Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) British Biographical Miniseries E#03
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Randolph's career is on the rise. Jennie becomes involved with Count Kinsky.
Starring:
Lee Remick as Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup as Lord Randolph Churchill
Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill
Cyril Luckham as Duke of Marlborough...
Randolph's career is on the rise. Jennie becomes involved with Count Kinsky.
Starring:
Lee Remick as Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup as Lord Randolph Churchill
Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill
Cyril Luckham as Duke of Marlborough...
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00:00You
00:30I
00:32I
00:34I
00:59Truths are always unpalatable
01:02But that does not make them any less true
01:07England has years of wrong
01:10years of crime
01:12years of tyranny
01:15years of oppression
01:18Years of general mismanagement to make amends for in Ireland
01:31A pig wouldn't live in a hole like that Randolph
01:36My dear Jenny paid much rather I spoke up than shut up
01:41Well, don't let the Prince of Wales hear you I like Ireland the Prince of Wales ought to open his drawing room windows and take
01:47a look what's outside
01:49Someone's got to speak up to these people Jenny or they'll speak up for themselves
01:54I'll never be a revolution here. There's one happening now. You don't realize it, but very soon people like that will have the vote
02:00They'll choose people like me to go to Parliament. Yeah. Well, we must hope they do
02:05Why should they no one's in a damn thing for them for 400 years?
02:08Give them a chance to say what they like and what only chose
02:12Home rule
02:14That would be the end of the United Kingdom
02:16We've got to do something for them now before they all start thinking it my dear
02:23You're beginning to sound like a radical
02:25Only because I'm a true conservative. Oh
02:28That I'm afraid sounds simply cynical no, no realistic conservatism must be active not passive
02:34That's what's wrong with the government. Now. We've got to be ready
02:36And why don't you get up and say so?
02:39Who'd listen?
02:41The House of Commons you have an audience anytime you want them darling
02:46I'm young and in disgrace and anything. I'd really want to say would be taken quite rightly as an attack on the government
02:53I'm supposed to support
02:55And on disraeli whom I revere
02:58And on my father whom I admire and love
03:01But if you're right and your father is wrong, you should say so
03:12I don't see any point in being in disgrace if you can't say shocking things sometimes especially if they're true
03:18There
03:24Are great and crying Irish questions, which the government have not attended
03:32Do not seem to be inclined to attend to and perhaps do not intend
03:42Attention to Irish legislation which has caused obstruction of business in this house
03:49And so long as these matters continue to be neglected then so long will the government have to deal with Irish obstruction
03:58Really Jenny it was simply dreadful where can Randolph have got such ideas I
04:04Suppose he was speaking his mind. Don't you?
04:08He can't possibly think we are not doing enough. He didn't say you weren't just he said the government wasn't it's the same thing
04:14It implies it
04:18Am I going to say to the chief secretary for Ireland
04:22Perhaps you could tell him that Randolph is old enough to speak for himself
04:26He's never spoken for himself before and in any case. He's the Duke's secretary. He is not free to speak to himself
04:32That is what is so particularly hurtful the way he's involved us
04:37Well, I do realize that I don't understand these things nearly as well as you do Duchess
04:41But isn't Randolph right the government hasn't done enough for Ireland has it?
04:48If you don't understand these things Jenny my dear, I think it probably best if you don't try to discuss them
05:01It is not only unkind of Randolph
05:03It is extremely foolish
05:05The party will not be pleased and coming on top of all the trouble with the Prince of Wales
05:09Think we need go into that again my dear. Thank you. He's so rash so impetuous
05:15Jenny really must use her influence. Oh in what way?
05:19Randolph gets so overexcited. It is your duty to restrain him
05:22Now, how can I do that when he makes a speech in England and I read about it here?
