1 00:01:23,930 --> 00:01:25,974 U.S. tank detachment Unit 5. Repeat message. 2 00:01:26,182 --> 00:01:28,018 U.S. tank detachment Unit 5. Repeat. 3 00:01:28,226 --> 00:01:30,479 - Over to you, over. - No code. 4 00:01:30,687 --> 00:01:32,648 Retreat has been ordered in all sectors. 5 00:01:32,856 --> 00:01:35,400 Surviving units note that points east, west and north... 6 00:01:35,609 --> 00:01:36,902 ...are under enemy control. 7 00:01:37,111 --> 00:01:38,237 Over to you. 8 00:01:38,445 --> 00:01:39,864 I don't understand. To the south? 9 00:01:40,072 --> 00:01:43,117 All points east, west and north under enemy control. 10 00:01:43,326 --> 00:01:45,620 Okay, but what do we do? What's the order? 11 00:01:45,953 --> 00:01:47,914 Good luck to you, Yank. Over to you. 12 00:01:48,164 --> 00:01:48,998 What? 13 00:01:49,207 --> 00:01:50,291 Good luck to you, Yank. 14 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,460 In your own language, scram! 15 00:01:52,836 --> 00:01:56,006 Okay. Why didn't you say so in the first place? 16 00:01:59,885 --> 00:02:02,638 Hey, sarge! Hey, sarge! 17 00:02:02,846 --> 00:02:04,056 Sergeant Gunn! 18 00:02:06,058 --> 00:02:09,270 Hurry up, sarge! Orders came through. Hurry up! 19 00:02:09,478 --> 00:02:11,564 Okay, keep your shirt on! 20 00:02:32,461 --> 00:02:33,837 All right, Waco? 21 00:02:34,338 --> 00:02:35,422 Let's go! 22 00:02:42,763 --> 00:02:43,973 Hey, sarge! 23 00:02:45,641 --> 00:02:47,644 We got to get out of here, and quick! 24 00:02:48,186 --> 00:02:50,772 It just came over. East, west and north under enemy control. 25 00:02:50,980 --> 00:02:52,107 General retreat ordered. 26 00:02:52,315 --> 00:02:54,901 East, west and north. They got us boxed in. 27 00:02:55,527 --> 00:02:58,989 That's south, but there's nothing there but sand and rock. 28 00:02:59,197 --> 00:03:01,658 Any place is healthier than this. Let's move! 29 00:03:01,867 --> 00:03:03,744 Come down here and give us a hand! 30 00:03:09,250 --> 00:03:11,794 What'll we do if we can't get this cement mixer rolling? 31 00:03:12,003 --> 00:03:14,046 Lay off that cement mixer stuff. 32 00:03:14,255 --> 00:03:16,007 Give me that gadget. 33 00:03:18,218 --> 00:03:19,594 Get in there. 34 00:03:20,637 --> 00:03:22,514 Hold that down while I bolt it. 35 00:03:22,722 --> 00:03:23,974 Think she'll pull us out? 36 00:03:24,182 --> 00:03:27,310 It depends on the way we handle her. It's like a dame. 37 00:03:27,519 --> 00:03:29,479 But no dame ever said anything as sweet... 38 00:03:29,688 --> 00:03:32,149 ...as this motor will sound when she gets rolling. 39 00:03:35,569 --> 00:03:37,863 Keep that up and they're liable to hit us. 40 00:03:38,114 --> 00:03:40,074 There. That ought to hold her. 41 00:03:40,241 --> 00:03:42,201 All right, get around. Start it up. 42 00:03:53,630 --> 00:03:56,091 He's got a touch like an elephant. 43 00:04:01,388 --> 00:04:02,348 He don't feed her enough. 44 00:04:02,598 --> 00:04:05,559 It's like a dame. Don't feed them, they won't do nothing. 45 00:04:09,939 --> 00:04:12,442 That's no way to treat her. Let me in there. 46 00:04:12,608 --> 00:04:13,776 Okay, Joe. 47 00:04:16,946 --> 00:04:18,073 She's dead. 48 00:04:18,990 --> 00:04:20,450 Five he starts it? 49 00:04:20,659 --> 00:04:22,035 You got a bet. 50 00:04:23,203 --> 00:04:24,579 Come on now, baby. 51 00:04:24,788 --> 00:04:26,456 Get going and get us out of here. 52 00:04:26,665 --> 00:04:30,669 I'll buy you the sweetest coat of paint you ever had in your life. 53 00:04:30,878 --> 00:04:33,214 Come on now, Lulubelle, let's go. 54 00:04:44,475 --> 00:04:46,102 Hatch is up. 55 00:05:32,234 --> 00:05:34,320 Sarge, two guys ahead. 56 00:05:40,284 --> 00:05:42,745 - What do you make of them? - They look British. 57 00:05:42,954 --> 00:05:45,040 It might be a Nazi trick. 58 00:05:45,248 --> 00:05:46,875 Remember that phony white flag at Bir Hacheim? 59 00:05:47,083 --> 00:05:50,128 I wouldn't bet they were British if they waved a roast beef. 60 00:05:50,337 --> 00:05:53,006 Keep them covered till I find out who they are. 61 00:06:15,739 --> 00:06:18,325 Master Sergeant Gunn, U.S. Army Tank Detachment. 62 00:06:18,533 --> 00:06:20,869 Captain Halliday, Royal Army Medical Corps. 63 00:06:21,078 --> 00:06:22,871 Nice to see you. 64 00:06:23,121 --> 00:06:25,082 I had 42 wounded there. 65 00:06:25,290 --> 00:06:28,043 When the Stukas finished with us, I had 42 dead. 66 00:06:28,294 --> 00:06:31,088 These men were kind enough to help search the wreckage. 67 00:06:31,297 --> 00:06:33,049 It was no use. 68 00:06:34,258 --> 00:06:35,384 What are you looking at? 69 00:06:38,096 --> 00:06:39,264 Oh, help yourself. 70 00:06:39,472 --> 00:06:42,559 Merci bien. American cigarette, I don't see for a long time. 71 00:06:42,767 --> 00:06:44,060 Pass them around. 72 00:06:44,853 --> 00:06:46,938 - Talks like a Yank. - How else would I talk? 73 00:06:47,147 --> 00:06:49,232 We've been expecting you a long time. 74 00:06:49,441 --> 00:06:51,360 Ours was one of the first tanks here. 75 00:06:51,568 --> 00:06:53,070 How many men do you have, sergeant? 76 00:06:53,278 --> 00:06:55,406 Two. Radioman and machine gunner. 77 00:06:55,614 --> 00:06:56,699 I lost the rest of my crew. 78 00:06:56,907 --> 00:06:59,577 I suppose you're trying to rejoin your detachment? 79 00:06:59,785 --> 00:07:00,786 It's too late. 80 00:07:00,995 --> 00:07:02,997 - Too late? - What are you talking about? 81 00:07:03,623 --> 00:07:06,292 Haven't you heard? A general retreat's been ordered. 82 00:07:06,501 --> 00:07:08,670 That's not true! Listen to that firing. 83 00:07:08,878 --> 00:07:10,922 Our chaps are still at it not far away. 84 00:07:11,131 --> 00:07:13,174 They're mopping up what's left of them. 85 00:07:13,383 --> 00:07:17,262 If we cut south far enough we can hook up with another outfit. 86 00:07:17,471 --> 00:07:20,307 You don't know that part of the desert. It's the worst in Libya. 87 00:07:20,474 --> 00:07:22,184 You won't get anywhere in that scow. 88 00:07:22,392 --> 00:07:25,604 Soon as it's daylight, they'll blast the gizzards out of her. 89 00:07:25,980 --> 00:07:28,774 I'm sorry you feel that way about her. 90 00:07:28,983 --> 00:07:32,945 A good tank with a full crew has a better chance than men on foot. 91 00:07:33,154 --> 00:07:36,324 - That's a matter of opinion. - They'll get you. 92 00:07:36,532 --> 00:07:38,785 - We'll get them first. - For what they did to the hospital. 93 00:07:38,993 --> 00:07:41,830 I'd sooner stick it out than run away in a tin hearse. 94 00:07:43,707 --> 00:07:46,710 There's three things wrong with that statement. 95 00:07:46,918 --> 00:07:48,962 First, we're not running, we're obeying orders. 96 00:07:49,171 --> 00:07:52,341 Second, she's not made of tin and third, she's no hearse. 97 00:07:52,591 --> 00:07:55,553 She's an M3 that can cross 200 miles of desert... 98 00:07:55,761 --> 00:07:59,473 ...as easy you'd walk around that Piccadilly Circus of yours. 99 00:08:01,601 --> 00:08:03,519 I'm not going to argue with you. 100 00:08:03,686 --> 00:08:05,939 Stick around, let the Nazis mop you up. 101 00:08:06,147 --> 00:08:09,401 Spend the rest of the war in a Berlin prison camp, but not me. 102 00:08:09,609 --> 00:08:12,320 When I go into Berlin, I'll be riding that tank. 103 00:08:12,529 --> 00:08:16,241 Same one that's standing there with the name Lulubelle on her. 104 00:08:16,450 --> 00:08:17,618 Sergeant! 105 00:08:18,327 --> 00:08:20,037 I'll go with you. 106 00:08:22,039 --> 00:08:23,999 What makes you want to go? 107 00:08:24,208 --> 00:08:26,127 I like your cigarettes. 108 00:08:26,877 --> 00:08:28,838 All right. Get inside. 109 00:08:29,046 --> 00:08:30,840 I'm sorry I blew up just now, sir. 110 00:08:31,048 --> 00:08:34,260 But that crack that guy made about my tank kind of burned me. 111 00:08:34,469 --> 00:08:36,304 She's a good tank. 112 00:08:36,513 --> 00:08:38,848 I'll tell you again. We got it over the radio. 113 00:08:39,057 --> 00:08:41,351 We're surrounded. The only way out is south. 114 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:43,103 That's the way we're going. 115 00:08:43,937 --> 00:08:45,355 Good luck, sir. 116 00:08:52,863 --> 00:08:55,241 Wait a minute, sergeant! We're coming with you! 117 00:08:56,701 --> 00:08:57,743 Hurry up! 118 00:08:59,161 --> 00:09:00,580 Here you are, sir. 119 00:09:02,749 --> 00:09:03,958 Come on, fellas! 120 00:09:23,270 --> 00:09:24,939 It's a peculiar thing. 121 00:09:25,147 --> 00:09:28,234 A sergeant is the same in every army in the world. 122 00:09:28,442 --> 00:09:29,444 What?! 123 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:33,239 A sergeant's the same in every army in the world! 124 00:09:33,448 --> 00:09:35,575 You don't know Joe. He's a smart guy. 125 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:39,079 I don't think the sergeant is a very tender man. 126 00:09:39,454 --> 00:09:42,582 I don't think the sergeant is a very tender man. 127 00:09:42,791 --> 00:09:45,544 But he named his tank after someone he loves. 128 00:09:45,752 --> 00:09:47,880 - Yeah, a horse! - A what? 129 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:49,381 A horse! 130 00:09:51,675 --> 00:09:53,260 He loves a horse. 131 00:09:53,469 --> 00:09:55,972 Sarge was in the cavalry way back. 132 00:09:56,138 --> 00:09:58,599 - The what? - The cavalry! 133 00:09:59,392 --> 00:10:00,977 The cavalry. 134 00:10:21,457 --> 00:10:22,583 Something wrong? 