0:00:18 > 0:00:25This book tells a story that happened long ago, way back in 1943,
0:00:25 > 0:00:31when the Lee Platoon of the Texas Division hit the beach at Salerno, sunny Italy.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35It tells of Sergeant Tyne,
0:00:35 > 0:00:36never had much urge to travel.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41Providence Rhode Island may not be much as cities go, but it was all he wanted...
0:00:41 > 0:00:42a one-town man.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Rivera, Italian American.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Likes opera and would like a wife and kids, plenty of kids.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Friedman, lathe operator and amateur boxing champion...
0:00:53 > 0:00:55New York City.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Windy, minister's son. Canton, Ohio.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Used to take long walks alone and just think.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Sergeant Ward, farmer.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Knows his soil.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Good farmer.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18MacWilliams, first aid man.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23Slow, Southern, dependable.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Archimbeau, platoon scout and prophet.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Talks a lot, but he's all right.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34Porter, Sergeant Porter,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37well, he has a lot on his mind.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39A lot on his mind.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Tranella speaks two languages.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Italian and Brooklyn.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47And a lot of other men.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Here's a song about them. Listen.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04# And poets are writing
0:02:04 > 0:02:06# The tale of that fight
0:02:06 > 0:02:10# And songs for children to sing
0:02:10 > 0:02:14# Let them sing of the men of the fighting platoon
0:02:14 > 0:02:18# Let them sing of the job they done
0:02:18 > 0:02:21# How they came across the sea
0:02:21 > 0:02:23# To sunny Italy
0:02:23 > 0:02:26# And took a little walk in the sun
0:02:27 > 0:02:31# They took a little walk in the sun. #
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Douse that light. Douse that light.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Dear Frances,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13I'm writing you this letter relaxing on the deck of a luxury liner
0:03:14 > 0:03:19and sure, the natives have just spotted us and they're getting up a little reception...
0:03:19 > 0:03:21fireworks, music and that sort of stuff.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27The musicians in our own band have also struck up a little tune.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Ha-ha.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32The gentle waters of Mare Nostrum.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35That's really good.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Mare Nostrum.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Hey, Tinker, hey, Tinker.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Hey do you spell Mari Nostrum?
0:03:48 > 0:03:53- What's that?- Mediterranean. That's what the eye-ties call it.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54It means our sea.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- I want to know how to spell it. - Why?
0:03:57 > 0:03:58I'm writing to my sister.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01What do you mean, you're writing to your sister?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04You're packed on a landing barge, bouncing on your Mare Nostrum,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08waiting to hit the beach like the rest of us slobs.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09I'm writing the letter in my head.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15When I get a minute I put down what I remember in my head and the letter's written.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16It's the best way.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- What a system. Does it work?- Sure.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23You just make up the letter in your head, then write it down later.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24That's pretty good.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Maybe I'll try it.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- Works, huh?- Every time.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Suppose you've got a bad memory.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- Have you got a bad memory? - I've got a good one.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Then why are you worrying?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37I'm not. I just wondered.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39What was that word you wanted to spell?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Mare Nostrum.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44I never learned what isn't the city of Saint Paul.
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Still up there.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51You're going to get killed.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53EXPLOSION!
0:04:55 > 0:04:57All one, too high.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- Those shells ain't interested in us. - And vice versa.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04When a shell's looking for a guy, it don't whine, it snarls.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08You kill me. You guys kill me.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11At Messina they missed a few strikes.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Here, no control.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15What's so funny about Messina?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Lost a lot of good Joes there.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21What do you want us to do? Cry about it?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23That's a lot of cocky chatter.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Better than having the jitters.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- Would it make you feel better if we told you we had the jitters?- Yeah.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31It would.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Well...we got them.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Bet that new lieutenant's got them bad.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Don't hold your pack on the other guy's shoulders.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I'm not.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47His first time out leading a platoon he's never worked with before.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Boy, I wouldn't want his job for anything.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Nobody's giving it to you.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Porter.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It's a fine time you picked to go to sleep, soldier.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15HE GROANS
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Anything the matter, sir?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Mary and Joseph, oh, God...
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Pete. Hey, Pete.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- What? - The shells got the lieutenant.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Smashed his face.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35- I can't see anything. - I can feel it. It's messy.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I think it took his whole face away.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- Where's your flashlight? - You can't shine a light here.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I can shine a light if I have to shine a light. Where is it?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Take a quick look.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Told you.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Left cheek and his eye, covered with blood.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Can't even tell whether the eye's there or not.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Douse that light.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Go and get the first aid man, what's his name?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- Williams.- Yeah. He might as well start earning his money.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Where is he?- Down in the stern.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07I saw him down in the stern.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10Where's MacWilliams?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Where's MacWilliams, the first aid man?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Who's that?- Sergeant Porter.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Oh, here I am, Sergeant.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- You want me, Sergeant? - Lieutenant's hurt.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25- Sergeant Halverson said for you to go up.- What's wrong with him?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Get up there and see.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Just asking.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36What is it, Mac? What's up?
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Lieutenant.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39BLAST!
0:07:39 > 0:07:42That last shell, uh?
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Don't know. Going up to see.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52I told him.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56What's the matter with the lieutenant, Sarge?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59He had his head over the side. Looking through binoculars.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01What was he looking at?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Is he dead?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Not yet.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07What do you know.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11It's a purple heart, sure as little apples.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13How would you like to have a purple heart, Jake?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Depends on where I got the purple heart. In the legs, OK.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18In the guts, no.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Purple heart means a nice quiet trip to Jersey City.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I would like a nice trip to Jersey City.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27I'd like a nice quiet trip anywhere.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Haven't had a nice quiet trip since this war started.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Jersey City would do fine.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- I should go back and see if I can do anything.- Why don't you?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Lieutenant's going to die, he's going to die.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Nothing I can do about it. Nothing in the world.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49There's a hole in the side of his head.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52In the head, no. I don't want a purple heart in the head.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Joey Sims got one in the head.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58I'll bet he'll look better when they're through with him than you do now.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00I don't want a purple heart in the head.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Is Sergeant Halverson in command now, Sergeant?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05He knows what to do.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- He always knows what to do.- Shut up.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16What did the lieutenant do before the Army?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18He was a businessman. He worked in an office.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Well, I worked in an office, but I was no businessman.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23The whole Army's made up of businessmen.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26He'll kill me.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30He'll be a businessman in 1956 while we're fighting the battle today.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I've got the facts down cold.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Put him on a nice hospital ship and take him to a nice hospital
0:09:38 > 0:09:43and give him a couple of nice medals and take him home and give him his walking papers
0:09:43 > 0:09:46and he'll go back to business while we're fighting.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I've got the facts.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Maybe he'll die.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Nobody dies.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Nobody dies.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04# These are the men of the Texas division
0:10:04 > 0:10:12# United States infantry They are moving into hell
0:10:12 > 0:10:14# And high water
0:10:14 > 0:10:18# Here for three months and a quarter
0:10:18 > 0:10:23# A Texan from Jersey And one from Dakota
0:10:23 > 0:10:27# A Texan from out near Duluth, Minnesota
0:10:27 > 0:10:32# Kansas, Maine and Tennessee, Lord God
0:10:32 > 0:10:34# They're all in the Texas Infantry
0:10:36 > 0:10:38# They're all in the Texas infantry. #
0:10:41 > 0:10:43I've got to get word to the captain.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47- As soon as we land, I've got to get word to him.- Do you know what to do?
0:10:47 > 0:10:48Course. We've been briefed.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54- The farmhouse may be pretty hard to find.- It's on the map.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56There's a road from the beach that leads right past.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Six miles is a long way.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01What do they expect? A reception committee with a dozen taxis?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03That's the story.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04How's it coming, Mac?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07All right, I guess.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10We'd better get him to a doctor, though.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13He ain't going to be pretty any more.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Might not be alive any more, either.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17- Bad, huh?- I guess so.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Trying to talk all the time.
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Can't you hear him?
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- I didn't hear anything.- Not words.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Just talk.- Is he comfortable, Mac?
0:11:30 > 0:11:34He wouldn't know if he was comfortable or not.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36- Tough ticket.- He don't mind.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Nearly time.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46Mac, you can pick us up later.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49When it gets lighter, you'll see a road running from the beach.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51We'll be on that road.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Hoist tail! Hoist tail!
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Hoist tail!
0:11:59 > 0:12:03There'll be a honey of a shore on that beach.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05A honey of a shore.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Take them up 100 yards from the beach and hit them direct.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12I've got to get word to the captain, then I'll pick you up.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Let me get word to the captain.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Remember, 100 yards from the beach and hit the dirt.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Doesn't matter where you are. Don't care if it's a pig pen.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20OK, Hal.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I was wrong, Eddie, they did give you the job.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25You know the lieutenant got wounded.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27As platoon sergeant, I'm in command.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Each one of you knows what to do.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Porter will take you up on the beach.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Go with him and do as he tells you.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Understand?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Cold water. Every time, it's cold water.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41I'll take you in a wheelchair. You and your purple heart.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Get them up there, won't you?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Sure thing, Hal.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22101, 102.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Hope this beach isn't mined.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24- 109.- Hey, where's the fire?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27113. You think I want to get caught out on the beach.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Anything could happen there. 118, 119.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32120. We'll hold here!
0:13:32 > 0:13:33Spread out. Hit the dirt.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- Why here?- 100 yards.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38100 yards is 120 paces, I figured out back there.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41EXPLOSIONS
0:13:41 > 0:13:42- All here.- Good.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46- Dig in.- What for? We'll be out of here in a couple of minutes.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Taking no chances. Dig!
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Well, I just can't get Italy.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54You can have it. I don't want any part of it.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57I ain't going to give you any part of it. I found it and it's mine.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59- It's yours, cold.- It can't be cold.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- It's sunny Italy. - You read the wrong book.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04I read the soldiers' handbook that said this was sunny Italy.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- You calling the soldiers' handbook a liar?- What page?- I forget.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- You always do. I wouldn't trust you with a popgun.- You've got to trust me with a popgun.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14And a machine gun, with a machine gun.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22'Things on that beach suddenly went dead quiet.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24'The silence was bad.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26'Very bad.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29'Was the enemy 50 miles away?
0:14:29 > 0:14:32'Was he just behind the beach head...
0:14:32 > 0:14:34'waiting?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37'If a machine gun would only start up,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40'a man would know what to do.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42'But a man can't fight a vacuum.'
0:14:45 > 0:14:49- How long will Halverson will take?- Shouldn't be much longer.- How do you know?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52I know everything. What do you think they gave me a medal for?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54For pulling a nurse out of a swimming pool.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55I didn't think you knew.
0:14:55 > 0:15:00I know everything. Who held up the platoon in Sicily while he stuck his snout in a barrel of wine?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I'd do it again if I knew where there was a barrel.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Do you know where there's a barrel?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- GUNFIRE - There it comes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Well, we know where we are now, all right.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Bet they get her in ten minutes.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18When they do, the war will be over.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21We just have to sit here and watch the rest of it being fought out.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24What are you betting your guns about?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27It's cold.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31A profound comment.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34It's always cold at dark.
0:15:34 > 0:15:40Even if I'm up all night with a girl, or playing cards, or getting blasted, dawn comes around, I begin to shiver.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42My feet grow icy, my teeth chatter.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Me, I'm hot. You kill me.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Nothing can warm me.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- Fire wouldn't be bad.- No.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Not even a fire would do any good.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Profound comment.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Nine and one half minutes to get the gun?
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- Why should it take Halverson so long?- He'll show.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03There was no need for the lieutenant to get hurt. No need at all.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04He got it, anyway.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08What are you going to do if Halverson doesn't come back, Porter?
