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00:04:53A MIRACLE
00:04:54A MIRACLE
00:04:54I SAY
00:04:54IS SOMETHING
00:04:56CONTRARILY WISE
00:04:57TO THE USUAL
00:04:58COURSE OF NATURE
00:04:59DONE
00:05:00BY AN ACT
00:05:00OF WILL
00:05:01SOMETHING
00:05:02COULDN'T HAPPEN
00:05:03NOT WITHOUT BEING
00:05:04SPECIALLY WILLED
00:05:05SO YOU SAY
00:05:06WELL YOU'VE GOT
00:05:07TO HAVE A DEFINITION
00:05:08WHAT DO YOU SAY SIR?
00:05:11WELL
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00:05:13MR COX
00:05:14OH I'M NOT IN THIS
00:05:16WELL I AGREE
00:05:17SOMETHING CONTRARILY WISE
00:05:18TO THE USUAL COURSE OF NATURE
00:05:20HAVE IT SO
00:05:21WHAT ABOUT IT
00:05:22ALL RIGHT
00:05:23NOW FOR INSTANCE
00:05:24TAKE
00:05:25UM
00:05:27WHAT
00:05:28THAT LAMP
00:05:29THAT LAMP
00:05:29IN THE NATURAL COURSE OF NATURE
00:05:31COULDN'T BURN
00:05:32UPSIDE DOWN
00:05:33COULD IT
00:05:34YOU SAY IT COULDN'T
00:05:36WELL THEN YOU
00:05:36YOU AREN'T GOING TO SAY IT COULD
00:05:38ARE YOU
00:05:39WELL THEN IT COULDN'T
00:05:41ALL RIGHT
00:05:42WELL THEN NOW
00:05:43HERE
00:05:44NOW
00:05:45SOMEONE COMES ALONG
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00:05:46AS IT MIGHT BE ME
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00:05:49STANDS AS IT MIGHT BE
00:05:51HERE
00:05:52AND SAYS TO THAT LAMP
00:05:53AS I MIGHT DO
00:05:56COLLECTING ALL MY WILL POWER
00:05:57AND I'M DOING IT MARK
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00:05:58I'M I'M
00:05:59PLAYING FAIR
00:06:00SAYS
00:06:01HERE YOU
00:06:03TURN UPSIDE DOWN
00:06:05WITHOUT BREAKING
00:06:05AND GO ON BURNING STEADY
00:06:11THANK YOU
00:06:14THANK YOU
00:06:16THANK YOU
00:06:33THANK YOU
00:06:35FOR GOOD AND ALL
00:06:37HE'S GOT TO PAY FOR
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00:06:38MR COX
00:06:38YES
00:06:38HE'VE GOT TO PAY FOR A LAMP
00:06:40SHADE IN A CHIMNEY
00:06:41WHY AS HE DID IT WE
00:06:43LOOK HERE
00:06:43MR COX
00:06:44I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
00:06:44TO THAT CONFONDED LAMP
00:06:45MORE THAN ANYONE DOES
00:06:46I SWEAR I NEVER TOUCH YOU
00:06:48COME ON
00:06:48MR CUNJROE
00:06:49YOU DON'T WANT ANYMORE
00:06:50POTHER
00:06:50ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT
00:06:51BEFORE I COME AND CHUCK YOU OUT
00:06:53COME ON
00:06:54THERE
00:06:55COME ON
00:06:59SNAP
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00:07:13DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED Yes
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00:07:18what did happen I
00:07:20DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED But
00:07:20what DID happen NO
00:07:20REASON FOR MR COX TO BE SOıyoruz I
00:07:24DIDN'T WANT THE CONFOUNDED LAMP TO UPSIDE TO
00:07:26It was, it was when I said, ear you, that it turned upside down.
00:07:37Ear you.
00:07:40Be lifted up about a foot.
00:07:46Don't lose your head, George McWhether, Fatheringay. Don't lose your head.
00:07:49It won't drop, not unless you let it fall, no.
00:07:52Now, keep burning steady.
00:07:54Don't drop any nasty grease about and over you go, upside down.
00:08:04As you were on the table.
00:08:09Oh, it is a miracle! A blooming miracle!
00:08:13Why, I can make any amount of money with a trick like this on the musicals.
00:08:18I suppose I could do it to almost anything.
00:08:21Here, the table, yeah.
00:08:24Up!
00:08:27Down you go.
00:08:31Now, the bed.
00:08:34Up!
00:08:39Now, don't bump on the floor, my dear. Come down quietly.
00:08:49Yes.
00:08:51It's willpower and hypnotism and all that.
00:08:56Yes.
00:08:58Yes.
00:09:00You're going to something bigger.
00:09:02A beer comb, like what conjurers have.
00:09:05Now, let's get some.
00:09:10I...
00:09:10Preston.
00:09:12There's a kitten to be under there.
00:09:14Huh.
00:09:16Ladies and gentlemen, a young, elfy kitten.
00:09:24Here.
00:09:24Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.
00:09:35Yes.
00:09:35Come here, you.
00:09:37Rat it, you little beast.
00:09:38Rotten little pain cushion, you.
00:09:40Here.
00:09:41Oh, yes.
00:09:42He changed into a pain cushion now.
00:09:44Got you.
00:09:55Presto.
00:09:56Vanish.
00:09:57And you'll be an extinguisher again and we'll say no more about it.
00:09:59No.
00:10:05Oh.
00:10:06Better be careful.
00:10:08Here.
00:10:10Use scratches.
00:10:11Be easy.
00:10:17I can go on doing miracles.
00:10:20All right.
00:10:48Two o'clock.
00:10:49That's the day for the shop.
00:10:52I might get it all this bitter, right?
00:10:54No.
00:10:55No.
00:10:55No.
00:10:56No.
00:10:56No.
00:10:56Here.
00:10:58All you miracles.
00:10:59Vanish.
00:11:02Crawling, I've burned me candle to a stump.
00:11:13I'll go out.
00:11:32Oh, it was a dream.
00:11:38Was it?
00:11:39Yes.
00:11:48Ben.
00:11:51Golly, it's true.
00:11:58I won't do any more.
00:12:01I won't do any more.
00:12:01Not for today.
00:12:03I'd better think it over.
00:12:05It won't do.
00:12:07A miracle is dropping off the ends of your hands before you hardly know it.
00:12:12No, Mr. George McWhirter Fatherlingay.
00:12:14It'll make you no end of trouble.
00:12:29How are you getting on without Mr. Fatherlingay, Ada?
00:12:32Don't you be vulgar, Mr. Stoker.
00:12:34I'm not getting on and I'm not getting off with him.
00:12:36Or anybody else, see?
00:12:38As it happens, I can see.
00:12:39You don't have all the chaps running after you without doing something about it, Ada.
00:12:42Don't tell me.
00:12:45You're just pretending to be jealous, Bill.
00:12:48You've got no reason.
00:12:52Come.
00:13:09Good morning, Miss Hooper.
00:13:10Good morning.
00:13:10How's your arm?
00:13:11Oh, not so painful so long as I keep it in a sling and don't use it.
00:13:14I wear the sling to remind me.
00:13:17Oh, I'm so hungry today.
00:13:18I wish it was lunch.
00:13:19I haven't the heart for lunch.
00:13:21Feeling ill?
00:13:23Feeling freckled.
00:13:24Freckled all over.
00:13:25I've got two more.
00:13:27Powder isn't any good, Maggie.
00:13:29I'd be all powder.
00:13:31Besides, he doesn't like it.
00:13:34He's nasty about it.
00:13:36Oh, well, never mind.
00:13:38What can't be cured must be endured.
00:13:43Oh, who's this sneaking through from the cotton department?
00:13:47Good mind to give him the cold shoulder.
00:13:49And you can't, I know.
00:13:51Oh, I could.
00:13:52But I don't want to.
00:13:53Oh, well.
00:13:54Two's count'n it.
00:13:55Three's none, I'm off.
00:14:05You don't often come to see the haberdashery nowadays, Mr. Potheringay.
00:14:09The new attractions and the costumes, I presume.
00:14:11Oh, we know all about that.
00:14:13I keep my art in this department, Miss Hooper.
00:14:16Really?
00:14:17Really.
00:14:18Maggie, I've been wanting to talk to you all day.
00:14:21Well, all morning.
00:14:23Really?
00:14:23Oh, serious.
00:14:24Maggie, something, something queer has happened to me.
00:14:28I can't make anything.
00:14:29Not being left money or won a lottery ticket.
00:14:31No.
00:14:33Something queer.
00:14:35Not falling in love.
00:14:37That happened a long time ago as well.
00:14:39You know, Miss Hooper.
00:14:41Really?
00:14:41Really.
00:14:44They say you had more than was good for you in the long dragon last night
00:14:47and upset the lamp.
00:14:49It can't be that.
00:14:54It has something to do with it.
00:14:55It's odd.
00:14:56You see?
00:14:57It's like this.
00:14:59If I say let a thing happen, it happens.
00:15:02Sort of prophecy?
00:15:03No.
00:15:04Sort of miracle.
00:15:05Go on.
00:15:07Oh, true.
