They 'do' clean offices. After finding an important piece of paper in the trash, the women are soon in business and make good use of it to save their old neighbourhood from the wreckers' ball.
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00:02:26You shouldn't smoke so much you really shouldn't after all those dreadful warnings
00:02:32Mrs. Carpenter's husband gave it up and he got run down by a bus a week later. That's got nothing to do with him
00:02:38Giving up smoking. No, but it didn't do him any good
00:02:43Mrs. Craig
00:02:48I'm miss Pinsent your area supervisor. Were you smoking mrs. Craig?
00:02:53Yeah
00:02:55No, it's against company rules I shall report you you don't act a
00:03:01real supervisor
00:03:03Your mouth and trousers
00:03:17Spazzing bags up
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00:03:45Seen fags out
00:03:53Jim
00:04:02Jim
00:04:06The hell is he
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00:04:29Got my wire what's good about it? Yes, I got your wire
00:04:32Would I've got up in the middle of the night to be here? Otherwise, you're lucky
00:04:35I've been up all night in that blasted train. I couldn't get a sleeper. No breakfast either. What's all the excitement about poor Macfarlane?
00:04:41You can't raise the money
00:04:43He's dropping out. The warden's take of a bit will fall through not on your Nellie. It won't make
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00:04:52My boy you and I are gonna make a bid to take over Waldron's properties
00:04:58Sydney you're so quick. The shares were down to 15 Bob last night
00:05:03We are gonna offer Waldron a pound cash a pound cash
00:05:09Jim Ryder, have you gone raving mad? Where's that dumb blonde put that Waldron Bob?
00:05:14I've found her as soon as I got that wire. I knew it meant trouble. Anyway, where the hell are we going to find the money?
00:05:20Borrow it, but borrow it but 40% now. I know you've gone mad. Of course I have
00:05:29You buy me breakfast I'll explain why come on we'll go to that cheap dump around the corner won't cost you so much
00:05:35Pound cash
00:05:40Now I'd give him a quid out me own pocket if only they'd stop walking over my clean floor
00:05:53I thought I heard voices
00:05:55Come you finish this floor yet. I did but heard of rhinoceroses just went through
00:06:02rhinoceroses
00:06:04Dear
00:06:14Well, if he doesn't want it I know somebody what that
00:06:34Morning mrs. C. Morning candle bills bills bills
00:06:43They say rains on the way, I hope so I need heavy going for Epsom this week
00:06:48Oh, and you're all sis. What happened to that one yesterday? You know the one what couldn't lose
00:06:54Last in a field of 15. I'm better luck next time. How long can this sort of luck last mrs
00:07:00C doesn't matter what it is horses dogs the boat race
00:07:03I get a tip to buy Billings machine tools straight from the horse's mouth. I buy the shares they double their profits
00:07:13Lovely what did they do? They dropped half a crown. Oh, you never can tell with horses
00:07:20Horses, you don't listen to a word. I say do you? Oh, yes, I do
00:07:25I don't understand a word of it, but I do listen. Oh
00:07:28Oh
00:07:31I've got something for you. What is it? Oh
00:07:35a cigar
00:07:37Good condition, too
00:07:39Where did you pinch this? I didn't pinch it. I don't pinch things as well. You should know this is see you didn't bite
00:07:47There's no band and it's been pierced. That's why I took it. I found it in the waste paper basket
00:07:54Thanks very much very kind thought now you sit there and have a little smoke it'll do you good
00:07:59I'll go make you a nice cup of tea
00:08:01Oh
00:08:19Dear you did give me a turn. Sorry. Where did you get the cigar? Why what's the matter with it? Isn't it any good?
00:08:26Just shows you can never tell can you posh offices and oh, there's nothing the matter with the cigar
00:08:31Yeah, it's probably one of the best scars that's made. Where did you get it? Thanks for a work early mornings
00:08:36I saw it lying there and I says to myself. I said all that
00:08:41Yeah, I says so I took it. He didn't want it. Did you see who is he the man?
00:08:46I work for mr. Ryder, not James Ryder. That's him Jim Ryder. You know him well enough to call him Jim
00:08:52Oh me. Yeah, I've never spoken to him in my life
00:08:56Well, what's the special about him? Anyway, nothing really. He's just one of those wide boys
00:09:00Who's making a fortune just now to property development?
00:09:03Oh, he can't be the same bloke
00:09:06If you'd have heard in carry not about a quid one way or the other and you have to borrow that anyway
00:09:11What wouldn't I give to know what's going on in his mind? Not much
00:09:15I shouldn't think if you could have seen the way that was marching up and down on my clean floor
00:09:20I could have killed him stone dead the pair of them
00:09:23I thought the other black was gonna drop dead when he said he was gonna offer Waldron a quid. This is Craig
00:09:29Are you sure he said that?
00:09:32He said I am going to offer Waldron one pound cash
00:09:37Give me quite a turn it did
00:09:39Because Waldron was mr. Craig's second name
00:09:44You did
00:09:45Do another one for that nut house if you ask me? Yes. All right. I'll hold on
00:09:51Here's your cup of tea it's getting cold damn the tea. I'm sorry mrs. C
00:09:54But this is important. This is probably the hottest tip I've ever had dear. Oh, dear you and your old
00:09:59See this has nothing whatever to do with hope. Yes. I'm holding on
00:10:03You see a chap was going to buy a firm called Waldron's according to this. He changed his mind
00:10:09The shares will go down
00:10:10I shall buy some that I shall wait for Ryder to make his offer the shares will rise and I'll sell him at the profit
00:10:15It's as simple as that. It's just about as simple as that horse that couldn't lose yesterday
00:10:21And make you a fresh cap. Yes. Yes, I am holding on
00:10:25Your cousin the gallant colonel. Oh boy blimey more dad tips
00:10:32Hello sir, what can I do you for Roderick? Can you give me a quotation for Waldron this morning?
00:10:37I might have guessed he wants a quotation on Waldron's
00:10:40Listen one hour ago. The news broke that McFarland's bid had been withdrawn
00:10:46We haven't been off the phone since you can't even give him away you can't splendid
00:10:49I want you to buy me 5,000 pounds worth of Waldron's ordinaries
00:10:545,000
00:10:55Are you completely out of your tiny mind? Where the hell did you find 5,000 quid? I don't have to find it
00:11:00I'm buying it for the account
00:11:03My dear idiot, you realize they got to be paid for eventually and on the present showing they wouldn't be worth the paper
00:11:08They're printed on I'll give you security
00:11:10I
00:11:16Wasn't thinking of cufflinks or a watch I was thinking of this house
00:11:21Do I get this right?
00:11:23You'll put that house up against my buying 5,000 pounds worth of Walden shares
00:11:28Yes
00:11:29Get your solicitor to send the deeds round right away
00:11:40Well, mrs. Craig, I've done it. I've come for Walden's up to the hilt. Well, I hope it wins
00:11:45There's your tea if it does we'll split the profits 50-50. Well, that's very kind of you Colonel
00:11:50But if you don't no, no, no, I insist one doesn't get a tip like that every day fairs fair
00:11:5650-50 I was about to say Colonel as our I haven't had no wages for the past fortnight
00:12:02So that'll be two pound ten if you don't mind. Well, I am a little bit short of the ready this week
00:12:07I wonder if you could possibly wait till next Monday looks as though I shall have to didn't it? Thank you
00:12:14If we get control of Waldron's we can take over this site just like that
00:12:18Think of it all of the one conveyance one owner due for demolition in the next eight years
00:12:24Nice and tidy. I if we get a wig long we can have the old thing completed in eight ten months
00:12:29I a year at the outside I
00:12:32I
00:12:35Still don't like it Jim. I mean we we've got enough on our plate as it is
00:12:38Do you realize if I listen to your gloomy warnings?
