The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves, shocking the stifling society in which she lives, in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams. Starring Judy Cornwell, Barbara Hicks, Pippa Guard, Christopher Blake, Ray Smith, Anton Lesser, John Moulder Brown, Michael Troughton & Julie Dawn Cole.
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00:29Oh, you beauty.
00:56I wish I was riding you, instead of doing Latin.
01:04Well, Master Tulliver, here is a new companion for you, sir.
01:07Come in, sir, come in, don't hover in the cold.
01:09A new companion, sir. Does that please you?
01:11Yes, sir.
01:12I rather thought it would, Master Tulliver.
01:14Now you will no longer have to endure my undivided attention.
01:17How is your preparation this evening?
01:19Now, shake hands, boys, shake hands, distinguish yourselves as gentlemen.
01:23Master Tulliver, Master Wakeham.
01:25Wakeham?
01:26You already know each other?
01:27No, sir, but I think my father knows Mr. Tulliver.
01:29Knows him?
01:30You know very well they're sworn enemies.
01:32Enough, sir. What is this nonsense?
01:33My father hates his father.
01:35He says all lawyers are rascals and made by the devil.
01:37Does he indeed?
01:38Well, that is no concern of ours, sir.
01:40And I will not have ill will between my pupils.
01:42Do you understand, sir?
01:43Yes, sir.
01:44Yes, sir. Indeed, sir.
01:46And now, Master Wakeham, if you'll go to the fire whilst I take this gentleman to task regarding other matters.
01:52This, Master Tulliver, transcends the bounds of all possible stupidity.
01:57It is also in a disgusting condition.
01:59Have you been throwing ink at your paper throughout the entire preparation period?
02:03Fell off the pen, sir.
02:04You're clearly a boy whose powers will never be developed by means of the Latin grammar.
02:08No, sir.
02:09No, sir?
02:10Yes, sir, I say.
02:11To instill into that thick head, sir, that is the only basis of solid instruction.
02:15Do you understand, sir?
02:16Yes, sir.
02:17All other methods of education are mere charlatanism and will produce nothing better than smatterers.
02:21Do you wish to be a smatterer, sir?
02:23No, sir.
02:24Do you wish to be a smatterer, Master Wakeham?
02:26No, sir.
02:27No, sir. Indeed, not, sir.
02:29But unlike Tulliver here, you are not a thoroughly stupid lad.
02:32Have you no interest at all in what you're doing?
02:35No, sir.
02:36None at all.
02:38I see.
02:40Seems your faculties fail you, Master Tulliver, as soon as you're confronted by the pages of the Eton Grammar.
02:46And as to the demonstration that two given triangles must be equal, you're an estate bordering on idiocy.
02:54Tell me, Master Tulliver, which would you rather decline?
02:59Roast beef?
03:00Or the Latin for it?
03:01Roast beef, sir.
03:02Ah, so you have declined roast beef.
03:05I must see to it that Master Wakeham has your share of dinner.
03:13You will stay in tomorrow afternoon, rain or shine, and do extra Latin preparation.
03:17Now, I will leave you to make acquaintance on your own before the dinner gone.
03:21No inky fingers, sir.
03:23Gentlemen with inky fingers, dine al fresco.
03:29Is that the age of 20,000?
03:30No.
03:31I didn't want toput your markers as well.
03:32Do extra credentials.
03:34I will be here.
03:36Good morning.
03:37I will be here.
03:38I am at a Jeffrey knapp.
03:39But I am façon of a parishioner toệm.
03:42I am at a close-eye chat.
03:43Have ahertz transaction on your recommended occasions.
03:47You are overwhelmed from things like I'm passing, but we are blessed in the French eddie.
03:49The only way the same running guard is just between us autumn, but we are close-ups.
03:52From there to learn over the searchimi tanto it canруг.
