Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
1h 30min | Drama | 27 September 1948 (UK)
An elderly British schoolmaster is upset when a new teacher comes to the school and is an immediate success with the boys. The older man thinks he isn't getting the respect he deserves.
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Writers: T.J. Morrison (additional dialogue), L.A.G. Strong (screenplay)
Stars: David Farrar, Marius Goring, Greta Gynt
1h 30min | Drama | 27 September 1948 (UK)
An elderly British schoolmaster is upset when a new teacher comes to the school and is an immediate success with the boys. The older man thinks he isn't getting the respect he deserves.
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Writers: T.J. Morrison (additional dialogue), L.A.G. Strong (screenplay)
Stars: David Farrar, Marius Goring, Greta Gynt
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00:02:40Friend Garden, shepherding our new brethren, I see.
00:02:43Playing the good Samaritan.
00:02:45Excellent, excellent. You too, Rogers.
00:02:47Well, friend Garden, I see from my class list
00:02:50that I still have the pleasure of you both.
00:02:52My pawn.
00:02:53Yes, sir.
00:02:54Well, we shall meet anon, eh?
00:03:00Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:01Good afternoon.
00:03:02Afternoon.
00:03:05Well, gentlemen, we meet once more for a new term.
00:03:09Looking round upon you, I know that I can trust you
00:03:11to work together in that harmony
00:03:13which has always characterized the staff of Banfields College.
00:03:17We shall, I'm confident, enable our beloved school
00:03:19to reach fresh heights.
00:03:22And now to detailed arrangements for the coming term.
00:03:27You'll be glad to know that a new master
00:03:29is joining us tomorrow.
00:03:31During the war, he's been doing a man's work,
00:03:33playing a man's part in the fighting services.
00:03:38The new master's name, David Trail,
00:03:40will be familiar to those of you who follow rugby football.
00:03:43He represented Cambridge University for two years,
00:03:46and he'll naturally be a great asset to the school game.
00:03:50We've all acclaimed the remarkable way in which Comber,
00:03:53defying the passage of the years,
00:03:55has shouldered the task of organizing
00:03:57and coaching the entire school's football.
00:04:00I'm glad at last to be able to lighten his burden
00:04:03by delegating, to begin with, the junior school games
00:04:06to Mr. Trail.
00:04:10But the assistance which Mr. Trail will bring us
00:04:13is fortunately not confined to the football field.
00:04:16His subject is mathematics.
00:04:18Our valued colleague, Pelling, has for many years
00:04:21ably directed the school's researchers
00:04:23into this fascinating subject.
00:04:25He too will welcome some relief
00:04:27from so onerous a responsibility.
00:04:29A breath of fresh air, if I may so describe it,
00:04:32from the outside world.
00:04:37Hello, Mother.
00:04:39Hello, dear.
00:04:44You are staying to supper, aren't you?
00:04:46Yes, yes, of course.
00:04:48I'm so glad.
00:04:50Oh, dear.
00:04:52You're not depressed, are you?
00:04:54The term's only just started.
00:04:56No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:04:58Well, now, tell me all your news.
00:05:00Have they done up your rooms?
00:05:02Not they.
00:05:04Oh, I thought you said they promised
00:05:06to do them during the holidays.
00:05:08Well, they haven't.
00:05:10Mother.
00:05:16Who was in chapel?
00:05:18Anyone interesting?
00:05:20No, Miss Lester was there.
00:05:22The one that admires you?
00:05:24Now, now, Mother, don't let your imagination
00:05:26run away with you.
00:05:28It's not my imagination. A mother always knows.
00:05:30Why, you've only seen her once,
00:05:32for about half a minute.
00:05:34Oh, don't laugh at your silly old mother as much as you like,
00:05:36but I saw the way she looked at you.
00:05:38I'm not the selfish type, not like some mothers.
00:05:40I want to see you settled, Vincent.
00:05:42That is a matter for me to decide.
00:05:44Of course, Vincent.
00:05:46But it's not very kind to keep the poor girl
00:05:48waiting too long.
00:05:50One waits for the propitious moment.
00:05:52If it doesn't come, one
00:05:54engineers it.
00:06:02Ah, Miss Lester.
00:06:04Good morning.
00:06:06Good morning, Mr. Perrin.
00:06:08I'm going for my constitutional.
00:06:10May I accompany you?
00:06:12Of course.
00:06:14Forgive my pipe.
00:06:16Glorious day, is it not?
00:06:18Yes, it is, isn't it?
00:06:20No hint of rain?
00:06:22None at all.
00:06:24I hope you're not feeling too tired, Miss Lester.
00:06:26I fear your work as doctor's assistant
00:06:28is rather exacting.
00:06:30You think a woman's place is in the home,
00:06:32don't you, Mr. Perrin?
00:06:34I do not know that medical work is particularly suitable.
00:06:36For a woman?
00:06:38After all, the home is the most honorable place
00:06:40for a woman, is it not, Miss Lester?
00:06:42Really, Mr. Perrin.
00:06:44The air is very pressing up here, is it not?
00:06:46Oh, yes, quite.
00:06:48I presume you leave the surgery
00:06:50at the usual hour this evening?
00:06:52Well, tonight I rather think I'll be working late.
00:06:54How very disappointing.
00:06:56I was hoping for the pleasure of escorting you home.
00:06:58That was very nice of you.
00:07:00Not at all, not at all. Pleasure, I assure you.
00:07:02Miss Lester,
00:07:04to revert to the subject we were discussing before,
00:07:06there is something...
00:07:08You know I think I ought to be hurrying.
00:07:10I've got to be at the surgery at 9 o'clock,
00:07:12and you'll be late, too.
00:07:14Yes, yes, of course. How foolish of me.
00:07:16Goodbye, Miss Lester.
00:07:18Goodbye, Mr. Perrin.
00:07:20One man
00:07:22buys 12 oranges
00:07:24and 4 apples
00:07:26for 4 shillings and 8 pence.
00:07:28Another man
00:07:30buys 4 oranges
00:07:32and 12 apples
00:07:34for 3 shillings and 4 pence.
00:07:36What is the cost
00:07:38of each orange and each apple?
00:07:40Right.
00:07:42Let X equal the price
00:07:44of each orange,
00:07:46and Y equal the price
00:07:48of each apple.
00:07:50We have 12 X
00:07:52plus 4 Y
00:07:54equals 4 shillings and 8 pence,
00:07:56which is how many pence, Johnson?
00:07:58Oh...
00:08:0047, sir.
00:08:02Idiot.
00:08:0456.
00:08:06And we have 4 X
00:08:08plus 12 Y
00:08:10equals 3 shillings
00:08:12and 4 pence,
00:08:14which is how many pence, Rogers?
00:08:16Rogers?
00:08:18Uh, 40.
00:08:20Multiply by 3.
00:08:22Assemble up, friend Rogers.
00:08:26Approach.
00:08:28Draw an eye.
00:08:36Show me your hands, Rogers.
00:08:40When you are famous, Rogers,
00:08:42and somebody writes your biography,
00:08:46he will find a fruitful subject
00:08:48for comment,
00:08:50in the fact that although you have not been with us
00:08:52for more than 24 hours,
00:08:54your hands are already ingrained
00:08:56with the foreign matter of at least
00:08:585 different varieties.
00:09:00Yes, sir.
00:09:02Yes, sir.
00:09:04But pending the composition of that biographical masterpiece,
00:09:10you will return to your desk
00:09:12from which horrid fastness
00:09:14perhaps you will give us a little more of your attention
00:09:16than you have hitherto seen fit
00:09:18to vouchsafe.
00:09:20Yes, sir.
00:09:22To resume.
00:09:24To eliminate Y...
00:09:36Philpott.
00:09:38Yes?
00:09:40Report to the headmaster at 2 o'clock sharp.
00:09:43Go and do your half.
00:10:07Come in.
00:10:13Yes, Pelling?
00:10:15You wish to see me at 2 o'clock, sir?
00:10:17Oh, yes. You have, I believe, a free period.
00:10:19Yes, headmaster.
00:10:21My next class is not till 3 o'clock.
00:10:23Very good.
00:10:25Some prospective parents will be coming this afternoon.
00:10:27The boy is young
00:10:29and will therefore be placed in your house.
