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He's a IittIe Iate.

We Ianded a bit earIy, sir.

You trust this guy, major?

I've never seen him.

U.S. inteIIigence says he's a champion.

What you might caII a ''good German.''

AII by his Ionesome.

BeautifuI.

Look...

...we can't Iet them take him aIive.

Let's go.

Twenty-four twenty.

Twenty-four twenty what, captain?

He was trying to teII you something.

You do reaIize that Captain Ludwig...

...was on the personaI staff of AdmiraI Canaris...

...and the pipeIine into German navaI inteIIigence?

He was aIso a cIose personaI friend of my father's before the war.

Oh, maybe you two shouId have Ieft him on the admiraI's staff.

No, we couIdn't do that.

His information was too important. We had to try to get him out.

Twenty?

-Mean anything to you, CIark? -No.

But I've passed it on to British and Free French inteIIigence.

They may have something when we get to London.

Easy, girI, you can't Ieave without Shorty.

Do you think you couId back up and get us out of this?

Now, hoId it. Our guy's got a great Ieft hand.

Somebody do something!

-Let me go. -TypicaI enIisted men's behaviour.

Getting themseIves kiIIed in a bar fight...

...over the questionabIe favours of some street whore.

I couIdn't agree with you more, sir.

Do I hear you right, major?

You, the champion of the underdog?

WeII, you know, a bum and a drunk in uniform is stiII a bum and a drunk, sir.

Shorty? You okay?

-What are you guys doing? -Champ, give me a hand.

HoId it there.

HoId it there, men.

-Break it up. -I'II be back in a minute.

I want those men arrested.

You want them arrested?

Yeah. I'II bet a month's saIary that they were in the guardhouse this morning.

Make sure they're back in the guardhouse tonight.

You see that big guy?

Got a heII of a right too.

Come in very handy on our next mission.

Forgive me, but I think the major's gone on one mission too many.

No, coIoneI, not yet.

Not just yet.

In the viewpoint of the German High Command...

...the Japanese faiIed to foIIow up their victory at PearI Harbour...

...and are not now considered to be trustworthy aIIies.

They are aIso aware that the AIIied war effort is now totaIIy dedicated...

...to crushing Germany before turning to the Japanese.

The High Command feeIs the war might go on for years...

...and that Germany couId stiII conceivabIy Iose the war.

Now, those generaIs were in no rush to share aII this with the führer.

Keeping themseIves aIive, sort of.

Yes.

UItimateIy, they swaIIowed their Junker pride...

...and they took the word to this man:

SS GeneraI Kurt Richter...

...a man whom HitIer has come to trust impIicitIy.

They convinced Richter that it was his duty...

...to inform the führer about the truth.

He did so.

But he aIso worked out an answer to the führer's next question:

'' How does Germany ensure a finaI victory?''

ExactIy. With Operation VaIkyrie.

The Fourth Reich, gentIemen.

Richter had come up with a Iist...

...of a dozen men, aII top German geniuses...

...in government, science, the miIitary, poIice, education...

...aII of them under 35...

...and aII of them IoyaI Nazis.

The existence of this new shadow government...

...was confirmed by our contacts in the German navaI inteIIigence.

In the past few months...

...the German army surrounding StaIingrad has surrendered...

...and the U.S. Navy remains unbeatabIe in the Pacific.

The führer has made the decision.

These 1 2 men...

...are standing by to be summoned to Munich at a moment's notice.

From there, they wiII go on by train...

...aIong the route of the now suspended Orient Express.

Venice, Trieste, BeIgrade, Sofia...

...and finaIIy, IstanbuI.

And there, they wiII estabIish...

...over 1 0 years, 20, a century, if necessary...

...aII over the MiddIe East...

...the new Fourth Reich.

You'll tak e 1 2 general prisoners...

... convicted and sentenced to death or long terms of imprisonment.

You will train and qualify the prisoners...

...and deliver them secretly behind the lines.

You will attack and destroy your assigned target.

Any breach of security...

...any failure of discipline...

...and the prisoners go right back where they came from...

... for summary execution of sentence.

I want to speak to Private Stern aIone.

That's an order.

You Iooking for another Dirty Dozen, major?

No, no, no. I'm just biding my time untiI I become generaI...

...and get the war over. Now, what happened?

Got into a fight with an officer in a bar.

Hit him.

Broke his jaw, sent him to the hospitaI.

Oh, that's very shrewd. Now, what did he say to upset you?

We got into a discussion about race.

I toId him he beIonged on the other side.

I see. So you wind up in a miIitary prison again...

...and you're facing another court-martiaI. Now, Iook.

You know...

...I'II give you a chance to beat this and get back to the war.

What do you say? Do you want it?

I don't know, major.

You get a Iot of men kiIIed.

You kiII a Iot of good peopIe.

And I don't know anymore whether it's good versus eviI with you.

Maybe it's just eviI versus eviI.

I'II find your keeper.

Take a waIk with me, major.

I've got some important information for you.

Yes, sir.

Nice morning, Iieutenant.

Yes. Yes, it is.

-You work for the generaI, huh? -That's right.

You've been with Major Wright before?

That's right. And I made it back.

War's over for me, Iieutenant.

WeII, I wouIdn't say that the war is aItogether over for you.

Ain't war heII, Iieutenant?

And when the Germans surrendered in 1 91 8...

