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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 2 00:00:24,775 --> 00:00:27,026 ♪ I pour so much whiskey ♪ 3 00:00:28,153 --> 00:00:32,073 ♪ I'll make you stagger home In your sleep ♪ 4 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,368 ♪ Yes, I said ♪ 5 00:00:35,619 --> 00:00:37,704 ♪ I pour so much whiskey ♪ 6 00:00:38,163 --> 00:00:42,125 ♪ I'll make you stagger home In your sleep ♪ 7 00:00:44,211 --> 00:00:46,963 ♪ Come early in the morning ♪ 8 00:00:47,131 --> 00:00:52,385 ♪ You'll be staggering Up and down the street ♪ 9 00:00:54,930 --> 00:00:56,723 ♪ If you don't want no whiskey ♪ 10 00:00:57,391 --> 00:00:59,225 ♪ How about some dinner? Good wine ♪ 11 00:00:59,393 --> 00:01:05,314 ♪ I'm gonna keep on pouring Till it's quittin' time ♪ 12 00:01:05,482 --> 00:01:07,358 ♪ I pour so much whiskey ♪ 13 00:01:07,651 --> 00:01:12,447 - Look, boy, I don't want any trouble. - Sit down. You better sit down. 14 00:01:13,615 --> 00:01:16,743 ♪ Come early in the morning ♪ 15 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:21,497 ♪ You'll be staggering Up and down the street ♪ 16 00:01:24,418 --> 00:01:26,169 ♪ When I ain't pouring whiskey ♪ 17 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:28,963 ♪ Seems like everything Goes wrong ♪ 18 00:01:29,131 --> 00:01:31,132 ♪ I get so mean and evil ♪ 19 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:35,261 ♪ Me and the devil We can't get along ♪ 20 00:01:35,512 --> 00:01:37,430 ♪ I pour so much whiskey ♪ 21 00:01:37,681 --> 00:01:42,185 ♪ I'll make you stagger home In your sleep ♪ 22 00:01:43,020 --> 00:01:45,688 ♪ Come early in the morning ♪ 23 00:01:46,273 --> 00:01:50,651 ♪ You'll be staggering Up and down the street ♪ 24 00:01:50,861 --> 00:01:53,488 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 25 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:56,032 Play it, Luther. Oh, honey, play it. 26 00:01:56,241 --> 00:01:58,034 Play the song now, Luther. 27 00:01:58,285 --> 00:02:00,912 Yes! Yes! 28 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:08,795 Show me, sweet thing. 29 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,548 See, well, that's what I was trying to tell you. 30 00:02:12,758 --> 00:02:14,592 Hey, sarge. 31 00:02:17,513 --> 00:02:19,472 He's so drunk. 32 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:31,943 Oh, what a shame, he's drunk. 33 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:33,945 He's drunk. 34 00:02:43,622 --> 00:02:46,499 What does he think he's doing? That drunken old... 35 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:12,066 ♪ It was about pouring That whiskey ♪ 36 00:03:12,568 --> 00:03:14,443 ♪ Made that soldier Lose his stripes ♪ 37 00:03:14,653 --> 00:03:16,445 ♪ So keep on drinking, soldiers ♪ 38 00:03:16,613 --> 00:03:20,658 ♪ Big Mary She ain't got all night ♪ 39 00:03:20,826 --> 00:03:23,077 ♪ I pour so much whiskey ♪ 40 00:03:23,412 --> 00:03:25,913 ♪ I'll make you stagger I'll make you stagger ♪ 41 00:03:26,081 --> 00:03:28,541 ♪ I'll make you stagger home In your sleep ♪ 42 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:31,460 ♪ Come early in the morning ♪ 43 00:03:32,087 --> 00:03:38,009 ♪ You'll stagger Up and down the street ♪ ♪ 44 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:46,601 Have a good night. 45 00:03:56,528 --> 00:04:00,698 They still hate you. 46 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:07,121 They still hate you. 47 00:04:43,742 --> 00:04:47,536 You can put your arms down when the search team finishes with you. 48 00:04:47,746 --> 00:04:52,708 We don't want anybody from this fort going into Tynin looking for rednecks. 49 00:04:52,918 --> 00:04:55,002 - May I speak, sir? - Cobb? 50 00:04:55,212 --> 00:04:58,047 Nivens must know nobody colored killed the sarge. 51 00:04:58,256 --> 00:05:00,174 Well, this is precautionary, Cobb. 52 00:05:00,384 --> 00:05:03,594 We can't have the Army engaged in revenge on civilians. 53 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:07,431 Sir. Are there any suspects, sir? None. 54 00:05:07,641 --> 00:05:11,435 Oh, come on, now. Everybody knows it was the Klan. 55 00:05:12,604 --> 00:05:14,563 Were you an eyewitness, soldier? 56 00:05:14,731 --> 00:05:16,983 They lynched Jefferson the week I got here. 57 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,193 Two weeks after that, it was... Henson. 58 00:05:19,403 --> 00:05:22,196 Unless you saw it, keep your opinions to yourself. 59 00:05:22,406 --> 00:05:23,990 Yes, sir. 60 00:05:26,159 --> 00:05:27,827 And that applies to everybody else. 61 00:05:27,995 --> 00:05:29,328 Yes, sir. 62 00:05:29,538 --> 00:05:32,498 Tynin has been placed off-limits to all enlisted personnel. 63 00:05:32,666 --> 00:05:36,585 Oh, come on, captain. Any man found in the town 64 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:39,672 will be immediately subject to court-martial. 65 00:05:40,465 --> 00:05:43,968 Sergeant Waters' replacement will be assigned in a couple of weeks. 66 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:48,806 Until then, Cobb, you're barracks NCO. 67 00:05:49,182 --> 00:05:50,891 Any questions? 68 00:05:52,602 --> 00:05:54,270 Carry on. 69 00:05:57,941 --> 00:06:01,444 Now, what you think? 70 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:05,072 Taylor and that goddamn colonel, they know who killed Waters. 71 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,783 Anybody feel like playing me in some pitty-pat? 72 00:06:07,993 --> 00:06:10,119 I thought all you could play was flunky. 73 00:06:10,328 --> 00:06:11,412 Yeah. 74 00:06:11,621 --> 00:06:15,332 Wilkie, whose ass you gonna kiss now that your number one ass is dead? 75 00:06:15,542 --> 00:06:18,669 You know what you can do for me, Henson. You too, Peterson. 76 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,881 Take it easy. I'm the one who lost three stripes. 77 00:06:22,090 --> 00:06:25,551 I'm the only man here with kids. When the man said jump, I jumped. 78 00:06:25,761 --> 00:06:29,305 Come on, don't put your wife and kids between you and Waters' ass. 79 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:32,892 I don't kiss nobody's ass, Henson. I just wanted my stripes back. 80 00:06:33,101 --> 00:06:35,186 Never been no place, never had nothing. 81 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:40,066 You can't understand a man like me. I was a top sergeant of this platoon. 82 00:06:40,275 --> 00:06:44,570 Yeah? Well, now you ain't nothing. Nothing, Wilkie. 83 00:07:06,718 --> 00:07:09,011 - Recruits, over here. - Let me see your passes. 84 00:07:09,221 --> 00:07:11,347 Let's go. Let's go. 85 00:07:18,438 --> 00:07:22,149 Hey, wake up. Wake up, boy. 86 00:07:22,359 --> 00:07:24,068 You said Tynin, didn't you? 87 00:07:25,487 --> 00:07:27,404 Yeah, yeah. Ahem. Yeah. 88 00:07:27,989 --> 00:07:29,698 Come on, boy. 89 00:07:30,909 --> 00:07:32,451 Let's go. 90 00:07:33,537 --> 00:07:35,538 - Hang on. - Here we go again. 91 00:07:35,747 --> 00:07:37,414 I'm from Mississippi. 92 00:07:56,893 --> 00:07:58,811 Captain Davenport? 93 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:05,359 Corporal Ellis at your disposal, sir. 94 00:08:05,569 --> 00:08:08,154 I'm to take you to Colonel Nivens, sir. 95 00:08:08,363 --> 00:08:12,199 Well, let's get rolling, soldier. Yes, sir. 96 00:08:19,082 --> 00:08:23,210 Yes, sir, Captain Davenport. Yes, sir. 97 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:26,213 We're rolling, captain. 98 00:09:09,257 --> 00:09:12,635 This is where they killed Sergeant Waters last month, sir. 99 00:09:14,179 --> 00:09:16,764 Why did you say "they" killed him, corporal? 100 00:09:19,017 --> 00:09:21,352 - Who's "they"? - The Klan, sir. 101 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:24,813 They ain't too crazy about us tan yanks down here. 102 00:09:55,011 --> 00:09:57,596 I suppose whoever drove you in from the station 103 00:09:57,806 --> 00:10:00,557 showed you the spot where the killing took place. 104 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:04,895 Told you I had all the troops' personal effects searched for weapons. 105 00:10:07,649 --> 00:10:09,483 He tell you all that? 106 00:10:09,818 --> 00:10:12,778 Is there a point the colonel is trying to make, sir? 107 00:10:13,196 --> 00:10:14,947 There's a point. 108 00:10:16,908 --> 00:10:20,327 This thing has been blown all the hell out of shape. 109 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:22,496 This is the Army's business. 110 00:10:22,914 --> 00:10:24,873 Not the NAACP. 111 00:10:25,375 --> 00:10:26,834 Not the Negro press. 112 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:30,713 Not those paper-shuffling desk jockeys in Washington. 113 00:10:31,589 --> 00:10:34,383 I was brought up in the South, Davenport. 114 00:10:34,592 --> 00:10:36,802 Ever hear of Threadgill County, Alabama? 115 00:10:37,012 --> 00:10:39,805 No, sir. 116 00:10:41,766 --> 00:10:43,475 No matter. 117 00:10:45,145 --> 00:10:49,273 I've been commanding colored troops all my life, Davenport. 118 00:10:49,607 --> 00:10:52,818 The worst thing you can do in this part of the country 119 00:10:53,028 --> 00:10:57,364 is pay attention to death of a Negro under mysterious circumstances. 120 00:10:57,574 --> 00:10:59,158 Especially a soldier. 121 00:10:59,367 --> 00:11:02,244 People get itchy. Uneasy. 122 00:11:02,454 --> 00:11:06,123 White folk in the town, colored at the fort. 123 00:11:06,708 --> 00:11:09,084 Keep turning this thing over, 124 00:11:09,294 --> 00:11:13,213 sooner or later, you're bound to have an explosion. 125 00:11:13,548 --> 00:11:19,303 Now, I've lived here in Hunter Parish three years. 126 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,930 I'm fond of the place. 127 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:23,724 I like the duty. 128 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:25,351 You get my meaning? 129 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:27,311 What is it you want, colonel? 130 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,814 I want whatever you came here to do completed in three days. 131 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:33,525 Sir, I request permission to notify Washington. 132 00:11:33,735 --> 00:11:35,652 Denied. I'm under direct orders... 133 00:11:35,904 --> 00:11:38,238 I don't give a damn if Roosevelt sent you. 134 00:11:38,448 --> 00:11:42,993 I'm trying to prevent my troops from going into town and killing somebody. 135 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:45,704 And I don't care what you think. 136 00:11:46,122 --> 00:11:48,040 You can always return to Washington. 137 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:49,249 No, sir. 138 00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:53,545 I was assigned this case and I intend to file a report, sir. 139 00:11:58,176 --> 00:12:00,386 Here are your instructions and our reports. 140 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:02,596 Taylor's men will help you get settled. 141 00:12:02,764 --> 00:12:04,932 Taylor was Waters' CO. 142 00:12:05,141 --> 00:12:06,725 That'll be all, Davenport. 143 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:17,069 Oh, and, captain? 144 00:12:17,737 --> 00:12:19,321 Remember, 145 00:12:19,489 --> 00:12:22,866 you're the first colored officer most of these men have seen. 146 00:12:23,535 --> 00:12:27,162 The Army expects you to set an example for the colored troops 147 00:12:27,372 --> 00:12:29,748 and be a credit to your race. 148 00:12:30,333 --> 00:12:33,794 Is that clear, captain? 149 00:12:35,088 --> 00:12:37,965 Yes, colonel. 150 00:12:43,054 --> 00:12:44,596 Sir. 151 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:47,516 Sir, you all right? 152 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:51,019 You like to go to your quarters? No, I'll see Captain Taylor. 153 00:12:51,229 --> 00:12:54,440 You don't wanna unpack, sir? Freshen up? Didn't go too good? 154 00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:58,444 You got a hearing problem? No, sir. I was born with big ears. 155 00:12:58,653 --> 00:13:01,572 It runs in my family. My grandmother had big ears... 156 00:13:21,593 --> 00:13:24,178 I used to drive a fire truck, captain. 157 00:13:24,387 --> 00:13:27,598 Then the Army took and let me drive an ambulance. 158 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:30,893 I've been driving this jeep for six months, sir. 159 00:13:31,102 --> 00:13:33,520 Only turned over twice. 160 00:13:34,272 --> 00:13:36,523 - Twice? - Yes, sir. 161 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:39,067 Good. 162 00:14:08,306 --> 00:14:10,516 - Good afternoon, sir. - Good afternoon, sir. 163 00:14:18,566 --> 00:14:21,485 Sergeant Washington, sir. Can I help you, captain? 164 00:14:21,694 --> 00:14:23,904 Captain Davenport to see Captain Taylor. 165 00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:27,241 Just a moment, sir. 166 00:14:29,369 --> 00:14:30,953 Yes? 167 00:14:31,162 --> 00:14:34,164 There's a Captain Davenport to see you, sir. 168 00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:37,251 - Well, send him in. - Yes, sir. 169 00:14:38,670 --> 00:14:41,713 Every member of the lodge is rooting for you, sir. 170 00:14:50,348 --> 00:14:53,642 - Have a seat. - Thank you. 171 00:14:53,851 --> 00:14:56,270 I like your flowers, captain. 