1 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,480 RUNNING FOOTSTEPS 2 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,280 ORGAN MUSIC 3 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,000 As always, we will start 4 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,360 with the school song. 5 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:23,240 # CHOIR: In the morning of my life I shall look to the sunrise 6 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:31,960 # At a moment in my life when the world is new 7 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:40,320 # And the blessing I shall ask is that God will grant me 8 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:49,560 # To be brave and strong and true 9 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:56,040 # And to fill the world with love my whole life through. # 10 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,040 For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. 11 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,840 ALL: Amen. 12 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:15,320 # In the evening of my life I shall look to the sunset 13 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:26,680 # At a moment in my life when the night is due 14 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:36,960 # And the question I shall ask only I can answer 15 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:47,240 # Was I brave and strong and true... # 16 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,000 Abbot. Sir. Ackerman. Sir. 17 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,960 Adams. Sir. Adams. Sir. Adams. Sir. 18 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,280 Alroy. Sir. Anderson. Sir. 19 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,440 Appleby. Sir. 20 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,720 Armitage Major. Sir. Armitage Minor. Sir. 21 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,040 Arrowsmith. Sir. Atkins. Sir. 22 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,440 Austen. Sir. Bailey. Sir. 23 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Baites. Sir. 24 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,920 Baker Major. Sir. Baker Minor. Sir. 25 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,200 Balfor-Ellis. Sir. Banning. Sir. 26 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,520 Barclay. Sir. Barrington. Sir. 27 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,800 Bartholomew. Sir. Bascom. Sir. 28 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,120 Bennett. Sir. Beresford. Sir. 29 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,400 Bettington. Sir. Biddicomb. Sir. 30 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,720 Billing. Sir. Billingham. Sir. 31 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,000 Birch. Blankenship. 32 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,400 Bonn. Sir. Bonner-Harris. Sir. 33 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,680 Bridges. Sir. Broderick. Sir. 34 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,000 Brown Major. Sir. Brown Minor. Sir. 35 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,280 Brown Minimus. Sir. 36 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,560 Bruce. Sir. Burgess. Sir. 37 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,880 Butler. Sir. Caldwell. Sir. 38 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,560 Campbell. Sir. Canning. Sir. Carrington. Sir. 39 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,840 Carstairs. Sir. Cartwright. Sir. 40 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,560 Cherry. Sir. Chilton. Sir. 41 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,840 Clark. Sir. Clay. Sir. 42 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,280 Coates. Sir. Cole. Sir. 43 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,600 Coleridge. Sir. Colley Minor. Sir. 44 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,440 Cook. Sir. Craft. Sir. 45 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,600 Crew. Sir. 46 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,240 Cunningham. Sir. Curry. Sir. 47 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,640 Dalton. Sir. Deeds. Sir. 48 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,320 Dickinson-Brown. Sir. Douglas. Sir. 49 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,800 Duncan. Sir. Edgeworth. Sir. Edwards. Sir. 50 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,160 Elliot-Smythe. Sir. Ellis. Sir. 51 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,440 Every. Sir. Fairhurst. Sir. 52 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,160 Fernley. Sir. Fitch. Sir. Fisher. Sir. 53 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,480 Forbes. Sir. 54 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:10,880 Fortesque... 55 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,600 BELL RINGS 56 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,000 Isn't this a rather unusual action for you to take, Chipping? 57 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,480 I suppose it is, Headmaster, 58 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,200 but my class's examination results this term were also rather unusual. 59 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,920 Well, I've looked at them. They were only a little below average. 60 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,800 Yes, that, for a class of mine, is rather unusual. 61 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,240 It's a punishment? Oh, no. 62 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,080 I trust nobody thinks that. 63 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,400 Baxter does. Well, he's wrong. 64 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,560 I want to take my boys over their exam in some detail 65 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,560 and show them their mistakes. It should be a very helpful session. 66 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,840 Quite so. Unhappily, there's this tennis match. 67 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:01,800 Sutterwick's results are among the worst. 68 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,200 Even if they weren't, I should still think it wrong to make an exception. 69 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,600 Don't know what Sutterwick's father's going to say. 70 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,080 I do. Something very smooth, very offensive 71 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,520 and quite beside the point. You know him? 72 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,160 I taught him. 73 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,320 You know that he is the generous donor of our new playing fields. 74 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,480 Most generous. 75 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,200 I know he has a great deal of money to be generous with. 76 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,040 You won't let me persuade you to... 77 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,040 No, but you can order me to. 78 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,640 Oh, well. I'll be seeing you tonight for dinner? 79 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,360 Yes, Headmaster. I'm very much looking forward to it. 80 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,560 Do people think I really want to be disliked? 81 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:45,720 Who thinks that? 82 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,000 Baxter, for one. He plainly thinks I'm a bloody sadist. 83 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,280 My dear fellow, that's the first time I ever heard you swear. 84 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:54,480 There has to be a first time for everything. 85 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,240 I don't think the boys do dislike you. 86 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,400 Yes, they do. I can't blame them. 87 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,680 If I were one of them, I'd dislike myself, I think. 88 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,400 You must not exaggerate, my dear fellow. I don't. 89 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,800 The boys are quite right to dislike failures. Now you do exaggerate. 90 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,400 A man whose textbook on Pindar... 91 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,760 What is a worse failure than a teacher who can't make 92 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,400 his pupils grasp the importance of what he has to teach? 93 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:17,480 Can you answer me that? 94 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,640 Yes. A teacher who doesn't try to, like Baxter. 95 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,920 Rather true, Max. 96 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,640 Thank you. 97 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,920 BOY: Look out, it's Old Blood and Iron. 98 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,320 That's just their humour. 99 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,760 Yes. What do they call you? 100 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:37,920 Ditchie. 101 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,320 Ditchie? That's not too bad. 102 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,240 It's short for "ditchwater," and that is a simile for "dull." 103 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,240 Good morning. 104 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,200 Sit down. 105 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,120 Sutterwick? 106 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,200 You seem to have chosen rather an eccentric costume for class. 107 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,800 I'm playing in the final of the junior tennis competition. 108 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,440 At what time? 109 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,040 12.30, sir. 110 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,480 At 12.30, you will still be in class, Sutterwick. 111 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:33,840 I thought I told you. 112 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,360 Mr Baxter said I could play! 113 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,760 Did I tell you? 114 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,520 The periods are supposed to end at 12. 115 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,400 It ends when I say it ends, Sutterwick, and that is 1. 116 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,440 When the bell rings at 12, I'm going, sir! 117 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,680 You've no right to keep the others in either! 118 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,560 I have two kinds of right, Sutterwick. 119 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,880 The right which would be translated into Latin by the word fas, 120 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,280 meaning a sacred duty, 121 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,360 and the right which is given me by power. 122 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,680 The first, I don't expect you to understand. The second, I do. 123 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,600 Sit down, please. 124 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,800 Your Homer, page 56, line 17. 125 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,840 Simpson, will you begin? 126 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,560 "Yea, I will tell thee clearly and say but the truth. 127 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,720 "Mentes, I boast to be Anchialus' son. 128 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,360 "And among the Taphians, men of the oar, I am king. 129 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:29,720 "I came hither..." 130 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,880 # They think I do not understand 131 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,960 # They think I do not hear or see 132 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:42,800 # I only wish they knew I do understand 133 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,160 # I only wish they understood me. # 134 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,360 "..in the haven of Rheithron." 135 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,000 That is remarkably fluent, Simpson, 136 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 but I think I would prefer the words to be your own rather than 137 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,120 those of Professor Jacobs' Easy Guide to the Classics. 138 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,600 Would you be good to detach the page from that work 139 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:00,960 that you've glued to your book, 140 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,480 hand it to me, take 25 punishment lines and proceed? 141 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,640 BELL RINGS 142 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,120 ALL CHEER 143 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,360 My dear Baxter, what an absurd fuss over a game of tennis. 144 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,800 A game of tennis? It is the final of the junior cup. 145 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,720 It's still a game of pat-ball with a piece of framed catgut, 146 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,440 an unworthy subject for a quarrel between housemasters. 147 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,200 When you make jokes to Baxter against tennis, you better duck. 148 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,280 He didn't only get a tennis blue at Oxford, he got a boxing blue. 149 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,560 Also first-class honours in physics. Biology. 150 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,200 And we don't say honours in this country, old man, just degree. 151 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,920 I'm sorry. Fenwick, I disagree with you profoundly 152 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,800 upon the importance of this issue. 153 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,360 To deprive Sutterwick of the chance 154 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,480 just because that pernickety old idiot 155 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,800 has taken it into his head to give his form an hour's extra tuition. 156 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,600 On the last day of term? 157 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,680 HE CHUCKLES 158 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,680 Chipping's a brave man. 159 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:53,840 "Wine-dark sea" is a perfectly acceptable description 160 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,120 of the Aegean Sea, Barker. I agree Homer does use it rather a lot, 161 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,440 but then there are some epithets we all use rather a lot, don't we? 162 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,720 I believe your favourite is "stinky." 163 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,760 Isn't it? 164 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,840 CLOCK CHIMES 165 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,080 Forgive me if I prefer Homer's more colourful imagery. 166 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,880 12 o'clock, I see. Sutterwick. 167 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,560 Sir? Come here, would you? 168 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,360 Just distribute these around the class, would you? 169 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,320 To each boy. 170 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,080 I think you'll find them all clearly marked. 171 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,760 I won! I won! 172 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,600 I am the champion! 173 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,560 I'm the junior tennis champion. 174 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,960 The Lex Canuleia... 175 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,760 ..is not, as Colley Minor seems to think, a law regulating canals, 176 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:13,560 but a law that permitted Roman patricians to marry plebeians. 177 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:14,960 An easy way to remember it 178 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,120 is to imagine a Miss Plebeian wishing to marry a Mr Patrician 179 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,760 and Mr Patrician saying he can't. 180 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,600 She could then reply, "Oh, yes, you can, you liar." 181 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,920 Well, boys, I've finished. 182 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,120 You've all hated me for this, I know, but I am paid to teach you, 183 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,680 and your parents pay Brookfield for you to learn. 184 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,840 We have a mutual duty, in fact, 185 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,680 and it's not a duty that I, for one, am prepared to betray. 186 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,320 CLOCK CHIMES This is goodbye for ten weeks. 187 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,640 May I wish you all a happy holiday. 188 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,000 You may go. 189 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,160 # Yesterday, I was their age Tomorrow, they'll be my age 190 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,440 # Sooner, much sooner than they know 191 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:32,520 # And suddenly they will ask What every child must ask 192 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:40,360 # Where did my childhood go? 193 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,880 # Where did my childhood go? 194 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,880 # When did my youth, sweet and free 195 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,800 # Suddenly slip away from me? 196 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,040 # Was it so long ago? 197 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,240 # Where did my childhood go? 198 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,560 # When did the magic end? 199 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:20,200 # When did the future meet the past? 200 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,840 # Ending a dream too good to last 201 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:29,320 # Taking away our friend 202 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:33,640 # When did my childhood end? 203 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,840 # Was it that day in early spring 204 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,840 # That lingers on 205 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,280 # When somehow I knew 206 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:53,160 # This precious time would soon be gone? 207 00:13:55,680 --> 00:14:00,480 # What does the future show? 208 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,640 # Spring will return again next year 209 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:10,360 # And when she does She'll find me here 210 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,880 # Wondering still 211 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,640 # I know 212 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,880 # Where did my childhood go? 213 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,600 # Yesterday, I was their age Tomorrow, they'll be my age 214 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,240 # Sooner, much sooner than they know 215 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:37,760 # And suddenly they will ask What every child must ask 216 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:45,280 # Where did my childhood 217 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,960 # Go? # 218 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,800 Over by the new playing fields. That is, if you ever get them. 219 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,560 Especially as this year, I've been invited to shoot at Dumlochspey. 220 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:00,960 Dumlochspey? 221 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,800 Where are you going for your holiday, Mr Chipping? 222 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,080 To the new excavations at Pompeii. 223 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,440 Pompeii? But won't that be hot at this time of year? 224 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,280 Yes. 225 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,760 He must be in the late 30s by now, but I always think of him as a boy. 226 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,400 Oh, no, headmaster. I'm sure you're a very good shot. 227 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,400 You're staying a night in London, aren't you? 228 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,160 Yes, with Johnnie Longbridge. Lord Longbridge? But I... 229 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,360 You're very lucky to have so rich and hospitable an ex-pupil. 230 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,120 Oh, I don't know, Max. Charlie was a very nice boy. 231 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,240 Quite a good scholar too. We always got on. 232 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,200 Is he taking you... Wasn't Lord Longbridge.. 233 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,200 to the Old Vic as usual? ..married...? 234 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,360 No. No. 235 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,040 I asked him to. That was the father, I believe. 236 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,880 Present Lord Longbridge is unmarried. 237 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,880 It's the Medea, which I wanted to see. He's quite young. 238 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,960 He's got tickets for something he wants to see for some reason, 239 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,360 called, apparently, Flossie From Fulham. 240 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,160 But you're very lucky, Mr Chipping. 241 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,000 My dear fellow, that is most shocking. 242 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,720 Am I, indeed, Mrs Summersthwaite? 243 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,600 It's a divine show, quite divine, and a very big hit. 244 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,560 Hit? That means a success. 245 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,800 Does it? Flossie from Fulham is a divine show, and you'll adore it. 246 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,600 Oh, splendid. 247 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,240 But Medea, Max, isn't it a shame? 248 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,720 I wonder if I could get Johnnie to change his mind. 249 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,000 I'm looking forward like mad to seeing this extravaganza. 250 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,240 I'm sorry, Chips, I know very well what you'd rather be seeing, 251 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,240 but I had to bring you to meet the girl I intend to marry. 252 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,320 You're not serious, surely. You did say marry? 253 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,080 Oh, yes, if she'll have me. 254 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,000 I'm standing, at the moment, rather low on her list. 255 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,760 I'm sure she's utterly delightful, 256 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,200 but think of your name, your position, 257 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,240 those Shakespeare first folios in the library at Charworth. 258 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,840 APPLAUSE 259 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,280 Dear Chips, I'm awfully fond of you. 260 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,440 Why? I say, a treasure hunt in Fulham. What a capital idea! 261 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,760 Why what? 262 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,720 Blimey, Bert, look at them... Why are you awfully fond of me? 263 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Where is the owner of this fish store? 264 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,200 Yeah, where's Flossie? Flossie? 