The Smallest Show on Earth (US: Big Time Operators) is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. The supporting cast includes Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff, George Cross, June Cunningham and Sid James. The screenplay was written by William Rose and John Eldridge from an original story by William Rose.
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00:02:23I shall never forget that day.
00:02:26Matt was only halfway through the novel,
00:02:28and our funds were running low.
00:02:30Then the letter arrived,
00:02:32which was to change everything.
00:02:34Jean?
00:02:36Darling?
00:02:37When did this come?
00:02:38What?
00:02:39Oh, just now.
00:02:40I didn't want to distract you.
00:02:41Why, what is it?
00:02:45Matt.
00:02:46Great Uncle Simon?
00:02:48I didn't know you had a Great Uncle Simon.
00:02:49Well, I didn't have a Great Uncle Simon.
00:02:51So, er...
00:02:53The whole estate?
00:02:55Sloughborough? Wartsworth?
00:02:57Oh, some mistake.
00:02:58I never had any Great Uncle Simon.
00:03:00Oh, you must have had a Great Uncle Simon.
00:03:01I didn't. Surely if I'd had a Great Uncle Simon,
00:03:03I'd at least have heard of a Great Uncle Simon.
00:03:05Simpson, Carter & Son.
00:03:07They must be out of their minds.
00:03:09It says, will you get in touch with them?
00:03:11Sloughborough? What's that, trunks?
00:03:13Must be. I've never even heard of Sloughborough.
00:03:15Mother of I.
00:03:17Great Uncle Simon.
00:03:20Great Uncle Simon.
00:03:22Oh, operator.
00:03:23This is Northway 0267.
00:03:25I want Sloughborough, Warts, 29.
00:03:30Oh.
00:03:31Oh, is it?
00:03:32It's Sloughborough.
00:03:34Matt.
00:03:35You couldn't be...
00:03:36Couldn't be what?
00:03:37You couldn't be inheriting a fortune, could you?
00:03:40Because if you are, let me say right now,
00:03:42I love you more than ever.
00:03:44Darling, don't be so silly.
00:03:46No, no, no, not you, operator.
00:03:48You know, I had a Great Uncle Hugh
00:03:50and a Great Uncle Edward, I think, but...
00:03:52Hello? Hello?
00:03:54Oh, Simpson, Carter & Son.
00:03:56Oh, my name's Spencer, Matthew Spencer.
00:03:58Yes, I think the point is
00:04:00that there's been some idiotic mistake
00:04:02because I can tell you quite definitely I never had a...
00:04:05What? I beg your pardon?
00:04:07Oh.
00:04:09Oh!
00:04:10I did have a Great Uncle Simon.
00:04:12Oh!
00:04:13Yes, just hold the line one moment, will you?
00:04:16The secretary wants to know when we can come down.
00:04:18Well, I think we can come right away.
00:04:20Yes, today.
00:04:21Yes, Paddington.
00:04:2311.10.
00:04:25Matt, we'll never do it.
00:04:27Yes, yes, I think we can manage that.
00:04:29Uh, oh, do you by any chance
00:04:32happen to know anything about the estate?
00:04:35We'll never get that train. What is it?
00:04:37A cinema.
00:04:38He owned a cinema.
00:04:40What?
00:04:41Oh, just one other thing.
00:04:42Did you by any chance happen to know my Great Uncle?
00:04:44Was he a huge fat man with a reddish beard
00:04:47who wore a sort of caper...
00:04:49Oh.
00:04:50Oh, well, that must have been my Great Uncle Edward.
00:04:52Look, darling, if we don't hurry...
00:04:54Oh, well, it doesn't matter.
00:04:55Yes, tell Mr Carter we'll be there, will you?
00:04:57Yes, goodbye.
00:04:58Matt, we've only got 40 minutes.
00:05:00What am I going to wear?
00:05:02Imagine not even knowing.
00:05:04And what's more, Great Uncle Simon seems to have been rich.
00:05:06Did she say how...
00:05:08Oh, she said she couldn't talk on the phone.
00:05:10But if apart from anything else, he owned a cinema...
00:05:12He must have been wealthy.
00:05:14And you really inherit everything?
00:05:17The solicitor said so.
00:05:19It's incredible.
00:05:21It's absolutely incredible.
00:05:26Thank you.
00:05:27Oh, dear, honestly, I'll pass out before we get to Sloughborough.
00:05:30Just think what it'll be like to have no more money worries,
00:05:34no more stupid, petty problems,
00:05:37to be able to do all the things one wants to do,
00:05:40to travel, for example.
00:05:42Oh, yes, you know, that's just the one thing that would be heavenly.
00:05:45Think of all the fabulous places that are just names to us now,
00:05:50that we can see.
00:05:52Samarkand.
00:05:54Samarkand.
00:05:55Doesn't that do something to you?
00:05:57Doesn't the very name...
00:05:59Oh, it's a beautiful name.
00:06:01Samarkand.
00:06:03San Francisco, Seville.
00:06:05Samoa, Samara.
00:06:07Tell me some more about Samara.
00:06:09Oh, darling.
00:06:10Oh, darling. Oh, I'm sorry.
00:06:12It's the brandy.
00:06:14Well, here's to Samarkand.
00:06:16Oh, darling, I can't drink any more.
00:06:19To Samarkand.
00:06:26The train now standing at Platform 3
00:06:29is the train for Stone, Blagby,
00:06:32Roosley, Wiccan Falls,
00:06:34Everscreech, Moodbury and Bristlesworth.
00:06:38Bristlesworth.
00:06:43What is that ghastly smell?
00:06:45There's something dead around here.
00:06:47Oh, you mean besides great Uncle Simon?
00:06:49Oh, sorry, darling.
00:06:51Tell me, what's that curious smell?
00:06:54That smell, what is it?
00:06:56I don't smell anything.
00:06:58Oh, you mean the glow factory.
00:07:00That's it, the glow factory over there.
00:07:02Pungent, isn't it?
00:07:03Pungent's hardly the word.
00:07:05Doctor, sir?
00:07:06Yes, please.
00:07:07Will you take us to Simpson Carter
00:07:08and sound the solicitors?
00:07:09Right, Doctor.
00:07:24Now, listen, Doctor.
00:07:26While you're with the solicitors,
00:07:27a little dignity, eh?
00:07:28I mean, say, if a man dies
00:07:30and leaves you his entire inheritance,
00:07:32all you can do is to observe the propriet...
00:07:34Proprietary...
00:07:36Proprietary...
00:07:37Proprieties.
00:07:39Darling, you can talk.
00:07:40You can't even say proprieties.
00:07:42Proprieties.
00:07:45Now, darling, really, try and be sensible.
00:07:47Matt, look.
00:07:49Driver, stop a minute.
00:07:52Driver.
00:07:54How many cinemas are there in Sloughborough?
00:07:56Just this one, sir.
00:07:59Matt, it's simply magnificent.
00:08:01It must be worth a fortune.
00:08:03Driver, just wait here a minute, will you?
00:08:15How's business?
00:08:16What?
00:08:17I said, how's business?
00:08:18How's business these days?
00:08:19I wouldn't know.
00:08:20I mind me own.
00:08:23What a rude man.
00:08:25Do you know something?
00:08:26I think that chap's got a little surprise in store for him.
00:08:28What do you mean?
00:08:29There's no excuse whatsoever for incivility.
00:08:31The very first thing I'm going to do
00:08:32is to boot him right out of the place.
00:08:34Oh, darling, I'm sure he didn't mean to be...
00:08:35Nonsense. It's his job to be polite, not to...
00:08:41Wait till he finds out who he was being rude to.
00:08:44Come on. Let's get to the solicitors.
00:08:49My father asked me to handle this matter for you, Mr. Spencer.
00:08:52I told him you were calling,
00:08:53but he said he had an urgent appointment.
00:08:55I don't think he'd be gone long, though.
00:08:57But you know something about it, don't you?
00:08:59Oh, yes. I know all about it.
00:09:01As a matter of fact,
00:09:02I've had the job of establishing your existence.
00:09:04You've no idea the fun and games I had.
00:09:06I thought I'd never catch up with you.
00:09:08I'm glad you did.
00:09:10My secretary said that she told you on the telephone
00:09:13that the estate includes a cinema.
00:09:14Yes. Yes, she did.
00:09:16Yes, well, apart from a few personal effects
00:09:18and furniture and such like,
00:09:20I'm afraid that the cinema itself
00:09:22is all there is to your great uncle's estate.
