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Randolph's career is on the rise. Jennie becomes involved with Count Kinsky.
Starring:
Lee Remick as Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup as Lord Randolph Churchill
Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill
Cyril Luckham as Duke of Marlborough...
Transcript
00:00You
00:30I
00:32I
00:34I
00:59Truths are always unpalatable
01:02But that does not make them any less true
01:07England has years of wrong
01:10years of crime
01:12years of tyranny
01:15years of oppression
01:18Years of general mismanagement to make amends for in Ireland
01:31A pig wouldn't live in a hole like that Randolph
01:36My dear Jenny paid much rather I spoke up than shut up
01:41Well, don't let the Prince of Wales hear you I like Ireland the Prince of Wales ought to open his drawing room windows and take
01:47a look what's outside
01:49Someone's got to speak up to these people Jenny or they'll speak up for themselves
01:54I'll never be a revolution here. There's one happening now. You don't realize it, but very soon people like that will have the vote
02:00They'll choose people like me to go to Parliament. Yeah. Well, we must hope they do
02:05Why should they no one's in a damn thing for them for 400 years?
02:08Give them a chance to say what they like and what only chose
02:12Home rule
02:14That would be the end of the United Kingdom
02:16We've got to do something for them now before they all start thinking it my dear
02:23You're beginning to sound like a radical
02:25Only because I'm a true conservative. Oh
02:28That I'm afraid sounds simply cynical no, no realistic conservatism must be active not passive
02:34That's what's wrong with the government. Now. We've got to be ready
02:36And why don't you get up and say so?
02:39Who'd listen?
02:41The House of Commons you have an audience anytime you want them darling
02:46I'm young and in disgrace and anything. I'd really want to say would be taken quite rightly as an attack on the government
02:53I'm supposed to support
02:55And on disraeli whom I revere
02:58And on my father whom I admire and love
03:01But if you're right and your father is wrong, you should say so
03:12I don't see any point in being in disgrace if you can't say shocking things sometimes especially if they're true
03:18There
03:24Are great and crying Irish questions, which the government have not attended
03:32Do not seem to be inclined to attend to and perhaps do not intend
03:42Attention to Irish legislation which has caused obstruction of business in this house
03:49And so long as these matters continue to be neglected then so long will the government have to deal with Irish obstruction
03:58Really Jenny it was simply dreadful where can Randolph have got such ideas I
04:04Suppose he was speaking his mind. Don't you?
04:08He can't possibly think we are not doing enough. He didn't say you weren't just he said the government wasn't it's the same thing
04:14It implies it
04:18Am I going to say to the chief secretary for Ireland
04:22Perhaps you could tell him that Randolph is old enough to speak for himself
04:26He's never spoken for himself before and in any case. He's the Duke's secretary. He is not free to speak to himself
04:32That is what is so particularly hurtful the way he's involved us
04:37Well, I do realize that I don't understand these things nearly as well as you do Duchess
04:41But isn't Randolph right the government hasn't done enough for Ireland has it?
04:48If you don't understand these things Jenny my dear, I think it probably best if you don't try to discuss them
05:01It is not only unkind of Randolph
05:03It is extremely foolish
05:05The party will not be pleased and coming on top of all the trouble with the Prince of Wales
05:09Think we need go into that again my dear. Thank you. He's so rash so impetuous
05:15Jenny really must use her influence. Oh in what way?
05:19Randolph gets so overexcited. It is your duty to restrain him
05:22Now, how can I do that when he makes a speech in England and I read about it here?
05:28Randolph's position here is a very delicate one and this behavior is simply not fair to my staff
05:34You must just tell them that Randolph is overexcited
05:37As alas he so often is
05:40That his emotions got the better of his judgment
05:45Papa
05:46I'll end up another guillotine if someone doesn't tell him not to be so silly
05:51Only Disraeli after him God knows I
05:55Can't tell you Jenny the party's in a dreadful state
05:59This is still splendid. Of course. He's aged terribly
06:03He went into the Lord's has been known to take on Gladstone in the Commons
06:08We'll lose the election by a mile
06:11Better start packing the pile beyond in a couple of months good
06:15I'll have the baby in London
06:17You better not travel had you darling? Oh
06:20I'm getting a bit tired of Ireland
06:22was all right while I could hunt but
06:25This winter yes, I know
06:28With you away all the time
06:31No one to see but your parents
06:34Well, I'm glad you haven't been pursued in my absence by all your numerous admirers and
06:39Shoot them all off
