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

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

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00:01:20Dr. Fleming, it will be a disappointment.

00:01:22I'm Mrs. Carey Brown.

00:01:23Yes, I know that, Mrs. Carey Brown.

00:01:25Come here.

00:01:26I know.

00:01:27Mrs. Carey Brown, I have to ask the doctor

00:01:29if he can fetch you anything.

00:01:31This way.

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

00:01:33Yes, do go in.

00:01:36Won't you sit down?

00:01:37An unexpected pleasure.

00:01:38Unexpected?

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

00:01:41Has something new turned up?

00:01:43Dr. Fleming, the appointment of the medical superintendent

00:01:45of the new Child Welfare Center

00:01:47will be decided at the next meeting.

00:01:48Yes?

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

00:01:51Well?

00:01:52I have come today to suggest that you withdraw.

00:01:54Withdraw?

00:01:55You're joking.

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

00:01:58Oh, you're referring, no doubt, to what happened

00:02:00at your son's birthday party.

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

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

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

00:02:09You know, after all, he only called him a fat boy.

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

00:02:12And for a boy of eight to even know the existence of such a word,

00:02:15it's deplorable.

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

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

00:02:19What I term a parotism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:02:38Oh, your wife.

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

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

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

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

00:02:48Your son's gift for self-expression

00:02:50might derive itself from her, might it not?

00:02:52It might.

00:02:53You're not sure.

00:02:54You know, doctor, in a national movement

00:02:56such as the welfare of our children, we have to be sure.

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

00:03:01And when I think of your son and you, Dr. Fleming,

00:03:04as medical superintendent...

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

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

00:03:09What is that noise?

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

00:03:11And now, if you'll excuse me,

00:03:12I have 15 stomachaches in there.

00:03:14Stomachaches.

00:03:15Before we all get them.

00:03:20Oh!

00:03:21Suffering.

00:03:22Suffering.

00:03:23Cats.

00:03:24They're drawing.

00:03:25I, uh, I don't know what to say.

00:03:27I trust your belief that I hadn't the least idea.

00:03:30That horse was drawn by your Tony, wasn't it?

00:03:32I'm afraid it was.

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

00:03:36A gift?

00:03:37Is that what you call it?

00:03:38Kindly allow me to leave.

00:03:39Yes, of course.

00:03:40I need hardly tell you how sorry I am.

00:03:41You need hardly tell me anything.

00:03:43Claire.

00:03:44Yes, sir?

00:03:45He's coming.

00:03:47Doctor's nice, isn't he?

00:03:50Hello, sweetie.

00:03:51I'm terribly sorry.

00:03:52One of Mrs. Fleming's patients, no doubt.

00:03:55Come in, Mr. Tim.

00:03:56Doctor busy?

00:03:57Yes, surgery.

00:03:58Mrs. Fleming won't be long, though.

00:03:59Hope I'm not being a nuisance.

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

00:04:03Old saucebox, aren't you?

00:04:05Madam's only gone to Paddington to see him

00:04:07after Tony off to school.

00:04:09Half term, you know.

00:04:10Claire, I can't wait long.

00:04:11I left her mother and sister in a shop.

00:04:12Ah, I see.

00:04:13Thinks if he puts it up there, I won't find it.

00:04:16You long to go, sir?

00:04:18I long to go what?

00:04:19Before the wedding.

00:04:20Oh.

00:04:21Three days, 18 hours, and 48 minutes.

00:04:24Bit of a strain, eh?

00:04:25Yes.

00:04:26Like a nice cup of tea?

00:04:27Oh, no, don't bother.

00:04:28Drop a scotch?

00:04:30I really oughtn't to wait.

00:04:32Well, make up your mind.

00:04:33It wasn't me.

00:04:34It was my conscience.

00:04:35Oh, I don't believe in them things.

00:04:37Do you?

00:04:38I don't believe in them things.

00:04:41Don't you smash that now.

00:04:42Doctor likes to play with it after surgery.

00:04:45Say when.

00:04:46Why?

00:04:51There.

00:04:52That's all you're going to get.

00:04:53Thank you, Smithy.

00:04:54I needed this.

00:04:55I think you'll make a nice father.

00:04:57Don't you dare.

00:04:58Oh, Smithy, have a heart.

00:04:59Remember, there's many a true word spoken.

00:05:01Look at you.

00:05:02I bet you'll have heaps of kids.

00:05:04Dozens of them.

00:05:05Bless their innocent little hearts.

00:05:08Take Master Tony now.

00:05:09He was all right till they sent him away to school.

00:05:12What a child like that needs is its parents.

00:05:15Shh.

00:05:16Yes, madam.

00:05:21Hello, Jimmy, darling.

00:05:22Hello.

00:05:23Smithy, be a pet.

00:05:24Pay the taxi.

00:05:25Haven't got any change.

00:05:26Well, bridegroom, how's my young sister

00:05:28coping with the tutor?

00:05:29Oh, she's all right.

00:05:30I'm the victim.

00:05:31All I have to do is look on.

00:05:32Well, that earns you a drink.

00:05:34I cannot tell a lie.

00:05:35I've had one.

00:05:36You'll have another.

00:05:37Doctor.

00:05:38No sailor?

00:05:39No.

00:05:40How's my mama?

00:05:41Oh, she's in great shape.

00:05:42How mothers rise to a wedding.

00:05:44Like a war horse to a bugle.

00:05:46You've got premarital depression, Jimmy.

00:05:48You must take more exercise, less alcohol.

00:05:50Thanks, darling.

00:05:51Cheers.

00:05:52You must guard against apprehension complex.

00:05:53You're rather tight for one, you know.

00:05:55Oh, rats you and your old complexes.

00:05:59How long have you been married, dear?

00:06:01Nine years.

00:06:02You should remember.

00:06:03You are happy, aren't you?

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

00:06:06Marriage is the ideal state.

00:06:08It's complete.

00:06:09Logical.

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

00:06:12You know, I sometimes wonder why I didn't beat old Howard to it

00:06:15with you.

00:06:16So does Howard.

00:06:17With men, sense of security is fatal.

00:06:20Keep them guessing.

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

00:06:23Children are the real problem.

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

00:06:28let him be a boy.

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

00:06:32Uh-huh.

00:06:33Tony again?

00:06:34Yes.

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

00:06:36He's so clever.

00:06:37And Howard doesn't even begin to understand him.

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

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

00:06:47Better get you down, old girl.

00:06:48Worse things happen.

00:06:49Tony will make out.

00:06:51Dear Tim, why didn't I marry you?

00:06:54Tony would have adored you.

00:06:55You'd be more his mental age.

00:06:58Wouldn't I ought to be awfully pleased about that?

00:07:00Oh, gosh.

00:07:01Half past five.

00:07:02Joan will wonder where I am.

00:07:03And your mother.

00:07:04Have you ever met your mother?

00:07:06Oh.

00:07:07Fine child.

00:07:08Chin up.

00:07:09Square your shoulders.

00:07:10Every girl should go to her marriage

00:07:11with a light of victory in her eyes.

00:07:13And how can madam possibly fit you

00:07:15if you're all angles and bends?

00:07:17I'm sure we should have had go-days.

00:07:19What I say about go-days is that, well,

00:07:21there's nothing quite like them.

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

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

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

00:07:29A go-day here and a go-day there would break the monotony.

00:07:32Monotony?

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

00:07:35Scandalous, perhaps, but monotonous, never.

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

00:07:40And it's not going to begin now.

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

00:07:44Mrs. Parsons.

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

00:07:46Mommy darling, I'm wearing the dress, not you.

00:07:49Be quiet, Joan.

00:07:50Mommy knows best.

00:07:52This is a country wedding, madam.

00:07:54I keep telling you.

00:07:55You do indeed.

00:07:56And a country wedding demands a certain air of respectability.

00:07:59And in my opinion, there is nothing

00:08:00so respectable as go-days.

00:08:02Couldn't we have just one little go-day?

00:08:05Once and for all, no.

00:08:08Well, if the fashion editor of Tittle Tattle

00:08:11writes a bad notice of it, you'll be to blame.

00:08:13I must remind you that it's already

00:08:15past our closing time.

00:08:16Oh, dear.

00:08:17What's the matter, darling?

00:08:18Piddens?

00:08:19No, no, no, no.

00:08:20It's Tim.

00:08:21He hasn't come back.

00:08:22Oh, nonsense.

00:08:23He's probably at his tailor's.

00:08:25Bridegrooms have their dress problems, too.

00:08:27Yes, but he said he'd be back by half past five.

00:08:29Well, he's probably at a steer party, dear.

00:08:32Stag party, darling.

00:08:33Oh, yes, yes, of course.

00:08:34How foolish of me.

00:08:35Now, we'd like to see the wedding dress, if you please, madam.

00:08:38Very well.

00:08:39Mary, fetch the wedding dress.

00:08:40I've had one or two ideas about that wedding dress.

00:08:43Now, I think, Parsons, please leave everything to me.

00:08:45After all, that's what I'm here for.

00:08:47Well, I should have more confidence if we'd

00:08:49seen eye to eye over the go-days.

00:08:53Now, darling, I'm sorry.

00:08:56Now, darling, I think there's a little more.

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

00:09:02Adenoids.

00:09:16Howdy.

00:09:17Howard.

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

00:09:20Oh, dear.

00:09:21Why, in a tizz.

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

00:09:23Matters are getting serious.

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

00:09:26What thing?

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

00:09:28Yes.

00:09:29I saw him off on the 510th.

00:09:30Pity.

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

00:09:33Why?

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

00:09:35In a sweepstake?

00:09:37Oh, how wonderful.

00:09:38Tony's drawn a horse on the wall opposite my consulting room

00:09:41door.

00:09:42Well, darling, not of it.

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

00:09:45Unfortunately, there are two.

00:09:47Go and take a look at it.

00:09:55Well?

00:09:57I think it's very funny.

00:09:59And clever, too, I suppose.

00:10:00Yes.

00:10:01And clever.

00:10:02After all, you must admit he can draw.

00:10:04Oh, darling, why don't you try to laugh about things like this?

00:10:07It's part of the fun of being a parent.

00:10:09Fun?

00:10:10Yes, fun.

00:10:11There are amusing things in life apart from gallstones.

00:10:14Such as allowing one's son to scribble things on walls.

