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Deep in the heart of the Aegean lies the island of Navarone.

In 1943, it stood like a thorn in the Allied side.

Newly designed radar -controlled guns, set deep in the heart of the ancient

rock, gave the German high command total strategic dominance.

Airstrikes and naval attacks had proven costly and ineffective.

In desperation, the Allies turned to infiltration.

On the night of September the 24th, a specially trained commando group

in penetrating the very heart of the gun complex, planted explosives at the base

of the giant shell hoists, then withdrew to await rescue by ships of the Royal

Navy.

Let's go back, man.

Regulation states, sir, that in the absence of bacon, ham, etc., the acting

catering officer, that's you, sir, shall authorize once per week the issue of

offal. Offal? Offal, sir, is a kidney, liver, tongue, brain.

Well, I'll be damned.

Billy, how nice to see you. Hello, sir.

Whatever are you doing here?

Well, I've no idea. I'm reporting to Commander Jensen.

I gather that you've been hurling yourself over the White Cliffs. How's

Well, it's still in the same place.

I thought they'd pension you off for good.

You still peddling those whiz -bangs of yours?

Oh, yes. We've got things that go boom in the night for all occasions.

I've been working on a new type of detonator recently. It might be quite

interesting. Excuse me, sir. We can't keep Armando Jensen waiting.

We'll have a quiet pipe later on. I'd like to see you two, sir, together.

Corporal, put that in my office, will you?

Ah, Mallory.

Take a pew.

How's the leg?

And Miller, isn't it?

Here you've been attached to Winston's toy shop.

Department of Dirty Tricks, as those Whitehall chaps call it. Yes, sir. They

speak very well of you.

Right. Need you chaps for something rather special.

I'm afraid it's not exactly a masterpiece, but I wonder if you can

fellow.

Think back to Navarone.

I'd rather not, sir.

Nikolai?

Yes.

Legendary bit, isn't he?

But what about him?

Andreas' people had him shot as a traitor, didn't they?

Yes, so we were told.

In fact, he escaped.

He wasn't a traitor. He was a first -class German agent.

Who we believe is operating now somewhere in Yugoslavia with the

Posing as one Captain Leskowar.

Now, you're both new, Nicolai.

In fact, you're the only people we know of who can make a positive

identification.

So, I'd like you to go out there and cope.

Cope, sir?

Kill him?

Discreetly, if possible.

Ah, but I'm a civilian now, sir.

Yes, we thought about that.

So you've been recalled to the cards. They haven't promoted you.

Staff sergeant.

Corporal General, sir.

Exactly how did we get there?

We're taking you on to Force 10.

That's the code name of an operation for the Allied mission in Yugoslavia.

Excuse me, sir.

What's their objective?

It's being treated on a need -to -know basis, and you don't need to know.

Ah, Barnsby, come in.

Sir?

Colonel, Force 10 tries out tonight.

Oh, that's all right.

Taking these parts with you.

I beg your pardon, sir.

Well, it's a matter of transportation.

So you've got a couple of passengers.

Just a side chair, really. So, Major Mallory, Sam Miller, Lieutenant Colonel

Bowsby.

Sir, my mission is all set.

It's been planned down to the last detail. The last thing we need are a

of passengers.

Well, Major Mallory does have a certain amount of experience.

I wouldn't doubt it.

We're talking about some hard traveling, sir.

We've got to move fast. My men are all young and in top physical shape.

They're specially trained for this mission.

I'm aware of that.

Sir, I am concerned about the safety of my command.

Now, these chaps have got a job to do as well.

It's up to you to deliver them safely to the partisans.

You leave for Italy at 2300, and you take off for Yugoslavia the following

night.

Very well, sir.

Thank you. That's all, gentlemen.

Well, we'll do our best not to make a nuisance of ourselves, Colonel.

We were going to an airfield. From what I've observed of Colonel Barnsby, we

might be going to Yugoslavia by walking on water.

All right, right along here.

Slow down, Nolan.

You're gonna miss your plane unless you join us now, Major.

Remarkable way of getting on an aircraft, don't you think so, Millie?

nothing's ever easy, is it?