00:15:07I can prove it.
00:15:08Here.
00:15:18Oh, of course, that's a trick, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:15:21That's one of your sleight of hand tricks.
00:15:24Oh, they're lovely violets.
00:15:26You didn't get this bunch for sixpence, I know.
00:15:29It's a good trick.
00:15:30They just seem to jump out of nothing.
00:15:33But if only one could work miracles.
00:15:36Just think of what you could do.
00:15:38For instance?
00:15:39He'll be sick.
00:15:41Oh, I hadn't thought of that.
00:15:43Now, now, here's my sprained arm.
00:15:46What wouldn't I give just to lift things and put them away without thinking?
00:15:50Well.
00:15:56Lift it.
00:16:02Oh.
00:16:05Oh, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:16:07You're a healer.
00:16:09You've got the gift of healing.
00:16:11It ain't everything I've got.
00:16:12But the good you might do.
00:16:15Oh, I suppose I might.
00:16:16Perhaps I will.
00:16:17Now, there's Effie there.
00:16:19Heartbroken about her freckles.
00:16:21Her fella hates freckles and she keeps on getting fresh ones.
00:16:25Well.
00:16:27I'll try.
00:16:28Effie!
00:16:31Effie!
00:16:32Do you know Mr. Fotheringay is a charm for freckles?
00:16:35Go on.
00:16:36Yes.
00:16:37Do do it, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:16:40Come on.
00:16:49Let all your freckles be gone and your complexion be perfect.
00:16:57Oh!
00:16:58Oh!
00:17:00Where's the mirror?
00:17:00Oh, dear.
00:17:05Oh!
00:17:07It's marvelous.
00:17:09How he done it, I don't know.
00:17:13How he came to me, I don't know.
00:17:16I just say to her thing, do this and do that, or be this and be that, and it seems
00:17:22to happen.
00:17:24It means willpower.
00:17:26I didn't know I had it till last night.
00:17:29When you broke the lamp and the long dragon.
00:17:32Get out of there.
00:17:33Well, don't you go breaking things here, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:17:36No miracles in the house or the shop if you please.
00:17:38This is a drapery establishment.
00:17:40This is a drapery establishment.
00:17:41Not a home of magic.
00:17:45But it cured my sprain.
00:17:47And look at her.
00:17:49All the same it isn't wise.
00:17:51Major Grigsby's always fussing about breakages as it is.
00:17:54What he'd say if he began throwing lamps about, I don't know.
00:17:59Of course, if I knew I was to always have it, I'd go in the music halls right away.
00:18:03I've always been thinking of that.
00:18:05I wouldn't.
00:18:06What would you do, Mr. Stoker?
00:18:08I'd do better than that.
00:18:09How?
00:18:10You tell rabbits to come, and violets to come, and complexions to come, and all that.
00:18:14You're the spirit of nature, Fotheringay.
00:18:17But all that small beard.
00:18:19What's to prevent you saying here?
00:18:21That's a twenty-thousand in the bank.
00:18:23A motor car saved.
00:18:24And a big house.
00:18:25Maybe there's a limit, but it would be pleasant like to have that money in the bank.
00:18:28I'll think of that.
00:18:29But don't forget your gift of healing.
00:18:31He could have a miraculous hospital.
00:18:33What's to prevent him?
00:18:34He could start miraculous hospitals all over the place.
00:18:36Just go round once a week and clean everybody up.
00:18:39He didn't stand in the way of other things.
00:18:41And how about a miraculous tip or so for the Derby?
00:18:44Lord, if I had your gift, I'd launch out.
00:18:46I wouldn't go on honouring Grigsby and blot with my services much longer.
00:18:50Fair dues, Mr. Stoker.
00:18:51You have to give him a month's notice, you know.
00:18:53The things you might do.
00:18:56You could be rich.
00:18:57You could be anything you liked.
00:18:58You could give presents right and left.
00:19:00You might meet all the celebrated people.
00:19:03You might go to court and see the king.
00:19:05Music halls indeed.
00:19:07I didn't mean to lay it all out so soon.
00:19:10I'm a bit frightened by it myself.
00:19:12I don't mean to do much with it yet.
00:19:14Anyhow.
00:19:15You listen to me, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:19:18Don't you do anything rash.
00:19:20You didn't ought to go about doing miracles just anyhow.
00:19:23You oughtn't to turn your gifts to selfish ends.
00:19:26Oh, here's uplift.
00:19:28Yes, I mean it, Mr. Stoker.
00:19:31This gift of miracles and healing is something very serious.
00:19:35You ought to have advice about it, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:19:37That's plain sense.
00:19:39You ought to have advice.
00:19:40Yes, I suppose I ought to.
00:19:41I hadn't thought of that.
00:19:43There's Mr. Maidig, the new Baptist minister.
00:19:46No, no, he ought to go to the vicar.
00:19:48And a nice mess they'd make of it for you.
00:19:50Either of them.
00:19:51Righteous old buffers without any imagination.
00:19:53Least way the vicar is.
00:19:55Maidig's just a spouter.
00:19:56You take my advice, Fotheringay, and do yourself well.
00:19:59Don't give your gift away to anybody.
00:20:01There isn't a woman in the world who wouldn't love to have a man.
00:20:04Who could work miracles for her.
00:20:06You take advice, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:20:08Come on, Jane, collect the plates.
00:20:10Miracle or no miracle, we've got to get on.
00:20:12We can't sit here and let the shop look after itself.
00:20:15Come on, come on, come on.
00:20:25Good night, madam.
00:20:26Good night.
00:20:31Come, come, come, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:20:33What's the matter with you today?
00:20:34Here we are, five minutes off closing time, and...
00:20:36Look at it, look at it.
00:20:37The place is in a muddle.
00:20:40Sorry, sir.
00:20:41I've had a bit of worry today.
00:20:42Won't take me long.
00:20:43You've got half an hour of tidying up for you.
00:20:47Here.
00:20:50Apple pie order.
00:21:21It hasn't taken long, has it, sir?
00:21:24No, you're quite right, it hasn't taken long.
00:21:27I didn't quite follow you.
00:21:29It's queer, very queer.
00:21:31You're quite sure, Mr. Fotheringay, this sort of thing doesn't damage the goods?
00:21:36Doesn't good, sir.
00:21:49I can do anything.
00:21:51Absolutely anything.
00:21:52If I wouldn't do anything to that old moon, I could do it.
00:21:56All the saints and scientists in the world are nothing compared with what I can do.
00:22:02And who's afraid, I tell you?
00:22:04Who's afraid?
00:22:05Oh.
00:22:07Oh, I broke my stick.
00:22:09Did they, then, did they?
00:22:10Oh, what about Master's gift of healing?
00:22:12Yes, we'll make it all right and better.
00:22:14Here.
00:22:14Here.
00:22:15Be, not a stick, but a, but a tree.
00:22:18A great big rose tree growing right there in the middle of the road.
00:22:21All covered with lovely roses and get your breath.
00:22:30Hello.
00:22:33Why, it's old Bobby Winch.
00:22:34Oh, I say, this'll never do.
00:22:35Here.
00:22:38Go back.
00:22:39Oh.
00:22:45Leave him alone.
00:22:46Let that rose tree vanish.
00:22:51Hello, mister.
00:22:51Watch the game.
00:22:52What's all this throwing about of brambles?
00:22:54I wasn't throwing any brambles at you, Mr. Winch.
00:22:55I was just doing what you call working a miracle.
00:22:58Oh, it's you, Mr. Miracle Worker.
00:22:59It's you, is it?
00:23:00This is how you spend your nights.
00:23:01This is how you do it, eh?
00:23:03Well, this time you've done one trick too many.
00:23:05Well, you're not going to take it seriously, Mr. Winch, are you?
00:23:07It isn't me that takes it seriously.
00:23:09It's the law.
00:23:10What, run me in?
00:23:11Me so respectable?
00:23:12Oh, you can't do it, Mr. Winch.
00:23:14I'm doing it now.
00:23:16Come on.
00:23:16No, I won't.
00:23:17You're coming.
00:23:18Oh, go to blazes.
00:23:22Golly, man.
00:23:23He's gone to...
00:23:27Where am I?
00:23:28He's got me into some sort of pitfall or something.
00:23:30It's full of them there tricks.
00:23:33They laugh out here, too.
00:23:34I'd better make a note of this.
00:23:36An officer should always make a careful note.
00:23:39What was the exact time?
00:23:42Why, the paper's going round.
00:23:45It's not on the boats, too.
00:23:47Oh, dear.
00:23:48What is this?
00:23:49What is this?
00:23:49It can't be a nice place to go to.
00:23:51Can't send a chapter like that.
00:23:56Where's my stick?
00:23:58I...
00:23:58Oh, here.
00:23:59Let my stick be back.
00:24:01It's not broken.
00:24:04What am I to do about Mr. Winch?
00:24:06What am I to do about Mr. Winch?
00:24:08I can't leave him there.
00:24:10I can't bring him back.
00:24:12I...
00:24:12Oh.
00:24:14I know.
00:24:16San Francisco.
00:24:17Let's be nearly half way round the world.
