Original subtitles

Acum incepe

The Torch 1950

Vizionare Placuta

it's

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hmm

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there are certain times and places you

never forget

my father's glass actress

you might think that daily trips to the

place would dim the fascination for me

but nothing could be further from the

truth

besides there was a special reason for

this visit

a very special reason

they were making wonderful gifts for my

wedding

and now they were all trying to outdo

each other in hopes of pleasing me

one piece looked more beautiful than the

next

spun so fine you wondered how they held

together

it was a fantastic world of glasses

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soldiers of freedom long live

general joseph

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uh

so

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who are the rich man in this town the

rich man

this is a poor place there are no

i can tell

what are you doing waiting here like

cornered rats to be clubbed why don't

you do something

cornered trapped i knew it i knew this

was no place to hide

we should have hidden in the church with

the father the church is strong

it's powerful and is respected by all my

house is my house

and it will be as safe as the church

father

you will pardon me father sierra the

commander of the truth assured that

there was no danger of the town falling

and now we're going to be at the mercy

of these bandits i wouldn't call them

bandits or rebels

it is all one in the same i don't think

you understand

my darling

for heaven's sake it was only a random

bullet procedure there's nothing wrong

with your husband

many people have been killed by a random

bullet i swear i saw it coming straight

at me well if he's standing here in the

window one will come straight at you

rosita don't hold me keep on praying

they are coming for us

never forget them these people must be

faced with courage and dignity

father i will go with you no mario

you will remain here where you belong in

your home

if something happens you know what to do

let us go

we won't be lost

you don't have to worry maria dolores i

know the general who has taken this town

we were like brothers we went to school

together

i don't think he has forgotten

forward

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here are the rich ones

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they told me you're in this town and i

knew i'd find you it's good to see you

just look who's the priest look who is a

general come on over here where we can

talk

you know this is just like old times

take all these people out make them wait

i'm gonna be here with my friends

come on

they must not go all right what brought

you here

what can i do for you well me

nothing i come with my friends

oh i see

then you will have to wait while i

attend to them i shall wait for that one

and i hope you will not know anything

that is unworthy of you

sit down

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sit down i tell you

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which one of you is

i am

come here

i'm telling you to come here

you know what i'm in this town for don't

you i do

i'm surprised to find you here why

didn't you leave with the others

because my homies here i was born here

i will be buried here besides

i don't think you will be here love

i wouldn't talk like that if i were you

mr beckett hill

come on out hurry up

at your service and at the service of

the government you represent

you do not know general how glad i am

that you have freed the town of cholula

i'm glad there are reasonable people

among you people willing to cooperate

with us

general in everything and to all end

you may counter me unconditionally

although i am sorry to say

i have nothing really to count on

well you can start cooperating with

thirty thousand pesos thirty thousand

place thirty thousand pesos and all the

livestock you sent up to the hills a few

days ago but that would ruin all the

stocks of grain and sugar that you have

a monopoly of in cholula

but i have nothing general you're a

well-meaning man

i'm nobody's enemy general i only want

to be right with everybody

do you hear me general let me go in

peace let me work

i'm only a peaceful tradesman i don't

understand anything about revolutions or

uprisings

you don't understand but you take full

advantage

of the food and you raise the prices

then the people they pay your price or

they starve

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revolutions are not made so that some

may grow rich while others lose their

blood fighting for what they believe is

right

any cause may have enemies because men

have the right to think freely

or they are not free men one can feel

respect for an enemy who fights and dies

for the cause he considers just

but those who want to be right with

everybody those who are nobody's enemy

when the future of the homeland is

extinct

they are the real traitors the leeches

that grow flat off the blood of their

fellow men

thank you

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but don't kill me let me live

don't kill me well let's take a while

you love don't kill me

i'll give you 200 000 pesos all my money

don't kill me i'll tell you i give you

everything everything

my wife is very lovely

what did you say my wife is very

beautiful

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get him out of here

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let me live

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i'm sorry general i couldn't help it he

made me sick

yeah general rings

[Laughter]

it is wonderful to have a general who

never forgets a

thing

[Laughter]

