Hope and Glory 1987 ‧ War/Comedy

Razzmatazz

A British undertaker in North England follows an aspiring actress back to Hollywood after they have a brief fling, but their attempts to form a relationship are complicated by possible Hollywood success.           #HopeAndGlory  #1987Film  #WarComedy  #SarahMiles  #DavidHayman  #SebastianRiceEdwards  #IanBannen  #DerKriegDerKinder  #EsperancaEGloria  #EsperanzaYGloria  #NadezhdaISlava  #LaGuerreASepteAns  #NadaI_SLava  #NadejeASlava  #Odotuksia  #HoffnungUndRuhm  #ElpidaKaiDoxa  #RemenyESDicsoseg  #Anni40  #VaarEreOgVaarMakt  #NadziejaIChwala  #SenjyouNoChiisanaTenshiTachi  #EsperancaIGloria  #UmutVeZafer  #NadejeASlava  #EsperanzaYGloria  #EsperancaIGloria  #DerKriegDerKinder  #HopeAndGlory1987  #ClassicWarComedy  #WorldWarII  #BritishCinema  #WarComedyFilm  #Cinephile  #FilmFans  #ClassicFilm  #VintageCinema  #MovieNight  #FilmLovers  #CultFilm  #ArtHouseCinema  #TimelessFilm  #IntenseComedy  #HistoricalDrama  #BritishWarComedy  #EmotionalJourney  #FilmReview  #Classic1987  #HistoricalComedy  #TimelessDrama  #DramaticComedy  #FilmBuff  #PowerfulPerformances  #ClassicBritishFilm  #WarTimeDrama

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00:01:25In the dim light of early morning perhaps also in the dim light between peace and war the King returned to London

00:01:32A few hours later. His Majesty holds a Privy Council while hour by hour the tension grows all over the world

00:01:38Just before lunch. Mr. Chamberlain returns from an audience with the King and in the afternoon Parliament assembles to write a new page in its long history

00:01:49London prepared its defenses against attack from the air

00:01:56It is now the duty of every citizen to know what to do for an air raid come

00:02:00You know the warning signal remind you we repeat them

00:02:15It was all they talked about getting ready for war

00:02:19But nothing ever happened. It was all words and no action

00:02:30Hop along Cassidy on the other hand now, that was the real thing

00:02:56Sunday the 3rd of September 1939

00:03:00Everyone who is old enough and was there

00:03:03Remembers exactly what they were doing at that moment. I

00:03:07Had just gunned down a couple of rustlers

00:03:10And then I slipped back a few centuries and I was riding through an enchanted forest

00:03:17The magician Merlin suddenly appeared before me and my horse reared up in terror

00:03:23then

00:03:25Something even more extraordinary happened

00:03:28All the Sunday morning lawnmowers

00:03:42I am speaking to you

00:03:48This morning the British ambassador in Berlin

00:03:53Handed the German government a final note

00:03:56stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock

00:04:01That they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I

00:04:10Have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently

00:04:17This country is at war with Germany

00:04:22His action shows convincingly stop that soon she just sings it she doesn't even know what it means

00:04:38It's not my fault I still need my stockings

00:04:53All right

00:04:56Get down stay down

00:05:10It's the all-clear

00:05:12Testing

00:05:14They were just testing

00:05:16We all expected to be bombed right away, but nothing happened for ages

00:05:20It was a perfect summer's morning and everyone said fancy starting a war on such a beautiful day such a beautiful day a

00:05:30Few lawnmowers started up again, but they didn't ring true somehow

00:05:34Nothing would ever be the same again

00:05:39Are you gonna give me a hand Mac or not?

00:05:44Oh blast

00:05:47Oh

00:05:49Comes up through the clay

00:05:51Pitch miler, you know

00:05:58Selfish to keep them with you

00:06:00You remember that aren't I told you about in Australia?

00:06:04Well, she has offered to

00:06:06Snap it up

00:06:08Great chance for him. I mean a lot more future out there

00:06:17Couldn't bear it

00:06:20Building air raid shelters it's hungry work grace. Well a few bombs might wake up this country

00:06:29Take more than a few bombs to wake up dawn on a Sunday morning

00:06:33This phony war gets on my nerves morning if we're going to have a war

00:06:38I wish they'd get it started now now dawn just ignore him

00:06:43Well this waiting about

00:06:46We'll have to wait about 10 minutes

00:06:56You kept the old Sam Brown all these years

00:06:59I

00:07:11Have formed an administration of men and women of every party and of almost every point of view now one bond unites us all

00:07:21the wage war until victory is won and

00:07:26Never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame whatever the cost and the agony may be

00:07:42Couple of crosswise she only weeps when she's happy

00:07:45Oh

00:07:51Duty man

00:07:52It's her duty for a mug Clyde. We did our bit in the last lot

00:07:56King and country call me

00:07:58He'll go as soon as I will what did we know a couple of kids?

