0:01:26 > 0:01:29'This film is dedicated to prisoners of war.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33'Their unbroken spirit is the symbol of a moral victory
0:01:33 > 0:01:35'for which no bells have pealed.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37'And which will not be remembered
0:01:37 > 0:01:40'with the battle names on regimental colours.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43'It was a war in which no decorations could be given,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45'but to have come out of it
0:01:45 > 0:01:49'with a whole spirit is its highest honour.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51'These are a few of those men
0:01:51 > 0:01:54'captured in the summer of 1940.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56'They were the men who stood on the Dial,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58'the Somme, and the La Basi Canal,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00'who fought at Calais, April, St Valery,
0:02:00 > 0:02:05'and the vital perimeter around the beaches of Dunkirk,
0:02:05 > 0:02:10'the men who held on until the German armour thundered past their lines.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13'220 miles they marched into captivity,
0:02:13 > 0:02:18'through that blazing, dusty June, through France, through Belgium,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21'through Holland, to the Rhine.'
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Ahh...
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Beer isn't what it used to be.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I hope the French beer isn't what it used to be, either.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Remember the last time, Ted?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Yeah, I remember something better than beer, too.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23That stunner! Ooh, she was a smasher.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25I can see her hair now, blacker than coal.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27And that savoury piece in Lille!
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Ooh, boy! She taught me a thing or two.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Pity you kept it to yourself.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35It's proud we should be married to a couple of Don Juans.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Don't believe a girl ever looked at him twice. Poor old dear.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- Steady, you looked twice, didn't you?- You caught me off me guard.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43I was low following the flu.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Wonder what made you marry me.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48You don't know? That wicked tenor voice you have.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- Leave them. Me and Ted will clear later.- Any more for any more?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- No, thank you.- It's nearly 12. We've got to be at the depot at 7am.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Come on home.- We'll have 'em both back before you can turn round.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59War will be over by Christmas.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01War will be over by Christmas? Where have I heard that before?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04It's a shame we got to close the business.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07It's just a habit we've got into, fighting the same war every 20 years.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Nasty habit, too.- Good night, Flo.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Good night.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12See you in the morning.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13All right.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15She's a proper worrier.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Shame she never had kids.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18And her always wanting them so much.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20They'd have took her mind off things.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Well, it's too late now, I suppose.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Are you sorry Glad and Mary are grown up?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Well, I am and I'm not, in a manner of speaking.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31What about starting all over again, old girl?
0:04:31 > 0:04:33No, thank you, Ted.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I'm too old for that kind of war work.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36HE CHUCKLES
0:05:05 > 0:05:07DRAMATIC PIANO MUSIC
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- Thanks, Stephen. I liked that a lot. - The boy definitely shows promise.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07- Nearly 1 o'clock.- May I cadge a lift? - Yes, of course.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Come on, Carol. Put your bonnet on.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- Cheerio. See you before you embark. - Righty-o, Robert.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Goodbye, Stephen, darling. Take care of yourself.- Good night.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Well, wait for me.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19(Stephen...)
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Come on, Carol!
0:06:21 > 0:06:24All right, Robert!
0:06:24 > 0:06:25(Caroline...)
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Caroline! Caroline!
0:06:32 > 0:06:36CAR DRIVES AWAY
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Stephen...
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Caroline!
0:06:46 > 0:06:48You left your scarf.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52I know.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54I had to come back.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Robert. What about him?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57I wanted to tell you.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00It's all over with Robert.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03I think he understands.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I told him three weeks ago.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07We met three weeks ago.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11I wasn't sure until tonight.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Caroline.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27You've only 48 hours before you go to France.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31It's nothing and it's everything.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Everything.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36I hope you know how to get a special licence.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:08:20 > 0:08:22HUBBUB
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- And don't forget to write, David. - Yes, Mum.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Let us know if there's anything you want.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Thank you, Mrs McDougall. Will you write to me, Elspeth?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31- Yes, David, I will. - You see, I...
0:08:31 > 0:08:33WHISTLE BLOWS
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Yes, David?
0:08:36 > 0:08:39- Goodbye, David. - Goodbye, David, my boy.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Goodbye, Mother.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Take care of yourself, David.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- Yes, Mrs McDougall. Elspeth, you see, I...- Me too, David.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46What did you say?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47I love you.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Elspeth. Elspeth, will you marry me?
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Yes, David!
0:08:53 > 0:08:55TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:09:06 > 0:09:08CHURCH BELLS TOLL
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Macht schnell! Los, los, schnell!
0:09:33 > 0:09:34MAN COUNTS IN GERMAN
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Mehr Tempo!
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Herr Major, dass die Offiziere von den Mannschaften getrennt werden.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49What's he talking about?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Sorry. I've no idea.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Can I be of any help?
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Do you speak German? Good.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00Herr Major hat Sie nicht verstanden. Kann ich ubersetzen, was Sie zu sagen wunschen?
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Ja, gut. Erklaren Sie, dass die Offiziere von den Mannschaften getrennt werden.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08He says the officers must be separated from the men.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10But we must keep the wounded with us.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12We've only got one MO among the lot of us.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Der Herr Major bittet, dass wir auf jeden Fall unsere Verwundeten bei uns behalten koennen.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Wir haben nur einen Arzt fuer uns alle.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Nun gut. Dann koennen Sie vorlaeufig zusammen bleiben bis Sie ins Lager transportiert werden.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- He says they may stay with us till we reach the camp.- Thank you.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- A lot of them will remain automatically on the orderlies' train.- That's right.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Well, come on, lads. In we go.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50- How's tricks, Evans? - Mustn't grumble, sir.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- You'll feel better with a gasper. - Thank you, sir.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55HE COUGHS
0:10:55 > 0:10:57I don't know that you ought to smoke with that chest.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Oh, it's nothing. Wound's practically healed.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01It's a pretty bad show all around.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I take it you fellows feel the same as I do.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06We mustn't let the Jerries see we're down.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Take the Jerries to get me down? It's them ruddy cobbles.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11What can I do for my feet, sir?
0:11:11 > 0:11:12Do what I do. Try to forget 'em.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I can't take 'em off, can I?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16How are you, Lennox? Eyes hurting you a bit?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18A wee bit, sir.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22We'll get the Jerries to give you some proper treatment As soon as we reach camp.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- Thank you, sir.- How about you?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Mustn't grumble.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- You OK?- Not too bad.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- How's the arm?- Feels better now, sir.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Good boy. All right, lads.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34It won't be long now.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Then you'll be able to have a real rest.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Thanks for the help just now.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Useful man to know. Perfect German.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Dalrymple's my name. 31st Lancers.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Geoffrey Mitchell, 5th Oxfordshire light infantry.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Oh, where did the Jerries pick you up?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Thionville.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53- Oh, really? I didn't know the 5th were anywhere near there.- Yes.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Oh!
0:12:17 > 0:12:19GUNFIRE
0:12:21 > 0:12:23EXPLOSIONS
0:13:23 > 0:13:26TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:13:52 > 0:13:54GERMAN SOLDIERS BARK ORDERS
0:14:10 > 0:14:12March to attention!
0:14:19 > 0:14:21MEN START WHISTLING
0:14:26 > 0:14:28ALL WHISTLE TUNE TOGETHER
0:15:06 > 0:15:09CLOCK CHIMES HOUR
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Good afternoon.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Good afternoon. Do sit down, won't you?
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Thank you.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25My name's Celia Mitchell.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28I've heard my husband may be a prisoner of war...
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Captain Geoffrey Mitchell.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Maybe. Didn't the war office notify you, Mrs Mitchell?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Well, no, you see, I don't expect he put me down as next of kin.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Oh, I beg your pardon.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Your husband's regiment?
0:15:39 > 0:15:405th Oxford light infantry.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44General index. Give me particulars of Captain Geoffrey Mitchell,
0:15:44 > 0:15:465th Oxfordshire light infantry, will you?
0:15:46 > 0:15:48I'd like to send him parcels.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49I suppose I can do that.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50Oh, yes, certainly.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54Flag 27. Prisoner of war number 1376.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Thank you.
0:16:04 > 0:16:05Hello, Mummy!
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Hello, darling. Have you had a lovely day with Grandpa?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Will Father ever come back to us, Grandpa,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12even when the war's over?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Well, would you be glad if he did?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16No. He used to make Mummy cry.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17He is a prisoner.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19- Hello, Desmond.- Hello, Mummy.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Janet, I'll leave you in charge.
0:16:27 > 0:16:28Well?
0:16:28 > 0:16:31He didn't put me down as next of kin.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Well, that seems to be the final gesture, doesn't it, my dear?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43It was only logical, I suppose.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Poor Geoffrey.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Poor Geoffrey?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Well, I for one don't intend to shed any tears over him.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50- Father?- Hmm?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52I'm going to write to him.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55- You are?- Yes.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Can't do any harm or good.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59They must be glad of any news of home.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02I don't suppose Geoffrey ever betrayed the faintest interest in his home.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05I can tell him how the children are getting on.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08I can see Geoffrey regaling his fellow prisoners
0:17:08 > 0:17:11with news of the children he's scarcely ever seen.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12You're afraid, aren't you, Father?
