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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) is a British comedy-drama starring Judi Dench, Ian Holm, and Leslie Caron. The story follows Elizabeth, a widow who rediscovers joy in life when she reunites with members of her wartime all-girl swing band. With music, laughter, and heart, the film celebrates friendship, second chances, and the power of music to bring people together.
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00:00:00I hate those stories that begin with a funeral, but I'm afraid this one started the day we
00:00:25buried George. Not that we buried him. In the interests of the environment, we had him incinerated.
00:00:33My children conducted the service. They believe in the environment, but they don't believe in priests or vicars.
00:00:44Our father died playing golf. On the long 15th, but right in the middle of the fairway.
00:00:50We thank him for being a terrific father and grandfather. It was his wish that we invite
00:00:57you all to raise a glass to his memory in the clubhouse after the ceremony.
00:01:02And it was also his wish that he should leave us accompanied by some of the music he loved best.
00:01:06For I am the Pirate King
00:01:13It is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King
00:01:20For I am the Pirate King
00:01:23You are the Pirate King
00:01:25And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King
00:01:29You are all right. As well as can be expected.
00:01:32For I am the Pirate King
00:01:33If you want to cry, go ahead.
00:01:36I just hate this fucking tune.
00:01:41I'll be glad when you're gone, you rascal, you're a Pirate King
00:01:46I'll be glad when you're gone, you rascal, you're a Pirate King
00:01:51You're glad in your great normal, you're a Pirate King
00:01:56I'll be glad when you're gone, glad when you're gone, glad when you're gone, glad when you're gone, that's for you
00:02:10Can't hang about. Apparently they have one of these every 20 minutes of this time of year.
00:02:14Well, who's going to tell her?
00:02:17I'll go
00:02:29What was that about the music?
00:02:31Well, when I was 15, we lived near a dance hall and there was a band
00:02:36and some girls who used to sing a song called
00:02:41I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you
00:02:44Never heard of it
00:02:45When they started to play that sentimental rubbish in the crematory in my shut right ears and that's what I heard
00:02:51I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you
00:02:53Yes, and I got a bit of the giggles. I'm very ashamed
00:02:56Was Grandpa a rascal?
00:02:59No
00:03:00He was anything but
00:03:04You may disagree, but
00:03:05No, I know what you mean
00:03:07But he was kind, wasn't he?
00:03:09I mean, he would always pat me on the head and give me a pound
00:03:13You and me both, sweetheart
00:03:16You all right now?
00:03:17Can you cope with the wake?
00:03:19Of course I can, dear
00:03:21Leave me to the golfers
00:03:30This is the BBC General Forces programme
00:03:33London suffered the heaviest bombardment since the 1940-41 blitz last night in German air raids over the capital
00:03:41About 175 enemy planes made scattered and indiscriminate attacks of London, their counties, South East England and East Anglia
00:03:50London's guns were again in action and the heaviest pound of the war was put up to count
00:04:00They even have a little catch as well
00:04:02They were all in action
00:04:04And there was a big deal
00:04:06Of course all the music
00:04:07But there was nothing
00:04:09No, it was his chance
00:04:10You saw an afternoon
00:04:12But there was a big deal
00:04:14We'll be in action
00:04:14We can do it
00:04:15I don't know
00:04:18The kid
00:04:21Oh, my God
00:04:24Oh, my God
00:04:26Oh, my God
00:04:26Oh, my God
00:04:27Oh, my God
00:04:28PIANO PLAYS
00:04:58PIANO PLAYS
00:05:28PIANO PLAYS
00:05:32So, uh, have you made any plans, Mum?
00:05:36I think I'll go for the crème brûlée.
00:05:38Oh, no.
00:05:39I didn't mean about the pudding.
00:05:42I meant, uh...
00:05:43Oh, life after death.
00:05:45Well, yes, I suppose so.
00:05:48Well, life goes on, much as it did when your father was alive.
00:05:51I still go to the library twice a week.
00:05:55I still watch the quiz programmes on television every afternoon.
00:05:58Sometimes I get the answers right.
00:06:00I go out every Thursday with my children to some trendy restaurant.
00:06:04And I weep when necessary.
00:06:06Oh, and I look after Joanna when her parents want to expand their horizons.
00:06:11That's enough life for a woman half my age.
00:06:13Can you have her on Friday?
00:06:15We've got tickets to the Magic Flute.
00:06:16Fine.
00:06:17I'll cancel my darts night.
00:06:19You don't pick darts.
00:06:25Oh, isn't that lovely?
00:06:30What?
00:06:30If your pulse doesn't quicken when you hear Hoagy Carmichael stardust,
00:06:37then I've clearly failed as a mother.
00:06:41Thank you for lunch, my children.
00:06:44I'll see you next Thursday.
00:06:51Do you think she's turning into a dotty old woman?
00:06:54She's always done it.
00:06:55You talk to her and she makes all the right noises,
00:06:57but she isn't listening to you at all.
00:06:59She's listening to something going on inside her head.
00:07:03Whatever she's listening to now is just a bit further away.
00:07:16You're much too young to know those Jews.
00:07:19What makes you think I know them?
00:07:23You screwed up the changes into the middle eight.
00:07:26It was a good try.
00:07:27You're some sort of critic.
00:07:30No, don't worry.
00:07:33It's only if the audience notices you're in trouble.
00:07:35Don't give up.
00:07:53No, don't give up.
00:07:54Justied Afty, hang on.
00:07:56I don't know.
00:07:57Oh, I don't know.
00:08:01Oh, my God.
00:08:31Oh, my God.
00:09:01I didn't see you there.
00:09:15That was amazing.
00:09:19May I touch?
00:09:20Well, of course.
00:09:22I didn't know.
00:09:24Do you remember that dance hall I told you about?
00:09:28You rascal, you.
00:09:31Well, I played in the band.
00:09:33Did women do that, then?
00:09:35What do you know about the war?
00:09:36The 1939-45?
00:09:38We beat Germany 1-0.
00:09:40It was an upside-down world.
00:09:42Women drove ambulances and worked in shipyards and I played in a band.
00:09:50We called ourselves the Blonde Bombshells.
00:09:53Were you a star?
00:09:54Well, we played on the wireless once.
00:09:56You were a star.
00:09:57Yes.
00:09:58Damn it, I was a star.
00:09:59Come on.
00:10:01Come on.
00:10:03Grandma, why did you stop?
00:10:30I stopped when the war stopped.
00:10:33Then I was a wife and a mother and a grandmother.
00:10:37It was just something I did before I grew up.
00:10:41But you carried on playing.
00:10:42Well, I used to practice when your grandpa was out playing golf.
00:10:45But you're the first person to hear me for, dear God, nearly half a century.
00:10:55That's terrible.
00:10:59Joanna, I need your advice.
00:11:03I'll try.
00:11:05What's the best way of showing respect for the dead?
00:11:10That's easy.
00:11:11We go on living.
00:11:12You're truly amazing.
00:11:41You're too good to be basking.
00:11:44I'm too old to have any other ambitions.
00:11:47Won't you take half?
00:11:49Look.
00:11:50We play twice a week and you buy the drinks, okay?
00:11:54Okay.
00:11:54I think this might be for you.
00:12:03Why?
00:12:04Because it says, fancy a bit of fun, dearie.
00:12:07Well, why should it be for me?
00:12:08If you say because I'm a woman, I'll smash you over the head with your guitar.
00:12:13My glass is empty.
00:12:14Same again.
00:12:15Do you?
00:12:26Do you?
00:12:28Sorry?
00:12:31Fancy a bit of fun.
00:12:34Do you mind?
00:12:35Tis Elizabeth, isn't it?
00:12:47But don't you remember?
00:12:50Metropole ballroom?
00:12:52Moonlight serenade?
00:12:54Boogie woogie bugle boys and company?
00:12:55Boogie.
00:12:58Patrick.
00:12:59You see, you do remember.
00:13:01The man we were all warned about.
00:13:03Well, at least offer me the hand of friendship.
