Oliver Twist (1962) - Episode 01

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01:00It's a boy, dearie. A pretty little boy.

01:17He's breathing none too well as yet, but he's putting up a struggle.

01:22What's that? What's that you say?

01:24Let me see the child.

01:27And... and... and... and... and...

01:30Oh, come now, you mustn't talk about dying.

01:32Oh, bless her, dear Art, no.

01:34Think what it means to be a mother.

01:37There's a dear love, too.

01:39Why, when she's lived as long as I have...

01:41and had 13 children and all of them dead except two...

01:44well, then two in the workhouse with me...

01:46she'll know better than to take on that way, bless her, dear Art.

01:50Dear, dear.

01:52Sit now.

01:53Give him back to me.

01:57It's all over, Mrs. Thingamere.

02:04Poor dear. So it is.

02:08Poor dear.

02:10Hmm, she was a good-looking girl, too. Where did she come from?

02:13She was found lying outside the door last night.

02:16She must have walked a long way. Her shoes was worn to pieces.

02:19But where she'd come from and where she was going to, nobody knows.

02:22Ah, yes, the old story. No wedding ring.

02:26They'll advertise, I suppose, sir. See if anyone knows who she was.

02:29Ah, yes, they always do. But nobody ever comes forward.

02:33Ah, well. Good night.

02:36It's all over, poor, dear.

02:37Poor dear!

02:39Poor dear!

02:47Fine.

02:48ь

03:36Thank you, Audrey.

03:49Now, get down there, Stella, and stay there.

03:52Happy tights.

03:54I'll tell you about happy tights.

03:55Mrs. Men.

03:57Mrs. Men.

03:58What is it?

03:59Mrs. Men, Mr. Bumbles, at the door.

04:02Oh, crap the man.

04:03And what is he one I'd like to know?

04:05You'd better get them kids out of that cell and wash them directly.

04:09Oh, go on.

04:10Yeah, I'll be quick about it.

04:11All right, all right.

04:12I'm coming.

04:16Oh, Mr. Bumbles, sir.

04:19Is it you, sir?

04:20Well, art alive.

04:21I am glad to see you, surely.

04:23Do you think this is proper conduct, Mrs. Men, to keep parish officers a-waiting at your door when they come on parochial business, connected with parochial orphans?

04:34Well, I'm sure I'm very sorry, Mr. Bumbles, sir.

04:37But walk right in, sir.

04:38Pray do.

04:39Only, you see, I was just to tell him, the dear children, what is so fond of you, that it was you that was to come in, sir.

04:49Oh, it may be as you say, Mrs. Men.

04:51It may be as you say.

04:53Well, sit down, sir.

04:54Pray do.

04:55Now, sir, I don't want you to be offended at what I'm going to say, but, um, would you like to take a drop of something, sir?

05:06No, no, not a drop, not a drop.

05:09Oh, I think you would, Mr. Bumbles, sir.

05:12I mean, you've come such a long way, or I wouldn't mention it.

05:15Just a little drop.

05:19And a drop of cold water.

05:20And a lump of sugar.

05:28It's gin, what I'm obliged to keep in the house, but to put inside these blessed infants when they ain't well.

05:33You're a humane woman, Mrs. Man, since you're so very good, your health and cheerfulness, ma'am.

05:43Now, to business.

05:44Listen, the child that was baptised, Oliver Twists, and farmed out to you, is nine years old today.

05:50Oh, bless him, is it his birthday, the little lamb?

05:55Oh, but you're not going to take him away from me, Mr. Bumble?

05:58I fear I must, ma'am.

06:00He has to go before the board.

06:01Oh, but it would break my heart to part with him.

06:03Nevertheless, would you be so good as to have him fetched, Mrs. Mann.

06:12Susan!

06:13Send young Oliver in here directly, will you?

06:17You will let me have another child to take his place, won't you, Mr. Bumble, sir?

06:21You shan't be the loser, by it, Mrs. Mann.

06:23I promise you, I'll speak to Mrs. Corney, the matron.

