents there.
00:42:15Well, Daddy'll most certainly be out.
00:42:17I shall only put in an appearance at supper time.
00:42:20I suppose that'll be all right, won't it?
00:42:23Yes.
00:42:25Yes, that should be all right.
00:42:27Oh, Mother, won't it be exciting?
00:42:30Do you think we could make it a really good party?
00:42:33You know, gin and ginger beer.
00:42:36I think we could manage that.
00:42:39I'll talk to Aunt Carrie.
00:42:55Mrs. Blake?
00:42:56Yes, Teddy?
00:42:57Are you sure Celia said three dozen ginger beers?
00:43:01That's what she ordered.
00:43:04Celia.
00:43:30Celia.
00:43:31Yes, darling?
00:43:32It's two o'clock.
00:43:33I haven't slept a wink.
00:43:34I think I'll go down.
00:43:35No, I shall go, Thomas.
00:43:36Is that what they call a party?
00:43:37They're enjoying themselves.
00:43:38I don't know what young people are coming to these days.
00:43:39Nice friends your daughter's found?
00:43:40Our daughter met most of them at Mr. Knight's.
00:43:41That's not the point.
00:43:42I'm afraid it is, Thomas.
00:43:43It was at the Knight's that Frieda met Bobby Hewitt.
00:43:44What's he got to do with it?
00:43:45The party's been given to him.
00:43:46I'm afraid it is, Thomas.
00:43:47It was at the Knight's that Frieda met Bobby Hewitt.
00:43:48I'm afraid it is, Thomas.
00:43:49It was at the Knight's that Frieda met Bobby Hewitt.
00:43:50I'm afraid it is, Thomas.
00:43:53It was at the Knight's that Frieda met Bobby Hewitt.
00:43:57What have we got to do with it?
00:43:59A party's been given for him.
00:44:01I hope it won't turn out too much of a disappointment for him.
00:44:06There. That sounds as if they're going.
00:44:09Hmm. Or else still coming.
00:44:18No, no, no. I want one of Bobby alone.
00:44:28Is it true, Cocky, this announcement about Bobby?
00:44:32True by Jove, yes. Isn't it splendid?
00:44:35I saw her last week. Launched them both at the Ritz.
00:44:39She's an awfully pretty girl. Awfully pretty.
00:44:42You and I'll have to fall back on each other.
00:44:45None of Bobby's is out of sight.
00:44:48I'm afraid so.
00:44:50I'm afraid so.
00:44:52I'm afraid so.
00:44:54I want you and I'll have to fall back on each other.
00:44:57None of Bobby's is out of this. What?
00:45:24This is a pleasant surprise. What brought you home so early?
00:45:46Knight's going.
00:45:47Going?
00:45:48He's leaving. Says he's too far away from things. He's going back to London.
00:45:53Knight will be pleased.
00:45:54Well, he's going. But that's not all, Celia. Are you ready for a shock?
00:46:02Yes. What is it?
00:46:05He wants us to take over Field Place.
00:46:08Field Place? We should be mad.
00:46:12Yes, when he mentioned it, I nearly had a fit.
00:46:14But we couldn't possibly afford it.
00:46:16He wants to get rid of it. He let us have it cheap. And you've never liked this house.
00:46:21But, my dear, it'd mean more furniture. Carpets, curtains.
00:46:26That's just it. This London house, Knight's bought it, furniture and everything.
00:46:32And he wants you to talk to Mrs. Knight about taking over a lot of the stuff at Field Place.
00:46:37Oh, Thomas, I can't believe it.
00:46:43I wanted Isabel to come with me, but she told me she couldn't leave her mother.
00:46:47Oh, I shall think of you all at Field Place when I get back to town.
00:46:50But I won't envy you. No, not a bit. London for me all the time.
00:46:54You wanted to get back there, I know.
00:46:56Isn't it curious the way all this has come about? I mean, your husband meets mine in the train.
00:47:01Lull takes him up. Always just like Lull. Full of kindness.
00:47:06I can't tell you how sorry I am that you're going. I shall miss you.
00:47:10If I need a bit of advice, may I run up to London to consult you?
00:47:14Why, of course, by all means.
00:47:16Ah, here comes the train.
00:47:30I couldn't get here before this. I nearly missed you.
00:47:33Goodbye, dear. Goodbye, dear. I wish you were coming with me.
00:47:36Well, perhaps I'll be able to manage it later on somehow.
00:47:38You will write and let me know how things are, won't you?
00:47:40Yes, I will.
00:47:42Goodbye.
