Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (1978) Ian McShane TV Miniseries Political Drama E03
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00:00:25Members, desirous of taking their seats,
00:00:28will be pleased to come to the table.
00:01:02I'm desirous of taking the oath from the Old Testament.
00:01:13Order!
00:01:14Order!
00:01:18Baron Lionel de Rothschild, you may withdraw.
00:01:44As did Israeli.
00:01:47Rothschild has been freely and fairly elected by the City of London as a member of this Parliament.
00:01:52To deny him his seat as a Jew is to publish to the world
00:01:55that we are still influenced by the darkest superstitions of the darkest ages that ever existed in this country.
00:02:01We take our oath on the true faith of Christianity.
00:02:06I cannot sit in this house with any misconceptions of my opinion on this subject.
00:02:12Whatever may be the results on the seat that I hold.
00:02:14This is a Christian Assembly.
00:02:16Yes!
00:02:17And it is as a Christian that I will not take upon myself the awful responsibility
00:02:23of excluding from the legislature those in whose religion my Lord and Saviour was born.
00:03:00Now, in the name of the government, that I always have found the need.
00:03:00To the Western Union, the Frenchman and the Frenchman and the Frenchman,
00:03:27you've made hats?
00:03:28yes I was an apprenticed milliner to eke out my allowance.
00:03:32oh but it didn't last long.
00:03:35oh I was the belle of Clifton.
00:03:38all the young gentlemen in the west country used to pay court to me.
00:03:42I married my first husband when I was 17.
00:03:45you make it sound as though you'd had half a dozen my dear.
00:03:49I think it sounds very romantic.
00:03:52oh so did I at the time but I didn't know the meaning of the word till I met Dizzy.
00:03:59more tea Mrs Gladstone?
00:04:00no.
00:04:01thank you it was lovely.
00:04:03mr Gladstone?
00:04:04yeah thank you.
00:04:11I believe we were all married in the same year.
00:04:14I believe so.
00:04:15it all seems so recent but you know I was looking through one of my scrapbooks today
00:04:20and I realize it's nearly 20 years ago.
00:04:27you keep a scrapbook?
00:04:30oh a dozen.
00:04:31what do you put in them?
00:04:33anything from the newspapers and magazines that mentions Dizzy.
00:04:37Mary Ann is my most faithful archivist.
00:04:46here's a report of a speech from the times.
00:04:50oh and comments from the quarterly review.
00:04:53oh no no.
00:04:56oh well why not?
00:04:57why what is it?
00:04:58it's a cartoon from punch.
00:05:02the balancing brothers of Westminster.
00:05:05yes isn't it clever.
00:05:07yes the artist was kinder to you than he was to me.
00:05:10yes I do not find such drawings amusing.
00:05:13you know what I think it means?
00:05:15that whatever Dizzy proposes you propose the opposite and vice versa just out of habit.
00:05:21well it could mean that your talents are so evenly balanced
00:05:25that together you could achieve something outstanding.
00:05:28yes well that is another matter.
00:05:31I think we might leave the ladies alone for a few moments if they don't mind.
00:05:35not at all.
00:05:36if you wish.
00:05:38we shall be in the study.
00:05:51oh aren't we fortunate to have such remarkable husbands.
00:05:56yes.
00:05:58William is always saying how very clever Mr. Disraeli is.
00:06:02you know what Dizzy admires most about Mr. Gladstone?
00:06:06it's his moral courage.
00:06:07of course Dizzy has none at all.
00:06:10oh no that can't be true.
00:06:11oh it is.
00:06:13when he has a shower he can never pull the string for the cold water.
00:06:16I always have to do it for him.
00:06:21oh you must come and visit us at Huwenden someday.
00:06:24oh that would be delightful.
00:06:27and you must come to Hornden.
00:06:29I hear it's very beautiful.
00:06:32oh I think so.
00:06:34and more beautiful every year.
00:06:37William has cleared another acre in the park.
00:06:40cleared it?
00:06:40yes of trees.
00:06:41his relaxation.
00:06:43his tree felling.
00:06:44opening up new areas.
00:06:46how different to Dizzy.
00:06:47his passion is planting trees.
00:06:51and watching them grow into forests.
00:06:59one should treat a cigar like a mistress.
00:07:03put it away before one gets sick of it.
00:07:08well that is the position as we see it.
00:07:11frankly we need you.
00:07:14after all it would not be so great a step.
00:07:16you have supported us pretty steadily for the last three years.
00:07:19yes there is a small but active section of your party.
00:07:22our party.
00:07:25a section.
00:07:26who regard me as representing dangerous ideas.
00:07:29you wish for reform and so do I and always have done.
00:07:32no in truth Mr Gladstone it is the relations between us
00:07:35that form the great difficulty.
00:07:38between us?
00:07:43I have never in my life taken a decision which has been influenced by it.
00:07:50I'm glad to hear it.
00:07:53well I can assure you if you join Lord Derby's cabinet
00:07:56you will find warm personal friends and admirers.
00:07:59now you may consider me as neither
00:08:02but I assure you you would be wrong.
00:08:07I must consider the conditions that would make cooperation possible.
00:08:14what I said just now
00:08:16was not mere empty words.
00:08:21I have asked Sir James Graham to accept the post
00:08:24as leader of the house of commons in my place
00:08:26to allow both of us to serve under him.
00:08:28now if he will not accept we shall let our fellow members decide
00:08:31which of us is to lead.
00:08:33in either case
00:08:35I can assure you
00:08:38that I would consider you as sharing equally
00:08:41in any position I might hold.
00:08:47I need time to reflect.
00:08:49the situation is critical.
00:08:52you to stand aside at a time like this is a great responsibility.
00:08:55don't you think it's time you might deign to be magnanimous?
00:09:00there is a power beyond us that disposes of what we are and do.
00:09:04and find the limits of choice in public life
00:09:07to be very narrow.
