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Let us praise famous men...
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and our fathers that begat us.
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All these men...
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were honoured in their generations...
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and were a glory in their days.
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We are here today to give thanks...
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for the life of Harold Abrahams.
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To honour the legend.
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Now there are just two of us...
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young Aubrey Montague...
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and myself...
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who can close our eyes...
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and remember those few young men...
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with hope in our hearts...
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and wings on our heels.
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Carlton Hotel, Broadstairs, Kent.
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28th June, 1924.
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Dear Mum. I'm most awfully sorry about
your cold and the general dreariness.
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We're also having
quite bad weather here, too.
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Thanks for your letters.
I'm sorry you and Pa are disappointed...
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I should be letting the Olympic Games
interfere with my shorthand.
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But if you were my age, with a chance
to win the World Championship in Paris...
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you would be just as big a fool as I am.
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By the way, it's awfully kind of Pa
to finance me here, in spite of my idiocy.
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It's marvellous for esprit de corps.
Most of the chaps have managed to get down.
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- Cricket, Montague, in the ballroom.
- Now!
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No ball!
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Come on, Aubrey, the old leg break.
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- Howzat!
- Not out.
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What? You could hear it
in bloody Bournemouth!
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- Come on, Liddell, my innings.
- I didn't touch it.
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- You heard the crack of my wrist.
- I saw the bloody thing bend!
- Andy!
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No tickle for me.
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He's out, I tell you.
You're all deaf and bloody blind.
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Aubrey, I ask you, for God's sake!
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It's not fair!
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All right.
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Harold's here. As intense as ever.
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Just as he was
on our very first day at Cambridge.
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I remember we shared a taxi together.
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I'll take these.
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- See you inside, Aubrey.
- Right.
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Thank you.
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- Name, please.
- We're new.
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I can see that, laddie. What's your name?
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Abrahams. HM.
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- Top of the list. Repton. That the one?
- That's it. Left a year ago.
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- Been doing your bit, 'ave you? France?
- No. Joined too late.
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Bad luck, lad.
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Many a dead man
would have liked a share of it.
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You're right there, son.
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Welcome to Caius.
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- Sign here.
- Thank you.
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It's across the courtyard,
top right-hand corner, up the stairs.
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Thanks.
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By the way, what are your names?
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Rogers, head porter,
and this is Mr Ratcliffe, my assistant.
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Well, Mr Rogers, Ratcliffe...
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I ceased to be a "laddie" when
I took up the King's commission.
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- Is that clear?
- Yes... Mr Abrahams.
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- Quite clear.
- Thank you.
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I'd be obliged if you'd remember it.
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- See you later.
- Fine.
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What's your friend studying, then, son?
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Barrack-room law?
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I've no idea.
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One thing's certain.
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A name like Abrahams, he won't be
in the chapel choir, now, will he?
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- Name?
- Montague.
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- What?
- Montague.
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I take the war list...
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and I run down it.
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Name after name which I cannot read...
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and which we, who are older than you...
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cannot hear, without emotion.
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Names which will be only names to you...
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the new college.
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But which to us summon up face after face...
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full of honesty and goodness...
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zeal and vigour...
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and intellectual promise.
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The flower of a generation.
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The glory of England...
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and they died for England...
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and all that England stands for.
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And now by tragic necessity,
their dreams have become yours.
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Let me exhort you. Examine yourselves.
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Let each of you discover...
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where your true chance of greatness lies.
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For their sakes...
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for the sake of your college
and your country, seize this chance.
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Rejoice in it...
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and let no power or persuasion
deter you in your task.
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Thursday, October 10th, 1919.
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My first day at Cambridge was rounded off...
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by the freshmen's dinner,
a sumptuous affair.
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The master gave us a moving speech...
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and I'm now eagerly awaiting
the start of term proper.
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Rugby club, golfing society, tennis...
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squash club, flora and fauna, philately.
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Is that all? You're an idle man!
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- I've got to work some time.
- Try bird-watching. You can take a book.
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How can I watch if I'm reading a book?
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Follow in the footsteps of WG.
Any Yorkshiremen here?
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I can't bat for toffee.
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♪ Upon the battle scene
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♪ They fight the foe together
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♪ There every mother's son
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♪ Prepared to fight or fall is
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♪ The enemy of one the enemy of all is
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♪ The enemy of one the enemy of all is
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- Abrahams, HM.
- Can you manage a tenor?
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- We're desperately short of tenors.
- Only under torture.
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- Aubrey. Sing, do you?
- School choir, that's all.
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You, Stallard?
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They kicked me out of Ring-a-ring o'Roses.
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Sorry about that. We can't all be gifted.
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♪ If everybody's somebody
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♪ Then no one's anybody
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- Put my friend here down as well.
- Steady on.
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Splendid! Rehearsals start on Monday.
Iolanthe.
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- I was a boy alto.
- Perfect! You can be Queen of the Fairies.
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Where were you
when your country needed you?
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We have a duty, a solemn duty, to those
millions of lives needlessly slaughtered!
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♪ When the boys are far away
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♪ They dream of home
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Well, glad to have you, Stallard.
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Good middle-distance men
don't grow on trees.
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I can't vouch for those times.
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Taken with the school alarm clock,
most of them.
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Give or take a second,
they're good enough for me.
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Have you come across a fellow
called Abrahams? HM Abrahams?
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He's challenged for the college dash.
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What's so special about that?
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In all the 700 years, nobody's ever done it.
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Right, what do you do?
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Right, chaps, thank you! Thank you.
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Let it be known that HM Abrahams
of Gonville and Caius...
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has formally made challenge
for the college dash.
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You show 'em, Harold!
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For those not familiar with the rules...
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The challenger will attempt
to run around the court perimeter...
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to and from a point beneath the clock...
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within the time taken
by the clock to strike midday.
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A distance traditionally
recognised as one of 188 paces.
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I say, Abrahams, what have you got
on your feet? Rockets?
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The challenge will commence on the...
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- Abrahams, you haven't got a chance!
- Do it for Israel!
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The challenge commences
on the stroke of one.
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The challenger must finish
before the stroke of 12.
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Come on, Abrahams, you swank!
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Will the challenger make himself ready?
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This Abrahams.
What do you know about him?
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Repton chap.
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Jewish.
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- His father's a financier in the city.
- Financier?
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What's that supposed to mean, I wonder?
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I imagine he lends money.
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Exactly.
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And what do they say about the son?
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Academically sound. Arrogant.
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Defensive to the point of pugnacity.
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Mm. As they invariably are.
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Yet possessing
a keen sense of duty and loyalty.
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Do they say he can run?
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Like the wind.
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Gentlemen, would you draw back, please?
Away from the course.
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Thank you.
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Mr Abrahams, your position, please.
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Owing to the absence
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Mr Abrahams will run alone.
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Not so, Mr Starter!
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Your name and college, if you please, sir.
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Lindsay. I race beside my friend here.
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We challenge in the name
of Repton, Eton and Caius.
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- I didn't know you ran.
- Nor I you.
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Some chap just told me about this.
I thought I'd come and push you along.
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- Delighted.
- Splendid.
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Good luck.
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Gentlemen, to your marks, if you please.
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Now remember, on the first strike of 12.
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Come on!
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Eight!
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Nine!
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Ten!
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- Eleven!
- Go on! Go on!
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Did they both do it?
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I think not.
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- Young Lindsay failed by a whisker.
- Pity.
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Well, it's been done.
And by a Caius man! You must be very proud.
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The first man in seven centuries.
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Perhaps they really are
God's chosen people, after all.
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I doubt if there's a swifter man
in the kingdom.
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Get to your marks.
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Get set.
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He may be your best friend, Sandy,
but he's my best brother.
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I'm thinking of him
and not your blessed athletics team.
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His heart's set on following Father
in the mission.
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Do you not think he's busy enough
without taking up racing?
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He's fast, Jennie.
You've seen him with a ball in his hands.
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I've seen him with a Bible in his hands.
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And I know which is the most important.
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You can't deny him the chance.
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Get him on the track, I'm telling you...
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Don't tell me, Sandy. I don't want to hear.
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Eric's special to me. Precious.
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I don't want his work spoilt
with all this running talk, do you hear?
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There you are. Well done.
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You know, ladies and gentlemen...
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one of the compensations
of achieving a certain notoriety...
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if only as a rugby player...
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is that occasionally
you're asked to give things away.
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It's often said that giving beats receiving.
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Let me tell you...
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the look of delight
on those little boys' faces...
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was worth ten of the tin pots gathering
dust on my Edinburgh sideboard.
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When we were in China, my father here...
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was always waxing lyrical
about his wee home in the glen.
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But being oriental-born myself...
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like my brothers and my sister here...
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I suffered from a natural incredulity.
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But looking about me now...
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the heather on the hills...
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I can see he was right.
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It's very special.
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Thank you for welcoming us home.
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And thank you...
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for reminding me that I am,
and will be whilst I breathe...