00:48:02Well, there it is, Garnie. I don't want to lay you off.
00:48:05Thank you, sir.
00:48:06But I may be forced to. So if you see a chance elsewhere, well, I'll have no grievance if you take it.
00:48:11That's like you, sir. That's square talking.
00:48:14And Higgs?
00:48:15Sir?
00:48:16I've had a look at that machine.
00:48:17Oh, yes?
00:48:18The only thing for it is a collar on the shaft. Get Garnie to put one on.
00:48:22Well now, Mr. Blake, is it worth it? I mean, the machine itself wants scrapping.
00:48:27I know that, Higgs, but with orders falling off and bad debts mounting up, I don't feel like buying a new one.
00:48:33I've sunk far too much money in the works as it is.
00:48:35I know, sir. And I often wondered how you've kept us going these last few months.
00:48:38I've often wondered myself.
00:49:00The old skin print.
00:49:06Yes, yes, that's my call.
00:49:09Is that Mr. Knight's office?
00:49:11Blake.
00:49:12Thomas Blake, Trentham, yes.
00:49:19Oh, Knight, how are you?
00:49:21I've been trying to get you.
00:49:23Oh, just a little advice.
00:49:27I've been trying to get you.
00:49:29I've been trying to get you.
00:49:31I've been trying to get you.
00:49:33Advice?
00:49:35Well, things have been going rather wrong since you left.
00:49:39Oh, for heaven's sake, explain yourself, man.
00:49:41Well, camports, for one thing.
00:49:43Camports? Well, any fool could have told you they were poison.
00:49:47And those B&Ts.
00:49:48Well, of course you got in on a falling market.
00:49:52Look here, I'm a busy man. Better come to lunch next Wednesday.
00:49:55Wednesday of next week. One o'clock.
00:50:00Thomas Blake. Put him next to...
00:50:02Lady Gilling.
00:50:03Oh, Raleigh.
00:50:10Well, are you two going to put your shirt on Cosmos?
00:50:13Cosmos?
00:50:14Say, you don't know what Cosmos is? What are you here for?
00:50:17I'm here because Mr. Knight asked me.
00:50:19He asked me, too.
00:50:20I wrote and asked him what to put my money in.
00:50:23And he said, Cosmos.
00:50:25It's going to make our fortunes.
00:50:27I've sold all sorts of things to buy them.
00:50:30Hey, come back there. What have you got?
00:50:33Chicken supreme, madam.
00:50:34All right, I'll have some.
00:50:39Black or white, sir?
00:50:40Black, please.
00:50:41Do you know Mr. Knight well?
00:50:43Oh, yes. He's done me some very good turns.
00:50:46He would.
00:50:47A kind man. Nothing's too much trouble.
00:50:50And, you know, he's almost a gentleman.
00:50:58My lord, ladies and gentlemen,
00:51:00this is no occasion for speeches,
00:51:02and I'm not going to make one.
00:51:04But I will ask you, if I may,
00:51:06to charge your glasses and drink with me
00:51:09to what I confidently announce
00:51:11as my most supremely successful venture.
00:51:14Cosmos Consolidated.
00:51:16Cosmos Consolidated.
00:51:18Good luck.
00:51:19Good luck.
00:51:20Indeed.
00:51:21Indeed.
00:51:22Indeed.
00:51:23Indeed.
00:51:24Indeed.
00:51:25Consolidated.
00:51:26Good luck.
00:51:42Well, I think I'll go now and find my poor dog.
00:51:46I've put a bit of chicken in my bag for her.
00:51:49I'm glad to have met you,
00:51:51and I hope you make a nice fortune.
00:51:53Goodbye.
00:51:54Goodbye.
00:52:09Ah, Blake.
00:52:10I'm so glad you're able to come.
00:52:12I meant to tell you earlier about this.
00:52:14Have you got any spare cash?
00:52:15Well, not much, but I could sell something.
00:52:17Well, sell then. Sell all you can.
00:52:19Put your last filing into Cosmos.
00:52:21But quickly, see?
00:52:22Here.
00:52:23Go into my office and ask for Bluestar.
00:52:24He'll tell you all about it.
00:52:25And if I don't see you again,
00:52:26goodbye and good luck, old chap.
00:52:28Wife and family all right?
00:52:29Yes, thank you.
00:52:30Good.
00:52:35Buy me three.
00:52:36No.
00:52:37500 Cosmos at 50 shillings.
00:52:39The more I see of it, the more I like it, Thomas.
00:52:52You have done well with your family.
00:52:54I couldn't have done it without Knight.
