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First broadcast 9th October 1980.
Terry is hired to mind boxer Willie Reynolds who is making a comeback in the ring.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Alfred Marks - Barney Mather
Paul Barber - Willie Reynolds
Tania Rogers - Ruth Reynolds
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Ronnie Stevens - T.V. Compere
Benny Lee - Boxing Comentator
Alex Tompkins - Jack Straw
Dinny Powell - Pug
Eddie Stacey - Sparring Partner
Imogen Bickford-Smith - Girl in Disco (as Imogen Bickford Smith)
Barry Wade - Fashion Photographer
Vicki Michelle - Sarah Jane
Mandy Perryment - Trudy
Jackie Collins - Self
John William Ault - Winchester Club Patron
Jerry Baker - Boxing Fan
Francis Batsoni - Boxing Fan
Jesse Birdsall - Youth in Winchester Club
David Bulbeck - Disco Dancer
Derek Chafer - Boxing Fan
Eden Fox - Winchester Club Patron
Charlie Gray - Boxing Fan
Aidan Harrington - Sports Reporter
Eileen Harvey - Boxing Fan
Barrie Holland - Winchester Club Patron
Helene Hunt - Lady In Photo Shoot
Gerry Judge - Boxing Fan
Jerry Judge - Jack Straw's Trainer
Cy Town - Boxing Fan
Ron Watkins - Winchester Club Patron
Paul Weston - Man in Disco
Terry is hired to mind boxer Willie Reynolds who is making a comeback in the ring.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Alfred Marks - Barney Mather
Paul Barber - Willie Reynolds
Tania Rogers - Ruth Reynolds
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Ronnie Stevens - T.V. Compere
Benny Lee - Boxing Comentator
Alex Tompkins - Jack Straw
Dinny Powell - Pug
Eddie Stacey - Sparring Partner
Imogen Bickford-Smith - Girl in Disco (as Imogen Bickford Smith)
Barry Wade - Fashion Photographer
Vicki Michelle - Sarah Jane
Mandy Perryment - Trudy
Jackie Collins - Self
John William Ault - Winchester Club Patron
Jerry Baker - Boxing Fan
Francis Batsoni - Boxing Fan
Jesse Birdsall - Youth in Winchester Club
David Bulbeck - Disco Dancer
Derek Chafer - Boxing Fan
Eden Fox - Winchester Club Patron
Charlie Gray - Boxing Fan
Aidan Harrington - Sports Reporter
Eileen Harvey - Boxing Fan
Barrie Holland - Winchester Club Patron
Helene Hunt - Lady In Photo Shoot
Gerry Judge - Boxing Fan
Jerry Judge - Jack Straw's Trainer
Cy Town - Boxing Fan
Ron Watkins - Winchester Club Patron
Paul Weston - Man in Disco
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TVTranscript
00:00Yes, it's PM with Joel Bray.
00:04Stay with The Joel Bray Show as Jackie Collins takes on Willie Rannells.
00:13Now, my last guest tonight needs no introduction, but I'm going to give you one,
00:17because before the show he told me that if I didn't say something nice about him, he'd give me one.
00:22And I'm certainly not going to argue with the man who two years ago retired as undefeated light heavyweight champion.
00:28Will you give a welcome, please, to Willie Rannells?
00:36Hello, Masters. Oh, come and sit down, please.
00:44Oh.
00:46Well now, Mr. Rannells, or may I call you Willie?
00:50Certainly, Mr. Parkinson.
00:52I see. Yes, well, you happen to be on the wrong channel, mate.
00:55Will all you TV hosts look alike to me?
00:58All right. I'll stick to Mr. Rannells.
01:02I think a lot of women would like to stick to Mr. Rannells, Joel.
01:05Well, in that case...
01:06Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You can get her autograph later, Willie.
01:10I intend to. Right now, I want a telephone number.
01:12Yeah, I see. All right.
01:14Well, now, can we talk about this comeback fight of yours?
01:16Comeback? I ain't never been away.
01:18Well, you retired, Willie. You went to live in Jamaica.
01:22Well, I was resting.
01:23That's not what you said at the time. You said you were finished with the ring.
01:26Well, you don't believe everything you read in the papers now, do you, Russell?
01:29Well, the other day I heard that you were rated the most popular TV personality in High Wycombe.
01:36Start believing, Dan, you can go bar me.
01:40Yes, you wouldn't by any chance be trying to make a fool of me now, would you, William?
01:43No, no. You're doing all right on your own.
01:46Yes, well, I can quite see why they call you Willie the Mouth.
01:50I can see why they don't call you anything.
01:53Well, Mr. Reynolds, are you getting into shape for this fight?
01:56He looks in pretty good shape to me, Joel.
01:58You know what? I'm making a movie called Black Stud.
02:01Are you available?
02:02Don't make any appointments for the next couple of days, love.
02:05Uh-huh, but can you act?
02:07Well, I'm still working on that.
02:09Yes, and how's the wife and the lovely kiddies, Willie?
02:11They're fine. They're in Jamaica.
02:14Good, good, good.
02:15Well, now, can we talk for a minute about this man you're going to fight, Jack Straw?
02:19No.
02:20Well, now, I only wanted to ask...
02:21I said no.
02:25How are you doing, Mike? Seen any good movies lately?
02:28All right, Willie. You win.
02:30All the time.
02:32No one can accuse you of being modest, can they?
02:34I've got nothing to be modest about.
02:37Anyway, look, enough about me. Let's talk about you.
02:39Good, good, good.
