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My favourite episode, after due consideration of all the programmes, | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
and there are 80 of them, was one called Mum's Army. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:13 | |
I've been approached by some of the womenfolk, | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
who want to join us in our fight against the common foe. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
For making the tea, and the cocoa, etc. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
-Buttons! -I beg your pardon? | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Buttons. Buttons, sir. They could sew on buttons. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Precisely. Yes, that's a very good point, Frazer. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
We used to read through the episodes to begin with on Monday, | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
and when we read through this one, Arthur said he didn't like it. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:36 | |
He said, "Quite honestly, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
"if I'd seen this programme before today, I wouldn't have done it." | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
I said, "For God's sake, you've had the thing a month! | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
"What have you done with it? | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
"Why haven't you read it?" | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
Gradually, I think, because his wife probably spoke to him - she used to | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
read the scripts for him, and tell him what was good and what wasn't. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
And I think, by the end of the week... | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
By Thursday, he was saying, "This programme is genius." | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
-I know you fancy yourself as a ladies' man. -What? | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
But those women are going to be subjected to the same | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
discipline as the men, so let's start as we mean to go on. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Well, at least we can be polite to them, sir. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
I quite agree with you, but we don't need all this Jack Buchanan stuff. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
It was a unique episode, because otherwise, we virtually had | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
no women at all. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
The occasional wife would creep in somehow, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
but otherwise they didn't figure. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
But it was very good for Frazer, saying, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
"She's got lovely big thighs," you know. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
"Firm thighs." | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
May I point out that Miss Ironside here is doing it very, very well? | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
Her legs are coming together with a firm, strong action. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
Just you listen, sir. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:39 | |
Thank you, Frazer. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
I hadn't noticed that that girl's got very big thighs, had you? | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
It was also an opportunity to put Wendy Richard into the show, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
as Walker's girlfriend. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
Arthur Lowe loved Wendy Richard. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
Now, where do you live, Miss Usher... Er... Er...Parish? | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
-Down Berwick Road. 35. -Berwick Road. -Yes. I live with my dad. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:09 | |
He's 6ft 3, so don't you go getting any ideas. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
The other thing one had to do was stop him being charming, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
cos that was disastrous, when he was trying to be sort of likeable, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
and all that sort of thing. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:21 | |
I said, "For God's sake, play it selfish, and he did. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
-Christian name? -Fiona. -Fiona. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
-A pretty name. -Oh! | 0:02:29 | 0:02:30 | |
-You think so? -Yes, it's always been one of my favourites. -Oh, thank you. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
I was very lucky to get Carmen Silvera to play Mrs Gray. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
She's a lovely actress, and she was so retiring, and so delicate, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:47 | |
the way she played it. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
And, of course, ultimately, I used her in 'Allo! 'Allo! | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
But she was so poignant and so lovely in Mum's Army. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:58 | |
It was a beautiful performance. | 0:02:58 | 0:02:59 | |
Do you always wear glasses? | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
Yes. Yes, I always have. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
Would you take them off for a moment? | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
If you wish. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:09 | |
Oh, that's so much better. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
I think it's more reflective and more sad, in a way, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
and more indicative of an awful lot of Mainwaring, Arthur Lowe's talent. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:25 | |
And he was able to express things in that programme, I think, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
that he couldn't normally express at all. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
But I... I... I don't want you to go. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
The whole pattern of my life has changed. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
-I just live from one meeting to the next. -I know. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
And I'm just the same, but it's the only thing to do. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
-People are talking. -People always talk. Who cares about that? | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
A lot of people said it was like Brief Encounter, which it was, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
quite honestly. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:50 | |
I'd seen Brief Encounter, and thought it was something that | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
was very suitable for a programme, just a one-off. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
-But there's your wife. -Nobody will talk to HER. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
She hasn't left the house since Munich. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
I think it's very much my favourite programme, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
and I think everybody will enjoy it. I hope they enjoy it. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
It was great fun to do. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
# Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
# If you think we're on the run? | 0:04:19 | 0:04:24 | |
# We are the boys who will stop your little game | 0:04:24 | 0:04:29 | |
# We are the boys who will make you think again | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
# Cos who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
# If you think old England's done? | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
# Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21 | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
