All Over the Town (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Comedy | 25 April 1949 (UK)
In West England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption, in this engaging romantic comedy.
Director: Derek N. Twist
Writers: R.F. Delderfield (novel), Michael Gordon
Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Comedy | 25 April 1949 (UK)
In West England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption, in this engaging romantic comedy.
Director: Derek N. Twist
Writers: R.F. Delderfield (novel), Michael Gordon
Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack
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00:02:11Hey, Nat's back!
00:02:12Who's Nat?
00:02:13Well, you know, Flying Off Zern.
00:02:15Used to be a reporter here.
00:02:17Oh, him.
00:02:23Oh, sorry, Mr. Burton.
00:02:25Nat's back.
00:02:26Been long enough about it.
00:02:27Huh?
00:02:32Tumble.
00:02:33What the devil do you mean?
00:02:34Yes, sorry, Mr. Gerald.
00:02:35F-Flying Off Zern's back, sir.
00:02:38I see him now.
00:02:39Oh, well, he's not here, sir, but he's been seen in the town.
00:02:42How many times have I told you not to come bounding in here when I'm in conference?
00:02:46It's all right, Father.
00:02:48You can go now, Tumble.
00:02:49Yes, yes, Mr. Gerald.
00:02:53Now, you shouldn't get excited, Father.
00:02:55Remember what the doctor said about your heart.
00:02:57Stop pawing me.
00:03:01Zern coming back's gonna cost us a pretty penny.
00:03:04Yes, Father, but we must give him his job back.
00:03:07I mean, that's the law.
00:03:09You don't have to teach me the law, Gerald.
00:03:12No, Father.
00:03:13He got 410 pre-war, but as a flying officer...
00:03:17We didn't give him his commission, did we?
00:03:19Can't make it more than six.
00:03:21Have we given Miss Thorpe a notice?
00:03:23Oh, well, now, Father, about Miss Thorpe...
00:03:27We'll do it at once.
00:03:28You see, I...
00:03:29It's payday tomorrow.
00:03:30Yes, Father.
00:03:31Mr. Nathaniel!
00:03:33Sleek, you old rascal.
00:03:35Well, I'm glad to see you back again.
00:03:37How's business?
00:03:38Oh, I can't complain.
00:03:39A quiet autumn, but a wonderful January.
00:03:41Cold and wet together for over a month.
00:03:43Very busy.
00:03:44How's yourself?
00:03:45Sorry, old man, I'm feeling fine.
00:03:47That young lady took over your job with the carrion.
00:03:49What's she going to say now that you're back?
00:03:51No idea.
00:03:52What young lady?
00:03:53Part of the name of Thorpe.
00:03:55Lively one, that.
00:03:56Well, I've got a duty awaiting.
00:04:02SQUADRON LEADER
00:04:21Squadron leader!
00:04:22The very man.
00:04:23Mr. Vane was telling me you'd soon be back at your little typewriter.
00:04:26Only flying off, I'm afraid, Miss Gilding.
00:04:28Her, Miss Middleton.
00:04:29How do you do, sir?
00:04:30You see, we've got the opera society going again.
00:04:32You're just in time to write us one of those nice little advance pups.
00:04:35We thought we'd start with a dear old princess.
00:04:37We've done it so often before.
00:04:39I'm afraid it means I've got to sing the princess myself again.
00:04:42I simply can't find anybody.
00:04:44What with running the hotel and the council meeting and my public work.
00:04:47I don't want to hurry.
00:04:49Major Martindale is chairman of the council now.
00:04:51He rules this with a lot of iron.
00:04:54You won't forget us, will you?
00:04:55A nice half column, perhaps?
00:05:00Yes.
00:05:27Hello, Nat.
00:05:30How are you, Skiddy?
00:05:32Still grinding along.
00:05:34Old girl's still on her legs, I see.
00:05:36Her last legs.
00:05:42Hello, Nat.
00:05:43When do you start?
00:05:45How are the wife and kids?
00:05:46Another one on the way.
00:05:47Nice work.
00:05:48Would be if we had the room.
00:05:50Oh, Ken Flint wouldn't buy when he could.
00:05:53Couldn't during the war.
00:05:55Now he might, but he don't.
00:05:57Ah, look here.
00:05:59I didn't expect to find you here.
00:06:01We were waiting for you in the office.
00:06:03I think you remember Mr. Baines.
00:06:05Course he does.
00:06:06Glad to see you got back.
00:06:07Though you've been long enough about it.
00:06:09Yes, just tidying up the RAF, you know.
00:06:11This town needs a bit of tidying up, too, come to that.
00:06:13But things are moving.
00:06:15Can't you brighten these up a bit?
00:06:17I'm advertising after this.
00:06:18Shallowbanks joins the beauty spots.
00:06:20Not conducted tours around the cemetery.
00:06:22Father's gone out now.
00:06:24But if you go up, we can have a nice little chat.
00:06:27Livewire Baines.
00:06:29New Tormouth.
00:06:30He's a councillor now, you know.
00:06:32Congratulations.
00:06:33Thanks.
00:06:34Mind you, the council takes up a good deal of my time.
00:06:36But still, what I say is if you've got responsibilities, it doesn't do to shirk them.
00:06:40You lads did your bit in the war.
00:06:42Now it's up to us to do ours in the peace.
00:06:44Things don't stand still.
00:06:46Progress with taste.
00:06:47That's my motto.
00:06:48Progress with taste.
00:06:50Now then, Gerald.
00:06:51How about a bit of colouring?
00:06:53Something in blue and red.
00:06:55You don't like them speedboat posters you did for me.
00:06:58That's how I'd like to do this.
00:07:00But I'm afraid it would be more expensive.
00:07:25Matt!
00:07:54Matt!
00:07:55Boy, oh boy!
00:07:56Wizzo!
00:07:57My, my.
00:07:58The boy's in long pants nowadays.
00:08:00And he washes.
00:08:01Chuck it, Matt.
00:08:02All right, big boy.
00:08:03Come off it.
00:08:04Here.
00:08:05I'm flight sergeant on our ATC squadron.
00:08:07When are you going to give the blokes a talk?
00:08:09Not me.
00:08:10I was just an office type.
00:08:12Same old stuff.
00:08:14Tormouth and District Baby Show.
00:08:18Blimey, is Mrs. Bostock still winning all the prizes?
00:08:20Yep.
00:08:21Well, the old man wasn't called up.
00:08:27Pretty efficient type?
00:08:28Oh, she's okay for a dame.
00:08:30As a matter of fact, she's been writing most of the paper since you've been away.
00:08:38Tell Mr. Gerald I'll call back later on.
00:08:39When are you going to start work, Matt?
00:08:43I'll slip out through the shop.
00:08:45Well, what's the idea?
00:09:16I must owe you a fortune for storage.
00:09:28You shall sell it to cover expenses.
00:09:30Expenses?
00:09:31Don't talk silly.
00:09:32Maybe you'd show up sometime.
00:09:46Hello, Grimmett.
00:09:51Excuse me.
00:09:52I'm Sally Thorpe from the Clarion.
00:09:54Are you?
00:09:56I'm Nat Hearn.
00:09:57Sir, I've gathered.
00:10:00Well?
00:10:02Well, not exactly what I expected.
00:10:05Sorry if I've disappointed you.
00:10:06I suppose you realize you've caused quite a panic at the Clarion.
00:10:09Me?
00:10:10I was only there for five minutes.
00:10:11Well, that's just it.
00:10:12Mrs. Vane and Kurt prepared a great welcome for you.
00:10:15Really?
00:10:16How is old Sam?
00:10:17Still trying to square his conscience with the advertising revenue?
00:10:20I'm fetching a bit of tar for a bottom net.
00:10:24Been trying to find you all day.
00:10:28The paint.
00:10:29It's wet.
00:10:30Oh.
00:10:32Here, sit down.
00:10:37Mr. Hearn, when are you coming back to the Clarion?
00:10:39I've had my notice and I want to make my plans.
00:10:42You mean they've given you the sack already?
00:10:43Well, why not?
00:10:45I was only brought in to keep your place warm.
00:10:47But everyone says how well you've been doing.
00:10:48Why should you give it up for me?
00:10:50But I'm dying to give it up.
00:10:51I've been counting the days till you got back.
00:10:54But I wouldn't do your dreary job for anything in the world.
00:10:57Dreary?
00:10:58What's dreary about it?
00:11:00You don't think that reporting Tormaugh's trivialities is a life's work, do you?
00:11:04Well, why not?
00:11:06A local paper's quite important, you know.
00:11:08More important in some ways than National Daily.
00:11:11The people who read it are the people who run it, if you see what I mean.
00:11:14Did you ever try to tell Sam that?
00:11:16No.
00:11:17No, not then.
00:11:18You see, I was only a cub reporter.
00:11:20Well, you're a big boy now.
00:11:22Here's your chance.
00:11:23The job's yours.
00:11:24Just a minute.
00:11:25Thank heavens that's settled.
00:11:26But you can't walk out on me like this.
00:11:28You've got to hand over for a week or two.
00:11:30Not me.
00:11:31Oh, please. I have practice.
00:11:32Oh, nonsense.
00:11:33You know it all backwards.
00:11:34I know, but I've forgotten.
00:11:35Have you?
00:11:37The Victoria Hall was filled to overflowing last Monday evening
00:11:40when the Women's Institute gave their first whist drive of the present season.
00:11:43Catering was in the capable hands of Mrs. Locksworthy and...
00:11:46A startling diversion was provided
00:11:48when it was discovered that Councillor Martindale,
00:11:50J.P., um...
00:11:52M.V.O.
00:11:53M.V.O.?
