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Welcome back to our vintage cinema archive, your ultimate digital space for premium restorations of golden age international cinema. Today, we invite you to crank up the engine and hit the open road for a delightfully witty, fast-paced adventure: the magnificent 1953 British romantic comedy masterpiece, Genevieve.
Produced by the Rank Organisation and directed by Henry Cornelius, this BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated classic is celebrated as a definitive peak of post-war British humor, beautifully photographed in vibrant Technicolor. The lighthearted story centers on Alan McKim (John Gregson), a stuffy London barrister, and his supportive but long-suffering wife Wendy (Dinah Sheridan). The couple participates in the annual, historic London to Brighton Veteran Car Run driving "Genevieve"—their beloved, temperamental 1904 Darracq motorcar. Joining them on the rally is Alan's arrogant, boastful friend Ambrose Claverhouse (Kenneth More), an advertising executive who drives a sleek 1905 Spyker, accompanied by his latest glamorous companion, the fashion model Rosalind Peters (Kay Kendall). What starts as a leisurely historical tour quickly transforms into a fierce, highly competitive, and hilarious unofficial race back to London. With a high-stakes bet on the line, both drivers resort to absurd schemes, mechanical breakdowns, and traffic-weaving antics to prove their veteran car reigns supreme.
Featuring a wonderfully iconic, BAFTA-nominated harmonica score by Larry Adler and sensational breakout performances by Kenneth More and Kay Kendall, Genevieve remains an immortal, joyous crowning achievement of mid-century comedy cinema. Our channel is fiercely dedicated to preserving historic film treasures, offering a curated library of vintage comedies, rare b-movies, classic westerns, gritty film noir thrillers, and timeless high-seas swashbucklers.
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Produced by the Rank Organisation and directed by Henry Cornelius, this BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated classic is celebrated as a definitive peak of post-war British humor, beautifully photographed in vibrant Technicolor. The lighthearted story centers on Alan McKim (John Gregson), a stuffy London barrister, and his supportive but long-suffering wife Wendy (Dinah Sheridan). The couple participates in the annual, historic London to Brighton Veteran Car Run driving "Genevieve"—their beloved, temperamental 1904 Darracq motorcar. Joining them on the rally is Alan's arrogant, boastful friend Ambrose Claverhouse (Kenneth More), an advertising executive who drives a sleek 1905 Spyker, accompanied by his latest glamorous companion, the fashion model Rosalind Peters (Kay Kendall). What starts as a leisurely historical tour quickly transforms into a fierce, highly competitive, and hilarious unofficial race back to London. With a high-stakes bet on the line, both drivers resort to absurd schemes, mechanical breakdowns, and traffic-weaving antics to prove their veteran car reigns supreme.
Featuring a wonderfully iconic, BAFTA-nominated harmonica score by Larry Adler and sensational breakout performances by Kenneth More and Kay Kendall, Genevieve remains an immortal, joyous crowning achievement of mid-century comedy cinema. Our channel is fiercely dedicated to preserving historic film treasures, offering a curated library of vintage comedies, rare b-movies, classic westerns, gritty film noir thrillers, and timeless high-seas swashbucklers.
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00:03:10Wendy.
00:03:15Wendy.
00:03:16Wendy.
00:03:46I'm
00:03:57It's not locked, you know.
00:03:57Oh, last!
00:03:59It's not locked, you know.
00:04:02It shouldn't carry so much.
00:04:04You made me break the eggs, that's what.
00:04:22Hello?
00:04:23Hello.
00:04:25What's the matter?
00:04:26Cleaners have ruined my best skirt.
00:04:28Ruined it?
00:04:29Yes, they pressed the pleats the wrong way round.
00:04:31How can you tell which way a pleat should go?
00:04:37Alan?
00:04:38Yeah?
00:04:38Proper lunch or proper dinner?
00:04:40Um, proper dinner.
00:04:46Oh!
00:04:48Are we doing anything this afternoon?
00:04:49Yes, I am. Tinkering.
00:04:51Generally is making strange noises.
00:04:53Never makes anything else.
00:04:56In the bank.
00:04:57We seem to be worth £133.09.
00:05:00It should be £143.
00:05:02I draw out ten.
00:05:03What for?
00:05:03Surprise.
00:05:04What kind of a...
00:05:21Oh!
00:05:28Well, let's port.
00:05:29Give ear to them, will you?
00:05:31Very nice.
00:05:32Nice?
00:05:32It's like a jet.
00:05:33I've just spent £25 having her tuned up.
00:05:35How are you, old boy?
00:05:36Fine, thanks.
00:05:37And the beautiful Mrs McKim?
00:05:38She's in, I hope.
00:05:39Wendy's in the kitchen.
00:05:42How about this old croft?
00:05:43Do you think she'll make it to Brighton?
00:05:45She always has.
00:05:46Well, if she doesn't, you'll have to take a train.
00:05:47I'm giving a party tomorrow night.
00:05:49Huh?
00:05:49Just you, Wendy, Rosalind and myself.
00:05:52Who's Rosalind?
00:05:53Woman I met in the races.
00:05:54I use the term woman in its broadest sense.
00:05:57I bet you do.
00:05:59From the east to western end, no jewel is like Rosalind.
00:06:04She's equally keen on you, of course.
00:06:06Keen?
00:06:06She's positively itching.
00:06:09Lunch in ten minutes.
00:06:11Hello, Ambrose.
00:06:13Hello, you gorgeous creature.
00:06:15Come on, let's live a little.
00:06:18Kettle's boiling.
00:06:19Ah, so am I.
00:06:20You look wonderful today.
00:06:22I'll come in and help you.
00:06:24Why don't you flog that wreck and buy a spiker?
00:06:28Silly ass.
00:06:31Oh, I see.
00:06:32That smells delicious.
00:06:33It wasn't very much.
00:06:34Well, you know me.
00:06:35Just a crust of bread.
00:06:37Any sherry?
00:06:37Help yourself.
00:06:39How's the advertising?
00:06:40Ah, tedious.
00:06:41But lucrative.
00:06:42You have one, Wendy?
00:06:43Thanks.
00:06:44Who's the lucky girl this year?
00:06:45One, Rosalind Peters.
00:06:47She's a model.
00:06:48Oh, what does she model?
00:06:49Oh, don't tell me.
00:06:50I can guess.
00:06:50She says they're wearing the same thing in sweaters this year.
00:06:54She seems very interested in vintage cars.
00:06:56Wait until she's bounced all the way to Brighton.
00:06:58Bounced?
00:06:59My spiker doesn't bounce.
00:07:01It flows.
00:07:03You don't seem very excited about the rally, if I may say so.
00:07:06Not exactly beside myself.
00:07:08If I didn't know you better, I'd say your enthusiasm was on the wane.
00:07:12Oh, Ambrose, the whole thing's so silly.
00:07:14Oh, steady on, old girl.
00:07:15The London Brighton's silly.
00:07:16Oh, it is.
00:07:17It's childish and a bore.
00:07:19Does Alan know you feel like that about it?
00:07:20No, of course not.
00:07:21I couldn't possibly tell him.
00:07:22Couldn't possibly tell me what?
00:07:24Nothing.
00:07:26Well, tell me.
00:07:27No, it's nothing.
00:07:28Ambrose is staying to lunch.
00:07:29Brown or white?
00:07:31What couldn't you possibly tell me?
00:07:32The fact is, old boy, there's a spot of treachery in our midst.
00:07:34Wendy says...
00:07:35Ambrose.
00:07:35Wendy says the London Brighton is a bore.
00:07:38Ambrose, I think you're foul.
00:07:40Does that mean you don't want to go?
00:07:42No, of course I'll go.
00:07:44You don't have to go, you know, if you don't want to.
00:07:46I don't?
00:07:48Well, frankly, children, this is beyond me.
00:07:50Is there something you'd rather do instead?
00:07:57Well, is there?
00:07:59Now, just remember, will you?
00:08:00I didn't bring this up and I didn't want to talk about it,
00:08:02but as it happens, Tanya's having a party tomorrow.
00:08:05I'm having a party too.
00:08:06You, Alan, Rotherland...
00:08:07There's one weekend in the other that you know is important to me
00:08:09and you'd rather go to a...
00:08:09Well, of course I'd rather go to a party.
00:08:11Does that make me abnormal or something?
00:08:13I simply don't see what's so wonderful about getting into a 50-year-old car
00:08:17and taking two days to drive to Brighton and back.
00:08:27Look, Ambrose, if you don't...
00:08:28Quiet.
00:08:28Yes.
00:08:28I was about to plead a subsequent engagement.
00:08:31Well, good luck, sport.
00:08:39Oh, I'm sorry, darling.
00:08:42Of course I'll come.
00:08:43Perhaps it'll be better this year.
00:08:45No.
00:08:47No what?
00:08:48I'll make the run alone.
00:08:49Oh, please.
00:08:50If you're going to be moody and long-suffering about it.
00:08:53Aye.
00:08:53I'm moody and long-suffering.
00:08:55Don't you think you're being a little unfair?
00:08:56No, I don't.
00:08:57I think you're unfair.
00:08:58If Ambrose hadn't come in and...
00:08:59Ambrose, Ambrose.
00:09:00Let's leave him out of it, shall we?
00:09:02That's the really unpleasant aspect about this situation.
00:09:04The fact that you talked to him.
