All language subtitles for A Canterbury Tale (1944)

where

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so

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when that april with his showers sweet

the drought of march hath pierced to the

root

and bathed every vein in such liquor

from which virtue

engendered is the flower

when zephyrus seek with his sweeter

breath inspired hath in every holt and

heath the tender crops

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and the young sun hath in the ram is

half

course iran and smaller fowlers

make and melody that sleep and all the

night with open eye

so pricketh them nature in their

courages

then long and folk to go on pilgrimages

and palmers fought to seek in stranger

strands

to distant shriners known in sundry

lands

and especially from every shari's end of

england

to canterbury they went the holy

blissful

martyr for to seek that them hath

helping when that they were weak

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so

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ah

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six hundred years have passed what would

they

see dan chaucer and his goodly company

today

the hills and valleys are the same gone

of the forest since the enclosures came

hedgerows have sprung the land is under

plough and orchards bloom with blossom

on the bow

sussex and kent are like a garden fair

but sheep still graze upon the ridges

there

the pilgrim's way still winds above the

wheel through wood and break and many a

fertile field

but though so little's changed since

chaucer's day

another kind of pilgrim walks the way

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alas when on our pilgrimage we went

we modern pilgrims see no journeys end

gone are the ring of hooves the creek of

wheel

down in the valley runs our road of

steel

no genial host at sinking of the sun

welcomes us in

our journey's just begun

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okay

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hey that's my station sorry folks

thank you

thanks pop i'll sit the next dance out

ah

you'll break someone's neck one of these

days yawn too i shouldn't wonder

don't you know there's a bylaw against

getting out of a moving train penalty 40

shillings why don't you light up the

names of your stations how do you expect

folks to read the signs

i don't nor don't the company i'm here

to call out the name of the station

why wait till the train gets going now

look here

in the first place i call out the name

of the station now precise and clear

while the train was stationary you add

ample time to a light ample

i heard you with my own ears calling out

canterbury

after the train started to move he

called out canterbury next stop see

but i'm going to canterbury darn it

the train's going to canterbury and

you're stopping here a chilling bomb

well son of a gun

what time is the next 8 57 8 57

i am here what do those stripes mean

sergeant well they're the wrong way up

he's a sergeant see cut the quiz

questions pop what kind of a place is

this with no train all night this is the

kind of place where people sleep at

night

are you all right sergeant yeah i have a

chilling born cap okay ticket please

you can keep your own miss

these two gentlemen will come to you to

turn off

why do you think i need an escort no

young lady must go alone at night mr

culpepper's orders

this way please who is mr culpepper

local magistrate justin to the police

hey pop is there a hotel in this place

i said don't tell me this whistle stop

is a town

chilling ball was constituted a

municipal banner in the year 1085

407 years before columbus discovered

america

i didn't mean to hurt your civic pride

pop granted sonny boy

my name's thomas duckett station master

acting

mine's bob johnson sergeant also acting

peter gibbs sergeant

underpaid nice to know your vote now

where's this hotel i'll give your town

hall a miss uh you can't do that

all visitors arrive here must report to

town or mr culpepper's orders

that guy again how do i get to the camp

last pass you'll just catch it if you're

hurry where

marketplace by town or how do we get

there chatting street and follow your

nose where's chatting street through

that gate right let's go

here wait a minute have you all got

torches not me i have

i'll show you a real flashlight

put that light out what's wrong with it

everything

does the job doesn't it'll do your job

if the police catch a flashing it on

you won't catch no 8 57 a.m okay

okay shall we go if you're going to

catch your bus yes that's right

see you in the morning park i'll be

clever if you do i don't come until 12

00.

a.m and keep an eye on young lady check

why do river companies always have kids

like this i'll go ahead and shine my

torch for you too

don't blind us

what are you doing hey what's going on

oh my goodness it's my hair somebody

came out of nowhere

poured something on it hi where are you

what's wrong with your hair it's some

sticky stuff sticky stuff why are your

headphones so this is

england never a dull moment listen

somebody up the street click bob

searchlight

there he goes

hey soldier can you run miss watch me

oh

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there he goes on that building come on

this baby come on bob you take the river

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it's me darling

any luck not a sausage i can wait here

what alone no fear think we missed him

we couldn't have

so since he didn't double back

he's inside nowhere else he could be

let's find the door

here it is is that a bus sounds like it

what's going on out here

is this the town hall it is then that's

my bus you can handle this bob sure

we'll go chanting let me know what

happens good evening

where's my bag and they're out there

beat against my name first

a man is in this building a soldier he

must have gone into one of the windows

just a minute miss and who might you be

my name's allison she's going to work

here yes i'm going to work hard mr cox i

see your identity god identity card

nothing what kind of a cop are you

is anything matter somebody's poured

some sticky stuff on my hair

sergeant the glue man's out again

while you're looking this up in the

doomsday book he's making a getaway and

what about myself just a minute if you

please

one thing at a time are you the incident

miss yes

look my hair's full of it oh it's the

glue man all right

glue man have a look dearie oh we also

see to that all right

what is this an old chilling born custom

he's in the town old sergeant

who is your glue man we chased him down

the street and he's in this building

you're there

what's up ernie it's him the gloom man

where i heard you whistle

up on the church tower i ran all the way

i bumped into a soldier

running across the square he caught the

chardon bus

nuts that was peter gibbs and who may he

be tough he soldier who was with us when

it happened

why don't you search the building you

leave that to us miss we may be slow and

chillin barn compared with london wise

and we ain't no g-men neither but we

know our duty and we have our methods

ernie brooks you get back to your fire

watching if you hear anything blow your

whistle as arranged

all right bertie sergeant bassett went

on duty if you please

constable evander you will accompany me

on a tour of the building

you will colonist a year with a young

lady you sergeant

yeah sergeant johnson say can't i come

too this guy may be dangerous have you

got a gun

this is shillingborn sergeant johnson

not chicago

say what kind of a crack is that i come

from oregon

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i wonder when they're gonna give us our

electric lights

there's a light in the courtroom

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there's someone in there

ready yes come on let's take him by

surprise

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anything wrong bassett sorry mr

