First broadcast 19th November 1976.
Billy is unable to get medical work due to his socialist principles and moves back to help his parents. Tom, who finds it hard to cope with shop work, moves into a hostel.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
James Garbutt ... Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood ... Bella Seaton
John Nightingale ... Tom Seaton
Edward Wilson ... Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Madelaine Newton ... Dolly
David Graham ... Kaganovich
Cyril Shaps ... Mendel
David Hargreaves ... Sol Greenberg
Frank Duncan ... Dr. Lorimer
Sean Lynch ... Fiddler
Jack Carr ... Frankie
Martin Matthews ... Hostel Manager
John Baron ... Barman
Billy is unable to get medical work due to his socialist principles and moves back to help his parents. Tom, who finds it hard to cope with shop work, moves into a hostel.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
James Garbutt ... Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood ... Bella Seaton
John Nightingale ... Tom Seaton
Edward Wilson ... Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Madelaine Newton ... Dolly
David Graham ... Kaganovich
Cyril Shaps ... Mendel
David Hargreaves ... Sol Greenberg
Frank Duncan ... Dr. Lorimer
Sean Lynch ... Fiddler
Jack Carr ... Frankie
Martin Matthews ... Hostel Manager
John Baron ... Barman
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00:00Come hear me little Jacky, now I've smoked me backy, have a bit of cracky, till the boat
00:10comes in.
00:11Dance to the daddy, sing to the mummy, dance to the daddy, to the mummy, sing.
00:16Thou shalt have the fishy on a little dishy, thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes
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03:02I shall like a bed, please.
03:20Eugenie.
03:21Pardon?
03:22Jew.
03:23You don't take Jews.
03:24We take anybody, Sunshine, provided you got the forms.
03:25In advance.
03:26This way.
03:27That's yours.
03:29If you got any valuables in that case, I'll look after them for you.
03:37If I had valuables, would I be here?
03:45That'll suit yourself.
03:49They've got some rough ones here, though.
03:56Why did you ask if I was Jewish?
03:59Because I'm nosy, sunshine.
04:01Two house rules.
04:03No admittance after half-past ten.
04:06And don't miss the bed. Got it?
04:08Yes.
04:10Well, that's it, then. You're best of luck.
04:17Here for long?
04:19I hope not.
04:21Not exactly the Ritz, is it?
04:23No. Not the Ritz.
04:26But it's a bed.
04:28Clean?
04:30Best give it a dose of Keating's if you've got it.
04:33List of...
04:35Here.
04:39Kaganovich.
04:41Avram Kaganovich.
04:43Oh. Tom Seton.
04:47Aye.
04:49Out of a job?
04:51Yes. For the moment.
04:53You also?
04:55Out of just about everything.
04:57Come for?
04:59Akhangelsk.
05:01Anywhere in the world's that?
05:03Russia.
05:05Why, how did you get here?
05:07Mostly I walked.
05:09It's a canny walk, that.
05:11I'm glad it is almost over.
05:13I am looking for a man who may help me.
05:16Why?
05:18His name is Ford. Sergeant John Ford.
05:21It would be too much to hope that you know him.
05:23Aye. Sorry.
05:25No. The world is not so small.
05:32When a man has no luck, he must make his own.
05:37We had no business skedaddling up like that.
05:40We need it here.
05:42He's a grown man.
05:44Even the band.
05:46He knows he's all right with us.
05:48I said I'd give you a hand.
05:50I put crates as men's work.
05:52There.
05:53I didn't mean that.
05:55Didn't you?
05:56I mean it's a job for working men.
05:58I'll be working.
06:00You'd better start.
06:02Anyway, I thought you were going to stop with those jessies.
06:04Well, do you want us to?
06:07I'll go.
06:09Well, Dad, do you?
06:11Not lower Tom comes back.
06:13Miss my company, do you?
06:15I've had to manage without it, and so's your ma.
06:17We're kind of stepping out on just now, that's all.
06:19Why not?
06:21The money, that's why not.
06:23A fella could walk in here and help himself to 300 pound or more.
06:26No better woman than an old cripple to stop him.
06:28That's why I need our Tom.
06:30Well, why don't you put it in the bank, then?
06:32I know not about banks.
06:34Well, the post office, then. Our building society.
06:37I like it where I can see it.
06:40Right.
06:45That money was for you.
06:47I know, Dad.
06:50I was going to put it in your hand.
06:53You don't think I'll ever be cured, do you?
06:55Forever's a long time.
06:57And don't you soft-suit me.
07:00Anyway, why can't you get yourself a job?
07:03Chop with your qualifications.
07:05It'll be politics they don't like.
07:07You've been a good socialist all your life.
07:09Oh, I see what you mean.
07:12Will the money help?
07:14No, Dad.
07:16Oh, you never were a good liar, thank God.
07:18And you took your time.
07:20Mrs. Flanagan, tin of cocoa, quarter of corned beef.
07:23Cash.
07:25Is it settled?
07:27Not settled.
07:29Are you going to our Jessie's?
07:31If you don't mind, ma'am, I think I'll stay here till our Tom comes back.
07:37Eighteen and six a pound.
07:41Don't flush your money about too much, if I were you.
07:44Some fellas over there live in the hostel and all.
07:46They're not too fussy where they get the price of a pint.
07:49I'm obliged to you.