00:24:20Let Mr. Winch, wherever he is,
00:24:23go immediately to San Francisco.
00:24:26Oh.
00:24:27Oh.
00:24:29Oh.
00:24:30Oh.
00:24:31Oh.
00:24:31Oh.
00:24:32Oh.
00:24:33Oh.
00:24:34Oh.
00:24:34Oh.
00:24:34Oh.
00:24:39Oh.
00:24:51Oh, it's lovely.
00:24:52It's heaven being like this.
00:24:54And to think you as jealous, Bill, of poor little Fotheringay.
00:24:58Heaven is miracles.
00:25:00Must be awful late, Bill.
00:25:02Golly.
00:25:03It's past a half hour.
00:25:04The time we were indoors.
00:25:05The door of the lot will have to ring.
00:25:06We can't go back together. Every mum would talk.
00:25:08Yes.
00:25:09You go back to the front door.
00:25:11I'll go round the back and chin up the water pipe for the men's dormitory.
00:25:14I've done it before. The window's never fastened.
00:25:16Give us a last kiss, Bill.
00:25:28Oh, Ada. You're the very girl I was thinking of.
00:25:32Why, it's George.
00:25:33Do you know the time, George?
00:25:35It's nice to be you and live out and not have to be in by half past ten every night.
00:25:39I could stay out all night in moonlight like this. Couldn't you wait?
00:25:42Yes, it's lovely. It's real lovely.
00:25:45Done any more miracles, George?
00:25:47Oh, nothing to speak of.
00:25:49It's not much fun doing miracles alone.
00:25:52You sort of want an inspiration, like I...
00:25:57Here. See the church clock?
00:25:59Here, you and every clock can watch in Dewington be put back twenty...
00:26:03No, twenty-five minutes.
00:26:05Now!
00:26:11See? My watch, too.
00:26:12You'll be all right now, Ada.
00:26:14If you do have to ring and be let in,
00:26:16while the whole clock will bear you out.
00:26:19But... but it's a real miracle.
00:26:21There's nothing to what I can do for you.
00:26:25You know why I asked them to put it back twenty-five minutes instead of twenty minutes?
00:26:30So that I can have a bit of a word with you.
00:26:31Well, you deserve five minutes, George.
00:26:35I can do extraordinary things for you.
00:26:37You... you seem to stir up my imagination.
00:26:40It's very kind what you have done.
00:26:43I could do anything for you, Ada.
00:26:47If... if only I could get you so as you...
00:26:49thought of... love me.
00:26:53I... would indeed...
00:26:55so long as I could get you to...
00:26:58want to... kiss me.
00:27:00George!
00:27:01Miracles or no miracles, you mustn't talk to me like that.
00:27:03Oh, why shouldn't I? Don't you care for me?
00:27:05Not in that way, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:27:08Why not?
00:27:09I don't know, I just don't.
00:27:12Anybody else, eh?
00:27:14Oh, I know.
00:27:15That's not your business, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:27:17Anyhow, I don't care for you, not in that way.
00:27:20You're a nice sort of a chap, but not my sort of a chap.
00:27:23Whether there is anyone or no one, it wouldn't make any difference.
00:27:25I couldn't love you.
00:27:28No?
00:27:29No.
00:27:30And supposing I was to make you love me?
00:27:33You couldn't, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:27:36You... you wouldn't, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:27:39Oh.
00:27:41Oh.
00:27:42Oh.
00:27:43Oh.
00:27:43Now, milady.
00:27:44You be in love with me.
00:27:47You be hopelessly in love with me.
00:27:49You forget all about Bill Stoker and be in love with me.
00:27:52Now!
00:28:02That's where your miracles don't work, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:28:06That's where your miracles don't work.
00:28:08I'm not an old clock or a rabbit or anything like that.
00:28:12Good night, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:28:24Yes, sir?
00:28:25Send Fotheringay to me, please.
00:28:27Ask Mr. Fotheringay to come and see me.
00:28:29Yes, sir.
00:28:34You sent for me, sir?
00:28:36Yes.
00:28:36Sit down, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:28:37Sit down.
00:28:37I want to have a little talk with you.
00:28:39Sit down.
00:28:40Sit down.
00:28:40Cigarette?
00:28:43Now, I must confess, I was very struck by the way you tidied your department yesterday
00:28:48evening.
00:28:48Very much struck.
00:28:49It was practically instantaneous, wasn't it?
00:28:51Now, I wonder if you could tell me how you managed that.
00:28:53I understand it's not the first thing of its kind that you've been doing lately?
00:28:56Well, I could tell you, and so to speak, I couldn't.
00:29:01Roughly, you might call it a sort of miracle.
00:29:04Oh, come, come, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:29:06Isn't that rather an old-fashioned word, miracle?
00:29:12Well, say, it's something contrary-wise to the course of nature done by an act of will.
00:29:18Will?
00:29:18Ah!
00:29:19Now you're talking about something I can understand.
00:29:21After all, a man doesn't build up a big and vital business like this with three branches
00:29:25already and forty-nine assistants out of one small shop with five hands in seven short
00:29:30years without knowing something about willpower.
00:29:32Willpower over customers.
00:29:34Willpower over patrons.
00:29:35Willpower over assistants.
00:29:36But, er, frankly, Mr. Fotheringay, you've never struck me as the kind of young man
00:29:40who would go in for that sort of thing.
00:29:42Well, I haven't.
00:29:43It just come to me.
00:29:45Have you ever studied dominance?
00:29:47Exercised your willpower against others?
00:29:49Tried to get down to feelings and motives?
00:29:51I don't seem able to do that.
00:29:53But you have tried.
00:29:55Well, it wasn't much good.
00:29:56No, no.
00:29:56Tell me.
00:29:56Tell me.
00:29:57I just wanted someone to feel differently about me.
00:30:00It wasn't anything.
00:30:01Never mind about that.
00:30:02Oh, I see a lady in the case, eh?
00:30:04No, we won't talk about that.
00:30:06Come down to hard facts.
00:30:08I want to make you a business proposition.
00:30:09Now, I take it, you could straighten up the shop in the evening.
00:30:12Open the shop up in the morning.
00:30:13Deliver the parcels to the addresses given.
00:30:14All by the aid of miracles.
00:30:15Is that right?
00:30:17Naturally, you must confine your gifts entirely to our organisation.
00:30:20No outside miracles.
00:30:21You get me, Mr. Fotheringay?
00:30:22Yes.
00:30:23Now, I've been working all this out.
00:30:24I've figured it out in my head.
00:30:25Now, for the first year, we can guarantee you, sir, an income of, um, three thousand pounds.
00:30:31Three thousand pounds.
00:30:33And why?
00:30:33Because there isn't a competitor in the business we couldn't down by sheer rapidity and economy.
00:30:37We can extend over the coast.
00:30:38We can extend all over England.
00:30:40There's no limit with such an advantage.
00:30:42Oh, you may call me a dreamer, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:30:45But let me tell you that every great organiser of business is a dreamer.
00:30:49I could sit in that chair and see Griggs, Bibblot and Fotheringay running into millions of capital.
00:30:55Spreading all round the world.
00:30:57I suppose that San Francisco is pretty nearly all round the world, isn't it?
00:31:01Practically, sir.
00:31:02So why do you ask?
00:31:03Well, I was just wondering.
00:31:04You happen to know how long it takes to get here from San Francisco?
00:31:07Three weeks or a month, I should say.
00:31:08But why?
00:31:08Why?
00:31:09Well, three weeks anyway.
00:31:10Certainly all that.
00:31:11But why do you ask?
00:31:11I just wanted to know.
00:31:14I've got a sort of relation out there.
00:31:20Is that all you've got to tell us, Mr. Winch?
00:31:22That's all I've got to tell you.
00:31:24Oh, he's crazy.
00:31:25It doesn't begin to make sense.
00:31:27What's all this dope about roses and brambles anyhow?
00:31:30Now you can't make a story out of that.
00:31:32He's screwy.
00:31:33That suit of his is a real, genuine English cop's uniform.
00:31:37There's something in it.
00:31:38Fourth dimension or something.
00:31:40Yeah.
00:31:41Well, where'd he scram from?
00:31:42That's all that interests me.
00:31:44How about the clothes?
00:31:45Oh, to hell with the clothes.
00:31:47The Ed won't print a line of that stuff.
00:31:49You can have people disappearing all over the states.
00:31:51That's good copy, that is.
00:31:52But this guy, appearing suddenly?
00:31:55You can't stuff him with that.
00:31:57But there's the clothes, I tell you.
00:31:59And his poor little toasted notebook.
00:32:00And notes you can't read.
00:32:02But it's true.
00:32:03He's a genuine English cop and he's come straight here from Essex in a flash.
00:32:07How?
00:32:08Lord knows.
00:32:09But he came so fast that his shoes and his notebook are frizzled.
00:32:13This newspaper racket is playing nuts.
00:32:16We're supposed to be looking for something new.
00:32:18Well, here is something new.
00:32:20Something that's never happened before.
00:32:22And just because it doesn't fit in with any of the stock stories, we've got to cut it out.