00:10:31Yes, sir. You wish me to show them round?
00:10:33I thought I'd made it quite clear
00:10:35that I shall be conducting them.
00:10:37Sorry, sir.
00:10:43Hello, Dodge.
00:10:45Oh, hello, Miss Lester.
00:10:47Where's Matron?
00:10:49I don't know.
00:10:51Been waiting long?
00:10:53No, not very.
00:10:55What's the matter?
00:10:57I fell down and scratched my knee.
00:10:59Mr. Perrin sent me along.
00:11:01Shall I have a look at it, save you waiting?
00:11:03Oh, I don't mind waiting.
00:11:05You see, it's my grammar period
00:11:07and I'm not very interested in grammar.
00:11:09All right. We'll give Matron a few more minutes.
00:11:11There are, I believe,
00:11:13still a few vacant places in your house.
00:11:15Yes, sir. You may remember that you decided
00:11:17to close the upper dormitory altogether.
00:11:19In view of the unaccountable shortage of applicants,
00:11:21it seemed a necessary economy.
00:11:23Yes, sir. Is that all, sir?
00:11:25No. Be good enough to remain, if you please.
00:11:27Your new colleague will be here at any moment.
00:11:36Well, there seems to be no signs of Matron.
00:11:39Better have a look at that knee.
00:11:43Why, there's nothing there.
00:11:45Mr. Perrin said there was.
00:11:47All right. Perhaps we'll see it when it's cleaned up.
00:11:52Oh, it's hardly worth bothering about.
00:11:54Still, we'll put something on it for luck.
00:12:02Come in.
00:12:05Oh, hello.
00:12:07Yes?
00:12:09I'm David Trail, the new master.
00:12:11I'm looking for Mr. Mythompson's study.
00:12:13Well, it's round the corner on the right.
00:12:20Surely you're not going to put a dressing
00:12:22on a little scratch like that, are you?
00:12:24Perhaps you'd like to take my place.
00:12:26Sorry. I was only trying to be helpful.
00:12:28You know, you'll go a long way.
00:12:30Well, I really only want to go as far as the headmaster's study.
00:12:33Well, that's easy.
00:12:35Walk straight out of here, turn right,
00:12:37cross the passage, you can't miss it.
00:12:39What happened?
00:12:40I was round the corner, sir, and I bumped into another boy,
00:12:43and we got mixed up.
00:12:44Yes, who won?
00:12:45It's to be continued after school, sir.
00:12:47Now, this might sting a little.
00:12:49Why don't you play for safety and put his leg in splints?
00:12:58Ow!
00:13:04Perrin?
00:13:08Oh, Mr. Trail?
00:13:10Yes, sir.
00:13:11Reporting for duty.
00:13:13That's right, sir.
00:13:14Allow me to introduce your new colleague and assistant, Mr. Trail.
00:13:18Mr. Perrin, Mr. Trail.
00:13:20How do you do, Mr. Perrin?
00:13:22How do you do?
00:13:24You'll find Perrin's experience...
00:13:26Let me see, how long is it, Perrin?
00:13:2821 years, sir.
00:13:30As long as that.
00:13:32Well, well.
00:13:34You'll find Perrin's long experience will be most helpful to you,
00:13:37and I'm sure he'll be only too ready to place it at your disposal.
00:13:40Well, Perrin, we needn't detain you any longer.
00:13:43Sit down, Joe.
00:13:44Thanks.
00:13:45As you will be assisting Perrin in the running of his house,
00:13:48it'll be well for you to get to know each other as soon as possible.
00:13:51You can rely on Perrin to show you the ropes.
00:13:54It may possibly seem to you,
00:13:56after your exciting work in the services,
00:13:58that your task here will be easy and uninteresting.
00:14:01Oh, not at all, sir.
00:14:02To one who's played so important a role,
00:14:04the activities of school life may seem small to be on.
00:14:07I assure you, I don't look on it like that at all, sir.
00:14:09I'll be very grateful for any tips Mr. Perrin can give me.
00:14:12I am delighted to hear it.
00:14:13Such a spirit is all too infrequent in the world today.
00:14:16Er, quite so.
00:14:18That will be all.
00:14:31Our trail.
00:14:32Getting your bearings?
00:14:33Well, trying to.
00:14:35Unfortunately, I have a class shortly.
00:14:37Otherwise, I would place myself entirely at your disposal.
00:14:39Nevertheless, I will show you as much as time permits.
00:14:42Thanks.
00:14:43Dale, come along. My dear fellow, come along.
00:14:44Right.
00:14:47I don't think you should have any real difficulty with the boys.
00:14:50Main thing is not to be too familiar with them.
00:14:54That's a mistake so many young men make nowadays.
00:14:57With the result that the boys fail to pay the master the proper respect
00:15:00and get out of hand.
00:15:01I expect I'll soon get the hang of it with your help and advice.
00:15:04Oh, I'm only too glad to be at your disposal.
00:15:06Oh, that's very kind of you.
00:15:07Not at all, not at all.
00:15:08Pleasure, I assure you.
00:15:10This is the common room.
00:15:14I see.
00:15:17You will associate, of course, mostly with the masters.
00:15:20There's no doubt that your daily work
00:15:22will bring you into contact with other members of the staff.
00:15:24Yes, I've met one of them already.
00:15:26The matron. Attractive girl, isn't she?
00:15:28Attractive girl?
00:15:30This manor?
00:15:31Oh, is that her name?
00:15:32That is the matron's name.
00:15:35Now, if you have no objection...
00:15:40A warning bell is sounded a few minutes before each period
00:15:43to permit transit to classroom or to dining hall, as the case may be.
00:15:49I'm late for my class.
00:15:50Oh, I'm sorry. I'm afraid that's my fault.
00:15:52Not at all, not at all.
00:15:53Not at all, not at all.
00:15:54The porter is entirely to blame for omitting to sound the warning bell.
00:15:57There is your room over there, if you'll excuse me.
00:15:59Thanks very much.
00:16:06Of course, the junior school will be your pigeon now.
00:16:09Well, I thought you might like to know the best selection for the team.
00:16:12I brought the list.
00:16:13I made it out during the holidays.
00:16:14Oh, thanks very much.
00:16:15That'll be an invaluable guide.
00:16:17Guide?
00:16:18My dear fellow, I've been at this game for donkey's years.
00:16:21How long have you been a sports master?
00:16:23Well, this is my first job, didn't you know?
00:16:25Well, it takes time to get to know boys, especially on the game side.
00:16:30Well, it's none of my business,
00:16:31but I don't want to see you making an ass of yourself right...
00:16:33Don't you, Comber? That's very nice of you.
00:16:36I have to go now, Trail. I live out.
00:16:37Oh, come, come, Comber. Where's your manners? Won't you introduce us?
00:16:40Trail Birkland.
00:16:43Hi, Birkland.
00:16:44How do you do?
00:16:46Been getting your first lesson on how to become an efficient sports master, eh?
00:16:51Sort of.
00:16:52But he's not a bad chap.
00:16:53He made up team lists over the holidays to help me out.
00:16:55Oh, don't you believe it.
00:16:57Only found out yesterday that you were coming.
00:17:00Well, we could have torn them up, couldn't we?
00:17:02All right, you keep your illusions.
00:17:06You know, before you've been here five minutes,
00:17:07the boys will be giving you a name of their own.
00:17:09Short and to the point.
00:17:11Comber's Puffy. I'm Stinker.
00:17:13Stinker?
00:17:14Oh, yes. I flatter myself just because I take chemistry,
00:17:16not from any personal characteristics.
00:17:18Oh, I see.
00:17:19And then we have a prize boar, Perrin.
00:17:22Pompous old idiot. They call him Pompo.
00:17:25Yes, I've met him already.
00:17:28Oh, yes.
00:17:29When you really get to know all our brilliant entertainments,
00:17:31I have no doubt that you'll be very anxious
00:17:33to mould yourself along traditional Banfield lines.
00:17:36If you feel like this is the beginning of a term,
00:17:38what do you feel like at the end?
00:17:39Oh, not so bad.
00:17:40You may get used to Banfield in time.
00:17:42It's rather like a decaying tooth.
00:17:44It doesn't trouble you much once the nerve's dead,
00:17:46but it gets a bit lively during the holidays.