00:12:41We'd still be in Stepney with 18 quid in the bank and you made sure I could only get that out three quid a day
00:12:46Didn't you 18 quid is a lot more than we've got in the bank at the moment Jim Ryder
00:12:52Hello
00:12:53Yes, sir. Will you hold on a moment, sir? I'll just see if he's in
00:12:57Out I got the tip this morning. Excuse me, sir. You're wanted on the telephone
00:13:07Hello Ryder
00:13:09What
00:13:13What
00:13:15No, I certainly did not
00:13:20Okay, thanks
00:13:22I
00:13:26Need two people knew that we'd made a takeover bid for Waldron's you and I
00:13:31Have you been talking?
00:13:32No, why because this morning somebody bought 5,000 quids with what they sent the price up by one and six months already
00:13:40Come on, we better get back. I'll get in contact with Waldron's full of price rises any higher
00:13:44Oh
00:13:52Hello Roderick, what's been happening? I've been trying to get you all the morning. Well, I didn't think they could sink any lower
00:13:58But they managed it
00:13:59Lower. Oh, no
00:14:00And I was just coming round to measure the house for carpets and curtains when the rumor of the Ryder takeover began to circulate
00:14:05I started to rise and the rumor was confirmed and they rocketed rocketed. Well, what are they standing at now 19 and 6?
00:14:13This means you've already doubled your investment. Yes, you've made a nice call
00:14:18Sell them sell the lot. You're a lucky devil. You must have had a tip straight from the horse's mouth from my charlady
00:14:24charlady
00:14:31The money can good morning, mr. C
00:14:33You
00:14:41Don't look too good
00:14:43You stay there and I'll get you a nice pick-me-up and what brought this little lot on if it's not a rude question
00:14:51Mrs. C. You remember when we bought those shares I told you we split the profit 50-50
00:14:56Yes, so you did I'd forgotten all about it. Don't you worry about that here take this
00:15:02It'll make you feel better. I can't put the kettle on your tea. We're ready
00:15:06You know, of course when I bought the shares, I see I didn't realize what might happen. Oh
00:15:12You haven't lost a lot of money over that bit of paper I'll give you have you no no, I didn't lose money
00:15:18Mrs. Craig I made it you made it. Oh
00:15:23I am glad isn't that nice you could do with a few quid
00:15:28Yes, it's more than a few quid mrs. Craig, it's quite a lot more more
00:15:34Yes, yes
00:15:3950 pounds more
00:15:43Not a hundred pounds more
00:15:50More not as much as 200 pounds
00:15:58Yes, mrs. Craig as much as 200 pounds
00:16:04That's wonderful, isn't it? And remember you're in 50-50. Oh, no. Oh nonsense. Mrs. Craig
00:16:11I insist the bargains a bargain
00:16:15I can't make the tea
00:16:21No, Colonel that money it isn't right
00:16:25That money it isn't right. Well, I I may have slightly underestimated it you see I'm not very good at figures
00:16:32No, Colonel. It was your idea. Yes, but mrs. Craig
00:16:36I know I will take 50 pounds and not a penny more. Is that as much as you expected as much as I
00:16:45Didn't expect a brass farthing. I can't make the tea
00:16:55It was real kind of you giving me that 50 pounds Colonel I
00:17:00Know you did promise me half, but a lot of people would have kept their mouths shut
00:17:06And I would have been none the wiser would I nonsense mrs. Craig you had my word as an officer
00:17:12And I trust a gentleman. Oh, you could have told me you only made a fiver
00:17:18I'd have been quite happy
00:17:20That's half your trouble Colonel. You're too honest
00:17:25I
00:17:33Know we was a bit posh for the street out in and the kids don't half enjoy that no mistake
00:17:43I didn't I didn't make 200 pounds
00:17:48But you distinctly told me never mind what I told you mrs. Craig. I didn't make 200 pounds
00:17:55I made five
00:18:08Did you say
00:18:115,000 pounds I did mrs. Craig
00:18:15Yes, I think perhaps it'll be safer if I were to give you your share right away
00:18:21Now just a minute Colonel, let me get this straight
00:18:26Are you telling me that you made five thousand pounds out of that bit of paper I give to you
00:18:33Yes, and a little bit of specialized knowledge
00:18:36Then somebody must have lost five thousand pounds. No, nobody lost five thousand pounds mrs
00:18:41Craig we bought shares at a certain price and sold them at a better price. That's high finance. It smells
00:18:47That's high finance it smells I to me. Oh, that's what the stock exchange is for mrs
00:18:53Craig so that ordinary people, you know people like you and I can express our trust in this or that
00:19:00Industrial concern and keep the great wheels of commerce turning. I
00:19:05Didn't see no wheels of commerce
00:19:07No, all I saw was a bit of paper
00:19:10And I didn't have no confidence in that because I didn't know what was written on it
00:19:14And you didn't have no confidence neither because you never knew it existed not until I give you that cigar wrapped up in it
00:19:21It isn't right. It can't be a few pounds is one thing
00:19:26But five thousand pounds is a different kettle of fish nonsense mrs
00:19:29Craig people are doing it all the time not people like me isn't there must be something wrong somewhere. This is Craig
00:19:36There's nothing wrong. You don't think I do anything dishonest. Do you?
00:19:40Yes
00:19:42Well, I didn't in the end did I
00:19:44It's legal mrs. Craig. What's legal can't be dishonest in that case
00:19:49There won't be any arm in my telling him about it. Well, they're telling who mr. Ryder
00:19:54It was his bit of paper and he can have this at all
00:19:57After all it must be is it was him what had the confidence, but you're not gonna take my check to mr. Ryder. I
00:20:05Am my mind is made up there is no time like the present
00:20:13I
00:20:21Come in
00:20:25Good morning, can I help you?
00:20:27Good morning, miss. I'm the lady what does here of a morning? Oh, yes. Well, I was wondering if I might see the gentleman Oh
00:20:37mr. Ryder
00:20:39Of course if I had their way they'd bang us all into crowded grottoes like what the Germans did
00:20:44I told you it was big business and if a superb lot of luxury offices ain't big business. I'd like to know what is
00:20:52Ryder
00:20:53Enterprise limited sounds like a cartel to me. What's a car?
00:21:01Well, anyway, they're the worst you mark my words
00:21:04They'll they'll they'll ground us all to pieces just just like the rest of them
00:21:10pieces
00:21:12The capitalists and and what will they say when our bellies are flapping for lack of bread or will they say?
00:21:20Let me cake. Oh, I like cake
00:21:24What can I do for you?
00:21:26Wow
00:21:31Yes
00:21:34Put him through
00:21:39Right up
00:21:41Hello George
00:21:45Fine old boy fine. I've got a little job for you. I want you to give me a price
00:21:51I'm pulling down some houses in Pitt Street. No Pitt Street, you know, it's a property. We've just taken over
00:21:58Of course I'm in a hurry
00:22:00Sitting tenants. Well after always over
00:22:03Don't you worry about it? I'll have them out of there before you can say bulldozer
00:22:07Good. Well, I'll pick you up in a few minutes and we'll go straight down to the site
00:22:21Now mrs. Craig well, sir, there were two things really do
00:22:27Look sir, this won't take up very much of your valuable time
00:22:32So you're the man who's going to pull down Pitt Street. That's right
00:22:38You live there. Yes, I do and all my friends live there and all I get it
00:22:43And I've asked you to use your position here to persuade me not to pull it down
00:22:47Nobody has asked me to do nothing. I've come here off me own bat. Now. Look mrs. Craig
00:22:53The world is changing and it's no good you and your friends resisting that change
00:22:57You've got to accept it assist it and if possible
00:23:02Anticipate it. Let me tell you what the ministry says about Pitt Street
00:23:09These buildings are scheduled for demolition in the next 10 years as they no longer measure up favorably to the required standards of housing
00:23:17Those houses are no better nor no worse than the day that was built
00:23:20They haven't changed and human beings haven't changed neither
00:23:23They've still got two legs and two hands and they and they've only got one head. Nothing's changed
00:23:29Some of them families have lived in their houses all their lives. They've grown up together
00:23:33Why there's one old lady there of over 80. She's lived there 60 years
00:23:39It's about time she had a change then in it
00:23:41It's always the same in progress as soon as anybody wants to build anything somebody squawks
00:23:49Now look mrs. Craig if you and your friends had any sense, they'll take the alternative accommodation I'm offering and get moving
00:23:54Alternative accommodation and what had you in mind for me?
