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In 1966, a woman has an enigmatic interaction with a stationmaster and his aide, setting off an intriguing chain of events that unfolds throughout the narrative.
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00:00THE END
00:30Hello, Bexley 2538.
00:36Is Mike Robbins there, please?
00:38Speaking.
00:39This is Pauline.
00:40We met last Saturday night down in the Locarno, remember?
00:43You gave me your number.
00:45That's right, Pauline.
00:47I've been hoping you'd ring.
00:50Look, I can't see you tonight.
00:52Oh, I see.
00:54Tell you what, why don't you come and watch me play cricket tomorrow?
00:58Cricket?
00:59Yeah, we're playing at Charthouse Green in Kent.
01:02A lovely little place right in the country, about 17 miles from here.
01:06Oh, how would we get there then?
01:08In my sports car.
01:09Then we could go off and have some fun afterwards.
01:11Just the two of us.
01:12You mean pick up where we left off when they shone the headlamps on us in the car park.
01:17Remember?
01:18That's the kind of thing I've got in mind.
01:20I'll bet you have.
01:21I'll pick you up about ten.
01:23Look, I don't know where you live.
01:25Give me your address.
01:26Um, well, pick me up under the clock and stick up High Street, okay?
01:31Okay, about ten.
01:33I'll see you tomorrow.
01:34Don't be late.
01:35Bye for now.
01:36Ah, it competes with high heat.
01:43See you tomorrow morning.
01:44See you tomorrow morning.
01:45Bye Democrats, where are you today?
01:49Oh!
01:53Oh, dear.
01:56Oh, dear.
01:57Well, now they're right out there, boy, no.
02:07He is.
02:09He wants to sit down on him.
02:11He wants to sit down on him.
02:17That's one.
02:19That's your liking.
02:27Where is the two, the two, the three, the two.
02:29I'm going to sit down here.
02:30Here we go.
02:32What are we?
02:39I'm not.
02:44I'm not.
02:46I'm sorry.
02:48I'm sorry.
02:49I'm sorry.
02:52I'm sorry.
02:53I'm sorry.
03:33Threshing is hollow.
03:34Yeah, I suppose it's because they're on home ground.
03:37Christ's muggy.
03:39Where the hell's Robins, I'd like to know?
03:42He's supposed to be next to you.
03:44Well done, lad.
03:56Hey look, we'll just have to be going.
04:03Oh no, do you have to go back to the match?
04:06Can't we spend the whole day alone together?
04:09I can't let the team down.
04:12But I'll tell you what, why don't we...
04:18What's the matter?
04:19My blood just seems to turn to water.
04:21I think we're being watched.
04:23Well it's probably just some wild animal.
04:29It gave me a horrible feeling.
04:31It's like somebody just walked over my grave.
04:34I'll just be baptising my youngest parishioner.
04:50Poor little thing.
04:52It's very sad, Katie.
04:53He's the son of that unfortunate girl, you know.
04:56He wanted him to be called...
04:59Oh, such a selection of names.
05:01Adam, Faye, the local liver.
05:04Richard.
05:07I suppose Richard is the name of the father.
05:09That seems alright, that's very common.
05:11That Adam is alright, of course.
05:14The old Adam is within us all, I fear.
05:17See, we know all about that.
05:19Yes, us.
05:22Is it this that you're having anywhere?
05:23Yes, yes.
05:24Yes, sir, sir.
05:29Okay.
05:30... does Verma defend me somehow?
05:34Oh, no.
05:37Where were you?
05:39Yeah, no.
05:43I see you there, well.
05:44Are you ready?
05:46Not ready?
05:47Don't worry?
05:48All right.
05:49Yes!
05:58Yes!
05:59Oh no!
06:00Oh no!
06:01Oh no!
06:0634 per 6!
06:19Look out, there's a couple more.
06:25That's one, that's one, that's one.
06:28Come on, come on.
06:49Let's go.
07:19Why don't you come in and have a look around them?
07:44I've got the cat on.
07:45It's all right. I don't mind if I do.