07:53They don't bother you?
07:55I've got an out.
07:57This fella Ford... Yes?
07:59Get you a job, can he?
08:01He will help me, Mr. Seaton.
08:03Can I get you another?
08:05No, thanks.
08:07I've got to go and see a chap who might help me get some labouring work.
08:10I wish you luck.
08:12Thanks.
08:17It's Tom Seaton, Jack.
08:19Come on in, bunny lad. Remember Matt?
08:21Aye, aye. How are you?
08:23Champion. How's yourself?
08:25It's a grand place you've got here.
08:27It's all Dolly's doing.
08:29You've fixed it up lovely, Mrs. Ford.
08:31Thanks. Would you like a cup of tea or anything?
08:33No, thanks.
08:35Just went a bit crack with your man. I'm listening.
08:37It's confidential, Jack.
08:39How about your Jessie, I suppose?
08:41Jessie? Don't mind her. She's got a one-track mind.
08:44Nobody can make her leak pudding like she can.
08:46Go on, Tom. It is confidential, if you don't mind.
08:49I suppose I do mind.
08:51They're my family, Tom. The only family I've got.
08:53You can trust them. I know I do.
08:55Do you? Aye, well, that's all right, then.
08:57See, it's you I've come about.
08:59All right. Well, sit yourself down.
09:01So...
09:03There's a fella looking for you.
09:05Foreign fella. Name's, er, Kaganovich.
09:08His name's what?
09:10It's Kaganovich, something like that.
09:12Jewish fella from Russia. Says he knows you.
09:14Five years since I was in Russia, Tom. I met a lot of people.
09:16Didn't keep my address book either.
09:18Says you can help him. Aye, half the town thinks that.
09:21His hand's never out of his pocket.
09:23Easy now. It mightn't be money.
09:25Is it, Tom?
09:27Didn't see. What's he like, Tom?
09:29Quiet. Not all that big, but...
09:31A hard one? Aye, not that either.
09:33Not like the ones we met in Durham, Jack.
09:36It's just as a kind of power in them.
09:38You know what I mean?
09:40Like an engine. You cannot see it, but you know it's there.
09:42Better watch out for meself, then. Aye, Jack, you had.
09:44Kaganovich. Aye, that's it.
09:46Where'd you meet him? Oh, I just run across him.
09:48Where, Tom?
09:50Had a drink in the Blue Bell. Oh, aye?
09:52Slipped out when your da wasn't looking, did you?
09:54Not at home any more.
09:56Where are they, lodgings? Not exactly, no.
09:58Gone to Richwood, have you?
10:00Jack! Where's your heart?
10:02Where are you staying, then?
10:04Come on, bonnie lad, what's all the mystery?
10:06If you must know, I'm at Dawson's.
10:09Where?
10:11Dawson's Working Men's Hostel.
10:13You're never living there? Aye, I am.
10:15Family chuck you out? I chucked meself out, man.
10:17I can't stand it at home any longer.
10:19I wouldn't say that, man. You've got a lovely mam.
10:21I know. It's dark.
10:23You want me to be a shopkeeper like him? I cannot do it.
10:26Not upstairs, you see.
10:28All I've got is these. Have you found anything?
10:30When they start next convicts, let me know.
10:32Started me.
10:34You were different, Jack. Always were.
10:36Why the hostel, man? Couldn't you get lodgings?
10:38Lodgings cost money. You've got money!
10:40Aye, it's a war loan for the bayon.
10:42Who's looking after him, Mr Seton?
10:44Me mam.
10:46Oh, he'll be all right.
10:48Used to not seeing us.
10:50I will.
10:52I'd better be off, sir.
10:54I just thought I'd better let you know.
10:56Aye, thanks, Tom. Did you tell him you know me?
10:58Would have done once.
11:00One thing you learn where we've been, you keep your mouth shut.
11:02You won't tell me, mam, where I'm staying.
11:05She's better not known. Aye.
11:07If you don't mind, Jack,
11:09don't come there yourself, eh?
11:11Why should I? Aye.
11:13Not a place I'd like friends to visit.
11:17Well, I'll say goodnight. Aye.
11:19Goodnight, Tom. Good luck. I could do with it.
11:21I'll see you out, Mr Seton.
11:25Maybe Dolly and me shouldn't have heard that.
11:28Matt, no secrets in the family.
11:30None? Not now, anyway.
11:32What's done is done.
11:34This Russian chap doesn't sound like he's done.
11:36Kaganovich.
11:38Been racking me brains.
11:40Who the hell was he?
11:42Aye.
11:44The manager says we got a new mate.
11:46Oh, aye.
11:48Foreigner.
11:50Jew.
11:52He'll be flush, then.
11:54Yeah.
11:56Might learn us a few, Bob.
11:58Hey, which is his bed?
12:00Worried about sleeping next to her, you fiddler.
12:03HE LAUGHS
12:17Oh, nice.
12:19Real eyed.
12:21Get a few, Bob, for that from your uncle.
12:24Oh, that's nasty, that is.
12:26The Jew boy don't trust us.
12:29You're not going to cut it?
12:32Kushti bok.
12:35Oh, that's craftsmanship for you.
12:39Ah, quickness of the hand deceives the eye.
12:43Not much of a dresser, is he?
12:45I'd even pinch the old lot, I'd say.