05:28Randolph's position here is a very delicate one and this behavior is simply not fair to my staff
05:34You must just tell them that Randolph is overexcited
05:37As alas he so often is
05:40That his emotions got the better of his judgment
05:45Papa
05:46I'll end up another guillotine if someone doesn't tell him not to be so silly
05:51Only Disraeli after him God knows I
05:55Can't tell you Jenny the party's in a dreadful state
05:59This is still splendid. Of course. He's aged terribly
06:03He went into the Lord's has been known to take on Gladstone in the Commons
06:08We'll lose the election by a mile
06:11Better start packing the pile beyond in a couple of months good
06:15I'll have the baby in London
06:17You better not travel had you darling? Oh
06:20I'm getting a bit tired of Ireland
06:22was all right while I could hunt but
06:25This winter yes, I know
06:28With you away all the time
06:31No one to see but your parents
06:34Well, I'm glad you haven't been pursued in my absence by all your numerous admirers and
06:39Shoot them all off
06:41I've spent most of my time alone
06:43I'm sorry. Oh
06:45I've had rather a good time really
06:48Last night for instance. I read all your old letters when we were engaged
06:53Forgotten how nice they were
06:56You don't write like that
07:00Well, my dearest to tell you the truth
07:03Nor do you
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07:15It's nothing too many late nights in the house
07:25Policy in Ireland is a disaster
07:30Outrages are going on as briskly as ever
07:33The law is being defied as successfully as ever
07:37The policy of appealing to the Irish members and the Irish landlords to keep the country quiet for God's sake
07:47All this has failed
07:52And I fear that the next phase of government policy will be and must be one of repression
08:01Oh
08:05Depression is always required for the government of Ireland when the Liberals are in power
08:20On the contrary it is fraught with disaster for Ireland and the Irish
08:26But it is brought in
08:28For the wretched purpose of rendering the government of Ireland momentarily easier without one thought or one spark of thought as to the future
08:45I must congratulate you my dear
08:48Magnificent. Oh, thank you. I'll do it. Oh, I meant your new baby the new boy
08:54Congratulations, thank you
09:01Mr. Gladstone
09:04It appears to me sir that the undoubted talents of the noble Lord who has just resumed his seat
09:14Would have contributed far more substantially to the disposal and satisfactory issue of this question
09:22Had he been less
09:25Unmeasured in his imputations
09:28This is a bill which in my mind will lose nothing by being discussed in a less
09:36lively spirit a
09:42Rebuke from Gladstone my dear lady Randolph. It's better than a decoration from the Queen
09:47But did you see Northcote whatever Gladstone says or does he has to bleat his applause
09:53Darling you were a huge success
09:56Wasn't he sir Henry? Well, you know Randolph Balfour Gorst and I are only backbenchers
10:01Our speeches can only really be a huge success if our leaders support us
10:08Ah, but below the gangway, it's like being below the salt. We only sit there so we can stretch our legs
10:14We are backbenchers real you needn't worry any nephew of Lord Salisbury's guaranteed plenty of legroom in the next Tory government
10:22Yeah, there won't be one not with a goat in charge North got his only leader in the Commons
10:26We needn't regard him as in charge of us Lord Salisbury's the true leader of the party, isn't it?
10:31Oh, what do you say to that offer?
10:34Shall we swear fealty to your uncle?
10:37Well, quite frankly Henry
10:39I very much doubt whether you or Gorst are capable of being loyal to anybody for more than two minutes at a time
10:44There's such intrigue as Lady Randolph. Well the way you all talk
10:48I'm surprised you haven't formed four little parties of your own the strength in numbers
10:52Yeah, but you hardly agree on anything. No, we agree to disagree with North
10:56Okay, we are a party within a party Jenny if our leader won't attack the government we feel an imperative need to do so ourselves
11:02Yes for the first campaign. I think a microscope rather than a telescope
11:08Don't you go? Hmm? I wonder whether Randolph has applied his mind to the employers liability bill
11:14He has not knows anyone else doesn't sound very inspiring. It isn't it's a profoundly uninspired bill, but I think
11:22Ghost you're the lawyer
11:24You can find some inspiration in it for us. Can't you I?
11:29Believe I can
11:31Lord you're not gonna make us work. I hope Paris the thought
11:35You see mr. Gladstone has an immense majority Lady Randolph. We can't stop him passing any bill he wants
11:43But we can make it very difficult for him of course we copy the Irish obstruction parliamentary obstruction
11:52We'll feel a genius
11:54sir
11:55This clause refers to injuries which may be suffered by a workman by reason of any defect in the works machinery
12:03plant or stock of the employer
12:07How I only wish to help the government
12:13It is not at all clear to me what is meant by the word stock
12:19For instance accidents frequently arise from horses of an improper character
12:27Being used in business and do such horses come under the heading stock
12:32the stock include
12:35agricultural stock
12:37Well
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12:43Do beg the Attorney General not to wrap himself in gloomy silence
12:48Could he not tell us all distinctly what is in his mind concerning the word stock and whether it refers to both animate and inanimate
12:57It the word is intended to apply to a stock in trade I
13:05See stock in trade
13:08Stock in trip
13:09Yeah
13:09But not suppose a farmer had a horse which he knew perfectly well to have a disease of the foot
13:14And it was liable to come down at any moment
13:16And it did come down with the farmer be liable under the bill would such a horse count as stock in trade
13:22I
13:23Really must press for an answer on this point it would greatly facilitate the progress of the bill
13:31Henry James
13:33The employer would not be liable as the disease of the foot would not be due to the negligence of the employee
13:42Mr.
