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00:41Nope.
00:43I think I said that at Margaret's wedding anyway.
00:48Right.
00:50Well, ladies and gentlemen,
00:52I don't suppose you'll be wanting a long speech from me,
00:55so you'll be pleased to hear that I haven't prepared one.
00:59All I'm going to say is what comes into my head on the spur of the moment.
01:05And you know how little that always is.
01:11So...
01:12All I...
01:15So all I...
01:18So all I will say on this happy occasion is that I've never seen...
01:27Right.
01:27Will you tell Margaret I've left her dress on the tall boy
01:30and I put a new shoulder pad in, so it's all ready.
01:33Sorry, love, I was just...
01:35Pardon?
01:36Hmm?
01:37What did you say?
01:38Nothing.
01:39I was just reading the paper.
01:41There's a lad here from Chester who's been awarded the BC.
01:45Probably the greatest bomber pilot of any air force in the world.
01:49It says here...
01:51Wing Commander Jeffrey Leonard Cheshire.
01:55Well?
01:55Well, I was just remarking, you know, his name's Cheshire, he comes from Chester.
02:00Interesting.
02:01Isn't it?
02:02Is it?
02:03Your daughter's getting married in the morning.
02:05Yes, love, I know.
02:06I've been living in a madhouse for the last three weeks.
02:08Well, don't you think you should be doing something about it?
02:10Like what?
02:12Well, there must be hundreds of things you could do.
02:14Um, polish your shoes.
02:16Polished.
02:17Shirt, tie, cufflinks already?
02:19Never more so.
02:20They've been standing to attention for a fortnight.
02:22No last-minute arrangements about the reception?
02:24All in Mrs. McKenzie's lily-white hands?
02:28What about your speech?
02:29What about it?
02:30Now, don't you think you should make some notes?
02:32I don't need notes.
02:33I'll think of something at the time.
02:35You're a better man than I am, Gungadin.
02:38Yes.
02:39Well, I'm sure I'll think of something.
02:50Here?
02:51I'm not quite sure.
02:53And not quite sure about what?
02:56Well, I might look like Ian.
02:59I feel like a wet rag.
03:01Yeah?
03:03You've been as busy as all that.
03:05There must have been a conspiracy.
03:06I have a sneaking suspicion that the entire female population of Liverpool
03:10held a mass meeting at the pier head this morning
03:12and decided every one of them needed medical attention this afternoon.
03:17I see.
03:17Must have known, you see.
03:21I was having two or three days off.
03:23Probably thought I should make up for it.
03:27One of my regulars gave me a tin of dried eggs.
03:29Oh, oh good.
03:32That'll come in very useful.
03:33As a wedding present.
03:36Oh.
03:36She also apparently sent Herbert Morrison a tin of pilchards on the occasion of his birthday.
03:42We're her favourites.
03:45Oh, there've been some more presents for you, by the way.
03:47Four.
03:48Two from Edinburgh, one from London.
03:49Is there any news of Derek?
03:50Has he run yet?
03:50No, not a word.
03:52Fine best man I've chosen.
03:54He said he'd be here by nine o'clock.
03:58Are we ever going to get this...
03:59I suppose if he had, you'd have gone out for a proper bachelor night out.
04:06How long is it since you've seen him?
04:08Christmas, 1942.
04:10Playing cricket in the geriatric ward with a bedpan.
04:13He must have organised a conspiracy.
04:15Would it, um...
04:23Would it sound terrible if I said I rather hoped he didn't turn up?
04:30Incomprehensible as well.
04:33I thought you were a fan of Derek's.
04:35Oh, I am.
04:42But he was your best man last time.
04:45Well, I can't think of any other of my friends.
04:47Not all we'll be withers in the flesh, anyway.
04:49They're all off-serving king and country.
04:51Oh, well, mothers think silly things.
04:54How true.
04:56Well, I just wanted everything to be different this time.
04:59Oh, I know it is different.
05:01I mean, it's a registry office instead of a church.
05:03And it's here instead of Blackburn.
05:06And it's Frida instead of Mary.
05:07That's all the difference it needs, mother.
05:11Yes.
05:12A mule is an animal with long, funny ears.
05:15He picks up for anything he is.
05:17His back is brawny, but his brain is weak.
05:21He just plays stupid in 7th Street.
05:23And by the way, if you hate to go to school,
05:27you may grow up to be a bitch.
05:29Oh, Frida.
05:29Now, just don't laugh at once.
05:30It's my party, all right?
05:32Anyway, you better shut up now.
05:33We're embarrassing my childhood sweetheart.
05:35You were?
05:36But I used to have a kiss on him, you know?
05:39Before I lost my puppy back, didn't I say a little?
05:41Would anyone like to have a drink?
05:42Yes.
05:42Now I'm embarrassing him.
05:44No, look, I'll get these.
05:45It's my turn.
05:45You've got the last three.
05:46All right.
05:47Excuse me.
05:49Excuse me.
05:50I think the other sisters want, you know.
05:53Yes, ma'am.
05:53Could I have three green podices and a scarf?
05:56I don't know, a bitter will be three.
05:58Oh, a bitter?
05:59I'd love to see them coming out the whiny on victory day.
06:02That'll be a really taddy and job.
06:04I know.
06:04Say, Laura, who are you dreaming of tonight?
06:06We've had that one.
06:07Thank you very much.
06:08Why?
06:08Just a little fun effect.
06:10And that.
06:11And don't you forget you're getting married in the morning.
06:13No, you're getting married in the morning.
06:16I'll ring Ian up, shall I?
06:17Tell him it's all off.
06:18Tell him you've met another fella.
06:19It's another fella.
06:20I've known him all my life, stupid.
06:23Hey, guess who was singing at an Air Force base last week?
06:25Oh.