# But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun | 0:04:48 | 0:04:53 | |
# So who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
# If you think old England's done? # | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
Platoon, stand at ease! | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Atten-SHUN! | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
-Try and do it with the others, Jonesy. -Sorry, Sergeant. Sorry. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
-Thank you, Wilson. -Aye, sir. -Stand at EASE! | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
I know what's happening, sir. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
You see, you're at that end of the line, and your voice of command | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
takes time to travel through the air. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
Yes, well, something like that. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
Perhaps if you were to nod your head, sir, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
he might catch on a bit quicker. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Yes, sir. If you nod your head, you'll not find me wanting. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
We can't get involved in all that. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
-Now, pay attention. -HUP! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
-What's the matter, Jones? -You nodded, so I sprung to it, sir. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
We're not doing that now. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
Now, I've been approached by some of the womenfolk. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
HUP! | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
What is it now? | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
I was standing to attention, so I eased myself, sir. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
The womenfolk want to join us in our fight against the common foe. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
-For making the tea, and the cocoa, etc. -Buttons! | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
I beg your pardon? | 0:06:08 | 0:06:09 | |
Buttons. Buttons, sir. They could sew on buttons. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Precisely. Yes, that's a very good point, Frazer. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
-Make a note of that, Wilson. -Yes, sir. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
-HUP! -Jones! | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Yes, sir, I... Oh, we're not doing the nodding now, are we? Sorry, sir. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:24 | |
-I suppose there will come a time when he'll have to go. -Yes. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
The new girl at the sweet shop is ever so obliging. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
Really? | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
Well, that sounds like the sort of girl we want. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
Comforts for the troops(!) | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
All right, Walker, that'll do. Let's not have any of that sort of talk. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
Sir, there's a lassie works for the Gaslight and Coke Company. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
She's a sonsie girl wi' big, strong thighs that.... | 0:06:46 | 0:06:52 | |
You're right there. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
-They're very strong when they've got strong thighs. -Don't I know it. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
Anyway, bring them along tomorrow night. We only need a handful. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
And with proper training, they'll release us, the front line, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
the fighting troops, to grapple with the enemy. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
I don't think Jonesy and Frazer will have much energy left | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
after grappling with those big, strong thighs. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
Walker, I shan't tell you again. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
# Run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run, run, run... # | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
-Hello, Wilson. -Good evening, sir. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
-How goes the recruiting? -Very well. The men have brought quite a few. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
-Right, let's bash on. Bring them in. -I'll find out who's first, sir. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
Right, now... | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
-Sergeant Wilson, this is Mrs Fox. -Mrs Fox. -How do you do? | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
-How do you do? Would you care to step this way? -Ta, ever so. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
-What a very humid day it's been, hasn't it? -Oh, yes, it has. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
-But you look so wonderfully cool. -Oh! -Yes, you do. You really do. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:54 | |
-This is Mrs Fox, sir. -How do you do, Mrs Fox? -Nicely, thank you. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
Mrs Fox is one of my most regular customers, sir. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
I'm sure she'll give complete satisfaction, sir. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
Yes, thank you very much, Jones. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
How terribly rude of me! Do sit down. Do make yourself comfortable. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:14 | |
-Thank you. -Is there anything I can do for you? | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
-Would you like a cup of tea? -Oh, I don't think... -Wilson! | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
-The kettle's on. It's no problem. -Wilson! Wilson, just a minute! | 0:08:20 | 0:08:27 | |
I'd like a word with you outside. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
Excuse us, Mrs Fox. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
-Yes? -Look here, Wilson. -Yes? | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
-I know you fancy yourself as a ladies' man... -What? | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
The women will be subjected | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
to the same discipline as the men, so let's start as we mean to go on. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
-Well, at least we can be polite to them, sir. -I quite agree with you. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
But we don't need all this Jack Buchanan stuff. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
-Stick to the matter in hand, shall we? -All right, then. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
-As you say, sir. -Well, come on, let's get back. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Sorry about that, Mrs Fox. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
-Now, the name was Fox. -Yes. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
What's the Christian name? | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
-Marcia. -Marcia. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
What a pretty name! | 0:09:12 | 0:09:13 | |
Do you really think so? | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
-I do. It's one of my favourites. I do love that name. -Wilson! -Sorry. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
Mr Mainwaring, here's my address. I've put my age on the bottom. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:30 | |
I was just telling Mr Mainwaring, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
I've put my age on the bottom. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
Occupation? | 0:09:41 | 0:09:42 | |
Widow. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
