Original subtitles

a nice more cinderpath and better

brosies and you best learn that right

now

i'd rather die i'll run away

let's go let's all go away from him in

this place

i've told you it was an accident nobody

knows the facts but us

my father left the farm to me well i

mean to have a shot at it

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i'd like to see you marry her would you

marry me charlie

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because i know how your father died and

you know that i could let the cat out of

that bag

anytime i like

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three of us

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young man why aren't you at the front

now fast please ladies oh and don't you

tell me you're in a reserved occupation

great big fella like you maybe it's flat

feet or weak eyes

weakness more like i've got a husband

and a son over there

in mud and water and covered in lice and

you walk about

large's life for your information ladies

he's a farmer he runs a big farm

and anything you can still get here like

it's not it came from him

to video

charlie look at you you get much of that

white feathers oh yes

are you on leave oh we're thinking for

over the water or any time now

can i buy you a drink now let me buy you

one

all right how does miss vicki like being

a farmer's wife then

not much she spends most of her time in

the house in jesmond

jasmine porsche when do you get that

victoria's aunt died soon after the war

started and uh

she left clara and elia

well that's still going strong always

will as long as betty's in charge

i'm ready for this charlie

cheers

i missed you know arthur when he left

the farm i didn't think i'd manage

without you had to get away charlie

that red-headed bastard slater couldn't

take it well he went too

and you know where he is in the army if

i come across him on a date night i

don't know what to do

how's polly with the flu again

pregnant she'll have a squatter kids for

slater and be worn out with 30.

no kids up for you or miss vicki

what's the matter charlie you don't look

a bit happy marriage

i don't feel sorry for me arthur i got

what i deserved

but what's the talk victoria and i were

the trouble

i should never got married

there's nothing between us anymore

another drink

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well my dear husband

what wind blows you in charlie boy

i've come to ask you something i know

you're going to beg me beg me to go to

bed with you aren't you

wouldn't that make a change

my mother is very ill most of the staff

are offered the war and betty can't

manage on her own

if you would come back with me for a

while to help us look after her

you're seriously asking me to look after

your of a mother

and help your bloody-minded sister

you've come all this way to ask me that

i think my mother is dying as for betty

you wouldn't have to put up with her for

long

she's engaged to weatherby if she

marries him should go to his place

and you'll be left all on your own i see

that's why you want me back isn't it

you must be mad go back to that prison

i had needed someone to keep me warm in

bed had i

had i you had a man here last night

didn't you

did i then what makes you think so

he left his message of approval on the

mirror

oh silly me i should have rubbed it out

shouldn't i

but then i wasn't expecting my husband

today

i can divorce you sorry you can what

i can divorce you oh no you can't

but i can divorce you for

non-consummation of our marriage

you know that's a lie who cares you

blacken my character

and i'll stand up in court and tell them

how i tried every way i knew to make you

love me as a man should but you wouldn't

or couldn't you do that and i'll contest

it

i'll contest it and you wish you'd never

started

mama have i made a mistake

maybe there is a man in there somewhere

after all

if you want some help with your mother

why don't you try nelly

if you can find us sober

cher's in the brewery nelly what i have

anyway i buy that much booze

wait drink up mate

are they lovely always dropping in to

keep me company

i'll never be lonely as long as i've got

this lot

so what brings you into town charlie

i had some business to do everything all

right on the farm

not really old arnold's off with back

trouble

my mother's not very well

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i better be off i've got a train to

catch but you just got here

i'm sorry nelly i just just wanted to

say hello

we're short staffed i better get back

goodbye what's hello

charlie what's the matter aren't you

well

i'm all right nelly did you see vic

any progress downwards

do you ever see her oh anyone we can't

help it i bumped into her in some

canteen

she was doing her bit for the war effort

ready to serve in more ways than one

don't really you should never have

married her

you must know that by now do you still

love her love victoria

i don't think it was ever love i fell

for her

i didn't know any better you'd have made

a better bargain with me charlie

don't be silly you would i know you

would

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look after yourself

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so

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thanks for the lift right now