00:32:25Just the same as we'd have to cut out any stories about flying and submarines or radio 50 years ago.
00:32:32It's new news.
00:32:33And the truth is, we mustn't have new news in a newspaper.
00:32:37You must let your imagination bear upon this.
00:32:39If you let this gift of yours just splash about, you'll waste it.
00:32:41It'll do no good to you or anyone else.
00:32:44Just a miracle here, a miracle there.
00:32:46Just scattering miracles, cheap as dirt.
00:32:48But canalized.
00:32:50Concentrated.
00:32:51Monopolized.
00:32:52Then it can be an immense thing.
00:32:54It is very attractive.
00:32:56Attractive?
00:32:56It's the logic of a thing.
00:32:58I see us springing up in a night to be giants of the distributing world.
00:33:01Big men.
00:33:02Big business.
00:33:03Big money.
00:33:05Monopoly.
00:33:06We can't miss it.
00:33:07Now, I'd like to have the opinion of Mr. Bamfield upon this.
00:33:09Mr. Bamfield of the bank over the wake.
00:33:11Yes.
00:33:11This is an extraordinary proposition, Major Grigsby.
00:33:15If you had told me two hours ago that miracles would be worked in this parlor,
00:33:20and that I should be confronted with a project for a world net of miraculous chain stores,
00:33:25I should have scouted the idea.
00:33:27But you don't now.
00:33:28I do not.
00:33:29Mr. Fotheringay, I think you may count on having the London and Essex bank behind you.
00:33:33Yes, I see.
00:33:35That is the way it ought to be done.
00:33:37I don't know much about finance and business management myself.
00:33:41But now, what you propose is that I should be sort of exclusive.
00:33:47Oh, you must confine your gift entirely to Grigsby blot and Fotheringay.
00:33:52It's just there that I don't quite see it.
00:33:54Oh, why?
00:33:56Well, take this gift of healing and all that sort of thing.
00:33:58I don't want to make a business of that.
00:34:00We could have free clinics in all our stores.
00:34:02Healing Tuesdays and Fridays.
00:34:03And special bargain lines.
00:34:05Free.
00:34:05Absolutely without charge.
00:34:07We might do that, yes.
00:34:09Then why don't we give all the stuff away?
00:34:11Why make a business of it?
00:34:12You can't do that.
00:34:13You positively can't do that.
00:34:15No.
00:34:16No, I suppose not, no.
00:34:20Why do we want to borrow money and, what did you say, issue debenture?
00:34:23You must have the thing on a sound financial basis.
00:34:27Ah.
00:34:28Well, we've got to make money by it.
00:34:30Solvency, sir, is the test of service.
00:34:33Yes.
00:34:34But if we want money, why don't we make it right away?
00:34:36You can't do that without disastrous results.
00:34:45Look here.
00:34:46You can't do that.
00:34:47It's illegal.
00:34:48That's a forgery.
00:34:49That note's a forged note.
00:34:50Well, look at it.
00:34:51It's all right, isn't it?
00:34:53Oh, this won't do.
00:34:55You mustn't make money just when you want it.
00:34:58Strikes at the root of everything.
00:35:00Puts the whole banking system completely out of gear.
00:35:03People must want money.
00:35:05And they must want commodities.
00:35:07But if I can give them everything they want...
00:35:09What would he do?
00:35:09What would he do?
00:35:10What would he do?
00:35:10What would he do?
00:35:11What would he do?
00:35:11What would he do?
00:35:12Well, let's see.
00:35:14Couldn't they...
00:35:15Couldn't they have some fun like...
00:35:18Oh, no, no, no.
00:35:19I can assure you, my dear Mr. Fotheringale, I can assure you.
00:35:23I have studied these questions, very profound questions.
00:35:27Before you were born, human society is based on want.
00:35:31Life is based on want.
00:35:34Wild-eyed visionaries I name no name, may dream of a world without need.
00:35:38Cloud cuckoo land. It couldn't be done.
00:35:42It hasn't been tried, has it?
00:35:47Oh, hello, Fotheringay. Where have you been all morning?
00:35:49He's got the sack.
00:35:51Not I. I've been considering a business proposition.
00:35:54What would you think of Grigsby, Blott and Fotheringay, miraculous stores, eh?
00:35:59I've had a firm proposal. Big business.
00:36:02I haven't realized it before, but there's money in these miracles, properly handled.
00:36:06Big money. Gee, miraculous stores, eh?
00:36:11Yeah, that's about it.
00:36:13Put it all out of work.
00:36:16Oh, I hadn't thought of that.
00:36:17You haven't signed on?
00:36:19No, I thought I felt I ought to think things over a bit first.
00:36:22Who's in this?
00:36:23Grigsby in the bank.
00:36:24Yes, but why make money for them? Why not make it for yourself?
00:36:27Why fatten up old Grigsby at Banfield?
00:36:29No, you can't do it that way. You can't make money for yourself.
00:36:32Why not?
00:36:33Well, Mr. Banfield explained it very clearly.
00:36:36You see, it would lead to social chaos, universal bankruptcy, break up the social system.
00:36:41Break up old Grigsby and Banfield, you mean?
00:36:44No, he didn't think it ought to be done.
00:36:45He'd do it fast enough if he could do it himself.
00:36:47Huh?
00:36:48I tell you, Fotheringay, these chaps are sucking onto you.
00:36:51Go away. If I had your gift.
00:36:52Well?
00:36:53I'd run the world.
00:36:54Well, it's a new idea, but it's all right.
00:37:06Hello, George.
00:37:07Oh, no.
00:37:07Making yourself prettier than ever, eh?
00:37:10Wish I needn't do it.
00:37:11But still, it has to be done.
00:37:13Lipstick and powder.
00:37:14Why don't you do something for me like you did for Effie?
00:37:17Considering all you might do, I think you're pretty mean about your miracles.
00:37:20It won't run to a diamond tiara or anything of that sort, I suppose.
00:37:24Why not?
00:37:25Here.
00:37:27Diamond tiara.
00:37:28Now.
00:37:30Look at yourself.
00:37:32Oh!
00:37:33It's lovely.
00:37:34It might be real.
00:37:36Of course it's real.
00:37:37You couldn't do a pair of necklace, George.
00:37:39Why not?
00:37:41A pair of necklace.
00:37:43Oh!
00:37:44Oh!
00:37:46Oh!
00:37:47Oh!
00:37:47Oh!
00:37:47Oh!
00:37:47Oh!
00:37:48Oh!
00:37:50Oh!
00:37:59Oh!
00:38:03Oh!
00:38:06Oh!
00:38:09It's you who are wonderful, Mr. Father again!
00:38:12I...
00:38:13I've never seen anything like it!
00:38:15If Bill could see me now, he'd faint.
00:38:20Cardinal!
00:38:21Here!
00:38:22Be as you were before I change you!
00:38:24Oh, no.
00:38:25Well, no.
00:38:25Oh, no.
00:38:26Now.
00:38:28Oh!
00:38:36Maggie.
00:38:39What are you doing here at this time of night?
00:38:42I don't know. I just came.
00:38:44I think I wanted to see you.
00:38:47Maggie, there's something frightening about this medical working.
00:38:50I told you to get advice about it.
00:38:52I get nothing but advice, but it's all different.
00:38:55I don't know where I am.
00:38:57I'm all full of wonders and I daren't let them loose.
00:39:02I get thinking of things and wanting things.
00:39:06I can't tell you.
00:39:08I got a bad imagination, Maggie.
00:39:11I got a dangerous imagination.
00:39:14Well, what did I tell you?
00:39:17You go and see Mr. Maidig.
00:39:19You could see him tonight.
00:39:20He gives people advice in his parlour.
00:39:22I wonder what he'd tell me.
00:39:29Come in.
00:39:32There's a young man, sir.
00:39:34Very anxious to see you.
00:39:35Name a father in Gay.
00:39:36He says it's urgent.
00:39:37Father in Gay? I don't know him.
00:39:40Respectable? Not a mendicant?
00:39:42Oh, nothing of that sort.
00:39:43But he's in trouble, sir. He says he wants advice.
00:39:45Show him in, then. Show him in.
00:39:47I never refuse myself if it's like that.
00:39:50Always ready to give what I can give.
00:40:04Come in.
00:40:12Well, sir, what can I do for you?
00:40:14I was told that you sometimes give good advice to people.
00:40:17I have a peculiar sort of trouble.
00:40:20Go on.
00:40:21Well, a very extraordinary thing has happened to me.
00:40:23See, I used to think that I couldn't do anything.
00:40:25And now I find I can do, well, practically anything.
00:40:30By willpower.
00:40:32What do you mean, willpower?
00:40:34Work miracles.
00:40:36Miracles?
00:40:37Yes, miracles.
00:40:38No end of them.
00:40:40My dear sir, there are no such things as miracles
00:40:42under the present dispensation.
00:40:43I can assure you of that.
00:40:45Would you think differently about it if I worked one?
00:40:46I should think it over.
00:40:48I have an open mind.
00:40:50No one can deny me that.
00:40:51Oh, well.
00:40:53Here goes.
00:40:55What shall it be?
