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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
00:30["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
01:00["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
01:06["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
01:11["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
01:16I'm glad you could come round, George.
01:19Yes.
01:22Did I tell you? Helen's come back. She's come home.
01:26I didn't know that. No, Helen.
01:28Yes, turned up last week, straight from Melbourne, out of the blue.
01:31No warning, of course, typical.
01:33She hasn't changed.
01:35Is she staying here?
01:37Yes.
01:38Oh, it's nice to have one of the family about the house.
01:41Ah, time goes, doesn't it?
01:43Four months since Mother died.
01:45It's a long time.
01:47Ah, time goes, doesn't it?
01:49Four months since Mother died.
01:51I can hardly believe it.
01:53Life passes, George. Things move on.
01:56Matters should be sorted out now, I suppose.
01:58Aye, the war's done it, of course.
02:01Time to sell out, I think.
02:04Could be.
02:06What do you say?
02:08Sell out?
02:09The works. Concentrate on building up the shop.
02:11That's what I've had in mind.
02:12I see.
02:13And the rest of the family, what do they think?
02:15Well, I've kept it to myself so far, George.
02:17Well, Edwin's not going to be too happy about it, is he?
02:19Oh, Edwin, he's all right.
02:21Yeah. I've talked to Pringle.
02:24Pringle?
02:25Yes, he'll buy out the works and keep Edwin on.
02:27Be very glad to have him.
02:29Well, I had the idea. David didn't want to work for Pringle.
02:32Oh, well, he'd like to be his own master, of course.
02:35Who wouldn't?
02:36But it's not perfect, this world, George.
02:38We can't have everything just the way we want it, can we?
02:41He is a shareholder, Sefton. He will have a say, you know.
02:44A say, yes. Well, everybody's got a say, very well.
02:47But the decisions are made by those with the majority of shares.
02:50Your mother left you a 30% holding. That's no majority.
02:53I was surprised when Jean left, er, divided her share amongst Edward and the children.
02:57I thought she'd left the whole 25% to Edwin.
02:59Yes, so did I. So did Edwin, I think.
03:02That's why I gave him the chance to buy the house from me on such good terms.
03:06I was looking to the future, then.
03:08What do you mean?
03:09I had an arrangement with Jean that she'd vote with me.
03:12Didn't I tell you?
03:14If you did, I don't remember.
03:34Ah, you're going on leave, then?
03:36Er, yeah.
03:39Look, I'll, er, I'll settle with you when I get back, all right, Peter?
03:43Yes, yes, of course, old boy.
03:45See, I've just got things to settle myself, you see, and I need to know.
03:49I mean, when you come back, you'll have it.
03:51Yeah, I'm telling you, the money's waiting for me.
03:53Yes, just the old problem of getting your hands on it, I suppose.
03:56Look, it's no problem, Pete. I've written off to me uncle for a loan.
04:00He's a funny old devil, but he'll see me, all right.
04:03So, I'll, er, I'll see you when you come back, then.
04:06Yes.
04:08Yes, as I said, I just need to be sure, old boy.
04:11All right, mate, you can be sure.
04:13You know, how many times will I have to tell you?
04:15I mean, do you think I like being in debt or something?
04:20Look, I'm in a right, you know, spot now, but do you know why?
04:24Cos you introduced me to that sister of yours.
04:27I've been going downhill ever since.
04:29I don't think we need to bring Grace into this.
04:31I wish we never had, mate.
04:36Oh, look, you know, take the cheque now, you know, for God's sake.
04:39No, no, that's all right, Dave. Cool down.
04:42I trust you.
04:47Party for Helen tonight?
04:49Come to think of it, George, you'll be very welcome.
04:51Oh, well...
04:52Oh, nothing grand, just the family, a few drinks.
04:55Come at my date o'clock.
04:56If it's the family...
04:58You've been a friend of the family for years, George.
05:01Didn't you and Helen, weren't you a bit soft on each other at one time?
05:05Oh, yeah? Well, I can't remember.
05:07Oh, she'll be very pleased to see you, George.
05:09Her husband died, you know, Christmas a couple of years back.
05:12Very sad.
05:14It's a hard journey in wartime. Yeah.
05:17Has she come for good?
05:19Well, she didn't really say, but I doubt if she'll go back.
05:22That's what makes me think, you see, George,
05:24that we should sort out affairs concerning the family business.
05:27Sort them out now.
05:28There's a war on, remember, Sefton.
05:30Things are a bit unpredictable, but people have got other things on their minds.
05:33If nobody does any sowing, nobody's going to do any reaping.
05:36That's the long and short of it, George.
05:38There's a right time to sow and a wrong time.
05:41And in my book, the right time's now.
05:44All right, Sefton.
05:45But if you want control of the business and sell out the printing works,
05:48well, you're going to need some more support.
05:50Edwin's bound to fight you.
05:51Well, Tony and Joe are my children. They'll support me.
05:53Helen's my sister. I can count on her.
05:55Well, possibly.
05:57What do you mean, possibly?
05:59Look, if I've got to get back here tonight, I'd better be off.
06:01We'll talk about it later. One day next week, perhaps.
06:03Never put off till tomorrow, George.
06:05I never do.
06:06Good-bye, Sefton.
06:16Hey, come on. Get a move on. We'll be late for Uncle Sefton.
06:19Yes, yes, yes. It's all right. It's all right.
06:22How was it, then, today in the office?
06:25Oh, we've been working on the annual balances.
