Fame Is the Spur (1947)
Passed | 1h 36min | Drama | 30 November 1949 (USA)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting
Writers: Howard Spring (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles
Passed | 1h 36min | Drama | 30 November 1949 (USA)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting
Writers: Howard Spring (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles
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01:30Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
01:34that last infirmity of noble mind,
01:37to scorn delights and live laborious days.
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01:52Come on, Mrs. Hannaway.
01:54Hunters will be going before you've got your stays on.
02:01Up there against George, you lad.
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02:12Come here, old bottom, it's eight past five.
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02:22You, Mrs. Redshaw?
02:24Ah, time's getting on.
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02:58Hello.
02:59Hello, son. What are you awake for?
03:01You go to sleep.
03:03Dad?
03:04I'm off now.
03:05It's all ready. You won't have got to put the kettle on.
03:07All right.
03:08See he has his breakfast properly. It's a nasty morning.
03:10And get him off to school in good time. He was late yesterday.
03:13Don't you worry. I'll see to him.
03:15Wish I could go for you, morning like this.
03:18Well, you can't, so you stay where you are.
03:23Well, goodbye, son.
03:26Mind you come straight home from school this evening, see?
03:29And you and Arnold keep away from that Tom Hannaway.
03:32All right, Mum.
03:34Goodbye.
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04:02Hey, you two. Keep away from them rats.
04:05Them rats are valuable.
04:08Lean it down there.
04:10Junk. No good to nobody.
04:12Not worth taking away.
04:14What do you think a lot like that's worth?
04:16Two rats, please.
04:17What, two rats?
04:19You bar me.
04:20Here.
04:24Take this and think yourself lucky.
04:26It's worth more than one.
04:28Hey, look at that board.
04:29My decision's final, see?
04:31You can have a book for that.
04:32And if you bring me the rest of it, I've got a nice door here, see?
04:35Well, do you want it?
04:36All right.
04:38That's the idea.
04:39Hey, that's a good idea.
04:41Get a book and a door and you can read your own.
04:43Very good idea, wouldn't it be?
04:44Top every kid in the street reading his own.
04:46Where should I be?
04:47But you said you'd give him a door if...
04:49That's what you thought, I said, Arnold Ryerson.
04:51But the price of one end of a bed is a book.
04:53So the price of the other end's a book.
04:55That sense, isn't it?
04:57Wish I had a rat.
04:58You do, eh?
05:01Well, you get away over there.
05:03Not too far away where I can call you.
05:05Then when I get someone here, I'll call to you and say,
05:08You was here and saw me buy this.
05:10Whatever it is.
05:11What did I pay for it?
05:13Then you just look down at my hand.
05:15And if I hold up my thumb like this, you say sixpence.
05:18Two fingers, you say a shilling.
05:20And so on, see?
05:21But we don't know what you gave for nothing.
05:23What's that matter, Arnold?
05:24This is business.
05:25Here.
05:27There they are.
05:28The loveliest book I've got.
05:30But that's cheating.
05:31How about it?
05:32You want to write, don't you?
05:35Oh, come on, Hamer.
05:37You don't really want it.
05:38Your mother would never let you keep it anyway.
05:43That's right.
05:44You go home to your mother, Raymer Redshaw, you ninny.
05:46And don't you come back again, Arnold Ryerson,
05:48or I'll kick your teeth down your throat.
05:50Well, then you go home.
05:52And what do you find when you get there?
05:54Five or six of you in a room that's only just comfortable enough for two.
05:58You can't afford more.
06:00And why can't you?
06:01Because you've got to pay rent to somebody.
06:04To Mr. Jones or Mr. Smith.
06:06But he doesn't get the rent, my friends.
06:08Oh, no.
06:09He's just the agent for the Right Honourable Earl of Lost Willow.
06:13Does his lordship work in the mill town?
06:15No.
06:16Does his lordship have to sleep five in a room?
06:18No.