00:09:05Well, why shouldn't I talk to him?
00:09:06He's our oldest friend, isn't he?
00:09:08He even introduced us.
00:09:09I'd like to be able to feel that when you had a problem,
00:09:11you could discuss it with me.
00:09:13Don't understand your eagerness to confide in Ambrose's clever house.
00:09:15That's a beastly thing to say.
00:09:17All right, then.
00:09:18So I'm unfair, moody, long-suffering and beastly.
00:09:21You know very well you were going to ask me to give up the run
00:09:22and take you to the party instead.
00:09:24You'd have asked me tonight.
00:09:25I'm not going with you.
00:09:27This year, next year or any year.
00:09:29I'll never get into that silly car again.
00:09:32Your lunch is ready.
00:09:33I don't want any lunch.
00:09:34Then don't eat any lunch.
00:09:35I can get it round to the pub.
00:09:36Then go round to the blasted pub.
00:09:45Why shouldn't I talk to him?
00:09:48He's the oldest.
00:10:03Wendy?
00:10:10Wendy?
00:10:17Wendy, come and eat your lunch.
00:10:18Oh, go away.
00:10:47What on earth are you doing now?
00:10:49Cleaning my teeth.
00:11:07Glass under the bathtub.
00:11:08I knocked a bit out of the window.
00:11:10Why sweep it under the tub?
00:11:11I'll only have to get it out again.
00:11:12Don't worry about it.
00:11:13I'll clean it up in the morning.
00:11:15What on earth are you looking for?
00:11:16I'm looking for a bandage.
00:11:18Why?
00:11:18Hurt yourself?
00:11:20Oh.
00:11:21You'll survive.
00:11:22It's bleeding.
00:11:23If you have no objection,
00:11:24I'd like to have a bandage.
00:11:25I don't know where they are.
00:11:27They're in a box somewhere.
00:11:33Do you think you'll be able to drive?
00:11:35Doesn't matter.
00:11:36I'm not going.
00:11:37What on earth do you mean, not going?
00:11:39Oh, Alan, do stop the heading.
00:11:41There are no bandages in there.
00:11:43Then there must be downstairs somewhere.
00:11:46If you think you can punish me by not going,
00:11:48you've got another thing coming.
00:11:49I don't care one little bit whether you go or not.
00:11:52And if you're not going,
00:11:53why did you spend the whole afternoon working on the car?
00:11:58Oh, man.
00:12:01I spent the whole afternoon working on the car.
00:12:05I wish there was something,
00:12:06nothing to do with all this.
00:12:19Maybe I could have done a little time.
00:12:20Let's go.
00:12:21I hope I could help you.
00:12:21I'll do it.
00:12:21I'll do it.
00:13:16What is taking place here is by now an old story but surprising as it may seem
00:13:21it was quite illegal until 1896.
00:13:24Until then, no self-propelled vehicle could take the road unless it was preceded by a
00:13:29man on foot and carrying a red flag.
00:13:32There were very few cars on the roads, and very few roads for that matter, merely stretches
00:13:37of dust.
00:13:38There were no garages or service stations, and the pioneer motorist bought his petrol
00:13:42from the chemist.
00:13:44But in that year was passed the Light Locomotives and Highways Act.
00:13:47To celebrate the event, the first car so emancipated started from the Metropole Hotel London and
00:13:53drove to the Metropole Hotel Brighton.
00:13:57Since 1928, the Veteran Car Club has held an annual commemoration run, but it is not and
00:14:03has never been a race.
00:14:04Here's a very handsome machine.
00:14:06A Durak, isn't it?
00:14:08Yes, that's right.
00:14:121904, isn't it?
00:14:14Yes, that's right.
00:14:14Yes, I thought so.
00:14:15Well, I wonder whether you'd care to tell listeners how it was that you came to acquire this vehicle,
00:14:20Mr...
00:14:21Oh, McKim.
00:14:22McKim, yes.
00:14:22Well, um, my grandfather bought a new, and about 1928, my, uh, my father found her on a
00:14:30rubbish dump, bought her for a pound, and rebuilt her.
00:14:33Um, he's made all the runs, I made all, he made all the runs before the war, and I've
00:14:38made them all since.
00:14:39Well, it's astonishing.
00:14:40Thank you both very much, and jolly good luck to you.
00:14:42Phew.
00:14:44I wonder where Ambrose is.
00:14:46You see Mr. Claverhouse?
00:14:48He's gone to telephone.
00:14:49His guest failed to appear.
00:14:50He's due to start in five minutes.
00:14:51But suppose after all that build-up, he isn't even going to produce her.
00:14:54Oh, ho, ho.
00:14:55Look!
00:15:00Do you think that's the...
00:15:01It must be.
00:15:02Couldn't be anyone else.
00:15:07I beg your pardon.
00:15:08Are you Mr. Peters?
00:15:10Yes, you must be Mr. and Mrs.
00:15:11McKim, Alan and Wendy.
00:15:12Oh, Ambrose is friends.
00:15:14Isn't he here?
00:15:15I think he went to telephone.
00:15:17Oh.
00:15:17He'll be back.
00:15:18I'll take your cases over to his car.
00:15:21Susie.
00:15:22Come on, Susie.
00:15:24Come on.
00:15:26There.
00:15:29This is Susie.
00:15:30She can say, how do you do?
00:15:32Say, how do you do, Susie?
00:15:37Say, how do you do, Susie?
00:15:39Oh.
00:15:41She can do the cutest things when she wants to.
00:15:43It must be too early in the morning.
00:15:47I didn't realize there's going to be so many people.
00:15:50Ambrose said it was a very exclusive club.
00:15:52Susie.
00:15:54I usually leave her with a housekeeper where I live.
00:15:56But she's been out, so I had to bring her.
00:15:58You don't think that Ambrose will mind, do you?
00:16:00Mind?
00:16:01Of course not.
00:16:02He'll be delighted.
00:16:03Oh.
00:16:04Here we are.
00:16:05Is that it?
00:16:06This is it.
00:16:07Oh, no.
00:16:08Is this Ambrose's?
00:16:10But has it got brakes and everything?
00:16:13I know he said it was an old car, but the way he talked about it, I thought it was
00:16:16something wonderful.
00:16:17You'll get used to it.
00:16:18They all talk like that.
00:16:20Rosalind!
00:16:21Hey!
00:16:22Rosalind!
00:16:23Hi.
00:16:24Hi.
00:16:25Morning, Wendy.
00:16:26Morning, Osport.
00:16:28No reason prevailed, eh?
00:16:29Thank heavens you got here.
00:16:31I've been calling your number all night.
00:16:32Oh, I'm sorry, but I went to that party on Friday and it sort of got out of hand.
00:16:36Everybody decided to fly to Jersey.
00:16:38Eh?
00:16:38Oh.
00:16:39Oh, well, never mind.
00:16:44What's that?
00:16:47I was going to leave her with the housekeeper, but she's been sick.
00:16:50The dog's been sick?
00:16:51No, of course not the housekeeper.
00:16:53But, Rosalind, we can't take that mutt all the way to Brighton.
00:16:56She's not a mutt.
00:16:57She's a sweet dog and has absolutely perfect manners.
00:17:00Well, can't you understand?
00:17:01We can't take a great big fat lump of a...
00:17:03It...
00:17:04Alan, bear me out.
00:17:05It just won't do, will it?
00:17:06Well, I don't see why not, old man.
00:17:08Oh, fine, fine.
00:17:09That's very funny.
00:17:10Mr. Cleverhouse.
00:17:11Mr. Cleverhouse.
00:17:12You're next.
00:17:13All right, but we'd better get aboard.
00:17:16Well, then, Buck, hurry up.
00:17:19Oh, my God.
00:17:20Oh, my God.
00:17:21Oh, my God.
00:17:23You'll find it to be all right once you get started.
00:17:25You're a great help.
00:17:26You are.
00:17:30Susie's a ching, anyway.
00:17:31See you in Brighton.
00:17:32Goodbye.
00:17:33Bye.
00:17:36Bye.
00:17:37Bye.
00:17:38Bye.
00:17:39Bye.
00:17:39Bye.
00:17:42Bye.
00:17:43Bye.
00:17:43Bye.
00:18:06No standard, nobody home.
00:18:09Happy, darling?
00:18:12I know I was a silly ass yesterday, but it's just that it wouldn't be the same without you.
00:18:17I love you. Do you know that?
00:18:18And I love you, too. And I'm glad I came. Really.
00:18:36Oh, blast these tram lines.
00:18:38You know, I think she's feeling better now. I think she's even beginning to like it.
00:18:43Aren't you, Susie?
00:18:44Where did you get her?
00:18:45I found her during the war. I think she was blitzed because she was awfully neurotic.
00:18:50Do you know, for a long time she wouldn't need anything except ravioli.
00:18:54Isn't that strange?
00:19:17Not too cold, are you, darling?
00:19:18No, I'm fine.
00:19:20I don't think it'll rain, anyway.
00:19:23I must say, considering how little time I've had to work on, are the old girls really behaving themselves?
00:19:30You should never say a thing like that.
00:19:34Nothing important. Won't take a minute.
00:19:36Want some coffee?
00:19:37No, thanks. Not now.
00:19:42Having trouble?
00:19:43We shall be all right. Thank you.
00:19:45All right for petrol?
00:19:46Yes, quite.
00:19:47Better try a new flint.
