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They 'do' clean offices. After finding an important piece of paper in the trash, the women are soon in business and make good use of it to save their old neighborhood from the wreckers' ball. Starring: Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett, Dandy Nichols.
They 'do' clean offices. After finding an important piece of paper in the trash, the women are soon in business and make good use of it to save their old neighborhood from the wreckers' ball. Starring: Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett, Dandy Nichols.
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00:00:28The End
00:00:29You really shouldn't, after all those dreadful warnings.
00:00:33Mrs Carpenter's husband gave it up and he got run down by a bus a week later.
00:00:38That's got nothing to do with him giving up smoking.
00:00:41No, but it didn't do him any good, did it?
00:00:43Mrs Cragg?
00:00:49I'm Miss Pinson, your area supervisor.
00:00:51Were you smoking, Mrs Cragg?
00:00:53Yeah.
00:00:55You know it's against company rules. I shall report you.
00:00:58You don't act.
00:01:00Area supervisor.
00:01:02She's all mouth and trousers.
00:01:16Spaz in. Craggs out.
00:01:29Good morning, Mrs Betterweather.
00:01:31Good morning, Miss.
00:01:42Spaz in. Fag's out.
00:01:52Jim?
00:01:59Jim?
00:02:03Where the hell is he?
00:02:04Good morning, Miss.
00:02:24Good morning, Miss.
00:02:25Good morning, Miss.
00:02:34What's all the excitement about?
00:02:36Poor McFarlane.
00:02:37He can't raise the money.
00:02:38He's dropping out.
00:02:40Then Waldron's takeover bid will fall through.
00:02:42Not on your nelly, it won't, mate.
00:02:45Sidney.
00:02:46Sidney, my boy.
00:02:48You and I are going to make a bid to take over Waldron's properties.
00:02:52He's talking of our own, Sidney.
00:02:54He's so quick.
00:02:55The shares were down to 15 bob last night.
00:02:58We are going to offer Waldron a pound.
00:03:00Cash.
00:03:01A pound?
00:03:02Cash?
00:03:03Jim Ryder, have you gone raving mad?
00:03:05Where's that dumb blonde put that Waldron file?
00:03:09I've found her.
00:03:10Look, as soon as I got that wire, I knew it meant trouble.
00:03:13Anyway, where the hell are we going to find the money?
00:03:15Borrow it.
00:03:16Borrow it?
00:03:17At 40%?
00:03:18Now I know you've gone mad.
00:03:19Course I have.
00:03:23You buy me breakfast.
00:03:24I'll explain why.
00:03:25Come on, we'll go to that cheap dump round the corner.
00:03:27It won't cost you so much.
00:03:29Pound.
00:03:30Cash.
00:03:34Give them a quid out me own pocket
00:03:36if only they'd stop walking over my clean floor.
00:03:45I thought I heard voices.
00:03:48Come, have you finished this floor yet?
00:03:50I did.
00:03:51But I heard of rhinoceroses just went through.
00:03:54Rhinoceroses?
00:03:56Oh, dear.
00:04:06Well, if he doesn't want it, I know somebody what does.
00:04:25Good morning, Mrs. C.
00:04:27Morning, Colonel.
00:04:30Bills, bills, bills.
00:04:34They say rain's on the way?
00:04:36Well, I hope so.
00:04:37I need heavy going for Epsom this week.
00:04:38You and your horses.
00:04:40What happened to that one yesterday?
00:04:42You know, the one what couldn't lose?
00:04:44Last.
00:04:45In a field of 15.
00:04:46Well, then, my better luck next time.
00:04:48How long can this sort of luck last, Mrs. C?
00:04:50It doesn't matter what it is.
00:04:51Horses, dogs, the boat race.
00:04:53I get a tip to buy Belling's machine tools.
00:04:56Straight from the horse's mouth.
00:04:58I buy the shares.
00:04:59They double their profits.
00:05:00Well, that's nice, isn't it?
00:05:03Lovely.
00:05:04What did they do?
00:05:05They dropped half a crown.
00:05:06Oh, you never can tell with horses.
00:05:09Horses?
00:05:10You don't listen to a word I say, do you?
00:05:12Oh, yes, I do.
00:05:14I don't understand a word of it, but I do listen.
00:05:17Oh.
00:05:19I've got something for you.
00:05:21What is it?
00:05:23Oh, a cigar.
00:05:26Good condition, too.
00:05:28Where did you pinch this?
00:05:29I didn't pinch it.
00:05:31I don't pinch things as well you should know.
00:05:34Mrs. C, you didn't buy it.
00:05:35There's no band and it's been pierced.
00:05:37That's why I took it.
00:05:39I found it in the waste paper basket.
00:05:41Oh, thanks very much.
00:05:43Very kind thought.
00:05:44Now, you sit there and have a little smoke.
00:05:46It'll do you good.
00:05:47I'll go and make you a nice cup of tea.
00:06:04Mrs. C here.
00:06:05Oh, dear.
00:06:06You did give me a turn.
00:06:07I'm sorry.
00:06:08Where did you get the cigar?
00:06:09Why?
00:06:10What's the matter with it?
00:06:11Isn't it any good?
00:06:12Just shows you can never tell, can you?
00:06:15Posh, offices and holes.
00:06:16There's nothing the matter with the cigar, dear.
00:06:17It's probably one of the best scars that's made.
00:06:19Where did you get it?
00:06:20The place where I work early mornings.
00:06:23I saw it lying there and I says to myself,
00:06:25I says, oh, the Colonel would love that, I says.
00:06:28So I took it.
00:06:29He didn't want it.
00:06:30Mrs. C, who is he?
00:06:31The man I work for, Mr. Ryder.
00:06:33Not James Ryder.
00:06:34That's him, Jim Ryder.
00:06:36You know him well enough to call him Jim.
00:06:37Oh, me now.
00:06:39I've never spoken to him in my life.
00:06:41Why, what's the special about him, anyway?
00:06:43Nothing, really.
00:06:44He's just one of those wide boys who's making a fortune just now
00:06:47out of property development.
00:06:48Oh, it can't be the same bloke.
00:06:51If you'd have heard him carrying on about a quid one way or the other,
00:06:54he'd have to borrow that anyway.
00:06:56What wouldn't I give to know what's going on in his mind?
00:06:58Not much, I shouldn't think.
00:07:00If you could have seen the way they was marching up and down on my clean floor,
00:07:05I could have killed them stone dead, the pair of them.
00:07:07I thought the other bloke was going to drop dead when he said he was going to offer Waldron a
00:07:11quid.
00:07:12Mrs. Craig, are you sure he said that?
00:07:14Sure as I'm here.
00:07:16He said, I am going to offer Waldron one pound cash.
00:07:20Give me quite a turn it did.
00:07:23Because Waldron was Mr. Craig's second name.
00:07:28You'd...
00:07:28Oh dear, another one for the nut house if you ask me.
00:07:31Yes, all right. I'll hold on.
00:07:34Here's your cup of tea. It's getting cold.
00:07:36Damn the tea. I'm sorry, Mrs. C, but this is important.
00:07:38This is probably the hottest tip I've ever had.
00:07:40Dear, oh dear, you and your horses.
00:07:42Mrs. C, this has nothing whatever to do with horses.
00:07:44Yes, I'm holding on.
00:07:46You see, a chap was going to buy a firm called Waldron's.
00:07:49According to this, he changed his mind.
00:07:51The shares will go down. I shall buy some.
00:07:53Then I shall wait for Ryder to make his offer.
00:07:55The shares will rise and I'll sell them at a profit.
00:07:57It's as simple as that.
00:07:59Yeah, it's just about as simple as that horse that couldn't lose yesterday.
00:08:02I'll make you a fresh cap.
00:08:04Mr. Gordian, sir.
00:08:04Yes, yes, I am holding on.
00:08:07Your cousin, the gallant colonel.
00:08:09Oh, boy, blimey. More dad tips.
00:08:13Hello, sir. What can I do you for?
00:08:14Roderick, can you give me a quotation for Waldron this morning?
00:08:18I might have guessed he wants a quotation on Waldron's.
00:08:22Listen, one hour ago the news broke that McFarlane's bid had been withdrawn.
00:08:27We haven't been off the phone since. You can't even give them away.
00:08:29You can't? Splendid.
00:08:30I want you to buy me £5,000 worth of Waldron's ordinaries.
00:08:34£5,000?
00:08:36Are you completely out of your tiny mind?
00:08:37Where the hell could you find £5,000?
00:08:39I don't have to find it. I'm buying it for the account.
00:08:42For the account?
00:08:43My dear idiot, do you realise they've got to be paid for eventually?
00:08:46And on the present showing, they wouldn't be worth the paper they're printed on.
00:08:49I'll give you security.
00:08:51Security? Such as what?
00:08:52A pair of cufflinks, a watch.
00:08:53Sorry, old man, I'm a stockbroker, not a pawnbroker.
00:08:55I wasn't thinking of cufflinks or a watch. I was thinking of this house.