Well, it's not easy if you insist on climbing through fences in the dark when

there's a perfectly good gate half a mile up the road.

Anything we can do to help, Colonel?

We can keep quiet and out of the way, Major.

I don't have a whole lot of time for explanations, Major, but just one of the

many things that you don't know is that the last three Allied missions into

Yugoslavia were blown right here in Italy.

So this time when we fly out, we're not advertising the fact to anybody.

Holy cow, will you look at those guys?

They're stealing half the field.

All right, hold it.

Wait for me.

Okay, men, let's go.

Blake, take care of Rastus there.

Yes, sir.

Okay, fellas, free.

Back off. Come on, get back.

And you, back, back.

Phil, Eddie, fix those other guys out of there.

What's your name?

Warner.

What's yours?

Well, it sure in the hell ain't Rasta.

Good evening.

Major,

move!

You two guys officers?

More or less, yes.

We're very much obliged to you, Sergeant.

Weaver. Oh, Sergeant Weaver, yes, thank you. U .S. Army Medical Corps.

Hey, but sir!

All set, Colonel.

Still some outside, Mort? Yeah.

Okay, over, Steve.

Bang.

I think you can take it. He won't be joining us.

Okay, let's go.

You miserable son of a bitch. I saved your asses back there and you guys go

running out on me. Hey, who is this guy?

Get out of here. Hey, man.

Don't quit.

Don't quit me.

Look. I think it's a bit late for that now.

shouldn't have left me there.

I saved you both.

Well, we didn't think you'd like where we're going.

You let me worry about that, huh?

That guy's really going to melt into the landscape.

Yeah, them partisans are going to think they've been invaded by Zulus.

Well, you are one man short.

Well, Nolan can handle a chute at least.

Can you handle a chute?

I can learn on the job.

That's right. You learn on the way down.

Well, I better go tell the colonel we got us another passenger.

I think the colonel's got enough on his plate for the moment, don't you?

Never know. My coming, you soup.

Hey, hey, what do you got in there?

My pajamas.

Looks like high -explosive pajamas to me.

Not to worry, old boy. Been having this stuff ever since I blew up the nursery

with my first chemistry set.

Poor old nanny.

That company.

See any of the others? Not yet.

Get down.

Come on.

Okay, Reynolds?

Yeah?

Where's your Sergeant Miller?

How the hell did he get here?

You let him on the plane?

I think he more or less invited himself.

Where'd you learn to handle a knife like that? Harvard University, man.

You don't call him man, you call him sir, and you call me sir.

As long as you're here, you do as you're told. Is that understood, soldier?

Yes, sir.

Gotta get out of here before that patrol comes back.

Lieutenant Reynolds, you take the point with me. Sergeant Weaver, you bring up

the rear end, everybody keep up. All right, let's go.

Oh, good night, young gentleman.

Any idea where we are, Colonel?

Not a hell of a lot. No, but if we keep going east, we'll end up where we're

supposed to.

How the hell did we manage to get stuck with those two clowns? I don't know,

Doug. Some idiot at British HQ.

Come along, gentlemen. It's not tea time yet.

You think that young man has any idea where we are, Millie?

No, I shouldn't think so.

Shouldn't think so either.

I'll go and try and find out.

Yes, why don't you do that?

Excuse me, Colonel.

Do you have any idea where we are?

Yeah, I've got a good idea where we are, Major. How long it's going to take us

to get there if you two can't keep up?

All right, let's move it!

You know, this is really beautiful country.

Yeah, it's marvelous.

Sort of like the Scottish Highlands.

You know Scotland?

No.

Yeah.

I've often thought that I'd rather like to settle down there someday.

Looks like you're going to have to change your plans.

Morning, Captain.

Thank you, Captain.

They frightened you with bandages, huh?

Without bandages, you... German, how you say?

You say flamethrower.

Yeah, yeah, flamethrower.

Hello, hello. How do you do?

This is Maritza, good soldier comrade.

Bravo. How do you do, good soldier comrade?

Bravo.

Hello, Blackie.

Maybe it comes off now, Maritza.

Back off, soldier.

Big joke.

But joke on me.

