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It's Never Too Late To Mend 1937
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00:18:41Goodbye to you.
00:18:51Goodbye to the old world. Success and good luck in the new.
00:18:54Yes, success.
00:18:59This is to be my prison for the next three months.
00:19:11I'd like to show up.
00:19:15Quick, I said, quick!
00:19:17President, march!
00:19:20Come on, come on!
00:19:23One, two, four!
00:19:26Right then!
00:19:29Get back there! Go on, get in line!
00:19:33Two deaths this week and five more cases of jail fever.
00:19:37Yes, sir. Otherwise, the health of the prisoners is good.
00:19:39Yes, sir.
00:19:40Surprising.
00:19:41You know, I've never been in favour of this separate and silent system,
00:19:46but the visiting justices have ordered it,
00:19:48and it's my duty to carry out orders.
00:19:50Yes, sir.
00:19:51And I'd rather a prisoner had a few extra lashes with the cat
00:19:54or a few more hours in the black hole than to lose my job.
00:19:58Same with me, sir.
00:20:04Do you have those little pliers while you're driving the other day?
00:20:07Yes, sir.
00:20:08Yes.
00:20:08You'd be the one in the shaft or the one in the carriage.
00:20:11Well...
00:20:12Yes, yes, yes.
00:20:13I picked them up very cheap.
00:20:14Yes, I'd rather...
00:20:15Yes, I'd rather...
00:20:18The visiting justices, sir.
00:20:22Good afternoon, gentlemen.
00:20:23Good afternoon.
00:20:24Surely we are not to be deprived of Squire Meadows' presence today?
00:20:27No, of course not.
00:20:29He's merely stayed behind to pass a friendly word to some of his children.
00:20:34Now, see for yourself.
00:20:41Don't look so glum.
00:20:43Smile.
00:20:45Smile.
00:20:48Getting a little more used to the cat, eh, my friend?
00:20:56Mmm.
00:20:57Nice, healthy colour.
00:20:59Your stay amongst us seems to be doing you good.
00:21:11They'll be glad to see you when you get home.
00:21:14If ever you do.
00:21:22Ah, gentlemen.
00:21:23I'm distressed to have kept you waiting.
00:21:25But I dallied for a minute or two to speak a few cheery words to my wayward charges.
00:21:31Good afternoon, Governor.
00:21:32Good afternoon, sir.
00:21:33And how is everything in this splendid institution, eh?
00:21:36Save for one death and five more cases of jail fever, we're all well.
00:21:41A death?
00:21:42One of my children taken from me.
00:21:45You all know I always look upon the prisoners as my children.
00:21:48I know you do, sir.
00:21:49It does you great credit.
00:21:50Now then, as I call your numbers, you go in one at a time.
00:21:54And don't forget when they ask you, you have no complaints.
00:21:56For you will have some, and some you'll remember.
00:21:59Number 19.
00:22:00Number 19.
00:22:07Halt!
00:22:09Stand there before the justices.
00:22:10And take off your hat.
00:22:12Robinson.
00:22:13Tom.
00:22:13Poaching game.
00:22:14One year's hard labor.
00:22:16I think we've met before.
00:22:18Yes.
00:22:19Say you wish it when you're drinking justice of the peace.
00:22:22You hear me?
00:22:24I heard you.
00:22:26Yes, and we heard too.
00:22:27I think a little discipline is called for.
00:22:30Just a little discipline.
00:22:32Yes.
00:22:32Make it hot for the blad on.
00:22:34Stop his food.
00:22:35That'll do him good.
00:22:36Think a few extra turns at the crank.
00:22:38A few hours in the black hole.
00:22:40And a few days on bread and water will meet the case.
00:22:44Let that be listened to.
00:22:46And if that fails, we've always got the cat.
00:22:51Number 19.
00:22:52The visiting justices are here to inspect the prisons.
00:22:55And to ask if you have any complaint to make as to your treatment here.
00:23:01Well...
00:23:02Well, I'd like to...
00:23:03The prisoner has no complaints.
00:23:04I'm delighted to hear it.
00:23:06And I hope that when we meet again, you'll still have no complaints.
00:23:12That will be all.
00:23:14Come on.
00:23:15Let me turn.
00:23:19Number seven.
00:23:25Out.
00:23:27Send before the justices and remove your hat.
00:23:30Bradshaw.
00:23:31Henry.
00:23:32House breaking with violence.
00:23:33Sentence, two years prison.
00:23:35Transportation for ten years.
00:23:37Ah, Bradshaw.
00:23:39How long have you, sir?
00:23:40Fifteen months, Your Worship.
00:23:42Have you any complaints as to your treatment here?
00:23:44Oh, oh, no, Your Worship.
00:23:46Except if I might make so bold as to say so, Your Worship,
00:23:49I only wish me sentence here was longer.
00:23:53And why, my man?
00:23:54Because, Your Worship, it's been my salvation.
00:23:57It's... it's pulled me up in a heaval career,
00:23:59what must have been the ruin of me body.
00:24:00Not that that matters, but also of me immortal soul,
00:24:04what belongs to me maker.
00:24:06I've always regarded you as the most promising of my children.
00:24:11Oh, God bless you for those words Your Worship.
00:24:13God bless you.
00:24:14I only wish as I was staying here all the rest of me life,
00:24:17so as I could learn all of them texts and colics,
00:24:20what the chaplain, God bless his reverence, has taught me.
00:24:23I think we might be a little lenient with this prisoner.
00:24:25He seems quite penitent.
00:24:28Here, what do you think?