00:09:00Do I get this right?
00:09:02You'll put that house up against my buying £5,000 worth of Waldron's shares?
00:09:07Yes.
00:09:08Get your solicitor to send the deeds round right away.
00:09:11If I so.
00:09:19Well, Mrs Craig, I've done it. I've plumbed four Waldron's up to the hilt.
00:09:23Well, I hope it wins. Here's your tea.
00:09:24If it does, we'll split the profits 50-50.
00:09:27Well, that's very kind of you, Colonel, but if you don't...
00:09:29No, no, no, I insist. One doesn't get a tip like that every day. Fair's fair. 50-50.
00:09:34I was about to say, Colonel, as I haven't had no wages for the past fortnight, so that'll be £2
00:09:41.10, if you don't mind.
00:09:42Well, I am a little bit short of the ready this week. I wonder if you could possibly wait till
00:09:47next Monday.
00:09:47Looks as though I shall have to, doesn't it?
00:09:51If we get control of Waldron's, we can take over this site just like that.
00:09:56Think of it. All under one conveyance, one owner, due for demolition in the next ten years.
00:10:01Nice and tidy, eh?
00:10:03If we get a wiggle on, we can have the whole thing completed in eight, ten months, say a year
00:10:07at the outside.
00:10:10Hey, I still don't like it, Jim. I mean, we've got enough on our plate as it is.
00:10:15So you realise if I'd have listened to your gloomy warnings, we'd still be in Stepney with 18 quid in
00:10:19the bank?
00:10:20And you made sure I could only get that out at three quid a day, didn't you?
00:10:2218 quid is a lot more than we've got in the bank at the moment, Jim Ryder.
00:10:27What about the... Hello?
00:10:28Were they kicked?
00:10:29Yes, sir. Will you hold on a moment, sir? I'll just see if he's in.
00:10:33Uh, out.
00:10:34That's what they come down. I got the tip this morning.
00:10:37Excuse me, sir. You're wanted on the telephone.
00:10:42Hello, Ryder.
00:10:44What?
00:10:47What?
00:10:50No, I certainly did not.
00:10:54Okay. Thanks.
00:11:00Only two people knew that we'd made a takeover bid for Waldron's. You and I.
00:11:05Have you been talking?
00:11:07No.
00:11:07Why?
00:11:08Because this morning somebody bought 5,000 quids worth.
00:11:11What?
00:11:11They set the price up by one and sixpence already.
00:11:14Come on, we'd better get back. I'll get in contact with Waldron's before the price rises any higher.
00:11:24Hello?
00:11:25Oh, hello, Roderick.
00:11:27What's been happening? I've been trying to get you all the morning.
00:11:29Well, I didn't think they could sink any lower, but they managed it.
00:11:32Lower? Oh, no.
00:11:33And I was just coming round to measure the house for carpets and curtains when the rumour of the writer
00:11:37takeover began to circulate.
00:11:38The share started to rise.
00:11:40Then the rumour was confirmed and they rocketed.
00:11:42Rocketed?
00:11:43Well, what are they standing at now?
00:11:44Nineteen and six.
00:11:45This means you've already doubled your investment.
00:11:47Yes, you've made a nice call. 5,000 pounds.
00:11:50Sell them. Sell the lot.
00:11:51You're a lucky devil. You must have had the tip straight from the horse's mouth.
00:11:54Well, from my charlady.
00:11:56Charlady?
00:12:03Good morning, Colonel.
00:12:04Good morning, Mrs. C.
00:12:06Here we are.
00:12:10Hello.
00:12:12You don't look too good.
00:12:14You stay there and I'll get you a nice pick-me-up.
00:12:18And what brought this little lot on, if it's not a rude question?
00:12:21Mrs. C., you remember when we bought those shares?
00:12:24I told you we'd split the profit 50-50.
00:12:27Yes, so you did. I'd forgotten all about it.
00:12:30Don't you worry about that here.
00:12:32Take this. It'll make you feel better.
00:12:34I'll go and put the kettle on you till we're ready in no time.
00:12:36In fact, of course, when I bought the shares, you see, I didn't realise what might happen.
00:12:41Oh, Colonel, you haven't lost a lot of money over that bit of paper I give you, have you?
00:12:47No, no, no. I didn't lose money, Mrs. Craig. I made it.
00:12:50You made it?
00:12:52Oh, I am glad. Isn't that nice?
00:12:55You could do with a few quid.
00:12:59Yes, it's more than a few quid, Mrs. Craig. It's quite a lot more.
00:13:04More?
00:13:04Yes. Guess.
00:13:09Erm...
00:13:1050 pounds?
00:13:11More?
00:13:13Not a hundred pounds.
00:13:16More?
00:13:20More?
00:13:22Not as much as 200 pounds?
00:13:28Yes, Mrs. Craig. As much as 200 pounds.
00:13:33Oh, well, that's wonderful, isn't it?
00:13:36And remember, you're in 50-50.
00:13:39Oh, no.
00:13:40Oh, nonsense, Mrs. Craig. I insist. A bargain's a bargain.
00:13:44200 pounds?
00:13:46I can't make the tea.
00:13:51No, Colonel. That money. It isn't right.
00:13:55Well, I may have slightly underestimated it. You see, I'm not very good at figures.
00:13:59No, Colonel. It was your idea.
00:14:02Yes, but, Mrs. Craig, are you...
00:14:03No. I will take 50 pounds and not a penny more.
00:14:07Is that as much as you expected?
00:14:09As much as I did.
00:14:11I didn't expect a brass farthing.
00:14:14I'll go and make the tea.
00:14:21It was real kind of you giving me that 50 pounds, Colonel.
00:14:25I know you did promise me half,
00:14:28but a lot of people would have kept their mouths shut.
00:14:32And I would have been none the wiser, would I?
00:14:34Nonsense, Mrs. Craig. You had my word as an officer.
00:14:37And I trust a gentleman.
00:14:39Oh, you could have told me you only made a fiver.
00:14:43I'd have been quite happy.
00:14:45That's half your trouble, Colonel. You're too honest.
00:14:57And all we was a bit push for the street outing.
00:15:01And the kids don't half enjoy that, no mistake.
00:15:04So it was lucky for them you made that 200 pounds, wasn't it?
00:15:07I didn't.
00:15:08Didn't what?
00:15:09I didn't make 200 pounds.
00:15:11But you distinctly told me!
00:15:14Never mind what I told you, Mrs. Craig.
00:15:16I didn't make 200 pounds.
00:15:18I made 5,000.
00:15:20Out.
00:15:31Did you say 5,000 pounds?
00:15:35I did, Mrs. Craig.
00:15:38I think perhaps it would be safer if I were to give you your share right away.
00:15:45Now, just a minute, Colonel.
00:15:47Let me get this straight.
00:15:50Are you telling me that you made 5,000 pounds out of that bit of paper I'd give to you?
00:15:57That and a little bit of specialised knowledge.
00:16:00Then somebody must have lost 5,000 pounds.
00:16:02No, nobody lost 5,000 pounds, Mrs. Craig.
00:16:05We bought shares at a certain price and sold them at a better price.
00:16:08That's high finance.
00:16:09It smells high to me.
00:16:12Oh, that's what the stock exchange is for, Mrs. Craig.
00:16:15So that ordinary people you know, people like you and I,
00:16:18can express our trust in this or that industrial concern,
00:16:21and keep the great wheels of commerce turning.
00:16:25I didn't see no wheels of commerce.
00:16:28All I saw was a bit of paper.
00:16:30And I didn't have no confidence in that,
00:16:32because I didn't know what was written on it, did I?
00:16:34And you didn't have no confidence neither,
00:16:36because you never knew it existed,
00:16:38not until I give you that cigar wrapped up in it.
00:16:41It isn't right.
00:16:42It can't be.
00:16:43A few pounds is one thing,
00:16:46but 5,000 pounds is a different kettle of fish.
00:16:48Nonsense, Mrs. Craig.
00:16:49People are doing it all the time.
00:16:51Not people like me, isn't.
00:16:52There must be something wrong somewhere.
00:16:55Mrs. Craig, there's nothing wrong.
00:16:56You don't think I'd do anything dishonest, do you?
00:16:59Yes.
00:17:01Well, I didn't in the end, did I?
00:17:03Well, it's legal, Mrs. Craig.
00:17:05What's legal can't be dishonest.
00:17:07In that case, there won't be any harm in my telling him about it, will there?
00:17:11Telling who?
00:17:11Mr. Ryder, it was his bit of paper.
00:17:13And he can have this and all.
00:17:15After all, it must be his.
00:17:17It was him what had the confidence.
00:17:18But you're not going to take my cheque to Mr. Ryder.
00:17:22I am.
00:17:24My mind is made up.
00:17:26There is no time like the present.
00:17:38Come in.
00:17:42Good morning.
00:17:43Can I help you?
00:17:44Good morning, Miss.
00:17:46I'm the lady what does hear of a moaning.
00:17:48Oh, yes.