13:43Belfort but supposing the farmer had thrown the horse down and broken its knees as a result of which on a subsequent occasion
13:50The farmer's servant was thrown from the horse and broke his arm
13:53If
14:00If the defect arose from the neglect of some person
14:04Entrusted with the duty of seeing that the animal was in proper condition then there would be liability
14:11Then the word stock does refer to both animate and inanimate stock
14:17It it refers to what a farmer has to sell to his stock in trade
14:23Oh
14:27But is his horse stock in trade
14:33He may not wish to sell his horse, but to use it I
14:42Really do not think this is an important point. We spent a great deal of time on this clause already. I think we should move on
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14:52Know when North Churchill no one regrets more than I do that more rapid progress is not being made with this bill
15:01It really is impossible to proceed rapidly with a bill which the government itself does not seem to understand
15:08Is the sole object of myself and my honorable friends to do all in our power to ensure that this measure is as perfect a
15:16specimen of legislation as possible
15:20I really must insist on a satisfactory explanation of the word stop
15:27We have still I must remind the honorable members to discuss the meaning of the word
15:43I don't know how you compare to go and listen. It's so childish. They're like schoolboys ragging their master
15:49I know, but if the master can't keep control then he deserves to be ragged
15:53Besides there's more to it than meets the eye can't Kinski. You have to know the increase beneath
15:57I should have thought a beautiful woman would find her intrigues as well
16:03Well, I don't go to the Commons every day. I should think not I
16:07Can't imagine what Randolph and his friends think they're achieving. Oh, they're achieving the attention of their party leaders count Kinski
16:14Look at this
16:19Dear Randolph, I most heartily approve of the light cavalry and all you have done the skirmishing has been
16:28But do I beg you remember there is more to politics and war than mere harassment of the enemy
16:36The object is to defeat him not just annoy. I think sir
16:40You know why we can find our activities to scare machine
16:43We don't ought to get a care for the way the army is being led
16:47You're an old hand wolf and you will not now perhaps expect to command the army yourself
16:54But it is never wise for junior officers with ambitions to criticize the general style
17:01It is not easy to respect the ways of Stafford North but conducts the opposition sir
17:05Well, take my advice even if you cannot respect him. You simply must stick to him
17:12He represents the
17:14respectability of the party
17:16And without that there is too damn respectable. That's the trouble. He hasn't backed us up as you should have done
17:23Oh, I wholly sympathize with you. Holy I
17:28Was never respectable myself
17:32But if the
17:33Unrespectable like ourselves I ever to succeed my devil. We must somehow persuade the respectable to support us
17:42Because the respectable I'm afraid
17:45Are always the majority in the Conservative Party God forbid. Ah, but he doesn't you see he doesn't I
17:54Have an awful fear he may even turn out to be dreadfully respectable himself
18:01Sir Henry James, my lady. It's a good evening to me. Count Kinski, you know, sir Henry James.
18:06I'm delighted to see you sir Henry, but astounded too. Of course
18:10Lady Randolph's hospitality is irresistible
18:12But after the unfriendliness that Lord Randolph has shown you in the House of Commons
18:17Oh my dear chap party differences don't matter between friends
18:20Randolph has been rather immoderate. I'm afraid
18:23I'm afraid so. I'm afraid so.
18:26I'm here in the hope you'll say something even more outrageous than usual
18:30But if he does it will almost certainly be about his own party and so I'm afraid not
18:36They told me in Vienna that English politics were simple I find them positively Balkan even Byzantine
18:43My dear Kinski whenever two men are trying to run one another
18:47They're not trying to run one another. They're trying to run the other
18:50Balkan even Byzantine
18:52My dear Kinski whenever two men are trying to run one party
18:56You'll always find troublemakers trying to undermine both
18:59And you call yourself Randolph's friend
19:01To the death
19:03My dear Lady Randolph may an old man thank you from the bottom of his heart
19:08For making him feel for one blissful evening the other day
19:12Oh sir you're not leaving
19:14Alas even the most glittering throng grows dim to ancient eyes
19:19Oh I see you mean the throng here is rather lustrous
19:24Well I agree of course but you know the reason why
19:27And you know I think the prince has acted most unfairly
19:31Though you misinterpret me with almost the perversity of your husband
19:35How can you do to a story like that?
19:38You my dear need do nothing except be yourself
19:43And as for Randolph never fear he's on the way
19:46The prince is always taken with success
19:49Success in Parliament especially
19:51Well I know Randolph has made a splash
19:53Oh much much more than that
19:55In three months he's cheered the whole party up
19:58With one or two senior exceptions of course
20:02I tell you when we come in again we shall have to give Randolph
20:05Anything he chooses to ask for
20:07He's gone on the attack
20:09And that has caught the imagination of the party and the country
20:12Oh we can't do without him now
20:14Very soon if he goes on like this
20:18We shall have to take whatever he chooses to give us
20:22Sir Henry
20:25Surely you should be in the house defending if you can
20:28The lamentable record of your government
20:31Well yes and no sir
20:33The whips say I can stay away as long as I like
20:35Provided I keep Randolph and his friends away with me
20:38Fairly dear Randolph you see
20:40Your husband has real power already
20:45Excuse me
20:54If only he hadn't retired
20:56Without him we're lost, completely lost
20:59Randolph means the commons of course Arthur
21:02Of course
21:04We've none of us said anything against your uncle
21:07Lord Salisbury is our sole remaining hope
21:10I'll tell him you said so he'll feel honoured I'm sure
21:13So he should be
21:16Listen
21:17We've had a damn good fling
21:19We've obstructed the government
21:21Made ourselves felt
21:22Painfully on some occasions
21:24Yes and we have naturally been cruel to the goats
21:26We haven't sawn his horns off in public
21:28I'll point that out to him
21:29I'm sure he'll appreciate our restraint
21:32Then it's time he demonstrated his appreciation
21:35My uncle Robert's not a very demonstrative sort of man you know
21:39If I asked him to come and speak for me down at Woodstock Arthur
21:43What do you think he'd say?