00:08:03And I heard the drum and fife yesterday Mac

00:08:07Marching past

00:08:10My hair

00:08:15Oh

00:08:37Don't worry soon, I'm not gonna be like them when we grow up. We're not even like them now

00:08:45a

00:08:55Road squelching with mud and line right away over the plains of the far skyline with the inevitable double row of poplars a

00:09:03Few lorries only are splashing by to and from the forward areas

00:09:07But coming down the road towards us is a battalion that I know to be of a famous Irish regiment

00:09:13Marching in trees

00:09:25I rode into battle

00:09:36Marching past this country made my hair

00:09:42The turn

00:10:13Oh

00:10:36Sorry kids I joined up

00:10:42I

00:10:45Needed some Dutch curries to tell your mother

00:11:08He's one of the best

00:11:12Oh

00:11:28Daddy shut his hand in the door

00:11:38We're trying to win a war and you start off by shutting your fingers in the car door

00:11:43Whoa my hand, sorry

00:11:53That's it for the duration

00:11:58Pop in and give her a polish Billy boy

00:12:01just now and then a

00:12:03car needs to be cherished

00:12:07How soon got it right what's that

00:12:12Joined up. Oh, that's I

00:12:17Wish you could have told me yourself. Oh, Grace, it's not for long. They say it'll be over by Christmas

00:12:24Hey

00:12:43I

00:12:46Can't cope on my own

00:12:51I'll better let the children go

00:12:58Nice catch Billy

00:13:13Really

00:13:15Before I go there's something I want to tell you

00:13:18you're not quite old enough, but

00:13:21Well

00:13:27It's the googly

00:13:29Your hand is too small to master it

00:13:32You can make a start

00:13:34Anyway, I'm going to pass on the secret now father to son in case

00:13:40He's anything happens to me

00:13:43Right

00:13:47Now

00:13:49You know the leg break, right

00:13:54And the off break

00:13:57Now the googly looks like a leg break, but it's really an off break got it like this

00:14:05That's like telling fibs

00:14:07That's it

00:14:09Because when you tell a lie you want to get away with it

00:14:12But when someone else does you want to find them out now a good batsman will spot a googly a good bowler will hide it

00:14:21Always remember that

00:14:25By grace

00:14:29Taps running

00:14:31Oh

00:14:36Let's go

00:14:43Be good

00:14:47My dog take care

00:14:53By Billy

00:14:57Billy

00:14:59Goodbye, but Billy don't forget what I told you

00:15:29Oh

00:15:54The water be no problem

00:15:59I

00:16:29Thank you

00:16:33Australia say goodbye and pass them through

00:16:47It's a case bill. Thank you. Bye Susie. I'll see you soon

00:16:55Problem

00:16:58I'm gonna miss the wall. It's all your fault

00:17:05Come on through

00:17:08I can't do it

00:17:21Yes, I did

00:17:37I

00:17:54Want to go in front of everybody they were all looking at us. Why did you have to do it?

00:18:01Please yourself

00:18:03Oh

00:18:06Come on grace

00:18:11Change your mind again. Yes. Well, you're too late apply again on your head

00:18:28Really

00:18:34Come on now, I'm sorry I can't out of bed

00:18:40Susie come on darling. Come on up you can

00:18:49Better go down to the shelter

00:19:00Come on don't get you things

00:19:03Oh

00:19:16Freezing

00:19:20All right under the stairs

00:19:34Oh

00:19:50What we do if a German came into the house

00:19:54Well, why do you always bring the carving knife in here you never know

00:19:59Shh footsteps

00:20:18Flack

00:20:20I

00:20:50Please

00:21:20Oh

00:21:50Oh

00:22:21For one

00:22:25Poor Oh

00:22:34I

00:22:40Think it's safe. You've got sandwiches

00:22:44Now Billy

00:22:46Keep the pavement and don't go

00:22:50I

00:22:54Don't

00:22:58Be nasty

00:23:04There's so much

00:23:20Oh

00:23:50I

00:24:03Seen from the right

00:24:11Late why study before prayers

00:24:14Eyes front keep still down there you little ones

00:24:18It's discipline that wins wars

00:24:23Right

00:24:25Quick mark left, right left, right left, right swing those are

00:24:33All God will bring destruction to our enemies make these young ones true soldiers of the law

00:24:40Guide mr. Churchill's hand in the cunning of war

00:24:44Let our righteous shells smite down the Messerschmitts and the Fokker

00:24:53Send troublesome dreams to her Hitler

00:24:56Let him not sleep the sleep the innocent

00:25:00Uncomfort our warriors at the front

00:25:03Brighten their swords and burnish their bullets with your fire

00:25:08Keep your Lord to have mercy on these my children

00:25:12Yet again studies this day to the war

00:25:18Amen in number five

00:25:22Fight the good fight with all my life

00:25:26pink

00:25:28pink

00:25:29pink

00:25:31pink

00:25:33What are all the pink bits?

00:25:35Robin

00:25:38They are Smith yes

00:25:41British Empire

00:25:44Harper

00:25:46What fraction of the earth's surface is British

00:25:51Anyone

00:25:56Jennifer Baker

00:25:59Yes two-fifths

00:26:02hours

00:26:03That's what this war is all about

00:26:07Man are fighting and dying to save all the pink bits for you ungrateful little twerps

00:26:16page 17 the British Empire

00:26:36Oh

00:27:07Are these master given us to filter away the abominations of the enemy

00:27:13When you breathe you breathe slowly in

00:27:17Don't panic in

00:27:21Now we do our nine times table one nine is nine

00:27:36Six

00:28:06I

00:28:29Hope it stays of the whole of the war

00:28:36I

00:29:07I

00:29:27What are you doing here? This is our territory looking for shrapnel

00:29:30Get him

00:29:33Take him to H2 but blindfold him first

00:29:38What are you good look it's a detonator you won't see through this

00:29:44I

00:30:00Exploded

00:30:04You were spying I never was yes you were

00:30:09We'll make you talk

00:30:12A live ammunition 303 bring it

00:30:27Talk or else talk talk

00:30:35I'll tell you a secret

00:30:38What's that?

