All language subtitles for The Battle for Anzio (Lo sbarco di Anzio) (1968) WEB-DL 720p

[JACK JONES'
"THIS WORLD IS YOURS" PLAYING]

* Where have you gone *

* You bright-eyed
Gentle dreamer? *

* Where is the man *

* You thought you knew
So well? *

* When did you change *

* Into a fearsome soldier *

* Who finally found *

* That war
Is necessary hell? *

* When did you learn *

* How much life
Is worth living? *

* And that this land's *

* Worth everything
You're giving *

* Are you so brave
And are you so cold-hearted? *

* Or was it fear
That started *

* That rage
Inside of you? *

* This world is yours *

* You men who found
No answers *

* Who lost your dreams *

* Who lost your way
And went to war *

* This world is yours
All you men *

* Take the land *

* Take the sea *

* It's yours *

* This world is yours *

* You men who found
No answers *

* Who lost your dreams *

* Who lost your way
And went to war *

* This world is yours
All you men *

* Take the land *

* Take the sea *

* It's yours *

[YELLING]

All right, you mothers.

I'll show you
who Richardson is!

Come on. Come on.

[YELLING]

Hey, Andy,
what's the record?

You gotta beat 20, babe.

Hey, you got any doubts?

How you gonna beat me, Rich?

You gotta be kidding!

Here comes
your second Purple Heart.

All right, you mothers!

ANDY:
Three,

four,

five...

DOYLE:
Get the head, somebody!
What is this?

You never missed my head
when I was up there. Come on!

MAN:
Come on! Come on!

Yeah, two times.
Got his ass, both cheeks.

Forget the butt.
In the head. In the head.

Right in the brain.
Come on.

Here you go, Rich.

RICHARDSON:
Is that the best
you mothers can do?

DOYLE:
Come on. In the head.
In the head. Right in the brain!

RICHARDSON:
* Oh, if I had the wings
Of an angel *

* And the ass
Of a buffalo *

* I'd fly over
All the rooftops *

* And shit on the Rangers
Below *

[BLOWS RASPBERRY]

For Christ's sake, Dick Ennis!
How the hell are you?

Hey, Wally.

Hey, Mr. Ennis,
what's the scoop?

Where are they sending us now?
I don't know. I just got here.

Hey, Ennis, I got
a fantastic story for you.

Human interest--
I write only clean family news,

Doyle, not pornography.

Hey, paisan, where these creeps
sending us now? Civvy or Rome?

You find out,
you let me know.

If you don't know, who knows?
MAN: Sixteen!

Seventeen!

Eighteen!

Nineteen.

Twenty!

Twenty-one!

Knock it off.
You got it, Rich.

The winner and new champion!

Richardson, the greatest!
And you're all cruds.

[CHEERING]

I'll be damned.

Mon cheri,
you are fantastique.

You have all the qualities
of a Madonna, a saint--

That's a lousy
Charles Boyer.

Why don't you stick
to Bela Lugosi?

It is Bela Lugosi.

What does he want?

Nothing, darling.
He says I will destroy you, eh?

He's right. Go. I will ruin you
like I have ruined

hundreds of women
from Salerno to Cincinnati. Go!

Wait. First,
let me look at your neck.

Hey, Dick!
Hey.

I thought you were
covering the Cassino front.

I was. I ran out of material.
They all died on me.

[BANGING ON DOOR]

Peace!

Peace.

The Black Devils.

I gotta get the first crack
at Rabinoff.

Peace. Peace.

Crap on that.
Get the mothers!

Let's get the hell
out of here.

Listen, I heard about
that Rapido River thing.

That must've been
a real slaughter, huh?

Yeah, that's what it was, Abe,
a real slaughter.

Two thousand cowboys
from Texas

spinning around
in rubber boats,

and the Germans sitting
on the other side

zeroed in on them
with machine guns.

Very poor
general management.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]
Basta. Basta.

Hey, Ennis.

Ennis, you son of a bitch.

I remember you from Sicily.

The first day, remember?
I was up a tree.

I think this guy
used a pipe on me.

Hey,
I got something for you.

Here, sarge.

"Admit one" where?

Paradise.
All high-class women there.

Use it fast, Ranger,
before your number's up.

Do I know him?

Corporal Rabinoff.
Sure you do.

He keeps it up,
he's gonna be

the most famous corporal
since Hitler.

I'd venture to say he's got
about a footlocker

full of medals just for the
number of guys he's bumped off.

When's this show
gonna hit the road?

I'll never understand you.

I just don't get you at all.
Seven years,

from China to Italy, you haven't
got enough of this crap?

What are you bucking for,
a little white cross?

What are you talking
about, Abe?

Well,
you don't have to be here.

I'd like to be in your shoes
for about five minutes,

just five minutes.

You've got a one-way ticket
out of this crap

anytime you wanna use it.
Why don't you?

Where would I go?

Go? Home!
Back to the U.S., man.

That's where they're making
the real sacrifices.

You said it.

Well, I'll take that
under advisement.

Listen to me, huh?

From a friend...

I think you're starting
to talk a little funny.

Now,
if you were one of my guys,

I'd think about putting you in
for a Section Eight.

You're kidding.
No, I'm not kidding.

I think you're beginning
to like it.

No, I'm not beginning
to like it,

but I must admit
it does get easier.

[WHISTLE BLOWING]

Take it easy, sergeant.

You're liable to give them
hangovers.

MAN:
Attention!

[MEN GROAN]

HENDRICKS:
All right, Rangers,
it's time to dry out.

Prepare to embark
in six hours.

Your briefing
will be aboard ship.

All right. Dismissed.

See you at halftime, Dick.

They're all troublemakers.

Later.

HENDRICKS:
Oh, Mr. Ennis.

I saw your column
on the Rapido mess today

at headquarters... In the
wastebasket.

If it's of any interest
to you,

a one-star general
was rotated home today.

That's not why I wrote it,
colonel, you know that.

Not just to knock
somebody down.

It seems like a pretty
emotional piece of writing.