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a Scot.
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Mr Provost, sir.
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Before you allow Eric here to go...
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Is it not true that the main event
of the meeting is still to be run?
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It is. Aye.
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The 200-yards open championship.
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It's the last event
of this gathering, by tradition.
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Do you not think,
if we can find him some kit...
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we might persuade Scotland's
finest wing to show us his paces?
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What do you say, Eric?
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To your marks!
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Get set!
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Didn't I tell you, Eric? Didn't I tell you?
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Surely a touch of liberality
would do no harm.
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Sandy, the kingdom of God
is not a democracy.
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The Lord never seeks re-election.
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There's no discussion, no deliberation...
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no referenda as to which road to take.
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There's one right, one wrong...
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one absolute ruler.
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- A dictator, you mean.
- Aye, but a benign, loving dictator.
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So much for your freedom of choice.
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You've still got a choice, Sandy.
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Nobody's forcing you to follow it.
253
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Hey, hey!
254
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- Do you know what day it is?
- Yeah.
255
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- Tell me, then.
- Sunday.
256
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The Sabbath's not a day
for playing football, is it?
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No.
258
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- Are you up early in the morning?
- Me ma gets me up at seven.
259
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We'll have a game then, then. OK?
260
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Mr Liddell, is it OK if me da comes?
261
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Sure. Bring your whole family.
262
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I'll give ye a five-goal start.
263
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You've got a train to catch at nine.
264
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There's plenty of time.
265
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Do you want the kid to grow up
thinking God's a spoilsport?
266
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If I may, I'd like to propose a toast.
267
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To the Liddell family...
268
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whom I'm fortunate enough
to call my friends.
269
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The Reverend JD, Mrs L, young Ernest.
270
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Bon voyage and safe journey back to China.
271
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May the years ahead be happy and content.
272
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For those who remain,
may God protect them...
273
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inspire them...
274
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and lead them to glory.
275
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Thank you, Sandy. That was very nice.
276
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I'm relying on you now
to keep them all out of mischief.
277
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That I will, Mrs L. If they do transgress,
I'll pop the details on a postcard.
278
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You can read all about it
before you can say Marco Polo.
279
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Cost you a fortune in postage stamps.
280
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Don't worry. I shall protect my investment.
281
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I'm going to rule you with a rod of iron.
282
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We're going to have to watch ourselves!
283
00:23:28,820 --> 00:23:31,020
You're a very lucky young man, Eric.
284
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You're the proud possessor of many gifts.
285
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And it's your sacred duty
to put them to good use.
286
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Dad's right. Run like we know you can,
strong and true.
287
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The mission cannot but gain
by your success.
288
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What we need now is a muscular Christian.
289
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To make folks sit up and notice.
290
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How good are you, Eric?
291
00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:56,820
Sandy reckons he'll run for Scotland
before the month's out.
292
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Then after that... the sky's the limit.
293
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Meaning what?
294
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The Olympic Games, maybe?
295
00:24:05,860 --> 00:24:09,340
Eric, you can praise the Lord
by peeling a spud...
296
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if you peel it to perfection.
297
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Don't compromise.
Compromise is a language of the devil.
298
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Run in God's name...
299
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and let the world stand back in wonder.
300
00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:38,220
♪ Lean and his mercy will provide
301
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♪ Trust and thy trusting soul shall prove
302
00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:50,260
♪ Christ is its life and Christ its love
303
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♪ Run the straight race
304
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♪ Through God's good grace
305
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♪ Lift up thine eyes
306
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♪ And seek his face
307
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♪ Life with its way before us lies
308
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You came to see a race today.
309
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,040
To see someone win.
310
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,560
It happened to be me.
311
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,280
But I want you to do more
than just watch a race.
312
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I want you to take part in it.
313
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,040
I want to compare faith to running in a race.
314
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,520
It's hard.
315
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,960
It requires concentration of will.
316
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Energy of soul.
317
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,360
You experience elation...
318
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when the winner breaks the tape...
319
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especially if you've got a bet on it.
320
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,760
But how long does that last?
321
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,920
You go home. Maybe your dinner's burnt.
322
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,480
Maybe you haven't got a job.
323
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,800
So who am I to say believe...
324
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,240
have faith, in the face of life's realities?
325
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,120
I would like to give you
something more permanent...
326
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,280
but I can only point the way.
327
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,360
I have no formula for winning the race.
328
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,880
Everyone runs in her own way...
329
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,080
or his own way.
330
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,120
And where does the power come from
to see the race to its end?
331
00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:39,200
From within.
332
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,040
Jesus said...
333
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:45,800
"Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
334
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,840
"If with all your hearts ye truly seek me...
335
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,160
ye shall ever surely find me."
336
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,960
If you commit yourself...
337
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to the love of Christ...
338
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then that is how you run a straight race.
339
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,120
Cheers. Thanks for coming.
340
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,320
It's an ache.
341
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,760
A helplessness.
342
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,720
And an anger.
343
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,760
One feels humiliated.
344
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,720
Sometimes I say to myself,
"Steady on, you're imagining all this."
345
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,600
Then I catch that look again.
346
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,640
Catch it on the edge of a remark.
347
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Feel a cold reluctance in a handshake.
348
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,360
That's my father.
349
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,520
A Lithuanian Jew.
350
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,120
He is alien.
351
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,280
- He's as foreign as a frankfurter.
- A kosher one at that!
352
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,520
I love and admire him.
353
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,960
He worships this country.
354
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,320
From nothing, he built what he believed...
355
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,040
was enough to make
true Englishmen of his sons.
356
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,120
My brother's a doctor.
357
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,720
A leader in his field.
358
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,520
- Which one is he?
- That's me with the curls, on his back.
359
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,320
He wanted for nothing.
360
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,680
And here am I.
361
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,200
Setting up shop
in the finest university in the land.
362
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,160
But the old man forgot one thing.
363
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040
This England of his is Christian...
364
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,200
and Anglo-Saxon.
365
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,920
And so are her corridors of power.
366
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,400
And those who stalk them
guard them with jealousy and venom.
367
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,800
You're right to study law.
You're quite an advocate.
368
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,480
A rare ethnic advantage.
It's called the gift of the gab.
369
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,960
So what now? Grin and bear it?
370
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,040
No, Aubrey.
371
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,880
I'm going to take them on. All of them.
372
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,520
One by one.
373
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,000
And run them off their feet.
374
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:12,080
♪ He is an Englishman!
375
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:18,160
♪ He is an Englishman
376
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:24,160
♪ For he himself has said it
377
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,480
♪ And it's greatly to his credit
378
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,920
♪ That he is an Englishman
379
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,920
England beckons for sprint blue.
380
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,200
From a special correspondent.
381
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,440
Clean sweep for Cambridge star.
382
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,200
Abrahams hat trick.
383
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,360
From a special correspondent.
384
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,480
♪ But in spite of all temptations
385
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,920
♪ To belong to other nations
386
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,400
♪ He remains an Englishman
387
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,640
♪ He remains an
388
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:28,640
♪ Englishman
389
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,560
♪ For in spite of all temptations
390
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,600
♪ To belong to other nations
391
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,560
♪ He remains an Englishman
392
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,400
♪ He remains an
393
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,480
♪ Englishman
394
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,560
Bravo!
395
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,360
Bravo, Harold!
396
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,640
♪ L'étendard sanglant est levé
397
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160
♪ L'étendard sanglant est levé
398
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,440
♪ Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
399
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,720
♪ Contre nous de la tyrannie
400
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,920
♪ L'étendard sanglant est levé
401
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,880
♪ L'étendard sanglant est levé
402
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,920
♪ Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
403
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,680
4-1 Liddell! What are you asking?
404
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,840
£25, Liddell to win.
405
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,880
Mr Mussabini, I believe.
406
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,160
My name's Keddie. Colonel John Keddie.
407
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,600
- I'm...
- President of the Scottish Three A's.
408
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,480
I know, and I'm glad to know you, sir.
409
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,360
- Monsieur Sam! Bonjour.
- Bonjour.
410
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,120
- How's the leg?
- OK.
411
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,880
Nasty fall you took.
412
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,080
Enchanté. Good luck.
413
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,360
You're very welcome here, of course.
414
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,560
But we do have a strict amateur code.
415
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,480
Colonel, don't worry your head.
416
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,480
I'm here spectating, that's all.
417
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,920
Good. I felt sure you would understand.
418
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,160
Well, to battle!
419
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,320
I hope you enjoy the games.
420
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,280
Games? You must be joking.
421
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,840
I've seen better-organised riots.
422
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,880
Come on, Scotland!
423
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,080
Vive la France!
424
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Gentlemen, get to your marks.
425
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:21,280
Get set.
426
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,160
Get up, lad. Get up.
427
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,320
Yeah.
428
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,360
He'll never do it.
429
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,880
Don't you believe it. His head's not back yet.
430
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,800
Come on, Eric!
431
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,720
Get back! Give him air!