02:40What did you think of my last fight?
02:45Oh, he's a killer.
02:46When's this the club?
02:54Oh, hang on.
02:55Here, Arthur.
02:56It's for you.
02:57I'm in conference.
02:58Come on, Arthur.
03:00This is a big club, not your office, you know.
03:02Club?
03:03Is that what you call it?
03:04Oh, you could have fooled me.
03:05The Arthur Daly residence.
03:07Barney who?
03:11Have a cigar, Mr. Daly.
03:13Oh, that's very nice.
03:14Tell.
03:16Oh, made in Japan.
03:18What will they think of next?
03:24You came, uh, you came highly recommended?
03:27We aim to please, Mr. Mason.
03:28Oh, that's nice.
03:29That's nice.
03:29You don't hear people say that nowadays.
03:32What I say is, what's happened to the happy, smiling bus conductors of yesterday?
03:36Where have they all gone, eh?
03:37And civility in the shops.
03:39The friendly Bobby on his bike.
03:41The neighbourly comfort when you're sick.
03:44It's all gone, Mr. Daly.
03:45Dog eat dog nowadays, it is.
03:46Are you a fan of the, uh, noble art, uh, Albert?
03:50You don't mind if I call you Albert, do you?
03:51You can call me, call me Barney.
03:52No, it's, uh, it's Arthur.
03:54Yeah.
03:54Actually.
03:55Well, these are all my boys, Albert.
03:57Every one of them.
03:59Remember him, Tim McCoy?
04:00Eh?
04:01What a grafter that boy was.
04:02I took him out of the mines, you know.
04:04Sat him on top of the world.
04:05Rusty Marcello.
04:07Toughest bugger I ever had, whatever.
04:08A record as long as your leg.
04:10GBH, assault and battery.
04:12What a pedigree.
04:13But that's the lad.
04:15Willie Reynolds.
04:16Light heavyweight champ, three years, retired, unbeat.
04:19And what a showman.
04:21Guaranteed to put 10,000 bums on seats even if you fought the pleatant Burmese jungle.
04:27What do you, uh, what do you charge for your lad?
04:31My lad?
04:32Terry McCann.
04:32Oh, no, no, no, Terry, he gave up boxing years ago.
04:36I know.
04:36I wept for an order.
04:37Do you know that?
04:38He'd have gone far that point.
04:39Could have made a fortune.
04:41You reckon?
04:41What, with me behind him?
04:42I should think so.
04:44No, well, I'm not, um, I'm not absolutely sure that he has, uh, entirely given it up.
04:49You know, I mean, if the price was right.
04:51No, actually, I called you up about a minder.
04:53Oh.
04:54Yeah, I heard Terry was into that sort of thing, you know.
04:56Oh, well, again, the same applies.
04:58I mean, if the price is right.
05:01Name it.
05:02What?
05:03Name your price.
05:04Well, 300 quid a week, plus expenses.
05:11Right.
05:12You name your price, now don't name mine.
05:14150 pound a week.
05:16All in.
05:31How are you doing?
05:32How are you doing?
05:32All right?
05:32Good job.
05:33How are you farming?
05:33Yeah.
05:34How are you farming?
05:37Willie?
05:38Okay, the door here.
05:39Come on, let's go, champ.
05:40Hey, Barney.
05:41What is it?
05:43Less of the champ routine, okay?
05:45Sure.
05:46Whatever you say.
05:47Hey, wait.
05:48Wait a sec.
05:55Right.
06:00Hi there, fans.
06:01The Mersey Mouth is back.
06:02To brighten up your miserable lives.
06:07To brighten up your miserable lives.
06:07To brighten up your miserable lives.
06:07Friends, friends, friends, friends.
06:10You don't forget the rules.
06:12When I'm around, I'll do the talking.
06:16You all do the listening.
06:17Okay, my children.
06:18Okay, my children.
06:18Here we go.
06:20There was a young cat called Jack Straw who thought he could fight.
06:25And what's more, he took on the champ, but went out like a lamp before he could get to round four.
06:31Hey, Willie, Willie, why did you come back?
06:34You said you never would.
06:35Well, the truth was, my friend.
06:36I missed all your beautiful faces.
06:38Hey, Willie, what do you think of Jack Straw?
06:41Who?
06:42Willie, do you intend to go?
06:44Well, that's it, folks.
06:45Spread the news.
06:46Give it cheer.
06:47Willie boy's here.
06:48Willie.
06:48They need more than that, son.
06:51Where's that bleeding car?
06:57You're taking it easy again.
06:58It's all worked up.
06:59You can take me one hand tied behind your back.
07:01I don't know what you're doing.
07:01Agro's about it, for all the sake.
07:14Where to?
07:15Cadogan place.
07:18Hey, you.
07:22Hey, you with the wheel.
07:25Hey, me.
07:26Pick the right one here, Barney.
07:29Who, Willie?
07:30My name is McCann.
07:33Terry McCann.
07:34Are you the minder?
07:36Yes.
07:38One of the best, Willie.
07:41I don't know.
07:45Looks a bit of a powder puff to me.
07:48Hey, what's it?
07:53Sorry, sir.
08:06Marking come up, will you?
08:08It's a bit out of the way, isn't it?
08:18What's the best I can do, Willie?
08:19However, your Uncle Barney has found a way to keep your mind occupied.
08:23Gordon Bennett, move them up, Barney.
08:32Willie, let's get a few lines uncrossed, shall we?
08:35You are the Mersey Mouth.
