The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves, shocking the stifling society in which she lives, in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams. Starring Judy Cornwell, Barbara Hicks, Pippa Guard, Christopher Blake, Ray Smith, Anton Lesser, John Moulder Brown, Michael Troughton & Julie Dawn Cole.
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00:00.
00:30Come on, come on.
01:00Ben, her, totte!
01:18You were frightened, Maggie.
01:19I was not.
01:20Yes, you were.
01:21It was only an old gypsy woman, Maggie, dear.
01:24But she smiled at me.
01:25She knew me.
01:26How could she know you, silly?
01:28I didn't say she did.
01:29I said she looked as if she did.
01:31She waved, too.
01:33I don't like those woods.
01:35It's called Red Deeps, where the gypsy woman was.
01:38But it's so green.
01:39And there's an old quarry somewhere in the forest.
01:41The stone is red.
01:43Not red like blood.
01:45More the colour of Bob Jakin's hair.
01:47Oh, Bob Jakin, he steals things and throws stones at sheep.
01:50He's wicked.
01:51So are you, Maggie Tulliver.
01:53You let me rabbits die.
01:55Oh, Maggie, you didn't.
01:56Yes, you did.
01:57I didn't mean to.
01:59I just forgot about them.
02:01Lucy wouldn't forget, would you?
02:03I wish Lucy was my sister, not you.
02:05Oh, Tom, dear, don't be so unkind to Maggie.
02:07She looks so ugly with all her hair chopped off.
02:09And that stupid bonnet.
02:11Don't laugh at me, Tom.
02:13You're cruel and wicked.
02:14Miss Spitfire.
02:15Listen to her.
02:16Hush.
02:16I think I hear Aunt Pullet coming.
02:28Why is everything so covered over in Aunt Pullet's house?
02:31Perhaps the furniture died.
02:32Oh, Tom, don't.
02:34It's so gloomy in here.
02:35Aunt Pullet don't like dust on anything.
02:37Sometimes put sheets on the carpets, too.
02:40Once I had to wear towels around me shoes to keep the carpets clean.
02:46It's funeral, Shrods.
02:47Tom.
02:48I declare, Sophie, you must measure a yard and a half across in those sleeves.
02:57However, do you fit through a carriage doorway?
03:00Upon my soul, Bessie, you do well to keep that child in her bonnet.
03:03Whatever.
03:03Did you have a haircut?
03:05She looks a perfect fright.
03:07The naughty girl did it herself, sister.
03:09Herself?
03:11I never heard of such scandalous behaviour.
03:13I trust you were severely punished.
03:15The hairdresser at St. Hogs was quite disgusted.
03:19Your pagodas are always so beautiful, Tom.
03:21I can't seem to make any of my cards stand up together.
03:24I'll show you, Lucy.
03:25Oh, no, you shan't, Miss Clumsy.
03:27Come on, sir.
03:27You're just an ink and poop with cards.
03:29I'm not.
03:30Look.
03:33There.
03:35What do you think of it, sister?
03:37Well, it's very...
03:38It's very black, sister.
03:42Don't be obtuse, Bessie.
03:44You know very well that I'm in mourning for Mrs. Sullivan next door.
03:47Oh, yes, of course.
03:49Well, it's really very nice.
03:51Very expensive, I'd say.
03:54I've sometimes thought that there's a loop too much ribbon this side.
03:58If you meddle with it, Sophie, you might repent.
04:01That's true.
04:02How much were you charged?
04:05Pollock paid for it.
04:06He said I was to have the best bonnet in Garham Church.
04:10This dress is new as well.
04:13Very nice.
04:21Oh, Mikey, do look out.
04:23Oh, Mikey.
04:23Now see what you've done, stupid.
04:25I'm not stupid.
04:26It was your fault.
04:27Oh, I'm sorry, I pulled it.
04:29It was an accident.
04:30No, it weren't.
04:31You did it on purpose.
04:32You're too rough, miss.
04:33Just look at my carpet all over cream.
04:36Why can't you sit still, Maggie?
04:38I don't like this fog.
04:39It's too tight and it smells nasty.