00:11:54Had no less than 14 aces concealed up the sleeve of his official gown.
00:11:58Sensational developments are expected.
00:12:00Well, there you are. You see, you don't need me at all.
00:12:03But I do. I forgot the M.V.O.
00:12:09The bride was attractively dressed, was she?
00:12:12Of course.
00:12:13The bride's dress of flowered silk was skillfully run together by...
00:12:16Run together?
00:12:17Run together by her Aunt Mrs. Amy Venables
00:12:20from the train of her grandmother's wedding dress.
00:12:22Her bouquet of choice blooms
00:12:24was provided by Messrs. Poses Ltd. of Tide Street.
00:12:27Coupe the clarion three bob for sake.
00:12:30The Women's Institute held their garden fete in Perkins Field.
00:12:33What can you say about a wet garden fete?
00:12:36It's there, under your dainty nose.
00:12:38Where?
00:12:39Printed in the programme.
00:12:40The proceeds of the fete this year
00:12:42will be given to the Tormouth Children's Fund
00:12:44to enable the poor mites from our slums
00:12:46to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air
00:12:48of our beautiful countryside.
00:12:52A notable event took place on Thursday afternoon
00:12:55when local beekeepers
00:13:00swarmed, that's good,
00:13:02in the Vicarage Garden
00:13:04to listen to Mr. Harvey Burlop's lecture.
00:13:07I'd rather like to keep bees.
00:13:09Would you? I wouldn't.
00:13:13At the monthly meeting of the Urban District Council
00:13:15Councillor Baines, Chairman of the Housing Committee
00:13:18gave an eloquent account of the rehousing and harbour development scheme.
00:13:21The plan combined the demolition of the old harbour cottages
00:13:24where conditions permit
00:13:26with the building of 50 modern houses
00:13:28behind the town on the site about Perkins Field.
00:13:30The new harbour layout, Councillor Baines pointed out,
00:13:33would combine progress with taste
00:13:36and aim at putting Tormouth in the forefront
00:13:38of popular seaside resorts.
00:13:40Councillor Barrett questioned
00:13:42whether the proposed housing site
00:13:44might not be rather remote for those who worked in the harbour area.
00:13:47After brief general discussion
00:13:49the scheme was then unanimously approved
00:13:51for submission to the appropriate ministry.
00:13:55The British Legion held their annual dance
00:13:57in Victoria Hall on Monday.
00:14:09You're looking a bit solemn.
00:14:11I was thinking about the council meeting this afternoon.
00:14:14You know, Baines impressed me a lot.
00:14:16The way he got that scheme of his
00:14:18past those old stonewallers,
00:14:20there wasn't much argument.
00:14:22That's very true, Baines.
00:14:24Come, let's get some fresh air.
00:14:36Yes, please.
00:14:48Let's go and investigate.
00:14:56Let's go and investigate.
00:15:09It's Beryl Hopper, surely.
00:15:11Well, you know, the girl from the tobacconist.
00:15:13What, that kid?
00:15:14Well, she had pigtails.
00:15:15That was six years ago.
00:15:17She's been in the web since then.
00:15:29Where are you taking that kid?
00:15:30To the station, sir.
00:15:31Well, I'll take her home. I know where she lives.
00:15:33So do I, sir.
00:15:34And I must caution you not to interfere with the constable
00:15:36in the execution of his duty.
00:15:37Now, come on.
00:15:41After further demonstration
00:15:43the defendant made as though to embrace me
00:15:46and continued to sing an improper ditty
00:15:49sample of which I now produce.
00:15:57I then conveyed her to the station
00:15:59where she was detained.
00:16:01I charged and cautioned her
00:16:03and she had nothing to say.
00:16:05It is my duty to warn you
00:16:07that should you elect to go into the witness box
00:16:09and give evidence,
00:16:10you will be liable to cross-examination.
00:16:12You may stay where you are
00:16:14and make a statement in mitigation.
00:16:16Well.
00:16:19Haven't you anything to say?
00:16:21No, ma'am.
00:16:23During the 12 years that I have been sitting on this bench
00:16:27I cannot recall a more deplorable case of this kind.
00:16:31You, a young girl from a good home
00:16:34were seen, the worse for drink
00:16:37swaying in the center of the residential district of Tormouth
00:16:41singing, it might better be called shouting
00:16:44at the top of your voice.
00:16:48I shall find you the maximum
00:16:51and I wish it were in my power to impose a more severe penalty.
00:16:55It fills me with shame when I consider the impression
00:16:58this must make upon our visitors.
00:17:00You have not only brought disgrace upon yourself and your family
00:17:04you have besmirched
00:17:06the good name of Tormouth.
00:17:09I can only hope this may prove a lesson and a warning
00:17:12to any other girls who may return here
00:17:14coarsened
00:17:16by their life in the services.
00:17:24I feel absolutely unclean.
00:17:26They pilloried her.
00:17:27It was sickening.
00:17:28It was rather silly of her to choose a policeman.
00:17:30Well, who hasn't been silly at her age?
00:17:31Were you?
00:17:32That old harridan
00:17:33spouting out of silk righteous humbug
00:17:35about besmirching the good name of Tormouth.
00:17:38She was just thinking of her hotel booking.
00:17:40Do you realize what it means to be publicly shamed in a place like this?
00:17:43Which only goes to prove what I've always said about small towns.
00:17:46Stuffy, narrow, bigoted, poisonous, nothingly impossible.
00:17:49Oh, gosh.
00:17:51You really are annoyed, aren't you?
00:17:56Hey, Nathaniel.
00:17:57Come here, will you?
00:17:59Afternoon, Mr. Spence.
00:18:00Afternoon, Mr. Thorpe.
00:18:01Good afternoon.
00:18:02The trouble, Grimmett?
00:18:03The trouble is this.
00:18:04I'm afraid our old friend Grimmett's got some wrong ideas into his head.
00:18:07What wrong ideas have I?
00:18:08It's the ruddy council what's got the wrong ideas.
00:18:11Wants to turn me out of me home, he does.
00:18:13Says it's condemned or some such rubbish.
00:18:15Well, if it's condemned, it's got to come down, old chap.
00:18:17Huh?
00:18:18They've got to find you something else first.
00:18:20Of course, I've explained that.
00:18:21We'll provide a modern, labor-saving house on the new estate.
00:18:25It'll save you and your wife a lot of needless work, Mr. Grimmett.
00:18:27Yes, such as walking to and from me work five times a day, I suppose.
00:18:31Well, you can always move back again when they've rebuilt.
00:18:33Who's rebuilding?
00:18:34This area's not scheduled for residential development under the new plans to her.
00:18:38Yes, but who cares about us arbor folk?
00:18:41Not the ruddy council.
00:18:43Look at it now.
00:18:44Walled down, all silted up with sand.
00:18:47Only fit for kids to play on.
00:18:49When my grandfather took this house,
00:18:51there was big ships unloading day after day down the bottom there.
00:18:55All manner of stuff.
00:18:56Hogsheads of wine, coal, iron, corn.
00:19:00And a fishing fleet, too.
00:19:01Times have changed, Mr. Grimmett.
00:19:03Fancy that.
00:19:04Why, it's balmy, ain't it, Matt?
00:19:06Fancy what I can do about it.
00:19:08Well, you can write a piece in the Clarion, can't you?
00:19:11And let decent folk know what's going on.
00:19:13I'll talk to Mr. Vane about it.
00:19:15You make him, miss.
00:19:16You listen to his skirt.
00:19:17I'll do my best, Mr. Grimmett.
00:19:19That's the idea.
00:19:20And take the price of coal.
00:19:23When the ships used to come in here straight from the coal fields,
00:19:26you could buy a sack for a bob right off at their key.
00:19:30Before you was born.
00:19:44Step right in, don't dither.
00:19:46All right, all right.
00:19:47Don't drag me out sailing in the wrong clothes.
00:19:51You know, there was something in what old Grimmett was saying.
00:19:57I don't see why she'd be pushed out to the back of the town.
00:20:00Don't you?
00:20:01Why do you suppose Bane is trying to hurry his scheme through the council, then?
00:20:05Here, hold this, will you?
00:20:07Let it out.
00:20:08Gently.
00:20:10Why did he hurry his scheme through the council?
00:20:12Because he hopes to exploit the harbour.
00:20:14He's got a lot of money.
00:20:16Why did he hurry his scheme through the council?
00:20:18Because he hopes to exploit the harbour in front and attract hordes of people.
00:20:22You know, progress with taste.
00:20:25Nothing wrong with that, necessarily.
00:20:27Bring money into the town.
00:20:29Into Bane's pocket, you mean.
00:20:31You see, he happens to own the beach amusement company
00:20:34and the Charabons and the cinema. Goodness knows what else.
00:20:37I hadn't thought of that.
00:20:39And why should Martindale and company support him in the council?
00:20:43Because he's fixed it with them to build a new council estate
00:20:46out of sight of their select residences, of course.
00:20:49Why didn't you tell me this before, in heaven's name?
00:20:51Because I didn't want to shatter your charming illusions about torment.
00:20:54I say, do I have to go on hurling this thing?
00:21:04Would you like to take the tiller while I light my pipe?
00:21:06Mm-hm.
00:21:14You're a bit of a mystery to me.
00:21:16You oughtn't to be a nice person at all.
00:21:18But you are, rather.
00:21:21Why oughtn't I?
00:21:22Because people wrapped up in small causes are usually small people.
00:21:26Meaning Tormouth?
00:21:27Mm-hm.
00:21:28It's small, yes.
00:21:30It's part of a big hole.
00:21:33The country draws its strength from places like this.