00:17:49Well, I was wondering if I might see the gentleman.
00:17:53Oh, Mr. Ryder.
00:17:56Of course, if they had their way, they'd bang us all into crowded grottos like what the Germans did.
00:18:01I told you it was big business and if a superb block of luxury offices ain't big business, I'd like
00:18:07to know what is.
00:18:09Ryder Enterprise Limited.
00:18:11Sounds like a cartel to me.
00:18:13What's a cartel?
00:18:14Well, it's...
00:18:17Well, anyway, they're the worst.
00:18:19You mark my words.
00:18:20They'll ground us all to pieces just like the rest of them.
00:18:24Ground us to pieces?
00:18:26Who?
00:18:27The capitalists.
00:18:29And what will they say when our bellies are flapping for lack of bread?
00:18:33What will they say?
00:18:35Let them eat cake.
00:18:36Oh, I like cake.
00:18:38What can I do for you?
00:18:41Well...
00:18:45Yes?
00:18:46Mr. Baker of Southern Demolition for you, sir.
00:18:49Put him through.
00:18:54Ryder.
00:18:54All right, there's George here.
00:18:56Hello, George.
00:18:57Hello, mate. How are you all right?
00:18:59I'm fine, old boy, fine.
00:19:01I've got a little job for you.
00:19:03I want you to give me a price. I'm pulling down some houses in Pitt Street.
00:19:06I beg your pardon?
00:19:06No.
00:19:07Pitt Street.
00:19:08You know, it's a property we've just taken over.
00:19:10Are you in a hurry about it, mate?
00:19:12Of course I'm in a hurry.
00:19:13Any sitting tenants?
00:19:14Sitting tenants?
00:19:15Well, after always, old boy.
00:19:17Don't you worry about it.
00:19:18I'll have them out of there before you can say bulldozer.
00:19:20Yeah, careful.
00:19:21Well, I'll pick you up in a few minutes and we'll go straight down to the site.
00:19:24All right. See you down there, Jim.
00:19:25Out of a dirge.
00:19:26Right.
00:19:33Now, Mrs. Craig.
00:19:35Well, sir, there were two things, really.
00:19:38Two?
00:19:40Look, sir, this won't take up very much of your valuable tavern.
00:19:46So you're the man who's going to pull down Pitt Street.
00:19:50That's right.
00:19:51You live there.
00:19:52Yes, I do.
00:19:53And all me friends live there and all.
00:19:55I get it.
00:19:56And I've asked you to use your position here to persuade me not to pull it down.
00:20:00Nobody has asked me to do nothing.
00:20:02I've come here off me own bat.
00:20:04Now, look, Mrs. Craig.
00:20:05The world is changing.
00:20:07And it's no good you and your friends resisting that change.
00:20:10You've got to accept it, assist it, and if possible, anticipate it.
00:20:16Let me tell you what the ministry says about Pitt Street.
00:20:21These buildings are scheduled for demolition in the next ten years
00:20:24as they no longer measure up favorably to the required standards of housing.
00:20:28God, those houses are no better nor no worse than the day they was built.
00:20:33They haven't changed.
00:20:34And human beings haven't changed neither.
00:20:36They've still got two legs and two hands, haven't they?
00:20:38And they've only got one head.
00:20:40Nothing's changed.
00:20:41Some of them families have lived in their houses all their lives.
00:20:44They've grown up together.
00:20:45Why, there's one old lady there of over 80.
00:20:48She's lived there 60 years.
00:20:51It's about time she had to change then, isn't it?
00:20:55It's always the same with progress.
00:20:57As soon as anybody wants to build anything, somebody squawks.
00:21:02Now, look, Mrs. Craig.
00:21:04If you and your friends had any sense,
00:21:05they'll take the alternative accommodation I'm offering and get moving.
00:21:09Alternative accommodation?
00:21:10And what had you in mind for me?
00:21:14Well, let's see.
00:21:19Ah, here's a nice little house in Birkborough.
00:21:24Birkborough.
00:21:24I wouldn't live there if you paid me.
00:21:27That's one of them new towns, isn't it?
00:21:29I don't understand you people.
00:21:30The minister goes to all his trouble and expense at building these new towns.
00:21:33Are you...
00:21:34Take Birkborough.
00:21:35You take it.
00:21:36He's got the lot.
00:21:38Pubs.
00:21:39I've got a pub.
00:21:41Dance halls.
00:21:42Dance halls.
00:21:44Golf course.
00:21:46Do you know I haven't had a round of golf for I don't know how long?
00:21:51All right, then.
00:21:52What has Pitt Street got that Birkborough hasn't?
00:21:55Me friends.
00:21:58And I'm not getting out.
00:22:00And you can't bundle us into the street because the law wouldn't let you.
00:22:05You're forgetting that.
00:22:05And you're forgetting that technically this is a condemned slum.
00:22:09Slum, indeed.
00:22:11Yes.
00:22:11Slum.
00:22:12And any judge would lend a sympathetic ear to any proposition I might make,
00:22:15especially as I'm offering alternative accommodation.
00:22:17He might.
00:22:18And then again, he might not.
00:22:20Granted.
00:22:21And if he didn't, I could appeal.
00:22:23Can't you see?
00:22:23You're playing a game you can't possibly win.
00:22:25You mean because we haven't got no money?
00:22:28Partly.
00:22:29Their money isn't everything.
00:22:30Oh, you mean it's something else?
00:22:32Oh.
00:22:33It might do you a bit of good to want for something, me lad.
00:22:38To know what it's like to struggle.
00:22:40Marnet!
00:22:41Let me tell you something.
00:22:44Do you know Orpington Street?
00:22:45Yes.
00:22:46Orpington Street.
00:22:47Just behind Pitt Street.
00:22:49I was born there.
00:22:50Number 13.
00:22:52Do you know how much my old mother got when she was a char?
00:22:55A bloody sight less than what you get now.
00:22:58Nine pence an hour.
00:22:59That's what she got.
00:23:00When she could get it.
00:23:05When the landlord kicked her out of the arse,
00:23:07there was no alternative accommodation.
00:23:09She went into her workhouse.
00:23:11I went into her home.
00:23:13I learned.
00:23:15Nobody gives you anything for nothing.
00:23:18Don't they?
00:23:19Of course they don't gel.
00:23:22You think I'm hard, don't you?
00:23:24Maybe I am.
00:23:27Good business of sentimentomics.
00:23:29If you want anything, you've got to go out and get it.
00:23:33So long as it's legal.
00:23:35So long as it's legal.
00:23:42Thank you, sir.
00:23:46I'll remember that.
00:23:48That letter.
00:23:49Is it for me?
00:23:50No, sir.
00:23:51It's for me.
00:23:59So you didn't give him back his cheque, Mrs. Craig?
00:24:02No.
00:24:03I want you to...
00:24:06What do you call it?
00:24:08Re-invest it.
00:24:09Re-invest it?
00:24:10Oh, I don't think I care to do that.
00:24:11You see, it wouldn't be the same next time.
00:24:13I only wish we could get a tip like this every day.
00:24:16There is no reason why we shouldn't.
00:24:19Do you know what he said to me?
00:24:21He said to me,
00:24:23If you want something, go out and get it.
00:24:26Any way you can.
00:24:28He said it.
00:24:29I didn't.
00:24:30So he's only got himself to blame for what happens next.
00:24:34Next?
00:24:35What's been done once can be done again and again.
00:24:40Steady on, Mrs. Craig.
00:24:41I mean, I don't know what...
00:24:41Do you know these people?
00:24:44Well, of course.
00:24:45These are household names in the city.
00:24:46Property tycoons.
00:24:48Investment trusts.
00:24:49Watching machines.
00:24:50These are some of the smartest operators that are.
00:24:53But you don't work for them, do you?
00:24:55No.
00:24:56But I know the ladies who do.
00:25:06I'm not having nobody telling me where I'm going to live.
00:25:09And the only way to stop them pushing us around...
00:25:15Is to fight them.
00:25:16What with?
00:25:16Where are we going to get the money?
00:25:18Where everybody else gets it from.
00:25:19We are going to make it.
00:25:21Make it?
00:25:22How?
00:25:23Out of bits of waste paper that we find lying about in the offices what we clean.
00:25:28Oh, I don't think that would be much good, Mrs. Craig.
00:25:31Mum had 200 copies of Ravelli she wanted me to sell and when I took them to the fish shop
00:25:35they only give me a shilling.
00:25:36Do you mind?
00:25:37We are not going to sell this waste paper.
00:25:40We are going to make use of it for information.
00:25:44Information?
00:25:47There is lots of information to be had from waste paper baskets, blotters, writing pads and such like.
00:25:53But we do nothing dishonest, understand?
00:25:57Nothing that isn't strictly legal.
00:25:59What Mrs. Craig means is we only make use of material which is in the public domain.
00:26:07Things that have been thrown away or left lying around for anyone to see.
00:26:11No opening of drawers or private letters, if you know what I mean.
00:26:17I don't know what you mean. I don't know what the earl you're talking about.
