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Thank you.

Thank you.

Attention,

please. Will all passengers flying with Fox Airways for Saint-Denis, Bern, Paris

and London please assemble at the south exit.

Who have we got this time, Foxy? Oh, the usual mixed bag.

Film star, Joanna Dane and her boyfriend, Cormac and his manager.

The boxer bloke? Yeah.

and some sort of a singer, Anton Parami. Never heard of him. Neither have I.

The rest are quite normal. Oh, except for that fellow in the iron lung.

Barber.

I'll be glad to get rid of that freight, Bill.

Mind the front wheel.

That's right.

It's all right, madame. I lift him.

Thank you. I'll look after him now.

Okay. Tell the others to come aboard then, will you? I want to get on. Right.

I hope you won't be too uncomfortable, Mr. Barber. We might be in for a few

bumps between here and Saint-Denis. I'm all right. We've been on quite a few

trips like this, Captain. What, going on these cures? Yes, going on these cures.

Do you mind?

Oh, sorry.

Stupid Claude.

John, he didn't mean anything. He's just clumsy. All right.

All right.

How long is this last hop? Only an hour, I hope.

Your mother and father are going to meet us at St. Denis.

Then Dr. Copic, the medical man. And then Dr. Copic.

Mr.

Dane.

Mr. Faber.

Mind the step.

Mr. Parami.

Mr. Marshall.

Mr. Jimmy Marshall. Mr. Cormack.

Mr. Gunn.

There's no smoking until after the takeoff, please.

Mr. Romer.

Mr. Barber and Miss Stevens.

And Captain Harrington.

Bill to you.

How about the weather, Foxy? Don't flap. I'm going for the pass.

I'd just like to be sure.

Fasten your safety belts, please.

I don't like the look of these clouds.

See if you can get the weather from Sunday.

Cigarette? No, thanks.

What's the matter?

So slow, so slow.

Are you getting off at St. Denis?

Yes, like you?

Yes, we are.

My wife is waiting there and my mother.

I haven't seen them for eight years.

Because of the war?

Yes.

Because of the war.

I got the weather. Better make a detour, Foxy.

Foxy, what's the matter?

Starboard engine.

What, oil pressure?

Get Mary to tell them not to worry.

Mary, trouble. I can see that.

Starboard engine.

If it fails, you've got to be there to tell them everything's all right. And is

it?

Foxy's going to cross the glacier there, storm or no.

If we can get over the top before the engine does fail, we'll make it.

One engine? Yes, if we can get over the top first.

But no panic. You mustn't let them panic.

All right, Bill.

No panic.

What's happening?

Keep your hair on, Eddie.

There's a fault in one engine. It's all right. There's nothing to worry about.

Captain Fox is going straight over the mountains to sand a knee.

He'll be a bit bumpy, so you'd better fasten your safety belts.

He'll be all right.

Captain Fox is a good pilot.

It's a laugh to thrill.

How are you taking it? The way I take everything?

Lying down.

I've sent out the position where the storm is mucking up the signals.

Shut up.

Look at that. Look, another blasted half minute.

Another half minute, we'd have done it.

You're losing 100 feet a minute. What are you going to do? Get in that seat

there.

Come up, you.

She won't do it.

You better try for the pass.

My last pair.

I can't make it, Bill. I can't. I'll have to put it down on the ice.

No, you can't land here. You'll kill us all.

Here we go, Bill.

There's a torch somewhere. Never mind that, the fire extinguisher.

Help me, help me with this lamp. Are you all right?

Mary,

Mary, get the door open.

It is open.

Is it on fire?

No, no, there's no fire.

Is he all right? Yes, he's fine.

If only I could move, get on my feet, do something.

He's banged his head. He'll come round in a moment.

I'm so frightened. Darling, don't go away. Don't leave me. Don't leave me.

Steady, darling. Steady. Ah, look where you walk.

Your feet, my records.

You clumsy fool.

Look what you do.

I beg your pardon, sir. You tread and you break.

Look. You break in pieces. One, two, three, four.

All break. All smashed.

Well, really.

There's no fire anyway.

No.

Look. That's who got out first.

What's the damage here?

No damage. I'm just hysterical.

Oh, dear. I must look simply awful.

Darling, give me my little case, will you?

Which case do you mean?

One with all the bottles and creams and stuff?

Yes, my little case. Find it.

You wouldn't mean that, would you?