06:41I've spent most of my time alone
06:43I'm sorry. Oh
06:45I've had rather a good time really
06:48Last night for instance. I read all your old letters when we were engaged
06:53Forgotten how nice they were
06:56You don't write like that
07:00Well, my dearest to tell you the truth
07:03Nor do you
07:08I
07:15It's nothing too many late nights in the house
07:25Policy in Ireland is a disaster
07:30Outrages are going on as briskly as ever
07:33The law is being defied as successfully as ever
07:37The policy of appealing to the Irish members and the Irish landlords to keep the country quiet for God's sake
07:47All this has failed
07:52And I fear that the next phase of government policy will be and must be one of repression
08:01Oh
08:05Depression is always required for the government of Ireland when the Liberals are in power
08:20On the contrary it is fraught with disaster for Ireland and the Irish
08:26But it is brought in
08:28For the wretched purpose of rendering the government of Ireland momentarily easier without one thought or one spark of thought as to the future
08:45I must congratulate you my dear
08:48Magnificent. Oh, thank you. I'll do it. Oh, I meant your new baby the new boy
08:54Congratulations, thank you
09:01Mr. Gladstone
09:04It appears to me sir that the undoubted talents of the noble Lord who has just resumed his seat
09:14Would have contributed far more substantially to the disposal and satisfactory issue of this question
09:22Had he been less
09:25Unmeasured in his imputations
09:28This is a bill which in my mind will lose nothing by being discussed in a less
09:36lively spirit a
09:42Rebuke from Gladstone my dear lady Randolph. It's better than a decoration from the Queen
09:47But did you see Northcote whatever Gladstone says or does he has to bleat his applause
09:53Darling you were a huge success
09:56Wasn't he sir Henry? Well, you know Randolph Balfour Gorst and I are only backbenchers
10:01Our speeches can only really be a huge success if our leaders support us
10:08Ah, but below the gangway, it's like being below the salt. We only sit there so we can stretch our legs
10:14We are backbenchers real you needn't worry any nephew of Lord Salisbury's guaranteed plenty of legroom in the next Tory government
10:22Yeah, there won't be one not with a goat in charge North got his only leader in the Commons
10:26We needn't regard him as in charge of us Lord Salisbury's the true leader of the party, isn't it?
10:31Oh, what do you say to that offer?
10:34Shall we swear fealty to your uncle?
10:37Well, quite frankly Henry
10:39I very much doubt whether you or Gorst are capable of being loyal to anybody for more than two minutes at a time
10:44There's such intrigue as Lady Randolph. Well the way you all talk
10:48I'm surprised you haven't formed four little parties of your own the strength in numbers
10:52Yeah, but you hardly agree on anything. No, we agree to disagree with North
10:56Okay, we are a party within a party Jenny if our leader won't attack the government we feel an imperative need to do so ourselves
11:02Yes for the first campaign. I think a microscope rather than a telescope
11:08Don't you go? Hmm? I wonder whether Randolph has applied his mind to the employers liability bill
11:14He has not knows anyone else doesn't sound very inspiring. It isn't it's a profoundly uninspired bill, but I think
11:22Ghost you're the lawyer
11:24You can find some inspiration in it for us. Can't you I?
11:29Believe I can
11:31Lord you're not gonna make us work. I hope Paris the thought
11:35You see mr. Gladstone has an immense majority Lady Randolph. We can't stop him passing any bill he wants
11:43But we can make it very difficult for him of course we copy the Irish obstruction parliamentary obstruction
11:52We'll feel a genius
11:54sir
11:55This clause refers to injuries which may be suffered by a workman by reason of any defect in the works machinery
12:03plant or stock of the employer
12:07How I only wish to help the government
12:13It is not at all clear to me what is meant by the word stock
12:19For instance accidents frequently arise from horses of an improper character
12:27Being used in business and do such horses come under the heading stock
12:32the stock include
12:35agricultural stock
12:37Well
12:40I
12:43Do beg the Attorney General not to wrap himself in gloomy silence
12:48Could he not tell us all distinctly what is in his mind concerning the word stock and whether it refers to both animate and inanimate
12:57It the word is intended to apply to a stock in trade I
13:05See stock in trade
13:08Stock in trip
13:09Yeah
13:09But not suppose a farmer had a horse which he knew perfectly well to have a disease of the foot
13:14And it was liable to come down at any moment
13:16And it did come down with the farmer be liable under the bill would such a horse count as stock in trade
13:22I
13:23Really must press for an answer on this point it would greatly facilitate the progress of the bill
13:31Henry James
13:33The employer would not be liable as the disease of the foot would not be due to the negligence of the employee
13:42Mr.