00:40:55Make something appear?
00:40:57I'm sick of messing about with kittens and rabbits.
00:41:01Bunchies of flowers.
00:41:02I know.
00:41:04Let there be a real tiger.
00:41:06There, on the afterrug now.
00:41:14There, on the afterrug a minute ago.
00:41:32No, my dear sir.
00:41:33No.
00:41:34A joint hallucination.
00:41:36The thing is quite well known.
00:41:37Hallucination?
00:41:38I'll bring it back.
00:41:39Oh, no.
00:41:39Don't do that.
00:41:41Look at those paw marks.
00:41:43Hallucinations don't leave footprints behind them, do they?
00:41:45I'm willing to be convinced.
00:41:49Yes, sir.
00:41:50There are paw marks.
00:41:53Some large carnival.
00:41:56You know, Mr...
00:41:57Mr...
00:41:58Fotheringay.
00:41:59Fotheringay.
00:41:59That was a miracle you did just now.
00:42:01You need have no doubt about it.
00:42:03It was a miracle.
00:42:04Can you do other things of the same kind?
00:42:06That's what I want to consult you about, Mr. Madig.
00:42:08You see, I can.
00:42:09I can do all sorts of things.
00:42:10I can heal people.
00:42:11I can clear things up and set things right.
00:42:13I can move things from one place to another.
00:42:15I can change things to other things.
00:42:17I don't seem able to get inside of people's minds.
00:42:21But apart from that, there doesn't seem to be a limit.
00:42:24Not a limit to what I can do.
00:42:25It's power.
00:42:26I know.
00:42:26What am I going to do about it?
00:42:27What would you do about it?
00:42:28What would anyone do about it if they had it?
00:42:29You know, Mr. Madig, it's a very remarkable thing.
00:42:32Before I realized I had this power to work miracles,
00:42:34I thought I knew everything I wanted and couldn't get it.
00:42:37And now, now that I can have, in a manner of speaking,
00:42:40have everything, something seems to hold me back.
00:42:44Power! Power!
00:42:46My dear young man, what might you not do?
00:42:49What may you not do with the world?
00:42:51Healing.
00:42:52Have you thought?
00:42:53Why not banish disease from the face of the earth?
00:42:56Doing one swoop what science and medicine have been striving to do,
00:42:59little by little.
00:43:00A world without disease.
00:43:01Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
00:43:03I just thought I'd go around, you know, and cure somebody here and somebody there.
00:43:07Sweep it all away.
00:43:09A world glowing with health.
00:43:11Newborn.
00:43:12The world's great age begins anew.
00:43:15The golden years return.
00:43:17I see such splendor in this power of yours.
00:43:19Such hope for our race.
00:43:22Such starry hope.
00:43:23Well, talking of upsetting things, Major Grigsby and Mr. Banfield were very anxious that I shouldn't upset things.
00:43:29They did seem to think there might be a catch in it.
00:43:32What Mr. Banfield said was that human beings were held together by money,
00:43:36and by wanting money and things, and if they didn't want, what would there be for them to do?
00:43:41Bankrous and businessmen, save me from them.
00:43:45Man bankrupt in a world of plenty.
00:43:47I suppose they ought to have a better way of managing things.
00:43:51Of course, but will they ever trouble to do so until they're compelled?
00:43:54Until things overtake them?
00:43:56No, sir.
00:43:57And that is where we begin.
00:43:59Tomorrow.
00:44:00Suppose every poor soul in the world found a five-pound note in hand.
00:44:04Suddenly.
00:44:05So that they could go out and buy things.
00:44:07Think of that.
00:44:08Think of the effect of it.
00:44:09I would like to do that.
00:44:11You...
00:44:11You don't think there might be a catch in it?
00:44:15Will Mr. Banfield have fits?
00:44:17Convulsions, I hope.
00:44:18Convulsions.
00:44:19Convulsions.
00:44:20And then healing all over the world.
00:44:24Everybody suddenly saying,
00:44:26Ah, I feel strong.
00:44:28I feel well.
00:44:29Well, I don't see any harm in that.
00:44:30Nor I.
00:44:32It might put the doctors out a bit, though.
00:44:34And why?
00:44:34Well, they naturally think it's their business to keep us healthy.
00:44:37Oh, heavens, are we to remain needed to please the bankers and the businessmen,
00:44:40and unhealthy to provide fees for the doctors?
00:44:43I just thought it might complicate things a bit, but...
00:44:45Well, sleep over it first.
00:44:47We shall have to provide for the doctors and the traders.
00:44:50I admit that.
00:44:51These things can't all be done in a rush.
00:44:53There's an inertia about things which has to be considered.
00:44:56I shall think and think and think.
00:45:00I shan't sleep, Mr. Fotheringay.
00:45:02Not a wink.
00:45:02I shall keep vigil.
00:45:04The last night of human misery.
00:45:07The pause before the dawn.
00:45:09What a glorious thought.
00:45:12Will you be able to sleep?
00:45:14Well, I've had a pretty busy day.
00:45:16Oh, you are one of God's innocents.
00:45:18You will sleep.
00:45:19But I cannot bear that we should part like this.
00:45:22Let us do one simple good thing before we go to bed tonight.
00:45:26An earnest of all we mean to do.
00:45:28Let me think.
00:45:30One little thing.
00:45:32Ah.
00:45:33There's my neighbour, Colonel Wynne Stanley.
00:45:36Chairman of the bench.
00:45:37Full of influence.
00:45:38And all that influence against progress.
00:45:40He's always treated me with the utmost civility.
00:45:43I bear him no malice.
00:45:44He sits late at night and drinks.
00:45:46Drinks I fear far too much.
00:45:48I'm no pedant in these matters.
00:45:50But he...
00:45:51He boozies.
00:45:53He will be sitting there now.
00:45:54A decanter by his side.
00:45:56Change it to some simple non-intoxicating fluid.
00:46:00And his house is all decorated with swords and weapons.
00:46:04Bake them into ploughshares.
00:46:06Turn his swords into reefing hooks.
00:46:09Well, but...
00:46:09Will he like it?
00:46:18Oh...
00:46:22Oh...
00:46:23Oh...
00:46:26Ha!
00:46:27Ha!
00:46:35Ha!
00:46:40Ha!
00:46:41Ha!
00:46:52you rang sir i rang six times you go to bed too early moody and now tell me what the
00:46:58devil's the
00:46:59matter with this whiskey it's gone wrong it's lost its taste it's flat it's worse than flat
00:47:03it's mawkish it's the real old stuff sir out of the old jar it's not the real old stuff and
00:47:07it's
00:47:07not out of the old jar what have you been doing to it moody i can assure you you can
00:47:11assure me i'm
00:47:11drinking whiskey when i know i'm not what's going on that's more like in water instead of whiskey
00:47:21that the house falls down but go and see me and go and see don't stand staring there something's
00:47:31happened though moody why don't you come and tell me i don't understand it sir i stepped through the
00:47:38all about three minutes ago everything was as right as could be and now it's it's frightful sir what's
00:47:43frightful what do you mean frightful what are you talking about it's gone sir oh it's only all the
00:47:49swords are gone sir the whole collection and there's a lot of other things look like
00:47:53agricultural implements to me some mostly on the floor such as this for example
00:47:59what is this
00:48:03blinking bolshevik thing what is it what what what's it mean what the house going mad oh look
00:48:31what's
00:48:32This, this!
00:48:34Mark!
00:48:36Beats me!
00:48:39Who's that ringing at this time of the life?
00:48:41I can't imagine, sir.
00:48:42Don't imagine, don't imagine. Go and see men.
00:48:44Yes, sir.
00:48:47Anyone's playing any sort of game with me?
00:48:52Inspector Smiddle, sir.
00:48:53You come in, come in! Confound you!
00:48:55Come in and see what's happened to my workhorse.
00:49:00Well?
00:49:02It's some more of it, sir.
00:49:03More of what?
00:49:04There's been a serious outbreak of miracles in the district, sir.
00:49:07Quite beyond anyone's experience.
00:49:09Miracles?
00:49:10Yes, sir. Miracles.
00:49:12There aren't such things.
00:49:13Not properly, sir, which makes it so disconcerting, sir.
00:49:16We didn't come here disturbing you this time at night about nothing,
00:49:18but seeing as you're the chairman of the bench,
00:49:20we thought you might be able to help.
00:49:21What is it? What is it?
00:49:22It's about this constable winch of ours,
00:49:24what's been missing since last night.
00:49:26We've searched everywhere.
00:49:27We've dragged the mill stream.
00:49:29We've made inquiries up and down the railway line.
00:49:31Why, you don't expect me to find him for you, do you,
00:49:32at ten minutes to midnight?
00:49:34No, sir, but I've got a cable.
00:49:35What's the good of a cable?
00:49:36A telegram, sir, from San Francisco.
00:49:42San Francisco.
00:49:43The police do hindern.
00:49:46This constable winch, missing, stop,
00:49:49appeared mysteriously here.
00:49:52Stop, slightly injured in street riot,
00:49:55provoked by himself as...
00:49:57some sort of a hoax.
00:49:59With all due respect, sir, it isn't a hoax.