00:52:56Trade's slow,
00:52:57and keeping the works going is a bit of a worry.
00:53:00Oh?
00:53:01Well, anyhow, you'll soon have Douglas to help you.
00:53:04He's coming home this summer, isn't he?
00:53:06No, he's staying up at Cambridge to work.
00:53:08He's taking honours.
00:53:09Oh.
00:53:10Good man.
00:53:11And Ruth, I hear, keeps busy.
00:53:13Writing.
00:53:14I don't think much will come of that.
00:53:17Still, it's nice to have her at home again.
00:53:24That's right, Grandmother.
00:53:28French, eh?
00:53:29Isn't English good enough?
00:53:31Not as bad as your Aunt Isabel,
00:53:34since she took up with that Mrs. Knight.
00:53:36But Grandmother, I think she's improved.
00:53:38Huh?
00:53:39Improved for the worse.
00:53:43You needn't hold me up, girl.
00:53:46I'm not made of glass.
00:53:49Sorry, I can't wait for tea, Celia.
00:53:51Oh.
00:53:52Mrs. Knight's meeting me at Brighton with the car.
00:53:54I can just manage if I catch the 5.10.
00:53:56Isabel, don't fuss.
00:53:57I can run into the station from here in five minutes.
00:54:01So you're still here.
00:54:04Here you are, Mother.
00:54:07Did you have a nice sleep?
00:54:09Don't hold me to those narrow beds.
00:54:11Never did.
00:54:13Why don't you straighten your back, girl?
00:54:16What have you got to droop about?
00:54:21Your tea, Grandmother.
00:54:24I don't like this snippety afternoon tea business.
00:54:28I like the good old-fashioned sandwich, Grandmother.
00:54:31Huh.
00:54:32Trying to stop my mouth, eh?
00:54:34When I was a girl...
00:54:36Yes, Grandmother, do tell me about when you were a girl.
00:54:39Well, I didn't interrupt my elders anyway.
00:54:41They bet you often wanted to.
00:54:43Don't bother your Grandmother, Ruth.
00:54:45She isn't bothering me, Thomas.
00:54:47I like her.
00:54:49She's a blake.
00:54:50Well, Thomas.
00:54:51All right.
00:54:52Your tea, dear.
00:54:53I'll be back in five minutes.
00:54:54Bye, Mother.
00:54:55Have a nice time.
00:54:56A lot you care.
00:54:57Well, teary-bye, everybody.
00:54:59Goodbye.
00:55:00Huh.
00:55:01Teary-bye.
00:55:02At her age.
00:55:03Dragging Thomas away.
00:55:05More tea, Carrie?
00:55:06Yes, thanks.
00:55:07Couldn't say no if I tried.
00:55:09I'll never be gentle to you.
00:55:14Visitor.
00:55:16Mr. Selby.
00:55:17Good afternoon.
00:55:18I thought I'd come to tea.
00:55:20I hope I'm not going to disturb anyone.
00:55:22How do you do, Mrs. Blake?
00:55:24How do you do?
00:55:25Oh, and Miss Blake.
00:55:26This is my Grandmother, Aunt Carrie.
00:55:29How do you do?
00:55:30This is cozy.
00:55:31I am in luck.
00:55:32Tea?
00:55:33Oh, thank you.
00:55:34Thank you very much.
00:55:36Awfully good party last night, Freda.
00:55:38Oh.
00:55:39Good party, was it?
00:55:40Oh, yes.
00:55:41First rate.
00:55:42I didn't get home till four in the morning.
00:55:44I stayed swapping yards with Godstone for hours and hours
00:55:46after the others had left.
00:55:48Awfully good chap, Godstone.
00:55:50Awfully good sense of humor.
00:55:52And what do you do for a living, young man?
00:55:55Nothing.
00:55:56Nothing?
00:55:57No, no, nothing.
00:55:59I say, that's jolly nice tea, Mrs. Blake.
00:56:01May I have some more?
00:56:02And what do you do with yourself?
00:56:04Oh, plenty.
00:56:06I get round quite a lot, don't I, Freda?
00:56:08Where was the party, Mr. Selby?
00:56:10By Godstone's, Mrs. Blake.
00:56:12You know Finley Manor.
00:56:13You know the chap that keeps such marvelous sherry.
00:56:16Should do.
00:56:17His family ships it wholesale.
00:56:18Oh, I see.
00:56:19Do you know the Godstones?
00:56:20Only in a business way.
00:56:22We buy from them.
00:56:23Oh, I see.
00:56:24You're a wine merchant.