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Certainly. I'm afraid that you may let yourself be carried away
0:17:16 > 0:17:19by sentimentality and suggest patching things up with him.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Don't worry.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24But we said so many hard, cruel things to each other.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I'd like to wipe out the memory of them.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28And then if we should happen to meet when the war's over,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30it won't be as enemies.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Here. Go easy with the soap.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Sorry, old boy.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57We may make it last two days more if we're very careful.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00After that, we've got to make do with godliness.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02I say, Padre, what are you smoking? Sauerkraut?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Fag ends of fag ends of fag ends.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Lucky fellow. I'm down to Mr Middleton's specials.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Not a cough in a contest.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12I hear there's a bush around here that's not too bad in a pipe.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Had a marvellous dream last night.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Anybody I know?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Eggs and bacon.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Tomato ketchup this time.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21We must have lost a shocking lot of stuff.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22There's nothing to stop 'em.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25He's bound to invade before the end of summer, that's the end of us.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- Steady. What about the home fleet? - What about the Luftwaffe?!
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Well, of all the damn defeatists!
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Well, if you prefer to be a ruddy halfwit.- What about the RAF?
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Hitler can't stage an invasion
0:18:34 > 0:18:36until he's got control of the air,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- and I don't see the boys handing him that on a plate.- Hear, hear!
0:18:39 > 0:18:42You can't judge Hitler by ordinary standards.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44If he thinks he'll invade, he'll invade.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54My old woman makes the kids pay a penny a week for the Red Cross.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56I'm writing to her to stop that caper.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Red ruddy Cross!
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Bloody sausage we ever get out of it!
0:18:59 > 0:19:01It's only two months.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Don't forget, there were only a few hundred prisoners here before.
0:19:05 > 0:19:06Now there are tens of thousands.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07It's a big job.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Yeah. Don't let's kid ourselves.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Nobody worries about us anymore.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12We've been written off.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14You're a pessimist.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16How do you spell "sufficient"?
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Same as the Sergeant Major's blessing, two "F"s and one "C".
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Writing about the grub.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Muck, I call it.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Bit of the old woman's cooking is what I'd like now.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28What a sucker I was joining the ruddy army.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Picturing meself cutting loose with some rowdy old French dames.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Here I am shut up in this place till I'll be past it.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36You ought to have joined the Navy and let the world see you.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Now, son, there's no use you blowing off.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Take things as you find them, that's always been my motto.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43The way I look at it is...
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Hark at you! Drip, drip, drip. You're worse than a woman.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Knock it, sonny. I was swinging a rifle
0:19:47 > 0:19:49when your nappies was on the line.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Swinging a lead, more like it.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Here, if you want a clip on the ear, my lad, you've come to the right person.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Ohh!
0:19:55 > 0:19:58- That cigarette. Let me see it. - What do you mean see it?
0:19:58 > 0:19:59It's a Player's. Where did you get it?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Saved it up. What's it to you?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- I had three Player's left. You stole it!- Ah, go chase yourself.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Hand it over!- Pipe down, you little Welshman.- Give it back!
0:20:14 > 0:20:17You did pinch that fag, you young basket.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Yes, I did. So what?
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- Just this.- Ooh!
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Been asking for it, sonny.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28I'm a man of peace, and peace is what I'm going to have plenty of in here.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Blimey. They'll have to have you at the peace conference.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- How are you today, Jessup? - Mustn't grumble, sir.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- Manage to get any sleep? - Not so as you'd notice.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38We'll soon get you out of here.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Morning, Lennox.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Oh, good morning, sir.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Got some good news for you, David.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Yes, Padre?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Yes, my lad. You'll be rejoining the rest of us tomorrow.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Oh, that's fine, sir.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55And I'll be able to take this bandage off?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Not yet, I'm afraid.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00You'll have to wait till the optic nerve is completely healthy again.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02They'll send you to the eye hospital for an operation.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05So you'll have to be a very patient patient, my boy.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07I'll do my best, sir.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10That's right.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15I'm sorry, mate. I'll give you a packet of 20
0:21:15 > 0:21:17when the Red Cross parcels come.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Losing my temper over a fag.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21I shouldn't have left them loafing about.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24You know, you wouldn't be a bad lad,
0:21:24 > 0:21:25if you got rid of some of your nasty habits.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Nark it. Leave all that reforming stuff to the padre.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31What's your job in Civvy Street?
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Only suckers work.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- Oh, a wide boy, eh? - You bet.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Me and Ted's in the building business.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39What about learning the trade when we get home?
0:21:39 > 0:21:41I'll be home long before you two mugs.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43I'm going to scarper.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45You got out of tougher spots than this, eh?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46- Sure.- Got a plan?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Dozens of 'em. For instance...
0:21:49 > 0:21:51You know, I can't make up me mind
0:21:51 > 0:21:54whether to turn this into a brigantine or a schooner.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58GIRL GIGGLES
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I wonder how Jane's getting on these days?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Who is Jane?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Your girl?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10No, no, the Jane, the strip in the Mirror.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Oh, yes, the strip in the Mirror.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15I suppose a highbrow like you wouldn't read the Daily Mirror.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Oh, I don't know. Why highbrow?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20I mean, perfect German and all that sort of thing.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Spent much time in Germany?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Yes, as a matter of fact, I have.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Come to think of it, it's funny that
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- none of the rest of your chaps got caught with you.- Yes.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Did you have a company?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Yes, machine gun company.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Machine gun company?!
0:22:35 > 0:22:36You see, I...
0:22:36 > 0:22:39I think I'll turn it up. Wound's hurting a bit.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48All I have to do is stow away in one of them garbage bins or something, why, it's as easy as...
0:22:48 > 0:22:51If you're planning an escape, Mathews,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53may I give you a piece of advice?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Individual escapes hardly ever succeed.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58These things have to be planned and coordinated by a whole group.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02All the same, sir, I'm going to have a go at it if you have no objections.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Well, good luck to you.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Good luck. Two-faced bleeder.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11I don't know what it is, but there's something phony about that bloke.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Always sucking up with the German MO or Commandant.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Look, men!
0:23:19 > 0:23:22That settles it.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24But they have machine gun companies in the German army.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- You seriously think he's a traitor? - He speaks German as well as any German.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Why shouldn't he be a German planted here as a stool pigeon?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- That would account for a lot of things.- We're always talking about home. He never does.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- I hate to believe it. - Come in.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38May I report something, sir?
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Go ahead.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Well, it's rather confidential, sir.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43It's about somebody we think's a fifth columnist.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45- An officer? - A matter of fact, sir, it is.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Captain Mitchell, sir.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49- There you are. - He overheard me planning a breakout
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- and went and talked to one of the German guards.- Thank you.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56- Keep your mouth shut for the time being.- Very good, sir.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58There's only one thing to do with a rat. String him up!
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Here, wait a bit. Man's innocent till he's proved guilty.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Don't let us behave like a bunch of Nazis.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Come on.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12Oh, Mitchell, you didn't destroy your identity card, did you?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13No, why?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Oh, just check up. Have a look at it?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Do you mind duplicating your signature?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35You can't do it, you swine, your name isn't Mitchell!
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- Come on, what are we waiting for? Let's get it over with!- Stop it!
0:24:38 > 0:24:40If you have anything to say, you better say it quick.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41It's a long story, and...
0:24:43 > 0:24:45..you wouldn't believe a word of it.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- You're dead right, we wouldn't! - Shut up! Go on, spill it.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50I'm not a German. I'm a Czech.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53A Czech in British uniform? That's bloody likely!
0:24:53 > 0:24:55I'm in charge here. Shut up, and that's an order!
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Come on.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59I escaped from a German concentration camp.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01I got through to France, and I took this uniform
0:25:01 > 0:25:04and the identity card from Mitchell's dead body.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07It was my only chance if the Germans caught up with me.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09If that's the truth, why didn't you tell us?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Would you have believed me any more than you do now?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Besides, I have more to fear from the stool pigeons than you have.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16You've no proof of your story.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18None. How could I have?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20How do you come to speak such perfect English and German?
0:25:20 > 0:25:24My father was at the Czech embassy in London after the last war.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25I spent my childhood there.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28German is a sort of second language in Czechoslovakia.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31I became professor of English at Prague University.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33I'm not much of a soldier, I'm afraid.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35What were you talking about to that guard just now?
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Oh, I was trying to get a chess set for David Lennox.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41- PA:- 'Achtung! Achtung!
0:25:41 > 0:25:43'All British prisoners will parade at once.'
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- You may get proof of my story after all.- How?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51The civilian. His name's Forster.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Gestapo.- How do you know?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55He ran the concentration camp I was in.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57You think he'll recognise you?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Well, if he does, he'll do your job for you.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- 'Achtung! Achtung!' - Come on.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05'All British prisoners will parade at once.'
0:26:05 > 0:26:07HE GREETS HIM IN GERMAN
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Right turn!
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Stand your men at ease, please.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Stand at ease!
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Gentlemen, I present to you Herr Forster, the foreign office.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Gentlemen. For the time being, all communications
0:26:25 > 0:26:29between Germany and England are at a standstill.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Your letters, therefore, cannot leave this country.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34To keep you informed, however,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38our news bulletins will be broadcast to you in English.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42And as you cannot hope to receive news from home,
0:26:42 > 0:26:44arrangements have been made for you
0:26:44 > 0:26:47to broadcast messages to your next of kin.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49GRUMBLING
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Will all those who wish to avail themselves
0:26:52 > 0:26:56of Herr Forster's offer, take three paces forward!
0:27:14 > 0:27:16You are the senior British officer?