135 00:10:23,334 --> 00:10:27,088 I think I cut the mixture a little too thin, trying to save gas. 136 00:10:28,631 --> 00:10:30,758 He's making a mistake, going this direction. 137 00:10:30,967 --> 00:10:32,635 The sarge knows what he's doing. 138 00:10:32,844 --> 00:10:35,388 Yes, the sergeant's a genius! He's a miracle man. 139 00:10:35,597 --> 00:10:40,310 When we run out of water, he strikes a rock like Moses and water falls out. 140 00:10:40,519 --> 00:10:43,230 He hits it twice and the water's turned into wine. 141 00:10:51,155 --> 00:10:54,534 Suppose we get stuck in this graveyard without any water. 142 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:56,327 Waco, open that hatch, will you? 143 00:10:59,872 --> 00:11:01,624 All right, come down for a while. 144 00:11:01,833 --> 00:11:03,418 What's the matter, Waco? 145 00:11:03,626 --> 00:11:04,753 The motor. 146 00:11:34,034 --> 00:11:36,244 Starving you to death, huh? 147 00:11:36,870 --> 00:11:39,873 We got to save gas, same as we save water. 148 00:11:40,499 --> 00:11:42,417 Sarge, got to grease the wheels. 149 00:11:42,584 --> 00:11:44,628 Make it quick, we got to keep moving. 150 00:11:44,837 --> 00:11:46,881 Try that radio again, Jimmy. 151 00:11:47,631 --> 00:11:48,632 We'll go in a minute. 152 00:11:48,924 --> 00:11:51,052 Eat something, and drink 1/3 cup of water. 153 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:53,721 Be sure to measure with the cup. 154 00:11:58,935 --> 00:12:00,437 Get anything? 155 00:12:00,603 --> 00:12:03,607 Nothing but static and Heil Hitler! 156 00:12:05,817 --> 00:12:09,154 No contact, so we don't know where the army will be. 157 00:12:09,363 --> 00:12:12,241 At the worst, the line will be anchored at Tobruk. 158 00:12:14,285 --> 00:12:17,246 - We should circle like this. - Will our petrol hold out? 159 00:12:17,455 --> 00:12:20,416 I figure we got about enough for 160 miles. 160 00:12:20,625 --> 00:12:22,752 Water, I'm worried about. 161 00:12:23,377 --> 00:12:25,797 I've got to find one of those wells. 162 00:12:26,005 --> 00:12:27,757 They call them wells on the map. 163 00:12:27,966 --> 00:12:31,177 But most of them are only dried up mudholes full of sand. 164 00:12:32,137 --> 00:12:35,015 Wish I could put my feet in a nice big bucket of water. 165 00:12:35,223 --> 00:12:38,060 Must be 1000 centigrade in these boots. 166 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:40,604 My throat needs it worse than my feet. 167 00:12:40,813 --> 00:12:43,816 - I suffer from corns. - I'm fed up with your feet. 168 00:12:43,983 --> 00:12:46,318 So am I. Been fed up with them for years. 169 00:12:46,902 --> 00:12:48,696 - Did you finish, Waco? - Not yet. 170 00:12:49,030 --> 00:12:50,406 Why you call him Waco? 171 00:12:50,615 --> 00:12:51,783 It's a city in Texas. 172 00:12:51,991 --> 00:12:53,785 We call it "The City With a Soul." 173 00:12:53,993 --> 00:12:55,036 Why? 174 00:12:55,245 --> 00:12:57,288 Come to think of it, I never figured why. 175 00:12:57,497 --> 00:13:00,750 We got a sign on the biggest building: "City With a Soul." 176 00:13:00,959 --> 00:13:03,044 How about another city with a soul? Paris. 177 00:13:03,295 --> 00:13:04,421 You from Paris, Frenchie? 178 00:13:04,629 --> 00:13:08,050 No, but for every Frenchman, Paris is the soul. La France. 179 00:13:08,258 --> 00:13:11,095 All my life I've wanted to go to Paris. 180 00:13:11,303 --> 00:13:13,305 Sometime, maybe we'll go there. 181 00:13:13,514 --> 00:13:15,349 I'd like to go home. 182 00:13:16,475 --> 00:13:19,312 You fellas like to see a photo of a beautiful girl? 183 00:13:20,688 --> 00:13:23,232 - She's pretty. What's her name? - Kathy. 184 00:13:23,566 --> 00:13:24,692 Very nice. 185 00:13:25,235 --> 00:13:26,778 She's a corker. 186 00:13:35,203 --> 00:13:36,914 I told you to measure that water in a cup. 187 00:13:37,122 --> 00:13:39,500 - I wasn't thinking. - I'll do the thinking for you. 188 00:13:39,708 --> 00:13:41,293 Frenchie, bring the canteens to me. 189 00:13:41,502 --> 00:13:44,380 We've got our own officer. I'll take my orders from him. 190 00:13:44,547 --> 00:13:46,674 I'm glad you brought that up, Williams. 191 00:13:46,882 --> 00:13:49,260 I've something to say to the men, sergeant. 192 00:13:52,138 --> 00:13:54,516 We've only one purpose. 193 00:13:54,724 --> 00:13:57,936 To save ourselves so that we can fight again. 194 00:13:58,144 --> 00:14:00,397 We've got to work together and have discipline. 195 00:14:01,022 --> 00:14:03,942 Sergeant Gunn was in command when we joined him. 196 00:14:04,151 --> 00:14:05,652 He's an experienced soldier... 197 00:14:05,861 --> 00:14:09,406 ...and it seems proper to ask him to continue in that capacity. 198 00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:13,536 I shall confer with him on the safety and conduct of the expedition... 199 00:14:13,744 --> 00:14:16,789 ...but immediate authority will rest with him. 200 00:14:16,998 --> 00:14:18,750 My canteen, sergeant. 201 00:14:19,417 --> 00:14:20,543 Thank you, sir. 202 00:14:20,752 --> 00:14:22,420 Here you are, Frenchie. 203 00:15:04,548 --> 00:15:05,758 What do you make of them? 204 00:15:05,966 --> 00:15:08,344 That's what I'm trying to figure out. 205 00:15:10,471 --> 00:15:11,639 Hey, Waco. 206 00:15:11,847 --> 00:15:15,518 Fire shots in front of them. That ought to turn them back into us. 207 00:15:34,288 --> 00:15:36,916 That's a British Sudanese with an Italian prisoner. 208 00:15:43,839 --> 00:15:45,550 I think he's going to fight us. 209 00:15:49,888 --> 00:15:52,307 Give me something white to wave. 210 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:53,683 Make it snappy. 211 00:16:10,201 --> 00:16:13,329 It is true, Bimbashi. I thought I'd captured an enemy tank. 212 00:16:13,538 --> 00:16:14,956 Where'd you get this prisoner? 213 00:16:15,164 --> 00:16:16,124 At Bir Hacheim. 214 00:16:16,374 --> 00:16:19,502 A column of many tanks and many machines attacked us there. 215 00:16:19,711 --> 00:16:22,631 All my company died in battle. I alone escaped. 216 00:16:22,839 --> 00:16:25,175 It was then I captured... 217 00:16:25,383 --> 00:16:27,386 ...this man to carry my pack. 218 00:16:27,594 --> 00:16:28,637 What is your name? 219 00:16:28,845 --> 00:16:31,473 Sergeant Major Tambul. Force Sudanese Battalion. 220 00:16:31,682 --> 00:16:32,683 You know this desert? 221 00:16:32,891 --> 00:16:34,435 Yes, sergeant. 222 00:16:34,643 --> 00:16:36,020 Is it all like this? 223 00:16:36,228 --> 00:16:38,606 Yes, all that way... 224 00:16:39,065 --> 00:16:40,399 ...worse for tank. 225 00:16:40,608 --> 00:16:41,692 Deep sand? 226 00:16:41,901 --> 00:16:45,571 And salt marshes. Only one caravan trail. Very old. 227 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:47,907 - Hard to follow. - Where does it lead? 228 00:16:48,116 --> 00:16:49,868 To the well at Hassan Barrani. 229 00:16:50,076 --> 00:16:51,911 You think you could find it again? 230 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,413 I think I can. 231 00:16:53,622 --> 00:16:54,748 I will try. 232 00:16:55,248 --> 00:16:56,917 Get your pack off and get on top. 233 00:16:57,376 --> 00:17:00,254 Jimmy, throw down a ration. The rest get back in place. 234 00:17:00,462 --> 00:17:03,382 Waco, start her up. We're moving on right now. 235 00:17:07,470 --> 00:17:08,554 Look! 236 00:17:08,763 --> 00:17:10,765 Those birds know just when to show up. 237 00:17:10,973 --> 00:17:13,101 They can smell death ahead of time. 238 00:17:34,456 --> 00:17:36,208 Anybody know what he's babbling? 239 00:17:36,417 --> 00:17:38,294 I speak English. 240 00:17:38,502 --> 00:17:40,505 Speak very good. 241 00:17:40,797 --> 00:17:42,965 Don't leave me here. Take me with you. 242 00:17:43,174 --> 00:17:44,300 Sorry, we got no room. 243 00:17:44,592 --> 00:17:47,178 I learn English in school in Torino. 244 00:17:47,387 --> 00:17:50,223 And I learn Americano from reading the letters. 245 00:17:50,432 --> 00:17:52,809 It's the cousin of the uncle of mia moglie. 246 00:17:53,018 --> 00:17:54,436 That's my wife, signore. 247 00:17:54,645 --> 00:17:57,356 She got an uncle whose cousin live in America... 248 00:17:57,564 --> 00:17:58,941 ...and he write all the time. 249 00:17:59,149 --> 00:18:02,820 He tell about the big mountain, the big building, the big art. 250 00:18:03,028 --> 00:18:04,530 Everything big in America! 251 00:18:04,739 --> 00:18:06,407 Waco, wind her up. We're moving on. 252 00:18:06,616 --> 00:18:08,409 I show you letter. 253 00:18:08,618 --> 00:18:10,495 I got a letter from my wife. 254 00:18:10,703 --> 00:18:12,330 She told me she get a letter... 255 00:18:12,538 --> 00:18:14,207 ...from the cousin of the uncle. 256 00:18:14,415 --> 00:18:16,960 He work now in Pittsburgh, USA. 257 00:18:17,168 --> 00:18:19,170 In the steel factory. 258 00:18:19,379 --> 00:18:23,508 Maybe he make the steel for this tank in Pittsburgh, USA. 259 00:18:23,717 --> 00:18:25,135 And, signore... 260 00:18:26,094 --> 00:18:27,304 ...I show you picture. 261 00:18:27,513 --> 00:18:29,890 I got no time to look at pictures. 262 00:18:32,685 --> 00:18:35,813 He's right. It's stupid to have pity in war. 263 00:18:36,022 --> 00:18:38,232 You kill in a fight. Not like this. 264 00:18:38,441 --> 00:18:39,567 I know better than you. 265 00:18:39,776 --> 00:18:42,695 - I've been fighting them since 1936. - '36? 266 00:18:42,904 --> 00:18:44,322 Spain. 267 00:18:44,531 --> 00:18:45,740 There's no pity. 268 00:18:49,452 --> 00:18:51,705 My wife and bambina. 