13:43Belfort but supposing the farmer had thrown the horse down and broken its knees as a result of which on a subsequent occasion
13:50The farmer's servant was thrown from the horse and broke his arm
13:53If
14:00If the defect arose from the neglect of some person
14:04Entrusted with the duty of seeing that the animal was in proper condition then there would be liability
14:11Then the word stock does refer to both animate and inanimate stock
14:17It it refers to what a farmer has to sell to his stock in trade
14:23Oh
14:27But is his horse stock in trade
14:33He may not wish to sell his horse, but to use it I
14:42Really do not think this is an important point. We spent a great deal of time on this clause already. I think we should move on
14:50I
14:52Know when North Churchill no one regrets more than I do that more rapid progress is not being made with this bill
15:01It really is impossible to proceed rapidly with a bill which the government itself does not seem to understand
15:08Is the sole object of myself and my honorable friends to do all in our power to ensure that this measure is as perfect a
15:16specimen of legislation as possible
15:20I really must insist on a satisfactory explanation of the word stop
15:27We have still I must remind the honorable members to discuss the meaning of the word
15:43I don't know how you compare to go and listen. It's so childish. They're like schoolboys ragging their master
15:49I know, but if the master can't keep control then he deserves to be ragged
15:53Besides there's more to it than meets the eye can't Kinski. You have to know the increase beneath
15:57I should have thought a beautiful woman would find her intrigues as well
16:03Well, I don't go to the Commons every day. I should think not I
16:07Can't imagine what Randolph and his friends think they're achieving. Oh, they're achieving the attention of their party leaders count Kinski
16:14Look at this
16:19Dear Randolph, I most heartily approve of the light cavalry and all you have done the skirmishing has been
16:28But do I beg you remember there is more to politics and war than mere harassment of the enemy
16:36The object is to defeat him not just annoy. I think sir
16:40You know why we can find our activities to scare machine
16:43We don't ought to get a care for the way the army is being led
16:47You're an old hand wolf and you will not now perhaps expect to command the army yourself
16:54But it is never wise for junior officers with ambitions to criticize the general style
17:01It is not easy to respect the ways of Stafford North but conducts the opposition sir
17:05Well, take my advice even if you cannot respect him. You simply must stick to him
17:12He represents the
17:14respectability of the party
17:16And without that there is too damn respectable. That's the trouble. He hasn't backed us up as you should have done
17:23Oh, I wholly sympathize with you. Holy I
17:28Was never respectable myself
17:32But if the
17:33Unrespectable like ourselves I ever to succeed my devil. We must somehow persuade the respectable to support us
17:42Because the respectable I'm afraid
17:45Are always the majority in the Conservative Party God forbid. Ah, but he doesn't you see he doesn't I
17:54Have an awful fear he may even turn out to be dreadfully respectable himself
18:01Sir Henry James, my lady. It's a good evening to me. Count Kinski, you know, sir Henry James.
18:06I'm delighted to see you sir Henry, but astounded too. Of course
18:10Lady Randolph's hospitality is irresistible
18:12But after the unfriendliness that Lord Randolph has shown you in the House of Commons
18:17Oh my dear chap party differences don't matter between friends
18:20Randolph has been rather immoderate. I'm afraid
18:23I'm afraid so. I'm afraid so.
18:26I'm here in the hope you'll say something even more outrageous than usual
18:30But if he does it will almost certainly be about his own party and so I'm afraid not
18:36They told me in Vienna that English politics were simple I find them positively Balkan even Byzantine
18:43My dear Kinski whenever two men are trying to run one another
18:47They're not trying to run one another. They're trying to run the other
18:50Balkan even Byzantine
18:52My dear Kinski whenever two men are trying to run one party
18:56You'll always find troublemakers trying to undermine both
18:59And you call yourself Randolph's friend
19:01To the death
19:03My dear Lady Randolph may an old man thank you from the bottom of his heart
19:08For making him feel for one blissful evening the other day
19:12Oh sir you're not leaving
19:14Alas even the most glittering throng grows dim to ancient eyes
19:19Oh I see you mean the throng here is rather lustrous
19:24Well I agree of course but you know the reason why
19:27And you know I think the prince has acted most unfairly
19:31Though you misinterpret me with almost the perversity of your husband
19:35How can you do to a story like that?
19:38You my dear need do nothing except be yourself
19:43And as for Randolph never fear he's on the way
19:46The prince is always taken with success
19:49Success in Parliament especially
19:51Well I know Randolph has made a splash
19:53Oh much much more than that
19:55In three months he's cheered the whole party up
19:58With one or two senior exceptions of course
20:02I tell you when we come in again we shall have to give Randolph
20:05Anything he chooses to ask for
20:07He's gone on the attack
20:09And that has caught the imagination of the party and the country
20:12Oh we can't do without him now
20:14Very soon if he goes on like this
20:18We shall have to take whatever he chooses to give us
20:22Sir Henry
20:25Surely you should be in the house defending if you can
20:28The lamentable record of your government
20:31Well yes and no sir
20:33The whips say I can stay away as long as I like
20:35Provided I keep Randolph and his friends away with me
20:38Fairly dear Randolph you see
20:40Your husband has real power already
20:45Excuse me
20:54If only he hadn't retired
20:56Without him we're lost, completely lost
20:59Randolph means the commons of course Arthur
21:02Of course
21:04We've none of us said anything against your uncle
21:07Lord Salisbury is our sole remaining hope
21:10I'll tell him you said so he'll feel honoured I'm sure
21:13So he should be
21:16Listen
21:17We've had a damn good fling
21:19We've obstructed the government
21:21Made ourselves felt
21:22Painfully on some occasions
21:24Yes and we have naturally been cruel to the goats
21:26We haven't sawn his horns off in public
21:28I'll point that out to him
21:29I'm sure he'll appreciate our restraint
21:32Then it's time he demonstrated his appreciation
21:35My uncle Robert's not a very demonstrative sort of man you know
21:39If I asked him to come and speak for me down at Woodstock Arthur
21:43What do you think he'd say?