06:25Hey, uh, did anybody see old Mother Riley the other week?
06:30What?
06:30Other pictures?
06:31No, in the person.
06:32She's good, isn't she?
06:33Yeah.
06:33She?
06:34Old Mother Riley.
06:36She's a bloke.
06:37Look, I know she's a bloke.
06:38I do know the difference, you know.
06:40Thank God for that, under the circumstances.
06:42No, it was Bing Crosby.
06:43It was.
06:44Seeing at an Air Force base last week.
06:46Don't.
06:47Somewhere in the north-west, it said on the Echo.
06:50It was probably Burton.
06:51Oh, Bing Crosby in person.
06:54Yeah, but there's another crooner coming up.
06:56Spetter Luke in one thing.
06:58Is he bombed?
06:59Is he a young?
07:02No, he sings with Tommy Dawson's band.
07:04His name's Fancy Nolcher.
07:06No, I've never heard of him.
07:07Hey, Tony, can you keep a secret?
07:08No.
07:09Oh, no, definitely not.
07:12Well, I don't know if it's the Green Goddess,
07:14this sort of occasion or what.
07:15But I think I've, uh...
07:16I think I've thought enough.
07:19Go on, we'll buy it.
07:21With you.
07:22Sure, sir.
07:22Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
07:24Sooner, tomorrow comes the better, if you ask me.
07:27Yes.
07:27So, all I will say on this happy occasion
07:38is that I've never seen a young couple
07:42so happy as these today.
07:47As this...
07:48No, as these two today.
07:51Oh, drat.
07:52Right you are, love.
08:01Hello, Sefton.
08:02Come in.
08:03Good of you to come and call for me.
08:05I'm just about ready.
08:06What?
08:06Oh, yes, it was good of me, wasn't it?
08:08Very.
08:09Only I haven't.
08:10What?
08:11I've come to see Edwin.
08:15Mind you, seeing I've brought the car with me
08:17and we do live in the same house,
08:19you could take advantage of my good nature.
08:21Go ahead, Jim, with you.
08:22Ah, here, here, here.
08:24Where is he?
08:25Oh, in here, is he?
08:28Ah.
08:28Oh, hello, Sefton.
08:30Edwin.
08:30Are you sitting down?
08:31No, no, I've just come to pick the family up.
08:35Isn't Tony here?
08:36Oh, they'll not be back for ages.
08:39Shall I get my coat on, then?
08:40Er, no, I'll go and put the kettle on instead.
08:43But you just said you weren't stopping.
08:45Helen, when there's a wedding in the family,
08:48it's an uncle's prerogative to be as awkward as he likes
08:51until such time as the happy couple get from under our feet
08:54and clear off on their honeymoon.
08:56Right, Edwin?
08:57Sounds reasonable to me.
08:58And a cup of tea's in order, is it?
08:59If it's all right by Helen, it's all right by me.
09:05Hey.
09:06Everything shipped safe for tomorrow?
09:08I reckon so.
09:09I've got a knack with these things.
09:10Ignore them.
09:11And you find everyone else sorts them out for you.
09:14I hope you didn't think these candlesticks were all I was going to give them.
09:19Well, I assume they were, frankly.
09:21I've, er...
09:23I've got a surprise present.
09:25Oh, Sefton, shouldn't you be giving it to them?
09:27No.
09:27No, it's a surprise.
09:29Oh, she didn't want a cup of tea at all.
09:31You wanted a secret Allied conference.
09:33He's beginning to understand me at last.
09:35Well, go on.
09:36Surprise me.
09:37Did you intend to pay for the wedding reception?
09:40Well, naturally.
09:41I'm the girl's father.
09:43Consider it paid for.
09:45Well, what have I said?
09:47I'm nowhere near beginning to understand you.
09:49Eh?
09:50It might be your prerogative to be as awkward as you like, but it's not mine to let you.
09:54You've lost me.
09:55Sefton, I'm very pleased if you want to do something for Frida.
09:58But what you can't do is buy the right to be her father.
10:02Who said I wanted to?
10:03I'm not saying you wanted to.
10:04I don't expect it ever crossed your mind.
10:07But that's what you'll be doing.
10:09The bride's father pays for the wedding.
10:13And that's me.
10:16By hell, you're a touchy fella.
10:18That's true.
10:19Especially about money?
10:20About principles.
10:21They're not the same thing, Sefton.
10:23I thought Mrs. McKenzie was catering.
10:25We're holding the reception at her place, but I'll foot the bill.
10:29Everybody chipped in with the ration books, have they?
10:31Well, as much as they can.
10:33So there'll be no little extras then?
10:36Like what, for instance?
10:37Like big fat lumps of chicken, for instance, with something decent to wash them down with, made from grapes, for instance.
10:44Not according to the menu, I saw.
10:46And, uh, would you objective?
10:48Somehow there were.
10:49No questions asked.
10:51As long as you pay for what you've already ordered.
10:53Naturally, you being the father.
10:55You always find a loophole, don't you, Sefton?
10:57You are beginning to understand me.
11:00Sefton, it's a wedding.
11:03We haven't had more than our ration of happy times in this family.
11:05Leave it to me, please.
11:22That was Derek.
11:26I knew something must have happened.
11:29But he's not coming?
11:30No, his father's been killed.
11:35What?
11:36Yes.
11:37Last night, by flying bon.
11:40Oh, no.
11:44Did you know him very well?
11:46The father?
11:47No, no, no.
11:47I didn't know him at all.
11:51Oh, dear poor Derek.
11:53Well, it looks as if I'll have to find another best man.
12:01Well, there's nothing much you can do about it this evening.
12:07No.
12:08Sounds like a job for tomorrow.
12:13Hope it isn't a no-min.
12:14Hope she's not going to leave me waiting at the altar.
12:18That's impossible.
12:19Oh, it's been known.