269 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,082 That's my baby. 270 00:18:54,291 --> 00:18:57,336 It's a nice picture. You must be very proud of them. 271 00:18:57,711 --> 00:18:59,046 I'll see what I can do. 272 00:19:01,465 --> 00:19:03,175 I wish you'd change your mind. 273 00:19:03,384 --> 00:19:04,802 This man is a prisoner of war. 274 00:19:05,011 --> 00:19:07,138 As such, he's entitled to certain rights. 275 00:19:07,388 --> 00:19:09,891 We've got to take him. We can't leave him to die. 276 00:19:10,099 --> 00:19:12,018 If we asked the men, they'd agree. 277 00:19:13,102 --> 00:19:14,521 They'd agree now. 278 00:19:14,729 --> 00:19:17,190 What about when they're starving and dying of thirst? 279 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,359 You put me in command to look ahead. 280 00:19:19,568 --> 00:19:21,528 - This is a matter of a man's life! - You're wrong. 281 00:19:21,737 --> 00:19:23,864 It's a matter of the lives of 10 men. 282 00:19:24,072 --> 00:19:25,240 We got a long ways to go. 283 00:19:25,449 --> 00:19:27,785 We need every crumb of food and drop of water. 284 00:19:27,993 --> 00:19:32,081 I'm taking the Sudanese because he's a British soldier. 285 00:19:32,289 --> 00:19:34,250 But I won't take on a load of spaghetti! 286 00:19:34,917 --> 00:19:37,003 He walked this far, and he can walk back. 287 00:19:37,211 --> 00:19:38,629 That's the end of it. 288 00:19:41,758 --> 00:19:43,385 What are you waiting for? Wind her up. 289 00:19:43,593 --> 00:19:44,761 Okay, Joe. 290 00:19:45,762 --> 00:19:47,389 You better get in, Doc. 291 00:19:48,098 --> 00:19:49,433 I'm sorry. 292 00:20:05,032 --> 00:20:07,368 Don't leave me here to die. 293 00:20:07,577 --> 00:20:10,163 I swear, I work for you. I don't drink your water... 294 00:20:10,371 --> 00:20:12,123 ...I don't eat your food. 295 00:20:15,836 --> 00:20:17,170 Don't leave me here. 296 00:21:44,054 --> 00:21:45,097 Stop! 297 00:21:55,483 --> 00:21:57,526 Come on. Come on! 298 00:23:22,450 --> 00:23:23,617 Hold your fire. 299 00:23:23,826 --> 00:23:26,746 Let the blighter have it. I could squash him like a fly. 300 00:23:26,954 --> 00:23:28,915 No, let him think we're out of ammunition. 301 00:24:00,698 --> 00:24:02,575 Blasted him out of the sky! 302 00:24:12,336 --> 00:24:13,754 You men all right down there? 303 00:24:13,962 --> 00:24:15,339 Yes, Bimbashi. 304 00:24:25,141 --> 00:24:26,142 Tambul, follow me! 305 00:24:26,392 --> 00:24:28,853 Doc, come along in case that guy don't speak English. 306 00:24:29,062 --> 00:24:31,689 - I'll come with you, Tambul. - Here's your gun! 307 00:24:55,757 --> 00:24:58,384 Drop that gun! You heard me, drop it! 308 00:25:20,825 --> 00:25:21,951 What'd he say? 309 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,830 My German's a little rusty, but I think I got the sense of it. 310 00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:27,790 He said we haven't got a chance. 311 00:25:27,999 --> 00:25:29,918 He wants us to be his prisoners. 312 00:25:30,126 --> 00:25:31,252 Is he crazy? 313 00:25:31,461 --> 00:25:33,088 Ask him if he speaks English. 314 00:25:35,298 --> 00:25:36,466 He says no. 315 00:25:40,387 --> 00:25:41,722 He didn't know Americans were here. 316 00:25:41,930 --> 00:25:43,265 A surprise for you, Fritzie. 317 00:25:43,474 --> 00:25:46,477 - We saved it for you, special. - Search him. 318 00:25:49,981 --> 00:25:52,233 - What's eating him? - He wants someone else to do it. 319 00:25:52,442 --> 00:25:54,360 He does, does he? Why? 320 00:25:56,738 --> 00:25:59,157 He doesn't want to be touched by an inferior race. 321 00:25:59,366 --> 00:26:01,618 Tell him not to worry about his being black. 322 00:26:01,826 --> 00:26:04,329 It won't come off on his uniform. Search him. 323 00:26:09,084 --> 00:26:10,210 A knife. 324 00:26:14,673 --> 00:26:15,841 And this. 325 00:26:19,929 --> 00:26:22,098 That's what I thought. 326 00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:31,191 What do you make of that, Doc? 327 00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:34,569 It says an offer has been made to the British Army. 328 00:26:34,778 --> 00:26:37,406 "Raise the white flag and give up your arms. 329 00:26:37,614 --> 00:26:41,619 We have proved the British are led by incompetents and idiots." 330 00:26:41,869 --> 00:26:45,289 - What's that? - The fall of... 331 00:26:45,498 --> 00:26:47,249 ...Tobruk! 332 00:26:49,210 --> 00:26:51,003 What's that about Tobruk? 333 00:26:51,629 --> 00:26:54,716 He's lying like his blasted Führer! I'll teach him to lie! 334 00:26:55,133 --> 00:26:56,342 Signore Sergeante! 335 00:26:58,386 --> 00:26:59,429 Somebody is hurt. 336 00:26:59,638 --> 00:27:01,264 The German, he shoot. 337 00:27:01,723 --> 00:27:04,017 Bring him along and pick up that chute. 338 00:27:07,146 --> 00:27:08,355 Bring some water. 339 00:27:08,564 --> 00:27:10,149 - Where's Halliday? - What happened? 340 00:27:13,819 --> 00:27:15,696 Take it easy, fella. 341 00:27:19,242 --> 00:27:20,493 We didn't know he was lying there. 342 00:27:20,702 --> 00:27:22,620 He's hurt so bad he couldn't speak. 343 00:27:22,829 --> 00:27:24,789 Get the first-aid kit, please. 344 00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:27,334 Move him into the shade. Very gently. 345 00:27:27,542 --> 00:27:28,793 Take it easy. 346 00:27:34,716 --> 00:27:35,801 That's it. 347 00:27:47,188 --> 00:27:48,731 Did you get him? 348 00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:51,860 Don't try to talk now. We'll fix you up, all right. 349 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:55,780 How is he, Doc? 350 00:27:57,115 --> 00:27:59,242 He's badly shot but he may pull through. 351 00:27:59,451 --> 00:28:01,328 We can't hang around here any longer. 352 00:28:01,536 --> 00:28:04,039 - Is it safe to move him? - Yes, if we take it easy. 353 00:28:04,289 --> 00:28:06,709 We got to move quickly, after what the German said. 354 00:28:06,917 --> 00:28:07,960 Maybe he's right. 355 00:28:08,168 --> 00:28:09,420 Doyle, get on that radio. 356 00:28:09,628 --> 00:28:10,754 Yes, sarge. 357 00:28:32,986 --> 00:28:34,863 What will we do with this prisoner? 358 00:28:35,072 --> 00:28:37,449 There is no doubt we have too many in this tank. 359 00:28:37,658 --> 00:28:39,994 Here is another mouth that asks for water. 360 00:28:40,202 --> 00:28:43,915 I don't mean we can leave him here in this desert to die. 361 00:28:44,123 --> 00:28:47,126 My heart is very soft for this Nazi. 362 00:28:47,669 --> 00:28:49,796 Let me have a little talk with him. 363 00:28:50,713 --> 00:28:52,632 I'll march him behind the hill... 364 00:28:52,841 --> 00:28:53,967 ...there. 365 00:28:54,175 --> 00:28:57,345 When you're ready to go, I'll come back alone. 366 00:28:57,554 --> 00:28:59,556 Corporal, you got a lot to learn. 367 00:29:00,849 --> 00:29:02,476 This is a Nazi. 368 00:29:02,976 --> 00:29:06,105 Maybe you find out. It's like a mad dog. 369 00:29:06,313 --> 00:29:09,150 Maybe. But he's won a lot of prizes. 370 00:29:09,358 --> 00:29:10,985 I'd like to turn him over to headquarters. 371 00:29:11,193 --> 00:29:12,987 If we can get there ourselves! 372 00:29:13,905 --> 00:29:15,740 We'll keep him as long as we can, then see. 373 00:29:15,948 --> 00:29:17,075 In the meantime... 374 00:29:17,283 --> 00:29:18,785 ...he's in your charge. 375 00:29:19,202 --> 00:29:20,203 Thank you. 376 00:29:21,371 --> 00:29:23,039 Did you get anything? 377 00:29:23,540 --> 00:29:26,334 - The Germans got Tobruk. - I know. Anything else? 378 00:29:26,543 --> 00:29:28,045 They're attacking Sidi Barrani. 379 00:29:28,253 --> 00:29:31,048 We're still falling back, trying to reform our lines. 380 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:43,060 What are you smiling at? 381 00:29:43,269 --> 00:29:46,189 You look like you understood every word he said. 382 00:29:49,275 --> 00:29:51,653 Doc, ask him what he was smiling at. 383 00:29:59,828 --> 00:30:01,038 He thinks it's funny... 384 00:30:01,246 --> 00:30:03,707 ...we want to fight with this curious detachment. 385 00:30:12,675 --> 00:30:14,052 Wipe that smile off your puss... 386 00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:17,347 ...or I'll knock your teeth through your head. Verstehen? 387 00:30:22,769 --> 00:30:24,771 All right, boys, we move on. 388 00:30:25,939 --> 00:30:29,234 Every minute we're here, our chance of getting through is less. 389 00:30:29,443 --> 00:30:33,322 He may be lying about Germans in the neighborhood, but we can't tell. 390 00:30:33,530 --> 00:30:35,866 We've got to go ahead as if it was the truth. 391 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:37,994 - Tambul! - Yes, sergeant. 392 00:30:38,202 --> 00:30:39,787 How far are those wells? 393 00:30:39,996 --> 00:30:42,415 About 60 to 70 miles. 394 00:30:42,623 --> 00:30:44,375 It is there. 395 00:31:42,896 --> 00:31:44,564 - How far? - What, sergeant? 396 00:31:44,773 --> 00:31:45,899 How far? 397 00:31:46,107 --> 00:31:47,609 There, ahead! 398 00:31:47,859 --> 00:31:50,612 You will see as we go down this hill. 399 00:31:52,656 --> 00:31:55,158 - How is he? - He's pretty bad, sir. 400 00:31:55,659 --> 00:31:56,827 What's he saying? 401 00:31:57,035 --> 00:31:58,787 Sounds like his girl's name, sir. 402 00:31:58,996 --> 00:32:01,081 - Give him some water. - Can't, sir. 403 00:32:01,999 --> 00:32:03,709 Not a drop left. 404 00:32:06,671 --> 00:32:08,089 Bone dry. 405 00:32:09,006 --> 00:32:11,092 It is so in the desert. 