Is that an occupation? | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
-In Mrs Fox's case, I would say it was almost a calling. -Wilson! | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
Mrs Fox, would you like to join us? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
I didn't know you'd come apart! | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
That's awfully good! Very funny, Mrs Fox. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
Don't you think so, sir? That's a very funny joke. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
I'll take that as an affirmative answer. Thank you, Mrs Fox. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
-Thanks ever so much, Mr Mainwaring. -Let me show you out, Mrs Fox. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Mrs Fox has got a very dry wit. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
-A what? -A very dry wit, the way she comes out with the jokes. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
This is the young lady I told you about, sir. Ivy Samways. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
-Oh, yes. -I think she's the one, sir, who is so awfully obliging. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:38 | |
Yes, thank you, Wilson. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
-Jones! -Sir? | 0:10:41 | 0:10:42 | |
-You needn't stay. -Right, thank you, sir. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
Now, then, Miss Samways... JONES CLUMPS HIS FEET | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
You're a shop assistant, aren't you? | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Oh, get out, Jones! | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
You're a shop assistant, aren't you? | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
What's your address? | 0:11:08 | 0:11:09 | |
SHE WHISPERS | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
I beg your pardon? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:14 | |
SHE WHISPERS | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
I'm sorry, I still didn't quite catch that. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
-Jutland Drive. -Oh, Jutland Drive. What number? | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
SHE WHISPERS | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
Hm? | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
SHE WHISPERS | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
27! | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
27! Now, Miss Samways, | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
I wonder what sort of a task we can find for you. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
Answering the telephone, do you think, sir? | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
You're trying my patience rather far today, Wilson. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
-She could look after the secret files. -Thank you, Miss Samways. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:54 | |
Thank you. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:55 | |
-A word, sir. -Yes? | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
The lassie from the Gaslight and Coke Company cannae be here tonight, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
sir, but she's very keen. Just what we need. A fine, firm-bodied lassie. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:07 | |
Sonsie, you understand, wi' big, strong thighs. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
Yes, all right, Frazer. Bring her tomorrow. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
I'll do that, sir. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:16 | |
This is a friend of mine, Mr Mainwaring, Edith Parish. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:21 | |
Miss Parish. Have you an occupation? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
-Yes, I'm an usherette. -Yeah, down at the Tivoli cinema. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
They're the ones with the torches. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
-You must see a lot of pictures. -Yes, and a lot of other things. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
Now, where do you live, Miss Usher... Er... Er...Parish? | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
Down Berwick Road. 35. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
-Berwick Road. -Yes. I live with my dad. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
He's 6ft 3, so don't you go getting any ideas. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
That will be all, thank you, Miss Parish. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
I'll see she comes round tomorrow. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
(You shouldn't have said that.) | 0:12:57 | 0:12:58 | |
-I don't think that's the class of girl we want. -No, possibly not. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:04 | |
-Any more? -No, I think that's it. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
Send the men home. They had rather a late night last night. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
I'll sort some of this out. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
All right, sir. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:12 | |
All right, well, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:17 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR Come in. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
Captain Mainwaring? | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
-Yes. -I hear you need women helpers for the Home Guard. -That's correct. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:29 | |
-Do take a seat. -Thank you. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
I've been told all about this platoon. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
I think you've done a wonderful job. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
We try to do our best for England in her hour of need. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
I'd love to help, just to feel that I was doing something. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
Oh, good. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
Your face is familiar. Are you a member of the golf club? | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
No, I'm new here. Mother and I left London to escape the bombing. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
-I see. -I'd love to have stayed, not that I could have done much, | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
but just being there to show that wretched little Hitler | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
we're not giving in. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
By Jove, that's the sort of talk I like to hear! What name? | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
-Gray. -Gray. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
-Christian name? -Fiona. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
Fiona... What a pretty name! | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
Oh, do you think so? | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
-Yes, it's always been one of my favourites. -Oh, thank you. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
Have you an occupation? | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Widow, I suppose, if you can call that an occupation. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
I think, in your case, Mrs Gray, it's almost a c... | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
Widow. And the address? | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
-31 Wilton Gardens. -Oh, Wilton Gardens? That's quite close to us. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
Yes, I know. I see you go to the bank every morning. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
-Do you really? -And how wonderfully punctual you are! | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
-We thought you were three minutes late the other day. -Was I? | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
-No. The clock was wrong. -I have to set an example to the youngsters. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:59 | |