265 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,840 LIVELY SHOWTUNE PLAYS 266 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,280 APPLAUSE 267 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:33,160 I say, what an absolute corker you are, dear Miss Fish Stall Owner. 268 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:34,920 Plainly, the femme fatale of Fulham. 269 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,920 Oh, wherever did you come from, all dressed up so la-di-da? 270 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,280 Oh, the West End of London. 271 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,320 Well, as long as it's London, it's all right with me. 272 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,120 # Eros stands in Piccadilly Circus 273 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:53,040 # Nelson stands in Trafalgar Square 274 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,200 # Big Ben stands by the River Thames 275 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,400 # And will as long as the Thames is there 276 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:06,080 # London is a strange, unchanging town 277 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,480 # And take my word Whatever you've heard 278 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,240 # London Bridge has no intention 279 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,320 # Of falling down 280 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,880 # Oh, London is London Is anyone in doubt about it? 281 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,720 # London is London It's easy to find out about it 282 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,480 # London is springtime Cockney champagne 283 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,600 # London is summer Lots of rain but who's complaining? 284 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,560 # WITH CHORUS: London is lovely Let no-one change his mind about it 285 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,080 # Lovely and lively 286 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,240 # Yes, that's the thing I find about it 287 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,120 # You can have Paris And Venice and Rome 288 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:50,800 # But London is London Is London is England 289 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,000 # Is home 290 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,720 # London is London Forgive me if I shout about it 291 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,640 # Nowhere's like London So mighty roundabout about it 292 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,520 # London is history Future and past 293 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:17,600 # London is mystery Flabbergasting, everlasting 294 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,520 # London is a charmer 295 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,960 # I could go on for days about it 296 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,400 # Dripping with drama 297 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,800 # There just ain't no two ways about it 298 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:39,000 # You can have Cairo and Cannes 299 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,320 # And Capri 300 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,840 # But London is London London is 301 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:49,920 # London is London is England 302 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,680 # Is me! 303 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,000 APPLAUSE 304 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,360 # London London is London 305 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,280 # There's such a lovely style about it 306 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,160 # London London is London 307 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,080 # You can't resist Just smile about it 308 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,880 # London is history Future and past 309 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,720 # London is mystery Flabbergasting, everlasting 310 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,560 # London is London Random people rave about it 311 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,280 # London, my London 312 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,440 # There's something people crave about it 313 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,000 # Others may pine For a trip up the Rhine 314 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,560 # Or follow the sun Where it happens to shine 315 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,920 # The tip of the parties 316 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,480 # The home's where the heart is 317 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,440 # And London is London 318 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:51,120 # Is Engla-a-a-nd 319 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:56,240 # Is mi-i-i-ine. # 320 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,600 Why the hell do we come here? 321 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,720 Because we always come here. 322 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,920 Exactly. 323 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,160 What's the matter with you tonight? 324 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,120 Good evening. 325 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,560 But she's got young Calbury with her. 326 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,240 Calbury? 327 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,280 Some idiot in the Horse Guards. 328 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,080 Damn it, Chips, we've been stood up. 329 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,480 Stood up? 330 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,880 She's forgotten. 331 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,440 Oh, dear, I am sorry. 332 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,040 Oh, Johnnie Longbridge. 333 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,480 Oh, my God, I've stood him up. I must get him over. 334 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,040 Not to stay. 335 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,240 Come on, Chips. 336 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,640 What will you think of me? 337 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,280 Nothing. Except that you're a terrible muddler of dates. 338 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,800 And I've known that for ages. 339 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,760 Bill Calbury you know, of course. 340 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,960 He was suddenly in town again, and... 341 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,800 Oh, no, no, don't apologise, darling. 342 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,280 Oh, but you came to see the show especially tonight, didn't you? 343 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,800 My fifth time. This is Chips. I told you about him, remember? 344 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,880 Of course. Hasn't he any other name? 345 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,280 Well, if he has, I can't remember it. 346 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Then I'd better call you Mr Chips. 347 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,480 That's rather a nice name. How do you do, Mr Chips? 348 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,920 How do you do, Miss Bridges? 349 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,840 This is Bill Calbury. 350 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,560 Do join us. 351 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,160 Oh, Chips absolutely adored the show. 352 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,720 I'm so glad. 353 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,480 Oh, yes, I loved it. 354 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,960 It's a great hit, isn't it? 355 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,080 We've been running for over a year. 356 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,640 Over a year? 357 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,080 Yes. 358 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:46,360 Every night? 359 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,440 Well, we get Sundays off. 360 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,640 But don't you get most awfully bored? 361 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,720 I mean, isn't it an awful strain for you, all that leaping? 362 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,960 Oh, yes, I loved it. 363 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:03,760 The plot I found a shade tortuous, 364 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,760 but the exposition of it, remarkably adroit. 365 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,920 Good. 366 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,800 Did you like anything else? 367 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,520 Ah. 368 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,360 Well, the denouement, 369 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,720 I found quite remarkable when you turned out 370 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,400 to be the real Lady Lettie all along. 371 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,000 No, that's Edna Lovelace. 372 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,240 I turn out to be William C Belfrage's ward. 373 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:34,080 Ah, yes, the multi-millionaire shop owner. 374 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,360 Of course, how stupid of me. 375 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,760 But then, you and the other lady do look alike. 376 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,000 Yes, I suppose we do. 377 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,480 She's 53 next birthday. 378 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:53,200 You astound me, and sing so well. 379 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,720 I think we should go back to our table. 380 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,480 Goodbye, Katie. Marvellous seeing you. 381 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,440 Goodbye. 382 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,880 Goodbye, Miss Bridges. 383 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,280 Goodbye, Mr Chips. 384 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,000 What an idiotic bore. 385 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,240 Bill, you were asking me something important. 386 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,280 You were asking me whether I seriously believed something. 387 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,240 They tell me they make a delicious oyster stew here. 388 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,560 By the way, how do you know she's not here? 389 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,080 She? 390 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,880 The girl tonight's Evening News said you're going to marry. 391 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,880 Oh, yes, I saw that. Me and Penelope Fitzdouglas. 392 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,520 Huh. Wasn't it ridiculous? 393 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,000 Side-splitting. 394 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,920 I'll have the same as last Tuesday. 395 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,920 Yeah, so will I. 396 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,240 The same wine? 397 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,040 The same wine. 398 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,400 APPLAUSE 399 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,280 Hey. 400 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,440 Hey. 401 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,280 Hey, Mister! 402 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,040 Hey, Mister, please. 403 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,960 Please. 404 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,200 I'll.... 405 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,520 I'll be your guide to Pompeii, OK? 406 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:18,480 OK, on your right is the Greek forum... 407 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:23,160 ..which was partially destroyed in the earthquake of AD 61. 408 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,240 Behind you is the statue of Clio, one of the Muses. She had... 409 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,800 No. That is Terpsichore, 410 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:35,560 the Muse of choral dance and song, and the earthquake was in AD 62. 411 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,080 OK, Mister, you know best. 412 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,680 Actually, dear fellow, I think I do. 413 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,840 HE MUTTERS IN ITALIAN 414 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,040 ECHOING: Hello, can you hear me up there? 415 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,080 Yes, of course I can. The acoustics here are famous. 416 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,880 Can you hear me? 417 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,000 Yes, but you're shouting. 418 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,480 I'm not shouting. 419 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,640 Sound travels upwards better than downwards. 420 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,440 Could you hear that? 421 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,560 Yes. 422 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,000 What are you eating? 423 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,240 An egg sandwich. 424 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,760 When was the earthquake that destroyed all this? 425 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,840 It wasn't an earthquake, it was an eruption of Vesuvius, 426 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,080 behind me, and it happened in the year 79 AD, 427 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,600 toward the end of the ides of June. 428 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,800 Ha, I thought only March had ides. 429 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,520 All Roman months had ides. Calends too. 430 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,160 Are you a guide? 431 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,440 Do I look like a guide? 432 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,040 I don't know. I haven't got my field glasses with me. 433 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,240 What are you? 434 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,480 A schoolmaster. 435 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,080 Ah, that's cheating. What are you? 436 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,400 A tourist. An ignorant one, as you implied, 437 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,640 who doesn't know her ide from her calend. 438 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,600 There is no singular to either word. 439 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,960 Oh, you can't win, can you? 440 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,960 You eating another sandwich? 441 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,720 Yes. 442 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,160 You wouldn't have anything left, would you? 443 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,120 One egg sandwich and some cheese. 444 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,400 I'm coming up. I'm starving. 445 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,760 How do you do? My name is Chipping. 446 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,760 Mine is Bridges. 447 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,560 Golly. Well, one thing's fairly certain - 448 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,800 we'd never be cast opposite each other. 449 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,160 Forgive me, I didn't quite follow that. 450 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,000 It doesn't matter. Oh, thank you, you're an angel of mercy. 451 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:47,920 Haven't we met before? 452 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,640 I don't think so. Some of this? 453 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,320 Thank you. 454 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,880 Of course, you're Mr Chips. 455 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,200 I beg your pardon? 456 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,440 Oh, we met at the Savoy one night, with Johnnie Longbridge, remember? 457 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,080 I was with somebody called Bill Calbury, 458 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,400 and you said all the wrong things. 459 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,720 Good gracious, you're not the girl in that awful... 460 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,920 ..ly jolly musical comedy? 461 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,920 SHE LAUGHS 462 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,960 Oh, thank you for making me laugh. 463 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,440 It's the first time I have for over a month. 464 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,840 Cheers. 465 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,160 Cheers. I didn't mean it as funny. 466 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,560 Well, no, if you had, I wouldn't have laughed. 467 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,000 This is nice. I ought to tell you, it's rather strong. 468 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,240 Good. 469 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,280 But of course. You were the gal who turned out to be 470 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,240 the real Lady Lettie all along. 471 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,680 No! 472 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,120 You've done it again. 473 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,640 Oh, dear, I'm so sorry. 474 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:50,200 You are William C Belfrage's ward, Miss Katherine Bridges. 475 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,920 Ah, that's wrong too. 476 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,520 My real name is not Bridges. 477 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,960 My real name is... Now you won't laugh, will you? 478 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,360 It's Brisket. 479 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,720 Charmingly Anglo-Saxon. 480 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,200 What are you doing in Pompeii? 481 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,960 I wasn't feeling very well and they gave me a month off 482 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,320 so I booked myself on this Mediterranean cruise. 483 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,240 My boat stopped at Naples and, uh.... 484 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,880 Well, they organised a tour of this place. Only I hate being conducted. 485 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,840 When I heard there was a theatre, I slipped off. I'm glad I did. 486 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,280 It's beautiful. 487 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,720 The other is even better. 488 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,240 Greek theatre. 489 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,360 You mean they did plays here like the one that's on 490 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,560 at the Old Vic now? 491 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,280 The Medea? Yes, they did. 492 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,440 I'd like to see that. I hear it's marvellous. 493 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,280 I do too. So we'll do it together sometime, huh? 494 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,800 Yes. 495 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,680 Is there lots more to see at Pompeii? 496 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,320 Oh, there's a full ten days of exhaustive sightseeing, 497 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,120 and many, many more, if you include the Herculaneum and... 498 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,400 Well, I've got the rest of the day. Would you be my guide, Mr Chips? 499 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,240 Look, doesn't this bore you terribly? 500 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,000 Please, please say if it does, because there's nothing more awful 501 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,200 than being bothered by somebody when you want to be on your own. 502 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,840 Nobody knows that better than me. 503 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,680 Sorry. Than I? 504 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,280 It doesn't bore me at all. 505 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,160 In fact, very much the reverse. 506 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,960 Truth to say, I was feeling a little lonely myself this afternoon. 507 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,960 This is the temple of Jupiter. 508 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,080 Are you quite alone on the ship? 509 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,160 I mean, you're not with any particular friend? 510 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,760 No, no particular friend. 511 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,920 At the moment, I'm rather between particular friends. 512 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,280 Of course, you met him that night, didn't you? 513 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,840 Mr Calbury. Yes, I did. 514 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,280 I'm sorry. 515 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,080 That's all right. 516 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,720 No doubt the sea air... 517 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,280 Yes. The sea air has done marvels. 518 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,040 Sorry, am I going too fast for you? 519 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,640 My dear young lady, I could go as fast as you 520 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,760 if I cared to risk a broken ankle and be carried on a stretcher. 521 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,200 It's extremely foolish to leap around in a ruined circus 522 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,560 like a mountain goat. 523 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,000 Especially in those shoes. These stones are treacherous. 524 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,200 I'm sure you're very active for your age. 525 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,800 Since you cannot know what my age is, your flattering conviction, 526 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,960 Miss Bridges must be based on a conjectural premise. 527 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,120 SHE LAUGHS 528 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,080 You've done it again. 529 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,400 Now that's three times you've made me laugh. 530 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,760 And only this morning, I really did think I'd never laugh again. 531 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,520 I suppose it's your being a schoolmaster. 532 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,760 I fail to see what's so laughable about that. 533 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,120 Well, no, it's not laughable. 534 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,960 One doesn't laugh at people only because they're funny. 535 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,480 Not some people, anyway. 