culpepper

we didn't know you were still up here i

see

all right can you make my cup of tea i'm

sure you've got a kettle on downstairs

here's my cup yes sir

sir the glue man's out again

how do you know an american soldier and

a girl chased him here sir

what girl what american what the girl

who was the incident sir

isn't that right yes sergeant she's come

to work for you sir

on your farm she's a land girl mistake

you say they chase the glue man here yes

sir they insist he's somewhere inside

this building

well what you're standing talking for a

message get on and search it

yes sir

gee what a job is it coming out

big pardon ma'am maybe better well i've

got considerable on me so there must be

less on you but there's still plenty on

you

here you are miss

what earth am i to do soap's no good hot

water is the only thing

miss grange is boiling a cackle you seem

to be an expert she's the 11th incident

what about this clue-throwing character

captain you don't mean to say you let

him get away from you

you got away if everywhere inside now we

shall be long dearly

nice work put another cat on this green

shirt and make some teeth mr culpep is

fire watching oh

is his cop who's mr culpepper magistrate

wants to see you oh he does okay ma'am

let's give it another whirl with the hot

water i guess mr culpepper can wait a

while

here we know how to handle this

still a bit sticky sir glad to meet you

welcome to chilling ball you're the

first american soldier we've seen

bad luck missing our train sergeant uh

johnson sir

johnson

say what's that that's the old ducking

stool very sensibly used for silencing

talkative women

hi are you there

excuse me is that your vlogs

you're showing your life sir

well sorry brooks

can you tell us something we take our

blackout seriously kent

is your first time in england yes sir

do you like it sure but

i haven't seen much else but salisbury

you've seen something if you've seen

soul spray it's a fine town

yeah it's got some swell movies really

got a great movie girl thousand johnson

you bet

it's a great thing to sit back in an

armchair and watch the world go by in

front of you

the drawback is sergeant johnson that

people may get used to looking at the

world from the sitting position

i don't quite get you then when they

really do pass through it they don't see

anything

we're going to move in canterbury is

there anything good on

this voucher will get you a room in the

hand of glory that's the in one of the

men will take him over there's nothing

to pay

thanks that's swell of you but i can pay

no no you're our guest for tonight

okay thanks a lot that's all right

good day pretty good when you get home

and people ask what you've seen in

england you say

when i saw a movie in salisbury and i

made a pilgrimage to canterbury and saw

another one

you've got me all wrong i know that in

canterbury i have to look out for a

cathedral

do look out for it just behind the movie

theater you can't listen

oh take the sergeant over to mrs foster

yes mr culpepper

and ask the young lady to come in good

luck sergeant

good night sir

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called pepper gold peppa

up here miss thank you

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i'm sorry about the incident miss uh

alice smith

miss smith i've been sent by the war

agricultural committee

step telephone before they send people

you wrote they sent me

i want a farm laborer you have to take

what you can get these days

you've got me i can do the work i'm

sorry miss me

you refuse to employ me because i'm a

girl

miss smith there's a camp near this

village full of soldiers i know

oh you know i'm not interested in

soldiers

perhaps they're interested in you let

them they mean nothing to me

aren't you afraid to stay here why

should i be afraid

after what's happened to

didn't you hear it what somebody moved

there nonsense it's a nonsense

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somebody's there how could that be i've

been here the whole time

why don't you want to open it then

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hey

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here's some more

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uh mrs foster won't be long now miss

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can i help you well i've seen some

topsy-turvy things in this war

and the last but to see guests doing

real work for me

no miss

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yeah do you know mr thomas culpepper

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do i know mr culpepper you were london

on this

well what would you say if i was to ask

you do you know who's the lord mayor of

london

but i don't you don't

no well aren't you ashamed

not a bit i see

that stone interest you miss it comes

from the old road

what some folks call the pilgrims road

yes

from the bend up there on the hill

what do you know about our bend i've

seen it

when three years ago

ah then it went i'll bend you so it went

uncovered then

no but the bend was there all the same

is it excavated now

yeah the old men who gave the money

counsel

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i'm glad they changed their minds they

didn't we changed our magistrate

for mr culpepper for mr culpepper

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here how do you know about our bend

i spent the whole of my holiday here

once

i don't call you to mine we camped

outside the village

in a caravan there ain't been no

caravanners up by all been for the past

uh

eight years that's all you know ah

except uh you ate a

g geologist no

he was my fiance girl you can come up

now your room's ready

coming good night

good night

you know stopping tomorrow night

actually had the elizabeth room free she

slept there

who queen elizabeth there's an american

in now but he's going in the morning

is his name johnson are you the girl

yes we washed it but it's still full of

glue revolting

extraordinary thing to do isn't it silly

i call it you'll have to wash your hair

again

several times i'll send you up a kettle

thank you

this is your room

who is it it's me

is that you bob

gee man i didn't know you were stopping

here too

why didn't you tell me last night well i

didn't know myself i didn't get that job

sorry about the job oh never mind about

that let's see now

since you didn't get the job that means

you're going in with me on the 857.

that's just what i wanted to talk to you

about bob

would you mind very much not catching

the 857 would i

mind i've got to meet a buddy in london

and i want to get to canterbury first i

promised mob

well we can go in on the evening train

together and i've written to peter gibbs

and what's he got to do with it dear

sergeant gibbs

you'll have heard by now that the glue

man got away but he didn't get far huh

you mean they've got him no what kind of

a quiz is this

you met mr culpepper didn't you yes he

got me this room in a swell room it is

what about him there's something about

him i don't like

and he's got a home guard uniform don't

laugh bob

what i want to do is to snoop around in

the village peter can do that at the

camp

and i want you to help me bob

you need about as much help as a flying

fortress

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i take coffee for breakfast you can have

coffee for breakfast sir

that's an early morning chillies can't i

have early morning coffee

oh no sir

oh

what's that what's that that window

there

how's the other side of the street that

street seems kind of narrow the upper

story overhangs

they do say two six foot men could check

ends across the street sir

why would they want to do that

tell me what they say soon

oh come come come to the church in the

wild

come come come to the church in the veil

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morning

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miami mirror

ah

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hello there hello what are you doing

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what's your name leslie what's yours bob

are you a soldier sure can't you see my

uniform

i've never seen a uniform like that what

do i stripes mean

i seem to have heard this one i tell you

they mean sergeant and

you tell me what this one way out

correct

could you use a quarter quarter walk a

quarter of a dollar

that's a shilling catch

thank you very much you're welcome are

you an american soldier

i have that honor mother guess what

this is an american soldier don't point

dear it's rude

yeah come on

see you later

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good morning good morning ma'am