00:50:01It's something more serious.
00:50:02It's that young fellow, Fotheringay.
00:50:05Fotheringay!
00:50:10Oh, dear!
00:50:13I must have a whisky.
00:50:15If I don't have a whisky, my mind will give way.
00:50:18Yes, sir, but...
00:50:21Good Lord!
00:50:23Is that another miracle?
00:50:25I'll get another jar, sir.
00:50:27I'll get one with a seal unbroken.
00:50:28We did well about much, sir.
00:50:36Ah!
00:50:39Uh, .
00:50:41Uh, do we, really?
00:50:58We'll go 100 pounds again we made.
00:50:58You can't stop there, don't get any other Mann.
00:51:11All right.
00:51:29Soup and water!
00:51:31It's nastier than that, sir.
00:51:32I should say it's one of these temperance drinks.
00:51:35Well, Moody, anything to say?
00:51:40Oh, sir, I got my weaknesses.
00:51:43But I'd as soon poison a baby a stamper with whiskey.
00:51:46If you ask me, it's Fotheringay again, sir.
00:51:49Fotheringay! More Fotheringay!
00:51:55I'll keep calm.
00:51:56I owe it to myself and everybody to keep calm.
00:51:59Oh, perfectly calm.
00:52:02I'll see this fellow tomorrow.
00:52:04No fuss.
00:52:06I'll talk to him quietly, calmly.
00:52:08No good getting heated.
00:52:10I'll have it out with him.
00:52:12Oh, bring him to me, Smithles.
00:52:14Sort of casually.
00:52:16Just for a bit of advice.
00:52:17In my garden, don't alarm him.
00:52:20And keep an eye on him when you're bringing him.
00:52:22Keep your truncheon up your sleeve.
00:52:23If he raises a finger.
00:52:25If he so much as looks like San Francisco.
00:52:30Club him.
00:52:32I'll see you through.
00:52:38Ah, so that's the little medical worker.
00:52:42Don't look like it.
00:52:43Little cab.
00:52:44Spoil my whiskey, ruin my collection.
00:52:49Calmly, calmly.
00:52:51Well, Mr. Superintendent, so this is the young man they wanted me to see, is it?
00:52:55This is Mr. Potheringay, sir, as directed.
00:52:58Hmm.
00:53:00At your service, sir.
00:53:02I want to talk with you.
00:53:05I want a serious talk with you.
00:53:08Chairman of the bench and deputy lieutenant.
00:53:11The former owner of a valuable collection of weapons.
00:53:15And the proprietor of a once powerful seller.
00:53:20As a fellow citizen of the unfortunate constable winch.
00:53:24I want, naturally and properly, a talk with you.
00:53:30I want, if I may say so, an explanation.
00:53:34Well, how, I wish to know.
00:53:40Why, it's almost as odd.
00:53:42See, I just seem able to do things.
00:53:44Yes, and nice friendly things you do, eh?
00:53:48Well, it's hard to know what to do without offending people.
00:53:51Offending people?
00:53:52Well, how the devil else do you expect me to take that trick with my whiskey and my collection?
00:53:57Oh, Mr. Medig.
00:53:58Medig?
00:53:59Yes.
00:53:59Well, that new preacher chap.
00:54:01What's he got to do with it?
00:54:02Well, he was, he was advising me.
00:54:04Advising you?
00:54:05Yes.
00:54:06He, he said if for once, you should go to bed sober.
00:54:13Would you mind saying that again?
00:54:16Yes.
00:54:16If you wasn't to drink too much.
00:54:20Go on, sir, go on.
00:54:22I can bear it.
00:54:24I want to hear you out.
00:54:26Then we might make it a sort of a symbolical action of change.
00:54:33Changing your weapon, see?
00:54:35That would sort of prepare your mind for the peace of the world.
00:54:38And when might that bid you?
00:54:40Oh, very soon now.
00:54:42Peace and plenty.
00:54:44Mr. Medig made it very plain.
00:54:46Now we're to set about it.
00:54:47You're going to set about it?
00:54:50When?
00:54:50I'm seeing Mr. Medig at 12 and I suppose we'll start the golden age somewhere in the afternoon.
00:55:00They suppose they'll start the golden age somewhere in the afternoon.
00:55:06They suppose they'll start the golden age somewhere in the afternoon.
00:55:14Under the circumstances, I hardly like to mention my collection and my whiskey.
00:55:18Oh, don't mention it.
00:55:19We didn't mean to annoy you.
00:55:20I'll, I'll make it all right now.
00:55:24Is that all you do?
00:55:25Just that?
00:55:25That's all.
00:55:27The miracle's done and my whiskey's whiskey and the collection back again?
00:55:32Yes, you can go and see it if you like.
00:55:34The extraordinary thing is I can do these things.
00:55:36Well, I could, I could turn this garden into a, into a palm tree forex and fill it with tigers.
00:55:41There's no limit to what I can do.
00:55:43There's no limit to what you can do.
00:55:45You.
00:55:46Me.
00:55:47You just seem to come out of me.
00:55:49You can do practically anything.
00:55:51You want me to do anything now?
00:55:53But a fellow of your sort.
00:55:55Well, why not a fellow of my sort?
00:55:57Do you want me to do a miracle for you?
00:55:59Something big?
00:56:02Well, perhaps it's just as well to know what we're up against.
00:56:05All right.
00:56:06How'd you like to see India again, eh?
00:56:08Some, some place in India.
00:56:10Bombay.
00:56:11Let's both be in Bombay.
00:56:12Now.
00:56:16Colonel, are you satisfied we're in Bombay?
00:56:18Has changed a bit.
00:56:20I recognise it.
00:56:22Yes, I'll admit we're in Bombay.
00:56:26How the devil are we going to get back?
00:56:27Heaven knows I had to talk to the men after lunch.
00:56:29That's all right, you shabble.
00:56:31Let's both be back in the Colonel's garden at Dewington.
00:56:35Now.
00:56:38Well, is it all right?
00:56:41Can I work miracles or can't I?
00:56:44No doubt of it.
00:56:46Talk about abolishing distances.
00:56:57There you are, you see?
00:56:58What did I tell you?
00:57:00Yes, I see.
00:57:02Now.
00:57:03Mr. Medi, he has ideas.
00:57:05He has imagination.
00:57:06There's no sense in going on with business and banking and all that, seeing these gifts
00:57:10that have come to me.
00:57:11Because that's what Mr. Medi calls a want system and we're going to live in a plenty system.
00:57:15There's no need for people to be hard up anymore.
00:57:17No need for people to be sick and ill and hungry.
00:57:19No need for robbing and cheating and no need for war.
00:57:22No need for anything, as far as I can see.
00:57:25Well, be different, but Mr. Medi says you can't work miracles and stay as you are.
00:57:28But if you put an end to war, sir, as I gather you intend to do before tea time today
00:57:32and as I'm beginning to believe you can,
00:57:34if you put an end to competition, make work unnecessary, give people more money than they know what to do
00:57:38with, then I ask you,
00:57:39what are people going to do, sir? What are they going to do?
00:57:43Well, I'm a bit puzzled about that myself.
00:57:47But Mr. Medi says we just ought to go about loving one another.
00:57:54Go about loving one another.
00:57:57Go about loving one another.
00:58:01Are you mad, sir? Are you human?
00:58:02Have you no sense of decency? The most private, the most sacred feelings.
00:58:07Mr. Medi seemed to feel so differently about it all.
00:58:10Of course, there is art and science and making things.
00:58:15Fret working! Fret working, foolery!
00:58:19Well, we can give it a trial, I suppose. There's no telling what human beings will do.
00:58:23Mr. Medi says...
00:58:25Mr. Medi says... Mr. Medi says... Mr. Medi says...
00:58:27You are going to start this bedlam millennium of yours within six hours.
00:58:31What's going to happen to us? What's going to become of us all?
00:58:34I don't really know exactly that myself. It'll be a bit of a change. But Mr. Medi says...
00:58:44Mr. Fotheringay, won't you give all this business a few hours, a few days consideration before you let it rip?
00:58:50I mean, after all, we've got... we've got a sort of order here kind of civilization.
00:58:56We've got the empire! Yes, but... see, it's all very well for people like you.
00:59:01But most of the people are well for people like me.
00:59:03Now, it's perfectly natural for people like you to want to keep things as they are.
00:59:06I'm all for letting them loose, see? I don't mind change. I think change might be a lot.
00:59:12Well, haven't we had enough change in the last hundred years? Railways, electricity, radio...
00:59:17It shook us up a bit, but it hasn't hurt us, has it? It hasn't killed us.
00:59:21Now I'm all for more and better change.
00:59:27What a perfect afternoon. And to think that it is New Year's Eve for the whole world.
00:59:34We're on the verge of the greatest change this Earth of ours has ever known.
00:59:37Want will vanish and plenty reign. Ring out the old, ring in the new.
00:59:44You know, it's as though I wanted to loiter a little before the beginning and the end.
00:59:51Silly old Earth, what a lesson you have to learn.
00:59:54You don't seem to realize how serious it all is.