Who did that?

stand there grinning at me like an ape who did it oh you idiots

port wing smash starboard engine gone undercard busted and this

you can't say i'm not thorough you did a good job foxy nobody's hurt what a place

to be in why don't you get in there on that blasted radio and see if you can

get us out of it

One of my batteries has come out, too. What? Why don't you look after the

blasted radio?

All right, until you dropped it.

Back up, Rami. Get her going.

What's going on?

Skipper, we've got all the comforts of home here.

Wine, women, and now a bit of a song thrown in.

Thank you, James. That'll do.

Why, what do you mean? Who's going to sing?

Rami has a gramophone and a record.

A record.

Just one record.

One save from this clumsiness.

That's it, Bramio, man. You tell him.

Hey, Mr. Marshall, I think I will have a shot of whiskey after all. You crazy?

Leave that stuff alone, kid.

He's still on the radio.

Come on, Mary. You've got a lot to do.

It's all right, Bill. I'm not giving way.

Just getting a bit of delayed action shock, I suppose.

You're not hurt?

No, no.

Give me a cigarette.

You've got any?

We've got two or three. Here.

How bad is it?

Depends on this storm.

We're lost for the present. I can't get anybody on this thing.

Poor boy in the iron lung.

Yes, him more than the others.

Poor me.

Poor everybody.

All of us but you.

Don't you ever get rattled like anybody else?

And scared and cold inside as if there were a bird in your stomach?

Like now, you mean?

No, you're not scared.

I never knew how you feel.

I told you how I feel about some things.

About you, for instance.

Bill, you don't know me.

Not in two months.

I know you.

Watched you being unhappy. That's when you know people.

Yes.

You're sweet about that.

Can't go on being like this. To be everything locked inside because of

someone dying.

Not when someone was everyone.

Everyone and everything I ever wanted.

No.

Listen, Bill, I... No, not now. You listen.

Pianissimo with open throat.

You hear?

Listen.

Only I and Gillian know.

You see what you do?

This one is break too.

Every one I have is spoiled. Every damn one I have. You see?

Stop it.

Stop it, you idiot.

Don't you understand?

Don't you see?

We're lost.

We're all going to die.

How could you sit here and pretend?

Well,

come on, man. Tell us. Tell us.

I sent a call to tell them where we are.

I can't get an answer.

It's too much interference because of this storm.

So we stay here for the night?

Or longer?

I refuse to stay.

You're lucky to be here.

We got away with the landing and no one's even hurt.

You ought to be thankful.

We cannot be lost now.

They must be to it or something. You must tell them. My wife is... If your

wife worried about you as much as you do, Mr. Romer... Shut up.

Everybody shut up.

Captain Fox, I'm well aware that we're fortunate to be alive, but what chance

have we got to be found here, or rescued?

And what can we do?

What do you want to do, put the cat out?

We're lost, aren't we?

Wind isn't dropping, is he?

I hate it.

It's frightening.

Like the end of the world up here.

Nothing living except us.

The most consoling thing when one's frightened is to find someone who's even

more frightened.

Not counting the women, of course.

Joanna's the only woman who is.

That fellow Romer.

Yes, he jumped when we landed.

Typical neurotic continental type.

Your English, I take it? My parents are.

I was born and brought up in the Argentine.

Oh.

I'm sorry.

I thought you were asleep.

I was thinking.

What about all this?

About myself.

Sorry for yourself.

You think so?

I suppose I am.

You want to talk to me about him, don't you?

Why do you say it like that?

You always ask me to talk about him.

Yes, but not now, not anymore.

It doesn't make sense up here.

But it does.

Dying isn't remote up here.

I used to think I wouldn't mind dying.

Because of him.

Now it's so close.

I'm afraid.

If you were in love, it would be forever, wouldn't it?

Isn't that the way love should be?

But he's dead.

Yes.

He's dead.

1730 hours. Forced landing on Felhoff Glacier due to failure of starboard

engine.

19 hours to 23.30 hours.

Called up Hallsburg and Saint-Denis and transmitted opposition, but received no

confirmation of receipt due to static.

23.50 hours, effort continuing.

An attempt will be made tomorrow to make the plane visible from the air.

Do you want any coffee?

Thank you.

Coffee? Look how clumsy.

Sun's out, Harry.

Now maybe they'll find us.

They'll find us more easily if you were to help dig the snow away so they can

see us.

Yeah, that's right. Come on, Harry, let's do a workout.

Great kid.

Wonderful kid.

Hello.

Wake. I've got some nice hot coffee for you.

I'll give it to him.

Thanks. No, you won't. I don't want any. Give it to someone else.

You really ought to have something.

Listen, go away and leave me alone, will you? I know what I want. John.