06:26Well, come in, come in, don't just stand there.

06:30Oh, mind your manners, young Oliver.

06:32Make a bow to the gentleman.

06:38He's very small, Mrs. Mann.

06:41Some children is born small, Mr. Bumble.

06:43And the diets here alive don't tend to make them any larger.

06:49Well, Oliver, me boy, you're coming along with me.

06:52What for, sir?

06:53What for?

06:54And what is it to you, sir?

06:56What for, might I ask?

06:58Just inference.

06:59Asking questions of Mr. Bumble, the bee.

07:01No, no, Mrs. Mann.

07:02Let the boy ask.

07:03It's natural for boys to ask questions.

07:06You're coming along with me, Oliver.

07:09Because you can't expect to live in luxury and idleness all your life.

07:13And you're going before the board so they can decide what's to become of you.

07:17You mean I won't look through any more, sir?

07:20Will she be going with me, sir?

07:22Ah, you've brought these children up to love you, Mrs. Mann.

07:26No, Oliver, she can't.

07:29But she will come and see you sometimes.

07:32I'll get him a bit of bread and butter to take with him, sir, because he hasn't had his breakfast yet.

07:37You're a good woman, Mrs. Mann.

07:39You'll look at the boy.

07:40He's crying at the thought of leaving you.

07:42Now, here you are, young Oliver.

07:44Now, you won't forget me, will you?

07:46If you breathe one word, I'll come and flay you alive.

07:50Are you ready, young Oliver?

07:52Well, sir.

07:54Good day to you, Mrs. Mann.

07:55And to you, Mr. Bumble, sir.

08:03Susan!

08:04He's gone!

08:06Now, get them other two little devils down that coal cellar again.

08:09And now, we come to the case of the boy, Oliver Twist.

08:15Is he here, Bumble?

08:16Yes, I got him outside, sir.

08:18There was nothing ever discovered about his parentage.

08:20Never a blessed thing, sir, in spite of repeated inquiries and a reward of ten pound of it.

08:25How come, sir, David? He has any name at all.

08:27I invented it, sir.

08:29You invented it, Bumble?

08:30We have a system here, sir.

08:32Explain it, Bumble.

08:33We name all the found things in alphabetical order, sir.

08:36Now, the last one that's come along was S.

08:39Swabble, I named him.

08:41Poor little rich.

08:41The next one that comes along will be Unvin and the next Vilkins.

08:46Little Oliver come along just when I got to tea.

08:49So I named him to this.

08:51So you recommended Oliver Twist to be brought back to the big house?

08:54Oh, yes.

08:55Yes, he's quite old enough now to be put to work, sir.

08:58Ah, have you brought in, Bob?

08:59Very good, sir.

09:00Only nine years old.

09:02Surely the mortality rate among such small children must be very high.

09:06Well, the weak ones die, the strong ones live.

09:09It's as simple as that.

09:11You'd be surprised how high a proportion does manage to survive.

09:16You ought to come along in now, young Oliver.

09:19Shut that door, for goodness sake, Bumble.

09:21There's a devilish job.

09:22Get along in with you, will you, inconvenience in the gentleman.

09:24And mind your manners, bow to the board.

09:26Now, listen to me, boy.

09:33You know you're an orphan, I suppose.

09:36Well, do you or don't you?

09:38The boy's a fool.

09:39I thought he was and I would have saw him.

09:41You know you have no mother or father, don't you?

09:44And you were brought up by the parish.

09:46I'm sure he ought to, sir.

09:47He's been told he's not enough.

09:48Let him speak for himself.

09:50Well, boy.

09:51Yes, sir.

09:52I do not.

09:54What is he crying for?

09:56Why are you crying, boy?

09:58I don't know, sir.

09:59The boy's a fool.

10:00I said he was.

10:00Stop that, will you, young Oliver?

10:01Come on, wipe your eyes on your sleeve now.

10:03Quick, sharp.

10:03I hope you say your prayers every night, boy.