00:23:59well
00:24:01Let's see
00:24:03Ah, here's a nice little house in uh, Burkeborough
00:24:06Burkeborough? I wouldn't live there if you paid me. That's one of them new towns, isn't it?
00:24:12I don't understand you people. The minister goes to all this trouble and expense at building these new towns. Are you
00:24:18Take Burkeborough. You take it
00:24:20He's got the lot
00:24:22Pubs. I've got a pub. I've got a pub. I've got a pub
00:24:25I've got a pub. I've got a pub
00:24:27I've got a pub. I've got a pub
00:24:29I've got a pub. I've got a pub
00:24:31Pubs. I've got a pub
00:24:33Darnsoles
00:24:35Darnsoles
00:24:37Golf course
00:24:39Do you know I haven't had a round to go for I don't know how long
00:24:44All right then
00:24:46What has Pitt Street got that Burkeborough hasn't?
00:24:48Me friends
00:24:52And I'm not getting out
00:24:54And you can't bundle us into the street because the law wouldn't let you. You're forgetting that
00:25:00Technically this is a condemned slum
00:25:02Slum indeed
00:25:04Yes slum
00:25:06And any judge would lend a sympathetic ear to any proposition I might make especially as I'm offering alternative accommodation
00:25:12He might and then again he might not
00:25:14Granted and if he didn't I could appeal
00:25:16Can't you see you're playing a game you can't possibly win
00:25:20You mean because we haven't got no money
00:25:22Partly
00:25:24Their money isn't everything
00:25:26You mean it's something else
00:25:29It might do you a bit of good to want for something me lad
00:25:33To know what it's like to struggle
00:25:35Man it
00:25:37Let me tell you something
00:25:39Do you know Old Pinton Street
00:25:41Yes Old Pinton Street
00:25:43Just behind Pitt Street
00:25:45I was born there. Number 13
00:25:47Do you know how much my old mother got when she was a child
00:25:51A bloody sight less than what you get now
00:25:53Ninepence an hour
00:25:55That's what she got
00:25:58Forget it
00:26:02When the landlord kicked her out of the house there was no alternative accommodation
00:26:06She went into a workhouse
00:26:08I went into an home
00:26:10I learn
00:26:12Nobody gives you anything for nothing
00:26:14Don't they
00:26:16Of course they don't girl
00:26:20You think I'm hard don't you
00:26:22Maybe I am
00:26:24Good business and sentimentomics
00:26:27If you want anything you've got to go out and get it
00:26:31So long as it's legal
00:26:33So long as it's legal
00:26:39Thank you sir
00:26:43I'll remember that
00:26:45That letter
00:26:47Is it for me
00:26:49No sir
00:26:51It's for me
00:26:57So you didn't give him back his check Mrs. Craig
00:26:59No
00:27:01I want you to
00:27:03What do you call it
00:27:05Reinvest it
00:27:07Reinvest it
00:27:09Oh I don't think I'd care to do that
00:27:11You see it wouldn't be the same next time
00:27:13I only wish we could get a tip like this every day
00:27:15There is no reason why we shouldn't
00:27:17Do you know what he said to me
00:27:19He said to me
00:27:21If you want something
00:27:23Go out and get it
00:27:26Any way you can
00:27:28He said it
00:27:30I didn't
00:27:32So he's only got himself to blame
00:27:34For what happens next
00:27:36Next
00:27:38What's been done once
00:27:40Can be done again and again
00:27:42Steady on Mrs. Craig
00:27:44Do you know these people
00:27:46Well of course
00:27:48These are household names in the city
00:27:50Property tycoons
00:27:52Investment trusts
00:27:54But you don't work for them do you
00:27:56No
00:27:58But I know the ladies who do
00:28:08I'm not having nobody telling me where I'm going to live
00:28:10And the only way
00:28:12To stop them pushing us around
00:28:16Is to fight them
00:28:18What with where are we going to get the money
00:28:20Where everybody else gets it from
00:28:23We are going to make it
00:28:25Make it how
00:28:27Out of bits of waste paper that we find
00:28:29Lying about in the offices
00:28:31What we clean
00:28:33Oh I don't think that would be much good Mrs. Craig
00:28:35Mum had 200 copies of Revelli
00:28:37She wanted me to sell them
00:28:39When I took them to the fish shop
00:28:41They only gave me a shilling
00:28:43Do you mind
00:28:45We're not going to sell this waste paper
00:28:47We are going to make use of it
00:28:49For information
00:28:52There is lots of information to be had
00:28:54From waste paper baskets
00:28:56Blotters writing pads and such like
00:28:58But we do nothing dishonest
00:29:00Understand
00:29:02Nothing that isn't strictly legal
00:29:04What Mrs. Craig means
00:29:06What Mrs. Craig means
00:29:08Is we only make use of material
00:29:10Which is in the public domain
00:29:12Things that have been thrown away
00:29:14Or left lying around for anyone to see
00:29:16No opening of drawers
00:29:18Or prying into private letters
00:29:21If you know what I mean
00:29:23I don't know what you mean
00:29:25I don't know what the hell you're talking about
00:29:27We just pick up anything
00:29:29What looks interesting
00:29:31And hand it over to the colonel
00:29:33It'll be my job to examine and evaluate the content
00:29:35Oh dear
00:29:37And acting on the information
00:29:39Evaluated
00:29:41We buy stocks and shares
00:29:43And such like
00:29:45What with
00:29:47With money of course
00:29:50Money without money
00:29:52What could we raise
00:29:54We'd be lucky to put up 40 quid
00:29:56Between the lot of us
00:29:58We shall start with a modest capital
00:30:00Of 5,000 pounds
00:30:02Oh
00:30:04Did I hear you say 5,000
00:30:065,000 is what Mrs. Craig and I made this week
00:30:08From one piece of information
00:30:10From one waste paper basket
00:30:14Oh I'm sorry
00:30:16My hubby would never
00:30:18I couldn't be a party to anything like that
00:30:20But why not madam it's perfectly legal
00:30:22It couldn't be
00:30:24Not like bingo or the football pools
00:30:26But it's exactly like the football pools
00:30:28Except that we know the results beforehand
00:30:30Does that satisfy you Mrs.