Well, those Texas boys
didn't have to die.

They knew that. But they were
dead before they could say it.

I could say it, and I did.

You're a fierce friend
to have, Mr. Ennis.

What time's the landing
gonna be, colonel?

Now, you know better than
to ask a question like that.

You'll be told
when you get aboard.

Anzio!
Many pretty girl at Anzio.

American PX, first-class.
Nylon stockings, Joe!

[BAGPIPES PLAYING]

Nylon stockings,
first-class.

Nylon stockings for Anzio.

Anzio!

The Germans will hear him
to Berlin.

Buy! I make special price
for Anzio.

Cigarettes.
Sigarette. Cigarettes.

Candy, sГ.
Sigarette, no, huh?

Here.

[***]

[MAN SHOUTS]

[SIREN WAILING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY]

Shut up.

Not now, baby, I'm trying
to drive this wagon.

All right, all right,
all right. Here.

Here,
eat this and be quiet.

Hey, basta, basta!

[HORN HONKS]

Hot stuff here. Come on,

I got some hot stuff here.
Move it back.

Hey, police!

Pack these guys up,
they're all diseased.

Easy, there, easy.
What's the trouble?

I'm telling you,
the whole outfit is infected.

I wouldn't lie to you.

SERGEANT:
Cut out the din.
What's your unit?

First Special Service Force.
Canadian-American.

Ah, Black Devils. Weren't you
the men in Sicily who--?

Right, right. We're the guys.
Look, sarge,

I got a man in the back who's
in bad pain. I gotta get going.

Oh, all right.

Come on, come on, come on,
come on. Move it back there.

RABINOFF:
Let's go, let's go. Move it.
All right, move it out.

That's right, come on.
Outstanding. Outstanding work.

Outstanding work.

God save the King.
Right, here we go.

Here we go.

[HORN HONKS]

WOMEN:
* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *

RABINOFF:
* Where somebody waits
For me *

* Sugar's sweet
And so is she *

ALL:
* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *

By yourself.
Sing it by yourself.

* No one seems to love
Or understand me *

Now, tutti, tutti, tutti.

ALL:
* Oh, what hard luck stories
They all hand me *

* So make my bed
And light the light *

* I'll be home
Late tonight *

Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Who here loves me?
Huh? You love me?

Give me one right there.
That's right. You love me?

Sì.

You love me?
Sì.

All right. Because
everybody told the truth,

everybody is going
to get money.

And soft, soft.

[SCATTING]

There's a lot of money there,
baby.

Buy yourself something nice.
A lawn mower...

Or Sicily.
Something substantial.

Come here, kid. Come here.

Who, me?

You buy something extra.

Come here.
Because you're the best.

You're the champ.

No.

Tu champion.

Yeah, "champion."

I bet you say that
to all the girls.

Marty.
What?

Grazie.

Why not? You had a good year,
didn't you?

She hit 330, stole 24 bases.
Who's got a better right?

Hey, I got a surprise for you.
Look at this.

Look at this here.
Here's candy.

Now, don't eat it.
You sell it.

It's worth about $6 million.

Davvero?

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

What did she say?
She wants to go with you.

Well, I want to take you.
I think it's a hell of an idea.

But the sergeant, he caught us.
Sergeant said--

You know
what the sergeant said?

WOMAN: What?
"No whores on the invasion."

Oh, he's a sick man, you know?
He needs mental care.

Look, Anna, listen.

Sergeant say no.

Sergeant is son of bitch.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Right, right,
all together, huh?

ALL:
Sergeant is son of a bitch.

[SIREN WAILING]
Sergeant is son of a bitch.

Wait a minute.

That could be the general.

You know the man suffers from
a severe case of piles?

Oh, it's a terrible thing.

It's starting
to affect his mind.

Yeah. He said to me,

"Rabinoff,
where the hell are you?"

"I'm sorry, sir,
I was held up.

I was busy trying to get some
whores on the invasion boat."

"Oh, really?
Well, good thinking, soldier.

Good thinking."

Hey, keep it quiet out there.
People are trying to make love.

I gotta go.

Come here.

Take care of her.
Sì.

I mean it.
Take care of her.

Not three days.
Until it's all over.

Ho capito.

Now, get my jacket.

Ciao.
Ciao.

Hey, ciao.

Come on. Come on!

* Pack up all my cares
And woe *

* Here I go
I'm singing low *

* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *
Attagirl.

* Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet *

* And so is she *

* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *

You see, it's easy.

* No one seems to love
Or understand me *

* Oh, what hard luck stories
They all hand me *

[DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS]

* Make my bed
And light the light *

* I'll be home
Late tonight *

* Blackbird, ciao, ciao *

[REPORTERS SHOUTING]

Welcome aboard, general.

The area's secure, sir.
Very good.

REPORTER 1:
General, just one more shot.

This way, sir.
General, this way.

REPORTER 2:
May we have a statement, sir?

Well, gentlemen, at last.

Sorry to keep such a tight lid
on this, but it's big.

At 0200 tonight,

General Jack Lesley will bypass
the Cassino line

which is stalemated

and put an army corps
on the beach at--

MAN: Anzio!
Goddamn it! Who said that?

Ennis, sir. Dick Ennis,
International Press.

Well, Mr. Ennis, where
do you find your information?

In the streets of Napoli,
general.

Looks like a real
turkey shoot, Jack.

REPORTER:
How does that affect
your plans, General Carson?

In no way.

When 70,000 men come ashore,

they're bound
to make a splash,

and the enemy
is bound to hear it.

Dwyer, Chicago Post.
This to General Lesley.

What opposition
are you expecting, general?

There are two German divisions
in that area.

If I were Kesselring,

I'd have them
on the beaches in two hours.

Donovan, Reuter.

Do you plan to make
a run for Rome, sir?

CARSON:
No.

No, I intend to drive
into Rome very slowly.

We will be the first
conquering army

to enter Rome from the south
in 1500 years.

REPORTER:
Hold it, general.

Could we have
General Lesley too, please?