00:09:11sanctimonious humbug.
00:09:13he may wrap himself in a cloak of morality
00:09:15but he's really driven by only two things
00:09:18personal ambition and envy of you.
00:09:21well what will he do now?
00:09:22wait on the sideline
00:09:24seeing which way to jump.
00:09:25well that's enough of him.
00:09:27I must get back to Downing Street.
00:09:30and you must get ready.
00:09:32now remember don't commit us to anything
00:09:34and don't try to be witty.
00:09:36most decidedly not.
00:09:37they still distrust you.
00:09:38who?
00:09:39this time you must try and win their approval.
00:09:42whose? whose approval?
00:09:44it's been decided that...
00:09:50it's been decided that Dizzy
00:09:52shall be the one to report cabinet business.
00:09:54I have to go to Windsor for an audience with the Queen and the Prince.
00:09:58that's wonderful.
00:10:00it's what we've prayed for.
00:10:01it'll give you a chance to win them over.
00:10:04remains to be seen.
00:10:08of course you will.
00:10:10I forbid you to be nervous.
00:10:12easier said my dear.
00:10:14facing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
00:10:16is like looking down the muzzle of a double barreled shotgun.
00:10:20so you call it a rebellion
00:10:23and not a mutiny.
00:10:25a mutiny is merely a rising of soldiers against their officers
00:10:29but this is much more.
00:10:30this is a national revolt amongst all classes of the Indian people.
00:10:35yes that is true.
00:10:37then I assume you are not in favor of reprisals.
00:10:41there must be punishment for those guilty of atrocities
00:10:44but for those who fought against what they see as persecution
00:10:48there must be justice tempered with mercy.
00:10:52yes her majesty and I have discussed this matter fully
00:10:56and have reached the same conclusions.
00:10:59you spoke of a change of policy.
00:11:01what do you propose?
00:11:02we propose ma'am
00:11:04to take the rule and power of India
00:11:06from the East India Company
00:11:08and transfer it to the crown.
00:11:11to appoint a viceroy
00:11:13and to issue a proclamation to the native princes and population
00:11:17that the Queen of England guarantees their laws, customs and religion.
00:11:23that could do much.
00:11:25more than all our fleets and armies sir.
00:11:28I look forward to seeing your detailed proposals.
00:11:32but what is the feeling of the house towards your government now?
00:11:36it is not kind sir but for now the opposition is content to let us pull their chestnuts out of
00:11:43the fire.
00:11:44and after so many years in temporary quarters it is
00:11:47a pleasure to be in the new house of commons which is so admirably suited to our purposes.
00:11:53I assume it was chairman of the reconstruction committee.
00:11:58of course.
00:11:59and that explains if I may be permitted ma'am
00:12:02the brilliant use of space and the perfect blend of comfort with harmonious proportions.
00:12:11we must not detain you any longer mr. Disraeli.
00:12:21your most faithful servant ma'am.
00:12:36what an extraordinary man.
00:12:40he's really quite handsome don't you think?
00:12:44although so very jewish.
00:12:49I cannot understand why I had such an unfavorable opinion of him.
00:12:55a few's are so surprisingly similar.
00:12:59we won about it.
00:13:01you cannot expect us to support you in this bill mr. Disraeli.
00:13:04but I do Robert.
00:13:06giving the right to vote to the lower paid can only benefit the liberals.
00:13:09I should have thought that the cure in justices would have been the aim of every responsible government.
00:13:15reform is a dangerous experiment.
00:13:17dangerous for the country and the government.
00:13:19Robert.
00:13:19no father I must speak.
00:13:21it's only what many others are thinking.
00:13:24political thought must develop even in the conservative party.
00:13:28I tell you frankly sir.
00:13:30I cannot support you.
00:13:33I must apologize for my son.
00:13:35there's no need lord solace.
00:13:37I of course shall ask you.
00:13:38this radio is silly.
00:14:05if you die before Easter.
00:14:06he's not hopeless.
00:14:10radicals should back us.
00:14:11oh precisely.
00:14:12Disraeli is selling us out.
00:14:13well I am with you.
00:14:14the right to vote must be extended.
00:14:16I agree.
00:14:17besides it is a way of beating the continuous majority of the liberals in parliament.
00:14:21I don't know.
00:14:22I can't vote against my own party but...
00:14:31have you heard mr gladstone?
00:14:32what do you say?
00:14:37this attempt to carry favor with the lower elements is the act of an unprincipled adventurer desperate to cling to
00:14:43power at any price.
00:14:45you should appeal to the honor of your leader.
00:14:48it's no use.
00:14:50lord derby is only interested in his racehorses.
00:14:52he leaves everything to disraeli.
00:14:55that's what it's come to.
00:14:57we're governed by a jew and a jockey.
00:15:02so the ayes have it.
00:15:05reside!
00:15:09reside!
00:15:15he smashed his own government with this pill.
00:15:17all the liberals had to do was promise the radicals more sweeping reforms
00:15:21if they voted against it.
00:15:23once again derby will have to resign.
00:15:24that the main question as amended be agreed to.
00:15:28those in favor say aye.
00:15:30aye!
00:15:31to the contrary no.
00:15:33no.
00:15:38now my dearest.
00:15:40the doctors expressly said that you were to stay in bed.
00:15:44oh i don't lie there fretting.
00:15:46besides lord stanley's coming to dinner and i've got to cut your hair before he arrives.
00:15:49please my fair delilah spare me that martyrdom.
00:15:54something wrong?
00:15:56i've just been reading this article by robert cecil in the quarterly review.
00:16:00ah.
00:16:01is that all you can say?
00:16:02ah.
00:16:04that the son of one of your oldest friends should write such a thing?
00:16:09mr disraeli's policies in the house of commons have long discredited and misguided the...
00:16:15the conservative party and his tactics are so...
00:16:18he's only doing what young politicians do to further their career.