04:42Little girls who answer back mustn't have cowslip wine.
04:44She looks like an old Judy.
04:45Tom?
04:46Oh, that certainly is a remarkable bonnet, Bessie.
04:49It has the general appearance of sage cheese garnished with lettuce.
04:52The little wretch jumped on it.
04:53Oh, it's a sin and a shame to buy you anything, Maggie Tolliver.
04:55You're a naughty, awkward child.
04:58Sister, I foresee nothing but misbehavior while the children remain indoors.
05:02Might they play outside?
05:03Very well.
05:07You will not run after the peacock again, Tom.
05:10No, I'll pull it.
05:11Lucy, dear, be mindful of the mud.
05:13Yes, I will.
05:14You shall not go off the paved walks in the farm, Maggie.
05:17And if you wish to see the poultry fed, please don't...
05:20Well, that girl, Bessie, is too rude and too brown.
05:27Oh, she only seems brown, sister, when she's with her cousin.
05:30It's not good for Lucy's health to be so pale.
05:32It's not good for Maggie's health to be so brown.
05:35Tolliver says there's red wheat as well as white.
05:38And some like the dark grain best.
05:40I'm sorry for you, Bessie.
05:42Both your children are as contrary as their father.
05:50Sophie, dear, it does so weigh on my mind.
05:54I must tell you what happened between Tolliver and Jane on Thursday.
05:57Trouble, no doubt.
05:59They had a quarrel.
06:00Oh, Jane's temper is beyond anything.
06:02Yes, I'll spare you every detail of what passed between them, sister.
06:08You'll spare me nothing, sister.
06:12Tell me precisely what was said.
06:15It pains me to see you carry on this way of a neighbour Tolliver, Jane.
06:19I'd have hoped by now your anger would have died down enough for you to see just how stupid you'd been.
06:23I've been?
06:24Calling in their money when you'd know need to and causing all this bitter feeling in the family over a stupid little tiff.
06:29Sometimes I don't understand you at all, Mrs. G.
06:33You never spoke a truer word, Mr. Clegg.
06:36There's not one member of your family who understands anybody of it himself.
06:39And very boring that must be.
06:41There being so little to understand.
06:43You'd best leave finding fault with my kin till you've left off quarreling with your own.
06:47I've never quarreled with my kin.
06:49Ah, never quarreled?
06:50What do you call Thursday, pray?
06:52Leaving your sister's house and sit at a tantrum?
06:54I've no quarrel with Bessie.
06:55It was Mr. Tolliver drove me out of the house and he's none of my blood.
06:59Woman with everything provided for her, as much money as she asks for,
07:02and a gig newly stuffed and lined at no end of expense going on this way of a poor relations.
07:08Mercy Jane, you're biting and snapping at the Tolliver's like a mad dog.
07:11I'm not asking you to fall down on your knees to Tolliver.
07:14Just behave civil to him, that's all.
07:16Don't bear malice.
07:18You'll please to order what you like for dinner, Mr. Clegg.
07:23I shall have gruel.
07:25Upstairs.
07:28Oh, dear, dear, dear.
07:30Jane will be the first of our family in the madhouse.
07:33You mark my words.
07:35Yes.
07:36Goodness gracious.
07:41I'm five minutes late.
07:43A pink pill.
07:44I should have had it five minutes ago.
07:47You made me forget with your talking.
07:50I declare, Sophie.
07:52There can't be another patient such as you in the parish.
07:55I've no call to be ashamed.
07:57What a doctor's for if not to be called in.
08:00It's flying in the face of Providence for people to meddle with their own insides.
08:04I doubt if there's anyone but Dr. Turnbull as your experience in medical matters.
08:09And the expense of it, Bessie.
08:11With drafts at 18 pence apiece.
08:15Just look at them all.
08:16The strong stuff in small bottles, weak stuff in large bottles.
08:21And Pullet keeps them all.
08:22Hmm?
08:22The bottles.
08:24He keeps every one.
08:25They've filled two shelves in the storeroom already.
08:28Whatever for?
08:29Well, he says it's only right that folks should see them after I've gone.
08:34Oh, don't talk of going, Sophie, dear.