536 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,400 Come on. There's so much left to see before the sun goes down on us. 537 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,560 # A million planets Were swimming in the sky 538 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,280 # I only saw the sun 539 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,280 # A million faces drifted by 540 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,800 # Suddenly, there was one 541 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:10,760 # Filling my mind Like the day was filled with sun 542 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:20,160 # Telling my heart My life had just begun 543 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:27,600 # Although it is so many years away 544 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,240 # I remember that moment 545 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,960 # As though it were yesterday 546 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,600 # He smiled 547 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,000 # I smiled 548 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,840 # We smiled 549 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,800 # And the sky 550 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:59,760 # Smiled too 551 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:06,400 # We walked, he talked 552 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,000 # I talked 553 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,280 # And the sky was blue 554 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:24,840 # And before the walk was over 555 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:33,160 # I just knew 556 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,160 # He smiled 557 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,920 # I smiled 558 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,920 # We smiled 559 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,040 # And the sky 560 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:54,720 # Smiled too 561 00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:00,960 # It was love. # 562 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,920 What does that mean? 563 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,280 Gnothi seauton. 564 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,360 "Know yourself." The watchword of Apollo. 565 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,120 The god of prophecy. 566 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,680 Amongst other things. 567 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,120 Oh, I'm so sorry. Have I tired you out? 568 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,040 No, you have not tired me out. 569 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,680 I have a large piece of ancient Greece in my shoe, that's all. 570 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,480 Well, it's been really thrilling to be shown around Paestum 571 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,080 by the world's greatest authority on ancient Greece. 572 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,240 I am not the world's greatest authority on ancient Greece, 573 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,440 just one of them. 574 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,000 SHE LAUGHS 575 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,640 I'm going to ask Apollo a question. 576 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,680 You mustn't ask a personal question. 577 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,360 Well, not a specific one, like... 578 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,240 Like, "Will Bill Calbury come back to me?" 579 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:28,720 No, I wouldn't bore Apollo with that, I promise you. 580 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,600 No, just something general, like, "What's going to happen to my life?" 581 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,480 Ah. Even that is too specific. 582 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,880 Besides, I could answer that. 583 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,520 A series of, what is it, hits, a dazzling career? 584 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,960 No. What do you mean, no? 585 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,280 I mean, no. 586 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,400 Look, Mr Chips... 587 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,560 ..seems to me you've learned just about everything, 588 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,360 but you haven't learned the first thing about me. 589 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,080 Ever heard of a captain who hates the sea? That's me... I. 590 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,240 Only with I - me - it's the theatre. 591 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:04,400 You tell me the show must go on, and what do I answer? 592 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:05,920 Why? 593 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,000 Now, come on, Apollo, just speak to me. 594 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,920 I'm going to break all the rules and ask you something specific. 595 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,400 Well? 596 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,080 Did he speak? 597 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,720 Very clearly. 598 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:39,920 What did he say? 599 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,240 If I tell, it won't happen. 600 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,560 That is the new moon, not Apollo. 601 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,640 You won't get me to tell. 602 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,360 Know yourself. 603 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,640 That's quite a watchword. 604 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,160 Gnothi seauton. 605 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,120 You're most retentive. 606 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,280 Give me a good line and I can remember it. 607 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,280 # You smiled 608 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,400 # I smiled 609 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:22,040 # We smiled 610 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,280 # And the sky 611 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:30,680 # Smiled too 612 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:39,280 # It was love. # 613 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,040 They call me Ditchie, short for "ditchwater, dull as." 614 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,520 They think I'm a bore and they're probably right. 615 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,120 No, no. 616 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,840 Oh, yes. 617 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,600 But I wouldn't mind them thinking me a bore 618 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,440 if I could only get them to see how much I really do like them 619 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,920 and care for them. 620 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,360 I... 621 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,640 What's the matter? 622 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,480 I was blowing my nose. 623 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,720 There isn't any law against that, is there? 624 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,400 But I thought you were cry... Well, I was. 625 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,520 And there isn't any law against that either. 626 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,160 But in heaven's name, why? 627 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,960 Doesn't matter. Give me some more of that. 628 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,280 Look, this Epomeo really is most awfully strong, 629 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,600 and if it's going to make you start squirting tears 630 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,880 all over the table just because my pupils find me a dull teacher... 631 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,600 Oh, heavens, I really am most awfully sorry. 632 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,960 What for? 633 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,120 I've been talking so much about myself 634 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,840 I'd completely forgotten what your problems were, 635 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,760 and what good reasons you have to cry. 636 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,680 You must forgive me. 637 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,120 SHE CHUCKLES 638 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,320 Well done, Mr Chips. 639 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,320 Quite up to form. 640 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,040 I think you're the nicest man I've ever met in my life. 641 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,640 Now, faced with that challenge, what do you think of me? 642 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,840 Or do I really want to know? 643 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,440 Yes, I do. Go ahead. 644 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,480 Well, I think Mr Calbury is a very foolish man. 645 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,240 Thank you. Go on. 646 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,720 There are plenty of other men besides Mr Calbury. 647 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,360 You're very young, you're very attractive, 648 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,720 and you're bound to find someone else. 649 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:36,680 Someone who'll realise how lucky he is and won't ever let you go. 650 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:37,880 Go on. 651 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,040 Someone who'll give you that escape from the stage 652 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,040 that you imply you want. 653 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,480 Someone from quite a different background than your present one. 654 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,560 Someone who happens to love you very much at this moment. 655 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,120 And when he gets to know you better can, I'm sure, 656 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,840 only love you more and more and more. 657 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,360 Someone, in fact, like Johnnie Longbridge. 658 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,840 SHE LAUGHS 659 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,560 Oh, I've been wanting to do this all evening, and now I'm going to do it. 660 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,920 Nobody and nothing's going to stop me. 661 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:27,440 What? 662 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,760 This. 663 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,080 Really, Miss Bridges, I hate to say it, 664 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,320 but I think just a touch too much of the wine. 665 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,160 Not a touch too much, a lot too much, and I feel wonderful. 666 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,040 Oh, Mr Chips. 667 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,400 You really are... 668 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,760 ..well... 669 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,880 ..Mr Chips. 670 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,680 KIDS SHOUT EXCITEDLY 671 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,800 Oh, what a wonderful day it's been. 672 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,160 Yes. Yes, indeed. Quite wonderful. 673 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,680 Can't we make it a wonderful night too? 674 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,920 Ah. Well, as it happens Miss Bridges, 675 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,880 for tomorrow, I have a rather tight curriculum. 676 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,720 Well, loosen it. 677 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:15,320 Tonight, Mr Chips, you and I are going to make whoopee. 678 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,240 The term is new to me. What does it mean? 679 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,160 Almost anything, really. 680 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,200 I really must go. 681 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,720 It's been a very, very great pleasure. 682 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:29,560 It really has. 683 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,360 And may I wish you a very safe and a very happy journey home. 684 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,680 MEN CHATTER IN ITALIAN 685 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,720 Scusi. 686 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,600 SHE LAUGHS 687 00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:01,880 # Apollo, Apollo 688 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:06,600 # You're the god of song 689 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:11,280 # That's what Mr Chips has told me 690 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,360 # He is never wrong 691 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,960 # He also says you're the god of prophecy 692 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,360 # Cassandra's gift was a gift from you 693 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:28,520 # So any dream you may care to offer me 694 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:34,680 # Will, I know, come true 695 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,920 # Apollo 696 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:44,320 # Is it love? # 697 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,320 STEAM HISSES 698 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,520 Brookfield. 699 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,880 Brookfield Station. 700 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,080 TRAIN WHISTLE SOUNDS 701 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,280 # Seven weeks Of home sweet home are over 702 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,080 # They're over 703 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,840 # Seven weeks of Mother's cooking 704 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,360 # Mother's love 705 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,040 # And Mother's looking after 706 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,280 # And laughter 707 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,800 # And living in clover 708 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,840 # Are over 709 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,880 # ALL: Moreover, 14 weeks of Michaelmas term 710 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,200 # Stretch endlessly ahead 711 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,200 # 14 weeks of nameless horror Wait to be unfurled 712 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:55,160 # 14 weeks of Latin verbs I wish that I were dead 713 00:43:55,160 --> 00:44:01,040 # 14 weeks of school cap tipping Filthy food and Mr Chipping 714 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,280 # 14 weeks in the dungeon 715 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:09,760 # Of a schoolboy's world 716 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:18,440 # But one day 717 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,120 # One day 718 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,040 # When I am older 719 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,960 # I'll be the president of Peru 720 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,600 # I'll own an emerald mine or two 721 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,800 # I'll swim for England In the next Olympic games 722 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,680 # When I am older I'm going to be a playboy farmer 723 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,480 # I'm going to be a lady charmer 724 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,200 # I'm going to be a knight in armour 725 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:37,960 # Find a damsel and disarm her 726 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,960 # When I am older 727 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,520 # I'll be the multiest millionaire I'll be the fellow beyond compare 728 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,600 # I'll be the hero That the populace acclaims 729 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,520 # I'm going to carve the world in pieces 730 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,160 # I'm going to be as rich as Croesus 731 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,800 # Think of the mighty empire I shall rule 732 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,440 # When I am older When I am older 733 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:57,840 # Wiser and bolder 734 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,680 # On the day that I get out of school 735 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,560 # I'm going to be a fine musician 736 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,320 # I'm going to be a rich physician 737 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,080 # I'm going to be a politician 738 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:08,800 # I shall be an obstetrician 739 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,600 # I'll achieve my great ambition 740 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,520 # When I am older 741 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,400 # I'll be the fellow who makes the rules 742 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:15,960 # I will abolish public schools 743 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,440 # I'll be the chairman Of at least 100 boards 744 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,240 # When I am older 745 00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:23,680 # I'll run a fleet of ocean tankers 746 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,280 # I'll buy a street of merchant bankers 747 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:34,280 # I'll be the greatest man you've ever seen 748 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,040 # When I am older 749 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,000 # Wiser and bolder 750 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:47,000 # Just as soon as I am 17. # 751 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,200 HE SOBS QUIETLY 752 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,560 FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 753 00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:13,840 Are you for Brookfield? 754 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,320 If I knew where it was. 755 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,520 The other boys didn't tell you? 756 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:19,960 No. 757 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,240 Well, that happens. 758 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:25,960 I'm afraid pets aren't allowed. 759 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,400 Oh, no. If they take Delilah from me, I won't want to live. 760 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,120 Yes, you will. 761 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,520 She's very beautiful, Delilah. 762 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:36,720 Who's your housemaster? 763 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:37,880 Mr Fenwick. 764 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,120 Oh, good. He's not an animal hater. 765 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,000 In fact, he's already looking after quite a large menagerie 766 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,360 for his boys already. 767 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,760 White mice, canaries, a couple of rabbits and a snake. 768 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,360 He can certainly cope with Delilah. 769 00:46:58,240 --> 00:46:59,440 Are you a master? 770 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:00,600 Yes. 771 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,240 Sir, I shouldn't have sat... Yes, you should. 772 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,080 I was a new boy here myself once, a long time ago. 773 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,280 I had a myna bird, I remember, 774 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,360 which I taught to say, "Brookfield forever." 775 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,920 They took that away from me, and they were quite right. 776 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,880 Its sense of timing was peccable. 777 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,320 Peccable, sir? 778 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:21,640 Faulty. 779 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,960 I should have said faulty, it's a better word. 780 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,840 Well, I'll show you the way. It's not very far. 781 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,960 Would you take Delilah? 782 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,320 I can see why you love her, she's quite delightful. 783 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,360 And better let me take these. 784 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,040 Absolutely blind drunk, my dear fellow. 785 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,360 It was most embarrassing. 786 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,680 I mean, I'm known in Naples, and can you imagine? 787 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:44,840 I was almost raped. 788 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:48,000 Oh, man, you exaggerate so. No, I don't. 789 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,440 And I don't flatter myself about the incident either. 790 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,120 It was all rather a pity. 791 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,360 Until that moment, I'd found her 792 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,000 really, rather surprisingly...civilised. 793 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,040 Tiny little thing, very pretty hair. 794 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,960 Why pick on me? 795 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,000 An old stick in the mud. 796 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,920 It's a very accurate description of you. 797 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,480 Don't rub it in, Max. 798 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,400 But then, musical comedy actresses can't be quite normal, 799 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,680 with all that... 800 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,800 PHONE RINGS ..dressing up and skipping around. 801 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,400 But even so. 802 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,040 Hello. 803 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,400 Oh, why, hello. 804 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,080 Medea at the Old Vic? 805 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,560 No, I hadn't forgotten. 806 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,920 It's just that it would be impossible to get tickets 807 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,200 for this Friday. 808 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,240 You've got them. 809 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,320 223 Riverwalk, Chiswick. 810 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,120 Yes, yes, I've got that down. 811 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,840 Oh, yes. 812 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:09,280 Oh, I'm sure I would enjoy meeting them very much. 813 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,080 Looking forward to it enormously. 814 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,760 And how nice to hear from you out of the blue. 815 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,960 Goodbye. 816 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:39,320 I suppose a telegram at the last minute saying I'm ill. 817 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,560 But, um, you didn't write the address down. 818 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:44,920 What for? 819 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,200 To send a telegram to, uh... 820 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,240 Oh, I can't. I've forgotten it. 821 00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:54,640 223 Riverwalk, Chiswick. 