1 00:02:03,150 --> 00:02:11,682 The year 1777 was the one in which the passions roused by the breaking off of the American colonies from England, 2 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,751 more by their own weight than their own will, 3 00:02:16,385 --> 00:02:19,178 boiled up to shooting point, 4 00:02:19,721 --> 00:02:22,978 the shooting being idealized in minds in England 5 00:02:23,435 --> 00:02:25,549 as suppression of rebellion 6 00:02:26,379 --> 00:02:30,998 and in the colonists as the defence of liberty. 7 00:02:31,763 --> 00:02:38,161 Both sides being therefore convinced that the most high minded course for them to pursue 8 00:02:38,990 --> 00:02:43,153 was to kill as many of one another as possible. 9 00:03:15,269 --> 00:03:16,891 Come on. Back - you, gal. 10 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,500 Halt! 11 00:03:43,513 --> 00:03:46,299 Well. We live in wonderful time, eh, chaplain? 12 00:03:57,547 --> 00:04:02,203 And therefore send this to General Philips: I am obliged to remove the oxen for his cannon 13 00:04:02,303 --> 00:04:05,488 because a soldier without food is of no more use than of artillery without ammunition. 14 00:04:06,046 --> 00:04:08,620 We shall eat his oxen, sir, and replace them with horses. 15 00:04:08,838 --> 00:04:13,043 And my compliments to Mrs. Philips. I hope, she's ... comfortable. Come on, sir. 16 00:04:13,618 --> 00:04:15,872 My compliments, sir. Everything is ready. 17 00:04:16,073 --> 00:04:19,822 Ready? Everything? Nothing is ready, Major Swindon, nothing at all! 18 00:04:20,026 --> 00:04:23,947 - For the ... eh ... - Hanging? - Oh, the eh ... 19 00:04:25,083 --> 00:04:27,909 I should be glad to have a support of your presence this morning, sir. 20 00:04:28,592 --> 00:04:32,165 Not particularly ... lively business - hanging this poor devil. 21 00:04:32,385 --> 00:04:33,391 No, sir, it is not. 22 00:04:33,695 --> 00:04:35,490 It is making too much of these people to hang them. 23 00:04:36,066 --> 00:04:37,412 Martyr themselfs is what they like. 24 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:40,110 It is the one way to achieve fame without ability. 25 00:04:40,750 --> 00:04:44,885 However, as you have committed us to hanging him: the sooner he is hanged the better. 26 00:04:56,727 --> 00:04:58,629 At such a time we must remember ... 27 00:04:59,261 --> 00:05:02,357 we are all made of good and evil. 28 00:05:02,644 --> 00:05:05,733 Each man believes himself to be in a right. 29 00:05:06,112 --> 00:05:13,316 And that's man enemy has the same beliefs. But when this conflict is over we can be sure in one thing ... 30 00:05:13,733 --> 00:05:15,727 justice will prevail. 31 00:05:17,012 --> 00:05:19,151 God cannot be set aside. 32 00:05:22,433 --> 00:05:23,880 Pastor! 33 00:05:25,564 --> 00:05:28,701 What is it, Christy? It's a matter of life and death. 34 00:05:30,851 --> 00:05:33,802 - Oh ... I'll wait when you finish your service. - Christy! 35 00:05:36,470 --> 00:05:40,429 - What is happen? - Father has been arrested, by the army, in Springtown. 36 00:05:40,429 --> 00:05:42,223 - They say he is a rebel. - What!? 37 00:05:42,883 --> 00:05:46,336 They killed uncle Peter and they go to hang father! 38 00:05:46,656 --> 00:05:49,807 I don't know what mother will say when she hears that I'd been interrupted the service. 39 00:05:49,909 --> 00:05:54,514 - Your father is no rebel. We all know that. - They don't. And they won't beleive me! 40 00:05:54,544 --> 00:05:57,478 He was with uncle Peter, and you know what uncle Peter's like. 41 00:05:57,701 --> 00:05:59,932 I'll go there myself and speak with the authorities. 42 00:06:00,304 --> 00:06:01,341 They'll believe me. 43 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:04,041 William Dudgeon, will you come with us? 44 00:06:04,541 --> 00:06:10,368 As relatives we are deeply shocked, but what can we do? We might be in danger ourselfs. 45 00:06:10,771 --> 00:06:13,182 - He's right, Mr. Anderson! - Perhaps you're right. 46 00:06:13,189 --> 00:06:16,696 - My friends, I must leave. The blessing of God be with you. - Amen. 47 00:06:16,907 --> 00:06:20,467 After all, our families had never been very close. 48 00:06:21,463 --> 00:06:22,844 Is your mother at home? - Yes. Oh! 49 00:06:23,197 --> 00:06:26,151 She could not come to church, she's not very well. 50 00:06:27,173 --> 00:06:31,863 My wife will look after her. Judith, go to Mrs. Dudgeon and stay with her till I bring her husband home. 51 00:06:32,347 --> 00:06:34,500 Tell her that Christy and I are gone to Springtown. 52 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,187 We'll be there within an hour. 53 00:06:36,478 --> 00:06:37,580 Anthony! 54 00:06:38,313 --> 00:06:43,316 - You take care. - Nothing will happen to me, or to Timothy Dudgeon. He is an innocent man. 55 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,937 Advance! Stand! Ho! 56 00:07:12,598 --> 00:07:16,159 General Burgoyne, my name is Parshotter, I am the minister here. 57 00:07:16,596 --> 00:07:18,766 I have always preached loyalty to the crown. 58 00:07:19,117 --> 00:07:20,872 Without sufficient eloquency, I gather. 59 00:07:20,872 --> 00:07:24,124 That wretched, misguided fellow not one of my flock, sir. 60 00:07:24,824 --> 00:07:27,086 Not a Springtown man, he's from Websterbridge. 61 00:07:27,417 --> 00:07:31,542 Ah, no, no, Springtown is loyal, sir. Non a violation to non-concord here. 62 00:07:32,033 --> 00:07:36,030 In our church here we pray for king George, and of course his armed forces. 63 00:07:36,130 --> 00:07:38,123 Thank you, sir. Most helpful. Swindon. 64 00:07:39,884 --> 00:07:41,248 If you don't mind, minister. 65 00:07:41,684 --> 00:07:46,137 Swindon, if you could now get the matter for your attention. We're good enough to do up tents for the garrison. 66 00:07:46,688 --> 00:07:49,259 It may be necessary to leave troops here when we move up. 67 00:07:49,347 --> 00:07:52,285 We already gave them one good example, sir. There will be now no trouble here. 68 00:07:52,950 --> 00:07:55,668 - I'm glad you take that view. - Do I understand, sir, that 69 00:07:55,768 --> 00:07:58,880 in your opinion there will be further breaches ... - I do not express my opinion. 70 00:07:59,424 --> 00:08:02,841 I never stoop to that habit of profane language which unfortunately 71 00:08:02,941 --> 00:08:06,603 coarsens our profession. If I did, sir, perhaps I should be able to express an opinion 72 00:08:06,703 --> 00:08:09,682 of a war office that supplied me , with a twice as many cavalry man 73 00:08:09,782 --> 00:08:12,766 than I have horses and a weight of cannon so large that 74 00:08:12,866 --> 00:08:15,086 half of roads in this country are not suited to support it. 75 00:08:16,848 --> 00:08:19,589 How do you feel, sir, if we had to confront a colonial army 76 00:08:19,689 --> 00:08:22,989 in our present condition? Before we have made contact with General Howe. 77 00:08:23,876 --> 00:08:27,219 Our dragoons are on foot, sir and our artillery not even in sight. 78 00:08:27,861 --> 00:08:32,538 Count on me, General, the British soldier will give a good account of himself. 79 00:08:33,088 --> 00:08:36,403 And therefore, I suppose, sir, the British officer need not know his business: 80 00:08:36,505 --> 00:08:39,332 the British soldier will get him out of all his blunders with the bayonet. 81 00:08:40,398 --> 00:08:43,450 In future, sir, I must ask you to be a little less generous with the blood of your men, 82 00:08:43,551 --> 00:08:46,367 and a little more generous with your own brains. 83 00:08:51,504 --> 00:08:53,193 Swindon. 84 00:08:54,922 --> 00:08:58,370 Do you at all realize, sir, that we have nothing standing between us and destruction 85 00:08:58,470 --> 00:09:02,382 but our own bluff and the ignorance of these backwards men? 86 00:09:02,557 --> 00:09:05,547 They are men of the same British stock as ourselves: 87 00:09:05,846 --> 00:09:09,133 six to one of us, six to one, sir, 88 00:09:09,448 --> 00:09:15,147 and half our troops are Hessians, Brunswickers, German dragoons, and Indians with scalping knives. 89 00:09:15,713 --> 00:09:21,214 Suppose the colonists find a leader, what shall we do then? 90 00:09:21,701 --> 00:09:22,999 Eh? 91 00:09:24,007 --> 00:09:25,906 Our duty, sir, I presume. 92 00:09:26,272 --> 00:09:28,335 May I ask are you writing a melodrama, Major Swindon? 93 00:09:28,915 --> 00:09:31,954 - No, sir. - What a pity! WHhat a pity! 94 00:09:32,489 --> 00:09:35,184 Now. Go on. Way back a little. Give back there. Go on. Back. 95 00:09:43,532 --> 00:09:44,703 Get them out of there! 96 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:53,409 Get your cart of the bridge! Come on! Here! Here! 97 00:10:18,728 --> 00:10:19,949 Take the reins, Christy. 98 00:10:43,672 --> 00:10:47,411 They killed father, too. Before we even got here. 99 00:10:50,586 --> 00:10:52,166 Stay here, Christy. 100 00:11:02,871 --> 00:11:07,380 - Who is the officer in charge here? - Come on man, move away from me, and 101 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,463 - it's all over. - I want the officer. - Go about your business. 