Good, Blackie. Come, we go. We eat with our comrades.

We make friends and drink.

Then we fight the Germans.

Come.

Where'd you learn to punch like that?

Harvard? No, Harlem.

Colonel?

Look, I'm not trying to get anybody killed.

Least of all me.

But that big idiot back there started it. Just watch yourself, soldier.

How's the leg today, Mason? Oh, it's very much better, thank you. Good, good.

Well, it looks like things may work out after all, huh?

Well, perhaps Miller and I can still carry out our little sideshow.

Sorry about Force 10.

Then you're down to two men, aren't you?

Of course, I don't know what your mission was, but obviously it just isn't

now, is it?

Don't you ever like your own young seven?

Do you really think so?

stinking partisans.

We hunt Allied commandos like wild pigs.

We were the Germans.

They are our friends.

Good evening, gentlemen.

Major Schroeder, 11th Army Corps.

How do you do, Major?

Delighted to meet you.

We thought all these people were partisans of all the luck. Bounce me?

Sure.

Chetniks. Who would have believed that?

The other three Allied missions that fell into our hands.

We're not quite so happy about it as you appear to be.

I'm not surprised, sir.

But you see, we're not commanders.

We're deserters.

Ah, deserters.

Give them to me, Major.

We kill them now.

You see, we were in a prison camp in Termally.

We escaped.

Managed to steal a plane, flew here, RAF Lancaster, were attacked, hit, bailed

out, and landed in your territory, thank God.

Fascinating.

Tell me, why exactly did you desert?

Well, I'm glad you asked that.

Yes.

Well, I'm afraid...

That is rather a long story.

Oh, please.

You must not be afraid of boring me.

Have you ever heard of penicillin?

No.

No, well, I'm not surprised. It's a new development. It's a drug that prevents

wounds from becoming infected.

It cures a whole range of infections, as a matter of fact, including some of the

nastiest social diseases.

Naturally, it's become one of the most sought -after items on the black market.

Our friend here, Sergeant Weaver of the American Medical Corps, was our

supplier.

You are saying you stole these drugs from the army to sell to civilians, hmm?

Uh, not to civilians, Major.

We'd sell it back to the army.

Any army.

Ah, yeah, I see.

Uh, tell me... What has all this to do with that suitcase that you keep looking

at?

Well, that suitcase is full of our penicillin.

Oh, indeed.

Perhaps I could see some of it? Certainly, Major.

Open it, Miller.

You can't do that here, sir. You'd ruin the lot.

Well, you know perfectly well that any contamination will destroy it.

It's got to be opened under laboratory conditions.

Besides, there's nearly half a million pounds worth of stuff in here. I know

that, but the Major's not interested in our penicillin. He only wants to know if

we're telling the truth.

Anyway, what's the use of a half a million pounds to you out here?

Yes, well, that's beside the point, sir, but I'm not going to...

That story doesn't

seem to convince you, Major.

No, it does not.

Well, that's up to you, Major. About every word that he's told you is true.

If you don't believe it, you can check with your own intelligence people in

Italy. They'll verify the entire story.

Well, I shall certainly verify your story.

Every word of it.

Good story, Major. Very cute.

And what happens when they open the suitcase?

I should think we'd all get shot.

Don't you, Colonel?

Maritza, what do you think?

They're lying.

What does it matter anyway?

Kill them.

Yeah, you are probably right.

Do you know what I was thinking?

After the war, a million dollars.

You, a simple peasant girl from... I can never pronounce the name of the place

you come from.

With so much money, we could... They're lying.

Kill them.

Raus! Raus, out!

At least we got a good night's sleep.

Good

morning,

gentlemen.

Our intelligence confirms your escape from Italy.

You and you, follow me, please.

The escape from Italy is one thing.

The rest of your story is something else.

I had time to sleep on it, and so this morning... You know what I did?

I opened the suitcase.

Maestro!

And what do you think I found?

Firewood. Well, what do you expect?

We buried that stuff before your Chetniks picked us up. Oh, not that

Schroeder. It's the only thing we've got to bargain with.

Yeah, that is what I thought you would say.