822 00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:03,160 Two? Two. Two. 823 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:08,120 ..three Riverwalk, Chiswick. 824 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,320 JAUNTY PIANO PLAYS 825 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,720 CHATTER AND LAUGHTER 826 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,040 Oh, but, darling, what, I ask you, but what's going to happen to Chloe? 827 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,160 I mean, it's all too devastating for words to be left by Eloise 828 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,640 for, of all people, Freddie Franklin-Finch. 829 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,640 Freddie Franklin-Finch, who doesn't even come up to her navel. 830 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:37,840 Are you going in? Yes. 831 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,320 Oh, don't, it's hell. 832 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,320 LAUGHTER 833 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,360 What is poor Chloe going to do? 834 00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,680 You're in that wonderful play at the Criterion 835 00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,400 where you drink in the last act. 836 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,800 Actually... You do it beautifully. It made me believe every other word. 837 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,880 Where do you wear that orchid? Well, I... 838 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,680 Dear heart. Not at all. Oh, I'm sorry. 839 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,680 But Eloise and Freddie. 840 00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,440 I mean, you know me, darling, I don't care what people do 841 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,800 provided they do it in bed, darling, but really it's too much. 842 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,160 I mean he's so small, it's impractical... 843 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,760 I don't think I do know you. 844 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,640 You must be mad. What's your name? 845 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,240 Arthur Chipping. 846 00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:13,720 That's right. You take to drink. 847 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:16,200 I do not take to drink, madam. Excuse me. 848 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,840 Madam, I like. Madam, I adore. 849 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,720 Chipping! I know. 850 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,440 The guest of honour at some party 851 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,440 I've been asked to at Augustus John's or Tallulah's. 852 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,760 Mr Chips. I was so scared you wouldn't turn up. 853 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,760 My guest of honour, Arthur Chipping. 854 00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,160 How do you do? Oh, it was here, I knew it was somewhere. 855 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,760 Oh, but what a beautiful man, Katie. 856 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,400 What's your next play, darling? 857 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,360 I'm not an actor, madam, I'm a schoolmaster. 858 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,560 He could call me madam all night. 859 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,320 Well, come along, children, time to go. 860 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,560 Night is young, say bye-bye. 861 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,560 ALL SAY GOODBYE 862 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,720 Oh, Katie, darling, absolutely wonderful. Thank you. 863 00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:56,240 You could wear that orchid behind your ear, you know. 864 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,360 Oh, a beautiful man. Where Katie finds them, I don't know. 865 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,440 Change from that last one, that abysmal Bill Calbury, or the one... 866 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,040 Come on, Ursula. I told Penelope we'd be there ages ago. 867 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,040 Bobbie, my dear, don't rush me. 868 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,080 Can't you see I'm running all the way? 869 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:11,440 I'm so glad you came. 870 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,520 So am I. Very glad indeed. 871 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,400 Come in. 872 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,280 You won't know anybody, but they're all mad to meet you. 873 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,960 They are? Mm-hm. 874 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:27,200 Who was that lady I just had the pleasure of meeting? 875 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,400 Ursula? 876 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,520 She's just Ursula. Indeed? 877 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,400 Very famous actress, Ursula Mossbank, 878 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,080 but, well, she's just Ursula. 879 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:36,720 She seemed just Ursula. 880 00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:39,040 Oh, this is for you. 881 00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,720 How very sweet. 882 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:44,560 Dear Mr Chips. 883 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,400 Up to form. 884 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,840 Very up to form. 885 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,560 I didn't know who to ask, so I just got together a few of my friends. 886 00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,240 I'd be delighted to meet them. LIVELY CHATTER 887 00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:00,360 I adore Ramsay MacDonald. He's got such a beautiful face. 888 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,200 And if you took off his moustache 889 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,600 people would stand up in Hyde Park to see him go by. 890 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,240 I wouldn't. Never mind, darling. 891 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,720 Hello. Hello. 892 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,520 INDISTINCT 893 00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,640 Tilly, Arthur Chipping. Hello. How do you do? 894 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,120 Eloise, Arthur Chipping, my guest of honour. 895 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,680 How do you do? 896 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,120 NOISY CHATTER 897 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,320 Oh, hello, you remember me? Algie. You're, um...? 898 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,440 Chipping. Oh, yes, yes. Well, come and have green tea, eh? 899 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,800 Green tea. Come along, old chap. Now, what would you like? 900 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,640 Oh, my dear... 901 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:46,080 Amiably done, Kevin. And after the divine Captain Carville... Oh! 902 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:47,960 Look what you've done, you silly girl. 903 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,520 You've spilt my white lady all over your... 904 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,440 Allow me, dear. 905 00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,520 Well, you must... Oh, you're a friend of Maynard Keynes, 906 00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,800 and you write for that paper, monsieur? 907 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,040 Actually, no, I... No, I swore it. 908 00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,320 Mind you, didn't think I'd be back so soon. Yippee! 909 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:08,880 Johnnie, how sweet of you to come. 910 00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,040 Absolute hell, all the gate-crashers in the world. 911 00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,600 My dear, isn't it a shame I'd never heard of you? 912 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,760 INDISTINCT 913 00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,720 Go rescue your friend. He's stuck with Tilly. 914 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:24,280 What friend? There. 915 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,000 I'm so sorry. 916 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,320 It's not Chips?! Yes, poor darling. 917 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:30,920 What? 918 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,040 One moment. 919 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:33,880 Bye-bye, darling. Thank you so much. 920 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,280 I mean, that with all men... 921 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,920 Chips! Johnnie... 922 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,320 Let's go over there, Longbridge. 923 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,280 Let's sit down somewhere. Move along. 924 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,160 Move along. 925 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,320 Oh, frankly, I never have. I'll you have to take your... 926 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,160 Oh, bless you. 927 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,120 But why are you guest of honour? 928 00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,160 A long story, Johnnie, but look, in Naples, I did my best for you, 929 00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:01,680 because she's nice, and I'm doing my best for you... 930 00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,120 Oh, gosh. 931 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,400 You're raving, aren't you? Well, of course. 932 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,360 An hour of this, and who wouldn't? But there's Medea after this. 933 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,520 You love this minuscule creature, and I don't altogether blame you, 934 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,320 so I'm doing my very best for you. 935 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,680 Chips, I do apologise for this nightmare of a party. 936 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,880 Oh, it's not a nightmare at all. It's splendid. 937 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,000 Hello, Katie, darling. 938 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,560 Haven't you got the wrong address? 939 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,720 That's a good one. I helped furnish this house, remember? 940 00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:26,280 Yes, I do... 941 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,920 ..but I have a private party in it to which you were not invited. 942 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:31,080 So would you please go? 943 00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,400 Now, Katie, old girl, really. Bygones and things. 944 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,640 Wouldn't be so unkind to an old friend as to throw him out? 945 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,200 Did you not hear Miss Bridges ask you to go? 946 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,360 Who are you? It doesn't matter who I am. 947 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,080 All that matters is that Miss Bridges 948 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,280 wishes you to leave her house and you are therefore leaving it. 949 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,000 I've met you somewhere before. I remember that voice. 950 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,080 Now, here are your hat and stick, and that is the front door. 951 00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,520 Do tell this idiotic man... Straight ahead, please. 952 00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,600 That voice. There's something about it. 953 00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,160 I don't know who you are, but I can guess what you are. 954 00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,120 You're a school teacher. Correct. 955 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,480 I'll bet you give your boys hell. Only the bad ones. 956 00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,880 Now I know. 957 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,920 Not that I needed to, but now I know for sure. 958 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:27,480 What? 959 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,200 Well, if that's how you do your best for me, 960 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,200 I'd be interested to see how you do your worst. 961 00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:44,200 My dear old fellow, you really mustn't leap to insane conclusions. 962 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:48,120 It wasn't a very long leap, was it? Anyway, it's not insane. 963 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:53,320 If she won't have me, and she won't, you're much the next best thing. 964 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,280 It's very sane, I think, for both of you. 965 00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,920 Go away, Johnnie. You're putting a large foot in it. 966 00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,800 Let me handle things. 967 00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,880 And, Johnnie, darling, take care of the party for me. 968 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,280 # Walk through the world with me 969 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:23,600 # And you will see how happy life can be 970 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,920 # How fresh and new 971 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,280 # When you're with me... # 972 00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,160 This is a fascinating stretch of London. The Georgian archite... 973 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,080 Don't talk. Do you mind? 974 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,880 I only observed... I know. 975 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,720 But don't. 976 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:47,440 # Let's fly away and find another day 977 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,240 # To call our own 978 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:57,960 # Where we can be in love alone 979 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:04,360 # Where we can live the life we dream of living 980 00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:09,600 # Live the dream of giving all we have 981 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,880 # To give 982 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,440 # Welcoming the day... # 983 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,560 There's one question I have to ask. 984 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,320 If you must. 985 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,160 When you said just now, "Now I know for sure," 986 00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:30,160 what exactly was it that you knew for sure? 987 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:31,840 That I loved you, of course. 988 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,320 I can't think how you'd do, considering you can choose... 989 00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,120 When you love, you don't choose, do you? 990 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,840 Look, let's be frank. 991 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,760 I'm not part of your world. 992 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:52,040 I'm afraid it's not a world that I would wish to be part of. 993 00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,720 Not even for you. 994 00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,760 I like "even for you". 995 00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,360 We may find each other attractive for different reasons, 996 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,080 though how you could ever find me... 997 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,560 You've been into all that. Don't go on all night. 998 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,880 It's wrong to start something one can't finish. 999 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,000 Can't you? 1000 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,240 Damn it, of course I can! 1001 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,840 And I long to, what's more. 1002 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:22,280 But we have nothing in common. Nothing in the world. 1003 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:23,840 And I refuse utterly to become 1004 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,080 the secret lover of a well-known actress. 1005 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,760 Who said lover? Well, friend, I would like to be. 1006 00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:34,360 Who said friend? What is there between lover and friend? 1007 00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:35,960 Husband? 1008 00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:42,240 Don't make stupid jokes, please. This is serious. 1009 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,080 Even if you still meant that tomorrow 1010 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,400 when the drink has worn off, do you imagine that I would give up 1011 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,440 my profession, my true vocation, 1012 00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:54,120 as you know it is, to come to London to live in your house 1013 00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,640 off your money amongst all those awful Ursulas 1014 00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:00,040 and bright young things? No. 1015 01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,560 Dear Miss Bridges, I'm sorry to turn down a suggestion, 1016 01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:06,960 which most men would give up everything for... 1017 01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,040 ..but I'm a schoolmaster... 1018 01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,160 ..and a schoolmaster is all I ever want to be. 1019 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,560 Well, now, isn't that convenient? 1020 01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,440 Because all I ever want to be 1021 01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,280 is a schoolmaster's wife. 1022 01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:28,280 There's a certain tendency to tastelessness in your jokes. 1023 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,080 Humour ceases to be humour. 1024 01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:35,160 # I will be warm... 1025 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,200 Hello, Mr Chips. 1026 01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,160 # And yours to hold 1027 01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:45,480 # And we will stroll along the sand together 1028 01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:52,240 # Hand in hand together for eternity 1029 01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:58,840 # Aren't you glad to be 1030 01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:05,160 # Walking through the world 1031 01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:11,920 # With me? # 1032 01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,480 Married? Married? I don't believe it, you're lying. 1033 01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,720 I'm not. Really, I'm not. It was in the Times. 1034 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:24,960 Well, did it say who to? Oh, yes, a Miss Katherine Brisket. 1035 01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,760 Brisket? Mm. But you're making it up. 1036 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,320 I'm not. Honestly, I'm not. 1037 01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,320 And can you imagine what she must be like? 1038 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:32,880 Anyone who'd marry Ditchie? 1039 01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,480 It's very good of you to honour us with your presence 1040 01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,520 at our weekly assembly. 1041 01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,160 Are they all in, dear? 1042 01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:41,880 Mr Chipping and Herr Staefel aren't. 1043 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,000 Ah, yes, Chipping is waiting for his wife, I believe. 1044 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:46,760 Chipping's what? His wife. 1045 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,960 Surprising, isn't it? Flabbergasting. 1046 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,640 Who on earth? Who, indeed? Ha! 1047 01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,200 That's the question we've all been asking ever since we heard the news. 1048 01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,680 She's had a little difficulty choosing the right dress. 1049 01:01:58,680 --> 01:01:59,800 We're very late. 1050 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,240 Well, I can't help it, Max. Don't look so solemn. 1051 01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,040 No-one's ever late for assembly. I'm fully aware of that. 1052 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,240 It's someone he met on one of his excursions, 1053 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,400 to the ancient ruins of Pompeii. 1054 01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,200 Something of an ancient ruin herself, no doubt. 1055 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,320 No, not necessarily, dear. 1056 01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,560 Oh, God, he looked at his watch. 1057 01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:18,840 In 20 years at Brookfield, 1058 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,360 I've never once been late for weekly assembly, Max. 1059 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,040 If this is going to be the future pattern of my life... 1060 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,560 Oh, dear fellow, I do hope you've been wise. 1061 01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,040 Of course I've been wise, you old idiot. 1062 01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,480 A pretty face is not everything, you know, dearest old fellow. 1063 01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,600 There are so many questions of temperament and suitability. 1064 01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:36,760 Suitability? 1065 01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,360 That's a horrible word. It isn't even in the dictionary. 1066 01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,600 It's in Webster. Oh, Webster. 1067 01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,720 Are you implying she isn't suitable for me? 1068 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:48,160 No. I'm simply wondering if she's suitable as your wife. 1069 01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:50,320 Here she is. 1070 01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,000 Oh, I'm so sorry, darling. 1071 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,240 Is this all right? Yes. We must hurry, the headmaster's waiting. 1072 01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:57,480 This is Max Staefel, my closest friend. 1073 01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,120 Oh, Chips has told me so much about you 1074 01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,840 but, well, I expected someone far older and much less handsome. 1075 01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:06,520 We must go. 1076 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:10,440 An ancient ruin, did you say, my dear? 1077 01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:11,840 This isn't a joke, is it? 1078 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,960 Chipping's plainly lost all sense of proportion. 1079 01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:17,280 Some people might think he'd found it. 1080 01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:18,960 This girl is Chipping's wife? 1081 01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,320 We must assume so. 1082 01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,960 Why, do you know her? 1083 01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,320 Oh, do forgive us. 1084 01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,720 My wife had a little difficulty choosing her dress. 