06:28Busy, then, was it?
06:29I mean, you look tired.
06:31Oh, no. I mean, each day's the same in that place.
06:34It doesn't change. Nothing much alters with the years.
06:38Well, it's the price of security.
06:40Yeah, in a way, I suppose.
06:42To a lot of people, it's a nice idea.
06:44You know, there's a bloke retiring from the office at the end of the month.
06:48You'd think he'd had enough, but he's going to start his own business.
06:51It's just the greengrocers. Small concern.
06:54You'd like something like that?
06:56I don't know. Maybe, if it was possible.
06:58It's a bit of a pipe dream, getting your own business.
07:01You need the capital.
07:02Oh, there are the shares that Mum left me.
07:04You know, in the family business. I don't know how much they're worth.
07:07No, no, no. I'm only talking. It's just the way I feel these days.
07:10Don't know what the hell I do want, really.
07:12Come on.
07:28Sefton.
07:30You shouldn't have gone to all the trouble of a party for me.
07:33Couldn't have you arrive back after all these years
07:36without a little celebration.
07:39Here.
07:41Welcome home.
07:43Thanks.
07:47Well, that's a different world from the one I left.
07:50Still, it's the future we've got to think of.
07:53You know, we talk the same language, you and me.
07:56It's the future I'd like to talk to you about
07:59before Edwin and the family arrive.
08:02You see, I've always had a bit of business brains in this family.
08:06And now the war's changed everything,
08:08I feel that we've got to change too, just the circumstances.
08:11Circumstances are always changing, war or not.
08:14Right, right. Now, you're a shareholder in the family business, aren't you, Helen?
08:18What I want is to do what's best. Best for us.
08:22You're my sister. I'm concerned for your welfare.
08:25You're all right for money, I take it.
08:27Well, for the time being.
08:29For the time being isn't good enough, though, is it?
08:31You've got a good few years ahead of you yet.
08:34Oh, I hope so, Sefton.
08:37You've always got a home here with me, you know that.
08:40And I've been hoping we could find a place for you with the family business.
08:44The shop, for instance.
08:46Well, I would like to think out what I'm going to do with myself a bit later on, Sefton.
08:51Yes, well, I thought we might have a little chat along those lines this evening.
08:55Ah, first arrivals!
09:08We're late... again.
09:11Don't forget to blame me.
09:13Oh, I don't feel in the mood tonight, quite honestly.
09:15I'll be bored stiff. I mean, I hate family parties.
09:18Couldn't you creep out earlier?
09:20Not without great pangs of conscience.
09:23Anyway, I hardly go home these days.
09:29I've got something to tell you.
09:31Oh?
09:34I've got something to tell you.
09:36Oh?
09:38Well, it's a sort of confession, really.
09:40Oh?
09:42I would have told you before, except that I wasn't sure if you'd be interested or involved.
09:46I'm not sure what the right word is.
09:48I think I will be, whatever the right word is.
09:51I hope so.
09:53I'm intrigued.
09:55The fact is, I've been married before.
10:03Yes, I know you are.
10:05You know?
10:07Yes, of course I know. I've known for ages.
10:09I do live in the nurse's home, you know.
10:11I bet I could tell you a few things that would surprise you.
10:14You've never said a word.
10:16What should I have said? I know you were married. Tell me all about it.
10:19Do you want me to talk about it?
10:21Well, do you want to talk to me about it?
10:23Not really.
10:25Just thought you ought to know.
10:27Well, yes, I do, so...
10:29that's all right, isn't it?
10:31Is it?
10:33What did you expect me to do?
10:35Say I'd never see you again and go rushing off into the night, screaming?
10:41If I say I'm...
10:43glad you told me,
10:45will that do?
10:47For now, yes.
10:49And if you...
10:51ever do want to talk about it?
10:53You'll be here to listen.
10:55Well, it's beginning to look like it, isn't it?
11:02But the worst time we had up there was when Singapore fell.
11:05Then we were really up against it.
11:07But we survived to tell the tale.
11:09Thanks.
11:11Ah, now, look at this spread.
11:13We thought you were all starving out there.
11:15Where does it all come from?
11:17Um, I think perhaps...
11:19we shouldn't go too closely to that.
11:21Oh?
11:23That's George Askew, isn't it?
11:25Yes, that's George.
11:27Oh, what's he doing here?
11:29Oh, well, here we all are then.
11:31Oh, Fida doesn't seem to have turned up yet, Sefton.
11:33She was coming straight from the hospital.
11:35Oh, she'll be along shortly, I expect.
11:37No, no, no, thanks, I'm fine.
11:39Pity Tony and David couldn't be here, Sefton.
11:41Yes.
11:43What about young David? Don't see a lot of him these days.
11:45Well, we had a phone call from him last night.
11:47He's due home sometime tomorrow, as a matter of fact.
11:49Oh, spot of leave, eh?
11:51Yeah, just a couple of days.
11:53Oh, a shame then that he's just missed the party.
11:55Excuse me.
11:57Uh, Dave?
11:59Yeah?
12:01Uh, I've changed my mind, old boy.
12:03I'll take that cheque now, if it's convenient.
12:05Supposing it isn't convenient.
12:07Well, you did offer.
12:09You see, I owe it around myself, actually,
12:11and I'm being, um, politely pushed.
12:13Ah.
12:15And you're politely pushing me, right?
12:17Yes, what a vicious circle, isn't it?
12:19I was, um...
