:09:00
Not bad for an 80-year-old.
:09:03
All her first scenes
were with John Laurie.
:09:06
The Vedra passed the mail boat
:09:08
taking him out
with his fractured collarbone.
:09:10
We broke the news to Kitty.
:09:12
She settled down for the longest wait
an actress has had in history.
:09:18
(Christie) The kirk, or the church,
played a central part
:09:21
in the islanders' life.
:09:23
And in this form of Presbyterianism
:09:26
you could judge
the quality of the service
:09:29
by the length of the sermon.
:09:31
It's also an occasion, of course,
when the social hierarchy
:09:34
of the island is on display,
:09:37
where everyone's dressed up
in their Sunday best
:09:39
and where the heads
of the two important families,
:09:43
the Grays and the Mansons,
meet each other.
:09:47
There's a little bit of tussling
for status.
:09:50
John Laurie is
the laird's representative,
:09:53
as he reminds Finlay Currie,
:09:55
who's the church elder.
:09:59
There's clearly some competition
:10:01
between these two
pillars of the community.
:10:03
They're both very interesting actors.
:10:05
Finlay Currie, a much older actor,
who had been on stage,
:10:09
had only started to work in film,
in fact, in the early 1930s.
:10:14
He'd made very few films.
:10:16
He'd appeared in The Good
Companions and Orders Is Orders
:10:20
before he made Edge Of The World.
:10:22
He would go on to have
a very distinguished career
:10:25
in films like Great Expectations.
:10:28
John Laurie was already
a distinguished film actor
:10:32
and had Shakespearean experience
:10:34
and was quite a catch,
as far as Powell was concerned,
:10:38
for this very important part.
:10:40
(Dialogue)
...for ever and ever. Amen.
:10:45
(Christie) As we watch
this church sequence,
:10:48
it's astonishing,
almost impossible,
:10:50
to believe that it was actually shot
in a derelict building
:10:54
which had no roof.
:10:56
(Dialogue) He makes me down to lie.