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hmm

not that

come on mother it'll ease your throat

downstairs will you and leave her to me

don't go out i want a word with you

oh sit down i'll feed you

she's in a pretty low state is she

doctor said it could be weeks i'm at the

end of my

travel running this place looking after

her

i've got to have help

no betty you can marry your what's his

name whether be tomorrow if you like

but i'm not having him here if he

marries you he has to find a home for

you

and if i go who's going to look after

this place

inside and out i'll get along somehow

you're just afraid of losing me

i'm with two men on the outside and a

couple of women on the inside to you

but what do i get out of it eh if you

want to marry him

marry him and he won't go empty-handed

but he is not coming here all right i'll

go

and then he'd look after this place if

you happen to join up

me go to war stick bayonets into total

strangers just because my government's

quarreling with theirs

no that's what this war's about betty

and i'll have no part of it

don't you ever read the papers charlie

they brought in conscription

anyway i'll do

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i will give you instructions as to what

to do with your ben and your

kit i will also tell you what will

happen to you

if you don't do what i tell you what to

do when you're bending your kit

right draw around sergeant

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so

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well well now private mcfarl

strange world isn't it

ascent it's a strange world

isn't it it is

yes it is oh

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sergeant

i had to be dragged in didn't you bloody

conscript

well macpher let me tell you something

the army's going to be a cinder perth

very hard cinder path for you and if it

lies with me there'll be fresh ashes on

it every day

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how much longer have i got to spend with

the new lazy lot in the shade

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like jellyfish

if you haven't got

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me

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that's all right sergeant we all have to

learn

carry on

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oh

you're meant to be standing to attention

you stomach straighten up there

and don't move my muscle hand on a

minute

i don't know if some of you got into the

arby you'd be better employed selling

in a lady shop

said just leave it be

get up and it's your time

all right

smith not you

got the plans for you

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left right left right left right left

right left right come on back

what a bloody area that you're doing

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right

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not you

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so

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you from the start even in this bloody

island you can complain

can i

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it is you isn't it charlie polly

polly benton polly slater charlie

oh yes my sergeant's wife

so glad i bumped into you we wanted so

much to talk

how can we have a cup of tea somewhere

wait nowhere pops

he's busy isn't it

just to say i know what he's been

putting you through

he gets great pleasure out of telling me

whenever he's home on leave

and i'm sorry

he's bent on getting his own back your

father did lee into him

so but i didn't

i tried to help him you refused my help

charlie it's all mixed up in his mind

me in that business with the adar and

our author

frightens me sometimes

especially when it's you he's all

steamed up about

how does he treat you oh he's good to me

loves me and the bands

two bends now another on the way

i'd be happy really happy

if it wasn't for what he's done to you

i'd better go no don't come with me

case was seen that would take too much

explaining

charlie be careful

don't let him don't ever let him provoke

you

oh he's provoked me many times

almost to see how far he's got to go

before him that's it

if you get bucket in then he's got an

excuse

charlie just be careful

i'm sorry what do you mean pulley

just be careful

left right left right left right we

shouldn't join

that's it that's what i want to see

and it's a real thing to be someone

trying to run you through two

so get it first unless you're like

someone i could mention

they never had the guts to kill a pig on

a farm how the world ever gonna kill a

bloody german

sergeant

you wouldn't be thinking of complaining

private

i'd have another thing about that if i

was you

you order one word mr

an utterly army and the whole bloody

world

just how your father lost his life

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in line

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god i didn't mean to kill him

squad high pass

front rack oh

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ah

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do you miss mother i suppose so

