0:00:02 > 0:00:06GIGGLING
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Get ready.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14Shh. Shh!
0:00:21 > 0:00:24- Got them. - Jo, those are the kitchen scissors.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27- They're good and sharp. - Please don't make me be the first.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31No...Amy's first.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39If I must make this sacrament, I do it gladly.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42But don't you dare take more than a half inch.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Do you have any letters for the post, Pastor March?
0:00:59 > 0:01:03- This will go on the mail train tonight?- Yes, sir.- Bless you, son.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06- MAN:- Cold.
0:01:27 > 0:01:34Merry Christmas, Father. With our fondest love, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Jo, get up off the rug.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26That party dress is in a bad enough state as it is.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29We agreed not to have any presents this year. We said we didn't mind
0:02:29 > 0:02:32as long as we had Marmee and Father and each other.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Beth, we haven't got Father
0:02:33 > 0:02:36and we shan't have him for ever such a long time.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Not until the war ends. - Meg! I found Jo's gloves.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42They're all creased and sticky.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I used them to mop up some lemonade I spilled at Sally's birthday dance.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Jo, why didn't you clean them?
0:02:47 > 0:02:49You can't go to a party without any gloves.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52I was hoping I wouldn't be invited to another one.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55I should have gone away with Father in disguise,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59signed up as a drummer boy and done my duty as he has.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Jo, I don't think that's allowed or even possible.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Besides, I can't think of anything more disagreeable.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Why would you want to sleep in a tent
0:03:09 > 0:03:13and drink out of a tin mug and eat all sorts of...bad-tasting food?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Because, Amy, she forgets that she's a young lady
0:03:15 > 0:03:18and that I am trying to mend her dress.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21I can't help that I like boy's clothes and work and manners.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Being born a girl is the most disappointing thing
0:03:23 > 0:03:25that ever happened to me.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30THEY LAUGH
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I do believe that was busiest day the depot ever had.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13We had to get 200 boxes of soldiers' comforts onto the five o'clock train
0:04:13 > 0:04:15and we lacked mittens for some of them.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17We'll have to sit and knit more like pokey old women.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Jo, be careful.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24- You look tired to death. - Aunt March kept me on my toes today.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Most people mellow out at Christmas but not her.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Do I get a kiss as well as warm slippers, Amy?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38You're all such a treat to come home to.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41And I have a treat for you, too.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44- A letter?- Is it from Father?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Yes, it is.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55You're late, Theodore.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57I'm sorry, Grandfather.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04How was your voyage?
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Did you stay on deck and keep your eyes on the horizon as I advised?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Mostly.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Mostly worked.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16I presume you brought your principal's reports for me to read.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23"A year is a long time to wait before we meet again.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28"But these hard days will not be wasted if we all work hard.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33"Give them all my dear love and a kiss,
0:05:33 > 0:05:39"tell them I think of them by day and pray for them each evening.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41"Our country may be torn in two
0:05:41 > 0:05:44"because it can't agree on what is right,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46"but even in this time of darkness,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49"when armies clash and blood is shed,
0:05:49 > 0:05:53"we can shine a light through our kindness to each other.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56"And there are smaller battles we can win,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59"within our hearts and close to home.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03"I know my daughters will fight their bosom enemies bravely
0:06:03 > 0:06:06"and conquer themselves so beautifully
0:06:06 > 0:06:11"that when I come back to them, I may be fonder and prouder than ever
0:06:11 > 0:06:13"of my little women."
0:06:21 > 0:06:26BELLS RING
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Merry Christmas, Jo.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Hannah, do you know where our mother is? She isn't in her room.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00She wouldn't be, because we had some shoeless little lad come
0:07:00 > 0:07:04wheeling and hammering on the door saying his mother was starving
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and sickly and like to die and all her children like to die with her.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- Kindly get your fingers out the syrup.- Sorry.- Sorry.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15So, your mother went running off after him to see what she could do.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18And she took a great pile of firing from next to my stove.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21As long as we've enough to cook the bacon.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Merry Christmas, Hannah!
0:07:23 > 0:07:26If you don't unleash me, you young rapscallions,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28there will be no pancakes!
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Girls.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36I've just come from the most deprived and wretched home
0:07:36 > 0:07:38I have ever seen.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41There was a mother with a newborn
0:07:41 > 0:07:46and five other little ones huddled under rags for warmth.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51I took firewood but... it was not enough.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Cream! We never have cream.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15I'm carrying the bacon.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18The smell torments me like the legions of the damned!