0:27:16 > 0:27:21- Yes.- Are your men afraid that this is some sort of propaganda trick?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Well, it's just possible. - As you wish.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Your name?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Mitchell. - Mitchell?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32You are the officer acting as hospital interpreter.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Yes.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I understand you speak almost perfect German.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38That's rather unusual for an Englishman.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- Is it?- I wonder why your face seems familiar.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43I have many friends in England.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Possibly we met there.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Possibly.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Excuse me.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50Yes?
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Do you wish to continue this conversation?
0:27:54 > 0:27:58- No.- Prisoners cannot be required to answer any questions
0:27:58 > 0:28:00other than relating to name, rank, and number.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Quite, quite.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04The matter is of no importance.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11You may dismiss the parade.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Parade, turn!
0:28:19 > 0:28:21- PA:- 'This is today's official war communique
0:28:21 > 0:28:23'issued by the German high command.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27'The Battle of Britain has entered upon a new and final stage.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30'Annihilation of England's towns and cities
0:28:30 > 0:28:32'by the all-conquering Luftwaffe.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34'Last night, just before sunset,
0:28:34 > 0:28:37'the air-raid sirens sounded their ominous wailing notes
0:28:37 > 0:28:40'to the 9 million inhabitants of Greater London.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44'All night, an endless stream of bombers roared above the city
0:28:44 > 0:28:46'discharging their loads of high-explosive
0:28:46 > 0:28:48'and incendiary bombs.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51'Anti-aircraft opposition was negligible,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54'for the British do not possess the guns to defend their homeland.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58'And this attack will continue every night from dusk till dawn
0:28:58 > 0:29:03'until the nerve centre and capital city of the British Empire
0:29:03 > 0:29:07'is reduced to a vast pile of rubble, dust, and ashes.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10'The words of our great battle hymn have come true at last.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13'Wir fahren gegen England!
0:29:13 > 0:29:16'We march against England!'
0:29:16 > 0:29:20GERMAN BATTLE HYMN PLAYS
0:30:04 > 0:30:08Come on, boys. Let's give 'em our great battle hymn!
0:30:08 > 0:30:11# Roll out the barrel
0:30:11 > 0:30:15# We'll have a barrel of fun
0:30:15 > 0:30:19# Roll out the barrel
0:30:19 > 0:30:23# We've got the blues on the run
0:30:23 > 0:30:26# Zing, boom, terrara
0:30:26 > 0:30:30# Sing out a song of good cheer
0:30:30 > 0:30:33# Now's the time to roll the barrel
0:30:33 > 0:30:36# Cos the gang's all here... #
0:30:36 > 0:30:37Come on!
0:30:37 > 0:30:41# Roll out the barrel
0:30:41 > 0:30:44# We'll have a barrel of fun
0:30:44 > 0:30:47# Roll out the barrel
0:30:47 > 0:30:52# We've got the blues on the run
0:30:52 > 0:30:55# Zing, boom, terrara
0:30:55 > 0:30:58# Sing out a song of good cheer
0:30:58 > 0:31:02# Now's the time to roll the barrel
0:31:02 > 0:31:05# For the gang's all here! #
0:31:10 > 0:31:13You should have come to see me before this, Mrs Evans.
0:31:13 > 0:31:14Nothing wrong, is there?
0:31:14 > 0:31:17No, but you're not exactly robust.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20I had the flu last year, but nothing since.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21And you're over 40, aren't you?
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Only just.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Well, we needn't make any decision yet.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28Decision?
0:31:28 > 0:31:31I may have to suggest an operation.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35I see.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Thank you, Doctor.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38I was at Finn's the night before last.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Miracle none of us copped it.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42The guvnor was just standing around.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44This one's on the house, he said. And lummy, it was.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47- Well, dear? - Everything's all right.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50Waste of time and money it was, making me come and see the doctor.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Your dad wanted to make quite sure, you know.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Yes, of course.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56I always felt I'd failed him,
0:31:56 > 0:31:58but never a word of reproach.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00There's kind he is, all through.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03But now, now I won't fail him.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- I know I won't. - Of course you won't, dear.
0:32:05 > 0:32:10PLAYS SIMPLE ROMANTIC MELODY
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Stephen wrote that for me.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27My application's been approved, Carol.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29Staff job, west Africa.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31I was going to ask you for a photograph,
0:32:31 > 0:32:33but perhaps I'm better without it.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37Look, Robert, ever since Beryl's been living here with me,
0:32:37 > 0:32:39I've seen how crazy she is about you.
0:32:39 > 0:32:40Why don't you and she...
0:32:40 > 0:32:43Beryl and I might have made a go of it
0:32:43 > 0:32:44if I hadn't met you first.
0:32:44 > 0:32:45I'm sorry, Robert.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48I did treat you shabbily.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51No, you didn't. I realise now you were never more than just fond of me.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54You'd have realised it, too, even if Stephen hadn't turned up.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56I always will be fond of you.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58As long as you're happy. That's what matters.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00That's sweet of you.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02My dear...
0:33:11 > 0:33:13I'm sorry.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15I'm not.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21But it's got to be goodbye, Robert.
0:33:21 > 0:33:22Goodbye.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47Last Christmas, I had my first concert.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49It's there I met Caroline.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58Last Christmas, I was in Dachau concentration camp.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02Christmas eve, a new batch of prisoners came in.
0:34:02 > 0:34:06One of them brought me news of my family.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09They'd been caught giving food to a Polish Jew.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12They were taken out and shot.
0:34:14 > 0:34:15My father, my mother...
0:34:18 > 0:34:19All of them.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Only 36 shopping days to Christmas.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Christmas. Parked around a blazing fire
0:34:23 > 0:34:25with a great bowl of hot rum punch.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28Looks like it's snowing again. That should raise the temperature.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30What binds me is living by courtesy of Jerry.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Can't see any future in it, really.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34They say the first seven years are the hardest.
0:34:34 > 0:34:35If the next six are like this...
0:34:35 > 0:34:38The Red Cross parcels are bound to arrive soon.
0:34:38 > 0:34:43- You've been saying that for exactly four months.- I've been meaning it!
0:34:43 > 0:34:44All I can think about is food.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Roast turkey, mince pies, Christmas...
0:34:47 > 0:34:48Oh, shut up!
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Das ist alles.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Well, lad, it's me again.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Yes, padre.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07David, they can't operate.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Not...ever?
0:35:11 > 0:35:13No, David.
0:35:15 > 0:35:19I won't ever see again?
0:35:20 > 0:35:22I don't believe it. It's that German doctor.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24- When I get back to Scotland... - No.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30David, it's no use. You've got to face it.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35I'll not need this anymore.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38You feel now there's nothing left to live for,
0:35:38 > 0:35:42and that feeling will go on for a long time,
0:35:42 > 0:35:47but then you'll begin to remember the things that are left.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52You'll begin to realise that this darkness of yours is not absolute.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57David, the things that make life worthwhile for all of us...
0:35:57 > 0:36:02kindness, affection, companionship...
0:36:02 > 0:36:06The loss of your sight can never rob you of those things, David.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08We're your friends here.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12We offer you our help and understanding.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15And waiting to welcome you home
0:36:15 > 0:36:21when all this is over, are your own folk who love you.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27I'll be all right.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40HE SOBS
0:36:46 > 0:36:5018, 20, play 21s.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53- What's for tea?- Fancy cakes. Just fancy you've had 'em.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Good job we haven't got any brass monkeys in here,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58we'd have the RSPCA down on us, and no error.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01Can't you do anything with this ruddy stove?
0:37:01 > 0:37:02Isn't there anything else to burn?
0:37:08 > 0:37:10All right.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12I never said a word, did I?
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Go on, burn the ruddy thing.
0:37:14 > 0:37:15It's enough for a brew-up.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28They've come! Hundreds and hundreds of 'em!
0:37:28 > 0:37:30All right, I'll bite. Hundreds of what?
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Red Cross parcels, ruddy mountains of 'em!
0:37:32 > 0:37:34ALL SHOUT AND CHEER
0:37:39 > 0:37:41The Red Cross parcels are here!
0:37:41 > 0:37:43ALL: Hooray!
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Red Cross parcels are here!
0:37:45 > 0:37:46ALL: Hooray!
0:38:20 > 0:38:25MEN SING: # O come all ye faithful
0:38:25 > 0:38:30# Joyful and triumphant
0:38:30 > 0:38:35# O come ye, O come ye
0:38:35 > 0:38:39# To Bethlehem
0:38:39 > 0:38:44# Come and behold him
0:38:44 > 0:38:48# Born the king of angels
0:38:48 > 0:38:53# O come let us adore him
0:38:53 > 0:38:58# O come let us adore him
0:38:58 > 0:39:03# O come let us adore him
0:39:03 > 0:39:09# Christ the Lord
0:39:09 > 0:39:13# Sing choirs of angels... #
0:39:13 > 0:39:17OC Sports, you. OC Music, Stephen Harley.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19- Anything else I haven't covered? - No. Extraordinary, isn't it?
0:39:19 > 0:39:21We seem to have specialists on every subject.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24Aren't you an expert on anything?
0:39:24 > 0:39:25Only racing, I'm afraid.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28I had thought of starting a little bookmaking business.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31Why not? Anyway, our money will be safe. You can't welsh on us.
0:39:31 > 0:39:32THEY LAUGH
0:39:44 > 0:39:45OK, number four shift.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47- How far?- About three feet.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49Good. By the way, doc, I put you down OC Entertainment.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53- Fine.- What about me? I've had masses of experience backstage.
0:39:53 > 0:39:54What sort of experience?
0:39:54 > 0:39:57No need to make low insinuendos, old man.