00:10:16It's a very clever sketch of a horse.

00:10:19It is a pity he drew a horse.

00:10:21Very clever sketch of a horse.

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

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

00:10:27to what he called Mrs. Carrie Brown's little boy.

00:10:30Little boy?

00:10:31Oh, great toad.

00:10:33Tony drew that horse out of revenge,

00:10:34hoping my patients would see it, hoping they'd think that I'd done it.

00:10:37Darling, for goodness sake, don't give way to persecution mania.

00:10:40We'll have it all cleaned up.

00:10:41It's an indelible pencil.

00:10:43It's the child's mind that wants cleaning up.

00:10:45What do you mean?

00:10:46Did you look at it properly?

00:10:48Yes, I did.

00:10:49It's realistic.

00:10:50It's a horse as he sees it.

00:10:51As he ought not to see it.

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

00:10:54Are you quite sure you don't mean your own mind?

00:10:56My mind?

00:10:57Yes.

00:10:58There must be something the matter with it

00:10:59to make such a fuss about a child's drawing.

00:11:01Well, I...

00:11:02And I refuse to quarrel with you, Howard,

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

00:11:07Claire.

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

00:11:11Claire.

00:11:12I'm going to have a bath.

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

00:11:15Oh, don't be absurd.

00:11:16Making such a fuss about a child's natural, simple acceptance

00:11:18of the truth as he sees it.

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

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

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

00:11:23I suppose you know best what he was thinking about, then.

00:11:25Well, I only know that if you go on as you're doing,

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

00:11:29and we shall have probation officers

00:11:30and our private lives.

00:11:31Mine can stand it.

00:11:32Mine certainly can.

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

00:11:46Now, listen, Claire.

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

00:11:51I'm not scratchy.

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

00:11:54All right.

00:11:55All right.

00:11:56I give in.

00:11:57It's been one of those days.

00:11:58I know.

00:11:59It's been one for me, too.

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

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

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

00:12:07I know.

00:12:08I know.

00:12:09Well, let's forget it and settle down

00:12:11for a nice, quiet evening, shall we?

00:12:16That's right.

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

00:12:20to breed a Jekyll and Hyde.

00:12:23You being Dr. Jekyll and I'm Mrs. Hyde?

00:12:26No, I didn't mean that exactly.

00:12:27I was just thinking...

00:12:28Yes, dear.

00:12:29Go on.

00:12:30Oh, no, it's nothing.

00:12:31A cigarette?

00:12:32No, thank you.

00:12:33I'm interested in this Jekyll and Hyde theory.

00:12:35Go on, Howard.

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

00:12:38for the things that matter, which I adore in you,

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

00:12:43That's all, isn't it?

00:12:45Glad that's all, dear.

00:12:46Oh, oh, well.

00:12:48Nice to relax.

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

00:12:52over what Tony called her son.

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

00:12:56Well, anyway, I've lost a child welfare job.

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

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

00:13:01Indeed.

00:13:02Don't worry.

00:13:03They'll come back to you.

00:13:04They may find a better doctor,

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

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

00:13:09Quite right, darling.

00:13:10It's a pity you can't always cart a bed round with you.

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

00:13:14Not on tricks.

00:13:15All right.

00:13:16Don't bristle.

00:13:17Nobody's attacking you.

00:13:18I said ability.

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

00:13:21especially in the upbringing of my son.

00:13:23You have a heaven-sent genius for variations

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

00:13:27You should have been a musician.

00:13:28If you must know, I'm ashamed of Tony.

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

00:13:32Why doesn't he behave like the other children

00:13:34in the neighborhood?

00:13:35Well-bred, healthy.

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

00:13:38into a standard pattern till he's got about as much

00:13:40individuality as a wooden soldier.

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

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

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

00:13:47I'm sick and tired of this lifelong battle.

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

00:13:51It's an arena.

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

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

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

00:13:55Very well.

00:13:56If that's what you want, I will, the sooner the better.

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

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

00:13:59Yes.

00:14:00It's a great relief.

00:14:01And what do you imagine you're going to do?

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

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

00:14:04Take me back?

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

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

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

00:14:08This is the end of a very long pain in the neck.

00:14:28Hey, ma'am.

00:14:29Hello.

00:14:30Oh, Mr. Bones, you're working late tonight, aren't you?

00:14:33Just doing a little overtime, ma'am.

00:14:34How's the cottage getting on?

00:14:36Oh, fine, ma'am.

00:14:37We've got all the thatch on.

00:14:38We'll be whitewashing her tomorrow.

00:14:39Well, you will have it ready for after the honeymoon, won't you?

00:14:42We mustn't disappoint to have it there.

00:14:44Oh, she'll be ready by then.

00:14:45Oh, well, we shan't be working Thursday morning, though.

00:14:48We are wanted for the bell ringing at the wedding.

00:14:50Oh.

00:14:51Same time tomorrow, Richard?

00:14:52I do think Daddy's a darling giving us the cottage.

00:14:54Don't you?

00:14:55That's the only reason I'm marrying him, my sweetheart.

00:14:56I'm tired of sleeping on the embankment.

00:14:58Oh, idiot.

00:14:59Grace.

00:15:00Molly.

00:15:01I say, Molly.

00:15:02What is it, papa?

00:15:03I've got it.

00:15:04I've got the 330 window telescope.

00:15:06Half a crown each way at 8 to 1.

00:15:07Darling, please don't bring your racehorses in here

00:15:09when I've all these wedding arrangements to cover.

00:15:11I thought you'd like to know, that's all.

00:15:13I've no use for these la-de-da weddings.

00:15:15Something always goes wrong.

00:15:16Now, when I got married, I swiped my girl

00:15:18right under her father's nose.

00:15:20Drove her away in a horse tandem,

00:15:21and he followed her in his butcher's garden.

00:15:23He was as mad as a hornet.

00:15:24Tried to kill me with a shotgun.

00:15:26Papa, please.

00:15:27There's a deal too much fiddle-dee-dee about weddings.

00:15:29A couple of youngsters want to get together.

00:15:31Well, let them get together.

00:15:32And don't make it a crime.

00:15:35Oh, goodness gracious.

00:15:36The girl's all ready.

00:15:37The bride must be early.

00:15:38Grace, Grace, where are you?

00:15:39There you are.

00:15:40The front door.

00:15:41Always something.

00:15:42Oh, here you are.

00:15:43Hello.

00:15:44Did you have a good journey?

00:15:45I have, darling.

00:15:46Oh, that's why I'm asking.

00:15:47Seriously, when you're young, you can stand it.

00:15:49How sweet of you to come.

00:15:50Bet you'd rather spin, aren't you?

00:15:52How does it feel, Joan?

00:15:53Look, this is Tim.

00:15:54Hello.

00:15:55Hello, Tim.

00:15:56Oh, so this is the lucky man.

00:15:57My cousin's running the bridesmaids.

00:15:59Oh, thanks for the preview.

00:16:00I've got to go.

00:16:01My cousin's running the bridesmaids.

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

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

00:16:05Too bad.

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

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

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

00:16:13I, um, I felt a bit in the way.

00:16:14All those fittings and things.

00:16:15I went and had a drink.

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

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

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

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

00:16:24Of course.

00:16:26Well, young old rascal?

00:16:28Look at this.

00:16:301,001 cocktails.

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

00:16:34You try one.

00:16:35This is called radioactivity.

00:16:37Now, you taste that.

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

00:16:42Very good.

00:16:43Serve you right.

00:16:44What a swallow.

00:16:45It reminds me of David Alfred.

00:16:52Good evening, Grace.

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

00:16:54Been running?

00:16:55No, sir.

00:16:56The young ladies have arrived.

00:16:57We're a bit busy.

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

00:17:00Yes, sir.

00:17:01Women enjoy it.

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

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

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

00:17:07Tim wanted a drink.

00:17:08Well, give him one.

00:17:09Yes, sir.

00:17:10All right, I'll give him.

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

00:17:13Alfred?

00:17:14Yes?

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

00:17:17By all means, Dad.

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

00:17:21Thanks.

00:17:22We can join you.

00:17:23Spend it.

00:17:24Although, between ourselves, I dropped into the Crown for a quick one on the way up to the station.

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

00:17:29It's not bad.

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

00:17:32Forbidden fruit, eh, sir?

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

00:17:35Yes, I'm afraid there is.

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

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

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

00:17:43What train did you catch?

00:17:44The usual, my dear.

00:17:45Old habits cling.

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

00:17:48Greatly daring, my love.

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

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

00:17:53It was refreshing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:18:05Especially just before the wedding.

00:18:07You could never look foolish.

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

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

00:18:12You're the mainspring of the family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:18:25Will he?

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

00:18:29But you do see, don't you, that the slightest breath of suspicion,

00:18:32the slightest hint of anything not quite nice, would be fatal.

00:18:37Absolutely fatal.

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

00:18:39It is a solemn thought.

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

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

00:18:47You and Joan.

00:18:49Clare and Howard.

00:18:50Dear Howard.

00:18:51So respectable.

00:18:53And such a nice practice.

00:18:55Les enfants, défonce de parler.

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

00:18:59Each of you have a nice tomato juice.

00:19:01Such a nice healthy drink.

00:19:02Oh, Mommy.

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

00:19:05Oh, good.

00:19:06Not too much.

00:19:08Another drink?

00:19:09No, I don't think so.

00:19:10Of course you will.

00:19:11Thank you very much.

00:19:12Joan?

00:19:13Oh, yes.

00:19:14That's Susan.

00:19:16Molly, dear, you're gone.

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

00:19:19Yes, come along.

00:19:20Oh, well.

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

00:19:26Yeah.

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

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

00:19:33Yes.

00:19:34Joan and Tim.

00:19:36Gracious.

00:19:37A visitor.

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

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

00:19:44Hello, Grace.

00:19:45Good evening, madam.

00:19:47Hello, everybody.

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

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

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

00:19:52Hello, Clare.

00:19:53Oh, darling.

00:19:54Hello, darling.

00:19:55Hello, Tim.

00:19:56Hello.

00:19:57Hello, you wicked old man.

00:19:58Hello, Clare.

00:19:59Barley water.

00:20:00Oh.

00:20:01Hello, Joan.

00:20:02You're looking wonderful.

00:20:03You feeling excited?

00:20:04Well, sort of.

00:20:05She's nervous.