Well, I don't believe you. I think you're lying.

You know they're lying.

Why don't you try to get rid of them?

Gently. I don't believe your so -called penicillin exists, but it just might.

So I will let you go and dig it up for me.

And if we do, you'll shoot us and bury us in the same hole.

I shall certainly shoot you if you don't.

Well, gentlemen, the choice is yours.

Well, I can't figure out how the firewood got in the case, huh?

Neither can I.

Don't know whether we're going to find any spare penicillin around here, do

Well, what are we going to do, for Christ's sake? Keep walking until we

the Adriatic?

Don't think the Iron Maiden's going to let us get that far.

Out!

What is it, Renee?

We are three miles past the spot where you were picked up.

Well, where is this wonderful treasure?

In your imagination?

No, ma 'am, it's not in our imagination. I just think it's a bit further on,

don't you, Colonel?

Yes, it is.

Well, I mean, it's not much further than this. It's hard to tell, though. The

whole country looks alike.

You will start digging within five minutes.

What if we haven't found it in five minutes?

Then you will be digging your graves.

Hey, Colonel.

Wait a minute. Now this looks familiar. Isn't this our little hollow down here?

Uh, yes.

Yes, I think it is.

Uh, I remember this, uh, this knoll over here. Ma 'am, this is it. I think this

is it. Uh, and this knoll over here? Right, you see, comrade, we lined it

between them.

There you are. There's our pile of stone. Right.

Get him closer. Let me use the spade.

Then take the two that are closest to you, and I'll take the other one in the

broad.

I'm gonna get him closer now, okay?

Fred, come.

It's here.

Ready? All right.

You can get up now.

They're dead.

I'm the one who puts firewood in people's cases.

And hides their high explosives.

Don't sit there gawping.

Get out of here.

Keep moving in that direction.

Try to find Petrovich's partisans.

Now go.

Excuse me, good comrade soldier, but exactly what story are you going to tell

Schroeder about all this?

You took us by surprise.

You got away.

Here, hit me.

Did you expect me to go back there with my hair combed?

Hit me.

All right.

Sorry.

Harder.

I hope that man Schroeder believes that girl's story.

Yeah, if he doesn't believe her, he better think twice about calling her a

What about Miller and Reynolds?

What about them, Colonel?

Yes.

I suppose they...

Let's move it.

Do you have a feeling we're being followed?

Yeah, about the last ten minutes.

Ok, we're done.

Next time you can play the corpse Yeah, you seem pretty good with that thing

though

Germans yes, I suppose

Partisan

thank God

Good morning.

Good morning.

What's the matter with him?

We've been looking for you people. Be quiet.

You will make your report to Major Petrovich.

run into that company colonel. Yeah?

Yeah, the leader.

What about him?

Great, I know him.

Nikolai. Who the hell is Nikolai?

It's Nikolai Laskovar.

The man I was sent to kill.

It's the one I think it is.

I know where we are.

So do I.

Right, isn't it?

Do you think he's recognized you?

Yes, I think so.

Go ahead, ma 'am.

Lieutenant Colonel Barnsby, United States Rangers.

Major Mallory, sir.

You got away from the Germans.

How?

We escaped.

Captain Escobar has his doubts about that.

If you escaped, why were the Germans not pursuing you?

We observed you for five miles before we picked you up.

Well, then you should have observed that we killed the two Chetniks that were

following us.

The men with the bandaged faces.

Exactly.

I have the accords for congratulations as to men were part of us.

comrades of ours whom we had infiltrated into the Chetnik camp. So now all links

with our agents there are broken, thanks to you.

I'm sorry.

The fact remains, however, sir, that we're Allied officers. There's no reason

should be treated this way.

I'm here in command of Force Ten, and I insist that we be allowed to contact the

Allied mission at Marshal Tito's headquarters.

I'm sure London informed you. We are informed of many things by London.

Very few of them ever seem to materialize.

However, you are right.

I was informed of your mission.

Personally, I doubt if it was ever a practical one.

But now that you are here, without equipment, the question is academic.

And you, Major, you came here as an observer, perhaps?

No, sir.

I was charged with a mission of my own.