08:37You're the guy people read about in the gossip columns, the man people love to hate.
08:41That's why they pay to see you fight.
08:44You can't go away for a couple of years, come back doing a great agarbo, then expect the punters to roll in.
08:48Now, wise up, son.
08:49Wise up.
08:50Right, ladies, teeth and tits.
08:57Lovely.
08:58Now, it's just that one more, like that.
08:59Beautiful.
09:00You in a bit.
09:01Come on, big.
09:01Lovely.
09:03Okay.
09:03Come on, Willie, smile.
09:07You're supposed to be enjoying this.
09:09Okay, Barney.
09:10We'll do it your way.
09:13You, out.
09:15You two girls, make a cup of tea.
09:17And you, back here by eight o'clock.
09:20You'd better get your head down this afternoon, boy.
09:22Looks like you're in for a long night.
09:33Shampoing.
09:40A coat for me.
09:41You're a real hard man.
09:42Coat?
09:43Yeah, coat.
09:45You don't look like a minder.
09:48No, well, I'm moonlighting, aren't I?
09:49In the daytime, I'm a brain surgeon.
09:51Are you any good?
09:52I get by.
09:57We'll soon find out.
10:01Where's the shampoo?
10:03Hey, look, I'm going to borrow your chassis for a twist.
10:08What?
10:09On your pins, darling.
10:10It's your lucky night.
10:11We're going to dance.
10:12We most certainly are not.
10:13Go away.
10:14I never take no for an answer.
10:16Peter, will you deal with this man?
10:18When I want you to talk, Godzilla, I'll knock me out.
10:21I didn't ask you to talk.
10:25Your department, wacko.
10:28Now, look, I'm sorry about this.
10:29What is it?
10:29No, no, hold on.
10:30Don't be silly.
10:31Oh.
10:33I'm sorry about that, man.
10:37Oh.
10:42Oh.
10:46Now, I'm sorry about that, sunshine.
10:47Now, just calm down, eh?
10:48And I'll pay you.
10:49All right?
10:50McCann, I don't pay you to lie down on the job.
10:53Well, I must say I prefer your left profile myself.
11:10Now, I never Welsh on a job, right?
11:12Oh, now, you are a stayer, Terry.
11:15Oh, fine.
11:16You have got bottle.
11:17That is the one thing I've always admired about you.
11:20Well, this idiot Reynolds only needs a minder because he has to keep going out and getting
11:24into trouble so he can keep up his public image.
11:27Yeah, that's about the size of it.
11:29He's selling tickets on me.
11:30Well, noble calls.
11:32No, well, I'm not having it.
11:33I'm sorry, mate.
11:33No.
11:34No, no, no.
11:34No, no.
11:35Listen, listen, listen.
11:36Terry, listen.
11:36Look.
11:37Reynolds sells tickets.
11:38That is how he is able to pay us £100 a week.
11:43He got me into four barbies last night.
11:45Now, I'm not supposed to do that.
11:46I can go back to Nick.
11:48Look, look.
11:48I'll tell you what.
11:49He's going to make a laughing stock of my cut, but I will up your whack to £70.
11:54Now, I cannot say fairer than that, can I?
11:56Hello?
11:57Yes, you can.
11:58How?
12:00You can say 80.
12:01Terry?
12:02Hello.
12:03I'm sorry to interrupt your conference, Arthur.
12:05The Berkeley Air Call Mathers said, where the hell are you?
12:07Terry.
12:09He's on his way.
12:10He's on his way.
12:11There are times, you know, Arthur, when you inspire in me something a bit less than hero
12:16bleeding worship.
12:18Do you want to finish that and all?
12:22Hey, Dave.
12:23What now?
12:24Bring us a pair of scissors, will you?
12:25We've got one here for the scrapbook.
12:27You hate my guts, don't you?
12:31Yep.
12:34Well, there's no need to beat about the bush.
12:36Tell me straight.
12:38What a way to earn a living.
12:41Why'd you come back?
12:42When I retired, I had a nice little wad and a thousand Incan tax collectors going barmy,
12:52trying to get their hands on it.
12:53Must be terrible to be rich.
12:56Go and be a tax exile, the man said.
13:00Live like the elite.
13:03Play golf all day.
13:05Live like a martini ad.
13:06Well, it didn't pan out that way.
13:09I missed real ale.
13:13The missus missed shopping up west.
13:16And the kids missed everything from Queen's Park Rangers to Conkers.
13:21Yeah, but you didn't have to come back to boxing, did you?
13:25We go through our money in two years, right?
13:27So I come back to England to work something out.
13:30The first thing that happens is I get rained on.
13:33The second thing is this geezer hits me with a tax bill for 20 grand.
13:38Now I ask you, where does someone like me raise that kind of dough?
13:43Nuclear physics.
13:45What's the person in this fight?
13:4750,000.
13:48If you win.
13:49I'll win.
13:50You reckon?
13:51Who the hell's Jack Straw?
13:53Stick him on the wall.
13:55He's young and he's hungry, which means he's better than you think.
14:03Look at me, I'm sweated.
14:06Listen, sunshine.
14:08If you want to watch match of the day in the bosom of your family,
14:12you better pull a jolly old finger out.
14:14Do we have to?
14:18Don't Mather ever come training with you.
14:21Barney.
14:22It's too early for him.
14:24You've got real talent in your corner, haven't you?
14:28Come on, champ.
14:29On your toes.
14:32Oh.
14:33Mrs. Reynolds.
14:54Oh, are you Terry?
