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First broadcast 20th January 1984.

Oz has developed a side line in selling pornographic videos.

Jimmy Nail - Oz Osborne
Timothy Spall - Barry Taylor
Christopher Fairbank - Albert Moxey
Kevin Whately - Neville Hope
Tim Healy - Dennis Patterson
Gary Holton - Wayne Norris
Pat Roach - Bomber Busbridge
Des Young - Hedley
Norah Fulton - Mabel Hilton
James Ottaway - Bob Hilton (as James Ottoway)
Peter Birch - Herr Ulrich
Aubrey Woods - Jurgen
Mark Penfold - Lorry Driver
Sylvia Rotter - German Sister
Mary Zuckerman - German Nurse
Veronika Hyks - Second German Nurse (as Veronica Hyks)
Ray Knight - Barman

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00:00I used all my options, worked off my dues
00:14Played all the cards, now there's nothing to lose
00:19Don't want tomorrow to be like today
00:23That's why I'm breaking away
00:26I'm trying to run, I'm trying to hide
00:32Walk out the wind if I'm losing my pride
00:36Won't let tomorrow be like today
00:40That's why I'm breaking away
00:43Ooh, breaking away
00:48Got to find a better way
00:52Till the good times the world around today
00:58I'll feed the day
01:02Muxa
01:19What?
01:22We should have done this years ago
01:24What are they doing?
01:32Tannen?
01:34What?
01:35Tannen?
01:35Aye, I started last weekend when you were away
01:38What on earth for?
01:40Good by the skin
01:41Well, that's what Barry reckons of it
01:42Well, I mean, you've got to admit me
01:45Neither of them's got what you could call
01:47Flawless complexions, hasn't it?
01:50Anyway, Barry read in this magazine article
01:53About the sun's artificial rays being good
01:55By your skin or some crap
01:57We're looking to get much sun round here, aren't we?
01:59Well, I reckon they just want to get a sun time
02:01Before they go back home
02:02And they'll prove they've been abroad
02:03Aye
02:04Aye, aye
02:05If you want to prove you've been over here
02:06Surely it'd be more appropriate
02:07To go back with bloody pneumonia
02:09Have you seen them two up there?
02:15Oh, the odd couple, huh?
02:16Aye
02:17They were at that last Sunday, you know
02:18Aye, it's a wonder they haven't got buckets and spears
02:21Aye, you'd have thought they'd send us a postcard, wouldn't you?
02:23But not a word
02:24Well, if you ask me, them two's camping out on the edge of reality
02:27Well, maybe we should turn this place into a weekend resort, eh?
02:33Aye, paint all the hoots yellow and call them shallies
02:36Yeah, we could offer crane rides, aye
02:38And turn the dampers into dodgums, all that
02:40The way things are going round here
02:42It'd be easier to turn this place into a lunatic asylum
02:44Oh, my gosh, think about it
02:46You could have the deck chair concession
02:49Nev could do the donkey rides
02:51We could give dance lessons when it rains, eh?
02:54Think about it, man
02:55Starlag by the sea
02:57I think Starlag Sir Le Mere
02:59Sounds a bit more enticing, don't you?
03:01So it appears that you'd want to take somebody
03:04That you hate
03:06Yeah, like Hartley Pools
03:07Er, listen, lads
03:10If yous not want to make a few bob on the side
03:13Er, maybe you should come in with me
03:15Oh, do you mean, like?
03:16Doing a bit of moonlighting, aren't you, Ross?
03:18Well, I might have this business proposition, right?
03:20See, I've met this Eric
03:21Can you, lad?
03:23For an Eric?
03:24Anyway, nothing's finalised yet
03:26So I can't say it too much
03:27But if you want in
03:28Now's the time to speak up
03:30How done
03:33Do you mean speak up or divvy up, son?
03:37What?
03:37What?
03:39Well, tell us what it is, then
03:41No, I can't yet
03:42Well, how would we be expecting to chip in if you won't explain?
03:46Well, that's the whole point, man, never
03:47Well, it escapes me, Oz
03:50Look, the more you speculate
03:52The more kind you get back on the back end
03:54But, Oz, we're entitled to know what it is we're speculating in
03:58Aye, in due course, Dennis
04:00When I get everything finalised
04:02But, er, well, for the moment
04:03All I need is your readies
04:05And your trust
04:06Was I asking too much, like?
04:12Bollocks
04:13Oh, well, trick yourself
04:15I'll seek investment elsewhere
04:16Stop you, lad
04:17Hey, hey, what are you, Ross?
04:19At least give us a clue
04:20Well, it's adult
04:26And it's liable to cause offence
04:28It's adult
04:33Liable to cause offence
04:34Sounds like Oz
04:38In a bit
04:40Whoa, whoa
04:43Right
04:44Down at that
04:45Look, all I need is some cash up front
04:49And then we'll be quidged in
04:50Think of it
04:50Big business
04:52Expanding markets guaranteed demand
04:54See, all we've got to do is buy the gear here
04:56Ship it to them
04:57And then we'll quid's here
04:58What is it?
04:59Well, I want you to go and tell them the rest
05:02Because they never take it seriously, that looks
05:03Cross me heart
05:04Now, what are you on about?
05:08Porn
05:09Corn?
05:11No, man, porn, man
05:12Porn, you know
05:13What are you on about?
05:15You written on opening Gateshead's first massage, parlor?
05:17No, man
05:17Videos, man
05:18Important videos
05:19You're asking me to handle pornographic videos
05:22Me, the father of fine children
05:23Well, they're doing up to watch them
05:25Are you off your rocker, lad?
05:26Ah, well, forget it
05:27I just thought of five bands
05:31You meant they needed the extra client
05:32You're off your bloody rocker, boy
05:33No, I don't know
05:36God, I'm fucking hot
05:36I must have to talk with Dr. Schnabel
05:38Verbinde mich, bitte
05:39And I'll be right there
05:40I'll be right there
05:41Schwester?
05:43Yeah.
05:45X-ray show.
05:47Otherwise it's just badly bruised.
05:49It's still hurt.
05:51It hurts like billyup.
05:53If they're not keeping you in overnight,
05:55we'll hang on, we'll get you back to the hut.
05:57Cheers, lads.
05:59Well, I mean, there's no point in everybody hanging around,
06:01so if nobody minds, I'll just get away.
