Hope and Glory (1987)

John Boorman: Old Bill (Narrator)

Quotes 

• Old Bill (Narrator) : Sunday, the 3rd of September, 1939. Everyone who is old enough and was there remembers exactly what they were doing at that moment. I had just gunned down a couple of rustlers. And then I slipped back a few centuries and I was riding through an enchanted forest. The magician Merlin suddenly appeared before me and my horse reared up in terror. Then something even more extraordinary happened. All the Sunday-morning lawnmowers suddenly - stopped.

• Old Bill (Narrator) : A few lawnmowers started up again, but they didn't ring true somehow. Nothing would ever be the same again.

• Old Bill (Narrator) : It was all they talked about, getting ready for war, but nothing ever happened. It was all words and no action. Hopalong Cassidy, on the other hand, now that was the real thing.