00:30:32Meriweather
00:30:34I suppose so
00:30:36A stock exchange is a cankerous growth
00:30:38On the dying body of capitalism
00:30:40A slave market for the buying and selling of the workers
00:30:42After the revolution
00:30:44There won't be no stock exchange
00:30:47Well do leave off about the perishing revolution
00:30:49Are you coming in or stopping out
00:30:51Well
00:30:53Well
00:30:55I've seen the revolution don't seem to be happening yet a while
00:30:57All right
00:30:59Here but don't you forget
00:31:01It's against me principles to make money
00:31:03Out of the exploitation of the workers
00:31:05Very well then
00:31:07I'll set about forming the company
00:31:09And finding us some office premises
00:31:11And don't forget absolute secrecy is essential
00:31:13A careless word to a husband
00:31:16Or a fellow char
00:31:18I mean office cleaner
00:31:20Well need I go on
00:31:22Well if you're sure it's all right
00:31:24Well of course it's all right
00:31:26Good heavens there's nothing to prevent any of you ladies
00:31:28Being accepted into the salvation army
00:31:30Now there are only two things to remember
00:31:32You may be able to obtain useful information
00:31:34From other ladies in your profession
00:31:36Pick their brains by all means
00:31:38Don't confide in them
00:31:40And remember
00:31:42However well we do
00:31:45We have to go on being char ladies
00:31:47I mean of course I shall have
00:31:49Any questions
00:31:51Yes
00:31:53I'm sure it's a wonderful organisation
00:31:55I don't want to join
00:32:01You want to join us why not
00:32:03I want to join you
00:32:05I don't want to join the salvation army
00:32:07It's their axe
00:32:15Now I'll come up
00:32:17It's all right I'll do it
00:32:19Don't bother Mrs Hiddleston
00:32:21It's no bother
00:32:23Two's as easy as one
00:32:45Good morning Mrs Harris
00:32:47Good morning Miss
00:32:53It's all clear
00:33:09Thirty minutes
00:33:12Thirty two
00:33:18Thirty three
00:33:20That's it
00:33:22Oh no
00:33:24That looks foreign
00:33:26Perhaps it's fifty three
00:33:28Fifty three
00:33:32Oh come along ladies
00:33:34You're late
00:33:36How do you expect us to find
00:33:38The place when you've got that
00:33:40Bloody Zulu on the door
00:33:42Not very bright are we
00:33:44That's our name
00:33:46Ladies who do
00:33:48Oh yes
00:33:50Very comical
00:33:54This must be costing us a bomb
00:33:56Well it's one of the finest
00:33:58Addresses in the city
00:34:00Naturally it's not cheap
00:34:02How much
00:34:04Well including the rates
00:34:06The central heating
00:34:09Don't tell me
00:34:11It'll spoil me day
00:34:13Well ladies
00:34:15Welcome to the first board meeting
00:34:17Of ladies who do limited
00:34:19I see you've all brought your basic material
00:34:21With you
00:34:23Now remember
00:34:25Information is the source of all wealth
00:34:27And hidden in these shopping bags
00:34:29Is the information we need
00:34:31All we have to do is to sift and sort
00:34:33And sift again
00:34:35Naturally there'll be a lot of rubbish
00:34:38Well now
00:34:40Have any of you ladies
00:34:42Any questions
00:34:44Well shall we get on with the business
00:35:08Excuse me
00:35:10I'm his lady cleaner
00:35:12Am I his what
00:35:14Certainly not
00:35:16I'm his wife
00:35:24Oh
00:35:26Well you said to develop contact
00:35:28I meant with fellow
00:35:30I'm his wife
00:35:32I'm his wife
00:35:34I'm his wife
00:35:37I meant with fellow office cleaners
00:35:39Not the wives of our national leaders
00:35:45Well now ladies
00:35:47I have to report very satisfactory progress
00:35:49Our cash balance now stands at
00:35:5126,007 pounds
00:35:53Six shillings and fourpence halfpenny
00:35:55Here's some paper
00:36:07Got you
00:36:09What on earth are you doing Mrs. Craig
00:36:11Oh
00:36:13Morning miss, still cold
00:36:15I said
00:36:17What are you doing Mrs. Craig
00:36:19Mosquito
00:36:21Place is teeming with them
00:36:23It's the central heating
00:36:25It isn't on
00:36:27No that's just the point
00:36:29It's cold outside
00:36:31So they come inside
00:36:33Looking for the warmth
00:36:36When they can't find it
00:36:38They try to get out again
00:36:40Take the mirror for the window
00:36:42And get stuck on the glass
00:36:44Guess what I found in my toilet
00:36:46A mosquito
00:36:48That's right
00:36:50A dirt great mosquito
00:36:52See
00:36:54The place is teeming with them
00:37:06He's done it again
00:37:14Up another twelve
00:37:16They've gone mad
00:37:18It's uncanny how does he do it
00:37:20Doesn't know anything or anybody
00:37:22For somebody who doesn't
00:37:24He's doing very well
00:37:26This means he's nearly doubled his capital again
00:37:30Why didn't I buy
00:37:32Any of the wretched things
00:37:34That'll be all
00:38:04Well gentlemen
00:38:06We've all been hit by this thing
00:38:08I'm getting so jumpy
00:38:10I don't even trust myself
00:38:14What we want to know is
00:38:16Who is this Whitforth fellow
00:38:18Where does he get his information
00:38:20He seems to be able to anticipate
00:38:22Every move I make
00:38:24Gentlemen
00:38:26Has it occurred to you
00:38:28That he may be an agent
00:38:31What the hell for
00:38:33Some foreign power
00:38:35Who shall remain nameless
00:38:37Oh not them again
00:38:39Oh my God
00:38:41Mr. Ryder perhaps you have a better explanation
00:38:43Perhaps he's psychic
00:38:45Spiritualists say that the power of transferring thought
00:38:47I'm interested in the power of transferring shares
00:38:49Now let's get down to cases
00:38:51Take this Waldron business
00:38:53I hadn't discussed it with a soul
00:38:55Living or dead
00:38:57Not even my partner
00:39:00It was all in my mind
00:39:02Do you talk in your sleep
00:39:04I'm not married
00:39:10I expect you're wondering why I've called this special meeting
00:39:12Well two pieces of information
00:39:14Have recently come into our possession
00:39:16Neither of them of much importance alone
00:39:18But together
00:39:20Well let me explain
00:39:22On the one hand we know that the shares of an Irish concern
00:39:24Pig producers limited
00:39:26Have fallen
00:39:29Into a marketing difficulty
00:39:31You're scribbling pad Mrs. Higgins
00:39:33On the other hand
00:39:35You're blotting paper Mrs. Craig
00:39:37Cash and carry supermarkets
00:39:39One of the largest in the country
00:39:41Has bought land within five miles of pig producers
00:39:43They are planning to open
00:39:45A bacon curing factory
00:39:47This will send the shares of pig producers limited
00:39:49Rocketing
00:39:51That makes sense
00:39:53What's on your mind Colonel
00:39:55I suggest we go for the killing
00:39:58Put the lot on pig producers
00:40:00The lot
00:40:02Well it's taking a hell of a risk isn't it
00:40:04Well of course it's a risk
00:40:06But we might wait a lifetime
00:40:08To get two bits of information like this
00:40:10Putting money on pigs
00:40:12It's like putting money on horses
00:40:14Well I don't see why
00:40:16I mean after all the pigs are there
00:40:18They're going to build the factory
00:40:20The shares must double
00:40:22If it comes off
00:40:24We shall have £120,000 in the kitty
00:40:26Well ladies
00:40:28Shall we vote on it
00:40:30Those in favour
00:40:32Well I can't sit here all day
00:40:34I've got my ironing to do
00:40:36I always did fancy a bit of Irish bacon myself
00:40:38I might as well be hung
00:40:40For a pig as a lamb
00:40:42What are we voting for
00:40:44Pigs
00:40:48Carried unanimously
00:40:56Carried unanimously
00:41:12We can get him in a signing and undertaking
00:41:14And move straight away
00:41:16It's worth paying him 100 quid each
00:41:18I don't like it Jim I don't like it
00:41:20I mean legally they're in the right
00:41:22Oh go blimey here we go again
00:41:25I don't understand
00:41:27Unless we get moving right away
00:41:29We're going to have to borrow money
00:41:31At 50% to pay back a 40% loan
00:41:33Jim Jim
00:41:37I can't understand these people round here
