The film centers around the experiences of the youngest family member, Gerald Durrell, a young naturalist with a passion for animals. As the family settles into their new home, Gerald’s love for animals leads to a series of delightful encounters and comedic misadventures. Meanwhile, his eldest brother, Larry, an overbearing intellectual, invites a stream of artistic types to stay, adding to the family’s eccentricities.
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00:00:00Oh
00:00:31Why do we put up with this bloody climate? I mean, look at us.
00:00:35Gerry can't speak. Leslie can't hear.
00:00:38What?
00:00:39Margaret's got a face like a plate of red porridge.
00:00:41Shut up.
00:00:42Mother's beginning to look like an Irish washerwoman.
00:00:44I am not.
00:00:45It's August. We need sunshine.
00:00:48Yes, dear.
00:00:49I've got a friend. Lives in Greece. Corfu. Says it's wonderful.
00:00:52Why don't we pack up and go?
00:00:54I can't just go like that. We have a house here.
00:00:56We'll sell up.
00:00:57Don't be ridiculous, Lawrence.
00:00:59Gerry needs an education.
00:01:01No, I'll be fine.
00:01:02We can't just up and leave. That would be madness.
00:01:19This is the story of the time I spent on Corfu.
00:01:22It was originally intended to be a mildly nostalgic account of the natural history of the island.
00:01:28But I made the grave mistake of introducing my family, who proceeded to take over.
00:01:34It was only with the greatest difficulty, and by exercising considerable cunning,
00:01:39that I managed to retain a small space exclusively for the animals.
00:01:54What is...
00:01:55Grubs.
00:01:57They're about to turn into beetles.
00:01:59You can tell by the way their skin's getting darker.
00:02:03Sheep.
00:02:04Roger. It's important to have a dog.
00:02:10I'm a writer.
00:02:11That one's very good. Challenges all sorts of perceived bourgeois crap.
00:02:27Good.
00:02:34This, no.
00:02:36It's bed linen.
00:02:37Mercedise. Tax.
00:02:40It's our bed linen. You silly man.
00:02:43Come away, Mother. Let's put off annoying people as long as possible.
00:02:57Is it a bank holiday?
00:03:15Not quite the gracious arrival I'd hoped for.
00:03:18Not quite the gracious arrival I'd hoped for.
00:03:23Come on, woman.
00:03:24Ow! Ow!
00:03:25Why don't you let me do something?
00:03:27Ow!
00:03:29Emma, go away!
00:03:31Emma, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
00:03:33Come on, Gerald! Now!
00:03:49Well, they all seem very nice.
00:03:51The manager wouldn't give me any lavatory paper.
00:03:53Not at the table.
00:03:54It didn't look properly.
00:03:56A good little box fell by the pan.
00:03:58Margot, dear.
00:03:59What?
00:04:00The box is for paper that's been used.
00:04:03Plumbing here can't take it.
00:04:07Oh!
00:04:09Oh!
00:04:11Oh!
00:04:13Oh!
00:04:15Oh!
00:04:16Oh!
00:04:18No! I used it!
00:04:20Yes, it is a bit insanitary.
00:04:22You remind me to look up typhoid in the foot-walking reception.
00:04:31Very emotional age.
00:04:33I want to send some disinfectant up to her room.
00:04:38Here they come.
00:04:40I'm sure I've got typhoid.
00:04:42I feel all... typhoid-y.
00:04:44Typhoid-y.
00:04:45I'm sorry, but you've shown us ten houses,
00:04:47but none of them has a bathroom.
00:04:49Oh, not again!
00:04:50Bathroom?
00:04:51What for do you want a bathroom?
00:04:53You have the sea!
00:04:57This is the cradle of civilisation.
00:04:59They must have bathrooms.
00:05:02We'll find a place ourselves.
00:05:07Taxi!
00:05:08Taxi!
00:05:12We don't actually speak Greek.
00:05:14We do turn to load.
00:05:22Can't you do something now?
00:05:24What? They're just being Greek.
00:05:31Shut up!
00:05:32Hello?
00:05:36You need someone to talk your language?
00:05:41Them's been warning yous.
00:05:43No, no.
00:05:44Hey!
00:06:00So, taxi?
00:06:02Where do you want to go?
00:06:09You know what?
00:06:10Iglis always wants bathrooms.
00:06:12I've got a bathroom in my house.
00:06:14Eight years I was in Chicago,
00:06:16and then I say,
00:06:17Spiro, yous made enough money,
00:06:19so I come back.
00:06:20I bring this car with me.
00:06:22Best car on the island.
00:06:24I tell you no word of a lie.
00:06:27Eyes on the road.
00:06:29All Iglis tourists, they ask for me
00:06:31when they come to the island.
00:06:33You know, if I wasn't Greek,
00:06:35yeah, I'd like to be Iglis.
00:06:45There.
00:06:46Villa with bathrooms.
00:06:49It was as though the villa had been standing there
00:06:51waiting for our arrival.
00:06:53We felt we'd come home.
00:06:55Well, take it.
00:07:01Jerry!
00:07:05When Spiro had taken charge,
00:07:07he stuck to us like a burr
00:07:09and told us to get out of the way.
00:07:11We'd been waiting for him for a long time.
00:07:13We'd been waiting for him for a long time.
00:07:15We'd been waiting for him for a long time.
00:07:17He stuck to us like a burr
00:07:19and became part of the family,
00:07:21like a great, brown, ugly angel.
00:07:23He watched over us, tenderly.
00:07:25Ah, there's the guy.
00:07:27Big guy.
00:07:30Oh, Mrs. Donalds.
00:07:31You have everything?
00:07:34INDISTINCT CHATTER
00:07:44What are these people's things?
00:07:46They are merchandise.
00:07:47Uh-uh. We come to take them.
00:07:49Come on, get them.
00:07:50Customs bastards, huh?
00:07:51I know them all.
00:07:52Hey, why you open it, you son of a bitch?
00:07:54It is my duty.
00:07:55Duty, huh?
00:07:56Treat innocent foreigners like smugglers, huh?
00:07:58That's your duty?
00:07:59Pfft.
00:08:00The bastards think they own the place.
00:08:03Come on.
00:08:05Come on.
00:08:11You look like him. You look like him.
00:08:16Jerry, don't pick your knee.
00:08:18Come on, he took on your pity.
00:08:20Will you run up to my bedroom and fetch my cigarettes?
00:08:22You should fetch them yourself.
00:08:24That's the problem with this family.
00:08:25No give or take, no consideration for others.
00:08:27You don't have much consideration for others.
00:08:29It's all your fault, Mother.
00:08:30You shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.
00:08:32We never did that, never did anything of the sort.
00:08:34Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance.
00:08:36Hey, you ought to be careful what you say.
00:08:39We don't want to hurt your mother.
00:08:40Why?
00:08:41She's never done anything for us.
00:08:43Don't joke.
00:08:44Don't even joke about it.
00:08:46He's quite right.