00:17:48Anything much to do here in the evening?
00:17:50Oh, my dear fellow,
00:17:51I wouldn't dream of spoiling the surprise for you.
00:17:53You must find out yourself
00:17:54the brilliant and hilarious entertainment
00:17:56our common room offers.
00:17:59Oh, come along, that's for supper.
00:18:01I'm sure you can't wait to meet the rest of your colleagues.
00:18:10SNORING
00:18:33Sorry.
00:18:35CLATTERING
00:18:38Trale, let's get out of this undertaker's parlour
00:18:41and have a drink in my room, eh?
00:18:43Yes, good idea.
00:18:44Birkin.
00:18:45Hmm?
00:18:46There is no way to speak at any time,
00:18:48particularly not in front of a newcomer to our circle.
00:18:54Trale.
00:18:56Be so good as to return punch to the place from whence you took it.
00:19:04That's a good boy.
00:19:06Trale.
00:19:08Just a moment.
00:19:10The common room newspapers and periodicals
00:19:13are purchased by our common subscriptions.
00:19:17Therefore, they are communal property.
00:19:19Consequently, they should be made readily available to everyone,
00:19:23unless they are in use by any one individual.
00:19:26I see.
00:19:27You are, of course, new to Banfields.
00:19:29Doubtless, you will soon absorb our customs and traditions.
00:19:33Doubtless.
00:20:04Sir?
00:20:06Yes, Dodge, what is it?
00:20:07I can't understand this, sir.
00:20:09Let's have a look at it.
00:20:15I keep getting the price of a dozen cheaper than the price of one.
00:20:20Well, naturally, you should multiply here instead of dividing.
00:20:23See?
00:20:24Oh, yes.
00:20:25All right?
00:20:26Yes.
00:20:28What's your trouble?
00:20:29Could you explain this bit to me, please, sir?
00:20:33What seems to be wrong?
00:20:34Well, I've got in a muddle, sir.
00:20:41Yes.
00:20:42You have got in a muddle.
00:20:44You'd better start again from the beginning.
00:20:46Yes, sir.
00:20:50Please, sir, I can't do this sum.
00:20:52What's over there?
00:21:04Let's go back to your seat for a minute.
00:21:13Someone has put Indian rubber on the stove.
00:21:17Come here, the scoundrel who did it.
00:21:24For the last time, will the gentleman who put this evil-smelling substance on the stove come here?
00:21:34Very well.
00:21:36I just have to come and fetch him.
00:21:42I know perfectly well who it is.
00:21:46It wasn't you because you came straight up to the desk.
00:21:49It wasn't you because you didn't have time.
00:21:52Therefore, there is only one person it could have been.
00:21:55And I invite him once more to step out before I come and lug him out by the ear.
00:22:01Do you mean me, sir?
00:22:03Well, you must be a thought-reader.
00:22:06Yes, sir, I do mean you, sir.
00:22:09Come here, you little beast.
00:22:17I shall not ask you whether you put Indian rubber on the stove because we know perfectly well that you did.
00:22:22Why, I confess, is a mystery to me.
00:22:25I can only surmise that you greatly enjoy the smell.
00:22:27Well, will you not be selfish?
00:22:29Since you enjoy it so much, you shall have a good sniff of it.
00:22:36Please, sir.
00:22:37Have you had enough?
00:22:38Yes, thank you, sir.
00:22:40Sure you wouldn't like some more?
00:22:45Now, the next hero who tries anything of the kind will get some lines as well.
00:22:50Now, get on with your work.
00:22:58All right, here we go.
00:23:03Harris in the junior team.
00:23:05Scrum half.
00:23:06Absolutely preposterous.
00:23:08You can't deny that Trail knows a great deal about the game.
00:23:11I'm not attempting to deny it, my dear dormer.
00:23:14But it's one thing to know about playing with grown men,
00:23:17and quite another thing to understand the capabilities of young boys.
00:23:20I quite agree, Comber.
00:23:22I quite agree.
00:23:27It's perfectly obvious that Trail knows nothing whatever about schoolboys' rugby.
00:23:31Still, we mustn't be too hard on him. It's early days yet.
00:23:34No doubt he'll learn.
00:23:35I hope so, I'm sure.
00:23:37Oh, there you are, Trail. Sorry I didn't know you were in the room.
00:23:40Go mention it.
00:23:41I was just saying to dormer that if you must put Harris in the junior team,
00:23:45you couldn't have chosen a worse position than scrum half.
00:23:48Obviously, you don't know the boy as I do. He's got a yellow streak.
00:23:50Exactly.
00:23:51And he won't get over it till he's put in a place where he don't let it show.
00:23:54My dear man, he'll fail. He'll break down. He'll make an exhibition of himself.
00:23:57I don't think so.
00:23:59I tell you, I know all about him. He's a wretched, nervous, shrinking sort of boy.
00:24:03Even my wife's noticed it.
00:24:05Oh, well, of course, in that case, next time I'd better consult Mrs. Comber.
00:24:12Remember the golden rule, Vera. Wine to the right, food to the left.
00:24:23All right, you can go.
00:24:28Why can't you help us to pudding as usual?
00:24:30I've got to prepare, Vera. You remember what happened at our last dinner party.
00:24:33I should have thought the dinner party was bad enough without all this tomfoolery.
00:24:41Oh, dear. I always manage to do something to annoy Freddy,
00:24:44and I give anything in the world to please him.
00:24:47I shouldn't try so hard if I were you.
00:24:48I only give these dinner parties every term to maintain his position in the school,
00:24:51and then something always seems to go wrong.
00:24:53The last time I put the wrong date on the invitations, and everyone came a week late.
00:24:57I've decided who you're going to ask. I'll write them for you, if you like.
00:25:00Would you, dear?
00:25:01Of course.
00:25:02Miss Lester wrote my invitation.
00:25:04Well, what did I tell you?
00:25:06It does look rather obvious, doesn't it?
00:25:09Mind you, I don't want to read too much into it.
00:25:11You're not, my dear. It's plain as a pike star.
00:25:17It's my belief that she said something to Mrs. Comber.
00:25:21Although Miss Lester is a paying guest, they're very much attached to one another.
00:25:27So it's only natural that she should confide to her any feelings she might have,
00:25:33on a matter of importance.
00:25:39There must be some special reason for it.
00:25:43Comber can't abide me.
00:25:44I know that perfectly well.
00:25:46Horrid man.
00:25:47It was only last April that I was there,
00:25:51so my term can't possibly have come round again.
00:25:55I believe Miss Lester asked Mrs. Comber to invite me.
00:26:00Depend on it.
00:26:02That's what's happened.
00:26:04Good evening, Mr. Perrin.
00:26:05How very nice to see you.
00:26:08Good evening, Miss Lester.
00:26:09I did not hear you come in.
00:26:11I'm sorry. Shall I go out and come in again?
00:26:13By all means.
00:26:14I mean, no, no.
00:26:15I'm afraid I can't offer you a drink yet.
00:26:17My dear Miss Lester,
00:26:19in your company there is no need for any further intoxicants.
00:26:22Really, Mr. Perrin?
00:26:23I assure you, I meant that in sober earnest.
00:26:25In that case, you do need another intoxicant.
00:26:31Have you any new boys in your house this term?
00:26:34No, not exactly.
00:26:35That is, I'm expecting one shortly.
00:26:42Miss Lester.
00:26:45I wonder if I might ask you something.
00:26:47Yes.
00:26:50Mr. and Mrs. Dormer.
00:26:51Good evening, Mrs. Dormer.
00:26:52Good evening.
00:26:53Nice to see you.
00:26:54Mrs. Comber will be down in a moment.
00:26:56How are you, Mr. Dormer?
00:26:58Very well, thank you.
00:26:59Evening, Perrin.
00:27:00Evening.
00:27:01Evening.
00:27:04Miss Madder.
00:27:05Good evening, Miss Madder.
00:27:06Good evening, Miss Lester.
00:27:07Oh, hello, Mr. Perrin.
00:27:08Good evening, Miss Madder.
00:27:10No good looking at me, may I?
00:27:12I can't tell you what card to play.
00:27:15Weavers have got some delicious looking tins of tomato juice.