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Hurry, Beth, dear. Don't let those sugar rolls get cold!
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Come on, Jo!
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Oh, my stars! Miss, I'm so sorry.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I could have...broken your... coffee service.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I'm quite likely to break it myself before I'm through.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Or lose my self-control and just drink all the coffee.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46We're giving our Christmas breakfast away
0:08:46 > 0:08:48to a poor German family we've never even met.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- Was that your idea? - No. Our mother's.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54The soccer ball wasn't mine. It was my grandfather's.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57He thinks it's the kind of thing a boy my age might like.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Mr Laurence is YOUR grandfather?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Until last night I hadn't seen him for ten years.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05But I'll be living with him now - at least until I go to college.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- That's nice. - Hurry up!
0:09:08 > 0:09:12I should go back. Grandfather's watching through the window,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15so I have to make out like I'm having fun.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- Happy Christmas present-giving! - Oh, yes.
0:09:43 > 0:09:49BABY CRIES INSIDE
0:09:56 > 0:09:59INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Jo, dear, there you are.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Ah, a hot drink first for Mrs Hummel.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Give the tray to Meg.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Beth and Amy,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29could you start spooning out some oatmeal for the little ones?
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Jo, see if you can stop that broken window.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37What with?
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Ah...Hannah's hat will do.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43If you'd be so kind.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10I didn't even know that people lived like that.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12But they do.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Come downstairs.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17There's something you'll enjoy.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22PIANO PLAYS CHRISTMAS MUSIC
0:11:22 > 0:11:24CHATTER AND GIGGLING
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- Did you do this? - No.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39There's pink ice cream and white ice cream. And jelly!
0:11:39 > 0:11:41You never saw anything so elegant!
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Old Mr Laurence from next door sent it.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47It's a reward, because he heard about us giving our breakfast away.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51That boy just lost his mother. We must make him welcome.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32It's burning. It's burning, Jo! You're burning my hair!
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Are the tongs supposed to smoke like that?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Of course they are! It's just the dampness drying.
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Something's scorching, Jo.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Even I can smell it and I've got quite a flat nose.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Nonsense! When I take these papers out, you're all going see
0:12:43 > 0:12:44a cloud of little ringlets!
0:12:57 > 0:13:03Oh, Meg... Oh, no. I'm so sorry!
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I'm so sorry! So...
0:13:06 > 0:13:11What have you done? Jo! What have you done?!
0:13:11 > 0:13:14I did what you asked me to do, I curled your hair!
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Why did you even ask me? You know I always ruin everything!
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Oh, that's not true, Jo! - It's true tonight!
0:13:23 > 0:13:28How can I go to the party without any hair?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31You still have plenty at the back that's really smooth and pretty.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34And it's not as though you're Jo, whose hair is her one beauty.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Not that piano.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11There was... I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Look, if you must play, there's a concert grand in the drawing room.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Yes, sir.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Nobody plays that piano any more. I don't permit it!
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Does it really look all right, Jo?
0:14:34 > 0:14:38It looks almost like you've invented a new fashion.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Would you like to swap a glove with me?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Mine are still all creased and sticky.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- I could not get that lemonade out. - I meant swap just one,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55so we can each wear a smart glove and carry one that's spoiled.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Will it make you happy?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Yes, it will.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14Meg, if I do anything really wrong, will you wink at me?
0:15:14 > 0:15:18I will do no such thing! I shall raise my eyebrows.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20That's much more ladylike.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- What? - Smile.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04You can't spend the whole evening in the retiring room, Jo.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Don't you have any dances?
0:16:06 > 0:16:08No. Can't say I do.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Ned Moffat has engaged me for supper!
0:16:16 > 0:16:20I can scarcely wait to sit down, my shoes are pinching so!
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Oh. Please come back to the party.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25People will think we're being impolite.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Susie Perkins has three drawing lessons a week.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44She says there's no substitute whatever for drawing from life.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Can we see it yet?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52You look as sooty and black
0:16:52 > 0:16:54as if you've just crawled out of a coal bin.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57No-one can say I don't have accomplished daughters!
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Did you know that Jo's writing a novel?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05I've seen the pages all piled up on her desk in the garret.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Let Jo write in peace.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Hello, again. Don't you care for the party either?