00:41:41They'd be much better off in one of those new tarns
00:41:45Like the one we passed through
00:41:47On the Great North Road the other week
00:41:49Marvellous
00:41:51And another thing
00:41:54I lick spit all for the capitalist bosses
00:41:56And look at you
00:41:58Not an ounce of flesh on you probably weeks since you had a square meal
00:42:00What did you have for your dinner
00:42:02If you had any dinner
00:42:04I'm asking you what did you have for your dinner
00:42:06I'm trying to tell you
00:42:08As a matter of fact I didn't have any
00:42:10No of course you didn't
00:42:12And what about your bosses eh
00:42:14Look at them sitting there stuffing themselves with goose and caviar
00:42:16Yeah well you go and tell them
00:42:18That the bourgeois and proletarian blood
00:42:20Will mingle in the gutters of the Charing Cross Road
00:42:23Go on tell them
00:42:31Go on try one
00:42:33I think you'll find them very nice
00:42:35Oh
00:42:37Oh is it clear
00:42:39Oh we have to put the hole in
00:42:41Don't we
00:42:43Ah Mrs. Cubbins
00:42:45Oh yes
00:42:49You have arrived just in time to see your husband
00:42:52Your husband received a sum of 100 pounds
00:42:54Oh what ever for
00:42:56All you have to do
00:42:58Is to sign this undertaking
00:43:00To move within the next month
00:43:02Oh we couldn't do that I'm afraid
00:43:04Why don't you shut up
00:43:08And let the gentleman finish
00:43:10Your sign
00:43:12Uh huh
00:43:14A wise decision Mr. Cubbins
00:43:16What I'm sure you won't regret
00:43:18I'm sure I won't neither
00:43:26You see uh
00:43:28We was moving out next week anyway
00:43:30Ta ta
00:43:33Ta ta
00:43:45Good afternoon madam
00:43:47We don't want any today thank you
00:43:49Oh yes you do madam
00:43:51Believe me you do
00:43:53If you wake my husband before he's finished his lay down
00:43:55He'll kill you
00:43:57Not when he knows what I've come for
00:43:59What have you come for
00:44:02100 pounds
00:44:04100 pounds
00:44:06Mrs. Middlebrough
00:44:08Shh
00:44:10What ever for
00:44:12As you know
00:44:14These houses are being pulled down
00:44:16To make way for new blocks of offices
00:44:18Now my firm are very anxious
00:44:20To get started as soon as possible
00:44:22Now all you have to do
00:44:24Is to sign this form here
00:44:26Stating that you are prepared
00:44:28To leave the house within the month
00:44:31I'll give you 100 pounds
00:44:33My husband don't want to move
00:44:35He said so only the other day
00:44:37It's not a question of what he wants to do
00:44:39It's not a question of what he wants to do
00:44:41It's a question of what he's got to have to do
00:44:43Now we have the law on our side Mrs. Middlebrough
00:44:45And the council
00:44:47Dear
00:44:49Put the council man in hospital last year
00:44:51Now look
00:44:53Now look Mrs. Middlebrough
00:44:55I'm being as nice as I possibly can about this
00:44:57It's not a question of what he wants to do
00:45:00Otherwise
00:45:02Otherwise you're what
00:45:04You're lucky
00:45:06I'm in a good mood today
00:45:08So I'm going to explain something to you
00:45:10Yes of course
00:45:12We ain't going to move
00:45:14Not for nobody
00:45:16And if you come back here
00:45:18Annoying me and my little missus
00:45:20I'll splatter you all over that wall
00:45:22Do you understand
00:45:24You make yourself abundantly clear sir
00:45:30Come back here again
00:45:32And I'll break your neck
00:45:42What's this
00:45:44Tea silly
00:45:46What do you think it was
00:45:48I wouldn't say what I thought it was
00:45:50But it isn't tea
00:45:52Warm dish water more like
00:45:54Mine tasted all right
00:45:56Perhaps you like tepid water
00:45:58Some people prefer theirs boiled
00:46:00It was boiled
00:46:02You heard the kettle whistle
00:46:04Doesn't matter what I heard
00:46:06It's what I taste that counts
00:46:08This water wasn't boiled
00:46:10Go and boil your head
00:46:14God may forgive you for that
00:46:16But I won't
00:46:18Never
00:46:20Not if I live to be a hundred
00:46:22But she's lived here 60 years
00:46:24She's over 80
00:46:27It'd kill her to move
00:46:29She's very frail
00:46:31How frail
00:46:33One doesn't like to think of such things
00:46:35How long will the poor old
00:46:37Do you think
00:46:39It's difficult to say
00:46:41Her mother my gran
00:46:43Lived to be 104
00:46:45104
00:46:47That's 24 years
00:46:49Miss Parrish
00:46:51We're starting on the site right away
00:46:53It's for her own good
00:46:56The houses around here are going to be torn down
00:46:58There'll be bulldozers and dynamite
00:47:00And dust
00:47:02It'll be like the Blitz all over again
00:47:04She loved the Blitz
00:47:06She was never happier than when the bombs were falling
00:47:08She'd look out of her window
00:47:10And she'd shake her fist
00:47:12Miss Parrish
00:47:14If people aren't reasonable with us
00:47:16We can take it to the court
00:47:18And let the judge decide
00:47:20Oh dear
00:47:22I'm sure
00:47:25A nice modern flat is better than a dusty old relic like this
00:47:29Let me talk to her
00:47:31I'm quite sure
00:47:33I can make her see the wisdom of it
00:47:35We can but try
00:47:41Oh dear
00:47:43Get out of my house
00:47:45Get out and stay out
00:47:49Parrish
00:47:51Better mark that one
00:47:54How are you doing?
00:47:56How am I doing?
00:47:58Would you really like to know?
00:48:00I've just been dragged through the Kremlin backwards
00:48:02And bounced by a bruiser
00:48:04Well I've got one signature
00:48:06A bit of a struggle but I finally persuaded him
00:48:08One?
00:48:10What is the good of one?
00:48:12You've got to get the last one before you can start work here
00:48:14And do you know what she just said?
00:48:16She said the gutters will be flowing with blood
00:48:18Before they leave here
00:48:20I think she's right
00:48:22You old scrubbers
00:48:24You're forgetting there's a fortune in this deal
00:48:26And half it's yours
00:48:28Nearly half
00:48:30No Jimmy boy
00:48:32It's all yours
00:48:34Because I am going back to the office
00:48:36To dissolve the partnership
00:48:38Before you have to borrow money at 60%
00:48:40To repay the money you borrowed at 50%
00:48:42To pay back the 40% loan
00:48:44She said
00:48:46Old yellow legs
00:48:52Morning
00:49:06Good morning
00:49:18I expect you're wondering why I spent the night here
00:49:22I was waiting for you
00:49:32I was waiting for you
00:49:40What's in the flask?
00:49:42Tea
00:49:44Any spare drop?
00:49:46Help yourself
00:49:48I got broke like an axle
00:49:51I've been celebrating
00:49:55Rags to riches
00:49:57In 15 years
00:50:03Yes the truth and all
00:50:05I started out buying rags
00:50:07Did you know that?
00:50:09My partner reckons I'm going back again
00:50:11My ex-partner I should say
00:50:13He's walked out
00:50:15And taken his share of the capital with him
00:50:18Does that mean you'll be giving up Pitt Street?
00:50:22Not on your Nelly
00:50:24Well if you're that skint
00:50:26How can you go on with that great big office building?
00:50:34Come in
00:50:40Don't let high finance baffle you girl
00:50:42It's that simple
00:50:45The secret is in using other people's money
00:50:51The building contractor cuts himself in for a share of the profits
00:50:53So he works for nothing
00:50:55I sell the office blocks
00:50:57Floor by floor
00:50:59In advance
00:51:01So I've made a huge profit before I've even got the foundations in
00:51:05Oh that's clever isn't it
00:51:07When it comes off
00:51:09No thanks I'd rather smoke me own
00:51:11Go on treat yourself
00:51:14Do your good
00:51:16Ciao
00:51:20I'll be frank with you
00:51:22Unless I can get a work on Pitt Street
00:51:24I'll have to sell the whole site
00:51:26At a thumping great loss
00:51:28One minute up to my neck
00:51:32If I'm going to save anything out of this mess
00:51:34I'm going to have to get a work on Pitt Street
00:51:38Look Ma you can help me
00:51:40How?
00:51:42There's 500 quid in it for you
00:51:44500? For doing what?
