David Hayman credited as playing...
Clive
- Clive Rowen: [Billy bowls] That was a googly!
- Mac: A googly?
- Grandfather George: You didn't spot it, Clive.
- Clive Rowen: I taught him how. And now he turns it against me.
- Grandfather George: The law of life. Cruel, isn't it?
- Clive Rowen: Billy, before I go there's something I want to tell you. You're not quite old enough, but, well...
- [he produces a cricket ball]
- Clive Rowen: ...it's the googly. Your hand is too small to master it, but you can make a start.
- Clive Rowen: I made a mess of it all. I'm such a bloody fool.
- Mac: You always were, Smiler. Steady the Buffs.
- Clive Rowen: Bugger the Buffs.
- Clive Rowen: It's German jam. Well, it's all right. It came from a German ship. Got sunk, this stuff washed ashore. Crates of it. Jam. Our boys found it on the beach by the rifle range.
- Grace Rowan: We don't know anything about it.
- Clive Rowen: Well, it's off ration. We know that.
- Grace Rowan: Well, how do we know they didn't plant it there? They know we are mad on jam. They could poison half the country!
- Grace Rowan: Clive, fetch the doctor.
- Clive Rowen: Are you ill?
- Grace Rowan: Not me. Dawn. She's in labor!
- Clive Rowen: Hot water! Lots of hot water.
- Mac: What for?
- Clive Rowen: I don't know. They always say that in the pictures.
- Dawn: Where are my stockings? I can't find my stockings.
- Grace Rowan: Dawn, pet, they've started a war.
- Dawn: Have they? That's not my fault. I still need my stockings, don't I?
- Clive Rowen: I don't want to hear about your stockings!
- Bill Rowen: It's an air raid!
- Clive Rowen: Good God. They've started already. Air raid! Get up! Stay down!
- Clive Rowen: Now... You know the leg break, right? And the off break. Now, the googly looks like a leg break but it's really an off break. Got it? Like this.
- Bill Rowen: That's like telling fibs.
- Clive Rowen: That's it. When you tell a lie, you want to get away with it. But when someone else does, you want to find them out. A good batsman will spot a googly. A good bowler will hide it. Always remember that, son.
- Grace Rowan: Has Sue got it right?
- Clive Rowen: What's that?
- Grace Rowan: You joined up.
- Clive Rowen: Oh, that.
- Grace Rowan: I wish you could have told me yourself.
- Clive Rowen: Oh, Grace, it's not for long. They say it'll be over by Christmas.