Churchill's Secret (2016 TV Movie)

Michael Gambon: Winston Churchill

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• [Clemmie wants Winston to retire from being PM, and to spend his time at Chartwell. He is determined to continue, despite his stroke. His immediate aim is to attend the Conservative Party conference in Margate. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has just visited, expecting Winston to announce his resignation] 

  Clemmie Churchill : I thought Anthony was looking well... if a bit thin.

  Winston Churchill : Clemmie, if I'm wrong and I can't get through Margate, then I'm all yours. That's my promise. If I fall, there's nowhere I want to fall except in your arms.

  Clemmie Churchill : You've made promises to me before, darling.

  Winston Churchill : I know.

  Clemmie Churchill : And broken them.

  Winston Churchill : But not any more.

  Clemmie Churchill : [with resignation]  Margate, then.

• [Winston is giving a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Margate. After faltering, he abandons the rest of his speech, as he had arranged he would do if he got into difficulties, and moves to a rousing finale] 

  Winston Churchill : One word personally about myself. If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love of power or office - I've had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence on what I care about above all else. The building of a sure and lasting peace.

  [the party members give him a standing ovation; Winston beckons Clemmie to join him at the podium] 

  Winston Churchill : [looking at Clemmie, though speaking about the government]  Let us then go forward together, through courage and composure, with resolution and good faith, to the end which all desire.

  [further applause] 

• Winston Churchill : What scares me is getting to the end before I finish.