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Oh, um, it's lovely. It's just I don't know many people.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Me neither. And I have a headache.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44- Me too.- I think I might have the grippe coming on.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47I just have 19 hairpins stuck in my head.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49I let my little sister loose on my coiffure.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Is that the little dark one or the little fair one?
0:17:53 > 0:17:57The fair one. Do you know us all by sight?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00We're neighbours. We ought to know each other's names.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03And when you sent the thank you letter for the supper,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06it just said "Margaret, Josephine, Elizabeth and Amy March."
0:18:06 > 0:18:09So I still don't know which one of you is which!
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Well, I'm Josephine, but everybody calls me Jo, apart from one
0:18:13 > 0:18:17ancient aunt whom I have to wait on and who's usually vexed with me.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I'm called Theodore, and I hate it.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23The boys at school in Switzerland used to call me Dora.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26They changed to Laurie in the end. I made them.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Did you learn a lot of French out there?
0:18:29 > 0:18:37HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Oh, ah. "I came here with my tutor.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43"But he is in the smoking room with all the other men,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- "talking about the war." - You have a tutor?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Grandfather insisted.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51He wants me to go to Harvard, but my grades aren't what they need to be.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Jo? Jo...? I turned my ankle over in the gallop
0:18:55 > 0:18:57and I swear I heard a tearing sound!
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Oh.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Should I fetch ice?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04You'll have to fetch a stretcher or we'll never get her home!
0:19:21 > 0:19:24DOOR OPENS, LAUGHTER
0:19:36 > 0:19:39I was about to send Hannah to collect you.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42And I warned you about those high-heeled shoes.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45It was a case of, "Let us be elegant or die!"
0:19:45 > 0:19:48She took them off in case she sprained the other ankle.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50I'm Theodore Laurence.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53I live next door and this is my tutor, Mr Brooke, ma'am.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56I helped Miss March into our carriage,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58so that she'd be spared the walk home.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Well, I thank you both for your extremely kind attentions.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Meg, have you been drinking wine?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19I had punch. Does that have wine in it?
0:20:28 > 0:20:32There are three dolls on my side of the bed, Beth.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Wasn't this one mine once?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37You broke the top off her head and I found her in the ragbag.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Jo, I see that Laurence boy standing at the window,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48looking down, sometimes.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Do you suppose he's lonely?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Yes. I do.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Marmee! Marmee! Marmee!
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Have you seen my rubber overshoes?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21If you don't put 'em away, don't expect them to stay put!
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I can't find my slate either!
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Beth, have you seen my slate?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27It has a sum on it I need to take to school today.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- I have a headache, Amy. - All girls get headaches, Beth.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32We just have to bear them as best we can.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I have one too, Marmee, as well as my ankle smarting.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Can I take some belladonna?
0:21:36 > 0:21:40No. Wrap a shawl around your head. The walk to work will cure it.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Letter for the mistress. I don't know who it's from
0:21:43 > 0:21:45but it has Mr Laurence's cipher on the envelope.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48And are youse young ladies ever going to take these hot turnovers
0:21:48 > 0:21:52I've been fretting about since sunup, or are you not?
0:21:52 > 0:21:55They most certainly are, Hannah. And they are going to take them
0:21:55 > 0:21:58out of the house within the next five minutes!
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Get to school and get to work!
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Bonjour, Mademoiselle Josephine.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Your boots, upon the matting, s'il vous plait.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22I dare say you had a fine Christmas with your family,
0:22:22 > 0:22:27replete with homespun pleasures and the comforts of the hearth?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Yes, we did. New Year next!
0:22:29 > 0:22:34Let us hope it brings the world less anguish than the last one.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Polly was grieved by your absence, it would seem.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Likewise.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43He doesn't care for that maid of mine, or her ministrations.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48He's like me. He can smell a papist from ten yards.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Do you want to talk about your invitation from Mr Laurence?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Oh, Beth. It's a simple invitation to go to his house,
0:23:01 > 0:23:05to play on a beautiful concert grand piano.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08Beth, dear,
0:23:08 > 0:23:12we agreed you need not go to school because it troubled your spirits,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14and we agreed that you could help to run the house,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18rather than waste your days. But if you don't engage with the world,
0:23:18 > 0:23:20all you'll be running is your own prison.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I'm not doing what Father asked, am I?
