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Part 3 of 9 of the Charles Dickens classic from 1979. Nell and her grandfather join a travelling Punch and Judy show on their travels to avoid Quilp, but attract the suspicion of the owner Mr Vuffin, who wonders why a 13 year old girl is travelling with an old man and believes they are on the run. Dick Swiveller continues to keep his eye on the mysterious gentleman looking for Nell and Mr Trent. And Mr and Mrs Garland seek out Kit Nubbles to offer him a job after his help with their horse.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Christopher Fairbank, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wensley Pithey, Patsy Byrne, Bernard Stone, Donald Bisset, Pauline Winter, Keith Hazemore, Jerold Wells, Richard Merson, Stuart Fell, Jimini Higgett, Tom Mennard, Stephen Calcutt, Gilda Cohen, Ismed Hassan, Marcus Powell, Harold Taylor and Simon Garstang.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Christopher Fairbank, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wensley Pithey, Patsy Byrne, Bernard Stone, Donald Bisset, Pauline Winter, Keith Hazemore, Jerold Wells, Richard Merson, Stuart Fell, Jimini Higgett, Tom Mennard, Stephen Calcutt, Gilda Cohen, Ismed Hassan, Marcus Powell, Harold Taylor and Simon Garstang.
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00:22ORCHESTRA PLAYS
00:40ORCHESTRA CONTINUES
00:44Hello.
00:47Good afternoon.
00:54I dare say it's the first time you've seen a punch off the stage, is it?
00:58You don't have a needle and thread, do you?
01:01Poor Julie's clothes are falling to pieces again.
01:03I have a needle and thread in my basket.
01:06Will you let me mend the clothes?
01:17Are you going to show them tonight?
01:20No, no, not tonight.
01:22Tonight we stop at the Jolly Sand Boys.
01:24Tomorrow we go on to the races.
01:27Races?
01:28And where are you heading yourselves?
01:32We haven't entirely made up our minds.
01:34If you'd like us for company, we could travel together.
01:37We will.
01:38We'll go with you.
01:39The girls never been to the race course.
01:45Now, be gracious for once, Tommy, and say you'd rather they went with us.
01:49I know you would.
01:50Be gracious, Tommy.
01:52Trotters, you're too free with people.
01:59What harm can it do, Tommy?
02:04No harm at all in this particular case, perhaps, but the principal's a dangerous one.
02:10Tommy, we need to consult.
02:27You're too free, I tell you.
02:29If you stood in front of the curtain and could see the public's faces as I do, you'd know human
02:35nature better.
02:36Ah, it's been the spoiling of you, Tommy, you're taking to that branch when you played the ghost in the
02:42drama at the regular fairs.
02:44You believed in everything except ghosts.
02:47Now you're a universal mistruster.
02:49I never see a man so changed.
02:54They're no home.
02:55The old man's not in his right mind.
02:57If you've nothing newer to say than that.
02:59Hear me out, can't you?
03:01They're not used to this way of life.
03:04Don't tell me that child has been in the habit of prowling about.
03:07I'll tell you what I think.
03:09He's doing a disappearing act and he's persuaded the child to go along with him.
03:14I'm not going to stand for it, Tommy.
03:15You're not going to stand for it.
03:17I am not going to see a young girl falling into bad hands and get along people she's unfit for.
03:28Do you think there's a reward?
03:31If there's a reward, Trotters, remember we're partners in everything.
03:37Of course there'll be a reward.
03:39Why, ever do you think I'm concerned?
03:43What I think is you're a sly one, partner.
03:58He's all right, really, you know.
04:00Only his way.
04:02You notice he calls me Trotters.
04:04Harris the name is.
04:05Or Short.
04:06Short Trotters, you see.
04:08On account of the legs.
04:10No great size, the legs, as you may have observed.
04:15It's Grindr's lot, Tommy.
04:19About for the races.
04:20So we.
04:21How are you, Short?
04:25Practising?
04:25No, comes either to walking in them or carrying them.
04:28And they likes walking better.
04:30Gives them a good view.
04:31Here we're your partner.
04:32Here he is.
04:33And he's on his way.
04:35Not social minded today, Hank.
04:37Keeper as hell today is, Tommy.
04:39The jolly sand, boys.
04:40We're taking a quicker road.
04:41Straight to the course.
04:42On then.