00:24:32You've decided that you need do no more work here
00:24:35and spend the rest of the time of your sentence in meditation.
00:24:38He might also have an extra ration of tea and grow.
00:24:42I agree.
00:24:43I'll see that that is attended to.
00:24:45Oh, thank you, Your Worship, and bless you.
00:24:48Every one of you.
00:24:49That will be all, thank you.
00:24:51Next place.
00:24:52Smart.
00:24:56Move on convict number 74.
00:25:07Out.
00:25:09Hallows.
00:25:10Judith.
00:25:11Extorting money.
00:25:12Five years prison.
00:25:13Transportation for three years.
00:25:15Oh, and what has our Judith been doing?
00:25:17Unruly conduct, Your Worship.
00:25:19Singing in her cell.
00:25:21A little too full of the joy of life, eh?
00:25:24We must curb that.
00:25:27No doubt five days of bread and water
00:25:29will tend to take the happiness out of your disposition.
00:25:34That will be all, thank you.
00:25:36Next.
00:25:37Mark.
00:25:38Number 15.
00:25:44Out.
00:25:45Take off your cap.
00:25:47Joseph.
00:25:48Matthew.
00:25:50Petty Larson.
00:25:51Sentenced three years prison.
00:25:53Five years transportation.
00:25:55How old are you?
00:25:57Fifteen, Your Worship.
00:25:59Disgraceful.
00:26:00Petty Larson at fifteen?
00:26:02What will he be up to at fifteen?
00:26:03He'll be swinging on the gallows before then.
00:26:06What did he steal?
00:26:07A loaf of bread, Your Worship.
00:26:09Scandalous.
00:26:10Scandalous.
00:26:10Why?
00:26:11It wasn't for me, Your Worship.
00:26:13It was for my mother.
00:26:14Why couldn't your mother steal for herself?
00:26:17She was dying, Your Worship.
00:26:19Of starvation.
00:26:21And I thought she might live if I...
00:26:22Toughen nonsense.
00:26:24Where is your mother now?
00:26:26She didn't get no bread, Your Worship.
00:26:29She died.
00:26:30The best thing she could do, too.
00:26:33I have no patience with people who are starving.
00:26:36We died at four.
00:26:37Suit you?
00:26:37Admirably, my dear sir.
00:26:39Admirably.
00:26:39Have you any complaint as to your treatment here?
00:26:46Well, Your Worship,
00:26:47I think that sixteen hundred revolutions of the crank is too much for a boy like me.
00:26:53Who?
00:26:54And since when have you been asked to decide what your work is to be?
00:26:57But I can't do it, sir, really. I chose my best.
00:26:59Then you'll have to do better than your best.
00:27:02Make it eighteen hundred a day.
00:27:04But I can't do it, sir. Really, I can't.
00:27:05Then you'll have to take a rest in the straitjacket.
00:27:08Oh, no, sir!
00:27:10No, sir!
00:27:10No, sir!
00:27:11No, sir!
00:27:12No, sir!
00:27:12No, sir!
00:27:12No, sir!
00:27:13No, sir!
00:27:13No, sir!
00:27:16No, sir!
00:27:18No, sir!
00:27:19No, sir!
00:27:20No, sir!
00:27:22Are there any more?
00:27:23Yes, sir.
00:27:25Then we'll have to leave them.
00:27:27I'm feeling hungry.
00:27:28We have a six-mile drive to do.
00:27:31And if that sucking pig is spoiled, I'd never forgive myself.
00:27:34You can safely leave the rest in my hands.
00:27:37Good day to you.
00:27:37Good day, sir.
00:27:38Good day, doctor.
00:27:39Good day, sir.
00:27:45Now for a little relaxation.
00:27:48I think this will be an excellent opportunity
00:27:51to see that the correct punishment
00:27:53is duly administered
00:27:55to our untidy friend number five.
00:27:59Come, my friend.
00:28:00No time like the present.
00:28:07Send them back to their nice, comfortable cells.
00:28:10I have a little matter of duty to attend to.
00:28:16The prisoners will return to their cells!
00:28:19March!
00:28:20March!
00:28:22Come on, 41.
00:28:23Come on.
00:28:23Come on, 22.
00:28:26Come on.
00:28:27Come on.
00:28:46Come on.
00:28:48Thank you, sir.
00:28:48Good afternoon.
00:28:49My name is Eden.
00:28:50I am the new chaplain.
00:28:51Good afternoon, Your reverence.
00:28:52I was expecting you.
00:28:54Where can I find the governor?
00:28:55Mr. Hawes, he's with the wizard injustices at the moment, sir,
00:28:57but I'll tell him you're here.
00:28:58Don't disturb him.
00:28:59I think I'll just have a look at your hand.
00:29:00look around the prison until he's ready to see me.
00:29:02Oh, step this way, Your Reverence. I'll be glad to show you around.
00:29:10What a cheerless, comfortless place it is.
00:29:13We ain't been put in here to be comfortable,
00:29:14you know, Your Reverence.
00:29:16Why are all these galleries wired in like this?
00:29:18Well, there were so many of them used to try and do their cells in
00:29:21by chucking their cells over that we had to do something about it.
00:29:23Are they as wretched as all that?
00:29:25That they prefer death to prison?
00:29:27Wretched? No.
00:29:28Wow. They only did it to give us trouble.
00:29:31What curious construction.
00:29:33Why is it built like this?
00:29:35Proper labour-saving, you know this is.
00:29:37Why, one warder up there with a gun's got them all away.
00:29:40But do they really shoot at them?
00:29:42Well, the order is to aim at their legs.