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next one

who are you

i'm robert stanley a doctor here to make

some linear

no just practicing and studying down

here

i'd uh i'd like to pass to mexico city

and back

i'd take care of that flesh wound

to mexico city for what reason

well i'm i'm not going there for any

political purposes

you still haven't answered my question i

i need some things medicines and

surgical supplies i can't get them here

is that all right i'm going to buy a

gift for my bride

i hope to be married in this town very

soon with the daughter of don carlos

pena field

of who you've already met general i'm in

love with his daughter

it's on her account that i ask you for

this let him go free

i promise that when i marry i shall take

them away from here to my country

classes are out of the question

but because of your profession doctor

we'll make an exception

they'll validate these papers next door

thank you very much

oh uh don't forget what i told you about

that wound

the mother one i should like to raise an

objection

why was i arrested

i am a colonial sanctions school master

you know

where did you bring him back he looked

great

this leaves all right

go open your school all right general

what's on your mind no offense to anyone

but are you the government now

yes well i haven't been paid in two

months

how much do you earn a day 175 general

one peso 75 cent hours a day yes

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here's 200 pistols we'll tell you what

to do later

oh and from tomorrow on you were in

double

double yes

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thank you thank you very much

god bless you

oh professor if it's not too much

trouble

but you accommodate another pupil it

will be an honor

and a privilege

well as soon as i find her you'll have

another pupil

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here's the list take them outside make

them give you what's written there

if they don't you know what to do

come on

where did you hide the money what money

the money you're keeping for your rich

friends

i have no money from the rich only a

little

from the poor i don't think that it

would interest you

it hardly amounts to 200 pesos i'm not

interested in money for myself

but for the cause i want all i can get

no matter how little it may be

is that all you have

i'll tell them yes

no not yet

that little girl is she your daughter

no but it's the same as if she were

her father was my friend her mother was

a camp follower

they were both killed when their train

was blown up

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left there with some distant relatives

but they don't love other people's

children

they didn't care for her properly i have

no other home but my saddle

but the kid loves me and i think she's

better off with me

besides i'm her godfather

godfather

you know that one you would have made a

good priest

yes but with these claws

they're calling you

i can go now of course

thank you

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so

what have they done with my father

nothing has happened to your father

you're afraid to tell me

you have no need to worry you're trying

not to hurt me

please tell me father sierra he's in no

danger

he will protect him

i hope so far

you must promise me not to be out on the

streets alone during this time

and why not do you think i'm afraid no

but uh

it is better if you stay in the house

i'm a woman but i can take care of

myself

i know but you are not like the other

women

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what legs just to see one pretty leg

again

i'd even take a slap and what a body

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but you can be sure if the body is

tempting the face would stop a clock

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now if you're a man you'll turn the

other teeth because you saw two legs

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that's the girl i'm gonna marry

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would you please stop following me i'm

not following you

no no i'm starting you oh

then stop escorting me

oh no thank you i wouldn't make any

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candles

of course now what would i do with

fireworks

fireworks what size the very largest den

oh don't you have anything larger than

that i have your

independence day the independence

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good got a match

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what's up

certain fighters

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you know who i am no who are you did you

know

oh don't you tell him where i hide

you know we women must stick together

promise promise promise yes

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it sounds like a gun shot

praise the lord breathe horse yes

glad you're here what happened i've been

practicing

practicing for what if they ever dare to

do anything to my father believe me i'm

going to shoot

it you mean you didn't want it to go off

oh no

no sit down for a minute will you

maria dolores i've decided not to go to

mexico city

oh but you have to go to get your

supplies

listen darling your father will only be

given his freedom when he delivers the

money that general reyes asked for

he dared to ask my father for money well

he'll never get it

he i'll blow it up wait a minute

now look here sit down

you don't seem to understand he's a very

very strange man

strange man he's a beast he's the newest

thing i've ever seen to a gorilla

and listen to me you go to mexico city

and you get your supplies and when you

get to mexico

you tell them how he spurred every

decent house in the town

that he's very full of people that no

one's safe in the streets

but as for me don't you worry about me

i'm not afraid to face that monster

and don't forget to bring my wedding

dress all right

but will you do me one favor of course

robin you try to control your temper

it's gonna get you in trouble someday

bye goodbye

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so

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do

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where are you going with that painting

you know

i don't know anything about paintings

but i like this one

why did you take it down because you had

it in the dark where nobody could see it

and just look what you have here three

kings on their knees before a child

the child whose birth brought love to

the front of wooded man and what do you

do with this immense symbol

yes what do you do with it you hide it

in the corner

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i will leave it there in the light just

as you say and put it high so that men

can see it

besides moving the baby what are you

doing here i have never seen you in

church before

i want you to tell me about a girl

not a girl yes

i did what did i do i i would almost

take it as a lack of respect

now this was she is the most beautiful

woman i have ever seen

i know i will never forget her and i

want to marry her

you want to marry her and you don't know

who she is everybody here

her face is like a dream and her eyes

are full of fire and her lips are like

lightening when she's angry

you must know she has a temper but i

like it and she smiles

and you forget everything it's a smile

that remains in the heart

did you uh did you say she has a temper

beautiful one

you cannot marry that woman then you

know who she is

of course i know who she is

she's not married no but she's engaged

to the doctor

the one i gave the path to yes and he's

coming back for her

he's coming back for a we'll see about

that

you are not serious with that one of

course i'm serious

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what can i do to make you change your