04:46Come land or build the flowy ball until it's a run over.
04:51Come land or build the flowy ball until it's a run over.
04:55For tonight will many, many be.
04:57For tonight will many, many be.
04:59For tonight will many, many be.
05:03Tomorrow will be so buff.
05:05Come along, Chester.
05:06Come along.
05:07Cherry.
05:10Terrible weather.
05:12Monstrous weather.
05:13How's Mr. Condon?
05:16Drops to dry me bones, landlord.
05:20No nice to be alive, I tell you that for nothing.
05:22Down, Pedro.
05:24But I'll tell you what, Trotters.
05:26I've got an animal here what I think you know something of.
05:31Let's have a look at him, then.
05:33Weren't he once a Toby of yours?
05:36Well, I'm jiggered.
05:41Hey, no, no, no, my dear.
05:46Not an atom from anyone's hand but mine, if you please.
05:51That dog lost 80 today.
05:54He goes without his supper.
05:57Learn to be more careful, sir.
06:00Now, come here, sir.
06:01Come here.
06:02Now, then.
06:03Now.
06:07Now, you stay there and play away at that while your friends have their supper.
06:14Leave off for an instant and you'll have nothing to honor the mother.
06:19Now, gentlemen, the dog whose name's called eats.
06:26The dog whose name's ain't called keep quiet.
06:30Pedro.
06:34Carlo.
06:38It's a good idea.
06:39There you go, my dog.
06:43No, no, no, no.
06:47No, no, no, no, no.
06:48Go on.
06:51This is very good.
06:52I watch the box out there.
06:54You see that?
06:55You see that?
06:56See, I do like that.
06:57Oh.
06:58Oh.
06:59No, what happened?
07:00Well, we know what happened.
07:01It's a good idea.
07:03Oh.
07:04Oh, boy.
07:05Yeah.
07:05Thank you very much.
07:07How is he? You're a giant.
07:09Rather weak in the legs. I begin to think he's going up the knees.
07:13Oh, that's bad.
07:14But indeed, once get a giant shaky on his legs,
07:17then the public don't care no more for him than for a cabbage stalk.
07:20That's the trouble with giants.
07:23Always has been.
07:26What becomes about giants?
07:28They're usually kept in caravans to wait on the dwarves.
07:31The maintaining of them must come expensive when they're not being shown, eh?
07:35Well, it's better to put up with it than letting them go on the parish of the streets.
07:39There was one giant, a blacken, has left his caravan some years ago
07:42and took to carrying coach bills round London,
07:45making himself as cheap as crossing sweepers.
07:48He died.
07:50I make no insinuation against no-one in particular,
07:55but he was ruining the trade and he died.
07:58I'm not sure as I don't remember that.
08:01Yeah. Yes, I remember that.
08:04I know you do, Cherry.
08:06I know you remember it.
08:08And the universal opinion was
08:10he deserved what he got.
08:12What about the dwarves when they get old?
08:14The older a dwarf is, the better his worth.
08:17A grey-haired, well-wrinkled dwarf is beyond suspicion,
08:20but a giant going at the knees and not standing upright.
08:24Keep him in a caravan and never show him.
08:26Never show him for any persuasion that can be offered.
08:31His day has nearly come, I'd say.
08:38FALERY
08:41Welcome!
08:45Welcome!
09:51Stay with us, Nell. Remember that. We're your friends, remember.
09:56You've been kind.
09:57We'll see you safe, Nell. We'll see you safe.
10:00Safe?
10:01You've got to be safe when you're on the road. You need friends, Nell. You can't go without friends.
10:07Of course not.
10:09Promise me you'll stay by us. We'll not give you up, you know. A promise for a promise, Nell.
10:14Not give us up, Mr Short?
10:16Oh, just a way of speaking, my dear. Nothing meant.
10:51I have a way of making more if you will let me have some.
10:54You must go. These men suspect that we have run away.
10:58Suspect? How could they know?
10:59They do. Mr. Short's been talking to me.
11:02But if we could stay for just a few more races, we could have our fortunes made.
11:07You said before we left that people would say you were mad.
11:11Yes, they would.
11:12To be wandering the countryside to have taken you away when I should have left you behind.
11:18Oh, no, grandfather.
11:18They would lock me away. They would chain me against the wall.
11:22But now, just a few more coppers.