00:19:53Martin car owner for you. Typical.
00:19:55I thought that was very funny.
00:19:59Do you think it was funny?
00:20:00No, I didn't.
00:20:02Oh, darling, but it's not even 10.30.
00:20:05What do you mean?
00:20:06Well, you can't lose your temper now.
00:20:08If you lose your temper now, what on earth are you going to be like by evening?
00:20:13Wendy!
00:20:14Oh, my God.
00:20:15Oh, it's all gone through my skirt.
00:20:17Do something. Why don't you do something?
00:20:19Give a toast on the quick.
00:20:20There's another one. Stop beside it.
00:20:22Hurry up, hurry up.
00:20:23Oh, it'll have to change absolutely everything.
00:20:26Come on, come on, come on, darling.
00:20:28March.
00:20:29Oh, you are clumsy.
00:20:30It's all your fault.
00:20:30It was an accident, Wendy.
00:20:32Why don't you be more careful?
00:20:33Listen, I...
00:20:33It's ruined the dress.
00:20:34Wendy, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't know you were pouring the coffee.
00:20:37Otherwise, I wouldn't have drank the collar.
00:20:43Darling.
00:20:52Now, look here, my friend. We don't want any...
00:20:54Very nice. Thank you very much.
00:20:57Hold on there.
00:20:59What's the matter, chap?
00:21:00Don't you want to see yourself on the films?
00:21:01Take your missus to the locals.
00:21:03She'll love it.
00:21:16Wendy, are you all right?
00:21:20Yes, I'm fine.
00:21:24Darling, I'm terribly sorry.
00:21:26Are you soaking?
00:21:28Is there anything I can do?
00:21:30Is there anything I can do?
00:21:31Put these in the car.
00:21:32Here, and this, too.
00:21:37Hello, McKin.
00:21:38Hello, there.
00:21:38Miss?
00:21:43I'm hypujano.
00:21:47가능
00:21:56Oh, my God.
00:22:06Hey, lady.
00:22:06This means you're morning coming.
00:22:06I'm having fun.
00:22:0625 years old.
00:22:06Hey, Alice.
00:22:06You're fresh.
00:22:08It is, but you're treating me.
00:22:11I'm sorry, darling. It was my fault, the whole thing.
00:22:13Never mind. It's not as bad as all that. Come on, let's go.
00:22:17I wouldn't blame you if you said you wanted to turn back.
00:22:19Well, I don't.
00:22:25Are you sure? Are you sure you're not just saying that?
00:22:29Look, I don't want you to go on with this just because you think I'd be hurt.
00:22:32I'm perfectly willing to go home. I mean it.
00:22:36We'd get back in time for Tanya's party.
00:22:37Oh, come off it, Alan. But I mean it.
00:22:40You don't mean it at all.
00:22:41You know as well as I do we shall be in Brighton tonight, dead or alive.
00:22:44But you want to go on.
00:22:46I've said I want to go on.
00:22:52I know, but if you did want to go home, I'll...
00:22:54All right.
00:22:56All right what?
00:22:58Let's go home.
00:22:59Huh?
00:23:00I want to go home.
00:23:03Do you mean it?
00:23:04Of course I mean it.
00:23:09Darling, you are serious, aren't you?
00:23:11You're not just...
00:23:11Oh, for heaven's sake, Alan.
00:23:12You know perfectly well we're going to Brighton.
00:23:14We're going to sit here all day.
00:23:32Do you realise what good time we've made?
00:23:34I told you, you shouldn't say.
00:23:35I know I shouldn't say things like that, but the fact is we have.
00:23:38I've just had an idea.
00:23:40Hmm?
00:23:41Don't you want to know what it is?
00:23:43You should do because you're going to be delighted.
00:23:46All right.
00:23:47Delight me.
00:23:48Look, old Harry's pub's only half a mile ahead.
00:23:50We're going to stop and I'm going to buy you a jolly good lunch.
00:24:07Do you know what, I'm going to buy you a jolly good dinner.
00:24:10I'm not counting on that either.
00:24:13It'll take at least half an hour to put this right.
00:24:15You know, I really did want to buy you a decent lunch, but what are you looking for?
00:24:19Come on.
00:24:22What's this?
00:24:24Food.
00:24:24Yes.
00:24:25But how, when?
00:24:26Last night.
00:24:27Last night?
00:24:27While you were asleep.
00:24:29I knew we wouldn't get any lunch.
00:24:31Never have done yet, we went to Brighton.
00:24:33Chicken, ham, salad, olives.
00:24:37Oh, you're wonderful.
00:24:39It's a wonderful idea, makes the day.
00:24:42Hmm.
00:24:56Look, there they are.
00:25:03Whoa.
00:25:04Having some difficulty, old man, have you been?
00:25:07We didn't pass you.
00:25:08We've just been enjoying a delicious and most leisurely lunch.
00:25:11You've changed.
00:25:12Oh, and you've had a picnic.
00:25:14Oh.
00:25:16Why couldn't we have had a picnic?
00:25:18I love picnics.
00:25:19Well, I don't know.
00:25:20I can't notice.
00:25:21Do you think that old croc's packed it in for good?
00:25:23Well, don't worry about it.
00:25:25Are you sure I can't give you a hand, old boy?
00:25:28Don't you think Wendy ought to come with us?
00:25:29I should hate her to miss the parade.
00:25:32Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:25:34Jesus.
00:25:35If you take my advice, old boy, the next time that engine dies,
00:25:38you'll take it out and bury it.
00:25:39Ha, ha.
00:25:53Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:25:53What was that?
00:25:54Hurry, let's go.
00:25:55Do you think something awful's happened?
00:25:56Could be.
00:25:58Oh.
00:25:59Oh, Susie.
00:26:01Susie.
00:26:02Oh, my Susie.
00:26:03Poor Susie.
00:26:05Poor Susie.
00:26:05Poor Susie.
00:26:06Oh, ho, ho, ho.
00:26:08Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:09Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:12Having some difficulty, old man?
00:26:14Ha.
00:26:15Maybe we should take Rosalind with us.
00:26:17You know I should hate her to miss the parade.
00:26:19Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:21Ha, ha.
00:26:21If you take my advice, the next time that engine dies...
00:26:23Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:25Ha, ha.
00:26:28Ha, ha.
00:26:29Did you see his expression?
00:26:30Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:32Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:34Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:40Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:26:45Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
00:26:46It wasn't that funny.
00:26:48It wasn't funny at all, really.
00:26:51Oh.
00:26:51You should have stopped and helped him.
00:26:53What?
00:26:53Did I stop and help, Ambrose?
00:26:55After all his insults to Genevieve?
00:26:57I wouldn't let him a hand if he was the last.
00:26:58Oh, that's unfair.
00:26:59I know. I don't know what it is about these silly old cars.
00:27:01The moment people get into them, they start behaving like idiots.
00:27:05You know perfectly well if you were in trouble, he'd stop and help you.
00:27:08Never. He would.
00:27:09Never. Anyhow, I'd never ask him to.
00:27:15Alan! Steering's gone.
00:27:17Sit tight, Wendy. We'll be all right.
00:27:20Alan! Hold on, darling.
00:27:22Don't let the fuck you. We'll be all right.
00:27:24Alan!
00:27:35Sorry, darling.
00:27:37Is it really serious?
00:27:49Do you think you can fix it?
00:27:51I don't know. I can try. It'll take hours.
00:27:54I need a ring spanner.
00:27:57It's Ambrose. He's got one, just the sort I need.
00:28:03Ambrose!
00:28:05Ambrose!
00:28:06Ambrose, wait a minute!
00:28:07Ah!
00:28:07Ambrose!
00:28:09Ambrose!
00:28:10Oh!
00:28:54Give it me again, darling.
00:29:27Twenty minutes to spare.
00:29:31How about a drink to celebrate?
00:29:32Not one.
00:29:36If you'd like, we've got time enough to pop across to the hotel and check out that, uh,
00:29:40our hotel room.
00:29:40Our rooms are okay.
00:29:41Uh, not now.
00:29:42I'd like to see, uh, what happens.
00:29:44In certain circumstances, you know, I could forget all about the parade.
00:29:48Steady, Juniors.
00:29:49Steady.
00:29:50Ambrose?
00:29:51Do you think the McKimbs will get here?
00:29:53Alan?
00:29:54It's quite a family sacrament with him.
00:29:56He'll be here on time if he has to push that delic on his hands and knees.
00:29:59No, the Oliver's.
00:30:00Hello, boy.
00:30:02Can I introduce my...
00:30:03This is Miss Peters.
00:30:04Joan, Sally...
00:30:28What time is it, darling?
00:30:30Ten to seven.
00:30:31Oh, we won't even be there for the dinner.
00:30:33First time.
00:30:34First time ever in 25 years.
00:30:40Nice when it has to beelf.
00:30:41Just적으로.
00:30:47I'll give you the empires.
00:30:50They will be the empires.
00:30:52All I need you for comes.
00:30:57You have to get the empires.
00:30:57A fun part, you have to love.
00:30:57Excuse me.
00:30:57Let show you for a bite.
00:30:58Just hold him.
00:30:59I'll do everything.
00:31:00We'd let him go.
00:31:07Oh, I've never wanted a bath so much in all my life.
00:31:10Darling, wait in the car a minute, will you?
00:31:11Why, what's the matter?
00:31:12I'll be right back.