00:08:47She's really not much good as a mother, you know.
00:08:49Don't say that. Don't say that!
00:08:51Honest to gods, if I had a mother like you,
00:08:54I would kiss her feet every morning until I die.
00:09:03So we were installed in the villa,
00:09:05and we each settled down and adapted ourselves to our surroundings,
00:09:09in our respective ways.
00:09:16To explain some of our more curious practices,
00:09:19we went to the villa's kitchen.
00:09:21The kitchen is the place where we cook our meals,
00:09:24and the kitchen is the place where we eat our meals.
00:09:27The kitchen is the place where we eat our meals,
00:09:30To explain some of our more curious behavior,
00:09:33I feel that I should state that at the time we were in Corfu,
00:09:36the family were all quite young,
00:09:38apart from Mother, whose age we never knew
00:09:40for the simple reason that she could never remember her date of birth.
00:10:01Oh!
00:10:22Who parked that donkey there?
00:10:24Why don't you move it if it disturbs you, dear?
00:10:27Because future generations should not be deprived of my work
00:10:29because I was outside shooing away donkeys.
00:10:31Try this. Try this. Bloody hell. What is it?
00:10:34Melitzana horiatiki.
00:10:36Haven't the cornflakes arrived?
00:10:38Larry, darling, we've come away to try new things.
00:10:41I found a crab spider!
00:10:43And if you move it to a different coloured leaf,
00:10:45it changes colour if you wait long enough.
00:10:51Why's he wearing those boots in this heat?
00:10:53Snakes.
00:10:55And the jumper? So we don't lose him.
00:10:58Look, it's a large family. It could do with thinning out.
00:11:01For Christ's sake!
00:11:09Now, is Lesley going to do that all day?
00:11:13It's his hobby. We all need a hobby.
00:11:15He's not very good at anything else.
00:11:17Oh, yes, yes, we all need a hobby.
00:11:19Shut up!
00:11:22I'm not sure sunbathing like that is terribly wise.
00:11:25That costume doesn't cover an awful lot.
00:11:28Don't be so old-fashioned.
00:11:30You only die once.
00:11:33You know those black caterpillars I thought were caterpillars?
00:11:36They're not.
00:11:38They're ladybirds just hatched,
00:11:40but they look exactly like caterpillars.
00:11:42Yes!
00:11:44And the flies I was telling you about, the lacewing flies...
00:11:47Yes?
00:11:49..they lay their eggs inside flowers so that when...
00:11:51I'll tell you later.
00:11:56Where are you going?
00:11:58Exploring.
00:12:00Have fun. Does Mum know?
00:12:02I'm going exploring!
00:12:07In those early days of exploration,
00:12:09Roger was the perfect companion for adventure.
00:12:12Affectionate without exuberance,
00:12:14brave without being belligerent,
00:12:16intelligent and full of good humour
00:12:18tolerance for my eccentricities.
00:12:26HE GASPS
00:12:39Excuse me.
00:12:41Do you know how to spell beware and quiet?
00:12:48I'll have a guess.
00:12:55HE SNIFFS
00:13:05Oh, um...
00:13:10HE LAUGHS
00:13:14THEY LAUGH
00:13:18Ah, you're doing a good job. Well done.
00:13:21When you finish,
00:13:23I'll cook something for you to eat.
00:13:25You're very weak.
00:13:30Ah!
00:13:32THEY LAUGH
00:13:34And another one, please.
00:13:36Nice Greek!
00:13:38Well done!
00:13:40HE HUMS
00:13:42HE HUMS
00:14:09You're welcome.
00:14:12HE HUMS
00:14:37Not hatched yet, Roger.
00:14:42HE HUMS
00:15:12HE HUMS
00:15:43HE HUMS
00:16:09All right. But that's it.
00:16:11No more pets.
00:16:14How am I sports, Mother?
00:16:16Lovely, darling. You're very pretty.
00:16:18Mm, pretty vain.
00:16:20Mummy's boy. I am not, am I, Mum?
00:16:23It's Achilles' favourite.
00:16:25Oh!
00:16:31Gerry, you can take off your jumper.
00:16:37Oh!
00:16:39It looks like a badly cooked chicken.
00:16:41Oh, and one of Margot's admirers handed this in.
00:16:49That was there for a reason!
00:16:51Yes, well, anyway, your spelling is appalling.
00:16:53You need some sort of education. No! No, I don't!
00:16:55Yes, he must learn to dance,
00:16:57or he'll turn into one of those awful tongue-tied hobbledyhoes.
00:16:59He just needs a good grounding in literature.
00:17:01I recommend Rubberley.
00:17:03A little too old for Gerry, don't you think?
00:17:05It's important he gets sex in the right perspective.
00:17:07Yes, you drag it into everything.
00:17:09Healthy outdoor life, that's all he needs.
00:17:11Shooting and sailing.
00:17:13You're talking like a bloody bishop.
00:17:15You are so opinionated! Shut up.
00:17:17Children, stop it. We need someone who will teach Gerry,
00:17:19but also encourage his interest in wildlife.
00:17:21Why? It's just a phase.
00:17:23It's been going on since he was two.
00:17:25Why do you always talk about me as though I'm not here?
00:17:27My friend George is still out here.
00:17:29I suppose he could have a stab at teaching.
00:17:31Oh, that's a good idea. Mm-hm.
00:17:37Um...
00:17:45Can you repeat the question again?
00:17:52How long would it take six men to build a wall
00:17:56if three of them took a week?
00:18:01Um...
00:18:08Um...
00:18:19All right.
00:18:21If it took two slugs a week to eat eight leaves,
00:18:25how long would it take four slugs to eat the same number?
00:18:29What kind of slug?
00:18:31Any kind.
00:18:34He just doesn't seem very keen to learn.
00:18:37Of course he isn't, George. He's 12.
00:18:40And he is living in what amounts to, for him, a large sweet shop.
00:18:44Mother, is there any clean underwear?
00:18:47A little louder, Margot, dear.
00:18:49I'm not sure they've got that in Macedonia.
00:18:54You may want to close your mouth before an insect flies in.
00:18:59My, that's quite a blush. I could toast a bun on you.
00:19:02She's, um, terribly striking.
00:19:05Yes. I should probably have put her in the stout jumper rather than Gerald.
00:19:10Talking of whom, I think the answer is to play to his strengths, don't you?
00:19:14Well, I have had a go.
00:19:16You know, what are six cockatoos times seven cockatoos kind of thing?
00:19:2142 cockatoos.
00:19:24Um, yes.
00:19:26Yes.
00:19:30Well, anyway, um, let's, um, loosen the reins a little more, shall we?
00:19:34And bring him outdoors. It's not natural to be inside.
00:19:37You bastard!
00:19:45As you can see.
00:19:52Good. That's good.
00:19:54And, uh, let's not forget the history.
00:19:57Name Hannibal's elephants as he crossed the Alps.
00:20:00Bardi. Good.
00:20:02Jesper.
00:20:04Amatou.