11:26You must go.
11:34Is it good? Is it strong?
11:38Is it fiery?
11:41Does it make your wink and choke? Does it make your breath come short, eh?
11:45Oh, it does all that, Mr. Quirk.
11:46It's like drinking fire.
11:49Well, drink up. Look here.
11:52And here again.
11:55Here again.
11:57And drink up, Mr. Swiveller, dear.
12:00Give us a toast, eh?
12:02Mr. Swiveller, who's there to toast, eh?
12:04Well, there's Sophie Wackles.
12:08Sophie Cheggs, as she is today.
12:09Oh, stubborn rubbish. Cut Sophie Wackles' ears off. Now, listen to me.
12:14There was a party, came into the shop.
12:17Oh, stout party, whiskers.
12:19Looking for our friends, wanting to know.
12:22Now, pay attention to me.
12:23Smoke away, drink up, but listen to me.
12:25Forget about Wackles, forget about Cheggs.
12:28All in the past, now, you're listening.
12:30Looking for lodgings.
12:32Our stout party was.
12:34So I sent him to Brass.
12:35And I sent him to Brass so that you could keep an eye on him.
12:40I could have sent him to Tower Hill, into the tent at arms of Mrs. Quilt.
12:44But I'm not a fool, so I sent him to Brass.
12:47Brass?
12:48My legal gentleman, you swell thing.
12:50Whom you're the clerk for beginning tomorrow, you've not forgotten that.
12:53You're not going to let me down now, after all I've done for you.
12:56I start tomorrow for Baron Brasson.
12:59Baron Brass, who?
13:00You'll start tomorrow by keeping your eyes open.
13:04There's money in our stout party.
13:06Pockets of money.
13:08Money, Mr. Quilt.
13:10Oh, you can tell at a glance, you can see by his eye, by his face, the way he strides.
13:16Cheggs!
13:16Now, of course it isn't Cheggs, you fool.
13:19I don't even know Cheggs.
13:20I wouldn't care if I never knew Cheggs.
13:23Market gardener might serve you Wackles.
13:26I'm telling you about a stranger.
13:28And I'm asking you what he wants with an old man and a girl.
13:33Why is he making inquiries, eh?
13:36Who's this, Mr. Quilt?
13:38I'm telling you who it is, you deaf dog.
13:40You're my friend, Mr. Quilt.
13:43Of course I am your friend.
13:45And I need a friend.
13:48I need a friend.
13:50I can't just sacrifice her ever on the shrine of a marking yard.
13:55Now, forget about Cheggs, you fool.
13:57I love you.
13:58Keep a watch on him, do you hear?
13:59Use your ears.
14:01Use your eyes.
14:03Eh?
14:04Who is he?
14:05Now, that's what I want to know.
14:07That's what I want to know, too.
14:09Good.
14:10Who is he?
14:14What are you talking about, old friend?
14:16Oh, give me patience.
14:19Now, now listen carefully.
14:22Try and get it into your stupid, drunken head.
14:25Are you listening?
14:26I'm doing my best.
14:28The only thing is...
14:30The only thing is falling asleep.
14:33Now, this is no time for sleep.
14:35Sleep's a thing for bed.
14:36Sleep's a thing for dreams.
14:37Ah, dreams, I dream...
14:41No, no, no, you didn't.
14:42No, you did no such thing.
14:43Now, now, now, now, listen to me.
14:45Are you listening to me?
14:46I'm doing my best.
14:47The only thing is...
14:49I...
14:53I don't know what we're talking about.
14:59You know what we're talking about?
15:02And...
15:03Another thing...
15:06I have a feeling I don't know where I am.
15:12Where am I?
15:16And who are you in heaven's name?
15:20Most of the point, who am I?
15:23You are Richard Swivelland.
15:25No!
15:26A floon and rogue.
15:28And the greater clown outside the circus,
15:30I doubt that there exists.
15:32Now, sit down immediately.
15:35Oh!
15:38Clear your mind.
15:41If that is your in possession of such a thing...
15:45Now, can you hear me?
15:46Are you listening?
15:47I'm not Cheggs, I'm Quimp.
15:50We have business between us.
15:53You are to keep a watch on the Stout Party Brass's Lodger.
15:59Stout Brass?
16:01Brass's...
16:02No, no, no, no, no.
16:03Say it again.
