Crimson Romance (1934)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, War | 12 October 1934 (USA)
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Director: David Howard
Writers: Milton Krims (screenplay), Al Martin (story)
Stars: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim
Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, War | 12 October 1934 (USA)
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Director: David Howard
Writers: Milton Krims (screenplay), Al Martin (story)
Stars: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim
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01:35Halt!
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01:43I can't do a thing this morning.
01:45I'm as jumpy as a cat.
01:47Yeah?
01:48Big mug if you get the better of each scenario.
01:51Yeah, but you should have seen that blonde.
01:53Yeah, blondes, redheads.
01:54A different one every night.
01:57Of course, I know it's your own business, Bob, but...
01:59And what a business.
02:00But if you'd only use your head once in a while.
02:02I do.
02:04I never forget an address, a phone number,
02:06or the kind of cigars an old man smokes.
02:09But you do forget you have a pretty dangerous job.
02:12I don't have to remember that.
02:13The boss does it for me.
02:14It's a funny thing, though.
02:16The only time I have to catch up on my sleep
02:18is when we're up in the air together.
02:20Yeah, that's just it.
02:24Good afternoon, Mr. Plumbing.
02:26Oh, hiya, boss.
02:27Afternoon, boys.
02:28This is Mr. Pierce, our vice president.
02:30I do.
02:31Our test pilots, Bob Wilson and Fred Von Bergen.
02:34Von Bergen.
02:36German?
02:37Yes, sir.
02:38Citizen?
02:39No, sir.
02:40Why not?
02:41Well, he has his first papers.
02:42First papers, eh?
02:43Oh, Fred's all right.
02:44I've known him for years.
02:46The ship ready to go up?
02:47Any time.
02:48All right, roll her out.
02:49OK, we'll get the boys.
02:50This is her final test.
02:52Is this Wilson a German, too?
02:54No, he's mostly American,
02:56with some crazy Irish mixed in.
02:59Another good plane for the Germans to crack up.
03:02Don't pay any attention, Bob.
03:04What'd that mechanic mean?
03:05Some private feud, I guess.
03:07Yeah, but what about crackups?
03:09Oh, we have a few.
03:10Last week, two smashed up.
03:12It wasn't the boys' fault, though.
03:13There is such a thing as deliberate destruction.
03:16Impossible with those two boys.
03:18The ship's just weren't strong enough
03:20for the sort of flying Bob Gibson.
03:22That's all.
03:23But Fred will find out why they weren't.
03:25He has that German genius
03:27for sticking to a problem until it's solved.
03:43A great pair.
03:45They've been together ever since they were kids.
04:00It's got pulled out!
04:02Go down!
04:13Go down!
04:36Ah, the reception committee.
04:38Oh, never mind.
04:40Better luck next time.
04:43Are you fellows all right?
04:45Well, my...
04:46my back teeth are a little loose.
04:48What happened?
04:49I think it's in the construction of the struts.
04:51I'd like to see how they're assembling these ships.
04:54Now, if I could spend a week in a factory...
04:56That's enough.
04:57Let's get back to the office.
05:02So, you want to go to the factory, huh?
05:05It's safer to crack them up
05:07before they leave the ground, eh, Heine?
05:09Bob!
05:10Mr. Fleming wants you two in the office.
05:19There ought to be a law against eyes like yours.
05:22You know what they do to me?
05:24Shall I tell you?
05:27Ah, no, no, no.
05:28This isn't the place for it.
05:30What are you doing tomorrow night?
05:31Nothing.
05:32Ah, yes, you are beautiful.
05:34You're going to be very, very busy.
05:37Say, uh,
05:38what about a friend from my pal Fred over here?
05:40Bob, leave me out of it, please.
05:42I'm busy tomorrow night.
05:44Well...
05:46It's at 8, beautiful.
05:478.30, your house.
05:52All right.
05:53For you.
05:54Go right in.
05:55I'll bring the ice.
05:58Hey.
05:59Why do you always say no?
06:01You're only young once.
06:03I know what I'm doing.
06:07Awfully sorry we cracked up another ship, Mr. Fleming.
06:10But you see, that strut seemed to...
06:11Just a moment, Bob.
06:14I'm sorry, Fred,
06:15but I must ask for your resignation.
06:17But why?
06:18It wasn't his fault the plane cracked up.
06:20I'm the one that tears them apart.