00:13:06I might never see it again.
00:13:07Ha ha ha.
00:13:08If you're going to do that, you might as well learn to play it properly.
00:13:17I was just trying to catch the spirit at the moment.
00:13:20Are you going to introduce me?
00:13:23Paul.
00:13:24Down and up the street musician.
00:13:27Patrick.
00:13:28Venerable friend and war hero.
00:13:30Ha ha.
00:13:31That's cool.
00:13:32What did you do in the war, Patrick?
00:13:35I was a blonde bum, Michelle.
00:13:36When you're dead in your grave, no more women than you pain.
00:13:42I'll be glad when you're gone.
00:13:45Glad when you're gone.
00:13:47Glad when you're gone.
00:13:49You're as good as you.
00:13:56Here, let me take it off.
00:13:58Oh.
00:13:59Don't you believe I recognize the way you play?
00:14:03That sound sensual, erotic.
00:14:05Don't be silly.
00:14:07What are you doing around here?
00:14:08Betting, Michelle.
00:14:09I'll give you a lift.
00:14:14Isn't that?
00:14:15We'll drop off at my place.
00:14:18Come on.
00:14:19We're...
00:14:20Now.
00:14:26Don't worry about all that.
00:14:27It's my concessionary parking system.
00:14:29Ha ha ha.
00:14:30Whoops.
00:14:31You in?
00:14:32Yeah.
00:14:32Don't worry about the helicopter.
00:14:33Here you go.
00:14:33Hello?
00:15:03So, how come a nice girl like you is reduced to work in the streets?
00:15:14Oh, it's because I said fuck at George's funeral.
00:15:18Um, I assume George is a late lamented husband.
00:15:24Yes.
00:15:26Do you treat him well?
00:15:28Well, he was kind and decent and generous and law-abiding.
00:15:33Boring.
00:15:34Mind your own business?
00:15:35Thought so.
00:15:45This is where you live?
00:15:47Yes, it's what they call a grace and favour residence.
00:15:50My father had the grace to die and did me the favour of leaving it to me.
00:15:58I would be deeply honoured if you would step across the threshold and let my woodworm see you.
00:16:05Hi, Patrick.
00:16:06Hello, darling.
00:16:08I didn't know you had a secret.
00:16:13How's the masterpiece?
00:16:15Bloody arm came off.
00:16:19Who exactly is it?
00:16:20Darling.
00:16:21Carol.
00:16:22Lodger.
00:16:23Art student.
00:16:24Carol.
00:16:25Four o'clock.
00:16:26Hereford.
00:16:27Billy's Bounce.
00:16:28Shirt.
00:16:29Noted.
00:16:31Ma'am.
00:16:33True artist.
00:16:34Ex-jockey.
00:16:35Tipster in residence.
00:16:37Known as the wee man and banned from every racecourse in the country.
00:16:44But the, um, the real glory is to be found downstairs in my personal crypt.
00:16:49There is something very special that I want to share with you.
00:16:51What a surprise.
00:16:52Oh, don't be silly.
00:16:53I never go all the way on the first date.
00:16:54Come on.
00:16:55Same kid?
00:16:56Yeah.
00:16:57Of course I remember the roses.
00:16:58Do you still play?
00:16:59Only when nobody listens.
00:17:00Only when nobody listens.
00:17:01No.
00:17:03Ah!
00:17:04Same kid?
00:17:15Of course, I remember the roses.
00:17:18Do you still play?
00:17:20Only when nobody listens.
00:17:35You were really pretty.
00:17:38So were you.
00:17:40Why did you do this?
00:17:42Because working with the blonde bombshells was the happiest time of my life.
00:17:46What, life's been that bad?
00:17:48Well, I've been to prison once, married twice, bankrupt three times.
00:17:52Oh, ain't you got fun?
00:17:53Yeah, lots of fun.
00:17:55But those were the days.
00:17:57Best days.
00:18:00And I'll bet you a dollar to a donut you think so, too.
00:18:03Well, if I admit that, it's like admitting I've wasted most of my life.
00:18:07Well, go ahead.
00:18:08Bet it.
00:18:09I wasted mine and enjoyed every minute of it.
00:18:14Well, I can't tell a lie.
00:18:16Only recently I was showing off to my granddaughter about being on the wireless.
00:18:21Oh, that was your fault?
00:18:23For being beautiful and talented?
00:18:24Oh, yes, I remember.
00:18:33Oh, yes, I was trying to ask for it.
00:18:38Oh, yes, I was trying to ask for it.
00:18:40Excuse me. You do play awfully well.
00:18:59Thank you. Is this bastard bothering you?
00:19:01I'm from the BBC.
00:19:03Oh, thank your pardon. I took you for a civilian.
00:19:06Yes.
00:19:06About your place, you know?
00:19:08It's simply that I wonder whether you and your orchestra
00:19:11would be interested in broadcasting.
00:19:12I have to say, that girl plays beautifully.
00:19:15She's better than many a chap.
00:19:16And a lot prettier.
00:19:17And it would be a joy and a delight to do business with you.
00:19:20Give me 30 seconds to wind them up and set them going.
00:19:24The next dance will be a quick step.
00:19:26Take it away, girls.
00:19:28A one, a two, a one, two, three, four.
00:19:34Come to the dressing room.
00:19:35We'll compare our arrangements.
00:19:37Take it away, girls.
00:19:44Nobody ever says that now.
00:19:46Long time since we were girls.
00:19:48I suppose, technically speaking, I never was.
00:19:52You know, I've been thinking about it more and more since the funeral.
00:19:57We were heroic for a while.
00:20:00Nobody told us.
00:20:02Hey, when shall we eat two meat again?
00:20:06Sunday lunch?
00:20:07I'm taking my granddaughter to the zoo on Sunday.
00:20:10Are you still sexually active?
00:20:12What?
00:20:12I love zoos.
00:20:13You were the only man in the band?
00:20:22Yep.
00:20:22One guy and all those chicks.
00:20:24Oh, do you mind?
00:20:25I'm not and never have been a chick.
00:20:26How did you get the job?
00:20:31Well, they couldn't find a girl to play the drums.
00:20:33I felt a quiet word with Betty, the band leader.
00:20:36Two pairs of nylon stockings and the job was mine.
00:20:39Also, he was on the run.
00:20:41Also, I was on the run.
00:20:42Frenzy yours.
00:21:07Frenzy yours.
00:21:07Frenzy yours.
00:21:12I'll be in the pub.
00:21:22Mother.
00:21:23It doesn't strike you that what you're doing is, well, just a little bit humiliating.
00:21:28Well, you tried.
00:21:31Last week, we had a request from a tourist for the Japanese national anthem.
00:21:35That's humiliating.
00:21:36So we gave him one fine day from Madame Butterfly and a joke about Pearl Harbor.
00:21:40But it implies that you're broke and that we're not looking after you properly.
00:21:45I'm not doing it for the money.
00:21:47Paul keeps the money.
00:21:49It's art.
00:21:50For art's sake.
00:21:51And you do play very nicely.
00:21:52But why don't you play as a hobby?
00:21:54Whereabouts?
00:21:55The old folks home?
00:21:56After bingo?
00:21:57What do we tell people?
00:21:59Tell them the truth.
00:22:01Tell them the old bats gone gaga.
00:22:03Oh, tell them to screw themselves.
00:22:04Oh, Mother, for God's sake.
00:22:05For God's sake, what?
00:22:06Shut up.
00:22:08Believe me, we do understand.
00:22:10We know how you feel.
00:22:11But you can't understand because I don't understand myself.
00:22:14I remember about feelings.
00:22:20I remember playing in the band in the Metropole Ballroom.
00:22:24Maresy-totes and dozy-totes.
00:22:26And knowing that at any minute, a large bomb could fall on my head and blow us all to hell and back.
00:22:32And the house rules said you had to finish the tune before you went to the air raid shelter.
00:22:36And that, my children, is how you learn about real feelings.
00:22:41But I was more alive at that time than before or since.