00:27:18And they're not on points, you know.
00:27:20Club's late, Mrs. Comber.
00:27:21Oh, yes.
00:27:25Nothing like making sure, Parter.
00:27:26That was my king you put your ace on.
00:27:28Oh, dear.
00:27:29I'm dreadfully sorry, Freddy.
00:27:34Your partner's lead.
00:27:37I was really upset today.
00:27:39I saw one of the maids talking to the jeweler master in a very intimate way.
00:27:43Well, Mr. Perrin?
00:27:44If there's one thing I will not stand, it's familiarity.
00:27:46Well, Miss Lester?
00:27:48How's your mother keeping?
00:27:50Oh, she's very well, thank you.
00:27:53Remarkably well, in fact.
00:27:55Of course, she's feeling her sciatica a little.
00:27:57Oh, I'm sorry.
00:27:58No, it's nothing much.
00:28:00Only to be expected at this time of the year.
00:28:02Must be nice for her, having you so near.
00:28:04Yes, we see each other as often as possible.
00:28:06Mind you, she doesn't try to hold me back.
00:28:09Far from it.
00:28:10She's always encouraged me in my ambitions.
00:28:13And what are your ambitions, Mr. Perrin?
00:28:15Oh, there are a great many things one could do.
00:28:18After all, I'm not so old.
00:28:21All sorts of things.
00:28:25If only one had the right incentive.
00:28:27What incentive?
00:28:29Well, if, for instance, one was to get married.
00:28:36Oh, Mr. Perrin.
00:28:37Cough it up, Miss, cough it up.
00:28:39Let me help you.
00:28:40It's time we left, Mrs. Copper.
00:28:42Shall we go and get your coats, then?
00:28:44I'm exceedingly sorry, Miss Lester.
00:28:45Oh, that's all right.
00:28:48Most enjoyable evening.
00:28:50Have you got a coat, Mr. Perrin?
00:28:51Yes, yes, of course.
00:28:52And to say good night to you.
00:28:53Right.
00:28:54So long.
00:28:55So long.
00:29:03Thank you, Miss Lester, for making it a most enjoyable evening.
00:29:07Good night, Mr. Perrin.
00:29:17Chanting.
00:29:48Chanting.
00:29:54Chanting.
00:30:17Chanting.
00:30:33Excuse me.
00:30:37Might I have a word with you in my study after morning school?
00:30:40Yes, I think so.
00:30:44Seniority has certain privileges.
00:30:48Will not mind my pointing out that I am accustomed to the first use of the times.
00:30:53Well, come to that, I'm accustomed to having a bath every morning.
00:30:56Is anyone preventing you?
00:30:57Yes, you are.
00:30:58You're in such a time.
00:30:59Can't imagine what you do there.
00:31:02You will forgive me if I see no reason for disturbing the routine I have followed for the past 20 years.
00:31:08Yes, but hang in all there are two baths.
00:31:09You can't want them both.
00:31:10It is my practice to take a warm bath first and to follow it with a cold plunge.
00:31:15Well, couldn't you run the hot water out and then sponge yourself with cold water?
00:31:19Then one bath would be free for me.
00:31:21Certainly not.
00:31:22It would be most uncomfortable.
00:31:24Anyway, are you suggesting that we should occupy the bathroom together?
00:31:28Well, what's wrong with that?
00:31:30Never heard of such a thing.
00:31:33The bathroom is for the use of the staff.
00:31:36And it's inconsiderate of the staff.
00:31:37The bathroom is for the use of the staff.
00:31:39And it's inconsiderate of you to keep it to yourself for 25 minutes every morning.
00:31:43As for the times, I don't see why if I'm down first I have to leave it especially for you.
00:31:47You are in a very junior position here.
00:31:48You seem to forget that.
00:31:50Not at all.
00:31:51You are the housemaster in an all school business.
00:31:52I accept your ruling.
00:31:53That is exceedingly kind of you.
00:31:56Anyhow, don't worry.
00:31:58As long as you keep the bathroom all that time, you'll always be down first.
00:32:01Then you can bag all the papers and sit on them.
00:32:04I have no desire to do anything of the kind.
00:32:05Good.
00:32:06Anything else?
00:32:08It certainly seems useless to say anything to you in your present mood.
00:32:11Absolutely.
00:32:22Good morning.
00:32:23Good morning.
00:32:24Have you bitten Mr. Perrin in the leg yet?
00:32:25Not yet.
00:32:26But I won't be responsible for what happens if I'm shut up in the common room on a half holiday.
00:32:30What about meeting me this afternoon?
00:32:32All right.
00:32:33Where?
00:32:34Anywhere you like.
00:32:35On the cliffs at three o'clock?
00:32:36On the cliffs at three o'clock, then.
00:32:38Good.
00:32:50Thanks.
00:32:52You realize, I suppose, that common room gossip will enlarge this miserable glass of sheddy into half a bottle of whiskey.
00:32:57I shouldn't worry.
00:32:58Cheers.
00:32:59Cheers.
00:33:04Still like being at Banfield?
00:33:05Yes.
00:33:07Why?
00:33:08Why not?
00:33:09It's a good life.
00:33:10Reasonable hours.
00:33:11Plenty of exercise.
00:33:12Good holidays.
00:33:13Yes, one always says that about teaching.
00:33:15It's an odd notion to praise a job by reckoning how long you don't have to do it.
00:33:19I suppose it is, really.
00:33:21Anyway, you like it here, eh?
00:33:24Don't you?
00:33:26Do you want the truth?
00:33:27Yes, of course.
00:33:29I loathe the whole place and everyone in it.
00:33:33You get out of here.
00:33:34Get out as soon as you can.
00:33:36This place will sap your ambition.
00:33:38It'll put out every spark of decency you've got.
00:33:41It'll destroy you, just like it's destroyed every one of us.
00:33:44Aren't you exaggerating a little?
00:33:46Exaggerating?
00:33:48You don't know this man, Moy Thompson.
00:33:51He's a sadist.
00:33:53His chief delight is to crush a man's spirit and then watch him sink to the level of the rest of us.
00:33:59Don't you realize he's made this school stink throughout the whole profession?
00:34:01Don't you realize that everyone here is...
00:34:04is a failure?
00:34:06An absolute failure.
00:34:09Take my advice and get away as soon as you can.
00:34:11Don't stop even for a year or else you'll stay here forever.
00:34:14Oh, come.
00:34:15You're as bad as Miss Lester.
00:34:17She's been trying to scare me away.
00:34:19I'm afraid I've noticed it.
00:34:21What did she say?
00:34:23Much the same thing as you, only she worded it a bit differently.
00:34:26I'm glad to hear it.
00:34:27Still, I think I'm wasting my time.
00:34:28She can't make a sea sense, nobody can.
00:34:31Have another?
00:34:32No, thanks.
00:34:34How about your colleagues?
00:34:36Not at all a bad crowd.
00:34:38Dormer's a decent chap.
00:34:39And Comber?
00:34:41A bit rough in his manner, otherwise he's all right.
00:34:44And Perrin?
00:34:47Inclined to be a bit irritating.
00:34:50Yes, I think we all want to strangle Perrin one time or another.
00:34:53I know I have.
00:34:55You?
00:34:56I know I have.
00:34:58You don't like him, I gather.
00:35:00Can't stand him.
00:35:01Pompous old fool.
00:35:22What made you become a schoolmaster?
00:35:24I don't know.
00:35:25I always wanted to.
00:35:26No regrets?
00:35:27No, I don't think so.
00:35:29You know where you are with boys.
00:35:31If you treat them decently then I'll let you down.
00:35:34What about you?
00:35:36I've brought you to this part of the world a job too.
00:35:38Not quite.
00:35:39Do you like it here?
00:35:41In a way.
00:35:43There seems to be so much time to sit around wishing things had worked out differently.
00:35:47Such as?
00:35:49Oh, nothing very unusual.
00:35:50Same kind of thing that happened to thousands of others.
00:35:54I was to have married the doctor's son.
00:35:56He was shot down.
00:35:57I'm sorry.
00:35:59After that I stayed on with his father and became his assistant.
00:36:02That's why I'm living with the pompous.
00:36:04I see.
00:36:06Go.
00:36:08I said just now I didn't know what made me take up schoolmastering.