406 00:32:11,509 --> 00:32:15,513 One season there is cool, clear water, like lakes in the mountains. 407 00:32:15,722 --> 00:32:17,057 Another time... 408 00:32:17,265 --> 00:32:18,391 ...nothing. 409 00:32:19,392 --> 00:32:21,561 Just a lot of sand. 410 00:32:24,022 --> 00:32:25,357 What's funny? 411 00:32:25,566 --> 00:32:27,067 Just thinking. 412 00:32:27,276 --> 00:32:29,403 When we were kids, the biggest treat... 413 00:32:29,612 --> 00:32:31,864 ...was to play on the beach in the sand. 414 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:34,367 How far is it to the next well? 415 00:32:34,575 --> 00:32:36,536 About 50 miles, sergeant. 416 00:32:36,744 --> 00:32:39,205 At the ruins of Bir Acroma. 417 00:32:39,414 --> 00:32:40,874 It is south. 418 00:32:48,590 --> 00:32:50,133 Hello, Kathy. 419 00:32:55,431 --> 00:32:56,515 I miss-- 420 00:32:57,099 --> 00:32:59,226 Captain Halliday, sir. Captain Halliday! 421 00:33:03,189 --> 00:33:05,608 He keeps talking to his girl, Kathy. 422 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:17,871 He's gone. 423 00:33:19,623 --> 00:33:20,832 It's tough. 424 00:33:28,549 --> 00:33:29,592 He did it! 425 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,093 Let him alone, Stegman. 426 00:33:31,302 --> 00:33:32,929 Battle order of the Army. 427 00:33:33,137 --> 00:33:35,431 Do not retreat anotherinch. 428 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,601 Cairo and Alexandria must be defended. 429 00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:40,395 The Army will stand and fight... 430 00:33:40,603 --> 00:33:43,648 ...north ofEl Khattara on the El Alamein line. 431 00:33:43,857 --> 00:33:45,358 Scattered units are ordered... 432 00:33:45,567 --> 00:33:47,527 ...to report to their commands immediately. 433 00:33:47,736 --> 00:33:50,489 We need every man and every machine. 434 00:33:50,697 --> 00:33:52,241 Report to your commands. 435 00:33:52,491 --> 00:33:54,284 Re-form yourlines. 436 00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:56,495 Report to your commands. 437 00:34:04,837 --> 00:34:05,964 Hurry. 438 00:34:58,936 --> 00:35:01,147 That's it ahead, sergeant. 439 00:35:02,982 --> 00:35:04,067 Right! 440 00:35:08,905 --> 00:35:10,031 Left. 441 00:35:26,924 --> 00:35:28,718 You hear that, Joe? 442 00:35:28,926 --> 00:35:30,887 She's missing, ain't she? 443 00:35:35,141 --> 00:35:37,560 I wonder how much longer she'll keep going. 444 00:35:37,811 --> 00:35:39,312 So do I. 445 00:35:51,325 --> 00:35:53,327 Clarkson, back there. 446 00:35:53,536 --> 00:35:55,621 Maybe he was lucky! 447 00:36:08,510 --> 00:36:11,430 There, straight ahead! Bir Acroma! 448 00:36:13,390 --> 00:36:16,602 Come on down, guys. Everybody take cover inside. 449 00:36:38,834 --> 00:36:40,836 Come on, Jimmy. On your feet! 450 00:37:42,693 --> 00:37:44,278 How is it, Jim? 451 00:37:46,238 --> 00:37:47,615 Okay, Joe. 452 00:38:29,993 --> 00:38:31,244 Where's that well? 453 00:38:31,453 --> 00:38:34,247 Somewhere near the building. Inside the wall, sergeant. 454 00:38:34,456 --> 00:38:37,250 All right, men. Spread out and look for that well! 455 00:38:38,418 --> 00:38:40,045 Stick along with me. 456 00:38:59,649 --> 00:39:02,569 Sure took a beating, didn't you, old girl? 457 00:39:51,579 --> 00:39:52,664 Bimbashi! 458 00:39:52,872 --> 00:39:54,666 The well! The well! 459 00:40:05,844 --> 00:40:07,221 Around here. 460 00:40:31,997 --> 00:40:34,082 You better go down and look. 461 00:41:31,893 --> 00:41:34,772 Send down a bucket. There's still water dripping! 462 00:41:34,980 --> 00:41:36,982 - Something to catch it! - It's going to waste. 463 00:41:38,526 --> 00:41:41,570 Bring up a couple of cans and rope from the tank. 464 00:41:48,161 --> 00:41:50,121 Heads up! Here it comes. 465 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,145 Pull it up slowly. 466 00:42:54,648 --> 00:42:55,857 Careful! 467 00:43:14,544 --> 00:43:17,213 What a beautiful sight. 468 00:43:17,422 --> 00:43:18,506 Real water. 469 00:43:18,757 --> 00:43:20,550 Easy now. Don't spill a drop. 470 00:43:24,304 --> 00:43:26,390 Three swallows for everybody. 471 00:43:26,598 --> 00:43:28,350 Three swallows. No more. 472 00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:30,060 Here you are, Jimmy. 473 00:44:17,527 --> 00:44:19,696 Stegman, take Frenchie's place. 474 00:44:28,831 --> 00:44:30,457 Three swallows. 475 00:44:36,172 --> 00:44:37,131 Giuseppe! 476 00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:48,602 - Three swallows. - Three swallows. 477 00:44:56,693 --> 00:44:58,696 For the German. 478 00:44:58,904 --> 00:45:01,240 Everybody gets three swallows. 479 00:45:01,448 --> 00:45:02,700 Yes, sergeant. 480 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,572 We're considering going to this other well. 481 00:45:39,781 --> 00:45:42,700 But we must be sure that we'll find enough water there. 482 00:45:42,909 --> 00:45:46,329 At Bir Acroma, there has been water in sufficient quantities. 483 00:45:46,538 --> 00:45:49,791 But it means going 130 kilometers out of our way. 484 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,877 These men need water badly, HerrKapitän. 485 00:45:52,085 --> 00:45:54,713 Your machines may get through without more water... 486 00:45:54,922 --> 00:45:57,424 ...but you take a serious risk with the men. 487 00:46:04,015 --> 00:46:06,309 Go with Sergeant Krause's advance party. 488 00:46:06,517 --> 00:46:08,353 Show them the way to Bir Acroma. 489 00:46:08,561 --> 00:46:10,522 The battalion will follow in an hour. 490 00:46:10,730 --> 00:46:12,565 We must get water. 491 00:46:22,284 --> 00:46:23,410 How's it coming? 492 00:46:24,286 --> 00:46:26,413 Very good, sergeant, very nice. 493 00:46:26,789 --> 00:46:28,541 Any way to squeeze it out quicker? 494 00:46:28,916 --> 00:46:32,044 It takes its own time. You cannot milk it like a cow. 495 00:46:33,963 --> 00:46:36,924 We'll stay until we get all the water we can carry. 496 00:46:37,133 --> 00:46:39,677 We got to, but it's tough to waste all that time. 497 00:46:39,886 --> 00:46:42,806 Bates, stand by here. Waco, let's clean Lulubelle out. 498 00:46:43,014 --> 00:46:45,475 The rest of you, go over your equipment. 499 00:46:48,145 --> 00:46:50,147 Stegman, on lookout. 500 00:47:03,494 --> 00:47:05,246 That water helped, didn't it? 501 00:47:05,455 --> 00:47:07,165 Couldn't have lasted much longer. 502 00:47:07,373 --> 00:47:10,126 Keep a sharp lookout, especially toward those hills. 503 00:47:10,335 --> 00:47:12,462 If trouble comes, it'll come from there. 504 00:47:12,671 --> 00:47:14,381 Watch for planes. 505 00:47:46,373 --> 00:47:47,499 Signore. 506 00:47:50,919 --> 00:47:53,172 I would like to help you. 507 00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:54,673 You know about motors? 508 00:47:55,216 --> 00:47:57,885 I was maestro mechanic in Torino. 509 00:47:59,554 --> 00:48:01,305 You got a job. 510 00:48:02,223 --> 00:48:03,266 Frenchie... 511 00:48:03,474 --> 00:48:05,852 ...let the Italian come around here. 512 00:48:14,528 --> 00:48:15,862 Let me take your place. 513 00:48:16,071 --> 00:48:17,698 No, it isn't necessary. 514 00:48:18,031 --> 00:48:19,158 How is it coming? 515 00:48:19,366 --> 00:48:21,410 I'm afraid it drops more slowly. 516 00:48:21,619 --> 00:48:24,205 You never can tell about these wells. 517 00:48:26,082 --> 00:48:27,541 Have a cigarette. 518 00:48:31,838 --> 00:48:33,047 Thanks. 519 00:48:34,424 --> 00:48:36,342 How long you been in the army? 520 00:48:36,551 --> 00:48:37,719 Twenty years. 521 00:48:37,927 --> 00:48:40,889 My father and his father before him were soldiers. 522 00:48:41,097 --> 00:48:42,891 All my family have been soldiers. 523 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:44,559 My folks were always farmers. 524 00:48:45,519 --> 00:48:47,354 You know where Texas is? 525 00:48:47,563 --> 00:48:48,897 It must be very far. 526 00:48:49,106 --> 00:48:52,276 Yes, sir. I'm going back there when this is finished. 527 00:48:52,484 --> 00:48:55,029 - I got married just before I left. - Good. 528 00:48:55,237 --> 00:48:57,406 Good? It's better than that. 529 00:48:57,615 --> 00:49:00,159 But you fellas feel differently about marrying. 530 00:49:00,368 --> 00:49:01,744 The boys were telling me... 531 00:49:01,953 --> 00:49:04,080 ...you Mohammedans have as many as 300 wives. 532 00:49:04,581 --> 00:49:09,294 The Prophet tells us four wives are sufficient for a true believer. 533 00:49:09,502 --> 00:49:10,837 Why four? 534 00:49:11,296 --> 00:49:14,091 The Prophet says one wife makes a miserable life... 535 00:49:14,299 --> 00:49:15,509 ...because she gets bored. 536 00:49:15,717 --> 00:49:18,345 And two wives make a mess of your life also. 537 00:49:18,554 --> 00:49:21,724 For they always quarrel and you never know which one is right. 538 00:49:21,932 --> 00:49:24,060 And three wives are bad too. 539 00:49:24,268 --> 00:49:27,104 Two always take sides against a third. 540 00:49:27,313 --> 00:49:30,733 Now, four wives makes real happiness. 541 00:49:30,942 --> 00:49:32,110 How? 542 00:49:33,069 --> 00:49:35,655 Two and two are company for each other. 543 00:49:35,864 --> 00:49:38,283 And the man, he has his rest. 544 00:49:38,533 --> 00:49:40,118 It sounds all right. 