0:00:03 > 0:00:06Do you feel you're part of the establishment or still the person you were at the beginning?
0:00:06 > 0:00:09I've never seen myself as part of anything like that...
0:00:09 > 0:00:13certainly not part of the establishment.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17Probably, by now, you know, it's a matter of how people view me.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Is it just because I've been around so long
0:00:20 > 0:00:23I'm obviously part of an establishment?
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Everybody has to make your own mind up about that.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28I'm not established, as far as I'm concerned!
0:00:32 > 0:00:34BBC Television presents Tony Hancock in...
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Hancock's Half Hour.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41APPLAUSE
0:00:51 > 0:00:55"Lord Bute of Normanhurst. James, Fourth Duke of Rivermount.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58"Sir Giles Sanderstead, 17th Earl of Westerham."
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Oh, the history that lies between these pages.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03"Title created in 1263."
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Isn't that marvellous?
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Oh, to be in England now that gents are here.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10H, here we are.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12"Sir Hilary Haddersley of Huntingdon.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15"Henry, Duke of Hanby. Thomas, Fifth Earl of Heston."
0:01:16 > 0:01:20That's where I'd go - in-between those two.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Hancock, 1st Duke of Cheam.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27What a lovely sound that has. The Duke of Cheam.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Think of all the pubs I could have named after me.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I can just see it, me old portrait up there in a high wind,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35swinging backwards and forwards with the best of 'em.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Who shall I let have it, a big brewery or a free house?
0:01:39 > 0:01:42"Come on, boys, what about a pint down the old Duke of Cheam tonight?"
0:01:42 > 0:01:45HE LAUGHS There's immortality for you.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47KNOCK AT DOOR Ah, the postman.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51BELL RINGS
0:02:04 > 0:02:05What do you want?
0:02:07 > 0:02:08"What do you want?"
0:02:08 > 0:02:10You don't come in here and say, "What do you want?"
0:02:10 > 0:02:14You say, "You rang, sir."
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I know you rang, it's up on a board. What do you want?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I believe the postman has called. Go and fetch the letters in.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22You go and get 'em! What do you think I am, a lackey or something?
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Until such time as you can pay for your room and board, yes.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28If you don't like it, you can load up your barrow and leave.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Just wait, mate, just wait. One good night at the dogs and I'm gone!
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Enough. The familiarity of the below stairs staff
0:02:34 > 0:02:36is becoming quite ludicrous.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38No wonder some of the great old families have
0:02:38 > 0:02:40pushed off to the Bahamas. Do me a favour.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Ever since you got hold of this second-hand copy of
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Burke's Peerage, you've gone right off!
0:02:44 > 0:02:45Any more of that backchat, James,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48and I shall make you clean all the silver again.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50All the silver - two British Railways forks
0:02:50 > 0:02:51and a sugar spoon from Margate!
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Oh, honestly, Sid, you're hopeless. You've got no idea.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58You're supposed to be a gentleman's gentleman.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Let's have a little delicacy.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Go to the pictures and see how Arthur Treacher does it.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Go on, go and get the letters, there's a good chap. Oh, blimey...
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Shall I bring 'em here in the drawing room, sir?
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Can't you see I'm reading? This is the library today.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Go on, be off with you.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16I'll have to get rid of him as soon as me title comes through.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19He's all right, as long as I'm a commoner, but I'll have to get
0:03:19 > 0:03:22a professional as soon as I've had the sword on the shoulder.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26The mail, sir, Your Highness. Thank you.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Any news from the Prime Minister? No.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32A final rate demand, half a dozen soap coupons, and the gas bill.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Oh, well, send the soap coupons to the gas company
0:03:34 > 0:03:36and tell 'em to knock 'em off me account.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Are you sure there's nothing from Number Ten?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Oh, blimey, don't you ever give up?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45The New Year's Honours List has been out for months now.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48They've had the draw and all the winners have been picked,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51and your number hasn't come up, same as your Ernie bond!
0:03:51 > 0:03:53They don't run it like the Ernie bond!
0:03:53 > 0:03:56They're picked for their services to the community.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59I can't understand it, I've been overlooked again.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I thought I was a stone banker this year.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Alec Guinness got a knighthood, why shouldn't I?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Oh, I get it - you're jealous. No, I'm not jealous.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10I'm not carping about Alec, he deserves it, he's a good lad.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Never drunk, no punch-ups.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Credit to the profession, more power to his elbow.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21But I think I'm entitled to a little recognition as well.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I told the Prime Minister when I applied for it,
0:04:23 > 0:04:24I put me qualifications down.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Three years in the Home Guard.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30I stood alone round here, mate.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33The only thing between Hitler and East Cheam.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Guarding the highways of the nation, I was.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Every night, lying in the bushes on the roundabout waiting for 'em.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44That's not enough for a knighthood! Well, there were other things!
0:04:44 > 0:04:46They took my front gate to build a battleship!
0:04:46 > 0:04:49And they never brought it back after the war, I might add.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51I did everything they asked of me.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52I dug for victory, ate more potatoes,
0:04:52 > 0:04:54went to it, kept mum, carried me gas mask.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Surely these things must count for something. What more do they want?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59But everybody in the country did all those things!
0:04:59 > 0:05:03You can't have 50 million dukes and duchesses knocking around!
0:05:03 > 0:05:04"Good afternoon, sir,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07"the Earl of West Drayton has come to empty your dustbin!"
0:05:07 > 0:05:08What are you talking about?!
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Well, I still feel I've been slighted.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15It's not only Alec. It's all the others as well.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Sir Laurence Oliver,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir John Gingold - all that mob.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26But they got their knighthoods for their services to the theatre.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28And what about MY services to the theatre?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31For 12 years now, I've graced the British stage with my performances -
0:05:31 > 0:05:34performances that will never be seen again.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36That's true.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Sneer, that's it. You never did see me in pantomime, did you?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41My rendition of Buttons had a depth of meaning
0:05:41 > 0:05:42which astounded everybody who saw it
0:05:42 > 0:05:44and I did it without a guitar.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47A whole performance in the best tradition of
0:05:47 > 0:05:49the Russian theatre and Stanislavsky.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50You mean you didn't get any giggles.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I didn't try to get any giggles, I saw the part as a tragedy.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Tragedy? Blimey, it was a disaster.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56You got paid off on a Wednesday, didn't you?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59That's got nothing to do with it. I was ahead of me time, that's all.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02They didn't want me to use the method to play Buttons.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05That shows you what fools they were.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07NEW YORK ACCENT OK, Cinders, you want to...