Thank you, sir.

MAN:
Jackson, London Post.

The hills behind Anzio,
if I remember my Horace,

pose a dangerous obstacle,
general.

Do you propose
to go for those hills first?

It's your answer, Jack.

The first duty of a general
is to secure his position.

I will therefore strengthen
the beachhead

against Kesselring's
counterattack.

General Lesley,

they used to say the first duty
of a general is to succeed.

How about that?

In my book, being safe
and being successful

are not contradictory.

That's right, Jack.

Don't stick your neck out
like I did at Salerno.

First secure the beachhead,
then you can be a wildcat.

That's all, gentlemen.
Thank you. Good luck.

REPORTER:
Thank you.

[***]

How do you spell this name?

A-N-Z-O, right?

No, that's not it.
That's "Anzo."

It's "Anzio"
we're going to.

What are you worried about?
They'll spell it right

on that cute little
white cross of yours.

A-N-Z-I-O.

That's "Anzio," right?

Hey, Cellini, tell him how
the ginzoes pronounce it.

Bafangoo.

Sorehead.

[TYPING]

Where do you write
when the battle starts?

Right up there on the line
with you guys.

You, uh, get enough protection
from that thing?

No, not much.

[WHISTLING]

Stimmler, how soon
before we hit shore?

About four hours.

I'd better check
my equipment.

[MIMICS COCKING
AND LOADING A GUN]

SERGEANT:
Ten-hut!

At ease. At ease. You fellas
get enough to eat tonight?

MEN:
Yes, sir.

Good, good.
See you on the beaches.

You get enough to eat
tonight?

MEN:
Yes, sir.

Let's hope
the Krauts come down

with a good case
of indigestion.

And if not, sir, we'll give them
a real case of the GIs.

Oh, Mr. Ennis.

I don't ordinarily
court newspapermen, Mr. Ennis,

like some generals I know.

However, I would like
to set the record straight

on a few points.

Do you know
what success in battle

really means, Mr. Ennis?

It's never simply
territorial gains.

Many battles have been lost

after the objectives
have been won.

I believe that
every foot of ground gained

must be balanced
by the cost.

Cost per foot
in terms of human lives.

Now, the invasion tonight
will be successful.

Most large-scale
landings are.

But the difference between
a real success and failure

will be spelled out
after we hit the beaches.

I have two responsibilities
tonight, Mr. Ennis:

one to my mission,

and the other to my men.

Human lives are important
to me.

You can print that.

Wasn't it Napoleon
who said:

"A general who worries
too much about his men

is doomed to failure"?

I may be a cautious man,
Mr. Ennis,

but I am certainly
not a pacifist.

Tell me--

You know, I've followed
your work now for many years.

Why do you make a trip
like this?

Well, obviously,
I make trips like this

because it's what I'm paid
to do. It's my job.

I know, I know, but--

Also, of course, I have to.

I have to answer a question
that's been asked of me

ever since I saw
my first dead face:

Why do we do it?
Why do people kill each other?

How can a perfectly ordinary,
good-natured guy

who wouldn't slap
down a mosquito

sit up in an airplane

and bomb 1000 sleeping strangers
down beneath him?

We do it to survive, Mr. Ennis.
In war, it's kill or be killed.

Oh, come on, general,
you don't buy that.

If I didn't,
I wouldn't be here.

What's your answer?

I haven't found an answer.
But when I do,

I promise you'll be among the
first to know, General Lesley.

MAN:
Your coat, sir.

We're changing course
for Anzio.

It's cold.

Yeah,
landings are always cold.

Excuse me, Mr. Ennis.

[MACHINES WHIRRING]

[WATER SPLASHES]

Can't they shut up a little?

At ease.

What time? Now?

Fourteen seconds.

Well, Abe,
a few minutes more

and you can pin another
battle star to your tunic.

Screw it. Right now, I'd trade
it for a stateside ration card.

[CANNONS FIRING]

Now it's Rome's turn.

What do you mean?

It was here at Anzio that Nero
fiddled while Rome burned.

Now it's Rome's turn to watch
the glow in the sky.

All right, Rangers,
let's go.

Pull it up.

All right, move it out.

Let's go, boys.

There you are.

Quiet night.

Yeah.
Just like it was at Salerno.

They let us get in, in, in--

Knock it off.

That's the way it was
at Salerno.

I said, knock it off.

I can feel it coming.

Any second now.

Hold it.

All right, let's go.

[MEN YELLING]

[***]

[GUNSHOTS HEARD IN DISTANCE]

[WHISTLE BLOWS]

Let's go!

[CLATTERING]

Three o'clock!

[GUN COCKS]

[DOG BARKING]

Well,
at least nobody can say

that the landing at Anzio
was unopposed.

Let's move in, sergeant.

[***]

How are things up here,
Pete?

It sure isn't Salerno,
colonel.

Damn funniest thing
I ever saw.

My orders are to move up
three miles and dig in.

And if we don't meet them,
sir?

Move up, dig in,
and we'll wait for them.

All right,
let's go.

Uh, colonel, a favor?
Give.

I'd like a jeep. I'd like to,
uh, snoop around a little.

Whose neck are you
after now, Ennis?

All right. Captain,
get him a jeep and a driver.

Okay. Sergeant,
a jeep and a driver.

What'd you say?
A jeep and a driver.

I got a jeep,
I'm not sure about a driver.

You have a driver, sir.
Excellent driver.

All right,
so him we can spare.

Watch out for him, Dick,
he's a virgin.

Let's go.

ENNIS:
Wait a minute, stop the jeep.

What is it?
Hold it.

Something back there alongside
the road. Let's see what it is.

It's one of theirs.

I wonder what got to him?

I bet he goes back
to using safety razors.

[CLATTERING]

Small world.

What are you doing?
Just fooling around.

That could be dangerous.
You seen any Germans?

No. You?

A couple of strays.

They all look like that one?

Well, this was a crucial
defense position.

The man had to go.

You want a ride?
Why not.

[WHISTLES]

Where are all the Germans?