102 00:11:17,518 --> 00:11:20,549 - Officer! Sir! - Right, carry on. 103 00:11:21,550 --> 00:11:25,091 - That man was from my parish. I am his minister. 104 00:11:25,690 --> 00:11:31,125 - Really? - It's gross injustice. He is innocent. - He was found guilty. Simple as clear. 105 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:37,538 - In the meantime I'll clear ... - Mr. Hawkins! - What is it? - It's that minister of yours, from Websterbridge. He stirred up trouble. 106 00:11:38,095 --> 00:11:38,993 Damn that man! 107 00:11:39,090 --> 00:11:43,084 - Out of the question. The body remains. - I cannot believe you mean it. 108 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,828 Anderson, don't be a fool! 109 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:03,094 Sergeant at arms, arrest that man! 110 00:12:03,433 --> 00:12:05,803 - You can't leave that body there! - Anderson. 111 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:09,282 Indeed, Lieutenant, this man does not understand military necessity. 112 00:12:09,382 --> 00:12:11,984 He is a minister. A minister! The man of peace! 113 00:12:12,084 --> 00:12:16,365 Is he? Parshotter, you vouch for that too, I am sure. 114 00:12:16,595 --> 00:12:22,522 - Ehm ... Yes. - He's of Websterbridge, I've been there, that's a small village. We don't see much of the world. 115 00:12:22,788 --> 00:12:27,677 - Timothy Dudgeon ... - The church must support any measures designed to save human life. 116 00:12:27,989 --> 00:12:30,520 - Don't you agree, Mr. Parshotter? - Ehm ... Yes. 117 00:12:30,832 --> 00:12:34,262 Will you leave man's body hanging there...? It's a warning - to others! 118 00:12:34,362 --> 00:12:37,233 - Precisely. - You must think before you 119 00:12:37,333 --> 00:12:40,130 do anything to endanger the lifes of innocent men and women. 120 00:12:40,231 --> 00:12:44,757 - My flock, Mr. Anderson. - I am sure that we can vouch for the Pastor, Lieutenant. 121 00:12:45,056 --> 00:12:49,131 - Very well. Get back to your posts. - Thank you, sir. 122 00:12:51,344 --> 00:12:52,690 Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. 123 00:12:52,936 --> 00:12:57,413 There's nothing more to be said, my friends. Let us all go about our business. 124 00:13:02,076 --> 00:13:05,160 Halt! Halt! Stop him! Stop him! Halt! Halt! 125 00:13:08,285 --> 00:13:10,370 Come on! Come on! There he is! Stop him! 126 00:13:31,787 --> 00:13:35,824 Home at last. I thought you'll never get back from Springtown. 127 00:13:35,924 --> 00:13:38,342 Mrs. Dudgeon hardly spoke all that time. 128 00:13:38,442 --> 00:13:39,897 It's been a long day. 129 00:13:47,507 --> 00:13:48,931 You must be tired. 130 00:13:50,286 --> 00:13:51,329 Come straight to bed. 131 00:15:20,110 --> 00:15:21,107 Who's there? 132 00:16:19,578 --> 00:16:20,609 Good evening, minister. 133 00:16:21,491 --> 00:16:24,485 - Allow me to present myself. - Richard Dudgeon! 134 00:16:25,171 --> 00:16:30,471 You remember me! I thought that good people of Websterbridge found more convenient to forget me, eh? 135 00:16:31,368 --> 00:16:38,090 Oh, my father - you know quite well, I believe. I found him in Springtown - at a ... loose end... In fact, he ... eh ... 136 00:16:39,328 --> 00:16:43,571 - I was there. - So you were. With a musket in your hand? 137 00:16:44,186 --> 00:16:46,303 Then you remember your Christian duty, eh? 138 00:16:48,106 --> 00:16:50,090 Ah, poor father. 139 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,226 Red coats did him too much credit. He had not stomach for a rebel either. 140 00:16:55,326 --> 00:16:58,775 If you cared so little for your father, why did you risk your life for his body? 141 00:16:58,875 --> 00:17:01,155 To annoy the English, what ever reason? 142 00:17:01,255 --> 00:17:03,459 If you've been caught they would hang you too. 143 00:17:03,606 --> 00:17:05,529 You think it would be any great loss, minister? 144 00:17:05,629 --> 00:17:08,766 I think a man's life is worth saving whither it belongs to. 145 00:17:11,169 --> 00:17:13,593 Would you come inside? We'd given you some supper. 146 00:17:15,221 --> 00:17:16,101 No. 147 00:17:16,976 --> 00:17:21,070 You know, another Minister would ask you to supper and treat you to a sermon. 148 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:30,846 Bury him quickly, before the memory of his death 149 00:17:30,946 --> 00:17:33,849 makes you forget that you are a man of peace. 150 00:17:34,332 --> 00:17:37,152 Your father shall have a Christian burial, Mr. Dudgeon. 151 00:17:37,679 --> 00:17:39,403 as you intended. 152 00:17:40,292 --> 00:17:44,571 How like a parson. All you so eager to be the best of his fellow men. 153 00:17:44,672 --> 00:17:48,006 Save your breath, pastor, you can't convert me! 154 00:17:48,566 --> 00:17:51,222 I was fond of a good psalm singing in a little church choir, 155 00:17:51,496 --> 00:17:55,225 but I saw that the world cringed before your Almighty only through fear. 156 00:17:56,917 --> 00:17:58,980 And I made the devil's acquaint. 157 00:18:00,455 --> 00:18:03,547 Yeh, I knew that he was my natural master, captain and friend. 158 00:18:03,647 --> 00:18:06,071 And I prayed secretly to him, and he comforted me. 159 00:18:06,171 --> 00:18:10,072 I promised him my soul, and swore an oath that I would stand up for him in this world 160 00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:12,097 and stand by him in the next. 161 00:18:17,052 --> 00:18:20,258 That promise and that oath made a man of me. 162 00:18:44,530 --> 00:18:46,446 Tony. 163 00:18:48,175 --> 00:18:50,229 Tony. 164 00:18:56,450 --> 00:18:58,280 Tony, I saw someone, did you? 165 00:18:59,909 --> 00:19:01,582 Tony, who was he? 166 00:19:02,499 --> 00:19:03,789 Richard Dudgeon. 167 00:19:04,592 --> 00:19:06,146 Here? 168 00:19:07,209 --> 00:19:08,438 In Websterbridge? 169 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,504 What did he want? 170 00:19:15,675 --> 00:19:17,316 Brought back his father's body. 171 00:19:18,405 --> 00:19:19,668 Do you mean that ... 172 00:19:20,349 --> 00:19:21,757 Gallows? 173 00:19:24,011 --> 00:19:25,290 But how? 174 00:19:26,572 --> 00:19:27,945 Go to bed, Judith. 175 00:19:28,165 --> 00:19:29,839 I'll tell you all about in the morning. 176 00:19:35,450 --> 00:19:37,526 But they said it could not be taken. 177 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:40,238 He didn't ask. 178 00:19:47,292 --> 00:19:49,275 There's no need to reproach yourself. 179 00:19:50,581 --> 00:19:53,288 You did everything you could ... for Mr. Dudgeon. 180 00:19:53,644 --> 00:19:56,970 - Judith ... - After all the people break the law of the country ... 181 00:19:57,384 --> 00:20:01,018 Judith, we don't seem to understand what that fighting means. 182 00:20:02,258 --> 00:20:05,741 - We don't ... - No, we don't expect to so. 183 00:20:05,835 --> 00:20:07,896 Let's hope we never will. 184 00:20:38,329 --> 00:20:40,281 You so long have been there. 185 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:45,741 Did you talk to him? 186 00:20:49,894 --> 00:20:51,307 What did he say? 187 00:20:53,135 --> 00:20:56,317 Nothing, Judith. Nothing you want to hear. 188 00:20:57,562 --> 00:20:59,262 And I to remember. 189 00:21:01,544 --> 00:21:03,530 And now we commit his body to the ground. 190 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,101 - Amen. - Aye. - Amen. 191 00:21:23,742 --> 00:21:27,575 This is the last will and testament of me, Timothy Dudgeon. 192 00:21:27,725 --> 00:21:31,603 And I hereby revoke all former wills made by me 193 00:21:31,703 --> 00:21:33,645 and declare ... 194 00:21:34,207 --> 00:21:38,522 - Who asked you here? Good morning, mother. Keeping up appearances as usual. That's right. 195 00:21:38,622 --> 00:21:43,075 - That's right. - Leave my house. - How do you know it's your house until the will is read? 196 00:21:43,925 --> 00:21:47,561 My dear relatives! Sit down, sit down. 197 00:21:48,175 --> 00:21:53,459 Well, all here for the feast. Even little cinder girl. Hello Essie. 198 00:21:54,682 --> 00:21:58,473 Uncle William! I haven't seen you since you gave up drinking. 199 00:22:00,023 --> 00:22:03,000 Uncle Titus, you old horse thief! 200 00:22:04,648 --> 00:22:08,273 The minister! I should have accepted your invitation to supper the other night. 201 00:22:08,373 --> 00:22:12,155 I understand your wife has a most ungodly allowance of good looks. 202 00:22:12,323 --> 00:22:14,018 You are in the presence of my wife, sir. 203 00:22:16,248 --> 00:22:19,767 Your servant, madam: You deserve your reputation, 204 00:22:19,950 --> 00:22:22,655 but I'm sorry to see by your expression that you're a good woman. 205 00:22:23,356 --> 00:22:26,959 All the same, Pastor, I respect you more than I did before. 206 00:22:27,060 --> 00:22:30,700 - Be a shame on yourself, sir. - Oh, I am, I am, but - proud 207 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,819 of my relatives. Proceed Mr. Hawkins, proceed. 