12:47Here, what's this?
12:49Bit of muck, is it?
12:51Oh, that naughty boy.
12:53Don't know. It's all in foreign.
12:55If you are looking for something to read,
12:57you may borrow it.
12:59I have no objection.
13:01Worth a few, Bob, is it?
13:03It is a textbook on agronomy.
13:05Textbook on what?
13:07The economics of agriculture.
13:09How much you pay for it?
13:11Nothing. I stole it.
13:13I stole all those...
13:15You hear that, Frankie?
13:17We've got a thief here.
13:19It would seem that we have four.
13:21Ah.
13:23Now you've hurt our feelings.
13:25I'll tell you what.
13:27Give us a few bob for a drink and we'll forgive you.
13:29No.
13:31That's not nice. It's not nice at all.
13:33You could be sorry you said that.
13:35There's five thieves here.
13:37I'm just all the Durham jail.
13:39None of your business, mister. You sit down.
13:41Maybe he'll buy you a drink and all.
13:43Keep out of it, Mr Seton.
13:45Sit down.
13:53If you attack me,
13:55I will kill one of you at least.
13:57LAUGHTER
14:01Who are you, then, heavyweight champion of Russia?
14:03I have a knife.
14:05I will use it.
14:07I don't believe you.
14:09Find out.
14:15Where would a fellow like you learn about knives?
14:17In Russia.
14:19In Russia, you can learn
14:21everything there is to know about death.
14:23You're saying
14:25you can take the three of us?
14:27I am not so foolish.
14:29You will defeat me, of course.
14:31But one of you will die.
14:33Maybe even two.
14:37They'd hang you for that.
14:39But you would still be dead.
14:41Put my book
14:43Put my book back in the case, please.
14:51Now go away
14:53from my bed.
14:55I don't think you are very clean.
15:13You should be asleep.
15:15You left us.
15:17Who, she?
15:19She said she was a countess.
15:21They all said they were countesses.
15:23Did you?
15:25Did I what?
15:27I asked her a lot of questions.
15:29I made her cry.
15:31She was a helpless woman, and I made her cry.
15:33You're good at that.
15:35I know. I've had a lot of practice.
15:37I'm not.
15:39I'm not.
15:41You're good at that.
15:43I know. I've had a lot of practice.
15:47Who's he?
15:49A chap called Menchikoff.
15:53Oh, wait.
15:55What did he do?
15:57On the charge sheet
15:59it said agent provocateur.
16:01It's a sort of posh word for troublemaker.
16:03He looks like he could make a lot of trouble, that one.
16:05He did.
16:07What happened to him?
16:09Come on, Jack.
16:11He was shot by fire and scored.
16:13Two of them missed and three scored out.
16:15The officer finished him off with a pistol.
16:17Did you have to tell us that?
16:19Did you have to ask?
16:21There's things I want to forget.
16:23It's your job to help me forget, not remind me.
16:25I'm sorry.
16:29I'm not saying you're that Jewish fella.
16:31Not yet.
16:33But I've heard the name. I know I have.
16:35This is no place for you.
16:37Get back to bed. I won't be long.
16:39Mind you not.
16:41I need warming up.
16:43You'll get it.
16:49That Tom Seaton.
16:51He's canny, isn't he?
16:53Huh?
16:55Sad, that, losing his wife.
16:57Left with a bane.
16:59He's just like a bane himself.
17:07I'm sorry.
17:37Kaganovich.
17:41Of course.
17:45There must have been good times here.
17:47This air.
17:49This sea.
17:51He must have been happy.
17:53Happy?
17:55Aye.
17:57When me wife was alive.
17:59When they killed my wife.
18:01When they killed my wife.
18:03When they killed my wife.
18:05When she was alive.
18:07When the bane came.
18:09Bane?
18:11I got a child, a son.
18:13And no woman, and no work.
18:15That's right.
18:17I could have a job, I suppose.
18:19Working for me father.
18:21Minding a shop.
18:23Your father's a shopkeeper.
18:25A bourgeois.
18:27Huh?
18:29I'm no good at foreign talk.
18:31My father also.
18:33I came with him like you.
18:35And like you, I left.
18:41I did what I thought was right.
18:43Me and all?
18:45Only now I don't think I was right at all.
18:47Why, tell him?
18:49It's not possible.
18:51He's dead.
18:53I'm sorry.
18:55My father nearly died.
18:57There was times I wished he had.
18:59And the rest of us and all.
19:01As long as my old man wasn't, now he's a cripple.
19:03And you talk about happy times.
19:05I knew them.
19:07And like a fool, I rejected them.
19:09You were in prison, you said?
19:11For theft?
19:13I a stole.
19:15Why, it was either that or watch me wife and bane starve.
19:19So, for you to steal was a kind of fighting?
19:23I was also in prison.
19:25Stealing books?
19:27No.
19:29They will be needed.
19:31Like stealing from my wife, my child.
19:33I went to prison for...
19:35They called it treason.
19:37Who? The Reds?
19:39The Reds. My comrades.
19:41Why, what happened?
19:43I escaped.
19:45Do you really carry a knife?
19:49Those three believe I do.
19:51Why, but do you?
19:53Do you believe it?
19:55After what you did last night, I ought to, but...
19:57Why, if you don't,
19:59and they hadn't believed you, why, they could have killed you.