I don't know,
but if this keeps up,

we're gonna hit Rome.

Hey, look at that!

You know,
I'm beginning to think

they actually didn't know

and that we've surprised
the bejesus out of them.

KESSELRING:
We have nothing. They can
go where they like! Nothing!

Not as much as a minefield
to stop their walk.

Had they landed two days ago

when the Goering division
was here,

[PHONE RINGS]

I would've burned
the sea under them.

MAN:
General field marshal,
Monte Cassino,

General von Vietinghoff.

Kesselring. Yes.
Yes, you heard right.

They are pouring in,

and we have no one
to put against them.

They can scoop up Rome.

Of course it's the hills.

The hills are why
they are here.

Highway 6 and 7
and the railway.

Our arteries.

No, you may not.

Listen to me,
von Vietinghoff--

No, I will not shorten
the Cassino line.

I'm sometimes surprised,
but I'm never panicked.

You're very complimentary.
Now, who can you give me?

The 3rd Panzer Grenadiers?

They must be up
by tomorrow night.

Tanks, flamethrowers.

I know
they must move by day.

I know they will be bombed.

I know
they must suffer casualties.

And I want the Hermann
Goering division back.

I'm going to take the 19th
out of the line of hill 165.

I've taken them.
If you are afraid of gaps,

put the cooks and the generals
into the line.

General field marshal,
Air Reconnaissance.

Of course I was joking.
Hold, please.

Man can't even take
a bad joke.

Kesselring. Yes.

What?

Five kilometers?

You're sure?

You said five kilo--?

You are sure?

Five kilo--

Thank you.

As a soldier,
I'm ashamed of them.

They're digging in.

They are going headfirst
into the ground.

Now be fast.

The 71st Infantry,
get them moving in an hour.

No, no, cancel.
In half an hour.

Von Vietinghoff,
I have nothing at Anzio!

For the next few hours,

I must do what I can
with my own hands!

Heil Hitler!

[***]

I'll wake him at 6.

They could sleep in
the hotels of Rome tonight.

My only defense is
they don't know it.

Rome must be pretty close.

This looks a little
like Westchester County.

Sure as hell
ain't Philadelphia.

[***]

Boy, the Krauts really hit
this place.

ENNIS:
Movie, that's the way it is.
That's Rome.

MOVIE:
Rome?

RABINOFF:
I'll be a son of a bitch.

I'm getting out of here,
Ennis.

Come on, Movie,
let's go on in.

No, no, Ennis.
This is crazy--

Come on, you'll be
the first conqueror

to enter Rome from the south
for 1500 years.

Me?
You're the man with the sword.

Yeah, that's right.
You're the man.

Feel like another
Julius Caesar?

Better than Julius Caesar.

He didn't have to risk his life
in a jeep.

[***]

[WOMEN GRUNT]

RABINOFF:
Germans.

Pull in that alley, quick.

MAN:
Hey!

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Shh!

[YELLING IN ITALIAN]

Quiet. Shh.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

No, no, no, grazie. Dopo.

Shh.
Quiet!

[WOMAN AND MAN
YELLING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Keep it to yourself.

Look, the Germans?

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

What is that?

I think he said that the troops
left a few weeks ago.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

There's nobody left there,

but the SS
and the military police.

Christ,
this is an open city.

Well, what are we
gonna do about it?

We're gonna jump
right in that jeep

and run back to the beachhead
and tell Mama.

[***]

ENNIS:
Movie, come on.

Come on, get in.
I'm in love.

Come on!
Let's go!

MOVIE:
I shall return!

I've a damn good mind
to take a chance and go.

You weren't at
the clobbering at Salerno.

We're a new kind
of animal now.

We're like tortoises,
we keep our necks in.

Where are their tanks,
their lorries even?

It's only three hours to Rome.
Doesn't he see the possibility?

Why don't you ask him?

By God, I will, sir.

Your boys are doing
a fine job, general.

This will give Kesselring
a hell of a surprise.

General Lesley?
Yes, General Starkey?

I request permission to put out
an armed patrol towards Rome.

I can't afford to provoke
an attack yet.

But, sir--
Denied! Luke.

What do you think?

Our luck's been running
so good, Jack.

We might try
a small gamble.

Couple of hundred men, huh?

Mm. Something like that.
Just an idea.

It might give the German
a taste of our blood

and bring him down on us
before we're set.

You know, I still have
that beachhead to build.

If I don't have that,
I have nothing.

This silence
is a damn clever way

of dealing with us,
gentlemen.

We've planned
for everything but this.

But it's just a sight
too clever.

It's given us what we need,

time to get ashore
and flourish.

And General Starkey,

there's no doubt in my mind

that Kesselring's strategy
is to draw us forward.

I'm sure he's prepared quite
a welcoming committee for us.

Well, Marshal Kesselring
will just have to sit and wait.

All our moves will be made
down here on the beaches.

But sir, what if he isn't yet
in strength?

What if he can't attack?

Then, general,
in five or six days,

after careful plans
have been made

based on sound intelligence,
we'll go out and look for him.

[WHIRRING, THEN EXPLOSIONS]

Here it is,
just as I thought.

Herr Kesselring
is getting worried.

And I can't say
that I'm sorry.

Smack into the port.

Heavier than anything
we've got, Jack.

[HORN HONKING]
American jeep coming in, sir.

What? Where?

MARSH:
From our front lines.

You said Rome, Mr. Ennis?

That's right, general.

We went in at 40 miles an hour
and came back out at 50.

I can't believe it.

Roads weren't jammed
with Kesselring's troops?

No, sir.
If it hadn't been for the SS

and a few military police,

the city seems wide open.

Would you like me
to have a look, sir?

Kesselring wouldn't spring
a trap for one jeep.

No, general, we stay put.

And don't worry,
we'll catch our fox,

but in our time, not his.
Thank you, Mr. Ennis.

[***]

The 64th Infantry
are coming through, sir.

Good, we have caged them in.

I'll never understand
these last seven days.