i've been told they're gonna bill it

some german prisoners of war here oh yes

me on my own with a lot of men lonely

arnold to protect me

for god's sake all right marry a blasted

weatherby and bring him here if you must

but you must both leave and find a place

of your own the moment i get back

if i get back you'll come back charlie

you've worked hard here betty no one

harder

if you get married and go you're

entitled to half the profits

and if i don't come back well you'll

have it all

i've already made a will out to that

effect

my dear wife i should dispute that

it's all there in writing

oh and i've arranged with a bank that

you may draw checks while i'm away

charlie thanks

mrs chapman betty a farmer told me he'd

spotted charlie on his way here i need

to see him

urgently come in i'm in a hurry

will you get him

florence i see charlie

my husband's had a stroke i think he's

dying

if you could get back to newcastle to

tell victoria and nelly

they must come out here to see their

father i'll be glad to

we haven't seen either of them for

months he asked for them this morning

first time he's done that of course

victoria always went her own way but

nelly

i don't know what's come over that girl

nelly's all right

it's a long way up here she's got a job

you know nobody's their own boss these

days

you look well charlie very fit

well i'm only sorry i didn't join up

earlier really

i'm surprised you're liking it well i

wouldn't say i'm liking it florence

just let's say i'm learning from it

that is victoria

oh what a mess

i hope so much should soften her change

her

i'm as much to blame as anyone my

husband wanted it

and i wanted anything that made him

happy

it's my fault too you're too nice

charlie that's your trouble

go on if there's anything i can do

just tell them to come

i've got to go back to the camp we may

be going overseas

i saw your mother today your father's

very ill

he may not have much longer and he's

asking for you

you're all right nelly nobody bothering

you oh

hello no it's all right alec it's my

brother-in-law

my father's ill will you keep that look

quiet

cautionary sorry

i know it's not what you think that they

come here for a drink and a laugh

i won't allow anything else i'm not a

like my sister

nelly they'd like more some of them alex

all right he's decent

he's a friend but the others they think

i'm weird

but i won't i can't

it's all your fault

did you say you might be going away

oh god you might may never see you again

of course you'll see me again nelly

do you mean it's all my fault don't you

know

oh what is the matter with you

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just friends

look will you go and see your father

promise

no you promise

if you're going away you'll come and say

goodbye

if you can't you're right you'll let me

know

promise

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so

oh

what do you want a word with my wife you

know right here until i divorce you i

have every right

your mother wants you back at brooklyn

as soon as possible

your father is dying he would like to

see you

if you can spare the time

i have a feeling i should know you

you're the commanding officer of my

company

ah i

um fear i owe you an apology

i'd understood that you were separated

officially

you understood wrongly but i gather that

there are certain

circumstances that would make it easier

for her to get a divorce

no that is a concoction of hers it is a

complete and absolute lie

but this isn't a lie is it

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surely we can so wait charlie wait i

want to talk to you

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one two

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one

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what have you been up to

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quick

that'll be all right

macphell stand easy

oh no let me ask you a question

have you ever thought about a commission

sir well have you

i know sir why not

i suppose i couldn't see myself in

command of men sir

you're a farmer yes sir you've been in

charge of me then

before at most sir nevertheless we've

had to give orders i'm surprised you

didn't put in for a commission straight

away

into a good school university

i had to leave university early sir to

take over the farm when my father died

well that's neither here nor there

we're in need of good officer material

we've been through your papers

and you seem pretty suitable

may i ask sir

my name was put forward what

we see

nothing there

ten days ago there's always some delay

as we look into things you understand

how many children no sir

your wife runs the farm no sir my sister

my wife is in newcastle i'm nice

and if you just slip home sometimes

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yes sir it doesn't happen overnight