12:21talking to Gregson in the mess, actually.
12:23Oh, and he told you I owed him too, I suppose.
12:25Yes, it's going to be a nice little windfall for him, isn't it?
12:27Peter, I owe him ten quid.
12:29You'd think it was the national debt,
12:31the way he goes on about it.
12:35Thank you for the loan, Pete.
12:37I'm sorry it's been so long.
12:39No hard feelings, I hope.
12:43I suppose it won't bounce, will it?
12:47Did you see Frida's come, uh...
12:49Yeah.
12:51Yeah.
12:53Yeah.
12:59Well, everybody,
13:01here's to Helen.
13:03Very nice to have you back home, Helen.
13:05Here, here, Helen.
13:07Welcome home, Helen.
13:09All this fuss over me.
13:11Yes.
13:13Well, thanks very much, all of you.
13:15It's very kind.
13:17Well, then,
13:19since most of us,
13:21the family,
13:23since we're gathered here together informally
13:25and George is here to help us,
13:27I thought, what do you say, Edwin,
13:29an opportune moment for us all to have a little chat
13:31about the family business?
13:35Well, it's a bit of a surprise, Sefton.
13:37I didn't realise you intended to discuss...
13:39Oh, I know it's a difficult time to talk business,
13:41but with all that's happened,
13:43mother dying,
13:45Jean,
13:47and now Helen's come back home,
13:49I feel we ought to consider, well,
13:51one or two prudent changes in the business set-up.
13:53I thought this was Helen's party, Sefton.
13:55It is Helen's party.
13:57It affects her too, doesn't it?
13:59Just an informal discussion,
14:01that's all,
14:03while we're all here together.
14:05I don't think anybody's going to object to that,
14:07are they?
14:11Well, I'm in Liverpool, so I thought
14:13I'll look up Sheila.
14:15Colin, well.
14:17I wondered if I'd ever see you again.
14:19Oh, I didn't know what I'd find you still here.
14:21Oh, yes, yes, I'm still here.
14:25I say, you've put on weight.
14:27That's married life for you.
14:29Been good for you then, has it?
14:31Yes.
14:33Yeah, it has.
14:35Well, how are you then, all right?
14:37Yes, yes. Kids all right?
14:39Oh, they're fine, yes. They're still in Wales, though.
14:41Look, I'm sorry I haven't been
14:43in touch before, but...
14:45Well, you don't give your friends up just because you get married.
14:47I don't count you as a friend, you know.
14:49Oh, yes, I should hope you do.
14:53Um, would you like some tea?
14:55Aye, I'll have a quick cup, yeah.
15:01I can't leave the old digs and all.
15:03Left a pair of shoes out when I went,
15:05she wasn't in, though.
15:07Well, I could get them for you, if you like.
15:09Tomorrow morning, and then you can come round here
15:11and pick them up.
15:13I'm in Liverpool, day after tomorrow.
15:15I'll miss her then, I've had it, you see.
15:17If I'm not in, I'll...
15:19Let me see.
15:21I'll leave them outside, in the corner.
15:23Yeah, thanks.
15:25You're welcome.
15:29What's happening to the Air Force, then?
15:31Oh, same as usual,
15:33more or less.
15:35Things going to be all right?
15:37Oh, I shouldn't think so.
15:39I'd like to think you were going to...
15:41Well, I had to be happy, anyway.
15:43Not like you, I mean.
15:45Well, yeah, like I am, only...
15:47You know, I like telling somebody
15:49you're happy when they're not.
15:51Takes the space out of it.
15:53Oh, I'm not unhappy, Colin, not really.
15:55I'm just resigned, I suppose.
16:05Look, I'd, er...
16:07I'd offer to take you to the pictures on the...
16:09I don't like it.
16:11Aye, something like that.
16:13I always said you'd make
16:15a smashing husband for somebody.
16:27Did you know all about that?
16:29I didn't know he was going to raise it
16:31at this particular time.
16:33At the risk of seeming a bit dense, what is going on?
16:35Well, it's come about
16:37with the shareholdings being split up
16:39on your mother's death, Helen.
16:41Family business being divided up.
16:43Oh, yes, I can understand that,
16:45but what's all this fuss about the printing works?
16:47Why is Edwin so upset?
16:51His job at the works, to start with.
16:53Hm?
16:55Sefton wants to sell out to Pringle.
16:57Mr Ashton doesn't very much care for Pringle,
16:59and he'd go with the business,
17:01so to speak.
17:03If Sefton has majority holdings,
17:05he'll be able to form his own company
17:07and overrule Mr Ashton.
17:09So Edwin's going to be sold
17:11as part of the fittings?
17:13Well, you could put it like that, yes.
17:15And who does Sefton think's
17:17going to go along with that?
17:19Well, he holds 30% of the holdings.
17:21His children hold
17:2320% between them.
17:25I gather
17:27he's counting on your support.
17:35Nothing really.
17:37OK.
18:03As I see it,
18:05the family here, we've got
18:0725%.
18:09And Helen,
18:11if you support us, that'll give us
18:13just half the shares, 50%.
18:15So long as we've got half, he's had it, hasn't he?
18:17Joe gave Sefton her support
18:19through a solicitor in Australia, as far as I can remember.
18:21Do you think Joe might support us now?
18:23Well, if I could get in touch with her,
18:25I think she would.
18:27She's always been very fond of her father.
18:29Really depends what he writes and tells her.