20:01You have a son.
20:03A mama to love you.
20:05A father to love even when you hate.
20:07To you, life is important.
20:11You're saying that you've got nothing to live for?
20:13No.
20:15Not quite.
20:17There is still one thing.
20:19One very beautiful idea.
20:23So you do carry a knife?
20:25I do carry a knife.
20:27Leave that. Mrs Charlton will see to it.
20:29Mrs Charlton?
20:31The woman Arthur's hired.
20:33Did she get on?
20:35She's a bit too downtrodden for me.
20:37She goes out showering, gives the money to her husband,
20:39he goes out and drinks it.
20:41What happens if there isn't any money?
20:43He gives her a black eye instead.
20:45She should stick up for herself a bit more.
20:47Not all the wives around here are like you, you know, Jess.
20:49Me? I can't even stand up, let alone fight.
20:51Specialist says it's anemia.
20:53I thought it might be.
20:57Is that all you've got to say?
20:59No. Eat a lot of liver.
21:01I've been told all that.
21:03Is it dangerous?
21:05Not if you take care of yourself.
21:07Rest.
21:09Rest? That's all I'm fit for.
21:11Imagine it, me, anemia.
21:13There were times the day wasn't long enough to do all the things I wanted.
21:15It'll be like that again.
21:17Will it?
21:19He sure?
21:21If you do as you're told.
21:23I wish you were staying here.
21:25I can't.
21:27Not until our Tom comes back.
21:29You still don't know where he is?
21:31Mam's a bit worried something might have happened to him.
21:33Well, of course she is.
21:35And Dad?
21:37Dad wants him back and all. Dad's got dynastic ambitions.
21:39Is it catching?
21:41Not for Tom, that's why he's hopping us.
21:43Tom has seaten son and co. wholesale and retail grocers.
21:45Prevails to the gentry.
21:47Poor Tom ran away.
21:49He hates shopkeeping.
21:51But he can't get anything else.
21:53How about you?
21:55I've tried three times, been turned down three times.
21:57Politics.
21:59Just politics?
22:01Mind it be money as well?
22:03No, I could have money. Dad's.
22:05He'd help you set up here.
22:07Maybe Mam made him off. I don't know.
22:09I won't take it anyway.
22:11The trouble is he wants us to cure him.
22:13I can't, Jessie. Nobody can.
22:17Amen.
22:39Amen.
22:43I shouldn't be in here. You know I shouldn't.
22:45Now to the sort.
22:47A good looking woman like you deserves to be taken out for a drink.
22:49So right.
22:51Still charming the birds off the trees are you, Jack?
22:53I'm lucky I found you to practice on.
22:55What do you have?
22:57Could you manage to drop a gin?
22:59No, but I bet you can.
23:01Large gin and large whiskey, Charlie.
23:05That foreign fella been in?
23:07Pardon?
23:09Foreign fella. Looked in yesterday with Tom Seaton.
23:11Oh, we got all sorts in here.
23:13As long as they pay, I don't notice.
23:15Large gin, large whiskey, one and six.
23:25Just a worn mind.
23:27I've got me shopping to do.
23:29Here's to your beautiful blue eyes, Mrs. Seaton.
23:31Bet you've said that a few times before, Jack.
23:33Aye, but this time I mean it.
23:35Always an answer.
23:37And always the right answer.
23:39Maybe not always.
23:41What's done is done, Jack.
23:43You've heard how her Jessie's expecting?
23:45Aye.
23:47She's got complications. Anemia.
23:49Jessie?
23:51Aye, it surprised me and all.
23:53Her with all that energy.
23:55Has she been looked after?
23:57Rest, the doctor says. Rest and nourishing food.
23:59I'll cook her now, tell us.
24:01Will she be all right?
24:03We'll just have to wait and see. As the Lord wills.
24:05Mind Arthur will look after her.
24:07She's got a good man in Arthur Ashton.
24:09Aye, well, I hope you keep listening.
24:13Jack.
24:15Do you ever see out of our tom?
24:17Oh, I'm kept pretty busy.
24:19Oh, no, it's just I'm that worried.
24:21He's left us.
24:23Get away.
24:25He has. It's the shop. He cannot stand the shop.
24:27Says he hates the brain work.
24:29Well, maybe he's looking for something else.
24:31Of course he is, but what chance has he got round here with his record?
24:33Maybe he feels he's just got to try.
24:35Of course he does. He's a man, isn't he?
24:37Aye, a real man.
24:39I went through it with her, Mrs. Seaton, and I know.
24:41Only...
24:43Only what, Bonnie lass?
24:45Why, he's not like you, Jack.
24:47If they dumped you down in the jungle,
24:49you'd have monkeys for slaves.
24:51You know what Tom needs looking after.
24:53He's not the type to be on his own.
24:55He'll survive. He's learned how.
24:57I don't want him to survive. I want him to be happy.
24:59You see,
25:01Tom was always last in the queue
25:03with Bill and me.
25:05Billy and Jesse were the clever ones, but Tom...
25:07Why, he just never did enough.
25:09Tom got his share of love.
25:11They all did.
25:13He still needs us, Jack.
25:15But maybe you need him.
25:17Aye, you're a short one, all right.
25:19Aye, I need him.
25:23He's gone.
25:27He's not going far.
25:29You seen him? Aye.