00:26:20We just pick up anything what looks interesting and hand it over to the Colonel.
00:26:25It'll be my job to examine and evaluate the contents.
00:26:28Oh dear.
00:26:29And acting on the information, evaluated, we buy stocks and shares and such like.
00:26:37What with?
00:26:38With money of course. What the earl do you usually buy things with?
00:26:42You can't make money without money. What could we raise?
00:26:46We'd be lucky to put up 40 quid between the lot of us.
00:26:49We shall start with a modest capital of 5,000 pounds.
00:26:52Oh.
00:26:54Did I hear you say?
00:26:555,000?
00:26:565,000 is what Mrs. Craig and I made this week from one piece of information from one waste paper
00:27:03basket.
00:27:06Oh, I'm sorry. My abbey would never... I mean, we've always been a respectable family. I couldn't be a party
00:27:11to anything like that.
00:27:13But why not, madam? It's perfectly legal.
00:27:14Well, it couldn't be. Not like Bingo or the football pools.
00:27:18But it's exactly like the football pools, except that we know the results beforehand. Does that satisfy you, Mrs...
00:27:24Merriweather?
00:27:25I suppose so.
00:27:26A stock exchange is a cankerous growth on the dying body of capitalism. A slave market for the buying and
00:27:33selling of the workers. After the revolution there won't be no stock exchange.
00:27:37Oh, do leave off about the perishing revolution. Are you coming in or stopping out? Well?
00:27:46Well, seeing the revolution don't seem to be happening yet a while, all right. Here, but don't you forget, it's
00:27:53against me principles to make money out of the exploitation of the workers.
00:27:57Very well, then. I'll set about forming the company and finding us some office premises. And don't forget, absolute secrecy
00:28:03is essential. A careless word to a husband or a fellow char...
00:28:08I mean, office cleaner and, well, need I go on?
00:28:12Well, if you're sure it's all right.
00:28:14Well, of course it's all right. Good heavens, there's nothing to prevent any of you ladies being accepted into the
00:28:18Salvation Army.
00:28:20Now, there are only two things to remember. You may be able to obtain useful information from other ladies in
00:28:26your profession. Pick their brains by all means. Don't confide in them.
00:28:30And remember, however well we do, we shall all of us have to go on being char ladies.
00:28:35I mean, of course, I shall have... Any question?
00:28:41Yes. I'm sure it's a wonderful organisation. I don't want to join.
00:28:49Do you want to join us? Why not?
00:28:51I want to join you. I don't want to join the Salvation Army. It's them acts.
00:29:10Oh, I'll run yours down for a damage. No, it's all right, I'll do it.
00:29:12No, don't bother, Mrs. Isley. It's no bother. Two's as easy as one.
00:29:36Good morning, Mrs. Harris. Good morning, Miss.
00:29:43It's all clear.
00:29:59Thirty-two.
00:30:04Thirty-three. That's it.
00:30:07Oh, no. Can't be. That looks foreign.
00:30:10Perhaps it's fifty-three. Fifty-three.
00:30:17Oh, come along, ladies. You're late.
00:30:20How do you expect us to find the place when you've got that La Di Zulu on the door?
00:30:26Not very bright, are we? That's our name. Ladies who do.
00:30:30Ladies who do?
00:30:33Oh, yes. Very comical.
00:30:39This must be costing us a bomb.
00:30:41Well, it's one of the finest addresses in the city. Naturally, it's not cheap.
00:30:45How much?
00:30:46Well, including the rates, the central heating and, of course, the lift, it comes to...
00:30:52Don't tell me. It'll spoil me day.
00:30:56Well, ladies, welcome to the first board meeting of Ladies Who Do Limited.
00:31:00I see you've all brought your basic material with you.
00:31:04Now, remember, information is the source of all wealth, and hidden in these shopping bags is the information we need.
00:31:10All we have to do is to sift and sort and sift again.
00:31:14Naturally, there'll be a lot of rubbish, but among the rubbish will be what we're looking for, glittering, shining gold.
00:31:22Well, now, have any of you ladies any questions?
00:31:25Well, shall we get on with the business?
00:31:31Here we go.
00:31:57Excuse me, I'm his lady cleaner.
00:32:00Am I his what? Certainly not. I'm his wife.
00:32:11But only... Well, you said to develop contacts.
00:32:16I meant with fellow office cleaners, not the wives of our national leaders.
00:32:24Well, now, ladies, I have to report very satisfactory progress.
00:32:28Our cash balance now stands at £26,007, six shillings and fourpence-half.
00:32:33Yes, on paper.
00:32:49Goya.
00:32:50What on earth are you doing, Mrs. Crag?
00:32:53Morning, Miss. Still cold.
00:32:55I said, what are you doing, Mrs. Crag?
00:32:59A mosquito. Places teeming with them. It's the central heating.
00:33:03It isn't on.
00:33:05Er, no, that's just the point.
00:33:08It's cold outside, so they come inside looking for the warmth.
00:33:12When they can't find it, they try to get out again, mistake the mirror for the window and get stuck
00:33:18on the glass.
00:33:19Guess what I found in my toilet?
00:33:22A mosquito!
00:33:24That's right, a dirty, great mosquito.
00:33:29See, the place is teeming with them.
00:33:44He's done it again.
00:33:52Up another twelve. They've gone mad.
00:33:56It's uncanny. How does he do it?
00:33:58He doesn't know anything or anybody?
00:33:59Well, for somebody who doesn't, he's doing very well.
00:34:02This means he's nearly doubled his capital again.
00:34:07Why didn't I buy any of the wretched things?
00:34:12That'll be all.
00:34:23Sir.
00:34:24Oh, sir.
00:34:41Well, gentlemen, we've all been hit by this thing.
00:34:45I'm getting so jumpy, I don't even trust myself.
00:34:51What we want to know is,
00:34:53who is this Whitforth fellow?
00:34:56Where does he get his information?
00:34:58He seems to be able to anticipate every move I make.
00:35:01Gentlemen, has it occurred to you that he may be an agent?
00:35:06What the hell for?
00:35:08Some foreign power who shall remain nameless.
00:35:10Oh, not them again. Oh, my God.
00:35:13Mr. Ryder, perhaps you have a better explanation.
00:35:15Perhaps he's psychic.
00:35:17Spiritualists say that the power of transferring thought...
00:35:19I'm interested in the power of transferring shares.
00:35:22Now, let's get down the cases.
00:35:24Take this wardrobe business.
00:35:26I hadn't discussed it with a soul.
00:35:28Living or dead.
00:35:29Not even my partner.
00:35:30It was all in my mind.
00:35:32Do you talk in your sleep?
00:35:35I'm not married.
00:35:40I expect you're wondering why I've called this special meeting.
00:35:43Well, two pieces of information have recently come into our possession.
00:35:46Neither of them of much importance alone, but together.
00:35:49Well, let me explain.
00:35:52On the one hand, we know that the shares of an Irish concern, Pig Producers Limited, have fallen.
00:35:57Apparently, they're having marketing difficulty.
00:35:59Your scribbling pad, Mrs. Higgins.
00:36:03On the other hand, your blotting paper, Mrs. Craig.
00:36:07Cash and carry supermarkets, one of the largest in the country, has bought land within five miles of pig producers.
00:36:13They are planning to open a bacon-curing factory.
00:36:16This will send the shares of Pig Producers Limited rocketing.
00:36:20That makes sense.
00:36:22Well, what's on your mind, Colonel?
00:36:24I suggest we go for the killing.
00:36:26Put the lot on pig producers.
00:36:28The lot?
00:36:30Well, it's taking a hell of a risk, isn't it?
00:36:32Well, of course it's a risk, but we might wait a lifetime to get two bits of information like this.
00:36:37Putting money on pigs.
00:36:39It's like putting money on horses, innit?
00:36:41Well, I don't see why.
00:36:43I mean, after all, the pigs are there.
00:36:45They're going to build the factory.
00:36:46The shares must double.
00:36:47If it comes off, we shall have £120,000 in the kitty.
00:36:54Well, ladies, shall we vote on it?
00:36:56Those in favour?
00:36:58Well, I can't sit here all day.
00:37:00I've got me ironing to do.
00:37:02I always did fancy a bit of Irish bacon myself.
00:37:07I might as well be hung for a pig as a lamb.
00:37:10What are we voting for?
00:37:13Pigs!
00:37:16Carried unanimously.
00:37:39We can get them in a signing and undertaking and move straight away.
00:37:42It's worth paying them under a quid each.
00:37:43Well, I don't like it, Jim.
00:37:44I don't like it.
00:37:45I mean, legally, they're in the right.
00:37:46Oh, God, blime.
00:37:47Here we go again.
00:37:49Can't you understand?
00:37:50Unless we get moving right away, we're going to have to borrow money at 50% to pay back
00:37:55a 40% loan.
00:37:57Jim.
00:37:57Jim!
00:37:59You...
00:38:02I can't understand these people round here.
00:38:06They'll be much better off in one of those new tarnes.