06:19Now his lordship lives in luxury on the rent you pay him.
06:22A few poor shillings you earn by the sweat of your brow.
06:25Yes.
06:26My friends, our forefathers had a cry.
06:30Bread and liberty.
06:32That's all they asked for.
06:34Bread and liberty.
06:35We've got a sword in our house.
06:36It's all about that.
06:37Shoot him.
06:38I want to hear.
06:39We're not the first to have to put up this fight.
06:42This fight's been going on for hundreds of years.
06:44And he shouted and banged his hands like this.
06:47And all the people shouted.
06:48And he held up his hand and they were quiet.
06:50He told them to sing and they all sang.
06:52He could make them do anything.
06:53That'll have been Sam Bamford.
06:55Sam Bamford?
06:57No.
06:58No, it wouldn't be so.
07:00Sam Bamford's been dead 40 years, so it wouldn't be him.
07:03Then who could it have been?
07:05Oh, there's plenty about that's got the gift of the gab
07:07and don't care what they say.
07:08It's not so rare.
07:11Well, he said bread and liberty.
07:13Just like Grandpa's man.
07:14Bread and liberty.
07:17Grandpa, tell about Sabre.
07:19Sabre?
07:21You heard what your mother said.
07:23Sam Bamford, dead 40 years.
07:26Go on, Grandpa.
07:27Tell it.
07:28Tell it yourself.
07:30Reckon you're pretty near cold.
07:401819 it was, and the Battle of Waterloo.
07:45The Battle of Waterloo was four years before it.
07:51I was a fine big lad then and...
07:54Emma...
07:56Emma and me both worked in the same mill.
08:01But we didn't go to work that day.
08:04Nobody did.
08:06It was like a holiday.
08:08With everybody in their best clothes and singing and the band playing.
08:13And there was Sam Bamford.
08:16With green leaves in his hat.
08:19And he says to me,
08:20Come on, lad.
08:22You two make on some pair to march at Ted of Cullum.
08:25I said, what's it all about, Sam?
08:28You'll see soon enough, he says.
08:31It's about bread and about liberty.
08:34We're going to march into Manchester.
08:36And it's all got to be orderly and respectable and no nonsense.
08:42I never saw anything like it.
08:45A number of people.
08:48Poor Emma was tired when we got there.
08:51And there were so many of us, we couldn't move.
08:55If only we'd known.
08:58If only I'd thought.
09:02Then he came at us like mad.
09:04I said to Emma, get behind me, love.
09:06And over onto my coat.
09:08I started to push my way through.
09:11Then I saw him with his grey horse and his sabre all bloody.
09:16And I couldn't believe it.
09:18I saw the people begin to fall.
09:20I shouted to him.
09:22What are you doing, you crazy fool?
09:25You're a poor man, Nyquist, aren't you?
09:27Then he was honest.
09:29I saw the sweep of the sabre.
09:32And he was gone.
09:35When I got up and turned to Emma, she was dead.
09:48I went in search of that dragoon.
09:52I found him spurring into the crowd with his sabre lifted to kill again.
09:59The sabre fell from his hand.
10:02And I picked it up and carried it off and did it.
10:06And kept it all through the years.
10:12There it is then, young fellow.
10:14A sabre from Peterloo.
10:17Waterloo, 1815, when we beat Pony Park.
10:21Peterloo, 1819.
10:24Waterloo, 1819.
10:27When harmless people were...
10:29Mind you, I never quite see what some Bumford and them was after.
10:34But it weren't no harm.
10:36And they didn't ought to have killed people like that.
10:39Maybe when you're older, you'll see what it means better than I ever did.
10:45Waterloo, 1815.
10:48Peterloo, 18...
10:501819.
10:52Good lad.
10:53Don't have that down, blummin' old thing.
10:57Now, come on, son. Why don't you go upstairs and read your book?
11:24Britain Liberty
11:35Britain Liberty
11:54Hamer.
11:59Hamer.