172 00:15:00,066 --> 00:15:01,400 Hey, where's he from? 173 00:15:01,609 --> 00:15:03,443 He's from Washington, D.C. 174 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:05,612 He's here on special assignment. 175 00:15:05,822 --> 00:15:07,072 Washington? 176 00:15:07,282 --> 00:15:08,740 Yes, sir. 177 00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:11,451 You gotta be shitting me. 178 00:15:13,121 --> 00:15:17,499 So they assigned a lawyer to the military police, eh? 179 00:15:17,709 --> 00:15:20,210 Well, where did you graduate law school? 180 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:22,379 Howard University. 181 00:15:22,672 --> 00:15:24,381 Your parents rich or something? 182 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:26,883 No, my father's a mailman. 183 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:31,513 I graduated at the Point. 184 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,266 I didn't see any Negroes at the Point. 185 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:39,605 In fact, I never saw a Negro until I was, I think, 12 or 13. 186 00:15:39,814 --> 00:15:41,648 Have you seen my orders, captain? 187 00:15:42,442 --> 00:15:45,360 Yes, as soon as Colonel Nivens received them. 188 00:15:45,695 --> 00:15:51,742 Look, I think it only fair to tell you that had I known you'd be a Negro 189 00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:55,912 I would've requested the immediate suspension of the investigation. 190 00:15:56,122 --> 00:15:59,583 Now, look, may I speak freely? You haven't stopped yet. 191 00:16:00,418 --> 00:16:03,962 Look, these local people aren't gonna charge a white man 192 00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:05,922 in this parish on your say-so. 193 00:16:06,132 --> 00:16:07,633 And Nivens knows that. 194 00:16:07,842 --> 00:16:11,470 He doesn't give a damn about this killing. Your being here proves it. 195 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:15,807 Making a fool out of you. Can't you...? Will you take off those sunglasses? 196 00:16:16,017 --> 00:16:18,935 I like these. They're like MacArthur's. 197 00:16:19,437 --> 00:16:22,856 All right. Now, look. Let me explain something to you. 198 00:16:23,066 --> 00:16:24,941 You go near Tynin in uniform, 199 00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:27,736 sounding white and charging local people, 200 00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:30,364 you're gonna wind up just as dead as Waters. 201 00:16:30,573 --> 00:16:33,825 This isn't Washington, Davenport. I know where I am. 202 00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:37,746 Do you know how many times I've asked Nivens to look into this killing? 203 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:40,082 Every day since it happened. 204 00:16:40,291 --> 00:16:43,585 Do you suspect someone? Don't play lawyer with me, soldier. 205 00:16:43,795 --> 00:16:46,880 With you on this case, we are not gonna get anywhere. 206 00:16:47,090 --> 00:16:49,675 Like it or not, captain. I am all you've got. 207 00:16:49,884 --> 00:16:52,511 Your orders instruct you to cooperate. 208 00:16:54,389 --> 00:16:58,350 Now, is there anything else? 209 00:16:59,811 --> 00:17:02,396 - Ellis. - Yes, sir. 210 00:17:02,605 --> 00:17:05,607 Captain Davenport will need some assistance with the men. 211 00:17:05,817 --> 00:17:08,402 You'll excuse me, captain? Oh, I'm glad I met you. 212 00:17:10,655 --> 00:17:12,572 Captain. 213 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:26,420 I sure hope we get to fight soon, sir. 214 00:17:26,629 --> 00:17:29,339 Next, they'll have us picking this year's cotton crop. 215 00:17:29,507 --> 00:17:32,634 Don't worry, they don't grow a lot of cotton in Germany. 216 00:17:32,844 --> 00:17:34,636 Yes, sir. 217 00:17:37,932 --> 00:17:40,600 How long was Captain Taylor's investigation? 218 00:17:40,977 --> 00:17:42,018 Two days, sir. 219 00:17:42,770 --> 00:17:44,771 Two days? Who did he question? 220 00:17:45,148 --> 00:17:48,024 Well, mostly guys who had contact with sarge that day. 221 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,820 Guys in his platoon, then anybody who could've seen him on the road. 222 00:17:52,029 --> 00:17:53,447 Wasn't but a handful. 223 00:17:53,656 --> 00:17:56,324 - Did you see him that day? - Nope. 224 00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:58,493 No, sir. 225 00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:27,981 Did your sergeant drink a lot? I didn't know him well enough, sir. 226 00:18:28,191 --> 00:18:31,234 All right, soldiers, let's get back to those exercises. 227 00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:33,904 Haven't you ever seen a colored officer before? 228 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:36,531 No, sir. Have you, sir? 229 00:18:38,242 --> 00:18:39,659 Ten-hut. 230 00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:47,709 This is it, sir. 231 00:18:47,919 --> 00:18:51,671 The captain instructed everyone in the sergeant's platoon to be here. 232 00:18:53,716 --> 00:18:55,509 As you were. 233 00:19:06,354 --> 00:19:09,064 Sergeant Waters' room is right there, sir. 234 00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:13,568 Sir, I think I ought to tell you, sir. 235 00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:18,198 Captain Taylor questioned two white officers from this fort that night. 236 00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:19,866 How do you know? 237 00:19:20,076 --> 00:19:22,452 I delivered his report to Colonel Nivens, sir. 238 00:19:22,662 --> 00:19:26,122 And on the way over, the jeep hit a hole, bam! 239 00:19:26,541 --> 00:19:28,667 And the papers flew all over the road 240 00:19:28,876 --> 00:19:31,711 and I happened to notice it, sir. Who are they? 241 00:19:31,921 --> 00:19:33,004 No names, sir. 242 00:19:33,214 --> 00:19:35,298 Just the mentioning of the questioning. 243 00:19:35,466 --> 00:19:37,551 Seems they were on the road that night. 244 00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:50,021 Well, don't let any more reports fly away from you, corporal. 245 00:19:50,606 --> 00:19:51,982 No, sir. 246 00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:56,319 Sir, may I say something, though? 247 00:19:56,696 --> 00:20:01,241 It sure is good seeing one of us wearing captain's bars, sir. 248 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:04,202 Call in the first man, corporal. 249 00:20:04,662 --> 00:20:06,288 Yes, sir. 250 00:20:06,789 --> 00:20:09,249 Private Wilkie, captain wants to see you. 251 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:12,878 Yes, indeedy. On my way. 252 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,550 Private Wilkie reports as ordered, sir. 253 00:20:19,427 --> 00:20:21,052 Close the door. 254 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:32,230 - Have a seat. - Yes, sir. 255 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:39,195 I'm Captain Davenport. I'm conduc... We all know that, sir. 256 00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:43,575 Word went out on the grapevine you were here the minute you hit the fort. 257 00:20:48,372 --> 00:20:52,792 I'm conducting an inquiry into the events surrounding the death of Waters. 258 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,754 The report I file will be confidential. 259 00:20:57,048 --> 00:20:58,798 How long did you know the sergeant? 260 00:20:59,550 --> 00:21:01,301 About a year, sir. 261 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:04,846 You see, this company, sir, was basically a baseball team. 262 00:21:05,056 --> 00:21:07,766 Most of the guys had played in the Negro league. 263 00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:10,143 Naturally, the Army put us all together. 264 00:21:10,353 --> 00:21:14,105 The Army sent Sergeant Waters here to manage the team, summer of '42, 265 00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:16,650 right after the invasion of North Africa. 266 00:21:16,859 --> 00:21:20,070 He'd been in field artillery, a gunnery sergeant. 267 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:22,948 He had a FEF and an ETO. 268 00:21:23,157 --> 00:21:26,409 A Croix de Guerre from the First World War. 269 00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,579 What kind of man was he? 270 00:21:34,502 --> 00:21:37,837 He was all spit and polish, sir. 271 00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:41,716 He took my stripes, sir, but I was in the wrong. 272 00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:43,510 Sergeant Wilkie. 273 00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:47,180 You're a noncommissioned officer in the army of a country at war. 274 00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:50,308 Penalty for being drunk on duty is severe in peace time. 275 00:21:50,518 --> 00:21:55,105 So don't bring me, "Us colored folks can't do nothing unless they're drunk." 276 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,273 You're supposed to be an example. 277 00:21:57,692 --> 00:22:01,486 I'm gonna put you in the stockade for 10 days and take those stripes. 278 00:22:01,696 --> 00:22:03,822 Wait, sergeant... To teach you a lesson. 279 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:05,615 You're in the Army. 280 00:22:07,702 --> 00:22:09,869 Colored folks running off at the mouth. 281 00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:13,873 What will they do if the white man give them a chance? What do you do? 282 00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:17,836 You wind up drunk on guard duty. I don't blame the white man. 283 00:22:18,045 --> 00:22:20,880 Why the hell should he put colored and white together? 284 00:22:21,090 --> 00:22:23,925 You can't guard your own quarters. Sergeant... 285 00:22:24,135 --> 00:22:28,179 Where's your pride, soldier? Where's your respect for this uniform? 286 00:22:28,431 --> 00:22:31,850 Get out of my sight, private. 287 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:54,247 And how was he with the other men? 288 00:22:54,457 --> 00:22:56,833 Sometimes the Southern guys caught hell. 289 00:22:57,043 --> 00:23:00,378 Sergeant wasn't too big on guys from the South. 290 00:23:01,130 --> 00:23:03,840 Me, I'm from Detroit. 291 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:07,052 Did you know that Joe Louis got his start in Detroit? 292 00:23:07,470 --> 00:23:09,304 What about the Southern men? 293 00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:11,931 The sarge didn't like them. Except for C.J. 294 00:23:12,141 --> 00:23:15,643 It could've been because C.J. was the best ballplayer on the team. 295 00:23:15,853 --> 00:23:17,812 He could sing too. 296 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:20,190 Boy, could he sing. 297 00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:25,862 ♪ Well, it's a lowdown ♪ 298 00:23:27,573 --> 00:23:29,449 ♪ Lowdown dirty shame ♪ 299 00:23:31,577 --> 00:23:33,244 ♪ Yes, it's a lowdown ♪ 300 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:37,082 ♪ Lowdown dirty shame ♪ 301 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,797 ♪ They say we're fighting Hitler But they won't let us in the game ♪ 302 00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:45,799 ♪ Lord ♪ 303 00:23:46,258 --> 00:23:50,929 ♪ Yes, it's a lowdown dirty shame ♪ 304 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:58,645 ♪ Yes, it's a lowdown Dirty, stinking shame ♪ 305 00:23:58,813 --> 00:24:02,023 Oh, sing it for Big Mary, you little sweet thing. 306 00:24:02,191 --> 00:24:03,650 ♪ Left home to join this Army ♪ 307 00:24:03,818 --> 00:24:05,860 ♪ Won't somebody tell me Who's to blame? ♪ 308 00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:08,488 I'll tell you something, C.J., right now. 309 00:24:08,739 --> 00:24:11,282 ♪ I'm gonna kill my man ♪ 310 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:15,078 ♪ Oh, and then I'm gonna turn around And kill myself ♪ 311 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:18,873 ♪ I'm gonna kill him with a razor Yes, I am ♪ 312 00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:21,543 ♪ And them I'm gonna use it On myself ♪ 313 00:24:22,169 --> 00:24:25,839 ♪ I'd rather see us Both dead and buried ♪ 314 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:29,217 ♪ Then see him With someone else ♪ 315 00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:31,094 ♪ Well ♪ 316 00:24:31,262 --> 00:24:36,391 ♪ Well, it's a lowdown dirty shame ♪ ♪ It's a lowdown dirty shame ♪ 317 00:24:36,934 --> 00:24:38,268 ♪ Oh, yes ♪ 318 00:24:38,435 --> 00:24:42,939 ♪ Yes, it's a lowdown dirty shame ♪ ♪ It's a lowdown dirty shame ♪ 319 00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:48,236 ♪ You ain't nothing In this man's Army ♪ 320 00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:52,157 ♪ Till Big Mary knows your name ♪ ♪ Knows your name ♪ ♪ 321 00:24:55,369 --> 00:24:56,703 All right. 