12:21We're not in a registry office.
12:22There isn't an altar.
12:25Well, at the desk, then.
12:27The bridegroom was left waiting at the desk.
12:29Doesn't sound quite the same, does it?
12:32I don't think you should joke about things like that the night before your wedding.
12:35She was still at it.
12:47She was still at it.
12:47I took the hat round for you there, girls, but not a bloody swashy.
12:56Look at that.
12:57Take them home, love.
12:58It's going to get knocked off.
12:59Let's take the cover of the cottonwood trees.
13:03Send me off to heaven, but I'll ask you, please, don't fence me in.
13:09We'd better pack up.
13:11They want to go.
13:13Oh.
13:14Well, we can't go without Sheila, can we?
13:16No, true.
13:16Hey, I'd better go and find her.
13:18Hey, I bet she's fallen asleep on the seat.
13:21Give me that.
13:22Give me that.
13:23Give me that.
13:23She's a big one.
13:27Oh.
13:32Well, Sheila?
13:33Well, what?
13:35Big step tomorrow.
13:38Big step tomorrow.
13:40And when's it going to be your turn, then?
13:49Oh, well, I shall live on into a lonely old age.
13:54He was in love with his childhood sweetheart, they'll say.
13:57But she married another.
13:59Fool.
14:00Do you remember those dances I used to take to you when you were just leaving school?
14:04Yeah, at Margaret's request, wasn't it?
14:06Yes.
14:06Bringing out Frieda, not because he wanted to.
14:09I was spotty then, wasn't I?
14:11Yes.
14:13Isn't that bad for you?
14:15Ah, it's all done for cousinly love.
14:18Who on earth would have thought you'd have turned out like this in those days?
14:20Oh, flatterer.
14:21You ask me if you can take me home any minute.
14:24Can I?
14:25No.
14:26I'm drunk.
14:27Go on.
14:27Just for old time's sake.
14:28Well, you could come and hold me up, say goodnight at the garden gate, pop me up against
14:37the door, press the bell, settle for that.
14:41Yeah, I reckon I'll settle for that.
14:47Oh, Lord.
14:49For heaven's sake, this is Whitby.
14:51No, it wasn't.
14:52It was so cool.
14:52That was to be an artist.
14:54We've got a scholarship.
14:55Well, I don't know about that.
14:56All I know is Whitby.
14:57Look, Father drove us down to the beach, down that, you know, that twisting road thing.
15:01Yeah, but you drive on the sands at Southport.
15:04Southport.
15:04Southport's flat.
15:06Doris.
15:07Yeah?
15:08Doris.
15:08Southport.
15:09It's flat, isn't it?
15:09Yeah.
15:10Flat.
15:10Flat Southport.
15:10I didn't know we weren't here.
15:16Now, look.
15:17Now, look.
15:18Let's be serious.
15:18Whitby.
15:19Whitby is undulating, I should say.
15:23Yeah, well, I'm just going to undulate after that.
15:27It's the door open.
15:30It's the key.
15:32And for God's sake, don't you lock me out.
15:33No, all right.
15:34Sweet dream.
15:35I would like to swing on a star.
15:38Good night, Doris.
15:40Good night.
15:41Carry moving.
15:43Oh.
15:45Missed.
15:45Shhh.
15:46Shhh.
15:47Shhh.
15:48Shhh.
15:48Shhh.
15:49Shhh.
15:49Shhh.
15:50Shhh.
15:50Shhh.
15:51Shhh.
15:51Shhh.
15:52Shhh.
15:52Shhh.
15:53Shhh.
15:53Shhh.
15:53Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:54Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Shhh.
15:55Oh, it was good before the war, wasn't it?
16:09Oh, yeah.
16:10Um, for some of us.
16:12Oh, it was for me.
16:15Yeah.
16:16Me too, I suppose.
16:19It'll never be the same, would it?
16:22Well, probably not.
16:23Well, that's because we'll never be the same, will it?
16:27Shhh.
16:27Shhh.
16:28Hee-h.
16:28Hee-h.
16:30What are you grinning at?
16:32Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
16:35Ha-ha-ha-ha.
16:35Um, well, I...
16:37Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
16:41I was just remembering you in that gym slip.
16:44Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
16:46Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
16:49Oh, it was lovely having a crush on you.
16:51Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
16:51Was it?
18:05Doris, you awake?
18:07I thought you were fast asleep.
18:09I've been awake for ages.
18:11What time is it?
18:13Well, I've just gone seven.
18:15Why can't you sleep?
18:20Oh, I don't know.
18:21My head won't let me.
18:26Funny dreams.
18:29Have you got a hangover?
18:31I don't know.
18:32I haven't tried lifting my head off the pillow yet.
18:34I kept nodding off and then waking up again.
18:41All sorts of potty thoughts.
18:44Same here.
18:47I should get a bit of peace now you're going marriage, aren't I?
18:49Oh, you won't get rid of me that easily, you know.
18:51Ernie Bevan won't let me stop working even if I am getting married.
18:55It'll be the same though, won't it?
18:59Hey, why don't you get yourself a nice English husband?
19:03Instead of hanging around with all those youngs.
19:05Maybe you two could have a big house like mine.
19:08Oh, Doris.
19:11Things will be right for you in the end.
19:13Yeah.
19:13And Nelson gets his hammer back.
19:24Anyway, here it goes.
19:27Wait.
19:28Oh.
19:29Oh, where are you going?
19:32Downstairs for a cup of tea.
19:35And then out for a long brisk walk below the cobwebs away.
19:43This is the dream.
19:47Mm-hmm.
19:56Good heavens.
20:07What are you doing up at this time?
20:10John's toothache, of course.
20:12More to the point.
20:14Why aren't you still in bed?
20:16Oh, I couldn't get back to sleep.