0:39:57 > 0:39:58Come on, fellows! Here it is!
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Mail from home!
0:40:01 > 0:40:03- Baker!- Here!
0:40:03 > 0:40:06- Macdonald!- Here!
0:40:06 > 0:40:08My father's been thrown through the dispensary window.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10What, by an angry patient?
0:40:10 > 0:40:12No, a bomb.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14Well, well, they've requisitioned the church hall.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16- I say, that's serious.- What is?
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Veronica. She sweats all night.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Well, surely she can do something about it,
0:40:20 > 0:40:22- with all these advertisements. - Don't be a halfwit.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25Veronica's a filly and is getting ready for the flat.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Oh, sorry, old boy. I thought she was a popsy getting ready for the...
0:40:28 > 0:40:30My kids have been evacuated to the country.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32My girl joined the land army. She'll wait for me
0:40:32 > 0:40:34- till the cows come home. - One way of putting it!
0:40:34 > 0:40:37Listen to this. "Dear Daddy, today is your birthday.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39"I hope it will be your last."
0:40:44 > 0:40:45Hello, David.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49- I didn't notice. Shall I read your letter for you?- Thank you.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55It's signed...Elspeth.
0:40:56 > 0:40:57"Dearest David,
0:40:57 > 0:41:00"your mother says I am silly to worry about it,
0:41:00 > 0:41:04"but it seems queer not a word from you yet.
0:41:04 > 0:41:08"Do please send me a line when you get this.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11"The three of us had a little party on your birthday.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13"Wouldn't it be wonderful, darling,
0:41:13 > 0:41:15"if you were home again for your next?
0:41:15 > 0:41:18"I miss you all the time.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20"Your loving Elspeth.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24"PS, I'm going to join the Wrens."
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Will you do me a favour?
0:41:26 > 0:41:27I'd like to answer it at once.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Yes, of course.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30Here's a form.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34I've got a pencil. Ready when you are.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37My dearest Elspeth,
0:41:37 > 0:41:41I am dictating this letter because my wound
0:41:41 > 0:41:44is not quite better yet.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46I've been thinking things over.
0:41:46 > 0:41:51And this is to ask if you will release me
0:41:51 > 0:41:54from our engagement.
0:41:54 > 0:41:58I realise now I don't feel the way
0:41:58 > 0:42:02I...I fancied I did about you.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06So it's best to make a definite break.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Yours, David.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12David, why not tell her the truth?
0:42:12 > 0:42:13It is the truth.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15About your eyes, I mean.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17Why not let her decide when she knows?
0:42:17 > 0:42:18Will you please send that letter?
0:42:18 > 0:42:20- Look, David...- Please!
0:42:20 > 0:42:22All right, David.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26Ted, it's it! It's it!
0:42:26 > 0:42:28- It's it!- Brought it from Littlewoods?
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Wonderful news, man, wonderful.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33It's Dillith. There's a baby coming.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Good old Di! I reckon that's the best Christmas present you ever had.
0:42:36 > 0:42:41I can see her now, the way she smiles with her eyes.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43Aye, indeed. It's lovely to...
0:42:43 > 0:42:44How do I look for a godfather?
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Ah, yes! That's it, man.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49You and Flo. It goes without saying.
0:42:49 > 0:42:50And what's the matter?
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Got the same chit from the income tax as me, old boy?
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Well, don't worry. They can't put us in jag.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57We've had it.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28What wouldn't I give to see Queen's Park play Rangers this year.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31Never mind, padre. They'll be playing over here one day.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33'All British prisoners will parade at once.'
0:43:33 > 0:43:37- Hello! What's cooking? - Forster's on the warpath. They're searching the camp.
0:43:37 > 0:43:38Forster again.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40'Achtung! Achtung!
0:43:40 > 0:43:43'All British prisoners will parade at once.'
0:43:43 > 0:43:45Raus, raus!
0:43:52 > 0:43:54'Achtung! Achtung!
0:43:54 > 0:43:56'All British prisoners will parade at once.'
0:43:56 > 0:43:59HE SPEAKS GERMAN
0:44:07 > 0:44:10Parade! Halt.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17Gentlemen, we have discovered your tunnel.
0:44:17 > 0:44:20Since you have thus abused the amenities accorded you,
0:44:20 > 0:44:24and pending reconsideration of the camp's security measures,
0:44:24 > 0:44:28all these amenities will be removed until further notice.
0:44:28 > 0:44:32I've given instructions, therefore, to confiscate all books,
0:44:32 > 0:44:37writing material, music, all tables and chairs,
0:44:37 > 0:44:40bedding, mirrors, knives, and shaving equipment.
0:44:44 > 0:44:46You may dismiss the parade.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50Parade! Dismissed.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59I shall have to grow a beard after all.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01I don't know whether to have a two-pronged affair
0:45:01 > 0:45:04- or a natty little imperial. - Wonder how long they'll keep it up.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06Not more than a month, I should think.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09- I'll keep on nagging the commandant. - Good afternoon, gentlemen.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Good afternoon.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15I hope this slight setback won't prevent you from trying again.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17But I must add,
0:45:17 > 0:45:20a moat will be dug around the whole perimeter,
0:45:20 > 0:45:22which, as you know, makes tunnelling impossible.
0:45:25 > 0:45:30Captain Mitchell, who speaks such excellent German...
0:45:30 > 0:45:32THEY CONVERSE IN GERMAN
0:45:47 > 0:45:50What's he want this time?
0:45:50 > 0:45:52Wants to know why I haven't written a single letter home.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55Why should you? Mitchell may have had nobody particular to write to.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58But he had. This came today.
0:45:58 > 0:46:00It's from his wife.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04You must answer, or she'll make enquiries.
0:46:04 > 0:46:05That'll be fatal.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07Seems a pretty cruel fraud.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09You're wearing a dead man's shoes. You've got to get used to them.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12My handwriting. She'd know it wasn't her husband.
0:46:12 > 0:46:13Yes, takes a bit of figuring out.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17Alibi for using your left hand. That's what you need.
0:46:22 > 0:46:23I can't see much point in this,
0:46:23 > 0:46:26now the blighters have taken away the football.
0:46:26 > 0:46:27Well, anyway, it's good exercise.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31Think so? I suppose next week they'll give us back the football
0:46:31 > 0:46:32and take away the goalposts.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34Come on, it's your turn now.
0:46:40 > 0:46:42Ready?
0:47:01 > 0:47:03Look out!
0:47:08 > 0:47:11- Good morning, Mrs Mitchell. - Thank you.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30I've mastered the boiler and the power plant.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33I won't be defeated by a miserable wireless set.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35I've heard from Geoffrey.
0:47:35 > 0:47:36Really?
0:47:36 > 0:47:38Is he well?
0:47:38 > 0:47:39I don't know what to make of it.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41He seems to have changed.
0:47:41 > 0:47:46Good. Any change in Geoffrey could only be for the better.
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Well, the change seems to include his handwriting.
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Hurt his hand. He's using his left.
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Listen to this.
0:47:56 > 0:48:00"It is a world cut off completely from the real world.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03"Time stands still here.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06"The future is remote. The present empty.
0:48:06 > 0:48:11"Even the past begins to seem unreal.
0:48:11 > 0:48:15"But a man must have something to hold onto.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19"He must forge lengths to keep him sane.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22"Will you write to me again, Celia,
0:48:22 > 0:48:25"as though I were a stranger?
0:48:25 > 0:48:29"Somebody who knows nothing of your life and your home.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34"Even of yourself."
0:48:34 > 0:48:37Changed?! Why, he's even learned to write grammatically.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Write to him as though he were a stranger...
0:48:47 > 0:48:49KNOCKING
0:48:59 > 0:49:00Robert!
0:49:00 > 0:49:02Come back to be briefed.
0:49:02 > 0:49:03Sort of a hush-hush job.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Thought you wouldn't mind if I just called in
0:49:05 > 0:49:07to say hail and farewell.
0:49:07 > 0:49:10Of course not. Come in.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12You look ill, Carol.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14I'm all right.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17I ran into Beryl in an odd sort of mood.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20- I gather she isn't living with you any longer.- No.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23No, she left soon after you went away.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Heard from Stephen yet?
0:49:24 > 0:49:26Oh, yes, I've heard from Stephen.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30- What's he say? - That our marriage is all washed up.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31What?!
0:49:31 > 0:49:34He got a letter accusing me of having an affair with you.
0:49:34 > 0:49:39Carol, I... But who?
0:49:39 > 0:49:41Beryl.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44Ahh... I see.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45And he actually believed it?
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Yes.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50I'll write back myself and tell him the whole thing's
0:49:50 > 0:49:51a deliberate, malicious lie.
0:49:51 > 0:49:52What for?
0:49:52 > 0:49:56What for?! You don't want Stephen to go on thinking this, do you?
0:49:56 > 0:49:58I don't care what he thinks now.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00Carol, you mustn't take it like that.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02Stephen's a prisoner of war.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05If you were in his place, would you pay attention to a poison pen letter?
0:50:05 > 0:50:07I don't know.
0:50:10 > 0:50:11I'd never been in love before.
0:50:14 > 0:50:20I thought being in love meant that you trusted each other completely.
0:50:20 > 0:50:24All the things he said,
0:50:24 > 0:50:26I believed every word.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29Killed my love for him.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36Caroline, my darling, I can't bear to see you cry.