0:06:07 > 0:06:09You want to go to the ball, huh, huh, huh? Yeah?
0:06:09 > 0:06:14OK, well, get your sweater and the jeans on, kid. Hmm, uh, yeah? Yeah.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Er, who's the big slob with the wand, huh? Mm, uh?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Of course, they're all doing it now, but I was the first, mate!
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I reckon that alone's worth an OBE.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29What about my charity work for the theatre? What charity work?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Founder of the Fund For Destitute Comedians!
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Well, what good is that? You're the only one who's drawn on it!
0:06:35 > 0:06:37That's not the point, the thought was there,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40and my home is always open to out-of-work actors.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42They know they can always come there and get a meal and a bed for
0:06:42 > 0:06:45a paltry sum. Ten knicker a week? Paltry?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Well, some of 'em made good money in their day,
0:06:47 > 0:06:48I don't see why I should suffer.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50And never any recognition at all, not a nibble.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Any little knick-knack would have done.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55A couple of garters and a bath, I don't mind.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57I'm not fussy, and it would have been nice,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59given a bit of prestige to the television show.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02"Sir Anthony Hancock's Half Hour."
0:07:02 > 0:07:05It doesn't matter what you've done, mate, you'll never get a knighthood.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08You can't carry a title like that living in these cheap rooms!
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Well, of course, I realise that.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12But if I did receive an honour like that, I should naturally move
0:07:12 > 0:07:14to more knightly surroundings, back to Hancock Towers.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18The old baronial hall, I never told you about that, a marvellous place.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20One of the stateliest homes of England.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Gothic motives with Romanesque perpendicular tracery.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25A gem of architectural beauty.
0:07:25 > 0:07:30The great sweep of the drive, one of Capability Brown's masterpieces.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Approach through great iron gates
0:07:31 > 0:07:33with the family crest done in gold leaf.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36The majestic building rising out of the valley,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39a marble doorway flanked either side by heraldic beasts.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Rearing rhinoceri with crowns on their snouts!
0:07:43 > 0:07:45The turrets and battlements commanding and solid,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48the huge centre tower hewn out of the solid rock of old England.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52The east wing and the west wing be-spattered with arrow slits
0:07:52 > 0:07:54through which sped 1,000 arrows.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Built to withstand the onslaught of invading hordes
0:07:57 > 0:07:58and the ravages of time.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02A lasting monument to the glory of mankind!
0:08:02 > 0:08:04What happened to it?
0:08:04 > 0:08:05It fell down.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Anyway, if I got a knighthood, I could start recouping the family fortunes.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I could gain my rightful inheritance,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Lord of the Manor of East Cheam. How much is that worth?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20My dear Sidney, you can't value things like that
0:08:20 > 0:08:22in terms of mere money. Well, what's the good of it, then?
0:08:22 > 0:08:23What's the good of it?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Only that it entitles me to ride on horseback into the
0:08:26 > 0:08:29counsel chamber in full armour with me sword drawn, that's all!
0:08:31 > 0:08:35Plus the gift of a pancake from me to the villagers on Shrove Tuesday.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Oh, well, if I was you, mate, I'd still forget it.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Television comics'll never get knighthoods.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Well, I don't see why they shouldn't.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Because it destroys the whole dignity of the thing, that's why!
0:08:46 > 0:08:49You can't have knights and earls galloping around shouting,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52"Hello, my darlings! Oi-oi, that's your lot!" You gone mad?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Well, I suppose not.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57How can I get a title, Sid?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00In this game, boy, the legitimate theatre, that's the only way.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02You've got to get in with the cream -
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Wolfitt, Olivier, Richardson, not a comic among 'em.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08The Old Vic, boy, that's the game.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Two Hamlets, one King Lear, and you're halfway home.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Sid, I think you're right.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Of course, I've been approaching it the wrong way.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18A professional fool can't hope to compete with international heavies
0:09:18 > 0:09:20the like of what them lot are.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22I shall have to brush up on me Shakespeare.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25I've got a copy of Treasure Island somewhere.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28You remember Robert Newton in that marvellous picture?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30I'll have this straight acting off in a couple of days,
0:09:30 > 0:09:32then, as you are my agent, you ring up the Old Vic
0:09:32 > 0:09:34and tell 'em I want to do Hamlet.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36You can't just ring up the Old Vic, "I want to do Hamlet",
0:09:36 > 0:09:39just like that! They've got a waiting list!
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Michael Redgrave's before you, he's got his name down!
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Do you honestly think they're going to mess about
0:09:44 > 0:09:46with Michael Redgrave if they can have me?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Come on, we'll go down and speak to them personally.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Now, you better run me a bath
0:09:50 > 0:09:52and lay out me clerical grey shade three.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55That's the one we've got lagging the pipes outside, innit?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57That's the one, yeah.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Yeah, put an iron over it and put a couple of buttons on it, eh?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Well, it won't be long now.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Page 709. Hancock, Anthony. Sir...
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Yes, of course, Ralph.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28We'd be thrilled to have you do another season for us.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Yes, any time you like.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31Yes, I've spoken to Larry,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34he said he'd love to do another Lear with you.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Oh, yes, of course he wants Lear.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Yes, that's what I thought you'd say.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Well, look here, I'll pencil you in for Much Ado sometime next year.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Jolly good. Bye.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Good morrow, gentle sir. Good morrow. Oh, what can I do for you?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55You, sir, can do nothing for me. I wish to go straight to the top.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56I never bother with minions.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Kindly inform Old Vic I'm here, I'll go straight in.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I'm afraid there's no such person.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05You don't mean he's passed on? Oh, I am sorry.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07I'll have to send him a floral bouquet.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Who do I have the pleasure of addressing, then, sir?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11I'm the Managing Director of the Old Vic Trust.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12That's all right, you'll do.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Now, put me down for a fortnight of Henry Five Part I and II.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17How about the middle of April?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I can fix it in-between Finsbury Park and Bolton.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I'm awfully sorry but you have the advantage of me.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Who did you say you were, exactly?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Tell him who I am. This is Tony Hancock.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Anthony Hancock. Yeah, Anthony Hancock.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Oh. You still have the advantage of me.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36What exactly do you do?