06:03Further away, the better for as Bono's concerned.
06:05Oh, what a bummer. It wasn't my fault.
06:07Well, not entirely. Yes, it was. You weren't paying attention.
06:09I want to put that everywhere I got in the crane.
06:11You can't tell me. It was entirely blameless.
06:13I'd sew the bollocks up for me.
06:15Come to the compensation. Anyway, look, I'll see you back at that hut.
06:17Be something they'll look forward to, that will.
06:19Ah, don't worry, Bob. It's OK. We'll see you all right, mate.
06:21Don't worry. It's a crack Bummer's worried about.
06:23Laid off. No crack.
06:25We go here for leg.
06:29I reckon she means a plastic. Yeah.
06:31Me and Denner are waiting on for you then.
06:33Ah, OK. Much appreciated.
06:35Shouldn't be too long. Ah, OK. Don't worry, Bob.
06:37See you later.
06:39Hey.
06:45What's she up to?
06:47Bummer, bummer. Now what is it?
06:49Can you remember what we're talking about?
06:51The business deal. Oh, I remember this.
06:53My foot reminds me.
06:55Never mind that one. Look, er, now we're gonna be laid off for a while, er, you should reconsider it, eh?
07:01Hey, man, what's the matter, son? Just calm down.
07:29The nurses are here to help you, aren't you?
07:31Er, sorry. Didn't mean to impose. We just realised he was British and thought he might not understand you like, you know.
07:37He understand very well.
07:39He understand very well. In any language, he a stubborn old man.
07:43Oh, shh.
07:45Well, we didn't mean to impose, er, just thought he might want a hand.
07:49Er, no, no, no. That is most kind. Perhaps because you're English. He is...
07:57Well, he might calm down.
07:59He might listen to us?
08:01Yeah. He has no one, you see. No friends or family.
08:05Ah. Can I hear talk, though, with that thing on?
08:08Yeah. If he get short breath, he tell me.
08:10Fair enough. Er, what was the panic about?
08:13He hides something. Will you find it?
08:17Well, give it a try, won't we? Sure.
08:20Take your mask off, sister. Let me let you go.
08:31How are you feeling, then?
08:33How would you feel with these contraps, you know?
08:36Aye, well, I mean, it's for your own good, isn't it?
08:38I mean, they're no best, don't they?
08:40Ah, so they say.
08:42How come you've ended up here, then, eh?
08:44Because I'm bloody dying, that's how.
08:46No, no, I meant in a German hospital.
08:49I live here.
08:50In the city?
08:52For the past two years, aye.
08:54If you were with the places before here, man,
08:56Mannerheim, Essen.
08:58It's a job, see, the boundaries.
09:00That's, I can thank them for all this, man.
09:04What's the matter with you, Mike?
09:05Chronic bronchitis.
09:09Oh, I'm, er, Dennis, by the way.
09:11This is Neville. Pleased to meet you.
09:13Aye.
09:14Headley. Headley Irwin.
09:16Well, we're pleased to meet you, Headley.
09:18Sounds like you're a Geordie, Headley.
09:19Aye.
09:20No, I'm bloody not.
09:21I'm from Darlington.
09:23Oh, well, aye.
09:24We're from just up the road.
09:25Aye.
09:26Never been back to Blighty since 1946.
09:30Never?
09:31How come?
09:32Not after what they did to me.
09:34Who?
09:35The British.
09:37Look, it's a long story.
09:40I'll tell you when I'm more up to it.
09:44Listen, er...
09:47Would you, would you like us to come back and see you again?
09:49I mean, the sister said that you didn't have anybody, like.
09:52So, so to sale, man.
09:54It's not the first time I've been here, man.
09:56At least it's the last.
09:58Oh, get away, man.
09:59You've got to trust the staff.
10:03What are you hiding in there, eh?
10:04Nothing.
10:05Don't you start.
10:07Look, I'll tell you what.
10:08We'll make a deal with you, right?
10:09You cough up whatever it is you're hiding.
10:10Me, Neville.
10:11We'll come back and see you again.
10:12There you are.
10:13You're as bad as them buggers out there.
10:15How are you, Headley, man?
10:17We can bring you fruit or books or whatever you need.
10:20I need some slivers.
10:22And some soap.
10:23Right.
10:24You've got them.
10:25Go wear a coffin or whatever it is.
10:40Are you trying to kill yourself, Headley?
10:42Aye.
10:47We look all right at night, don't we?
10:49You know, in dimly lip bars and that.
10:51Yeah, well, you know, I mean, we're both fairly attractive men, Mocs.
10:55They have regular features and the like and that.
10:58It's just in the skin stakes we're lacking, innit?
11:01Yeah, but if the sun's raised at that beneficial...
11:03Look, it's in the book, Mocs.
11:05Yeah, but what I'm saying is, we'd be better off in Saudi Arabia
11:08or some other equatorial crap hole instead of here.
11:11I've got a cousin in Jeddy, you know, but the raisin's very strict yourself.
11:19Hey.
11:23We could get a sun lamp.
11:24Oh.
11:25You know, go to one of them places, sun and a massage.
11:27Eh?
11:28Not an handjob dive.
11:29Somewhere legit.
11:30You know, with a receptionist in magazines and that.
11:32I'll have a look in the book, see what it says about artificial sunlight.
11:38Give us another one here, Adolf.
11:40Yeah.
11:41Do you want the refill there, Mocsie?
11:44Oh, cheers, Adolf.
11:45Yeah, great.
11:46Go there, Mondeholt.
11:47What about a drink?
11:48Here, here it is.
11:49Sunlight and artificial sunlight are both of extreme value as auxiliary healing agents.
11:58And, erm, the auxiliary's on the lines.
12:01Is that good or bad?
12:03Well, it's, erm...
12:05Well, it's good, like.
12:07It's good if used in conjunction with, erm, with fasting, dieting, manipulation.
12:13Well, er, do you want this beer or are you fasting?
12:17Oh, cheers, Oz.
12:18Er, et cetera, et cetera.
12:20If I had to scratch, I'd go to one of them L Spars.
12:24Oh, the L Spars.
12:25There's a lot of those in Germany, you know.
12:26But they're all down in the south, like.
12:28Spars?