20:18And I kept tiring myself out, tossing and turning.
20:21You'll be worn out by this afternoon.
20:25I've got nothing to do except get married, have I?
20:27Feeling all right?
20:29Apart from that, I mean.
20:30Oh, fine.
20:33Why shouldn't I be?
20:34Well, is there anything you want me to do?
20:35Ironing?
20:36Packing?
20:37Packing what?
20:39You're going away on your honeymoon.
20:41Oh, that.
20:48Well, I have been packed for a fortnight.
20:52Now, how's that for anticipation?
20:53I still wish you were getting married in a church, you know.
20:58Did you have to go and marry a man who'd been married before?
21:00It looks like it, doesn't it?
21:03Anyway, what's the difference?
21:05Sentimental reasons?
21:07Mum would have liked it.
21:09Yeah, she would.
21:11Tea?
21:11No, thanks.
21:14And then I must get dressed and go out.
21:18Out?
21:19Where?
21:21Just out.
21:24I feel like a good long walk.
21:28Last day of freedom, isn't it?
21:29No, it isn't.
21:31And that's no way to look at it.
21:33Oh, you know what I mean, Margaret.
21:35I mean, didn't you ever feel like this?
21:39Well, if I did, I didn't dwell on it.
21:41And it's only a half-truth anyway.
21:42Freedom to watch.
21:46Do you ever wonder about Michael?
21:49Why'd you bring that up?
21:52This is curious.
21:54I mean, all the problems it meant at the time,
21:55and now he's gone out of our lives forever.
21:59Supposing you've been free at the time?
22:02Really free?
22:03But what's the good of supposing?
22:05I wasn't.
22:06And anyway, at the time and now, different.
22:09Things pass.
22:12Do they?
22:14Yes, they do.
22:17Oh, well, that's a comforting thought, anyway.
22:25Coffee?
22:28I didn't wake you, did I?
22:30No.
22:30Oh, you'd have to be up much earlier than this to wake me.
22:34Oh, thank you.
22:37I, uh, cut the lawn too soon last time.
22:41I should have left it for a day or two.
22:43Thicker than a guardsman's busby.
22:47I will never mind.
22:48You'll protect it from all those feet.
22:52Didn't you sleep very well, then?
22:54Oh, like a long.
22:56Not about half an hour ago.
22:57Well, you dropped off again too, if I hadn't started to think.
23:01Fatal, isn't it?
23:04Yes.
23:05I think that's where my trouble stems from.
23:08You wake up and you start to worry.
23:12Now, have you thought of somebody for your best man yet?
23:14Oh, no, but I'm not worried.
23:17What about you?
23:18What are you worried about?
23:18Oh, stupid little things.
23:22That's what's so infuriating.
23:24If only I got a good big worry, I could get my teeth in too.
23:29Are you sure you want to go to Bournemouth?
23:31Yes, I do want to go to Bournemouth.
23:36And I'm not coming back except for a social call.
23:40So you'd better make this marriage work, young man.
23:43Well, if you put it like that, I suppose I'd better have.
23:51Tea, Doris!
23:52Here you are.
23:58Oh, never again.
24:00Oh, thanks.
24:01Ain't Frieda back yet?
24:02Well, a good long walk, she said.
24:04Oh, well.
24:06Well, she's back in time for the wedding.
24:08It'd be a bit of a lark if she wasn't, wouldn't it?
24:09A bit of a lark would be a disaster.
24:12Young nurse jilts well-known gynaecologist.
24:15How's that for headline?
24:16Oh, don't say things like that.
24:18Go on.
24:19She thinks he's Robert Taylor and Clark Gable rolled into one.
24:22Which she is, of course.
24:22Oh, of course.
24:25Oh, what a night.
24:27I wonder how Sheila's feeling.
24:29Yeah, what did go on last night?
24:31Well, after we'd come out of the show,
24:32we went in this pub round the corner
24:34and we'd got a bit tiddly.
24:35Need to say more.
24:36Disgusting.
24:38Hey, we had a bit of a sing-song.
24:39In the pub?
24:40Yeah.
24:41They didn't chuck us out, but we'd got a few loops.
24:43Then Tony walked us home.
24:45I see.
24:46I suppose Tony was tiddly too.
24:48Tiddly too, tiddly too.
24:49Oh, don't make me laugh.
24:52No, he won't, actually.
24:54I think men can take it better than women, can't they?
24:56He sat in the corner with Frieda all night.
24:59Oh.
25:00Joking about when she used to have a crush on him, yeah?
25:02Oh, yes.
25:04Yeah, we used to pull a leg about that.
25:07You'll miss her too, won't you?
25:10Only one more to go now.
25:12Only one more?
25:14Oh, you mean Philip.
25:16Yes.
25:17Only one more to go.
25:18Psst.
25:30Hey, you're marrying me, you know, not the house.
25:33Hello.
25:33What are you doing here, anyway?
25:35You're not supposed to see me until this afternoon.
25:37Well.
25:37Isn't it supposed to be bad luck or something?
25:44Well, it's too late if it is.
25:46I've been for a good long walk.
25:47Oh, same here.
25:48Only just up and down.
25:50Well, I didn't mean to see you.
25:51I mean, if you hadn't come round that corner, perhaps it won't count being accidental.
25:55Well, Mother would have a fit.
25:56She believes in that sort of rubbish.
25:58Oh, yes.
26:00Oh, perhaps I've had a goat.
26:01Can you sleep well?
26:04It is not yet day, and here I am mowing the lawn.
26:08What about you?
26:10No.
26:11Well, perhaps we'll be able to catch up.
26:13Hmm?
26:15Well, I was going to say, perhaps we'll be able to catch up on it sometime.
26:18Yes, well, I expect we will.
26:20Oh, by the way, I've got a problem.
26:22Oh?