21:45That he thought you were pretty cool
21:47Why? I haven't attacked him
21:49I admire him
21:50Why don't you ask him Arthur?
21:52We'll put him up at Blenheim
21:53Make a change from that awful drafty Hatfield
21:56I can put it to him of course
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22:00Say I'd like it most awfully if he'd come
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22:52Just like the fourth party
22:54Four hands not always quite in time with each other
22:57But making a very satisfactory noise
22:59It's much easier staying in tune with you than with Randolph I promise you
23:03He will suddenly change key without telling you
23:06Some of his sharps are really so dreadfully sharp.
23:08Oh, I know. He gets...
23:10Well, he's never quite well, Arthur, and when he's not well,
23:13he gets either very depressed or very excited.
23:17There's no middle way with Randolph.
23:19Oh, he lives so much on his nerves. Where is he?
23:24I'm sure you'd find it much more restful to disband our little quartet
23:28and join the conservative orchestra.
23:30Well, that's just why he's invited your uncle here today.
23:32And he's calm, Arthur.
23:34Yes, I was quite surprised by that.
23:37They must all feel rather threatened, I suppose.
23:41I wish I knew where your loyalties lay.
23:44Oh, to myself?
23:47I'm not really a member of the Fourth Party, you know.
23:49No. You long to be wicked like Randolph, but you simply don't dare.
23:55Well, selfishness leads one to the longer view.
23:59Woolf's strategy has worked splendidly so far,
24:03but a reputation in the commons isn't done in the country.
24:07No.
24:09He needs to steady down, Jenny.
24:13Does he?
24:15What do you imagine he and your uncle will say to each other this afternoon?
24:19Oh, Randolph will praise Dizzy and my uncle,
24:22and my uncle will praise Randolph,
24:24adding some fulsome words about the goat,
24:26and everybody will be absolutely delighted.
24:34I really must congratulate you, Lord Salisbury.
24:36It was just the thing. Exactly the right note.
24:39All the papers were there to hear you, I'm glad to say.
24:42Oh, I expect there were more to record Randolph, not me.
24:45I was very pleased with his speech today, too.
24:48So moderate in tone.
24:50Some of the things he's said in the House of Commons have really been very unwise.
24:54Ah, but if Randolph hadn't said those things, would Lord Salisbury be here today?
24:58I have tried many times to explain to my daughter-in-law, Lord Salisbury,
25:02that tact is one of the most powerful weapons in the political armoury,
25:06but I'm afraid she only encourages him.
25:08Oh, well, he gets quite a lot of criticism outside the home.
25:11I don't expect he wants it there, too.
25:13Thank you.
25:15There's a difference between advice and criticism.
25:18He always listens to me.
25:22Everyone knows, my dear Duchess, how keenly you follow his career.
25:27People admire it very much. I do myself.
25:32Randolph has such a genius for pretending to listen while his mind is on something else.
25:36Ah, well, that's a thing that politicians all have to learn young,
25:40or they'd never survive.
25:42Of course, Jenny doesn't have the same instinctive feeling for politics
25:46that we have, Lord Salisbury.
25:48We've been bred to it, haven't we?
25:50I don't think an American could ever fully understand our passion for it, do you?
25:55It's so very English.
25:58Even Americans can understand passion, so long as they're human.
26:02I certainly think I understand Randolph's.
26:04I'm sure you do, my dear.
26:06Well, Salisbury,
26:08I hope you were as pleased with Randolph's speech as we were.
26:11It was, um, really responsible, I felt, didn't you?
26:14I think we were all pleased, except Jenny.
26:17Really?
26:19Oh, very extraordinary.
26:21My dear Jenny, why weren't you?
26:24Now, my dear Lady Randolph,
26:26you see the political value of tact.
26:31I know, I know, but she can't help herself.
26:34Right, she can't help herself, but why does she hate me so much?
26:37Because you're clever and pretty and I love you.
26:40And she's jealous.
26:42She's jealous, as all mothers always have been,
26:45of their clever, pretty...
26:47Darling,
26:49you really mustn't smoke so many cigarettes.
26:53I like cigarettes.
26:55I know you do, but not good for you.
26:57Can't a man have any pleasures in life?
27:00Well, I can't think of any you don't have.
27:05Riches.
27:07I don't have riches.
27:09Oh, this business today will cost a packet.
27:11Making a reputation's damned expensive.
27:13I suppose your father could help us again.
27:15Not at the moment, no.
27:17Oh, God damn it.
27:19There was a moment this afternoon when I thought I was going to faint.
27:22Randolph.
27:24I've got to have my health.
27:26We're only just beginning. We've hardly started.
27:29That's what Arthur says. He wants you to steady down.
27:32Arthur.
27:34It's all right for millionaire nephews of the next Prime Minister.
27:37I think he's afraid you'll spend too much time at Wolfe's Microscope.
27:41I don't need Arthur to plan my strategy for me.
27:44I've already planned it.
27:47I'm not going to steady down.
27:49I'm going to increase the pace.
27:51What do you mean?