00:22:46That's an alarming thing to discover at my age.
00:22:50I don't understand it.
00:22:51I don't expect you to.
00:22:58Yes, my lift?
00:23:02Mum?
00:23:03What?
00:23:03Who's he?
00:23:06My fancy man.
00:23:19There appears to be a man in her life.
00:23:22Sorry to interrupt.
00:23:25That man with the flowers, who is he?
00:23:29Some old transvestite, I think.
00:23:36Do you know where you're going?
00:23:41Of course I do.
00:23:44I don't remember this tunnel.
00:23:46Oh, well.
00:23:48So, the Metropole Ballroom, the scene of our youthful happiness, is now a carpet warehouse.
00:23:53The Metropole Ballroom in a
00:24:05Oh, well, there's some give.
00:24:07I don't remember this tunnel.
00:24:08My house, I think I am.
00:24:08I don't know what I'm doing.
00:24:09I don't know.
00:24:10I don't know.
00:24:10I lied to my children.
00:24:27Good. How else can they lie?
00:24:31I tell them we went on playing even when the bombs were falling.
00:24:34We didn't. We ran like buggery to the airhead shelter.
00:24:40Killing out the two of you. Killing out the two of you.
00:24:49Do you know what would be lovely?
00:24:52What?
00:24:54To see them all again.
00:24:56Don't be silly.
00:24:58Maybe even to play together.
00:25:03You should be put in a darkened room.
00:25:09Come on.
00:25:10It's brilliant. And it's all rave.
00:25:34What are you talking about?
00:25:37Reunion bands. I mean, you've got the Stones, the Who, Status Quo.
00:25:42All those wrinklies from the 60s.
00:25:44They're always having reunion concerts and going on world tours.
00:25:47So why not the Blonde Bombshells?
00:25:49So where should we play?
00:25:52The Albert Hall, Shea Stadium, Hollywood Bowl?
00:25:55You could play our next full dance. I'm on the committee.
00:25:58Let's just assume for the sake of argument that we track down the survivors of the band and prop them up in a line and they play some fragments of ancient music.
00:26:07Who would listen?
00:26:08I would.
00:26:09This is the BBC General Forces Program.
00:26:14The BBC is proud to present the most glamorous band in all the land, the Blonde Bombshells.
00:26:22One, two, three, four.
00:26:23Take it away.
00:26:23Take it away.
00:26:24How many cars do you own?
00:26:50Do we have to do this?
00:26:55Yes, we do.
00:26:59Then we're going to need lots of flowers.
00:27:01Well, we can use the money you lost at the donks.
00:27:17Vera?
00:27:18Vera?
00:27:18Do you remember me?
00:27:25Elizabeth.
00:27:27And Patrick, you remember him?
00:27:30The Blonde Bombshells.
00:27:31In the war.
00:27:33Adolf Hitler.
00:27:34Winston Churchill.
00:27:35Tommy Handley.
00:27:37You played the alto sax, remember?
00:27:40We sang like the Andrews sisters.
00:27:43Don't fence me in.
00:27:44Mersey totes and dosey totes.
00:27:45Pardon me, boy.
00:27:47Is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?
00:27:49Try to.
00:27:50Vera?
00:27:50You're the last poor Vera.
00:27:52You were the last poor Vera.
00:28:06The last poor bearer.
00:28:24The last poor Joe.
00:28:36Oh, the roses.
00:28:42They're lovely.
00:28:45Well, at least you remember this evening.
00:28:47Oh, I remember you.
00:28:49You were always pretty.
00:28:54And I remember him. He was always Flash.
00:28:57What do you mean for?
00:29:00The Eagle Tender.
00:29:02Is that an offence?
00:29:04Well, getting things if you haven't got any legal tender, that's an offence.
00:29:09Do you get to play any music?
00:29:12There's a bird comes in once a week.
00:29:15It teaches what she calls musical therapy.
00:29:20But I never let on.
00:29:23You need your secrets in a place like this.
00:29:26Thanks for the flowers. They're lovely.
00:29:37Oh, look.
00:29:39The petals fallen off already.
00:29:42Alas, poor Evelyn.
00:29:43This is all a ghastly mistake.
00:29:45Look.
00:29:46Guided tours of the cemeteries of England and good will missions to the living dead.
00:29:50Oh, ye a little face.
00:29:52Come on, look.
00:29:53Now.
00:30:02Annie.
00:30:03Annie!
00:30:05Two old sinners want to say hello.
00:30:08Isn't it so good?
00:30:12And you.
00:30:15You're looking good, sister.
00:30:17That's because I am good.
00:30:19And how long has this goodness been going on?
00:30:21Since I dumped you, brother.
00:30:23You'll find that God is much better value in the long term.
00:30:25Are you looking for salvation?
00:30:27Not exactly.
00:30:28We're trying to get the band together again.
00:30:30The band?
00:30:32I'm sorry.
00:30:33I don't play that kind of music anymore.
00:30:35It's for my granddaughter.
00:30:37It's not negotiable.
00:30:38I'm sorry.
00:30:40It's...
00:30:41I told you.
00:30:42It's a ghastly mistake.
00:30:44Um...
00:30:45Do you want a small change?
00:30:47Sorry.
00:30:53Well...
00:30:55I've had him checked out.
00:30:57My God, you sound like the FBI.
00:30:59The man used to run a casino.
00:31:01He's an undischarged bankrupt.
00:31:03And he's been to prison.
00:31:04I can do better than that.
00:31:06She's rounding up her geriatric blonde bombshells
00:31:09and threatening to play at Joanna's school dance.
00:31:16So, where would you like to run away to today?
00:31:18It's your turn to choose.
00:31:20Hastings, please.
00:31:21No, there's racing at Goodwoods.
00:31:22Yes, I know, but I've chosen Hastings.
00:31:23Betty the bandleader lives at Hastings.
00:31:26She's expecting you with a friend.
00:31:28Oh, oh!
00:31:30I'm her ex-husband, for God's sake.
00:31:33I know that.
00:31:35I'm sure she'll be perfectly civilized about it.
00:31:37But this is Betty we're talking about.
00:31:39We're going to need a bandleader.
00:31:41That's reasonable, isn't it?
00:31:42I'm not very good at reasonable.
00:31:46Well, try harder.
00:31:47How hard.
00:31:50Good afternoon.
00:31:52I'm just a little bit about this.
00:31:53That's a big part.
00:31:54It's a big part.
00:31:55I'm getting I'm taking water now.
00:31:56Yeah.
00:31:57It's a big part.
00:31:58I'm getting a big part.
00:31:59You have to go home, you have to go home.
00:32:00I'm so excited to see you next time.
00:32:30Nice one, Betty.
00:32:32Yeah, go, buddy.
00:32:49Thank you, music lovers.
00:32:51Now, in response to many requests,
00:32:53there will be a short period of silence.
00:32:55That's it.
00:32:57The one and only.
00:32:59There'll never be another.
00:33:01Oh, darling.
00:33:03You haven't changed a bit.
00:33:05This is more than I can say to you, you old sod.
00:33:08Thanks.
00:33:09Come on, let's have a drink.
00:33:16And something for my friends.
00:33:18Can you try it, please?
00:33:20Glend a little bit. A little water, please.
00:33:22The old gentleman will pay.
00:33:26You were the star, you know.
00:33:28You were the youngest, the sweetest,
00:33:30and the most talented of the blonde bombshells.
00:33:33You were also the only virgin.
00:33:36You had me to thank for that.
00:33:38Really?
00:33:39Should I be grateful?
00:33:40Should I be grateful?
00:33:41Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:34:11You frightened or just cold?
00:34:28Both.
00:34:29Stay close to me darling.
00:34:31Mr. Churchill recommends it.
00:34:33Here.
00:34:34Actually, I've got the keys to the boiler.
00:34:40Nice.
00:34:41It's nice and warm in there.
00:34:43Oi.
00:34:44That's it.
00:34:45I didn't see you there.
00:34:46Elizabeth, sit.