18:31But getting through to Joe
18:33will take weeks, months, maybe.
18:35Well, we've still got half.
18:37And there's Tony. Maybe he might support us.
18:39Anyway, I think I'll go and see how
18:41John's getting on in the garden.
18:45Feeling better?
18:47I suppose so.
18:49Philip's right, you know. There's nothing Sefton can do.
18:51Thanks to you.
18:53Oh, rubbish. I used to enjoy taking her eyes out
18:55of Sefton when we were kids.
18:57We don't change much, do we?
18:59If only Pringle wasn't so awful.
19:01He's such an unscrupulous devil.
19:03Oh, worse than Sefton.
19:05Yes, worse than Sefton.
19:07Sefton has mellowed, you know.
19:09I notice it more than you, coming back.
19:11Yes, I was beginning to think
19:13he had up to now.
19:15There are other firms outside
19:17Liverpool, of course.
19:19I'm a bit old to be
19:21in a new life.
19:23But it's not impossible.
19:25It's just like the old days, Helen.
19:27With Sefton,
19:29you never live in peace.
19:31You never knew what he was up to next.
19:33The way I feel
19:35now
19:37is let Sefton have his shares.
19:39Let him get on with it.
19:41And hope there'll be a place
19:43somewhere else for me.
19:45What about the people you work with?
19:47Don't they depend on you?
19:49As I remember,
19:51you used to care a lot
19:53about that sort of thing.
19:55Well, I hope I still do.
19:57Where's the fight gone, then?
19:5930-odd years of humoring Sefton
20:01for Jean's sake.
20:03She was very fond of him, you know.
20:05Well, yes, I'm his sister too.
20:07But I remember something Mother used to say.
20:09God gave you your relations.
20:11Thank God you can choose your friends.
20:15Mrs. Foster's got over to her sisters
20:17for Whitson, so I'm without a housekeeper.
20:19Come in, lad.
20:21Thanks.
20:23Just come on leave, have you?
20:25And how's everybody at home?
20:27Well, they're not expecting me till tonight.
20:29I came straight here.
20:31Oh, it's good to see you, lad.
20:33I only wish Tony could get back a bit more often.
20:35Well,
20:37I got your letter.
20:39Yes, I wondered if you had.
20:41Yes, yes, I got your letter.
20:43Sit down, David.
20:45Oh, thanks.
20:47Running out of funds, eh?
20:49Yes.
20:51Budget not balancing, eh?
20:53I'm afraid we were overpaid.
20:55I'm sure they wouldn't.
20:57I'm sure they wouldn't.
20:59I just need a loan to tide me over, you know.
21:01Yes, well, I'm sure it can be arranged, David.
21:03Yes, I'm sure something can.
21:05I expect to pay you interest on it, of course.
21:07What have you spent all this money on then, David?
21:09Friends with expensive taste, eh?
21:13Oh, I know how it is
21:15with a young chap like you.
21:17It runs away, doesn't it, money?
21:19You wonder where it's all gone.
21:21Money doesn't seem to vanish fast these days.
21:23It always did, lad, it always did.
21:25Have you, er,
21:27tried the bank, then?
21:29Well, no, no,
21:31I haven't.
21:33I'm not too well up on that sort of thing, you know.
21:35Yes, well, it can cause
21:37embarrassment from money,
21:39usually from being without it.
21:41You could have offered them
21:43a certain amount of security
21:45now, of course.
21:47Security?
21:49Oh, yes,
21:51I wondered about that,
21:53you know, as a matter of fact.
21:55Yes, you could even have sold them
21:57if you could have found a buyer
21:59and provided you could get the other beneficiaries' approval.
22:01Have you
22:03taken professional advice
22:05about this at all, David?
22:07Well, no, I haven't.
22:09Not a lot of use to a chap like you,
22:11are they, shares?
22:13Not the sort of thing you can pass across the counter.
22:15Well, I was going to ask your advice about that, actually.
22:17I didn't know whether I should, you know,
22:19keep them or not.
22:21I mean, they could go up, couldn't they?
22:23Oh, they could, they could indeed.
22:25Shares do go up, of course.
22:27Aye, they go up and then again they go down.
22:29Done.
22:31I bought some shares before the war,
22:3315 shillings.
22:35Do you know what they're worth today?
22:3711 pence.
22:39Oh, I'm not saying the same sort of thing could happen to yours,
22:41but I don't mind telling you I'm worried about the business.
22:43It's all these damn controls, you know.
22:45I'm not saying your shares are going to go down.
22:47It's in the lap of the gods
22:49and this damn government.
22:51But I can fairly well promise you they won't go up.
22:55It's no good asking you
22:57if you'd like to buy them then, is it?
22:59Not the way to make your fortune,
23:01is it?
23:03No, no, of course not.
23:05You know, come to think of it,
23:07I'm not altogether happy
23:09about this loan business.
23:11You're absolutely sure
23:13you can't manage, I suppose?
23:15Well, no, that's why I came to you.
23:17Your father isn't going to like it
23:19if I make you my debtor, is he?
23:21Look, Uncle, I signed a cheque
23:23for a bloke the other day. If I don't get some money
23:25in the bank quick, it's going to bounce.
23:27Oh, I see.
23:29Not a very happy state of affairs,
23:31is it?
23:33No, you can say that again.
23:35If I buy those shares,
23:37I'll be taking a gamble.
23:39It's one legitimate
23:41way I could help you, of course.
23:43In fact, I'm the only one in a position to buy them.