Heavens, you two.

Why don't you stop fussing and leave me alone?

Why do you shout?

Do you think anyone here is having fun?

Joanna, wake up, darling.

Oh, no.

Darling, was I horrible last night making that frightful scene?

I think everybody understood.

You let off steam for all of us.

Thank you, darling.

Oh, good, something hot.

You'll forgive me then?

It's nothing to forgive.

All these people, so awful.

Don't you think so?

Richard.

No, I... Darling, I'm going out to help.

Excuse me.

How can they ever get us away from here?

I don't know, John, but they will.

Well, they can't land here in this place. How could they?

You're only fooling yourself.

Well, don't do it for me.

Now, come on. Drink this.

It's a smashing view, anyway. That's one thing.

It's a rare treat.

Especially if he was looking at it from a seat in the picture, see?

They must come for us.

If they don't, they are ways down from here.

Ways down?

From here?

Do you know this part of the world, then? Not here, no.

Further to the northwest, I know, during the war.

Ah.

You and the army, then?

No, I was trying to escape.

What do you mean?

Deserting? In a way.

From a concentration camp.

Oh.

Sorry.

Hey, Cormac, put that fag out. You're standing on a petrol tank.

Hey, Foxy, what about all this petrol?

The tank's badly damaged, you know. Don't you think we ought to let it soak

away? Don't be a fool. It'll drain down towards the aircraft, not away from it.

Okay, you're the boss. Yeah.

Boss is nothing.

No, I mean it.

You're the prettiest girl I've ever met.

How many girls have you said that to?

Oh, uh, thousands.

You're not very original.

That doesn't matter.

Girls like old favorites.

Makes them feel they know where they are.

Your brother's watching you.

Don't remind me.

He's been watching me for years.

Were you two on holiday together?

Holiday? Edward?

Edward never has a holiday.

No, as a matter of fact, he's been getting me out of the soup.

Oh? Were you in the soup?

Frankly, I'm always in the soup.

Each time it happens, along comes Eddie.

Bails me out.

Makes me take a horrible job somewhere.

Do you know, for brothers, you're not a bitter light.

No.

Before Edward was born, Mother was frightened by an affidavit.

James!

Captain Fox wants you. All right, all right.

Can't he tell me himself?

Now, listen to me. I want to tell you something.

They'll be out looking for us now.

So someone's got to stay outside the plane on watch the whole time. In case

we hear them and can send up a signal.

There's a very pistol in the aircraft.

We'd better keep watching pairs, hadn't we, Foxy? Yes.

Roma, you and Cormac. You're on first.

Then you, Mr. Marshall, with your brother.

Oh, no, no. I'll go with Faber or Gunn. Edward here can have Pagliacci if he'll

put his dainty feet on the ground.

That's Mr. Marshall's blanket you've taken.

So? I am Anton Perami. I am a singer.

And my throat and chest must be protected.

Yes? Good. So I take care. Why don't you go outside and help the others? In that

cold wind, you think I'm crazy?

I think you're lousy.

My makeup case.

You've taken it.

What did you say?

Mind my grammar, son. Now, where is my makeup case and my cold cream?

Good heavens, we've had a crash. This is since the crash. And you can only worry

about cold cream. Only I tell you I have to have it. All right, don't lose your

head again. Don't ask Fox.

He trotted some mess around this morning. I heard him curse it.

He did, did he?

There are quite a few civil and military aerodromes in these parts, and they're

bound to be sending planes out to search for us. It's going to be a bit difficult

for them to find us whilst this cloud's hanging about.

You smeared my face cream all over the floor.

Face cream, did I?

Oh, that's what it was. Well, I'm sorry.

But I've got to have my cream. My face gets sore without it.

Well, I dare say Mary can lend you a bit of powder or something.

You pompous, superior fool. A bit of powder or something.

Oh, you make me sick.

Take it easy.

She didn't blow up once in a while. She'll probably go crazy.

Joanna, wait. No, leave her alone, boy. Always leave them alone when they're

shirty. I can see her point, mind you.

A woman her age, she needs the make-up much more. I didn't ask for your

opinion. Well, she's been a star for 14 years, you know. She can't be a spring

chicken.

What's the matter? You.

You have such bad manners.

For heaven's sake, turn that thing off before the needle jumps.

I watch him.

That's the tenth time you've played that thing.

Haven't you got another tune?

Tune?

Barbarian. You call this a tune?

No, I have not. Because why? Because they are all broke.

All the records except... Oh, dear. Oh, dear. No.

Not again.

Yes, again.

Now, look, Pirani.