00:29:44But you know how it is, Your Reverence,
00:29:45when you've got a gun in your hand and you see something running,
00:29:47the sportsman walks in at all and gets the better of us, don't it?
00:29:51Now, where are all the prisoners?
00:29:52Oh, they're at dinner now.
00:29:54Like to see one of them feeding?
00:29:55Yes.
00:30:04What's he eating?
00:30:05Oh, he's on punishment, he is.
00:30:07He's on bread and water.
00:30:08But for the rest of them, seeing as though it's Wednesday, it's skilly.
00:30:11What's skilly made of?
00:30:13Well, that comes under the official secrets, Your Reverence.
00:30:15We ain't allowed to say.
00:30:17I see.
00:30:18Do they get skilly every day?
00:30:19Lord bless you, no wee changes.
00:30:21They mean you every day, yeah?
00:30:22On Monday it's skilly.
00:30:23On Tuesday it's pea soup.
00:30:25On Wednesday it's skilly.
00:30:27On Thursday, pea soup.
00:30:28On Friday it's skilly.
00:30:30And Sunday it's pea soup.
00:30:31And on Sunday there's a special treat.
00:30:33Yes?
00:30:34Bean ash.
00:30:35Then they look forward to Sunday?
00:30:37No, they mostly prefer skilly.
00:30:39But can their health stand such a diet?
00:30:41It don't matter very much if it don't.
00:30:43We have a fine hospital here.
00:30:45Are there many in hospital?
00:30:46No, they don't stop in there long.
00:30:48They soon ask we put back in their cells.
00:30:51And away comes our principal visit in justice.
00:30:53Squire Meadows.
00:30:57How do you do?
00:30:59So you've left our peaceful parish.
00:31:01And have come to labor in the vineyards of our county jail, eh?
00:31:04Yes, I can do more for my fellow creatures in here.
00:31:07I admire your sentiments.
00:31:09But remember it is your duty to minister to their souls only.
00:31:13Their bodies are in the hands of the governor.
00:31:15And the visiting justices.
00:31:18Justices visit once a month, I believe.
00:31:20I come here nearly every day.
00:31:22This jail is my hobby.
00:31:24I regard the prisoners here as my children.
00:31:27Naughty children, it is true, who have to be punished.
00:31:31But believe me, it hurts me more than it hurts them.
00:31:35But you know what it is.
00:31:37You spare the rod and you spoil the child.
00:31:41Why is there no number on that door?
00:31:42That is our black hole.
00:31:45The most effective of all our punishments.
00:31:49It is dark in there.
00:31:51No light.
00:31:52No furniture.
00:31:54And it is silent too.
00:31:56As silent as the tomb.
00:31:58In there you are shut off from your fellow men.
00:32:01No sign of life reaches you.
00:32:04After one hour, so I've been told.
00:32:06You lose all count of time.
00:32:09The seconds drag on and seem like hours.
00:32:12The hours, days.
00:32:13The days, years.
00:32:15After one day and there, I've seen the most violent man emerged.
00:32:19As cowed and broken as a whip dog.
00:32:23It is horrible.
00:32:24Awful.
00:32:24And without a hand being laid on him.
00:32:27All done by kindness, as it were.
00:32:29No, let me get away from here.
00:32:31By all means.
00:32:32Have you seen our labour yard yet?
00:32:34No.
00:32:35Then allow me to be your guide.
00:32:41I wonder where he is now.
00:32:42He's been gone nearly two months.
00:32:44With favouring winds, he should be about here.
00:32:47In another month, he will arrive at Sydney.
00:32:50And when shall I hear from him?
00:32:51He said he would write to me from the Cape.
00:32:53And sent his letter by some homeward bound East India man.
00:32:56From the Cape, he said.
00:32:58Two weary months.
00:33:00I don't know how I could have supported myself but for your kindness and frequent visits.
00:33:04I have done nothing.
00:33:05You have comforted me by speaking of him.
00:33:08Would I have been able to do more?
00:33:09Would I have been able to help him when he was pressed for money?
00:33:11But I just assisted your father and it was not in my power.
00:33:15I shall never forget your kindness to me.
00:33:18Never, never.
00:33:19Please don't mention it.
00:33:21So he said he would write from the Cape, eh?
00:33:24Then his letter should be here before long.
00:33:29But squire, you won't prosecute me.
00:33:31It's the first time I have ever tampered with any letter that has been placed in my charge.
00:33:36It is not the first time.
00:33:37It's the third.
00:33:39I set three traps for you.
00:33:41And you fell into the morse.
00:33:42It will mean prison for me.
00:33:44Have mercy on me, squire.
00:33:46Have mercy.
00:33:47A man that can tamper with letters three times can do so again.
00:33:51No, squire, never again.
00:33:53Never again.
00:33:54And I say yes.
00:33:56And I mean yes.
00:33:58Now a letter will arrive here shortly from the Cape of Good Hope.
00:34:03Addressed to you?
00:34:04No, not addressed to me, but I require it.
00:34:06And also all subsequent letters that come from Australia.
00:34:10You will bring them to me here directly with your own hands.
00:34:15Yes, squire.
00:34:22Oh, George.
00:34:24When shall we meet again?
00:34:38Susan, when shall I see you again?
00:34:51Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:35:01Too weak to do his 1800 revolutions, is he?
00:35:05And put him in that jacket.
00:35:07Do you hear me?
00:35:13Take him away.
00:35:14Put him in the jacket.
00:35:17Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:35:26Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I'm miserable.
00:35:33Eighteen-hundred-and-three.
00:35:37One.