10:06And pray for the good, kind people who keep you and feed you.

10:10Yes, sir.

10:10We've had you brought here to decide what's to be done with you.

10:14Do you know how old you are?

10:16No, sir.

10:17Why not?

10:18No one ever told me, sir.

10:19You see, he demands to be told things now.

10:21This boy will be hung, gentlemen.

10:23I know this boy will be hung.

10:24Till that happens, sir, which I sincerely trust it will not,

10:27we have still to decide about his future.

10:29I recommend Mr. Lemkins that he be kept at the big house

10:32and set to picking Oakleman until he's old enough to be apprenticed.

10:35Oh, well.

10:35Do you all agree on that recommendation?

10:37Yes, yes, certainly.

10:40All agreed.

10:42Trist, it is the decision of the board

10:46that you stay here to be educated

10:48and to be taught a useful trade.

10:52Accordingly, we'll start by picking Oakleman tomorrow morning

10:55at six o'clock.

10:56Take him away, mum.

10:57Oh, can't you?

10:58Let's say thank you.

11:01Speaking for myself, gentlemen,

11:04I feel hungry.

11:06I propose we adjourn for love church.

11:09Yes, sir.

11:10Proposite.

11:10Yes, sir.

11:11Yes, sir.

11:11Boys, stand.

11:33Boys, stand.

11:37Boys, stand.

11:41Boys, fall in the line.

11:45Boys, march.

12:11Boys, sit.

12:39Boys, sit.

12:39Boys, boys.

12:45Boys, speak.

12:47Boys, speak.

13:37Boys, stand.

13:45Boys, march.

14:07What's the matter with you, Limpy?

14:17I can't feel it.

14:19I can't feel it.

14:20What's the matter, Dick?

14:21Is your leg hurting you again?

14:23No.

14:24Only I'm so hungry.

14:26You're so hungry.

14:27Which one of us isn't hungry?

14:28It's even worse here than it was at the farms.

14:31They do give you a bit of bread every day.

14:34But here it's only once a week.

14:36On Sundays.

14:38I've seen them find what the dogs may give to us.

14:40Yeah, and we work for our food, don't we?

14:42We pick oakum every blessed day.

14:45So why should we be treating worse than dogs are?

14:48When we got for Gould, there's always something left in the copper.

14:50He never gives a second helping.

14:52I ain't used to this sort of thing.

14:54Before my father died, he kept a cook shop.

14:58The things he used to put in his window.

15:01Tell us about them.

15:01Go on, tell us.

15:02Well, there were pies, steak, mutton and kidney pies.

15:11Then there were pig's trotters, a round of beef and a big ham.

15:17And...

15:18Here, what do you get me talking about them things for?

15:22What's the matter?

15:23You made me feel so famished.

15:25I swear, if I don't need a second help in the grunt tonight,

15:28I'll have to kill one of you.

15:30And eat you.

15:31You give me your basin of grunt tonight, young Oliver.

15:34Or it'll be you.

15:39Why don't we ask for more?

15:41More what?

15:41More grunt.

15:42It's there, ain't it?

15:44Perhaps if we just asked for it, they'd kill us if we did.

15:48No, they wouldn't.

15:49If they did, they'd have to bury us on the parish.

15:51And that'd cost them money.

15:53Here.

15:54He's right.

15:56We ought to ask.

15:59Which one of us is going to do it?

16:01I know.

16:08We draw lots for it.

16:10Now, there's five of us here, so I'll pick out five strands of rope.

16:15Four might be the same length, but the fifth will be shorter.

16:20The one that gets the short one, does the asking.

16:23Are you all going?

16:25Can I put them all down here?

17:10Go on.

17:18I'll marry if you don't.

17:40If you please, sir.

17:51Please, sir, I want some more.

17:56What?

17:58Please, sir.

17:59I want some more.

18:01Mr. Bumble!

18:05Mr. Bumble!

18:07Mr. Bumble!

18:10There's no doubt in my mind, gentlemen, porphers will always be porphers.

18:14Oh, very true.