00:21:37The community spirit, I suppose.
00:21:40The community spirit, I suppose.
00:21:43You need a dissecting knife to find it here.
00:21:48Now, why don't you chuck it and tear out?
00:21:52Because it's not the answer.
00:21:54There's nothing wrong with the people.
00:21:56They're the same crowd that fought the war.
00:21:59All they want is someone to make them take an interest in their own affairs.
00:22:03Anything wrong with that?
00:22:05Nothing.
00:22:06Only I'm afraid you're in for a big disappointment.
00:22:09Perhaps I am.
00:22:11I just believe in people, that's all.
00:22:14Seems a pity you don't.
00:22:24We done a smashing bit in the Arbor scheme.
00:22:26Right to see it.
00:22:27Who's we?
00:22:28You and Nat.
00:22:29Yeah, we're all clarion, aren't we?
00:22:31Oh, not me.
00:22:32Thanks, all the same.
00:22:35She, um, she's still waiting.
00:22:37You've got eyes, haven't you?
00:22:40You doing anything tonight?
00:22:42Depends.
00:22:43Well, there's a smashing film on down the El Dorado.
00:22:45I know.
00:22:46Eddie took me.
00:22:47Oh.
00:22:48Oh, hello.
00:22:50Could I have a word with you, Mr. Hearn, please?
00:22:54Privately.
00:22:56Of course.
00:22:57Come into the office.
00:23:00No stockings?
00:23:04I don't know what came over me, Mr. Hearn.
00:23:07Of course, we used to have parties in the WEF, but not like that, never.
00:23:12Drunk and incapable.
00:23:14Old son, so awful.
00:23:16One over the eight sounds less sinful, doesn't it?
00:23:19If it was just myself, it wouldn't matter.
00:23:21But it's Mum.
00:23:23She's drunk and incapable.
00:23:25If it was just myself, it wouldn't matter.
00:23:27But it's Mum.
00:23:29She's dreadfully sick.
00:23:30She can't get out of her bed now.
00:23:32If she should hear about it...
00:23:34Can't you prevent her?
00:23:35Well, not if it's in the clarion.
00:23:37She reads it from cover to cover.
00:23:39Ah.
00:23:40I don't know what it might do to her.
00:23:42Couldn't you skip it just this once?
00:23:45Well, as a matter of fact, I had.
00:23:47Oh, thank you.
00:23:49Thanks so awfully.
00:23:50Oh, you are a dear.
00:23:51Well, you can skip the thanks, too.
00:23:53Oh, it'll be all right, I know it will.
00:23:55Hello, Beryl.
00:23:57I say, you'd better make yourself scarce.
00:23:59His lordship's on the way up.
00:24:01Out here.
00:24:03And down through the yard.
00:24:05Thanks a million.
00:24:07And so to reap and mow
00:24:09And be a farmer's boy
00:24:12And be a farmer's boy
00:24:14You sound very gay.
00:24:15So would you be if you'd been drinking ciders all afternoon with the young farmers.
00:24:18You'd be in the ruin of many a young girl.
00:24:20What a ghastly hat.
00:24:22Yes, isn't it?
00:24:23But it went down big with the young farmers.
00:24:30Has Burton brought my editorial up yet?
00:24:32It's on the desk.
00:24:36Looks provocative sort of thing.
00:24:39It's meant to be.
00:24:45Why do you call the maple tree a restaurant instead of a cafe here?
00:24:49Well, I had to.
00:24:50We haven't got any acute, um, accents.
00:24:52Well, tell Skinner to get some.
00:24:54And ask him to get some that's sloped the other way while he's about it.
00:24:59Is my editorial on the harvest scheme all right?
00:25:01That rubbish?
00:25:02I'm not going to print it.
00:25:04Don't know what came over you.
00:25:05Well, we ought to put the other side of the question.
00:25:07I've been talking to some of the people who live down there.
00:25:09Lot of troublemakers.
00:25:10Always got some grouse.
00:25:12They are citizens all the same.
00:25:14And clarion readers.
00:25:15I don't want to hear any more about it.
00:25:17The council had all the facts and they've come to their decisions.
00:25:20That's what we put them in for.
00:25:22Well, isn't it a good idea to start people talking?
00:25:25To open our columns as a sort of...
00:25:27Well, as a sort of forum for public opinion.
00:25:30That's what the paper's for, isn't it?
00:25:32I think I know what a paper's for, Nathaniel.
00:25:34I've edited one for more than 30 years.
00:25:37Exactly.
00:25:38Thank you, Mr. Thorpe.
00:25:39But don't you see, Mr. Vane, the clarion ought to have a positive policy.
00:25:42I control the policy of this paper.
00:25:45And no one can say I haven't conducted a vigorous campaign...
00:25:48for the welfare and moral tone of Tormouth.
00:25:53That reminds me.
00:25:54Miss Gelding's told me of that shocking Hopper girl case.
00:25:58I hope you gave it full prominence.
00:26:01Well, as a matter of fact, I left it out.
00:26:05Have you gone off your head?
00:26:06Well, she's only just out of the forces.
00:26:08Besides, her mother's a helpless invalid.
00:26:10Then she should have stayed at home to look after her.
00:26:12Perhaps, but that's no reason why we should pillory the poor girl.
00:26:15I don't care what you think.
00:26:17You are paid to write what I tell you.
00:26:20When it's high time someone made an example of the disgusting moral laxity...
00:26:24of these ex-service people.
00:26:27The war's been made an excuse for every kind of license and debauchery.
00:26:32Oh, for heaven's sake, stop that sanctimonious rot.
00:26:37If the girl were an advertiser, you'd burn before you printed a word against her.
00:26:41I... I don't dare you.
00:26:44Skip it. I'm sorry I raised the subject.
00:26:47You, Miss Thorpe.
00:26:49You better go now.
00:26:53Please go.
00:26:56We'll go into this in the morning, Nathaniel.
00:26:59With Gerald.
00:27:02That case.
00:27:04You printed every word of it.
00:27:06Main newspage, shall we?
00:27:09He's in a dreadful state.
00:27:13I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help it.
00:27:19You're perfectly right.
00:27:32You've been perfectly right all along.
00:27:39About Tormouth, do you mean?
00:27:43About me, anyway.
00:27:46And lost causes.
00:27:52I'm getting out.
00:27:54Ned?
00:27:56Where to? London?
00:27:58I've got about 800 pounds saved up.
00:28:03Would you risk it?
00:28:08Are you asking my advice or my consent?
00:28:15I'm asking you to marry me.
00:28:20Oh, Ned.
00:28:32Ned.
00:28:51I think the old boy would have been pleased with that spread.
00:28:54I hope so.
00:28:57I'm sorry it had to happen the way that it did.
00:29:00With a heart like that, it was only a question of time.
00:29:05Have you spoken to Gerald yet? About us?
00:29:08Well, I hadn't the nerve. He was so upset.
00:29:11I shall have to see him through for a bit.
00:29:13Yes, of course, but don't you think we ought to tell him?
00:29:16He'll need time to find a substitute.
00:29:19Come along, then. We'll go and see him together.
00:29:30Clare in office.
00:29:32Secretary of what society?
00:29:34Oh, all right. Just hold on while I get a pencil, will you?
00:29:42Yes?
00:29:45All right, go ahead.
00:29:48Tormund, Philatelist.
00:29:51Ah, that old man. Could I have a word with you?
00:29:54There. Best love.
00:29:58I'm sorry, would you repeat that?
00:30:01Best love...
00:30:03and...
00:30:05most industrious...
00:30:08Good morning, Mr. Bain. Good morning, Mr. Thornton.
00:30:11I think you know Mr. Thornton, our family solicitor.
00:30:15Take a pew, old man.
00:30:20Well...
00:30:22I, uh...
00:30:24I don't quite know how to explain...
00:30:27There's nothing to be ashamed of, Gerald.
00:30:29Tell Mr. Hearn exactly what Mr. Thornton said.
00:30:32Yes, Mother.
00:30:34Well, the fact is, when my father's will was read,
00:30:37we found that he'd left practically nothing.
00:30:41Nothing.
00:30:45Terribly sorry.
00:30:47My husband speculated a good deal, Mr. Hearn.
00:30:50Seems he was badly advised.
00:30:54Well, if it's that you want me to go, Gerald, you don't have to worry.
00:30:57As a matter of fact, I...
00:30:59No, it's not that at all.
00:31:01Old man, I understand that you have some little money saved up.
00:31:07Well...
00:31:09not very much, I'm afraid.
00:31:11Only about 800 pounds.
00:31:13Oh, that's just about enough.
00:31:15We've come to the point, Gerald.
00:31:18Perhaps I had better explain.
00:31:20The suggestion is, Mr. Hearn, that you come into partnership with Mr. and Mrs. Vane.
00:31:25Yes, that's just what we thought.
00:31:27What do you say, old man?
00:31:32It's a bit sudden.
00:31:34I'm sure Mr. Vane always liked your writing, Nathaniel.
00:31:37Yes, and as editor of the Clarion,
00:31:40you'll have a vastly improved standing in the town.
00:31:43You mean I'd have complete control of the paper?
00:31:45Absolutely.
00:31:46I'd look after the printing side.
00:31:48Vane and Hearn.
00:31:52We'd have to liven up the policy a bit.
00:31:54Oh, I quite agree, that would be up to you.
00:31:56New ideas, and I'll get in new machines.
00:32:01Not now, Miss Thorpe, I'm in conference.
00:32:03No.
00:32:04I want Sally to hear about this.
00:32:06You see, we're going to be married.
00:32:10Miss Thorpe?
00:32:12And you?