0:16:08 > 0:16:11How do I know? They'll be sending the planes over soon.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13The planes come over, we'll take a powder.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Halverson can take a powder where?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Try and find that farmhouse.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22ARTILLERY FIRE CONTINUES
0:16:22 > 0:16:25The sun will be up soon.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Even at nine o'clock in the morning and the sun, I'd still be.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31- Why?- Don't ask me why.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35- That's the way it is.- You guys kill me. You kill me.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Sergeant, I want a discharge.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42I'm all fought out. In the last war, they sent a guy to France.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46It's all there was to it. They sent him to France, then he went home.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Simple. Real simple.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51But what do they do this time? Do they send you to France?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54No, they do not send you to France, they send you to Tunisia,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56then Sicily, then Italy.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Who knows where they'll send you after that.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Maybe we'll be in France next year, around Christmas time, maybe.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Then we'll work our way east.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Yugoslavia. Greece. Turkey.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11No, not Turkey.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15All I know is in 1958, we're gonna fight the battle of Tibet. I got the facts.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Kill that!- So I want a discharge.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20An honourable discharge.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I've done my share. The next guy can pick up where I left off.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27- You tell 'em, Jack. - I think I hear planes.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32I guess I was wrong. I thought I heard them.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34They'd probably be ours, anyway.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37They'd better be. We've got enough guys in the airforce.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40THUNDERING EXPLOSIONS
0:17:40 > 0:17:42There goes Gerry's gun.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Told you. Eight minutes.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47It should have been you, Rivera.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48Always, it should have been you.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50It always is me.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54Archimbeau, go take a look down there.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Every dirty job in the army is my personal property.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- Nobody's going to shoot you. Go on your gut.- Why the gut then?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Because I said the gut.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06You kill me.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Butt me.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Last pack. Get your filthy hands off it.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Ask and I'll give.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20You call that claw clean?
0:18:20 > 0:18:22My own dirt I can eat.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Match.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38They are kind of dirty.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44A man's hands never seem to get clean, even if you don't touch nothing.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Just stay dirty.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48It's sort of a special kind of dirt.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51GI dirt.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Bet one of them criminologists could take a sample out of a guy's fingernail,
0:18:55 > 0:18:59put it under his microscope and say, "That's GI dirt."
0:18:59 > 0:19:01The dirt's always the same colour,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04no matter what country you're fighting in.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Funny thing. I wonder why.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Say! Never saw that fella 'till he moved!
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Camouflage.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17See, I bet that's what GI dirt is.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Camouflage.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Think I'll write Frances a letter about that.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27- Dear Frances... - I can't see the beach or the water.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30It's all stopped. No shouting, no firing, no sound of mortars.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- The war is over.- Smells like rain. - See if you can smell me a plane.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39A little while ago, the place was crawling with troops and now, for all we know, we might be here alone.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41The planes will be coming soon.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44They always come soon.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46If we were in those woods...
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Halverson said he was... - Yeah. I know. Halverson said.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52I never saw anything like it, never in my life.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Everybody's gone away. They forgot us.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57They don't want us in the war.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Halverson must be playing black jack down in the barges.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- A butt.- What happened to the one I just gave you?
0:20:05 > 0:20:10I sent it home. They're cutting down on the butts at home. A butt.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14A match.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Thanks.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Pays to have friends.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- What's the dough?- No dice. I didn't see Halverson anywhere.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- They're bringing down the wounded now.- From where?
0:20:30 > 0:20:35- I spoke a couple of guys there. They ran into some trouble with their machine gun.- And Halverson?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38I told you, I don't know anything about Halverson.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42I saw Mac though. He said the lieutenant's dying.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Mac says if the lieutenant dies, he'll go and look for Halverson.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51The ocean's full of stuff now. I guess they're bringing in the rolling stock, the heavy stuff.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- The place is crawling. - How does the beach look?- Empty.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Where was the machine gun?
0:20:55 > 0:20:59- They didn't tell me. Over there, somewhere. - Who didn't tell you?- The two guys.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Hit the dirt!
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Seems like this war is nothing but waiting.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Waiting for your chow,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54waiting for your pay,
0:21:54 > 0:21:56waiting for a letter from home.
0:21:58 > 0:22:05# It's a long, long time a man spends a-waiting
0:22:05 > 0:22:11# Waiting around in a war
0:22:11 > 0:22:18# I think of a girl I've never seen
0:22:18 > 0:22:26# Her hair is black and her eyes are green
0:22:26 > 0:22:36# Her name is Helen or maybe Irene
0:22:36 > 0:22:45# It's a long, long time a-waiting
0:22:48 > 0:22:55# I think of all the things I haven't done
0:22:55 > 0:23:02# All of the women I haven't won
0:23:02 > 0:23:11# It seems like my life ain't really begun
0:23:11 > 0:23:21# It's a long, long time a-waiting. #
0:23:29 > 0:23:34If they think I'm going to spend the rest of my life here, they're crazy.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Take the subway home. Here's a nickel.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37It's the only nickel I got.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39My last tie with the States.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Take it, it's yours. It's worth it to get rid of you.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Take a tank. Or a franc.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Tank. Franc. A poet. A Shakespeare.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50The Bard of Avenue 8. The card of Avenue 8.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52You guys kill me.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54He's worked to death.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56He's got those open period blues.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00He had to crawl down to Jones beach he's worked to death!
0:24:00 > 0:24:03He wouldn't have kicked it if it hadn't been Coney Island.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07When I'm out of the Army and you're sweating it out in Tibet, you'll be
0:24:07 > 0:24:09laughing the other side of your face.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16Hey, Sergeant. How long are we going to stay here? My tail's cold.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19We'll stay here 'till it freezes to the ground. There's a lot to spare.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Any ideas where to go, Trasker?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Yeah. Pikes Peak. If I was there, I'd run up backwards.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28I'd go on my hands, pushing a Pinot with my nose then I'd take a train.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Railroads are jammed these days.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Oh, for Pete's sake.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Come on over here with me, Bill.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36You too, Hoskins.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Look, something's wrong. I know something's wrong.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- Halverson should have been back by this time. Am I right?- Sounds right.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52There's no sense in it. We hang around here any longer, we'll screw up the whole works.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Planes'll be over soon. - Sure as little apples, they will.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59And they'll be sending a few tanks along here soon while we're still up in the air.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04We ought to leave somebody here in case Halverson shows up and go ahead while he's waiting.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Six miles is a long way. - A long and weary way.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- What do you think?- It's up to you, Eddie. You know what you're doing.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- I've got to know.- Do it, then.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- I've got something up, too.- Listen!
0:25:17 > 0:25:20LOW HUM OF PLANES OVERHEAD
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- Planes. Do you hear anything? - Guns.- Hey, Sergeant, it's guns.
0:25:26 > 0:25:32- Where are they coming from?- They're coming from out to sea, aren't they? - I think so.- You sure?- Probable sure.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34- That's it, then. - Must be a ship shooting a plane.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36That's the way it is.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Sure as little apples, the way it is.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- All right. Off and on. - Here we go, Tink.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Going over in the woods. Squadrons!
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Up to it. Hoist tail!
0:25:46 > 0:25:49How do we know those aren't our planes?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Cos the ships are ours, dope.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54We've got the only ships in the water.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Boy, I wouldn't be a sailor for nothing.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02- We're going to stay here, Eddie. - For what?- Halverson.- I don't know.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- I'll stay.- OK, Bill. You stay here.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Hoist tail! Get moving! We haven't got all day!
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Get those squads moving. Spread them out.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- We'll be over in the woods, Bill. - Leave me your glasses, will you?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15OK.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Come on! Shake it, shake it!
0:26:50 > 0:26:55The way you come walking over that ridge, like you were back in Missouri looking for daisies.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Nothing to worry about.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00I looked the situation over very carefully.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Made up my mind there was no danger, so I walked instead of crawled.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Picked this up for self protection.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Where is everybody? - Gone into the woods.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Afraid planes were headed this way.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Yeah. I heard them.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Lieutenant's dead.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27- It's too bad.- Yeah.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Halverson's dead, too.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Deader than a doornail.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Are you sure?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34A guy in A Company told me.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Machine gun got him coming out of the water.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Stitched him right across the middle.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41That leaves it up to Porter.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Four ways from the jack.- What?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Nothing. What's going on down there?
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Well, do you mind if I smoke? Is it OK?
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Well, they're bringing in the big stuff now.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55And coastguards, everywhere you look, coastguards.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Gee, I'm glad I'm not down on that beach any more.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01The place is sure going to get strafed.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04- It sure is.- We'd better be getting over to the woods.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06The planes will be here in a minute.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- Noisy.- Put out that butt.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Do you know, the lieutenant never moved his hands?
0:28:21 > 0:28:23Good devil never even moved.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28EXPLOSIONS AND ARTILLERY FIRE
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Dropping sticks on our transport.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36From the sound of the explosions, they missed.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38THUNDERING EXPLOSION
0:28:46 > 0:28:48That was no miss.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51No miss, at all.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53We'd better sit tight here.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56There may be a few fighters around somewhere.
0:28:56 > 0:29:00- Don't want any fighters to catch me in an open field. - I don't want that either.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Wonder what's happening now.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Plenty. Plenty of plenty.
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Must be a honey of a shore on that beach.
0:29:16 > 0:29:20Wonder what it will be like when we hit France, Mac.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22I don't know. I've never seen France.
0:29:22 > 0:29:27Bet it's just a long concrete wall with a gun every yard.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29What's happening down there's worth seeing, too.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33Bet they'll set the water on fire with oil, too.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37Boy, when that day comes, I want to be somewhere else, far far away.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39This is bad enough.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43This isn't so bad. At least you know where everything is.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46You're here and the bombs are out there.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48Simple.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52You're where you are and guys being killed,
0:29:52 > 0:29:54or where they are.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58- It's simple.- Yeah, I guess you're right. We've got a grandstand seat.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Yeah. Only trouble is you can't see nothing.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04That's the whole trouble with the war, you never get to see nothing.
0:30:04 > 0:30:05You fight them by ear.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Got to guess what's going on.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Got to guess unless you see.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Sarge, can I go take a look?
0:30:13 > 0:30:16You stay where you are. I want you here.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20EXPLOSIONS
0:30:28 > 0:30:29Good thing, dirt.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39I see the planes, Mac.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42- Six of them.- Is that all?
0:30:42 > 0:30:43It's not many, is it?
0:30:43 > 0:30:47Gee, you'd think they'd have a couple of hundred around, up there.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50- Just goes to show you... - Just goes to show you what?
0:30:51 > 0:30:53- Just goes to show you.- Funny.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Maybe there's more coming.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59No.
0:30:59 > 0:31:00Just six of them.
0:31:00 > 0:31:05I tell you what, Sarge, what say I take the glasses and go over the ridge and take a look at the water?
0:31:05 > 0:31:08We ought to know what's going on.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11We know what's going on, Mac. There's no point in it.
0:31:11 > 0:31:12No point in guessing.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16We got to be getting along to the plateau.
0:31:16 > 0:31:21Sarge, you wouldn't go through an open field with them planes up there, would you?
0:31:21 > 0:31:22I wouldn't do that.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24No. I wouldn't, either.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28They're out of range, now.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30Probably gone after bigger game.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35Suppose I took the glasses and went over the ridge? Maybe there's a new landing coming off.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39We'd want to know if there was. It stands to reason.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Go and take a look, Mac. Go and take a look.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44It's just for the record.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Get it off your mind.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50- I think it's a good ida. - Don't hang around, though. Those bombers may be back.
0:31:50 > 0:31:51Here, take a good look.
0:32:07 > 0:32:08EXPLOSIONS
0:32:11 > 0:32:15What is it? What is it? What do you mean?
0:32:20 > 0:32:22HE MOUTHS
0:32:42 > 0:32:43Come back, McWilliams!
0:32:43 > 0:32:46In a minute, Sarge!
0:32:47 > 0:32:48Hurry back! Hurry!
0:32:50 > 0:32:51Come back!
0:32:51 > 0:32:54ARTILLERY FIRE
0:33:33 > 0:33:36ARTILLERY FIRE
0:33:48 > 0:33:49The leg. The right leg.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54It's Trask.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56In the middle of a word.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00He was just speaking when it got him right in the mouth.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02In the middle of a word.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Gee, I'm scared.
0:35:08 > 0:35:13# This is the story of one little job
0:35:13 > 0:35:17# One day from dawn until noon
0:35:17 > 0:35:21# Just one battle more in a long, long war
0:35:21 > 0:35:25# And the men of a single platoon
0:35:25 > 0:35:30# It was 53 men started out that day
0:35:30 > 0:35:34# Along the Italian shore
0:35:34 > 0:35:38# And some of those were mighty good joes
0:35:38 > 0:35:43# Who'll never see the sun rise any more, poor boys
0:35:43 > 0:35:48# They'll never see the sun rise any more. #
0:35:48 > 0:35:52- Don't you want to live here?- I didn't say I wanted to live here.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55It's a nice country, full of opportunity. Just look around you.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Opportunity, that's the big thing.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00- This country is full of opportunity. - You can have it.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03Is that a way to talk about a country where you're a guest?
0:36:03 > 0:36:06- They'll kick you out. - No, they won't.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Do you know who you're fighting?
0:36:08 > 0:36:10They never told me.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- Germans.- That's all I want to know.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16- You're screwy.- That's life.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19We were the same draft boy. Same day.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21Forget it.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24- He was a good guy.- OK.