07:50Come on in, then. I'll be down in a jiffy.
08:06Proper little gnomes' fairyland, isn't it?
08:09Everybody who comes by here, they just have to stop and have a look at them.
08:12I've been the beginning of ever so many friendships.
08:17I've never seen so many.
08:19Ah, well, they're all my little friends. Everyone.
08:22Of course, we have our little talks and our little discussions.
08:26You're like when people talk to their other plants.
08:28Yes, yes, yes, in a manner of speaking, yes.
08:31They're worse here.
08:32What's it matter if me and my little friends, we do have our secrets, eh?
08:37It's all so pretty.
08:48Well, I've always loved everything pretty.
08:51Always loved flowers.
08:54Do you know, it's strange.
08:55It reminds me of something.
08:57But I can't quite seem to catch what it is.
09:00It's like when you go to a place for the very first time,
09:03you get a sort of dreamy feeling you've been there before.
09:08Sort of.
09:10Only...
09:13Oh, never mind.
09:14Look where your sweet tooth has got you now.
09:26I can't bear them, they're gnatty little striped shirts,
09:30their titillating waist and nasty throbbing little sting.
09:34Well, the tour of the estate's over now, so it's time for tea.
09:38And normally we have it in the garden, but it looks a bit thundery
09:40and I don't want us to get a headache, so it's tea in my parlour.
09:45Now, come on in, then.
09:47I won't bite you, no.
09:55That's right, go on in, my dear.
09:59Take the weight off your feet.
10:01You make yourself comfy and I'll just go and make us a nice cuppa.
10:05Thanks.
10:08It's very nice.
10:09Very comfortified.
10:10It wasn't so nice when I first come here.
10:13I can tell you, the cottage was a virtual ruin and the garden.
10:18Oh, dear me, it was a jungle.
10:21How they can have lived like that, I just don't know.
10:24Still.
10:27Jack's old so much.
10:37Right, I'll be Mum.
10:38What were they like, then?
10:40The people that lived there before?
10:42They was here for years.
10:44Nobody ever knew them.
10:46Used to keep themselves to themselves.
10:48You know what I mean?
10:49And then one fine day, without so much as a buy-all leave,
10:53they lay down side by side, like a pair of nice flounders,
10:57with their heads on the railway line.
10:59And along come the 319 from Ashford.
11:01Oh, how horrible.
11:04Sugar?
11:05Thanks.
11:06Their headless bodies were found eight side up against the garden fence under the old fruit tree.
11:14And you know what?
11:15What?
11:16They were still holding hands.
11:18And the tea sweet enough for you?
11:23Mm, thanks.
11:24They must have been very much in love.
11:26Mm, not as many things.
11:28And that old apple tree produces the sourest fruit you ever tasted.
11:35And where do you live, my dear?
11:36Well, I've got a flat.
11:38Well, it's a bedsit, really.
11:40In Sidcup.
11:41You live alone?
11:43A piece of cake?
11:44Yes, please.
11:45I like my freedom.
11:46No one to mind when you come and go, eh?
11:50That's right.
11:51I live my own life.
11:52Independent.
11:53Right.
11:54Of course.
11:56I'm past all that.
11:58Mind you, I like my little pleasures.
12:02Well, everyone's entitled to their pleasures.
12:06So you, you hail from suburbia, as it were.
12:13It's a different world.
12:14I could never live anywhere but in the country.
12:18Around here, I know everybody, and everybody knows me by name.
12:21That's a virtue in village life.
12:23Of course, I still have my privacy.
12:25Of course.
12:26Mm.
12:27For all that familiarity, it amuses me to think that I have no idea what I think.
12:35What I do.
12:38Now, strangers, hmm?
12:40Strangers can be very cruel.
12:43Oh?
12:45Make unpleasant remarks about my, my little deformity.
12:53Tell me, my dear, do you find it repulsive?
12:57Of course, Mum.
12:58In olden times, in olden times, it was thought to be a sign of potency.
13:05It was considered to be very beneficial to touch.