0:23:27 > 0:23:30I'm not fighting my bosom enemies bravely.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33No.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36And you have to try.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42"In such times of dangerous trial, many would be deterred from
0:23:42 > 0:23:48"inquiring into and embracing the truth, and others tempted
0:23:48 > 0:23:52"and drawn aside from their steadfastness and integrity..."
0:23:54 > 0:23:56SHE YAWNS
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Why don't you just open a little wider and swallow the whole book?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Sorry, Aunt March.- When I engaged you as my companion, Josephine,
0:24:04 > 0:24:06it was my hope that you would come to find
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Mr Belsham's Sermons as transporting and restorative as I.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15I should have taken Margaret on not you.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19She has dainty manners, a soft voice and a sweeter nature.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22She also had another job already, taking care of four small children.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26Four small children is a recipe for heartache, headache,
0:24:26 > 0:24:28and indigestion - and it always was.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31No-one can help how big their family gets.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Well, they can help who they fall in love with.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37The most foolish thing your mother ever did was to marry my nephew!
0:24:37 > 0:24:41He had filled his skull with theologising and philosophising
0:24:41 > 0:24:45and didn't leave space for a grain of business acumen!
0:24:45 > 0:24:49I can only hope that you and your sisters learn from her error
0:24:49 > 0:24:51and do not do likewise.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Go and put clean sand under Polly's perch.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58After which...we may resume the sermon.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03Meaning Mr Belsham's... and not mine.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- You savage, Laurie Laurence! A real savage!- Amy!
0:25:33 > 0:25:38Amy! Stop screaming like that!
0:25:38 > 0:25:41That's right! Do as your sister says!
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Not so fast!
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Leave this to me, Amy!
0:25:52 > 0:25:57- I'll beat you, Laurie Laurence! - I don't think so, Jo March!
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Do you want to go the theatre, Jo?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32I'm writing.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36- Well, I didn't mean today. I just meant...- Shh!
0:26:39 > 0:26:41It's a regular castle in the air up here.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45A castle in the air is a place you go to dream, Laurie Laurence.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48This garret is a chamber of industry.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Page 156.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57I don't know how you peg away the way you do.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Never wasting an hour, never letting one moment go cold.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Brooke called me a lazy dog yesterday and I'm afraid I am.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Marmee says it's all about finding a motive.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10A reason to get up and apply yourself.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15She's possibly - probably - absolutely right.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19I just don't know what that motive is, or ever will be.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Grandfather wants me to be an India merchant after college,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24just like he was. And I'd rather be shot.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29If I were a boy and if I were you, I would get on one of those old
0:27:29 > 0:27:33ships and sail away and never come back until I'd tried my own way.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37We should go together.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41All right.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44As long as you show me London and Paris and Italy along the way.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Shake on it. And go pack your trunk.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52After I've finished this chapter.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Castles in the air need keys.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57And sometimes I dare to think that this is mine.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Oh, thank goodness it will be dark in the theatre!
0:28:05 > 0:28:07This brushing braid is hanging off the hem.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09I must have put my foot through it.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11You're going out!
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I can smell eau de cologne right along the landing
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- and Hannah's been polishing the opera glasses.- Yes, she has.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Because we're going to the theatre.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24- To see The Seven Princesses Of The Diamond Lake?- Yes.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Laurie invited the two of us to go with him and Mr Brooke.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Then I'm coming, too!
0:28:29 > 0:28:31No, you aren't, because you haven't been asked.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Oh, couldn't we buy her a ticket? It was my turn to have the rag money
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- this month and I haven't spent it yet.- Thank you, thank you!- No, Meg!
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Even if we can get her a ticket, she can't sit alone!
0:28:40 > 0:28:41And neither you nor I can sit alone,
0:28:41 > 0:28:44so that means Laurie or Mr Brooke would have to.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47You're supposed to be the one with the ladylike manners, Meg.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52I hate you, Josephine March!
0:28:54 > 0:28:57You'll pay for this. Just you wait.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Hurry!
0:29:04 > 0:29:05Come on!
0:29:07 > 0:29:09I'm sorry! Meg was fussing with her hair.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12She won't let me near with the tongs any more!
0:30:02 > 0:30:06DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
0:30:15 > 0:30:18My feet just chattered on the ground.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20I couldn't even ring the bell.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Keep your cloak and bonnet on.