432
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,600
Well done, Eric, son. Well done.
433
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,760
He'll be right in a jiffy.
I'll go away and get his clothes.
434
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,720
You take good care
of this lad o' yours, Mr McGrath.
435
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,840
Because if you drop him,
you'll never find another one like this.
436
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,080
It's not the prettiest quarter
I've ever seen, Mr Liddell.
437
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,240
But certainly the bravest.
438
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,440
Get him up. Come on, gently.
439
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,000
Keep your arm around.
440
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,560
Mr Mussabini.
441
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,800
Mr Abrahams, is it?
442
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,000
So you've travelled 300 mile just to see me?
443
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,760
You and Liddell.
444
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,920
I'd heard you were both the best.
445
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,080
And what do you think now?
446
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,240
Eric Liddell?
447
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,000
I've never seen such drive,
such commitment in a runner.
448
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,680
He runs like a wild animal.
449
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,560
He unnerves me.
450
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,440
So he should.
451
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,120
He frightens the living daylights out of me.
452
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,960
I want you to help me take him on.
453
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,760
Tell me, Mr Abrahams. Are you married?
454
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,920
No. Why?
455
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,480
Well...
456
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,360
when the right girl comes along...
457
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,720
how will you feel if she pops the question?
458
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,480
You see, Mr Abrahams...
459
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,520
like the bridegroom...
460
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,120
it's the coach that should do the asking.
461
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,320
Mr Mussabini...
462
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,440
I can run fast.
463
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,400
With your help, I think I can run even faster.
464
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,840
Perhaps faster than any man ever ran.
465
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,680
I want that Olympic medal.
466
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,600
Now, I can see it there.
467
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,880
It's waiting for me.
468
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,040
But I can't get it on my own.
469
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,200
Well, we've an old saying in my game, son.
470
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,360
You can't put in what God's left out.
471
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:10,200
Now, you leave it to me.
472
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,640
I'll watch you. I'll observe.
And if I think I can help...
473
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,520
if I can see the big prize hanging there...
474
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,120
believe me, I won't waste any time.
475
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,560
When we meet again...
476
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,760
I'll be the one that does the begging.
477
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,800
So you will watch me?
478
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,960
Son, if you're good enough...
479
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,320
I'll take you apart piece by bloody piece.
480
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,080
Thank you.
481
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,480
♪ Three little maids who, all unwary
482
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,480
♪ Come from a ladies' seminary
483
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,000
♪ Freed from its genius tutelary
484
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,360
♪ Three little maids from school
485
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,000
♪ Three little maids from school
486
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,920
♪ One little maid is a bride, Yum-Yum
487
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
♪ Two little maids in attendance come
488
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,040
♪ Three little maids is the total sum
489
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,240
♪ Three little maids from school
490
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,400
♪ From three little maids, take one away
491
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,160
♪ Two little maids remain and they
492
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,240
♪ Won't have to wait very long, they say
493
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,000
♪ Three little maids from school
494
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,360
♪ Three little maids from school
495
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,520
♪ Three little maids who, all unwary
496
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,480
♪ Come from a ladies' seminary
497
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,640
♪ Freed from its genius tutelary
498
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,040
♪ Three little maids from school
499
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,720
- Didn't I tell you? Isn't she a peach?
- She's magnificent.
500
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,840
Bravo! Bravo!
501
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,200
I think it's going rather well.
502
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,160
I've never seen this sort of thing,
but I am enjoying it.
503
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,640
- And you, JB?
- I've done better shows myself.
504
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,520
- Do you remember them offhand?
- I don't!
505
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,880
So the stone heart's frail after all.
506
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,200
- Abrahams is smitten, you say?
- Smitten? He's decapitated.
507
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,120
- He won't listen to reason.
- The poor lad's in love!
508
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,480
He's only just set eyes on her.
I've worshipped her for years.
509
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,880
- By the way, where is he now?
- He's gone to ask her out to dinner.
510
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,960
- Has he, by Jove!
- In the interval?!
511
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,800
- Thank you. Mine, I take it?
- Harold.
512
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,000
Lovely.
513
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:45,680
Well?
514
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,960
- Well what?
- Did you speak to her?
515
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,120
Yes.
516
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,680
- Is she coming?
- Yes.
517
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,960
- To dinner?
- Yes.
518
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,520
Her kid brother is athletics-mad.
Always talking about me!
519
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,160
Monty, you'd better have my glass.
I've a terrible feeling you're going to need it.
520
00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:03,760
Sorry, Monty.
521
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,680
Yes, thank you very much, sir.
522
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,840
Yes, of course I will, sir.
523
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,000
Good evening, Miss Gordon!
524
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,200
A triumph, I hear.
525
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:51,320
Who was that chap over there?
526
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,840
Music critic of the Star.
527
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,240
- Boring old buffer, really.
- Well, he obviously enjoyed it.
528
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,440
I shouldn't think so.
529
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,760
They always say that.
They save the poison for the print.
530
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,720
- A bit off tonight, I thought.
- What? You were magnificent!
531
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,880
Thank you.
532
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,440
One of my little maids has gone and
got herself preggers with a gondolier.
533
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,760
We had to shove her second on tonight.
The trio...
534
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,720
- Your usual, Miss Gordon?
- Thank you, Toffy.
535
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,920
And you, sir.
536
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,800
Thank you.
537
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,840
This is Mr Abrahams.
He's a very famous runner.
538
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,960
He's trying your special
for the first time tonight.
539
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,840
- I hope you enjoy it, sir.
- I'm sure I shall.
540
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,760
Well, go on then!
541
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,760
It's a secret concoction of Toffy's...
542
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,920
a sort of cocktail de maison...
543
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,320
so you'd jolly well better enjoy it.
544
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,520
- Excellent.
- There, Toffy!
545
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,080
You've won yourself a friend for life.
546
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,400
My favourite, please.
547
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,400
- For two.
- My pleasure.
548
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,440
What have I ordered?
549
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,360
Surprise.
550
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,520
- Cheerio.
- Cheerio.
551
00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:20,960
Well... the great Harold Abrahams.
552
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,760
My brother will be insanely jealous.
553
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,920
So will mine.
554
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:31,800
You don't look very ruthless.
555
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,480
Should I?
556
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,440
According to my brother.
Tim says that's why you always win.
557
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,680
- Why running?
- Why singing?
558
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,760
It's my job.
559
00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:48,520
No, that's silly. I do it because I love it.
560
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,600
Do you love running?
561
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,600
I'm more of an addict.
It's a compulsion. A weapon.
562
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,240
- Against what?
- Being Jewish, I suppose.
563
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,200
You're not serious?!
564
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:08,720
You're not Jewish...
565
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,920
or you wouldn't ask.
566
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,280
Fiddlesticks!
567
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,440
People don't care.
568
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,680
Anyway, being Jewish
hasn't done you any harm.
569
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,600
I'm what I call semi-deprived.
570
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,960
That sounds clever. What does it mean?
571
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,800
It means they lead me to water,
but they won't let me drink.
572
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,560
You're a funny old stick,
Mr Harold Abrahams.
573
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,720
Funny...
574
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,840
but fascinating.
575
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,120
I'll settle for the fascinating.
576
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,640
Life isn't that gloomy, is it?
577
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,160
Not tonight.
578
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,920
You're so beautiful.
579
00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,560
Like you.
580
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,320
Le pied de porc anglais, madame.
581
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,640
Pigs' trotters.
582
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,640
Oh, my God.
583
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,120
The train arriving at platform two...
584
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,640
is the Flying Scotsman from Aberdeen.
585
00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:29,520
7.30, Mr Liddell! 7.30 on t'dot.
586
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,720
There you are, sir. Hot tea and toast.
587
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,200
Great.
588
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,440
- You sleep all right?
- Like a log.
589
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,080
Aye. Must have a clear conscience.
590
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,240
Far from it.
591
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,600
- Are we here?
- Aye, sir. Just pulled in. King's Cross.
592
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,680
Oh, and here's the paper, with your picture in.
593
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,200
Expecting great things, from all accounts.
594
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,360
Are they indeed?
595
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,760
- Here you are.
- Much obliged, sir.
596
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,000
Now, no hurry. You've got
an hour before we kick you out.
597
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,600
- And good luck for this afternoon.
- Thank you.
598
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,880
Come on, sir. Wake up. King's Cross.
599
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,440
Aye, Mr Abrahams. So's the Scot.
600
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,160
Mr Abrahams?
601
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,240
Mr Liddell.
602
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,040
I'd like to wish you the best of success.
603
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,280
Thank you. And may the best man win.
604
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,360
Get to your marks.
605
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,480
Get set.
606
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,640
Extraordinary.
607
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,920
Harold.
608
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,800
Harold.
609
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,040
This is absolutely ridiculous.
610
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,440
It's a race you've lost, not a relative.
Nobody's dead.
611
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:09,160
For goodness' sake, snap out of it, Harold.
You're behaving like a child.