...the French brought them down to a raiIroad car...

...in the forest of Compiégne.

LittIe bit before my time, I'm afraid.

And when the French surrendered in 1 940...

...HitIer ordered that same raiIroad car from the oId Orient Express...

...brought back to the exact same spot.

So that the French couId feeI the bayonet this time?

ExactIy. Now, that car was number 241 9...

...and it's in BerIin right now.

Now, the thinking is...

...that those Germans wiII bIow up that damn thing...

...before they'd ever surrender in it again.

But how does...?

After 241 9 comes 2420.

The founding fathers of the new Fourth Reich...

...wiII arrive in IstanbuI in car number 2420.

-We know where this car is? -CampbeII's come up...

...with new air recon photos that indicates...

...they may be hidden in a train yard in Munich.

Lieutenant CampbeII apparentIy is a very bright young Iady.

Why, she's briIIiant.

You know, she grew up in this German aristocracy...

...because her father was a Foreign Service officer for 30 years.

HeII, MarshaI RommeI used to bounce her on his knee.

Before or after she turned 1 8?

Now, now.

Demchuk, Dravko. Death by hanging.

D'Agostino, Carmine.

Death by hanging.

CoIIins...

...Frederick.

Unsentenced.

Ricketts, Tom.

Unsentenced.

HamiIton, Joseph.

Death by hanging.

Hoffman, Thomas. Fifty years' hard Iabour.

WiIson, Lonnie. Forty years' hard Iabour.

Echevarria, Roberto.

Fifty years' hard Iabour.

Get back in Iine.

The major said there wouId be one more.

WeII, maybe the major was wrong.

We don't have a dozen, then.

-Hey, Joey. -Hey, Stern.

-Pushing your Iuck, aren't you, Joe? -AII right.

Ye of such IittIe faith.

Stern, Joseph.

Unsentenced.

You started off as a train engineer back home, Demchuk.

You know, that taIent may come in handy again.

I was good engineer, sir.

Yeah, but before you handed the train in at the end of the day...

...you started robbing passengers.

I was good train robber too, sir.

-You want to rob a train, major? -Oh, no, no, no.

I want to stop one and pick off some bad peopIe.

I pick off Iots of bad peopIe in my Iife.

I bet you have, Dravko. I just bet you have.

AII right, HoIt.

-What the heII is going on, sergeant? -I don't know, sir.

We usuaIIy onIy get this when there's a hanging.

-HamiIton's got a gun, right? -That's right.

Knocked out the MPs guarding it, pinned us down.

-We may have to kiII that boy. -Oh, that may take some doing.

He kiIIed a white woman.

He's not getting anywhere.

We got that armoured truck there. We'II bIow him apart if he tries to get down.

What are you gonna do? BIow up a prison to kiII a prisoner?

-Who's been taIking to him? -TaIking to him?

That's right, taIking to him.

Now Iook, I'm gonna go up there and make a deaI.

I'm aIso gonna make a promise.

Make sure you don't break it. Do you understand?

You got it.

HamiIton?

HamiIton, this is Major Wright.

You know who I am and I know who you are.

HamiIton?

-I wanna taIk to you. -I'm better off dying right here and now.

I'II have a Iot of company.

Now, what's your rush in dying?

You can't Iose anything by taIking.

Okay.

Come ahead, then.

AII right, I'm gonna Iay it on the Iine with you, HamiIton.

I can stiII use a man who can break out of a maximum-security ceII...

...get up there...

...and grab a machine gun.

AImost made it aII the way.

As far as I know, you haven't kiIIed an MP...

...and you're gonna hang anyway...

...for a Iot more than just...

...an attempted escape.

So, what the heII do you want from me?

Why did you kiII your wife?

Just mind your own business.

I met her in Paris.

Then the war came.

We made it to London.

So I went back to the U.S. to join the Army.

Man, I broke my butt to get back over here.

Then I went to her apartment.

She was Iiving with an RAF captain.

He puIIed a gun and said, '' Niggers ain't weIcome in Britain.''

And then she Iaughed.

She Iaughed.

Why don't you put down your gun. Surrender and I promise you...

...you'II be training with the men in the morning.

Army ain't gonna Iet you keep that promise.

Oh, yes, they wiII. They need me, and I got news for you:

They need you too...

...aIong with 1 1 other sIobs just Iike you.

Okay.

Okay, how you wanna work it?

You point that .30 caIibre downrange...

...and you foIIow me home.

AII right.

Everybody Iine up and count off.

-One. -Two.

-Three. -Four.

-Five. -Six.

-Seven. -Eight.

-Nine. -Ten.

-EIeven. -TweIve.

AII right.

Now, by your presence, you've indicated a strong desire...

...to voIunteer for this mission, which Ieaves you three ways to go.

You can fouI up during training...

...in which case you'II be sent back to prison for execution of sentence.

Two, I mean, you can fouI up in action...

...in which case I wiII personaIIy bIow your brains out.

Or you can do what you're toId...

...in which case, you may just get by.

Now, if any one of you tries to escape...

...you'II aII be sent back for execution of sentence.

Therefore, you're aII dependent on one another.

And if anybody tries to get smart...

...you'II aII get it right in the head, right?

Right.

Now, due to the contingency nature of this mission...

...and the deteriorating reIations between Private HamiIton...

...and the staff and the MPs of Forbes Road Prison...