21:45That he thought you were pretty cool
21:47Why? I haven't attacked him
21:49I admire him
21:50Why don't you ask him Arthur?
21:52We'll put him up at Blenheim
21:53Make a change from that awful drafty Hatfield
21:56I can put it to him of course
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22:00Say I'd like it most awfully if he'd come
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22:52Just like the fourth party
22:54Four hands not always quite in time with each other
22:57But making a very satisfactory noise
22:59It's much easier staying in tune with you than with Randolph I promise you
23:03He will suddenly change key without telling you
23:06Some of his sharps are really so dreadfully sharp.
23:08Oh, I know. He gets...
23:10Well, he's never quite well, Arthur, and when he's not well,
23:13he gets either very depressed or very excited.
23:17There's no middle way with Randolph.
23:19Oh, he lives so much on his nerves. Where is he?
23:24I'm sure you'd find it much more restful to disband our little quartet
23:28and join the conservative orchestra.
23:30Well, that's just why he's invited your uncle here today.
23:32And he's calm, Arthur.
23:34Yes, I was quite surprised by that.
23:37They must all feel rather threatened, I suppose.
23:41I wish I knew where your loyalties lay.
23:44Oh, to myself?
23:47I'm not really a member of the Fourth Party, you know.
23:49No. You long to be wicked like Randolph, but you simply don't dare.
23:55Well, selfishness leads one to the longer view.
23:59Woolf's strategy has worked splendidly so far,
24:03but a reputation in the commons isn't done in the country.
24:07No.
24:09He needs to steady down, Jenny.
24:13Does he?
24:15What do you imagine he and your uncle will say to each other this afternoon?
24:19Oh, Randolph will praise Dizzy and my uncle,
24:22and my uncle will praise Randolph,
24:24adding some fulsome words about the goat,
24:26and everybody will be absolutely delighted.
24:34I really must congratulate you, Lord Salisbury.
24:36It was just the thing. Exactly the right note.
24:39All the papers were there to hear you, I'm glad to say.
24:42Oh, I expect there were more to record Randolph, not me.
24:45I was very pleased with his speech today, too.
24:48So moderate in tone.
24:50Some of the things he's said in the House of Commons have really been very unwise.
24:54Ah, but if Randolph hadn't said those things, would Lord Salisbury be here today?
24:58I have tried many times to explain to my daughter-in-law, Lord Salisbury,
25:02that tact is one of the most powerful weapons in the political armoury,
25:06but I'm afraid she only encourages him.
25:08Oh, well, he gets quite a lot of criticism outside the home.
25:11I don't expect he wants it there, too.
25:13Thank you.
25:15There's a difference between advice and criticism.
25:18He always listens to me.
25:22Everyone knows, my dear Duchess, how keenly you follow his career.
25:27People admire it very much. I do myself.
25:32Randolph has such a genius for pretending to listen while his mind is on something else.
25:36Ah, well, that's a thing that politicians all have to learn young,
25:40or they'd never survive.
25:42Of course, Jenny doesn't have the same instinctive feeling for politics
25:46that we have, Lord Salisbury.
25:48We've been bred to it, haven't we?
25:50I don't think an American could ever fully understand our passion for it, do you?
25:55It's so very English.
25:58Even Americans can understand passion, so long as they're human.
26:02I certainly think I understand Randolph's.
26:04I'm sure you do, my dear.
26:06Well, Salisbury,
26:08I hope you were as pleased with Randolph's speech as we were.
26:11It was, um, really responsible, I felt, didn't you?
26:14I think we were all pleased, except Jenny.
26:17Really?
26:19Oh, very extraordinary.
26:21My dear Jenny, why weren't you?
26:24Now, my dear Lady Randolph,
26:26you see the political value of tact.
26:31I know, I know, but she can't help herself.
26:34Right, she can't help herself, but why does she hate me so much?
26:37Because you're clever and pretty and I love you.
26:40And she's jealous.
26:42She's jealous, as all mothers always have been,
26:45of their clever, pretty...
26:47Darling,
26:49you really mustn't smoke so many cigarettes.
26:53I like cigarettes.
26:55I know you do, but not good for you.
26:57Can't a man have any pleasures in life?
27:00Well, I can't think of any you don't have.
27:05Riches.
27:07I don't have riches.
27:09Oh, this business today will cost a packet.
27:11Making a reputation's damned expensive.
27:13I suppose your father could help us again.
27:15Not at the moment, no.
27:17Oh, God damn it.
27:19There was a moment this afternoon when I thought I was going to faint.
27:22Randolph.
27:24I've got to have my health.
27:26We're only just beginning. We've hardly started.
27:29That's what Arthur says. He wants you to steady down.
27:32Arthur.
27:34It's all right for millionaire nephews of the next Prime Minister.
27:37I think he's afraid you'll spend too much time at Wolfe's Microscope.
27:41I don't need Arthur to plan my strategy for me.
27:44I've already planned it.