00:34:47You, here.
00:34:48The girl is 15 years old.
00:34:50Will you try anything with her, you go to prison.
00:34:53Also, I will take my garden shears and personally castrate you.
00:34:57All right.
00:34:58I can take a hint.
00:35:00When's her birthday?
00:35:01Ow!
00:35:02That's it.
00:35:03I can take a hint.
00:35:05When's her birthday?
00:35:06Ow!
00:35:07I don't know why I ran a band.
00:35:12Most of the girls were a bleeding nightmare.
00:35:15They were always very nice to me.
00:35:17That's because you were young and innocent.
00:35:20All right.
00:35:22I'll show you something young and innocent.
00:35:34If you tell anyone about this, I'll kill you.
00:35:37You old softy.
00:35:52I can still get into this, you know.
00:35:54Size 14.
00:35:55Short legs.
00:35:56Who was this little girl?
00:36:00What became of her?
00:36:09What's it like?
00:36:10Long marriage.
00:36:11I've only had two little ones.
00:36:13It's warm and cosy like an old pair of shoes.
00:36:15Or a wet dog.
00:36:17It's only after the kids leave home that you realise...
00:36:21Well, there are no surprises anymore.
00:36:24Hmm.
00:36:25Mind you, a lot of people don't want surprises.
00:36:28Do you?
00:36:30I'm not sure.
00:36:33I might be developing a taste for them.
00:36:36Mm-hmm.
00:36:49Brett is in Hastings.
00:36:50Anne is in the arms of Jesus.
00:36:53Joan's dead.
00:36:54Vera's deranged.
00:36:57Evelyn's in prison.
00:36:59Madeline's missing in action.
00:37:00Dinah's somewhere in the States.
00:37:02And I've left numerous messages for Gwen.
00:37:04So, is there a band or is there not a band?
00:37:07I need to know what to tell the committee.
00:37:09Tell them there is no band. Tell them to hire a magician.
00:37:13We could always pay off Evelyn's debts and get her out of the nick.
00:37:16Better make fool.
00:37:17What about Annie?
00:37:19I know these Christians. If they say no, they mean it.
00:37:22What about pieces of silver?
00:37:24That is a totally evil suggestion.
00:37:27So, please, think about it.
00:37:28PHONE RINGS
00:37:33Hello. You're speaking.
00:37:37Gwen?
00:37:38Gwen!
00:37:40I can't tell you how wonderful it is to speak to someone who's sane and alive and not in custody.
00:37:47Do you know the way to Wolverhampton?
00:37:49If you can whistle it, I can play it.
00:37:54Nobody goes to Wolverhampton out of season.
00:37:56Gwen, you need passports, malaria jams, sturdy boots and armed escort.
00:38:01Don't be silly. It'll be wonderful to see Gwen.
00:38:03It won't be horrible.
00:38:04On the board again
00:38:07Riding for a fall again
00:38:11And I'm gonna give my all again
00:38:15Taking a chance of love
00:38:18I'm feeling fine again
00:38:22I'm gonna ride and shine again
00:38:26I've almost lost
00:38:28My mind again
00:38:30Taking a chance of love
00:38:33For you
00:38:35I'm booked again
00:38:38She's still terrific.
00:38:39I know she was my second wife.
00:38:41Sorry.
00:38:42Sorry.
00:38:42Nothing.
00:38:43So I'm gonna put again
00:38:44Taking a chance of love
00:38:47This game
00:38:49I'm having a crackin'
00:38:51Needs good love for me
00:38:54So I'll take it away
00:38:58Any black cat I see
00:39:02On the breeze
00:39:05On the breeze again
00:39:06And though I'd love to please again
00:39:09I've seen a new reprise again
00:39:16So I'll ring down the cat
00:39:20And it's love for sick
00:39:22I've taken a chance
00:39:25On the love
00:39:29Taking another chance of love
00:39:33You don't play anymore?
00:39:46No, I retired when all those trumpet players came home from the wars wanting their jobs back
00:39:50The men
00:39:51You know what I mean
00:39:53Besides, it was hard on the lips, babe
00:39:56I stick to the singing
00:39:57No more triple tonguing
00:39:59That ceased to be your business long ago
00:40:03Is it your business now, Elizabeth?
00:40:05Absolutely not
00:40:07Our sole purpose is to get the band together again
00:40:09Oh, you got a gig?
00:40:10Mm-hmm
00:40:11First of next month
00:40:12And what is it?
00:40:16It's my granddaughter's school dance
00:40:20A school dance
00:40:22I never played school dances even when I was at school
00:40:26Well, we're starting rehearsals next week
00:40:29Sweetheart
00:40:30I have sung for my supper for half a lifetime
00:40:33And I've done it all without rehearsals
00:40:36I turn up at the gig
00:40:38I moan about the piano
00:40:40I hand out the parts
00:40:41I count the guys in and I get on with it
00:40:44Can't they get a social call?
00:40:45Come and see the girls
00:40:47There'll be a fight
00:40:48Well, come and see the fight
00:40:54Do yourself a favour, babe
00:40:55Get rid of this man
00:40:57Why, what's wrong with him?
00:40:58Apart from the obvious things
00:40:59Please welcome Gwen back to the stage
00:41:00Ask him about the roses
00:41:02A one, a two, a one, two, three
00:41:10All right
00:41:21Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop
00:41:24Now, that was terrible
00:41:26Somebody was out of tune
00:41:27We were all out of tune
00:41:28I was in tune
00:41:30Yes, but you still can't count to four
00:41:32How did it sound for you, darling?
00:41:35I can see why the Germans bombed you
00:41:37See, we've got no top line, no bottom line
00:41:40And there's bugger all in the middle
00:41:41I know we can't have a double base
00:41:43Why not?
00:41:45There's one in the picture
00:41:46That's Madeleine
00:41:50She's French
00:41:51She left the band and went back to Paris
00:41:53To join the resistance
00:41:54That's the last we've heard of her
00:41:56That's sad
00:41:57Oh, well
00:41:58We'll have to manage without her, I suppose
00:42:00That's not good enough
00:42:02You're all war heroes
00:42:04I think you should try harder
00:42:05Where are you going?
00:42:23No
00:42:23Thank you, dear
00:42:28What are you collecting for?
00:42:39The poor, the sick and the dispossessed
00:42:41You don't qualify
00:42:43Could the poor, the sick and the dispossessed
00:42:47Use 259 pounds?
00:42:49Because if you take this slip
00:42:53Into that betting shop
00:42:54They will give you 259 pounds
00:42:58I don't gamble
00:42:59You haven't
00:43:00I was the one that gambled on a double at Newmarket
00:43:02Wages of sin
00:43:04You have my word
00:43:06The races on this occasion were not fixed
00:43:09You know I can't take this
00:43:13Remember the parable of the talents?
00:43:15Matthew chapter 25
00:43:18He that had received the five talents
00:43:21Traded with them and made with them five more
00:43:24And the Lord said
00:43:25Well done, thou good and faithful servant
00:43:28Now that's got to be an even money shot
00:43:31Whichever way you look at it
00:43:32If I take this
00:43:34What do I have to do?
00:43:38Whatever the good Lord in his infinite wisdom tells you
00:43:40I hope that he would suggest you multiply your talent
00:43:45And spread its sweetness across all the earth
00:43:49Stop! Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop
00:44:04Oh dear
00:44:06It's amazing
00:44:08The more we rehearse
00:44:10The worse we sound
00:44:11Well?
00:44:13The committee meets tonight
00:44:15What do I tell them?
00:44:16Well tell them we need a good lead trumpet
00:44:18So at least the punters will guess what we're trying to play
00:44:21I found this old Christmas card from Dinah
00:44:24Was there anyone find her?
00:44:26She married a GI and moved to the States
00:44:28I dumped him and found me one or two more
00:44:31Oh, she's been living in Scotland
00:44:33Scotland?