208 00:22:34,848 --> 00:22:39,175 and declare: this is my real will according to my own wish 209 00:22:39,276 --> 00:22:44,748 and affection. - For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. 210 00:22:46,022 --> 00:22:51,559 I give and bequeath to my younger son Christopher fifty pounds to be paid him 211 00:22:51,697 --> 00:22:56,137 on the day of his marriage to Sarah Wilkins if she will have him. 212 00:22:56,337 --> 00:22:59,190 How if she won't have him? She will if I have fifty pounds. 213 00:22:59,905 --> 00:23:02,332 Very good, brother. Proceed, Mr. Hawkins. 214 00:23:03,864 --> 00:23:11,033 I give and bequeath my house at Websterbridge and all the rest of my property soever 215 00:23:11,135 --> 00:23:14,036 to my eldest son and heir, Richard Dudgeon. 216 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,744 The calf, minister, the fatted calf. 217 00:23:20,794 --> 00:23:25,450 Finally I gave and bequeath my soul into my Maker's hands, humbly asking forgiveness 218 00:23:25,550 --> 00:23:32,159 for all my sins, and hoping that I have not done wrong in the perplexity of my last hour in this strange place. 219 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,913 - Amen. - Amen. 220 00:23:35,013 --> 00:23:36,815 My mother does not say "Amen". 221 00:23:51,584 --> 00:23:56,290 He had nothing of his own. His money was the money I brought him as my marriage portion. 222 00:23:56,305 --> 00:24:00,293 - And this is my reward! - Mrs. Dudgeon, I ... - You let him rob me! 223 00:24:09,757 --> 00:24:14,112 Mr. Hawkins, is that true, Do you have a rightful legal will leaving everything to Mrs. Dudgeon? 224 00:24:14,512 --> 00:24:16,676 There is such a will. 225 00:24:16,841 --> 00:24:18,925 And the new one? Is that ... 226 00:24:20,592 --> 00:24:22,407 Is that a proper will? 227 00:24:22,607 --> 00:24:25,353 The courts will sustain it against the other. 228 00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:29,384 the courts will sustain the claim of any man - and that man the eldest son - 229 00:24:29,485 --> 00:24:32,536 against any woman, if they can. Good day, thank you. 230 00:24:45,707 --> 00:24:50,152 That's right! Eat, drink, be merry. Maybe a last chance. 231 00:24:51,261 --> 00:24:54,665 I passed the soldiers within six miles on my way here. 232 00:24:54,846 --> 00:24:56,866 What have we to fear from that, sir? 233 00:24:56,966 --> 00:24:59,163 Well, we're all rebels, and you know it. 234 00:24:59,221 --> 00:25:00,808 - Oh, no, no! - Yes, you are. 235 00:25:01,108 --> 00:25:04,042 You haven't damned King George as I have, no one has 236 00:25:04,142 --> 00:25:08,834 the courage to fight, but you all wait for the outcome before you pay your taxes. 237 00:25:08,934 --> 00:25:11,337 It's treason enough for his majesty. 238 00:25:12,277 --> 00:25:13,690 Treason! 239 00:25:18,498 --> 00:25:21,210 Mark my words, Parson, it won't be long before Major Swindon's 240 00:25:21,340 --> 00:25:23,907 gallows for rebels wrap around all the village green. 241 00:25:25,353 --> 00:25:28,008 Wolf right in your own fold. 242 00:25:28,959 --> 00:25:31,913 What for a good shepherd do then? Eh? 243 00:25:38,273 --> 00:25:43,328 - Mother, where are you going? - Your mother has the sight that she doesn't want to stay. 244 00:25:48,935 --> 00:25:50,425 Mother ... 245 00:25:52,550 --> 00:25:54,182 My curse on you! 246 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,909 You cannot leave that girl there. To live with him in the house? 247 00:26:06,595 --> 00:26:08,510 Essie will come to no harm. 248 00:26:17,773 --> 00:26:19,032 Essie! 249 00:26:22,956 --> 00:26:24,956 Essie! 250 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Essie! 251 00:26:54,145 --> 00:26:55,573 Have you come back for something? 252 00:26:56,835 --> 00:26:59,456 That child is not here safe even if you are. 253 00:27:00,458 --> 00:27:01,788 Essie! 254 00:27:05,584 --> 00:27:10,240 Don't be afraid, Essie. Mrs. Anderson wants to rescue you from the house of a devil. 255 00:27:13,646 --> 00:27:14,813 Essie. 256 00:27:19,703 --> 00:27:24,508 She's had enough of a self-righteousness. Like all little lambs all she knows that you will stab her. 257 00:27:25,592 --> 00:27:27,542 Was there anything else, Mrs. Anderson? 258 00:27:29,564 --> 00:27:33,688 I wish to go. I shan't stop you. 259 00:27:52,801 --> 00:27:57,235 I can't get him out of my mind. He insulted you: he insulted me: he insulted his mother. 260 00:27:57,435 --> 00:28:01,202 - Try not to upset yourself, my dear. - Oh, I know it's wrong to hate anybody, but - 261 00:28:01,205 --> 00:28:03,060 It's worst to be indifferent. 262 00:28:04,012 --> 00:28:06,508 It's worst sin of all - not to care about the people. 263 00:28:07,914 --> 00:28:12,369 I don't like Richard. I don't like what he says and the way behaves. 264 00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:17,326 There is something about him that makes me respect him in spite of this all. 265 00:28:18,377 --> 00:28:20,179 In spite of insult too. 266 00:28:21,182 --> 00:28:23,084 I don't think he'd like that. 267 00:28:26,038 --> 00:28:27,054 Judith. 268 00:28:29,292 --> 00:28:31,391 You not so wicked, as you think, I am sure. 269 00:28:31,697 --> 00:28:33,748 They say that hate is very close to love. 270 00:28:34,148 --> 00:28:36,551 I am sure you are fonder of Richard than you are of me, if you only knew it. 271 00:28:36,851 --> 00:28:37,973 Don't say that! 272 00:28:39,140 --> 00:28:44,110 All right my dear. He's a bad man, and you hate him as he deserves. Shall we have our tea? 273 00:29:04,287 --> 00:29:06,039 What's the matter, Judith? 274 00:29:06,139 --> 00:29:08,142 You always think the best of everyone. 275 00:29:10,996 --> 00:29:12,548 I am going to change now. 276 00:29:53,501 --> 00:29:56,204 Sergeant! Nail the proclamation to the church door. 277 00:30:06,367 --> 00:30:07,835 Hey, you! 278 00:30:08,271 --> 00:30:09,793 Come here! 279 00:30:11,974 --> 00:30:13,308 Hold it. 280 00:30:30,547 --> 00:30:32,399 - You better tell to parson to read that. - Sir. 281 00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:35,401 Martial law. Curfew! 282 00:30:36,902 --> 00:30:39,804 - The army will be before nightfall. Here! - But, sir ... 283 00:30:51,924 --> 00:30:54,626 Sir, that's the man we hanged, from Springtown! His body's buried here! 284 00:30:55,928 --> 00:30:58,774 All right, sergeant, carry on. I'll report that to Major Swindon. 285 00:31:14,052 --> 00:31:18,174 - What is it, Essie. - They saw the grave. Mr. Richard brought the body. They'll hang him! 286 00:31:19,587 --> 00:31:22,363 - Is he at the farm? - I don't know where he is! 287 00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:30,267 I'll find him. You go home. If the soldiers come tell them that Richard is gone. You understand? Left the village alltogether. 288 00:31:35,129 --> 00:31:36,407 Go home, Essie. 289 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,697 It was not very far from Springtown to Websterbridge. 290 00:31:49,047 --> 00:31:52,551 General Burgoyne and his army had only to pass through the forest. 291 00:31:53,051 --> 00:31:57,709 While they were all civilized, disciplined and well trained troops, however, 292 00:31:57,709 --> 00:32:01,011 their military thinking was no match to that of 293 00:32:01,111 --> 00:32:04,818 uncivilized, indisciplined and undrilled enemy. 294 00:32:05,268 --> 00:32:11,024 And it had not occured to them, that the Yanks on occasion could be mightier than they thought. 295 00:32:13,278 --> 00:32:16,833 What the devil you do in idling there? We got to get through here by the night. 296 00:32:17,464 --> 00:32:19,236 - Get these men to work! - Yes, sir! 297 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,447 Get those carts out of the way! Sergeant, get your's men on their feet. 298 00:32:27,747 --> 00:32:28,838 Swindon! 299 00:32:34,004 --> 00:32:35,967 I hope I didn't deafen you, my dear. 300 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,994 - Sir? - Major Swindon, are you professioned at all in arithmetics? - Arithmetics, sir? 301 00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:47,069 If you are, sir, you will be as aware as I am that it is a fourth obstruction in these many miles. 302 00:32:47,973 --> 00:32:50,377 At this rate we'll be lucky to reach Albany by Christmas. 303 00:32:50,777 --> 00:32:53,778 You and your men, sir, are charged with protection of our column. 304 00:32:54,281 --> 00:32:57,487 Picked troops against a few colonial ruffians and what is the outcome? 305 00:32:57,787 --> 00:33:00,795 Trees fell at our path every night, snipers in the ... 306 00:33:08,399 --> 00:33:14,229 - Both together now apparently. - Get the Indians. Come on! Quick! Quick! More, more, more! More, more, more! 307 00:33:18,312 --> 00:33:21,816 The Indians will get him, sir. Will they? Will they indeed? 308 00:33:22,567 --> 00:33:25,373 From past observations, sir, they appear to believe that any scalp is welcome. 309 00:33:25,870 --> 00:33:27,894 Whig or Tory, man, woman or child. 