0:36:28 > 0:36:29Too bad.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31OK.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52Go away. A butt.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55- Arch is taking it hard.- Nobody dies.
0:36:55 > 0:37:00Saturday Evening Post has the best covers. That guy,
0:37:00 > 0:37:02what's his name?
0:37:02 > 0:37:04Norman Rockwell. He can draw covers to beat all.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06He had some covers about the army.
0:37:06 > 0:37:10I'll take a camera picture any day. Drawing's OK but it ain't real. I like things to be real.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13This guy Rockwell made it look just like a picture.
0:37:13 > 0:37:18I used to look at them. Looks just like a picture, I used to say. You'd never have known it was painted.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20Should have taken a picture and saved time.
0:37:20 > 0:37:25- You can't get the touch in a picture.- Drawings was all right when we didn't have cameras.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29- Now they've got cameras, you don't have to draw.- That's screwy.- Why?
0:37:29 > 0:37:33You might as well say now they got moving pictures, there's no sense in taking pictures.
0:37:33 > 0:37:38- You might just as well have a movie on the cover of magazines. - Some day they'll have it. Maybe.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41No, they won't.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Maybe, some day, they'll have movies that'll smell, though.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48Maybe the scene will be in a garden, or something and you can smell the flowers.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52I'd like to see one in set in a brewery so I could smell the beer.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54If a guy asked me, "What'd you give for this beer?",
0:37:54 > 0:37:56I'd give him my GI rifle and my GI pants.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59It's time.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Hey, Sarge, it's time.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15Well, come on. Come on, for Pete's sake, what happened?
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Halverson's dead. McWilliams is dead, too.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Plane got him. The lieutenant died.
0:38:20 > 0:38:25- That does it. Trasker's dead here. Hoskins and are Giorgio got wounded. - I got the lieutenant's map case.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28- Did you get it from Halverson? - A barge. I had it all the time.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32- I was going to give it to you. - What's in it?- I don't know. Look in it and see.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42There's the sea coast. There's the beach.
0:38:42 > 0:38:43Here's the wood where we are.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46There's the road. About 100 yards to the south.
0:38:46 > 0:38:51- Halverson was a little off. - Where's the farmhouse?- Here. This must be it. The only house.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53- See, where's the scale?- There is it.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55It's about six miles, all right.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58- It's nearer to seven.- What's that?
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Rocks. High ground.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Marked from a machine gun.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05- Farm buildings marked from a machine gun, too.- That's me. I like to work indoors.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Bring it over here. Let me see it.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Giving you trouble?
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Well...
0:39:20 > 0:39:22- That bridge.- What about it?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24- You have to blow it.- Yeah.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27Blow it. Gerry will bring stuff over that bridge.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29Pain getting bad?
0:39:29 > 0:39:32- Tiny buzzards.- Do you want somebody to help you down to the beach?
0:39:32 > 0:39:35Not me. They'll be strafing that place for weeks.
0:39:35 > 0:39:36Going to stay right here.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38- What about Giorgio? - What about Giorgio?
0:39:38 > 0:39:42Look, man, you're in command. Don't ask so many dopey questions.
0:39:42 > 0:39:43Leave me alone.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53Cousins, go and ask Giorgio if he can get back to the beach by himself.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57ARTILLERY FIRE IN THE DISTANCE
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Light stuff coming from inland.
0:40:04 > 0:40:05Battle's beginning.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09Better get moving. Get your squads together. Get them on the road.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12- Giogio says you can have the beach. He wants to go alone.- He can't.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14There'll be a hospital here soon. Tell him to stay here.
0:40:14 > 0:40:18Tell him yourself. You're wearing the stripes.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Squad three. Fall in. On the road.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22Second squad, fall in.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26- You'd better go down to the beach, Giorgio.- Wait, Sarge. I'm wounded.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29I've got privileges. I don't want to go down to the beach.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31- I want to go alone. - You can't go alone.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33You won't do any good. You can't do anything.
0:40:33 > 0:40:38- Now, go on down to the beach. - I'll stay here with the Sarge.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41Suit yourself.
0:40:49 > 0:40:53- Let's go. We've got to move. - Where are the binoculars, Bill?
0:40:53 > 0:40:58Holy mackerel. I forgot them. McWilliams has them. The only pair we had. Not doing him any good.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00- I'll go back and get them. - Oh, never mind.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08Sunny Italy.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09Another little hike.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11You should have to carry this.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14I am happy with you, dear. You make me very happy.
0:41:16 > 0:41:17Now, listen, men.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20When we hit the road, we'll go from three squads.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24We'll bust Hoskins' squad up. Kramer, you take the first squad.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28Archimbeau, Cousins, scouts.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30Franklin, connecting file.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Ward, you take the second squad.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Tyne, you take the third.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38You bring up the rear. Get it?
0:41:38 > 0:41:40Now, for Pete's sake, keep your eyes open.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Anything may be coming down that road. If they bring...
0:41:43 > 0:41:47If they bring up tanks, they'll probably bring them along the road.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Be ready to pan out at any time and keep the bazookas ready.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53When I blow my whistle, head for cover.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55And I mean cover.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Keep your eyes open for planes.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59They may try to shell the road, too.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02I don't think they're wide awake yet, but they're going to be.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06- It's a stinking situation, right? - ALL: Right.- OK. Let's go.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18Mail this for me, will, you, Sarge?
0:42:19 > 0:42:21It's a letter to my wife.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23Yeah.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25- Sure.- Thanks, Sarge.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32- How is it, Hosk?- It'll keep.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35- Got it on ice.- Take it easy.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Tyne, you're a smart apple.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39- Keep your head.- I'm the boy.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- I mean it. Keep your head, you may need it.- Always have.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46I ran into an Australian.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49He slugged one into his leg.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52He's always going to walk with a limp.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54That's a tough ticket.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56- Ruins you with the Army. - You'll be all right, Hosk.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58You're a smart apple.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02- Keep your head.- Better hang on to this. You may need more than you have.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Thanks.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Keep your eye on Porter. I think he's going to crack.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09- What makes you think that? - I've seen him crack.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11He screams just like anyone else.
0:43:11 > 0:43:15Once in a while, a guy steps past the scream. It's hard to tell.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17He's a good man but I think he's going to crack.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21That's the way it goes. He's got a lot on his mind.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24- Keep your head on.- OK, Hosk.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27So long, Giorgio.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29That's a funny thing.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32- What?- Giorgio. He's an Italian. His old man came from this country.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35All he'll ever see of it is a beach and a piece of wood.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37- Funny thing.- Yeah.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40- Funny thing. - Well, see you around, Hosk.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Yep.
0:43:46 > 0:43:47Around.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10Hey, Sergeant...
0:44:10 > 0:44:12EXPLOSIONS
0:44:12 > 0:44:15- Supposing this road is mined?- Don't worry about it.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23HE WHISTLES
0:44:23 > 0:44:25That's one thing I want to do when I get back.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27I want a nice collection of records.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29I know a guy who must have had millions of records, millions that guy had.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32He worked in the MBC Studios. He had all kinds of autographs.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34You couldn't name anybody he didn't have an autograph of.
0:44:34 > 0:44:38He even used to sign his records. He had a record of the Andrew Sisters, all three of their autographs.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41- That's the kind of life. - Just the music is all I want.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43I got one collection but I want a big one.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45I got all the Bing Crosby records except the last one.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48You know Russ Columbo? My sister used to be nuts about Russ Columbo.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50She stayed in her room all the time the day he died.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52- When did he die, anyway? - I don't know.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55Must have been about ten years ago. She was a kid. She's married now.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57- Her husband in the Army? - Beats me. I never heard from him.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59- Maybe he's in a war plant. - That's the life, the war plant.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02I read some place, those guys make 400 or 500 bucks a week.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08I don't care about the dough, I'd just like to be able to go home at night.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11- If I didn't go in the Army, I was going to California.- Got a job there?
0:45:11 > 0:45:14No. I just always wanted to go to California. Out with the movie stars.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Could have been something else. Could have been the engineers or the tanks.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Could even have been the Navy.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25They looked at me and said here's a guy that can walk.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28- They finished me, all right. - Everybody walks. Even monkeys.
0:45:28 > 0:45:29There are limits, plenty of limits.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31I've been thinking, how long have we been in the Army?
0:45:31 > 0:45:34Rivera, look at Hoskins.
0:45:34 > 0:45:38Gets a lousy little dig in the leg and he's out of the Army, but he doesn't want to be out of the Army.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41Justice.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44- Where are we going, Rivera? - I'm going someplace where I can set off this weapon.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47Then I'm going to shoot this weapon. I'm not going to walk any more.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49There are limits.
0:45:58 > 0:46:02Archimbeau's sure angry at this country. Look at them beating it to death.
0:46:02 > 0:46:03You're an insensitive lump.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06He's still got Trasker on his mind.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09I've got lots of dead guys on my mind.
0:46:09 > 0:46:11EXPLOSION
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Plane!
0:46:19 > 0:46:21Hit the deck, hit the deck.
0:46:21 > 0:46:22HE BLOWS ON WHISTLE
0:46:29 > 0:46:31PLANE APPROACHES
0:46:38 > 0:46:40GUNFIRE
0:46:42 > 0:46:44Anybody hurt?
0:46:44 > 0:46:47- Anybody hurt? Anybody hurt? - All right here.
0:46:47 > 0:46:48Did you see that? Did you see that?
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Right out of the blasted sun, the dirty kraut.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53There's some wounded across the road. My squad, I think. I'd better go over.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55- Wait a minute. He may be back. - I'll take my chances.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Want a hand, Sergeant?
0:47:02 > 0:47:03Won't help him.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05EXPLOSION Get over to that ditch.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07- Did he get one?- Yeah.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09Get in the ditch. Where did he get it?
0:47:09 > 0:47:11- Arm and shoulder.- Give me a hand.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13- Get in the ditch.- Who's that?
0:47:13 > 0:47:14Never mind.
0:47:30 > 0:47:32- Dugan's dead.- I know.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34Look at that Jerry.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Shoot him. Shoot him. Beautiful!
0:48:03 > 0:48:05No more waving to that baby.
0:48:10 > 0:48:14Hey, somebody, you guys want me to die of gangrene?
0:48:14 > 0:48:17They've looked you over, Smithy. What you've got is no worse than a scratch.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19It hurts, burns like fire.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22Doesn't yet. But it will. Take over, Joe.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29What'll we do with him?
0:48:29 > 0:48:32- Will we leave him here?- We'll have to. We can't take him with us.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35- Think we'd better get on with it then.- I'd wait a while if I were you.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37There might be more planes where that last one came from.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39- Better take ten, anyway. - Tell them, will you?
0:48:39 > 0:48:43Take ten. Take ten.
0:48:45 > 0:48:46Take ten.
0:48:46 > 0:48:51- Say Sarge, can I smoke? - Burn. Take ten. Take ten.
0:48:51 > 0:48:53Butt me, Friedman.
0:48:53 > 0:48:557.35.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57- Match.- Take ten.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00It is 7.35, Friedman. And in 30 minutes, we've covered a mile.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03On a dry track, too. A whole mile.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06Stop driving. At least you're a mile away from the beach and the shells.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09What was that plane shooting at us, jellybeans?
0:49:09 > 0:49:11Oh, by the way, have you dined yet, Sergeant?
0:49:11 > 0:49:13Yeah. And you have, too.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17How can he turn down a tasty dish like this?
0:49:17 > 0:49:21- You know where they get this stuff? - Sure.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23I know where they get everything.
0:49:23 > 0:49:25Where'd they get this stuff?
0:49:25 > 0:49:27- You know the sewers?- What sewers?
0:49:27 > 0:49:29- Any sewers. The Hoboken sewers. - How do you know?
0:49:29 > 0:49:31- You got a brother works in the sewers?- Never mind my relations.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33You want me to tell you how they get it out of the sewers?
0:49:33 > 0:49:35No. I'm eating it.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37We should be in the Heine Army.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39They wouldn't take me.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41Why should we be in the Heine Army?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43The food. Good food.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45How do you know? Are you a spy or something?
0:49:45 > 0:49:47How about that HQ we walked into in Sicily?
0:49:47 > 0:49:50Wine on the tables. Steak.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52- A picture.- That was Officers' Mess.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55So what? Do our Officers' Mess get wine on the table? Do they get steak?
0:49:55 > 0:49:57The Heines are really eating.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59They won't be.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03Listen, chum. In three years, the whole world will be eating C-rations.
0:50:03 > 0:50:07- I got it from a friend.- Give it back to him. I ain't interested.
