Old Bill and Son (1941)

John Mills: Young Bill Busby

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• Young Bill Busby : Now you get this, Dad. If anyone's fat-headed enough to start a blinking, stupid war these days, he can count me out of it.

  Old Bill : You wouldn't fight?

  Young Bill Busby : Not me.

  Old Bill : And you say that in front of her what lost her Dad in the last war.

  Young Bill Busby : Look, I seen what happened to you, the last time; wasting the four best years of your life, sitting in the mud. And for what?

  Old Bill : For a little place called England. Ever heard of it?

  Young Bill Busby : Eh, Just about.

  Old Bill : It's a place where you can do what you like; say what you like and live as you like. I thought it was worth fighting for. I thought your Mother was worth fighting for. I thought you was worth fighting for - then. Seems I was wrong.

  Young Bill Busby : Yeah, do don't it?

• Young Bill Busby : How do you get on driving in the blackout, Dad?

  Old Bill : Easy as winking. Hop in and I'll show you.

• Young Bill Busby : So you're not going to join up, eh?

  Pub Customer : What and spend the best years of me life squatting in mud an' being bombed to bits? What for?

  Young Bill Busby : Ever heard of a place called England?

  Pub Customer : 'Ark at 'im! Gone all red white and blue, ain't ya?

  Young Bill Busby : What do you prefer, yeller?

• Sally : Have you got any stripes yet?

  Young Bill Busby : Nah. I 'spect they're saving me up for an orficer.

  Sally : [giggles] 

  Young Bill Busby : Well what's so funny about it - you don't have to be a toff these days!