Oh, I do agree. All the old standards are declining so rapidly. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
Oh, they are. They are indeed. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
Yes, well, I mustn't keep you. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
Well, shall we say tomorrow night? We usually parade at seven o'clock. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
I can't wait to start. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
At the moment my life consists of coffee in Anne's Pantry, | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
-and making the dahlias grow. -Oh, I love dahlias. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
Do you grow them too? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
Unfortunately, no. My wife says that they encourage the earwigs. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
What a shame! But she's quite right. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
Captain Mainwaring, may I ask you something awfully personal? | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
-Yes? -Do you always wear glasses? | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
Yes. Yes, I always have. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
Would you take them off for a moment? | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
If you wish. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
Oh, that's so much better! | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
I think spectacles... | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
Well, they take away the warmth in a person's eyes, | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
just as a fireguard takes away so much of the heat. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
I suppose they do. I never thought of it that way. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
Hello, sir. Still here, I see. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
Yes. This is a new recruit, Mrs Fiona Gray. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
Fiona? What a pretty name! | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
Yes, I think I got all the details. Shall we say tomorrow night, then? | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
-I can't wait to start. Goodbye. -Goodbye, Mrs Gray. -Goodbye. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
-Now, there's a charming woman. -I'm sure, sir. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
Just the sort of material we need. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
You're a pretty good judge of that sort of thing. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how they all shape up. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:49 | |
# Oh, no, it isn't the spring It's love in bloom... # | 0:16:49 | 0:16:56 | |
Are you all right, sir? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
Have you lost your glasses? | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
No, certainly not. Just took them off for a moment. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:38 | |
-Let's get on with it, shall we? -Right, sir. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:44 | |
Platoon, atten-SHUN! | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
-Welcome, ladies. LADIES: -Good evening, Mr Mainwaring. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
Today I'll teach you the rudiments of foot drill, | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
so we can turn out as a disciplined body of men and women. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
First, the "at ease" position. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
To stand at ease properly, you have the feet comfortably apart, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
about 18 inches. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
Place the right hand over the left over your bott...er, | 0:18:13 | 0:18:19 | |
in the small of the back. Have you all got that? | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
-Lot of red tape nonsense! -No talking in the ranks, Mum. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
Pike, no talking in the ranks. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:31 | |
To stand to attention, you place the weight on the right foot, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:37 | |
raise the left... | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
- I'm doing this in slow motion, you understand - | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
..then bring it up to the... | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
-Are you all right, sir? -Yes, yes. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
Bring it up to the right foot, so. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
Now, here comes the tricky bit. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
At the same time, you put the hands down by the sides, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
thumbs in line with the seams of the trousers. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
-Permission to speak, sir? -Yes. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
The ladies aren't wearing trousers, sir. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
Cos they're ladies, you see. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
Perhaps they could put their thumbs down the side of their knickers. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
Walker, fall out! Go and stand over there. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
You'll take no further part in this. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
I didn't say nothing, did I? | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
-Let's try that. Give the order, Sergeant. -Platoon, atten-SHUN! | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
No, no. That was very sloppy. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
-Not you, Mrs Gray. That was very good. -Thank you. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
Now, I want you to stand upright, stomach in, chest out. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
Not you, Mrs Fox. That's very good. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
Stand at...EASE! | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
Atten-SHUN! | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
Captain Mainwaring, | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
may I point out that Miss Ironside here is doing it very, very well? | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
Her legs are coming together with a firm, strong action. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
Just you listen, sir. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
Thank you, Frazer. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
I hadn't noticed that that girl has got very big thighs, had you? | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
-A little bit on the long side, I'd say. That's all, really. -Yes. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:19 | |
All right, everybody stand to attention. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
We come now to the left and right turn. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
To turn right, you swivel on the right heel and left toe, thus. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:32 | |
One, two. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
One, two. One... | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
HUMS A DANCE TUNE | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
Walker! Walker! | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
You brace the thigh of the rear leg as you go. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
That's right, lassies. Brace them thighs. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:52 | |
-I like to see them well braced. -Frazer! | 0:20:52 | 0:20:56 | |
And you lift the left leg and bring the foot into the right one, thus. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:02 | |
Blimey, what a way to win a war! | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
The captain knows best. You ought to listen. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
