Tony Draws a Horse (1950) - Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond - Feature (Comedy, Drama) - video Dailymotion

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Tony Draws a Horse (1950)  91 min  |  Comedy, Drama  |  June 1950 (UK)    A prominent doctor and his psychiatrist wife are taken aback when their innocent young son draws a picture of a horse, with all necessary reproductive equipment lovingly detailed. While the husband is all for paddling his precocious offspring, the wife decides that the boy should be rewarded for so freely expressing his subconscious. This minor misunderstanding brews into a major brouhaha involving split-ups, supposed infidelity and tearful reconciliations.    Director: John Paddy Carstairs    Writers: Lesley Storm (play), Brock Williams    Stars: Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond

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00:00:01The

00:00:02The

00:00:02Oh, my God.

00:00:32Oh, my God.

00:01:02Oh, my God.

00:01:21Oh, my God.

00:01:27Carrie Brown, I shall have to ask the doctor if he can fit you in.

00:01:30It's busy.

00:01:32Ah, Mrs. Carrie Brown.

00:01:33Yes, do go in.

00:01:35Won't you sit down?

00:01:37An unexpected pleasure.

00:01:38Unexpected?

00:01:39Yes, I didn't think I'd see you before the next committee meeting.

00:01:41Has something new turned up?

00:01:42Dr. Fleming, the appointment of the medical superintendent of the new child welfare centre

00:01:46will be decided at the next meeting.

00:01:48Yes.

00:01:49You are one of the three candidates for that position.

00:01:51Well?

00:01:51I have come today to suggest that you withdraw.

00:01:54Withdraw?

00:01:55You're joking.

00:01:56Oh, no, I'm not, after what happened yesterday.

00:01:58Oh, you're referring, no doubt, to what happened at your son's birthday party.

00:02:02Rather, to your son's behaviour at my son's party.

00:02:04To be precise, the name your Tony called my Cyril.

00:02:07Oh, well, we don't want to take any notice of that.

00:02:09After all, he only called him a fat guy.

00:02:11I know what he called him.

00:02:12And for a boy of eight to even know the existence of such a word, it's deplorable.

00:02:16I expect he heard it somewhere.

00:02:17He's no idea of its meaning.

00:02:19What I term a paratism.

00:02:21You term it what you like.

00:02:22If you cannot safeguard your own son's moral health,

00:02:24how can you hope to protect the youth of England?

00:02:26I've already spoken very sharply to Tony.

00:02:28It won't occur again.

00:02:29I've stopped his pocket money.

00:02:30Oh, do put that thing down.

00:02:31You'll only jab yourself.

00:02:33What he needs is a thrashing.

00:02:34My wife disapproves of corporal punishment.

00:02:36She doesn't believe in retarded self-expression.

00:02:38Oh, your wife.

00:02:39I gather she also practices as a psychiatrist.

00:02:42My wife is a qualified psychiatrist.

00:02:44She holds very advanced views, no doubt.

00:02:46My wife's views are her own, not necessarily mine.

00:02:49Your son's gift for self-expression might derive itself from her, might it not?

00:02:52It might?

00:02:53You're not sure.

00:02:54You know, Doctor, in the national movement, such as the welfare of our children,

00:02:57we have to be sure.

00:02:58We want a young England clean in mind and body.

00:03:01And when I think of your son, and you, Doctor Fleming, as medical superintendent.

00:03:05Whatever happens, I shall not withdraw my application.

00:03:07Well, I shall oppose it.

00:03:09What is that noise?

00:03:10It's my baby clinic.

00:03:11And now, if you'll excuse me, I have 15 stomachaches in there.

00:03:15Stomachaches.

00:03:15Well, we all get them.

00:03:20Oh!

00:03:22Suffering cats.

00:03:23That drawing!

00:03:24I, uh, I don't know what to say.

00:03:26I, I trust your belief that I hadn't the least idea of it.

00:03:29That horse was drawn by your Tony, wasn't it?

00:03:31I, I'm afraid it was.

00:03:33He, uh, has a gift for drawing.

00:03:35A gift?

00:03:36Is that what you call it?

00:03:37Kindly love it and Eve.

00:03:38Yes, of course.

00:03:38I need hardly tell you how sorry I am.

00:03:40You need hardly tell me anything.

00:03:42Claire.

00:03:42Sir?

00:03:43It's coming.

00:03:50Doctor's nice, isn't he?

00:03:53Hello, sweetie.

00:03:54I'm terribly sorry.

00:03:55One of Mrs. Fleming's patients, no doubt.

00:03:58Come in, Mr. Tim.

00:03:59Doctor busy?

00:04:00Yes, surgery.

00:04:01Mrs. Fleming won't be long, though.

00:04:02If I'm not being a nuisance.

00:04:03You're never a nuisance, Mr. Tim.

00:04:06Old sauce box, aren't you?

00:04:08Madam's only gone to Paddington to see him after Tony off to school.

00:04:12Half term, you know.

00:04:13Claire, I can't wait long.

00:04:14I've left her mother and sister in a shop.

00:04:15Ah, there's a lot of work before a wedding, sir.

00:04:18Thinks if he puts it up there, I won't find it.

00:04:21You long to go, sir?

00:04:23I long to go what?

00:04:24Before the wedding.

00:04:25Oh, three days, 18 hours, and 48 minutes.

00:04:29Bit of a strain, eh?

00:04:30Yes.

00:04:31Like a nice cup of tea?

00:04:32Oh, no, don't bother.

00:04:33Drop of scotch?

00:04:35I really oughtn't to wait.

00:04:37Well, make up your mind.

00:04:39That wasn't me, it was my conscience.

00:04:40Oh, I don't believe in them things.

00:04:42Don't you smash that now?

00:04:44Doctor likes to play with it after surgery.

00:04:47Say when.

00:04:48Why?

00:04:54There.

00:04:54That's all you're going to get.

00:04:56Ah, thank you, Smithy, I needed this.

00:04:57I think you'll make a nice father.

00:04:59Oh, don't you dare.

00:05:00Oh, Smithy, have a heart.

00:05:01Remember, there's many a true word spoken.

00:05:03Hark, it's you.

00:05:04I bet you'll have heaps of kids.

00:05:06Dozens of them.

00:05:07Bless their innocent little hearts.

00:05:10Take Master Tony now.

00:05:12He was all right till they sent him away to school.

00:05:14What a child like that needs is its parents.

00:05:17Shh.

00:05:18Yes, madam.

00:05:23Hello, Timmy darling.

00:05:24Hello.

00:05:25Smithy, be a pet, pay the taxi.

00:05:27Haven't got any change.

00:05:28Well, bridegroom, how's my young sister coping with the truiter?

00:05:31She's all right.

00:05:32I'm the victim.

00:05:33All I have to do is look on.

00:05:34Well, that earned you a drink.

00:05:36I cannot tell a lie.

00:05:37I've had one.

00:05:37You'll have another.

00:05:38Doctor.

00:05:40No, sir?

00:05:40No.

00:05:41How's my mama?

00:05:42No, she's in great shape.

00:05:43How mothers rise to a wedding.

00:05:45Like a war horse to a bugle.

00:05:47You've got premarital depression, Timmy.

00:05:49You must take more exercise, less alcohol.

00:05:51Thanks, darling.

00:05:52Cheers.

00:05:52You must go out against apprehension complex.

00:05:54You're rather tight for one, you know.

00:05:56Oh, rats are in your old complexes.

00:06:00How long have you been married, Claire?

00:06:02Nine years.

00:06:03You should remember.

00:06:04You are happy, aren't you?

00:06:05Of course I'm happy.

00:06:07Marriage is the ideal state.

00:06:09It's complete.

00:06:09Logical.

00:06:10You'll get to feel that way in time.

00:06:13You know, I sometimes wonder why I didn't beat old Howard to it with you.

00:06:16So does Howard.

00:06:18With men, sense of security is fatal.

00:06:20Keep them guessing.

00:06:21It's a woman's only hope.

00:06:23Children are the real problem.

00:06:25Timmy, if your first child's a boy, for heaven's sake, let him be a boy.

00:06:29Don't try to turn him into a cow little animal.

00:06:32Uh-huh.

00:06:33Tony again?

00:06:34Yes.

00:06:35He's been home for the weekend.

00:06:37He's so clever, and Howard doesn't even begin to understand him.

00:06:40I will not have my son put into a psychological straitjacket.

00:06:44He's a reasoning human being, not a performing seal.

00:06:48Don't let her get you down, old girl.

00:06:49Worst things happen.

00:06:50Tony will make out.

00:06:52Beerton, why didn't I marry you?

00:06:54Tony would have adored you.

00:06:56It would be more his mental age.

00:06:58I wonder if I ought to be awfully pleased about that.

00:07:01Oh, gosh.

00:07:01Half past five.

00:07:02General wonder where I am.

00:07:03And your mother.

00:07:05Have you ever met your mother?

00:07:08Nine, child.

00:07:09Chin up.

00:07:09Square your shoulders.

00:07:10Every girl should go to a marriage with a light of victory in her eyes.

00:07:13And how can madam possibly fit you if you're all angles and bends?

00:07:17I'm sure we should have had godays.

00:07:19What I say about godays is that, well, there's nothing quite like them.

00:07:23It would be quite wrong with this outfit.

00:07:25The whole effect would be outre in the extreme.

00:07:28I don't agree with you.

00:07:29A goday here and a goday there would break the monotony.

00:07:32Monotony?

00:07:33Well, I've never had that said about my designs.

00:07:36Scandalous, perhaps, but monotonous never.

00:07:38No breath of scandal has ever touched my family.

00:07:41And it's not going to begin now.

00:07:42Perhaps you would like to complete the fitting, Mrs. Parsons.

00:07:45If there were more time, I would.

00:07:47Mummy, darling, I'm wearing the dress, not you.

00:07:49Be quiet, Joan.

00:07:51Mummy knows best.

00:07:52This is a country wedding, madam, I keep telling you.

00:07:55You do indeed.

00:07:57And a country wedding demands a certain air of respectability.

00:08:00And in my opinion, there is nothing so respectable as godays.

00:08:04Couldn't we have just one little goday?

00:08:07Once and for all, no.

00:08:10Well, if the fashion editor of Tittle Tattle writes a bad notice of it, you'll be to blame.

00:08:14I must remind you that it's already past our closing time.

00:08:18Oh, dear.

00:08:19What's the matter, darling?

00:08:20Piddance?

00:08:21No, no, no, no.

00:08:22It's Tim.

00:08:22He hasn't come back.

00:08:24Oh, nonsense.

00:08:25He's probably at his tailors.

00:08:27Bridegrooms have their dress problems, too.

00:08:29Yes, but he said he'd be back by half past five.

00:08:32Well, he's probably at a steer party, dear.

00:08:34Stag party, darling.

00:08:36Oh, yes, yes, of course.

00:08:37How foolish of me.

00:08:38Now we'd like to see the wedding dress, if you please, madam.

00:08:41Very well.

00:08:42Mari, fetch the wedding dress.

00:08:43I've had one or two ideas about that wedding dress.

00:08:46Now, I think, Parsons, please leave everything to me.

00:08:49After all, that's what I'm here for.

00:08:50Well, I should have more confidence if we'd seen eye to eye over the goodies.

00:08:56Now, darling, I think that a little more...

00:08:59He's on the last of his national health now.

00:09:02Adidoids.

00:09:16Found the thing.

00:09:17Howard.

00:09:18Is there no other place but the floor for this rubbish?

00:09:20Oh, dear.

00:09:21Why not?

00:09:22Tis.

00:09:22Now, look here, Claire.

00:09:23Matters are getting serious.

00:09:24Have you seen that thing in the hall?

00:09:26What thing?

00:09:27Tony's gone, I suppose.

00:09:28Yes.

00:09:29I saw him off on the 5-10.

00:09:31Pity.

00:09:31I'd have liked a word with him.

00:09:33Why?

00:09:34He's drawn a horse.

00:09:36In a sweepstake.

00:09:37Oh, how wonderful.

00:09:39Tony's drawn a horse on the wall opposite my consulting room door.

00:09:41Well, darling, what are they?

00:09:43After all, there's only one kind of a horse.

00:09:45Unfortunately, there are two.

00:09:47Now, take a look at it.

00:10:01Well, I think it's very funny.

00:10:04And clever, too, I suppose.

00:10:05Yes, and clever.

00:10:06After all, you must admit, he can draw.

00:10:08Oh, darling, why don't you try to laugh about things like this?

00:10:11It's part of the fun of being a parent.

00:10:13Fun?

00:10:14Yes, fun.

00:10:15There are amusing things in life apart from gallstones.

00:10:17Such as allowing one's son to scribble things on walls.

00:10:20It's a very clever sketch of a horse.

00:10:23It is a pity you drew it there.

00:10:25He did it because I objected to his language.

00:10:27To what he called Mrs. Carey Brown's little boy.

00:10:29Little boy?

00:10:30Oh, great toad.

00:10:32Tony drew that horse out of revenge.

00:10:34Hoping my patients would see it.