13:16Well, my dear, it's nothing.
13:17Oh, look, Ewan, we've got a lovely visitor.
13:31Hi.
13:33Oh, aren't you lovely?
13:34Ewan was living in the old ganger's shed across the line.
13:42Well, I started by asking him over for meals, and then I found myself watching his clothes.
13:48Well, it seemed silly not to, really.
13:50So he's shacked up with me, you know.
13:54Ewan?
13:55Ewan?
13:55I bet you a favourite.
13:57Look.
13:58Fruitcake.
13:58I'll take it out and skin it.
14:16He's a...
14:17He's a very mixed-up young man.
14:20Um, look, would you try putting your head between your knees?
14:24I'm all right.
14:25Oh, well, that's a good girl, Ewan.
14:27Yeah.
14:29Give your nose a good blow, then.
14:32You better?
14:33Ewan?
14:34Ewan!
14:36Ah, there you are, old ganger.
14:37Who's this?
14:41Mixed with toasties, of course, reduce their numbers.
14:44Oh, it's Mr. Wickstead.
14:47Now, look here, old chap.
14:48You have a positive genius for topiary,
14:52and I want you to come up to my garden tomorrow night to do mine.
14:56Is that clear?
14:56He's, uh, come to get Ewan to do some part-time gardening.
15:00Oh, are you finished?
15:02Do that to the dog or something?
15:04Oh, you're getting quite an expert at this, aren't you?
15:07Hey, well, I never.
15:09Yes.
15:09I've seen them do it in butchers' shops, of course, but I've never actually been quite as close as this.
15:15It's a nasty business, isn't it?
15:17Still, there we are, Ewan.
15:19Have some more night, then, eh?
15:20He's very posh.
15:21He's a stockbroker who lives up at Elm Lodge.
15:24Yes, you won't do yourself, isn't he?
15:25It's a magnificent place, a lovely garden.
15:28He travels up to the city from, oh, every morning on the 8.51.
15:32Good, good.
15:34First class, of course.
15:36Look, I really ought to be getting along now.
15:39The match will send me over, and my boyfriend will wonder where I am.
15:43Oh, well, we can't have that.
15:49The weather's breaking.
15:50We'll have some rain soon.
15:52Thanks for the lovely tea, but I really must be going.
15:54Yeah, well, now you know where we are, you can drop in again.
15:58Okay, bye.
15:59Thank you so much.
15:59Yeah, there you go.
16:12Thank you so much.
16:42Oh, you gave me quite a turn.
17:03What do you want?
17:04I don't want to frighten you.
17:06Just give you these.
17:08Sorry.
17:09I should think so as well, cutting out that poor animal.
17:11I never did any harm to anyone.
17:12It was him.
17:13He gets me so wild.
17:15That's no excuse.
17:17You can't go around blaming others.
17:19You should control yourself.
17:21I can't.
17:22I never could.
17:24That's what's wrong.
17:28Here.
17:28Thanks.
17:32It's nice.
17:35Look.
17:36Widened first.
17:38Look at this.
17:40Look at the farmer's spray him.
17:42Pick what you like.
17:56It's a penny.
17:58A penny?
17:58Oh.
18:16Oh.
18:16Oh, my, you really mean it.
18:43Oh, I have to get back to my boyfriend now.
18:49Look, I really must go now.
19:00Come on, let's get out of it.
19:01I'll show you the short way.
19:02We're not supposed to be here.
19:13Come on, what place?
19:23This bunny's old.
19:25It's nicknamed, right?
19:26Whatever all those apples?
19:28Oh, that's where they dump them when they grow too many.
19:31Has everything else by the look of it?
19:34I've heard of some strange places, but...
19:43You've got to be joking.
19:45Look, let's just find some nice...
19:51Look, where's the...
19:52Let...
19:56If you think I'm getting on that old blue bag with you,
19:58you've got to be kidding!
20:28Hello, Bexley 2538.
20:46Is Mike Robbins there, please?
20:48Speaking.
20:49This is Pauline.
20:50We met last Saturday night down the Locarno, remember?