00:56:26Oh, not quite that.
00:56:27We keep the swan that trends them.
00:56:29Oh, the swan.
00:56:30You are a card.
00:56:32Am I?
00:56:33That reminds me, we open at six.
00:56:36We'd best be getting along, Celia.
00:56:38I'll just call Teddy.
00:56:43What about tennis, Freda?
00:56:45Tennis?
00:56:47Tennis?
00:56:49Young man, it says six days shalt thou labor.
00:56:54You don't do that, you tell me.
00:56:56The least you can do is to keep the Sabbath day.
00:57:00Oh, come on, Coggins.
00:57:07Is Freda going to marry him, think you?
00:57:10Oh, no.
00:57:12She'd never marry him.
00:57:26That's the worst of the country.
00:57:47Never get the morning paper until midday.
00:57:49Oh, no.
00:57:50We're early this morning.
00:57:52I'll be here in a minute.
00:57:55Here they are.
00:57:57Thank you, Agnes.
00:57:59Here's your paper, Thomas.
00:58:06All for me.
00:58:09This one from Douglas.
00:58:11Thomas.
00:58:13Douglas is taking part one of his degree examination this year
00:58:16instead of waiting until next.
00:58:18Isn't it splendid?
00:58:21Isn't it splendid?
00:58:51Good afternoon, Mr. Blake.
00:59:02Is Mr. Knight at home?
00:59:03No, sir.
00:59:04Mr. Knight is not at home.
00:59:05Is Mrs. Knight in?
00:59:06I'll just inquire, sir.
00:59:08Well, well.
00:59:09Mr. Blake, this is a surprise.
00:59:12How are you?
00:59:13Come this way.
00:59:14How are you all?
00:59:16You like living in Field Place, do you?
00:59:18That's right.
00:59:19Lovely house, isn't it?
00:59:20Pity it's in the country, I always think.
00:59:22Can you tell me where I can find Mr. Knight?
00:59:24Isn't he at his office?
00:59:26No.
00:59:27Oh.
00:59:28Is it business you wanted to see him about?
00:59:31No, not exactly.
00:59:32I know this Cosmo's affair must have upset him pretty badly.
00:59:35It upset me.
00:59:36And, well, with so many people abusing him today,
00:59:39I thought I'd like him to know I don't.
00:59:41Oh, well, that's a bit different.
00:59:44You know where he is?
00:59:45As a matter of fact, he's here.
00:59:46Here?
00:59:47Yes.
00:59:48You see, Mr. Knight told me not to tell anyone.
00:59:50After all, we can't have people running in and out abusing him
00:59:52just because some little thing's gone wrong.
00:59:55But perhaps it'll do him good to talk things over with you.
00:59:57But for God's sake, Mr. Blake,
00:59:59you won't let anyone know you've seen him?
01:00:01Oh, no, no.
01:00:10Lull?
01:00:12Lull?
01:00:14What do you want?
01:00:15Open the door, will you, dear?
01:00:18It's Mr. Blake.
01:00:20What did I tell you?
01:00:21Keep back, Blake.
01:00:23What do you want?
01:00:24Is it as bad as that, Knight?
01:00:26Get out, Morty.
01:00:27And don't be such a fool as to let anybody else up here.
01:00:34Is that what's worrying you?
01:00:36Ha!
01:00:37I'm only just clearing out my desk.
01:00:40Don't look so scared, man.
01:00:42I thought you might be even worse.
01:00:44Hit by what?
01:00:46By Cosmos.
01:00:48Good heavens, no.
01:00:50You didn't lose on them?
01:00:52Lose?
01:00:53What do you take me for?
01:00:55If you got out and let the ship sink,
01:00:57I'd take you for what you are,
01:00:59a damned crook.
01:01:00Oh, I see.
01:01:02So you've lost money, then?
01:01:04I've lost 10,000 pounds.
01:01:06All I had and more.
01:01:08Well, you were a damned fool.
01:01:10What did you do it for?
01:01:11Because you told me.
01:01:13Oh, can't you take care of yourself, man?
01:01:15Do you expect me to wet nurse you forever?
01:01:17I trusted you.
01:01:18Oh, go home and play marbles.
01:01:23How many times have I lost every penny I possessed
01:01:25and staked everything and won?
01:01:27You're a damned swindler.
01:01:29I'm not interested in your opinion, Blake.
01:01:32But your arrival is opportune.
01:01:34You owe me two things.
01:01:36You owe me your life.
01:01:38Your life is opportune.
01:01:39You owe me 2,000 pounds.