08:36Who else would I have to stand between me and Sister Glegg?
08:41Sister Dean's never on my side.
08:43Oh, Sister Dean was always contrary.
08:47She will have striped things in her house and I only like spots.
08:51We've always hung together on that, Bessie.
08:53Stripes and spots.
08:54Are they eating in the mud?
08:59No, silly.
09:00Looking for things to eat.
09:02But how can they breathe with their noses in the mud?
09:05Oh, Tom, look at that one over there.
09:08Look, look.
09:13Oh, go away, Maggie.
09:15Nobody asked you to come.
09:17I want to see the pigs, too.
09:18Well, you can't, because I'm showing Lucy.
09:21I shall.
09:21Go away.
09:24Here, Maggie.
09:29Sophie, what am I to do?
09:32Sister Glegg leaving the house that way does so weigh on my mind.
09:37Your husband should be ashamed of himself for speaking so rashly.
09:41I know he's hasty, but what can I do?
09:44He's not a man to be dictated to, especially not by Jane.
09:49It'd be better if Jane would go to the doctor sometimes
09:52instead of chewing turkey rhubarb whenever anything's the matter with her.
09:56Do go and see her, Sophie, dear.
09:58Persuade her to make it up with Tulliver.
10:01The right thing would be for Tulliver to go in south.
10:04If he's borrowed money from her, he shouldn't be above that.
10:07If I were to go down on me bare knees, he'd never humble himself to do that.
10:11You surely don't expect Jane to apologize.
10:14It's just that Tulliver owes her 500 pounds,
10:18and if she decided to call the money in now, we might have to mortgage the mill.
10:23Well, if he's nervous about his money, let him call him what his own sister owes him.
10:28Didn't you tell me that she and all her own children depended on him?
10:32Tulliver's ridden over to see Farmer Moss today,
10:34but even with that loan returned, there's still 200 pounds to find.
10:40Tulliver's too given to go into law, Bessie.
10:43He makes away with his money on silly legal disputes.
10:46Won't you please help, sister dear?
10:50Please, Sophie?
10:53Well, well, I can't stand by and see you ruined.
10:57I'll drive to see Jane tomorrow if you wish.
11:00Oh, thank you, sister.
11:02Well, come in, Sally. You can clear away the...
11:05Tom, what's the matter?
11:06If you please, Aunt Pullet, it's Lucy.
11:09Lord, have mercy. Where is the child?
11:12Here.
11:17Maggie pushed her mother. It's all her fault.
11:19Oh, Bessie, I feel fed.
11:21Oh, sit down, sister, do.
11:23Oh, keep her in the doorway, Bessie.
11:25Don't let her come under the carpet. What happened to your door?
11:28Where's Maggie, Tom?
11:28Oh, she ran away.
11:30She said she'd never be back.
11:31Oh, you're a naughty boy to take the girls where there's dirt.
11:34You know that Maggie will get into mischief if there's mischief to be done.
11:37Stop! Stop!
11:38Oh.
11:39It's too great a way to be sustained by a single mind.
11:42Now, don't cry. We'll soon have you clean again.
11:45Where did Maggie run, Tom?
11:46Has she gone home?
11:47No, mother.
11:48She ran towards the river, I believe.
11:51What? The river?
11:51See who's here.
12:03The cousin Maggie's father.
12:04Busy, move your dolly.
12:06Sit down, brother, with some good ale.
12:08I'll not be staying, Gritty.
12:10Where do your husband belong?
12:12Is this to do with money?
12:14Ah, it is.
12:15I see.
12:18Well, you've got enough girls, Gritty.
12:20Four of them. Bless their hearts.
12:22And each with a brother apiece.
12:24Well, I hope they grow up to fend for themselves and not go hanging on their brothers in later life.
12:28My boys will always be good to their sisters.
12:34As good as you bring to me.
12:36Ah, I always did what I could for tea.
12:40I wish you'd bring Maggie one day.
12:42All my little ones love to see her.
12:44I know she likes to come and play, eh?
12:46Just wonder of you and all of her other aunts.
12:48No mistake.
12:50Eh, you can blame her.