00:20:06Ceres.
00:20:08Domito.
00:20:10Sextus.
00:20:12Titus.
00:20:14The rose beetle man.
00:20:20And lessons are over for today.
00:20:23Apparently.
00:20:25The rose beetle man turned up fairly regularly,
00:20:28with some new addition to my menagerie.
00:20:30A frog, perhaps.
00:20:32Or a white pigeon with a broken leg.
00:20:42Richty?
00:20:45Huh.
00:20:50Deleterious.
00:20:55Shut up.
00:21:01A young man I knew.
00:21:04A shepherd, like me.
00:21:08He was sleeping under a tree.
00:21:10A Scottish shepherd.
00:21:13A scorpion.
00:21:15It got into his ear.
00:21:17It pinched him.
00:21:20He asked for help.
00:21:22A shepherd.
00:21:24We found him.
00:21:26With a huge head.
00:21:28Wounded.
00:21:30He said he was pregnant.
00:21:34Dead.
00:21:43Oh.
00:21:52This is the exciting part.
00:21:54Comforted by a reluctant pupil,
00:21:56George strove to make my lessons as entertaining as possible.
00:22:00So, the French and British fleets were slowly drawing together
00:22:04for what was to be the decisive sea battle of the war.
00:22:07Seastars!
00:22:10I saw these in a book.
00:22:13Right, when the enemy was sighted, Nelson...
00:22:20Right.
00:22:22Nelson was on the bridge,
00:22:24birdwatching through his telescope.
00:22:32Having been warned of the enemy's approach by a friendly gull...
00:22:36Don't ask me what kind of gull.
00:22:40Oh, Theo!
00:22:42Come on.
00:22:44He's an eccentric nature lover, like you,
00:22:46and an expert on practically everything.
00:22:49Gerald Darrell, Dr Theodore Stefanidi.
00:22:52Very pleased to meet you.
00:22:54Oh, and you.
00:22:56Interesting.
00:23:00Green seas was all my joy.
00:23:05Green seas was my delight.
00:23:07That really is the last pet he's getting.
00:23:10Green seas was my heart of gold.
00:23:15And who but my lady Green Seas.
00:23:26That was haunting.
00:23:30I love it here.
00:23:32I want to be buried on Corfu.
00:23:34Can't you wait until tomorrow? It's turned a bit chilly out.
00:23:37Under the biggest cypress tree in the garden.
00:23:40You said up behind Yanni, the shepherd's house.
00:23:42Yes, I've been thinking that might be a bit inaccessible.
00:23:45I don't want the mourners dropping like flyers halfway up the hill.
00:23:50As for the...
00:23:52Are you all right?
00:23:54No.
00:23:56It's Missy Margo.
00:23:58What about her?
00:24:00She...
00:24:05She has a Turkish boyfriend.
00:24:09What's wrong with that?
00:24:11Apart from George being about to make his move.
00:24:13What's wrong?
00:24:15It's Missy Margo with a bastard son of a bitch Turk.
00:24:18Swimming together.
00:24:20Is she pregnant?
00:24:23Excuse me.
00:24:24I'm sure it will be fine.
00:24:26Can you invite him to tea?
00:24:28Tea?
00:24:30Sarah, I have a gift for you from Dr Theo.
00:24:34Who's he, dear?
00:24:36He's a friend of George's.
00:24:38He knows everything.
00:25:01The only person I had met until now
00:25:04who seemed to share my enthusiasm for zoology was Theo.
00:25:08I was extremely flattered
00:25:10that a scientist of considerable repute,
00:25:13and I could have told this by his beard,
00:25:16talked to me as though I was as knowledgeable as he.
00:25:19This is a spider, Cyclops viridis,
00:25:23that I caught out near Govino the other day.
00:25:28One eye in the middle of its head!
00:25:30It's incredible, isn't it?
00:25:32Hence, Cyclops.
00:25:34Wait.
00:25:36I've got a marvellous book about Greek mythology somewhere.
00:25:43I bought some insects.
00:25:47I wondered if you knew what they are.
00:25:50I don't know what they are.
00:25:53I wondered if you knew what they are.
00:25:59Geri, I think we are going to get on rather well.
00:26:05Oh, now, that is...
00:26:07Phew!
00:26:09The whole family. This is very hard to catch.
00:26:17So, now...
00:26:20Pregnant.
00:26:22I've been meaning to have a talk about this
00:26:25because it's an important subject and very...
00:26:28..beautiful and...
00:26:31..quite...
00:26:33..confusing.
00:26:35And even...
00:26:38..shocking.
00:26:40What? I know all about it.
00:26:42I'm always seeing animals mating and giving birth.
00:26:45Well, it did strike me as strange.
00:26:47It's like a bloody maternity ward out there.
00:26:49I thought you must know what goes on.
00:26:51Yes, I do. Excellent. Can I go now?
00:26:53No, because we humans are different from animals.
00:26:57We...
00:27:01..er, well, perhaps...
00:27:03..we think too much.
00:27:05And, um...
00:27:07..and you'll find that sometimes life, and your life too,
00:27:11will be painful.
00:27:13Especially when it comes...
00:27:18..to love.
00:27:20Well, look at poor George.
00:27:22He's so upset about Margot, he's gone back to England.
00:27:25Why didn't he look for someone else here?
00:27:29Well, because he feels...
00:27:31..hopeless and lonely,
00:27:34and he needs his family to cheer him up.
00:27:36There's a man looking all smart coming up the path.
00:27:39Oh, God! He's here already!
00:27:43Everyone! He's here!
00:27:45He's here!
00:27:47Margot's told us so much about you.
00:27:50Margot's told us so much about you.
00:27:54HE CHUCKLES
00:28:19We love Margot.
00:28:21Do have a scone.
00:28:34You write, I believe?
00:28:36Yes, I, er...
00:28:38I always feel I could write superbly if I tried.
00:28:40Really?
00:28:42Well, it's a gift, isn't it?
00:28:44He swims very well.
00:28:46He goes out terribly far.
00:28:48Perhaps he'd like to demonstrate.
00:28:52I'm a superb swimmer.
00:28:54I know no fear.
00:28:56When I ride the horse,
00:28:58I have no fear because I ride superbly.
00:29:01I can sail a boat in a typhoon without fear.
00:29:06You see?
00:29:08I am not a fearful man.
00:29:10I wish you wouldn't wear so much perfume.
00:29:13DOG BARKS
00:29:18It's Achilles.
00:29:20He's fallen down a well.
00:29:22I think he's dead.
00:29:24Oh.
00:29:28Oh.
00:29:33He's a tortoise.
00:29:36Oh.
00:29:50DOG BARKS
00:30:10GUNSHOT
00:30:21FOOTSTEPS
00:30:30Calispera.
00:30:32What are they?
00:30:34Rose beetles.
00:30:36They're beautiful.
00:30:38Sometimes I can see why you prefer creatures to people.
00:30:41Why are you so interested in them?