00:16:23attack their elders.
00:16:25yes but what makes me angry is the fact that it appeared in the quarterly review.
00:16:29the leading conservative journal.
00:16:32well it's clear that your own party still doesn't trust you.
00:16:35i've dealt with it.
00:16:37how?
00:16:38i've written an open letter to all the leading members of my party
00:16:42saying that since they all obviously agree with this attack on me
00:16:45that i shall resign as soon as possible.
00:16:49what did they accept?
00:16:51of course not a mere threat was enough.
00:16:52they beg me to reconsider which of course i shall.
00:16:56oh.
00:16:58it's all a game to you isn't it?
00:17:00a great game.
00:17:02no not entirely.
00:17:05no not entirely.
00:17:08after 23 years of service
00:17:1023 years of struggle
00:17:13what have you?
00:17:14nothing but bills and debts and demand for payments.
00:17:18something will turn up it always does.
00:17:19they will be met.
00:17:21how?
00:17:21by borrowing more and more money
00:17:24where will it end?
00:17:26marianne do not distress yourself.
00:17:28you know that whatever happens
00:17:30you need never worry.
00:17:32i am not thinking about myself.
00:17:35don't you understand?
00:17:37i shall not always be here no money dies with me.
00:17:39what will you do when i'm gone?
00:17:42i cannot imagine such an empty world.
00:17:46i would rather live with you in a hovel than with a duchess in a tower of gold.
00:17:56i'll tell you the news and it will make the wife of every member of parliament envious of you.
00:18:02i'll tell you the news.
00:18:12i will tell you the truth.
00:18:19i will tell you the truth.
00:18:23That's what makes it so special. Are you pleased?
00:18:27Oh, Dizzy.
00:18:30Oh, I don't know if I'm a little terrified.
00:18:35Is it true?
00:18:39Dizzy.
00:18:42I'll stay and do all the wrong things.
00:18:46You know I don't know how to behave.
00:18:49Just be yourself, Marianne.
00:18:52I'm bound to adore you.
00:19:31You're welcome.
00:19:32Bye.
00:19:34Bye.
00:20:13So, like Lord John, you have no intention of retiring.
00:20:19Politicians rarely retire, sir.
00:20:22Indeed sometimes they hang on until they have to be carried.
00:20:27Frankly, you know, I'm surprised you didn't accept the appointment as First Viceroy of India.
00:20:33No doubt the government thought of it as an ideal way of removing me from the scene.
00:20:38But I shall admit I was tempted.
00:20:43Sumptuous palaces, jeweled potentates, all the riches of the East.
00:20:46Mrs Disraeli and I arriving for the Durbar in a gilded elephant.
00:20:51Like a scene from one of my novels.
00:20:53No.
00:20:56No.
00:20:57No, it would have meant saying goodbye forever to the House of Commons.
00:21:03Leave me.
00:21:23Leave me.
00:21:27It appears my daughter has monopolized you all evening, Mrs Disraeli.
00:21:31Oh, Her Highness has been most kind, ma'am.
00:21:34And what have you been discussing, Alice?
00:21:36Education, Mama.
00:21:37I can scarcely believe it, but Mr Disraeli left school when he was 15.
00:21:41He was never at university.
00:21:43But surely I heard he'd received a degree at Oxford.
00:21:47Oh yes, but an honorary one.
00:21:49An ADCL, I think.
00:21:51Do you mean a DCL, Mrs Disraeli?
00:21:54Dr Civil Law?
00:21:55Yes, yes.
00:21:55Something of the sort.
00:21:57If it were permitted for young ladies, I should have liked to have gone to university.
00:22:01Really, Your Royal Highness?
00:22:02Yes, there's nothing.
00:22:03I'd like more.
00:22:04Well, that's a very modern idea, my dear.
00:22:07Still, perhaps you...
00:22:08Well, you don't know the benefit of having an affectionate husband.
00:22:12How very true.
00:22:14And were you present at the degree ceremony, Mrs Disraeli?
00:22:18Oh yes, I wouldn't have missed it.
00:22:20Dizzy was very apprehensive.
00:22:22You see, he thinks that all students are radicals,
00:22:24but they cheer him louder than anyone.
00:22:27Oh, is that so?
00:22:29And do you attend many functions with your husband, Mrs Disraeli?
00:22:32Oh, sadly no.
00:22:34He's so busy.
00:22:35But think you'd understand that, ma'am?
00:22:38Too well.
00:22:39You must get him to take you to the exhibition at the British Museum.
00:22:43Yes, it is very fine.
00:22:45There's so many beautiful things.
00:22:47There was a statue of Apollo which especially impressed me.
00:22:50Absolute perfection of form.
00:22:51Yes, but you should see my Dizzy in the bath.
00:22:59Alice, you should not be listening.
00:23:03May we know why you are laughing, my dear?
00:23:07I couldn't possibly tell you.
00:23:14You look more relaxed than I've seen you for weeks.
00:23:18Well, perhaps that is because I have at last met a statesman with unbiased opinions.
00:23:23It is difficult to remain prejudiced in the company of an enlightened prince.
00:23:29Well, we have both in our time been accused of being alien.
00:23:34Hopefully we have now both proved that we have our country's interests at heart.
00:24:08But, Deanna, let me talk to you today.
00:24:57Mr. Israeli!
00:25:01We just had word of Prince Albert's fever.
00:25:04Yeah?
00:25:05It's typhoid.
00:25:06They can't save him.
00:25:16They can't save him.
00:25:16In your position as leader of the opposition, I beg that you will not bring about any crisis.
00:25:21I feel in my present condition I could not survive it.
00:25:27I promise to take no strong action unless it becomes an absolute necessity in the interests of the country.
00:25:39I knew I could depend on you, Mr. Israeli, as on no other.
00:25:50I must thank you once again for your generous praise of my adored beloved husband.