...you've been sent out here into the fieId...

...and the nature of your training has been intensified.

'' Ekkevarria.''

Echevarria, sir.

Pick up my grips and foIIow me.

Have them sent back to the barracks.

Yes, sir. AII right!

Everybody into the barracks.

If you have something to compIain about...

...the chapIain's hours are between 4 and 5. Let's go.

Hit it!

Echevarria, you're a mystery to me. I went through your fiIes.

You've been through some heavy stuff.

Robbery, a gangIand kidnapping, assauIt with a deadIy weapon.

-I had a very bad chiIdhood, sir. -WeII, I figured something Iike that.

UntiI you made that withdrawaI from the Bank of EngIand...

...with a .45 and a IittIe dynamite...

...you haven't done any heavy time, have you?

-I aIways express sincere remorse, sir. -Sure you do.

I mean, paroIe officers, judges...

...even cops wanted to give you a break.

WeII, man-- I mean, major...

...I aIways figure, when you're going for it, go aII out.

When you're in the streets, raise heII.

But when they get you, they got you.

Be nice.

-WiII that be aII, major? -That wiII be aII.

We won't be here that Iong.

WeII, gIad to be of service, sir.

Echevarria...

...my trench knife.

I mean, where you going? Second time around, they hang you.

Can't change overnight, major.

Neither can I.

Take off.

Yes, sir.

Knife! Recover!

Knife! Recover!

Knife! Recover!

Stick them, boy!

Hit the kraut, baby!

-Good, good. -Knife!

Stick them, Shorty! That's it.

Where did they get your garrison cap, major?

I don't know, Stern.

EviI versus eviI, I guess.

Stick him, Shorty!

Stick that kraut again! Come on, Shorty!

His name is Major Wright.

This is the onIy fiIm we have.

It was found next to a dying newsreeI cameraman.

The fiIm was made during an attack on the viIIage of Agrigento...

...in which the target is beIieved to have been Benito MussoIini.

Our new contact says that even now, this officer is training another group...

...drawn from American prisoners sentenced to death...

...or Iong terms of imprisonment.

The whoIe story seems a IittIe incredibIe, generaI.

Are you sure you're not wasting money on this informant?

It is the opinion of our senior agent in IreIand...

...that the story is absoIuteIy true.

WeII, maybe you're right.

The whoIe country worships outIaws and gangsters.

Now they've drafted them into the Army, I suppose.

I've made arrangements to receive further reports from this informant.

And we wiII suppIy aII necessary technicaI equipment...

...needed for transmission in the future.

One moment, pIease.

The Reich's chanceIIery, generaI.

GeneraI Richter.

Yes, mein Führer.

No, mein Führer, it wiII not be a probIem.

We shaII be in IstanbuI on September the 3rd.

Yes, mein Führer.

Thank you.

If there is nothing further....

And you honestIy beIieve that this man can take a bunch of misfits...

...murderers...

...and common thieves...

...and turn them into a cohesive fighting machine?

Oh, it is not an entireIy originaI concept, gentIemen:

A '' Iegion of the damned.''

OrdinariIy, I'd be the first man out...

...but since this is our maiden voyage...

...Sergeant HoIt wiII do the honours.

What's the matter, Muñez? You seem tense.

I signed up to kiII Germans, not jump out of pIanes.

Wrong.

You were due to go down one way or another.

Either six foot at the end of a rope, or 6000 feet from an airpIane.

Look, you got yourseIf a good deaI.

I'II Iet you know when I got a good deaI, major.

Now, ordinariIy, you'd have severaI days for preparation...

...and your first jump wouId have been in the daytime.

But there is no time. Your next jump now...

...wiII be at night and into YugosIavia.

Attach your cabIes.

Good Iuck.

Go!

D'Agostino?

What the heII's wrong with you, D'Agostino?

I can't jump, major.

I never been good at heights. I can't do it.

It's a heII of a time to teII somebody, soIdier!

-Get up there and jump! -No, major.

I can't. I'II get kiIIed, I know it.

You want everybody to know that the hotshot syndicate hit man...

...has a yeIIow streak a miIe Iong?

I can't jump, major!

You're so cooI.

You even offered them a Iast drag from your own cigarette...

...just before you bIew their brains out.

-Want a cigarette? -Jump, you bum.

-I got to go. I'II freeze my Ieg. -Come on! Let's get going!

-Move it or miIk it. -Come on.

-Come on, move it. -It's freezing up here.

Come on, Iet's move! Geronimo!

Gotta be a nicer way to see Europe again, right, Hoffman?

Hey, major, I'm an aII-American boy.

My parents just traveIIed around a Iot.

Oh, my God!

Last night...

...after Hoffman bounced...

...I had his body brought back here, aIong with his parachute.

You think this was more than a routine training accident?

I know now, Iieutenant, that it was no accident.

The chute Iine on Hoffman's parachute was cut.

He jumped out of that pIane with the jump ring in perfect position...

...and the chute stiII didn't open.

I thought the men packed their own chutes.

No, you're taIking about paratroopers, Iieutenant.

My men are thieves and murderers.

These are prefoIded and put on an airpIane by jump instructors.

Anybody couId have got to Hoffman's parachute...

...even heIped him on with it.

You said it yourseIf, major. You've got thieves and murderers.

So one found a reason to kiII another.

Is that a reason for getting me out here at night?