00:44:35I've been phoning a number in New York
00:44:37Getting some very rude answers
00:44:39The last one was rich
00:44:40And when he died
00:44:41He left me this place
00:44:42His hobby was collecting small countries
00:44:45The jammy cow!
00:44:47Do you mind?
00:44:48Language
00:44:48So, what do I tell the committee?
00:44:52Tell them we're playing
00:44:52Are you sure?
00:44:54No, but tell them we're playing
00:44:55Yes, but have you heard the latest?
00:44:59She's going to Scotland with him
00:45:01I think we should meet the man
00:45:03Well, you know me
00:45:04I've always had a thing about older men
00:45:06That's not a nice word to use to your sister
00:45:10Don't sit under the apple tree
00:45:18With anyone else but me
00:45:20Anyone else but me
00:45:23Anyone else but me
00:45:25No, no, no
00:45:26Don't sit under the apple tree
00:45:29With anyone else but me
00:45:31Till I'm young, marching hard
00:45:35I'm sorry
00:45:37I'm sorry
00:45:38It's so sort of bad
00:45:39Oh
00:45:42Hey, would you come and play for the GIs?
00:45:45I mean, we'd guarantee
00:45:47Sight aboard Dan, of course
00:45:48Well, sir, it would be an honor
00:45:49To be of service to Mr. Roosevelt
00:45:51Uh, excuse me
00:45:55Are you a chap?
00:45:57Yes, that's why I pee standing up
00:45:59Is there any young furniture
00:46:01With the enforcers?
00:46:02Absolutely not
00:46:03I've taken advice
00:46:04A dress like this
00:46:06Could be far too easy
00:46:07A part of it
00:46:07Huh
00:46:08You just bought yourself
00:46:09One way into the Citadel, huh?
00:46:14Where are you taking him?
00:46:16Elizabeth!
00:46:18Patrick?
00:46:19Come on, magic police!
00:46:20Please, you can't!
00:46:21Patrick!
00:46:24Oh, nice, I can't do you too
00:46:26I don't like not to be ashamed of him
00:46:29No, what's he supposed to have done?
00:46:31Elizabeth, you play beautifully
00:46:33Sensual, erotic
00:46:34Can anybody play the drums?
00:46:40Well, I've picked up the odd hint
00:46:41That you're unhappy about my friendship with Patrick
00:46:43So here he is
00:46:46And he's very happy to explain himself
00:46:48I think it isn't the, uh, friendship as such
00:46:52It's just, um, too soon
00:46:55Too soon after your father's death
00:46:57At a time when I'm still emotionally vulnerable
00:47:00Well, yes
00:47:01And that being so
00:47:03Elizabeth should not be consorting with an ageing Lothario
00:47:06Even though he sends me flowers two or three times a week
00:47:09My concern is about you making terrible fools of yourselves
00:47:14And of us
00:47:15At the school dance
00:47:17Patrick will answer all the charges
00:47:19May I offer the case for the defence?
00:47:21Please
00:47:22We're here to listen
00:47:23Thank you
00:47:24Well, I'll start with the easy bit
00:47:26It's true that in the beginning I wore a pretty frock
00:47:29And, uh, I played run rabbit run
00:47:32When I was one of those rabbits
00:47:34And I was running
00:47:35Later on, after I donned the khaki
00:47:39I did win some medals
00:47:41You won medals?
00:47:42Can we see them?
00:47:46I always carry this one
00:47:48As a good luck charm
00:47:50I was carrying it the day I met your grandmother again
00:47:54After all these years
00:47:55Is it a good one?
00:47:57Yes, it is
00:47:57It's a military cross
00:47:59Seriously brilliant
00:48:01But it's all irrelevant
00:48:03What you have to understand
00:48:04Is that for six years
00:48:06We all lived with the possibility
00:48:08That every second of the day or night
00:48:10We could be killed
00:48:11And that focuses the mind
00:48:15It's frightening, yes
00:48:18But it's also
00:48:19Liberating
00:48:20The ultimate gamble
00:48:22The biggest crap game ever invented
00:48:25And your mother and I
00:48:28We feel guilty
00:48:32Do we?
00:48:34How many died?
00:48:3520, 30 million?
00:48:36And yet for some of us who survived
00:48:38It was totally wonderful
00:48:41Totally wonderful
00:48:43True or false?
00:48:44True
00:48:44And we can't say it out loud
00:48:46Except to other blonde bombshells
00:48:48And playing at the dance
00:48:50Well that's our little attempt
00:48:51To have one last gamble
00:48:53Before we shuffle off
00:48:54To the great metropole ballroom in the sky
00:48:57Hmm
00:48:59That was very impressive
00:49:02When did you win the military cross?
00:49:05Um, I forget exactly
00:49:071963, 4
00:49:08Which war?
00:49:10Well actually I wanted a poker
00:49:11From an old war hero
00:49:12Down on his luck
00:49:13That's despicable
00:49:15I was desperate
00:49:16I want your family to like me
00:49:18What the hell is that?
00:49:24This
00:49:24Belongs to Sid
00:49:26Well who's Sid?
00:49:28Another weird lodger
00:49:29Used to be my partner
00:49:30In the casino
00:49:31Until he decided to go straight
00:49:32Now he sells used cars
00:49:35I told him
00:49:37Sid
00:49:37I need to borrow
00:49:39A really special motor
00:49:41To take a really special someone
00:49:43To Scotland
00:49:44Oh well you can thank Sid
00:49:46Very much
00:49:46But I'm not coming with you
00:49:47What?
00:49:48I got my credit card statement
00:49:50This morning
00:49:51So?
00:49:52All those flowers you've been sending me
00:49:53You've been charging them
00:49:53To my bloody credit card
00:49:55Well obviously
00:49:56I mean I'm not allowed one
00:49:58Am I?
00:49:58And I only spent the money on you
00:49:59Well how did you get the number?
00:50:01I used my initiative
00:50:01You looked in my handbag
00:50:04You make it sound horrible
00:50:06Yeah it is horrible
00:50:07You're pathetic
00:50:08All right all right
00:50:10I apologise
00:50:10I'm devastated
00:50:12I should have asked your permission
00:50:13Oh shut your face
00:50:14Go to Scotland
00:50:14Come back with a trumpet player
00:50:16Won't be the same without you
00:50:17Well
00:50:18Go to the dogs
00:50:19Go to Wolverhampton
00:50:21Go to hell
00:50:22I don't care
00:50:22Such a pity you know
00:50:25Sleeping beauties generally weigh in at a hundred years
00:50:29And the usual arrangement
00:50:31Is for the frog
00:50:32To turn into the prince
00:50:33Not the other way round
00:50:34Hey
00:50:42Bloody door
00:50:46For you take the high road
00:50:59And I'll take the low road
00:51:01And I'll be in Scotland
00:51:02Before ye
00:51:03But me and my true love
00:51:06Will never meet again
00:51:07On the bonnie bonnie
00:51:08Packs of the floor
00:51:10Bye
00:51:14On the bonnie bonnie
00:51:16And by yon bonnie
00:51:19Brace
00:51:20Where the sun shines bright
00:51:23On the floor
00:51:24Where me and my true love
00:51:30Will never meet again
00:51:32On the bonnie bonnie
00:51:34Packs of the floor
00:51:37Oh you take the high road
00:51:41And I'll take the low road
00:51:42And I'll be in Scotland
00:51:44Before ye
00:51:45But me and my true love
00:51:47Will never meet again
00:51:49On the bonnie bonnie
00:51:50Packs of the floor
00:51:51Oh you take the high road
00:52:00And I'll take the low road
00:52:01And I'll be in Scotland
00:52:03Before ye
00:52:04But me and my true love
00:52:06Will never meet again
00:52:07On the bonnie bonnie
00:52:08On the bonnie bonnie
00:52:22Packs of Loch Lomond
00:52:24Black Lomond
00:52:32Black Lomond
00:52:34Coming home of Alec
00:52:36Pardon?