It's confidential.

Ah, confidential.

Sometimes I get the impression that London looks on the theatre of

a convenient place for conducting what they call war games.

May I speak to you personally, sir?

You are speaking to me personally.

I mean alone.

No.

The People's Army does not conduct military business in secret.

Very well, sir.

I was sent here to identify a German agent, codename Nikolai.

We are reliably informed that he has infiltrated the People's Resistance Army

and is now known as Captain Leskowar.

And having identified this man, what were your further orders?

I was to eliminate him, sir.

Eliminate. Don't you mean kill?

Yes, sir. I do mean kill.

Do you hear that, Leskowar?

The gentleman from London wanted to shoot you.

Sorry,

Major.

I must admit, you are indeed partly right.

There was an agent named Nikolai operating somewhere out of here.

And also calling himself Lescovar.

But he was identified many months ago.

And eliminated, the British were informed.

But London were very specific, sir. Yes, they frequently are specific.

And just as frequently wrong.

Lieutenant Markle, see that these gentlemen give a full report on their

activities in the Chesney camp.

A specific report.

Well, Captain, I guess we owe you a bit of an apology, don't we?

Well, it happens.

We all get badly briefed sometimes.

Which we've been briefed about the men with the bandages.

Replaced them with a couple of your own, huh? That's a good trick.

They were messengers to our agent at Schroeder's headquarters.

Is your agent small, dark, pretty, beautiful grey eyes and shoots from the

You mean Maritza?

Yes.

She took a big chance for us.

She isn't Petrovich's daughter for nothing.

We hold this end of the bridge.

Over there, the Germans are preparing for the final attack.

We have been ordered to prevent them crossing at all costs.

What exactly do they have over there?

Three divisions, perhaps more.

We're only brigade here.

Soon they'll bring up tanks, then... Why haven't you put on the bridge already?

We have tried several times.

Each time we lost valuable men.

Major Petrovich has decided it is impractical.

Well, he's wrong about that, Captain.

There's no bridge in the world that can't be blown.

That's what 4th 10 was here to prove.

I told you before, you had no men, you had no equipment. Look, I can radio

London for more equipment. All you have to do is get me an airstrip operational.

Oh, call London.

Prepare an airstrip for a plane that may never arrive.

Have you anything else to suggest?

Yes. Give me 20 of your men and I can blow that bridge to hell. You mean you

blow 20 of my men to hell?

For nothing?

That bridge is indestructible.

Excuse me, sir. You don't need 20 men.

You need Miller.

Miller. He's an expert with explosives, sir. Probably the best in England.

Ah, this Miller is in England?

No, sir.

Prisoner in the Chetnik camp.

Then he's already dead.

Not necessarily, Major.

I refuse to mount a full -scale operation just to find out, Colonel.

I need every single man I've got here, now!

Sir. We don't need to mount a full -scale operation.

Just give us two men.

These officers are from headquarters.

They're here to interrogate you.

You reported five prisoners, Major.

Yeah.

Two of them tried to escape.

They were shot.

Major Schroeder is in the armory.

And I have told you before, this area is out of bounds to all of you people,

except Captain Dreschak.

Now kindly remove yourselves immediately.

And if you can read, which I doubt, take a look at standing orders.

There. You have made me burn the mist.

Sergeant, let it burn.

Open up.

Prisoners for Major Schroeder.

You see, my colleague does not believe you are certain.

The prisoners, sir. What prisoners?

I thought you said these men had been shot.

And the hawk.

Shall we go?

No!

This is not correct.

There's one shooting!

open it

go

always so kind to the men with burns but

they have no burns

Captain Dražák, I saw two blind men entering the bunker with handcuffs.

They look like those two dead men.

Open! Open up!

Open!

Go away.

Go away.

Don't just stand there gawking like an idiot. Let's get this truck moving.

Is she okay?

Well, we'll drive as carefully as we can.

Hey, you.

I don't like the way you talk.

You what? I said I don't like the way you talk to me.

And this truck doesn't move until somebody tells me what the hell's going

around here. Now, look, you.

Look, you big -time officers have shafted me twice.