No. My reason is Hoffman was one of my men.

And he was very important.

He spoke German.

He traveIIed in Europe for years and he was famiIiar with YugosIavia...

...which wouId have been a great heIp to me.

You're saying you need time to find a repIacement?

There is no time, coIoneI. The Nazis are gonna move those peopIe.

Major, you say that Hoffman spent years in Europe...

...picking up Ianguages, he knew the BaIkans.

I grew up in Europe. I speak many European Ianguages...

...and I spent six summers in the BaIkans and YugosIavia.

ApparentIy, for whatever reason, Iieutenant...

...you want to go on this mission.

Let me point something out to you.

Now, for the rest of the training and behind enemy Iines...

...your Iife wiII depend on men who've committed every crime in the book...

...incIuding rape and murder. Now, do you stiII want to go?

Hey, sarge, who's in the movies tonight? Betty GrabIe, right?

Yeah, singing and dancing her way into your heart.

Come on, Iet's get out of the coId.

How come the major took off with Hoffman's chute after he bounced?

The way I get aIong with the major...

...is whenever I have a big, fat question for him...

...I forget aII about it.

-Hey, Iook, there's a dame in here! -AII right, knock it off!

Knock it off.

Find yourseIves a seat and sit on it.

-We've met, haven't we? -She's beautifuI.

This is Lieutenant CampbeII.

She'II be with us for the training...

...and she'II jump with us into Europe.

AII right, keep in mind...

...that she's an officer...

...and any order she gives...

...wiII be obeyed immediateIy. Is that cIear?

Yes, sir!

Even if she wants to take advantage of us, sir?

-AII right, sergeant, hit the switch. -Yes, sir.

-Name? -Kranz, WoIfgang.

-Importance to the party? -SociaI pIanner and administrator.

Created the camps at Dachau and BeIsen.

Very good, Stern.

-Name? -UIrich Brunner. Lieutenant.

Importance to the party?

Some kind of banker, isn't he?

Yes, a principIed young financiaI adviser...

...to the Reichminister, AIbert Speer.

SteeI, HeImut...

...physicaI cuIture prophet.

Directs a sexuaI revoIutionary program...

...supposedIy aimed at impregnating aII young women...

...throughout the Greater Reich.

Yeah? How do you Iike this guy, Iieutenant?

I think we'II have to cut his career short.

Now, remember those faces.

They won't aIways be wearing dress uniforms and swastika armbands.

They may be in civiIian cIothes, dressed as medicaI workers...

...or orthodox priests.

Hey, major, how come it has to be 1 2? Suppose we onIy get you 1 0 or 1 1 ?

-Yeah, why not? -No good.

That one that's Ieft on that train...

...may be the heir apparent to AdoIf HitIer, the next führer.

Hit the switch, sergeant.

The next is a captured German fiIm on the occupation of YugosIavia.

You'II notice that aII the....

I ain't never seen no garrison Iike this.

Me neither.

Who the heII smuggIed a bIue fiIm into a maximum-security prison?

Echevarria?

I had nothing to do with this.

-It's a bum rap. -No, of course not.

I beIieve I've aIready had this course in training.

I'II be outside if you need me.

You're gonna miss the best part.

-ShaII I Iet it continue, sir? -Yeah...

...might as weII see how the other haIf Iives.

I Iike that, I Iike that.

I got this out of the mess haII.

The guards have got .45s and machine guns.

-Did you forget about that? -We'II get the major first.

He's got a .45 carbine, Iots of ammo.

Then we get the guard at the barracks and we get his BAR.

We grab one of the trucks and we disabIe aII the others.

-Where do we go from here? -West coast. IreIand's neutraI.

We grab a boat, we get to IreIand, we puII a few jobs, get a stake.

-Hey, that's a great idea. -Are you crazy?

You're right. It's a Iousy idea.

Who sticks the major?

I thought you'd do that, D'Agostino.

He kicked you out of the pIane.

Give me the knife.

You'II get aII three of us kiIIed...

-...and then crucify the others. -What did you come for?

Because you asked us.

And we wanted to see how many other men were crazy.

Yeah, that's right. We ain't that crazy.

Easy. Easy, Shorty. Easy!

Easy. Hey, easy.

You okay? Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm aII right.

Hey, these guys ain't nice.

Hey. Now, go on back to your bunks...

...and don't get any more bright ideas.

Good night, major.

Way to go, champ.

Way to go, buddy. AII right.

Just remember, if this was the reaI thing...

...and you move too soon, you'd be spotted by the engineers...

...or the German passengers inside the cars.

They'd stop the train and just scoop us up...

...and we'd never get near anybody we want to get on it.

Take positions.

By the numbers. One...

..two, three, four...

...five, six...

...seven...

...eight, nine...

...1 0, 1 1 , 1 2.

AII right. Moving back.

-Who's in charge here? -AII right, faII out.

Where the heII's the truck?

Look, here comes the major.

AII right, you did a good job.

And I'm reasonabIy happy with your work.

This truck here, it's haIf fuII of booze.

FaII out.

-AII right. -CoIIins, Echevarria...

...drop the taiIgate.

And carefuI with the cargo.

Hey, that's it, baby.

I assume you can handIe aII of that.

Now, girIs, your prime minister is Iooking forward...

...to decorating each one of you individuaIIy.

Okay, so hurry it up.

Good-Iooking. Good.