01:01:41And I want it at once.
01:01:43You want it now?
01:01:44Yes, I want it now.
01:01:45But I just told you, I've lost all I had.
01:01:47I can't help that.
01:01:48I want my 2,000.
01:01:50But I can't possibly pay.
01:01:52You know I can't pay.
01:01:53No, no, no, no, Blake.
01:01:54I know nothing of the sort.
01:01:56You've got Field Place and you've got the works.
01:01:58And you've probably got a bit put away somewhere.
01:02:01But I haven't.
01:02:02I haven't a cent in the world now.
01:02:04Well, I can't help that.
01:02:05You must sell Field Place.
01:02:07Knight, you absolutely made me.
01:02:10And now you want to ruin me.
01:02:12Oh, turn off the tap, Blake, please.
01:02:15First you call me a damned swindler.
01:02:17Then you call and say I made you.
01:02:19I wish you'd get out.
01:02:20I'm busy.
01:02:23I'll give you a fortnight.
01:02:24At the end of that time, I shall sue you.
01:02:28Sims!
01:02:29Where the devil's that man Sims?
01:02:30Sims!
01:02:31Sir.
01:02:32Show Mr. Blake out.
01:02:34And the next time you disregard my orders about letting people in,
01:02:36you'll have to find another place.
01:02:38You understand?
01:03:06Thomas.
01:03:28I've been so worried.
01:03:36You might have let me know.
01:03:37I kept dinner back.
01:03:38I've been anxious.
01:03:40I'm sorry.
01:03:41I suppose you had dinner on the train.
01:03:44No.
01:03:55I knew Mr. Knight would let you down sometime.
01:03:58Oh, for heaven's sake.
01:04:01All right, darling.
01:04:04Can't we manage 10,000 pounds?
01:04:07We ought to have more reserved than that.
01:04:09Everything's come at once.
01:04:12I need money for the works.
01:04:14Simpson threatens to call in his debentures.
01:04:17That's what I try to make on Cosmos.
01:04:19And Knight wants his 2,000 pounds for the house.
01:04:23Unless I can get 12,000 from somewhere, I'm done for.
01:04:2612,000 pounds?
01:04:28And Knight says if I don't pay by the 23rd, he'll sue me.
01:04:32Thomas, he can't mean it.
01:04:33Oh, he means it all right.
01:04:35Does he mean to ruin us?
01:04:37I don't think he cares whether he ruins us or not.
01:04:40He simply means to get his money.
01:04:42Devil.
01:04:44I always knew he was.
01:04:48What can we do?
01:04:50My only hope is the bank.
01:04:53If they will let me have an overdraft.
01:04:56Of course they will.
01:04:58They know you.
01:05:00You've had an overdraft before.
01:05:03Oh, darling.
01:05:05Don't worry like this.
01:05:08It'll be all right.
01:05:10You'll see.
01:05:13Now you're going to have your soup.
01:05:16So that you'll get some sleep.
01:05:19And tomorrow, you'll see the manager of the bank.
01:05:23And everything will be clear.
01:05:26You'll see.
01:05:30My personal guarantee should count for something.
01:05:33It could be considered, Blake.
01:05:36You understand, of course, we'd require your balance sheet up to date.
01:05:40My accountant, unfortunately, is way ill.
01:05:43Well, you know the formalities, Blake.
01:05:49Good day.
01:06:01I knew the bank would agree to help you.
01:06:04I know the debt's only transferred, but we're free of Mr. Knight.
01:06:08We've finished with him, haven't we?
01:06:10Yes, we've finished with him.
01:06:12Well, come and have your tea.
01:06:15Celia, we shall have to leave this house.
01:06:19Oh, Thomas.
01:06:22I know.
01:06:24I'm very sorry.
01:06:27Will you mind very much?
01:06:30I shall.
01:06:33So will the children.
01:06:37If we did without servants altogether,
01:06:40and shut up part of the house, or let it off,
01:06:43and took in boarders, and made it into a sort of a hotel,
01:06:46and sold the vegetables and the flowers, could we stay?
01:06:50I need the money.
01:06:52More money?
01:06:54But you just got an overdraft for 10,000.
01:06:56I want to pay the bank back as soon as I can.
01:06:59But why?
01:07:01There's no sense in it.
01:07:03They won't expect to get the money back the day after you've borrowed it.
01:07:07I must reduce the overdraft as quickly as possible.
01:07:10I can't do it any other way.
01:07:12It may take months to sell this house.
01:07:15I put it into the hands of the agents today.
01:07:18Oh, we're always moving.