12:29Is that one of them places where the duck cripples and they can get out of their chairs and walk?
12:33No, I think the main thing's to eliminate toxins.
12:36Yeah, it's just a job for us, Barry.
12:38Oh.
12:39I told him you had to wear it, though.
12:41What, you two skinned?
12:42Who isn't?
12:43Aye, aye, that's for certain.
12:45But, hey, listen.
12:46This could be, er, your lucky day today.
12:49How's that?
12:50Well, I've, erm...
12:52Ha, ha, yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:54Listen.
12:55I've met this Eric, right?
12:57And he's got his hands on this, er...
12:59Well, he deals in this, er, product, right?
13:02Now, my idea is if I can raise the reddies, I'm gonna buy in, ship it back to the UK and I'm gonna make a fortune.
13:09Fortune?
13:10Well, there's more in a round of drinks and I can guarantee you that.
13:12And, er, you want us to come in with you, like?
13:14Well, you're not gonna get another chance like this.
13:19What is it?
13:25Reckon I can have a walking cast in a couple of days.
13:27Get back to work, at least.
13:29Is that bleeding us his fault, innit?
13:32Mostly.
13:35You know, I reckon he should give you half his crack, don't you, Dennis?
13:38You should, Dad.
13:39Here you go, bum.
13:40Cup of tea.
13:41Cheers, Dennis.
13:45Hey, we'll make this funny.
13:46We'll plough down the crank here.
13:49Quite a character, really.
13:51Oh, yeah.
13:52Aye, he was English.
13:53But he hates the Brits.
13:56What, was he a patient or something?
13:58Yeah.
13:59Aye, chronic bronchitic.
14:01Hey, and you'll never guess what he was trying to hide in his bed.
14:04Penthouse.
14:0626.
14:07Untipped.
14:09What a character!
14:13Aye, come over from Darlington in 1946.
14:15Never been back since.
14:18Well, you can't hold that against him, can you?
14:21Where's the rest of our happy household, then?
14:24Dunno.
14:26Suppose they've gone down to pictures or something.
14:38This is what you want us to invest in.
14:41Yeah, we'll be like importers and distributors, see?
14:43I've never seen anything like it in my life.
14:48I told you, didn't I?
14:49I told you it was disgusting.
14:51It's depraved!
14:55It's despicable!
14:57It's grotesque.
15:00Count me in, Oz.
15:04What started all this off?
15:09Staff Sergeant Hedley Irwin.
15:10Treble 2-1-5-7-0-9.
15:12Sir.
15:14Just take it easy, Elliot.
15:15It's all right, man.
15:16Is that it?
15:17Just lie back.
15:20This one?
15:21Aye, that's it.
15:23I was in the war, you know, as well.
15:26And me vocupation
15:28stayed on.
15:30Yanks.
15:32The Ivins.
15:34And us.
15:36Take it easy, Elliot.
15:37It's all right.
15:39It's all right.
15:41Well, you see, when the war was over,
15:43the British, the Americans, the French and the Russians,
15:46they stayed in Germany to, like, occupy it.
15:48You know, to administer it, like...
15:51Well, Hedley, he was obviously in the British lot.
15:59Non-fraternisation.
16:01That's what they called it.
16:03You weren't allowed to mix.
16:05But a lot of jellies worked for us.
16:08But you weren't allowed to fraternise.
16:11Socially.
16:13Verboten.
16:16She worked at Command Headquarters.
16:19On the switchboard she worked.
16:22Spoke the bloody lingo, didn't she?
16:25So, what did you do that was so terrible, then?
16:28Well, you married her, didn't I?
16:34Nurse!
16:36Hey, the rules were ever so strict.
16:38Even when our lot wanted to pick up the kids from school,
16:41they weren't allowed to talk to the German parents.
16:43I think that's terrible, don't you?
16:45Seems a bit unnecessary, seeing as the war was over.
16:49Seems perfectly logical to me.
16:51I mean, if I'd spent six years fighting the krauts,
16:55the last thing I'd want to do would be to fraternise with them in the local.
16:59Aye, but the war was over, Ours.
17:01Aye, precious comfort was on.
17:03Precious comfort was on me uncle Dan,
17:05who got a leg blown up in Tripoli.
17:07Can I see him wanting to buy a round of drinks
17:09for the buggers who blow it up in the first place?
17:11Well, the Germans suffered too.
17:13Everybody suffered one way or another.
17:15So what happened to old Hedley, then?
17:17He married her, didn't he?
17:18Saw the cashiered him, hide him out of the army.
17:22No pension, nothing.
17:24Hey, it's tragic when you think about it.
17:27My granny suffered an all, you know.
17:29Flattened her with a bomb on her way back from the black horse.
17:32Poor Sue has only lived out for a milk stout.
17:34It's the moral question you have to consider, Ours.
17:44What are you talking about?
17:46They've got these in England, you know.
17:48And all these so-called respectable middle-class suburbanites.
17:52Every Saturday night stuck round a video with a couple of loggers in line,
17:56group sex.
17:58There's no wonder how much of the deer's kaput.
18:01Well, if they've already got them back home.
18:04Where's our market?
18:06Well, I haven't got them like the ones you saw, man.
18:08They've got porn, fair enough.
18:09But not heavy-duty porn, like the crouts turn out.
18:12I mean, aren't our people back home, sales managers, even Lord Mayers,
18:16thought we'd pay well over the odds for what we've got our hands on.
18:19I'm telling you, right up there, Strasser.
18:21I must admit, after what I'd seen, you'd be all pressed to pick up anything like that
18:26in the Corp in Dudley High Street.
18:28What? You're telling me?
18:29Listen, man.
18:30What we've got our hands on here is the creme de la creme of filth, you know.
18:35And this could just be the start.
18:37I mean, we could become world leaders in my field.
18:42Before we enter into anything of this, er...
18:45Er...
18:47Magnitude.
18:48Magnitude, right.
18:50Perhaps we should have another look.
18:52Yeah.
19:00So.
19:02They get better, right?
19:04Worse, you mean.
19:06Worse is better, man, for our needs.
19:07I did it.
19:08Well made, like.
19:09Oh, but of course.
19:11There's good photographing, attractive people.
19:13There's a very good story.
19:15Good story's important to me.
19:17That's what you can't get in England, you see.