0:11:36 > 0:11:37What exactly do I do?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40My dear sir, either you're jesting or you're looking for
0:11:40 > 0:11:42a punch up the hooter.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49I'm Hancock, the actor. Oh, you're an actor! That is so.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Yes, I'm afraid we don't do auditions. Auditions?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54No, we only employ known actors here.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56If you leave your name and address to the casting department,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59they'll let you know if there is anything for you.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Good afternoon.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Don't scribble when you're talking to me, mush!
0:12:03 > 0:12:05How dare you!
0:12:05 > 0:12:07I'm just signing Sir Ralph's contract.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08I don't care whose con...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Is that all he's getting? For a week?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13I say, this is Much Ado About Nothing, isn't it?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I thought he was at least on a monkey.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19My dear sir, actors do not perform at the Old Vic for the money -
0:12:19 > 0:12:21they act here for the prestige.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Oh, don't give me that. It's an income tax fiddle, isn't it?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26You pay 'em in oncers after the show, I know how it works.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28We do not pay them in oncers!
0:12:28 > 0:12:32This is all any star gets at the Old Vic. Let's get out of here.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34I can get you more than that for a baked bean commercial.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Yes, I think your agent's quite right.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39I think you'd do better with the baked beans.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Now, I'm a very busy man...
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Look, I'll put me cards on the table, I'm after the knighthood,
0:12:44 > 0:12:46and I'm not going to get it with the baked beans, am I?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48He's quite right, the prestige means more than the loot.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Well, when do I start?
0:12:50 > 0:12:53I've got a better idea - get the knighthood first and then come back.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55No, no, no, I've gone into this, I know how it goes.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58The Old Vic, then the knighthood. Now, stop playing about.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00You've had Frankie Howerd here, you can have me.
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Yes, but we don't know your work.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03I mean, we have a very high standard here.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Oh, well, if that's all that's bothering you,
0:13:05 > 0:13:06we'll show you something.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Give him the funny walk. This kills 'em.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11He doesn't want to see the funny walk. He wants to see some acting.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Oh, well, do the bit I like you doing.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16What, the bit I do in front of the mirror? Yes, you know, Hamlet,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20when he's on his tod, up there on the roof of Elsinki Castle.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23I assume you mean the soliloquy? Yeah, he can do that as well.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Go on, impress him.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Yes, yes, all right. Which shall I do?
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Charles Laughton, Edward Everett Horton or the Robert Newton?
0:13:29 > 0:13:33I think Robert Newton's your best. Right, a soliloquy from Hamlet.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35I take it you're familiar with this scene?
0:13:35 > 0:13:39The work has been performed here occasionally, yes.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40I don't want to flog myself to death
0:13:40 > 0:13:42if you don't know what it's all about, you know.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Right, well, take it that the wings are over here,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47so I make me entrance in here...
0:13:48 > 0:13:51..with the parrot on me shoulder and the crutch.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Then I go... Just a minute, a parrot and a crutch?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56I don't recollect a parrot and a crutch in Hamlet.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00It's my own interpretation of the part, do you mind?
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Every actor has his own idea of how Hamlet should be played...
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and I see it with the parrot on the shoulder and the crutch.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08That's all there is to it.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Give the artist a little leeway in his characterisation.
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Yes, but you can't depart completely
0:14:12 > 0:14:14from the author's conception of the role.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Are you arguing with the actor? No, I'm not, but...
0:14:17 > 0:14:20All right! I enter with the crutch and the parrot.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Here. Now, put that fag out and do me a favour.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Let's have the lights down a bit
0:14:27 > 0:14:29and, if you've got any coughing to do,
0:14:29 > 0:14:31do it now and let's get it over.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Right, we're on, then!
0:14:35 > 0:14:37To be or not to be!
0:14:40 > 0:14:43That is the question, ha-harr!
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
0:14:46 > 0:14:48outrageous fortune, Jim lad!
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
0:14:53 > 0:14:56and by opposing end them!
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Get out. I beg your pardon?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03That was terrible. Hey, wait a minute.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06You can't talk like that to an artist of his standing.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Sidney, please, you're my agent.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Don't speak to that gentleman like that.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Punch him one! Get stuck into him, go on!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Now, listen, gentlemen, there's no need for violence.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16I may have been a little hasty in my judgment,
0:15:16 > 0:15:19but you must admit your interpretation was a little unusual.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Shall I give you some advice? Go on.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23I think you need a little more experience
0:15:23 > 0:15:25before you appear at the Old Vic. I beg your pardon?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Well, not very much, but just a little bit of,
0:15:28 > 0:15:29how shall we say, polish?
0:15:29 > 0:15:31I mean, you wouldn't like to jeopardise your career
0:15:31 > 0:15:33for the sake of lack of experience, would you?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36No, of course not. Well, what do you have to suggest?
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Why don't you go away? Yes, that would be a very good idea.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Go away and join a Shakespearean repertory company -
0:15:42 > 0:15:44it's the best experience in the world -
0:15:44 > 0:15:48all our stars have started like that. Then, in a few years' time...
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Well, no, say a few months' time,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53you can come back and we'll see what we can do for you.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Very well, I shall acquiesce to your suggestion.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56I shall join a repertory company
0:15:56 > 0:15:59and I shall be back here for the autumn season,
0:15:59 > 0:16:02so pencil me in for Henry Five, Henry Six and Dick Three.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04And, er, Henry IV Part II.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Or is it Henry the Two, Part Four?
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Well... You'll have that sorted out by the time I come back, of course.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13By the way, when you're making my name plate
0:16:13 > 0:16:14to put on the dressing room door...
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Yes? Leave a space in front of the name, eh?
0:16:16 > 0:16:17Don't want to screw another bit on
0:16:17 > 0:16:20for when the knighthood comes through, eh?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Farewell to thee, blithe spirit!