1085 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,200 Well, it's not my fault, it's Chips. 1086 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,440 I put on six dresses before he approved. 1087 01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,880 And he approved of that one, hmm? 1088 01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,360 I'm so terribly sorry about being late. 1089 01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,040 Chips tells me it's as bad as being off your big number. 1090 01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,080 I don't quite understand that allusion, Mrs Chipping. 1091 01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,240 Oh, Mrs Chipping. 1092 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,440 Oh, I just love it when I'm called that. 1093 01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,920 But, um, you are that, yes? 1094 01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:51,600 Oh, yes, well and truly. 1095 01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:54,920 Well, unless Chips is a bigamist, which I rather suspect. 1096 01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,720 How else would he have escaped until now? 1097 01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,120 No, the allusion, Headmaster, was to the stage 1098 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,000 which used to be my profession. 1099 01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,960 Indeed? You're an actress, Mrs Chipping? 1100 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,720 Well, not even my best friends would call me that. 1101 01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,320 Ah. And what would they call you? 1102 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,040 A soubrette. 1103 01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,360 That's the girl in musical comedies who usually sings the big number 1104 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,280 and then loses the man. 1105 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,280 SHE LAUGHS 1106 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:21,560 In real life, they nearly always wind up as wives of earls. 1107 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,120 I nearly did, but luckily, I met Chips. 1108 01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,800 Regarding the derivation of the word soubrette, 1109 01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,720 there was an interesting discussion in the Times recently... 1110 01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,800 Quite so, quite so. I really think we ought to go in. 1111 01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,160 Um, you don't know Lord Sutterwick, I believe. 1112 01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:39,720 Oh, but I do, I think. 1113 01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:41,240 I don't think so. But surely... 1114 01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:44,160 We must go in, dear, the headmaster always goes in last 1115 01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,720 and the boys receive him standing and in silence. 1116 01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:48,840 Sounds like a dream entrance. 1117 01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,480 The headmaster's a darling. His wife's a bitch. 1118 01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,400 That's not a word we use at Brookfield. 1119 01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:00,920 You should, I think. 1120 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:04,600 Oh, I'm so nervous you may have to carry me. 1121 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,720 INDISTINCT CHATTER 1122 01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,400 SILENCE 1123 01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:15,560 Do you see what I see? 1124 01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,960 I simply refuse to believe what I see. 1125 01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,200 Oh, good, I thought for a moment these new glasses had let me down. 1126 01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:22,880 BOY CHEERS 1127 01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:22,880 Shh! 1128 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,200 SCATTERED APPLAUSE 1129 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,160 SCATTERED CHEERS 1130 01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,720 Goodness, what a commotion. 1131 01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:33,400 How the boys seem to appreciate a pretty face. 1132 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,280 SHE SCOFFS 1133 01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,400 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE BUILDS 1134 01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,880 Did you intend to say anything about the gift of the new playing fields? 1135 01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,480 It seemed a good occasion. I must ask you not to. 1136 01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,240 Why ever not? Because there may not be one. 1137 01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,840 I'll explain later. Shall we? 1138 01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:58,000 CHEERING CONTINUES 1139 01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,960 CHEERING DIES DOWN 1140 01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,840 All right, so the curtsy made you look ridiculous. 1141 01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,040 I didn't say that. Yes, you did. 1142 01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,960 What the hell have you got against this bloody hat, anyway? 1143 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,240 Look around, see what the others are wearing. 1144 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,080 Stand up and keep quiet. 1145 01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:31,760 Look at that old bag. 1146 01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:34,520 She's put the baby's pot on. Shh! 1147 01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:37,880 Not the baby's pot either. Her own. 1148 01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:44,360 HEADMASTER: As always, we will start with the school song. 1149 01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:50,320 # ALL: In the morning of my life I shall look to the sunrise 1150 01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:56,480 # At a moment in my life When the world is new 1151 01:06:56,480 --> 01:07:02,320 # And the blessing I shall ask Is that God will grant me 1152 01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:08,680 # To be brave and strong and true 1153 01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:14,840 # And to fill the world with love My whole life through 1154 01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,000 # And to fill the world with love 1155 01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,880 # And to fill the world with love 1156 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,880 # And to fill the world with love KATHERINE SINGS SHOWILY 1157 01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:28,520 # My whole life through 1158 01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:28,520 OTHERS FALL SILENT 1159 01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,240 # In the noontime of my life I shall look to the sunshine 1160 01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:32,800 HEADMASTER'S WIFE JOINS IN 1161 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:34,480 Shh! 1162 01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:40,600 # BOTH: At a moment in my life When the sky is blue 1163 01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:46,440 # ALL: And the blessing I shall ask Will remain unchanging 1164 01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:52,680 # To be brave and strong and true 1165 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:58,360 # And to fill the world with love My whole life through 1166 01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,080 # Did I fill the world with love? 1167 01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,960 # Did I fill the world with love 1168 01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,640 # Did I fill the world with love 1169 01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:13,400 # My whole life through? # 1170 01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:24,520 I'll take you around. Not now. 1171 01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,360 I have time before my class. 1172 01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,120 No, please, darling, not now. 1173 01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,640 You go and tell them about the interesting derivation 1174 01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:32,600 of the word "soubrette." 1175 01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,280 I'm just not feeling up to it. 1176 01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,200 Forgive me, darling. please forgive me. 1177 01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:39,720 Of course. 1178 01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:44,200 Just give me a few days to learn and I won't disgrace you, I promise. 1179 01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,160 I'll never do that. Never, never, never. 1180 01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,240 Of course you won't. 1181 01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:57,800 Congratulations, Chipping. 1182 01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,920 Thank you, Fenwick. How's Delilah? 1183 01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:02,440 Dreadful, I wish I could report a snake had eaten her. 1184 01:09:02,440 --> 01:09:05,000 She's the most repulsive animal in my menagerie. 1185 01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,760 I hesitate to put it more bluntly in front of your wife. 1186 01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:10,480 What you mean, Lord Sutterwick, is the girl's a tart. 1187 01:09:10,480 --> 01:09:12,080 I didn't say that. 1188 01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:15,160 I merely said that I happen to know she's had numerous love affairs 1189 01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:16,760 with several well-known young men, 1190 01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,200 and her moral reputation in London stinks. Dear me. 1191 01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:21,920 Then why has she married Chipping? 1192 01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:24,320 As I heard the story, Calbury's the one she's determined 1193 01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:25,840 to get to the altar. 1194 01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,120 This marriage with a ridiculous figure like Chipping 1195 01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,120 is her last attempt to bring Bill Calbury to heel. 1196 01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:32,960 That's quite beside the point, of course. 1197 01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,800 My own point is quite simple. 1198 01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:38,720 As Mrs Chipping this person will be, until she sees fit 1199 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,480 to leave her husband, in charge of my son's welfare. 1200 01:09:41,480 --> 01:09:43,360 And that, Headmaster, I won't have. 1201 01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,640 That I won't buy at any price. 1202 01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:49,920 Chipping either loses his house or you don't get those playing fields. 1203 01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:51,680 And that's quite that. 1204 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,320 Then that is your ultimatum, Lord Sutterwick? 1205 01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,960 Ultimatum is hardly a word I would have chosen myself. 1206 01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,760 Indeed, then what word would you have chosen yourself? 1207 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:01,840 Excuse me. 1208 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:07,800 Chipping? 1209 01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:24,640 Katherine! 1210 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:39,760 Katherine! 1211 01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,120 Caesar, heel. Heel! 1212 01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:50,880 Katherine! Katherine! 1213 01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:54,680 Oh! 1214 01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:05,000 My dear fellow! 1215 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:07,760 My dear old fellow! 1216 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:15,800 Katherine! 1217 01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:20,880 My dear old fellow, I must ask. 1218 01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,800 That's a bloody silly word - suitability. 1219 01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,640 I didn't invent it. How do I know? 1220 01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:26,680 It's in Webster. 1221 01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,080 Well, I'm not going to let it happen, Max! 1222 01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,120 Apollo has willed it! 1223 01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:14,320 # Today is mine What shall I do with it? 1224 01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:19,040 # Throw it away That's what I do with it 1225 01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:24,000 # Nine times out of ten 1226 01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,800 # The sun will shine 1227 01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,280 # Am I a friend of it? 1228 01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:35,920 # You wouldn't say I was a friend of it 1229 01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:41,040 # Nine times out of ten 1230 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:45,480 # The day is fine 1231 01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:47,800 # What will I see in it? 1232 01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:52,520 # Not very much That's what I see in it 1233 01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:58,360 # Nine times out of ten 1234 01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,320 # What shall I do 1235 01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:13,240 # With today? # 1236 01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,800 Captain Calbury, could you tell me where I could find Katherine? 1237 01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,240 Troops! Perhaps you don't remember me, but we once had the pleasure 1238 01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,320 of meeting at a party of hers. 1239 01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,760 Please, tell me. Please, where is she now? Troops, forward march! 1240 01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:46,800 Try Ursula. 1241 01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:49,440 DOORBELL RINGING 1242 01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:49,440 I'll get it, my pet! 1243 01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:51,800 Who is making that dreadful noise? 1244 01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,480 Darling, how divine of you to come! Mwah! 1245 01:13:56,480 --> 01:13:58,120 The party would have been hell without you. 1246 01:13:58,120 --> 01:13:59,680 Not that it isn't hell, anyway, even with you, 1247 01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:00,880 but you mustn't mind, my darling. 1248 01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:02,880 Are you still taking to drink in that third act? 1249 01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:04,880 No, in the second act now. 1250 01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:06,480 Yes, that would be much better. 1251 01:14:06,480 --> 01:14:08,480 Glass of bubbly for you, I think. 1252 01:14:08,480 --> 01:14:11,160 Come along, darling. Ursula! 1253 01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,920 No, no, darling, urgent business to attend to. 1254 01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,200 We're playing the acting game, which I know you absolutely 1255 01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,680 adore, darling. And I'm doing "the part is greater than the whole" 1256 01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,080 in that room in there. 1257 01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,120 And I think I've found a way of doing it 1258 01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,080 so they can guess it quite quickly. 1259 01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:26,880 Is my wife here? Wife? 1260 01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,120 Which wife, darling? She was called Katherine Bridges. 1261 01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,120 Katie? Of course she's here. 1262 01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:32,560 Did you say wife, darling? Yes. 1263 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,720 But that would make you her husband, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. 1264 01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:37,160 Then she's not here, darling, she's nowhere near the place. 1265 01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:40,560 That's what I was told to say if you came in. 1266 01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:43,000 She's in the kitchen, darling, making scrambled eggs. 1267 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,440 There's the kitchen. Ursula, you're on! 1268 01:14:45,440 --> 01:14:49,280 What was my phrase? "The part is greater than the whole." 1269 01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,000 Oh, yes. 1270 01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:52,840 I can do that. Come along! 1271 01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,520 Too early. Whoever you are, you'll have to wait your turn. 1272 01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:13,680 I don't intend to. 1273 01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,920 You would catch me scrambling eggs. 1274 01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:29,520 It's no way to play this scene. 1275 01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:32,880 I do not understand what you mean by that. 1276 01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,520 I've only come to tell you that I love you, 1277 01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:37,920 that I cannot live without you. 1278 01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:41,720 Your grammar is too perfect, and your prose style too impeccable. 1279 01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,240 You can't qualify superlatives. 1280 01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,160 Can't you? Well, you can, if you want to. 1281 01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:49,440 You can do anything if you want to. 1282 01:15:49,440 --> 01:15:52,360 You'll still remain, for me, the only person in the world 1283 01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,360 that I've ever loved, or ever will love. 1284 01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:58,000 Why did you run away? 1285 01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,360 I said it all outside that assembly hall. 1286 01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:04,680 I told you then I wouldn't ever disgrace you. 1287 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:05,720 Ever, ever, ever. 1288 01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,520 That might just, but only just, explain why some girls 1289 01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:13,000 in your position might have deserted their duty 1290 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:16,000 through sheer, paralysing, bloody funk. 1291 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,800 It didn't explain why you did. 1292 01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,000 Well, I did desert it. 1293 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,480 Isn't that proof enough? No. 1294 01:16:21,480 --> 01:16:24,320 I think those eggs are burning. Then let them. 1295 01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:25,360 Mr Chips. 1296 01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:27,760 I love you very much. 1297 01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,320 You know that, don't you? Yes. 1298 01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:33,600 And you think I ran away from you 1299 01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,240 because of sheer, paralysing, bloody funk? Yes. 1300 01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:38,800 You don't think it mightn't have been just because I do love you? 1301 01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:40,200 Yes, but it was still funk. 1302 01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,080 Chips, you don't know... Oh, yes, I do know. 1303 01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:46,360 I know all about Sutterwick 1304 01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,240 and his threats to tell the governors about your past. 1305 01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,240 And I know all about your unsuitability - horrible word. 1306 01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,960 Both our unsuitabilities. The plural is even worse. 1307 01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,640 But how you could ever imagine that a word like suitability... 1308 01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,880 Which is only in Webster, mind you, not in the Oxford, or is it? 1309 01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:05,080 ..could ever prevail over a word like love, 1310 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,640 which is in all the dictionaries... 1311 01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,200 There's no earthly reason to cry, you know. 1312 01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:10,440 Of course there isn't. 1313 01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,560 You must have been all over the place looking for me. 1314 01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:18,200 Here and there. 1315 01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,280 I demanded and took a fortnight's leave. 1316 01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:26,120 You, who never cut a class in your whole life... 1317 01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:28,960 ..took off a fortnight? 1318 01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:31,440 I'd have taken a lifetime. 1319 01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:42,400 Oh, Chips. 1320 01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:46,040 You'll lose everything you hold dear. 1321 01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,440 Everything I hold dear, I'm holding now. 1322 01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,440 Anyway, I mean to fight and beat Sutterwick. 1323 01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:59,200 Don't tell me that dreadful man is here or I'll have to get the police. 1324 01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:00,800 How are the eggs? Scrambled. 1325 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,320 So I see. The part is greater than the whole. 1326 01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:05,560 With me acting, wouldn't you think they'd guess? 1327 01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:08,480 All they kept saying was The Brothers Karamazov. 1328 01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:10,680 I'll get Freddie Franklin-Finch to fix these. 1329 01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,000 He adores doing eggs for some reason. 1330 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:14,560 He's very Freudian, our Freddie. 1331 01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,120 Ursula, you know Lord Sutterwick? 1332 01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,200 That's right, darling, the police. 1333 01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,960 There's a rather divine sergeant at Vine Street. 1334 01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:23,240 I'll get him. 1335 01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,520 How that Sutterwick has the gall to come here 1336 01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,920 when I'd thrown him out bag and baggage last July. 1337 01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:30,560 Well, I kept a little of the baggage, 1338 01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,200 just a few ratty pieces of sable and the odd chandelier. 1339 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:35,760 Oh, but so mean, with all those millions. 