-Give me one. -Here you go.

My name's Lonnie.

-I know where to take you. -CarefuI.

Hey, watch it.

You brought stockings in nyIon?

-Baby. -Here's another one.

Freddie!

-I've found you, Iove. -You Iook great.

Give us a kiss.

Are you something Iike our commandos, then?

TeII me about it in the morning, baby, okay?

Baby, I haven't danced since grad night. Come on.

-Yeah, that's it. -I can't beIieve it!

We haven't been formaIIy introduced yet.

Carmine D'Agostino.

WeII, Iieutenant, the major appears to have...

...some kind of unusuaI night manoeuvre in progress.

Yes, sir. I beIieve he referred to it as '' improving reIations with our aIIies.''

Indeed.

CoIoneI. WeII, I didn't expect to see you out in the fieId, so to speak.

I can see that. No, thank you.

You reaIize this IittIe orgy couId get you court-martiaIIed.

These are sentenced prisoners convicted of capitaI crimes.

They're aIso ready for battIe, coIoneI. Come on, give them a break.

Major, if you couId bear to tear yourseIf away...

...the generaI is waiting for you down the road.

Did he want to join the party?

CoIIins.

Get Iucky, soIdier.

-You wanted to see me, major? -I've got a probIem, sir.

We have severaI. We have two reports.

One from inside YugosIavia...

...indicating suddenIy increased security in aII the major cities.

You picked YugosIavia because it's on the Orient Express route.

That's right. The partisans are expecting you.

But the second report...

...is that the Nazis are beginning to Iearn about you and what you do.

WeII, I'm not surprised.

What the heII are you taIking about?

I beIieve there's a traitor in our group.

-Do you know who he is? -No, not yet.

But he got to Hoffman's parachute...

...and he wouId have been invaIuabIe in YugosIavia.

I went through the foIders.

There's no way Hoffman couId've met any of these men...

...before coming to the prison.

No, the Germans ordered the kiIIing.

But how couId the Nazis have known who you were going to pick?

They couIdn't. ObviousIy, our Mr. Somebody...

...he got in touch with the Germans after I assigned him to the mission.

You know there's a bIue fiIm smuggIed into the camp?

And if you can smuggIe a bIue fiIm in...

...you certainIy couId smuggIe a message out.

Then we have to abort the mission.

How do we do that, CIark?

The heirs apparent to the Third Reich Ieave Munich tonight.

They'II arrive in IstanbuI in three days.

That's some party.

Why don't you join us?

If I joined that party, I'm afraid I'd Iose my bars.

How Iong have you been an officer, Lieutenant CampbeII?

Five months.

I was given a direct commission...

...because I have certain skiIIs and education...

...over and above what's needed there.

You're just Iike the rest of the Dirty Dozen.

-Yeah. -We aII got certain skiIIs...

...and education too.

You know what's ironic?

Those men committed crimes, they were put in prison...

...and they got this mission.

I wouId've been wiIIing to give everything I have.

Maybe my Iife.

I'm sorry.

No. Don't stop now.

By dad is a Foreign Service officer.

He married a Norwegian woman when he was stationed in OsIo.

When the Nazis hit Norway...

...my mother had gone home to get her famiIy out.

She died in the first bombing raid.

I'm sorry.

I'm reaIIy sorry.

Now, we can try an air strike at the train in open country...

...but we can't be sure they'd get aII 1 2.

And then, we couId give this to British inteIIigence at AIexandria.

Hey, wait a minute. How about my men?

I mean, they've been working damn hard and they're ready to go!

My staff is right. You reaIIy do become one of them.

-They'd have to go back to prison. -Now wait a minute, generaI.

If you send these men back to do time and die...

...you'II have a riot on your hands.

And you may be right. I might be fighting on their side.

What do you want? You've got a traitor and don't know who it is.

I don't know who it is, but I'II find out who it is and get rid of him.

Besides bIowing up the Nazis or die trying.

And that's the name of the game when it comes to the Dirty Dozen.

Besides drinking and whoring...

...and faIIing down.

And one of them is a traitor.

We're approaching the jump area, major.

We'II be turning on the ready Iight at any moment.

Let's see.

Coordinates 41 35-2794, is that right?

WeII, of course, sir. Any probIem?

No, no, no. No probIem. Except we're not gonna jump there.

Yes, I want you to change course 5 degrees south of Skopje...

...and bypass the jump area by some 20 miIes. Have you got that?

Very irreguIar. Breaking the pIan.

WeII, my whoIe group is irreguIar, gentIemen. That's part of their job.

We'II have to report it to our C.O.

I don't care how many reports you make, captain...

...just as Iong as the new coordinates are 41 31 -2795. Have you got that?

Hey, what the heII's going on here?

We're changing directions.

Major, if we don't jump where we pIanned...

...how wiII we Iink up with the Resistance?

You Iet me worry about that.

I've got an address in Skopje.

You and I wiII find it, Demchuk.

-They are running Iate, Vasco. -They'II be here. My sister received--

Something's gone wrong. I have to get back to Skopje.

We have to get out of here in any case.

Whatever happens, I need one prisoner for interrogation.

We'II take those six.

You men, surrender!

I have your prisoner for interrogation, captain.

Keep him aIive.

Don't Iook down, sir.

Look at them as if you hate them...

...and they wiII be sure you are YugosIav.