27:53England's a democracy, for better or worse.
27:56If it's to be for better, then it must be a Tory democracy.
27:59The party's paying attention well and good.
28:01I mean to make the country pay attention too.
28:04I'm going to take a leaf out of Gladstone's book.
28:07I'm going to the people.
28:17Are you all right?
28:21I've got to be.
28:24You've been doing too much. You should take a holiday.
28:27There's no time for that, Ginny.
28:29I've proved myself in Parliament.
28:31Now I've got to prove I can go out and win votes.
28:34And the votes are in Manchester and Oldham and Hull.
28:38Would you like me to go with you?
28:40No.
28:42I've got to go.
28:45Would you like me to go with you?
28:47No, I shouldn't bother. It'll only be speeches.
28:52Hello.
28:54Fino, how nice of you to come and see us.
28:57Oh, London is unendurable without you and Randall.
29:01Hello, Miss Jerome.
29:03Has your sister enlisted you as a nurse too?
29:06How is the great man?
29:08Tetchy.
29:10It's very slow, I'm afraid.
29:12I don't know what the trouble was or is.
29:15And of course, he loathes being inactive so you know what he's like.
29:19Wolfe!
29:21Randolph, you're supposed to be lying down.
29:24How do you expect me to lie down
29:26when all the interesting people go and talk to you?
29:29Now stop flirting with Jenny Wolfen. Come and talk to me.
29:32You'd better go. And don't excite him. He really has been very ill.
29:35Too much public speaking.
29:37You've got to be very old and very wicked like Gladstone
29:41He likes it.
29:43We all like the things that are bad for us.
29:46Wolfe!
29:48Don't let him smoke, please.
29:57Getting Randolph to rest is simply a waste of breath.
30:00Poor Jenny.
30:02I don't mind, really.
30:04He's never dull with Randolph, even when he's in bed.
30:07Well, no one ever doubted that.
30:09That is not what I meant, Leonie.
30:11No?
30:13I was hoping we'd get some peace and quiet in Wimbledon while he got better.
30:17But it's no good. People just get on the train and come to lunch.
30:20Too many of them.
30:22Oh.
30:24Here's someone you will be pleased to see.
30:26Who? Oh, good.
30:28Randolph finds him so amusing.
30:30You like him too, don't you?
30:32Oh, yes. Almost as much as you.
30:36Charles, how nice.
30:39Everything's in a shamble since Dizzy died.
30:42Well, Salisbury's a fool.
30:44You can't run a village fate,
30:46let alone a political party with two people in charge.
30:49Things in the Commons are just as bad as they were before.
30:53The goat's so inept, Randolph.
30:55Without you to lead us, Gladstone can do anything he likes.
30:59Well, I'm not like Achilles.
31:01I'm not sulking in my tent.
31:03I'm trying to get fit for battle.
31:06You know, sometimes I really do wonder why.
31:10To the victor of the spoils, old boy?
31:12It's a minor office, I suppose. What's the use of that?
31:15Rather early for a prime ministership, don't you think?
31:18What other job's worth having?
31:20My dear Randolph, you can't expect to go from the back benches
31:23to 10 Downing Street all at one go.
31:27Two goes?
31:29Let's get the ball.
31:31Oh, yes.
31:34When will he rejoin the fray?
31:36Oh, I don't know.
31:38Before the doctors say he can, anyway.
31:40He frets out here in the suburbs.
31:42And don't you?
31:44Why should I?
31:46Well, you've given up the London season.
31:52Well, I have Lanny and the children.
31:55And as for the season, Randolph may be recovering
31:58in a week's time.
32:00And as for the season, Randolph may be recovering physically,
32:03but socially, Charles, our progress is still very slow.
32:09The Prince of Wales was asking after you last night.
32:13Really?
32:15He made rather the point of saying
32:17that it was not you that he was offended with.
32:20That's very friendly, but it doesn't restore us, does it?
32:23There seems to be quite a gay life out here.
32:27Well, I'm a political wife, so I'm very busy, of course.
32:30But you must have time for yourself, surely,
32:33while Randolph's intriguing at his clubs.
32:36You must have some non-political life of your own.
32:40You must miss that.
32:43All the people I really care for come and see me here.
32:47But here you're never alone.
32:52How much free time you seem to have, Charles.
32:55Doesn't the embassy ever require your services?
32:58Far too discreet to ask me to work
33:01and I'm far too discreet to offer.
33:07That is why I am always at your service.
33:11Do please use your discretion in front of Leonie.
33:14She notices everything.
33:16I'm very uncivilised.
33:19I don't know how you can bear to send Winston to boarding school, Jenny.
33:24He's getting quite impossible to manage.
33:26Even Everest says so.
33:28He's only seven.
33:30Nearly eight.
33:32Don't you think it's awful sending little boys away from home?
33:35Like so many English customs, I find them utterly mysterious.
33:38Oh, nonsense.
33:40Winston's just the bumptious sort of little boy who will love school.
33:43If Everest can't manage him, I certainly can't.
33:46I have to try and manage Randolph.