0:50:07 > 0:50:08What do you get out of it, Friedman?
0:50:08 > 0:50:11- Out of what?- The business. - What business?- This business.
0:50:11 > 0:50:13I ain't a member of the firm.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15You saw that Messerschmitt. Yeah.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18- It was after you. - I wasn't in when he called.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20Be another one along any minute now.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23- I won't be in that, either. - Friedman, you're a draft dodger.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26- You're yellow, Friedman. - That's what I am, all right.
0:50:44 > 0:50:48I catch you kidding me again, I'll catch you in the gut.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00- What's eating him?- Don't YOU know?
0:51:06 > 0:51:09- I've got a headache. A rotten headache.- Tough.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13- Do you trust this operation? - How do you mean?- You know.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16I don't like the ring of it. It doesn't ring true.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18Something funny about it.
0:51:18 > 0:51:19GROANING
0:51:19 > 0:51:21I wish he'd cut out that groaning.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23He ain't too bad. He's just working for his Purple Heart.
0:51:23 > 0:51:27- I don't like the responsibility. - You're stuck with it.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29We'd better get moving, hadn't we?
0:51:29 > 0:51:32I think we had. If I were you, I'd keep off the road.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34- Why?- Tanks.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36Let's take it along the ditch.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38OK.
0:51:38 > 0:51:42- What about Smith?- I'll talk to him.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47How you feeling, Smithy?
0:51:47 > 0:51:49In the pink, Sarge. In the pink.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Do you think you can stay here by yourself for a while?
0:51:51 > 0:51:54- Leave me some butts. - Sure you'll be all right?
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Sure, Sarge. Just leave me some butts.
0:51:57 > 0:51:58Somebody'll be along to pick you up.
0:52:01 > 0:52:02He'll stay.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07We'd better get started then.
0:52:08 > 0:52:09HE BLOWS WHISTLE
0:52:14 > 0:52:16All right. Hoist sail.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19We'll stick close to the ditch this time.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22Keep the same formation, but stick close to the ditch.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29EXPLOSIONS
0:52:32 > 0:52:33GUNFIRE
0:52:48 > 0:52:51Hey, Smithy. Could I bum one of those butts back?
0:52:51 > 0:52:53Sure, Sarge. Help yourself.
0:52:53 > 0:52:54How long do you think I'll be here?
0:52:54 > 0:52:57Beats me. Shouldn't be long, though.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00- There'll be plenty of company coming up this way soon.- What company?
0:53:00 > 0:53:03Any kind you want. Just take it easy, Smith.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05If I want anything, I'll ring.
0:53:07 > 0:53:09Hey, Smithy...you forgot to groan.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32Hey, Cousins.
0:53:35 > 0:53:39- What comes after Tibet? - What comes where after Tibet?
0:53:39 > 0:53:43In the war. Where are we going to fight the war after Tibet?
0:53:43 > 0:53:51- How do I know? In bed.- There's a country... Can't think of its name. - There's a million countries.
0:53:51 > 0:53:56- I can't think of their names. - All right. I just asked. Forget it.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00Ask Victor McLaglen. In the movies, he's always fighting that country around Tibet.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03You kill me, just kill me.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Hey, Arch, look.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16HE BLOWS WHISTLE
0:54:19 > 0:54:23- Two guys, 500 yards to the left, I seen them.- What are they?
0:54:23 > 0:54:24Search me. Too far away.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26Ward.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32Two guys, 500 yards off to the left. Take a couple of men. Get down and see.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35- Johnson. Riddle.- Take it easy.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Fan out.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45DISTANT GUNFIRE
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Hit the dirt.
0:54:58 > 0:54:59HE SHOUTS IN ITALIAN
0:55:05 > 0:55:08HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:55:08 > 0:55:10Wait a minute.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12Wait a minute. You speak English?
0:55:12 > 0:55:17- HE SPEAKS ITALIAN AGAIN - Oh, shut up. Come on.
0:55:28 > 0:55:29A couple of Eye-ties.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31- Can they speak English?- Not my kind.
0:55:31 > 0:55:35- Hey, Giorgio.- Giorgio got wounded.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38Yeah. What's the matter with me?
0:55:38 > 0:55:39Tranella.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42You want me, Sarge?
0:55:42 > 0:55:45- Can you talk Italian? - Sure. I can talk Italian.
0:55:45 > 0:55:46Talk to these guys.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49- What do I say?- Ask them where they come from, for Pete's sake.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:56:06 > 0:56:07Hey, Tranella.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:56:11 > 0:56:13He says he's from Turin.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16- Where's that?- It's north. Way up north.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19- I don't mean that. Find out where they're coming from now?- Oh.
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Where are you coming from now? Oh, I mean...
0:56:21 > 0:56:26THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:56:31 > 0:56:35He says there's a battle up there, they were running away from the battle.
0:56:35 > 0:56:38- They're no longer fighting.- Ask them what's going on up there.
0:56:38 > 0:56:39HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:56:39 > 0:56:42HE RESPONDS IN ITALIAN
0:56:44 > 0:56:46He says they were lying along the road
0:56:46 > 0:56:49- and they saw the Germans bringing up some tanks.- When was this?
0:56:49 > 0:56:52THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:56:55 > 0:56:59Says he's got no watch. He's not sure. Maybe a couple of hours. Maybe less.
0:56:59 > 0:57:03- See what you can find out. Ask him some questions.- I am, Sergeant!
0:57:03 > 0:57:06- Find out something. - Ask if he knows this country. - SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:57:06 > 0:57:08HE RESPONDS IN ITALIAN
0:57:09 > 0:57:12He's from the north but he knows this country.
0:57:12 > 0:57:17- He was once stationed here. - Good. Where's the map, Eddie?- What map? Oh, it's here.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28We have here a map of the area. Tell him that, Tranella.
0:57:28 > 0:57:32THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:57:35 > 0:57:38Says he knows all about maps, he's a corporal.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41We're about here, I think.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43Ask him if I'm right.
0:57:43 > 0:57:44HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:57:48 > 0:57:50HE RESPONDS IN ITALIAN
0:57:50 > 0:57:54He says that over there's where the battle is and over here's where he saw the tanks.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57- Is it a bad country? - THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:58:00 > 0:58:02He says that...
0:58:02 > 0:58:07he says that it's a good country for defence, rough with a lot of ravines.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09The young punk says it's dusty.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12- How many Germans? - THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:58:13 > 0:58:18- Says he doesn't know how many Germans are around. - He must have said more than that.
0:58:18 > 0:58:22Well, he says that they're beaten, that they're no longer soldiers.
0:58:22 > 0:58:26THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:58:26 > 0:58:30- What did he say?- The young punk says he knocked off a Kraut.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32- Ask him where. - THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:58:42 > 0:58:44Hey, Tranella...
0:58:44 > 0:58:46THEY CONTINUE IN ITALIAN
0:58:50 > 0:58:52Tranella, what are you talking about now?
0:58:52 > 0:58:56About Italy. He's from near where my old man came from.
0:58:56 > 0:58:59He says he didn't want the Germans, but there was no choice.
0:58:59 > 0:59:01These guys are looking for a way out.
0:59:01 > 0:59:04What do you know? My old man told me that they've been fighting
0:59:04 > 0:59:08- the Germans since they came in and they're still fighting- OK. OK. OK.
0:59:08 > 0:59:11HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:59:14 > 0:59:19- What's he saying?- He says now they can't go home, that the Germans cover the north, like beetles.
0:59:19 > 0:59:21He says there's a lot the matter with Italy.
0:59:21 > 0:59:26- You're letting him tell us what's the matter with Italy.- My old man would like to know.
0:59:26 > 0:59:29Let him read it in the papers. I know what's the matter with Italy.
0:59:29 > 0:59:32Find out about that hill with the farmhouse on it.
0:59:32 > 0:59:36- This farmhouse here. Ask him if he knows anything about it. - THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:59:36 > 0:59:38He says yeah.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Ask him what kind of bridge this is.
0:59:40 > 0:59:44THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:59:47 > 0:59:51He says he don't remember. Could be wood. It could be steel.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54- It could be concrete. - A great help he is(!)
0:59:54 > 0:59:57- Ask him, does he know where I can get our pizza.- Shut up!
0:59:57 > 0:59:59HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:59:59 > 1:00:02- He says there's lots of Krauts a few miles along.- How many?
1:00:02 > 1:00:03THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
1:00:03 > 1:00:05He says he hasn't got any idea.
1:00:05 > 1:00:07- We might as well go on. - Might as well.
1:00:07 > 1:00:09All right, men, get going.
1:00:09 > 1:00:12- Thanks, Tranella.- Any time, Sarge.
1:00:12 > 1:00:13Tell them they can go.
1:00:13 > 1:00:17HE SPEAKS ITALIAN Hey, Sergeant, now they both want butts.
1:00:17 > 1:00:21- Give them a couple.- Out of my own pack, for the love...!- Give him a couple.
1:00:21 > 1:00:25HE SPEAKS ITALIAN Hey, Sarge,
1:00:25 > 1:00:29- he says they're our prisoners and they'll come along. - Over my dead body.
1:00:29 > 1:00:32THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
1:00:32 > 1:00:35Hey, Sarge, they don't want to go.
1:00:35 > 1:00:39- That's too bad. - HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:00:39 > 1:00:41Now the punks say they're hungry.
1:00:41 > 1:00:43- Give them some K-ration. - They can take this.
1:00:45 > 1:00:49When they eat that, they'll wish Italy never went out of the war.
1:00:49 > 1:00:52- They'll think twice about the Americans next time.- Hup!
1:00:52 > 1:00:56That's a tough ticket, but I've got to leave you.
1:00:57 > 1:01:00- How did it go? - They don't know anything.
1:01:00 > 1:01:05- We don't know any more than we did before.- You expect to? - They might have known something.
1:01:08 > 1:01:09HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
1:01:15 > 1:01:18Slap-happiest people I ever saw.
1:01:32 > 1:01:34"Dear Frances,
1:01:34 > 1:01:37"just left a couple of Italian soldiers standing in the road."
1:01:37 > 1:01:39No, cross that out.
1:01:39 > 1:01:43"Just left a couple of Italian ex-soldiers standing in the road.
1:01:43 > 1:01:47"Poor suckers. They still don't know what hit them.
1:01:47 > 1:01:49"And in a way, it's their own fault.
1:01:49 > 1:01:53"They let themselves be sold a story that they were going to boss the world.
1:01:53 > 1:01:58"And now the guys that sold to them have gone and they're left holding the bag.
1:01:58 > 1:02:02"Poor suckers. Right now, they don't even own their own country."
1:02:08 > 1:02:14- Bill? You ever had a feeling that something was going to happen to you?- I have it all the time.
1:02:14 > 1:02:17- I've got it now. - Don't worry about it.
1:02:17 > 1:02:20I've never had it before. I don't like it.
1:02:20 > 1:02:22- Something's happened to me.- What?
1:02:22 > 1:02:25I don't know. Can't figure it out.
1:02:25 > 1:02:28It's not that I'm scared, I know I'm not.
1:02:28 > 1:02:32It's just that I can't figure things out.
1:02:32 > 1:02:36Look, if you have to, will you take over?
1:02:36 > 1:02:40I don't feel good. Got a headache.
1:02:40 > 1:02:44- What are you going to do after the war?- Join a mob, become a mobster.
1:02:44 > 1:02:49- What did you do before the war? - Three million and sixty times you asked me that. I was an undertaker.
1:02:49 > 1:02:52I undertook stiffs. Made my hands smell.
1:02:52 > 1:02:57- Why don't you join the registration squad at the QMC? That's right up your alley.- I can't spell.
1:02:57 > 1:02:58Hey, Johnson...
1:03:00 > 1:03:01..you look like a bright boy.
1:03:01 > 1:03:04Why don't you join the registration squad of QMC?
1:03:04 > 1:03:07- How's the pay?- Stinks. - Any future in it?
1:03:07 > 1:03:11What do you care? You ain't even living in the present.
1:03:11 > 1:03:15That's right, Jake, give a smart apple, Jake, a reader of character.
1:03:15 > 1:03:17What do you mean, I ain't living in the present?
1:03:17 > 1:03:20- I'll ask him. Where are you now? - Italy.
1:03:20 > 1:03:24How do you know you're in Italy? Have you seen any signposts in Italian?
1:03:24 > 1:03:27- We just landed in Italy. - How do you know you landed in Italy?
1:03:27 > 1:03:31- Just because somebody told you?- I've just seen a couple of Italians.