19:19A good story, like, with plenty of humping.
19:21Oh, right.
19:23Is this your soul line of business, like?
19:26Oh, no, no.
19:27There's also the books and the, er...
19:29What do you call it, er...
19:30Mail order.
19:31And then, of course, I have such clubs like this for massars, sauna, sunlamp.
19:36Did you say sunlamp?
19:38Oh, but yes.
19:40If we are to be in business, then you must feel free to take advantage of the, erm...
19:45Premises.
19:48Oh, he's got the dunes on, look.
19:50Mustn't be too good.
19:52Aye.
19:53Oh, it's rotten to be old, isn't it?
19:57Be old and sick and on your own.
20:00Aye, it must be, aye.
20:02See them back home and all, don't you?
20:05Queuing up pension day outside the post office.
20:09Hunched up against that cold wind.
20:12Sitting in front of a one-bar gas fire with a tin of pet food.
20:16Oh, knock it off, my Neville.
20:19Well?
20:20Well, there's no need to be so bloody maudlin.
20:23Aye, I'm ten years nearer pension day than you, remember?
20:26I'll see you all right, Dennis.
20:29You come over Sundays and Brenda will do your leg alarm.
20:32Hello, you come again?
20:33Yeah.
20:35Er, is he not too good?
20:36No, not today.
20:38Oh, wait.
20:39Could you just give him these three oranges and tell him what popped in?
20:42No, no, you see him, it will be good for him.
20:44Just a little time, yes?
20:46Look.
20:48Your friends are here.
20:50Oh, really?
20:51Just a few minutes, yes?
20:55Am I still here?
20:57Of course you're still here.
20:58Where do you think you were going to, like?
21:00You may well ask.
21:02What's this then, Haley?
21:04Been going through your things again, have you?
21:07I'd like to put my affairs in order.
21:08Aye, what's this?
21:09Leave that bugger alone, it's got nothing to do with you.
21:12Oh, I saw you.
21:14Some of the things are private, you know.
21:20Hey, you've got a sister.
21:27He's all right.
21:28He's all right now.
21:30Just put that tin away.
21:32Have you ever been to Dio's?
21:46Eh?
21:48Went before the war, he had a farm.
21:51Who?
21:52An uncle and uncle.
21:54Before the war, we went by train.
21:57They called us townies.
21:59Went to the sink couch.
22:01Off fields.
22:03Was this your sister and you?
22:04She was there.
22:06My mum, my dad.
22:08Oh, Norman got drunk.
22:10Dad took his belt off.
22:12He couldn't sit down.
22:15He wanted to cry, but he wouldn't.
22:18Not a front of us.
22:19Not a front of the youngins.
22:21Norman must have been his big brother, eh?
22:24He could have been, eh?
22:26Saw you had some happy times, Hedley, eh?
22:29Eh, well, God bit.
22:31The God bit, eh?
22:39Oh, he's been leaving, eh?
22:42Sorry.
22:50Oh, he's okay, eh?
22:51He'd, er...
22:52He'd turn blue if he was bad, never.
22:53You know how I'm gonna look after him, don't you, Dad?
22:55Oh, you'll look after me when I get all over, won't you, Nev?
22:56Promise.
22:57You're one fan of you.
22:58Huh?
23:00I'm not walking too fast for you, am I, Grandad?
23:01Eh, where are we gonna put the videos, you know, for safekeeping, Lee?
23:02Well, just keep them in the hood.
23:03That's a bit dodgy, don't you, Nev?
23:04No, no, there's not that many.
23:05They'll be all right, man.
23:06I'll be later, you know, when we expand.
23:07Well, we'll just rent a warehouse.
23:08There you go, boy.
23:09I've got a bit of that.
23:10Ha, ha, ha, ha!
23:11Hey, I'm gonna get all over, won't you, Nev?
23:12Promise.
23:13You're one fan of you.
23:14I'm not walking too fast for you, am I, Grandad?
23:15Yeah, right!
23:17Eh...
23:18Where are we gonna put the videos, you know, for safekeeping, Lee?
23:20Well, just keep them in the hood.
23:21That's a bit dodgy, these girls.
23:23No, no, there's not that many, they'll be all right, man.
23:26Ah, but later, you know, when we expand...
23:28Well, we'll just rent a warehouse.
23:31Here you go, Bob.
23:33Have a bit of that.
23:35Ha, ha, ha, ha!
23:38Hey, you lucky devil, a dain kid, eh?
23:43Well, you'd better put a wound on you, lads.
23:45That didn't really lads.
23:46Hey, hey, hey.
23:47What you three been up to, eh?
23:48You been in that car seat for hours?
23:50Nothing.
23:51Yeah.
23:53Nice and comfortable there, bummer.
23:55Oh, I'd rather be on the site making crack.
23:57Ah, well, these things happen, you know.
24:08We'd better get a shift on, then, eh?
24:17Yeah, we'd better get a shift on.
24:19Er, yeah, right.
24:21Er, I'll just get an anky.
24:22Right.
24:27Yeah, ta-ra, ta-ra, bum.
24:29Ta-ra, bum.
24:31What's up?
24:38OK.
24:56Lesbian lost?
24:58Hey, my cousin's getting married.
25:00Yeah?
25:01Yeah.
25:02Blimey, it's on Saturday.
25:04Yeah, watch that panic.
25:05Bet she's in the club, eh?
25:07Will he go?
25:09Well, I suppose so.
25:12For your good knees up, you know, knowing Keef's dad,
25:14he'll pull out all the stops, see?
25:16If he's out of Maidstone, like.
25:19Now, I ought to go. I owe it to young Keef.
25:21See, he sort of looks up to me, you know?
25:24I mean, in our family, I'm like a hero figure to him, Nev.
25:28What?
25:29You ain't seen the rest of our family, have you?
25:32Yeah, Oz.
25:33What?
25:34There's, er...
25:35Something's been bothering us, you know.
25:37What, sir?
25:38The videos.
25:39How are we going to get them back to the UK?
25:42Well, I just take them back ourselves and my kit when we go back.
25:44Oh, hey.
25:45Bit bloody chancy, that.
25:47I mean, what we're doing is illegal.
25:49We don't have an import licence.
25:50Especially don't have an import licence for depraved filth.
25:53Look, man, we risk it, man.