00:36:11That wasn't strictly true.
00:36:12Why did you?
00:36:14I had a feeling I wanted to do something for the kids that are coming on.
00:36:16Let a bit of fresh air into the stuffy classrooms that I grew up in.
00:36:19Get them to take an interest in what they're doing instead of pushing their noses on the grindstone
00:36:23and keeping them in over brute force.
00:36:25I don't know.
00:36:26I can't explain it.
00:36:27I know what you mean.
00:36:28You don't have to tell me.
00:36:30Some things you can't express easily in words.
00:36:32At least I can't.
00:36:34I suppose it would be the same if I really fell for a girl.
00:36:37I'd only be able to say half what I meant and that would be worded badly.
00:36:40That's tough luck on the girl.
00:36:42The girl likes a nice girl.
00:36:43That's tough luck on the girl.
00:36:45The girl likes a nicely phrased proposal of marriage, even if she turns it down.
00:36:49Yes, but I'd have to explain first that mathematics was really my job and not proposing marriage.
00:36:53Pity you couldn't express it in algebra.
00:36:55Well, maybe I could.
00:36:58Let's see how it would go.
00:37:00If X equals me and Y equals, say, you,
00:37:06then X plus Y equals...
00:37:08Your taxi, sir.
00:37:09Oh, thanks.
00:37:11Um, where were we?
00:37:13Oh, I'm sorry to have to hurry you, sir, but I've got another job after this.
00:37:16All right.
00:37:18Before you go, sir, would you care to come to the cottage hospital downstairs in the hotel?
00:37:22Would you like to?
00:37:23I'd love to. When is it?
00:37:24Twenty-fourth, miss.
00:37:25Okay.
00:37:27Good morning, Mr. Perrin.
00:37:29Good morning, Miss Lester.
00:37:31How fortunate.
00:37:32I was just passing, going for my constitutional.
00:37:34I'm afraid we're going to have some rain.
00:37:36Oh, I hope not.
00:37:38It's the juniors' match today, isn't it?
00:37:40Is it?
00:37:42Yes, yes, yes, I believe.
00:37:44Oh, I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:46Oh, I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:48I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:50Oh, I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:52Oh, I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:54Oh, I'm afraid it's going to rain.
00:37:56I hope it is.
00:37:58I hope he keeps fine, if only for Mr. Trale's sake.
00:38:00He's so keen, isn't he?
00:38:02Trale?
00:38:04Young, of course.
00:38:06Fundamentally quite all right, I'm sure.
00:38:09Given time and experience, no doubt he should make a good schoolmaster.
00:38:12At the moment, just a little inclined to be cocksure,
00:38:14frightful to please with himself, perhaps.
00:38:17I'm afraid I disagree with you.
00:38:19I found him quite the reverse.
00:38:21If anything, a little too diffident.
00:38:23I think he's extremely modest, considering all he's been through.
00:38:24considering all he's been through.
00:38:26No doubt, but army experience is not necessarily a good qualification for being a schoolmaster.
00:38:30Really?
00:38:31Miss Lester.
00:38:32Yes, Mr. Perry.
00:38:34I won.
00:38:35That is, I'd be most sincerely grateful if one day you could...
00:38:40Yes?
00:38:42I'd be so glad if...
00:38:45you'd come for a walk with me.
00:38:47I'd be delighted.
00:38:49Well, I think I'd better be going.
00:38:52Good morning, Mr. Perry.
00:39:05So, friend Johnson, you refuse to give us the answer.
00:39:08No, sir.
00:39:08Oh, yes. You must be refusing to give us the answer.
00:39:12Did you do your preparation?
00:39:13Yes, sir.
00:39:14This question is part of your preparation, is it not?
00:39:16Yes, sir.
00:39:17Very good, then. If you did your preparation and this question is part of it,
00:39:19you must be deliberately refusing to give us the answer.
00:39:23You'll stay in this afternoon and write it out three times.
00:39:26Yes, sir.
00:39:30Rogers?
00:39:30Me, sir?
00:39:31Yes, you, sir.
00:39:32Stand up, Rogers.
00:39:33Put down friend Johnson, right?
00:39:35Yes, sir.
00:39:36Can we oblige by supplying the information that friend Johnson so churlishly withheld?
00:39:41I don't know, sir.
00:39:44You don't know?
00:39:45No, sir.
00:39:46Am I to conclude that you, too, refuse to give us the answer?
00:39:49I'd answer if I could, sir.
00:39:50Did you do your preparation?
00:39:52Yes, sir.
00:39:53I fail to understand.
00:39:54I... I've forgotten this bit, sir.
00:39:57Then perhaps if you stay in this afternoon and write it out three times,
00:40:00it will be impressed on your memory.
00:40:02I can't this afternoon, sir.
00:40:03Why not, pray?
00:40:04It's a junior match, sir.
00:40:05You should have thought of that before. Sit down.
00:40:07Oh, please, sir. I'll come in any other afternoon, sir.
00:40:10I'll write the lesson out six times, if you like.
00:40:13Only, let me go today.
00:40:15Mr. Trails picked me to play.
00:40:19You will come in this afternoon and write it out three times.
00:40:22I will not have you or anyone else here neglecting your work for football or anything else.
00:40:27If I set a lesson, that lesson has got to be learnt.
00:40:29And the sooner you all realise it, the better.
00:40:37Now, where are the others?
00:40:38Not here yet, sir.
00:40:39They'd better hurry up. There's only a quarter of an hour to kick off.
00:40:41I want to see you all before we start.
00:40:42Sir, who's to play instead of Rogers?
00:40:44Why, what's the matter with him?
00:40:45He's got an imposition, sir.
00:40:46Silly young ass. He'll have to do it some other time. Where is he?
00:40:48In C Classroom, sir.
00:40:49I'll go and route him out. Now, you get the others together and have them here when I get back.
00:40:52Right.
00:40:57Come on, now. Out of there, Joe.
00:40:58Mr. Payne's given me an imposition.
00:40:59That's all right. I'll fix it.
00:41:00Oh, good, sir.
00:41:01Now, you go and get changed quickly. If you're not on the field in five minutes, there'll be murder done.
00:41:03I'll do my impot tomorrow, sir.
00:41:04Yes, and you mind you do.
00:41:06Sorry, Johnson. I'll tell you how the game went afterwards.
00:41:45May I have your attention for a moment?
00:41:48Yes, certainly.
00:41:49I've just spoken to Rogers.
00:41:51I observed him on the playing field this afternoon when he should have been doing an imposition for me.
00:41:54Yes, I meant to tell you.
00:41:55I asked him the meaning for his truancy.
00:41:58He told me that he went there on your instructions.
00:42:00That's quite right. He was playing in the match.
00:42:03I only found out what it was just in time to get him changed and on the field, or I'd have told you.
00:42:08You would have told me, would you?
00:42:11It passes belief.
00:42:14I don't understand.
00:42:15What earthly right do you think you have to overrule my authority?
00:42:19How dare you?
00:42:20My dear Perry, you can't be serious.
00:42:26I suppose normally, as a matter of courtesy, I would have consulted you.
00:42:29There wasn't time.
00:42:30It's a matter of courtesy.
00:42:32If I set an imposition, that imposition is to be done.
00:42:34And it is not for any other member of the staff to countermand it.
00:42:37Really, Perry, and you're making a great fuss about nothing.
00:42:40I can't imagine that you or any other member of the staff would knowingly keep a boy away from a school match.
00:42:44For a fronter, it passes all bounds.
00:42:47You come here, take charge, do whatever you please, outrage all the traditions of the school.
00:42:53If that's the tradition of the school, it...
00:42:56Yes, go on.
00:42:58Say what you were going to say.
00:43:00I was going to say, if that's the tradition of the school, it's time it was stopped.
00:43:04You arrogant puppy.
00:43:08One good thing at least has come out of this disgraceful business.
00:43:12You have made it clear that your purpose here is to subvert authority,
00:43:15or to turn Banfield's College into a bear garden.
00:43:23He must be mad.
00:43:25Is he?
00:43:27Well, so unreasonable.
00:43:30Is it?
00:43:33Oh, I give it up.
00:43:35Perrin won't.
00:43:46Patience. Patience.