06:22That has nothing to do with it.
06:23It's a new rule.
06:24Mr. Pierce's idea.
06:26He thinks that Fred, coming from Germany...
06:28Why, he's more American than I am.
06:30Oh, there's nothing personal, boys.
06:32It's just that we're making planes for the Allies.
06:34Yeah, and he thinks that Fred might be yellow enough
06:36to crack them up.
06:37Well, they all...
06:38Please, Bob.
06:39I understand, Mr. Fleming.
06:43I'm sorry.
06:44Yeah, well, so am I.
06:45Because you're going to have to find yourself
06:47a new test pilot.
06:48Now, don't be a sap, Bob.
06:49There's no reason for you to quit.
06:50Yeah, and there's no reason for them to ask you to quit.
06:52I won't work for a firm that fires a man
06:54just because he happens to have a German name.
07:01Wilson and von Bergen, huh?
07:03Von Bergen?
07:05We don't employ Germans here.
07:09Come on.
07:19Mr. Burton will see you now, Mr. Wilson.
07:21Oh, thanks.
07:22Come on, Fred.
07:23Oh, excuse me.
07:24Not Mr. von Bergen.
07:25Just you, Mr. Wilson.
07:27What?
07:28I don't know anything about it,
07:29only he was talking to your old boss
07:31on the phone this morning.
07:32Yeah?
07:33Well, tell him to go jump in the lake.
07:35Come on, Fred.
07:36We'll fly for American aircraft.
07:38There again, Burton's lost.
07:40Make a note of that.
07:48Sorry, no one will pass you in.
07:50Now, listen.
07:51Mr. Hayward's been after me for the past six months
07:53to go to work for him.
07:55Send our names in.
07:56He'll see us.
07:57Save your breath.
07:58No jobs, no admittance.
07:59No brains.
08:01All right.
08:02Well, we gave him their chance.
08:03Thank goodness we have nothing to worry about.
08:05Papa's insurance will take care of us for a long time.
08:09Don't even think of it, Mama von Bergen.
08:12We have all kinds of offers.
08:14It's just a question of which one we want to accept.
08:17Isn't it, Fred?
08:21No.
08:22Fred.
08:24It's no use, Pop.
08:25I'm not going to lie any longer.
08:28Mama might as well know the truth.
08:30But it isn't the truth.
08:31Just because a few idiots are prejudiced
08:33against Germans, it doesn't...
08:34Prejudice?
08:35Is that why you haven't been able to find a job?
08:39Well, if I'm not the prize setter.
08:42Here I try to keep you from telling,
08:44and I tell myself.
08:46Oh, kick me, will you?
08:48Oh, it's all right, Pop.
08:50I was going to tell anyhow.
08:53In the first place, there's no reason
08:54you're being out of work on my account.
08:57But it probably is.
08:58Oh, I wouldn't work for them.
09:00We'll stick together like we always have.
09:06I'm afraid we won't be able to much longer.
09:08Why not?
09:13I'm going back to Germany.
09:15Oh, son!
09:17I'm sick of being insulted,
09:19called a hun and a hiney.
09:22This is my home.
09:23I'm going to get married.
09:25A hun and a hiney.
09:27This is my country.
09:29I love it.
09:31I'd die for it.
09:35But if they don't want me here,
09:37I'll go back to the place where I know I'm wanted.
09:41The country where I was born.
09:43The Germans are at war.
09:44They'll make you a soldier.
09:46That's not for you.
09:47That's not for anyone who isn't made to go.
09:51But don't you see, Mama,
09:52I am being made to go.
09:55I'm going to go.
10:09What are you going to do, Bob?
10:11Oh, I don't know.
10:13It'd be kind of hard for Mama von Bergen
10:14to see me having my usual good time
10:16when you're away at war.
10:19That's right.
10:22Hey, why did you pick out the night to leave?
10:24It's necessary.
10:27Don't let me interfere.
10:32Well, I...
10:34I guess I'll be going.
10:36Good night, Mama von Bergen.
10:40See you at the station, Fred.
10:42Mama, Mama.
10:44Don't cry.
10:47You see,
10:49it can't be helped.
10:54My son.
10:57My little boy.
11:01For centuries,
11:04I've been waiting for you.
11:07I've been waiting for you.
11:09For centuries they've taken you away from us.
11:13For centuries we have wept over you.
11:17We who have nursed you
11:20and cried over your little childish bruises and scratches.