14:55I hope so, otherwise I'm nipping your case.
14:57Your limousine awaits, ma'am.
15:00Thanks.
15:00Where are the kids?
15:15I had to leave them in school.
15:17Going to the fight?
15:18No.
15:18No.
15:19Oh?
15:20I'm no different from most fighters' wives.
15:22I hope he wins, but I don't want to see him get knocked about doing it.
15:27Yeah.
15:29This Jack Straw?
15:30Is he any good?
15:32Don't worry about good.
15:33He's tough.
15:34What's he really reckon?
15:36Your fella reckons he'll walk it.
15:38Will he?
15:40No.
15:43I thought we'd finish with this lad two years ago when he quit.
15:46You had some bad luck, eh?
15:48What's he told you?
15:50He told me you're a bit short.
15:52A bit?
15:56Listen, Mrs. Reynolds.
15:58Listen, if I promise to behave, can I sit up front with you?
16:01Feel free.
16:07I know you're in the chauffeur, but you can drop the Mrs. Reynolds.
16:11I'm young enough to be your sister.
16:15Ruth, can you do Willie a favour?
16:18How?
16:19Tell him he's not fighting rubbish.
16:21And if he don't look after himself, he's going to get hurt.
16:23And he's going to get beaten.
16:25Well, why don't you tell him?
16:26Well, I'm only a minder.
16:27And anyway.
16:29You don't like him.
16:30I wouldn't say that.
16:32Oh, well, what would you say?
16:35I'd say I can't stand him.
16:38A lot of people can't, and I don't mind.
16:41But you do care enough to warn him about this bloke's straw.
16:46I'm a friend of the family, aren't I?
16:56Barney?
16:56Oh, hello.
17:02It's all happening, I see.
17:04You reckon?
17:05Oh, don't you?
17:07No, Arthur, I don't think it's all happening.
17:08I don't think anything's happening at all.
17:10What do you mean?
17:12Look at them.
17:12No one's trying, are they?
17:14A sparring partner couldn't knock Ash off a fag.
17:16A sparring partner's not supposed to act rough, are they?
17:19There's a difference between acting rough and being a contender for come dancing.
17:23Look at that.
17:30What's the matter?
17:31Sorry, Mr. Baffer.
17:32Twisting me my ankle.
17:33Oh, poor love.
17:35All right, champ, that's enough now.
17:36Come on, Barney, I'm just warming up.
17:38Now, you'd all overdo it, boy.
17:41I'll have a go if you like.
17:44Just a minute, just a minute.
17:46Not scared, are you, Willie?
17:47Not scared of a powder puff like me.
17:50Let him up.
17:51I think he's looking after Willie at the moment.
17:53There's not a bad body, isn't there?
17:55Nice bone.
17:56Now, watch his right.
17:57He drops it when he comes in close.
17:59Keep your guard eye and wait for him to telegraph his left.
18:02And whatever you do...
18:02Arthur, Arthur.
18:03Go and sit down, eh?
18:04Go on, Terry.
18:11Make him happy.
18:16Come on, move.
18:17Terry, move.
18:21Come on, my son.
18:22Do it like I showed you.
18:32Watch his right, Terry.
18:34Hello, what's this pack of paint?
18:52Don't get you going, eh?
18:56Hold it, hold it, hold it.
18:57Stop it, stop it, girls.
18:59Listen, Arthur.
19:00I, I, the minder.
19:01Minders ain't supposed to go around
19:02warping their beating clients, are they?
19:04Just what I was going to say, Barney.
19:09Oh, dear.
19:09He's not pleased with you, my son.
19:11Not one little bit.
19:11Oh, dear, oh, dear.
19:12What's your game?
19:13Never mind about my game.
19:15What's his game?
19:15Fake.
19:16What do you mean, fake?
19:17Got no punches.
19:19You could beat him.
19:20But he's odds on with the bookies.
19:22Jack straws 11 to 2 against.
19:24What with odds like that, it's all this, isn't it, son?
19:27Someone's put a fix in.
19:40Hello, hello.
19:41Hi.
19:42Willie?
19:43What kept you?
19:44I'll see you guys later.
19:51Oh, Willie, wait.
19:52I've waited two weeks.
19:54In training.
19:55I know that.
19:56Oh, Willie.
19:58I'll see you in on then.
19:59...and hand me those lamps.
20:01As quick as I can now.
20:02Come on, come on.
20:03How are the kids?
20:05Fine.
20:07Why do you have to stay in a hotel?
20:09Why can't you stay here?
20:10Oh, you know damn well, Paul.
20:14How are you, kiddo?
20:17Willie, this fight.
20:18I doddle.
20:20Straw's no pushover, Willie.
20:22He's supposed to be a tough guy.
20:24I can handle him.
20:25Can you?
20:27Of course.
20:30Love you know why you quit.
20:32Remember what you said, then?
20:33I know.
20:35But it's different now.
20:37Is it different?
20:38Bruce.
20:40Could you come all this way just to give me the window?
20:43I'm okay.
20:44I can take out this Jack Breeden straw or whatever his name is.
20:48Then why aren't you training?
20:50I mean, why are you sitting up here doing stupid commercials?
20:53It's a muck's game.
20:54I think you'd better go back to the hotel.
20:59Can you beat him, Willie?
21:01Yes.
21:02Yes, I can beat him.
21:03I'll knock him cold inside four, okay?
21:06Satisfied?
21:07Now get off me back, Ruth.
21:12Hey, kiddo, wait.