23:45You can't sell them
23:47to just anybody, you know. That's the law in this case.
23:49Well, I...
23:51I don't even know what they're worth.
23:53If we go through with this, you could do it through my
23:55solicitor.
23:57Look, I'll give you
23:59a cheque now for at least half the value.
24:01You go round to George Askew now
24:03and sign the transfer, and we can finish
24:05all the rest later. How does that suit you?
24:07You mean
24:09you will buy them?
24:11Short of running you into debt,
24:13it seems I've no option.
24:15You've twisted my arm, young man.
24:25Ian!
24:27Who let you in?
24:29Your big sister.
24:31Oh, she wouldn't know what a mess I look.
24:33Yes, you do look a bit of a mess.
24:35Oh, thank you very much.
24:37I was beginning to think you were perfect.
24:39Hmm.
24:41Well, there's a snappy answer to that one somewhere,
24:43but I'm not very good at them, I'm afraid.
24:45Is this the drying-up cloth?
24:47No, it's a tablecloth, you nit.
24:49Here, make self-use of that. Thank you.
24:51Thought I wasn't going to see you till tomorrow night.
24:53That's why I came round. I won't be able to make it.
24:55Oh, work? Yep.
24:57Oh. Oh, well, can't be helped, can it?
24:59It might sound disappointed.
25:01Oh, but I am somewhat.
25:03How did the party go?
25:05Awful.
25:15What must it be like
25:17to have been married for 30 years to someone
25:19and then realise
25:21you'd married the wrong person?
25:23Hell, I should think why.
25:25Well, that's the way Dad feels, I think.
25:27Oh.
25:29You could be imagining that, you know.
25:31Yes, I could be.
25:33I don't think I am, though.
25:37I don't mean it was awful for us,
25:39just maybe a terrible waste of 30 years for them,
25:41that's all.
25:45We're...
25:47not very lucky, marriage-wise, in our family, you know.
25:49Is that a threat?
25:53Look,
25:55suppose you wasted two years on me
25:57and then, in the end, I decided that I
25:59just couldn't risk it.
26:01Well, you decided that you couldn't risk it.
26:03Would you think they were wasted years?
26:05No.
26:07No, I don't think so.
26:09Neither would I.
26:11Does that make you feel better?
26:13Yes. Yes, it does.
26:15Do you know something?
26:17You dried that plate three times.
26:25Oh, I...
26:27I've got a couple of days' leave.
26:29How you were?
26:31Oh.
26:33I haven't even been home yet. I came straight here.
26:35How is everyone there?
26:37How's Dad?
26:39Well, I'm not really sure.
26:41I haven't been round there myself for a couple of days.
26:43So, how are you, then?
26:45I'm very well, thank you, David.
26:49Look, we...
26:51we haven't talked since we were in Wales.
26:53Yeah.
26:55Well, we said just about everything
26:57there is to be said then, didn't we?
26:59Did we?
27:01I think we did.
27:03You mean about divorce?
27:05Yes.
27:07I think so, David.
27:09So, nothing's changed, then?
27:11Well, what could change?
27:13You don't change.
27:17Look,
27:19I said to you once,
27:21do you remember?
27:23I said you can love people,
27:25different people in different ways.
27:27I...
27:29You shouldn't need me to tell you that.
27:31I mean, what about Colin?
27:33I told you about him.
27:35He's married now, anyway.
27:37Missed my chance there, didn't I?
27:39Oh, you...
27:41You don't make things easy for me, do you?
27:43Oh, David, when did you ever make anything easy for me?
27:45Look, all I want,
27:47and I've thought about this really hard,
27:49is you,
27:51the kids back and home.
27:55Let's try again, Sheila.
27:57Let's just try.
27:59We never had a chance the way things were before,
28:01but I've got some money now.
28:03What money?
28:05Some that Mum left me.
28:07It means I can get you out of here,
28:09find you a decent place,
28:11bring the kids back home.
28:13I can do it, Sheila.
28:15I can get a new home
28:17for you and the kids,
28:19a new start all round.
28:21I mean it. I can do that.
28:23I trust you, David.
28:25I'd like to, of course I would,
28:27but too many things have gone wrong,
28:29too often, and I can't start all over again
28:31and then still end up with nothing.
28:33Look, I'm not just talking.
28:37I'm asking you to trust me.
28:41I can do it.
28:47All right.
28:49I don't believe it, but all right, then.
28:51Only no more words, no more talk.
28:53Just do it.
28:57Oh, having an activity in the garden?
29:01Oh, John is now clipping the hedge.
29:03Oh, and what's Philip doing?
29:07Oh, offering advice.
29:11Oh, the standard's gone down
29:13in the last few years.
29:15Oh, what, what?
29:17Work, school. It's all these dads away.
29:19Getting spoiled.
29:21All they seem to be interested in these days is playing.
29:23Well, I don't blame them. Were we any different?
29:25Oh, some of us were.
29:27Well, all I hope is they don't have to pay for it later on.
29:29Well, why should they?
29:31They might bump into life a bit harder, that's all.
29:33You asking me or telling me?
29:35Telling you.
29:37He's doing a grand job out there.
29:39You know, you can actually see the gasworks
29:41from the back lawn now.
29:43Hey, um, will you be needing your tennis racket
29:45in the near future?
29:47What's that? There's two strings on mine.
29:49Well, I think there's a string bust on mine,
29:51but it's up in the attic if you want to look.