00:35:39Eighteen-hundred-and-two.
00:35:44Eighteen-hundred-and-three.
00:35:48Power's up.
00:35:50Eighteen-hundred-and-four.
00:35:53Eighteen-hundred-and-four.
00:35:55You've only got eighteen-hundred to do.
00:35:57I'll check you out.
00:36:00Eighteen-hundred-and-four's right.
00:36:02Oh, well, you are a glutton for work, aren't you?
00:36:05Better give him extra weight tomorrow.
00:36:08He's got ten pounds already.
00:36:10Then you'd better give him twelve.
00:36:12Yes, sir.
00:36:15Now take him to his cell to rest, so that he'll be nice and fresh when I want him again.
00:36:24Number 19, stand up.
00:36:36Once I was hap, hap, happy, now I am miserable.
00:36:45Give him another bucket of water.
00:36:52What are they doing?
00:36:54Some more water.
00:36:55That'll bring him round.
00:37:05He'll be all right now.
00:37:07Good for a few more hours.
00:37:09We'll come back later.
00:37:10And if you start shamming again, my friend, the worse it'll be for you.
00:37:21I regard them all as my children.
00:37:23My naughty children.
00:37:25And what is better for children than a little punishment now and again.
00:37:29And it don't do none of them any harm.
00:37:46Save me, save me.
00:37:48Save me, save me.
00:37:58Why did you die, why did you die?
00:38:01What's this? What have the swine done to you?
00:38:03Let me alone, let me alone, and I'll give it to you too.
00:38:07But you'll die.
00:38:08Oh, if only I could die.
00:38:12I'm not altogether satisfied with the condition of the cells.
00:38:14Is your discipline getting lax, Governor?
00:38:17They're coming back again.
00:38:18See, there's a door open.
00:38:26Oh, so this is how we occupy our spare time when we're not on the crank, is it?
00:38:30You devil, you fiend, you inhuman fiend!
00:38:33I think the black hole is needed, eh, Mr. Hawes?
00:38:36Something that'll give us time to think and bring us to our senses.
00:38:42Keep away.
00:38:44You're driving me to murder.
00:38:46Keep away, I say.
00:38:51Is there no mercy, no compassion, no Christianity in this hell?
00:38:55In the name of the Christianity he calls upon, hold your hands!
00:39:00What place is this?
00:39:01Is it a prison or a torture chamber?
00:39:03Are you men?
00:39:04Are you human beings?
00:39:05Hand back in the name of the law.
00:39:06The law?
00:39:07What law is this?
00:39:08The law which is administered not by you, my friend, but by me as justice of the peace.
00:39:12I see no justice and no peace here.
00:39:15Take him to the black hole.
00:39:16No, no, I, you, release that man.
00:39:21Forget, my dear friend, that I am in command here.
00:39:25Take him to the black hole.
00:39:2624 hours will cool him down, while we deliberate as to what his punishment shall really be.
00:39:33Not the black hole.
00:39:35Not the black hole.
00:39:35Not the black hole.
00:39:36Not the black hole.
00:39:36Mercy, mercy!
00:39:37Take him away.
00:39:39No!
00:39:44Put him back in the jacket.
00:39:46Wait.
00:39:50My boy, what have they done to you?
00:39:52Your face and hands are blue, and you're so cold.
00:39:57Don't worry about me, sir.
00:40:00They've done their worst.
00:40:02Is there no one here to obey my orders?
00:40:04Put him back in that jacket, I say.
00:40:06Don't care.
00:40:06Hand on him my command.
00:40:07By what right?
00:40:08By the right of my calling.
00:40:10His body may be yours to do with what you will, but his soul is in my keeping.
00:40:15Stand back.
00:40:16He is about to meet the justice of the peace, before whom we all must stand some day.
00:40:25That's right.
00:40:26He's almost gone.
00:40:28That's two this week.
00:40:29Lucky this ain't a butcher shop.
00:40:31They don't take stock in here.
00:40:32What does one prisoner matter, more or less?
00:40:35Come, Mr. Hawes.
00:40:36We have worked it well as far.
00:40:46How do you feel now, boy?
00:40:49I don't feel nothing no more.
00:40:52I don't seem to be here at all.
00:40:55I can see your face, but that's a long way off.
00:41:00What's your name?
00:41:03Joseph's.
00:41:05Matthew Joseph's.
00:41:08Mother always used to call me Mattie.
00:41:13But she's gone.
00:41:16They call me number 15 in here.
00:41:21I shall call you Mattie, if I may.
00:41:24Thank you, sir.
00:41:27Poor Mattie.
00:41:30Say that again, sir.
00:41:32That's the first kind word I've heard spoken to me for years.
00:41:35Poor little Mattie.
00:41:39Not poor, no, sir.
00:41:42Because my sentence has been reduced.
00:41:45I'm free.
00:42:12Those eyes looking at me, laughing at me.
00:42:20I'm going insane.
00:42:26What's that?
00:42:29Who's there?
00:42:32Answer me!
00:42:35Who's there?
00:42:38Who's there?
00:42:40My boy.
00:42:42Who calls me?
00:42:44The prison chaplain who tried to save you, but who failed.
00:42:49Where are you?
00:42:51Here.
00:42:52Can't you hear me?
00:42:54There?
00:42:55Are you there?
00:42:57Yes, here.
00:42:58Oh, don't go away.
00:43:00Don't go away.
00:43:01I won't leave you.
00:43:03I'll stay with you.
00:43:04Oh, thank you, sir.
00:43:08What o'clock is it?
00:43:09Half past twelve.
