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