00:30:39The Germans dropping men on the bombsites

00:30:44Who told you that

00:30:46My uncle's in the war office. He said don't go on the bombsite boys are going missing all the time

00:30:53They're not

00:30:56If you find them hiding they'll cut your throat what no they don't they have to or they get found out I

00:31:06Wish one would come through the door right now

00:31:10I

00:31:21Want to join our gang

00:31:24Do you know any swear words yes say them

00:31:30Go on

00:31:32Say them

00:31:34You can't join if you can't swear I

00:31:37I only know one

00:31:41Say that one then

00:31:45Go on fuck

00:31:53That word is special

00:31:55That word is only used for something really important

00:31:59Now repeat after me

00:32:02bugger off

00:32:05But go off sod sod

00:32:10Bloody

00:32:12bloody

00:32:13Now put them all together bugger off you bloody sod bugger off you bloody sod

00:32:20Okay, you're in

00:32:34I

00:33:04Can't we just see the end they got the real thing yet

00:33:35It's not the same

00:33:40Dog fights you can't see what's happening

00:34:04Oh

00:34:34Oh

00:35:04I

00:35:34Oh

00:35:43You prisoner of war this way

00:35:51Fine Russell spouts

00:35:58Hey

00:36:04Oh

00:36:28It's all crooked Billy

00:36:34There now do it again

00:36:43Well don't stop keep going nobody's gonna see that far up don't be so sure when I jitterbug

00:37:04Oh

00:37:28That was great for me, how is it for you too quick

00:37:35Well now we can do it slow

00:37:43Are those some kind of new stockings you're wearing

00:37:45They might be I mean no garters. They just kind of

00:37:51disappear up your ass

00:38:04Enemy on your tail Billy

00:38:34I

00:38:36Am

00:38:57Starting my own collection. That's Canadian. Where'd you get it none of your business?

00:39:06I

00:39:37See wakey-wakey quick because lightning now there we go

00:39:43Billy

00:39:46Wakey wakey quick quick quick quick

00:39:49Dawn

00:39:51Dawn air raid

00:39:57Dawn what have you been up to come not going to that

00:40:06I

00:40:36I

00:41:06I

00:41:36You

00:42:06Oh

00:42:08Last night she didn't she did

00:42:12See Jennifer. Yes. She did kill stone dead

00:42:16You can ask her

00:42:25There you are

00:42:30Do you feel rotten Pauline

00:42:36Oh

00:42:41She does feel wrong don't ask her if she wants to play let's go yourself. No you Oscar. You're a girl

00:42:57Pauline Pauline don't some shrapnel

00:43:06Do you want to play go away

00:43:23Come on lovey you can't stay here all day

00:43:36I

00:43:47Promise mommy got killed. I'm in the East Ends been burning for three nights and centuries down there

00:43:53Can't your blessings grace? I do

00:43:56I do

00:43:59Do you know what they're doing now still not been hit mrs. Evans

00:44:03We had an earmist the other night dropping diseased rats on the bomb sites

00:44:09Billy found this tiny little parachute, so that's what it was for

00:44:20Let's have a listen

00:44:27I can I that don't when they begin

00:44:35We used to sing so much before the war did we not in the daytime anyway of music so tender

00:44:46It brings back a night

00:44:48of

00:44:49Tropicals don't just come on fast. That's the wall for you quick quick quick

00:44:57I

00:45:01See you with a soldier door

00:45:03Just do my bit for the war effort. I

00:45:07Won't have this bugger talk in my house. It's only a joke mommy. I'm 15. I'm still at school

00:45:13I want to be a nun when I grow up

00:45:20Come on grace give us a few bars of old fresh

00:45:26Come on mommy

00:45:56You

00:46:04Talking about Pauline's mom no not now they wouldn't believe me

00:46:26Oh

00:46:56I

00:47:26I

00:47:49Thought we said no girls allowed

00:47:57Oh

00:48:01Leave me alone ah Pauline

00:48:05Oh

00:48:21Come on Pauline be a sport no I won't there's too many of you

00:48:27One at a time then no

00:48:29I'll give you something

00:48:36Oh

00:48:47Right then line up on the board

00:49:00I've seen better than that

00:49:06Oh

00:49:22Come on

00:49:35Oh

00:50:05Hey

00:50:36I

00:50:40Teach him a lesson. I think they can come over here and take all women wasn't that your sister on?