00:43:11Night or day?
00:43:13Night.
00:43:14And you've given up your sleep for me, sir?
00:43:17Oh, you're a real Christian.
00:43:20I try to be.
00:43:21How do you feel?
00:43:23Oh, I'm all right.
00:43:25Don't worry about me.
00:43:27Don't leave me.
00:43:28Please don't leave me.
00:43:29I'll stay with you.
00:43:31Oh, thank you, sir.
00:43:33Oh, please say something so that I can hear your voice.
00:43:41Lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom.
00:43:46Lead thou me on.
00:43:48The night is dark, and I am far from home.
00:43:53Lead thou me on.
00:44:02Come.
00:44:20Came last night, squire.
00:44:21Oh.
00:44:27I'm getting uneasy, squire, about all these letters I'm handing on to you.
00:44:31It ain't legal.
00:44:32You've done other things in your life that haven't been legal.
00:44:35As long as I say nothing, you're safe.
00:44:36But if I choose to speak...
00:44:38I didn't mean that, squire.
00:44:40I didn't mean that.
00:44:41Then don't argue with me.
00:44:43Get out.
00:44:43Yes, squire.
00:44:50Get out.
00:44:58My dear Susan, I know that you've waited a long time, but at last I've been rewarded.
00:45:03I've struck gold, plenty of it, and I'm now coming home aboard the sunflower as fast as wind
00:45:09and sail can bring me with 7,000 pounds worth of gold dust in my belt.
00:45:15Bad news, squire.
00:45:17The worst.
00:45:18Young George Feeling is coming back home.
00:45:20A wealthy man.
00:45:22What is that to laugh at?
00:45:24I'm sorry, squire.
00:45:26I can't help it.
00:45:27After all the trouble you've taken to win the girl.
00:45:29Yes, and I shall when I get.
00:45:31And you must help me.
00:45:32Oh, do you want me to plead for you?
00:45:35I have a better scheme, even than that.
00:45:37You must be in Great Farnborough next market day.
00:45:40Oh, I won't be there on market day.
00:45:42Then you must spread the news abroad to the villagers that George Field...
00:45:46Okay, excellent.
00:45:47They'd say as though we'll find gold in Australia, so much as he don't know what to do with it
00:45:52all.
00:45:52Then he'll be coming home and making Miss Susan Merton his bride.
00:45:56Not if he don't want to commit bigamy, he won't.
00:45:58For why?
00:45:58Because he have found himself a bride out there and took to himself a wife.
00:46:02In that there's Sydney, as they'd have called it.
00:46:05Though I don't know for why.
00:46:06Miss Yvette, where did you pick up all this news from?
00:46:09I don't pick it up.
00:46:10It be thrown at me from mouth to mouth.
00:46:19Oh, Betty.
00:46:21No letter for me at the post office?
00:46:23No, Miss.
00:46:26Oh, I...
00:46:27I can't believe it.
00:46:30Still no news.
00:46:32There's news, Miss, but...
00:46:34But what?
00:46:35Oh, Miss, it mayn't be true, but they're all saying it.
00:46:39Pray to heaven it ain't true.
00:46:41Betty, you frighten me.
00:46:42What do you mean?
00:46:43Well, Miss, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Bartholomew were talking down at the inn and they said that...
00:46:53Well, Martin, how are you?
00:46:55My dear squire, sit down.
00:46:57I'm sorry you should have had the trouble to come here.
00:46:59I was just about to call on you.
00:47:01Oh, is that so?
00:47:02I hadn't forgotten the date, or that loan of 500 pounds you were good enough to grant me, a year
00:47:07ago today.
00:47:08Is it a year ago today?
00:47:09God bless my soul, how time flies.
00:47:11But, uh, hadn't you remembered?
00:47:13Oh, my word, no.
00:47:15I have the money here.
00:47:16It's been a bit of a squeeze, but a promise is a promise, and, uh...
00:47:20But, my dear farmer, if it suits you better, why not renew the bond for another 12 months?
00:47:26That is indeed kind of you, but, uh, the interest...
00:47:30I want no interest from you.
00:47:32But I couldn't allow...
00:47:33That is for me to say.
00:47:34If I had my way, I would ask you the favor of destroying this bond altogether.
00:47:38Then, uh, you have the bond with you?
00:47:40Yes, yes.
00:47:41Quite a coincidence.
00:47:43Have I your permission?
00:47:44No, no, sir.
00:47:45I've always met my obligations, and from one on whom I, uh, have no claim.
00:47:50True.
00:47:51Were I but related, I should have insisted.
00:47:53But there, there, the dear child has made her choice.
00:47:56Who am I to try and come between them?
00:47:58Then you have not heard the news?
00:48:00What news?
00:48:01The whole village has it.
00:48:02I thought that you...
00:48:02I've heard nothing.
00:48:04It is said that young George Fielding has found gold.
00:48:07Is coming back home to claim his bride?
00:48:08No, has found a bride out there.
00:48:11Never.
00:48:12I'll not believe that.
00:48:13But believe me, it's true.
00:48:16Poor child.
00:48:17My heart bleeds for her.
00:48:18You are generous.
00:48:19I am human.
00:48:20But surely there must be some mistake.
00:48:22It is to your advantage, my advantage, that there be no mistake.
00:48:26Poor child.
00:48:27How is she taking the news?
00:48:28At first she was prostrated with grief, and now her wounded pride.
00:48:31Poor child.
00:48:33I'd like her to show some spirit.
00:48:36Take her revenge.
00:48:37How can she?
00:48:38In what way?