mind why should i change my mind

i love that woman and now that i found

her i'm not gonna lose her

she can easily be yours you and your man

can take anything you want by force

but you cannot have otherwise what can

you offer this woman

nothing your life is full of uncertainty

she is used to security to a home

not the way you live and if you think

you're by force was that one

you will lose her forever once she's

mine i'd never lose it

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what's that one

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hey i wouldn't do it

i tell you i got to do it the general

told me not to shoot the whole man

if i don't shoot that old man now they

will handle me later

if you shoot him he's going to shoot me

times again we'll hang for this and it

will probably be

forward

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ready

one more second and everything would

have been ruined

remember what i told you

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stupid

come on let go

my good friends i'm terribly sorry about

what happened

you know i had given orders to let you

go free but they misunderstood my orders

you are free unconditionally free

sure unconditionally free like a bird

you can fly now i don't understand what

made you do this

no i'm certainly happy to see you

have a cigarette i'm sure you like these

i smoke them all the time

very good tobacco

oh

he's very sorry that he did not shoot

you papa maybe he'll find time some

other day

let's go home you must believe me the

whole thing was an accident

but it's a little accident like catching

12 bullets in your body i can only

repeat i'm sorry oh stop bothering us

and

go and shoot somebody else

please grant me the privilege of calling

at your house tonight

anyone who dares to insult my father as

you have

will never enter our house

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this is one time i think you're wrong

don't you think she's wonderful

did you see her temper that's the way i

want you to be huh just like that

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i think it's perfectly ridiculous for us

to sit here as if we're expecting a

ghost

well what are we going to do father i'll

talk to him

not you father you father sierra

not me but he's your friend yes but

uh but you don't know him and i don't

want to

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he's on time

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oh no father i'll talk to him there's

some things that we women can do better

you know

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who is it

the gentleman you slept the other day

the gentleman

well what do you want another slap

no senorita i would like to speak to

your father

to my father yes only to my father

no i would also like to talk to you

well you have nothing to say to me i

forbid you to walk on my street

go away go away

and just who do you think you are to run

me off the street don't you raise your

voice to me i am not raising my voice

that's the way i always talk well don't

brag about it

and i'm not bragging go and call your

father just the way i said compare you

give me orders i'm not your silly old

army wife just like you're a dictator

you to me are nothing but a miserable

bandit

and did you say do you realize what

you're saying

i always realize what i'm saying

shut up i don't know why you interrupt

me interrupt you

can't if anybody ever could interrupt

you just try to get in the way that's

why

i live absolutely impossible

are you still there yes

i'm awfully sorry general i i guess i

lost my temper

that's all right i think i kind of lost

mine too

see i want to tell you something i don't

want my father to hear

something you don't want your father to

hear

come a little closer

are you very close now

i'm right up against it

good don't move please

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oh

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ha ha ha ha ha

and i don't teach you that women are

like mice curiosity always traps them

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my regards

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does not want to be bothered by your

generals make a map

make a map stupid

hurry up take those presents to hell

they say that with no thoughts on it

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i can't stand it any longer father i

can't go out of the house for what he's

there

if i if i look out of the window he's

there

i can't go to mass but but he's there

i can't stand it any longer father

it's like trying to lose your own shadow

i pray for night to come so that i can

get him out of my sight

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foreign

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you

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foreign

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song

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foreign

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foreign

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foreign

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foreign

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oh

please listen to me please

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i must speak to you we have nothing to

talk about you must speak to someone

that one of you can't follow him

perhaps you're right but that's not what

my heart chooses what do i care what

your heart chooses leave me alone

here's one of your own women why don't

you go to her go back to your canteen

women or whatever you call them

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senorita forgive me for telling you that

the women you have such contempt for

don't deserve it they're brave and

humble and they ask for nothing

except the love of the men they're

willing to die for people are different

because of a simple accident of birth

if you hadn't been born with all your

advantages what kind of a woman would

you have been

good enough to be a camp follower

why don't you strike a man

how can you be so low

all right maria dolores

forgive me what i want

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do you hear me if i were a man i could

hear him defeated into a million pieces

oh

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[Applause]