00:32:14Well, could there be a more suitable argument for completing this little matter?
00:32:18I don't quite understand.
00:32:20What little matter?
00:32:22Well, Gerald and Mrs. Vane have offered me a partnership
00:32:26and a free hand as editor of the Clarion.
00:32:28What a wonderful chance.
00:32:30Miss Thorpe, allow me to be the first to congratulate you.
00:32:33Yes, congratulations indeed.
00:32:35I hope you like our little wedding present.
00:32:37I'm sure it's all very satisfactory and so sensible.
00:32:42So you've accepted?
00:32:44Well, Sally...
00:32:45Naturally, Mr. Hearn has accepted.
00:32:49Excuse me.
00:32:58Sally, what's up?
00:33:00Nothing.
00:33:02I didn't know they were going to make this offer.
00:33:04You said we were going to leave Tormaugh.
00:33:08But this alters everything.
00:33:10It certainly does.
00:33:12Look here, Sally.
00:33:13Let me go. I don't want to discuss it any further.
00:33:15Oh, nonsense. Be reasonable.
00:33:17I am being reasonable.
00:33:19You prefer Tormaugh to me.
00:33:21Well, that's fine.
00:33:22What are you talking about?
00:33:24Do you expect me to turn it down because a small town isn't good enough for you?
00:33:27You know very well that isn't so.
00:33:29Marrying you and leaving here was going to be an adventure.
00:33:33A new life.
00:33:35A real life.
00:33:36I don't understand.
00:33:38There's very little that you do understand.
00:33:40You think you're going to do great things editing your silly little paper.
00:33:43Well, I don't.
00:33:44You're completely insensitive, you're wrapped up in yourself,
00:33:47and you always take the easiest way out of everything.
00:33:50Well, anyhow, I'm glad I found out before it was too late.
00:33:54Save a lot of trouble later on.
00:33:59Sally!
00:34:07Well, now that Mr. Hearn has joined the executive,
00:34:11I must ask you all to use a little more care when addressing him,
00:34:14particularly in front of customers.
00:34:16Christian names give a bad impression.
00:34:19I think that's about all.
00:34:21Oh, we have a great future before us.
00:34:24I shall be leaving for London this afternoon
00:34:27to see about the purchase of new machinery
00:34:30as part of our plan to progress and expand.
00:34:34I shan't be back until publishing day,
00:34:37but I know that I can rely on you all to cooperate loyally
00:34:41with Mr. Hearn on this week's issue.
00:34:45Any questions?
00:34:49Then to work!
00:34:51On the new clarion!
00:34:53Nat!
00:34:55Trumbull, if I haven't said come to work in your best suit tomorrow,
00:34:58from now on, you're the assistant reporter on the clarion.
00:35:01Cor! Wiseau!
00:35:03I haven't got a best one, though.
00:35:05My sister's had all my coupons.
00:35:07Do what you can. You've a high tradition to live up to.
00:35:10Yes, I know, Nat. I mean, Mr. Hearn.
00:35:15I'll see you tomorrow.
00:35:17Good-bye.
00:35:23Good-bye.
00:35:32Well?
00:35:35Oh, this, um...
00:35:38this reporting lot,
00:35:40take a bit of picking up, won't it?
00:35:42It's a mere frame of mind, Trumbull.
00:35:45Mental pliability, that's your strong suit.
00:35:48You're all things to all men.
00:35:51A sorrowing friend at a funeral,
00:35:54a joyous well-wisher at a wedding.
00:35:56Detail, Trumbull.
00:35:58Detail.
00:36:00Never despise detail.
00:36:03It's our meat drink, bread butter, salt, pepper and mustard.
00:36:07Who had the woolly stall at the Institute's sale of work?
00:36:11Who won the three-legged race at the Convent School sports?
00:36:15How much did we give to the Uganda mission last year?
00:36:19You must identify yourself with all and sundry, Trumbull.
00:36:23And when eventually you pass into the hands of Mr. Sleek,
00:36:26as pass inevitably you must,
00:36:29your successor on the clarion
00:36:32will devote a whole column to your obituary
00:36:36in the paper which you once helped to fill.
00:36:39All right.
00:36:41But first, Trumbull,
00:36:43a clean handkerchief.
00:36:49Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:36:51To drink to our princess, our naughty, roly princess!
00:36:55We know far too well we part with castle and domain.
00:36:58But to drink to our princess, for she returns a princess.
00:37:02This time we pray she comes this way
00:37:07forever to remain.
00:37:12Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:37:17Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:37:21O prodigal princess
00:37:27whose beauty doth excel,
00:37:32you have stolen my heart
00:37:41with the magic of your spell.
00:37:49O prodigal princess
00:37:54whose beauty doth excel,
00:37:59you have stolen my heart.
00:38:07Get out of the way!
00:38:09Get out of the way!
00:38:37O come to us, princess, for we await you, princess,
00:38:42and you will see true heart and will
00:38:47with love and loyalty.
00:38:56I thank you, lords and ladies, for your welcome.
00:39:01Don't mention it.
00:39:03Your loyalty is chilling to my heart.
00:39:10We lovingly implore your royal highness
00:39:16never again to depart.
00:39:28Prince Otto, I give you my hand.
00:39:32He gives him a hand.
00:39:35And love shall be our guiding star.
00:39:47Now love's revenge begun.
00:39:51Now two hearts beat as one.
00:39:56May it be true, my prince.
00:40:04Love's true heart beats.
00:40:16To celebrate this happy day
00:40:19we'll hunt the stag.
00:40:21So let's away!
00:40:27One, two. One, two.
00:40:29One, two. One, two.
00:40:31Rock and roll!
00:40:32One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.
00:40:39One, two, one, two.
00:40:41Rock around as the cool is going.
00:40:44Carry on in a hot pot all night.
00:40:46You'll taste the sweet of searing meat.
00:40:47Get out of my kitchen, you'll find what I am trying.
00:40:50You'll hang upside
00:40:51flame the petals
00:40:52over and over laced,
00:40:54Hot!
00:40:55Out with the fire and drink from my goblets.
00:40:59All out inside
00:41:01Carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry
00:41:32yeah, okay, clear, okay, up, up, everybody up, up
00:41:39on, on, come on back down
00:41:44on, on, on, come on
00:42:01I wouldn't mind being a fly on a wall when Omar Golding reads that packet.
00:42:18Listen to it.
00:42:19Miss Golding's singing might almost be described as shouting at the top of her voice.
00:42:27As the impulsive Injunu, she is sadly miscast.
00:42:32Indeed, we can truthfully say that people making noise in the street after a celebration
00:42:37have been fined 40 shillings while causing less distress to the musically minded.
00:42:42Home Truth's never did nobody any harm.
00:42:44Same with this here letter he's printing about Beans' housing scheme.
00:42:47That'll make him set up.
00:42:48He reckoned he's plain daft.
00:42:50What does he want to do?
00:42:51Land us all in a label suit?
00:42:53Ah, come off it, Skinny.
00:42:54It's fair comment.
00:42:55Anyway, it's time somebody pushed the boat up.
00:43:25Skinny!
00:43:26Skinny!
00:43:27Skinny!
00:43:28Skinny!
00:43:29Skinny!
00:43:30Skinny!
00:43:31Skinny!
00:43:32Skinny!
00:43:33Skinny!
00:43:34Skinny!
00:43:35Skinny!
00:43:36Skinny!
00:43:37Skinny!
00:43:38Skinny!
00:43:39Skinny!
00:43:40Skinny!
00:43:41Skinny!
00:43:42Skinny!
00:43:43Skinny!
00:43:44Skinny!
00:43:45Skinny!
00:43:46Skinny!
00:43:47Skinny!
00:43:48Skinny!
00:43:49Skinny!
00:43:50Skinny!
00:43:51Skinny!
00:43:52Skinny!
00:43:53Skinny!
00:43:55Morning, Miss Cartwright.
00:43:57Good morning.
00:43:59Come inside!
00:44:03Well!
00:44:06You haven't come to see me at this unearthly hour, I'm sure.
00:44:09Well, as a matter of fact, I...
00:44:10I thought not.
00:44:11You'll find my lease in the sitting room.
00:44:18Well, hello, Nat.
00:44:19I didn't know you were a mechanic?
00:44:22I don't think the vacuum cleaner knows it either.
00:44:25Do you think you could persuade this that it belongs in there?
00:44:31You've read it?
00:44:32The clarion?
00:44:34Some of it.
00:44:34What do you think of it?
00:44:36Does it matter what I think?
00:44:37Well, I've come here at the crack of dawn to find out.
00:44:42Oh, so that's why you came here.
00:44:44Sally, I know I behaved rottenly.
00:44:47I should have talked it over with you before taking on the paper.
00:44:50But you must see now that I was justified.
00:44:53And this is only the start. Once I get going, I'll...
00:44:55Get going?
00:44:56I should imagine you've about halved the circulation in one issue.
00:44:59I don't believe it.
00:45:02I didn't think that you would.
00:45:04People want a paper that tells the truth.
00:45:06Yes, but they don't want mudslinging and insults.
00:45:09What about the editorial?
00:45:12Torpor and tormouth.
00:45:14Apathy is the mother of complacency.
00:45:16I gather you don't think much of my efforts.
00:45:18I've told you already what I think.
00:45:21You told me you hated tormouth, that's all.
00:45:23But your aunt lives here. She likes it all right.
00:45:25Well, that's different.
00:45:26For her, it's a sort of haven after a stormy life.
00:45:30Will you forget?
00:45:32She was a suffragette once.
00:45:33Well, you can't want to be a suffragette in heaven's name.
00:45:36That battle's over and done with.
00:45:40Switch her on.