00:30:44They're just like us, aren't they?
00:30:46Families.
00:30:48You know what?
00:30:50Imagine if they weren't there.
00:30:52Does he have to put them in strings?
00:30:54Better than in a box.
00:30:56Let's buy them all.
00:31:02For days, the villa was full of rose beetles,
00:31:05falling like emeralds into our laps.
00:31:0822 is actually good.
00:31:15I've invited one or two people out for a week or so.
00:31:18Oh, that'll be nice. Yeah.
00:31:20They have some intelligent and stimulating company.
00:31:23I hope they're not too highbrow.
00:31:25Of course they're not.
00:31:27They are charming, like me.
00:31:29MAN SHOUTS
00:31:31MAN SHOUTS
00:31:46Little English Lord!
00:31:48Why do they think we English are all lords and ladies?
00:31:51Cos we act like it.
00:31:53You'd better tell the pension Swiss your friends are coming.
00:31:55No, I've invited them to stay with us.
00:31:57How can they possibly stay with us?
00:31:59Margot and Les sleep on the balcony.
00:32:01What? That gives you two rooms.
00:32:03You'll have to write and put them off.
00:32:05I can't. They're on their way.
00:32:07Oh, really? You are so thoughtless.
00:32:09Now, where are they going to sleep?
00:32:12We'll move into a bigger villa.
00:32:14I can't afford it. Are you simple?
00:32:16It's important to live beyond your means,
00:32:18or banks don't respect you.
00:32:20How many people have you really invited?
00:32:22Eight.
00:32:24To 12.
00:32:27Well, we are not moving to another villa.
00:32:43Mother went about settling us in again.
00:32:47Our neat little house in Bournemouth seemed several lifetimes away.
00:32:56Watch out! Watch out!
00:33:09Ah, Mrs. Dallas. This is Lugaretzia.
00:33:11She, uh, she comes with the house.
00:33:13Good morning, Spyridon.
00:33:15Welcome, my lady.
00:33:17Spyridon, tell the lady I want to serve her.
00:33:19I've worked here all my life. I want a job.
00:33:22But I'm a sick woman, Spyridon.
00:33:24Spyridon, tell the saint I'm sick.
00:33:27My head, my arms, my stomach.
00:33:30What don't I have? My stomach.
00:33:33Everything hurts, my lady.
00:33:35My arms, my legs, my head.
00:33:40Oh, my lady.
00:33:44My lady.
00:33:48She has a bad stomach.
00:33:54Now, I want you to stop this.
00:33:56You're just boring.
00:33:58This is pretty old house.
00:34:00No more friends.
00:34:02Very old.
00:34:19I'm going to kill her.
00:34:21Put her out of misery.
00:34:23She's a poor woman. She's obviously suffering.
00:34:25What's the matter with her?
00:34:27Digestion. She gets these nasty little...
00:34:29Oh, don't tell us.
00:34:31Her feet now, apparently. Don't say anything.
00:34:33There's no one else available.
00:34:35Ooh, yummy, yummy.
00:34:39I told you it was a good idea to move.
00:34:44Furniture could be a little more sturdy, perhaps.
00:34:53Oh.
00:35:12Did I ever tell you about the last opera we had in Corfu?
00:35:16Uh, no.
00:35:18Oh.
00:35:21Yes, it was one of those traveling opera companies
00:35:23performing Tosca
00:35:25with a leading lady who was very, uh, well-developed.
00:35:29Now, in the final act, as you probably know,
00:35:31she throws herself to her death
00:35:33from the battlements of a castle.
00:35:35Well, on the first night,
00:35:37it seems the stagehands had forgotten
00:35:39to put anything for her to land on,
00:35:41so she fell with a huge crash
00:35:43and then proceeded groaning quite loudly
00:35:46while her lover was singing
00:35:48about how sad he was that she was dead.
00:35:51Oh.
00:35:53Um, shall we help him back on?
00:35:55No, I think that might put him off.
00:35:57The lady was very, very upset, uh, understandably,
00:36:01so the next night, the stagehands made sure
00:36:04that they put a huge pile of mattresses for her to land on,
00:36:08but her landing was now so soft and springy
00:36:12that while the whole cast was singing away
00:36:15about her tragic death,
00:36:17she, the lady in question, reappeared
00:36:20two or three times above the battlements.
00:36:23Do you make these up?
00:36:25No. Nothing ever goes according to plan in Cofo.
00:36:31Larry's friends.
00:36:33I think Mother's a bit worried about them.
00:36:35Why?
00:36:37Not bad, eh? Bleeding enormous.
00:36:47No.
00:36:52No, just a little bit quicker with that.
00:36:59When is lunch?
00:37:12Look, a tortoise.
00:37:14I watched it hatching.
00:37:16Oh, another tortoise. Splendid.
00:37:18Please go and find Larry. His friends are driving me mad.
00:37:25Larry!
00:37:32After weeks of searching,
00:37:34I found the perfect tree.
00:37:36It was covered in exquisite blossom.
00:37:39I started to paint...
00:37:43..a masterpiece.
00:37:45And when I returned the next day,
00:37:48I found all the blossom had fallen to the ground.
00:37:52That's the wind for you.
00:37:54I swore I'd never paint again.
00:37:56But slowly, I'm recovering my nerves
00:38:00and...and sometime...
00:38:04..I will start to paint again.
00:38:11Larry!
00:38:15Way to go, kid. I'm working.
00:38:23Home.
00:38:25Home.
00:38:27Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised,
00:38:31his friends turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics.
00:38:35It was like observing a whole new species.
00:38:46MUSIC PLAYS
00:39:10Larry's too busy mating with Nancy!
00:39:16Of course there's going to be a war.
00:39:18That's what dictators do when they're bored
00:39:20with oppressing their own people.
00:39:22Is Hitler a dictator? I thought he was a painter,
00:39:25so it can't be all bad.
00:39:27Painter and decorator.
00:39:29Europe is like a big fat marrow lying in the sun,
00:39:32panting to explode.
00:39:34Do you bloody poets not make sense on purpose?
00:39:36I mean, what was that?
00:39:38At least the Italian fascists are spending all their money on nice uniforms.
00:39:41Germany's become one great bomb-making country.
00:39:43No, that's just to give everybody something to do.
00:39:45It's all about business.
00:39:47You know nothing. You're Humpty Dumpty.
00:39:49Ah, Humpty Dumpty. Now, thank you at last.
00:39:51Real poetry. Simple, free of clichés.
00:39:54You could learn from it.
00:39:56Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.
00:39:59Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
00:40:01Now, I mean, that could clearly be about Hitler.
00:40:03Humpty is Hitler. I don't think that's right.
00:40:06I think the more accurate analogy there might be some...
00:40:09Hickory dickory dock.
00:40:12Come on, Larry.
00:40:14It's not like you not to have an opinion.
00:40:16No, it's not.
00:40:18We're cut off from the world here.
00:40:20I suppose we've grown rather fond of our glorious specialization.