11:25We must let you go to be maimed,
11:28killed
11:32for something we can't understand.
11:39All aboard!
11:46I've been expecting a fellow by the name of Bob Wilson.
11:51If he shows up, will you give him this?
11:53Yes.
11:54Thanks.
12:39Bob!
12:41What are you doing here?
12:43Don't know, but I'm on my way.
12:46Boy, won't I be a knockout in a German uniform.
13:09We're sending you to the front immediately.
13:12Squadron 22, for some very important reasons,
13:15needs the best fliers available.
13:17You will accompany Lieutenant Lombardi.
13:20That is all.
13:21And good luck.
13:24Thank you, sir.
13:26I'm going to the front.
13:28I'm going to the front.
13:30I'm going to the front.
13:32I'm going to the front.
13:34I'm going to the front.
13:35I'm going to the front.
13:37I'm going to the front.
13:39I'm going to the front.
13:45I kissed her by the yard
13:47And every other measure
13:49And when I got through kissing her
13:51The poor girl died of pleasure
13:56Whoa, big boy!
13:57Unhand that velocity!
13:59From now on, I'm driving this thing.
14:03What is it against others, sir?
14:05Does it say somewhere in the book
14:06That you're to drive me nuts also?
14:08It's pretty serious breaking up equipment in wartime.
14:10He's under orders to take it easy.
14:12Yeah, well what this war needs is fewer orders and more laughs.
14:14Come on.
14:15Orders and discipline make an army.
14:16Discipline.
14:17I'm sick of the word.
14:19I'm going to show these wooden heads how to get a few laughs out of this scrap.
14:21Come on, handsome.
14:22Scram.
14:22Move over.
14:22Get to the side, Pa.
14:24Get over there.
14:30Well, boys.
14:32Here's mud in your eyes.
14:33Well, take it easy, Pa.
14:39Don't stand there gaping, you half-witted goonie.
15:01Do something.
15:01What are you waiting for?
15:03Orders from the general staff.
15:04Will you spill some of your best German on that cracked brain, addle-headed nitwit?
15:09Please don't stop, Lieutenant.
15:13Well, if I'm unconscious, let me stay that way.
15:18Please, please, won't you throw us a rope?
15:22In a minute.
15:23Please don't pull out her, Lieutenant.
15:27Oh, thank you.
15:39Oh, pardon, Fraulein.
15:42Hey, how about getting me out of here?
15:44Lieutenant Bob Wilson.
15:57A little muddy, but at your service.
16:00Well, I'll be seeing you.
16:03There ought to be a law against eyes like yours.
16:12Lieutenant.
16:14You know what they do to me?
16:16Shall I tell you?
16:17I'm not at all interested.
16:20They do it just the same.
16:22Every time I come home from the front after a hard siege of fighting, I'd say to myself,
16:27now, if I only had a gal like you.
16:28You've never been to the front.
16:32How do you know?
16:34I've seen too many come back.
16:36Sorry to interrupt, but I'm afraid you'll have to give us a lift.
16:39Our motorcycle is done for.
16:41Well, I'll drive you to your destination.
16:43Have your man tie the motorcycle on behind.
16:47Come on.
16:48He'll need your help.
16:52Well, there's no room up front.
16:54You'll have to ride inside.
16:55Nine.
16:56I have yet not to ride in the ambulance.
16:58I do not start now.
17:00Suit yourself.
17:05Here.
17:06Wrap these around you.
17:08You must be so true.
17:19It's going to be tough going with that motorcycle in the rear.
17:24Don't you think you better let me drive?
17:26I will.
17:28You know, I don't think I've had sleep for a week.
17:30Well, you can rest your head on my manly shoulder while I do the dirty work.
17:37Move over, Freddy.
17:39I'm trying to keep out of the shell holes.
17:43A malicious remark, sir.
17:45Don't you suppose I know a precious cargo when I see one?
17:53La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
18:23Lieutenant Von Bergen reporting for duty sir.
18:30Lieutenant Bob Wilson.
18:31I'm Captain Lourdes.
18:37Obviously you are not German.
18:38No sir, American.
18:40A rather dirty American.
18:43What?
18:46Clothes don't make the man sir.
18:50We had an accident sir.
18:51Our motorcycle was wrecked.
18:53Oh.
18:54That's unfortunate.
18:55The driver will be severely punished.