00:38:09Like that one we pass through on the Great North Road the other week.
00:38:14Marvellous.
00:38:15And another thing.
00:38:16I'm surprised at you.
00:38:17A working man.
00:38:18I licked spittle for the capitalist bosses.
00:38:20And look at you.
00:38:21Not an ounce of flesh on you.
00:38:22Probably weeks since you had a square meal.
00:38:24What did you have for your dinner?
00:38:25If you had any dinner.
00:38:26I'm asking you, what did you have for your dinner?
00:38:28I'm trying to tell you.
00:38:30As a matter of fact, I didn't have any...
00:38:31No, of course, you didn't.
00:38:33And what about your bosses, eh?
00:38:34Look at them sitting there stuffing themselves with goose and caviar.
00:38:38Yeah, well, you go and tell them that the bourgeois and proletarian blood
00:38:42all mingle in the gutters of the Charing Cross Road
00:38:44before they get us out of here.
00:38:46Go on.
00:38:46Oh, tell them.
00:38:52Go on.
00:38:53Go on.
00:38:54Try one.
00:38:55I think you'll find them very nice.
00:38:58Ta.
00:38:59Oh, is it, Claire?
00:39:01Oh, we have to put the hole in, don't we?
00:39:04Oh.
00:39:05Ah, Mrs. Gubbins?
00:39:07Oh, yes?
00:39:10You have arrived just in time to see your husband receive the sum of 100 pounds, eh?
00:39:16Oh, whatever for?
00:39:17All you have to do is to sign this undertaking to move within the next month.
00:39:23Oh, we couldn't do that, I'm afraid.
00:39:25Why don't you shut up?
00:39:28And, uh, let the gentleman finish.
00:39:30Now, your sign?
00:39:33Uh-huh.
00:39:35A wise decision, Mr. Gubbins.
00:39:37One I'm sure you won't regret.
00:39:40I'm sure I won't, neither.
00:39:48You see, uh, we was moving out next week anyway.
00:39:51Cut off.
00:39:52Cut.
00:40:06Good afternoon, madam.
00:40:07We don't want any today, thank you.
00:40:09Oh, yes, you do, madam.
00:40:11Believe me, you do.
00:40:12If you wake my husband before he's finished his laydown, he'll kill you.
00:40:15Not when he knows what I've come for.
00:40:17What have you come for?
00:40:19To give you 100 pounds.
00:40:21100 pounds?
00:40:24100 pounds.
00:40:27Mrs. Meadowweather.
00:40:28Shh.
00:40:29Whatever for?
00:40:30As you know, these houses are being pulled down to make way for new blocks of offices.
00:40:37Now, my firm are very anxious to get started as soon as possible.
00:40:41Now, all you have to do is to sign this form here, stating that you are prepared to leave
00:40:46the house within the month, and I shall give you 100 pounds.
00:40:49My husband don't want to move.
00:40:51He said so only the other day.
00:40:53It's not a question of what he wants to do.
00:40:55It's not a question of what he wants to do.
00:40:57It's a question of what he's got to have to do.
00:40:59Now, we have the law on our side, Mrs. Meadowweather, and the council.
00:41:03Dear, you put the councilman in hospital last year.
00:41:07Now, look.
00:41:08Now, look, Mrs. Meadowweather.
00:41:09I'm being as nice as I possibly can about this.
00:41:11It's not a question of what he wants to do.
00:41:13Now, we've got the law on our side.
00:41:15You'll have to get your husband to see reason.
00:41:17Otherwise, I'm afraid that I shall...
00:41:18Otherwise, you're what?
00:41:20You're lucky.
00:41:21I'm in a good mood today.
00:41:23Right, Daddy.
00:41:24So I'm going to explain something to you.
00:41:26Yes, of course.
00:41:27We ain't going to move.
00:41:28No, no, quite the matter.
00:41:29Not for nobody.
00:41:31No, no.
00:41:31And if you come back here, annoying me and my little missus,
00:41:36I'll splatter you all over that ball.
00:41:38Do you understand?
00:41:39You make yourself abundantly clear, Arthur.
00:41:45Come back here again and I'll break your neck.
00:41:57What's this?
00:41:58Tea, silly.
00:41:59What do you think it was?
00:42:01I wouldn't say what I thought it was, but it isn't tea.
00:42:05Warm dishwater more like.
00:42:07Mine tasted all right.
00:42:09Perhaps you like tepid water.
00:42:12Some people prefer theirs boiled.
00:42:15It was boiled.
00:42:17You heard the whistle.
00:42:18It doesn't matter what I heard.
00:42:20It's what I taste that counts.
00:42:22This water wasn't boiled.
00:42:25Go and boil your head.
00:42:29God may forgive you for that, but I won't never.
00:42:33Not if I live to be a hundred.
00:42:35But she's lived here 60 years.
00:42:38She's over 80.
00:42:39It'd kill her to move.
00:42:41She's very frail.
00:42:42Oh, how frail?
00:42:44What I mean, one doesn't like to think of such things,
00:42:48but how long will the poor old, do you think?
00:42:52Well, it's difficult to say.
00:42:54Her mother, my gran, lived to be 104.
00:42:57104.
00:42:58104?
00:42:59That's 24 years.
00:43:01Now, look, Miss Parrish, we're starting on the site right away.
00:43:04It's for her own good, you know.
00:43:06I mean, all these old houses around here are going to be torn down.
00:43:09There'll be bulldozers and dynamite and dust.
00:43:12It'll be like the Blitz all over again.
00:43:15Oh, she loved the Blitz.
00:43:17She was never happier than when the bombs were falling.
00:43:19She'd look out of her window and she'd shake her fist and...
00:43:21Miss Parrish, if people aren't reasonable with us,
00:43:25we can take it to the court and let the judge decide.
00:43:29Oh, dear.
00:43:30I'm sure...
00:43:31Quite right.
00:43:31You are sure that any court will say
00:43:34that a nice modern flat is better than a dusty old relic like this.
00:43:39Let me talk to her.
00:43:41I'm quite sure I can make her see the wisdom of it.
00:43:45Well, we can about to try.
00:43:50Oh, dear!
00:43:51You're coming with suggestions like that.
00:43:52Now, don't worry.
00:43:53Get out of my house.
00:43:54Get out and stay out.
00:43:58Parish.
00:43:59Better mark that one, uh, Dartford.
00:44:03How you doing?
00:44:05How am I doing?
00:44:07Would you rather like to know?
00:44:09I've just been dragged through the Kremlin backwards
00:44:11and bounced by a bruiser.
00:44:13Well, I've got one signature.
00:44:14A bit of a struggle, but I, uh, finally persuaded him.
00:44:17One?
00:44:18What is the good of one?
00:44:19You've got to get the last one before you can start work here.
00:44:22And do you know what she just said?
00:44:23She said the gutters will be flowing with blood before they leave here.
00:44:27I think she's right.
00:44:28Don't tell me you're worried about a few old scrubbers.
00:44:31You're forgetting there's a fortune in this deal and half it's yours.
00:44:34Nearly half.
00:44:35No, Jimmy boy.
00:44:37It's all yours because I am going back to the office
00:44:40to dissolve the partnership
00:44:42before you have to borrow money at 60%
00:44:44to repay the money you borrowed at 50%
00:44:46to pay back the 40% loan.
00:44:48Said.
00:44:49Said.
00:44:51Ow, yellow legs!
00:45:08Good morning.
00:45:13Good morning.
00:45:16Oh.
00:45:23I expect you're wondering why I spend the night here.
00:45:38I was waiting for you.
00:45:46What's in the flask?
00:45:48Tea.
00:45:50Give your spare drop.
00:45:52Help yourself.
00:45:53I've got a throat like an axle.
00:45:58I've been celebrating.
00:46:00Rags to riches.
00:46:02In 15 years.
00:46:07Yeah, that's the truth and all.
00:46:09I started out buying rags.
00:46:11Did you know that?
00:46:12My partner reckons I'm going back again.
00:46:15My ex-partner, I should say.
00:46:17He's walked out
00:46:19and taken his share of the capital with him.
00:46:23Does that mean you'll be giving up Pitt Street?
00:46:26None, you're Nelly.
00:46:28Well, if you're that skinned,
00:46:30how can you go on with that great big office building?
00:46:37Come here.
00:46:42Don't let high finance baffle your girl.
00:46:46It's dead simple.
00:46:47The secret is in using other people's money.
00:46:53The building contractor cuts himself in for a share of the profits.
00:46:56So he works for nothing.
00:46:58I sell the office blocks.
00:47:00Floor by floor.
00:47:01In advance.
00:47:03So I've made a huge profit
00:47:04before I've even got the foundations in.
00:47:07Oh, that's clever, isn't it?
00:47:10When it comes off.
00:47:11No, thanks.
00:47:12I'd rather smag me hands.
00:47:13Go on, treat yourself.
00:47:15Do you good.
00:47:16Ciao.
00:47:20I'll be frank with you.