27:47I'm not going to steady down.
27:49I'm going to increase the pace.
27:51What do you mean?
27:53England's a democracy, for better or worse.
27:56If it's to be for better, then it must be a Tory democracy.
27:59The party's paying attention well and good.
28:01I mean to make the country pay attention too.
28:04I'm going to take a leaf out of Gladstone's book.
28:07I'm going to the people.
28:17Are you all right?
28:21I've got to be.
28:24You've been doing too much. You should take a holiday.
28:27There's no time for that, Ginny.
28:29I've proved myself in Parliament.
28:31Now I've got to prove I can go out and win votes.
28:34And the votes are in Manchester and Oldham and Hull.
28:38Would you like me to go with you?
28:40No.
28:42I've got to go.
28:45Would you like me to go with you?
28:47No, I shouldn't bother. It'll only be speeches.
28:52Hello.
28:54Fino, how nice of you to come and see us.
28:57Oh, London is unendurable without you and Randall.
29:01Hello, Miss Jerome.
29:03Has your sister enlisted you as a nurse too?
29:06How is the great man?
29:08Tetchy.
29:10It's very slow, I'm afraid.
29:12I don't know what the trouble was or is.
29:15And of course, he loathes being inactive so you know what he's like.
29:19Wolfe!
29:21Randolph, you're supposed to be lying down.
29:24How do you expect me to lie down
29:26when all the interesting people go and talk to you?
29:29Now stop flirting with Jenny Wolfen. Come and talk to me.
29:32You'd better go. And don't excite him. He really has been very ill.
29:35Too much public speaking.
29:37You've got to be very old and very wicked like Gladstone
29:41He likes it.
29:43We all like the things that are bad for us.
29:46Wolfe!
29:48Don't let him smoke, please.
29:57Getting Randolph to rest is simply a waste of breath.
30:00Poor Jenny.
30:02I don't mind, really.
30:04He's never dull with Randolph, even when he's in bed.
30:07Well, no one ever doubted that.
30:09That is not what I meant, Leonie.
30:11No?
30:13I was hoping we'd get some peace and quiet in Wimbledon while he got better.
30:17But it's no good. People just get on the train and come to lunch.
30:20Too many of them.
30:22Oh.
30:24Here's someone you will be pleased to see.
30:26Who? Oh, good.
30:28Randolph finds him so amusing.
30:30You like him too, don't you?
30:32Oh, yes. Almost as much as you.
30:36Charles, how nice.
30:39Everything's in a shamble since Dizzy died.
30:42Well, Salisbury's a fool.
30:44You can't run a village fate,
30:46let alone a political party with two people in charge.
30:49Things in the Commons are just as bad as they were before.
30:53The goat's so inept, Randolph.
30:55Without you to lead us, Gladstone can do anything he likes.
30:59Well, I'm not like Achilles.
31:01I'm not sulking in my tent.
31:03I'm trying to get fit for battle.
31:06You know, sometimes I really do wonder why.
31:10To the victor of the spoils, old boy?
31:12It's a minor office, I suppose. What's the use of that?
31:15Rather early for a prime ministership, don't you think?
31:18What other job's worth having?
31:20My dear Randolph, you can't expect to go from the back benches
31:23to 10 Downing Street all at one go.
31:27Two goes?
31:29Let's get the ball.
31:31Oh, yes.
31:34When will he rejoin the fray?
31:36Oh, I don't know.
31:38Before the doctors say he can, anyway.
31:40He frets out here in the suburbs.
31:42And don't you?
31:44Why should I?
31:46Well, you've given up the London season.
31:52Well, I have Lanny and the children.
31:55And as for the season, Randolph may be recovering
31:58in a week's time.
32:00And as for the season, Randolph may be recovering physically,
32:03but socially, Charles, our progress is still very slow.
32:09The Prince of Wales was asking after you last night.
32:13Really?
32:15He made rather the point of saying
32:17that it was not you that he was offended with.
32:20That's very friendly, but it doesn't restore us, does it?
32:23There seems to be quite a gay life out here.
32:27Well, I'm a political wife, so I'm very busy, of course.
32:30But you must have time for yourself, surely,
32:33while Randolph's intriguing at his clubs.
32:36You must have some non-political life of your own.
32:40You must miss that.
32:43All the people I really care for come and see me here.
32:47But here you're never alone.
32:52How much free time you seem to have, Charles.
32:55Doesn't the embassy ever require your services?
32:58Far too discreet to ask me to work
33:01and I'm far too discreet to offer.
33:07That is why I am always at your service.
33:11Do please use your discretion in front of Leonie.
33:14She notices everything.
33:16I'm very uncivilised.
33:19I don't know how you can bear to send Winston to boarding school, Jenny.
33:24He's getting quite impossible to manage.
33:26Even Everest says so.
33:28He's only seven.
33:30Nearly eight.
33:32Don't you think it's awful sending little boys away from home?
33:35Like so many English customs, I find them utterly mysterious.
33:38Oh, nonsense.
33:40Winston's just the bumptious sort of little boy who will love school.