1:03:31 > 1:03:34You see a million Italians. Is that Italy? No.
1:03:34 > 1:03:36You're ignorant, Johnson.
1:03:36 > 1:03:38All right. If we're not in Italy, where are we?
1:03:38 > 1:03:41Sunny France. Where do you think we was?
1:03:44 > 1:03:46- Italy.- I give up.
1:03:46 > 1:03:50- So do I. I want to get out of this damned Army.- Me, too. Move over.
1:03:51 > 1:03:54ENGINE BEHIND
1:03:56 > 1:03:57BLOWS WHISTLE
1:03:57 > 1:03:59Hit the decks.
1:04:05 > 1:04:07Hey, look, it's a jeep.
1:04:07 > 1:04:09MEN SHOUT
1:04:18 > 1:04:19Where you from?
1:04:19 > 1:04:22- We're reconnaissance. Seen anything around here?- Not so far.
1:04:22 > 1:04:28- What's your mission?- Objective is some high ground with a farmhouse on it, three miles up the road.
1:04:28 > 1:04:30- Anything up there?- Wish I knew.
1:04:30 > 1:04:35- Want me to run up and see?- Be nice if you'd scout a couple of miles.
1:04:35 > 1:04:36Take a lot off my mind, anyway.
1:04:36 > 1:04:40OK. It's the first time I've been to Italy. Like to see the country.
1:04:44 > 1:04:49That's the kind of job to have. No walking. Solid comfort.
1:04:49 > 1:04:52Between you and me, Jake, motorcycles scare the life out of me.
1:04:52 > 1:04:56- I didn't think you were scared of anything.- Women and motorcycles, Jake.
1:04:56 > 1:05:00- A butt.- When I run out of butts, you'll be in a right mess. - I'll find a new friend.
1:05:00 > 1:05:04I feel better. If the road's clear, it might be all right, after all.
1:05:04 > 1:05:08How long do you think it will take him to get back?
1:05:08 > 1:05:09About ten or 15 minutes.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11BLOWS WHISTLE
1:05:36 > 1:05:40What's the idea of leaving the ditch? We got no orders.
1:05:40 > 1:05:43The road's easier on the feet. Simple.
1:05:44 > 1:05:47It's time that rider was coming back.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49He's only been gone ten minutes.
1:05:49 > 1:05:53- Everything in the Army is simple. - You live or you die.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55I'd still like to be sitting in his boots.
1:05:55 > 1:05:58- Whose boots? - The guy in the motorcycle.
1:05:58 > 1:06:01- That's a life.- Why? Are you feeling a lousy hero?
1:06:01 > 1:06:04- I like my comfort. - The guys are dead pigeons.
1:06:04 > 1:06:06- High mortality rates.- So what?!
1:06:06 > 1:06:09So what? That's the first sergeant I ever saw on a motorcycle.
1:06:09 > 1:06:11Most of them are lucky to make corporal.
1:06:11 > 1:06:15- Do you think you'll make corporal? - I just want to make civilian.
1:06:15 > 1:06:20- You've got no imagination, Riviera. You're a lump.- That's what I am, all right.
1:06:20 > 1:06:22Suppose you still think they'll be back?
1:06:22 > 1:06:26May have gone further than we thought. Might have got a flat.
1:06:26 > 1:06:29He didn't go too far and he didn't get a flat.
1:06:29 > 1:06:30He ran into trouble.
1:06:30 > 1:06:34- Did you hear any firing? - Didn't hear a thing. - He ran into trouble.
1:06:34 > 1:06:36Eddie, I don't know what's the matter with you,
1:06:36 > 1:06:41- but you need to snap out of it. What's eating you?- I don't know.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43Still wanna be on a motorcycle, ugly?
1:06:43 > 1:06:46- Sure. It's a life.- In that guy's case, the question is, is it a life?
1:06:46 > 1:06:49He's probably sitting under a tree somewhere, reading a book.
1:06:49 > 1:06:54People like you that cause all the trouble in the world. Where would he get a book?
1:06:54 > 1:06:56How do I know where he'd get a book?
1:06:56 > 1:06:59- CLICKS FINGERS - Last pack. I'll let you watch me.
1:06:59 > 1:07:01- You've got another loving pack. - All I got, baby.
1:07:01 > 1:07:03- A drag.- I'll consider it.
1:07:03 > 1:07:08Well, it's a funny thing, how many people you meet in the Army who cross your path for a few seconds
1:07:08 > 1:07:10- and you never see them again. - Who do you mean?
1:07:10 > 1:07:14You've never seen them before, you never see it again. Can't forget it.
1:07:14 > 1:07:17Guy on the motorcycle? Phil, I'm scared of the tanks.
1:07:17 > 1:07:20If they catch us on this road they've got us cold, like mackerel.
1:07:20 > 1:07:23BLOWS WHISTLE
1:07:25 > 1:07:27Tell them to take a break.
1:07:30 > 1:07:36Jack, Phelps, Dubrusky, Long, Tranella, Tinker,
1:07:36 > 1:07:40Archimbeau and all bazooka men, front and centre.
1:07:40 > 1:07:43The rest of you, take a break, into the woods.
1:07:48 > 1:07:50Sergeant Porter wants you bazooka men up ahead.
1:07:50 > 1:07:52< I'm giving you ample protection.
1:07:52 > 1:07:55< When you get a mile ahead of us, we'll follow.
1:07:55 > 1:07:56Good hunting.
1:08:04 > 1:08:06Archimbeau, you stay here.
1:08:06 > 1:08:11- Watch the road. If you see that rider coming back, wave to me.- I'll never stand it till then.
1:08:11 > 1:08:13- Till when?- Till the Battle of Tibet.
1:08:13 > 1:08:17Every dead-end job in the Army is my personal property.
1:08:29 > 1:08:32Something's up with the Sergeant.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34- Which Sergeant?- Porter.
1:08:34 > 1:08:36- Nobody tells me nothing.- Keep your eyes open.
1:08:36 > 1:08:40If you weren't smoking your last butts and getting smoke in your eyes,
1:08:40 > 1:08:43you might know more about what's going on. Butt.
1:08:43 > 1:08:46- What's up with Porter?- How do I know? I ain't a doctor.
1:09:01 > 1:09:03Thanks, Bill.
1:09:03 > 1:09:07It's nothing. You just didn't think of it, that's all.
1:09:09 > 1:09:12Yeah. I didn't think of it.
1:09:17 > 1:09:18Apples.
1:09:20 > 1:09:22What did you say, Sergeant?
1:09:23 > 1:09:25Oh, guess I said apples.
1:09:25 > 1:09:26Why?
1:09:26 > 1:09:29I'm just thinking of them.
1:09:29 > 1:09:32- Oh. - What kind of apples, Sergeant?
1:09:32 > 1:09:36All kinds. Bald ones. McIntosh. Reds. Pippins. Russets.
1:09:36 > 1:09:39I was thinking I would like to be cutting one open, right now.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42And licking that juice off a knife.
1:09:42 > 1:09:44Cut it out, will you, Sarge?
1:09:44 > 1:09:46Now you got me thinking about something juicy.
1:09:46 > 1:09:48CHUCKLING
1:09:48 > 1:09:50You like apples, Sergeant?
1:09:50 > 1:09:53Not especially. Apple juice just happened to pop into my head.
1:09:53 > 1:09:57- I like beer better.- Maybe we'll come across some growing around here.
1:09:57 > 1:09:59- We won't.- How do you know, Sergeant?
1:09:59 > 1:10:02I'm a farmer. A good one.
1:10:02 > 1:10:05The soil's no good around here.
1:10:05 > 1:10:07It's no good, at all.
1:10:07 > 1:10:09It's old and tired and worn out. See?
1:10:09 > 1:10:11They say up north it's different.
1:10:11 > 1:10:14They say up north they grow grapes as big as a man's head.
1:10:14 > 1:10:16You can't convince me. My mind's made up.
1:10:17 > 1:10:23You know, once I make up my mind about something, nothing changes it except an act of God.
1:10:24 > 1:10:25Or my wife.
1:10:28 > 1:10:30Yes. Soil's no good. It's no good, at all.
1:10:31 > 1:10:34Maybe too many soldiers have been walking on it.
1:10:34 > 1:10:37They've been walking on it for a long time.
1:10:39 > 1:10:42That's what always happens to a country when soldiers walk on it.
1:10:46 > 1:10:48I wrote a letter to my wife.
1:10:48 > 1:10:50All right.
1:10:50 > 1:10:53I wrote it in the landing barge.
1:10:53 > 1:10:55It's hard to write something when you can't see it.
1:10:55 > 1:10:57Why didn't you wait 'till daylight?
1:10:57 > 1:10:59You never can tell.
1:10:59 > 1:11:01A man don't want to take no chances.
1:11:01 > 1:11:03I even wrote the envelope in the dark.
1:11:03 > 1:11:06- It looked good. - How do you know it looked good?
1:11:06 > 1:11:08I saw it in the daylight.
1:11:08 > 1:11:10Then I give it to Sergeant Hoskins.
1:11:11 > 1:11:14- What for?- To mail for me.
1:11:14 > 1:11:16The guy'll probably tear it open and read it.
1:11:16 > 1:11:18He'll be reading it right now.
1:11:18 > 1:11:21- He wouldn't do that.- You never know - they do some funny things.
1:11:21 > 1:11:22- He wouldn't.- How do you know?
1:11:22 > 1:11:26Maybe he thinks there's money in it. Maybe he's using it for a bandage.
1:11:26 > 1:11:29He's got a bullet hole and he may have stuffed it in the bullet hole.
1:11:29 > 1:11:32You're crazy. You can't stuff paper in a bullet hole.
1:11:32 > 1:11:35- How do you know you can't? - It crinkles.
1:11:36 > 1:11:39Boy, what a dope. Next time you get a bullet hole in you,
1:11:39 > 1:11:42stuff some paper in and see how it feels, then you'll know.
1:11:42 > 1:11:46Cut that out, Riddle. He'll mail the letter. Now, leave him alone.
1:11:46 > 1:11:48I were just kidding, all right.
1:11:48 > 1:11:50You've got a mean streak, Riddle.
1:11:50 > 1:11:52Someone'll paste you one of these days.
1:11:52 > 1:11:53I'll wait.
1:11:53 > 1:11:56OK, Johnson. You mailed your letter.
1:11:59 > 1:12:02But you never know what Sergeants will do.
1:12:04 > 1:12:06They won't do anything.
1:12:07 > 1:12:09It's time we got moving, Eddie.
1:12:14 > 1:12:16Call Ward, will you?
1:12:18 > 1:12:20Ward.
1:12:29 > 1:12:31He don't feel so good.
1:12:31 > 1:12:34A guy can pick up anything in this kind of country.
1:12:34 > 1:12:38Ward...I can't go on. Tyne is taking over.
1:12:40 > 1:12:41Well, it's OK with me.
1:12:41 > 1:12:43Tyne's a good man.
1:12:43 > 1:12:45I know he is.
1:12:45 > 1:12:47You can work with him, Ward.
1:12:47 > 1:12:51- I know I can. - You can go on, Eddie.- I don't know.
1:12:51 > 1:12:55Do you ever feel like you want to lie down and never get up?
1:12:55 > 1:12:57- Sure I have.- It's the way I feel.
1:12:57 > 1:13:00I want to lie down. I've got to get up.
1:13:00 > 1:13:01A guy gets tired after a while.
1:13:01 > 1:13:04- You've been at it a long time. - We've all have.
1:13:04 > 1:13:08- Why don't you lie down, Eddie? You might feel better.- Need...
1:13:08 > 1:13:10water.
1:13:10 > 1:13:12Maybe if I rest...?
1:13:14 > 1:13:16I've got to lie down.
1:13:16 > 1:13:20HE SOBS
1:13:25 > 1:13:26Poor dirt.
1:13:30 > 1:13:31Poor country.
1:13:45 > 1:13:49Armoured car coming! Enemy armoured car! Take cover!
1:13:56 > 1:13:57Eddie. Eddie.
1:14:05 > 1:14:09- That was close, Sergeant. That was close.- Leave him alone.
1:14:09 > 1:14:12- What's the matter?- He's sick. How did they get by our bazookas?
1:14:12 > 1:14:15- I almost threw a grenade at it. - It's a good thing you didn't.
1:14:15 > 1:14:18- What do you think, Ward?- I don't like it, none.- Go on back, Archim.
1:14:18 > 1:14:21- Keep your eyes open.- Why do I have to pull this stuff?
1:14:21 > 1:14:23- How about someone else? - OK.- I'll do it.