sleep well yes thanks sure is mighty

lonesome lying in the middle of that bed

there are three like it in all english

they say that two

six-foot men couldn't shake hands across

that bed

why would they want to do that ma'am

depends on who's in it young man

you missed the canterbury train i

thought i might take a ride in with miss

allison this evening

you better think again because she's

stopping i woke up this morning saying

to myself susanna foster you mad let a

great stronger like that go when you

need someone yourself on the farm

was that right i guess you ain't off and

wrong ma'am

she's a nice girl she having breakfast

no she's the wheel rights

up north was you yes northumberland yes

cheap farming mostly yes ah they don't

know nothing about farming up there

you'll find things are so different down

here

yes

do you mean to cut the tire off know

what the tire is

yes then you had to sew it down know

what sewing down means

no ah well souling down means uh

souling down see

jim goes out the ends of the spokes then

he had to look at them philly joints

you know what philly joints is no ah

you ought to know that you had to open

them philly joints three-eighths of an

inch you better remember that just in

case suzanna foster asked you what was

wrong with the wheel

thank you mr horton what was your job

before the war

mine i've been a blacksmith for 37 years

my father was a blacksmith and he's

before him i was selling things in a

department store before the war

i wonder how you would look behind the

counter mr horton

behind the counter

this is a sergeant bob johnson of the

american

army morning folks morning

morning good morning nice place you've

got here

so you didn't catch the 857 no ma'am

you look as though you belong around

here already

do i sure do i thought i'd stick around

today myself

thought i might have a chat with mr

culpepper

i hear he knows a lot about the old

pilgrims road ah

so you're interested in that old road

are you

well the wheel's finished what are you

standing around for put her on the cart

yes sir i'm crazy about that old road

and

those old canterbury pilgrims ah then

was the days for a wheel right

my next truck boy have you got the

lynchpin net

yep george yeah

did you hear the news last night mr

horton there wasn't nothing on the

wireless

you know i didn't mean that sort of news

i mean what happened here last night

we get all our local news at six o'clock

miss

you got a local newspaper no that's when

the pub

opens

what happened your glue man was on the

warpath last night

who is he after this time me oh you

i suppose that'll learn you not to run

around at night on the contrary

i shall go out every night until i catch

him

aren't likely come on then get her down

can i give you a hand there ma'am thanks

ow yeah and chestnut

do you get much sweating in your own

planks oh average

at home we built two at a time for

steadiness side by side

was so to us to tie them longer strips

together

sewn last winter is that how you do it

in america

it's how we do it in my part of america

but we take off the strips when we put

the planks away

in stock for so do us how long do you

allow for seasoning timber

a year for every inch of thickness same

here

you can't are you an element no but some

folks try to all the same

yeah can't stand to see their money lie

idle apiece when the war fly the war

folks go mad they cut oak at midsummer

no i'm telling you yes oak should be cut

in winter of course or the spring

right and beach in the fall and plank it

out

at christmas yeah that's how my dad

taught me

he was well brought up in the timber

business was you

lumber my granddad had the first mill in

our parts

dad he was a cabinet maker i cut my

teeth on wood shavings

dad he made my cradle out of cedar of

lebanon

he said what was good enough for solomon

was good enough for a johnson of johnson

county

gee i can smell that cedar now

can i bomb a ride off you ma'am jump in

looks like a good way to see the sights

just a minute missy

we have our dinner at midday i'd like to

have you join us sergeant that is if you

ain't got nothing better to do

thanks a lot i'd be glad to ah that'd be

funny

get up

hey mother yesterday

one extra for dinner i was thinking of a

college fine team

ah well think i'm a good bacon

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nice piece of weather boarding that

water mill

i must ask the old gentleman who built

it i'll bet it was a horton

how do you guys to get dry mr horton in

that way i believe you are a detective

you speak the same language i'm english

and i don't speak their language

he knows about wood see and so do i

that's it

oh look at that house

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what a perfect place i wonder whose it

is

what it's like at the back

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whoa

what wouldn't i give to grow old in a

place like that

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breakfast

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it beats me last night i couldn't

believe

anything

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yeah it don't add up

whoa but you know allison things don't

add up in life

look bob are you positively off tonight

positively

but i'll see you before i go and tell

you what i find out from old jim horton

what i'll find to do the rest of the

afternoon i don't know

there's a movie it's saturday they have

a batony what

go to a single feature not me write some

postcards i'll have to do that to the

folks from canterbury

write your girl i don't write my girl

anymore

how'd you expect her to write to you if

you don't write to her you've got that

in reverse

english she doesn't write to me anymore

so i don't write to her

that's the way it is that's the way it

is

perhaps she has written i haven't had a

letter in seven

weeks sometimes the male's lost by enemy

action

a ship might have gone down yes a ship

might have gone down

the address might have been wrong there

are a hell of a lot of johnson's in the

army

maybe she was ill maybe her mother was

ill

i've had all the babies

i cabled her i haven't heard a thing

she was a swell girl allison we used to

talk

she liked the woods she learned some of

the bird calls i taught her real well

for a girl

she caught her first rainbow with my rod

two and a half pounds

she broiled it herself

we've been walking in the woods often

following the trail

and haven't said a word for two hours

and then both said the same thing

together

what do you figure it means when that

happens

it means love it means no letter in

seven weeks

i don't believe this enemy action stuff

all the other fellows get letters from

their girls

if a ship goes down it can't just be

that particular part of the ship where

my letters are dumped it goes down

can it

well so long allison

i hope you don't mind my calling you by

your first name

i shall miss being called ma'am time

marches on

which way does your road go ma'am

he knows i hope up that hill

why that hill that's where the pilgrim's

road runs

along that hill yes

from the bend at the eastern edge of the

hill

pilgrims saw canterbury for the first

time you've seen it

yes with a friend of mine

boy or a girl boy i hope he writes to

you

no he doesn't maybe the mail was lost by

enemy action

no bob as it happens

he was lost by enemy action he was a

pilot

shot down yes

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sorry

i hope you all remember

whoa

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hi prudence hollywood my sister

telephoned you were coming glad to see

you we're short-handed here

smiley brought you along all right i

hope yes ms hollywood

not afraid of work are you no thai

sheaves

yes carp muck yes little potatoes yes

leader harrow

not very straight how can i you spot

wheat yes

red lime if i have to you'll have to

know anything about hops

not a thing most of the hands are down

on the fields today you better stay here

this morning you can put your bag in

that shed

see you later

sue tells me you had a frightening

experience last night wasn't frightening

just unpleasant and annoying i thought

so

it's happened to other girls none of

them died my sister likes to dramatize

things you know the type

do i know them oh do you are don't you

i worked in a london store before the

war selling things

yes garden furniture picnic baskets all

that sort of thing did you like the job

not much it was better than selling

ordinary furniture

i used to imagine my dick chairs in

beautiful gardens

and my picnic baskets opened in the

woods and fields so you like gardens in

the country

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hope you won't miss your london store