Well,

thank goodness.

You would prefer some of your films here instead, huh?

Lots and lots of Joanna Dayne pictures.

Like a festival, huh? From now going right back for 20 years.

20 years, you tin-pot operatic windbag. Sitting in here hour after hour, driving

everybody crazy, playing your bawling record.

Why, I... Diana, you've said enough.

How much grub have we got?

Well, not quite enough for today.

Well, it'll have to last longer than that.

Foxy, somebody's been here.

What do you mean?

Well, I had six packages of sandwiches. Now I've only four.

What?

Well, don't say anything about it to anybody else just yet.

And you'd better give everybody something to eat now.

They're not going to work, that.

Bill's saving it.

He says the batteries are very low and there's only enough for another couple

of signals.

I told you to give those people something to eat, didn't I? Why didn't

you do as you told?

Listen. Yeah, I thought I had something, too. Over there.

Going away.

Miles away.

Several of them, too.

All right, it's time to change the watch anyway. It's Marshall and Faber next.

Suits me.

I'm fit for cold storage.

I will stay instead of Mr. Marshall.

I feel better here than inside.

You look half-frozen now.

No, I have more resistance than most people.

Yes? You eat more, perhaps.

All right, come on, I'll tell you a favor.

The first dangerous thing that ever happened to me.

There was a war.

Not for me.

As with my family in the Argentine.

No, I've always been safe.

I'm comfortable.

I swear that's been bad for me.

I had everything I wanted all my life.

Always to be safe.

I wonder how that could feel.

Why?

I was in prison three times since I was 18.

In prison? What for?

Because I spoke my own thoughts instead of theirs.

I thought they were stupid to put me in a concentration camp to try to cure me.

Stupid.

Because there one thinks even more.

And then hates them more.

But in the end the thinking and the hating dies away.

Everything dies away.

An old myth died there too.

That suffering ennobles mankind.

It was a myth before they came.

Because no people...

had ever suffered to that point, where man becomes less than himself and goes

backwards, backwards in his heart, in his mind, in his body, until he's

made into a thing with only one spark, wanting to live.

It's the bottom of the pit, Mr. Faber.

Do you think we'll get out of this?

Or die.

Do you think you'll be saved?

I will save myself.

It's no good. The batteries are finished now.

Foxy was sending for hours this morning.

He ticked me off for sticking my nose in.

Foxy bullies machines.

Well, they won't do what he wants them to.

He likes machines better than he likes people.

They have to be perfect or he bullies them.

I saw him land this kite. He hated the thing.

You seem to have made quite a study of him.

Why not? I spend most of my time with him.

It wasn't so easy for me.

I tried to guess what somebody was thinking and feeling.

The man you were in love with?

Yes.

I watched him change slowly.

Grow up the way young men have never had to grow up before.

Like you grew up, I suppose.

Flying bombers.

At first he was so gay.

He was always gay.

His eyes changed.

He saw the things you saw.

All that horror and ruin and killing.

It didn't change him outwardly.

It just seemed to make him love me.

Want me more.

That's what I watched for.

When was he killed, Mary?

Last day of the war.

Only one more day to live through and he would have been safe.

And with me.

Mrs. Hugh Collis.

Hugh Collis?

Squadron leader Hugh Collis?

You knew him.

Yes, I knew it.

Well?

He's dead and it's finished, Matthew.

Go on, say it.

Say it. You didn't like him, is that it? And now you hate him because I'm in love

with him.

Because he's spoiling your life.

You hate him.

He was no good.

Collis was a twister and a liar. He'd have sold you or any other girl.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that, but... But what?

I had to because it's true and you know it's true.

Yes, I know.

I always knew.

And about his cheating, lying to me.

If you knew, why did you go on with it? Because I was in love with him.

His being no good didn't alter that.

You don't understand, do you?

I can understand what it's like to be in love with someone who's not in love with

you.

How alone it makes you feel.

Bill? Are we going to die here?

Some of us, I expect.

Anything left to eat?

Half a thermos of coffee and a few sandwiches.

Almost nothing.

That fellow Romer seems to have some grub.

James, I told you not to say that.

Hold on a minute. Say what? Romer swiped some of the food. That is, he might

have. Might?

Edward saw him coming out.

The evidence is purely circumstantial.

Oh, forget it. And listen to me. We've got to take a chance of getting down on

foot. Say, three or four of us. Bill here has the maps.

There's a village at the top of the pass, St.

Christophe. It's about 12 miles as the crow flies.

Who's going to make up the fall?

You better stay here, Foxy.