00:48:39Don't you see that this is your chance?
00:48:41She is so grateful to you for what you have done for me.
00:48:45I'll send for her.
00:48:46You speak to her yourself.
00:49:04She is so grateful to you for what you have done for me.
00:49:12I shall never forget.
00:49:15I never forget a kindness or a wrong.
00:49:18But there's one I'll never forgive.
00:49:21Squire Meadows.
00:49:22We should forgive our enemies.
00:49:25Goodbye, my boy.
00:49:27Goodbye, sir.
00:49:27And thank you.
00:49:42You will make me the happiest of men.
00:49:47I can never love any man but George.
00:49:50Even though he has broken my heart.
00:49:52But I am grateful to you for all your goodness to my father and I.
00:49:58And affection and respect.
00:50:01I will be content with those.
00:50:03For I know that when we get to understand each other,
00:50:07love will surely follow.
00:50:11So she's off with the old love and on with her new pretty quick.
00:50:14Aye, the young ones don't wait long for anything these days,
00:50:18hurrying and scurrying about.
00:50:19Aye, it's them there new steam railway trains what's doing on it.
00:50:23Rushing around at 15 and 20 mile an hour.
00:50:26No wonder.
00:50:27Folks can't live their lives calm and peaceful like we do's.
00:50:31That's right.
00:50:31But I did think as how she'd wait a bit longer for young George fielding.
00:50:35Don't talk so daft.
00:50:36It'd be he who ain't waiting for her getting married so soon
00:50:40and then there for him perhaps.
00:50:41I don't believe that's true.
00:50:43Oh, and who be you, young man?
00:50:45I'm a friend of George fielding's.
00:50:46I know him well.
00:50:47I know he wouldn't look at any woman but Susan Merton.
00:50:50Why, if it ain't Tom Robinson.
00:50:52Him as was given a year in Linchester jail,
00:50:54purporting on Squire Meadows preserves.
00:50:57Well, dang me, so it ain't.
00:50:58A jailbird?
00:50:59That's what he be.
00:51:01I sit and suck no beer in a room without jailbird.
00:51:04Neither don't I.
00:51:05Most likely we'll find better company at the Black Horse.
00:51:08I will go along to the Black Horse.
00:51:09I ain't going to be seen with no jailbirds.
00:51:12Not in this I can be a...
00:51:25good day, sir, good day.
00:51:27And what can I get for ee?
00:51:29A pint of brown ale.
00:51:30A pint of brown ale it shall be.
00:51:34Why, it is Tom Robinson who went to jail for poaching.
00:51:37There'll be other ends in Varnborough.
00:51:39Well, I fancy this one.
00:51:40Well, I don't fancy thee, and that's straight.
00:51:43I can't refuse to serve ee, for that's the law.
00:51:46But ee'll please me by drinkin' up quick and clearin' off quick.
00:51:54That'll be Toppence, and I want money now.
00:51:57And you'll have it now.
00:51:58Tell me, is it true that Miss Susan Merton is about to marry?
00:52:01It is.
00:52:02And then?
00:52:03Who is it she marries?
00:52:05Squire.
00:52:06And then?
00:52:07Not Squire Meadows.
00:52:08Have ee any objection?
00:52:10I have.
00:52:11Then ee'd better tell Squire, not me.
00:52:14Now, if ee'll drink up and clear out, I'll be better pleased.
00:52:40Oh, Betty.
00:52:42Betty, have I done right?
00:52:44Well, Miss, what does your father do when a horse has a swollen leg?
00:52:48He applies a blister, don't he?
00:52:50And the one swellin' takes the other away.
00:52:53Well, that's what you're doin', dear, ain't you?
00:52:56But perhaps he isn't married after all.
00:52:58Suppose there's some mistake about it.
00:53:00Oh, no, Miss, there can be no mistake.
00:53:03Squire Meadows has been to all the trouble to find out, and he says it's true.
00:53:06But suppose he...
00:53:07Oh, no, Miss.
00:53:09He's an honest and straightforward gentleman.
00:53:11You can trust him.
00:53:15What is it?
00:53:16Who is it?
00:53:17Lawyer calling to see you, sir.
00:53:19What do you want?
00:53:20Anything ready for the wedding tomorrow?
00:53:22Yes.
00:53:23What are you grinning at?
00:53:24What amuses you?
00:53:25All the guests invited.
00:53:27You know they are?
00:53:28Don't you think you'd better have the doors guarded
00:53:30in case some that you haven't invited should try to force their way in?
00:53:34What the devil do you mean?
00:53:35Well, it's always a wise precaution.
00:53:37What's at the back of your mind?
00:53:39What do you know?
00:53:40Why, no, nothing.
00:53:41And hearsay isn't evidence in court of law.
00:53:43And what have you heard, if you must be so precise?
00:53:46I got it from a bagman who'd just come on the new railway line to Southampton.
00:53:50Got what?
00:53:51He said that the bark sunflower had just put into ports from Australia,
00:53:55and on board was a young man who, from his description, rather resembled George Feeley.
00:54:00Did he say it was George Feeley?
00:54:02Well, he said it looked like him, although he'd never spoken to him.
00:54:05He heard him book a room at the Dulcene for the night and order post-horses for the morrow.
00:54:08That is today.
00:54:10Post-horses for where?
00:54:11Oh, he didn't hear that.
00:54:13How long does it take the post from Southampton to hear?
00:54:16Well, with the roads as they are now, maybe two days.
00:54:20Two days.
00:54:23The wedding's fixed for twelve o'clock.
00:54:26Yes.