322 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:58,872 Drink up. Drink up, y'all. 323 00:24:59,081 --> 00:25:02,667 Drink up. Mary can't make no money when the U.S. Army stops sipping. 324 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,836 So drink up now because I need a new car. 325 00:25:07,923 --> 00:25:09,132 Yeah. 326 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:12,468 I'm gonna ask that boy something. Come on, Wilkie. 327 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:20,476 Hey, boy. 328 00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:23,813 You ever heard of Blind Willie Reynolds? 329 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:25,481 From Son House? 330 00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:26,983 I knew it. 331 00:25:27,193 --> 00:25:29,611 I bet you're from Mississippi too, ain't you? 332 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:31,154 Yes, sir. 333 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:36,159 I used to hear him at the Bandana Club outside Camp J.J. Reilly. 334 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:38,578 Folks used to come from everywhere, Wilkie. 335 00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:40,538 Folks would be dancing, sweating. 336 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:44,250 Reminded me of a place I used to go in France. 337 00:25:44,418 --> 00:25:47,503 The whiskey, the women. 338 00:25:47,922 --> 00:25:51,090 Place called the Café Napoléon. 339 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,011 Where did you learn to play, son? My daddy taught me, sarge. 340 00:25:55,221 --> 00:25:57,096 You play pretty good, boy. 341 00:25:58,682 --> 00:26:00,433 Wilkie, wasn't that good? 342 00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:02,644 Yeah, that was good, sarge. 343 00:26:02,853 --> 00:26:04,729 Take it easy, son. 344 00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:13,238 I mostly agreed with the sergeant, sir. He was a good man. 345 00:26:13,447 --> 00:26:15,198 Good to his men. 346 00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,992 Talked about his wife and his kid all the time. 347 00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:21,454 As a matter of fact, he wrote home to his wife every day. 348 00:26:21,747 --> 00:26:25,208 I just don't see why anybody would wanna kill the sarge. 349 00:26:27,378 --> 00:26:30,463 ♪ The apple tree With anyone else but me ♪ 350 00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:35,301 ♪ Anyone else but me ♪ 351 00:26:35,469 --> 00:26:36,636 See this? 352 00:26:36,971 --> 00:26:40,515 My wife let a neighbor take this just a couple of weeks ago. 353 00:26:40,808 --> 00:26:42,642 Army's not for my son. 354 00:26:42,935 --> 00:26:45,645 See, when this war is over, things are gonna change. 355 00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:48,189 I want him to be ready for it. 356 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,443 I'll send him to some big white college. Let him rub elbows with the whites. 357 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:55,071 Learn white man's language, how he does things. 358 00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:57,240 White don't rub off. 359 00:26:57,449 --> 00:27:00,743 Well, what are we gonna do? Stay behind in everything? 360 00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:04,956 Hell, you can see it in the Army . White man's running rings around us. 361 00:27:05,291 --> 00:27:08,293 Lot of us ain't had the chance them white boys had, sarge. 362 00:27:08,502 --> 00:27:09,836 Oh, that ain't no excuse. 363 00:27:10,045 --> 00:27:12,714 My daddy shoveled coal from a wagon all his life. 364 00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:15,591 Couldn't read or write, but he saw that we did. 365 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,303 Now, not having is no excuse for not getting. 366 00:27:18,804 --> 00:27:21,139 You can't get pee from a tree, sarge. 367 00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:30,857 You're just like the rest of them, Wilkie. 368 00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:33,359 Ignorant, scared. 369 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:36,529 - Stop thinking like a nigger. - Take it easy. 370 00:27:36,739 --> 00:27:38,781 All I said... Is the equipment ready? 371 00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:41,451 No. Then see that it gets ready. 372 00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,036 ♪ Not till you see me ♪ 373 00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:45,538 ♪ Not until you see me Marchin' home, home, home ♪ 374 00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:46,956 ♪ Home sweet home ♪ 375 00:27:47,124 --> 00:27:49,042 ♪ Don't go walkin' down Lovers' Lane ♪ 376 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:50,543 ♪ With anyone else but me ♪ 377 00:27:50,711 --> 00:27:53,379 Here's to the war, gents. To the war. 378 00:27:53,589 --> 00:27:55,256 - To the war. - To the war. 379 00:27:55,424 --> 00:27:58,343 ♪ No, no, no, don't you go Walkin' down Lovers' Lane ♪ ♪ 380 00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:00,636 Two people, sir. 381 00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:05,350 Mr. Warm and Mr. Cold. But deep down, a real nice guy. 382 00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:08,227 You could borrow a 10 from him if you needed it. 383 00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:11,064 Did you see him the night he was killed? 384 00:28:11,273 --> 00:28:15,026 I saw him in town at the club earlier. But I left around 10:00. 385 00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:17,195 He was juicing pretty heavy. 386 00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:19,697 Is it true that when they found him 387 00:28:19,907 --> 00:28:23,368 his stripes and insignia were still on the uniform? 388 00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:27,830 Yes. Something's wrong, ain't it, sir? 389 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:29,582 Those Klan boys, 390 00:28:29,792 --> 00:28:33,002 they can't stand to see us in these uniforms. 391 00:28:33,212 --> 00:28:37,090 They usually take the stripes and stuff off before they lynch us. 392 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,848 That'll be all, private. Yes, sir. 393 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:50,728 Can you do anything about allotment checks? 394 00:28:50,938 --> 00:28:52,939 My wife didn't get hers last month. 395 00:28:54,525 --> 00:28:56,275 Did you see the finance officer? 396 00:28:56,485 --> 00:28:59,195 Yes, I did, sir. 397 00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:03,032 Well, I'll speak to Captain Taylor about it. 398 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:05,451 Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Yes, indeed. 399 00:29:05,661 --> 00:29:07,870 Would you like me to send the next man in? 400 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,747 Yes. 401 00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:17,755 Private First Class Melvin Peterson, reporting as ordered, sir. 402 00:29:19,508 --> 00:29:21,467 Sit down, private. 403 00:29:34,481 --> 00:29:35,982 Where are you from, Peterson? 404 00:29:36,191 --> 00:29:38,443 Hollywood, California. 405 00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:41,612 By way of Alabama, sir. 406 00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:45,992 You see, I enlisted in '42. I thought we'd get a chance to fight, sir. 407 00:29:51,165 --> 00:29:53,291 Did you know the sergeant well? 408 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,335 No. He was with the company when I got assigned, 409 00:29:56,628 --> 00:29:59,464 and PFCs and sergeants, we don't mix too well, sir. 410 00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:03,468 You played ball for him. Oh, yes, sir. I played shortstop. 411 00:30:03,677 --> 00:30:06,471 And did you like the sergeant? No, sir. 412 00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:09,515 Well, it goes back to the team. Stoneass felt that... 413 00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:11,142 Stoneass? 414 00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:14,270 I'm the only one who called him that. Sergeant Waters. 415 00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:17,815 Didn't mean no offense, sir. 416 00:30:21,403 --> 00:30:22,737 By the time I got here, 417 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:25,615 the team had won nine or 10 games in a row. 418 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:29,660 There was even a rumor we'd get to play the Yankees in exhibition. 419 00:30:30,037 --> 00:30:31,787 Anyway, we were... 420 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,790 We were playing the 35th Ordinance this particular day. 421 00:30:34,958 --> 00:30:37,126 It was a real big game too. 422 00:30:37,586 --> 00:30:41,631 The YWCA sent a whole busload of women to see us. 423 00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:45,218 Yes, a real big day, sir. 424 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:08,658 I can't believe that. 425 00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:12,245 Yeah. 426 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:18,417 Let it fly again. Let's go, Pete. 427 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:44,110 Come on, batter. Hit the ball. 428 00:31:45,946 --> 00:31:48,447 That's a hell of a ballplayer. 429 00:31:55,497 --> 00:31:58,040 Come on, hit it. Throw another one up here. 430 00:32:00,294 --> 00:32:01,752 Come on, C.J., next county. 431 00:32:25,402 --> 00:32:28,070 Hell of a ballplayer. Did you see...? 432 00:32:35,579 --> 00:32:38,205 - All right, C.J. - Right on, C.J. 433 00:32:42,127 --> 00:32:43,294 Come on, boy. 434 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,841 Did you see that ball? 435 00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:51,177 Did you see it? Did you see it go? 436 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:57,266 We played fairly well. I had two hits. Smalls had a couple and C.J... 437 00:32:58,101 --> 00:33:00,269 C.J. was incredible. 438 00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:04,732 And we beat them something like nine-, 10-nothing. 439 00:33:04,941 --> 00:33:09,111 Like we always did after, we went over to the mess hall to celebrate. 440 00:33:09,905 --> 00:33:12,156 Fellas. It's a big ball, give it back. 441 00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:18,412 C.J. Who was that fine river hip thing you was talking to before the game? 442 00:33:18,622 --> 00:33:21,415 The woman had tits like two helmets. 443 00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:24,835 You see the size of them knockers? No, he didn't. 444 00:33:25,045 --> 00:33:27,630 Smalls couldn't even see a ball go in his glove. 445 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:31,133 How the hell he gonna see C.J.? I saw C.J., man. 446 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:34,929 Will you all let C.J. tell me about this woman? 447 00:33:35,138 --> 00:33:37,056 She looked mighty good to me, C.J. 448 00:33:37,265 --> 00:33:40,309 All she asked me for was my autograph. 449 00:33:40,977 --> 00:33:43,604 She looked like she was asking for more than that. 450 00:33:43,814 --> 00:33:45,898 Moved in close. 451 00:33:46,108 --> 00:33:47,775 Breathing heavy. 452 00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:51,904 Waving them tits all in your face. 453 00:33:53,907 --> 00:33:55,408 He's right on that, C.J. 454 00:33:55,617 --> 00:33:57,993 If I'd given that gal what she asked me for, 455 00:33:58,203 --> 00:34:00,913 she'd give me something I didn't want. 456 00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:02,456 Around home, 457 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:06,544 there's a fella folks used to call Little Jimmy One-Leg 458 00:34:06,753 --> 00:34:09,213 on account of his thing was so big. 459 00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:13,926 A couple of years ago, a young, pretty thing 460 00:34:14,136 --> 00:34:16,387 laid clap on Jimmy so bad 461 00:34:16,596 --> 00:34:18,848 he lost the one good leg he had. 462 00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:20,850 Now folks just call him Little. 463 00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:27,273 You know, that pretty young thing talking to me ain't look too clean. 464 00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:32,278 Yeah, them dirty ones will give you the clap every time, right, Henson? 465 00:34:36,742 --> 00:34:40,494 I hear tell they're on the verge of getting all of us together. 