12:52She can muggy her shoes here and tear a frot we out, fear of a slap.
12:58Who'd notice muggy shoes in all this muddle?
13:01Maggie's like you used to be, Gritty.
13:04No.
13:05I was never so quick and clever as Maggie.
13:08She's sharp, brother. Mark my words.
13:10A loving child, but sharp.
13:12Well, there's not many a praise for the little wench.
13:14Well, to my mind, she's got more fire than the boy.
13:17It's about Tom I'm here to see.
13:19Here.
13:21What a while you've been, Mr Moss.
13:23A while, do you call it?
13:24I've run all the way.
13:26Sit down, Mr Tulliver.
13:28No, I'll not sit.
13:29It's business talk I've come for.
13:30I'll leave you.
13:31No, no, you stay.
13:37How about Tom, did you say?
13:39I see I've got weight again in the corner clothes.
13:41All right.
13:42It's poor looking stuff, Moss.
13:44Never a bit of dressing on it.
13:45I warned you.
13:47Poor farmers like me must do as they can.
13:50Farmers only get out of the ground what they put into it.
13:52Aye. Farmers have money to play with you.
13:54Well, I'd say men who borrowed money without paying interest
13:57would have money to play with.
13:59Wouldn't you?
14:00So that's how it is.
14:01Aye.
14:03I must have the money, Moss.
14:05All of it?
14:06Aye.
14:07We'll be throwing, brother.
14:09Aye, and I shall be ruined if I don't have it.
14:12Seems to look about and see how best you can repay me me 300.
14:15Look, I know I'm behind with the interest,
14:16but I was unlucky with the wool last year.
14:18And what with the missus being laid up again,
14:20and all things have gone more awkward than usual.
14:23Some fucks things will always go awkward for.
14:25I don't know what fault you've got to find in me, Mr Tulliver.
14:27I'd do me best.
14:27An empty sack will never stand upright.
14:29You're unfair, brother.
14:31There's not a day labourer works harder than Moss.
14:33And what's the good of that?
14:34Ain't no capital to put into this farm,
14:36or the bit of money I gave you when you got married.
14:38You should never have got married, Gritty.
14:40I was a ginnit from the start.
14:41Now look at you.
14:43You've crowned your mistake with eight babies.
14:50I'm sorry, sister.
14:52I have to do this.
14:54I must look to my own business and my own family.
14:56I can't be expected to provide money for everybody else as well as myself.
15:00What has this to do with Tom, brother?
15:02Tom is to leave the academy and go to a new school at a hundred guineas a year.
15:09And on top of that, I've quarreled with Mrs Glegg and must pay her back the five hundred pounds I owe her.
15:14But we'd have to sell up and leave our home in order to pay you back.
15:17And I'd lose my house.
15:18I've had to mortgage the mill to pay the lawyers.
15:24I didn't know.
15:25Oh, not even Bessie knows.
15:27But if I don't have the money I lent Moss,
15:30I can't meet the half yearly payment.
15:32We'll have to part with every air of stock we've got.
15:35We'll be ruined.
15:38Well, you must do the best you can.
15:40Like the rest of us.
15:40I'm sorry.
15:45I hope your Tom will never be so hard on his sister.
15:50Good day, Gretchen.
15:51Good day.
15:51Good day, Gretchen.
16:21Good day, Gretchen.
16:51Good day, Gretchen.
16:52Good day, Gretchen.
16:52Good day, Gretchen.
16:53Good day, Gretchen.
16:53Great day.
17:15It's gone.
17:18I came back to tell you not to fret, Goody.
17:25It came into my mind as I rode home that if I were hard on me only sister,
17:29it might tend somehow to make Tom hard on Maggie one day.
17:38I'll not be around forever to take the little wenchies part.
17:42So you're not to fret, Goody.
17:45I'll get by without the money you owe me.
17:49Just tell Moss to be as clever and contriving as he come
17:52and perhaps things will look brighter for you next year.
17:56The mill, brother. Your mortgage payments.
18:00Aye. That's a puzzle, ain't it?
18:03But it's my puzzle, not yours.
18:05You've your own folk and home to look to.