00:20:06Nervous?

00:20:07You flatter yourself.

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

00:20:10I need one.

00:20:11This is quite reasonable, sherry.

00:20:12Gin and French, please.

00:20:13Large one.

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

00:20:17Lost sheep returned?

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

00:20:20I went round to Clare's for a drink.

00:20:22Oh.

00:20:23How nice.

00:20:24We wondered.

00:20:26Are you staying the night, dear?

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

00:20:29Oh, delighted to have you, child.

00:20:31Several nights, I'm afraid.

00:20:32Hope that's how you like it.

00:20:34Oh, thank you.

00:20:35Well, here's half.

00:20:38Hmm.

00:20:39I needed that.

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

00:20:43Yes, in a way.

00:20:44You see, I've left Howard.

00:20:46Left Howard?

00:20:48Do you mean left him?

00:20:50Yes.

00:20:52Clare, what sort of nonsense is this?

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

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

00:20:57If it is, it's on me.

00:20:59You're not well, dear.

00:21:01I can see that.

00:21:02I'm perfectly well, thank you.

00:21:04Oh, you look as if you're running a temperature.

00:21:06There's been a lot of this one day flu about.

00:21:08We'll get a doctor for you.

00:21:10A doctor, that's all I need.

00:21:12Come along, dear.

00:21:13We'll go upstairs and talk it over.

00:21:18But to say it all happened over Tony drawing a horse

00:21:20is preposterous.

00:21:21Boys will draw on walls.

00:21:22When he's here, he draws on the garage walls.

00:21:24Horses?

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

00:21:26Cars.

00:21:27Well, that limits him quite a bit.

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

00:21:30Well, of course, there is something about Tony's drawing.

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

00:21:34Even cars.

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

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

00:21:41It's Howard's insufferable attitude that's

00:21:43at the bottom of all this.

00:21:44Doctors are like that.

00:21:45They have to be always right, or no one would have

00:21:47enough faith in them to get well.

00:21:49You ought to know that.

00:21:50Well, let him be always right on his own.

00:21:52You've had a rouse about Tony before.

00:21:54You could have gone on having him in your own place

00:21:56just between yourselves.

00:21:57To come here and inundate the whole family

00:21:59like a, like a burst water main, and at a time like this,

00:22:02I do think it's inconsiderate, just before the wedding.

00:22:05I'm sorry.

00:22:06What about me?

00:22:07It's not your wedding, darling.

00:22:09Not my wedding.

00:22:10I'm the bride's mother.

00:22:12Yes, I forgot.

00:22:13Your crowning triumph, the last of your fledglings

00:22:16safely airborne.

00:22:17Well, if I'm spoiling all that, I'm sorry.

00:22:20It isn't as if Tony was a new bone of contention.

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

00:22:26Molly, they're beginning to wander downstairs.

00:22:29I knew that would happen.

00:22:30We must issue a statement.

00:22:32Darling, you sound like a politician.

00:22:34Tell me, Clare, how serious is all this?

00:22:36We've broken up for keeps, that's all.

00:22:39But why?

00:22:40Why?

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

00:22:42Howard quite rightly objects to Clare's way of bringing him up.

00:22:45You know, I think you're wrong, Molly.

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

00:22:48If there is any sense in his upbringing,

00:22:50it comes from Howard.

00:22:51Please don't let a trifle like the wreck of my marriage

00:22:54spoil everything here.

00:22:56I'll go.

00:22:57Go?

00:22:58Where?

00:22:59She'll go back to Howard and apologize,

00:23:01and you'll take her.

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

00:23:03You see, as Howard found so much to object to in my son,

00:23:06I promised to give him grounds for a divorce, which I shall.

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

00:23:12A bombshell like this in the family,

00:23:14and at a time like this.

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

00:23:18You're not going to interfere.

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

00:23:22Oh, such nonsense.

00:23:33I know.

00:23:34I know.

00:23:36Oh, uh, have you very careful, Grace?

00:23:38No, madam.

00:23:39Oh, well, I'll see to it in a minute.

00:23:42Oy, you leave that alone, my girl.

00:23:45Really, Papa?

00:23:46You just keep your hooks off it, that's all.

00:23:49What's all this bust up between Clare and Howard, eh?

00:23:52Nothing at all, darling.

00:23:53Don't you worry about it.

00:23:55Worry about it?

00:23:56Why shouldn't I worry about it?

00:23:57Clare's a fine girl, and Howard's a poop.

00:24:00Papa.

00:24:01He's a fine girl.

00:24:03He's a poop.

00:24:04Papa.

00:24:05He told me years ago that if I didn't give up alcohol,

00:24:08I'd be dead in six months.

00:24:09And look at the answer.

00:24:11He's a poop.

00:24:12And if Clare's left him, I should go out to town

00:24:14and tell him so.

00:24:15I've just been telling Grace he's a poop.

00:24:17You haven't.

00:24:19I have.

00:24:20And I told her how he bullies my great grandson.

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

00:24:24No.

00:24:25Clare won't let him.

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

00:24:29splitting up nowadays.

00:24:30Didn't you, Grace?

00:24:31Wait.

00:24:32It's strange.

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

00:24:36She's probably telling Cook.

00:24:38Now it'll be all over the village.

00:24:40Oh, I don't think it's too bad of you.

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

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

00:24:50Cheerio, Molly.

00:24:56But darling, when I left her at the dressmakers,

00:24:58I hadn't the least idea where I was going.

00:25:00Oh, darling, it's not that I mind you going to Clare's.

00:25:02It's just that I wish you'd told me.

00:25:04But, Pet, I...

00:25:05Oh, look, darling, forget it.

00:25:06It's nothing to make a thing about.

00:25:08Oh, isn't it pretty?

00:25:09Aunt Emma sent it.

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

00:25:11Is any going to say I couldn't very well bust in on you

00:25:14in the fitting room and you were being all pinned up?

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

00:25:18that I am.

00:25:19I just love you, that's all.

00:25:22Time's getting short, Parsner.

00:25:24Yes, dear.

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

00:25:27Yes.

00:25:28I love it.

00:25:29Yes, you say enough.

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

00:25:36Why, of course not.

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

00:25:40Clare's just Clare.

00:25:41Every bond is crap.

00:25:45We won't, will we?

00:25:47Not much.

00:25:49There you are.

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

00:25:52Or is it too dark?

00:25:54Everything in the garden's lovely.

00:25:55I hope every flower in the greenhouse

00:25:57will burst into bloom on your wedding day.

00:25:59Spontaneous combustion.

00:26:03Howdy, everybody.

00:26:04Place this quickly, girls.

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

00:26:07I'm hungry.

00:26:09Taxi.

00:26:10It'll be Howard.

00:26:11I know he's come for Clare.

00:26:16Welcome, you're just in time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:26:29The printers are waiting.

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

00:26:33I know.

00:26:34Oh, perfect love.

00:26:35Everybody has that one.

00:26:36That's fine.

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

00:26:38I wanted something different.

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

00:26:50Good morning.

00:26:53Good morning.

00:26:55What time is it?

00:26:56Quarter past seven, sir.

00:26:58Time you was awake.

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

00:27:05No, no.

00:27:06I'll do that.

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

00:27:09Not knowing the...

00:27:10You're quite right.

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

00:27:14Yes.

00:27:15Just for one.

00:27:17Yes, sir.

00:27:18Never mind, eh?

00:27:26Good morning, madam.

00:27:27Good morning, Grace.

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

00:27:32Yes, I know.

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

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

00:27:37He likes these country mornings.

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

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

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

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

00:27:47Accidental, of course.

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

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

00:27:56DOORBELL RINGS

00:28:00Doctor?

00:28:01Doctor, come along in.

00:28:03Your kidneys have been ruined.

00:28:05What do you mean?

00:28:06Kidneys.

00:28:07Oh.

00:28:08Those kidneys, I see.

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

00:28:12Didn't I hear the telephone?

00:28:14No, sir.

00:28:15All quiet, as they say.

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

00:28:21Indeed.

00:28:22Yes.

00:28:23Funny, isn't it?

00:28:24Very funny.

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

00:28:28Let what get cold?

00:28:29Your breakfast.

00:28:30I'll... I'll help myself.

00:28:33It's written there by Mrs. Carey Brown.

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

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

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

00:28:38I can manage.

00:28:39Please leave me alone, Smitty.

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

00:28:43I'm not hungry.

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

00:28:46Well, as did I say to Master Tony.

00:28:48Ha, ha.

00:28:55Sir.

00:28:56Why don't you ring Madam up?

00:28:58Where?

00:28:59Why, at the battlements, of course.

00:29:00Where else?

00:29:01Her last remarks on leaving here did not suggest that she was going home.

00:29:05Quite the reverse, in fact.

00:29:14I don't care what you do, darling, but you must do something.

00:29:16I intend to.

00:29:17What?

00:29:18Give Howard cause for divorce.

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

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

00:29:23And what about your father?

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

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

00:29:31But you thought that was a good thing.

00:29:32We mustn't become more inhibited than we are.

00:29:34Must we?

00:29:36Howard will take Tony.

00:29:37You realize that?

00:29:38You wouldn't have him as a gift.

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

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

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

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

00:29:48Clare.

00:29:54Here's a wire, sir.

00:29:56Oh, thanks.

00:30:04No reply.

00:30:05No, Smithy.

00:30:06It's not from the missus.

00:30:07There, sir.

00:30:08Tony's headmaster.

00:30:09Dr. Bletchley will be calling at 10.30.

00:30:11Thank you very much.

00:30:12Good-bye.

00:30:13Good-bye.

00:30:14Good-bye.

00:30:15Good-bye.

00:30:16Good-bye.

00:30:17Good-bye.

00:30:18Good-bye.

00:30:19Good-bye.

00:30:20Good-bye.

00:30:21Good-bye.

00:30:22Dr. Bletchley will be calling at 10.30.

00:30:24I hope he won't discuss the incipients of poliomyelitis in the infant groups.

00:30:28I suppose not, indeed.

00:30:29Fine.

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

00:30:31I'll be back.

00:30:32I suppose there should be word from madam, sir.

00:30:34We're prepared to receive messages.

00:30:36Give her a ring now, sir.

00:30:37No time like the present.

00:30:39I don't see why I should.

00:30:41Here, hold this.

00:30:48Good morning.