33:48Isn't she heartless, Kinsky?
33:50She says she's a political wife.
33:53And now my duty is to go and rescue Randolph from Wolfe.
33:57He won't rescue him.
33:59Not in the least.
34:01But we must get him fit again.
34:03He'll make a fuss, but he'll be grateful in the end.
34:09I know Dizzy was a dandy,
34:11but don't you think that cloak thing is going a bit too far?
34:14Oh, for really? That's his garter robes.
34:17But carved in stone in the middle of Parliament Square.
34:20He wouldn't have liked it, I'm sure.
34:22As he would. It's a very imaginative conception.
34:25It's Dizzy as an old Jewish prophet.
34:27Which one?
34:29Elijah. That's his mantle.
34:31The imagination is yours, I think, darling, not the sculptor's.
34:34You know who's going to make the speech, don't you?
34:37Randolph?
34:39It should be.
34:41What? No.
34:43Everybody go away.
34:45This calls for action.
34:47Oh, Lord. Randolph is better.
34:49Go away.
34:52I'm coming.
34:54Too busy, Jenny? Intrigues, machinations.
34:56Can I be told?
34:58I'm writing to the Times.
35:00What about?
35:02About the goat unveiling the statue to Dizzy.
35:04It's an insult to his memory.
35:06Darling, he always said you should stick to Northcote.
35:08He is dead. Now, listen.
35:10Such a series of neglected opportunities,
35:13pusillanimity, combativeness at wrong moments,
35:16vacillation, dread of responsibility,
35:19collusions with the government,
35:21jealousies, commonplaces...
35:23Darling, have you ever heard of the full stop?
35:25It's to give people time to breathe.
35:27The goat's got to be throttled.
35:29You'll like this bit.
35:31Third-rate statesmen such as were just good enough
35:33to fill subordinate offices
35:35while Dizz Rayleigh was alive.
35:37And then I go on to shower Salisbury with praises.
35:40Arthur will like that.
35:42Northcote won't, though.
35:44They'll be the most tremendous row.
35:46You do like rows, don't you?
35:48You will remember that if you push your horse in the ditch,
35:50you have nothing to ride.
35:52It's not a horse. It's a goat.
35:54And it's going to the knacker's yard.
35:56Where's that?
35:58The House of Lords.
36:00I will not serve in the Commons unless Northcote goes to the Lords.
36:02And Salisbury's got to understand it.
36:04Elijah's mantle must fall on someone,
36:06and if it won't fit Salisbury, it'll have to fit someone else.
36:08Can't be left in the dust, can it?
36:10Have a nice party.
36:13Of course, I do not approve of this attack
36:15on a distinguished statesman.
36:17But, damn it, you cannot pick up a newspaper these days
36:19without seeing his name.
36:21And look here, Sir Henry, you're a lawyer.
36:23Eight years is a long time.
36:25I think he has by now, as you might say,
36:27purchase contempt, don't you?
36:29It's very generous of you to think so, sir.
36:31Well, he's doing awfully well, you know.
36:33And I shall have to meet him officially soon, I expect.
36:36And besides, you know, it's...
36:38it's a bit of a shame.
36:40And besides, you know, it's, uh...
36:42been rather hard on that...
36:44that pretty American wife of his.
36:47She's pretty, don't you think?
36:49Very. Yes.
36:51Now, you are a friend of theirs.
36:53What about a little dinner party, yes? Hmm?
36:55Nothing too formal, but not too informal, of course.
36:58You know the sort of thing.
37:00Nothing could give me greater happiness, sir.
37:03Good! Good! Excellent!
37:05I look forward to it very much indeed.
37:11If only he'd lived to know
37:13that that wretched business was over
37:15and done with once and for all.
37:17It would have given him so much pleasure.
37:19Yes.
37:20Not that he ever set much store
37:22by purely social affairs.
37:24Well, Jenny, you must be very pleased.
37:26Oh, so am I, Mama.
37:28H.R.H. was very pleasant to me.
37:30He was charming.
37:34I'm afraid I must be going.
37:36H.R.H. was very pleasant to me.
37:38He was charming.
37:44Well, Randolph,
37:46I think we can consider that your youth is over.
37:49You did something foolish,
37:51and you were punished for it.
37:53I've learned your lesson, which I hope you will not forget.
37:56My dear Mama, you make the Prince
37:58sound like some terrible headmaster.
38:00Well, you did behave like a very naughty boy, Randolph.
38:03There's no doubt which side of the family Winston gets his behaviour from.
38:07But, oh, I am glad, darling.
38:09I'm really so pleased.
38:11If only your father could have known.
38:14There's something which should have pleased him even more, Mama.
38:18I saw Lord Salisbury this morning before I came down.
38:21Darling!
38:22He's offered me India.
38:24Secretary of State, if we ever hold office again.
38:27Oh, Randolph, how wonderful.
38:29Of course, I shall have to ease up on the goat,
38:31and go gently on northward.
38:33Oh, of course he must, Jenny.
38:35He must act with proper responsibility now.