25:54I mean, the property makes the risk worthwhile, doesn't it?
25:57They always turn us lots over at customs.
25:59Especially you with an earring.
26:02I'll just take it out.
26:04Oh, we still bait us lots.
26:05Overseas workers, we always are.
26:08Well, what about Barry?
26:09He can take them in.
26:09Barry?
26:10Barry?
26:11Oh, it's smuggling.
26:12He'll faint if they so much as look at him.
26:17Oh, I had best thinking about, eh?
26:19I mean, they've only got to ask him his date of birth and he'll confess the law.
26:22Okay, bum, we'll shoot off and see, er, Henny.
26:30Yeah, we'll check with you later.
26:31Okay, bum?
26:32Right, lads, I'll put myself in the capable hands of this young Fraulein.
26:35Aye, who wouldn't, eh?
26:37Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Auf Wiedersehen.
26:38Oh, you come again?
26:47Yeah.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Have you moved him?
26:49I'm sorry he's died.
26:51Really?
26:53It was expected.
26:55But he was only here yesterday.
26:58Of course, but...
26:59Yeah, Neville, I mean...
27:00One minute.
27:01Like the sister says, you know, it was for the best it was expected.
27:05He has no famine in Germany since his wife's death.
27:09Yeah, yeah, I mean...
27:10Vorsicht, Vorsicht, darf es bitte vorbei.
27:12Dankeschön.
27:14So perhaps you wish to take these.
27:15Oh, okay then, thanks.
27:19He was looking at these before he...
27:21It was the last thing he was hoarding.
27:24Really?
27:31Can't believe it.
27:33Aye.
27:35Shakes you up a bit, son, doesn't it?
27:38I've never experienced death before, not first-hand.
27:42I mean, my dad died, but I was just a nipper.
27:47A few relatives I hardly knew.
27:50Well, we...
27:50We barely knew him, I mean, did we?
27:53Oh, we were getting to know him, though, weren't we?
27:56And then next day, just like that?
27:59You see, Neville, I mean, you're a young lad, you know?
28:01I mean, you go to christenings and weddings.
28:04You know, once you start getting a bit older, you get used to going to funerals, you know?
28:11I suppose, sir.
28:15What's those?
28:17Some old postcards.
28:20Lake District.
28:22Vale of Evesham.
28:23I mean, you know, despite what the old bugger said, I reckon he missed England after all, you know.
28:31Where will he be buried, Dennis?
28:33Well, here, I suppose.
28:34I mean, he didn't have anybody else, did he?
28:36He had a sister.
28:38So what?
28:41I think he'd have wanted to go back home.
28:45No, no, no.
28:46No, don't, no, don't.
28:47No.
28:49All right, everybody.
28:50Look, I'd be really obliged, right, if nobody laughs.
28:55Laughs at what?
28:57Your face.
28:58I can't guarantee that.
28:59Now, listen, this is serious.
29:01Well, come inside and shut the door, will you?
29:02All right, I will.
29:03I will, but listen, as long as it's strictly understood, right,
29:07All right, well, ain't one shut the door to me, all right?
29:10All right.
29:20All right, well, let's go to the sun lamp, right, go under the sun lamp, and he, he promises to wake me up.
29:46Yeah, well, I forgot, didn't I?
29:47I'm sorry.
29:49I got involved in a film and I forgot.
29:52It'll wear off in time, Barry.
29:54Probably end up with a great tan.
29:56No, I won't, because I peel, I do.
29:58Yeah, well, you just make sure you peel over in your bed space, son.
30:02Look, it's not funny, right?
30:03It is.
30:06Very painful.
30:08What's all that?
30:10Oh, it was all Headley's.
30:13Oh, how is he?
30:14He, er, he died today.
30:20Oh.
30:22Poor old sod.
30:24All lifetime and a biscuit tin.
30:27I'll buy him out of more than that.
30:31Eh, look, lads, now that you're all here, there's, er, something that, that Neville and I wanted to talk over with you.
30:37Oh, what's up?
30:38Well, you see, the thing is, we reckon the old fellow would have wanted to have gone home.
30:43I thought he hated Blighty.
30:45Well, he said he did, Bomber, but, you see, the last things he was looking at was photographs of England.
30:49Aye, and last time we seen him, he was getting very sentimental, like.
30:53Yeah.
30:53Now, I know the rest of you didn't know the old bloke and you're not beholden or anything like that, but, well, you see, the thing is, we just don't fancy the idea of being buried here.
31:02How much will it cost, you know, to send the body back?
31:06Well, I don't know yet.
31:07Er, you see, we were all waiting on you, you know, to see how you felt in principle, but, er, I've been out to the hospital authorities and they're waiting on us.
31:15Sounds fair enough.
31:16What family's he got?
31:17Well, we've got the address of his sister.
31:20Oh, we'll give her a bell, then, eh?
31:21Oh, we'll trade that.
31:22She's not on the phone.
31:24Send a telegram, then.
31:25Well, that doesn't seem advisable, Barry, see, I mean, she can't be any spring chicken herself.
31:29I mean, you know, if she gets bad news like this, I mean, the shock could kill her.
31:32Anyways, see, the point is, she only lives in Hemel Hempstead, and we thought it's...
31:36And you're going back for the weekend, we are?
31:38Nah, nah, nah, do me a favour, lads.
31:40Oh, wait, man, it's only a short train ride from London.
31:42Yeah.
31:43You could drop and just break the news gently to her and maybe give her her stings.
31:46Aye, I mean, if she's flush, she'll probably pay the expenses.
31:48I'm sorry, wouldn't it?
31:49I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
31:49No, I mean, we can all chip in, can't we?
31:51No, no, I said, I'm sorry.
31:53I'm going back for the wedding, right?
31:55Okay, I've got the old weekend mapped out.
31:57Gonna buy me some clothes, get meself strapped, and go and get drunk with the legs.
32:02Well, what a despicable attitude, eh?
32:06I hope you'll never die abroad, London.
32:09Here.
32:09Hang about.
32:10Yeah?
32:11You never knew him, Os.
32:12Well, he was a Brit, wasn't he?
32:13I mean, if us Brits kind of stick together in a foreign land, who can, eh?
32:17I mean, I think this man deserves to be late to rest on his native soil, eh?
32:21Yeah, well, if you feel that strongly about it...