18:57Unless he can explain to the inspector.
18:59He wasn't...
19:00It was really my fault, Captain Von Bergen.
19:03Then I prefer not to ask for any explanation.
19:06It will be reported as an unavoidable accident.
19:14Thank you, Fraulein.
19:15Same here, Fraulein.
19:17Just a minute.
19:20There's something very important I want to ask you.
19:23Yes?
19:24Now, when and where do I see you again?
19:28Who knows?
19:30Tonight?
19:32No.
19:33Oh, now wait a minute.
19:34Is that nice?
19:35Here I am ready to give my all to your country and you won't even give me a little date.
19:39I'm sorry.
19:41Well, shall we make it tomorrow night?
19:43Okay.
19:44That's settled.
19:45Tomorrow night.
19:46So long.
19:47See you later.
19:48Better hurry.
19:49Hey.
19:50Try and find out from her how I got over.
19:53Lieutenant.
19:54One moment.
19:57Your friend is very sure of himself, isn't he?
20:00He doesn't mean any harm.
20:02You're very loyal.
20:04We've been friends a long time, Fraulein.
20:10I'm always in the canteen at ten for a cup of coffee.
20:13Do you like coffee?
20:16Fraulein, I do.
20:20Until ten, then.
20:27Hey.
20:28Did you give me a good send-off with the dame?
20:30Fraulein Hoffman is a lady.
20:32I wonder if she has a friend.
20:34For you.
20:44You Americans are very gallant.
20:47Yes, sir.
20:48We learned it in school along with cooking and needlework.
21:01Cigarette?
21:02No, thank you, sir.
21:07Rather amusing, having an American in the squadron.
21:13You see, my best friend was shot down by an American,
21:19the Lafayette Escadrille.
21:24Interesting, isn't it?
21:27Barry.
21:36I think it would be advisable for the lieutenants to change
21:38into clean uniforms before the flight arrives.
21:41Orderly will show you to your quarters.
21:51This way, up the staircase, please.
21:59Please, I pick myself up.
22:01Let me give you a hand.
22:03Excuse me, please.
22:05I always pick myself up.
22:08Where do we go?
22:10Up to the heads from the staircase, please.
22:13Up to the heads from the staircase, please.
22:16What a war.
22:17What a war.
22:20Wow, Bob.
22:21Well, this is home for a while, anyway.
22:24These are terrible quarters.
22:26I'll tell the manager what I think of this place.
22:28Hello?
22:30Send me up a chambermaid.
22:32Right away.
22:35Ah, there's service for you.
22:37Thank you very much.
22:39You're welcome very much.
22:41What's your name?
22:43Friedrich Wilhelm Robert Himmelbaum.
22:47Well, Himmelbaum, you may go.
22:49Please, sir, I may not go.
22:51First, I have to fix your uniform.
22:53Span and spick.
22:55Well, here.
22:56Span and spick this.
22:58And dust this off.
23:03Gentlemen.
23:06Two new additions to our little problem in mathematics.
23:09Lieutenants von Behren and Wilson.
23:11Lieutenant Schoenberg.
23:14Welcome, gentlemen, to the Devil's Playground.
23:16Lieutenant Meyer.
23:31You've been told before not to make these sketches.
23:43Swan!
23:50Now you will see what I meant by our mathematical problem.
24:03One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
24:10eleven, twelve, thirteen, thirteen.
24:16Thirteen from fifteen is two.
24:20Our mathematical problem is not very difficult today.
24:24Nothing more than a simple subtraction to arrive at the number of planes shot down.
24:30Excuse me?
24:35I wonder if any of them burned as they fell.
24:51Attention.
24:56The next time you lose your place in formation, you will be transferred to the trenches.
25:01I'm sorry, sir.
25:08And you, von Muller, since when are you so stupid you can't even make a simple landing?
25:15Germany cannot afford to lose planes needlessly.
25:18And to wreck them on the ground is absolute disloyalty.
25:22It will not happen again, sir.
25:28Over.
25:31Halt!
25:50Halt!
25:57That was horrible.
25:59A line of duty, sir.
26:01I wish I'd been a little easier on him.
26:04It had its effect on the other men. That is all that matters.
26:07Perhaps.
26:08But when I die, I hope it isn't while I'm being reprimanded by a superior.
26:18Gentlemen, allow me to introduce two new members.