00:51:46Nothing
00:51:48You told me yourself
00:51:50That nobody gives you anything
00:51:52For nothing
00:51:54Practically nothing
00:51:56All you've got to do is persuade the sitting tenants
00:51:58To sign on the dotted line by Monday morning
00:52:02A dozen
00:52:04That's my top
00:52:06Don't tell me you couldn't do with it
00:52:09I'll bet you ain't got two openings to scratch yourself with
00:52:15You don't understand do you
00:52:17We don't want to move
00:52:19Then you don't understand
00:52:21Somebody sometime is going to go ahead
00:52:23With a scheme down there
00:52:25Even if I don't
00:52:27So why fight it
00:52:29So cash in
00:52:31Do yourself a bit of good
00:52:33What good will it do me to sell me friends
00:52:35There's one thing that money can't buy
00:52:38No
00:52:40I reckon we'll just stick
00:52:42All right
00:52:44I'm going to have to do it the hard way
00:52:50Spicing fags out
00:52:52Spicing fags
00:52:54Another Jim with the wrong number
00:52:58You were saying what you was going to do
00:53:00Was I
00:53:02Don't worry about it Ma
00:53:04You'll find out soon enough
00:53:08Thanks for the thing
00:53:30Hello
00:53:32That James Ryder
00:53:34This is Mark Smith
00:53:37This is Mark Strang
00:53:39I've spoken to my associates
00:53:41We're prepared to come in with you on the Pitt Street project
00:53:43But we'd have to start right away
00:53:45We don't want our capital tied up indefinitely
00:53:47The contractors are starting on the empty houses
00:53:49First thing Monday morning
00:53:51Is that soon enough
00:53:53Yes
00:53:55I'll be frank with you Ryder
00:53:57A little dicky bird told us you had some trouble down there
00:53:59A few old bags being difficult
00:54:01I can handle them
00:54:03Don't you worry
00:54:06Because if there's any trouble at all
00:54:08You can count us out
00:54:10Oh there's the pips
00:54:12I'll be down first thing Monday morning
00:54:14Did I hear voices
00:54:16I was singing
00:54:20And then the supervisors come in
00:54:22And I have to switch it off
00:54:24Yes it's all very interesting
00:54:26But I don't see how it helps your situation
00:54:28You see even if you make things difficult for Mr. Strang
00:54:30And he drops out
00:54:32Somebody else will step in and buy it
00:54:34I said we'll buy it
00:54:36Whatever for
00:54:38What will we do with it
00:54:40Look if Ryder can get permission to build offices
00:54:42We can get permission to put up two blocks of flats
00:54:44With shops underneath
00:54:46They'll let like hotcakes
00:54:48But we haven't got the capital
00:54:50We will have
00:54:52When the pig producers deal comes through
00:54:54I'm afraid you don't know what you're saying
00:54:56I know exactly what I'm saying
00:54:58Look
00:55:00Supposing we did buy the area
00:55:03You'd leave us with not a penny in the bank right
00:55:05But how are we going to get the money to put up two blocks of flats
00:55:07I don't know how much you know
00:55:09About high finance
00:55:11It's not a question of high finance
00:55:13It's a question of simple arithmetic
00:55:15The secret is to use
00:55:17Other people's money
00:55:19We cut the contractors in
00:55:21For a share of the profits
00:55:23So they work for nothing
00:55:25Then we let off the flats
00:55:27Before even the foundations is laid
00:55:29All we've got to do now
00:55:32Is wait for the pigs to bring home the bacon
00:55:34Just a moment
00:55:36Hello
00:55:38Colonel Whitforth speaking
00:55:40Oh hello Roderick
00:55:42Roderick I hear you helped yourself to some of those
00:55:44Pig producer shares
00:55:46Wise fellow always follow the
00:55:48What news
00:55:50Are you sure
00:56:02Colonel
00:56:04What is it
00:56:06What's wrong
00:56:08Spine fever
00:56:10Not our pigs
00:56:12They have passed away
00:56:14All 15,000
00:56:16Where's our capital then
00:56:18Gone all gone
00:56:20Oh marvellous
00:56:22What did I tell you
00:56:24There he goes
00:56:26Holder
00:56:28Listen to me all of you
00:56:31The colonel here put it to the vote
00:56:33And we all voted
00:56:35So it's no good blaming him
00:56:37And it's no good blaming one another
00:56:39After all
00:56:41It's not as though we saw the money
00:56:43It was only writing
00:56:45On bits of paper
00:56:47Somehow it don't seem
00:56:49So important to me
00:56:51But what is important
00:56:53Is we can't stop Ryder pulling
00:56:55Pitt Street down on Monday
00:56:57Ah finance
00:57:00It's a funny business
00:57:04Ten minutes ago
00:57:06We had 15,000 pigs
00:57:08Now we haven't got
00:57:10Ham sandwich between us
00:57:30God
00:57:40Well that's that then
00:57:42Let's have a nice cup of tea
00:57:44I told you big business would beat you in the end
00:58:00You
00:58:02You
00:58:04You
00:58:30Wait
00:58:34Don't tell me
00:58:36They've started on my place already
00:58:38I'll tell them a thing or two
00:58:42Colonel what brings you round here
00:58:44Important news ladies
00:58:46Colonel whatever has happened
00:58:48Don't tell me
00:58:50Them pigs have come back to life again
00:58:52Better than that
00:58:54This has just come through on the ticker tape
00:58:56Large deposit
00:58:58Valuable minerals found
00:59:00In Ireland
00:59:02They discovered the deposit when they were burying the pigs
00:59:04Causing heavy speculation
00:59:06In pig producers
00:59:08Shares
00:59:10Yeah
00:59:12Does this mean we'll get our capital back
00:59:14Almost certainly
00:59:16That and a great deal more
00:59:18Pity it had to happen too late to save the street
00:59:20Maybe it isn't too late
00:59:22Do you remember
00:59:24What Mr Strang said
00:59:27He said
00:59:29If there is going to be any trouble
00:59:31I am getting out
00:59:33So we are
00:59:35Going to see that he gets
00:59:37Plenty of trouble
00:59:39Aren't we
00:59:45Colonel
00:59:47You go back and look after that contraption of yours
00:59:49And leave us to look after
00:59:51Mr Ryder
00:59:53And Mr Strang
00:59:56Ladies
01:00:00Shall we take your car
01:00:02Or mine
01:00:04It'll have to be yours I'm afraid
01:00:06My Rolls is away
01:00:08Having a second telephone installed
01:00:10Not to sell it have you
01:00:26This little bus has done me very well for 17 years
01:00:28So I don't see the sense in wasting
01:00:30My brass on Rolls Royces
01:00:34Mind my anvil
01:00:38Here look out here comes Big Ed
01:00:48Hello lads
01:00:50This is it
01:00:52I've got you again have I
01:00:55We're going to knock down
01:00:57Starting of course with the empty ones
01:00:59Don't want to make any mistakes about them
01:01:01Do we
01:01:036, 8, 14, 15, 18
01:01:05And 22
01:01:07That's the one in the air there
01:01:09Come on lads get the compressor going
01:01:11Get the gear out of the truck
01:01:13Let's be happy
01:01:17I just can't understand it
01:01:19From her heart beat
01:01:21I'd say she'd live another 20 years
01:01:24I can find absolutely nothing wrong with her
01:01:26There it is
01:01:28Sometimes these old people know best
01:01:30They know when the time has come
01:01:32To pass on
01:01:34How true
01:01:36How very true
01:01:38She must have absolute quiet
01:01:40Of course
01:01:42Bring her round something to make her sleep later on
01:01:44In the meantime
01:01:46Give her anything she fancies
01:01:48Anything she fancies
01:01:50Within reason
01:01:52Thin growth
01:01:54Weak gear
01:01:56I'm going
01:01:58I know I'm going
01:02:00Don't forget
01:02:02Absolute quiet
01:02:04Oh
01:02:06The noise
01:02:18Do you hear me
01:02:22Would you mind explaining
01:02:24What the hell you think you're trying to do
01:02:26Do you realise that
01:02:28And do you realise
01:02:30There's a dear old lady dying in that house
01:02:32Dying