They came roaring ashore

only to fall
direct on the beach.

Anzio is the cheapest
POW camp in Europe.

50,000
men who feed themselves.

I feel I am present
at a farce in a theater.

Up here, we sit comfortably
in the dark.

They are on a lighted stage.

We can see every gesture
of the actor.

If he lights a cigarette,
we can puff out the match.

They are so young.
Some of them are what, 15?

Yes, but with spirit,
pride.

If pride and love of Germany
alone could win battles,

we could take the world.

But wars are won by machines
and gasoline and oil.

You and I must beg,
must plead, for our supplies.

But there,
a sergeant's call is enough.

Nevertheless, I say we have
reason to hope for the best.

Then let us prepare
for the worst.

I want a new line, stronger

and more impenetrable
than Cassino.

Minefields
as thick as wheat fields.

Every house a fortress.
Every hedge a tank trap.

I want bunkers, pillboxes,

a wall of steel and concrete
clear across Italy.

Draft every Italian you can get
your hands on, but be careful.

Work only at night.
Camouflage everything

so that nothing can be seen from
the air. The enemy must not know

it is there
until they fall in front of it.

Yes, sir.
And what code name, sir?

It defends Rome...
The "Caesar Line."

Sir, there is a movement
of trucks on the enemy right.

Yeah, I can see them
opposite Cisterna.

They've good intelligence.
It's our weakest point.

Then make it our strongest.

Hey, Rich, here's one I've been
working on. Who's this?

"Oh, Mammy!"

Shirley Temple
calling her mother.

Funny.

MOVIE: Hey, Mr. Ennis?
Yeah.

Please, before you forget,

would you write down
that address for me?

What address?

In Rome. Rome, the girl--
The girl with--

Just give me the name
of the street.

I was looking the
same place you were looking.

[HORN HONKS]
I knew it.

Handle it well, Ranger,

I'll be waiting
for some good news.

Yes, sir.
General Lesley,

this is an unexpected pleasure.

Just dropped by to wish
your men good luck.

This infiltration
is a bold venture, colonel,

but we know there's a gap there
right up to Cisterna.

I see your Rangers
travel light.

Yes, sir.
MAN: Except for me, sir.

I want you to play merry hell
when you get out of that ditch.

You'll be on your own
for a couple of hours,

but when the tanks
come up to you,

this whole front
will crumble fast.

Well, we'll do our best,
general.

That's the ticket. See you all
in the morning.

Yes, sir.

You know that you don't
have to go along, Ennis.

Yeah, I know that,
colonel.

You want a weapon?
No, thank you.

Things could get a little rough
out there.

I've been where
it's rough before.

Besides, if I do get it,

I won't be around
to write about you.

Well,
that's one consolation.

The 1st and 3rd Ranger
Battalions are ready, sir.

Very good, Pete. Move your men
out to the kickoff point.

A Black Devil guide will be
there to lead you to the ditch.

Be careful not to lose him
in the dark.

If he's such
a hotshot guide,

I'm sure he'd find us.
Sergeant?

Nothing, sir,
it's just that--

Well, we did manage to make it
this far out of Africa

without any special help.
I know how you feel, sergeant,

but remember,
those are good men.

They spend half their time
behind enemy lines.

Yes, sir.

All right, Pete, move them out.
Very well, sir.

Fall in!

MAN 1: Fall in!
MAN 2: Fall in!

[***]

[GUN CLICKING]
Down!

Anybody faint?

Hey, Ennis! Small world.

I take it you're our guide,
soldier.

Uh, that's right, captain.

Just keep your mouth shut
and follow my ass.

Corporal.

Consider yourself busted.

Whatever you want, captain,

but look, I didn't mean
no harm by that, and--

I'm gonna take care
of everybody. That's my job.

I don't care
how rough it gets.

I'm gonna take care
of everybody. So just trust me.

I'd trust him, captain.

All right, this is it.

From this point on,
we're behind the lines.

Pass the word back:

no talking,
no whispering, no nothing,

just walk quiet.
Mm.

All right.

From this point on,
we're behind enemy lines...

Sure you don't want
to go back?

Made it this far, Dad.

All right.
Suit yourself.

You like doing this?
I don't mind, really.

Let me tell you, it's a hell
of a thing you're doing.

I just can't resist
a good story.

Oh, you do it for the story?
No kidding.

Well, that's a hell of a thing--
I don't know why I do it.

Well, I know why I do it.
And someday I'll tell you.

And it's got nothing to do
with democracy.

Hold it.

Wine, fresh fish and women,
four miles up.

Pass it on.

RABINOFF:
That's Cisterna.

Open country.
Deploy your men, sergeant.

Mr. Ennis?
Yeah.

I was thinking, as soon as this
is over and we take Rome,

I take out an ad
in the paper.

What did you say?

An ad, an ad.
I'll take out an ad

that describes her,
really describes her.

It'll never work, Movie.
Why?

There must be a thousand girls
in Rome with...hands like that.

Haystack!

[GUNS FIRING]

Down!

It's bad. Bad.
It's a setup.

Christ, we've been had.

Get through to command, quick!
Tell them we're trapped.

Tell them "tanks."

I've got nothing
to fight tanks.

MAN [OVER SPEAKER]:
Put down your weapons
and stand up.

Put down your weapons
and stand up.

You will be well-treated.

We give you the protection
of the Geneva Convention.

We will wait 20 seconds
for your answer.

Beachhead, this is
Rangers one-niner, over.

MAN:
Fifteen.

Ten.

Five.

Negative!

He's had it.

Beachhead,
this is Rangers nine. One-niner.

Captain--
Get up, damn it!

He's had it.

Keep trying, Andy.
Keep trying!

ANDY:
We got tanks on every side.
I repeat, tanks.

Medic! Medic!

They got Ennis!
ANDY: We're pinned down.

Everybody dying.
Do you read me? Over.

You're okay.

They don't shoot dead people,
Rich. I found that out.

You goddamn son of a bitch.

Look, we can't play dead,
Ennis. We got guns.