26:21Lieutenants Wilson and von Bierten.
26:24Gentlemen, to the new members.
26:26May they live like German gentlemen and die like German officers.
26:40Lieutenant Wilson, Lieutenant von Bierten, major wishes to see you.
26:53Lieutenant von Bierten reporting for duty, sir.
26:55Lieutenant Wilson.
26:57Your favors.
27:05It should please you to know that you have been assigned to the most active squadron on the front.
27:11We are a defensive patrol, guarding the largest concentration of munitions in this sector.
27:18Gentlemen, you have many difficult days ahead of you.
27:23That will be all.
27:32Nice guy.
27:33And a great soldier.
27:34Yeah.
27:35I bet they sprinkled as much with gunpowder when he was a kid.
27:38I need men. Flyers.
27:41And they send me a boy who hasn't even a good reason for fighting in Germany.
27:46What sort of a flyer will he make?
27:49Perhaps it won't make any difference after his first flight.
27:52Soldiers, I haven't your insatiable appetite for death.
27:56It is one thing to kill for one's country, another to just kill.
28:04Get those men up in the air with the rest of the squadron tomorrow at dawn.
28:09Let them have leave tonight.
28:14A rosy, a rosy evening.
28:32A rosy, a rosy evening.
28:48A rosy, a rosy evening.
29:15Hello, Hugo.
29:24You see, alcohol dulls the intelligence.
29:32As long as I stay drunk, I don't know enough to know what I should know.
29:43You're very prompt, Lieutenant.
29:45Well, I thought 10 o'clock would never come.
29:48How you must like coffee.
29:51Coffee?
29:52Oh, it's noisy in there.
29:55Isn't there some place where we can talk quietly?
29:58Noise is good for us.
30:00Maybe we'll find something to laugh at.
30:07Well, I'm a son of a gun.
30:29My mother.
30:31Oh, she's very sweet.
30:34Oh, she's very sweet.
30:37Thanks for showing it to me.
30:40No other pictures?
30:44I didn't know any girls in America.
30:47I expect Lieutenant Wilson has quite a collection of pictures.
30:53The lieutenant is to report at once to the captain, please.
31:00I may be only a few minutes.
31:03Would you wait for me?
31:05Perhaps.
31:27Hello.
31:28What do you think you're doing?
31:30You're supposed to know how to repair these gadgets if anything goes wrong.
31:34At least you managed to get it apart.
31:37That's something.
31:42Oh, let me show you.
31:43Now look.
31:45You put this here.
31:47And then you connect this.
31:55Pardon, Fallon Hoffman.
32:03Thanks so much.
32:04It was nothing.
32:06Is there anything else?
32:10Look at your hand.
32:21Come in.
32:31Meet the compliments from the captain, Bulldog.
32:36What's wrong with it?
32:37Nothing, sir.
32:39I drew it myself.
32:42You can present my compliments to the captain and tell him to...
32:46to...
32:49to accept these as an indication of my esteem.
32:53Sir?
32:55To him.
32:57To him, sir?
33:00Yes.
33:04What a walk.
33:05What a walk.
33:08It's wrong for you to be mixed up in all this.
33:11You're too gentle, too sensitive.
33:14What about the men who are too sensitive?
33:17They're doing their share, aren't they?
33:19But war is a man's work.
33:21Women should be sheltered and protected.
33:24You think we have no place to fill but that?
33:26No.
33:27No, I don't mean that.
33:28I...
33:30I think that whatever you do is right.
33:33I shall always think so.
33:35I'm afraid you're being kind.
33:37No.
33:39It's just that you're the girl I've waited all my life to meet.
33:45No.
33:47You mustn't.
33:49It's true.
33:51And I want you to believe it.
33:54Don't you think we'd better walk along now?
34:00Hello, honey.
34:02Need any help?
34:08I...
34:09I was looking for Elida Hoffman.
34:11She's off duty.
34:12You'll find her in the garden.
34:14Thanks very much.
34:22Elida.
34:25I wonder if you understand.
34:27It isn't the war, the sudden hysteria.
34:30It's...
34:31It's no flirtation with me.
34:34I want you to be my wife.
34:37Please.
34:39I can't think of such things now.
34:50Well.
34:52Go ahead.
34:53Say it to my face.
34:55I hope I'm not intruding.
34:58Not at all.
35:00Oh.
35:01If you'll excuse me, I...
35:03Oh.
