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Churchill's Secret Page #5
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- 2016
- 100 min
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- That's it, sir.
Yes.
Do you think he heard anything?
I don't think so.
Nurse said he slept through.
They are who they are.
What's the phrase?
"There's a price to pay for greatness
but the great seldom pay it themselves."
- How are you bearing up?
- I wish people would stop asking me that.
Are you hungry? Mrs Lacey's summer pudding
has been shamefully neglected.
I think it was Napoleon who said that there
are three different kinds of courage.
Did he now?
Yes he did and I'm going to tell you
what he thought was the greatest.
He called it the 3-in-the-morning courage.
When everything is dark and cold
and all seems lost.
Winston says Napoleon taught him the
dangers of fighting on more than one front.
A lesson I don't seem to have learned.
You know what he says?
KBO.
"Keep Buggering On".
His answer to everything.
- What else is there?
that there ought to be something other
than buggering on?
None of us would be here without him.
- And he wouldn't be here without you.
- He'd be here whatever.
No, trust me,
he's only flesh and a little bone.
You're his rock, he knows that.
He always has.
"He stood
and heard the steeples
sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
One, two, three, four
to marketplace and people,
it tossed them down.
Strapped..."
"Noosed, nighing his hour
he stood and counted them, cursed his luck
and then the clock collected in the tower
its strength, and struck."
Brain still works.
I learnt it at school,
but I'm not sure I could do that now.
The box on the desk, my cigars.
I'm not gonna do that.
I don't want a debate.
Good, cos you're not gonna get one.
Get Colville, would you.
Not if you're gonna ask him for a cigar.
Get my secretary. I'm the Prime Minister.
I need to know what's happened.
- Mr Colville.
- Yes.
Oh.
Thank you.
Prime Minister.
- How are you feeling?
- Get me a cigar, would you?
Of course, sir.
It's very good to see you awake, sir.
Indeed.
Have you, have you rescheduled Bermuda?
- November.
- Ah, good.
Mmm.
But that's after Margate, sir.
Good, that's good.
We need to start work on the speech.
- Are you sure?
- Of course I'm sure.
- Get me a whiskey, will you?
- Yes, Prime Minister.
Ah, Millie, pass me the ashtray would you?
He's not seriously thinking
According to Jock, he's already
drafting the speech for it.
If he is well enough to attend,
it'll be a good time for him to step aside.
How is Anthony? Is he fit to take over?
He's building up his strength.
He very much wants to.
- And there's been nothing in the press?
- Not a peep.
As far as the public is concerned,
Winston is taking a well-earned rest.
Mary, can the children
come up from the farm today?
Of course, Mama.
I want Chartwell to feel like
a family home again.
Somewhere to catch him when he realises
he won't be going back to Downing Street.
What I care about now is peace above all.
A time of peace.
"What I care about now is peace above all,
a time of peace."
- Do we have to do this again?
- Yes, we do.
I've lived a life like a man
who has pursued peace.
- Have you got that?
- Yes, you're a man who's pursued peace.
Like a ferret does a rabbit.
You're looking at me
as if that's not very good.
Well, it's not.
Mrs J Arthur Rank, please.
Yes, it's Mrs Christopher Soames.
Arthur! Hello, yes, it's Mary Soames.
Arthur, my parents were wondering,
would it be possible for you
to send a film down to Chartwell,
like you used to?
That Hamilton Woman?
No, we've seen that
with him a thousand times.
Do you have anything more recent, Arthur?
"My lords, ladies and gentlemen
I am sure you will be relieved
by the news from British Guiana."
I can't hear you.
What?
The Tory party are
a bunch of deaf old folk.
If I can't hear you,
they haven't got a chance.
- I'm sure...
- What?
I'm sure!
Oh, bugger!
Lost my place now.
Where was I?
Just start again.
"My lords, ladies and gentlemen..."
I can't squeeze it, I can't!
Why can't I use my right hand?
Don't shout at me.
I'll shout if I bloody well want to!
If you rely on your right side
to walk and pick things up
then your left side will never recover.
You'll walk like a listing ship.
"A lisping sh*t"?
A listing ship! Wash your ears out
and your mouth, too.
- Are you this nasty at St. Mary's?
- Yes, I am.
That was good.
Imagined it was you I was hurling.
I tried to imagine it was Herman Goering,
but that didn't make me angry enough.
Well, it was your best yet.
Millie...
You must be careful about
pushing Sir Winston too fast.
Oh, it's not me pushing, ma'am, it's him.
He wakes up every morning with a plan,
he calls it "action this day".
Yes, he would.
He's a remarkable man, Lady Churchill.
That's why he's making progress.
He is brave, yes, but this is
not a cavalry charge or a desert.
This is age itself he's up against.
He needs hope.
I've seen it before.
Hope is what makes the difference.
Millie...
my husband's ambition runs people over
and it comes at a cost.
Often to those closest to him.
If he fails and gets low, as only he can
it will not be you who has to pick him up.
You'll be in Australia
with your young man.
Yes, ma'am.
- He must be missing you.
- Oh, John?
No, he's happy, he's on his way.
And when do you follow?
In a month. Although I won't go,
You must be excited.
Well, it's John that's pushed it, really.
He says it's full of opportunity.
Well, there is opportunity there.
For him.
But I like my job.
not sure I want to be stuck on the other
side of the world, being just a wife.
I'm sorry, it's...
It's hard to explain.
But the closer it gets to going,
the more I think...
I don't know why
I'm putting his dreams before mine.
You can get that bloody thing
out of here right now!
Grandpapa, grandpapa, grandpapa!
Well done, well done, sir!
Winston, Nicholas and Emma
have been making biscuits all afternoon.
How delicious!
Did you make them yourself?
Yes.
- Who put all the sugar in?
- I did.
You did? Good man.
- And who cracked the eggs?
- Me.
Wow!
Mrs Lacey, you're out of a job.
Come on, if you could all take your seats.
- Oh, God.
- Let me help.
I hope we're not watching
Wuthering Heights.
No.
Alright everyone, lights out.
Where's Millie?
Jock, can you see where she is?
What's this one about, then?
It's about an old clock
Is it called Winston?
Miss Appleyard.
The Prime Minister's asking
for you downstairs.
Is something wrong?
No, he wants you to watch the film
with the family.
You can stop working for a moment.
You're one to talk.
- Oh...
- Sorry, darling.
Is it really serious?
Do you think you can fix it?
I don't know, I can try. It'll take hours.
Ambrose, Ambrose wait a minute!
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