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Here, do you do Shakespeare here all the time? No, not all the time.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Yeah, well, I just had an idea.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34If we turn the place into a theatre club, put a few saucy birds in,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36you know, artistic poses,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38I think we'd be onto a few knicker there.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Call it The Sid James Revue Bar.
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Just a thought.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Yes, yes, very interesting indeed, I'm sure, Mr Hancock, but,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02er, do you mind if I give you some advice? Well?
0:17:02 > 0:17:06Well, I feel you need a little more experience before coming to
0:17:06 > 0:17:09the East Cheam Rep. Do I hear right?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Experience to join this seedy company?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14You've already seen what I can do and, I might add,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16I don't give an audition to any old hobbledehoy who asks me.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19I admit that your interpretation was original,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22but we do not play Hamlet with a crutch and a parrot at East Cheam!
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Oh, what can you do with such uncultured fools?
0:17:24 > 0:17:27No wonder we're known as the barbarians of Europe!
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Imagination, sir, that's what... CLATTERING
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Hello. That's what the theatre lacks.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34AUDIENCE GIGGLES
0:17:34 > 0:17:35Watch it over there.
0:17:35 > 0:17:36The star's talking.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41I don't think you quite comprehend the honour I'm offering you!
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I'm willing to tread the boards of this tatty playhouse and lift it
0:17:44 > 0:17:46from obscurity to a place of national prominence.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Well, if it's all the same to you, we'd prefer to remain obscure.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Here at East Cheam, we play Hamlet in the wigs and the tights
0:17:52 > 0:17:54or not at all!
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Have you tried a theatre workshop? I'm an actor, sir, not a carpenter.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Well, I'm very sorry, but you must have experience.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03We do not take beginners here.
0:18:03 > 0:18:08To act in Shakespeare, you must, as it were, start from the bottom.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10HE CHUCKLES
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Do you get that? Shakespeare? Midsummer Night's Dream? Bottom?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16HE CHUCKLES
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Yes, now, listen, you go away
0:18:18 > 0:18:22and come back when you've had a little bit more experience.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Very well, varlet, I shall take my services to another management.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27And when you're old and grey and your grandchildren ask you
0:18:27 > 0:18:30what you did in the theatre, you'll be able to tell them that you
0:18:30 > 0:18:33turned down Sir Anthony Hancock because you said he had no talent.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Good day to you. Come, Sidney, we will go elsewhere.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Here, if I could get a licence,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43would you be interested in putting on a few girlie shows?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46You know, taking them off, a few artistic poses? Members only? No?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49He's right, mate, you haven't got any imagination!
0:18:57 > 0:19:01To be or not to be, that is the question, ha-harr!
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
0:19:06 > 0:19:09outrageous fortunes, Jim lad,
0:19:09 > 0:19:13or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them!
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Thank you, thank you very much. And now...
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I haven't finished yet. Oh, yes, you have.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22And now, for the first time at the Stratford Arms,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25we welcome that little lady of striptease, Maisie Sprockett,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28who will do her famous Dance of the Seven Veils.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30CHEERING
0:19:37 > 0:19:39What a fiasco!
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Uncultured lot!
0:19:41 > 0:19:44This is your fault. When you said you'd got two weeks at Stratford,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46you might have added it was a pub.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Yugoslavian Riesling and a packet of fags, please, Harold.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51I'll pay you at the end of the week.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54It's not good enough, Sidney, an artist of my calibre
0:19:54 > 0:19:57appearing in the four-ale bar of a local boozer. Best I could do!
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Well, I'm not satisfied.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02The Prime Minister will never get to hear me working down here. No.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05I'm sure his talent scouts never go into boozers. No.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Are you listening to me? Yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Surely you could have got me something better than this.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Could still have been a big draw.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14SIDNEY CACKLES
0:20:14 > 0:20:17You're not listening! Oh, she's a little cracker, ain't she?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I'm your client! Pay attention when I'm talking to you!
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Three to go. Disgusting.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I don't know what pubs are coming to.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27What chance has Shakespeare got against that kind of entertainment?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30You wouldn't applaud and clap if I was to get up there
0:20:30 > 0:20:32and take me socks off. Anyway, as I was saying...
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Two to go. As I was saying...
0:20:35 > 0:20:36How many? Two. Oh...
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I say, that's a bit racy, isn't it?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45It's not supposed to be all right, is it? Yes, it's all right.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Yeah, I can see that.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Hello, one to go. Your fags, sir. Shut up.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01She's taking her time over this one. Yeah, well, she always does.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02She's taunting us, you see.
0:21:05 > 0:21:05Here it goes...
0:21:07 > 0:21:08CROWD CHEERS Lights!
0:21:08 > 0:21:11They've turned the lights out! Cheats, robbers!
0:21:11 > 0:21:14She's gone! What a fiddle! Oh, shut up.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17What do you expect? It's only surface, no point in it!
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Thank you, Maisie. What a little darling, eh?
0:21:19 > 0:21:22And now the Stratford Arms are proud to present one of our regulars,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Rupert Troy, who will sing Because.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32STRANGULATED VOICE # Because you come to me
0:21:32 > 0:21:36# With naught save love... #
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Oh, no, I can't stand this, I'm going home!
0:21:39 > 0:21:42You can't go home, boy, you've got another show in half an hour.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Three shows a night for two months, remember?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And with all that experience behind you,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48we can go straight back to the East Cheam Rep.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52# Because you come to me... #
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Oh, no, too much of this, I couldn't stand it.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Another glass of Yugoslavian Riesling, please.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59HE IMITATES SINGER
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Oh, no, no, give us the whole bottle, mate. I've had enough...!
0:22:20 > 0:22:22KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Oh, it's you two again, is it?
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Didn't I tell you to go away and get some experience?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32I've had more than enough experience for you, sir. Tell him.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Two months at Stratford. Stratford? Really?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Certainly, I've got a recommendation here from the management.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42"Gave complete satisfaction to our customers
0:22:42 > 0:22:43"in his rendition of Hamlet
0:22:43 > 0:22:46"and never once was found drunk on the premises.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51"Signed, the manager." There we are. Very impressive. Any press cuttings?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Press cuttings, yes, I've got one here. The Brewers Gazette.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57"The best thing seen at the Stratford this year."