00:54:26Well, maybe you'll be married before he arrives.
00:54:29Is he?
00:54:31What a fortunate thing he didn't know about that new railway line through Southampton.
00:54:36If he should arrive first.
00:54:44I don't understand, Tom.
00:54:45You say she never received a letter from me.
00:54:47So I've heard.
00:54:48But I wrote to her every week.
00:54:49I should complain she never wrote to me.
00:54:51But I'm sure she must have done.
00:54:53Then someone intercepted our letters.
00:54:55Yes, that's just what I think.
00:54:56Have you told her so?
00:54:57No, I haven't spoken to her.
00:54:58I've been forbidden to the house since I've been in jail.
00:55:00Yes, I know.
00:55:02Poor old Tom, but poaching.
00:55:04I never poached.
00:55:05I saw that Squire Meadows wanted to lay the charge on you, so I confessed.
00:55:08To save me?
00:55:08Well, after all, you saved my life.
00:55:10Why shouldn't I save your reputation?
00:55:12Tom.
00:55:14But why should he want to lay a charge against me?
00:55:16Don't you see?
00:55:17To discredit you in Susan's eyes.
00:55:19And I'm sure it is he who has been intercepting your letters.
00:55:22But what is Susan to him?
00:55:23Well, he's going to marry her.
00:55:26What?
00:55:26Now, now, keep calm.
00:55:28It's her father who has persuaded her.
00:55:30When does this marriage take place?
00:55:31Tomorrow morning.
00:55:32But I'm still in time.
00:55:34Oh, I'll break his neck.
00:55:36No, no.
00:55:36Be careful how you act.
00:55:37He is a justice of the peace, and you don't know the power he has.
00:55:41I've just had a taste of it in there.
00:55:43No, George.
00:55:43We'll talk this over.
00:55:45An hour won't make that difference.
00:55:47We'll have a drink, and then you can go along to Merton's farm.
00:55:51New year again?
00:55:53Yes.
00:55:54Oh, and me too.
00:55:54Don't you remember me?
00:55:55George Fielding?
00:55:57Well, I be jigging.
00:56:00Mr. Fielding, back from them foreign parts.
00:56:02And how are you?
00:56:03I'm fine, eh?
00:56:04I'm glad to see you again.
00:56:07But I'd like to see you in better company.
00:56:09Tom is a friend of mine.
00:56:10If you don't like him, you don't like me.
00:56:11No, no, Mr. Fielding.
00:56:12I didn't mean that.
00:56:13No offense.
00:56:14All right.
00:56:15Can I have a room here tonight?
00:56:16To be sure, Mr. Fielding.
00:56:18I'll speak to the missus.
00:56:19Yes, and bring us two noggins of rum.
00:56:20Certainly, Mr. Fielding, with pleasure.
00:56:23But perhaps you'd like to speak to the missus yourself, and she'll show you the room.
00:56:26Yes, I would.
00:56:26Come on, Tom.
00:58:13Merris has bought her.
00:58:13That's what he's done, Tom.
00:58:15Thank goodness I can overbuy him.
00:58:16Look, her father said I had to have a thousand pounds to marry her.
00:58:21Well, I seven times that amount.
00:58:23I changed my gold into banknotes in Southampton yesterday.
00:58:25You struck gold at her mistake.
00:58:27I certainly did.
00:58:27Fortune was on your side.
00:58:29Yes.
00:58:29Well, let's drink to it.
00:58:36My word, that's strong.
00:58:38It's biting the drink of the old country yet.
00:58:41Yes.
00:58:44Still, that's just what you needed.
00:58:45Well, here's to the squire and confound your enemies.
00:59:00Yes.
00:59:02That was strong.
00:59:04I didn't realize I was so tired.
00:59:06Neither did I.
00:59:15Well, you must tell me about your experiences on the other side of the world.
00:59:21Good.
01:00:12I'll watch it for you.
01:00:24Quiet!
01:00:29What the devil's the matter with you?
01:00:30What's the matter with you?
01:00:31Are you mad?
01:00:32And why mad?
01:00:34You're going to burn these.
01:00:35Why not if I choose?
01:00:36If you don't want them.
01:00:38You think I'd keep them as evidence?
01:00:39Evidence of what?
01:00:41Oh.
01:00:43How did you come by these notes, squire?
01:00:45I took them from George Fielding.
01:00:47A little sleeping draught in his drink did the trick.
01:00:50So you stole them.
01:00:52What's for if you're only meant to burn them?
01:00:54I wouldn't risk keeping them.
01:00:57I'll take the risk, but don't burn them.
01:00:59Don't burn them!
01:01:00And if I give them to you, you'll go at once?
01:01:02At once?
01:01:02At once?
01:01:03And never tell a living soul where you got them from?
01:01:06Never!
01:01:09I swear.
01:01:10As promised, I return to your note of hand.
01:01:13If I were a more cautious man, I should keep it until after the ceremony.
01:01:17No, no.
01:01:17The morning of the wedding was the agreement.
01:01:19Besides, we can trust each other.
01:01:20Of course we can.
01:01:22I'm sure we can.
01:01:24Do you know what slanderous tongues are saying?
01:01:26That I have sold my daughter.
01:01:28No.
01:01:29Well, I must go to the church.
01:01:31How is it the bells are not ringing?
01:01:33They were ordered to ring as soon as the parson came into the town.
01:01:36Came into the town?
01:01:37Why, he lives next door to the church.
01:01:38Ah, that's a pleasant surprise for you.
01:01:41The Reverend Eden is to officiate.
01:01:42Mr. Eden?