00:40:24Actually, Larry thinks the world's cut off from him
00:40:27rather than the other way round.
00:40:29Well, I do now you mention it. Yes, yes, I do.
00:40:31Fine. But you may wake up and find there's no England to go back to.
00:40:35I'm sure common sense will prevail.
00:40:38Why? It never does in this family.
00:40:41You'll find that Hickory dickory dock is the mouse that's going up the clock.
00:40:45That's us being...
00:40:47Mouse being England.
00:40:49Could you just spit it out?
00:40:51It used to be the great empire.
00:40:53Lion is now reduced to a little mouse.
00:40:55Tricking its way up the top.
00:40:57And that's us being chased.
00:41:01Oh, God! It's her asthma!
00:41:03She's allergic to cats!
00:41:05That's the only animal we have.
00:41:08I'll open the windows.
00:41:10Please don't open the windows. I'm allergic to fresh air.
00:41:16Could it be bats? I think we've got some of those.
00:41:19How could she be allergic to bats?
00:41:21Just breathe. God!
00:41:23Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!
00:41:25Just breathe.
00:41:27Breathe!
00:41:36You're starting to look like a wild animal.
00:41:39Thanks.
00:41:41Have you got stuff to bat?
00:41:43No.
00:41:45It's harder than it looks.
00:41:47If this works, I'm going to do Larry.
00:41:50Isn't it enough just to look at them in the wild?
00:41:53I like having them around me.
00:41:55Making noises.
00:41:57Smelling.
00:41:59You're right. It's just like a family.
00:42:03Did you hear the others talking about what's happening in Germany?
00:42:08Yes.
00:42:14It seems so safe here.
00:42:25No.
00:42:47No!
00:42:50No!
00:42:52No!
00:42:56Oh, boy.
00:43:08What's he doing?
00:43:10The usual.
00:43:12He was doing it at 2am this morning with a torch.
00:43:15He says the day shift is totally unlike the night shift.
00:43:18Just to warn you, the wild and the woolly are stirring indoors,
00:43:21and I don't mean Jerry's animals.
00:43:24Larry, you might encourage your friend, Mr Miller,
00:43:26to experiment with pyjamas.
00:43:28Henry sees clothes as the last refuge of the bourgeoisie.
00:43:36Watch this. Three, two...
00:43:44Good.
00:43:46This is just as well your father didn't leave to see how you all turned out.
00:43:50How extraordinarily insensitive of you.
00:43:52I think you nagged him to death.
00:43:54We're actually rather well-adjusted.
00:43:58Well, I am.
00:44:00Oh, I think I may have over-celebrated the god of wine last night.
00:44:05Um...
00:44:07Larry?
00:44:09Don't move.
00:44:12Bloody hell!
00:44:14Bloody hell!
00:44:18Do something!
00:44:20Every matchbox in this house is a death trap.
00:44:23They're coming! Quick, do something!
00:44:25What if those scorpions get on the table?
00:44:27No!
00:44:29Did them do anything, Margaret?
00:44:31Put the chair down.
00:44:33No!
00:44:35No!
00:44:37No!
00:44:39No!
00:44:43Hit them with a burning...
00:44:45Your warnings won't hurt you unless you're clumsy with them.
00:44:48They kill people, you idiot.
00:44:50They sting you, it's excruciating, and then you die.
00:44:53What on earth is going on?
00:44:55Oh, my God, the scorpions!
00:44:57The scorpions!
00:44:59Retreat slowly.
00:45:01I've got a nosebleed.
00:45:03If it wasn't I've got a nosebleed.
00:45:05I'm the genius. Jerry!
00:45:07No! No!
00:45:09He's out of control. He's driven my friends away.
00:45:11I know, that's such a shame.
00:45:15But what should I do?
00:45:17Post him back to England in a big package with his head sticking out at one end?
00:45:20Don't be ridiculous.
00:45:22Don't tell me what to be.
00:45:24You're my child, not my husband.
00:45:26You are not driving this slightly ramshackle vehicle.
00:45:29You're in the back, being driven.
00:45:31Eating chocolates.
00:45:33Well, I think it's about to crash.
00:45:36Well, we'll see, shall we?
00:45:51Gerald?
00:45:53This is Peter.
00:45:55Hello, Gerald.
00:45:57Hello.
00:46:00All right, thank you, Mrs Durrell.
00:46:02I'm sure Gerald and I will be just fine.
00:46:23Right.
00:46:25Good.
00:46:28Let me tell you something about me.
00:46:30I believe in the building blocks of education.
00:46:32There are no shortcuts.
00:46:34It's all learning and hard work.
00:46:37Let's start with some basic mathematics.
00:46:48Page one, number one.
00:47:05When you've done that, move on to page 83.
00:47:08Work through those.
00:47:17Hello, I'm Margot.
00:47:23What a pleasant surprise.
00:47:29I'd offer to teach you, too.
00:47:31Only you look like you know everything already.
00:47:35Can I have a biscuit?
00:47:37No.
00:47:38Do call out if you need anything.
00:47:40I might just do that.
00:48:02I see.
00:48:08She loves being in the garden.
00:48:10Does she?
00:48:12Mm.
00:48:13Chatting.
00:48:16Shall I write a story?
00:48:20A long story.
00:48:27Good idea.
00:48:32Larry wrestled with a jaguar, the animal's incisors.
00:48:37Inches from the tall, fleshy man's soft, girlish skin.
00:48:43Larry glanced over to desperately see his brother, Gerald,
00:48:47having rather more success tackling the massive boa constrictor
00:48:51wrapped round his mother's waist like a rope of iron.
00:48:55He tore at the creature with a knife, careful not to hurt it.
00:48:59Gerald finally sent the constrictor packing,
00:49:01then turned to his older brother,
00:49:03who was whimpering with fear, cornered by the jaguar.
00:49:06Gerry, your stuffed bat smells even worse than everything else.
00:49:10If that were possible, please get rid of it.
00:49:13Where's Peter?
00:49:15He sent me some work. I'm working very hard.
00:49:18I think he might be somewhere with Margot.
00:49:30You can see that this essentially lonely soil gives way...
00:49:36..gives way further up the scarp to a more clay stratum,
00:49:40the characteristic corfiot alluvium.
00:49:43Mmm! Mmm!
00:49:49There are publications on the subject, if you're interested.
00:49:52Baldwin's Dictionary of Soil gives all types from A to Z,
00:49:57and all letters in between.
00:50:02Oh, no!
00:50:06Let's go!
00:50:13Never let me win!
00:50:20Does this remind you of Pom?
00:50:22Not really, Les, no.
00:50:27You should buy a costume and come in, love.
00:50:30Oh, no, not at my age.
00:50:32We get all the fun we need from sitting down with a ball of knobbly wool.
00:50:36Aw, give me a win!
00:50:53When's Margot coming back?
00:50:55Don't know. Mother took her shopping.
00:50:58How do you spell scimitar?
00:51:04You expect me to read that drivel when you've finished it?
