Shirley Anne Field credited as playing...
Doreen
- [last lines - Arthur throws a stone at the builder's shed on a new housing estate]
- Doreen: What did you do that for?
- Arthur Seaton: I don't know, just felt like it I suppose.
- Doreen: Maybe one of those houses will be for us.
- Arthur Seaton: I know.
- Doreen: You shouldn't throw things like that.
- Arthur Seaton: It won't be the last one I'll throw. C'mon duck, let's go down!
- Doreen: Sharp, ain't he.
- Arthur Seaton: Is it somebody's birthday?
- Doreen: It's Mum's anniversary if you want to know.
- Arthur Seaton: I can't see your dad.
- Doreen: That's because he's not there.
- Arthur Seaton: Well, is he coming?
- Doreen: I shouldn't think so, he left her 15 years ago today and she's just having a drink on it.
- Arthur Seaton: [laughs]
- Doreen: Well I'm glad someone thinks it's funny.
- Arthur Seaton: What's your name then duck?
- Doreen: Doreen, rotten name ain't it.
- Arthur Seaton: What's wrong with it? Mine's Arthur, neither of them's up to much but it's not our fault, is it.
- Arthur Seaton: What do you do in the week Doreen, do you ever go to pictures?
- Doreen: Only on Wednesday, why?
- Arthur Seaton: That's funny, I go on Wednesday n'all. Which one you go to?
- Doreen: The Granby, as a rule
- Arthur Seaton: I'll see you next Wednesday then at 7.
- Doreen: Fast worker aren't you. All right, but not on the back row.
- Doreen: What's that black stuff you're drinking, it looks like treacle.
- Arthur Seaton: Beer and stout, try a drop.
- Doreen: No thanks, I think I tasted it once but it was horrible.
- Arthur Seaton: Well, I'm not a boozer either but I'm going fishing this afternoon and I like a drop beforehand.
- Arthur Seaton: Where do you work then Doreen?
- Doreen: Me? Harrison's, the hairnet factory, I've been there ever since I left school.
- Doreen's Mother: Since when's he been your young man?
- Doreen: Not long.
- Doreen's Mother: He looks a bit rough if you ask me.
- Betty: Oh he's all right.
- Doreen: Well you don't know him yet, do you?
- Doreen's Mother: Not like you know him I don't suppose.
- Doreen: Well, anyway, I like him.
- Doreen: You know the girl at our firm?
- Arthur Seaton: Which one?
- Doreen: You know, Tina, the one in the photo.
- Arthur Seaton: What about her?
- Doreen: She got married yesterday, she looked ever so nice.
- Arthur Seaton: What was the bloke like, could you smell the drink? They must've been drunk to get married.
- Doreen: You're in a rotten mood today.
- Arthur Seaton: I lost 5 quid at the races.
- Doreen: Serves you right, you shouldn't waste your money.
- Arthur Seaton: It's not wasted, I enjoy betting.
- Doreen: I don't care what you do with your money, its naught to do with me.
- Arthur Seaton: Well, stop telling me off then.
- Doreen: I'm not telling you off, you don't think I'm bothered about you like that do you?
- Arthur Seaton: That's not what you said in the pictures just now.
- Doreen: You're a pig, bringing it up like that.
- Doreen: This is a nice room, are all them clothes 'yorn.
- Arthur Seaton: Ah, just a few rags.
- Doreen: They must have cost you a pretty penny.
- Arthur Seaton: I get good wages.
- Arthur Seaton: What's it like outside?
- Doreen: It's a bit cold.
- Arthur Seaton: Not in bed it 'int, it's warm under all these blankets - come and try.
- Doreen: What do you take me for?
- Arthur Seaton: Well we're courting aren't we?
- Doreen: You might call it courting.
- Arthur Seaton: You're a nice girl, Doreen. I like you a lot. I reckon you oughta stay with me for good so's that I don't get knocked down by any more horses. Trouble with me is I'm always bumping into things, it's not much of a paying game.
- Doreen: You'll have to watch where you're going then won't you.
- Arthur Seaton: Your mam takes all night to read the paper, does she read slow or is she looking a the adverts?
- Doreen: She reads every word. She loves her newspaper more than a book.
- Doreen: You won't tell anybody anything, will you?
- Arthur Seaton: Why should I? It pays to keep your trap shut. Sit down.
- Doreen: No it don't.
- Arthur Seaton: I've just told you, haven't I? I told you - I got run over with a horse and cart.
- Doreen: You are a liar.
- Doreen: I asked mam if we could live at home, she said it'd be alright.
- Arthur Seaton: Till we get a new house, I wouldn't mind an old one me'self.
- Doreen: I would, I want a new one with a bathroom and everything.
- Arthur Seaton: I got beat up with 2 soldiers.
- Doreen: What for?
- Arthur Seaton: Well I've been knocking around with a married woman and her husband set them onto me, 2 onto 1, so they beat me. I'dve flattened them if they'd been one at a time.