00:09:24Oh.
00:09:26Still, that's quite enough, isn't it?
00:09:28He had everything he owned tied up in it, had he?
00:09:31Incidentally, we've seen the cinema, Mr. Carter.
00:09:34Oh? You have?
00:09:36The question is, really,
00:09:38how much is the place worth as it stands,
00:09:40lock, stock and barrel?
00:09:42Well, that's, um...
00:09:44It's rather difficult to, um...
00:09:47say.
00:09:48But even approximately, in round figures,
00:09:51is it worth £100,000?
00:09:54£100,000?
00:09:56You see, I haven't a clue about these values,
00:09:59but as cinemas go,
00:10:01this one surely is quite magnificent.
00:10:06Well, we were almost overwhelmed.
00:10:08I mean, it's quite as splendid as all those in Leicester Square.
00:10:12Mrs. Spencer.
00:10:14What is it? What's...
00:10:15My dear chap, I...
00:10:16Mr. Carter, what is it?
00:10:17I'm afraid I'm...
00:10:19I'm very much afraid.
00:10:21I wonder if my father's back.
00:10:26Dad?
00:10:30He's not back.
00:10:31Mr. Carter.
00:10:32I'm most terribly sorry, Mr. Spencer.
00:10:35Mrs. Spencer.
00:10:36Sorry?
00:10:37Mr. Carter, what's the matter?
00:10:39You see, I hardly know how to tell you.
00:10:41If you could find a way, Mr. Carter.
00:10:43Well, may I ask which cinema have you been looking at?
00:10:46Which cinema?
00:10:47Which cinema?
00:10:48You mean, there's more than one?
00:10:49Yes.
00:10:50It's not the Grand?
00:10:51But why did that taxi driver say...
00:10:53He must have meant it was the only one open.
00:10:55You see, we had to close the Flea Pit the day after...
00:10:57The Flea Pit?
00:10:58I'm most terribly sorry.
00:11:00Flea Pit?
00:11:01I... I... I...
00:11:02Please forgive me.
00:11:03You see, it's always referred to locally as the Flea Pit.
00:11:07I should have said...
00:11:09The...
00:11:18Well, I'm sure there is a business like show business,
00:11:21but somehow I don't think this is it.
00:11:24Look at it.
00:11:25You mean to tell me my uncle actually charged people to go in there?
00:11:29That people actually paid?
00:11:30Yes.
00:11:31Some.
00:11:48Seems impossible.
00:11:50Did he run it himself?
00:11:52With a staff of sorts.
00:11:53Three of them, actually.
00:11:54They're all under notice, of course.
00:11:56Well, shall we take a look inside?
00:11:58Couldn't we just go away and forget it ever happened?
00:12:18Oh, pungent, isn't it?
00:12:30Lucasia?
00:12:31Mrs. Fezzacoli.
00:12:34I'll lead the way, shall I?
00:12:48Now, the old place has been everything in its day.
00:12:51It was a theatre way back, before they built the railway.
00:12:54Then it was a music hall.
00:12:55I wonder how my great-uncle got mixed up in all this.
00:12:58Well, it was before the First War, apparently.
00:13:00The young Simon must have had quite a way with him.
00:13:03He even managed to get some of the local people to put their money into it.
00:13:07My dad did, as a matter of fact.
00:13:09Spencer's Electric Theatre was called in those days.
00:13:12The first in this part of the country.
00:13:17Oh.
00:13:18Pussy, here.
00:13:19Does anyone look after her?
00:13:21Yes, old Tom.
00:13:22Oh.
00:13:24Come on.
00:13:27Come on.
00:13:28Come on, darling.
00:13:42What's that?
00:13:43What's that?
00:13:44Well, that'll be the 415 to Stoke.
00:13:57Do these things work?
00:13:58Oh, yes.
00:13:59I think so.
00:14:06The projectionist?
00:14:07Mr. Quill.
00:14:11Your great-uncle's private apartments.
00:14:15Come on.
00:14:23I say, is one of these...
00:14:24Oh, that's your great-uncle on the left.
00:14:26Taken some years ago in the railway arms.
00:14:28Wait a minute.
00:14:30It's all coming back to me now.
00:14:31I do remember him.
00:14:33We were all staying at my grandmother's, I think.
00:14:36Of course, I was only a kid at the time,
00:14:38but I remember there was some trouble about a chambermaid.
00:14:42That'd be Simon.
00:14:43Is this where...
00:14:45Did he...
00:14:46No.
00:14:47As a matter of fact,
00:14:48it was in the railway arms that your great-uncle...
00:14:50He died in a pub.
00:14:52Rather sad, really.
00:14:53You see, for many years,
00:14:54Simon was champion beer drinker of this county.
00:14:56Used to down a whole gallon of brown ale at a single draft.
00:14:59Eight pints?
00:15:00On the evening of the 19th in the railway arms,
00:15:02somebody bet him.
00:15:05He shouldn't have tried it, you know.
00:15:06Not at 77.
00:15:08Would it be irreverent to ask if he...
00:15:11Oh, yes.
00:15:12He did it all right.
00:15:13The tensionings was paid to me as executor
00:15:15right after the funeral.
00:15:17Sad.
00:15:18Somehow not unfitting, you know.
00:15:21Well, what in heaven's name are we going to do with it?
00:15:24Could we sell it?
00:15:25Astonishing as it may seem, Mr. Spencer,
00:15:27your great-uncle had an offer for it only a few weeks ago
00:15:29from Mr. Hardcastle, the man who owns the Grand Cinema.
00:15:32What on earth would he want with this place?
00:15:34I'll show you.
00:15:36You see the Grand there?
00:15:38Hardcastle's idea is to use that land as a car park.
00:15:41Now, the only way you can do that is to buy the bijou
00:15:43and pull it down to make an entrance.
00:15:45No sign we'll never sell.
00:15:47Any idea what Hardcastle was offering?
00:15:49Oh, the last offer was 5,000 pounds.
00:15:515,000 pounds?
00:15:53And the old man turned it down?
00:15:55Well, it was his home, you know, as well as his living.
00:15:575,000 pounds?
00:15:59That's not bad.
00:16:00Not bad at all, is it, darling?
00:16:02When can we see Mr. Hardcastle?
00:16:03Well...
00:16:04Now? Today?
00:16:05I'll see if I can arrange a meeting this afternoon.
00:16:11You'll have to excuse me, Mr. Spencer,
00:16:13but I'm rather a sentimental man,
00:16:15and old Simon's death came as a great shock to me.
00:16:17A great shock, indeed.
00:16:19Mind you, I never got to know him awfully well,
00:16:21but we were business rivals, in a manner of speaking,
00:16:23and I liked him.
00:16:25He was a very likable man. You had to like him.
00:16:27I did, anyway.
00:16:29But still, as I say, Mr. Spencer, I'm a very sentimental man.
00:16:31Yes, Mr. Hardcastle, we quite understand how you feel.
00:16:33The point is, now that Mr. Spencer here
00:16:35has come into his great uncle's estate,
00:16:37we have to consider the whole question of the bijou.
00:16:39The bijou?
00:16:41Oh, yes, the bijou.
00:16:45Now, I've explained to Mr. Spencer
00:16:47that you made an offer to the late Mr. Spencer.
00:16:49That's right, lad. I made him a very fair offer.
00:16:51But the old rascal...
00:16:53You'll pardon the use of the expression, ma'am?
00:16:55Please.
00:16:56The old rascal turned it down flat.
00:16:58Well, I dare say he had his reasons, Mr. Hardcastle,
00:17:00but I'm prepared to consider your offer very seriously.
00:17:04Here, all fussed a minute, lad.
00:17:06What offer are you talking about?
00:17:09Well, your offer of 5,000 pounds.
00:17:135,000 pounds?
00:17:195,000 pounds!
00:17:24Oh, he's a great one, your husband,
00:17:26just like his great uncle!
00:17:295,000 pounds!
00:17:33Oh, that's a good one!
00:17:36Oh, that's a great one, that is!
00:17:42I've wanted to be more like it.
00:17:44But I don't understand.
00:17:46You offered my great uncle...
00:17:48Oh, I know, lad, but that was a long time ago,
00:17:50before television it is.
00:17:52The bijou was a going concern then.
00:17:55Have you seen it now, lad?
00:17:57No, I'm only offering you 500 pounds,
00:18:00and that's a good deal more than the old flea pitch worth.
00:18:02If I may interrupt, Mr. Hardcastle,
00:18:04an offer of 500 pounds is quite out of the question for my client.