01:07:22We're always moving.
01:07:24We can't settle anywhere.
01:07:26Where do you want us to move to now?
01:07:28Back to the grove.
01:07:32The house is empty, and it's still ours.
01:07:44Frieda!
01:07:47What's the matter?
01:07:49Let's leave this house.
01:07:50How do you know?
01:07:51I heard Daddy say so.
01:07:53When?
01:07:54As soon as this house is sold.
01:07:56What's Daddy doing with himself and us?
01:07:58It's appalling.
01:08:00He must be a complete fool about money.
01:08:02Frieda!
01:08:03Damn.
01:08:05Where are we going to?
01:08:07Back to the grove.
01:08:19Well, that's that.
01:08:22Bless you, Carrie.
01:08:23I don't know how to thank you.
01:08:25Don't try.
01:08:26Seems I like being with you.
01:08:28Thanks.
01:08:29But you've quite enough to do already at the Swan.
01:08:31If only my mother was alive.
01:08:33She was a rare one.
01:08:35She'd have kept old Mrs. Blake amused.
01:08:37Do you know, Celia, I think the old thing's coming around at last.
01:08:41About time, after three months of your kindness.
01:08:44It's baby that's doing it.
01:08:46The old lady says she's a Blake.
01:08:48Thanks, though.
01:08:49I must be getting along.
01:08:51Annie's very good with baby, you know, but still.
01:08:53I know, but still.
01:08:55Any news of Isabel?
01:08:57No, not since that last postcard.
01:08:59I expect she's having too good a time with Mrs. Knight.
01:09:02Must be nice to shelve one's responsibilities so easily.
01:09:06Oh, you mustn't be hard, my dear.
01:09:08It's not like you.
01:09:10Goodbye.
01:09:11Goodbye, Carrie.
01:09:12I shall be popping round again soon.
01:09:14Yes, do.
01:09:15Come in whenever you can, will you?
01:09:16I'm coming, ma'am.
01:09:20Is that your root?
01:09:26Why, Edward.
01:09:29Nothing wrong, I hope.
01:09:32Celia, are you prepared for the worst blow you've ever had?
01:09:36No, you're not.
01:09:38But I can't soften it.
01:09:40I've been arrested today.
01:09:42I'm out on bail.
01:09:43Edward's bail.
01:09:46It's no good mincing matters.
01:09:47I did it.
01:09:48I had to have the money to pay Knight and other expenses.
01:09:52I'm sorry.
01:09:53I'm sorry.
01:09:54I'm sorry.
01:09:55I'm sorry.
01:09:56I'm sorry.
01:09:57I'm sorry.
01:09:58I'm sorry.
01:09:59I'm sorry.
01:10:00I apologize a lot.
01:10:03I simply did it because I was told.
01:10:05Make no moreesseries, ladies,
01:10:07but I told you the bank wouldn't have loaned it on a true statement of facts,
01:10:11so I made a false one.
01:10:13They found out.
01:10:15Too soon.
01:10:17Given a bit longer, I'd have paid them off.
01:10:20Now I shall go to jail.
01:10:25Oh, Thomas.
01:10:30My darling.
01:10:33I've made a mess of things, Celia.
01:10:36I've made such a mess of things.
01:10:41I think I'll be going.
01:10:47Remember, get the very best man you can.
01:10:51Carrie said I was to tell you.
01:10:53We'll pay. We'll see you through.
01:10:57I'll be round in the morning.
01:11:01I suppose we're done for now.
01:11:03Freda.
01:11:06Oh, I'm not blaming you, Father.
01:11:09I'm just saying I...
01:11:11I knew this would happen.
01:11:14Well, I hope Mr. Knight is pleased with his bit of work.
01:11:19I'm sure he is.
01:11:21I'm sure he is.
01:11:23I'm sure he is.
01:11:25I'm sure he is.
01:11:27I hope Mr. Knight is pleased with his bit of work.
01:11:30That's all.
01:11:34Ruth.
01:11:37Thomas, let me.
01:11:41Oh, Daddy.
01:11:43Is it true what they say in the papers?
01:11:46Yes, Ruth.
01:11:48It is true.
01:11:49Daddy.
01:11:53Don't mind, Daddy.
01:11:55You've got all of us.
01:11:57Don't mind about outsiders.
01:11:59We love you.
01:12:18Douglas, what are we going to do?
01:12:21I don't know.
01:12:24Dad won't hear of me leaving Cambridge.
01:12:27I had to tell him how I'd taken science instead of engineering.
01:12:31I never thought he'd be thankful, but he is.
