Old Bill and Son Page #3

Synopsis: WWI veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Year:
1941
96 min
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to make me now see me don't worry I'm

not gonna make a buggers pickle myself

stamping about in uniform

I've won skirts for 50 years sometimes

them as long sometimes may be short but

they never mance maybe behind the back

of a loom and if you think I'm gonna

refugees off something at my time of

life you're much mistaken I'm a decent

respectable Londoner that's what I am

and as far as I'm concerned it they can

have his more out with gobbles and if

it's goodbye to mines combined there was

I'm gonna get myself a tree tomorrow

morn ever good line

Smith sir yes about 16 herbage Osprey.

Dinkins filter loving I've seen your

statue okay Riaan Liston thank you sir

Simmons outfit take it at all sorry sir

oh you don't have to put you on the

staff Simmons thank you sir never could

see a joke see William bass be sure see

a babe x90 three times once in the arm

and twice in Mesopotamia yes yes that's

enough I'm sorry about being nothing

doing

how'd you meet you I'm afraid your

little past it now oh you don't mean the

obvious it means we haven't got enough

baths chairs

I'm sorry must be move along I'll cop

these others waiting is it taken

well I'll be pushing all Bank shock in

this war isn't it mr. Buzzby yes there

is a few shocks about him one thing

about it you're not in it this time I

don't mind if I do

the thrust against the right be better

so impossible my dear fellow you can't

hold the line with sufficient strength

to resist a frontal attack now the only

thing to do is to start an encircling

movement now with the French on your

right oh who is it what sort of a fella

the man's a cab drivers good Lord didn't

I pay him I couldn't say so he seemed

very anxious to see you sir

general Willoughby sh*t let's remember

me sh*t that's bishop are you were in

the battalion weren't you yes right sir

let me think now

see company wasn't it that's right sir

get motivated I was there when you got

one did it fry course it on the Somme

net well I remember and then you came

with us out to receive didn't you decide

sir when we was out in that place

nascent Julian yeah it's nice to spot

that was to your right sir it's just

after I was promoted and took over the

command yes sir

I remember him saying is how they'd run

out the colonel so they made you wear it

oh come on sit down as we can say thank

you sir well now now what can I do for

you

he said it's like this yeah I've been

trying to join up a game I'm in round to

the recruiting office sir but when it

come to my turn they wouldn't have me so

I thought I'd come to you sir so you

could put them right about it after all

I got to do it you'll tell them hey sir

well what about a drink I don't mind if

I do sir oh yeah how about the drop

around sir just for old times sake sort

of suitable celebration for my rejoining

it

I'll say you're keen on rejoining hey

that's right sir if you'll do the

necessary means that's the trouble Busby

you're not the only one in this typical

dude I got a definite age limit now

well as a matter of fact they've turned

me down too you're a general said hey

there's a meadow pass history now course

is really unfortunate what comes in here

day after day sitting around with the

others one wanted there it is I'm sorry

sure what do you think said not in your

eye sir

well at least we've escaped the mud so

there's no way of getting round it was

really not bidding I reckon is another

war left me yet

hey you put them down what's the idea

saving it for the trenches

good heavens Busby general will it be

sad so you got here at last Busby this

thanks to you said now they're both on

the job again I didn't expect to see you

yes but you often find generals at the

front of the pack as you might say said

I'm no longer a general does be really

really junior lending officer all they

give me I'd be anything rather than a

mr. Sir well never mind sh*t expecting

time would be local boy makes good man

get a move on will you tell these men to

fall in the back of the door yes sir

come on Busby up GHQ wants to get

started

that's good I said there's a run can

carry down the road in the ditch about

two miles oh oh I think I'll deal with

that dismiss the squad

what the captain say not as you couldn't

drive a donkey card better humours what

about the tow he says none of he knows

it he's sending a party to dig you out

right yep right pick him up

what I'm bald

I keep it dinner warm for him I know

what you can do with it now pass all.

Barney's all prison clicks well strike

me pink series imagine outage how the

heck did you get out here influence I

told you you young fellas couldn't pull

it off without me

and what about your blinking

mechanization now I suppose you expect

us to go over the battlefields with a

steamroller for you comes along I know

who's in charge of the boys brigade I am

you are

blow me somebody ought to start

collecting the amusement takes now come

on Willie don't stand about get the

planks down in front and start the

blokes leaving up they all right come on

here you don't have to tell me okay

okay to your duties

put some guts into it here you must be

special Abbas may Romeo still was I've

never seen such a performance so young

now so much about it come down off with

that corner of yours do it yourself but

I want to find somebody to do this for

me I will you easy

okay okay sausage belongs to the

government hey come on you or the

sublimating under there will you finish

get around the back clear up behind will

you you start rapping I'll get the

signal see I can't get moving you

realize hey this is a great shot doing a

bishop should never doubt say it's glad

to find a fellow really hard at it on

the job I believe we put me back into

things sh*t yeah

yeah are you run back and switch on I

want you to listen to this very

carefully

idiot only the second house you ought to

be a sergeant you sure it fits you he

was to mention my name

he'll never mind you'll do you're such a

grand type oh thank you sh*t is the

unfamiliar British Broadcasting.

Corporation

hello at the BBC yes and we're making a

few records of the coups in action here

so that we can shut up the folks at home

are now and I want to take this whole

incident just as it is in sound FX II

wouldn't mind saying a few words an

explanation best just who you are what

you're doing and so on is on make our in

there don't be nervous although just be

close to the mic and be yourself be

quite natural hello oh speaking oh you

are

this is number four

- when she was six

narf on

give your name FL oh no publicity loud

all right carry on sorry oh I'm a

probably in a cheery military

privat-dozent me of your regiment

official secrets over them alright cut

ahead I'm a probably in the British Army

at present moment I'm standing on the

main road regard but a foreman yell mm.

Adele fella be much much vaguer alright

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Bruce Bairnsfather

Captain (Charles) Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 1887 – 29 September 1959) was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's weekly "Fragments from France" cartoons published weekly in "The Bystander" magazine during the First World War. more…

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