29:53You're welcome to it anyway.
29:55Oh, what a kind, generous brother you are.
29:57How's it going?
29:59That school?
30:01No, the coaching. Fred.
30:03Oh, that.
30:05Well, if you ask me, she's stringing him along.
30:07He must be patience personified.
30:09Still, I suppose his medical training stands him in good stead there.
30:11By the way, I'm expecting a posting.
30:13What does that mean?
30:15Well, I did apply for intelligence,
30:17but I haven't heard anything,
30:19so it looks as if it'll be back to my old unit.
30:21Second front, probably.
30:23Oh.
30:25Whatever that might be.
30:27Can't be far off, though, shouldn't it?
30:29Seems to be the main topic of conversation these days.
30:31How do you feel about it?
30:33Resigned, indifferent.
30:35But it looks as if you won't be seeing me for very long.
30:37And what's the future generation
30:39writing about these days?
30:41Cowboys and Indians,
30:43that doesn't set the minute.
30:45Life goes on, doesn't it?
30:49Hello, Dad.
30:51David!
30:53Welcome home.
30:55Hello, Max.
30:57Hello, David.
30:59Phil!
31:01We could have done with you home sooner.
31:03There's a revolution in the air.
31:05We don't want to bother them with all that now.
31:07What's all this revolution?
31:09Come and meet your Aunt Helen.
31:12Hey, what's wrong?
31:14Oh, I made a mess of the hedge.
31:16Oh? What have you done?
31:18Well, I couldn't get it level.
31:20I took a bit off one end.
31:22I had to take more off the other and then back,
31:24and it's practically down to ground level.
31:26Oh.
31:28Well, Dad grew it to hide that awful view.
31:31Hmm. I was looking just now.
31:33What an awful view, I thought.
31:35And I realised.
31:37Oh, well, perhaps you won't notice.
31:39David's home, by the way.
31:41Oh, shall I go and see him?
31:43No, it's not compulsory.
31:45Oh, what's going on in there?
31:47I'm sorry, Dad. I just didn't know about any of this.
31:50You've never ever known, have you, David?
31:52All your life, everything you've done, you've never ever known.
31:55Look, I sold the shares because I needed the money.
31:57You know, I owed a bloke money.
31:59The cheque could have bounced.
32:01I could have been in trouble, Dad, real trouble.
32:03Oh, what's happened?
32:05David sold his shares to Uncle Sefton.
32:07What's that, then? I'm as good as sold.
32:09Sold?
32:11He's selling Dad as part of the business.
32:13One printing work's in going order,
32:15one slightly battered manager in need of attention.
32:17Except...
32:19I'm getting out.
32:21Look, I didn't know about this. How could I know?
32:23You never ask, David. You never think.
32:25How did it happen, anyway?
32:27I went to Sefton for a loan,
32:29and he bought the shares off me instead.
32:31Oh, David.
32:33Well, why not? I mean, that's business, isn't it?
32:35You didn't ask for a loan, did you?
32:37Yeah, do you know why?
32:39Because you'd have given me a lecture on getting into debt.
32:41I didn't need a lecture, Dad. I needed the money.
32:59No more for me, thank you.
33:01Yeah, Pringle's been on to me again.
33:03He could go cold on the whole scheme
33:05unless it's tied up quickly.
33:07Still, now I've got my majority, we can move.
33:09What majority?
33:11George, my holding is now 55%.
33:13Oh, a slim majority.
33:15I realise that, but a majority nonetheless.
33:17You hold 30% yourself.
33:19You've Joe's 10% on promise,
33:21and now you've bought David's 5%.
33:23I make that 45%, Sefton.
33:25You're forgetting Tony, aren't you?
33:27I'm not forgetting Tony. I'm just not counting on him.
33:29And neither should you. And what's more, you know it.
33:31Tony has a moral obligation to support me.
33:35If we start talking about moral obligations, Sefton,
33:37we shall find ourselves in very deep waters.
33:39Tony and I get along much better these days.
33:41Even so.
33:43It's all a perfectly legitimate procedure
33:45as far as I'm concerned.
33:47Moral obligations are part and parcel of the whole thing.
33:49They certainly are.
33:51And since Tony isn't legally obliged to support you,
33:53he may not want to support you, well, morally,
33:55when he hears what's been going on.
33:57That's all I'm telling you.
33:59Going on?
34:01What do you mean by going on?
34:03You make it sound as if there was something underhand.
34:05You're striking a very delicate balance, Sefton.
34:07Well, I'm obliged to appeal.
34:09I haven't the damn sense to see what I'm about.
34:11You'll have to get in touch with Tony.
34:13I know I'll have to get in touch with Tony.
34:15I intend to get in touch with Tony.
34:17Oh.
34:19And without Mrs. Foster.
34:21David.
34:27David.
34:29Come in, lad.
34:33Hello, David.
34:35Hello.
34:39Well, I'd better be off, Sefton.
34:41Oh, I'll see you to the door, George.
34:43I'll be with you in a minute, David.
34:47Yes, sir.
34:51I'll be with you in a minute.
34:59Ah, I'm sorry about that, lad.
35:01George always remembers something important
35:03when he's standing on the doorstep.
35:05HE CHUCKLES
35:07Now, what can I do for you?
35:09Well, it's about that, er...
35:11those shares, you know, that you bought off Minister...
35:13Oh, yes, I gather from George it all went very satisfactorily.
35:16Well, I'd like to buy them back again.