0:30:26 > 0:30:30You can come with me to the Hummels. Amy, would you like to come, too?
0:30:30 > 0:30:34No, thank you, Marmee. I'll stay home and tidy my art box.
0:30:44 > 0:30:49We're promised a Chorus of Comical Crimson Imps, among other delights.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52Jo, why not change places with Meg?
0:30:52 > 0:30:55The man in front of her is really tall.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05INDISTINCT CHAT
0:31:23 > 0:31:27LAUGHTER
0:31:53 > 0:31:56LAUGHTER
0:32:08 > 0:32:12- Girls! Did you enjoy the play? - If you're lucky, after dinner, Meg
0:32:12 > 0:32:15and I will reprise the entire Ballet Of The Swans!
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Jo bought these for you in the foyer. Chocolate-coated caramels.
0:32:19 > 0:32:20Why?
0:32:20 > 0:32:24Because I was a crosspatch, and I'm sorry.
0:32:24 > 0:32:25Thank you.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Why not unwrap them, Amy?
0:32:27 > 0:32:30It's the kind of treat that tastes much better when it's shared.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32I imagine all treats taste better when shared.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34I'll take you to the play next week, Amy.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37There are tickets, I asked at the office.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41So which one of youse young ladies has been meddling
0:32:41 > 0:32:42with my cooking range?!
0:32:42 > 0:32:46I leave the house for one hour in pursuit of additional onions
0:32:46 > 0:32:50and I come back to my kitchen to find the stove cold, smoking
0:32:50 > 0:32:53and choked with a load of scrawny papers!
0:33:02 > 0:33:05This is mine. This is my writing!
0:33:05 > 0:33:06What's happened to the rest of it?
0:33:06 > 0:33:09In a nutshell, it's all turned to soot and black ash.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16Amy, did you burn my book?
0:33:17 > 0:33:19I said I'd make you pay for being so hateful.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21And I have.
0:33:25 > 0:33:26Girls! Jo!
0:33:26 > 0:33:30You wicked, wicked girl! I will never write again!
0:33:30 > 0:33:33And I will never forgive you as long as I live!
0:33:33 > 0:33:36- Jo! Stop! Stop!- Why should I? It's too late to stop her!
0:33:42 > 0:33:44Amy, how could you?
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Did you see what she did?!
0:33:49 > 0:33:52- Did you see what she did?! - Yes.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58And don't look to me for comfort, because I don't blame her!
0:33:58 > 0:34:04AMY SOBS
0:34:08 > 0:34:10If it was in your head once, some of it must still be in there.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13Writing isn't like that. You can't keep it anywhere.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17It passes through you and you have to catch it and get it on the page.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20And do you know the worst thing? I don't even know if it was any good.
0:34:20 > 0:34:24All I ever wanted was to take it somewhere to show it to someone
0:34:24 > 0:34:27to see if it might be fit to publish.
0:34:27 > 0:34:28I don't mind if you cry, Jo.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32- Tears are an unmanly weakness. - You're not a man!
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Go on. Apologise.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55I'm truly, truly sorry, Jo.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02- Please forgive me. - I can't.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06Did you hear that? I apologised and she won't accept it!
0:35:13 > 0:35:20Jo...don't let the sun go down on your anger. You're sisters.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Forgive each other.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27- You can start again in the morning. - Start what again? My book?
0:35:27 > 0:35:32Amy did an abominable thing and she doesn't deserve to be forgiven!
0:35:44 > 0:35:46I can't imagine any of you quarrelling.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49You don't have to imagine it. We've been at odds for days now.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52Even Beth acts grieved and wistful all the time.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54But it always looks so idyllic,
0:35:54 > 0:35:57when I look down and see you through the parlour window in the evenings.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59It's like the window is a frame
0:35:59 > 0:36:01and you're all part of a perfect picture.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05You must cherish your illusions if they make you happy.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07What would make YOU happy, Jo?
0:36:09 > 0:36:11Skating. With you.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14You said we should, if the lake froze properly
0:36:14 > 0:36:16and this is probably the last ice we shall have.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19- I also said we'd take Amy. - What?- I'm sorry.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21It was before she burnt your book.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Now, stay away from the middle
0:36:43 > 0:36:47and if you hear a cracking sound, it means the ice is about to give.
0:36:47 > 0:36:49If you don't hear a crack...
0:36:51 > 0:36:52..it's time for hockey!