00:51:05I

00:51:09Where do you think you're going

00:51:12Out

00:51:15This minute and take off that lipstick no I won't

00:51:19He wouldn't dare to tell me your father was here

00:51:35I

00:52:06Feel myself

00:52:18Now if you want what does it matter we may all be dead tomorrow

00:52:36You'd better bring him home if you really do loving

00:52:43Don't kill love you regret it for the rest of your life

00:52:53Who said anything about love

00:53:05I

00:53:36Oh

00:53:46What a mess our streets

00:53:52Yeah

00:53:57Huh

00:53:59I

00:54:02Mean on the bike

00:54:07How many got a 36

00:54:18Hand me my backpack

00:54:30I

00:54:32What's that jam

00:54:36What kind of jam it's not like any jam I know German jam

00:54:41It's German jam

00:54:43But it's all right

00:54:45Came from a German ship got sunk this stuff washed ashore great to be jam

00:54:51Our boys found it on the beach by the rifle range

00:54:54We don't know anything about it

00:54:56Well, it's off ration. We know that well. How do we know they didn't plant it there. They know we are mad on jam

00:55:03They could poison half the country

00:55:10I don't want you standing too close

00:55:23I

00:55:27Well

00:55:34It looks foreign

00:55:39Yeah, well I'm not having any even if it's not poisoned I don't think it's right

00:55:44It's not patriotic. You don't like jam. You never eat jam. You hate jam. That's not the point

00:55:51Taste it. Why don't you taste it you taste it?

00:56:21Give us some dad

00:56:39And then said you were too old for a commission, that's it I

00:56:43Didn't they say that before you started? I wasn't too old when I started the course. I was too old when I finished it

00:56:50What are you going to be then a clerk

00:56:54I'm doing a typing course. I should be typing for England

00:57:01Poor guy and you he wanted it so much

00:57:10Yes such a baby

00:57:13It's nice. Jam. It's nearly as nice as English jam

00:57:17You know what I always say jam is jam the wound over

00:57:25Bruce this is my father dad. This is corporal Bruce Carey

00:57:33Private

00:57:36Boots look dad got some German jam. We thought it was poison

00:57:46Hmm

00:58:02When do you think you'll get leave again thought of Christmas I don't suppose

00:58:07Oh

00:58:10I'm glad you didn't send up your art. Hello

00:58:15Hello darling you look marvelous

00:58:32Careful Billy

00:58:37What kind of war is it Mac

00:58:52I'll bear it Cumberland. We never see an air raid

00:58:56The worst problem I have is getting a new typewriter ribbon when I rode in against the Turks. I knew what it was about

00:59:03Did you?

00:59:05You thought you did

00:59:08We've been gypped all our lives Smiler

00:59:11Take your street

00:59:15Rose Hill Avenue

00:59:16No roses. No bloody Helen. It's certainly not an avenue is it? Why not? We need trees for an avenue

00:59:23And what's talk of planting someone we first came

00:59:26propaganda

00:59:27We've been had

00:59:30How's your war Mac

00:59:32Never done better on the fiddle same as everyone else except for service

00:59:38naturally

00:59:40Don't understand

00:59:42Is there no point to any of it? Oh, there is all right this Hitler phone. We've got a winkle him out

00:59:48Get shot some of our lot at the same time

00:59:54Look how wild that boy's got

00:59:57That's for door 16, okay around with a soldier

01:00:04Keep an eye on them for me Mac. Will you there's a power? I'm in a mess of it all

01:00:11Such a bloody fool

01:00:14It was worse mine

01:00:17Steady the bus

01:00:19fuck of the bus

01:00:26Oh

01:00:56Oh

01:01:27Oh

01:01:40Lovely when that fullness it's sad when they sigh

01:01:45He just got better and decided it was time to have some fun

01:01:56Oh

01:02:21Why did they have to go and do that

01:02:26Oh

01:02:56I

01:03:14Suppose they're still learning. That's why they keep moving about it's easy. I've done it who with Paulie liar

01:03:21I

01:03:23Mommy keeps still and daddy moves on top of her. That's what they do when they know how

01:03:34I was so married. I didn't feel the house rock. You must have seen all those shell bursts

01:03:41I

01:03:46Let's get married

01:03:48We can live Montreal I

01:03:51Could teach you French

01:03:53Stained way

01:03:55Don't get smoochy

01:03:57quiet

01:04:01We had a week a whole wonderful week the most wonderful honey any couple ever had

01:04:09I love you so much. Goodbye my darling promise. You won't be careful

01:04:15Cheer up. There's a break

01:04:17Anything should happen to you

01:04:38Oh

01:04:45She's outgrown this can I change it for a bigger one?

01:04:54God I hate all this

01:04:56Grimping and squalor. I don't mind it. It's harder before the war

01:05:01Time to keep up appearances now

01:05:04The Arctic to be poor well, I'm looking for something with a little

01:05:12Don't you like I

01:05:15Don't know how you cope three kids army pay on your own

01:05:22You know something Molly I

01:05:25Like it on my own

01:05:29I never got used to sharing my bed

01:05:34Not really. Oh, I love a man in bed

01:05:38the smell of him

01:05:40The hairiness rubbing against you. Oh the way of him

01:05:45And then when they do it you in the middle of night, and you're not sure if you're dreaming off. It's really happening to you. Oh

01:05:52That's the best no guilty feelings

01:05:57Not that I should have any wide awake

01:06:01Molly

01:06:03Well not talking about Mac

01:06:09He hasn't touched me for ages and not often ever

01:06:15My life started when he went on night work

01:06:20You're having me on

01:06:30Oh

01:07:00I

01:07:02I

01:07:28Haven't been to a concert since I thought you should take you to the prom

01:07:32That's right

01:07:34Not since then

01:07:36Not since I got married

01:07:47Fine more brightly

01:07:50That then it does not don't close

01:07:53No fortitude

01:07:55No sacrifice

01:07:58No, no sympathy

01:08:01No neighborly kindness may God

01:08:06Bless you

01:08:09Every

01:08:12One

01:08:16He was a lot better this year you say that's everything you've done

01:08:21The land and the king are one my son if he stutters we fault her

01:08:26He's getting better so we

01:09:00Oh

01:09:23That's furious it was God save the king

01:09:30Oh, what a lovely couple of toasts.