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Brewers Gazette? That's a strange paper to be reporting
0:23:00 > 0:23:01stage activities, isn't it?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Yeah, well, they were having an outing, you see,
0:23:04 > 0:23:06and they reported it. Oh, I see, and, er,
0:23:06 > 0:23:08they were impressed with your new interpretation?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Naturally, they were knocked out with it.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Ooh, well, what's good enough for Stratford's good enough for us.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16We've never had anybody here from Stratford before.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Good, well, I shall play three title roles -
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Richard III, Romeo, and Julius Caesar.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22My own interpretation, of course.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Of course. Right, then, what about the contract?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Yes, well, we pay all our top stars seven pounds a week
0:23:26 > 0:23:28plus their National Allowance stamp.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Blimey, we got more than that in the pub! What? Where?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33He said we spent more than that in the pub entertaining after
0:23:33 > 0:23:36the show, you know how it is, Larry and Viv and all that lot, you know.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39As we all know, they're not half a pint of bitter merchants, no, no.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42They're gin and tonic and glasses of red stuff with cherries in 'em
0:23:42 > 0:23:44and all that.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Look, I want all the publicity I can get.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49I want you to get the Prime Minister down with all his talent scouts.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Of course, when I get to the Old Vic, I want to be a big name.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Now, I want to get the whispers going round now
0:23:53 > 0:23:55about the knighthood, right?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56It won't be long now.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, ha-harr!
0:24:24 > 0:24:27The evil that men do lives after them.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30The good is oft interred with their bones, ha-harr!
0:24:30 > 0:24:32MILD APPLAUSE
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Now is the winter of our discontent
0:24:51 > 0:24:54made glorious summer by this son of York.
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Ha-harr!
0:24:55 > 0:25:00And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house in the deep bosom
0:25:00 > 0:25:02of the ocean buried, ha-harr!
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Arr, there you are.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27But soft. What light through yonder window breaks, ha-ha-harr!
0:25:27 > 0:25:30It is the east, and Juliet is the sun, arr!
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
0:25:33 > 0:25:37who is already sick and pale with grief, ha-ha-ha-harr!
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Good morrow, coz.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I and me agent laddie have returned to offer our services.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59Oh, yes, you're the one I told to go away and learn a trade, aren't you?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Not learn a trade, learn the trade.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Oh, yes. Well, I have. Tell him.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Two months at Stratford and two months at East Cheam Rep.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Oh, really? So, what about it?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Yeah, you promised him, if he got some experience,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13you'd give him a job. So I did.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Tell me, do you know all of Shakespeare's works?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18All of them - which would you like to hear?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Titus, Much Ado, King Lear? I know the lot.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21I'm going to take a chance.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23I'm going to sign you up for the whole season -
0:26:23 > 0:26:25five of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27What would you say to that?
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Child's play.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30You couldn't have found a better leading man.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33At last, a star at the Old Vic.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Just to think that Maisie Sprockett could have been Lady Hancock...
0:26:37 > 0:26:41and I told her not to mess about with that bloke who sang Because.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13APPLAUSE
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this
0:27:25 > 0:27:30son of York and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house...
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Er...
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Lour'd...
0:27:36 > 0:27:41Prompt. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried, ha-harr, Jim lad!
0:27:43 > 0:27:46In the deep bosom of the ocean buried, ha-harr, Jim lad!
0:27:49 > 0:27:53Prompt. Why don't you learn the lines?
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Knighthood? They can't even see me.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Please! No.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Give me a line. No!
0:28:03 > 0:28:04I'm the star, down here!
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Here I am! Now is the winter of our discontent!
0:28:08 > 0:28:10To be or not to be, that is the question!
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Here I am, down here!
0:28:13 > 0:28:16What about the knighthood? Hancock's the name. Give me a line!
0:28:16 > 0:28:18D'a-a-agh!
0:28:18 > 0:28:20He's not getting a knighthood through my talent. Any requests?
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Any part you like. I've come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Any part you like. Here you are, Punch and Judy!
0:28:29 > 0:28:31APPLAUSE
0:29:10 > 0:29:13Seemed a long shot, I'm sure, but what if they, er,
0:29:13 > 0:29:14they offered you a knighthood?
0:29:14 > 0:29:18I would have to say no. I'm going to hang out for the peerage.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23Anyway, I wouldn't let that family near me with a sharp stick,
0:29:23 > 0:29:25let alone a sword, you know.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31By now, I'm comfortable everywhere, you know.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34I'm comfortable with royalty,
0:29:34 > 0:29:36I'm comfortable, you know, with assholes,
0:29:36 > 0:29:40and I'm comfortable all over the place.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43At the same time, I'm still well aware of where I come from
0:29:43 > 0:29:48and that, I mean, it's a shining example of what can happen
0:29:48 > 0:29:51if you're talented and lucky like me, you know!
0:29:53 > 0:29:55BIRD TWEETS
0:29:55 > 0:29:57My heart aches
0:29:57 > 0:30:01And a drowsy numbness pains my sense
0:30:01 > 0:30:04As though of hemlock I had drunk
0:30:04 > 0:30:09Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past
0:30:09 > 0:30:12And Lethe-wards had sunk
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Tis not through envy of thy happy lot
0:30:15 > 0:30:18But being too happy in thy happiness
0:30:18 > 0:30:23That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
0:30:23 > 0:30:26In some melodious plot of beechen green
0:30:26 > 0:30:29And shadows numberless
0:30:29 > 0:30:34Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
0:30:37 > 0:30:43Are there things that you hated as a young guy that you now like?
0:30:43 > 0:30:44Vera Lynn.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46THEY LAUGH
0:30:49 > 0:30:53Yeah, you know, little things like that, you know.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56# Born free
0:30:56 > 0:31:01# And life is worth living
0:31:01 > 0:31:05# But only worth living
0:31:05 > 0:31:11# If you're born
0:31:11 > 0:31:14# Free. #
0:31:14 > 0:31:16DUSTBIN LID CLATTERS
0:31:26 > 0:31:28CLATTERING
0:31:28 > 0:31:29What the flipping 'eck?