32:24Well, it's the only decent thing to do, man, isn't it?
32:26All right?
32:27All right, all right.
32:28Great.
32:28I just hope God puts this in my plus column when I snuff it, mate.
32:32You can do the few credits, boy.
32:33It's the only decent thing to do, isn't it?
32:35Thanks, Os.
32:40No, it's nothing.
32:42You can do the same or me something.
32:44Well, not for a way, I hope.
32:45One does never cease.
32:58Are you, er, Catholic, Os?
33:00Not that I know of, what for?
33:02Well, I mean, you must be some sort of Christian.
33:05I never knew you had such depth of conviction.
33:09Moxie, Mum, we've just formed my import license, man.
33:12This old man, he was a relative of one of you?
33:15Oh, no.
33:17He was perhaps a close friend of one of you?
33:20Not really.
33:23But, er, you wish to go to the expense?
33:25To send the body to be buried in England?
33:27Oh, yes, well, you see, Ulrich, there's a principle involved here.
33:31Yeah, yeah, we thought you might know the procedure, like.
33:34Are you feeling all right?
33:37Fine, thanks.
33:39Er, can you help us out here, Ulrich?
33:42An Irishman has died here before two years.
33:45I remember his friends made a collection.
33:48How you say, a whip it out.
33:51A whip it, er, a whip it round.
33:53Whip it round, yeah.
33:54Whip it round.
33:55On this occasion, I had to with the authorities.
34:00With the German law, when a body is sent out of the country,
34:03it must first be embalmed.
34:06Embalmed?
34:07Yeah.
34:08No, it makes sense, that does, doesn't it?
34:10No, it's a question of hygiene, sanitation, like.
34:13I know that, because...
34:14The body must then be placed in a metal container.
34:16This must be sealed before the British Consul.
34:19Why?
34:20To see that the container has only the body inside it.
34:22In case the smuggle hasn't been.
34:24Of course, for this coffin is perfect.
34:27Many have tried to hide guns and rifles.
34:29Yeah, and see your point of your ship and paddies back to Belfast.
34:32Shut up, man, yours.
34:33Well, he's only gone as far as Hemel Hempstead.
34:35Well, the law is the law.
34:36Is this going to be very expensive, Herlory?
34:40Go to England by air.
34:42At least 5,000 marks, I think.
34:44And then you must pay for the coffin, too.
34:46But he's in this metal container?
34:48Oh, come on, now.
34:50Mama can't send him back in that.
34:52What do these people think?
34:53They're getting a tin of sardines.
34:56Look, Herlory, could you look into it
34:58and find out and let us know what it is like?
35:01Yeah, I will try.
35:02You are sure you are feeling well?
35:12Oh, Herlory's right.
35:13You are very red.
35:15Blood pressure, perhaps.
35:17You must be careful.
35:18If not, you too are going home in a metal box.
35:21Well, which is it all going to cost?
35:28It's going to cost a lot of money, Nev.
35:30Well, I can't see Hedley's sister being very well off,
35:33not because she can't even afford a telephone.
35:34Oh, yeah, no, we're not the only Brits on the seat, man.
35:36I mean, the Paddy's going to have a work round short, haven't we?
35:41What's it come to?
35:41I'll see them.
35:42Oh, you need some by the looks of it.
35:4489.41.
35:47742 marks.
35:50742.
35:50Right, at today's rate,
35:52as quoted in the Daily Mail,
35:55that comes to...
35:58er...
35:59197 pounds, 0.34042, approximately.
36:03Another 86 quid in Stirling.
36:05That's, er...
36:06283 quid.
36:08Not forgetting the 0.34042.
36:11Amazes me to everyone, Cloughdap.
36:13Well, that was down to ours, mostly.
36:15You know, you went right across town to that multi-storey car park.
36:18Put the squeeze on all the British lads there.
36:20Where is he now?
36:23Well, he's only down a timber store, isn't he?
36:25He's got Barry and Moxie sawing for all their worth.
36:28Hey, it staggers me, frankly.
36:29I mean, ours of all people.
36:31Hey, I've said some very harsh things about him in the past.
36:34Well, you all have.
36:35It just shows you how mistaken it can be about somebody.
36:38Yeah.
36:38What a great idea.
36:41Eh?
36:42Look, are you sure this'll work, Oz?
36:45Of course it'll work to go on up the journey, man.
36:47Hey, how must you bung the chippies?
36:49Never mind what I bung the chippies.
36:50Just keep an eye out there, man.
36:51I can't help feeling bad about it, you know.
36:54I mean, it just feels wrong somehow.
36:56We'll have to admit to grave misgivings.
36:59Oh, bloody.
37:00I'm sorry.
37:01I don't know what he means, though.
37:03There's something sacrilegious about it, you know, tampering with the dead.
37:06What?
37:07We're not tampering, man.
37:09Look, just looking at it this way, Headley's going home, isn't he?
37:11And he's just taking some stuff across for us on his way.
37:14It's all the same.
37:16I've still got a sense of doom, you know.
37:18As if dire retribution will inevitably follow.
37:22Look, we're kind of back down now, man.
37:24Not now we've come this far.
37:25I mean, all our cash is tied up in this, in case you forgot.
37:28But, I mean, we didn't get this lot on sale or return, you know.
37:31Yeah, he's right there, buddy.
37:33We've got to see it through now.
37:36Right.
37:38I've only got room for one more.
37:40What's it going to be, then?
37:41Convent night or the wicked ways of wonder?
37:43Oh, wicked, wasn't it?
37:44Convent night.
37:46I can't.
37:47Look, all I need is hassle at the customs.
37:48Anything irregular, they're down on me, like a ton of bricks.
37:50Look, look, man, there's going to be nothing irregular about it, man.
37:53It's all legal and above board, man.
37:54The British consul himself is going to be there.
37:57He's going to give it a proper stamp.
37:59There's going to be paperwork, documentation.
38:01Look, all you've got to do is to find a little bit of room in the back of your wagon.
38:06I don't know.
38:06The company wouldn't like it.
38:08Well, man, you don't.
38:10You don't have to tell the company, man.
38:12I mean, look, I'm going to meet you in London.
38:13I'll take over everything from there.
38:15I'll handle everything.
38:17And I'll bung you 50 quid for your expenses.