00:25:55In these conversations with which of late years the prince honored me, I gained a great deal both in knowledge
00:26:03and feeling, which will always influence my life.
00:26:11You alone, of everyone, seem to realize his unequaled worth, and how immense the loss has been, both to myself
00:26:23and to the country.
00:26:29And now I feel so alone.
00:26:47Your most faithful servant, ma'am.
00:27:17I feelan in my mind.
00:28:00Oh, it's the one thing that's always made me envious.
00:28:04I've always wanted to have a house with a ballroom.
00:28:07I'm sure you would fill it every night.
00:28:10Oh, we would.
00:28:11And if we ran out of guests, I'd get dizzy to dance with me to dawn.
00:28:16All by ourselves.
00:28:18That sounds very exhausting.
00:28:20Oh, not a bit of it.
00:28:21I'm sure it would be for Lady de Rothschild and myself.
00:28:25Fiddlesticks.
00:28:26And I can give you both a hundred years, Lady Chesterfield.
00:28:30Still, I'm all energy.
00:28:32When I was a child, my mother used to call me Whizzy.
00:28:35Little Whizzy.
00:28:37How fortunate I wasn't Christendom.
00:28:39Otherwise, I'd be Mrs. Whizzy-Dizzy.
00:28:55Gladstone has officially joined the Liberals.
00:28:58My information is that Palmerston offered to make the Chancellor of the Exchange.
00:29:02And the Rothschild Information Service is more reliable than a government dispatch, Redwood.
00:29:07He is the last person I would have expected to desert his principals and his friends.
00:29:11I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
00:29:14Why?
00:29:15The Liberal leaders are old men.
00:29:18So, one day soon, he can expect to take their place.
00:29:21Whereas, with us, he would always be second to you.
00:29:26I'm sorry, gentlemen, but however much I may agree with you, I don't think this is a subject we should
00:29:31be discussing.
00:29:32Your pardon, Baron, I had forgotten.
00:29:34You must allow me to observe.
00:29:36The fact that you are a radical seems at times faintly incongruous.
00:29:42If you'll excuse me, I must greet my hostess.
00:29:51This will make things more difficult for you.
00:29:52Or it's bad enough having you on the opposite side of the house now.
00:29:56Thanks to you, you showed the way.
00:29:59I follow one of them.
00:29:59You won through your own determination.
00:30:02Yes, but ten, eleven years without them letting me take my seat.
00:30:07We Jews have much to thank you for.
00:30:11You haven't met my special guest.
00:30:15The Prussian.
00:30:17Coming man, I hear.
00:30:19Word is that before long he may be Chief Minister in Berlin.
00:30:23I find him quite charming.
00:30:25His technique is the disarm, by frankness.
00:30:28Do you agree?
00:30:49Sir Benjamin Disraeli, may I introduce Count Otto von Bismarck?
00:30:55I have heard a great deal about you, Mr. Disraeli.
00:31:00Now, I notice your name is mentioned on the continent with more respect than it is here.
00:31:06Will you be staying long?
00:31:08Only a few days, I'm afraid.
00:31:10I find it difficult to talk to your British Foreign Office.
00:31:12They seem to have no real interest in making contacts, exchanging views.
00:31:16They do not always have any.
00:31:18Oh, you, I think I could talk to.
00:31:22It is a pity you are not in power.
00:31:24A great pity.
00:31:26I did hear that you may soon be recalled to Berlin.
00:31:30You are remarkably well informed, Mr. Disraeli.
00:31:32Yes, it is possible.
00:31:33And once you have assumed responsibility for Prussian affairs, what will your aims be?
00:31:39Frankly?
00:31:41Preferably.
00:31:43I shall reorganize the army with or without the help of Parliament.
00:31:46As soon as it is in a condition to command the respect, I shall subdue the minor states
00:31:51and give national unity to Germany.
00:31:54Under Prussian leadership?
00:31:55Naturally.
00:31:57Of course, to do that, I must seize the first opportunity to declare war on Austria
00:32:03and to show France that we cannot be intimidated.
00:32:06Then Germany will be able to take her true place.
00:32:10That is what I came here to tell your Queen's government.
00:32:14Most impressive.
00:32:16Have you set a time limit on all?
00:32:18It shall be completed within the next ten years.
00:32:21Excuse me.
00:32:22I have enjoyed our tour, but I have promised to dance with the Baroness von Rossa.
00:32:37I have had the two minutes allotted to those of little importance.
00:32:44You wonder the foreign office wouldn't listen to him?
00:32:48No, they should.
00:32:50Look out for that, Matt.
00:32:52He means what he's saying.
00:33:17That young man's here.
00:33:19What young man?
00:33:20Well, you know the one that we met at the Duke of Cleveland's, our Corrie...
00:33:24Corrie.
00:33:27Montague Corrie.
00:33:28Yes.
00:33:29Yes.
00:33:29Yes, that's him.
00:33:30He's in there.
00:33:32I'd better have him in there.
00:33:33No, no, no.
00:33:34No, you rest your leg.
00:33:35I'll get him.
00:33:38Um.
00:33:42He seems a very serious young man.
00:33:45Oh, yes.
00:33:45I think he's trying to impress me.
00:33:47What does he want?
00:33:49He's helping find him some position, I expect.
00:33:51Oh, I'm not here, surely.
00:33:54He'd made me feel uncomfortable.
00:33:56Well, that's what I thought, until one wet afternoon at Rabie, I opened the door of the
00:34:02drawing room and found this remarkably grave young man entertaining the young ladies with
00:34:08a knees-up dance and a comic song.
00:34:14I wish I'd seen that.
00:34:17Oh, well, maybe there's something in him, after all.
00:34:21Oh, well, maybe there's something in there.
00:34:27Oh, well, maybe there's something in there.
00:34:27In there.
00:34:39I hope I have not commented in an inopportune moment, sir.
00:34:43By no means, Mr. Corrie.