33:43If Everest can't manage him, I certainly can't.
33:46I have to try and manage Randolph.
33:48Isn't she heartless, Kinsky?
33:50She says she's a political wife.
33:53And now my duty is to go and rescue Randolph from Wolfe.
33:57He won't rescue him.
33:59Not in the least.
34:01But we must get him fit again.
34:03He'll make a fuss, but he'll be grateful in the end.
34:09I know Dizzy was a dandy,
34:11but don't you think that cloak thing is going a bit too far?
34:14Oh, for really? That's his garter robes.
34:17But carved in stone in the middle of Parliament Square.
34:20He wouldn't have liked it, I'm sure.
34:22As he would. It's a very imaginative conception.
34:25It's Dizzy as an old Jewish prophet.
34:27Which one?
34:29Elijah. That's his mantle.
34:31The imagination is yours, I think, darling, not the sculptor's.
34:34You know who's going to make the speech, don't you?
34:37Randolph?
34:39It should be.
34:41What? No.
34:43Everybody go away.
34:45This calls for action.
34:47Oh, Lord. Randolph is better.
34:49Go away.
34:52I'm coming.
34:54Too busy, Jenny? Intrigues, machinations.
34:56Can I be told?
34:58I'm writing to the Times.
35:00What about?
35:02About the goat unveiling the statue to Dizzy.
35:04It's an insult to his memory.
35:06Darling, he always said you should stick to Northcote.
35:08He is dead. Now, listen.
35:10Such a series of neglected opportunities,
35:13pusillanimity, combativeness at wrong moments,
35:16vacillation, dread of responsibility,
35:19collusions with the government,
35:21jealousies, commonplaces...
35:23Darling, have you ever heard of the full stop?
35:25It's to give people time to breathe.
35:27The goat's got to be throttled.
35:29You'll like this bit.
35:31Third-rate statesmen such as were just good enough
35:33to fill subordinate offices
35:35while Dizz Rayleigh was alive.
35:37And then I go on to shower Salisbury with praises.
35:40Arthur will like that.
35:42Northcote won't, though.
35:44They'll be the most tremendous row.
35:46You do like rows, don't you?
35:48You will remember that if you push your horse in the ditch,
35:50you have nothing to ride.
35:52It's not a horse. It's a goat.
35:54And it's going to the knacker's yard.
35:56Where's that?
35:58The House of Lords.
36:00I will not serve in the Commons unless Northcote goes to the Lords.
36:02And Salisbury's got to understand it.
36:04Elijah's mantle must fall on someone,
36:06and if it won't fit Salisbury, it'll have to fit someone else.
36:08Can't be left in the dust, can it?
36:10Have a nice party.
36:13Of course, I do not approve of this attack
36:15on a distinguished statesman.
36:17But, damn it, you cannot pick up a newspaper these days
36:19without seeing his name.
36:21And look here, Sir Henry, you're a lawyer.
36:23Eight years is a long time.
36:25I think he has by now, as you might say,
36:27purchase contempt, don't you?
36:29It's very generous of you to think so, sir.
36:31Well, he's doing awfully well, you know.
36:33And I shall have to meet him officially soon, I expect.
36:36And besides, you know, it's...
36:38it's a bit of a shame.
36:40And besides, you know, it's, uh...
36:42been rather hard on that...
36:44that pretty American wife of his.
36:47She's pretty, don't you think?
36:49Very. Yes.
36:51Now, you are a friend of theirs.
36:53What about a little dinner party, yes? Hmm?
36:55Nothing too formal, but not too informal, of course.
36:58You know the sort of thing.
37:00Nothing could give me greater happiness, sir.
37:03Good! Good! Excellent!
37:05I look forward to it very much indeed.
37:11If only he'd lived to know
37:13that that wretched business was over
37:15and done with once and for all.
37:17It would have given him so much pleasure.
37:19Yes.
37:20Not that he ever set much store
37:22by purely social affairs.
37:24Well, Jenny, you must be very pleased.
37:26Oh, so am I, Mama.
37:28H.R.H. was very pleasant to me.
37:30He was charming.
37:34I'm afraid I must be going.
37:36H.R.H. was very pleasant to me.
37:38He was charming.
37:44Well, Randolph,
37:46I think we can consider that your youth is over.
37:49You did something foolish,
37:51and you were punished for it.
37:53I've learned your lesson, which I hope you will not forget.
37:56My dear Mama, you make the Prince
37:58sound like some terrible headmaster.
38:00Well, you did behave like a very naughty boy, Randolph.
38:03There's no doubt which side of the family Winston gets his behaviour from.
38:07But, oh, I am glad, darling.
38:09I'm really so pleased.
38:11If only your father could have known.
38:14There's something which should have pleased him even more, Mama.
38:18I saw Lord Salisbury this morning before I came down.
38:21Darling!
38:22He's offered me India.
38:24Secretary of State, if we ever hold office again.
38:27Oh, Randolph, how wonderful.
38:29Of course, I shall have to ease up on the goat,
38:31and go gently on northward.
38:33Oh, of course he must, Jenny.