26:22Yes, my best man can't make it.
26:25And I can't think of any of my friends at this short notice.
26:27So I was thinking of asking Tony.
26:31Oh.
26:39Hmm.
26:40Time.
26:43Didn't anybody sleep last night?
26:45Yes, yes, I did.
26:46Oh, for heaven's sake, either go and get dressed or go back to bed.
26:50What shall I go back to bed for?
26:51Well, you're dressed for it, aren't you?
26:55Yeah, I wore these on my honeymoon, believe it or not.
26:57Oh.
26:58I'll leave you to guess where all my coupons go.
27:01I haven't got a pair of underpants without holes in.
27:02You do not wish to know that.
27:04This is stone cold.
27:06I'll see you at the wake.
27:09And what's your excuse?
27:10For what?
27:11For arriving at this time.
27:13Oh, well, I thought I might be able to be of some help.
27:16Oh, thanks.
27:17Well, if you're lucky, there might just be a cup of lukewarm tea if you come into the kitchen.
27:20How did you get here?
27:33A what?
27:34Another solitary hiker.
27:35You didn't bump into the bride by any chance, did you?
27:38Uh, no.
27:39Only she's gone for a walk, too.
27:41Where?
27:41Oh, there and back is about all I know.
27:44Except that she isn't.
27:45Back yet, I mean.
27:47And what were you up to last night?
27:49As if I didn't know, I've heard all about you.
27:51And I must say, I'm surprised.
27:53The night before her wedding.
27:55No excuses.
27:56There aren't any.
27:56Well, look, Margaret, I...
27:57Singing in a public house.
27:59Getting them all tiddly.
28:00Well, at least you had the decency to see them home safely.
28:04Was it a...
28:05I'm joking.
28:09Yes.
28:10Yes, I know you are.
28:12All right.
28:13I've got a bit of a head.
28:14Oh.
28:14Well, we'll soon put that right.
28:16I'll just heat up this pot and then I'll find you an aspirin.
28:19Cheer up.
28:20It's supposed to be a happy day.
28:21Yeah.
28:35Ah, have you seen my...
28:36Um, sorry.
28:37I didn't realise I was looking for my cufflinks.
28:41Sorry.
28:43I thought you were marked the excuse.
28:45Oh.
28:54So, all I will say on this joyous occasion is that I've never seen a young couple so happy
29:03as these two today.
29:06And if...
29:07Hogsblood and Alibor.
29:11Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
29:14And if they go through life with the same...
29:17Morning, Dad.
29:18Sleep well?
29:19Uh, oh, yes, yes, love.
29:21Sound as a bell.
29:21Oh, thank goodness somebody did.
29:23Oh, a letter?
29:23Uh, no, just a little something I'm working on for the office.
29:27Tony's in the kitchen.
29:28Good heavens.
29:29He's an early bird.
29:31Oh, grief, I nearly forgot.
29:33Um...
29:34Morning.
29:35Tony, I'm sorry.
29:36I'm sorry.
29:37I nearly forgot to give you a message.
29:38Ian rang up and asked, could you pop round to see him this morning?
29:41Why?
29:42He didn't say.
29:43He sounded a bit the morning after, too.
29:45Ah, had a good walk.
29:51Hmm.
29:52Sorted it all out.
29:53All what?
29:54Oh, birth, life, death, freedom.
29:56I'm going to get an aspirin for Tony.
29:58He's in the kitchen if you want to see him.
30:08Hello.
30:11Well, I'll see you later.
30:13I've got to go awake, Doris.
30:14Tony, what's another word for harmonious?
30:23Oh, where's Doris?
30:24Oh, hello, she's still in the bathroom, I think.
30:27Look, I thought I left some aspirin in here.
30:28Have you seen them?
30:29Oh, I think I left them in the top of that coma there.
30:34I saw Ian this morning.
30:36Oh, Frida.
30:38It's supposed to be bad luck, isn't it?
30:39Well, it's supposed to be, but...
30:41Well, his mum wouldn't like it.
30:42No, she didn't see me.
30:44I didn't mean him to see me.
30:46I just wanted to see him.
30:48The man I'm going to marry this afternoon.
30:51Do you want to know why?
30:52Oh, I know why.
30:53Do you?
30:53Yes, I felt the same way about John.
30:56Same day.
30:57I wanted reassurance, I suppose.
31:00Are you glad you married John?
31:02Well, of course I am.
31:04I mean, are you really, or do you just take it for granted and not think about it?
31:08No.
31:08No, I think about it a great deal, as a matter of fact.
31:12Well, what about Michael?
31:14Why do you want to keep talking about Michael?
31:15Well, it's just making sense all of a sudden, that's all.
31:18I mean, the way you felt about him, and then John coming back.
31:23Well, you settled for doing the right thing, didn't you?
31:26Did I?
31:27How could you possibly know what I settled for?
31:35Morning.
31:35Morning, Dolly's.
31:37May I ask any speech, Mr. Ashton?
31:45Hello.
31:46I wondered when you'd be turning up.
31:47Yes, sir.
31:48Ian asked me to come round.
31:49Yes, Mr. Mackenzie said he had.
31:51You were up bright and early, weren't you?
31:53I heard you go out.
31:55I didn't wake you up.
31:56Good heavens, no.
31:58Your father was still asleep when I left.
32:01So I wrote him a note and left it with yours.
32:05Did you have a good time last night?
32:06Yes, sir, I went out with the girls.
32:08Edwin said you had.
32:12Ellen, can I talk to you?
32:16I can't...
32:16Something wrong?
32:23I've...
32:23I've just become aware of something that...
32:28that I should have realised a long time ago, years ago.
32:32But the war, other things...
32:34I just couldn't see it, I suppose.
32:38See what?
32:40I can't tell you exactly what.
32:41It wouldn't be fair.