12:03Yes, Mr. Sutterby.
12:05Hamer, where did we put that volume of Owen Meredith?
12:11I've got it back here, Mr. Sutterby.
12:18There you are, sir. Thank you.
12:35What are you on to now, Hamer?
12:38Rousseau. Poor old Jean-Jacques.
12:42And you can manage that in the French?
12:44Oh, yes.
12:46Well, your French has been coming on very fast.
12:48I've been getting up at six and doing two hours before breakfast started.
12:52What are you going to do with it all?
12:55What do you mean, Mr. Sutterby?
12:57Well, how old is it? In your twenties. You've been here five years.
13:00That's all right. Not too much to do in shop and all the books you want.
13:05I pay you ten shillings a week and maybe one day it'll be fifteen shillings.
13:12But you've got a long way to go, Hamer.
13:16You can't get far in a second-hand bookshop.
13:20I want to learn my job.
13:22What job, lad?
13:23The job I've got to do.
13:25To make things fairer.
13:28To get rid of all this poverty and dirt.
13:32Well, to talk to people and make them see that all this has got to be changed.
13:36And everyone's got to have enough to eat.
13:38You're going to put the world right, eh?
13:41I'm going to try.
13:42Well, that's not a bad thing to do when you're young.
13:45You might even make a living at it. Some do.
13:48But not everything you've got to learn for that comes out of books.
13:56Here comes your pupil.
14:01Good afternoon, Miss Artingstall.
14:03Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Mr. Radshaw.
14:07Good afternoon, Miss Artingstall.
14:09What revolutionary stuff has he been giving you now?
14:12Our student's introduction to Karl Marx?
14:15I don't know what your father would say.
14:17Neither do I. Luckily, Daddy doesn't read much.
14:20Well, if Hamer turns you into a radical, I'll disclaim all responsibility.
14:28Well, have you read it?
14:30Yes. At least...
14:32All of it?
14:33Well, it's a bit solid.
14:36Solid, but not hollow.
14:38I think it's all rather horrid.
14:40Oh, of course it is. For the rich.
14:43I didn't mean that. I mean...
14:45It's horrid that there should be so many people as poor as that.
14:48Horrid. What a nice, ladylike word.
14:52A wet day is horrid, but poverty is horrible.
14:56You think what he wants is possible?
14:59Possible and certain. It must come.
15:01It would be good if it did.
15:04Not for you.
15:06Well, not for you. I'd for that matter. You're not a worker. Not the way he means.
15:10Nonsense. Of course I am. I'm...
15:12I mean, I'm not a labourer, but I work.
15:14I earn my living instead of being a parasite who lives on other people's work.
15:18I'm...
15:19What should I read next, Mr. Redshaw?
15:39Hello there, my lad.
15:41Hello.
15:42Sorry to hear about your grandad.
15:44He did pop off sudden, didn't he?
15:46Aye, it was sudden.
15:47I only heard about it this morning, you know.
15:49Fair took me back.
15:50Nobody guessed how ill he was.
15:52What's you and your mother going to do now?
15:55I shouldn't reckon the two of you'll get very fat out of old sodomy.
15:58No.
15:59I was going to say, if he was looking for a job...
16:01What?
16:02Well, I want somebody with me, you know, to go round to market in mornings, pick up the stuff.
16:06I've got a lot of interests, I have. I've hardly got time to get around properly.
16:10What would you pay?
16:11Fifteen shillings a week, a bit more as it grows.
16:14It's heavy work, you know, some of it.
16:16All right, I'll do it.
16:17When do I start?
16:19Five o'clock tomorrow morning, lad.
16:41Wake up, Emma, lad. You've hardly started yet.
17:42Hey, Mum.
17:45It's half past one.
17:47Three hours' time you'll have to be up.
17:49You must get some sleep, son.
17:51Sleep.
17:53Sleep never got anyone anywhere.
17:54But you can't work all day and all night, too.
17:56You'll kill yourself.