01:09:48Time for my annual toast, charge your glasses.

01:09:59Mary Macdonald, Thelma Richardson, Bobo Hines, Lillis Sanderson.

01:10:12George, stop it now. This is my house and I will not permit such behaviour here.

01:10:17Little Sarah Wordsworth, Vera Spirit, Marjorie Anderson.

01:10:24That's enough now, sit down.

01:10:26I've seen Henry Chapman's girl. Was it Thelma?

01:10:30No. I can see those cornflower eyes.

01:10:35I've lost your name, my sweetheart.

01:10:38I'm sick of listening to this nonsense every year. You're drunk, Dada, sit down.

01:10:43Betty Browning. Betty, let me tell you something.

01:10:49I'm 73 years old. I've seen half the wonders of the world.

01:10:55But I've never laid eyes on a finer sight than the curve of Betty Browning's breasts.

01:11:04My girls, dead you may be or old and withered.

01:11:10But while I live, I will do your night till last.

01:11:16Bless all of you. Bless all of you.

01:11:25It was Sheila, Grandpa.

01:11:28What's that? What's that?

01:11:30Henry Chapman's daughter. It was Sheila I met from last year.

01:11:34So it was. Sheila. This boy will go far.

01:11:42Sheila.

01:11:46Something's wrong. What is it?

01:11:52I was supposed to say that we're being shipped out tomorrow.

01:11:56Where? I don't know.

01:11:58You do. You're just not saying. I swear I don't know.

01:12:02Here's your Christmas present.

01:12:10You expect me to spend the rest of the war sitting at home staring at a ring.

01:12:15You expect me to meet some French girl who speaks your own language.

01:12:19No thank you.

01:12:32Please yourself.

01:12:42No.

01:12:52He's been posted and I was horrible to him.

01:12:59Don't leave it like that. Go after him, Dawn.

01:13:03Come on now, swallow your pride.

01:13:06What is it now?

01:13:29We've missed them. They've gone.

01:13:33Can't you tell me where? You can see I'm not a spy.

01:13:38I would if I could, eh? But I can't.

01:13:44He'll ride as soon as he can.

01:13:46Yeah, sure he will. He'll meet again.

01:13:49Don't know where. Don't know when.

01:13:52In the meantime, I'll be free tomorrow night.

01:14:01Hey!

01:14:11Bye, Dad!

01:14:14That letter this morning, was it from Bruce?

01:14:18What did he say?

01:14:21He said I was right. I shouldn't wait for him.

01:14:24It was better to make a clean break.

01:14:28Probably very sensible under the circumstances.

01:14:32Now he's gone and made me fall in love with him, which I never wanted to do.

01:14:36I told him that.

01:14:43Link!

01:14:47I found the link!

01:14:50You needn't have bothered, Bill.

01:14:58Gotcha!

01:15:06You can go quite fast, Mum!

01:15:08When I first met your mother, she could stand on her hands!

01:15:11Really?

01:15:13Perhaps I still can.

01:15:15Of course! It's ages since I've had...

01:15:18You never know till you try.

01:15:20Yes!

01:15:21No, no, no, no!

01:15:25Good!

01:15:29What's that?

01:15:31Big Bertha shelling France!

01:15:33Twenty-five mile range they've got!

01:15:35Wow!

01:15:36Send a few over every day just to remind them we're still here.

01:15:40Each shell cost the price of a Ford Eight!

01:15:43Who pays for them?

01:15:45We will.

01:15:47You will. The rest of our lives.

01:15:51Remember this beach, Matt?

01:15:54All those times.

01:15:59Just the two families together.

01:16:05Happy days, Grace.

01:16:08Now there's just the two of us.

01:16:13Thanks for today, Matt.

01:16:19When you get a bit bigger, Billy, I'm going to teach you the googling.

01:16:22Thanks!

01:16:40There goes another Ford Eight, Uncle Matt!

01:16:53Tomorrow, when the world is free...

01:17:01Matt, did you ever find out who Molly went off with?

01:17:04Ran off with a Polish pilot.

01:17:06Sounds like one of those bad jokes on the wireless.

01:17:11You miss her.

01:17:13Well, I know I do.

01:17:16She said, I know you love me, mate.

01:17:20But she never loved me enough.

01:17:24Not loving enough.

01:17:27It's a terrible thing to do to someone.

01:17:31I suppose I did it to Clive.

01:17:35I always held something back.

01:17:42All been left unsaid, Grace.

01:17:46You were never apart, you and Clive.

01:17:49He kept asking and asking.

01:17:53I kept waiting and waiting for you to say something.

01:17:57But you never did.

01:18:00Clive had a job. I didn't.

01:18:03I couldn't.

01:18:07I couldn't.