0:31:34 > 0:31:36# Whoa!
0:31:39 > 0:31:41MICK PLAYS HARMONICA
0:31:47 > 0:31:49# Talkin' 'bout the midnight rambler
0:31:50 > 0:31:53# Everybody got to go
0:31:54 > 0:31:57# Talkin' 'bout the midnight rambler
0:31:58 > 0:32:00# The one you never seen before
0:32:02 > 0:32:04# Sighin' down the wind so sadly
0:32:06 > 0:32:08# Listen and you'll hear me moan
0:32:10 > 0:32:12# Talkin' 'bout the midnight rambler
0:32:13 > 0:32:15# Everybody got to go
0:32:23 > 0:32:25# Talkin' 'bout the midnight gambler
0:32:27 > 0:32:29# The one you never seen before
0:32:31 > 0:32:33# Talkin' 'bout the midnight rambler
0:32:34 > 0:32:37# Did you see me jump the garden wall?
0:32:38 > 0:32:41# Sighin' down the wind so sadly
0:32:42 > 0:32:44# Listen and you'll hear me moan
0:32:46 > 0:32:48# Talkin' 'bout the midnight gambler
0:32:50 > 0:32:52# Everybody got to go... #
0:32:57 > 0:32:58Come on!
0:32:59 > 0:33:01MICK PLAYS HARMONICA
0:33:15 > 0:33:17# Talkin' 'bout the midnight rambler
0:33:19 > 0:33:21# Well, honey, it's no rock and roll show
0:33:23 > 0:33:25# Talkin' 'bout the midnight gambler
0:33:27 > 0:33:29# Everybody got to go... #
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Come on, now, come on!
0:33:34 > 0:33:35Woo!
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Getting funky now!
0:34:32 > 0:34:34MICK PLAYS HARMONICA
0:34:55 > 0:34:57# Yeah, baby, that's all right, now... #
0:35:07 > 0:35:09How we still going?
0:35:19 > 0:35:20# Yeah! Now, don't do that
0:36:21 > 0:36:22# Don't do that
0:36:24 > 0:36:25# Don't do that
0:36:28 > 0:36:29# And don't do that
0:36:32 > 0:36:33# And don't do that
0:36:35 > 0:36:36# And don't do that
0:36:39 > 0:36:40# Don't do...
0:36:43 > 0:36:44# Don't do that
0:36:46 > 0:36:47# Don't do that
0:36:50 > 0:36:51# And don't do that
0:37:00 > 0:37:01# Now don't do that
0:37:10 > 0:37:11# Yeah
0:37:44 > 0:37:45# Oh, yeah
0:37:48 > 0:37:50# Oh, yeah
0:37:53 > 0:37:54# Oh, yeah
0:37:57 > 0:37:58# And, oh, yeah
0:38:00 > 0:38:02# But, oh, yeah
0:38:04 > 0:38:06# And, oh, yeah
0:38:09 > 0:38:11# And, oh, yeah
0:38:18 > 0:38:19# And everybody say a-aow!
0:38:19 > 0:38:21CROWD: A-aow!
0:38:21 > 0:38:23# And everybody say a-aow!
0:38:23 > 0:38:25CROWD: A-aow!
0:38:25 > 0:38:27# Everybody at Glastonbury say a-aow!
0:38:27 > 0:38:30CROWD: A-aow!
0:38:30 > 0:38:33# Mm-hm...
0:38:33 > 0:38:35# Whoo! CROWD: Whoo!
0:38:35 > 0:38:37# Whoo! CROWD: Whoo!
0:38:37 > 0:38:38# Whoo! CROWD: Whoo!
0:38:38 > 0:38:40# Whoo! CROWD: Whoo!
0:38:40 > 0:38:41# Whoo! CROWD: Whoo!
0:38:41 > 0:38:43# Oh, yeah
0:38:50 > 0:38:55# Well, you heard about the Boston...
0:38:59 > 0:39:03# Well, now, honey it's not one of those
0:39:06 > 0:39:12# Well, I'm just talking about the midnight
0:39:14 > 0:39:18# Well, the one you've never seen before
0:39:21 > 0:39:26# He's called the hit-and-run raper in anger
0:39:28 > 0:39:32# Or just a knife-sharpened tippie-toes
0:39:34 > 0:39:39# Or just the shoot 'em dead brainbell jangler
0:39:41 > 0:39:45# Everybody got to go
0:39:47 > 0:39:51# Listen for the midnight rambler
0:39:53 > 0:39:56# Play it easy as you go
0:39:59 > 0:40:03# I'm gonna smash down all your plate glass windows
0:40:05 > 0:40:09# Put a fist through your steel-plate door
0:40:11 > 0:40:15# And if you ever catch the midnight rambler
0:40:17 > 0:40:21# Play it easy, easy as you go
0:40:23 > 0:40:28# Well, he's pouncing like proud black panther
0:40:29 > 0:40:33# People, they'll say I told you so... #
0:40:43 > 0:40:44Come on.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Come on!
0:41:31 > 0:41:35# Talking about the midnight gambler
0:41:35 > 0:41:38# Everybody got to go
0:41:38 > 0:41:41# Talk about the midnight rambler
0:41:41 > 0:41:44# Yeah, the one you never seen before
0:41:44 > 0:41:48# So, if you ever catch the midnight rambler
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# Steal your mistress from under your nose
0:41:51 > 0:41:55# I'll go easy with your cold-fanged anger
0:41:55 > 0:41:58# I'll stick my knife right down his throat. #
0:42:09 > 0:42:10MICK: Thank you!
0:42:12 > 0:42:14KEITH: 'When you come off stage, you might be knackered,
0:42:14 > 0:42:18'but with thousands of people in front of you going, "Yeah, man!"
0:42:18 > 0:42:22'And you're getting this incredible feedback and energy
0:42:22 > 0:42:24'and they're singing the songs for you.
0:42:24 > 0:42:29'I mean, you could actually not bother half the time.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32'No. It's a feeling that can't really be described.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35Unfortunately, you can't all do it, can you?