25:31Where's he? Please.
25:33I'll tell you. Please, Jack.
25:35I promised him Mrs. Seaton.
25:37Maybe you could go
25:39and see him for us. Tell him I want him back.
25:43I never asked you a favour
25:45before, Jack.
25:47Aye, all right.
25:49First chance I get.
25:55Good Shabbos.
25:57Good Shabbos.
25:59There are many jewels in this town?
26:01Shipyards, coal mines.
26:03That is not Jewish business.
26:05Say to Una, maybe.
26:07You're right, Sol.
26:09Sol Greenberg. Maybe you've heard of me.
26:11I'm sorry.
26:13Sol Greenberg, area middleweight champion.
26:1515 straight wins, 8 inside the distance.
26:17Next year I'll meet the champion.
26:19Is that Jewish business?
26:21Just who are you, mister?
26:23Kaganovich.
26:25Avram Kaganovich.
26:27He's Russian. Russia always trouble.
26:29You're right to leave.
26:31Here it's not bad.
26:33You wish to stay here?
26:35No. I'm going on.
26:37Going on where?
26:39Palestine.
26:41You are going to the land of Israel?
26:43Why not? It's my home.
26:45You're a Russian?
26:47I am a Jew.
26:49A Jew who wants to go home.
26:53Are there any Jews here who want to join me?
26:55Our home is here.
26:57It's all right here.
26:59Is it all right to live in a place
27:01where they rob and insult you
27:03because you are a Jew?
27:05And think you're too scared to fight back?
27:07No, just a minute.
27:09Nobody calls me names?
27:11No. Not even behind your back?
27:13We don't wish for any trouble,
27:15Avram Kaganovich.
27:17Only for a little quiet.
27:19Please.
27:21I don't want we should talk here.
27:23We eat, then we go to my shop.
27:25Come.
27:27Come on.
27:41Something wrong?
27:43I forgot to ask about Sergeant Ford.
27:45What about him?
27:47Where to find him?
27:49Should be easy if he is around here.
27:51I'll ask the British Legion.
27:53You're in the army.
27:55Where else would a Jew let in a box?
28:03Morpholo.
28:05You do surprise me.
28:07I surprise me and I'll smile
28:09at what they put up with when they're scared.
28:11I'm just looking for a fellow
28:13named Tom Seton.
28:15He's out.
28:17He can bloody stay out.
28:19He's got a Jew boyfriend that is.
28:21Jew boy?
28:23Bloody foreigner.
28:25You must excuse him.
28:27The feeling's as hot.
28:29Seems the Jew boy turned out to be harder than he looked.
28:31Mind you, there was only the three of them
28:33and he must have weighed out a dime's tour.
28:35He had a knife.
28:37He had one all right.
28:39Do you credit a Jew boy acting tough?
28:41I would.
28:43Saul Greenberg lives here.
28:45Who the hell's Saul Greenberg?
28:47Saul Greenberg's the area middleweight champion.
28:49He wouldn't need a knife
28:51to fettle you three.
28:53What, did you see him beat Billy Rouse?
28:55Got him with a right hook on the six.
28:57He broke the poor bugger's jaw.
28:59I saw what he can hit, that lad.
29:01If you see Tom Seton, tell him Jack Ford
29:03would like a word, will you?
29:05I'd be glad to. Chance of a job for him, is there?
29:07I'm hoping so.
29:09He's a nice, quiet lad.
29:11Not afraid of a bit of work, by the look of him.
29:13Not like some around here.
29:15Says he's only human.
29:17Hey, look in again if you're pussing.
29:19I was glad I'm a bit crud.
29:21I will.
29:23If I'm pussing.
29:25Hey.
29:27You ought to take that knife off of him.
29:29Now what are you on about?
29:31Knife. It's a dangerous weapon.
29:33Still carry yours, do you?
29:35Penknife, that's all I got.
29:37Yeah, with a spike on the end of it for picking locks.
29:39Had a gorgeous kiss, didn't you?
29:41You should count yourself lucky
29:43if it had been me who had a card you're proper.
29:47Never guess who I saw the day?
29:49No.
29:51Mind you, that's no reason why you shouldn't.
29:53I mean, he hasn't emigrated to South Africa.
29:55What do you mean, no?
29:57I mean, no, I won't guess. I'm trying to read.
29:59Ah, you're always reading.
30:01Now what else to do?
30:03Don't say nowt. You're a professional man.
30:07It was Jack Ford.
30:09What was?
30:11That fella I saw the day.
30:13He stood me a drop of gin.
30:15He would.
30:17When he tries, he can make you believe you're 19.
30:19That was the gin.
30:21Billy Sitton, what a nasty thing to say.
30:23I am sorry, ma'am.
30:25I've got that much on me mind.
30:27But that's no excuse.
30:29And anyway, you always do look 19.
30:31Get out your soft suit.
30:33Well, what else did Jack say?
30:35He knows where our Tom is.
30:37Did he tell you?
30:39No, he couldn't. He'd give his word.
30:41But he said he'd ask him to come back.
30:43He's fond of our Tom,
30:45as much as he's fond of anybody.
30:47Don't you start scratching at Jack.
30:49I want Tom back, and Jack Ford's the best chance we've got.
30:51Anyway, what's got into you?
30:53You look as if you'd lost a tanner and found a ha'penny.