00:10:35Hoping they'd think that I'd done it.

00:10:36Darling, for goodness sake, don't give way to persecution mania.

00:10:39We'll have it all cleaned up.

00:10:40It's an indelible pencil.

00:10:42It's the child's mind that wants cleaning up.

00:10:44What do you mean?

00:10:45Did you look at it properly?

00:10:47Yes, I did.

00:10:48It's realistic.

00:10:49It's a horse as he sees it.

00:10:50As he ought not to see it.

00:10:52I tell you, his mind wants cleaning up.

00:10:53Are you quite sure you don't mean your own mind?

00:10:56My mind?

00:10:57Yes.

00:10:57There must be something the matter with it to make such a fuss about a child's drawing.

00:11:00Well, I...

00:11:01And I refuse to quarrel with you, Howard.

00:11:03Much as I know you'd like to.

00:11:06Claire.

00:11:08You can't dismiss the whole thing like this.

00:11:11Claire.

00:11:11I'm going to have a bar.

00:11:13Not until we flash this matter out.

00:11:14Oh, don't be absurd.

00:11:15Making such a fuss about a child's natural, simple acceptance of the truth

00:11:18as he sees it.

00:11:19Natural and simple, my foot.

00:11:20Besides, it's biologically correct.

00:11:22He wasn't thinking of biology.

00:11:24I suppose you know best what he was thinking about then.

00:11:26Well, I only know that if you go on as you're doing,

00:11:27you'll have him in the juvenile police court

00:11:29and we shall have probation officers and our private lives.

00:11:31Mine can stand it.

00:11:32And mine certainly can.

00:11:33What are you worrying about then?

00:11:46Now, listen, Claire.

00:11:48Let's try for once to discuss Tony without getting scratchy.

00:11:51I'm not scratchy.

00:11:52I don't find your neurosis in the least infectious.

00:11:54All right, all right.

00:11:55I give in.

00:11:56It's been one of those days.

00:11:57I know.

00:11:58It's been one for me too.

00:12:00One of my schizophrenics is missing from home

00:12:02and that old kleptomaniac I've been treating for years

00:12:05has gone and got three months for shoplifting.

00:12:07I know, I know.

00:12:09Well, let's forget it and settle down for a nice quiet evening,

00:12:12shall we?

00:12:16That's fine.

00:12:18After all, I don't suppose we're the first couple

00:12:19to breed a Jekyll and Hyde?

00:12:22You being Dr. Jekyll and I, Mrs. Hyde?

00:12:25No, I didn't mean that exactly.

00:12:26I was just thinking...

00:12:28Yes, dear, go on.

00:12:29Oh, no, it's nothing.

00:12:30Do you see your hand?

00:12:31No, thank you.

00:12:32I'm interested in this Jekyll and Hyde, Sarely.

00:12:35Go on, Howard.

00:12:36No, I just thought that your total disregard

00:12:37for the things that matter, which I adore in you,

00:12:40should be so horrible when it shows in Tony.

00:12:42That's all, I think.

00:12:44Oh.

00:12:45I'm glad that's all, dear.

00:12:47Oh, well.

00:12:48Nice to relax.

00:12:50I just had a hectic row with Mrs. Carrie Brown

00:12:53over what Tony called her son.

00:12:54Darling, please, not again.

00:12:55Well, anyway, I've lost the child welfare job.

00:12:58I'm delighted to hear it.

00:12:59What children need is psychology, not xenopods.

00:13:01Indeed.

00:13:02Don't worry.

00:13:02They'll come back to you.

00:13:03They may find a better doctor,

00:13:05but they'll never find anybody

00:13:06with a more charming bedside manner.

00:13:09Quite right, darling.

00:13:10It's been you can't always

00:13:10count a bed round with you.

00:13:12I built up my practice on ability,

00:13:14not on tricks.

00:13:15All right.

00:13:16Don't bristle.

00:13:17Nobody's attacking you.

00:13:18I said ability.

00:13:19I'd appreciate some of it in my own household,

00:13:22especially in the upbringing of my son.

00:13:24You have a heaven-sent genius

00:13:26for variations on a worn-out theme.

00:13:28You should have been a musician.

00:13:29If you must know, I'm ashamed of Tony.

00:13:30I don't know what he's going to do next

00:13:31or upset my practice.

00:13:33Why doesn't he behave like the other children

00:13:34in the neighborhood?

00:13:35Well-bred, healthy.

00:13:36No son of mine is going to be bullied

00:13:38into a standard pattern

00:13:39until he's got about as much individuality

00:13:41as a wooden soldier.

00:13:42I'm sick and tired of your attempts

00:13:43to turn a sensitive, intelligent child

00:13:45into a football-kicking little Aborigine.

00:13:48I'm sick and tired of this lifelong battle.

00:13:50It isn't a home.

00:13:51It's an arena.

00:13:52That's how you feel about it.

00:13:53There's an obvious remedy.

00:13:54Well, then why don't you take it?

00:13:55Very well.

00:13:55If that's what you want, I will.

00:13:56The sooner the better.

00:13:57Well, that's fine.

00:13:58Now we both know where we are.

00:13:59Yes.

00:13:59It's a great relief.

00:14:00And what do you imagine you're going to do?

00:14:02Give you grounds for a divorce.

00:14:03If you leave me, I shan't take you back.

00:14:04Take me back?

00:14:05You couldn't drag me back.

00:14:06That's what you say now.

00:14:07That's what I shall continue to say.

00:14:09This is the end of a very long pain in the neck.

00:14:29Hey, Mash.

00:14:30Yes, that's true.

00:14:31Oh, Mr. Bones, you're working me tonight, aren't you?

00:14:34Just doing a little overtime, ma'am.

00:14:35How's the cottage getting on?

00:14:37Oh, fine, ma'am.

00:14:38We've got all the thatch on.

00:14:39We'll be whitewashing her tomorrow.

00:14:41Well, you will have it ready for after the honeymoon, won't you?

00:14:43We mustn't disappoint to have it there.

00:14:45Oh, she'll be ready by then.

00:14:47Oh, well, we shan't be working Thursday morning, though.

00:14:49We are wanted for the bell ringing at the wedding.

00:14:52Same time tomorrow, Richard.

00:14:54I do think Daddy's a darling giving us the cottage, don't you?

00:14:56That's the only reason I'm marrying him, my sweetheart.

00:14:57I'm tired of sleeping on the embankment.

00:14:59Oh, idiot.

00:15:00Grace.

00:15:02Molly, I say Molly.

00:15:03What is it, Papa?

00:15:04I've got it.

00:15:05I've got the 3.30 window at Horse Park.

00:15:07Half a crown each wear eight to one.

00:15:09Darling, please don't bring your racehorses in here.

00:15:11I've all these wedding arrangements to come.

00:15:13I thought you'd like to know, that's all.

00:15:15I've no use for these lardy-dar weddings.

00:15:17Something always goes wrong.

00:15:18Now, when I got married, I swiped my girl right under her father's nose.

00:15:22Drove her away in a horse tandem, and he followed in his butcher's car.

00:15:25He was as mad as a hornet, tried to kill me with a shotgun.

00:15:28There's a deal too much fiddle-dee-dee about weddings.

00:15:31A couple of youngsters want to get together, well, let them get together.

00:15:34And don't make it a cross between Maverking Night and Derby Day.

00:15:38Oh, goodness gracious, the girl's all ready.

00:15:40The train must be early.

00:15:41Grace, Grace, where are you?

00:15:42There you are, the front door.

00:15:44Always something.

00:15:45Oh, here you are.

00:15:46Hello.

00:15:47Did you have a good day?

00:15:48Hi, darling.

00:15:49Hi, darling.

00:15:50Hi, darling.

00:15:51Especially when you're young and concerned.

00:15:52I think you think you can.

00:15:53You can rather spin, aren't you?

00:15:55How is it you, Joan?

00:15:56Look, this is Tim.

00:15:57Hello.

00:15:58Hello, Tim.

00:15:58Oh, so this is the lucky man.

00:16:01My cousin's drowning the bridesmaid.

00:16:02Oh, thanks for the preview.

00:16:03I suppose your job is to see I don't escape.

00:16:05Too bad.

00:16:06Well, take him upstairs, darling.

00:16:07Your father will be in any moment now.

00:16:10And what happened to you in London this afternoon?

00:16:13I, um, I felt a bit in the way, all those fittings and things.

00:16:16I went in and had a drink.

00:16:16Oh, that sounds so like my husband.

00:16:18The slightest sign of activity, and he feels thirsty.

00:16:21Will you excuse me, Tim?

00:16:22I must go and see that those girls are all right.

00:16:24Of course.

00:16:27William, old rascal.

00:16:28Look at this.

00:16:30A thousand and one cocktails.

00:16:32I found it in Alfred's bookcase.

00:16:34You try one.

00:16:35This is called Radioactivity.

00:16:37Now, you taste that.

00:16:39Hey, I said taste it.

00:16:42Very good.

00:16:42Oh, sir, you're right.

00:16:44What a swallow.

00:16:46It reminds me of...

00:16:47Caving Alfred.

00:16:51Good evening, Grace.

00:16:53Oh, good evening, sir.

00:16:54Been running?

00:16:55No, sir.

00:16:56The young ladies have arrived.

00:16:58We're a bit busy.

00:16:58There's always a lot of fuss before a wedding.

00:17:00Yes, sir.

00:17:00Women enjoy it.

00:17:02Well, Tim, my boy, how are you feeling?

00:17:04Fine, thank you, sir.

00:17:05Now, what are you up to?

00:17:07Tim wanted a drink.

00:17:08Well, give him one.

00:17:09Yes.

00:17:09All right, I'll give it.

00:17:11I think you'll like this sherry.

00:17:13Alfred.

00:17:14Yes?

00:17:15I think I'd like a drink, too.

00:17:17By all means, Dad.

00:17:18You know where to find the barley water?

00:17:21Thanks.

00:17:22We can join you.

00:17:23Splendid.

00:17:23Although, between ourselves, I dropped in at the Crown for a quick one on the way up to the station.

00:17:27Out of bounds, you know.

00:17:29It's not bad.

00:17:30Tastes better at the Crown, though.

00:17:31Forbidden fruit, eh, sir?

00:17:33There's a bit of the rebel in the mildest of us.

00:17:34Yes, I'm afraid there is.

00:17:36And marriage is apt to bring it out sooner or later.

00:17:39Oh, there you are, Alfred.

00:17:41You're rather late, dear.

00:17:42What train did you catch?

00:17:43The usual, my dear.

00:17:44Old habits cling.

00:17:46Well, you've taken rather a long time, haven't you?

00:17:48Greatly daring, my love.

00:17:49I called in at the Crown on the way up.

00:17:51Oh, is that wise, dear?

00:17:52It was refreshing.

00:17:54Let's go into the garden.

00:17:55Yes, dear, I know.

00:17:56But I think it was a mistake.

00:17:58You know, Alfred, everybody here knows that I'm Commandant of the Girl Guide.

00:18:01And please yourself, of course.

00:18:03But it does make me look rather foolish.

00:18:05Especially just before the wedding.

00:18:07You could never look foolish.

00:18:08You're a marvelous woman.

00:18:10Anyway, what does it matter what I do?

00:18:12You're the main spring of the family.

00:18:13Of course it matters, Alfred.

00:18:15And if you're going to take high office in the near future, it's most important.

00:18:18We don't know, Molly.

00:18:19So what's for you?

00:18:20But we do know, dear.

00:18:21We know that in three years' time, D.V., Alfred will be Lord Mayor of London.

00:18:25Will he?

00:18:26I don't mind your knowing because you're practically one of the family.

00:18:30But you do see, don't you, that the slightest breath of suspicion,

00:18:33the slightest hint of anything not quite nice, would be fatal.

00:18:37Absolutely fatal.

00:18:38It's a very solemn thought.

00:18:39It is a solemn thought.

00:18:40That's what I told Alfred.

00:18:42And that's why I'm so thankful that our two girls are safely over the rapids and into harbour.

00:18:48You and Joan.

00:18:49Claire and Howard.

00:18:51Dear Howard.

00:18:52So respectable.

00:18:53And such a nice practice.

00:18:57Oh, come along, children.

00:18:58Each of you have a nice tomato juice.

00:19:01Such a nice healthy drink.

00:19:02Oh, mommy.

00:19:03They're going to have a drop of sherry and like it.

00:19:05Oh, my God.

00:19:06I'll do one.

00:19:08Now, I don't think that that you will.

00:19:10Oh, thank you very much.

00:19:11Joan?

00:19:13Anne.

00:19:13Oh, yes.

00:19:14That's Susan.

00:19:17Molly, dear, your glass.

00:19:18Oh, no, no, yeah.

00:19:18Yes, come along.

00:19:20Oh, well.

00:19:22Well, as you insist on my having a second glass of sherry, I'll give you a toast.

00:19:26Here, here.

00:19:27Joan and Tim, their future happiness.

00:19:30May their marriage be as perfect as Claire's and Howard.

00:19:33Here, here.