00:34:48But you wanted me to do something for you.
00:34:52What?
00:34:54Um.
00:34:57I am most anxious to get a start in political life, sir.
00:35:01I ventured to hope that you might know someone to whom my services might be acceptable.
00:35:07What have you been doing?
00:35:09For the past three years, I have been in practice as a barrister.
00:35:12Oh, well, I thought you had all the gravity of a country judge.
00:35:17But you also do a very funny dance.
00:35:21Most regrettable.
00:35:23I...
00:35:23Well, the ladies insisted.
00:35:26I realized at once, of course, that I had forfeited any hope of your good opinion.
00:35:30On the contrary.
00:35:31I had thought you devilishly dull up till then.
00:35:34But at that moment, I said to myself, I think he must be my impresario.
00:35:44Sir?
00:35:46Oh, I have to make it more plain.
00:35:48I am looking for a new private secretary.
00:35:50And from all I have heard, you will do admirable.
00:35:55I'm...
00:35:55I'm overcome, sir.
00:35:57Now, you'd better sit down, then.
00:36:00I take it you accept?
00:36:03Why, yes.
00:36:05Good.
00:36:07Good.
00:36:08I need someone I can trust because I'm about to go to war.
00:36:13Since Lord Palmerston's death, Mr Gladstone has assumed leadership of the Liberals.
00:36:17A very forceful man.
00:36:20Quite so.
00:36:22And like all converts, has become a fanatic and a dangerous one.
00:36:30I think he's had his own way for far too long.
00:36:34Now, what can Dizzy do?
00:36:37We must trust him.
00:36:39This new bill of Gladstone's gives us no opportunity to fight.
00:36:44Good evening, gentlemen.
00:36:48Thank you, John.
00:36:50Oh, do I interrupt?
00:36:52No, no, not at all.
00:36:57Is something wrong?
00:37:02We seem to face a lifetime in opposition.
00:37:08On the contrary.
00:37:10Gladstone has just played into our hands.
00:37:12In what way?
00:37:13He introduced his bill like an Old Testament prophet announcing moral truth.
00:37:17Oh, but Robert, he blinded himself by his own righteousness.
00:37:22He sees the vote not as a right, but as a privilege to be earned.
00:37:27Now, this infuriates the radicals.
00:37:29While most of his own party would prefer merely to talk of reform,
00:37:33as they have done for the past 50 years.
00:37:36That's true.
00:37:37So,
00:37:40we have to stimulate both sides
00:37:43and keep proposing amendments.
00:37:48We shall see.
00:37:59If this amendment is carried, the government may feel it's duty to resign!
00:38:04Do it now!
00:38:05Do it now!
00:38:07Do it now!
00:38:10Do it now!
00:38:14Do it now!
00:38:29I cannot tell you how delighted I am to have you once again as my Chancellor, Mr. Disraeli.
00:38:35These past years with Mr. Gladstone have been very trying.
00:38:41He does not keep me fully informed as you do.
00:38:45He speaks to me as if he was addressing a public meeting.
00:38:49Instead of conversation, he lectures me on Homer,
00:38:52or the Hittites, or the Athanasian Creed.
00:38:54Allow me to say I have far too much respect for your majesty ever to lecture you.
00:39:01Especially on the Athanasian Creed.
00:39:06But,
00:39:08these are difficult times with these reform riots which have swept the country.
00:39:13It's a question that can no longer remain unsettled.
00:39:17Various administrations have tried and all have failed.
00:39:21You must do something about it, Mr. Disraeli.
00:39:24and immediately.
00:39:26I assure your majesty my government intends to.
00:39:34After all these months of preparation, I'm so excited for you.
00:39:39Now,
00:39:41you must not be nervous.
00:39:43Even if I am, I shall not show it to you.
00:39:47What does it matter if Robert Sisson and the others have resigned?
00:39:51The rest of the party will support you.
00:39:53Still,
00:39:55tonight will settle many things.
00:39:56I shall not show you.
00:39:56I shall not show you.
00:39:58I shall not show you.
00:39:59I shall not show you.
00:40:01I shall not show you.
00:40:20Thank you for coming with me, my dearest.
00:40:23I wish me luck.
00:40:24That.
00:40:27My love.
00:40:29Whatever happens.
00:40:51Fertman!
00:40:52Open the door!
00:41:00Open the door!
00:41:01Drive on!
00:41:04Never let it be said
00:41:07that the Commons of England
00:41:09passed a bill such as this.
00:41:12An invitation to mob rule
00:41:14and the corruption of the electorate.
00:41:17We must reject
00:41:19and utterly reject
00:41:20let this gigantic engine a Ford.
00:41:24Cynically conceived
00:41:26for the purposes of the hour.
00:41:35Mr. Disraeli.
00:41:40the right honourable gentleman
00:41:43has spoken with much eloquence
00:41:47and much passion
00:41:49and much violence.
00:41:52Yet the, um,
00:41:55the damage
00:41:56can be repaired.
00:41:58that's a good thing.
00:41:59That's a good thing.
00:42:03That's a good thing.
00:42:08Hey!
00:42:10There never was such a smash!
00:42:12We've done it!
00:42:13We've done it!
00:42:14We've done it!
00:42:14We've dished the wings!
00:42:15Now, tell me,
00:42:17why is Gladstone
00:42:18like a telescope?
00:42:20Why is it?
00:42:21Because Disraeli
00:42:23draws him out,
00:42:25sees through him
00:42:26and, uh,
00:42:27shuts him up!
00:42:35Well,
00:42:36after him!
00:42:38We've done it.
00:42:44Well,
00:42:45there's a man of both legs
00:42:47who took the time
00:42:48and did the trick
00:42:49Is it?
00:42:51The Carleton's
00:42:52never seen anything like it.
00:42:54You are the hero of the hour and well-deserved.
00:42:58Very welcome.