0:50:45 > 0:50:48Don't forget to drop us a line, dear, if there's anything you want.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50I've tried to get used to it,
0:50:50 > 0:50:51but I still can't believe it.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53We were so much in love.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56- Ah, it's a mystery to me.- He has a right to change his mind, I suppose.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59Could it be that he doesn't think it's fair to make Elspeth wait on and on?
0:50:59 > 0:51:01Do you think it might be that?
0:51:01 > 0:51:03No. I don't think David's the kind
0:51:03 > 0:51:05to make that sort of sacrifice for that sort of reason.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10- Goodbye, my darling. - Goodbye.- Goodbye.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16'The photograph I'm sending makes me look absurdly young,
0:51:16 > 0:51:19'but I'm no longer young.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22'The one of Janet, that funny expression's only shyness,
0:51:22 > 0:51:23'not a stomach ache.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26'I can see her now through the window
0:51:26 > 0:51:29'telling her grandpapa how to plant tomatoes.
0:51:29 > 0:51:30'I'm worried about her teeth.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34'Father thinks she should wear one of those wire things.
0:51:34 > 0:51:39'And that hulking boy is Desmond. Nine years old yesterday.
0:51:39 > 0:51:41'The village is livelier than it's ever been.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44'We have a large contingent of evacuees
0:51:44 > 0:51:46'and a lot of other visitors that come and go.
0:51:46 > 0:51:49'Everything's changed and yet nothing's changed.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51'There's the whistle of the 4:35.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54'Half an hour late as usual.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57'Mrs Trusket still serves her homemade toffee.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00'Where she manages to get the sugar from, I can't imagine.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03'And there's still cricket on Saturday afternoon.'
0:52:47 > 0:52:50Oh, what a kick in the pants that turned out to be.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Five times more officers than other ranks
0:52:52 > 0:52:54and they have to knock the stuffing out of us.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56It was a mistake having long-on too close to the wire.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58If he has to run back to take a catch, he's had it.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01Do you know what the Jerries want for a new ball? 500 cigarettes.
0:53:01 > 0:53:05- Sheer blackmail.- Oh, I think it's worth it if this marvellous weather continues.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08I wonder if they've been having an early spring at home.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11"The apple trees are in full blossom already,
0:53:11 > 0:53:16"making the orchard look like a sheet of fleecy snow.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18"And 10-Acre Meadow is all white, too.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20"Because this year,
0:53:20 > 0:53:23"that's where the ewes are pastured with their lambs.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27"Soon the garden will be filled with the scent
0:53:27 > 0:53:29"and colour of the May.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31"And beyond the river,
0:53:31 > 0:53:35"you can see the first vivid green of the larches
0:53:35 > 0:53:38"in the bluebell wood."
0:53:50 > 0:53:52- Ted?- Yeah?
0:53:52 > 0:53:53Remember that redhead I told you about?
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Let's see, is that your own true dream girl lovey pie
0:53:56 > 0:53:58or cheerio, toots?
0:53:58 > 0:53:59No! It's my steady.
0:53:59 > 0:54:01She says the works manager's fallen for her.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03Says he's a key man.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Sounds like one of them backdoor key men to me.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07You and your pin-up girls.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09My pinup's Tessie O'Shea, with a rawlplug.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12- Yeah, but in my experience... - Your experience?
0:54:12 > 0:54:14Cor blimey, one sniff of a barmaid's apron,
0:54:14 > 0:54:16and you'd be on your knees, sonny boy.
0:54:16 > 0:54:19That's all you know. Teach you a thing or two.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24What's the matter, Ted? Bad news?
0:54:24 > 0:54:25Ted?
0:54:27 > 0:54:29Blimey, I never saw that one.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31Hey, my old woman's gone on the buses.
0:54:31 > 0:54:35- Oh, you'll be walking the kids when you get home.- If we get home.
0:54:35 > 0:54:38It's a firm stand I'm going to take.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40The rest of them you can eat,
0:54:40 > 0:54:42but not Lili Marleen.
0:54:42 > 0:54:46She's got such a trusting look in her eye.
0:54:46 > 0:54:51Besides, next winter I shall use her as a hot water bottle.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53I've had a letter, Dai.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57Amazing. Perhaps there's one for me
0:54:57 > 0:54:58with news of the baby.
0:54:58 > 0:55:00No letter for you.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02There is news.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04Flo's all right?
0:55:04 > 0:55:06Not Ann-Marie?
0:55:06 > 0:55:08She's OK. Letter's from her.
0:55:10 > 0:55:14"It's a baby girl. She's doing nice.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17"Dillith..."
0:55:19 > 0:55:21You'll have it sooner or later.
0:55:21 > 0:55:26Seems that doctor warned her about it being dangerous,
0:55:26 > 0:55:29because of her age.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31She wouldn't be put off.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34Flo was with her at the end.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37It was all over quite quick.
0:55:37 > 0:55:41Flo's going to look after the baby until you get back.
0:55:59 > 0:56:00The play's the thing.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05Well, what happens in the end?
0:56:05 > 0:56:08Do they bump the dirty old basket off?
0:56:08 > 0:56:10Well, there's a sort of all-round massacre,
0:56:10 > 0:56:11and Hamlet gets killed himself.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14First class gangster stuff. The old boy certainly knew his onion.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16You wait till we get to Richard III.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18There's a murder on practically every page.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21You're getting pretty hot at this Braille business.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24Och, it's easy. But I'm still terrible clumsy with my hands.
0:56:24 > 0:56:28Oh, I don't know about that. That tobacco pouch you made was smashing.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30I've got sort of used to it now.
0:56:30 > 0:56:32And, well, you've all been so...
0:56:32 > 0:56:35You get on with your reading. I want to know what happens next.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37Right.
0:56:38 > 0:56:41'Celia, your letter has arrived with the photographs.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44'They're in front of me as I write.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46'You ask me to describe our life here
0:56:46 > 0:56:50'so that you may picture it in your imagination.
0:56:50 > 0:56:54'From where I sit, I can hear the sound of a piano.
0:56:54 > 0:56:56'It is my friend Stephen Harley.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59'I wish you could hear this music,
0:56:59 > 0:57:01'for it describes our life here
0:57:01 > 0:57:04'better than I could ever do with words.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07'It tells of men emerging from the twilight.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10'Turning their faces inwards from the wire.
0:57:10 > 0:57:14'Creating in miniature a world of their own.
0:57:16 > 0:57:19'It tells of men who have come to terms with the present
0:57:19 > 0:57:22'and find it far from empty.
0:57:22 > 0:57:26'Men who no longer lie down to fate but face it.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30'And find their own ways of beating it.'
0:57:49 > 0:57:51THEY SING HYMN
0:58:02 > 0:58:04GENTLE CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:58:21 > 0:58:23RAUCOUS LAUGHTER
0:58:26 > 0:58:29HOOTING AND WOLF-WHISTLES
0:58:39 > 0:58:43'All this goes to make up the picture of our life here,
0:58:43 > 0:58:45'made bearable only by the letters and parcels
0:58:45 > 0:58:46'we receive from home.
0:58:46 > 0:58:51'They keep our bodies and our faith alive.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53'And that is true not only of us
0:58:53 > 0:58:56'here in our little wired enclosed cinder patch,
0:58:56 > 0:58:59'but also of the scores of other camps throughout Germany.
0:58:59 > 0:59:02'Great sprawling towns of 20,000 men
0:59:02 > 0:59:06'or hamlets of a few hundred, each a little piece of England.'
0:59:11 > 0:59:15'The months pass and my thoughts are constantly of you, Celia.
0:59:15 > 0:59:19'Summer gives place to autumn, autumn to winter.
0:59:19 > 0:59:22'Another Christmas come and gone.
0:59:22 > 0:59:24'Another batch of prisoners to swell our numbers.
0:59:24 > 0:59:26'They don't make the housing problem any easier.
0:59:26 > 0:59:30'But they bring us eagerly awaited news of the outside world.
0:59:30 > 0:59:32'A little while ago there was a rumour
0:59:32 > 0:59:34'that some of us were to be repatriated.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37'I allowed myself to dream that these letters of ours
0:59:37 > 0:59:38'could come to life.
0:59:38 > 0:59:42'I could see with my own eyes your home, the children,
0:59:42 > 0:59:44'yourself.
0:59:44 > 0:59:46'But the commission never came.
0:59:46 > 0:59:48'Were we forgotten?
0:59:48 > 0:59:51'Or was it just one more reprisal?'
0:59:51 > 0:59:53Being they are prisoners,
0:59:53 > 0:59:56this practice must come to rest.
0:59:56 > 0:59:59Orders.
0:59:59 > 1:00:02Finally, the recent operations at Dieppe,
1:00:02 > 1:00:08as a reprisal for such an unwarranted action,
1:00:08 > 1:00:14all British prisoners of war of cellblock 27
1:00:14 > 1:00:17will, until further notice, remain manacled
1:00:17 > 1:00:20from dawn until dusk.
1:00:25 > 1:00:28You may dismiss the parade.
1:00:28 > 1:00:30HE SHOUTS ORDERS
1:00:57 > 1:00:58Cigarette?
1:00:58 > 1:01:00Thanks.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03It's easy. Sardine key.
1:01:03 > 1:01:04Turn to the right.
1:01:04 > 1:01:06Turn to the left.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08Bob's your uncle.
1:01:08 > 1:01:10All part of the Red Cross service.
1:01:10 > 1:01:11THEY LAUGH
1:01:12 > 1:01:15'Our third winter is approaching,
1:01:15 > 1:01:18'bringing with it a new enemy.