00:18:07There are debts of at least 750.
00:18:09750?
00:18:11Well, all right.
00:18:13Everyone knows I'm a sentimental man,
00:18:15and I like old Simon.
00:18:17750, then, but not a penny more.
00:18:19I'm sorry, Mr. Hardcastle.
00:18:21I didn't mean that figure to be taken as one
00:18:23which my client would be prepared to accept.
00:18:25No, but that's the figure I'm prepared to offer.
00:18:27750, and no more.
00:18:30Well, I'd like to have a word with Mr. Carter before I...
00:18:32Don't take your time, lad.
00:18:34Take all the time you want.
00:18:38I'm now going to be done out of my inheritance
00:18:40by Mr. Albert, sentimental Hardcastle.
00:18:42What about your father?
00:18:44My father?
00:18:46Well, couldn't we drag him in and ask his advice?
00:18:48Confidentially.
00:18:50My dad's always managed to steer a bit clear of old Simon's affairs.
00:18:53He said he wouldn't touch us with a barge pole.
00:18:56You know, I think my dad's right.
00:18:59Unless...
00:19:01Unless what?
00:19:03Unless you made Hardcastle believe
00:19:05that you didn't want to sell the old flea pit.
00:19:07Well, you could tell him you were going to reopen it
00:19:09and manage it yourself.
00:19:11You're not actually suggesting that we start up the...
00:19:14No, no, no, no.
00:19:16Of course not.
00:19:18But you've got to make him think you're going to
00:19:20as soon as he sees you cleaning the place up.
00:19:22Yes, you've hit on something.
00:19:24As soon as he sees we're cleaning...
00:19:27Bound to pass what he was going to pay my grades.
00:19:29Quite, quite. That's precisely my point.
00:19:31Yes. It's a wonderful idea.
00:19:33I'll do it. That's it.
00:19:35It's a wonderful idea. I'll do it.
00:19:37But, Matt, it'll cost money,
00:19:39taking on the staff and doing the place up.
00:19:41We'll get it all back.
00:19:43We'll have to be convincing. Don't you see that?
00:19:46If Hardcastle thinks we're bluffing you,
00:19:48you just laugh.
00:19:50You know...
00:19:53But if, on the other hand,
00:19:55the bluff works...
00:19:58it could mean 5,000 pounds.
00:20:01Oh, do let me do that for you.
00:20:03Darling, I can do it.
00:20:06Well...
00:20:21What's so funny?
00:20:23Samora.
00:20:25Samara.
00:20:27Samarkand.
00:20:29Sloughborough.
00:20:41Before we go in, there's something...
00:20:43I think I should tell you about Mrs. Visackley.
00:20:46You see, Mrs. Visackley and your great-uncle were...
00:20:50Well, that is to say,
00:20:52their relationship wasn't entirely...
00:20:56How shall I put it?
00:20:58You've already put it very eloquently.
00:21:00Your family.
00:21:03Oh, and one other thing.
00:21:06If I were you, I shouldn't say a thing to these three
00:21:08about wanting to sell the place.
00:21:10They must think you mean to open.
00:21:12A small town like this, you know, things get about.
00:21:14Quite.
00:21:20Good morning, Mrs. Visackley,
00:21:22Mr. Quill, Tom.
00:21:24May I introduce Mr. and Mrs. Spencer,
00:21:26the new owners of the Bijou.
00:21:28Mrs. Visackley, the cashier.
00:21:30How do you do?
00:21:32How do you do, Mrs. Visackley?
00:21:34Mr. Quill, the projectionist.
00:21:36How do you do?
00:21:38How do you do?
00:21:40How do you do?
00:21:42How do you do?
00:21:44How do you do?
00:21:46How do you do?
00:21:48And old... Oh, where's he gone?
00:21:50It's all right, Tom.
00:21:52Mr. and Mrs. Spencer just want to meet you.
00:21:54There's nothing to be nervous about.
00:21:56Old Tom, the janitor.
00:21:58Oh, I guess so.
00:22:00Yes.
00:22:02Well, I've asked you all here
00:22:04because Mr. Spencer would like to say a few words to you.
00:22:06Mr. Spencer.
00:22:10It's all right, Tom.
00:22:12Mr. Spencer just wants to talk to you.
00:22:14What's he gone to say?
00:22:16Well, uh, I'd like to say that...
00:22:18I know who you are.
00:22:20You're Mr. Carter.
00:22:22That's right, Tom.
00:22:24He thought I didn't know him.
00:22:26Mr. Carter, I'd have known him since he were a lad.
00:22:28Well, first I'd like to say that
00:22:30although I hadn't seen my great-uncle for many years,
00:22:34I was very sorry to hear of his...
00:22:38I understand...
00:22:40You're not Mr. Carter.
00:22:42He's Mr. Carter.
00:22:44Yes.
00:22:48Well, what I wanted to say this morning
00:22:52was that we,
00:22:54that is, my wife and I,
00:22:58we intend to reopen the bijou,
00:23:02to reopen it as quickly as possible.
00:23:06Thank you.
00:23:12Any questions?
00:23:20Mrs. Visackley.
00:23:22The late Mr. Spencer
00:23:24was going to make a number of improvements
00:23:26before he...
00:23:28Yes, Mrs. Visackley?
00:23:31One thing.
00:23:33He was going to do something about the rats.
00:23:35Rats?
00:23:37Yes, you see...
00:23:38Tell him about my equipment.
00:23:40I'm explaining to him about the rats.
00:23:43My equipment's more important than your rats.
00:23:45Tell him about my uniform.
00:23:47If you'll kindly permit me to speak...
00:23:49Well, I can see that we all have a lot to talk about.
00:23:52We must discuss it all later.
00:23:54Well, I'll be off and leave you to it.
00:23:56You must all have a lot to do.
00:23:58I'll see you out.
00:23:59I'll come with you.
00:24:02You and your equipment.
00:24:05If you'd spent your time looking after it
00:24:07instead of boozing away up there...
00:24:09Boozing?
00:24:10Yes.
00:24:11You stand there and accuse me of boozing?
00:24:13Yes, I do.
00:24:14Well, I'll let old Hardcastle know
00:24:16you're proposing to put him out of business, right?
00:24:18Right.
00:24:19And don't let those three in there upset you.
00:24:21It's just that they've been in the old flea pit a bit too long.
00:24:23Bye.
00:24:24Bye.
00:24:25Flea pit?
00:24:26It's more like the snake pit.
00:24:29You kept it running.
00:24:31You kept it running.
00:24:33Why, if it wasn't for me,
00:24:34poor Mr. Spencer would have gone out of business years ago.
00:24:37You and Mr. Spencer?
00:24:39Oh, yes.
00:24:40We know all about you and Mr. Spencer.
00:24:43How dare you?
00:24:44You unspeakable, drunken beggar!
00:24:47Mr. Spencer, he promised me a uniform
00:24:50like the man at the grand house.
00:24:51Well, I told you that.
00:24:53I've got my troubles too, haven't I?
00:24:55Yes.
00:24:57Is anything wrong?
00:24:59Mr. Spencer promised me a uniform
00:25:01like the man at the...
00:25:03Who are you?
00:25:05He's Mr. Spencer.
00:25:06Is he?
00:25:07Yes, I'm Mr. Spencer, Tom.
00:25:10Mr. Carter just introduced us.
00:25:12He promised me a uniform
00:25:14just like the man at the grand house.
00:25:16He promised me.
00:25:17Well, I'm sure we'll get round to all your problems in time.
00:25:20Right.
00:25:22But first,
00:25:24I'd like to learn how my great-uncle ran his business.
00:25:27Is that all right with you, Mrs. Fizakaly?
00:25:29If those are your wishes, certainly.
00:25:32See you two later.
00:25:34He's going to see us later.
00:25:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:38This is fantastic.
00:25:40What?
00:25:42Who are you?
00:25:46Well, Mrs. Fizakaly,
00:25:48I don't know very much about bookkeeping,
00:25:50but it seems to me
00:25:51these figures don't make any sense at all.
00:25:53I beg your pardon?
00:25:55Didn't my great-uncle keep any proper accounts?
00:25:58Your great-uncle never kept anything, Mr. Spencer,
00:26:01that wasn't perfectly proper.
00:26:03Of course, of course.
00:26:05But, well, what are these, for instance?
00:26:09Groceries, farm produce,
00:26:11miscellaneous donations?