38:37Well, while it suits me, Mama,
38:41I, er, I shall be going away for a bit.
38:46Government can see how they get along without me.
38:48They need reminding from time to time.
38:50You mean you're going to go to India?
38:52Well, Salisbury virtually made it a condition.
38:55I must know something about the place if I'm going to run it, mustn't I?
38:58Oh, Randolph, I've always longed to see India.
39:01I am afraid I shall have to pay my own way.
39:05Oh.
39:07Well, I suppose if it's an official trip...
39:09Semi-official.
39:11I see.
39:15I'm sorry, Jenny.
39:18You've been abroad a lot recently.
39:20Well, Randolph must have his holidays, Jenny.
39:23You know what the doctors say.
39:25If only we had some more money.
39:27I'll have to follow again for this trip to India, as it is.
39:30Sorry to hear that, Randolph.
39:32Money!
39:34A little more economy in the household might help, Jenny.
39:37But, oh, I am glad, darling.
39:39And, Jenny, dear, why don't you come and stay with me?
39:42Then you can save money and not be alone.
39:45I won't come near Blenheim.
39:47Of all the places to go while you're away, this is the very last.
39:50She was only trying to be kind.
39:52I am not going to be shut away with your mother and play widows with her.
39:55Oh, darling.
39:57I'm not staying quiet in the nursery with Everest and the boys, either.
40:00Jenny, what on earth is the matter with you?
40:02I am thrilled and delighted about you going to India.
40:04I don't even mind that I can't go with you.
40:06Well, at least I do, but I'll get over it.
40:08But I am not going to be treated as some tiresome little wife,
40:11just as all the things that you and I have hoped for are beginning to come true.
40:14When have I ever suggested that you are a tiresome little...
40:16I want to be part of your success,
40:18not just something decorative like your buttonhole.
40:20I'm ambitious, too, remember?
40:26Darling, without you, I should never be going to India at all.
40:31And I freely, I happily admit it.
40:33It just so happens that we simply cannot afford to go to...
40:36All right, all right!
40:38But when you come back, you're not to try to leave me behind again, Randolph.
40:41And especially not at Blenheim.
40:45There's no need for you to come near the place at all, darling,
40:48if you don't want to.
40:50I never said anything about you...
40:52I never said anything about you...
40:54immuring yourself while I'm away.
40:57I hope you'll enjoy yourself as much as you can.
41:00Truly, I'm going to.
41:05How did it happen?
41:07He was quarrelling with another boy about sharpening pencils.
41:10Ah, at another inch or two and...
41:12Dr Roo says I could have been killed.
41:14Well, it was your own fault, darling.
41:16You shouldn't have pulled the other boy's ear.
41:18He's as bad as Randolph, can't resist a fight.
41:20It's only so dreadfully unfair. It was the other boy who got expelled.
41:23Poor wretch. They wanted to know whether we wanted the expulsion made public.
41:26Can you imagine such a thing?
41:28Are you sure it wasn't his fault, then?
41:30Sir Henry, have you ever heard of a Churchill involved in a quarrel
41:33he didn't start himself?
41:35Ah, no.
41:37All right, Winnie, button yourself up and go to bed.
41:39Do you think I'll have the scarper life?
41:41Yes, if you're very lucky, you'll be able to tell the girls that you got it in a duel.
41:44Why should I want to tell a girl about a duel?
41:47Good night, Winnie.
41:49Good night, darling.
41:51Good night.
41:53Hey!
41:55And be good.
41:57I'll try.
42:01Oh, really.
42:03Don't know what to do about Winston.
42:05We had to take him out of his first school because the headmaster beat him too much.
42:08Now I wonder whether he's getting beaten enough.
42:11Thank heavens Randolph was away, that's all.
42:13I hope he stays away.
42:15I managed to get quite a bit of business done in his absence.
42:17Oh, he'll be back quite soon enough, to worry you.
42:19Yes, I dare say he will.
42:21Oh, come on, Miss Turow, we must go.
42:23They say the first act is really quite good.
42:30There are others who appreciate Randolph's absence too, you know.
42:34Well, you'd better make the most of it. He'll be back in a month.
42:37You won't let me.
42:40My dear Charles.
42:42You always keep me at a tantalising distance.
42:45Well, that, my dear, is precisely where I want you.
42:49Oh, Charles, you're getting fat.
42:51You'll never win the Grand National again at that weight.
42:57Are you two coming? Are you going to float all night?
43:05Were the Indians very funny, Papa?
43:07Very.
43:08What did they do?
43:10They said, uh, excuse me, please, Lord Randolph.
43:13All the time?
43:14Almost all the time.
43:16What did they say when you shut your tie down?
43:18Oh, they said, uh, very well done, Lord Randolph.
43:21Very well done indeed, sir.
43:22Well, it was jolly well done.
43:24I told all the boys at school.
43:26Everyone wants your autograph, Papa.
43:28Would you write, um, for me?
43:30Winnie, don't be a bore.
43:31Look, there's Everest and Jack. I expect they want you.
43:34No, they don't, and I want to talk to Papa.