1340 01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,960 Darling, connect me with Vine Street Police Station. 1341 01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:40,200 Sergeant Higgins. 1342 01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:43,440 Ursula, Lord Sutterwick is not here. I only asked you if you knew him. 1343 01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:44,680 Forget it, darling. 1344 01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,120 Know Soapy Sutterwick? 1345 01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,840 I did, darling, like the back of my hand, only rather better 1346 01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:51,160 because I never have got to know the back of my hand. 1347 01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:53,640 Why are you looking at me like that? 1348 01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:57,160 Was I? Oh, it must have been a little thought I had. 1349 01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,080 Ursula, we must go. We? You're not taking him? 1350 01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,840 Of course, you two are married or something, aren't you? 1351 01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,760 Married, madam, and quite definitely not something. 1352 01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:07,880 I adore this man. 1353 01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:10,760 When you've finished with him, Katie, lend him to me. 1354 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,000 Bye-bye, my darlings. 1355 01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:15,960 See you tomorrow or next year, or in heaven or somewhere. 1356 01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:18,960 In heaven certainly. 1357 01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:33,080 # What a lot of flowers! 1358 01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:37,520 # What a lot of sunshine! 1359 01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:43,240 # What a lot of beauty in the world today 1360 01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,680 # What a world of colour 1361 01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,040 # Just beyond my window 1362 01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,920 # Flowers every colour 1363 01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,320 # Of the rainbow 1364 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:05,640 # Red roses, orange marigolds 1365 01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,920 # Yellow buttercups, green leaves 1366 01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:13,480 # Blue cornflowers, indigo lilacs 1367 01:20:13,480 --> 01:20:17,840 # And violets, violets 1368 01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:27,120 # My happy eye perceives 1369 01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:48,480 # And among the people 1370 01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:53,080 # There are two who'll never be apart 1371 01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:56,280 # What a lot of happiness of heart 1372 01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,840 # Is ours! 1373 01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:05,320 # What a lot of flowers 1374 01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:19,240 # What a lot of lovely 1375 01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,880 # Pretty flowers. # 1376 01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:28,960 Your Caesar. 1377 01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,160 Sutterwick, would you begin? 1378 01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:36,160 BELLS TOLL 1379 01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,640 Nervous? 1380 01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:47,920 Not a bit. 1381 01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:49,760 Nor I. 1382 01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:52,880 I usually am on Parents' Day. 1383 01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:54,720 Good morning. 1384 01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,160 Oh, Mr Dickinson-Brown. Dickinson-Brown. 1385 01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:59,680 I hear you build the most marvellous model aeroplanes. 1386 01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,200 You must let me see them sometime. I simply love them. 1387 01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:04,480 I'd be frightfully pleased to, Mrs Chipping. 1388 01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:07,000 Any time. Well, how about after prep tomorrow? 1389 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:08,040 Thank you! 1390 01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:11,080 You shouldn't call them Mr! 1391 01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,800 Oh, the older boys love it. It makes them feel grown-up. 1392 01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:18,160 Hello, Freddie. Better news from home? 1393 01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:20,080 Yes, she's much better, thank you, Mrs Chipping. 1394 01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:21,440 Good. Sir. 1395 01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:23,400 And you shouldn't have called him Freddie. 1396 01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:26,920 Well, nothing on earth is going to get me to call him Robinson Minimus. 1397 01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:30,480 What an idiotic thing to call a little boy. 1398 01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:36,440 # Oh, worship the king 1399 01:22:36,440 --> 01:22:40,400 # All glorious above 1400 01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:44,120 # Oh, gratefully sing 1401 01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:48,120 # His power and his love 1402 01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,800 # Our shield and defender 1403 01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:55,800 # The Ancient of Days 1404 01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:59,560 # Pavilioned in splendour 1405 01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,880 # And girded with praise. # 1406 01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:12,640 Yes! 1407 01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:18,840 APPLAUSE 1408 01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,200 Lord Sutterwick, this must be a nervous moment for you, 1409 01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:25,680 but I shouldn't worry too much. 1410 01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:28,240 Your boy is a sound little player off his back foot. 1411 01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:29,600 I was rather disappointed. 1412 01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:32,280 My son tells me that his orders are... Lord Sutterwick. 1413 01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,480 Could I have a word with you? Excuse me. 1414 01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:35,720 Do you mind, Baxter? 1415 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,680 Mr Chipping. You will not win this battle. 1416 01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,560 I've no idea to what you refer. Don't play it that way. 1417 01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:45,680 Excuse me, Lord Sutterwick, that is an expression 1418 01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:47,440 I've lately picked up from my wife. 1419 01:23:47,440 --> 01:23:50,520 It means you are playing theatre instead of speaking the truth. 1420 01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:52,520 You are a businessman, and businessmen 1421 01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,360 are usually described as blunt. 1422 01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,680 If you won't be blunt, then I shall be. 1423 01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,560 You disapprove of me and you disapprove of my wife. 1424 01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,480 You are therefore blackmailing the headmaster 1425 01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:02,800 into depriving me of my house. 1426 01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:04,040 Blackmailing is not a word I am 1427 01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:06,520 accustomed to hear about my activities. I am surprised. 1428 01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:08,840 It is a word that is in all the dictionaries 1429 01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:11,920 and describes an activity that is also known in the criminal code 1430 01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:13,760 as getting money with menaces. 1431 01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,240 What money am I getting, dear Mr Chipping, 1432 01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:17,600 and what are my menaces? 1433 01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:21,080 Your menaces are to reveal my wife's rather troubled past. 1434 01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:23,080 Troubled is good. 1435 01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:26,840 Troubled, indeed, is good. It is a good word. 1436 01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:30,520 I could have chosen other words, but I will stick to troubled. 1437 01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,840 To reveal my wife's troubled past to the governors of this school. 1438 01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,200 And the money you will get is the money you will withhold 1439 01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:38,280 from this school unless I am sacked from my house, 1440 01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:39,840 is that sufficiently blunt? 1441 01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,120 I see no reason why I should stand here and be insulted. 1442 01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,800 Except that you are standing here and are being insulted. 1443 01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:46,040 Correct me if I'm wrong. 1444 01:24:47,480 --> 01:24:49,280 Why do you fight? 1445 01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,160 It puzzles me. 1446 01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,160 You can't possibly win. 1447 01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:54,880 In fact, you have already lost. 1448 01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,960 No, sir. I've demanded a meeting of the governors 1449 01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,240 and I intend to put my case to them with all the relevant facts 1450 01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,920 on both sides. I wouldn't wish to say anything against your character 1451 01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,600 behind your back, so I trust you will attend the meeting. 1452 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:06,640 Very happily. 1453 01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:23,360 HORN BLARES 1454 01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:27,800 Darling, all. It's absolutely divine to be here. 1455 01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:31,400 Katie, Katie, darling. 1456 01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,320 Oh, my God, it couldn't be. 1457 01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:35,280 Oh, I'm so grateful to you for coming. 1458 01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:38,360 Oh, darling, it's divine of you to ask me. 1459 01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:41,760 Parents' Day, my dear, what could be more riveting? 1460 01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:44,440 Yes. And there are the boys. 1461 01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:46,040 I hope there are lots more. 1462 01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:49,640 Where's, uh, Soapy? 1463 01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,240 He's talking to Chips, I think. 1464 01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:58,600 Well, I never thought I'd hate myself in the morning. 1465 01:25:58,600 --> 01:25:59,880 All I could find, darling. 1466 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:03,160 At least three years old, must make me look like Queen Victoria. 1467 01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:05,640 Take me up, darling. 1468 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,120 Aren't we lucky with the day? 1469 01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,240 So far. 1470 01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:11,920 Oh, headmaster. 1471 01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,240 I thought you might like to meet a close friend of mine, 1472 01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,640 a very famous actress, Miss Ursula Mossbank. 1473 01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:19,680 Darling headmaster, how simply divine to meet you. 1474 01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:24,400 How do you do? Would you excuse me, please? Oh, yes, certainly, darling. 1475 01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:29,120 How gorgeous you look in that divine white silk stole. 1476 01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:30,960 It's far chicer than mine, darling. 1477 01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,120 Can you get rid of her? 1478 01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:37,560 I don't quite understand. 1479 01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:41,640 Heavens, she's wearing that stole. 1480 01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,800 Look, you're a woman of the world, 1481 01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:48,920 and once, a long time ago, mind you, I was.... 1482 01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:53,080 Well, you know the situation, I'm sure. 1483 01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:55,520 Please. 1484 01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,320 Please, because if my wife sees her with me, I'm lost. 1485 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,240 Ursula has no tact at all. 1486 01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,280 Well, I'll do my best for you, Lord Sutterwick. 1487 01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:09,320 Only for you. 1488 01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,520 Oh, but I adore English public schools. 1489 01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:17,640 I simply worship them all, even that idiotic Westchester. 1490 01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:19,280 You can't ask a boy out to tea 1491 01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:23,000 without everyone asking the most extraordinary questions. 1492 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,520 Ursula, darling, you must see the bell tower. 1493 01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:26,800 And here's your guide. 1494 01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,640 A bell tower? 1495 01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:32,320 Oh, yes, of course, the bell tower. 1496 01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:35,720 Oh, headmaster, darling. 1497 01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:37,760 It's been wonderful. 1498 01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:40,320 You must come to one of my little parties sometime. 1499 01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,840 Very informal. Just come as you are, whatever that is. 1500 01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:44,560 Yes, I should be delighted. 1501 01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:47,440 And bring your dear wife, if she is your dear wife. 1502 01:27:47,440 --> 01:27:50,480 Bring her anyway, darling. Goodbye. 1503 01:27:50,480 --> 01:27:51,640 Goodbye, all. 1504 01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:56,080 I hope you like early English perpendicular. 1505 01:27:56,080 --> 01:28:00,040 Darling, I revel in early English perpendicular. 1506 01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:10,520 You know, it's the most extraordinary thing. 1507 01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:16,200 All I did today was simply stand up to that dreadful bounder Sutterwick, 1508 01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:19,000 and now he's completely caved in. Completely. 1509 01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,320 Has he, dear? But completely. 1510 01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,400 He's called off the governors' meeting. 1511 01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:28,840 Has he? Mm. 1512 01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:35,800 Rather a triumph for me, on the whole. 1513 01:28:38,480 --> 01:28:39,520 Yes. 1514 01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:43,880 There's a lesson in it all somewhere, I suppose. 1515 01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:44,920 Yes. 1516 01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:47,880 If only I knew what it was. 1517 01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:55,280 Oh, God. 1518 01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:58,840 You're so beautiful. 1519 01:29:02,480 --> 01:29:03,720 So are you. 1520 01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:05,280 Don't be absurd. 1521 01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:06,320 I'm not being absurd. 1522 01:29:07,440 --> 01:29:08,560 I'm being accurate. 1523 01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:22,120 Will we love each other like this forever? 1524 01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:25,600 # And among the people... # 1525 01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:27,560 Can you see any reason why not? 1526 01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:32,280 # There are two who'll never be apart 1527 01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:38,400 # What a lot of happiness of heart is ours 1528 01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:48,040 # What a lot of flowers 1529 01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:53,240 # What a lot of lovely 1530 01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:58,640 # Pretty flowers. # 1531 01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:07,960 Douglas. 1532 01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:09,400 Duncan. Sir. 1533 01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:14,840 Dunson. Sir. 1534 01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:16,040 Edgeworth. Sir. 1535 01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:18,840 That's Dickinson-Brown. His fighter squadron's based at Dover. 1536 01:30:18,840 --> 01:30:21,640 He always shoots us up when he's flying. Quiet, please! 1537 01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:26,360 Elliot. Sir. 1538 01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:27,640 Finch. Sir. 1539 01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:28,880 Fisher. Sir. 1540 01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:30,240 Forbes. Sir. 1541 01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,040 Foster. Sir. 1542 01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:33,520 Gaye. Sir. 1543 01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,240 Gibbs. Sir. 1544 01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:36,960 Glanville. Sir. 1545 01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,520 It's Dickinson-Brown again. It's disgraceful. 1546 01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:51,800 He'll scare the boys. 1547 01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:54,480 I'm afraid they may have worse things to scare them soon. 1548 01:30:54,480 --> 01:30:55,760 Do you think so, dear? 1549 01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:58,880 I prefer to believe in Mr Chamberlain and peace in our time. 1550 01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:00,920 I wish I did. Really? 1551 01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:04,920 Steven, how many times have I told you? I do beg your pardon. 1552 01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:07,840 CHATTERING 1553 01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:16,280 Oh, thank you, David. It's a pleasure, Katherine. 1554 01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:18,520 Mrs Chipping, David. You know it's the rule. 1555 01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:20,960 In a week's time, I'll have left Brookfield. 1556 01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:23,320 The next time we meet, there won't be any rules. 1557 01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,840 When you're in the Horse Guards, there'll certainly be some. 1558 01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:27,120 Allow me. 1559 01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:30,800 See you at lunch. 1560 01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:37,520 Oh, God, you're so beautiful. 1561 01:31:39,480 --> 01:31:40,840 Chilton. Sir. 1562 01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:42,000 Farr. Sir. 1563 01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:43,320 Faye. Sir. 1564 01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:46,040 Good morning. Good morning. 1565 01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:48,600 I had to come in person and tell you how very sorry I was 1566 01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:49,840 to hear your news. 1567 01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:52,840 How very kind of you, Katherine. 1568 01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:55,720 Yes, leaving here after 20 years is going to be rather a wrench, 1569 01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:59,040 I admit. But of course, it has to be. 1570 01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:01,200 Anno Domini. 1571 01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:06,760 It doesn't seem fair, does it, that as we get older 1572 01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:09,200 they stay the same age? 1573 01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:10,880 No, it doesn't. 1574 01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:11,960 Ah, well. 1575 01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,400 I realise that delicacy may prevent you asking this, 1576 01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:21,800 but I have recommended your husband to the governor as my successor. 1577 01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:23,880 Not that that may count for much. 1578 01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:25,520 Oh, you know it will. 1579 01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:28,720 I'm terribly grateful. Well, there's no need. 1580 01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:30,000 Miller. Sir. 1581 01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:32,960 I recommended the man that I thought would be the best. 1582 01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:36,920 I haven't always thought that, I suppose, but, uh... 1583 01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:39,000 How long have you been married? 1584 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,840 It's our 15th anniversary today. Ah. 1585 01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:43,320 Vincent. Sir. 1586 01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:44,480 Wedlake. Sir. 1587 01:32:44,480 --> 01:32:45,640 Wenham. Sir. 1588 01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:46,880 Whitely. Sir. 1589 01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:48,200 William. Sir. 1590 01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:50,880 Wordsley. Sir. Wright. Sir. 1591 01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:52,920 Yates. Sir. 1592 01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:53,960 Thank you. 1593 01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:57,560 Thank you for my anniversary present. 1594 01:32:57,560 --> 01:33:00,840 Your own you'll find on the table in front of you at lunch. 1595 01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:03,480 Meaning you'd totally forgotten. 1596 01:33:03,480 --> 01:33:05,680 No wonder the boys call you Ditchie. 1597 01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,280 Short for "ditchwater, dull as." 1598 01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,480 I don't think they do any longer. 1599 01:33:12,480 --> 01:33:14,120 What do they call you? I don't know. 1600 01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:16,520 Chips, I think. Chips. 1601 01:33:16,520 --> 01:33:18,480 Ah, now, that's much better. Oh, no, Max, 1602 01:33:18,480 --> 01:33:19,840 they still don't like me. 1603 01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:23,960 I don't expect them to any longer, unfeeling little monsters. 1604 01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:26,080 Let them unfeel. Who cares? 