466 00:34:40,704 --> 00:34:44,123 The colored, the white, say they want one army. 467 00:34:44,332 --> 00:34:46,125 You can forget that, C.J. 468 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:49,128 White folks ain't never gonna integrate no army. 469 00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:54,008 I don't know. If they do, I'm gonna be ready for them. 470 00:34:54,718 --> 00:34:56,844 ♪ Get me a bright-red zoot suit ♪ 471 00:34:57,179 --> 00:34:58,929 - Yeah. - Yeah. 472 00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:02,641 ♪ And a pile Of patent-leather shoes ♪ 473 00:35:03,894 --> 00:35:07,980 ♪ At home, sitting at home Waiting for the day we get the news ♪ 474 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:09,398 ♪ Lord, Lord ♪ 475 00:35:09,566 --> 00:35:11,150 Go on, boy. 476 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:15,613 ♪ Lord, Lord, Lord Lordy-Lord, yeah ♪ 477 00:35:19,451 --> 00:35:20,951 ♪ Look out, Adolf Hitler ♪ 478 00:35:21,912 --> 00:35:24,163 ♪ You and Tojo Gonna be singin' the blues ♪ 479 00:35:27,334 --> 00:35:28,417 All right. 480 00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:30,961 ♪ Got a little problem ♪ 481 00:35:31,213 --> 00:35:33,506 ♪ It's about 5 foot 2 ♪ 482 00:35:33,673 --> 00:35:36,091 ♪ And they call him sarge ♪ 483 00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:38,469 ♪ And he's after you ♪ 484 00:35:39,054 --> 00:35:41,138 ♪ Gotta watch what you're saying ♪ 485 00:35:41,348 --> 00:35:43,182 ♪ Gotta watch what you do ♪ 486 00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:45,267 ♪ Because that lowdown Dirty Waters ♪ 487 00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:47,895 ♪ He's gonna roll all over you ♪ 488 00:35:48,104 --> 00:35:50,147 ♪ Lord, Lord ♪ 489 00:35:50,941 --> 00:35:56,403 ♪ Lord, Lord, Lord Lordy-Lord, yeah ♪ ♪ 490 00:35:58,824 --> 00:36:03,410 Knock it off. We don't need no more of that guitar-picking, 491 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:06,622 sitting-around-the-shack music today, C.J. 492 00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:12,253 I want all you out of those baseball uniforms and into work clothes. 493 00:36:12,462 --> 00:36:15,130 You'll report to me at 1600. 494 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:18,717 We got a work detail, painting the lobby of the Officers' Club. 495 00:36:18,927 --> 00:36:21,303 Why can't those officers paint their own club? 496 00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:23,055 Hell, no, Smalls. 497 00:36:23,265 --> 00:36:25,724 Let the Great Colored Cleanup Company do it. 498 00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:28,894 Our motto is, "Anything you don't wanna do", 499 00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:31,397 the colored troops will do for you." 500 00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:35,150 ♪ Anything you don't wanna do The colored troops will do for you ♪ 501 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,238 ♪ Anything you don't wanna do The colored troops will do for you ♪ 502 00:36:39,447 --> 00:36:43,158 ♪ Anything you don't wanna do The colored troops will do for you ♪ ♪ 503 00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:44,869 That's enough. 504 00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:50,541 Let me tell all you fancy-assed, ball-playing Negroes something. 505 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:54,795 The reasons for any orders given by a superior officer 506 00:36:55,005 --> 00:36:56,714 is none of y'all's business. 507 00:36:56,923 --> 00:36:58,299 You obey them. 508 00:36:58,508 --> 00:37:00,384 This country is at war. 509 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,179 And you niggers are soldiers, nothing else. 510 00:37:05,015 --> 00:37:07,141 And something else. 511 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:11,437 From now on, when I tell you to do something, I want it done. 512 00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:14,732 - Is that clear? - Yes, sir. 513 00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:18,861 Now get out of those baseball uniforms. 514 00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:22,406 I could smell you suckers before I hit the door. 515 00:37:22,616 --> 00:37:25,117 Hey, what kind of colored man are you? 516 00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,039 I'm a soldier, Peterson. 517 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:34,835 And the kind of colored man that don't like lazy, shiftless Negroes. 518 00:37:35,045 --> 00:37:38,297 Well, sir, you ain't got to come in here calling us names. 519 00:37:38,548 --> 00:37:41,133 The Nazis call you schwarze. 520 00:37:41,301 --> 00:37:43,427 You gonna complain to Hitler he hurt your feelings? 521 00:37:43,637 --> 00:37:46,722 Don't look like to me we could do too much to them Nazis 522 00:37:46,932 --> 00:37:48,682 with paintbrushes, sarge. 523 00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:55,439 You trying to mock me, C.J.? 524 00:37:55,649 --> 00:37:58,067 - No, sir, sarge. - Good. 525 00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:01,445 Because whatever an ignorant Geechee like you has to say 526 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,823 ain't worth paying attention to, is it? 527 00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:07,993 Is it? 528 00:38:09,579 --> 00:38:12,164 I reckon not, sarge. 529 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:18,087 You're a creep, Waters. 530 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:22,091 Sarge's just joking, Pete. He don't mean no harm. 531 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:26,178 No, he does. I mean, we take enough from them white boys. 532 00:38:26,388 --> 00:38:29,556 Yes, you do. If it wasn't for Southern niggers 533 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:32,351 white folks wouldn't think we was all fools. 534 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,270 Well, where are you from, England? 535 00:38:41,903 --> 00:38:43,529 Wilkie. 536 00:38:44,197 --> 00:38:48,701 Looks like we got us a wiseass Alabama boy here. 537 00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:51,704 Yes, sir. 538 00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:56,375 Now, don't you get smart, nigger. Get your fucking hands off me. 539 00:39:00,046 --> 00:39:04,800 You wanna hit old Sergeant Waters, boy? 540 00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:08,178 Come on. 541 00:39:09,556 --> 00:39:11,932 Please. 542 00:39:13,018 --> 00:39:14,810 Come on, nigger. 543 00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:16,979 Ten-hut. 544 00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:20,399 At ease. 545 00:39:20,608 --> 00:39:23,068 - What's going on here, sergeant? - Nothing, sir. 546 00:39:23,278 --> 00:39:26,947 I was going over some batting techniques, sir. 547 00:39:27,157 --> 00:39:29,742 Is there something you wanted? Something I can do? 548 00:39:29,951 --> 00:39:31,785 No, no, nothing. 549 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:35,873 I just wanted to congratulate you men on the game you won today. 550 00:39:36,082 --> 00:39:39,877 Now, the way I figure it, only seven more 551 00:39:40,086 --> 00:39:45,758 and we'll be the first colored team in Army history to play the Yankees. 552 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:49,261 The entire regiment is counting on you. 553 00:39:49,471 --> 00:39:50,971 - Sergeant? - Sir. 554 00:39:51,181 --> 00:39:56,477 As far as I'm concerned, these men can have the rest of the day off. 555 00:39:56,936 --> 00:39:58,437 I beg your pardon, sir. 556 00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:01,190 Excuse me, sir. These men don't need time off. 557 00:40:01,357 --> 00:40:05,360 They need work. Our fellas in Africa aren't getting time off. 558 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,864 Besides, we have orders to report for a paint detail at 1600. 559 00:40:09,074 --> 00:40:11,158 Who issued that order? Major Harris. 560 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:13,911 - I'll speak to the major. - Sir? 561 00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:19,750 I don't think it's a good idea to have a colored NCO mixed up with your officers, sir. 562 00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:22,878 I said I'd speak to him, sergeant. 563 00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:25,005 Yes, sir. 564 00:40:25,215 --> 00:40:30,385 Memphis, about that catch you made in center field today... 565 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,388 How in the hell did you get up that high? 566 00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:39,978 They say I got bird in my blood, sir. I hope it's American eagle. 567 00:40:40,188 --> 00:40:42,856 No, sir. Crow. 568 00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:46,485 See, a man told my daddy the day I was born. 569 00:40:46,694 --> 00:40:49,655 He said, "The boy got the shadow of crow in his chest..." 570 00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:51,657 That's fine, Memphis. 571 00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:55,744 Men, you played a great game today. 572 00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:58,497 - Sergeant? - A-ten-hut. 573 00:40:59,290 --> 00:41:00,958 Carry on. 574 00:41:03,253 --> 00:41:04,503 Shadow of a crow. 575 00:41:04,671 --> 00:41:06,630 - What do you say? - Yeah, that's the... 576 00:41:09,759 --> 00:41:13,595 How long a story were you gonna tell the man there, C.J.? 577 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:20,686 Peterson. I ain't forgot you, boy. 578 00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:23,188 It's time to teach you a lesson. 579 00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:25,232 - Wilkie. - Sir? 580 00:41:25,441 --> 00:41:28,152 Go outside and make sure everything is set up. 581 00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:31,196 You want all the NCOs? 582 00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:36,618 I'm going outside and wait for you, Geechee. 583 00:41:36,828 --> 00:41:38,745 And when you come out, 584 00:41:38,955 --> 00:41:41,540 I'm gonna whup your black Southern ass. 585 00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:43,834 Let the whole company watch too. 586 00:41:44,043 --> 00:41:46,712 You need to learn respect for these stripes. 587 00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:52,885 The rest of you, 588 00:41:53,094 --> 00:41:57,014 get those goddamn uniforms off like I said. 589 00:41:59,225 --> 00:42:01,185 You ain't gonna fight him, are you? 590 00:42:01,394 --> 00:42:04,521 Don't do it. He'll fight dirty. You can't whup the sarge. 591 00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:07,357 Well, you wanna fight in my place, Cobb? 592 00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:09,902 Shoot. 593 00:42:10,111 --> 00:42:13,322 Pete. Pete, I got some farmer's dust. 594 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,824 Just a pinch will make you strong as a bull. 595 00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:18,619 Would you get the hell out of here with that crap? 596 00:42:18,828 --> 00:42:21,705 You can't speak up. You let him treat you like a dog. 597 00:42:21,915 --> 00:42:23,707 Calling names ain't nothing, Pete. 598 00:42:23,917 --> 00:42:27,252 I know who I is. Sarge ain't so bad. He's been good to me. 599 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:30,797 C.J., the man despises you. You're wrong, Pete. 600 00:42:31,007 --> 00:42:33,300 Plus, I feel sorry for him myself. 601 00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:38,138 Any man ain't sure where he belong gotta be in a whole lot of pain. 602 00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:41,975 Look, don't you all even care about nothing? 603 00:42:42,185 --> 00:42:43,977 Don't none of us like it, Pete. 604 00:42:44,187 --> 00:42:47,898 But this is the Army and sarge got all the stripes. 605 00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:52,903 I'll go get the captain. You ain't got to go out and get your head beaten in. 606 00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:55,697 Well, somebody's got to fight him. 607 00:42:56,824 --> 00:42:58,158 Waters, what's going on? 608 00:42:58,326 --> 00:43:00,494 I had a problem with one of the guys. 609 00:43:00,703 --> 00:43:04,456 - Yeah? - Don't worry about it. 610 00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:08,460 Come on now, boy. 611 00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:11,213 Let's take your whupping like a man. 612 00:43:12,757 --> 00:43:14,925 Kick his ass, Pete. Watch him, Pete. 613 00:43:15,134 --> 00:43:18,720 Yeah, come on out here and kick old sarge's ass. 614 00:43:18,930 --> 00:43:19,972 Come on, Geechee. 615 00:43:20,139 --> 00:43:23,308 You don't want the sarge to grow old waiting for you now. 616 00:43:36,406 --> 00:43:37,990 Fight. 617 00:43:38,783 --> 00:43:40,450 Fight him. Fight him. Grab him. 618 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:44,371 - Get him. - Come on. 619 00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:46,665 Come on. Come on. 620 00:43:52,964 --> 00:43:55,132 Watch him, Pete. 621 00:43:58,594 --> 00:44:02,306 He got him. That got him. 622 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,975 Come on. Get up. Get up, sarge. 