Every man's got his own way
of trying to stay alive.

Yeah? Well, you just tell that
to the guy who gets killed

sticking his neck out
for you.

Those bushes at four o'clock.
Let's try for them.

Hey, Rabinoff!

Shut up.

We're gonna try for the bushes
at four o'clock.

Yeah? Who's we?

Me.

Okay.

Good luck.

Let's go.

You want this?
No.

MAN:
Flamethrower!

It's gonna get hot.

Won't take them long
to get around to us.

Let's see what's out back.

If we can make it
over to that thicket,

Yeah, let's go.
we might make it.

Yeah.

Hold it!

Minefield.

[***]

All right, fellas, now gently,
just turn around

and try to find your way
in your own footsteps.

We gotta take
this bastard on.

Maybe we'll get lucky
and blow a track.

Save the grenades. Just gather
up a gang of rocks.

What's with rocks, Ennis?

We haven't got a prayer
against that thing.

We got better odds
in the minefield.

What the hell are you doing?
Everybody fall down!

Again! Hit it!

Where'd you learn this?

Learned it
from an old Chinese.

Did he make it?
No.

But he might have.

All right, let's
give him a hand!

RABINOFF:
Anybody watching that tank?

Yeah!

Down we go!

Hit it!

I recommend surrender.
Pass it on.

Everybody down!

Hey, he heard that one!

All right, come on,
let's go.

God is love, God is love.

ENNIS:
Hey, you crazy mother--!

It's easy.

The fool made it!

Let's go!

RABINOFF:
That's where we were.

Seven hundred
and seventy-six of us.

For nothing.

Get that thing working.

It's been beat to hell
this morning.

Fix it.

Where are we now?
Are there any dispatches?

Nothing. We are running into
heavy opposition everywhere.

ANDY:
This is Rangers one-niner.

Sir!
Jack!

Rangers one-niner. Over.

Come in, Rangers one-niner.

Corp commander speaking.
Where are you?

I got somebody.
I don't know how long.

You better hurry up.

Hello. Hello, Beachhead,
this is Dick Ennis.

I'm somewhere up here on the
Alban Hills with the survivors.

Sorry to take you away from
the gaming table, general,

but I thought
you'd like to know

you lost a couple of pins
off your chart today.

The first and second Ranger
battalions have been wiped out.

Do you read that?

Of 767 men,
there are seven survivors

left to see the result
of one more royal foul-up.

But this one's unique.

This didn't happen because
a general was too reckless.

This happened because
a general was too cautious,

how about that?

An entire outfit wiped out
because the general was timid.

I know it scarcely ever happens
that way, general,

but it sure as hell
happened here.

A timid general.

He walked them into a park,

and he left them
in a graveyard.

MAN:
Sir...

Rangers one-niner,
we are losing your signal.

Graveyard.

That won't quite get it,
will it?

That's it, Ennis.
We lost them.

That doesn't begin
to put across

what's going on here.

They can't hear you.

Yeah, I know.
They never did.

Ain't that a bitch?

A dumb, dirty, stupid,
useless bitch.

What are you doing,
sarge?

But the guys are dead.
They're dead, right?

I mean,
that's part of the job.

Why take it out
on the radio?

I just hope we don't
have to make a call.

Well, they're dead, right?
What are you gonna do?

[PLANES ZOOMING]

Here it comes.

Hold your breath, boys.

Is that ours?

That's ours.
That's ours! That's ours!

That's one of ours!
That's ours!

Woo-hoo!

Drop bombs, baby!
Drop bombs!

Get down! Get down! Down!

Come on, baby!
That's my baby!

Keep your head down.
The woods are full of Krauts.

I don't see anything.

They're there.
Believe me, they're there.

It looks like trucks.

That could be
a supply depot.

We're 30 miles from nowhere.
What are they supplying?

Looks more
like a prison camp.

Look, you see that break
in the trees?

Yeah.

Yeah,
it's a wire stockade.

Jesus,
those woods are walking.

It's a construction job.

STIMMLER:
Forced laborers,
thousands of them.

But what are they laboring at?
Who the hell knows.

Roads, bridges,
maybe even a railway.

I don't know, sergeant,

with all those men
and those equipment,

it looks big to me.

I think we ought
to take a look.

Is that what you think,
corporal?

I'll tell you
what I think.

My job is to get us safe
out of this mess.

Those trucks could be
going anywhere.

They could be going to Rome,
north, maybe even Yugoslavia.

Well, it's 6:00 at night,
sergeant.

Why are they bringing
concrete mixers?

Because the Germans
have got no air cover.

They gotta work at night.
They can't use the day.

Boy, these patrol specialists
gripe my ass.

You're fighting instinct,
Abe.

No, Ennis, I get tired of...

Yeah, maybe I am.

Hey, Rabinoff,
come here, will you?

Okay.

Okay, but we do it my way.
We all go look in groups.

Cellini, you and Andy.
Doyle, Movie, come with me.

And Richardson,
you go with Rabinoff. Dick?

Why not? I might be able
to get 800 words out of it.

Stick with these guys.
Okay.

Hey, Ennis.

Might find this will
come in handy.

I doubt it.

[***]

RABINOFF:
What the hell is it?

ENNIS:
It's a great big trap.

Look at that, that's better
than the Cassino line.

By the time the man gets
those fellas off the beach,

it'll be just waiting
for them.

[PLANES APPROACHING]

How about that?

Now you see it,
now you don't.

No sirens, no whistles,
no nothing.

It's too secret for sirens.

All right, now we've seen it.
What do we do about it?

Well, we take a closer look,
memorize everything we can.

You go on down that end,

and I'll cover it
from over here.

It'd be nice to have somebody
look in the middle, but, uh...

You go right ahead on.
I'll meet you back here.

[CHATTERING]

[MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[MAN SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[MAN TALKING IN GERMAN]

[LAUGHING]

Hey.