612
00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:11,400
- I lost.
- I know!
613
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,080
I was there, remember? Watching.
614
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,320
It was marvellous.
615
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,040
You were marvellous.
616
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,520
He was more marvellous, that's all.
617
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,680
On the day, the best man won.
618
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,840
I had to look for him.
619
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,760
It's absolutely fundamental. You never look.
620
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,520
He was ahead. There was nothing you
could have done. He won fair and square.
621
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,480
Well, that's that, Abrahams.
622
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,160
If you can't take a beating, it's for the best.
623
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:45,320
I don't run to take beatings!
624
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:48,760
I run to win.
625
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,960
If I can't win, I won't run.
626
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,600
If you don't run, you can't win.
627
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,160
Ring me when you've sorted that one out.
628
00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:00,320
Sybil...
629
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:02,360
Don't go.
630
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,160
I just don't know what to do.
631
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,320
Try growing up.
632
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,440
Harold.
633
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,160
You're a great man.
634
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,320
You ran like a god.
635
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:43,320
I was proud of you. Don't make me ashamed.
636
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,480
It's not the losing, Syb.
637
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,320
Eric Liddell's a fine man and a fine runner.
638
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,480
It's me!
639
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,680
After all that work...
640
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,880
now, God knows, what do I aim for?
641
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:00,960
Beating him the next time.
642
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,120
Sybil, I can't run any faster.
643
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,880
Mr Abrahams!
644
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,360
Mr Abrahams!
645
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,240
I can find you another two yards.
646
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,200
Charlie Paddock.
647
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,520
Californian cannonball.
World's fastest human.
648
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,880
Winner, 100 metres, Olympic Games...
649
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,360
- 1920, Antwerp. Time?
- 10.3.
650
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,680
Jackson Scholz...
651
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,840
the New York Thunderbolt.
652
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,720
Runner-up, Olympic Games, 1920.
653
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,880
Lost by looking right.
654
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,120
Look, here's the finish. You see?
655
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,240
Paddock, leaping past him at the tape?
656
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,520
That glance cost Scholz the race.
657
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:01,960
- Scholz's fastest?
- 10.3... 4.
658
00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:10,240
Eric Liddell. Well, you know all about him.
659
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,440
Look at them.
660
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,840
Think them. Breathe them.
661
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,040
I want their faces leering at you
every time you shut your eyes.
662
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,800
The Flying Scotsman first.
That bloody well hurt.
663
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:23,960
What, Eric Liddell?
664
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,120
Well, he's no real problem.
665
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,600
He's a great runner
but he needs to go further out.
666
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,480
- He's no 100-metres man.
- He could have fooled me!
667
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,400
Yeah, he's fast.
668
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,160
But he won't go any faster, not in
the dash, anyway. He's a gut runner.
669
00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:41,320
He's all heart. Digs deep.
670
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,160
A short sprint is run on nerves.
671
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:47,520
- It's tailor-made for neurotics.
- Thanks very much.
672
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:51,600
No, I mean it. You can push guts,
bully them, but you can hone nerves.
673
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,960
Paddock, Scholz and Eric Liddell.
674
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,920
Come here a minute, Mr Abrahams.
675
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,760
Now, do you know
why you lost the other day?
676
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,920
Because you're overstriding.
677
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,080
Just a couple of inches. Now...
678
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,040
These coins represent the strides
in your hundred metres.
679
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,720
Have you got another two coins,
Mr Abrahams?
680
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,160
Well, maybe we can find them.
681
00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,320
As I said...
682
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,280
overstriding.
683
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,360
Death to the sprinter.
684
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,320
Slap in the face each stride you take.
685
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,520
Knocks you back.
686
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:40,960
Like that. Like that...
687
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,120
and that!
688
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:45,600
Now...
689
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,080
I want you to imagine
you're running on hot bricks.
690
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,640
If you leave your feet too long
on the ground, they'll get burnt.
691
00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:07,000
Up, up, up. Light, light, light!
Light as a feather.
692
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,120
Set!
693
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,560
No! Not your head back again!
694
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,480
Get it level! Go and do it again.
695
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:05,760
That's it!
696
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,480
Faster, come on!
697
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,920
Pass the car! Go on!
698
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:19,480
Go on! Go on!
699
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,800
Go on, go on, on, on!
700
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,840
Come on, now! Keep it up, come on!
701
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,360
Rhythm, Mr Abrahams, rhythm!
702
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:58,240
Training, training. All I ever hear is training.
703
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,160
Do you believe in
what we're doing here or not?
704
00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:03,320
Look, Jennie, I'm sorry.
705
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,120
I was late. I apologise.
706
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,360
- It's all very well, Eric.
- Look, I said I was sorry.
707
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,400
To me. It's not me you've insulted.
708
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,560
Away with your bother!
709
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,440
The Lord'll not feel slighted
at the missing of a bus.
710
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,840
Yes, Eric, you missed a bus. But why?
711
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,000
Your mind's not with us any more, son.
712
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,960
It's full of running and starting
and medals and pace.
713
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,920
It's so full of it,
you've no room for standing still.
714
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,520
Jennie, Jennie, Jennie!
715
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,680
Don't fret yourself.
716
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,320
I do fret myself, Eric.
717
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,040
I'm frightened for you.
718
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,800
I'm frightened for what it all might do to you.
719
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,280
Please, Mr Liddell.
Would you sign your name, please?
720
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,240
Surely.
721
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,640
You want to pick yourself a pen?
722
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,360
- There you are.
- Thanks.
723
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,880
Come on, Jennie, let's go for a walk.
I've got something to say.
724
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,640
It's a sight and a half, in't it, Jennie?
725
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,240
Auld Reekie. I'll be sad to leave it.
726
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:16,960
I've decided.
727
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,680
I'm going back to China.
728
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,400
The missionary service have accepted me.
729
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,720
Oh, I'm so pleased!
730
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,320
But I've got a lot of running to do first.
731
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,560
Jennie...
732
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,960
Jennie, you've got to understand.
733
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,640
I believe that God made me for a purpose.
734
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,720
For China.
735
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,880
But he also made me fast.
736
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,400
And when I run... I feel his pleasure.
737
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,920
To give it up would be
to hold him in contempt.
738
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,080
You were right.
739
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,680
It's not just fun.
740
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,400
To win is to honour him.
741
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:07,880
Jennie...
742
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:10,800
Jennie.
743
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,240
I've got my degree to get.
744
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,080
All that work.
745
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,040
Then there's Paris.
746
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,080
The Olympic Games.
747
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,680
There's just not enough of me.
748
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,320
I'm asking you to manage
the mission on your own...
749
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,480
till then.
750
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,600
Will you do that for me, Jennie?
751
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:56,640
Andy, I've lost him.
752
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,480
Can't reach him.
753
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,120
You will, old girl. You will.
754
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,040
He says he needs to clear his mind of me.
755
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,960
He can't love me and say that.
756
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,640
Syb.
757
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,240
The world's against him, or so he believes.
758
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,800
Now he's got a chance to prove himself.
759
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,160
He can't see or hear anything
beyond that, not even you.
760
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,080
It's hard, I know,
but you've just got to try and understand.
761
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,320
- Why should I?
- Because he's what you want, isn't he?
762
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,400
What about you?
763
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,520
And Stallard and Aubrey?
764
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,520
You're still the same.
The chance is there for you too.
765
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,880
To be a fastest, yes, but not the fastest.
766
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,240
The fastest man ever before.
767
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,280
Father's never going to learn how to do that.
768
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,400
That's immortality.
769
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,360
Just think what it means to a man like Harold.
770
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,080
Well, to me the whole thing's fun.
I don't need that.
771
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,240
"Cast care aside" and all that.
772
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:07,840
But for Harold, it's a matter of life and death.
773
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,160
- So all I can do is wait?
- 'Fraid so.
774
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,440
And pray like hell that he wins!
775
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:15,960
And if he doesn't?
776
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,840
You mustn't worry, old thing.
777
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,960
I've never ever seen a man
so smitten as our Harold.
778
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:27,200
It's just that I'm a little envious, that's all.
779
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:29,880
Oh, Andy.
780
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,920
- Your parasol, Miss Gordon.
- Thank you, Mildred.
781
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,520
Good luck tonight.
782
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,720
He's a damned fool!
783
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,560
I always thought the Irish had all the luck!
784
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:47,800
- John, Savoy Theatre.
- Yes, sir.
785
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:49,960
Splendid.
786
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,160
Mildred, would you get my spikes?
787
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,360
Ready, my lord!
788
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,360
Now, Coote, if I shed a drop I want to know.
789
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,520
Touch but not spill, what?
790
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,120
Life slips by, Abrahams.
791
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,520
Life slips by.
792
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:38,080
But this fine old university of ours,
she offers some rare consolations.
793
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,240
Beyond measure, sir.
794
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,920
I can take it, then, that you would
be acutely grieved to discover...