623 00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:09,062 You throw a pretty mean punch, boy. 624 00:44:09,272 --> 00:44:11,940 But old sarge is here to kick your ass. 625 00:44:17,697 --> 00:44:20,324 - Come on. - Come on, Pete. 626 00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:21,992 Move over there. 627 00:44:22,201 --> 00:44:24,870 - There you go. - Come on. 628 00:44:25,038 --> 00:44:26,955 Who the hell is fighting over there? 629 00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:31,251 - Come on. - There you go. 630 00:44:31,461 --> 00:44:34,421 - Get up, Pete. - Get up, get up. 631 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:38,383 - Get him, sarge. - Vernon. Vernon. 632 00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:42,888 That's enough. 633 00:44:51,356 --> 00:44:56,401 Yeah, he beat me pretty bad that day, sir. 634 00:44:57,779 --> 00:45:00,781 Did anybody report the fight to an officer? 635 00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:04,076 No, sir, I never reported it. I know I should have, 636 00:45:04,285 --> 00:45:07,704 but he left me alone after that so I just played ball. 637 00:45:10,249 --> 00:45:12,751 I appreciate your honesty, Peterson. 638 00:45:13,336 --> 00:45:15,003 Thank you, sir. 639 00:45:18,883 --> 00:45:22,344 Did you see Sergeant Waters the night he was killed? 640 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:25,639 No, sir. Smalls and I had guard duty. 641 00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:31,103 Thank you. That'll be all for now. Yes, sir. 642 00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:36,400 Did the team ever get to play the Yankees? 643 00:45:36,609 --> 00:45:40,570 No, sir. We lost the last game to a sanitation company. 644 00:47:35,478 --> 00:47:38,146 What brings you out to my neighborhood, captain? 645 00:47:38,356 --> 00:47:39,731 Slumming? 646 00:47:40,066 --> 00:47:41,900 I wanted you to see the request 647 00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:46,029 I've sent to Colonel Nivens to have your investigation terminated. 648 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,491 Now, my reasons have nothing to do with you personally. 649 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,035 My request won't hurt your career in any way. 650 00:47:52,245 --> 00:47:55,539 It's just that there are other things to consider in this case. 651 00:47:55,748 --> 00:47:57,374 Only the color of my skin. 652 00:47:57,583 --> 00:47:59,918 Now, hold it, Davenport. 653 00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:02,671 I want the people that killed Waters prosecuted. 654 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,965 - So do I. - Then give this up. 655 00:48:05,174 --> 00:48:08,718 White people down here, they won't see their duty or justice. 656 00:48:08,928 --> 00:48:12,389 They'll see you. And you can't possibly get at the truth. 657 00:48:12,598 --> 00:48:16,685 Why? Because two white officers are involved in this? 658 00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:20,522 And you can't get them charged, court-martialed or anything else. 659 00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:23,733 Why wasn't there any mention of them in my report? 660 00:48:24,193 --> 00:48:26,945 You think I'm gonna let you get away with this? 661 00:48:30,658 --> 00:48:33,910 I was ordered not to include it. 662 00:48:34,537 --> 00:48:37,998 - By who? - Colonel Nivens. 663 00:48:40,710 --> 00:48:42,419 Now, look, 664 00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:47,549 they took two .45-caliber slugs out of Waters, Army issue. 665 00:48:47,758 --> 00:48:51,136 Now, if my men thought a white officer had killed him, 666 00:48:51,345 --> 00:48:53,305 there would have been a slaughter. 667 00:48:54,557 --> 00:48:56,474 Who are the officers? 668 00:48:56,684 --> 00:49:00,228 Lieutenant Byrd in Ordnance and a Captain Wilcox, 669 00:49:00,396 --> 00:49:02,397 12th Hospital Group. 670 00:49:02,732 --> 00:49:04,899 Private Seymour saw them on the road. 671 00:49:05,109 --> 00:49:08,361 When I checked the officers' billet, I found them both asleep. 672 00:49:08,571 --> 00:49:11,740 They admitted they'd had an argument with the sergeant... 673 00:49:11,949 --> 00:49:14,200 but said they'd left him on the road. 674 00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:17,287 So you never believed the Klan was involved. 675 00:49:17,496 --> 00:49:20,165 No. No. 676 00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:23,168 Now can you see why this thing needs somebody else? 677 00:49:26,422 --> 00:49:28,173 Tell me what they told you. 678 00:49:30,593 --> 00:49:32,802 Look, hotshot, 679 00:49:33,179 --> 00:49:36,181 they're not gonna let you charge those two men. 680 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,101 Tell me what they told you. 681 00:49:41,812 --> 00:49:44,522 Left, hup, three, four. 682 00:49:44,732 --> 00:49:47,332 Left, hup, three, four. 683 00:49:56,994 --> 00:50:01,206 Left, two, three, four. 684 00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:11,132 You wanna move your ass off the goddamn road, sergeant? 685 00:50:12,134 --> 00:50:14,886 Well, I'll be damned. 686 00:50:15,096 --> 00:50:18,390 If it ain't the white boys. 687 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,017 Did you hear what he said? 688 00:50:21,227 --> 00:50:22,310 - Shit. - Let it go. 689 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,897 Let it go my ass. Come here, sergeant. 690 00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:31,319 White boys, all starched and stiff. 691 00:50:31,529 --> 00:50:36,282 Want everybody to learn that symphony shit. 692 00:50:36,617 --> 00:50:39,035 That's what you said in France, 693 00:50:39,245 --> 00:50:42,956 and, you know, I listened to it. 694 00:50:43,165 --> 00:50:45,291 Am I right, now? Am I? 695 00:50:45,501 --> 00:50:48,211 You'd better straighten up and salute an officer 696 00:50:48,379 --> 00:50:50,588 or I'll take your fucking stripes, boy. 697 00:50:51,465 --> 00:50:53,133 That's better. 698 00:51:01,142 --> 00:51:05,937 Well, look at the nigger. 699 00:51:06,147 --> 00:51:09,941 You come to attention right now, and that is an order. 700 00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:14,654 I ain't doing nothing white folks say do. No more. 701 00:51:14,864 --> 00:51:16,948 No, leave him alone, the man is drunk. 702 00:51:17,158 --> 00:51:19,617 I want the nigger to do like I tell him. Do it. 703 00:51:19,827 --> 00:51:21,786 - No. - I'll teach him, goddamn it. 704 00:51:21,954 --> 00:51:24,205 I always mind y'all. 705 00:51:25,624 --> 00:51:28,168 Look what it's done to me. 706 00:51:29,420 --> 00:51:31,796 I hate myself. 707 00:51:32,006 --> 00:51:35,008 Don't blame me. God's the one who made you black, not me. 708 00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:36,801 My daddy said, 709 00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:41,014 "Don't talk like this," 710 00:51:41,390 --> 00:51:43,683 talk like that. 711 00:51:44,143 --> 00:51:45,351 Don't say, 712 00:51:47,730 --> 00:51:49,272 "Say..." 713 00:51:53,986 --> 00:51:56,196 I even killed for you. 714 00:52:01,577 --> 00:52:02,786 Stop! 715 00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:07,415 You wanna kill him? The man is sick. Let him go. You're gonna kill him. 716 00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:12,086 Come on. 717 00:52:24,767 --> 00:52:27,519 White men are killing for you, nigger. 718 00:52:29,605 --> 00:52:32,190 Good men dying for you. 719 00:52:37,822 --> 00:52:42,283 So anyway, they said they left Waters about 2310. 720 00:52:44,703 --> 00:52:48,373 And everyone in the barracks confirms that they were in by 2330 721 00:52:48,582 --> 00:52:51,709 and that neither man left till the following morning. 722 00:52:52,545 --> 00:52:56,089 That's nothing but white officers lying to protect two of their own. 723 00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:57,757 You know that. 724 00:52:57,925 --> 00:53:01,594 I'm arresting both of them, captain. Consider yourself under arrest... 725 00:53:01,804 --> 00:53:04,389 pending my charges against you. What charges? 726 00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:08,059 It was your duty to go over Nivens' head if you had to. 727 00:53:08,269 --> 00:53:11,062 Oh, you're gonna arrest the colonel too, Davenport? 728 00:53:11,272 --> 00:53:13,064 Because he's part of their alibi. 729 00:53:13,274 --> 00:53:16,526 He was there in the officers' billet when they came in. 730 00:53:16,735 --> 00:53:19,320 Played poker till 3:30 in the morning, yeah. 731 00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:24,158 Yeah, the colonel, Major Hines and four other white officers. 732 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,035 They're all lying. 733 00:53:26,245 --> 00:53:28,621 You just go out and prove it. 734 00:53:44,388 --> 00:53:48,016 Sir, I intend to arrest Lieutenant Byrd and Captain Wilcox. 735 00:53:48,225 --> 00:53:51,185 You will do nothing of the kind. Colonel. 736 00:53:51,395 --> 00:53:55,064 I believe these men had something to do with Sergeant Waters' death. 737 00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:58,818 No, I can't allow that. 738 00:53:59,028 --> 00:54:02,155 You have no authority to arrest white officers. 739 00:54:02,364 --> 00:54:05,074 Then give me the authority, sir. 740 00:54:05,284 --> 00:54:06,409 Colonel. 741 00:54:06,619 --> 00:54:08,912 Your breakfast is ready. 742 00:54:11,123 --> 00:54:12,874 Thank you, honey. 743 00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:17,337 Can I have someone fetch you coffee, captain? 744 00:54:17,546 --> 00:54:20,173 No, thank you, ma'am. 745 00:54:23,177 --> 00:54:27,096 I hope they're making your stay at Fort Neal real comfortable, captain. 746 00:54:27,431 --> 00:54:31,309 They're taking good care of me. It's very thoughtful of you to ask. 747 00:54:33,854 --> 00:54:34,979 Good morning. 748 00:54:35,147 --> 00:54:37,357 No, I can't give you that authority. 749 00:54:37,566 --> 00:54:40,360 - I told you. - 30. 750 00:54:40,569 --> 00:54:41,736 I was there. 751 00:54:41,946 --> 00:54:45,114 Now, you've read our affidavits on this thing. 752 00:54:45,324 --> 00:54:48,993 Colonel, what will the Army say when they find out white officers 753 00:54:49,203 --> 00:54:52,330 beat up the victim not long before he was shot to death? 754 00:54:52,539 --> 00:54:55,917 Their CO refuses to report they had anything to do with it 755 00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:58,962 and he signs an affidavit supporting their alibi. 756 00:55:00,339 --> 00:55:04,342 These two are our best suspects. How can you not have them arrested 757 00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:07,720 or at least questioned by the investigating officer? 758 00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:14,602 Something like this is bound to get out. 759 00:55:17,064 --> 00:55:19,190 I didn't say you couldn't question them. 760 00:55:20,192 --> 00:55:22,485 But I want a white officer present. 761 00:55:22,695 --> 00:55:25,238 And I want everything that's said reported to me. 762 00:55:25,447 --> 00:55:28,449 - Is that clear? - Of course, sir. 763 00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:40,586 You're dismissed, captain. Yes, sir. 764 00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:12,785 ♪ What a privilege to carry ♪ 765 00:56:13,037 --> 00:56:19,292 ♪ Everything to God in prayer ♪ 766 00:56:20,002 --> 00:56:26,924 ♪ Oh, what peace we often forfeit ♪ 767 00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:34,265 ♪ Oh, what needless pains We bear ♪ 768 00:56:34,767 --> 00:56:41,647 ♪ All because we do not carry ♪ 769 00:56:41,815 --> 00:56:48,321 ♪ Everything to God in prayer ♪ 770 00:56:49,531 --> 00:56:51,531 ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ 771 00:57:02,294 --> 00:57:04,170 Go with God. 772 00:57:28,195 --> 00:57:31,072 Hey, Virge, same old sermon? 773 00:57:37,788 --> 00:57:40,248 I didn't know you were a religious man, Henson. 774 00:57:40,916 --> 00:57:42,250 I'm not. 775 00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:44,836 I just play this organ. 776 00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:49,465 If I play on Sundays, I get out of a few work details during the week. 777 00:57:49,633 --> 00:57:50,675 That's all. 778 00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:53,344 I wanna talk about Sergeant Waters. Yeah? 779 00:57:53,637 --> 00:57:58,808 There ain't much to talk about, except for I didn't like the man myself 780 00:57:59,017 --> 00:58:01,352 on account of what he did to C.J. 781 00:58:01,562 --> 00:58:03,187 What did he do? 782 00:58:03,397 --> 00:58:05,106 I don't mean you no offense, 783 00:58:05,482 --> 00:58:09,527 but I ain't exactly crazy about talking to no officer. 784 00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:11,529 Colored or white. 785 00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:14,448 Oh, you're gonna talk, Henson. 