00:19:34Joan and Tim.

00:19:36Gracious.

00:19:37A visitor.

00:19:38Oh, that'll be Mr. Smilly about the hymns.

00:19:41He'll take you to one.

00:19:44Hello, Grace.

00:19:45Good evening, madam.

00:19:47Hello, everybody.

00:19:48Oh, nice to see you, dear.

00:19:49We didn't expect you.

00:19:51Yes, it is a bit sudden.

00:19:52Hello, darling.

00:19:53Hello, darling.

00:19:55Hello, Tim.

00:19:55Hello.

00:19:55Hello, you wicked old man.

00:19:57Hello, Claire.

00:19:59Barley water.

00:20:01Hello, Joan.

00:20:02You're looking wonderful.

00:20:03You're feeling excited?

00:20:04Well, sort of.

00:20:05She's nervous.

00:20:06Nervous?

00:20:07You flatter yourself.

00:20:08Give me a gin and French, darling.

00:20:10I need one.

00:20:10This is quite reasonable, sherry.

00:20:12Gin and French, please.

00:20:13Large one.

00:20:15So you got back all right?

00:20:17Lost sheep returned?

00:20:18How did you know we lost him?

00:20:20I went round to class for a drink.

00:20:22Oh.

00:20:23How nice.

00:20:24We wondered.

00:20:27Are you staying the night, dear?

00:20:28Yes, if you don't mind.

00:20:30Well, delighted to have you, child.

00:20:31Several nights, our friend.

00:20:33Hope that's how you like it.

00:20:34Oh, thank you.

00:20:36Well, here's how.

00:20:39Hmm.

00:20:40I needed that.

00:20:41Is anything the matter, dear?

00:20:43Yes, in a way.

00:20:45You see, I've left Howard.

00:20:47Left Howard?

00:20:48Do you mean left him?

00:20:51Yes.

00:20:53Claire, what sort of nonsense is this?

00:20:55Don't take any notice.

00:20:56It's some silly joke.

00:20:58If it is, it's on me.

00:21:00You're not well, dear.

00:21:02I can see that.

00:21:03I'm perfectly well, thank you.

00:21:05Oh, you look as if you're running a temperature.

00:21:07There's been a lot of this one-day flu about.

00:21:09We'll get a doctor for you.

00:21:10A doctor?

00:21:11That's all I need.

00:21:13Come along, dear.

00:21:14We'll go upstairs and talk it over.

00:21:18But to say it all happened over to only drawing a horse is preposterous.

00:21:21Boys will draw on walls.

00:21:23When he's here, he draws on the garage walls.

00:21:24Horses?

00:21:25No, dear, of course not.

00:21:26Cars.

00:21:26Well, that limits him quite a bit.

00:21:28And darling, if you could stop prowling up and down.

00:21:31Well, of course, there is something about Tony's drawing.

00:21:33I've always said it.

00:21:34Even cars.

00:21:35He contrives to make more like cars than, well, cars.

00:21:38We needn't go into the artistic merits of the matter.

00:21:41It's Howard's insufferable attitude that's at the bottom of all this.

00:21:44Doctors are like that.

00:21:45They have to be always right or no one would have enough faith in them to get well.

00:21:49You ought to know that.

00:21:51Well, let him be always right on his own.

00:21:53You've had a rout about Tony before.

00:21:55You could have gone on having them in your own place just between yourselves.

00:21:57To come here and inundate the whole family like a, like a burst water main.

00:22:01And at a time like this, I do think it's inconsiderate just before the wedding.

00:22:05I'm sorry.

00:22:06What about me?

00:22:08It's not your wedding, darling.

00:22:09Not my wedding.

00:22:11I'm the bride's mother.

00:22:13Yes, I forgot.

00:22:13It's your crowning triumph, the last of your fledglings, safely airborne.

00:22:18Well, if I'm spoiling all that, I'm sorry.

00:22:21It isn't as if Tony was a new boat of contention.

00:22:23You've been gnawing in between you for years.

00:22:28Molly, they're beginning to wander downstairs.

00:22:30I knew that would happen.

00:22:31We must issue a statement.

00:22:33Darling, you sound like a politician.

00:22:35Tell me, Claire, how serious is all this?

00:22:37We've broken up the keeps, that's all.

00:22:40But why?

00:22:40Why?

00:22:41Because of some row over Tony.

00:22:43Howard quite rightly objects to Claire's way of bringing him up.

00:22:46You know, I think you're wrong, Molly.

00:22:47Claire's very sensible with him.

00:22:48If there is any sense in his upbringing, it comes from Howard.

00:22:52Please don't let a trifle like the wreck of my marriage spoil everything here.

00:22:56I'll go.

00:22:57Go?

00:22:58Where?

00:22:58She'll go back to Howard and apologize, and you'll take her.

00:23:02I don't think so.

00:23:04You see, as Howard found so much to object to in my son, I promise to give him grounds for

00:23:08a divorce, which I shall.

00:23:10Alfred, what are we going to do?

00:23:12A bombshell like this in the family, and at a time like this?

00:23:16I don't think we should interfere.

00:23:19You're not going to interfere.

00:23:20You're going to take her back.

00:23:22Oh, such nonsense.

00:23:33I know.

00:23:34I know.

00:23:38Oh, well, I have a very casualty, Grace.

00:23:41No, madam.

00:23:42Well, I think you didn't need something.

00:23:46Oi, you leave that alone, my girl.

00:23:48Really?

00:23:49You just keep your hooks off it, that's all.

00:23:52What's all this bust-up between Claire and Howard, eh?

00:23:55Nothing at all, darling.

00:23:56Don't you worry about it.

00:23:58Worry about it?

00:23:59Why shouldn't I worry about it?

00:24:00Claire's a fine girl, and Howard's a poop.

00:24:03Papa!

00:24:04He told me years ago that if I didn't give up alcohol, I'd be dead in six months.

00:24:09And look at the answer.

00:24:10He's a poop.

00:24:11And if Claire's left him, I should go out to town and tell him so.

00:24:14I've just been telling Grace he's a poop.

00:24:17You haven't.

00:24:18I have.

00:24:19And I told her how he bullies my great-grandson.

00:24:22But he can't scare Tony.

00:24:23No.

00:24:24Claire won't let him.

00:24:26Grace said it's a shame the way married couples are splitting up nowadays.

00:24:29Didn't you, Grace?

00:24:31Wait.

00:24:32It's strange.

00:24:33He was here a minute ago.

00:24:35She's probably telling Cook.

00:24:37Now it'll be all over the village.

00:24:40Oh, I do think it's too bad of you.

00:24:42We shall have Joan going to the altar under a cloud.

00:24:46In future, kindly, don't talk to the servants.

00:24:50Cheerio, Molly.

00:24:56But, darling, when I left you at the dressmakers, I hadn't the least idea where I was going.

00:24:59Oh, darling, if not that I mind you going to Claire's, it's just that I was shipped over.

00:25:03But, Pet, I...

00:25:04Oh, look, darling, forget it.

00:25:05There's nothing to make a thing about.

00:25:07Oh, isn't it pretty?

00:25:09Aunt Emma sent it.

00:25:10Oh, hang on, Emma.

00:25:11I was only going to say I couldn't very well bust in on you in the fitting room and you

00:25:14were being all pinned up.

00:25:16Darling, you ought to know that you can bust in anywhere that I am.

00:25:18I just love you, that's all.

00:25:21Time's getting short now, isn't it?

00:25:23Yes, it is.

00:25:24Can you hear the clanking of the chains?

00:25:26Yes, I love it.

00:25:28That's what you say now.

00:25:32Tim, this thing of Claire's, it doesn't worry you, does it?

00:25:36Worry me?

00:25:37Of course not.

00:25:38Heart's a bit pompous, that's all.

00:25:39Claire's just Claire.

00:25:40There'll be binders, Claire.

00:25:44We won't, will we?

00:25:46Not much.

00:25:49There you are.

00:25:50How's the garden looking?

00:25:51Or is it too dark?

00:25:53Everything in the garden's lovely.

00:25:55I hope every flower in the greenhouse will burst into bloom on your wedding day.

00:25:59Spontaneous combustion.

00:26:03How's it, everybody?

00:26:04Places, quickly, girls, healthy.

00:26:06Oh, you're there before.

00:26:07Oh, I'm hungry.

00:26:09Taxi.

00:26:10It'll be hollowed.

00:26:11I know he's got for care.

00:26:13I know.

00:26:16Welcome.

00:26:16You're just in time.

00:26:18Oh, it's Mr. Smilly.

00:26:20Good evening, Mrs. Parsons.

00:26:21Oh, good evening, Mr. Smilly.

00:26:23Do come in, won't you?

00:26:24Tim, Joan, this is Mr. Smilly.

00:26:26He's come about the hymns.

00:26:27We must decide on that second one.

00:26:29The printers are waiting.

00:26:30We mustn't have any suggestion of stock press, must we?

00:26:33I know.

00:26:34Oh, perfect love.

00:26:35Everybody has that one.

00:26:36That's fine.

00:26:37Oh, I don't know.

00:26:38I wanted something different.

00:26:40How about fight the good fight?

00:26:50Good morning.

00:26:53Good morning.

00:26:55What time is it?

00:26:56Quarter past seven, sir.

00:26:58Time you was awake.

00:27:03Can I run your bath, sir?

00:27:05No, no.

00:27:06I'll do that.

00:27:07I brought the two cups, sir.

00:27:09You're quite right.

00:27:11And it'll just be breakfast for the one, sir?

00:27:14Yes.

00:27:15Just for one, sir.

00:27:17Yes, sir.

00:27:18Never mind, eh?

00:27:26Good morning, madam.

00:27:27Good morning, Grace.

00:27:31It's a lovely morning.

00:27:33I know.

00:27:33I've been awake for hours.

00:27:35Too bad the doctor isn't with you.

00:27:37He likes these country mornings.

00:27:39Why didn't you bring him?

00:27:40You know why perfectly well, Grace.

00:27:42You've been eavesdropping from the moment I arrived.

00:27:44I only heard a word or two here and there.

00:27:47Accidental, of course.

00:27:48Then you should have some advice about your ears.

00:27:50Otherwise, they'll never live up to your nose.

00:27:59Doctor, doctor, come along in.

00:28:03Your kidneys have been ruined.

00:28:05What do you mean?

00:28:06Kidneys.

00:28:08Oh, those kidneys, I see here.

00:28:09Oh, we don't often get them, you know.

00:28:12Did I have a telephone?

00:28:14No, sir.

00:28:15All quiet as they say.

00:28:18I see in the paper, sir, there was a lot more divorces this year.

00:28:21Indeed, sir.

00:28:22Yeah, funny, isn't it?

00:28:24Very funny.

00:28:26Now, you won't let it get cold, sir, will you?

00:28:28Let what get cold?

00:28:29Your breakfast.

00:28:31I'll, I'll help myself.

00:28:33I've been there by Mrs. Carey Brown.

00:28:35It's called The Child and It's Doctor.

00:28:36Shall I find it for you?

00:28:37No, no, thank you.

00:28:38I can manage.

00:28:38Please leave me alone, Smilly.

00:28:41Aren't you going to eat anything?

00:28:43I'm not hungry.

00:28:45I shall have to give it to the bear.

00:28:46Well, that's what I say to Master Tony.

00:28:54Sir.

00:28:55Well, why don't you bring Madam up?

00:28:57Where?

00:28:58Well, the battlements, of course.

00:28:59Where do you?

00:29:00Her last remarks on leaving here did not suggest that she was going home.

00:29:04Quite the reverse, in fact.

00:29:13I don't care what you do, darling, but you must do something.

00:29:16I intend to.

00:29:17Give Howard cause for divorce.

00:29:19I thought I'd made that clear.

00:29:20But you can't do that right in the middle of Joan's wedding.

00:29:23And what about your father?

00:29:24The city of London is not going to deprive itself of its next Lord Mayor but free for anything I

00:29:28may do.

00:29:29I do wish you wouldn't be so practical.

00:29:31I thought that was a good thing.

00:29:32We must become more inhibited than we are, must we?

00:29:35Howard will take Tony.

00:29:36You realize that?

00:29:37You wouldn't have him as a gift.

00:29:39It's because of Tony I intend to go through with this.

00:29:41I must have a free hand with him.

00:29:43But Tony is Howard's child, too.

00:29:45He's got dozens more in his clinics.

00:29:48Claire.

00:30:05Here's a wire, sir.

00:30:07Oh, thanks.

00:30:15No reply.

00:30:17No, Smithy.

00:30:18He's not from the missus.

00:30:19There.

00:30:20Tony's headmaster.

00:30:21Dr. Bletchley will be calling at 10.30.

00:30:23Well, I hope he won't discuss the incipients of polyomyelitis in the infant groups.

00:30:27I hope not, indeed.

00:30:29Fine.

00:30:29Well, I'm just off to the hospital.

00:30:30I'll be gay.

00:30:31Suppose there should be word from Madam, sir.

00:30:33We're prepared to receive messages.