20:53What?
20:54You gave me your number.
20:55That's right.
20:56Pauline.
20:57I've been hoping you'd ring.
20:59Look, I can't see you tonight.
21:02Oh, I see.
21:04Tell you what,
21:05why don't you come and watch me play cricket tomorrow?
21:08Cricket?
21:09Yeah, well...
21:13Here.
21:14Tuck her in, tuck her in.
21:23Oh, nothing you can't touch her.
21:25Right, get some tools put on her.
21:27A fork and a spade.
21:28If anyone stops us,
21:29we'll say you're taking them over to Mr Wicksteen's.
21:31Look, you might be able to help me.
21:52Station's closed, no more trains tonight.
21:55I was wondering if you saw a girl?
21:57I wanted to know if she caught the train to town.
22:00Ah, yes.
22:01Well, the booking office would have been closed,
22:04but she still could have caught the train.
22:06Then you did see her?
22:08No, no, no, no.
22:09I'm not saying that.
22:10Matter of fact, I do recall seeing a girl,
22:12but whether she went onto the station or not,
22:14I really couldn't say.
22:15Sorry.
22:16Well, I guess she must have.
22:19Sorry to have disturbed you.
22:21Quite all right.
22:27They're going to fetch police down here by the coach load,
22:30turn over every inch of the parish,
22:32interview everybody within a five-mile radius,
22:34and what are you going to have to say for yourself
22:36when they come knocking at this door, eh?
22:38And what am I going to say for that matter?
22:40Well, you don't have to worry your head too much.
22:56Let's go in the cart then.
23:00Come on, get a move on.
23:03I can save you, but you have to put yourself in my hands.
23:16My plan's so simple.
23:20It all boils down to what's to be done with,
23:23or rather where to hide your loved one.
23:27We'll keep a rear.
23:29We'll let them search the orchards.
23:32And while they're interviewing all our good neighbours of the parish
23:37and crying into their little secrets
23:39and raking through them up behind every cottage door,
23:42we'll just pop out one fine night
23:44and slip her into the ground where they've already searched.
23:48They're looking for the parish.
23:50That's a different place,
23:51and I'm a big bandwagon.
23:52Thanks be to be on the map,
23:53and the Wohnung's back there.
23:54And I will see you here.
23:55I'm a big bandwagon.
23:57And your wedding.
23:58You look for a new wedding.
23:59You look for a new wedding.
24:00That's what's going on.
24:01How's your wedding?
24:02You look for a new wedding.
24:03But you'll be my two.
24:04How's your wedding.
24:05You look for a new wedding.
24:06You look for a wedding j бум.
24:08It's so old,
24:09I look for a date.
24:11You look for a new wedding.
24:12You look for a new wedding.
24:14I look for a new wedding.
24:15What's what you're doing?
24:37We don't want another blocky on our end.
24:43Happy night.
24:46I say, Ewan.
24:48That's the man I want to talk to.
24:50He's just come along to say he'll be tomorrow night, Mr. Wicksteater.
24:53Can he speak for himself?
24:56Is this true, old chap?
24:58Yes, I'll be along tomorrow night, so I'll have my bit of tea.
25:01Good man.
25:03Pleasant evening again.
25:05Oh, yes, the evening's really drawing in now, Mr. Wicksteater.
25:08We'll be putting the clocks back soon.
25:10Yes, it's been a very pleasant summer.
25:13Shame about this business of the girl, though.
25:19Ben, Ben, Ben.
25:21Boy, what's the matter?
25:22You afraid of dogs?
25:23No, sir, I love them, only I find they gives me a fever.
25:27Well, I shall keep you.
25:29Love it!
25:30Love it!
25:31Come along, Ben.
25:32No more oxen.
25:33Come on, Ben.
25:34Come along.
25:35Come on.
25:36Come on.
25:37Come on.
25:38Good night.
25:39And then you and me, I'll be the only ones who'll ever know about your little love affair.
25:51Come on.
25:52Come on.
25:53Come on.
25:54Eat your eggs.