786 00:58:14,658 --> 00:58:18,202 You'll talk or I'll put your ass in the stockade so long 787 00:58:18,370 --> 00:58:20,204 you'll forget how to. 788 00:58:27,713 --> 00:58:29,463 He was always on... 789 00:58:29,673 --> 00:58:32,508 Always on C.J.'s back about something. 790 00:58:32,718 --> 00:58:36,721 Every little thing. Least ways, that's how it seemed to me. 791 00:58:36,930 --> 00:58:39,473 Then the shooting went down. What shooting? 792 00:58:39,683 --> 00:58:42,560 Well, the shooting over at Williams' Golden Palace. 793 00:58:42,769 --> 00:58:46,230 Happened just last year right at the end of the baseball season. 794 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,193 A whole lot of shots had gone off right near the barracks. 795 00:58:50,402 --> 00:58:56,157 I had gone over and gotten a little juiced at the Enlisted Men's Club. 796 00:58:58,452 --> 00:59:00,536 Somebody's shooting. 797 00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:02,997 They're shooting over there. 798 00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:05,666 Everybody up. Wake them up, Wilkie. Move it. 799 00:59:05,876 --> 00:59:08,753 Come on, Un-ass them bunks. Come on, you Geechees. 800 00:59:08,962 --> 00:59:11,422 Off your asses, on your feet. Everybody up. 801 00:59:11,632 --> 00:59:14,091 - Let's go. - What's going on, man? 802 00:59:14,301 --> 00:59:17,553 Company, a-ten-hut. 803 00:59:18,430 --> 00:59:20,223 There's been a shooting. 804 00:59:20,432 --> 00:59:23,184 One of ours bucked the line at Williams' pay phone 805 00:59:23,352 --> 00:59:25,311 and three soldiers are dead. 806 00:59:25,479 --> 00:59:28,481 Two colored, one white MP. 807 00:59:28,690 --> 00:59:31,192 The man who bucked the line, he killed the MP 808 00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:34,612 and the white boys started shooting everybody. 809 00:59:34,821 --> 00:59:37,031 That's how our two got shot. 810 00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:40,618 And this lowdown nigger we're looking for got chased down here. 811 00:59:40,786 --> 00:59:43,621 Was almost caught till somebody in these barracks 812 00:59:43,789 --> 00:59:46,540 started shooting at the men chasing him. 813 00:59:47,334 --> 00:59:53,673 So we got us a vicious, lowdown murdering piece of black trash 814 00:59:53,882 --> 00:59:55,925 in here somewhere. 815 00:59:56,510 --> 00:59:58,970 And a few people who helped him. 816 01:00:02,057 --> 01:00:04,392 If any of you are in this, 817 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:08,729 I want you to step forward. 818 01:00:13,318 --> 01:00:16,737 All you baseball niggers are innocent? 819 01:00:17,322 --> 01:00:18,572 - Wilkie. - Sir. 820 01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:21,575 Make the search. Open those footlockers. Come on. 821 01:00:21,785 --> 01:00:24,787 All right, Peterson, what are you waiting for, an invitation? 822 01:00:26,164 --> 01:00:30,042 Open them up. Spread them out. I wanna see what's happening inside. 823 01:00:30,252 --> 01:00:31,919 Memphis, you in this? 824 01:00:32,129 --> 01:00:34,380 No, sir, sarge. 825 01:00:35,382 --> 01:00:37,633 You heard what the sergeant said. 826 01:00:37,801 --> 01:00:39,427 How many of you were out tonight? 827 01:00:40,095 --> 01:00:44,265 I was over at Williams' around about 7. I got me a pack of Lucky Strikes. 828 01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:47,810 - But I didn't try to call home, though. - Got something. 829 01:00:58,030 --> 01:00:59,947 Still warm. 830 01:01:00,157 --> 01:01:01,574 C.J., is this yours? 831 01:01:01,783 --> 01:01:04,577 You know it ain't mine, sarge. 832 01:01:05,078 --> 01:01:06,871 Probably not. 833 01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,498 Probably just crawled in through a window, 834 01:01:09,708 --> 01:01:12,752 passed everybody's bunk, Peterson, Cobb, 835 01:01:12,961 --> 01:01:15,254 and just snuggled up under yours? 836 01:01:15,464 --> 01:01:18,716 Must be voodoo, right, boy? Or some of that farmer's dust. 837 01:01:18,925 --> 01:01:23,137 That ain't mine, sarge. I hate guns. Makes me feel bad just to see a gun. 838 01:01:23,347 --> 01:01:25,473 Liar. Place this man under arrest. 839 01:01:25,682 --> 01:01:28,684 Look, sir, C.J. couldn't hurt a fly, sarge. You know that. 840 01:01:28,894 --> 01:01:31,687 I found a gun, soldier. You know it ain't him. 841 01:01:31,897 --> 01:01:35,399 Who is it then? You? I saw somebody sneak in here. 842 01:01:35,609 --> 01:01:39,153 You were drunk when you left the club. Throw his ass in the shower. 843 01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:41,947 Well, I was here all night. C.J. ain't go nowhere. 844 01:01:42,157 --> 01:01:43,949 He was asleep before I got to bed. 845 01:01:44,159 --> 01:01:46,452 Oh, you think he's innocent? 846 01:01:47,287 --> 01:01:49,413 C.J. Memphis, 847 01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:53,042 playing cotton picker, singing the blues, 848 01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:56,629 bowing and scraping, smiling in white folks' faces. 849 01:01:56,838 --> 01:02:00,633 This man undermined us. You and me. Everybody. 850 01:02:00,967 --> 01:02:03,511 That "yes, sir, boss" is hiding something. 851 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:08,599 Are we like that today, in 1944? He shot that white boy. 852 01:02:15,732 --> 01:02:17,900 What are you going to do now, boy? 853 01:02:21,905 --> 01:02:23,823 Hit a noncommissioned officer. 854 01:02:24,032 --> 01:02:27,201 Well, C.J. just lost his head... Shut up. 855 01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:29,286 Get him out of here. 856 01:02:45,095 --> 01:02:48,305 Sarge, I know I saw somebody. 857 01:02:49,015 --> 01:02:52,643 Smalls, I saw somebody, I did. 858 01:02:52,853 --> 01:02:55,813 Oh, C.J. was sleeping when I came in. 859 01:02:56,022 --> 01:02:59,066 Well, it's Waters. Can't y'all see that? 860 01:03:08,326 --> 01:03:10,411 You know, I seen them before. 861 01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:13,038 Yeah, we had them in Alabama. 862 01:03:13,248 --> 01:03:15,958 White man give him a little-ass job as a servant, 863 01:03:16,168 --> 01:03:18,210 and when the boss ain't looking, 864 01:03:18,378 --> 01:03:21,297 that old copycat nigger act like he the new boss. 865 01:03:21,506 --> 01:03:23,757 Shouting, ordering people around. 866 01:03:25,719 --> 01:03:28,804 You see, arresting C.J., that'll get Waters another stripe. 867 01:03:29,014 --> 01:03:31,140 Yeah. Next, it'll be you or you. 868 01:03:31,349 --> 01:03:34,810 You see, he can't look good unless he's standing on you. 869 01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:37,146 Cobb told him C.J. was here all evening. 870 01:03:37,314 --> 01:03:39,106 Waters didn't even listen, did he? 871 01:03:39,733 --> 01:03:42,109 Turning somebody in. 872 01:03:42,611 --> 01:03:44,945 "Yeah, look what I done, captain, boss." 873 01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:49,033 Only reason they let him in is they know he'll do what they tell him to. 874 01:03:49,242 --> 01:03:51,619 See, I've seen this kind of fool before, boy. 875 01:03:51,828 --> 01:03:54,413 Yeah, somebody's gonna kill him one of these days. 876 01:03:54,623 --> 01:03:57,124 I heard they killed a sergeant at Fort Robinson. 877 01:03:57,334 --> 01:04:00,085 - A recruit did it. - Forget it, Pete. 878 01:04:00,295 --> 01:04:04,215 Our luck, sarge will come through the war, won't even get a scratch. 879 01:04:04,424 --> 01:04:06,300 Yeah, maybe, 880 01:04:06,510 --> 01:04:08,719 but I'm going over to them stockades. 881 01:04:08,929 --> 01:04:10,638 Tell them MPs what I know. 882 01:04:10,847 --> 01:04:13,015 C.J. was in here all evening. 883 01:04:13,225 --> 01:04:14,725 I'm gonna go with you. 884 01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:18,521 Y'all wait up. I'm coming too. 885 01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:23,025 Was Wilkie the only person out of his bunk? 886 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:26,654 I guess. Wilkie came in with the sarge. 887 01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:28,364 But it's hard to say. 888 01:04:28,532 --> 01:04:33,327 It's been a while and like I said, I was a little juiced that night. 889 01:04:35,914 --> 01:04:39,208 - Ellis. - Yes? Yes, sir? 890 01:04:39,417 --> 01:04:42,836 Find out what's holding up my investigation of Wilcox and Byrd. 891 01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:45,047 Yes, sir. 892 01:04:48,677 --> 01:04:51,595 The night Sergeant Waters was killed, where were you? 893 01:04:51,805 --> 01:04:53,389 I was in the barracks. 894 01:04:53,598 --> 01:04:58,310 I played checkers with Cobb till 9:30 and then I went to bed. 895 01:05:01,982 --> 01:05:05,609 Is there gonna be anything else, sir? 896 01:05:06,319 --> 01:05:08,237 Dismissed, private. 897 01:05:25,964 --> 01:05:27,214 Let her go. 898 01:05:27,424 --> 01:05:30,634 Let me know when it's full board. Here we go. Let's go, baby. 899 01:05:30,844 --> 01:05:33,679 - Pick it up. - Keep your rifles up. 900 01:05:35,056 --> 01:05:36,265 That's it. 901 01:05:40,145 --> 01:05:42,187 That's it, move out! Move out! Move your ass! 902 01:05:43,857 --> 01:05:46,108 That's it, move out! Move out! 903 01:05:51,448 --> 01:05:55,492 Goddamn it, get going! That's it, that's it, move it out! 904 01:05:58,747 --> 01:06:01,123 - Shake it out! Hit that wall! - Get your feet up! 905 01:06:01,291 --> 01:06:03,334 Hurry it up! Hurry it up! 906 01:06:03,543 --> 01:06:06,545 Move out! Move out! That's it! 907 01:06:08,340 --> 01:06:10,424 - Watch it! - Shake your ass! That's it! 908 01:06:10,592 --> 01:06:12,217 Move it out! 909 01:06:15,764 --> 01:06:17,306 Move it! Let's go! 910 01:06:18,933 --> 01:06:20,476 Ellis! 911 01:06:22,479 --> 01:06:24,063 Ellis! 912 01:06:29,235 --> 01:06:30,361 Hold it! 913 01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:34,865 - Stop shooting! - Stop shooting! 914 01:06:49,547 --> 01:06:51,715 Which one of you idiots is Cobb? 915 01:06:57,681 --> 01:06:59,598 That's me, sir. 916 01:06:59,808 --> 01:07:01,892 You all right, captain? 917 01:07:03,103 --> 01:07:05,020 I wanna talk to you. 918 01:07:05,230 --> 01:07:07,564 What'd he want old Cobb for? 919 01:07:08,650 --> 01:07:10,109 I don't know. 920 01:07:10,318 --> 01:07:12,194 What'd he ask you, Pete? 921 01:07:12,404 --> 01:07:15,948 He just asked a couple of questions about the baseball game... 922 01:07:16,157 --> 01:07:17,533 some about the sarge. 923 01:07:17,742 --> 01:07:19,326 Didn't amount to too much. 924 01:07:19,536 --> 01:07:22,496 Yeah, we was homeys, me and C.J., both from Mississippi. 925 01:07:22,706 --> 01:07:23,789 C.J., from Carmella. 926 01:07:23,998 --> 01:07:27,584 Me, I'm from up around Jutlerville, what they call Snake County. 927 01:07:27,794 --> 01:07:30,504 How did you feel when your best friend was arrested? 928 01:07:30,714 --> 01:07:33,006 I hated Waters for it, sir. Hated? 929 01:07:33,216 --> 01:07:35,676 C.J. ain't killed nobody. 930 01:07:35,885 --> 01:07:39,263 He hit Waters, didn't he? Yeah, but the sergeant made him, sir. 931 01:07:39,472 --> 01:07:42,516 He called that boy things he ain't never heard before. 932 01:07:42,726 --> 01:07:45,936 C.J. was from the farm, a country boy. 933 01:07:46,146 --> 01:07:50,023 That jail cell started doing crazy things to C.J., sir. 934 01:07:50,233 --> 01:07:52,651 It started closing in on him. 935 01:08:08,334 --> 01:08:10,461 Are you all right? 936 01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,760 It's hard to breathe in these little spaces, Cobb. 937 01:08:19,679 --> 01:08:22,765 What they doing to you in here, C.J.? 938 01:08:24,893 --> 01:08:27,811 Man wasn't made for this here. 939 01:08:29,564 --> 01:08:31,774 Nothing was. 940 01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:37,112 Don't think I'll ever see an animal in a cage again 941 01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:39,615 and not feel sorry for it. 942 01:08:40,033 --> 01:08:41,742 Rather be on a chain gang. 943 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:44,119 Oh, come on, homey. 944 01:08:44,788 --> 01:08:47,956 Don't think I'm getting out of here, Cobb. 945 01:08:48,166 --> 01:08:50,793 Feel like I'm going crazy. 946 01:08:51,002 --> 01:08:52,878 Can't walk in here. 947 01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:54,922 Can't see the sun. 948 01:08:55,507 --> 01:08:59,760 I tried to sing, but nothing won't come out. 949 01:09:00,512 --> 01:09:03,764 Yesterday, I broke a guitar string. 950 01:09:06,726 --> 01:09:09,436 And I lost my dust. 951 01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,147 Got no protection, Cobb. 952 01:09:12,357 --> 01:09:15,776 Nothing to keep the dogs from tearing at my bones. 953 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:18,987 C.J., stop talking crazy. 954 01:09:22,450 --> 01:09:25,536 You know who come up here last night? 955 01:09:29,332 --> 01:09:31,542 Sergeant Waters. 956 01:09:38,091 --> 01:09:40,884 They talking about giving you five years. 957 01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:47,808 They call what you did mutiny, boy. 958 01:09:48,101 --> 01:09:50,185 That gun ain't mine. 959 01:09:50,395 --> 01:09:52,521 We know that, C.J. 960 01:09:53,189 --> 01:09:55,399 We changed the charge on you this morning. 