00:30:35Give her a ring now, sir.

00:30:36No time like the present.

00:30:38I don't see why I should.

00:30:40Here, hold this.

00:30:47Good morning.

00:30:48Oh, good morning, darling.

00:30:50You are late.

00:30:51Such a lovely morning.

00:30:53Only one teeny, weeny cloud.

00:30:54All we want now is for you to go back to Howard.

00:30:57Yes, dear.

00:30:58You mean you're going?

00:30:59I mean that's all we want now.

00:31:01Oh.

00:31:02You can go up to town with Daddy.

00:31:04How happy it would make Howard if you just walked in on him and said,

00:31:08Howard, darling, I'm so sorry.

00:31:09It would be such a nice gesture.

00:31:11Yes, dear.

00:31:12It would be a very nice gesture.

00:31:14You could get a taxi at Charing Cross.

00:31:20Hello?

00:31:22Hello, Howard.

00:31:24How are you, dear?

00:31:27Speak up, Howard.

00:31:28There's a buzzing.

00:31:30Buzzing?

00:31:30Well, you must admit I have something to fuss about.

00:31:33No, no, dear.

00:31:33Buzzing.

00:31:35Buzzing.

00:31:36B-U-A-C.

00:31:38Oh, buzzing.

00:31:40Hello?

00:31:44Oh, curse that row.

00:31:46Hello.

00:31:47Hello?

00:31:48Hello, Howard.

00:31:49Yes, I can hear you now.

00:31:51Yes, of course.

00:31:52Yes, she's here.

00:31:53We're all at breakfast.

00:31:55We were just discussing her coming up with Alfred.

00:31:57He could put her into a taxi at Charing Cross.

00:31:59Give it to me, Mother.

00:32:00Claire's just here.

00:32:01She wants to apologize.

00:32:02Please, Mother.

00:32:04Hello, Howard.

00:32:05I think it's about time we stopped this nonsense and you came home.

00:32:08Well, I'm thinking it over.

00:32:10I mean, the situation needs serious thought.

00:32:13You're quite sure you're capable of it?

00:32:15Oh, yes, thank you.

00:32:17Quite capable.

00:32:19It's surprising after some of your recent remarks.

00:32:21Well, if you recall our conversation, you'll find you said as much as I did.

00:32:25With the possible difference that my observations were made within the bounds of common sense.

00:32:29Whereas you completely overstepped the mark.

00:32:31Overstepped what, Mark?

00:32:33Well, never mind about that.

00:32:34I just want you to know that I, I meant what I said.

00:32:37But so did I.

00:32:37I mean every word of it.

00:32:38Very well.

00:32:39You'd better come back and discuss it.

00:32:41No, thank you.

00:32:42If there's anything to discuss, it can be done through our solicitors.

00:32:45No, don't worry.

00:32:46I shall enjoy every moment of it.

00:32:48Yes, so do I.

00:32:49I feel life's just beginning.

00:32:52Hello.

00:32:54Oh, blazer.

00:32:56Everything all right, sir?

00:32:58Well, if you must know, everything is catastrophic.

00:33:00Oh, that's nice, isn't it?

00:33:06Sorry, sir.

00:33:11Who started Tony drawing anyway?

00:33:13Nobody started him.

00:33:14He's always done it.

00:33:15He's drawn since he was two.

00:33:16Couldn't he be guided into some other channel?

00:33:18Couldn't he be made to see things in the way other people see them?

00:33:21That's Howard's argument.

00:33:22It's fatal.

00:33:23Tony must see things for himself and make his own decisions.

00:33:26Then he'll become somebody.

00:33:27I think that is a thoroughly dangerous argument.

00:33:29Why?

00:33:30What about Picasso and Augustus John?

00:33:33How did they start?

00:33:34Not on walls, I'm quite sure.

00:33:35We don't know.

00:33:37Make him draw the right kind of things.

00:33:39Flowers and vegetables and dead fish.

00:33:42Still life.

00:33:43He doesn't like still life.

00:33:45He likes animals and people.

00:33:46I should have thought it would be quite easy for you to make him see that the whole anatomy

00:33:50of animals and people isn't meant to go into drawings.

00:33:52Otherwise, what's he's a psychiatrist?

00:33:54Darling, don't let's argue about Tony.

00:33:56Very well.

00:33:58But you've met your Waterloo in that child.

00:34:01Hmm.

00:34:01I met it in Howard.

00:34:03Oh, dear.

00:34:04Still fighting the battle of Waterloo?

00:34:06Darling, you don't mind my not coming up with you today, do you?

00:34:08No, darling.

00:34:09Not if you don't want to.

00:34:10After all, it's only fittings again, isn't it?

00:34:12Only fittings.

00:34:13It's our final fitting for her wedding dress.

00:34:16Well, exactly.

00:34:17And as I'm not supposed to see it until the day, there seems very little point in my coming

00:34:20up.

00:34:20Besides, I've got to ring the office and...

00:34:22Never overdo your excuses, my boy.

00:34:24One's official.

00:34:25Good one.

00:34:26Oh, dearly, you might let Tim find out these things for himself.

00:34:30Oh.

00:34:30Don't be scratchy, pet.

00:34:32Familiar symptoms, eve of execution.

00:34:34I think the atmosphere here is just charming.

00:34:38Claire away from my husband and scoffing at marriage and everything it means.

00:34:42Darling, you're not going to the guillotine.

00:34:44If we were, you'll be there with your knitting.

00:34:46Possibly.

00:34:48Where are those children?

00:34:49What about your train, dear?

00:34:51And you ought to see Howard.

00:34:53I've decided not to interfere.

00:34:55I feel certain Claire can look after herself.

00:34:58There's a lot of dangerous propaganda floating about this household.

00:35:01And I suspect somebody has been studying that Karl Marx Brothers doctrine.

00:35:06Where are those girls?

00:35:07Come along, Joan.

00:35:08Bye, my darling.

00:35:09Goodbye, sweetie.

00:35:09Are you in there?

00:35:11No.

00:35:11Where are you?

00:35:16Alfred, cigars in the morning.

00:35:18I felt like one, so I'm having one.

00:35:20It's very good.

00:35:21In all the 28 years of our married life, you've never done such a thing.

00:35:24That's why it's very good.

00:35:25And your train.

00:35:27Well, perhaps the next.

00:35:28Well, the city of London won't collapse if I'm an hour late.

00:35:32But it's been a lifelong rule of yours.

00:35:34Of yours, my dear.

00:35:36And it's so bad for the morale of your office staff.

00:35:39But very good for mine.

00:35:41You said yourself there was a spirit of revolution in the family.

00:35:44Alfred, you're not well.

00:35:46I can see you're not.

00:35:47I never felt better, my dear.

00:35:49I've been thinking of what Claire said on the subject of self-expression.

00:35:52And I agree with her.

00:35:53And if I could draw like Tony, I'd draw you in all your feathers.

00:35:57Like a bird on her nest.

00:35:58Sitting pretty.

00:36:02He's raving.

00:36:04Whatever the journey is that's been brought into this house, he's got it.

00:36:07But what's he talking about?

00:36:08All I can say is thank goodness we're sane.

00:36:12Come along, chicks.

00:36:13We'll never get through the day.

00:36:20I'll tell Doxley you're here, sir.

00:36:23Oh, thanks.

00:36:25You're not ill, are you?

00:36:34Please, sir.

00:36:35That's two minutes fast.

00:36:37Don't you know that you should not attempt to correct your elders?

00:36:41Please, sir.

00:36:42My mummy says when I see a thing is wrong, I must put it right and not be afraid of

00:36:46anybody.

00:36:47Oh.

00:36:48She does, does she?

00:36:49Please, sir.

00:36:50Yes, sir.

00:36:50And that clock is wrong, sir.

00:36:52My watch is never wrong.

00:36:53Please, sir.

00:36:54It must be.

00:36:55My watch is right by the BBC, Carrington Station, and Tim.

00:37:00Tim?

00:37:01Whatever next?

00:37:02You miserable little scribe.

00:37:05Yes, sir.

00:37:05Thank you, sir.

00:37:08Oh, good morning, doctor.

00:37:09Good morning.

00:37:10Hello, Daddy.

00:37:12Well, hello, Tony.

00:37:13I didn't expect to see you again so soon.

00:37:15Nor did I, Dad, because I've been sent to...

00:37:17Could we be alone?

00:37:19Yes, of course.

00:37:21Now, run along, Tony.

00:37:22Go and find Mrs. Smith, and I shall want to see you later.

00:37:25Okey-doke.

00:37:26Okey-doke.

00:37:28As you see, I've brought him back.

00:37:30I can do no more with him.

00:37:32You're...

00:37:32You're not serious, Dr. Bletchley.

00:37:35Not merely serious, Dr. Fleming, but desperate.

00:37:38In extremis.

00:37:40Admittedly, your son is a problem, child, but he'll be my problem no longer.

00:37:43Well, this is a very sudden decision, doctor.

00:37:46I have toyed longingly with the idea for many weeks, doctor.

00:37:50Yesterday's disaster merely brought matters to a head.

00:37:52Disaster?

00:37:53Disaster.

00:37:55It occurred a bad hour after his return from his half-term holiday.

00:37:58At 7.15 precisely.

00:38:01After his cocoa on the artmistress's study door.

00:38:05What about her study door?

00:38:07He drew on it.

00:38:09Drew on it?

00:38:10That is what I said.

00:38:12He has a diabolical habit of placing on pictorial record everything which attracts his attention.

00:38:17There's not a door or a wall at the school which has escaped him.

00:38:19Surely you're exaggerating, doctor?

00:38:21I beg your pardon?

00:38:22Well, Tony's powers of observation are highly developed.

00:38:25He's rather above average.

00:38:27Above average?

00:38:28He has not the slightest idea of discipline.

00:38:30He seems to be under the impression that he's a law unto himself.

00:38:33An individualist?

00:38:34Yes, sir.

00:38:35And sadly out of place at my school.

00:38:37I've tolerated it too long.

00:38:39Yesterday decided the matter.

00:38:41That drawing.

00:38:43Drawing?

00:38:44Drawing of what?

00:38:45Of whom you mean, don't you?

00:38:47It was a buffoonish caricature of me, sir.

00:38:49And the whole school was laughing at it.

00:38:51Well, I seem to remember doing much the same thing myself at his age.

00:38:54Good day, Dr. Fleming.

00:38:56Well, it's a poor schoolmaster who can't direct the natural talents of one small boy.

00:39:00Suppose you have a try.

00:39:10Tony!

00:39:11I want you.

00:39:15Tony!

00:39:24Sit down, my boy.

00:39:25Oh, has our Bletchley's gone?

00:39:28Dr. Bletchley has gone.

00:39:30I don't think we shall need these in any case.

00:39:33You know, don't you, that you'll never be able to go back to that school again?

00:39:35Oh, goody, thanks, Dad.

00:39:38I shouldn't be too pleased if I were you.

00:39:40I was never sent away from my school.

00:39:42Oh, did they have schools when you were young?

00:39:45They did, and very good schools too.

00:39:47There they taught the boys the things that mattered, like geography and history and arithmetic and spelling.

00:39:53You've done that very well for a boy of your age.

00:39:55They also taught them how to behave and obey.

00:39:58Yes, sir.

00:39:59And if they were naughty, do you know what happened?

00:40:02They had the cane.

00:40:04I know, Dad.

00:40:04I've heard about that.

00:40:06Oh, you have, have you?

00:40:07Yes, Mummy told me.

00:40:09She said that's why all the boys who went to those old schools have grown up so stupid.

00:40:13I see.

00:40:14What do you expect to be when you grow up?

00:40:16An artist.

00:40:17An artist.

00:40:19I'd like to think you were going to be a doctor or a lawyer.

00:40:22Or do the members of those professions strike you as being too stupid?

00:40:26No, Dad.

00:40:27Not stupid.

00:40:28Only fearfully dull.

00:40:29I think you'd better leave the room before I forget a promise I once made to your mother.

00:40:34Okey-doke.

00:40:35By the way, where is Claire?

00:40:38Who?

00:40:38I mean, Mummy.

00:40:39I haven't the remotest idea.

00:40:41Yeah.

00:41:01Sorry, did it disturb you?

00:41:02Just a bit.

00:41:04Oh, Timmy, I'm worried.

00:41:06Maybe I was wrong to walk out on Howard.

00:41:09Oh, dear, what do I do?

00:41:10Go back and try again or get to blaze it out of it all?

00:41:13Why don't you take a headache powder and lie down?

00:41:15I can't get a clear view of my life.

00:41:19I must stand back and take another look from a distance.

00:41:22If only I could put a few miles between myself and all this.

00:41:26I'll hop in.

00:41:27Where do you want to go?

00:41:28You mean it?

00:41:29No.

00:41:31Right.

00:41:34Ah, a breath of fresh air, that's what's needed.

00:41:36Hmm?

00:41:37It's only what Howard's always recommending for all his patients.

00:41:39Jolly good advice.

00:41:56Hello?

00:41:58Yes, this is the battleman's maid speaking.