01:18:14We did the decent thing, Grace.

01:18:17This war has put an end to decent things.

01:18:21We can't change what's past.

01:18:24Not even the war can do that.

01:18:26Well, we did the proper thing, but we lost love.

01:18:32And that's sad, Maggie.

01:18:37It's sad.

01:18:59Stop! Stop!

01:19:02Stop!

01:19:05Mama!

01:19:07Oh, thank God you're safe.

01:19:11Was that your house, madam?

01:19:13I didn't know there was an air raid.

01:19:16No, it wasn't a bomb. Just a fire.

01:19:18What do you mean, a fire?

01:19:20It happens in wartime as well, you know.

01:19:35Where are my shrapnel mounts?

01:19:38I shouldn't think so.

01:19:42I just wish I'd worn my nylons.

01:19:46My ration books are in there!

01:19:49Grace! Oh, Grace!

01:19:50Just a minute!

01:19:51No, my ration books!

01:19:53I'm going to lose you as well!

01:19:56Here, Grace, take this.

01:20:00Have you got somewhere to go?

01:20:02It's all right. She's with me.

01:20:04Good.

01:20:12Hey, Richard, look!

01:20:14What?

01:20:20Rubbish!

01:20:23I'm going to kill you!

01:20:27Rubbish!

01:20:33Ah, look! A mounted wireless!

01:20:43This is my house!

01:20:45What are you doing?

01:20:48Run!

01:20:54Billy! Billy, stop that!

01:20:56You lot, out of there now!

01:21:01Run!

01:21:09Run for it!

01:21:17In there! In there!

01:21:25The sewing machine doesn't look too bad.

01:21:33All my little soldiers are melted.

01:21:42Mac! Mac, look!

01:21:45Some of the snaps are safe.

01:21:48Good things.

01:21:56Grace, this coat should fit you.

01:22:00And here's a few bits for the kitchen.

01:22:03Thanks ever so much, Evelyn.

01:22:05Look, Mum.

01:22:07Here, Dawn, try this.

01:22:10What's this, then?

01:22:13My little soldiers.

01:22:25They're only things.

01:22:28We still have each other.

01:22:31I don't care about the house.

01:22:34I just hate all these people watching us.

01:22:37And being nice.

01:22:41Coming!

01:22:43Deliverance is at hand, all will be well!

01:23:11Different world, eh, Billy?

01:23:14Not 20 miles from Piccadilly.

01:23:26Catch the line!

01:23:29Are you strong enough for another shot?

01:23:32You're going to be a grandma.

01:23:35Hello, Grandma!

01:23:40I don't believe this is happening to me.

01:23:43It's only a house, and a ghastly one at that.

01:23:47It should all be burned and bombed and the builder hanged.

01:23:50What did I do to deserve this?

01:23:54You married that fool Clive, that's what.

01:23:57Never mind, never mind. You can stay with us.

01:24:01How long?

01:24:03Three and a half months.

01:24:05As long as that?

01:24:07All right, why not? It's nearly summer, let the nippers run wild.

01:24:18Bless you, Mac.

01:24:22What would I have done without you?

01:24:25We might still have a house.

01:24:28I wish it all could have been different.

01:24:32It's our cameras.

01:24:49Push off.

01:24:51Jump in.

01:24:53Well done, Billy.

01:25:02All I have left in the world is in this little boat.

01:25:06Can I help you?

01:25:08Put your hand on mine.

01:25:11Get the neck of it.

01:25:19I shall teach you the ways of the river.

01:25:23Another year in that awful suburb and you'd have been past saving.

01:25:29Look, they're coming this way.

01:25:32The future on the march.

01:25:34I curse you. Vote, watch and dump.

01:25:59BIRDS CHIRP

01:26:18Billy, come here. Have a listen.

01:26:21See if you can hear anything.

01:26:24Oh, you're freezing cold.

01:26:27A shock like that could give me a miscarriage.

01:26:31That's an idea. Do it again.

01:26:34Breakfast all.

01:26:42Morning, Grandma. Sleep well, darling?

01:26:45Morning, Grandpa.

01:26:49How long will it take to get the new ration books?

01:26:53About six weeks, I think.

01:26:55How are we going to cope?

01:26:57Nettle soup, like we did in the Great War.

01:27:00Very nourishing.

01:27:02Bill and I will catch fish, river fowl laying eggs soon.

01:27:06We'll hunt, we'll forage, we'll overcome.

01:27:09What about tea and sugar, Clever Dick?

01:27:11Keep still. Nobody move.

01:27:14I'll go fetch my gun.

01:27:25BIRDS CHIRP

01:27:47GUNSHOT

01:27:49GUNSHOT

01:27:51You're so worried, Joe.

01:28:04Never let a rat peep up on you, Bill.

01:28:10I think you hit him, Grandpa.

01:28:13Hmm?

01:28:15He was slipping when he ran off.

01:28:19GIGGLING

01:28:31That's enough!

01:28:35GIGGLING

01:28:37GIGGLING

01:28:50Up. Two, three.

01:28:52Throw the pole forward.

01:28:54Let it slide through your fingers.

01:28:56Don't push until it hits the bottom.

01:29:01Such nice boys.

01:29:03This poor boat has a blazer.

01:29:06All the pumps on the river lit up with Chinese lanterns like fireflies.