795
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,760
that any behaviour or action
on your part were causing her grief?
796
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:50,520
Naturally, sir. I would, deeply.
797
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,680
Good. I was sure of it.
798
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:58,120
Here in Cambridge, we've always
been proud of our athletic prowess.
799
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:02,320
We believe, we've always believed,
that our games are indispensable...
800
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:05,720
in helping to complete
the education of an Englishman.
801
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,880
They create character.
802
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,760
They foster courage, honesty and leadership.
803
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,480
But most of all,
an unassailable spirit of loyalty...
804
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,640
comradeship and mutual responsibility.
805
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:22,920
- Would you agree?
- Yes, sir. I would.
806
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,520
I'm afraid there is a growing suspicion
in the bosom of this university...
807
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,840
and I tell you this without in any way...
808
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,200
decrying your achievements,
in which we all rejoice...
809
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:40,880
that in your enthusiasm for success...
810
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,080
you have perhaps lost sight
of some of these ideals.
811
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:48,880
May I ask what form
this disloyalty, this betrayal, takes?
812
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,240
- Oh, hardly betrayal!
- The word grief was mentioned.
813
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,640
It's said that you use a personal coach.
814
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,880
Mr Mussabini, yes.
815
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:03,040
- Is he Italian?
- Of Italian extraction, yes.
816
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:06,120
- I see.
- But not all Italian.
817
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,120
- I'm relieved to hear it.
- He's half Arab!
818
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:18,120
Do we take it that you employ this
Mr Mussabini on a professional basis?
819
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:22,760
Sam Mussabini is the finest,
most advanced...
820
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:26,160
clearest-thinking athletics coach
in the country.
821
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,680
I'm honoured to be worthy of his attention.
822
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,840
Nevertheless, he's a professional.
823
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,040
What else would he be? He's the best.
824
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:37,040
But there, Mr Abrahams,
I'm afraid our paths diverge.
825
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,640
You see, this university believes
that the way of the amateur...
826
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:45,120
is the only one to provide
satisfactory results.
827
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,280
I am an amateur.
828
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,520
You're being trained by a professional.
829
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,000
You've adopted a professional attitude.
830
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:56,720
For the past year, you have concentrated
on developing your own technique...
831
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,920
in the headlong pursuit,
may I suggest, of individual glory.
832
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,240
Not a policy very conducive to
the fostering of esprit de corps.
833
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,920
I am a Cambridge man first and last.
834
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,280
I am an Englishman first and last.
835
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:17,680
What I have achieved, what I intend
to achieve, is for my family...
836
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,080
my university and my country.
837
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,280
And I bitterly resent
your suggesting otherwise.
838
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,520
Your aim is to win at all costs, is it not?
839
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:32,320
At all costs, no.
But I do aim to win within the rules.
840
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,280
Perhaps you would rather
I played the gentleman and lost?
841
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,920
To playing the tradesman, yes.
842
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:46,640
My dear boy, your approach has been,
if I may say so, a little too plebeian.
843
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,560
You are the elite...
844
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,520
and are therefore expected
to behave as such.
845
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:03,920
Thank you, sir...
846
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,760
for your hospitality.
847
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,520
The evening has been most illuminating.
848
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:13,920
Good night to you, sir.
849
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,560
You know, gentlemen...
850
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,800
you yearn for victory, just as I do.
851
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,960
But achieved with
the apparent effortlessness of gods.
852
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,720
Yours are the archaic values
of the prep school playground.
853
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,240
You deceive no one but yourselves.
854
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,880
I believe in the pursuit of excellence...
855
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,440
and I'll carry the future with me.
856
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,280
Well, there goes your Semite, Hugh.
857
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:57,840
A different god.
858
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,640
A different mountain top.
859
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:16,120
Harold! Harold! We're in.
860
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:20,440
All of us!
You, Henry, Andy and me, we're all in!
861
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:23,040
You 100 and 200, Andy 400 and hurdles...
862
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:25,840
Henry the mile, and me the steeplechase.
863
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,000
Paris, here we come!
864
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,240
Eric Liddell's picked too.
865
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,320
Rivals under the same flag.
866
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,480
Your chance to get even, eh?
867
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,760
I can't wait.
868
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,320
Welcome to Dover, my Lord Birkenhead.
869
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,760
Lord Birkenhead,
are the Yanks so well trained...
870
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:46,160
that they'll wipe the floor with our boys?
871
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,960
It's certainly true that
the Americans have prepared seriously...
872
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,600
some would say too seriously,
to gain success.
873
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:57,360
But we feel we may, in our
unsophisticated way, have their match.
874
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,160
Sir, do you think
the British team stand a chance...
875
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:04,960
against such great American athletes
as Charlie Paddock and Jackson Scholz?
876
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,840
You Americans have a number of men
who are rated as world-beaters...
877
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:13,560
but this contest is in Europe,
not in the rarefied climes of the United States.
878
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,480
Parisian conditions are bound
to be more robust...
879
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,680
more combative and certainly more cavalier.
880
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,840
Lord Birkenhead,
are the Yanks so well trained...
881
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:25,680
that they will wipe the floor with our boys?
882
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,280
Gentlemen, Abrahams, Liddell and Lindsay...
883
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:31,440
We have the men who could
give them a run for their money.
884
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,680
Eric!
885
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:43,040
Sandy! You haven't come all the way
from Scotland just to see me off, have you?
886
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,160
I have not. I'm seeing myself off.
887
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,320
Come on, or we'll miss the boat.
888
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:51,240
Hey, Mr Liddell! What do you think
of your chances against Abrahams?
889
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,400
I'll do my best. Can do no less.
890
01:08:53,480 --> 01:08:55,560
Mr Liddell, sir!
891
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,200
What about the qualifying heats on Sunday?
892
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,720
- What did you say?
- On Sunday!
893
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,280
Do you think you can beat the Americans?
894
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,680
There's Mr Abrahams! There he is!
895
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:08,880
- Mr Abrahams!
- Sorry, I've no time...
896
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:10,320
Hello, Jeremy.
897
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:13,120
- Gilbert and Sullivan will win.
- Thanks very much.
898
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,760
- Harold!
- Sybil.
899
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,280
- I came to wish you luck.
- I'm glad.
900
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:32,320
I understand. I wanted you to know that.
901
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,920
I'll be here when you come back.
902
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:47,080
Hurry along, Mr Abrahams.
She's about to sail!
903
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,200
I must go. I'll see you in three weeks.
904
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,400
Bye-bye.
905
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:02,720
Mind your step, sir.
We want you to get there in one piece.
906
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:50,400
- When did you get to know?
- Did you not read the papers this morning?
907
01:10:50,480 --> 01:10:54,240
The heats for the 100 are on
the Sunday after the opening ceremony...
908
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,880
the semis and final a couple of days after.
909
01:10:57,440 --> 01:10:59,560
It's only a heat.
910
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:02,920
Does it make all that difference?
911
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,480
Yeah.
912
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,640
Yeah, it does.
913
01:11:16,480 --> 01:11:20,000
And strong though the temptation may be...
914
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:24,680
to disport your newly acquired finery
around the streets of Paris...
915
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,720
if they aren't temptation enough...
916
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,720
may I ask you on behalf
of the Olympic Committee...
917
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,680
to save your sartorial splendour...
918
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,200
until at least after the opening ceremony.
919
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:37,920
May I remind you...
920
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,080
you are the favoured few.
921
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:43,480
You constitute what is without doubt...
922
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:47,440
the most powerful athletic force
ever to leave these shores.
923
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,400
You are to face the world's best...
924
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,240
brown and yellow, white and black...
925
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,440
young and ardent as yourselves...
926
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,880
fleet of foot and strong of limb...
927
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:03,120
from every civilised nation
on the face of the earth.
928
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,400
I have no doubt...
929
01:12:05,480 --> 01:12:09,640
that you will acquit yourselves
honourably and... with distinction.
930
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,360
Good luck to you all.
931
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,480
Your mind's not with us any more.
932
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,600
It's full of sprinting and starting
and medals and pace.
933
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,480
It's so full of it,
you've no room for standing still!
934
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,520
Jennie, Jennie! Don't fret yourself.
935
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:47,440
I do fret myself, Eric. I'm frightened for you.
936
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:50,240
I'm frightened what it all might do to you.
937
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,360
- Do you know what day it is?
- Yeah. Sunday.
938
01:12:56,440 --> 01:12:59,800
The Sabbath's not a day
for playing football, is it?
939
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:06,440
It's an awful step you're taking, Liddell.
940
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:08,800
The whole of Britain will be watching you.
941
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:11,360
I don't know that they'll understand.
942
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,240
I'm not sure that I understand.
943
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:21,560
I'm not sure that I do either, sir.
944
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:25,560
For the last three years
I've devoted myself to my running...
945
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,800
just to be on this ship.
946
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:29,960
I gave up my rugby.
947
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:32,120
My work has suffered.
948
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:35,680
And I've deeply hurt someone
I hold very dear.