545 00:49:40,327 --> 00:49:41,912 You got four? 546 00:49:42,329 --> 00:49:43,872 No, I have only one. 547 00:49:44,081 --> 00:49:45,249 What's holding you back? 548 00:49:45,707 --> 00:49:49,003 If you had this law in your Texas, would you have four wives? 549 00:49:49,336 --> 00:49:52,298 No, my wife wouldn't like that. 550 00:49:53,466 --> 00:49:56,677 It is the same with me. My wife, she would not like it. 551 00:49:57,595 --> 00:49:59,514 You sure learn things in the army! 552 00:49:59,722 --> 00:50:02,976 Yes, we both have much to learn from each other. 553 00:50:04,561 --> 00:50:08,482 I understand. That guy Mussolini you got over there, he doesn't? 554 00:50:08,690 --> 00:50:10,025 ll Duce, he's a big man. 555 00:50:10,233 --> 00:50:12,945 He speaks like a thunderstorm. 556 00:50:13,153 --> 00:50:14,780 And you guys believe him? 557 00:50:15,114 --> 00:50:17,032 He tells me he knows best. 558 00:50:17,241 --> 00:50:21,203 Everywhere, he writes his mottos. On the walls, on the street... 559 00:50:21,412 --> 00:50:23,080 So we got him in the brain. 560 00:50:23,289 --> 00:50:25,291 We must believe these mottos. 561 00:50:27,293 --> 00:50:28,962 What does that mean? 562 00:50:29,170 --> 00:50:30,880 Obey. Believe. Work. 563 00:50:31,089 --> 00:50:33,633 Obey? Work for what? 564 00:50:33,883 --> 00:50:35,760 Not so much now, Signore. 565 00:50:35,969 --> 00:50:39,681 But Mussolini say, by and by, everything is going to be all right. 566 00:50:40,265 --> 00:50:42,017 He says it's going to be all right. 567 00:50:42,226 --> 00:50:43,727 He thinks he's God, don't he? 568 00:50:44,061 --> 00:50:45,813 Yeah, he think. 569 00:50:46,021 --> 00:50:47,982 But I think maybe... 570 00:50:48,190 --> 00:50:49,859 ...Hitler is God... 571 00:50:50,067 --> 00:50:53,237 ...and Mussolini is just his prophet. 572 00:50:54,572 --> 00:50:57,909 Don't you worry. Someday that guy will blow up and bust. 573 00:50:58,368 --> 00:51:03,039 For some people, it's all right to laugh at il Duce. 574 00:51:03,248 --> 00:51:07,377 But when you got a wife and baby, it's no good to laugh. 575 00:51:07,586 --> 00:51:09,796 My little Giuseppina. 576 00:51:11,173 --> 00:51:13,884 Such a small bambina. 577 00:51:14,093 --> 00:51:16,720 Eyes, big like this. 578 00:51:16,929 --> 00:51:18,514 She's beautiful. 579 00:51:18,722 --> 00:51:21,058 Everybody say she look just like me. 580 00:51:22,768 --> 00:51:23,728 Well, don't tell her. 581 00:51:23,936 --> 00:51:25,104 No, I don't. 582 00:51:25,313 --> 00:51:27,732 Sure, I'm going to tell her! 583 00:51:33,822 --> 00:51:36,074 How do you spell oasis? 584 00:51:36,950 --> 00:51:39,494 O-A-S-I-S. 585 00:51:39,703 --> 00:51:41,872 Scientifically, this isn't an oasis. 586 00:51:42,081 --> 00:51:43,540 My wife ain't scientific. 587 00:51:43,791 --> 00:51:47,086 I'm saying I'm on green grass with palm trees waving overhead. 588 00:51:47,294 --> 00:51:49,588 You know you can't post a letter here. 589 00:51:49,797 --> 00:51:53,050 I promised her I'd write home every week, if I wasn't dead. 590 00:51:53,259 --> 00:51:54,719 Well, I ain't dead. 591 00:51:55,053 --> 00:51:56,554 I should write to my mother. 592 00:51:57,305 --> 00:51:59,516 What part of South Africa do you come from? 593 00:51:59,724 --> 00:52:01,101 A dorp near Kimberley. 594 00:52:01,309 --> 00:52:02,602 Dorp? What's that? 595 00:52:02,811 --> 00:52:04,062 A village. 596 00:52:04,938 --> 00:52:06,565 It's a fine country. 597 00:52:06,773 --> 00:52:09,234 There's always a soft breeze blowing across the veldt. 598 00:52:09,443 --> 00:52:13,405 Sounds good. But personally, I think I'll stick to Brooklyn. 599 00:52:13,697 --> 00:52:16,617 I was born in Sussex, but we moved to a little farm... 600 00:52:16,826 --> 00:52:17,910 ...in Yorkshire. 601 00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:19,120 I'm from London. 602 00:52:19,579 --> 00:52:21,456 I'm from Dublin. 603 00:52:21,664 --> 00:52:23,958 What part of the States are you from? 604 00:52:24,167 --> 00:52:25,251 No place. 605 00:52:25,460 --> 00:52:26,961 Just the Army. 606 00:52:27,462 --> 00:52:29,631 In my village, we had the finest cheese. 607 00:52:29,839 --> 00:52:32,926 - What kind of cheese? - From my village. Moulin-Merillac. 608 00:52:33,176 --> 00:52:36,138 What it's like? A sort of Brie or Camembert? 609 00:52:36,346 --> 00:52:38,056 There's no village like mine. 610 00:52:38,265 --> 00:52:40,893 There is no cheese like we make. 611 00:52:41,101 --> 00:52:42,603 You should have such a meal! 612 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:43,854 You take a knife. 613 00:52:44,063 --> 00:52:48,276 Here, you have a little cheese, a little bread. 614 00:52:48,693 --> 00:52:51,279 Then you wash your throat with wine. 615 00:52:51,487 --> 00:52:53,239 Then a little cheese. 616 00:52:54,282 --> 00:52:55,408 And a little onion. 617 00:52:55,617 --> 00:52:57,535 Good! A little onion. 618 00:52:57,869 --> 00:53:00,830 A little bread, a little wine. 619 00:53:01,039 --> 00:53:03,667 A little cheese, a little bread. 620 00:53:03,875 --> 00:53:06,128 A little wine, a little onion. 621 00:53:06,461 --> 00:53:08,380 A little cheese, a little bread. 622 00:53:08,589 --> 00:53:11,175 Lay off! You had enough. 623 00:53:11,884 --> 00:53:14,678 I feel better. All this is no more. 624 00:53:14,887 --> 00:53:17,640 Six months ago I'm in my village, but I don't know it. 625 00:53:17,848 --> 00:53:19,142 There is no cheese! 626 00:53:19,350 --> 00:53:21,310 How do you make cheese without milk? 627 00:53:21,519 --> 00:53:23,479 How do you make milk without cows? 628 00:53:23,688 --> 00:53:27,442 We had fine cows with the brown face and the white neck. 629 00:53:27,651 --> 00:53:31,029 The Nazis take these cows. They cut the throat with a knife. 630 00:53:31,238 --> 00:53:33,824 There is no more cheese and milk for the children. 631 00:53:34,032 --> 00:53:36,201 You were in occupied France six months ago? 632 00:53:36,618 --> 00:53:39,204 - Why were you there? - He worked with the underground. 633 00:53:39,413 --> 00:53:40,831 I learned from the channel. 634 00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,709 I have seen 12 people executed. 635 00:53:43,918 --> 00:53:47,338 Hostages. The mayor, who has a white beard... 636 00:53:47,797 --> 00:53:50,341 ...Madame Michelet was as big like a jelly... 637 00:53:50,550 --> 00:53:53,303 ...Monsieur Le Pecq, who teaches the school... 638 00:53:53,511 --> 00:53:56,890 ...Rosalie, who has hair like sunshine. 639 00:53:57,098 --> 00:53:58,725 I can do nothing. 640 00:53:58,934 --> 00:54:02,396 So I'm no good for the underground. Too much hate in my eyes! 641 00:54:02,604 --> 00:54:05,732 So I come here. I wish only to kill... 642 00:54:06,066 --> 00:54:08,277 ...to pay back for my village! 643 00:54:08,485 --> 00:54:10,487 There's something headed this way! 644 00:54:17,370 --> 00:54:18,746 See the cloud of dust? 645 00:54:25,545 --> 00:54:27,088 Moving fast. 646 00:54:27,589 --> 00:54:29,257 German scout car. 647 00:54:29,633 --> 00:54:32,553 Keep your eye on them. Keep down so they can't see you. 648 00:54:32,761 --> 00:54:34,221 Leroux, get the Italian inside! 649 00:54:34,429 --> 00:54:36,890 Bates, bring those canteens back to the tank. 650 00:54:37,141 --> 00:54:38,976 The rest of you men take cover. 651 00:54:39,977 --> 00:54:41,353 Come on, get in. 652 00:54:53,491 --> 00:54:54,826 You speak English? 653 00:54:55,827 --> 00:54:57,662 - Coming our way? - Straight for us. 654 00:54:57,871 --> 00:54:59,122 All right, watch them. 655 00:55:06,922 --> 00:55:10,509 - Where are they? - Behind that hill, coming right at us. 656 00:55:10,718 --> 00:55:12,678 Waco and Jim, get behind that ridge. 657 00:55:12,887 --> 00:55:16,516 Hold your fire! I want prisoners. The rest of you, keep down. 658 00:55:22,397 --> 00:55:25,025 You understand what they say, don't you? 659 00:55:25,233 --> 00:55:28,487 You speak English. Then you can speak with me. 660 00:55:28,654 --> 00:55:29,863 Shut up! 661 00:55:30,405 --> 00:55:33,409 When the time comes, I will tell you what to do. 662 00:56:23,587 --> 00:56:26,256 Sheik Ali, Hans, mirnach. 663 00:57:00,542 --> 00:57:01,877 What happened? 664 00:57:02,086 --> 00:57:05,005 There was shooting, then there was nothing. 665 00:57:05,214 --> 00:57:06,590 Be quiet! 666 00:57:18,812 --> 00:57:20,564 Ask him what regiment. 667 00:57:22,899 --> 00:57:24,901 Ask him where their outfit is. 668 00:57:28,739 --> 00:57:30,824 This ain't getting us nowhere. 669 00:57:33,369 --> 00:57:35,830 Bates, bring me up some water. 670 00:57:37,164 --> 00:57:39,333 Tell them to take their hands down. 671 00:57:39,542 --> 00:57:41,919 - What do you make of that? - Nothing. 672 00:57:59,521 --> 00:58:01,398 All right, take him away. 673 00:58:08,239 --> 00:58:11,159 Ask him again what his outfit is. 674 00:58:14,287 --> 00:58:15,663 Ask him if he's thirsty. 675 00:58:19,376 --> 00:58:22,295 Tell him he can have water only if he talks. 676 00:58:29,762 --> 00:58:32,014 They're lost, separated from their company. 677 00:58:32,223 --> 00:58:33,307 Tell him he's lying. 678 00:58:41,232 --> 00:58:43,193 Only if you talk. 679 00:58:47,739 --> 00:58:49,658 Keep asking him. We got to break him. 680 00:58:49,866 --> 00:58:51,493 Come on, talk! 681 00:59:26,614 --> 00:59:28,324 They're an advance party... 682 00:59:28,532 --> 00:59:32,036 ...of a battalion cutting southeast across the Egyptian border. 683 00:59:32,244 --> 00:59:36,165 Light, motorized units, no tanks, but about 500 men. 684 00:59:36,374 --> 00:59:38,585 They've had no water in days. 685 00:59:38,793 --> 00:59:41,588 They're told they'll get all the water they want here. 686 00:59:41,796 --> 00:59:43,423 Here's your water. 