310 00:33:28,202 --> 00:33:33,229 Unfortunately, they seem to pick more often on those of his Majesty's friends than his enemies, and the snipers continue to flourish. 311 00:33:34,483 --> 00:33:38,238 - What's there? - The patrol from Websterbridge, sir. 312 00:33:38,438 --> 00:33:41,942 At last. Find out how many trees we shall have to continue to move to get from here to there. 313 00:33:44,648 --> 00:33:46,549 I shall wait in Websterbridge for my artillery. 314 00:33:47,255 --> 00:33:51,153 I presume General Philips can find horses enough in Springtown even for his requirements though they are weak. 315 00:33:52,204 --> 00:33:53,257 What soup is this? 316 00:33:54,959 --> 00:33:57,342 - Rattlesnake, sir. - It's delicious. 317 00:33:58,464 --> 00:34:01,167 Well, Swindon. Some further disaster, I take it. 318 00:34:01,567 --> 00:34:05,464 - What is it now? Wolfs? - It's rebellion, sir. - You don't say so. 319 00:34:06,036 --> 00:34:10,126 The man, Dudgeon, he's been buried in Websterbridge. Taken from Springtown, as you know, sir, and buried there. 320 00:34:10,429 --> 00:34:12,076 - Against my orders! - Deplorable! 321 00:34:12,583 --> 00:34:17,135 Your orders apart, however, what chance is that we are reaching this place before sundown? And what with the road? Is it clear? 322 00:34:17,546 --> 00:34:18,642 Perfectly clear, sir. 323 00:34:24,948 --> 00:34:28,259 Perfectly clear, isn't it? You heard that, I think. 324 00:34:28,802 --> 00:34:31,456 The sound that keeps me awake every night since we left Canada. 325 00:34:32,008 --> 00:34:35,112 They are felling them in the daytime now, Swindon. In the daytime! 326 00:34:35,312 --> 00:34:37,825 With your permission, sir, I shall make an example at Websterbridge. 327 00:34:38,125 --> 00:34:42,016 Do what you please in Websterbridge, man, but get us there. Get us there! 328 00:34:52,434 --> 00:34:53,726 Storekeeper! 329 00:34:54,606 --> 00:34:56,889 Yes. We don't keep much. 330 00:34:57,189 --> 00:34:58,341 You'll be lucky if you keep anything. 331 00:34:58,541 --> 00:35:03,047 - Requisition order: salt, tea, sugar, tobacco, grain. Where's the storeroom? - In back here. 332 00:35:05,149 --> 00:35:08,653 - What about payment? - Just see the paymaster. He'll pay you! 333 00:35:11,959 --> 00:35:13,472 We have just nothing left. 334 00:35:14,712 --> 00:35:17,666 They can't do this to us, can they? ... Mr. Hawkins! 335 00:35:18,467 --> 00:35:22,173 Some is legally surprised ... Eh, Mr. Hawkins? 336 00:35:24,174 --> 00:35:26,478 Just access the paymaster, and he'll pay you. 337 00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:30,082 Nice fresh paper money. Legal tender, isn't that so, Mr. Hawkins. 338 00:35:30,733 --> 00:35:33,636 Of course you can't buy anything with it and you can't eat it, 339 00:35:34,037 --> 00:35:37,491 smoke it and make tea with it but you have no legal complaint just the same. 340 00:35:37,791 --> 00:35:39,495 Isn't it so, Mr Hawkins? 341 00:35:42,998 --> 00:35:45,703 One case of best imported Indian tea. 342 00:35:46,203 --> 00:35:52,790 And then what they take over: your crutch, your livestock, your liquer, even your wives - it's all in the name of the law! 343 00:35:57,115 --> 00:36:01,120 There is only one way to change the law of that sort - get rid of the people who make them. 344 00:36:02,866 --> 00:36:04,528 And that's illegal, isn't it, Mr. Hawkins? 345 00:36:06,228 --> 00:36:07,930 Mr. Hawkins has no answer. 346 00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:10,736 Some of our countrymen think they found one. 347 00:36:12,236 --> 00:36:15,739 There's been some ... fighting or so they tell me. 348 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:21,445 Ha! That's no game for pious men, good citizens, law abiding lawyers, no... 349 00:36:21,998 --> 00:36:27,302 - As you have so strong views, why don't you stop talking and do something. - Me? 350 00:36:27,957 --> 00:36:31,974 I've no respect for any sort of law, so what do I care what kinds enforce them. 351 00:37:03,052 --> 00:37:10,308 Reminds your home, that it? ... Eh, you've come a long way, gentlemen? ... Long way is to go back. 352 00:37:12,170 --> 00:37:16,636 - Hey, corporal, how long were you off home? - One year and four months. 353 00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:18,821 That's much they gain when they enlist ... 354 00:37:20,124 --> 00:37:24,229 Your wife might have lost her looks. Poor one might even lost his wife. 355 00:37:27,635 --> 00:37:30,986 All right, Corporal, don't take me seriously. If he did, he'd be insulting his own wife. 356 00:37:31,386 --> 00:37:36,391 Oh, british soldier's wife knows her duty I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure. 357 00:37:44,455 --> 00:37:47,060 Ah, now here's the man you should speak to. 358 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,506 He wears an uniform too, in his own way, and he has a wife pretty enough to put him some problems. Hey, minister. 359 00:37:54,199 --> 00:37:56,833 - By the way, Mr. Dudgeon, I have a message for you. - Good evening, minister. 360 00:37:57,233 --> 00:37:59,203 - Hello, Paddy. - What message? 361 00:37:59,624 --> 00:38:04,080 - From Essie. - Well, deliver it. Why not? I have nothing to hide from my friends here. 362 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,875 - She wants you. - Thank you. I should be at home. 363 00:38:08,075 --> 00:38:09,310 I advise you to come now. 364 00:38:09,810 --> 00:38:11,847 Minister, you're not at your pulpit here. 365 00:38:15,806 --> 00:38:19,798 We had a conversation once, Mr. Dudgeon, when I invited you in to supper. 366 00:38:20,851 --> 00:38:24,023 The matter that brought us together at that time has a reason again. 367 00:38:25,968 --> 00:38:27,095 It has? 368 00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:31,265 I thought it was ... buried, and done with. 369 00:38:31,916 --> 00:38:35,022 It might be too late for supper this time. Will you come? 370 00:38:36,123 --> 00:38:39,175 - Your wife at home? - Yes. - How can I refuse! 371 00:38:41,427 --> 00:38:45,378 Gentlemen, I wish you the fortunes of war - death or glory. 372 00:38:47,186 --> 00:38:50,890 Take my advice - write to her. Even the letter is something to take to bed. 373 00:39:14,621 --> 00:39:16,078 Tony, I began to wonder ... 374 00:39:17,275 --> 00:39:21,025 - He is in danger. - Oh, he's wrong. It's your husband who is in danger. 375 00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:23,014 - Tony ... - He's only trying to fright you. 376 00:39:23,514 --> 00:39:24,558 The stew ready? 377 00:39:25,587 --> 00:39:29,048 Take of your coat and hang by the fire to dry. My wife will excuse your shirtsleeves. 378 00:39:33,395 --> 00:39:35,749 The devil's disciple under the parson's roof. 379 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,217 Who'd think of looking for me here. 380 00:39:39,917 --> 00:39:42,305 A hot cup of tea will keep out the cold, Mr. Dudgeon. 381 00:39:42,605 --> 00:39:44,025 - Sit down. - Thank you. 382 00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:47,113 I observe that Mrs. Anderson is not quite as pressing ... 383 00:39:47,714 --> 00:39:49,515 Welcome for my husband's sake. 384 00:39:50,034 --> 00:39:52,521 Hm ... I know I am not welcome for my own. 385 00:39:55,622 --> 00:39:57,825 I don't think I'll break bread here, minister. 386 00:39:58,125 --> 00:40:02,632 There is something in you that I respect, and that makes me desire to have you as my enemy. 387 00:40:03,733 --> 00:40:09,987 I understand you very well. On those terms, I'll accept any man's enmity. Please, sit down. 388 00:40:19,291 --> 00:40:20,592 Oh, Mr. Anderson ... 389 00:40:24,309 --> 00:40:28,563 - What are you doing here? - Christy, Mrs. Anderson doesn't want the whole family to tea at once. 390 00:40:28,763 --> 00:40:30,278 Mother is very ill. 391 00:40:32,370 --> 00:40:37,076 - She wants to see Richard? - No. - She wants to see the minister. - Yeah. 392 00:40:37,965 --> 00:40:40,241 You go on there. I'll catch with you later. 393 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,735 - Judith! - It's stopped raining. 394 00:40:46,838 --> 00:40:49,391 Give Mr. Dudgeon his tea. I'll have mine when I come back. 395 00:40:49,791 --> 00:40:54,597 - Tony, must I ...? - The soldiers saw the grave and they'll be after him. You must keep him here. 396 00:40:54,898 --> 00:40:57,050 - Tony ... - I know I can depend on you. 397 00:40:59,956 --> 00:41:01,059 But ... 398 00:41:17,917 --> 00:41:22,152 Mrs. Anderson, I am perfectly aware of your feelings towards me. I will not intrude on you. 399 00:41:22,452 --> 00:41:23,848 No, no. Don't go: 400 00:41:24,532 --> 00:41:26,049 please don't go. I ... 401 00:41:28,318 --> 00:41:31,692 I ... I want you to stay, but it is not because I like you. 402 00:41:31,993 --> 00:41:34,883 - I see. - I had rather you did go than mistake me about that. 403 00:41:35,183 --> 00:41:38,387 I hate you and disapprove of you and my husband knows it. 404 00:41:39,867 --> 00:41:44,067 If ... If you are not here when he comes back, you think ... I disobeyed him and drove you away. 405 00:41:44,834 --> 00:41:47,720 Whereas, of course, you've ... been so kind and considerate 406 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,673 that I, I really want to go out of mere contrariness? 