here hi sean

you get up at sunrise you don't have to

queue for the bus

it's hot and sweaty this time of the

year you should see the stores in august

the flies that are very devil so were

the customers

that's your room over there the only one

you won't get much of a view i'm afraid

you should have seen the view from my

room in london

but it's a long street with every house

a different sort of sadness in it

there's a long row of back gardens and

the tall

sad houses were all the same dark in

winter airless in summer

seem to know them the only man who ever

asked me to marry and wanted me to live

in a house like that

i'm still a maid

it's hollywood gorman prue you might as

well i don't like prudence

name or quality pro and sue we've always

been

she likes susanna we spoke of other

girls who had the same experience as i

had last night

do you know any of them yes i have one

working in the hop yards

the baker i'd like to talk to her well

you'll see her when you take that dinner

down

that way

what's for dinner scotch eggs and apple

dumplings good

you're fee baker aren't you and you're

allison smith

yes are you working for proof yes

where are you from london boy got an

uncle in london

he's a policeman his father was a

policeman too very good dancer

the uncle not the father are you fond of

dancing

am i there aren't many boys around here

until their own feet from their partners

lots of soldiers no good dancers among

them i wouldn't go out with a soldier

for a hundred pounds

why a blue man's a soldier everybody

knows that

he wears a soldier's uniform and what

makes a civilian a soldier

a uniform besides there weren't any old

glue man here before the soldiers came

suppose he isn't a soldier what are you

driving at

suppose he's a civilian someone in the

village

in uniform supposing he wore uniform

to make the girls afraid to go out with

soldiers that might be any one of a

dozen

might be a blue woman why

don't be soft take ernie's family

who's ernie another uncle no my earnings

with the eighth army

do you think his family like me going

out with strange soldiers

but a girl must live i'm sure i'm right

well suppose you are where does it get

you why worry you weren't the first

do you know the other girls of course

dorothy bird she's the post girl susan

cummings polyfin hold on a tick

if nobody else cares i'm going to find

out what can be done about this flu

business

i can tell you that you can hot water

plenty of hot

water

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what's the idea of brightening my horse

i suppose you weren't scared

why don't you keep your beastly carriers

off the pilgrims road i know that voice

hey ellison this is peter gibbs i

thought you didn't get that job

who'd you steal this car from i'm

working for mrs foster

and if you don't take your carriers out

of the road at once i'll tell her what

happened and she'll report you to your

ceo

seo's idea with a nose in the cart i

didn't even know it was a girl

you're just an objective i don't believe

a word

and i'm in a hurry we're not you're our

prisoner but we'll exchange you

some information what have you been up

to you got a plan what's bob doing to

earn his keep

archie this is miss alison smith i told

you about

archie here i had an agnes a gladys why

not you tell the tale

well that's all of us do it loves young

dream

gloom what next well there wasn't any

neck she went home like a scolded cat

and that was after dark conditions were

perfect until the blue man came

what was the girl's name gladys you

spelled it with a w class

that is what how should i know it wasn't

a lasting friendship anyway it happened

to her

when what date after mo arch is my

witness i'll get all the dope

okay archie i'm talking of dope

what's that culpepper institute

chilling admission free each saturday at

7 30 pm

a lecture illustrated by lantern slides

will be given by thomas culpepper

jp for members of hm forces only after

the lecture and open discussion will be

held smoking permitted

attend the whole series and bring your

friends mission free

let's talk up all over the camp that's

the force in the series well well how

about it we must fall

says members of hm forces only well

aren't you in the army women's land army

isn't that hm forces too yes it is but

for the lectures tonight what was wrong

with tonight i've got a job i'm working

here you are good it's my first day well

what's wrong with it

i think you can do that yes i suppose i

can if i finish in time can you finish

in time

yes if it's important important to

detective work every clue is important

what clue did i say two you did i meant

jew

don't be late

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not heaven itself upon the past has

power but what has been

has been and i have had my hour

are you from the states yes

i got a brother there that's all

but city what city

but city montana oh yes of course

name of isaac wells maybe you know him

tile fellow shortened fat

can't please him pretty

good evening evening coming to the

lecture

yes in a minute sir i come from three

sisters falls oregon

i come from the seven sisters road

london put it down

pleased to meet you you sure are a whole

mess of sisters ahead of me

i'm glad this is a big house the last

time i was to speak it's july the 11th i

think

an audience he was reading his even

paper i waited for a bit and i

asked him um till i start he said start

what i said didn't you come to hear me

lecture

i said no i'm waiting for the pub strip

well we made it to 5 30 then we

adjourned the lecture and both went to

the pub

with some of your mind your blackout

please and i hope they're going to be

plenty of questions

will somebody start the ball rolling up

yes sir

mouse why you want electrics at all sir

what do you see it's a form of human

weakness it's only human nature when you

hear something interesting you want to

pass it down to somebody else

well i know a lot of interesting things

about this part of the country

i feel the urge to pass some of them on

to you

good evening you'll find a place at the

back yeah i think

oh good evening salsa johnson would you

like to join your two friends

yes good evening smith

good evening mr carl pepper say won't

you come back and join us

well uh i wouldn't like to i presume

look sure come on we'd like it

straight sure oh sure

friend of mine greeting all your name

big news

i know a lot of interesting brother you

can take my sh i was born here my father

was born here

you're here because of the war you'd

rather be in your own part of the

country you're telling us

that's why none of you like being here

very much but

suppose there was peace again and

holidays again

but you'd like to spend your holidays in

the beautiful and interesting part of

the country

and if you were to ask any man in new

england well where shall i go to

ten to one he'd say go to kent but

you're incredible

yes where's the wife and kid only

passing through i know

let me remind you that as much as 600

years ago doctors and lawyers

and clerks and merchants were passing

through here on the old road

which we call the pilgrim's way hang

cooks

yes and cooks do slimey cook's tour

these ancient pilgrims came to

canterbury to ask for a blessing or to

do penance

you i hope are on your way to secure

blessings for the future

any questions i was thinking sir yes

what have we got to do with this old

road and the people who traveled along

with 600 years ago

yeah yeah isn't the house you were born

in the most interesting house in the

world for you

don't you want to know how your father

lived and his father that's all right

but how do you know it really happened

well there are more ways than one of

getting close to your ancestors

follow the old road and as you walk

think of them and of the old england

they climbed chilling born hill just as

you did

they sweated and paused for breath just

as you did today

when you see the bluebells in the spring

and the wild time and

the broom and the heather you're only

seeing about their eyes so

you fall the same rivers same birds are

singing

when you lie flat on your back and rest

and watch the clouds sailing as i often

do

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you are so close to those other pilgrims