00:45:43Good, thanks. She works fine.
00:45:46The E.F.C. and two bars.
00:45:49Relation of yours?
00:45:52No.
00:45:53A man I used to know.
00:45:57Sally.
00:45:59Well, switch that beastly thing off.
00:46:02Tell me what you really want.
00:46:04Out of life, I mean.
00:46:08I don't know, really.
00:46:11I thought I did once.
00:46:14Well, I wanted to travel and meet people.
00:46:18Yeah, especially to meet people.
00:46:20People doing interesting, worthwhile things.
00:46:23People with something to say that was worth listening to.
00:46:27Not just tormouth chatter and small-town gossip.
00:46:31So that's what you meant by adventure?
00:46:34I suppose so.
00:46:37And he was going to give you all that?
00:46:40What happened?
00:46:43He was shot down over Dusseldorf.
00:46:45Sally!
00:46:47Do come and look at that pressure cooker.
00:46:48It's turned the stewed fruit into a sort of dried jam.
00:46:51All right.
00:46:58Uh, could I have the clarion, please?
00:47:00Hurry it up, please.
00:47:02Clarion, thank you.
00:47:06The clarion.
00:47:38Is it funny enough to keep a customer waiting, Garnet?
00:47:42You were just reading Nat Earns a bit about the opera, Governor.
00:47:44Ah, well, you can read it in your own time, not mine.
00:47:46There's, um, a letter there, too, criticizing your Arbor scheme.
00:47:50Is there?
00:47:51Top right-hand column.
00:47:53Signed Solomon Eagle.
00:47:55One of them foreigners, I wouldn't wonder.
00:48:00Stupid joke on the part of one of your employees.
00:48:03And I insist that you do something about it.
00:48:07I'm a very busy woman, Mr. Bailey.
00:48:09And nothing but a sense of public duty would have induced me to put it on.
00:48:12And now this outrage, this preposterous outrage.
00:48:15Thank heavens.
00:48:15I'm sure Mr. Hearn can explain how this unfortunate notice got printed.
00:48:21Certainly.
00:48:22I wrote it myself.
00:48:23You wrote it?
00:48:24You?
00:48:26After years of nothing but the highest praise from your pen?
00:48:29That's just it.
00:48:30After years of fulsome nonsense, I'm free at last to write the truth.
00:48:33I've never been so insulted.
00:48:34I'm sure Mr. Hearn never...
00:48:35Look at the house.
00:48:36...attended.
00:48:36Twelve curtain calls.
00:48:38Fifteen bouquets.
00:48:40Six of them quite unexpected.
00:48:42Oh, the audience enjoyed it all right.
00:48:44They never see anything better.
00:48:46They get it every year.
00:48:47But there's no reason why the clarion should encourage second-rate stuff.
00:48:50I shall take legal advice.
00:48:51Don't waste your money.
00:48:52It was fair comment.
00:48:55And I shall cancel my regular advertisement for all time.
00:48:59Oh, but Miss Gelding, if we publish an apology...
00:49:02Freedom of speech at the cost of a four-inch double column is cheap at the price, Miss Gelding.
00:49:06Monstrous.
00:49:08Positively monstrous.
00:49:10Hold on, Miss Gelding.
00:49:12Hold on.
00:49:14Heaven's sake, Nat.
00:49:15It's got into you.
00:49:15Our leading lady showing a bit of temperament, eh?
00:49:18Well, it's no good if you can't take the brickbats for the bouquets, is it?
00:49:21Never worries me what they say.
00:49:23Now, look here, Nat.
00:49:23I take it you didn't come here to congratulate me, Mr. Baines?
00:49:26Oh, no, no.
00:49:27It's about this letter attacking my housing scheme.
00:49:30It must have slipped in without you noticing it.
00:49:33There, signed Solomon Eagle.
00:49:37But this is disgraceful.
00:49:39How did you let this get by?
00:49:40Who wrote it?
00:49:41I did.
00:49:42You did?
00:49:44I thought we was pals.
00:49:45We can be, if you don't mind your housing scheme being discussed in the clarion.
00:49:49Now, don't give me none of that smooth talk.
00:49:52What I can't understand is why stab me in the back?
00:49:55A mild suggestion that the harbour resident should be consulted can hardly be called a stab in the back.
00:50:00If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear, surely?
00:50:02It's in your interest.
00:50:04What are you driving at?
00:50:05Just that some people may be thinking that your scheme is an attempt to turn the town into a funfair for visitors,
00:50:11at the expense of the real inhabitants.
00:50:13Bobbycock.
00:50:14Is it?
00:50:16The beach amusement company should do very nicely out of it.
00:50:18Nat!
00:50:20So, that's the way it is, eh?
00:50:22I assure you, Mr. Baines...
00:50:22It's war you're after, I'm easy.
00:50:24I've worked hard for that scheme for years, and it's a good scheme.
00:50:27It's going to put Tormouth on the map.
00:50:30From now on, you can both whistle for my custom.
00:50:32I'm not going to let any doppity tinpot newspaper stand in the way of progress.
00:50:37No!
00:50:38Well, you have a good look at next Friday's clarion.
00:50:40It should help you change your mind.
00:50:42You watch out.
00:50:43That's all I'm saying.
00:50:45Watch out.
00:50:45Anything that's been said can be corrected, Mr. Baines.
00:50:47Let him go, Gerald.
00:50:50Have you gone mad?
00:50:54You'll ruin the pair of us.
00:50:55Don't worry, Gerald.
00:50:57I won't lose customers.
00:50:58I'll win them.
00:50:59Yes, but our revenue.
00:51:00I mean the adverts that Baines is printing.
00:51:03Of course, I... I know he's out for himself.
00:51:05Then it's up to us to do something about it.
00:51:07Yes, but you don't seem to understand.
00:51:09This place is my living.
00:51:11I mean, I've got a position to maintain.
00:51:13If you stick by me, you won't lose, I promise, Gerald.
00:51:16Do you realize that when I was up in town,
00:51:19I turned down a good offer from Kinderscout?
00:51:21You did?
00:51:21Yes, Kinderscout of the Kingdom Press, to buy us out.
00:51:24Good for you.
00:51:26Yes, but I thought that you and I...
00:51:28could build this business up into something twice as valuable.
00:51:32If only I'd known.
00:51:35Look here, Gerald.
00:51:36You've got to make up your mind.
00:51:39Are you behind me or not?
00:51:41Good heavens, no.
00:51:42I don't believe in all this...
00:51:44this brave new world stuff.
00:51:45It's got to stop, at once.
00:51:47Well, I do.
00:51:48If we don't stand up for the things we believe in in our own town,
00:51:52what sort of a future is there for anyone?
00:51:55Look, talk.
00:51:57Slop.
00:51:59I've got my position to think of.
00:52:02And if you're determined to go on with this,
00:52:04I'll fight you to the last ditch.
00:52:10And for a start,
00:52:12I'll refuse to countersign any checks.
00:52:15Perhaps that will bring you to your senses.
00:52:18I'll be back.
00:52:28Nat, I've been thinking.
00:52:31Do you remember that editorial of yours?
00:52:33The one about the harbour scheme that old Sam turned down?
00:52:36Did you know about the plan that Weiner got out during the war?
00:52:40Weiner?
00:52:41Yes, you know, the Elsevier, before Spence took over.
00:52:44He had an idea to dredge and reconstruct the harbour.
00:52:47The plans as an all, every detail.
00:52:50Of course, the council wouldn't hear of it.
00:52:52Time was not petune, they said.
00:52:54Never is.
00:52:56Near broke the old boy's heart.
00:52:58Weiner.
00:53:01I wonder if he's got a copy of these plans.
00:53:06Granted.
00:53:09Slip down on my fingers.
00:53:13Not enough grass, man.
00:53:16I say, draw on this one.
00:53:18On the...
00:53:24I thought you'd have trouble with Hearn.
00:53:27He's threatening a big spread on Friday.
00:53:33He can stir up a lot of mischief.
00:53:37Any ideas?
00:53:40You can always play up the rehousing angle.
00:53:42The public won't stand for that being held up.
00:53:44You got something there?
00:53:47Why not hold a public meeting?
00:53:49Thursday night.
00:53:51That's the ticket!
00:53:52A town's meeting.
00:53:53The Clarion publishes Friday.
00:53:59Oh, er, Mr Baines.
00:54:02I think you overestimate Hearn.
00:54:04I've had a straight talk with him.
00:54:05Talk's no good, you want to do something.
00:54:07Oh, but I have, I've stopped all checks.
00:54:09You see, we don't carry large stocks from you, Sprint.
00:54:13Two issues at the most, and he'll have, er, shot his boat.
00:54:16I won't have one issue, not with him running it.
00:54:19He's, he's so obstinate.
00:54:21I don't see what else I can do.
00:54:23Have a word with your foreman printer.
00:54:26He doesn't want to lose his job, I don't suppose.
00:54:30I don't quite follow.
00:54:31Don't you?
00:54:33I'm warning you, Baines.
00:54:34I'll smash the Clarion if I've much more of this nonsense.
00:54:36I wish you two would stop chattering and attend to the game.
00:54:43I have to print the inside page first this week.
00:54:46Why? We ain't done that since the Queen Victoria Jubilee number.
00:54:50And that one's the front for a special feature.
00:54:53Looks like he'll have plenty of space front and back soon with all that advertising cancelled.
00:54:58Yeah, makes you think, doesn't it?
00:54:59Mr Gerald wants everybody up in his office right away.
00:55:02What for?
00:55:03Search me, he just says, mm-mm, Trumbull, assemble the staff.
00:55:06I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it, I've got it.