407 00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:57,977 Well, erm, shall we go to tea like a quiet respectable couple, and wait for your husband's return? 408 00:42:08,022 --> 00:42:13,152 Ha-a, watch what I've missed, haven't I, ... the truism of domesticity. 409 00:42:13,853 --> 00:42:17,059 I expect that if any stranger came in now, he would take us for man and wife. 410 00:42:17,743 --> 00:42:21,160 - If you mean that you are more my age than he is, I ... - Oh, I, ... 411 00:42:21,871 --> 00:42:23,752 I see there is another side to domestic bliss. 412 00:42:24,006 --> 00:42:26,977 I, I'd rather be married to someone that everyone respects than - than - 413 00:42:27,177 --> 00:42:32,679 Than the devil's disciple and you are right. But then your love helps him to be a good man, just as your hate helps me to be a bad one. 414 00:42:33,016 --> 00:42:35,300 My husband has been very good to you. 415 00:42:35,739 --> 00:42:38,226 Can't you forgive him for being so much better than you are? 416 00:42:38,537 --> 00:42:40,982 How dare you belittle him by putting yourself in his place? 417 00:42:41,482 --> 00:42:44,757 - Did I? - Yes, you did. You said that we could, ... we could ... 418 00:42:48,926 --> 00:42:50,306 Don't do that! 419 00:42:56,459 --> 00:42:57,289 Here ... 420 00:43:18,225 --> 00:43:21,154 - Tea? - Please. 421 00:43:23,490 --> 00:43:27,447 Do you take sugar? No, but plenty of milk. 422 00:43:37,007 --> 00:43:38,343 Toast? 423 00:43:54,230 --> 00:44:00,029 - Why do you laugh? - Oh, I think you are afraid that even tea and toast for a man of my reputation might lead you astray. 424 00:44:01,634 --> 00:44:04,944 That's the worst of conducting one's life on the very highest principles. 425 00:44:05,244 --> 00:44:08,998 One false step and you have such a long ways to fall. 426 00:44:09,298 --> 00:44:14,007 Are you afraid of heights, Mrs. Anderson? Do they keep tempting you to throw yourself over the precipice? 427 00:44:15,665 --> 00:44:18,352 I think you find the view down below almost irresistable. 428 00:44:19,432 --> 00:44:23,091 So you take yourself and your principles higher and higher in the hope to getting away from it. 429 00:44:23,836 --> 00:44:28,649 Of course the higher you go the more irresistable it becomes. 430 00:44:30,076 --> 00:44:33,180 Doesn't it? ... Eh? 431 00:44:36,485 --> 00:44:39,989 You see! The toast is harder to swallow then the truth! ... There! 432 00:44:40,590 --> 00:44:43,461 Leave me alone! Oh, leave me alone! 433 00:44:43,961 --> 00:44:47,899 Can you ever do one kind thing for someone? All you do is just ... 434 00:44:57,311 --> 00:44:59,614 Sorry to disturb you, mum! Duty! 435 00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:05,824 Anthony Anderson: I arrest you in King George's name as a rebel! 436 00:45:06,224 --> 00:45:08,472 - But he is not ... - Come on, parson. 437 00:45:08,877 --> 00:45:10,277 Put your coat on and come along. 438 00:45:22,822 --> 00:45:26,448 - But that is not ... - Sergeant ... forgive me asking 439 00:45:27,848 --> 00:45:31,538 what active rebellion exactly have I committed? 440 00:45:31,956 --> 00:45:33,824 That's not for me to say, sir. 441 00:45:33,925 --> 00:45:36,052 But we don't arrest unless we don't have to hang them. 442 00:45:43,921 --> 00:45:45,442 You can't do this! 443 00:45:47,476 --> 00:45:53,277 I leave one good thing for someone. Sergeant, did you ever arrest a man of my cloth before? 444 00:45:53,477 --> 00:45:56,347 Well, no sir. At least, only an army chaplain. 445 00:45:59,792 --> 00:46:00,860 Four in! 446 00:46:03,702 --> 00:46:07,500 One gentleman to another, sir. Wouldn't you like a word with your missis before you go? 447 00:46:08,326 --> 00:46:09,605 The last chance. 448 00:46:10,805 --> 00:46:16,414 Oh, my love. This ... This gallant gentleman has been kind enough to allow us a moment of leavetaking. 449 00:46:17,315 --> 00:46:18,316 - Yes, but ... 450 00:46:20,018 --> 00:46:23,112 Get your husband safely out of harm's way. You understand? 451 00:46:24,924 --> 00:46:27,657 He can't save me. They will hang him. 452 00:46:28,657 --> 00:46:30,129 And they will not spare me. 453 00:46:32,283 --> 00:46:35,341 Tell him that from now on he better give the devil its due. 454 00:46:39,143 --> 00:46:45,261 I am sure the sergeant will not believe that you love me like a wife unless ... you should give me one kiss before I go. 455 00:46:46,591 --> 00:46:48,033 I can't! 456 00:46:54,862 --> 00:46:57,299 - Sergeant, quickly. - March! 457 00:47:13,937 --> 00:47:18,990 - Where is Mrs. Dudgeon? - Mrs. Dudgeon is critical. Very critical. - Where is my husband? 458 00:47:19,413 --> 00:47:23,988 - Mrs. Anderson! What's happened? - Oh, it's Richard, he ..., he ..., he ... 459 00:47:24,303 --> 00:47:29,023 - The scoundrel! He should be horsewhipped. The minister's wife ... - No, no! - What he did you? 460 00:47:29,409 --> 00:47:32,711 - My husband! I must see my husband. - Yes, yes, directly ... 461 00:47:33,338 --> 00:47:34,362 Judith! 462 00:47:35,998 --> 00:47:37,973 What happened to you? Are you hurt? 463 00:47:38,328 --> 00:47:42,306 You should not have left him in the house with her. He is not to be trusted. 464 00:47:44,415 --> 00:47:45,738 Richard? 465 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:52,998 Judith? Judith? Judith, did he ...? 466 00:47:54,673 --> 00:47:57,365 No, no, you don't understand! He did nothing! 467 00:47:57,586 --> 00:48:01,880 - He's been arrested! - Arrested? - What we are going to do? 468 00:48:05,552 --> 00:48:08,600 - Where they've taken him? - No ... no, you mustn't go, you mustn't go! 469 00:48:09,809 --> 00:48:16,389 He said you couldn't save him. You'd get out of harm's way, he said that they will hang him and not spare you. But there must be some other way. 470 00:48:16,481 --> 00:48:20,271 Judith, Judith, the man without much good, but the least I can do is to talk to him. 471 00:48:20,471 --> 00:48:22,977 But they want you! They will not let you see him: they will arrest you the moment you give your name! 472 00:48:23,477 --> 00:48:28,703 - Nonsense, my dear. - It's not, it's not, it's God's truth! It was for you the soldiers came. 473 00:48:32,421 --> 00:48:35,133 - For me?! - They gave your name. 474 00:48:35,533 --> 00:48:39,518 We were there together ... and soldiers thought he and I were ... 475 00:48:39,718 --> 00:48:43,909 He put on your coat, he went with them, to save you! 476 00:48:45,505 --> 00:48:48,673 What is in there something we can do? Get the people at the village together? 477 00:48:49,073 --> 00:48:53,545 Against the army? Do no such thing, Mr. Anderson! Leave all alone. 478 00:48:54,461 --> 00:48:57,543 - Sh-Sh ... - Yes, yes my dear. 479 00:49:00,082 --> 00:49:04,127 - You can't help him, minister, but you are free. - Tony, you can't leave Richard now! 480 00:49:04,706 --> 00:49:08,481 You can lie low somewhere till it is safe to come back, somewhere right clear of the village. 481 00:49:08,682 --> 00:49:13,614 - Tony! - Christy, help me to get out the buggy. We'll leave your horse here. 482 00:49:20,732 --> 00:49:21,892 Confound Richard! 483 00:49:22,918 --> 00:49:24,053 Tony! 484 00:49:26,058 --> 00:49:30,080 - Tony! He's trying to save your life! - Yes, he's put me in a debt I can never repay. 485 00:49:30,549 --> 00:49:34,466 - What he thinks I can do? What is he expecting? - I don't know, but you must do something! 486 00:49:35,021 --> 00:49:37,296 - You must save him! - Stop hollering, girl! 487 00:49:40,776 --> 00:49:43,120 Judith, ... Judith, listen to me. 488 00:49:43,721 --> 00:49:46,083 If you can get word to him by pretending to be his wife, do it. 489 00:49:46,734 --> 00:49:49,174 The longer he'll hold his tongue, the more start he will give me. 490 00:49:55,397 --> 00:49:58,276 - Tony, what are you going to do? - Judith, go home. 491 00:50:03,053 --> 00:50:04,205 He's gone! 492 00:50:08,962 --> 00:50:11,616 He's not going to the village! He's run away! 493 00:50:12,517 --> 00:50:14,321 My God, he's not such fool as I thought! 494 00:50:31,531 --> 00:50:32,267 Mr. Hawkins! 495 00:50:47,903 --> 00:50:52,880 - Mr. Hawkins! ... Mr. Hawkins! - Come in, sir! 496 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,473 Mr. Hawkins, they've arrested Richard Dudgeon. 497 00:50:55,873 --> 00:50:58,575 - You must go to the military. - God, is that only what you want. 498 00:50:58,777 --> 00:51:01,668 - Get the horses ready. - What minister talks? - He's no our friend of record. 499 00:51:02,049 --> 00:51:08,507 - Mr. Hawkins, tell them I'll give myself up ... if they release him. - I am sorry but I can't help you. You better go yourself. 500 00:51:08,923 --> 00:51:10,744 Get yourselfs down, in hurry. 