00:26:13You see, the late Mr. Spencer always found
00:26:16that the only way to run the Kinamaya successfully
00:26:19was by having a great many private understandings.
00:26:22What sort of understandings?
00:26:24Complimentary seats were always granted
00:26:26to anyone who made any contribution.
00:26:28If a farmer gave my great-uncle a chicken,
00:26:31his family got him for nothing?
00:26:32That's it, exactly.
00:26:34But what about the entertainment tax?
00:26:36Surely by not selling tickets,
00:26:38he was defrauding the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
00:26:41It only seems like that, Mr. Spencer.
00:26:44But as the late Mr. Spencer always pointed out,
00:26:47you could hardly send, well,
00:26:49a third of a chicken to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
00:26:53Now, could you?
00:26:56Oh, just before you go,
00:26:58I think I ought to tell you, Mr. Spencer,
00:27:00that unless something is done about Mr. Quill,
00:27:03I am not prepared to continue in my present position.
00:27:06Oh?
00:27:07I can no longer tolerate his insulting and unseemly behavior.
00:27:11Well, what are you suggesting, Mrs. Fizakley?
00:27:14That I should give him the sack?
00:27:16Sack, Mr. Quill?
00:27:18Sack, Mr. Quill?
00:27:20Oh, I'm afraid that would be quite out of the question,
00:27:23on account of the projection equipment, you know.
00:27:26Nobody else could possibly understand it.
00:27:28In fact, in 1937,
00:27:30when Mr. Quill had to go and have his appendix out
00:27:33and the late Mr. Spencer called in another projectionist to take over,
00:27:37it was only three days before he had to have his appendix out.
00:27:41Oh.
00:27:42No, no. No, I merely wondered
00:27:44whether you would say something rude or unpleasant to him.
00:27:48Very well, Mrs. Fizakley.
00:27:50I'll try and think of something to say.
00:27:52Thank you. Excuse me.
00:27:57Oh, well, well, well.
00:27:59When did we broker up a word with you, Mr. Spencer?
00:28:02Well, if it's about your equipment, Mr. Quill, I...
00:28:05No, it's about... What equipment?
00:28:07Well, the, er... No, no, it ain't. No.
00:28:10It's, er...
00:28:12It's about...
00:28:14It's about that woman, sir.
00:28:16That Mrs. Fizakley.
00:28:18She's a troublemaker, sir.
00:28:20She does nothing else but make trouble.
00:28:22Make trouble here, make trouble there.
00:28:24Oh. Yes, well...
00:28:26Well, now that the old scoundrel's dead...
00:28:29Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
00:28:31No offence intended, I assure you,
00:28:33but now that the old gentleman's gone to his dear rest,
00:28:36do we have to have that awful old hag hanging round this place?
00:28:40Yes, I do. Sack her?
00:28:42Sack Mrs. Fizakley?
00:28:45I don't think you properly appreciate the position, Mr. Spencer.
00:28:49Mrs. Fizakley's been here since the silent days.
00:28:53She used to play the piano.
00:28:55She's the only one that knows how this place runs.
00:28:58Sack Mrs. Fizakley?
00:29:00You'll be wanting to sack old Tom next.
00:29:03I see.
00:29:05What you really mean is you just want me to say something rude
00:29:09and unpleasant to her.
00:29:11Yes. Yes.
00:29:13Yes.
00:29:15Yes.
00:29:17Well, I'll try to think of something to say.
00:29:21Yes.
00:29:25Good morning.
00:29:27Bijou Kinamar, at your service.
00:29:30Who?
00:29:32Oh, haven't you heard?
00:29:35Oh, yes.
00:29:37Yes, this Mr. Spencer.
00:29:39Of course.
00:29:41Just hold on a moment, please, while I hand him the telephone.
00:29:45Thank you, Mrs. Fizakley.
00:29:47Hello?
00:29:48Well, Hogcastle seems to be falling for it, all right.
00:29:51Yes, fine.
00:29:53The old wotsit may not move until he's absolutely convinced you're not bluffing.
00:29:56What?
00:29:57Well, you must be convincing.
00:29:59Spend a few pounds, as ostentatiously as possible, of course.
00:30:02In my judgment, you'll get it all back.
00:30:07Thank you.
00:30:37Mr. Quill!
00:31:08They're going ahead, all right.
00:31:10No doubt about that, Albert.
00:31:12Aye.
00:31:16Eleven o'clock, you said, he said.
00:31:18It's ten past now.
00:31:19Perhaps you're fast, darling.
00:31:20Perhaps he's changed his mind.
00:31:21Look here, if you two carry on like this when he shows up,
00:31:23he'll offer you a fiver for the place.
00:31:25For goodness' sake, remember, you're the reluctant sellers.
00:31:28He's the anxious.
00:31:30That's our boy.
00:31:32Good morning to you.
00:31:33Good morning.
00:31:34Good morning.
00:31:35Good morning, Mr. Hogcastle.
00:31:36Good morning, Mrs. Spencer.
00:31:38I see you've cleaned the whole place up a bit.
00:31:40Well, it needed it.
00:31:42I'll give you a capital E for effort, lad.
00:31:44Both of you.
00:31:45Well, we haven't really started yet, have we, darling?
00:31:48We'll need a good deal of time.
00:31:50Hold on a minute, that's what I wanted to say about...
00:31:52Mr. Hogcastle.
00:31:53Oh, thank you.
00:31:54It won't do, you know, it won't do.
00:31:56A nice young couple like yourselves.
00:31:59It won't do, you know, it won't do.
00:32:01A nice young couple like yourselves.
00:32:03You've no business in this business.
00:32:05If you'd seen your great-uncle, what it did for him in the end,
00:32:07that old buttle-axe for Zuckerley.
00:32:09I remember when she was a wee slip of a thing.
00:32:11Pretty as a picture.
00:32:12A big picture, mark you.
00:32:15No, I'd have been round here sooner,
00:32:16only it took me some time to convince my partners
00:32:18that we should raise our offer.
00:32:21Oh, darling, you're not going to sell now, after all.
00:32:23Oh, it's all right, darling.
00:32:25There's no harm in hearing what Mr. Hogcastle has to say.
00:32:27Oh, what I have to say, lad, is this.
00:32:29I'm prepared to offer you 1,500 pounds.
00:32:331,500 pounds.
00:32:37I'm afraid we're all wasting time, Mr. Hogcastle.
00:32:39A few weeks ago, my clients were more than willing to negotiate a sale.
00:32:42Then, of course, they had no intention of opening up the Bijoux.
00:32:45And making it our home.
00:32:46Yes, they've already invested a lot of capital in this place, you know.
00:32:49Oh, I know, I know.
00:32:51You didn't expect me to make me best offers straight out, like, did you?
00:32:55What is your best offer?
00:32:57Well, I'm authorized to go to the sum of 2,000 pounds.
00:33:03In cash.
00:33:05Mr. Hogcastle, what you and your partners are overlooking
00:33:08is the wonderful challenge the Bijoux presents to my clients.
00:33:11Why, in six months' time, we'll say a year.
00:33:14In a year's time, we hope to have a...
00:33:16Well, goodbye, lad.
00:33:17Are you going?
00:33:18Goodbye, Mrs. Spencer.
00:33:19Goodbye, Mr. Hogcastle.
00:33:20Thank you for coming.
00:33:22Goodbye, Mr. Carter.
00:33:23Goodbye.
00:33:24What were we saying?
00:33:25Yes, I think you should install a cinemascope.
00:33:27Full stereophonic sound, the lot.
00:33:29No expense spared.
00:33:31I agree.
00:33:32We've got to make the Bijoux the best little cinema in this part of the country.
00:33:36By the time we've finished with it,
00:33:38people will be coming from miles around.
00:33:41It's all right. It's all right. It's gone.
00:33:43Say, we overdid things, do we?
00:33:45Not a bit.
00:33:46Mark my words, within 24 hours, he'll be back with a bigger offer.
00:33:49All he's got to do now is sit down and wait.
00:33:51Give me a ring when he turns up, eh?
00:33:53What do we do if he doesn't?
00:33:54He will, don't worry.
00:33:55Hogcastle needs that car park badly,
00:33:57and he's got to buy the Bijoux to get it.
00:33:59One thing seems pretty certain.
00:34:00He thinks we intend running the place.
00:34:01The moment we've cashed his check,
00:34:03I tell him,
00:34:04nothing on earth would have induced us to open this dump.
00:34:23Come on.
00:34:54Cup of tea, please, miss.
00:34:58All right. All right.