Godfrey, look to your front. Stop staring at the ladies. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
Quite right. He's woman mad, he is. Woman mad! | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
Walker, any more from you and you'll be sent home. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
Right, everybody face the front. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
Atten-SHUN! | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
Very good, Mrs Gray. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
Left TURN! | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
-There's some confusion. -Yes, I know. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
It's the same as in the American Civil War they had over in America. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
They had trouble cos the soldiers were country yokels, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:49 | |
and didn't know their, ahem, from their elbow. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
They got an ingenious idea. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
They tied some straw to one boot and some hay to the other. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
When the commanding man wanted to turn left, he shouted, "Hay turn!" | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
Or, alternatively, "Straw turn," | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
depending on whether the straw was on the left foot or right. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:12 | |
They organised themselves so all the men had the straw | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
on the left foot or... Is that any use to you, sir? | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
I think that's a good idea, sir. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
You can say, "Ladies, what nice straws you're wearing." | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
That's it! Get off home! | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
What have I said? | 0:22:32 | 0:22:33 | |
Don't argue! That's an order! | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
# There will always be an England, While there's a country lane... # | 0:22:36 | 0:22:43 | |
HE HUMS TO HIMSELF | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
-Good morning, Captain Mainwaring. -Good morning. What a surprise. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
-Won't you join me? -Thank you. I haven't seen you in here before. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:32 | |
Oh, I get in from time to time, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
you know, when I can get my nose away from the grindstone. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
-Yes, please? -Ah, thank you. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Oh, no, none of that. I beg your pardon. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
-No, thank you. Just coffee for me, please. -Yes, just coffee, please. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:55 | |
-They once did Devonshire teas here. -With jam and cream? | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
Oh, yes. Just after the First World War, | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
another chap and I took a spin out here just for a Devonshire tea. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
I got the rough end of my governor's tongue, I can tell you. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
He thought I'd toddled off with a bit of fluff. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
It was all harmless fun then. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
Yes, of course it was. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
Mind you, we used to set the pace now and again. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
Your face lights up when you laugh. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
I think you're really a very jolly person at heart. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:33 | |
Oh! Yes, I suppose I am, really. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Not that a bank manager gets much time for joking and jesting. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
-Separate bills? -Yes, please. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
No, please, have this with me. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
-Good morning, captain. -Hm? Godfrey, is it? | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
-I haven't seen you in here before. -Oh, I come in from time to time. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
I'm just on my way to the clinic. Have you mislaid your glasses? | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
No, just resting my eyes. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
If you'll excuse me. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
Charming man, that. One of my most loyal soldiers. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
They're all wonderful. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
Captain, I haven't seen you here before. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
Oh, I come in from time to time. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
Have you bust your specs? I know a fella with 500 pairs. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
-Hardly used. -I haven't broken them. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
-Oh. -Listen, you haven't seen me. I'm delivering some of the sweet stuff. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
-Sugar? -Shush! You haven't seen me. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
Oh, by the way, I haven't seen you, either. You know what I mean? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:43 | |
Don't worry. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:44 | |
Heart of gold, that man. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
Do anything to you... Er, FOR you. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
Whereabouts in London do you live? | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
Near Regent's Park. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
It was hopeless for mother. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
They had the ack-ack guns there... Oh, that was careless talk. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
Don't worry. Any secret is safe with me. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
Morning, Mr Mainwaring. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
Don't often see you in here. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
I come in from time... Never mind. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
I'll join you in a minute. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
-Mrs Prosser, Captain Mainwaring. -How do you do? | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
-This is Mrs Gray. -How do you do? | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
Mrs Prosser's a very good friend of mine, but there's nothing in it. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
-I see. -Don't tell Mrs Fox, though. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
I give her pieces for her cat and on her part, | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
-she keeps me company from time to time. -Yes. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
-Thank you, Jones. -Thank you. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:45 | |
Sorry about all that. I had looked forward to a quiet chat. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
So had I. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
I must confess, I came in here deliberately | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
on the off-chance of seeing you. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
I rather hoped you would. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
Pike? What do you want? | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
Mr Wilson says he's sorry to spoil your tete-a-tete, | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