38:35He must act with proper responsibility now.
38:37Well, while it suits me, Mama,
38:41I, er, I shall be going away for a bit.
38:46Government can see how they get along without me.
38:48They need reminding from time to time.
38:50You mean you're going to go to India?
38:52Well, Salisbury virtually made it a condition.
38:55I must know something about the place if I'm going to run it, mustn't I?
38:58Oh, Randolph, I've always longed to see India.
39:01I am afraid I shall have to pay my own way.
39:05Oh.
39:07Well, I suppose if it's an official trip...
39:09Semi-official.
39:11I see.
39:15I'm sorry, Jenny.
39:18You've been abroad a lot recently.
39:20Well, Randolph must have his holidays, Jenny.
39:23You know what the doctors say.
39:25If only we had some more money.
39:27I'll have to follow again for this trip to India, as it is.
39:30Sorry to hear that, Randolph.
39:32Money!
39:34A little more economy in the household might help, Jenny.
39:37But, oh, I am glad, darling.
39:39And, Jenny, dear, why don't you come and stay with me?
39:42Then you can save money and not be alone.
39:45I won't come near Blenheim.
39:47Of all the places to go while you're away, this is the very last.
39:50She was only trying to be kind.
39:52I am not going to be shut away with your mother and play widows with her.
39:55Oh, darling.
39:57I'm not staying quiet in the nursery with Everest and the boys, either.
40:00Jenny, what on earth is the matter with you?
40:02I am thrilled and delighted about you going to India.
40:04I don't even mind that I can't go with you.
40:06Well, at least I do, but I'll get over it.
40:08But I am not going to be treated as some tiresome little wife,
40:11just as all the things that you and I have hoped for are beginning to come true.
40:14When have I ever suggested that you are a tiresome little...
40:16I want to be part of your success,
40:18not just something decorative like your buttonhole.
40:20I'm ambitious, too, remember?
40:26Darling, without you, I should never be going to India at all.
40:31And I freely, I happily admit it.
40:33It just so happens that we simply cannot afford to go to...
40:36All right, all right!
40:38But when you come back, you're not to try to leave me behind again, Randolph.
40:41And especially not at Blenheim.
40:45There's no need for you to come near the place at all, darling,
40:48if you don't want to.
40:50I never said anything about you...
40:52I never said anything about you...
40:54immuring yourself while I'm away.
40:57I hope you'll enjoy yourself as much as you can.
41:00Truly, I'm going to.
41:05How did it happen?
41:07He was quarrelling with another boy about sharpening pencils.
41:10Ah, at another inch or two and...
41:12Dr Roo says I could have been killed.
41:14Well, it was your own fault, darling.
41:16You shouldn't have pulled the other boy's ear.
41:18He's as bad as Randolph, can't resist a fight.
41:20It's only so dreadfully unfair. It was the other boy who got expelled.
41:23Poor wretch. They wanted to know whether we wanted the expulsion made public.
41:26Can you imagine such a thing?
41:28Are you sure it wasn't his fault, then?
41:30Sir Henry, have you ever heard of a Churchill involved in a quarrel
41:33he didn't start himself?
41:35Ah, no.
41:37All right, Winnie, button yourself up and go to bed.
41:39Do you think I'll have the scarper life?
41:41Yes, if you're very lucky, you'll be able to tell the girls that you got it in a duel.
41:44Why should I want to tell a girl about a duel?
41:47Good night, Winnie.
41:49Good night, darling.
41:51Good night.
41:53Hey!
41:55And be good.
41:57I'll try.
42:01Oh, really.
42:03Don't know what to do about Winston.
42:05We had to take him out of his first school because the headmaster beat him too much.
42:08Now I wonder whether he's getting beaten enough.
42:11Thank heavens Randolph was away, that's all.
42:13I hope he stays away.
42:15I managed to get quite a bit of business done in his absence.
42:17Oh, he'll be back quite soon enough, to worry you.
42:19Yes, I dare say he will.
42:21Oh, come on, Miss Turow, we must go.
42:23They say the first act is really quite good.
42:30There are others who appreciate Randolph's absence too, you know.
42:34Well, you'd better make the most of it. He'll be back in a month.
42:37You won't let me.
42:40My dear Charles.
42:42You always keep me at a tantalising distance.
42:45Well, that, my dear, is precisely where I want you.
42:49Oh, Charles, you're getting fat.
42:51You'll never win the Grand National again at that weight.
42:57Are you two coming? Are you going to float all night?
43:05Were the Indians very funny, Papa?
43:07Very.
43:08What did they do?
43:10They said, uh, excuse me, please, Lord Randolph.
43:13All the time?
43:14Almost all the time.
43:16What did they say when you shut your tie down?
43:18Oh, they said, uh, very well done, Lord Randolph.
43:21Very well done indeed, sir.
43:22Well, it was jolly well done.
43:24I told all the boys at school.
43:26Everyone wants your autograph, Papa.
43:28Would you write, um, for me?
43:30Winnie, don't be a bore.
43:31Look, there's Everest and Jack. I expect they want you.
43:34No, they don't, and I want to talk to Papa.