[DOG WHIMPERS]

Come on, you got in here.
Come on, get me out.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[DOG BARKS]

[SOLDIER SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[WHIMPERING]

[GUN SHOOTS]

[MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN]

[SOLDIERS SPEAKING
IN GERMAN]

I surrender!

Surrender!

[SOLDIER SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[GUNS SHOOT]

Another five minutes
and we'd have given you up.

Where is Richardson?
Don't wait up for him.

Why? What happened to Rich?

He got shot.

How?

What the hell's the difference?
He's dead.

Simple, huh, sarge?
Just like that, eh?

Look, Doyle, when you're dead,
you're dead.

That's all there is to it.
You keep that in your head.

It might help
keep you careful.

Just be glad
this one wasn't you.

You okay to move, Ennis?
Yeah, why not?

Rabinoff and the Ginzo
are scouting

the bombed house down the road.

If it's safe, we'll
put up there for the night.

STIMMLER:
Hey, Movie, Cellini,
take a look in that cellar.

Doyle,
check it out upstairs.

Hey, Rabinoff, come here,
will you? Dick?

ENNIS:
Yeah.

Let's take a look
at this thing.

This is the coastline.

Here's Anzio, here's Rome,
here's Cisterna.

This must be the line
of defense.

Where'd you say we were,
Rabinoff? Here?

Right about there.
Okay.

Our main objective
is to get back to Anzio

as quick as possible,
preferably in one piece.

I think we ought
to go south,

try to break through
around Cassino someplace.

That's gonna take a month.

In a month, that line's
gonna be real hard.

If you gotta get back there's
only one way. Direct to Anzio.

Jesus, Dick, we'll be crawling
over the dead.

It's the live ones
I worry about,

because they get
the wrong ideas.

DOYLE:
This war's starting
to shape up after all.

I gotta show you
something lovely.

Take a look
what your old dad found.

Come on, don't be afraid.
Let's go.

Come on,
nobody's gonna hurt you.

I wouldn't let
anybody hurt you.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.
Don't be afraid. Let's go.

Should see the setup in here.
Very cozy.

Well, who are they,
and what are they doing here?

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

Emilia Sibilio.

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

Diana e Anna.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

They live here.
It's their house.

Have they seen
any Germans today?

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

No.

Ask her
if she knows anything

about what's happening
back in Anzio.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

The Germans are attacking.
They're driving.

They're driving us back
to the sea.

Anna.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Excuse.

I speak a little English.
Not too good.

My mother say
you welcome to stay.

We are alone, three women.

The food is poor, but...

lo divideremo with you.

Well, that's about the best
offer I've had this war.

Thank you very much, Diana.
Wait, you're Anna.

Anna.

Come on downstairs, Anna.
Bring your family.

MOVIE:
Questo buono. Uh...

C-Ration-o.

Mucho good-o.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Where'd you get that?

I found it.

Made in Germany.

Yeah.

They make good toys.

* No one seems to love
Or understand me *

* Oh, what hard luck stories
They all hand me *

* So make my bed
And light the light *

* I'll be home
Late tonight *

Blackbird?
That's right.

Ciao, ciao.
Non capisco. Action?

Somebody better capisco,
and quickly.

Your house, this casa,

is right in the middle
of a war.

Guerra. Boom! Andare via.

The sooner you tell
your mother, the better.

Not possible to leave.
My family always live here.

Always the same house.
Four generazioni.

So cannot leave.

Also, we must to wait
for my father to come.

Where is your father?

Tedeschi take him
for to...

how you say...?

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Yeah, you mean the Germans
drafted him

to work on that new line.

Yes. Five day past.

One day he with us,
one day he not.

I'm sorry about that, Anna.

All right, listen,
everybody from the top.

Here we go,
tutti, tutti, tutti.

One time.

* Packed up all my cares
And woe *

* Here I go
Singing low *

* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *

Cellini, come on.

* Where somebody waits
For me*

* Sugar's sweet
And so is she *

* Ciao, ciao, blackbird *

* No one seems to love
Or understand me *

* Oh, what hard luck
Stories-- *

[RABINOFF GROANS]

[GROANING]

What's the matter?

Hey, what's the matter, huh?

Rabinoff,
what the hell is this?

Give me that jacket.

Hang on, bite down.

Just hang on.
Take it easy.

Take it easy.

Just stay there.
Just stay there. Stay there.

Look, fellows, I, uh...

I think he can use the air more
now than the company. Okay?

Is there anything
anybody can do?

No, no,
unless you have a Band-Aid.

Very funny.
Oh.

That's murder.

No, it's the stomach,
you see.

A Japanese grenade.

Ripped all my insides out.
Got all metal in there.

Under tension, it contracts

and all hell breaks lose.

I must have been tense, huh?

Good thinking.

You belong in a hospital,
not in a war.

Yeah, that's what they told me
in Lindermann

when they sent me home.
You mean to tell me you got out,

then you went to Canada
and joined this outfit?

That's right.

How'd you get past
the doctors?

Lied about my age.

You've gotta be crazy. Half of
your guts blown out

and you're back in here?
What for?

This is a hell of a time
for an interview.

You got something better
to do? Why did you re-enlist?

Why?

Because I like it.

You know, I missed it,
Ennis. I want this.

You know, with all the mud
and the pain

and the dirt and the dying
and those clowns giving orders,

for me,
there's nothing like it.

Look, a guy sells shoes
for 40 years,

I live more in one day.

I see more, and I feel more,

I taste more, I think more.
I'm more.

Understand? I'm more.

You know, there's more
to living than just breathing.

Capisce?
Capisce.

You're the same way.

That's right.
War is part of you.

You belong to it,
and when this one's over,

you're gonna find another,
and I hope I'm with you.

Yes, sir, man,
that was a rough one.

What the hell is this,
a wake?

Come on, Sam,
where are you?

Come on, baby, we've got
work to do. Come over here.

From the top, one time.

[WHISTLES]

Lovely skin, eh?

Quiet!

[***]

Kill those lights!
Put out that fire!

[EMILIA SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

You got an attic
in this place?

No capisco.
Attic! Attic!