949
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,040
Because I told myself...
950
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,880
if I win, I win for God.
951
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:46,600
And now I find myself sitting here,
destroying it all.
952
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:50,360
But I have to.
953
01:13:50,440 --> 01:13:52,560
To run would be against God's law.
954
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,360
I was mistaken.
955
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:04,240
My boy - as things stand, you must not run.
956
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:07,560
But I want you
to hold your fire for a while, Liddell.
957
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,760
Leave everything to me.
958
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:14,520
Say nothing. Wait until we get to Paris.
959
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,280
I'll have a word with the French.
960
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:19,560
I'm not without a certain pull...
961
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,760
and we fought in the war together.
962
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,920
They do owe us something.
963
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,080
I don't understand.
964
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:29,120
They're not a very principled lot, the Frogs.
965
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:32,680
But, when faced with a stand like yours...
966
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:34,840
one never knows.
967
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,000
I might get through.
968
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,160
I just might possibly persuade them.
969
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:47,320
The French, sir?
970
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,480
What can they do?
971
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,320
Shift that bloody heat of yours, of course.
972
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,480
Good evening.
973
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,000
Good night, sir.
974
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:16,520
♪ With cat-like tread
975
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:18,480
♪ Upon our prey we steal
976
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,360
♪ In silence dread
977
01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:22,480
♪ Our cautious way we feel
978
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:24,520
♪ No sound at all
979
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:26,440
♪ We never speak a word
980
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:30,200
♪ A fly's footfall would be distinctly heard
981
01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:34,320
♪ Come friends, who plough the sea
982
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,240
♪ Truce to navigation
983
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:38,200
♪ Take another station
984
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:42,280
♪ Let's vary piracy
985
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:45,480
♪ With a little burglary
986
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:52,360
I wish you could see, Ma, the
wonderful spirit abroad now we've left home.
987
01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:55,520
Harold on the piano
with his beloved Gilbert and Sullivan.
988
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,440
We're all laughing and relaxing,
chatting about anything but running.
989
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,200
We're here for Britain and we know it.
990
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,240
I'm here for you, Ma.
991
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:07,400
You and Pa. I hope I do you proud.
992
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:09,560
There's not a chap amongst us...
993
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,880
who isn't ready to burst his heart
for all we've left behind.
994
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,720
Attention!
995
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,640
"American champions arrive in France."
996
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:29,600
There's Paddock.
997
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:31,800
Charles Paddock.
998
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,320
- There's Fitch.
- My God!
999
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,160
And there's Scholz.
1000
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:42,120
Yes, that's Scholz all right.
1001
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,760
A bit more my size. Mean with it, though.
1002
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:46,520
10.4.
1003
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,800
Got your plate full there, Harold.
1004
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:51,760
Battle on your hands, what!
1005
01:17:58,480 --> 01:18:00,520
Charles H Paddock...
1006
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,800
and Jackson Scholz.
1007
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:05,480
The fastest men in the world.
1008
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:19,800
Push it!
1009
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:21,960
Come on, that's more like it!
1010
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:31,000
One, two! One, two! One, two!
1011
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:40,240
Come on now!
1012
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:50,480
Keep doin' it like that, come on!
1013
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,640
Hey, Scholzy!
1014
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:27,840
Nous jurons être venus
à ces huitièmes Olympiades...
1015
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:32,080
animés par le respect
des règlements qui les gouvernent...
1016
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,040
et désireux de participer...
1017
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,640
pour la gloire de nos pays...
1018
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,440
et à I'honneur du sport.
1019
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:50,080
♪ Amour sacré de la Patrie
1020
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:56,240
♪ Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs!
1021
01:21:56,320 --> 01:22:02,080
♪ Liberté, Liberté chérie
1022
01:22:02,440 --> 01:22:08,240
♪ Combats avec tes défenseurs!
1023
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:13,360
♪ Combats avec tes défenseurs!
1024
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:19,800
♪ Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire
1025
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,280
- Good luck, Andy.
- Good luck, Harry.
1026
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,720
Monty.
1027
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:33,240
Silence! ہ vos marques!
1028
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:45,200
Prêt!
1029
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:24,160
Your Royal Highness, may I introduce
Mr Tom Watson, representing New Zealand.
1030
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:26,320
How do you do? You've come a long way.
1031
01:24:26,440 --> 01:24:28,520
I'm from Oxford, sir. They wrote to me.
1032
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,480
Said as I was over here,
I might as well take part.
1033
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:34,600
- Economical. But can you run?
- I'll give it a try, sir.
1034
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:38,360
- That's the spirit. Best of luck to you.
- Thank you, sir.
1035
01:24:53,440 --> 01:24:55,560
The royal benediction, no less.
1036
01:24:55,680 --> 01:25:00,120
- The chap's invaluable.
- Hear, hear! Henry V and all that.
1037
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:02,280
Protocol, Monty. Protocol.
1038
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:07,200
He's here to show us what may be done -
and more essentially, what may not be.
1039
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:10,400
Jackson Scholz. How do you do?
1040
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:12,640
I'm Eric Liddell.
1041
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,840
Well, we've heard a lot about you.
1042
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:20,720
Liddell!
1043
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:22,880
Excuse me.
1044
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,600
I was afraid you weren't here.
1045
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:27,760
I'm afraid I am, sir.
1046
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,480
Fine. Do you good.
1047
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:32,680
Take you out of yourself a bit.
1048
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:35,920
The Prince of Wales would like to meet you.
1049
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:38,600
No.
1050
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,760
No. No, sir.
1051
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,360
It wouldn't be right.
1052
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:45,960
Liddell... he is your future king.
1053
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,320
Are you refusing to shake his hand?
1054
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:51,200
Does your arrogance extend that far?
1055
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:57,200
My arrogance, sir, extends
just as far as my conscience demands.
1056
01:25:57,280 --> 01:25:59,200
Fine.
1057
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:03,760
Then let's hope that's wise enough
to give you room for manoeuvre.
1058
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,440
All right, sir.
1059
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:12,680
Splendid. I'll take you to him now.
1060
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:32,560
Your Royal Highness,
may I present Mr Eric Liddell?
1061
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,720
Delighted, Liddell. Delighted.
1062
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:37,680
I saw you play for Scotland.
It depressed me no end.
1063
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:40,080
Ran in a couple of tries from your own half.
1064
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,120
I believe I did, sir, yes.
1065
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:44,760
Nice to have you on the same side at last.
1066
01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:48,120
Excellent effort of Lindsay's, don't you think?
1067
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,520
- He did well, sir. He did indeed.
- An example to us all.
1068
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,120
Eric, may I introduce
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland...
1069
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,440
president of our Olympic Association?
1070
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,680
- How do you do?
- And our chairman, Lord Cadogan.
1071
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,120
Have a seat.
1072
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:08,040
Make yourself comfortable.
1073
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,440
Cigar?
1074
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,320
Oh, no, of course. You don't. Nor drink.
1075
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:18,080
Such is the resolution of the young man
you have before you, gentlemen.
1076
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,560
Lord Birkenhead has advised us
as to your attitude...
1077
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:31,400
towards your participation
in the 100-metres heats, Liddell.
1078
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,320
Or would your non-participation
be more accurate?
1079
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:36,480
It would, sir, yes.
1080
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,880
We were also consulted as to
how we should approach the French.
1081
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:44,520
Something we can't allow, going
cap in hand to the Frogs, of all people!
1082
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:46,680
Simply out of the question.
1083
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:51,040
A simple matter of national dignity.
Being a patriot, I'm sure you understand.
1084
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,200
I must say, sir,
I felt it was an impractical suggestion.
1085
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:56,680
Why didn't you damn well say so?
1086
01:27:56,760 --> 01:27:59,040
As an athlete, you value economy of effort.
1087
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:02,800
I wanted to run.
I was desperate enough to try anything.
1088
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:05,360
Well, all that being understood...
1089
01:28:05,480 --> 01:28:08,200
we decided to invite you in for a little chat...
1090
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:11,520
to see if there's any way
we can help resolve the situation.
1091
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:16,160
There's only one solution. That's
for this man to change his mind and run.
1092
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:18,560
Don't state the obvious, Cadogan.
1093
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:23,680
We've to explore ways in which we can help
this young man to reach that decision.
1094
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:26,120
I'm afraid there are no ways, sir.
1095
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:29,480
I won't run on the Sabbath and that's final.
1096
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,200
I intended to confirm this
with Lord Birkenhead tonight...
1097
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:37,560
even before you called me up
before this inquisition.
1098
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:39,040
Don't be impertinent.
1099
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:43,680
The impertinence lies with those who
seek to influence a man to deny his beliefs.
1100
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:47,200
On the contrary, Liddell.
We're appealing to your beliefs.
1101
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,600
In your country and your king.
Your loyalty to them.
1102
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:55,640
Hear, hear.
In my day, it was king first, God after.
1103
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:58,600
And the war to end wars
bitterly proved your point.