16:05Stout Party Brass's Lodger.
16:08Good.
16:10And I'm Richard Swivelland.
16:12I want to know...
16:13...who the Stout Party is.
16:16Now, do you understand?
16:18I want to know his business.
16:20And I shall find out.
16:22Trust your...
16:24Trust your...
16:24...snivelton.
16:26Swiveller.
16:28Swiveller.
16:28Me.
16:29Stout Party's business.
16:31Stout Party's identity.
16:33Established matter of minutes.
16:35Report.
16:36Daniel Krupp, Esquire.
16:39Oh.
16:42They'll be back.
16:44You see, they'll be found and the Stout Party will be waiting for them.
16:48And you could always tell Mr Swiveller if a man has money.
16:52By the way he strikes.
16:53Of course you can.
16:56Inbjudicate.
16:58Inbjudicate.
16:59Of course you can.
17:01I'll tell you what, Mr Quilp.
17:03I'll give you a two.
17:04Ah.
17:05Our friendship, eh?
17:08Into the sea with wackles, eh?
17:11Our friendship, Mr Quilp.
17:13Our lovely little friendship.
17:16Little Mr Quilp.
17:30I earned the other half of that shilling, minding the pony again.
17:34Nothing else, Kit.
17:35No sign of work.
17:37Nah.
17:38No sign of them?
17:40Nah, neither.
17:42Oh, it's all bad news.
17:45Quilp's to drop down dead.
17:46No, Kit, don't say that.
17:47Oh, it's a sin they say in your little Bethel chapel.
17:50But sin's for humans and he's hardly that.
17:52Yeah.
17:53I'm glad I'm not acquainted with the gentleman.
17:56It's a week that's gone by now.
17:58Well, don't you think a week's long enough to be rambling about?
18:01Longer than enough.
18:04You don't think they've gone to sea?
18:07They're not gone for sailors, certainly.
18:11You may be there heading for some foreign country.
18:14Don't talk like that, Mother.
18:15Let's talk of all the neighbours.
18:16They've run away forever, it said.
18:18From the old man's debts.
18:21He was always good to you, Kit.
18:23Maybe there's a lot of idle chatterboxes.
18:36You will follow, my lad.
18:38Our pony come nowhere but your direction.
18:40Now he won't move on.
18:41You would be Mrs. Nubbles.
18:43Yes, ma'am.
18:44Jacob.
18:45Yes.
18:46You must please forgive this intrusion, ma'am.
18:51We thought if perhaps Christopher would move our pony on.
18:55We're well acquainted with your son, you see, and so is the pony.
18:58Yes, yes.
18:59Whiskers, we call him.
19:00Our pony.
19:01I'll do my best, sir.
19:02There's one little thing, my dear.
19:04Shall I?
19:05Yes, dear, you.
19:06Your son was in a place, we understand, Mrs. Nubbles.
19:09He was.
19:10Not anymore.
19:12So he has explained.
19:13We think it a shame.
19:14The truth is we want a good lad in our house.
19:17You mean...
19:19You mean a position, sir?
19:22We're three in family and very quiet in our ways, but it would be a sad thing if we made
19:27a mistake, so we're very cautious.
19:31We discussed it among ourselves and with Mr. Witherdon.
19:34Forgive us being so cautious, Mrs. Nubbles.
19:36Please do forgive us, but we're a cautious family, cautious by nature, and Mr. Witherdon
19:42being in the law is cautious too.
19:44Which makes our son, being of the family and in the law, exceedingly cautious.
19:51Exceedingly.
19:53So we thought, being here deposited by our pony, that an inquiry of yourself.
19:58Oh, quite right, ma'am, quite proper.
20:00And heaven forbid I shall shrink from any inquiry into Kit's character.
20:03Oh, no, he's a good son, though I am his mother, it says it.
20:07In which respect, ma'am, he takes after his father, who's not only a good son to his mother,
20:11but the best of husbands and the best of fathers besides, which Kit Wood and Wood corroborate.
20:16There's little Jacob and the baby, too, if they were old enough, but unfortunately they're not.
20:19Though as they don't know what a loss they've had, perhaps it's as well the weaker.
20:22Now do you the utmost credit, Mrs. Nubbles, but as to Christopher, he's had the measles.
20:27Oh, brave he was, he was really brave, though he had them bad.