01:12:37Ruth, he looked so desperate
01:12:40when he asked me to do my best at Cambridge
01:12:43and pull the family up again.
01:12:47What worries me is Mother.
01:12:50I can't be with just when I ought to be.
01:12:52I shall be here.
01:12:54Yes.
01:12:57You'll be with her.
01:12:58And Freda?
01:12:59Freda.
01:13:00I've got some plan to get out of it all.
01:13:12Mother.
01:13:15Coggy and I were married this morning.
01:13:19Don't look like that, Mother. It's all right.
01:13:22It'll be all right.
01:13:24Oh, Freda.
01:13:27Why did you do it?
01:13:30Because I wanted to.
01:13:32It's a queer question to ask a bride, I must say.
01:13:35Why couldn't you have waited?
01:13:38Why must you always run away?
01:13:41You're young.
01:13:43Surely you could have borne this.
01:13:46To marry Coggy Selby.
01:13:49Do not say anything about Coggy, Mother.
01:13:51He is my husband, you know.
01:13:56Here's your tea.
01:13:58Tea?
01:14:00Ask me to get it.
01:14:02Oh, Freda.
01:14:04If only I'd known where you were going.
01:14:07Now it's too late.
01:14:09It'll be all right, Mother.
01:14:11I must go. Coggy's waiting for me.
01:14:14I must go. Coggy's waiting for me.
01:14:16But you're not going without seeing the others.
01:14:18You say goodbye for me.
01:14:20I couldn't bear to.
01:14:22I shall be back in a month at the latest.
01:14:25But your father...
01:14:27Goodbye, Mother.
01:14:34After careful deliberation, it remains manifest,
01:14:37in spite of the plea of extenuating circumstances
01:14:40so eloquently put for you by learned counsel,
01:14:43that the crime, for it is a crime,
01:14:46to which you, Thomas Cranford Blake, have pleaded guilty,
01:14:50cannot remain unpunished.
01:14:53Why do you know so well?
01:14:56I'm all right. Thank you.
01:14:59The penalty imposed should bid you reflect
01:15:02how carefully your own, as well as public property,
01:15:05must be protected.
01:15:07You will go to prison for 12 months in the Second Division.
01:15:38Is Mr. Knight in?
01:15:40Mr. Knight is at home to no one.
01:15:42He's at home to me, Chief Inspector Burnley, CID.
01:15:53Mrs. Knight is not at home?
01:15:55No, sir.
01:15:57So much the better. Well, lead the way.
01:16:00Come along, Doctor.
01:16:08Well, get on with it. Where is he?
01:16:26Mr. Knight?
01:16:28Mr. Knight, sir?
01:16:30Stand aside.
01:16:33Why, the door's open, ma'am.
01:16:40I had to bring her away.
01:16:42Reporters and detectives were thick as flies in the house.
01:16:45It wasn't a moment's peace for her.
01:16:47He went out in the morning without speaking to me.
01:16:50I had some shopping to do, and when I came back...
01:16:53You mustn't think of it.
01:16:55I was so sorry about your husband.
01:16:58Terribly sorry.
01:17:00But I didn't know what to say, so I couldn't write.
01:17:03Now, you see, I'm in worse trouble than you.
01:17:06It's this money. It's ruined both of them.
01:17:11The bed's ready. We'd better be getting upstairs.
01:17:14Bed's the best place.
01:17:16Come along, dear.
01:17:20There'll be nothing left, you know.
01:17:22Only her personal belongings.
01:17:24But I'll look after her.
01:17:26We're going to sell her furs and jewelry
01:17:28and take a little tea shop in Brighton.
01:17:30It's always full of people, and they have to eat.
01:17:33Very good idea.
01:17:35Oh, she'll be all right. She'll be better without him.
01:17:40She'll be better without him.
01:17:43What an epitaph for Mr. Knight.
01:17:47He died too late.
01:17:50He should have died before my son met him.
01:17:53He should have died before my son met him.
01:17:57Why did he do it?
01:17:59It can't have been because of Cosmos.
01:18:01No. Knight knew that the whole game was up.
01:18:04He was expecting to be arrested for fraud in a bigger matter.
01:18:08Oh, you're not going already.
01:18:11I think I must.
01:18:13I'm going to visit Thomas tomorrow.
01:18:15Oh, Celia.
01:18:17Here's a little something from Carrie and me,
01:18:19just to keep you going.
01:18:21Is there no end to Carrie's generosity? And yours?
01:18:24I don't think I should.
