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And Then Come The Nightjars Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts' multi-award-winning stage play, And Then Come the Nightjars tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd.
Director : Paul Robinson
Writer: Bea Roberts
Stars: Nigel Hastings, David Fielder
Transcript
00:00 [AUDIO OUT]
00:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:06 Come on, my beauty.
00:07 Come on, girl.
00:09 She's going to pop any minute.
00:11 I'll give you a hand, then we can wet the baby's head.
00:12 Bet you're glad I'm here now.
00:14 They do like a hole in the urn, you--
00:15 Shut up.
00:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:19 Here's one for you.
00:24 Nightjar.
00:25 It's bloody lucky it's nightjar.
00:27 It's a bird of death.
00:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:31 The government has decided that all animals
00:33 within a three kilometer radius of an infected farm
00:36 are to be slaughtered and then burned on sight.
00:39 You get off my farm!
00:41 I'll blow your bloody head off!
00:43 Michael, I've never seen anything like it.
00:46 It's like a war.
00:48 Let me help you.
00:49 You won't do nothing.
00:50 There's nothing I can do.
00:52 You look me in the eye and tell me what you're
00:53 going to do to my girls.
00:55 Dr. Crawford, please don't let them take my girls.
00:58 Please, Jeffrey.
00:59 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:02 You're not welcome here.
01:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:06 I hate them!
01:07 I've been having a little trouble, Michael,
01:09 with everything.
01:11 You should be proud of your girl.
01:12 I really am.
01:14 I know I haven't been the easiest
01:16 bloke in the world to live with.
01:17 And you're a colossal and perpetual pain in the arse.
01:19 No, you're a pain in the arse.
01:21 I am.
01:23 Come on, Jeffrey.
01:25 Even you know this one.
01:27 It's a night job.
01:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]