687 00:59:44,257 --> 00:59:45,425 Go on, take it. 688 01:00:14,372 --> 01:00:15,499 Sergeant Gunn! 689 01:00:16,374 --> 01:00:18,710 Just as I expected, the well has gone dry. 690 01:00:18,919 --> 01:00:20,003 How much have we got? 691 01:00:20,212 --> 01:00:21,296 Nine and a quarter cans. 692 01:00:21,505 --> 01:00:23,424 It don't matter, because we're leaving. 693 01:00:23,632 --> 01:00:26,135 It'll be a good joke on the Jerries when they get here. 694 01:00:26,343 --> 01:00:28,304 Wouldn't have minded seeing their faces. 695 01:00:28,471 --> 01:00:30,097 What'd you say? 696 01:00:30,348 --> 01:00:33,184 I wouldn't mind seeing their faces when they get here. 697 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:38,982 That's right. 698 01:00:41,860 --> 01:00:44,321 Maybe we ought to see their faces. 699 01:00:44,488 --> 01:00:47,991 Any water within 100 miles? Not from here, but the first well? 700 01:00:50,494 --> 01:00:53,789 - Anything in sight? - Nothing, sarge, not a thing. 701 01:00:54,331 --> 01:00:56,542 Hey, Doc, Williams, Stegman! 702 01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:10,599 I got a lot to say, and not much time to say it. 703 01:01:11,016 --> 01:01:13,894 We found out those Germans are part of a battalion... 704 01:01:14,102 --> 01:01:17,439 ...stuck back at the first well, badly in need of water. 705 01:01:17,731 --> 01:01:19,650 Think of a battalion so in need of water... 706 01:01:19,858 --> 01:01:23,195 ...they got to come 70 miles off their line of march. 707 01:01:23,362 --> 01:01:26,282 Suppose they got held up long enough for us to send a message? 708 01:01:26,490 --> 01:01:27,325 How? 709 01:01:27,533 --> 01:01:29,911 Suppose we send the two Germans to tell them... 710 01:01:30,119 --> 01:01:31,496 ...there's water here. 711 01:01:31,704 --> 01:01:34,332 Suppose we hold them up for two or three days... 712 01:01:34,540 --> 01:01:36,209 ...while they try to get it. 713 01:01:36,584 --> 01:01:40,964 There's just one thing wrong with that plan. Here we are. 714 01:01:41,173 --> 01:01:44,676 Here are the Germans and here's what happens. 715 01:01:45,427 --> 01:01:49,181 You hit it right on the nose. It's 100-to-1 shot. 716 01:01:49,848 --> 01:01:51,642 We could clear out of here quick. 717 01:01:51,850 --> 01:01:55,312 With some luck, get through German lines and back to ours. 718 01:01:55,521 --> 01:01:58,733 If we did get back there, they might even give us a medal. 719 01:01:59,233 --> 01:02:01,235 If we stay here... 720 01:02:02,070 --> 01:02:04,614 ...maybe nobody will ever know what happened here. 721 01:02:04,823 --> 01:02:07,033 Or if it is worthwhile... 722 01:02:07,659 --> 01:02:09,452 ...or if it is all wasted. 723 01:02:09,661 --> 01:02:13,665 I realize it's not common sense, 9 men fighting off 500. 724 01:02:13,874 --> 01:02:17,878 Still, it's the duty of every man in the Army to do everything he can. 725 01:02:18,087 --> 01:02:19,046 Excuse me, sir. 726 01:02:19,254 --> 01:02:22,132 Nine of us with peashooters doesn't make any sense. 727 01:02:22,341 --> 01:02:25,511 If it's our duty to delay this column, why all the talk? 728 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:26,971 Just give us our orders. 729 01:02:27,597 --> 01:02:31,476 That brings us down to cases. I look at it this way. 730 01:02:31,726 --> 01:02:33,228 Because it's 100-to-1 shot... 731 01:02:33,436 --> 01:02:35,730 ...because it's much more than line of duty... 732 01:02:35,939 --> 01:02:39,192 ...because there's so little chance of us coming out of it... 733 01:02:39,401 --> 01:02:41,278 ...I felt I ought to put up to you. 734 01:02:41,570 --> 01:02:45,073 You've all got families at home. Wives, mothers and sweethearts. 735 01:02:45,282 --> 01:02:49,161 I ain't got none, so it doesn't matter about me. 736 01:02:49,370 --> 01:02:52,039 I know how you feel about them. 737 01:02:52,873 --> 01:02:55,293 Whatever you decide, you better decide quick. 738 01:02:55,501 --> 01:02:57,712 I'll speak for Waco and Jimmy myself. 739 01:02:57,962 --> 01:03:01,591 Nobody minds giving his life, but this is throwing it away. Why? 740 01:03:02,008 --> 01:03:05,178 Why did your people go about their business in London... 741 01:03:05,387 --> 01:03:07,806 ...when the Germans threw everything at them? 742 01:03:08,014 --> 01:03:10,976 Why did your boats take the men off the beach at Dunkirk? 743 01:03:11,184 --> 01:03:13,645 Why did the Russians make a stand at Moscow? 744 01:03:13,854 --> 01:03:17,399 Why did the Chinese move whole cities thousands of miles inland... 745 01:03:17,608 --> 01:03:19,610 ...when the Japs attacked them? 746 01:03:19,819 --> 01:03:21,779 Why Bataan? 747 01:03:21,987 --> 01:03:23,572 Why Corregidor? 748 01:03:23,906 --> 01:03:25,241 Maybe they were all nuts. 749 01:03:25,449 --> 01:03:27,452 But there's one thing they did do: 750 01:03:27,660 --> 01:03:29,495 They kept delaying the enemy... 751 01:03:29,704 --> 01:03:32,457 ...until we got strong enough to hit them hard. 752 01:03:33,041 --> 01:03:34,417 I ain't no general... 753 01:03:34,626 --> 01:03:37,546 ...but it seems to me that's one way to win. 754 01:03:38,505 --> 01:03:40,173 If all I said... 755 01:03:40,340 --> 01:03:42,718 ...don't answer your question... 756 01:03:42,926 --> 01:03:45,471 ...then somebody tell me why. 757 01:03:50,810 --> 01:03:51,894 I'm for staying. 758 01:03:52,269 --> 01:03:54,397 - I'll stay. - Me too, sarge. 759 01:03:56,482 --> 01:04:00,778 It may surprise you, professor, to know that you're the one man... 760 01:04:00,987 --> 01:04:02,655 ...I was absolutely counting on. 761 01:04:02,864 --> 01:04:05,534 Mind you, it's against my better judgement. 762 01:04:05,825 --> 01:04:07,994 Then I know I'm right. 763 01:04:08,203 --> 01:04:09,705 What about you, Frenchie? 764 01:04:09,913 --> 01:04:12,416 I still like your cigarettes. 765 01:04:14,460 --> 01:04:16,086 All right, on your feet. 766 01:04:16,295 --> 01:04:17,755 Stand up. 767 01:04:17,963 --> 01:04:19,131 Hey, Doc! 768 01:04:21,634 --> 01:04:23,427 Tell him we're sending him back. 769 01:04:23,678 --> 01:04:25,638 The other fellow told us the truth. 770 01:04:25,847 --> 01:04:29,058 Tell him we're lost too. We need food, they need water. 771 01:04:29,225 --> 01:04:31,686 It's a fair exchange. No use fighting about it. 772 01:04:31,895 --> 01:04:32,979 Water for food. 773 01:04:33,396 --> 01:04:34,856 Shut that man up! 774 01:04:42,364 --> 01:04:44,366 He knows English. He tried to warn them. 775 01:04:44,575 --> 01:04:45,784 You're playing a game? 776 01:04:47,995 --> 01:04:49,705 You can call it that. 777 01:04:50,373 --> 01:04:51,999 If he moves again, shoot him. 778 01:04:52,208 --> 01:04:54,419 I shall be happy to, sergeant. 779 01:04:55,503 --> 01:04:57,297 You know he talked English? 780 01:04:57,505 --> 01:04:59,048 I just found out. 781 01:04:59,257 --> 01:05:00,508 Why didn't you tell me? 782 01:05:00,717 --> 01:05:02,427 I was afraid. 783 01:05:02,636 --> 01:05:05,222 I'm like a man who fights his shadow. 784 01:05:05,430 --> 01:05:08,475 You give me water, I eat your food. 785 01:05:08,684 --> 01:05:10,352 I swear I will do nothing wrong. 786 01:05:10,561 --> 01:05:14,565 I give you my parola. That's my word. 787 01:05:14,773 --> 01:05:15,941 We got to work fast. 788 01:05:16,150 --> 01:05:18,653 I want that tank dug in, and slip trenches. 789 01:05:18,861 --> 01:05:23,199 That's William, Stegman and Bates. Take the Italian along to help out. 790 01:05:27,078 --> 01:05:29,164 All right, Doc, go ahead. 791 01:05:42,803 --> 01:05:46,390 Waco, start them on their way and then bring up the half-track. 792 01:05:46,682 --> 01:05:48,351 Go on, beat it! 793 01:06:15,546 --> 01:06:17,548 - How is it coming? - She's almost full. 794 01:06:17,757 --> 01:06:20,551 - How many you got left? - A little over five canteens. 795 01:06:25,682 --> 01:06:27,642 And this is for you on the road. 796 01:06:27,851 --> 01:06:29,477 Take it, Waco. 797 01:06:29,895 --> 01:06:31,354 Okay, Tambul. 798 01:06:35,984 --> 01:06:36,985 Got it filled? 799 01:06:37,194 --> 01:06:38,529 Pretty sure of yourself. 800 01:06:38,696 --> 01:06:41,198 I like to travel. It broadens the mind. 801 01:06:42,116 --> 01:06:43,909 I wish you wasn't so cocky about it. 802 01:06:44,118 --> 01:06:45,995 You think I can't make it? 803 01:06:46,704 --> 01:06:47,830 I ain't saying. 804 01:06:48,039 --> 01:06:49,707 I'll take a bet on it. 805 01:06:50,375 --> 01:06:51,793 - Even money? - Why not? 806 01:06:52,001 --> 01:06:55,839 I got an even chance of getting there. I'm eating British mess tomorrow. 807 01:06:56,548 --> 01:06:58,091 Here's five says you won't. 808 01:06:59,718 --> 01:07:01,428 Here's ten says I will. 809 01:07:02,054 --> 01:07:03,430 That's a sucker bet. 810 01:07:03,722 --> 01:07:05,599 If I lose, I won't need the ten. 811 01:07:07,017 --> 01:07:09,436 All right, Waco. Joe will hold the money. 812 01:07:10,521 --> 01:07:12,898 Okay, Waco, get going! You got to make it. 813 01:07:13,065 --> 01:07:15,776 Tell them we need help if they can send it. 814 01:07:15,985 --> 01:07:17,361 Don't worry, I can make it. 815 01:07:17,570 --> 01:07:20,531 I can make this thing stand up and howl. 816 01:07:24,119 --> 01:07:26,413 So long, fellas. I got to mail a letter. 817 01:07:50,563 --> 01:07:51,773 Now right. 