00:42:59This is a night that should go on forever.
00:43:02You'll stay for something.
00:43:03No, I must get home.
00:43:06It's almost morning.
00:43:08Mary Ann will be asleep.
00:43:09This is a historic occasion.
00:43:10You can't disappoint all your friends and supporters.
00:43:13Tonight, of all nights, I shall be expected home.
00:43:22Monty sent word.
00:43:24I knew it.
00:43:26Oh, I knew you'd do it.
00:43:28Oh, I'm so proud.
00:43:31Well, many of the opposition voted with us.
00:43:34Many abstained, and I think that we...
00:43:36Dearest, not now.
00:43:37What have you done to your hand, Mary?
00:43:39No, it's nothing. It's just a little grave.
00:43:40You've thought and talked enough.
00:43:42This is splendid.
00:43:45What a feast and champagne.
00:43:49For a christening.
00:43:55Oh, my darling.
00:44:00You are more.
00:44:04You're a mistress to me.
00:44:07I don't know why.
00:44:18I'm glad that Mary Ann has recovered.
00:44:21Oh, it is an indescribable relief.
00:44:22She has not had an attack like that for quite some time.
00:44:25Oh.
00:44:27The Queen told me she was most anxious.
00:44:30Her Majesty's sympathy was a great comfort.
00:44:32But then, she is very attached to Mary Ann.
00:44:34And to you.
00:44:36Oh, I'd say she appreciates you more than any other minister I can remember.
00:44:40How do you do it?
00:44:42With everyone responds to flattery with royalty,
00:44:44one simply has to lay it on with a trowel.
00:44:46Well, this does not alter the fact that I do admire her profoundly.
00:44:51Just as well, in view of what I'm going to say.
00:44:55A year ago, when I mentioned I may have to resign because of my health,
00:45:00you begged me to carry on.
00:45:02I no longer have any alternative.
00:45:04My doctors have told me that if I stay in office,
00:45:07I have no hope of recovery.
00:45:10Oh, Darby.
00:45:11No, no.
00:45:12A year ago, I hesitated because
00:45:15I was afraid that the party would still not accept you as prime minister.
00:45:20That will never be said.
00:45:22No.
00:45:23It is you, the party, and the country need.
00:45:26You have fairly and most honourably
00:45:28won your way to the highest rung of the political ladder.
00:45:34I am flattered
00:45:36and grateful,
00:45:37but I must
00:45:40ask you to consider
00:45:41to take time.
00:45:43No, I already have.
00:45:45I've sent my resignation to the Queen at Osborne
00:45:48and recommended
00:45:50that she appoint you
00:45:51in my place.
00:46:00I accepted you
00:46:02as young England's leader
00:46:03many years ago.
00:46:04As I was the first then,
00:46:06let me be the first now.
00:46:09Thank you, John.
00:46:13a few months ago,
00:46:15but who would ever have thought
00:46:16all those years ago
00:46:18that one day you'd be prime minister?
00:46:21Oh, yeah.
00:46:22But I understand that no steps
00:46:23climb to the top of the gruesome.
00:46:25In the matter,
00:46:25until all the answers have been received
00:46:27and...
00:46:28Yeah!
00:46:30Yeah!
00:46:31Yeah!
00:46:32Yeah!
00:46:33Yeah!
00:46:34Yeah!
00:46:35Yeah!
00:46:36Yeah!
00:46:37Yeah!
00:46:37Yeah!
00:46:37Yeah!
00:46:38Yeah!
00:46:38Yeah!
00:47:00And I had looked forward
00:47:02to a long and increasingly happy association.
00:47:05The general election could not be delayed
00:47:07any longer, ma'am.
00:47:09And Mr. Gladstone used the excuse
00:47:11to go barnstorming round the country
00:47:13on some kind of evangelical crusade
00:47:15and convincing the new electors
00:47:16that their right to vote
00:47:17was given to them
00:47:18not by you
00:47:19but by himself.
00:47:19Now, he did turn the election
00:47:21into a pilgrimage of passion.
00:47:24But the liberal majority
00:47:26has been doubled.
00:47:26There is no possibility
00:47:28of my continuing.
00:47:31then I must accept your resignation.
00:47:35Although with much regret.
00:47:38I suppose I shall have to send for Mr. Gladstone.
00:47:41He is undoubtedly the leader of his party now, ma'am.
00:47:44The people's william.
00:47:50I must confess, ma'am,
00:47:52that owing to the strain of the last few years
00:47:55I shall not be so reluctant as I might have been
00:47:58to lay down the burden.
00:48:00You would not think of retiring.
00:48:02Only for a period of rest, ma'am.
00:48:05I'm relieved to hear it.
00:48:08Now, I myself
00:48:10have been concerned about your health, Mr. Disraeli.
00:48:13The strain, as you say,
00:48:14of conducting daily business
00:48:16in the House of Commons.
00:48:19The simplest answer
00:48:20would be for you to lead your party
00:48:22from the Lords.
00:48:25And for that purpose
00:48:26and in recognition of your services
00:48:29I would like to offer you a peerage.
00:48:34I am deeply sensible
00:48:37of the favour which your majesty
00:48:38is prepared to bestow.
00:48:40However, I feel
00:48:42for the sake of my party
00:48:44I must decline.
00:48:47If that is your wish.
00:48:48If there is, however,
00:48:49someone
00:48:50to whom I might
00:48:52humbly request your majesty
00:48:54to grant an honour.
00:49:02Dizzy.
00:49:05Forgive me.
00:49:07I was waiting for your courage.
00:49:09I must have dropped off.
00:49:11Well,
00:49:13did the Queen accept
00:49:14your resignation?
00:49:15With regret,
00:49:17I am happy to say.
00:49:18What did she say?
00:49:19Come on.
00:49:20Tell me everything.
00:49:21Oh, many things.
00:49:22But,
00:49:23most important,
00:49:25she offered me an heirldom.