21:16I'm sorry.
21:17Hey, hi, man.
21:37Come on up.
21:37Help yourself.
21:39Willie, get rid of him.
21:41You saying, man?
21:42Clear him out.
21:43I want to talk to you.
21:44Oh, sling it.
21:45Sling it?
21:46Tell him to sling it.
21:51Okay, that's it.
21:52Everybody.
21:53Oh, Willie.
21:54Out!
21:55Come on, come on.
22:01Where's Ruth?
22:02That's her mum's.
22:05All right then, Willie.
22:06How's it work?
22:08It's what work?
22:09Oh, come on.
22:10There's no need to hide it from me.
22:11The fix.
22:12I've started to like you, wacko.
22:15Don't blow it.
22:16Ask me if I'm going to fall over and knock your bleeding head off.
22:19Oh, yeah?
22:20Like you did this afternoon, eh?
22:22You've got a punch like a baby's belt.
22:24And if somebody asked you to run ten yards, you'd have a coronary.
22:26And look at this.
22:27Boost up to the gills every night.
22:30Hot and cold running birds in every room.
22:33You're really trying, you are, aren't you?
22:34So, what's the deal?
22:37Look.
22:38Strong's a no-hoper.
22:40Who told you that?
22:41Barney?
22:42And others.
22:43Well, you're wrong, sonny.
22:45No one pays you to give me advice.
22:50Come on.
22:52Hey, Willie.
22:54See my shoe?
22:56Oh, sorry.
22:58Hold on.
22:59Come on upstairs.
23:00You landed right at my rotten ankle.
23:06I couldn't help it, could I?
23:08Yeah.
23:08Of course it bleeds, nerves.
23:11Listen, I've seen straw fight and I've seen you fool around.
23:14Now, if that's all you've got, you're going to lose.
23:16Last fight I had before I quit, I could have sent a bloke home in a doggy bag.
23:20No, no, I saw it.
23:22So why didn't you?
23:23It was open house.
23:25Giving out invitations.
23:27Here's me chin, here's me nose, here's me ribs.
23:30Be my guest.
23:32It was pathetic.
23:33So why'd it go the distance?
23:35I couldn't hit him.
23:38You saw that today.
23:40I've lost it.
23:42Lost what?
23:43What are you talking about?
23:45That feeling in your gut that tells you to kill the other bastard before he kills you.
23:50When you're young, when you're hungry, it's no problem.
23:53It's easy to make porridge out of a bloke's face.
23:59When you've got it all, when you don't have to prove yourself anymore, what then?
24:05You know you're only doing it for the punters.
24:09Splash a bit of blood about so they can go home feeling frisky to the wife.
24:12That's it, weck.
24:18I'm a fighter who doesn't like hitting people anymore.
24:24Yeah, well I once met a sex maniac who was shy.
24:28And I thought he had problems.
24:31Ruth knows.
24:33That's the reason I quit.
24:34And Barney went bananas.
24:39Why, Willie, why?
24:41I can get you 50 grand a match guaranteed with your charisma.
24:46Charisma?
24:48The Mersey Mouth.
24:50The disco punch-ups.
24:52The dolly birds.
24:53All that crap.
24:55Showbiz.
24:56So when I said I'd come back for a good price, he set me up with, er...
25:03He set me up with straw.
25:07Said I could waltz it.
25:10Even without a knockout punch.
25:13Do 15 rounds of, er, dancing.
25:16And take him on punts.
25:19Nah.
25:20All right, he's got no science right and he's got no style.
25:24All right.
25:24Yeah, but he has got a punch.
25:27And I'll tell you something, Sunbeam, you will not last 15 rounds.
25:32No sweat.
25:33The loser gets 20 anyway.
25:36Do all right for me tax.
25:40And what then, eh?
25:42You go back to the family looking like mashed potatoes.
25:45No more 50 grand fights, son.
25:46And soon, no more fights at all.
25:49It costs money to live here.
25:51Especially with Ruth and the kids.
25:52I mean, it costs a small fortune just to go to QPR and have a pint afterwards.
25:56Ah, who needs it?
25:59Maybe I'll go back to Jamaica.
26:01To do what?
26:03Open a restaurant bar.
26:06The Mersey Mouth watering hole.
26:10Throw in a couple of Mike Yarwoods.
26:12Have you ever seen my impersonation of Arabella Fonte?
26:15Dave!
26:17Dave!
26:20Dave!
26:23He likes all and he wants to hold.
26:28Dave!
26:32Right, Tom.
26:34Still two to one on, Reynolds.
26:3611 to two against straw.
26:37That'll be 10p, Arthur.
26:39Dave, you are getting very small-minded.
26:42And I am not the only person who's noticed it, either.
26:44How does it work, Arthur?
26:45How does what work?
26:46How can you put a bundle on one bloke and still keep the odds short on a favourite?
26:49Oh, it's easy with a fight like this.
26:51I mean, everyone's got a background, don't they?
26:53I mean, he's the man.
26:54I mean, if Marmad Ali was fighting tomorrow, you'd back him, wouldn't you?
26:57Yeah.
26:57Of course you would.
26:58So you want a bundle on straw?
27:00You spread it around.
27:01Pony here, century there, different bookies, you know.
27:03It's a rotten business.
27:06I suppose you've got your bundle on him, haven't you?
27:09Couple of bob.
27:10Well, I mean, after all, you did tip me the wink about Willie's weakness.
27:15Yeah, that's lousy, Arthur, and you know it is.
27:17It is business, my son.