00:47:23Unless I can get to work on Pitt Street,
00:47:25I'll have to sell the whole site
00:47:27at a thumping great loss.
00:47:29One minute up to my neck.
00:47:32If I'm going to save anything out of this mess,
00:47:35I'm going to have to get to work on Pitt Street.
00:47:38Look, Ma, you can help me.
00:47:41How?
00:47:42There's 500 quid in it for you.
00:47:44500?
00:47:45For doing what?
00:47:47Nothing.
00:47:48You told me yourself
00:47:49that nobody gives you anything for nothing.
00:47:53Practically nothing.
00:47:55All you've got to do
00:47:56is persuade to sit in tennis
00:47:57to sign on the dotted line
00:47:58by Monday morning.
00:48:02A thousand.
00:48:03That's my top.
00:48:05And don't tell me you couldn't do with it.
00:48:08Oh, I bet you ain't got
00:48:09two apenies to scratch yourself with.
00:48:13You don't understand, do you?
00:48:16We don't want to move!
00:48:19Then you don't understand!
00:48:21Somebody sometime
00:48:22is going to go ahead
00:48:22with a scheme down there
00:48:23even if I don't.
00:48:25So why fight it?
00:48:26So, cash in.
00:48:28Do yourself a bit of good.
00:48:30What good will it do me
00:48:31to sell me friends?
00:48:33There's one thing
00:48:34that money can't buy
00:48:35and that's friends.
00:48:37No?
00:48:38I reckon we'll just stick.
00:48:39When we are?
00:48:40All right.
00:48:41All right.
00:48:42I'm going to have to do it the hard way.
00:48:47Spicey, fags out.
00:48:50Spicey, fags it.
00:48:52It's a nut of a gem
00:48:53with the wrong number.
00:48:54Hey, you were saying
00:48:56what you was going to do.
00:48:58Was I?
00:48:59Don't worry about it, Ma.
00:49:02You'll find out soon enough.
00:49:11Thanks for the tea.
00:49:29Hello?
00:49:30That James Ryder.
00:49:32This is Mark Strang.
00:49:33I've spoken to my associates.
00:49:35We're prepared to come in with you
00:49:37on the Pitt Street project,
00:49:38but we'd have to start right away.
00:49:40We don't want our capital
00:49:41tied up indefinitely.
00:49:43The contractors are starting
00:49:44on the empty house
00:49:44this first thing Monday morning.
00:49:46Is that soon enough?
00:49:47Yes.
00:49:48I'll be frank with you, Ryder.
00:49:49A little dicky bird told us
00:49:51you had some trouble down there.
00:49:53A few old bags being difficult.
00:49:56I can handle them.
00:49:57Don't you worry.
00:49:58I hope so,
00:49:59because if there's any trouble at all,
00:50:01you can count us out.
00:50:02Oh, there's the pips.
00:50:03I'll be down first thing Monday morning.
00:50:07Did I hear voices?
00:50:09I was singing.
00:50:13And then the supervisor come in
00:50:15and I have to switch it off.
00:50:16Yes, it's all very interesting,
00:50:17but I don't see how it helps your situation.
00:50:19You see, even if you make things difficult
00:50:21for Mr Strang and he drops out,
00:50:22somebody else will step in and buy it.
00:50:24Yes, we will.
00:50:26What did you say?
00:50:27I said, we'll buy it.
00:50:29Whatever for?
00:50:30What can we do with it?
00:50:32Look, if Ryder can get permission
00:50:35to build offices,
00:50:36we can get permission
00:50:37to put up two blocks of flats
00:50:39with shops underneath.
00:50:40They'll let like hotcakes.
00:50:42But we haven't got the capital.
00:50:43We will have
00:50:44when the pig producer's deal comes through.
00:50:47I'm afraid you don't know what you're saying.
00:50:49I know exactly what I'm saying.
00:50:52Look, supposing we did buy the area,
00:50:54that would leave us
00:50:55with not a penny in the bank, right?
00:50:56Right.
00:50:57But how are we going to get the money
00:50:58to put up two blocks of flats?
00:51:00I don't know how much you know
00:51:02about high finance.
00:51:04It's not a question of high finance.
00:51:05It's a question of simple arithmetic.
00:51:07The secret is to use other people's money.
00:51:11We cut the contractors in
00:51:13for a share of the profit
00:51:14so they work for nothing.
00:51:15Then we let off the flats
00:51:17before even the foundations is laid.
00:51:20All we've got to do now
00:51:21is to wait for the pigs
00:51:22to bring home the bacon.
00:51:25Just a moment.
00:51:28Hello, Colonel Whitforth speaking.
00:51:30Roderick here.
00:51:30Oh, hello, Roderick.
00:51:32Roderick, I hear you helped yourself
00:51:34to some of those pig producer shares.
00:51:36Wise fellow, always follow them.
00:51:37Wise fellow, have you heard the news?
00:51:38What news?
00:51:39They've gone bust.
00:51:40Are you sure?
00:51:51Colonel, what is it?
00:51:54What's wrong?
00:51:55Swine fever.
00:51:57Not our pigs.
00:52:00They haven't passed away.
00:52:02All 15,000.
00:52:04Where's our capital, then?
00:52:06Gone.
00:52:06All gone.
00:52:07Oh, marvellous.
00:52:08That's a fine way.
00:52:09What did I tell you?
00:52:10I told you we shouldn't risk our lot on it.
00:52:12There he goes.
00:52:13Hold her!
00:52:15Hold her!
00:52:17Listen to me, all of you.
00:52:19The colonel here pointed to the vote,
00:52:21and we all voted.
00:52:23So it's no good blaming him,
00:52:25and it's no good blaming one another.
00:52:28After all, it's not as though we saw the money.
00:52:32It was only writing on bits of paper.
00:52:35Somehow it don't seem so important to me.
00:52:39But what is important is
00:52:40we can't stop Ryder pulling Pitt Street down on Monday.
00:52:45Yeah, finance.
00:52:48It's a funny business.
00:52:52Ten minutes ago, we had 15,000 pigs.
00:52:56Now we haven't got a ham sandwich between us.
00:53:15Oh, well, that's that, then.
00:53:26Let's have a nice cup of tea.
00:53:28Yeah, well, I told you big business would beat you in the end.
00:53:39Let's go.
00:54:15Wait.
00:54:18Don't tell me they've started on my place already.
00:54:22I'll tell them a thing or two.
00:54:25Colonel, what brings you round here?
00:54:27Important news, ladies.
00:54:29Colonel, whatever has happened.
00:54:32Don't tell me them pigs have come back to life again.
00:54:34Better than that. This has just come through on the ticker tape.
00:54:39Large deposit, valuable minerals found in Ireland.
00:54:44They discovered the deposit when they were burying the pigs.
00:54:47Causing heavy speculation in pig producers' shares.
00:54:53Yeah. Does this mean we'll get our capital back?
00:54:55Almost certainly. That and a great deal more.
00:54:59Petty it had to happen too late to save the street.
00:55:02Yeah.
00:55:03Maybe it isn't too late.
00:55:05Do you remember what Mr Strang said?
00:55:08He said if there is going to be any trouble, I am getting out.
00:55:15So we are going to see that he gets plenty of trouble, aren't we?
00:55:25Colonel, you go back and look after that contraption of yours
00:55:29and leave us to look after Mr Ryder and Mr Strang.
00:55:35Ladies.
00:55:40Shall we take your car and mine?
00:55:42It'll have to be yours, I'm afraid.
00:55:45My Rolls is away having a second telephone installed.
00:55:48Not to sell it, have you?
00:56:04This little bus has done me very well for 17 years,
00:56:07so I don't see the sense in wasting my brass on Rolls Royces.
00:56:13Mind my anvil.
00:56:16Here, look out, here comes Big Ed.
00:56:26Righto, lads.
00:56:27This is it.
00:56:29I've got you again, eh?
00:56:30All right, lads.
00:56:31These are the houses we're going to knock down.
00:56:33Starting, of course, with the empty ones.
00:56:35Don't want to make any mistakes about them, do we?
00:56:40Six, eight, fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty-two.
00:56:43That's the one in the air there, righto.
00:56:44Come on, lads, get the compressor going, get the gear up, truck.
00:56:47Come on, let's be having you, let's be having you.
00:56:52I just cannae understand it.
00:56:55From her heartbeat, I'd say she'd live another twenty years,
00:56:58but I can find absolutely nothing wrong with her.
00:57:01But there it is.
00:57:03Sometimes these old people know best.
00:57:05They know when the time has come to pass on.
00:57:09How true.
00:57:11How very true.
00:57:13She must have absolute quiet, of course.
00:57:16I'll bring her around something to make her sleep later on.
00:57:19In the meantime, give her anything she fancies.
00:57:22Anything she fancies, within reason.
00:57:24A drop of thin gruel, a couple of weak tears.
00:57:30Poor soul.
00:57:31I'm going.
00:57:32I know I'm going.
00:57:35Don't forget.
00:57:37Absolute quiet.
00:57:40Oh, the noise.