00:30:49Oh, good morning, darling.

00:30:51How late!

00:30:52Such a lovely morning.

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

00:30:55All we want now is for you to go back to Howard.

00:30:58Yes, dear.

00:30:59You mean you're going?

00:31:00I mean that's all we want now.

00:31:02Oh.

00:31:03You could go out to town with Daddy.

00:31:05How happy it would make Howard if you just walked in on him and said,

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

00:31:10It would be such a nice gesture.

00:31:12Yes, dear.

00:31:13It would be a very nice gesture.

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

00:31:21Hello?

00:31:22Hello, Howard.

00:31:25How are you, dear?

00:31:27Speak up, Howard.

00:31:29There's a buzzing.

00:31:30Buzzing?

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

00:31:33No, no, dear.

00:31:34Buzzing.

00:31:35Buzzing.

00:31:37B-U-S-I-N-G.

00:31:39Oh, buzzing.

00:31:41Hello?

00:31:44Hello?

00:31:45Oh, curse that row.

00:31:47Hello?

00:31:48Hello?

00:31:49Hello, Howard.

00:31:50Yes, I can hear you now.

00:31:51Yes, of course.

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

00:31:54We're all at breakfast.

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

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

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

00:32:00Claire's just here.

00:32:01She wants to apologize.

00:32:02Please, Mother.

00:32:04Hello, Howard.

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

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

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

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

00:32:15Oh, yes.

00:32:18Quite capable.

00:32:19Surprising after some of your recent remarks.

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

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

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

00:32:31Overstepped what mark?

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

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

00:32:37Well, so did I. I mean every word of it.

00:32:39Very well.

00:32:40You'd better come back and discuss it.

00:32:41No, thank you.

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

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

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

00:32:48Yes, so do I.

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

00:32:52Hello.

00:32:54Oh, blazers.

00:32:56Everything all right, sir?

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

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

00:33:06Sorry, sir.

00:33:11Who started tenor drawing, anyway?

00:33:13Nobody started him. He's always done it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:33:30Why?

00:33:31What about Picasso and Augustus John?

00:33:33How did they start?

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

00:33:36We don't know.

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

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

00:33:42Still life.

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

00:33:45He likes animals and people.

00:33:47I should have thought it would be quite easy for you to make him see

00:33:49that the whole anatomy of animals and people isn't meant to go into drawings.

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

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

00:33:57Very well.

00:33:58But you've met your Waterloo, isn't that, child?

00:34:01I met it in Howard.

00:34:03Oh, dear. Still fighting the battle of Waterloo?

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

00:34:09No, darling, not that I want to.

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

00:34:12Only fittings.

00:34:14It's our final fitting for her wedding dress.

00:34:16Well, exactly, and as I'm not supposed to see it until the day,

00:34:18there seems to be very little point in my coming up.

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

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

00:34:24One's sufficient.

00:34:25A good one.

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

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

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

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

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

00:34:41Darling, you're not going to the guillotine.

00:34:43If we were, you'd be there with your knitting.

00:34:45Possibly.

00:34:47Where are those children?

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

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

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

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

00:34:57There's a lot of dangerous propaganda floating about this household.

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

00:35:05Where are those girls?

00:35:07Come along, Joan.

00:35:08Bye, my darling.

00:35:09Bye, sweetie.

00:35:10Troy, you don't mind?

00:35:11No.

00:35:13Alfred, cigars in the morning?

00:35:16I felt like one, so I'm having one.

00:35:18It's very good.

00:35:19In all the 28 years of our married life, you've never done such a thing.

00:35:22That's why it's very good.

00:35:24And your train?

00:35:25Perhaps the next.

00:35:27The city of London won't collapse if I'm an hour late.

00:35:30It's been a lifelong rule of yours.

00:35:33Of yours, my dear.

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

00:35:37But very good for mine.

00:35:39You said yourself there was a spirit of revolution in the family.

00:35:42Alfred, you're not well.

00:35:44I can see you're not.

00:35:45I never felt better, my dear.

00:35:47I've been thinking of what Claire said on the subject of self-expression.

00:35:50And I agree with her.

00:35:52And if I could draw like Tony, I'd draw you in all your feathers.

00:35:55Like a bird on her nest, sitting pretty.

00:36:00He's raving.

00:36:02Whatever the journey is that's been brought into this house, he's got it.

00:36:05And what's he talking about?

00:36:07All I can see is thank goodness we're sane.

00:36:10Come along, chicks.

00:36:12We'll never get through the day.

00:36:19Tell Doctor you're here, sir.

00:36:21Oh, thanks.

00:36:23You're not ill, are you?

00:36:33Please, sir, that's two minutes fast.

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

00:36:40Please, sir, my mummy says when I see a thing is wrong,

00:36:43I must put it right and not be afraid of anybody.

00:36:46She does, does she?

00:36:48Please, sir, yes, sir.

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

00:36:51My watch is never wrong.

00:36:53Please, sir, it must be.

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

00:36:59Tim?

00:37:00Whatever next?

00:37:02You miserable little scribe.

00:37:04Yes, sir, thank you, sir.

00:37:06Oh, morning, Doctor.

00:37:08Good morning.

00:37:09Hello, Daddy.

00:37:11Oh, hello, Tony.

00:37:12I didn't expect to see you again so soon.

00:37:14Nor did I, Dad, but I've been sent to...

00:37:16Could we be alone?

00:37:18Yes, of course.

00:37:20Now, run along, Tony.

00:37:21Go and find Mrs. Smith, and I shall want to see you later.

00:37:24Okey-doke.

00:37:25Okey-doke.

00:37:27As you see, I've brought him back.

00:37:29I can do no more with him.

00:37:31You're... you're not serious, Dr. Bletchley.

00:37:34Not merely serious, Dr. Fleming, but desperate.

00:37:37An extremist.

00:37:39Admittedly, your son is a problem child,

00:37:41but he'll be my problem no longer.

00:37:43This is a very sudden decision, Doctor.

00:37:45I have toyed longingly with the idea for many weeks, Doctor.

00:37:49Yesterday's disaster merely brought matters to a head.

00:37:52Disaster?

00:37:53Disaster.

00:37:54It occurred a bare hour after his return from his half-term holiday.

00:37:58At 7.15 precisely.

00:38:00After his cocoa on the art mistress's study door.

00:38:04What about her study door?

00:38:06He drew on it.

00:38:08Drew on it?

00:38:10That is what I said.

00:38:11He has a diabolical habit of placing on Victoria Record

00:38:14everything which attracts his attention.

00:38:16There's not a door or a wall at the school which has escaped him.

00:38:19Surely you're exaggerating, Doctor.

00:38:21I beg your pardon?

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

00:38:24He's rather above average.

00:38:26Above average?

00:38:27Above average?

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

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

00:38:33An individualist?

00:38:34Yes, sir.

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

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

00:38:39Yesterday decided the matter.

00:38:41That drawing.

00:38:43Drawing?

00:38:44Drawing of what?

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

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

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

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

00:38:55Good day, Doctor Fleming.

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

00:39:00Suppose you have a try.

00:39:11Tony!

00:39:12I want you!

00:39:16Tony!

00:39:17Tony!

00:39:25Sit down, my boy.

00:39:26Oh, has our Bletchley's gone?

00:39:28Doctor Bletchley has gone.

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

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

00:39:36Oh, goody, thanks, Dad.

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

00:39:41I was never sent away from my school.

00:39:43Oh, did they have schools when you were young?

00:39:46They had some very good schools, too.

00:39:48There they taught the boys the things that mattered,

00:39:50like geography and history and arithmetic and spelling.

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

00:39:56They also taught them how to behave and obey.

00:39:59Yes, sir.

00:40:00And if they were naughty, do you know what happened?

00:40:02They had the cane.

00:40:04I know, Dad. I've heard about that.

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

00:40:08Yes, Mummy told me.

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

00:40:13I see.

00:40:15What do you expect to be when you grow up?

00:40:17An artist.

00:40:18An artist.

00:40:20I'd like to think you were going to be a doctor or a lawyer.

00:40:23Or do the members of those professions strike you as being too stupid?

00:40:26No, Dad, not stupid, only fearfully dull.

00:40:30I think you'd better leave the room before I forget a promise I once made to your mother.

00:40:34Okey-doke.

00:40:36By the way, where is Clare?

00:40:38Who?

00:40:39I mean, Mummy.

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

00:40:46CLARE

00:41:00There, what's the matter with you?

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

00:41:02Just a bit.

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

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

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

00:41:11Go back and try again or get a blade out of it all.

00:41:14Why don't you take a headache powder and lie down?

00:41:16I can't get a clear view of my life.

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

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

00:41:26Well, hop in. Where do you want to go?

00:41:28You mean it?

00:41:29Yes.

00:41:31Right.

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

00:41:36Hmm?

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

00:41:40Jolly good advice.

00:41:43Ah!

00:41:57Hello?

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

00:42:02Who?

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

00:42:07I want to speak to Mrs. Fleming.

00:42:09She's out with Mr. Tim, sir.

00:42:11With Mr. Tim?

00:42:12Out where?

00:42:26How far are we from London?

00:42:28Let's see, London, New Haven, about 60 miles.

00:42:30Not far enough.

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

00:42:34Across the channel, I think. Yep, comes back tonight.

00:42:37Do you want your marriage to go like mine?

00:42:39Hey, now what's up?

00:42:40I have apron string strangulation like my father,

00:42:42because if you do, you drive straight back. I've had it.

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

00:42:47Clare!

00:42:50Clare!

00:42:51Don't be an idiot.

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

00:42:58It might amuse the passengers.

00:43:00There's going to be a fine row about this.

00:43:01But what?

00:43:02Us pushing off to France together.

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

00:43:05Unless you go off on your own, in your present mood, you're not responsible.

00:43:07You must have been a terrific boy scout.

00:43:09Oh, this is wonderful. I'm beginning to feel human again.

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

00:43:17Hello, Parson.

00:43:18Hello, David.

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

00:43:20Just a little, I believe.

00:43:21Usual Martel, sir?

00:43:22No, gin and French, please, a large one.

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

00:43:26In a world of shortages, one should take short drinks.

00:43:28Gin and French?

00:43:29There you are.

00:43:30Well, well.

00:43:31Cheers.

00:43:32Cheers.

00:43:34That's better.

