A Matter of Life and Death Page #2
- PG
- Year:
- 1946
- 104 min
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Hope they haven't gone modern.|I'd hate to have a prop instead!
- "What's the next world like?"|- Oh, Peter!
"I think it starts|where this one leaves off. "
Or where it could if we listened|to Plato, Aristotle and Jesus.
With all our earthly problems solved|but with greater ones worth solving.
I'm signing off now, June.|Goodbye. Goodbye, June.
Hello, G for George. Hello, G, George!
Hello, G, George!
- Hel...|- (clock ticks in the background)
(sobs)
So long, Bob, I'll see you in a minute.
You know what we wear by now -|prop or wings.
(Ghostly voice) A prop... or wings.
Prop...
.. or wings.
Prop...
.. or wings.
A prop... or wings.
Prop... or wings.
Prop...
.. or wings.
(French)
(excitable French)
Vrrrrrrm!
(continues in French)
- Aghh!|- Oh, bad luck, old boy.
(# mouth organ.:
mournful tune)Name and rank.
(American accent) Come on, fellas,|break it up, spread out.
Room with bath.
- Do you have USO shows here?|- No, we don't.
OK, we'll stay.|Officers' quarters, of course.
- We're all the same here, Captain.|- Excuse me,... brother.
Take over.
- I wish I could make a phone call.|- From here that'd be long distance.
Flying Officer Trubshaw.
You can't wait here. You must be|mistaken about your captain.
- If anyone's mistaken, it's not me.|- Mistakes don't happen here.
- This is the Aircrew Section?|- You should know.
Peter couldn't have got away with it.
Besides, you checked his invoice for me.
Yes, it was against the regulations.
Regulations are made to be broken.|He was due half an hour after me.
This is his section. He hasn't reported.
He's either AWOL|or there's been a mistake.
There hasn't been a mistake here|for 1,000 years.
Oh? So there have been mistakes?
The girl here before me|was here 640 years.
Holy smoke!
If the records don't balance,|alarm bells ring in the Records Office.
I bet they do. Proper flap, eh?
Yes.
That's only the living records.
Everyone on Earth has a file.
Russian, Chinese, black or white,|Republican or Democrat.
Holy smoke! If anyone had said clerks|worked up here just like on Earth...
Everyone here can start how they like.
Heaven, isn't it?
You see?
There are millions of people on Earth|who'd think it heaven to be a clerk.
And don't say "Holy smoke".
- Why not?|- There's no smoke without fire...
.. and we don't call smoke... holy.
Thanks for the gen,... Section Officer.
Boy, oh, boy, home was nothin' like this!
Mine was.
Sign here.
All right, I don't want to start|those bells ringing!
(bells ring)
(dog howls)
Oh, I always hoped there would be dogs.
(# gentle, wistful tune)
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