43:36So do I. I haven't seen him for four months.
43:38Nor have I.
43:39Buzz off, Winnie. There's a good chap.
43:44He looks all right.
43:45Oh, it was only a scratch in the end.
43:48Well, what do you want to talk to me about, then?
43:50Everything.
43:51Please don't go away for so long again, darling.
43:53Life's too short.
43:54Of course. Of course.
43:56Can't tell you how glad I am to be back.
43:58We must have a few weeks together now.
44:00I'm only just in time, Wolf says.
44:02We can bring down Gladstone in a couple of months.
44:05Surely you can take some time off.
44:06Don't you see now's our chance?
44:08The grand old man's not so grand anymore.
44:11Everything's turning against him.
44:13This summer could be it.
44:15I say, Mama!
44:21Have you heard the latest?
44:23Wolf thinks we can turn Gladstone out by the middle of June.
44:27By the end of May, he told me.
44:39We've done it! We've done it!
44:42264 to 252.
44:45Gladstone is out.
44:47Oh, you should have been there.
44:48Randolph was standing on his seat,
44:50waving his hat, shouting at Gladstone.
44:52Well, where is he? Why isn't he here?
44:54Oh, there was some sort of fracas outside the house.
44:56The police told him to go home some other way.
44:58He should be here any minute.
45:00Thank you, Morton.
45:01In fact, here he comes.
45:03Hail the conquering hero.
45:05Darling, congratulations.
45:06Thank you.
45:07You don't seem very pleased.
45:08Oh, yes. Yes, I'm pleased, all right.
45:12My dear Randolph, what's the matter?
45:14We've knocked that grand old man off his perch
45:16like a coconut at a fair.
45:18Yes, yes, that's all very well.
45:21Now, where's Arthur?
45:23I'm here.
45:24Arthur, what a triumph! What a triumph!
45:27I think so. Yes, I think so.
45:30What does Uncle Robert have to say?
45:32He'd very much like to see you, Randolph.
45:35He'd very much like to see you, Randolph.
45:37He knows my conditions.
45:39I won't join a government with Northcote in the Commons.
45:43He'd still like to see you.
45:45There's nothing to discuss.
45:46Go on, Rand, stick to your guns.
45:48Don't overplay your hand, will you?
45:52Listen.
45:54In the last five years, I've lived 20.
45:57I've fought society, the Prince of Wales.
46:00I've fought Gladstone at the head of a huge majority.
46:03I've fought the Goat. I've fought my own party.
46:06I'm tired.
46:08Look at me. I'm beginning to lose my hair.
46:12I tell you, I'm at the end of my tether.
46:16Then don't fight my uncle, too.
46:20I will not join a government unless Northcote goes to the Lords.
46:29Very well. I'll tell him what you say.
46:33Good night.
46:35Bye, Arthur.
46:39Will he accept your terms?
46:41He has to.
46:43The working class has got the vote,
46:45and Randolph's the only one who can get them to use it for the Tories.
46:50Poor old Goat.
46:54Oh, God, I am tired.
46:57Poor old Randolph, then.
47:00You know how you say you want to help me,
47:04you want to be part of our success?
47:06Of course.
47:08Well, now's your chance.
47:10If I become a minister, I'll have to resign.
47:14There'll be a by-election.
47:22But just as I was talking with neighbour Brown and Warwick
47:27To take a mug of beer at the Unicorn and Lion
47:31For there's somehow a connection between free beer and election
47:35Who should come but Lady Churchill with a turnout that was fine
47:39Good morning.
47:41And before me stopped her horses as she marshalled all her forces
47:47I'm Lady Randolph Churchill, and I very much want you to vote for my husband.
47:51And before I knew what happened I had promised her my vote
47:55Thank you.
47:57And before I'd quite recovered from the vision that had harboured
48:01It was much too late to rally and I had changed my coat
48:05I knew I could trust you.
48:09And over Woodstock darted on their mission brave, wholehearted
48:13A tender man, their driver, and their ribbons pink and brown
48:17And a smile that twinkled over and made a man most love her
48:26You will vote for Lord Randolph, won't you?
48:29Took the hearts and took the votes of all the liberals in the town
48:36No, I won't.
48:38Why ever not?
48:39Because my vote's my own and I don't like being asked for it.
48:42Oh, but sir, you have something I want.
48:45How am I to get it if I don't ask for it?
48:48Well, I don't rightly know.
48:51Then you don't really mind my asking, do you?
48:54And you will vote for him, won't you?
48:57Well, I might, I suppose.
49:01Promise?
49:04Thank you.
49:05Bless my soul, that Yankee lady
49:07When the day was bright or shady
49:09Danced about the district like an early flame of war
49:14When the voters saw her bonnet
49:16With the bright pink roses on it
49:18They followed as the soldiers did the helmet of Napa
49:32I thank you. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
49:40We have more than doubled my husband's majority.
49:44Hooray!
49:48I feel as proud and happy as though I were the member for Woodstock myself.
49:55Hooray!
50:14Hooray!
50:44Hooray!
51:14Hooray!

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