818 01:07:54,150 --> 01:07:55,944 Turn it more to the right. 819 01:08:02,701 --> 01:08:04,244 Now straight ahead. 820 01:08:10,292 --> 01:08:13,713 It's a good thing the Jerries had mines in this scout car. 821 01:09:03,223 --> 01:09:04,850 They're coming over the hills. 822 01:09:05,059 --> 01:09:06,310 That's right. 823 01:09:52,484 --> 01:09:53,944 Here are your belts. 824 01:09:54,152 --> 01:09:56,822 Cover yourself, Frenchie, and watch that German. 825 01:09:59,616 --> 01:10:01,744 Around that corner, back of the wall. 826 01:10:06,457 --> 01:10:09,335 - Everything all set here? - All set, Joe. 827 01:10:15,967 --> 01:10:18,928 Hold your fire till they get to the top of that ridge! 828 01:12:25,562 --> 01:12:27,731 - Hey, Doc! - Right! 829 01:12:36,783 --> 01:12:37,867 Jimmy! 830 01:12:38,076 --> 01:12:39,577 - Bates! - I'm here! 831 01:12:39,786 --> 01:12:41,412 All right, Frenchie? 832 01:12:42,414 --> 01:12:45,000 - Tambul! - Fine, sergeant. 833 01:12:45,625 --> 01:12:46,751 Stegman! 834 01:13:16,783 --> 01:13:19,953 I think I saw something white out there. 835 01:13:25,209 --> 01:13:27,461 Sarge, they're showing a white flag! 836 01:13:27,670 --> 01:13:30,298 We said we'd make a deal with them. 837 01:13:30,506 --> 01:13:32,592 It looks like our trick is working. 838 01:13:36,804 --> 01:13:39,891 I'll see what they want. They can do the translating themselves. 839 01:13:40,100 --> 01:13:42,143 Watch yourself. You can't tell with these blighters. 840 01:13:42,352 --> 01:13:44,646 Don't trust them, Joe. It's a trick. 841 01:13:45,522 --> 01:13:48,859 I'll be all right. You just stay there and keep me covered. 842 01:14:08,254 --> 01:14:10,507 Major Hans Von Falken. 843 01:14:11,841 --> 01:14:13,718 Gunn, United States Army. 844 01:14:14,636 --> 01:14:18,849 You have come a long way to pull British chestnuts out of the fire. 845 01:14:19,016 --> 01:14:22,186 We don't mind. We like chestnuts. Don't want them to burn. 846 01:14:22,937 --> 01:14:24,230 Very good. 847 01:14:24,438 --> 01:14:26,857 You didn't come to crack jokes. What do you want? 848 01:14:27,024 --> 01:14:29,193 Can you negotiate? Where's your captain? 849 01:14:29,402 --> 01:14:33,281 It's around 5:00. You know how those Britishers are about their tea. 850 01:14:33,489 --> 01:14:37,952 I understand you propose to give us water in exchange for food. 851 01:14:38,161 --> 01:14:41,248 We thought you only had about 30 men. 852 01:14:41,706 --> 01:14:43,709 You knew there was a battalion. 853 01:14:43,917 --> 01:14:46,211 The soldier who gave the information confessed. 854 01:14:46,378 --> 01:14:48,756 He's been executed. 855 01:14:49,089 --> 01:14:52,051 Isn't it still possible to come to an agreement? 856 01:14:52,593 --> 01:14:53,677 What's the deal? 857 01:14:53,886 --> 01:14:55,763 Surrender, and you'll be free to go... 858 01:14:55,971 --> 01:14:58,558 ...with as much water and food as you can carry. 859 01:14:59,058 --> 01:15:01,185 We like it here. We're pretty well fixed. 860 01:15:01,394 --> 01:15:05,023 Plenty of water and a lot more food than we thought we had. 861 01:15:05,231 --> 01:15:07,067 I'll make you an offer. 862 01:15:07,233 --> 01:15:08,777 Water for guns. 863 01:15:09,110 --> 01:15:12,781 For every rifle, I'll give you a pint. For the mortar, a quart. 864 01:15:13,281 --> 01:15:16,577 For all your rifles, I'll give you water enough for all your men. 865 01:15:17,453 --> 01:15:21,040 I've heard you Americans have a great sense of... 866 01:15:23,459 --> 01:15:25,002 ...humor. 867 01:15:25,211 --> 01:15:26,879 I'll give you a last chance. 868 01:15:27,088 --> 01:15:29,757 You can save your life, and the lives of your men. 869 01:15:30,299 --> 01:15:33,553 You heard my offer. Water for guns. 870 01:15:47,943 --> 01:15:49,069 How'd you make out? 871 01:15:49,278 --> 01:15:51,989 - He spoke English pretty good. - What'd he say? 872 01:15:52,198 --> 01:15:55,242 They think we got so much water we're swimming in it. 873 01:15:55,451 --> 01:15:57,870 They're worse off than we thought they were. 874 01:15:58,079 --> 01:16:00,415 They'll let us go if we give them water. 875 01:16:00,623 --> 01:16:03,168 Do you think Waco's reached a British outpost yet? 876 01:16:03,376 --> 01:16:05,253 - It's possible. - Maybe they're on the way. 877 01:16:05,462 --> 01:16:08,590 I can see them crowding around, clapping him on the back... 878 01:16:08,798 --> 01:16:10,801 ...giving him glasses of ice cold water. 879 01:17:03,857 --> 01:17:05,317 They're getting anxious. 880 01:17:05,859 --> 01:17:07,194 Just got two of them. 881 01:17:07,402 --> 01:17:09,696 Good, but take it easy, will you? 882 01:17:10,447 --> 01:17:13,200 If we keep on, we'll be on our last belt by tomorrow. 883 01:17:13,409 --> 01:17:14,910 Isn't it enough to get two? 884 01:17:15,619 --> 01:17:19,623 Got to get 10 with every shot before I'm satisfied. 885 01:17:20,166 --> 01:17:21,292 Here's your water. 886 01:17:23,377 --> 01:17:25,213 Time to strike the rock. 887 01:17:25,379 --> 01:17:27,423 What's that about a rock? 888 01:17:27,632 --> 01:17:29,759 The other day, I was making fun of you. 889 01:17:29,968 --> 01:17:32,220 I said you'll perform a miracle. 890 01:17:32,387 --> 01:17:35,724 Strike a rock and water will run out or maybe champagne. 891 01:17:36,266 --> 01:17:39,853 The only miracle I know is the one you get by working for it. 892 01:17:40,604 --> 01:17:42,397 I wish a miracle would cure my corn. 893 01:17:42,564 --> 01:17:45,067 Why? Gives you something to think about. 894 01:17:45,276 --> 01:17:47,236 I've got plenty to think about. 895 01:17:47,444 --> 01:17:49,613 I've just been working on a problem. 896 01:17:49,822 --> 01:17:51,240 What kind of a problem? 897 01:17:51,824 --> 01:17:54,327 You might call it a project. 898 01:17:54,535 --> 01:17:55,703 A project? 899 01:17:56,996 --> 01:17:59,874 I'm planning on how to irrigate this desert. 900 01:18:00,750 --> 01:18:01,960 What, all of it? 901 01:18:02,168 --> 01:18:04,963 Why not? Turn it into a blooming garden. 902 01:18:05,922 --> 01:18:07,591 Ain't a bad idea. 903 01:18:07,841 --> 01:18:10,886 There's plenty of water, only it's not in the right places. 904 01:18:11,095 --> 01:18:14,640 It just stands about, waiting for people to drown in it. 905 01:18:14,848 --> 01:18:16,308 You feeling all right? 906 01:18:16,725 --> 01:18:19,520 As I remember, you can irrigate one acre... 907 01:18:19,729 --> 01:18:22,231 ...with about 15,000 cubic feet of water. 908 01:18:23,524 --> 01:18:24,942 You're nuts. 909 01:18:25,109 --> 01:18:28,780 - Where'd you learn all that? - I'm a typesetter by profession. 910 01:18:29,155 --> 01:18:31,533 You learn by reading while you're setting type? 911 01:18:31,741 --> 01:18:33,702 Nothing like it for an education. 912 01:18:33,910 --> 01:18:36,413 I've set type for about 5000 books. 913 01:18:36,622 --> 01:18:38,582 Prose and poetry. 914 01:18:38,790 --> 01:18:42,419 You wouldn't believe it, but I'm very partial to poetry. 915 01:18:42,878 --> 01:18:46,924 A book of verses underneath a bough, a jug of wine and... 916 01:19:03,150 --> 01:19:05,736 It was 100-to-1 shot, Williams. 917 01:19:48,406 --> 01:19:49,449 Now is the time! 918 01:19:49,657 --> 01:19:53,661 We must reach the German camp to tell them there is no water here. 919 01:19:53,870 --> 01:19:55,705 No, I cannot do this. 920 01:19:55,914 --> 01:19:57,874 We have only to overpower one man. 921 01:19:58,041 --> 01:20:00,794 Maybe we can take the machine gun and kill them all! 922 01:20:01,002 --> 01:20:03,297 I do not want to. I got no hate for these men. 923 01:20:03,505 --> 01:20:05,174 It is not for you to decide. 924 01:20:05,382 --> 01:20:06,550 I'm not going. 925 01:20:06,759 --> 01:20:08,385 This place will soon be taken. 926 01:20:08,594 --> 01:20:12,264 If you refuse to help me now, I will denounce you as a traitor. 927 01:20:13,724 --> 01:20:15,601 Denounce me then. 928 01:20:15,810 --> 01:20:18,020 Italians are not like Germans. 929 01:20:18,229 --> 01:20:21,566 Only the body wears the uniform, not the soul. 930 01:20:21,733 --> 01:20:24,235 Mussolini is not so clever, like Hitler. 931 01:20:24,444 --> 01:20:28,198 He dresses Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers. 932 01:20:28,406 --> 01:20:31,034 He cannot, like Hitler, make them feel like that. 933 01:20:31,243 --> 01:20:34,246 He cannot, like Hitler, scrape from their conscience... 934 01:20:34,454 --> 01:20:36,540 ...the knowledge of right and wrong... 935 01:20:36,749 --> 01:20:40,252 ...or plant in their heads his own Ten Commandments. 936 01:20:40,461 --> 01:20:43,547 "Steal from thy neighbor. Cheat and kill thy neighbor." 937 01:20:47,844 --> 01:20:50,096 You dare to insult the Führer? 938 01:20:50,555 --> 01:20:54,517 That would take an artist. I am but a mechanic. 939 01:20:54,726 --> 01:20:56,228 But are my eyes blind... 940 01:20:56,436 --> 01:20:59,439 ...that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac... 941 01:20:59,648 --> 01:21:02,317 ...who has made of my country a concentration camp? 942 01:21:02,526 --> 01:21:04,737 Who has made of my people, slaves? 943 01:21:04,945 --> 01:21:09,408 Must I kiss the hand that beats me, lick the boot that kicks me? No! 944 01:21:09,658 --> 01:21:13,704 I'd rather spend my whole life living in this dirty hole... 945 01:21:13,913 --> 01:21:17,250 ...than escape to fight again for things I do not believe... 946 01:21:17,458 --> 01:21:20,920 ...against people I do not hate. And for your Hitler... 