32:43Well, I don't really see how I can help you, then.
32:50Helen, if you had to decide about something...
32:52and everything that you've been brought up to is against it.
32:58You know, the way one ought to behave.
33:01Fair play, a sense of duty.
33:03That sort of thing.
33:05And yet you had this feeling that...
33:08you were going to miss something.
33:10Well, I went through something like that...
33:14going to Australia with Jack.
33:16Your father was dead against it.
33:20And mother was alive then.
33:22But you went?
33:24Yes, we went.
33:25I suppose we had to decide who we were going to hurt...
33:28them or us.
33:29And if we were going to hurt them...
33:31we had to be quite sure that we were right.
33:35Is that any help?
33:36You mean, is anyone going to get hurt?
33:42Ah, Tony.
33:43So good of you to come.
33:46Have you told him?
33:47No, not me.
33:49Well, the position is this.
33:51My best man can't make it,
33:52and I know it's terribly short notice.
33:54But would you mind giving this woman to that man,
33:56or should it be this man to that woman?
34:06I'm trying not to mark your collar.
34:15That's it.
34:16I've got problems on me own.
34:18There you are.
34:19Coat-telling.
34:23There's the phone again.
34:24I'll go.
34:26Get me a stud, will you, Margaret?
34:29Hello.
34:30No, no, it's Helen speaking.
34:32Oh.
34:33Oh, Betty, yes.
34:35You sure you don't mind being best man?
34:40No, it's a Bobby's job.
34:42Just see that we're all shuttled off to town all right.
34:46See that we're all shuttled off to the Mackenzie.
34:47You see that nobody gets lost or drunk,
34:49goes to the wrong wedding.
34:50It's a cushy number.
34:51It's my hanky straight.
34:52No.
34:52No, no, no, no, no.
34:53It's Tony's job.
34:54He's the best man.
34:54The best man to be at a groom's house now,
34:56sorting him out.
34:58Yes, when I've got you lot sorted out.
34:59It worked out your speech.
35:01Is that all right?
35:02Thank you, love.
35:02That's very nice.
35:02Of what?
35:03Thank you very much.
35:04Well, I mean, you always make a speech, the best man.
35:07Oh, my God.
35:08Hey, Sheila.
35:09Can you find me a safety pin?
35:11Are you still holding your trousers up?
35:13No, it's not me trousers.
35:14It's me braces a bust.
35:15I'll have a look anyway.
35:16Uncle Ebony, have you worked out your speech?
35:19Well, no, but I think I'll think of something when the time comes.
35:24Anybody make some a cup of tea?
35:25No, sir.
35:26I've done no one.
35:27We don't really have all that much time, you know.
35:30What?
35:31Well, we're all right the time.
35:32Freda was at the mud pack stage with a towel rounder head the last time I saw her.
35:38Uncle Sefton?
35:39Yeah?
35:39Excuse me for raising the issue, but would you care for a cup of tea before we go?
35:43Oh, thank you very much, Margaret.
35:47If you're all dying for one.
35:49Tell me now.
35:50No, no, I'll do it.
35:51I'll put the kettle on.
35:52Another of my duties.
35:53Oh, definitely.
35:55Who was that on the phone?
35:56Betty Drinkhouse, wasn't it?
35:58Yes, yes.
35:59She just wanted to check where the reception is.
36:02Betty Drinkhouse?
36:03I thought she went out of Freda's life with navy blue knickers.
36:06Oh, that reminds me.
36:07I left the car unlocked.
36:11Now, a pin.
36:12You're a pin merchant.
36:13Have you got one ordinary variety?
36:14No, I'm sorry, I haven't got another one.
36:15No?
36:16Here you are.
36:18Do you think I should pop up and see how she's managing?
36:24Oh, wow.
36:25She'll be all right.
36:26She's only getting dressed, you know.
36:27She's done it before.
36:29Yes, well, she might be feeling a bit, you know, she might appreciate a bit of company.
36:32Yes, well, she'll tell you when she's ready.
36:35Ah, just as you say, love.
36:43Oh, I said I'd put the kettle on.
36:51Oh, good.
36:55Well, thanks for last night, by the way.
36:59What I can remember of it.
37:00Yes, we overdid it a bit, didn't we?
37:05Still, once in a lifetime.
37:08Yes, once in a lifetime.
37:11And thank you for being one of us, man.
37:14Second best.
37:15Yes, I wouldn't do it for everybody.
37:17Aren't you ready yet, Freda?
37:18Come on, you'll keep him waiting.
37:20Yes, that wouldn't be a very good start, would it?
37:22Well, I'll see you later.
37:39I'm sure you've got a million more important things to do than stand there washing the kettle, boy.
37:45And how are you since we last met?
37:46Fine, fine, never better.
37:49It is a wedding after all, isn't it?
37:50Happy occasion.
37:52Exactly.
37:55Oh, I'm all right, Tony.
37:57Honestly.
37:58Well, if it all gets a bit much in that reception, we'll disappear into their kitchen with a bottle of scotch aid.
38:04Thanks for the sort, anyway.
38:06It's funny, you know, coming here thinking I'm going to Freda's wedding,
38:09I thought it would make me think back to my own.
38:11I was rather afraid it might, but it didn't.
38:14It just made me think ahead to my divorce.
38:18It's the same thing, isn't it?
38:19No, the feeling is different.
38:21It's sort of strong somehow, positive.
38:25You know, I think I'm beginning to become a bit of a tough guy.
38:28It's not very nice, that, really, is it?
38:31That sounds good to me.
38:32Yeah, but it sounds good.
38:33That's what matters.
38:36I'm not fooling you for a second, am I?
38:40No.
38:42Oh, well.
38:43If it all gets too much, we've got a date with a whiskey bottle, right?
38:46Right.
38:47What about you, then?