961 01:09:56,442 --> 01:10:00,779 You're in here for striking a superior officer, boy. 962 01:10:01,739 --> 01:10:03,991 And everybody seen it too. 963 01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:07,703 Why are you doing this to me, sarge? 964 01:10:07,912 --> 01:10:10,706 Oh, don't feel too bad, C.J. 965 01:10:11,082 --> 01:10:13,125 It has to be this way. 966 01:10:14,878 --> 01:10:16,461 You see, 967 01:10:17,839 --> 01:10:21,216 the first war didn't change nothing for the Negro. 968 01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:25,846 But this one, gonna change everything. 969 01:10:26,598 --> 01:10:29,016 Them Nazis ain't all crazy. 970 01:10:29,559 --> 01:10:34,229 Whole lot of people just can't seem to fit in to where things seem to be going. 971 01:10:34,856 --> 01:10:36,815 Like you, C.J. 972 01:10:37,525 --> 01:10:42,070 See, the black race can't afford you no more. 973 01:10:43,031 --> 01:10:46,116 Oh, there used to be a time we'd see somebody like you 974 01:10:46,284 --> 01:10:49,244 singing, clowning, "yes, sir, boss" ing, 975 01:10:49,454 --> 01:10:51,496 and we wouldn't do anything. 976 01:10:51,706 --> 01:10:53,624 Folks liked that. 977 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:55,459 You were good. 978 01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:57,628 Homey kind of nigger. 979 01:10:58,421 --> 01:11:01,673 When they needed somebody to mistreat, call a name or two, 980 01:11:01,883 --> 01:11:03,800 they paraded you. 981 01:11:04,510 --> 01:11:07,763 Reminded them of the good old days. 982 01:11:11,476 --> 01:11:13,769 Not no more. 983 01:11:14,771 --> 01:11:17,814 The day of the Geechee is gone, boy. 984 01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:19,983 And you're going with it. 985 01:11:20,735 --> 01:11:25,614 We can't let nobody go on believing we're all fools like you. 986 01:11:33,039 --> 01:11:36,249 I waited a long time for you, boy. 987 01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:38,710 But I got you. 988 01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:42,089 I put two Geechees in jail in Camp Campbell, Kentucky. 989 01:11:42,298 --> 01:11:44,132 Three in Fort Huachuca. 990 01:11:45,635 --> 01:11:47,970 Now I've got you. 991 01:11:48,888 --> 01:11:52,933 One less fool for the race to be ashamed of. 992 01:12:29,679 --> 01:12:31,638 What happened to him? 993 01:12:32,849 --> 01:12:35,350 C.J. killed himself, sir. 994 01:12:37,186 --> 01:12:41,356 The day after I saw him, the MPs found him hanging from the bars. 995 01:12:43,443 --> 01:12:45,235 We lost our last game. 996 01:12:45,445 --> 01:12:47,279 We just threw it. 997 01:12:47,488 --> 01:12:49,531 We did it for C.J. 998 01:12:50,158 --> 01:12:54,036 Captain Taylor was mad because we ain't get to play the Yankees. 999 01:12:54,495 --> 01:12:57,914 Peterson was right on that one. We needed to protest that man. 1000 01:13:04,505 --> 01:13:06,757 And the sergeant, what did he do? 1001 01:13:06,966 --> 01:13:08,633 Well, they broke up the team 1002 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:12,637 and they assigned us to this here smoke-generating company. 1003 01:13:12,847 --> 01:13:16,308 And the sarge, he just started acting funny. 1004 01:13:16,517 --> 01:13:18,935 He stayed drunk all the time. 1005 01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,521 What time did you get in the night he was killed? 1006 01:13:21,689 --> 01:13:24,274 Between 2120 and 9:30. 1007 01:13:24,484 --> 01:13:27,277 Me and Henson listened to The Jack Benny show, 1008 01:13:27,487 --> 01:13:31,531 played checkers. Who was the last man in that night? 1009 01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:34,076 Peterson and Smalls. They had guard duty, sir. 1010 01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:38,789 Is that it, captain? Thank you, corporal. 1011 01:13:38,998 --> 01:13:40,582 Yes, sir. 1012 01:13:48,883 --> 01:13:51,426 Eight ball, corner pocket. 1013 01:13:55,932 --> 01:13:58,308 Whose idea was this, Charlie? Nivens. 1014 01:13:58,518 --> 01:14:02,270 And you have to clear the area, Jim. We're here to question these two. 1015 01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:06,483 He's got no business in here. Take it up with the colonel. 1016 01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:14,616 Now, this is Captain Davenport. 1017 01:14:14,826 --> 01:14:19,412 You both understand, you're to give the captain your full cooperation. 1018 01:14:20,331 --> 01:14:22,249 You're a lawyer? 1019 01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:25,293 I'm not here to answer your questions, lieutenant. 1020 01:14:25,503 --> 01:14:31,341 Sit down. 1021 01:14:32,510 --> 01:14:34,219 Yes, sir. 1022 01:14:38,099 --> 01:14:41,935 When did you last see Waters? Same night somebody killed him. 1023 01:14:42,395 --> 01:14:46,481 Course, I should've done it myself by the way he spoke to Wilcox and me. 1024 01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:48,733 How did he speak to you, captain? 1025 01:14:48,943 --> 01:14:52,320 Well, he was drunk. He said a few things he shouldn't have. 1026 01:14:52,530 --> 01:14:56,241 I told the lieutenant not to make the situation any worse than it was. 1027 01:14:56,450 --> 01:15:00,954 So we just left him there, on the side of the road, on his knees. 1028 01:15:01,164 --> 01:15:02,956 Alive. 1029 01:15:05,376 --> 01:15:06,793 Exactly what did he say? 1030 01:15:07,879 --> 01:15:11,173 He said he wasn't gonna obey the white man's orders anymore. 1031 01:15:11,382 --> 01:15:14,509 And he starts blaming Wilcox and me for him being black. 1032 01:15:14,719 --> 01:15:17,846 I mean, imagine that, Hell, I didn't even know the man. 1033 01:15:18,055 --> 01:15:20,557 Yeah and he said he killed somebody too. 1034 01:15:20,766 --> 01:15:23,602 And some pretty insulting things about us. 1035 01:15:23,811 --> 01:15:25,562 I mean, white officers. 1036 01:15:25,771 --> 01:15:27,564 Did he say who? Mention a name? 1037 01:15:27,773 --> 01:15:30,358 Look, the goddamn nigger was disrespectful. 1038 01:15:30,568 --> 01:15:33,737 No way a colored soldier speak to a white officer like that. 1039 01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:36,239 What are we doing, wasting time on this? 1040 01:15:36,449 --> 01:15:39,618 You answer him like he wants you to, Byrd, 1041 01:15:39,911 --> 01:15:42,704 or I'll stick it to your ass every chance I get. 1042 01:15:42,914 --> 01:15:43,997 You got that? 1043 01:15:44,207 --> 01:15:45,373 Yes, sir. 1044 01:15:45,583 --> 01:15:47,209 Captain, let me handle this. 1045 01:15:47,418 --> 01:15:49,502 Then handle it. 1046 01:15:53,341 --> 01:15:56,426 You said he was disrespectful. Is that why you killed him? 1047 01:15:56,636 --> 01:15:59,179 - I killed no one. - Sit down. 1048 01:15:59,889 --> 01:16:01,556 - You hit him? - Knocked him down. 1049 01:16:01,766 --> 01:16:03,016 - Shot him. - He was alive. 1050 01:16:03,184 --> 01:16:04,684 You beat him up, shot him. 1051 01:16:04,852 --> 01:16:07,771 Get out of my face before I kill you. Like Waters? 1052 01:16:07,980 --> 01:16:09,147 - No! - Soldier. 1053 01:16:09,357 --> 01:16:11,608 He's trying to put it on me. Sit down. 1054 01:16:11,817 --> 01:16:14,569 Answer his questions, lieutenant. 1055 01:16:18,407 --> 01:16:20,825 You were both coming off bivouac? Speak up. 1056 01:16:21,035 --> 01:16:22,994 You had weapons. But we didn't fire. 1057 01:16:23,204 --> 01:16:25,247 When did you turn them in? Right away. 1058 01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:27,082 Nivens took our .45s to the MPs. 1059 01:16:27,250 --> 01:16:28,291 He wanted it quiet. 1060 01:16:28,459 --> 01:16:31,586 Didn't want colored boys to know anybody white was involved. 1061 01:16:31,754 --> 01:16:33,672 But those weapons cleared ballistics. 1062 01:16:33,881 --> 01:16:37,425 Besides, we've been short on .45 caliber ammo for, what, six months? 1063 01:16:37,635 --> 01:16:40,804 It's for MPs and special-duty people only. 1064 01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:44,266 Look, nobody on that exercise was issued any. 1065 01:16:45,935 --> 01:16:46,977 What? 1066 01:16:48,604 --> 01:16:53,817 I said, sir, nobody on the bivouac was issued any .45 ammo. 1067 01:16:54,277 --> 01:16:56,278 I don't believe you. 1068 01:16:56,487 --> 01:16:57,821 Why wasn't I told? 1069 01:16:58,030 --> 01:17:01,324 The weapons had cleared, the colonel felt if he involved you, 1070 01:17:01,534 --> 01:17:04,035 you'd go to Washington, which you did anyway. 1071 01:17:04,245 --> 01:17:07,998 Sir, I just wanna say we were not involved with the sergeant's death. 1072 01:17:08,207 --> 01:17:09,249 Now, I'm a doctor. 1073 01:17:09,750 --> 01:17:12,127 We left that man on the side of the road. Alive. 1074 01:17:12,336 --> 01:17:14,546 - You're under arrest. - The charge is murder. 1075 01:17:14,714 --> 01:17:15,755 Captain... 1076 01:17:15,923 --> 01:17:18,383 You think I believe that crap? 1077 01:17:20,428 --> 01:17:22,012 Let them go. 1078 01:17:22,555 --> 01:17:23,680 What? 1079 01:17:23,889 --> 01:17:27,017 - Are we being charged? - Not by me. 1080 01:17:28,853 --> 01:17:33,690 What are you doing? You've got a motive, you've got a witness. 1081 01:17:34,358 --> 01:17:36,109 I mean, what more do you want? 1082 01:17:36,319 --> 01:17:38,820 This is still my investigation, Charlie. 1083 01:17:40,573 --> 01:17:43,700 We've both been had, captain. Colonel knew this all along. 1084 01:17:43,909 --> 01:17:47,620 Been marching around in circles. They are guilty and you know it. 1085 01:17:47,830 --> 01:17:49,831 Now, I'll back you up. Charge them. 1086 01:17:50,041 --> 01:17:54,627 I do what the facts tell me, not you. You don't know what a fact is. 1087 01:17:54,795 --> 01:17:57,505 I'm the lawyer. They teach law at West Point? 1088 01:17:57,715 --> 01:18:01,551 You don't have to be a lawyer to deal with those two assholes. 1089 01:18:01,761 --> 01:18:05,138 And if they didn't kill Waters, who did? 1090 01:18:05,431 --> 01:18:08,224 I don't know yet. 1091 01:18:22,573 --> 01:18:25,075 What do you know about C.J. Memphis? 1092 01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:30,413 A great ballplayer. 1093 01:18:31,207 --> 01:18:32,374 Committed suicide. 1094 01:18:32,583 --> 01:18:36,586 It was a tragedy. 1095 01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:40,090 I think Waters tricked the kid into attacking him. 1096 01:18:41,384 --> 01:18:43,802 No, I can't believe that, Davenport. 1097 01:18:44,011 --> 01:18:46,596 This man managed the finest baseball team 1098 01:18:46,806 --> 01:18:49,307 in the entire United States Army. 1099 01:18:49,517 --> 01:18:52,310 Besides, colored people aren't that devious. 1100 01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,896 Hell, we hadn't lost a game for two years. 1101 01:18:55,106 --> 01:18:56,147 And the finest... 1102 01:18:56,315 --> 01:19:01,069 I mean, the finest player that Waters ever had was C.J. Memphis. 1103 01:19:01,278 --> 01:19:03,154 If you'd have seen him, you'd know what I mean. 1104 01:19:05,366 --> 01:19:07,450 Captain. Captain Davenport. 1105 01:19:07,660 --> 01:19:11,454 We found Wilkie, but we haven't located Peterson and Smalls yet. 1106 01:19:11,664 --> 01:19:13,665 - Where's Wilkie? - Waiting for you, sir. 1107 01:19:13,874 --> 01:19:14,916 - Good. - Wait. 1108 01:19:15,126 --> 01:19:17,710 Didn't you question Wilkie and Peterson already? 1109 01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,797 I asked you a question. This is my investigation. 1110 01:19:21,006 --> 01:19:23,466 Ellis, let's go. Well, that's the problem. 1111 01:19:23,676 --> 01:19:26,511 You arrogant son of a bitch. 1112 01:19:30,933 --> 01:19:32,434 You nervous, Wilkie? 1113 01:19:32,643 --> 01:19:36,020 No, I just couldn't figure out why you called me back, sir. 1114 01:19:36,230 --> 01:19:38,356 You said the sarge busted you, right? 1115 01:19:38,566 --> 01:19:42,193 Yeah, he got me busted, sir. He reported me to the captain. 1116 01:19:42,403 --> 01:19:44,154 - How'd you feel? - Well, I... 1117 01:19:44,363 --> 01:19:46,030 You and the sarge were good friends. 1118 01:19:46,198 --> 01:19:48,408 - Yeah... - He was a nice guy. 1119 01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,618 Didn't you tell me that? Yeah, I... 1120 01:19:50,828 --> 01:19:52,954 Would a nice guy get a friend busted? 1121 01:19:53,164 --> 01:19:54,372 - Well... - No, speak up. 1122 01:19:54,540 --> 01:19:56,583 You lied when you said he was a nice guy? 1123 01:19:56,750 --> 01:19:58,418 No. What I said was he was... 1124 01:19:58,627 --> 01:20:01,796 Was Waters a nice guy or not? No. No, he wasn't a nice guy. 1125 01:20:02,006 --> 01:20:04,507 You don't turn somebody in. Give him extra duty. 1126 01:20:04,717 --> 01:20:08,094 But three stripes, it took me 10 years to get them stripes, sir. 1127 01:20:08,554 --> 01:20:10,138 That's right. 1128 01:20:10,347 --> 01:20:13,725 That made you mad, didn't it? Yes, mad. Things I did for him. 1129 01:20:13,934 --> 01:20:16,603 That's right. You were his boy, weren't you? 1130 01:20:16,812 --> 01:20:19,439 You took care of the team. 1131 01:20:19,648 --> 01:20:21,232 - You ran his errands. - Well... 1132 01:20:21,442 --> 01:20:24,277 You policed his quarters. You listened to his stories. 