00:52:39You'll be the gentleman
00:52:40And this'll be your suitcase
00:52:43You'll be chilly I dare say
00:52:45Yes it's just possible
00:52:47Sure
00:52:48This'll help
00:52:50Oh thank you so much
00:52:51Thank you
00:52:52Oh great dogs
00:52:58Patti, Maxine and Laverne
00:53:02After Andrew's sisters
00:53:05Patti, Maxine, but um
00:53:07One of them's a boy
00:53:09The lady of the house is most insistent
00:53:12In the matter of names
00:53:14Good God
00:53:18When did you get here?
00:53:20In the overnight sleeper
00:53:21Central heating
00:53:24And a roof
00:53:26Does this mean I'm forgiven?
00:53:29Absolutely not
00:53:30I didn't think you'd come
00:53:31But we needed a trumpet player
00:53:34And I didn't trust you to deliver one
00:53:37I wouldn't trust you to deliver a bottle of semi-skinned milk
00:53:41Thanks so much
00:53:42Have you seen Dinah?
00:53:45Apparently the lady of the house doesn't appear in the hours of daylight
00:53:48Probably bricked up in the west wing
00:53:51The gentleman has finished his wee dram
00:53:55I'll show him to his accommodation
00:53:57I've prepared two bedrooms
00:54:15The lady of the house was of the opinion
00:54:18You would require only one
00:54:20How many rooms would you be requiring?
00:54:22Two please
00:54:23Would they be adjoining for personal preference?
00:54:27No, they should be separated by a wide stretch of water for personal preference
00:54:30Thank you, McNabb
00:54:36Thank you, Dinah
00:54:39That was a wonderful meal
00:54:40And it's a nice little place you've got here
00:54:42I married well
00:54:43And frequently
00:54:45But I know all the dirt on me
00:54:48I want to know the dirt on you
00:54:49Does this mean you've completed the set, Patrick?
00:54:53There's no dirt on us
00:54:54We're pure as the driven snow
00:54:56I hate snow
00:54:57It's so goddamn quiet
00:54:59What do you mean, completed the set?
00:55:05He hasn't told you about the roses on the drum kit?
00:55:09No, I've tended to go off flowers recently
00:55:11As it happens
00:55:13Are you going to tell her or shall I?
00:55:21Well, actually, I got the idea from the Spitfire pilots during the war
00:55:27Part of me, boy
00:55:34Is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?
00:55:38Track 29
00:55:39Boy, you can give me a shot
00:55:43I can't afford
00:55:47To go for chatting and the choo-choo
00:55:49I got my fare
00:55:52I'm just a travel to Spain
00:55:55You leave a Pennsylvania station
00:55:58By the corner to the bar
00:56:00Read a magazine
00:56:01And then you're in for the more
00:56:03Dinner and a dinner
00:56:05And nothing you'll be finding
00:56:06But to have your heaven and eggs in Carolina
00:56:09When you hear the whistle blowing up to the bar
00:56:12Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
00:56:15Show the love of cooling
00:56:17Gotta give it rolling
00:56:18Whoa, whoa, Chattanooga
00:56:20There you are
00:56:21Yeah, he screwed a lot of us
00:56:27I suppose I looked upon it as my contribution to the war effort
00:56:30And what about the fight?
00:56:32Never mind about the adolescent sex and the fights
00:56:34What about the music?
00:56:35What you tell me is that the Blonde Bombshell Reunion Band
00:56:40Thus far comprises you two
00:56:42A foul-mouthed piano player
00:56:44An alto player out of the slammer on bail
00:56:47A trombone player in the arms of Jesus
00:56:50A de facto lunatic
00:56:52Two corpses
00:56:53And a singer who won't show up in the night
00:56:55And not forgetting your lovely soul
00:56:58Do you still play?
00:57:01Do I still play?
00:57:07A little story
00:57:09My grandson plays trumpet in his high school band
00:57:13In Boston, Massachusetts
00:57:15On a recent visit to Grandma's Magic Castle
00:57:19In downtown Brigadoon
00:57:21He consulted me
00:57:23I gave him a lesson
00:57:25And guess what?
00:57:26I can still blow this thing
00:57:28I can still part the waters
00:57:29And bring down the walls of the city
00:57:31That's seriously brilliant
00:57:49Sadly, the lady is an officially recognized alcoholic
00:58:01Does this often happen?
00:58:03Every night
00:58:04But she knows she is an alcoholic
00:58:06And apparently has the first step towards a cure
00:58:10How long has it been going on?
00:58:13Since the Second World War
00:58:14An unhappy love affair, seemingly
00:58:17Men can be swine
00:58:21So I'm led to believe
00:58:24Elizabeth
00:58:31What?
00:58:34Elizabeth
00:58:34I need to ask you something
00:58:37Patrick
00:58:38Do you mind if I sit down?
00:58:41It's been a long day
00:58:43And I'm not cold
00:58:45And I'm not frightened
00:58:46And there are no bombs falling
00:58:48Scotland's not at war
00:58:50And I've no intention of completing your set
00:58:54Look, what's it like being a woman?
00:58:57What?
00:58:59Well
00:58:59Sit down
00:59:01Well, you see
00:59:04The last weeks
00:59:05I've relived quite a lot of my past life
00:59:08And most of it seems to have been a bit of a shambles
00:59:11Well, that was well spotted
00:59:13And I think quite a lot of that shambles could have been avoided
00:59:17If I'd tried a bit harder to understand women
00:59:20Which is odd, since I pretended to be one for so long
00:59:24But, um
00:59:26Well, that doesn't really help
00:59:29I mean, women
00:59:30Well, you're different, aren't you?
00:59:31Yes
00:59:32Yes, we have babies
00:59:34And husbands
00:59:34And washing machines
00:59:36Er
00:59:38I see your family
00:59:41And
00:59:41I see three generations of women
00:59:44And it's lovely
00:59:44I wish I had generations
00:59:49Well, it's too late for that
00:59:52It's too late for everything
00:59:53No, not everything
00:59:56But I'm going to be it now
01:00:01Why did you marry George?
01:00:06Patrick
01:00:06You know what it was like
01:00:09When I was a young woman
01:00:12Your sole purpose in life
01:00:13Was to get engaged to a young man with prospects
01:00:16So I did
01:00:17I met him at a staff dance
01:00:18A dance?
01:00:19What was the band like?
01:00:20Oh, lousy
01:00:21Jimmy Dickinson
01:00:24And his rhythm rascals
01:00:26I was a rhythm rascal once
01:00:28And now I'm serious and responsible
01:00:33And I think I'm in love with you
01:00:37No, you're not
01:00:41You're just cold and frightened
01:00:45Good night, Patrick
01:00:54I know
01:00:55Nice doggies
01:01:22Stay home, look after the lady
01:01:24She's a fine musician
01:01:25But she's not very well
01:01:27Hey, where the hell are you guys going?
01:01:34London, we've got a gig
01:01:36I'm held prisoner here against my will
01:01:39Wait, I'm coming down
01:01:41God
01:01:42She's coming with us
01:01:44What do we do, head for the hills?
01:01:45These are the hills
01:01:46The hills
01:02:16Stage management up the ladder.
01:02:19Hi, guys. Sound check in ten minutes, OK?
01:02:23All right, there you go.
01:02:25Hello. This is it. D-Day.
01:02:27Are you nervous?
01:02:29No. Terrified.
01:02:35Any news on Diana?
01:02:37Yeah, she's happily in Scotland and Savoy Hotel.
01:02:40We saw her at breakfast.
01:02:41She was planning on ordering a small distillery from room service for later on.
01:02:45Oh, God.
01:02:46I'm in charge of catering.
01:02:48Les is doing decorations.
01:02:50Oh, hi, Leslie. You're working well.
01:02:52The decor's gonna be a wow.
01:02:54Oh. I don't really like wows.
01:02:57Hey, what manner of place is this?
01:03:00This is where we're gonna make sweet music.
01:03:03Again, she's here.
01:03:04Evelyn!
01:03:06Diana!
01:03:07You're looking good for a jailbird.
01:03:10I've been rehabilitated.