00:51:18All right, stop scribbling.
00:51:20By tomorrow, I want you to have written out all your tables eight times.
00:51:26Well, Tom Mummy and Big Bro, you won't work.
00:51:29Have you packed after that boarding school in Surrey?
00:51:31They've no doubt got lined up for you.
00:51:37Where's your annoying friend?
00:51:39Gone.
00:51:41You're not still writing that novel?
00:51:43No. It's a birthday list.
00:51:45Thank God. Two obsessive writers in the family, that's all we need.
00:51:49What do you want, then?
00:51:52I've done a list for each person.
00:51:55And here's yours.
00:51:59A boat!
00:52:01I'm not allowed to use the sea cow. You could make me one.
00:52:04Do you know how much time that would take?
00:52:06You know so much about boats.
00:52:08Oh. All right.
00:52:10I've decided that you should have a birthday party, Gerry.
00:52:13Small but distinguished gathering. Ten people you'll like best.
00:52:16Thank you, Larry.
00:52:18Thank you, Larry.
00:52:20Pleasure. I'll get Mother to arrange it.
00:52:33Not only I, but each family member invited ten people to the party.
00:52:38Unfortunately, we didn't all invite the same ten.
00:52:41The result was that Mother, on the eve of the party,
00:52:44suddenly discovered we were going to have not ten guests, but 50.
00:52:51Larry suggested the puppies be called Whittle and Puke,
00:52:54and the name stuck.
00:53:15Oh, nice!
00:53:19When we got married, I asked my wife,
00:53:21how many children do you want?
00:53:23She says, two. So I gives her two.
00:53:26Then I gets her sewed up.
00:53:31Thirteen years old, huh?
00:53:33Who would believe it?
00:53:36Oh!
00:53:42Right!
00:53:56Goodbye!
00:54:05Yeah!
00:54:24Come on! Come on!
00:54:26Ha-ha!
00:54:56Come on!
00:55:26Come on!
00:55:37Can we get this over with?
00:55:47He doesn't like it.
00:55:49I do! I love it!
00:55:51Get it into the water so we can go back to bed.
00:55:54We need a name before we can launch it.
00:55:56Johnny Roger. Can I go now?
00:55:58No! Something more interesting.
00:56:00Arbuckle?
00:56:03Whittle?
00:56:05The Bum Trinket.
00:56:07Don't be rude, Larry.
00:56:15I name this boat the Whittle Bum Trinket.
00:56:24Ha-ha!
00:56:31I told you the mast was too big.
00:56:36He'll have to go, of course.
00:56:38Yeah.
00:56:40Who? Where?
00:56:42Peter. He and Margo are obviously...
00:56:45becoming too fond of each other.
00:56:48Look, I hardly want him as a relative.
00:56:50You can't blame him for wanting to...
00:56:52Yes, I don't want to hear your current word for it, thank you.
00:56:59I think it's too short now.
00:57:01PANTING
00:57:21Ah...
00:57:25Ah...
00:57:27It's just so unfair.
00:57:30It's so unfair.
00:57:31I love him.
00:57:33You love him, I know.
00:57:34Love, it's lovely.
00:57:36But terrible.
00:57:38There's no other work for Peter here on the island.
00:57:41I have to go back to Athens.
00:57:44I'll shoot him if he tries to come back.
00:57:46A little bit, actually, perhaps.
00:57:48You've got to be firm under these circumstances.
00:57:50Family honour is at stake.
00:57:57I'll put the word out.
00:57:58They'll stop him at the docks if he tries to get back in.
00:58:01I have nothing more to say to you.
00:58:03I'm going out.
00:58:09I hate you.
00:58:10You've destroyed my life.
00:58:12Margot, darling, I would love you to find someone,
00:58:15but I fear Peter was not the one.
00:58:17What do you know?
00:58:18I know how to protect my family.
00:58:20You do not.
00:58:21Yes, I do.
00:58:23I'm staying in my bedroom.
00:58:25I don't want to see anyone.
00:58:34Somebody's been pinching things from the sea cow.
00:58:36Not Aunt Corfu. Who?
00:58:38A fisherman, presumably.
00:58:41I'm worried about Margot.
00:58:44She's been in her room for nearly a week.
00:58:46She's never refused food before.
00:58:48I saw Gerry with a tray.
00:58:50Well, yes, she takes it from him.
00:58:54Perhaps Peter wouldn't have been so bad.
00:58:56He was appalling.
00:58:57Yes, he was, wasn't he?
00:58:59He's threatened to come back and snatch Margot away.
00:59:02Apparently.
00:59:07Aw.
00:59:09How romantic.
00:59:24What's happening?
00:59:25Margot's done something silly.
00:59:27Where is she?
00:59:29Margot.
00:59:32Oh, thank God.
00:59:33I thought you'd done something terrible to yourself.
00:59:35Someone's shot Peter.
00:59:37Everyone shut up and let me know what's happening.
00:59:40It's all right.
00:59:41Maggie.
00:59:42Leave him alone, you coward.
00:59:44She can't.
00:59:45It's bad.
00:59:46It's bad.
00:59:47Get the bloody dogs out of here.
00:59:49Everyone shut up.
00:59:51Everyone shut up.
00:59:53I need to check Peter's all right.
00:59:55What? I wasn't shooting at him.
00:59:57It was my verbal warning device.
00:59:59It was my verbal warning device.
01:00:21Did you expect nobody would hear?
01:00:23I'm protecting the family's assets from those fishermen.
01:00:27In case they were out there.
01:00:29I don't even have to get out of bed, you see.
01:00:34Look, shall I demonstrate?
01:00:35No!
01:00:36No, you madman!
01:00:39They're too far away to get badly hurt.
01:00:41Animals and explosions all day.
01:00:43Bloody great 12-gun salutes in the middle of the night.
01:00:46There's eccentricity and then there's stupidity!
01:00:58Ah!
01:01:14Do you have to kill quite so many?
01:01:17You said I was allowed to hunt.
01:01:19Poor innocent creatures.
01:01:21It's the hunting season.
01:01:23They expect to be shot.
01:01:26How is she?
01:01:28Still sad.
01:01:29Reading poetry.
01:01:30Who?
01:01:31Um, Tennyson.
01:01:33How are we going to jolt her out of this?
01:01:35Don't expect me to help. I believe in free love.
01:01:37No, you don't, you silly boy.
01:01:39Why doesn't she stop moping around, disguise herself as a peasant and fly into Peter's arms?
01:01:46Thank you, Ligretta. It's horrible. I'm so sorry that Roger bit you.
01:01:50I had no idea wild boar were so big.
01:01:53Do be careful.
01:01:54It's perfectly safe, unless they charge.
01:01:57You can always vault over it.
01:01:59Vault over a charging boar?
01:02:02Why not?
01:02:03Well, do come with me today to the marshes and demonstrate.
01:02:06I don't profess to be a hairy-chested man of action, Liz.