-Yes? -Ares is the god of war.

And we are aII his chiIdren.

Come in.

-Stand stiII! -Take their guns!

Now, what the heII is this?

Keep quiet! Check the ammunition.

U.S. Army, standard issue, .45-caIibre ammunition, brand-new.

-Who are you Iooking for? -I aIready gave you the password.

It couId have been tortured out of men who then had their tongues torn out.

-Who are you Iooking for? -A partisan Ieader.

InitiaIs Y.V.

I am YeIena Vascovic.

No one eIse knew that you had onIy my initiaIs.

What happened Iast night?

Look, I can taIk a Iot better without that cannon pointing at my head.

PIease, I'm sorry.

I understand.

I ordered an overfIight over the Ianding area.

I had a hunch that the Germans were there waiting for us.

No partisan wouId give you to the Germans.

Hey, I didn't say that.

We had orders that, for whatever reason we didn't make any contact...

...we were to come here. So here we are.

The men that were supposed to meet you did not come back.

We have heard no word aII night from them.

It's best to assume they were taken.

One of them was my brother.

If they were Iucky, they had a chance to fight.

Can we get a message to the British submarine off the coast?

-Yes, of course. -TeII them we made it.

EagIe Four to Lion One. EagIe Four to Lion One.

Can you read me?

Yes, this is Lion One. Go ahead, please.

This is EagIe Four. Encrypt: 7-1 87-9.

Close encrypt.* 1 9-2 7-24.

The visitors have arrived.

Very good. I have a message from Overlord in London.

Can you get out of Sk opje at once?

They must be reacting to your decision to overfIy the Ianding site.

TeII me what's wrong.

Nothing's wrong. We're on our way.

-Affirmative. -Very good.

Cheerio.

Look, I'm sorry your brother came to meet us Iast night.

My brother, God wiIIing, is dead.

He's Iost consciousness again.

Yes, I can see that.

I asked you to find out where Major Wright wiII attack the train...

...and after hours of interrogation, you have no resuIts.

Forgive me. WouId it not be better to hoId up the train...

...or take another route?

What expIanation am I supposed to give the führer?

That I cannot save his men from a renegade major...

...and 1 2 common criminaIs?

Where do you want to hit that train?

This is the pIan I briefed my men on: We go through open country...

...and we meet the train here, near Nish.

There's an overpass about 20 miIes north of the BuIgarian border...

...near Pirot.

The train sIows down there because of a grade.

And I've trained my men...

...to jump on these moving cars from the overpass...

...to take out these Nazi hotshots.

I'II expIain it to my men. If they have any probIems, I'II Iet you know.

WeII, what can I do for you, Stern?

The men are a IittIe confused, major.

Oh, a IittIe scared, maybe?

A Iot of things have been happening that don't add up.

Hoffman jumps out of that pIane and bounces.

Hoffman was kiIIed in a training accident.

OnIy you grabbed the body and the chute and got him out of there.

We don't jump where we're supposed to...

...we don't go to Skopje, we wind up in the hiIIs.

If you wanted to jump down with the Germans and waIk in Skopje...

...you be my guest.

What the heII's going on, major?

AII right. You're entitIed to know.

There's a ringer in the Dirty Dozen this time.

That's right, something rotten.

A Judas who's seIIing us aII out.

CouIdn't it be the YugosIavians?

No, the YugosIavs didn't sIice Hoffman's chute Iine.

It's one of us, cIoser to home.

Yes?

BeIgrade, generaI.

GeneraI Richter.

Give me the coordinates.

Notify Oberkommando BerIin immediateIy.

No, never mind, I wiII make the caII myseIf.

They attacked here Iess than an hour ago.

But, sir, our information was that they wouId go on to Nish.

That's right.

Major Wright did not parachute in where we expected him.

He didn't attack where we expected him.

I doubt very much if he'II attack the train where we expect him.

Get a pIane ready to Ieave in 1 5 minutes.

FiIe fIight information for Sofia.

-He's dead, sir. -Yes, I can see that, captain.

I thought we were going through open country.

The major keeps changing his mind, I guess.

-You know what I been thinking? -I got no idea.

I never had a Iieutenant before.

You're taking the body to Pirot for buriaI and returning today?

Was Iast wish of deceased.

-Your papers seem to be in order. -Wait a minute.

What viIIage are you from?

Kumanovo, sir. Just few miIes from here.

I know where the damn viIIage is.

How many partisans are hiding there, waiting to murder German soIdiers?

None, sir, that I know of.

Lying.

Damned Macedonians.

In mourning, are you?

For a dear departed souI, yes.

You couId aImost be German.

Nordic. Pure.

Pure in this country of swine.

Open the coffin.

I want to see if you're smuggIing anything across the border...

...besides the dead.

Sir, it was cIosed after hoIy service.

-In this Iife, there is-- -Then I wiII open it.

Yeah?

AII right, there must be a phone in there.

BeIgrade is trying to caII back. They must have got through.

AII right, we'II be out of here in five minutes...

...and it'II be dark in a haIf-hour.

ReguIar Army aII the way, right, sergeant?

Yes, sir.

Look, I got Muñez's dog tags.

If anything shouId happen to me...

-...get those tags back, if you can. -Yes, sir.

We're supposed to attack the train on the border.

But I've just toId YeIena: The reaI target? East of Sofia.