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which couldn't hear the thrumming of the

hoofs of their horses

and the sound of the wheels on the road

and their laughter and talk

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and the music of the instruments they

carried

and when i turned the bend of the road

where they too

saw the towers of canterbury i feel i've

only to turn my head

to see them on the road behind me

make it

how about you

it makes a nice change now i'd like to

show you some drawings and photographs

of things we found in recent excavations

hey bob movies i don't like free shows

something always goes wrong

first i show you the bend on the

pilgrim's row see

sorry i always do that somebody mind on

doing the black huh

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oh thanks perhaps our friend will be

able to fix it

he only looks after three brain carriers

pity i should only be able to show half

the slides

by the way if any of you are really

interested drop it at my house at any

time and have a chat

thank you are you interested in smith

why shouldn't you be i'm interested too

otherwise we wouldn't be here right

right

what an issue especially well

what you were saying of course we know

we don't know anything about that sort

of thing oh yes we do

do we we know all about the old road

we know that the pilgrims weren't the

first to use it right right

and sorry it was used by the romans here

in kent it certainly goes back to the

odd age i thought this was the iron age

right now it's very interesting

a geologist found some belgian coins

that far from here some time ago

last time i was in london i inquired at

the british museum about them but i'm

afraid they have no record

i have them you have them yes

they were left to me by the man who

found them i'd be very grateful if one

day you'd let me see the coins

anytime after my luggage gets here i

wouldn't keep them very long

i'm going to give them to this museum

not for you thank you

very much mouse will black out again

please

here we go the bend on the pilgrims road

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okay okay i pick on me

gee i forgot what the proof

i've got it tell us about it not here

topography plays an important part in my

expose hi

buddy have a cigar hmm

is this cherry street uh

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that's right leading into marketplace

that's right that building there is the

town hall are they

uh that's right now mr culpepper's

office is the second story window

that's right thanks are you by any

chance the village idiot

that's right

[Laughter]

anyway he is right i checked it this

afternoon

so where does it get us you'll see now

we came down this street

we didn't see a light in the town hall

you're killing me when we were in the

town hall the police found mr culpepper

in his office

later i saw him there and so did you

that's right

oh when i was with him in his office

the janitor or somebody tapped on the

window and said we were showing a light

outside

i saw him pull the curtain myself that's

very interesting

we hadn't seen the light so it followed

he wasn't in his office right he was in

such a hurry to draw the curtain when he

got back that he never noticed that

that's right that's the first real clue

we've had alison

yes i still can't believe that he's the

glue man

oh what motive could he pop is that a

bus sounds like

it well come on we must run see you

tomorrow

always going and never coming

cigarette thank you

that was clever to work that out

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yes wasn't it mickey swallow letter home

bob johnson sal's village mystery

i forgot i i don't write at home anymore

we should leave the watchman's evidence

you didn't even hear what i said i'm

sorry allison but

i just can't forget that girl

fella goes to war and all kinds of

dangers and

what you find so dangerous just now

i don't mean just now

but i mean you you go and fight in a

foreign country and

i bought her some writing paper i write

her every time we stop

and not one line from that blind i guess

ma was right

she says blondes are no good

what color is your hair allison blonde

no kidding come on i'll take you home

and tomorrow i'm going to organize the

local gorillas

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hello there can i speak to you for a

minute excuse me

do you like not shouting you bet what's

cooking

combined operation backpack

i get it say colonel general general

holmes

this is commander todd in charge of our

landing crawl

do you mind if i come aboard what to do

at your office of course

here i come

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we have a talk now

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i'll put my scouter shot

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okay onto the bike would you mind taking

a pedal

sure

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so

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hey

[Applause]

[Applause]

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[Applause]

oh my gosh

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[Applause]

you are outnumbered

[Applause]

sure why didn't you pick sides because

my men must have berries and i've only

got six handkerchiefs

well that's different now the battle's

over

would your two armies least lend you two

generals for a while

what's lisa never ask that question

again son

if the isolationists were to hear you

back home they'd be mighty sore

who are the isolationists short-sighted

folks why don't they buy spectacles

from what i hear that's just what they

are doing

now here's two quarters he means two

shillings

one for each army the smaller army will

get a bigger share but that's right too

catch thank you very much thank you

is there someplace around here we could

have a powwow

on the hill

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looks like this isn't the first time

this place has seen a battle

no and i see here

you've heard about the glue man haven't

you don't be scared

i'm not scared no am i good because i'm

on his trail

the glue man yes you want to catch him

that's the idea now if this was the

states

every kid in the village would lend a

hand to get him who

i'll tell you i want you to help me

check

some things are you a game yes

first i want to know how many drug

stores there are in chillingboard

what stores drugstores where you buy

soap and

razor blades and ice cream you mean the

grossest

call it what you like now if you wanted

to stick something together and

needed the stuff to stick it with where

would you buy it at the grossest

is there only one only one next

i want to find out who's been buying

sticky stuff at the groceries

is he a friendly sort of guy mr holmes

if that's his name is he

human he's his father

holy smoke is it that time already i've

got a date for church

show me the shortest way from here and

on the way we'll map out a plan of

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campaign

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oh

excuse me can you tell me anything

they'll tell you

oh no it isn't bus information i want

it's about about the blue man what about

him who you you are polyphene

yes what if i am

yes have you got a minute five if you

want them can i come up there

maybe you are i'll come now you can't

come in the box you know it's against

regulations

well what is it i only want to ask you

one or two questions oh

well far away

good morning morning are you dorothy

bird

that's me i got your name from fee baker

i'm the new len girl working at fosters

august 27th

there baker susan cummings dorothy bird

polly finn

glady swinton and me each time the thing

happened after half past 11

but never later than midnight did it

ever happen after midnight to anybody

as far as i can check no i've checked

that mayan they all say it never

happened after midnight

that's important why

facts are always important what about

dates

the baker june the 8th susan cummings

june the 24th

gladys swinton oh not sure and me

august 27th of course

bertha rogers on the 11th of august well

wait a minute

no false alarm well i can fill in some

dates now gladys swinton was

july 10th two other girls anonymous

july second and august third

well let's see

that gives us two on tuesday

one on wednesday one on thursday

two on friday one on saturday blank on

sunday and monday

what you make of that i don't know

well anyway our dates are still

incomplete there were 11 cases in all

so what

you know i'm beginning to think the

whole village is cracked

just look at that boy 90 degrees in the

shade and he's wearing a winter overcoat

hello leslie terry come on

out ask for me

they'll never get past old albert i'll

fix that

kids and almanacs this won't get us

anywhere you got a better idea

yes i'm gonna call on mr culpepper this

afternoon

and i want you to come with me you can't

crash in without being asked

he has asked me last night anyone rarely

interested he said

well i'm interested yes that's clever

but will you come

i'm not very keen take bob no he's got a

date meet general terry

general leslie also commander todd

he's the delicate one you all like

lemonade

yes you too commander yes

you can take this coat off now commander

you're through the enemy's lines

meet the account book of mr holmes the

general's father and chilling born drug

store keeper

you mean the grosser big pardon

abc thomas

flour soap sugar bacon

week's rations here you look at it you

know the names

any sticky stuff

do some of the richer people here like

the rectan mr culpepper buy everything

in chillingborn

now if i'd get lots of things from

outside how'd you know

we collect savage from the houses

salvage good afternoon you want my son

yes as a matter of fact i was at his

lecture last night and you want to talk

to him about it

of course come in thanks

you'll be here in a moment thanks

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foreign

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good afternoon sergeant no how to do sir