18:15Mr. Bumble!

18:17Gentlemen, I beg your pardon, indeed I do.

18:20But Oliver Twist has asked for more.

18:23What?

18:23Spade yourself bad.

18:24What has he asked for more of?

18:26The gruel, sir, the dinner.

18:28Good gracious!

18:29Do I understand you to mean that after he had eaten his portion, the amount allowed by the dietary...

18:33He asked for more, sir.

18:36That boy will be hung?

18:38I know that boy will be hung.

18:40This gentleman, Isis, is nothing short of revolution.

18:43Bumble, take him away and lock him up till we decide what measures are to be taken.

18:47Very good, sir.

18:48Well, gentlemen, I think we should put all other matters on one side and discuss this immediately.

18:52This boy is obviously an evil influence, and something has got to be done.

18:56Get somebody to take him off our hands.

18:58Put out an advertisement.

18:59You agree that's just a gentleman?

19:01He advertises as an apprentice.

19:02If anybody will take him...

19:04Yes, customer, since the boy is untrained, to offer some inducement.

19:07Should we say the sum of, uh, five pounds?

19:10Cheaper than if we can get rid of him.

19:12Ask for more, would he?

19:14I've never been more convinced of anything in my life than I am that that boy will come to be hung.

19:39Oh, sir.

19:40Oh, sir, please speak to me.

19:46Nobody's spoken to me for days, and it's so dark and lonely in here, and I'm so afraid.

19:51Oh, please, sir.

19:52Please say something to me.

20:10Oh, Mr. Bumble, I was just going.

20:14I've, uh, taken the measurements of the two women who died last night.

20:17You'll make a fortune, Mr. Sowerberry, the work you get from us.

20:21Think so?

20:22The prices allowed by the board are very small, Mr. Bumble.

20:26So are the coffins.

20:27Well, well, there's no denying, Mr. Bumble, that since the new system of feeding came in,

20:38the coffins are somewhat narrower and more shallow than they used to be.

20:44But we must make some profit, Mr. Bumble.

20:47Well-seasoned timber is a very expensive article, sir.

20:51Do you snuff, Mr. Bumble?

20:55It's a very pretty little article, Mr. Sowerberry.

20:59Pardon my soul, if it ain't a miniature coffin.

21:01Just a device of my own.

21:05And an advertisement for the trade at the same time.

21:09Well, I must be going, Mr. Bumble.

21:13Mr. Sowerberry.

21:15Uh, yes?

21:16You don't happen to know anybody who's once a boy, do you?

21:20A parochial apprentice who is at present a dead weight, a millstone, as I may say,

21:25round the parochial throat.

21:27Liberal terms, Mr. Sowerberry.

21:30Liberal terms.

21:31An apprentice.

21:34Well, Mr. Bumble, I pay a great deal towards the rates as it is.

21:38Ah, but the board is offering five pounds to get rid of this one.

21:41Well, nevertheless, you'd have to be clothed and fed.

21:45And growing boys eat a lot.

21:47Not our boys don't.

21:49We train them well here.

21:51Give them the scraps from your table, Mr. Sowerberry, and he'll think himself well off.

21:55What sort of a boy is it?

21:58Well, he's little, I'm not denying that.

22:00But he wouldn't disgrace your shop.

22:02And you don't have to take him definite all at once.

22:05You can have him for a month, unlike him.

22:08Is that so?

22:10Come and see the gentlemen of the board, Mr. Sowerberry.

22:14They're sitting now.

22:15Yes, Mr. Bumble.

22:17Very well, are we?

22:39Well, Oliver, are you ready?

22:41Yes, sir.

22:42They've told you, haven't they, where you're going off?

22:44Yes, sir.

22:46Then hold your head up, sir, pull that cap off your eyes, and I'll take you to the gentleman that's waiting for you.

23:05Now then, young Oliver, this is Mr. Sowerberry, the kind and generous gentleman who is going to apprentice you, set you up in life, and make a man off you. Bow to the gentleman, Oliver.