01:03:12Annie!
01:03:13Oh!
01:03:14Oh!
01:03:15Oh!
01:03:16Diana!
01:03:17Good to see you.
01:03:18Betty!
01:03:19Glad you could make it, Diana.
01:03:21Ah, the famous roses.
01:03:24Oh, him and his bloody roses.
01:03:26Just for the record, mine is quite definitely there under false pretenses.
01:03:30I'd be drinking.
01:03:31I don't remember very much about it.
01:03:33As far as I recall, it was deeply embarrassing and desperately quick.
01:03:37It was horrible.
01:03:39I try not to think about it.
01:03:41I haven't seen you guys since the big fight.
01:03:44Oh, look.
01:03:45Will somebody tell me about the big fight?
01:03:46It was the day we were gonna play for the Yanks.
01:03:49If you couldn't come, they wouldn't allow you or school.
01:04:01I love Americans.
01:04:03I love you.
01:04:04It's fun tonight.
01:04:05You gotta calm down.
01:04:06Hi, girls.
01:04:07Hello.
01:04:08Welcome to New Jersey on Tam.
01:04:09It's a pleasure to be here.
01:04:10It's a pleasure to be here.
01:04:11A pleasure to be here.
01:04:12Yeah, well, that remains to be seen.
01:04:13See, we've got a slight technical difficulty.
01:04:14Uh-oh.
01:04:15This is it.
01:04:16What's your heels, girl?
01:04:17Welcome to our social club.
01:04:18Social?
01:04:19Careful, Diana.
01:04:20What happened?
01:04:21So much for our big night.
01:04:22A doodlebug.
01:04:23Flying bomb.
01:04:24I hope we still get paid.
01:04:25The guys were real disappointed.
01:04:26They heard you on the radio and they found out you're all redeemed.
01:04:29Well, I'm so sorry.
01:04:30I'm so sorry.
01:04:31I'm so sorry.
01:04:32I'm so sorry.
01:04:33I'm so sorry.
01:04:34I'm so sorry.
01:04:35I'm so sorry.
01:04:36I'm so sorry.
01:04:37I'm so sorry.
01:04:38I'm so sorry.
01:04:39I'm so sorry.
01:04:40I'm so sorry.
01:04:41I'm sorry.
01:04:42I'm so sorry.
01:04:43I'm so sorry.
01:04:44I'm so sorry.
01:04:45If you look at the radio and they found out you're all redeemed, well, you can imagine.
01:04:48See?
01:04:49Well, I'm a little disappointed, I have to say.
01:04:51That's the lady from the bathroom.
01:04:53Patrick!
01:04:54There he goes!
01:04:55Darling boy!
01:04:56Put the man down.
01:04:57He's mine.
01:04:58No, he isn't.
01:04:59Patrick and I are secretly engaged.
01:05:01And I want everyone to know it.
01:05:02Well, I've got some news.
01:05:03He's actually engaged to me.
01:05:05He's even met my mother.
01:05:06Sorry, girls.
01:05:07He's marrying me as soon as the war's over.
01:05:09And I, uh, just bought Salt Nighty on the black market.
01:05:12He's marrying me.
01:05:13I spoke to the vicar and he gave me some booklets.
01:05:16He proposed to me.
01:05:17In the boiler house.
01:05:18On Tuesday.
01:05:19He proposed to me on Thursday.
01:05:21You're all wasting your time.
01:05:22Patrick's already married to me.
01:05:24Come on.
01:05:25Oh, please.
01:05:26We got married this morning.
01:05:27Patrick, you lying bitch.
01:05:29Tell them, dear.
01:05:30Uh...
01:05:31Yes.
01:05:32Come on.
01:05:33Tell us.
01:05:34Please.
01:05:35Tell us.
01:05:36Go on.
01:05:37What's all this rubbish?
01:05:38It's true.
01:05:39I've got a 48 hour prize so I could get married.
01:05:40What could you do?
01:05:41And play the gig.
01:05:42And, anyway, tomorrow I go off to foreign parts.
01:05:44If you live that long...
01:05:45He won't.
01:05:46Hey, Diana!
01:05:47I'll break it down.
01:05:48Diana!
01:05:49Oh, how was it?
01:05:55You tell them.
01:05:57Diana, you were sharp.
01:05:59Evie, you were flat.
01:06:01And, Annie, you were in tune but you've forgotten how to swing.
01:06:05And, Patrick, you sound like you're wearing a surgical boot.
01:06:08What about me?
01:06:09Oh, you were fine, darling.
01:06:11She would say that.
01:06:12You're her favourite.
01:06:13Oh, please.
01:06:14Girls, girls.
01:06:15Oh, shut up.
01:06:16Have a second.
01:06:17You screw yourself, Patrick.
01:06:18That's all, Patrick.
01:06:19That's as individuals.
01:06:20As a unit, we were crap.
01:06:22Maybe we were crap way back in 1944.
01:06:25Except in our dreams.
01:06:26Hey, and that's another thing.
01:06:28There's to be no drinking on the stand.
01:06:30Sorry, babe.
01:06:31This is not negotiable.
01:06:33Sober, I can't play a note.
01:06:35Drunk, I can't play a note.
01:06:36But there's a point in the middle where I play like a goddamn angel.
01:06:39Please, Dinah, do you mind?
01:06:41I'd rather you didn't blaspheme.
01:06:43This is a bandstand, sister.
01:06:45If you don't like it, get thee to a fucking nunnery.
01:06:48That's enough.
01:06:50I resign.
01:06:51I resign.
01:06:52But, Dinah, you can't do that.
01:06:54But, Dinah, what are the boys?
01:06:55Shit, I resign too.
01:06:57Me too.
01:07:02I'm going back to the prison.
01:07:03At least people are nice in prison.
01:07:05What about the boys?
01:07:08Come back.
01:07:10Your husband just dropped the bomb on the band, lady.
01:07:14Stop.
01:07:15You're not going anywhere.
01:07:17You lot, you're a disgrace to women.
01:07:19I wouldn't disagree with that.
01:07:21Don't you realize what's at stake here?
01:07:23What's at stake?
01:07:24I can't think of anything.
01:07:25For a start, the dance is in an hour's time.
01:07:28And there's a hundred quid in it for you.
01:07:30I had to fight the committee to get it.
01:07:32Is that a hundred pounds each?
01:07:33No, between you, to share.
01:07:35And tea and biscuits.
01:07:37If I give you a hundred pounds, may I proceed peacefully to the nearest liquor store?
01:07:42No, you may not.
01:07:43And what about all my calls to the French Embassy?
01:07:46In French?
01:07:47What's she talking about?
01:07:49Tracking down your Madeleine.
01:07:51Salut tout le monde. C'est moi.
01:07:53Madeleine?
01:07:57Madeleine, do you still play?
01:07:59A five foot three woman doesn't log that instrument across Europe on public transport just for the fun of it.
01:08:05Have you started without me?
01:08:07Only because we thought you were dead.
01:08:09I'm very much alive.
01:08:12Not too sure about the rest of you, though.
01:08:19Elizabeth!
01:08:24And Patrick!
01:08:27Patrick!
01:08:29The man who was going to marry me.
01:08:31Salut!
01:08:32Now we can rehearse.
01:08:37Henry House.
01:08:38Henry House.
01:10:25Any news of Gwen?
01:10:26Not as yet.
01:10:28She doesn't show, we'll kill her.
01:10:30You'll see to it, right babe?
01:10:32There's a geezer comes in the bar, he's in that line of work.
01:10:35I know how to kill people.
01:10:37Do you really know how to kill people?
01:10:41Oh, it was necessary in the resistance.
01:10:45That's why I play music.
01:10:47Music is the only clean thing I know.
01:10:51There.
01:10:52Now.
01:10:53How's that?
01:10:54Hmm.
01:10:55Second favorite lips.
01:10:56Yeah.
01:10:57How's that?
01:10:58Hmm.
01:10:59Second favorite lips.
01:11:01I've come to say I'm sorry.
