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.
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00:00:00You
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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