01:02:34Yes dying
01:02:36You've heard of it I suppose
01:02:38Well if you start up your damn machinery
01:02:40Before she
01:02:42Anyway
01:02:44If you start it up
01:02:46I'll have the authorities on you
01:02:49Well I
01:02:51I was only trying to get the work done
01:02:53How would you like it
01:02:55If it was your poor old mother
01:02:57Lying up there breathing her last
01:02:59Poor
01:03:01Dear old lady
01:03:03Lying there
01:03:05Wandering in her mind
01:03:07Terrified
01:03:09Thinking the air raids have started
01:03:11All over again
01:03:13I don't know
01:03:15What to do
01:03:18I suggest one course of action
01:03:20What's that
01:03:22We'll have to have a meeting won't we
01:03:24Right brothers
01:03:26Right come on let's go
01:03:38Right brothers
01:03:40I see we have a quorum
01:03:42Now I needn't prevail upon you to show your cards
01:03:44I think we'll go straight ahead
01:03:47Would you close in a little bit brothers
01:03:49We have a spy on the outside of our little community here
01:03:51Now
01:03:55That's Ryder
01:03:57And look
01:03:59That must be Strang
01:04:05Must be their tea break
01:04:09Oi what's going on here
01:04:11Who's the foreman
01:04:13I am the foreman sir
01:04:16Why aren't your men working
01:04:18Why aren't your men working
01:04:20What the hell's going on here
01:04:22Be quiet
01:04:26I'll tell you what it's all about
01:04:28There's a poor old lady lying in there
01:04:30Sick and dying
01:04:32And these
01:04:34Gentlemen
01:04:36Have kindly agreed to stop work
01:04:40Kindly agreed to stop
01:04:42Yeah haven't we held a meeting
01:04:46And this resolution
01:04:48Was passed unanimously
01:04:50This meeting seriously deprecates
01:04:52The derogatory effect on the old lady's health
01:04:54And unanimously decides to adjourn work
01:04:56Until status quo reigns
01:04:58Are you talking about old mother Parrish
01:05:00You couldn't have a derogatory effect
01:05:02On her health
01:05:04If you ran over her with a bulldozer
01:05:06Don't listen to him
01:05:08Here's the poor old lady's daughter
01:05:10How old is your mother dear
01:05:12Eighty one
01:05:14Did you hear that
01:05:16Did you hear that eighty one
01:05:18Isn't she entitled
01:05:20To a little peace and quiet
01:05:22Lying there
01:05:24So frail and weak
01:05:26Frail and weak
01:05:28She wasn't frail and weak when I saw her
01:05:30She went into a rapid decline
01:05:32Rapid decline
01:05:34Ah
01:05:36If she's so sick
01:05:38She should be in an hospital
01:05:40I'll send for an ambulance
01:05:43She's too weak she can't be moved
01:05:45This is a frame up
01:05:47Can't you see what she's doing
01:05:49She's trying to stop you pulling down the houses
01:05:51Have you actually seen
01:05:53The old bird
01:05:55No no I haven't actually
01:05:57Not seen her
01:05:59Of course you haven't
01:06:01Why don't you ask
01:06:03If you can see her
01:06:05After all it's going to cost your firm
01:06:07A lot of money when I sue
01:06:09Isn't it
01:06:12It wouldn't do any harm would it
01:06:14I mean like just to have a look
01:06:16Alright then
01:06:18Just a look
01:06:20But remember she's unconscious
01:06:22But she's unconscious
01:06:24The noise can't be worrying her
01:06:26She's unconscious from time to time
01:06:28Would you step
01:06:30This way please
01:06:34Now mother you sure
01:06:36You know what to do
01:06:38Of course I know what to do
01:06:41The rest of the street put together
01:06:43I must ask you to keep very very quiet
01:06:45Please
01:06:47If you'll come this way
01:06:51Here they come
01:07:03Poor old soul
01:07:06How long do you think
01:07:08She might linger
01:07:10For days
01:07:14There he is
01:07:16That's him
01:07:20I'll throw him out once
01:07:22And I'll throw him out again
01:07:26Get out of my house all of you
01:07:28Get out
01:07:36I told you to stop out of my house
01:07:38And I meant it
01:07:40Go out and stay out
01:07:46I'm going
01:07:48She hasn't even got her hand in yet
01:07:52See what I mean
01:07:58What do we do now
01:08:00It's eleven o'clock
01:08:02She'll either get tired or run out of ammunition soon
01:08:06Bringing up the heavy artillery
01:08:08You won't get me out of my house
01:08:10In a million years
01:08:12Not in a million trillion years
01:08:22Take more than a bulldozer
01:08:24To put that old battle axe under the ground
01:08:26Right
01:08:28I'll talk to the men
01:08:30What happened
01:08:32She wrecked the old perishing thing
01:08:34Everything was going fine
01:08:36Until she caught Sata Rada
01:08:38Then she went start raving
01:08:40Blowing mad
01:08:42Well
01:08:44I'll phone the police
01:08:46The sight of a couple of bobbies
01:08:48Will knock some sense into them
01:08:50Oh believe me
01:08:52Once this thing gets rolling
01:08:54Nothing will stop it
01:08:56Absolutely nothing
01:08:58All right
01:09:00I'll give you till noon
01:09:03I reckon they made proper charlies out of us
01:09:05Well
01:09:07We pass this resolution
01:09:09This meeting
01:09:11Deplores the diabolical liberties taken
01:09:13And applies non-ratification to the resolution
01:09:15Taken by the previous meeting
01:09:17And declares that a status quo now rhymes
01:09:19What the hell does all that mean
01:09:21What does it mean
01:09:23It means we go back to work
01:09:25Wonderful
01:09:27After tea break
01:09:30What do they want a tea break for
01:09:32They haven't done anything yet
01:09:34They haven't done anything
01:09:36They've been on the clock since eight
01:09:38Look
01:09:40I'll pay them to work through the tea break
01:09:42They can't do that
01:09:44That would be creating a precedent
01:09:48Now what's the matter
01:09:50Oh the men are having a tea break
01:09:52This is where I came in
01:09:54No not quite
01:09:56The men are hopping mad
01:09:59The women wish they'd never started this
01:10:01That makes two of us
01:10:03And have gone to find the police
01:10:05Oh
01:10:07So they've called in the police now have they
01:10:09What can we do
01:10:11We can't fight the old metropolitan police force
01:10:13Oh yes we can if we have to
01:10:15So no more despondent talk
01:10:17If you don't mind
01:10:19What about the machines
01:10:21What about when they start using them
01:10:23What about it
01:10:25We'll have to stop them won't we
01:10:28I told you once about the French resistance
01:10:30They didn't do so badly against the old German army
01:10:32There's more than four of them
01:10:34There'll be more than four of us by the time I'm finished
01:10:36Now Harry
01:10:38I want you to deliver these to all the people in the street
01:10:40Just as quickly as you can
01:10:42Do I understand you wish to bring a charge of assault
01:10:44Against poor old Mrs Parrish
01:10:46I don't wish to bring a charge against anybody
01:10:48I've got some very hard men working here
01:10:50I'm warning you there might be more trouble
01:10:52Still sir I don't see what harm
01:10:54They could do to a bulldozer
01:10:56You don't know these old dragons mate
01:10:58Now listen
01:11:00I'm telling you straight
01:11:02If there is any more trouble
01:11:04And there are no police around
01:11:06I shall make out a report
01:11:08And see it gets to the right quarters
01:11:14Take this friend over to the street
01:11:16Quick as you can
01:11:18Right
01:11:20Come on lads let's be having you
01:11:22Come along now
01:11:25Now then
01:11:27I want you to get all them flagstones up
01:11:29To get the bulldozer in
01:11:31Don't strain yourself will you
01:11:33Now
01:11:35They're not hopping very fast are they
01:11:37You know the British workmen
01:11:39Loses every battle but the last
01:11:41Does he