03:53how can i work if you do that i'm sorry what are you doing go away if it's latin i might be able
04:05to help i don't want your help you're not going to play no spiteful tricks on me i only wanted
04:11to be friends who wants a silly humpback as a friend time for bed my girl just one more page mother
04:24what you're reading lass come come and show me
04:29spoiling her eyes at books all the time it's not good for her see that's as far as i've got
04:39that old woman in the water there is a witch and they're trying to drown her and that one there
04:45is a blacksmith no he's really the devil he just looks like a blacksmith except his eyes all head
04:53lord have mercy what books the child got hold of history of the devil for daniel de ford maggie
05:01tulliver i like the pictures you told me you were reading pilgrim's progress well devil's in that too
05:07bed or a whipping off your door lass as your mother says
05:12good night father i'll be up to see you shortly my girl
05:21good night lass
05:23ollie's at her books bless her heart
05:32hmm them turn to trouble one day you'll see
05:36oh it's not good for her
05:37still i warrant she understands them better than folk twice her age
05:41yeah you should hear her read mrs t straight off them as though she knew it all beforehand
05:48i've told you before jeremy these books should be hidden high enough for her not to find them
05:53ah they're not good for her a woman has no business being clever
05:57haven't i always said the child will learn nothing but more mischief from reading
06:02all the same i could wish you were the lad instead of tom
06:05hey maggie'd be a real match for lawyers like wakeham
06:09shame on you jeremy tom's not stupid not stupid no but he's slow with his tongue and his spelling's all wrong
06:18he can't abide books the lad's got a notion for outdoor things and nothing else
06:23you'd never hear him say sharp things like the little wench
06:26no that's true
06:29oh so quiet with tom away at school
06:34peaceful
06:35what will it be like when maggie goes away next year
06:39ah she seems to fill the house somehow that little wench
06:44hmm fills it with mischief
06:46jeremy
06:48is he happy do you think away from home
06:52oh please we sent him there mrs t
06:55stelling's a first-rate man
06:57but he has nobody to play with does he
07:01at jacob's academy he had so many friends
07:04am i to have burnt offerings for me tea
07:11oh oh oh dear
07:13if right if right head up lad head up
07:17right wheel
07:18my shoulder hurts mr poulter
07:26very nothing hurts the soldier lad
07:30if
07:30if
07:31could we do ground arms instead
07:33truly does hurt
07:36halt
07:37did you hear me say you could stop lad
07:44no sir but me shoulder
07:47worked
07:47you'll never make a fighter lad if you treat your weapon like an old bone
07:52guns is for hanging on to not for flinging away
07:55was general wolf a good fighter mr poulter
08:03no not at all nothing of the sort don't talk to me about general wolf
08:09he'd done nothing but die of his wounds that's a poor action isn't it
08:15if you'd seen the wound i had lad
08:18it's medicinal
08:22worried a big wound
08:24big
08:25huge it were
08:27healed in no time at all
08:29surgeon said he'd never seen flesh like it
08:32duke of wellington himself
08:35in strict privacy who understands so as not to make the others jealous
08:39wellington says
08:40poulter he says
08:42i am impressed
08:44with the superiority of your flesh
08:47don't talk to me of no general wolves
08:51just one of my sword cuts for to cut a puny thing like wolf in half
08:55that sword
08:57this very sword
08:58did it ever cut a frenchman's head off
09:00often not often
09:01if they'd grown three heads on their shoulders
09:04this sword sharp enough to tack them off with one twitch
09:07did you have a gun
09:09and a bernet too
09:10i'd like that better i think
09:12then you could shoot him first
09:14bang
09:15and spear him after
09:16but a sword's the thing when it comes to close fighting
09:20one
09:23two
09:24three
09:25four
09:25hunger
09:26will you teach me how mr poulter
09:29teach you what lad
09:31teach me to fight with your sword
09:33please
09:34the sword's too heavy for a lad
09:37no it ain't
09:38let me try i'll show you
09:40use this stick here as a sword
09:50to start with you
09:51we'll see what you do with the real thing
09:53when you've got some muscles on your arms
09:55like this
09:57no no it ain't
09:59no you're not a windmill
10:01hey
10:03here
10:05here
10:05on your horse lad
10:07take your reins
10:09now
10:11One, two, three, four.