00:42:01Who?

00:42:04Oh, it's you, Doctor.

00:42:06I want to speak to Mrs. Fleming.

00:42:08She's out with Mr. Tim, sir.

00:42:10Out with Mr. Tim?

00:42:11Out where?

00:42:13I don't know, sir.

00:42:25How far are we from London?

00:42:27Let's see, London, New Haven, about 60 miles.

00:42:30Not far enough.

00:42:32Where did that steamer go to?

00:42:33Across the channel, I think.

00:42:34Yeah, it comes back tonight.

00:42:36Do you want your marriage to go like mine?

00:42:38Hey, now what's up?

00:42:39Do you want to die of apron-string strangulation like my father?

00:42:42Because if you do, you drive straight back.

00:42:44I've had it.

00:42:45Hey, Claire, just a minute.

00:42:47Claire!

00:42:50Claire!

00:42:56Well, if you want to get off, you might try jumping.

00:42:58It might amuse the passengers.

00:42:59There's going to be a fine row about this.

00:43:01But what?

00:43:01Ah, it's pushing off to France together.

00:43:03You could have gone back if you wanted to.

00:43:04And if you go off on your own, in your present mood, you're not responsible.

00:43:07Oh, you must have been a terrific Boy Scout.

00:43:10Oh, this is wonderful.

00:43:11I'm beginning to feel human again.

00:43:12Come on, let's have a drink.

00:43:16Come on, you father.

00:43:17Hello, father.

00:43:18Hello, David.

00:43:19A bit before your time, aren't you?

00:43:20Ah, just a little, I believe.

00:43:21A usual motel, sir?

00:43:23No, gin and French, please.

00:43:23A large one.

00:43:24Oh, you're stepping out a bit, aren't you?

00:43:26Ah, no word of shortages once you take your drinks.

00:43:29Gin and French?

00:43:30There you are.

00:43:30Hey.

00:43:31Oh, well, well.

00:43:31Cheers.

00:43:32Cheers.

00:43:35That's better.

00:43:36Oh, Mr. Parsons.

00:43:37Cigar before lunch.

00:43:39I had one after breakfast.

00:43:40Now, what are you celebrating?

00:43:42A certain young friend of mine has drawn a horse.

00:43:44Oh.

00:43:45And I'll have another gin and French.

00:43:47Well done.

00:43:48Now, look here, Grace.

00:43:49You tell me that Mrs. Fleming is not at home.

00:43:52Very well.

00:43:52She may be or she may not be.

00:43:54At the earliest possible moment, tell her that I simply must speak to her.

00:43:57You understand?

00:44:00Very good, sir.

00:44:02Who is that?

00:44:04Doctor again.

00:44:05Yes, if he wanted her, he shouldn't have let her go.

00:44:08Is that all there is, cold mutton?

00:44:09That's all.

00:44:10Chicken tonight, though.

00:44:11What's the good of that?

00:44:12I'm starving.

00:44:13I've been out the fresh air.

00:44:15Yes, so I can smell.

00:44:16Huh?

00:44:17Yes, very fresh indeed down at the crown.

00:44:19I don't want any sauce from you, my girl.

00:44:22You just cut me off a nice plate of that cold mutton.

00:44:25Aren't you going to wait for Mrs. Fleming and Mr. Tim?

00:44:27No, why should I?

00:44:28They never wait for me, do they?

00:44:29First come, first served.

00:44:30That's what I say, where are the spoons, aren't there any spoons?

00:44:33There you are, sir.

00:44:33All right, I can see it.

00:44:36Thicker, thicker.

00:44:37All right, sir.

00:44:38I should have dragged you off the beastly boat.

00:44:41Take deep and regular breaths.

00:44:43The sea air is worth all the mittens.

00:44:45The next time you and Howard have a row, try to confine it to the British Isles.

00:44:48Then it'll turn into a world war.

00:44:50Oh, forget it, Timmy, we're nearly there.

00:44:53If you think we're going to get off this boat, you're crazy.

00:44:55We're staying right here till she turns around and goes home.

00:44:57Oh, are we?

00:44:59Yes.

00:45:00Oh.

00:45:01Yes.

00:45:03Yes.

00:45:18This is a fine caper.

00:45:19No francs.

00:45:20Drinks we can't pay for.

00:45:21Oh, relax.

00:45:22It's good for you.

00:45:23Unties the apron string.

00:45:25What do you want?

00:45:27Thank you, Antoine.

00:45:28What do you want to ask?

00:45:39Come on, Timmy, stop sulking.

00:45:42Have a drink.

00:45:43All right.

00:45:44Enchanté.

00:45:46You keep out of this.

00:45:47What do you want?

00:45:48You keep your eyes to yourself.

00:45:49Pardon me?

00:45:50You're asking for a sock on the jaw.

00:45:51I'm not going to be a...

00:45:53Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, mon ami, Jack Pompidard, leviens, ça va bien, hein?

00:45:58Oh, oh, garçons, garçons, champagne pour la partie.

00:46:11Oh, pardon.

00:46:12Oh, pardon.

00:46:22You keep bumping into a French wedding as soon as we set foot in dear.

00:46:25Yes.

00:46:26Moving up a bit earlier, aren't they?

00:46:27Wonderful extroverts, the French.

00:46:29Wish we had a few more like them in England.

00:46:30Why can't we do this sort of thing?

00:46:32Oui.

00:46:33Oh, you mean people turn generally?

00:46:35Of course.

00:46:36Oh, les Anglais, peut-être, on pourrait leur appris quelque chose, dit.

00:46:39Mais oui, hein?

00:46:40Monsieur, si vous permettez, madame.

00:46:43Monsieur, avec les compliments de la maison, hein?

00:46:45C'est la maison.

00:46:46Au revoir.

00:46:46Est-ce que monsieur Anglais et sa dame veulent bien nous faire l'honneur de joindre la compagnie

00:46:50et de boire à la santé de l'heureux couple?

00:46:53Nous sommes...

00:46:53Delighted.

00:46:55Il est mon mariage de jour après tomorrow.

00:46:58Oh, c'est magnifique, ça!

00:46:59Ah, mes amis, comme j'ai ami et copain de longue date de Jacques Popinard, je vous propose

00:47:05de boire à la santé de sa charmante fille Lucie et de son brave mari, Pierre Martineau.

00:47:20General French, pleader, I beg your pardon.

00:47:25After you, for once, here is someone who will not shout me down.

00:47:29I wouldn't shout you down, my dear friend.

00:47:31Why should I?

00:47:32I am always shouted down.

00:47:34It is like this.

00:47:35I am a speaker.

00:47:36Hey, I won't bother.

00:47:38Oh, you see?

00:47:39Edie, you'll have a drink?

00:47:41Yes, rum.

00:47:43Rum is the drink of the warrior.

00:47:45A double warrior for this gentleman, please, and I'll have another large gin friend.

00:47:50You know, they'll be sending out a search party for you.

00:47:53Oh.

00:47:56I don't understand what you mean when you say there's no one at home.

00:48:00Where's Mrs. Parsons?

00:48:02What?

00:48:03What nonsense.

00:48:05And you mean to tell me that Claire is still out with Tim Shields?

00:48:08Yes, she is.

00:48:09Well, I flatly refuse to believe it.

00:48:11Can I take a message for you?

00:48:13Can I help you?

00:48:15No, no.

00:48:15Don't bother him.

00:48:16I'll come down and find out for myself.

00:48:19Well, who does he think he's calling a liar, the Pooh?

00:48:22Smilly!

00:48:24Smilly!

00:48:25Yes, sir?

00:48:25I'll telephone the garage and tell them to send the car around.

00:48:28When I've changed and packed a bag, I'm going down to Chiselfield to see what all this nonsense is about.

00:48:32That's the stuff, sir.

00:48:33You assert your rights as a husband and a father.

00:48:36Thank you, Smilly.

00:48:43Oh, God.

00:48:44Oh, God.

00:48:45Oh, God.

00:48:53Oh, this is so very good for us, Jimmy.

00:48:56This is spiritual rebirth.

00:48:58Exit Mrs. Dr. Fleming and re-enter Claire Pass.

00:49:01I feel like a sort of self-contained little nuclear fish.

00:49:07That's fine, fine, fine.

00:49:09Now, just to stay like that, you can.

00:49:10Eh, ben, celui-là, il me dit qu'il faut me marier.

00:49:12Mais pourquoi? C'est pas nécessaire.

00:49:14Ah, il est.

00:49:18Grace, we're home.

00:49:20Oh, thank goodness, that's the last of the shopping.

00:49:22Now, we'll be able to have a nice, cozy evening, and tomorrow there'll be nothing to do but prepare for

00:49:26the wedding.

00:49:26Now, off you go, girls.

00:49:28It's nearly dinner time.

00:49:29Where is everybody?

00:49:29Where's Grace?

00:49:31Grace?

00:49:33Grace?

00:49:33Oh, Papa.

00:49:34Hello, hello.

00:49:36Oh, Papa.

00:49:37What's all the shouting about?

00:49:39Where's Grace?

00:49:40How should I know?

00:49:40You woke me up.

00:49:42First it's a phone, and now it's you.

00:49:43I was having a little shut-eye after lunch.

00:49:45After lunch, darling, it's nearly dinner time.

00:49:48Good, I'm hungry.

00:49:50Where's Alfred?

00:49:50He's late.

00:49:51How should I know?

00:49:52I could have mouthed like a sandpit.

00:49:54I don't want a drink.

00:49:54Well, dear, you know where we keep the barley water.

00:49:56I'll go and change.

00:50:00Well, they'll have plenty of time, wouldn't they?

00:50:06They always shout me down.

00:50:08I speak for the finest temperance society in the world, the water brides.

00:50:14The what?

00:50:15The water brides.

00:50:17No alcohol shall pass their lips.

00:50:20How revoking.

00:50:22Tonight, tonight's bark, there may be trouble, may be violent.

00:50:27Violent?

00:50:27In England?

00:50:29Land of free speech?

00:50:31My dear friend, surely not.

00:50:33Who can tell life is so uncertain?

00:50:37Yes.

00:50:38Yes.

00:51:10I can see it, I can see it.

00:51:12Don't do that, Papa.

00:51:13No.

00:51:13I think I'll ring Howard.

00:51:16Whatever for?

00:51:17See if Tim's there.

00:51:17Well, I shouldn't do that if I were you.

00:51:19I mean, I'm worried.

00:51:20What about?

00:51:21The explanation's perfectly simple.

00:51:23Tim's persuaded Claire to go back to Howard and has driven her back in his car.

00:51:27Yes.

00:51:27I expect that, too.

00:51:28Tim and Alfred will come back together, you'll see.

00:51:31They probably met at Howard's and had a glass of wine to celebrate the making up.

00:51:34Then they'll catch a later train.

00:51:35They may even now be at the Crown.

00:51:37Though what men see in public houses defeats me utterly.

00:51:40You know, I think I will ring Howard.

00:51:42Well, do if you must, dear.

00:51:44But I don't think they'll thank you for interrupting them.

00:51:46They must have a great deal to talk over.

00:51:48I do wish Claire wouldn't take life so scientifically.

00:51:50It isn't as if they...

00:51:52Come at last.

00:51:53I knew they would.

00:51:54Off you go, Grace.

00:51:57Ooh, what an action.

00:51:59She'd make a good hurdling.

00:52:04Oh, good evening, sir.

00:52:06Huh?

00:52:07No.

00:52:08Well, Howard, how nice to see you.

00:52:10Where's Claire?

00:52:11Well, that's precisely what I've come to find out.

00:52:12But I thought that Tim had taken her back to you in his car.

00:52:15Well, who told you that?

00:52:16I don't know.

00:52:18Who did, dear?

00:52:19No one, dear.

00:52:20Oh, but I must have got it from someone.

00:52:22Grace.

00:52:23Grace, didn't you tell me that Mr. Tim had taken Mrs. Dr. Fleming back to Mr. Dr. Fleming?

00:52:26No, madam.

00:52:27I said they'd gone out together in Mr. Tim's car.

00:52:30That's all I said.

00:52:31Quite sufficient, too.

00:52:32All right, Grace, you can go.

00:52:33Yes, sir.

00:52:34A very serious thing has occurred.

00:52:37Tony has been sent away from school.

00:52:39Oh, is that all, dear?

00:52:40Well, there are plenty of others nearer home, too.

00:52:42There's one called the London School of Economics.

00:52:44That sounds like a very nice one.

00:52:45Cheap, too.

00:52:46Yes, that's not the point.

00:52:47He's been sent away because, well, thanks to Claire, he's completely out of hand.

00:52:51He can't go through life like this.

00:52:52He'll end up in jail.

00:52:54It's our responsibility, Claire's and mine.

00:52:56We've got to face up to that.

00:52:57Now, where the Dickens is, Claire?

00:52:58She can't walk out on this.

00:52:59Oh, to heck with Claire.

00:53:01What I want to know is, where's Tim?

00:53:02Good gracious.

00:53:03What?

00:53:03If Tim didn't take Claire back, where's Alfred?