30:55No job.
30:57That's what's got into me.
30:59Well, you should have stayed in Edinburgh.
31:01Oh, maybe I should.
31:03Has it always gone back?
31:05No more chance.
31:07Dr. Lorimer says he'll see us.
31:09Lorimer?
31:11He's got a practice in Sea Road.
31:13Oh, it's nice there. When's he seeing you?
31:15Any time, he says. Any afternoon.
31:17Well, get yourself aware, then.
31:19What's the matter with you?
31:21Because he might turn us down, that's what's the matter.
31:23And he's the last chance I've got.
31:25You were in business in Russia?
31:27My father was. Jewellery and furs.
31:29Good business?
31:31He was a rich man, yes.
31:33I was asking, but did they...
31:35He lost everything.
31:37Jewels, furs, money.
31:39Terrible what happens in Russia.
31:41He lost more than money.
31:43My mother died when the famine came.
31:45He'd already lost me.
31:47You were a prisoner?
31:49I was a communist, Mr. Mendel.
31:51Don't worry.
31:53I'm not going to nationalize you.
31:55When we left the synagogue,
31:57you took me to a restaurant.
31:59Very nice.
32:01I thank you,
32:03but you did not take me to your house.
32:05Forgive me.
32:07I have a son.
32:09He does not go to the synagogue?
32:11He's a student. He gets ideas.
32:13Crazy ideas.
32:15About Palestine, Mr. Mendel?
32:19You're exceptionally well qualified, Dr. Seaton.
32:23And you went to an excellent university.
32:25I was there myself, as a matter of fact,
32:27though not quite so recently.
32:29You young fellows nowadays are learning stuff
32:31I would never have thought possible in your age.
32:33The war taught us a few new tricks.
32:35We'd better not forget them.
32:37That's one good thing it did them.
32:39I was in it myself,
32:41Dr. Captain, R.E.M.C.
32:43I think maybe it taught me
32:45a few tricks, too.
32:47You'd be too young for the war, I take it?
32:49Yes, Doctor.
32:51But if you hadn't been, would you have gone?
32:53You're thinking that's an irrelevant question
32:55to ask a young man
32:57about to establish himself in the practice of medicine.
32:59It's rather up to you to decide
33:01what's relevant, Doctor.
33:03That's a very intelligent answer, Dr. Seaton.
33:05But it doesn't tell me a damn thing.
33:07Oh, thank you, Margaret.
33:09Splendid.
33:13That'll be all.
33:15Is that all right, ma'am?
33:17Milk?
33:19Yes, please.
33:23Help yourself to sugar.
33:25Oh, try the plum cake.
33:27My cook's rather good at plum cake.
33:29Where are we?
33:31I mentioned the war.
33:33Oh, relevance.
33:37Would you have been a conscientious subject?
33:41If I'd known what I know now, yes.
33:43And what do you know now?
33:45That the war was fought for profit
33:47and for no other reason.
33:49Did they teach you that at Edinburgh, too?
33:51It wasn't on the curriculum,
33:53but it was known.
33:55I see.
33:57But if you'd qualified
33:59about to serve
34:01as a doctor in the R.A.M.C.,
34:03or a ship surgeon, shall we say,
34:05but you'd have been saving a life, not taking it,
34:07wouldn't you have gone then?
34:09Well, I think...
34:11Yes?
34:13That would be too easy an answer.
34:15Easy, young man?
34:17If you'd been there...
34:19Never mind. Go on.
34:21I can take a few knocks.
34:23The way I was brought up, I've had to.
34:25I'm not trying to show off, honestly,
34:27but I think I could have stood it.
34:29It's just, how could I patch men up
34:31to send them out to be shot again
34:33if I thought it was wrong?
34:35You'd have gone to prison instead.
34:37Yes, I think I would.
34:39I believe you.
34:41And I thank you for your honesty.
34:43If you'd been less than frank,
34:45I think I would have found out.
34:47It's one of the tricks the war taught me.
34:49It's like spotting a malingerer.
34:51Oh, come now, Doctor.
34:53I take it you're a socialist.
34:55I am.
34:59Well, the war changed me, you know.
35:01Before it, I had ambitions,
35:03a large of practice.
35:05Newcastle, maybe even London.
35:09Since then, all I want is the status quo.
35:11Modest comfort.
35:13That means a cook and a parlour maid,
35:15a car, too, of course,
35:17and two weeks fishing in Scotland
35:19and a trip to Paris every other year.
35:21And to get that,
35:23I need patients who can pay,
35:25and pay handsomely,
35:27and they're not so easy to come by in Galashield.
35:29I'm sorry, Doctor Seton.
35:31You're the best qualified young man
35:33I've seen in years,
35:35but I can't use you.
35:37You'd cost me my practice.
35:39In less than a year,
35:41I'd be as hard up as poor old Stoker.
35:43Stoker?
35:45Doctor Stoker, he practices in Wellesley Street.
35:49And what he practices is poverty,
35:51although he took no vows.
35:53I admire you, and I wish you well,
35:55but my comfort's important to me.
36:01It's good of you to see me.
36:03Not at all.
36:05I hope you enjoyed the plum cake.
36:07Thanks very much.
36:09Almost as good as me mother makes.
36:11I'll show you the way.
36:13Good afternoon.
36:19One engagement ring,
36:21because it was necessary.