00:43:35That's better.

00:43:36Ooh, Mr. Parsons, cigar before lunch?

00:43:39I had one after breakfast.

00:43:41Now, what are you celebrating?

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

00:43:44Ooh.

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

00:43:49Now look here, Grace.

00:43:50You tell me that Mrs. Fleming is not at home.

00:43:52Very well, she may be or she may not be.

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

00:43:57You understand?

00:44:00Very good, sir.

00:44:03Who is that?

00:44:04Doctor again.

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

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

00:44:10That's all.

00:44:11Chicken tonight, though.

00:44:12What's the good of that?

00:44:13I'm starving.

00:44:14I've been out of the fresh air.

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

00:44:17Hmm?

00:44:18Yes, very fresh indeed down at the Crown.

00:44:20I don't want any sauce from you, my girl.

00:44:23You just cut me off a nice plate of that cold mutton.

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

00:44:28No, why should I?

00:44:29They never wait for me.

00:44:30Do they?

00:44:31First come, first served.

00:44:32That's what I say.

00:44:33There you are, sir.

00:44:34All right, I can see it.

00:44:36Thicker, thicker.

00:44:37All right, sir.

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

00:44:41Take deep and regular breaths.

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

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

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

00:44:50Oh, forget it, Timmy.

00:44:51We're nearly there.

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

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

00:44:58Are we?

00:44:59Yes.

00:45:01Yes.

00:45:18Is this a fine caper?

00:45:19No, Franks.

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

00:45:21Oh, relax.

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

00:45:23Unties the apron strings.

00:45:26What do you want?

00:45:28What do you want?

00:45:40Come on, Timmy.

00:45:41Stop sulking.

00:45:42Have a drink.

00:45:43All right.

00:45:46You keep out of this.

00:45:47Excuse me?

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

00:45:49Pardon me?

00:45:50You're asking for a shock on the job.

00:45:54Jacques!

00:45:55Jacques, my friend!

00:45:56Jacques, my friend!

00:45:57How are you?

00:45:58Oh, boy!

00:45:59Champagne for the party!

00:46:11Excuse me.

00:46:12It's my wedding.

00:46:13Very good.

00:46:14It's a good chance.

00:46:15Are you English?

00:46:16Yes.

00:46:17I'd like to be a guest.

00:46:18A big long shot for the eyes.

00:46:20Ah, bon.

00:46:21Bonne chance, hein?

00:46:22Imagine bumping into a French wedding as soon as we set foot in here.

00:46:25Yes.

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

00:46:27Wonderful extroverts, the French.

00:46:28Wish we had a few more like them in England.

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

00:46:32Oui?

00:46:33Oh, you mean people at home generally?

00:46:35Of course.

00:46:37Les Anglais, peut-être on pourrait leur offrir quelque chose, dit.

00:46:39Mais oui, hein?

00:46:40Monsieur, si vous permettez.

00:46:42Madame.

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

00:46:45C'est la maison.

00:46:47Est-ce que M. Anglais et sa dame veulent bien nous faire l'honneur de joindre la compagnie

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

00:46:52Because I'm delighted.

00:46:54Il est mon mariage.

00:46:56The show will play tomorrow.

00:46:58Oh, c'est magnifique, ça!

00:46:59Mes amis!

00:47:00Comme j'ai amis et copains de longue date de Jacques Paupinard,

00:47:04je vous propose de boire à la santé de sa charmante fille Lucie

00:47:07et de son brave mari, Pierre Martineau.

00:47:21Gentlemen, just breathe.

00:47:23I beg your pardon.

00:47:25After you.

00:47:26For once, here is someone who will not shout me down.

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

00:47:32Why should I?

00:47:33I am always shouted down.

00:47:34It is like this.

00:47:35I am a speaker.

00:47:36Hey, I want a drink.

00:47:38Oh, you see.

00:47:39Edie, you will have a drink?

00:47:42Yes, a rum.

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

00:47:45A double warrior for this gentleman, please.

00:47:48And I'll have another large, gentle friend.

00:47:50You know, they'll be sending out a search party for you.

00:47:57I don't understand what you mean when you say there's no one at home.

00:48:00Where's Mrs. Parsons?

00:48:01What?

00:48:02What nonsense.

00:48:04And you mean to tell me that Claire is still out with Tim Shields?

00:48:07Yes, she is.

00:48:08Well, I flatly refuse to believe it.

00:48:10Can I take a message for you?

00:48:12Can I help you?

00:48:14No, no.

00:48:15Don't bother.

00:48:16I'll come down and find out for myself.

00:48:18Well, who does he think he's calling a liar, the fool?

00:48:21Huh.

00:48:22Smitty.

00:48:23Smitty.

00:48:24Yes, sir?

00:48:25Telephone the garage and tell them to send the car around.

00:48:27When I've changed and packed a bag, I'm going down to Chiselfield

00:48:30to see what all this nonsense is about.

00:48:32That's the stuff, sir.

00:48:33You assert your rights as a husband and a father.

00:48:36Thank you, Smitty.

00:48:53Oh, this is so very good for us, Timmy.

00:48:56This is spiritual rebirth.

00:48:58Exit Mrs. Dr. Fleming and re-enter Claire Park.

00:49:01I feel like a sort of self-contained little nuclear fish.

00:49:07That's fine, fine, fine.

00:49:09I just should stay like that, you can't?

00:49:18Grace, we're home.

00:49:20Oh, thank goodness, that's the last of the shopping.

00:49:22Now, you'll be able to have a nice cozy evening,

00:49:24and tomorrow there'll be nothing to do but prepare for the wedding.

00:49:27Now, off you go, girls.

00:49:28It's nearly dinner time.

00:49:29Where is everybody?

00:49:30Where's Grace?

00:49:31Grace?

00:49:33Grace?

00:49:34Oh, Papa.

00:49:35Hello, hello.

00:49:36Oh, Papa.

00:49:37What's all the shouting about?

00:49:39Where's Grace?

00:49:40How should I know?

00:49:41You woke me up.

00:49:42First it's a phone, and now it's you.

00:49:44I was having a little shut-eye after lunch.

00:49:46After lunch?

00:49:47Darling, it's nearly dinner time.

00:49:48Good, I'm hungry.

00:49:50Where's Alfred?

00:49:51He's late.

00:49:52How should I know?

00:49:53I've got a mouth like a sandpit.

00:49:54I want a drink.

00:49:55Well, dear, you know where we keep the barley water.

00:49:57I'll go and change.

00:50:01Hmm.

00:50:03They have plenty of time, don't they?

00:50:06They always shout me down.

00:50:09I speak for the finest temperance society in the world,

00:50:13the water brides.

00:50:14The what?

00:50:15The water brides.

00:50:17No alcohol shall pass their lips.

00:50:21How revolting.

00:50:23Tonight, the night's bark.

00:50:24There may be trouble, may be violence.

00:50:27Violence?

00:50:28In England?

00:50:29Land of free speech?

00:50:31My dear friend, surely not.

00:50:33Who can tell?

00:50:34Life is so uncertain.

00:50:36Yes.

00:50:37Yes.

00:50:39Go on, for heaven's sake.

00:50:45Alright, dinner?

00:50:47Come on, dear.

00:50:49Come on, dear.

00:50:51Shall we go?

00:50:52Come on.

00:50:53Come on.

00:50:54Come on.

00:50:55Come on.

00:50:56We'll be fine.

00:50:57We'll be fine.

00:50:59Go on, dear.

00:51:01Go on.

00:51:02Go on.

00:51:04I can see it, I can see it.

00:51:06Don't do that, Papa.

00:51:07No.

00:51:08I think I'll ring Howard.

00:51:09Mm-hmm.

00:51:10What for?

00:51:11See if Tim's there.

00:51:12Oh, I shouldn't do that if I were you, Mom.

00:51:13But, Mommy, I'm worried.

00:51:14What about?

00:51:16The explanation's perfectly simple.

00:51:17Tim's persuaded Claire to go back to Howard

00:51:19and has driven her back in his car.

00:51:21Yes.

00:51:21I expect that's it.

00:51:22Tim and Alfred will come back together.

00:51:24You'll see.

00:51:25They probably met at Howard's and had a glass of wine

00:51:27to celebrate the making up.

00:51:28I'm sure they'll get along just fine.

00:51:30I'm sure they will.

00:51:31They probably met at Howard's and had a glass of wine

00:51:33to celebrate the making up.

00:51:34Then they'll catch a later train.

00:51:35Or they may even now be at the Crown.

00:51:37Though what men see in public houses defeats me utterly.

00:51:40You know, I think I will ring Howard.

00:51:42Well, do if you must, dear.

00:51:44But I don't think they'll thank you for interrupting them.

00:51:46They must have a great deal to talk over.

00:51:48I do wish Claire wouldn't take life so scientifically.

00:51:51It isn't as if they...

00:51:53They've come at last.

00:51:54I knew they would.

00:51:55Off you go, Grace.

00:51:58Ooh, what an action.

00:51:59She'd make a good hurdler.

00:52:04Oh, good evening, sir.

00:52:06Huh?

00:52:07Isn't it?

00:52:08Well, Howard, how nice to see you.

00:52:10Where's Claire?

00:52:11That's precisely what I've come to find out.

00:52:13But I thought that Tim had taken her back to you in his car.

00:52:16Well, who told you that?

00:52:17I don't know.

00:52:18Who did, dear?

00:52:19No one, dear.

00:52:20Oh, but I must have got it through someone.

00:52:22Grace.

00:52:23Grace, didn't you tell me that Mr. Tim had taken

00:52:25Mrs. Dr. Fleming back to Mr. Dr. Fleming?

00:52:27No, madam.

00:52:28They'd gone out together in Mr. Tim's car.

00:52:30That's all I said.

00:52:31Quite sufficient, too.

00:52:32All right, Grace, you can go.

00:52:33Yes, sir.

00:52:34A very serious thing has occurred.

00:52:37Tony has been sent away from school.

00:52:39Oh, is that all, dear?

00:52:40Well, there are plenty of others.

00:52:41Nearer home, too.

00:52:42There's one called the London School of Economics.

00:52:44That sounds a very nice one.

00:52:45Cheap, too.

00:52:46Yes, that's not the point.

00:52:47He's been sent away because, well, thanks to Claire,

00:52:50he's completely out of hand.