You tried to dump me back in Italy. You ran out on me back there with the

Krauts. You expect me to drive you around like some goddamn Tom chauffeur.

Nobody tells me anything.

You don't even tell me what the hell's going on around here. I don't believe

this. Excuse me, Sergeant Weaver, but is your trouble that you want to be part

of the team? I don't want to be a part of any lousy team, Major.

I just want some equal consideration.

Well, I don't think you're going to get equal consideration from those people

back there.

Do you?

I don't care for the U .S. Cavalry.

Nobody moves until somebody tells me what you're planning to do.

We're going to blow up a bridge.

A bridge?

Whose bridge? Not me, buddy. I'm blowing up nothing.

We are going to help the partisans blow up a bridge, and then if we're very

lucky, we can all go home.

Is that a fact?

That's the general idea, Sergeant. That's why we came back for Miller here.

Yeah, Miller.

You didn't give a mother hunch about me, did you?

You came back for Miller, but you didn't come back for me, did you?

No, we didn't.

That's the first straight answer you've given me.

I think the Major's got a point, Colonel.

They do look kind of mean, don't they?

Don't just stand there gaping like an idiot, Weaver. Get in there and drive

truck. All right.

We'll have to do this another way.

Get away from the truck.

Wait for my signal.

You are an incurable show -off.

Don't knock it, Major.

Don't knock it.

Now it works, huh, Sergeant?

Well, these babies are a little temperamental sometimes.

Like me.

Left the bar is confirmed. My figments got through to London Do you like that

job?

Yeah Thought anything about him job, I suppose

All right,

Sergeant, what do you think pretty straightforward, isn't it?

Well, no, not exactly Backed up for a long joke Now, I'd say you're plugging a

dead horse there, old man.

What are you trying to tell me, Sergeant?

Are you kidding? I know every inch of that bridge.

Oh, yes?

Ah, well, in that case, you'll have noticed how it's built into the living

and how those main pilings are not just fairer concrete but 20 feet thick and

twice as deep. That's not forgetting that the spans are locked in... Look, I

told you, London's dropping the same stuff we had before.

Yes, I know what you're getting, old boy, bags of equipment, but it's not

to be enough, you know.

What do you mean, not enough?

Well, you might just bend it a little, burn the paint right here and there.

But nothing that would look seriously inconvenient to the Jerrys, I thought.

Now, look, our experts have been studying that bridge for a week, and

it'll blow. I don't know where you learned your job, but I'm talking about

best construction engineers in the business.

Yes. Well, they're probably experts at building things, whereas I'm an expert

blowing them up.

And you can take it from me that one would need a good eight hours to make a

decent job of that bridge.

Eight hours?

Assuming, of course, that Jerry is kind enough to leave us in peace.

And maybe provide a few working lights.

Miller. You've seen those searchlights, have you? Yes, well, I should... Miller.

Sir. I think you've made your technical point.

Many thanks, sir.

Well, if I weren't absolutely sure of my facts, sir, I wouldn't be telling you

this now.

And you do understand, sir, I'm not exaggerating.

Miller, what would happen to the bridge if that central arch was suddenly hit by

several million tons of water?

Water? Water?

I think we've been talking about the wrong target.

Remember that dam we passed just up around the bend? What kind of dam? Where

it? It's about two and a half miles up the river.

But my dear chap, why didn't you say so before?

Oh, I can do a tremendous job at a dam. Yes.

See, for the dam, you've got your natural elements working for you.

It's like having an enormous bath. All you've got to do is pull the plug.

Thank you.

Come along, gentlemen.

As a technician, I just thought you might be just not that many.

So the RAF dropped

the stuff and we blow the dam, right?

Right.

Is it anything like Boulder Dam? Now, that baby's big, man.

How often have you used this as a dropping zone?

Never.

The Germans see to that.

We have to keep moving around.

Makes sense.

You think those two guys know anything about blowing a dam?

Oh, no, I shouldn't think they've got a clue.

And them I know weave up. We sergeants will see them through.

As usual.

Right. Ah, hello.

Ought you to be out and about yet? Jolly cold.

Yeah, come on in. Take a seat. Take it easy.