Just in case.

Edward and I have done quite a bit of climbing.

I'll have a bang at it.

Besides, I've run out of whiskey.

Yes, I'll go.

I'll go. Are you crazy?

You've got a job ahead of you, kid.

Yeah?

Like a life I had off me to do it in.

There's another reason why we must go.

You're talking about me, aren't you?

Because I'm the added responsibility.

Well, don't bother.

Don't, John.

Don't make it any worse. Get away from me.

Good luck.

Goodbye, Bill.

Take care of yourself.

All right, if you'll do me a favor. Something you've never done.

What? Miss me, that's all. Just miss me.

Goodbye, Foxy. Sure, Bill. Good luck.

All set?

Good bloke, that.

Yes.

Good bloke.

What chances have they got, Foxy?

Evens.

Come on. Come on in and give them all some breakfast.

It's the last of the coffee.

There's nothing more to eat.

What are you staring at? Go away.

You used to like it.

Yes, when I knew I looked nice.

These awful people. So boring.

They don't bore me.

Oh, they don't. Well, they bore me. And when you're being so silly, so do you.

That's good. It makes us even.

It's about two mouthfuls each. Oh, I don't want any.

We'll have to last till they can drop us something.

When?

Next winter?

Thank you.

A little music with breakfast, yes?

No!

You all right, sir?

I'm not an old man.

A few hours walking isn't going to kill me.

Well, go on, then.

Wait. This... Yeah.

Look. There it is.

A play.

A lovely, blooming play.

Here.

Here we are, you silly baskets.

It's not us he's looking for.

No.

No, he's going away.

Well, we're not the only people in the world. That's one thing.

Come on.

Midday.

They ought to be well on the way by now.

Eh?

Think so?

Perhaps, with luck.

That boy gets frostbite in his hands.

You don't want the cold to bite the hands that feed you.

Very funny.

Of course.

You feed yourself, don't you?

I wish I'd gone with them.

Why? Doing something definite, not just waiting.

It's like saying goodbye when they left for a long time.

Yes.

Do you see people more clearly when they're gone?

At least I do.

Sounds crazy.

The plane. Do you hear it?

They're looking for us. Look, Foxy, there it is. I'll get the very best.

Ah, they see an aeroplane.

Parami. An aeroplane for us, huh?

Parami, get the very pistol.

Oh, help, I am so quick to gun.

Keep on coming.

Hold your course now, hold it. Foxy, the signal.

Help me, open the door.

The door.

Push it, man.

It's going away.

It's my fault.

I'm sorry.

All these hours, you think this fool a pirabi. I know you think.

But you think also the plane is sealed.

Well, I... I'm sorry.

Ah, shut up. What's it matter now?

Sleep.

Yes, I gave him something to make him sleep.

And a rest for you.

I don't know how you manage him.

He seems to snarl at you all the time.

No, not all the time.

It's this cage he's in.

He used to be so sweet-tempered, nothing bothered him.

But now, fortunately... Will he ever get better? Oh, there's always a chance.

For him? For him.

I don't know about for me.

Are we going to get down there?

Seems the only way.

Go on, mister.

No one can pass you.

You have to break your rule, old boy.

You have to take a chance on it.

Listen.

You better try and get him back.

Yes, but how?

Round the side of the glacier and back the way we came. It's either that or

leave him here.

Oh, what about you?

I'll go on.

It's a chance for the whole lot of us.

Yeah.

He'd peg out on his own.

It'll need the pit office to get him back.

We'll never make it.

He's your brother.

Leave me here, James.

You go on.

What? Don't be an ass, Eddie.

I'll get you back. How can you?

I'm the one in trouble this time.

Once I'm done, you think you'll make it?

I don't think you will either.

So what's the difference?

Well, good luck.

Switch up that thing or I'll break it.

The pianissimo with open throat.

Only I and Gilly in the whole world.

Another 24 hours and Gilly will have it all to himself.

Look. Look, there are three men coming.

He's got through.

Bill must have sent them up here.

Foxy, he's got through.

He went on.

Mary, take his other arm. There.

How does it feel?

More comfortable, thank you.

You lie down, Mr. Marshall.

Now, take it easy, boy.

His ribs broken?

So they say.

It only means he'll go before we do.

I don't know.

Busted ribs have something wicked. You got a broken rib once, didn't you?

Against Larry Mason.

Did you see me fight Mason? I wasn't always like this.

Larry Mason.

I broke a rib that time.

Yeah, but the kid got the decision. He stopped that Mason, murdered him. Shut

up.