01:18:26Just you take it. And don't say anything to Carrie.
01:18:29I can't.
01:18:30Oh, she knows. But she doesn't want...
01:18:32I don't know how to thank you both.
01:18:34I can't tell you how grateful I am.
01:18:37Nevertheless, it's...
01:18:39it's terrible to feel so dependent.
01:18:43Now you know what I felt for the last 20 years.
01:18:48You'll give Mother the right kind of message for me, won't you, Celia?
01:18:51I'll try.
01:18:52Thanks.
01:18:53How's Ruth?
01:18:54She's working hard at her office.
01:18:56She's finished her novel, has some hopes of it.
01:18:58I'm very proud of Ruth.
01:19:00The way she stood by you all these months.
01:19:02And Douglas, too, getting a first.
01:19:04Isn't it splendid, Thomas?
01:19:06He writes that he's trying to get a job at Trenton School and is coming home.
01:19:09He mustn't do that.
01:19:11He may ruin his chances.
01:19:13He doesn't think so.
01:19:15He doesn't think so.
01:19:17Douglas is absolutely sure of himself.
01:19:19He is.
01:19:21And Frida?
01:19:22She's still in the south of France with her husband.
01:19:25They're coming home soon.
01:19:27Darling, it won't be long before you're with us all again.
01:19:31No, not long now, but...
01:19:33Time's up, Heatherley.
01:19:37So long, Larry.
01:19:38So long, chum.
01:19:39Bring some news next time.
01:19:41The forest.
01:19:42Right-o.
01:19:44So long.
01:19:48Will they lock him up, Thomas?
01:19:51No.
01:19:53He'll work until five o'clock.
01:19:56We're all locked up at five.
01:20:00Yes.
01:20:02That's when the loneliness begins.
01:20:06Oh, darling.
01:20:14Oh, darling.
01:20:45Oh, my darling.
01:20:50What can we do?
01:20:55How can I help you when I can't help myself?
01:21:14Oh God, help us both, help me, help me.
01:21:44Oh God, help us both, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help
01:22:14me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me
01:22:44I'm getting on, aren't I mother? I never thought I'd be able to make a vest.
01:23:05You'll be surprised at the things you will do before you are finished.
01:23:07You know, Mother, you've made everything look different to me.
01:23:11I hardly feel frightened at all now.
01:23:14Do you know, I think it's even going to be lovely.
01:23:18I suppose one of those darling little cockerel shell borders would be quite wasted on that.
01:23:23Oh, nothing could be wasted.
01:23:25I intend to make everything as perfect as I can.
01:23:28Hello, Mother. I thought you were going to lie down.
01:23:31So I was.
01:23:32Never mind. I'll go to bed early instead.
01:23:37The last time, Mother. You'll never need to look at the clock like that again.
01:23:51I think I shall always want to look at it at five o'clock.
01:23:55But in a different way.
01:24:08I can't say I like her making that early start for Lincoln alone.
01:24:12She insists on it.
01:24:14Perhaps it's best.
01:24:17After all, by growing up and going our own ways, we've rather left her and Daddy to themselves.
01:24:23We can only love them and stand by.
01:25:07Funny to think of this and the prison side by side, isn't it?
01:25:11Let's go in.
01:25:25You know, darling, I've hardly dared breathe until today.
01:25:30I was so afraid that you'd regain your freedom feeling bitter and resentful.
01:25:37But now I know you're not.
01:25:41No. I'm not bitter or resentful.
01:25:45But I'm sad.
01:25:47Sad to think of what I've brought on all of you.
01:25:51You've been sad long enough.
01:25:54You've paid. The account's settled.
01:25:58It hasn't been as bad for any of us as you thought it was.
01:26:02We've lost nothing that matters.
01:26:05I'm happier today.
01:26:08Far happier than when you brought me here 25 years ago.
01:26:12As for the children, Douglas has done splendidly.
01:26:17Ruth's been wonderful the whole time.
01:26:21Frieda's marriage may not be an ideal one, but I think she'll be happy with her baby.
01:26:26I hope she will.
01:26:29So you see, darling, the children and I are all right.
01:26:34It's only you to worry about.
01:26:37Can you face your situation?
01:26:40Face pity?
01:26:42Curiosity?
01:26:44Perhaps even contempt?
01:26:47Be willing to take the little job where you've been master?
01:26:53Thomas.
01:26:55Darling.
01:26:57Can you begin again?
01:27:05Yes.
01:27:07With you, I can.
01:27:12Well, then.
01:27:16Let's go home.
01:27:23Come on.
01:27:53THE END