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Synopsis: A new man joins the civilian firefighters at a London unit during the Second World War. He meets his fellow firemen and firewomen, manages to enjoy some leisure time with them, and then goes on his first mission with the crew as it attempts to save an explosives warehouse on Trinidad Street near the London docks.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
1943
63 min
77 Views


Come and get it!

Here they come.

Here you are, look.

Give us the paper, George.

Don't forget to give it back,

'cause last time it went missing.

All right, keep your shirt on.

(Babble of conversation...)

- How's it going, Bill, all right?

- All right, yeah.

You like it here?

Not a bad place, is it?

(Babble of conversation continues)

- Er, Johnny.

- Yeah, what's up?

When you go to the local this afternoon,

I want you to take Barrett with you.

Show him the station's ground.

OK, Sub, that'll be all right.

Yeah, that'll be all right.

Walters, what's the matter

with the Sub this morning?

Looks a bit dodgy, don't he?

Och, it's the full moon.

Yeah.

Sub said I've gotta take you

round the ground, show you it all.

Yeah. Put your gas mask

underneath there.

That'll be all right.

You know, I used to drive one of these

before the war.

- Did you?

- Yeah.

What did you do before the war?

Why, I used to write.

Advertising and things like that.

Why, "that schoolgirl complexion" stuff,

I suppose?

Well, more like liver bile.

Liver bile! You wanna lay off

that stuff, old man, I'm telling yer.

You'll be all right at 14-Y Station

as long as you use your loaf.

( Mellifluous, flowing music)

There she is, Bill, high tide.

You know, it's a funny thing

about these riverside fires,

when it comes to it,

there's never enough water!

- Where are we now?

- That's Trinidad Street down there, Bill,

just inside the station's ground.

And down here is Alderman's Wharf.

- This one?

- Yes.

We'll take a look at the boats

while we're down here.

They get some pretty big stuff in here

now and again, you know. Yeah.

( Orchestral strings gradually swell...)

( Sudden, dramatic pulse)

Ain't she a smasher, cock, eh?

We'll make it, yes, Bill?

All right, Sid.

Well, I think by, going on to 7:00 tonight,

8:
00 in the morning,

it'll be away all right.

Take a look over here, Bill.

There's a sunk barge down there.

Holds about 10,000 gallons.

- Does it? As much as that!

- Yeah.

Pretty useful in a pinch, you know.

(Buzz of conversation)

Fire Brigade.

(Woman) Chief officer?

One moment, please...

Could I have your signature on those,

please, sir?

(Phone rings)

Hello, OC speaking.

All right.

That was Home Office Fire Control.

They'll be raiding tonight.

All right, give us that finishing rod.

Elsie! Cuppa tea, please.

You hold more tea

than a hosepipe holds water.

When you've done that,

what about a match?

Right-ho, Colonel, after this shot.

- All right.

- Wicked.

Well, Bill, this is the rec.

(Man) Bar's open, gents, please.

Got any fags, Elsie?

- What'll you have to drink?

- A wallop, please, Joe.

Two wallops, mate.

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Humphrey Jennings

Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced." more…

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