1605 01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:30,560 In the last 35 years, I've become just as unfeeling as they are. 1606 01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:31,680 Hey, boy! 1607 01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:35,200 Where's the fire? 1608 01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:37,560 I'm late for class, sir. Why? 1609 01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:39,760 Sir, I was down at the swimming pool, sir, 1610 01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:43,120 practising my diving and my watch stopped, because it got water in it. 1611 01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:45,880 Not very convincing. I suggest this. 1612 01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:48,160 You were on your way to class when I called you over 1613 01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:51,000 and gave you a lecture on your slovenly appearance. 1614 01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:54,480 If asked, you will bear that out, Mr Staefel? 1615 01:33:54,480 --> 01:33:56,960 All right, boy? Cut along. Yes, sir. 1616 01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:58,280 Thanks awfully! 1617 01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:02,240 Just as unfeeling. 1618 01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:05,320 What? 1619 01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:06,600 No matter. 1620 01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:13,520 Dear fellow, this will be the last time we shall take 1621 01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:15,280 this little walk together. 1622 01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:16,880 Tomorrow is Founder's Day 1623 01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:20,360 and the day after, I leave for Germany. 1624 01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:23,600 Is that your choice? 1625 01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:27,760 Dear fellow, how can you possibly think it is my choice? 1626 01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:31,400 So it will be goodbye. 1627 01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:36,840 Do you have to go? 1628 01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,720 All German citizens have been ordered home by the Fuhrer. 1629 01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:43,160 Disobey. I have a mother in Dresden. 1630 01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:45,640 They wouldn't do anything... They would! 1631 01:34:45,640 --> 01:34:48,360 Dear fellow, they would, and well we both know it. 1632 01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:51,520 She's an old lady, I know, 1633 01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:54,880 but, uh, I still love her very much, and... 1634 01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:06,520 The world has grown a little unlovely, don't you think? 1635 01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:11,200 No, of course you don't. 1636 01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:13,600 How lucky you English are. 1637 01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:17,800 And how little you always appreciate it. 1638 01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:28,600 What on earth's this? 1639 01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:30,520 Ah, anniversary, I'd forgotten. 1640 01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:55,920 Have you gone out of your mind? 1641 01:35:57,400 --> 01:36:00,000 It's Apollo, isn't it? Of course it's Apollo. 1642 01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:03,160 It comes from quite near Paestum. It also comes from Pinkerton's. 1643 01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:05,320 More soup, Maxwell? Thank you, Mrs Chipping. 1644 01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:07,240 I happened to be passing Pinkerton's. 1645 01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:09,120 Everyone passes Pinkerton's. 1646 01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:13,000 No-one who isn't called Rothschild or Rockefeller ever goes in. 1647 01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:15,400 This, madam, must have cost you well over three figures. 1648 01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:16,840 Well, not well over! 1649 01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:20,440 Well, don't you think it's beautiful? 1650 01:36:20,440 --> 01:36:22,560 I think the Taj Mahal is beautiful. 1651 01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:24,640 I don't expect it as an anniversary present. 1652 01:36:26,160 --> 01:36:28,680 I've never known anyone more wickedly or wantonly extravagant 1653 01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:30,680 than my wife. 1654 01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:33,720 What's more, those curtains over there are new, aren't they? 1655 01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:35,280 Yes, sir. As it so happens... Aha! 1656 01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:37,160 You thought I wouldn't notice, didn't you? 1657 01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:40,160 Now, how much did they cost? No, don't tell me, I'll have a stroke! 1658 01:36:40,160 --> 01:36:41,440 CHUCKLLING 1659 01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:45,960 I beg you to remember, madam, you are no longer earning hundreds 1660 01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:47,920 of pounds a week in Phyllis from Finchley. 1661 01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,840 Flossie from Fulham. Are we finished, Benson? 1662 01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:52,040 You are the wife of an impoverished schoolmaster. 1663 01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,480 One thing's very certain. I can't, unhappily, send the curtains back, 1664 01:36:54,480 --> 01:36:57,080 but this I can. And will. 1665 01:36:58,280 --> 01:36:59,440 Directly after lunch. 1666 01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:03,440 You will then go down to Woolworth's and buy me something 1667 01:37:03,440 --> 01:37:04,480 I really want. 1668 01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:10,440 It's no laughing matter, I assure you. 1669 01:37:10,440 --> 01:37:13,600 You must learn your lesson or take the consequences. 1670 01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:14,640 Yes, dear. 1671 01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,600 PIANO PLAYING 1672 01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:35,160 Does this have to be here? 1673 01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:38,920 No, dear. Anywhere you like it. 1674 01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:39,960 What is it, anyway? 1675 01:37:41,440 --> 01:37:44,600 It's the parasol I had in Phyllis from Finchley. 1676 01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:46,080 Ah. 1677 01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:50,520 Yes, well, this wouldn't look right there. 1678 01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:51,840 Well, maybe the whatnot. 1679 01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:55,800 KNOCKING 1680 01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,600 Come in. 1681 01:37:57,600 --> 01:37:59,960 Katherine, I just had to come and talk to you. 1682 01:37:59,960 --> 01:38:02,560 Oh, Katherine, I heard every word that old brute 1683 01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:05,480 said to you at lunch and I knew how you'd be feeling... 1684 01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:10,760 HE WHIMPERS 1685 01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:16,880 Katherine? 1686 01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:20,560 Did that boy call you Katherine? 1687 01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:23,160 Do you allow boys to call you by your Christian name? 1688 01:38:23,160 --> 01:38:24,840 Not all boys, no. 1689 01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:25,960 But this boy? 1690 01:38:27,480 --> 01:38:29,000 Most outrageous! 1691 01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:30,640 How shall I put it? 1692 01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:33,000 This boy, I take it, is in love with you. 1693 01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:34,400 Don't blame him! 1694 01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:37,520 No, I do not blame him, I blame you for encouraging him. 1695 01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:39,760 Flirting with him, no doubt! 1696 01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:39,760 SHE LAUGHS 1697 01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:41,800 And who, pray, is the old brute? 1698 01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:45,360 You! 1699 01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:47,920 I thought as much. A fine conspiracy you've been having, you two, 1700 01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:49,520 behind my unsuspecting back. 1701 01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:52,440 It's unlucky for you, isn't it, that I've nipped your pranks in the bud? 1702 01:38:52,440 --> 01:38:54,360 SHE LAUGHS 1703 01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:55,640 Yes, Mrs Chipping? 1704 01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:57,480 And what precisely do you have to say to that? 1705 01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:00,280 How do you nip a prank in the bud? 1706 01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:05,080 What have I married? 1707 01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:07,680 That's what I ask myself. We'll speak of this later! 1708 01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:10,040 SHE LAUGHS 1709 01:39:27,240 --> 01:39:30,720 # You smiled 1710 01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:33,760 # I smiled 1711 01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:39,040 # We smiled 1712 01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:44,720 # It was love. # 1713 01:39:56,680 --> 01:39:59,040 This is quite definitely the place for it. 1714 01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:00,680 I can't think why you ever argued. 1715 01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:11,720 Thank you for your message. 1716 01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:13,640 I meant it. 1717 01:40:13,640 --> 01:40:15,880 You were quite right to laugh at me just now. 1718 01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:19,000 But, you see, I resent you looking so young. 1719 01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:23,480 If you looked older, boys wouldn't fall in love with you 1720 01:40:23,480 --> 01:40:25,560 and you'd look like a headmaster's wife. 1721 01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,000 You said headmaster. 1722 01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:31,400 I meant housemaster. 1723 01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,720 But you said headmaster! It was a slip of the tongue. 1724 01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:36,200 You've heard something, haven't you? Now, come on, tell me. 1725 01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:38,280 Tell me what you've heard. 1726 01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:41,520 Just that I had a word with the chairman of governors yesterday 1727 01:40:41,520 --> 01:40:44,280 and he gave me to understand that a certain matter 1728 01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:47,760 may be what you would call in the bag. 1729 01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:50,840 Oh, Chips, and you never told me! 1730 01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:53,640 That boy is quite right. You are an old brute! 1731 01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:55,960 Well, I thought it might bring bad luck. 1732 01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,360 There's no such thing. 1733 01:40:58,360 --> 01:41:03,360 Oh, darling, darling, Chips, I'm so happy for you. 1734 01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:04,840 I'm rather happy for myself. 1735 01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:10,720 # School days, so they tell us 1736 01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:14,200 # Are the most sublime of our lives 1737 01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:16,680 # We'll have the time of our lives 1738 01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,720 # It's the absolute prime of our lives 1739 01:41:19,720 --> 01:41:23,320 # They say our school days are golden 1740 01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,120 # In the olden days, it might have been true 1741 01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:31,200 # But in the olden days they liked torture and slavery too 1742 01:41:31,200 --> 01:41:32,680 # What are you going to do? 1743 01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:35,160 # School days, so we gather 1744 01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:38,520 # Are the sweetest days that we'll know 1745 01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:44,040 # And if that really is so Well, it comes as a bit of a blow 1746 01:41:44,040 --> 01:41:47,960 # I mean if school days are the best of our lives 1747 01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:50,800 # Imagine the rest of our lives 1748 01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:54,040 # School days, school days 1749 01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:57,920 # Never let me go... # 1750 01:41:57,920 --> 01:42:00,000 Come on! 1751 01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,480 # School days When I think of them 1752 01:42:02,480 --> 01:42:03,880 # Are sublime 1753 01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:06,520 # And when you're sick of them You can take your pick of them 1754 01:42:06,520 --> 01:42:08,720 # School days Work for scholarship! 1755 01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:11,040 # What a time Lovable Mr Chips 1756 01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:12,520 # Talk about dictatorships! 1757 01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:16,400 # School days, they're the best Oh, it's plain they are 1758 01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:18,880 # It's plain they are Cruel and inhumane they are 1759 01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:21,160 # School days Slightly insane they are 1760 01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:23,480 # That's the test It's just plain they are 1761 01:42:23,480 --> 01:42:25,120 # Have you missed them? 1762 01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:27,280 # I'll miss sunny high school days 1763 01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:29,080 # Sunny high Top brass 1764 01:42:29,080 --> 01:42:31,480 # School days Holidays 1765 01:42:31,480 --> 01:42:35,240 # School days, school days 1766 01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:39,000 # Never let me 1767 01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:47,240 # School days, school days School days, school days 1768 01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:52,040 # Never, ever let me go! # 1769 01:42:58,560 --> 01:42:59,960 Oh, you were marvellous. 1770 01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,360 I would like to congratulate, 1771 01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,320 on your behalf, all those concerned, 1772 01:43:06,320 --> 01:43:11,680 in this year's Founder's Night concert, especially Mrs Chipping. 1773 01:43:15,440 --> 01:43:19,120 And congratulations also to her sprightly and dashing chorus. 1774 01:43:19,120 --> 01:43:21,320 CHEERING 1775 01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:24,960 I'm only sad that it will be my last as headmaster. 1776 01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:31,040 And now, before I take my leave, I must give you the news 1777 01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:35,000 for which, I have no doubt, many of you are eagerly waiting 1778 01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:39,440 and which the governors have asked me to convey to you tonight. 1779 01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:46,800 The name of the man whom, after prolonged deliberations, 1780 01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:51,000 they have chosen to succeed me as headmaster of Brookfield. 1781 01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:59,120 Their choice has fallen on Mr William Stanley Baxter, MA. 1782 01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:03,560 MURMURING 1783 01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:06,320 APPLAUSE 1784 01:44:25,840 --> 01:44:27,360 I'm so very sorry. 1785 01:44:31,360 --> 01:44:33,440 How very kind of you. Thank you very much. 1786 01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:37,400 You have my most sincere congratulations. 1787 01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:41,120 My dear Chipping, how very good of you. 1788 01:44:42,480 --> 01:44:44,360 Excuse me, my dear. Of course. 1789 01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:48,880 You can understand my embarrassment, I'm sure, 1790 01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:51,480 but I have it on excellent authority that the governors 1791 01:44:51,480 --> 01:44:54,440 intended no slight whatsoever to you as senior master. 1792 01:44:54,440 --> 01:44:56,080 It was simply a question of age. 1793 01:44:57,760 --> 01:44:59,440 I understand perfectly. 1794 01:45:01,280 --> 01:45:02,440 Katherine? 1795 01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:05,320 Are you still there? 1796 01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:09,720 Just coming up! 1797 01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:19,080 Dear Mr Baxter, I'm so very glad for you. 1798 01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:21,080 It must have been a wonderful surprise. 1799 01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:23,240 Yes, it was. 1800 01:45:28,080 --> 01:45:31,000 Where will you be watching the fireworks from, the river? 1801 01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:33,040 Very likely. 1802 01:45:34,480 --> 01:45:35,520 I'll see you there. 1803 01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:39,160 Excuse me. Come along, will you? 1804 01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:49,200 Those mean, ungrateful old swine of governors. 1805 01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:51,800 What I wouldn't do to them, every one of them, if I had the chance! 1806 01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:53,640 Quiet, dear. 1807 01:45:53,640 --> 01:45:56,920 The milk is spilt. Don't let's cry. Go and change. 1808 01:45:58,080 --> 01:45:59,520 I won't cry. 1809 01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:03,040 I wouldn't dream of crying. 1810 01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:41,240 You could have imagined my feelings. 1811 01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,200 I had no chance to warn you. 1812 01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:45,000 Sutterwick, I suppose. 1813 01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:46,920 He turned the screws very hard. 1814 01:46:46,920 --> 01:46:50,280 There's been some question of the school being evacuated 1815 01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:53,920 in the event of war, since we're so close to London. 1816 01:46:53,920 --> 01:46:56,640 Sutterwick said he was prepared to fight at cabinet level 1817 01:46:56,640 --> 01:47:00,320 for our exemption, provided that... 1818 01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:01,800 A valuable concession. 1819 01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:07,240 Headmaster, will you be seeing the chairman of governors 1820 01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:09,600 down at the river? Yes. 1821 01:47:10,960 --> 01:47:13,280 I would like you to tender him my resignation. 1822 01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:16,040 You're not serious. 1823 01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:17,920 Perfectly. 1824 01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:19,400 I can't work under Baxter... 1825 01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:22,560 ..and I don't intend to try. 1826 01:47:24,120 --> 01:47:26,840 Dear man, you must think this over. 1827 01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,800 I don't need to. My mind is entirely made up. 1828 01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:32,600 I won't back down. 1829 01:47:34,680 --> 01:47:35,880 Headmaster. 1830 01:47:46,640 --> 01:47:48,920 Do you think I shouldn't have resigned? 1831 01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:55,680 Oh, I didn't say that. 1832 01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:00,680 I said you were right to do whatever you thought was right. 1833 01:48:02,760 --> 01:48:05,280 Must seem rather petty, I suppose. 1834 01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:10,280 But you see, I wanted it so much for you. 1835 01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:14,800 It wasn't much to offer you for all I took away from your life 1836 01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:17,640 when we married, but at least it was something. 1837 01:48:27,320 --> 01:48:29,560 What did you take away from me? 1838 01:48:29,560 --> 01:48:34,320 Oh, success and money, gaiety. 1839 01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:38,840 100, 100 things for which I've never been able to give you 1840 01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:40,040 anything in return. 1841 01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:43,280 Not even children. 1842 01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:49,120 Now, don't be absurd, Chips. 1843 01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:56,040 That's far more likely to be my fault than yours. 1844 01:48:59,960 --> 01:49:01,840 Anyway, who wants children? 1845 01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:05,880 You do. I know you do. 1846 01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:10,040 You've always wanted them desperately. 1847 01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:16,200 But, darling, I have hundreds of children. 1848 01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:21,200 All boys. 1849 01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:29,720 Oh, Katherine. 1850 01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:35,640 BELLS RINGING 1851 01:49:52,160 --> 01:49:53,560 Headmaster. 1852 01:49:53,560 --> 01:49:55,560 Forgive this intrusion so late, Chips. 1853 01:49:58,040 --> 01:50:01,400 I've seen the chairman of governors, and he feels that with war 1854 01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:04,920 so imminent, Brookfield cannot spare any master at all, 1855 01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:07,480 especially one of your qualities and experience, 1856 01:50:07,480 --> 01:50:10,320 and your immense value to the school. 1857 01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:11,480 Did he use those words? 1858 01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:14,080 And many more. 1859 01:50:15,160 --> 01:50:17,400 He wants me to say that he begs you on his knees 1860 01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:18,880 to reconsider your verdict. 1861 01:50:20,440 --> 01:50:21,520 What may I tell him? 1862 01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:41,360 That I'll consider it. 1863 01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:44,440 Ah, good. 1864 01:50:44,440 --> 01:50:47,200 Good for you and good for Brookfield. 1865 01:50:48,880 --> 01:50:50,720 Goodnight, Katherine. Goodnight. 1866 01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:16,480 On his knees, eh? 1867 01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:21,560 Well, that's just where he should be to my husband. 1868 01:51:31,920 --> 01:51:33,480 This deserves something. 1869 01:51:43,160 --> 01:51:46,600 # You and I 1870 01:51:46,600 --> 01:51:51,720 # Have travelled far together 1871 01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:57,280 # We've pursued our little star together 1872 01:51:57,280 --> 01:52:02,240 # We are happy as we are together 1873 01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:06,880 # We may never get to heaven 1874 01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:13,280 # But it's heaven at least to try 1875 01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:20,920 # You and I are going on together 1876 01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:25,440 # Till the time we have is gone together 1877 01:52:25,440 --> 01:52:29,800 # Watch the evening drawing on together 1878 01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:34,200 # Growing older, growing closer 1879 01:52:34,200 --> 01:52:40,960 # Making memories that light the sky 1880 01:52:40,960 --> 01:52:45,040 # That only time can make 1881 01:52:45,040 --> 01:52:49,360 # That only love can make 1882 01:52:49,360 --> 01:52:55,600 # That only we can make 1883 01:52:55,600 --> 01:53:00,120 # You and I. # 1884 01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:07,280 I'd love cocoa, but I couldn't find any, 1885 01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:09,920 so I thought that champagne would be an adequate substitute. 1886 01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:11,600 Well, all right, then. 1887 01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:13,920 Cheers to that. Cheers. 