00:53:07Waterbrights.

00:53:08Waterbrights.

00:53:12P.D.

00:53:13Large and French and double warrior.

00:53:16No, but it is time for me to go.

00:53:21Goodbye.

00:53:23But I know there will be violence tonight.

00:53:27There will be no violence.

00:53:30I am coming with you.

00:53:32Rule, Britannia.

00:53:33Rule, Britannia.

00:53:35She's out there.

00:53:36Oh, yes.

00:53:38That's one.

00:53:38You hear me?

00:53:39We'll make sure we're out there.

00:53:47Oh, my God.

00:53:54Oh, my God.

00:53:55Oh, my God.

00:53:56All right.

00:53:57And you're right.

00:53:58We're going to see you.

00:54:02Oh, my God.

00:54:04Oh.

00:54:05Oh, my God.

00:54:09Drink is the enemy of the working man.

00:54:12Think of a nation, a great nation, swimming in alcohol.

00:54:16Lovely grub, eh?

00:54:19Think of the money spent in drinks.

00:54:23Friends, water is free.

00:54:25Why don't you drown yourself?

00:54:27Will you please let me explain?

00:54:29Ah, go, I want to just go.

00:54:31But what did Corhibition do?

00:54:32Yes, what did it do?

00:54:34I appealed to you as a British sportsman.

00:54:37Let me speak.

00:54:39Pack it in, chum, you've heard it.

00:54:45You're mad, Ron, they will kill you.

00:54:49Order. Order!

00:54:53I do not believe in what this man says,

00:54:56but I defend to the death.

00:54:58It's right to say it.

00:54:59He's pitching Ivan's pitch.

00:55:01Who does he think he is?

00:55:02Good old Ivan.

00:55:03Yeah, what's your idea?

00:55:07Rule Britannia!

00:55:08Rule Britannia!

00:55:09Scrag him!

00:55:22Rule Britannia!

00:55:24Rule Britannia!

00:55:27Oh, is it that dumb?

00:55:29I'm an orphan, you understand?

00:55:31Orpholim!

00:55:33Listen!

00:55:34There's no father, no mother!

00:55:36You have my son if I give you my son!

00:55:38You're right!

00:55:39You're right, but we're happy to have your son!

00:55:42And we're happy to have your son!

00:55:44We're happy to have your son!

00:56:06Thank you!

00:56:28I see. Yes. Very well.

00:56:32No, no, I realize that's all you know.

00:56:35No, there's nothing more you can do, thank you.

00:56:37Good night. Good night.

00:56:39This is Alfred's night watchman.

00:56:41He says everyone left at the usual time.

00:56:42I can't understand. This never happened before.

00:56:45Since you're giving yourself a breather from that phone,

00:56:48you might give me a bit more chicken.

00:56:49A wing will do.

00:56:50I could do with a parson's nose, too, if nobody else wants it.

00:56:54Why don't you eat up, Molly? You'll get so empty you'll rattle.

00:56:57Oh, please, Papa.

00:56:59Don't go too fairy-thingered with that, will you, Howard?

00:57:02Supposing we talk over all the things which could have happened.

00:57:06Please excuse me.

00:57:09Perhaps you two would like to take your pudding into the morning room.

00:57:12You could switch on the radio and listen to special announcements.

00:57:15There might be an SOS.

00:57:16Yes, Aunt.

00:57:19I didn't want to say too much in front of the children,

00:57:21but I don't like the look of things at all.

00:57:24I'm very worried, Howard.

00:57:26So am I.

00:57:27If Alfred were here, I'd be more worried still.

00:57:29Why?

00:57:30Well, we should know he wasn't with the other two.

00:57:32As it is, there's just a chance they may all three be together,

00:57:34not just those two alone.

00:57:36You're not suggesting that Claire and Tim...

00:57:38Oh, no, Howard, surely not.

00:57:41Well, I'll be frank.

00:57:42I think I've never quite trusted Tim.

00:57:44Oh, good gracious me.

00:57:46Well, he's a curious sort of chap.

00:57:47He makes light of things.

00:57:48You don't think he'd make light of Claire?

00:57:50Well, in her present mood, she may make light of him.

00:57:52But this psychiatric practice of hers is getting me down.

00:57:55And what's more, she's now developing an hypnotic influence over Tony.

00:57:58Oh, Howard, how disgraceful.

00:58:01And she was so carefully brought up.

00:58:02Yes, well, it has its curative uses, too.

00:58:05I once saw a hypnotist at the old Hoban Empire.

00:58:08Ran the needle right through a woman's arm.

00:58:10Papa, please.

00:58:12Yeah, she must have been a lot tender in this chicken.

00:58:15Now we shall learn something.

00:58:17Never a bitter piece.

00:58:21Curse of civilization.

00:58:23Hello?

00:58:24Yes?

00:58:25Oh, yes, with you?

00:58:26I've given Master Tony his supper and put him to bed.

00:58:30Poor lamb.

00:58:31He asked for his mummy and he asked for you.

00:58:34When I said he was both away, he said,

00:58:37Am I an orphan?

00:58:39No, no, no, no, no, don't carry on like that.

00:58:41He once told me that he wanted to be an orphan so that he could wear a uniform.

00:58:45When I get my hands on him, he'll want it more than ever.

00:58:48When you what, sir?

00:58:50Oh, don't say that, sir.

00:58:52You know you wouldn't hurt him.

00:58:55All right, very well.

00:58:56Look, if I'm not back in the morning,

00:58:58phone Dr. Smollett and ask him to carry on.

00:59:00And bring Tony down here to me.

00:59:02All right, thank you.

00:59:03Good night.

00:59:04I've made up my mind how to deal with that, young man.

00:59:07I don't mind an apple pie bed.

00:59:09But sewing up my pajamas is going just a bit too far.

00:59:12Never mind my promise to Clare.

00:59:13I'm going to give him a darn good hiding.

00:59:37Pardon.

00:59:38I don't.

00:59:38I don't know.

00:59:42Oh.

00:59:44Brr.

00:59:45What did you say?

00:59:48Brr.

00:59:49I'm not cold.

00:59:54All right. Thanks.

00:59:56Well, the police say they've no report of any accident, but they're trying to trace the car.

01:00:00What irritating people they are. They don't know a thing until somebody reports it.

01:00:03Well, I shouldn't say that. It's quite astonishing what they do know.

01:00:05Especially when one hopes they don't.

01:00:07All we need is for this to get into the papers.

01:00:09Then Alfred will be the talk of London, and he'd never ride in the mayoral coach.

01:00:12Well, that won't break his heart.

01:00:14You don't know anything about it.

01:00:15Don't I? I've seen lots of mares in my day.

01:00:17The man may be the mayor, but it's his wife that wears the harness.

01:00:21I still stick to my theory that Claire and Tim and Alfred are all together somewhere.

01:00:24Well, why don't they communicate with us?

01:00:26Oh, perhaps they can't, dear. Perhaps they're locked in.

01:00:28Locked in where?

01:00:30Or stuck in a lift.

01:00:31I got stuck in a lift once, boat race night.

01:00:33Took two coppers to get me to Vine Street.

01:00:36We don't want to hear about that, do we?

01:00:38No, I bet you don't.

01:00:39Might remind you of the time you gave me six months to live, years ago.

01:00:43Oh, what a doctor.

01:00:44Some linger longer than others.

01:00:46What do you mean, linger? I feel all right.

01:00:49Yeah, it's quite possible you do.

01:00:50You can't find anything wrong with me.

01:00:52Why, you wouldn't know, God, from Chicken Fox.

01:00:54Drink plenty of barley water, he says.

01:00:57Alcohol will harden your arteries and shorten your life.

01:01:00Hang it all.

01:01:00They use alcohol to preserve things, don't they?

01:01:03Well, look at thee.

01:01:04I work preserved, aren't I?

01:01:06Hmm.

01:01:08What do you mean, hmm?

01:01:09There's nothing wrong, is there?

01:01:10No.

01:01:11No, no, no, no.

01:01:13No, good.

01:01:14Of course, a man in your condition shouldn't overeat.

01:01:17My condition?

01:01:18Show me your tongue.

01:01:21You can put it back now.

01:01:23No wonder.

01:01:24Look here.

01:01:25What do you think I ought to do?

01:01:28See a doctor.

01:01:38Yes?

01:01:39Yes?

01:01:40You have?

01:01:41Where?

01:01:42No, no, wait.

01:01:45Yes?

01:01:46Yes?

01:01:48New Haven?

01:01:49Yes, right, I will.

01:01:51Thank you very much.

01:01:52Good night.

01:01:53Well, now we're beginning to learn things.

01:01:54The police have found Tim's car.

01:01:56Oh, have they really?

01:01:57Oh, where?

01:01:57Left unattended in New Haven.

01:01:58Near the harbour.

01:01:59The harbour?

01:02:00Oh, Howard, you don't suppose...

01:02:01Suppose what?

01:02:02They wouldn't awfully join hands and jump in, would they?

01:02:04What on earth for?

01:02:04Oh, I don't know.

01:02:05But Alfred's been so strange.

01:02:07And Claire talking in that extraordinary way.

01:02:08But Tim, Tim had everything to live for.

01:02:11I agree.

01:02:11He was the only one not married.

01:02:13I'm going to New Haven immediately.

01:02:15That's the telegram.

01:02:16I'll go.

01:02:20Oh, what do you want?

01:02:21I come from Mr. Parsons.

01:02:23I come in, thank you.

01:02:24Come along here, quickly.

01:02:26Where is Mr. Parsons?

01:02:26My name is Pseninov.

01:02:28I spell it to make it clearer.

01:02:30Psh-s-c-h-a-n-s-c-h-y-n-o-f-f.

01:02:38My friends call me Ivan.

01:02:39Yes, I'm sure they do.

01:02:40But what about Mr. Parsons?

01:02:41We're all in a state of great anxiety.

01:02:43Mr. Parsons gave me a message for his father-in-law.

01:02:46Well, that's me.

01:02:47What you've been up to now, eh?

01:02:49He said for me to see you alone.

01:02:52What?

01:02:52I am Mrs. Parsons, his wife.

01:02:54How do you do?

01:02:55I'm most charmed.

01:02:57Everywhere I go, I meet charming people.

01:02:59Mr. Schneider...

01:03:01Schneider...

01:03:01Psh-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s

01:03:02-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s

01:03:03-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s.

01:03:16What's he done with his trousers?

01:03:17Alas, they were torn off.

01:03:21He was debagged.

01:03:22Debagged?

01:03:23Oh, Howard, I can't bear it.

01:03:26Shh.

01:03:27Who did such a thing?

01:03:28Man in a scrimmage.

01:03:30I was speaking.

01:03:31He was in the crowd listening.

01:03:34I was shouted down.

01:03:36Oh, Howard.

01:03:37He cried to the crowd.

01:03:39I do not believe in what this man says,

01:03:42but I will defend to the death his right to say it.

01:03:46Voltaire.

01:03:48I never heard such nonsense.

01:03:50Never.

01:03:50Madam, I've been arrested in all countries of Europe.

01:03:53No wonder.

01:03:54I come to England.

01:03:56I meet a man who says he will defend to the death my right to speak.

01:04:02Nowhere else has that happened to me.

01:04:05It is unique in my life.

01:04:08He's a great man.

01:04:11He and Voltaire.

01:04:13And now he's at Parca Police Station.

01:04:16I think the charge against him is the disturbance of the peace.

01:04:20Howard, I'm sure he was drunk.

01:04:22You must go to the police station and certify that he wasn't.

01:04:24Well, if he was, it's too late.

01:04:25The police surgeon will have seen him.

01:04:27Well, he was going to refuse the evidence of the police surgeon.

01:04:29After all, it's only his word against yours.

01:04:31If they've already got his evidence, how can I refute it?

01:04:34Nonsense.

01:04:35You can say you represent another school of thought.

01:04:37You say yourself there are always two, or three, or four.

01:04:39Why, even you and Claire have one each.

01:04:41Yes, but what about the trousers?

01:04:43Mr. Pa, go and get a pair of Alfred's trousers quickly.

01:04:45Subdued one.

01:04:46You bet.

01:04:46You know, I think you need to have hopes about it.

01:04:49You'd better have a drink.

01:04:50Oh, thank you.

01:04:52What'll you have?

01:04:53Rum, please.

01:04:54Rum is the wine of the warrior.

01:04:57Well, Mr. Snitney, I've been, I think I'll join you.

01:05:01There you go.

01:05:06I couldn't rest, Mommy.

01:05:07Rest?

01:05:08I've forgotten the meaning of the word.

01:05:10Who's that with Howard?

01:05:12The public anarchist.

01:05:13He's come about your father.

01:05:15Why, what's happened to Daddy?

01:05:17He's in prison.

01:05:19Now we're off.

01:05:22You know, I'd like to go with you.

01:05:23It'll be a sight for sore eyes to see Alfred in his cell.

01:05:26Well, I think you'd better stay at home with the women.

01:05:28Never, definitely.