-but the bank inspectors are here and would you come at once? -Yes. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
I'm afraid I'll have to dash away. I'm sorry. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
-Perhaps we could meet again, very soon. -I'd like that. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
-See you on parade tonight. -Of course. I look forward to it. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
Sorry I have to go. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Two coffees? That'll be eightpence, please. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
All I'm saying is that Mainwaring's making a perfect fool of himself. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
They came twice to see Forty Little Mothers, with Eddie Cantor, | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
and once to see Shipyard Sally, with Gracie Fields. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:19 | |
-They have coffee every morning. -I haven't seen them. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
They go to the Dutch Oven now. I have to fetch him if he's needed. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:27 | |
It's absolutely... | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
I tell ye, he'll ruin himself. Somebody ought to tell him. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:35 | |
-Hello, Wilson. -Sir. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
-Nearly time for parade? -Yes, just a few minutes' time. -Good. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:43 | |
-I've got an announcement to make to the Ladies Section. -Ah, the ladies. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:48 | |
I've been meaning to have a word with you about that, sir. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:54 | |
-Some time. -Yes? -I know it's none of my business, sir, | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 | |
but unless I say something about it, who will? | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
Look here, Wilson, if you've got something to say, | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
stop shuffling about from one foot to the other, and just cough it up. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:07 | |
Are you in some sort of trouble? | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
What? Oh, no, sir. Not at all. Good Lord, no. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
It's just with the Ladies Section, do you think it's possible that... | 0:29:12 | 0:29:17 | |
some of us might possibly be making tiny little fools of ourselves? | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
Ah, I see. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
-Thank you for your frankness, Wilson. -Aye, sir. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:32 | |
Can't have been easy for you to speak to me on so delicate a matter. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:36 | |
No, sir, no. I thought it was for the best, you know. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:41 | |
-I am not insensitive to what people are saying, Wilson. -No, sir. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:46 | |
I am therefore going to disband the Ladies Section, | 0:29:46 | 0:29:50 | |
with the exception of a few special helpers. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
-I see, sir. Yes. -All right? -Mm-hm. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:57 | |
Well, that should settle your problem, | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
and keep Mrs Pike out of your hair. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
Everybody here, corporal? | 0:30:11 | 0:30:12 | |
All present and correct, sir, except Mrs Gray. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
Mrs Gray not here? Strange. Perhaps she's a bit under the weather. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:21 | |
Favouritism. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
Ivy saw her going to the station with two heavy suitcases. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:28 | |
-To the station? -Ten minutes ago. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
Mrs Gray went to the station with two suitcases? | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
There's only one train now, and that's the 8:40 to London. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:41 | |
-Take the parade, Wilson. -What? | 0:30:41 | 0:30:42 | |
Would you like me to make the announcement, sir? | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
-DOOR SLAMS -Oh, Lord! | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
-Not too strong, please. -Not much chance of that, dear. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:52 | |
-Anything else? -No, thank you. -Just tuppence, then. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
DOOR OPENS | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
What's this? What's happened? | 0:31:11 | 0:31:14 | |
Nothing's happened. I'm just going back to London. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
-For how long? -I don't know. A month or two. Perhaps for good. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:21 | |
But you never mentioned it. You never even hinted at it. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
-I thought it would be for the best. -But I... I don't want you to go. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:30 | |
The whole pattern of my life has changed. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
I just live from one meeting to the next. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
I know. I'm the same. But it's the only thing to do. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
People are talking. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
-People always talk. Who cares about that? -But there's your wife... | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
Nobody will talk to HER. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:45 | |
She hasn't left the house since Munich. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Be sensible, George. You can't afford scandal. There's the bank... | 0:31:50 | 0:31:56 | |
-Damn the bloody bank! -George! -I'm sorry. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
Look, don't get that train. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
-George, I must. -I implore you, don't. We'll meet once a week. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:09 | |
You're making this difficult. I've made up my mind. It's the only way. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
Victoria! Victoria! | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
There's my train. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
Look, Fiona, I've never begged anything from anyone in my life, | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
but I'm begging you not to go. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
-Finished with this chair, sir? -Yes, take the damn thing! | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
-I'm sorry, George. -I'll take that. It's heavy. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:28 | |
Can't we talk about this? Go tomorrow. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
Walmington-on-Sea! | 0:32:41 | 0:32:45 | |
Make way for this lady, would you? | 0:32:45 | 0:32:46 | |
Hurry along, please! | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
Here, I'll do that. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:51 | |
Hurry up, or you'll be coming, too. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
-Where can I get in touch with you? -You won't be able to. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
-Will you write? -I don't know. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
-After a little while, perhaps. -Stand clear, sir. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:05 | |
-Pull those blinds down! -Promise you'll write. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:11 | |
Very well. I promise. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:33:13 | 0:33:15 | |
-Make it soon. -Goodbye, George. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:20 | |
(Goodbye, Fiona.) | 0:33:20 | 0:33:21 |