0:36:55 > 0:36:56Not so fast!
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Jo! Jo!
0:37:48 > 0:37:51Jo, will you help me put my skates on?
0:37:53 > 0:37:54Laurie invited me last week,
0:37:54 > 0:38:00I don't need you to talk to me, I just need you to do the straps.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02If you're old enough to force your way in when you're not wanted,
0:38:02 > 0:38:05you're old enough to fasten them yourself!
0:38:06 > 0:38:09You won't shut me out like this!
0:38:11 > 0:38:13We're supposed to be trying to be good people!
0:38:13 > 0:38:16And you, Jo March, aren't going to get anywhere
0:38:16 > 0:38:19when you ignore someone who's trying to set a virtuous...
0:38:19 > 0:38:21SHE SCREAMS
0:38:24 > 0:38:27- Amy! - Jo!
0:38:27 > 0:38:30Amy! Jo, stop!
0:38:30 > 0:38:32You can't walk on it, it's too thin.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38She didn't know! You told me, and I didn't tell her. She didn't know.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Jo! Jo!
0:38:40 > 0:38:42Amy. Don't move. I'm coming to get you.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45You have to stay absolutely still, Amy,
0:38:45 > 0:38:47and when I get to you, trust me absolutely.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49Don't grab me, do you understand?
0:38:53 > 0:38:57Jo... This won't do, Jo. Go find a branch!
0:39:28 > 0:39:31Take it! Take it, Amy. Take it.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33Don't let go, Jo.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Never. I swear to you. Never.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48Jo, Amy won't even catch cold, you wrapped her up so well
0:39:48 > 0:39:50and brought her home so quickly.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Laurie did everything.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54All I did was let her go skating off alone
0:39:54 > 0:39:57because I can't conquer my horrible temper.
0:39:58 > 0:40:02It's been your burden since you were a little girl.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04You will learn to master it.
0:40:04 > 0:40:05I won't!
0:40:05 > 0:40:09I try and I think I've won, and then it breaks out worse than ever.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11I'll never learn to govern myself.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14- You don't know what it's like, Marmee!- I do!
0:40:15 > 0:40:17But you're never angry.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19No. I never SEEM angry.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24But I am angry, almost every day of my life.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27I've been trying to cure my rage for 40 years...
0:40:28 > 0:40:31..and have only succeeded in controlling it.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33Are you angry when you press your lips together
0:40:33 > 0:40:35and go out of the room?
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Yes.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Father doesn't have a temper, does he?
0:40:43 > 0:40:46He's always so wise and so patient.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49No-one is without their trials.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55But his strengths speak to my weaknesses and help to bear me up.
0:40:57 > 0:40:58Don't cry, Marmee.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03You didn't even cry when Father left for Washington in his uniform.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07I gave my best to the country I love
0:41:07 > 0:41:09and saved my tears till he was gone.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15Sometimes, we simply have to do the bravest thing.
0:41:41 > 0:41:42I'm sorry.
0:41:45 > 0:41:46So am I.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05CAREFREE LAUGHTER
0:42:16 > 0:42:19When Laurie said his visitors were English, I thought it would
0:42:19 > 0:42:21all be very smart and formal.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22I even bought new gloves.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Give them to me. I'm going back to sit by the hampers.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28And which ensign do you sail under, Miss Margaret?
0:42:28 > 0:42:29The Union Jack or the Union Flag?
0:42:29 > 0:42:32Oh, I dare say I ought to make our guests feel welcome.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35A delightful gesture and a very good choice.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51There they are! We're coming for you!
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Amy! Don't you dare!
0:42:59 > 0:43:01Jo!
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Have they sent you up here to talk to me?
0:43:23 > 0:43:25No.
0:43:25 > 0:43:26I just came.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30I'm scared to talk to them.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31Are you shy?
0:43:34 > 0:43:35I'm not.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39Although I can't claim to be particularly interesting.
0:43:41 > 0:43:46I used to be able to talk about two things - hunting and cricket.
0:43:46 > 0:43:47But I broke my legs hunting,
0:43:47 > 0:43:51and I can't think you and I would get very far with cricket.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00I have a pack of cards with me.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04Oh! No, I'm worse at cards than I am at conversation.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12If you'd like to try cricket, I will listen very hard.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25Did you enjoy the translation of the German poem?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27I left it in your mailbox on Sunday.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29- Oh, that was you.- Yes.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31We all thought it was Laurie.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Do you read German, Miss March?