01:05:29They need a man about the house.

01:05:31Oh, all right.

01:05:32If a message comes for me from Claire, phone me at the Parker Street police station.

01:05:36Yes, of course.

01:05:38Oh, come along.

01:05:38Let's get going.

01:05:39Oh, hold those for a moment, Mr. Snitney, off, will you?

01:05:42I nearly got it right.

01:05:43I'll get my overkill.

01:05:44He doesn't believe in his right to speak, but says he'll offend him to the death.

01:05:48Now, what do you make of that, eh?

01:05:49I don't know.

01:05:51Crackers, of course.

01:05:52I can only see the Lord Mayor's coat empty.

01:05:56All right.

01:05:56Well, you'll never leave me to do it.

01:05:58Oh.

01:06:01Oh.

01:06:02Oh.

01:06:06Oh.

01:06:08Oh.

01:06:09Oh.

01:06:11Oh.

01:06:14Oh.

01:06:27Hey, Claire.

01:06:28Hmm?

01:06:28Claire.

01:06:30Wake up.

01:06:31Oh, horrible.

01:06:32Go away.

01:06:33For pity's sake, Claire.

01:06:34We're still in DF.

01:06:35Good.

01:06:36It is in the middle of the night.

01:06:37My watch is stopped.

01:06:38No, that doesn't prove anything.

01:06:39Relax.

01:06:40What do you suppose is going on at home?

01:06:42What will Joan be thinking?

01:06:43I wonder.

01:06:45Hey, Garcon.

01:06:47It's Achille, you are an all-eye.

01:06:49Watch is here.

01:06:50What?

01:06:51Uh, tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:52Tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:52Ah, tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:53No, Monsieur, it's not tick-tock.

01:06:55No, Monsieur, it's not tick-tock.

01:07:07No, it's not tick-tock.

01:07:19Please, Sam, will you?

01:07:20Don't remember that.

01:07:21Oh, blimey, that's torn it.

01:07:23Now, what are we going to do?

01:07:24This was a lovely idea of yours, coming here.

01:07:26Sorry, but the idea was yours.

01:07:27No, it wasn't.

01:07:28Oh, yes, it was.

01:07:28Oh, you saw the boat at New Haven first?

01:07:30And you made a dash for it.

01:07:31You didn't have to come after me.

01:07:32No?

01:07:33What Englishman would stand by and see a woman make a fool of herself on her own?

01:07:35This ridiculous chivalry has got more Englishmen into trouble.

01:07:39Anyway, I'm glad you came.

01:07:40It's fun.

01:07:41Oh, good.

01:07:42I'm glad you're amused.

01:07:43Now, my sweet, the next move's yours.

01:07:44You're going to phone hard.

01:07:45Don't be ridiculous.

01:07:46You'll be fast asleep.

01:07:48I wish I could drown the thought of your mother.

01:07:50Every time I think she's gone down for a third time, up she pops again.

01:07:53Forget it.

01:07:54You must phone her.

01:07:55She may think we've had a smash.

01:07:56We haven't.

01:07:57No, but she doesn't know that.

01:07:58Ring her up, old girl.

01:07:59There's a good girl.

01:07:59Now, listen.

01:08:00This is my first binge for nine years, and it's probably your last for very much longer than that,

01:08:05so let's be glad they coincide, and don't be so miserable.

01:08:08But hang it, I'm getting married tomorrow.

01:08:10All right, don't worry.

01:08:11You'll be there in time.

01:08:12Think of your mother.

01:08:13I don't want to.

01:08:14Well, think of me.

01:08:15Think of Joan.

01:08:17You must phone.

01:08:19Garzant.

01:08:20Oui, monsieur.

01:08:21Madame, vous téléphonez à Langleterre.

01:08:24Ah, très bien, monsieur.

01:08:25Oui, certainement, oui.

01:08:27Chislefield, 54.

01:08:30Chislefield, 54.

01:08:34Ah, I'll write it down.

01:08:39Un crayon, s'il vous plaît.

01:08:40Un crayon.

01:08:41Oui, oui, un crayon.

01:08:42Ah, merci.

01:08:44Ah, Chislefield, 54.

01:08:46Ah, Chislefield, 5, on cap.

01:08:47As I said.

01:08:48Oui, of course.

01:08:48I'll put it on the floor.

01:08:49Merci.

01:08:51Ado, ado, ado, ado, ado.

01:08:53I've just realized something, Tim.

01:08:55Being a wife and a mother is an impossible combination.

01:08:58Oh, right.

01:08:58Don't get more, Jim.

01:08:59We've got to get out of this.

01:09:01Supposing your mother telephones hard?

01:09:02I hope she does.

01:09:03You hope she does?

01:09:04Yes, just to show him.

01:09:06I guess that was what you were up to.

01:09:08Showing hard.

01:09:08That's the real reason behind this little trip, isn't it?

01:09:10Certainly not.

01:09:11I needed a clear perspective.

01:09:13You still need one.

01:09:14Ado.

01:09:15Ingrid?

01:09:16Oui.

01:09:17Monsieur Langleterre.

01:09:20Ado.

01:09:22My French isn't any better than yours.

01:09:24I resent that.

01:09:25Say hello, hello, hello.

01:09:26Hello, hello.

01:09:27I can't.

01:09:28It sounds so silly.

01:09:29What do I say?

01:09:29Tell them where we are.

01:09:30Say that we missed the boat, and they'll be back in the morning.

01:09:32And that you're very, very sorry.

01:09:34Very, very sorry.

01:09:35Hello.

01:09:35Can I speak to Mrs. Parsons, please?

01:09:37Oh, is that you, Mummy?

01:09:39This is Claire.

01:09:40I'm speaking from Dieppe.

01:09:42Tim is here, too.

01:09:43And we're staying the night.

01:09:44No.

01:09:44Yes?

01:09:45No.

01:09:45Yes, Dieppe.

01:09:47Dieppe?

01:09:48Good gracious, they're abroad.

01:09:50But what are you doing there?

01:09:52But, darling, I told you I'm staying the night with Tim.

01:09:55Not with Tim.

01:09:56Oh, gosh, what a woman.

01:09:57Oh, I can't.

01:09:58Oh, hello, hello.

01:09:59Oh, je ne pao pao pao.

01:10:00Yeah, get me.

01:10:01Hello.

01:10:01What?

01:10:02No, I...

01:10:03Dime, we had to.

01:10:04No, Tim, don't.

01:10:05No, let go.

01:10:07No, it's all right, darling.

01:10:08It's only Tim.

01:10:08Please, tell her to be sorry.

01:10:09I said it was all an accident.

01:10:10Tell her to tell her to you.

01:10:11What?

01:10:11No, I can't hear.

01:10:12What?

01:10:12Oh, hello.

01:10:13Please.

01:10:26What is it?

01:10:27He does it every night.

01:10:28His wife ran away with a sailor.

01:10:29Did she?

01:10:30Oh.

01:10:30Hello?

01:10:31Oh, hello.

01:10:33Mommy.

01:10:33Hello.

01:10:35Hello.

01:10:36Hello.

01:10:37There was shots and Claire screamed and told Tim to stop it.

01:10:40And then more shots and Claire screamed again.

01:10:42And then it all went dead.

01:10:43Yeah, give it to me.

01:10:44Hello.

01:10:44What was the shooting about?

01:10:46We've got to find out.

01:10:46Hello, exchange.

01:10:47Oh, where is she?

01:10:48Ask him what he was.

01:10:49Don't let him keep all the fun to himself.

01:10:51Oh, really, Gran de Blanc.

01:10:52Hello, exchange.

01:10:52Oh, Howard.

01:10:53Get out of it.

01:10:54Oh, dear.

01:10:54Dear, my.

01:10:57Good evening, sir.

01:10:58Oh, it's you again.

01:11:00You know...

01:11:01Oh, yes, of course.

01:11:02Look, I'm Dr. Fleming.

01:11:03I've brought Mr. Parsons' prizes.

01:11:05Oh, yes, sir.

01:11:06I expect he'd be quite pleased to see you.

01:11:07He's in there.

01:11:08I take it there's no charge against Mr. Parsons?

01:11:11Oh, no, no, no, sir.

01:11:12We just had to keep him on the cover.

01:11:18Howard.

01:11:19Well, here we are, sir.

01:11:21I'm sorry you should find me in these circumstances.

01:11:23Well, never mind about that.

01:11:24Look, slip into these.

01:11:26We've got to get home.

01:11:27My wife must never know about this.

01:11:29Oh, yes.

01:11:30Quiet.

01:11:31We've no time for explanations now.

01:11:33There's too much going on.

01:11:34What is going on?

01:11:34Dr. Fleming, I want you on the telephone.

01:11:36Telephone?

01:11:37Is there such a thing?

01:11:39Oh, it's probably clear.

01:11:44Hello.

01:11:45Hello.

01:11:45Yes, Howard here.

01:11:47Molly's fainted.

01:11:48Well, what about it?

01:11:50Well, she's still out.

01:11:51We just heard from Claire.

01:11:54Stay in France with Tim.

01:11:57Yeah, they've hopped it.

01:11:58Done a bump, both of them.

01:12:00There was a lot of screaming and shooting on the phone,

01:12:02and then everything went and gave.

01:12:04Sounded like a machine gun battle.

01:12:06I don't know who did who in or why.

01:12:08Regular revolution from the sound of things.

01:12:10I thought you'd like to know.

01:12:12Yes, yes, in France, but where in France?

01:12:14Eh, Dieppe.

01:12:15Yes, that's right, Dieppe.

01:12:16Nice little place, Dieppe, Howard.

01:12:18I remember when...

01:12:19Psst, wait.

01:12:21Roger.

01:12:21Yes, sir?

01:12:22I want you to help me, if you will.

01:12:23Yes, sir?

01:12:23I want to charter a play for Dieppe as soon as possible.

01:12:25Bad news, sir.

01:12:26Yes, I think my wife may have been abducted to France

01:12:28by a dangerous criminal.

01:12:30Possibly murdered, Sergeant.

01:12:31Always there is something.

01:12:34Howard.

01:12:38Newzella, how long to care?

01:12:39By Eric.

01:12:49But it's vital we should return at once.

01:12:51Yes, sir.

01:12:51If you have not French money,

01:12:52how can I possibly book you seats for England?

01:12:54But he's getting married tomorrow.

01:12:56Ah, madame, I am powerless.

01:12:57I could do nothing, even if you are getting divorced.

01:13:01I suppose you'd have to wait hours for that boat.

01:13:03General never stand for it.

01:13:05Well, in that case, it may all be for the best.

01:13:06A fine pal you are.

01:13:08Pardon.

01:13:10Allons?

01:13:10Oui.

01:13:11Oui, certainement.

01:13:12Oh, oui, certainement, monsieur, tout de suite.

01:13:14Merci, au revoir.

01:13:15Pardon.

01:13:17Oh, you may be in luck, monsieur.

01:13:19It so happens, a charter plane is just coming in from England to land.

01:13:23I will see if I can arrange something.

01:13:24Vive l'Anton Kodiak.

01:13:25Pardon.

01:13:26Les passagers pour Rome, avion numéro 25.

01:13:28Ah, bonjour, Dupuis, ça va?

01:13:29On vient de savoir qu'un anglais descendu une anglaise dans un bistrôle ici.

01:13:32Tiens, il y a justement un anglais, un anglais dans mon bureau.

01:13:35Ah, très bien.

01:13:35Arrêtez-le.

01:13:36Attention, les passagers pour Rome, avion numéro 25, sont priés de se rendre à la douane.

01:13:43Attention, please.

01:13:45We'll pass...

01:13:45Dr Fleming?

01:13:47Yes?

01:13:48This gentleman is from the police.

01:13:49We think we have your criminal detend in my office.

01:13:51Oh, good.

01:13:52In there.

01:13:52Let me go, you plot.

01:13:55Release-moi, comprenne.

01:13:56Silence.

01:13:57Silence yourself.

01:13:58Ah.

01:13:59Silence.

01:14:00Ah, here come the Marines.

01:14:01Oh, Claire.

01:14:03Thank heaven you're alive.

01:14:04What are you doing here?

01:14:05What do you imagine?

01:14:06I see.

01:14:07Yes, trust your imagination not to let you down.

01:14:09Well, I hope you don't think you're going to get away with this.

01:14:11Listen, Howard, the whole thing is as innocent...

01:14:12Innocent?

01:14:13You must think I'm a lunatic.

01:14:14In spite of that, it's not a bit what you think.

01:14:16We'll discuss that on the other side of the channel.

01:14:18So, this is the man.

01:14:19It is.

01:14:19Now, listen.

01:14:20Hello, very important thing.

01:14:21Claire, you know this self-recognition business has gone a bit too far.

01:14:26Miss Daddy, I know.

01:14:27It was necessary.

01:14:28Thank you very much.

01:14:29Relâchez-le.

01:14:31Thanks, John.

01:14:33They're ready to go.

01:14:34Good morning.

01:14:35Monsieur.

01:14:36Monsieur, madame.

01:14:38Vive l'amour.