501 00:51:13,998 --> 00:51:16,737 You don't understand. They thought he was me. 502 00:51:16,837 --> 00:51:21,702 - If I go they'll hang us both, if you go to the ... - I haven't time! Now, will you forgive me! 503 00:51:22,858 --> 00:51:24,661 You haven't time to save a man's life? 504 00:51:24,961 --> 00:51:29,048 - Hawkins! - More than one good man will die in the next 24 hours! 505 00:51:29,348 --> 00:51:31,989 John, you go to the Nevilsons and bring up their equipment. 506 00:51:32,389 --> 00:51:35,755 Tom, you go to Collings Hill and around you go to river. 507 00:51:42,283 --> 00:51:43,945 So you with the rebels. 508 00:51:44,728 --> 00:51:47,728 - But before, in Springtown ... - It was at the moment but it's all very different - now. 509 00:51:48,128 --> 00:51:54,741 - Hawkins, wait ... - I am fighting a war and I can't jeopardize success for the sake of your troubles or Richard Dudgeon! 510 00:52:00,558 --> 00:52:05,437 - Mr. Hawkins! - Oh God! Go back to your church, minister and pray. 511 00:52:52,212 --> 00:52:56,431 No, don't you fret, mummy: he slept like a child, and has made a rare good breakfast. 512 00:52:56,822 --> 00:52:58,338 - He is in good spirits? - Tip top! 513 00:52:58,738 --> 00:53:02,814 The chaplain looked in to see him last night, and he won seventeen shillings off him at a backgammon. 514 00:53:03,387 --> 00:53:05,576 He spent it among us like the gentleman he is. 515 00:53:07,042 --> 00:53:10,943 - Well, my little wife. - Richard! 516 00:53:11,649 --> 00:53:14,811 Sergeant, how long do you allow a brokenhearted husband for leave-taking? 517 00:53:15,052 --> 00:53:20,107 As long as we can, sir. We shall not disturb you till the court sits. And General Burgoyne has not come back yet, sir. 518 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:26,564 Gentlemanly Johnny we call him, mum, he won't have done finding fault with everything to least come of half past. I know him, sir. 519 00:53:28,671 --> 00:53:31,092 Is your husband safe? Is he clear of the village? 520 00:53:31,842 --> 00:53:32,900 Well, that's good. 521 00:53:33,950 --> 00:53:35,410 He is no longer my husband. 522 00:53:36,630 --> 00:53:40,309 - He's run away. - Poor lad. They'd only have hanged us both. 523 00:53:41,787 --> 00:53:46,154 - Why did you let them take you last night? - Upon my life, Mrs. Anderson, I don't know. 524 00:53:46,808 --> 00:53:51,500 - I've been asking myself that question ever since. - It was for my sake, wasn't it? 525 00:53:53,301 --> 00:53:59,041 Well, you ... had a hand in it. It must have been a little for your sake. 526 00:53:59,375 --> 00:54:03,215 - I can't let you. I'm going to tell them. - Mrs. Anderson! 527 00:54:04,216 --> 00:54:07,220 They'll never kill you when they know how valiantly you have acted! 528 00:54:07,578 --> 00:54:09,773 But if I don't go through with it, where will the heroism be? 529 00:54:11,475 --> 00:54:16,923 I shall simply have tricked them, and they'll hang me anyway. Serve me right too! 530 00:54:17,455 --> 00:54:21,129 - Do you realize you're going to kill yourself? - The only man I have any right to kill. 531 00:54:24,665 --> 00:54:30,447 Bless you, nobody cares for me. My mother's last word to me was her curse. My other relatives will not grieve much on my account. 532 00:54:30,998 --> 00:54:36,478 Ah, Essie will cry for a day or two, but I have provided for her: I made my own will last night. 533 00:54:36,906 --> 00:54:38,874 I will give them a few surprises. 534 00:54:39,828 --> 00:54:43,195 - And I! - You? 535 00:54:44,067 --> 00:54:45,740 Am I not to care at all? 536 00:54:47,044 --> 00:54:52,476 I'll give you credit for liking me a little more than you did, but my death will not break your heart. 537 00:54:52,677 --> 00:54:55,383 What can I do to show you how wrong you are? 538 00:54:56,083 --> 00:55:02,240 Save yourself ... for my sake. I'll come with you to ... to the end of the world. 539 00:55:07,387 --> 00:55:09,953 - Judith. - Yes. 540 00:55:12,604 --> 00:55:21,856 Judith, listen to me. If I said - to please you - that I did what I did ever so little for your sake, I lied ... as men always lie to women. 541 00:55:22,115 --> 00:55:26,785 I've seen even most worthless men can rise to some sort of goodness when they were in love. 542 00:55:28,424 --> 00:55:32,980 That has taught me to set very little store by the goodness that only comes out red hot. 543 00:55:34,834 --> 00:55:42,169 What I did last night, I did in cold blood, caring not half so much for your husband, or for you as I did for myself. 544 00:55:44,746 --> 00:55:48,550 I had no motive ... and no interest: 545 00:55:51,654 --> 00:55:55,727 all I can say certainly is that when it came to the point whether I would put another man's neck into the noose ... 546 00:55:56,797 --> 00:56:05,668 I could not do it. I have been brought up assured by the law of my own nature, and I could not go against it, gallows or no gallows. 547 00:56:07,274 --> 00:56:12,746 I would have done the same thing for any other man in the place ... or any other man's wife. 548 00:56:17,988 --> 00:56:19,290 You understand? 549 00:56:20,091 --> 00:56:22,335 Do you really think I believe it? 550 00:56:24,949 --> 00:56:29,351 - Time's up, I am afraid. Court's to take to sit. - Thank you, Sergeant. 551 00:56:31,904 --> 00:56:34,660 Halt! Left! Front! 552 00:56:40,417 --> 00:56:42,951 Good morning, gentlemen. Sorry to disturb you, I am sure. 553 00:56:43,151 --> 00:56:44,887 Very good of you to spare us a few moments. 554 00:56:45,088 --> 00:56:46,475 Will you preside, sir? 555 00:56:46,675 --> 00:56:49,704 No, sir: I feel my own deficiencies too keenly to presume so far. 556 00:56:49,987 --> 00:56:53,045 If you will kindly allow me, I will sit at the foot of the table. 557 00:56:58,939 --> 00:56:59,969 Halt! 558 00:57:00,592 --> 00:57:01,595 Right turn! 559 00:57:02,346 --> 00:57:04,010 Escort, take position! 560 00:57:09,855 --> 00:57:10,962 Sergeant! 561 00:57:15,863 --> 00:57:16,808 Who is that woman? 562 00:57:17,215 --> 00:57:20,791 Prisoner's wife, sir. She asked to be allowed to be present, and I ... 563 00:57:20,991 --> 00:57:24,233 - I thought that ... - You thought it would be a pleasure for her. Quite so, quite so. 564 00:57:24,433 --> 00:57:27,183 Give the lady a chair, and make her thoroughly comfortable. 565 00:57:27,839 --> 00:57:28,979 Your name, sir? 566 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:34,584 - You don't mean to say that you've brought me here without knowing who I am? - As a matter of form, sir, give your name. 567 00:57:34,872 --> 00:57:39,048 As a matter of form then, my name is Anthony Anderson ... Presbyterian minister of this parish. 568 00:57:39,248 --> 00:57:40,534 Presbyterian? 569 00:57:40,857 --> 00:57:44,491 Indeed! Pray, Mr. Anderson, what do you gentlemen believe in? 570 00:57:45,551 --> 00:57:51,203 I shall be glad to explain if time is allowed me, but I cannot undertake to complete your conversion in less than a fortnight. 571 00:57:51,509 --> 00:57:53,594 We are not here to discuss your views. 572 00:57:53,694 --> 00:57:56,808 - I stand rebuked. - Oh, not you, sir. - Pray, don't mention it. 573 00:57:57,116 --> 00:58:00,170 Any ... political views, Mr. Anderson? 574 00:58:00,422 --> 00:58:03,079 I understand that that is just what we are here to find out. 575 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,077 Do you mean to deny that you are a rebel? 576 00:58:05,527 --> 00:58:10,183 - I am ... an American. - What might expect you to think of that speech, Mr. Anderson? 577 00:58:10,383 --> 00:58:12,336 I never expect a soldier to think. 578 00:58:14,988 --> 00:58:17,341 I advise you not to be insolent, prisoner. 579 00:58:17,541 --> 00:58:21,345 Oh, you can't help yourself, General. When you make up your mind to hang a man, you put yourself at a disadvantage with him. 580 00:58:21,848 --> 00:58:25,516 Now, why should I be civil with you? I may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. 581 00:58:25,802 --> 00:58:29,205 You have no right to assume that the court has made up its mind without a fair trial. 582 00:58:39,470 --> 00:58:43,644 And please do not address me as General. I am Major Swindon. 583 00:58:44,536 --> 00:58:49,090 My deepest apology, sir. I thought I had the pleasure of addressing Gentlemanly Johnny. 584 00:58:53,088 --> 00:58:57,538 I believe I am Gentlemanly Johnny, sir. My more intimate friends call me General Burgoyne. 585 00:58:58,044 --> 00:59:01,198 You will understand, sir, I hope, since you seem to be a gentleman 586 00:59:01,398 --> 00:59:05,802 and a man of some spirit in spite of your calling, that if we do have the misfortune to hang you, 587 00:59:06,302 --> 00:59:11,107 we shall do so as a mere matter of political necessity and military duty, without any personal ill-feeling. 588 00:59:11,907 --> 00:59:15,917 - Oh, that makes all the difference in the world, of course. - How CAN you? - Judith! 589 00:59:16,117 --> 00:59:19,023 You believe me, madam, your husband is placing us under the greatest obligation 590 00:59:19,123 --> 00:59:23,667 by taking this very disagreeable business so thoroughly in the spirit of a gentleman. Give Mr. Anderson a chair. 