27:19It is dog-eat cat in this world today.
27:22I mean, I often wonder to myself,
27:23what has happened to all the happy, smiling bus conductors?
27:26Or the service you used to get?
27:28I mean, whatever happened to flying boats?
27:30Meanwhile, all those punters out there who've put their money on Reynolds
27:34are going to lose it, right?
27:36Because they think the fight's kosher.
27:39Boxing kosher?
27:41Oh, Terry, leave it out.
27:43Oh, yeah, go on, go on.
27:44Have a good laugh.
27:45Everyone else does.
27:47Boxing blammy.
27:48Oh, no, no, no.
27:49Bent as a fiddler's elbow, dear.
27:52Yeah, all right, there are a few crooks in the game, right?
27:54Oh, yeah.
27:54We accept that, but the geezers who get up there in the ring and do it,
27:58and they do it, they're okay.
28:01They're not Einstein, but they're okay.
28:04They're straight, Arthur.
28:06Do you remember what that is?
28:08All right, so they may not have the brains to make a mint of money.
28:11No, they leave all that clever stuff to intellectuals like you and Barney Mather.
28:15But these geezers, they get in the ring,
28:17and they still believe that boxing is the noble art.
28:20They think for some strange reason there's something honourable about playing the game,
28:25doing it by the rules.
28:27They do it.
28:29And for them, and for some of us, it's kosher.
28:34Ooh.
28:36Well, I'll go to our house.
28:38What has got up his nose, I would very much like to know.
28:42You're a real diplomat, Arthur.
28:43I'll say that for you.
28:45Yeah, one of the old school.
28:48You could export hot pastrami to the Vatican.
28:51All I said, all you said, was too much.
28:55Hey, hey, not enough. Come on, you're 10p light.
28:59Cover charge.
29:00No, no, wait, look, I didn't even ask for that.
29:04Force it down here.
29:07It's a matter with everyone today.
29:14You're really working him, aren't you, Barney?
29:26You're really working him, aren't you, Barney?
29:36Hey, hey, Terry, wait!
29:38Wait!
29:39Oh, dear.
29:40Oh, dear.
29:43Come, let's know this, that's right.
29:48What the hell's going on here?
29:54Tell me something, McCann.
29:57What?
29:58Are you serious, or are you just all mouth?
30:03Am I just mouth?
30:05Oh, dear, oh, Lord.
30:06You all right, my son?
30:22I'll do anything for you.
30:33I'll do anything for you.
30:35I'll be so good for you.
30:37I'll be so good for you.
30:39I'll do it like you want me to.
30:41I'll do it like you want me to.
30:43There ain't nothing I can't go through.
30:46All right, that'll do you.
30:47All right, stop.
30:49I'll do it for you.
30:52There you go.
30:56Same time tomorrow, then?
30:58Yeah.
30:59I'll tell you what, you win this fight,
31:01I'm going to be the one who needs a minder.
31:05Shut up.
31:11What's up, Willie?
31:12Oversleep?
31:13My boy gets a good night's rest.
31:15A man who does that is a man who's confident.
31:17So's Jack Straw.
31:19Confident, 11 or two against.
31:22What's his problem, can't he count?
31:24What do you do with straw, mate, eh?
31:26Stuff it in a punch bag, don't you?
31:29Don't worry, mate.
31:30I won't even spoil your make-up.
31:35Hey, want a fag?
31:36I can be so good for you.
31:38I'm the one you're going to be.
31:40Love you like you want me to.
31:42I can even have you breathe.
31:46I'll be so good for you.
31:48I can make the good times roll.
31:51Be the rose!
31:52Love you with a heart and soul.
31:55That's right!
31:56Ooh!
31:58I'll be so good for you.
32:01I can be so good for you.
32:03There ain't nothing I can do.
32:05Love you like you want me to.
32:07You help me and I'll help you.
32:11I'll be so good for you.
32:13I can make the good times roll.
32:16Woo!
32:17Love you with a heart and soul.
32:19I'll be free.
32:26Well done, champ.
32:28Come on, let's go back to the flat and have a shower, eh?
32:30No, no, no, my flat.
32:32Behave yourself.
32:48Charlie!
32:49Yes, Mr. Maver?
32:51Got a job for you.
33:00You feel good, Teddy?
33:02Look, it's all very well being able to do a three-minute mile,
33:05but we're not up against Sebastian Coe, are we?
33:07Hang...
33:08How do you feel about thumping people?
33:09Hang about.
33:10I'll lick it.
33:18That talented trainer, Jack Benjamin, will be attempting the double...
33:21Morning, Gats.
33:22Drinking?
33:23Four-year-old Colt.
33:25Nice surprise, Barney.
33:27I've heard some very wicked things about your lad, Albert.
33:31Terry?
33:32What's he been up to?
33:33Everything all right, Arthur?
33:34Everything's fine, yeah.
33:35He looks a bit off-colour to me.
33:37He just needs some fresh air, that's all.
33:39We'll take him out for a ride later on and cheer him up.
33:43Won't we, Charlie?
33:44Yeah, we'll take him out for a ride later and cheer him up.
33:47It's all right, Dad.
33:51Oh, what's my lad been up to?
33:56Slide off.
33:58What are you talking about?
34:00I'll explain outside.
34:01What's wrong with explaining inside?
34:03Well, it's all a matter of, you know, it's a little bit difficult.
34:07Oh, you've got a wonderful way with words, Arthur.
34:09You mean I've been fired, eh?
34:11No, no, no, not fired.