1:14:23 > 1:14:27Here, Arch, watch this rifle - it gets in my way. You...
1:14:31 > 1:14:32< CRACK OF GUNFIRE
1:14:32 > 1:14:35< EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE
1:14:35 > 1:14:36- Hank.- Yeah.
1:14:36 > 1:14:39Our bazookas are letting the armoured car go by
1:14:39 > 1:14:42to get at the tanks. It'll be coming back. We've got to get it.
1:14:42 > 1:14:44After the bazookas we'll have a sweet job.
1:14:44 > 1:14:46Might go off with a grenade under the belly -
1:14:46 > 1:14:48knock it off the road and take off the driver.
1:14:48 > 1:14:51- Machine guns?- Use everything we've got. Eddie?
1:14:51 > 1:14:53- Leave him alone. Nothing you can do. - No, guess you're right.
1:14:53 > 1:14:57Send your squad as close as you can get. Throw grenades on the whistle.
1:14:57 > 1:14:59Just this side or they'll throw grenades in each other's laps.
1:14:59 > 1:15:00Rivera?
1:15:04 > 1:15:06- Got a butt, Sarge? - How's your gun?- OK.
1:15:06 > 1:15:09Set up by the road. When the car comes, we'll get it with grenades.
1:15:09 > 1:15:12When the grenades go off, let the car have everything you've got.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14- Wreck it, compris?- Yes. Sure. - Set up in a hurry.- Right.
1:15:17 > 1:15:21- I got a job. They hired me. 100 bucks a minute. Coming?- I'm invited?
1:15:21 > 1:15:23I got a silver-plated bullet with your name on it.
1:15:23 > 1:15:26- Yeah. That's me, all right. - Then you're invited.- I'll come.
1:15:26 > 1:15:28Good, since you've got the ammo.
1:15:28 > 1:15:29Line up your squad, Ward.
1:15:29 > 1:15:33When the armoured car gets abreast of that boulder, see.
1:15:33 > 1:15:34Yeah.
1:15:34 > 1:15:37- I'll count ten, then blow the whistle. OK.- OK.
1:15:38 > 1:15:41- Squad, off and on. - Don't let anyone else do anything.
1:15:41 > 1:15:43Stay back and hang on. Shoot the works. You get that?
1:15:43 > 1:15:47- Don't let anyone else do anything. Just sit tight.- Ward, you there.
1:15:47 > 1:15:49Riddle, you get in there.
1:15:49 > 1:15:52OK. When you get the whistle.
1:15:52 > 1:15:56And so help me, the first guy that throws before he gets the whistle
1:15:56 > 1:15:58is going to get this grenade right between his teeth.
1:15:58 > 1:16:00You want to live, throw straight.
1:16:00 > 1:16:02You won't get another chance.
1:16:02 > 1:16:04Johnson, you understand?
1:16:04 > 1:16:06What do you think I am, Sergeant? An amateur?
1:16:06 > 1:16:08No.
1:16:15 > 1:16:21Windy? Watch Porter. Don't let him move around.
1:16:43 > 1:16:45You're crying, Porter.
1:16:46 > 1:16:48You're crying because you're wounded.
1:16:48 > 1:16:51You don't have to be bleeding to be wounded.
1:16:51 > 1:16:53You've just had one battle to many.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00Yeah. You're out of it now.
1:17:01 > 1:17:04No more guesswork and waiting and wondering for you.
1:17:04 > 1:17:07You've built yourself a foxhole...
1:17:07 > 1:17:09up there.
1:17:10 > 1:17:13Ain't nothing in the world that can make you come out of it.
1:17:14 > 1:17:17Go ahead, Porter, keep crying. We understand.
1:17:26 > 1:17:29(Not yet.)
1:17:32 > 1:17:34Ever go to Coney Island?
1:17:34 > 1:17:35All the time. Some joint.
1:17:35 > 1:17:38Ever shoot those electric guns that shoot down the airplanes.
1:17:38 > 1:17:40Sure. I'm a shock at this stuff.
1:17:40 > 1:17:43- Want to know a secret, Friedman? - You ain't got any secrets.
1:17:43 > 1:17:46You're an open book. You ain't proud enough to have any secrets.
1:17:46 > 1:17:48- This is a secret, Jake.- What is it?
1:17:48 > 1:17:50I never could hit those airplanes.
1:17:50 > 1:17:52I used to miss those airplanes all the time.
1:17:52 > 1:17:55Better go away. Maybe you ain't safe to be with.
1:17:55 > 1:17:56How did you get to be a machine gunner?
1:17:56 > 1:17:59- I bribed a guy.- I want a transfer.
1:17:59 > 1:18:02Friedman, it's too late. You're stuck with me.
1:18:04 > 1:18:06How are you going to get that car.
1:18:06 > 1:18:09I'm going to aim for the knees and then I work north.
1:18:09 > 1:18:13- You think this stuff will go through armour?- Never has yet.
1:18:23 > 1:18:26Easy. Easy.
1:18:44 > 1:18:49Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
1:18:49 > 1:18:50WHISTLE BLAST
1:18:52 > 1:18:54EXPLOSIONS
1:19:45 > 1:19:48- Put some shots through the slits? - I'll stop Rivera.- OK.
1:19:48 > 1:19:54RATTLE OF GUNFIRE
1:19:58 > 1:20:01Halt your fire.
1:20:16 > 1:20:21Stay where you are. There's nothing out here you haven't seen before.
1:20:21 > 1:20:23OK.
1:20:25 > 1:20:28Nice looking ruby. Wonder where he stole that?
1:20:28 > 1:20:30I don't know if they heard all this noise up ahead
1:20:30 > 1:20:33- but whether they did or not, we'd better blow out of here.- Right.
1:20:37 > 1:20:39- Get that gun down.- Right.
1:20:43 > 1:20:46- Some smoke screen.- That car's probably full of holes.
1:20:46 > 1:20:49- Like a cheese. Like a cheese. - I bet you never put a hole in it.
1:20:49 > 1:20:53- I never miss.- Coney Island?- Those were airplanes on Coney Island.
1:20:53 > 1:20:55- Rivera, you're a terror. - I'm a killer.
1:20:55 > 1:20:57I don't know what the platoon'd do without me.
1:20:57 > 1:20:59- Win the war?- Win the war.
1:20:59 > 1:21:02- Right.- You take over my squad.
1:21:02 > 1:21:04- Why me?- Why anybody else?
1:21:04 > 1:21:07- Fair enough.- Oh, Johnson.
1:21:07 > 1:21:10- Yes, Sergeant.- You're staying here with the Sergeant.
1:21:10 > 1:21:13Don't let him do anything. Just keep him here, you understand?
1:21:13 > 1:21:15- Suppose he tries to go somewhere. - Don't let him.
1:21:15 > 1:21:18- How?- I don't care how. Just don't let him.
1:21:19 > 1:21:22Eddie?
1:21:22 > 1:21:26Eddie, how do you feel? OK, watch him, Johnson.
1:21:32 > 1:21:35Listen, men. Getting that Jerry car was just a lucky break.
1:21:35 > 1:21:38We heard tanks up ahead and still don't know what's happened.
1:21:38 > 1:21:41Next time, we may not be so lucky, so stay on the alert.
1:21:41 > 1:21:42Archimbeau and Cousins, go on ahead.
1:21:42 > 1:21:44If you see anything, just shoot. OK.
1:21:46 > 1:21:50- You've got the direction, Arch? - Can't miss.
1:21:50 > 1:21:52All right. Let's go.
1:21:59 > 1:22:03- On patrol ahead!- On patrol.
1:22:07 > 1:22:10We lost Phelps, Dubovski and Long.
1:22:10 > 1:22:12But we knocked out two tanks and an armoured car.
1:22:12 > 1:22:15Took every bit of bazooka ammo we had to do it.
1:22:15 > 1:22:18- Might as well get rid of these. - Turn them over to Summers.- OK.
1:22:18 > 1:22:20I hope we don't meet any more tanks.
1:22:20 > 1:22:23Without bazookas, I don't want to meet any more tanks...
1:22:23 > 1:22:25or armoured cars, either. Where's Tinker?
1:22:25 > 1:22:27He's all right. He's up ahead.
1:22:27 > 1:22:29OK. Let's go.
1:22:54 > 1:22:56Did you ever go camping when you were a kid?
1:22:56 > 1:22:59Every time we get in a bunch of trees you ask me the same question.
1:22:59 > 1:23:02When I'm in a bunch of trees, I remember.
1:23:02 > 1:23:05For the millionth time, I never went camping - I lived in the city.
1:23:05 > 1:23:07I lived in the city, too.
1:23:07 > 1:23:10- I got on a train.- You told me. - Well, I'm telling you again.
1:23:10 > 1:23:12You're a jukebox. Somebody keeps putting nickels in.
1:23:12 > 1:23:14I ain't talking to you, any more.
1:23:14 > 1:23:16- Hey, Judson?- Yeah.
1:23:17 > 1:23:20- Do you ever go camping in the woods? - What woods?
1:23:20 > 1:23:24- Get that, will you? Any woods.- No.
1:23:24 > 1:23:26You don't know what you're missing
1:23:26 > 1:23:29You've never lived till you've toasted over the coals.
1:23:29 > 1:23:31It ain't like the Army chow.
1:23:31 > 1:23:34You can sit around a camp fire, and shoot it all night.
1:23:34 > 1:23:35You can go fishing.
1:23:35 > 1:23:39- Outdoor men.- Next time they make you a civilian, Judson,
1:23:39 > 1:23:40try camping in the woods.
1:23:40 > 1:23:43- Just tell them I sent you. - Tell who?- The birds and the bees.
1:23:43 > 1:23:47Did your old man ever tell you about the birds and the bees?
1:23:47 > 1:23:49- No.- Did you hear that, Friedman?
1:23:49 > 1:23:52- Judson's never heard of the birds and bees.- That's terrible.
1:23:52 > 1:23:54- Shall we tell him? - Maybe we'd better.
1:23:54 > 1:23:58Give us a butt, Judson, we'll tell you all about the birds and the bees.
1:23:58 > 1:24:00I haven't got a butt.
1:24:09 > 1:24:12Good thing they invented trains for travelling salesmen.
1:24:12 > 1:24:14- What's the gag?- No gag.
1:24:14 > 1:24:19If they didn't have trains, all the travelling salesmen would have to walk. What a job that would be.
1:24:19 > 1:24:22You're a travelling salesman. You taken a train lately?
1:24:22 > 1:24:25I'm a travelling salesman? I'm a murderer.
1:24:25 > 1:24:28You're a travelling salesman, selling democracy to the natives.
1:24:28 > 1:24:30So that's what I am, eh?
1:24:30 > 1:24:32What do you know(!)
1:24:32 > 1:24:35- Where did you get that malarkey, Jake?- Out of a book.- A book?
1:24:35 > 1:24:39- You're a decadent democrat, Riviera. - Well, I am, all right.
1:24:39 > 1:24:42To get back to travelling salesmen, how many of those joes do you think
1:24:42 > 1:24:45would become one if they had to walk everywhere?
1:24:45 > 1:24:49- I don't know. I never knew a travelling salesman.- Maybe I'll be one after the war.
1:24:49 > 1:24:51You get to cover a large hunk of territory.
1:24:51 > 1:24:55Baby, you cover a large hunk of territory and you ain't nothing.
1:24:55 > 1:25:00Friedman, I've been good to you. Every time you needed it, I'd always give you my last franc.
1:25:00 > 1:25:04I treated you like a brother. And every chance you get, you needle me up the back?!
1:25:04 > 1:25:06I'm antisocial.
1:25:06 > 1:25:09- You should go off somewhere. - Where?- How should I know?
1:25:09 > 1:25:12I treat you like a brother and you stick a knife in my back.
1:25:12 > 1:25:14- He's a crumb, isn't he, Judson? - Yeah. Everybody's is.
1:25:14 > 1:25:16Wish I was home in bed.
1:25:18 > 1:25:22- Anybody who would sleep at noontime is a dope.- He's a dope.
1:25:26 > 1:25:29- Take it easy. Don't get too far ahead.- Didn't know I was.
1:25:29 > 1:25:31I was almost asleep on my feet.
1:25:31 > 1:25:33Didn't get any sleep at all last night.
1:25:33 > 1:25:35- Keep awake now.- OK.
1:25:35 > 1:25:39Say, Sarge, do you think I'll make Sarge by the battle of Tibet?
1:25:39 > 1:25:42- Sure. They'll make you a General. - That's all I wanted to know.
1:25:42 > 1:25:46- How much further's this path? - We ought to be breaking into the field below now.