00:57:52Do you hear me?
00:57:58Would you mind explaining what the hell you think you're trying to do?
00:58:01Do you realise that...
00:58:02And do you realise there's a dear old lady dying in that house?
00:58:07Dying?
00:58:08Yes, dying.
00:58:09You've heard of it, I suppose.
00:58:10Oh, yes.
00:58:11Well, if you start up your damn machinery before she...
00:58:13Oh!
00:58:16Anyway, if you start it up, I'll have the authorities on ye.
00:58:23Well, I...
00:58:24I was only trying to get the work done, eh?
00:58:26How would you like it if it was your poor old mother lying up there, breathing her last?
00:58:33Poor, dear old lady lying there, wondering in her mind, terrified, thinking the air raids have started all over again.
00:58:46I don't know what to do.
00:58:48I can only suggest one course of action.
00:58:50What's that?
00:58:51We'll have to have a meeting, won't we?
00:58:53Right, brothers?
00:58:54Right.
00:58:55Come on, let's go.
00:59:09Right, brothers, I see we have a quorum.
00:59:11Now, I needn't prevail upon you to show your cards.
00:59:14I think we'll go straight ahead with the, uh...
00:59:16Would you close in a little bit, brothers?
00:59:18We have a spy on the outside of our little community here.
00:59:22Now.
00:59:25That's Ryder.
00:59:27Now, look.
00:59:28That must be Strang.
00:59:31There's one.
00:59:32We're all in the queue.
00:59:33There we go.
00:59:33Right, right.
00:59:33Hands up, then.
00:59:34Must be that tea break.
00:59:38Oi!
00:59:38What's going on here?
00:59:40Who's the foreman?
00:59:41Shh.
00:59:42I am the foreman, sir.
00:59:45Why aren't you all men working?
00:59:48Why aren't you all men working?
00:59:49What the hell's going on here?
00:59:50Be quiet!
00:59:53I'll tell you what it's all about.
00:59:56There's a poor old lady lying in there, sick and dying.
01:00:00And these gentlemen have kindly agreed to stop work.
01:00:08Kindly agreed to stop.
01:00:10Yeah.
01:00:10And we held a meeting.
01:00:13And this resolution was passed unanimously.
01:00:17This meeting seriously deprecates the derogatory effect on the old lady's health.
01:00:21And unanimously decides to adjourn work until status quo reigns.
01:00:25Are you talking about old mother Parrish?
01:00:28You couldn't have a derogatory effect on her health if you ran over her with a bulldozer.
01:00:32Don't listen to him!
01:00:35Here's the poor old lady's daughter.
01:00:37How old is your mother, dear?
01:00:4081.
01:00:40Did you hear that?
01:00:42Did you hear that?
01:00:4481!
01:00:46Isn't she entitled to a little peace and quiet?
01:00:50Lying there so frail and weak.
01:00:53Frail and weak?
01:00:54She wasn't frail and weak when I saw her.
01:00:56She went into a rapid decline.
01:00:58Rapid decline, huh?
01:01:01Oh, if she's so sick, she should be in an hospital.
01:01:06I'll send for an ambulance at my own expense.
01:01:09She's too weak.
01:01:10She can't be moved.
01:01:11This is a frame-up.
01:01:13Can't you see what she's doing?
01:01:14She's trying to stop you pulling down the houses.
01:01:18Have you actually seen the old bird?
01:01:21No, no.
01:01:22I haven't actually seen her.
01:01:23Of course you haven't.
01:01:26Well, why don't you ask if you can see her?
01:01:30After all, it's going to cost your firm a lot of money when I sue, isn't it?
01:01:35Yes, well, I mean, like, it wouldn't do any harm, would it?
01:01:39I mean, like, just to have a look.
01:01:41All right, then.
01:01:42Just a look.
01:01:44But remember, she's unconscious.
01:01:47Well, if she's unconscious, the noise can't be worrying her.
01:01:49She's unconscious from time to time!
01:01:53Would you step this way, please?
01:01:58Now, Mother, are you sure you know what to do?
01:02:00Of course I know what to do.
01:02:02I've seen more people snuff it than the rest of this Derrishin street put together.
01:02:06I must ask you to keep very, very quiet, please.
01:02:10If you'll come this way.
01:02:13Here they come.
01:02:26Poor old soul.
01:02:30How long do you do?
01:02:32She might linger for days.
01:02:39There he is.
01:02:40That's him.
01:02:43I'll throw him out once, and I'll throw him out again.
01:02:48Get out of my house, all of you.
01:02:51Get out!
01:02:57I told you to stop out of my house, and I meant it!
01:03:01Get out of my house, and stay out!
01:03:06I'm going.
01:03:07She hasn't even got her hand in yet.
01:03:08I will.
01:03:10You, stop me!
01:03:13See what I mean?
01:03:17What do we do now?
01:03:19It's 11 o'clock.
01:03:21She'll either get tired or run out of ammunition soon.
01:03:27Bringing up the heavy artillery, eh?
01:03:29You won't get me out of my house in a million years!
01:03:33Not in a million trillion years!
01:03:42Take more than a bulldozer to put that old battle axe under the ground, right?
01:03:46I'll talk to the men.
01:03:48Yet, what happened?
01:03:49She wrecked the old perishing thing, that's what happened.
01:03:52Yeah.
01:03:53Everything was going fine until she caught Sartarada.
01:03:56Then she went, start raving, blowing mad!
01:03:59Well, I'll, er, phone the police.
01:04:03Decide if a couple of bobbies will knock some sense into them.
01:04:06Oh, believe me, once this thing gets rolling, nothing will stop it.
01:04:09Absolutely nothing!
01:04:11All right, I'll give you till noon.
01:04:18Council of war in my house, come on.
01:04:20Yeah, well, I reckon they made proper charlies out of us.
01:04:23They're from me.
01:04:24Well, well, sir.
01:04:25We passed this resolution.
01:04:27This meeting deplores the diabolical liberties taken
01:04:30and applies non-ratification to the resolution taken by the previous meeting
01:04:34and declares that a status quo now reigns.
01:04:37What the hell does all that mean?
01:04:38What does it mean?
01:04:40It means that we go back to work.
01:04:42Wonderful!
01:04:43Marvellous!
01:04:44After a tea break.
01:04:46Come on, Mr. Pter.
01:04:47What do they want a tea break for?
01:04:48They haven't done anything yet!
01:04:50They haven't done anything.
01:04:51They've been on the club since eight.
01:04:54Look, I'll pay them to work through the tea break.
01:04:57What?
01:04:58They can't do that.
01:04:59That would be creating a precedent.
01:05:04Now, what's the matter?
01:05:05Oh, the men are having a tea break.
01:05:07This is where I came in.
01:05:08No, not quite.
01:05:10The men are up in mad.
01:05:12Oh, you'll see.
01:05:13You'll see.
01:05:13They went to have their tea.
01:05:15The women will wish they'd never started this.
01:05:17That makes two of us.
01:05:21And have gone to phone the police.
01:05:22Oh.
01:05:23So they've called in the police now, have they?
01:05:26Well, what can we do?
01:05:27We can't fight the old metropolitan police force.
01:05:29Oh, yes, we can if we have to.
01:05:32So no more despondent talk, if you don't mind.
01:05:35Well, what about the machines?
01:05:36What about when they start using them?
01:05:38What about it?
01:05:39We'll have to stop them, won't we?
01:05:40I saw a picture once about the French resistance.
01:05:43They didn't do so badly against the old German army.
01:05:45There's more than four of them.
01:05:47There'll be more than four of us by the time I'm finished.
01:05:49Now, Harry, I want you to deliver these to all the people in the street
01:05:53just as quickly as you can.
01:05:56Do I understand you wish to bring a charge of assault against poor old Mrs Parrish?
01:05:59I don't wish to bring a charge against anybody.
01:06:02I've got some very hard men working here.
01:06:04I'm warning you there might be more trouble.
01:06:06Still, sir, I don't see what harm they could do to a bulldozer.
01:06:08You don't know these old dragons, mate!
01:06:11Now, listen.
01:06:12I'm telling you straight.
01:06:13If there is any more trouble,
01:06:14and there are no police around,
01:06:16I shall make out a report and see if it gets to the right quarters.
01:06:27Take this round Orbison Street, quick as you can.
01:06:29Right.
01:06:32Come on, lads, let's be avenue.
01:06:33Come along, now.
01:06:34Right, though, get the compressor started.
01:06:36Now, then,
01:06:37I want you to get all them flagstones up to get the bulldozer in.
01:06:43Don't strain yourself, will you?
01:06:46Now.
01:06:46They're not hopping very fast, are they?
01:06:49You know the British workman.
01:06:51Loses every battle but the last.
01:06:53Does he?
01:06:58Come on, girls.
01:07:00Let's get out there and remember,
01:07:02behave absolutely normal
01:07:04and don't do nothing illegal.
01:07:06And if you do,
01:07:07don't get caught.
01:07:08Come on.