Attic!
Sì, capisco. Come!

[MEN LAUGHING]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

MAN:
Shh.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

[KNOCKING]

[RATTLING]

[CONVERSING IN GERMAN]

[KNOCKING]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SOLDIERS SPEAKING
IN GERMAN]

Come on, open up, signora.

All right, get.

ENNIS:
Come on,
you can't stay here.

For God's sake, Ennis,
come on!

ENNIS:
Come on.

I cannot go with you.

Do you know what
those people will do to you

if they find you alive
in this?

No, I cannot go. I cannot go!
Ennis, let's move!

Will you come on?
You go.

Your men are waiting.
Grazie.

What's the matter with you?
What about them?

They're not our problem.
Anzio's this way, remember?

Come on, let's go.

[***]

[GUN SHOOTS]

Boy, this guy is good.

Get a move over.

[GUN SHOOTS]

Leave him alone, Movie.

He's hit.
He's dead.

Come on, we can use him
for cover.

[GUN SHOOTING]

Sure he's dead?
He is now.

He's good, all right.

You better believe it.

Where the hell is he?

He's about 50 yards.
He's over there.

How many of them
are there?

I'm not sure.
I think four.

[GUNS SHOOTING]

Where did that come from?

Over there,
about eleven o'clock.

They're all around us.

Abe!

ABE: Yeah, Dick?
How are you?

No score.

I see a little dust
on your right. Watch him.

Check!

Let's take out the guy
at eleven o'clock.

That's your grenade.

The same time,
let's make our move.

We gotta get around them.

All right.

Now?

Now.
Now.

[GUNS SHOOTING]

Movie. Movie!

Yeah, I'm okay. Okay.

All right, stay put. You can
cover Stimmler from there.

[GUNS SHOOTING]

Hell,
this is no good.

Unless we get back
to the ditch.

Hey, Andy?
Yeah?

Cover us. We're gonna make it
back to the ditch.

Okay, get moving.

Let's go.

[GUNS SHOOTING]

Okay, Andy!

Andy!
Wait--

[GUN SHOOTS]

Cellini.
Yeah.

See if you can make your way
down this ditch about 20 yards.

When you think you're
behind him, give me a signal.

When I yell "now,"
I'll cut out in front

and you get him from behind.
Okay.

Now!

[GUN SHOOTS]

Hey, Abe!

Hey, Abe!

Yeah, Dick?

You all right?

I'm hit. Dick?

Andy and Cellini
are both dead.

They're taking us out
one by one.

I'm going out after him.

Movie!
MOVIE: Yeah.

There's one out there
at four o'clock.

It's the first hole
this side of the ridge.

I'm going out after him.
Give me all the cover you can.

You got it.

Going out!

Go!

Just in case,
I hope it's a good story.

Keep your head down.

[GUN SHOOTS]

[***]

Hey, Rabinoff.

Okay, Rabinoff.
Make your move!

I see him.

All right, Movie.

Keep him in your sights.

You got it.

I got him. I got him!

There's another one, Movie.

Keep your eye on him
and cover me.

[***]

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

Right here, German.

[GUNS SHOOTING]

Welcome to the club,
Mr. Ennis.

This all of us?

Come on, we still got
a half a mile to go.

They have artillery
emplacements here,

machine gun posts
all through here,

tank traps here
and up through here.

These are minefields
here, here, here.

As a matter of fact,
the whole area is mined.

Bunker, bunker, bunker, bunker:
all bunkers through here.

I'll be damned.

All right, Paul,
you got the picture.

I want that line
hit high and low,

around the clock.

There mustn't be another
shovelful of earth turned.

That line mustn't get solid.

Put everything you've got
over it.

Mr. Ennis, thank you.

Oh, Jack,
we're going up to the line.

Want to come along?

I'll finish here first, Luke,
thank you.

Very well.

You did a great job, Mr. Ennis.
Thank you.

I suppose you'll be taking
a good, long rest in Naples?

No, as a matter of fact,
general,

I think I'll stick around
your show little while longer.

It's no longer my show,
Mr. Ennis. I'm going home.

I was relieved.

I was replaced the day before
yesterday by General Howard.

It would seem as if you
and Napoleon had a point.

My epitaph,

written by no less a person
than Winston Churchill:

"I had hoped we were hurling
a wildcat onto the shore,

but all we've got
is a stranded whale."

He knows
how to use words.

Yeah.

Had I been given
a few more days,

I might've gotten out of Anzio
with a little honor.

Well, at least
you are getting out

with your life, general.

I guess
that is something.

Well, what happens next?
Next?

How does it work out
on the table?

Oh, we'll win.

It'll take considerably
more time now,

more lives,

but we'll drive
Kesselring back.

General Carson will have
his day in Rome.

And then?

Then?
Why, we defeat the enemy.

We win the war.

What happens then?

You mean
we just choose up sides

and start all over again?

You think of this as a game?

Well, after all, general,
is it not the ultimate game?

And not for survival?

Not for survival,

nor to secure shelter
nor to appease hunger.

Oh, you've found
your answer then.

I believe I have, general.

Men kill each other
because they like to.

Because they like to?
And that's it?

That's it. Plain and simple.
They love to.

War has never solved anything,
history teaches us that.

But you face a man with a gun
in your hands,

you live more intensely
at that moment

than in any other moment
in your life.

Because you're scared to death,
and you've got to kill him.

We kill each other
because we like to.

That's a hell of a condemnation
of mankind, Mr. Ennis.

Yes, I'm afraid it is,
general,

but maybe if we recognize it
and admit it to ourselves,

we might learn to live
with each other.

We hope.

[BOMBS WHIRRING
AND EXPLODING]

[GUNS SHOOTING]

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[CHEERING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

MOVIE:
Hey, Mr. Ennis!

She's mine!

Hey, Movie!
Hey, Movie!

Hey, Mr. Ennis, look!
On the arch!

Two thousand years later.

Nothing changes

except the uniforms
and the transportation.

Well, we've seen
the conquering hero.

Let's go.

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