00:35:01Not worth talking to, I know that.
00:35:04Got no proper uniform.
00:35:06I haven't even got a proper hat.
00:35:08They promised me many hat to go and die.
00:35:11Why don't you get your new bosses to buy your uniform?
00:35:13They won't buy me nothing.
00:35:15Why not? There seem to be a couple of mugs.
00:35:17Must be you're throwing out the old flea pit, eh, Dolly?
00:35:19They're not opening it.
00:35:21What?
00:35:22Didn't tell us nothing about it.
00:35:24Us who've been there 30 years.
00:35:27Except me, I've been there 40 years.
00:35:30What haven't they told you, Tom?
00:35:31They're only doing it so as Mr. Hogcastle will buy it.
00:35:35They don't want to run the old Bijoux.
00:35:38Never meant to run it.
00:35:41Never meant to get me no uniform, neither.
00:35:45If they really mean business,
00:35:47there's only one thing to do, Albert,
00:35:49and that's stump up.
00:35:50Aye, but it's given best to a couple of youngsters that I don't like, Fred.
00:35:53You mustn't let your personal feelings interfere with business, Albert.
00:35:57That car park's worth more to us than the 5,000.
00:36:01I know.
00:36:03Oh, well, if we must, we must, I suppose.
00:36:08Get me the Bijoux.
00:36:09Come in.
00:36:12Can I have a word with you, sir?
00:36:14Shouldn't waste too much time on this place, Dolly.
00:36:16I thought we ought to give him something clean for his 5,000.
00:36:19You know, I've been thinking.
00:36:21There's one thing about this situation that worries me.
00:36:23What?
00:36:24I bet if the old man had made a proper will,
00:36:26he'd have left this place to those three old goons.
00:36:28I mean, why shouldn't he?
00:36:30He didn't even know I existed.
00:36:32Well?
00:36:33Well, sir, I haven't really come into my inheritance, have I?
00:36:35I've come into theirs.
00:36:37When we get that 5,000 pounds out of old Hardcastle,
00:36:39we ought to give them a fair share.
00:36:41Oh, Matt, you've no idea how pleased I am to hear you say that.
00:36:44You know, I've really begun to quite like him.
00:36:46Matt, you're sweet.
00:36:47Hello?
00:36:48Really, you're the sweetest man I know.
00:36:50But how could he have found out?
00:36:52I just don't know.
00:36:53But he knows you're bluffing.
00:36:55Look, I'd better come round.
00:36:58He says he's still willing to give you the 750
00:37:00when you decide you've had enough.
00:37:02Well, that tears it.
00:37:03It certainly does.
00:37:04I must say, I feel very largely to blame for this situation.
00:37:08If I indulge you to hold out...
00:37:09Of course you're not to blame.
00:37:10Oh, Robin, you mustn't even think of it.
00:37:12The point is, what do we do now?
00:37:15You know, when you think about it,
00:37:17the situation hasn't really changed.
00:37:19The fact that Hardcastle's found out and reduced his offer
00:37:21doesn't alter the basic fact that he still wants to buy the Beasle.
00:37:24He thinks you'll panic and accept the 750.
00:37:26Well, I'm in a panic.
00:37:28Have we any alternative?
00:37:29You have one.
00:37:30What's that?
00:37:31Well, I... I hesitate to mention it.
00:37:34Oh, don't. Please, Robin.
00:37:37Well, open the cinema.
00:37:40Run the place.
00:37:42Run the place?
00:37:43Why not?
00:37:46You mean, actually show pictures?
00:37:50Yes. Sooner or later, he'll have to raise his offer again.
00:37:53Stay here?
00:37:54You mean, stay here and really try to...
00:37:58No. No, no, no, no.
00:38:00Now, wait a minute.
00:38:01You want us to live here?
00:38:03To be stuck in this place?
00:38:08Do you mind telling me what single aspect of this situation
00:38:10strikes you as being even remotely amusing?
00:38:12Oh, I'm sorry, darling.
00:38:14It's just that there's something so terribly logical
00:38:16about being stuck in a place that makes glue.
00:38:21And that was our plan.
00:38:23It's true we didn't intend to open the Bijou again,
00:38:25but just to sell it for as much as we could get.
00:38:27But because we feel that this place is as much yours as it is ours,
00:38:32we were going to see that you were all well looked after.
00:38:34Somehow or other, we don't know how,
00:38:37Mr. Hardcastle found out.
00:38:39Now all he'll give us is 750 pounds,
00:38:41which will hardly cover the debts.
00:38:43Wait a minute, Tom. I haven't finished yet.
00:38:45Robin, go and explain to him, will you?
00:38:47Right.
00:38:48Well, we decided, my wife and I,
00:38:51to really open the Bijou,
00:38:53and what's more, to make a success of it.
00:38:55We've got to.
00:38:56If ever Hardcastle changes his mind and we make a sale,
00:38:59we'll see you all get a fair share.
00:39:01Well, I hardly know what to say, I'm sure.
00:39:05It's very good of you to think of us all.
00:39:08We'll do the very best we can, I'm sure, Mr. Spencer,
00:39:12just as we did in Mr. Spencer's day.
00:39:15Thank you.
00:39:16Thank you, Mrs. D'Zachary.
00:39:29Well, Mr. Spencer, it's like this here.
00:39:32I would like you to know
00:39:35that I, well, I appreciate what you said
00:39:38and what you're trying to do.
00:39:40And, believe me, I don't say this lightly,
00:39:44I am absolutely determined
00:39:47that I won't touch another drop.
00:39:50Not another drop I won't touch, I won't.
00:39:53Mr. Quill,
00:39:55I don't think you may realise, Mr. Spencer,
00:39:58what a big sacrifice this may mean for Mr. Quill.
00:40:02Well, thank you, Mr. Quill.
00:40:06Thank you, Mrs. D'Zachary.
00:40:08We shall really have to do something about your equipment now, Mr. Quill.
00:40:12Well, that's very nice of you to think of my problems, Mrs. D'Zachary.
00:40:16I'll get you some poison.
00:40:18What?
00:40:19For your rats, you know.
00:40:21Oh, yes, I see.
00:40:22It was old Tom who gave the game away.
00:40:24Oh, no.
00:40:25Apparently he overheard something.
00:40:27Hardcastle's commissioner got hold of him.
00:40:29The old chap's in terrible shape.
00:40:30Oh, darling, you must go and say something to him.
00:40:33Well, all right.
00:40:38Everything's perfectly clear to me now.
00:40:41We're going to be here for the rest of our lives.
00:40:44Matt'll end up like great Uncle Simon,
00:40:47I'll be Mrs. D'Zachary, and you'll be old Tom.
00:40:49Isn't that what's going to happen?
00:40:51Tom?
00:40:52No, sweetheart.
00:40:54It were all my fault, certainly.
00:40:56I'll go away.
00:40:57There's no place for me here.
00:40:59Now look here, Tom.
00:41:01I'll tell you what we'll better do.
00:41:04I think it's time we bought you that uniform.
00:41:08Oh, dear.
00:41:23Ground reopening.
00:41:25Ground reopening.
00:41:27Seats at all prices, sir.
00:41:29Seats at all prices.
00:41:31Seats at all prices.
00:41:33Seats at all prices.
00:41:35Any customers yet, Tom?
00:41:36Not yet, sir.
00:41:37But it's an happy day, sir.
00:41:38A very happy day, sir.
00:41:40The old Baiju reopened.
00:41:42Yes.
00:41:43We're happy too, Tom.
00:41:44Especially now I've got me uniform, sir.
00:41:46Very smart, Tom.
00:41:48Seats at all prices.
00:42:02Seats at all prices, sir.
00:42:06Seats at all prices.
00:42:18Ground reopening.
00:42:20Mr. Spencer?
00:42:22Aren't you going to press the button?
00:42:24Button?
00:42:25Yes, the one inside for Mr. Quilter-Storch.
00:42:28Oh, uh, yes.
00:42:35Hold your hat. Here goes.
00:42:37Is there any point in starting it? There's no one here.
00:42:40Well, I suppose we should show the pictures at the advertised times.
00:42:44Otherwise, uh...
00:42:46Well, of course we should.
00:42:49Oh! Oh!
00:42:51Oh! Oh!
00:43:21Oh!
00:43:48Shall we watch for a bit?
00:43:50It's free.
00:43:52I wouldn't miss it for anything.
00:43:54Oh!
00:43:55Oh!
00:43:56Oh!
00:43:57Oh!
00:43:58Oh!