01:29:10Up. Two, three.

01:29:12Throw the pole forward.

01:29:14Let it slide through your fingers.

01:29:16Don't push until it hits the bottom.

01:29:22And the gramophone going on one of the boats.

01:29:25Always the Charleston. Charleston.

01:29:28Charleston.

01:29:30Dig, dig, dig. Charleston.

01:29:32Oh, you girls.

01:29:35What a lovely...

01:29:39Now, check that spinner.

01:29:46No luck, Grandpa.

01:29:48Up. Two, three.

01:29:50GIGGLING

01:29:54Now, you have a go, lad.

01:29:56Put your mighty main behind it.

01:30:02Hold it steady.

01:30:05Now, down with it.

01:30:07That's it.

01:30:09Now, push.

01:30:11Set up.

01:30:13Two, three, four.

01:30:16It's getting better.

01:30:18Let it slide through your fingers, lad.

01:30:20Let it slide.

01:30:26Up. Two, three. Come on now.

01:30:29Let it slide through your fingers. That's it.

01:30:31Now, push. Push.

01:30:34Is that Grandpa?

01:30:36Pull it out, lad. Pull it out.

01:30:38Pull it out, lad. Let it go.

01:30:40Let it go.

01:30:42Hang on.

01:31:00Now, there's a lesson for life.

01:31:02Never give up the punt for the pole.

01:31:16Hello, my darlings.

01:31:19Hello, dear.

01:31:23How are you?

01:31:25I'm terribly sorry.

01:31:28Wonderful things.

01:31:30Thank you.

01:31:32Oh, thank you.

01:31:34I'm so grateful.

01:31:36That's lovely.

01:31:38Oh, yes.

01:31:40I love them.

01:31:48He gets bigger and bigger.

01:31:50No word from Bruce, my pet.

01:31:52We old men are beasts, darling.

01:31:54That's what I like about them.

01:31:56Say hello to your Dada.

01:31:58Hello, Dada.

01:32:00Hello, dear. Hello, Dada.

01:32:02Oh. Afternoon, Faith.

01:32:08Poor hens and no cocks.

01:32:11Too many women in our family.

01:32:14They're a different species from us, Bill.

01:32:17Don't you love them?

01:32:19Oh, yes. Love them. But don't try to understand them.

01:32:22That road leads to ruin.

01:32:25You said we could have a game of cricket.

01:32:27So I did.

01:32:40You look frustrated, Faithy.

01:32:42That husband of yours still can't rise to the occasion?

01:32:45He's a menace. He ought to be locked up.

01:32:47Don't let him get his claws into Billy Grace.

01:32:50I won't have the husbands here.

01:32:52All four girls married duds, including your mother.

01:32:57They'll tame you if they can, cage you and feed you tidbits.

01:33:00Well, good.

01:33:02Back that back first.

01:33:06Come along, my dears. Tea's ready.

01:33:10Fiddle and lick.

01:33:22Come along.

01:33:42Sixing out in the river, Grandpa?

01:33:44Certainly not.

01:33:53Yes!

01:33:55That was a googly.

01:33:57I know.

01:33:58You're a dark horse, bowling googly's at your age.

01:34:04Dust me up another.

01:34:07No, Grandpa. You're out. It's my turn.

01:34:13Five thousand.

01:34:16Five thousand.

01:34:34Ready?

01:34:45One.

01:34:51Two.

01:34:58Four.

01:35:00You want to know why they're called Faith, Hope, Grace and Charity?

01:35:04Six. Why?

01:35:06Your grandmother, she named them after the virtues I like.

01:35:09That's marriage for you.

01:35:11Eight.

01:35:13Eight? Damned impossible, love.

01:35:16Mummy, can I have the yellow cape?

01:35:18Yes, darling. I'm whatever you'd like, my darling.

01:35:21It's so wonderful to have you all over again.

01:35:36Blushed you, I'm done with this.

01:35:40Two.

01:35:43Well done, child.

01:35:46Four.

01:36:01Ah, last ball! Stop running!

01:36:05It's only a game, Grandpa.

01:36:08Six and out! Six and out!

01:36:13This is just like old times.

01:36:44Where's the fish?

01:36:46We got some eggs, Grandpa.

01:36:48Never mind the eggs. Catch some fish!

01:36:52Be off with you. And don't come back empty-handed.

01:36:55There's no supper.

01:37:00All right.

01:37:13Did you get a bite, Bill?

01:37:15No. Did you?

01:37:17No.

01:37:43I'm scared to go back without any fish.

01:37:46I hate Grandpa.

01:38:14A stray bomber!

01:38:17German master lost his squadron!

01:38:31Fish! Billy, I've got them!

01:38:44This is going too far, young man.

01:38:47Are you sick, Grandpa?

01:38:49Well, I concede I was insistent.

01:38:53But how the devil...

01:38:55That looks wonderful!

01:38:57It looks a bit fishy to me.

01:39:00Could we sop them or smoke them, Billy?

01:39:03It's like the feeding of the 5,000, isn't it?

01:39:06It's like the feeding of the 5,000, isn't it?

01:39:11It's like the feeding of the 5,000. It's a miracle!

01:39:14Well, to its miracles now, is it?

01:39:17I'll stink the place out by morning.