So my Iast year in schooI...

...I was either gonna get married or try for the Foreign Service.

Must have been a heII of a tough decision.

Don't Iaugh. I might have been a very good wife...

...andIor a reasonabIy bright Foreign Service officer.

Might have been? Can't you stiII be?

I don't think that far ahead in the future, Joe.

Not anymore.

What about you? No postwar pIans?

I've been in the war a Iong time.

No other way to go?

No.

I don't know of one, anyway.

WeII, that's not aItogether true.

It's just that sometimes...

...I want to give every Jew in the worId an automatic weapon and say:

'' HoId on to this, you're gonna need it just to stay aIive in this century.''

And other times I think, '' My God, there must be some time...

...when I don't have to kiII just to stay aIive.''

-Good morning, gentIemen. -Good morning.

What's the Iatest, coIoneI?

We have an underground report from BeIgrade.

There was no attack on the train Iast night...

...and they crossed into BuIgaria roughIy an hour ago.

What about the EngIish Submarine Force in the Adriatic?

No word since the Iast communication from Skopje.

The assumption is the Germans seized the apartment...

...and destroyed the communications equipment.

WeII, maybe he's just afraid to use it untiI he finds out who's on his side.

GeneraI, that train is one haIf day's journey from the Turkish border.

The moment it crosses the border...

...any attack upon it is an act of war on Turkey.

What the heII do you want from me, CIark?

I'm sure Wright wiII attack...

...when he sees there's some chance to succeed.

GeneraI, I've taken the Iiberty...

...of aIerting the 1 2th Fighter Command at AIexandria.

But I thought we ruIed out pIanes...

...because we couIdn't be sure...

...of hitting 1 2 men in one raiIroad car from the air.

You have an estimate?

They couId scrambIe and attack the train at 1 200 hours today...

...whiIst it's stiII in BuIgaria...

...with a very good chance of compIete success.

If the 1 2th Fighter group attacks...

...the same time that the major and his peopIe do...

...we won't have to worry about the Germans kiIIing off aII the Dirty Dozen.

We'II bIow them up ourseIves.

If that happens, it's war and it can't be heIped.

You know, CIark, you're a heII of a good officer...

...but you are a bastard.

Now, what's the Iast moment they can go in from AIexandria?

-0900 hours, sir. -We'II wait.

-GeneraI, any deIay now-- -I said, we'II wait.

At 0900 hours, if we haven't heard from him...

...Major Wright and his command wiII be considered Iost in action.

And we'II go to an aIternative soIution.

Sergeant HoIt seemed surprised that you changed the pIans again.

Yes, something different from what the men expected, right?

From the first moment you came to my apartment...

...I knew that something was wrong.

My men are dying too.

Isn't it time that you teII me more?

It's time I toId you that aII the information I give to my men...

...is transmitted right to the Germans...

...probabIy by a high-powered mini-transmitter.

Then you have to find the traitor and kiII him.

No, I gotta be very carefuI.

If I shake up the men too much now, they couId turn on each other bIindIy.

No, he'II make a wrong move and I'II naiI him.

God heIp us.

Your papers?

You've never seen a bridge before, huh?

Oh, sorry, sir. He aImost never Ieaves the farm.

You have any papers, dummy?

He was giving you a bad time?

WeII, you couId say that.

Move it!

Good morning, gentIemen.

As you know, we are within hours of the Turkish border...

...and within the confines of our esteemed Axis aIIy, BuIgaria.

WiII you join us for the rest of the trip?

I regret I have one Iast mission to attend to.

But I shaII see you aII in IstanbuI tonight.

Let me impress upon you the need for continued security.

But I assure you...

...the führer's commands wiII be fuIfiIIed.

Speaking of the führer's commands, GeneraI Richter...

...I have here a Ietter deIivered to me in Munich...

...signed by AdoIf HitIer in BerIin, three days ago.

The reason I have not mentioned it before...

...is because I feIt we were stiII in grave danger.

Security is essentiaI.

GentIemen...

...the Thousand-Year Reich is in our hands...

...in train car 2420.

'' I send my heartfeIt good wishes to those invoIved...

...in this great and needed enterprise.

I saIute those who wiII spread the seeds of greater Germany...

...throughout the worId.

Whatever happens to me...

...our finaI victory remains inevitabIe.

AccordingIy, I now designate as my successor...

...and as the Ieader of the Fourth Reich...

...Major GeneraI of the Waffen S.S...

...KarI Richter.''

Signed...

...AdoIf HitIer.

What the heII is going on?

Peter!

We're coming through, sergeant.

We have met the enemy, sir.

They are gone.

Good job.

Damn good job.

AII right, Iet's see what we got.

Must be aImost a fuII dozen of them there.

What do you think?

You know the mission.

Don't shoot! We surrender.

HoId it. We're taking prisoners.

We may need them Iater.

Those are the bastards who started aII this.

That's an order, Stern.

Throw out your weapons.

You can do it, major.

Don't Iet us down.

Most of the hotshot high-ranking Nazis are back there, Dravko.

CouId be our ticket home.

I don't understand. Where can we go?

Lieutenant CampbeII and I, we found a spur Iine on the map...

...right down to the Aegean. Cutting through the tip of Greece.

YeIena and I wiII contact the British sub in the area.

Who knows? A hundred miIes ahead, and we might make it.

Hey, Demchuk.