0:44:33 > 0:44:34My father was teaching me,
0:44:34 > 0:44:38but I've fallen behind since he went to Washington with the Army.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41Perhaps the deficiency might be remedied by your governess.
0:44:43 > 0:44:44I am a governess.
0:44:45 > 0:44:46A paid governess?
0:44:47 > 0:44:49I work for a family called the Kings.
0:44:49 > 0:44:51They have four little children.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53I see.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56Laurie didn't make your position entirely plain.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58You must excuse me.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07I had hoped that Miss Vaughn and I might be friends.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12I think perhaps ours is the country to belong to,
0:45:12 > 0:45:13if you have to be a worker.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15I get great satisfaction from earning a wage.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20I only wish I enjoyed teaching as much as you do.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23You would, if you had Laurie as a pupil.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25And I shall miss him, when he goes to college next year.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Next year? That's not so very far away.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31I shall wave him off and turn soldier.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34And I have no family to miss me, or even care, should I not be spared.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37Laurie and Mr Laurence would care a great deal.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41And we would all be heartbroken if you came to any harm.
0:45:44 > 0:45:45Thank you.
0:45:46 > 0:45:50Now, Miss Meg, let's race back to those hampers.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10This rat's getting particular as well as tame, Jo.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12He likes the cheese.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14He wouldn't touch the ham.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16I said you mustn't talk until I've finished this chapter.
0:46:16 > 0:46:17Jo?
0:46:19 > 0:46:21Jo! Have you seen my cream glove?
0:46:21 > 0:46:24- It's half of the kid pair I had new at Laurie's picnic.- No.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28Oh.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32- I bet you used it to mop up lemonade.- Shh!
0:47:46 > 0:47:48Nobody is supposed to play that piano!
0:47:48 > 0:47:50I'm sorry, Mr Laurence!
0:47:50 > 0:47:53I'm sorry. I know I was supposed to play the concert grand, but...
0:47:53 > 0:47:56No, no, no...
0:47:56 > 0:47:57Oh, my word.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01I'm sorry.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04I didn't mean to startle you.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06But I once had a daughter
0:48:06 > 0:48:09who loved this piano as much as I loved her.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16I thought silence was her best memorial,
0:48:16 > 0:48:18but now I suspect I may be mistaken.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Don't stop.
0:48:22 > 0:48:23Here we are.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Please.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57You've travelled all over Italy.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00What do they do with the sunflowers over there?
0:49:00 > 0:49:02I don't want to poison Aunt Cockle-top and the chicks!
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Aunt Cockle-top and the chicks are eating every little seed
0:49:04 > 0:49:06that falls to earth.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08They don't look like they're being poisoned to me.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14Meg's been in our hothouse with Brooke for a long time.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16What do you mean?
0:49:16 > 0:49:18She only went to fetch the orange tree he's been raising from a pip
0:49:18 > 0:49:22and all I have to say is, how much fetching does an orange tree take?
0:49:22 > 0:49:25You're insinuating things and I don't care for it.
0:49:25 > 0:49:27You're better than that and so is Meg.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30It might be insinuating if I didn't know where her cream glove was.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32Or who had it and still does.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Brooke has Meg's glove?
0:49:36 > 0:49:37- How do you know?- Saw it.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40He's had it in his pocket all this time.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42- Isn't that romantic?- No.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45It's horrid.
0:49:47 > 0:49:48Bad boy.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Brooke?
0:49:51 > 0:49:52No.
0:49:52 > 0:49:53You, for telling me.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02Marmee, can I have some pickled limes to take to school on Monday?
0:50:02 > 0:50:04- Pickled limes? - It's the fashion.
0:50:06 > 0:50:10It used to be pricking bits of India rubber to make balls.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13Mr Davies said they were a distraction and forbade them,
0:50:13 > 0:50:15so now it's pickled limes.
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Marmee!
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Look what Mr Brooke gave me for my piece of the garden.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22And I have pansies. Mr Laurence calls them heartsease -
0:50:22 > 0:50:25- he says they're his favourite flower. - HORSE APPROACHES
0:50:29 > 0:50:30It's a telegram.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Your father is very ill
0:51:24 > 0:51:26and I have been asked to go to him at once.