00:59:57While we're sitting here in our old homes and our old habits and our old ways of life,
01:00:03these two dangerous lunatics are going to change the world.
01:00:06Change us. Change everything.
01:00:09You know their business ideas, Grigsby.
01:00:11Oh, you kill business. You kill credit.
01:00:14Leave the country open and an arm for anybody that cares to start an air raid.
01:00:18I tell you, this measly little draper's assistance, the most dangerous lunatic loose.
01:00:25I was thinking a lot last night. One or two points I'm not clear about at all.
01:00:30See, human beings have been brought up to live in a certain way.
01:00:33That's what Mr. Grigsby and Mr. Bamfield mean.
01:00:36Now, if I give them plenty of money and plenty of everything,
01:00:39they're going to be a little bit like winning without playing a game.
01:00:42What are people going to do?
01:00:43Do you think people, people as a general rule, I mean, will take to artistic work and all that?
01:00:48But we must make them want.
01:00:49Ah, that's just where my miracles stop, you see.
01:00:51I can't get inside people. I've tried a bit.
01:00:54No, no, I can turn them upside down. I can move them to San Francisco and back in a jiffy.
01:00:57I can make them rich and I can cure their illnesses, but people remain people.
01:01:01But you can influence them indirectly.
01:01:03Healthier people are happier people.
01:01:05Easier people are kindlier people.
01:01:07People who are not vexed and driven are better.
01:01:09To a certain extent, to a certain extent.
01:01:12But isn't he going to let a lot of new desires loose?
01:01:15I've got some powerful desires.
01:01:17My dear young man, how awful has it been my lot to hear that confession from young men in their
01:01:22strength.
01:01:22I know. I understand. We all have these powerful desires. Even in my case.
01:01:29Never mind about your case. I'm talking about my case.
01:01:31Well, I assure you, there's nothing singular about you.
01:01:33Exactly. That's the whole trouble.
01:01:35These men are mad dogs. They have to be treated like mad dogs.
01:01:40It's our world and all we care for against their... confounded antics.
01:01:47One happens to see red.
01:01:50I say, if one happens to see red...
01:01:57There's such a thing as justification.
01:02:33There's that girl Maggie Hoopoe told me to come along and see you.
01:02:35I know her. A very pure, simple, sensible girl.
01:02:38That's her. I'm very fond of her. Very fond of her.
01:02:41But the girl, the sort of girl that sets me wanting isn't her.
01:02:46The only wandering of desire. You must restrain it.
01:02:49Why should I? I happen to want a girl called Ada Price.
01:02:52Maggie Hooper sews on my buttons and mends my socks.
01:02:55And she's perfectly lovely when she's sewing on my buttons and mending my socks.
01:02:59But there's a come and take me about Ada Price.
01:03:03The trouble is as old as the hills. You must resist temptation.
01:03:07Let your motto be service.
01:03:09Why should I? Why service?
01:03:10Why should I make everyone rich and healthy and get nothing out of it myself?
01:03:14Why should that Bill Stoker blast him and get away with it?
01:03:16My dear sir.
01:03:19They're shooting at us. Lie down.
01:03:21Stop that. No more bullets.
01:03:23No bullet to hit me. Nothing to hurt me.
01:03:25The wound on my scalp. Stop bleeding and be healed.
01:03:28Me be invulnerable now.
01:03:32Here you fired that shot. Let your gun barrel be solid.
01:03:41That's all this silly world can do to a man who can work miracles.
01:03:45Why never meant to do anything better for them than to help it.
01:03:47Well, now I'll find the man who fired that shot.
01:03:51I have a pretty good idea who it is.
01:03:53I suppose, wouldn't it be as well to make me invulnerable too?
01:03:56All in good time.
01:03:57I'll look after you for a bit.
01:03:59If I'm safe, trust me, everyone is safe. Come on.
01:04:11Camelard!
01:04:12I thought it was you.
01:04:13None of the others would have been as outright.
01:04:14You're a man of action.
01:04:15I knew it was you.
01:04:17There's no working against miracles.
01:04:20You've got to get ahead with your silly monkey tricks, I suppose.
01:04:24I tell you, I'm sorry I didn't get in with that first shot.
01:04:28Now get ahead with Mr. Madig's magic millennium and see how you like it.
01:04:33No.
01:04:34You don't mean to say you've had a gleam of sanity?
01:04:37No, I've been learning hard and fast these last few days, Colonel.
01:04:39Perhaps there won't be a millennium.
01:04:40Perhaps there can't be a millennium.
01:04:41Madig, there's full of ideas, but I have my feelings and it's me that's got to put it through.
01:04:46You don't mean to say that you're going to give up all the things we talked about just because he
01:04:50tried to shoot you?
01:04:51Oh, it isn't only that.
01:04:52Some of your things I shall do and some I shan't.
01:04:55I that work miracles.
01:04:56I, me that has the power.
01:04:58Why, this isn't the world of Grigsby or Bamfield.
01:05:00It's not going to be the world of the Reverend Silas Madig.
01:05:02No, it's going to be the world of George McWhirter Fotheringain.
01:05:05As I want it, so it will be.
01:05:07What I want, I get.
01:05:09You, you, all of you, just wanted to use me.
01:05:11Now I'm going to use myself.
01:05:13What for?
01:05:13To get just exactly what I fancy.
01:05:17That's the natural human thing to want and that's what I want.
01:05:19I'm just beginning to get the hang of this miracle business.
01:05:22You've had your way.
01:05:24The only one of you that came near the common horse sensitive was Bill Stoker.
01:05:27And much good that'll do him when I've done with him.
01:05:31Come along, Madig.
01:05:32I may want you.
01:05:33We're going to start a world of George McWhirter Fotheringain right now in the Colonel's house.
01:05:41Yes.
01:05:42Has anything more happened?
01:05:44Happened?
01:05:45What hasn't happened is mad and dangerous and bullets won't kill him.
01:05:56I've got my own ideas at last.
01:05:58This old world of yours, it's over.
01:06:00There's going to be a new, miraculous world and it's going to be mine.
01:06:04I guess you think I'm being needlessly obstructive, but people have to adapt themselves.
01:06:10They must have time.
01:06:11Hasten slowly.
01:06:12And get nothing done.
01:06:14No, we're going to begin here and now the world of George McWhirter Fotheringain according
01:06:18to his dreams and according to what he's been told and found out since he began thinking
01:06:22about things.
01:06:23One word, sir.
01:06:24Whatever you may think of Mr. Bamfield, you will at least admit that I am not unprogressive.
01:06:29I ask you, before you do anything else, make a plan.
01:06:32Nothing can be done without a plan.
01:06:34What plan?
01:06:35Balance.
01:06:36Order.
01:06:36Creative aids.
01:06:38Plan.
01:06:39Talk away an age.
01:06:40Hesitate.
01:06:40Sway to and fro.
01:06:41Mess about.
01:06:42No.
01:06:42We're going to begin my new world now in my lifetime where I can enjoy it.
01:06:47Glory in it and have some fun in it.
01:06:50Wait.
01:06:50Wait.
01:06:50Let things go on just a little longer.
01:06:55Let this house be turned into a great splendid beautiful palace and us in the great hall of
01:07:00it.
01:07:02Now.
01:07:11Good.
01:07:11Good.
01:07:18Bad, eh?
01:07:19Architecture improving.
01:07:21Yes.
01:07:22But we hardly seem dressed for it.
01:07:26Let us be sumptuously dressed according to our character and station so as not to appear
01:07:30strange here.
01:07:31Me, the Prince.
01:07:33Maydead and Bamfield as councillors.
01:07:35The Colonel as the Captain of the Guards.
01:07:37You'll enjoy being Captain of the Guards after a bit, Colonel.
01:07:42It looks empty here, doesn't it?
01:07:44Off with your old regiment, Colonel.
01:07:47Let his old battalion be here and dressed accordingly.
01:07:51Now.
01:07:58And let all the butlers and footmen in Essex be here.
01:08:02Suitably dressed.
01:08:03Same style as the building.
01:08:04Now.
01:08:05Now.
01:08:06Now we have a place to work in.
01:08:08A place I can turn around in.
01:08:10You didn't think I liked things large, did you?
01:08:12You saw to it that I was born small and grew small.
01:08:15Nobody likes being small.
01:08:17And now let's have here Miss Ada Price as she was yesterday afternoon when I made her
01:08:22a lovely.
01:08:22Now.
01:08:28This is something like a miracle.
01:08:30You're going at it last, George.
01:08:33Where's Bill?
01:08:34Can't you do without Bill for a moment?
01:08:36Oh, I thought you'd have Bill here somehow.
01:08:38All this is sort of his style.
01:08:40No, Ada.
01:08:41It's my style.
01:08:44Let there be two thrones here.
01:08:46Now.
01:08:47Oh, you might have a throne for Bill.
01:08:49No, and that throne isn't for you either.
01:08:51Let Maggie Hooper be here.
01:08:54Dressed as a queen.
01:08:55Now.
01:09:01Well, Maggie, my dear.
01:09:03Here we are beginning the miraculous reign of George McWhirter Fotheringay.
01:09:06What shall we do with the world, eh?