00:43:48Patience, big bloke. It's my early school.
00:43:51Get up in time.
00:43:57Twenty-four.
00:44:01Oh, blast.
00:44:02What's wrong?
00:44:04Well, I've got a dinner dance date, and it's my prep night.
00:44:07Oh, that's right. I'll change, yes.
00:44:08Are you ready?
00:44:10Did the headmaster give me leave?
00:44:11There's really no concern of his, as long as you get your prep fixed up.
00:44:15So he might like to be asked.
00:44:16Good, I'll go and ask him after class.
00:44:26Come in.
00:44:29Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were engaged, sir.
00:44:30No, come in, Mr. Traylor. I shan't keep you a moment.
00:44:36I repeat, I gave express orders that that boy should not be allowed to go out.
00:44:40You disregarded them. Why?
00:44:43They're very special circumstances, headmaster.
00:44:46Father returning on leave for a few hours only.
00:44:49He hadn't seen the boy for more than a year.
00:44:52You are an employee here, are you not, Mr. Perrin?
00:44:57Yes, sir.
00:44:58That means, does it not, that you are paid to do as you're told?
00:45:02In ordinary circumstances, yes, sir, but...
00:45:03In all circumstances.
00:45:06I see you wish to arrogate to yourself the right to overrule my instructions whenever you see fit.
00:45:10Is that so?
00:45:12No, sir.
00:45:13I confess... Remain, please, Mr. Traylor.
00:45:15I confess I cannot reconcile that statement with the deliberate disobedience to which you've just admitted.
00:45:21Seemed only common humanity.
00:45:23Argumentative man, misericordial headmaster.
00:45:25Oh, keep your stupid quotations to the classroom.
00:45:28I dreamt for one moment that you could possibly refuse.
00:45:31Indeed.
00:45:33It may be that there are positions...
00:45:35I'll come back for another, sir.
00:45:39There may be positions in which you will be paid to carry out your own wishes instead of those of your employer.
00:45:45If that's what you want, you're at perfect liberty to look for one.
00:45:47If you imagine that anyone's likely to employ a man of your age and qualifications,
00:45:51especially in view of the testimonial I shall be only too happy to give you,
00:45:54but as long as you remain at Banfield, you will do as you're told, do you understand?
00:46:00Yes, sir.
00:46:03You may go now.
00:46:19I say, Perrin, I'm awfully sorry.
00:46:22I've never heard anything so disgraceful.
00:46:29Sufferable!
00:46:32It's your intolerable conceit that makes you offer me your sympathy!
00:46:47Well?
00:46:49Did you get permission all right?
00:46:51I didn't stop to ask.
00:46:53He was going on a poor old Perrin.
00:46:56In front of you?
00:46:57Yes.
00:46:58Charming man, our headmaster, isn't he?
00:47:01Well, hadn't you better go back? He'll be expecting you.
00:47:04He can go on expecting.
00:47:06Shall I bother to ask him now?
00:47:08Good for you.
00:47:10I hope you have a very pleasant evening.
00:47:12Thanks.
00:47:13I think I shall.
00:47:16It's all right.
00:47:20Good night.
00:47:21Good morning, sir.
00:47:35You know, for a man whose subject is really mathematics, you proposed very nicely.
00:47:40Did I?
00:47:43I don't think we quite finished the equation, did we?
00:47:45Let's see what was it.
00:47:47Well, you said, you plus me equals...
00:47:53I love you, Isabelle.
00:48:03I can't imagine why I never liked mathematics at school.
00:48:09Don't let's tell anyone you're dead.
00:48:11Let's keep it to ourselves for a bit.
00:48:13Before we let the whole world know.
00:48:15Any bamboos?
00:48:16I think you're right.
00:48:18What are we doing wasting time talking about bamboos for?
00:48:21I've got to go in now.
00:48:24It's getting late and I'm terrified I'm going to wake Combe.
00:48:31Good night, darling.
00:48:41Good night.
00:49:11Good night.
00:49:42Oh, it's you.
00:49:45Yes, I'm sorry.
00:49:47I've been out.
00:49:49You woke me up.
00:49:51You made a great noise.
00:49:53It's two o'clock in the morning.
00:49:55Yes, I know. I'm very sorry. The door was locked.
00:49:57Naturally, at this hour of night.
00:49:59We do not kill people.
00:50:01We don't kill people.
00:50:03We don't kill people.
00:50:05We don't kill people.
00:50:07We don't kill people.
00:50:09Naturally, at this hour of night.
00:50:11We do not keep such hours.
00:50:13I'd been to a dance, didn't you know?
00:50:15No doubt the information was in the society column of the local newspaper.
00:50:18Unfortunately, I omitted to study it.
00:50:20I apologize.
00:50:22Don't mention it.
00:50:24Have you quite finished?
00:50:26Perhaps you would like to break some more crockery.
00:50:28Drunk at all hours of the morning.
00:50:31You will have to take your work more seriously if you're to make good as a schoolmaster.
00:50:35Don't be such an old woman.
00:50:37Vulgar abuse will not help you.
00:50:39At the moment, you do not cut a very imposing figure.
00:50:44Come to that, you look pretty comic yourself.
00:50:55Mr. Trial, report to the headmaster immediately.
00:50:58Oh, right.
00:51:08And you have no trouble with discipline?
00:51:11None at all, sir. The boys are grand.
00:51:13There's always a risk of seeking easy popularity by letting them have too much of their own way.
00:51:18I hope you take your work seriously, Mr. Trial.
00:51:20Of course, sir.
00:51:22We schoolmasters lead dedicated lives.
00:51:25Nothing short of our utmost will suffice.
00:51:27I trust that you agree.
00:51:29Why, certainly, sir.
00:51:31And to ensure that we can give of our utmost,
00:51:33we must live carefully, austerely, temperately in work and play.
00:51:38And play, Mr. Trial.
00:51:40I don't quite follow you, sir.
00:51:42In holiday time, our leisure is our own to do with as we please.
00:51:45During term, we must be fit to perform our duties.
00:51:48I'm informed that you came into your house at 2 o'clock this morning through the window.
00:51:52Why, yes. I'd been to a dance.
00:51:54Ah, please. No explanation.
00:51:56The fact speaks for itself. It shall not be mentioned again.
00:52:00Come in.
00:52:02Ah, Trial.
00:52:04What can I do for you?
00:52:07Did you tell my Thompson about my coming in late?
00:52:09Of course, I told him.
00:52:11Why, may I ask?
00:52:14It is my duty as housemaster to deal with anything that may harm the interests of my house and the school.
00:52:20I consider that you are late, Mr. Trial.
00:52:22It is my duty as housemaster to deal with anything that may harm the interests of my house and the school.
00:52:28I consider that your late hours and the disregard of your work that they connote
00:52:32to be prejudicial to our academic interests.
00:52:36All right.
00:52:37If you think I've neglected my duty, I'm sorry.
00:52:40But I must say I shouldn't have thought a single night's outing would have mattered that much.
00:52:45Look, Perrin, we don't seem to have hit it off together lately, do we?
00:52:50As far as that's my fault, I'm sorry.
00:52:54I don't know, perhaps army life makes one a bit free and easy.
00:52:58You seem at pains to imply that you consider your life here a comedown.
00:53:01No, not at all.
00:53:03I'm all eager to learn.
00:53:05I'm glad to hear you say that, Trial.
00:53:07It does you credit.
00:53:08Great credit.
00:53:10You see, at all costs, discipline must be maintained.
00:53:13I'm sure that as you get older, you will come more and more to take my view.
00:53:17School mastering, it's not so easy, you know.
00:53:20Well, I must say you needn't be so patronizing about it.
00:53:24Sir, just a moment.
00:53:25It would be better if you were to concentrate on your conduct rather than on mine.
00:53:28Thanks.
00:53:29When I want your advice, I'll ask for it.
00:53:30Your apologies seem to have been a little premature.
00:53:33My dear Perrin, I can't help it if you don't accept my apologies in the spirit they're offered.
00:53:37In point of fact, it's you who should apologize.
00:53:40I beg your pardon?
00:53:41Well, sneaking off and tailbearing like a maiden aunt.
00:53:44You seem to forget to whom you are speaking.
00:53:46If a senior man takes the trouble to give you his advice, you should accept it with gratitude.