10:35En garde!
10:36Oh, you great lumbering idiot.
10:38Don't go bellowing at me like that.
10:39You're not fit to speak to anything but a card horse.
10:42I'm fit to speak to something better than you, you deformed ninny.
10:46You're no better than a girl.
10:47La, la, la, at the piano all day.
10:49Get out. Leave me alone.
10:50You can't even do drilling with Mr. Poulter. You're so puny.
10:52Get out! Get out!
10:53I wouldn't stay here for a hundred guineas.
10:58I'm an honest man, son.
10:59And your father's a rogue. Everybody says so.
11:04You're nothing but an ill-natured humpback.
11:09You have to stay here for sure.
11:11Get out of the way, Jversion.
11:12You better run it.
11:13Ok.
11:13Get out of the way.
11:14See.
11:14I'll do it.
11:31The house במ�eness is on TV board.
11:32What are you doing?
11:47Please, don't tear it up.
11:51It's a donkey.
11:53With baniards.
12:00What's this?
12:01It's partridges in a cornfield.
12:03See, there's one of them.
12:04And the other's under that tree flying away.
12:08The miss is telling me to teach me drawing this half.
12:11I expect I should do it better than you.
12:13You can do it without learning. I was never taught.
12:17Well, I dare say I could do dogs and horses now if I tried.
12:19It's easy.
12:20You just look at things a long time and then you draw them over and over again until you get them right.
12:24I'll show you if you like.
12:26Were you ever taught Latin?
12:28Latin and Greek and Mathematics.
12:30I can't think why anyone wants to learn Latin.
12:33My father says it's part of the education of a gentleman.
12:35He says all gentlemen learn the same things.
12:37Well, my father's a gentleman and he never learned Latin.
12:39I expect he did.
12:40But they say he's just forgotten it.
12:42Oh, it's too cold to stay here.
12:45I'll help you with your Latin if you like.
12:49Why?
12:50I'm good at Latin and Greek.
12:51I remember things easily.
12:52I know all about the Greeks and their battles.
12:54I could help you with history too.
12:55Were the Greeks great fighters?
12:57I mean like Samson.
12:58Or David and Goliath.
12:59Those are the bits I like best in history.
13:01I know of a better giant than Goliath.
13:03He had one eye in the middle of his forehead and the hero gets a red hot pine tree and sticks it in his eye.
13:08Well, what happens then?
13:10You can read all about it.
13:12Mr. Stelling has the books in his library.
13:14I don't like reading.
13:16It's much more fun if someone tells stories.
13:18My sister Maggie tells stories a lot.
13:20You have a sister?
13:22Yes.
13:23She's just a silly girl.
13:27Aren't your fingers cold up, eh?
13:29Yes.
13:30Well, why don't you do your drawing in the library?
13:37I say.
13:39Do you love your father?
13:41Yes, of course.
13:42Why don't you love yours?
13:43Oh, yes.
13:44Well, my father's not a rascal.
13:48And...
13:49One.
13:50Two.
13:52Three.
13:53And recover.
13:55Mr. Porter.
13:56Head up lad, head up.
13:58And...
13:59One.
14:00Could you...
14:02Would you lend me your sword to keep for a while?
14:04Lend?
14:05Certainly not lad.
14:07If I promise not to take it out of its sheath.
14:10Oh, that wouldn't do at all.
14:12Do yourself some mischief with it.
14:15Mr. Porter.
14:16Aye.
14:17If you let me keep your sword for a week,
14:20I'd give you this five shilling piece.
14:23I only wanted to show it to me sister Maggie.
14:25She's coming to stay on Tuesday.
14:27I could tie it round me waist with a comforter.
14:29Make believe that it's mine.
14:32She'll think I'm going to be a soldier, you see.