36:23One watch to think about.
36:25One clock to be repaired.
36:27Saturday, my busy day.
36:31I love my son.
36:33I don't want you should see him.
36:35He goes to university?
36:37What does he study?
36:39He will be a doctor.
36:41We would not take him till he qualifies.
36:43Why take him at all?
36:45To make us a nation.
36:47My son is English.
36:49A nation like any other.
36:51I hope perhaps a little better than most.
36:53In Palestine?
36:55God give us Palestine.
36:57So did Lord Balfour.
37:01I thought communism may change
37:03the way men think of Jews.
37:05Marx himself was a Jew after all.
37:07But I was wrong.
37:09I saw things, Mr. Mendel.
37:11Terrible things done by my own sight.
37:13Terrible what happens in Russia.
37:15I thought that they would learn.
37:17That things would surely get better.
37:19But I was wrong.
37:21Nothing changed.
37:23Nothing will ever change
37:25until our land is our own.
37:27And so I left Russia.
37:29Not so easy to leave Russia.
37:31Almost impossible.
37:33But I killed.
37:35I stole.
37:37And I escaped.
37:39So you would go to the country God gave us
37:41with blood on your hands?
37:45He lives at Lavender Avenue.
37:47Your Sergeant Ford
37:49lives in Lavender Avenue.
37:53Tell him he's a hard one.
37:55Lavender Avenue, nice place to live.
37:57Very nice. But expensive for a sergeant.
37:59He has money, this sergeant.
38:01My father's money.
38:03You don't ask for it back?
38:05I'm going to get it back.
38:07I think I'd better come with you.
38:09Sully, listen to me.
38:11I wish you would, all the way.
38:13Well, of course.
38:15He needs Palestine, Sully.
38:17Do you?
38:19Yes.
38:21No future for boxers there, mister?
38:23There is a future for fighters.
38:25Ask us again when I won the Lonsdale belt.
38:29In Stepney I got
38:31seven men and sixty pounds.
38:33In Leeds,
38:35four men and seventeen pounds.
38:37Now, Yellow Shield,
38:39twelve pounds.
38:41No men at all.
38:43Only maybes.
38:45Wait till my son qualifies.
38:47Till I win more fights.
38:49Always Jerusalem was wait.
38:53All right.
38:55Let's go to Lavender Avenue.
38:57But first I must collect my suitcase
38:59and take it to the station.
39:01Mr. Kaganovich.
39:05I'm proud you came to my shop.
39:09I wish you well.
39:11Only please do not come again.
39:13Eh, Mr. Mendel?
39:15Don't worry.
39:17It's a long way from here to Israel.
39:19Shalom.
39:27I'm lofted.
39:31Job was there.
39:33Mine for the taking.
39:35I went and muffed it. I chucked it away.
39:39And you so clever.
39:41You wouldn't have said that
39:43if you'd been there.
39:45I wasn't there.
39:47What happened?
39:49I showed him all my references, diplomas, all of that.
39:51He said they were very good.
39:53So they are.
39:55Waste no mother.
39:57And he gave us tea.
39:59What was the title there?
40:01Yes, ma'am, it was
40:03Silver Teapot, Crown Derby, China.
40:05The house was nice as well. Beautiful garden.
40:07It all meant money.
40:09What's so wrong with making a bit of money?
40:11Were you targeting me as a crime?
40:13Not this time, Dad.
40:15I liked everything I saw.
40:19That's what you dream on.
40:21Well, then.
40:23He won't treat people who can't pay.
40:25Why? Should he?
40:27Why?
40:31Oh, no. I liked him, Dad.
40:33I really did.
40:35He treated us like a man
40:37and he was honest.
40:41Well, he asked us if I was a socialist and I said yes.
40:43So you're still looking.
40:47I doubt if there's anywhere else left to look.
40:49Are you trying to tell me
40:53that after five years
40:55and a thousand pound or more, you still can't get a job
40:57all on account of politics?
40:59That's right.
41:01You've got to change your politics.
41:03Have you?
41:05I've got a job. I can afford to please meself.
41:13Is that what you think, ma'am?
41:15You must just please yourself.
41:17Then you already have, haven't you?
41:19You've chucked up Edinburgh
41:21and come back here without ever bothering
41:23whether you were wanted or not.
41:27You're a great one for principles, Billy.
41:29Shedars money buys the groceries.
41:39So you're off, then, are you?
41:41Soon.
41:43Finished your business?
41:45Almost. I hope you find work.
41:47Goodbye.
41:49Ah, there you are, Seaton.
41:51His name is Jack Ford.
41:53Jack, but I told him Jack Ford?
41:55John?
41:59A man you do not know?
42:01I know him.
42:03He's a friend of yours?
42:05Ah, he is. Best friend a man could ask for.
42:07Hey, you're some Greenberg.
42:09Hey, that's right.
42:11Well, I saw you beat Billy Rouse, well, put it there.
42:13Well, it's our pleasure to meet you.
42:15Ah, well, I'd best be off.
42:17No.
42:19Do Mr. Greenberg and me a favor.
42:21Glad do.
42:23Mr. Greenberg and I want to visit a friend.
42:25It is to be a surprise.
42:27Only Mr. Seaton here wants to spoil it.
42:29I wonder if you would keep him here
42:31for five minutes after we've gone.