What? I said shut your big mouth.

You don't like him, do you?

Sorry.

I don't like fighting.

That's all he talks about.

Tell me, Cormac, how bad is Marshall?

Bad?

Been a terrible time with him.

That Jimmy hadn't been there.

Busted ribs, had something chronic.

Put your face close to mine.

Don't look like that, darling.

Oh, John.

Anne, I've been thinking.

Everything is going to be all right now.

And you mustn't be afraid anymore.

John, I love you so. I know. I've watched you.

I've loved you for years, but I've snarled at you and kept you away

because... Darling, don't. I thought it wasn't any use.

Not a man in a cage, Anne.

Not a man dying.

You're not dying. But now I have to tell you.

I'm in love with you.

And you mustn't be afraid anymore.

Please. Please never stop loving me.

Say that again.

What you said just now, will you?

I love you, sir.

Yes.

Now I'm easy.

Now I can sleep.

You must get asleep again, too.

Fix the mirror so that I can see you.

and bring tomorrow soon.

Come here, quickly.

What's the matter?

I've been thinking.

There's something you've got to do and do it once or we'll all die.

What? You've got to do it.

With this storm, if they don't get a message from us by radio... The radio's

dead. Yes, yes, I know, but for a battery's here on this cage of mine.

What are you asking me to do?

Murder you?

Murder? Don't be so silly.

If you don't do it, you'll kill the others and yourself and me.

Fox, it isn't what you think. I can breathe for a while.

You mean you can breathe if this thing stops working?

Yes.

Sometimes for my examinations, I get out of it.

The switch is on the floor there.

Try it and see.

This one?

Fine. Okay.

Now, take the batteries and connect them to your radio.

Go on, man.

If I'm in any trouble, I'll call Anne. She'll know what to do.

It's a chance. I've got to take it.

It's not a chance.

It's the answer.

George P1 calling send any control. Are you receiving over?

George P1 calling send any control. This is Fox now. This is a position We're

down on the fellow of glassy at 15 miles northwest of San Christopher. Wait, I'll

give you the map reference Mary Mary they hurt

They'll find us now we'll be saved

don't understand they're sending a ski plane to try and land here and transport

planes to drop supplies we must watch for them yeah we better get the signal

record be careful what is it fox is back the

radio they're sending planes for us how is he

You did this?

He told me to take the batteries.

He said he'd waken you and you'd know what to do.

I didn't look. I didn't think to look.

0316 hours, batteries from iron lung connected to radio.

0717 hours, third day, radio contact re-established.

But I've got to say it.

What are we going to do?

Anything you like.

You see, all these people huddled here and getting jumpier all the time.

Please help me out.

It sounds so brutal.

The man can dig a grave in the snow.

Perhaps if he stays here, it'll be easier for his parents.

He won't mind.

He's been learning a long time.

Mary, you tell the others. I'm going to signal the aircraft.

Say something.

Somebody say something. Some words.

Does anybody know the service?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

That's all I know.

Poet of your country wrote of this.

Death, be not proud, though some have called

thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death,

nor yet canst thou kill me.

thou'rt slave to fate charms kings and desperate men and

dost with poison war and sickness dwell and poppy and charm

can make us sleep as well and better than thy stroke

why swearest thou then one short

sleep past we wake and death

shall be no more death thou

shalt die

Watch yourself, my boy. Let's have a nice, clean land.

Open up, man, open up! You're going to overshoot!

Can

we

get to him?

No, he's headed.

Proves one thing, they can't land up here.

Have to find another place further down and wait for the weather.

What about that navigator boy? Didn't they get any message from him?

No, because he hasn't got there.

11.16 hours. Radio contact with Sunday Control.

Search planes report no trace of habitant.

Dakota due over opposition with containers of food and clothing.

They drop food and drink.

It's wonderful.

You see, you see? I'm right here.

Yes, I see.

Coffee?

Soup, coffee, ski boots, cigarettes.

Here, wait a minute, wait a minute. Of course, they wouldn't have thought of a

cigar. Ah, brandy. I take this inside. Today we have breakfast.

Lipstick. How thoughtful of Malloy.

Look, I love everybody.

Everybody.

And especially you.

They'll make a story out of this.

Jimmy.

Should I say I saved someone's life?

Yes, why not?

You saved mine.

Don't be an idiot, darling.

You'd have thought that girl had been upset or something, wouldn't you?

I suppose nurses haven't got feelings much, eh?

Why? You mean she ought to feel unhappy?

Like you do when I'm having my block knocked off.

What are you talking about? You.

Mary.