17:58I'm dead now, Mum.
18:02This is going to bring me alive.
18:09Give me four new branches in four years.
18:11It's too slow, Hema.
18:13I'll be a hundred years old before we got a good business at this rate.
18:30Hema.
18:32Arnold Ryerson.
18:34How are you, Arnold?
18:35Come on in.
18:38Sit down, Arnold.
18:40Well, how's everything?
18:42Oh, not too bad.
18:44You and Tom are going ahead.
18:46Tom's always going somewhere.
18:50Well, how's the printing trade?
18:52Oh, not so bad.
18:54You've been doing a lot of speaking, they tell me, down at the working man's club and so on.
18:58I find politics quite a relief from selling cabbages.
19:01Would you like to do a bit more to it?
19:03How?
19:04Well, old Rochester, the old MP for St. Swithin's, has died.
19:08Yes?
19:09And they think it's time we ran a candidate of our own.
19:12And who do they think should stand?
19:15Well, they've asked me.
19:20Oh, very good choice, too.
19:22I congratulate you, Arnold.
19:24Thanks, Hema.
19:25I don't need as much chance of getting in, you know, but we might give them a fight.
19:28The union's pretty strong there.
19:30Of course, that's the only reason they asked me, because I've been doing the organizing.
19:34Who's backing you?
19:35You mean money?
19:36A Miss Leithaler, chiefly.
19:37It won't cost much.
19:38Of course, I got no money.
19:40Who's against you?
19:41Lord Liscard.
19:42Old lust with you, son.
19:44That's right.
19:45What I wondered was whether you'd come over and give us a hand, Hema.
19:49You mean speak?
19:50Yes.
19:51Nothing formal, I don't mean.
19:52Just a few words from the audience, like, to get things going.
19:54Well, if you don't mind, something impromptu.
19:57Of course not.
19:58I haven't got the gift of it anyhow.
20:00Well, I'll expect to see you then.
20:02Well, if I can get away.
20:04Goodbye, Arnold.
20:05Goodbye and thanks.
20:22Mr. Chairman, ladies...
20:24No, Madam Chairman.
20:28Madam Chairman, ladies and gentlemen,
20:31when I entered this hall tonight, it was not in my mind to address you.
20:36But there are times when the words that leap,
20:40that spring spontaneously to the lips...
20:43Hey, you!
20:47What are you doing here?
20:48Reading.
20:49Is that a crime in England?
20:51Reading?
20:52You're trespassing me, lad.
20:53This is the Earl of Loughboroughshire's property.
20:55You walk yourself off and be quick about it.
20:57I'm doing no harm.
20:58No harm? You'll be off.
21:00You spit when you speak.
21:01Do you do it on purpose or can't you help it?
21:03Look, lad, none of your lip.
21:04You get out and get out quick or I'll...
21:06You'll what?
21:07I'll show you.
21:09Keep your hands off me.
21:10Oh, so it's like that, is it?
21:13See this?
21:14Now you get going before you get a charge of shutting your backside.
21:20What on earth is going on here?
21:24Richards!
21:25Good afternoon, Madam.
21:26I regret that I've been compelled to give one of your keepers a lesson in manners.
21:29What's been happening, Richards?
21:31This young fellow's trespassing.
21:33And throwing paper muck about your ladyship.
21:35This is private property.
21:37Will you kindly go?
21:38Yes, Madam.
21:39And I apologise for having made use of the view and...
21:42and even the air without paying you rent for it.
21:45It would be more to the point if you apologised for assaulting a man 20 years older than yourself.
21:50Your cap is on the ground there.
21:53And your paper bag, or whatever it is.
21:57Good afternoon.
22:02While those who own the means of production take 2,375,000 pounds,
22:10well now, those figures show what the working man gets out of it all.
22:16And what we've got to ask ourselves is...
22:20What we've got to ask ourselves is, is it right and proper and justice
22:26that one man should get more than he wants
22:29and another so little that he can't keep body and soul together?