0:42:35 > 0:42:37But I've been there and it's my job.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43You go out there on stage and you have a huge audience who have paid
0:42:43 > 0:42:46their Goddamn money to come and see you.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50And they give you all the love they got and you feel kind of honoured.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53And you just try and give them the best you've got.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56How can you fail?
0:42:56 > 0:42:59I mean, you can screw up or whatever,
0:42:59 > 0:43:02but it gives you a feeling that...
0:43:03 > 0:43:06Man, you know, if they're here
0:43:06 > 0:43:09and they're giving me this amount of energy,
0:43:09 > 0:43:13I'd rather croak onstage than, like, flake it.
0:43:15 > 0:43:22I go out there and I want to do it just a little bit better
0:43:22 > 0:43:25than I did it the night before.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28And I think there's a collective feeling in this band.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31They're never, any of them, go out there and say,
0:43:31 > 0:43:33"Oh, we're going to churn it out."
0:43:33 > 0:43:37It wouldn't be possible with this band.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40In that way, they're workaholics.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43Including me, probably worse than the rest of them.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45It's an amazing job, man. Yeah.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48You know, I don't mind doing another half an hour.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55MUSIC: In A Dis A Time by The Itals
0:43:55 > 0:43:58# Whoa, whoa, yeah
0:43:58 > 0:44:05# Yeah, yeah, my bredren You got to know yourself
0:44:05 > 0:44:08# In a dis a time
0:44:08 > 0:44:11# Man you have the mind
0:44:11 > 0:44:14# You get carry away by captivity
0:44:14 > 0:44:18# Carry away by captivity
0:44:18 > 0:44:20# In a dis a time
0:44:20 > 0:44:24# How do them say themselves Jah?
0:44:24 > 0:44:28# For 30 pieces of silver
0:44:28 > 0:44:30# Jah Jah live forever
0:44:30 > 0:44:34# Him a go come with lightening and thunder
0:44:34 > 0:44:37# In a dis a time
0:44:37 > 0:44:40# Any one can tell a lie
0:44:40 > 0:44:44# But the truth reveal itself
0:44:44 > 0:44:49# All you a go say that you love Jah Jah
0:44:49 > 0:44:52# Yet y'all fight tribal against ya brother
0:44:52 > 0:44:57# In a dis a time # In a dis a time
0:44:57 > 0:45:00# You lie and knew what you wanna know
0:45:00 > 0:45:04# Some son he got to take a blow
0:45:04 > 0:45:07# Man have to know himself don't you know
0:45:07 > 0:45:10# Birds tangled by them feet
0:45:10 > 0:45:13# Man a go tangled by them tongue
0:45:13 > 0:45:16# So it was written So it must be done
0:45:16 > 0:45:21# In a dis a time, yeah In a dis a time
0:45:21 > 0:45:28# In a dis a time, yeah In a dis a time, yeah
0:45:31 > 0:45:35# All you a go say that you love Jah Jah
0:45:35 > 0:45:39# Yet y'all fight tribal against ya brother
0:45:39 > 0:45:45# In a dis a time, yeah In a dis a time, yeah
0:45:45 > 0:45:47# In a dis a time
0:46:02 > 0:46:04# You lie and knew what you wanna know
0:46:04 > 0:46:08# Some son he got to take a blow
0:46:08 > 0:46:11# Man have to know himself don't you know
0:46:11 > 0:46:14# Birds tangled by them feet
0:46:14 > 0:46:17# Man a go tangled by dem tongue
0:46:17 > 0:46:20# So it was written So it must be done
0:46:20 > 0:46:25# In a dis a time, yeah In a dis a time
0:46:26 > 0:46:32# In a dis a time, me breadren In a dis a time
0:46:32 > 0:46:36# You got to know yourself, yeah
0:46:36 > 0:46:40# You have to know ya self, yeah
0:46:40 > 0:46:44# In a dis a time Oh, my bredren. #
0:46:57 > 0:46:59LION ROARS
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Whoa!
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Stick 'em up!
0:47:50 > 0:47:52Give me a Neapolitan.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Make mine a tutti-frutti.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13GUNSHOTS
0:48:13 > 0:48:17Whoa, whoa, whoa!
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Come on, horse!
0:48:19 > 0:48:21Whoa!
0:48:21 > 0:48:22GUNSHOT
0:48:29 > 0:48:32Howdy. Sure glad to see you.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35Howdy, Slim. Glad to see you too.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Yeah, turning chicken.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00Get out of here.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03HE WHIMPERS
0:49:12 > 0:49:13SLURPING
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Hey, waiter.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21WHISPERS
0:49:25 > 0:49:27BANG!
0:49:30 > 0:49:32GUNSHOTS
0:49:34 > 0:49:38# I wanna drink my java from an old tin can
0:49:38 > 0:49:41# While the moon is riding high
0:49:41 > 0:49:45# I wanna listen to the whippoorwill
0:49:45 > 0:49:49# I wanna hear a coyote cry... #
0:49:49 > 0:49:51HE HOWLS
0:49:51 > 0:49:52Bang.
0:49:54 > 0:49:55Waiter!
0:49:55 > 0:49:57# I want to kick him in the side
0:49:57 > 0:50:00# Just to show his step and pride
0:50:00 > 0:50:02# Back on the Texas plains. #
0:50:02 > 0:50:06SHE YODELS
0:50:07 > 0:50:11Hey, girl. How about a kiss, eh?
0:50:16 > 0:50:19APPLAUSE
0:50:26 > 0:50:28Let's get him, boys.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34HORN BLARES
0:50:36 > 0:50:38COMMENTATOR: There they go!
0:50:38 > 0:50:41And it's Time Supplying going to the front from Extend The Hat.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44Golden Boy second by half a length.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47And into the turn, Gallant Fox on the outside.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49And here comes Not A Chance!
0:50:58 > 0:50:59All right, girl.
0:50:59 > 0:51:01I'm a-taking that kiss.
0:51:04 > 0:51:05Uh-oh, the posse.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11I'll see you later.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21Whoa!
0:52:20 > 0:52:22Hey, waiter!
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Whoa!
0:53:26 > 0:53:30And now, my proud beauty, I'll be getting that kiss.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Hey, now. Wait a minute, Shorty.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40You've been a-dogging me all through this picture.