38:20Well, maybe you can guarantee I won't get delayed.
38:22Of course, sir, on this job, time is money.
38:25You know what I'm saying?
38:26Oh, God.
38:27You know, I mean, it would have meant a lot to the old fella to be planted on British soil.
38:33And, I mean, the cost of the year is crippling, you know.
38:4175?
38:43You're all right, I'll...
38:44Ah, small-laked Bernie.
38:47Here, two bottles you had, Adolf.
38:49You know what I can't understand is why anybody want to come here for a holiday in the first place.
38:54Ah, well, he always went his own way, you know, did me grander.
38:58Let me see if I've got this straight right here.
39:00Your mate, Bernie, is willing to take this coffin all the way to London for nothing?
39:05Well, I never said for nothing.
39:06I had to borrow him 100 quid.
39:08But, er, I'll get that bug out the whip round money.
39:10Well, where does he pick it up from?
39:12The undertakers.
39:13See, all it means is a couple of yous will have to take the coffin down there,
39:17and then he'll stick the body in it, and then you'll have to pay him, right?
39:20Well, there should be a nut money left out of the whip round for that.
39:23And then, er, my mate Bernie says he'll pick it up about four o'clock.
39:28But what does Bernie do when he gets to London?
39:30Somehow the body's got to end up in Emil Hempstead.
39:31Now, don't give me none of your Emil Hempstead, son.
39:34I'm leaving tonight, OK?
39:36I'm perfectly prepared to whip round there tomorrow lunchtime,
39:38but Saturday's the day of the wedding.
39:40Well, erm, I may be able to help out there, lads.
39:43OK.
39:44Well, it just so happens I've got to go back this weekend.
39:47What's up, Mike?
39:48It's me granda.
39:50Death's door.
39:52Marjorie wrote, you know, told us.
39:53He never mentioned this before?
39:55No, well, it was a bit personal, you know, Dennis.
39:57Anyway, he's in this, er, London hospital, and he's been asking for us.
40:01What's he doing down London?
40:03He was on his holidays, and, er, he took queer, apparently,
40:05so I thought, well, at least I could do his go over, you know.
40:08Killed two birds at once, don't you mean?
40:10Well, I hope not, bummer.
40:11Oh, hey, Oz, I don't know what to say.
40:13No, no, it's nothing, man.
40:14Wayne can go up there tomorrow, see the old girl,
40:17tell her she hasn't got a thing to worry about.
40:19She'll have her long-lost brother back with her on Saturday.
40:21Well, sign settled and delivered, so to speak, eh?
40:26You go to all this bother for a bloke you don't even know.
40:29I think that's great, actually.
40:31Why don't you go back away tonight?
40:32No, I'll, er, I'll do another day's work, Dennis, you know.
40:35I'll go back tomorrow.
40:37Hey, Wayne, maybe we could come back together, though.
40:40Fancy it?
40:41Eh?
40:42Oh, well, I suppose so, yeah.
40:44Well, look, you've got me phone number, haven't you?
40:45Aye.
40:46Yeah, we'll get us a bell, then, eh?
40:47Ray, we'll do. Cheers.
40:48Well, I'll be off then, lads.
40:50Good luck tomorrow, Wayne.
40:52Aye, break the news to her gently, son, know what I mean?
40:54Well, you know me, mate.
40:55I'm the sole attack, don't I?
40:56Yeah.
40:57All those with brothers, still alive in Germany, one pace forward.
41:01Not so fast, Mrs. Hilton.
41:02See you later.
41:04Adios.
41:05Come on, mate.
41:05Come on, mate.
41:05Come on.
41:06No, I'm sorry, Mux.
41:08It's our whole enterprise.
41:09It's already set me back quite a bit, all right?
41:12And now I was wanting to chip in for his buddy, Erfie.
41:16And why can't he get to rob his mate Bernay?
41:19Oh, don't be so soft, Barry.
41:21Oz can't do that.
41:22Because he knows what's in the...
41:24Coffin.
41:25It's the first rule of smuggling, that.
41:27You always get someone to take the stuff through.
41:29Don't know they've got it.
41:31Oh, I say.
41:33That never occurred to me, that, wouldn't you?
41:36No, well, you have led a very sheltered life, haven't you?
41:43It's going to leave me very sheltered this month, you know.
41:45Most of my whack goes directly back to my gold nigger account at the building.
41:49Look, look, look, look, man, Barry, man.
41:51Look, I'm going to be back on Sunday.
41:53You'll get all your money back then, man, with interest.
41:56Hey, can you get rid of them, Doc, quick?
41:58Yeah, well, I know this bloke up in the north...
42:00I know a lot of bloke's who do us.
42:02Look, man, Barry, come on.
42:04We're all set, man.
42:05We're all set, man.
42:35Excuse me.
42:50Yes?
42:51Is this the owner of Mrs Mabel Hilton?
42:53Yes.
42:55You must be Mr Hilton then, huh?
42:56Yes.
42:57It'll come round here.
42:59Is this about the estimate for the roof?
43:03You what?
43:04No, no.
43:05Oh, well, we've waited long enough for it.
43:08He was supposed to come last Tuesday and he never turned up.
43:12And Mabel's stayed in all day.
43:14Missed the shops.
43:16Look, is Mabel in?
43:19She's at the Lord Red.
43:20Who are you, then?
43:23My name's Wayne.
43:25But I'm afraid I bought you and your good lady wife some rather unpleasant news.
43:30It is about that blooming roof.
43:32No, no, it's not.
43:33It's not.
43:33It's about Mabel's brother, Hedley.
43:37Hedley?
43:37Yeah.
43:38What about him?
43:39I'm afraid he's died, sir.
43:44I thought he died years ago.
43:49It's bloody heavy, this year.
43:49It is bloody heavy.
43:51I'm aware, man, I'm aware.
43:53Find your finger.
43:54That's all right, that's all right.
43:55Just get it on.
43:57Right, look, I'm off.
43:59I'll go to the undertakers, do the paperwork, and then I'm off to the airport, right?
44:02Good luck, Oz.
44:03Right, all the best, Oz.
44:08You know what?
44:09I'm glad to see the back of that coffin, to tell you the truth.
44:11Oh, the sickle went last night, you know.
44:14Get Inspector Vincent Price to step out of it.