Thank you. But one thing I cannot do just yet is sit down.

Will you not stand for the fireworks?

Bags of panic and blue lights?

No. I've seen too many airdrops. They don't compare to a nice warm bed.

Would you believe it? Right on time.

Können Sie die Flammen sehen?

Ja.

Ja.

Sehe die Flammen.

Ganz hell und klar.

Hände.

I don't believe it.

Poor bastards.

This was no accident.

We've lost our last chance.

There is no question we were betrayed.

Aren't we always, with Allied missions?

Their security is a joke.

We do our part, and what do we get?

Twenty lives lost.

One of them, it passed.

Finished.

All that matters now is that the Germans are marshalling their tanks.

They will cross the bridge at first light tomorrow, and there is nothing we

do to stop them.

And you four gentlemen have outstayed your youthfulness.

You will be escorted back to the Allied military mission.

Out of harm's way.

Sir.

I could leave the Germans some very nasty surprises.

Thank you, Sergeant.

I think we have had enough surprises.

Captain Escobar, see that these gentlemen have an escort of two men.

Those poor chaps, just half the equipment that the Jerrys have got,

made that dam look like a Swiss cheese.

Absolutely sickening.

Do you think the Jerrys will have that gear we need in their forward supply

dump? Yeah, of course they would.

Lashings of HE, landmines, detonators, everything.

Substitute certainty.

You're at good, Colonel.

I think you'll find them reliable.

Okay, thank you, Captain.

I think we're going to need rather more men than this, Captain.

My little sergeant here thinks that the Germans have the necessary equipment in

their forward supply dumps so that the colonel can blow the dam.

That means you'd have to get into the Martian yards at Mostar.

None of you speak enough German.

You need me to help.

Thank you, Captain.

You know if we'd get shot for this, couldn't we all?

Look real beautiful, you know that?

It's all right for you. You didn't have to come with us.

We'll be back in exactly 35 minutes, right?

Okay. Enter the shops over there, boy.

Fire, bitte.

Ja, hier.

Man, finished the room.

Pity they didn't teach you German at that awful school of yours. Instead of

Latin, that is the thought I want.

Please, any news to you?

No, I told you, telemarketers is what we want. They look like dirty, great green

dinner plates.

Maybe they just haven't got any.

This is my cart.

You can buy one yourself.

Everyone can come. You're not at home. I've been here since six in the morning.

You're doing the same to me. If you weren't so mean to me, I would have hit

in the face.

I wonder what happened to Barnsby and his truck.

I've been asking myself the same question.

But we can't just stand here like ducks in thunder.

Over there. The railway wagon.

You got this stuff in there till he comes.

should have been here by now.

Where the hell is he?

Beautiful.

Yeah, just the job.

Not now, Millie.

Well, it's got to be done sometime. I'd rather do it now than in some ditch.

How long?

Oh, about ten minutes, give him peace and quiet.

These little thoughts can be temperamental.

The cabin's itself as harmless enough, but then aren't we all? And still

detonated.

For a moment, I thought we were off.

Hey, where in the hell have they gotten to?

You maniac.

What the hell are you doing here?

I'll go and have a look around.

See if I can find them.

Wait, I'll get him.

That's Leskobar. Yeah.

Where's Marco?

I don't know, but Dan the one they're hiding in that boxcar.

What's up now?

Somebody gave him a sergeant. He sent Barnes to be chucked away.

Oh, no.

Sergeant.

Be quiet.

Listen to me.

There are two British commanders in that cattle truck behind me.

I'm Colonel Thorninger Slavin, Special Field Intelligence Group.

Stand still, idiot. Look natural.

There is a third, an American colonel.

In the truck which you just sent away.

I want to take them all together.

What's Lascavar doing?

He's shooting in some kind of story.

Go and assemble a squad of armed men.

Quickly and quietly.

And keep them out of sight.

Then report back to me. Understand?

The line shooting.

Get him up here quick. You picked a fine time to do this.

Sling out my suitcase, will you? You trying to screw up this operation?

We're behind schedule already.

How did you get here?

I've been through that already, Major. Help me get this uploaded and get it on

the truck.