sorry to bother you on a sunday i don't

mention it i think your weak days have

been fully occupied

yes they are you sit down what are you

doing

leo wisconsin no nothing for me i do

have something

oh hi there feast

emma cider

well how's the army going you seem to be

busy from morning till night

it's a bit like your job mine

you put a great deal in to get very

little out

are you a farmer in civil life me no

ask what part of the country you come

from london

not much material there for your

lectures more than anywhere

what about the british museum

yeah i suppose it is pretty good yeah

it's pretty good

nearly a day's walk from chillingboard

about 50 miles

some walk how do you like walking do you

like walking

not if i can help it why walk if there's

a train oh mother i'll go on with you

talking i can manage

i see sir you're interested in

mountaineering yes i do a bit of it

i suppose you'd recommend me to wait to

the bottom until somebody builds a

funicular railway

i'd say why climb to the top at all

what's wrong with the valley

the answer's in yourself you're dead

right

and the trouble with this country is

that every second man thinks he's born

to be a missionary

and every third man has a bee in his

body thank you

look at you who don't mind of course no

you're a gentleman farmer with a fine

house i'm sure you've got a first-class

farm and run it well

yet the first chance you'll get you're

off climbing mountains

or digging up stuff which 600 years ago

was thrown out as junk

no be in your bonnet no

i've got my job 30 pounds a week

i've got my flat i meet my friends and i

want to meet them

that's good enough for me would you want

a bigger flat better job

40 pounds a week i've got the best job a

man in my business can have

i ask what is your job i'm an organist

instant paul's cathedral no in a cinema

west end i'm a cinema organist

a good one i'm sure you are

have you always wanted to be a cinema

organist

not when i was a kid

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i wanted to be a church organist i

studied for nine years

then luckily for me i met a chap who

tell me about a job

a new theater brand new organ

you see i never really had the chance to

play on any

big organ except the one at the academy

you never played a church album not a

big one

seems to me sergeant there are two kinds

of men

learns to play bach and handle only to

play

kishore to hand madame and the man who

learns to walk

step by step so that one day he might

climb mount everest

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perhaps another convert to the study of

ancient kent i've heard i have gone

rather off the rails

never mind it's plenty of time not much

doing chilling born how do you find it

i haven't seen much of it oh how's that

i only arrived on friday night

as i remember seeing with my lecture

with miss smith and our american ally

sergeant johnson

are you walking together from the

station yes

i was with them when the attack took

place

this fellow must be a tough sort of

customer about your height

the matter of fact i had some excitement

myself that night if there's such a town

hall i was on fire guard

do you have to do fire watching oh yes

as well as home guard

twice a week home guard and fire

watching every eighth day

tom yes mother the salvage boys are here

again

and they were here last week well they

say it's a paper drive

but maybe it's my homemade toffee there

are six boys in avondon's donkey

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we've got a lot of sex huh did you go

down to the old school we lost that

no sir you better go down by the back

way emma will show you

round the back boy how's your father's

land baker jenny

awful sir not too bad

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since i'm enjoying our talk let's have

another mug

hello coming man four

and five and six and seven

two shillings and seven pence that okay

man

now what press button a okay

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looks like i hit the jackpot what's that

man

i pressed button b check

reinsert coins and press button a

check again

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a buttons b buttons

mirrors tea drinking left-hand driving

stripes upside down yes ma'am it sure is

difficult

and hot here i come button a

made it well

sergeant michael rozinski please r

o c z that's correct u.s army

he said what now see here ma'am i don't

care what mickey rozinski told you

he's a buddy of mine we come from the

same company

wake him up it's four o'clock he can't

sleep out his whole leave in london

you can't you won't see

you give good service in your hotel

well tell him bob johnson rang

bob b-o-b bob

call it what you like tell him i can't

get to london

he's to meet me in canterbury i'm not in

canterbury now but i'll be in canterbury

tomorrow

where will he meet me holy cats i don't

know where i've never even seen the

place

where can he meet me in canterbury

cathedral

that's right tell him to meet me in

canterbury cathedral at 11 o'clock

thanks

these london teams have plenty on the

ball now look forget sex for a little

while will you

i've either solved the whole thing or

wasted a perfectly good sunday what

about me and my whole furlough

see that without difficulty now where's

that list you made today are the dates

of the crimes

right here but well now i'll tell you

when the crimes become easy why tell me

i have them here

yes but i haven't now check

the last one was friday august the 27th

considering we were both there

before that thursday the 19th unproven

i'll take it for me it's right

shandy no next before that wednesday the

11th

tuesday 3rd of august say that's right

july the 26th of monday

july the 18th is sunday 10th of july is

saturday

2nd of july of friday all correct 24th

of june or thursday

then one on wednesday the 16th of june

and tuesday the 8th of june

all together 11. say what have you got

there

this my fine feathered friend is the far

guard rotor from mr culpepper's house

and the dates that i've quoted to you

are the nights that he was on duty

every eighth day gee

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then ernie brooks clinches it what does

he say same as me

he saw the light in mr culpepper's

office around midnight but not

before

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oh

hello hello how are you doing general

okay four up to now

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that is something name of a firm

ryman's limited who are they a london

firm not a branches

they sell office accessories paper ink

and gum

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well that's that the rest is just

routine

yes we got him code let's see now

it was a new football we agreed on

wasn't it

you sure that's enough you've earned it

thank you very much the pleasure general

is entirely mine

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hey cat

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[Music]

glorious isn't it

is anybody there

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it's a real voice you heard you're not

dreaming no

just now i heard

sounds what sounds did you hear horses

hooves

voices and a lute

or an instrument like a lute did you

hear anything

those sounds come from inside not

outside they don't know when you're

concentrating when you believe strongly

in something

just now i was concentrating on who's

coming up the hill to disturb me disturb

you at what

being there smelling the earth

watching the clouds

why don't you sit down

you know i was very mistaken about you

i'm sorry

i was mistaken about you too

we have to dig to find out about people

as well as roads

do you know why i wanted to stay so much

i wanted to be here again you've been

here before

do you see that clump of trees i spent

13 perfect days there in the caravan

you're okay then

belongs to me now

there's such a thing as a sew

he must be here somewhere

he loved this hill so much i love it too

may i ask are you engaged

three years long time

his father was the trouble did you ever

meet each other

oh yes we didn't dislike each other

they were a very good family he thought

his son should marry someone better than

a shop girl

good family shop girl

rather dilapidated phrases for water

not for jeffrey's father it would have

taken an earthquake

we're having one

too late for me

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there are a lot of funny things in the