38:49Anyway.
38:51Me?
38:51Well, seeing through everybody else and sorting out all their troubles.
38:56What about sorting yourself out, hmm?
38:59I should never agree to be best man, you know.
39:02Why?
39:03Well, every woman at that wedding's going to be saying,
39:05when's it going to be your turn, then?
39:07That's traditional, isn't it?
39:08Well, you must lie in your little hammock at night
39:10dreaming about some girl patiently waiting for you
39:12at the dockyard gates.
39:14Now all the ones I know are married already, or...
39:17Or what?
39:19Reader?
39:21How you doing, love?
39:23Can I have some one minute, please?
39:25Would you mind looking after this one?
39:28I, um...
39:29I think I'd better go and see how the groom's getting on.
39:31Hello, love.
39:40You wanted me?
39:42Well, here I am.
39:43I'm ready.
39:45Nearly an hour before I'm supposed to be.
39:48Now, in the whole history of the female sex,
39:50wouldn't you say that was very probably a record?
39:52Almost certainly, I should say.
39:55You look very nice.
39:57Well, I do.
39:58Stunning, would be my word.
40:01Well, you wouldn't think there was a war on, would you?
40:05There's no reason why you should today.
40:08I always do when I'm in this room.
40:11I mean, it was the boys' room.
40:13David and Philip and Robert.
40:16Yes.
40:18Does it still hurt?
40:20You mustn't think about things like that on your wedding day.
40:24And why not?
40:25Because it's supposed to be the happiest day of your life.
40:27That's why not.
40:29And the most important.
40:30And the most important.
40:31It's taken you a long time to get me off your hands, hasn't it, Dad?
40:37Now, when have I ever wanted to get you off my hands?
40:42My dear, I'm glad for you to leave this house, though.
40:45Oh, I've been very happy here.
40:47Apart from the last few years.
40:48Yes, the last few years have taken the edge off a bit, haven't they?
40:51And what would you do if I didn't go or came running back again?
41:00It wouldn't be you to do that.
41:02You're the one that really knows what she wants.
41:03I used to think it was Margaret.
41:06But I was wrong.
41:09You gave him a hard time for it, didn't you?
41:12Ian, did I?
41:13I'd give him a medal for perseverance anyway.
41:15I don't think he's interested in medals, though.
41:18I think he'll probably settle for you.
41:19You know, it's hard when people expect so much of you.
41:25I mean, hard to live up to.
41:28When you're tempted to do something that you know would hurt them,
41:31it counts.
41:33Too much, perhaps.
41:36Doing the right thing, as Margaret would say.
41:38But who knows what's right in the end?
41:44Everything's always much more complicated than it seems at the time.
41:49Wedding day nerves.
41:51Yes, I suppose so.
41:56Oh, well.
41:58There are no shining knights on white horses, are there, Dad?
42:01It is all in the past.
42:05It always was, my love.
42:08Mr. Shaughnessy and Miss Wilkinson?
42:20That's right.
42:21You come in now, please.
42:29There's another one, nearly off your hands.
42:32I wouldn't say that.
42:33It seems she's in your debt.
42:35If her mother had lived, she might have helped her.
42:36I'd rather gather that all this might never have taken place
42:39if you hadn't said the right word.
42:42If you want to run, now's your chance.
42:46Well, it's a little bit crowded.
42:48I think I'll wait outside.
42:50Give me a shout when it all starts.
42:51I think I'll come.
42:51All right.
42:52It's not like church, is it?
42:53Oh, my dear.
42:55You do go to church quite often, do you, Mr. Briggs?
42:58No, I don't.
42:59But I do know the difference.
43:01I suppose it's on account of his divorce.
43:04It's like being buried outside the churchyard if you're a suicide.
43:07Oh, Sefton, it's a wedding, not a funeral.
43:10Do we have to tip anybody?
43:12Well, I should think we can safely leave that to Tony.
43:14I don't haul with cremations either.
43:17It's nothing to do with religion.
43:18I just don't haul with them.
43:19Did anybody hear it, Mar, on Thursday?
43:22Thursday, another one.
43:23I don't mind if I don't.
43:31Private Hoffman and Miss Doyle?
43:33Oh, that's correct.
43:34Will you come in now, please?
43:38She's no better than she ought to be either, Americans, eh?
43:41Thank you very much.
43:45Oh, we couldn't have won the war without them.
43:47But we haven't won it yet, though, have we?
43:50Remember how he came through Belgium and France before Dunkirk?
43:53He could do it again, you know.
43:55He's got more up his sleeve than his arm.
43:57Look, look, shouldn't somebody go and get Tony?
43:59I mean, we are next on the list, aren't we?
44:01Oh, I'll go.
44:02She'll go.
44:03You're very facetious, aren't you?
44:05Well, they have that effect on me, weddings, weddings and...
44:09Funerals.
44:10Who are we doing?
44:11Well, it's up, I think.
44:12It's good to work.
44:13It looks like an invasion.
44:19Oh, I hope it's good, ma'am.
44:22Sir?
44:22Oh, dear, not again.
44:24No, I'm afraid so, ma'am.
44:25Oh, well, carry on.
44:27We're not too late, are we?
44:28No, we were just about to start.
44:30What's going on?
44:31What's going on?
44:32Private second class Eugene Hoffman.
44:34That is correct, Sergeant.
44:36Pass.
44:37What's going on?
44:39Well, somebody answer me.
44:40I keep talking.
44:42Okay, soldier.
44:43Under 21 years of age.
44:45Right.
44:45No parental permission to marry.
44:47Right.
44:48No permission from your commanding officer.
44:50Right.
44:51That is, in fact, correct, Sergeant.
44:52Yes.
44:53That is no.
44:54On your way, soldier.
44:57Sorry, lady.
44:58Eugene.
45:00No, Eugene.