20:30Does anyone in the neighbourhood can testify?
20:31Would an income of £6 a year, to be fair and reasonable, over above board and lodging at Abel Cottage
20:38Finchley,
20:39with half a sovereign in advance to cover sundry costs of removal.
20:43Oh, sir. Sir!
20:46Fair and reasonable, Christopher?
20:47Oh, yes, sir.
20:49To begin tomorrow, then.
20:50Oh, yes, sir. Yes, please, sir.
20:52Well, goodbye, then, Mrs. Nubbles.
20:55Well, ma'am.
20:56Goodbye, Christopher.
20:57Goodbye, sir.
20:59Goodbye, sir.
21:00Goodbye, sir.
21:01Hello.
21:02Are you a good boy, Jacob?
21:04Hmm?
21:05Here.
21:06That's for you.
21:08Bye.
21:09Oh, Jacob.
21:10Hey, what have you got there?
21:11Is that what you got?
21:12Oh, son, he's putting it in the money box.
21:17Well, mother, there's that to be thankful for.
21:19What do you think there is?
21:21£6 a year, kid.
21:23Oh, heavens, we'll make such a lady of you for your chapel on a Sunday,
21:26and such a scholar of you, little Jacob.
21:28£6 a year.
21:29Who said £6 a year?
21:31What about £6 a year?
21:33Quilp.
21:34Don't be frightened, mistress.
21:36Your son knows me.
21:37I don't eat, babies.
21:42You, you, you, be quieted, dog.
21:44No, why haven't you been to see me, as you promised?
21:46Promised?
21:46I ain't got no business with you, Quilp.
21:48I never promised.
21:51Mistress, there's a search on for the lad's old master.
21:55Now, has he come to you?
21:56If he hasn't, where's he gone?
21:57Well, he hasn't been here at all, and I don't know where he's gone.
22:02It would be a great deal easier in our minds if we did.
22:04Yes, so would Daniel, Quilp, ma'am.
22:05It's the girl I'm thinking of.
22:07There's not a minute in every day, but I'm not worrying over that girl.
22:11Then what do you drive them away for?
22:12Oh, no, young master, I didn't.
22:14Wouldn't be in my interest to drive them away.
22:17It's the old man I'm worrying about.
22:19His mind, you know, very poor, very poorly in the mind.
22:23Well, do you mean he's not quite kind of right in...
22:25I do, ma'am.
22:26Stuff and nonsense, that is, Quilp.
22:27Why else should he rid himself of your services, Kit?
22:30Why else should he say you must not return to his house, eh?
22:35I put it to you, ma'am.
22:36Would any man in his sane mind rid himself of such a treasure?
22:40Well, I...
22:42I don't know, I'm sure.
22:44It does seem strange.
22:46Oh, listen to him, mother.
22:47What worries him, ma'am, is the young girl.
22:50Suffering day in, day out.
22:52Good evening, Quilp.
22:52Dragged about by a figure such as he,
22:54added to which, of course, there is his weakness.
22:58Weakness?
22:59Gambling, madam.
23:00Gambling? What are you?
23:01It's that that has him where he is,
23:03in debt to Quilp for more than he can pay.
23:05Would you like it, ma'am,
23:06to be tramping the countryside with a crazed old gambler?
23:10Is that any fate for an innocent girl?
23:13It'll break her in half, I tell you.
23:14And don't say I didn't warn you.
23:16Don't say Daniel Quilp didn't warn you.
23:18When did I...
23:19When...
23:19Be quiet, you villains.
23:21What are they in tricks or something?
23:23What's the matter with them?
23:24I'm telling you,
23:24Unless thou found the girl he's doomed,
23:28I want her,
23:29and I sell you.
23:42Please, please, just five more minutes.
23:45No, no, no.
23:46We must go on.
23:47We're not far enough.
23:49We must put miles between us and the Punch and Judy men.
23:53They'll tell, you know.
23:54They'll tell they've seen us.
24:12I'll get them.
24:14I'll get them.
24:17I'll find them
24:18if I have to
24:21travel the links and grits
24:23of England.
24:24I'll get them.
24:27I'll get them.
24:30I'll get them.
24:43I'll get them.
25:06I'll get them.
25:08I'll get them.
25:10I'll get them.
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25:17I'll get them.
25:19I'll get them.
25:22I'll get them.
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