Mary, look.

Look, down the mountain.

Someone's coming.

Lieutenant Albert.

Yes,

but

look here. What about Saint-Denis?

Do they know where we are?

Comment? Do they connaît who we are?

Who we are? Ah, you tell him who we are. Shut up. Look here. Do you connaît Saint

-Crystal? Saint-Christophe, yes?

I show you the map, you show me the way.

La route, oui?

Ah, la route à Saint-Christophe, oui, je comprends.

Oui, c'est possible.

Come and have a look at the map.

La carte.

Ah, bien.

Vous avez craché, haven't you?

Qu'est-ce que vous dites?

Rescue number one, he can't even talk English.

And you're not to be afraid anymore.

And bring tomorrow.

Well, we can't just sit here. Bill Haverton obviously hasn't got through.

That means he's stuck out there somewhere and we've got to go out and

find him.

Lieutenant Albert knows some part of the way and I'm going.

What about a couple more?

Not me.

I can't stand heights.

I'll go.

I'd like to.

Thanks. And we thought Senior Perami might fancy you.

Me? Why me?

Sit down, Sinatra.

I'll go.

No, not you. You went last time, and I want you here to help Mary.

I will not go. It is impossible.

Make him go.

Stupid, ugly beast, sitting here guzzling and playing your damn record.

That's enough. Yes, take him. No, I don't go.

Now will you go?

If you don't get away from here, everybody will go crazy. That's exactly

why I'm going to take him with me. There'll be murder done if I don't.

Yes, I will go.

Mary and Miss Stevens can... Miss Stevens?

Wake her up favorably.

Oh, where is she?

She has gone away in the night. You knew, and you didn't stop her?

You let her go.

Alone? She was alone here.

I understand her very well.

Miss Stevens!

Search made for Ann Stevens without result.

Faber found injured on glacier and brought back by Cormac.

Sorry.

Sorry.

How did you find him?

I heard him yell.

Nice job getting them back, you know. Well, which one is it?

This one.

What is it?

Broken it?

No, it feels like a sprain.

Look.

Frostbite.

What?

Frostbite, you crazy fool. I told you.

You watch I don't tell you something.

Captain Fox, I know you do not like me.

And this boy, Faber, cannot travel now.

But I will go.

Okay.

If you want to.

The rest of you keep your ears open. And if you hear a plane, send up a smoke

signal. Burn something outside and be quick about it.

You're still thinking of Captain Haverton, aren't you?

I used not to.

I used to talk to him and at him and think about myself.

He was just somebody nice to have around.

Now he's not around.

I let him down.

It's my fault he had to go on alone.

He likes doing things alone.

I wonder.

I'm alone.

I've made my work my whole life.

I'm growing old alone.

It isn't enough.

You have your brother.

He's responsible half of it.

But it's true I have him.

You're fond of him.

He's all I have to be fond of.

And he depends on me.

Tell me the truth.

Do you think Bill will get through and be safe?

For both your sakes, I hope so.

You can't rest now. We are doing very well. Very well.

Santa Maria.

Now, come on, or I'll leave you.

Listen.

Hey!

Bill! Hey!

Where is he?

Bill!

I'm here!

I cannot go a step further.

One by one, everybody is dying.

Mr. Barber, he died.

Miss Stevens, she died.

And now, who knows?

Hey!

Regardez!

Le refuge de Saint-Christophe. Can we reach it?

Can we...

Reach it.

Oh, oh, no, no, no. C'est impossible.

Le precipice.

Many hours walk.

Can't they climb to us if they see? Too much cloud.

Look, it's gone now.

They might hear.

Hey!

Hey!

They do not hear.

Hey, you, you grand piano with open throat, you shout.

I do not shout. To scream like a hyena with my voice to spoil. You want to stay

up here all night and die here, you fool?

To die here or to wreck up my voice, what a difference is this?

Or perhaps you want I should cut my throat.

Well, we just have to wait here till they spot us.

No.

I will go alone.

Over this mountain.

You can't do it alone.

I'm used to mountains.

And I have to go on.

Don't be a fool, Roma. Come back.

He's crazy, but hope he makes it.

Come on, let's get you back.

plane trying to land.

He's trying to see his mind in your mind.

Look at you, darn clumsy.

He's hearing things.

What's he doing?

He's trying to land. We must make a signal.

Look, it's in the plane.

It's gone behind the cloud.

Don't be a fool.

I've been wanting to do this for eight years.

Eight years and that's the first time I've enjoyed it. Quick, the fire. We're

on fire.

You must get up here. Let me help you. What about the others?