591 00:59:26,829 --> 00:59:32,913 You are aware, I presume, Mr. Anderson, of your obligation as a subject of His Majesty King George the Third. 592 00:59:33,539 --> 00:59:38,417 I am aware, sir, that His Majesty King George the Third is about to hang me because I object to Lord North's robbing me. 593 00:59:38,748 --> 00:59:41,651 - That is a treasonable speech, sir. - I meant it to be. 594 00:59:41,891 --> 00:59:46,497 Now, don't you think, Mr. Anderson, that this is rather - if you will forgive the word - a vulgar line to take? 595 00:59:47,097 --> 00:59:51,411 Why should you cry out robbery because of a stamp duty and a tea duty and so forth are drawn? 596 00:59:51,911 --> 00:59:54,571 It is the essence of your position as a gentleman that you pay with a good grace. 597 00:59:54,771 --> 00:59:59,674 It is not the money, General. But to be ... swindled by a pig-headed lunatic like King George. 598 01:00:00,274 --> 01:00:02,527 Chut, sir ... - Silence! - Silence! 599 01:00:03,078 --> 01:00:04,983 That, now, is another point of view. 600 01:00:05,512 --> 01:00:09,386 My position does not allow of my going into that, except in private. 601 01:00:09,830 --> 01:00:14,752 But of course, Mr. Anderson, if you are determined to be hanged there's nothing more to be said. 602 01:00:15,294 --> 01:00:18,228 - An unusual taste! - Shall we call witnesses? 603 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:24,404 Eh, what's the need for witnesses? If the villagers had listened to me, you would have found the place barricaded, 604 01:00:25,208 --> 01:00:30,310 the houses loopholed, people in arms ... - Very well, sir, we shall teach you and your villagers a lesson they won't forget. 605 01:00:32,416 --> 01:00:37,121 - Do you have anything more to say? - I think you might have the decency to treat me as a prisoner of war, 606 01:00:37,522 --> 01:00:40,426 shoot me like a man instead of hanging me like a dog. 607 01:00:40,626 --> 01:00:44,832 Now there, Mr. Anderson, you talk like a civilian, if you will excuse my saying so. 608 01:00:45,377 --> 01:00:49,337 Have you any idea of the average marksmanship of the army of His Majesty King George the Third? 609 01:00:49,738 --> 01:00:51,832 If we make up a firing party, what will happen? 610 01:00:52,032 --> 01:00:57,466 Half of them will miss you: and the rest will make a mess of the business and leave you to the provomarshal's pistol. 611 01:00:57,866 --> 01:01:00,850 Whereas we can hang you in a perfectly workmanlike and agreeable way. 612 01:01:01,836 --> 01:01:05,765 Let me persuade you ... to be hanged, Mr. Anderson. 613 01:01:06,410 --> 01:01:10,621 I thank you, General: that view of the matter had not occur to me. 614 01:01:11,021 --> 01:01:13,480 I withdraw my objections. Hang me, by all means. 615 01:01:13,768 --> 01:01:17,521 - Will 12 o'clock suit you, Mr. Anderson? - I shall be at your disposal. 616 01:01:18,275 --> 01:01:19,138 Nothing more to be said, gentlemen. 617 01:01:19,538 --> 01:01:24,331 - You can't do this without proper trial for him! - My good lady, our only desire is to save unpleasantness. 618 01:01:24,732 --> 01:01:28,535 You don't care what you do. You think you can murder a man as long as you do it in uniform. 619 01:01:29,427 --> 01:01:31,498 - Tell them the truth! Tell them! - You promised! 620 01:01:31,798 --> 01:01:35,980 - He's not my husband! - Gentlemen! I assure you she will not believe that she cannot save me. 621 01:01:37,850 --> 01:01:39,361 One moment, gentlemen. 622 01:01:41,254 --> 01:01:42,653 One moment, Mr. Anderson. 623 01:01:44,911 --> 01:01:46,452 Let me understand you clearly, madam. 624 01:01:47,012 --> 01:01:49,470 Do you mean that this gentleman is not your husband or merely - 625 01:01:49,970 --> 01:01:53,145 I wish to put this with all delicacy - that you are not his wife? 626 01:01:53,345 --> 01:01:56,892 I don't know what you mean, but you can ask anybody in the village, they'll tell you that he is not my husband - 627 01:01:57,292 --> 01:02:00,173 my husband has escaped and this man took his place to save him. 628 01:02:00,373 --> 01:02:04,080 - Escaped! Where? - I don't know, I don't know, and I even if I knew, I don't care! 629 01:02:08,740 --> 01:02:09,690 Swindon, 630 01:02:10,941 --> 01:02:13,389 might I suggest that a brief recess might be in order. 631 01:02:14,247 --> 01:02:16,588 The lady will then have a chance to regain her composure. 632 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:23,554 And you might even find the time to discover with a little more accuracy who it is we have been trying half a morning. 633 01:02:28,933 --> 01:02:31,019 May I beg your pardon, sir. Should I release the gentleman? 634 01:02:31,221 --> 01:02:35,013 What? Certainly not! He's condemned himself out of his own mouth, where he is. 635 01:02:35,513 --> 01:02:38,429 The sentence remains unchanged. The hang's at twelve. 636 01:02:44,186 --> 01:02:48,832 Give a Major Swindon enough rope ... and he will always hang somebody. 637 01:02:51,497 --> 01:02:57,041 Give a Hawkins the choice and he will always like any other patriot 638 01:02:57,341 --> 01:03:01,081 prefer killing orders to saving a fellow countryman. 639 01:03:51,839 --> 01:03:53,675 Cannon! What can we do? 640 01:03:58,242 --> 01:04:00,785 Back, all of you. Out! 641 01:04:03,789 --> 01:04:06,492 - Mr. Hawkins, woudn't it be better ... - Oh, get out! 642 01:04:35,828 --> 01:04:39,733 Turn to the right! 643 01:04:49,848 --> 01:04:51,004 Fire! 644 01:05:02,714 --> 01:05:04,219 Come on! Come on, hey you! 645 01:05:05,466 --> 01:05:07,822 Minister, you best get inside. 646 01:05:13,528 --> 01:05:15,054 Yes. 647 01:05:21,889 --> 01:05:24,719 Mr. Anderson, This is most fortunatous! 648 01:05:24,819 --> 01:05:27,210 The church needs more than one poor pair of hands today. 649 01:05:27,747 --> 01:05:28,796 Where do you go? 650 01:05:29,294 --> 01:05:31,001 - There's no one there. - Good. 651 01:05:36,108 --> 01:05:38,230 Winnigh, get the wounded inside. 652 01:05:51,526 --> 01:05:53,670 Take that bloody gunpowder. 653 01:05:56,434 --> 01:05:57,953 More powder ... 654 01:06:06,048 --> 01:06:07,492 Mr. Anderson! 655 01:06:13,454 --> 01:06:16,966 Don't come near - there is ammunition outside, gunpowder, it's highly inflammable. 656 01:06:17,266 --> 01:06:18,979 Exactly. 657 01:06:30,427 --> 01:06:35,221 Mr. Anderson! You will be reminded on a pyrissication. This kind of thing unknownly ... 658 01:06:36,335 --> 01:06:41,488 Return to the line! Corporal should always set an example! Attending in company at once! 659 01:07:01,214 --> 01:07:02,576 Help! 660 01:07:02,936 --> 01:07:04,432 Open the door! 661 01:07:06,873 --> 01:07:09,104 Quick, quick! I call you to an action. 662 01:07:12,329 --> 01:07:13,376 Hold there! 663 01:07:14,033 --> 01:07:15,455 He's a rebel! 664 01:08:41,745 --> 01:08:42,858 Get him! 665 01:08:44,499 --> 01:08:46,764 No! Not him! Him! 666 01:09:36,466 --> 01:09:38,483 Don't you fire! You'll hit me! 667 01:09:49,585 --> 01:09:52,536 Masquerading for minister in time of war! 668 01:09:52,837 --> 01:09:54,761 Treason! Hold your tongue! 669 01:09:55,982 --> 01:10:04,147 It will be my pleasure to have you taken outside, put up against a nearest wall and shot! 670 01:10:05,453 --> 01:10:06,596 Silence! 671 01:10:07,555 --> 01:10:08,952 Quick! 672 01:11:00,374 --> 01:11:02,627 General Burgoyne headquarters? 673 01:11:03,977 --> 01:11:08,032 - And who're you? - A loyal subject of King George, giving assistance to his troops. 674 01:11:08,536 --> 01:11:11,991 Look, I have important message from General Howe for General Burgoyne. 675 01:11:15,543 --> 01:11:17,195 This way, sir. 676 01:11:30,562 --> 01:11:32,270 Come on! Come on! 677 01:11:47,486 --> 01:11:48,675 Come on! 678 01:11:56,997 --> 01:12:00,286 - Anderson!? - After the men! Go with the rally. 679 01:12:01,903 --> 01:12:06,059 - What are you waiting for? - Yeah, go, come on. 680 01:12:59,678 --> 01:13:02,381 Everything is ready, sir for the, ... Ah ... 681 01:13:03,765 --> 01:13:08,154 - Oh ... the ... - It likes but two minutes ... to twelve, sir. 682 01:13:09,939 --> 01:13:11,692 Thank you, time's up. 683 01:13:12,695 --> 01:13:14,095 I am punctual. 684 01:13:14,597 --> 01:13:18,362 I should never dream of hanging any gentleman ... by an American clock. 685 01:13:21,958 --> 01:13:26,368 I really must congratulate you, Swindon. Despite your deplorable error 686 01:13:26,468 --> 01:13:29,346 and the prisoner's undoubted innocence at the start of the proceedings, 687 01:13:29,846 --> 01:13:32,910 you managed to provoke him into guilts by the end of them. 688 01:13:33,526 --> 01:13:35,043 A forensic triumph. 689 01:13:35,424 --> 01:13:37,626 I am sure our country is indebted to you. 690 01:13:48,540 --> 01:13:50,845 This is not a place for a man of your profession. 691 01:13:51,143 --> 01:13:54,958 Try to control yourself and submit to the divine will. 692 01:13:56,850 --> 01:13:58,444 Sacred music ... 