00:55:10Search me, he just says, mm-mm, Trumbull, assemble the staff.
00:55:13Hey, Trumbull.
00:55:14Yeah?
00:55:15Isn't that there?
00:55:16No, he's gone out.
00:55:17Nowhere?
00:55:18Yeah, up to a wainer's cottage.
00:55:19Hop on your bike and fetch him quick.
00:55:21Come on, then.
00:55:22Yeah, yeah, OK.
00:55:30Why wasn't this plan adopted?
00:55:32What went wrong?
00:55:33Well, they said it was out of date, old-fashioned.
00:55:36Old-fashioned?
00:55:39What does a man like Baines know about planning?
00:55:42Just didn't suit his book, that's all.
00:55:44You see where I put the new houses?
00:55:47300 yards above the present ones, not two miles away.
00:55:51It's first class.
00:55:53Do you mind if I publish it?
00:55:55Mm?
00:55:56Well, I...
00:55:57I don't want to start trouble with the council.
00:56:00You see, in a manner of speaking, it's confidential.
00:56:03It never got beyond the housing committee.
00:56:05Baines chairman, then?
00:56:08I thought so.
00:56:09I must say he was very generous when I retired.
00:56:12I bet he was.
00:56:14Mr Wainer, you're a Tormouth man, aren't you?
00:56:17Born and bred here.
00:56:18Do you want to see the whole harbour front turn into a funfair?
00:56:21No.
00:56:22Hey, hey, Nat.
00:56:24Gerald's got the staff together.
00:56:26I think he's trying to put something across.
00:56:28You'd better step on it and take my bike, if you like.
00:56:31Let me print this.
00:56:32If you think it'll do any good.
00:56:35Guard these with your life.
00:56:47Now, before I take more drastic action,
00:56:50I wanted to know your feelings about Mr Hearn's conduct with the Clarion.
00:56:54We can speak quite freely.
00:56:56We're all friends here.
00:56:58Skinner.
00:56:59I reckon he's barmy.
00:57:01There's no sense upsetting all customers.
00:57:04Now, it seems we're all agreed that something ought to be done.
00:57:09Is that right?
00:57:11Very well.
00:57:16Perhaps I had better explain.
00:57:19The suggestion is that you all take, shall we say, a week's well-earned holiday.
00:57:26What about our wages?
00:57:28I'll see to that out of my own pocket.
00:57:32If necessary.
00:57:34Then it's what you'd call a strike.
00:57:36No manner of speaking.
00:57:37If you like to put it that way, yes.
00:57:39Then it ain't legal.
00:57:41I think I know the law.
00:57:42I don't think you do.
00:57:43Only a union can call a strike.
00:57:45And he won't have no union here.
00:57:47Nonsense, my good man.
00:57:48Thanks, Burton.
00:57:50All right.
00:57:51I'll take over from here.
00:57:53This is a private meeting.
00:57:55It's out of order.
00:57:56I'm a partner in this business.
00:57:58Remember?
00:57:59Give over, Nat.
00:58:01You'll only land us all in trouble.
00:58:02Aye.
00:58:03I entirely agree.
00:58:04I don't know what part you've been playing in this dirty business,
00:58:06but it might make very spicy reading.
00:58:08Prominent solicitor advocating strike action.
00:58:11Anything I said was in the nature of friendly advice.
00:58:14Well, you can clear out.
00:58:16That applies to anyone else suffering from cold feet.
00:58:19That's precisely what we intend to do.
00:58:23Precisely.
00:58:24Come along.
00:58:25All of you.
00:58:28Go on, I'll get it.
00:58:29What do you say?
00:58:30Eh?
00:58:39Well, that's cleared the air anyway.
00:58:48Molly!
00:58:50Oh, where are you off to?
00:58:52On holiday.
00:58:53Well, who's going to look after the shop?
00:58:55You can, if you like.
00:58:57I'm not mixing myself up in this business anymore.
00:58:59It's dangerous.
00:59:01Besides which,
00:59:02my Aunt Carol says it's common.
00:59:09Well, is everybody going?
00:59:16What's happening, Nat?
00:59:17Walk out.
00:59:18Only we three left to get out the paper.
00:59:20Cor!
00:59:21Wiseau!
00:59:22What'll I cover?
00:59:23Inquests and crime?
00:59:24Take these over to Paxonbury
00:59:25and get a half-ton block made,
00:59:26eight by ten.
00:59:27Tell them we must have them
00:59:28by five o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
00:59:30All right.
00:59:31We'll get three o'clock.
00:59:33OK, Nat.
00:59:34I'll meet you at home.
00:59:38Nice and quiet, isn't it?
00:59:54Come on.
00:59:56Come on.
01:00:23Anybody there?
01:00:26Oh, hello.
01:00:28Good morning, Mr Sleep.
01:00:29I heard you closed down.
01:00:31Not in your life we're not.
01:00:33Who said so?
01:00:34Well, that seems to be the impression in the town.
01:00:36Enemy propaganda, that's what.
01:00:39Here.
01:00:40Whose side are you on?
01:00:41Neither, young man.
01:00:43They all come to me,
01:00:44sooner or later.
01:00:45Yeah, but you've got to be on one side
01:00:46in a thing like this.
01:00:47Young man,
01:00:48if you're a funeral furnisher,
01:00:49you acquire a certain indulgence
01:00:51towards such affairs.
01:00:52After baying a few counsellors,
01:00:55you get to feel their debates
01:00:56are all somewhat inconsequential,
01:00:57if you follow my meaning.
01:00:58Yeah, well, you don't have to
01:00:59bury them and find that out.
01:01:00Here's a few announcements
01:01:01and an in-memoriam.
01:01:02OK, I'll see they go in.
01:01:04You'll put my name
01:01:05at the bottom, won't you?
01:01:06Leave it to me.
01:01:15Looking for anybody?
01:01:17Is Mr Hearn about, please?
01:01:19He's in the works.
01:01:21Anything I can do?
01:01:23I thought you might be
01:01:24needing some help.
01:01:26Atta girl!
01:01:34I'm going to collect
01:01:35the church council report.
01:01:38You recruit that?
01:01:40Nice of you to come.
01:01:41Can't promise you any pay.
01:01:42Oh, forget it.
01:01:43I've still got some good Jersey.
01:01:44You'd better keep an eye on the shop.
01:01:45Show the ropes, Tumble,
01:01:46and cut up at the station
01:01:47and pick up that block of the plans.
01:01:49OK.
01:01:50Here's Sleek's deaths.
01:01:52Oh, and Miss Buckworthy phone
01:01:53wants you to go up to the institute
01:01:54and report her talk on mother craft.
01:01:57Shall I go?
01:01:58No.
01:01:59Too young to be a mother.
01:02:00Leave them out this week.
01:02:04Splashing...
01:02:05Splashing hairdo you've got.
01:02:17Sally.
01:02:18Hello.
01:02:19I gather you're short of staff, Sally.
01:02:21So I've come back to help.
01:02:26Deadline for coffee,
01:02:27six o'clock tonight.
01:02:29Sally, my dear.
01:02:30No, I haven't forgiven you yet.
01:02:31I still think you're making
01:02:32a fool of yourself.
01:02:33Then why have you come back?
01:02:35Well, if there has to be a fight,
01:02:36naturally I'd rather see you win it
01:02:37than dreary people like Gerald Orbanes.
01:02:42Fair enough.
01:02:44Now, I'm trying to get the paper out
01:02:45before the meeting on Thursday night.
01:02:47If we pull it off,
01:02:48we've a good chance of local support.
01:02:50If we don't,
01:02:51well, we'll come out with cold news
01:02:52and it'll break us.
01:02:54I don't think I can keep going another week.
01:02:56Are you broke?
01:02:57Pretty nearly.
01:02:58Listen,
01:02:59could you collect the church council
01:03:00and the golf scores
01:03:01and I'll cover the grammar school prize giving.
01:03:03All right, let's go.
01:03:04Fine.
01:03:06Sally,
01:03:07it's grand to have you back.
01:03:16Morning, Lou.
01:03:17Same as usual.
01:03:18Right, sir.
01:03:20Good morning, George.
01:03:21Business keeping up, then?
01:03:22Very reasonable
01:03:23for the time of the year.
01:03:24Just taking four new memoriams
01:03:25into the clarion office this morning.
01:03:27About to say you're out of the war?
01:03:28That's backed up.
01:03:30Strange.
01:03:31Very much alive when I was there.
01:03:32One acquires a nose
01:03:33for that sort of thing in my profession.
01:03:35You mean there was printing?
01:03:36I understand so.
01:03:38Just after I collected duty
01:03:39with the name of Jago.
01:03:40Popped off suddenly Monday night.
01:03:41Thin ones don't, as a rule.
01:03:43Fat ones,
01:03:44ah, that's different.
01:03:46Basically those with short,
01:03:47nose,
01:03:48basically those with short necks.
01:03:50Eh?
01:03:51You'll have to wait a bit for me.
01:03:53I've got some business to attend to.
01:04:18Hello, Burton.
01:04:21Where are the men?
01:04:22Holidays.
01:04:23All of them?
01:04:25Funny.
01:04:30You've got your name down
01:04:31for a counsellor, haven't you?
01:04:32I have.
01:04:34But I don't know that I want to walk off
01:04:35across the counter to get there.
01:04:38I'll tell you what.
01:04:40I'll see your name goes
01:04:41to the top of the list
01:04:42if you pack it in like the others.
01:04:47See this?
01:04:49That's the old harbour scheme
01:04:50Wainer got out.
01:04:51The one you've been keeping
01:04:52under your hat.
01:04:53Where did you get that?