34:13Golden handshake.
34:14Mr. Mather was very, very generous.
34:16Come here.
34:19Sorry.
34:20Don't you have any say in this, Willie?
34:24I'm sorry.
34:25Come on.
34:26Get off of me.
34:28We never did sort out your punching problem, did we, champ?
34:30But I'll tell you what to do.
34:32You have a look around you.
34:34Because these nice gentlemen here,
34:35they're using your skin to make a packet.
34:38Go on, you have a good look.
34:39And when Jack Straw starts hurting you, you remember their faces.
34:43Or on the other hand, maybe you're right.
34:46Yeah.
34:47If you can't beat them, join them, eh?
34:49Still.
34:50There's always the Blue Rinse Brigade in Montego Bay, isn't there?
34:53And your Harry Belafonte impression.
34:56Give my love to your missus.
34:58You keep right away from here from now on.
35:00You two!
35:01Or someone's gonna start wearing crutches!
35:04Pitiful.
35:06Come on, champ.
35:07Get the lead out.
35:08Five rounds.
35:09Let's eat some of the old magic.
35:13Hey, Terry.
35:14Terry, wait, wait.
35:15Yeah, I know, Arthur.
35:16You're sorry.
35:17You want to buy me a drink?
35:18Shake hands.
35:19Let bygones be bygones.
35:20No, no, no.
35:21Nothing like that.
35:22Well, what then?
35:23Do you really think Willie can win?
35:24I've got a bomb riding on Jack's straw.
35:27Listen.
35:29One of these days, Arthur.
35:30One of these days.
35:31Ooh.
35:32Not very sociable, Terry.
35:37Oh, hi.
35:39Here's some of Willie's gear.
35:40All right?
35:41Thanks.
35:42I heard what happened.
35:43Yeah, well...
35:44I don't know.
35:45I don't know.
35:46I don't know.
35:47I don't know.
35:48I don't know.
35:49I don't know.
35:50I don't know.
35:51I don't know.
35:52Yeah, well...
35:53I'm sorry.
35:54Fellas like Barney Mather ought to be.
35:56Well, whatever you want to say, I agree with.
35:59Ta-ra.
36:00Are you going to the fight tonight?
36:02No, no.
36:03I haven't been invited.
36:05Well, Willie said he'd see you back here afterwards.
36:08We're going to Jamaica tomorrow.
36:11Listen, do you know how everything works on telly and all that stuff?
36:15I won't be watching the telly.
36:19Yeah, well, er...
36:21He's going to lose, isn't he, Terry?
36:25Who knows?
36:26At least we'll be rooting for him, right?
36:31I'll see you. Cheers.
36:32I'm back.
36:33On, I got him.
36:38Poor, lucky!
36:40Hey, use your left.
36:41Go, I'll do it.
36:42Come on, I'm out!
36:44Come on, I'm out!
36:47Come on!
36:49Come on, I'm out!
36:51I love you!
36:53Come on, Jack!
36:55Come on, Jack!
36:57Come on, Jack!
36:59Come on, Jack!
37:01Come on, Jack!
37:03Come on, Jack!
37:05Come on, Jack!
37:07Where's your big mouth now, eh, Reynolds?
37:09Oh, yes, Willie boy, Reynolds.
37:11That'll keep him quiet!
37:13Thought you were gonna finish it in four, Reynolds?
37:15I thought you were gonna finish it in four, Reynolds!
37:17Look at him, right, right!
37:19Go on, kill him, Jack! Kill him!
37:21Oi, oi, you're the only loudmouths around here. Just keep it quiet, eh?
37:24Well, Reynolds does not get one around.
37:26By my count, I make it five to straw, six with this one.
37:29As if that amazing knockdown of the second, the extra champion just...
37:32Well, he just hasn't been able to dictate the pace as he used to.
37:35Punch is utterly bouncing off his opponent, as if there's no weight behind him.
37:39There goes the bell for the end of round six.
37:41I can't take much more of this. At least there ain't helping either.
37:45You'll get to me, will you, son? I'll see you're all right. I'm a bit light at the moment.
37:49You're gonna make a bundle out of this, aren't you?
37:51Bet on straw, didn't you?
37:53That's what you said.
37:55That is what you said, innit?
37:57Yeah.
37:58Well, you don't look like a bloke about to clean up.
38:02I switched.
38:04You what?
38:06Well, I worked it out. I mean, Mayford gives you the elbow.
38:08There's Willie acting as if his right arm's gone when you leave.
38:11I know, it was because you was training him up.
38:13But what made you switch bets, you idiot?
38:15Look, you don't have to tell me about the fight game. I know all about that.
38:18I saw them John Garfield pictures.
38:20Where he's paid to take a dive and win so he can spit in the eye of Zachary Scott.
38:24All that to-ing and fro-ing with you and Willie, I thought, hello, what's going on here?
38:27What's the little bird trying to tell me?
38:29Young Terry's got Reynolds ticking over, I thought.
38:31He's not gonna lose, after all, I thought.
38:33I trusted you, Terry.
38:35And look where he's bloody well got me.
38:37Round seven.
38:39Round seven.
38:40I'm sorry, Arthur.
38:41I'm really sorry.
38:42Go on, Terry!
38:46Go on, Terry!
38:47Go on, Terry.
38:48Go on, Terry!
38:50Go on, Terry!
38:52Come on, Terry!
38:54Come on, Terry!
38:56Come on, son!
38:58Come on, Terry!
39:00Come on, Terry!