43:36So do I. I haven't seen him for four months.
43:38Nor have I.
43:39Buzz off, Winnie. There's a good chap.
43:44He looks all right.
43:45Oh, it was only a scratch in the end.
43:48Well, what do you want to talk to me about, then?
43:50Everything.
43:51Please don't go away for so long again, darling.
43:53Life's too short.
43:54Of course. Of course.
43:56Can't tell you how glad I am to be back.
43:58We must have a few weeks together now.
44:00I'm only just in time, Wolf says.
44:02We can bring down Gladstone in a couple of months.
44:05Surely you can take some time off.
44:06Don't you see now's our chance?
44:08The grand old man's not so grand anymore.
44:11Everything's turning against him.
44:13This summer could be it.
44:15I say, Mama!
44:21Have you heard the latest?
44:23Wolf thinks we can turn Gladstone out by the middle of June.
44:27By the end of May, he told me.
44:39We've done it! We've done it!
44:42264 to 252.
44:45Gladstone is out.
44:47Oh, you should have been there.
44:48Randolph was standing on his seat,
44:50waving his hat, shouting at Gladstone.
44:52Well, where is he? Why isn't he here?
44:54Oh, there was some sort of fracas outside the house.
44:56The police told him to go home some other way.
44:58He should be here any minute.
45:00Thank you, Morton.
45:01In fact, here he comes.
45:03Hail the conquering hero.
45:05Darling, congratulations.
45:06Thank you.
45:07You don't seem very pleased.
45:08Oh, yes. Yes, I'm pleased, all right.
45:12My dear Randolph, what's the matter?
45:14We've knocked that grand old man off his perch
45:16like a coconut at a fair.
45:18Yes, yes, that's all very well.
45:21Now, where's Arthur?
45:23I'm here.
45:24Arthur, what a triumph! What a triumph!
45:27I think so. Yes, I think so.
45:30What does Uncle Robert have to say?
45:32He'd very much like to see you, Randolph.
45:35He'd very much like to see you, Randolph.
45:37He knows my conditions.
45:39I won't join a government with Northcote in the Commons.
45:43He'd still like to see you.
45:45There's nothing to discuss.
45:46Go on, Rand, stick to your guns.
45:48Don't overplay your hand, will you?
45:52Listen.
45:54In the last five years, I've lived 20.
45:57I've fought society, the Prince of Wales.
46:00I've fought Gladstone at the head of a huge majority.
46:03I've fought the Goat. I've fought my own party.
46:06I'm tired.
46:08Look at me. I'm beginning to lose my hair.
46:12I tell you, I'm at the end of my tether.
46:16Then don't fight my uncle, too.
46:20I will not join a government unless Northcote goes to the Lords.
46:29Very well. I'll tell him what you say.
46:33Good night.
46:35Bye, Arthur.
46:39Will he accept your terms?
46:41He has to.
46:43The working class has got the vote,
46:45and Randolph's the only one who can get them to use it for the Tories.
46:50Poor old Goat.
46:54Oh, God, I am tired.
46:57Poor old Randolph, then.
47:00You know how you say you want to help me,
47:04you want to be part of our success?
47:06Of course.
47:08Well, now's your chance.
47:10If I become a minister, I'll have to resign.
47:14There'll be a by-election.
47:22But just as I was talking with neighbour Brown and Warwick
47:27To take a mug of beer at the Unicorn and Lion
47:31For there's somehow a connection between free beer and election
47:35Who should come but Lady Churchill with a turnout that was fine
47:39Good morning.
47:41And before me stopped her horses as she marshalled all her forces
47:47I'm Lady Randolph Churchill, and I very much want you to vote for my husband.
47:51And before I knew what happened I had promised her my vote
47:55Thank you.
47:57And before I'd quite recovered from the vision that had harboured
48:01It was much too late to rally and I had changed my coat
48:05I knew I could trust you.
48:09And over Woodstock darted on their mission brave, wholehearted
48:13A tender man, their driver, and their ribbons pink and brown
48:17And a smile that twinkled over and made a man most love her
48:26You will vote for Lord Randolph, won't you?
48:29Took the hearts and took the votes of all the liberals in the town
48:36No, I won't.
48:38Why ever not?
48:39Because my vote's my own and I don't like being asked for it.
48:42Oh, but sir, you have something I want.
48:45How am I to get it if I don't ask for it?
48:48Well, I don't rightly know.
48:51Then you don't really mind my asking, do you?
48:54And you will vote for him, won't you?
48:57Well, I might, I suppose.
49:01Promise?
49:04Thank you.
49:05Bless my soul, that Yankee lady
49:07When the day was bright or shady
49:09Danced about the district like an early flame of war
49:14When the voters saw her bonnet
49:16With the bright pink roses on it
49:18They followed as the soldiers did the helmet of Napa
49:32I thank you. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
49:40We have more than doubled my husband's majority.
49:44Hooray!
49:48I feel as proud and happy as though I were the member for Woodstock myself.
49:55Hooray!
50:14Hooray!
50:44Hooray!
51:14Hooray!