01:04:54Pretty, isn't it?
01:04:55And this.
01:04:57The plan the council
01:04:58tried to conceal.
01:04:59Homes all round of us,
01:05:00take your choice.
01:05:02Down here,
01:05:03Nat's done a nice little piece
01:05:04about your beach amusements outfit.
01:05:06You print that
01:05:07and I'll sue the pair of you
01:05:08for libel.
01:05:09There's no libel in that.
01:05:10We've been through it
01:05:11with a fine tooth comb.
01:05:12I'll fix you
01:05:13one way or the other.
01:05:14You'll see if I don't.
01:05:16You go in now.
01:05:19I'll go when I think fit.
01:05:21No, mate.
01:05:22When I think fit.
01:05:28Hello, Mr Baines.
01:05:29In a hurry?
01:05:31All of you in court for this?
01:05:33Assault and battery.
01:05:34Yeah, there's a law
01:05:35against trespass too.
01:05:36Not to mention bribery
01:05:37and incitement.
01:05:38Sounds like a good story.
01:05:40You can laugh now.
01:05:43Tried to buy you, did he?
01:05:44Yeah, I kicked him out.
01:05:45And
01:05:46Trumbull got the block.
01:05:47Good enough.
01:05:48Collect him and Beryl.
01:05:49We'll run the next working.
01:05:55Come here, you.
01:05:56You told me you'd stopped him.
01:05:57Will you let go of my coat?
01:05:58Have you seen what he's
01:05:59printing about me?
01:06:00No.
01:06:01Is he?
01:06:02What?
01:06:03Well, it's not my responsibility
01:06:04anyhow.
01:06:05Trying to worm out of it, are you?
01:06:06Well, you can't.
01:06:07I'm going to sue the lot of you.
01:06:08There's no use threatening me,
01:06:09Mr Baines.
01:06:10Why, what for?
01:06:11You see,
01:06:12just wait till the meeting.
01:06:13I shall have a word or two
01:06:14to say about you
01:06:15and your precious currying.
01:06:16If you don't let go of my coat,
01:06:17I'll call the police.
01:06:19You've been warned, that's all.
01:06:31Think she'll make it?
01:06:35Stick at it, you two.
01:06:42What's that?
01:06:43Bad debts.
01:06:45I've been round collecting them.
01:06:47Good show!
01:06:58This is one thing we didn't
01:06:59bargain for.
01:07:01Well?
01:07:02She's finished, Nat.
01:07:04Coat bust.
01:07:05Finished?
01:07:07Can't we get a spare part?
01:07:08No, it's out of the museum.
01:07:09We can't.
01:07:11Oh, Nat.
01:07:14Well, isn't there anything
01:07:15we can do?
01:07:19You two had better go.
01:07:21Get something to eat.
01:07:33What do you want?
01:07:34Now, there's no need
01:07:35to get aggressive.
01:07:36Old man,
01:07:37I've come to talk business.
01:07:39Chosen your time well.
01:07:40I met Baines on my way here.
01:07:42And he means trouble.
01:07:43If he swings this meeting against us,
01:07:44he can smash the clarion.
01:07:45We deal in news here, Gerald.
01:07:47Yes, but you don't understand.
01:07:49I was on to Kinderskout again
01:07:50this morning.
01:07:51Kinderskout?
01:07:52Of the Kingdom Press.
01:07:53His offer is still open.
01:07:559,000 pounds for the clarion.
01:07:57And we keep the printing side.
01:07:589,000?
01:07:59You're not selling.
01:08:01That's pretty generous.
01:08:02It's handsome.
01:08:04I think of it,
01:08:053,000 pounds for you, Nathaniel.
01:08:07Nearly four times your investment
01:08:08in a few weeks.
01:08:11We could do a lot with 3,000.
01:08:13Don't sell.
01:08:14Oh, but that's ridiculous.
01:08:16You heard.
01:08:17We're not selling.
01:08:18But it's simply not possible.
01:08:20I mean,
01:08:21why, you can't even print.
01:08:22Look at the flatbed.
01:08:243,000 pounds, Nathaniel.
01:08:26Well, we can publish on stencils.
01:08:28Stencils?
01:08:29Well, yes, it's been done before.
01:08:31Special strike edition.
01:08:33Stencils?
01:08:35But our prestige.
01:08:36I mean, good heavens,
01:08:37what would Kinderskout sell?
01:08:38Frankly, I don't know.
01:08:40And I really don't care.
01:08:42But this is madness.
01:08:43Madness?
01:08:45I'll tell you what's madness.
01:08:47Fighting a war for freedom of speech.
01:08:50And then putting a muzzle on yourself
01:08:51in your own town.
01:08:53Sorry, Gerald.
01:08:54No sale.
01:08:56But, Nathaniel,
01:08:57I mean, 9,000.
01:08:58No!
01:09:09That's 3,000 pounds.
01:09:11That was.
01:09:30What the blazes
01:09:31you've been up to
01:09:32while I've been away?
01:09:34Press day,
01:09:35and you can't print.
01:09:36It's never happened in 50 years.
01:09:39I'll have to use old Maria,
01:09:40that's all.
01:09:53What is it?
01:09:54This is the machine
01:09:55that Sam used
01:09:56when he started the carrier.
01:09:58It's hundreds of years old.
01:10:00Caxton bought a second hand.
01:10:02Will she work?
01:10:03She might do.
01:10:04With a gallon of oil.
01:10:05But she's mournful slow.
01:10:07How are you going to connect her up?
01:10:09Exactly 26 hours to publish.
01:10:12Well, what are we waiting for?
01:11:04Give us a hand.
01:11:34Take one.
01:11:50Oh, dear.
01:11:51We can't bury any more people
01:11:52this week we've gone to press.
01:11:54As a matter of fact,
01:11:55it's a birth announcement.
01:11:57Poaching a bit, aren't you?
01:11:59Sleek.
01:12:00It's yours.
01:12:01Eight and a half pound boy,
01:12:02six o'clock this morning.
01:12:04Congratulations.
01:12:06It's been a very anxious time.
01:12:08Yes, I understand.
01:12:09It's always worse for the father.
01:12:10All right, Sleek.
01:12:11I'll stick your name on the bottom.
01:12:23We'll never find in all this junk.
01:12:25Won't you really work
01:12:26without it skinny?
01:12:27Of course it won't.
01:12:34Oops.
01:13:05Oh.
01:13:14We've got it.
01:13:24Shall we make it skinny?
01:13:25We've got to get the motor going first.
01:13:27How many inside pages
01:13:28do we pull off before the crash?
01:13:29Fifteen hundred and seventy-three.
01:13:31Seventy-eight.
01:13:32All right.
01:13:33The front page,
01:13:34that's the one that matters.
01:13:35See how many we can get before the meeting.
01:13:36Come on.
01:13:50We've got just over an hour.
01:14:04Blaster.
01:14:07Shall I make the meeting skinny?
01:14:08Meeting?
01:14:09You won't get it this side or next week.
01:14:14All right.
01:14:17Thanks for trying skinny.
01:14:21We'd better go home now and relax.
01:14:28I'm sorry.
01:14:33I'm sorry.
01:14:49Ladies and gentlemen.
01:14:52Fellow citizens.
01:14:55The council have taken the unusual step
01:14:58of calling you together tonight
01:15:00because they feel you should be given
01:15:02the public opportunity
01:15:04of expressing your confidence
01:15:06in the plans they are making
01:15:08for the betterment and the progress of Tormouth.
01:15:12There is only one item on the agenda,
01:15:15the plan known officially
01:15:17under the short title of
01:15:22the Tormouth Harbour Resettlement
01:15:25and Post-War Council Re-Housing Scheme.
01:15:29Councillor Baines,
01:15:30who is chiefly responsible for its inception,
01:15:33will shortly be describing it to you.
01:15:46Chair up.
01:15:48I found some chocolate biscuits.
01:15:50Major seems to be having a pretty easy passage.
01:15:54Why are the Martindales of this world
01:15:56taken in by things like Baines?
01:15:58They're not.
01:16:00They just use them to
01:16:03bolster up their tottering society.
01:16:09You said I'd make a fool of myself.
01:16:13And I have.
01:16:17What a fool.
01:16:18Oh, I don't think so.
01:16:20You said you wanted to stir up Tormouth
01:16:22and you certainly have.
01:16:25With a vengeance.
01:16:27Yes, smash poor old Gerald and his clarion.
01:16:31They've involved you.
01:16:36I can't forgive myself for that.
01:16:42Matt.
01:16:46Are we going to get married?
01:16:51When?
01:16:55I've been in a bit of a muddle too, you know.
01:17:00Living in the past.
01:17:05You see,
01:17:08I didn't think I could fall in love again.
01:17:13So I took it out on Tormouth
01:17:17and you.
01:17:22But suddenly
01:17:24everything seems all right.
01:17:39Tormouth approves.
01:17:43Come on, we're going to that meeting.
01:17:44Not on your life, I've had all that.
01:17:45Coward, come on.
01:17:47I'm a newspaper man, not a politician.
01:17:49Some newspaper man.
01:17:50Sally, let's have a drink and go for a sail.
01:17:53No.
01:17:55I'm going to that meeting.
01:18:06Broadness with taste, that's my motto.
01:18:12I ask you, what's wrong about that?
01:18:14We want the houses
01:18:16and we want the money to live in them.
01:18:17That's right, isn't it?
01:18:24It seems that the editor of our local paper
01:18:27would like us all to live in holes like ancient Britons.
01:18:30Come.
01:18:31Paint ourselves all over with printing ink
01:18:34and stick feathers in our hair.