0:51:28 > 0:51:32Laurie, if you would go to Plumfield
0:51:32 > 0:51:36and ask for this note to be given to Aunt March, I would be grateful.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Is there nothing else I can do?
0:51:40 > 0:51:41I...
0:51:42 > 0:51:43I don't know.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Hannah, the brown trunk from the garret.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02We have sufficient sal volatile and nux vomica, but...
0:52:04 > 0:52:06..Jo, you'll have to get me some more...
0:52:08 > 0:52:11..belladonna and some Holloway's pills.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14- Where from? - From the pharmacy on Main Street!
0:52:16 > 0:52:17What can I do?
0:52:19 > 0:52:23You must help Hannah prepare some linen for your father.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26And while I'm away, you must help her with the laundry.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28What can we do?
0:52:29 > 0:52:30Pray.
0:52:32 > 0:52:36Pray that I may be able to afford the train to Washington.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38Soon.
0:52:38 > 0:52:39Pray that I am not too late.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43Oh, children, help me. Help me to bear it.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16- Bonjour, Mademoiselle. - Do you only speak French?
0:53:16 > 0:53:19Because I have to be elsewhere and I need to do this quickly.
0:53:23 > 0:53:24DOOR CLOSES
0:53:29 > 0:53:32When you send me a written appeal for aid, the least you can do
0:53:32 > 0:53:36is to await me in the parlour and without an apron on.
0:53:36 > 0:53:40I didn't think you'd come in person.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42- May I offer you a chair? - I think not.
0:53:45 > 0:53:49I'm sorry, Mademoiselle, but we never pay lavishly.
0:53:49 > 0:53:52It's the work that renders a wig so costly.
0:53:52 > 0:53:57And yours would have to be dyed - it is a sadly unfashionable colour.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04I need 25.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11My father is a Union Army Chaplain.
0:54:11 > 0:54:14He is mortally sick in a hospital in Washington
0:54:14 > 0:54:17and my mother can't even raise the money for her train ticket.
0:54:19 > 0:54:21Don't you have anyone fighting in the War?
0:54:23 > 0:54:24A son.
0:54:26 > 0:54:2825.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34I hate to beg. I hate it.
0:54:35 > 0:54:36But you did.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38Yes.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40And my husband may still die.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44But at least, if I go to him, he may not die alone.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48Well, what ails the fool? Dysentery?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50Typhus? Apoplexy?
0:54:51 > 0:54:53The telegram didn't say.
0:54:53 > 0:54:56In which case it was indubitably written by a man.
0:54:56 > 0:55:00I venture to suggest that we had best send a woman there,
0:55:00 > 0:55:03so that we might, ah, ascertain the facts.
0:55:06 > 0:55:07Thank you.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25I was able to get you everything you wanted.
0:55:25 > 0:55:26Oh, you splendid girl.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31Mr Laurence is sending Mr Brooke to Washington on business
0:55:31 > 0:55:34and he can escort me on my journey and is to make sure that Father
0:55:34 > 0:55:37and I have everything that we might need.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40Meanwhile, Aunt March is lending me the money for my fare.
0:55:42 > 0:55:43Oh.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47Because I got you this.
0:55:49 > 0:55:50What is this?
0:55:58 > 0:56:00Oh.
0:56:12 > 0:56:13Your one beauty.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Oh, Jo.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23I leave you to Hannah's care...
0:56:24 > 0:56:27..and Mr Laurence's protection.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29KNOCK AT DOOR
0:56:32 > 0:56:33The carriage is ready.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39And I want you all to remember this one thing.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43Whatever may come to pass in Washington...
0:56:47 > 0:56:50..you can never be fatherless under heaven.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Take care of each other.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14I want to run after her.
0:57:14 > 0:57:15I want her to see us waving.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18No. Then she would know that we aren't being brave
0:57:18 > 0:57:20and that would distress her.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23If we were boys, we wouldn't be quaking and quivering like this.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44The female animal should not be indulged,
0:57:44 > 0:57:46for hers is a thorny path.
0:57:46 > 0:57:50I could be a better person, Laurie. I've known that for a while now.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52I think that too.
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Oh, please wake up.
0:57:54 > 0:57:55Please wake up.
0:57:55 > 0:57:59- Why do you never listen to anything I say, Laurie? - Because I want what's best for you.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02I would like to keep all of my girls for as long as I can,
0:58:02 > 0:58:05but I also want real love for all of you.