world what for instance

for instance why should people who love

the country

have to live in big cities something's

wrong

miracles still happen you know do you

believe in miracles

when i was your age i didn't believe in

anything now i believe in miracles

for shop girls for everybody you know i

think a shop girl has a bigger chance of

a miracle than a millionaire

i can see you've never been a shop girl

nor a millionaire

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see those clouds for me be a warm day

tomorrow

tomorrow i've got to go into canterbury

to the agricultural committee

i shall visit my property your property

in canterbury

my caravan it's jacked up there in a

garage

i pay half a crown a week for it quite a

lot to reject up caravan

not for my caravan

shall you bring it here i hope so

pilgrims to canterbury often receive

blessings

do you think even a visit to the

agricultural committee could be the

instrument of a blessing

who knows if not i might have a word

yes sir i was born with an open mind

and buzz and mouth as you remarked

but it sure is a surprise to me to find

how much i like everything over here

must they see i may add but one thing

what's that not if you keep low

why do you from sunrise to sunset and at

odd hours throughout the night

have to drink tea i shouldn't be too

noisy about it if i were you but i hate

this stuff well after pearl harbor you

americans joined the honorable company

of tea drinkers

don't forget that the nazis and japs

have knocked down every country they

tried to accept the tea drinkers

china russia and england so long live

drinking tea

drinking tea doesn't appear to be much

good for the wind if anybody made me

walk three miles before the war

and then climb a hill i'd say you could

bury me at the top

i thought organists as a race were

climbers up what

church towers i use a lift

boy cast your eye around that noble

prospect

wasn't it worth the climb yeah

of course i freely admit it's nothing to

compare with the view from three sisters

mountains

i don't start to tell me that you've got

higher hills and broader rivers i don't

see any river

there that's the river star that

because canterbury going to canterbury

is no proof it's a river

i'm going to canterbury and i ain't no

river i'll admit it's no mississippi

and i'll admit i've never seen the

mississippi and be happy to tell you

folks you've seen the river star

and english black plays i am happy

ours are bigger than these i feel

fine the whole time ever since we sailed

something's been wrong with me

maybe it was my girl maybe i was

homesick

now for the first time i feel

swell maybe it was because my mind was

preoccupied

in the army they think mostly about

keeping your body occupied

they've not much time to worry about

your mind now

yeah here's as good as hyde park hyde

park that's in london

very much in london what would you be

doing this afternoon

in london if there wasn't any war sunday

afternoon

reading playing cards to boys waiting

for the pubs to open

occupying the mind letting the body take

care of itself you don't fancy the

countryside much do you

did it truth i'd hardly realize there

was a countryside before them all

funny that how the war can open your

eyes to a lot of things

that sounds like the glue man's lecture

take me for instance

i was no g-man before the war imagine me

bob johnson of johnson county oregon

coming over here and solving the glue

man mystery

while you're throwing bookies yourself

don't forget me and alison

the nutty thing about it is i like him

oh blue pepper he's a bit cracked i like

him too

come on pete i'll race you down

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knows he didn't deny did he didn't say a

word no he wouldn't are you going to

tell the police

certainly he's called at you now he's

got to pay the piper

hey what the hold up george mr

culpepper's a bit late

to get there well how do you know he's

going to canterbury it's mandy his day

on the bench

on the bench hello pop hello sonny boy

adventure of magistrates the district

norcot good morning mr duckett morning

miss i warned you to keep an eye on her

friday night

oh here he comes

here mr culpepper thanks

thank goodness he didn't come in here

good morning you don't mind my sitting

with you it's only 10 minutes to count

me

there's plenty of room you bet

i'm glad to meet you all together you i

suppose are on your way to rejoin your

unit sergeant johnson

yes sir and you're off to the

agricultural committee

and you're going to sit on the bench are

you sergeant gibbs

i'm going to the police station i see

an excellent police force that can

constabulary they solve every crime

sooner or later

do you think the glue man knew that he

knew it all right

but he didn't think that what he did was

a crime what else can you call it

upsetting the whole village giving the

soldiers a bad name with everyone

some children hate going to school their

parents have to force them to go

is that a crime pouring glue on girls

here is it's awful to get out

i'm not going to defend pouring glue on

people certainly not

i'm going to defend potting knowledge

into people's heads by force if

necessary

what knowledge knowledge of our country

the love of his beauty

beauty of the countryside who cares

about these things in wartime who cares

about when peacetime

i tried it before this wall why should

it be any better after it

i've written articles that didn't get

further into county papers

i rented a hall in london to speak from

but never came to listen

i even held a meeting in hyde park

that's no subject for hyde park

i found that out and the war came

just as i was thinking like you but all

the things i've been preaching about i'd

have to wait until peace time

a miracle happened that's the trouble

you believe in miracles

yes i do the miracles of the army

decided to build a camp just outside our

village

young men flowed in from every part of

the country

i felt as a mission must feel that one

day he finds

there's no need to travel into the

jungle to find converts

because the savages are coming to him

thanks for the compliment

there's no cinema being a savage but a

missionary who doesn't try to do his

duties a bad missionary

well well here was a chance for them and

for me i planned a series of lectures no

one came

i tried to get it again nobody turned up

i went to see that see how he

sympathized

said when the men had finished their

work we had dates with the girls in the

village or they went to the movies to

see glamour girls on the screen or they

got up dances

they were always with girls that have to

go well what's wrong with that

yeah it's natural to feel lonesome in a

strange place

you have a gun at home haven't you

yes i have would you like to go out with

strangers when you're 3 000 miles away

5 000 miles most of our girls have their

many of the services

the older people didn't like the idea of

them going out with every soldier that

came along

i suppose they couldn't do anything

about it it's difficult

nobody wants to stop the soldiers having

a good time so you stop the girls from

having one

exactly

did i ever tell you about old dad butler

who killed the fly on his baby's head

with a sledgehammer

mr culpepper didn't it ever occur to you

to ask the girls to your lectures no

pity well the fly's dead the baby's

alive and kicking no harm's been done

oh hasn't it what beats me is that a man

in your position

a magistrate somebody whose job it is to

judge other people

i wonder what sort of sentence you'd

pass if the blue man was brought before

you and your friends on the bench

it would depend upon the findings of the

court

i would try to find out the truth i

never passed sentence without doing that

i should try to discover the motives of

the accused

i should question every witness

but you know that every witness would be

against him are you against him

fee baker said that a lot of people in

the village are not against him

are you against him

he meant well would you believe a

burglar who said he meant well

if it was his first offense you could

prove that he broke into the house

in order to save the baby from burning

to death what baby

oh dead butlers baby

the only case sergeant gibbs if harm has

been done

i shall have to pay for it and in order

to make you pay somebody must denounce

you

i want to make that quite clear there

are higher courts in the local bunch of

majesties

pilgrims for canterbury all out and get

your blessings

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ramen sort of pilgrimage for you the