693 01:13:59,253 --> 01:14:02,218 and a clergyman to make murder look like piety! 694 01:14:02,659 --> 01:14:06,334 You talk to me of Christianity when you are in the act of hanging your enemies. 695 01:14:07,162 --> 01:14:10,013 Was there ever such blasphemous nonsense! 696 01:14:10,771 --> 01:14:15,125 Prisoner, I appeal to you, have you any sense of decency left? 697 01:14:20,932 --> 01:14:24,419 - Man that is born of woman ... - Thou shalt not kill. 698 01:14:27,090 --> 01:14:33,148 I think, Mr. Brudenell, that as the usual professional observancy strike the prisoner as somewhat incongruous under the circumstances, 699 01:14:33,448 --> 01:14:39,204 you had better omit them until ... he can no longer be inconvenienced by them. Does that suit you, Mr. Anderson? 700 01:14:40,556 --> 01:14:43,410 - Dudgeon. - Dudgeon. - Dudgeon is the name well known to us. 701 01:14:43,862 --> 01:14:46,063 You hanged my father, that's what you mean? 702 01:14:46,363 --> 01:14:49,253 We seem to be somewhat unfortunate in our relations with your family. 703 01:14:49,353 --> 01:14:53,072 - But I assure you, Mr. Dudgeon we are only doing this ... - Because you're paid to do it. 704 01:14:53,272 --> 01:14:56,225 - You insolent ... - Ah, I am really sorry that you should think that, Mr. Dudgeon. 705 01:14:56,802 --> 01:15:01,419 If you knew what my commission cost me, and what my pay is, you would think better of me. 706 01:15:02,337 --> 01:15:04,639 Escort! Four in. 707 01:15:06,639 --> 01:15:08,011 Quick ... march! 708 01:15:15,152 --> 01:15:16,190 Carry on. 709 01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,745 But you don't understand! It's my husband, I ... 710 01:16:03,464 --> 01:16:04,696 Release my friend here! 711 01:16:04,916 --> 01:16:07,018 - What the devil it is? - Untie him! 712 01:16:07,370 --> 01:16:10,173 Get back to your post! Who're you? 713 01:16:10,523 --> 01:16:11,925 - Antony Anderson. - Indeed ... 714 01:16:12,225 --> 01:16:15,427 - Then you are just in time to take your place on the gallows. - I'm here to meet General Burgoyne. 715 01:16:15,994 --> 01:16:17,342 Arrest this man! 716 01:16:22,088 --> 01:16:24,989 - Seize him! - My safe-conduct. - Safe-conduct? 717 01:16:25,190 --> 01:16:26,726 From General Philips in Springtown. 718 01:16:30,199 --> 01:16:31,671 What in the name of ... 719 01:16:33,453 --> 01:16:37,960 - What is the meaning of this? - The rebels, sir - a surprise attack. We were outnumbered. 720 01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,911 - They are holding General Philips? - We had draw us for truce. - What? 721 01:16:42,965 --> 01:16:45,542 - Monstrous! - Take me to General Burgoyne. 722 01:16:46,970 --> 01:16:48,056 Wait here. 723 01:16:52,027 --> 01:16:57,733 As for the prisoner - he was convicted on his own account, not on yours. And he hangs accordingly. 724 01:16:59,787 --> 01:17:01,589 Carry on, Sergeant! 725 01:17:04,993 --> 01:17:06,508 Carry on, I mean. 726 01:17:07,897 --> 01:17:10,601 Sorry, Mr. Dudgeon, but you see how it is. 727 01:17:13,704 --> 01:17:17,459 Prisoner and escort ... slow - march! 728 01:17:20,964 --> 01:17:22,320 Richard, I ... 729 01:17:32,928 --> 01:17:37,383 I want to pay you very sincere apologies, sir, for arresting this gentleman in your place. 730 01:17:37,883 --> 01:17:40,488 I ... found him in your house with the lady, 731 01:17:40,988 --> 01:17:46,349 very much at home it seemed to me and the way they carried on ever since I could only think that they are man and wife. 732 01:17:47,099 --> 01:17:50,764 I am afraid that they may caused you some domestic troubles, sir. 733 01:17:51,153 --> 01:17:52,284 Halt! 734 01:17:53,959 --> 01:17:56,959 However, in one way of course, they will soon be disposed of. 735 01:17:58,713 --> 01:18:00,975 The general has graciously convented you. 736 01:18:02,667 --> 01:18:05,371 You know the situation, General. Would you not give the orders accordingly? 737 01:18:06,523 --> 01:18:10,027 I am delighted to meet you, Mr. Anderson ... but I confess I am a little puzzled. 738 01:18:10,527 --> 01:18:14,842 I understood, when we supposed to be having you in custody and you were a clergyman ... 739 01:18:15,347 --> 01:18:18,054 It is in the hours of trial, sir, that a man finds his true profession. 740 01:18:18,581 --> 01:18:23,283 Now our terms that I want to be agreed upon before even we discuss the rest. You stop this execution. 741 01:18:23,745 --> 01:18:25,693 - I already told you, sir ... - Swindon ... 742 01:18:26,048 --> 01:18:31,051 I can hardly agree to one term, Mr. Anderson, before I know whether there is an alike to that agreement upon the others. 743 01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:33,634 I must know the full extent of your demands. 744 01:18:41,318 --> 01:18:44,542 Very well. Evacuation of Springtown in 6 hours. 745 01:18:45,042 --> 01:18:47,970 - All prisoners to be returned, all cannon to be left behind. - What? 746 01:18:48,170 --> 01:18:50,337 - Together with all stores, ammunition and livestock. - What? 747 01:18:50,537 --> 01:18:53,054 And immediate unconditional release of Mr. Richard Dudgeon. 748 01:18:53,454 --> 01:18:56,952 - Monstrous impudence. - A little stiff, Mr. Anderson, if you permit me say so. 749 01:18:57,296 --> 01:18:59,642 You may enjoy a temporal superiority, 750 01:18:59,942 --> 01:19:04,643 but I am about to join forces with General Howe in Albany, then in two days I shall have the advantage ... 751 01:19:04,949 --> 01:19:06,891 And the whole campaign will be over within a week. 752 01:19:07,285 --> 01:19:09,857 - It may. The General Howe's not in Albany. - What? 753 01:19:10,785 --> 01:19:13,860 - General Howe is still in New York. - You expect me to believe that? 754 01:19:14,060 --> 01:19:15,851 I expect you to believe this. 755 01:19:16,308 --> 01:19:19,516 Where did you get this? One of His Majesty's dispatches. 756 01:19:22,801 --> 01:19:27,759 General Howe is now still in New York. He believes you to be still in Springtown. They sent it to you there. 757 01:19:29,179 --> 01:19:33,981 And now you take the rope of the ... American citizen. 758 01:19:43,999 --> 01:19:48,056 Stop the drum ... Release the prisoner! 759 01:20:05,025 --> 01:20:08,630 Don't take too much heart, Captain Anderson. You got only one scrummage. 760 01:20:09,130 --> 01:20:12,856 You may occupy towns and win battles, General, but you cannot conquer a nation. 761 01:20:13,987 --> 01:20:15,271 We shall see. 762 01:20:17,842 --> 01:20:19,369 General Howe's still in New York? 763 01:20:19,469 --> 01:20:21,359 How could he disobey orders? 764 01:20:21,460 --> 01:20:23,349 He received no orders, sir. 765 01:20:23,449 --> 01:20:26,305 Some gentleman in London forgot to dispatch them. 766 01:20:27,052 --> 01:20:29,695 He's been leaving town for his holiday, I understand. 767 01:20:30,759 --> 01:20:35,324 So to avoid upsetting his arrangements England will lose her American colonies, 768 01:20:36,967 --> 01:20:42,952 and in a few days you and I will be at Saratoga with 5,000 men to face 18,000 rebels in an impregnable position. 769 01:20:43,307 --> 01:20:44,752 I can't believe it! 770 01:20:45,078 --> 01:20:46,553 Take it quietly, Swindon ... 771 01:20:47,278 --> 01:20:50,668 your friend the British soldier, can stand up to anything ... 772 01:20:50,885 --> 01:20:52,887 except the British War Office. 773 01:20:53,337 --> 01:20:55,240 And what will History say? 774 01:20:57,242 --> 01:21:00,543 History, sir? Will tell lies, as usual. 775 01:21:01,248 --> 01:21:02,317 Mr. Dudgeon. 776 01:21:04,602 --> 01:21:06,199 Escort, forward! 777 01:21:12,012 --> 01:21:16,196 Don't think it's end, Judith. The only one day was lending truth about ourselfs. 778 01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:23,424 The reverend Anderson no longer exists. It's the Captain Anderson from the Springtown militia. 779 01:21:24,228 --> 01:21:25,894 It won't not stand in your way. 780 01:21:31,537 --> 01:21:32,765 Ah, Captain Anderson! 781 01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:37,945 What can I say? You ... given me my life. 782 01:21:44,403 --> 01:21:47,519 Judith ... I have very little to offer you. 783 01:21:48,059 --> 01:21:54,163 Even my small reputation as a nearly well is in jeopardy, it seems. But! I shall do my best to get it back. 784 01:21:55,618 --> 01:21:59,192 And the world is waiting for us. Shall we go for ... 785 01:22:24,403 --> 01:22:25,757 Ah, Mr. Dudgeon! 786 01:22:25,967 --> 01:22:29,201 Since we can't hang you perhaps you will care to take tea with me this afternoon. 787 01:22:33,266 --> 01:22:39,405 - I should be delighted. - Good. At four o'clock then ... and bring Mrs. Anderson with you. 788 01:22:43,930 --> 01:22:46,435 General Burgoyne surrendered three weeks later. 789 01:22:46,635 --> 01:22:50,739 The reasons for his defeat are now matter of history ... 790 01:22:51,238 --> 01:22:55,230 and on that of course it is impossible to rely. 791 01:22:55,746 --> 01:22:58,849 But the rest in this story is pure fiction. 792 01:22:59,300 --> 01:23:03,255 You can safely believe every word in it.