Arthur Lowe |
Captain George Mainwaring |
John Le Mesurier |
Sergeant Arthur Wilson |
Clive Dunn |
Lance Corporal Jack Jones |
John Laurie |
Private James Frazer |
Arnold Ridley |
Private Charles Godfrey |
Ian Lavender |
Private Frank Pike |
Fulton Mackay |
Doctor McCeavedy |
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Bill Pertwee |
Chief Warden Hodges |
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Frank Williams |
The Vicar |
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Edward Sinclair |
The Verger |
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Vicar: (to Frazer): And a small contribution to the fabric of the church will be most gratefully received.
(Mainwaring opens Frazer's money box).
Mainwaring: It's a brick! It's a damn brick!
Frazer: Aye, it's a brick! And yon vicar can have it for the fabric of his Kirk!
(In the graveyard the platoon are at the spot where Frazer was seen burying his gold).
Mainwaring: Uncover it Pike.
Pike: What with?
Mainwaring: Your hands of course!
Pike: There might be slugs and worms and creepy crawlies!
Mainwaring: Get on with it
(turns to Wilson) You ought to have someone look at that boy you know.
Jones: You can't bury things in concrete, not unless you've got one of those rhumatic drills.
(Wilson's been looking for Frazer... he's drunk).
Wilson: Wull'e wasn-at the Horse and Houndsssa-a-nd they haven' seen 'im at the Fox since chris'mas and I know that because w-we made enquiries (He grins).
Pike: (to Mainwaring) We also made enquries at the Red Lion, the Marques of Rendall, The Goat, The Fox and Pheasant and the Black Horse... (turns to Wilson) and what Mum's gonna say when she sees you like this I do not know!
Frazer: Captain Mainwaring, there's just one thing I want to say to ye. If you think you're gonna get your hands on my gold, you can think again. I don't trust banks, I don't trust bankers and I don't trust you! That's all I want to say, thank you.
Jones: Now what we've got to do first is practice doing things in our gas masks
Godfrey: Resperators?
Jones: One more interruption from you Private Godfrey and I'll have you doubling around the church hall fifty times!
Jones: I had a hard life sir. When I was ten years old I had to get up at 5 o clock in the morning and follow the milkman around with his horse. And everytime the horse stopped the milkman shouted 'HANG ON TO THAT HORSE YOU LITTLE SHAVER!'. And he wasn't a nice horse Captain Mainwaring, cos in the winter, in the cold he used to stamp his feet and tread all over my toes and in the summer with his flies he used to keep tossing his head and he used to toss me over his shoulder and if I let go the milkman would clip me round the earhole. He only paid me tupence a week (Smiles proudly) but it was a good life!
(Frazer reads out loud a letter he's written to one of his funeral customers).
Frazer: Dear Mrs. Pickering. I hope you found the funeral arrangements for your late husband entirely satisfactory. May I say how sorry I was that the hearse ran out of petrol just outside the cemetary. I'm sure your dearly departed husband would have been proud of the way you helped to push him to his final resting place and what a fine strong women your mother is. I hope you managed to get the mud off her skirt.
During the closing credits, aswell as applauding, the audience cheer at the sections showing John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and John Laurie.
Frazer: "Transport three pounds fourteen and tupence. That makes an allowance of two pounds... no... of thirty two shillings... Total nine pounds two and eleven pence. Profit, now let me see, three pounds six and eight pence, three farthings".
Frazer is using old English money in use during the war and right up to it's replacement with the current system in 1971.
The BBC has a page which goes some way to explaining what a farthing or a tupence is. More info.
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