18:08You're a good kind man.
18:11Well, Hollis be a good brother, Gritty. Remember that.
18:19Here. Finish your washing, woman.
18:24You'll have no sun left to dry it by.
18:26What, sister?
18:39This little lady's come to stay with us.
18:42Haven't you, my dear?
18:43Yes, please.
18:46Has she got a copper for her poor sick man then?
18:48Come on then.
18:56You can have it if you like.
18:59I'd rather wear a red handkerchief like a proper gypsy.
19:02I will.
19:03You come and sit down over here, me pretty.
19:07That's it.
19:09Come on, come on.
19:11Give us the cat.
19:14Sure, get more for that.
19:16Where does the queen of the gypsies live?
19:24I'm wrong with thinking if she can't be a very good queen
19:30to let you live here instead of an apopatine.
19:33And you might be glad to choose another.
19:36If I was queen, I'd be nice to everybody.
19:40And give them proper beds.
19:42So, you've come to stay with us, have you, my pretty?
19:47I've run away, you see.
19:49Because I'm unhappy.
19:51I've come to live with you.
19:53And teach you things.
19:54There's a clever little lady.
19:58I came away in a hurry.
20:00So I haven't got my books with me.
20:03But I can tell you about drugs if you like.
20:06Did you ever hear about Columbus?
20:09Is that where you live?
20:11Oh, no.
20:12Columbus is a man.
20:14He found half the world.
20:16But they treated him very badly.
20:18And put chains on him.
20:20Come here.
20:22Perhaps it's too long to tell you before tea.
20:26Oh, she's hungry.
20:27Poor little lady.
20:29Find her something to eat with her.
20:32A little of bread and trick order nicely, don't you?
20:36And some tea.
20:42And where's your own little lady?
20:44My father's Mr. Tulliver.
20:47But we mustn't let him know where I am.
20:50Or he'll come and fetch me.
20:52I live in Dorcote Mill.
20:54A big mill, is it, my dear?
20:56A little way this side of St. Oggs.
20:59That's it.
21:01Nice bit of a bottle for you, my dear.
21:03Have you any trickle, please?
21:05No trickle.
21:07No!
21:09Are you gonna murder me?
21:11Perhaps you could do it outside.
21:13Oh, cheerful to be murdered outside.
21:14That's my father!
21:15Father!
21:16You be sure and say we've been good to you, mind.
21:17And brought you home, all safe and sound.
21:18You're hurting me out.
21:19You be sure and say that.
21:20Yes, yes, I promise.
21:21That's my father!
21:22Father!
21:24You be sure and say we've been good to you, mind.
21:25And brought you home, all safe and sound.
21:27You're hurting me out.
21:28You be sure and say that.
21:29Yes, yes, I promise.
21:30What's this, then?
21:31What's this?
21:32What's going on, Maggie?
21:36What's this, Megan?
21:37What's this, then?
21:38What's this?
21:39What's going on, Maggie?
21:40You're supposed to meet your aunt, Bullets.
21:41Where's your mother and Tom?
21:43The little miss lost herself in the forest, Emma.
21:44hurting me out you'll be sure and say that yes yes I promise what's this thing
21:51what's this what's going on Maggie you're supposed to meet your aunt bullets
21:55where's your mother and Tom the little miss lost herself in forest I reckon
22:01is that so Maggie she was bringing me home father in a good way it's been
22:06after being an aunt Trump all day
22:14yeah thank you kindly sir but your honor like your fortune told I've got the
22:21skill oh thank you all woman you've rendered me enough service bringing me
22:24little wench back I'll do without your prophecies and palm reading
22:28goodbye little lady
22:44now then miss just tell me how you came to be rambling through the forest on
22:51your own and losing yourself I run away father from your amp pullet from Tom he
22:57was angry I pushed poor Lucy in the mud and Tom hit me and all the ants saying brown
23:03like a gypsy so I ran away to be with them now listen Maggie dear you must promise me
23:13you'll never run away again what would a father do without his little when she I
23:19I promise father I'll never never leave you again that's my little wench
23:35it is what you don't know what's in store for the little miss it'd rob you of your sleep
23:40great