01:02:08I've supplied the idea that it's your job to carry them out.
01:02:10You always think the things other people do are simple.
01:02:13They are.
01:02:14He's right, Clary. You never seem to put your suggestions into practice.
01:02:17Yes, are you ever going to actually do anything?
01:02:20Fine.
01:02:23My honour's at stake.
01:02:25Prepare me a gun.
01:02:28I'm going down to the beach.
01:02:30Don't follow me.
01:02:44I didn't think it was going to be this...dank.
01:02:47So, trickiest of all is what's called the right and left,
01:02:50where you make two kills in quick succession,
01:02:52first with the right, then the left barrel.
01:02:55Sounds easy enough.
01:03:01You might want to load it.
01:03:03I know.
01:03:21Oh!
01:03:26Hold the gun above your head, and don't stand up or you'll sink.
01:03:29Stay how you are.
01:03:33You've choked the bloody barrels!
01:03:35Would you rather I was sucked under?
01:03:37Yes!
01:03:41For God's sake, get me out of here!
01:03:42Hold the gun out for me.
01:03:43Forget the gun! Save me!
01:03:44I can't reach you unless you give me the end of the gun!
01:03:47Go!
01:03:51Work it! Work it! Work it!
01:04:00I'm going down!
01:04:01I'm going under! I'm going under!
01:04:03It's silly! It's silly all over again!
01:04:08Take it!
01:04:12Come on!
01:04:21Oh!
01:04:28All right?
01:04:30Oh, yes. Having a wonderful time.
01:04:33Good. And on with the hunting.
01:04:51I don't know what I'll do, Lugaretsia, if Germany...
01:05:01I want to gather all your children,
01:05:07gather them up and show them to you.
01:05:10I don't know what I'll do, Lugaretsia, if Germany...
01:05:14I don't know what I'll do, Lugaretsia, if Germany...
01:05:18Gather them up and shout at everyone else to keep away.
01:05:25Makes you very selfish.
01:05:39How did that go?
01:05:41Oh, I should ask Larry.
01:05:48Don't say a word.
01:05:55Was that fun?
01:05:57You seem to be missing a shoe.
01:05:59Did you fall in a bog?
01:06:07It's rather windy out there.
01:06:12I'll be back.
01:06:17I'll be back.
01:06:33Margot, dear, I sometimes wonder if you're quite right.
01:06:36Oh, leave me alone.
01:06:40Are you back with us now?
01:06:43Do I look windswept and interesting at all?
01:06:47No, dear.
01:06:53Larry's really hitting the brandy.
01:06:55Well, he's in shock, the poor boy.
01:07:04No, not the singing.
01:07:13Larry?
01:07:18Now, come on.
01:07:20Stop being a fool and drink this down at once.
01:07:23You're a horrible old woman and I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before.
01:07:27Yes, well, I put that down to the drink.
01:07:37Not that you're so different when you're drunk.
01:07:40Not that you're so different when you're sober.
01:08:05Fire!
01:08:07Fire! Fire!
01:08:09Fire! Fire! Fire!
01:08:11Wake up! The house is on fire!
01:08:17What's going on?
01:08:19It's not me this time.
01:08:21Larry's on fire!
01:08:26Larry!
01:08:28Larry! For heaven's sake, wake up!
01:08:31Wake up!
01:08:33The room's on fire!
01:08:35You all put it out. I've got a bit of a headache.
01:08:39Pour something on it!
01:08:43Brandy, you fool!
01:08:45Please, use it. I've had enough.
01:08:48Why did you do that?
01:08:50You're trying to freeze me to death.
01:08:52Oh, shut up!
01:08:57Oh, this is nice. Look, organdy with puffed sleeves.
01:09:03Henry's written a filthy book.
01:09:05Oh, now that is...
01:09:07Look at that. Telescopic sight, bolt action.
01:09:11Great Aunt Hermione wonders how you all are.
01:09:14Mother? I'm buying a chimpanzee.
01:09:17No, you're not.
01:09:19She claims doctors don't hold out much hope for her.
01:09:21Have they ever?
01:09:23She says she was doubtful about us rushing off to Corfu,
01:09:25but after the winter they've had, she thinks it wasn't so stupid after all.
01:09:27A chipmunk, then? No.
01:09:30Oh, Lord. What?
01:09:32Oh, no.
01:09:34The doctors have advised a warm climate.
01:09:37She's coming to stay.
01:09:39No! It's grim enough being shown Lugaretsi's latest suppurating wound,
01:09:42with, I think, a great-aunt here dying all over the place.
01:09:45Write and tell her. There's no room.
01:09:47I can't. I told her the last letter. What a big villa we have.
01:09:50I've got it. I've got it.
01:09:52I'll write to her and tell her that you've died.
01:09:54Larry!
01:09:56Fine. We'll move to a smaller villa,
01:09:59which will also force Jungle Boy here to get rid of some of his bloody animals.
01:10:02They're less trouble than your silly friends. Oh, yes.
01:10:05Anyway, you're an animal, too. Let's get rid of you first.
01:10:08It is too big, this house.
01:10:10The stairs are really tiring.
01:10:12Children, we are not moving again.
01:10:25Bravo. Bravo, my friends.
01:10:29Bravo. Bravo.
01:10:40We moved in, and the bats that were living there moved out.
01:10:44As Margot said, typically, a change is as good as a feast.
01:11:29BIRDS CHIRP
01:11:50I'm sorry we didn't believe you when you said you got seasick.
01:11:53Beer, oh, dear. Will you survive?
01:11:59Oh!
01:12:01Excuse me. Hello?
01:12:04Stop! I think...
01:12:06Oh, jeez!
01:12:15How are you doing, Spiro?
01:12:17Feeling better?
01:12:21Fuck me!
01:12:23Fuck me!
01:12:25Perhaps we should have come by car.
01:12:44I adore this place.
01:12:47Look away, Margot, dear.
01:12:50Beer? Hmm? Are you all right?
01:12:53No, I'm fine. Yes, no, I'm very good.
01:12:56Look at those gulls flying over.
01:12:58Yes. Yes, all the nice gulls love a sailor.
01:13:04Do you know I should like to be buried here?
01:13:07Oh, make up your mind.
01:13:13I'm afraid I heard on the wireless yesterday that Germany is...
01:13:17Shh! Stop.
01:13:20Let's not spoil it.
01:13:24Son of a bitch fish!
01:13:38The magic of the island had settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
01:13:43Each day had a tranquillity and timelessness about it.
01:13:47We wished that it would never end.
01:13:51Hello.
01:13:56Hmm?
01:13:59GROWLING
01:14:01DOG BARKING
01:14:07SIGHS
01:14:09DOG BARKING
01:14:11SIGHS
01:14:29SIGHS
01:14:42DOG SNIFFS
01:14:55Where have you been?
01:14:57How do you mean? You've been gone for two days.
01:15:00You knew where I was? No.
01:15:02Where? Out and about.
01:15:04Please.
01:15:06No more long trips.