22:33Well, it stands to reason it can't be, doesn't it?
22:36Well, that's what we say and that's what we are fighting for.
22:41APPLAUSE
22:48Now, ladies and gentlemen, any questions for the candidate?
22:54Come along now.
22:55Don't mind if you agree with us or disagree,
22:57as long as we get the thing talked out frankly and intelligently.
23:02Madam Chairman.
23:03Ah, yes, sir.
23:06I have no question to put to the candidate,
23:09but I have one that I have often put to myself,
23:12which I should like to put to every man and woman in this room.
23:18It's a very simple question.
23:20You and I were born poor, born without rights,
23:25born to labour all our days, to keep roofs over our heads,
23:30to get a bare living for our loved ones.
23:32Yet some few others, with no gift, no special virtue,
23:39are born to ease and luxury.
23:42The houses we live in are theirs and we must pay to live in them.
23:46The very fields which, with unconscious irony, we call our land,
23:52belong to them.
23:54And if we enter their fields, we are bustled off as vulgar trespassers.
23:58Why is this?
24:02My friends, you will remember our Lord's question to the Pharisees.
24:08Is this from heaven or of men?
24:12And that is the question I would like to put to you about the life of the poor and the rich.
24:16Did God ordain it?
24:18This contrast between sweat and ease, between want and luxury?
24:23Or is it the product of man?
24:25Of greed, of selfishness?
24:35Hey, man, that was grand.
24:37What wouldn't I get to be able to do that?
24:39Nothing, they just needed something.
24:41Where's your next meeting?
24:42Tomorrow at Fortingly.
24:43Oh, but tonight, there's no time to be lost.
24:45I've no whole book for tonight.
24:46Well, get me a box or a cart or anything.
24:48We'll go down to the market square.
24:49What, now?
24:50Yes, now.
24:51Oh, you haven't met Miss Lightowl, have you?
24:53She's the chairman of our campaign committee.
24:55Good speech, young man.
24:56Oh, it was nothing.
24:57Maybe, but it sounded all right.
24:59My niece says she knows you.
25:00How do you do?
25:02It's years since we met.
25:03Yes.
25:04I hardly expected to meet you on a labor platform.
25:07Oh, but don't you realize I'm one of your converts?
25:10Well, come on, Arnold.
25:11It's a long way to Westminster.
25:13Next stop, the market square.
25:14Are you coming?
25:15Of course he's coming.
25:16We're all coming.
25:17Lead on, young man.
25:19Well, come on, Pandya.
25:26For our crusade, I give you a text.
25:30I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
25:35But I ask to serve you as my father served you,
25:39as my grandfather served you.
25:44And as his father served you, for him.
25:49I therefore ask you to vote for him.
25:52Yes, sir.
25:59Oh!
26:00Oh!
26:01Oh!
26:02Oh!
26:03Oh!
26:04Oh!
26:05Oh!
26:06Oh!
26:07Oh!
26:08Oh!
26:09Oh!
26:10Oh!
26:11Oh!
26:13Oh!
26:18Good morning, madam.
26:19Is your husband voting for Mr. Ryerson and Freedom?
26:22If he doesn't, he'll get biggest hardiness in his life, Mr. Radshaw.
26:27Gentlemen!
26:28Gentlemen, I beg you to listen please, gentlemen.
26:32Please, gentlemen.
26:42So you've started to appeal to decency now.
26:44Well, let me tell you this, sir.
26:46A man who appeals to decency during an election is a man who knows he's losing.
26:50Rotten me this isn't a parish tea.
26:52It's just that I felt that this fellow Radshaw was offending a lot of the steadier elements.
26:56Steadier elements? There aren't any steadier elements.
26:58Any waster's got a vote now.
27:00His play-acting stuff will get every vote in the district.
27:03What you want are some men.
27:05Some good, reliable fellows who will pull him off his soapbox,
27:08shove him in the river when he talks his revolutionary twaddle.