0:53:40 > 0:53:43Just who the heck are you anyway?
0:53:43 > 0:53:45Why, haven't you heard?
0:53:45 > 0:53:46I'm the hero.
0:53:49 > 0:53:50Hey, waiter.
0:53:54 > 0:53:55My hero.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59YA-HOO!
0:54:11 > 0:54:14How about kids? Obviously, being a father changes everything.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Well, yeah.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18It's what's supposed to happen, you know?
0:54:18 > 0:54:21You're supposed to grow up, have kids,
0:54:21 > 0:54:26and you love them and you grow 'em up as best you can.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28I've got five grandkids.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31I was in my room here last night.
0:54:31 > 0:54:35There were only two people in the room that were not from my loins
0:54:35 > 0:54:38and there's about 10 people in the room, right.
0:54:38 > 0:54:43And one was Marlon's wife, Lucy, and one was my wife.
0:54:43 > 0:54:48The rest of them... I thought, "Jesus Christ!"
0:54:48 > 0:54:50Responsible.
0:54:50 > 0:54:52I don't know. Are they all mine?
0:54:52 > 0:54:55And have they all got my blood running in them?
0:54:55 > 0:54:58I have granddaughters leap... I don't even want them to leap on me
0:54:58 > 0:55:01and say, "Grandpa, I love you," and I just woke up, you know?
0:55:03 > 0:55:05But, you know, you can't deny it.
0:55:05 > 0:55:08It's like, "Come here, give us a hug."
0:55:08 > 0:55:12What do you get from them? Oh, love.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15You give it, you get it back - simple as that.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20We all take care of each other and...stuff like that
0:55:20 > 0:55:24and it's, I mean, hard to put into words.
0:55:24 > 0:55:28But it's just love, really.
0:55:29 > 0:55:34Family's family and, you know, you don't make a big deal out about it
0:55:34 > 0:55:38but somehow, miraculously...
0:55:40 > 0:55:45..my brood is incredibly lovable.
0:55:53 > 0:55:57Right, time to walk the dog, you know what I mean?
0:55:57 > 0:56:00Check this out while I'm gone.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02The late, great Etta James.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06MUSIC: Night-Time Is The Right Time By Etta James
0:56:16 > 0:56:18# You know the night-time
0:56:19 > 0:56:21# Is the right time
0:56:22 > 0:56:27# To be with the one you love
0:56:28 > 0:56:31# Oh, baby
0:56:32 > 0:56:35# Come on, babe
0:56:35 > 0:56:37# Come on, baby
0:56:38 > 0:56:41# You the one I'm thinking of
0:56:42 > 0:56:44# You know the night-time
0:56:45 > 0:56:48# Ooh, ooh, is the right time
0:56:48 > 0:56:50# To be with the one you love
0:56:51 > 0:56:54# I said, be with the one you love
0:56:55 > 0:56:57# You know my mother
0:56:58 > 0:57:00# She hadn't a dime
0:57:01 > 0:57:03# And my father
0:57:05 > 0:57:07# Left his poor child crying
0:57:07 > 0:57:11# Oh, baby Oh, baby, now
0:57:11 > 0:57:14# Come on, baby
0:57:14 > 0:57:17# I want you to be my lover
0:57:17 > 0:57:20# Oh, and keep me satisfied
0:57:21 > 0:57:24# You know the night-time
0:57:24 > 0:57:25# Every... #
0:57:25 > 0:57:28'The furthest these people are willing to look into the future is
0:57:28 > 0:57:29'who goes home with whom.'
0:57:29 > 0:57:30Go!
0:57:30 > 0:57:33# Be with the one you love
0:57:34 > 0:57:36# Baby
0:57:37 > 0:57:39# Baby
0:57:41 > 0:57:42# Baby
0:57:44 > 0:57:45# Oh, baby, now
0:57:47 > 0:57:49# You know I love you
0:57:50 > 0:57:52# Place no-one above you
0:57:53 > 0:57:55# Hold me tight
0:57:57 > 0:57:59# Make everything all right
0:58:00 > 0:58:02# Because you know the night-time
0:58:03 > 0:58:06# Everyday is the right time
0:58:07 > 0:58:08# To be with the one you love
0:58:09 > 0:58:12# Well, it's all right. #
0:58:49 > 0:58:52Who's the lucky fella?
0:58:52 > 0:58:54# Squeeze me
0:58:56 > 0:58:58# Squeeze me
0:58:59 > 0:59:01# Squeeze me, baby
0:59:02 > 0:59:04# Oh, don't leave me
0:59:06 > 0:59:08# I want you to hold my hand
0:59:09 > 0:59:11# Oh, baby
0:59:12 > 0:59:14# And I don't need
0:59:15 > 0:59:18# I don't need no other man
0:59:19 > 0:59:21# Because you know the night-time
0:59:22 > 0:59:25# Oh, is the right time
0:59:25 > 0:59:27# To be with the one you love
0:59:28 > 0:59:31# Oh, yes, it is. #
0:59:53 > 0:59:54Bicycle Thief.
0:59:56 > 0:59:59Made just after the war, in Italy.
1:00:00 > 1:00:04How I got to know it? Art school.
1:00:06 > 1:00:09Once a month, they would show, you know... They would have a movie.
1:00:09 > 1:00:17Bicycle Thief was my first introduction to Italian movie-making
1:00:17 > 1:00:22and the different way of telling a story.
1:00:22 > 1:00:27The relationship between the boy and the old man and editing...
1:00:27 > 1:00:32That's when I first became aware of, you know, they chop 'em up...
1:00:34 > 1:00:38I always remembered it because it wasn't Hollywood.
1:00:38 > 1:00:39Yeah.
1:00:39 > 1:00:42There's a different way of looking through the lens,
1:00:42 > 1:00:46therefore there are many other ways of looking through a camera
1:00:46 > 1:00:50and capturing what you wanted and to tell a story.
1:00:50 > 1:00:56It was, to me, an eye-opener in that movies are not always made
1:00:56 > 1:00:59in Hollywood or Lion Studios or Elstree...
1:01:01 > 1:01:04Bicycle Thief was the thing that...
1:01:04 > 1:01:08There's a place called Europe and they know how to look at things too.