00:49:27Dizzy.
00:49:29When I told her that if I had been able
00:49:31to accept,
00:49:31I would have chosen
00:49:32the name Beaconsfield
00:49:33from our neighbouring town.
00:49:35Well,
00:49:36if you've been able to accept.
00:49:37Well,
00:49:37many people think
00:49:38it is my fault
00:49:39that we lost this election.
00:49:41Now Gladstone
00:49:41has returned
00:49:42with an increased majority
00:49:43and I must be there
00:49:45in the Commons
00:49:46to do battle with him.
00:49:48Yes,
00:49:49yes, of course.
00:49:51But I'm so disappointed
00:49:53for you, my darling.
00:49:54Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:49:55I'm not disappointed at all.
00:49:57You see,
00:49:59the Queen
00:50:01has been graciously pleased
00:50:03to transfer the honour
00:50:05to my most trusted
00:50:07and constant companion
00:50:08whose courage
00:50:09has always been my spur
00:50:11and whose love
00:50:12my inspiration.
00:50:16It is the greatest privilege
00:50:18I've ever been given
00:50:21to tell you
00:50:22that you are now
00:50:23my dearest
00:50:24in your own right
00:50:26the Viscountess
00:50:28Beaconsfield.
00:50:46You must know why
00:50:47Mr Disraeli prefers
00:50:49to work down here
00:50:49in the country,
00:50:50Sir Stafford.
00:50:51Of course.
00:50:52I realise that
00:50:53Lady Beaconsfield
00:50:54is unwell.
00:50:54Yet as leader of the party
00:50:56his place is at Westminster.
00:50:58We hardly ever see him
00:50:59at Westminster, Mr Rose.
00:51:01He tells us he's working
00:51:02on something
00:51:03but he will not say
00:51:03what it is.
00:51:05I hope it's not
00:51:07another book.
00:51:09Lothair was a sensation
00:51:10on both sides
00:51:11of the Atlantic.
00:51:12Undoubtedly.
00:51:13Who had ever heard
00:51:14of an ex-prime minister
00:51:15writing a romantic novel?
00:51:20Dizzy,
00:51:21your terraces
00:51:22are exquisite
00:51:23but why so many peacocks?
00:51:26They are essential
00:51:27Lady Chesterfield.
00:51:28Who ever heard
00:51:28of a terrace without peacocks?
00:51:31A kind of personal symbol
00:51:33do you suppose?
00:51:34Oh surely not Baron.
00:51:36Baron de Rothschild
00:51:37and Lady Chesterfield
00:51:39knew my Dizzy
00:51:40when he was not
00:51:41always so solemn.
00:51:42The very first time
00:51:44I saw him
00:51:45Lady Manners
00:51:46he was wearing
00:51:47a green velvet jacket
00:51:48plum-coloured trousers
00:51:50with gold braid
00:51:51a scarlet waistcoat
00:51:52smothered in gold chains
00:51:54and emerald rings
00:51:56over white gloves.
00:51:58I really cannot imagine it.
00:52:01Young women
00:52:02who only know
00:52:03my Dizzy now
00:52:04think he's ugly.
00:52:05I don't think
00:52:06he's ugly at all.
00:52:07No I assure you
00:52:08I think we might
00:52:10change the subject
00:52:11my dear.
00:52:12No no no
00:52:12he was so striking
00:52:14all the young women
00:52:15found him irresistible.
00:52:18That's very true.
00:52:19None of them all
00:52:20he chose me.
00:52:22I've never ceased
00:52:23to thank Providence.
00:52:25Well the gratitude
00:52:26should be entirely
00:52:27on my side
00:52:28my...
00:52:30Marianne.
00:52:31No.
00:52:33No it's nothing
00:52:34it's just a little
00:52:36twinge I get
00:52:37when I don't stick
00:52:38to my dad.
00:52:39Come come come
00:52:39I'll show you
00:52:40to you.
00:52:41I'll go and find out.
00:52:46Monty?
00:52:49Monty will take me.
00:52:50We can't both
00:52:51leave our guests.
00:52:52I'm sure they
00:52:53everybody understands.
00:52:54Naturally.
00:52:55Naturally.
00:53:22Dizzy.
00:53:24Why did you not
00:53:25warn us?
00:53:27Lady Beaconsfield
00:53:29is clearly
00:53:31much more ill
00:53:32than any of us
00:53:33suspected.
00:53:35what is it?
00:53:39Marianne is suffering
00:53:41from cancer
00:53:41of the stomach.
00:53:42I've known for
00:53:43five years.
00:53:44Only Monty and I
00:53:45know.
00:53:47Can not her
00:53:48doctors do something?
00:53:50It's incurable.
00:53:53She does not know
00:53:55that I know
00:53:55so to save
00:53:56worrying me
00:53:57she pretends
00:53:59that her illness
00:54:00is slight
00:54:00and tempering.
00:54:05I've
00:54:06I've no need
00:54:07to ask you
00:54:08not to say.
00:54:14I care Marianne
00:54:16has had to lie down.
00:54:17Hmm.
00:54:19It is a full-on
00:54:20attempt to
00:54:20introduce the
00:54:22siesta to
00:54:22Buckinghamshire.
00:54:27Have they been
00:54:28badgering you
00:54:29Philip?
00:54:30Proving.
00:54:31Moral is delicately
00:54:32I would say.
00:54:34You should know
00:54:34better than to
00:54:35try to worm
00:54:35secrets out of a
00:54:36lawyer especially
00:54:37mine.
00:54:38I assure you
00:54:39I have no need
00:54:40Northcote.
00:54:42I can guess
00:54:42your complaints
00:54:43exactly.
00:54:44I have not
00:54:44been writing
00:54:45another book.
00:54:48Philip and I
00:54:48have been discussing
00:54:49a plan for the
00:54:50total reorganization
00:54:51of the party.