00:52:51He can't go through life like this.

00:52:53He'll end up in jail.

00:52:54It's our responsibility, Claire's and mine.

00:52:56We've got to face up to that.

00:52:57Now, where the dickens is Claire?

00:52:58She can't walk out on this.

00:52:59Oh, to heck with Claire.

00:53:00What I want to know is where's Tim?

00:53:02Good gracious.

00:53:03What?

00:53:04If Tim didn't take Claire back, where's Alfred?

00:53:06Order, Brides.

00:53:07Order, Brides.

00:53:12Edie, large gin and French and double warrior.

00:53:16No, but it is time for me to go.

00:53:20Goodbye.

00:53:24But I know there will be violence tonight.

00:53:28There will be no violence.

00:53:30I am coming with you.

00:53:32Rule, Britannia.

00:53:34Rule, Britannia.

00:53:54Oh, hello.

00:53:55How are you?

00:53:56How are you?

00:54:07Drink is the enemy of the working man.

00:54:12Think of a nation, a great nation, swimming in alcohol.

00:54:16Lovely grub, eh?

00:54:18Think, think of the money spent in drinks.

00:54:23Friends, water is free.

00:54:25Why don't you drown yourself?

00:54:27Will you please let me explain?

00:54:29I go, I want to just go.

00:54:31But what did Coe Fisher do?

00:54:32Yes, what did he do?

00:54:34I appealed to you as a British sportsman.

00:54:37Let me speak.

00:54:38Pack it in, chum, you've had it.

00:54:46You're mad, run, they will kill you.

00:54:49Order, order.

00:54:53I do not believe in what this man says.

00:54:56But I defend to the death.

00:54:58He's right to say it.

00:54:59He's pitching Ivan's pitch.

00:55:01Who does he think he is?

00:55:02Good old Ivan.

00:55:03Yeah, what's your idea?

00:55:06Rule, Britannia.

00:55:08Out of it.

00:55:09Scrag him.

00:55:10No.

00:55:18Come on, eh.

00:55:20Come on, eh.

00:55:22Rule, Britannia.

00:55:23Rule, Britannia.

00:55:25I love you so much.

00:55:27I love you.

00:55:29I'm an orphan, you understand?

00:55:31An orphan.

00:55:32But listen, no dad, no mom.

00:55:35I want to lose my daughter.

00:55:36You have my daughter, if I give you my daughter.

00:55:38You're right.

00:55:39But we are delighted to have your daughter.

00:55:41And we are delighted to have your daughter.

00:55:43We are, we are.

00:56:10Let's go.

00:56:24Yeah.

00:56:26I see, yes.

00:56:29Very well.

00:56:30No, no, I realize that's all you know.

00:56:32No, there's nothing more you can do, thank you.

00:56:35Good night.

00:56:36Good night.

00:56:37Good night.

00:56:38It was Alfred's night watchman.

00:56:39He says everyone left at the usual time.

00:56:41I can't understand.

00:56:42This never happened before.

00:56:44Since you're giving yourself a breather from that phone,

00:56:46you might give me a bit more chicken.

00:56:48A wing will do.

00:56:49I could do with a parsnip's nose, too,

00:56:51if nobody else wants it.

00:56:52Why don't you eat up, Molly?

00:56:54You'll get so empty, you'll rattle.

00:56:55Oh, please, Papa.

00:56:57Don't go too fairy-fingered with that, will you?

00:57:00Supposing we talk over all the things

00:57:02which could have happened?

00:57:04Please excuse me.

00:57:07Perhaps you two would like to take your pudding

00:57:09into the morning room.

00:57:10You could switch on the radio and listen

00:57:12to special announcements.

00:57:14There might be an SOS.

00:57:15Yes, Auntie.

00:57:18I didn't want to say too much in front of the children,

00:57:20but I don't like the look of things at all.

00:57:23I'm very worried, Howard.

00:57:25So am I.

00:57:26If Alfred were here, I'd be more worried still.

00:57:28Why?

00:57:29Well, we should know he wasn't with the other two.

00:57:31As it is, there's just a chance they may all three

00:57:33be together, not just those two alone.

00:57:35You're not suggesting that Claire and Tim all know,

00:57:39Howard, surely not?

00:57:40Well, I'll be frank.

00:57:41I've never quite trusted Tim.

00:57:44Good gracious me.

00:57:45Well, he's a curious sort of chap.

00:57:47He makes light of things.

00:57:48You don't think he'd make light of Claire?

00:57:50Well, in her present mood, she may make light of him.

00:57:52But this psychiatric practice of hers is getting me down.

00:57:54And what's more, she's now developing

00:57:56an hypnotic influence over Tony.

00:57:58Oh, Howard, how disgraceful.

00:58:00And she was so carefully brought up.

00:58:02Yes, well, it has its curative uses, too.

00:58:04I once saw a hypnotist at the old Hoban Empire.

00:58:07Ran the needle right through a woman's arm.

00:58:09Papa, please.

00:58:10Yes, she must have been a lot tenderer than this chicken.

00:58:14Now we shall learn something.

00:58:16Never a bit of peace.

00:58:20Curse of civilization.

00:58:22Hello?

00:58:23What?

00:58:24Yes?

00:58:25Oh, yes, it's with you.

00:58:26I've given Master Tony his supper and put him to bed.

00:58:29Poor lamb.

00:58:30He asked for his mummy, and he asked for you.

00:58:33When I said you was both away, he said, am I an orphan?

00:58:38No, no, no.

00:58:39Don't carry on like that.

00:58:40He once told me that he wanted to be an orphan

00:58:42so that he could wear a uniform.

00:58:44When I get my hands on him, he'll want it more than ever.

00:58:47When you what, sir?

00:58:49Oh, don't say that, sir.

00:58:51You know you wouldn't hurt him.

00:58:54All right, very well.

00:58:55Look, if I'm not back in the morning,

00:58:57phone Dr. Smollett and ask him to carry on.

00:58:59And bring Tony down here to me.

00:59:01All right, thank you.

00:59:02Good night.

00:59:03I've made up my mind how to deal with that young man.

00:59:06I don't mind an apple pie bed.

00:59:08But sewing up my pajamas is going just a bit too far.

00:59:11Never mind my promise to Claire.

00:59:12I'm going to give him a darn good hiding.

00:59:15Oh!

00:59:16Father.

00:59:37Brother.

00:59:38What?

00:59:44Bruh.

00:59:45What did you say?

00:59:48Bruh.

00:59:49I'm not cold.

00:59:54All right, thanks.

00:59:56Well, the police say they've no report of any accident.

00:59:58But they're trying to trace the car.

01:00:00What irritating people they are.

01:00:01They don't know a thing until somebody reports it.

01:00:03Well, I shouldn't say that.

01:00:04It's quite astonishing what they do know.

01:00:05Especially when one hopes they don't.

01:00:07All we need is for this to get in the papers.

01:00:09Then Alfred will be the talk of London.

01:00:10And he'd never ride in the mayoral coach.

01:00:12Well, that won't break his heart.

01:00:14You don't know anything about it.

01:00:15Don't I?

01:00:16I've seen lots of mayors in my day.

01:00:17The man may be the mayor, but it's his wife

01:00:19that wears the harness.

01:00:21I still stick to my theory that Claire and Tim and Alfred

01:00:23are all together somewhere.

01:00:24Well, why don't they communicate with us?

01:00:26Well, perhaps they can't, dear.

01:00:27Perhaps they're locked in.

01:00:28Locked in where?

01:00:29Oh, stuck in a lift.

01:00:31I got stuck in a lift once.

01:00:32Boat race night.

01:00:33Took two coppers to get me to Vine Street.

01:00:36We don't want to hear about that, do we?

01:00:38No, I bet you don't.

01:00:39Might remind you of the time you gave

01:00:40me six months to live, years ago.

01:00:43What a doctor.

01:00:44Some linger longer than others.

01:00:46What do you mean, linger?

01:00:47I feel all right.

01:00:48Yes, quite possibly you do.

01:00:50You can't find anything wrong with me.

01:00:52Why, you wouldn't know Guy from Chickenpox.

01:00:54Drink plenty of barley water, he says.

01:00:57Alcohol will harden your arteries

01:00:58and shorten your life.

01:00:59Hang it all.

01:01:00They use alcohol to preserve things, don't they?

01:01:03Well, look at thee.

01:01:04I'm well preserved, aren't I?

01:01:07What do you mean?

01:01:09There's nothing wrong, is there?

01:01:10No.

01:01:11No, no, no, no.

01:01:13Ah, good.

01:01:14Of course, a man in your condition shouldn't overeat.

01:01:17My condition?

01:01:18Show me your tongue.

01:01:21You can put it back now.

01:01:23No wonder.

01:01:24Look here.

01:01:25What do you think I ought to do?

01:01:28See a doctor.

01:01:30Yes?

01:01:32Yes?

01:01:33You have?

01:01:34Where?

01:01:35No, no.

01:01:36Wait.

01:01:37Yes?

01:01:38Yes?

01:01:40New Haven.

01:01:42Yes, right.

01:01:43I will.

01:01:44Thank you very much.

01:01:45Good night.

01:01:46Well, now we're beginning to learn things.

01:01:47The police have found Tim's car.

01:01:48Oh, have they really?

01:01:49Oh, where?

01:01:50Left unattended in New Haven, near the hospital.

01:01:52Oh, my.

01:01:53Oh, my.

01:01:54Oh, my.

01:01:55Oh, my.

01:01:56Oh, my.

01:01:57Oh, my.

01:01:58Where?

01:01:59In New Haven, near the harbor.

01:02:00The harbor?

01:02:01Oh, Howard, you don't suppose?

01:02:02Suppose what?

01:02:03They wouldn't all three join hands and jump in, would they?

01:02:04What on earth for?

01:02:05Oh, I don't know.

01:02:06But Alfred's been so strange.

01:02:07Claire talking in trad Australia way.

01:02:08But Tim.

01:02:09Tim had everything to live for.

01:02:11I agree.

01:02:12He was the only one not married.

01:02:13I'm going to New Haven immediately.

01:02:15Send the telegram.

01:02:16I'll go.

01:02:21Oh, what do you want?

01:02:22I come from Mr. Parsons.

01:02:23Yes.

01:02:24I come in.

01:02:25Come along here, quickly.