00:31:13But isn't this the right place?
00:31:14Yes, but just wait a minute.
00:31:18Take your bags and just hold on a minute, will you?
00:31:23Evening, miss.
00:31:24Evening.
00:31:26Had a nice day driving, miss?
00:31:28Thank you for asking.
00:31:29No.
00:31:32No.
00:31:34Darling, there's something I have to tell you.
00:31:37Well?
00:31:37We haven't got a room.
00:31:39That's absurd.
00:31:39Of course we've got a room.
00:31:40No.
00:31:41You sent them a wire a fortnight ago.
00:31:43Yes, but last night when you said you weren't coming...
00:31:45You sent them another wire and cancelled the room.
00:31:47Yes.
00:31:47And then you didn't tell me because you thought I might be put off by the idea of sleeping on
00:31:51the beach.
00:31:51Darling, please don't be angry.
00:31:52They've given the address of another place and they said it's wonderful.
00:31:54Oh, wonderful.
00:32:03I should tell you that we don't usually let this room until all the others are taken.
00:32:07You see, I'm afraid it is a little uncomfortable.
00:32:10It's rather noisy.
00:32:11Noisy?
00:32:11The lady who had it last, one of our permanent residents, was totally deaf.
00:32:16So in her case, it didn't really matter.
00:32:18Unfortunately, only last week we lost her.
00:32:24You see, it's really very, very...
00:32:26Well, I'm sure it will do very well.
00:32:27Well, it's very closely.
00:32:28Well, that's all right. Which floor, please?
00:32:30It's number 57 on the 5th.
00:32:32Mr and Mrs McKib.
00:32:34Yes, that's right.
00:32:35Is there a lift?
00:32:36Oh, no, I'm afraid we have no lift.
00:32:38Is there someone who can give me a hand with these?
00:32:40I'm so sorry.
00:32:41The hall potter's just having his supper.
00:32:43But you can leave them there if you like.
00:32:44I think I can manage.
00:32:46Is the bathroom in our room, please?
00:32:47No, both the bathrooms are on the second floor landing.
00:32:50The second?
00:32:51Yes, you'll see them on your way up.
00:32:52And when you want to take a bath, would you be so kind as to sign the little book you'll
00:32:55find just inside the bathroom door?
00:32:57I'll sign right now.
00:32:58Oh, I'm so sorry, but hot water's provided only in the afternoons between half past two and six.
00:33:02There's no hot water?
00:33:04Yes, hot water's provided in the afternoons between half past two and six.
00:33:07Darling, I think we'd better go out.
00:33:08But this is preposterous.
00:33:10Do I have to sign the book in order to have a cold bath?
00:33:12Well, the rule simply says that hot water's provided.
00:33:14You mean I can't even have a cold bath?
00:33:16Wendy, please.
00:33:16I'm very sorry, but I did not make the rule.
00:33:19But then who did?
00:33:20Oh, never mind.
00:33:21I don't want to know.
00:33:27No one's ever complained before.
00:33:29Are they Americans?
00:34:01I don't want to know.
00:34:01No one's everije me.
00:34:01But I didn't know.
00:34:02I don't know.
00:34:02I don't know.
00:34:02No one's ever visited the house.
00:34:02I don't know.
00:34:03You've been to have a walk as a walk as a walk.
00:34:04No one's ever invisibility.
00:34:07I don't know you're not.
00:34:07It's like all sorts of встречality.
00:34:08You're not going to have to be this.
00:34:08That's how you do it.
00:34:16Oh, my God.
00:34:48Oh!
00:35:25I put in your plugs, but it's always the carburettor.
00:35:28There he was, getting clustered about his whip crank shot.
00:35:31I don't care what anybody says. I wouldn't myself start to repent.
00:35:35Well, like everything else, you've got to look after.
00:35:36What can you expect from a teased-out old Derrick?
00:35:39He won't dare show his face around the club for months.
00:35:42Not even arriving in time for the dinner.
00:35:46They've made it. Here they are.
00:35:49I was so afraid we weren't going to get him.
00:35:50We very nearly didn't.
00:35:51Well, have you enjoyed your first round?
00:35:53Well, old sport, I had a spot of bother.
00:35:55Don't you realise that your Derrick was the only...
00:35:57Could have happened to anyone.
00:35:58Didn't happen to my spiker.
00:36:00Haven't we heard enough about vintage cars for one day?
00:36:02I couldn't agree with you more.
00:36:04Are we going to have a party or a club meeting?
00:36:07Wasland and I have put up with your nonsense all the way down
00:36:09and tomorrow we have to put up with it all the way back.
00:36:11Just for a few hours, let's have some peace.
00:36:13Well, I only wanted to know one way to...
00:36:14Oh, don't be such a bore. You're quite right.
00:36:16This is only my first time.
00:36:18How you do it year in and year out, I can't imagine.
00:36:21Shall we dance?
00:36:40Are you sure you don't want to dance more?
00:36:42Not if you don't mind. I'm afraid I'm not very good at it.
00:36:44No, you're not. Still, you're better than Ambrose.
00:36:52He knew Wendy before you did, didn't he?
00:36:54Said he'd introduced you.
00:36:56Yes, that's right.
00:36:57Well, I think it's sweet the way you don't worry about him.
00:36:59What do you mean? Why should I worry about him?
00:37:02Well, you know Ambrose better than I do.
00:37:16That band's not awfully good, is it?
00:37:18No, no, you may not believe this,
00:37:20but I can play the trumpet much better than that.
00:37:22Oh, really?
00:37:22When I was 16, I was in an all-girls orchestra.
00:37:25Oh, but I had to give it up.
00:37:27Oh, why?
00:37:28No future in it. Anyway, it ruins your lips.
00:37:31You wouldn't think to look at me
00:37:32though I'd ever played a trumpet, would you?
00:37:35If you hadn't told me, it would never have occurred to me.
00:37:41What do you think of Rosalind, eh?
00:37:43I think she's terrific, really.
00:37:44Mm-hm.
00:37:46I'll tell you something, Wendy.
00:37:48Complete confidence, of course.
00:37:49But one of my greatest ambitions all these years
00:37:52has been to...
00:37:53Now, let's see. How shall I put you?
00:37:54Has been to combine the pleasure of the London Brighton
00:37:57with a really beautiful emotional experience.
00:37:59You mean you never have?
00:38:01It's incredible, isn't it?
00:38:02But every single...
00:38:02No, don't.
00:38:03Oh, please, please.
00:38:04Every single year, something's gone wrong.
00:38:07In 1948, the wretched girl had to come all the way to Brighton
00:38:09to discover that she'd got measles.
00:38:11German measles.
00:38:12And in 1949, the wretched girl
00:38:13locked you out of her room all night.
00:38:15Poor Ambrose.
00:38:17What happened to the others?
00:38:18Well, in 1950, she suddenly...
00:38:20Well, never mind the details.
00:38:22The fact is that this time had long lost.
00:38:24The old London to Brighton takes on a special significance.
00:38:28Congratulations, Ambrose. I'm very happy for you.
00:38:34By the way, did you ever tell Alan about that weekend?
00:38:37No.
00:38:38Why not?
00:38:39He never asked me.
00:38:40Well, you don't suppose for a moment he thinks that...
00:38:42That I was an emotional experience?
00:38:45No, I'm sure he doesn't.
00:38:46Well, I don't know.
00:38:47He's always giving me some peculiar looks.
00:38:49Oh, no, you mustn't think that.
00:38:51Alan may have a little shortcomings,
00:38:52but he's certainly not the jealous tonight.
00:39:09Thank you, dear.
00:39:11Rosalind, don't you think you'd better...
00:39:12I'd like to play the trumpet.
00:39:14Would anybody like to hear me play the trumpet?
00:39:16Hey, you must have had it even more than I thought.
00:39:18Wendy, you'd like to hear me play the trumpet?
00:39:22Well, do you think you should?
00:39:24What's the name of your car?
00:39:26Clementine.
00:39:27Genevieve.
00:39:28Genevieve.
00:39:29I'll show them how to play the trumpet.
00:39:33Hey, Rosalind!
00:39:37She must be Blotter.
00:39:43Oh, my.
00:39:55Oh, no!
00:40:08Hey!
00:40:09Do you think I came to me...
00:40:12Do you know any one's worth it?
00:40:14You're not in a position,
00:40:15Do you know any one's worth it?
00:40:16What?
00:40:16I'm not worried about this tree.
00:40:16I'm not worried about this tree.
00:40:19All right?
00:40:21Yes, I'll let me know what's up being here.
00:40:23Hey, what do you think of that?
00:40:25May I have a...
00:40:43That's wonderful. Well done, Russell.
00:40:47I know it. Yes, sir.
00:40:49Thank you, sir.
00:41:03Oh, listen!
00:41:19Thank you, sir.
00:41:29Oh, it's so good.
00:41:36Oh, darling, I love you!
00:41:39Oh, my God.
00:41:50Oh!
00:41:55Oh!
00:42:09There we are. That's the way to play the trumpet.
00:42:11You are wonderful. I'll say without any hesitation,
00:42:14that's the most astounding thing I've ever heard in my life.
00:42:16That's genius. That's what it was. Don't you agree, Wendy?
00:42:18Wonderful. Alan? Absolutely.
00:42:20Why on earth didn't you tell me...
00:42:23Rosalind? Rosalind!