1133 01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:26,696 Put the gun under C.J.'s bunk. Yes. No... 1134 01:20:26,906 --> 01:20:28,781 Sit down! 1135 01:20:29,325 --> 01:20:32,869 It was you Henson saw. You lied about Waters, you're lying now. 1136 01:20:33,078 --> 01:20:36,706 The only person out of barracks. Who else could've found C.J.'s bunk? 1137 01:20:36,916 --> 01:20:38,208 It was you, Wilkie. You. 1138 01:20:38,375 --> 01:20:40,502 It was the sarge. He ordered me to do it. 1139 01:20:40,711 --> 01:20:44,172 He said I'd get my stripes back. He wanted to teach C.J. a lesson. 1140 01:20:44,381 --> 01:20:45,798 Put him in jail, scare him. 1141 01:20:45,966 --> 01:20:48,635 The boy hit him, he had C.J. where he wanted him. 1142 01:20:48,844 --> 01:20:51,137 And then C.J., he hung himself. 1143 01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:53,640 He died like he was spiting the sarge. 1144 01:20:53,849 --> 01:20:57,143 He didn't figure on that. What did he have against Memphis? 1145 01:20:57,353 --> 01:21:00,730 He despised him, but he would hide it, everybody liked that boy. 1146 01:21:00,940 --> 01:21:03,107 Underneath, it was a crazy hate, captain. 1147 01:21:03,317 --> 01:21:06,277 Crazy hate. You won't believe it. Sometimes you could... 1148 01:21:06,445 --> 01:21:09,113 You could just feel it. 1149 01:21:09,740 --> 01:21:12,492 ♪ Well, now my daddy's Gone to glory ♪ 1150 01:21:12,660 --> 01:21:16,829 ♪ I work real hard, I drink corn liquor That's the truth ♪ 1151 01:21:22,670 --> 01:21:26,089 He's the kind of boy that seems innocent, Wilkie. 1152 01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:30,885 Got everybody on the post thinking he's a strong, black buck. 1153 01:21:31,971 --> 01:21:34,556 White boys envy his strength. 1154 01:21:35,224 --> 01:21:37,225 His speed. 1155 01:21:37,893 --> 01:21:40,103 Power in his swing. 1156 01:21:40,271 --> 01:21:41,521 ♪ Mm-hm ♪ 1157 01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:47,110 Then this colored champion lets those same white boys call him Shine or Sambo 1158 01:21:47,278 --> 01:21:48,319 ♪ Whoa, Lord ♪ 1159 01:21:48,487 --> 01:21:50,280 And he just smiles. 1160 01:21:50,447 --> 01:21:55,451 ♪ I dream about the time When I was a little boy ♪ 1161 01:21:58,664 --> 01:22:00,582 Can't talk. 1162 01:22:01,667 --> 01:22:04,335 Can barely read or write his own name 1163 01:22:04,795 --> 01:22:06,588 and don't care. 1164 01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:09,382 He'll tell you they like him 1165 01:22:09,967 --> 01:22:14,971 or that colored folks ain't supposed to have but so much sense. 1166 01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:22,562 ♪ Yes, he would ♪ ♪ 1167 01:22:22,730 --> 01:22:25,982 You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? 1168 01:22:29,069 --> 01:22:31,863 We were in France in the first war, 1169 01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:35,199 we'd won decorations, 1170 01:22:36,201 --> 01:22:40,913 but the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. 1171 01:22:41,915 --> 01:22:45,043 And they found this ignorant colored soldier. 1172 01:22:45,711 --> 01:22:47,629 Paid him to tie a tail to his ass 1173 01:22:47,796 --> 01:22:50,548 and run around half-naked making monkey sounds. 1174 01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:56,471 They put him on a big round table in the Café Napoléon. 1175 01:22:57,348 --> 01:22:59,724 Put a reed in his hand, 1176 01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:02,101 a crown on his head, 1177 01:23:02,645 --> 01:23:07,482 blanket on his shoulders, and made him eat bananas in front of them Frenchies. 1178 01:23:08,859 --> 01:23:11,944 Oh, how the white boys danced that night, 1179 01:23:12,571 --> 01:23:15,948 passed out leaflets with that boy's picture on it. 1180 01:23:16,950 --> 01:23:22,330 Called him Moonshine, king of the monkeys. 1181 01:23:25,125 --> 01:23:26,501 When we slit his throat, 1182 01:23:26,669 --> 01:23:29,879 you know that fool asked us what he had done wrong? 1183 01:23:49,525 --> 01:23:53,986 My daddy told me, we got to turn our backs on his kind, Wilkie. 1184 01:23:54,363 --> 01:23:57,824 Close our ranks to the chitlins, collard greens, 1185 01:23:58,033 --> 01:24:00,368 corn-bread style. 1186 01:24:01,245 --> 01:24:07,375 We are men, soldiers. And I don't intend for our race 1187 01:24:07,584 --> 01:24:11,713 to be cheated out of its place of honor and respect in this war 1188 01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:14,757 because of fools like C.J. 1189 01:24:16,093 --> 01:24:18,553 You watch everything he does. 1190 01:24:19,221 --> 01:24:20,847 Everything. 1191 01:24:23,559 --> 01:24:25,727 Give me a drink. 1192 01:24:27,354 --> 01:24:29,605 And I watched him. 1193 01:24:29,815 --> 01:24:31,482 But Waters couldn't wait. 1194 01:24:31,692 --> 01:24:37,572 He wouldn't talk about nothing else. C.J. this, C.J. all the time. 1195 01:24:41,368 --> 01:24:44,036 Why didn't he pick on Peterson? They had the fight. 1196 01:24:44,246 --> 01:24:45,747 He liked Peterson. 1197 01:24:45,956 --> 01:24:48,541 Pete fought back. Sarge admired that. 1198 01:24:48,751 --> 01:24:51,711 He was planning to promote Pete. You imagine that? 1199 01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:55,381 He thought Peterson would make a fine soldier. 1200 01:24:59,344 --> 01:25:02,388 What did Peterson do when C.J. died? 1201 01:25:02,765 --> 01:25:04,599 Everybody blamed sarge. 1202 01:25:06,018 --> 01:25:09,687 Pete put together that protest that lost our last game. 1203 01:25:09,897 --> 01:25:13,941 Afterwards, he kept to himself or with Smalls. 1204 01:25:20,908 --> 01:25:22,575 I didn't mean to do what I did. 1205 01:25:22,785 --> 01:25:24,202 - Ellis! - It wasn't my fault. 1206 01:25:24,411 --> 01:25:25,578 - Ellis! - Yes, sir. 1207 01:25:25,788 --> 01:25:28,039 I did what he told me. What is going on? 1208 01:25:28,248 --> 01:25:29,290 We're shipping out. 1209 01:25:29,500 --> 01:25:32,084 They're gonna give us Negroes a chance to fight. 1210 01:25:32,294 --> 01:25:36,088 Hitler ain't got a chance. After what Joe Louis did to Max Schmeling... 1211 01:25:39,593 --> 01:25:41,594 Twenty-four-hour standby alert. 1212 01:25:41,804 --> 01:25:44,263 It's the invasion of Europe, boys. 1213 01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,642 Look out, Hitler, the niggers is coming to get your ass 1214 01:25:47,810 --> 01:25:48,851 through the fog. 1215 01:25:50,229 --> 01:25:51,562 We gonna goose the goose step there. 1216 01:25:51,772 --> 01:25:52,814 Heil Hitler! 1217 01:25:53,023 --> 01:25:55,691 We gonna turn them Nazis around. Yeah! 1218 01:25:55,901 --> 01:25:59,278 We're gonna teach them a thing or two about them schwarze. 1219 01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:18,714 - Ellis. - Yes, sir. 1220 01:26:18,924 --> 01:26:21,926 Private Wilkie is under arrest. Take him to the stockade. 1221 01:26:22,135 --> 01:26:23,302 Sir? 1222 01:26:24,054 --> 01:26:25,763 You heard me. 1223 01:28:38,522 --> 01:28:41,273 Private Smalls, as you requested, sir. 1224 01:28:42,275 --> 01:28:44,318 - Leave us alone, sergeant. - Yes, sir. 1225 01:28:51,284 --> 01:28:53,035 Why'd you go AWOL, soldier? 1226 01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:56,080 Private Anthony Smalls, sir. 1227 01:28:57,541 --> 01:28:59,125 Answer my question. 1228 01:28:59,334 --> 01:29:01,544 I didn't go A-W-O-L, sir. 1229 01:29:01,753 --> 01:29:05,006 See, I got drunk in Tynin and I was just... 1230 01:29:05,215 --> 01:29:08,175 Weren't you and Peterson supposed to be on detail? 1231 01:29:08,552 --> 01:29:10,553 Where was Peterson? 1232 01:29:10,804 --> 01:29:12,304 Speak up. 1233 01:29:12,514 --> 01:29:16,058 I don't know, sir. You just walked off your detail 1234 01:29:16,268 --> 01:29:18,269 and Peterson did nothing? No, sir. 1235 01:29:18,478 --> 01:29:22,732 See, he warned me, sir. Said, "Listen, Smalls. Listen up, you..." 1236 01:29:23,316 --> 01:29:27,737 Are you trying to make a fool out of me, Smalls? 1237 01:29:28,447 --> 01:29:30,072 No, sir. 1238 01:29:31,450 --> 01:29:34,076 You two went over the hill together, didn't you? 1239 01:29:35,704 --> 01:29:37,329 Answer me! 1240 01:29:41,168 --> 01:29:44,045 Yes. Yes. You went over the hill 1241 01:29:44,212 --> 01:29:47,715 because Peterson knew I'd find out the two of you killed Waters. 1242 01:29:47,924 --> 01:29:49,008 Didn't you? 1243 01:29:52,054 --> 01:29:54,180 What? I can't hear you. 1244 01:29:54,848 --> 01:29:57,391 You killed Waters, didn't you? 1245 01:29:58,435 --> 01:30:01,103 I want an answer. 1246 01:30:01,772 --> 01:30:04,523 Did you kill Waters? 1247 01:30:04,733 --> 01:30:07,443 It was Peterson, sir. 1248 01:30:09,446 --> 01:30:11,655 It wasn't me. 1249 01:30:19,289 --> 01:30:22,083 Smalls, look who's drunk on his ass, boy. 1250 01:30:23,001 --> 01:30:25,294 Oh, leave him be, Pete. 1251 01:30:25,504 --> 01:30:28,422 No, no. 1252 01:30:28,632 --> 01:30:30,925 No, I'm gonna enjoy this. 1253 01:30:31,927 --> 01:30:35,554 Big, bad Sergeant Waters down on his knee. 1254 01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:39,141 No, sir, Smalls. 1255 01:30:39,684 --> 01:30:42,269 No, I'm gonna love this. 1256 01:30:47,943 --> 01:30:49,819 Hey, sarge. 1257 01:30:50,237 --> 01:30:51,612 Need some help? 1258 01:30:51,822 --> 01:30:54,782 Hi, Pete. 1259 01:30:55,617 --> 01:30:58,702 Oh, yeah. Here, come on now, here we go. 1260 01:31:02,332 --> 01:31:05,084 - That's the help I'll give you. Shut up! - Peter... 1261 01:31:08,213 --> 01:31:10,339 Smalls, some people... 1262 01:31:12,384 --> 01:31:14,510 If this was a German, would you kill it? 1263 01:31:19,015 --> 01:31:23,352 If it was Hitler or that fucking Tojo, would you kill him? 1264 01:31:23,562 --> 01:31:25,813 There's a trick to it, Peterson. 1265 01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:29,150 It's the only way you can win. 1266 01:31:30,235 --> 01:31:31,610 See, C.J., 1267 01:31:31,820 --> 01:31:33,696 he could never make it. 1268 01:31:33,905 --> 01:31:36,073 He was a clown. 1269 01:31:36,324 --> 01:31:39,201 A clown in blackface. A nigger. 1270 01:31:39,786 --> 01:31:43,372 See, you got to be like them. 1271 01:31:43,915 --> 01:31:46,625 But the rules are fixed and... 1272 01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:49,962 Listen. 1273 01:31:51,631 --> 01:31:53,090 Hear it? 1274 01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:56,677 It's C.J. 1275 01:31:57,387 --> 01:32:01,307 ♪ Lowdown Lowdown dirty shame ♪ ♪ 1276 01:32:02,726 --> 01:32:04,727 I made him do it. 1277 01:32:09,399 --> 01:32:11,609 But it doesn't make any difference. 1278 01:32:17,365 --> 01:32:22,077 They still hate you. 1279 01:32:29,878 --> 01:32:32,087 Peterson. It's justice, Smalls. 1280 01:32:32,714 --> 01:32:34,924 It's for C.J. 1281 01:32:36,092 --> 01:32:40,638 Everybody. They still hate you. 1282 01:32:59,574 --> 01:33:01,367 And you call that justice? 1283 01:33:05,247 --> 01:33:06,956 No, sir. 1284 01:33:07,415 --> 01:33:10,209 Then why the fuck didn't you do something? 1285 01:33:10,502 --> 01:33:12,294 I was just... 1286 01:33:13,463 --> 01:33:15,881 Just scared of him, sir. 1287 01:33:16,549 --> 01:33:19,468 He said everybody would think 1288 01:33:19,678 --> 01:33:22,471 white people did it. 1289 01:33:23,431 --> 01:33:26,392 Oh, God, I'm sorry. 1290 01:33:28,061 --> 01:33:31,981 I'm sorry, I was just so scared about it. 1291 01:33:34,067 --> 01:33:36,735 Caught this one on old bridge road, sir. 1292 01:33:39,197 --> 01:33:41,240 That'll be all, thank you. 1293 01:33:58,425 --> 01:34:00,634 You told it, didn't you? 1294 01:34:21,614 --> 01:34:23,866 I didn't kill much. 1295 01:34:25,452 --> 01:34:28,245 Some things need getting rid of. 1296 01:34:29,247 --> 01:34:32,541 A man like Waters never did nobody no good anyway, captain. 1297 01:34:39,549 --> 01:34:45,179 Who gave you the right to judge? 1298 01:34:45,764 --> 01:34:50,851 To decide who is fit to be a Negro 1299 01:34:51,144 --> 01:34:55,230 and who is not? Who? 1300 01:35:04,115 --> 01:35:05,741 Sergeant. 1301 01:35:12,791 --> 01:35:13,874 Sir? 1302 01:35:14,084 --> 01:35:16,919 Get these goddamn men out of here. 1303 01:35:17,128 --> 01:35:18,629 Yes, sir. 1304 01:36:46,009 --> 01:36:47,843 I hear they caught Peterson. 1305 01:36:50,889 --> 01:36:52,639 I guess that's it. 1306 01:36:53,183 --> 01:36:54,224 Got your man. 1307 01:36:54,976 --> 01:36:57,644 Yeah, I got him. 1308 01:37:00,648 --> 01:37:02,566 I was wrong. 1309 01:37:05,820 --> 01:37:07,571 So was I. 1310 01:37:08,406 --> 01:37:10,699 Say, Charlie, look, I could do with a lift. 1311 01:37:11,326 --> 01:37:12,701 Hop in. 1312 01:37:25,131 --> 01:37:29,968 I guess I'll have to get used to Negroes with bars on their shoulders. 1313 01:37:30,178 --> 01:37:31,970 You know, being in charge. 1314 01:37:32,180 --> 01:37:34,598 Oh, you'll get used to it, captain. 1315 01:37:34,807 --> 01:37:36,975 You can bet your ass on that. 1316 01:37:37,185 --> 01:37:39,436 You'll get used to it. 1317 01:37:42,482 --> 01:37:44,066 Hut!102259

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