01:02:26Where is Mr. Parsons?

01:02:27My name is Psheninov. I spell it to make it clearer.

01:02:31Psheninov.

01:02:38My friends call me Ivan.

01:02:40Yes, I'm sure they do. But what about Mr. Parsons?

01:02:41We're all in a state of great anxiety.

01:02:43Mr. Parsons gave me a message for his father-in-law.

01:02:47Well, that's me. What have you been up to now, eh?

01:02:49He said for me to see you alone.

01:02:52Rot!

01:02:53I am Mrs. Parsons, his wife.

01:02:54How do you do? I'm most charmed.

01:02:56Everywhere I go, I meet charming people.

01:03:00Mr. Psheninov...

01:03:01Psheninov, my friends call me Ivan.

01:03:04What is this message? We're very concerned.

01:03:06He wants some trousers.

01:03:08Trousers?

01:03:09You see, he can't very well go home without them.

01:03:12He might be arrested again.

01:03:14Again?

01:03:16Well, what's he done with his trousers?

01:03:17Alas, they were torn off. He was de-bagged.

01:03:22De-bagged! Oh, Howard! I can't bear it!

01:03:26Shh! Who did such a thing?

01:03:28A man in a scrimmage.

01:03:30I was speaking. He was in the crowd listening.

01:03:34I was shouted down.

01:03:36Oh, Howard!

01:03:38He cried to the crowd.

01:03:40I do not believe in what this man says.

01:03:43But I will defend to the death his right to say it.

01:03:46Voltaire.

01:03:48I never heard such nonsense. Never.

01:03:50Madame, I've been arrested in all countries of Europe.

01:03:53No wonder.

01:03:55I come to England.

01:03:56I meet a man who says he will defend to the death my right to speak.

01:04:02Nowhere else has that happened to me.

01:04:05It is unique in my life.

01:04:09He's a great man.

01:04:11He and Voltaire.

01:04:13And now he's at Paraca police station.

01:04:16I think the charge against him is the disturbance of the peace.

01:04:20Howard, I'm sure he was drunk.

01:04:22You must go to the police station.

01:04:24If he was, it's too late. The police will have seen him.

01:04:27He must refuse the evidence of the police.

01:04:29After all, it's only his word against yours.

01:04:31If they've already got his evidence, how can I refuse it?

01:04:34Nonsense! You can say you represent another school of thought.

01:04:37You say there are always two or three or four.

01:04:39Even you and Claire have one each.

01:04:41What about the trousers?

01:04:43Go and get a pair of Alfred's trousers.

01:04:45Subdued ones.

01:04:46I'm beginning to have hopes about Alfred.

01:04:49You'd better have a drink.

01:04:52What do you have?

01:04:53Rum, please.

01:04:54Rum is the wine of the warrior.

01:04:59Ivan, I think I'll join you.

01:05:06I couldn't rest, Mummy.

01:05:07Rest? I've forgotten the meaning of the word.

01:05:11Who's that with Howard?

01:05:12It's a public anarchist.

01:05:14He's come about your father.

01:05:15Why? What's happened to Daddy?

01:05:18In prison!

01:05:20Now we're off.

01:05:22I'd like to go with you.

01:05:24It'll be a sight for sore eyes to see Alfred in a cell.

01:05:26You'd better stay at home with the women.

01:05:28Never let me.

01:05:30They need a man about the house.

01:05:32If a message comes from Claire,

01:05:34phone me at the Park Street police station.

01:05:36Yes, of course.

01:05:38Come along, let's head going.

01:05:39Hold those for a moment, Mr. Schneider.

01:05:42I nearly got it right. I'll get my overcoat.

01:05:45He doesn't believe in his right to speak,

01:05:47but says he'll defend him to the death.

01:05:48What do you make of that?

01:05:50I don't know.

01:05:52I can only see the Lord Mayor's coat empty.

01:06:17Claire!

01:06:19Wake up!

01:06:20Wake up!

01:06:22Horrible, go away.

01:06:23For God's sake, we're still in D.F.

01:06:25Good.

01:06:27It's the middle of the night, my watch has stopped.

01:06:28That doesn't prove anything, relax.

01:06:30What do you suppose is going on at home?

01:06:32What will Joan be thinking?

01:06:33I wonder.

01:06:35Hey, Gaston!

01:06:36I'm leaving.

01:06:37You're leaving?

01:06:39Yes.

01:06:40I'm leaving.

01:06:41I'm leaving.

01:06:42I'm leaving.

01:06:43I'm leaving.

01:06:45I'm leaving.

01:06:47Is there a ship here?

01:06:49What?

01:06:50Tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:51Tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:52Ah, tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:54No, sir, not tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:06:55We must catch the ship at Newham.

01:06:59The ship?

01:07:00It's gone.

01:07:03What is it?

01:07:04The boat, it's gone.

01:07:05It's true, it's true.

01:07:06Yes, I saw it myself.

01:07:07I looked out the window, it was gone.

01:07:10Oh no, it's gone ages ago.

01:07:11You see, this morning it went through the window.

01:07:13Well, ask him when there's another one.

01:07:15I'll ask him when there's another one.

01:07:17I'll ask him when there's another one.

01:07:19I'll ask him when there's another one.

01:07:21Oh, blimey, that's torn it.

01:07:23Now what are we going to do?

01:07:24It was a lovely idea of yours, coming here.

01:07:26Sorry, but the idea was yours.

01:07:27No, it wasn't.

01:07:28Oh, yes, it was.

01:07:30Well, you saw the boat at Newhaven first.

01:07:31And you made a dash for it.

01:07:32You didn't have to come after me.

01:07:33No?

01:07:34What Englishman would stand by and see a woman

01:07:36make a fool of herself on her own?

01:07:37This ridiculous chivalry has got more Englishmen into trouble.

01:07:39Anyway, I'm glad you came.

01:07:40It's fun.

01:07:41Oh, good, I'm glad you're amused.

01:07:43Now, my sweet, the next move's yours.

01:07:44You're going to phone hard.

01:07:45Don't be ridiculous.

01:07:46You'll be fast asleep.

01:07:47I wish I could drown the thought of your mother.

01:07:49Every time I think she's gone down for the third time,

01:07:51up she pops again.

01:07:52Forget it.

01:07:54You must phone her.

01:07:55She may think we've had a smash.

01:07:56We haven't.

01:07:57No, but she doesn't know that.

01:07:58Ring her up, old girl.

01:08:00There's a good girl.

01:08:01Now listen, this is my first binge for nine years.

01:08:02And it's probably your last for very much longer than that.

01:08:04So let's be glad they coincide.

01:08:06And don't be so miserable.

01:08:07But hang if I'm getting married tomorrow.

01:08:09All right, don't worry.

01:08:10You'll be there in time.

01:08:11Think of your mother.

01:08:12I don't care.

01:08:13I don't want to.

01:08:14Well, think of me.

01:08:16Think of Joan.

01:08:17You must phone.

01:08:18Garçon.

01:08:19Oui, monsieur.

01:08:20Madame veut téléphoner à L'Angleterre.

01:08:24Ah, oui, très bien, monsieur.

01:08:25Certainement, oui.

01:08:26Um, Cheeselfield 54.

01:08:29Cheeselfield 54.

01:08:32Uh, I'll write it down.

01:08:36Uh, un crayon, s'il vous plaît.

01:08:40Un crayon.

01:08:41Oui, un crayon.

01:08:42Ah, merci.

01:08:43Uh, Cheeselfield 54.

01:08:46Ah, Cheeselfield 54.

01:08:48As I said.

01:08:49Oui, c'est bien.

01:08:50Merci.

01:08:51Allo, allo, allo, allo, allo, allo.

01:08:53I've just realized something, Tim.

01:08:55Being a wife and a mother is an impossible combination.

01:08:58Oh, right.

01:08:59Don't get more.

01:09:00We've got to get out of this.

01:09:01Supposing your mother telephones hard?

01:09:03I hope she does.

01:09:04You hope she does?

01:09:05Yes, just a showing.

01:09:06I guess that was what you were up to.

01:09:07Showing hard.

01:09:09That's the real reason behind this little trip, isn't it?

01:09:11Certainly not.

01:09:12I don't expect it.

01:09:13You still need one.

01:09:14Allo.

01:09:16England?

01:09:17Oui.

01:09:18Monsieur, long l'affaire.

01:09:19Ah.

01:09:20Uh, pardon.

01:09:23My French isn't any better than yours.

01:09:24I resent that.

01:09:25Uh, say allo, allo, allo.

01:09:27Allo, allo, allo.

01:09:28I can't.

01:09:29It sounds so silly.

01:09:30What do I say?

01:09:31Uh, tell them where we are.

01:09:33Say that we missed the boat, and they'll be back in the morning.

01:09:34And that you're very, very sorry.

01:09:35Very, very sorry.

01:09:36Uh, hello.

01:09:37Can I speak to Mrs. Parsons, please?

01:09:39Oh, is that you, mummy?

01:09:40This is Claire.

01:09:41Oh, yes.

01:09:42Tim is here, too.

01:09:43And we're staying the night.

01:09:44No.

01:09:46Yes.

01:09:47No.

01:09:48Yes, diep.

01:09:49Diep?

01:09:50Good gracious, they're abroad.

01:09:52But what are you doing there?

01:09:53But darling, I told you I'm staying the night with Tim.

01:09:55Not with Tim.

01:09:56Oh, gosh, what a woman.

01:09:57Oh, no, I can't.

01:09:59Oh, allo, allo.

01:10:00Oh, je ne parle pas.

01:10:01Here, get me.

01:10:02What?

01:10:03No, I.

01:10:05The dime we had, too.

01:10:06No, Tim, don't.

01:10:07No, let go.

01:10:08No, it's all right, darling.

01:10:09It's only Tim.

01:10:10What?

01:10:12No, I can't hear.

01:10:13What?

01:10:14Oh, allo.

01:10:15Please.

01:10:26What did he say?

01:10:28He does it every night.

01:10:29His wife ran away with a sailor.

01:10:30Did she?

01:10:31Oh, hello.

01:10:32Oh, hello.

01:10:34Mummy.

01:10:35Hello.

01:10:36Hello.

01:10:37Hello.

01:10:38Hello.

01:10:39Oh, she's children.

01:10:41It's wonderful, isn't it?