39:02Well, that's it. I'm off.
39:04Where are you going, Terry? You're lapping this up, aren't you?
39:06Of course I'm not. What a thing to say.
39:08You know, I was just wondering if there's any chance
39:10that him might, you know?
39:12Look, like John Garfield. Aren't you a bit old to believe
39:14all that Hollywood garbage? Old?
39:16Come on. Now hang about, Terry.
39:18Can't say any more, eh? No.
39:20Oh, sorry, mate. Oh, dear lord.
39:22Terry? Bloody hell, mate.
39:24It's been all right, you mess.
39:26Sit down, I'm building.
39:28Oi, oi, what? Where?
39:30I'm gonna see Willy's Mrs. and you're driving me.
39:32Willy's Mrs.? Yeah. What for?
39:34It's called showing sympathy, Arthur.
39:36Being a pal, a friend in need, and...
39:38Sure, I might as well be talking Chinese with you.
39:40No, no, no, no, no. I understand.
39:42I mean, what am I?
39:44Some kind of monster?
39:46Get it.
39:48You're fucking crazy, but...
39:52Come on, come on.
39:54Come on, come on, man.
39:56Come on.
40:06Come on, come on, come on, man.
40:08Come on. Come on, come on.
40:10Not at all.
40:11That's the eye.
40:12No, no, he's all right, look.
40:14No.
40:14No, he's...
40:15Look, yeah.
40:17Can't take him that one, sir, boy.
40:23Oh, leave that off.
40:26I was trying to get Radio 4.
40:29It's a programme on about T.S. Eliot's early life.
40:31What are you, Arthur?
40:33Some kind of monster.
40:40What are you, Arthur?
41:10Go, go, go!
41:14Fight, man!
41:16That's it, though.
41:29Oh, hello Tim. Hello, love. Arthur Daly, Ruth. Ruth, Arthur Daly. Hello, love.
41:52Shall we come in? I'm surprised you're not at the fight, love. Oh, not even watching it on the box. Well, I just thought.
42:12Have you heard how the fight's going? No. Well, it's a bit difficult to tell at the moment, you know.
42:18He's in trouble. Listen, any chance of a cup of tea or something, eh? Yeah.
42:27I cancelled the flight. I, er, I fixed it so we could stay with my mum for a few days.
42:34I don't want the kids to seem like, you know.
42:43Where's your mum live? In Walsall. Oh, it's nice, isn't it?
42:49Listen, have you eaten? No, I'm not hungry. Well, I could knock you up a sandwich. There's some meat in the fridge.
43:02Really? Thanks. I couldn't eat a thing.
43:04Now I see a doctor is getting into the ring. Oh, my God, a doctor.
43:16We all just hope there's nothing seriously wrong. Oh, sir. Turn that off!
43:20He hasn't moved hardly. What? That! Turn it off!
43:23Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, thank God. He's getting up!
43:25Hang about. Who did he say was on the deck?
43:27What? Turn it on, quick.
43:29Terry. Turn it on!
43:33My words, what a desperate bewildered man Jack Storm must be.
43:36He must have thought he had this fight in the bank.
43:38But he walked into that, something like that furious barrage from the ex-champion.
43:41I've never seen a fight end so dramatically in all my life.
43:44He's bloody one!
43:46He's won!
43:47He's won!
43:48He's won!
43:49He's won!
43:50He's won!
43:51He's won!
43:52He's won!
43:53I don't believe it! He's won! He's actually won!
43:57I don't believe it!
43:58Is he saying he's won?
43:59He's won!
44:00He's won!
44:01Go on, you lad!
44:02Come on!
44:04Oh, look at his face.
44:06Yeah, but he won, didn't he?
44:08I'm looking for Willie's manager, Barney Mather. Barney!
44:11Oh, apparently Mr Mather's feeling too emotional to speak to us at the moment.
44:15How do you feel like?
44:16So, man.
44:17That guy is really hard.
44:19Look, Willie, just tell me something, Willie.
44:22You were down for nine rounds.
44:23A KO in the fence.
44:24How did you do it?
44:25I mean, that's the question that everyone must be asked here tonight.
44:28He's won!
44:29He's just told me to look out for Straw.
44:33He's a good fighter.
44:35He's a good man.
44:36But I've just got to look out for him.
44:39It's like all the anger's on and the crooks, man, in this business.
44:44You know.
44:45Yeah.
44:46Thanks, Terry.
44:47I owe you.
44:48Terry?
44:49Terry who, Willie?
44:50Hey, Ruth!
44:51Put the kettle on.
44:52I'm coming home.
44:53Always knew he could do it.
44:55Didn't I tell you, Terry?
44:56Never give up till after the last round.
44:58Where there's life, there's hope.
44:59That's what John Garfield says.
45:01I bet you're well pleased, don't you?
45:02All that done, will you, mate?
45:04No, no, no.
45:05Only had a couple of times.
45:07That's not what your face told me when you thought he was losing.
45:10No, no, no.
45:11Come on, Terry.
45:12You know I am not a betting man.
45:13Oh, my dear.
45:14I'm very pleased for you, my dear.
45:16Look, I'd just like to say...
45:17Yeah?
45:18It's his round.
45:19That is not what I'd like to say.
45:20No, it's good enough, though, isn't it?
45:22Now, what is this Dom Perrin on everybody talks about?
45:24Where are you, Willie?
45:26Let him out, let him out.
45:28Great stuff, Willie.
45:29Great stuff.
45:30Let's go.
45:31Somebodys got...
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