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Time Flies (1944)
1h 28min | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 8 May 1944 (UK)

A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to go back to the days of Queen Elizabeth I.

Director: Walter Forde

Writers: Ted Kavanagh (original screenplay), J.O.C. Orton (original screenplay)

Stars: Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon
Transcript
00:00What were you writing out a check for?
00:01Oh, that's nothing, just the usual tips for the boys, you know, it's the last night tonight and all that.
00:05Wait a minute!
00:07To time ferry service, $10,000.
00:10Bill Barton, what's that mean?
00:13I invested it.
00:14What?
00:15You know we were saving that money to back our own show!
00:17Our nest egg!
00:18Nest egg, nest egg.
00:20What good's an egg if it isn't hatched?
00:22Ask any head.
00:23Rain, Mrs. Barton?
00:24Gosh, I've got to hurry.
00:26But you just wait.
00:29Oh, dear, hurry.
00:30If I didn't know Tommy Hanley was in England, I'd think he was behind this.
00:34Ah!
00:36Peeping Tom Hanley.
00:37I thought I smelt a rat.
00:40No, madam, only mothballs.
00:42Well, soot my centipodes.
00:44It's Susie.
00:45If you knew Susie like I...
00:48Hey, hey, please observe the common decency.
00:50Come on, hand over the $10,000.
00:52That's a nice way to greet an old friend.
00:54My dear Susie, pal of my cradle days.
00:57Do you think a man in my position would diggle you out of your dough?
01:00I'm not on the breadline.
01:02Here, look at that.
01:03Solid platinum, both sides.
01:05Look.
01:06Coronas, solid tobacco.
01:07What do I care?
01:09Diamond ring, 40 carats.
01:11And you know what you can do with a carat these days?
01:13Braces.
01:14Solid gold buckle.
01:15Teeth, gold and ivory.
01:17Look.
01:17We'll see those later.
01:18And you should see the swell apartment he's got on Park Avenue.
01:21Oh, boy.
01:22He's in the money, all right.
01:23He is.
01:24Our money.
01:25He cleaned us out of our life savings.
01:26Nothing of the kind.
01:28You've still got $5,000 left.
01:29And that brings me to the purpose of my visit.
01:31With that $5,000, I can make you both rich beyond the dreams of Avinash.
01:35Oh, you can.
01:37Where are you going?
01:37Wait a minute.
01:38He hasn't finished yet.
01:40You're not getting any $5,000.
01:42And you're not getting out of here until you give back the $10,000 you've already boned.
01:46Oh, but Susie.
01:47You keep out of it.
01:48Very well.
01:50If that's how you feel about it.
01:52What's this?
01:53Something very much better.
01:5510,000 shares in Time Ferry Services Limited.
01:57The finest investment you've ever made.
01:59I don't want this junk.
02:00I want my dough back.
02:02So, madam.
02:03You fling your future in my face.
02:0520,000 half crowns in the gitter.
02:07And this if I don't get my money back.
02:09All right, all right.
02:10But you'll have to come and see my partner, Professor McAndrew.
02:14He handles the petty cash.
02:17He's a great inventor.
02:19The professor will explain it.
02:21Not to me he won't.
02:22I'm getting that $10,000 right here and now or else you're gonna do time.

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