1104
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:02,440
God made countries. God makes kings...
1105
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:04,680
and the rules by which they govern.
1106
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,480
And those rules say that the Sabbath is his.
1107
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:13,920
And I for one intend to keep it that way.
1108
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,120
Mr Liddell.
1109
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:22,120
You're a child of your race... as I am.
1110
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:26,760
We share a common heritage,
a common bond, a common... loyalty.
1111
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:30,760
There are times when
we are asked to make sacrifices...
1112
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:32,920
in the name of that loyalty...
1113
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:36,520
and without them
our allegiance is worthless.
1114
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:38,840
As I see it, for you...
1115
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:41,720
this is such a time.
1116
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:44,280
Sir...
1117
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,360
God knows, I love my country.
1118
01:29:49,440 --> 01:29:51,640
But I can't make that sacrifice.
1119
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,360
Come in!
1120
01:30:02,260 --> 01:30:04,780
Your Royal Highness... Lord Lindsay.
1121
01:30:09,860 --> 01:30:12,940
Your Highness, Cadogan, gentlemen.
1122
01:30:13,060 --> 01:30:15,780
I do apologise for barging in like this.
1123
01:30:15,860 --> 01:30:18,420
The fact is
I am fully aware of Eric's dilemma.
1124
01:30:19,260 --> 01:30:23,340
I wondered if I could be so bold
as to suggest a possible solution.
1125
01:30:24,180 --> 01:30:25,980
Do.
1126
01:30:26,060 --> 01:30:27,740
Yes.
1127
01:30:27,820 --> 01:30:29,900
Another day, another race.
1128
01:30:29,980 --> 01:30:32,060
What the devil's that supposed to mean?
1129
01:30:32,140 --> 01:30:34,340
It's quite simple as a matter of fact, sir.
1130
01:30:34,460 --> 01:30:36,860
The 400 metres. It's on Thursday.
1131
01:30:36,940 --> 01:30:39,020
I've already got my medal.
1132
01:30:39,100 --> 01:30:42,940
So why don't you let Eric
take my place in the quarter?
1133
01:30:45,660 --> 01:30:47,460
I think that's a splendid idea.
1134
01:30:47,540 --> 01:30:50,740
Can we allow him to change events
at such short notice?
1135
01:30:52,300 --> 01:30:54,660
That's a matter for the committee.
1136
01:30:54,740 --> 01:30:56,860
We are the committee.
1137
01:30:57,540 --> 01:30:59,620
I think it's a very good idea.
1138
01:30:59,940 --> 01:31:02,060
David?
1139
01:31:02,900 --> 01:31:05,020
All those in favour say aye.
1140
01:31:05,100 --> 01:31:07,060
Aye.
1141
01:31:07,140 --> 01:31:09,220
Liddell?
1142
01:31:09,660 --> 01:31:11,900
- Andy, I...
- A pleasure, old chap.
1143
01:31:13,820 --> 01:31:15,900
Just to see you run.
1144
01:31:19,780 --> 01:31:21,860
Aye.
1145
01:31:21,940 --> 01:31:23,860
Well, that's settled.
1146
01:31:28,900 --> 01:31:30,980
A sticky moment, George.
1147
01:31:31,220 --> 01:31:35,060
Thank God for Lindsay.
I thought the lad had us beaten.
1148
01:31:35,180 --> 01:31:37,260
He did have us beaten, FE.
1149
01:31:37,380 --> 01:31:40,580
- And thank God he did.
- I don't quite follow you.
1150
01:31:40,660 --> 01:31:43,580
The lad, as you call him,
is a true man of principle...
1151
01:31:43,660 --> 01:31:45,380
and a true athlete.
1152
01:31:45,460 --> 01:31:48,580
His speed is a mere extension
of his life, its force.
1153
01:31:49,300 --> 01:31:51,900
We sought to sever his running
from himself.
1154
01:31:52,020 --> 01:31:54,100
For his country's sake, yes.
1155
01:31:54,180 --> 01:31:56,260
No sake is worth that, FE.
1156
01:31:57,020 --> 01:31:59,460
Least of all a guilty national pride.
1157
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:19,280
"Lindsay makes way for Liddell."
1158
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:22,280
"400 metres for defecting Scot."
1159
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,080
"'Smacks of fanaticism, ' says official."
1160
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:27,360
"'Man of principle, ' says primate."
1161
01:32:27,440 --> 01:32:29,520
"We should be proud."
1162
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:14,480
- So that's the Olympic Stadium.
- That's it, Sam.
1163
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:16,680
It's as good as being in there, isn't it?
1164
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,600
Better! Seeing as I'm persona non grata.
1165
01:33:21,440 --> 01:33:23,080
Yeah.
1166
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:26,080
It's tiptop, Mr Abrahams.
You've done a grand job.
1167
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,240
If we don't win now, we never will.
1168
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:31,000
Have I got everything, Sam?
Everything you need?
1169
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:33,120
Er...
1170
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:38,240
Yes.
1171
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:41,040
All we need now is Sunday.
1172
01:34:03,160 --> 01:34:08,040
My text this afternoon
is taken from Isaiah, chapter 40.
1173
01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:12,960
Behold.
1174
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:16,200
The nations are as a drop in the bucket...
1175
01:34:17,400 --> 01:34:20,560
and are counted
as the small dust in the balance.
1176
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:26,360
All nations before him are as nothing.
1177
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:30,440
They are counted to him less than nothing...
1178
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,320
and vanity.
1179
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:36,880
He bringeth the princes to nothing.
1180
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,560
He maketh the judges of the earth as a vanity.
1181
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:45,360
Hast thou not known?
1182
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:48,680
Hast thou not heard...
1183
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:52,840
that the everlasting God, the Lord...
1184
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,440
the creator of the ends of the earth...
1185
01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:57,440
fainteth not...
1186
01:34:57,520 --> 01:34:59,600
neither is weary?
1187
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:01,800
Juvenile!
1188
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:08,640
Oldest con in the business.
1189
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:11,080
I know, Sam.
1190
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:13,760
He giveth power to the faint...
1191
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:16,880
and to them that have no strength...
1192
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:20,160
he increaseth might.
1193
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:25,600
But they that wait upon the Lord...
1194
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:28,720
shall renew their strength.
1195
01:35:29,440 --> 01:35:31,520
They shall mount up...
1196
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:35,560
with wings, as eagles.
1197
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:39,760
They shall run...
1198
01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:41,960
and not be weary.
1199
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,480
They shall walk...
1200
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:48,200
and not faint.
1201
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:24,920
Do you remember when we first
bumped into each other, old man?
1202
01:36:26,440 --> 01:36:28,520
We shared a taxi, remember?
1203
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:33,320
You made me feel...
1204
01:36:33,440 --> 01:36:36,560
an age old, burdened, sour...
1205
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,320
Even superior.
1206
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:43,280
That was the miscalculation of my life.
1207
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:47,720
You, Aubrey...
1208
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:50,160
are my most complete man.
1209
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,320
You're brave...
1210
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:54,360
compassionate...
1211
01:36:54,480 --> 01:36:56,440
kind.
1212
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:58,600
A content man.
1213
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:00,800
That's your secret.
1214
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:02,960
Contentment.
1215
01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:06,120
I'm 24 and I've never known it.
1216
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:11,760
I'm forever in pursuit and I don't
even know what it is I'm chasing.
1217
01:37:17,440 --> 01:37:19,520
Aubrey, old chap, I'm scared.
1218
01:37:22,480 --> 01:37:26,560
Sam and I, we've laboured,
rowed and bullied for this.
1219
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:30,080
Day in, day out.
1220
01:37:30,280 --> 01:37:33,200
You've seen us -
chuckled over us, I'll be bound.
1221
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:35,240
Out in all weathers.
1222
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,400
Madmen.
1223
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:39,920
And for what?
1224
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:43,200
I was beaten out of sight in the 200.
1225
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:47,120
Then I let Paddock trick me in the semi.
1226
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:52,080
Now, in one hour's time,
I'll be out there again.
1227
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,480
I'll raise my eyes
and look down that corridor...
1228
01:37:56,600 --> 01:38:01,280
four-feet wide with ten lonely seconds
to justify my whole existence.
1229
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:06,040
But will I?
1230
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,320
Aubrey, I've known the fear of losing.
1231
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:16,520
But now I'm almost too frightened to win.
1232
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:26,800
Dear Mr Abrahams.
1233
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:30,400
You must please pardon
my not coming to see you run...
1234
01:39:30,480 --> 01:39:32,760
much as I would like to do so.
1235
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:36,920
However, I believe and hope you will win...
1236
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,080
the 100 metres.
1237
01:39:39,440 --> 01:39:41,720
Go out determined to do your best.
1238
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:43,680
And don't forget...
1239
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,680
drop down at the first stride.
1240
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,400
Get well warmed up...
1241
01:39:50,520 --> 01:39:52,760
and then let the gun release you.