1:25:46 > 1:25:49- Keep your eyes open and stop when you see the field.- Right.
1:25:52 > 1:25:55- How's it going, Tim? - I've been here before.- How's baby?
1:25:55 > 1:25:58I'll wake her up when it's time to feed her.
1:26:03 > 1:26:05Still thinking about apples, Sergeant?
1:26:05 > 1:26:08Yeah. And I've been doing my darndest to think about other things like
1:26:08 > 1:26:13cold well water, cold cider fresh in a jug, ice-cream.
1:26:13 > 1:26:16But it don't do no good. I still keep thinking about apples.
1:26:16 > 1:26:19- A guy always wants something when he can't get it.- Yep.
1:26:19 > 1:26:23We should be thinking about that farmhouse up ahead.
1:26:23 > 1:26:26About how many men are there. And how we're going to take it.
1:26:28 > 1:26:31It's all I keep thinking about, is a big red apple.
1:26:32 > 1:26:36Some day, some country will put out a rug that says Welcome.
1:26:36 > 1:26:38And they're going to let me walk in on it.
1:26:38 > 1:26:42- When?- Next Tuesday, chowder head. How do I know when? 1983.
1:26:42 > 1:26:43I'll look you up then.
1:26:43 > 1:26:48- It's a loving way to see Europe. - If it hadn't been for this war,
1:26:48 > 1:26:51- you wouldn't have got near Europe. - Anybody can go to Europe.
1:26:51 > 1:26:54I know a guy, once, wigged his way over on a cattle boat.
1:26:54 > 1:26:56- Why?- Wanted to see it.
1:26:56 > 1:26:59- Must have been a honey of a dope.- He was my cousin.- Then I know he was.
1:26:59 > 1:27:03I'm going to take you up to the barn and beat the bajavas out of you.
1:27:03 > 1:27:04- What with?- The barrel of this gun.
1:27:04 > 1:27:07I thought you were really going to get tough!
1:27:07 > 1:27:10That farmhouse is sure little apples full of krauts.
1:27:10 > 1:27:12Sure as little apples is.
1:27:23 > 1:27:25There she is.
1:27:31 > 1:27:33That's it, all right.
1:27:33 > 1:27:35On the nose. On the nose.
1:27:35 > 1:27:39- What do you think?- I don't know yet, but I want to go up and take a look.
1:27:39 > 1:27:40Arch, you come along.
1:27:42 > 1:27:44Take it easy.
1:28:03 > 1:28:05Wish I had those binoculars now.
1:28:05 > 1:28:07- Do you see anything?- Not a thing.
1:28:07 > 1:28:10- How about the windows?- Sun's on them.
1:28:12 > 1:28:16- Wish I knew. Wish I knew.- Knew what?
1:28:16 > 1:28:18Nothing. Let's get back.
1:28:26 > 1:28:29- How's it look?- It's quiet. I don't like it. It's too quiet.
1:28:29 > 1:28:31Yeah. It's bad when it's too quiet.
1:28:31 > 1:28:34- Windy?- Yeah.- Come here.
1:28:35 > 1:28:37Here's the setup.
1:28:37 > 1:28:41There's a stone wall, runs clear around.
1:28:41 > 1:28:45And there's a clear slope up to the house, from the wall.
1:28:45 > 1:28:48Not much cover. Pretty hard to tell just what the story is.
1:28:48 > 1:28:51If I had that pair of binoculars I would have been able to see more.
1:28:51 > 1:28:53- Anyone there? - That's what we don't know.
1:28:53 > 1:28:56We're not going to take any chances. We'll send a patrol up first.
1:28:56 > 1:29:00- Four or five guys.- I'll take it. - And they need you here.
1:29:00 > 1:29:02I want to take it.
1:29:02 > 1:29:04OK. You take it. Pick yourself four men.
1:29:04 > 1:29:07I'll go.
1:29:07 > 1:29:09No, you don't. I need this little instrument.
1:29:09 > 1:29:11I want four volunteers.
1:29:11 > 1:29:15Four congressional medal of honours with volunteers.
1:29:15 > 1:29:17- Any extra pay?- Oh, no.
1:29:17 > 1:29:20- I'll go anyway, just to make them feel ashamed.- Good.
1:29:20 > 1:29:22I'm a hero. I've been up front all day.
1:29:22 > 1:29:24- I might as well stay there. - All right.
1:29:24 > 1:29:26- I'll go along, Sarge.- OK. One more.
1:29:26 > 1:29:29First guys who get to that farmhouse will get the wine. I'll go.
1:29:29 > 1:29:32That's four. Pass out the purple hearts, Mother.
1:29:32 > 1:29:37You take your gun down by the road where you can keep your eye on the road and the farmhouse.
1:29:37 > 1:29:39- In my head.- Keep it there.
1:29:39 > 1:29:42- And remember to cover if anyone needs it.- OK, chief. Let's go.
1:29:44 > 1:29:47All right. Let's go.
1:30:25 > 1:30:27They have portable walls to go with every wall.
1:30:27 > 1:30:31See they have them next time. Wouldn't want you to be disappointed.
1:30:37 > 1:30:39It's a pretty good spot.
1:30:39 > 1:30:41It'll do for a while.
1:30:41 > 1:30:43I ain't planning to raise a family here.
1:30:43 > 1:30:45How's the farmhouse look to you?
1:30:47 > 1:30:50I'll rake the joint.
1:30:50 > 1:30:54- Do you think it's OK? Plenty of grenades?- Yeah.
1:30:54 > 1:30:57- OK.- Stay five yards apart.
1:30:57 > 1:30:59Keep on your guard. Five yards apart.
1:30:59 > 1:31:01Go on your gut.
1:31:01 > 1:31:04- Good luck.- Same to you. Fix bayonets.
1:31:09 > 1:31:10Let's go.
1:31:36 > 1:31:40GUNFIRE
1:31:42 > 1:31:45Go back, go back! Patrol, go back!
1:31:45 > 1:31:47Now, Riviera, now.
1:31:50 > 1:31:53Why don't we open up? Why don't we open up?
1:32:01 > 1:32:03Break, everyone, over the wall!
1:32:10 > 1:32:11BULLET PANGS
1:32:15 > 1:32:16- Did you get hit?- No.
1:32:16 > 1:32:19You shouldn't have tried it. You shouldn't have tried it.
1:32:19 > 1:32:22- Did everybody get back? - Tinker. They got Tinker.
1:32:22 > 1:32:24Rankin - Rankin didn't come back.
1:32:24 > 1:32:27I knew it. I knew. I thought there was only three.
1:32:28 > 1:32:31- Is that Tinker?- Yeah.
1:32:31 > 1:32:33- Why don't you pull him in? - He's dead.
1:32:33 > 1:32:36- How do you know he's dead? - I can tell when a man's dead.
1:32:36 > 1:32:39What a mess. What a rotten, filthy, stinking, no good mess.
1:32:39 > 1:32:43Could have been worse. They could have waited till you all got up there.
1:32:43 > 1:32:45- Could have been a lot worse. - Bad enough.
1:32:48 > 1:32:50- You all right, Tranella?- In the pink.
1:32:50 > 1:32:52- Cousins?- OK.
1:32:52 > 1:32:55Tough luck.
1:32:55 > 1:32:58- Now we've really got a job on our hands.- Yeah.
1:32:58 > 1:33:00No element of surprise. They've got us cold.
1:33:00 > 1:33:05Probably a machine gun in every window. Can't get near enough to use a grenade.
1:33:05 > 1:33:07If we only had just one rocket left for our bazooka.
1:33:07 > 1:33:11- But we haven't got a rocket.- No. How about waiting until dark.
1:33:11 > 1:33:14We can't. We've got to get in there and get in there fast.
1:33:14 > 1:33:16We'll have to figure something out.
1:33:16 > 1:33:18Wonder who they knocked off.
1:33:18 > 1:33:20It's too far away to see.
1:33:20 > 1:33:22Hope it ain't anybody I like.
1:33:22 > 1:33:24- Hope it ain't anybody I know. - Me neither.
1:33:24 > 1:33:26It was beautiful, the way I messed up that house.
1:33:26 > 1:33:28I could do that 50 times a day.
1:33:28 > 1:33:32Keep your eyes open or they'll be sending one with a grenade in his mitt.
1:33:32 > 1:33:34We only have to do that once. Knuckles to them.
1:33:34 > 1:33:37I've seen them coming round my end by the millions.
1:33:37 > 1:33:39I'm indestructible. Nobody dies.
1:33:39 > 1:33:43- Nobody dies.- OK, cops.
1:33:43 > 1:33:46BULLET BLASTS
1:33:46 > 1:33:51Close. Somebody's careless with firearms...
1:33:51 > 1:33:52Joke.
1:33:55 > 1:33:57I can't think of a thing.
1:33:57 > 1:34:00They've got us cold. Pretty and cold.
1:34:00 > 1:34:01It's no place for a gentleman.
1:34:01 > 1:34:04- Please, teacher, can I leave the room?- You and Tinker.
1:34:08 > 1:34:11We should have given you some cover, too.
1:34:11 > 1:34:13It wouldn't have made any difference.
1:34:13 > 1:34:16The only thing I hope is they haven't put through a call to send tanks.
1:34:16 > 1:34:21- That'd really put the screws on us. - I don't think they will. We've got a lot of planes around here.
1:34:21 > 1:34:25- They'd be afraid the planes would see them.- What makes you think so?
1:34:25 > 1:34:28- I just got a feeling. - I just got a feeling, too.
1:34:28 > 1:34:30I wonder if Rankin's dead.
1:34:30 > 1:34:32Oh, gee. I don't know.
1:34:33 > 1:34:35I guess he's safe where he is.
1:34:35 > 1:34:37He can hang on.
1:34:37 > 1:34:41Yeah. If anybody can hang on, Rankin can hang on.
1:34:42 > 1:34:44Just look at this leaf.
1:34:44 > 1:34:47- What about it? - Look at the complications.
1:34:47 > 1:34:50Think of all the trouble it took to make this leaf.
1:34:50 > 1:34:53You never saw nothing as complicated as this.
1:34:53 > 1:34:54I'm as complicated as that.
1:34:54 > 1:34:57The human body's the most complicated thing in the world.
1:34:57 > 1:35:00- It ain't more complicated than this leaf.- Sure it is.
1:35:00 > 1:35:02That leaf's little. The human body's bigger.
1:35:02 > 1:35:06That's what I mean. It's got a lot more to be complicated about.
1:35:06 > 1:35:10This leaf ain't got nothing to be complicated about when you get right down to it.
1:35:10 > 1:35:12What's so fancy about it?
1:35:12 > 1:35:14Look at the veins, for instance.
1:35:14 > 1:35:17These veins are more important than human veins?!
1:35:17 > 1:35:19I didn't say that. I only said look at them.
1:35:21 > 1:35:23All right. I'm looking. So what?
1:35:25 > 1:35:26They're fancy.
1:35:26 > 1:35:30The trouble with this map is there's no detail about the farm.
1:35:30 > 1:35:33It says the wall ends down by the river. We know that already.
1:35:33 > 1:35:35Doesn't show us anything new at all.
1:35:35 > 1:35:37Might as well toss it away.
1:35:42 > 1:35:44If we tried the river...
1:35:45 > 1:35:47What did you say?
1:35:49 > 1:35:51Nothing. I didn't say anything.
1:35:51 > 1:35:56Oh, come on, Windy. This is no time to be writing letters to your sister. What did you say?
1:35:56 > 1:35:58I was thinking that...
1:35:58 > 1:36:00Spit it out.
1:36:00 > 1:36:03Well, I said, I'd bet if we tried the river.
1:36:03 > 1:36:05What about if we tried the river?
1:36:05 > 1:36:10Well, we could circle the farm by the river and then crawl along by the bank.
1:36:10 > 1:36:12Maybe he's got something there. Go on, what else?
1:36:12 > 1:36:16Forgetting the farm entirely. Just crawling along the wall,
1:36:16 > 1:36:20then wading along the bank till the bridge then we blow her? How about it?
1:36:20 > 1:36:22Say, you're a pretty shrewd guy, Windy.
1:36:22 > 1:36:24I tell that to myself all the time.
1:36:24 > 1:36:28- Doesn't sound bad.- Sounds good. - We'll have to work fast.- Awful fast.
1:36:28 > 1:36:30Yeah.
1:36:30 > 1:36:32What we'll do is this.
1:36:32 > 1:36:34Ward, you take a patrol and go first.
1:36:34 > 1:36:36Windy, you take another one and follow.