01:11:02Sorry?
01:11:03What for?
01:11:04It's all my fault.
01:11:05If I hadn't been beautiful and talented, we wouldn't have been on the BBC.
01:11:06The man from the BBC wouldn't have seen you in the lavatories.
01:11:07And then you wouldn't have been arrested.
01:11:09And you wouldn't be going after almost certain death.
01:11:12I've come to say I'm sorry.
01:11:23Sorry? What for?
01:11:26It's all my fault.
01:11:28If I hadn't been beautiful and talented, we wouldn't have been on the BBC.
01:11:31The man from the BBC wouldn't have seen you in the lavatories.
01:11:34And then you wouldn't have been arrested.
01:11:35And you wouldn't be going after almost certain death.
01:11:42That was you?
01:11:50Well, of course it was.
01:11:53I've been wondering for years who that little schoolgirl was.
01:11:56Maybe not years, but a good 20 minutes, certainly.
01:11:59Oh, shut up. Say something sensible for once.
01:12:04Will you marry me?
01:12:07Absolutely not.
01:12:09You don't even remember you gave me my first grown-up kiss?
01:12:12Not very good at remembering.
01:12:14Hmm. I'm still waiting for the second.
01:12:26Open wound will be got later this evening.
01:12:31And now it's my pride and privilege to introduce, well, my grandmother, actually.
01:12:37And the blonde bombshells.
01:12:41Thank you, Joanna.
01:12:42A long time ago, when the world was young, I was a blonde bombshell.
01:12:49I wasn't much older than a lot of you here this evening.
01:12:52Now, several decades later, I made a discovery
01:12:54that old people are just young people who've been around for a long time.
01:12:59Here's one.
01:13:00From London, England, direct from the all-night casino, the little boy who never grew up, and the finest transvestite percussionist of our time,
01:13:12packing on the drums.
01:13:13From the end of the pier at Hastings, also in England, a woman who has lived suspended over the deep end of the ocean for a long time, and as yet hasn't fallen in.
01:13:23Betty on piano.
01:13:24Betty on piano.
01:13:28From the blood-soaked continent of Europe, a woman who tells it like it was, is, and evermore shall be, magnet on bass.
01:13:36From the highlands of Scotland, trailing clouds of glory, malt whiskey and alimony,
01:13:44diner plays the sweetest trumpet this side of Jericho.
01:13:55On secondment from Christianity, with a note countersigned by God, we say amen with Annie on trombone.
01:14:06On parole from the debtor's prison, and getting health and care in the community,
01:14:10Evelyn, on alto sax.
01:14:19Oh, hi.
01:14:20Hey, Bob.
01:14:21I thought I'd come along to the fight.
01:14:23It's about time, Gwyn.
01:14:24Will you miss me?
01:14:25Oh, shoot.
01:14:26Are you going to sing?
01:14:27Introduce me.
01:14:29From the Latin Quarter of Wolverhampton, the woman with a voice of gold who never ever plays school dances,
01:14:35and totally unhurst, Gwyn.
01:14:38From the leafy suburbs of South London, the bombshell who made all this possible,
01:14:45Elizabeth on tenor sax.
01:14:59Put it all together, and what have we got?
01:15:01Ladies and gentlemen, the blonde bombshells of the third age.
01:15:06It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing.
01:15:18Come on.
01:15:18All you've got to do is sing.
01:15:24Make no give or shiver, it's sweet, oh.
01:15:28You've got to say everything.
01:15:31You've got to say nothing if you ain't got that swing.
01:15:35You've got to say nothing if you ain't got that swing.
01:15:57You've got to say nothing if you ain't got that swing.
01:16:27Swing, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin.
01:16:35Yeah!
01:16:58Swinker, I've just seen Little Orchips Brunkett.
01:17:02Yes?
01:17:03Does that mean what we think it means?
01:17:06He's completed the set?
01:17:08We found the keys to the boiler house.
01:17:10And about time, too!
01:17:13You're not going to marry him, are you?
01:17:15Oh, why shouldn't you?
01:17:17Everyone should marry Patrick at least once.
01:17:19But I'm not. He was right the first time.
01:17:22All I wanted was a bit of fun, dearie.
01:17:24They call me a croquette and mademoiselle, and I must admit I like it quite well.
01:17:39It's something to be the darling of all, the grand comfort of the bell of the bold.
01:17:50There's nothing as gay as life in Paris.
01:17:54There's no other person I'd rather be.
01:18:00I love what I do.
01:18:03I love what I see.
01:18:07But where is the schoolgirl that used to be?
01:18:11No, I'm not.
01:18:12You're not even a child.
01:18:13I love what I do.
01:18:14I love what I do.
01:18:15I love what I do.
01:18:16The apple tree
01:18:19Blossoms in the breeze
01:18:24That we walked amongst
01:18:30Lying in the hay
01:18:36Games we used to play
01:18:40While the rounds were sung
01:18:46Only yesterday
01:18:50When the world was young
01:19:03When the world was young
01:19:09Betty has started promoting the bombshells again and booked us into every seaside venue that will take us.
01:19:27Annie allows herself to play the devil's music but has given up trying to save the souls of musicians.
01:19:33Evelyn has joined a government think tank on the subject of prison reform.
01:19:38Madeline continues to be slim and beautiful. We hate her for this.
01:19:43Gwen has made several award-winning albums of songs so old that most people think they're new.
01:19:50Dinah gives up drinking on a regular basis and has married her manservant.
01:19:55She now calls herself Mrs. Brown.
01:19:57I changed my credit card but I realize I can't change Patrick.
01:20:03He wants to make an honest woman out of me but that would spoil everything.
01:20:07Being a blonde bombshell is still the most fun I've ever had.
01:20:11So far.
01:20:13We'll have a happy ending now
01:20:17Taking a chance of love
01:20:21Here I stand again
01:20:25About to beat the band again
01:20:27Oh boy
01:20:29I am feeling grand again
01:20:32Taking a chance of love
01:20:35Here I come again
01:20:40Gonna make things hum again
01:20:43I'm really acting dumb again
01:20:47Taking a chance of love
01:20:50I never dreamed in my slumbers
01:20:55And gambling was taboo
01:20:58Now I'm playing the numbers
01:21:01And by number one numbers
01:21:04You waiting in again
01:21:10Leading with my chin again
01:21:12And I'm starting out to win again
01:21:16Taking a chance of love
01:21:19Here I slip again
01:21:24About to take that trip again
01:21:26I've almost lost my grip again
01:21:30Taking a chance of love
01:21:32Taking a chance of love
01:21:35And now I'm about to prove again
01:21:38That I can make things move again
01:21:42I'm in the groove, the groove, the groove, the groove, the groove, the groove, the groove, the groove again
01:21:47Taking a chance of love
01:21:49I walk around
01:21:50I walk around
01:21:51I walk around with a horseshoe
01:21:53And in clover
01:21:55I lie
01:21:57Brother Rabbit
01:21:59Of course you better
01:22:01Kiss your goodbye
01:22:03Goodbye
01:22:05Goodbye
01:22:06On the board again
01:22:09Riding for a fall again
01:22:11And I'm gonna give my all again
01:22:15Taking a chance of love
01:22:18I'm feeling fine
01:22:20I'm feeling fine again
01:22:22I'm gonna ride and shine again
01:22:26I've almost lost my mind again
01:22:30Taking a chance of love
01:22:33Boy, I'm hooked again
01:22:37In the swing
01:22:38In the swing
01:22:39And I'm hooked again
01:22:40In the swing
01:22:41And I'm hooked again
01:22:42This girl's all mine
01:22:43Who's cooked again
01:22:44Taking a chance of love
01:22:47This game
01:22:48I'm having a crack
01:22:50I'm having a crack
01:22:52Needs good love for me
01:22:55So I'm taking a whack
01:22:59At any black...
01:23:00And if you need to hire a band for your wedding wake or bar mitzvah
01:23:04The blonde bombshells are usually available
01:23:07Take it away, girls!
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