42:33That'd be a pleasure.
42:35I like a bit of company.
42:37Now, don't make a spell here, kiddo.
42:39That's the best advice you'll hear today.
42:41Now, let's have five minutes, Krug.
42:43Goodbye, Mr. Seaton.
42:45I'm sorry.
42:49Did I tell you that I saw Saul beat Billy Rouse?
42:51Well, it's the nicest right hook you ever saw,
42:53and the sixth it was.
42:55He broke the poor bugger's jaw.
42:57Did I tell you that I saw Saul beat Billy Rouse?
42:59Well, it's the nicest right hook you ever saw,
43:01and the sixth it was.
43:03He broke the poor bugger's jaw.
43:27He broke the poor bugger's jaw.
43:45I used to do a bit meself, you know.
43:47Well, mostly fares and that,
43:49but I won a ten-pound purse once.
43:51Then the war came along.
43:53Fettled everything the war did.
43:55Still, I think...
43:57It's seven minutes.
43:59What?
44:01It's seven minutes.
44:03He said I could go after five.
44:05Suit yourself.
44:07But if Saul votes you...
44:09Burmy.
44:11Right doolally.
44:19Excuse me a minute, Pett.
44:21Somebody I want a word with.
44:23What in the world do you want to talk to that pay for?
44:25Money. You stay put. I'll not be long.
44:43Mr. Kaganovich.
44:45I heard you were looking for me.
44:47Sergeant Ford,
44:49you have something that belongs to me.
44:51I would like it back.
44:53Use a knife to get it, would you?
44:55A knife? In England?
44:57No, Mr. Ford.
44:59I use only Mr. Greenberg here.
45:01I'd sooner chance the knife.
45:05About your property, Mr. Kaganovich.
45:09Your father gave it to me.
45:11You stole it from him?
45:13No, no. He bribed me with it to let him escape.
45:15He was shot.
45:17I talked to people. I know.
45:19Yeah, he was, but I didn't shoot him.
45:21I let him go, like I said.
45:23He wasn't up to it. He was too old.
45:25I was very sorry, but...
45:27I want what he gave you.
45:29Oh, well, you would, wouldn't you?
45:31All the same, it's mine.
45:33Now, just you hand it over.
45:35He's been through hell, my friend.
45:37He's entitled to what his father left him.
45:39In the revolution, were you?
45:41I was.
45:43I did not make so much money from it as you did.
45:45You thinking of settling down here on your father's money?
45:47I'm just going to Palestine.
45:49Not on this money, he's not.
45:51Now, look...
45:53Go easy, man. This is a new suit.
45:57Let's sit down and talk.
46:11Your father was arrested because of you.
46:13Did you know that?
46:15They found out you were a Red.
46:17I know. Please don't talk about it.
46:19I want what is mine.
46:21Do you know what it is?
46:2350,000 roubles.
46:25We will go to your house,
46:27and you will give it to me.
46:29I've got it here. I was going to give it to you anyway.
46:31Such foolish lies.
46:33No lies.
46:35Truth.
46:37There you are.
46:39Aren't you going to count it?
46:43This is Kerensky money.
46:45That's right.
46:47Like I said, I doubt if you'd get to Palestine on that.
46:49I doubt if you'd get to Gateshead.
46:51Kerensky money?
46:53Kerensky formed the government in 1917.
46:55They issued money for a while.
46:57It is worthless.
46:59That's right.
47:01I was taken for a mug, Mr. Kaganovich.
47:03Were you?
47:05Or are you taking me for one?
47:07It's your dad's money, all right.
47:09He signed it.
47:11He was real crafty.
47:13Look.
47:15This money was stolen from me
47:17by Sergeant Ford,
47:19an Englishman.
47:21Vladimir Leon Kaganovich.
47:25Took me in real properly, your dad did.
47:29You recognize the writing?
47:31It is my father's.
47:33Once I would have killed you.
47:35A few good men have tried.
47:37Maybe died for it.
47:41I must go.
47:43All right.
47:45It's a cunning step to Palestine.
47:47Hey, mister.
47:51I'd like to come with you.
47:53Honest.
47:55But I can't, man. I can't.
47:57I can't, man. I can't.
48:19Well, well, if it isn't the posse.
48:21Too late as usual.
48:23Jack, what on earth's going on?
48:25Bit cracked, lass.
48:27Never you mind.
48:29It's turn six.
48:35Let's go and have a drink.
48:37Just a quick one, though, Tom.
48:39And you'd better get off home to your mam.
48:41Think I need looking after, do you?
48:43No, bunny lad.
48:45I think she does.
48:56Dance to the daddy, sing to the money.
48:57Dance to the daddy, sing to the money.
48:59Dance to the daddy, see to das mommy.
49:09Tho shall have now a fishy.
49:11On a little fishy,
49:13Tho shall have now a fishy,
49:15When the boat comes in.
49:25Thou shalt have a fishy and a little fishy Thou shalt have a haddock when the boat comes
49:33in.
49:34Thou shalt have a fishy and a little fishy Thou shalt have a bloater when the boat comes
49:38in.
49:39Thou shalt have a fishy and a little fishy Thou shalt have a mackerel when the boat comes
49:44in.
49:45Thou shalt have a fishy and a little fishy Thou shalt have a salmon when the boat comes
49:51in.