01:07:23Good morning, Mrs. Crane.
01:07:24Good morning, all.
01:07:25Good morning.
01:07:26Off you go.
01:07:26Good.
01:07:31Rose.
01:07:33Rose.
01:07:34Rose.
01:07:35That's her.
01:07:36Frank.
01:07:36See, bumping into you like this.
01:07:38I haven't seen you in ages.
01:07:39Neither have you.
01:07:40Not since my operation.
01:07:42That's right.
01:07:42Excuse me, ladies.
01:07:43Well, now,
01:07:44I come over queer on the Wednesday.
01:07:47No, wait.
01:07:47Wait, I'm a liar.
01:07:48It was the Tuesday.
01:07:50The Tuesday.
01:07:51Oh, I was poor.
01:07:52Well, I can tell you look peaky now.
01:07:54I feel you, yes.
01:07:55I've never got over it.
01:07:56You know.
01:07:58You go down there
01:07:59and stop that shovel thing.
01:08:01Go on.
01:08:02Right now.
01:08:02You and you
01:08:03go down there
01:08:04and make a nuisance of yourself now.
01:08:06Where the hell are those police got to?
01:08:17Could you tell me
01:08:17where I can find Mr. Ryder?
01:08:19You have found him.
01:08:22What appears to be the matter, sir?
01:08:27Saunders?
01:08:27Sir.
01:08:29Ask those women, ladies,
01:08:30to move out of the way of the shovel, will you?
01:08:32Yes, sir.
01:08:40Come's the Friday.
01:08:41Back, I'll go into hospital again.
01:08:43Again.
01:08:44The ambulance come at one.
01:08:46Yeah.
01:08:47And at two,
01:08:48they was getting me ready for the table.
01:08:51When I saw the angel,
01:08:52Ladies, would you mind, please?
01:08:53Hello, my girl.
01:08:55If you wouldn't mind.
01:08:55You've been up to something.
01:08:57Look at yourself.
01:08:58Butter, milk, milk, milk.
01:09:00A little further, ladies, please.
01:09:04Tell me if I was right.
01:09:09Oi!
01:09:10Get out of it!
01:09:13Well, when they'd sewn me up
01:09:15and I'd come round,
01:09:16the doctor told me
01:09:18I was lucky to be alive
01:09:19to tell the tale.
01:09:20Oh, how awful.
01:09:21Yeah.
01:09:22Five hours I was laying on that...
01:09:24Now, ladies, I'm afraid
01:09:25you're going to get hurt
01:09:26if you stay here.
01:09:26Did they ever find out
01:09:27what it was, then?
01:09:29Yeah.
01:09:30You all right, son?
01:09:31You don't look too good.
01:09:33Eh?
01:09:33I said you don't look too good.
01:09:35I ain't.
01:09:36I've just had a diabolical operation.
01:09:38Well, you oughtn't to be using that thing.
01:09:39Here, very quick.
01:09:40Come here.
01:09:41Give us that.
01:09:43Take him up.
01:09:43Right, then.
01:09:43Here we go.
01:09:51Why the hell doesn't he get some help?
01:09:53Mr. Ryder,
01:09:54if you need me,
01:09:55I'll be in my car.
01:10:02It's bad enough with that lot.
01:10:03Now, don't you start.
01:10:07Are you all right?
01:10:10What a shit.
01:10:14Oh, get more help.
01:10:18Get on to HQ and tell them to send around
01:10:19another patrol car right away.
01:10:21Go on.
01:10:21Yes, Sergeant.
01:10:23You haven't had an operation, have you?
01:10:25No, Governor.
01:10:25Thank God for that.
01:10:29Thank God for that.
01:10:34If you don't get that thing started
01:10:37and knock something down,
01:10:39I shall go start raving mad.
01:10:41No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:10:58Somebody's had all me blinkin' fuel now.
01:11:03Be blue to MP. Be bl...
01:11:18Now, ladies, please, we'll move on.
01:11:22Why don't you arrest a lot of them?
01:11:24How the hell can I do that? They won't stand still long enough to be knocked off for obstruction.
01:11:28Besides, what would I put them in? There's about 50 of them at least.
01:11:33Did you get that message away? No, sir.
01:11:35What do you mean, no, sir? I distinctly talk... Why the hell didn't you get it away?
01:11:38Well, sir, my aerial dropped off. I can't understand it.
01:11:42Oh, Cain.
01:11:46There's a telephone box over there. Go and get that message in.
01:11:50And tell them I want two black Mariahs as well now. Yes, sir.
01:12:00Do you mind, madam? Do you mind?
01:12:05It's 5 to 12, and I...
01:12:07Oh, no, oh, no. If something doesn't get moving soony,
01:12:11Bargum, you're going back to Bradford.
01:12:13Come on, now, please.
01:12:21Please, you can't stay here all day now.
01:12:26Excuse me, madam. Thank you.
01:12:31Excuse me, madam. Thank you.
01:12:34Now, ladies, you can't stay here all day now.
01:12:37Excuse me, madam. Thank you.
01:12:41Excuse me, madam. Thank you.
01:12:43Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam.
01:12:49Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam.
01:12:55Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam.
01:13:02I'm not interrupting you, am I?
01:13:05Then I wonder if I can impress upon you how important it is for me to carry on with this
01:13:10work?
01:13:11Well, sir, as soon as our police driver comes back...
01:13:13Soon as what? The steaming knits still standing outside the telephone box!
01:13:20Madam!
01:13:21Wait, wait, please!
01:13:28There's a woman in the box, sir.
01:13:29Well, get her out, man. Get her out.
01:13:31Excuse me, madam, but...
01:13:32Excuse me? Now, look, I am fed up with you policemen busting in here like this.
01:13:36This is a public phone box, isn't it?
01:13:39I know that, madam.
01:13:39And I am a member of the public, and I am using it, aren't I?
01:13:43I have a very important call, madam.
01:13:45And I have a very important call, and I have paid for it, and I am making it!
01:13:51Excuse me, Colonel. There's a blue bottle in the box, isn't it?
01:13:54Rather put me on...
01:13:55What was you saying?
01:13:59Solders!
01:14:00Sir!
01:14:01Get in that car.
01:14:03Go round this station and tell them,
01:14:04if I don't have two patrol cars and two black marais here in 15 minutes,
01:14:09I'll let you out boot!
01:14:10Back an appointment!
01:14:11Yes, sir!ati
01:14:40I'm a man of my way.
01:14:42I said I'd give you till noon, and I will.
01:14:45That gives you just three minutes to knock something down.
01:15:36Look what you've done, you...
01:15:40Murderer.
01:15:41Well, there's no need to go on like that.
01:15:44It was only an old wreck.
01:15:46It couldn't have been worth more than 50 quid.
01:15:47Couldn't have been worth more than...
01:15:49Do you know what you're saying?
01:16:03I said I'll pay.
01:16:06Pay.
01:16:10Pay.
01:16:11Oh, you'll pay all right, don't you, Popper?
01:16:14The moment I get back to Bradford, you'll be hearing from my solicitors.
01:16:17I'll be suing you for shock, damages, expenses, default...
01:16:24I'm the car.
01:16:25Oh, my God.
01:16:44Funny how your luck changes, isn't it?
01:16:46Yes, it is.
01:16:48I think.
01:16:50There was going to be two blocks of offices there.
01:16:54Down there, a fountain.
01:16:58And a gold statue.
01:17:00Painted, of course.
01:17:03And now...
01:17:04And now you're thinking of selling.
01:17:06That's right.
01:17:08Just a minute.
01:17:10Who the hell are you?
01:17:11Whitforth is the name.
01:17:13Colonel Whitforth.
01:17:16Why don't we talk it over at lunch tomorrow?
01:17:19Suppose you call for me at my office.
01:17:22Twelve o'clock?
01:17:27Ah, this is a pleasure, Mr. Ryder.
01:17:29Won't you come in?
01:17:30I want you to meet my board.
01:17:37Mrs. Craig.
01:17:39You.
01:17:41Chars.
01:17:42All of you, chars.
01:17:43Do you mind?
01:17:45So that's how you did it?
01:17:48What can I think of that?
01:17:51You crafty...
01:17:52Ah!
01:17:53Now, now, Mr. Ryder.
01:17:55Flattery won't get you nowhere.
01:17:59Mr. Ryder, we've decided to invite you to join the board.
01:18:03I suggest we discuss the whole matter over a bite of lunch at the Savoy.
01:18:10Something terrible's happened.
01:18:12Oh, right.
01:18:13Let's have it.
01:18:15When I told Mother we were going to put her in a nice new flat,
01:18:19she said we wouldn't get her out of her house,
01:18:22not in a million years.
01:18:25Oh, blimey.
01:18:26She can't do that to us.
01:18:29We're offering her alternative accommodation.
01:18:33Oh, well.
01:18:35Let's go and have our luncheon,
01:18:37and then I'll go and butter up the old...
01:18:40Watch it.
01:18:42Shall we go?
01:18:58Well, shall we join the ladies?
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