01:01:44What business is this of his?
01:01:45He is now chaplain at Linchester jail.
01:01:48There's no right to leave there without permission of the visiting justices.
01:01:51I gave him no such permission.
01:01:53I should demand an explanation of this.
01:01:55I did it on my own responsibility.
01:01:57I thought that you would be pleased.
01:01:59Pleased.
01:02:00I pleased.
01:02:02How dare he.
01:02:06Why, Mr. Fieldy.
01:02:07Out of the way, Betty.
01:02:08I must see her at once.
01:02:09George Fieldy.
01:02:12What is the meaning of this?
01:02:13That's what I should like to know.
01:02:14I came back as I said I would.
01:02:16Then you can go back once more.
01:02:18For a whole year you neglected my daughter.
01:02:20Wrote her not a line.
01:02:22Broke her heart for all you cared and now you think...
01:02:24I wrote her every week.
01:02:25As I did to you.
01:02:26But I never received your letters.
01:02:27Nonsense!
01:02:28What became of them?
01:02:29What do letters matter?
01:02:31Now they're beside the point.
01:02:33I agree with you.
01:02:34What does it matter if they wrote or not?
01:02:36All that affair is finished.
01:02:37Besides, I hardly think Mr. Merton would like his daughter
01:02:39to become the bride of a penniless adventurer from Australia.
01:02:43Oh, sir, that is what you think I am.
01:02:45A penniless adventurer.
01:02:47And let me undeceive you.
01:02:48You sell a thousand pounds to the hand of your daughter, sir.
01:02:51Well, I seven times that amount.
01:02:52We'll believe that when we see it.
01:02:55You shall see it, sir.
01:02:56And now.
01:02:58What's this?
01:02:59It's gone.
01:03:01I've been robbed.
01:03:02That disposes of that.
01:03:04A bluff, sir.
01:03:05And you think you can hoodwink us like that?
01:03:08I tell you I've been robbed.
01:03:09Well, if you will associate with thieves and poachers.
01:03:13Tom.
01:03:14He was the only one that knew that it was there.
01:03:17Oh, but surely he wouldn't.
01:03:20Listen.
01:03:21The bells are ringing forth.
01:03:23Come, Susan.
01:03:24We are wanted at the church.
01:03:26You shall not go.
01:03:27Oh, and who will stop me?
01:03:29You have found out at last, my young friend, for what you really are.
01:03:32A fraud.
01:03:33Susan, can't you see through him?
01:03:35He sends you letters which I never received.
01:03:37Your 7,000 pounds, of which he's been robbed.
01:03:40Fine tales to tell the woman you say you love.
01:03:45Susan, will you believe me?
01:03:47Yes, George.
01:03:48Oh, yes.
01:03:49She believes you.
01:03:50But you are not dealing with credulous schoolgirls now.
01:03:53You're face to face with the men of the world,
01:03:55who know you for what you really are.
01:03:57What has your life been since you left these shores?
01:03:59Who have been your companions?
01:04:02Transported criminals and cutthroats.
01:04:04I'm no doubt you've learned some pretty tricks from them.
01:04:09And you brought back money.
01:04:12Who would look in your pockets for hidden gold?
01:04:15Here he is.
01:04:16Portbread handed with the notes in his possession.
01:04:19Do you recognize these?
01:04:21These are mine.
01:04:21No, no.
01:04:22And you stole them.
01:04:22No, I didn't steal them.
01:04:23They were given to me.
01:04:24Who gave them to you?
01:04:25Visiting Justice of the Peace.
01:04:26It was him, not me.
01:04:28Don't proceed against me.
01:04:30I'll tell all I know.
01:04:31I'll turn Queen's evidence.
01:04:33You rat.
01:04:34You dirty rat.
01:04:36I've got a pistol.
01:04:36Yes, I have got a pistol.
01:04:38It's only one bullet in it.
01:04:40Which one of you is going to have it?
01:04:44So you've caught me, eh?
01:04:46But you'll never cage me.
01:04:48Do you think that I've lied, robbed, cheated, intercepted letters,
01:04:51only to fall into your hands?
01:04:55My congratulations, George Fielding.
01:04:58I've lost.
01:04:59You've won.
01:05:01Yes, you've won the bride.
01:05:02You've waited for so long.
01:05:06And as for you, my dear Susan,
01:05:08I have a wedding present for you.
01:05:11The ring I shall never place upon your fingers.
01:05:15And I have a wedding present for you too, George Fielding.
01:05:18Would you add murder to your other sins?
01:05:22Stand back.
01:05:23You dare not fire now.
01:05:26There's your man.
01:05:27Take him away.
01:05:28Fire, John Meadows.
01:05:30You stand condemned in the eyes of the world.
01:05:33And you shall meet your just reward.
01:05:36And in the lonely hours of retribution,
01:05:39bear in mind that it is never too late to mend.
01:05:46He's mad.
01:05:48Yes, I am mad.
01:05:50Mad with hatred and revenge.
01:05:53Do you hear them, Susan?
01:05:55The bells.
01:05:56They're ringing out for your wedding.
01:05:59They send you a message, Susan.
01:06:02Do you know what they say?
01:06:03You don't?
01:06:04Then I'll tell you.
01:06:07He'll break your heart.
01:06:09He'll break your heart.
01:06:13He'll break your heart.
01:06:16He'll break your heart.
01:06:18He'll break your heart.
01:06:20He'll break your heart.
01:06:25He'll break your heart.
01:06:27He'll break your heart.
01:06:37He'll break your heart.
01:06:421460, 1461, 1461.