27:11Why, when my father was elected, his tenants held the bridge for eight hours
27:15so that the wigs couldn't get to the bowl.
27:17I know, Father, but you can't do things like that nowadays.
27:20Anyway, I can't believe that many people want to be represented by a man like Ryerson.
27:24Like Ryerson? It doesn't matter.
27:26Tinker's cursed. It's this fellow who barks for him.
27:28Well, go on and get out.
27:30It's no good standing there looking like a fish.
27:32Go out and fight him.
27:34You've got the name and you've got the money.
27:36Go out and fight him instead of beating about decency.
27:39Promise him something. That's what they want, promises.
27:42Lips out like this other fellow gives them.
27:44Send letters out to sell kisses for votes,
27:47like Georgiana did for Charlie Fox.
27:49Anything.
27:50I doubt that would get him far.
27:52Don't you believe it, my dear?
27:54They'd vote for him, for a kiss from you.
27:56Nearly would myself, knowing him to be just a damp, wet fish.
28:00But if he can't put you into places and put you up,
28:03but if he can't put you into places and put you up,
28:06you'll get in by a gad you would.
28:08Well, I warn everybody that if I have to start kissing people in this election,
28:12I shall begin with the rival candidate.
28:14He's my fancy.
28:15What, Ryerson? That ninny?
28:17No, the other one.
28:19Radshaw.
28:20I don't admire your taste, let it.
28:22He's very handsome, isn't he, Buck?
28:24Yes, my dear.
28:25He'd look even prettier still with a rotten egg in his eye.
28:27Well, go on, go on, get on with it.
28:30You'd better go with him, he's not fit to cross the street alone.
28:37Come on, Charles.
29:00Come on, Charles.
29:20You Hanover?
29:21Aye, my lord.
29:23You, uh, tenant of mine?
29:26Aye, my lord.
29:28I see.
29:29Well, look, I don't have radical tenants.
29:32I'm no radical, my lord.
29:34Aren't you, though?
29:35Nay, I'm one of the old school myself.
29:37Don't you employ this, uh, chap, this, um, Radshaw?
29:42Aye, my lord.
29:44Good Tory to employ a chap of that kind.
29:47Won't do, anyway.
29:49Either he goes, or you do. See?
29:52Look here, my lord, the places I got from you I pay good money for.
29:56Better than you ever had for them before.
29:58If what you're saying to me is if I don't do this or don't do that you'll give me notice,
30:02all I can say is, well, go on, give away.
30:04I'm not a widow with six kids, you know.
30:06I can find somewhere else and I can pay for it.
30:08So if there's nothing more you want, I'll just be saying good morning.
30:11So you won't get rid of this chap, eh?
30:13I'll do what I think's good for my business, my lord. Good morning.
30:17Uh, Mr. Hanover.
30:20Aye, my lord.
30:21Come and sit down and let me put this to you another way.
30:25Well, I hope it's a better way than the last one, my lord.
30:28Yes, yes, yes. I ought to have seen you were a man of some independence.
30:31Sit down and let's talk business.
30:34Business, my lord?
30:36That's the thing, I'm always ready to talk with anybody.
30:39Now, this man, I'm sure, he's a really important student.
30:50Hello, Hamer.
30:51Hello, Tom.
30:54Oh, this is a nice place you've got here.
30:56Have you bought it or are you just renting it?
30:58It's Miss Lightowell as I'm staying here.
31:00Are you sleeping here as well?
31:01Yes.
31:02Oh, well, that's rather what I wanted to talk to you about, Hamer.
31:06Things is not going too well with the shops.
31:08Oh, sorry about that. What's wrong?
31:10You know how it is, nobody in charge, nothing getting done.
31:13When can we reckon on you coming back?
31:16Immediately after the election, four days' time.
31:18Four days, that's a long time.
31:21It's what we agreed.
31:22I know that, but that was before we knew there was going to be all this trouble.