947 01:21:21,129 --> 01:21:24,382 ...it's because of a man like him that God... 948 01:21:24,591 --> 01:21:27,469 ...my God, created hell. 949 01:22:00,170 --> 01:22:01,880 German escaped. 950 01:22:02,089 --> 01:22:04,425 Tell them, no water. 951 01:22:14,018 --> 01:22:15,687 I lost him. 952 01:22:17,814 --> 01:22:19,524 I'll get him, sergeant. 953 01:23:43,154 --> 01:23:44,155 There he comes. 954 01:23:51,455 --> 01:23:52,873 He hasn't got a chance. 955 01:24:01,298 --> 01:24:02,466 Dirty! 956 01:24:09,140 --> 01:24:10,475 He got the Heinie. 957 01:24:54,313 --> 01:24:56,398 Bates, this is for you. 958 01:24:56,607 --> 01:24:58,150 How are you, Leroux? 959 01:24:58,359 --> 01:24:59,777 How are you feeling? 960 01:24:59,985 --> 01:25:01,403 Fit as a fiddle. 961 01:25:02,029 --> 01:25:05,032 The sergeant say this is to last through next week. 962 01:25:05,241 --> 01:25:07,201 Sergeant likes his little joke. 963 01:25:11,956 --> 01:25:14,209 In all the world, there's nothing-- 964 01:25:21,717 --> 01:25:24,011 Free French Corporal Leroux, parlementaire. 965 01:25:24,219 --> 01:25:25,304 Major Von Falken. 966 01:25:25,512 --> 01:25:29,391 I was the only one he could send. The others are bathing. 967 01:25:35,898 --> 01:25:37,442 Be careful, it's all we've got. 968 01:25:38,943 --> 01:25:42,906 I'd give plenty to see the expression on that Heinie's puss. 969 01:25:56,503 --> 01:25:57,546 Very impressive. 970 01:25:58,005 --> 01:25:59,006 And the rest? 971 01:25:59,215 --> 01:26:00,591 All dead? 972 01:26:15,023 --> 01:26:18,443 We'll make no further attempt to take the well, if we get water. 973 01:26:18,652 --> 01:26:21,613 This is my last offer. Report it to your commander. 974 01:26:21,780 --> 01:26:23,198 You are very generous. 975 01:26:23,407 --> 01:26:26,785 But my sergeant did not say we'd like to hear your terms. 976 01:26:26,994 --> 01:26:30,456 He said maybe you would like to hear his terms once again. 977 01:26:30,665 --> 01:26:33,751 For every rifle you send, he will send a pint of water. 978 01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:35,795 One rifle, one pint. 979 01:26:36,296 --> 01:26:39,924 Two rifles, two pints. Three rifles-- 980 01:26:40,133 --> 01:26:41,593 Enough of this nonsense! 981 01:26:41,968 --> 01:26:45,055 If you don't like these terms and you still want the water... 982 01:26:45,263 --> 01:26:47,182 ...then you must come and get it. 983 01:27:03,658 --> 01:27:04,826 Fire! 984 01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:31,103 Frenchie was right. 985 01:27:32,355 --> 01:27:36,192 We don't know the Nazis. They did shoot him in the back. 986 01:28:21,282 --> 01:28:24,952 Come on in, Doc. Sorry I can't give you a tall one. 987 01:28:25,911 --> 01:28:29,207 - How's Jimmy doing? - Running low on ammunition. 988 01:28:29,916 --> 01:28:33,836 - If we run out, what'll we fight with? - Bayonets, gun butts, fists. 989 01:28:34,045 --> 01:28:36,715 How long can four of us keep on that way? 990 01:28:36,923 --> 01:28:38,174 I don't know, Doc. 991 01:28:38,383 --> 01:28:41,136 I have to admit, it sounds impossible... 992 01:28:41,595 --> 01:28:43,096 ...but we got to do it. 993 01:28:44,389 --> 01:28:46,809 Somebody will have to work a miracle. 994 01:28:47,017 --> 01:28:49,853 A miracle? What kind of a miracle? 995 01:28:51,063 --> 01:28:52,481 You got me there, Doc. 996 01:28:52,690 --> 01:28:55,443 Four of us holding off several hundred of them... 997 01:28:55,651 --> 01:28:58,362 ...is nothing short of a miracle. 998 01:28:58,571 --> 01:29:00,198 You know why we're able to do it? 999 01:29:01,074 --> 01:29:03,117 Because we're stronger than they are. 1000 01:29:03,326 --> 01:29:04,369 What do you mean? 1001 01:29:04,577 --> 01:29:06,955 I don't mean in numbers. 1002 01:29:07,122 --> 01:29:09,249 I mean something else. 1003 01:29:09,458 --> 01:29:12,127 Those men out there have never known... 1004 01:29:13,587 --> 01:29:15,589 ...the dignity of freedom. 1005 01:29:15,798 --> 01:29:17,257 Dignity? 1006 01:29:18,717 --> 01:29:20,636 That's a funny way to put it. 1007 01:29:21,679 --> 01:29:23,472 Maybe you got something there. 1008 01:29:23,681 --> 01:29:25,516 We've all got something. 1009 01:29:31,231 --> 01:29:33,066 Joe, I'm hit! 1010 01:29:45,245 --> 01:29:47,414 - Can you make it inside, Jim? - I'll try. 1011 01:29:47,623 --> 01:29:49,500 You've got to. Come on. 1012 01:29:49,667 --> 01:29:50,793 Up! 1013 01:29:53,045 --> 01:29:54,463 Get down! 1014 01:30:12,858 --> 01:30:14,068 You'll be all right. 1015 01:30:14,276 --> 01:30:17,738 It's going to take a lot more than this to kill me. 1016 01:30:17,947 --> 01:30:20,241 That's the spirit. Never say die. 1017 01:31:01,034 --> 01:31:02,202 Water! 1018 01:31:12,296 --> 01:31:14,006 Got to make it. 1019 01:31:29,856 --> 01:31:31,691 Somebody's lying there. 1020 01:31:50,086 --> 01:31:51,587 Is he dead? 1021 01:31:53,798 --> 01:31:55,466 He's an American. 1022 01:32:16,155 --> 01:32:17,990 That was a close one. 1023 01:32:18,157 --> 01:32:19,575 They got the well. 1024 01:32:20,993 --> 01:32:23,037 Bull's-eye in the well. 1025 01:32:25,790 --> 01:32:27,625 What's the difference? 1026 01:32:28,710 --> 01:32:30,420 No difference. 1027 01:32:30,670 --> 01:32:34,132 As the saying goes, "It was fun while it lasted." 1028 01:32:34,841 --> 01:32:36,677 I wonder what it feels like. 1029 01:32:36,844 --> 01:32:39,471 - What? - Cold steel. 1030 01:32:40,222 --> 01:32:42,474 They tell me it's over pretty quick. 1031 01:32:50,692 --> 01:32:52,944 I never did tell you what my first name was. 1032 01:32:53,152 --> 01:32:54,863 No, what is it? 1033 01:32:55,071 --> 01:32:56,573 Osmond. 1034 01:32:56,781 --> 01:32:58,199 Right, it's a funny name. 1035 01:32:58,408 --> 01:33:00,035 That's okay. 1036 01:33:00,577 --> 01:33:02,037 Hope somebody finds this. 1037 01:33:02,245 --> 01:33:03,872 Finds what? 1038 01:33:04,081 --> 01:33:06,667 - My tag. - Why? 1039 01:33:07,376 --> 01:33:10,713 If they don't find it, I'm missing. 1040 01:33:11,463 --> 01:33:14,467 If they do find it, I'm dead. 1041 01:33:15,551 --> 01:33:19,430 If I'm missing, nobody will know I'm dead. 1042 01:33:19,639 --> 01:33:23,810 If I'm dead, nobody will know I'm missing. 1043 01:33:24,018 --> 01:33:25,520 I might as well be dead. 1044 01:33:31,401 --> 01:33:33,111 Here they come. 1045 01:33:34,655 --> 01:33:37,157 It looks like they're all coming this time. 1046 01:33:37,950 --> 01:33:40,786 Okay, Osmond, this is it. 1047 01:33:48,586 --> 01:33:50,672 Why don't they finish it? 1048 01:33:51,923 --> 01:33:55,093 Come on and take us! We're waiting for you. 1049 01:33:55,302 --> 01:33:57,429 Come on and get it over with! 1050 01:33:57,637 --> 01:33:59,806 Come on, we ain't surrendering! 1051 01:34:09,733 --> 01:34:10,568 Water. 1052 01:34:10,943 --> 01:34:12,486 You're giving guns for water. 1053 01:34:12,695 --> 01:34:15,865 Go ahead, there it is! Drink all you can find. 1054 01:34:17,617 --> 01:34:19,410 Go on, take it! There it is! 1055 01:34:19,619 --> 01:34:21,704 Roll in it, swim in it! 1056 01:34:25,083 --> 01:34:27,752 Drink till it rolls out of your ears. Go ahead! 1057 01:34:27,961 --> 01:34:30,380 Drink till it splits your guts. 1058 01:34:40,599 --> 01:34:42,351 It's full of water. 1059 01:34:43,352 --> 01:34:45,062 The shells opened up the well. 1060 01:34:49,108 --> 01:34:50,819 It's a blooming miracle. 1061 01:34:52,654 --> 01:34:54,239 That's just what it is. 1062 01:34:57,784 --> 01:35:00,287 Get down there and take their guns away. 1063 01:35:00,495 --> 01:35:02,456 Let them drink, then line them up. 1064 01:35:02,664 --> 01:35:04,541 I'll cover you from here. 1065 01:35:24,354 --> 01:35:26,273 It's an American tank. 1066 01:35:26,773 --> 01:35:28,442 With some German prisoners. 1067 01:35:28,650 --> 01:35:30,319 Send some men to pick them up. 1068 01:35:31,028 --> 01:35:33,864 It's them! They're coming to meet us. She made it! 1069 01:35:52,842 --> 01:35:54,761 Hi, sarge. It's good to see you. 1070 01:35:54,970 --> 01:35:56,471 How's Lulubelle? 1071 01:35:57,222 --> 01:35:58,599 Hello, boys! 1072 01:36:04,063 --> 01:36:05,231 Tell us about it. 1073 01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:08,025 We had a crummy old time of it. 1074 01:36:10,361 --> 01:36:11,529 - Hi, Waco. - Hi, Joe. 1075 01:36:11,737 --> 01:36:13,239 You got a butt? 1076 01:36:14,657 --> 01:36:17,702 Crummy-looking bunch you got here. How'd you get them? 1077 01:36:18,495 --> 01:36:19,996 They just walked in. 1078 01:36:20,205 --> 01:36:22,290 I see you whittled them down a bit. 1079 01:36:25,002 --> 01:36:27,170 They whittled us down too. 1080 01:36:29,882 --> 01:36:31,091 Jimmy? 1081 01:36:34,345 --> 01:36:36,389 How was it? Pretty rough? 1082 01:36:40,226 --> 01:36:41,769 Pretty rough. 1083 01:36:42,311 --> 01:36:45,440 I've been out of this war for a few days. What's going on? 1084 01:36:45,648 --> 01:36:48,943 The limeys held the Jerries at El Alamein. 1085 01:36:49,110 --> 01:36:51,530 Too bad they didn't know about it. 1086 01:37:01,749 --> 01:37:03,626 They'd want to know. 1087 01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:06,253 Halliday. 1088 01:37:07,964 --> 01:37:09,215 Doyle. 1089 01:37:10,466 --> 01:37:11,759 Tambul. 1090 01:37:12,427 --> 01:37:13,595 Williams. 1091 01:37:14,137 --> 01:37:15,472 Stegman. 1092 01:37:16,347 --> 01:37:17,390 Frenchie. 1093 01:37:17,974 --> 01:37:19,267 Clarkson. 1094 01:37:20,310 --> 01:37:22,729 We stopped them at El Alamein.