pilgrimage can be

either to receive a blessing or to do

penance

i don't need either perhaps you're an

instrument

do i get a flaming sword nothing would

surprise me

i believe that when i see a halo around

my head

taking a pilgrim's view sergeant johnson

yes sir

but if ever her son who comes to england

how's hoping he comes in mufti not like

his father

and his grandfather and his grandfather

make him promise to become a pilgrim too

at the moment sir i'm having a little

trouble with my future son's mother but

your advice is sound i ever heard you

say last night that you liked me in

spite of yourself

that's true enough and i like you too

you're not the only stuff you should try

to make out

you know the way yes thanks i'm taking

bob to the cathedral

he's got a date there with his buddy

then it's goodbye

good luck thank you

why good luck to you especially yes why

you

military secret what's cooking tell a

fellow

we're off today no where to

but don't worry i'll be seeing you it's

a date

and the more of us the media

i'm looking for the police station

thank you

okay sergeant yes sir watch out for

combos very good sir christ church

in 10 minutes carry on very good sir

inspector yes superintendent hall wants

to see me he's not in

when will he be well it's hard to say

he's got a job on special service in the

cathedral

and they're marching through the city i

think i'm one of them well you ought to

know

suit yourself but he won't be back till

the soldiers are gone trouble is when

the soldiers are gone i'll be gone too

where am i finding my cathedral come on

sergeant

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so

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so

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so

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foreign

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so

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good morning dr kelsey

early as usual excuse me sir

have you seen superintendent hall

anywhere silver

this is canterbury cathedral not the

police station

i'm sorry i was told he might be here he

wants to see me urgently

uh gently

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gosh

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oh

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my

my god

excuse me i think you dropped this

too much urgency

do you mind looking at the organ from

everton oh go ahead

are you the organization do i look like

the child woman

this is some organ what do you know

about it

i'm an organist or at least i was before

the war

oh well once an organist always an

organist

unless of course you only play the mouth

organ

where did you study wrong academy of

music and who

pera do you know him sir oh we've cut

each other for 27 years

but he's a fine teacher none better yes

we thought so

are you playing this morning later

there's a special service for the

battalion of soldiers

that's my battalion you going to

yes sir where did you play last

you're there i played in a cinema

cinema when i was a young man your age

after i got my degree i played in a

circus

the harmonium piano wasn't loud enough

especially for the elephants how much do

they pay you in a cinema

30 a week they only paid me 22.

ah but 22 shlings then was more than 30

today

perhaps 22 shillings then could buy as

much as 30 pounds today

huh oh no no no i don't think so

well do you want to play

i'd like to not afraid of it

no i don't think i'm afraid then have a

go

if you're one of them it's only right

that you should play

now show what you can do

play something anything only don't swing

it

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now

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and my dad's paw built the first baptist

church in johnson county

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oregon red cedar cedar shingles

1887.

well that was a good job too

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excuse me would you mind telling me is

this old canterbury lane

no this is rose lane canterbury lane is

further up

i haven't been here since 1940. the rose

hotel used to be here

just where we're standing this is the

parade and that is in georgia street

oh yes i see thank you it is an awful

mess i don't blame you for not knowing

where you are

you get a very good view of the

cathedral now

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so

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excuse me

is this rose lane garage yeah

you don't want to take her out mr you no

i

i just want to look at her

she's a good friend of mine

caravan yes

spruce we ain't tattoo since the blitz

what happened to the tires requisition

you know the regulations mr portal

couldn't let you know because he had no

address for you

he got the receipt he'd be glad you're

here i go and tell him

what a shame

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uh

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me

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um

i know i should find you here

i know how you're feeling you don't

everybody has disappointments in life

life is full of disappointments

i'm also eating everything

i don't hurt your feelings but there's

something

impermanent about a caravan everything

on wheels must be on the move sooner or

later

oh hello mr portal how are you how'd you

do miss allison

how do you do it do you know mr

culpepper oh yes i know mr culpepper i

knew his father

how do you do mr tom how are you mr

portal miss alison

why didn't you leave us your address two

weeks ago mr jeffrey's father came here

he came here all the way from oxford he

didn't want the caravan

he can't have it it was mr jeffrey's

wish that i should have it

well you were a witness you were there

when he said no no it's quite all right

miss allison he doesn't want the caravan

he wants to get in touch with you

i told him that we'd received a letter

from you and that you were coming here

he's waited for you he's staying at the

false staff

for over two weeks now he's waited for

you here in canterbury

why because he has news ms allison

official news

about mr jeffrey he's in gibraltar

missouri

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i must open the windows

the caravan's full of boss

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they're ruining everything

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i haven't seen so many moths in all my

life mr culpepper

where's mr culpepper he's gone miss

allison

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hey

why are you homesick sad sac gi hey what

in canterbury you've been doing with

your three days leave

learning sergeant learning since when

did you ever learn anything except from

the indians

hey can i shoot inside we'll ask the

verger the walk the verger he's the

number one man around here

oh hey you know what you missed in

london nightclubs like new york you've

never been in new york oh and girls and

telephone numbers wait i got a million

of them

you know about the old rose that's a new

one on me

where is it piccadilly piccadilly it's a

road a real one

okay what about it it's the pilgrims

road

gee even you know about the canterbury

pilgrims

yeah you know i seem to remember

flunking them where does it go to this

old road you're standing on it it goes

right here to canterbury cathedral

come on in you're a pilgrim yourself but

you don't know it

hey let's have some tea first huh that

stuff sure it's a hobbit like marijuana

i'll take

marijuana you'll drink tea and like it

i'll drink it but i won't like it they

are your canterbury pilgrims you can sit

right there and watch the world go by

like in the movies

hey babe what's cooking

i think you'll call me you know what do

you got to eat in the kitchen scones and

rock band

all right bring us an order of each and

some tea and look when you're spooning

out the tea don't forget one for him

one for me one for the pot one for the

pot

looks like she made the original

pilgrimage now look let me get this

straight

you came here by road not by train i

came by train but the pilgrims used the

old road

uh-huh why for blessings you character

for blessings

okay where's yours uh-uh it don't work

nowadays that was 600 years ago

you see it's just like i've been saying

here you are 600 years too late

you passed up 72 sleepless hours in

london and you ain't even got a blessing

yes sir you're completely and positively

it don't work nowadays huh hey do i look

like a heavenly messenger to you you

look like mickey rozzinski to me oh yeah

well ah mickey rosinski have a blessing

for you oh no i've been carrying these

around for two days give me those

letters the whole lot came in the mail

the afternoon you left from your girl

hey what stamps are these australian

australian yeah she certainly gets

around

these were mailed in sydney australia

she's joined the wax

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bye

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wow

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so

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it's your superintendent hall want him

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so

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him 293

293

our christian soldiers marching

ball

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when

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oh

of jesus

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you