00:44:19Oh!
00:44:20Oh!
00:44:21Any customers upstairs, Mrs. MacLeach?
00:44:23It's twenty-five past five as yet, you know.
00:44:39Get down. Find some guns. We're in for a fight.
00:44:42Keep down.
00:44:43All right, but you...
00:44:44Sure.
00:44:45There you are, my boy.
00:45:01Well, top of your time, Paddy. I'm the seat of the fleet.
00:45:46Paddy!
00:45:50Paddy!
00:46:15The train now standing at number three platform is the train for Flagford, Liverpool and Northampton.
00:46:45It's the sheriff and his posse.
00:47:15Mr. Quill!
00:47:31Nothing to worry about, Mr. Spencer. The film broke. I'll have it fixed in a minute.
00:47:35Didn't tear the piece apart!
00:47:36Well, can't you say something to him, sir? The old man always did.
00:47:39Well, what do I say?
00:47:41Tell him to shut up and wait for it. We're doing our best.
00:47:46Oh, I'm...
00:47:49Quill?
00:47:50Quill says I should speak to him.
00:47:51Well, somebody better do something.
00:48:06Ladies and gentlemen...
00:48:10If you will be...
00:48:11If you will be...
00:48:14You down there, I'll come amongst you.
00:48:28You're wonderful. You handle the whole thing beautifully.
00:48:30Filthy little brutes. I'd like to take a mother's scruff of their necks.
00:48:41What on earth?
00:48:44Oh, Matt, you can't allow that sort of thing!
00:48:46I've read the word round, Mrs. Zachary. We're under new management, but no change in policy.
00:48:49Matt!
00:48:50Here, cook it.
00:48:58Take her in, boys!
00:49:00Come on!
00:49:02You see the idea? He's bluffing. He hasn't got a gun at all.
00:49:06Oh!
00:49:07Oh?
00:49:09Well, I guess that pays you off.
00:49:13You cannot arrest him, Sheriff. He has saved our lives.
00:49:16Mine's gonna be coming out any minute now.
00:49:18Say, Miss Tonya, let me introduce you to Driftin' Slim Stanley, Deputy U.S. Marshal.
00:49:38What is this? Stop! What's happening?
00:50:09Oh, Mr. Spencer, here are the takings for the day.
00:50:12Oh.
00:50:13Three pounds, eight and ninepence.
00:50:15Oh. Well, that's not very good, is it?
00:50:17It's always three pounds and something on a Monday, you know.
00:50:21Well, good night, Mrs. Spencer.
00:50:23Oh, good night, Mrs. Zachary.
00:50:24Good night, Mr. Spencer.
00:50:25Good night.
00:50:26Oh, and there's a half of lard and two pork chops in the drawer there.
00:50:30Complimentaries. Good night once more.
00:50:33Complimentaries.
00:50:34Do you think if we issued a few season tickets, we might acquire a radiogram or a refrigerator?
00:50:39By the look of half the takings, we should need a refrigerator.
00:50:42Oh, good night, Mrs. Spencer.
00:50:45Oh, good night, Mr. Quill.
00:50:46Good night, Mrs. Spencer.
00:50:47Good night.
00:50:48Good night.
00:50:49Good night, Mrs. Spencer.
00:50:50Mm-hmm.
00:50:51Yes. Well, only one breakdown tonight.
00:50:54Only one.
00:50:55Yes.
00:50:56Good night.
00:50:57Good night.
00:50:58Good night.
00:51:00At the end of the first week, we simply couldn't believe it.
00:51:03We wouldn't believe our eyes.
00:51:05We were completely dumbfounded.
00:51:06No, we just couldn't believe it.
00:51:08We were almost taking on the task with our own two eyes.
00:51:10But during the first half of the first week, we were so bored to death.
00:51:14We hadn't even got to sleep at all.
00:51:16And the entire first week we'd been in bed...
00:51:19...like a ghost or something.
00:51:20And when we came out of bed, we had no idea what was going on.
00:51:22At the end of the first week, we simply couldn't believe it.
00:51:29We were making a profit, but we were.
00:51:32One pound, seventeen and six.
00:51:35One chicken, two pork chops, half a lard and a tin of cocoa.
00:51:40What are we going to do?
00:51:41Well, perhaps we could find out how a real cinema is run.
00:51:47How?
00:51:48How?
00:51:49Darling, for heaven's sake.
00:51:52Two singles at three and six.
00:51:54Two single seats.
00:51:55Two at three and six.
00:51:56Two singles.
00:51:57Two single seats.
00:51:58Why, lad.
00:51:59Oh, and Mrs. Spencer.
00:52:00You don't have to queue, you know, you're always welcome as my guest.
00:52:10Thank you very much, Mr. Hardcastle.
00:52:12We just thought we'd take a sort of busman's holiday.
00:52:16That's right.
00:52:17That's right, lad.
00:52:18Come on in.
00:52:19Thank you very much.
00:52:20How's business?
00:52:21Oh, looking up, you know.
00:52:22Looking up.
00:52:23Flatten his back, looking up.
00:52:24Quite something, isn't it?
00:52:25Mm.
00:52:26Oh.
00:52:27Oh.
00:52:28Oh.
00:52:29Oh.
00:52:30Oh.
00:52:31Oh.
00:52:32Oh.
00:52:33Oh.
00:52:34Oh.
00:52:35Oh.
00:52:36Oh.
00:52:37Oh.
00:52:38Oh.
00:52:39Oh.
00:52:40Oh.
00:52:41Oh.
00:52:42Oh.
00:52:43Oh.
00:52:44Oh.
00:52:45Oh.
00:52:46Oh.
00:52:47Oh.
00:52:48Oh.
00:52:49Oh.
00:52:50Oh.
00:52:51Oh.
00:52:52Oh.
00:52:53Oh.
00:52:54Oh.
00:52:55Oh.
00:53:03Oh.
00:53:06Oh.
00:53:10Oh.
00:53:14Oh.
00:53:23I like her voice.
00:53:32Isis.
00:53:35Ah!
00:53:37Oh, what is that?
00:53:45Stop it! You're going to hurt me!
00:53:47I'm not taking the legs off a chair!
00:53:49And the choc-axe. Can I pay for the choc-axes yesterday?
00:53:52I can't help it! I'm sorry! Who was that?
00:53:55Max, please help!
00:54:09One and two, please, miss. Thank you.
00:54:16I saw what you did!
00:54:18It's your property, isn't it?
00:54:20I'm not going to have any rowdyism in here.
00:54:23Take your hands off of me.
00:54:25Too hard, you know what I said?
00:54:27You want me to throw you out?
00:54:29Come on, Marley!
00:54:35You won't see us here again, now, will you?
00:54:37No hurry, son.
00:54:38We'll have the boys on you.
00:54:40We'll do that.
00:54:46Were you the cause of their disturbance?
00:54:48It's nothing to do with me if they fight, is it?
00:54:52That's a matter of opinion.
00:54:54I say, wait a minute.
00:54:56You wouldn't be looking for a good job, by any chance, would you?
00:54:59What as?
00:55:00An ice-cream girl, for instance.
00:55:02What, here?
00:55:03I'd pay well for someone who could attract the customers.
00:55:06Really?
00:55:07And stand up to the pressure of the work.
00:55:10Well, I'd like to.
00:55:12Well, I don't know.
00:55:13I'm doing a bit of modelling for a photographer at the moment.
00:55:16He's got no eating, of course.
00:55:18What's the money?
00:55:20Well, let's discuss that in the office, shall we?
00:55:23What's your name?
00:55:24Hogg. Marlene Hogg.
00:55:26You know, I think you may be just the girl we need, Miss Hogg.
00:55:29Miss...
00:55:32To Horace!
00:55:33To Horace!
00:55:34Thank you very much.
00:55:36Thank you very much.
00:55:38Thank you very much.
00:55:40Thank you very much.
00:55:43Orange and a Coke, please, Miss.
00:55:45To Horace!
00:55:46To Horace!
00:55:47To Horace, that's right.
00:55:49Thank you very much.
00:55:51Three more strawberries, then. I feel just fine without you.
00:56:11King!
00:56:17Ain't there nothing left, Hank?
00:56:19No.
00:56:20Let me see. Let me see!
00:56:28Hank!
00:56:29Where you gone, Hank?
00:56:31What?
00:56:34What?
00:56:37What?
00:56:39I can't carry on without water!
00:56:42Water!
00:56:44Oh, Hank!
00:56:49Water.
00:56:51Water.
