Dad's Army Featurette - Legacy - video Dailymotion

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A cinema remake of the classic sitcom. The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

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00:01Who do you think you're kidding Mr. Hitler if you think old England's done?

00:08The Scots didn't like it very much, never mind.

00:13Dad's army to me is like the national treasure.

00:17Everything about it is funny, isn't it?

00:19It's an essential part of our lives, I think.

00:22And it goes across all the age ranges, of course.

00:24Children love it and their great-grandparents love it.

00:27I'll catch him, sir.

00:28What does he look like?

00:29We don't know, Frank. That's rather the point with spies.

00:32Stupid boy.

00:33David and Jimmy wrote some brilliant characters

00:35and it's interesting to see other people having a go at playing them.

00:39What each actor has done is retain something

00:41that is so specific to the original character, which is essential.

00:46Toby's performance is the perfect balance

00:50because it's absolutely nothing to do with Arthur Lowe

00:53and absolutely everything to do with Arthur Lowe.

00:56Captain Manry, the Morris dancers have booked the hall for one o'clock.

00:59There is a war on you, no vicar.

01:01It's very touching to see Frank Williams parading Captain Manry.

01:06It's absolutely amazing to be here, taking me back to the happiest time of my life.

01:11I'm glad there's a second actor playing Pike.

01:13You know, it's not mine, it's not me.

01:15I played it once and Blake's playing it now.

01:18Rather splendidly, I think, quite honestly.

01:20I'm a mare.

01:21Oh, cake!

01:23Bags in a pink one!

01:24It's not a remake, it's a new film using characters that exist in, if you like, literature.

01:30And then when you saw the cast, you were like, wow!

01:34So you have these accident-prone characters confronted with epic stakes.

01:40I think this gives the story enough difference in scale from the TV show

01:45to give us a good chance of making its own thing while at the same time

01:49honouring the idiots that we're all so fond of.

01:53When I read the script, I thought it was great.

01:56They'd got the idea, they'd got the characters, they got it right.

02:00They got it right.

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