we'll have to do a little training

pretty damned fast

in fact as some of us will very soon be

on the move

for now all i can say is welcome

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hey it's come

here we on joe it started in 10 minutes

i'm not coming with you johnny what but

don't say anything

i want to hit slater with it i'm getting

a commission

hey charlie charlie that i'm not pleased

except oh well

it's the finish it wasn't it officers

and men can't be made

never forget you johnny i'd have killed

him if you hadn't seen me through

bye i'm glad for you i am that

of all things weren't you glad about me

charlie's granny's been on the streets

and he's giving me a number would you

like it

what have we here well i know

can't face a horrible german so he's

going to report sick

no sergeant oh doesn't want to go

can't stand the sight of blood and

they'll be bang bangs

on your feet and fall in or i'll assist

you with me boot up your ass

i'd advise you to be very careful

sergeant

at this moment i'm not in a position to

put you on a charge

but i could report you

you could what i've been recommended for

a commission

out outdoorlania

get out

so

wonder it somehow did you

couldn't have got it any other way i

didn't wrangle it

it was offered to me something fishy

from the first day i've not set a good

word for you which suggests the officers

aren't quite the fools you take them for

oh enjoy it mcfell

enjoy while you can

flashing upon this will be

and you know why don't you

you're a loser always well and always

will be

couldn't even keep a wife

and officer

you

however you got put up for that is

beyond me

the dashing young second lieutenant

ready to take the town by storm

fancy a drink first where officers mess

of course

haven't seen you there no you haven't

what they put a man through before

giving him his pips i'm absolutely

exhausted well

let's hope it's worth it orders protocol

the only thing they don't teach you is

how to die with your guts hanging out

just one cry carry on men while pushing

them back in

or just let them drip while crying good

luck chaps

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no need to overdo it old boy the salute

let them put all they've got into it

that is rather the point i hadn't

thought of it that way

they're very popular with the rank and

fight i always remember that not long

ago i was one of them

you know being liked by the men is not

the chief object of the exercise

no i suppose not hello radar

i'll see you later when we having a

drink

i'm sorry i've arranged the reason

some other time perhaps of course

so

there's no use nothing there i'm sick of

telling them

they keep coming through and i keep

telling them how she left

not under our own steam but i carry her

out

gas though i'll use gas must that's the

easiest way

please she was a dear friend of mine she

was a dear friend of everybody's if you

ask me

what are you saying that she's dead she

might be by now she tried hard enough

when did it happen four days ago and

where is she

in hospital of course

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nelly

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shy

thought you'd gone forgotten me

i'd never forget you nelly

no i did

don't think about it

i'm here to look after you now

it was lonely but all your friends

nothing to live for you've got

everything to live for nelly

you're young and bonnie and lovely

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don't cry

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they'll throw me out there they said i

wasn't to distress you

you always distressed me charlie

i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm the one who

should be sorry

i should have written yes you should

time's up no no no not yet

i'll come back tomorrow i promise he

must charlie i need you

please promise i promise

i promise

thank you

is

absolute disaster in france

replacement's needed as a matter of

urgency and

uh we're off first thing in the morning

whiskey

whiskey first thing but i've got to meet

someone

not possible or leave cancelled old chap

then i'll go tonight

oh no you won't we've got work to do

it'll take all night i should think

meant to be kitted out gear checked but

i promised

little personal matter rather

unimportant in the scale of things old

chap

no no of course you mustn't wait but i

understand

yes tomorrow morning will be fine but

please make sure she gets the message

thank you

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ah

miss chapman there was a telephone call

for you last night

you'd had your sleeping draft so we

couldn't wake you who was it

it was a lieutenant mcfell charlie

what did you want now you're not to get

upset

he's not coming is he but he promised me

he promised charlie wouldn't let me down

he had no choice apparently

all leave was cancelled they're going

this morning

to the front

mrs chapman what are you doing where is

he leaving from miss chapman be censored

where is he leaving from

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all out the officers

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come here major carry on

return under the platform collect your

kits

and under the trains the two tier 2

fall out

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yes

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morning

foul

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charlie

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oh darling

you shouldn't be here look at you they

should never let you out no they didn't

i'd see you i have so much to say

there's no time now

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but i must talk all those parties

charlie people they didn't mean anything

truly i know i know i i just needed

something

to make up for what i'd lost you know

who that was you know what i'm saying

i'm just never sure how you feel i

should have done something about a

divorce nelly yes

as soon as the war's over as soon

as i get back i will i promise you

believe me you do believe me

only you'd say it if you just say what i

need to hear

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lieutenant

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i love you

you're not just you're not just saying

it i know you told him

why did it meant pleasing somebody i

love you

don't worry if i can get through

marriage with your sister i can get

through the bloody war

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oh

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you