35:19Oh, I see.
35:21Well, you know, Heidi's uncle, mother,
35:24left me that money and I'd like to hang on to it.
35:27David, you're a young man
35:29and one thing you should learn now,
35:31an important lesson, really,
35:33is to keep your word when it comes to business matters.
35:36Yes, but I mean it's all in the family, isn't it?
35:39It's not as if we're strangers.
35:41It makes no difference. Business, I'm afraid, is business.
35:44Look, I'm asking you a favour.
35:46A personal favour, my mother's legacy.
35:49Face up to your commitments, David.
35:51You asked me to buy those shares.
35:53I could have offered you a lot less than I did
35:55but I'd pay the fair price if you remember.
35:57We arrived at our agreement yesterday and that's how it must stand.
36:00Yes, but yesterday I didn't know what was going on.
36:03I wish people wouldn't talk about things going on.
36:06The only thing that's going on is legitimate business.
36:09What, selling Dad with the works? That's legitimate business?
36:12It's simply a change of management.
36:14He complained about mine long enough.
36:17I'm sorry, David. Those shares are mine now.
36:21Nobody's going to regret it in the long run.
36:24I mean, you said it yourself.
36:26It's all in the family, isn't it?
36:44Hey.
36:50Hey.
36:52You've been told off by Margaret once for trying to do all the work around here.
36:55The devil makes work for idle hands.
36:58And you know whose favourite saying that was?
37:00Yes, your father's.
37:03Are you going back there this afternoon?
37:05Sefton?
37:07If I stay away too long, I'll only sulk
37:09and that won't be very pleasant for any of us, will it?
37:15Why don't you come with me, thrash it out with him?
37:19It's probably the most sensible thing to do.
37:21That's settled, then.
37:24Yes, I suppose so.
37:27You smoke too much.
37:29Yes, and I drink too much sometimes.
37:34Only since Tom died.
37:36Mm-hm.
37:38And I talk to myself sometimes.
37:41You'd better knock me on the head if you catch me at it.
37:43Well, I dare say I've developed a few little habits.
37:46I haven't found out what they are yet, though.
37:48You hold the back of your neck.
37:50I did that before.
37:52And you cup your ear with your hand sometimes.
37:54Well, my left ear's not too good.
37:56We'll have to make up a list, won't we?
37:59Jean started smoking after Robert was killed.
38:03Yes, you said it was Robert that started her being odd.
38:06Yes, she blamed me, you know,
38:08for signing the form that allowed him to go to sea.
38:10What rubbish.
38:11She did, Helen. She told me she did.
38:14I mean rubbish that she should blame you.
38:16Now, don't give me any of that nonsense
38:18about speaking no ill of the dead.
38:20We're none of us perfect, and she was no exception.
38:24That'd help you to face up to that
38:26instead of thinking of her as some sort of plaster saint.
38:31I suppose she sided with Sefton, too?
38:33No, no. Not by any means.
38:38Occasionally, perhaps.
38:40Yeah, well, that was too often.
38:42You should have come to Australia with us.
38:45Ha-ha. I wanted to.
38:47And she didn't. I know.
38:49And you should have made her, shouldn't you?
38:52Well, it's your own fault. You've been far too soft.
38:56You mooch around this place like a great big teddy bear.
39:00You've got a lot of weight there. Start throwing it around.
39:03Are you trying to incite me to violence?
39:07I'm trying to incite you to stand up for yourself.
39:11It's never too late, you know.
39:20I thought you weren't going back until tomorrow.
39:23No, I've had enough, love. I'm going back tonight.
39:27Well, I had a row at home, you know, over some shares I sold Sefton.
39:31Yes, I know.
39:33Oh, Frida was round.
39:35Oh.
39:37Well, I tried to get them back, but he knew he was on to a good thing.
39:41Anyway, it means I can get you out of here at least.
39:44Look, why don't you try again, David, hmm?
39:47Your dad's been very good to me,
39:49and, well, I don't like to see people playing dirty tricks on him.
39:53Well, don't look at me, love. It's not me playing dirty tricks on him.
39:57I told you I'd try to give him the money back.
40:00Well, try again, hmm?
40:02I've stuck this place for 13 years. I can stick it a bit longer.
40:06You won't take it, I'm telling you.
40:08You know, there's no point.
40:10Look, just start looking for a house.
40:16You don't believe me, do you?
40:20None of you do.
40:23Do you know what I was letting myself in for?
40:26You know, giving that money back.
40:28And why? I mean, why anyway?
40:30So Dad doesn't have to have a new boss.
40:32He's been moaning his head off for bloody years.
40:35I mean, it doesn't make sense.
40:37Yes, well, still, if it makes sense to him,
40:40it makes sense, doesn't it?
40:44Oh, you'll take anybody's side but mine, won't you?
40:48All right, well, go on, stop here!
40:51Live in the dirt all your life, but don't expect me to.
40:54I don't expect you to do anything for me. I haven't done for years.
40:58Yeah, well, my kids aren't going to, though.
41:00Oh, really? You're going to take them away from me, then?
41:02No. But they're going to have something better than this.
41:05Now, the kids are stopping with me, David.
41:07There's nothing you can do about that.
41:09Now, you just close the door on your way out, if you can remember, will you?
41:29Oh, I thought I might be seeing you again.
41:33I don't know why. I certainly never expected to see you again.
41:37I'm told you've got a wife of your own now.
41:40Yeah.