31:27I reckon you ought to come back before that, Hamer.
31:30When do you suggest?
31:32Tomorrow, or the day after at latest.
31:34And leave all my work here?
31:36Well, your work here isn't going to make your living for you, is it, lad?
31:39Why have you suddenly thought of all this?
31:42Oh, come on, Tom, I'm not as dull as all that.
31:44You want me out of this election, why?
31:46Now, look here, Hamer, lad.
31:48You and me's known one another for quite a long time.
31:50We can afford to be frank, see.
31:52All this work you're doing here, you know,
31:54this tub-thumping and getting your name into papers,
31:56it isn't doing you any good, you know.
31:57Why?
31:58Why? Because it's getting you up against people you can't afford to be up against
32:02and that I can't afford to be up against either.
32:05Ah.
32:07So you've been talking to his lordship?
32:10Never you mind who I've been talking to.
32:12What I'm telling you is for your own good.
32:14Well, how much?
32:16What do you mean, how much?
32:18How much is it worth in cash to have me out of sense with him?
32:21Oh, don't talk like a fool, Hamer.
32:23Come, business is business.
32:25You say I can't afford to be up against somebody.
32:27Well, what can somebody afford not to be up against me?
32:30Now, look here, Hamer, lad, you've got a good steady job
32:33and maybe soon it might run into a bit more.
32:37How much more?
32:39Well, maybe ten shillings a week.
32:42And where's your profit in that, Tom?
32:46Look, I'll do a deal with you.
32:48You go back to his lordship and get him to write out and sign a proper contract.
32:52In consideration for Mr. Hamer Rudshaw withdrawing from all part in the sense with him's election
32:57I hereby undertake to pay the said Hamer Rudshaw a bribe of not less than...
33:01You're crazy.
33:07Goodbye, Tom.
33:10All right.
33:12But don't think you can come back to me for a job, that's all.
33:15I don't think so.
33:17From now on I'll have to manage selling brains instead of cabbages.
33:20And, Tom, this time I'll try and sell them without putting dirt on them to make them way heavy.
33:42In ten minutes we shall know.
34:13Goodbye, Buck.
34:15There you are.
34:17There you are.
34:19That'll show you who your benefactors are.
34:21Good old Buck.
34:23Good old Buck.
34:25Hello, there's Mr. Redshaw.
34:27Talking to Greengrocer.
34:28How do, Redshaw?
34:29Back to the carrots tomorrow morning, eh?
34:32Somebody offered me a bigger bribe to go into another business.
34:35What sort of business?
34:36Jeep jack?
34:42That's the man you ought to watch.
34:44Maybe all right this time with a bit of luck, but you watch that fellow.
35:12The by-election is on.
35:15For this card, 24,600.
35:21Mr. Ryerson, 23,800.
35:30What's he say? I can't hear.
35:32This goes in by 1,800.
35:34Get on this card. Hooray.
35:36Reckon if it had been Redshaw, he'd have walked in.
35:38Redshaw? He'd have been kicked out, you mean?
35:41Come on, now.
36:12Come on.
36:24Get on this card.
36:42Well?
36:46Within two years, old Lost Withiel will die.
36:49This card will go to the Lords.
36:51And may the Lord help them.
36:54There'll be a by-election.
36:56I shall stand for this constituency, and I'll win it.
37:02Will you help me, Anne?
37:04Yes, him.
37:06If I can.
37:07That's the first step.
37:09Only the first.
37:11What are the other steps?
37:13They go a long way, out of sight.
37:16Yes, they can go wherever you like, as far as you like.
37:22Anne, come here, Anne.
37:30Will you go with me, see where they go?
37:33You think that would help?
37:35Shall I go if you don't?
37:37You can't go if you don't.
37:39Nonsense, Hamie, you've no choice.
37:41Don't you want to come with me?
37:43Yes, but I'm not sure how much good I can be.
37:48Come and see, darling.
38:07We want Mitchell!