45:02Well, how's your back this week?
45:04What's going on?
45:05Better, thanks.
45:06How's your guitar?
45:07Yes, that's all.
45:08Bye.
45:09Cheerio.
45:10Well, what's going on?
45:11Aren't we getting married, then?
45:13Well, you just get to him, you know what?
45:14Thanks, bud.
45:15You're a miracle.
45:16Keep moving, soldier.
45:17Eugene, don't go.
45:19Please, what's going on?
45:21Aren't we getting married, Eugene?
45:24Mr. Mackenzie?
45:26Yes.
45:27And Miss Ashton?
45:28Yes.
45:29Would you come in now, please?
45:32Tony, come back.
45:33He's standing up here.
45:35After you, Claude.
45:38Oh, no.
45:39I'll do you, John.
45:40Oh, well, in your care.
45:41Come on, then.
45:42Hey, Johnny.
45:45That's it.
45:46Aren't you coming in, darling?
45:47Well, I'll be in in a minute.
45:48I'll just...
45:49Ricky!
45:51They've gone in!
45:54You are Ian James Mackenzie?
45:58Yes.
45:59And you are Freda Ashton?
46:00Yes.
46:01Good afternoon.
46:03Would the rest of you like to sit down, please?
46:06And will you, Ian and Freda, continue to stand?
46:10Oh, I'm sorry.
46:17Oh, sorry.
46:22Thanks.
46:23This place in which you are now met has been duly sanctioned according to the law for the celebration of marriages.
46:30Who has the ring, please?
46:33Before you are joined together in matrimony, it is my duty to remind you of the solemn and binding character of the vows which you are about to take.
46:43Marriage, according to the laws of this country, is the union of one man and one woman, voluntarily, entered into for life to the exclusion of all others.
46:52Yes, you, uh, understand?
46:55Yes.
46:56Now, Ian, please repeat this declaration after me.
47:00I do solemnly declare...
47:02I do solemnly declare...
47:03That I know not of any lawful impediment...
47:06That I know not of any lawful impediment...
47:08Why I, Ian James Mackenzie...
47:10Why I, Ian James Mackenzie...
47:12May not be joined in matrimony...
47:14May not be joined in matrimony...
47:16To, uh, Freda Ashton.
47:17To Freda Ashton.
47:18Now, Freda, I do solemnly declare...
47:23I do solemnly declare...
47:25That I know not of any lawful impediment...
47:28That I know not of any unlawful impediment...
47:30Lawful impediment.
47:34Pardon?
47:35You said unlawful impediment.
47:38Oh, I thought you said...
47:40Oh, don't worry. More people say it wrong than say it right.
47:43Let's start again, shall we?
47:45I do solemnly declare...
47:48I do solemnly declare...
47:49That I know not of any lawful impediment...
47:52That I know not of any lawful impediment...
47:55Why I, Freda Ashton...
47:57Why I, Freda Ashton...
47:58May not be joined in matrimony...
48:00May not be joined in matrimony...
48:01To Ian James Mackenzie...
48:03To Ian James Mackenzie.
48:07I've got it! I've got it, Dad!
48:09Dad, I've got it!
48:10Have you?
48:10Well, great, great!
48:11I've got your salt here!
48:13That's it, that's it, now.
48:15That's the salt that'll do it.
48:17There, that's it, that's it.
48:19There.
48:19What do you think, eh?
48:24Oh, God.
48:26Not a bad feeling, aren't they, Edwin?
48:28Well, it's the best we could muster under the circumstances.
48:30Not but at all.
48:31Well, I thought everything was wonderful.
48:34Yes, sir.
48:35Not but at all.
48:39Helen, could you find me a safety pin?
48:42The one Sheila got me has collapsed under the strain.
48:45Well, the weather sure turned out lousy, didn't it, Bud?
48:48Yes, didn't it?
48:49Do you have to call anybody, Bud?
48:50For you, Rosebud.
48:53Cheeky devil.
48:54Oh, Mersey Docks, this is me.
48:56Oh, Mersey Docks.
48:58Oh, Mersey Docks.
48:59Watch out where you're going.
49:01On behalf of the Mersey Docks and the Harbour Board, I now pronounce this man away.
49:04You are drunk, aren't you?
49:07What a thing to say to your husband at a wedding.
49:10They can't have gone, because Ian has got to come back in.
49:12He's the best man in Spanish.
49:14Tell her if you've got a confetti.
49:16Have you got some coffee?
49:17Three weeks of the wedding at the New Yorkist.
49:19Oh, thanks, Lord.
49:21Could you give me a hand with this, Bud?
49:33Sneaking away.
49:34Oh, yes, well, Ian's just going to get the last case.
49:38Well, is there anything I can do, Ian?
49:39Oh, I know.
49:40That's a lot.
49:41Let me take that.
49:42Sorry.
49:42Yeah.
49:49Thank you, Ian.
49:50Right, then.
49:50In you get this.
49:55Hey, don't give the game away, will you?
49:59I'm the soul of discretion.
50:00You ought to know that, man.
50:03Here they are.
50:04Oh, God, that's Tornish.
50:05Oh, Lord.
50:07Come on.
50:07Barbarian horse.
50:09Marie, sneak it up without saying goodbye.
50:12I know.
50:13This is funny.
50:14Here they are.
50:16Hold it tight.
50:17Bye-bye.
50:18I'm sorry.
50:20Be happy.
50:22Be happy.
50:23Bye-bye.
50:28In you get.
50:31You'll never get away.
50:32I'll die his cat.
50:35I'll get it to her.
50:36Don't worry.
50:37Here.
50:39I'll get it.
50:40I'll get it.
50:41I'll get it.
50:43Say, get the driver.
50:44I'll get it.
50:44Here, a present from the bride.
51:06Thanks.
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