Right,

Miller? Right. All set. Let's go.

Easy.

Hold it.

It's that man again.

I'll take care of him.

Close the door.

They are all yours, Sergeant.

Bring the squad.

Oh, Marco.

They're giving himself away.

I don't know how.

How in the hell are we going to get back across the river, huh?

I mean, where are we going?

Well, then I shouldn't wonder.

That's where the train goes.

No stops.

Sorry about Marco.

Thank you.

It's a risk we all take.

I was a brave man and a good friend.

But he got careless.

Do you think that big sergeant spotted in us a partisan?

I can't buy that.

The sergeant wasn't that bright.

He saluted you. You're wearing a corporal's uniform.

What doesn't rate a salute in the German army?

Not in anybody's army.

Why do you think he saluted you, Escobar?

Perhaps he recognized my natural superiority.

Yes, perhaps.

They say this train goes to Sarajevo on no stops.

Yeah.

But I noticed on the map that we pass within a half a mile of the dam.

Strange you didn't bother to mention that.

Now, what's all this about?

Some fool of a sergeant salutes me, and I forget to mention that we parked near

the dam.

A little while ago, you said that Marco must have given himself away.

I don't think he gave anything away, except his life.

What did you give away, Lasko?

You think I'm a traitor.

Is that it?

I don't think.

I know.

I've always known.

I just couldn't prove it.

You're Nikolai.

You're the man who blew us from Greece.

Thank you, Colonel.

I've done your job.

You help me do mine.

It's lit like a Christmas tree.

Dawn's around 5 .30.

Gives us an hour to get in, half an hour to set the charges, and 20 minutes to

get clear.

What you need, sir, is a little diversion, isn't it?

What the hell am I supposed to do with this? Oh, I don't know.

Try and imagine you're a dog.

Oh, for heaven's sake. On the road, man. On the road.

Just unroll it and string it.

Come on, Blackie.

Come on, Blackie.

Come on.

Hey,

you bleed red blood, eh, Blackie?

Blow, damn it, blow!

Give them a chance.

They'll be here in a minute. If they'd been caught, we'd have had the alarm go

off.

How long do we make the pew?

They're Germans.

They're going to be punctual.

Usually are.

We were out of time.

Twenty seconds?

What do you say?

It's your decision, Colonel.

20 seconds sounds about right.

Then we won't have so far to run.

Would have been nice to see that bridge go, huh?

Yes, wouldn't it?

Oh, very interesting, though, hasn't it?

It didn't do a goddamn thing!

Nothing!

It didn't... What?

It didn't work? I know it didn't work!

Let's get out of here!

Yeah, let's get out of here. When I catch up with that little perisher, I'll

wring his useless neck!

Nothing!

We've been through all this and nothing!

Nothing but... Can't expect an enormous volcano with three tiny bags of

explosives.

You have to let nature take her course.

Give it time, it'll work.

Everything seems to be in order.

Yes. No, me neither.

You son of a bitch!

Well, I told you it's only a matter of waiting.

You cute little son of a bitch!

You did it! Come here!

You did it! You did it!

You cute little son of a bitch! You did it!

Why, you lying genius!

I love you!

You did it!

Hey, look, look!

Miller, you horrible little man. You knew that was going to be a slow motion

explosion. You deliberately didn't tell me, did you?

Well, I didn't want to bore you with technical detail. I thought it might

been a bit over your head.

What happened to you?

He bit me in all the excitement.

But damn it to hell, we did it, Colonel. We did it. Yes, we did, Sergeant.

We did.

Have a merry Christmas.

Yes, gentlemen.

We did it.

But before we can start awarding ourselves Victoria Crosses and

Medals of Honour and so on and so forth and such like, I think I'd better point

out that one, we're now on the wrong side of the river.

That two, we have no hope whatsoever of rejoining the partisans. And that three,

this neck of the woods will soon be crawling with very bad -tempered

And four, I don't think that our little genius, Sergeant Miller, there, has even

got a box of matches left in his suitcase.

And so, therefore, I think we can take it, gentlemen, that we are going to have

a very long walk home.

Bye.