1888 01:53:13,920 --> 01:53:15,160 Dean. Sir. 1889 01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:16,760 Douglas. Sir. 1890 01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:18,360 Edwich. Sir. 1891 01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:19,760 Edwards. Sir. 1892 01:53:19,760 --> 01:53:23,080 PLANE RUMBLES 1893 01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:31,560 Cover, boys! 1894 01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:34,160 SHOUTING 1895 01:53:41,320 --> 01:53:44,120 Oh, get off. You're worse than a flying bomb! 1896 01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:46,640 EXPLOSION 1897 01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:56,560 GROANING AND CHATTER 1898 01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:10,960 Those flying bombs seem to be reaching a climax today. 1899 01:54:10,960 --> 01:54:12,560 I've counted 23 since 7am. 1900 01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:15,040 Don't you think you should send the boys to shelter? 1901 01:54:15,040 --> 01:54:17,840 But if I did, they might well be in there all day. 1902 01:54:17,840 --> 01:54:19,800 And that is far better than to have them out here 1903 01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:21,920 in the open running the risk of a direct hit. 1904 01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,200 You must do as you see right, headmaster, 1905 01:54:24,200 --> 01:54:27,960 but as it is Mr Hitler's declared intention since the D-Day landings 1906 01:54:27,960 --> 01:54:30,960 to paralyse all normal life in southern England, 1907 01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:34,440 it seems to me our plain duty is to carry on our normal life 1908 01:54:34,440 --> 01:54:35,880 here at Brookfield. 1909 01:54:41,160 --> 01:54:42,320 Carry on. 1910 01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:45,400 Boys? 1911 01:54:48,440 --> 01:54:50,000 Gaye. Sir. 1912 01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:51,600 Breathe in. 1913 01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:55,200 Yes. Yes. Oh! 1914 01:54:55,200 --> 01:54:57,400 Oh, I can still get into it. 1915 01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:58,920 Chips, isn't it wonderful? 1916 01:54:58,920 --> 01:55:01,600 Do you know my accompanist, Miss Honeybun? 1917 01:55:01,600 --> 01:55:03,480 How do you do? 1918 01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:05,640 Well, another concert? 1919 01:55:05,640 --> 01:55:07,320 Yes, for the RAF. 1920 01:55:07,320 --> 01:55:08,840 And the CO, believe it or not, 1921 01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:10,560 especially asked for London Is London. 1922 01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:16,200 PLANE RUMBLES 1923 01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:16,200 Oh, well, that should be 1924 01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:16,200 extremely... 1925 01:55:17,640 --> 01:55:18,920 Down! 1926 01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:24,280 EXPLOSION 1927 01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:35,440 Extremely what? 1928 01:55:35,440 --> 01:55:36,480 Diverting. 1929 01:55:37,560 --> 01:55:39,320 Oh, Chips, do you think I dare? 1930 01:55:39,320 --> 01:55:42,000 Of course you dare. It is a charming song. 1931 01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,920 Liar. I'm awfully old for it. 1932 01:55:44,920 --> 01:55:47,200 Well, you're not looking awfully old. 1933 01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:51,440 Frankly, you look 18 and remarkably beautiful. 1934 01:55:51,440 --> 01:55:54,720 Mind you, I've never seen you lying under the piano before. 1935 01:55:54,720 --> 01:55:57,040 You qualify all your compliments, don't you? 1936 01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:02,520 Uh, it's gone bang, Mr Chipping. 1937 01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:05,760 Oh, I'm extremely sorry, I was kissing my wife. 1938 01:56:05,760 --> 01:56:07,840 Oh, why? 1939 01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:09,320 I don't know, really. 1940 01:56:09,320 --> 01:56:11,840 It somehow seemed a good idea at the time. 1941 01:56:12,920 --> 01:56:14,280 Oh, yes, well... 1942 01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,120 Well, gentlemen, I think we're all agreed. 1943 01:56:18,120 --> 01:56:20,600 It only remains for me to congratulate Mr Baxter 1944 01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:24,440 on his appointment to the National Education Commission. 1945 01:56:24,440 --> 01:56:25,920 Mr Chipping's here, sir. 1946 01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:28,240 Send him in, Jenkins, please. Very good, sir. 1947 01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:35,040 Ah, Mr Chipping, do come in. 1948 01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:38,840 Take a seat. 1949 01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,120 I think you know everybody here. 1950 01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:47,680 I don't expect you've heard that Baxter is leaving us 1951 01:56:47,680 --> 01:56:51,240 at the end of the term for an important state appointment. 1952 01:56:51,240 --> 01:56:52,840 No, I haven't. 1953 01:56:52,840 --> 01:56:54,920 Nor had we, till yesterday. 1954 01:56:56,520 --> 01:57:00,840 Well, Chipping, I'm happy to tell you that I am in a position, 1955 01:57:00,840 --> 01:57:03,240 in full agreement with my colleagues - 1956 01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:06,280 in fairly full agreement with my colleagues - 1957 01:57:06,280 --> 01:57:09,240 to offer you, at long last, the position 1958 01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:11,480 which I and some of my colleagues 1959 01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:14,320 regretted we could not offer you in 1939. 1960 01:57:41,240 --> 01:57:44,080 Katherine! Wish me luck. 1961 01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:47,280 I've something to tell you. What? 1962 01:57:47,280 --> 01:57:49,800 I've been made headmaster! 1963 01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:52,000 I can't hear you, tell me later! 1964 01:57:53,240 --> 01:57:54,800 Bye! 1965 01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:00,360 Look out. Chips. 1966 01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:04,480 Sit, boys. 1967 01:58:06,280 --> 01:58:09,640 I am extremely sorry for having kept you waiting. 1968 01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:13,680 No doubt you all found many useful ways of employing the time. 1969 01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:15,680 You in particular, Farley. 1970 01:58:15,680 --> 01:58:17,720 Oh, yes, sir. I've done my prep all over again. 1971 01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:22,360 I've no doubt at all. Well, that being the case, you can begin. 1972 01:58:22,360 --> 01:58:25,720 PLANE RUMBLES 1973 01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:29,600 Page 38, line 12. 1974 01:58:29,600 --> 01:58:31,040 Down! 1975 01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:35,600 EXPLOSION 1976 01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:41,040 Phew. 1977 01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:47,120 Don't you think Hitler seems to be aiming at us 1978 01:58:47,120 --> 01:58:48,600 particularly today, sir? 1979 01:58:48,600 --> 01:58:53,400 You fancy a special order has been sent out to the Luftwaffe? 1980 01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,760 "Get Farley at all costs"? 1981 01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,760 LAUGHTER 1982 01:58:58,120 --> 01:59:00,680 What's the principle of a flying bomb, sir? 1983 01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:04,080 Ah, Farley, you don't divert me quite so easily 1984 01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:05,680 from Caesar's Gallic Wars. 1985 01:59:05,680 --> 01:59:08,160 If you'll turn to page 40 1986 01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:12,360 and begin at the bottom line, you will have your answer. 1987 01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:15,440 I don't understand it, sir. 1988 01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:19,160 Gresham, would you do it? 1989 01:59:22,080 --> 01:59:25,040 READS OUT LATIN 1990 01:59:26,040 --> 01:59:28,400 This was the kind of fighting... 1991 01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:31,520 READS OUT LATIN 1992 01:59:31,520 --> 01:59:34,560 ...in which the Germans busied themselves. 1993 01:59:34,560 --> 01:59:38,480 Oh. Oh, very good, sir! Yes, sir, very good. 1994 01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:46,200 You can see how these dead languages can sometimes come to life again. 1995 01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:49,240 Now, Farley, back to page 38. Begin. 1996 01:59:49,240 --> 01:59:51,680 Please, sir, may we ask a question, sir, first? 1997 01:59:51,680 --> 01:59:55,160 We're all longing to know.... What? 1998 01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:58,720 Well, if the rumour's true, sir, that you've been made headmaster. 1999 01:59:58,720 --> 02:00:02,000 It's not really a question you should ask or I answer. 2000 02:00:04,360 --> 02:00:07,120 But, yes, Farley, it does happen to be true. 2001 02:00:07,120 --> 02:00:10,320 CHEERING 2002 02:00:10,320 --> 02:00:12,160 Quiet! 2003 02:00:13,760 --> 02:00:18,040 I can only say I am very surprised, very surprised, indeed. 2004 02:00:20,520 --> 02:00:22,120 Thank you all very much. 2005 02:00:23,720 --> 02:00:26,080 Now, Farley, your kindly interruption 2006 02:00:26,080 --> 02:00:28,320 has not saved you from translating Caesar to me 2007 02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:30,440 for the next five minutes. Begin, please. 2008 02:00:33,360 --> 02:00:39,640 READS OUT LATIN 2009 02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:45,720 Our men attacked the enemy 2010 02:00:45,720 --> 02:00:48,360 so fiercely when... 2011 02:00:50,320 --> 02:00:51,960 When the signal was given. 2012 02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:59,160 READS OUT LATIN 2013 02:00:59,160 --> 02:01:02,200 PLANE RUMBLING 2014 02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:20,200 Altogether now, one more time. 2015 02:01:20,200 --> 02:01:23,120 # Oh, London is London... # 2016 02:01:23,120 --> 02:01:24,400 Come on, now! 2017 02:01:24,400 --> 02:01:25,920 # London is London! # 2018 02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:27,240 EXPLOSION 2019 02:01:27,240 --> 02:01:29,320 There was a boy who, when asked to translate into Latin 2020 02:01:29,320 --> 02:01:31,720 Tennyson's beautiful lines, 2021 02:01:31,720 --> 02:01:36,120 "Break, break, break on thy cold Grey stones, O sea!" 2022 02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:37,760 Came up with, 2023 02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:41,280 "Oh, fluctus, fluctus rumperty, rumperty, jam." 2024 02:01:41,280 --> 02:01:42,600 LAUGHTER 2025 02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:45,120 He's now a bishop. 2026 02:01:45,120 --> 02:01:47,520 SIRENS 2027 02:01:47,520 --> 02:01:49,480 Hitler's shut up shop for the night. 2028 02:01:49,480 --> 02:01:51,480 Yes, Farley, but we haven't. 2029 02:01:51,480 --> 02:01:54,040 This is a double hour, and we still have another 20 minutes. 2030 02:01:54,040 --> 02:01:55,640 KNOCKING 2031 02:01:54,040 --> 02:01:55,640 Enter. 2032 02:01:59,920 --> 02:02:02,760 Excuse me, sir. Would you be Mr Chipping? 2033 02:02:02,760 --> 02:02:06,160 Yes. Could I see you alone for a moment, sir? 2034 02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:07,680 Certainly, Officer. 2035 02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:11,960 Gresham? 2036 02:02:15,560 --> 02:02:18,560 Look, chaps, I've got a marvellous idea. Let's play a joke on him. 2037 02:02:18,560 --> 02:02:20,640 Let's all write him letters of congratulation 2038 02:02:20,640 --> 02:02:21,760 and put them on his desk. 2039 02:02:21,760 --> 02:02:24,280 We haven't time. Well, we don't need to write anything. 2040 02:02:24,280 --> 02:02:27,320 Just folded up bits of paper with "Headmaster of Brookfield" on them. 2041 02:02:27,320 --> 02:02:28,680 Well, come on! 2042 02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:33,680 I've put something in mine. Do you want to hear it? No. No. 2043 02:02:33,680 --> 02:02:37,440 I've put, "Gosh, they must be hard up for headmasters these days." 2044 02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:44,160 SIRENS CONTINUE TO BLARE 2045 02:03:11,360 --> 02:03:12,560 Sir? 2046 02:03:17,280 --> 02:03:18,560 Sir? 2047 02:03:23,800 --> 02:03:25,480 Yes? 2048 02:03:25,480 --> 02:03:27,480 There are some letters on your desk. 2049 02:03:29,880 --> 02:03:32,640 Letters? Yes, you've got your elbow on them. 2050 02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:45,720 But there's nothing inside. 2051 02:03:45,720 --> 02:03:47,160 CHUCKLING 2052 02:03:47,160 --> 02:03:48,760 Look at the other side, sir. 2053 02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:58,920 "Headmaster of Brookfield." 2054 02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:07,080 Mrs Chips. She's been killed. 2055 02:04:26,120 --> 02:04:28,640 Could I have mine back, please, sir? 2056 02:04:28,640 --> 02:04:29,680 What? 2057 02:04:34,280 --> 02:04:35,560 Farley. 2058 02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:38,600 Yours back, why? 2059 02:04:40,560 --> 02:04:43,440 I... I'd just like it back, sir. 2060 02:04:43,440 --> 02:04:45,400 That's the one. You've got it in your hand. 2061 02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:49,560 Don't read it, sir! 2062 02:04:52,440 --> 02:04:53,480 Why not? 2063 02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:02,280 WHISPERING: "Gosh, they must be hard up 2064 02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:07,040 "for headmasters these days." 2065 02:05:11,480 --> 02:05:13,120 I didn't mean it, sir. 2066 02:05:15,040 --> 02:05:17,720 But it's perfectly true. 2067 02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:19,320 It was a... 2068 02:05:20,880 --> 02:05:22,040 ..joke, sir. 2069 02:05:24,000 --> 02:05:26,560 Yes, a joke. 2070 02:05:52,640 --> 02:05:54,360 Wouldn't you like to go home, sir? 2071 02:06:03,240 --> 02:06:04,280 No. 2072 02:06:08,480 --> 02:06:09,520 We, uh.... 2073 02:06:10,720 --> 02:06:14,200 We still have another ten minutes to the bell. 2074 02:06:19,200 --> 02:06:21,960 Would one of you be good enough... 2075 02:06:23,600 --> 02:06:24,840 ..to translate? 2076 02:06:35,480 --> 02:06:40,400 Such things being so... 2077 02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:43,600 ..hostages were... 2078 02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:49,560 Hostages having been exchanged. 2079 02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:38,400 And now, before passing to the events of the coming school week, 2080 02:07:38,400 --> 02:07:42,440 I hope you will forgive me if I make an announcement regarding myself. 2081 02:07:44,960 --> 02:07:49,320 This is the last time I will be addressing you as headmaster. 2082 02:07:51,240 --> 02:07:56,240 Like so many others, my services have come to an end with the war 2083 02:07:56,240 --> 02:07:59,400 and next term, you'll have another headmaster. 2084 02:07:59,400 --> 02:08:01,160 Shame! 2085 02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:08,560 Well, I thank the boy who said, "Shame." 2086 02:08:08,560 --> 02:08:13,480 But if it was the boy I think it was, Farley, TF, 2087 02:08:13,480 --> 02:08:18,400 I must tell you, he is by nature a little prone to exaggerate. 2088 02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:23,600 I may remind him I once had occasion to reprimand him for exaggeration. 2089 02:08:23,600 --> 02:08:28,640 I gave him one mark for an exercise, and he exaggerated it into seven. 2090 02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:30,600 LAUGHTER 2091 02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:32,680 We all know Farley! I'm giving him two. 2092 02:08:35,520 --> 02:08:39,640 Well, now, I thank you all, then, but I beg to remind you 2093 02:08:39,640 --> 02:08:42,440 that I haven't really been headmaster at all. 2094 02:08:42,440 --> 02:08:46,600 Just acting, temporary, on probation. 2095 02:08:46,600 --> 02:08:51,080 Oh, yes, I know my portrait's up there with all the others, 2096 02:08:51,080 --> 02:08:57,320 but it's an awful fraud and quite a puzzle for posterity. 2097 02:08:57,320 --> 02:09:01,640 "How did HE ever get up there?" they'll ask themselves. 2098 02:09:01,640 --> 02:09:07,280 Well, it jolly well needed a world war to do it, I could tell them. 2099 02:09:07,280 --> 02:09:08,600 LAUGHTER 2100 02:09:08,600 --> 02:09:13,080 Anyway, that war is over. 2101 02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:15,760 And now we face the future, you and I. 2102 02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:20,520 I know mine, but I don't know yours. 2103 02:09:20,520 --> 02:09:25,400 You're growing up into a new world, a very exciting world, perhaps, 2104 02:09:25,400 --> 02:09:28,640 but for sure a very changed world. 2105 02:09:28,640 --> 02:09:32,640 It may even be a world that has no place for Brookfield. 2106 02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:37,080 At least, not for the Brookfield I have known for so many years 2107 02:09:37,080 --> 02:09:39,360 and you still know now. 2108 02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:44,600 Well, if such changes do come to our school, 2109 02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:47,240 you must accept them 2110 02:09:47,240 --> 02:09:52,080 without rancour or bitterness. 2111 02:09:52,080 --> 02:09:57,880 As for me, I won't have to accept any changes at all, will I? 2112 02:09:57,880 --> 02:10:03,200 Because Brookfield for me will be only memories. 2113 02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:06,400 And they can't change an old chap's memories, 2114 02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:09,880 however hard they try. 2115 02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:14,440 They are memories that I will always cherish, 2116 02:10:14,440 --> 02:10:18,840 and for which I am now most truly and deeply grateful. 2117 02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:24,400 Oh, uh, just one thing more. 2118 02:10:24,400 --> 02:10:27,600 I'm not leaving Brookfield altogether. 2119 02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:29,560 I'm taking rooms in the town. 2120 02:10:29,560 --> 02:10:32,760 APPLAUSE 2121 02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:43,120 Thank you. 2122 02:10:44,600 --> 02:10:45,640 Well.... 2123 02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:51,120 When you come to see me in after years, as I hope some of you will, 2124 02:10:51,120 --> 02:10:53,560 and you're all very grand and grown-up, 2125 02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:55,640 I may well not recognise you 2126 02:10:55,640 --> 02:10:58,760 and you'll say, "Poor old boy, his memory's gone." 2127 02:11:00,640 --> 02:11:05,600 But you see, I will remember you all perfectly well 2128 02:11:05,600 --> 02:11:08,240 because I will remember you as you are now. 2129 02:11:08,240 --> 02:11:10,280 That's the point. 2130 02:11:10,280 --> 02:11:14,080 In my mind, you'll never grow up at all. 2131 02:11:15,480 --> 02:11:19,840 I get older, and so do all of them, 2132 02:11:19,840 --> 02:11:24,480 but you always stay the same, 2133 02:11:24,480 --> 02:11:26,080 and you always will. 2134 02:11:27,680 --> 02:11:31,120 And in that, I shall find... 2135 02:11:33,240 --> 02:11:36,840 ..great comfort in the days to come. 2136 02:11:39,360 --> 02:11:41,400 So you see, 2137 02:11:41,400 --> 02:11:46,320 it won't really be goodbye at all. 2138 02:11:50,080 --> 02:11:52,400 And now I come to the week's events. 2139 02:11:52,400 --> 02:11:55,040 Three cheers for Chips. Hip-hip! Hooray! 2140 02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:58,960 Hip-hip! Hooray! Hip-hip! Hooray! 2141 02:11:58,960 --> 02:12:01,920 DROWNED OUT BY APPLAUSE: Boys. Boys. 2142 02:12:05,320 --> 02:12:06,920 DROWNED OUT BY APPLAUSE: Boys. 2143 02:13:10,880 --> 02:13:12,120 CLEARS THROAT 2144 02:13:16,400 --> 02:13:17,680 CLEARS THROAT 2145 02:13:21,400 --> 02:13:23,280 What is it? 2146 02:13:23,280 --> 02:13:25,040 They said you wanted to see me, sir. 2147 02:13:31,600 --> 02:13:32,640 Ah. 2148 02:13:36,080 --> 02:13:37,960 You're Sutterwick. 2149 02:13:37,960 --> 02:13:39,160 Yes, sir. 2150 02:13:39,160 --> 02:13:42,600 BELLS TOLL 2151 02:13:42,600 --> 02:13:45,000 It gave me no pleasure 2152 02:13:45,000 --> 02:13:48,520 to stop you playing tennis that day, you know. 2153 02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:50,040 Sir, that wasn't me. 2154 02:13:51,920 --> 02:13:53,160 Of course it was you. 2155 02:13:53,160 --> 02:13:55,480 I've only arrived this morning. I'm a new boy. 2156 02:13:58,080 --> 02:13:59,120 Oh. 2157 02:14:00,200 --> 02:14:01,240 Yes, I see. 2158 02:14:03,440 --> 02:14:06,080 That was all a long time ago, wasn't it? 2159 02:14:06,080 --> 02:14:08,560 It must have been your father. 2160 02:14:08,560 --> 02:14:11,640 My father wasn't at Brookfield, sir. My grandfather was. 2161 02:14:12,920 --> 02:14:15,720 Yes, of course, your grandfather. 2162 02:14:17,440 --> 02:14:22,480 And that other one, the one who gave us the playing fields, 2163 02:14:22,480 --> 02:14:25,920 he'd be your great-grandfather. 2164 02:14:25,920 --> 02:14:26,960 Yes, sir. 2165 02:14:29,680 --> 02:14:32,080 What's happened to him? 2166 02:14:32,080 --> 02:14:33,240 Oh, he's dead, sir. 2167 02:14:35,560 --> 02:14:36,600 Yes. 2168 02:14:38,160 --> 02:14:39,200 He would be. 2169 02:14:45,000 --> 02:14:46,240 Well... 2170 02:14:47,920 --> 02:14:52,360 Just remind me, Sutterwick, what am I supposed to see you about? 2171 02:14:52,360 --> 02:14:54,280 I don't know, sir. 2172 02:14:54,280 --> 02:14:56,800 Oh, I see. 2173 02:14:56,800 --> 02:14:59,520 It's the old leg-pull. 2174 02:14:59,520 --> 02:15:01,720 They're always sending new boys in to me. 2175 02:15:01,720 --> 02:15:04,920 I suppose they think they'll take one look at me 2176 02:15:04,920 --> 02:15:07,520 and run screaming back home to their mothers. 2177 02:15:20,560 --> 02:15:23,480 Put that back, would you? Very carefully. 2178 02:15:25,160 --> 02:15:26,560 I don't want it broken. 2179 02:15:30,960 --> 02:15:33,080 It's Apollo, isn't it, sir? 2180 02:15:33,080 --> 02:15:34,720 Yes, how do you know? 2181 02:15:34,720 --> 02:15:37,120 Oh, I know about Greek things. 2182 02:15:37,120 --> 02:15:40,360 Do you now? Good. 2183 02:15:40,360 --> 02:15:42,160 Taking classics, then? 2184 02:15:42,160 --> 02:15:43,800 Oh, no, sir, physics. 2185 02:15:44,720 --> 02:15:46,800 Physics. 2186 02:15:46,800 --> 02:15:50,440 Yes, that's the thing now, isn't it? Quite the rage. 2187 02:15:52,880 --> 02:15:54,640 Where did you get that Apollo, sir? 2188 02:15:55,720 --> 02:15:57,800 It was a present from my wife. 2189 02:15:57,800 --> 02:15:59,160 You were married? 2190 02:16:00,960 --> 02:16:03,160 Why do you find that so surprising? 2191 02:16:03,160 --> 02:16:05,480 Oh, no, sir, I didn't mean that. 2192 02:16:05,480 --> 02:16:07,760 I only meant... I mean.... 2193 02:16:09,800 --> 02:16:11,320 Do you have any children, sir? 2194 02:16:13,400 --> 02:16:17,200 Yes, hundreds of children. 2195 02:16:18,920 --> 02:16:20,120 All boys. 2196 02:16:26,320 --> 02:16:28,760 Goodbye, boy. Goodbye, Mr Chips. 2197 02:16:28,760 --> 02:16:31,920 What did you call me? Mr Chips. 2198 02:16:31,920 --> 02:16:34,560 Mr Chipping or just Chips. 2199 02:16:34,560 --> 02:16:37,840 Only one person in the world is allowed to call me Mr Chips. 2200 02:16:42,360 --> 02:16:43,680 Was allowed to. 2201 02:16:46,520 --> 02:16:49,880 Still, that's all right, boy. 2202 02:16:51,040 --> 02:16:53,280 Have a good life at Brookfield. 2203 02:17:11,320 --> 02:17:13,560 I wonder if we were any use at all. 2204 02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:17,480 I mean, what did we ever teach the boys? 2205 02:17:17,480 --> 02:17:19,920 How to parse a sentence in ancient Greek? 2206 02:17:19,920 --> 02:17:22,120 Was that going to help them today? Was it? 2207 02:17:25,760 --> 02:17:30,360 Well, I suppose we did teach them one thing... 2208 02:17:32,240 --> 02:17:34,480 ..how to behave to each other. 2209 02:17:36,280 --> 02:17:40,960 Yes, we did try to teach them that. 2210 02:17:40,960 --> 02:17:45,120 And is there anything more important to teach people than that? Is there? 2211 02:17:56,960 --> 02:18:01,400 # In the evening of my life 2212 02:18:01,400 --> 02:18:04,360 # I shall look to the sunset 2213 02:18:07,720 --> 02:18:11,720 # At a moment in my life 2214 02:18:11,720 --> 02:18:13,840 # When the night is due 2215 02:18:17,840 --> 02:18:21,920 # And the question I shall ask 2216 02:18:21,920 --> 02:18:25,320 # Only you can answer 2217 02:18:28,480 --> 02:18:29,840 # Was I brave? 2218 02:18:31,360 --> 02:18:34,480 # And strong and true? 2219 02:18:36,400 --> 02:18:37,440 # Like you? 2220 02:18:38,880 --> 02:18:40,240 # Like you? # 2221 02:18:54,760 --> 02:18:57,000 Elpert. Sir. Edgeworth. Sir. 2222 02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:59,560 Edwards. Sir. Ellis-Smythe. Sir. 2223 02:18:59,560 --> 02:19:02,000 Ellis. Sir. Everly. Sir. 2224 02:19:02,000 --> 02:19:04,080 Fairburn. Good morning, sir. 2225 02:19:04,080 --> 02:19:05,960 Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. 2226 02:19:05,960 --> 02:19:08,640 Fisher. Forbes. Good morning, sir. 2227 02:19:10,080 --> 02:19:12,480 Gardner. Sir. Garnet. Sir. 2228 02:19:12,480 --> 02:19:13,640 Gaye. Sir. 2229 02:19:14,800 --> 02:19:16,000 Gates. Sir. 2230 02:19:25,440 --> 02:19:27,720 Hanson. Sir. Harper. Sir. 2231 02:19:27,720 --> 02:19:29,960 Harrison. Sir. Hewitt. Sir. 2232 02:19:29,960 --> 02:19:32,200 BELL TOLLS 2233 02:19:29,960 --> 02:19:32,200 Hill. Sir. Hope.