01:18:38Nobody cares who runs this town
01:18:40as long as they get a few cheap laughs
01:18:42and no responsibilities.
01:18:43Well, come on, let's go in.
01:18:45No.
01:18:46They want a musical turn, they can have it.
01:18:49See you later.
01:18:51You won't stand for that now, ladies and gentlemen, will you?
01:18:54No.
01:18:55You bet we won't.
01:18:58You won't be done out of your houses by a crackpot newspaper.
01:19:01Shame.
01:19:02Let the council get on with it.
01:19:04Some of us here have tried to do our best for the town.
01:19:07If we have your confidence,
01:19:09we can put our backs into the job good and proper.
01:19:15Oh, Fajifo, up to now, I've been having all the same.
01:19:19Is there anyone who'd like to ask any questions?
01:19:22You're welcome.
01:19:26Come along now, come along.
01:19:28Don't be shy.
01:19:38I...
01:19:40I'd like to know...
01:19:41Ah, the young lady at the back.
01:19:43She's not shy.
01:19:44Trust the ladies.
01:19:49Well, what I wanted to ask Councillor Baines...
01:19:51Speak up.
01:19:52Can't hear.
01:19:55Well, if his scheme is such a good one,
01:19:57why is he frightened of the Clarion criticising it?
01:20:01Me frightened?
01:20:03Ladies and gentlemen,
01:20:04can you hear my knees knocking together?
01:20:09I suggest that this meeting was deliberately called tonight
01:20:12because the Clarion publishes tomorrow,
01:20:14so no one could read it first.
01:20:16Why should I care who reads what?
01:20:18Because supposing people read about the plan drawn up by Mr Wehner,
01:20:22the late Surveyor?
01:20:24That old plan was turned down because it was no good, that's why.
01:20:28It would have cost a mint of money and produced less houses.
01:20:31Excuse me, Mr Chairman.
01:20:33As I remember it, that wasn't quite the reason.
01:20:37No doubt my plan had its faults,
01:20:39but Councillor Baines will recall...
01:20:41Speak up.
01:20:42Speak up.
01:20:43Louder.
01:20:44We all respect Mr Wehner's work for the town in former years,
01:20:49but I'm afraid I must rule the question of the old plan out of order.
01:20:53It was turned down in committees some time ago for excellent reasons.
01:20:57If the reasons were so excellent,
01:20:59why did Councillor Baines go round to one of the Clarion printers
01:21:02and try to bribe him not to print the plan with the offer of a council house?
01:21:06That's a dirty lie.
01:21:07I'm sure Miss Thorpe's statement was hastily made.
01:21:11It's not a lie.
01:21:12It's not a lie.
01:21:13I can produce a man to prove it, but that's not what's important.
01:21:17What is important is that Nat Hearn is trying to give you a newspaper,
01:21:21a real newspaper.
01:21:23He doesn't want you to believe him any more than you believe Councillor Baines.
01:21:26He just wants to give you the facts
01:21:28and for you to form your own judgements from them.
01:21:31Can't we run our own town in a responsible way
01:21:34without being pushed around by anyone?
01:21:38Mr Chairman,
01:21:39I move that we adjourn this meeting
01:21:41until we've had time to look into all sides of this question.
01:21:44The Clarion will be out tomorrow.
01:21:46Aye, but is there going to be a Clarion?
01:21:48Oh, the Clarion will appear again.
01:21:50I can promise you that.
01:21:51Aye, but when?
01:21:53Can I go in, please, mate?
01:21:54Yeah, no, you don't.
01:21:55There's a meeting in progress.
01:21:56You can sell them afterwards.
01:21:57Please offer a meeting.
01:21:59Read all about it.
01:22:00Full details when you're out in the scheme.
01:22:02Read all about it.
01:22:03Full details when you're out in the scheme.
01:22:07Order.
01:22:10Order, gentlemen.
01:22:12And ladies.
01:22:17Get in the house.
01:22:18Get him out.
01:22:19This is a private meeting.
01:22:23Read all about it.
01:22:24Clarion early edition.
01:22:25Full details when you're out in the scheme.
01:22:27Rumble, you're wonderful.
01:22:29How did you do it?
01:22:30Well, I knocked off a couple of dozen handprints, Miss Sally.
01:22:32You know, the one we used for the proofs.
01:22:34Yeah, I'll read all about it.
01:22:35Full details when I'm out in the scheme.
01:22:41Ah, good man Skinner.
01:22:44I think we're going to have to knock off a few extra hundred this week
01:22:47to meet the big demand.
01:22:48You won't get nothing before Saturday.
01:22:50She's rusted up.
01:22:52Yeah, but I, I thought...
01:22:53What?
01:22:54A tumble was selling.
01:22:55He'd run off a few copies on the handprints.
01:22:57Good heavens, the handprints?
01:22:58Yes, you know, on the old dying duck.
01:23:00Eh?
01:23:01Dying duck?
01:23:02Yes, you know.
01:23:03Come on, I'll show you.
01:23:06Duck.
01:23:07Ah, yes.
01:23:08Of course, it is a bit makeshift, as you can see.
01:23:10But the newspaper always comes out somehow.
01:23:12We press men know that.
01:23:14I mean, professional pride.
01:23:16Here we are.
01:23:17Special strike edition.
01:23:18Where's Mr. Fern?
01:23:19I think he ought to know what we have in our minds.
01:23:21Yes, of course.
01:23:22Where is he now?
01:23:23Oh, he's gone sailing.
01:23:24Sailing?
01:23:25At a time like this?
01:23:26Well, it wasn't a time like this when he went sailing.
01:23:28Well, we must, we must find him.
01:23:30And tell him that we've won through.
01:23:32Come along.
01:23:37First off, Mr. Blake.
01:23:39Aye, aye, she'll give her.
01:23:45Here.
01:23:49I'll give you a toast.
01:23:51To the dear, dear land we leave behind us.
01:23:55Home of democracy.
01:23:56Democracy.
01:23:58Committee meetings, race meetings.
01:24:00Race meetings.
01:24:02To her brave citizens with their whisk drives and shallow jokes.
01:24:07We drink to her eternal cups of tea.
01:24:09There, here's to her.
01:24:10And a chase after Tormund, Queen of Amur.
01:24:13No place like it.
01:24:14Good old Tormund.
01:24:16Good old Tormund.
01:24:17Oh.
01:24:23There he is, Mr. Gerald.
01:24:25That's his boat.
01:24:29Nathaniel.
01:24:32Ahoy there.
01:24:33We've pranked him, Nat.
01:24:36Ahoy.
01:24:38Nat.
01:24:39Hey, Nat.
01:24:40Nathaniel.
01:24:42I've bad news for you.
01:24:43I can hear voices.
01:24:45You don't want to let that worry you.
01:24:47Not your kind of voices.
01:24:48Hey, Nathaniel.
01:24:49We want a word with you.
01:24:51Look, Mr. Gerald.
01:24:52They're still tied up.
01:24:53We can, we can pull them in.
01:24:55Nat, you idiot.
01:24:56Come back.
01:24:57Well, you ain't putting back for her.
01:25:00Go.
01:25:03We're sorry, Nat.
01:25:04We won.
01:25:05We didn't half-slosh them.
01:25:06Darling, we won.
01:25:08The meeting was a complete failure.
01:25:10I told you it would be.
01:25:12No, no.
01:25:13I mean a failure for them.
01:25:14Baines will shout it down.
01:25:16Come on.
01:25:17They're all waiting for you.
01:25:22Congratulations, old man.
01:25:24Thanks.
01:25:25I got some off on the handpress, Nat.
01:25:26I should like to thank you on behalf of the townspeople of Tormouth
01:25:30for your public-spirited action in printing the Weiner plan.
01:25:33Thanks.
01:25:35I've just been talking to these gentlemen
01:25:37and they wish to see our paper continue.
01:25:39In good hands, in local ownership.
01:25:41Yes, we feel that.
01:25:42Anything we can do.
01:25:43We thought we might take up the advertising space you've lost.
01:25:46Your new edition created a great impression, Nathaniel.
01:25:49Quite a sensation, in fact.
01:25:51Sleek, you old dirge.
01:25:53You came here to bury me.
01:25:55You thought I was finished.
01:25:56Skinner expects to have the machine working tomorrow
01:25:59and I've offered a bigger edition this week to meet the demand.
01:26:03Good for you, Gerald.
01:26:04You look out for the night shift, will you?
01:26:06Oh, but you must come along now, Nathaniel, too, because...
01:26:08Sorry, I can't. I've arranged to emigrate.
01:26:10Emigrate?
01:26:11No. For goodness sake, were you tight?
01:26:13Never been more sober in my life.
01:26:15Oh, but Nathaniel, Nat.
01:26:16Passports.
01:26:18Now jump for it if you're going to sign on as my mate.
01:26:22Nathaniel.
01:26:23I mean, you aren't going away now.
01:26:25You and I together could make a really live paper in Tormund.
01:26:29Nat!
01:26:31Nat, for heaven's sake.
01:26:36Nat, what's the matter with you?
01:26:38You're not running away now.
01:26:40You've got everything you've fought for.
01:26:42Yes, darling.
01:26:44Everything.
01:26:46Oh, what are you playing at, then?
01:26:48Just a little tail-twisting after all they've done to us.
01:26:52Poor old Gerald really thinks you have gone for good.
01:26:55No, darling.
01:26:56Just once you're on the pier, put the lights out.
01:27:00Any objections?
01:27:01No.
01:27:09We don't seem to be making much headway, Nat.
01:27:12Oh, yes we are.
01:27:14Progress with taste.
01:27:15That's our motto.
01:27:31THE END