1:01:18 > 1:01:21'It's not the duration but the indefiniteness.
1:01:21 > 1:01:24'For if a man knew the length of his sentence,
1:01:24 > 1:01:27'he could plan accordingly.
1:01:27 > 1:01:29'Afterwards in our memories,
1:01:29 > 1:01:31'we shall relive only the sunny days
1:01:31 > 1:01:32'or pleasant scenes,
1:01:32 > 1:01:35'the freedom of mind and the comradeship.
1:01:35 > 1:01:38'We shall forget the wet days, the wet weeks.
1:01:38 > 1:01:41'Those days when it seemed an effort to do nothing
1:01:41 > 1:01:44'and our bunks were the only release.
1:01:44 > 1:01:47'Deep down in the hearts of all of us,
1:01:47 > 1:01:49'there dwells a lonely ache,
1:01:49 > 1:01:52'a desperate yearning for those we love
1:01:52 > 1:01:56'and a fear, fear of becoming forgotten men.
1:01:58 > 1:02:00'Write to me again soon, Celia.
1:02:00 > 1:02:02'You could never know how great the comfort is
1:02:02 > 1:02:04'that your letters bring to me.
1:02:04 > 1:02:06'They're more than comfort.
1:02:06 > 1:02:10'They give me strength and hope and happiness.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13'You will never know how much they mean to me.'
1:02:14 > 1:02:18'Oh, my dear, I am so terribly moved by the way you write.
1:02:18 > 1:02:24'Is it too late to recapture the happiness of our first years together?'
1:02:27 > 1:02:31'I have no place in your past or your future, Celia.
1:02:31 > 1:02:33'You must think of your husband as dead.
1:02:33 > 1:02:35'This is goodbye.'
1:02:35 > 1:02:39'I understand. Don't be afraid.
1:02:39 > 1:02:42'I'll help you back.
1:02:42 > 1:02:44'I'll give you back your strength,
1:02:44 > 1:02:49'the strength you've given to me writing to me through these dark years.
1:02:51 > 1:02:53'I'll wait for you.'
1:03:09 > 1:03:12DISTANT DRONE OF PLANES
1:03:18 > 1:03:20PLANES APPROACH
1:03:36 > 1:03:38Fortresses.
1:03:38 > 1:03:40They'll soon be able to see the Channel.
1:03:40 > 1:03:43They'll be home in time for tea.
1:03:58 > 1:04:01That's exactly £157 you owe me.
1:04:01 > 1:04:03Cut you through the pack. Double or quits.
1:04:03 > 1:04:06Not on your life. I've got my old age to think of.
1:04:06 > 1:04:07Bloodsucker.
1:04:07 > 1:04:10Oh, well, bang goes my gratuity.
1:04:10 > 1:04:13Cheap enough to pass the time.
1:04:13 > 1:04:15Funny how much you learn about time when you're killing it.
1:04:15 > 1:04:17Such as what?
1:04:17 > 1:04:21I've got a theory that everything that counts is done by busy people.
1:04:21 > 1:04:24When you've got too little time, it's extraordinary what you can do with it.
1:04:24 > 1:04:26And when you've got all the time in the world,
1:04:26 > 1:04:28like us, you don't do a damn thing.
1:04:28 > 1:04:31I say, you're becoming quite a philosopher in your old age.
1:04:31 > 1:04:34Why not? The war hasn't exactly chosen us to be heroes.
1:04:34 > 1:04:36I know exactly what I'm going to do with my time right now.
1:04:36 > 1:04:38I'm going to climb into my bunk
1:04:38 > 1:04:40and do absolutely nothing till supper.
1:04:40 > 1:04:46They're talking about Teran for the derby this year.
1:04:46 > 1:04:49It'll be the fourth derby I've missed.
1:04:49 > 1:04:52Four derbies. That's a hell of a lot of time.
1:04:52 > 1:04:56With nothing up or down on the book to show for it.
1:05:03 > 1:05:06Planting leeks again this year, Dai?
1:05:06 > 1:05:09I was thinking of trying some asparagus.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11Asparagus? That takes seven years, cock.
1:05:11 > 1:05:13Aye.
1:05:13 > 1:05:15I don't give it more than another year myself.
1:05:15 > 1:05:17Another year?
1:05:17 > 1:05:20Gwyneth will be four.
1:05:20 > 1:05:22Flo's hair has gone all white, she says.
1:05:22 > 1:05:24Everything's changing.
1:05:24 > 1:05:26Do you think we'll be able to pick it up?
1:05:26 > 1:05:28The business and everything?
1:05:28 > 1:05:31Search me. We're not as young as we were, Dai.
1:05:31 > 1:05:35No, Ted, we're not as young as we were.
1:05:38 > 1:05:39Surely they'll invade soon.
1:05:39 > 1:05:42Yeah, that's what you said last year.
1:05:42 > 1:05:43And the year before.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45What's there, mate, holiday list?
1:05:45 > 1:05:48Yeah, it's got you down for August, 1949.
1:05:48 > 1:05:51I wrote that for Caroline.
1:05:51 > 1:05:54Somehow it expressed what I felt when I first met her.
1:05:54 > 1:05:56It was after a concert.
1:05:56 > 1:05:58There weren't any taxis.
1:05:58 > 1:06:00We walked back across the park.
1:06:00 > 1:06:02After a bit, it began to rain.
1:06:02 > 1:06:05I put my coat over her shoulders.
1:06:05 > 1:06:07You're still in love with her, aren't you?
1:06:07 > 1:06:10I've tried to shut her out of my thoughts completely.
1:06:10 > 1:06:15But I can't. I long for her all the time.
1:06:17 > 1:06:18I'm a bigger fool than you are.
1:06:18 > 1:06:22Falling in love with a photograph. A dream.
1:06:23 > 1:06:26And a home in a strange land.
1:06:26 > 1:06:28Achtung!
1:06:28 > 1:06:30Oh, carry on.
1:06:30 > 1:06:32Good afternoon, gentlemen.
1:06:32 > 1:06:34Oh, please, do carry on.
1:06:34 > 1:06:36Each time I visit this camp,
1:06:36 > 1:06:38I'm intrigued as to where we met before.
1:06:38 > 1:06:40But now I think I know the answer.
1:06:40 > 1:06:44Your name wasn't always Geoffrey Mitchell.
1:06:44 > 1:06:46Your identification photograph is being sent
1:06:46 > 1:06:49to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin.
1:06:49 > 1:06:52They have a large collection of photographs there.
1:06:52 > 1:06:55It will be interesting to make comparisons.
1:06:59 > 1:07:00I suppose it had to come.
1:07:00 > 1:07:03They always catch up with you in the end.
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Repatriation, fellas! Repatriation!
1:07:05 > 1:07:07THEY ALL SCOFF
1:07:07 > 1:07:10Great news, gentlemen, great news! Repatriation!
1:07:10 > 1:07:12And this time it's the real McCoy.
1:07:12 > 1:07:15The thing that makes me mouth water, real live girls.
1:07:15 > 1:07:17- All lining up waiting for me. - Girls, what are they?
1:07:17 > 1:07:20Bipeds, old boy, furnished with two of practically everything!
1:07:20 > 1:07:23A mixed German and Swiss medical commission
1:07:23 > 1:07:26will examine all those whose names are down for repatriation.
1:07:26 > 1:07:30Apparently it's a rush job, so anybody who gets his ticket
1:07:30 > 1:07:31will leave in a week's time.
1:07:31 > 1:07:34MEN CHEER So you've got a chance.
1:07:34 > 1:07:36Yes.
1:07:36 > 1:07:39But we must have positive evidence to justify repatriation.
1:07:39 > 1:07:40Of course.
1:07:40 > 1:07:42Ah. Anything else, Corporal?
1:07:42 > 1:07:44Well, sir, every time I breathe,
1:07:44 > 1:07:47I can feel me liver knocking up against me kidneys.
1:07:47 > 1:07:49- Come here.- Yes, sir.
1:07:49 > 1:07:50Cough, please.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53Cough? Blimey, do you want me to bring up my appendix?
1:07:55 > 1:07:56Ja.
1:08:01 > 1:08:02You have passed.
1:08:02 > 1:08:03Thank you, sir.
1:08:03 > 1:08:04Matthews.
1:08:04 > 1:08:06I wonder if you'll get through.
1:08:06 > 1:08:09Hello, Evans. You'll soon be seeing your youngster.
1:08:09 > 1:08:13Yes, indeed. I'm sorry to hear about you and Captain Grayson, sir.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15Oh, well, the flat racing season's over.
1:08:15 > 1:08:18That Swiss fellow had the nerve to congratulate me on my fitness.
1:08:18 > 1:08:19Ha ha! Well?
1:08:19 > 1:08:21- I got my ticket, all right. - Fine.
1:08:21 > 1:08:23You have passed.
1:08:23 > 1:08:25Suits me, sir.
1:08:27 > 1:08:29Captain Mitchell.
1:08:35 > 1:08:36Ah.
1:08:36 > 1:08:39You need not strip, Captain Mitchell.
1:08:39 > 1:08:40I regret your case is deferred
1:08:40 > 1:08:44until the next board in six months' time.
1:08:48 > 1:08:49Morris.
1:08:49 > 1:08:53And once it's discovered he's not Mitchell, he's sunk. We've got to do something for him.
1:08:53 > 1:08:55Yes, but what?