1:36:36 > 1:36:38If Ward gets jammed, you'll pitch in.
1:36:38 > 1:36:41I'll stay here with the rest of the platoon.
1:36:41 > 1:36:43I'll give you exactly 30 minutes.
1:36:43 > 1:36:45Then we'll hop over this wall and head for the house.
1:36:45 > 1:36:48You can tell when we start cos I'll put Riviera to work.
1:36:48 > 1:36:50The krauts will think we're coming up on this side,
1:36:50 > 1:36:54so they'll pay us all the attention, then you can blow the bridge.
1:36:54 > 1:36:57As soon as we hear you blow it, we'll get up and rush the joint.
1:36:57 > 1:37:00- How does it sound?- Sounds all right. How about you, Windy?
1:37:00 > 1:37:03- OK.- Well, that's the story, then.
1:37:03 > 1:37:05You've cut yourself out a tough job.
1:37:05 > 1:37:09It's suicide. I'm a hero. We're all heroes. This'll mean a good conduct medal.
1:37:09 > 1:37:12OK. Pick your men. You too, Windy.
1:37:15 > 1:37:21Joe, Sam, Rye, Horn, Ross, Tranella, Monty, Miles.
1:37:28 > 1:37:30Ward and Windy will tell you what the setup is.
1:37:30 > 1:37:33It's kind of simple. So it could go wrong easily.
1:37:33 > 1:37:37Can't be any worse than Louisiana manoeuvres.
1:37:37 > 1:37:43I don't know what else to say except it's a stinking situation. Right?
1:37:43 > 1:37:44Right.
1:37:44 > 1:37:46Good luck.
1:37:46 > 1:37:48OK, you gravel agitator, let's go.
1:37:56 > 1:37:58Jack?
1:38:01 > 1:38:03Can you take a note to Riviera?
1:38:03 > 1:38:05Hey, Riviera.
1:38:05 > 1:38:07Somebody's coming up there.
1:38:07 > 1:38:10- Maybe it's Marlene Dietrich. Has it got legs?- I can't see.
1:38:10 > 1:38:12It's the way they walk in the army.
1:38:12 > 1:38:17- It's Joe Jack. Look at that guy travel.- Not much style.
1:38:23 > 1:38:28Why do they always stick you out in left field? Why don't you hang around where a guy can get at you?
1:38:28 > 1:38:31There are three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way and the army way.
1:38:31 > 1:38:33This is the army way. What you got, Joe?
1:38:33 > 1:38:35Message from Tyne.
1:38:38 > 1:38:40Wish I had my glasses.
1:38:40 > 1:38:41Cut it. Cut it. What's he say?
1:38:41 > 1:38:45Two patrols going try go round farm via river.
1:38:45 > 1:38:47I taking rest platoon over field.
1:38:47 > 1:38:50When blow my whistle synchronise watch 1140 hours.
1:38:50 > 1:38:52Five minutes after going upfield on dock.
1:38:52 > 1:38:54Give cover 15 seconds before.
1:38:54 > 1:38:57Give cover upfield. Remember, cover 1144 and 45 seconds.
1:38:57 > 1:39:00Hope ammo holds out. We are going all the way.
1:39:00 > 1:39:02- That's all.- How's he signed?
1:39:02 > 1:39:04Tyne. Sergeant. USA.
1:39:04 > 1:39:07Formal, ain't he?
1:39:07 > 1:39:10If this thing is right, it's two minutes to 11.45.
1:39:10 > 1:39:12- Have the patrols left yet, Joe? - Yeah.
1:39:12 > 1:39:15OK. Hop back and say we're all set. Tell Tyne I said good luck.
1:39:15 > 1:39:17I'll tell him, Riviera.
1:39:21 > 1:39:24Nobody dies.
1:39:24 > 1:39:28- How's the ammo?- It's been worse and it's been better.
1:39:28 > 1:39:31Tyne really cut himself a piece of cake.
1:39:32 > 1:39:34Hey, Friedman, what's this mean?
1:39:34 > 1:39:37Five minutes after going upfield on dock. I don't get it.
1:39:37 > 1:39:38Let me see the note.
1:39:39 > 1:39:42("Five minutes after going...")
1:39:42 > 1:39:46Oh, I get it. It means that five minutes after he blows his whistle,
1:39:46 > 1:39:47they're going up the field.
1:39:47 > 1:39:51- He wants us to go to work 15 seconds before.- Oh, is that it?
1:39:51 > 1:39:54- Suppose they'll give me money for overtime?- Sure.
1:39:54 > 1:39:56It's a tricky business.
1:39:58 > 1:40:02Looks like we'll be getting a new platoon pretty soon.
1:40:02 > 1:40:05Mary and Joseph, there's a lot of good men going on in this war.
1:40:05 > 1:40:07Why don't they let us alone?
1:40:07 > 1:40:09I wish I had every Nazi right in the palm of my hand.
1:40:09 > 1:40:11I'd crush them to a pulp.
1:40:11 > 1:40:13Why don't they let us alone?
1:40:14 > 1:40:19- You're catching on slow, Riviera, but you're catching on good.- Yeah.
1:40:36 > 1:40:38Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
1:40:41 > 1:40:43What are you looking at?
1:40:43 > 1:40:45Not looking.
1:40:45 > 1:40:47Thinking.
1:40:49 > 1:40:52Ward thinks we'll never make it across the field.
1:40:52 > 1:40:55- Ward thinks you're throwing yourself away.- I don't care.
1:40:55 > 1:40:57I'm in command here.
1:40:57 > 1:40:59Wish that Jack would get back.
1:41:19 > 1:41:23- Sorry I slipped, Sarge. - Sh! See that you don't slip again.
1:41:36 > 1:41:38You ought to write a letter too, Tinker.
1:41:48 > 1:41:50I forgot you're sprawled out of that wall.
1:41:52 > 1:41:54OK, pal. I'll write that letter to your mom.
1:41:58 > 1:42:01Dear Mom,
1:42:01 > 1:42:04now sleeping against a wall somewhere in Italy.
1:42:06 > 1:42:10Isn't very comfortable but a man has to lie where he can these days.
1:42:11 > 1:42:16If you ever get to Italy, you must come and see me for I'm always going to be here.
1:42:21 > 1:42:22Water's cold.
1:42:22 > 1:42:26Funny thing on a hot day, when the water's cold.
1:42:28 > 1:42:32- We've just come in under the wire. How'd it go?- Riviera said it's OK.
1:42:32 > 1:42:34- He said good luck.- Nice of him.
1:42:34 > 1:42:37All the watches are synchronised. We only have to check with Riviera.
1:42:39 > 1:42:41WHISTLE BLOWS
1:42:42 > 1:42:44There's Tyne's whistle right on the nose.
1:42:44 > 1:42:46Even the second hand's right on the nose.
1:42:46 > 1:42:48I'm going to cut that house right in two.
1:42:48 > 1:42:51- If the ammo holds out. - The ammo had better hold out.
1:42:51 > 1:42:54- Five minutes before demolition.- Yep.
1:42:54 > 1:42:56If we go right behind that farm.
1:42:56 > 1:42:58- Quiet.- That's good.
1:42:58 > 1:43:00Hope it stays that way.
1:43:03 > 1:43:06How do you feel about things, Arch?
1:43:06 > 1:43:09It's a long war.
1:43:09 > 1:43:12- That's all I know about it. - You still worried?
1:43:12 > 1:43:13Yeah.
1:43:15 > 1:43:19Sometimes I think we'll never get out of the army.
1:43:19 > 1:43:21Honest. That's what I think.
1:43:21 > 1:43:23I used to think I'd never get in.
1:43:23 > 1:43:25I figure I'll get out, some day.
1:43:25 > 1:43:28Could be worse.
1:43:28 > 1:43:32I don't know how. You don't know either.
1:43:32 > 1:43:34You don't get all the stinking details?
1:43:34 > 1:43:37I've got a stinking detail right now.
1:43:38 > 1:43:40Who hasn't?
1:43:41 > 1:43:44Maybe we can sleep all day tomorrow.
1:43:44 > 1:43:47Maybe Germany will surrender tomorrow.
1:43:47 > 1:43:50Who knows?
1:43:50 > 1:43:51Who knows?
1:43:54 > 1:43:57I'm going to check with the men again.
1:43:58 > 1:44:03When you hear the bridge blow, get up and run for the farmhouse. Run fast. Pass the word along.
1:44:08 > 1:44:12When you hear the bridge blow, get up and run for the farmhouse and run fast.
1:44:12 > 1:44:13Pass the word on.
1:44:20 > 1:44:22What's the matter, Sarge?
1:44:22 > 1:44:24Stomach.
1:44:24 > 1:44:26It feels like it's screwed up in a tight knot.
1:44:27 > 1:44:30I'm feeling a little sick and a little dizzy.
1:44:30 > 1:44:32Who doesn't?
1:44:37 > 1:44:40It's 45 seconds to go.
1:44:40 > 1:44:4345 seconds before Riviera opens up.
1:44:43 > 1:44:46Fix bayonets. Fix bayonets.
1:44:57 > 1:44:58Dizzy. Sick and dizzy.
1:45:21 > 1:45:24Hey, Arch. GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE
1:45:26 > 1:45:27Good.
1:45:30 > 1:45:33Five. Six. Seven. Eight.
1:45:33 > 1:45:35Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve.
1:45:35 > 1:45:37Thirteen.
1:45:37 > 1:45:39Fourteen. Fifteen. HE BLOWS WHISTLE
1:45:57 > 1:46:01Either those top gunners are dead or they're just playing with us.
1:46:01 > 1:46:03It's deserted. Absolutely deserted.
1:46:03 > 1:46:06Let's wait till they catch up.
1:46:06 > 1:46:09Another second they'll blow us to kingdom come.
1:46:09 > 1:46:11What are you laughing at?
1:46:11 > 1:46:14It's so funny. We're going to blow up the German bridge.
1:46:14 > 1:46:18I feel just like a little boy at Halloween, stealing the parson's cake.
1:46:18 > 1:46:20Come on.
1:46:31 > 1:46:34'Nothing slower than crawling. Nothing in the world.
1:46:34 > 1:46:37'How long would it take to crawl around the world?
1:46:37 > 1:46:40'100 years? 1000 years?
1:46:52 > 1:46:54'Nobody dies.
1:47:18 > 1:47:19'Nobody dies.
1:47:21 > 1:47:23'We've come a long way.
1:47:23 > 1:47:25'Long six miles.
1:47:27 > 1:47:31'Six miles closer to San Francisco, Hoskins.
1:47:31 > 1:47:34'Six miles closer to Joplin, Mack.
1:47:34 > 1:47:38'Six miles closer to Saint Paul, Tinker.
1:47:38 > 1:47:40'It's a long way.
1:47:40 > 1:47:43'It's the shortest way home.
1:47:43 > 1:47:46'The only way home for all the decent guys in the world.
1:47:46 > 1:47:49'It all adds up.
1:47:49 > 1:47:51'Nobody dies.
1:47:51 > 1:47:54'My head's spinning.
1:47:54 > 1:47:55'Everything's spinning.'
1:47:55 > 1:47:57That house.
1:47:58 > 1:48:00Field.
1:48:03 > 1:48:04Sky.
1:48:07 > 1:48:09EXPLOSION RUMBLES
1:48:17 > 1:48:19WHISTLE BLOWS
1:49:53 > 1:49:54The Kraut's stopped.
1:49:54 > 1:49:57Nothing left, nothing to sink. No wonder it's stopped.
1:49:57 > 1:50:00- They didn't find Baby. - No. They didn't find Baby.
1:50:25 > 1:50:27Dear Frances,
1:50:27 > 1:50:31we just blew a bridge and took a farmhouse.
1:50:31 > 1:50:33It was so easy.
1:50:33 > 1:50:35So terribly easy.
1:50:51 > 1:50:57# It was just a little walk in the warm Italian sun
1:50:57 > 1:51:00# But it wasn't an easy thing
1:51:00 > 1:51:05# And poets are writing the tale of that fight
1:51:05 > 1:51:08# And songs for children to sing
1:51:09 > 1:51:11# Let them sing of the men
1:51:11 > 1:51:14# Of the fighting platoon
1:51:14 > 1:51:17# Let them sing of the job they've done
1:51:17 > 1:51:20# How they came across the sea
1:51:20 > 1:51:22# To sunny Italy
1:51:22 > 1:51:25# And took a little walk in the sun
1:51:25 > 1:51:27# It's that walk that leads down... #
1:51:27 > 1:51:31LYRICS ARE SUNG
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