Joanna, outside, quick.

Take these blankets.

All my lovely clothes, ruined.

Worse than that, food's gone.

I want to thank you and tell you I've never admired anyone so much.

Admired? Yes.

You got Edward out because you kept your head.

Me?

Yes, Jimmy.

And I think you're quite beautiful.

Well, now sock me.

No.

I rather light.

I'm afraid that's the best I can do for you.

Is he okay?

I shan't be needing that job, Edward, when I get back.

I've got a plan.

We'll have to do something about that draft.

Okay, we'll fix it

Harry

come on inside don't talk to me

You've done it

this time

I'll have to tell Mary.

Tell her. What do you mean, tell her? You'll tell her yourself.

Hey, you.

Your fat will keep you warm.

Look, there are people.

There are people outside the hut.

work for one thing.

Just one thing.

Suddenly a voice.

That voice is gone.

It all goes... like...

He is very weak now.

He arrived alone to tell us where you were.

To tell you? You mean... Yes, we saw you through the glasses.

You saw us?

We were coming before we heard you call.

Before I call?

Before I... The

plane is here.

Lieutenant Albert says that a ski plane could land here.

Oui, je pense que ça irait là.

So, we send a party there to lead your people there.

When? When it is light. When we go down to the village.

Before.

Before I call.

Before I call.

I live my whole life for one thing.

Now, I give away.

For what?

For nothing?

You look at this man.

He's dead.

Joanna, darling, finish it.

I'm so cold. I'm so cold.

There. Mr. Marshall.

Is there any of that brandy left?

Only enough for one, but don't let that worry you.

It won't.

They'll never find us now.

We're forgotten.

Finished.

Like the others.

You can't say that, do you hear me? It's all right.

They'll find us.

Well, we'll keep until they do.

On ice.

Mr. Gunn.

Mr. Gunn, wake up.

Wake up.

You'll have to keep him awake.

You watch everybody, don't you?

You work Cormac, you work James.

Well, there's other for a gun.

Somebody's got to do it.

And enough people died already.

I want to come through this.

To go home to the ordinary things again.

You don't understand.

They think I take only the dullest cases.

I'm embarrassing them.

That isn't true.

They're the best cases.

Fascinating.

Human ingenuity in playing tricks. Stop it.

Please stop your blathering.

Because you feel scared.

You want everyone else to crack up.

To make you feel better.

Yes.

I know it.

I'm not afraid of being dead.

I'm just afraid of dying.

No, he's all right.

Let him sleep.

He's had the brandy.

You're not in love with me anymore.

Were you ever in love with me?

Is that the same thing?

I didn't know you, Joanna.

I don't think you'll even remember me.

Perhaps not.

But this is the end of something.

We take you to where the aeroplanes will land.

Who got you?

Tell me quickly. Five people. All of them are safe at Saint-Christophe.

The other?

One has died of exposure.

Which one?

I do not know names. I am told one has died. Then we come.

And the others?

Wake them.

Take us away from here.

He will love you.

Really?

Eight years is a long time, you know.

Look after him first, he's badly injured.

who got through? They don't know. They're waiting for the bus. Why don't

they know?

The wire's down between here and St. Christophe.

Oh.

It's bad for them, too.

Bob?

Joanna, what happened?

Well, I did my best to be brave.

One had to.

And if I did save someone's life, it was because... Oh, I... I'm so tired.

Joanna, you saved someone's life. You ask me, I'll tell you. Yes, you ask my

fiancé. He'll tell you.

Fiancé?

What did you say you were?

Well, yes.

You two gentlemen must come to the hospital.

All right, I'm ready, but I'm not going with him.

Let's get out of here. Come on.

Thank you.

I'm so glad that you've come through it all.

You brought them all down, then it's all finished? Brought them all down. All

that were alive.

Please.

Please, let me get through.

We have postponed the opera for two days while you rest.

You must find somewhere a singer till I find one day a voice.

I've been stupid.

Don't ever leave me again.

I told you to miss me.

Don't ever leave me again.

That's what I wanted to hear you say. That's everything.

Hold tight, darling. Everything's all right again now that you're here.

Come with me.

Come away.

Those are the Romers.

I knew.

Can you find out where they live?

Find out and let me know, will you? Why? What are you going to do?

Something I've never done.

Something I learned up there from other people.

To do something for somebody else.

Yes, we all have that feeling for a while, but it doesn't last. That's the

trouble. You break your journey, it's a nine days wonder, then everything goes

on just the same.

Not quite the same.

Some of us will remember.

You think so?