1:08:55 > 1:08:58- Excuse me, sir. Can we put up a scheme to you?- Sure. Sit down.
1:08:58 > 1:09:00- What's it all about?- We know the spot Captain Mitchell's in.
1:09:00 > 1:09:04- We thought we'd fix a stunt to get him out of here.- What's the scheme?
1:09:04 > 1:09:07There's a list for repatriation in the commandant's office.
1:09:07 > 1:09:10- We thought if we could get it, alter the names...- Stage a break-in, sir.
1:09:10 > 1:09:12Here, hold on. We aren't professional burglars.
1:09:12 > 1:09:14Well, yes, sir, as a matter of fact... well, I was.
1:09:14 > 1:09:17Were you really? Well, how awfully interesting.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20Commandant's office. Only one wire to cut.
1:09:20 > 1:09:22Yes, but what about the perimeter lights?
1:09:22 > 1:09:26- They put them out when there's an air raid.- And they've been as regular as clockwork.
1:09:26 > 1:09:27I believe we've got something!
1:09:27 > 1:09:30- Suppose we do get the list. What then?- I can type.
1:09:30 > 1:09:32Scratch out one name and type Mitchell's on instead.
1:09:32 > 1:09:36Just a minute. Don't you see, the chap whose name goes off has to stay behind.
1:09:36 > 1:09:38Well, uh, my name begins with M, sir.
1:09:38 > 1:09:41You'd really give up your ticket home?
1:09:41 > 1:09:42Why not?
1:09:42 > 1:09:45But I thought all the girls were lining up for you to come home?
1:09:45 > 1:09:48Well, so they are. But they'll wait.
1:09:48 > 1:09:49You are a sportsman.
1:09:49 > 1:09:51Gentleman, we'll have a smack at it.
1:09:51 > 1:09:54Now, as I see it, the drill is this...
1:09:57 > 1:10:01DISTANT SINGING
1:10:24 > 1:10:28# My eyes are dim, I cannot see
1:10:28 > 1:10:31# I have not brought my specs with me... #
1:10:31 > 1:10:33Shh, shhh!
1:10:33 > 1:10:36PLANES APPROACH
1:10:38 > 1:10:40Here come the boys. Bang on the dot.
1:10:40 > 1:10:43- What do you mean?- Well, just another raid, old boy.
1:10:44 > 1:10:47All right, chaps, light up and sing out.
1:10:47 > 1:10:50THEY CONTINUE SINGING
1:10:59 > 1:11:01Well, they had better start.
1:11:01 > 1:11:04I know. God bless the RAF.
1:11:12 > 1:11:13Here he is.
1:11:13 > 1:11:15Good boy. Look out!
1:12:05 > 1:12:07All clear.
1:12:19 > 1:12:22THEY CHAT IN GERMAN
1:12:27 > 1:12:29THEY LAUGH
1:12:53 > 1:12:55That's the lock you've got to pick.
1:13:01 > 1:13:02Good, there's a typewriter.
1:13:02 > 1:13:04Get down!
1:13:06 > 1:13:08- Type on the floor.- OK.
1:13:09 > 1:13:11It's tougher than I thought.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13Let me try.
1:13:17 > 1:13:21- Must be a bit out of practice. - I'll say.
1:13:21 > 1:13:24Einrichtung, einrichtung...
1:13:24 > 1:13:26Good, this is it.
1:13:50 > 1:13:53Sing, you so-and-sos, sing!
1:14:00 > 1:14:02- That'll do.- Come on.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29- That'll fool 'em.- Should do.
1:14:29 > 1:14:32- Let's split up and get back to our own huts.- OK, sir.
1:14:42 > 1:14:44DOG GROWLS
1:14:49 > 1:14:51GUNSHOTS
1:14:51 > 1:14:53- What's going on? - You're not supposed to know.
1:14:53 > 1:14:56The boys were putting your name on the repatriation list.
1:14:56 > 1:14:58GUNSHOTS
1:15:09 > 1:15:11DOG HOWLS
1:15:17 > 1:15:19GUNFIRE CONTINUES
1:15:32 > 1:15:34MUSIC AND SINGING
1:15:40 > 1:15:43You will all remain here until the other huts have been checked!
1:16:04 > 1:16:05Permission to go home, sir?
1:16:05 > 1:16:09Yes, provided you put a fiver on Teran at the derby for me.
1:16:09 > 1:16:13- It's you that ought to be going home.- Oh, don't you believe it.
1:16:13 > 1:16:14I'm a social parasite.
1:16:14 > 1:16:16The sort we're fighting to get rid of.
1:16:16 > 1:16:19That's right. I've got to stay here and exterminate him.
1:16:19 > 1:16:21Go slow with the popsies, old boy.
1:16:21 > 1:16:24Don't forget to save a couple of blondes for your Uncle Jim.
1:16:24 > 1:16:26- That's a promise. - Course, I was forgetting.
1:16:26 > 1:16:29You're one of those one-woman blokes, aren't you?
1:16:29 > 1:16:30Yes, that's my trouble.
1:16:30 > 1:16:32Sorry, then. Always putting my foot in it.
1:16:32 > 1:16:35Tell the girls round Hammersmith that I'll be home soon
1:16:35 > 1:16:37and I've got plenty saved up to give them a treat with.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40- Yeah, you bet.- I'll keep a job warm for him.
1:16:40 > 1:16:43- Horsfall, Evans, and Mathews. - Unlimited.
1:16:45 > 1:16:48Hello, Mathews. Feeling all right?
1:16:48 > 1:16:51Yes, it's all right, sir. I was a sissy passing out like that.
1:16:51 > 1:16:52I can never thank you for what you've done.
1:16:52 > 1:16:56Forget it. Just keep your head down on the parade and Bob's your uncle.
1:16:56 > 1:16:59- Thanks.- Don't worry, sir. You'll get through all right.
1:16:59 > 1:17:00We'll be right behind you, sir.
1:17:03 > 1:17:06One other thing. What about the German MO?
1:17:06 > 1:17:07He's certain to be on parade,
1:17:07 > 1:17:10and he's likely to remember that Mitchell's name wasn't on the list.
1:17:10 > 1:17:12I know. I've thought of that.
1:17:12 > 1:17:15I'm going to start up a conversation while they're calling the names.
1:17:15 > 1:17:17He only speaks about a dozen words in English.
1:17:17 > 1:17:18You leave it to me.
1:17:18 > 1:17:20Hello, David, my boy.
1:17:20 > 1:17:24Goodbye and good luck.
1:17:24 > 1:17:27Goodbye, sir, and thank you all.
1:17:27 > 1:17:30See you again before you know where you are.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32- Yes.- Come on, David.
1:17:32 > 1:17:34Don't forget. We've got a bridge date tonight.
1:17:34 > 1:17:36Don't forget the cigarettes you owe me.
1:17:36 > 1:17:37Play you double or quits tonight.
1:17:37 > 1:17:39Ambrose.
1:17:40 > 1:17:41Anderson.
1:17:42 > 1:17:44Burns.
1:17:44 > 1:17:48There are a lot of things I'd like to say, but...
1:17:48 > 1:17:49but I can't.
1:17:49 > 1:17:52Go on. Off you go.
1:17:52 > 1:17:54Goodbye. Good luck.
1:17:54 > 1:17:56- So long, old boy.- Good luck.
1:17:56 > 1:17:58Keep out of the German MO's eyeline.
1:18:00 > 1:18:01Grant.
1:18:02 > 1:18:03Harley.
1:18:05 > 1:18:06Hunt.
1:18:07 > 1:18:10Horsfall.
1:18:10 > 1:18:11Jackson.
1:18:12 > 1:18:13Jessop.
1:18:15 > 1:18:17How soon do you think the war will end now, Doctor?
1:18:17 > 1:18:19Six months or one year.
1:18:19 > 1:18:21By then, you'll be speaking fluent English.
1:18:21 > 1:18:23You think I've made good progression?
1:18:23 > 1:18:27Oh, terrific. Yes, you Germans certainly have a gift for languages.
1:18:27 > 1:18:30- You think so?- Of course. Yes.
1:18:30 > 1:18:34After the war, they might make me headmaster of Oxford University.
1:18:34 > 1:18:35THEY LAUGH
1:18:35 > 1:18:37Mitchell.
1:18:40 > 1:18:42Mitre.
1:18:42 > 1:18:44THEY LAUGH
1:18:46 > 1:18:49Achtung. March!
1:18:49 > 1:18:53"LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY" PLAYS
1:20:18 > 1:20:20I'm sorry, madam, but you can't go in.
1:20:20 > 1:20:23I must. It's my husband. Please.
1:21:29 > 1:21:31Excuse me.
1:21:33 > 1:21:34Excuse me.
1:21:51 > 1:21:53What's happened to the iron gate, Mother?
1:21:53 > 1:21:56It went for salvage two years ago.
1:21:56 > 1:21:58I'll miss the squeaking of that old gate.
1:21:59 > 1:22:00Have there been any other changes?
1:22:00 > 1:22:03No. I kept your room exactly as it was
1:22:03 > 1:22:05the day you went off to France.
1:22:08 > 1:22:10Same old smell.
1:22:10 > 1:22:13Like soap and furniture polish.
1:22:14 > 1:22:18You come in here for a minute and I'll get you something to eat.
1:22:26 > 1:22:27David.
1:22:29 > 1:22:30Elspeth.
1:22:33 > 1:22:34That last letter.
1:22:36 > 1:22:38Your mother showed me.