00:56:54Water.
00:57:01Now!
00:57:03Ice cream! Ice cream!
00:57:08Ice cream!
00:57:26Thanks for the dinner, Robin.
00:57:27It's been a pleasure.
00:57:28We had a lovely evening.
00:57:29Don't know if it's just the wine, but I certainly feel a good deal more optimistic.
00:57:32Why, leave Johnny good reason to be.
00:57:34Don't you worry. Hardcastle knows what business you're doing.
00:57:37Good night.
00:57:38Bye.
00:57:39Bye.
00:57:44Well, I hope he's right.
00:58:07Good night.
00:58:37Good night.
00:59:07Good night.
00:59:16Mr. Quill.
00:59:18Mr. Quill, what's going on?
00:59:21Old films, Mr. Spencer.
00:59:24Classics, you might say.
00:59:28I've saved them for years, bits of them.
00:59:32We used to run them like this in the old days, but...
00:59:35not for years we haven't done it.
00:59:39Now it...
00:59:41seems like old times once more.
00:59:53They must be taking as much in refreshments as they are at the box office.
00:59:57Nearly a full house again tonight.
00:59:59Oh, they're bluffing, I tell you.
01:00:00They can bluff a long time while they're making money, Albert.
01:00:03Next week I hear they've booked a film about a drought in Arizona.
01:00:06They can't keep that up.
01:00:07They can keep it up long enough.
01:00:09In my opinion, we'd do ourselves a bit of good if we showed a few desert pictures...
01:00:13instead of all this kick in the belly, dump them over the waterfront stuff we keep showing.
01:00:18What's more, they've got the staff behind them.
01:00:20That drunken idiot of a projectionist doesn't even sign the pledge.
01:00:24And have you seen their ice cream girl?
01:00:27Now look here, Fred.
01:00:28Some.
01:00:29I'm not going to lose my head over this.
01:00:31That set up at the beach, it was like a house of cards.
01:00:34If we often we blow, but what with Albert.
01:00:38Leave it with me for a couple of days, will you?
01:00:40I think I may have a way of dealing with this.
01:00:45Here you are, Tom.
01:00:46Newsreel.
01:00:47The relief of math again.
01:00:51That's an omen.
01:00:54I don't know who relieved that, I'm sure.
01:00:59Here's a newsreel for you.
01:01:02It's pretty wet there, I think.
01:01:04Wouldn't like to have to carry too many of them.
01:01:06You could lug your arms out.
01:01:09Right.
01:01:10Ta, Tom.
01:01:12Now you lug your arms out.
01:01:31Cool.
01:01:36Cool.
01:01:38Cool.
01:01:39Cool.
01:01:52Cool.
01:02:01Cool.
01:02:15Is it under there, Hank?
01:02:16No.
01:02:17Let me see.
01:02:18Let me see.
01:02:26Hank.
01:02:27Where are you going, Hank?
01:02:29Don't you have water?
01:02:30I can't live without a drink.
01:02:32I don't want to die first.
01:02:34There must be water somewhere.
01:02:36Or a drink.
01:02:37I can't live without a drink.
01:02:40You must have water.
01:02:41Now.
01:02:42I can't find it.
01:02:43Why?
01:02:44I can't drink.
01:02:45You must have water.
01:02:46I must have something.
01:02:47I must have something.
01:02:48Just a drink, please.
01:02:49Give me a drink.
01:02:50Anything just for my...
01:02:52Just a little drop.
01:02:57I can see it.
01:02:59I can see it.
01:03:01There must be water there.
01:03:05Let's get there.
01:03:06Let's get there.
01:03:07Water.
01:03:29I know I love you.
01:03:34Mr. Cormier.
01:03:35Percy.
01:03:36What's the matter?
01:03:38Come here, baby.
01:03:39Oh, Max.
01:03:40Max.
01:03:41Max.
01:03:42Max.
01:03:43Max.
01:03:44You'll be all right.
01:03:49You'll be all right.
01:03:58Ten to five.
01:03:59Where has Quill got to?
01:04:00What are we going to do?
01:04:01We can't not open, can we?
01:04:03Do you know enough about his equipment to run it by yourself?
01:04:05I?
01:04:06Well, he doesn't know enough about it to...
01:04:09Very well.
01:04:10I'll have a go.
01:04:11Oh, the stupid, idiotic situation.
01:04:13I'll see Mrs. Bizzacchi to find out what's happened to him.
01:04:20I'm ready to start now.
01:04:21Anybody there yet?
01:04:23About 20.
01:04:25Well, here goes.
01:04:49I'm sorry.
01:04:50I'm sorry.
01:05:20You...
01:05:24Is it all right?
01:05:26Ah, it's going like one o'clock.
01:05:28I'm telling you, Culpepper, this territory ain't big enough for you and me both.
01:05:33You better be out by sundown.
01:05:36Well, Sheriff, if that's the way you want it.
01:05:50Darling, are you all right?
01:05:51Yeah.
01:05:53Mrs. Bizzacchi says Quill's locked himself in his room and refuses to come out.
01:05:57How many people are there down there?
01:05:59Just about a hundred now.
01:06:00I thought you might like something to eat.
01:06:02You haven't even thought about it.
01:06:08Reverse.
01:06:09Reverse.
01:06:10Reverse.
01:06:11Reverse.
01:06:12Reverse.
01:06:13Reverse.
01:06:14Reverse.
01:06:15Reverse.
01:06:16Reverse.
01:06:17Reverse.
01:06:18Reverse.
01:06:20Reverse.
01:06:21Reverse.
01:06:22Reverse.
01:06:23Reverse.
01:06:24Reverse.
01:06:25Reverse.
01:06:29Eight-nine-eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two.
01:06:36As I was saying, honey.
01:06:38I reckon that you're just about the prettiest gal this side of Rainbow Gulch.
01:06:44I guess I better ride on back to the mine.
01:06:46One thing's crystal clear.
01:06:47We can't go on like this.
01:06:48What else can we do?
01:06:49I don't know.
01:06:50All I know is we can't go on like this.
01:06:53Do you want to accept Hardcastle 750?
01:06:56Of course I don't want to accept it.
01:06:58I can't stick at this job all my life.
01:07:00I'm a novelist.
01:07:01Yes, I know, darling, but it seems such a shame
01:07:04after all the trouble we've taken
01:07:06and there won't be anything at all in it for them.
01:07:09We're not responsible.
01:07:10It's Quill.
01:07:11Drunk all the time.
01:07:12Always complaining about his equipment.
01:07:14If I can run the blasted thing without any trouble,
01:07:16why can't he run...
01:07:18Oh, no!
01:07:19Darling, what's happened?
01:07:21The film's broken.
01:07:22No!
01:07:23It's all right. Don't panic. Don't panic.
01:07:28Don't worry.
01:07:29I've seen how quilled you for this.
01:07:31But what about all this film?
01:07:34Quill can sort all that out tomorrow.
01:07:38Can you fix it?
01:07:39I think so.
01:07:40All you do is...
01:07:42that.
01:07:44Oh!
01:07:45Oh, shut up!
01:07:47I think that's right.
01:07:58Darling, do something!
01:08:00Well, there's a knob here somewhere blasted.
01:08:09All right.
01:08:11There's a...
01:08:12a focus control gadget.
01:08:14Who killed Art Lake?
01:08:23Honey, with my brains and your looks...
01:08:27That's it! That's it!
01:08:31Quill! Ma!
01:08:32I want you! Ma!
01:08:34I'd work for you, honey.
01:08:35I'd even work out there on the railroad.
01:08:38Stripped to the waist.
01:08:39There's nothing I wouldn't do for you.
01:08:41It's not right!
01:08:42It's all right. Don't panic.
01:08:45What are you going to do?
01:08:46Well, we can scrap the rest of this...
01:08:48and switch on to the next reel.
01:08:50Think they'd notice?
01:08:51I don't know.
01:08:53The rest of the ammunition.
01:08:55If we go out, it'll be in a blaze of glory.
01:09:23I'll have to rewind.
01:09:24It's time to pick up a bottle of stout at the Crown, Mavis...
01:09:27if we catch the 9.25.
01:09:28I think that's right now.
01:09:30I hope.
01:09:32Yes, that's it!
01:09:38Don't come close!
01:09:40Don't come close!
01:09:43I tell you, let go!
01:09:45No, no, wait a minute!
01:09:47Oh, bloody Shaff!
01:09:49I think I might have cut you from the tape.
01:09:51Oh, you're daredevil!