35:04Please don't go away mad.
35:07But go away.
35:17There goes the swellest guy in the German army.
35:19The only thing wrong with him is me.
35:21He even takes me seriously.
35:23And you take nothing seriously.
35:26I wonder.
35:30How is your little black book of names getting on?
35:34Quite filled by now, I suppose.
35:36You think I'm a conceited fool, don't you?
35:39No.
35:41Just a little boy who whistles to forget the dark.
35:45You're sweet, Elida.
35:47No wonder Fred is crazy about you.
35:49Fred will get over it.
35:52Fred told me that you'd both been up to the squadron.
35:55Yeah.
35:57I had my first trip on the Glory Trail.
36:00And?
36:01Not so hot.
36:03Tell me.
36:05I guess I'm not much of a hero.
36:08I don't know... I don't know what it was, but...
36:11Maybe I lost my nerve.
36:13But I couldn't shoot down a helpless man.
36:16I'm glad.
36:18Oh, I suppose I shouldn't say that.
36:20I suppose I should tell you to go up and fight for my country.
36:25But I can't.
36:28It...
36:29It all seems so senseless.
36:49I'd better get back to the squadron. They'll be going up.
36:52No, no, you can't!
36:55Elida, what's the matter?
36:57You mustn't go up! You'll get hurt!
37:00Would it matter to you?
37:03Yes.
37:06Nothing is going to happen to me.
37:08And you'll be all right here.
37:10I don't care about myself.
37:13Bob...
37:15Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you?
37:28Elida, where are you?
37:31What time is it?
37:34Five or two.
37:36Couldn't it? I had no idea.
37:38I was supposed to be on the road at twelve.
37:41All right, coming!
37:44Coming!
37:56Auf Wiedersehen.
38:05Hey!
38:07Where is everybody?
38:09In the air, sir.
38:11Captain Wolters was very angry at the lieutenant's absence.
38:16I'll hear plenty about this.
38:18If the lieutenant will pardon me, it's a very serious offense.
38:22Disgrace. Sometimes execution.
38:25There was one about...
38:29The squadron.
38:42Yes, sir.
38:48We could have used you this morning.
38:51Even one like you would have been of some value.
38:54If for nothing else...
38:57Than to get in the way of the bullets that brought down the baron.
39:01The baron?
39:03Yes.
39:05If you can!
39:07I... I was detained, sir.
39:09By what?
39:11By something which concerns only me.
39:14I will explain what detained you.
39:18It was cowardice.
39:21You were hiding.
39:23Afraid to return to the base in time to go up.
39:27Afraid to die.
39:31I could have you court-martialed.
39:34But instead, I choose to give you another chance.
39:37I need every man I can get.
39:40Even one like you.
39:42You will fly with us.
39:44This minute!
39:55Well?
39:57Where were you?
39:59With the leader.
40:02I couldn't tell them.
40:04I might have known it.
40:06What do you mean?
40:09All your life, you've messed around with women.
40:12Your kind of women.
40:14Now you meet a girl that's decent and fine,
40:17and you try to make her like the rest of them.
40:19You don't understand.
40:21This isn't a usual love affair.
40:23You're not capable of real love. You don't know what it is.
40:26But I do.
40:28I love Elida, and I'm not going to let you break her heart.
40:36Come on.
40:59Have a drink?
41:02Thanks.
41:07Hugo.
41:10Have you ever been in love?
41:13Once, I had a little dog.
41:15No, no, no, no.
41:17I mean with a girl.
41:19Are you in love?
41:21Yes.
41:23Here?
41:26Oh.
41:29That's an interesting problem.
41:32You can fight.
41:34But you won't.
41:37You can desert.
41:39But I hardly think you will.
41:43Or you could do, as Adolphe did.
41:47You're doing that now.
41:49Efficiently.
41:51It can't be long before you meet a firing squad.
41:56In other words, you're a man without a future.
42:01I think I see what you mean.
42:05Today, we live.
42:09And love.
42:13Tomorrow...
42:17A woman weeps.
42:20To have taken her happiness.
42:25To have taken her happiness.
42:31I hadn't thought of that.
42:35Ah.
42:37Have a drink.
42:48Father.
42:54You in trouble?
42:56Yes, plenty of it.
42:58Worst of all, I'm in trouble with myself.
43:00About you.
43:03Sorry about last night?
43:05Very.