01:14:38Vive le sport.

01:14:41Hours have gone by and no news.

01:14:43Nothing since Howard phoned to say they were going to fly to France.

01:14:46Well, there's nothing in the paper about it.

01:14:48I should hope not indeed.

01:14:49There's always somebody shooting somebody else in France.

01:14:52Crimes of passion, they call them.

01:14:54They wink at them.

01:14:55Please, papa.

01:14:56Please, madam.

01:14:57The dresses have arrived for tomorrow.

01:14:58Take them to the morning room, Grace.

01:15:00Yes, madam.

01:15:01Send them back.

01:15:02I'm not going to marry Tim, mummy.

01:15:05I'm going back with Susan and Anne to stay at Aunt Emma's.

01:15:07But you can't do a thing like that, child.

01:15:10On the eve of the wedding.

01:15:13Think of the guests and the presents.

01:15:16Think of me.

01:15:16I have thought of everything, dear, including you.

01:15:19I'll see both my daughters married if it's the last thing I ever do.

01:15:23Oh, what now?

01:15:26Oh.

01:15:27Come on, madam, here's all safe and sound.

01:15:30Bless him.

01:15:30Hello, darling.

01:15:32Hello, Tammy.

01:15:32Here you are.

01:15:33Did they tell you you're going to be a page at the wedding tomorrow?

01:15:36That'll be fun, won't it?

01:15:37What's a page?

01:15:38You'll have to carry the train.

01:15:40Oh, goody.

01:15:41I love trains.

01:15:43Come along upstairs.

01:15:50I tell you, we got mixed up with this wedding party and spent the day on a pub crawl.

01:15:54That's all there was to it, do you hear?

01:15:56Perfectly, thank you.

01:15:57Then why didn't you say something?

01:15:59My vocabulary is too limited.

01:16:01I wouldn't have had it happen for worlds.

01:16:02Don't be so hypocritical.

01:16:04You enjoyed it as much as I did.

01:16:05I cannot see what there is to enjoy in excessive alcoholic indulgence.

01:16:10Quite.

01:16:11Well, I've had the time of my life and I don't mind admitting it.

01:16:14I'm sorry, Howard, if I've caused you any inconvenience, but I feel as if a gale of fresh air has

01:16:19blown through my soul.

01:16:20It's a pity it had to be a French gale.

01:16:23Oh, by the way, in the midst of our various activities, I omitted to mention one insignificant item.

01:16:28Oh?

01:16:29Perhaps you might be interested to know that Tony has been sent away from school.

01:16:33Who has dared to do a thing like this?

01:16:35His headmaster.

01:16:36He's afraid for his other pupils.

01:16:39I won't rest at this.

01:16:41Yeah.

01:16:42How right you are.

01:16:55Well, here we are.

01:17:09Morning, Grace.

01:17:10Good morning, sir.

01:17:11Where is Master Tony?

01:17:12He's upstairs, sir.

01:17:18I don't care what you say, Alfred.

01:17:20It's a shameful time to come home.

01:17:22But we have come home, Molly, dear.

01:17:23All of us.

01:17:24Don't talk nonsense, Alfred.

01:17:25Wherever else could you go?

01:17:26And you need to try to invent an old comrades reunion because I know all about last night.

01:17:31You do?

01:17:31We'll discuss the matter after the wedding.

01:17:33But, Tony, it's not his fault.

01:17:35Now, let me extend.

01:17:36Look, I never want to speak to you again and I'm not going to marry you ever.

01:17:40Thanks, pal.

01:17:41Thanks for the gale of fresh air.

01:17:45Oh, you wicked old man.

01:17:46Seen Tony?

01:17:46Eh, playing in the garden, I think.

01:17:49You've been good while I've been away.

01:17:50Oh, la la.

01:17:50Polly go, frunce, oui, oui.

01:17:52What about yourself, eh?

01:17:53Hello, Susan.

01:17:54Hello, Anne.

01:17:54Hello.

01:17:55I wish someone would say whether it's off or on.

01:17:58He can say that again.

01:18:00Sorry, kids.

01:18:00Have you seen Tony?

01:18:01No.

01:18:02Seen Tony.

01:18:03That's all this means to her.

01:18:06Oh, well.

01:18:07Perhaps I'm wrong.

01:18:09Perhaps she's got the right idea about marriage after all.

01:18:12But, darling, can't you believe that the trip to Diop was just a bit of escapism?

01:18:15The fact that we missed the boat was just bad luck.

01:18:17Bad luck for our wedding, Tim.

01:18:19Oh, no, it's no use now.

01:18:21We'd never make a go of it.

01:18:23But surely you don't believe that Claire and I were attracted to each other?

01:18:26Why not?

01:18:26You've known her longer than you have me.

01:18:29Felt a bit guilty about breaking in in an old tradition.

01:18:32That's neither generous nor true.

01:18:33Well, it's the way I feel.

01:18:35But listen, darling, I just took Claire for a drive.

01:18:37Tony.

01:18:38Tony?

01:18:39He's in bed.

01:18:40In bed?

01:18:41Locked in his room.

01:18:42You've been spanking him, haven't you?

01:18:44Yes.

01:18:45A course of treatment long overdue.

01:18:47You promised you'd never lay a finger on him.

01:18:48That was when he was ours.

01:18:50When he's mine, I shall bring him up as I see fit.

01:18:51You haven't got him yet, and you won't.

01:18:54Please get out of my way.

01:18:55I'll leave him alone, or I'll start such a row that they'll hear about it in the next county.

01:18:58You can't do that in my home.

01:19:00I'll do it in the middle of Trafalgar Square, rather than that child should be spoilt anymore.

01:19:04Sit down.

01:19:06Relax.

01:19:07Relax?

01:19:08Yes.

01:19:09That's what you're always telling others to do.

01:19:11Darling, wouldn't it help if I tell you that I know that you love me?

01:19:13That I know we're going to be married tomorrow?

01:19:14Tim, I'll never marry you.

01:19:16Never, never, never.

01:19:19You're quite sure you won't have a little something?

01:19:21Yes.

01:19:21Quite sure.

01:19:23Oh, please, sir.

01:19:24By the way, remind me to write out a prescription for those nerves of yours.

01:19:29It seems we can never agree about Tony.

01:19:31That is a pity.

01:19:32Hmm, quite.

01:19:34I am determined, however, that he shall grow up with a mind of his own and the willpower to use

01:19:38it.

01:19:39I will not have him beaten into a nervous wreck.

01:19:42Never.

01:19:43And if you won't let me keep him, I shall divorce you on grounds of cronted and assault upon our

01:19:48child.

01:19:49How will that suit your practice?

01:19:51Admiral Blair.

01:19:54Claire.

01:19:57Oh, dear.

01:20:00Now, darling, do try not to shake.

01:20:02Remember, there are lots of things about you that show the slightest quiver.

01:20:05Your veil and your bouquet.

01:20:07Now, darling, now, remember, darling, brace yourself and think of mother.

01:20:12May I come in?

01:20:15I don't want to hurry anyone, but time's getting on.

01:20:17Don't agitate, Alfred.

01:20:19And, and, Joan, darling, clear your throat before you make the responses.

01:20:23Remember, nobody really cares about husky responses.

01:20:26Oh, that's right.

01:20:26Let me see, see you from behind.

01:20:28That's where all your eyes really are.

01:20:31That's, uh, that's Grace, Grace.

01:20:33Hi, hi, hi.

01:20:34Hi.

01:20:35Yes, darling, that's beautiful.

01:20:37Oh.

01:20:39Hello.

01:20:40Who?

01:20:41Oh, Tim.

01:20:43Yes, it's Claire speaking.

01:20:44Listen, I forgot to give Joan mother's pearls.

01:20:47Yes, all that fuss last night.

01:20:49Well, you know how much mother wanted her to wear them.

01:20:52Well, I'm still at the crown.

01:20:54Couldn't you put over and get them?

01:20:55I can't.

01:20:56There isn't time.

01:20:56Can't you send somebody over?

01:20:59Well, if they've all left for church, what about Charles?

01:21:01What are best men for?

01:21:03Oh, no, he's lost his collar stud.

01:21:05He's in an awful flat.

01:21:06Well, we've got to do something.

01:21:08I've got an idea.

01:21:09You run across the field to the old cottage.

01:21:11I'll meet you there in about two minutes.

01:21:12Good, I'll be right over.

01:21:15Oi.

01:21:16You can't go like that.

01:21:17Why not?

01:21:18Well, look.

01:21:19Well, you might have told me.

01:21:25Tony!

01:21:26Please go away, Claire.

01:21:28I'm busy.

01:21:28It's time you were off to church.

01:21:30Just look at you.

01:21:31I'm not going.

01:21:31Oh, yes, you are.

01:21:33I'm going to finish my picture.

01:21:34You see it like that?

01:21:34You are.

01:21:36Oh, Tony, come here.

01:21:37Look at my cottage.

01:21:38The little blighter.

01:21:39Help me with him, will you?

01:21:40We haven't got much time.

01:21:44Tony!

01:21:45Tony!

01:21:48Tony!

01:21:49Open this door!

01:21:50Tony!

01:21:52Tony, I can get this damn thing over there.

01:21:54I can...

01:21:54Look, I'm down.

01:21:58Oi, useless.

01:22:00Oh.

01:22:02Tony!

01:22:03Let us out, do you hear?

01:22:04I can't.

01:22:05I must finish my picture.

01:22:07Nobody's going to stop me.

01:22:08Otherwise, I shall suffer from frustration.

01:22:11You wait till your father hears about this.

01:22:13You'll make us the laughingstock of the neighborhood.

01:22:15I handle this.

01:22:16Tony, stop that immediately and come and open this door.

01:22:18And I'm not afraid of being bullied.

01:22:19You've always told me not to be.

01:22:21Tony!

01:22:22Tony!

01:22:23Sorry, Claire.

01:22:25I've got this.

01:22:26Fire, Bob, any good?

01:22:30Hello.

01:22:31Yes, Mr. Parsons here.

01:22:33Oh, yes, Charles.

01:22:35I've lost him.

01:22:36He went off to meet Claire.

01:22:40It's nearly time that he was married.

01:22:42I agree.

01:22:43High time.

01:22:45Where's Claire?

01:22:46Yes, of course.

01:22:48Where's who?

01:22:49Claire.

01:22:49Where is she?

01:22:50If you don't know, why should I?

01:22:52I must find my wife.

01:22:54I suppose you haven't seen Master Tony, sir.

01:22:56Well, is he missing too?

01:22:57I can't find him anywhere.

01:22:59I'm not surprised.

01:23:01What are we going to do?

01:23:02I don't know what to think.

01:23:03Claire and Tim both missing.

01:23:05Surely they haven't gone off together again.

01:23:06I won't believe it.

01:23:08Our daughter shall go to the church, come what may.

01:23:13Anne.

01:23:14Susan, quickly.

01:23:16Downstairs, girls.

01:23:16We're leaving at once.

01:23:18Alfred, keep Joan here until the last possible moment.

01:23:20With the wedding tie, Miss Empress.

01:23:22You'd better take Howard with you.

01:23:23Howard?

01:23:24Oh, dear, dear.

01:23:28Daddy, I do think we ought to be making a start.

01:23:30Oh, plenty of time, darling.

01:23:32Plenty of time.

01:23:32But you were off and going a minute ago.

01:23:34Yes, I just wanted to get rid of your mother.

01:23:36That's all.

01:23:36What did you do to myself for a moment?

01:23:39Oh, dear, dear.

01:23:42Tony, open this door.

01:23:44Turn it once.

01:23:45Tony, open the door.

01:23:46Master Tony.

01:23:48Smithy.

01:23:50All right, I'm coming.

01:23:56Bless you, Smithy.

01:23:57Run like blazes.

01:23:58I'll get you clean if I have to scrape you.

01:24:04There's something wrong, Daddy.

01:24:05I know there is.

01:24:06You're afraid to tell me.

01:24:07No, no, of course not.

01:24:08I can't be gone.

01:24:09Now the car's waiting.

01:24:10Tim forgot these.

01:24:11You simply must wear them.

01:24:13Oh, thank you, darling.

01:24:15I was beginning to think something had happened.

01:24:16Oh, how I say it's absurd.

01:24:18Right?

01:24:19Yes.

01:24:20Here we go.

01:24:29Stop.

01:24:31Just a bit of a tease.

01:24:34Ah, I think it's better if we have a little man over here.

01:24:41It's quite perfect, don't you think?

01:24:47Now, that's better, isn't it?

01:24:53Still, team.

01:24:55Now, hold it.

01:24:57Thank you so much.

01:25:08Wait till I get my hands on him.

01:25:10You're not going to spank him again.

01:25:12Aren't I?

01:25:13No.

01:25:13I am.

01:25:15Huh?

01:25:15You don't do it hard enough.

01:25:17Huh?

01:25:19Well, let's talk it over first.

01:25:22Together.

01:26:06Well, let's go.

Tony Draws a Horse (1950) - Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond - Feature (Comedy, Drama)

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