25:56Help!
26:14Oh, my God.
26:18Oh, my God.
26:48Oh, my God.
27:18Oh, no.
27:22Oh, my God.
27:28If anybody stops us, I'll do the talking, all right?
27:45Oh, my God.
28:15Oh, my God.
28:45Oh, my God.
29:15Oh, my God.
29:45Oh, my God.
30:15Oh, my God.
30:45And when I left, I found I had it for the taking.
30:52Oh, my God.
31:06Oh, my God.
31:08Oh, my God.
31:10Oh, my God.
31:12Oh, my God.
31:42You cheated me!
32:01You didn't tell me you've been hiding from me!
32:05What did you tell me?
32:10Look what you've done!
32:12You don't care about me!
32:15You don't care about me and my flowers!
32:17You even stole my flowers out of my garden!
32:21You stole my flowers on this!
32:27Here are the news headlines at 5am.
32:30In America, President Johnson has gone on television
32:34asking for greater support for the war in Vietnam.
32:37And in Washington, his civil rights bill
32:39relating to housing and immigration
32:41has been defeated in the Senate.
32:44In Milwaukee,
32:45a sniper with a high-velocity hunting rifle
32:47has barricaded himself on a water tower,
32:50firing random shots into the street,
32:52killing 11 and seriously injuring 2.
32:56In South Africa,
32:57a white South African
32:58is being held for the assassination of Dr. Fauvort
33:01in Cape Cod,
33:01in Cape Cod.
33:01Here are.
33:02Here are.
33:03Britain's independent nuclear deterrent,
33:05the first Polaris submarine,
33:07is to be launched today.
33:10Late last night in London,
33:12a spy ring was believed to have been discovered
33:14after the arrest of two Soviet trade delegates
33:17found in possession of top-secret defense documents.
33:20They are thought to be undercover agents
33:22employed by the KGB.
33:25Kent County Constabulary
33:26are to mount a massive search
33:29for 22-year-old Pauline Cox,
33:31who disappeared while attending a cricket match
33:33at the village of Charthurst Green,
33:35a well-known beauty spot.
33:37Lewisham-born Pauline,
33:38a former cinema usherette,
33:41was first reported missing
33:42by Bexley accountant Michael Robbins
33:44on Tuesday
33:44when he found she had not returned
33:46to her Sitka home.
33:49The search,
33:49involving 20 constables
33:51and tracker dogs,
33:52will comb the surrounding farmland
33:54and there will be a house-to-house inquiry.
33:58According to a British Rail report,
34:00commuter trains on the Southern region
34:02will be subject to delays
34:03caused by unusually heavy spots in the area.
34:07In central London,
34:08the fog has made the roads
34:09extremely hazardous.
34:13Did you hear that?
34:17You've done it this time.
34:18You've really done it.
34:38You've done it.
34:43Bye.
34:47It's over.
34:49It's over.
34:50It's over.
34:52It's over.
34:53You were done so many fun!
34:57It's over.
34:57It's over.
34:59It's over.
34:59It's over.
35:01Oh, my God.
35:31Oh, my God.
36:01Oh, my God.
36:31Oh, my God.
37:01Oh, my God.
37:31Oh, my God.
38:01Oh, my God.
38:02Oh, my God.
38:03Oh, my God.
38:04Oh, my God.
38:05Oh, my God.
38:06Oh, my God.
38:07Oh, my God.
38:08Oh, my God.
38:09Oh, my God.
38:10Oh, my God.
38:11Oh, my God.
38:12Oh, my God.
38:13Oh, my God.
38:15Oh, my God.
38:16Oh, my God.
38:17Oh, my God.
38:18Oh, my God.
38:19Oh, my God.
38:20Oh, my God.
38:21I don't know.
38:51I don't know.
39:21I think we may as well chance that.
39:28I don't know.
39:58This should do nicely.
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42:07Oh, good evening, officer.
42:33I was just going down to assist in the search
42:36when I dropped my silver watch and...
42:39You can't have a row of gatekeepers
42:40without this timepiece, can you now?