00:42:29She's out.
00:43:00What's so funny?
00:43:02Don't pay any attention to me. It's mild hysteria.
00:43:08Wendy, there's something I want to ask you.
00:43:11What is it?
00:43:14I want to know...
00:43:16Well, I want to know about you and Ambrose.
00:43:20What about me and Ambrose?
00:43:22I think it's time I knew exactly what's going on.
00:43:27I don't know what you mean.
00:43:28You know perfectly well what I mean.
00:43:31It brings a different girl down here each year.
00:43:33Let's not pretend we don't know why.
00:43:34Well?
00:43:38I've never asked you this.
00:43:40I've never even mentioned it.
00:43:41But now I want to know the answer.
00:43:43What answer?
00:43:45What's the question?
00:43:46What happened on the 49 run?
00:43:51I'm serious. I want to know.
00:43:55What happened on the 49 run?
00:43:58Yes.
00:44:00Well, we left Hyde Park at about 8.30.
00:44:05And then we stopped somewhere in Sarri for a cup of coffee.
00:44:12Oh, Alan.
00:44:13Do you mean what happened after the annual dinner?
00:44:16That's precisely what I mean.
00:44:18Oh, darling, are you sure?
00:44:20Are you sure you really want to know what happened?
00:44:23Why have you never asked me before?
00:44:25Why didn't you ask me before we were married?
00:44:28Look, what happened?
00:44:31Oh, it's silly to bring it up after we've been married for three years.
00:44:34Let's forget about it.
00:44:37Make love to me.
00:44:38Don't be ridiculous.
00:44:40Oh, darling, you wouldn't want to be married to a woman of no experience whatever, would you?
00:44:47What would you do if I told you?
00:44:54You see?
00:44:55Don't even know.
00:44:56Will you make up your mind what you do?
00:44:58And then I'll tell you.
00:45:06Make love to me.
00:45:09All right, if you don't take the matter seriously.
00:45:11Alan, what are you doing?
00:45:12I have some work to do on the car.
00:45:13Oh, no.
00:45:13At this hour?
00:45:14Oh, can't it wait?
00:45:15Alan!
00:45:16No.
00:45:23Huh.
00:45:43What do you mean?
00:45:45What would you do if I told you?
00:45:47You see, you don't even know.
00:45:49There.
00:45:52I had a hunch I'd find you here.
00:45:54What do you want?
00:45:56Where's Rosalind?
00:45:57She's asleep.
00:46:03Well, what's a blasted funny about it?
00:46:05You are.
00:46:06Never mind Ambrose, you still have Susie.
00:46:10Wendy turned in.
00:46:12Yes.
00:46:13Why?
00:46:14I just wondered.
00:46:16She seems a bit fed up with you, old boy, if I may say so.
00:46:20Well, don't worry about it.
00:46:21Oh, but I do.
00:46:22I mean, I was the one who brought you two together.
00:46:25I used to hate to see anything going wrong.
00:46:27With your marriage, I mean.
00:46:28Just what do you mean by that?
00:46:30Well, sometimes, old boy, I have the feeling that you don't really appreciate Wendy.
00:46:35Well, you do.
00:46:36Yes, I'm sure of it.
00:46:38Well, I'm sure of something else.
00:46:39We're getting awfully tired of you perpetually sticking your face into our affairs.
00:46:43You're always hanging around, soaking up all the drink in the house, bothering Wendy.
00:46:46Steady on.
00:46:47Wendy always seems glad to see me.
00:46:50Now, look here.
00:46:52If you're so keen on Wendy, and you're always pointing out you knew before I did,
00:46:55why didn't you marry her when you had the chance?
00:46:57You know, I've often wondered about that myself.
00:47:00Frankly, I think the answer is that Wendy's improved a lot during the past three years.
00:47:04I can't think why, but there it is.
00:47:08You better clear out of here.
00:47:10Right now.
00:47:10Well, we were just going.
00:47:14You know, I really came to ask if you'd like us to take Wendy back tomorrow.
00:47:19After all, this old croc's scarcely likely to make it.
00:47:21Don't be an ass.
00:47:22Do you really think that's Spiker, of course?
00:47:23It wasn't the Spiker that got here after dinner.
00:47:25This is the better machine, and you really well know it.
00:47:27Nonsense.
00:47:27Look, I'm bored with all this.
00:47:28Genevieve would leave you standing.
00:47:30I don't suppose you care to back that statement.
00:47:32I certainly would.
00:47:33Anytime.
00:47:33First one to London.
00:47:35We'd get kicked out of the clan.
00:47:36Who'd know?
00:47:37All right.
00:47:38How much?
00:47:38Anything you'd like?
00:47:39Twenty-five?
00:47:40Fifty?
00:47:41Right.
00:47:41That's not too steep for you.
00:47:43Make it a hundred.
00:47:44Oh, now, wait a moment.
00:47:45What's the matter?
00:47:46Losing interest?
00:47:46Why, no means but a hundred.
00:47:48It's just that I never knew you were a gambler.
00:47:49It's no gamble.
00:47:50This is the better car.
00:47:51Even if it weren't, you're such a rotten driver.
00:47:53What?
00:47:54You dare say that to me?
00:47:56Rotten driver?
00:47:58Right.
00:47:59Twelve o'clock at the pub.
00:48:00We'll be there.
00:48:01Come on, Susie.
00:48:02Rotten driver.
00:48:04Friending a wolf's cuff?
00:48:06No.
00:48:41Alan, what on earth are you doing?
00:48:44I'm sorry, darling.
00:48:46I had the stripper right down.
00:48:49Darling, you can't do without sleep.
00:48:51I'm all right, really.
00:48:53Listen, Wendy.
00:48:55Ambrose was here last night.
00:48:57What did he want?
00:48:58He said,
00:49:00Oh, it doesn't matter.
00:49:01The important thing is we made a bet.
00:49:02We're racing back to London.
00:49:03Oh, don't be silly.
00:49:04Oh, it is cold in here.
00:49:06Wendy.
00:49:07I bet him a hundred pounds.
00:49:09You did...
00:49:10I know I shouldn't have done it, but...
00:49:11Oh!
00:49:12Wait a minute, Wendy.
00:49:13Listen, Wendy.
00:49:15Listen, Wendy.
00:49:30Darling, you have to listen to me.
00:49:33Look, I admit it was foolish.
00:49:34I admit it was wrong to do it, but you have to come with me.
00:49:37I'll have nothing to do with it.
00:49:41You have to come.
00:49:42I'm serious.
00:49:45If you didn't come, it'd be humiliating.
00:49:48Alan, how could you?
00:49:50Oh, I don't know.
00:49:51I was angry.
00:49:51I lost my temper.
00:49:53He was hinting things.
00:49:55Well, he said you're always glad to see him.
00:50:00He said he wondered why he hadn't asked you to marry him.
00:50:03Marry him?
00:50:04Ambrose?
00:50:05Are you out of your mind?
00:50:09Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
00:50:11I know I talked a lot of nonsense last night.
00:50:13But you were so pompous and stuffy.
00:50:17Oh, Alan, you must have known I was talking nonsense.
00:50:26You can tell him you didn't mean it.
00:50:28Oh, I can't.
00:50:29Now, bet's a bet.
00:50:31We can beat him, darling.
00:50:33I promise you we can beat him.
00:50:36All right, I'll come.
00:50:37But if you've thrown away a hundred pounds,
00:50:40almost all we've got in the bank,
00:50:42just for the sake of a ridiculous bet,
00:50:45Oh, Alan, how can you have been such an idiot?
00:50:55Alan, darling, what is it?
00:50:57Nothing, nothing.
00:50:59I'm just...
00:51:03Oh, that's high.
00:51:04I'm...
00:51:06Oh.
00:51:40Oh, you're looking better now.
00:51:44Won't it be awfully boring racing about in these old cars?
00:51:48Boring?
00:51:48How fast do they go?
00:51:50Well, if he tears that car of his to shreds,
00:51:52he might get 27 out of her,
00:51:53and I'll bet you we'll absolutely leave him.
00:51:54Will you put me on a train?
00:51:56Now, look, Rosalind,
00:51:57if I don't carry a passenger,
00:51:58how can I expect my kid to?
00:52:00All right.
00:52:02Oh, what a weekend.
00:52:05I'll tell you what.
00:52:07If we win that hundred pounds,
00:52:09we'll pop over to Le Touquet next weekend, eh?
00:52:13Ambrose,
00:52:14that Le Touquet routine went out with high-button boots.
00:52:18Ha-ha!
00:52:19Here they are.
00:52:22Morning, sport.
00:52:24You thought you might have changed your mind, Wendy?
00:52:27Well, I seem to have left the party rather abruptly last night.
00:52:30Feeling better?
00:52:32Well, pop down, then.
00:52:33Have a drink.
00:52:34We'll need one or two for the road.
00:52:35No, thanks.
00:52:35I'd rather get started.
00:52:36Ah, well, surely you'll have just one.
00:52:38No, let's go.
00:52:39Very well, then.
00:52:40On your way.
00:52:41What do you mean?
00:52:41Go ahead.
00:52:42We'll have a few more drinks,
00:52:43and we'll catch you up.
00:52:44Oh, I think this is all getting very silly, don't you?
00:52:46Yes, I do.
00:52:50Waiter, another pint, please.
00:52:52But if we're going to race, shouldn't we get started?