00:53:51Well, no wonder they call you Pompo.
00:53:54Get out of my room.
00:53:56Get out!
00:54:06Come up, Rogers.
00:54:09Demonstrate to us.
00:54:12The floor is yours.
00:54:17Take the triangle ABC.
00:54:21By all means.
00:54:22By all means, let's take it.
00:54:26And then?
00:54:27Take the triangle ABC.
00:54:30So you said before.
00:54:35Go on.
00:54:36Take the triangle ABC.
00:54:39Go on, Rogers.
00:54:42I fear you do not know your work.
00:54:44You're far more interested in football, aren't you?
00:54:46You do not know your work.
00:54:48My arm, sir. My arm. You're hurting me.
00:54:50Write out the proposition ten times and bring it to me this evening.
00:54:52Go back to your desk.
00:54:58What have you got in there?
00:55:00Nothing, sir.
00:55:03Stand up.
00:55:11You call this nothing?
00:55:13It's your ambition to be an assassin, I presume.
00:55:16No, sir.
00:55:18Do you know the meaning of the word impound?
00:55:20No, sir.
00:55:21Well, I am impounding this lethal weapon until further notice.
00:55:25Yes, sir.
00:55:28Open your books again.
00:55:30Page 53.
00:55:37You can all go, except Rogers.
00:55:42Come here, Rogers.
00:55:52I'm sorry, sir.
00:56:01I told you to write out that proposition ten times.
00:56:05I think five times will be enough.
00:56:17And now to pass to a more general matter.
00:56:20It has been represented to me that the practice of early morning school
00:56:23does not commend itself to certain masters.
00:56:25I consider this practice to be of considerable benefit
00:56:28from the point of view of discipline as well as scholastic achievement.
00:56:32I beg your pardon, Headmaster, but would you reconsider that decision?
00:56:35In my opinion, early morning school is inhuman.
00:56:38Inhuman, Mr. Birkland?
00:56:40How can you possibly expect boys to absorb information on empty stomachs?
00:56:43Here, here.
00:56:49I've made my decision, Mr. Birkland.
00:56:51If you dislike it, the remedy is in your own hands.
00:56:58That's all, gentlemen. I needn't detain you any longer.
00:57:01I shall join you in the chapel to ask a blessing on our leaders.
00:57:13Here, come on, men. Wake up, you're late.
00:57:16What's the matter?
00:57:18It's your turn for early morning school. Come on.
00:57:20So it is.
00:57:26Nice day you've picked for it.
00:57:28Oh, shut up.
00:57:30Isn't early morning school bad enough, is it, Tez?
00:57:32No doubt our dear Headmaster will abolish it if you tell him your views.
00:57:35I doubt it. I'm impaired with our dear Headmaster.
00:57:38Keep him late hours. What did he say to you?
00:57:41Oh, not much.
00:57:43I'm afraid your friend, Mr. Perrin, doesn't love you.
00:57:46What on earth's the matter with the man?
00:57:48You've taken away his favorite, haven't you?
00:57:50Hmm? Hmm. Rogers.
00:58:05Dodge, get on with your work.
00:58:14All right, boys.
00:58:18Come on.
00:58:28Why, my umbrella isn't here.
00:58:30Have you seen it, Jenkins?
00:58:32No.
00:58:38My umbrella has disappeared.
00:58:40I beg your pardon, Perrin?
00:58:42My umbrella has disappeared.
00:58:44It's most unaccountable.
00:58:46Oh, I'm sorry.
00:58:48I haven't seen it.
00:58:50Have you seen it, Bertrand?
00:58:52Umbrella? Search me.
00:59:02I'm still looking for my umbrella.
00:59:04Are you quite sure you haven't seen it, Jenkins?
00:59:06No.
00:59:11Are you sure no one's seen my umbrella?
00:59:13It's pouring with rain. I can't possibly go out without it.
00:59:16I have not seen your umbrella.
00:59:18It's most annoying. Someone must have taken it.
00:59:21Clinton, are you sure you haven't taken it?
00:59:23Taken what?
00:59:24My umbrella. It's not on the stand.
00:59:26Don't use an umbrella. If I did, I shouldn't take yours.
00:59:29Why don't you advertise?
00:59:31Say, Perrin, I'm awfully sorry. I think I must have taken it.
00:59:36You?
00:59:38Yes, I was late for early school. I saw one in the stand and just took it.
00:59:42How dare you take my property without asking my permission?
00:59:45Oh, the infernal impudence!
00:59:48It's all of a piece.
00:59:50Come out of the army, think you can do whatever you like.
00:59:53What is the expression you use? Winning, scrounging, stealing.
00:59:56Stealing? Don't be so mean.
00:59:58Yes, stealing. Stealing was the word I used.
01:00:00What else is it to take somebody else's property without asking his permission?
01:00:02It's all of a piece. You expect us all to bow down before you?
01:00:05Do whatever you think fit?
01:00:07What a trample on us! You arrogant puppy!
01:00:10Why don't you control yourself?
01:00:12Give me my umbrella! Give me my umbrella!
01:00:15I haven't got the thing. I left it in D-Room.
01:00:18If you can't ask for it in a civilized manner, go and get it yourself.
01:00:27Now, Perrin, Perrin, Perrin, Perrin, no, no, no.
01:00:30Silly.
01:00:41MUSIC
01:01:02Two of the masters had a scrap in the common room.
01:01:04Go on, who else took such damage?
01:01:07P-O-M-P-O.
01:01:14Amy! Pumpo!
01:01:38Which of you has done this?
01:01:43Stand up, the boy who did this.
01:02:00We'll all stay in for two hours after school.
01:02:08Hello, David. Hello.
01:02:11I suppose you've already heard that I really have bitten Perrin in the leg now.
01:02:14Why, what's happened?
01:02:16We had a row about his wretched umbrella.
01:02:18Accused me of stealing it.
01:02:20Afraid he came to blows. Fight?
01:02:22Mm, sort of.
01:02:24But, David, this is serious.
01:02:26I know Banfields. They'll make a lot of this.
01:02:29You must get out of here. Not in your life.
01:02:31Do you think I'm going to let an old woman like Perrin drive me out?
01:02:34But it's not only Perrin, it's...
01:02:36Here I am and here I stay.
01:02:38Well, we'll see.
01:02:40It'll certainly give them all something to talk about.
01:02:42Yes, it was a real vulgar brawl.
01:02:44And it took place in the common room in front of all the others.
01:02:47I felt from the first there was something odd about Mr Trail.
01:02:50What future can we look forward to
01:02:52if all respect and tradition is to go by the board?
01:02:55The next thing is the boys will be banding together
01:02:57and attacking the masters with knives and pistols.
01:02:59Oh, really? Isn't that going a little too far?
01:03:02What does the headmaster say about it?
01:03:04We haven't heard yet.
01:03:07Well, I know what I'd do.
01:03:09I'd dismiss Mr Trail at once.
01:03:11But Mr Perrin hit him first in the face.
01:03:14I think you're being most unfair.
01:03:16I think it's very stupid of Mr Perrin to make such a fuss.
01:03:19Mr Trail is a delightful man, the young fellow.
01:03:22I'm sure, Mrs Comber, you agree with us
01:03:24that discipline must be maintained.
01:03:26Life would be impossible for us all if violence came to be the rule.
01:03:29I think you're talking absolute nonsense.
01:03:31Miss Lester, I protest.
01:03:32I'm sorry, but you make it sound like an attempted murder.
01:03:35Well, a man in Mr Perrin's present state is capable of anything.
01:03:38Yes, David must have had a great deal of provocation.
01:03:40You seem to know Mr Trail a great deal better than the rest of us.
01:03:44I should hope so.
01:03:46We're engaged to be married.
01:03:48Oh, my dear.
01:03:50I'm so glad.
01:03:52I'm sorry, Mrs Comber,
01:03:54but I shall have to be getting back to the school.
01:03:56I'm sorry, Mrs Comber, but I shall have to be getting back to the school.
01:03:59I'm a little late as it is.
01:04:00So must you go.
01:04:02Of course you must.
01:04:03Never do to let someone get in there first, would it, Miss Madder?
01:04:07I think it's disgusting.
01:04:09An outrage.