01:09:08Oh, don't make it dull and goody-goody.
01:09:11George.
01:09:11I didn't mean to say that about Bill.
01:09:13I didn't.
01:09:14You said it.
01:09:16Plenty of your sort.
01:09:17You just stand down there looking lovely until I take notice of you.
01:09:23And just to keep you company, let the nine next prettiest girls in New Hinton be here.
01:09:28Beautifully dressed, too.
01:09:29Now.
01:09:33My world's going to be full of pretty women.
01:09:36Ten a penny.
01:09:38Oh, dear George.
01:09:40Make the world happy.
01:09:41Don't make it selfish or showy.
01:09:44Let this be really the world's great age.
01:09:47Begin anew.
01:09:49Justice, peace, plenty.
01:09:51You don't think I know how to do it.
01:09:54You shall see.
01:09:56Nothing in a hurry and nothing delayed.
01:09:58I've learned a lot in the last three days.
01:10:00I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it all.
01:10:05Let the greatest bankers in the world come here and stand here.
01:10:08Now.
01:10:09Let the leading men who own and direct great businesses stand here.
01:10:14Let the chief men who rule the world, the politicians, the presidents, the councillors, the commissioners,
01:10:19the people who tell the newspapers what to say, the people who teach and preach,
01:10:23let them come here.
01:10:24Yes.
01:10:25All of them.
01:10:26Now.
01:10:54Here we are for a great big talk together.
01:10:58I'm just anybody.
01:11:00And you're the people who rule the world.
01:11:03I've been told to take thought, take counsel.
01:11:06So I've got you here.
01:11:08All of you.
01:11:09Why not?
01:11:12Why not?
01:11:12Well, I've got you.
01:11:15Now I've got you.
01:11:16Now I've got the whole crowd of you.
01:11:18You people who have your faces in the newspapers.
01:11:21People who sit in high places, walk through crowds and get all the praises and the cheers.
01:11:26I've got you.
01:11:28I've got you people who run the world.
01:11:29I've got you people who run the world to tell you to run it better.
01:11:32Run it better.
01:11:36You've lived on the fat of the world.
01:11:38You've been trusted with the world.
01:11:40Chaps like me have had to trust you.
01:11:41Willy nilly.
01:11:42And what did you do for us?
01:11:43What sort of a deal did you give us for all the trust we gave you?
01:11:46What was our share?
01:11:48Oh, I know.
01:11:49I had to wait.
01:11:51Wait.
01:11:52Wait.
01:11:52Wait.
01:11:52Young and seedy and died.
01:11:54Be patient for empty years while you held all the stuff in your hand and did nothing.
01:11:59Much your crowd cared.
01:12:01Did you worry about it?
01:12:03Not a bit.
01:12:04But you better worry now.
01:12:10And why have you never stopped war?
01:12:12Why a hundred men in high places.
01:12:15Resolute men.
01:12:16Not afraid of a little brain work.
01:12:17Could have put a stop to war forever anytime these last twenty years.
01:12:20But I guess you liked the bands and the spurs and the feathers too much.
01:12:24And you never thought about chaps like me.
01:12:27Nice and pompous you looked.
01:12:29Reviewing the troops.
01:12:30Being saluted.
01:12:31And did you really forget about chaps like us?
01:12:35Not even that.
01:12:37A trench full of dead chaps like me made you feel all the more real and important.
01:12:45Good shooting at me.
01:12:46I've been shot at.
01:12:47Won't work.
01:12:48There's an end of shooting.
01:12:49Can't shoot truth.
01:12:50I'm here and I'm going to stay here.
01:12:52George McWhirter Fotheringay.
01:12:54Power has gone out of your hands.
01:12:56You can smirk and strut.
01:12:58Smile look important for a little while perhaps.
01:13:01But I tell you power has gone out of your hands.
01:13:05That's your sun setting now.
01:13:06It's late afternoon for the whole crowd of you.
01:13:10God, you know it.
01:13:11And where's he gone to this power?
01:13:13It's come to me.
01:13:14A common vulgar fellow that has driven me wild.
01:13:18It's come to me by a miracle.
01:13:22You better do something and do it soon.
01:13:25You've got to make a new world that will make me happy.
01:13:28Get together, you important people.
01:13:31Try to be really important.
01:13:33Talk it over among yourselves, but talk real stuff.
01:13:36Do it quickly.
01:13:37And do it now.
01:13:38And if you don't do what I tell you, I'll wipe you out.
01:13:43As a child wipes a slate.
01:13:47That's me.
01:13:48That's what I've found in me since I began looking.
01:13:52That's what I've dug out of George McWhirter Fotheringay.
01:13:56But they must have time to think about it.
01:13:59Time!
01:13:59If I gave them time, they'd just waste it.
01:14:00They've had generations of time, those people.
01:14:02And what do they do with it?
01:14:03But these things cannot be done instantly.
01:14:05They are going to be done here and now.
01:14:08A good and happy world.
01:14:09A sensible world.
01:14:10Then, when I've got that off my chest,
01:14:12I'll see.
01:14:13I'll see what's to be made of living.
01:14:16Inertia!
01:14:17Oh, inertia.
01:14:18I'm always up against inertia.
01:14:20I've got a power in me that calls for change.
01:14:23I'm tired of your old world and its inertia.
01:14:26Give them at least so tomorrow.
01:14:27The sun is setting.
01:14:28Give them the night to think and discuss.
01:14:31Don't worry about the sun setting.
01:14:32I can stop that sun from setting.
01:14:33I want my new world now.
01:14:36But you can't stop the sun setting.
01:14:39What? I say I can.
01:14:40I'll stop that sun setting.
01:14:41I won't let it set.
01:14:42Not until I'm ready to go to bed.
01:14:43And everything's cleared up.
01:14:45But then you have to stop the earth rotating.
01:14:47And I will.
01:14:48Don't argue with me, medic.
01:14:49Don't argue with anyone.
01:14:50There's a time when argument stops.
01:14:53Earth!
01:14:54Stop rotating!
01:14:55Stop!
01:14:56Now!
01:15:09What has happened?
01:15:10He stopped the world going round.
01:15:12Not suddenly.
01:15:13Yes.
01:15:13Then everything loose is being flung about by its own inertia.
01:15:17And that's the end of your nasty little pets upon their silly little planet.
01:15:21Preposterous.
01:15:22What did I tell you?
01:15:24It's all over.
01:15:25Gone.
01:15:32No.
01:15:33No, it's not over.
01:15:35He's still alive.
01:15:36He's got a charmed life.
01:15:38He's sort of that.
01:15:39Let everything be as it was a minute before I went into the long racket.
01:15:47Bow!
01:15:49Here, old heart, a minute.
01:15:50You haven't done yet.
01:15:52These miracles.
01:15:55If it happens that I have been working miracles, then on the word go, let me not be able
01:16:02to work any more miracles ever.
01:16:05Forget it.
01:16:05Forget all about it.
01:16:07Wipe it out.
01:16:08No more miracles.
01:16:11You can't control them.
01:16:15Gone!
01:16:17And what has your experiment shown, brother?
01:16:19What did you get out of that sample man?
01:16:22Egotism and elementary lust.
01:16:24A little vindictive indignation.
01:16:27That's all the creatures have, or will have, forever.
01:16:31What can you make of them?
01:16:32They were apes only yesterday.
01:16:34Give them time.
01:16:36Once an ape, always an ape.
01:16:38No, there is something in every one of those creatures more than that.
01:16:42Like a little grain of gold glittering in sand, lost in the sand.
01:16:47A flash of indignation when they think things are false and wrong.
01:16:51That's godlike.
01:16:54Dirt is never indignant.
01:16:55That is why they interest me.
01:16:58But their indignation is selfish.
01:17:00They are in a mess.
01:17:02They were made for the mess.
01:17:03They will never get out of their mess.
01:17:06But if I give them power, not suddenly, but bit by bit, if I stir thought and wisdom into the
01:17:13mess to keep pace with the growth of power, broaden slowly, age by age.
01:17:18Give the grains of gold time to get together.
01:17:22And in the end, it will be the same.
01:17:25No, it will be different.
01:17:27Come back here in an age or so.
01:17:31And you shall see.
01:17:32All right, then.
01:17:34Then along comes someone, as it might be me, and stands as it might be here, and says as I
01:17:40might do, collecting all my willpower.
01:17:43And I'm doing it, mind you.
01:17:45I'm playing fair.
01:17:47Here you.
01:17:48Turn upside down without breaking, and go on burning steady.
01:17:57There you are, you see.
01:17:59Nothing happens.
01:18:01No, of course.
01:18:02Nothing could happen.
01:18:03It wouldn't be sense.
01:18:05No.
01:18:06And miracles aren't sense.
01:18:08All the same, I sometimes wish I could work miracles.
01:18:12I wonder what you'd do if you could work miracles.
01:18:15I'd make this world a better place, within reason.
01:18:20There are one or two things I'd like to do meself.
01:18:23Ah, but you won't ever have the chance.
01:18:29No.
01:18:31I won't ever have the chance.
01:18:34No.
01:18:45No.
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