00:52:55My dear old girl,
00:52:56when that car gets started,
00:52:58you'll be intoxicated by the exuberance of your own velocity.
00:53:02Ha-ha.
00:53:02Did you get that?
00:53:03I said you'll be intoxicated by the...
00:53:04I said I'm not drinking anything at all today.
00:53:07Nothing at all.
00:53:10I'll show him the pompous ass.
00:53:13Any sign of them yet?
00:53:17Come off it, darling.
00:53:18You want us to win, don't you?
00:53:21Yes, of course I do.
00:53:22But I still think it's ridiculous.
00:53:26No, I can't see them.
00:53:27Good.
00:53:29Imagine him waving us off like that.
00:53:31Conceited clown.
00:53:36Why don't you start it?
00:53:42Oh, ah.
00:53:44I say.
00:53:45Would you mind giving me a push, please?
00:53:47We're in a race with that Derek.
00:53:56Here we go.
00:53:58Middle Eastern Army all together now.
00:54:00Push up.
00:54:02Faster, please.
00:54:06Push up, push up.
00:54:08Come on, faster.
00:54:09Faster, come on, faster.
00:54:13Faster, madam, faster.
00:54:16Push, madam, push.
00:54:22Well done.
00:54:38Grab that.
00:54:49Well, I doubt they'll believe us in court, but you were doing about 50 miles per hour.
00:54:53Yes, but I can explain, officer.
00:54:55You see, trying to kill yourselves?
00:54:56No, not really, but we're in a race.
00:54:58Race?
00:54:58What are you racing in that?
00:55:00Another fellow, a 1904 spiker.
00:55:01Since when has the veteran car club gone in for racing?
00:55:04Well, it hasn't really, but you see, we're in a restricted area.
00:55:07You're not going to give us a ticket, are you?
00:55:11Sorry, madam.
00:55:12Oh, but officer, we're already in so much trouble.
00:55:15Who'd know if you just let us go?
00:55:18We'd be so grateful.
00:55:22Barely.
00:55:25Well, then, let's catch you again.
00:55:33Darling, you were wonderful.
00:55:35They might have kept us there for 10 minutes.
00:55:37You know, Ambrose...
00:55:43Ambrose can't be very far behind.
00:55:49Get those sheep out of here.
00:55:51You can't block up the whole road like this.
00:55:53Go on, get them out of here.
00:55:56Go on, get out of it.
00:55:58Look, there's a shortcut up there.
00:56:00We'll get round them.
00:56:15Oh, Ambrose, Ambrose, stop!
00:56:24We're stuck.
00:56:25We'll have to get out and push.
00:56:27Me?
00:56:27What of all my stockings?
00:56:29Oh, never mind those.
00:56:30I'll buy you a dozen pairs.
00:56:31Now, go on, Rosalind.
00:56:33Get out and push.
00:56:44No, not like that.
00:56:45Get your shoulder into it.
00:56:47There she comes.
00:56:49There she comes.
00:56:50Oh, oh, oh.
00:56:54Well done, old girl.
00:56:54Well done.
00:56:55Let's get going.
00:56:55Let me get going.
00:56:56Come on, hurry up.
00:56:57Let's get going.
00:56:59Get out of it.
00:57:00Come on.
00:57:01I'm sorry.
00:57:01Look at my clothes.
00:57:03Oh, I can't bear anymore.
00:57:06Just look at me.
00:57:07I'm absolutely ruined.
00:57:08Ah, pipe's down.
00:57:09You're all right.
00:57:10I want to go home.
00:57:22Woman, don't you realize we're in a race?
00:57:25And will you kindly get those sheep out of here?
00:57:27Get them out of here.
00:57:32We can get some water over there.
00:57:34Quick, run in there and ask for some.
00:57:44Oh, Ambrose, stop for a second, will you?
00:57:46I can't see what I'm doing.
00:57:47Stop?
00:57:47How can I stop?
00:57:48Are you mad?
00:57:49Now, see here, my friend.
00:57:53I don't think there's anyone here.
00:57:56Oh, don't worry about that gate.
00:57:57Run down to the stream.
00:58:03Don't be long, Wendy.
00:58:05Oh, sh...
00:58:06Oh, oh.
00:58:10Wendy, what are you doing?
00:58:12Hurry up.
00:58:13Oh, shut up.
00:58:14I am.
00:58:17Oh.
00:58:18Look, there they are.
00:58:22Oh, what's the matter?
00:58:33What do you want?
00:58:34It's my wife.
00:58:35She's going to...
00:58:35I've got to get the nurse, the district nurse.
00:58:37Oh, well, all right.
00:58:38Well, jump on.
00:58:38Hurry.
00:58:39Oh, thanks.
00:58:39Thank you very much.
00:58:41It's the next one.
00:58:41The turning on the left.
00:58:42What do you mean?
00:58:43It says off the main road?
00:58:43Oh, only half a mile.
00:58:44There, that one.
00:58:45But we can't win a race.
00:58:46Oh, don't be so ridiculous.
00:58:47Don't be such a stinker.
00:58:49This just isn't fair.
00:58:50How can I be expecting to stand the charge?
00:59:06He's making awfully good time.
00:59:16Straight, straight.
00:59:17You're fine.
00:59:22Oh, please.
00:59:23Can't you go a little faster?
00:59:24Shut up, you silly ass.
00:59:25You come and drive this thing.
00:59:26Go on.
00:59:27Go on.
00:59:27Oh.
00:59:27Oh.
00:59:36Anything wrong?
00:59:37There's nothing serious.
00:59:38I've broken fan belts.
00:59:38But I have to get to a garage.
00:59:39Could you possibly give me a tow?
00:59:40I'd be delighted.
00:59:41Got a rope?
00:59:42Yes.
00:59:42Thanks very much.
00:59:49On your way back from the big rally.
00:59:51Yes.
00:59:52My name's Callaghan.
00:59:53J.C. Callaghan.
00:59:54McKim.
00:59:54Alan McKim.
00:59:56Madam.
01:00:00Well, what's the point of rushing back?
01:00:02This won't take long to face.
01:00:04Well, now that we've lost.
01:00:05Who says we've lost?
01:00:06You don't admit that we've lost.
01:00:07Why, should I?
01:00:08But being towed, do you call that fair?
01:00:10What'd you expect me to do?
01:00:11Tear it to pieces by driving on the loose...
01:00:12I didn't expect you to cheat.
01:00:13It's not cheating.
01:00:14You're just mad because you twisted your...
01:00:15Well, if this isn't cheating, then what is?
01:00:17You've been the same all day.
01:00:18You didn't want to come to Brighton in the first place.
01:00:20It's got nothing whatever to do with it.
01:00:21It's got everything to do with it.
01:00:22It's got everything to do with it.
01:00:22They do stick to the rules.
01:00:23Rules?
01:00:24Yes, I thought it.
01:00:24Who makes the rules anyway?
01:00:25Whoa!
01:00:31Haven't you got any brakes?
01:00:32You stopped so suddenly.
01:00:34Look at it.
01:00:34Look what you've done to this car.
01:00:36Well, it's not that serious, you know.
01:00:37My insurance will cover that.
01:00:38Insurance?
01:00:39What has that to do with it?
01:00:41This car belongs to my wife.
01:00:43And when she sees what...
01:00:46Hey, how do we get ahead of you?
01:00:48Just what does this mean?
01:00:50Have you conceded the race?
01:00:52Take your hands off that car.
01:00:53Of course I haven't conceded the race.
01:00:55I had to have a tow.
01:00:56Well, if we're going to get a tow to London,
01:00:57we can both be there in half the time.
01:00:58What am I going to tell my wife?
01:00:59How do I know what you're going to tell your wife?
01:01:01Ask my wife.
01:01:01If there wasn't a single mother.
01:01:02Who cares about your car?
01:01:04Why did you get out of here?
01:01:04What do you want?
01:01:05A public apology of the person.
01:01:06Yes, you don't know my wife.
01:01:07She only bought the car last month.
01:01:09Oh, shut up.
01:01:09You're west than he is.
01:01:10Go away.
01:01:11Go away.
01:01:11You go away.
01:01:12Yes, go away.
01:01:12Go on, get out of here.
01:01:13Buzz off.
01:01:14Oh, really?
01:01:15Alan.
01:01:18Can I help you, sir?
01:01:19It's my fan belt.
01:01:20It's broken link.
01:01:20Right.
01:01:25Now, listen.
01:01:26If you want to cheat and be pulled,
01:01:28I'm not prepared to...
01:01:29Oh, look, what's the difference
01:01:30between being pushed or pulled?
01:01:31We were pushed nearly half a mile.
01:01:33You keep out of this.
01:01:33Now, stop it, both of you.
01:01:35You're being ridiculous.
01:01:35Either you call the whole thing off
01:01:37or else stop behaving like lunatics.
01:01:41All right.
01:01:42If you're going to make this a race
01:01:44in which anything goes,
01:01:45that suits me.
01:01:45I can fix it, sir.
01:01:46Right.
01:01:47Whenever you're ready, Duchess.
01:01:50Isn't this becoming just a little bit frantic?
01:01:52Look what he's done to me.
01:01:53Oh, he's no worse than Alan.
01:01:55The same every year.
01:01:56Come on, we're wasting time.
01:02:01Bye.
01:02:02Bye.
01:02:03Bye.