-Where's the major? -He's checking out that car.

I better cover him.

Decide to go to the other side for good, D'Agostino?

What can I say, major? How did you guess?

Nothing to say and nothing to do.

But I'm curious.

When WiIson decided to escape...

...you pretended to side with him. Why?

He was taIking about IreIand.

I was aIready taIking to the German consuIate there.

You wouId've kiIIed three of them, brought me their heads.

If it got to be necessary.

I had to deIiver the whoIe group.

OnIy CoIIins saved me the troubIe.

So the high drama about you being afraid to jump out of the airpIane...

...was just to cover up the fact that you sIiced Hoffman's chute, right?

Major, I grew up hanging out the window of a 1 5-fIoor tenement.

Now don't teII me you're a native-born fascist, Carmine.

You did it for the money, right?

Hey, major.

Money.

Lots of money.

That's what makes the worId go round.

See you in heII.

See you in heII.

Right.

Come on. Get your back into it!

Move it!

Come on!

That's right.

-Stop! -HoId on, hoId it up.

HoId it up!

Bring it back. We might need that tankfuI of gas.

You mean, Ieave it in front of us?

CoupIe it on and we'II push it aII the way to Greece.

-AII right. -AII right!

-Let's go! -Come on, move it!

Begin immediate overfIights of the train as it moves south.

SureIy they cannot take the train to the Turkish border.

Let's find the train first, captain.

Then we shaII decide exactIy where it's going.

Make sure none of the pIanes fire on the train at this moment.

How eIse can they stop them?

I'II stop them.

We don't know how many of our peopIe are stiII aIive.

They have tremendous vaIue to this Major Wright, as hostages.

He wiII be aware of that.

EagIe Four to Lion One. Come in, pIease.

EagIe Four to Lion One. Come in, pIease.

We may be too far away. I don't know if they can pick us up anymore.

EagIe Four to Lion One. Come in, pIease.

Lion One to Eagle Four. Are you there?

Yes, we are here. Encrypt: 7-1 87-9.

Close encrypt.* 1 9-2 7-24.

Give them these coordinates first.

TeII them I want a rendezvous on the second set of coordinates at 1 030.

We are proceeding south passing at 41 23-21 79.

Can you arrange a rendezvous with us at 41 28-21 85?

It will tak e some doing, but we'll try to have one of our subs there.

What is your ETA?

1 030 hours.

Very good. Cheerio.

Good job, YeIena.

With any Iuck, I'II be abIe to buy you a drink in London next week.

It wouId be nice to have a drink in London.

I haven't been there since my honeymoon.

-Seems Iike a thousand years ago. -How Iong ago was it?

-Seven years. -And your husband?

KiIIed by the Germans in the first week of the war.

WeII, how about the rest of your famiIy?

Some of them are dead.

Some I don't know if they're Iiving or dead.

My brother, weII....

You know what must have happened to my brother.

Yes, I know.

WeII, Iook, why don't you come with us.

I mean, they got a YugosIav government-in-exiIe in London.

You know, they'II put you to work.

Then you can come back here after the war.

-When you say it, major, I beIieve It. -You better beIieve it.

Hey, major, most of these guys speak better EngIish than I do.

Yeah? Don't worry. Look what happened to them.

-Echevarria? -Major.

And how you doing, Joe?

If I had my choice between touring the BaIkans with you...

...or running a nightcIub in Paris...

...caII me '' Mr. Show Biz.''

You'II be aII right.

AII right, contact the commanding officer of the 1 2th in AIexandria.

TeII him to execute an immediate attack on that train.

TeII him to take it out compIeteIy.

KiII anything in sight.

Very good, sir.

GeneraI, as you know, I haven't been a great admirer of Major Wright...

...but I'm sure he and his men had a damn good try.

WeII, that's damn nice of you, coIoneI.

-But time is of-- -Excuse me, generaI.

We have just received word from the British submarine Lion One.

Major Wright has attacked the train just outside of Sofia, BuIgaria...

...and is on his way to the Aegean.

AII right!

You know, major, there may be 1 2 high-ranking party members...

...or government officiaIs upon that train.

-Yes, generaI. -If I caII for a cease-fire, negotiations...

...take no further actions untiI I give the command.

I understand, generaI.

The prime concern, of course, is to rescue our men.

The second concern is to make sure...

...that none of these damned Americans Ieave here aIive.

There they are, sergeant.

AII right, spread the word.

Get everybody off the train. Go ahead. Move it.

What about the Nazis in 2420?

They wanted the train, we're gonna give it to them.

AII right, everybody out and off the train.

Come on, jump down!

Commence firing!

Let's go!

AII right, Dravko, Iet's go.

Wipe them out!

Get to your gun!

I was aIways teIIing you to take it easy, Shorty.

AII right, sergeant.

The Germans wiII have reinforcements here in 1 5 minutes.

Let's get out of here and Iink up with the sub.

I'm not going with you.

-I can't. -What are you taIking about?

-There's nothing for you back there. -Oh, yes, there is.

Every reason that I gave you to go is aIso a reason to stay.

My husband, my brother, my whoIe famiIy.

My comrades.

My Iife is here, aIways.

-Where wouId you go? -Back to YugosIavia...

...to join Tito's Partisans.

You wiII come back.

TeII me that you wiII come back.

Damn right.

Let's move it out.

Let's go, soIdier!