43:07Do something for me, Alita.
43:09Forget last night.
43:11And me.
43:13What's wrong, Bob?
43:15I'm a rotten soldier, Alita.
43:16And not much of a man.
43:19Find someone like, like Fred.
43:21Somebody who is everything I'm not.
43:23I couldn't.
43:25I only love you, Bob.
43:27But don't you see, there's no way out for us.
43:31There must be.
43:34Here's my ambulance.
43:36We could reach the Swiss border by nightfall.
43:39I've got a pass that'll take us through the line.
43:41But that's desertion.
43:44It's our only chance, perhaps.
43:47It wouldn't work.
43:50Oh, we'd be hiding in a shame.
43:53Now you'll come through, all right.
43:55And someday you'll wonder why you ever loved a crazy American
43:58who doesn't even belong here.
44:01I'll never wonder, Bob.
44:03I'll know.
44:07I think I have some interesting news for you, Lieutenant.
44:11Yes?
44:13Yes.
44:15The United States has declared war on Germany.
44:20Bad news.
44:22For Germany.
44:25And for you?
44:27Yes.
44:30Bad news.
44:32For Germany.
44:35And for you?
44:37Yes.
44:39Out of no consequence.
44:41Germany is my country.
44:43Well spoken.
44:47You know where Wilson is?
44:50Why?
44:52Oh, I thought you might be interested in the news.
44:56I... I think so, sir.
45:00Bring him here immediately.
45:03Yes, sir.
45:21Red!
45:22For a woman of concern, you've always been a cheat and a liar.
45:25And for you, I thought you were different.
45:28And now you fall for the cheap line he spills to every woman he meets.
45:31See here, Fred, you can't get away with this.
45:33I thought you were decent.
45:35The only decent thing in a whole rotten war.
45:39But it's got you, hasn't it?
45:41And it's made you just as rotten as the rest.
45:43That's about enough out of you.
45:44You keep quiet and listen to me.
45:46We haven't got time to argue.
45:49All this wants you right now.
45:51What for?
45:53The Reich has declared war on Germany.
46:07Goodbye, leader.
46:15When you enlisted in the German army,
46:18you swore allegiance to the emperor.
46:21Therefore, you have very little choice in the matter.
46:24You will fight for Germany
46:27or be tried for desertion with inevitable consequences.
46:32Why waste your breath? You know what I'll do.
46:37It means your life.
46:38You can have it, then.
46:41Lieutenant von Bergen,
46:43you will convey the prisoner to the rear
46:46where he will be held for court-martial.
46:52Take off his sidearms.
47:07An amazing finish to a devoted friendship.
47:21It took me many years to find out
47:23that you are just a great leader.
47:25What do you mean?
47:26I'm starting to recognize you, that's all.
47:28All this brave reaction
47:30is just to hide your cowardice from yourself.
47:32So I'm young.
47:33You are.
47:35If you were alone in the middle of this field,
47:37you wouldn't have the nerve to run for that plane
47:39and try to escape.
47:43What a friend you have become.
47:45And I admire the way you gave up a leader.
47:47I don't expect you to understand.
47:49When I said goodbye to her, I meant it.
47:51And she's as unspoiled now as she was when I met her.
47:53You expect me to believe that?
47:55Have it your own way, then.
47:56It took a woman and a war to break up our friendship, didn't it?
47:59You're a coward.
48:00A rotten liar and a coward.
48:02Don't say that again.
48:03Coward! Liar!
48:19You're a coward.
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52:11I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
52:30The only way you can prove that you didn't deliberately let him escape is by shooting
52:37him down yourself.
52:39I shall be watching you.
53:09I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
53:39I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
54:09I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
54:39I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
55:09I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
55:39I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
56:09I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
56:40I have a feeling that your friend Wilson is leading this raid.
57:00So you see, he gave his life for us.
57:04We'll try and take his place, Mama, from there.
57:09We'll try and give you the happiness that he would have given you.
57:14When he went away, I prayed that my son might die, if he must, for some purpose.
57:22God has answered my prayer.
57:25May you never have to make such a prayer, my child.
57:28May your children be born to a time when war will be looked upon as a barbarous thing.
57:34When men will not be taught to kill each other like wild beasts,
57:39but taught to understand and help each other.
57:43Not to death, but to life.
57:47And to the fulfillment of God's mandate.
57:51Peace, honor, goodwill to men.