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revolutionary

you must have provoked him what did you

say to him

nothing nothing

absolutely nothing but what i say to him

when he's so far below me

he is dirt

below you you said

he's dirt

are the others

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you know jose juan was here

he was here and he saw this painting

over there almost in the shadows

it hangs here now because because he

wanted the light to shine on it

the three kings are a symbol of the

powerful

of the proud of those who consider

themselves above their fellow men

but in that child in their child he saw

those who are below

the humble and the weak

and they are the powerful on their knees

are humbling themselves

it was a sin as if you wish you would

make all men equals once again

is that what the rebels are fighting for

i don't know maria dolores but that is

what he said to me

what he saw the painting

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it's very easy to say things like that

about equality and respect

but why doesn't he practice what he

preaches with me tell me father why

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excuse me well can i sit down

i know you prefer to be alone now but we

all

listen major nobody interferes at my

affairs

young or old excuse me

marijuana

i'm sorry sit down

factional we have been through many

tough campaigns together

to look at me now you would think that i

was a virgin

but i was and i fell in love

who doesn't we thought of getting

married

but we had a current

that always happens when you are

young and in love she went her way

and i went mine

if i had seen just a single deal

in her wonderful eyes i would have

fallen on my knees

or begged her forgiveness

but there are some women who have no

tears

it takes a real time to ask to be

forgiven

but i was not that kind of a man

go to here believe me

i know

i have talked too much already

i'm sorry excuse me

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i'm glad i found you general please do

not send out a video to school tomorrow

we must keep the place closed so that

the illness does not spread

with the opposition elders i do not know

general it's something terrible

it strikes like lightning look every

other house is stricken

i must tell the other parents

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i believe

tomorrow you don't have to go to school

isn't that nice

but you must do one thing you have to

stay right in here

you can't go outside do you understand

you can't go out tonight

and i'll give you a piece of candy

now no tomorrow

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what's going on here this infernal

disease is spreading like a flag general

it fights without reason no one is

immune we should evacuate this town and

save our men

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you've got to get us out of here don't

let them come any closer

have you seen the streets they're

sticking with the sick

look at me my general i have lost my

wife

look at her look at her she's dead

do you understand

if you don't care what happens to us i

do none of those rotten scented people

are gonna touch me

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take care of this man bury his wife

you've just seen that sick man that's

what's gonna happen to all of us if we

lose our heads

i'm no doctor and i can't work miracles

and if i'm gonna be of any help to you i

insist on

absolute obedience no one is to leave

this town

under penalty of death

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i want you to get all the blanket sheets

linens you can find and bring them here

use force if you have to get all the

alcohol in town go to the bars

the cantinas you know where they are and

i'm sure every one of you has an extra

bot in these saddlebags

bring all of your sequins here we have

to keep them apart from the well if

we're gonna check this disease

get a move on you

where are your papers we have no papers

in that case i shall have to take you

back to headquarters

but i assure you your general has given

us permission i'm sorry senorita

i have my orders look if you have any

heart at all will you please let us go

i'm sorry

no one can leave let's go

clear out that rear barracks i want

plenty of room for these people

general these people were trying to

leave cholula without a pass

for a man who loves his home as much as

you do

you must have good reasons for leaving

if you

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you are free to do so

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oh

father let me in

we must give them all the london you

take what's here manuela

there's more up in the attic can you get

that

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thank you doctor general you didn't

bring any medicine

or she brought this attention well in

dress for the woman you love

lulu what do you mean

shooting you william the only man who

knows what to do at a time like this

i wish i did general this is an

influence epidemic not a town or a city

has escaped it

no medicines to be obtained any place

the whole world seems to be stricken by

it

what are we going to do now the

important thing is to keep the seat

of course then you better come with me

maria dolores i'm gonna need your help

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so

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my life i'm very sick

i think i'm going to die well

you can't expect to live forever my

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friends

hurry up

how do you feel i want my daddy

you better call this is home sick

yes

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i've been looking for you to ask you

please forgive me yesterday

but we must hurry it is

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i think

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forever

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i don't

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you wanna shoot my pistol

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please

answer me

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there please

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so

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foreign

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the federal troops are coming they're

only seven kilometers away

they have instructions to destroy your

forces and to take you

dead or alive your order general

sound retreat retreat without fighting

yes colonel retreat without fighting

sometimes it's better to retreat than to

keep on fighting

i'm glad you have decided not to keep on

fighting cause that one

but when we have in the end the

destruction of everything

homes churches land

lives everything

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forgive me for everything

jose one

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so

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downing i'd like to talk

it looks like everything's all said but

i'd like to ask you one question

are you sure you want to marry me the

reason i ask is because i know now that

there's someone else who loves you as

much as i do

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i want you to be really sure

yes robert i'm sure

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let's go

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so

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so

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don't be alarmed

there will be no more battles here

general jose juan dreyers my friend

has decided to retreat

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the troops get to the outside of the

pueblo have them start spreading their

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rank

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so

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you