14:36Well now lad, if I take that crown piece,
14:40it's just to make sure as you'll do no mischief with the sword.
14:43Oh no, I won't. I promise.
14:45And I lied it so Mr. Stelling won't see it.
14:48What if he catches you carrying it in?
14:49He won't.
14:50He always keeps in his upstairs study on Thursday afternoons.
14:53Now go, see, he's my lawyer.
15:10But he's not up to the law as where he come is.
15:13And water's a very particular thing, Mr. Stelling.
15:15Very particular.
15:16For sure, sir. You can't pick it up with a pitchfork.
15:18It's plain enough what's the rights and wrongs of water.
15:20A river is a river.
15:22And if a mill will, you want water to turn it.
15:24Common sense, sir.
15:26It's no use telling me that these new dikes and irrigations won't injure the mill.
15:30But if that's what Pivard and Weakum are up to,
15:32I shall put Tom to it by and by and see if he doesn't make some sense of it.
15:35I'm sorry to see you so put out, Mr. Tulliver.
15:37But I feel bound to tell you that it may be some years before Tom can help you in these matters.
15:44Is he stupid then?
15:45No, no. On the contrary. Very sharp.
15:48But only in things not academic.
15:50Come in, sir.
15:57Tom!
15:59Well, Master Tulliver, here is your sister come to stay with you.
16:02And your father must leave again at once.
16:04Perhaps, sir, you would care to visit me in my upstairs study?
16:07Aye, Mr. Stelling, I'll come up by and by.
16:10Well, Tom, lad.
16:12You look really...
16:14School agrees with you.
16:15I don't think I am well, father.
16:17I wish you'd ask Mr. Stelling not to let me do Euclid.
16:20Euclid?
16:22What's Euclid?
16:23Oh, I don't know.
16:24But it brings on the toothache.
16:27I don't like you, dear father.
16:29I had much more fun at the Academy.
16:31Now, Tom, you must do as Mr. Stelling tells you.
16:33He knows what's right.
16:34I'll help you.
16:35You.
16:36I'd like to see you doing my lessons.
16:38Girls are never made to learn Latin.
16:40They're too silly.
16:41I know very well what Latin is.
16:43It's a language.
16:44There are lots of Latin words in my dictionary.
16:46Give me one, then.
16:47Bonus.
16:48It means a gift.
16:49Well, you're wrong, Miss Clever.
16:50Because bonus means good.
16:52It can mean a gift as well.
16:54Some things mean more than one thing.
16:56Like lawn.
16:57It means grass.
16:58It means the stuffed bucket handkerchiefs are made of two.
17:01Well, she's beaten you there, lad.
17:03Well done, little hun.
17:05Well, your mother will only fret if I'm not back before dark,
17:08so come and give your father a good bye, Tom.
17:15Have you a good mind?
17:17No mischief.
17:19Father?
17:20Well, your welcome son is here.
17:22Ah, I've seen the boy.
17:24You don't want me to be at school with a welcome, do you father?
17:27He couldn't choose his father now, could he, Tom?
17:29You should feel sorry for the boy because the man's such a scoundrel.
17:32Sorry for him.
17:33Not I.
17:34Oh, try not to get too thick with him.
17:37But if he's good to you, try and be good to him.
17:40I've always had a tenderness for rye-neck lungs.
17:43No, no.
17:44No, no.
17:45Concentrate, boy.
17:46Like that.
17:47If you do that, I'll take your man the next move.
17:48Try again.
17:49Oh, yes.
17:50I'll continue.
17:51Oh, yes.
17:52Oh, yes.
17:53You'll soon be better than me.
17:54Ferrari.
17:55Ferrari.
17:56Ferrarium ut austria.
17:57No, no.
17:58Ut tigris, you imbecile.
17:59Ut tigris.
18:00Et pisium.
18:01Ut tigris vulpes et pisium.
18:02Oh, no, enough.
18:03Go away.
18:04Take your book back to the table.
18:05I must awake him.
18:06All my months.