01:15:08How will you ever put on shoes again?
01:15:11And be normal?
01:15:13Oh, do talk to me. You are not a wild animal.
01:15:16I've given up shoes.
01:15:18Oh, you're back. What have you brought this time? A woolly mammoth?
01:15:21Did you feed everyone? Yes.
01:15:23More or less.
01:15:25Oh, aren't they sweet?
01:15:28Gerry, why do you bring all these animals back?
01:15:31They're revolting.
01:15:33Golly, what's them? Magpies.
01:15:36Oh, mag and pies, eh?
01:15:38What you got to do with them bastards?
01:15:40Magpies, Spiro. Magpies.
01:15:43Mag and pies.
01:15:45Is it mag and pies?
01:15:47No. Mag-pies.
01:15:50Mag and pies.
01:15:52Mag-pies.
01:15:56Mag and pies.
01:15:59SIGHS
01:16:01What have you brought now? Is it mag and pies?
01:16:03Awful things, mag and pies. Put them back where you found them, Gerry.
01:16:06I can't. Their mother won't take them.
01:16:08I'll train them. It'll be all right.
01:16:11I could easily shoot them if you'd like.
01:16:13No, thank you.
01:16:27Come on, Mark. You know you want to.
01:16:30Change my mind.
01:16:32Too old.
01:16:34Haven't got a figure for swimming.
01:16:36Don't be ridiculous, woman.
01:16:38Oh, come on.
01:16:40If not now, when?
01:16:42Won't be here forever.
01:16:54Oh! Get her down.
01:16:56Is it all right? You can't wear that.
01:16:59Looks like it was made in 1920.
01:17:01But it's all they had.
01:17:03Sorry. I should have popped over to Paris.
01:17:05Mrs Durrell, you look splendid.
01:17:09Don't forget to shake the fish out when you come out of the water.
01:17:11Shut up! This is my moment, and I don't want you spoiling it.
01:17:14It's going in. The creature is going in.
01:17:17All right.
01:17:19Bark, bark!
01:17:21Bark, bark!
01:17:23Ow, ow!
01:17:25Let's get the dog off!
01:17:27Oh!
01:17:29Oh, here, Mrs Durrell, give me your hand.
01:17:32There, there. You're all right.
01:17:34You're all right.
01:17:36The bum monster.
01:17:38Somebody has to see the sun for a long time.
01:17:40Oh, my God.
01:17:42Don't be embarrassed. I am a doctor.
01:17:44Although I am off duty at the moment.
01:17:51Dad?
01:17:54Dad!
01:17:56He's going to make a man out of you.
01:17:59Sorry.
01:18:01Dad!
01:18:03I'm the king of this ship!
01:18:05You should be proud of yourself.
01:18:08Not so sure.
01:18:12Who was it who said,
01:18:14if you can control your family,
01:18:16you've gone terribly wrong somewhere?
01:18:19Aristotle.
01:18:21Hello.
01:18:24Was it me?
01:18:26Yes.
01:18:33My mother steered her vessel full of strange progeny
01:18:36through the stormy seas of life with great skill.
01:18:40As Larry rightly pointed out,
01:18:42we can be proud of the way we brought her up.
01:18:51.
01:19:17Oh, it's sunny! Boy!
01:19:21And that was that.
01:19:26I think you're old enough to sort yourselves out.
01:19:30They've made an awful mess of your papers.
01:19:36Those bloody birds!
01:19:40No more wildlife!
01:19:43Gerald! Gerald!
01:19:52Ah, here it is.
01:19:55Here it is.
01:19:57Gali Mera, sir.
01:19:59Oh, Theo, what a pleasure.
01:20:02We love you.
01:20:07I'm afraid I have some bad news, Mrs Durrell.
01:20:11What is it?
01:20:13I'm afraid I have some bad news, Mrs Durrell.
01:20:17I'm afraid I have some bad news, Mrs Durrell.
01:20:21What's Gerry done?
01:20:23No, nothing.
01:20:25I think you should return to England with your family.
01:20:28Has Larry been annoying people again?
01:20:31Britain and Greece will shortly be engulfed by war.
01:20:34If you leave it too late, you'll have grave difficulties getting back.
01:20:40Can't bear to tell Gerry.
01:20:48Oh!
01:20:56Has Leslie finally shot someone?
01:20:59We have to leave the island.
01:21:08Right.
01:21:10Bad luck, Theo.
01:21:12You get Gerry's animals to look after.
01:21:15Yes, yes. No, I will do it.
01:21:18Theo!
01:21:24So sorry, Gerry.
01:21:29We have to go home.
01:21:45I know.
01:22:11It feels like I say goodbye to my own people.
01:22:14I feel you belong to me.
01:22:16I'm coming back to you, honestly.
01:22:19You're coming back, honest?
01:22:22Goodbye.
01:22:24Bye.
01:22:25Goodbye.
01:22:26I'll miss you.
01:22:30Hey, hey, hey.
01:22:33No more shootings for you now, huh?
01:22:35There's a war on.
01:22:45Proceed.
01:22:50I'm actually staying, Spiro.
01:23:03Goodbye, Lucrecia.
01:23:05And good luck with all your illnesses.
01:23:14Goodbye.
01:23:28Right, I've scribbled down some essential reading.
01:23:32Nothing, you know, too arduous.
01:23:37But I think...
01:23:40The most important thing is...
01:23:46Well...
01:24:10I'm sorry, I don't mean to cry.
01:24:33Theo!
01:24:34Don't forget to feed Quasimodo!
01:24:37And Spiro!
01:24:38You know, Aleko likes fresh sardines!
01:24:41Don't worry!
01:24:42Everything's under control!
01:24:44What is Aleko?
01:24:45A huge angry seagull.
01:24:47You'll need some thick gloves.
01:24:49Good luck.
01:24:50THEO'S BIRTHDAY
01:25:06So when are we coming back?
01:25:10Soon, Jerry, soon.
01:25:12After you've had a bit of an education.
01:25:15So what have I just had?
01:25:17Um...
01:25:19I'm not sure.
01:25:26So is it downhill from now on?
01:25:30Yes, I think it is.
01:25:31Shall I fire off a ceremonial ten-gun salute?
01:25:34No, absolutely not.
01:25:37You know what, Jerry?
01:25:38They were all right, your stories.
01:25:41Not terribly flattering.
01:25:44But good.
01:25:49It was nice to be all together.
01:25:52Yes, it was.
01:25:56What a rude man.
01:25:58What?
01:26:02Description of passengers.
01:26:04One travelling circus and stuff.
01:26:07Odd thing to write.
01:26:12Some people really are peculiar.
01:26:15THEO'S BIRTHDAY
01:26:18THEO'S BIRTHDAY
01:26:42Back in England, Mother insisted I went to school.
01:26:45Despite my protestation that I liked being half-educated.
01:26:49You were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.
01:27:15THEO'S BIRTHDAY
01:27:45THEO'S BIRTHDAY