1:22:38 > 1:22:41Telling the truth about your eyes.
1:22:41 > 1:22:43So that was the reason.
1:22:43 > 1:22:45The reason for what?
1:22:45 > 1:22:47For breaking our engagement.
1:22:47 > 1:22:49But you can't go on being engaged
1:22:49 > 1:22:51when you're not in love any longer.
1:22:51 > 1:22:53You can't go on breaking a person's heart
1:22:53 > 1:22:56to satisfy your own stupid pride.
1:22:56 > 1:22:57I'm not prepared to discuss the matter.
1:22:57 > 1:23:01Neither am I. David...
1:23:02 > 1:23:06Why did you have to make me so dreadfully unhappy?
1:23:34 > 1:23:35Caroline!
1:23:37 > 1:23:39But...but what are you...
1:23:39 > 1:23:41There were some things I left behind.
1:23:42 > 1:23:44Caretaker let me in.
1:23:44 > 1:23:46I had no idea.
1:23:49 > 1:23:50I'll go now.
1:23:52 > 1:23:54Caroline.
1:23:54 > 1:23:55Yes, Stephen?
1:23:55 > 1:23:58Are you all right?
1:24:01 > 1:24:02Why are you crying?
1:24:04 > 1:24:06Because I'm a fool.
1:24:06 > 1:24:09Are you unhappy with Robert?
1:24:10 > 1:24:12I'm not with Robert.
1:24:13 > 1:24:15Oh, Stephen.
1:24:16 > 1:24:18Why did you have to believe that letter?
1:24:19 > 1:24:22It wasn't true? It wasn't true?!
1:24:22 > 1:24:24No. Not then.
1:24:25 > 1:24:26Go on.
1:24:27 > 1:24:28When I got your letter, it was as if
1:24:28 > 1:24:31all I'd ever believed in didn't exist anymore.
1:24:31 > 1:24:33I didn't care what happened.
1:24:33 > 1:24:35He was in love with you?
1:24:35 > 1:24:37- Yes.- And you?
1:24:37 > 1:24:39No.
1:24:41 > 1:24:43Let me go now. Please.
1:24:45 > 1:24:46Listen, Caroline.
1:24:46 > 1:24:50There, everything seemed so... so out of proportion.
1:24:50 > 1:24:52I think I was mad for a bit.
1:24:52 > 1:24:55You see, I loved you so desperately.
1:24:55 > 1:24:57Still do.
1:24:57 > 1:24:59- Always shall.- Stephen...
1:25:13 > 1:25:14Thanks, mate.
1:25:17 > 1:25:18Thanks.
1:25:18 > 1:25:20Well, this is it, Dai.
1:25:20 > 1:25:22- Yes.- How do you feel?
1:25:22 > 1:25:24Empty. Empty inside.
1:25:24 > 1:25:26Me too, like it wasn't me standing here at all.
1:25:26 > 1:25:28Come on, Dai. Let's get weaving.
1:25:36 > 1:25:37KNOCKING
1:25:45 > 1:25:47Hello, old girl.
1:25:47 > 1:25:48Hello, Ted.
1:25:50 > 1:25:52Journey all right?
1:25:53 > 1:25:54I was seasick.
1:25:56 > 1:25:58Stomach always was your weakness.
1:26:02 > 1:26:04Suits you.
1:26:04 > 1:26:05Oh, Ted.
1:26:05 > 1:26:06There, there.
1:26:07 > 1:26:10I can't leave Dai out in the cold like that.
1:26:11 > 1:26:13- Oh, Dai.- Hello, Flo.
1:26:13 > 1:26:16Oh, it's lovely to see you. Come on in.
1:26:22 > 1:26:23- Where is she?- In here.
1:26:40 > 1:26:43- Hello, Gwyneth.- Hello.
1:26:43 > 1:26:46- Do you know who I am? - Yes. You're my daddy, aren't you?
1:26:46 > 1:26:49That's it. Look.
1:26:49 > 1:26:51I made this in the prison camp for you.
1:26:53 > 1:26:55- Can she shut her eyes? - No, she can't.
1:26:57 > 1:27:00- My doll can.- She's lovely.
1:27:04 > 1:27:05So that's settled.
1:27:05 > 1:27:09Captain Hasek reports to duty to Czech headquarters.
1:27:09 > 1:27:11There was something I wanted to ask, sir.
1:27:11 > 1:27:14- About Mrs Mitchell.- Oh, yes. Very awkward, of course.
1:27:14 > 1:27:17Don't worry, Captain Hasek. We've got that matter in hand.
1:27:17 > 1:27:20I wanted to suggest, sir, as it's my responsibility,
1:27:20 > 1:27:22that if the notification of her husband's death
1:27:22 > 1:27:25could be delayed until I've seen Mrs Mitchell myself.
1:27:25 > 1:27:27She'll have to be told through the usual channels.
1:27:27 > 1:27:30- Yes, sir, but in a case like this... - War Office will look after it.
1:27:30 > 1:27:34Of course, if you'd like to see her off your own bat, there's nothing to stop you.
1:27:34 > 1:27:37I see. Thank you, sir.
1:27:41 > 1:27:42Looks like rain.
1:27:45 > 1:27:49My dear. It's no good going on hoping.
1:27:49 > 1:27:50You must face up to it.
1:27:52 > 1:27:54That he won't come back?
1:27:54 > 1:27:55That he won't come back.
1:28:01 > 1:28:03Grandpa. It's starting to rain.
1:28:03 > 1:28:05Come help me put the chairs in the summer house.
1:28:05 > 1:28:07Oh, come on.
1:28:07 > 1:28:10DOORBELL RINGS
1:28:23 > 1:28:25Oh...
1:28:25 > 1:28:29I'm sorry. I was expecting someone else.
1:28:29 > 1:28:30Mrs Mitchell, I came to see you.
1:28:30 > 1:28:34I have some news for you, of your husband.
1:28:37 > 1:28:38Oh.
1:28:38 > 1:28:40Come in, please.
1:28:50 > 1:28:51What?
1:28:53 > 1:28:55Your husband is dead.
1:28:57 > 1:28:58Dead?
1:29:00 > 1:29:01He was killed four years ago
1:29:01 > 1:29:03in the fighting at Saint-Ardennie.
1:29:03 > 1:29:07I heard from him. From the prison camp.
1:29:08 > 1:29:10Your husband was never in that prison camp.
1:29:10 > 1:29:12He was never a prisoner of war.
1:29:12 > 1:29:14But...the letters...
1:29:14 > 1:29:16I wrote those letters.
1:29:18 > 1:29:20- You?- Yes.
1:29:22 > 1:29:24But I...
1:29:24 > 1:29:26I took these from your husband's body.
1:29:26 > 1:29:29I took his name, his uniform, his identity.
1:29:31 > 1:29:34For four years, I've been Geoffrey Mitchell.
1:29:39 > 1:29:40But why?
1:29:42 > 1:29:44To save my life. The Germans were after me.
1:29:45 > 1:29:48- The letters?- Later in the camp, I had to write.
1:29:48 > 1:29:49They suspected me.
1:29:49 > 1:29:52If I hadn't answered your letters, they'd have been on to me.
1:29:52 > 1:29:55You had to answer my letters.
1:29:55 > 1:29:56I understand that. You...
1:29:57 > 1:29:59You even had to go on writing.
1:29:59 > 1:30:01I understand that, too.
1:30:03 > 1:30:06Why did you have to write the way you did?
1:30:09 > 1:30:11I believed every word you said.
1:30:11 > 1:30:14At first, I had to make you tell me
1:30:14 > 1:30:16as much as possible about yourself.
1:30:16 > 1:30:18I was fighting for my life.
1:30:19 > 1:30:20And then...
1:30:22 > 1:30:24..I got your other letters.
1:30:24 > 1:30:26Photos of the children.
1:30:29 > 1:30:31Glimpses of things lost to me forever and...
1:30:33 > 1:30:36It was as if you were offering me a new world.
1:30:39 > 1:30:41It was easy out there to delude oneself.
1:30:43 > 1:30:46And I believed a wonderful thing had happened.
1:30:46 > 1:30:48My husband had left me.
1:30:48 > 1:30:52And those letters made me believe he was mine again,
1:30:52 > 1:30:55that everything would be as I'd hoped it would be.
1:30:56 > 1:30:58I planned for the day he'd come home again...
1:30:59 > 1:31:01..for a new life together.
1:31:04 > 1:31:06What a fool I was.
1:31:06 > 1:31:08You were still in love with him?
1:31:09 > 1:31:11How I can tell now?
1:31:13 > 1:31:15I know there's no excuse for what I did, but...
1:31:15 > 1:31:18Will you go now, please?
1:31:18 > 1:31:21You must believe that I meant what I wrote.
1:31:21 > 1:31:24Your letters came to be my life.
1:31:24 > 1:31:28You see, I fell in love with you.
1:31:28 > 1:31:33It was a dream then. Now it's reality.
1:31:41 > 1:31:43SHE SOBS
1:32:16 > 1:32:18'I allowed myself to dream
1:32:18 > 1:32:21'that these letters of ours could come to life.
1:32:21 > 1:32:23'That I could see with my own eyes your home,
1:32:23 > 1:32:26'the children, yourself.'
1:33:08 > 1:33:11Celia, you're wanted on the telephone.
1:33:11 > 1:33:12Who is it?
1:33:12 > 1:33:14Captain Hasek.
1:33:29 > 1:33:31INAUDIBLE OVER MUSIC