01:02:06Wendy.
01:02:08Thank you, sir.
01:02:10Don't worry.
01:02:11We'll catch them up.
01:02:18Oh, what's wrong now?
01:02:23Try it again.
01:02:34Oh, these flies.
01:02:36They'll drive me absolutely crazy.
01:02:38Well, you don't seem to have enjoyed the picnic much.
01:02:40Yesterday, you said you'd rather have a picnic...
01:02:42That was yesterday.
01:02:43I'm sorry, Ambrose, but I'm hot and I'm filthy.
01:02:48Anyway, it was a sweet idea and a nice surprise.
01:02:52more wine?
01:02:54I shouldn't drink any more.
01:02:57Oh, it makes me so sleepy.
01:03:01Why don't you stretch out and relax for a while?
01:03:03Can I?
01:03:05Can I?
01:03:06Can I?
01:03:06Oh, be heaven.
01:03:09But what about the rest?
01:03:10Don't give it a thought.
01:03:12We've all the time in the world.
01:03:18But if you lose that rest...
01:03:19We won't lose.
01:03:20We can't.
01:03:22MacKym will be sitting in that garage for hours.
01:03:29How do you know he hasn't already passed us?
01:03:33Because he'll be looking for this.
01:03:39You mean that car won't even run?
01:03:41Not ten feet.
01:03:42So, you see, we haven't a thing in the world to worry about.
01:03:44Well, I must say that's a dirty trick to play on anybody.
01:03:47Rosalind, you saw him being told.
01:03:49Anyway, I'd never have taken his money.
01:03:50I don't care.
01:03:52I think it's just a rotten thing to do.
01:03:53Oh, be reasonable.
01:03:54I thought you'd enjoy a little break.
01:03:56I've had as much of this as I can stand.
01:03:58I want to go home.
01:04:01Oh, there's no need to hurt Susie either.
01:04:03Come on, Susie.
01:04:11Forty-two minutes.
01:04:12I think this one will hold, sir.
01:04:13Aye, thanks.
01:04:15What kind of a man can do a thing like that?
01:04:17That's what I want to know.
01:04:18What kind of a man?
01:04:19Oh, darling, don't worry, sir.
01:04:20You'll make yourself ill.
01:04:23Best I can do, sir.
01:04:24Should get you to London.
01:04:26Thank you, sir.
01:04:29Hope you catch him, sir.
01:04:42We'll never catch him up now, darling.
01:04:44Never say die.
01:04:46What kind of a man.
01:04:48What kind of a man, though?
01:04:50I mean, I had to have a tow or ban of my engine,
01:04:52but to make a better than deliberately
01:04:54to ruin the other man's chances.
01:05:00What on earth are you?
01:05:21If you're about to become a father, I'm not interested.
01:05:23I'm sorry to trouble you, sir,
01:05:25but I wanted to ask if you knew anything about the accident.
01:05:27Accident?
01:05:28Yes, some friends of mine who were on the rally.
01:05:30A young couple named McKim.
01:05:32We've just heard that they...
01:05:33McKim?
01:05:34What do you mean to say that...
01:05:35Well, was it a serious accident?
01:05:37Well, the chap that just stopped here said...
01:05:38What, you mean that...
01:05:39Oh, my.
01:05:58Whom did you telephone?
01:06:00What are you grinning about?
01:06:03I suppose I should be grateful for a break in the gloom.
01:06:06Ambrose and Rosalind will probably be in London by now,
01:06:08laughing at us.
01:06:11What is it?
01:06:12Oh, if you don't stop laughing, I'll go...
01:06:15Will you stop that silly round?
01:06:17It's a surprise.
01:06:18And here it comes.
01:06:20Here it comes.
01:06:29What's the matter?
01:06:30Let's stop it if I don't...
01:06:36This is all lying.
01:06:37Callous.
01:06:38Rotten.
01:06:38That dirty, rotten...
01:06:43I'll pay you back for this!
01:06:50I still say you shouldn't have done it.
01:06:52I say you had it coming to him.
01:06:53To let your best friend think we've been killed?
01:06:55My best friend, I...
01:06:56Oh, shut up.
01:06:57You make me sick.
01:07:07What's the matter, officer?
01:07:10You again?
01:07:11What's going on?
01:07:12This car's been reported stolen.
01:07:13Can't be them, Dave.
01:07:14The report said it was stolen only half an hour ago.
01:07:16It's that idiot we're racing.
01:07:17The one I told you about.
01:07:19He put in a false report?
01:07:20Looks like it, officer.
01:07:21You know, I'm afraid he's a little insane.
01:07:23He wouldn't stop at anything to win this race.
01:07:24Wouldn't he?
01:07:25Where is he now?
01:07:27That's him there.
01:07:28All right, you go on.
01:07:29We'll deal with him.
01:07:32Don't be too hard on him, will you?
01:07:34He can't really help it, you know.
01:07:35Oh, ha, ha, ha.
01:07:42What's up, officer?
01:07:43Your name's up?
01:07:44Claverhouse.
01:07:44Ambrose Claverhouse.
01:07:46Did you report a stolen car?
01:07:47What?
01:07:48Stolen car?
01:07:49No.
01:07:50Why, this is my car, officer.
01:07:52May I see your license, sir?
01:07:53Yes, of course.
01:07:57Well...
01:07:59Well, wait a minute.
01:08:00I've, uh...
01:08:02Ambrose!
01:08:02Stop it!
01:08:06You'll have to stop somewhere for a minute.
01:08:08What?
01:08:09Oh, no.
01:08:10Not now.
01:08:10Surely you can...
01:08:11No, I can't.
01:08:12If you don't mind.
01:08:14Oh.
01:08:16But, officer, I had new wicks put in all the lamps only last week.
01:08:19That tire's meant to be loose.
01:08:20It's been like that for the last 49 years.
01:08:22It'd be more regular to have him sign a proper statement at the station.
01:08:26Oh, but fair's fair, officer.
01:08:28You kept us here for four minutes already.
01:08:30If we don't need this go now, we won't even stand a chance.
01:08:31All right, but I'll warn you.
01:08:33Ah, thank you, officer.
01:08:33One more trick like that and you'll be in real trouble.
01:08:36I bet I should be...
01:08:41There. That'll do.
01:09:18I'll tell you straight off that's the most disgusting trick I've ever known a man to play.
01:09:21Which trick? Stealing the top of my float chamber or telling the police I'd stolen my own car?
01:09:24You started all that.
01:09:26You can't even cheat on a decent basis.
01:09:27You'd let us think you'd been killed.
01:09:29Oh, well.
01:09:30The report of my death was, what was it, the man said, greatly exaggerated.
01:09:33Who cares about your death?
01:09:35I was thinking about Wendy.
01:09:36If it weren't for Wendy, I'd give you a lesson you'd never forget.
01:09:39Have you ever seen anything like it?
01:09:41Is it really like this every year?
01:09:42Not quite like this.
01:09:43No, well, if you feel in an instructive mood.
01:09:46I warn you, I'm almost at braking point.
01:09:47Go on, then brake.
01:09:48I warn you.
01:09:49What are you waiting for?
01:09:50What are you waiting for?
01:09:51What are you waiting for?
01:09:52What goes on inside their heads?
01:09:54That's what I'd like to know.
01:09:55Don't know about your husband, but Ambrose seems to think of only two things.
01:09:59That silly old car and the other thing.
01:10:01What other thing?
01:10:04Oh, no.
01:10:04My husband only thinks about the car.
01:10:12Oh, dear.
01:10:23All right, come on.
01:10:24Break it up.
01:10:24Come on, sir.
01:10:25Break it up.
01:10:28Don't look at me.
01:10:29He started all.
01:10:29I was only thinking of her.
01:10:34First, you decide to stage a race on a public highway.
01:10:37Why, let's go into it.
01:10:38Not in sound cars with decent brakes, but in two museum pieces which were out of date 40 years ago.
01:10:44Oh, officer, really?
01:10:44Then you go tearing through a restricted area at 50 miles per hour.
01:10:48He can't do 50 miles per hour.
01:10:49Then you put in false reports to the police.
01:10:52Then you decide you can't be satisfied unless you bash each other's brains out.
01:10:56Well, there was nothing to address.
01:10:57It's just...
01:10:58Now, we wouldn't like you gentlemen to think we were being unreasonable.
01:11:00Oh, thank you very much.
01:11:01But if there's one more bit of trouble from either of you, we'll pull you in on so many different
01:11:07charges you won't be out in time for next year's Brighton run.
01:11:11Let's go.
01:11:12These two will drive me bummed.
01:11:13All right, come on now.
01:11:14All right, now.
01:11:15It's all over.
01:11:16You shouldn't encourage them, you know.
01:11:19You shouldn't encourage them.
01:11:19You shouldn't encourage them, you know.
01:11:20This is the end.
01:11:22Making a public spectacle of yourselves.
01:11:24Oh, well.
01:11:24I wouldn't have believed you could have behaved like this.
01:11:26Either of you.
01:11:27Just hauling like bruligans.
01:11:30Hauling like bruligans?
01:11:32Well, brawling like hooligans.
01:11:34Oh, he was hauling like a bruligan, not me.
01:11:36Don't you call me a bruligan?
01:11:37It's not funny.
01:11:38Oh, for goodness sake, let's go home.
01:11:42All right, let's call the whole thing off and have a party.