01:11:47Come on girls
01:11:49Let's get out there
01:11:51And remember behave absolutely normal
01:11:54And don't do nothing illegal
01:11:56And if you do don't get caught
01:11:58Come on
01:12:14Good morning Mrs Crane
01:12:16Good morning all
01:12:18Off you go
01:12:21Rose
01:12:23Rose
01:12:25Crane
01:12:27See bumping into you like this
01:12:29I haven't seen you in ages
01:12:31Neither have you not since my operation
01:12:33Excuse me ladies
01:12:35Well now I come over queer
01:12:37On the Wednesday
01:12:39No wait wait I'm a liar
01:12:41It was the Tuesday
01:12:43Oh I was poor
01:12:45Well I can tell you look peaky now
01:12:47I've never got over it you know
01:12:50You go down there
01:12:52And stop that shovel thing
01:12:54Now you and you
01:12:56Go down there and make a nuisance of yourselves
01:12:58Where the hell have those police got to
01:13:10Could you tell me where I can find Mr Ryder
01:13:12You have found him
01:13:14What appears to be the matter sir
01:13:20Sir
01:13:22Ask those women ladies
01:13:24To move out of the way of the shovel will you
01:13:26Yes sir
01:13:34Comes the Friday
01:13:36Back I go into hospital again
01:13:38Again
01:13:40The ambulance come at one
01:13:42And at two they was getting me ready for the table
01:13:44When I saw the
01:13:46Ladies
01:13:48If you wouldn't mind
01:13:54A little further ladies please
01:13:56Thank you
01:14:04Oi get out of it
01:14:08Well when they'd sewn me up
01:14:10And I come round
01:14:12The doctor told me I was lucky to be alive
01:14:14To tell the tale
01:14:17Five hours I was laying on that
01:14:19Now ladies I'm afraid you're going to get hurt
01:14:21If you stay here
01:14:23Did they ever find out what it was then
01:14:25You alright son
01:14:27You don't look too good
01:14:29I said you don't look too good
01:14:31I ain't I've just had a diabolical operation
01:14:33Well you oughtn't to be using that thing
01:14:35Here quick come here
01:14:37Give us that
01:14:39Take him out
01:14:47Why the hell doesn't he get some help
01:14:49Mr Ryder
01:14:51If you need me I'll be in my car
01:14:59It's bad enough with that lot now don't you start
01:15:05Are you alright
01:15:07What a shit
01:15:11Help me
01:15:13Get more help
01:15:16Get on to H2 and tell them to send round another patrol car right away
01:15:18Go on
01:15:20Yes sir
01:15:22You haven't had an operation have you
01:15:24No governor
01:15:26Thank god for that
01:15:34If you don't get that thing started
01:15:36And knock something down
01:15:38I'll start driving mad
01:15:46Somebody has had all me blinking fuel out
01:15:50Be blue to MP
01:15:52Be blue
01:15:54Be blue
01:15:56Be blue
01:15:58Be blue
01:16:00Be blue
01:16:02Be blue
01:16:04Be blue
01:16:06Be blue
01:16:08Be blue
01:16:10Be blue
01:16:12Be blue
01:16:15Be blue
01:16:23Why don't you arrest the lot of them
01:16:25How the hell can I do that
01:16:27They won't stand still long enough to be knocked off for obstruction
01:16:29Besides what would I put them in
01:16:31There's about 50 of them at least
01:16:33Did you get that message away
01:16:35No sir
01:16:37What do you mean no sir
01:16:39Why the hell didn't you get it away
01:16:41Well sir my aerial dropped off
01:16:44I can't understand it
01:16:46Oh Cain
01:16:48There's a telephone box over there
01:16:50Go and get that message in
01:16:52And tell them I want two black Mariah's as well now
01:16:54Yes sir
01:17:04Do you mind madam
01:17:06Do you mind
01:17:08It's 5 to 12
01:17:10And I
01:17:12If nothing doesn't get moving
01:17:14Sonny Barkham
01:17:16You're going back to Bradford
01:17:18Come on now
01:17:20Please move along
01:17:22Please move along
01:17:24Please you can't stay here
01:17:26Stay down
01:17:28Excuse me madam
01:17:32Excuse me madam
01:17:34Thank you
01:17:38Now this is a good table
01:17:41Now this is a good table
01:18:07I'm not interrupting you Amos
01:18:10And I wonder if I can impress upon you
01:18:12How important it is for me
01:18:14To carry on with this work
01:18:16Well sir as soon as our police driver comes back
01:18:18Soon as what
01:18:20The steaming net's still standing outside
01:18:22The telephone box
01:18:24Madam
01:18:26Wait wait please
01:18:34There's a woman in the box sir
01:18:36Get her out man
01:18:39Excuse me
01:18:41Now look I am fed up with you policemen
01:18:43Busting in here like this
01:18:45This is a public phone box
01:18:47Isn't it
01:18:49I know that madam
01:18:51And I am a member of the public
01:18:53And I am using it aren't I
01:18:55I have a very important call madam
01:18:57And I have a very important call
01:18:59And I have paid for it
01:19:01And I am making it
01:19:03Excuse me colonel
01:19:05There's a blue bottle in the box
01:19:08Sir
01:19:10Get in that car
01:19:12Go round to the station and tell them
01:19:14If I don't have two patrol cars
01:19:16And two black Mirais here in 15 minutes
01:19:18I'll have the whole force back on the beat
01:19:20Yes sir
01:19:38I'm a man of my word Mr. Ryder
01:19:40I said I'd give you till noon
01:19:42And I will
01:19:44That gives you just three minutes
01:19:46To knock something down
01:19:48I'm a man of my word Mr. Ryder
01:19:50I said I'd give you till noon
01:19:52And I will
01:19:54That gives you just three minutes
01:19:56To knock something down
01:20:07Oh
01:20:38Look what you've done you
01:20:40Murderer
01:20:42Well there's no need to go on like that
01:20:44It was only an old wreck
01:20:46It couldn't have been worth more than 50 quid
01:20:48Couldn't have been worth more than
01:20:50Do you know what you're saying
01:20:56That's all of it
01:20:58That's all of it
01:21:00There's no need to go on like that
01:21:02It was only an old wreck
01:21:04It couldn't have been worth more than 50 quid
01:21:06I said, I'll pay.
01:21:18Pay?
01:21:19Pay?
01:21:20Oh, you'll pay, all right, don't you bother.
01:21:27The moment I get back to Bradford, you'll be hearing from my solicitors.
01:21:30I'll be suing you for shock, damages, expenses, default...
01:21:36I'm the car.
01:21:57Funny how your luck changes, isn't it?
01:22:00Yes, it is.
01:22:03I think there was going to be two blocks of offices there.
01:22:09Down there, a fountain and a gold statue.
01:22:15Painted, of course.
01:22:18And now...
01:22:19And now you're thinking of selling.
01:22:21That's right.
01:22:23Just a minute.
01:22:25Who the hell are you?
01:22:26Whitforth is the name.
01:22:28Colonel Whitforth.
01:22:31Why don't we talk it over at lunch tomorrow?
01:22:34Suppose you call for me at my office.
01:22:37Twelve o'clock?
01:22:43Ah, this is a pleasure, Mr. Ryder.
01:22:45Won't you come in?
01:22:46I want you to meet my board.
01:22:53Mrs. Craig.
01:22:55You.
01:22:57Charles.
01:22:58All of you, Charles.
01:23:00Do you mind?
01:23:01So that's how you did it.
01:23:04Oh, now, think of that.
01:23:07You crafty...
01:23:09Now, now, Mr. Ryder.
01:23:12Flattery won't get you nowhere.
01:23:16Mr. Ryder, we've decided to invite you to join the board.
01:23:20I suggest we discuss the whole matter over a bite of lunch at the Savoy.
01:23:27Something terrible's happened.
01:23:29Oh, right.
01:23:31Let's have it.
01:23:33When I told Mother we were going to put her in a nice new flat,
01:23:38she said we wouldn't get her out of her house, not in a million years.
01:23:43Oh, blimey.
01:23:45She can't do that to us.
01:23:48We're offering her alternative accommodation.
01:23:52Oh, well.
01:23:54Let's go and have our luncheon,
01:23:56and then I'll go and butter up the old...
01:23:59Won't you?
01:24:01Shall we go?
01:24:18Well, shall we join the ladies?
01:24:26Yes.
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