00:54:52The setting up
00:54:53of a central
00:54:54office to
00:54:55define policy
00:54:57and consult
00:54:59with and advise
00:54:59local constituencies.
00:55:01In short
00:55:02the creation
00:55:03of a party
00:55:03machine.
00:55:04It cannot be
00:55:05run from here.
00:55:06Which is why
00:55:07I am leaving
00:55:09for London
00:55:09tomorrow.
00:55:10We cannot let
00:55:11Gladstone have it
00:55:12all in his own
00:55:13way.
00:55:14He is gaining
00:55:16in strength
00:55:16every day.
00:55:17No one
00:55:18dares stand
00:55:18against him.
00:55:20Oh well.
00:55:22I thought I
00:55:23might try.
00:55:26Horrible scenes
00:55:27of violence
00:55:28have been
00:55:29occurring in
00:55:29Ireland and
00:55:30the government
00:55:30never moved.
00:55:35Landlords
00:55:35were shot
00:55:36down.
00:55:38Respectable
00:55:38farmers beaten
00:55:39to death.
00:55:40Policemen
00:55:40stabbed.
00:55:41Households
00:55:41blown up.
00:55:43And still
00:55:43the government
00:55:44never moved.
00:55:46Yet
00:55:47when a
00:55:49government
00:55:49candidate
00:55:50lost an
00:55:51election in
00:55:51Ireland.
00:55:52Oh troops
00:55:52were put in
00:55:53motion.
00:55:53Sent from
00:55:54Liverpool
00:55:54to Dublin
00:55:55and I seem
00:55:56to remember
00:55:57I think it
00:55:58was last year
00:55:58one of her
00:55:59majesty's
00:56:00ministers
00:56:00saying
00:56:00anyone can
00:56:02govern
00:56:03Ireland
00:56:03with troops
00:56:04and artillery.
00:56:06So it
00:56:07seems
00:56:09even the
00:56:10right
00:56:10honourable
00:56:11gentleman
00:56:11there.
00:56:26first place
00:56:39Oh dizzy.
00:56:42Dizzy do's it still I've nearly done.
00:56:43Making notes for my speech.
00:56:45Yes.
00:56:46Well do so.
00:56:47Just pretend I'm not here.
00:56:48Can I snip snip snip snip I feel like I've fallen into the hands of some female
00:56:54Sminny Todd.
00:56:55Well you'll know what to expect then won't you.
00:56:57Hmm?
00:56:57Oh do sit still.
00:57:00I will not have you going to Manchester looking like some out of work scarecrow.
00:57:04I might not go to Manchester.
00:57:06Well why on earth not.
00:57:07It's going to be the great rally of all the conservative associations.
00:57:11And then there's your speech at the free trade hall.
00:57:14Only one of three monster rallies in the north.
00:57:17And I shall expect you
00:57:18at each
00:57:19to make a speech
00:57:20lasting several hours.
00:57:22Well think of the effect it will make.
00:57:24I am thinking nowadays with my asthma
00:57:25I can only stay on my feet
00:57:27talking if I drink brandy and water
00:57:30non-stop.
00:57:32So I shall lose the churchgoers and temperance vote
00:57:34straight away.
00:57:35Oh.
00:57:35I know.
00:57:37I know.
00:57:37Why don't you put white brandy in the water jug?
00:57:41The audience will not know anything about it.
00:57:44Lady Beaconsfield.
00:57:46You are as fair as an angel.
00:57:49And as devious as a serpent.
00:57:54Oh I beg your pardon.
00:57:56It's all right.
00:57:59I've done.
00:58:05May I get rid of that for you?
00:58:07No.
00:58:08I'll do it from here.
00:58:10Now Dizzy.
00:58:12Dizzy don't you work poor Monty too hard.
00:58:22Her fingers were so swollen she could scarcely hold the scissors.
00:58:26I thought Lady Beaconsfield seemed a little better.
00:58:29She will not give in.
00:58:30She insists on traveling to Manchester with me.
00:58:33Could you not advise against it sir because of the appalling weather?
00:58:36She will not listen.
00:58:38Even though I'm afraid the journey might prove too much for her.
00:58:43For her own sake sir could you not refuse to let her go with you?
00:58:48How can I?
00:58:51Every time she hears me speak she's afraid it will be the last.
00:59:03I'm not satisfied with the rape and anarchy of Ireland.
00:59:08They have begun to attack every institution.
00:59:11Every interest, every class and calling in the country.
00:59:15every country.
00:59:25So...
00:59:27So all along this so-called government of Mr Gladstone's
00:59:32has behaved like a body of men under the influence of some deleterious drug.
00:59:43I watched them.
00:59:46And as time progressed it was not difficult to perceive that extravagance was being substituted for energy by this government.
00:59:59Some sought refuge in melancholy.
01:00:02And their eminent chief alternated between a menace and a sigh.
01:00:10As I sat opposite the treasury bench,
01:00:13the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes that are not unusual on the coasts of South America.
01:00:23You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.
01:00:28Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
01:00:36Yet, the situation is still dangerous.
01:00:40There are occasional earthquakes.
01:00:43And ever and anon,
01:00:45the dark rumblings of the sea.
01:01:03Well hey, good evening, good evening.
01:01:05Okay, good evening.
01:01:06How there you go.
01:01:07Thank you too much.
01:01:18Believe me, насколько you've had severe rough.
01:01:19Their affection is as much for you as it is for him.
01:01:24They have seen his devotion to you.
01:01:29And I have seen a perfect marriage.
01:01:32Does he marry me for my money?
01:01:37But, well, if he had to do it again,
01:01:40I think he'd marry me for love.
01:01:55Do you see it?
01:01:58Do you see it?
01:02:01Do you see it?
01:02:02Do you see it?
01:02:02Do you see this face right at all?
01:02:18Definitely.
01:02:46I'm sorry.
01:02:48I love you.
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