01:04:10Striking a senior man.
01:04:11It's anarchy.
01:04:13After all, it was Perrin who struck the first blow.
01:04:15He'd every provocation.
01:04:17I don't agree with you.
01:04:18Trail apologized.
01:04:19These boorish newcomers think they can do what they like.
01:04:21They'd better say sorry.
01:04:22We've got to take it.
01:04:23It should have been my umbrella.
01:04:24What would you have done?
01:04:26Kicked his backside.
01:04:28I wonder.
01:04:29I agree with Comber.
01:04:30Trail thinks he owns the place.
01:04:32Comber, Dormer, and Perrin.
01:04:34The fine song and dance act.
01:04:36We need an advertiser.
01:04:37It'll breeding.
01:04:38There's a wrong, wrong trailer grinding of all our snouts in the mud.
01:04:43Vulgarity is beyond belief.
01:04:46Well, White, what do you say?
01:04:48You going to join in and make it a quartet?
01:04:50I think Perrin's whole attitude is most unreasonable.
01:04:53Who cares what you think?
01:04:55Oh, there speaks the man of breeding.
01:04:57You shut your mouth, you dirty little council school tick.
01:05:00I shall do nothing of the kind.
01:05:01You sozzling, great big public school lout.
01:05:04Look here.
01:05:07Have you heard the news?
01:05:09Trail's engaged to Miss Lester.
01:05:13Does Perrin know?
01:05:15No.
01:05:19I think I'll return him his algebra.
01:05:23Come in.
01:05:27Evening, Beckland.
01:05:28Chair?
01:05:29No, thanks.
01:05:30Not stopping.
01:05:31Just came to return your algebra.
01:05:33The...
01:05:34Thanks.
01:05:35Would you mind putting it over on the bookcase?
01:05:39Right.
01:05:44By the way, heard the news?
01:05:46Trail's engaged to Miss Lester.
01:05:52I think I'll return him his algebra.
01:05:54The...
01:05:55Thanks.
01:05:56Not stopping.
01:05:57Just came to return your algebra.
01:05:59The...
01:06:00Thanks.
01:06:01By the way, heard the news?
01:06:03Trail's engaged to Miss Lester.
01:06:05The...
01:06:06Thanks.
01:06:07By the way, heard the news?
01:06:09Trail's engaged to Miss Lester.
01:06:11The...
01:06:12Thanks.
01:06:13By the way, heard the news?
01:06:15Trail's engaged to Miss Lester.
01:06:17The...
01:06:18Thanks.
01:06:19By the way, heard the news?
01:06:22I have the 5B algebra papers for Mr. Perrin, sir.
01:06:25Well, he's not here. Perhaps he's in his study.
01:06:27Thank you, sir.
01:06:33By the way, where is Perrin?
01:06:35No idea. Haven't seen him all day.
01:06:37He looked terrible at breakfast.
01:06:47Mr. Perrin?
01:06:49Yeah?
01:06:50The headmaster gave me these examination papers for you, sir.
01:06:54Well, thank you.
01:07:20Go away.
01:07:29Go away.
01:07:34Leave me alone.
01:07:36You've got it all.
01:07:39What more do you want?
01:07:41Are you alright?
01:07:48I beg your pardon?
01:07:50Are you getting on alright with the correcting?
01:07:54Correcting? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:07:58That's alright, then.
01:08:01Good night.
01:08:02Good night.
01:08:14I can't do it.
01:08:17I can't.
01:08:20I can't.
01:08:31Base it on the terms, Marks.
01:08:37Roger, sir.
01:08:46Very wrong.
01:08:48Most unethical.
01:08:5258%.
01:09:01Oh.
01:09:03Good afternoon, Mr. Perrin.
01:09:07Yes, yes, I must congratulate you.
01:09:11I feel I'm rather behind hand, if my good wish is.
01:09:14I'm sorry.
01:09:17That's all I have to say.
01:09:19Good night.
01:09:20Good night.
01:09:47Mother, what are you doing here?
01:09:50Vincent, don't be angry with me.
01:09:52I meant it all for the best.
01:09:54What do you mean?
01:09:56I went to see her.
01:09:58Her?
01:10:00Miss Lester.
01:10:02You went to see Miss Lester?
01:10:04Yes.
01:10:05I told her all she was to you.
01:10:07I told her you loved her.
01:10:09I begged her.
01:10:11Oh.
01:10:18She went to plead for me.
01:10:21To plead for me.
01:10:24It'll be all over the school.
01:10:26All over the school.
01:10:30No.
01:10:32No.
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01:11:42No.
01:11:55You're right, I've got to get out of here.
01:11:57This place is a madhouse.
01:11:59This fellow, Moy Thompson, has been sending Perrin off his rocker.
01:12:02My coming seems to have been about the last straw.
01:12:05I'm leaving and taking you with me.
01:12:06Where are you going?
01:12:07I'm going to get married. Then we'll see.
01:12:12All right.
01:12:13I must hurry now. I'm late.
01:12:15Good-bye, darling.
01:12:16Good-bye.
01:12:29Sir Joshua, ladies and gentlemen.
01:12:32Another prize-giving has come round.
01:12:34A prize-giving which is honoured by the presence of that distinguished public figure, Sir Joshua Varley,
01:12:40who is with us today at great personal inconvenience.
01:12:48Once more, our joint labours are to be temporarily suspended.
01:12:56I say joint labours advisedly.
01:12:58You, my friends, on the body of the hall, may think that the labour has all been on your side.
01:13:02I assure you that that is not the case.
01:13:04We, the staff of Banfields College, have worked untiringly on your behalf.
01:13:15When I am asked, as sometimes I am, what is the special feature of Banfields,
01:13:20my reply is always the same.
01:13:22The dreams.
01:13:23It is the harmony, the brotherhood, the selfless devotion of the masters.
01:13:30I will now call upon Sir Joshua to address us.
01:13:35I myself did not win many prizes at school.
01:13:44And yet I have not been altogether unsuccessful in the larger school of life.
01:13:50Brains are very good in their way,
01:13:53but it is the proud boast of our British schools
01:13:57that we breed not brains, but character.
01:14:01Shame!
01:14:06To those of you who did not win any prizes,
01:14:09I would repeat a very consoling thought I heard once from a bishop.
01:14:14I was a very average boy,
01:14:17and so I speak this word of comfort to all average boys,
01:14:21that is, to most of you.
01:14:24The bishop said,
01:14:26I think the creator must love the average boy best of all
01:14:31because he created so many of him.
01:14:39And today, I would say, learn all you can.
01:14:43Work hard and play hard.
01:14:47Mens sana in corpore sano.
01:14:52And as all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
01:14:56I will conclude by asking the headmaster
01:15:00to give you all an extra half holiday next term.
01:15:12We will now sing the school song,
01:15:14Laureate Corona Banfieldensis.
01:15:44LAUREATE CORONA BANFIELDENSIS
01:16:14LAUREATE CORONA BANFIELDENSIS
01:16:44LAUREATE CORONA BANFIELDENSIS
01:17:14LAUREATE CORONA BANFIELDENSIS
01:17:44Yes, Perrin? What is it you want?
01:17:49Yes, I'm very cold.
01:17:51Why did you come out?
01:17:53I couldn't sleep.
01:17:55Why did you follow me?
01:17:57I hate the way you laugh.
01:18:00Must have it out.
01:18:02Must settle things.
01:18:03Take it away.
01:18:04Everything makes life endurable.
01:18:08Used to like teaching.
01:18:10Took away Rogers.
01:18:13Twenty-one years is a long time.
01:18:16I cheated over the examination marks.
01:18:21Took away Miss Lester.
01:18:23Miss Lester?
01:18:25I loved her.
01:18:30Must settle it.
01:18:31It will be quite useless.
01:18:33No good if I don't.
01:18:35That's why I've got a knife in my pocket.
01:18:37Don't be a fool.
01:18:43I didn't do anything.
01:18:47I didn't push him.
01:19:13What have I done?
01:19:15What have I done?
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01:25:10I'm looking for old Pompo to say goodbye.
01:25:11Waste of time.
01:25:12Oh, I don't know, he's not such a bad old stick.
01:25:13He's been pretty decent to me.
01:25:27Goodbye Pompo.
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