01:11:44Look, the pub will be open in ten minutes.
01:11:46What do you say?
01:11:47All right, that's a good idea.
01:11:47Come on, let's go.
01:11:49Oh, she's so lovely cream.
01:11:50Yes, let's have four doubles.
01:11:51Four large pink and white.
01:11:52Four large pink and white.
01:11:57Oh, what are you laughing about?
01:12:00Look.
01:12:02Oh.
01:12:02Here we are.
01:12:03Doubles all round.
01:12:05Cheers, my dears.
01:12:08I was wondering what that cap you bashed into told his wife.
01:12:12Tell me, how did you get behind us back at Pease Pottage?
01:12:15Eh?
01:12:16Oh, well, we picked up an expectant father looking for the district nurse.
01:12:19In the time I wasted with him, I could have delivered the brat myself.
01:12:24These are good.
01:12:27You know, everything considered, we made jolly good time.
01:12:31Oh, I don't know.
01:12:33If we'd really wanted to, we could have been in London two hours ago.
01:12:36Why weren't you then?
01:12:37I didn't want to take your money off sport.
01:12:39Asked Roslyn, didn't I say to you, Roslyn?
01:12:41If I didn't want to take the money, why did you make the bet?
01:12:42Well, heat in the moment, old boy.
01:12:44As soon as I realized you hadn't a chance.
01:12:46A chance?
01:12:46We were ahead of you.
01:12:49Now, look.
01:12:50Well, there's still nine miles to the bridge.
01:12:51You don't think you'd have stayed ahead of us, do you?
01:12:53I most certainly do.
01:12:54What difference does it make?
01:12:55Who's ahead of who?
01:12:56It makes every difference.
01:12:57It was his idea we'd call off the race.
01:12:59Do you really think you'd stand an earthly?
01:13:01I have a good mind to hold you to that bet.
01:13:02Hold me as far as I'm concerned, the bet's still on.
01:13:04Oh, you're not serious.
01:13:05Right.
01:13:06But if that old crock of yours falls to pieces, you've asked for it.
01:13:09Come on, Roslyn.
01:13:10First on Westminster Bridge.
01:13:11You're on.
01:13:11Here we go again.
01:13:12Why can't you be reasonable?
01:13:14He gave you a chance to call it off.
01:13:21Look, there's just one thing.
01:13:22Whatever you think of that car, she'll fetch a hundred pounds tomorrow.
01:13:24Is that right?
01:13:24Oh, easily, but I don't...
01:13:25All right.
01:13:26The bet's still on, but if I lose, I won't pay you a hundred.
01:13:29I'll give you Genevieve.
01:13:30Genevieve?
01:13:30Oh, look, Alan.
01:13:31That's fair enough, isn't it?
01:13:33Well, I know.
01:13:33First over the bridge.
01:13:34First over the bridge.
01:13:35Get in, Roslyn.
01:13:39But, Alan, surely you don't...
01:13:41There's no money involved.
01:13:42I'm betting the car.
01:13:43It's got nothing whatever to do with you.
01:13:44If you don't like it, you can get out and take a bus.
01:13:47Look, don't you think this is getting a little out of that?
01:13:49What's it got to do with you?
01:13:50You heard what he said?
01:13:51Either get out of this car and take that silly mutt with you
01:13:53or stop your blasted nattering.
01:13:56That crock of yours forced to pieces.
01:13:58A silly ass.
01:14:03Do you really think you can beat him?
01:14:05Of course I can.
01:14:06First on Westminster Bridge.
01:14:08Okay!
01:14:25Come on, Alan.
01:14:28Come on, Alan.
01:14:34Oh!
01:14:35Come on, quickly.
01:14:37Come along.
01:14:37Come on.
01:14:38We're in a race.
01:14:39Hurry.
01:14:40Come on.
01:14:41Come along.
01:14:43Take her out of the way.
01:14:45Come on.
01:14:46Hurry up.
01:14:47Hurry up.
01:14:47Hurry up.
01:14:48I want my ice cream.
01:14:51Hurry up.
01:14:53Come on.
01:14:53Leave me alone.
01:14:53Come on.
01:14:54Hurry up.
01:14:55Come on.
01:14:56Oh, yes.
01:14:56Come on.
01:14:58It's all right.
01:15:00She's missing.
01:15:01They're coming.
01:15:04Oh.
01:15:05They're coming.
01:15:06Come on.
01:15:07Come on.
01:15:08Come on.
01:15:16Come on.
01:15:17Come on.
01:15:17Come on.
01:15:18Come on.
01:15:30Come on.
01:15:36Come on.
01:15:37Come on.
01:15:44Come on.
01:15:47Come on.
01:15:48Come on.
01:15:48Come on.
01:15:49Come on.
01:16:03Get out of the way, madam!
01:16:09Go on, madam! Pull over!
01:16:11Pull out, madam!
01:16:17Look! Look at the lorry!
01:16:19Hey!
01:16:21I want to get out of here! I'm in a race!
01:16:27You wait!
01:16:29Come on, jump back out of here! I want to get out of here!
01:16:39I want to get out of here!
01:16:39Get out of here! I can't get out of here!
01:16:40I've got time to get out of here!
01:16:43Oh, blast!
01:16:53He's coming!
01:17:00Ha-ha!
01:17:02Ha-ha!
01:17:02You wait!
01:17:03Ha-ha!
01:17:24Ha-ha!
01:17:24Ha-ha!
01:17:25Ha-ha!
01:17:26I'm sorry, sir. You'll have to excuse me.
01:17:28It's the first car that I ever owned, sir.
01:17:30Darroch.
01:17:30I'm sorry, sir. You'll have to excuse me.
01:17:32I would never have believed it possible, sir.
01:17:34If you knew the pleasure it gives me to see this wonderful car and so wonderfully kept it.
01:17:38It's always too good.
01:17:40I wish my wife was here.
01:17:41Yes, sir.
01:17:42It was in a Darroch exactly like this one that I asked my wife to marry me.
01:17:461904, sir, it was.
01:17:47Pangborn.
01:17:48And she said, yes, but...
01:17:50It was the car!
01:17:51I'm sure of that.
01:17:52It was the car!
01:17:56See, I hope I'm not holding you up.
01:17:59Not at all, sir.
01:18:01I knew the chaps like you, you know, keeping up these old cars.
01:18:03We don't get about as much as we used to, you know?
01:18:06No.
01:18:07Look, perhaps you'd like me to come over and I'll give you a drive in the sun time.
01:18:10Do you mean to say, but that's very kind. Would you really do that?
01:18:13I simply can't tell you. Wait a moment. I'm sure I've got a car.
01:18:16Your wife might like to come, too. You can take the wheel yourself, if you like.
01:18:19I say, sir, that.
01:18:21Tomorrow evening?
01:18:21Tomorrow?
01:18:23Oh, I'm very grateful, sir. Very grateful indeed.
01:18:26Good day, sir. Good day, madam. God bless you.
01:18:44A wonderful old man.
01:18:47Wasn't he?
01:18:49Oh, Alan.
01:18:52What's the matter?
01:18:53What are you crying about?
01:18:55Oh, darling, when you just sat there.
01:18:57When you just sat there, I knew what you were thinking.
01:19:00I knew you wouldn't just drive away and leave him.
01:19:03Come on, Wendy. You know I don't like to see you cry.
01:19:06But you've lost her. You've lost Genevieve.
01:19:09I'll survive.
01:19:10Oh, darling, I'm so sorry.
01:19:12Wendy, stop it, will you?
01:19:14There's no reason to cry.
01:19:16I mean, a bet's a bet I wouldn't have made it if I hadn't been prepared to lose.
01:19:19But Genevieve means more to you than anything. You know she does.
01:19:23Nonsense.
01:19:25You'll give him the money instead. Promise me you will.
01:19:27Wendy, be sensible.
01:19:29I'll hate myself for the rest of my life.
01:19:31We'll talk about it.
01:19:32No.
01:19:33No, you can always talk me into anything.
01:19:35Say you will.
01:19:36Well, if...
01:19:37Say it.
01:19:39All right.
01:19:40But it'll leave us practically painless.
01:19:42Who cares about that?
01:19:59Look!
01:20:00Oh!
01:20:07All right, all right, all right!
01:20:19Come on.
01:20:22Come on, Wendy.
01:20:23All right, off we go.
01:20:27All right.
01:20:28Now that's the line.
01:20:28Now get out of here.
01:20:38No!
01:20:38Come on.
01:20:38Come on.
01:20:39Come on, Wendy.
01:20:42Come on.
01:20:43Look!
01:20:43Look!
01:20:43There they are!
01:20:57She stole!
01:20:59Push the pedal!
01:21:06Push the pedal!
01:21:15You get in and steer.
01:21:19Come on, push!
01:21:20I am pushing!
01:21:24Oh, come on!
01:21:30Oh, come on!
01:21:33There!
01:21:40Ha-ha, we got him!
01:21:48Stop it!
01:21:49Oh!
01:22:18Oh!
01:22:20Oh!
01:22:21Oh!
01:22:28You wait till next year!
01:22:30You wait!
01:22:31If I drive without driving, I'd show you.
01:22:33I'd have been there two hours ago, by the way.
01:22:49I'll pray.
01:22:49I'll pray.
01:22:49Let's pray.
01:22:50Let's pray.
01:22:50Let's pray.
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