18:07You need to sit here better than me.
18:08Ferrari.
18:09Ferrarium ut austria.
18:10No, no.
18:11Ut tigris, you imbecile.
18:12Ut tigris et pisium.
18:27Ut tigris vulpes et pisium.
18:28Oh, no, enough.
18:29Go away.
18:30Take your book back to the table.
18:32Must awake him.
18:33Ah, let's see what you can do.
18:34not to get you thick with him i think he's lonely he's the son of a rogue and the court could be as
18:41bad as sire good stop well sir i sent you over here to work what am i to work at sir you have
18:4910 minutes before the dinner gong less chatter with your sister i think and more application
18:54to your latin grammar please mr stelling couldn't i do virgil too if you were to teach me then i
19:02could help tom oh no you couldn't girls can't do latin can they sir girls can pick up a little
19:08of everything i dare say girls have a great deal of superficial cleverness but they never stay long
19:13at anything girls on the whole sir are quick and shallow ha miss maggie you see you're just quick
19:22and shallow
19:32stand up and hide your eyes what for do as i say you've got a surprise if this is a trick tom i
19:55shan't play with you anymore you're peeping turn your back
20:07you must promise not to squeal i'm found out i get 50 lines at least can i look now now
20:13i'm the duke of wellington march or die stop it tom do stop now it's dangerous
20:23tom what is it
20:33is the doctor gone tom was very brave he didn't cry at all i spoke to mr stelling he said tom won't be
20:45lame not permanently it would have been very hard for him to be lame wouldn't it he's so good at games
20:55if you had a brother like me could you love me as much as you love tom oh yes i'd love you better
21:00no not better i don't think i could love anyone better than tom
21:06but i'd be very sorry for you i wish you could be my brother too philip you're so clever and you
21:13could stay at home when tom went out and teach me things but you leave the day after tomorrow and
21:16then you'll forget all about me perhaps one day we'll meet again when we're grown up and you won't
21:19take any notice of me i never forget anything i think about everybody when i'm away from them
21:25i've been thinking about mumps while i'm here he's got a lump in his throat and bob jacen says he'll die
21:32he's an ugly little dog no one cares for him but bob jacen and me could you care for me as much as
21:38you do for mumps oh yes of course i shall never forget you i think you're fonder of me than tom is
21:44when i'm very unhappy i shall always think of you and your dark eyes looking at me i don't much like
21:48people to stare at me but i don't mind when you do it sometimes i kiss tom nobody kisses me i shall
21:56well would you like that very much there now i shall always remember you and i kiss you when we
22:06meet again however long it is until then that rhymes rest easy lad rest easy i'm not a bit tired
22:26here you're a good little soldier master tolliver wounded in action like you aye but not telling on me
22:34like you might have take the coin back lad you deserve it but i gave it you fair and square and
22:39return for the sword i'll not keep it after what happened that infetting will you promise one day
22:45to teach me to fight with real swords one day i'll make a proper little fighter of you go on on that
22:51day then keep the coin and give it back the day i bet to you with the sword so be it what order is an
22:58order on guard sergeant poulter
23:21i say take your coin now you've won it ten times over already this year no let it hang there forever
23:40to inspire others you'll be my last mr tollev sir you'll be my last mr tollev yes sir your sister sir
23:50muggy she's come to see you come sir come she's waiting for you in the library
24:05what is it what's happened his father oh the lawsuit he's lost it and he was so certain he was
24:11gonna win how did he take it at first he was so angry i thought he might have a fit but now he's so
24:17strange he talks as if nothing's wrong as if everything will be all right poor mother's at
24:22a wit's end how can everything be all right you're to come home with me tom mother sent me to fetch you
24:29but i've got examinations in a week father will need you at the mill tom and anyway what with having to
24:35pay costs he can no longer afford to let her stay at school not now he has terrible debts to pay
24:40we shall lose everything money mill land everything we'll have nothing left in the world except the
24:48clothes we stand up in oh
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