41:42What, does she know you're here?
41:44No.
41:45And you won't be telling her, of course?
41:47Yeah, I might.
41:49Who are you trying to kid?
41:51I said I might. I might. Why shouldn't I?
41:53Well, if you don't want to tell her, I won't.
41:56Well, if you don't want... No, mate.
41:58I mean, don't wait for me to tell you.
42:01Look, you're dead wrong, you know.
42:03What about you?
42:04About Sheila.
42:05Anyway, I came for a pair of shoes.
42:07I said she'd leave them down here, but she must have forgotten.
42:10Maybe try looking under the bed.
42:18I'm not wrong about you, though, am I, mate?
42:22No, maybe not. Look...
42:26I wanted to marry Sheila, but she wouldn't have me.
42:29Oh, I tried it on and all.
42:31I thought once she got you out of her system,
42:33she might change her mind, but she wouldn't have that either.
42:37Yeah, well, it's all happened a bit too late for me,
42:39but I'm glad she got you off her back.
42:41She deserves a lot better than you.
42:43You're very brave with your mouth.
42:45Yes. You'll be asking me where my uniform is in a minute.
42:48That's right.
42:49Yeah, well, the answer is I don't have one.
42:51Sometimes I'm glad I don't have one, like now, for instance.
42:54Brave with your mouth.
42:55Look, don't push it, cos I'm warning you,
42:57I could knock you through that nine-inch brick wall.
42:59I'd like it, but I know Sheila wouldn't.
43:01She's got to live in this slum thanks to you.
43:03Thanks to me?
43:05Spare me the excuses, I'm off.
43:08You think that I'm just a civvy on the make, right?
43:12Yeah, well, I know what I am.
43:14Do you know what you are?
43:18David!
43:20David!
43:23There we are.
43:24All right?
43:27Oh, John, will you tell Margaret I'm going round to see sir?
43:30Yes, yes, I'm here.
43:31Well, Helen and I are going round to see sir.
43:33Yes, I heard. Now, look, don't go upsetting yourself, will you?
43:35Now, let him upset himself if he wants to. It's a basic human right.
43:38Yes, well, I suppose you know what you're doing.
43:40I haven't the faintest idea what I'm doing,
43:42but at least I'm not sitting still.
43:45Edwin, I'm a businessman.
43:47I understand the business world.
43:49I want to protect my capital,
43:51and in the process I shall be protecting yours as well.
43:54Can't you see that?
43:55I'm thinking of the job, Sefton, the job I've done for 30-odd years.
43:58A job's a job, lad.
44:00A job's something you do for money.
44:02If you don't like the idea of working for Pringle,
44:04well, I can find you a job, for heaven's sake.
44:06In print?
44:07Does it matter?
44:08It's what I do, Sefton, my craft, if you like.
44:10I produce good print.
44:12When I talk about print, people listen, because I know what I'm talking about.
44:15Can't you see that?
44:17I can.
44:18Now, Haring, what can you possibly know about print?
44:21You're being deliberately thick-skinned, aren't you, Sefton?
44:24You don't want to understand.
44:25But I do understand.
44:27Edwin and I have come to understand each other very well over the last few years.
44:30Now, isn't that true?
44:31No, it isn't, Sefton.
44:32I was beginning to think it was, but it isn't.
44:35When you talk like this,
44:37I don't know what you're talking about any more than I did 20 years ago.
44:41The printing side was Father's interest more than yours.
44:44Is that why you want to drop it?
44:46No, of course it isn't.
44:48You're talking like an old man, Edwin, do you know that?
44:50I'm well on the way to being one, aren't I?
44:52Rubbish. A man's as old as he feels.
44:54Here I am offering you a chance to get out of a rut,
44:56and all you want to do is to shrink back into it.
44:58Well, it's perfectly obvious the decision won't be made in this room.
45:01Helen, I've made the decision.
45:03All I'm trying to do is explain to you why it's for the best.
45:06Then you're assuming Tony's support.
45:09You certainly have no majority without it to make any decision.
45:12I'm assuming Tony's support naturally.
45:15Don't you think that might be rather a tall assumption, Sefton?
45:18Why? Because he's always taken your side in the past?
45:21Oh, I haven't been blind, Edwin.
45:23I know he's got a certain sentimental attachment to your view of things.
45:27But there's another side to Tony, you know.
45:29There's more than a bit of his grandfather in Tony,
45:32and when it comes down to brass taxes or Briggs,
45:34he'll see the sense in what I've got to say.
45:37He'll see the sense in what I've got to say?
45:39I doubt that, Sefton.
45:42So that's what it comes down to, then.
45:44Tony.
45:45Yes, I think it does.
45:47And whatever Tony has to say on the subject, you'll abide by?
45:50Apart from the fact I'll have no option?
45:52Yes, I will.
45:54Then the sooner we go and see him, the better.
45:56Time I was getting back.
45:57I'll come round tomorrow.
46:01You know, Edwin, I have your best interests at heart
46:04more than you give me credit for.
46:07It just seems to be a question of what my best interests are,
46:11doesn't it, Sefton?
46:26Ah.
46:28Well, thank goodness. That's settled.
46:30Settled?
46:31Oh, Tony's no fool, you know.
46:33Sefton.
46:35You haven't spoken to Tony already, have you?
46:38Well, I'll be damned.
46:40You've hardly been back in the country for more than ten minutes.
46:44Why is everybody always so ready to think the worst of me?
47:05THE END
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