01:09:53Yeah, a baby's hurt, Mrs. Weaver.
01:09:54You didn't even think you could come in, honey.
01:09:57But you should have, honey.
01:09:59We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:00We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:01We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:02We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:03We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:04We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:05We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:06We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:07We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:08We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:09We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:10We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:11We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:12We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:14We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:15We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:16We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:17We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:18We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:19We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:20We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:21We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:22We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:23We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:24We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:25We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:26We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:27We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:29We're going to have a good time, aren't we?
01:10:41That's it.
01:10:58OK. Come and get it.
01:11:11One and two.
01:11:14Ninepence.
01:11:22Oh, you want money back, do you?
01:11:25Ha ha ha ha!
01:11:32After that evening it seemed that there was nothing else that could happen.
01:11:37But there was.
01:11:48Yes, quite definitely. Second week in February, I should say.
01:11:55Where on earth have you been?
01:12:09Oh, I had an appointment.
01:12:10Oh, never mind about that now.
01:12:12Something terrible's happened.
01:12:13It's Mr. Hogg.
01:12:14Oh, how do you do?
01:12:15What do you mean something terrible?
01:12:16Marlene.
01:12:17What about Marlene?
01:12:18She's going to have a baby.
01:12:19Oh, is that all?
01:12:20All?
01:12:21All?
01:12:22I don't know whether you appreciate it, madam, but my little girl's not wed.
01:12:26Oh.
01:12:27Oh, of course.
01:12:28I should have thought.
01:12:29I'm sorry.
01:12:30I should think so, too.
01:12:32No father to put a name to it.
01:12:34It's an outrage.
01:12:35Well, it may have been.
01:12:36But haven't you any idea who the father is?
01:12:37I may have.
01:12:38And I may not have.
01:12:39What do you mean?
01:12:40I'll say no more.
01:12:41Why not?
01:12:42Whatever you mind.
01:12:43When she gets over her shock and makes her allegations, I shall act.
01:12:45I'm warning you, Mr. Spencer, I shall act.
01:12:49Warning me?
01:12:50What's he getting at?
01:12:52Look here.
01:12:53I'm not having...
01:12:54Don't be silly.
01:12:55Let him go.
01:12:56Darling.
01:12:57I've got something to tell you.
01:12:58Mr. Spencer.
01:12:59Mr. Spencer.
01:13:00The cat's had kittens in the circle.
01:13:01What?
01:13:02Six of them.
01:13:03What shall I do with them?
01:13:04Oh, not now, Tom.
01:13:05I'm busy.
01:13:06The lovely little furry one.
01:13:07Now, Tom.
01:13:08Four little girls and one little boy.
01:13:11I've looked.
01:13:13Quill's just crept in.
01:13:23I'm going to have a baby.
01:13:24The second week in February.
01:13:25You've got to go and speak to him.
01:13:27You'll have to sort out all that mess.
01:13:28One thing after another.
01:13:29Watch out!
01:13:31You're going to have what the second week in February?
01:13:45A rabbit.
01:13:48I've gone through all the bills, Robin.
01:13:56Seven-fifty will just about cover it.
01:13:59We'll see Hardcastle in the morning, then.
01:14:00A fair thing.
01:14:02By the way, have you told the three of them?
01:14:04Not yet.
01:14:05It's not going to be easy, you know.
01:14:07Poor Mrs. Pizzacoli.
01:14:09Poor Mr. Quill.
01:14:10Poor old Tom.
01:14:11Darling.
01:14:12We've done everything we could for them.
01:14:15From now on, you're all I care about.
01:14:17Pity.
01:14:18You almost made a go of it.
01:14:19Well, we never could have, really.
01:14:21Not with a cinema like the Grand's standing at our back door.
01:14:24But mind you.
01:14:25There have been times when I felt like burning that blasted place to the ground.
01:14:32Well, here's to the Bijoux's last program.
01:14:37So that evening, Robin, Matt and I
01:14:41watched the very last red skin bite the very last bit of dust.
01:15:56Beep. Beep-beep.
01:16:02Beep.
01:16:06Beep. Beep.
01:16:07Jean? Jean!
01:16:09Jean!
01:16:11Hello?
01:16:12Robin?
01:16:13The Grand isn't there anymore.
01:16:15What?
01:16:16Well, I'll be...
01:16:17No, we didn't hear a thing.
01:16:18Wait a minute.
01:16:19I thought the alarm went off.
01:16:21Must have been the fire bell.
01:16:22Oh, no, a leak.
01:16:23Yes.
01:16:24I see...
01:16:25What?
01:16:26He said what?
01:16:28I don't believe it.
01:16:30Well, it's obvious.
01:16:31Hardcastle has to stay in business until he can rebuild.
01:16:34And the Bijoux's the only other theater in town.
01:16:38And for the whole establishment, lock, stock, barrel and debts,
01:16:41my clients are prepared to accept a sum of 10,000 pounds.
01:16:44Impossible!
01:16:45With two conditions.
01:16:46First, that Mr. Percy Quill and Mrs. D'Zachary, an old tom,
01:16:50that's the only name we know for him,
01:16:52are to be allowed to carry on in their present positions as long as they may wish.
01:16:55But this is unheard of! It's outrageous!
01:16:57And secondly, that the name of the fee bit,
01:16:59I beg your pardon, the Bijoux,
01:17:01is not to be changed.
01:17:02So?
01:17:03In honor of the memory of my client's late lamented great uncle.
01:17:06I won't have it!
01:17:07Don't settle this morning, Mr. Hardcastle.
01:17:09The price goes up this afternoon.
01:17:11But even the name of the place,
01:17:14at least let me call it the new Bijoux.
01:17:17Yes, that seems to be all right.
01:17:19Go on.
01:17:23First.
01:17:25Bye, Robin.
01:17:27See you in London.
01:17:28Next week.
01:17:29By the way, Dad's very pleased.
01:17:31Goodbye, my dear.
01:17:32Goodbye, Mrs. D'Zachary.
01:17:33And I can't thank you enough, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher.
01:17:37I shall, uh...
01:17:38I shall invest my involvement in some small pension
01:17:41before I spend it in other ways.
01:17:44I think that's very wise, Percy.
01:17:46Oh!
01:17:47Goodbye, everyone.
01:17:48Bye.
01:17:49Goodbye, sir.
01:17:50Goodbye.
01:17:51God bless you.
01:17:52Have a nice time.
01:17:53Take care of yourself.
01:17:54I like you, Mr. Spencer.
01:17:56And I like you, Mrs.
01:17:58It were the only way, weren't it?
01:18:01Yes.
01:18:02Goodbye.
01:18:03Goodbye.
01:18:04See you next week.
01:18:05Bye-bye.
01:18:06Bye-bye.
01:18:07Bye-bye.
01:18:08Bye-bye, Robin.
01:18:14Oh, what a scramble!
01:18:18Did you hear what he said?
01:18:19Who?
01:18:20Oh, Tom.
01:18:22Did you hear what he said?
01:18:23No, what did he say?
01:18:25But, darling, what's the matter?
01:18:27Why are you looking like that?
01:18:28What did he say?
01:18:29He said,
01:18:31I like you, Mr. Spencer.
01:18:34And I like you, Mrs.
01:18:38It were the only way, weren't it?
01:18:40What were the only way?
01:18:41I don't know.
01:18:42That's all he said.
01:18:46Matt.
01:18:47No, no.
01:18:48Don't get excited.
01:18:49Matt.
01:18:50Don't get excited.
01:18:51There's probably nothing in it.
01:18:54He was always saying things that didn't mean anything.
01:18:56Well, if he did do it...
01:18:58We'll have to go back.
01:19:00Tell them.
01:19:01I mean, we can't just go off with Hardcastle's money and not even...
01:19:05What shall we do?
01:19:06Well, I have to ring him.
01:19:09As soon as we get to...
01:19:10Hardcastle?
01:19:11No, Tom.
01:19:12I'll ring him and ask him in plain language.
01:19:16No, we can't do that.
01:19:18That's not the sort of thing one can talk about on the phone.
01:19:22I'd better write him.
01:19:24That's it.
01:19:25I'll write him.
01:19:26Yes.
01:19:27Yes, you must.
01:19:28Yes, I will.
01:19:29Yes.
01:19:30I'll write to him.
01:19:31That's what I'll do.
01:19:32I'll write to him.
01:19:36And we did.
01:19:38We did write to him.
01:19:40We sent him a postcard
01:19:43from Samarkand.
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