1242
01:39:54,480 --> 01:39:58,320
I should use the springy old six-spike shoes.
1243
01:39:59,960 --> 01:40:02,040
All the best of luck.
1244
01:40:02,120 --> 01:40:04,240
From yours truly, Sam Mussabini.
1245
01:40:07,880 --> 01:40:11,280
PS. Please accept the charm.
1246
01:40:11,360 --> 01:40:13,920
My old father swore by it.
1247
01:41:18,480 --> 01:41:22,400
No regrets, Eric,
that you're not down there with them?
1248
01:41:24,640 --> 01:41:26,720
Yeah.
1249
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,840
No doubts, though.
1250
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:34,000
Your Royal Highness, may I present
Mr Bowman of the United States?
1251
01:41:34,080 --> 01:41:35,960
Mr Bowman.
1252
01:41:36,040 --> 01:41:38,320
- Mr Murchison.
- Mr Murchison.
1253
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,520
And Mr Watson of New Zealand
I believe you know.
1254
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:44,240
- Oh, yes, Mr Watson. How are you?
- Very well, sir.
1255
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:45,720
Good.
1256
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:48,760
- Mr Paddock.
- Mr Paddock.
1257
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:52,120
Dinner for your whole team at my club
when we get back to London.
1258
01:41:52,200 --> 01:41:56,040
Now if you win, I pay,
Abrahams wins, you pay, all right?
1259
01:41:57,160 --> 01:42:00,120
Sir, you have yourself a deal.
1260
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:02,560
Done.
1261
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:04,840
- The best of luck to you.
- And to you, sir.
1262
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:07,040
- Mr Scholz.
- Scholz.
1263
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:09,320
And this is our Harold Abrahams.
1264
01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:11,600
- Good luck, Abrahams.
- Thank you, sir.
1265
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:13,960
Do your best. That's all we can expect.
1266
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:17,440
- Good luck, Abrahams.
- Thank you, sir.
1267
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:19,840
Come on, Charlie!
1268
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:33,040
Charlie, Charlie, rah rah rah!
1269
01:44:58,080 --> 01:44:59,720
Prêt!
1270
01:44:59,840 --> 01:45:01,560
Head down.
1271
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:03,760
Watch the first stride.
1272
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:06,720
Go for release.
1273
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:27,920
Premier...
1274
01:46:28,040 --> 01:46:30,120
numéro 419.
1275
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:33,920
Abrahams, Grande Bretagne.
1276
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:40,560
Temps, 10 secondes, trois cinquièmes.
1277
01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:44,400
Second, 74.
1278
01:46:44,520 --> 01:46:46,560
Scholz, ةtats Unis.
1279
01:47:33,560 --> 01:47:35,680
Harold!
1280
01:47:54,400 --> 01:47:56,480
My son.
1281
01:48:18,360 --> 01:48:20,360
- Harold!
- Ssh, ssh, ssh!
1282
01:48:20,440 --> 01:48:22,560
Leave him be. The poor fella's whacked.
1283
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:25,080
- But he won!
- Exactly.
1284
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:28,520
One of these days, Monty,
you're going to win yourself.
1285
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:31,080
And it's pretty difficult to swallow.
1286
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:40,040
Come in.
1287
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:43,360
Mrs Abrahams just rang, miss.
1288
01:48:43,440 --> 01:48:46,520
The Daily Express.
They've been on from Paris.
1289
01:48:46,600 --> 01:48:48,480
Mr 'Arold. He won!
1290
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:50,480
She told me to tell you he won!
1291
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,120
Thank you very much, Bill.
1292
01:48:56,520 --> 01:48:59,440
Oh, it's 15 minutes to curtain-up, miss.
1293
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:15,160
He did it, sir.
1294
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,160
Thank you, Matthews.
1295
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:25,520
"Abrahams triumphant."
1296
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:30,280
"Caius College athlete
wins blue riband at Games."
1297
01:49:31,800 --> 01:49:33,880
Just as I expected.
1298
01:49:44,640 --> 01:49:48,640
Yes, you've always thought
of yourself as a ruthless man. Hard.
1299
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:50,640
Bit of a loner, like me.
1300
01:49:52,200 --> 01:49:55,160
But actually,
you're as soft as a limp pocket.
1301
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:58,920
Oh, you care.
1302
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:03,400
Care about things that really matter.
1303
01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:08,040
If you didn't, I wouldn't have come
within a mile of you.
1304
01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:15,000
Do you know who you won for
out there today?
1305
01:50:17,840 --> 01:50:19,800
Us!
1306
01:50:20,760 --> 01:50:22,840
You and old Sam Mussabini.
1307
01:50:24,440 --> 01:50:26,640
I've waited 30 bloody years for this.
1308
01:50:26,760 --> 01:50:29,800
Pardon, messieurs. Il faut partir maintenant.
1309
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:31,800
Il est trois heures du matin.
1310
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:32,880
Oh!
1311
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:36,760
Harold!
1312
01:50:38,480 --> 01:50:41,040
It means the world to me, this, you know.
1313
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:45,480
And if all the world can do...
1314
01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:49,120
is to want to go home to bed,
then they can go to hell!
1315
01:50:50,520 --> 01:50:52,640
Because we've had today...
1316
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:54,680
you and me...
1317
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:56,840
and we've got it for keeps.
1318
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:00,120
So now it's out o' yer system...
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01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,960
go home to that girl o' yours
and start some bloody living.
1320
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:05,720
Yes?
1321
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:19,120
- To Sam Mussabini.
- Oh.
1322
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:22,000
The greatest trainer in the world.
1323
01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:24,120
Hm?
1324
01:51:32,080 --> 01:51:34,280
Tell him. Get some more.
1325
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,920
Come on, Sam. We're going home.
1326
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:03,080
The final of the 400 metres.
1327
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:06,520
Taylor. ةtats Unis.
1328
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:09,440
Numéro 278.
1329
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:13,240
Good luck. Don't expect
I'll see you till after the race.
1330
01:52:18,360 --> 01:52:21,400
What's the deal with this guy Liddell?
Is he a problem?
1331
01:52:21,480 --> 01:52:23,560
No problem. He's a flyer.
1332
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:26,400
He's had two races today already. He'll die.
1333
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:30,360
Just swing along, you guys, and wait.
1334
01:52:31,920 --> 01:52:35,440
After 300 metres, rigor mortis sets in.
1335
01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:37,640
You'll pull him in on a rope.
1336
01:52:42,760 --> 01:52:44,640
Good luck, Taylor.
1337
01:52:44,720 --> 01:52:47,240
- Watch out for Liddell.
- Coach says no problem.
1338
01:52:47,360 --> 01:52:49,480
He's got something personal to prove.
1339
01:52:49,560 --> 01:52:52,320
Something guys like Coach'll
never understand.
1340
01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:58,520
Excuse me.
1341
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:00,680
Jennie!
1342
01:53:03,400 --> 01:53:06,120
USA! USA! USA!
1343
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:17,600
It says in the Old Book,
"He that honours me...
1344
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:20,240
I will honour."
1345
01:53:20,680 --> 01:53:23,000
"Good luck. Jackson Scholz."
1346
01:53:26,720 --> 01:53:27,960
ہ vos marques!
1347
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:35,480
Prêt!
1348
01:53:54,080 --> 01:53:56,520
So where does the power come from...
1349
01:53:56,600 --> 01:53:58,600
to see the race to its end?
1350
01:53:58,680 --> 01:54:00,240
From within.
1351
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:11,880
Come on, Liddell!
1352
01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:24,840
Jennie...
1353
01:54:24,920 --> 01:54:27,120
I believe God made me for a purpose.
1354
01:54:28,960 --> 01:54:31,040
But he also made me fast.
1355
01:54:32,400 --> 01:54:34,480
And when I run...
1356
01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:36,640
I feel his pleasure.
1357
01:55:15,320 --> 01:55:18,760
Premier, Liddell. Grande Bretagne.
1358
01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:23,920
47 secondes, trois cinquièmes.
1359
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:27,600
Nouveau record olympique
et mondial amateur.
1360
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:48,240
♪ And did those feet in ancient time
1361
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:54,880
♪ Walk upon England's mountains green?
1362
01:57:55,920 --> 01:58:02,800
♪ And was the Holy Lamb of God
1363
01:58:02,880 --> 01:58:09,760
♪ On England's pleasant pastures seen?
1364
01:58:10,560 --> 01:58:17,480
♪ And did the countenance divine
1365
01:58:18,040 --> 01:58:24,960
♪ Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
1366
01:58:25,760 --> 01:58:32,640
♪ And was Jerusalem builded here
1367
01:58:33,400 --> 01:58:41,400
♪ Among those dark satanic mills?
1368
01:58:57,760 --> 01:59:00,320
Well, Andy. He did it.
1369
01:59:01,080 --> 01:59:04,160
Hm? What's that, old boy?
1370
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:06,760
He ran them off their feet.