01:10:42You know what will happen?

01:10:43What happen, too?

01:10:44He'll beg me to leave him alone with that vagabond,

01:10:46but I'll try my best.

01:10:47I can't wait to stop it.

01:10:49If I bring a single surprise to Clara,

01:10:50she'll beg me to stop it.

01:10:51Then more shots and he'll scream again

01:10:52and make it always better.

01:10:54Give it to me.

01:10:55What was the shooting about?

01:10:56We gotta find out.

01:10:57Hello, exchange.

01:10:58Hello, much dear.

01:11:00Ask him what he wants.

01:11:01Don't let him keep all the fun to himself.

01:11:02Oh, really?

01:11:03Hello, exchange.

01:11:04Oh, how will it get out?

01:11:06My dear?

01:11:07My dear?

01:11:08that I take it there's no charge against Mr Parsons Oh no no no so we just had to

01:11:12keep him undercover.

01:11:20Here we are I'm sorry you should find me in these circumstances never mind about

01:11:24that look slip into these we've got to get home my wife was never know about this.

01:11:30Quite we've no time for explanations now there's too much going on what is going

01:11:34on I don't think I want on the telephone telephone. Is there such

01:11:38a thing. Only clear.

01:11:44Hello hello yes I'd hear what they think did well what about it was just

01:11:51a lot we just heard from Claire. Stay in France with Tim.

01:11:57Yeah they hopped it down

01:11:58a bump both of. Sounded like

01:12:04a machine gun that I don't know who did who you know why regular revolution from

01:12:09the sound of things I thought you'd like to know that's just in France but where

01:12:13in France. Yes that's right. I remember.

01:12:21Yes I want you to help me if you will yes I want to try to play for the episode

01:12:25as possible bad news that yes I think my wife may have been abducted to France by

01:12:28a dangerous criminal possibly murder sergeant always there is something.

01:12:49But it's vital we should return at once but yes if you have not French money how

01:12:52can I possibly book you seats for England are you getting married tomorrow. I am

01:12:57powerless I could do nothing even if you are getting divorced. But you have to

01:13:02wait I ask that but don't never stand for it when that case it may all be for the

01:13:06best I find tell you. I don't wait for you to have them always

01:13:13up and wanted to speak. You may be

01:13:18a lot with you it's

01:13:19a weapon the charter plane is just coming in from England to land I will see if I

01:13:23can arrange.

01:13:46To. Get. This gentleman from the police we think we have your criminal detained in

01:13:51my office oh good. Let me tell you. Release him I can play the last

01:13:57thing I'll just tell. You come to me. Thank you and you're

01:14:03alive what are you doing here what do you imagine I say just your imagination not

01:14:08let you down I hope you don't think you're going to get away with it just how the

01:14:11whole thing is as innocent innocent you must think I'm

01:14:13a lunatic in spite of that it's not a bit what you think we'll discuss that on the

01:14:17other side of the channel so this is the man it is. You know this self

01:14:23business is going to be too far. I know it was necessary thank you very much

01:14:29all I should. Thank you. Morning

01:14:35with you this year but I don't. Leave them or leave this book.

01:14:41I was I've gone by and no news nothing since I was going to say they were going to

01:14:45fly to France but nothing in the paper about it I just hope not indeed there's always

01:14:50somebody shooting somebody else in France crimes of passion they call them they

01:14:54we get these people please madam the dresses of the ride for tomorrow take them to

01:14:59the morning room yes send them back. I'm not going to marry him I mean I'm going

01:15:05back with Susan and stay down there but you can't do

01:15:08a thing like that child on the eve of the wedding. Think of the guests and

01:15:15a present think of me I have thought of everything including you I'll see both my

01:15:20daughters married if it's the last thing I ever do what now.

01:15:29It's all safe and sound. Here you are they tell you you're going to be

01:15:34paid to the wedding tomorrow that'll be fun but it's OK you have to carry the

01:15:39train. I love.

01:15:50I tell you we got mixed up with this wedding party and spent the day on

01:15:53a pub crawl that's all it was to it you hear perfectly thank you then why don't you

01:15:58say something my vocabulary is too limited I wouldn't have had it happen for

01:16:02well don't be so hypocritical you enjoyed it as much as I did I cannot see what

01:16:06there is to enjoy an excessive alcoholic indulgence quite.

01:16:11Well I've had the time of my life and I don't mind admitting it I'm sorry how it

01:16:15if I've caused you any inconvenience but I feel as if a gale of fresh air blown

01:16:19through my soul to pity it had to be

01:16:21a French gale by the way in the midst of our various activities I'm going to mention

01:16:27one insignificant item. Perhaps you might be interested to know that Tony has been

01:16:31sent away from school. To do a thing like this is headmaster he's afraid for his

01:16:37other people. When pressed to this. How right you are.

01:16:56And we are.

01:17:01Going to. Where

01:17:12is my Tony. I don't

01:17:19care what you say I think it's a shameful time to come home but we have come home

01:17:23money to all of us don't talk nonsense out of it wherever else could you go to and

01:17:26you need to try to invent a little comedy reunion because I know all about last

01:17:30night you do we'll discuss the matter after the wedding but you know it's not his

01:17:35fault. I never want to speak to you again I'm not going to marry you ever thanks

01:17:40pal thanks for the gale of fresh air. You wicked old man seen Tony

01:17:47playing in the garden I think thank you you've been good but I've been away all

01:17:50along probably go from say we were what about yourself. I wish someone would say

01:17:56with it's off on you can say that again sorry kids have you seen Tony know

01:18:02being Tony that's all this means to her Oh well perhaps I'm wrong

01:18:09but she's got the right idea about marriage after all darling can't you believe that

01:18:13the trip to do that with just a bit of

01:18:14a scapegoat the fact that we missed the boat was just bad luck bad luck for our

01:18:18wedding Tim. No use now we never make

01:18:22a girl but surely you don't believe that Karen I were attracted to each other and

01:18:26that you've known her longer than you have me felt a bit guilty about breaking in

01:18:31an old tradition that's neither generous nor true but it's the way I feel but

01:18:35listen darling I just took care for

01:18:36a drive Tony Tony he's in bed in bed locked in his room you've been spanking him

01:18:44haven't you yes of course of treatment long overdue you promised you'd never lay

01:18:48a finger on him that was when he was ours when he's mine I shall bring him up as I

01:18:51see fit you haven't got him yet and you won't please get out of my way I'll leave

01:18:55him alone or I'll start such

01:18:57a row that they'll hear about it in my next county you can't do that in my home I'll

01:19:00do it in the middle of Trafalgar Square other than that child should be spoilt

01:19:03anymore sit down.

01:19:09But you're always telling others to do darling when to tell if I tell you that I

01:19:12know that you love me I know we're going to be married tomorrow then I'll never

01:19:15marry you never never.

01:19:20Quite sure you won't have

01:19:20a little something yes quite sure I'll be so by the way remind me to write out

01:19:26a prescription for those nerves of yours. It seems we can never agree about Tony

01:19:32that is a pity. I am determined however that he should grow up with a mind of his

01:19:37own and the willpower to use it. I will not have been beaten into

01:19:41a nervous wreck. And if you won't let me keep him I shall divorce you on grounds of

01:19:47cruelty to assault upon our child how will that suit your practice.

01:20:00Do try not to shake remember that there are lots of things about you that show the

01:20:04slightest quiver your veil and your bouquet. I'll remember darling brace yourself

01:20:10and think of mother. May I come in. I don't want to hurry anyone but

01:20:16time's getting on don't agitate Alfred and Joan darling clear your throat before

01:20:21you make

01:20:22a response if nobody really cares about how to give responses. To you from behind

01:20:28that's where all the eyes really are.

01:20:31That's. That's great. I think that's beautiful.

01:20:40I don't. Think this I've got to give Joan mother's purse

01:20:47yes all that fuss last night you know how much mother wanted to wear them. But I'm

01:20:52still at the crown couldn't you put everything at them I can't there isn't time

01:20:56can't you send somebody over. If they've all left the church what about Charles what

01:21:01a best man for. He's lost his collar studies are not for that. But you've got to do

01:21:07something I've got an idea you run across the field to the old cottage I'll meet you

01:21:11then about two minutes good I'll be right over. You can't go like that.

01:21:19Well you might have told me.

01:21:26To go away. Time you were off to church just look at you I'm not going oh yes you

01:21:32are I'm going to finish my. Thank you Tony come here look at my

01:21:38cottage the little blighter help me with him when you haven't got much.

01:21:41To. Get this thing over that I can.

01:21:58Find. Tony.

01:22:04I can't I must finish my picture nobody's going to stop me otherwise I shall suffer

01:22:09from frustration you wait till your father hears about this you'll make

01:22:13a laughing stock of the neighborhood I had all this kind of stuff that immediately

01:22:17come and open this door and I'm not afraid of being bullied you've always told me

01:22:20not to be Tony.

01:22:26Five of any good. Hello yes Mr Parsons here

01:22:33oh yes Charles I've lost him he went off to meet Claire.

01:22:40It's nearly time that he was married I agree I thought. That's clear.

01:22:48With who. If you don't know why should I find my wife I suppose you have

01:22:55a team after Tony what is he missing Joe I can't find him. What are you going to do

01:23:02I don't know what to think and Tim both missing surely they haven't gone off

01:23:06together again I won't believe it I don't think you'll go to the church come what

01:23:10may. And soon quickly.

01:23:18After he told you the last possible moment of the wedding time you better take out

01:23:23with. Daddy I don't think we ought to be making

01:23:30a start with plenty of time down in plenty of time but you are going to just want to

01:23:35get rid of your mother that's what you do myself for

01:23:37a moment. I'm coming.

01:23:56To. Get you clean if I have to scrape you.

01:24:00You. There's something wrong daddy I know there is you're afraid to tell me no no

01:24:07of course not I can't be going out of the cars waiting Tim forgot these are you

01:24:12simply must wear them Oh thank you. I was beginning to think something has happened

01:24:16in the house is. Right.

01:24:35I think it's better if we have

01:24:36a man over here. It's quite.

01:24:47Now. That's better isn't it.

01:24:53The old team. Now hold it. Thank you so much.

01:25:08Wait till I get my hands on you're not going to thank him again aren't I know I am

01:25:14you don't do it hard enough. Let's talk it over first.

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

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