42:42You're from the crossing.
42:44Oh, down line in the hole, that's all.
42:46Yes, I've seen you.
42:47In my garden, oh, everybody has to stop
42:49and have a look at that, lean over my fence.
42:50It's been the beginning of ever so many friendships.
42:53We can do with all the help we can get.
42:55The orchard's clear,
42:57but I've got a funny feeling
42:59she's not too far away.
43:00Oh, well...
43:01No more looking in this orchard, then?
43:03No, I've come down to get the tea urn,
43:05but I can spare a few minutes.
43:07Now, where do you think you've lost that watch?
43:09Oh, over here somewhere.
43:11I think it was over in this row here.
43:13What do you do, dear?
43:29Took a duty this morning, Miss Hopin.
43:31Oh, they called off the search yesterday.
43:35Well, if they come to me in the first place,
43:36I'd have told them a little I know
43:38and saved them on that trip.
43:39What was it?
43:42She come up here to the old
43:43in time to catch the 514 train to London,
43:46which is where they're looking for her nerve,
43:49so they won't come bothering us no more, Miss Hopin.
43:52Us who lives in a nice, quiet, sleepy little village
43:55and leads respectable lines.
43:58Well, mostly respectable, eh, Miss Hopin?
44:01There we are.
44:01Oh, er, the train's just coming in there, Mr Wickstead, sir.
44:06Er, you might tell Ewan, I wish to see him.
44:08Oh, yes, sir, yeah, yeah.
44:09Er, you might tell Ewan, I wish to see him.
44:39You didn't appear to cut my topiary last night.
44:54I'll come tonight, sir.
44:56Well, try to see to anything that you do.
45:00By the way, old chap,
45:01I see you're sprouting a bit of a hedge around your chin.
45:05Better be careful.
45:06People around here might conclude you're the murderer.
45:08All right, you're going quite pale.
45:14By the way, old chap,
45:39I see you're sprouting a bit of a hedge around your chin.
45:43Better be careful.
45:44People around here may conclude you're the murderer.
45:46People around here might conclude you're the murderer.
45:49You're the murderer.
45:50Oh, murderer.
45:51Oh, murderer.
45:52Murderer.
45:53Oh, murderer.
46:07Oh, murderer.
46:09Oh, murderer.
46:10All right.
46:11See you.
46:11No!
46:23Come back!
46:24Oda, leave him!
46:28Come back!
46:38Get off me!
46:41Get off me!
46:42Hold him!
46:43Get off me!
46:44Hold him!
46:47Leave him alone!
46:48Leave him alone!
46:49Leave him alone!
46:50Leave him alone!
46:51Leave him alone!
46:52Leave him alone!
46:53Leave him alone!
46:54Leave him alone!
46:55Leave him alone!
46:56Leave him alone!
46:57Leave him alone!
46:58Leave him alone!
46:59Leave him alone!
47:00Leave him alone!
47:01Leave him alone!
47:02Leave him alone!
47:03Leave him alone!
47:04Get off me!
47:05He's lived up in my room for three months now.
47:07Get off me!
47:08I took my best to protect him.
47:10I never dreamed of this.
47:14It's a sharp one.
47:15Look, now I come to think, he has been acting a bit strange lately.
47:20Now I can see it.
47:22It's all come clear, so to speak.
47:23I think I can be a big help to you.
47:26I think you better hack.
47:4090p to Tunbridge?
47:55Seems like yesterday it was only one shilling and eleven bucks.
48:00Oh, Mrs. Trell, I wonder if you mind telling your young Stanley
48:04I won the interstation garden competition again this year.
48:09I'll tell my boy.
48:11If he's that interested, he may look over your garden fence
48:15on his way home from work one night.
48:18I'll be waiting for him, Mrs. Trell, yes.
48:22Yeah, I'll be waiting for him.
48:23I'll be waiting for him.
48:27I'll be waiting for him.
48:32I'll be waiting for him.
48:37I'll be waiting for him.
48:37I'll be waiting for him.
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