01:39:19Why don't you invite all your friends round to supper, Grandpa?

01:39:23I have no friends. Only relational friends.

01:39:26Oh, God!

01:39:35Don!

01:39:38Don! It's me!

01:39:42Just ignore him.

01:39:45Bill!

01:39:49Bill!

01:39:51Bill, will you bring that canoe over here?

01:39:54Keep going, Billy. Stick to this bank.

01:40:01Come on!

01:40:04Will you give me a chance to explain?

01:40:09Faster, Billy. Faster!

01:40:18Don!

01:40:20Susie!

01:40:24I'm going to kill you, Sue Rowan.

01:40:34Don!

01:40:38I couldn't write. It was secret posted.

01:40:41I came as soon as I heard about the baby.

01:40:43Go away!

01:40:46I've deserted. I went AWOL to be with you.

01:40:49I hate you!

01:40:53Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!

01:40:57Bruce! Bruce, what have I done?

01:41:00Bruce! Bruce! Bruce, what have I done?

01:41:05Nobody can hold their breath that long.

01:41:10Bruce!

01:41:31I'm so glad you could come.

01:41:33Here we are, all together again.

01:41:36Happy as can be.

01:41:38You're going to be a grandfather, Ishmael.

01:41:40And I'm still just a lad myself.

01:41:42Don't bother to grow up. It's no fun at all.

01:41:45I believe I'll see drink-waters buried here.

01:41:48That shallot!

01:41:50Come on, Billy.

01:41:53Line up for a photograph, everybody.

01:42:01Hello!

01:42:16Bye-bye, Bruce!

01:42:18Bye-bye, Bruce!

01:42:22Bye!

01:42:24Bye!

01:42:30Left! Left! Left!

01:42:32Right!

01:42:37Left! Left!

01:42:39Right!

01:42:41Left!

01:42:43Come on, boys!

01:42:45Left! Left!

01:43:00What can you do with four daughters, I asked myself. Four daughters! A string quartet was

01:43:15all I could come up with. And they hated me for making them learn. And now we're glad

01:43:22you did. Here's to music. And absent friends. And absent bridegrooms. And the bride. And

01:43:38wait for it, here's to my CEO. He's wangled me a posting close to home. He said, your

01:43:45house burns down, your daughter gets married, you're always away on compassionate leave,

01:43:52back up your typewriter, fight the bloody war down there. Clive, I found this little

01:44:00bungalow to rent down the towpath. I never want to leave the river again. The children

01:44:07had such a wonderful summer. Fair enough. The river. The river. And loyal friends.

01:44:17And good and faithful wives. We hope and trust. And grumpy grandfathers. Since you're shortly to

01:44:31join our ranks, I throw down the gauntlet. A cricket match, you and Mac against Bill and me.

01:44:36On! You know, Mac played for Surrey Seconds, and I opened for the Indian Army. We've heard

01:44:50that a thousand times. Class will tell. It's an olive branch. Take it. It's the best he can do.

01:44:57Come on. We're putting you into battle. It was me. No, it was me. It was you. She's not feeling

01:45:07too good. Fine delivery, Billy. That was a good left. Turned a bit, too.

01:45:24Give him the you-know-what. All right, Grandpa.

01:45:40There was a googly. A googly? You didn't spot it, Clive. I taught him how,

01:45:47and now he turns it against me. The law of life. Cruel, isn't it?

01:45:54Well done, lad. How proud of you. All right, all right, we're coming.

01:46:06Clive! What is it? Clive, take the doctor. You will. Not me, you'll. She's in labour.

01:46:18Hot water. Lots of hot water. What for? I don't know. They all say that in the pictures.

01:46:36Clive! It's coming on its own.

01:46:46It doesn't hurt.

01:46:57It's all sticky.

01:47:06Oh.

01:47:36Ah, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps

01:47:53the end of the beginning. I scramped it. I nearly got caught. They chased me for ages.

01:47:59Oh, you did that for me, and on the last day of your holidays. Well, for the baby, really.

01:48:08Well, thank you, Billy, and the baby and me. You're not that bad, really, are you, Billy?

01:48:18Oh, you miserable little trifound. I'm the one who should be fed up sacrificing my last supper,

01:48:31black market petrol, to take you to school. I've got to live in Roselamney as well. Only

01:48:37till they get you into the local school. With Mrs Evans. I hate her. You'll be home for the

01:48:43weekends. Now shut up, or walk. Great strapping fellows being silly buggers with a war on. Outrageous!

01:49:13All you do is knock the sense out of them, and fill them up with muck.

01:49:43How do you find? Oh, my God! That's my school!

01:49:53Rowan! Rowan! It was a stray boar! Thank you, Adolf!

01:50:13Discipline! You'll all be punished!

01:50:19This is war!

01:50:20I miss school!

01:50:22Get them into their lines!

01:50:24Get...

01:50:26Stop it!

01:50:28Before you get into your life, pull through that and that teacher! Pull through that fox!

01:50:32Stop it!

01:50:34You will regret this!

01:50:36Grandpa!

01:50:38Get out of the way!

01:50:40Get out!

01:50:42Stop that!

01:50:58In all my life, nothing ever quite matched the perfect joy of that moment.

01:51:04My school lay in ruins, and the river beckoned with the promise of stolen days.

01:52:34The End

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