44:22Here we are.
44:24Oh, thanks, Mr. Oven.
44:26Bob.
44:27Call me Bob.
44:28Hmm.
44:30Oh.
44:32Yeah.
44:34No, I never knew Hedley.
44:36I wouldn't know him from Adam.
44:37He was in Germany when I married Mabel, and he never came back.
44:41Hmm?
44:42Yeah.
44:42She never speaks about him.
44:44Yeah.
44:44Well, I never knew him myself, squire.
44:46So it was me mates who I met him.
44:48I bought this.
44:51Some of his bits and pieces.
44:54There's nothing of any value, you know, except sentimental.
44:58That'll be the wife.
45:01Put your glass onto the mat, will you?
45:03Because she doesn't like beer stains on the miocony.
45:05Oh, no.
45:07Hello, love.
45:08We've got visitors.
45:09Oh, yes.
45:11I'll just get me things off.
45:12Hello, uh, Mrs. Elton.
45:15My name's Wayne.
45:17He comes from Germany.
45:18Oh.
45:18Well, it's not about the roof, then.
45:20He knew Hedley.
45:22Hedley?
45:23Yeah, uh, some of my mates met him in this hospital.
45:27He's dead, Mabel.
45:29Put the kettle on, dear.
45:31It, yes, of course, dear.
45:32Look, um, I'm sorry, but it was quite peaceful, Lake.
45:42Sit down, young man.
45:43Right, thanks.
45:48Who did you say you knew Hedley?
45:51Well, I didn't.
45:52Not directly, you see.
45:53Me mates did.
45:55Apparently, he was quite a character from all accounts.
45:57Anyhow, well, just before he passed on, like, he was showing the lads these things.
46:04You know, photos and that.
46:06That's how we got your address.
46:08And, well, me and me mates, we thought he'd like to be buried here in England.
46:13But if he's died in Germany, he should be buried in Germany, shouldn't he?
46:17Eh?
46:18But he's your brother, isn't he?
46:20That, young man, is my misfortune.
46:24Hedley was a wicked, wicked man.
46:27He left a wife here in 1943, met up with some German girl,
46:33and poor Nora's never heard a word since.
46:36Not had a penny, neither.
46:38He always was a wrong'un.
46:40And I don't expect times made a farthing's difference.
46:43Hold on.
46:44He got turned over by the army, didn't he?
46:47I mean, cashiered for fraternisation.
46:49They chucked him out, if that's what you mean.
46:52But it wasn't for fraternisation.
46:54It was for selling 2,000 British Army headlamps to the Russians.
47:00Oh, he was nothing more than bad news, our Hedley.
47:05And if you and your friends have got him, you can bloody well keep him.
47:09No, no, of course you did the right thing, weren't you, and the circumstances.
47:16Well, I mean, especially if she, er, if she feels like that about it.
47:20No, I'll, I'll phone the undertakers.
47:23Er, it'll not have left yet.
47:27Poor old Hedley, eh?
47:28Poor old Hedley.
47:29You're joking, aren't you?
47:30You're right little rascal.
47:32No, he made a fool of us right enough.
47:34He must have pulled a lot more over the arrows.
47:36You look a weird step, bomber.
47:38He wasn't past here, do you know?
47:41Court marshals, man.
47:42I still think it's a shame, especially after all the work we've put in.
47:45What, especially yours?
47:47Hey, yours will be at the airport.
47:49I'll have to get off to him, man.
47:49Oh, hey, aye.
47:52Wait a minute, then.
47:53Old bomber might be a bit on the slow side,
47:55but he's been giving us a lot of thought these last few days.
47:57What, you getting at?
47:58He had some scheme in mind about selling pornographic videos.
48:02Porn of videos?
48:04Adult, live at the give offence.
48:06Oh, he knows that, cos I saw him in his locker.
48:09Yeah, so, what?
48:11Well, I know they're not there now, cos I looked.
48:14And I don't want you to think I'm being vindictive
48:15just cos he mangled my foot.
48:18But I gone.
48:19And so was the coffin.
48:21Coffin?
48:22Oh, hey, I cannot believe that, bummer.
48:24Can't you, Neville, eh?
48:26Big haunted house all of a sudden.
48:28Sick granddads in London?
48:30Makes sense to me.
48:32Well, let's look at it this way.
48:34If he's really got a sick grandfather,
48:37then his trip's worthwhile.
48:38If he's been having us armed,
48:40he deserves everything he gets.
48:47I've made the money.
48:49Wah-ha!
48:50Get in!
48:52Hey, hey!
48:53Right on, St. Bernie.
48:55No bother with the customs?
48:56No, no, no, none at all.
48:58Hee-hee, dee-dee, leet-dee,
48:59great one, what'd I tell you, eh?
49:01Just one snaggles.
49:03I don't know all the details,
49:04but it was a last-minute change of plan.
49:06Eh?
49:06Come here, man!
49:17What are you doing here?
49:26Never mind, not what's up to Headley.
49:27She didn't want to know, mate.
49:28Aided the sight of him,
49:29but it's all right, I run her legs.
49:31So what's up to the body?
49:32Don't worry, it's been cremated.
49:35Oh, no!
49:36Oh, no!
49:38No!
49:40You know,
49:41I never thought you'd take it that badly, son.
49:44Ah!
49:44Ah!
49:44Ah!
49:44That's living all right.
49:54That's living all right.
49:55Then a pint with the boys
49:57in a bar full of noise.
49:59That's living all right.
50:01That's living all right.
50:03Working all day
50:05for the bids of hay.
50:07They're flowing all on Saturday night.
50:09Oh, you kiss the dames,
50:12but you don't ask their names.
50:14That's living all right.
50:18Working in the sun
50:19taking schnapps up and flood.
50:21That's living all right.
50:23That's living all right.
50:25Then a night on the town
50:27spreading it around.
50:29That's living all right.
50:31That's living all right.
50:33Working all day
50:34for a packet of hay.
50:36I'll send a little back to the wife.
50:39Still, you keep a little hill
50:41just to keep you in beer.
50:43That's living all right.
50:47Yeah, you play the game
50:49then it's happy to say
50:50that's living all right.
50:54And you kiss the dames
50:56but you don't ask their names.
50:58That's living all right.
51:00You're welcome.
51:01That's living all right.
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