Salute John Citizen (1942)
1h 36min | Drama, War | 28 September 1942 (UK)
The Bunting family face up to the fortunes of war during the Second World War.
Director: Maurice Elvey
Writers: Elizabeth Baron (scenario), Robert Greenwood (dialogue)
Stars: Edward Rigby, Mabel Constanduros, Jimmy Hanley
1h 36min | Drama, War | 28 September 1942 (UK)
The Bunting family face up to the fortunes of war during the Second World War.
Director: Maurice Elvey
Writers: Elizabeth Baron (scenario), Robert Greenwood (dialogue)
Stars: Edward Rigby, Mabel Constanduros, Jimmy Hanley
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00:00Eight hundred and fifty pounds for Aunt Alice's property.
00:03I'm sure your father will be annoyed with you for opening his telegram.
00:06Well, telegrams have to be opened, haven't they?
00:08I bet he'll look upon this money as his own in a way.
00:11Nothing to do with us.
00:12Nothing to do with his own children.
00:13You've already stung him for your eurythmics.
00:15Greedy little gold digger.
00:17Now, Chris.
00:17Well, I don't want a penny piece from father.
00:19Woo!
00:21Well, not permanently.
00:22Me and Ernest want careers.
00:23Me and Ernest? Why, you can't even talk grammar.
00:26Now, when he comes in, don't let him find you all waiting about.
00:29He'll think you're always after him for something.
00:37There's dad.
00:38Where's the telegram?
00:39I've got it.
00:39Now, don't all rush at him.
00:41Hello, dad.
00:42Good evening, father.
00:43Let me take these.
00:44Let me take your hat, daddy darling.
00:45What's the matter with you all?
00:46I thought you were going to one of your classical concerts, Ernest.
00:49What's happened? What's going on?
00:51This telegram came for you, father.
00:52It's been sold.
00:54Aunt Alice's cottages, dad.
00:55Over eight hundred pounds.
00:56Isn't it wonderful, George?
00:58Dad, now I don't...
00:59Now, Ernest, not tonight.
01:02Yes, now.
01:03Let's hear it.
01:04You want to be an accountant.
01:06Yes, dad.
01:07Well, you ain't going to be.
01:10But why, dad? You said...
01:11Because we can't afford it.
01:12Oh, surely, George, you can't say that now.
01:15I'm not asking just for myself, it's for Chris as well.
01:17You don't care if we spend the rest of our lives in rotten jobs and rotten salaries.
01:21I tell you, we can't afford it.
01:22But, dad, you always say we can't afford it.
01:24Oh, look here, dad.
01:25If you pay off the mortgage, you still need your six hundred and fifty.
01:27Invest that at four percent and together with your three hundred and twenty a year from Broccoli's...
01:31Now, listen, Ernest.
01:32It ain't what you think, not at all.
01:35You say we have this and we have that and I have my three twenty a year.
01:40Well, we ain't got it any longer.
01:45I'll finish with Broccoli's.
01:48But, George, you didn't.
01:51No.
01:53I got the safe today.